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HONG KON

TO APPEAL GRANTED

RECENT CONVICTION AGAINST STUDENT.

LOCAL DOCTOR ENGAGED.

WORLD TRADE REVIVAL

ed against Mr. Robinson whilst he was walking with his wife in Pedder. Stroot on Sunday, May 1, when going to the King's Theatre. Mr. Robinson hoard a click and realis DR. NICOLSON'S AMERICAN CAN BRITAIN LEAD THE

ing that his pen had been stolom he chased the defendant and ar restød him bub failed to recover his pon. On conviction, his Worship ordered the defendant to be bound over in the sun, of: 8200 for a period of one year.

At the Central Police Courtryen Farday, there was a sequel to the caso in which a student named Yu Wao was convicted recently of the theft of a fountain:pon from Mr. Hugh Jones. yesterday made Mr. JP Robinson, when Mr. G. marking that there was no evidence an application for a re-hearing re- 8 Hugh Jones made no applica on which the defondant could have tion for leave to appeal against the been convicted. His Worship ro- plied that that had been argued by decision of the Magistrate..Mr.Mr. G. 8. Ford who appeared at Wynne Jones granted, the applicu- the hearing and he (his Worabip) tions. The original application for had ruled otherwise.

re-hearing was refused.

It will be recalled that the de fendant was alleged to have bump- I

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Dho following is taken from the social page of a recent issue of the San Francisco Chronicle:

Miss Victoria Larson, daughter of Mrs. Hoary Larsen and the late Henry Larsen, announces her en sagement to Dr. Murdo Nicolson of Hong Kong, China.

Miss Larsen is a graduate of the University of Californig and a member of Delta Delta Delta |Sorority, I

WAY?

(URITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY May 12

URINA

LONDON, May, 19, # The argent nood for further funds to cope with the aftermath of the Calusse lood devastation of " last you is: stressed" in the course. of a new appeal issued by the ro cently-formed China Flood Relief Committee,

The object is to raise funds to assist in the splendid work of Sir John Hope Simpson, the chairman of the China National Flood Relief Commission.

- The need for International op operation as an essential to 5 world trade revival, was again strongly god in England, this timo aba company meeting to-day by Sir Erio, Geddes, Chairman of the The Committee is controlled by Dunlop Rubber Company large and influential general dire He insisted that the time for ectorate, with the patronage of the half-medgures was past and that Archbishops of Canterbury and some of the traditional policies of York, the Arahibishop of Weat Europoun diplomacy must be for minister, the Lord Mayor of Lon

dou the President of the Froo. gotten. Me "Dr. Nicolon has just completed Unless the outstanding interna Sze, the Chinose Minister in Lon- Church Council, and Dr. Alfred world tour In the company of tional difficulties were solved in the don. her mother, Miss Larson will sailor future, thetonly result, must, be the complete collapse of many! in June to Hong Kong, where the countries and a paralysis of inter- ! wedding is planned for the earlier national trade involving the whole

world. part of July.'s

Miss Larsen is the sister of Dr. A E. Larson, who is now travel ling on the yacht Zoon with the Crocker scientific expedition, and of Dr. F. C. Lareen and Ira and Ralph Larsen of this city.”

gold standard, he said might well Britain abandonment of the prove to have been the turning. point in world economic history, The post-war international gold standard has broken down and the task before them, in which the British Empire might well take the well-lead, was the reconstruction and commerce and finance, possibly on reorganisation of international

a Crest basis.

(Dr. Murdo Nicolson is the known local physician, who return ed to the Colony about two weeks ago.1

WORLD'S MONETARY

SYSTEM.

SWEDISH ECONOMISTS LECTURE „AT, OXFORD.

BRITISH STOCKS FIRM,

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

Rugsy, May 12 Following to-day a reduction in the bank rate to two and a half per cent.. the stock marketa gen- orally closed with a good tone,

British funds left off Arm, with War Loan Ave, per cont. quoted at 101.11/16.

EDGAR WALLACE ESTATE

London, May 7-The eminent Swedish economist," Professor Gus tay Cassel, in a lecture at Oxford to-day on the crisis in the world's monetary system, said that now-COST OF ELAborate coffin, days the general view was that it f was an advantage to abandon the gold standard in order to return it at new parity below the internal purchasing power of currenty.

Comtries off the gold standard, he declared, were eager - tó aup

press the external value of their currencies below the internal valine.

OBSERVE EMPIRE DAY

BY VISITING THE

EMPIRE

AT THE

FAIR

PENINSULA HOTEL

OPENING ON 23rd MAY

·AND

CONTINUING ON

24th MAY

REPRESENTATIVE DISPLAYS OF EMPIRE PRODUCE AND PRODUCTS.

CELEBRATE EMPIRE DAY IN YOUR HOME BY ARRANGING EMPIRE MENUS.

ased by the Hongkong Empire Day

[THROUGH, IRSUTAB AGENCY.]

HOLLYWOOD, May 12

A deficit of G$2,036 is shown in the estate here of Edgar Wallace, according to the Public Admini strator.

The largest iteki of expense is the cost of an elaborate bronze coffin.

TIN "MARKET GLUT

NEW STEP TO KEEP UP PRICES

THROUGH TROTZR'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 12, -- The Council of the Tin Producers? Association has unanimously on- dorsed the recommendation of the Malayan Chamber of Mines that. the internation quota should be reduced to 33-2/3rd per cent. namely, 84,050 tons, as from June 1. subject to quarterly control.

They have also endorsed the pro- posal that there should be no ex- porta of tin in June and July and that the tin released for export from August onwards should not exceed 5,400 tons monthly.

It is pointed out that the effect of this arrangement would be iden- tical with the proposal of the Cous

eil.

The Council was also notified that the Nigerian Chamber of Mines had passed a resolution to the same effect.

PRINCE RETURNS TO LONDON

FORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

BOXER INDEMNITY REMISSION

(THROUGH "REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 19.

ICE HOUSE

FIRE CALL.

GAS FUMES FROM: A REFRIGERATOR::

BASERA

WIN FOR NEM- YORK

Tations) Lesensible Cincansof PhilndsipTEN St Louis

Gray American League, New York

3 Brooklyn

3-St. Louis

National Leagua.

Chicago Boston Cincinnati

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Brokers' Alley was in a state of unusual excitement. yesterday fore noon when a fire applianed DN- nounced its presence and pulled up round the corner from Queen's Road. Those engaged in their or dinary buss further down sho street repaired to the vicinity of Philadelphia 23 12 11 531 the principal office building to as St. Louis certain the cause of the new peril New York

Brooklyn for not fow brokers office are situated in the various floors of Pittsburg this building

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American Leagu

Percept

The crowd gazed into the building. for signs of smoko of which there was none. Some had noticed that Now York

Washington as the fire appliance came to a halt; Station House Officer Moss and his,

Detroit Cleveland absistant, wearing heavy gas mask apparatus, löst ug time in disay.St. Louis

Philadelphia pearing into the building.

It appears that a refrigerator Chicago

in one of the office rooms on the

Boston

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frst floor started to emit some Pink Home Bun Leaders.

kind of a or fumes and the Bill Tarry (Now York Giants). occupants, finding the trouble as Babe Ruth (New York Yankees)*8

Jimmie Fox (Philadelp. Atha.) suming serious proportions, ímnie diately informed the Fire Brigade Aver (Cleveland Indians)

Cochranu (Philadelphin Asha.) Unanimous satisfaction at the telephone giving the exact cause Byrd. (Now York Yankees work accomplished by the Chinese of the trouble. Hence the army Lou Gehrig (New York Twakera)

of the officers fully equipped with Guhringer (Detroit Tigers) Government Purchasing Commis

gas apparatus. sion appointed under the Boxer Indemnity remission scheme. des pite set-backs, and at the close: co- operation between the Chinese and British members, was expressed by all members of the Commission at the first annual chairmanship of Mr. Chen

The meeting approved of a 2,000 word report, which will be for- warded to the Chinese Government.

Mr. Alfred Ste romains the Chairman of the Commission, with Gir Ralph Wedgewood as Vice- Chairman and Sir Basil Blackett. as Treasurer.

As a business meeting held later. fresh contracta for the supply of railway materials were signed. There will be another sitting of tha Commission next month

INDIAN LEADER TO HANG

THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.)

FARIDPUR, May 19. “

A special tribunal to-day pass ad sentence of death upon Mano- ranjan Bhattacharya, one of the five bandits arrested in connexion with the armed robbery at Madari Par Post Office in March in the course, of which one man T

stabbed to death.

Buren Dranathkar, his accom- pline, was sentenced to transporta- tion and the remaining three, to rigorous imprisonment for period of seven years.

DARTMOOR PRISON

MUTINY

TWENTY-ONE CONVICTS

SENTENCED

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 13, Sentences ranging from fifteen months imprisonment to twelve. years penal servitude were pasted at Princetown on twenty-one Dart- moor mutincers. All the sentences are consecutive upon the teams the prisoners are now serving others were acquitted

Nine

Eight Not Guilty.

LONDON, May 12 The long-drawn-out trial of thirty convicts charged in con nexion with the Dartmoor Prison: mutiny ended this evening, when, after a summing-up by Mr. Justies Finlay lasting six hours, the jury retired for two and a half hours, to consider their verdicts.X

Twenty-one of the convicts: vero. found guilty of malicious, damage, some being, recommended to leni- ency, while eight of the others wore, found not guilty,

..

The case of the other man was adjourned until to-morrow, when Mr. Justice Finlay will deliver

Rust, May 12 After attending President Deus | sentence..

·mer's funerat, and expressing, to the bereaved family the king's personal condolences, as well as

his own, the Prince of Wales dow back to London. He travelled in his, own - “Pass Moth””; machine, landing Hendor this evening.

The "Requiem Msm for the late President, bold... at Westminster Cathedral, was attended by Lord Cromer, representing the King, the Acting Premier (Mr. Stanley Baldwin); vand mambers of the Cabinet and diplomatic represen- Entives of all countries,

LIFEBOAT DISASTER IN PORTUGAL

TRAGEDY ATTENDS GALLANT.

RESCUE ATTEMPT

[THROUGH "REUTER B AGENCY.]

OPORTO, Portugal, May 13.

Four are dead for are thjured and four are missing as the resul

of the Capsizing of awo Portuguese

Wifeboat in heary:

ring to rouge the.

the harbour b

#TO-MORROW

THE KINGS

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Tho trouble was removed in the course of a short spacs of time, the appliance and crew standing by for some time louger to ronder further Assistance. if necessary.

FOUND HANGING.

DISCOVERY IN KENNEDY

ROAD OUTHOUSE;

THRILLING SAGA OF

THE SEA.

TRAWLER DRIFTING

RUDDERLESS.

GALLANT FIGHT AT LONG ODDS

A thrilling story of how the brawlor Riva Kont was found drifting rudderless a heavy soa A gruesome disenvary: was made by the police yesterday on investi when the trawer Lowther put into and was brought to safety was told gating report that some foulFleetwood on April 8. odour was present in the vicinity of house No. 30 in Kennedy Road, which was vacant.

On searching for the cause the officers came across the dead body of a Chinese, apparently about 40. years of age, hanging by the nick with a rope tied to a beam in an outhouse.

The body was in a hadly decom posed state, making identification diffioult.

It is believed to be a case of sui side. 1-

COLONEL AND

SHORTS.

"NO ONE NEED LOSE THEIR

SELF-RESPECT."

NOVELIST.CRITIC OF MIDDLE AGE IN BARE KNEES.

The poor devils were drawling about the deck drenched to their skins, while Baas wore sweeping over them. What thong chops went through won't bear thinking about. Our own ship nearly foundered.

In these words a mamber of the Lowther's crew described the plight of the River Kent when they came up with her.

The River Kent had lost her rud der during the gale on Wednesday morning, while on her way to the Bahing grounds. The Lo picked up her B,OS igual of Tory and Yorkiem faland

and reached bor after twelve hours battle with the hearse

Saved by Direction Finder. All this time the two trawlers were in constant wireless communi- cation. The River Kent was help lessly drifting, and when the Low- ther was about 25 miles of her the wireless. operator (Mr. C. Davies, of Liverpool) brought into use his wiroless direction finder, - The operator in the River Hent tapped out a serice of signals in Morse, so that her exact position was as-

Following observations about middle aged or elderly Scout cartained in spite of the blinding maaters being expected to WORT storm khaki shorts" and a 1000+.

It was dark by the time the Low- puncher's bat, Sir Arthur Quilles her maneuvred into position and Couch," the novelist), has Passed a line to the drifting become the central figure in voel. Cornish controversy: Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. W. F. Trefusis is his chief opponent.

Bir Arthur Quiller-Couch is as Col Trefusis 18, 68.

Bir Arthur, addressing a Con. gress of Youth at Falmouth, said:

It is absurd that men of my ago, or men approaching my age, should play down to youth. The first thing that a scoutmaster should have is self-respect, but how can a man of 50 or 80, or even 45, respect himself if you put him in shorta and a cowpuncher's bat?

Colonel Trefusis, Scout Com missioner, for West Cornwall, re- plied to this criticism at Truro. He said criticism at Tru

I think we all try our best to play down to youth, whether Scouters or Guiders. I have had the honour of wearing this Scout

There she was, unable to help herself heaving and rolling and swept, from stem to stern,

mid one of the Lowther's crew to me.

They were lashing trawlboards together to make a substitube rud der-they had bean spending hours making these rudders, but every time one: was put over the stern Cha seas mashed it to pieces. When we arrived they had ran short of wire and iron shackles, so we sent mo, over by the line between the ships

Our Hance of Founding."

All Wednesday night and until daylight on Thursday we were dodg ing about the ocean after her a she drifted. We got our share of pounding, but nothing compared bo what the men, of the Biver Kont went through

Working by the light of deca uniform for over 20 years when lamps they carried on all night Scouting. I hope I have not lost trying to fix up. jury rud the respect of anyone who has seen after sas struck her bow me. If you want, a man who is parted, only almost to wash the

shorts. I refer you to Lord Baden- Powell. I do not think suyone need lose any self-respect through wear ing shorta

respected all over the world, and men on deck overboard. Most of who wears a cowpuncher's, hat and the time they were unable to stand up. What those abaps on deck WORT through will not beat about. Our own blp near dored several timom dur night, but we were determin Istick it and give what ALBRON

we could

baughed

The regulations are not like

those of the Medes and the Persians,

At about 8 o'clock on Thurs

If a person Leels he likes to cover day morning the trawler Cattell, his bashful Inses, he is at liberty to which belongs to the same firm, as do so. That is allowed but not recone, and she got hold of here

the River Kent,"" arrived" ons

"commendedes seen a

er heard once of a distinguished towed her to Belfast. We then

Scouter who crossed the Atlantic in for home

bis Scout uniform On the deck of liner a woman objected to his

the

bara kneas.

Well, madam was the reply you are at liberty to do so, but

allow me to say that l'obssat toi

SHIPPING

The B.I. Comp left Singapore gs and it due

aboard

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