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STUDENT TAKES HIS LIFE

Becoming very despondent be Os he failed to pass his final asholastic examination, Mak Tung Fong youthful student residing No, & How Fook Street, Canton, anded his life by swallowing a large quantity of corrosive soit last

AT THE CONFERENCE

(Continued from Paye: 9.7

Quo Tai Chi's Speech.

LONDON, July 13. In the course of the discussion on international public works, Mr. Quo Tai Chi declared that China offered an opportunity for useful productive work.

HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933

HURRICANE IN TRINIDAD

20 Inches Of Rain In Ten Hours

LONDON, July, 12. THE Colonial Office states that the hurricane which did ex- tensivs damage in Trinidad on June passed about 100 miles south of Port-au-Prince but hit the Grand Cayon on July 1. The roads and bridges in Clarendon Parish in Jamaica suffered damage from an accompanying extraordinary rainfall which amounted to twenty "two inches in ten hours in some

parts.

The gross cost of repairs ia estimated from £3,000 to £50,000 Many lives were lost by drowning. -British Wireless.

DUTIES ON MALAYAN TIN

NEW GOVERN- MENT HOSPITAL

Drawing To Be Sent To England

A main building of seven storeys. high will cover a groundl area of about 220 (eat

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to take a boarding party."

"Aye, aye, sir.

Toler turned the periscope han dles up, pushed a button pverhead and the periscope 'lowered itself ac The new Government Civil Hccompanied by the whirring of its pital is to be erected on the south motors and cables. As the com west side of the island on the mander.made for the lackier, Knowl. slopes of High West,

ton pushed a button on the bulk- head and immediately three strident blasts from the strombos alarm rent the air. At once the control room by 210 feet, It will be in the Was a scene great activity, or centre of the site seventy fest derly, precise, as the men carried above Pokfulam Rand. To the out the order directed by the alarm. south of the hospital will be the multiplicity of orders WOTD quarters for the European sisters heard, mostly coming from outside and native nurses.

the control room: Middle main empty. After main empty. Forward main empty. . Secure for- ward vents. Secure after vent... Secure middle vent.. Pulling 300 amps" p side.

A Long Joh.

To the north will be quarters for the remainder of the staff, consist ing of two semi-detached houses for the European medical officers, servants quarters, six fats for the Chinese medical officers and a stud.

A few minutes after the sub- ents hostel on the north of the site.marine broke water, Walters and his men had the dinghy launched, and clung to the side of the "sub-. The preparation of the site is ex. marine to keen from being tossed" pected to take twelve months, and by the heavy sea. Their eyes were drawings have been sent to Eng the chariot bridge where Cap- fand. The work on the site wooking at the disabled enemy mine tain Toler, binoculars at eyes, was include the diversion of the main water conduit on the south side of The Captain at length removed the layer, wailing for final instruction. the island, the construction of hullahs to carry off water coming binoculars, took up a megaphone LONDON, July 13

from the higher levels, and a great

and called to Walters. MALAYAN tin duties were the

deal of cutting and Elling. subject of discussion in the The hospital's main entrance will

Pokfulam House of Lords to-night when be on

Road opposite Lord Elibank asked the Govern | Sussion Road, ment to consult with the Federated Malay States with a view to with- drawing the change of method in calculating the tin duty.

Questions In House Of Lords

The new method was raugurat- ed on June 6 and is has met with Bome opposition by tin producers.

The Earl of Plymouth, replying. said that the matter was being considered by the Malayan Gov. ernment and the mining interests.

The Secretary of State would not be in a position to decide un-, til full consideration had been given to the question by all in terests.

He pointed out that the revised duties did not impose any addi tional burden unless the price of tin fell appreciably and the Mala- Government had estimated that they would not affect the price.

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ALLEGED EZRA DOPE RING

MORE REVELATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, FURTHER revelations regarding the smuggling activities of the Ezra brothers were made to-day by the District Attorney.

He declares that they caused to be sent to San Francisco no fewer than eight shipments of narcotics valued at over a million and half dollars, all of which got through according to plan.

At the World Economic Confer- It is the ninth shipment which ence, the Tin Sub-Committee ap. was afterwards found concealed in pointed Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister oil barrels aboard the Japanese as chairman and discussed the ex-liner, Assina Maru, and led to isting scheme for the restriction o their arrost. output. It was decided to obtain from countries not a party to the agreement statistics of present and potential output and then to seek the terms upon which all countries may join the echeme.-Renter.

COTTON INDUSTRY

BILL

PASSES THIRD READING IN COMMONS

for

LONDON, July 13. THE House of Commons to-day passed the third reading of the Cotton Industry Bill which pro- vides for the continuance further ive years of the levy of a pannya bale for the assistance of the Empire Cotton Growing As. sociation-Reuter.

"PRINCE ̈ ABANDONS FLIGHT

LONDON, July 13. HEAVY rains and winds prevent- ed the Prince of Wales from completing his fight from Windsor to Weymouth where this afternoon the opened new harbour works.

In his private machine, piloted by Fl. Lieut. E. H. Fielden he had reached Conrnenou when bad wea ther necessitated abandonment of the flight and the continuation of the journey by roud-British

Wireless.

BAD CONDITIONS AT BISLEY MEET

LONDON, July 13.

It was China's policy to develop the country by prudent public work, capecially in the matter of transport facilities. Their pro- THE Bisley meeting commenced- gramme and alms were only limit in wretched conditions, heavy ed by their financial resources. rain and a north wind prevailing.

They desired ardently to raise The shoot for the Ashburtin the standard of living and to en. Shield was contested, by seventy- large the scope of skilled employ nine schools.

ment.

Glenalmond School (Scotland) One of the greatest potentialities won with 487 points, Winchester for solving the world crisis lay in being second with 480, and Marl the French resolution.

horough third with 478 points

China, he said, was typical of Reuter.

a number of countries, which, while, most needing a forward program- me, were the least, able to finance this without assistance,

This was a point to which the Conference could very usefully direct its alteution.-Itcuter.

THE ITALIAN ARMADA

SHEDIAO, July 14.

Bunday evening. An examination THE Italias fying boats took of at 8.61 pm. English Summer Fong Bin Hospital.

Time-Beuter.

of the body was held later at the

MRS. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

|

"Give them five minutes to aban do. If she's no sinking, scuttle

the ship!"

Walters waved his right hand as In signal that he understood the or

ders. and the small dinghy began its perilous journey, tossed by the heavy seas.

"

The deck gun, which can also be used as an anti-aircraft gun, was put in place on a tripod. Knowlton was in command, with MacDougal and four men to service it. The gun crew stood at ease, took out to- lincco

and lighted cigarettes and pipes.

Well," remarked MacDougal, there's stuffing the tobacco into his pipe. layin' ne more Easter eggs for one baby thaf. won't be Davey Jones."

"This will look good on the re- port," said Knowlton, "scuttling a mine layer just outside Durazzo. Hold that match." He tapped his cigarette on the case, and lighted it from the match in MacDougal's cupped

haad.

of the gun-crew, approaching Mac "How's it for a light?" asked one Dougal.

"It's the third," said the chief torpedoman

The District Attorney asserted that the Ezra brothers undertook the sailor jabbed his cigarette into "Aw, I ain't superstitious," "and these unusually large shipments in MacDougal's cupped hand, and an effort to recoup the fortunes lighted up. they had lost in various other ven-1 tures.

Jeeze, I wouldn't do that for a million bucks," said MacDougal. It will be recalled that the Ezra brothers appeared in court on July said the sailor, pointing to a horse- "Get an eye full of that, Mac," 8 and pleaded guilty to the charges. shoe tattooed on his bare chest. Sentence Was post pored until Over the horseshoe were the words, September 2-Reuter.

"Good Luck," "It'll break any jinx in the world, Mac."

Invasion On Suchow

And Kansu

NANKING, July 14. A MILITARY despatch says that

Ma Ching Ying's insurgent forces are attempting to invade Suchow and Kansu Province from. Sinking-Reuter, si

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO END

CONGRESS PARTY ANXIOUS TO PLACATE GOVERNMENT

POONA, July 13. THE Civil Disobedience campaign will probably be withdrawn to- day. The majority of speakers at yesterday's Congress Party meeting advocated the abandonment of the campaign rather than suspension in order to reap the full benefit of the Government's reaction.

The Government is expected to, release several political prisoners with the withdrawal of the cam- paign.-Reuter

CALLOUS CRIME IN CANTON

ENTIRE FAMILY MURDERED.

From the Hoi Fung district cones the news of how on July 12, an entire family was brutally murder- ed by a single-handed brigand who, after committing his dastardly deed, looted the dwelling house of the occupants and made good hig estape. Behind this sordid and dreadful crime lies a talo of re- venge planned by a bandit chief nained Lai who hit previously stated that owing to the continued interference of a man named Pang, Quebec, July 14, chief of the Volunteer Corps in tho Mra. Franklin Roosevelt was district who was doing his utmost driven in her own car bere from all his family should die. It was to suppress banditry, he (Pang) and New York and spent the day to Pang's house therefore that Lai, sightseeing. She then left for the bandit, went and committed Gaape Peninsula, in the Quebec her home tour via the picturesque

Province. Restor,

this crime,

said that the polies of the district Although the bandit escaped, it is

are hot on his trail.

"You're wrong. Lightin' three on a match le slow music and lilies, every time."

"Applesauce!"

(To be Continued)

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To be shown very shortly at the King's Theatre. There will be, a short story published every Wed- nesday in connection with the shove picture. Watch these columns each week The first story deals with the life of Miss Mildred Carroll, one of the stars appearing in "Caval- rade."

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2 WALTZ Gold and Silver... Lehar

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2. INTERMEZZO FOR STRING SEPTIT...Loin du Bal... Gillet"

8. HUMORESQUINT

SELECTION FROM CATALGADE

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