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Round the Courts, a resume. of the cases taken in the local Courts yesterday is given on Page 6

of the report that he has been SAN FRANCISCO

The explorer's sister, in an in-. terview with Reuter, expressed an opinion that the news of his pre- vlous adventure with the brigands has only just filtered through to Peking, overland, and is conse quently regarded as a fresh cap- ture.

Mr. Kierkegaard, a Danishi em- ployee of the Chinese postal ser- vice at Urumts! who is now holi- daying in Denmark, who brought

the letter.stated that Dr. Sven Hedin was staying at his house at Urumtsi, awaiting petrol sup- plies.-Reuter.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

One case of puerperal fever and one of rables were. reported for the 24 hours ended on July 12.

TENSION

General Strike imminent

Ban Francisco, July 12. A general strike threatens the

clty. Over $300 teamsters have already struck in sympatty with the striking longshoremen

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Lorry-drivers are being attack- and lorry-loads of eatables were overturned in the streets.

Housewives are preparing for a

→ alege and are stocking their larders with the necessaries of life, while motorists are hoarding petrol.

One hundred and twenty-Ove Com L. Karahan, the former as butchers controlling the city's sistant Commissar of Foreign Af- "wholesale meat supplies have fairs of the U.S.6.R., and former struck in the slaughter-houses Soviet envoy to China, has been and the tramwaymen have voted,

by 700 to 38, for a general strike.”

The military are preparing for

the any emergency and

atmos phere in the city is charged with - tension-Reuter.

The Chinese and British dele-appointed Soviet Ambassador to gates to the K.C.R. Conference will Turkey, in place of Com. 3. Sur- be, guests of HE, the Governor to itz who has been transferred to lunch at Mountain Lodge to-day.

Berlin.

HE, the Governor will dine with

the Volunteers as a guest of the Commandant, Lieut.-Col. H. B. L. -Dowbiggin and officers of the

Corps, on July 20..

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The control Yuan has led an impeachment against Mr. Ku Meng-yu, Minister of Hallways, for his alleged violation of the proper Klangpu. If no effective measures

extermination process in cluding the Tatang-, Tungkwan Railway Construction locusts are taken it is feared that The Hong Kong Society for the Loan. The Government has been the damages to the autuma crops Protection of Children acknow-requested to take immediate steps this year will be alarming, say the

Chinese papers. ledges a donation of 35 from Mrs. to inquire into the matter. Lillan Hall in memory of the late Mra. Flizabeth Mackay.

Mr. Richard Peel, the younger son of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Peel, wil, arrive here from Home on the P. and O. liner, Ranpura, on July 25,

Local estate to the value of $7,200 was left by Gee Pin Sin, troner, of Jackson Street, San Francisco who died on September 20, 1932 Letters of administration have been granted to Chin shee, widow, and lawful attorney, for the

and benefit "of Gee executor.

any internal examination. This missile thrown at a gas holder can might be satisfactory in temperate pierce it, then steps should be climates in cases where the holders taken in the future to put the were reasonably isolated, permit holder beyond the reach of ex- ting the sate dispersal of any ternal missiles" by which expres- leakage, and where the pressure of alon we assume that stones were the gas alone need be considered, meant,

recommendation They therefore suggest that a upon this point might have been: higher local standard of main-made. tenance, be adopted, especially in- Just one more point. The jury cluding periodical internal exami- is satisfied that the holder in nation.

question, subsequent to ita erection The suggestion is too general."was maintained in accordante When the new gas holder is put with the general practice of gas up again, all the safeguards that engineering," Upon the evidence residents in that locality can ex- or the experts, however, the jury pect is a more regular internal has seen it, in spite of the above examination by the gas company. Anding, to recommend a higher together with a "higher local local, standard of maintenance. standard" of maintenance. Not a What exactly is meant? While on The great beat being experienced | tical Council. The annual revenue

GAS EXPLOSION VERDICT verY reassuring prospect for this point it is interesting to read

After' 2 protracted hearing lasting over seventeen alttings, the special jury empanelled to inquire into the gas explosion disaster at West Point has given its verdict insofar 38 the cause of the accident is concerned. In other respects," however, the jury's And- ings have failed to provide [an] answer. At the conclusion of the evidence," the Coroner' in his sum- ming... up "suggested a series of questions to the jurors, and, very "fairly, "added these words: "I do not wish in any way to limit you to these points but suggest them as a foundation on which to build your findings and recommenda- tions." I feel sure that you will wish to deal with some other

There will be a dinner dance at Repulse Bay Hotel, to-day, and 8 tea dance to-morrow at 4.30 pm. The "Andetonians" Band will be in attendance on each occasion.

in Nanking has resulted in a gov- ernment order that all official offices there will be closed in the afternoons beginning as from July

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According to a Chinese message from Nanking, the new Chinese National Budget has been adopted at a meeting of the Central Poll-

is put at $777,302,226. The total expenditure is not known as the figures for diplomatic and military expenses are not listed in a state- ment made public in the .capital.

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Mr. Arthur Cawte Franklin, Nineteen Chinese were among analyst, late of Percival Street, and the 340 graduates from the Milit of Cheung Chau, who died on į sry. Academy „in. Tokyo, who rece- November 27, 1933, left local estate ived their diplomas in the pre- valued at $18,700. Probate has, sence of Emperor Hirohito. Two been granted to the widow, Mrs. Ive had taken the infantry course Lily Frankiin, of Cheung Chau and seven the cavalry course. Two students from Manchonkuo also graduated from the Academy.

The remains of the 2,300-years- old Pharos, one of the seven won-. ders of the world, are crumbling Away, reports Reuter from Alex- andría Work on preserving this. ancient Egyptian lighthouse in Alexandría harbour is to be begun at once by the Department of An-

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and passages foundations of the lighthouse will be reinforced to resist the ravages, of the sea. The Pharos was built by Ptolemy I about 260 B.C., and reached a height of 500 feet, Huge wood fires provided the light, and ́ were visible for 19 miles.

Another big working loss which was incurred by the FMS. Rall- ways last year is attributed in the report for the year to the increas- ing competition of road transport, which is taking the most lucra- tive traffic from the railway. namely the heavy goods trame. The chief reasons for the loss in 1333, states the report, ars the con- tinued trade depression, intensive road competition and large pay mente in respect. of pensions and gratuities to retrenched employees;":

those who have fled from their, the evidence of the superintendent homes in that locality! We feel engineer of a large oll company that the jury, having had the ad- The margin of safety in oil com vantage of first hand expert evi-panies appears to be greater than dence at their disposal should have that exercised by gas engineering. deliberated upon the question of It is gratifying to see that the the desirability of a gasometer in work of the police, fire brigade sur't close proximity to a densely and especially that of the hospital Dr Hated residential quarter authorities came in for its due T y should have been able to measure of praise. Too often the sture, whether a gas holder in such work done by the hospital-in con- a locality was a danger to the nection with a major disaster passes repulice or otherwise, always | unnoticed. We too, wish to asso- assuming that the maintenance clate ourselves with the jury and Mons. G. Dufaure de la Prade, was faultless,

compliment the many public French Consul-General in Hon Over twenty of the sixty districts There are indications that the

Kong, is giving an At Home at noon to-day, to celebration of the in Klangsu Province are suffering trade depression is lifting as the anniversary of the Fall of the from a plague of locusts this year, fall in revenue has been arrested- Bastille, Cant. R. F. Walter, A.D.C.. These areas include the rice-pro- and a alight Improvement was will be present to represent Educing districts of Chinkiang, recorded during the last "the Governor.

Insing, Leeyang Loo Ha and months of the year.

One theory advanced during the spirited hers in the work they inouest was that possibly the did on the occasion. With, the holder was pierced by external relatives or those who perished in means. The jury rejected this the distster, we Join the members theory, but it must be borne in of the jury in extending our mind, that if experts feel that a deepest sympathies.