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As the result of being, robbed of wallet containing $203, Hong Kong money and #2 Dutch East Indies currency, à visitor from Batavia, To Ah-san, has been lift "tranded in the Colony. Page 5.

Several Europeans were included in about 4 drivers summoned be- fore Mr. W. Schofield, at the Cen- tral Magistracy yesterday, for driving without appropriate licen- ces and deiving unlicensed cars.

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Five men trom the Bias 'Bay region pleaded guilty before Mr. Macfadyen in the Central Magis- tracy yesterday to a charge of con- spiracy to commit crime of violence. The first defendant, Cheung San, alias Cheung Kam- pui, also pleaded guilty to the possession of two revolvers and 15 rounds of ammunition:

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A severe fine was imposed upon a 54-year-old Fukienese, Chan Sze-chau, unemployed, when he convicted of having waś

had possession of a revolver and 34 rounds of ammunition without a licence on "boardl the J.C.J.L. steamer Tjinegara, when be ap- peared before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. Page 6.

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Fusilier James George Cole, of the 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, was brought before Court Martial at Murray Barracks yesterday on a charge of striking. Page 7. & superior officer.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Only one cal of enteric fever in the early hours yesterday, and the Health Au- but for the prompt action of the

not have lavested the Council was reported with the right of policing the road, thorities for the hours ended on Kowloon the question of maintenance of the August 8. roads being an entirely separate matter. Then there is the question

A tea cance be held at the of the enforcement of the Chinese Repulse Bay otel to-morrow. factory law. How the Council has There will be half hourly bus considered Itself competent tď pre-

scrvice,

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Fire Brigade serius damage may have been caused, Damage was done to the extent of $100. The fire is believed to have been caused by "a lighted cigarette-end.

Lau Tal, a fitter employed by the vent the Chinese government ap- The many fids of Mr. A. H Hong Kong Gas Company, was ad- pointee to see if the Chinese fac tory owners complying with the Ferguson will pleased to know mitted to the Government Civil Chinese factory law-this to me is that he had be appointed man- Hospital on Thursday, suffering a mystery indeed. This misunder ager of the Ortered Bank of from head injuries, received when stariding show'd have long ago been London offices succession to Mr. working at the new No. 8 Police India, Australind China in the a scaffolding on which he was

DAMAGE

removed, and yet despite the re-

JL. Crockatto is retiring on Station, Bonham Road, collapsed. In this realist.c world of ours,

peated occurences of factory acc! September 30, 40 years service Three of his assistants, Lau Tau. Shanghai, August 9.

privileges march hand in handdents, some accompanied by a A message from Nanking states with respons billt.es, and no mat-large list of fatalities, the Council in the Bankth these gentle- Leung Fook and Keung Hol, were men, are well-wn in the East also on the scaffolding, and re- that an official report from Mr. Hsu ter how much the British will pay still complacently blocks the pro-and had serve bout 20 years in ceived slight injuries. They were

gress of factory inspection by Ying. Chairman ΟΙ the, up the international phase of the National Flood Relief Commission International Sett.ement of Shang-claiming that the inspectors should Malaya. Mr. Fuson was at one also treated at the hospital. contains the information that hal, the public verdict in this mat- be Council appointees and not ap Tom Campbell "Back, who with to-day is just the reverse. That a 100,000 people have perished as the ter stands unchanged, namely, pointees of the Ministry of Indus-

Attempt To Put Up they found foreign trade contract

New Record

London, Aug. 8:

off from Hatfield 'aerodrome in a

ing. unemployment increasing at an alarming rate, the financial position precarious and lack of confidence spreading. The position

least, cannot be disputed. Here, C. W. A. Scott was the joint win-

however, the Socialists attribute ner of the London to Melbourne the credit of the change not to the marathon prize last year, hopped Government but to influences be- new De Haviland Comet monoplane yond their control. The answer to at 5.50 p.m. to-day on the first stage of an attempted record- London to breaking flight from Cape Town, via East Africa:

Black expects to make his first stop at Cairo "as dawn to-morrow, T. H. G. McArthur accompanies him as reller pilot- Reuter.

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result of the Yangtse floods.

There are 14,000,000 people home- less, while 100,000 square kilo metres of land are inundated

The material damage is estimat-

Reuter. this, naturally, is to ask how fared at $500,000,000.——— these influences would have pre- valled if the authors of the debacle" of 1931 had been in power. As In the case of the seed that fell among thorns: would not, those influences have been choked in the bud?

MAJOR.-GEN. FOULOIS

RESIGNS

There is little doubt, and Mr.

Washington, Aug. 9. Baldwin candidly admits this, that Major-General Foulois, Chief of much remains to be done to make the Army Air Corps, has voluntarily straight the path to recovery. But resigned, thus ending the long con- what is the "plan" of the Socialist troversy arose following the JAPAN'S CO-OPERATION critics already convicted of failure success which antal accidents to and futility? Are they prepared American Air Force fiers when to accept 1 ir. Lloyd George's pre- Army planes temporarily conducted scription? Or is it possible that the mall services. Geneva, Aug. 9. The Japanese Consul General they have a scheme of their own Heuter announces that Japan accepts the which is still more lavish in ex- League Council's invitation to con-penditure? One thing, however, tinue to sit on the Oplum and Child seems to be fairly certain and that

AT GENEVA

Welfare Committees as long as this is when they have everything their tructive meaning for the whole is not regarded as a precedent own way the term depressed country and will, it is feared, be-

areas will cease to have any dis- come one big depressed ares.

ECONOMIC ADVISER'S

MISSION.

(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Preet (Copyright).

London, Aug. 8.

time the local hager.

The body three-year-old Chinese child been removed to the Kowloon tuary from the Ping Shan dist It appears that the boy accically fell into a stream at Leu Tin Taun village "while playing other children,

and was drow

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A Japanese Importers Guild hás been formed here to facilitate the. sale of Japanese' goods in Shang- hai

The Municipal Government of Tientsin has decided to increase the sum of monthly allotment for the operation of the Anti-Drug- Mra. Moir, reng at Talkoo, has Clinic from $2,000 to $4,000. With reported to thee that during this sum on hand, the officials in the afternoon July 6, while she charge of the clinic are planning was bathing a pulse Bay, some to enlarge the quarters to accom- person entered matshed where modate 500 drug addicts as com she had left clothes and stole pared with 300 who are at present & handbag con ing a lady's wrist under treatment. watch, fount pen and $3 in money, all to total vaine of $18.

since the major influence for runtry." ning the International Settlement, municipally speaking, is exercised. by the British, the major share of the credit for its achievernents rightly goes to the British Con- versely speaking, when there is a hitch in the relations between the Council and the communty or que section thereof, the British are ex- pected to shoulder the great part of the blame. "How true this has

Sir Frederick Lelih-Ross, 1118 been and sli is the case may be learned from the reactions to the economic adviser to the British storic incident that is ever to be Government who sails on Saturday referred to as the May 30th trage for China, will break the journey dy, an event which, though re- at Tokio to discuss the general

hat Bureau of Public Health, the grettab e.. was not unlike other economic situation in the Far East

Mr. V. Tsu Biding at No. 6 Greater Shanghal Commissioner of cases of martrydam in which the with representatives of the Japan-

Dorset Crescens reported to the Pubile Safety has issued an order martyr's blood wrought changes, ese Government, and in this case the realization by

It is believed here that this will police that ben July 31 and forbidding the public to dump re- the Police of the need to win Chin-be the preliminary diplomatic August 8, B person stole a fuse into Whangpoo River The ese goodwill without over-calcula- negotiations between the British diamond, brac valued at $1,000. ting the cost,

and the Japanese Governments, on a series of outstanding questions including nayal atsira- Trustcean Kue MER-

THE FUTURE. The future of British Infidence Shanghai, is, as it were, in the

At the request of Greater Shang-

Commissioner has Instructed the chief of his Bureau's water pol

small fire out in Captain, to see that his order is ent G. Anderson Adence, at No, 1.1 Anybody found to have ignored the Carnarvon Bg ground floor. order is liable to a fine