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Two well-known Chinese families were united in marriage at the Registry when Miss Nellie Lee, The British cruiser Enterprise daughter of the late Mr. Lee Kan- ith the Emperor of Abyssinia and

tung and Mrs. Lee, became the party on board passed Port Said bride of Mr. Tsol Mang-suen, son on Thursday evening without stop of Mr. and Mrs. Taol Sau-chen, of ping, and foreign pressmen who Swatow. Mr. W. J. Lockhart-

Registrar had been waiting in the hope of Smith,

Marriage. obtaining an interview with the officiated, and the witnesses were Negus were doomed to disappoint- Mr D. Jackman and Mr. W, Shea, Page 7:

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One British newspaper is sála to have offered £5,000 for an inter- view, but the offer was rejected. Transocean News Serowe,,

MANCHUKUO BANKS

State Control Plans Under Way

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Shanghai, May 5. With the imminent arrival of the Keemun, sep, negotiations have been started between the local tea hongs and a representative of the Construction Department of the Anhwei Provincial Government for a settlement of the dispute arising ant of the monopoly scheme. Whe- then the tea hongs will call. off

Dairen, May 8, the strike or not will be known at

Plans for State control of bank- an emergency meeting to be held Civil List BIU, after rejecting, bying in Manchukuo under the Bank- by the guld this afternoon.

205 votes to 05, & Labour amend-

ing Law are progressing well, it is

London. Máy i The House or Commons to-day passed the second reading of the

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Remanded from Thursday, Yip Bau-kum, aged 50, a widow, plead- ed guilty to four charges of (a) possession of a still and other uterisils suitable for distilling spirits on the third floor of No. 10 Fuk Wing Street on May 6, (b) possession of fermenting materials (c) making spirits without a Ucence and (b) possession of sever- al gallons of wine on which duty had not been paid. Li Cheuk- king, aged 18, denied knowledge of the case and was discharged owing to lack of evidence.

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Meanwhile, plans of the author-ment asking for the surrender of stated here to-day, with 19 banks Bail in $500 each was fixed by ities for the estasshment of a the Duchies of Lancaster and Corn-of irregular performance under Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central transportation and

distribution wall in exchange for a fixed an- orders to liquidate and with 16 Magistracy yesterday in the case centre in Shanghai are being push-

nual sum of money.

others in process of dissolution. in which Tam Fook, 41, storekeeper ed. As no arrangement for the

Mr. Clement R. Attlee, Labour

The Government is understood to at the Imperial Chemical Indus- disposal of the Keemun ted after leader, agreed that the Duchies be vigorously restricting irregular tries Godown, Great George Street its arrival from Anhwel was known were administered well and gener- banking institutions in order to and Lee Hau, accountant. to have been made, considerable ously, but they were in no wise pri consolidate the Government's fin-charged on two separate counts. anxiety exists over the trade which

vate estates, their revenues fac ancial position and secure cop-

Rage 6. may be ruined if the dispute is uated, and they were likely to infidence in ita currency. allowed to continue. Tea for fo- volve a controversy, above which

The death has occurred at the reign consumption sold through the

the Sovereign should be placed

age of 28 of Mrs, Mary MacRobert, fourteen tea hongs here amounts to

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chan-

wife of Captain 1. MacRobert of cellor of the Exchequer, agreed that $30.000.000 annually,

the Chinese Maritime Customs. the amendment could hardly be moved in terms likely to give offence. He said any fluctuations in

At the same time, the four banks income would be of a nature re- and 24 offices afillated with banks

the fleeting general movement in China are said to be experienc- throughout the country, and iting a depression due to the sharp. would be an advantage that the decrease in their current accounts. Sovereign should personally feel some of the effects which were pre- sent in the minds of bla subjects.-- Reuter

While the tea hongs have agreed to let the Antiwel authorities trans- port the Keemun tea to Shanghai, transportation agencles are raising strong opposition to the Govern- ment

the scheme, saying that monopoly was not made public un- til after the agencies had made ali arrangements and employed the necessary hands. The execution of the Government scheme would not

only mean the elimination of the agencies but a tremendous loss this season.

Petitions of the agencies in Kiu- klang have been sent to the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Industry (N.C.D. News);

IMPORT BAN

Control Measure In Poland

Hong Kong Dally Press" Special)

Warsaw, May 7.

shipment of gold from New York The semiofficial newsagancy re- for the British account, with a view | ports that the Cabinet Council de- to facilitating the pegging of elded to publish a decree, prohibit

FRENCH HONOUR

Minister Decorated For Gallant Conduct

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Banks in Manchukuo authorized by the Government are expected to total no more than 30 by the end of this year. Dividend rates of local banks will not be allowed to exceed 8 per cent.

'nion News.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

There will be no dinner dance at Repulse Bay Hotel to-day, büt the usual tea dance will be held to-morrow at 5 p.m.

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Mr. H. H. Green arrived here yesterday from Manila on the Tanda while another arrival on the same boat' from Melbourne, was Mr. H Cooney.

(Hong Kong Dally Press Specials

Para, May 7 The Cabinet conferred on the French Minister to Addis Ababa the Cross of the Legion of Honour In recognition of the services ren- scalds at the Government Civil dered and the courage displayed by Hospital yesterday as a result of Sam Wing-chul an

Two people were treated for

him during the siege of the Lega- accidents.

tion by the plundering mob. The adult was scalded when he fell Minister's wife, Madame Bodard, down the stairs at his house in received on the same occasion the Kennedy Town, when he was Rosette of a Knight of the Legion carrying a pot of boiling tea.

among others the famous playright/ 8-ment and their wives assisted in sterling in the event of a Frenching the import of any goods into of Honour for the ald given by her. Kwan Yuet, 31, was scalded when

Otto Emerich, the well-known au- thor and transitor

of nordic Uterature Kotas; the novelist Land- grebe and the musical comedy com- poser Helarrich Strecker.

receiving.—(N.C.D. News),

TRADE TREATY

gold embargo, Mr. Morgenthau Poland,, but adds that this pro-ransocean News Service said it would be "unwise to answer hibition constitutes a purely tech- that."

nical measure which does not in Concerning his monetary conver- } Practice signify that the Importa- ORDER OF SAVOIA sations with the Chinese Govern- tion of all foreign goods into Po- ment's representatives, he said pro- land is henceforth impossible. The Baron Ernst August von Mandel-

Rome, May 3. gress was being acelerated but the object of the decree lay so the

Cairo, May 7, aloh, one of the best known of King Victor Emmanuel has dea- | conference was not yet concluded. agency continues, to create meang The Egyptian Prime Minister and Austria's younger generation of towed the Grand Cross of the Order Mr. Morgenthau fiatly denied.re-of painters, has been sentenced to of Bavola on Signor Benito Musso-ports that the Treasury would use one month's imprisonment and lint, the Italian Dictator, in re-its profits realised from the silver fined 300 Schillings" on ́similar | cognition of the victorious rou-programme for the payment of the charges.

clusion of the war in Ethiopia. War veterans' bonus.- Transocean Newt Service.

Reuter,

Reuter's Bulletín. Service.

controlling import. Im-the Baudi-Arabia representative porters who want to import pro-signed the treaty by which each hibited goods may obtain import country recognises the regime in licences within the exlating scope the other and agrees to exchange of quotas,—

diplomatic representatives. Trancean Nevis Bervien,

Reuter

he bumped against a hawker carrying a pot of boiling congee in Cross Street.

Ip Shan and Yeung Shan, two coolies working at the Shing Mur Valley were received at the Shing Mun Hospital with injuries re- ceived when a rock fell on them while working.

There was a clean bill of health in the Colony for the 24 hours ended on Thursday,

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HOME CRICKET RESULTS

Double Century By Hendreu

London, May 8. The following were the results of cricket matches concluded to-day: M.C.C. 7. Surrey at Lord's MC.C. won by even wicketa MC.C. 494 for dec. (Hendren

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202, Edrich 114) and 94 for 3: Surrey 224. (Sims 5 for 51) and 383.

Kent v, Gloucester at Gravesend

Kent won by 153 runs, Kent 180 and 271 (Binfeld 5-for 87): Glou- cester 102 and 196 (Freeman 5 for 109).

Oxford Univ..v. All-India at Oxford Oxford 297: Al-India 103 for 5. Match drawin

Cambridge Univ. v, Sussex

Mat Cambridge. This match was drawn Cam- -bridge 205 (Robinson 5 for 47) and 359 (Tindall 101): Sussex 395 (Harry Parks 174. Wensley 108 not out) and 65 for 1.—-—-— Heuter,