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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CONVICT SAYES HIS

· DOUBLE.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1928.

CHINA'S VANISHING SILK INDUSTRY,

AN INNOCENT MAN'S COURT SWATOW MERCHANTS TO ASK

FOR GOVERNMENT, RELIEF.

ORDEAL.

An astounding case of mistaken identity was unfolded at the Old Bailey recently

Swatow, Oct 25.

£2,800,000 CAPITAL CUT BY BEARDMORE'S.

SEQUEL TO INDUSTRIAL

DEPRESSION.・・

Two Government Departments appear in the list of loan creditors of William Beardmore and Com pany, the big Scottish shipbuilding and engineering concern, which ik reorganising its share and loan capital.

num-

Industrial depression, over ber of years has resulted in heavy losses on this company's operations, and early last year the directors appointed a committee to devise and to reorganise the company's a scheme for reducing the capital

finances.

In view of the fact that consider able dissatisfaction has been expres sed recently in the United States The man placed in the dock, and Europe regarding the deteriora Alfred George Weston, 35, an en-ting quality of Chinesa silk, stops gineer, was charged with obtain-are being taken to approach the ing £4 by menus of a forged money Central Government for financial order."

aid to the industry in this province. Two men declared he was the ran It is pointed out that, in order to bring about an improvement in the they met in a public-house at situation, the Government should Hendon Weston protested it was follow the example of the Japanese a case of mistaken identity. He Government and render assistance had never been in that, house.

to the industry instead of aqueoz- The Recorder (Sir Ernest Wilding it through the means of com- referred to an alleged confes on by plicated taxation machinery, as has another man, who was brought up been the case in the past five years. recommendations, which consist of from the cells and put into the wit For the last ten years, committees the writing down of the Six per neas-box. Ho was slightly taller and schools have worked incessant-Cent, Cumulative Preferenco shares than Weston, but there was a facintly to teach sericulturists that, in from £1 to 10s. euch, and the can- order to produce good allk, there cellation arrears of dividend from resemblance,

must be good cocoons, but, on acJuly 1, 1024, while 19a. is to bo count of lack of co-operation and written off each of the £1 Ordinary indifference on the part of the shares, practically all of which are authorities very little progress held by Lord Invernairn. has been achieved.

Serving Five Years. Slr Ernest Wild: The man in the dock is charged with forging a money order. Do you wish to give evidence? You are not obliged It is true the Government has to unless you wish to do so.

contributed money from time to time for the improvement of seri- The man replied that he would culture but what the government give evidence as Weston was in-squeezed out of the Industry in the nocent. Giving his

guise of taxation was very much Francis Atkinson, he said he was

than what it contributed. now in custody. He had been set-To make matters worse, there has tenced to five years' penal servitude been little, if any, attempt on the for attempted murder, attempted part of the authorities to contral suicide, forgery and theft.

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more

The committes has now issued Ita

The Preference shares in their reduced form will be entitled to a non-cumulative dividend of 10 per cent, free of income tax up to 48. in the £, and will have the right in

winding-up to be repaid at £1 per share.

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OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE:

Horizontal

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1 A summons or invitation.

5 Upper human limb. 8 Brillant display.

12 Plant from which bitter drug is

secured,

13 Ocean,

14 Ellipsoidal figure. 16 Frost bites. 10 Eye tumor.

17 Mud poured from a volcano, 18 Instigates. 20 Convict 21 Cover.

Issued capital consists of £1,875,- 22 Type of large violin. 224 Preference and £2,050,000 25 Rock containing iron.

20 Pertaining to birds.

27 Observed,

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Ordinary shares, and the reduction labourauitators and, ainco the will thus amount to £2,886,112.

30 To respond to a stimulus, Atkinson declared that he uttered labour unions came into existence,

** The Lan from the War Offico 1 Possesses.

remain unaffected by the money order outside a public-filature owners have been deprived will

the 34 Social group among Indians. house in Ilendon. He purchased it of the power of engaging and dis-schemg, but the Treasury is to 30 Brief. from, a post ulice, he believed, in missing workers.

write off £100,000 altogether, re- 138 Drove. The most discouraging sign in ceiving £125,000 in new Seven per 39 Swimining organ of a fish, Sheffield. "I gave it to another

alter, and then negotiated present-day conditions is that silk Cent. First Debenture stock, £260,41 w sen.

Above. it myself," he added. "The other men are more willing to quit their 000 in new "A" Debenture stock 44 Towndadoo. man was not the one in the dock," | business than to continue operating and the balance of its debt in "B"

44 Voiceless (surd). The Recorder: Do you know their filatures. It is pointed out Debenture stock.

45 Meloun, the prisoner? No. I have never that the rapid growth of the seen him. He is innocent of the Japanese ilk industry, as in the charge against him.

ease of the tea industry, has been due to goveryment assistance, and on paper varions words, and the Re-that, intens the Nationalist Govern- corder corsared the writing with ment comes to the assintance of that on other papers. "It is a re-the filature owners, the silk busi-benture stock, markable reseniblauer," he observed, fness will be lost to China, just as A curious feature of the scheme The two men who had identified the Chinese tea-trade has been is the proposed transfer of 10 Weston were recalled, but did not largely lost, in favour of Japan. identify Atkinson as the man who

Atkinson was then asked to write

had come to Hendon. A third wil nera, however, said Alkinson wa The map.

"I have been in my profession for more years than I care to remeni ber," commented Sir Ernest Wild. "On the question of identity, I do not remember, either from my own persund experience or from what I have read, a more extraordinary Case."

Weston was found not gulity and discharged. The judge remarked that there was no stain on Weston's chfracter.

SCHOOL AGAIN FOR

ALL ADULTS.

COMPULSORY LESSONS FOR

TURKS OVER 46.

SALUTE FOR A GIRL

GUIDE.

CHIEF SCOUTS SIGN OF BROTHERHOOD.

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There are more Girl Guides in the British Isles than there are Scouts. Possibly this is due to the fact that come forward in larger women numbers to take up the work among the girls. Perhaps there are more women with time to spare than there are men who are able to de- vote certain hours a week to the job of training boys.

The two movements-rightly called brother and sister-are now Working in eloser co-operation. To encourage this the Chief Scout and Chief Guide held what was called' a Gemout, a. meeting of the heads of the two movements, and as a result useful work is being done.

The move for better education in Turkey, which is being taken up so enthusiastically with the adop Many Scouts have been asking tion of the new, simplified, West-lately whether or not they should ern-style alphabet, is now to be salute 'n Girl Gulde when they meet developed in another direction. one in the street. I put the ques- Now the Government is deter-tion to the Chief Scout, and this mined that not only Young Turkey is his reply. It is of interest to and Official Turkey must learn, but both Guides and Scouts: that non-official adult Turkey also must take to the text-book.

After considerable thought the Government has now published, through the Ministry of Education, its plans for adult education.

Well, my practice is to make the sign of the brotherhood with them by giving the half-salute, and a friendly smile. We are all of one family, Scouts and Guides, only home of us are too shy or awkward Provision is made for forming to show ft when we meet, That is a "School of the Nation," in which nonsense, of course, and the suuner the scholars are to be the whole of we get over it the better.

Let us be the best of friends, the population above the military service age, their musters 12,000 ready to help each other at all times specially-recruited teachers, and and to recognise each other as their syllabus of two of the "three brothers and sisters in the same

movement. RsReading" and "Biting.”

47 To sketch.

No dividends are to be paid on 46 Unit any of the company's reduced shares in respect of the years 1928, 1920, and 1930 without the consent of the trustees for all three classes of, de-

ordinary shares from Lord In- vernairn to the trustees for the "A" debenture stock and the con- ferring on these 10 shares of sufficient voting power to give the "A" debenture trustees control of the undertaking until this deben- ture has been paid off.

LETTER GOLF.

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1-The idea of letter golf is to change one word to another and do It in par,

given

and

Unsettled estate worth £304,885 strokes. Thus to change COW to Hen, in three strokes, COW, was left by the Hon. Anna Jane Peckover, of Bank House, Wisbech 110W HEW HEN.

St. Peter, Cambridgeshire, who 2-You can change only one died on July 20, aged 65. Miss

Peckover was a

daughter of tho letter at time.

By these means popular classes

Already we hear of Guides and are to be organised throughout the Scouts arranging combined concerts 3-You must have a complete first Lord Peckover, head of a country, and all men and women and displays. Among the older word, of common uange, for each famous Quaker banking family. over 46 years must go to school. members the Rovers and Ranvers jump. Slang words and abbrevia-With the exception of gifts to

While passing through a Turkish town recently, Mustapha Kemel, the Angora President, stopped and gave the local inhabitants a lecture on the new alphabet, himself writing the characters on a blackboard,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WELL, NOW THAT YOU HAVE TUIS BABY ELEPHANT,

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OA, I'LL DO SOMETHING, UNCLE HARRY!

co-operation is being established. tions don't count. Splendid work is being done in the way of service to the community. work which is suited to united effort on the part of these young men and

women,

charities totalling £3,000, and be quests to servants, practically the 4-The order of letters cannot be entire fortune goes to her two sis

ters, the Hon. Alexandrina Peck- changed.

One solution is printed on an-over, and the Hon. Mrs. Elizabeth uthor page.

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6 Almost a donkey..

6 Requital

7 Verb of permission.

8 Ball of metal filled with hot

water.

0 Rounded convex molding.

10 Chief officer of a city, 11.Tool for smoothing boarda. 10"A sudden fright.

20 Oll reservoirs of lamps. 23 Night preceding a holiday. 24 Ingredient of lacquere

27 Narrow strip of leather, 28 Got up.

20 Brondez.

31 To 1lt

82 Centre of an amphitheatre,

33.To sentter about.

36 To throb.

37 To retain.

30 Away used with "to.”

40 Born

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