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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. - SATURDAY, MARCH 9,- 1929.

FAILURE OF NEW RECENT SHANGHAI THE U.S. BUSINESS

LOAN ISSUES.

JAPANESE SPECULATORS

BACKWARD.

INTEREST TOO LOW?

Tokyo, Mar. 8.

The result of the South Man- churian Railway's new Conversion- ary Loan Issue of Yen. 35,000,000, which was opened to public aub scription on March 6th, is

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nounced to be highly unsatis-

factory.

Thus far the public subscription registered has barely exceeded Yen.. 7,000,000, only just over a Ofth of the total. The balance of Yen, 28,000,000 will, therefore, be taken over by a banking syn- 'dicate underwriting the "deben- tures.

TRAGEDY.

INQUEST ON YOUNG CHILDREN."

WITNESS OF SMASH GIVES IMPORTANT EVIDENCE.

TRAILER AND PRAM.

Shanghai, Mar, G. The Inquest on Margaret Demory Gabbott and Barbara Gabbolt, the two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. B. L Gabbott of 1213 Rue Lafayette, who died on the morning of February 26 68 a result of a collison between Equally unsatisfactory results their perambulator and a garbage are reported in connexion with lorry and trailer belonging to the other important loan issues float French Municipal Council, was ed in the past few days, particu- continued yesterday morning by larly that of the Toyko Electric the Registrar, sitting as Coroner,

offered Company, which

Yen. In H. M. Police Court. 30,000,000 and the Koren Deve- lopment Bank, which offered Yen. 10,000,000.

“REVOLUTION.”

ANOTHER CO. CHAIRMAN

·OUSTED FROM CONTROL.

STEWART'S PENSION.

Chicago, Mar. 8.

It is estimated that following | his deposition from the clairman- ship of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, an result of Mr. J. D.

Rockefeller's campaign, Col. Ro- bert Stewart will draw a pension of approxíniately £15,000 per an num from the Company.

The figure la based upon his average salary for the past ten years, and. his twenty-two years' employment with the company.

The story of the ousting of on- other prominent chairman comes from New York to-day, in the per- or of Mr. William Childs, the founder of a nation-wide chain of restaurants, who, together with his family, has been removed from control of the company.

The profts, of the restaurants have recently been declining, and it was alleged by the opposition that this was due to the attempt by Mr. Childs to introduce vege- tarianism and "other dictisms."

Dr. Thomas Balfour Dunn gave evidence that he had been calling on Mrs. Gabbott, about 10 a.m. on Both these issues have been February 26 when he was inform under-subscribed to an astonished that the two children had been ing degree.

injured. He went immediately Apparently the issues have to St. Marie's Hospital, and found, falled because the interest offered Margaret dead and Barbara suffer-

A powerful group of stock- is regarded as being too low, bng from a badly fractured skull. though the South Manchurian Rail-bleeding from the cars and suffer brokera wrought Mr. Childs' way offered 5 per cent, and the ing apparently from paralysis of eclipse despite the latter's tearful other two companies, & per cent. the right side and in a very serious appeal not to take away his "child -Neuter.

condition. He saw that nothing.40 years' effort."-Reuters could be done for her and went American Service, to his office. He returned to the

AIR MAIL FLIGHT

TO INDIA.

TON OF LETTERS WHEN THE

SERVICE STARTS.

PASSENGERS BARRED.

London, Mar. 8.

All agranicenients have now been completed for the opening of the air service from Croydon to India by the Imperial Airways, ng in- dicated by Sir Samuel Hoare's speech on the Air Estimates.

The first outward flight is to be made on March 30th, and the machine to be employed will be one of the Imperial Airways' man- sive twenty-two seater Armstrong- Siddeley air-liners.

hopital at noon and was told she

was dead. Her death was due. to a fractured skull,

Margaret had few external in-. juries save a superficial scratch on the left side of the face. There was no gross evidenec us to the cause of her death, and he carti- fied that she had died of "in- jury." She bore no evidence of crushing, but in the other child the right side of the akull was crushed. In ha opinion it would take more than a blow to erusli the skull in that manner. He saw no other crushing or bruises.

Russian Lady's Evidence.

| AFTERMATH OF THE FROST,

BALTIC

AND RHINE SHIPPING

LYING IDLE.

ICE HOLDING FAST.

Cologne, Mar. 8.

Milder weather and extensive | blasting operations along the ice- banks of the Rhine have hardly affected the position at all. Huge Mrs, Olga Leoanoff, Russian ice-packs in the river all make lady, testified that at about 8.30 navigation absolutely impossible, on the morning in question she and it is estimated that 2,300 vessels had been taking her son to school and 11,000 lighters, aggregating in a ricksha in Rue Lafayette, go-14,000,000 tons of shipping are held ing westward. She was about six up in the river and lying Idle. yards behind the perambulator in The machine, as far as is known, which the children were when the will carry mail only on its first lorry passed her. She was not trip. It leaves, Croydon in the very far from the pavement. The early morning of Saturday, the first truck passed the baby car 30th, and it is due to reach Karriage but the trailer caught it. Was pushing the nchi at 10.30 am. G.M.T. on April The amah 6th,

carriage with, one baby inside and the other was walking level with her on the outside of her.

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The large wheel of the trailer baby carriage which collapsed. caught the small wheel of the

The Jee is enormously thick and it is feared that there is no pros- pect of a resumption of the river; traffic for some time yet,

Nowa from Helsingfors Indicates that the recent Arctic bell has had a serious effect there also. The Baltic States are all suffer- ing heavily as the result of the ice blockade in Danish waters,

with dangerous rapidity and hage Stocks of coal are running low

Numerous applications have been received from persons desir ing to make the passage on the first flight, large sums being offer ed, but there is no reason to sup.The rear of the carriage was push-quantities of goods for export have pose that there will be any depared in towards the sidigwalle by the accumulated at the various Baltic Lure from the decision to carry blow. She had seen the amah mulla only for the first month' pushing the carriage in the same

ports awaiting shipment.-Renter. Mails for the trip are coming way every day, sometimes four in rapidly and there are indica-mes a day, when she was taking tions that over a ton of letters will her boy to school. The baby. be sent on the first flight-Renter.carriage was in the roadway, about six feet from the pavement and going straight ahead.

HOOVER BEGINNING AT

WRONG END?

WASHINGTON ENFORCEMENT OF PROHIBITION.

Washington, Mar. 8.

With the strleter enforcement

of the Prohibition lawa under the

After the accident a motor ear came up' and the amah put one child in and a Chinese put the other in and she saw nothing more. The pram was in the road- way when she saw it, but later when she passed at 11.30 am. it was on the footpath.

Did Lorry Turn? She thought the lorry was turn: Hoover regime, the foreign Lega-ing to the left and came closer in tions in Washington may be forced to the pavement ap that the trailer to get their own lorries for the con- hit vey of winea and spirits, etc., for

their own use.

THE RECENT HANOI ASSASSINATION.

NATIONAL PARTY FOUND IN, EXISTENCE.

Hanoi, Mar. 4. throughout the country since the as- The investigations continuing sassination of M. Bazin, the Head of the Labour Recruitment Bureau, have disclosed the existence of a Nationalist Party, styled the Quucgiundang, which was only re cently formed.

The headquarters of the organisa- iion, whose existence is considered detrimental to French interests in Indo-China, has been raided and amangat the important documents seized, were the Articles of Associa- tion, which show that the Party has been modelled closely on the lines. of the Nationalist movement

She the baby carriage, thought the blow had come from the rear wheel of the trailer. It The exemption from asizure was damp at the time but not rain- ing and the hood of her rieksha which is, of course, granted to had not been up. The truck was liquor intended for the Legations, has always been extended to the going slowly, but she could not estimate the speed. Her ricksha lorries delivering the goods, but was about the same distance from the Transport Company which has the footpath as the perambulator. in China.! been responsible for the carriage There was quite a lot of other hitherto has been informed that traffic, with motor cars coming of the roll of membership, it has the load it has just delivered to the towards her, but at the, exact Legations must be its last.- Reuter's American Service,

U.S. NAVY CHANGE.

ADMIRAL PRATT APPOINTED CHIEF COMMANDER.

to the fore-front. He entered the U.S. Navy in 1891, and attained the rank of captain In 1915, and rear-admiral in 1921.

In consequence also of the seizure

been possible for the French nu- moment of impact there was no thorities to make a number of ar motor car level with the truck.

Under cross-examination she reata in the two important cities of Haid she was not sure that the Hanof and Haiphong. The number truck was turning and reallirmed of such arresta so far totals 67. that one child was in the pram and the other walking beside it with one hand on the handlebara.

Pram on the Footpath, Inspr. Boris Yakovleff, traffic in- spector in the French Police, was then enlied. He stated that he had been informed of the accident by a telephone message from the Post Pottler, and at 9.05 am. had

and

AIR LINE TO EAST.

FRENCH ROUTE FROM PARIS TO INDO-CHINA,

Paria, Mar. 8.

Washington, Mar. 8. Admiral W. V. Pratt has been appointed Chief Commander of the Combined United States Fleet in succession to Admiral Wiley.

Admiral Pratt has risen rapidly gone to the acene, with a The Air Minister announced in camera in his car. Photographs the Chamber to-day that arrange- wore taken.

numerous ments are likely to be made for measurements made. When he the development of a French air first came to the scene the pram line from Paris to Indo-China- He was the naval expert on the wax on the footpath, and he fixed. Haves, American delegation to the the position of the accident by Limitation of Arms Conference the testimony of the driver of the at Washington in 1921-22. truck, the amäh, a policeman' on Reuter's American Service.

duty at the corner of Route Pichon, and a Chinese witness who had been passing on a bicycle at the time. He took statements from these people both on the apot and afterwards in the station. The

The Royal Observatory forecast up till noon to-morrow is as fol- TOWS: "North-cast winds, fresh; fine generally."

Jorry and the perambulator were left just as they were until 5 p.m the same day. He had been un- able to trace. Mra, Leoanoff, the previous witness.

The inquest was then adjourned,

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