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CHINA'S FINANCES.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CHILD MURDERED BY STRANGULATION.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20,

LOCAL RADIO.

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CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.

THE BENDLINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO", ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS.

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LEAGUE AGREES TO LOAN OF EXPERTS.

TWO MONTHS' OLD AFFAIR ALLEGED ROBBER WARNED

SUBJECT OF ENQUIRY. BY JUDGE ON ACQUITTAL.

Geneva, Jun. 19.

An enquiry was held by Mr. The League Council's proceedings Aflor ♫ retirement minutes, the Jury gave Wan Lin-have been most expeditious, much Lindsell, at the Central Magis- you the benefit of the doubt on a time being saved by a proposal of tracy, yesterday afternoon, touch-gramme of Victor Records kindly sup The Steamship,

toing the death of a Chinese baby plied by Mesura. Tanne Fook Plane tharge of robbery at the Criminal Mr. Henderson, the president,

7.00 p.. Stock Quotations. Sessions yesterday afternoon, be discontinue the practice of the read-and subsequent discoveries result-

5-5.30 p.m. Concert Itema. fore the Pulane Judge (Mr. Jus-ing of long reports by the rapper, ing from a post-mortem examina-

Orchestral Spring Song tice Jacks). In discharging the tour. Only the resolutions append. tion. man, His Lordship warned him as ed to reports will be road in future. to his future conduct.

The Council agreed to the Chi-Deputy Prisoner was brought to book,nese Application for the services of it was alleged, after a impac of Sie Arthur Salter and Mr. Haan to two years, and was charged with advise on the reform of Chinese having taken part in A robbery finances, and the organisation of aboard

Yaumats the Inland waterways, in A kampan Refuge on October 29, 1928. Two Mr. Henderson olmerved that the other men, who jumped overboard Conncil was happy to learn of this when an alarm was raised, were application from China, and the tried and sentenced soon after the interest the Chinese

Government was taking. In the League. offence.

An interesting feature of the

Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.LE, Inspector-General of

Ago.

Polleg, replying to the Magistrate, aid he was watching the pro- ceedings on bohalf of the Police.

Evidence was given by a wo- man employed as a sweeper at the to the dix- Botanical Gardens, no covery of the body of a Chinese baby in the bushes at the Albany It being wrapped up in corner. B

she had thought it was a П of waste-paper until The Council adjourned to Jant-closer inspection. The discovery monthe case was that the arrest was effec-ary 20, when the report of the Pre was made on a day two ted by Tac On, the Chinese delee paratory Disarmament Commission

Dr. A. V. Greaves, in charge of tive who was shot dead by allowed will come up.

the Morgue, apoke of seeing

the Communista in a Yaumati restau rant on December 8.

bodies of two Chinese babies on the morning of November 14, when he went into the Morgue. In addi tion to the Pollee Inbel accom- panying each body taken into the martuary, witness said that there was a number given to it accord- ing to the order of its receipt. On that date, the two bodies were numbered 3 and 4 respectively. He did not look at the labels, but examined the papers sent in with them. One body was of a baby, a few days old, and the other that of a child newly-born.

The Counell has accepted a gift of G$10,000 for preparation of a reform of the Prisoner was formally charged conference on with sterling a purse containing calendar,--Reuter, $140 in money and a gold ring, and

n plea of not guilty was entered.

Prisoner, who gave evidence, and asked him for a loan of 730. Bald that he heard of the robbery He refused to advance the money. after It had been committed, alfand as Lo Shing was leaving, he saw two men, in wet clothes, 1 told prisoner to take care of him ins taken past his house. He self when he was walking in the denied that he was at the ene street, and mentioned stabbing of the robbery but explained that Prisoner alleged that the charge and has been he was in the street. He woke of was a false one his employmenta altre that time, fabricated against him because he and reculed that La Shing, enn--wouhl not lend the money. plainant's husband, called on him wife corroborated his evidence.

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Examining Number Four, he discovered a strip of cloth, 1G inches long, tied tightly twice around the neck and knotted be. hind the neck. He satisfied im self that the child was not still- born: that it had lived and breath- ed. The cause of death WIN asphyxia, caused by strangulation with the strip of cloth. A cur. Mary glance would not have re vealed the fact, as the strip of cloth was deeply embedded in the Besh. He formed the opinion that death must have taken place at least 36 hours previously.

Morgue Procedure,

(Mendelssohn). International Concert Orch. 35830.

(Thurlow Licurance). Song By The Waters of Minnetonka

Ernestine Schumann-Heink (Contralto). 1108. Violin Solo-Humoresque

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Marek Weber and His Orch. 69073. Peer Gynt Suite a, Maralog . The

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Victor Symphony Orchestra. 35793. Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss). Wedding Dance (Paul Lincke). The Swing

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Consigneen of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godown of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th January 1931 will be subject to rent.

All clans against the steamer must be presented to the Undersign- ed on or before the 8th February 1931, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Gonds are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th January 1931, at 10a.m., by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.

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WORLD TRAFFIC IN DRUGS.

MANY COUNTRIES NOT GIVING DATA.

Genova, Jan. 19.

The League of Nations Central Opium Board's publicity and pro- paganda has failed to reduce no- preciably the work! traffic in opiums. reported Mr. Lyall, the Chairman to the of the Opium Committee Council.

He said that the traffic continued on an immense scale, and falling other means the Board must use its powers to denounce the countries which are in danger of becoming

Replying to the Magistrate, wit-balance at Profit and Loss Account/centres of the illicit traffic. ness said that every body received for the year ended 31st. December

as where it was found, ete.

The

duty of the attendant then, was to receive the body, and place it in the proper place with the label

The report of the Board to the

at the Morgue, was supposed to be 1930, in $318,349.96, which, to Council complains of certain coun- accompanied by a Police card givether with $34.487.03 brought tries, some of whom have signed the ing all possible particulars, such forward from the previous year, Geneva Opium Convention, being Information. Some gave the figures makes a total of $352,836.09 avail-alow in responding to its request for able for appropriation....

only of legal imports, not referring The Directors will, at the ap

to the seizure of illicit drugs. Others preaching meeting of Shareholders, lumped their tropical and European recommend the following distributerritories together; while informa

tion from the South American and al- Central American States whs most entirely absent,

beside it.

Witness said that he had since given orders that no body was to card be taken in unless such a

Then, every was attached to it morning before his arrival, it was

the duty of his clerk also to make

n list of the betties awaiting port-mortem examination. In the Was present ease, Number Four

tion:

To pay a Dividend of $2.00 per share anil Bonus of $2.00 per share

carry forward

......

$320,000.00

The Council adopted the Board's 32,836.99 Ruggestions that it should be allow- ed to recommend an embargo on the Importa of drugs from the offend-

shown as having come from the No. 1 Attendant's father who re-ing countries; also that the origin No. 7 (West Point) Police Station. reived the body in question that of illicit druga seized should be re-

On discovering that death was day. That man was not officially ported to the Board-Renter. due to strangulation, witness said employed by the Medical Depart-

he entered the fact in his regis-ment, and he had

gence.

inade

no authority whatever to receive the body. ter and he also made a report to witness did not believe this man the Director of Criminal Intelli-.

He included the report in bodies there. On that day.

a practice of receiving the the ordinary reports and did not

NO. 1 Attendant had been given notify any Station direct of his leave to attend his mother-in-law's "his discovery.

funeral, hut in his absence. Replying to Mr. Wodehouse, wit-assistant should have been there ness said he was not aware that on duty. Under the present sys. it had always been the practice tem, the Police labels remained to attach those identification cards attached to the bodies until wit- to the bodies. There was always

an attendant on duty, day and ness had seen them.

TRAVEL │night, at the Morgue. As far as he

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