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COMPANY REPORT.

THE HONGKONG TELEPHONE COMPANY, LTD.

The report of the Board of Directors of the Hongkong Telephone Company to the shareholders at the meeting to be held on Murch will state:

SOLICITOR FOR TRIAL,

ALLEGED CONVERSION OF

CHEQUE.

William Douglus Sanders, aged thirty-two, solicitor, of Belgrave Court, Norfolk-terrace, Brighton. was charged at Marlborough-street, The Balance at credit of Profit and London. recently, with - having Logs Account for the year ended the received a cheque for £450 and 31st December, 1931, (including the banker's draft for £4,034 on ace- Num of $62,259.27 brought forward from the previous year), amounted to count of the executor of A. C. proceeds $707,564.51. After charging $333,Liddell, convering the 124.51 for Depreciation and effecting, to his own uke.

WAR

WAR

£1,000

THE HONGKONG

FLOODS RUIN 1,500

HOMES.

325,000 ACRES UNDER MISSISSIPPI WATERS

on the 4th August, 1931, the payment Sanders, who pleaded not gulitying down a valley. of an Interim Dividend of 4%, absorb and reserved his defence, ing $128,000.00, there remains the num of $305,840.00, which the Board committed for trial. He recommend be appropriated as follows: jallowed hall, himself in To payment of a Final Dividend of 6% (making 10% for the year)

To Transfer to General Roserve (bringing anŋpe up to $125.000).

Carry forward

Account

to noxt

Directors.

And one surety in £500.

$192,000.00, said that Sanders was in prae- Mr. H. A. H. Morgan, proaccut- tice as a solicitor at Bolton-street, 50,000.00 W. Among x clients was Mr.

in 1927. Mr. Basin. Liddell, who died 03,840.00 (indbraith, barrister, became note exerator under his will, and $305,840.00 structed Sanders to wind up

the estate.

Under Article No. 195 of the Com pany's Articles of Association, the Hua. Sir Shou-aon Chow and Mr. 1), E. Blake retire by rotation, but being

themselves for eligible, offer

•lection.

Auditors.

EX

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1932.

ARMED ROBBERY.

THREE YOUTHS FACE A

SERIOUS CHARGE.

January

20

EMPIRE CONFERENCE.

MR. THOMAS PLEADS FOR HARMONY.

com-

Three Chinese youths, So Tak,

London, Feb. 23. Li Ming and Ko Yat-cho, were "Do not let us go to Ottawa in 1,500 families homeless. brought before Mr. Fraser at the haggling apirit, but let us go to A whole town cut off. Kowloon Magistracy yesterday see what we can throw into the 125,000 acres flooded.

afternoon on the charge of having common pool for the benefit of committed an armed robbery at all." appealed

Mr.

J. H. Thomas These are the outstanding fea-No. 11 Saigon Street, second floor. In the House of Commonx,

Detective wards the close of a specch in tures of the havoc caused by the on raging waters of a Mississippi Inspector Fallon

prosecuted,

which he waxed indignant at the tributary that burst its banks, thei Outlining the case, Inspector expense of Major Nathan. the ten-feet wall of flood water roar- Fallon said that at about 1.16 p.m. secretary of the Cobden Club, who

on January 29, the three defen- moved an amendment In the It was the rampant Tallahatchieldants went up to the second floor mill that preference only be given

mittee stage of the

Import Duties River tit caused the disustor. lof No. 11

Street and Salkon

enter- For five weeks the waters have,ed the premises by the staircase to the Dominions. India and South thundered against the Grassy door. At the time, there were Rhodesin if by March 31 they Kingdom they broke through at three im-the Lake, Levee (dum), and at last four females and two chlidren on enacted that United

One of the defendants goods should be admitted free.

Mr. Thomas characterised this portant points, and poured into the produced a pistol, and the other

Two

With these proposal a threat to the Dominions already partially-flooded Tippo carried knives,

they pushed the inmates the same as to foreigners, as an wenpons, into a cubicle, but did not bind insult. Everyone looked forward them all.

to the Ottawa conference, as per- The robbers then ransacked the haps the turning point in tfloor and stayed there for about Imperial policy. We should do at- the half an hour. At the end of thetour utmost to create a good The estate wan sworn at about river.

period, they left taking sway with mosphere. Every available man

Mr. Thomas contended that the £9,000. Part of it consisted of!

was en-them a quantity of jewellery. Leamington Spa.gaged in rescue work.

One of the

had women of the Government.

made Kreat Even con- a mansion at cutest Beschlawn.

viets ont of the gaols are being oor was not bound at all: the sacrifices, though some Dominions

.. robbers did not a because they had not done so as well, but that employed

thought she needed her hands to did not justify the amendment. Approximately 325,900 acres are take care of her by.

shown have alrendy Tula "We submerged in six counties in a

Woman followed the robbers hands, and I believe the Dominions great Mississippi inland lake of downstairs, and un renching the will respannt." some twenty suure niles. So far street, raised the alarm. One (1 The Amendment was negativel no lives are reported lost,

the robbers turned down

without Numerous holes have been:

scavenging lane, while the other Special Service. punched by the torrent in the main two instle off in another direc | lever al entorn, Honting logs in. neting us battering ram

The oily means of getting away

Ji

Lowe, Bogham and Matthews, who The accounts for the year under are eligible and offer themselves for reylow have been anfiled by Messrs. reselection.

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of Mississippi have been driven from their homes. The

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the robbery bad en received by the Yaumati Police Station, a telephone message was received Divisional Inspector Clark per from the Diocesan Girls' School.

4713".

A Long Chase. from Glendora is by boat, Refugees) Mr. MIC Singh. it Polls Reservist, was passing at the time. 481 the railway endankments, and on hearing the cries of the They are scantily clothed and woman, he went in pursuit of the sonally went to the school, on the have nothing to eat.

rofiber who had turned down the grounds of which he pleked up

There follwola PIN

tol. The inmates would a pistol. Reul CrasN

Beavenging lane. headquarters Washington were informed that and in the roarse of this chase,

hat a long chase alour side streets went on inspector Fallon, tha

the robbera hadi used a weapon 1,500 families from nine counties robber threw dowry a parent very similar to the nut produced There was no direct jewellery was holding in in Court. inats of Bivizoni. Mississippi, are jeled in the chase after a whil was the one used at the rouber

A Chinese student evidence to show that the pistol preparing in dynamite the love this dditional and reeking however, although evidence wond below the town so na to lessen the the

arrest of # MAN pressture con. The dykes near the trelamation Street,

led past the grounds of the When taken

the Police Dineosas Girls' School.

th the ANTE Station, this Jual

Police information, Inspector Fallon alleged was the arrested the second and third MAN WHO DESIGNS]first defendant, WHM found to

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A man who, twenty-three yours asto, begion as a junior inspector of the Board of Agriculture to work out the essentials of British forest policy, will in March be come the Controller of 750,000 acres of land belonging

the! Forestry Commissjon.

to

He is Sir Roy Lister Robinson, and he is succeeding je John Stiling-Maxwell as Chairman.

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when

he given to show that the chase

acting or Officers

have some more jewellery on his defendants in various addresses. person, and this property had and they were also charged with the armed robbery. No property was. been identified by |victims of the robbery as theirs. however, found on them.

sine

Pistol Recovered. Immediately after a report of

After evidence was taken, th case was adjourned.

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