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TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1932.

CHILD WELFARE CASE IN COURT.

MAN ACCUSED OF CRUELTY TO OWN OFFSPRING

case

A father's treatment of bis elder son, an 11-year-old lud, was ques tioned in R

before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon.

The man, Fan King-chung at 29 Village Road; WBB accused of cruelty, in that he inflicted exces sive punishment on the boy, the in strument usod being a feather dugter,

CORRESPONDENCE.

-Portuguese Slander Action Settled.

To the Editor, Hongkong

Tetepenuh.)

THE STRIKE THREAT.

REACTION SEEN IN COTTON QUOTATIONS

the stock exchange

London, Aug. 18. With proût taking resumed and the absence of fresh support, gilt eilged securities further relapsed. Sir. Our attention has been in some directed to the report of this ac- quarters to one per cent.

instances from three

Other day. It is not true to say, so far are also quieter. tion published in your issue of to- sections of as the defendant is concerned, that

The only market to show MILY the husbands took up the fight on behalf of the wives. Our client animation was South African min- was sued because it was alleged ings which were generally very that he was responsible in law for firm on good, development rum- his wife's torts,

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Mr. J. D. Bush, Hon. Secretary or the Anti-Muitsui Society, up pearing as a witness in the pro- At the cluse of the case for the Contmodity markets , lacked ceedings, told the Court that about defence and after legal argument, fresh features. Liverpool cotton a week ago he received a call from His Honour Pulsne Judge intimated futures however, weakened owing Mrs. Fan, the wife of the defen-that the submissions of the defence to the labour situation in the tex- dunt, at his office, and as a result of (appeared to be good in law but that tile industry. The danger of a a complaint she made to him, he in his opinion it was a case for set-strike in that industry appears to arranged with Mr. W. M. Thomson,tlement. Mr. Rendall then tendered be growing owing to the deter- af the Secretariat of Chinese an apology on behalf of the defen-mined attitude of both sides, Affairs, to accompany Inspector dur saying that if certain words, The Chairman of the Cotton Fraser to the Village Road address. | not reported by you, had been used Spinners and Manufacturers As- There the mother pointed out her by the defendant's wife they would soóciation stated that the empló- { two children, and, in the parlour have been untrue and that the de-yres will not accept outside inter- taking the elder aside she pulled | fendant's wife dues not make and vention in the question of the re- [up his trouser leg and exposed to never has made any imputations instatement of displaced opera- ylew a swollen ankle and other in-against the moral character of the lives, which is one of the main juries.

| plaintiff'a wife, which is and al-issues of the dispute. It appeared to him that the lad ways has been beyond reprouch.

A member of the central board was cowed and was, induced, to This apology was at once accept for the Northern Counties Textile speak only with difficulty.

Led by plaintiff's solicitor. Mr. M. K. Lo, for the defence, j We shall be glad if you will cor- suggested that the cowed demean-reet your report in your next issue. our might have been nervousness! Before strangers and particularly before the European members of the visiting party.

Witness, replying to other ques-- lins, said that what he could see of the leg after it was exponed was |covered with scars and bruises. Apart from what was told him by the lad, witness thought that such punishment was uncalled for and excessive for one of the lad's age.

Boy Questioned.

RUSS & Co.

FLOOD HAVOC IN INTERIOR.

CHOLERA ADDS TO MISERY IN SHANSI

Peiping. Aug. 18. Hundreds have been rendered |homeless in Taiyuaufu, tha

Fan Foo-keung, the lad in ques: Shansi capital, by flonds. Seven tion, examined as a witness, told

Trade Federation, which embraces ten trades unions in the weaving section, said that the operatives were very determined.

opera-

In various centres the lives are ceasing work in indivi dual mills as a protest against wage reductions.-Reuter's Special Service.

OBITUARY.

DEATH OF A FRIEND OF C. IL SPURGEON

London, Aug. 18.

The death is reported of the Rev.

the Court that he had complained to hundred houses have completely his aunt of being underfed, but had collapsed and 2,000 partially. not voiced the same complaint to Floods are also affecting other W. Y. Fullerton.-Router.

¡parts of the, province and severe The Rev. William Young Fuller- his father, because he know he cholera is adding to the general ton was the home secretary of the would then be scolded for "eating:

He Baptist Missionary Society. misery. too much."

was born in Belfast in 1857, and

The chastisement he received More thin {lk villages arej three days before coming into affected with cholera which is from 1879 to 1893 was a missioner

and in one! Court, was due, so he understood, Lo rapidly spreading. his helping himself to pea-nuts district alone, 2,500 people have which had been bought by his succumbed.--Renter's "Spécial, younger brother. They usually -----------

had two or three meals a day on

in association with the famous C. H Spurgeon. He travelled consi- derably, visiting China in 1907. New Zealand and Australia. Canada, South Africa, and the United States. He Was also

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rice or congee, accompanied by fulness or for not being able to writer, among his books being an make out sh-t was comtennicated autobiography, 21 biography of to him over the telephone,

ment scraps.

On, other occasions he had been smacked by his father for forget-

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The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the wook ended August 19th, 1911.

The rate of the dollar on -de-

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An attempt was made to assas- ainate Admiral Li Chùn in Can- ton, several bombs being thrown.. The Admiral was injured and two podestrians killed,

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Mr. P. M. Hodgson returned from Home leave. Whilst in Eng- [land, he was married.

Mr. H. A. Nisbet was appoitibad

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