1934-01-31 — Page 18

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BRITISH -DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS

Publication Expected. -To-morrow.

HIGHWAY SAFETY.

BRITAIN SEEKS MEASURE TO REDUCE ACCIDENTS

London, Jan, 80,- The Government's now Road Traffe BI designed to reduce loss of life on public highway will London, Jan. 30. aim to remove some of the defects The terms of the how British which experience has revealed memorandum on Disarmament exist in the Road Trafic Act. It will probably be published not is understood that one proposal later than Thursday next Mean will restrict pedestrians to safety while the British atatement was zones when crossing busy communicated to the German streets."

Government yesterday. About! The Government's intention la the same time it was delivered at also to use other measures besides the Quai d'Orsay in Paris and a legislation to reduce road risks copy was handed to the Italian and the help of newspapers, Foreign Minister.

broadcasting system and film com- Copies of the memorandum wore panies will probably be invited. The also in the hands of representa possibility of restricting the use tives of the United States, Japan. of horse traffic in some of the Belgium and Poland.

busiest streets is under considera- When Herr Hitler speaks in the tion and working of an automatic Reichstag this afternoon he will signalling system and ils develop- have had ample time to consider ments are receiving attention.→

the British statémont and that British Wireless. part of his speech which deals with the disarmament question is awaited here with special inter mont memorandum convoys that est.

Britain finds herself again in the The President of the Disarma- role of mediator. While Franco- ment Conference, Mr. Arthur German negotiations have broken; Henderson, was present in the down both countries are more House Commons yesterday when willing for setlomant than hither- the Foreign Secretary made his to. France may appeal to the statement in reference to the Bri-League, but it in considered inevit- tish Memorandum. Mr. Hender-able that the Bureau of the Dis- aon is expected to remain in Lon armament Conference must even don for some days and officers of tully register a defeat if such mea- the Conference Bureau'aro to' ro-

aures are adopted. port to him on February 10 ro- garding the latest developments. The question of calling. the. Dis armament Conference together again will depend largely on the raception given to the British memorandum.--British' Wireless.

Further direct Franco-German

negotiations appear improbable at present and in order to effect n compromise it is believed the Bri- tish memorandum puta forward a. new deal in Disarmament which, it is hoped, will be accepted. The In Mediator's Role.

British plan is said to be a modi̟- fleation of the earlier propoanią London, Jan. 30. which commanded much approval Despite amelal silence, reliable from the. nations concerned.-- reports atata the British Disarma- Reuter.

Printed, and Published for the Proprietà by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and B, Wyndham Street in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1934.

WOMAN PUNISHED

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF

CONTRABAND'

CHANG HSUEH-LIANG.

MIGHT RULE WORLD.

TERRIBLE DEATH RAY

·DISCOVERED

YOUNG MARSHAL MAY BE BANDIT COMMISSIONER

On charges of (1) being in pos-

Nanking, Jan. 30.

London, Jan, 30, session of 980 taels of raw opium IE is reliably learned that A discovery, which might mako and (2) being in possession of 38 Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang will him powerful enough to rule the taels of non-Government prepared be appointed vice-Commander of world, la claimed by Professor opium, a woman named Chan Kap, the Bandit Suppression Forces in Chadfield, lecturer at the Lolces. described as a hairdresser, made five provinces.

ter College of Technology. For another appearance before Mr. The provinces concerned are with a new death-dealing device, Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Junan, Hupeh, Klangal, Fukion Professor Chadfield: belloves he Magistracy yesterday afternoon. and Kwangtung.

could murder anyone without the Chief Preventive Offcor Buller Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is alightest chance of incriminating appeared for the prosecution, while Commander in Chief of the Bandit ovidenca cropping up. Mr. Hio-shing Lo was for the de-Suppression Forces.—Reuter,

force.

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His weapon is an electric death ray. He started his experiments, ho said, on the assumption that every living being has its own wavelength, and constructed ultra-high-frequency, apparatus to test the theory. First, he killed all the files coming between two

and energised plates thereafter similarly wiped out mice,

It was stated at a previous hear- ing that in a raid carried out by he stated the door was of this type, C. P. O, Buller and four. Chinoso and therefore defendant could not revenue officers, defendant was he connected with the third floor. found on the second floor of No. To prove his point, he called a 254 Reclamation Street. On the man named Au Yip who deposed third floor was found a large that he knew of several houses in quantity of opium which formed Kowloon with doors of the type the subject of the charges. There described.

He has now. obtained permia- was a door between the first and At the conclusion of the evidence aion from the Post Ofce to in- second floors, and this was held by for the defence, Mr. Lo submitted stal a five kilowatt apparatus five a pleca of rope, but only an un-that defendant was not the prin- hundred times more powerful than locked door separated the second cipal tenant of the second floor that used in previous experiments. and third floors,

although she was in possession of Reuter. At yesterday's proceedings, Mr. the rent receipts, which, he stated, Le called Lo Tim, a rent-collector, wore handed over to hor by Li 8ze. who testified that he had been He also submitted that there was collecting rent in Reclamation no evidence connecting the second Streat for two years. As regards floor with the third, although there, Ne, 254, a woman called Li Sze were several circumstantial points first rented the second floor and which could be explained away. then introduced a man Leung Mun He further submitted that the to take up the third. Both moved oplum was not found in her con in on the same day. Since Li Sze trol and not even in her physical and Leung Mun moved in, they paid their rents personally to him except for two occasions in the case of the former and ono occasion in the case of the lattor, when de- fondant did so for them.

control.

His Worship held, however, that defendant had not discharged her onus. If anybody else had been found on the third floor, there might have been some woight to A Practico in Tenements. Mr. Le's submissions, but defan- Mr. Lo stressed the importance dant was the only person found or of the fact that in somo Chinese the two floors. Under the circum tenement houses, a door is very stances, he would have to convict often made between the first and her.

Ол the second floors by the tenants of the

Aret charge, the latter, and tenants of the third maximum penalty of $5,000 or 12 floor would have either to rig a months was imposed, and on the bell for their own people to open second, a fine of $2,000 six the door or knock for the second months was imposed, the floor tenants to do so. In this case, tences to run concurrently.

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