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THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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London, June 13. Questioned as to what reply, had been received from the Norwegian Government to representations re- garding molestation of British ship- ping off the coast of Norway, Mr. Anthony Eden, in the Commons, said the Norwegian Government, in- an Interim reply, stated that" an

been explantion had

requested from the competent authorities, and that should it prove that British trawiors had been subjected to un- "This is a very serious thing, warrantable interference, the Nor trafficking in children," remarked Weglan Government were fully pro- Mr. Hamilton, when two married pared to make good the wrong women, Wong Sni and Sit Yung, British Wirclean. were charged with having takoni

In a case which came before Mr. Hamilton this morning it was disclosed that a woman had resold a child for a profit of 80 conts.

part a transaction the object

of which was to transfer posses-LARGE CREDIT FOR| sion of a one-month-old female child for a valuable consideration,

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Nanking, June 14.

A great improvement in China's finance administration was claimed by a spokesman of the Ministry of Finance, in an interview with Reuter this morning.

He stated that the Budget pub- lshed for the fiscal year from July 1, 1934, to June 80, 1935, was the first time that the Ministry of Finance had, made public an official estimate of his anticipated revenues and expenditures for the coming

year. L

Both women admitted the charge. Wong Sal was fined $250, or three months' imprison- ment, and Sit Yung, who was the principal in the transaction, $500, or atx months Imprisonment.

Sab-Inspector H. W. Fraser, of

Washington, June 13.

"Such action was a demonstration the S.C.A., said that on June 11 The Senate to-day passed the that the country's finances are be the mother of the child reported Tydings Bill establishing on the ing managed according to a defined to the No. 2 Police Station that books of the Treasury Department, plan, due to the degree of stabillan- she had presented her child to a credit in favour of the Philiption and order which had now been Sit Yung on June 10, and that pines of $23,862,750 in connection established by the Central Govern- she had received

Information with the reduced gold content of ment of China, and to the steady that Sit Yung had resold the child the dollar...

efforts which have been made to The measure has been sent to centralise and organise the coun- to another woman.

the House of Representatives try's financial system along modern where a almilar Bill was rejectedlines.-Renter.

THE TRANSACTION. Before the birth of the child, the mother borrowed $5 from Sit Yung to defray expenses of her confinement.

earlier this week.-Router.

After the child was name of the first defendant, Im- Found in the Royal Naval Dockyard born, Slt Yung demanded tmediately after she got the child, with a razor strapped round his leg, money back, and, when the mother Sit Yung resold It to the first Trang Hong, unemployed, was pro said she could not pay, demanded | defendant for $7.80, thus making duced before Mr. Hamilton, at the the child. The mother according- a profit of 80 cents on the deal. Central Magistracy this morning, and ly gave her the child. and Sit The child was found by the Police charged with trespassing, and being Yung paid an extra $2 to keep in the possession of the first de-in basession of an instrument for an

fendant.

unlawful purpose. He was fined the child.

$500, or six months hard labour on Inspector Fraser added that the Arst charge, and $260, or threo the second defendant's guilt was months, on the second, the sentences greater than that of the first.

to run consecutively.

the

It was alleged that when deed of presentation was drawn up by Sit Yung, she had given the

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