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HE FACED DEATH WITH SMILE BUT THE "FALSENESS OF HIS TRUSTED FRIEND UN- NERVED HIM AS NO GREAT CATASTROPHE COULD....

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LICENCES

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934.

WHEAT QUOTA

DENIALS

PRINTING PRESS

YOUNG BRITON'S

ACTIVITIES

ATTRACT POLICE ATTENTION

NO ALLOCATIONS YET MADE

AMENDMENT OF LOCAL LAW

The draft of a Bill to amend the Printers and Publishers Or dinanco has been issued. It is explained that by Section 3 (1) of the principal Ordinance it in law- ful for the Governor-in-Council to make auch regulations as he may think fit with roference to

NEW

London, Aug. 17.

At to-day's further meeting of,

TERRITORY the Wheat Advisory Committee in INCIDENT.

London, the subject of the sub- division of crop year quotas into quantities to be exported in each under

The activities of a young Euro-quarter of the year was the regulation of newspapers pean, said to include frauds on consideration. The Committee will" and their proprietors, printers, the simple rural folk of the New

continuo discussion of the subject to-morrow. publishers and editors, and with Territories, are receiving the at- reference to the keeping and use tention of the police. of printing presses, and to pre-

Born in Hongkong, of British scribe fees.

parents, the young man in question The amending Ordinance sub-possesses an intimate knowledge of stitutes a sub-section which makes the Chinese language, which ho ap- it clear that the regulations as to Pears to have used with considerable keeping and use of printing profit to himself in dealings with presses may deal with the fleena-people on the mainland. But al- ing thereof as well as with their fully aware of his identity, he has though the police authorities are registration, purchase, sale or re-hitherto managed to steer clear of

the law.

moval.

TALO INCIDENT.

As the definition of "printing presa" in Section 2 (t) of the principal Ordinance is, purposely, The mast recent incident to have widely framed, the now Section focussed attention on his doings (1) provides for granting exemp-occurred at Tail-O, where he turned tions. The new Section 3 (1) also up on the 7th instant, in the guise enables the Governor-in-Council of Chinese Maritime Customo to prescribe forma either in addi-Officer.

From two nativen of this tion to or in substitution for the fishing village, he is reported to forms in the Schedule to the have obtained $25 by falacly pro- principal Qrdinance.

mising them employment in the The provisions of Section 5. of Chinese Maritime Customs at the principal Ordinance as to the Sumchun. licensing of printing Pressea aro not altered by this Ordinance.

THE MELBOURNE CENTENARY

The Committee was informed that statements have appeared in the press in the United States. Canada and Argentine purporting to record 'n decision of tho com- mittee'ns to reallocation of quotas for the crop year 1084/35. The Committee state such statements mittee have only started pre- are entirely fictitious. The Com- liminary consideration of-realioen- tion of the 1934/36 export quotas, and have indeed decided that this stance, be a matter for discussion subject should, in the first In- between the overseas wheat ex- porting countries. tives of these countries have not Neprescala-

British Wireless, yet mat for this purpose.

After an interval of vain waiting for the European to return, and being finally convinced that they were defrauded, the two peasants 15 took their story to the Castle Peak Police Station. This was as far as they would proceed, for they could not be persuaded to swear information that would have enabled a warrant to be issued for

DUKE TO TRAVEL IN the European's artest.

H.M.S. SUSSEX

London, Aug. 17. The cruiser Sussex, in which the Duke of Gloucester will make his trip to Australia, where he will take part in the Melbourne Cen tenary celebrations, arrived at Sheerness to-day on completion of her trials.

easy

The suspected an has been Rssociated with marly exploits, one of which, abwing hla Chinese folk being his sojourning adaptation to the ways of local for some time with two sampan men on their craft.

PICNIC CANCELLED

On Friday next she will sall for Gibraltar and Marseilles. The The bathing plenic arranged by Duke will travel overland to St. Andrew's Club for this after Marseilles and join the Sussex noon has been cancelled, owing there. British Wirelcas.

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