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MR. HU HAN-MIN

ROYAL WELCOME BY CANTON POPULACE

DESTROYED LETTERS

THE

"STAMP COLLECTOR GONE WRONG." SAYS MAGISTRATE Siu Chay, a postman, was sentenced to six months' hard inbour when he appeared on remand before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 27,

U.Š. TAXATION

INCREASES FEARED TO MEET DEFICIT

AMAZING DISCLOSURE

AMAH TELLS OF DESTROYING

$1,600 IN MONEY

Canton, Jan. 24. It is officially announced that Mr. Ha Han-min, cloctod Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Kun on Saturday, on a charge of destroy- and is nearing, in reality, the admini an amah, burned about $1,000 in

ደርም,

A Royal Welcome

on

It will be recalled that another wo- man, Mok Lal-kuca, also an amah employed in the school, was original- ly charged, but the case against her was withdrawn on Thursday, and the present defendant, who was arrested in Canton, was charged with the same offence. She admitted the charge.

The Discovery Detective Sergeant Baldwin said that the money stolen was in Shang- hai currency notes, and was kept in a locked box, which was placed in a On December 27, the complainant store-room together with other boxes.

missing. She also noticed that the lock had been changed.

Afrald lest she should be arrested Washington, Jan, 25.

with a large sum of money she had The election rear tax burden has stolen in her possession, Leung S2C,

unprecedented proportions reached

anotter notes and threw

$500 in tration being loaded with $3,000,000,notes into the harbour. mittee, will arrive in Danton at 4 pm, ing pantal letters in Wanchai 000 of unexpected expenses.

dates.

This was the amazing story related The Department of Justice and the to-morrow afternoon aboard General

Belective Sergeant D. Fitches said Chan Chai-tong's armed yacht Wa

Treasury are drafting a Tax Ell! to before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Cen- that about 9 nm. on January 12, a fong. Arrangements have been cum- ploted to accord Mr. Hu fan-min a foki of the Nam Yung Film Compay the costs of farm relief, and in tral Biagistracy on Saturday, when addition the Treasury is expected to the defendant appeared on remand on big welcome which will be the pany was crossing the waste plece of greatest ever given by the South-ground at the back of Lee Gardens urge Fresident Roosevelt to domanda charge of larceny by servant of West Political Council, the highest when he saw part of 4 letter, on which new taxes to pay the Veterans' Bonus. $4,000 in noney, a satin long-cont, a political authority of Canton.Reue recognised his own handwriting. The source of revenue is debatable, plece of white fox, a piece of tiger He picked it up and found that it was but opinion is growing that it will be skin and a piece of silk coat coser. part of a letter which he had posted placed in the lower middle bracket of the property of Ng Man-chi, principal the previous day. Making a further income taxpayers so that persons paid of the Mul Fong Girls' School, No. 1 search he found two more pieces of between $5,000 and $25,000 a year Babington Path, between November Canton, Jan. 25.

The alternatives are a sales tax or A royal welcome such as few poll- the same letter. He reported the will carry most of the new. burden. and December last year.

mattor to the manager of the com- tical leaders liave ever'received in the

new processing taxes which the history of Canton was accorded Mr.pany. About 11 a.m. one of the fokis

Supreme Court held could not be used Hu Han-min upon his arrival this of the Company saw defendant entes to induce crop control, but did not afternoon aboard General Chan Chai- the waste ground fram the entrance hold that the processing taxes them

Ilo was

near Leighton Hill Road and saw

aelves were unconstitutional tong's armed yacht Wufeng,

atack

tako out of

timbe

The outlawing of the A. A. A. has accompanied by General Li Chang him go to yen and

slashed $547,000,000 from the Presl other important leaders. some letters from his mailbag, open

them and throw When the Wufeng steamed up the. The defendant then continued on his the estimated old and new farm relief

the letters away.

dent's income estimate and secondly, Canton River Into the harbour #L

and when he got to nh

to about fifty cost

Veterans $800,000,000. Tho salute of guna was fred by

Canton warships.

from the fox noticed him and benus will require $2,257,000,000, quickened

foki follow-work relief probably $2,000,000,000. Thousands of poople, including all qu

steps. ant, and ran past him and

Taxes to Pay Bonda the high officials and representatives el defendant, of the various public bodies, assembl noted his number as 24. Ile then re-

President Roosevelt intends to add ed on the Government jetty where ported to his manager, who sent out Mr. Hu Han-min landed. The crowdseveral other fokis to catch defendant the work relief to the National Debt, carried banners halling him The defondant was seen in Canal However, he is expected to insist that host Road East, destroying other letters Congress find taxes to pay the bonds. tion for now taxes. Congressmen erg the elections. in favour of doing nothing pending

On the morning of December 31 course he will defendant absconded, and shortly In deciding what adopt, President Roosevelt must pon- Complaints From Europeana

der over the fact that within three after that several articles of jewellery were found in the drawer of a desk Search of the waste ground in Lee weeks after presentation of the bud belonging to one of the students, the Gardens and the nullah in Canal got the Courts and Congress added

On January 1. information was re- ing found. These letters had been ficit for the current fiscal year caus

Ing anxiety, and, in effect, vast addi- ceived from defendant, who had been dates between lanal

and BN a result minence to his declarations of national

on Government arrested in Canton,

$900 in Hongkong currency and a policy. The city was beflagged every defendant's arrest. Defendant coi.

to issue paper where, extending the warmest of wellected letters from five post boxes incretionary power

to from defendant's pillow, which had the vicinity. The Slaters of the money he has always been opposed to been left on her bed. A few days this iden, but he also lacks authority to IRRUC Ruficient paper money to meet later, on further information, a pair the new obligations. Quotations show of gold bangles was recovered from a drain in the rear of the school, ns that all fourteen outstanding Governwell as two American gold pieces for ment Bonds are above par, and some $10 and $5, which were found in an- contend that while the Treasury is supporting the market it is the beat other drain. A small gold chain, Federal credit is excellent. The put in the same drain, was not found. harometer available to indiente that which the defendant alleged she had Altogether jewellery and money to principal argument on behalf of new taxes is based on the necessity of the total value of 82,420 was re- From a carpet in the coal protecting Government credit. If the covered. public's faith in the dollar decreased room in the school $110 in Hongkong now the consequences would be un-currency was recovered and also a predictable-United Press,

gold chain.

China's xaviour and also its most and throwing them into the 'nullah, l'Against the Treasury's recommenda, opened the box and found the money

brillant statesman. Followed by a long string of motor-cars containing the big party of persons out to wel come him, Mr. Itu Han-min rode around the city. He then proceeded to the Dr. Sun Yat-sen memorial hall, where a mass welcome meeting was hold.

when he saw the fokis he jumped into was caught by the tramcar, but men, who also got in.

Despite the New Year holfitag, the Road East, resulted in 21 letters be- $3,000,000,000 to the prospective de Rey of which was held by defendant.

newspapers published Mr. Hu Han-

nt various

of

borrowing

min's photograph giving much propember last year and the time credit. While the President has dis-air of gold bangles wero recovered!

comes. Reuter.

half years,

Three and a character wor fair.

Tho

French Convent and A European National Salvation Hero

gentleman had missed letters they had Canton, Jan. 25.

for a period of one year. posted With a saluto of guns firing from Polee had not been able to trace any the forts and warships along the valuables or money from the letters river, scores of aeroplanes, roarinx | toon, but the defendant told the overhead and dense crowds cheering, Police he took the letters for the him, Mr. Hlu Han-min landed at 3.30 of the stamps, the rate of which yeh p.m. this afternoon. He was received him money. The defendant had al with the most enthusiastic wel.

been employed at the Post Office for and his come which has ever been given here. The aged leader, who was welcomed hero as o national salvation hero, looked rather tired, woak and pale, but he was earnest in expressing gratitude to the people for their elaborate welcome. With nearly a thousand motor cars following behind and the firing of crackers, Mr. Hu Han-min drove to the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, where a monster meet- ing was het.

Welcoming Specch

Mr. Schofield, imposing sentença en defendant, remarked that he was a stamp collector gone wrong,

in

their efforts

national position.

General's Banquet

Increased Taxation Forecast

New York, Jan. 24.

Burned $1,000-

She

Mr. Mark Graves, the New York The defendant was brought down Commissioner of Finance, to-day told from Canton on January 22

to strengthen the the National Retail Dry Goods Asso- told the Police that before she left the ciation's convention that within a de-school she became afraid of having rade the United States will be forced so much money in her possesion, and to raise $12,000,000,000 to $18.000,- burned several hundred

Inales, believed the school. Liter when Crossing the Devaluation Urged

harbour in a motor-boat she said she had thrown about 5000 into the Washington, Jan. 26. Senator Elmar Thomas, Democrat vater. Some 3400 in Hongkong cur- of Okinhomu, to-lay said that here. ency was recovered by the Canton Police. The defendant also stated she after the Administration would seek

"beralized currency" through farmad bought jewellery with the money. ind alleged that the woman who was relief instead of the issuance of now

discharged had something to do with money to pay the veterans' bonus.

the larceny, but the Police could bring no evidence against her.

and

General Chan Chai-tong, Canton's000,000 in taxes annually.-United to be about $1,000, in the fireplace in Commander-in-Chief, gave a banquet, Presa." In honour of Mr. Hu Ban-min ́to- night when all high military civil oficials. were present. To- morrow Mr. Hu Han-min will com- mence discussions of the situation with the South-West leaders. It is understood that he is loaving for Shanghal after a brief stay in Can-

ton-Router.

Messages of Greeting

Canton, Jan. 22.

He said that Senntors and others Interested in the farm problem had beer invited to a conference to dis- cuss farm relief through further eur- reny devaluation.

Mr. Chow. Lu (Chancellor of the Chungshan University) presiding at the meeting, in a welcoming speech hailed Mr. Hu Han-min as the man capable of guiding the whole nation to weather the present national erlais.

Mr. Hu Han-min, responding, and expressing grailleation over the rising patriotic spirit of the people, stressed the fact that every eltizen and his own responsibility over the

The Nanking Association of Chi- rise or fall of the country. He said

"It is hopeless to attempt further that he himself was determined to nese Culture and its Peiping and Tien-improvement of the agrarian situation love and fight for the country as long tsin. Branch and the Kuomintang of through curtailment of production, as he continues છ

n Chinese the Kwangal 4th, Group Army have ho sald, "because even if it could be citizen. With reference to his separately sent telegrams to Mr. Hu attained through this means, other national salvation scheme, he stated Han-min wishing the latter well and nations immediately increase produc- that a united front of perseverance urging him to direct the Party mem-ion and thereby reap the benefits. and preparedness lu exactial for, sue-bers in national salvation. The The only hope for increased cessful national salvation efforts. people of China, the telegrams read, prices is by devaluation and increased Despite the fact that he has not have been looking forward to his circulation currency."-United fully recovered from illness, Mr. Hu guidance and only by so doing could Preen, Han-min said that he was willing to he fulfil the earnest expectation of serve the country and lend the people the people. Central Pres

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Mr. Schofield sentenced defendant to six months' hard labour, and, ordered that all the money and jewellery recovered be given to com- plainant,

AL. SMITH SPEAKS

BITTER DENUNCIATION OF MR. ROOSEVELT

Washington, Jan. 26., Bir A. Smith, following the an- nouncement at the American Liberty League banquet that he would not stand as presidential candidate for any party, or for any oflice, charged, the present Administration with having in detual fact enacted socialist instead of a democratic platform,

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