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THE HONGKONG
TUESDAY, TELEGRAPH.
Stiff Term
For Spurious
Coin Handler
BROUGHT TEN-CENT PIECES TO H.K. PLEADS FOR LENIENCY
Imprisonment for three years for the possession of counterfeit 10-cent coins was imposed on Chan Kwan. 34. Swalow native, by the Acting Puise Judge (Mr. Justice Hayden) in the Criminal Court to-day,
Chon was charged with two counts of pussersing 150 and 51 coins in different places and was awarded 18 months on ench, the sentences to be consecutive,
"I cannot see how. I can award a
of view
the Bghter sentence in quantity of bad coins being circulated in the Culony," remarked Mr. Justice Buyden.
IMPROVED BRITISH DEFENCES
NEW MINISTER IS SATISFIED LABOUR SEES RUIN AHEAD
London, July 20. Fullowing the announcement of Sir Thomas Insleip, Minister for Co- Ordination of Defence, that the British was proceeding defence programme satisfactorily, in the House of Cam- mons to-night, Mr. Albert Alexander, Labour, declared the Government was rapidly heading for financial disaster.
Mr.. Alexander 'declared the only hope of peace was to support the Len gun of Nations and collective security.
Sir Thomas Inskip claimed the Armly supparted the Government |League and collective security.
casc was Winding up the debate, he declarest The hearing of the resumed
the the draft report of the relative merits this morning with following Jury:-Messr 11. H. Xavier of air bombers and battleships, when (loreman), F. E. Silva, Chan Chung-In conflict, had practically been 'com- pleted. But it would not necessarily nak, Chai Chung, Mo Kong-ting, D.
be published of present. McAllister and F. R. Zimmern.
Sgt. Lau Puk said the house where Chan was arrested in Sal Yuen street was an uplum divan. A roll of counterfelt coins and a key were found in bis purse. The police then went to a house in Bonham Strand West and saw a man who produced a rattan basket. This was locked but was opened by the key found on Chan ind found to contain more counterfeit coins.
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LABOUR CRITICISM
criliciam Opposition Labour voiced by Mr. H. H. Lees-Smith, who said they had no guarantee that ex- penture was not out-running
Minister af 40- ordination. The
with Ordination was dealing piles, not with the problem of ordination, as a result of which thoas sands of ponds would be wasted and co-ordination of defence indefinitely postponed.
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JULY 21, 1936.
Beach May Be Polluted
GOVERNMENT ASKED
TO ACT QUESTION ON FREE PETROL
At to-morrow's meeting of the Mr. Hos. Legislative Council, the M. K. Lo will ask the following questions:
1.-With reference to, the bathing beach known as Chek Sha, situste midway between Bon Sin Kok and Miu Sek at Junk Bay,
1. Is Government aware:- (a) That It is a popular bathing beach frequently resorted to by Inunch picule parties?
(b) That A fair sized cesspool was recently constructed and used within approximately 200 yards of high-water mark, and
bultt
(c) That two 'shells were and inhabited within approximately 50 yards of the cesspool?
II. Will Government consider the question of having the cesspool and matsheds removed to some other place not adjacent to popular bath- ing beaches, so that the sea may not he polluted thereby?
DUTY.FREE.FETROL
2--Will
enough
full
-
Government be
good
to furnish to this Council
ALHAMBRA
NATHAN AD. KOL
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW ›
"HE'S GOT A NUMBER
•
NOT A NAMI
BUT HE'S THE MAN I LOVE!"
Romance flames behind eslå
eray walls, a girl delion the code cmong criminala for
Lostine hour of lindom
ONE-WAY TICKET
from the sensatio
with
LLOYD NOLAN....
PEGGY CONKLIN
WALTER CONNOLLY
Frothel by fate! Turner
expose
prisga guard's daughter!
Directed By Harbours Hiburan - + 5. 3. ECKULTESO piekventím
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ANN HARDING & HERBERT MARSHALL
information as to the supply in "THE LADY CONSENTS."
of
from Any Government depot otherwise of duty-free petrol to civil
Servonts-
and
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(a) setting cat the terms conditions and restrictions (if any) under which such supply. Is given:
the amount Di duly-free petrol so supplied during the years 1031, 1935, and the first six months of 1936.
(b) setting out British
Hu, Chang-po, folk at the shop
Sir Archibald Sinclair laboral) where the basket was discovered, said he had known Chan from boyhood, and the cute of Liberals would de. Chan, he said, arrived at the shop the pend on an saraner that day before the police came, bringarajaments would never be used ex- ing a baskel which he left. He paid sept in accordance with the Coven- he would vall for it the next day, than of the Lengue. said he did not know what was in
Mr. Winston Churchill - reiterated the basket n it had not been opened the statemen: that Germany
WAYS
According to Ma Sul-kong, inter-spending at the rate of £500,000,000 purposes anil had preter, Chan said when charged-annually on warlike "Chan Key gave them to me on the strategie couds. He said he beat coming from Swatow, I did been informed that the latter stretch- ed for hundreds of miles to strategic not know they were grahterfelt."
In a statement from the dock Chan points, enabling mechanical
port to travel ve abrenst. said he came from Swatow on the were likely to play, a larger part in day before he was arrested. On the another war than fortified nes. boat he met a friend, Chon Kee, who gave him the coins to bring ashore, 1 did not know they were false, he said.
verdict was returned The jury's after a short retirement.
When Chan asked leniency because of his wife and children Mr. Justice Hayden remarked that he should have thought of them before he brought The coins into the Colony,
The Assistant Crown Solleitor M. J. Abholt) prosecuted.
Heat Wave Subsiding
trans- These
The Government's efforts, said Mr. Churchill, were only small in propor- tion to what was going on elsewhere, and probably this year we should not be overtaking others. but falling further behind.
GOVERNMENT REPLY Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chau Exchequer, replying celler of tif
under- (Me.to the Labour criticism, denied that
Any expenditure now being taken would be wasted. He expressed the opinion at Sir Thomas Inskip.. Minister for Co-ordination of De- fences, had every reason to be satis-"} fied with the progress achieved, and. provided they were not interrupted by unforeseen ercurrences, in short time they would be well on the way μL rate to producing munitions at which would please Mr. Churchill
Mr. Chanterinin admitted that
COOL WINDS_FLOWhen a fairly wide margin for allow
OVER MID-WEST
Chiengo, July 201. Cool north winds Towed over Mississippi and Missouri River valleya, definitely breaking the heat-wave to-day, after 1,500 had died in twenty- three alicted states in the sixteen days.
Oklahoma,
and
Texas. Only Kansa
Missouri Nebraska, Arkansas remain hot. Oklahoma City saw 110 degrees, all time record.
Cintaro, in Canada, has had to re hief in the central and southern sec- tions. It is the province's longest drought on record, though in eastern Ontarin week-end rains rallied crops wonderfully-Enited Press,
Withdrawing From Libya
ITALIAN TROOPS
RETURNING
OPIUM DIVANS
3.-. Is Government aware that in recent criminal proceedings it was proved in evidence by Crown wit- nuses that there were no less than 000 opium divans in the Colony, of the existence of which the Authori- ties had no knowledge and, if will Government state whether any explanation has been called for from the Departments concerned as to how such a large number of divans can exist without the knowledge of the Authorities?
1. Will Government state whe-- ther any steps have been taken to suppress these divans and, if with what result?
Moving Cuts For Economy
50.
REDUCING INCOME OF CIVIL STAFF
The following resolutions will be
ance-was-made, there was no noved-by-the Hon. Colonial Treasurer son to suppose that Mr. Churchill's gures regarding German expenditure were misleading.
A Labourite metion to reject the supplementary defence estimates was rejected by 320 to 155,-Kruter and Renter Specist.
at to-morrow's meeting of the Legis- lative Council:
1-Resolved pursuant to section. 2 (4) of the longkang Government Service (Levy on Salaries) Ordin- anec. 1936, that after deduction of the levy, if any, and of the Widews and Orphans' Pension Contribution, if any, or of either, the remainder of te salaries of all public officers in the Hongkong Government Service, in terms of sterl amount, shall be ing, whatever their
of one shilling converted at the rate
the dollars for the months of July, August and September. 1936.
to section 6 Resolved, pursuant to
rament Service the Hongkong Gov (Levy on Salaries) Ordinance, 1936, that with effect from the 1st day of January, 1930, until the 30th day With the objectising the September, 1930, both days included,
that one sixth of the salary, if equal interest of the Dominions with the United Kingdom in the Corona-pressed in terms of sterling, of
ufficer of the Hongkong Government tion, and harmonising ancient tradi-
Service, who shall have a wife or a
Dominions to which are expressed
Aid Plan
and fourseace half-penny to for
Coronation
Lanilon, July 20.
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THEFT OF WALLET NOT PROVED
ATTRACTION
SATURDAY
FOR
ARTISTES AT HONGKONG HOTEL
Yola and Paul, the pair of charm-.
dancers who made their
Wong Chan, 30. license ricksha coolie, appeared before Mr. Burgessing at the Central Mugistracy this mira-appearance last Saturday in the ing, charged with having taken from Grill Room of the Hongkong Hotel, Mr. D. W, Van Lek, residing at the are to give a farewell display of Courtland Hotel, in Kennedy Read, a their enchanting dancing on Satur wallet containing $40 in Hongkong day, July 25, in the Roof Garden
tions with modern Constitutional child under the age of twenty-one
years dependent on him and resident moms. D guilders and one letter of dinner dmper of the Hongkong Hotel,
requirements, the King has appointed
Special Coronation Commission. The Commission will include the in a sterling or gold-standard coun Prime Ministers and High Commistry, shall be exempt (after deduction
of the sioners of the Dominions, together Widows and Orphans' Pension Con
levy, if any, and of the with other Dominions representatives tribution, if any, or of either) from while the United Kingdom will be
the operation of the special conver- Rome, July 20,
represented by persons who will act
sion rate providel for in section 2 The first contingent of Italian as members of the Coronation Com
(4) of the said Ordinance during the troops withdrawn from Libya, in ac-mittee of the Privy Council.
period in which such wife or child is so resident. Libyan of York as Chairman and the Duke ini's pledge to reduce his Karrison Immediately the Briush of Norfolk an Deputy Chairman of Home Fleet was reeniled from the the Commission, the first meeting of at St. Mediterranean, has arrived at Genon, which will be held shortly from Benghasi..
James Paloce.---Reutor.
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EDMUND LOWE VICTOR MCLAGLEN
It numbers.1,000 men and belongs
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in Libya for a year.-Reuter Special.
Fierce Storm Lashes Chile
COLLIER, DON CARLOS, FEARED LOST
Valparaiso, July 20. Ileavy galus, necompanied by giant waven, flooded docks along the coast and even destroyed the main tracks of the Valparaiso-Santiago railway.
The waves washed a focomotive and several cars into the sun.
Pick Seven Of English Test Team
Seven cricketers, including G. 0. All of Middlesex as captain, have heon invited by the Selection Com mittee to make the trip tralia this coming winter to parli cipate in Test matches.
to Aus
The players include R. W. V. Robins, another Middlesex amateur, who will probably act as hub-caplain, two Yorkshire professionals, Lyland
All vessels left. Valparaiso har-Fakt Verity, Fishlock, who has been
1-Bir
r to ride out tha storni. Of hatting brilliantly for Surrey
this Hurd staff the young
these the collier, Don Carlos, sent out season, and distress algnals at dne etage, and Notts player.
Detailed story, and selections will thereafter was not reportedl.---United
be found on the sports pages, Freus.
And Resolved further that the ease of such an officer, who has two or more such dependenta so resident ns aforesaid, the exemption (after the said deductions, if any) shall extend to one third of the salary.
EMPLOYERS' THREAT
credit for $650 in U, S, currency.
The defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr. F. E. Remedios appeared for the defendant,
in
These popular artistes were well re- ceived last week-end and the coming opportunity of witnessing their final performance should not be missed. Giving evidence, Mr. Van Lek said
A further pleasant surprise was he went to the floruskong Ilotel on Saturday at five o'clock in the after-accorded diners East Saturday
the person of Misa Helen O'Brien at noon, and left at three o'clock on Sunday morning, when he sent for a the piano, a very charming planist rieksha to carry him to the bottom who records exclusively for Colum of Garden Bout. It was raining at bin. Miss O'Brien has very kindly consented to play again this coming Saturday in the Root Garden during the dinner dance.
the time.
Arriving at him destination, the cover of the ricksha, which was to
protect him from the rain, was moved, and the defendant helped out of the ricksha by placing both his hands on his chest. It was at that tima that witness felt, a tug at his breast pocket. He paid no notice to it, and inoked around for a taxi to
back to the take him"
Courtland Hotel, He then but there was none.· mochanically felt for his wallet, und
that
found
This additional attraction should
be most welcome to patrons of the Hongkong Hotel.
KING GEORGE FUND
London, July 20. The King George V. National Me- donution of £14,068
it was missing. The rick-morial Fund to-day totalled £175,728, sha had left after he had paid, the including
TEMPORARILY ENDSfer with some small change te had from members of the Stock Exchange.
STRIKE MENACE
in his other pockets. He then return-British Wireless. ed to the Hongkong, Hotel, made
the
enquiries as to the identity of the Akron, O., July 20.
coolie, and then reported to the Cen-he left the Hongkong Hotel, though he Probably io view of the threat of Akron employers to move a great tral Police Station. The police made had no occasion to take it out or to
Mr. Remedios, adiressing part of their plant to Los Angeles onquiries and the defendant was Laier see that it was there.
found and brought to the Station, and so throw stubborn, higher-wage where he admitted that he had had Court, said there was clearly no case advocates and strikers out of em Mr. Van Lek ng a passenger, but that to anseer, as Mr. Van Lek could have lost his wallet anytime between five ployment here, members of the locul knew nothing about the wallet, Rubber Workers Union to-day agreed
Replying to questions by Mr.o'clock.on Saturday afternoon, and to refrain from the threatened alt-
Remiedlus, Mr. Van Lek anid he was thre; o'eleck on Sunday morning. down strike for six weeks.
mare the wallet was in his pocket when The defendant was discharged.
Unlon officials hope to put a per- manent end to strike action by the men, and they have been much criticised for their failure to prevent unofficial walk-outs in the immediate | Hongkong. past-Beuter.
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