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YESTERDAY

New York, Oct. 15. S. C. & F. Wall Street Journal morning comment:-The farm mort- gape and crop outlook is the best for many years. General Foods are likely to consider a further dividend this year. It is believed that selective industrials will be more bought in the near future than railroad shares. The Street still views the market con- structively. Traders predict that Ward & Company will Montgomery,

urn over $1 per share this scar. October automobile production

kely to be rubstantially below that of October last year. The odds on the re-election of President Roosevelt are now over 3 to 1.

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FRIDAY,

OCTOBER 16, 1936.

FRANCE QUERIES

BELGIAN POLICY

INQUEST HELD ON

CHINESE

A Coroner's inquiry into the death Fung Wing, unemployed coolle, who was discovered hanging in a Invatory of the Tung Wah Hospital

on the afternoon of September 11, wan held by Mr. W. Schöfeld at the Central Magistracy yesterday aftur- noon, with jury comprising Messrs. T. Lavis (foreinan), L. A. Osmund 1/64nd Tie Kong-yla. .0$64

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The Coroner fold the Jury that the Inquiry was being held to clear up 1/3.3/32 any doubts that might arise, or gossip 1/3.5/32 as to the death of the man in n

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public hospital. .6.03

Dr. R. S. Begble, medical officer of .82%

the Victoria Mortuary, said that he 4.80 examined the body on September 12 and found the mark of a ligature on the front of the dend man's neck.

S. C. & F. New York office enbles; Special: The American Telephone Stocks: The market is absorblag & Telegraph Company shows earn- selling Impressively and we look for ings for the quarler ecding September he slein was excoriated in the track algher prices later. The asset value 30th. of $2.31 per share, comparel fusion of blood under the mark of the of this mark. Internally, he found of Adams Express Company shares with $1.70 per share for the algature on both sides of the neck. as of October 14th, was $20.84 per quarter of last year. Messrs. Collins share.

& Dalkman show earnings for the

There were no other marks of in- Jury, either on or in the body. Cotton: There han

somo quarter ending September 300% of been heavy hedge and October liquidation. $1.05 per share, compared with 51.3ness, but there was a heated pleurisy There was no evidence of acute II- Aggressive buying is awaiting the per share for the same quarter of decline of the movement, but entlast year. The Electric Bond & Share on the left side of the chest, a slight ***degeneration of the inner surface of ment la still bullish.

Company shows earnings of 0 cents Wheat: A forecast of rains in per share, for the quarter ending probably through chronic or previous the aorta, and the spleen was large, Australia, slack Canadian export de-September 30th, compared with malaria, although mand and the absence of milli buying

there WAR րը of active cause of death was asphyxia due to malaria. The are temporarily depressing sentiment, but the outlook for the future is sill

hanging, and the conditions fount good and there factors are merely

wvere consistent with tianporary.

suicide. pains in the heart. Chronic pleurisy would account for

Corn: Langer rooeipts, improved pasturage and Imports of corn from the Argentine are all construed as bearish factors. The latest estimate of the total crop in the Argentine is given as 392,000,000 bales.

ap-

Rubber: Factory interest is parently awaling market reactions. There are some apprehensions of an increased quota in 1937,

earnings of th. of a cent per share enc for the same period of last year. The General Electric Company shows carnlags of 34 cents per shure for the quarter ending September 30th, com. pared with 20 cents per share for the same quarter of last year,

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FAVOURABLE RECEPTION

Note, Oct. 16.

King Leopold's announcement was favourably received here.

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CHIEF ROYAL ENGINEER

London, Oct. 15. His Majesty the King his approved the creation of the office of Chief Royal Engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers and of the appointment thereto of Ceneral Sir Dindon Blood, Colonel

Commandant. Royal El- gineers.

The creation of the office of Chief Royal Engineer restores to the Royal Well-informed circles feel Del Engineers the old military appoint-- gium's new attitude reveals her ment originally styled of desire to follow a

Kingdom realistic Engineer of the

which foreign policy, thus approaching existed from restoration down to its more closely to the political line abolition in 1800. The holder of the followed by Signor Benito Mussolini. oppointment is head of the Corps.

-Iteuter.

firitish Wireless,

more

TO CONSULT BRITAIN.

Paris, Oct. 10,

It is understood the French Govern- ment will consult Great Britain with regard to the course to be taiten as a result of the Belgian declaration of neutrality. It is believed conversa tlons will also be begun with the Belgian Government with regard to. 11. altitude to

Dew Western Europea pact.--Reuter

INSUBORDINATION

SLIGHT CASE REPORTED ON H.M.S. GUARDIAN.

London, Oct. 15.

A light ense of insubordination has been reported on H.M.S. Gunr- ; tan, an Allantle flect net-laying

vessel. The occurrence was whlic the ship was operating in the Firtdı of Forth on October 1.

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The Admiralty states, that the In- cident lasted only for a few minutes, and consisted of reluctance and short delay in the falling-in of the men. The normal routine of the ship was not, affected.--Reuter,

CHINA STATION

FLAGSHIP

CUMBERLAND DUE ON MONDAY

H.M.S. Cumberland, the new flag- ship of the Chinu Fleet, has left Singapore for Hongkong and is ex- pected here on Monday,

ILMS. Lowestoft left harbour this morning for Weibalwel on a routine cruise.

The U.S.S. Mindanao, which has been in the vicinity of Castle Peak for several days, is expected in har bour to-day.

DOMINION OFFICIALS

of

London, Oct. 15. Sir Isaac Isaacs, formerly Governor- General of the Commonwealth Australia, left London this morning At Victoria Station to bld him fare on his return journey to Australia,

in Will was Mr.

Malcolm MneDonald, Secretary for Dominion Affelra. The Dominions Secretary also was present this afternoon at Liverpool Street London, Oct. 15. Station when Sir James Parr left an An nutherilalive announcement his return to New Zealand

Guardian regarding HMS. Witness

states termination of his that there will be no court marilal. High Commissioner for New Zealand appointment ps The incident was trivial and is con- in London. British Wireless. sidered as being completely closed.—; Reuter.

Dr. H. Kai Goo-wood. resident medient officer of the Fung Wab Hospital, sald that he was on duty on the night of September 10 when the man was brought into hospital by two of his friends about 10.50. His complaint was a pain in the pit of the stomach. Witness examined him. and made a provisional diagnosis of Bostritis, and prescribed a Block medicine for stomachache, to which the deceased responded, for when he saw him the following morning, the man made no complaint. said he went off duty at 11 am. ola September 11, and did not scene- again. When he first saw the man, there was nothing about his appearance which might have sug- gested he would commit suicide, and there was no sign of mental de- pression in the man. Deceased was not helpless, but was capable of getting about.

Dr. Phoon Sik-wing, medical officer In charge of the Tung Wah Hospital, sald that on being Informed about 2.55 p.m. on September 11 that a man was found hanging in the Invatory, he went there and found the body and been taken down. Ha telephoned the Police, who arrived ten minutes later. He had not seen deceased be- fore, as it was not his case. There was no sign of life in deceased when he examined him in tre lavatory. He first saw the ligature hanging on the bar supporting the cistern in the lavatory.

Hanging by Bell

Testifying, Au Lai-vang, a dresser of the hospital sald that he went inside the invatory after hearing from an attendant that one of the patients had committed suicide there. He entered the water closet, and saw the deceased hanging from a belt: around his neck, The heft

loop-

was

ed round a water pipe connected to The dush system. Two of the atten- dants present took down the body, Witness louched-the-body-and-found that it

still warm. He then Informed the superintendent of the hospital.

Wu Kai, a coolic of the hospital, slated

that he was sweeping the verandah outside the lavatery (1/2 September 11, when he looked through the window and saw a man hanging from a bell. He raised the alarm, and when the last witness came on the scene, he entered the favatory with him and another at- tendant. They took the body of the deceased down. Witness added that the deceased hind refused to eat nny-

thing the day before his death.

Eu Tai, an uncle of the man, sald 1:01

he had always been on good terms with his nephew, and that the decoused suffered from pais over the heart. On September 10, he waR sent for by his nephew, who co- plained of intense plin

over the

chest, and requested him to take him to a hospital. Deceased was put into a ricksha and taken to the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital.

In reply to a question pat by Mr. Schofield, withness said that he did not know why his nephew committed suicide, Int assumed that it must have been the work of some Chinese devils.

Pains Over Heart

A former room mate of the de- ceased, Fung Sing, was called and in cvidence said that deceased bad on many occasions complained of heart pains, and that on September 19, he self and the previous witness, de felt very had. Accompanied by him- ceased was taken to the Tung Wah Hospital. He never heard, that the deceased wanted to commit suicide.

The last witness called was In- spector Carey, who said that he was summoned to the hospital by a tele phone message, and on his arrival There was taken to the lavatory where he saw deceased. He examind the man and saw that rigor mortis had sel in. He looked up and saw the belt. with which the man hanged imself, hanging from a water pipe connected to the flush clatern. had the body removed to the publle Mortuary, where it was idenilñed

The deceased's uncle Identified next day by the hosplint coolle, Wu US n patient of the hospital, the body as that of Fung Wing. hts nephew..

He

the

This concluded the evidence, and Mr. Schofield addressing the Jury said that the motive for the suicide was eltier despondency or pain. He added that there was no question about the man being of unsound mind, ns the testimony of the witnesses and the evidence of Dr. Begbie showed that the deceased was not insane. Mr. Schofield went on to say that no

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Lloyds Register for the September In all, 210 vessels of 928,571 4.09uarter.

tons gross were in hand on September 0.15430, the figures being the highest quar

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CANADIAN MINISTER

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It is announced that Sir Herbert Marler is assuming the duties as Canadian Minister to Washington to- morrow.-United Press.

blame could be put on the hospital or any of the staff for the death of the man, as hardly anyone could stop a man who wanted to commit suicide In u lavatory with a rope or by any other means.

After a few minutes discussion, the Jury returned a verdict of "death due to hanging."

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