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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

ARAGON SEAMEN

Spain Makes

RELEASED

TAKEN ASHORE BY

BRITISH SHIP

Protest

CREDIT RESTRICTION

PLAN RESENTED

London, Jan. 14,

A note from the Spanish Govern- ment has been lodged with the

CUSTOMS REWARDS SKIPPER

BY WAIVING FINE FOR SMUGGLING

FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,

Taikoo Dock Mishap

TWO MEN FEARED DROWNED

HELD DAYS BY British Foreign Office, protesting CAPTAIN AIDED Kui and Tung On, both employed by

GERMANS

against the raising of the question of Spanish credits before the Non- Intervention Committee.

|NARCOTIC HAUL

The nate declares the Spanish Government cannot admit that the

Washington, Jan. 14. Berlin, Jun. 14. Committee can deal with this matter,

Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary The crew and passengers of the Neutral powers have recently put of the Treasury, told press men to- Spanish steamers Aragon and Marth forward a proposal that non-inter-

day. that co-operation given to Junquera seized by German war-vention should apply to credit as Customs officials by the officers of const as a well as men and munitions, and it the British freighter Maron had ships off the Spanish

is with this object in mind that reprisal for the arrest of the German Uritain proposed to the Non-Inter caused the Trenaury to inaugurate or greatly Committee freighter, Palos, have been released.vention

that Spanish policy for waiving Those aboard the Aragon were freed credit be restricted to foodstuffs and reducing fines in some cases of at-

tempted smuggling. 11 and those on on January

the essentials of life.-Reuter Bulletin

Service. Marte

Junquera January 12. Thuy were then just off Malaga, This is the effect of an official 'an- nouncement,

on

The ships, the Germans handed over the Nationalists,

Dve

A

it It The crew of the Aragon, learned, was taken off the German worship

Graf

Spee by von British destroyer, at the request of the

The Spanish Government. transfer took place outside territorial waters and the destroyer landed her} churges at Malngs,-Reuter.

SHIP DISPOSED OF

London, Jan. 14. The crew of the Spanish, ship Aragon, seized by the German Navy

NATIONALISED TRANSPORT

LABOUR'S PROMISE

TO BRITAIN

London, Jan. 14.

Mr. G. Bird, of Talkoo Docks, rem ported to the police yesterday that while two workmen, named Chung Kowloon Docks, were loading an iron plate weighing about 40 tons from crane at Talkoo Docks on to a Kow- Joon Dock lighter, the plate slipped and in its full into the harbour brought with it the two men.

They disappeared from sight before anything could be done for them and have not been seen since. Arrange- ments have been made for a diver to search the spot.

Another mishap occurred at the same place when a foreman named Ho Tak-wo was accidentally knocked down and fell into the dock. The The Maron's master sent a wire-mrin, who received injuries as a re- sult of the fall, was removed to the less message to the New York

Civil Hospital for Customs office when he suspected Government

treatment. that some of his crew were attempt- ing to smuggle opium into America, I hint brought a search aboard the ship and the opium was

party

found-thousands of dollars worth HONGKONG HOTEL

of it, sucked, in with the cargo, the biggest seizure in New York's his- tory.

At present any vessel on which forbidden cargo is, carried is subject The Maron is technically to Anc.

The Labourites, when they come able to a maximum fine of $100,000 Into power, intend to untionalise the for carrying about 4,000 Dunces at whole of the nation's transport, Mropium.--Reuter, Clement . Attlee, Labour lender.

a gathering of the Rollway

ckholders' Union to-day.

Attlee sold he thought they

in reprisal for the cargo of the Ger- would find that a Labour Govern- man steamer Patos, detained as con-ment would give proper compensa-

should like traband by the Basque authorities, fion, adding "we

were

10

released to-day, their ship turn you into holders of shares in having been disposed of to the the community, rather than in ruil- way companies, and that is what we insurgents.

Intend to do."-Reuter Special.

The crew were on board Germin warship and, in response to the re- quest of the Valencia Government.

ROYAL FUNCTIONS

THEFT

YOUNG "BOY" ROBS RESIDENT

the

A 20-year-old apprentice "boy" of": the Hongkong Hotel was brought be fort Mr. K: Keen at the Central Magistracy this morning, charged with having stolen $100 in notes a resident of the from Mr. Barnes, Hotel

admitted Defendant charge.

Det-Sergeant Davies said that on Wednesday evening defendant was told to deliver a letter to Mr. Barnes. Not finding Mr. Barnes in his room, defendant left the letter on the def

top of a wallet lying on the dressing table. Later, the wallet, he found $100 to be when Mr. Barnes had occasion

to use

use missing. The proper authorities were informed and enquiries revealed that defendant was missing. He was luter

London, Jan, 14. The prospective engagements of the King and Queen after Their Majestles return to London, Include a visit to the British Industries Fair, which opens at Olympia on February 15, and a visit on the second Satur- day in February to the Peoples' the British destroyer Achates made The forthcoming wedding is an- Palace in Mile End Road. The new was to have been a rendezvous with the German war-nounced of Mr. Alfred Victor Alvares, Peoples' Palace ship

Cameron opened by King Edward VIII on outside

territorialarekiteet, residing at Spanish

and Mins Mogla Socarro December 12 lost, but the engage waters and took over the Spanish Road, sallors whom it iransported to Botelho, of 35, Granville Road, Kow- ment was cancelled-British Wire-found in a boarding house for hotel Malaya.British Wireless

Joan.

fras,

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VERA LOVE

AND HER

10 PARAMOUNT

FOLLIES

boys. In a leather bag belonging to defendant was found $50 in notes. The rest of

the

money defendant had

lost in gambling.

Defendant's father, who was in Court, refunded the $50 missing, and Mr. Keen, in view of this fact, bound defendant over in $100 to be of good behaviour for a year.

TYPE THEFT BY BOOK-BINDER

ALSO HAD FORGED BANKNOTE

A book-bintier named Targ Kwok- tsal, aged 25, was arrested yesterday and brought before Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magistracy this, morning 339 on charges of (a) larceny of picers of printing type, worth $2, trom the Hongkong Culture Press in Lee Yuen Street and (b) passession of a forged $10-Hongkong-and-Shang-- hal banknote.

Del-Sergeant Cochrane stated that the day before yesterday the assis- tant manager of the printing press raw defendant taking the type and said hiding it in his pillow. He

nothing and next morning, an the advise of his superior, he had de- fendant arrested.

both Defendant pleaded guilty to charges and said that the forged note was given to him by a clansman.

Accused, who had no previous convictions, was sentenced to

month's hard Inbour on the Arst count and three months' hard labour en the second. The terms are to run consecutively.

KING GOES TO SANDRINGHAM

one

London, Jan. 14. The King and Queen returned to

ls afternoon Sandringham

by n special saloon coach attached to the regular train.

His Majesty spent the morning at Buckingham Palace with the Deputy Master of the Mint, discussing the new coinage which, It is expected, will be issued by the date of the Coronation.

The King had two slitings for por- trait modellers from the Mint...- Reuter Special.

M.C.C. BATTING STRONGLY

IN MATCH AGAINST COMBINED XI

Hobart, Jon. 15.

A three-day mulch between the M.C.C. touring eleven and a Com- bined Australian XI commenced here

tis morning.

M.C.C. batted first and at the lunch Interval and scored a ring for the loss of one wicket. Barnett is 50 not Ju-Reuter,

T. L. BOONG BETTER

Canton, Jan. 15.

Mr. T. L. Soong, who has been ill for some time, left for Shanghai aboard Gonoral Yu Hen-now's pri- vate aeroplane at 0.30 am. to-day, for, although he is better is requires further medical cöre and "rest and is going north: for that purpose.—Reuter,

1937.

At the HONG KONG

DINNER DANCE

TO-NIGHT

In the ROOF GARDEN

HOTEL

With:-VERA LOVE and her FESTIVE FOLLIES MAURICE DUFOUR and his ACCORDEON ART CARNEIRO'S BAND

Cover Charge: $1.

SATURDAY in the ROOF GARDEN (Extension till 2 a.m.)

Entertainment by the above Artists.

Dinner $7.

Non-diners $2.

AND on SUNDAY, 17th JAN. (from 5-8 p.m.) SPECIAL FAREWELL TEA DANCE

to VERA LOVE and her FESTIVE FOLLIES with MAURICE DUFOUR and his ACCORDEON

and NORMAN BROOKS' BAND

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