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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1938,

Social Work Kowloon Docks France Won't

Unhampered Scene Of Be Happy If

By Armament

London. June 22.

Great Industry

Kowloon docks to-day had their buslest period for many Wednesdays when at 11.30 u.m. the following ships were either berthed, or lying near in: Santhia, Bolssevain, Empress of Canada, Athos II, Naldera two enrgo stilps.

and]

Greni Üritain is pouring money into re-armament and defence at the rate) of twenty-Ove shillings per second.

Every minute of every day of the year, something like £70 is spent.

Tils revelation was made by Mr. Leslie Hore-Delish, the Minister for There was more than 80,000 tons War, when to was addressing a meet- of shipping at the docks when the Ing of Government supporters to-day. Naldera, from England, came up to

Mr. Hore-Delisho said that the dock.

country was spending approximately Her

£1,000,000 daily on armaments.

berthing

સ delayed for

Despite this vas expenditure, several nutes while the Hölssevaln Great Britain has still been able to and the Athos II were leaving their And an extra £60,000,000 this year wharves. Even so, the P. and O. for Rectal welfare works. Trans-ship arrived half-an-hour before her

announced time.

Ocean.

STOP PRESS

PRESS NEWS

(Continued from Page 1)

and of these ofty-six. forty-eight orej NEWSPAPER

out on buil.

"In the Large Court and Juvenile Court at any rate few if any of these. attempt to answer the charge. When n hawker goes on bail he takes away his stock in trade with him and there is n power of confiscation. Of the! hi hawkers only right ure in the duck. The remaining 48 ore presum»

ably busily pursuing their avucation of hawking while the Court estreats their ball.

OFFICES SEARCHED

Issued this

Acting on a warrant morning, police conducted a search the offices of the Sunday Herald shortly after 2.30 p.m. to-day. consider this is a mockery of! The Telegraph understands that the process of the tourt.

In this the search warrant was issued in con- Magistracy alone there has been, up nection with an article published in to date, between 8,000 and 9,000 the Sunday iteraid on June 10 under hawking eases this year and even if the caption "Startling Revelations of The didly average was diabled I do Slave Markets in Colony: Girls for not think there is any advantage to Sale" be gatzed,

ן דיי

CHOLERA PROBLEM the

Hainan Struck

Paris, June 21. The

. Frenchi Government intends to stand tim on the question of Itatnan Kaland, AC- cording to well Informed quarters.

Japanese occupation of the Is- land, which faces French colonial Interests In Indo-China, would be considered harmful to French Interest guaranteed by the Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907. When the Japanese Ambasya- dor naw A. Georges Bonnet, the French Foreign Bilalster, yester clay, te declared that General Uraki's recent statement-regard- ing foreign Powers supporting China did not specially refer to France: Reuter,

CANE FOR YOUTH ON SNATCHING CHARGE

Much commotion was caused in Shett Kip Mei Village, near Lai Chi Kok Road, yesterday morning, when 17-year-old youth named Cheung Kuum, snatched an carring from 18-year-old woman. He attempted to run away but was intercepted and arrested.

B

This morning Cheung was charged with the theft before Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at the Kowloon Magis- was sentenced to three tracy and months' hard labour and eight strokes of the enne.

50.CENT EARRINGS EARN CANE Six months' hard labour and twelve struites of the cane were im- The article, by a Special Correspost on Lo Chu, a 17-year-old boy, pondent of Liz Sunday Herald, when he appeared before Mr. H. R. Central Magistency cholern cases referred alleged that the writer had attended Butters at the t by the chairman of the Urbania slave market field in a flat on the this morning, charged with matching Counell Imposed the comparatively mainland at which four Chinese gels, paie of earrings from a 73 year old harge fines of $2 and $3 during the two between 14 and 16 years of age,

uge, widow first days of the regulations with alone 10 and the other 21 years of age The thell occurred at Queen's Rund threat of increasing fines still further were sold for sums

ranging from East near the Naval Dockyard, the If necrsanry, This I found adequate $150. The writer continued that he police stated the earrings were only and during the first day or two there had "learned afterwards that the valued at 50 cents, and the defendant had been absolutely no breach of the three youngest girls were destined for must have mistaken them for goki emergency regulations before me in

houses of il-fame wear the former ones. court.

Central Market off Quern's Road "In any case, the number was Central, and that the eldest girl was united and cannot deal with un- bought to be a concubine for a local licensed hawkers generally in the Chinese resident." same way unless i were going to fill Stanley Gaol several times over.

POOR HAWKERS

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BIG CAPITAL

TAX LEVIED

Budapest, June 22.

Interviewed by the Telegraph the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Commissioner lot Police, refused to make any slate- The second aspect of the problemment regarding the raid. that "1"

conceive the Front of

A capital lax ranging from five to in reply to a question, the Com- licences to the ill and Infirm who had missioner admitted that correspon- 20 per cent, will be levied on all roots in the Colony, in the nature of dence had passed between the Police private fortunes or assets exceeding poor rellet.

Department and the Editor of the 50,000 penges as the result of a new "At the present moment there are Sunday Herald regarding the article. decree published yesterday. more than $3,000 In the Poor Box und

The

The scheme provides for a mlát- understands that the Telegraph I understand from the police that Editor of the Sunday Herald was re-mum tax of five per cent, an fortunes after Apeli 1, six months after the quested divulge the name of the of 60,000 penges, increasing proper- present licensing year began. no author o the article, and the Police tonately to 20 per cent. on fortunes

exceeding renewals were allowed and few. Ifraid this afternoon was for the purement must be made in 20 to 23 annual five million penges. Pay- any, new licences Issued.

That the picture of the widow puse of obtaining documents, Includ

of the Author, Instalments.

Assessment of property value on with the borrowed children induced the manuscript

after

had refused to Edilor sentimental magistrate to

divulge the information required by February 201 will be used as the basis commend her on the spot for

Severe penal- for the new taxation. the police.

tles

for attempted C provided leence, was not in accordance

addition to imprisonment, fines rang- ing up to 800 per cent of the value of the tax-Trans-Ocean.

inded. In view

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with

in-

the

ANOTHER CHOLERA

VICTIM

Another cholera victim, this time from Shauliwan, was reported by the health authorliles during the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases to date to 23.

LAUNCH SINKS AFTER CRASH

The police were still in the Sunday the facts, as I know of them in cot. | Herald building us this edition of the evasion of the lax, these including, in

"But only deserving cases after Telegraph went to press.

by the police were re- of what I understand to be the policy of the Urban Council I have made very few recommendations myself. The only recent recommendations I have made In the case of u was the other day in coalte who, while

engaged in his work, was injured in the leg in a traffle te cident, through no fault of his own He was certified by Government doctor to be incapable of resuming his work, or do any form of hur work, and I recommended him as n deserving case for a licence.

"The chairman of the Urban Council had replied that any excuse was good enough for an application for a hawker's licence, and he stated that it was cases like this that cluik- tered up the streets of the Colony and recommended that he return to the country. I understand the applicant in this case was Hongkong-barn.”

No casunties occurred in the steam There was a decrease in the nott-launch Wong Sang when the sank fications of other diseases, only one near the west wall of the Royal Naval while proceeding on her of diphtheria, one of meningitis, and Camber four of dysentery, being reported. way to Ynumati,

nolice, The In his report to the

stated Sum, 20, Lec coxswain, that at 4.30 p.m. yesterday, when going alongside the Helenus at the No. 3 wharf at the Kowloon Godown to take cargo boot No. 87 in tow, he collided with the rudder of the ship causing damage to his launch. The way to lunch sank while on the Yaurmati for repairs.

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TOKYO PRESS CLAIMS RUSSIA REVIEWING HER POLICY IN CHINA

Tokyo, June 21.

The Miyako Shimbun, commenting on the fact that MA Troyanousky, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, and M, Ivan Maisky, Soviet Ambassador to Britain, were both in Moscow at present, predicts that a conference between the two diplomate will "decide the future policy of the Soviet to China.'

The question to be discussed will

will ¡minent,

inevitably roduce be whether to extend vigorous mill-Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Govern tary assistance to China or suspendment to the status of a mere local ad- further assistance in view of the ministration, the rent being in- "Soviet's Internal conditions, and the ereasing pressure against Soviet in- series of military reverses suffered fluence in Outer Mongolia, nfd Sin- by Chinn."

kiang-Reuter.

"

The paper alleges that the "Soviet foothold in the Far East, which is

CLIPPER HELD 'UP formed on 21 basis of a pro-Soviet

Owing to mechanicut trouble in world polley, is being steadily cir cumscribed by the successful drive of one of the engines, the flight of the.. the Japanese forces."

Philippine Clipper, which was to The paper says that the Japaneso have left Manila at dawn. Lo-day for capture of Hankow, which is im- Hongkong, has been postponed,

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