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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1928.
No. 25,858
C.P.O. ON TRIAL.
NO ARRESTS.
LEE HYSAN MURDER RUMOUR.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Belief That More Than One Man Was Implicated.
THE FIRECRACKER DODGE UTILIZED ?
Crown Case Closes This Morning.
POLICE EVIDENCE.
Sequel To Early Morning Motor Car Drive.
BY ELECTION.
Conservatives. Retain Marylebone.
RESULT ANNOUNCED.
Famous Diplomat To Go To The Common.
London, Yesterday.
At 1.05 p.m., to-day, the case for the Crown was closed at the Criminal Sessions against C.P.O. resulted as follows: William George Kelney who
charged with the manslaughter of ja Chinese whilst driving public
front in the early morning of March 25 last.
There is no truth in the rumour current late yesterday after-motor car No. 3is on the water- noon that a Chinese had been detained on suspicion in connection with the murder of Mr. Lee Hysan, the very wealthy resident of Hong Kong, who was best known as the "Oplum King."
'Further details have been gleaned by the Police in the course of extensive inquiries and elaborate measures. A description of the assussin has not been circulated, the "China Mail" understands, be- cause information is not yet complete.
Mr. Sheldon opened the defence at 2.16 p.m.
The first witness this morning was the foki of the driver of the
motor car, who corroborated the driver's evidence about Kelsey tak ing the, wheel after he returned to the car in Kee Cheong-street, Ken-
The official version and the post mortem examination both con- nedy-town. tain interesting revelations.
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Occupants of houses in the vicinity believe that more than one man was implicated. They believe that firecrackers were let off in A joss-house a little distance from the fatal corridor so as to cover the retreat.:
THE POST MORTEM.
A statement in the vernacular the cracker-firing was preceded papers that Mr. Lee Hysan was by three louder reports those armed when he was shot down from the revolver. Nevertheless. He did there is ground for the opinion yesterday is incorrect. hot carry a firearm, the "Chins that at least one man was wor- Mail" learns on the best muthorshipping in a miniature street Joss house at the end of one of ity.
Mr. C. G. Perdue, acting Direc-the back lanes which lead into tor of Criminal Intelligence, seen Kau U Fong-street.
by a "China Mail" man this morn- As reconstructed by those who ing, denied the rumour that a give credence to this version, the Chinese had been detained on assassin's accomplices must have suspicion.
kept watch in the back lane, There has been no new develop-while one of them worshipped at ment in the murder, accounts of the temple.
An Old Ruse. which appeared in the "China Mall" street editions yesterday Then, as in other violent crimes and, with additional facts, in the committed by Chinese in recent subscribers edition.
years, a string of firecrackers was The "China Mail" is authori-lighted and thrown into the air tatively informed that no deci- as soon as the revolver shots were vion has been made regarding heard. The object, of course, is an inquest and that it will not to throw suspicion off the track be known for a few days whe- by leading hearers to believe that ther an inquest will be held.
"An Unknown Persen."
der is as follows:-
The first thing that
the witness knew was happening was when the car suddenly swung towards the sea wall, and the next instant it plunged into the har- bour. The car fell partly on a junk and partly into the sea. Ho was pluned in the back seat, but his head wRA above water level. After a struggle, he managed toj free himself and swim ashore. Hej proceeded home, and the next morning went to the Traille Depart ment at Police Headquarters where he made a deposition.
Police Evidence.
Traffic Sergeant Robertson and two other European police Ser- guants gave evidence of arriving on the scene a little time after the ac cident.
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Mechanic's Guces. Sub-Inspector Mason, Police Me-)
wit- chanic, was the last Crown
A.M.. nose. He said that at 5.45
the Po Tak on March 26 he went wharf, and there saw skid marke on the road which appeared to be damp and looked greasy. He saw public car No. 313 in the harbour. It was later brought out.
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Innen have been interviewed by nothing was amiss and that only the Police but, it is understood, firecrackers were exploding.
little has been gleaned. There Fokis of the shoe shop which is was very little possibility, as the. The official version of the mur-at the Welltington-street end of perpetrator knew, of anybody no- the underground passage of stone ticing him as he emerged on the "Sent to the Public Mortuary steps leading to the Club door spur of the moment from the Yue the first to blow police Kee into the lane; and he was at 3 p.m. on April 30 the were
whistles, it is stated. But they round a corner in a few paces no are not certain in their descrip-matter which direction he took. tion of a man who passed them, La Lau, the club-boy who look followed by Lo Lau, the club-boyled down and caught a fleeting who caught a glimpse of the sup- glimpse of the murderer, was fol posed assailant and lost sight of lowed down by a colleague who hin in Wellington-street..
saw little or nothing.
A close watch is still being A vernacular paper representa-kept on ships and other means of tive maintains that the man, seen leaving the Colony.
Mr. Lee Hysan, the wealthy Chinese merchant who was enso- tionally murdered yesterday, De- tails in his romantic career are given in an article on page To Photo by courtesy of "Wah Ter
Vague Description.
to come from the Club door, walk- A reward of $10,000 has been ed along one of the back lanes officially offered for information into Kau U Fong-street where he leading to the arreat of the mur- mixed with the crowd and was un-derer. įsighted.
A Cry of "Save Life."
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CHEFOO MYTH.
No Truth In British "Evacuation.".
SITUATION IS QUIET,
Needles Alarm About Foreign Communities.
Shanghai, Yesterday.. The Marylebone by election has. The reported evacuation of Bri- tish nationals from Chefoo is un- true. The situation there is quiet! at present.-British, Naval Wire- less.
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EGYPT WARNED.
BRITISH ULTIMATUM.
CONTROVERSIAL BILL.
Statement By Sir A. Chamberlain In Commons.
EGYPTIAN CHAMBER "CLIMB DOWN.”
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, [Note: A previous report had indicated that British realdents in the House of Commons yesterday, made an Interesting statement were likely to be withdrawn. regarding the necessity for His Majesty's Government warning the Chefoo is on the north coast of Shantung peninsula, in the ex- Egyptian Government as to their intention to pass the Assemblies' treme east of the province, a few Bill and other similar legislation detrimental to the safety of for- hundreds of miles away from the eigners in Egypt. The ultimatum sent expires at 7 o'clock to- war zone in the west of the pro-morrow evening. The Egyptian Government have met in secret vince. Business men, mission-
aries, teachers and others live in session, and it is believed that they have decided to postpone dis- Chefoo in large numbers and cussion on the Assemblies' Bill until November.
many go for Summer holidays.
About twenty children from Hong Kong and Canton attend the China Inland Mission School and the parents of some of these have heard nothing about an eva- 12,859 cuation.]
6,721 3,318
---Reuter.
EIGHT HOURS!
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S
POINT OF VIEW..
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
Geneva, April 29. In the course of yesterday's meeting of the governing body of the International Labour Bureau at
HELD UP
Nearing Tsinanfu.
BRITAIN'S ACTION SUCCESSFUL.
London, Yesterday.
It is assumed that Vice-Admira! War Reports.
In the House of Commonà in re- Kelly, with Shanghai, Yesterday.
the "Warspite," The Nationalists have cut the ply to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Sir "Vallant and one cruiser, is going Shantung Railway which runs State for Foreign Affairs) in a Preston, with two cruisers, will Austen Chamberlain (Secretary of to Alexandria, while Rear-Admiral from Tsinanfu to Tsingtao, on the coast. The break is at Ming-statement regarding Egypt said make for Port Said.
the Bill for the shul.
regulation ·
Cairo, Yesterday. public meeting Small bodies of. Nationalist of
and de- Mr. Reginald Hoare, Councillor had been before to the British Residency, has hand- troops have gone from Nanking monstration up towards the firing line.-Bri- the Egyptian Parliament. Ited to Nahas Pasha a Note, giving was designed to alter the exiat-the Egyptian Government three tish Naval Wireless,
ing law, which had been enforced days. to withdraw the Assemblies Tokyo, Yesterday. for five years and enabled the Bill. If this is not done, Britain War Office states that 10,000 Na- fair state of public order without deem necessary.
An official statement from the Egyptian authorities to maintain a will take whatever steps she may As regards her tionalist soldiers entered Kushan, hardahlp to individuals or any un- obligation to protect foreign inter- 10 miles south of Tsinanfu on e due restraint on public liberty, este. evening of April 28. Heavy fight-The new Bill greatly weakened the The warships Warapito" and ing is going on to the south and hands of the Executive and would "Valiant" have left Malta, east of Tsinanfu, which the Na-paralyse the police on which it
The Ultimatum. tionalists are expected to occupy would inflict far heavier penalties Unfortunately, it seemed clear. within a day or two, the state for any error of judgment in carry that the Egyptian Government ment adds. Reuter.
ing out their duties than it propos-were resolved to proceed with the Defence Broken.
ed for those responsible for dis-Bill and, on the instruction of His Tsingtao, To-day.
Peking, Yesterday.
would order and
seriously Majesty's Government, Lord Lloyd The main body of Japanese
Nationalists broke jeopardise the public peace and the at 7 o'clock yesterday evening troops under General Fukuda through the Northern defence lives and property of foreigners, finally warned the Egyptian Gov arrived at Changtien yen-system to the north of Tai-an on In Defiance of 1922 Declaration. ernment that failing a categorical
Sir Austen Chamberlain said this and written terday morning but were an April 29. They also destroyed
assurance before able to proceed further. Conse. the railway bridge at Mingshui on view was taken by both British and pm. on May 2 that the bill.would quently an unarmed train carry the Shantung Railway and cap-Egyptian police authorities and not be
proceeded with His ing Consulate officials and others tured Chowtsun.
was shared by the foreign commun- Majesty's Government, would con- Many Chinese officials have left ities. The British Government (sider themselves free to take such was sent to Tailinchh for the purpose of negotiating with the Tainanfu for Tientsin.-Reuter, who, under the Declaration of 1922, action as the situation might seem [Note: Tal-an is to the south were ultimately responsible for to them to require (ministerial Southerners, who hold the ata of Tsinanfu and Chowtsun to the the safety of foreigners could not cheers). tions on the Shantung Railways?
east.] for necessary permission. If the negotiations were unsuccessful
Can Japanese Reach Tsinanfa?
the Japanese were reported to be planning to repair the broken Taihanfu if necessary.-Reuter. tracks and fight their way to
Tokyo, To-day.
The
T
ignore these dangers.. The Bill Comdr. Kenworthy (Labour) nak- Japanese Prepare.
and similar projected legislation ed if there was any truth in the Tokyo, Yesterday. had gravely preoccupied His statement that portions of the Japanese women and children Majesty's Government for a con- Fleet had been ordered to Egypt in Tsinanfu have been ordered to siderable time, and serious but from Malta, Sir. Austen Chamber- prepare for evacuation to Tsing friendly warning with regard to lain replied that he preferred to tao.-Reuter.
the Bill had been addressed by add nothing to his answer to Mr. Residents Flee.
| Lord Lloyd, on their instruction, to MacDonald, A Foreign Office despatch
Tokyo, Yesterday. the present Prime. Minister, Nahas, Egyptian Chamber's Secret Session. #tatca that the Southerners It is officially announced that Pasha, and his predecessor, Sarwat
Cairo, Yesterday. agreed to permit the Japanese the detachment of Japanese Pasha.
The Chamber met in Secret Sea- troops to proceed to Tainan. As guarding the Japanese owned. Earlier Telegrams.
gion. The Deputies assembled no mention was made of the con- coal-mines at Poshan hurried to
Malta, Yesterday. quietly and received Nahas Pasha dition of the line it is presumed Chowtsun on receipt of the news! The Naval Authorities state that in silence. that is was not so badly damag- that the city was being plundered, the warships which have left
Egyptian Procrastination. ed as previously feared.--Reuter. Sixty out of the eighty Japanese Malta are not sailing to Egypt, but It is understood that Nahas
residents have fled.--Reuter. have been ordered to Corinth:
A Consultation.
The cruiaere "Cerea," "Calypso"ment of the Senate discussion of Pasha will propose the postpone- Shanghai. Yesterday.
and "Caledon" have sailed for the Assemblies Bill until Novem- General Hwang Fu, the Nation- Egypt, the "Ceres" flying the flag ber with the hope of meantime reaching an understanding with |Britain.'
GERMANY & WAR.
CONVERSION LOÀN TO BE
·ISSUED 80ON.
The description of the man
A ery of "Save Life" was Geneva, Mr. H. Wolfe, British suspected to have fired the shote heard and recognised as from the Government delegate, declared the alist Foreign Minister, is hasten- of Rear-Admiral Preston. is vague. It is agreed that he voice of Mr. Lee. It should be British Government maintained its ing. to Hsuchowfu for a consulta- wore a
white short Chinese explained that the club's premises point of view that the revision of tion with Generalissimo Chiang jacket.
Some say that he had are on the third floor, entrance the Washington Eight-Hours' Con- Kai-shek concerning the position white cotton trousers with blue being by way of a door (from the vention was necessary in order to vis-a-vis the Japanese forces in FRENCH FINANCES. stripes and a few that he wore back lane) into the second floor, facilitate ratification. khaki drill trousers; the former through a narrow corridor and
Shantung. He asked, however, that the dis- is more probable.
then up a wooden staircase. The cussion of the British proposal Nothing is known of the man's back-lane is, naturally, higher should be adjourned until the May general appearance and build.
than the ground floor level in session, adding that the British Post Mortem Results.
Wellington-street.
Government had been the object of The revolver, which the mur When the alarm was raised, numerous unjust attacks, because derer dropped-probably 'inten-Mr. Lee was seen to be holding they certainly have no intention of tionally outside the Yue Kee himself against the wall, in great lessening the prerogatives of the body of Lee Hysan, a Chinese Club, had a piece of the barrel anguish and his face was deadly working classes.
The Committee accordingly. ad- male, 49 years of age, of No. sawn off, obviously to shorten it pale. It was a matter of moments
the discussion until the journed 32, Kennedy-road, shot at to facilitate carrying with less before he collapsed and died.
May session.-Router. and killed in the entrance of fear of discovery. The butt was! the Yue Kee Club, No. 196, bored through for the purpose of Wellington-street, at 1 p.m. attaching a stock.
The first two shots entered Mr. on the same day, by an un-
One struck known person who left behind, Lee Hysan's back.
Yat Po."
Dr. Jeu Hawk and Dr. S. C. Ho answered the summons of the Club members for help but life: was extinct when they arrived.
Funeral Put OIT.".
a .38 calibre Smith-Wesson the back of the neck and, it was Folice officers arrived on the revolver loaded in all six revealed at the post mortem ex- chambers, three rounds hav-amination held in the mortuarying the Hon. Mr. B. D. C. Wolfe, scene shortly afterwards, includ- yesterday afternoon, broke the ing been fired." It is intereating to note that main artery leading to the heart. C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent), the Police use the words "an Another shot pierced the liver. Mr. Perdue, Chief Det:-Inspector There was no exit hole for either T. Murphy, Det-Inspector: Lane unknown person." According to occupants of houses in the of these but one of the two rounds and others.
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FROM CEYLON AND MALAYA..
60 PER CENT, MINIMUM,
London, Yesterday.
AGREE
TO U. S. PACT "WITHOUT RESERVATION.”
. UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE. :-
TO REPAY BANK.
Paris, Yesterday.
Cairo, Later. The discussion on the Assemblies Bill has been postponed until November-Reuter.
The Riots In Alexandria.
London, Yesterday.
In this connection it is notice- able that when the proposals were made in 1924, which would have had a similar result in weakening
A Presidential decree authorises the hands of police authorities the the issue of the Conversion Loan late Zaghiul Pasha opposed them Five, Per Cent. Bonds redeemable as contrary to public Interest. The. Berlin, Yesterday. in seventy-five years, at a price British Government who under the The German reply to Mr. F. B. the issue of which has not yet been declaration of 1922 are ultimately Kellogg's proposal to outlaw war settled:
responsible for the safety of for agrees with the United States and
Ignore The object Is to convert the eigners, cannot
these France that the ultimate aim must National Credit Bonde, expiring in changes. Riots in Alexandria in be the universal acceptance of the 1928-29, and the Short Term Trea- 1921, in which nearly 20 foreignera suggested Pact; which Germany is sury Bonde fato a Long Term Loan were killed and over 60 wounded, ready to negotiate without reser- and repaying the advances from will be remembered and only a few vationReuter
The British Altitude.
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons, in re-
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United States proposals as to a further joint effort to safeguard
the Bank of France.-Reuter.
U.S. PRESIDENCY.
EXPENDITURE.
weeks ago, an excited crowd which had been stirred up for political purposes. attacked and damaged the property of foreigners. In these circumstances, the Assem
vicinity, a not uncommon ruse ed a bulge under the skin in counterpane pending examination portable rubber, at the minimum Chamborlain warmly welcomed the RIGID SCRUTINY OF CAMPAIGN blles Bill and some other legisla
The official percentage of ex-ply to questions. Sir Austen The body was covered with a Extracted from the body had caus- was adopted which leads to a front, where it had stopped. and the taking of photographs rate of duty from Ceylon and The third shot struck Mr. Lee After removal to the mortuary, it Malaya for the quarter beginning in front, presumably as he was was taken back to Mr. Lee'stre May, I will be over 60-Beuter. turning round, and embedded it-sidence where the usual cere
suspicion that the murderer
had accomplices with him.
Joss House Incident.
| pecces drwy d
* The British Government, he said, were closely and sympathetically
SPECIAL COMMITTEE,
Washington, To-day. The Senate has unanimously
tion have for a considerable time caused His Majesty's Government grava ... pro occupation British Wireless Service.
Peticions Legislation.
The general tenour of the pro-
A "China Mail representative self in the woodwork. Needless monies will be held. The yearly meetings of the Union considering the text of the propos was informed that several men in to say, the ammunition extracted It is stated that Mr. Lee had Insurance Society of Canton Ltd., ed Treaty together with the French decreed to the subjecting of the a ground floor (used as an eating was the same as that left in the received a number of threatening the China Fire Insurance Co. Ltd, observations and suggestions, and expenditure on the Presidential posad Bill may be indicated by one house) behind the Yue Keo Club revolver.
letters recently Including one and the British Traders Insurance he did not doubt that successful Campaign to rigid scrutiny by a or two of Its articles
Article Nine states: "The fol distinctly heard firecrackers wa Neighbours Interviewed, which hinted a bomb attack at the Co, Ltd, will take place on Friday, fasue would be chleyable but time Special Committee of five senators,
aldantalipwing will be Bahle tous Ittle wille ba ore, the first blasty. A number of coones who live i[ receptION KLLET IN SON 3uarriages pmO
"American"! Ber-f imprisonment not exceeding one on a police whistle, low the underground passageway and The funeral will not be held for culars appear in the advertising ous issues raised and consultation Dawes Reuter's
columnakó These men are not definite that others who frequent the back some days,
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with the Dominions-Reuter.
vice,