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A POND."
A ROBBERY SEQUEL.
CASES AT THE JULY CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
China Mail
No. 25,925
CAPTAIN COMMITS SUICIDE.
AS VESSEL SINKS.
291 LIVES LOST ON TRANSPORT OFF SANTIAGO.
DRIVEN BY STORM.
Santiago, July, 16, The sinking of the army trans- port Angamos in the Bay of Arauco
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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
AMES SCORES 200
FOR KENT.
SURREY DRAW.
MORE HEAVY HITTING IN COUNTY CRICKET MATCHES.
GLUT OF CENTURIES.
High scoring again characterised the Home cricket matches, results of which were to hand this morning.
WO FAT-SHING "PIRACY."
How one of two Chinese men who are alleged to have robbed a giri fled to the extent of seeking a refuge by standing in water "up to his neck in a pond," whence he was dislodged by the gentle but nevertheless effective persuasions of (To-kwa-wan) villagers who used bamboo poles," was related by Mr. Somerset Fitz-! roy, Assistant Attorney-General, when the July Criminal Sessions opened this morning with four aground during a storm after its an innings and odd.
cases on the calendar.
yesterday resulted in the loss of 291 lives, it was disclosed to-day. Five members of the crew were the only ones who were saved. One hundred and eighty of those who perished
Kent took the major points of an uncompleted game from their neigh- bours, Surrey, securing 510 In the first innings. Ames knocked up a level 200 of them. Surrey replied The captain, with 413, Sandham and Fender both were passengers. overwhelmed by the tragedy, com-making centuries. mitted suicido on the bridge.
The transport was driven
rudder had been smashed.
The biggest victory went to Lan- cashire who defeated Hampshire by
Speed, of Warwickshire, put up the best bowling performance, tak- ing Ave West Indian wickets for 39
Help- BEGAN YOUNG.
less, the ship drifted into the Another case concerned three!
breakers. The lifeboats were runs, men, the third of whom had a con- swamped and the vessel itself was viction against him when 9 years flooded. Under the pounding of the of age. He is now 18.. Because waves it broke and, sank within the Prison medical officer certi three hours. fled him physically unfit to receive corporal punishment, he was not sentenced to be punished with ourers and their familles on route to the northern Chile nitrate fields.
A. P.
"the cat," as were his two con- fedcrates.
Mr. Fitzroy drew attention to
Most of the passengers were lab-
the conviction but said that he did. FRANCE & SPAIN. not like to lay stress on the fact and asked the Puisne Judge to take no notice of it as, in spite of what had occurred, the youth may have led a respectable life) during the nine years' interval.
$30,000 LOOT.
LINKED BY PYRENEES TUNNEL.
TO-DAY'S CEREMONY.
Paris, Yesterday. Another chapter in the sensa-
With the opening on July 18 of tional piracy of the steam-launch "Wo Fat Shing" inside the har-the. five mile Somport tunnel from bour last year is being written to- Forges d'Arbel to Canfranc, France
London, Yesterday, Kent's 510.
Kent took arst innings points from Surrey.
Kent 610 (Ames 200) and 185 for 4 declared,
Surrey 413 (Sandham 179, Fender 101) and 132 for 1.
Sutcliffe Shines. Yorka жол on first innings against Notts.
declared and
Yorka 520 for 7 (Sutcliffe 111, Oldroyd 119)
210 for 0 (Holmes 101, Sutcliffe 100).
Notts 360 (Whysall 166).
Three Centuries,
Northants won on first innings against Glamorganshire. day. About $30,000 (in gold inked up by a railway line through clared (Timms 101, Brown 103 not and Spain, lengthwise, will be Northants 387 and 327 for a de bars) was stolen whilst being con- the Pyrenees. veyed to a steamer and the Police! spread an extensive cordon. One
Glamorgan 320 (D.. Davies 108) man was caught just as he was Alfonso at Canfranc, which is an and 82 for 2.
Leicester's Win. Leicester beat Gloucester by 6
M. Doumergue will meet King
International station, at the in- about to leave the Colony.. At his trial,
also at the Sessions, augural ceremony, both returning the then Puisne Judge (Mr. through the tunnel to French terri-
tory-Reuter.
Justice Wood) criticised as un- satisfactory the evidence relating
to the finding of one gold bar in-
out).
GENERAL OBREGON ASSASSINATED.
POLITICAL CRIME.
PRESIDENT ELECT ATTACKED *IN RESTAURANT.
ASSASSIN ARRESTED.
Mexico City, Yesterday. General Obregon has been assassinated.
Shot in Restaurant.
Later.
A DRAPED VACANT
CHAIR.
POIGNANT PARTY.
AMUNDSEN'S BIRTHDAY CELE- BRATED BY TWO FRIENDS,
ECHO OF TRAGEDY.
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ADMIRATION FOR MOSCOW.
AMERICAN OFFER.
TWO KRASSIN DISCIPLES INVITED TO USA.
COURAGE & SELF-SACRIFICE,
Moscow, Yesterday. Mr. Charles Smith, vice-president
now in
ARCTIC DATA TO BE PUBLISHED.
"
KRASSIN'S OFFER.
UNACCEPTABLE TO ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.
FOOD FOR CASTAWAYS.
Stockholm, Yesterday.. A birthday commemoration polg-
The head of the Swedish ex- nantly reflecting the "Italia" disas of the Russo-American Chamber pedition in Spitzbergen reports ter at the North Pole was faithfully of Commerce, who is
that General Nobile received an offer from the "Krassin" that she carried out as the result of a pro-
foreign commissariat expressing the "Italia," but the Italian Gov- lost explorer last visited Los
the Chamber's admiration of the ernment is not inclined to accept, A table was set for three at which courage and self-sacrifice displayed Therefore the "Krassin' is pro- sat a local lawyer, John Murphy, the by the Krassinites, and Inviting ceeding to Advent Bay. explorer Haakon Hammer, the latter behalf of Mr. Schley, president at undated with messages of sym Samollovitch and Tehukhnovski, on
Malmgren's mother has been in- being the erstwhile companion of the Chamber, to visit the United pathy and admiration on her son's Amundsen in the Arctic. The third States as guests of the Chamber-end.
General Obregon, who was Premise made to Amundsen when the Moscow, has communicated with the was ready to organise a search for
sident-elect, was present at a Angeles.
General Obregon.
banquet in a restaurant outside the city, at 2 o'clock in the after
noon.
He was shot five times in the body.
His assassin was not imme- diately identified; but was subse quently arrested.”
chair was in the place of honour Reuter. and was vacant and draped with the Norwegian flag.
Amundsen, who was born in Nor- way on July 16, 1872, had asked two Los Angeles friends to celebrate his 56th. birthday at dinner "regardless: where I am."-Reuter's American Service.
TO NANKING. JAPANESE CONSUL-GENERAL
AT QUARRY BAY.
"OPEN DAY" AT THE SCHOOL.
TO-DAY'S GATHERING.
Nobile
telegraphed to her via the newspaper "Afton Blad" keenly regretting the loss of so admirable a man and acient- ist.
Moscow, Yesterday. Samoilovitch, the leader of the rescuers aboard the “Krassin” has announced that the scientific data in connection, with the voy- To-day is "Open Day" at the ages of the "Krassin" and the Quarry Bay School, and in the "Malyguin" would be published a morning a number of the young month after his return.
For The Castaways. boy and girl students of the
The Russian Rescue Committee school presented an enjoyable has instructed the "Malyguin" to. TO DISCUSS TSINAN.
programme of entertainment in leave fuel and food supplies at Shanghai, To-day. the school's gymnasium. It was (King Charles' Island in case the The Japanese Consul-General, attended by a good gathering of Amundsen Parties reach there.
castaways, Alessandrie and the Mr. Yads, has gone to Nanking the parents of the students and for the purpose, it is understood,
The Committee proposes that
DEPARTS.
Education.
of negotiating a settlement of the friends of the school, who includ-the "Krassin" pay a short visit to Tsinanfu affair; also to discussed Mr. A. E. Wood, Director of Advent Bay and will, then be em the question of the Chinese-
ployed as a base for Chakowsky to continue his sen search for Japanese commercial treaty which Japanese circles expect The programme opened with a'Alessandric and Amundsen-Reu the Nationalist Government to de- couple of songs by all the children ter. nounce on July 20,
taking part in the entertainment, The "China Preas" learns from and then came a recitation en-
Harsh Criticism.
Rome, Yesterday.
Nanking that the French, Italian titled "The Rainbow" by one of Bitter resentment is expressed and Danish ministers have re- the boys, in the course of which by the Italian newspapers at the plied to the notes on the revision six little girls appeared one by criticisms published in German, of Treaties.***
one, each in a pretty brightly co-French and Scandinavian news- The "China Press" Icar that loured dress of crepe paper, repre. ipapersi on the Nobile expedition Turmoil in Country. they are willing to procee with senting the various hues of the Fenerally, wickets.
The country is in turmoil owing the question of treaty-revision on bow.
The expedition has been des Gloucester 237 (Dipper 107) and to the death of Obregon, who was a basis of equality, mutual respect
Two interesting playlets were cribed in Germany as "a typical 218 (Astill 8 for. 81).
a wealthy landowner.
and national sovereignty. Reu-The Princess and the Swine manifestation of the bragging
herd"
and "Mother Lenerby 333 and 123 for 4.
Eng-empty spirit of Fascist expansion- He was President in 1920-24
which land" in and
appeared ism." was recently re-elected to
Essex Lose Again. Sussex beat Essex by 150, Sussex 312 (Tats, 126)' and 262- for 8 declared.
Essex 156 and 268 (Cutmore
side the prisoner's shoe when he "for standing in a pond with the was searched for the third time, water up to his neck; but I am in his cell. That man is serving certain that you will find, reason- three years hard labour, the ably, that he was chased there." strongest evidence against him Thie-was part of the Assistant being his own statement. An-Attorney-General's opening address 101). other man was arrested recently to the jury empanelled to try an- and he stood his trial to-day. other case of "robbery by two or
more," in which To Man Lau were the prisoners.
FIVE YEARS' EACH.
Hants 194 and 181 (Macdonald 5
Lancs 359 for 9 declared. (Watson 121).
TYPHOON FORMING" ?
Light westerly or variable winds; fair, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
Pressure is highest to the east of tho Bonins.
There appears to be a shallow depression over S. China and there are still indications that a typhoon may be forming to the Visitors Lose. Warwick bent West Indies by 7 east of Luzon, but no definite
developments,
• Hants Swamped. Lanes, beat Hants by an innings and Lo and 20. Lai Tak and Man Yun were each sentenced by Mr. Justice Jacka On June 20, two school-girls for 54). (Pulsne Judge) to five years' hard were walking along Kowloon City. labour and twelve strokes of the road, near the Blind Home, when cat" and Chan King,the youth al-jone was pushed down from behind! ready referred to, to five years' and the other was threatened by aj hard, labour, for "robbery by twe second man who held a knife. A or mare" of a female fellow-lodger bangle was stolen but the girls at No. 16, Temple-street, Yaumati, managed to call out and the rob- on May 20.
bers fled. The Crown alleges that prisoners are these two robbers.
When asked to plead, they re- plied by admitting that they stole The case is proceeding.
but denied robbery. On being ask- ed again, they pleaded "guilty."
KNIFE PRODUCED.
wickets.
BARRETT CASE.
JURY FIND FOR POLICE COMMISSIONER.
WITH COSTS.
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the scene.
ter.
Tokyo, To-day. It is learned officially that Britannia surrounded by her The circumstances of the death China has not notified Japan of children, boys and girls who of Professor Malmgren are parti her intention to termination the were dressed in the native cos-cularly commented on. The “Tri- 1896 Commercial Treaty, The tumes of Scotland, Wales, Canada, buna" declares that Mariano, Government is therefore awaiting Australia, New Zealand, South Zappi and Malmgren were sol- notification before deciding upon Africa and India, all of whom diors under military discipline brought offerings to the Mother-and had to carry out to the death. Jand.
General Nobile's order to proceed Britannia was overwhelmed to Cape North and seek assist and remarked that she did not anca. Zappi would probably have know what she would do without been compelled to abandon her children. The others replied Mariano in a similar way, if they that they too could not do without had not been imprisoned on an ice her. They had only one motter, fine.
|Its attitude-Reuter.
RUBBER INTERESTS.
HOLLAND, BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
A PRIMARY CONDITION.
Amsterdam, Yesterday.
Mr. Fitzroy then related the There was a chase by the villag-| facts. Prisoners and others lived era of To-kwa-wan. One man was with the woman complainant who caught and, as he was being cap. woke up in the small hours of the tured, he (according to the pro- morning to find firat prisoner git- aecution) threw away a knife which ting on her and the other two look was produced in Court.
Dismay in US.A. ing on.
The second man was seen in the
Shanghai, Yesterday. Prisoners Nos, 2 and 3 were pond where he was ejected by the The Barrett case was dismissed, Washington, Yesterday.ed, co-operation with Britain will walking along under the verandah, villagers who used bamboo poles, the jury, without retiring, return- Obregon's regime was contem be impossible.-Reuter. one on each side of the street,
The bangle was not recovered. Ing à verdict for Capt. Barrett, find-plated, in the United States as when they were challenged by a Both prisoners having pleaded "noting that he was not actuated by opening a new era in Americo-|
guilty," evidence was called, malice. The defendant was award. Mexican relations, hence the news.......
of his death has created dismay. Asking for indulgence because ed costs.Reuter. he had a bad foot, Mr. Fitzroy was
Mr. Kellogg has telegraphed [The following telegram was permitted to sit while examining published in yesterday's "China grief and. diamay to President Mail"-Shanghai, July 17-In Calles-Reuter's American Ser-
police patrol.
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one King, one flag and one song, The "Giornale d'Italia," refer- and that was "God Save the ring to "this inhuman campaign
The
W. Indies 209 (Speed, 5 for 89)|********
M. Sanders, president of the King" which was then sung and of vilification," says "we respect succeed President Calles for a six-Dutch rubber committee negotiat-tainment to a close. and 313.
automatically brought the enter- Sweden's grief at losing Professor Warwick 384 (Parsons 161) and year term beginning on December ing with other producers in
Malmgren, but we are entitled to 139 for 3-Reuter.
He received a tremendous speech
Three other items which help insist that Sweden shall under- declared public reception on his arrival at French and Belgian growers had
that British, ed to make the entertainment a stand and respect Italy's grief at Mexico City from his home at laid down as a primary condition success were "Bed in. Summer," the loss of the 'Italia... The Sonora on July 15,
Rabbit" and "Nursery newspaper adds "the version of The assassination occurred at must be included and the Govern-kiddies entered into the spirit of well
of co-operation that native rubber Rhymes." The way in which the Mariano and Zappi of their fare- the town of San Angel, 12 miles
to Malmgren cannot and south of the capital.
ment must co-operate to that end. the various items spoke of the must not be discussed." President Calles has rushed to Colonial Minister to-morrow. In the ed, and reflected much credit on
M. Sanders is interviewing the careful training they had receiv 3
An Inquiry. Stockholm, Yesterday. meantime it is thought that if the Headmistress, Miss Henley, The Government consider that solution to the problem is not reach-
Jan enquiry into the extraordinary and her staff of teachers.
The following were the boys circumstances of the death of and girls who took part in the en- Professor Malmgren is desirable, tertainment: J. Smith, N. Laing, but has not yet decided upon the C. Thirlwell. F. McNeillie, J. procedure. Seath, M. Toms, P. Bennett, A. INTERNATIONAL POSITION,Keown, P. Jolinaon, S. Bennett, E. Summers,. G. Duncan, E. Bennett, C. Bone, R. McLeod, M. Smith, Lstates that when the members of A message from King's Bay Cunningham, J. Bowkett, R. General Nobile's party cut up the Stainfield, E. Stainfield, M. Fraser, body of the bear shot by Profes Paris, Yesterday.
M. Dunlevy, J. Quinn, I. Miller, J. aor Malmgren after the crash of M. Berthelot, general-secretary Collinson, V. Bennett, H. Max the "Italia," they found frag- of the Foreign Office, and the Bri-well, J. Waid, I. Thirlwell, D. monta of an Italian newspaper tiah, Spanish, and Italian ambas-Young, D. Austin, D. Wilson, M. and also material, thought possi sadors have initialled the new Swann, J. Wallace, A. Thiriwell, bly to be a portion of the envelope treaty defining the international S. Bowkett and R. Duncan of the airship, torn off in the position of Tangler-Reuter.
After the entertainment, the crash. Reuter.
"MY MOTHER IS ILL” No. 1 then came up and vouch- ed for his friends. When he was searched, a wrist-watch was found) to have been concealed on his per- Det. Inspector Fallon of Yauma- His Majesty's Supreme Courtvice. son. All three were taken to the; ti station also had charge of this for China this morning, a crise
witnesses.
case,
station. In the midst of an ex- amination, No. 2 blurted out that) WITNESS FROM GAOL.
a robbery had been committed by them and gave the address.
opened in which Mr. William Beatty, former Assistant Commia- sioner of the Shanghal Municipal
Alleged to have been employed Police, is suing Captain E. I. M. As as a stoker on board the steam Barrett, Commissioner of Police, the police and prisoners were pro-launch "Wo Fat Shing" when the and the well-known Interport crie- coeding thither, they ran into the crime was committed during the keter, for Tls.50,000 damages. woman complainant who had freed early night of Oct. 12, 1927, Au
The claim is based upon a letter
herself of her bonds and gag and Shiu was also charged with "rob-written by Captain Barrett to Mr. had rushed out to give the alarm. bery by two or more."
8. M. Edwards, Secretary of the
CLASS HATRED.
INDIAN EDITOR ON TRIAL
i
SEQUEL TO DISASTER,
The No. 8 prisoner who receivThis case came before the Chief Municipal Council, which
Calcutta, Yesterday.. ed five strokes of the birch nine Justice (Sir Henry Gollan, K., Beatty alleges resulted in the ter mentioned on July 9 Brebakshi. Mr.As a sequel to the railway disss- the Police: "My old mother is ill C.B.E., K.C.) and a jury.
Council refusing to renew his con- the editor of the Swarajlat paper,
"Forward" has been charged be
years ago, sald In his statement to
I am compelled to do such things. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, O.B.E, K.C., tract.] I have no work."
prosecuted for the Crown. Det. His Lordship remarked that pri- Sub-Inspector A. J. W. Dorling of soners had inflicted personal vlo-the Water Pollce had charge of the lence on a woman whom they had case.
also robbed. He passed sentence Mr. Alabaster 'Informed
DRIVER'S ERROR.
VERDICT OF DARLINGTON VETRAIN SMASH."
London, Yesterday,
as stated, giving the reason quot- Lordship that during the Magis ed above for making an exception terial proceedings, prisoner had of No. 8. mais an excecalled "a certain man, as witness.
At the inquest on the victims of Det. Inspector C. T. Fallon was if he still desired to call him, "artho, Darlington railway smash a in charge of the base,
rangements would hays to be made verdict of accidental death, due to "NOT THE WEATHER for his attendance His Lordship an error of the driver of a goods "It is all very well blaming the asked and prisoner replied that he trains in misreading a signal was hot weather, anid/ Mr. Fitzroy, Continued on Page 11,); / returned Routeri
TANGIER.
DEFINED,
TREATY INITIALLED.
gathering adjourned to another room where the work of the child. ren in the various classes of the
What the Bear Ate.
Rome, Yesterday,
STRUCK OFF ROLL
LIEUT KNOWLES. FURTHER QUESTIONS IN THE hibits included easy drawings of Law Society have declared Mr. school were inspected. The ex- The disciplinary committee of the BOUSE OF COMMONS. the United Jack, etc., colouring Harold Montague Lloyd, of Dum-
of pictures, and needleworks by
London, Yesterday the girls. Many of the exhibitsales-place, Cardiff, to be guilty of In the House of Commons, were creditably done having re-professional misconduct, and order fore the Chief Presidency Magle answer to a question as regards the gard to the fact that all the stud-ed him to be struck off the roll for trate with promoting class hatred afsappearance of Lieut. Knowles ents were quite young. among His Majesty's subjects by (East Yorks) Mr. G, Locker
converting to his own use £5, £50, and £65.0
A warrant for the arrest of Mr. Lloyd was = fssued by the Cardiff Ma Pa Stipendiary Magistrate on May 24.
publishing an article, alleging that Lampson said that His Majesty's PEACE PACT. injured Indians were searched and legation had not objected to killed by men acting under the in- Knowles visit to the interior as the struction of a European-Reuter, district was peaceful. The out. BELGIUM ACCEPTS MR. T. F. B. Mr. Lloyd has not yet been arrested.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
braak of hostilities in October had occurred suddenly and without warning It was hoped to inves tírata a 'the circumstances of the
The closing rate of the dollar on death on the Idemand to lay was 2/08/165 cum
KELLOGG'S PROPOSALS.It is alleged be converted #208 to
A
fall and had a big his own use. Mr. Lloyd, defended {Brussels, Yesterday. John Rowlanda, who with two other The Belgian Government has for men was sentenced to death for the Kellogg's pro- murder of David Lewis, the Cardır