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A MAN FROM CANTON SOLDIERS AS POLICE
STRIPPED.
ROBBERY SEQUEL.
ALLEGATIONS AT CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
DECOYS?
HOTEL CASE.
MAGISTRATE ON MANUFAC-
TURED EVIDENCE.
CHARGE DISMISSED,
BATABLISHED
1848
⠀ HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928, PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
ANOTHER A. P ̊C. SHIP
ATTACKED.
LOST.
BUT NOTHING ·LOST.
WEST RIVER PIRATES PUT TO FLIGHT.
INDIAN "NO TAX” CAMPAIGN. SPECIAL INQUIRY. GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY MEETS A DEPUTATION.
THE NEW ASSESSMENTS.
Surat, Yesterday.
HULLABALOO AT LLANDUDNO..
MINERS CONFER.
LIVELY DISPUTE OCCURS AT THE CONFERENCE.
ENERGETIC CHAIRMAN,
London, Yesterday.
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NAVAL DOCKYARD CHANGES.
VANISHING. FACES.
PROMINENT MEMBERS WHO ARE GOING HOME.
YESTERDAY'S -FUNCTIONS.
Officer,
CURE OF TROPICAL DISEASES.
AN APPOINTMENT.
PRINCIPAL OF MALARIAL CONTROL DEPT.
SIR MALCOLM WATSON.
London, Yesterday. The Executive Committee of the Institute for Tropical
DARKNESS OF KING'S PARK.
AN EPISODE IN THE SZE YAP.
How a man from Canton was
In revising his decision given Following the piracy about ton
A large gathering of members of stripped by four robbers of his at the original hearing of a case days ago of a motor-vessel belong- Sir Leslie Wilson (Governor of There were stormy scenes at the the Naval Dockyard Recreation Club coat and trousers was related dur-in which the proprietor of the ing to the Asiatic Petroleum Co. Bombay) met a deputation of annual Conference of the Miners gathered in the Club Room last oven-Rosa
ing to bid farewell to Mesars :-W; Diseases has appointed Sir ing the last case in the July Asia Hotel, Pak-hoi-street, Yau- (South China), Ltd., another A.P.C. Bardoli No-Tax campaigners and Federation at Llandudno to-day.
Fleming N.3.0. Dept, J. Reed, and Malcolm Watson principal of the Criminal Sessions to-day when mati, was fined $200 for allowing craft has been attacked in the offered the order of a special en-
The opening of the Conference R. Andrews of the C. E. Dept., who Malaria Control Department of events in the darkness of King's his premises to be used for im-West River delta.
quiry into the new assessments yesterday was marked not only by are all leaving the local Yard on the Institute.. provided the taxes moral purposes, Mr. W. Schofield Park were described, one version at the Kowloon Magistracy this
were paid
Saturday next on appointment to The Ross Institute Industrial The motor-launch "Fati" (nam-forthwith.
Mr. Herbert Smith's presidential ad- Home Yards.
Anti-Malarial Advisory Com being given by the Crown wit-morning, stated that he was satis-ed after one of the suburbs of Meantime, the Treasury will dress which without qualification, Mr. W. Morris of the G.E. Dept. mittee has been formed to assist nesses and another by the two fied that the two soldiers, who had | Canton) was towing a number of old and the new revenue as a de- within the Industry and the conmade by Commander (E) B. J, and will work in conjunction with hold the difference between the referred to the blessing of peace was in the Chair and presentations tropical industries to carry out prisoners, Tsang Iu and Tsui Chiu, given evidence at the previous
to the departing members were practical anti-malarial measures Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, Assist-hearing, were sent there with the cargo junks from Kongmoon into posit pending the result of the
specified purpose
of being seen the Sze Yap interior.
enquiry-Reyter.
ference but also by a sharp dis- Sebastian, R.N., 1st Asst. to the the Malarial Department of the 'ant Attorney-General, added that with the girls.
When near Lat Ngok (according July 3, stated: A situation sion to the conference of certain Esq. acting Naval Store
[A telegram, dated Bombay, pute with regard to the non-admis- Chief Engineer, and A. J. Ashby Institute. Reuter. the victim was not left naked but. Counsel's Objections. to the "Tai Kwong Po"), which la unique in the annals of British Communist leaders, from Lanark- H.M. Dockyard, Hong Kong. was allowed by the thugs to re- At the first hearing Mr. Loseby, notorious as a hotbed of outlaws, administration in India is report-shire who had been refused creden- After the Chairman's opening
"CITY OF TOKIO.”. who represented the defendant, tain a singlet and a pair of shorts, said there was absolutely no a fast rowing boat shot across the cd by the "Times of India" from tials by the Scottish National Or- remarka
According to the Crown, the evidence that any act of immor- "Fati's" bows and held the
Bardolí, one of the richest dis-ganisation.
varied musical pro LINER GOES AGROUND IN mer tricts in the. Bombay Presidency.
- contributed by
THE YANGTSZE, first prisoner "bulged out" when ality had been committed in the chant shipa up.
The latter today demanded ad-Messrs. Annis, Crabb, Fleming, searched and was found to be boarding house in question. Ha
at pletely Baralysed government ma- A "no tax" campaign has com-
Hopper, White and Turner, and Mr. TUGS TO THE RESCUE. wearing three pairs of trousers, said he objected to the evidence
Platt, a newcomer to the local chinery with the result that no- the top pair of which was claimed given, by Inspector Shannon at
Yard, gave some amusing imper- by the complainant.
the previous hearing, alleging
Shanghai, Yesterday. boily can even stir from his house without the knowledge and con-
sonations. Mr. George Longyer ac The "City of Tokio" is aground Sprang From Roadside. that the Inspector and one other person had deliberately manufac-
companied the singers on the plano. near the North Crossing, 30 miles sent of the leaders of the cam- The indictment was that of tured evidence against the defen-
paign, and the subordinate gov
Mr. Ashby presented Mr. Fleming below Kiukiang. She is at pre- "robbery by two or more"-all dant by sending soldiers to the
ernment officials themselves are
with a handsome silver tea service sent discharging cargo into light- four in the calendar being the house,
and referred to Mr. Fleming's well era. practically dependent on the good- same-of Wong Fai, at Gascoigne-
will of these leaders for supplies, road, near King's Park, Kowloon, continued, said that he knew that Inspector Shannon, Mr. Loseby
Jeonveyance, etc. at about 1.45 am. on June 16, of one of the girls was a prostitute, a jacket, pair of trousers, hat, but that was not enough. The pencil, toothbrush, handkerchief Inspector must go one step fur and $23.70 in money.
ther and prove that the rest
Before the pirates could get
JAPAN'S TERMS.
For Settlement
Tsinan.
Tokyo, To-day. ists in regard to the Tsinan in- Japan's terms to the National- cident are:-
Government.
(1) Apology from Nationalist
(2) Punishment of these res-
Both prisoners pleaded "not were, and that they were carry-ponsible.
ing out acts of immorality on
guilty.
"
This case is somewhat extra- the night of the arrest. ordinary and not, perhaps, devoid
"
Mr. Loseby said that he object-
was'
(8) Indemnification of losses. (4) Guarantee as to the future. The Japanese Foreign Office reiterates Japan's desire for an early settlement and has requested the presence at Tainan of a Nationalist plenipotentiary and delegates to negotiate with Japan cse 'representatives.-Reuter.
Vallabhai Patel controls the campaign which is backed not only by local wealth but also by a monthly "dole" of five lakhs of rupees from fellow villagers who are now settled in South Africa.]
CHINA & JAPAN.
HOW NANKING'S MOVES ARE
BEING WATCHED. *
SERIOUS SITUATION.
Osaka, To-day.
FINE TO CLOUDY:
East winds, moderate, fine to forecast until noon to-morrow. cloudy, moderate, is the official
Pressure is now highest over
S.E. Manchuria. The incipient
1. typhoon to the east of Luzon has
not developed.
A trough of low pressure ex- tends from Tongkong to Luzon however.
The following telegram was re- ceived from the Manila Observa- tory to-day at 10.45 a.m.
19th, 9.00 a.m. Cyclone or typhoon W. of Luzon, more than 100 miles distant, direction un- known.
A
gramme Was
at
known services in musical circles It is expected that the vessel, outside the Naval Yard, particularly which is not in a serious position, In connection with the Hong Kong will be refloated to-morrow' Philharmonic Society,
high tide.. Mr. Fleming suitably responded
The tug "Saint Dominic" is go-- and expressed his regrets at leay-jing to the scene to-morrow mort- ing so many friends and pleasant ing from Shanghai. associations.
As far as can be ascertained, Commander Sebastian, R.N., pre- the ship has suffered no damage. sented Messrs. Reed and Andrews-Reuter. with a tortoiseshell set, and a gold [The "City of Tokio" is one of watch respectively and wished both the Bank Line steamers. She was the departing members success in due in Hong Kong on the 24th their new appointments.
inat. on her way to London. The
At the Chief Construction offices
of difficulty," said Mr. Fitzroy in fed also to the fact that the defen- his opening statement.
dant was not previously warned Complainant had arrived from as to the continuance of the said Canton that night, crossed to offence. The soldiers, counsel Yaumati and taken a ricsha.
West River Rising. → Messrs. Reed and Andrews, res-vessel is well known at this port, alleged, had been sent especially Four people sprang out at him to manufacture evidence against
Mr. G. W. Olivecrona, Engineer- ponding, both expressed their re being here last on June 9 wher on the road and held him up the girls and defendant. They
In-Chief of the Board of Conser-grets at leaving,, and their very she had arrived from Newcastle Two produced some form of dag-were sent to prove that the girls
vancy Works in Kwangtung, makes great pleasure at the kindly recep and Singapore.
She is a cargo ger and the fourth a revolver. were prostitutes, but there was the cargo, the Canton-Kongmoon treaty between China and Japan West River is slowly rising. The cluded with three cheers
the following statement:- China's move regarding the
tion provided by their clubmates, vessel of 7,000 tons, and Capt. E. The clothes were being worn by no evidence that any act of in tow-boat (which is heavily armed is watched with intensest in latest records from Shiuhing show "Tiger," the whole of the Company
On account of the last rains the A pleasant little. function con- Mason is in command.] complainant; the money was decency had been committed that and carries a crew of expert gun- terest here.
and a
British Gunboat Stands By. taken from his girdle.
Kiukiang, Yesterday. The seriousness of night. Therefore counsel begged ners) hove into sight. This tow- the situation is reflected in the rise of about one foot After the robbery, the gang for- His Worship not to look on the boat has to her credit several vic-prominence given to dispatches This rise may, however, increase in and "The King."
a day. also joining in "Auld Lang Syne", H. M. S. "Ladybird" is standing bade the victim to turn back to statements of Inspector Shannon tories in brushes with pirates. from China. There were columns speed, as we have to reckon with Yaumati but he did so after an in- as evidence against the defendant. The gang which held up the "Fat" in the newspapers this morning strikes the south coast of Kwang-last evening Mr. A. J. Coleman Wireless
by. The "City of Tokio" went Mr, A. J. Coleman.
ashore at N. E. Crossing, which is terval.
the typhoons. A typhoon which Defendant
eventually fled as soon as they sighted her, about China.
below Klukiang.-British Naval Green Ink.
found guilty" and fined $200. taking with her a native junkmas- Police proceeded at once to the Mr. Loseby then applied for the ter
The "Agahi" and "Mainichi" tung will produce heavy rainfalls in Draughtsman of the same Dept., (Note: "Ladybird" is one of the spot. A few yards away-this case to be re-heard, asking if the
editorially, review the situation the Kwangsi mountains and cause a Hong Kong Dockyard, one of the new gunboats for the China Station. about an hour after the two soldiers involved could give
Cargo Safe:
and regret that new China is rapid rise in the West River and its temporary additional Staff sent out She was commissioned at Malta in robbery the two prisoners were evidence.
According to the "Tai Kwong plunging into a programme of tributaries. A typhoon striking the from England during the recent Jun. 1927 and is now in the Lower observed to emerge from bushes
Soldiers' Evidence, Po," the coxswain, englueer and treaty revision in a spirit of an- south-east coast will cause rises in troubles in North China, was pre- Yangtze Flotilla. She is of. 645 on the roadside. They were Mr. Schofield granted the appli- taken away by the pirates. This the foreign Powers. Reuter.
two of the crew of the "Fati" were tagonism and hostility towards the East and North Rivers. sented by Mr. McQueen, Acting tons and carries two 6-inch guns. cation. At a aubsequent hear has not been confirmed by inquiries
Fortunately, the first rice crop is Chief Constructor with an Ivory Kiukiang is a Treaty Port in Complainant claimed the pairing, the soldiers gave evidence to at the local (head) office of the
Doubtful Attitude.
already ripe and the harvesting is Statuette, a present from members Kiangsi province, about 450 miles of trousers as his. Before the the effect that they had on the A.P.C. (South China), Ltd., where
Shanghai, Yesterday. well under way in the delta and of the Staff on the occasion of his from Shanghai.) garment was removed from No. 1 night, the police raided the hotel, only meagre details have been re-China and Japan, the Japanese all reason to believe that the crop return to England.
In regard to the treaty between river valleys, Therefore, there is completing his term of Service and prisoner, complainant had said committed an act of immorality ceived. The Company learns, how-Legation spokesman declared that will be that he identified it by the fact The case was again adjourned,.
in the barns before any that the Police would find green and this morning Mr. Schofield, in ever, that the cargo was success-it was still doubtful what the dangerous rise in the Rivers will ink-stains inside. Prisoner's sub-giving judgment, expressed the fully discharged and that the Nationalist Government's atti threaten to break the many dykes. sequent reply was that the trou-opinion regarded above. sers were his and the green caus-: The case was accordingly dis-
was
searched.
ed by a kind of dye. A $10 note missed..
was also found, according to Mr. Fitzroy, when pushed into a policemen's hand by No. 1 prison-
mean-
er who said "Yam Cha," ing (this is for) drinking tea.
The pencil and toothbrush which complainant carried in his pocket were, it was stated, found on second prisoner.
"UP TO HIS NECK."
GERMAN SHIPS.
ONE ATTACKED ON UPPER YANGTSZE.
ANOTHER HELD UP. .
launch reached Kongmoon.
tude would be. He asserted that However, the farmers will be wise The "Tai Kwong Po's" report even the attitude of Dr. C. T. if they make all possible haste to adds that the pirates
were well Wang (Nationalist armed and that a report was made Minister) was ambiguous. Not
Foreign get their rice fields cleared.
by the "Fati," subsequently, to the long ago Dr. Wang told the Japan mission and were allowed to enter Kongmoon authorities.
ese Consul General in Shanghai
Kong.
SOVIET SENTENCES.
FURTHER TRIALS IN MOSCOW
COURT.
ANTI-WAR PACT,
GREAT BRITAIN READY TO SIGN.
COMMONS' STATEMENT.
London, Yesterday.
"QUEEN-MOTHER.”
WORLD-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS
FOR MEMORIAL.
KING GRATEFUL.
London, Yesterday. Thanks to contributions from Britons throughout the world, re-
In the House of Commons, Sir garding which H.M. the King in ̈a Chamberlain announced letter says he is most gratified, the national memorial to that he had handed to the United fund for a
Kongmoon is less than twelve that China did not intend to re- the gallery as spectators. hours by steamboat from Hong pudiate the present treaty but ed up and began to address the Austen
One of them (Mr. Allan) Jump- would agree to its remaining in force till a new treaty could be meeting.
A little later, how- Mr. Herbert Smith ordered him, States Charge d'Affaires this morn-Queen Alexandra, which closed on negotiated. ever, Dr. Wang told the Japanese to leave the building. Mr. Allan ing the replies of the Governments June 30, reached £288,000. Consul in Nanking, that he re-continued to protest and disorder of Great Britain, Australia, New The Committee announce that the garded the treaty as already re-
ensued.
Finally, Mr. Smith went Zealand, and South Africa and the visible memorial, to the appeal for The a.s. "Heiang Chi," which
pudiated in accordance with the to the gallery, followed by Mr. reply of the Government of India which there was a generous res- flies the German flag, was fired
declaration as the treaty had al-Arthur Horner, the Communlat accepting the proposals of the Unit-ponse, especially from Indlan The case in which one prisoner on by bandits along the Upper was said to have been chased into Yangtze River yesterday, ac
[ready expired tri 1926.--Reuter. member of the. Executive of South'ed States Government for a mul-'Princes, will take the form of a
Manchuria,..
Wales, Mr. A. J. Cook and half of tilateral treaty for the renunciation, bronze group designed by Alfred a pond, where he stood with cording to a British Naval wire-
Moscow, Yesterday.
the Conference.
of war. (Cheers,) water up to his neck, concluded less report, the position of attack
Peking, Yesterday.
Gilbert and will be erected at Marl- The trial concluded in the Su-
Mr. Smith, who is B sexa- The Japanese Legation spokes- before the Puisne Judge yester- being mileage 116.
His Majesty's Government would borough. House opposite St. James", One person preme Court of the representa- man has declared that he has no genarian, seized Mr. Allan and be happy to sign the treaty at such Palace. day. Without retiring, the jury was killed and three wounded. tives of two Swedish firms on knowledge of any agreement with hustled him downstairs amid the time and place as is agreeable to The bulk of the fund will go to found To Man and Lo Lau guilty H.M.S. "Gannet" rendered charges of transmitting secret General Chang Hauch-liang of shrieks of the women and the the Government of the United extend district nursing and in-
TWO LIBERATED.
Information.
Manchuria.
T
States-Reuter.
Ottawa, Yesterday.
...
crease the Queen's Nurses' Pension Fund-Renter.
of "robbery by two or more" of a medical assistance. bangle from a Chinese school-
Japan must main-shouts of the male delegates. [Note: "Gannet" is one of Three Russians were sentenced tain her treaty rights in Man- Mr Smith, after ejecting Allan
Canada's Reply. girl on Kowloon. City-road on the new British gunboats for the to 8, 5 and 1 years' imprison-churis and if Chang Hsueh-linng aprang down the stairs and land- June 20.
Upper Yangtsze, being of 345 ment, respectively, while Mr. Fitzroy proved that first tons.
six would agree to this Japan mighted on the top of Mr., Horner, selz-
Canada's reply accepting Mr. ARCTIC RELIEF. She was commissioned in others were sent to imprisonment be prepared to support him oned him by the neck and shook him Kellogg's Anti-War Proposals, has prisoner had been sentenced to 14 Hong Kong in March this year.] for periods varying from two certain conditions-Reuter.. till the delegates intervened. days' hard labour five months
been handed to the United States SEARCH FOR THE ALLESAN- Reports current in this outlaw-years to four years.
Mr. Horner returned to the Con- Minister-Router's American Ser- ago for stealing.
infested territory indicate, how- Two employees of the Soviet
DRINI PARTY. ference hall minus kis glasses, very vice.
Poland Falls Into Line,
Stockholm, Yesterday. resumed the chair quite calmly,
Warsaw, Yesterday: .. The head of the Swedish The Conference settled down to
The Polish Foreign Minister has "Italia" Relief Expedition reports bualness.
communicated with the United that the Swedish planes are at Questions were asked as to whe- States Minister at Warsaw a note present powerless to search for ther Mr. Cook went to the help of stating that the Polish Government the Alessandrini party, (who Mr. Smith or of the Lanark men is ready, to sign the pact proposed were aboard the "Italia" at the and a demand was made that Mr.
by Mr. Kellogg,
His Lordship passed sentence ever, that one gang of bandits la Agricultural organisation, were SOVIET AND GRAIN. pale and gasping, while Mr. Smith of five years' hard labour and ready to capitulate and is mak-acquitted. Two sentenced were
⚫ twelve strokes of "the cat" on ing overtures to be enrolled under liberated under an amnesty but the local General who is believed the others are not affected there- Both men gave evidence in to be interested in the war in Sze by,Reuter.
each prisoner.
their own defence.
One of them chuan province..
maintained that he was led into
Arms Go. Astray. confessing by a constable at the
Shanghai, Yesterday. -police station (after he and his
confederate had been captured by that General Chien Ta-chun (the The "Evening News" states villagers), that he was threatened local Nationalist garrison com- with assault, and that he refrain-missioner, formerly of Canton), ed from reporting to Det. Inspec- has detained 671 cases of muni- tor C. T. Fallon for fear of repritions at the Customs godown at sals by the constable.
Pootung, 371 cases of which are automatic pistols and the remain-
RUBBER INDUSTRY.
DISCUSSION IN THE DUTCH CAPITAL
"FULL COLLABORATION.”
The Hague, Yesterday. The Commission which watches The Countess of Buckingham-der rifles, and three million rounds the Dutch rubber interests discuss shire opened a fete at Great Kimble of ammunition, which arrived ed rubbar problems with the Minis
BUYING HEAVILY IN:
CANADA.
FOOD SHORTAGE.
Ottawa," Yesterday.
The Soviet had recently purchas- Cook withdraw his statement that led 8,000,000 bushels of wheat, the small one of the Scottish, ac- mostly from Canada, to meet the credited delegates did not repre- threatened food shortage in Russent the Scottish minera. sia. A
Mr. Cook declined to withdraw Shipments will be made from and the chairman stated that they Montreal at the end of the month. would deal with the incident pri-
Reater.
vately-Beuter.
Questions,
time of the crash), since they have no ice-breaker sufficiently large London, Yesterday.
to act as a base ship.-Reuter. Questions were asked in the House of Commons as to whether presentatives at Washington and
would hand-in their own replies. there were day reservations.
Replying, Sir A. Chambariain Asked if their replies were identical said that he could not make a state with those of the other Dominons, ment, with regard to the contents Sir A, Chamberlain said their re- of the reply until it was published plies were in a favourable sensa but on Friday morning. they were not replies, in identical
Replying to further questions Sir terms. It was for those Governi
on June 18, in aid of the re-roofing last week aboard the Bertram ter of the Colonies, who promised The Very Rev. Monsignor TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. of the historic church in which in Rickmers," consigned to General thom his full collaboration both in McMahon (88), of Menagh, ag Tip.||72 1631 John Humpden, the patriot, Liu Hsiang of Szechuan province, the European and native interests perary, celebrated the diamond. The closing rate of the dollar on Austen said the Irish Free ments to publish their own replies. refused to pay "ship money.".
Reuter
In the East Indies-Reuter Jubilee of his ordination.
demand to-day was 2/0 3/16,
State and Canada had their own reRenter.