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THURSDAY, JULY 19.
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.
ONLY ONE WHO IS RICHER
A BIRTHDAY.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER QUIETY CELEBRATES HIS 89TH.
PEACE WITH WORLD...
U. S. SHIPPING LINES PLAN LOANS.
NEW SERVICES.
MONEY FOR PACIFIC COAST CARRIERS.
'FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS,
Washington, Tentative
plans
OPIUM MONOPOLY BILL.
PERSIA'S MOVE.
CONTROL LOCAL FOREIGN TRANSACTIONS.
CONSUMPTION REDUCED.
Teheran, Yesterday.
I
Tarrytown, N.Y,, July 8, John D. Rockefeller, the world's have been made by American, ship- The Mejliss has approved of the second richest man, was active and ping companies to apply to the Opium Monopoly Bill which pro- enjoying the best of health when Shipping Board for construction vides control of all local and for- he celebrated his eighty-ninth birth-loans of $50,000,000 under the new eign transactions in opium and its day quietly here to-day.
Jones-White Merchant Marine act, products. according to E. C. Plummer, Vice Local consumption will be re- Chairman of the board.
duced by 10 per cent. annually The impetus to building, Mr. and export of the drug will only Oil Company-from small begin Plummer said, had been brought te permitted on payment of a nings on borrowed capital, observ-about by the increase in the size special fee-Reuter.
The man who welded the infant oil industry into one of the world's greatest corporations--the Standard
ed the occasion with little change of the Government loan fund to
from the routine of his daily exist-$250,000,000, and by making pos- OBREGON TRAGEDY.
ence.
sible loans for construction up to
rates,
Government interest
Lines Incomplete.
ASSASSINATION:
Rockefeller has a fixed birthday three-fourths the cost of the shipa DETAILS OF THE DASTARDLY programme. He sits, customarily long at the breakfast table chatting at current with members of his family and
Three Pacific Coast lines, he said,
Mexico City, Yesterday. guests. Last year he expressed
"Lucky Obregon," as he was happiness that he was entering his intend to ask loans aggregating. eighty-ninth year "In á condition of $10,000,000 and an East Coast oper-known on account of previous es- perfect health, full of hope and ator will apply for a loan of Capes from assassination, was seat- cheer and with gratitude and good $10,000,000 for cargo ship construc.ed at a luncheon given by his poli
tical supporters. will to everybody," According to tion.
A youthful officer, Juan those who breakfast with him.
Escapulario, Was amusing the After Rockefeller opens and
Mr. Plummer opposed suggestions guests with thumbnail sketches, reads many telegrams and cable-that the United States Lines, operat- and when the last course was serv grams of congratulations he goes ing from New York to Europe, beled he requested permission to for his daily golf game of nine offered for sale soon and predicated sketch General Obregon himself. holes with three cronies of the links. Following light luncheon, this would not be done for about The latter's Aide-de-Camp agreed two years. As now constituted, he and the President-Elect turned the aged multimillionaire resta a
United States Lines smilingly to greet the artist. The aaid, the while and then goes motoring with members of his family for forty are not rounded out, having only latter drew close and then produc- or fifty miles among the hills of the Leviation and the Ceorge ed a pistol and fired five shots at Westchester County. A few mem- Washington as fast ships. The other Obregon at point blank range. The bers of the family and several vessels of the servce are capable victim fell, clutching the table, and friends.come to dinner at 7.30 in of from 13 to 17 knots, where as the his Aides-de-Camp seized the A3849- sin, whom with the greatest diff. the evening.-United Press.
led at the hands of the infuriated. culty they saved from being lynch-
guests.
ALLEGED FRAUD.
ton.
FATHER CANNOT BE FOUND.
BANK CONCERNED.
Leviathan cruises at 23 knots.
Assassin's Assertion.
With the reconditioning of the Monticello and Mount Vernon, two former German vessala assigned to the United States Lines, the service,
The assassin at police headquar- he said, would be capable of comters disclaimed connection with any peting with foreign-operated lines political party, though the police in the same travel lanes, and the doubt the assertion and attribute board then probably would con- the crime to hostility aroused by siderite sale.
Obregon's radical attitude to the religious and land questions.
What is Planned.
The two laid-up ships, under the
WAB
General Obregon's body borne by friends to a motor-car, which conveyed the remains to his home in Mexico City.
President Calles was summoned by telephone, and his first act was
appoint & Buccessor. Crowda
At the Central Magistracy this morning, Mr. R. E. Lindselt resum- ed hearing of the case In which Fok Chung-yuen is charged with terms of the Jones-White act, will | alleged fraud” on his father, Fok be reconstructed at a cost of Kam-chuen and the Bank of Can- $12,000,000 for both, the work re
quiring a minimum of a year and a At the outset his Worship in half. They would have a speed of quired from Mr. F. C. Jenkin, for twenty or twenty-one knots, and to suspend the Chief of Police and the prosecution if the warrant is parmit regulär weekly passenger thronged the streets, especially that sued for the attendance of Fok mail sailings from United States Kam-chuen had been executed sinceį
In which Obregon's residence the last hearing.
and European porta. ́ ́.
stands, and the military headquar- Giving details of the contemplat-ters where the assassin was Incar- Mr. Jenkin replied that Sergeant Clemo was in Court, and he, coun-ed loans for new ship construction, cerated. sel, understood that it had not been Mr. Plummer said the Oregon-
Evidence that the crime was pre- possible to execute the warrant on Oriental Line plans four new meditated was found from a paper eighteen-knot passenger-cargo ves in his pocket in which the murder- | sela; - the American-Hawaiian er bid farewell to "my family." Mr. Charles Edward Hartnell Steamship Company, four to six
Troops In Barracks. Beavis, senior member of the firm Buch vessels, and the Oceanic Following the tragedy saloons of Wilkinson and Grist, solicitors, Steamship Company, two. These and theatres were closed and a cen- said in reply to Mr. Jenkin that services are in the transpacific sorship established, All troops his firm had for many years been trade.
were ordered to barracks In readi
Fok Kam-chuen.
Documents Produced.
legal advisers to the International] The American Export Line of ness for work in the preservation Banking Corporation and later to New York has submitted to the of order-Reuter's American Ser- the National City Bank of New board tentative plans for the con-vice. York. On more than one occasion struction of four new cargo vessels
the witness attended to mortgages for operation in the Mediterranean THE NATIONALISTS. to the International Bank by Fok trade from the Atlantic Coast. Kam-chuen with whom the witness
thereby became acquainted.
Witness produced various inden-three who later returned and said
4.30 p.m.
5 p.m. 5 p.m.
5 p.m.
€ p.m.
tures and mortgage deeds.
Bourbon JULY 20.
Mishima Maru Bintang.
5 p.m.
The Same Person
9.80 a.m..
Hai Yang
City of Bedford Soochow
e p.m.
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. & S. Africa, Egypt and Europe via Marsailles-due Marseilles, 18th Aug. K.P.O. Parcels 4.30 p.m. Registration (July 21st), 9 a.m. Letters (July 21st)-10 a.m. G.P.O. Parcels 6 pm. Registra- tlon (July 21st) 9.45 a.m. Letters (July 21st) 10.30 a.m..
Manila
Bangkok
SATURDAY,
Shanghai and Europe via Siberia Hoihow and Haiphong
SUNDAY,
10.80 a.m.
2: p.m. 3.30 p.m.
Rawalpindi.
JULY
21
MONDAY,
Pres, Lincola Chinhua Glenogle New Mathilde JULY 22,
Tean ... Kwangchow Kishu Maru JULY 28. Allpore Hakone, Mara Yingchow
4.80 p.m. 4.80 p.m.
6 p.m. 6. p.m.
9 A.M.
Holhow, Pakhol and Haiphong
Bangkok via Swatow
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
"Japan'
Shanghai and Japan
Swatow...??
Shanghal and Europe via Siberis."
Parcels 8 p.m. Registration 4.15 pm. Letters 6 p.m.. Japan, Canada, USA., C. & S..
America and Europe via Vic- toria, B.C.-due Victoria, B.C., 18th Aug. Parcela 9 p.m. Eegie-
President Grant
tration 4.15 p.m. Letters 5 p.m.. President Grant
8.30 a.m.
.9 a.m.
10.30 a.m, 10,80 a.m 10.80 a.m.
5TH PLENARY CONFERENCE
PROSPECTS.
that they had succeeded in getting
Shanghai, Yesterday. Fok Kam-chuen to sign..
Reports from Nanking Nation In reply to Mr. Jenkin, Mr. The witness also identified an alist headquarters announce that Beavis said that he gave evidence agreement dated December 10, 1920 more than thirty members of the in the Supreme Court recently in between Fook Les and Co., and Central Executive Committee will Original Jurisdiction action 180 of Thomas W. Simmons and Co., Ltd., jbę present at the fifth plenary 1983 wherein the plaintiff was Fok and said that the signature of Fok conference, also General Feng Yu- Kam-chaen. The witness saw the Chung-yuen and Fox Tat-fui were hsiang and General Yen Hsi-shan, plaintiff in the Court on that oc- made in his presence."
The notable absentees will be;
casion. He was one and the same Replying to Mr. Sheldon, for the Dr. C. C. Wu, Mr. Wang Ching- person who executed the deeds pro- defence, Mr. Beavis said that he did wai, Mr. Sun Fo, Mr. Hu Han- duced by the witness. The witness not recognise Fok Chung-yuen in min, Mr. Chu Min-yu and Mrs. added that that was to the beat Court. He could not say that the Wang Ching-wal-Reuter: of his recollection.”
man in the dock was Fok tinng- Mr. Lindsell: I understand that yuen or that he recollect having you knew him quite well?
seen him before.
Yen Hal-ahan, 2
Peking, Yesterday.
It is now stated that General Mr. Beavis agreed, but said The witness agreed that the avid. Yen Hsi-shan will not go to Tai- that he was qualifying his state ence he had given that morning yuanfu before going to Nanking. ment because he had not seen was from the face of the documents He will attend the fifth plenary the man for four or five before him and his recollection that conference and afterwards will years before his appearance in two Chinese had Interviewed him go to Shansi-Reuter. Court. However, he believed that and certain things had been eafd the Fok Kam-chuen he then saw was by them to him and by him to them. the man calling himself Fok. Kam If one of the two men was the pri chuen who executed the deeda. Wit-soner or not the witness had not ness remarked that he could not put the slightest idea. All that he catild it higher,
day as that at that interview a Mr. Jenkin produced in a deed of Chinese calling himself Fok Chung- assignment dated February 22, 1921 yuen had signed the deed of assign-
FEDERAL BANKS.
ST. LOUIS AND BOSTON
BANKS" RATES:
New York, Yesterday,” The Federal Reserve Banks of between Fok Kah-chuen and others ment twice. First es a witness of St. Louis and Boston have in- and Thomas W. Simmons and Co., the signature of Fok Kam-chuen creased their re-discount rates to Ltd. That agreement: Mr. Beavis and again as a party to the assign- 5 per cent. — Reuter a American said was prepared in his office by ment.Ana
Service
the witness.
Mr. Beavis corroborated MT. A
Hearing continued.
Tokyo, XerterdayA · message
Jenkin's opening as to what happen- Mr. John Dingley, of Halesowen from
ed in his office, how Fok Karn-chten (Worcs), aged 84, has completed who attam refused to sign the agreement which sixty years as a Primitive Method-Kunl in For was taken away with the other fat local preacher.
states that the Korean to assassinate Prince Tast mouth las
been sentenced to death
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