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HONG KONG, TUESDAY,
AUGUST 14, 1928.
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DUTCHMAN HELD IN EUROPE & FAR EAST THE TRANS-ATLANTIC IRONSIDES MUTINY "SAVIDGE HYDE PARK
HONG KONG.
CRIMINAL CHARGE.
ARRESTED AT REQUEST OF SINGAPORE POLICE.
TAKEN OFF STEAMER,
་ ་
J. W. H. van Laer, described as
Dutchman and an Insurance
local warrant
the at
a charge of criminal
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•
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Moscow, Yesterday..
In order to demonstrate the
The seaplane was catapulted
name of the person or firm which Service which is already operat-from the deck 450 miles from the was alleged to have been victimising part of the route.-Reuter.
2,800 MEN INVOLVED. ROYAL COMMISSION.
OFFICERS SHOT AT RAILWAY STATION.
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TROUBLE. CHAN IS AGAIN IN
ALLEGED ASSAULT,
INDIAN WARDER WITH HIS HEAD HEAVILY BANDAGED.
A JAIL FRACAS?
Optometrist (Canada) F.I.O. (London).
QUESTION OF POWER
SOLVED.
CANTON'S STATUS. BRANCH POLITICAL COUNCIL RETAINED.
NATIONALIST CONFERENCE.
The
learns.
RANK AND FILE DISARMED. THE COMMISSION'S : TASK. 450 MILES BY AIR.
Chan Chi cheung who was re- Canton is to retain the status andan, Yesterday. Serious consequences were New York, Yesterday.
correspondent The following is the personnel cently charged before Mr. R. E. held during the last two years, a
Lindsell with alleged murder of political The trans-Atlantic mail ar-averted when a mutiny of aume
2,800 Ironsides one of China's of the Royal Commission on the ship's cook on board the a.a. The decision to this effect has crack armies was quelled by
the police eventually been come to at Nanking, though agent, who was arrested on possibilities of the overland air rived 24 hours earlier to-day.
This re- route between Europe and the Far
was the result of the timely action at Yucheng, a town Police Methods which the Gov-"Perinc,"
Extremist políticians after the "Savidge Hyde Park sen-jautopsy was held at Manila where quest of the Singapore Police on East, the Soviet has accepted the successful inauguration of the on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway ernment promised to appoint dropping the case because no not without opposition.
breach of offer of the German Lufthansa to sea and air delivery of the mail
sation;" chairman, Viscount Lee the injured cook was landed and agitated for the abolition of the subsequently died in hospital, ap-branches of the Nationalist Poli- trust of $9,000, appeared before make two flights from Moscow to bags placed in a seaplane aboard
of Fareham, Sir Reginald Lane)
peared before Major C. Willson, 'tical Council which function at Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Irkutsk and back, co-operating the steamship "Ile de France."
Poole (who was knighted two 0.B.E., at the Central Magistracy Canton, Wu-Han, Kaifeng and morning. The with the Russian Dobrolet Air
Taiyuanfu. Magistracy this
months ago), Sir Howard Frank this morning.
Chan is at present being de- The "Christian General" is and Dame Meriel Talbot, Lord] Ebbisham (formerly Sir Rowland tained in Victoria Jail pending willing to set an example by giv- Blades; last year's Lord Mayor of arrangements for his deportation ing up the branch at. Kaifeng. London), Mr. J. T. Brownlie, Pre- from the Colony, and was charged Marshal Li Chai-sum and his as- sident of the Amalgamated En. with cutting and wounding Nawab sociates in the Kwangsi faction, gineering Union, Mr. Frank Pick, Ali Shah, an Assistant Warder of however, insist on retention. The Administrative Chief of the Lon- the Victoria Jail, to whom Chan proposal to abolish was brought
Railways was alleged to have caused griev-lup by the Extremists. don Underground
Marshal Li and his colleagues Group, Miss Margaret Bevan, jous bodily harm in the jail on
opposed it on the pund that the who was Lord Mayor of Liver- August 12.
The police applied for a remand authority of Canton and Hankow pool.
on the ground that an interpreter 'must be maintained because of The Commission, will consider, was needed to explain the charge their distance from Nanking, the inter alia, the practice followed by to Chan in his native dialect. capital.
ed by the fugitive is not at present:
known to the local police.
Evidence of
van Laer's arrest
here was given by Sub-Inspector |
TRAFFIC.
Dorling of the Water Police. He SEVERAL FINES IMPOSED said that at 7 o'clock this morn- ing he boarded the Messageries |
TO-DAY.
Maritime Company's s.a. "Porthos," The local Fiat agents were this lying at anchor
in Victorin har morning summoned before Major bour. The fugitive was found in C. Willson, O.B.E., at the Central] of the dining saloon and answered to Magistracy, on two counts the name of van Laer us given on causing obstruction in Des Voeux- the Fiat the warrant.
road Central, outside Garage, David-house.
Baggage Searched.
coast at 1 pm, and alighted here; fat 5.16 p.m.-Reuter's American
Service.
LONDON “ATTACK.”
70 "BOMBERS" AND 72 SINGLE- SEATERS.
DEFENCE MANŒUVRÈS.
London, Yesterday. "Seventy bombing aeroplanes at- tacked London and 72 single-sent- At the witness' request, van Hoth offences were alleged toer fighters were sent up to engage Laer accompanied him fugitive's have occurred on August 2, first them.
"Very heavy fighting followed but first class cabin, No. 33. Here the with Fiat car No. 2341 at 1.35 witness searched van Laer's bag- p.m., and later with Fiat car No. It is not yet possible to assess the casualties. Some of the bombers gage and found two books of 14 at 7.15 p.m.
cheques jegued by traveller's
A European representative of succeeded in reaching London."
This terse official communique Messra. Thos. Cook and Son to the Messrs. A. Groke and Co., mana- value of $970 sterling. One of the 'gers of the Soc. Italiana Imp. thus summarises the first (day. between the Yellow River and cheque books was complete, con- Esp. Estremo Oriente, Ltd., local light) phase of the London air de- the provincial boundary separat- taining fifty cheques, whilst the Fint Agents, appeared in Court fence manoeuvres which will lasting Shantung and Chihli.
throughout the week and form day other contained 24 £10 and 24 £20 and admitted to both offences. cheques. This latter book appear His Worship imposed fines of and night operations.-Reuter.
ed to have originally contained 25 $5 on each count. cheques of each denomination, one
of each having evidently been re- moved.
Speeding.
The Chinese driver of public JAPAN & MUKDEN. In the luggage the witness alsa motor car No. 602 was summoned found a "letter of indication" in for speeding in Des Voeux-road the name of van Laer in connecWest, and pleaded guilty."
Sergt. Bayatings said that he
EASED. MANCHURIA TENSION NOW
tion with the two cheque books. This was issued by Messrs. Thos. saw the defendant, who had come PEACE WITH NATIONALISTS! from Eastern-street do 25 miles Queen-street. hour, near !per
obtained two passage tickets.
General Chang Fah-kuei.
the police when interrogating or Chan, however, appeared to un-1 They seem to have won the day taking statements from persons derstand when the charge was as the proposal has now been interviewed during investigations read to him in Cantonese, and shelved. The branch at Canton of crime and also the functions of
will continue to function for the replied "Yes." the Public Prosecutor.Reuter.
Nawab Ali Shah, who appear-present and Canton's power in ed in Court with his head heavily South China remains. FLOOD PATH.
Breach Remains? bandaged, was called to give evid- ence, but Major Willson thought
Shanghai, Yesterday. Mr. Chang Ching-kiang and Mr. not in a fit condition to give evid-Li Shih-tseng, the leaders of the ence this morning, and according- Moderate faction. did not accom- RETAINING GLACIER BURSTS IN that the Assistant Warder was
ly remanded Chan in police cus-pany Marshal Chiang Kai-shek tody until to-morrow.
back to Nanking as at first anti- cipated.-Reuter.
INDUS VALLEY,
TROOPS ASSIST.
There are, at present, about 10,000 Ironsides, the majority df whom are Cantonese who have marched almost the whole length
The event anxiously awaited in of China twice and have fought in many campaigns, at first un-Kashmir was the bursting of the
NOT UNSATISFACTORY.
London Opinion on the Nanking Pact.
London, Yesterday. The "Daily Telegraph" expresses the opinion that the settlement by China and Britain of the Nanking Incident is not unsatisfactory; and that the way is now open for the renewal of normal relations between the British Government and the Chinese Nationalist government.
[Note: A complete report with Reuter. late cables will be found an page
8.)
Cook and Son at Singapore on
Tokyo, Yesterday. August 3, 1928.
Although the official report of Continuing, the witness said that Many people were coming in and
out of the shops in the vicinity Baron Hayashi's final meeting from the Purser of the ship he and, going at that speed, the de-with General Chang Hsuch-liang Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant, Direc-fendant would have been unable has not yet been received, official tor of Criminal Intelligence, Inter-to pull up if a pedestrian had sud-circles appear easier in mind as denly dashed across the road. the crisis has apparently passed posed to tell the Mugistrate that It!
A fine of $10 was imposed. for the time being. was not necessary to put in the
Dangerous Driving.
It is believed that Chang tickets as they were not material
Dangerous driving down the Hsueh-liang's reported decision to the case.
Replying to Mr. Murphy, Sub-In- Dairy Farm Hill at Pokfulam was to suspend the compromise nego- spector Dorling said that the alleged against the driver of tiations with the Nationalists is "Porthes" came to Hong Kong motor lorry No. 1627, who plead-partly due to Japan's advice and
The ed "guilty."
partly to the result of the fifth from Singapore via Salgon.
Sub-Inspector Alexander said plenary session of the National- witness also took possession of all
that the lorry was a heavy refuse list Executive Committee, reveal- vehicle with solid tyres, and it did ing the Nationalists to be by no der General Chang Fah-kuei, who between 25 and 30 miles per hour means united. Chang Hsueh-previously held a small command Van Laer did not have any ques-along a good stretch of Pokfulam-liang, therefore, naturally hesi- under Marshal. Li Chai-sum of
road and then down Dairy Farm tates at taking a step which may Canton. The Magistrate remarked to Mr. Hill. The witness pulled defend-possibly entail becoming embroil-j
The disaffected units clamour- outbreaks of civil ed for arrears of pay and were Murphy that he would not at that ant up near the bottom of the ed in fresh juncture put the cheque books and hill. The defendant only reduced war.
ito 30 miles per hour when round- As the situation in Manchuria about to break out. Officera who hibits, as he thought that for theing corners and then sped up has thus eased, Baron Tanaka had joined them were shot at the| again. He never reduced his (the Premier) is expected to railway station and some of the rank and file were disarmed. The speed when going down the steep withhold his contemplated state-trouble has been allayed and it is incline.
ment, anyway until Baron Haya- The Magistrate imposed a fine shi's return, and possibly alto- of $20.
gether.-Reuter.
of van Laer's luggage.
No Questions.
tion to ask the witness.
"letter of indication" in
na ex-
present it would be more satisfac- tory that they be in the custody of the police.
Mr. Murphy agreed and asked for a week's formal remand, state ing that he had that morning tele- graphed to Singapore to send up an indentifier and warrant, and re- marked that probably an escort would also be sent.
The Magistrate 'gave
remand until 10
21.
a formal a.m. on August
EARLY CRUISE.
THREE CHINESE AND A DINGHY.'
SHIP'S CHAIN. ·
A CHINESE ATTEMPTS TO STEAL IT.
1
"Better to Resign."
Peking, Yesterday.
It is reported from Mukden that the Manchurian authorities jhave decided to withdraw all troops from Luanchow outside the Great Wall, and to withdraw Two Chinese, described as coal the Kirin troops from Chinchow Mr. W. to Kirin in order to show their coolles, appeared before Schofield at the Kowloon Magle-peaceful attitude toward the Na-] tracy this morning in anewer to ationalists. charge of stealing a chain from the
The Peking vernacular papers 6.8. "Madella," moored at Busy to-day print, Mukden despatches LL, while the vessel was being stating that Baron Hayashi on Aug. 9 told Chang Hsueh-liang coaled yesterday. Being unable to give a satisfac- The magistrate decided, on the that he hoped the Mukden-Na materialise, and that if Chang tory reason for the possession of recommendation of the police to tionalist compromise would not a dinghy, three Chinese were discharge the second defendant.
First defendant, who had a pre-Hsueh-liang did not decide to brought up at the Kowloon Court
vious conviction against him four suspend the negotiations it would this morning.
The first defendant said that months ago, was fined $25 or one be better for him to resign his
he and his two friends saw the month with hard labour.
dinghy moored next to the Mong-
kok Ferry whart. They went for
a cruise in it.
Mr. Schofield: Just for a plea-
sure cruise?
Inspector Ogg said that it was
3 o'clock this morning when the
defendants were seen by a Chin-1
"UNFIT" PORK.
CHINESE FINED $25 TO-DAY.
ese detective zig-zagging among "The pork was not fit to be used
position as commander-in-chief of Manchuria.
The political situation in Muk- den as a result of the Hayashi- Chang Haueh-liang conversations is serious, the papers add.— Reuter.
possible that the loyal Ironsides may be transferred to the east of Shantung for garrison duty.
The Ironsides support the Ex- tremists in political ideas.
MORE RAIN,
winds, moderate; Southerly squally, overcast, pecasional rain, fa the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
The typhoon is nearly station- ary about 60 miles S.E. of
to the N.E. of Pakhel. - Oshima. A depression is centra}
A "REVOLUTION.”
DENIAL FROM BRAZILIAN ·
EMBASSY.
Lahore, Yesterday.
The
COLONY'S HEALTH.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST WEEK.
SMALL-POX DEATHS.
glacier which is holding buck the waters of a huge lake, 140 miles to the north of Leh, This event, which threatened the whole Indus valley, occurred last night,
Last week's return of notifiable lake was nine miles long with an disease in the Colony, according to average depth of 140 feet.
Urgent preparations were made reports to the Medical officer
liealth, was as follows:- for the bursting, and sentinels wore
Small-pox: 1 case from the city, posted on the summits of the moun-
2 from Kowloon-total 3, 1 death tains between the lake and the during the week.
from. New telegraph office at Leh.
of
Diphtheria: 2 cases When the glacier broke, a great Territory. chain of bonfires blazed out, guns Enteric Fever (typhoid): 180 fired and telegraphic warnings flashed to all districts.
(Note: Mr. Chang and Mr. Li left the fifth plenary session be- they objected to the
Chiang Extremists.
Kai-shek Cause followed them and it was intimat- ed yesterday that they had con- sented to return.]
"RAN AWAY.”
CHINESE CLAIMS $1,000 FOR WRONGFUL ARREST. AMUSING ALLEGATION.
A claim for $1,000 damages for A number from the city, 1 from Kowloon-wrongful arrest was made bofore Mr. Justice Jacks, at the Summary Court yesterday, by Loo Wo-huen, of villages in the Nowshera district total 2.
of Wo-hop-shek village, Talpo, from had been previously evacuated, and
Cheung Kang, a shop assistant at.. the population of other areas in ing the week.
the Woo Hing Ling fish shop; Laf the path of the flood, which is now
the city-total 2, 1 death during the Shing, a detective of the Talpo
pouring down the Indus valley from a height of 17,000 feet, are hastily removing to safety. Troops are assisting in the work-Reuter. YUGO-SLAVAKIA.
PARLIAMENT VOTES FOR NETTUNO CONVENTIONS.
"REDS" ARRESTED.
Vienna, Yesterday.
A telegram from Belgrade states that Parliament has unanimously voted the Nettuno Conventions.
A
Paratyphoid Fever: 1 death dur- Puerperal Fever: 2 cases from
week.
Influenza (not notifiable):
death during the week.
1
All the patients concerned were Chinese.
Police Station and Cheung Tal-wai of the Woo Shing Hing Loong flah. shop, Talpo.
Mr. A. el Arculli appeared for the plaintiff, whilst the defendauts were repres.ated by Mr. G. S. Hugh
SORCERER'S ART." Jones.
ALLEGED HARBOURING OF CHINESE GIRL.
A TALLYMAN'S TALE.
The plaintiff, who gave evidence, alleged that the three defendants mede determined efforts to arrest [him for alleged debt. He stated that he became "giddy" on two oc- casions, as the result of the defen-
was A married man with a family, a dants' activities, once when he was
shaken and once when he Chinese named Lam Hing, appear-
He was taken to a tea
ed before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., Desaulted. telegram from Zagreb stutea that at the Central Magistracy yesterday house where, to prevent his run- the police arrested a number of afternoon charged with harbouringning away, one of his captors sat gown was allegedly firmly gripped Communist agents, charged with a 15-year-old Chinese girl without on a length of his awn, and this.... taking advantage of the national the consent of her parents.
Defendant, who was a tallyman by the detective when he was sorrow to promote unrest-Reuter.
employed by the China Provident, being taken to Talpo.
There was an amusing passage Loan and Mortgage Co., stated that the girl came to him of her own ac-in the case when the plaintiff as- serted that the European Inspector cord.
BRITISH TRADE. INCREASE IN EXPORTS LAST MONTH.
London, Yesterday. The Board of Trade Returns for July are:
Importa £95,500,000, a decrease of 4 per cent.
Exports £61,000,000, an increase of 1% per cant.--Reuter.
Further Detalls,
L
According to Mr. E. H. Williams, at Taipo Market Police Station had of the Secretariat for Chinese run away, but it turned out that he Affairs, the police found the girl in had retired and left the Colony.
The case was adjourned until a cubicle at Yaumati, which had been rented for her by the defend-August 29, ant.'
The girl's mother said that de- fendant with his wife and family lived in a cubicle in the same house as the witness and her four daugh. ters and a son. The giri disappear-
SPEED CHARGE.
TWO PORTUGUESE BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE.
Two Portuguese, H. 9. Remedios The British Wireless reported from home on July 81. A few "A PERSONAL DISPUTE."
states: British exports for July days before this defendant had and L. A. Noronha, were yesterday amounted to £60,886,000, being an moved out. Recalling that the girl summoned before Mr. W. Schofield London, Yesterday.
Increase of £1,412,000 compared had been unduly friendly with the at the Kowloon Magistracy, for fail- The Brazilian, Embassy describes
with the previous month and an in- defendant witness suspected that being to reduce speed when approach. as being without fuondation the re-
formed the police accordingly. The corners, and failing to keep as close |July of last year. ports regarding revolution at crease of £4,763,000 compared with had enticed the girl away and In- ing curves, rounding bends and Mattogrosso, and adds that it is pos- In the first seven months of this latter's investigations led to wit as possible to the left of the road at
ness's suspicion being confirmed. Taunwan, TN Bible that it was merely a personal
knife was found on the first de Reidy, assistant veterinary sur-sentenced to nine months in the dispute between two diamond-dig. year the exports, have increased by The 'mother stated further that Mr. Leo d'Almada; who was to
fendant.
Robert H. Briggs, 38, solicitor, the junks lying in the Yaumati as lard. Any person could have
unfit for and formerly town clerk of Tam shelter: Their actions were sue-noticed that it was
she had heard that the defendant have represented Remedios, was ¡picious. When searched a jack-human consumption," said Mr. L. worth, was at Stafford Assizes
same period of 1927. can Service.
Imports for July amounted to had learned the art of a agerer unable to appear in Court, and the gaon, on charging a Chinese at second division for fraudulent con- gers exaggerated.Reuter's Ameri-over £7,500,000 compared with the
£95,468,000, showing a decline or from an old monk in Sunwul, and summons against his client was ad- The Magistrate: 3 a.m. is not, the Kowloon Court this morning, version Involving £488.!..
58,901,000 compared with June, she found in this an explanation of journed for a week. time for a pleasure cruise. Defendant said that he was not
Mr. E. T Crutchley, Finance
Fee seven months of this the undue influence which he had Noronha entered a plea of "not Police records showed that the aware of the state of the pork.
decrease been exercising over her daughter guilty," but the Magistrate decided TODAY'S DOLLAR,
year imports show a first had five convictions against Had he known that it was bad Officer of the Oversea Settlement
of nearly £10,000 compared during their stay together in the to adjourn this summons also, re- marking that they had better be him. He was fined $60 or 6 he would not have tried to sell it. Committee, has been appointed Bri-
The closing rate of the dollar on with the corresponding period of same floor.
taken together. weeks, and the second and third Mr. Walter Shofield, in impostish Government representative for
demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16, last year. defendants $10 or 14 days, with ing a fine of $25, ordered the pork migration in Australia in, succession
to Mr. W. Bankes Amery... hard labour.
Ito be destroyed.
The case was adjourned."