NEW 1929
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Library, Supreme Court
China Mail Mail
No. 26,016
EUROPEAN CHASES POVERTY & HARDSHIP
ROBBERS
“
GRAPHIC STORY.
ALLEGED SEQUEL TO BROAD- WOOD ROAD BURGLARY
THREE ARRESTS
Two Chinese men (Chan Kam-fçok and Wong Po) and a woman (Wỳng
IN PEKING
NEAR VIRTUAL RUIN
PEOPLE LEAVE AFTER CHANGE OF CAPITAL
WORST WINTER FOR YEARS
Shanghai, Yesterday,
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
BUYING BRITISH ECHO OFFRANCS WHAT MANCHESTER
GOLD
IN AMERICA
SPEYER AND CO. TAKE ANOTHER $2,500,000
HUGE IMPORTS
CASE
MRS. DYNE
WOMAN DEFENDANT FAILS
BANKRUPTCY COURT:>
"GONE TO SPAIN"
Iondon, Yesterday,
A meeting of the London Bank ruptcy Court for the purpose:
cly examining Mrs Bradley
New York, Yesterday. About a thousand more shops in It is announced that the bankers, Tal), were charged before Mr. E. Peking were closed in October, Messrs. Speyer and Co, have pur- Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy making a total of more than 3,500 chased nearly two and a half million
the well-known defendant in this morning, with serious offences since the removal of the capital to dollars worth of gold in England, called "francs case" "had to be arising out of an arined robbery In Shaukiwan-road and a burglary in Nanking, while hundreds more de-bringing the total of gold imports journed until next alttings or sire to close but the Police refuse here to over $17,000,000 since the the absence of Mrs. Bradley
gold movement again turned in fa- who is reported to have vour of the United States at the be- Spain to join her husband. More than 10,000, families have ginning of the autumn-Router's billties at £41,000 and assets
A statement of affairs shi Mr. C. A. 5. Russ appeared for the Deft Peking. Renta of Chinese American Service.
Broadwood-read.
Chan, the first man, was not legal-¡to suspend their licences. ly represented.
second man, and the woman was de-
fended by Mr. Leo d'Almada, Jun. houses have fallen greatly, bring-i Chan and Wong were charged ing to virhial ruin a large number jointly with having been concerned, of property holders, while the poor with others not in custody, and while are facing the worst armed wih a revolver and a chopper, generations.
winter for!
Owing to the poverty, the num- in an armed robbery at No. 53, Shaukiwan-road, ground floor, on the ber of daily robberies in and around Peking is largely Inerena- ing.
night of October 13 last.
Additional Charges
Chan was further charged on 'two other counts as follow:
(1) receiving stolen property, red woollen blanket, stolen from No.
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BRITISH WOMEN
VIEWS OF SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE DOMINIONS
NON-PARTY QUESTION
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THINKS.
QUICK DECISION TO ERECT A MUNICIPAL AERO- DROME NEAR CITY
FOLLOWS APPEAL -..
London, Yesterday. The Manchester Corporation to- day sanctioned the erection of municipal aerodrome at Chatmoss, near the city. It was only yesterday that the Air Ministry issued a ciren
aviation.-Reuter.
HONGHAI PIRATES FEAR REDSI
ASKED PROTECTION
RAIDS BY COMMUNISTS WHO
ARE COLD & HUNGRY
LURE OF ILL-GOTTEN GAINS
Honghai Bay, about 70 miles north-east of Hong Kong, which came into prominence because pirates of the British ships. “Tean” and "Anking" took their "prises" there, has come into prominence
The inhabitants of one or two)
Blur letter to the big towns in the again.
ovinces inviting them to consider advisability of establishing to assisting the development of civil very likely associates, of pirates, municipal aerodromes with a view villages who are clapsmen, and in conjunction with other neigh bouring people, have had to petf tion the local district authorities for protection from the remnants of the Communist horde which set up a Soviet government at Swabne for six months!"
STEEL WORKERS
[This case concerned payments for, transactions in exchange and involy. ed Civil Servants, including Mr. O'Malloy, who signed the so-called 220,000 IN WEST GERMANY TO Hankow "Agreement" with Eugene
BE LOCKED OUT Oben]
WATCH YOUR WATER
WAGES: DISPUTE
Berlin, Yesterday.
FLO
COOPE
Högistered.
BRITAIN & JAPAN DO NOT AGREE
CHINA SALT LOANS
DIVERGENCE OF VIEW CAUSES WITHDRAWAL
FRANCE HOLDS THE BALANCE
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A Japanese semi-oficial report from Peking states that owing to the hopeless divergence of Bri tish and French opinion against
· Japan · in connection, with the Chinese” National Government's new Salt Gabelle regulations, it la understood that the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peking has informed Sir Miles Lampson (the British Minister) and the Frerich Charge ́d'Affaires that, he is re- luctantly compelled to withdraw from the present folat negotia tions and Japan will henceforth act by herself in this connection.
“Proposal Rejected."
It is alleged that Britain and
Peking, Tofday.
Bands of Red geurillas, in hid- France having rejected Japan's ing on the adjoining hills, circu-proposal to hold a conference to London, Yesterday.
larised nearby communities to the devise an
an adequate scheme in Early Snowfall
Addressing a meeting in connect-
effect that their being cut off from substitution of the enforcement of 220,000 West German Iron and intercourse had caused their sup the new regulations will severely To add to the hardships of the ion with the Society for Overseas, ancient capital, drought is causing Settlement of British Women, ME Very drastic water rationing? steel workers will be locked out ply of food to run out. Further, very serious famine conditions in Amery said that the diffusion of the commences in the Island of Hone from to-morrow, following the re- more, they were cold and lacked affect the loan of Juze, 1920, which 68, Shaukiwan-road; and (2) break the surrounding provinces, es- British race over the world was by Kong to-day, except as regards ing into the residence of Mr. W. H. pecially in Shanai, Shonat and the far the biggest thing in all history, the minority with meters.Vusal of the employers to accept winter clothing. Accordingly, all is secured on the Salt Gabella-
and sundry, Including the pirates Router. Whitley, No. 17, Broadwood-road, on newly-created province of Suai The unity and development of the
In their own interests, all (and the arbitrators' award granting & who got rich in the two ventures Chinese Take Charge the night of September 17 last, and yuan where the harvests are less Empire depended directly on the suc especially the meter-ownerà), wage increase ranging from two to referred to, were told to contribute stealing, among other property, a than half of normal.
cessful flow of our people from these
should exercise
the minutest six pfennigs an hour,
under pain of divers threats, revolver and six rounds of ammuni-
Several hundred thousand people shores to the Dominions so as to
care towards economy. This is
Red Leader Captured tion.
are already starving. The exac-bring about not only a better numeri. undoubtedly the dry season. With the refusal of the fron and The woman was charged with (1) tions by banditry and soldiers are cal distribution of our people but Normally the moderately heavy steel "barons" to accept the ar-
Apparently, the villagers refused unlawful possession of a revolver becoming worse. There is already also a better distribution from the rains do not commence until the bitration award mentioned earlier eral sorties, one of which was on to comply. So the Reds made sevi and six rounds of ammunition, with a grave situation. Moreover, win-viewpoint of opportunity to every end of February or March, out a permit from the C.S.P., and ter le setting in earlier than usual. man and woman and above all to Except for a few days at Germany is involved in a gigantic a village where several men (2) receiving stolen property, the re-Snow has fallen in Peking and every child.
China New Year, when some of labour war the consequences of cumulated wealth during the volver and ammunition, stolen from there have been heavy falla eise-the building up of a great common house-cleaning, there is unlikely Industrialists are resolved to close
What must be kept in mind was
the Chinese hold their annual which cannot yet be foreseen. The few months, probably by acting as
receive At wealth of nations for the welfare of
down the factorles rather than pay Hollur each and all. Everything should be
the Increased wages which they hich done to encourage educated women
declare would make it imposs to go overseas..
Mr. Whitley's house.
Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant Director
of Criminal Intelligence, conducted the case for the police.
Domestic Servants -
Outlining the case, Mr. Murphy
Baid that both male accused had formerly worked as domestic Bor-
vants in European houses, whilst the woman, at the time of her arrest, was employed as a domestic servant
where Reuter,
COOL THEFT
EUROPEAN CONGRATULATED
BY MAGISTRATE .
NATHAN-ROAD CHASE
in the house of a Portuguese family Mr. Guest in Wongnelchong-road.
work."
"We have succeeded," he added, "in making this great question a non-party question and that in it self is, I think, a very great triumph We have also made it in a very pecu-
"I should like to congratulate Har sense an inter-Imperial queation on a smart plece of and a link for discussion between the Governments and Parliaments of the Thus said Mr. Proceeding to deal with the bur-
W. Schofield at Empire.-British Wireless Service. glary in Mr. Whitley's house, No. 17, the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- Broadwood-road, Mr. Murphy salding, when referring to a case in CHARFIELD SMASH that the house was entered on the which Mr. A. W. Guest, night of September 17 last, by a bur- Royal Observatory, bad effected the giar, who got in by opening a bath-capture of a thief in Nathan-road EXPRESS DRIVER BLAMED FOR room door. Property stolen from the yesterday afternoon.
of the
house included a revolver, loaded in A Chinese, described as an odd- all six chambers, a string of pearls, job coolle appeared on a charge
a gold wrist, watch (recovered), a gold bangle and over $80 in money (not recovered).
second man's arrest.
Armed Robbery
of the theft of a camp-bed from the Peninsula Furniture Store,, No. 60, Nathan-road.
According
to Det.
Sergeant
THE DISASTER
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
London, Yesterday. At the Inquest on the victims of the recent Charfield railway disas-
The string of pearls, Mr. Murphy Motteram, Mr. Guest was proceed ter the verdict was that the col- said, was subsequently found in an unlocked box at the time of the ing along Nathan-road in a ricsha ision was due to the negligence of the express driver, Aldington, in and, on approaching the furniture store in question, he saw defen. passing algnals when at "danger." Subsequently Aldington was com- Mr. Murphy then proceeded to deal dant take the camp-bed from a peg mitted for trial on a manslaughter with the armed robbery in Shauki-eutelde the shop and walk away. charge.
Mr. Guest left the riesha and ran about 11.80 p.m., on the night of after defendant, finally managing
to catch him at the junction ofj combined barber and cigarette shop fendant was then taken back to the Nathan-road and Mody-road. De- on the ground floor of No. 53, Shau- kiwan-road, opened the shop door in shop, where the camp-bed was re- reply to a knock from someone who cogniaed to be their property.
wan-road, which he said occurred at
October 13 last
The master of a
said that he wanted some cigarettes.
to purchase
In answer to the charge, defen-
he was
AN INCIDENT
REGRETTABLE AFFAIR IN.
ITALIAN SEAPORT
Civita Vecchia, Yesterday,
dant pleaded guilty. He said that Four German scamen, who are al- at present unemployed. leged to have been drunk, severely manhandled the Italian Customs camp-bed was
Guard. The latter fired and killed A fine of $50 or 6 weeks' hard one of the assailants. Reuter.
As soon as the door was opened, three men rushed in. One of the The value of the trio was armed with. a revolver said to be $5.
whilst another brandished a chopper! ~(both produced in Court). There
labour. was imposed, the magis- trate then congratulating Mr. was only one electric light burning in the front of the shop at the time, Guest in the words quoted above,
and the master of the shop was un-
able to see the thieves properly. motor car. As he passed the shop, Once inside, the men proceeded to drive the master into a cubicle where he heard shouts and saw some men his wife and two children was sleep rushing out of the shop.
ing.
Mr. Swan
CASE
WITHDRAWN
JUDGMENT AGAINST SIKH MONEYLENDER
SURPRISE CONCLUSION
to be a constant supply, or svaj a two-hours per day supply through house service,
The rainfall this year is much to compete in the world's markets. below average. The quantity, realockout is illegal emmloyers gistered at the Royal Obfervatori aur be sued by the trades unters Kowloon, up to 10 am yesterday" for compen sion for Mages" gst by was 70.32 inches against an aver members, but it is expected that the of last year the rainfall was age of 80.56 inches. In the whole lockout will be of short duration, as the Government will certainly 107.88 inches. In 1926 it was
intervene, will persuade the parties 10078 inches, TALE
to end the struggle-Reutor:
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FOR ALL TIME
PRESERVATION OF HUMAN BODIES IN SIBERIA
Moscow, Yesterday.
fung
FRENCH BUDGET
“CHURCH AND STATE" AS SUBJECTS OF DISPUTE-
SEQUEL TO PONS AFFAIR
Paris, Yesterday.
It is understood from very reli able
terms arters that alt dettlement Include
the services MPS FL reke (88)
Chlor
of the Chiness Govern- “Salt="Revenue "Department)
deaned I
tors" will remain.
"These
Inspectoraten will pay revenue into a bank nominated by the Minister of Finance in the National Govern- ment who, in turn, will pay a mouth- |ly sum, sufficient to cover the loan service, into a bank also nominated by him.
It is difficult to say what the population of the Island is. The last census was taken in 1921 since when there have been Whereas the material changes. Government estimated the popula- tion on December 31, 1927, of
The funds will then be drawable. the whole Colony, to be 977,900,
There are indications that the re- for loans upon the signature of the the Water Authority quotes the floures of 424,820, for the Island The Far Eastern Geophysical lations of church and state wil be Chinese Chief Inspector and the subject to lively dispute inside the (foreign) Associate Chief Inspec Observatory has worked out a plan Coalition Cabinet in connection with
[tor.#Reuter. ⠀ only, as on September 1, 1928. The probability is that the latter
for the erection, somewhere in two clauses in the budget, Article figure is below present actualities. Present restrictions are confined Siberia, of an enormous refrigera-70 provides for the restoration to the to the Island,
tor and museum, in which the church of confiscated property which on the one hand, and Britain and has not yet been distributed, and France on the other were not alto- Ample supplies appear to have bodies of men women of
all Article 71 provides for the re-estab-gether unexpected is indicated by been laid up overnight by those who few quenes were noticed at street food products, and those of animals, in France. live in ridor-main districts. Very races, with utenstis and samples of lishment of missionary communities the following telegram which came
in before the foregoing. fountains this morning. If there were any, none was long, presum-will be eternally preserved, ably, because the fountains can be turned on all day. Police on point duty, were noticed at most of the fountains.
GERMAN ISSUE
$10,000,000 OFFERED IN AMERICA
New York, Yesterday. The National City Bank is offer- ing $10,000,000 twenty year bonds of the Ilseder Steel Corporation, Germany, at a price yielding 6.4 per cent-Reuter's American Service.
NEW C.-IN-C
SIR A. R. M.CHATFIELD FÖR
ATLANTIC FLEET.//
Mission Property
Not Unexpected That differences between Japan,
Peking, Yesterday, The “North China Standard," After the Cabinet meeting this The preliminary estimate of the cost is ten million roubles." afternoon an agreement in principle commenting on the reported Salt It is intended ultimately, to appeal was reached on the vexed question of settlement, believes the arrangemont for subscriptions to scientific or-Artides 70 and 71 in the Budget. is along the lines recently proposed ganisations throughout the world. The solution found consists of a whereby $10,000,000 paid into the The Government Hydrographic compromise, the main feature being Finance Ministry by the provinces Department is oganising an expedi-an amendment to Article 71. Mis will be remitted to the Salt Gabella tion to Cape Desire, Nova-Zamblya. alotary bodies will benefit by the re- for payment of bonds directly
covery of certain property and secured on Salt revenue, rights in France.
Japan's Stand It is officially indicated that only "Inasmuch as the Japanese Gov- bodies specifically designated by the ornment has a claim to the surplus Government will be allowed the bone of all collections from the Salt re- at by the new law subject to the avenues, and as Mr. Hussey-Freke proval of Parliament.
does not make provision for any
| WITHOUT A PERMIT
EUROPEAN CAPTAIN FINED
·$200 : TO-DAY
"PERISHABLE GOODS”
It is stated that in any case at pre- surplus in his agreement with sent not more than nine missionary Nanking," says the "Standard," Captain A. F. Summerfield, mas congregations are likely to be it is believed Japan will with- ter of the 8.8. "Kwalchow was affected and Jesults are definitely draw all support from him and summoned before Commdr. J. Bruled out.
also observed a motor car waiting on Protracted proceedings in the
decline to counterance any arrange- Newill, D.S.O., RN, at the Marine It seems that missionary bolles The robbers carried out a hurried the side of the road opposite the Summary Court came to a sudden
Court this morning, for allowing will be forbidden to establish their ment entered. Into by Britain and The conclusion this morning when Mr. Inspection of the floor, and did not shop and headed for town.
cargo on board the vessel to be headquarters in France Router. London, Yesterday, discharged on Sunday, Oct. 28, bind or gag any of the victims. They car did not have any lights on, bat C. A. S. Russ, appearing for Sangat
Mr. Swan thought he saw one or Singh, said:
The Admiralty announce that without a Sunday Working Permit. stole from a woman, on the same floor, a gold ring which she was two men sitting in it. He also saw "I will save your Lordship's time. Vice Admiral Sir A. E. M. Chatfeld The defendant pleaded, "not; wearing and then decamped. As wo or three men walking towards Since the last adjournment I have has been appointed to succeed Ad- they were leaving one of the rob- the car. These men did not wait to studied the case and discussed It miral Sir H. G. Brand as Comman- guilty. bers picked up a red woolien blanket open the door of the car but climbed with my friend; and I have now der-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet from a bed and took it away with into it. Immediately the men had come to the conclusion that it is as from April 17, 1929. Reuter.
got on board, the car proceeded at better for my cllent to withdraw.”-
recovered in pawn.
City:
Motor-Car Chase
NEW SENATOR
MR. HOUGHTON'S RESIGNA CHASESTION ACCEPTION?
A New York, Yesterday.
bim. This blanket was subsequently full speed in the direction of the The ault was one in which
Fokis Asleep
|| shipping clerk was sued for $440 "being balance of a promissory note Three fokis of the shop who were sleeping on the premises, slept Reslising that something serious for $640,′′ throughout the robbery and did not had happened, Mr. Swan turned his Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, for know of its occurrence, The two car round and give chase. Mr. Swan the defence, had cross-examined to children cried at the appearance of was delayed by having to stop be the effect that the note had been Prea, Coolidge has accepted the the three intruders in their cubicle, hind tramcars and by other vehl- superseded two subsequent resignation of Mr. Houghton, the This apparently, alarmed the rob cles, and eventually he lost sight of notes both of which have bean bers and accounted for their not the car near the Bay View Police charged. His application for costs making a minute search of the place. Station, Subsequently, he decided to was granted. In any case, Mr. Murphy salt, there give up the chase.
was very little of value in the house Replying to the Magistrate, Mr.
M:
Murphy said that Mr. Swan was un«
esterday
famous
at the time of the robbery, to serve the number of the Proceeding, Mr. Murphy said that pe because the lights were not about the time of the robbery,
Bran
Quarry – Bay in his
good,
WE WORK Z
-- THE LEAGUE Lance Sergt. F. S. Elliott, pro- secuting, stated that at 8.20 am. THE FAR EAST AND HEALTH on Oct. 28, he was on duty in a police launch. On approaching the 'ss.. “Kueichow” he saw onions and potatoes being discharged from the
Vernal"
SINGAPORE BUREAU)
Geneva, Yesterday, #21: Witness then went on board to- Colonel Graham, Public Health gether with another police officer. Commissioner for India, in an in- he compradore, on being asked if terview by a Reuter, representative, they had a Sunday Working Per-reviewed the work of mit, replied that they did not nesd of the League's Health? one as they were only discharging from the view point of interest in perishab
goods
the Far East.
He said
United (don, who
Republican State R
aerican
ed
the
Y'S DOLLAR
being rate: demand, to-day was 2/0 5/16.
Watson, who “appear- smitted that rging cargo,
Swere
sta imposad:a
the work of
Bession mmittee
France. The Japanese are under- stood to have opposed the DEW agreement, which is entirely with- out legal status." A surplus by the alleged new plan does not exist, hence, there will be no payment of interest on the sinking fund for the $96,000,000 ban, in which Japan fe concerned. Mr. Hussey-Freks's position therefore is regarded as extremely precarious."-Reuter,
BANKER INJURED
While