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YEO TRIAL
SIXTH DAY'S HEARING
MR. MESSER
the
China Mail
No. 26,038
Cross-Examined By Mr. Jenkin
.
"I WANT TO REMIND YOU"
Within half an hour of the commencement of his cross-examina tion, the Hon. Mr. C. Mel. Messer, O.B.E. (Colonial Treasurer) was addressed by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, C.B.E. (defending counsel) in the following terms;
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IMPORTANT BILL BE SECOND ROUND CUP EXTRADITION CHARGE POLICE SENSATION IN TYPHOON'S TOLL IN
FORE COMMONS
FINAL STAGE OF RATING REFORM SYSTEM
DRAW
LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR DECEMBER 8
FULHAM TO PLAY LUTON ON HOME GROUND
PLYMOUTH AT BRENTFORD
London, Yesterday. The Local Government Bill, Following is the Association Cup which is a very complicated mea second round draw to be played on
LABOUR OPPOSITION
London, Yesterday."
sure of over 100 clauses, and has December 8:--. already provoked much contro- versy, and has even been attacked! in Conservative papers because. inter alia it is alleged that it will relieve big industrialists at the ex- pense of smaller ratepayers, was submitted to the Commons to-day
"Don't place me in too difficult a position, Mr. Messer; and by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who
I want to remind you of what I said yesterday evening." This occurred at the Supreme Court in the course of the trial of Carvalho Yeo on three counts each of forgery and uttering, to-day being the sixth day of hearing by Mr. Justice Jacks and a special jury.
One of Mr. Messer's, replies, when asked as to whether (when he gave evidence at the Magistracy) he entertained any doubt that the defence was going to be that the signatures are genuine, was that the defence then were "fishing."
WHEN DEFENCE WERE “FISHING"
What Mr. Jenkin
said to Mr.
Case for the Defence
described the measure as the most; important of the session and among the greatest measures presented to any Parliament.
He said that it was the final stage of the Government's great measure of rating reform: system) of local Government which in many respects was obsolete and cried aloud for reform.
He instanced the continuance of
Carlisle v. Lincoln, Tranmere v. Bradford City. Wigan v. Grantham. Accrington v. Spennymoor. Scarborough, Darlington. Gainsborough v. Chesterfield. Barrow v. Mansfield. Stockport v Southport. Northfleet Charlton. Crystal Palace v. Bristol Rovers. Watford v. Merthyr, Brentford v. Plymouth. Norwich v. Newport. Gillingham or Torquay v. Exeter. Fulham v. Luton. Walsall v. Sittingbourne. Guildford v. Bournemouth.
-Reuter,
REPARATIONS
was WAY CLEAR FOR REPLY FROM
POWERS?
London, Yesterday,
EXPLAINED
LONDON
THE CROWN'S CASE EX-OFFICER HELD
TALE OF TWO BOYS IN SCHOOL NIGHT CLUBS AND AN ALLEGED
⚫AT CANTON
GIFT OF £60
ONE & SOME BONES' RELEASED
ALIEN ROUND UP.
London, Yesterday.
Leung Shing, the man who is
THE PHILIPPINES
VERY DESTRUCTIVE.
MUCH DAMAGE IN SIX OF THE PROVINCES
300 MILES FROM HERE
Manila, Yesterday.
"wanted" by the Canton Govern- As a sequel to the investigation| Governor-General Stímaon has napping of two boys from a school prietors of London night clubs that the Philippines had suffered ment in connection with the kid- of corrupt practices among pro- cabled to Washington to the effect in Canten, was again brought be-Station Sergeant Goddard, of Vine- severely in last week's typhoon fore Mr. R. E, Lindsell at the Cen street Police Station, London, which was one of the most destruc- tral Magistracy this morning.
The fugitive, it was alleged, dent-with a record of 25 years' service, tive hurricanes since American oc ed that he was known by the was dismissed the force on Octo-cupation. It did worst damage in six provinces of Samar, name in which he is charged, and ber 29, has now been arrested and the aald that his name is Chan Hing charged at Bow-street with unlaw-Masbate, Sorsogon, Albay, Mindore
fully and corruptly accepting a and Romblon. The name of Marshal Li Chat-jgift of £60 from Ributi, Assistant In Albay Province all the coconut "Uncle's Club," trees were destroyed as well as sum was also referred to in the pro- Manager of the ceedings.
most of the hemp-plants.
sam.
Mr. Somerset H. Fitzroy, assistant Attorney General, prosecuted for the Crown and opened the case.
Mr. W. D. Owen appeared for the defence.
Said to Have Been a Cook Mr. Fitzroy stated that on the 15th day of the 5th moon, (1.e., on June 24, 1926) defendant was in Canton. He was in the employ of a man named Lung Wel-man, the manager of the Lung Kew Kin money, changer, as i cook.
Albemarle-street.
Prisoner was, remanded, bail be- The deathtoll is probably be- ing refused.
tween 50 and a 100. Str W. Joynson Hicks in the
The cruisers "Milwaukee", and House of Commons, recently atat- "Memphis" are now in the stricken' ed that £12,000 which was found region investigating the need for in the possession of a certain police relief measures-Reuter. sergeant was obtained to a start!-1 ing extent from aliens running night clubs.-Reuter.
FINANCE VOTES
GOVERNMENT TO ASK FOR $147,732
DEATH GRATUITIES
Twenty-three votes
900 Miles Away
The following telegram was re- ceived from the Manila Observatory at 9 a.m. to-day!-----
26th 8 pm. Typhoon in about 116 deg. Lang. E. and 17 deg. Lat. N., almost stationary.
The above position puts the typhoon about 800 miles south- east of Hong Kong.
H.M.S.
"Hermes" Delayed, The. departure of totalling" Hermes," the aircraft carrier, on
wasteful Board of Guardians, the onerous charges of rural districts for the maintenance of roads. The
Mr. Lung had two sons, one being inequitable rating system
12 years of age and the other a lit- slowly strangling agriculture and
tle bit younger. They were Industry, and the bill would re-
studying in a school at Canton. lieve industry, to the extent of
They
to went
school at D £24,000,000, three-fourths which In regard to the German Gov-recess at 12.30 p.m. and finished $147,782, to supplement the expen- her southern cruise, has again been o'clock in the morning and had a would go to the most dopressed in-ernment's memorandum on repara- their school at 5 p.m. Messer yesterday at the close of I put it to you that the hand-dustries giving a great amount tions which was handed to the
diture in 1928, are to come before postponed on account of the typhoon. the latter's evidence-in-chief is re-writing in the body of those practical remedy for the present understood. that a preliminary ex-at about 2 p.m. on June 24 and re- on Thursday,
of employment. It was the only Chancellor of the Exchequer, It. is that the defendant wont to school Legislative Counsel at the meeting morning in the first instance.
Continuing, Mr. Fitzroy stated the Finance Committee of the She should have sailed yesterday corded at the end of this report. cheques is in your own hand?-I chaotic methods of relief. amination having revealed no diffi-quested that the boys might go
Mr. Jenkin is instructed by Mr. say, it is not.
member, Mr.
back with him to their father's shop follows:-
One of $7,049.59 is made up as C. A. S. Russ. Mr. Eldon Potter,ferred to and have been referred tion on the ground of its numer- And as circumstances will be re- Greenwood, moved the bill's rejec
for food. K.C. and Mr. H. G. Sheldon (in-to in the address to the jury, Ious shortcomings. atructed by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, put it to you that your failure to M.C. Treasury. Solicitor) are the Crown.
for
Mr. D. J. Lewis, of the firm of solicitors to the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, oc- cupied a seat at counsel's table."
The Labour
The debate was adjourned until disclose your discovery of these to-morrow-Reuter., missing cheques and the tamper- ed covers of these books, is con- sistent, and consistent only, with your
THE GALE
ENGLAND
participation in these CONSIDERABLY ABATES OVER cheques? I know I am not im plicated in this. I know it my-- self.
Carvalho Teo, the accused, still
It is my case, of course, I want appeared to show little interest you to appreciate this, that the in proceedings concerning the signature of Mr. Black is Mr. disposition of over $250,000. Black's signature and
Signature Features
DUTCH DISASTERS
-
London, Yesterday.
SOME RAIN
Till no to-morrow, the forecast for Hong Kong and the Sputh China coast (be- tween Lamocks, Gap Rock and Hainan) is:-N. EL winda, fresh; generally overcast, some rain.
For the Formosa Channel It ia:-N.E. gale..
The master of the school consent- ed to the request as the defen. dant had been in the employ of the money changer's shop for about a year, and on some previous occa- sions had brought the boys back from the school
Choloroform
It was then alleged that the boys were first brought to the first floor. of a house and had been chloro- formed. One of the boys became
culties, the way in now clear for conscious afterwards and found The gale has considerably abated an answer to be concerted, among himself in a steamer but the other the signa-and the sun was shining around the Powers concerned to the Ger- boy was taken away elsewhere and ture of Mr. Messer is, in fact, M., London early this morning, but man note,of October 30.-British/was never seen again.
know.
Wireless Service.
The
MILL TROUBLE
BOMBAY STRIKERS AND POLICE
Bombay! Yesterday,
Mr. Messer admitted that the
Messer's signature?- do not renewal of storms is forecasted. matter was one upon which he had
Cross-Channel services from South- concentrated a certain amount of tained 1 do not know, but I put it Ostend,
How those signatures were ob-ampton are being maintained, but Calais, Boulogne and attention. Naturally, from time to to you that their signatures were, Dieppe are unapproachable. time, he made inquiries as to what obtained to those cheques with Craydon-Paris air service has been
your knowledge? I do not know. resumed.
Mr. Mears's Evidence Mr. Messer's
Mr.
Three lifeboatmen were drowned
there.
Lifeboat Rescues
Amsterdam, Yesterday.
WORLD COURT
Equivalent of one' year'a
salary of the late Mr. R. C. Witchell, Senior Inspector, Sanitary De partmont (£440) (which will be paid into his estate).
One year's salary ($2,800) less pension drawn by the late Mr. M. J. D. Alves, Class: II. Clerk, Imports & Exports De- partment (to be paid his widow)
$4,400.00
..$2,649.59
$7,049.59
· NEW THEATRE
To-day's Report At 10.50 a.m. to-day the Obser- vatory reported:----
A new anti-cyclone has formed over China.
The typhoon remains, stationary about 400 miles 3.5.E of Hong Kong.
The position of the second ty phoon is doubtful,
Cyclonic gales will continue over: the, China Sen.
BIG WELCOME
NEW WUCHOW BRASS BAND FUNCTIONS
DR. GEO. LEAVEL
Wuchow, Nov. 25.
The boy was then brought to a house at the Ma Chai village and after being confined there for 10 or 20 days, he was removed to Wong Low Long subsequent to a raid car-"YE OLDE SHIPPE” RESTAUR-in attendance here when the Bri ried out by the soldiers.
The case is proceding.
ANT TO BE PULLED DOWN
NEXT MARCH
A theatre is to be built in the heart of Whitehall.
It will be a medium-sized one to
A newly formed brass band was
tish
3.5.. "Taming" arrived from Hong Kong yesterday bringing back among many other well-known passengers Dr. Geo. Leavel, Superintendent of the Stout Memorial Hospital, Mrs. and Miss Leavel and a governess.
had many famous patrons. The crackers were let off and the band Bite is No. 44 and 45, Charing Cross, played as the ship drew into her and is within a stone's throw of berth. Admiralty Arch.
Greetings on board over, a pro-
The victim was imprisoned there was happening, elsewhere than un-
for a year during which time he der his own eye.
was ordered to write letters to his. Six thousand hands-of four cot-father requesting a sum of $60,000 Mr. Jenkin told Mr. Messer that was given yesterday, in response to
at the Hook of Holland in attempt- evidence-in-chief
ing to reacue the crew of the ton mills struck work, alleging that as ranaum he was the fourth witness at the questions by Mr. Sheldon.
Norwegian steamer "Christian their wages had Been reduced. It was alleged that a bargain was
The strikers Michelsen" which went ashore near Police Court and that he had given Messer said that he had been
assaulted three struck at $9,000 and after paying hold 750 people, and it will be built The local American, missionary members of the superior staff in the money, the evidence at the second hearing.covery of the shortage of 30 cheques Treasurer since 1918. The dis-
boy was at a cost of £150,000 on the site of community, Chinese Christians and one mill with sticks and stones. released together with a bag of one of London's most historic res-other native sympathisers were pre- This, Mr. Messer said, he did not was on the afternoon of Jan. 18,
Armed police were rushed to the bones. It was said that the bones taurants,
sent In force on the "paf" (the dispute.
area to prevent further trouble were the remains of the other boy He recalled a statement previously You were aware that Mr. Black made by Taang On-wing that there of the steamer "Sagunto," wrecked
This is "Ye Olde Shippe, which floating wharf). The crowd cheer- It is believed that the entire crew Reuter,
but whether this was true no one was established in 1650, and has ed, handkerchiefs were flown, fire- had been cross-examined at length had been a difference in the num-to the south of Ymuiden, have
could tell. both as to the features of his own ber of cheques but had understood, been drowned. The lifeboat which signature and also as to the features that statement to mean that Teang went to their rescue, capsized but of your signature?-About his, yes; On-wing wanted 60 cheques more.the crew were saved. what he said about mine I paid no attention to.
As chairman of the Government!
The papers give full and stirring Contract Board he was familiar details of the heroie activities of with tenders accepted and contracts the Dutch lifeboatmon rescuing dia- Then you entertained no doubt at made by the Government. all that the defence, as indicated
tressed crews during the week-end The name of Katz & Co. came be-gale.-Reuter. by the cross-examination of Mr. fore him very prominently Black on the first day in the Police he' was Captain Superintendent of Court, would be that the afgnatures Police during the War but, Mr. on the cheques were genuine-The Measer Indicated by word and by The steamer "Garm," contrary signatures might have been obtain-gesture, it would be highly impos-to expectation has been safely tow-office-Reuter's American Service. Peking, ed by a trick, he (indicating ac-sible for him to have signed a ed into Terschelling-Renter. cused) might have made them him-cheque for that firm in his capacity self, or he may have got someone as Treasurer.
"Might Have"
else to do them.
when
The "Garm" Safe,
Amsterdam, Yesterday.
[A telegram received yesterday etated:-
"Greatest Courtesy When Mr. Potter, referring to
steamer "Garm," while in distress
In answer to further questions on this point Mr. Measer said he took! it that no defence had been dis- the three cheques forming the sub-of Holland) refused to allow the
closed.
to the north-west of Texel (north
U.S. TO INITIATE FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS
BIG GAME
LION'S
Dar-es-Salaam, Yesterday,
FURTHER STILL
GENERAL CHEUNG FLYING
MUKDEN
hai.
£
PICKS UP GENERAL PEI
TO
Mr. E. A. Stone, the architect and cession was formed. Headed by surveyor, of Berkeley-street, told the band, Dr. Leavel and, family the "Evening Standard" that were played to their house where
he has bought the site in conjunc- an informal reception was held, the tion with Mr. J. C. Clavering, the attendance being about 250.-An proprietor of the Golders Grean occasional correspondent. Hippodrome and chairman of the Piccadilly Theatre,
"We shall start building the thea-
a
NEW RECORD
meя
The State Department has in-
Washington, Yesterday. dicated that negotiations relating to the World Court will be initiated Immediately, and it is hoped the
The first cross-country Hight in matter will be cleared up during the China, having reathed its outward of President Coolidge's term of remaining portion of the three years goal, is being extended.
tre almost as soon as we get pos$575,000 PAID FOR N.Y. STOCK According to a Reuter cable from session next March," Mr. Stone
EXCHANGE SEAT General Cheung Wai-said. cheung (chlaf of Aviation In Can-
A Year to Build. The demolition of the restaur
New York, Yesterday, [ton) hopped off in the Ryan land-
plane on Nov. 25 for Mukden, the ant and the adjoining premises will A seat on the Stock Exchange the captain of the Swedish PRINCE OF WALES BAGS FIVE Capital of Manchuria. General be carried out at once. It will be has been sold for $575,000, which A half million Cheung picked up General Fel miniature theatre-de-luxe on the is a new record. Chung-hal (the Kwangsi National-most modern lines, and will be com- dollars was paid ten years ago ject matter of the indictment, ask-i
crew of seventeen to leave the ship The Prince of Wales' tour in Cheung, having reached Peking thoroughly equipped with the most hall,
ist leader) before doing so.
pleted within a year. We propose | Router's American Service. ed if it was usual for Mr. Messer! Tsang On-wing
Original plans were that General to call it the Whitehall.
"It will have a full-sized stage, many famous to produce three signatures with despite of entreaties. The cross-examination of Mr. such regularity, Mr. Messer replied,
in White- Arusha and Dodoma was most from Canton via Hankow and Nan-up-to-date machinery for flying Admiralty, which it almost touches. The local lifeboat went to the successful. He bagged five lions at
and particularly fa the Tang On-wing concluded yester that one of his first remarks was recue, and one of the "Garm's" Babati, the largest measuring 8. ft. king, would return south vin Shang- day after which he was re-examin-"that he must have had a steady: crew leapt overboard. He was 8 in. from tip to tail-Reuter.
scenery by the counter-weight sys-It is said that Nelson was in the tem. It will have stalls, a dress habit of calling there. circle, and upper circle. Santa Anna, Calif., Nov. 19 The principal idea I had in the pleasant, for Charing Cross in the Other associations were not so Dr. George Harding, father of the choice of this position was the won-early days of the old building held late President Warren G. Harding,derful transport facilities it af- a pillory which was one of the most died here to-day at the age of 86 fords with the obstructed Mall notorious in London. year. He had suffered a stroke of immediately behind it... paralysis last Friday. ⠀⠀
In 1781, after a certain Japhet Amapala, Honduras, Yesterday, Dr. Harding lived in Marion, and is close to all the Government and his ears had been severed by It is in the heart of Clubland, Crookes had been placed in pillory The United States battleship Ohio, most of his life, but had come Departments. In its freedom from the common hangman, he was taken "Maryland" has arrived with Mr. to California recently for the sake congested areas I should say that to the "Shippa" with the usual sur H. Hoover aboard. ››
of the climate. He was widely no other metropolitan theatre can goon in attendance. I am
am quite tonscious of your not be cantankerous. He would do
This is his Arst visit on his popular among a circle of friends compare with it. And the poten-The Scho Capt. Hurley's Spirit of Austra- Latin American mission. Reuter's and neighbours, but was modest and tial population to which the West Mr. Stone is also building a large denial that the handwriting on the his duty with the greatest courtesy lia" was forced to land in Varim-American Service. body of those pheques has any he could move (badf and was slightly damaged.
made no clan to any glory other End has been made easily acces new theatre in Greek-street. Th thing to do with you. But if that Mr. Messer was understood to Capt. Hurley was slightly injured,
than that reflected by his dissible by the electrification of the intention is to call it the Boho," h handwriting is yours, you are im- signify his appreciation of Mr. but his companions were unhurt-
tinguished son, The name of Dr. suburban lines has been vastly in-said. "It will cat 1750 people, and plicated or associated with this Jenkin's position in the case and Reuter.
Harding does not even appear in creased in recent yea
will be one of the biggest theatres. swindle of the Government, are his thanks for Mr. Jenkin's obser [The plane fa en
Who's Who in America
Where Nelson Ateco in London th "you not?---That, la soi
route from Australia to London.
Ye Olde Shippe" associ Mr. Stone was the fofit architect
with the. names, ofl for the Piccadilly Theatre.
All three algnatures are
saved by the lifeboat; but it is fear!
ed by Mr. H. G. Sheldon. A hand." number of questions were asked alike and all very neat. The body ed that the remaining sixteen are
by the jury and witness also filled of the cheque is an Imitation of the
in three cheques at the jury-clerk's writing. men's roquest.
doomed.]
FORCED DOWN
Towards the end of his ques that much undwe publicity had been Mr. Jenkin informed Mr. Messer ilona, Mr. Jenkin said what his given to the approach of his cross- Case (that is, the case for the de-examination. As far as he (conn-"SPIRIT OF AUSTRALIA" LANDS fence) would be. His questions asl). was concerned, there would be on this point and witness' reply nothing spectacular about it. He thereto were:-
had a duty to perform. He would
vations."
IN GREECE
Athens, Yesterday."
MR. HHOOVER
PROGRESS OF HIS LATINA
AMERICAN TOURAN
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
The closing rate of the dollar on 'demand, to-day was 2/0 5/16.
It is expected that funeral ser vices will take place in Marion,
years.