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TEN YEARS' HARD LABOUR SENTENCE
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"Guilty of Uttering but Not Guilty of Forgery
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TWO COMMODORES IN GIFT TO CAMBRIDGE AMERICA'S “BIG HIS MAJESTY'S
HONG KONG
CAPT. HILL ARRIVES
TRANSFER OF FLAG TO- MORROW MORNING
DEPARTURE ON SATURDAY
27
Captain R. A. S. Hill, R.N., arrived from Home this morning on
UNIVERSITY
£50,000 TO HAND
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION'S
MUNIFICENCE
RESEARCH AND LIBRARY--
London, Yesterday. The Government have-offered
NAVY" MEN
A SURPRISE
CONDITION
NOW STRONGER
BIG BLAZE IN HARBOUR
ן י
JUNK ON FIRE
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S SPEECH GOOD DAY WITH PLENTY OF CARGO OF COMBUSTIBLE GOODS
INCONSISTENT
DESTROYED
A "BLUE PRINT NAVY"
New York, Yesterday,
REST
REASSURING STATEMENT
not worse
SPECTACULAR SCENE
London; Yesterday. The harbour was lighted Op last Newspapers call attention to the. Reuter is authoritatively inform-night when a large junk was on the P. & 0. 65. "Mantua." He is Cambridge University £50,000 to sentence in Fres. Coolidge's speech ed to-night that the King had a fire. The water front was lined the new Commodore 2nd class in wards the sum required to enable cabled yesterday in which he re-good day with plenty of rest. His up with pedestrians to witness the charge of Naval Establishments at the acceptance of the grant, condi-quested that the date, namely July Majesty was certainly
doomed craft being burnt to the' tionally promised by the Rockefeller 1931, should be omitted from the than on Tuesday night.
water's edge. The flames constant- Hong Kong..
The present holder of the post, Foundation. A further £50,000 plan in laying down fifteen cruisera. Commodore J. L. Pearson, C.M.G.. has been promised to the University They declare that the "Big Navy" ing not unfavourable,
The bulletin is regarded as be-ly spurted up in the air and there.
were explosions on board which R.N., proceeded to Kowloon wharf from the Empire Marketing Fund, men are particularly surprised, as
Great emphasis is laid on the gave the impression that the ill- upon the recommendation of the the President's Armistice Day ad- fact of the King maintaining his fated junk had a large quantity of to meet his successor.
Subsequently Commodore Hill Empire Marketing Beard.
dress favoured the building of strength to-night, and that it was combustible goods on board. holsted his broad pennant on H.M.S.
Two fire engines turned out in The former grant will be applied cruisers forthwith. They argue that the first time for several days that response to the call, as at first it "Petersfeld." · At sunset to-day, solely in respect to the School of if the date were left to the Presid the doctors had been able to make was thought that the craft was Intimation was given by defending counsel that there is Commodore Pearson will strike his Agriculture and the latter to the 'cat's discretion the project would a reassuring statement regarding berthing at the wharf, but on ar- flag on H.MS. "Tamar," the receiv- development of agricultural re-be reduced to a "Blue Print Navy."hle strength, which was consider riving at the Cheung Chau wharf
Sensation followed sensation in the closing stages at the Criminal Sessions in Carvalho Yeo's trial to-day-the thirteenth day-culminating in his being sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Three points were referred by the Judge to the special jury who found accused guilty of uttering the three Treasury cheques for over $250,000 and not guilty of forgery,
to be an appeal to the Full Court.
The jurors were absent for only twenty minutes, pressed a wish to add a rider, unfavourable to Carvalho Yeo, but,
were forbidden by the Judge. ·
&
£750,000 Gift
ed to be a most important feature, it was discovered that it was ly- of the ease..
The Chief Concern
The recrudescence of the fever
ing near the No. 19 buoy.
The No. 1 fire afloat soon arriy- Jed at the scene, and hone was free-
ing ship in the RN. Dockyard, 'search and cognate sciences. Both $15,000,000 for Repairs
o'clock They ex- Then at eight
to-morrow sums are conditional upon the Uni
Washington, Yesterday. Almot without debate the House morning, Commodore Hill transfers versity raising the further contri-
butions required to enable it to of Representatives has passed the his flag to "Tamar."
To-morrow, the P. 0. s.s. qualify for the Rockefeller offer. Britten Bill authorising an expen-
Reuter.
diture of about $15,000,000 for al- is merely one of the many ups and displayed, but owing to the na "Malwa," Homeward bound,, arrives from Shanghai and will also go
ture of the cargo it was extreme- terations and repairs on the battle-downs that can only be expected ty difficult to subdue the flames. alongside Kowloon wharf. Com-
A telegram from London dated ships "Pennsylvania" and Arizona." and is not alarming.
For Naval Works
The fire was finally extinguished modore Pearson sails for Home by Oct., stated:
The heart is still the physician's well after 1 a.. The House of Representatives chief concern. The outgoing Vive-Chancellor of also passed a measure authorising
According to a report made to the "Malwa" on Saturday after the customary period of service here. Cambridge University has
It is stated authoritatively to-the police this morning, the value He was appointed on Oct. 22, 1926.nounced that the Rockefeller Foun- the construction of naval works and night that there temperature had of damaged goods was as follows:
an-an expenditure of $10,000,000 on Commodore Pearson was promot-Į
It was revealed that $50,000 has been returned to the Govern- ment. Another sum of $130,000 in American bonds was mention ed. Referring to this latter amount, Yeo declared emphatically that it did not corne from the Government, that it belonged to his wife, and that she was innocent, but her whereabouts are unknown.
$50,000 PAID BACK TO TREASURY
}
Insult to Intelligence
This morning Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. (leading counsel for the
Dr. J. L. Shelishear had been ask- Crown), made his closing addressed by one of the special jury (Mr. to the jury.
|J. M. Alves} to give a suggestion
Ho said that Mr. F..C. Jenkin, as to what trick could have been C.B.E. (counsel for the defence) employed to produce those disput had criticised the way in which ed cheques, but Dr. Shellshear the Crown's case had been conduct-could not offer any. ed. He had told him (Mr. Potter)
for Carvalho Yeo. Only one word!
was "unique."
Then, when Mr. Black and Mr.
No Language Difficulty.
ed Captain on Dec. 31, 1917, a year before Commodore Hi áttained that rank..
ALLIES & GERMANY
A FURTHER STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS
A DIFFICULT QUERY
London, Yesterday. Several queations were put to Sir Austen Chamberlain in the House of Commons on the subject of hir
FRESH AND CLOUDY
N.E. winds, fresh and cloudy, in the forecast till noon to-
morrow.
The anticyclone has strength- ened slightly. Fresh to strong monsoon may be expected along the S.E. coast of China and over the north China Sea.
£229,000,
some twenty naval stations in the not risen by one degree or by a United States and foreign posses-ring to temperature in the bulletin decimal point. The phrase refer- Bions-Reuter's American Service.
CHINA'S TRADE
TWO CANTONESE GENERALS ATTEND
thekin.
"HANOI FAIR" NOTES
Hanoi, Indo-China.
.
simply means that there has been a slight rise.
130 cases of fire crackers,
valued at
120 cases of matches 50 tins of wood oil 4 tubs of wood oll
$15,000
1,400
2,000
2,800
for about
10 cases of jose paper Cost of junk
250
1,600
Four doctors stayed two hours in consultation . and
08 CASC again. reviewed the whole.
1
The total value of the Jose was $23,850 which was insured with the
Sir Stanley Hewitt again stayed Hin Fat Co:: the night in the Palace.
H.R.H. At Aden
Aden, Yesterday.
enquire.
The toki of the craft landed at the Wing Lok wharf this morning. The master of the junk, Ching Leung, who is 35 years of age, was It is happy to note that some
H.M. "Enterprise" arrived here at suffering from burning. He is now afterwards that his criticism was Tsang On-wing were in the box, it
South China provinces Hike Kwang-1 o'clock and immediately proceeded confined in the Government Civil entirely impersonal.
to an oil berth There were no Hospital. sl, Yunnan and Kwangtung are en He(Mr. was thought that the trick would Fetter) would now criticise
the be disclosed by the defence, but it reply of Dec. 3 anent the evacua-dation Fund has offered a gift to and industry better known abroad
deavouring to make their trade ceremonial guns or flags..
The Prince of Wales landed at 8 way in which the defence had been was not. There was only the aug tion of the Rhineland.
the university of £750,000 to provide through conducted and, he trusted that Mr.'gestion to Mr. Taing that the writ
international. channels o'clock wearing khaki. shorts and
who attended last night's reception, Jenkin would take his criticism in ing on the three disputed cheques
Sir A. Chamberlain said that the for the development of physical such as the Hanoi Commercial looking bronzed and well. ex-Allied Powers were at present and biological studies and a new Fair (Nov, 25-Dec. 9) the game way as entirely imper- was his and that the signatures on
an institu- He visited the Residency and pro-asked the British Ambassador for the Golf Course at the latest news, as did the Premier Aonal.
them had been obtained by a trick, animated with the spirit of the de-library, conditionally on the univer-tion under the high patronage of ceeded to
specially Proceeding, Mr. Potter said that, but the defence did not say what claration of President Wilson, Mr.sity securing the balance of the Government-General of Indo Khormakaar, six miles away and Baron Tanako) who in all his experience at the Bar that trick was. This, Mr. Potter Clemenceau and Mr.. Lloyd George
China and the auspices of the played a round. He arranged to visited the Embassy last night to and in all the law books he had said, was an insult to the. intelli- in 1919 in elucidating Clause 431 of The building of the library, which Chamber of Commerce and the return to the Residency for tea.
Tribute to H.M.'s Wisdom The "Enterprise" is due to sali ever seen, he had never come across gence of the members of the jury, the Peace Treaty to the effect that alone will cost £500,000 will be Department of Agriculture of Ton-
at 7 o'clock.
The president of the Osaka Cham- - such a defence as the one put up
if before 1935 Germany gave proof commenced without delay, as
ber of Commerce has also address- university had already ear-marked of goodwill and satisfactory guar£250,000 therefor and the Rocke-
To promote the trade of the
Continuation of Journey
ed enquiries to the British Embassy, could describe it, and that word! Pressing that point, Mr. Potter antees of a fulfilment of her obligafeller Fund had also ear-marked a}
laland of Hainan, a part of Kwang- The Italian Government are which were duly transmitted to auid that they had evidence that tions, the Allied Powers concerned similar amount for the purpose.tung province, the local govern- placing a special train at the dis- London, and which grateful acknow Yeo had opened three banking ac- would agree to an earlier termina- Reuter. "Double Cross"
counts through which the disput-tion of the period of occupation.
ment at Holhow, afforded Anancial]posal of the Prince of Wales on ledgment has just been received.” assistance for merchants there to his arrival by cruiser at Brindisi, Mr. Potter went on to point out; ed cheques had passed, and they Sir A. Chamberlain denied that
The vernacular papers are giving Balance To Be Raised
participate. to the jury that Yeo's counsel had also had evidence of hia enahing this reply was a contradiction to his
General Gaston K The train will be preceded by a prominence to the latest communi- A British them that accused, cheques on those banking accounts, answer of Dec. 3. The latter was atates:-
Wireless not only told
message Huang (Wong Keun) and General pilot engine and will consist of ques; editorials are paying striking. Was gwindler and
Thoi Ting-kaf (of the 11th Na-three saloons and will make the tributes to the King's wisdom and A daring and finally, they had evidence that two-fold, dealing with law and criminal, but he had even showed, Yeo had $80,000 in his pocket with policy and the declaration mentioned
Cambridge University is to re-officials of these districte, per- avoiding Rome and Paris.
tionalist Army), two enterprising maximum speed for Calais en route, personality, which is attributed the the lack in Yeo of the honesty which to allay the doubt of Mr. C. to-day was in newise an interpreta ceive, a gift of £700,000 from the sonally escorted a group of Chin-
fact that Britain is now the only which they expected to find even Choa. Was it conceivable that tion of the law, but merely a
International Edcuation Board of
At Calale it is expected that a powerful nation in Europe retaining ese merchants to the Fair and saw destroyer will convey in a swindler, in that Yeo was pre-under those circumstances accused claration of the Intention of three offer includes, a contribution of the display of the goods sent to across the Channel.
the Rockefeller Foundation.
the Prince a monarchy-Reuter. pared to "double cross" Tsang On-'did not know the nature of the trick Allied Governments named.
The Privy Council Meeting wing and get out with all the the defence suggested but which Col. Wedgwood naked If the Gov-alty library, designed by Sir Gilbert £250,000 towards the new univer-
The Privy Councillore in the Au-. "swag."
they did not disclose?
dience Chamber were the Duke of ernment agreed with the French Scott, the building of which will Could anyone believe that Yea If counsel for the defence did; view that the questions of evacua- now be undertaken without delay. Nov. 24, in which the acting Gov- At the opening of the Fair on
York, the only son of the King now In a speech, at the opening if an England, the Prime Minister and had instructed counsel in a pro-not know what the trick was, he tion and reparations were linked The remainder of the gift will be arnor-General and the President of British bazaar here to-day, Lady Lord Stamfordham, the King's Fri tracted hearing which had lasted could very easily have found out against the German contrary view. devoted to the larger proposal of the Chamber of Commerce officiat- Gloster Armstrong, wife of the Bri 19 days merely that he should not from accused. It was not that Sir A. Chamberlain insisted upon providing for certain new develop- ad; General Huang and General tish Consul-General'. In New York, be convicted of forgery? there was any language difficulty. having notice of a question of such ments in physical and biological Taof were personally conducted to said the Illness of the King had meeting, signed the document which
Mr. Potter said that he had stat-, Yea had asked for an interpreter importance.-Reuter.
evoked one of the most beautiful ed when he opened the case for and one had been provided and sub-l
for some time been regarded as porary residence by M. Rager
point six counsellors of state. urgent by the heads of those de- Garreau, Commissioner for For-for Great Britain that she had ever The document empowers counsel- partments..
Her husband's office had been lors of stata or any three of them to eign Affairs of the Government-seen. A condition is attached that the General of Indo-China..
deluged with telegrams and mes-gummon and hold a Privy Council university should raise the balance The Hainan Pavilion was one of sages of sympathy from Americane signify thereat approval of any of the sum required for the com- the very first inspected by the om- of every rank of life and in every matter or thing which appears to {pletion of the whole scheme.
cial opening party and the suc- part of the country, while every de-
the Crown that he would not take sequently dispensed with. Mr. part in any test of strength be- Potter referred
to the also tween the Hong Kong & Shanghai case with which Mr. Jenkin Banking Corporation and the Gov- had conferred with Yeo both ernment of Hong Kong, He would, whilst Mr. Moosa was In the still hold to his decision, but he witness box and subsequently in must put it to the jury that the the Court library, without the aid Corporation was fighting over the of any interpreter.. remains of Carvalho Yeo in order
Mr. Dovey Not Called
COTTON TRADE
MANCHESTER CHAMBER ADOPTS REPORT
FOREIGN COMPETITION
de.
This
the exhibition.
Hainan Pavilion
M
American Friendship
New York, Yesterday,
vate Secretary,
The King, at the end' of a short
studies of the university which have the Fair Ground from their tem-evidences of American friendship 8ave effect to the decision to
A
TOWN SEIZED
.
ap-
London, Yesterday,
The Vice-Chancellor, Rev. George cess of the Hainan enterprise can nomination had offered prayers for them requiring signature and to do Arthur Weekes, announced this be appreciated from the sales of, the restoration of the King's health. any matter or thing which appears. to them expedient or necessary in to win, if they could, what they
The report of the cotton trade "splendid offer of assistance." He the first several days, amounting-Reuter's American Service.
the interests of the safety and good" regarded as the first round of their Mr. Potter then went on to say organisations on financial reorgan-added that inasmuch do the re- to more than $2,000 each,
The Duke's Journey ( government of the realm. It is: fight with the Hong Kong Govern-that the defence's criticism of the 'leation in the cotton-spinning. Indus-sources of the university were al General Huang, and General Toot) The Duke of Gloucester reached stipulated that counsellors shall not: ment. This fight, Mr. Potter said, Crown was not justified In vlaw,try has been adopted by the Man-ready pledged to the building had to return to Hainan before the Bulawayo yesterday and is continu-dissolve Parliament or "In any man- was being fought in an arena in of the facilities that had been given chester Chamber of Commerce. of new library 化 would close of the Fair. They loft Hanofing his 1,300 miles journey to ner grant any rank, title or dignity which the conditions were in favour them right from the start of the It points out that under the pre-be necessary to raise
from wall pleased with the result of Capetown in a special train provided of peerage or act in any manner or of the Corporation.
case. The Crown had allowed Mr. sent financial conditions of the in-outside sources the balance of their effort and the Chinese com by the Government of the Union of thing on which it is signified by us Jenkin to take from the Bank any dustry, trade is handicapped in for- 229,000 required to fulfil the community in Hanoi only regretted South Africa.
or appears to them that special. cheques, he wanted, keep them, eign competition by the high fixed dition.]
that the province of Kwangtung as "Gen. Hertzog's Message approval should be previously ob- a whole did not avail - Itself of⠀⠀ General' Hertzog, the Union Pre- |tained.” auch an opportunity as offered by mier, has telegraphed on behalf of The last occasion when a similar the Hanoi Fair
himself and his colleagues, deploring commission was appointed was in * Yunnan & Kwangsit the sad circumstances which pre-|March, 1925, when the King went Yunnan, another South China vent desire that His Majesty's con- on a Mediteranean cruise after provines, was also oficially assign-dition will soon improve. Reuter, recovering from flness. ed places at the Fair, but the late Japanese Solicitude
Another bulletin stated. arrival of goods made it impossible
Though the King, bad a quiet New York, Yesterday for Yunnan fully to realize the Japanese in al walks of life are day, his temperature rose a point Private ~ advices report that benefit,OM PRA showing increasing concern at higher than at the same hour yes- strikers, influenced by Communists, · Kwanget, a neighbour of Kwang- King George's illness terday evening, showing that the have seized control of four Colom- tung, was not represented by the Reuters have bean constantly recrudescence of the Infection was binn towns.
display of products, but Mr. Hin asked for the latest news by in-still active. Nine thousand workers n plana-Wong, foreign secretary of the quizer.
His Majesty's to strength is be tions are said to be involved in the Kwangai Exposition Organization Aboard the Japanese cruiser ing maintained. strike. Ve
Pariance of the Ring If this was such a fight, then, photograph them, examine and test, interest charges and depreciation to use boxing language, he would just to afford material for the decoste, which need reducing so that Bay that he was giving away at fence. Mr. Jenkin had for the capital must be brought into closer lenat 7 Iba, to his opponent. But, same purpose been allowed to ex-relation with the present earning Mr. Potter emphasised, if this amine vouchers at the Treasury, capacity and that a number of large fight were continued at another and he had been given by Mr. amalgamations of mille should be vende, then they would meet at T. M. Hazlerigg, M.C. (Treasury formed and should act in co-opera- equal weighta.
Solicitor) all information he re- tion with each other in developing Mr. Potter also said that he didjquired.
British trade overseas. British not care to score off accused, but Commenting on the point made Wireless Service.
..
EXPRESS CO.'S
BIG.REORGANIZATION. MENTIONED
$200,000,000 CAPITAL
New York, Yesterday,
INFLUENCING PLANATION
STRIKERS
."REDS". AT WORK
-Reuters American Service,
It was his duty to point out to the by Mr. Jenkin that Mr. E. R. Dovey) Jury that the whole defence was had not been called by the Crown, based on a suggestion of a trick Mr. Potter asked why should they
that the signatures of both the call, Mr. Dovey, when every point] Hon. Mr. C. McL. Messer, O.BE. which Le (Mr. Potter) desired to (Colonial Treasurer) and Mr. T. make appeared on the face of the Black (Treasury Cashier) had been disputed cheques for everyone to obtained by a trick.
see? Counsel submitted·" "that"'" it) There had been great interest in would be sheer waste of time to the entire Court to diacover what call Mr. Dovey in such circum- It is understood that plans are was the trick which could induce stances. Amanda
| being prepared to unite the wealthy those two gentlemen |to|sign by Expert Witnesses (20 Exprons Companies of the United cheques for over $250,000. The Referring to the evidence, Mr. States Into a Securities Corporation nature of that trick had not been Potter said that as far as evidence with a potential capital of $200,000. The closing rate of the dollar on
disclosed by the defence.
(Continued on Page 7.) |: 1000——Reuter's "American Hervice.. demand, to-day was 3/0 5/16.,
Tokyo, To-day."
All railway traffic has been beld. Commission, attended in an official "Iwata" at the naval review, again The bulletin was signed by four
capital.
So at last night's reception of the doctors, re Mr. Wong's special mission to British Fleet (held at the British A bulletin issued at 10.30, stated Indo-China during the Hanol Fair Embassy), the Erst question asked that the King passed fair might and, was formally to Invite the mer- by Japanese officials and others was there are reasons to hope the chants" of that country. to partici- Invariably “What's the latest news recrudescence-of-the pate in the forthcoming. Kwangsl of His Majesty! These officials all which caused, the last rise of tom- Exposition at Linchow, Kwangs!, showed kindly interest.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR
pera
(Continued of Pope 14.) -
Reuter understanda, that Prince Signed Stanley Howest and DaT- Chichibit (the Emperor o