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GAMBLER AND LADY'S MAN CAPT. CHANG TO FLY NEWSPAPERMEN HELD CRITICAL CONDITIONS NEW "UNOFFICIALS"
CARVALHO YEO
LIFE STORY OF A CRIMINAL
SENSATIONAL NARRATIVE
How He Defrauded
1
British Architect
PLAYS LONE HAND IN BIG COUPS
Yeo, gambler and "lady's man," of mysterious antece- dents and doubtful nationality, master-mind in big coups, Y.M.C.A. resident, frequenter of fantan dena, Civil Servant and convicted criminal.—
Below appears the full and only published life story of this remarkable Individual,
NO BULLETIN ISSUED
THE KING'S HEALTH
SATISFACTION FELT AT THE
COURSE OF EVENTS "
NOT FREE FROM ANXIETY
London, Yesterday.
A British wireless message says:
No bulletin about the King is being issued to-day.
TO MANILA
"CHINESE LINDY
EXPECTED IN PHILIPPINES
CARRIVAL TIME."
“SPIRIT OF CANTON"
Captain Chang' But chun, better known as the Chinese Lind | borgh," has accepted, the invitation of the Philippine Chinese Na tionalist Party to ay to the Phillp- pines.
BY JAPANESE
IN SHANTUNG
TWO AMERICANS AND ONE
BRITON CONCERNED
TOUR OF ENQUIRY
Shanghai, Jan. 7.
OF FINANCES
CHINA'S PLIGHT
APPOINTED
FOR KOWLOON
T. V. SOONG'S PROPOSALS EN-MR. J. P. BRAGA AND DR. S. W.
DORSED AT NANKING ·
OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK
TSO RECEIVE HONOURS
ADDITIONAL "OFFICIALS”
Nanking, To-day." Mr. J. P. Braga,' · J.P. and Dr. Two American newspapermen. In a fangtby memorandum aub-8. W. Tio (Teo. Seen-wan), O.B.E., Edgar Snow of Kansas City and mitted to the Disbandment Con-¡LL.D. J. P., have been appointed Lewis Meyer of Shanghai, and a ference on Jan. 11, Mr. T. V. Unofficial members of the Legisla» British newspaperman, Alfred Soong, the Minister of Finance, tive Council, Hong Kong. Batson, formerly connected with Jably and frankly exposed the reall- Dr. Arthur Robartes Wellington Captain Chang has not announc- New York newspapers, but all of ties of the critical financial MR.G,S. (Eng.),`LR.C.P. (Lond.), ed the exact date of his departure whom are now connected with for situation with which China is con- D.T.M. and H. and D.P.H. (Cam- from China, although it is believ- eign newspapers in Shanghai, have fronted.
bridge), who is Director of Medical The Conference endorsed Mr. and Sanitary Service, and Comdr. This is the first day that there ed that it will be some time dur- been detained for more than a week has been no bulletin, either morning the 1929 Carnival, or between in Shantung province by the Japan-Soong's proposals, inter alia, for G. F. Hole, RN. (retired), who is ese military In order to prevent the centralisation of the country's Harbour Master, Marine Magis ing or evening, since Hla Majarty's January 26 and February 10. Illness began.
Captain Chang will come on a them from making an investigation, dances and the proper budgetting trate, etc., have been appointed of military expenditure which will Official members of the Legislative Undue significance, it is stated, non-stop fight from Canton to of the Japanese detention of a numbe payable by the Finance Ministry Council.
Mr. Braga and Dr. Tao are the senger cars belonging to the Chiance with the apportionments pre- first members to represent the in- Bose government,
scribed by the conference.
terests of Kowloon, the claims of On · December 28, Sun Fo, the General Feng Yu-hsiang informs which were put before the Secrét- Chinese Minister of Railways sent Reuter that he has approved the ary of State for the Colonies by a commission of Chinese engineers proposals,
H. E. the : Governor, (Sír. Caci)
It is shown that from the very day of his arrival in Hong Kong must not be attached to this fact: "Manila, a distance of approximate-iber of engines and freight and pas from national revenue in accord-
It Indicates that the doctors were
there was a warrant hanging over his head with a reward of $6,500 satisfied that no great change was for his arrest! This concerned a particularly audacious and heart-likely to occur during the 36 hours less swindle in Bangkok, a British architect being the victim.
The story outlines how Carvalho Yeo arrived here with around $40,000 in his possession, how he lost the money in a few days at the gaming tables, how he managed to obtain a situation with a prominent local firm, and his service as a Treasury clerk.
Between this stage and his eventual apprehension in Shanghai lies an engrossing narrative, full details of which are given herewith.
him to book..
HIS FATAL MISTAKE
and clever
between last night's and to-morrow morning's bulletin.
It is learned, on, trustworthy au- thority, that the King's condition is steady. Progress, however, is very slow indeed and therefore the post. tion is not yet free from anxiety.
tonese. In one source, however, it is thought that. Carvalho Yeo's ancestors were in another southern province and not Fukien. But this
HANKOW AFFAIR
According to an official Naval message received or Hankow this morning there are now in- dications that the anti-
·Japanese trouble will collapse. Earlier happenings are re- ported on page 8,
from Nanking to Tainan, the capital It is noteworthy that the con|Clementi, K.C.M.G.), during his of Shantung province, for the pur-ferenco is proceeding with unex-leave at Home. His Excellency only pose of forcing a show-down with pacted smoothness and there is returned laat week. The "In- the Japanese regarding the deten-every likelihood it will result in structions" empowering additions tion since last May of more than important and binding decisions to the Executive and Legislative fifty loomotives and 500 freight being reached tending to strengthen Councils were published on Satur- the prorogatives of the Central day and the appointments are the Government-Router.
sequel.
cars.
the
which the
JAM IN SENATE
TWO IMPORTANT US, BILLS CONCERNED
SEEKING INTERPRETATION
Washington, Yesterday. There is alarm in the White House
which Senator Bonab annou
Mr. Braga is the first Portuguese resident of Hong Kong to become |án Unofficial member of the Legis-
lative Council.
The appointment of Dr. Tao, concurrently, indicates that the Government's policy will be: to "have one non-Chinese and one
Chinese to “sit” for Kowloon. Both the new Official members.
Het Harbour Mast
to the Council.
Many years ago, Dr. Philip BC Ayres (then Colonial Bur geon), sat on, the Council. Comdr. R. Murray Rumsey, `L.S.0,,","R.N." and "Comdr. Basil R. H. Taylour, RN served on the Council during their respec- tive tenures of office as Harbour Master in Hong Kong,
Dr. Howitt and Dr. Woods have again applied the ray therapy treatment and Sir Stanley Hewett
Permit Refused Sun Fo Invited the British en- More than once the Criminal ed Portuguese protection. Finally again stayed the night at the Palace.
The last mention of any definitely 900 miles. Trafelling at an' gineër, A. J. Hearne, angineering Investigation
he declared he was Chinese. Department lost
improvement in the condition of His į avarage speed of 100 miles per advisor with the Tientsin-Pukow trace of Carvalho Yeo., Were it
Led Asiray by Name
Majesty, who took to his bed on hour, the flight can be accomplish-Railway, and the three foreign not for his attracting attention to
Many were led astray by his November 21, vas on Wednesday ed in less than 8 hours.
newspapermen to accompany himself by lavishness with money, name. The "Yeo" (that is, the
night when the bulletin said: į The Chinese Lindbergh," the party. When the party reached the and a craving for trying his luck, surname) is the transliteration of "Local condition makes steady pro- most famous aviator in China to town of Talanfu about 50 miles It is problematical if a chance clue the Fukien promunciation of а In Shanghai would have brought very common
gress and there is a slight increase day, has accomplished a trip around south of Tsinan, the Japanese warn- Chinese surname, of strength."
China, starting from Canton and ed them against proceeding further, rendered as Yeung according to
It was learned, on good authority returning to that city, after flying but the Chinese commission dis- He speculated, rather exten- Cantonese pronunciation.
this afternoon, that the King had over almost the entire coast line regarded the Japanese orders and over the legislative fam which come within the "appointed cate sively in exchange during his
The "Carvalho" can also be ex had a restful night and that there of China, a distr of a little proceeded in the direction of Tsinan the Kellogg Fact and the Cruiser gory, as distinct from the ex- stay in Shanghai and, what is plained. I do not know if he was
'was no change in his condition. more than 6,000
on a freight car. When they reach Bill are caught owing to both A precedent has not been möre, he was one of the few, from ever admitted into the Roman
Slow Improvement. The fight carried him to Feed the town of Tangchuachwang coming before the Senate simultane Hafted in either that pre an "outside position," who Catholic Church. But he did
Renter learns officially, that the king, Shanghai, Tiengeng Wanking, (Jernmeno Coracle Sultan dabbled in the rise and fall of learn his English from Roman King passed a quiet and uneventful and several other important elties at Tuhan sent word that the Chleba currencies and made money at Catholic Fathers. And like many day, marked by slow improvement of China. According to the genese commission would be permitted at the Pact and the game.
Chinese, respectable and otherwise, but without definite change of con- ponts received here, the flight was to visit Tsinan but he refused to would ask on Monday for an agree After his identity had caused who have had contact with the dition.
a complete success, and the Chin- permit the foreign newspapermen misgiving in financial and banking Christian Churches, he assumed
It is understood that satisfaction ese aviator was received royally to proceed. As a result of this ral- ment to limit the debate on the cireles, he rendered himself easy the Christian name of "Carvalho" is felt at the course of events.
in every city he visited.
Ing they have been detained for Fact to "shadow" because he could not just as other Chinese have taken
The Canton-Manila trip will be more than a week while the Chinese
Meanwhile the leaders of the resist the temptation to "have a junto themselves names connected good time."
with Latin countries or of Contin-
in the same Ryan-Mahomey mone-government is demanding that they group ar seeking some sort of in- ental origin. Another parallel is
plane that took him around. China, be permitted to proceed, also de terpretation and have circulated a As has been characteristic of the liking of returned students for
the "Spirit of Canton," an exact manding that the rolling stock be petition that the treaty be clarified, many a daring
at least by a committee report em- criminal, Carvalho Yeo was in English "given" or "Christian"
duplicate of Lindbergh's "Spirit of Immediately released Saint Louis.
Japanese have been holding in order bodying the views expressed by fluenced by a desire for the com-
Yeo, or Yeung, sentor, was in
The Philippine Chinese National to force a settlement of the Tainan Senator Borah on the floor of the
Senste. pany of the fair sex. In a way,
In the Hong Kong Civil Service business down South. Yeung, the lat Party and the Chinese Chamber incident of last May.
The Legislative Council, will, Twenty signatures were obtained this helped towards his undoing List for 1927, Carvalho Teo's date son, went to St. Xavier School, of Commerce, will prepare It was also learned to-day that Well may the layman have asked of birth is given as April 9, 1901. Penang, which is conducted by the special reception programme in both the American and British in the course of the day and there therefore, comprise eighteen mem why, having laid his hands on a Incidentally, it is interesting to Christian Brothers who have many honour of Captain Chong as soon governments have demanded that appears to be good prospects of bers, as follow: quarter of a million dollars and note that he was not in any of the similar educational institutions in as the exact date of his departure the Japanese release the rolling obtaining the additional thirteen Official, ex-officios
B.Ethe Governor (Sr Coff then escaped before suspicion turn-eight ordinary classes — "higher" the Far East.
from Canton la -known Manils stock and permit the resumption of making the one-third majority Clement), R.CM.G... President, ed towards him, he did not go fur-down to 6b-of the Junior Clerical
Bulletin.
necessary to defeat ratification if, as traffic on the railway connecting is unlikely, the signers bold out to Major-Gen. C. C. Lined, Cul HE the Senior Military Officer Shanghai with Peking on ther than Shanghai. It was, Service. If he had joined as an Some of Yeo's friends say that} think, that weakness such ordinary junior, his pay would have his mother. xas Siamese. That
grounds that the Japanese are the bitter end-Reuter American CM.G.), Service. blockading, International trade and can be called of wanting to be been much less than that given Carvalho Yeo was connected with with ladles he know that kept him him. Evidently, he was accepted Bangkok is definitely known, as
causing fosses to American and British business.J B. Powed in within a radius of eight hundred as a man of experience and some one unfortunate Briton found to
"Mania Balletin.” milos from Hong Kong.
ability. He was No. 16, the last bis cost later on. But, on the of the lot, in the "special class," other hand, some think that the And this in spite of the devotion which comprises mostly Asiatics. mother was a Malay woman. At of his wife whose whereabouts are Against his number was the prefix any rata, it appears to have been now a mystery. That she under-"P," indicating that he was on reasonably well established that: went considerable risk in going to probation, that lé, on trial until his the mother was not Chinese. And his ald is fairly common know appointment was confirmed. The as far as can be ascertained, 'his ledge in the North: She even pro- fact that be was put in this class birthplace is Trang, in Slam. He ceeded to Nanking, the national leads to an impression that he may also used a Siamese name when it capital of China, with legal ad- have intimated he was not Chinese. aulted his purpose to 'do so. He visers in a futile attempt to invoke The scale of pay is $1,000 to spoke Siamese, also the Chinese political assistance.
$2,000, rising by, annual increments dialects mostly used in Malaya, Cool and calculating, Carvalho of $100, with an efficiency bar at and Cantonese as well, in Yeo had another falling. He was $1,500.
Wife's Devotion
a gambler - when he could afford
names.
Special Clase
Didn't Get a Riss
to lose. But he could not trust) In September, 1927, he had been people. What would have happen a year in his job at the Treasury.
| is not material.
Covetous Greed-
Nothing of Importance occurred until 1922. By then, he had ac- quainted himself with the ways of the world, become proficient in the
Scotsman Defrauded, des
ed had confederate game to The date of his entry, according to methods of British offices, and ac- Ching-bullding to rent the office, to the official book and as stated inquired a covetous greed for money the three Banks to open accounts evidence at the Criminal Sessions, to which he was not entitled,
for the manipulation of cheques, įwas Sept. 1, 1926.- When be would and finally to make the with have been normally due for an ine drawals once the coup was put trease which, for reasons: not through?
** stated publicly, was not given, be
·Nationallty Problem was renting the office on the 6th Criminologists close their eyes floor of China-building as the first When asked, auch an hypothetical step in his nefarious scheme. question. The confederate could. To return, however, to bis age. Have vanished, and there would not. According to the Civil Service List have been so many men to identify he is now 27, and he was 25 when Carvalho Yeo if he had remained he entered the Treasury's employ- In the background, as most master ment That was untrue. He schemers do. But Yeo, apparent his age as lees than what treat ly, could not find the man of whom was because the Government.
he could be sure that he would not exceptionsle
walk away with the low, leaving him take on old
in the lurch without a division Dnes can be
the spoildirvånd, possib
·face the mit
FINE TO CLOUDY
N. E. winde, moderate, fine to cloudy, is the forecast until noon to-morroN
The anticyclone is passing into the Pacific. Another may be farming over NW. China. The depression is central to the west of Vladivostock Moder ate monsoon may be expected. over the China Sea:
AND
TRAGIC DEATH
EMINENT SCULEN
PAINTER'S SUICIDE
EMILE FUDIES
New Yor
The emine In 1922 Carvalho Yeo brought Emile Fushi off a big coup. He was employed home with as clerk, enjoying: "considerable chantant confidence, by a firm of British He had previously can architects in Bangkok I have a long dilness. *not been able to trace the Arm's) Services
nama. It appears that there win = [Fuchs, v only one principal," although the In 1866, wi name used was that of two Academy of Scotsmen
German Into the 1891-for
Italy. lions
irge-sun-was- firm's. – banking
archite
&
the
WOMAN WOUNDED
EARLY MORNING ATTACK HY
A: ROBBERS
REPORT. TO POLICE
IN HEAVY FOG
VESSELS COLLIDE NEAR' SHANGHAI
NO DAMAGE
Shanghal, Testerday. The ateamer "Glenogle" and "City of Bedford," both bound for Shanghal, colded in a heavy fog
The Council Now
The Colonial Secretary (Hon Mr. WT. Southern, CLG:)-
The Attorney General (Hon Bir Joseph Kemp C.B.E., K.C.)
The Colonial Treantirer (Hony Mr C. Mel; "Mosaox, O.E.E.), KA
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. R. A. G. North, during ab sance on leave of Mr. E. R. Halifax, C.M.G. C.E.E.).
Official, appointed:
Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy, C.BE (Director of Public Works),
Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolke, G.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police),
Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington (Direc tor of Medical and Sanitary Services).
An armed robbery occurred at thirty miles from Shanghai this The Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. Kowloon early this morning, a Chi- morning. The accident took place (retired);;
nesa-beźm (omided.
near the Klutoan lightship, which Unofficial:
Hon. Sir Bhou-401 Uhow
According to Mr. Ng Nam-chu, a was apparently damaged.". As a・ Hon. Bir Hanry Pollock, KC, LLP, clerk of the Bank of Canton, he was Customs, boat went to the scene (who represents the Unofficial vations afrakened at 8 am. In his house the vessels, which were not sari- of the Peace),
ously damaged, anchored for the presents the Chinese) at the Kwong Mow Hing wood yard, time being and then proceeded to Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, near the Sung Wang Tal, Kowloon Shanghai and berthed under their LL.D. (who also represents, the City.
up and saw a man own steam-Beuter. painter, who had a piece of cloth wrapped dead at his
Látrö
mouth - standing mar
at him with's revolver, After Mr. Ng me forced back to the cubicle berman, who wore ded a pole, appear.
on the
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