THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929.
THEFT FROM CABIN AVIATION IN CHINA
OPIUM CASE
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHADOWS BEFORE,
ATTACHE CASE AND TOILET CHANG WAI-CHANG'S ARRIVAL | MR. AND MRS, KAO YING FACED COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
SET
OBLIGING COOLE
IN NANKING
PURCHASE OF PLANES
Canton, Yesterday.
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Two Chinese young men, char-
A Shanghai cable announces geterised as "Mutt and Jeff," ap-
China Avia- pruned at the Kowloon Magistracythe purchase by the
T. S. tion
Gying ma- this morning
before Mr.
Company af
from the United States, Why Smith, charged with the chines following:--
which are wild to be on their way 1) the first defendant for to Ching. stealing one attache cose and General Chang Wai-chang left one toilet set, the property of Shanghai by the aeroplane Pun tudent passenger of the M.M. Yue on September 9 al 2.15 p.m. "D'Artagnan," which arriv-and arrived at the capital at 3.30 ed from Shanghai yesterday p.m. He was accompanied by the afternoon.
Num Hoi and the Galden
assume
WITH GRAVE CHARGES
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TRIAL PENDING
. IN "CHINA MAIL”
:
Social Functions To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Mr. and Mrs. Kas Ying and Mr. Kong Hotel. Peninsula Hotel, and Suen Foon, the three main figures In nepulse Bay Hotel, 8.30 p.m. the San Francisco opium, smuggling
Entertainments To-day Queen's Theatre; case, were to be brought to Shang-i hai from America on September 6"While The City Sleeps."
To-day World Theatre; by the N.Y.K.S. "Shinyo Maru" for trial by the Shanghai District Court. "The Villa By The Sea" at 5.15 and met at 9.20 p.m. "The Hermit's Own Wed- The steamer was to be Woosung by a special launch con-ding" (Chinese picture), 2:80 and veying Chinese diplomatic officials 7.15 p.m. and representatives of the Bureau
Today Star Theatre; of Public Safety for Greater Shang-"Blue Skies."
were to be taken Steed, hai and accused
Today Majestic Theatre; carried directly to Nantas, where they were "The Battles af Verdun." 2) both defendants for re- the Yunnan plane, which
Bureau of To-day At to be detained in the roving the gouts, well knowing General Lan Pai-chuen and ten of
Theatre Royal
Forbes, Public Safety pending trial. Special opening performance of The same to be stolen.
his staff,
General Chang First defendant pleaded "not
arrangements have been made by Russell Comedy Co., "By Candle will guilty," while the second stated office
as Director General of the the Chinese authorities to see to it Light," 9.15 p.m.
Home Mail that the first had given him the National Aviation Administration that the trio does not enter the
Settlement or the To-day Inward from Europe. attache case to carry, they both after ris interview with President International being odd-job, coolies.
News French Concession. The date of the via Suez ("Mantua"). Chiang Kai-shek.-Canton
Land Sale Agency.
trial of the three has not yet been
Sept. 16--At P.W.D. Offices, one
A Chinese detective stated that he arrested both defendants in Sathan-road. The seronul carrying the case.
Was
After the usual questioning the first disclosed that he had taken the ease from cabin 221 of the Fremrle stemmer.
Love-Sergt. Prance stated that no evidence there was
to show that the first defendant had stolen the articles.
CHINA DRUG HAUL
HEROIN PLANT FOUND IN BRITISH CONCESSION
RUSSIAN ARRESTED
decided upon but it is thought that.
it will take place within a few days lot of Crown Land at Tai Kok Tsui, after the arrival of accused and that p.m.
Sports
i the hearing will be a speedy one.
Sept. 14-Eighth annual aquatic The case caused considerable con-
in the United States sports meeting of Police and Pri sternation especially in San Francisco. where son Depts., V.R.C. Club.
Sept. 14 Charity Football Kao Ying was Vire-Consul and Shen) Foon was
Tientsin. Yesterday. An elaborate plant for the purpose of extracting heroin, was discovered H: Worship reinarked to thei second defendant that he was yesterday morning in a private and the sibly in agreeing to carry the at-apparently empty house in
British Conression. tache se witen the first asked
The Fire Brigade, upon answer- bim to.
However, his Warship discharging a call, found that a fire had e the first defendant and fined been extinguished. Suspicions were the second $5 with the alternative aroused, however, and the Police of seven days hard labour, this examined the house, in which most
elaborate appliances were found. being his first offence. The pra-
It appears the heroin had been perty was ordered to be restored
shipped from France in paste form, te the complainant.
and had passed the Customs as floor! polish, which it closely resembled. A machine for extraction of the narcotic from the polish, with several thousands of dollars worth of heroin, were confiscated.
HAWKERS FINED
ONE RUNS FROM SERGEANT BARNICLE
"A BAD HAT" Eight hawkers stood before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy.
The first one was fined $3 for street crying.
The second was fined $3 for seil- ing within market limits.
The third, fifth and sixth were fined $4, $2 and $3 or five days' jail respectively, for obstruction.
The fourth was a "bad 'un". His Worship: I only cautioned you three days ago on the ninth of this month-for selling. without a licence. Six dollars.
The seventh was fined $4 for hawking without a licence.
The Police arrested a Russian Jew named Brimberg, who attempted to enter the house thinking the Police searchers had departed.--Reuter.
MR. SUN FO
TO LEAVE SHANGHAI ON SEPTEMBER 14
Canton, Yesterday. Information from а reliable source indicates that Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Railways, and General Wu Teh-chen, will leave Shanghai for the South on September 14, to attend the second meeting of the
Committee Model District
of General Tang Yin- Chang Shan The eighth "put the hat on it."wa, the Commissioner of Public He was charged with selling with- Reconstruction, will come down out a licence, and with resisting together with them. arrest from Police Sergeant P. Barnicle in the execution of his duty in Shantung Street.
Resisting Arrest
After attending the above meet- ing, Mr. Sun Fo will go to Canton to carry out a thorough inspection of His Worship: Do you admit it? the Canton-Hankow Railway and Defendant: I went away from Canton-Samahui. branch line. the sergeant to get my licence. Canton News Agency.
His Worship: Has he got a licence at all?
Sergt. Barnicle: Yes he has a hawker's stall holder licence.
When I arrested him yesterday afternoon, he broke away from me and ran for about two hundred yards, and then fell over some tim- ber, so I caught him..
His Worship (to the defendant): How old are you?
Defendant: Fifty four, your Wor-
ship.
Bergt Barnicle: He was fifty two in the charge room last night!
His Worship: Well you see I don't want to fine him too heavily.
Five dollars on each charge. His Worship: What was bail?
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Sergt Barnicle: Fifteen dollars your Worship, and he paid it.
A Chinese was charged before Mr. E.. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magis tracy, with hawking food for man; and with hawking beef without a licence.
A Chinese constable said that he saw the accused in West Point yesterday afternoon with a hasket containing about four earlies of beef. Witness watched him and saw accused sell ten cents worth to a woman. He arrested hint.
Accused denied selling, claiming that he had bought the beef in the market for himself, and was on his way home when the constable arrested him.
Magistrate; You must be very hungry to want to cat-four catties of beef!
Accused: I am sick and can only take beef tea.
The Magistrate convicted on the hrst count and imposed a fine of $10 or 14 days. He said that he could not convict on the second charge because the accused could not get a licence for hawking beef in the streets.
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NOTICE.
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
EXTRA MEETINGS 1929.
DROVIDED no further unforo-
following dates have been fixed provisionally for the remainder of the Extra Meetings scason:-
Victoria Recreation Pen circumstances arise, the
Monday, 14th October, Saturday, 26th October, Saturday, 16th November. Saturday, 30th November.. Saturday, 7th December.
also a member of the Match: United Services v. S.C.A.A., Consular staff. Mrs. Kas arrived in Caroline Hill, 4.45 p.m. San Francisco from China bringing
Sept. 29-St. John Ambulance eight trunks and six suit easça con-Club Night fele. taining 2,400 tina of opium, the value of which was G.$600,000. Brigade aquatic sports, King's Col- When the Customs authorities at- lege bath, 10 a.m.
Meeting Tomorrow Regular monthly) tempted to open these for search the Kao Yings claimed consular im-)
of China (Hong Kong munity. The matter was referred meeting of the Marine Engineers to Washington and, as a result, the Guild trunks were searched and the opium Branch), 67, Des Voeux Road Cen-
accused accord-tral, 6 p.m. found. The three ingly were indicted on four counts
To-morrow--H.K.V.D.C. Pro-Public with the inconveniences but the Chiness in America imme-
inevitably attendant upon the diately raised an outcry, demanding menade Concert, on Parade Ground.
building operations at the Course. that they should be sent home for Volunteer Headquarters, 9.15 p.m.
C. B. BROWN, trial and execution. As the result
Secretary, of representations by Dr. C. C. Wu,
Hong Kong, 11th Sept., 1929. the Chinese Minister, to Col. Henry L. Stimson, the U.S. Secretary of State, arrangements were made for the deportation of the persons to China for trial.
accused
HOUSING COMEDY
Miscellaneous
IN OTHER PLACES
CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO
JAVA
General Chiang Kai-shek
hav ordered the Commissioner of
to Finance of Kiangsu Province abolish the "bamboo and timber tax," as this tax is vexatious.
A poor family some months ago in a little village near Lisbon ask- ed a doctor if he would mind letting!
A telegram from Kaifeng reports them live in three rooms in his that Neihyang, Honan, and a neigh- house for themselves, says a Reuter bouring district have fallen to the
The doctor agreed to bands of bandits, who are
stili message: this, asking no rent in return, but occupying Neihyang at the present he stated that he was shortly to time. be married and that then they must go out.
The Shanghai District Court haa This the family agreed to, but resumed its regular office hours when toe time came, refused to go. from 9 a.m. to 12 noon and from 2 The doctor went to court and get to 5 p.m. During July and August, Д favourable judgment 30, he the hours were from 7.30 a.m. to turned the family and their 12 noon daily, furniture into the street. Neigh bours, however, gathered round on hearing the screams and roars of the family, and forcibly replaced the furniture. The doctor is ap- pealing again to the Court to help him.
Air Romance Revealed
LOVER FLIES FOR RECORD AS
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GIRL IS HURT
ENSE drama rode the skies aver Roosevelt Field, L. I., in the cabin
of the cruising Three Musket- eers. Within Pilot Martin Jen-i sen and his wife were censor-i ing radio-telephone messages from the ground, which in- formed them of the crash be- low, in which Viola Gentry's pilot, Jack Ashcraft, was killed, and the girl seriously injured.
As the aviatriz was dragged. bleeding and dazed, from her plane in a thicket of Jerico Turnpike, Misa Gentry's first thought was of Bill Ulbrich, the companion of the Jenseng' obdurancs fight and she tnsleted he be advised by the air- port'a serial telephone of her so- cident.
Micanwhile in the Three Musket- eera, Jongen, at the controls, had glimpand the wreckage of Tho Angwer, the Ashcraft-Gentry, plans, and had speedily veered away be- fore Ulbrich had seen. But B was suspiciatis. Repairing the radio set, he talked to Roosevelt leid. abouling:
.
"What happened to Viola? Now, you birds give me the details don't try to hold out on mel**
VIOLA GENTRY, ABOVE JACK ASHCRAFT, INSET
Charles Ellsworth, radio engineer, who was at the phone and was Henry Hicks, 300 feet south of the about to make an evasive reply Jericho Turnpike, flicks and bis clearly beard. Jensen's voice amon, Edwin, awakened by the moning Ulbrich to the controls smaabing sound, hurried out to dras Then came a whispered message Ashcraft'e body from the plane and from Mra. Jensen:
Le congnge Mies Contay, who wro bleeding profusely and was semi- conscipys
"Don't tell Bill, Marty saw the wreck and has been keeping away from there.
„Mics Gentry is not in a critical So they went around, hour after condition, but because of her weak- bour. It was planned to keep up oned kondition a blood transfusion. this gentle deception until, Milas was given her and she is reported. Gentry can have a telephone-radio improving. When we asked about hookup at her bedside in Nassau Ashcraft, she received only
·Hospital and tell her own, story to answers and divining the truth, sko.
Thus was revesled the romanca
chơi des Hai to th
· Miam Contry had been in the rear
of Bin Ulbrics and the zin) Wer, front and he couldn't be silver, hitherto unknown to the gangrál PUBLIC, POMIKS ĮKuntry livan "at U brich's home in Frant street, Siin
of the plann, behind a curtain era. ranged for privacy, a fact that
sota, with his gasthen sayed her life to the front where When the Gent plans struck ARBOLDLY ONE was crushed as the tree on the nursery grounds of motor buried tissit in the earth,
Sketch plans for the Victoria Nurses Home have now been pre- pared and are being submitted to: the Shanghai Municipal Council and to the authorities of the Country Hospital for approval,
Special trains will be placed on service on the Shanghai-Hangchow- Ningpo Railway for three days be ginning from the 19th instant when a large number of people are ex- pected to visit Haining to witness the Haining bore.
China, according to a manifesto of President Chiang Kai-shek, is at present supporting 2,000,000 troops
The Stewards request the for- bearance of Members and the
HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1930.;
HE Following Dates have been
Meeting of the Club.
24th, 25th and 26th Februм.y and 1st. March, 1930.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 11th Sept., 1929.
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It is reported by the people who live at Rocky Point, Peitaiho, that
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