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"THIS UGLY PHOTO" WHERE THE MONEY
WRITING ON EXHIBIT IN THE
RAPE CASE
A LETTER TO PRISONER
GOES
MORE VOTĖS
CAPE D'AGUILAR
LEAGUE WIRELESS
SHORT WAVE TRANSMITTERS FOR EUROPE
SCHEME APPROVED
"Dear Oliva,-Recrive this way NEW BUILDING AND MAST AT The sub-committee of the League photo of mine as a token of my affection to you, →
Very kindly yours, Nati."
This was the official translation of the writing on the back of an exhibit in the Supreme Court this morning during the resumed har ing of the Filipino rape case.
I was alleged that the woman complainant, Natividad Prailadora, had written words w that effert on the back of a photograph taken at the behest
SAILORS' HOME SITE
KING'S HEALTH
PROGRESS TOWARDS FULL RECOVERY
SHOOTING EXPEDITION
London, Yesterday.
RAG COLLECTING
AN ALLEGED OFFENSIVE
TRADE?
jot Nations is unanimously in favour of the proposal for a league wire less station, to be worked normally by a Swiss wireless company, and The Finance Committee of the jhanded over to the League in times shooting for him at Sandringham, the Sanitary Department for conduct
WARNING BY SANITARY BOARD
Mr. L. R. Andrewes, Assistant Crown It is learned that the King has foliciar, præecuted at the Kowloon made such excellent progress to T. S. Wayte-Smith in a care in which wards complete recovery that pre- Lau Wing-kae, the tenant of 58 and Magistracy this morning before Mr.
parations are barg made for a day's o Wai Ching Street was summoned by
Lerisktive Council to-morrow will of crisis.
Estate:-
Public
ך' '
wave
remain fine. Shooting and yachting lecting. provided the weather continues to lug an offensive trade, namely, rag col-
are the King's favourite pastimes. Mr. J. M. Remedies appeared for the This year he was unable to sail his defence.
Mr. Andrewes stated that on August Cutter "Britandia" at Cowes Begat- ta.
13 Sanitary Inspector Seddon called at
IL
also was'
headache
2
PERHAPS ITS EYES!
Our careful and up to date examina tion with modern equipment by fully qualified European optometrist, whi diagnose your eyesight trouble. Make an appointment to-day.
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TENNIS CELEBRITIES COMING
FRENCH STARS
WINTER TOUR IN THE FAR EAST
..
HONG
$14,800 IN FINES
SMUGGLING OF OPIUM INTO COLONY
INTERPRETER TROUBLE-
Fines totalling $1,800 were this morning imposed by Mr. E.W. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy,
two Chinese for KONG POSSIBILITIES
attempting to snuggle illicit opium into the Colony
One man, who was arrestel on the There is a possibility that two Tung On wharf, had 57 taels of the of the best men tennis players of drug in his possession done up in three the world will be in Hong Kong barrels and tied round his waist and during the winter-tlic off season legs. here, no doubt, but the game is! Revenue Offeer Grimmitt stated thas played here all the year round. he thought the accused had come ashore considered the premises, and discovered a large
According to a Reuter able from from the 8.3. "Sai Of" which had just most unlikely when he left Bognor quantity of clippings from stockings Faris, Henri Cochet, J. Brugnon,
arrived from Kongmoon. egina that he would be able to and singlets. They were clean, but Landry and R. Rodel, we leaving Bed $6,500 or 12 months hard labour. Accused, who pleaded guilty," was out with guns this autumn--still considered as raga. Defendant for Japan so September 21. Cochat;
A Matter of Dialect failed to produce a licence. On August is holder of the Wimbledon singles 20 the Sanitary Department issued a cnampionship; Brugnon is his usual The other accused was a native of notice regarding the nuisance causef partner in doubles; these two can by the trade. On September 2 the In-lein im "world ranking." And Landry elected to speak in his own dialect and Some difficulty arose when the man spector paid a second visit and found and Rode are among the butt- the Magistrate was informed that no that the warning had not been observ-ding champions of France. ed. Mr. Andrewes recalled the rag case of June 24 when Dr. Fawcett gave the definition of a rag.
asked to consider the following | The Swiss wireless company will Supplemental Votes in the 1929 undertake to establish alongside the existing station at Franging, near Circular Road
Geneva, short
transmitters Extraordinary-or extra European communications. Works: Communications, New Territories. The League will pay 280,000 Swiss
cular Road, Ngau Tau Kok to
frames annually for the first few Shatin via: Sai Kang, Preliminary of the prisoner, Luis works: $5,000,
sgars, but the amount will diminish Oliva, a barber, win faves an in- This Vate is requested to meet the as exploitation increases. Reuter dictment of rage and indecent gust of preliminary works and forn- The question of the League of on the line Nations own wireless station in times assault on the woman, and common permanent tence assault against her husband.
of the propensad road. The total length of the road will probably be about 2 miles.
Public
New Latine
Mr. J. H. Bottonley, engineer, Public Works Department, was call- ed by Mr. H. K. Holmes, C.B.E. Hong Kong, Baillings, New Lating
Works, Extraordinary Crown Solicitor this morning. Water Street: $10,000. Plans of King's-terrace, Kowloon! (in No. 5 of which the events are! slated to have occurred). produced.
Window Curtains
Wanau
were
The
then resument on oath, her evidence-in-chief, which had begun yesterday alternant
Consulting Engineers Fee Public Works, Extraordinary:-22, Hong Kong. General Works. Water- works (Consulting Engineers Pees in- curred: $1,534.
Wireless
Works, Extraordinary: Publie Hong Kong,
Buildings New Building! and mast at Cape d'Agullar for W/T. Traffic: $15,000.
In connection with the improve- ments in the wireless telegraphic ser- vices approved last war, it was in- landed to treet three buildings at the Peak Wireless Station and centralise al transmitters there. One building. and two masts have been complete
exhaustive tests cacriad out. The results indicate however, especial
for long wave working, that Cape d'Aguilar will provide more efficient") rasnits.
crisis was re-opened on a motion of Visecunt Cecil, who prapped that steps
shakl be taken at the earliest moment
communicating with League members provide such a station capable of
throughout the world although in peace- time its use might be determined by Brencial considerations.]
RENOUNCING WAR
QUESTION OF MODIFYING THE COVENANT
NO AGREEMENT YET.
Mr. Hottres questioned her about the curtains of a window in the
Geneva. Yesterday. room in which prisher is alleged to
The First Committee of the have lorked himself with witress,
Lengue dealing with constitutional With the approval of the 'uiane
questions, after long discussion. Judge Mr. Justice Wood). Mr. an
decided to appoint a sub-committee Holmos directed the woman to de-
to decide whether any action was possible during the present session monstrate atque of the Court win- "dow how those curtains were hung.
at the Assembly in regard to the After the woman had made cerain
is therefore
now proposed, to British proposal to modify Articles gestures and said something. Mr. Fretain the Peak W/T Station (with-12 and 15 of the Covenant of the Holmes said "I don't want to gaar-out further buildings) for short ware League with a view to making the working with China and for Broad-text of the Covenant conform with Fel with
interpretation, my eating. the
and tn erect at Cape Lord, but it is apparent that witness #Aguller one additional building and the text of the Paris Pact renoune- signified certain things which the 220 I't mast. Thi will providing war. interpreter has not referred to." space for the now ransmitters on of the The purport, Mr. Holmes explain-order and a ru-arrangemert
The subcommittee' were unable existing ones, and als of the aerial ed, of als assertation was to ensure and earth systemy for the
to reach agreement on the text of ship in that the Crown witnesses would not shore services.. Authority is there-Article 1 of the Financial Aid Con- disagree on
a certain important fare requested to spend at Cape vention. aspect, because
Detective Sergeant vided in this year's Estimates for resolution instructing the Commit- partion of the sums pro- . Politis (Greece) submitted a Fitches (who is in charge of the use at the Peak W/T Station. The case) is also to give evidence' about work Cape Aguilar is estimated ce on arbitration and scurity to to cost $55,000 and the balance has draft a text for submission before been provided in the Draft Estimates a special conference, or next year's for 1930,
Public Works, Extraordinary:-- Hong Kong, Miscellaneous, Purchase ence to Kowloon site: $180,000. of M.L. 187A and payment in refer-
The curtains.
d'Aguilar
"Threat to Kill Me" His Lordship thereupon directed witness to return the box. In reply, she said she could draw the position of the curtains. Paper and
The Trustees of the Sailors' Home pencil were supplied and she drew and the Missions to Seamen propose an outline.
Assembly-Reuter.
Geneva, Later.
RHINE ARMY
WILL EVACUATION CAUSE
UNEMPLOYMENT?
Eritish Wireless Service.
TROUBLES WITH SOVIET
Further Responsibility For Conflicts in Nanking
Moscow. Yesterday. The Soviet Government's reply to the Nanking Government's Notes of Sept. 9 and Sept. 15. regarding the appointment of an assistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway, has been handed to the German Embassy,
I declares that, owing to Nanking's repudiation of its own terms, the question of the place of negotiation becomes meaningless, and the responsi-
·bility for further conflicts must fall to Nanking-Reuter.
ONE-DAY STRIKE
ECHO OF TEXTILE WORKERS' MURDER
VICTYÁÏS FUNERAL
Charlotte (North Carolina), Yesterday:
Luichow.
interpreter in Luichow was obtainable. The "Four Musketeere" of tennis, Mr. Hamilton expressed surprise that as they might be called (with between the Police Department, the Mr. Andrewes added that Magis Borotra and Lacoste not travelling), Court and the S.C.A., they were unable trates at ilome often reverted their are proceeding via Canada and the te "raise a Lilichow interpreter." decisions in cases of this kind, in the Pacife.
Revenue Grimmitt stated'nt after They expert to arrive in event of an appeal.
Japan on October 14. Their plan is arrest, acense made a statement Bis Worship fixed the hearing for is to play matches there all over the in quite good. Cantonese. September 26 at 2.16 p.m.
country, against some fairly strong the accused in Cantonese, his Worship It was then derided try charging Japanese opposition.
Cochet sad his colleagues big remarking that accused need not think he would he discharged just because. Japan good-bye early in November, he elected to speak a dialect which was They will probably go first to Tien-itle known here. He would be kept tsin, Reuter adds, where an exhibi-in custed a long time, if necessary, ition match is to be played.
uati! an interpreter was found.
A SMART CAPTURE
A Flow of Words Then they are to visit Saigon (în When this was translated to the ac French Indo-China). India and cesed by the Court's Cantonese inter Sentence of four mouths im- Egypt and return home after prac-preter, the wily one immediately rat prisonment with hard labour wastically a complete circuit. phased by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith
STOLE $1,100
INDIAN MERCHANT'S LOSS FROM SAFE
Former "Stars" Here
Bled off a lengthy statement in perfect
No mention is made of Hong Cantonese, and once he got started it at the Kowloon Magistracy this Kong. If Cochet and his friends was difficult to pull him up. morning on Tin Wah (22), who go from Tientsin to Shanghai and Accused's story was that the box, in. pleaded guilty to a charge of steal- then take passage in a French mail the false bottom of which the opium ing $1,000 in notes from the safe steamer, there may not be time for was found; did not belong to him. On of his employer, Shadi Lal an an exhibition in Hong Kong on ac- Hong Kong on the s.s. "Wing Lee," he the voyage from Kwong-chan-wan to Indian merchant at Whitfield Bar-count of the short stay seldom ex- chummed up with a fellow-passenger racke.
tending into the late afternoon. who offered him the loan of one of his Det. Sergt. Humphreys stated However, if there is any likelihood xes. He did not know it had opium that the defendant aucceeded in at all the deal tannia - authorities in it or he would not have had any- getting to Sha Tau Kok after be will do all possible to arrange an thing to do with it.
A Chinese Revenue Officer said that ing without food for two days on exhibition, as was the case when the hillside at Kowloon Tong. famous American players (some of when he wanted to examine the box, where he hid after he had commit- whom subsequently became profes-accused produced the key from his per ted the theft.
sionals) visited Hong Kong.
son and opened it for him.
At Sha Tau Kok, however, the defendant was arrested smartly by Lance Sergt. Collins whe thought! he looked very suspicious. There
A one-day strike of cotton mill workers occurred to-day on
in this region the occasion of the funeral of Mra. Wiggins, who was shot and killed near Gastonia on September 14 when a lorry load were of mill strikers were fired on by face. anti-Communists licensed by the bat off, he found, to his surprise, mis-trial. Reuter,
[A trial which aroused passion and prejudice almost equal to the Sacco and Vanzetti case, ended suddenly owing to a juror becoming insane.
The judge pronounced it mis-trial. The accused, 13 men and three women textile workers, were charged with murder in connection with the death
EL few scratches on his On taking the defendant's
the
a $500 note! The rest of money, with the exception of $20.. was subsequently recovered.
His Worship told the complain-
to amalgamate the two undertakings. At a later stage of his examina-
As part of the scheme of reconstruc- tion, Mr. Holmes
tion, the Secretary of State has op- asked: "It 148 proved the resumption of the present been suggested that you are fooling site of the Sailors' Home at West both your husband and this man Point .L. 137A-fer $800.000, plus (meaning the prisoner)?"
his key to the safe a sum of $100,000 for the surrender of all claims to the promised site in hess:No."
spread over a period of five years.
--
Wit-
WAR OFFICE CONSULTED
London, Yesterday, Lieutenant-General Sir William Thwaites, Commander-in-Chief of
Are you in love with this man?/Kowloon. The total payments to be the British Army on the Rhine, to- of Ader Holt, the Chief of Police at
No. I am not in love with him; I am afraid of him.
Have you ever been in love with him? No. I have never been in love with him; I am afraid of him.
In respect of the acts for which you asked your husband's forgive. ness were you ever in love with this man?--No. I told him repeatedly that I did not want to have anything to do with him, but he threatened to
kill me
SHORTHAND
EXAMINATIONS AT TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES
At the examination in Pitman's shorthand held at the Technical Institute in June, the following Prisoner's Questions' were successful: Difficulty was experienced in re- Theory Stage 11-R. Castro, A. gard to Filipino dialects in regard Foster, Ip Choi-hing, Kam Yean- to another question. His Lordship watt, L. G. Marques, A. Mooney, Ng therefore asked other questions in Yuk-ming, E. Oliveira, C. M. das Heu, to which witres replied that Passos, B. Remedios, A. Rosario, she did not submit to prisoner on I. Savard-Remedios, Sheik Rafiq July 20 (the date mentioned in the Mohammad, C. M. da Silva, H. Silva, indletment), that she resisted, and Tang Kuen-sang, and C. Tse. that she also strugged. Prisoner
Speed: 80 words a told me, she added, that he would kill me if I did not comply, and also A. M. Britto, L. D. de Silva, and C. that something he had done to her Xavier. he had done previously to a woman in Manila..
DUTCH BUDGET
day visited the War Office and had Gastonia.] consultations regarding evacuation and the movements of troops. It is understood on good authority that a full time table will be completed. The position of any who may NO temporarily be out of employment on their return to civil life has also been under consideration. General Thwaites is returning to Wiesbaden almost immediately-British Wire- less Service.
WORLD'S HEALTH
FINE WORK OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS
EASTERN CO-OPERATION
A meeting of the Second Commit- tee of the league of Nations to-day minute: unanimously approved the work of All the speak- the health section. ers promised additional credits in order to enable the section to ex- tend its activities. Tribute was paid to Chinese and Indian Co- operation in the League's health
60 words a minute: A. M. Braga, A. M.. Britto, L. S. Castro, and Taufik Bin Ali.
When told that he could ask the) witness any questions he
30 words a minute: A. M. Braga, work-Reuter. liked, prisoner cleared his throat Ip Chol-hing, and Mchammed Izhaq
Razack.
on
several occasions and nodded when ever he was admonished "Be quiet"
by his Lordship for interrupting.
3
Prisoner put it to witness that soner, enjoining him to secrecy, the first time he visited her was assuring him that she would not on May 16, This witness denied, forget him and accusing him of giving the date as June 16.. Wit damaging her reputation as ness also said that she remember married woman. There were also ed the date because prisoner then references to the woman: (the al- asked her her age and she told leged writer) being taken to task him that she had become 18 on by her employer, a Filipino lady, June 10, Prisoner made certain about visitors at the house. assertions in connection with the date, May 16, but witness denied photograph of the woman was also The writing on the back of the that they were true,
read, as quoted.
Detective Sergeant Fowlie and
Alleged Letter
IDLE LIST
DECREASE OF 2,500 IN A WEEK
REDUCTIONS OF TAXATION
LIKELY
MINISTER'S VERDICT
The Hague, To-day.
ant that he should not leave
WATER SUPPLY
DECREASE OF STORAGE ON ISLAND
GREATER CONSUMPTION
Accused said that just before land- ing on the Sai Kung wharf, the other man gave him the key of the box, teli- ing him that he would have to open it for search by the "Castoms.”
Magistrate (to accused): So you feand a kind friend who gave you the use of a box,, gave you the key to it, allowed you to take the box ashore and then disappeared. How are you going
The "China Mail" is officially ta zeturn the box to him? informed that the total storage in "I don't know. He disappeared when the island reservoirs yesterday he saw me in trouble. Perhaps if I got morning amounted to 1,905.81 mil-through he would have made it his
on a table lion gallons, showing a decrease of business to find me out and get back as that was a direct temptation. 7,81 million gallons during the past
his box, and opium!" Sergt. Humphreys pointed out week: the amount collected from Simple Simon" which he tried to make Deciding that accused, was not the the interesting fact that the de- streams being 49:44 million gallons. out, the Magistrate convicted and im- fendant could speak Hindustani
The week's consumption amount-posed a fine of $8,000 or 12 montha' fiuently as he had been in the ed to 57.25 million gallons
hard labour. Barracks for four years and had
The opium in both cosos.was ordered worked as a salesman for the
Position in Kowloon The total storage in the mainland to be confiscated.
complainant for fifteen months. reservoirs yesterday morning
His Worship congratulated amounted to 494.35 million gallons AVIATION LECTURE Sergt. Collins on the good work (not including 1.87 million gallons he did in effecting the arrest of supplied to shipping through Lai the defendant.
Under the auspices of the Univer- Chi Kok), showing an increase of aity Engineering Society Mr. R. The defendant alleged that the 0.64 million gallons during the past Vaughan-Fowler will
The week's consumption amount- Indian em-ed to 28.23 million gallons,
The Budget, submitted by the complainant had not paid him his week.
wages of $13 for two months, and States-General, shows receipts es-
also that the other timated at 621 and expenditure at 612,000,000 guilders: The Mints.ployees of the shop had ill-treated
him! ter of Finance says that there is no question of a reduction of taxa- tion in the near future-Reuter.
1929 rainfall
Average
Deficit
THE NETHERLANDS
DUTCH QUEEN AND BELGIAN SETTLEMENT
THE EAST INDIES
The yield from the Shing. Mun River and streams during the week His 30.74 million gallons.
Storage
The following shows the amount In storage (million gallons) on the dates named;
April 22 29
Hong Kong Mainland 328.38 136.81 327.26 177.44 311.72 121.65 109.84 125.84 283.97 115.90
On
deliver a lecture at 8.30 p.m.
Friday, September 27, in the Great Hall of the University.
The lecture will be entitled "The Development of Aviation in China.” The general public are invited to be present. There is a 6-minutes bus service from Blake Pier to the University.
Mr. J. W. Davidson, Honorary General Commissioner of the Rotary International, who is mak ing a tour of the East, arrives in Penang in the course of the next few days. He is expected in Kuala Lumpur on Monday and will make three days stay.'
.62.63 inches
72.08 inches
9.45 inches
May
B
The Hague, Yesterday, Queen Wilhelmina to-day cere- montally opened the new session June of the States General
19
31
20
27
261.03 102.18
3
237.90
87,96
10
212.71
85.61
J
17
192.78
80.51
..
177,62 100.28
175.51
114.27
157.79
106.52
352,07 207,31
1.
460.22 277.00
28.77 17.67 25.32
2017.09
20.28
998.80
297.04
91.53
23:31.
Aug.
1,261.86
108.08
438.59
Aug.
31,85
25.17
1,358.64 442.36
38.27
25.23
1,615.86
152.36
99,86 26.86
1,789.09 48141
26
51.47 28.91
1,873.13
467.96
Sept.
27.62
1,914.62 495.71
27.29
16
ADMIRAL STOTZ
FRENCH NAVAL COMMANDER'S DEATH
..!
In the speech from the Throne she regretted that the desire to July reach 3 fresh settlement with Belgium was not yet attainable.
She emphasised the continued need for economy in State ser- FORMERLY IN FAR EAST vices, and said that vigilance was still incumbent with regard to Paris, Yesterday: the political situation in the Vice-Admiral Stotz, former com- Dutch East Indies Renter. The total number of unemployed mander of the French Naval forces September 9 was 1,149,700. This in the Far East died this morning was 2,550 less than the week before at Toulon, Havas 7 and 150,277 less than the year before-British Wireless Service.
ASTONISHING REDUCTIONS
London, Yesterday.
FATALITY AT DOCKYARD
Vice-Admiral Stotz was appointed PRESS CENSORSHIP
in 1927 to command the French naval forces in the Far East.
Before the tiffin hour to-day a BANK LIQUIDATED
In reply to the jury, witness. In Martin Frailadora, the woman's sisted that prisoner never gave her husband, gave evidence yesterday Chinese coolie accidentally fell money, but only offered to buy before the woman things for her. He did not "buy the box. Yesterday she referred Dockyard.
was called to down a well in the Royal Naval FAR EASTERN SHAREHOLDERS things" but gave her cake once to the incidents complained of and When taken out life was found and she accepted, said that on July 20, after her to be extinct.
An Interpreter was then called husband had been pushed out by At time of writing no details are
Sept
1,800.81 Consumption
490.35
The following figures show the weekly consumption (million gal-
Hong Kong Mainland
NANKING MANDATË MUZZLES long) on the dates mentioned
April 22
Hong Kong Mainland
50.86
51.47
57.25 21.29 Unauthorised Connections Wa Sing Kee, the ground foor tenant of 6, Wing Lok Buildings, was fined $25-by Mr. T. S. Whyte- Sunith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, as the result of a summons issued by the FW.D. for extending the water connections of the fat to the back yard, without a permit
THE NEWSPAPERS.
LOCALITIES EXCEPTED
$7.56
29
37.59
30.76 29.88
May
:8
$8,03
27.17
30.57 25.07
Nanking, Yesterday.
20
31.93 25.00
DECISION
A mandate instructing the re- moval of Press censorship through- Harbin, Yesterday. out the country except in "parti The shareholders, at a meeting calar localities which are at present
33.86
25.86
Jung
20.48
24.36
10
27.37
19.50
- 30.18
14.04
-27.14
11.08
27.21
27.25 Continued at foot of next column.) I extension.
20.71
19.91
was
to testify to the translations. One pristner, she shouted but prison available, and it cannot conss on Sunday, definitely decided to under peculiar conditions" of these was of a letter purporter slapped her and told her not quently, be stated how the accident liquidate the Her Fastern Bank issued by the State Council yester- ing to be from the woman to pr to shout
(Dalbank.)-Retter.
day. Reuter.
occurred.
Mr. J. S. Dinnen, of the Water Authority stated that the defendant had caused an Inconvenience to the dwellers above him in that their
water supply was cat for two hours. while he carried out the work of