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WOES OF A YOUNG WIFE.
ALLEGED DESERTION BY
HUSBAND..
RESORT TO A RAZOR.
The matrimonial troubles of a! young Chinese couple were aired
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Business Manaj
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No. 27,500
UNREST IN INDIA CONTINUES.
BATCHES OF VOLUNTEERS MARCH ON UNTADI CAMP.
JAIL FOR AMBALA PATEL.
In presenting the wife's case, Reuter. Mr. Lo said that in order to give the defence notice of the line his attack would take, he had stated
BAT
BLISHED
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1930.
BRIDES FOR SALE.
Man Who Sold His Own Children.
MORO BATTLE. Fortress of Sultan Stormed.
OUTLAW DEFIANCE.
Manila, To-day. The severest Moro battle since
tear bombs.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. - The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/4 11/16.
"BOBBY'S" LUCKY DAY.
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician
13, Queen's Road Central.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
NO REDUCTION OF MR. THOMAS'S SALARY.
MOTION BY TORY EX-PREMIER DEFEATED.
FALL OF LANFENG EXPECTED
AMERICA'S BID FOR GOLF
MARSHAL CHIANG AND FENG AT CROWN. **A FARMER SWINDLED.
CLOSE QUARTERS. ROGER WETHERED WINS. UNEMPLOYMENT DEBATE, How a farmer's quest for a wife
COUNTER-ATTACKS. ► led to his being swindled out of a
America, headed by the incom-
London, Yesterday.
Heuchow, Tuesday. Dharasana, Yesterday. sum of $200 was'related to Mr. A. W.
The House of Commony Sanguinary-fighting between the Batches of Congress volunteers G. H. Grantham this morning when the American occupation of the parable Bobby Jones, is making a
Utadi an elderly Chinese named Lau Fook Philippines is taking place in the tremendous bid for the British rejected Mr. Stanley Baldwin's Nationalists and the Kunminchun
Amateur Golf in Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham's are still converging at
Championship. motion to reduce the salary of is reported to have taken place on Fifty-two were arrested was charged with obtaining that Lanao Province of Mindanao, .. Court this morning when a woman camp.
Ninety constabular men are Yesterday Jones defeated Cyril the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Thomas. May 25 in the vicinity of Lanfeng, named Chan Wai-man, alias Chau to-day, whilst Ambalai Patel was sum of money by false pretences.
storming the fortress of Sultan Tolley (once again) in what is Mr. Baldwin urged safeguarding The Kuominchun cavalry under The farmer, Cheung Fook-kam, Ganassi, a recalcitrant Moro chief-described as an "epic conflict" and as the only remedy for unemploy- Cheng Ta-chang, forming the ad- Chan Shi, summoned her husband. sentenced to six months' rigorous Chau Kee-lin, for alleged deser-imprisonment. He is not related who lives in Tai Sui Hang village, tain, who is strongly entrenched America has four men left in the ment.
vance column, entered into action, to the ex-Speaker Patel, the pre- Shatin, told the Court that he con- His supporters, the number of last eight, including Francia Mr. MacDonald appealed to all being covered by a detachment of Mr. M. K. Lo, appeared for the sent leader of the civil dis-aded to a male go-between at whom is not known, armed with Ouimet, who is now getting to the parties to co-operate, and said infantry from Kaifeng sent to re- wife, whilst the husband was re- obedience movement, who is now Talpo, on May 18, that he would native weapons and home made veteran stage, and George von that the Government intended to lieve the pressure at Lanfeng. presented by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, in Rawalpindi investigating the like to take a wife.
Wong On, the gunpowder, succeeded in holding Elm, the Chicago player, who has confer with the municipalities in Marshal Chiang Kai-shek pro- recent troubles at Peshawar-go-between, promised to help him. out for eight hours against ma- hardly fulfilled the great promise order to expedite the public works, ceeded to Neihuang on May 26 and
Wong On approached the accused
Sir Oswald Mosley suggested Lanfeng on May 26, personally to What The Lords Think. and the latter was willing to let his chine guns, trench mortars, and of a few years ago.
Rugby, Yesterday,
Britain's hopes are now centred the establishment of a central un-direct the attack on the city, which 20-year-old daughter marry the com- In the House of Lords, Lord Feel plainant if he would pay $200 for
Due to the precarious state of Complainant was told the
pon Roger Wethered, who seems employment organisation under la expected to fall at any which to be playing in something like his the Prime Minister.
Mr. J. H. Thomas, winding up Lanfeng, Fang Yu-halang is said in the information, when taking called for a statement on the situa-her..
Fullest support price asked for the girl, and agreed
best form after a period of erra- out the summons that the deser- tion in India.
tic play. Major Hezlet, the the debate, said that the Govern-to have arrived at the north- suburbs "of the city, tion started on July 16. 1928, and, should, he said, be given to the Gov-to pay it.
Royal Portrush player, is also still ment relied on reconstruction, re-western
la the only had continued up to the present ernment of India to crush and end
in the running, as is G. Hill, an equipment and rationalisation in which time.
"unknown" who belongs to the making the factories more ef- that is not besieged by the Sandy Lodge Club. Douglas cient, thus enabling the British to Nationalists, in order to
Another contingent the Anglo-Argentinian compete fairly and squarely in the defence.
of Kuominchun under Sun Liang- player, is again well to the fore, the world's export markets.
The division resulted:-
ching are marching from Kaifeng 28 3 result of beating Robert
Against
along the south-east of the Lung- Harria, an international player.
For
Hai line, aiming at the capture-of at the 20th.
Chenlau, Tsibo and Chulhalen, presumably to raise the siege of Chihcheng, which la being defend. abed by Sun Tien-ying, and encircled by the Nationalists for the past two weeks,
"He Liked The Girl."
the disorders, which appear to be Accordingly a meeting of the organised from a common centre. parties was arranged for the after- A Ruling Wanted. Mr. Lo said that he proposed He suggested that instead of arrest-, ncon of May 17 at the Kowloon After seeing the to open his case rather at length ing the lenders in the particular dia- Railway station. because he thought that it was turbances it was better to strike at girl, the complainant said that he seldom that his Worship could the centres of disturbance-the Con-liked the girl and she also expressed. have had before him elements of gress Committee themselves, and her willingness to become his wife.
All then adjourned to the Sai such callousness and absence of that greater effort be made to humanitarian feelings on the part counter the flood of misrepresenta-Nam boarding house in Connaught Road Central where the complainant of a husband as in this case. He tion of British policy in the Press. thought that it was about time Lord Rending said that what was handed over the $200.
The girl
that a Court gave a ruling on the new and serious about the present took $100 of the money and her
status of a married woman and.
in particular, the rights of a man
to take any woman to the house
and call her a concubine.
He said that the complainant. who was now 22 years of age, married the defendant at the age! of 18, and as he did not think Mr. d'Almada would deny that-she married the defendant as his "kit: fat" wife, he would not prove that Mr. d'Almada agreed that com- plainant was defendant's "kit fat" wife.
Married in Canton. Proceeding, Mr. Lo said that "the marriage took place in Canton on December 15, 1926. The fol- lowing year the family came to Hong Kong and lived in a house in Des Voeux Road West with the defendant's parents.
Lord Reading.
father accused took the other $100. Then accused told the coin- plainant that he would take the girl out to buy her some jewellery and elothing.. They would return to the boarding house at 8 p.m., when the giri would stay with complainant and return to his home with him the following morning.
Neither returned. Complainant said he had not seen the girl since the meeting on the 17th. The ac cused he saw again on the 26th, in custody at the Taipo Police Station, and preferred the charge against him.
Wong On. the go-between gave corroborative evidence.
The constabulary forces retired at night fall, and are waiting for sunrise to renew their attack.
The offensive was undertaken by Colonel Luther Stevens, Pro-
STOP PRESS Grant,
Rome, Yesterday, The Chamber has adopted the Naval Estimates totalling 1,476,000,000 lire, being 240,- 000,000 over last year's Ea- timates owing to increaesd pay and spending 192,000,000 lire on reconstruction work. A sum of 600,000,000 lire is now get naide for new con- struction in 1930. Globa! ton- nage does not greatly differ from that of 1029, the pre- ponderance being given to submarines. Reuter.
Brisbane, Yesterday,
· Miss Amy Johnson hag
arrived unhurt after her crash -Reuter.
Tolley's Waterloo.
St. Andrews. Yesterday.
270 244
26 Liberals and oix left wingers
Majority
"Bobby" Jones of America headed by Mr. J. Maxton, beat C. J. H Tolley. British Amateur Champion, at the 19th,
in the fourth round of the Ama- teur Championship.
were
There
unprecedented Ten scenes during the match. thousand spectators trooped from fairway to fairway, and the match was played down a humani Avenue which three times involun- tarily saved Jones, who had pull- ed his shots, from trouble. The incidents occurred at the 4th, 17th, and 18th holes.
The two last were very critical. vincial Commander of Mindanao, ng Jones's shot at the and Sulu constabuldry, who are 17th would have landed in the enlisting seasoned veterans, both native and American, heing dead, which would have meant a lost hole. Jones, however, was Accused's statement was that hetermined to extinguish outlaw de-enabled to halve.
"Ignorant" of Transaction,
fiance.
Mr. J. H. Thomas.
A Bar to Business,
Allied Counter-Attack.
part
direct
Yen Hel-shan and Feng Yu- halang have issued the order for counter attack, with Generals Hau Yung-chang, Sun Tao and Chi Hsung-chang to be responsible for the Lung-Hai Hino and General Fu Tao-yi for the northern section of the Tain-Pu Has. Ten Hsi-shan remains at Shihchiachuang to direct the general movements, while Feng Yu-halang directs the operations at the front.
Wan Tsun-taal Again. Wan Taun-tsal, the captured allied General, was escorted to Heuchow and put into the military
I gaol there on May 25. Interview- - did not know what transaction the
ed by Pressmen, Wan pointed out Cruel Luck! complainant had with his daughter
the following weak points of the " An Ultimatum' Ignored."
Tolley tried to fight down cruel
allied forces: The lack of food- In the 7th moon of that year
who had stayed with him (com-
Governor John J. Heffington, of luck, but fate was against him plainant) for three nights after
stuffs and ammunitions; the direc (ahout August, 1927), the defen-
It took ter
tion of campaign not centralized dant's father died and left him a disturbances was the evidence that which complainant gave her some Lanto Province, issued a three- toward the end.
He alleged that the man day ultimatum, which was not minutes to clear the course befors
under one supreme command; and great deal of money, besides a an organisation of civil disobedience money.
Civil disobedience Wong On knew no more of the mat-answered-hence an attack was the players could drive off at the stained from voting, and the de- the employment of doubtful troops firm in Hong Kong and property had been set up.
The directly ordered by General 18th Tolley hit a stupendour bate was adjourned.-Reuter.
as sacrifice contingenta. Wan con- in Canton and Penang.
could not be tolerated and the ter than be (accused) did.
tinued that due to the re- Mr. Lo said that he was men-Government must put forth all the whole thing had been between.com-Charles E. Nathorst, Chief of 300 yard ball right on the pin,
Rugby, Yesterday. peated defeats of the Srd tioning this merely to show that weapons at its command to break it. plainant and his (accused's) daugh- Constabulary, with the sanction and Jones's ball rebounded on to the fairway from the crowd defendant was not a man of ab- Earl Russell, Under-Secretary for ter, and no one else was concerned. of Governor-General Davis.
Sultan Maamur, whose former Jones over-ran the green, and
A debate on unemployment in the and 65 Divialons and the Indepen- dent Brigade of the allied forces The Magistrate convicted and in-
was opened by solutely no money, but rather one India, having aurveyed the situation of means, and if he had wanted in various centres, said that there quired if there was anything pre-resistance in another stronghold Tolley, with a great chance, when House of Commons
pelled to proceed to Niagling on to he could have done something was no question of the loyalty of viously known against the accused. was previously responsible for the laying dead, played a timid shot, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Conserva- by the Nationalists, he was com- death of five constabulary men which was eight yards short. tive leader, who declared that any May 19 to interview General Liu for his wife.
the Indian Army, and he paid a Kidnapped Own Daughter.
less drastic than the thing that and ten Moros, besides injuries The whole was halved in four, Attitude Becomes Worse. tribute to the work of the Indian Sub-Inspector. Smith said In the 9th moon, the defendant Police, who frequently were pelted had not been.convicted before, but to nine other constabulary men,
At the 19th both had fine afeguarding of industries duties Mou-yen for the discussion of would not meet the case. He military affairs. But at that time moved, with his mother, to aby brickbats, insulted, and not on the 26th he was arrested for the is known to be occupying Sultan drives, and both seconds went agreed that high tariffs were bar to Liu who unknown to him (Wan) had gone over the. Central Govern- house in Queen's Road West, allowed to protect themselves except kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl Ganassi's cotta in the present at-
over the dreaded Swilcan Burr The girl turned out to tack and joining forces.".
Tolley ran up a shot three yards business, but they could not get ment, had him detained. About this time. the complain-in the last resort. The Government at Taipo.
Several casualties in the pre from the pin, and Jones stymied those tariffs reduced while the Brie prisoner further added that he had ant's father, who had been a fhad shown the utmost limit of for- be the accused's younger daughter;
as a "sam po sent engagement are obscurely business man of some substance bearance in quelling the disorders whom he had sold in Canton, failed.. He went to and had resorted to firearms only chal" (little bride). Apparently, reported, but not confirmed owing him, his ball lying two yards from del market was a dumping ground written a letter to Marshal Chinns Shanghai, where he died in the when conditions made it absolutely after receiving money for the sale of to the lack of communications. 7th moon of last year, and since necessary.
the girl, he had taken her away to Reuter.. then the defendant's attitude to Lord Russell paid a tribute to the sell her again.
This case was referred to the ward his wife became worse. Viceroy, who had shown immense
After the marriage, the couple patience and had done nothing that S.C.A., but it was decided not to Then the got on as well as could be expect could be regarded as provocative. charge the accused.
ed. They tolerated each other, The Government had assured him of complainant, who had heard of ac- and there was nothing to ruffle their full, and unstintad support-cused's arrest, laid Information their matrimonial sea. But soot British Wireless Service.
after the death of, defendant's father, defendant was practical-
ly never at home. He went out
to dinner every night and return- ed home, at different hours, only to sleep it off, when he would go. away again.
Continuous Misery.
In the circumstances it could! be seen that the wife's life was a continuous misery. To make things worse, during the rare moments when the defendant dis- dained to notice her presence in the house, he would scold and swear at her and beat her, and generally show her that she was a superfluous person on earth, and she might as well die.
Mr. Lo said that in the 11th moon, a cat was missing from the house. It was a matter of no im-
which led to his being charg-
ed. In view of the two Earlier messages stated:
cases the S.C.A.. was of Ambalal Patel In charge of the the opinion that the accused was Civil Disobedience campaign was making a living by fraudulently. arrested with the first batch of 21 trafficking in his own children. out of 225 volunteers arrested Previously the accused had been a during the salt raid on May 16 Falice searcher at the water front, and sentenced to a month's but was dismissed. The reason rigorous imprisonment.
was not stated in the record.
for
On the ground that it was used was at present unemployed and
non-agricultural purposes; living in Taipo."
the Government declared ag for-
The Sentence.
SOME SHOWERS.
The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states:-
A depression is central over the Gulf of Tongking,
The typhoon is about 150 miles East of Banco, moving “East.****
Forecaat-East winds, mo- derate; fair generally; some showers.
⠀ General has received the fol
lowing typhoon warning from the Manila Observatory:-
Yesterday, 6.30 p.my clone or typhoon near or over Balintang Channel, moving'. Channel East.RREN
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to which all cheap goods could be
The
the pin. Tolley mopped his fore
The safeguarding of home requesting the latter's forgiveness head as he knelt down, surveying markets was dustial basis for and stating that he was willing to the ground. After some minutes
Britain's Hopes.
In other matchca Major Hezlet the unemployment beat. Stephenson (Northumber-
land) 6 and 5; Roger Wethered the case hero.. beat Brower (France) 5 and 8;
8
and Feng.
of contemplation he took a mashie, the development of markets within collect his remnants against Yon
..: Shantung. Situation. and bounced the ball on Jones's the Empire, and the pulling down
Acting under instructions of but it ran round the edge of the of foreign tariffa bad resulted from cup, this being the end of an epic bargaining between one protected Yen Hal-shan, General Fur Tao-yi country and another. He declared
has ordered his forces to make a conflict.
that in countries under protection general advance. Li Sang-ta, is
had figures
now engaging the Shantung troops. mounted more rapidly than wag under General Han Fu-chu at Yucheng, but no result has been Twelve months ago the problem reported.
General Liu Chen-nin, Garrison G. Von Elm beat Ricardo (West was one of home conditions in re- Cornwall) 6 and 3: Douglas Grantation to normal foreign markets. Commander of Tsingtao, has re- That was not the problem to-day.ceived instructions from general [Feat R. Harris at the 20th.
Wing-Commander Greig (St. Let them take any Industrial coun: Chan Tiao-yuan to proceed with Mackenzie try and it would be found that his forces to the Tsin-Pu line to The American Consulate-Andrews) beat HB
and world causes had knocked the bot engage the Shanel invadera. It is (America) 4 and Francis Ouimet beat Lyndon tom out of prices and every country affirmed that 20,000 rounds of Jones (Cardiff) 7 and 6. G. Hill dependent on export trade bad suf- cartridges, 5,000 hand grenades, (Sandy Lodge) beat W. Torrance fored. He instanced Germany, and $50,000.00 have been sent to
where the unemployment figures had Liu for his "coming expedition. 2 and 1.
rison from 1,700,000 to 2,700,000 and General Han Fu-chu, Chen Tiao- the United States, which a year ago yuan and Ma Hsung-kuei, held a Bobby Jones and Cyril Tolley had practically no unemployed and military conference on May 25/ are to meet in the fourth round where there were now Between which decided to transfer the enti this afternoon. In the third 5,500,000 and 6,000,000.
tire forces under General Mato round Jones had beaten. C. Shank-
guard the north of Shantung, Land of St. George's Hill by four
leaving the western sector to beco up and three to play while
taken over by those under Han Fu- Tolley accounted for W. Fowlis, a
chu, General Chen will remain in Telnan as a basis of operations to St. Andrew's postman, by the same; margin, MacKenzie (America) beat support the two armies when
Johnson (America) led Lt. Col. Holden (Sandiway) 6 and 4.
necessary. ¿ Brabazon, the famous airman, by Oulmet Beats Bower, 4-holes at the turn and finished 6 Francis Quimet (America). and 5. Hezlet beat Neill (East beat A. G. Bower at the 21st: Mr. Hu Hsish-kuel, the represen Renfrew) 4 and 2. Wethered out- Kenneth. Forbes (Cramond tative of Chairman Ho Chien, has played the plucky Douglas Brigg) beat Rowland Saunders declared that the rumours circulat Fiddian, the conqueror of the (America) 8 and 2; Hill of Sandy ed about the entrance Into Hunan English native champion, 7 and 3. Lodge, beat Rex Hartley, of of the Ironsides and Kwangel in Foster (Princes) vanquished the Cooden Beach at the 20th and surgents, having previously, obtain- American, G. W. Altney, 8 and 1. W. Torrance beat F. O. Vargue od the permission of General Ho zoundless. As General Brower (France) beat Spark who (America) 5 and 4 Chlen knocked out ing in the second Dr. Waddell beat Stevens of Ho
felted the land on which the The Magistrate Imposed a fine of Untadi camp which the Gandhi-$250 or four months hard labour, ites again occupied since the and ordered that $70 found on the police action on May 22. The accused be handed over to the com- police again raided the camp, plainant. ejected the occupants and de- molished their huts.
HOLLOW IN A WALL.
Opium Traffic Offender portance and would not have causat this happening and one of Run to Earth. ed undue trouble in any ordinary them, Ah Siu, the prosecution household, but the defendant had succeeded in trecing and
living at 8, Lower chose to think that his wife was hoped that she would be available Lescar Row was to-day charged the keeper of cats and scolded her as a witness so did before Mr. R. E Lindsell with the “Tried to Throttle Her." Procceding to give another in- unlawful possession of 84 thels of When she replied that the stance of alleged cruelty of the prepared orium. He admitted animal had four legs and could part of the husband, Mr. Lo said the offence. move about, he got into his usual that in the 2nd moon of 1928, Revenue Offcor Grimmitt: Bald
A Chinese
and abused her using the family moved to Hee Kwong that he and some Chinese fokie anguage. He ended un by Terrace and about the same time calded the house yesterday and Her face and tried to defenilant left the Colony for & discovered the oplum hidden in a ainant ried month or 80 Hollow) in a wall. They had to date or remove some bricks to get at the
tre The Magistrate imposed af
Tand aske
endant to of $4,000 of
To-day 10 a.m. Cyclone or Typhoon E. of Balintang Chan nel, moving EN.E...
Rainfall
Rainfall to 10, a.m. to-day 0.01 inch. ‹ Rainfall since January,1, 19,17 fuches. against an average of 22.34 Inchos. 7.
Temperature and Humidity The temperature and humidi ty at certain specified centres this mor arunt 6 o'clock. were!
Temp Humid
86.
Third Round Results.
on Elm beat
(Continued on Page 7.3
ca at the 19th and Voight rica), defeated Major:
Portrush) 8 and
Hunan Situation.
Changsha, May 27.