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WHERE WERE THE WATCHMAN?
Lots of Dynamite Missing.
EXCEPTIONAL CASE..
No. 27,539
FUTURE OF THE DOMINIONS.
Premier's Spirited Speech.
THE ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
Rugby, Yesterday.
econo-
BAT BLISHED TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The
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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1930.
JULY 14.
CELEBRATION AT FRENCH CONSULATE,
UNIFICATION OF FRANCE.
THE FATE OF INDIA
PRIME MINISTER'S WARNING.
To-dny being “le quatorze “MELANCHOLY "
Juillet" the French Consul, Monsieur M. G. Dufaure de la
Prade, was at home to residents ADVOCATION OF “THE and friends at his residence, 13,
LONG VIEW."
Rugby, Yesterday, Referring to the situation In
Dominion Status.
closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3 .
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
A RECIDIVIST.
LONG STRING OF PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS,
LOOKING FOR AUNT!
A Chinese who 'cou'd well be termed a recidivist was afrnign. ed before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood
term.
was
ого
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central
ROBBERY TRIAL AT THE ASSIZES.
Prisoner Says Previous Convictions a Handicap.
A VOLUNTARY POLICEMAN.
DEVELOPMENTS IN PEKING.
Chiang Kai-shek in Trouble.
THE UPLIFT MOVEMENT.
The meeting bowed three times
The postponed summons against the Hong Kong Excava
A passage in the Prime Minis-
at the Assizes this morning on by Mr. Justice J. R. Wood sitting Several cases were dealt with tion, Pile Driving and Construc
Peking, Yesterday. tion Co., for a breach of a con-ter's speech to-day was devoted to
The Plenary Session of the Cen-. dition of their dynamite storing the policy of Empire Free Peak Road, this morning.
charges of stealing varioua ar-at the monthly Assizes with a tral Party Headquarters of the
jury. licence by failing to have a guard Trade. He emphasised that its His Excellency the Governor
ticles of clothing and a sum of
Kuomintang, held this afternoon, to watch their No. 11 magazine advocates had no authority from was represented at the reception,
money amounting to $26.36 from cerned Ho Yan, who was charged
The first case to be heard con- was attended by 15 members of
the Central Executive Council at Aberdeen, between May 23 andi. June 8, was heard by Mr. R. E. the Dominions to engage in the as were the Navy, the Army, and
three persons in a Chinese board-with the robbery of several arti- Wang Fa Chen, the oldest mem- Lindsell this morning.
present propaganda. There was the R.A.F. The Canadian Trade India in a speech at the Crystal also with returning from banish-woman residing at Aberdeen. Thesent, and he was elected Chairman ber of the Kuomintang, was pre- ing house at Wing Lok Lane, and cles of clothing belonging to a When the Magistrate called not a single Dominion but was Commissioner was also present.
Palace last night Mr. Ramany Mac-
of the session, evidence, Sub-Inspector Shaftain, developing on nationalist lines its
The Right Reverend Bishop to-day was
Donald said that the state of India ment before the expiry of his offence was said to have been who prosecuted, said that Sergt. own industrial and
serious.
What
committed on the morning of before Sun Yat-eer's portrait, and Baker, in charge of Aberdeen mic evolution, and no Gov-Valtorta was an early caller, and happening was only adding to Prisoner pleaded guilty, and
July 8. Police Station, had to attend the ernment, whatever its majority Official and Unofficial members of India's difficulties and was not ad-when asked
Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, As-will, and then he read a Manifesto, Wang Fa-chen read Sun Yat-sen's for his record, the Supreme Court this morning, and may be in this he had come to Court intending could force on the Dominions an Editor of the China Mail and
country; the Legislative Council and the vancing India's chance of reaching Police produced a long string dat-sistant Attorney-General, prose which the mesting signed, some
ing back to 1924.
cuted and the prisoner was not signing on behalf of prominent It appeared to ask for a further adjournment. economic policy in which the
However, after he had explain-Dominions did not believe.
Sunday Herald niso paid their re-operate have had to be arrested for tlon orders were made out against
"Bien with whom we wish to co- that no fewer than two deporta- legally represented.
members who were not present. ed the circumstances to Mr. E.. D. The implication was that the spects to the Republie of France. actions which if they themselves him and that he had, contraven-said that at about 2 a.m. on the attached to the document.
Outlining the case, Mr. Fitzroy, Altogether there are 81 signature Shank, manager of the defendant Labour Government has no inter- M. de la Prade, who (one had been responsible for a purely ed these orders no fewer than six day in question, complainant was Company, he understood that Mr. est in the Dominions and no in-thinks) quite unnecessarily ex Indian Government faced with con- times. Shunk now wished to change his fluence upon Dominions opinion,
Quo Tai-chi algned on behalf of · sleeping in her cubicle when she Wang Ching-wei, Chao Pi-lin for cused himself for his English, in ditions such as those they have Asked why he had returned to was awakened by someone going Yen Hsi-shan, and Huang Shou-ku plen to one of "guilty."
Dealing with the facts of the the Dominions are going to come States of Europe would become an sible for conditions," he said.
"Against that I believe that if ward to the day when the United pelled the arrest of people respon-portation had expired, prisoner her eyes and saw a man there, and
n happy little speech, looked for- created recently, would have com- the Colony before his term of de-about in her room. She opened for Feng Yu-hsiang. case, Inspector Shaftain said that in with us in economic co-opera- established fact.
raid that he came back to look at once she cried out "thief."
The Manifesto, from its as far as a dynamite licence was tion, if the Dominions and our-proud and pleased, he said, to see melancholy thing which is
He was very "The whole of this is a for an aunt, and concerned the Police have first to selves are to devise an economic so many representatives of other necessary and foolish.
when passing The man then jumped out of the point of view, gives the history of be satisfied that the place where and industrial policy which wilinations gathered together to do are
un-Wing Lok Street, he saw the door window to a lean-to roof and from
the Party since Sun Yat-sen's it was proposed to store the dyna be beneficial to all of us, then the his country honour.
Mon who of the boarding house open. This there to a back lane. The woman death, stating that the Central going mite was a suitable one, and then Labour Government has a better
to be Governors of was in itself too much of a temp-then found that some of her cloth-Executive Council had striven to they required the applicant for the chance of bringing about that phasised the fact that July 14 was understand conditions under which He stole with the intention of re-
State and responsible for Administation to him, so he entered and ing, which had been left on top of exterminate Communism and to re- Continuing, M. de la Prade em-stration ought to look ahead and helped himself to the property, a basket, were missing.
organise and unify the country, but licence to submit for their ap agreement than a Government of not a celebration of the storming alone administration and change turning to the country proval two watchmen to guard the any other party in this country of the Bastille, as seemed to be a are possible,"
Continuing, counsel said that destroyed unification, and he had unexpectedly Chiang Kai-shek had magazinc.
and not the hue and cry had wakened the dominated the party by acts which The Police, when the proposed September we are going to do actually the fact was that in 1790,
"At the Imperial Conference in popular opinion.
with the intention of giving His neighbourhood, and the prisoner were illegal, What was
Lordship trouble. watchmen were referred to them, everything that can be done by one year after the demolition of
Consequently, he had was caught squatting down in the lost all national rights abroad Sentence of six months on the back lane with the clothing near and internally he had greatly would make inquiries as to their the British Government to come the Bastille, the various factions
charge of larceny and three years' him. character, and when satisfied on to En economic
hard labour on the charge of re-
harmed the masses. arrangement in France gathered together for this point, they "finger-print" with the Dominions that will its re-unification.
Prisoner, when arrested, made Chiang Kai-shek had called illegally la 1929, turning from banishment wer a statement which amounted to aa Third Plenary Session, through impoesd, the sentences to run con-confession of having stolen the which he had started military ex- currently.
articles, but when charged before peditions to exterminate other ele- the Magistrate, he said that about ments.
the candidates and put their benefit the working classes of this France to-day, he added, was photos in the dynamite store country."
book: Employers-of-the-watch-S
men were supposed to notify the
Police when they decided to dis-
miss their watchmen, and new
guards to take their places had to be immediately submitted to the Police for examination.
Sub-Contractor Dismissed.
In this case the defendant Com-
watchmen,
TRESPASSER IN LYEMOON BARRACKS.
PREPOSTEROUS STORY,
A Chinese was to-day charged
pany dismissed their sub-contrac-before Mr. R. E. Lindsell for tress- tor on May 23 and the latter took away with him 80 of his men passing at the Lyemoon Barracks including the two
on Saturday, for an unlawful pur- who were supplied to the Compose pany by him. No new watchmen drink of tea.
Accused: I went there for a were put in the places of the two who left.
Mr. Lindsell: What are you talking about, how do you get tes to drink there?
The
ment was correct. He said that
sion when he pleaded "not guilty"
at the last hearing, and would now admit the charge.
result of that meeting
Lond
M. de la Prade proposed the toast of His Majesty the King, after which everybody drunk to the health of "La bonne France."
A CALLOUS RASCAL.
WOUNDS WOMAN ON POINT OF GIVING BIRTH.
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
The report from the Royal Observatory, issued of 11 a.m.,
The western typhoon ap pears to be entering the coast to the east of Haiphong and moving northward
The eastern typhoon is now about 100 miles WN.W. of: Wenchow, moving N.W. or W.N.W.
Forecast: 3W. Winds; moderate; fair to showery.
BIG PAGEANT IN SEPTEMBER.
FORGED BANKNOTE?
YOUNG CHINESE FACES SERIOUS
CHARGE.
OWN
Yen Hsi-shari and Feng
ten men set on him and had beaten Yu-halang more than once had ad- [him to make an adrlission.
On the Spot!
vised him to desiat, but in vain, so that the Comrades from all the Evidence was then given by a provinces had decided to fight under Chinese who said that he was on the guidance of the party to oust Wong Kam, a modern young a visit to a Chinese Police Ser- Chiang Kai-shek without compro- Chinese, was arraigned before Mr.geant. That night he accompanied miso. Justice J. R. Wood at the Assizes his friend on. patrol duty, and at Those signing the Manifesto had this morning on a charge of ut-about 2 a.m. the Police Sergeant decided that it declares to organise
·tering a
forged $100 Chartered had to go to Aplichau and he re-a conference under the Central flank note and with obtaining $70quested witness to keep on patrol Party Headquarters and to prepare by means of it from the Kumi Tolling the district for him. Witness for the convocation of a conference Hotel, Kowloon, on May 17. said that he agreed to do so, and a of delegates representing the whole Mr. H. Somerset-Fitzroy, Assist-few minutes later he heard the nation, the aim of which is the establishing of the foundations of and the prisoner was undefended. His Lordship: So you made the whole country on a sure basis. He pleaded "Not Guilty."
yourself a volunteer policeman? The Tientsin Imbroglio. Counsel, outlining the
case, Yea. said that evidence would be pro-
Continuing, witness said he ran According to a Kuomin despatch
Shanghai, Yesterday. duced to show that the note was a to the place whence the blowing of from Nanking, Dr. C. T. Wang and forgery.
It was a good forgery police whistles came, and there he Mr. Ingram, Counsellor to the and people who were not well ac saw the prisoner already in cus-British Legation, held a conference quainted with notes, would easily tody of a blacksmith. be deceived by it.
He took relative to the situation arising charge of the situation and tool from the seizure of the Tientsin the prisoner to the Police Station. Prisoner when asked if he had
Customs."
"Are We All Guilty?" He reminded the jury, however,
An inhuman story was unfolded BIRTH OF RAILWAYS.ant Crown Attorney, prosecuted blowing of police whistles. at the Assizes this morning before Then on June 8. Mr. Shank re-
Mr. Justice J. R. Wood when & ported to the Police that the whole
Chinese man, 26 years of age, WAS ateck of the Company's magazine Shaukiwan Police Station, told the bodily wounds to a woman in Kow- Sub-Inspector Ellis, in charge of arraigned on a Tharged of causing nt Aberdeen, including 795 sticks Magistrate that at about 9.16 p.m., icon on May 12. of dynamite, was stolen. Police made inquiries and found on Saturday, a Sergeant of the Prisoner picaded "Guilty" to the that there were no - watchmen, rounds when he saw the accused
Royal Artillery was going his charge. hence the summons.
Rugby, Yesterday. Asked to give the facts of the on the first floor verandah of "C" case, Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, As By the Magistrate: The dyna- Block, which was the extreme block sistant Crown Attorney, said that the Liverpool and
The centenary of the opening mite was in the magazine on June of the married quarters at the bar- it would appear that the woman was Rallway, which was
Manchester 7, but during the night of the 7th racks. and 8th its door was smashed in the time,
The occupant was out at an aunt of the prisoner.
the world's that the all important question at anything to say, replied that he; The results of the conference She was first successful and contents removed.
commercial issue was whether or not the pri- really did not know what to say were not disclosed... The accused was taken to the and as a matter of fact, she was sense of the term, will be cele forgery. If he did not then there convictions against him and it in her house on the day in question, locomotive railway in the modern soner knew that the note was a because he had had a few previous Mr. Shank told the Magistrate station and he said that he had gone about to give birth to a child brated at Liverpool in September, was no offence in uttering it, be really did not matter whether he
The Civil War.” that Inspector Shaftain's state to the barracks to look for work. Prisoner entered the house, and as and arrangements have been made cause the same thing could and admitted the offence or not.
Shanghal, Yesterday.
he had been under a misapprehen-of six weeks' hard labour.
The Magistrate passed sentence there were two other men there, he to make the celebrations worthy was happening to everyone of us
It is officially learned from Hau- ehowl that the Han Fu thư van sent them out on a wild goose chase of this unique occasion.
every day. Very often they would
A Mixed Plea.
guards have reached the vicinity of anying that someone owed him Although during trial runs in tender a ten cent piece and be told prisoner, when asked to plead and are rapidly advancing towards It may be remarked here that Mingabui, to the west of Chowtsun, money and he would like them to go 1820 the speed attained by the that it was no good. The same at the outset said he was "guilty," Tairan. He had thought that after the zine and do nothing else but watch out and collect it for him.
train drown by the steam engine ten cent plece had come to ther but on his Lordship drawing his Government had asked them to the place. In fact, in the book After the two women had left, "Rocket" did not reach eighteen in the ordinary way and they attention that the statement he effectively bombing the enemy post- Eight Government aeroplanes are dismiss their contractor, the it was made clear that one of the prisoner took hold of a chopper and miles an hour whon running light, egein passed it out without know-made at the Magistracy amounted tions on the Tientsin Pukow Hall- firm's own Indian watchmen
two watchmen was required to be threatened the confined woman within one week it was travelling ing that it was forgery. would suffice to watch the maga there all the time.
his aunt-with it.
He asked her at thirty miles an hour over the On May 18, prisoner went to the
The case was в curious one. one of "Not Guilty."
to a denial, he changed his plea to way front, where the Shansi troops zine until they got a new contrac-
Magistrate: Surely, only when for her pair of gold-bangles, which Liverpool-Manchester track.
are stated to have suffered a tor.
He commented that the the dynamite is in use? No. Our the readily handed over, but the
Further evidence was heard and crushing defeat. Indians' shed was located only 50 concern in making this regulation man
Kun Tol Hotel at night and ask after the jury had retired for a On the Peking-Hankow Railway was not Satisfeld. Heber celebrations which are being mote in payment, and as it was unanimous verdict of "Not Gull-said to have been fought on the In connection with the Septem ed for a room. He tendered the few minutes, they returned a front, a twenty-four hour battle is feet from the magazine.
is to prevent dynamite from be wanted to obtain all her Say- Mr. Shank continued that now
ing stolen for fishing purposes.
organised by the Cities of Liver rather late at night, the account-ty." inge, which were about $800, that he had been shown the Or- You say that the Government reman, with the knife causing five operation of the late Raslave to prisoner. The latter was made stand. I think the evidence bears casualties.
Mr. Lindsell (to Mr., Shank): Thereupon prisoner chopped the wo pool and Manchester, with the coat had only $70, which he gave
10th inst in the vicinity of Hou- dinance by Inspector. Shaftain, hequired you to dismiss your con- wounds on the scalp,pduate & pageant depicting the evolution to sign his name on the note, you out. **
His Lordship: I quite under chang, both sides sustaining heavy had no option but to plead tractor for Prisoner said that the woman which Ave thousand people, will which he did so, giving his name Turning to the prisoner his large number
af transport will be performed in
The Government forces salzed d By the Magistrate: Between ment was not ratisfied with the man was not satisfied. He
Mr. Shank: Yes. The Govern- owed him money and when he ask-take part-British Wireless Ser- Lau Hung. He was told to get Lordship said that the jury had guns and ammunition Reuter.
of rifles, machine- May 28 and June 8, the magazine progress of work and asked us to threatened to take her to the Police
the balance of the money later listened very carefully to the t was open only for Police inspec-discharge the contractor, Station, and the woman showed
An Actor Friend. tion
evidence and had returned a ver-PLANES FOR CONGO, Mr. Lindsell inquired from In- Gght. He gave her the wounds in
Prisoner went up to the room, dict of Not Guilty." Prisoner Inspector Shaftain: It was last spector Shaftain why there was self-defence.
but he did not sleep there that would, therefore, be dlacharged on URDERED FROM BRITAIN BY inspected by the Police on June 5, such delay in bringing the case to
night. Instead he came down that count, but a further charge and then all was intact.
His Lordship: I am going to
to the office and after get-of returning from banishment read to you the evidence of Dr. Mr, Shank remarked that it was The Inspector said that the Smalley, who had attended the wo
ting the balance of his money, would be gone into later in the Police had to make investigations, man. He speaks of five wounds
about $24.40, he came over to day,
TO FLY OVER JUNGLE TRACTS. that the Government were satis and there was a lot of correspon and he also states that the woman and savage thing, to attack, a man there in a boarding house with Holding that it was serious Hong Kong and slept the night fied with their new contractors, dence between the District In was very fortunate for not being with a chopper, Mr. Whyte daith another friend. JUMP INTO HARBOUR.
Rugby, Saturday.. and they have resumed work spector Central, and the Officer in killed. You are indeed a very at the Kowloon Magistracy this Next morning, he again went to
Six British air-liners of the latest Trouble With Watchmen Charge at Aberdeen before the fortunate man otherwise you would morning passed sentence of six the Kum Tol Hotel; and again the A Chinese woman named Wan silan Government for the al- Hines fype have been ordered by the Bel- Mr. Lindaell It appears that him.
matter was flually referred to be standing here now in the
imprisonment on a Chinese same night, but in the meantime Yuk-kin (22), living at 12 Russell in the Congo, These machines, your two Indians have falled in Mr. Shank said that he could wom
a capital char
who attacked fellow the Hotel had sent the note ton Street, Wanchal, was alleged to which are known as Westland their duty cart understand add that the Ser
bank and discovered it was a for have attempted suicide yesterday Wessex, are triple-engined mono- that I had thought that they deen had
int at Aber
Blater told the Magia gery. The accountant spoke to afternoon by jumping into the bar-planes driven by three Genet Major affair, occurred at prisoner about it, and the latter bour from the Taumst ferry engined, giving a total of 800 h.p... at ance said that he had booked Jaunch Man Lat. The launch was Accommodation is provided for ve the room for an actor friend, who stopped and the woman was rescued. passengers, a pilot and navigator, bad given him the note to mak On the vessel's arrival at the Hong And the machine with full soad ment. He volunteered to ge Kong wharf the woman, was handed can fly with any one of its threer- Jocks out and look for his friend, and over to the Police who sent her to engines stopped. It is to be used lled to find him the hstof the Government Civil Hospital ever long tracts of fangle where a Police Jurering from the effects of forced landing would be particularly mersion. Her condition is not unplezeant British Wirelons Ser- considered to be serious vice.
"guilty."
only within the last few days
would have been sufficien
watch the place until
men from our
com
Court
with Mia squ
searchin
When she
vice.
CHOPPER HANDY.
SERIOUS AND SAVAGE ATTACK.
BELGIAN GOVERNMENT.