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No. 27,543
IN PADRE'S ASSAULT ON GIRL. BEDROOM.
Exciting Tussle in Kowloon.
"BOY'S" HAND BITTEN.
The Rev. Alexander J. Me.
Accused denied the charge.
AMERICAN SEAMAN'S BAD
BEHAVIOUR.
ADMITS REING A FOOL.
named John Leal, described as a seaman of the s.8. Texas,
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HONG KONG. FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR closing rate of the dollar demand, to-day was 1/8 .
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GOVERNOR INDICTS UPROAR IN SMART PENALTY FOR CHINA'S CIVIL WAR. BRITAIN CRITICAL OF
VOLUNTEERS.
COMMONS
BAG SNATCHER.
Presidency Heading for 2 LABOUR MEMBERS Honesty of a Rikisha
an Economic Crisis.
SUSPENDED.
MILLS THREATEN TO CLOSE.
MACE SEIZED.
PROTESTS EVOKED FROM ALL SIDES.
Earlier News.
Puller.
WOMAN'S GOOD LUCK..
ORDERS FOR A BIG OFFENSIVE TO BE MADE.
PINGLOK SURROUNDED.
Canton, Yesterday.
With a view to exterminating
treated from Hunan to Pinglok,
The
BRIAND'S PLAN.
Might Create Continental Rivalries.
WHY NOT THE LEAGUE ?.
Rugby, Yesterday,
on the or-
and sug
Able to see only through two nrrow allts of her badly puffed, eyes, and speaking painfully on In the Assembly to-day, Sir
in picking up a handbag and re-Kweilin, and Liuchow, C.-in-C. wh Bombay, Yesterday.. Kenzie, C.P., recounted before Mr.account of swollen lips, the swell-Frederick Sykes, the Governor, in
The honesty of a rikisha puller the Kwangsi remnants who re-
. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kow-
The text is issued of the reply ings giving her a very gruesome his speech severely indicted the
turning it to Mrs. A. Rey, of 2, Chan Chai-tong of the 8th Route have sent to the French. Govern- the Britiah Government loon Magistracy this morning his
appearance. Nyan Kiu, the unproceedings of the civil dis-
Nanking Street, after it had been Army, has despatched two divi-cient's Memorandum Experiences with a thief nameri
fortunate inmate of a house of obedience volunteers, as a result of
snatched from her and thrownsions and one training brigade to ganisation of a system of a Euro- Tsang Kun-po (22) who was
repute. 2. Spring Garden Lancing towards an economic crisis. of Commons to-day arising from the related to Mr.
which the Presidency was head- There was a scene in the House to the ground by a Chinese, was (Hunan) Army to surround the says that the proposale, so impor
Loddon, Yesterday.
combine with the 4th Route pean Federal Union. charged with being found in Wanchai, today appeared before He emphasised that there can be Labour member, Mr. A. Fenner the Kowloon Magistracy this division under Lu Hon-mou is re- careful and prolonged considera-. The reply Whyte-Smith at rebels. The vanguard of the 59th tant in purpose and scope, require plainant's bedroom at 31. Peking.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell as complainant no question of negotiation with Brockway, insisting on making a Buildings, first floor, on Sunday
in an assault case in which the persons whose declared object is speech after Mr. MacDonald had morning by Detective-Inspector and is now pressing on to Pinglok, in
ported to have arrived at Laipo tion, and this must be undertaken morning.
defendant was
to make an orderly "Government replied to a question about, India. C. P. Fallon. a burly American impossible.
consultation with the other in eastern Kwangsi. The Interruption ended in Mr..
The 63rd Governments in the British Com- Story of the Chase.
Bombay, Later. Brockway's suspension and alau in pleaded guilty. According to In- Brigade under Wong Yam-wan, requested a reply by mid-July, how
The thief, Wan Yung (19) division commanded by General monwealth. According to the padre, it ap
Ten mills of the Saasoon group the suspension of the left wing
Li Yung-king and the Training bave intimated their intention of Labourite, Mr. John Beckett, who spector Fallon, the complainant having arrived at Yungming on ever, the present Note was sent, As the French Government have pears that he was asleep at four When the charge was read out closing temporarily on August 15 exclaimed "It is a damned dis- and a woman friend were walking the Hunan-Kwangsi border, are although its comments 'clock in the morning. Awaken to him by the Magistrate ed by a noise, he found a man said: "I think I'did it." I don't proved. Twenty thousand work- the table, walking out of the House, night, when accused came up from Pass and Kungcheng, with Ping-liminary and tentative. The fun- Leal if trade conditions have not im- grace." He lifted the mace from along Nathan Road on Wednesday now pushing towards Lungfu gestions must be regarded as pre-
ers are involved.--Reuter. Was
with it, when an attendant seized behind and snatched Mrs. Rey's lok as their objective. the maco and stored it to the
damental purpose of the French Simla, Yesterday.
Sergeant at Arm Mr. Beckett'a handbag. He ran away and was
Big Offensive. As a result of correspondence. action evoked tests from all caught in Nanking Street by forces under the command of Liu pean people from hostilities and Memorandum is understood to be the Viceroy has agreed to Sir Tejides and his suspension
two divisions of Hunan to divert the attention of Euro- was car-Portuguese, but the latter did not Chin-shu and Li Pao-ping after from the conflets of interest. Sapru and Mr. Jayakar seeing, ried by $24 to 4 vátés Gandhi, Motilal Nehru and
House Indignant,
go to the Police Station, with the occupying Chuanchow are advanc- sometimes allowed to exist be Jawaharlal Nehru In gaol, with Magistrate: How did they come a view to persuading them to re- was suspended was such that the
The tumult when Mr. Brockway culprit.
ing towards Kweilin. The order tween them, and to fix their at- Accused, before being arrested, for a big offensive on Pinglok will tention upon more important com- to loggerheads? The girl seems store peace,
figures of the division were The Viceroy
in-dropped the bag. A rikisha pull shortly be issued. to have got a terrible beating.
mion Interests, thereby promoting reiterates the audible, but it was noticed during er, picked it up, and handed it
The main body of the Kwangai closer co-operation Government's desire that Indians the division that all parties except over to Mrs. Rey without hesita-remnants are reported to be con- European nations
among the Acting Sub-Inspector Post: We should manage their own affairs, a score
and Govern- vere unable to get a statement subject to temporary safeguards a voted for his suspension.
of left wing Labourites tion. "It was very good of him," centrated at Kweilin and Liuchow, ments and strengthening the safe- from the girl last night because the sphere in which full responsi
concluded the police officer..
and a smaller contingent garrison guards against each other. her mouth was too sore to speak.
bility is not yet possible.
Beckett's conduct evoked universal shouts of indignation. described as an odd job coolie in peditionary forces, upon their pathy with this purpose and the
His Worship: I see accused is ing Pinglok, which city is expect Fullest Sympathy.
ed to fall into the hands of the ex- Sir Tej Sapru and Mr. Jayakar It was noted that both he and Mr. the Kowloor Godowns. Asked by the Magistrate what will conduct negotiations with W. J. Brown, who were "tellera" |
The reply expresses fullest sym- was about,
Inspector Falion: Yes, he may who went on the outside of the mumbled with difficulty that de Assembly, Sir George Schuster, the in reporting a division.
the girl Gandhi on their own responsibility. In the Brockway diviston, did not be on for one day and then off for
earnest hope that France's initia- Replying to a question in the bow to the Chair as was customary three days. He said that he was
tive will promote a better under- was then inside. The latter took fendant. paid $1 to her and then Finance Member, said there had stood nonchalantly by the table.
It may be recalled that some standing of the common interests They hungry! if his singlet in an attempt to made a suggestion which she is been a loss of £795,000 in Customs Then Mr. Beckett led the great hard labour and 24 strokes of the tised "Ironsides," despatched his and trust among the Governments
Sentence of twelve months' commander of the much adver to a
two months ago, Chang Fa-kuei, of European peoples, thus leading wriggle away, He finally came in- dignantly refused, and then
greater mutual confidence he revenue for the quarter ending gold mace, beating it on his birch-the maximum penalty-representative Szeto Fee to inter- and to a diminution of the ob- beat her up and took his money June, compared with the estimated shoulder, and tried to force his way was passed by the Magistrate. Drop of 25 Fect.
revenue. It was not improbable through a crowd
view C.-in-C. Chan Chai-tong at stacles to international trade and The padre's "boy" and accused
Replying to the Magistrate, In- that the loss was due to civil dis-standing at the bar of the House. of members
Wuchow, with a view to inducing economic co-operation which now then struggled, and the latter even spector Post said that when he obedience, but the full effect of Most of the left wing Labourites
the latter to join forces with the exist. tually got away from the "boy" by saw the defendant in the charge this on trade had not been felt by abstained from
"Ironsides" and the Yen and voting on
Agreement is expressed with the biting his hand. The thief ran room he certainly appeared tathe end of June.
the
Feng clique; and that he was de-view that it is primarily in res Beckett division-Reuter.
tained by the C-in-C. of the 8th pect of economic relations that Route Army. It is now learned closer co-operation between the ASSIGNED UNIFORM DUTY." to Canton for court-martial and to be desired, and that to this that Szeto has been escorted back European nations is so strongly
in his bedroom. The latter was
remember very well as drawer out actually puffing a from his chest of drawers. The under the influence of liquor." padre shouted' 'Who's there?"
Magistrate: Do you plead guilt and the thief immediately bolted
or not? to the door. He sprung up and chased the man, but a
Defendant: Yes, it was
I'll plead still dark; he was unable to make guilty. out the man's features. He ran out into the lobby, and he saw accused walking along a ledge outside the window, leading to the fire escape.
RETT
The padre was then able to sec the man properly, and he pointed out accused in Court as the thief
It was down then. He seized him by leaning out of the window, and shouted to the house "bo","the trouble
ledge, and held the thief, whe
side.
back.
to the bathroom but found no have been drinking, but was not He added. "The most serious means of escape there, so he pass-drunk. He was in possession of reactions to this movement are the ed along the front corridor into his senses and knew what he was destruction of confidence and para- the hall. The padre concluded doing; and admitted that he had lysation of internal trade. Accord- that all means of escape were cut
ing to my information, the effects off, but the culprit slipped down;
on Indian business are likely to be considerably more disastrous than
been a fool:
Defendant's statement in answer
the banister and then hung on to to the girl's charge at No. 2 Police those on the Government revenues." the ledge for about 30 or 40 Station was that they had an ar seconds, finally dropping from gument over three bottles of per -Reuter.
height of about 25 to 30 feet. The Police were there.
fume which he had with him.
The girl tried to hold these back. EMPIRE FREE TRADE. 10 he struck, her.
Accused denied everything, and his Worship said that it seemed Magistrate (to defendant): This to him that he was wasting time is a serious assault. You are fin by pleading not guilty.
ed $25 or 14 days' hard labour, Detective-Sergeant Kellet point-and you will have to pay $10 to ed out that
the girl as compensation or go there was another drawer that was tampered with by to jail for another seven days. the thief who had a sharp knife In his possession.
Fall to the Ground. An Indian Polke Sergeant stated that he was on duty in Peking Road near the Star, Theatre and heard Police whistles being blown. wont in the direction of Peking Building where he saw the accused,
He
BANK MURDER TRIAL
PRISONER GUILTY WHILE INSANE.
JURY UNANIMOUS.
QUESTION OF DUTIES ON
FOREIGN FOODSTUFFS.
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE.
Rugby, Yesterday. In the House of Lords this eve- ning Lord Elibank raised the ques tion of the agenda at the forthcom- ing Imperial Economic Conference. He inquired whether the Govern- ment were prepared to agree to a trade relationship between Britain and the rest of the Empire, and The trial of Li Man-pun for the Conference for full discussion the whether they would submit to the whom he recognised as the man in murder of five youths at the Hung policy of Empire Free Trade, In- Court, hanging on the ledge. The man fall to the ground and became Tak Bank on the morning of May cluding the imposition of duties on
24, was concluded yesterday foreign foodeťúffa. . Detective-Sergeart Kallet added afternoon at the Assizes before Government, said that the details Lord Arnald, replying for the that accused when charged, said Sir Joseph H. Kemp, KC., Chief of the subjecta for discussion at the that he went to the padre's place Justice. to sleep.. He had been in hospital Counsel for the defence, Mr. with the Dominion Governments. under discussion since Sunday morning with a cut Leo. d'Almada, jun., addressing The final form of the agenda had on his head, which was not severe. the jury, reminded them that the not yet been settled, but the Prime He remarked that the accused was premises were dimly lighted at Minister would make an announce- obviously a pickpocket and a thief. the time. It was true that the ment upon it before the end of the He had no employment. The kalfo Crown had proved beyond any rea-session. The agenda would permit any proposals
unconscious,
conference were
in his possession was very sharp, sonable doubt that "a mass mur-consideration of and was one of those which a pick-der" took place on the premises which might be put forward for the pocket was likely to possess. and it was also true that no out purpose of improving inter-imperial The padre: The knife was left sider could have gained entrance trade, but it would be made clear in the man's singlet which he left into the premises. The suspicion, om the outset that the Govern in the room. My "boy" went therefore, rested on the inmates ment were opposed to any new or through the pockets and found the rd as prisoner had a chopper in increased taxation of foodstuffs or jhand at the time, and that he atto any aystem of tariffe In Great
tempted twice to take his own life, Britain
The Government would
knite.
His Worship sentenced accused to six months' hard labour..
LONGING FOR JAIL ?
the suspicion against him was not agree to submit to the Confer stronger. But no matter how ence the policy of Empire Free strong the suspicions might be, Trade, British Wireless Service.! the jury could not return a verdict "He said that he wanted to go to of guilty unless they were abao jal) because he was suffering from lutely sure beyond any reasonable bert-her!" remarked Detective doubt.
OIL PURCHASE,
STANDARD COMPANY'S BIG NEW VENTURE.
BOUGHT FOR $72,000,000
Mr.
TYPHOON IN JAPAN. Telephones, Telegraphs And Cables Interrupted.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A severe typhoon is at pre- sent raging over Japan. The telegraph and telephone sys- tems have been put out of order, whilst the Nagasaki- Shanghai cable has been in- terrupted.-Reuter.
CHIVALROUS KING.
ALFONSO COLLIDES WITH A
TWO SEATER.
APOLOGY TO LADY OWNER.
Rugby, Yesterday.
A motor car in which King Alfonso was being driven collid-
King Alfonso,
Sergeant Kellett at the Kowloon Counsel then touched on the
ed-to-day in Hyde Park with a two senter driven by a woman. Part Magistracy this morning when an mental condition of the man, and
of the glass in the King's car was unemployed Chinese appeared be asked the jury if it was possible fore Mr. Whyte-Smith charged with for a normal man to act in the
broken and the small car was the theft of two pieces of iron from way as the prisoner had done with-
damaged, but no one was injur a horse under construction at the out taking the slightest trouble
New York; Yesterday
ed. ¿ Junction of Mody Road and Chat to shield his crime.
The Standard Oil Company of King Alfonso alighted, fuquired ham Road
The Jury retired for five min- Indiana, which already holds half as to the lady driver's safety, utes and when they re-assembled of Sincials Interest in the Sin hook hands with her and pro- His Wo
hip: Is it true, you they return annanimous ver clair Pipe Line Company and the ceeded to Buckingham Palace, diet of Guilty while insane." Sinclair Crude Oll Purchase Com where he Junched with King His Lordship ordered the pri-pany, has agreed to purchase the George prior to his return to weeks, hard soner to be detained during His other half for $72,000,000 (gold): Spain to-morrow-British Wire.
Reuter American Serviceless Service.
Want
INSPECTOR LANE. RETURNS TO COLONY AFTER ILLNESS.
B
arrival.
Chang Fá-kuei.
Earlier News.
The many friends of Inspector Canton News Agency.
is now held at the Garrison H.Q-end economic questions should be B. P. Lane will welcome the news!
considered, not one by one, nor in that after ten months' furlough at
respect of isolated interests, but, Home, following his very serious
Paking, Yesterday. As a whole and from the wider illness here, when he was in Chien-chung, the commander of Involved.-British Wireless Ber- The Hsin Chen Pao quotes Chen viewpoint of the general interests critical condition at
the the Kuominekun Government Civil Hospital for stating that about twenty fighting
air force, as vice.
3
over three
weeks, return-
2
London, Yesterday, The British reply to M.
ed to the Colony yesterday on the aeroplanes have been ordered from P. and O. 8.3. Rajputana in the Italy, of which ten are arriving at Brland's Memorandum for a closer pink of condition. He was accom-
Tientsin to-day for service on the European political union is very panted by Mrs. Lane and three of Lunghal front.-Reuter.
sympathetic, but states that it their children. The fourth is re-
Mukden, Yesterday. fears that any new institutions maining at Home for the present, Reuter is authorized emphatically might diminish the efficiency and
Inspector Lane, who was acting to deny a Kuomin News Agency des-authority
of the League of Chlef Detective-Inspector just prior patch, dated Mukden, July 10, giv-Nations, and thus create ten- that had for a long time been in participation of the to his going on leave, and prior to Ing alleged detalls of the proposed dencies
Manchurian rivalries and hostilities. charge of the "Murder Squad" of army and navy in the civil war. the C.I.D., has now been given less Reuter.
strenuous work as officer in charge
of the Hunghom district, which REDS DEMONSTRATE. duty he will assume as from Mon- day. This will be the first time ATTACK ON FOREIGN LADY'S
that Inspector Lane will be doing) a plain clothes man of the Detec- "uniform 'duty" after 27 years as tive Staff. This represents prac- tically the whole period of his ser- vice in the Force, which he joined on November 16, 1912.
IMPROVING LATER."
The Royal Observatory's weather report, to-day states:-
A very severe typhoon is approaching Korea on a Northerly track.
A depression is central to the East of Yunnanfu.
Forecast: S.W. winds, fresh; generally overcast with rain at first; improving later
Rainfall
Rainfall to 10 am: to-day 1.82 Inches. Rainfall. since January 1, 44.83 Inches against an average of 46,73,744
Temperature and Humidity The temperature and humidi ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock were
Temp: Humid.
Hong Kong
Pratas Island Marilla
94
82
88
70
95
Foochow
87
Ancy Swatow Cheloo Shanghai
82
888
100
997
CAR...
TRAMCAR STONED.
to
inter-Continental
It expresses the opinion that M. Bríand's ideal can effectively be secured by adapting the pro- posals to bring them fully within the framework of the League, dum be placed on the agenda at and suggests that the Memoran- the next League Assembly.
The reply states that the Memorandum requires careful and prolonged consideration between the British and all the Govern- Communist students, in defiancements of the Dominions.-Reuter.
Shanghai, Yesterday,
HARBOURING A BOY.
of warnings and in spite of their knowledge of the police precautions, attempted to demonstrate in the heart of the International Settle- ment yesterday morning.
Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the After stoning a tramear and Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, breaking the windows, smashing imposed the maximum sentence the windscreen of a motor car of one year's imprisonment and 24 driven by a foreign lady, a section strokes of the birch in a case in of the crowd proceeded to the Bund which a Chinese was charged with
further demonstration harbouring a small boy.
where
#
was held in the vicinity of the Another man who was charged British Consulate. The police ar jointly was discharged, there be- rested 24 demonstrators, two boinging insufficient evidence of guilty
leased later. The others are knowledge.A being charged, to-day-Reuter.
METER INDICES STOLEN.
A Chinese boy who gave his age
The boy, it was stated, was stolen from his home in Sa Ho, Canton, last year, and was sold in Hong Kong.
BERRIES FOR MEDICINE.
as 11 years, was to-day charged be- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell with the theft of two water meter Indices A Chinese was charged to-day In Des Vaux Road West
before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Detective Sergeant Clarke said Kowloon Magistracy with causing that the indices were stolen for the damage to a tree in Ma Tau Wel. sake of the copper casings, willst Road. He pleaded that he took the arepresentative of the Water
Works said that such thefts were branches, which bore berries for
medicinal purposes. numerous and they had expected to Sergeant Slater stated that arrest a bigger fellow He was of defendant pulled the branches the opinion that a gang was con from the tree, and there were cerned in these thefts from water three other boys at the bottom, but meters.
In consideration of the accused's they each got away with an armful
of branches. age the Magistrate ordered him to receive ten atrokes
Defendant was fined
Tratten.