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No. 27,577
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HONG KONG. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 27, 1930,
THEFT OF SOLDIER'S DOES NORTH CHINA IS A SANDWICH A TRADE WITH
RATIONS.
Missing "Bully " at Shamshuipo.
SMART POLICE WORK.
2nd Batta. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, at the Shamshuipo camp, who came before, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith this morning.
A Chinese widow, named Chan Tai, was charged with receiving Both pleaded not guilty.
Concealed Under Rubbish.
WANT PEACE?
Political Methods Said fo Be Backward.
DUTY OF EDUCATION.
MEAL?
Or Merely Excuse
for Beer?
AN OLD OLD, STORY I
CHINA
BRITAIN'S EXPORTS
TOO LOW.
ENQUIRY SOON.
ECONOMIC MISSION TO FAR EAST.
London, Yesterday. An Economic Mission to the Far East will leave Britain on September 19---Reuter, ....
[Mr. George. Masterman Gillett,
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3 11/16.
- PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
QUEER WAY OF SHOWING LOVE.
Murderous Assault on Scornful Woman.
JUMPED INTO HARBOUR.
это
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Opticlan 13, Queen's Road Central
ARCHDUKE MARRIED STORY OF VENTURES
AT BRIGHTON.
Romance of the Richest of the Hapsburgs.
WIFE A DIVORCEE.
London, Yesterday.
THAT FAILED,
Chinese Woman and Her Activities.
PARTNERSHIP DISPUTE.
The case in which the Ho Shing
"Wo Ting, everybody is saying that you love me, how about marry-Hungarian Archduke Albrecht
It is now disclosed that the firm is suing Mak Ying, a woman, ing me?"
married at the Brighton Regis- for the recovery of $2,200, was re- This is the way Ho Cho-yau, a try Office on August 16 Madame sumed in the Supreme Court be cook employed at the Yee Hung Irene Rudnay, formerly Leibach, fore the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph brothel, G, Hill Road, West Point, her husband, the Hungarian ex-
who was recently divorced from H. Kemp, K.G.. this morning. was alleged to have "popped the Minister to Sofia, M. Rudnay.
Plaintiff alleged that the defen- question" to an amah employed at The couple are both aged thirty- dant was a partner at the Ying the same establishment, on August
three. They first met at the Fat Bank. This the woman de- Archduke's sick room 15.
at The nied. Witnesses were called by Hague a few years ago, when she both sides. The woman was most Indignant nursed him back to health..
relied loudly and soon the affair Church.
became known to the whole house. Struck On The Head.
Thirty tins of bully beef form-
Nanking, Yesterday. The Japanese proprietor of the el the subject of a charge of Speaking at to-day's Memorial Chitose Kwan Hotel, 1 and 3, larceny brought against Chan Service, the Vice-Minister of Hau Fung Lane, Wanchal, was to . Fuk, a workman employed by the Foreign Affair, Mr. Wang Chia-day summoned before Mr. R. E. ching, who returned to Nanking Lindsell for committing a breach this morning after two months of his hotel adjunct licence by leave, said that while the North-selling beer without meals on the erners were equally desirous of night of August 14. peace and order, their political The case for the prosecution method and outlook were less ad- was conducted by Mr. T. Murphy, vanced than those of the South-A.S.P., who stated that at 11.05 erners. This difference in degree p.m.. two Police recruits, Con of moderation probably explained stables Thorp and Fryer, acting the present armed conflict, and on instructions, went to the hotel it was
up to educationalists to disguised in dungarees and order- M.P. (Labour, Finsbury), Secre- and remarked cuttingly to the man. A suit for the annulment of her Plaintiff told his Lordship this Asked for the facts of the case, wipe out this difference in regarded two beers which a waitress sup-tary of the Overseas Department "The Devil take you. I should former marriage is proceeding in morning that the witness he sub- Detective Sergeant W. F. to the North-East.
plied and charged $140.
of Trade. stated in the House of like to see you dead!" They quarcognised by the Roman Catholic turn up, and he had, therefore, Rome, as the divorce is not re- paconed yesterday had failed to Meadows said that on August 25, Mr. Wang declared: "The Defendant: Meals were sup-Commons' on July 31 that the Far at about 2 p.m., a Chinese detec- North-eastern authorities as well plied with the beer. They were East Mission to Japan to some tive arrested the woman, who as the people are very consistent given one sandwich each. extent would be a courtesy visit
The Archduke Albrecht is the would be in the Court shortly.
subpaeoned another man, who was carrying two baskets which in their support of the Central Magistrate: Does two sand- to return the visit of the Japanese
richest of the Hapsburgs. The contained potuto peel.
Government, and are in full sym-wiches constitute a meal?
Mission to Britain and thence to
only son of the Archduke Fricd- Holding the Case Up. She refused search, and was pathy with the latter's pro- Mr. Murphy: No, the adjunct China, to fell ou the National For the next two days the woman rich Austrian, who was Generalis- His Lordship pointed out that taken to the Shamshuipo Police gramme of unification and recon-licence provides for the supplying Government at Nanking,
simo during the War, he was a Station where, after search, it truction. The reason why Gen-of beer with the regular meals of spend several
and avoided the man, then, or the 17th rival to the boy Archduke Otto that was a privilege he had not months visiting, whilst she was washing her face for the Hungarian throne, but it granted to plaintiff, and he was found that the two basketseral Chang Hsueh-liang did not the hotel. The waitress supplied inter-alia, Shanghai, Hankow (11 contained 30 tins of bully beef, participate more actively in sub- the beer first and collected $2 for possible), northern China, and
in the back yard, at about 10.30 was reported weeks ago that he thought that plaintiff was hold hidden underneath the peel, and jugating the present Feng Yu- which she brought change of 60 the districts around Canton. 4.m., she was suddenly struck two swore.. allegiance to his cousin ing the case' up.. Just at this. also some empty tins of bully. hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan rebellion cents. Then, about three minutes The Misgion includes members blows on the head from behind. Otto, preferring love and marriage stage, the witness arrived, and
Questioned by the Police, the international position of the three and by that time the beer had (iron and steel) industries and the alleged that she saw the man, Ho is merely because of the peculiar later she brought the sandwiches, of the cotton, wool, engineering, She immediately looked round and
to Kingship-Reuter, given the baskets to carry from North-Eastern provinces."-Can- almost been finished. There were co-operative, movement. the military camp. The detective ton News Agency.
about 15 sailors in the place all Lancashire is 'granting £6,000
walking away. There was no one drinking beer and on each table toward the expenees of the cotton else in the yard at the time, so the there were plates with about one mission. sandwich for each man, but a
The Gillett pointed out that in waitress will say that no one ate spite of the situation in China them.
her import trade was progressive- Free Sandwiches? Magistrate: Nor were they was not taking a proper place in ty Increasing annually. Britain asked to pay for them? No. The this advance, and it would be the price charged was the standard
woman said that she had been
then went to the camp where he found that the two men, employ- ed as cooks had absconded, and left the first defendant.
· Collected from Cookhouses? Sergeant Meadows pointed out that the Police had no direct evid ence against the man, and could not object to his discharge. The case against the woman was then - proceeded with.
Sergeant Hugh Higgins, In charge of the A. and S. H. cook houses, from the witness box said that once a week 85 tins of bully beef were issued as rations to the men in each company, and he had given instructions to the cooks that these were to be used for dinner as well as for tea. He would not have known of the dis- appearance of the 30 tins men- tioned in the charge if they had not found them in the woman's baskets. The tins in his opinion had been collected from four cook- houses, because if they had been taken from ohe, it would have
been detected at once, and prob- ably some of the men would have to go hungry.
An Accumulation. Sergeant Higgins went on to say that in his opinion there had been an accumulation. The four cook- houses were situated at intervals
of about 26 yards between each so
CHINESE IN US.
To Be Rounded Up And Deported.
Now, York, Yesterday Following the recent out- breaks of Tong warfare and the expiry of the time limit allow- ed the leaders to adjust their differences, the Police Commis- sioner, Mr. Mulrooney, has re- commended to the United States District Attorney the rounding up and deporting of all Chinese "living illegally in the City."-Reuter's «American Service.
FLIGHT TO AFRICA.
►
CAPTAIN BARNARD SETS
ANOTHER RECORD,
2,480 MILES IN 36 HOURS.
London, Yesterday. Captain Barnard left Lympne
...
establishments price for beer alone in all similar principal day of the Missions to
"Defendant: My price for a bottle of Asahi beer is 60 cents and I charge 10 cents for each
sandwich.
Magistrate: Do you say that one sandwich is a regular meal? -Yos.
P.C. Thorp then went into the witness box to corroborate Mr. Murphy's statement. The Magis trate noticed that he had a parcel in his hand and asked: "What have you got there, the bottle?"
Witness: Yes.
Magistrate: Empty, I suppose (Laughter.)
When P.C. Thorp produced the bottle, Mr. Murphy remarked:
"Not quite empty" (Laughter.)
that it was quite possible that all aerodrome at dawn yesterday. taking meals. the boys employed therein muste flew in a light Puss Moth
went on.
Witness: There
зоте
have known something about what monoplane on a non-stop flight to Japanese in the room also, but I
There was a European Tangier, where he spent the did not much notice them. cook in charge of each cook-house.
night. He left Tangier at 7.30 white man was eating. Old Stuff! Detective Sergeant Moran sald
He did not know of the theft, until am. and arrived back at Croydon
a Police Sergeant informed him at 6.25 p.m. Thus he has flown
Reuter,
syge remedias,
natural conclusion was that Ho had attacked her, although she could not see if he had anything in his
hand.
:
FINE OUTLOOK.
To-day's weather
report from the Royal Observatory states:-
Pressure is high over N. Japan.
The depressions over Tong- king and to the east of Shan- tung have filled up.
on plaintiff seeking the Court's permission to call the witness, the request was then granted..
The witness, Yung Yue-cheng, anid that sometime last year, he went to the Hop Foong firm to buy $2,000 in Hong Kong notes. He needed the money to pay his and his family's passages back to New Zealand. The Hop Foong firm gave him an order on the Ying Fat Bank, and on presenting the order at the Ying Fat Bank,
"Mistress, please pay out the money.". A woman got up from a stool, walked into the back room and later returned with the money. She handed the money over to the accountant, who count- ed it out to witness.
The woman raised a cry of "Save life" and then became unconscious as the result of the wounde she received in the head. She was taken to the Government Civil HoChina Séagnetospun accountant there called out, pital where she remained until yes. !
the Far East consists of the fol- terday..
The personel of the Mission to
lowing:-
*
After a commotion, a search was The Chairman, Bir Ernest made for Ho but he was not in the Thompson, Kt., Chairman of the house. Later a coolie employed at Executive Joint Committee of the the
house found a bloodstained Cotton Trade Organisations), who chopper on a box just inside the is also Chairman of the cotton kitchen door. This was stated to section of the Mission. He is a be one of five choppers which Ho Manchester shipping merchant. used in his capacity as cook.
Sir Thomas Allen, Vice-Chair- man of the Co-operative Whole- sale Society, and Chairman of
Attempted Suicide.
Pressure gradients are shal- low, from mid-Japan to the
Forecast:-Light, "S.W.or variable winds; fine.
Rainfall. Rainfall to 10 a.m.to-day nfl. Rainfall since January 1, 66.50 inches against an aver- age of 64,40 inches.
Temperature and Humidity.
The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock
were:--
Macao..... Pratas Island ..
Temp. Humid. Hong Kong 78
95 92
79.
79
92
Manila Foochow Amoy
75.
92
82
91
80
92
Swatow Chefoo
79
96
95
After the removal of the injured the New Zealand Produce Asso- woman to the hospital, the West ciation, etc.
Point Police sent a Chinese detec- Lieut.-Col. Reginald Keble Mortitve out to look for Ho, but he failed to find him. Soon after the Ho was brought to the station in an detective's return to the station,
ambulance and it was reported that just before noon
Shanghai he had jumped into the harbour in an attempt to commit suicide. He was rescued by a passer by who telephoned for the ambulance and then went his
WAY.
to the woman. addition to Sir Ernest
67 77
98
PREMIER RETURNS.
MR. MACDONALD BREAKS HIS VACATION.
"STATE BUSINESS.”
Witness remembered the occa sion quite well, because he was very surprised to see a woman | having charge over the cash in a bank. He could not say whether defendant was that woman, but she was certainly of the same size and built as the woman he saw in the bank.
Defendant's Denial.
Defendant denied that she was there and added that she never had anything to do with the Ying Fat Bank, although she had cash transactions with them on two or three occasions.
had had several firms; all of Plaintiff averred that plaintiff
which failed. She had a contrae- tor business, then a rope manu- facturing business, and then the Ying Fat Bank,
In his evidence P.C. Thorp said con, C.B.E., M.LC.E., a Director that he saw 18 to 20 Naval men man of the British Electrical and
of Lloyd's Bank, Ltd., and Chair In the place all drinking beer. Allied Manufacturers' Association. There were sandwiches in front
Mr. James Bell, formerly M.P. of them, but he did not see any caten. None of the tables in the (Labour, Ormskirk Division · of set for dinner with Lancs.), Secretary to the United room was knives and 'forks.
Textile Factory Workers' Asgo Defendant: There were
diation.
Mr. William Crowther, of Slaith.
Ho, was half drowned, but soon wore zome waite.j
recovered and then he was detain- Mr. Louis Beale, of the Trade ed by the Police until the woman's No Development Council,
Defendant denied all this and discharge from hospital when she
Isaid that she had only one bust. The Cotton Section.
preferred a charge, against him. about the affair at 2 pm. on August 2,480 miles from England to that on the 16th, In order to asia
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the ness and that was left to her by The sequel was before Mr. R. E. 25. Sergeant Higgins testified to
The Cotton Section will consist, Lindsell this morning when He was Premier, flew from Lossiemouth, her deceased husband. Her name the fact that two of the boys (Nos. Africa and back inside 36 hours certain the price of Asahi beer in Thompson and Mr. Bell, of the
charged with causing grievous.rm where he has been taking a holl- her husband's name. Her proper was not Mak Ying, which was 1 and 3) had gone....
establishments of this class, he following:--
He pleaded that he day, to London, this afternoon, parus was Ah Ho, and she had First defendant was employed as stated:-Captain Barnard, the Nagasaki Joe's place in Wanchal tive Spinners Amalgamation).
[A mesange of yesterday went with another European to
was drunk On the morning of No. 2 cook. He was paid the
Mr. F. W. Birchenough (Opera August 17 and did not know what end, after taking ten with the adopted her husband's name be came wages is No. 1, and when famous airman, left Lympne sero- and ordered two beers and sand-
he did. He did not remember at Royal Air Force officers, motored cause she was known by it in all questioned as to the possession of drome at six o'clock this morning wiches. He had to pay. 70 cents Mr. E. Duxbury (United Textile tacking the woman, and claimed to Downing Street. The Premier her business transaction.
even bought two houses in Second to make a non-stop flight of 1,200 for each beer and 80 cents for Factory Workers' Association). that he had no cause for doing so. hopes that he will be able to dee Street under that name. 1 boy had given him the money be dine in Tangier early this even witness had seen the defendant's tion of Calico, Printers),
miles to Tangier. He expects to each plate of six sandwiches, The Mr. JL Edmondson (Federa-He did not even know how be came patch the State business on which cause he fad done extra work in cleaning up the kitchen..
ing, return to-morrow morning sandwiches which were tiny Mr. George: and dine in London to-morrow things. He certainly would not Manufacturers' Association).
Green (Padiham tainly did not wish to commit he has come to London and re- The Woman in the Case.
suicide.
sume his holiday at Lossiemouth evening.
pay 10 cents for one. They look-
before the end of the week. The woman in the case, was em Captain Barnard was attired as ed stale!" he added.
Mr. Arthur Reisa and Mr.
Rescuer Wanted. ployed by a contractor at the though just going for a flip round Magistrate (to defendant): How Employers Association). one of "not guilty," and Mr. Horace Foreign Secretary, is returning to
Joseph Wild (Wigan Cotton
Foreign Secretary Back. The Maglatrate took the plea as camp, and the usual procedure was the aerodrome. He was wearing can you possibly say that a tiny
Mr. Arthur Henderson, the that the woman came to the camp a golf suit, white canvas shoes miserable sandwich cost 10 centa main Mission are to enquire into the dance which was as outlined above, the Foreign Office to-morrow after
The terms of reference of the Lo, for the prosecution, called evi alth two baskets and waited for and no hat. He is using a PussThat is my price, present condition of British trade Than the Magistrate remanded the three weeks' holiday. He leaves Buttere at: Central Magistracy to-, about ten minutes and then carried Moth machine, the same as he convict you all the same because what action should be taken to medical evidence to be produced a the swill away, The theft was used in his flight to Malta:]
Mr. Lindsell: 1 am prepared to with China and Japan, and report case until noon on Saturday for Genova to attend meetings of the day, charged with Snatching a
London on September 3 for probably done when the European
I consider that one sandwich is develop and increase that trade, to the nature of the woman's In
Council of the League of handbag from Miss S. Remedios, of been deliberately trying to break the Economie Mission as far as with each bottle of bear,
Known To The
83, he told the Police that the No.
dining halls,
Sergeant Meadows intimated that
to fall into the harbour. He cer
The case is proceeding.
BAG-SNATCHING.
CHIVALROUS CHINESE GENTLEMAN.
She
A Chinese appeared before Mr."
pen and other things. -
cook was distributing food in the GOVERNOR'S APPEAL not a regular meal. You have The Cotton Misalon will assist Juries In the circumstances that Nations, beginning on September "The Hat," Castle Road. The bag the Commanding Officer had given SOUTHERN STATES ASKED TO the law by supplying a sandwich the engulfes relate to cotton goods, the man who rescued Ife from the 3, and subsequent meetings of the contained $12 in cash, a fountain.
harbour could not be found, the Assembly of the League British and report what action should be Magistrate also directed that some
Wireless Service taken to develop an increase in Bri-
one connected with the ambulance tion trade of these goods.]YNDEZ
be called to speak as to the har bour episode. BRITAIN'S WORKLESS.
strict orders that no swill baskets
be loft about at the camp because
of the danger of flies.
The Magistrate said that he thought it was rather a pity, but he had to discharge the first de fendant, and convict the woman of unlawful receiving,
Sergeant Meadowa Intimated tha
they could not prove all the cooks and the woNATA
BUY BALE COTTON:
„ASSISTING THE FARMERS,
Austin, Texas, Yesterday,
The Governor has to all the Governo ern States an
Asked if he had any remarks, make, Mr. Murphy pointed out that the defendant's place
The coal steamer Sanfry stuck in rday.
the slipway when she was being. Great launched from the yard of the Goole.
orkshire); Shipbuilding and Re ring. Co., Ltd., and only one-third of the vessel was in the water.
IDLE LIST.
DECREASE AT LAST ANNOUNCED,
Rugby Yesterday,
The charge was denied, and de- fendant added that he was partial- ly bild
It was alleged that the offence took place in Des Voeux Road, near the Central Market, early yeator day, afternoon. After defendant had run into Wing Kat Street he
A long series of announcements was caught by a Chinese gentleman of Increases in the unemployed is with the bag inside his jacket. The broken by the announcement of a contents were missing, buzze decrease. On August 18 there. The case was adjourned for 24. letter of Thackeray, was's decrease compared with the hours for the attendance of Mr. Charle
Bronte 1 week earlier of 82,780 The total Tong, the Chinese gentleman con- Pat number was 2,017,957 — British carned, who it is understood is now
Wireless Service.
to the Colony..