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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8,
R.101 VICTIMS TO LIE TURKEY OBJECTS TO
IN STATE.
Procession of Coffins Through London. ·
SURVIVOR DYING.
London, Yesterday.
on
DUTCH 'PLANES.
East Indies Air Liner Held Up by Refusal.
STRAINED RELATIONS.
The Hague, Yesterday.
The departure of a Royal Dutch
1
BIG HAUL
JEWELLERY.
OF
Reward for Arrest of House Boy.
EUROPEANS' LOSS,
FUTURE OF INDIA.
PERSONNEL OF THE ROUND TABLE CONFERENCE.
CONSERVATIVES IN FORCE.
Rugby, Yesterday.
It is announced that at the forthcoming Indian Round Table) Conference the British Govern- ment will be represented by the A circular has been received at Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Lord Chancellor,
1930.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
The
closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/8 9/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central.
OPPORTUNITIES OF BRITON'S FRAY WITH
TRADE LOST.
Business Men Unable to Adapt Themselves.
HIGH TAXATION OF WAGES.
THE POLICE.
“TELL LIES AND YOU
WON'T GET OFF.”
Drunk and Disorderly in Mr. Lindsell's Lecture to
Nathan Road.
RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR.
A. Briton, named London, Yesterday,
The buildings were draped with as Tseu Ah Tsching (Cantonese Hamilton M.P., and Mr. Isaac would be free to take other steps.
in heavy rain, from which the dis-head and a French Battery fired a features, wide mouth, and ears India have arranged that the fol- Government,
of 101 guns. The with small lobes. He had worked lowing officials shall attend the high the taxation of wages, Nathan, the attention of Police
Lads on the Law.
"NOW, YOU BOYS
O'Donovan
anl
them to be
Thomas At the Central Police Court this Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, ad- Gibbinson, stated to be an engin morning, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,
The bodies of the victims of the R.101 disaster will lie in state in air liner from Sofia to the DutchPolice Headquarters here from Lord Sankey, the Secretary for dressing the Labour Party Copeer residing at Airlee House, Detective-Sergeant J.
Friday. East Indies has been delayed by the Police of the French Conces India, Capt. Wedgwood Benn, the ference at Llandudno, replying to Nathan Road, was to-day charg charged six elderly Chinese
Secretary, Mr. A critics inside and outside the ed before Mr. H. R. Butters at the eleven boys, in connection with which they were alleged to have dis- Westminster Hall The following day they will be the refusal of the Turkish Gov-slon, Shanghai, offering a reward Foreign
Secretary, Mr. J. H. Thomas had fulfilled the confidence repos namely:- carried in procession through the crnment to sanction the transit of $1,000 for information leading Henderson, and the Dominions Party, said that the Government Kowloon Court, on three counts, seditious papers and pamphleta. and disorderly manner whilst Central district on the night of streets of London and entrained of Dutch 'planes, over. Turkish to the apprehension and convic-Other Ministers will be invited to ed in it at the last election, both (a) That he behaved in a riotous tributed in various parts of the
the world-
drunk in Nathan Road near October 6. emphasised for Bedford, whence the proces- territory, generally insisting that
the Hotel Nathan, last night. The Brst, second and third accused sion will form up and march to permission must be obtained for tion of a Chinese who is wanted attend the meetings of the Con by its foreign and domestic policy.
for the alleged theft, in the ference on Committees, according He Cardington. The bodies will be each flight.
If the Turkish Government per- French Concession, of 31 pieces of to the subject under discussion. wide nature of unemployment,
Those nominaeed to represent and said that no nation working (b) That he refused to pay the were charged with possession of the
They had interred in St. Mary's Church-
legal fare of 60 cents to Tao papers, knowing sists in this attitude, the Dutch
other valuable the Conservative Party are Lord alone could cure it. jewellery and
Shui Lun, a rikishia puller, seditious, and with distribution, yard, Cardington.
The French Air Minister, M. planes will be instructed to fly articles, a list of which can be Cecil, Sir Samuel Hoare, the signed a tariff truce at Geneva
having hired the vehicle for The other three adults were charged Police Headquarters, Marquess of Zetfand, and Major) with a view to initiating negotia-
with handing out papers without 1 seen at
two hours. Laurent Eynae, will personally at- via Greece and Egypt and avoid
Oliver Stariley.
bearing the S.C.A. chop. Hong Kong.
The Liberal tions with other industrial na- tend the memorial service in St. Turkish territory.-Reuter.
Dealing with the boys first, Mr. The name of the wanted man, Party, representatives will be the tions of the world about tariffs, (e) That he assaulted Lance Ser- Paul's Cathedral on Friday,
geant Sydney Blakey at the Lindsell. asked them if they knew whilst it is announced that station through mourning crowds, rendered from the Shanghai din Marquess of Reading, the Mar- and if the negotiations were un-
Yaumati Police Station to what the papers were, and they all H.R.II. the Prince of Wales will many people kneeling. In prayer as lect, is given. in French spelling quess of Lothian, Sir Robert successful then the Government
day."
replied that they did not. the procession passed.
The Premier declared that Bri-
Kicked a Coolie.
His Worship: Who gave you represent H.M. the king.
rendering Chan Ah Yam). His Foot, M.P. Their Last Journey,
On consultation with the Secre-tish industry had lost the oppor
Detective Sergeant D. Fitches these papers? The last journey of the R.101 crepe and all the shops in town were age is given as 31 years, and des
"It is the Truth" victims began at Beauvais to-day closed while acroplanes circled over criptions of the man are medium tary for India, the Government of tunities placed in its way by the
not because of said that last night near the Hotel
The boys: Nobody gave them to were Sergeant Santa Singh was drawn us. We bought them from different tinguished mourners sheltered salute as they watched the entrainment French Premier M. Tardieu, the Air as house coolie with a European Conference in a consultative capa- but because business men
His Worship: If you tell lies like of the remains. Troops filed Minister, M. Laurent Eynac, and family living in the French Con-city: Sir Malcolm Hailey, Goy- unable to adapt themselves to to a large crowd standing about. shops.
He suggested that He went up and saw Gibbinson
a rikisha puller, that you won't get off. slowly past the dead to the many other distinguished French cession, Shanghai, and speaks a ernor of the United Provinces, conditions.
The boys: It is the truth. strains of the French traditional men followed the procession, in com- little English as well as the Ning- Sir Charles Innes, Governor of Sir William Morris should make arguing with
Burma, and Sir A. C. MacWatters, the motto of his Society not "Gov- Defendant chased the coolie and po and Shanghai dialects.
also a Chinese did buy there books from slow march, and prayers were pany with the British Ambassador,
Besides an "Eterna" gold wrist Finance Secretary to the Govern ernment on business lines," but kicked him, offered by the Bishop of Beauvais Lord Tyrrell, the Secretary for
.His Worship: Who gave you and the Rev. Cardew, the Pastor India, Captain Wedgwood Benn, the watch, No. 1595, two pieces of the ment of India. It is also announc-"Business on business lines," if he woman who was one of the look stationary shop.
the Indian Sergeant, who grap money? of the English Church in Paris Under Secretary for Air, Mr. Fstolen valuables are identifiable ed that H.M. the King has accept wished to produce profitable reers-on. After that, he punched
The lads replied that in some as the coffins were placed on the Montague. Sir John Salmond, Chief by inscriptions. One is a golded the resignation of Sir Malcolm suits.
Mr. MacDonald continued by pled with Gibbinson and took him of Air Staff, and numerous other chain with gold cross attached Halley from the Governorship of Two senior British Air Force British officials and mourners, in- On the back of the cross is the the United Provinces to enable saying that the Government had to the Yaumati Police Station,
following in English: "Vera him to be available at the Confer- decided that its most important where he was kept in the cell for cases it was the parents who gave Detective-Sergeant O'Donovan officers travelled with the train. cluding three of the survivors.
Practical Help.
Margaret Lauderdale, for god-ence. The vacancy will be filled work was to put the population on the night. This morning, when them money to buy the books, Flags in the towns en route to
They had produced being brought over to the Police! The other is a gold by Sir George Bancroft Lambert, the land. There were present also the mother."
and Court, he tried to escape by as- Intimated that it was quite possible that the lads would have money Boulogne were flown at half mast. The train arrived at Boulogne at Mayor of Beauvais and a deputation locket with a big diamond and an until Sir Malcolm Hailey is free schemes of organisation
given to them on the day in ques- Previous Convictions. 4.25, and the bodies were imme. of citizens from the town, which English inscription beginning: to return to India and resume the would produce legislation making saulting Sergeant Blakey.
tlon as it was the Moon Festival, diately transferred to the des provided so much practical help Mother saved little Jean from Governorship British Wireless provision for a thousand familiee,
etc." On the inside of Service
also for the better working of for Continuing, Sergeant Fitches These books were specially printed, est and small holdings attached to told his Worship that Gibbinson to be sold at the Moon Feast. They troyers Tempest and Tribune One wreath on the gun carriages
from The Mothers of the locket Is the inscription:
forests. with every mark of respect and came
were books of "luck" and were some had many previous convictioné, being continually
fortune An amendment moved by Mr. and W38
in the nature of thing honour. The band of a French Beauvais to the Sorrowing Mothers From Omar Jordan."
But nowadays, some J. Maxton, criticising the Govern brought up for being drunk and tellers. infantry regiment played the Last of Britain"; others were from the
ment's failure to pursue a Social disorderly and also for refusing these books were used for pro- Post, the Marseillaise, and God French and British Services. Near
ist polley, especially in regard to to pay for rikisha fares. unemployment, was overwhelm ingly defeated.--Reuter.
rail waggons.
Save the King, and detachments the station. Flanders Poppies had ALLEGED MURDER OF
The coffins were removed to
of French soldiers and British been strewn by children in the road- and French Marines rendered way. military honours. The naval and a special train, which drew out as military civil authorities as well the guns thundered and the banda as the large crowd sympathetical-played mournful music. ly watched the reverent embarka- tion of the bodies, while the band] French played funeral marches.
Survivor Dying.
in
A HUSBAND.
Wife Committed to the Assizes.
CLANSMEN DISCHARGED.
Tang Yeung, the 68-year-old Chinese woman living in a village In Autao, who is charged with the alleged murder of her husband was yesterday committed to the Assizes by the District Officer
A salvo of guns was fired and the British National and Anthems were played when the special train reached Boulogne. Beauvais, Yesterday. the presence of a great, silent crowd The condition. of Church, one and of Civil and Military Au- of the survivors of the R.101, had thorities, the coffins were carried to grown worse this evening, and his the waiting British destroyers. condition was critical at 11 p.m.
Silent Crowds. Mishap to Destroyer,
At Dover and later at Victoria, London, later. when the special train was due to As she
was leaving Boulogne arrive in the early morning, repre- Harbour with a number of coffins sentatives of the Government and of case and survivors aboard, a mishap the Services waited to receive the Court, Taipo, it being alleged that occurred to H.M.S. Tribune, re honoured dead. Long before they is a fit of anger, when she found embracing their
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damaged. The coffins were trans to assemble..
North,
The preliminary hearing of the was held at the District
sulting in her propeller being were due the crowds began silently her husband
daughter-in-law, the accused wo ferred to H.M.S. Tempest, which Lord Tyrrell handed. to the man attacked him with a bamboo brought all the coffins to Dover. French Premier at Beauvais a com- pole, at the end of which was`at- After disabling the man, the ac- HMS Tribune, meanwhile, is munication sent on the King's tached an iron spike.
have limping to Portsmouth. Reuter. instructions to the President of the
alleged to Purple Lined Carriages.
Council expressing His Majesty's cused was London, Later. deep and personal gratitude and ap- strangled him to death, and then, R.101 victims were preciation of the assistance which with the assistance of her son and brought Home together aboard the Government of the Republic and three clansmen, was alleged to H.M.S. Tempest. The destroyer the local authorities of Beauvals have taken the body outside the arrived at Dover at 9.80 p.m.and Allonne have rendered and village and there buried it in a The rain was falling like a bene-of all arrangements made in con- shallow grave, ⠀ diction. The coffins were lying nection with the terrible disaster. on the deck in long rows, cover-British Wireless Service. ed with Union Jacks and wreaths from France. Each was borne on
The
A Silent Throng.
London, Yesterday.
The Police heard of the affair two days later and exhumed the body and a post mortem examina tion resulted in the murder charge being brought against the woman. The son and three clansmen
the shoulders of eight airmen and Although it was 1.25 am, when soldiers and laid in purple lined the special train arrived at Victoria carriages on the special train to Station the crowd, which began to were charged with aiding and London,
collect hours before, had swollen abetting the woman in the commia. to an enormous size in spite of elon of the crime, but they were Rugby, Yesterday. rain and cold, representing all discharged by the District Magie The victims of the R101 disaster classes and types to do homage to trate on the ground of insufficient began to day their journey home the airship victims. Probably evidence against them. wards. They will reach London in never such a crowd has gathered
French Sympathy,
the small hours of the morning and at a London station before except MRS. VICTOR BRUCE will be faken to the Westminster on the occasion of the hurried
Mortuary. They will later be re: homecoming of H.R.H: the Prince BRITISH AVIATRIX ARRIVES AT moved to an appropriate and central of Wales when His Majesty the building in London, to lie in State King-wad ill
JASK.
prior to burial dear Cardington, The crowd lined the entrance,
Bussorah, Yesterday Bedfordshire, the place from while a group of relatives and
Mra. Victor Bruce; the British which they set out on their others, headed by the Prime Minis Issb Journey, and where so ter, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, and air woman, who is engaged on a many of them had their homes. twelve blue-uniformed men with flight to Japan, arrived at Jack At the memorial service to be held caps, Inscribed "R.101, who were at 12.15 p.m. to day Bentor In St Paul's Cathedral on Friday the members of the relbet crew, walted Early, Cabl Prince of Wales will i
esent the on the platform.
King and many other members of Blowly the long trai
present
the Roy
led in
fraid of darkness except for the Mrs. Bruce has
Mount Mubarak, hir lighted first! hwhere three of the survivors, who were able to
the hospital were travel Mided as
from Jack, and in rep
from
CHINA ADMINISTRATION.
Lt. Col. Consens tó be Assistant Adjutant.
London, Yesterday.
It is officially announced that Lieut. Colonel Robert Baxter Cousens, D.3.0., Officer. Commanding the 18th Field Brigade, Royal Artillery, has been appointed Assistant Ad- jutant and Quartermaster General in charge of the Ad- ministration lu China, as from January 1, 1931-Reuter.
[Lieut.-Colonel Cousens is
50 years of age and was born at Wanstead. Educated at Epsom College and Clare Col- lege, Cambridge, he entered the Army in 1900 and served throughout the European War in Gallipall, Palestine, and. France. From 1920-22 he was D.A.A.G. Irish Command, and passed into the Staff College in 1919. Lieut. Col. Cousens bolds the
Humane Royal Society's medal for saving life at sea.]
ADMIRAL MAY. OFFICER WHO ATTENDED ON THE GERMAN EMPEROR, DEATH AT EIGHTY-UNE. London, Yesterday, The death occurred to-day of Admiral-of-the-Fleet Sir William histeighty-first year. Reuters Henry May, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., in Sir William May was born in 1849 and entered the Royal Navy in 1868, being promoted to Lieut. enant in 1871, to. Commander-in
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of
Mr. Butters-Did the rikisha paganda, with sedition mixed in in some of the pamphlets. He added coolie get his 60 cents?
that he thought the boys' stories Sergeant Fitches No. The were quite genuine, and pointed out PHILOSOPHY OF MR. defendant had only five cents on that the Police had located the
HOOVER.
Religious Faith and Business.
"BLIND MATERIALISM.”
New York, Yesterday. On King's Mountain battlefield, South Carolina, President Hoover in a speech to-day contrasted the American system of free, univer- sal education (training children as runners and striving to give them the equal start), with So- clalism,, Bolshevism, Anarchy, and Despotism, which all meant the "Destruction of the driving force of equal opportunity."
hira.
stationers' shops.
Learnt A Lesson. Addressing the lads his Worship
The Magistrate imposed a fine of $10 with the alternative of two weeks' hard labour on (s) and (b) charges respectively, and impos- sald: "Now you boys have learned ed a further fine of $20 or, in dea leason. You know that what you fault three weeks' jail on (c) have done is Tilegal, and you alsɔ charge. All terms are to run con- get this warning from me--that if secutively. Gibbinson was also you are caught doing this sort of ordered by his Worship to pay $1 thing again you will be severely
I will let you go." as compensation to the rikisha whipped.
Could Not Read, coolie.
AMERICAN CLOTH.
SCHEME TO STÁBILISE YARN PRICES.
In reply to the Magistrate, Detec tive-Sergeant O'Donovan said that the first, second and third accused were caught in various parts of the central district, all between 7,30 and 10 p.m. on October 6.,
"
Asked to plead, first accused sald: FULL TIME WORKING,
"I bought these books to sell, and I can't read. I did not know what London, Yesterday.
the books were about?
Second sccused pleaded: "I can't He added, "It is significant that Spinners of American cotton in
I did not some of these systems deny re- Manchester have decided to pre.
Ipare a scheme with compulsory read. I was selling them, ligion and seek to expel it.
know that they were seditious." for stabilising yarn cannot conceive of a wholesome powere
Third accused said; "I can't read. social order or a sound economic prices, with the object of prevent- system that has not "its roots in ing sales under cost of production I did not know what the books were religious faith. No blind mater from efficient mille on full time about." lalism can long engage the working-Reuter. loyalties of mankind."-Router's American Service.
STOCKS LOSSES. BEARS DISREGARD EXCHANGE WARNING. CANADIAN LOAN ISSUE. New York, Yesterday. The $100,000,000 Canadian
1881, to Captain in 1887; to Rear Government four per cent. lost, Admiral in 1901; Vice Admiral in issued at 954, has been over sub- 1905, and Admiral In 1908. He scribed, and the Stock Exchange served with the Arctic Expedition warning to the bears has appar from 1875-8 and was Naval Atently been entirely disregarded. tache for Europe in 1891-98, Bales and stocks were the largest whilst he was in attendance on for the week, losses ranging from during his visit to Britain in 1899. "Ruthless Campaigns. the German Emperor William I one of four points. In 1901 he was Director of Naval Officials of the Stock Exchange Ordnance and Torpedoes and also warned brokers that they are A.D.C. to-Queen Victoria and the risking disciplinary measures 1-6 he was a when they sell and assist the King
Lord of troller of the
1905-7 he acted
in-Chief of the Atlantic
sale of securities for the rom purpose of causing a demoraliza der tion of market valués,
et The Stock Exchange have de 1911-18 Admiral May, was cided that the unw
iefcata Fly cuthless campaigns and retired in 1819. He bear synd
ted Admiraled 1918.1
Service
MODERATELY FINE.
To-day's weather report. from the Royal Observatory Btates.
All three pleaded guilty to dis- tributing.
Fourth, fifth and sixth accused ad- mitted selling the books, and, in reply to the Magistrate as to why they did so, replied that they sold the books because it was a festival day.....- It was a usual custom to sell these books on the seventh day of the A belt of high pressure ex-seventh moon. tends from the upper Yangtaze Valley to E. Japan and a trough of relatively low-pres sure from the China Sea to Guam.
Forecast: NE. winds; moderate; fine.
Rainfall. Rainfall to 10a.m. to-day nil. Rainfall since January. 1, 94.75 Inches against, an aver age of 77-85-Inches pop Temperature, in
The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 8 o'clock was 3-*
Hong Kong
Macao
Pra Island
Hard to Prove.
Sergent O'Donovan, in reply to his Worship, said that he had nu reason to disbelieve their "storiea.. He could not bring home that they, knew the papers were editions; so he charted them, alternately, with distributing. "Knowingly" said Sergeant O'Donovan, would be hard to prove, because they are istorate.
His Worship, imposed a fine of $5 with the usual alternative of seven days jail each on the three accused. He remanded the cases against ther first, second and third mento Monday
Mr. PL. Faulkner of the Cur rugh, County Kildare, an authority ont horse breeding and an official of the Irish Turf Club, died in hospital from Injuries received when he was knocked down by a motor-bar in Hyde Park.