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Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 5, 1930.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1930,
ATTACK ON WARDER
COUNCIL MEETS.
FIRST READING OF NEW
BILLS. AR
AMUSEMENT TAX. *
passed their
PRISONER SENT TO THE 150
ASSIZES.
ALLEGATIONS OF CONSPIRACY
reaching solution' bene- ficial to the country, as was done recently in America through the Jaegis of President Hoover, then we might reasonably expect some successful issue to emerge. The manifesto penned by Sir Oswald Mosley, however," le scarcely worth the attention that it has received in the Press, other than At a meeting of the Legislative Yesterday afternoon Mr. E. H, Bill Williams committed for trial at the that it may lead to the radical con- Council yesterday six new clusion that Sir Oswald and his seven others went through the final charge of causing grievous bodily first reading, and Assizes Chinese prisoner 1614 on a
confreres have an axe of their reading.
harm to Acting Principal Worder own to grind and are ambitious of It was stated, in reply to the Bert Plumb by stabbing him twice inaugurating another party. We Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, that, relativa in the main ward of Victoria Jail
to the establishment of a Criminal on October 22. believe that the country at large Court of Appeal in Hong Kong, cor Interest in yesterday's hearing will have little faith in their respondence had passed between was
centred on the evidence of shibboleth, however, and doubt the Secretary of State and the the accused's fellow prisoners. whether it will meet with even as view to bringing the position
Hong Kong Government, with 4 Prisoner 432 said that he was in "
In the workshop at the time of tho much success, as was attained by Hong Kong into line with the pro stabbing incident and did not, the idealistic Empire Crusade of visions of the Criminal Appeal Act, therefore know anything about it. Lord Rothermere. :
1907.
On the morning of October 22, Assessment Increase.
witness, accused, and prisoner 478 A resolution moved by the went to the cook-house to have Colonial Secretary that Assessment their provisions weighed and the rates be increased was adopted. In rice Was found to be short removing this resolution the Colonial in weight. Secretary said that a wrong ides allowed to szemed to have grown that rates an
.
News in Brief.
Li Hong (18) was yesterday moved to the Government Civil Hos- pital, after being found apparently insens in Central Street,
Mr. E. H. Williams (Second Magistrate) took the Bench in the First Court this morning, Mr. R. E. Lindsell (Senior Magistrate) being on leave.
A Chinese appeared before Mr. Butters this morning charged with stealing a basket of female clothing fxpm 603, Nathan Road. Accused
was remanded for 24 hours.
P
Accused was not weigh his rice. Indian warder pushing are separatively calculated and de- him out of the office and back to finitely allotted to specific expendi-the cell on A. P. W. Plumb's ins- ture; but there had in fact been notructions. rule requiring adherence to a
Bugs in Bed Boards, uniform percentage in the separate There were more than ten prison- calculation, and variations of per-ers in the water and rice ward. centage had occurred. It was now They could not sleep owing to the proposed to review the whole table bed boards being infested with or figures, and leaving Water Rates bugs. When they banged the boards apart, as a separate entity, to at- to get the bugs out a warder threa- tempt to find a uniform percentage fened to give them A further charge in all rated areas.
term of punishment diet. Wit- First Readings.
ness also alleged that subsequently Bills which passed their first read- there was a conspiracy between two Mr. Ph. C. Visser is to lecture on ings, objects and reasons of which warders to put accused on report. "The Fourth. Karakoroum Expedi- have already appeared in these Witness added that A. P. W. tion," illustrated with lantern columns, were (a) A Bill to amend Plumb did not treat the accused alides, in the Great Hall of the the Crown Lands Resumption properly on the occasion_when_ba more promising of tyranny under University on Monday, at 8.30 p.m. Ordinance, (b) a Bill in respect of wished to have his food weighed. the the benign 'cloak of "salva-
Entertainment Tax, (e) A Bill to He had also heard A. P. W. Plumb For unlawfully possessing 604 further amend the Piers Ordinance, call the accused names and order tion". were never evolved by ab. of tobacco on which duty had no (d) three Billa concerning the him to stop talking. Witness agreed Stalin. Yet but A second's been paid, a Chinese was rernanded Stamp Ordinance, the Tung Wah that talking between prisoners was thought suffices to indicate how for a week in the Kowloon Magis- Hospital corporation, and powers of forbidden by the prison regula- fatuous the efforts of such
tracy this morning, Eall of $5,000 arrest by Revenue Officers, respec- tions. "Plumb is the most trouble- £ was allowed.
tively.
some man in the jail," he added. Council would be to deal with
Bills Passed, problems, so vast and intricate.. Chief Inspector Charles Frede-The following fills passed their that they may be solved in the rick Aris, of the Hong Kong Police second and third readings
оп Force, is leaving for Home course of years only by the dis-beard the P. & O. Kalyan on Decem-Force Ordinance, 1900.”
"A Bill to amend the interested co-operation of manu- ber 20, on his retirement on pen- facturers and industrialists on slon, after over 30 years' service.. the one hand, and the workers on the other. If a succession of Gov- opium a Chinese was fined $60 or For possessing twa taels of lillent ernments, each supposed to re-'one manth's imprisonment in the present the wishes of different Kowloon Magistracy this morning. sections of public thought and When arrested in Jordan Road aceused stated that it was given to opinion, has failed to discover and him by a man in Woosung Street. apply any immediate remedy for economic diseases, is it to be con-
A
Police
re-
ROTARY CLUB.
INAUGURAL MEETING IN
COLONY....
Alleged Conspiracy. Prisoner. 67, stated that. it..was. n rule for each prisoner to have two baths a week. On October 20, witness, accused, and another pri- "A Bill to amend the Probates soner were not given their bath, Ordinance, 1897.”
The next day witness and the other. "A Bill to amend the Summary prisoner were allowed to have their Offences Ordinance, 1845."
bath but the accused was deprived "A Bill to consolidate and amend of it. Accused rang the bell three the law relating to the District times when Warder Murphy took Watch Force."
him to A. P. W. Plumb. Witness "A Bill to amend the law. re- said that probably there was a con- lating to theatrical performances at spiracy between the two ofleers places of public entertainment." to put the accused on a water and
"A Bill for promoting the
rice diet. It was stated by the Police this vision of the Ordinances of Hong
Prisoner 478, said he considered morning, when sidered at all seriously that Sir charged before Mr. E. H Williams) and other Enactments which areing attitude was the cause of the Chinese was Kong by the repeal of Ordinances that A. P. W. Plumb's bully- Oswald Mosley and his brother in the Central Magistracy with the spent or no longer required and by that it was wrong to weigh food in stabbing. Witness further said Utopians alone may operate with unlawful possession of seven taela the correction of errors," auccess? The very fact that the of illicit opium, that the drug was "A Bill to amend the law re-ounces instead of tnels. State administrators have failed accused's girdle.
contained in tins concealed in lating to Companies."
A fine of $600 ever since the War to cope with or four months jall was imposed.
Finance Committee. At a meeting lator of the Finance the grave situations which have
Committee, Estimates totalling accumulated into
The forthcoming marriages are $195,431 were approved. a depressing
Detalla announced of Joseph Harrop, resid- have already appeared in thes economic canker, affecting the ing at Huntington, Stubbe Road columns. very roots of Britain's industrial Hong Kong, to Phyllis Margaret
The inaugural meeting of the In connection with a vote Dean Inge once remarked in system, is proof in itself that the Goodall, of Ava House, May Road, $4,206 for University Examination arranged for Monday evening in the of Hong Kong Rotary Club has been one of his newspaper articles that methods of Government are faulty Hong Kong; and of Kong Seung- Grants, the Chairman informed the Hong Kong Hotel. Mr. James W. history resembles itself,-. rather and inefficient. The Chinese havatung, doctor of medicine, 478, Hon. Mr. Owen Hughes that the Davidson, the Honorary General than repeats itself, and it certain- a way of pinching other parts of to Chan Sau-fun, 1,, Ying Fai Ter-examinations were compulsory, and Commissioner of the Rotary Inter- the Government paid the fees national, has been here for a few ly would appear from the recent their bodies to distract the atten-race, Hong Kong.
ultimately.
weeks, quietly and efficiently or activities of Sir Oswald Mosley tion of the "pain devil" from those
Mr. Paterson asked for details. and his
The case against the two rikisha The matter would, come up, before ganising, the local branch of this anti-MacDonald
con-parts which are making them ill. pullers, which was remanded yes- the Retrenchmet Committes, and he
great movement. freres on the Labour benches This primitive "cure" is very terday in the Kowloon Magistracy thought it might be left until then leading personalities of the Colony Over eighty names, covering the that Britain, if these factionists much akin to the tactics adopted pending the evidence of a European The Chairman said that might of all nationalities, have accepted are to have their way, will pass by the British Governments in accused being acquitted. Witness venient to hold up the account: Governor (Sir William Peel) is tho witness, was concluded to-day, both be done, but it would be incon-invitations to join, and H.E. the through a period of oligarchy dealing with the pains and ills of stated that he saw one of the pullera The matter could be discussed firat honorary member. similar to that obtaining in the the Commonweal, and are we struck by an Indian, also that he later, and in the meantime Mr. days of the Long and Short Par-surprised that it has never suc
did not notice any atonas, Mr.
Mr. Davidson has had the Paterson's remarks hardly affected
greatest BCC638 in spreading Haments. According to a cable ceeded? The cure for a disease is
the vote. Replying to the Hon. Rotary through the Far East, and Dr. T'so he said that the sum being there is no reason why it should received to-day a manifesto in- to be sought in the centre of the
voted would not, affect the capitanot do well in Hong Kong. Its spired by Sir Oswald and signed organic disturbance, and if a little.
tion grant in any way. by seven Labour Members of more scientific method were ap Parliament has been issued, plied to the troubles at Home,
SHIBBOLETHS.
The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd. urging that the supreme power perhaps the political doctors
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Butters ruled that the case was not proved.....
GOING BACK.
FAREWELL TO CANADIAN
* PREMIERSHI
EMPIRE CO-OPERATION.
London, Yesterday,
primary object is to bring men of Tytam Pipe Line.
different races, creeds and occupa- In connection with an item of
tions together. It adopts the $16,500 for pipe line from Tytam fundamental method of holding a to Stanley, the Hon. Mr. Owen meala luncheon--once a week Hughes observed that Stanley was after which a short address Is given rated at 1214 per cent, under the
of government should be placed would have the reward of seeing in the hands of a fow Ministera. the economic depressión recover 2 In other words, these "advanced" and trade renew its erstwhile Mr. J. H. Thomas was among a whether the supply of water had in the Middle Asia ares-five in
new scale. He wanted to know by a member or a guest,
There are now 23 Rotary Clubs politicians suggest that the Home strength.. Country "should humbly accept
host of friends who bade.. fare-been taken into consideration in India, two in Burma, one in Ceylon, The speeches and official state well to Mr. R. B. Bennett, the fixing this rate. the yoke of an oligarchy, untilments of the Premier and the Canadian Premier, on his return to
The Chairman replied that there four in F.M.S., six in Java, one in three in the Straits Settlements,
such time as conditions have immembers of his Cabinet have for Canada
was no special allocation of the Sumatra, and one in Bangkok. el.He said, "Mr. Bennett, came as
rate for any particular expenditure. proved. They justify this the past year been embodied
with
nclosa : friend, and leaves as an startling policy by explaining a tedious plantitude of referentes even closer friend.
Y.M.CA. -DRAMA. that the economile and industrial to "world depression," and even Mr. Bennett, interviewed by state of the country is fast apr President Hoover has been oblig would do her utmost at the Ottn
Reuter, declared that Canada AMATEUR THEATRICALS ON proaching a national crisis, and ed to console the American elecwn conference to ensure the adop
LADIES' NIGHT. that emergency measures, such as torate with similar soothing pills. tion of measures to increase Em- were taken during the Great That a world depression, more tire co-operation-Reuter. War, should be adopted so as to disastrous than anything since
body
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a marked; success. There was H
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plate the control of the country, the Industrial Revolution, does MUKDEN MARSHAL Ladies' Night yesterday, and scored Buckle 10, Sir Robert Ho Tubs its resources, and its economic face the great economic Powers and industrial policy, under a cannot, of course, be denied, but handful of "wise dictators." They the remedy lies within the ability hope by the Inception of this of each country to seek its own "Emergency Grand Council," to salvation. Whichever
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sspital shortly after six this even Moerly (Jy J. Ferguson) and Mr. $10, Mr. Leung Yan-po and to put a stop to the dumping tally dependent on and controlled ho is leaving to-night, bound for MV. 3. C. Granham was responsible and Mrs. Austin, who gave Instru- of foreign surplus goods into Bri by the prosperity of its indus the north,
for the realistic lighting effects mental trios, Mrs. O. C. Womack, tain. A more Utopian scheme tries, and if a conference of the Madame Chlang crossed the Amdefeat entertainment was pro Mr. H. G. Annies, Mr. H. Glover river in order to bid farewell to sented in the first section of the (Bonga), and Mr. Blok Barty were never pered by Sir Thomas - great leadera vero
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terv
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