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MURDER RE-TRIAL
AT ASSIZES.
Commences with a New
Jury.
OPENING STAGES.
No. 27,841
IF FRANCE AGREES
SHRD
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 6,1931.
CENSORSHIP OF
CABLES.
FATE OF HOOVER'S MORATORIUM.
Foreigners' Messages Held Up.
MEETING TO PROTEST.
ATLANTIC AIRSHIP SERVICES.
Mr. Fritsche on the
Cost,
METAL-CLAD HULLS,
At the Assizes this morning, AIDED BY BANKS Saturday to the Canton Sun says future, which will remove the need A Shanghai cablegram of The metal-clad airship of the
the re-trial, on a charge of mur der, commenced of Wong Cheung, allas Wong Sik-cheung, who, it will be recalled, was previously before the Chief Justice for five days, on a murder charge, at the end of which the jury could not agree upon a verdict.
The new jury empanelled this morning consisted of Mr. J. W. Alabaster (foreman); Messrs.
P. N. da Silva, D. Rumjahn, S. Berg, A. J. P. Heard, RE Atwell, and J. P. Xavier.
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy prose- cuted for the Crown, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Messrs. Deacons, appeared for the defence.
Peculiar Affair.
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RENDITION OF CONCESSIONS.
Nanking Note to the Powers.
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Nanking, Saturday.
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NO CONSIGNMENTS DETAINED.
In order to prevent the smugg that a circular letter has been for gasbage and the fabric envelope, preparing identic Notes for disHUNDRED PREMISES Government has sent a communi-
gling of arms and ammunitionin into South China from sent out to all members of for eign Chambers of Commerce in the most
British Colony the Hong Kong troublesome features patch to the diplomatic represen Shanghai to meet within three fir the present airships, was tatives of the various interested.
cation to the National Govern days for the purpose of drawing described
in
a lecture
Powers requesting that special
ment in Canton requesting the the attention of Chiang Kai-shek
delegate be immediately appoint- that the drastic censorship insti-
fore the Royal Aeronautical ed to open negotiations with the
local military authorities to notify the British Consul-General Paris, Yesterday, tnted by his order has caused Society by. Mr. Carl Fritsche, Government regarding the ren-
Tokyo, To-day.
in Shameen in case the local Gov- There is every prospect of considerable
It is reported from Pingament intends to purchase inconvenience to president of the Aircraft Devolop dition of their respective Conces- a final Franco-American agree foreigners, and in certain cases, ment Corporation of Detroit, which Press, reports alleging that the sions and Settlements In China.
ying that rioting broke out at arms and other ment on July 6. The pro- great losses are suffered by for-
nine o'clock yesterday evening through Hong Kong.
war materials visional agreement reached at eign merchants due to the long has already built a small, airship Notes in question have already
and resulted in 30 Chinese last night's conference at the delay in which telegrams are be- with a metal skin. He also work-been dispatched from Nanking
deaths and 130 being seriously
According to the communique Ministry of the Interior and ing held up for several days for ed out in detail the capital and are authoritatively stated to be
injured.
from the Colonial Government, cabled to President Hoover purpose of censorship.
incorrect.
The rioting was raging until says the Canton Sun of yester- this morning provides: -
Among other things, the cir-! operational coat of a regular The Notes, it is understood,
four o'clock this morning in day; they request that the Can- Firstly, that Germany shall cular points out that most of the Atlantic service, which, he sug- will point out that the system
spite of the combined efforts ton Government should send the repay in a decade;
censors in the Telegraph Offices, gested, should be operated jointly of foreign Concessions, being an
of the Police and firemen, ac-fire-arms permit to the British Secondly, that the Central are, mere lads or men of imma-by the United States and a Euro has now become an anachronism The Korean mob of 5,000 de ate before taking delivery of the
anomalous heritage of the past,
cording to a Nichi, Nichi Consulate in order to secure the and East European Pow-turé experience, in consequence
special.
necessary seal from the Consul ers shall be aided by the of which some telegrams even/pean country, and which according and is incompatible with present-stroyed more than a hundred imported arms from Hong Kong. Banks in case of need; in plain language have been held to his figures, shoill yield a prost day conditions. Thirdly, that a temporary up for 48 hours.
of 20 per cent.
As the continued existence of dragged out the hapless inmates, sury in order to prevent bandits
Chinese houses and restaurants,
This measure is deemed neces-. continuance of reparations
such Concessions cannot but be a butchered 30 in the streeta, and and Communists from buying in kind be left for discus-posit the 25,000,000 with the
Gas-Tight Beams.
serious impediment to the sion between Germany Bank of International Settlements
seriously injured 180.
arms and ammunition from "for- and her European credi and thus enable the Germans and airship, he said, performed the and the various. Fowers, the Police for protection escaped in-chants in Hong Kong are re
The thin metal surface of the new friendly relations between China
Only those who fled to the eign firms in Hong Kong. Mer.. tors;
other creditors to receive some-
Nanking regime proposes that jury. Fourthly, that the guarantee thing during, the Moratorium.
duties of four layers in the old delegates be appointed by the in-
minded that only bona fide mili- fund problem be thrashed There is no question of France type.
The Police arrested more than tary officials" with proper authori- These were the fabric terested Powers to open negotia a hundred Koreans, but for seven ty can buy war materials, and out between France and having to find this guarantee envelope, the shear wiring, the gas-ons with the Ministry of For-hours the city was in a state of this is intended for the mutual other European_creditors; under the Hoover scheme, but Fifthly, that the French de- she fears that Germany will seek bag wiring, and the gee-bags. Teign Affairs relative to the ques
pandemonium.
protection of Canton and Hong mand for a political-guar-a_further. Moratorium-when-Mr, thin sheets of Alclad were riveted.
-Protection-of-Foreigners
The troops are being_held_in_Kong. antee from Germany that Hoover's scheme ends. She is together, and the seams made gas- The Notes, it is further under-readiness to assist the Police in France's affair be arrang- therefore seeking an amendment tight by treatment with a compound stood, will also give the assur-
There appears no truth. in. the the rioting is renewed. ed with Germany.
report, as Earlier News.
stated in certain hypothetical possibilities, which had a bitumaste base. The ance that following the rendition
Shanghai papers, that the Hong It was then apparently decided has solved all the points raised the other signatories.
Thus last night's conference hence the necessity of consulting
Tokyo, Saturday, of the Concessions, the National Beams and the metal had been
Sorious anti-Chinese riots oc- certain consignments of war im- Kong Government has detained to take the evidence of the in- by Mr. Mellon in the Memoran-
Government will assume full res-curred last night at Chempulpo, plements which were consigned Position Uncertain. » mates of the house prior to the dum, which was submitted to M.
under vibration. ponsibility for the protection of Seoul, as a sequel to trouble in to Canton. As far as can be as- severely tested medical evidence, so that the first Laval yesterday afternoon prior
Washington, Saturday.
The ZMC-2, which had been flying the life and property of foreign Wanpaoshan and Kirin, where certained by the Canton Sun, no Following telephonic conversa- for two years, had a displacement of nationala and that they will be Chinese and Koreans clashed on such obstruction has been placed. witness to be called was a woman to the meeting of the French tion from Paris, Mr. Castle, Act- who occupied the front cubicle in Cabinet.
accorded freedom of residence in Thursday following the alleged ing Secretary of State, said that 202,200 cubic feet, way 149ft. song, the house. She described how It was decided that the prin- he was not sure that the Franco- had a top speed of 70 miles an hour,
any part of the country. she was awakened by cries of ciple must be for the conference American settlement was defini- and carried a load, apart from fuel, pay no attention to the dead the Koreans had been building.
destruction by Chinese pea- Representatives of the Powers sants of irrigation works which "Save Life," coming from the to deal with the necessary ad-live. He interpreted the Paris oil, and ballast, of 1,300 lb. It was of Nanking, as it no longer com
INDIAN FLIGHT. "teng," or front room. She look-justments to the Young Plan, communique as indicating that lifted by helium, which diffused mands allegiance of Kawngtung,While the situation in Wappaq ed over the partition, and saw particularly the vexed question some differences had been elimin- much less readily than hydroger, Kwangsi, and other Northern chine gun quiete
ahan (to which apanese mA.| the man Kau Shuk (the victim) of a guarantee fund. struggling with the prisoner, and
ated.-Reuter's American Ser-and the loss represented by diffusion provinces. another man, prisoner's father.
The alternatives are an inter- vice.
was about 121b. of lift every. 24 Governmental conference, prob
hours, Witness added that she sawably in London, and a conference the prisoner throw a rope over of French experts in Paris. The the man's head. It landed on his latter is the more likely.
A de- shoulders. She called out, but cition on the matter is anticipat, was told by the older man that ed for July 6.-Reuter. she should not make a noise, as "it was our affair."
Mr. Fitzroy, opening his ad- dress to the jury, said that pri-| Boner was charged with murder. A peculiar feature, of the case' was that the Crown' could assign no reason for the alleged erime. Counsel went on to outline the details of the affair, describing the circumstances in similar manner to the report which was already appeared in these columns. Formal evidence of preparing the plans and photo- graphs was then taken.
Change in Procedure.
almost
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Germany's Assurance. An assurance has been receiv-
Washington, Yesterday.
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tion.
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the Record
is growing normal a party of 150 Koreans raided Chinese restaur- only 5 per cent. of this. This rate ants and barbers' shops at Chem!
Bagdad, Saturday, suggested for this was 75. a. Ib.
pulpo and were soon joined by Captain Neville Stack and Mr. mobs estimated at several thou-J. R. Chaplin have abandoned Four Days Saved.
sand, which began attacking the their attempt to break the record
Holiday from Debt..
Rugby, Saturday. The negotiations which have For the bigger alrahips it was been proceeding in Paris proposed that the whole hull should throughout the week between re- be divided into gas chambers, the presentatives of the United lower half of which should consist Among the 500,000 passengers Chinese quarters generally. owing to engine trouble, and are States and the French Ministers of gas-proof fabric. As the size travelling between the United States The Chinese, arming them-returning home, Reuter, when agreement in principle was in weight of the metal skin over the over $100 for the single journey Chinese Consulate and kept the clashes occurred to day, including ended shortly after midnight, of the airship increased the excess and Enrope every year 25,000 paid selves with bamboo poles and aticks, concentrated around the reached regarding the French fabric skin would be diminished. By airship, four daye would be Koreans at bay while Japanese attacks on Chinese houses. Several reservations of President Comparing R100, using helium,saved and this would justify the Hoover's plan for one year's with a metal-clad ship of slightly difference between that fare, and the mounted police did their utmost casualties are reported. holiday from debt and reparation less capacity, the useful load in the suggested 180 for the airship pas- to restore order.
The authorities are taking most payments.
latter would be 10,000lb, greater and senger. Assuming that cach air-
The number of casualties is stringent measures and 41 arrests A communique was later issu- an equal speed would be obtained ship completed 80 per cent, of. Its not reported but the situation is have been made.
described as tense. Similar riot- At the Chinese Consulate It, Is. As a result of the dilly Interior in the following metal-clad airship could obtain the of its accommodation was sold from Seoul, where Koreans start-have been wounded since the out- dallying in Paris bankruptcy terma: "Representatives of same volume of gas with 11 per every voyage, a total of 6,600 pas is staring Germany in the face the two Governments. con- cent. less bir dieplacement, ao re-sengers would be carried in the ed stoning Chinese shops. Reu- break of the rioting. harder than when President tinued their examination of ducing the drag, and the engine year, or less than 1 per cent of the ter Hoover originally proposed the President's Hoover's proposals power needed for a given speed. total volume and about 3 per cent. of
Chinese "Mown Down." Moratorium.
and the French notes in re There would be no such advantage the first-class passengers. On
Shanghai, Saturday.
"
Berlin, Yesterday. ed by the French Minister of the with engines of 600 h.p. less. The scheduled trips and that 75 per cent ing on a smaller scale is reported declared that a hundred Chinese
Back Taken Out. ed from Germany that no advan- Later the light was put out tage will be taken of the Mora- Witness joined another woman torium to increase her arma- in a bed space at the end of the ments.-Reuter's American Ser- passage, and another female oc. vice. cupant of the place came along a
Nearly Bankrupt. little later. Witness said she saw the two men carrying out a sack with heavy contents. She also described how she had pre- viously seen Kau Shuk lying on the floor of the "teng." She had heard "a gurgling noise," com ing from the teng..
The hearing is proceeding.
CRIMINAL LUNATIC
ESCAPES.
Chinese Runs Amok in
1,500 Refugees.
Reichsbank held a special ed his French colleagues that Zeppelin now under construction vention of £2 88: a mile, there would clares that 10Chinese peasants Chinese Consulate .now number
The General Council of the ply thereto. Mr. Mellon inform In comparison with the new these assumptions, with a small sub- The Kuomin News Agency de- The meeting to-day to discuss the the United States Government because of Its lighter structure be annual profit of £1,250,000, and two Chinese Police were 1,500. gold reserve, which is near the had decided to accept the main-weight
which would be equal to about 201 per cent.H
Supply Of Helium.'***
Secul, Yesterday. Chinese refugees in the Two hundred are reported "mown down by the machine guns of Japanese gendarmes to be wounded: and soldiers' during the Wang- The general mobilisation of the paoshan trouble. Reuter-
Police has been ordered and re- 41 Arrests.
inforcemente despatched to Chemul- Seoul, Saturday.po, where... akirmishes between
tense. Fifty-five last night-Reuter. -
getting
more
· statutory limit of 40 per cent. tenance of payment by Germany Probably as a feeler the state of the non-conditional portion of £6,000,000 Capital Cost. ment was made that the the German debt as provided by A 200-ton metal-clad airship. As to the supply of hellum, it was Reichsbank may in the. ex the Young Plan.cruising at 75 miles an hour might not an exaggeration to say that ceptional circumstances re- Other divergencies of views reasonably be expected to do the there was sufficient in the United duce the reserve to below 40 have been settled, and others journey from Montreal to London Statea for 1,000 super-airships, and The Sino-Korean situation is the police and the mob occurred per cent. It may also restrict which remain and which are of in 60 hours, allowing an extra 10 unquestionably Great Britain would credit. No decision has yet minor importance will be submit hours for the voyage in the opposite experience no difficulty in obtaining been announced. Reuter. ted to a Council of Ministers to direction. From Washington to a supply, were her commercial air- Not Satisfactory- day. Agreement on technical London would occupy 60 hours. She ship policy amended so as to require Date, Washington, Yesterday. and financial parts of the nego-would carry 50 percent. fuel its use. Legislation was before It is authoritatively stated tiations appears under reserve of reserve, 50 pessengers and 25 tons Congress to place airships for mall that Mr. Mellon has been in approbation of other Interested of mails eastbound, with reduc purposes on a footing similar to At 6.15 o'clock yesterday morn structed to tell France that her Powers likely to be arrived at tion of seven tons of mail on west-that of shipping. Obviously. It was ing, Lam Yuyuk, described as a position regarding the con- very shortly-British Wireless bound tripe. The capital cost of uneconomical to transport mail in criminal lunatic, suddenly ran tinuance of payments in kind Service.IN PARE amok on the first floor verandah from Germany is not satisfactory, London,
Mental Asylum.
WARDMASTER HURT.
of the Government Mental Hos- and that President Hoover's An agreement has been. pital, and, taking hold of a large Moratorium covers Reparations between the United State nail, inflicted, wounds on four in kind, therefore a free hand France on the people, two of whom were also cannot be given to experts in the rium, but the signator inmates,
matter Reuter's American Ser Young Plan must conf
the
Dr. Isaac Newton, me
ofa ER Earlier Cables
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cer in charge of the Civil Hospital who Police of the affair Junatics inflicted wom
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