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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1932.
BOMB EXPLOSION IN BATTERY PATH
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
DUNLOP
ADMIRAL KELLY THE BANDITS REPORT OF POLICE HAND TO HAND FIGHT
GUEST OF HONOUR.
Speaks on Personal
Contact.
CHINESE COOLIE SEVERELY BETWEEN CHINESE & BRITONS.
INJURED
THREE THEORIES PROPOUNDED
“ROLLED OATS" TIN PLANTED OVERNIGHT.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shanghai, To-day.
The Union Club tiffin in honour of Admiral Kelly, the guest of honour, in a speech in the truc breezy naval sylte, suggested that
SEIZE
WOMEN
Female Stars Of Theatre
COMMISSIONER.
500,000 Industrial Men Unemployed.
DAMAGE IN SETTLEMENT.
[From Our Own Correspondent.] '
Shanghai, To-day.
Major Gerrard, Commissioner of Police, in the course of his month- ly report discloses that at one period during the hostilities ap- 500,000 industrial workers and dependents were
a conference over a few cocktails Taken To Strong proximately
at a club bar was likely to achieve
mach more in settling thorny Chn Hold In Mountains thrown out of work, and that 314
ese and foreign questions than
A sensational bomb explosion occurred in Bat- guns and bayonets. He added that tery Path just before 9 o'clock this morning, and he had himself utilised this method Choy Yuen, a coolie employed at St. John's Cathe-when he had brought the Chinese and Japanese delegates, aboard the dral, was severely injured.
Dogship. The explosion occurred among the shrubbery Admiral Kelly expressed a strong lining the side of the path running past the Cathe-contact between Chinese and Bri- dral, just behind the French Mission's Building.
Immediately following the crash, Choy was seen to fall over the wall into a drain on the ele- vated part of Murray Parade ground.
Willing helpers immediately rushed to where Choy had fallen and was lying motionless. When he was picked up he was still alive, but terribly in- jured. His face vas blackened, and there was an ugly wound in h. chest.
who had him removed to the Gov- his chest. erument Civil Hospital.
faith in the efficacy of personal
Long.
CORDOBA STAGES EXCITING DUEL.
Minister and Vice-
President Cross Words. FACIAL INJURIES RECEIVED.
tinez, a former Vice-President of
Life Worse Than Death
[From Our Own Correspondent.) "Wuchow, March 24.
During the night a band of robbers came down from the moun- tains and made a raid on the town of Paak Sha located on the banks of the West River between the Koal Un and Kwai Peng cities.
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projectiles, including two serial bombs, which fell into the Settle- meat caused damage to 280 bulld- inga and were responsible for 270 casualties, including 61 deaths, ex- clusive of the destruction to pro-
perty and the casualties reported In the extra settlement and on the Municipal roads.
Company Meetings.
ORIGINAL MOTION DEFEATED.
H.K. Rope Company's Meeting.
SHARE BONUS APPROVED.
When an original motion to pay
credit of next
IN SMALL VILLAGE
SNIPERS BECOMING MORE
F
DARING
ISOLATED OUTPOSTS
BOMBED
THE COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS PREDICTED.
(From Our Own Correspondent).
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Shanghai, To-day.
Though the curfew hour is terminating on Thursday a Council spokesman issues a warning that there is a likelihood of its re-establishment in the event of reactionaries taking advantage of its termination to cause disorder. Meanwhile emer- gency status is continuing.
COLLAPSE OF PEACE PARLEYS ?
.....
The complete collapse of peace negotiations is predicted to occur on Thursday, following the con- tinued deadlock arising from the Japanese refusal to set a time limit on their withdrawal. Delegates" on both sides are not showing any signs of yielding Buenos, Aires, Yesterday. Choy
and high dignitaries are frankly pessimistic as to was taken out of the This theory was discounted, how- A duel was fought to-day near drain and laid un his back on the aver, by the fact that a mere fall Cordoba, between Senor Abalos, ground near by and all possible from the wall into the parade an ex-Minister for Public Works The robbers did not
a dividend of 85 cents per share, the outcome. absorbing $170,000.00, to write off Meanwhile vicious fighting has occurred in a assistance WAS until the arrival of the Police, the injuries he had received to ernment, and Dr. Enrique Mar- raided the living quar- to carry forward to cron, vas pat Japanese troops are engaged in hand-to-hand en- rendered him ground could not have caused during President Irigoyen's Gov- loot any of the shops, but plant and machinery $7,729.82 and village south of Soochow Creek where Chinese and
Examining the Tin. the Republic. During the enters where a theatrical foward, aa a formality,. by Mr. L counters. A huge volume of smoke rose
From the fact, so that counter the latter received sever- group was staying. G.Shewan (Chairman) to those int the air following the explo. Choy's face was blackened, It Infal face wounds,
SNIPERS STILL MENACE JAPANESE. present at the forty-eighth ordin The robbers did not are general meeting of the Hong sión and a smat of chémiala evident that the bomb could not "The affair originated in an ac- lingered in the air for a consider- have exploded behind his back count published by Dr. Martinez trouble the men mem- Kong Rope Manufacturing Com
Snipers are more daring and are continuing able time after.
The blackened face and chest of the circumstances in which hel At the spot where the tomb wound gave rise to a third theory resigned his post in the Autumn, bers of the company, but pany, Ltd., held at St. George's war on Japanese sentries. They are sometimes Building this morning, the motion seen walking boldly up to a picket and firing with exploded, the shrubs were blown which seemed to be the more ac- of 1930.
captured five of the was rejected. away over a space of roughly curate one. It is that Choy had As a sequel to this account,
An amendment, however, that 15 revolvers at point-blank range. They are also us five feet by two-
come across the bomb while Senor Abalos sent his seconds to young ladies, bound them In a bough of a tall tree to the making his way through the call on Dr. Martinez-Reuter.
cents bonus per share be paid, pro- ing bombs against isolated outposts. and carried them away posed by Dr. Fred Kew, and left of the clearing Police inves-shrubs and he had squatted down
to their fastness in the seconded by Mr. P. M. N. da Silva,
Guerilla warfare is increasing instead of wan- tigators found a piece of metal to examine the tin containing which had evidently formed rart the explosive when it went off. "planted" under cover of night, mountains. Covering up when put to the meeting, at the ing and the Japanese claim that it is almost impos- of the bomb, while a piece of
hidden that must have been disturbed by the binding operations was carried. The directors did not
speech,sible to stop it without launching an intensive cam- similar metal was embedded in bomb had first made an attempt some approaching pedestrian and
paign. the hough of another tree un the to bury it in the ground, for a slipping it into the shallow hole other bandits kept firing vote on the amendment. other side of the path and oppo- shallow hole was found at the had hurriedly covered it up and their rifles in all direc-Supporting the Chairman, were site the spot where the explo- spot. nd investigators were made his departure.
tions to keep away any J. Scott Haraton (Directors) and Soo Put-chen, A. A. Lopes, Pang expended on additions to plant and sion occurred. This gives some agreed that the hollow in the Why anyone should seek to
J. Coulthart (Secratary). Wai-hang, I. W. Shewan, J. Toppin, machinery all of which had been indication of the force of the ground could not have been caus- leave a bomb in Battery Path is one who dared to help Mr.
Shareholders present were F. J. Tavares, A. H. Carroll, Chun provided for out of the revenue, ed by the explosion because such difficult to understand,
the unfortunate women. Messrs. N. V. A. Croucher, P. M. N. Wing-keu, Dr. F. H. Kew, Messrs, which amounted to $261,500.51. bombs have a tendency of blow- Choy is in a very dazed con- ing upward.
dition and shortly before noon Those who were near da Silva, A. Seth, F. A. Xavier, F. W. A. Zimmern, Chau Siu-wul and Regarding the recommendation for was taken to the operating thes- the place said it was. Botelho, Lam Lai-tong, Lal
L. Silva, H. Dryer, Choa Po-mio, A. {L. Weill.
the payment of a dividend of 85- The Chairman's report showed a cents per, share, the Chairman juries. tre for attention to his chest in-heart-breaking to hear Shuet-kung, Kwok Hin-wang. Peter net profit of $214,810.36 for the stated that the Directors had re- the screams of the young H. Sin, Lo Kin-fal, G. A. Harriman, year, the sum of $54,644.02 being ceived two letters from a number women in the darkness, crying out."Save life, save life," as they were borne away into the
"blow up."
Whoever had
Being Operated Upon.
1931 PAYS ITS WAY
"Rolled Oats" Tin, On the ground in the clauring caused by the explosion was found some twisted tin which had the bomb, which was evidently Then, proably, the concealer of once been un old can.
It was blackened and rusty, but after a little rubbing the words "rolled oata" could be read on the tin. On the wall overlooking the Murray Parade Ground were two large pieces of what had been u Chinese plate, whole on the ground, among the shrubs, an other small piece was found, What connection this had with the explosion is not clear, but the Police took розвез- sion of these
well the tin and fragments of metal
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IN BRITAIN
INCOME TAX PAYER HERO OF THE OCCASION.
HIS GRIM SACRIFICE
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday:
mountains.
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women
The young were all from Canton, and for some time had been putting on plays before large audiences in the Kwong Sai cities.
Judging from what one saw years ago while It is almost certain that there will be a small he himself was a captive surplus in the National Accounts when they close of Kwong Sai bandits, the fate of these young on March 31.
Britain will thus be one of the few countries in women will be far worse wall with his back to the spot the world which can boast that the past year has than death itself. immediately over the drain into paid its way. The hero of the occasion is un- explosion occurred he was hurl doubtedly the income tax payer who has not only ed into the parade ground. These think that Choy must have dis- paid up but done it promptly. His grim sacrifice turbed the bomb as he picked has saved the whole nation.
Choy Yuen lives in the ser- vants' quarters of the Cathedral and according to other servants) he had gone. to sit on the wall overlooking the parade ground to take the morning air and watch the soldiers at parade.
Theories Advanced. Some say that Choy sat on the
where the bomb was concealed, |
his way through the undergrowth: Since December 31 the income taxpayer has to the wall and that it exploded} just after he had seated himself. paid in more than £200,000,000. The total revenue Others say that Choy was from income tax is the biggest since 1922-23 when seated on the wall to the left of the rate was also five shillings in the pound.
where the omb was concealed, im-
mediately over the drain. Into
LOCAL RAIN.
The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory to-day. states >---
The anticyclone has la- creased in intensity and ap- pears to be central over Shan-
tung There is every indication that surtaxes pay-- Forecast: - NE. winds fresh cloud generally, local
which he fell. When he heard able by the people together with the income taxes the explosion he jumped from the wall into the parade ground will by £2,000 exceed the estimates.
rain!!!
close of the Chairman's
the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga and Mr.)
TROUBLE BREWING ON
THE THAMES
NEW PIECEWORK TARIFF TO OPERATE ON APRIL 11.
EIGHT THOUSAND INVOLVED
(Reuter's Special Service.)
London, Yesterday.
of
Eight thousand dock hands on the Thames are feared to be involved in the trouble arising out the pay cuts rejected by the Union.
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of shareholders, representing a holding in the aggregate of 47,256 shares out of the total of 200,000,
The report was seconded by Mr.”“” J. Scott Harston, and carried.
Sir Robert Ho Tung and Sir Elly Kadoorie, K.B.E., were re-elected Directors, on the propositionof Mr. H. Dryer and seconded by Mr. J. Toppin.
Mr. F. J. Tavares proposed; and Mr. A. A. Botelho seconded, the felection of Messrs. Linstead & Davis and Messre. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming as auditora ata fee of $500 each per annum. 7
H.K. Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. The 63rd ordinary meeting the above company was held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., at noon to day.
The Chairman, the Hon. Mr. JINA
Patterson, stated, inter alia
The outturn of the year 1980
has proved satisfactory, the ac-
counts having run bit with a credit
balance of $615,420.84; this figure
Ship owners have posted notices in the docks to-day stating that a new piecework tariff for steve. compares very favourably with all
The
dores will come into operation on April 11. tariff involves the reduction of pay for which nego- tiations have been in progress since December 1, but were interrupted owing to the strike on January 16.
preceding years, except 1928/1928. when results were of a nature that we can hardly hope to emulate In those, difficult times.
"Premium Income, though down by close on half a million dollars, produced a profit of 8.61 per cent as compared with 2,79 per cent in 1929.
Only dockers working on ocean-going ships The balance of credit of they will be affecte
Working Account for *1981;"" "after
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