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The China Mail. Hong Kong, Friday, June 3, 1932.
His Majesty.
His Majesty, King George V is 67 years of age to-day, and in every part of qur widely-scatter- ed Empire Britishers will cele brate the occasion and join in the expressions of thankfulness that His Majesty is in such good health,
Hitler's Chances.
FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1932.
such an event the very boldness of Hitler's programme would bring him success, but any fore- cast of the turn of events in such an emergency is purely orie of
In the meantime career. At the age of 27 years, he don and Liverpool, and Gillanders, conjecture. attention, mingled with appre entered the 7th Dragon Guards, be- Arbuthnot & Co. of Calcutta. hension, will be directed on the ing appointed. Captain of the 11th
King's Birthday Honours
(Continued from Pago 1.)
German political situation and Hussars five years later. He serv-and Oriental
He is a Director of the Peninsular
THE FUNG
· TRIAL
Important Evidence Yesterday.
knife.
found?
CHRISTIE TESTIFIES
→
a
was in
Maj-General Scott's first wife
Mr. Andrew Caldecott, who was the third daughter of the late was made B ̊C.B.F. in 1926 and is L-Col. MacDougall, and in 1928 now honoured with the KC.M.G. be married Mme. de Sincay.
is in the Malayan Civil Service.
He
Bir "Arthur Churchman.. Lt. Col. Sir Arthur Churchman,
25.
KNIGHTHOOD.
Robert Davis
the coming elections. A come-ed in South Africa in 1900, and was Company and of other concerns. Steam Navigation back by Bruening or some strate awarded the Queen's Medal with From 1874 to 1879 be gical move of genius by Hinden- three clasps and the King's Medal Calcutta, with intervals at England, burg appear the only happenings with two clasps, likely to thwart Hitler.
He also served in the European Private Secretary to
during which time he used to act as War, being mentioned in despatches, He is Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire his father. six times. He was created K.C.M.Gand President of the Territorial MURDER-and-awarded the D.S.O., B., rank Army Association, 1915. He is
of Brevet Colonel, Croix de Guerre, Fellow of King's College, London. and Order of the Crown' of Italy. { He also gained the Legion d'Hon-
K. C. B. neur, and the American Distin-C.M.G., who now becomes a Knight Mr. John Fitzgerald. Brenan, guished Service medal. From 1917 Commander of the Bath, received to 1919 he was temporary Majorhis C.M.G. in 1827, and has been General and Director of Organisa-H.M. Consul-General at Shanghai tion at the War Office, retiring since 1929. He was born in 1888 in 1923. He became Scottish Whip and is a son of the late Mr. E. V. in the same year, and the Brenan of the Chinese Maritime following year he was Liberal Whip, Customs. Educated at Denstone After being in the witness box of which post he held for two years, College and in Switzerland, he the Central Police Court for close before being made Chief Liberal joined the Consular Service in 1903 on fifteen hours all told (five after Whip. noons) Edward Thomas Spencer Major-General Walter Scott when he was appointed a student in- Zimmern concluded his evidence
Major-General Walter
terpreter in Slam. He was trans- against Cheng Kwok-yau (20) in Maxwell Scott, C.B., D.S.Q., was then had been stationed at Tientsin,
Joseph
ferred to China In 1905 and since the, George Fung murder, prelim born in April 1878, the eldest son Foochow, Peking, Nanking, Canton nary trial, before Mr. E. J. Wynne- of the late Hon. Joseph and Mrs. and Shanghai. In 1913 he was call- Jones yesterday afternoon.
Maxwell Scott, and is the greated to the Bar at the Middle Temple, Replying to Mr. Lindsell, for the great-grandson of the late Sir Wal- Crown, Zimmern said that it was on ter Scott, Bart, the famous writ and during the War he served with the evening of March 16, eight ter, whose wish that his line be
the Chincse Labour Corps."
K.C.M.G. days before the crime was com perpetuated has been carried out. mitted in Village Road, that the ac- cused spoke to him (witness) ask ing him to procure a dagger or
The Conversation.
saw service in the European War le was born in October, 1884, Cheng: Zimmern, where can and won the D.S.O., the Karn and has held various appoint- you get me a knife or dagger? Georg with swords (Serbian) inments in the M.C.S. Including. Zimmern: What do you want 1916, the Croix de Guerre and the Malayan Commissioner at the a dagger för?
Legion d'Honneur. He is a mem- British Empire Exhibition, 1924- Cheng I want to go over to ber of the King's Bodyguard for, the Nathan Hotel to look for (or Scotland. recovered from his illness. The catch hold of) Fung now. inspiring airs of "God Save the Zimmern: It is so late now, King" will be heard all over the where can a dagger or kulfe be Bart. (created 1917), was formerly world to-day
a Vice-Chairman of the British- Robert Henry Davis, the inventor as Britishers re- Cheng: You have got no guts. American Tobacco Company, Ltd. of the submarine escape appatus flect on the might of a great You can only talk: you can't do it. Born in 1867, Sir Arthur was edu- now becomes Sir Robert Davis. His Empire and the popularity of a with you.
Zimmern: I don't wish to go cated at Ipswich School, becoming apparatus was the means of save great monarch.
Mayor of Ipswich in 1901. He was ing four lives including that of Replying further, witness stated Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the P. O. Willia, in the submarine that after the failure of the plot to 2/6 Battalion Suffolk Regiment Poseidon disaster of Wei-Hai-wei, beat Fung up at the Hotel Nathan, until 1917. His other appoint on June 10 last year time be Kowloon, it was the accused who ments have been, That the Reichstag should be firat suggeated the idea of getting Mineral Oil Department, Ministry Air Commodore Charles Edward
Controller Air Commodore Kingsford-Smith. dissolved
after
Chancellor rid of Fung. Witness was certain of Munitions, M.P., Woodbridge Kingsford-Smith, M.C, A.F.C., wás. Bruening's resignation little surprise, as it has been tie had suggested the idea.
causes that neither he (witness) nor Chris- Division of Suffolk 1920-29; and born in Hamilton, Brisbane, in
He High Sherrif 1931-82. recognised for some time that
was 1897 He enlisted in the Signals. Christle Testiden.
married in 1891; and bas ond Engineers A 1. F. during the war, This is the one day when British Bruening was the only leader Sydney Cecil Christie was.next.
daughter.
transferred to the R. F. C. He was subjects demonstrate their appre-strong enough to maintain any called by the Crown. He stated he Sir Frederick Lewis,
wounded and received the Military ciation of the rule of their King tical
control of the complicated poli-was 21 years of age, being born in
Sir Frederick William Lewis, Cross. In 1917 he became Instruc- situation in and manifestations of loyalty are There is practically no alterna- he was quite a boy, and he was ed-Lewis, is Chairman of Furness, in Commercial flying since.
Germany Hong Kong. His parents died when Bart., J.P., son of the late Edmuud tor, R.A.F. and has been engaged. made by public celebrations, mass-tive to Bruening but Hitler' as ucated at the Diocesan
President Paul von Hindenburg School.
Boys Withy & Co., Ltd., and of 38 other piloted the Southern Cross in the jed parades and similar events. discovered when he attempted by an adopted uncle. He went to associated with that firm. A man- 1928, and received the A.F.C. He He had been brought up shipping and insurance companies Brat Trans-Pacific flight in June At a time when Imperial and to instal von Papen as successor Shanghai when he was seventeen. aging director of Houlder Bros. & made a record-breaking flight, also foreign problems engage the wor- to the cautious, but steady, ried attention of statesmen and Chancellor. Papen's own party tenced to four months for the theft clay's Bank, Ltd., the Sun Life and tralia to England in 1929, and the In Shanghai, in 1931; he was sen- Co., Ltd., he is a director of Bar in the Southern Cross from Aus- politicians and when the Empire and his defeat in the Reichstag
the Centre Group, opposed him of a girl's ring.
Sun Insurance Ofices, and a mem- following year he flew from Ireland is facing its most critical period was ao certain that Hindenburg steal that ring?
Mr. Lindsell-Did you, in fact, ber of the committee of Lloyd's to America. Subsequently be Register of Shipping. He has held broke the record of Bert Hinkler by such manifestations possess announced that the Parliament
Christie-no, sir.
many important posts in connecfying from England to Australie more, than the ordinary signi- would be dissolved to-day and
Continuing, witness said that intion with shipping industries, be in ten and a half days in October ficance.
that he, with The Empire British Papen's Cabinet, would rule by in the Settlement, and was awarded George's Fund for Sailors. He
the advice of 1930 he arrested an armed robber Ing Hon. Treasurer för King 1990.
G. B. E. Commonwealth of Nations is decree. Papen is little known a letter of thanks without are holds the following distinctions:- Lady Agnes Baden-Powell is knit, together loosely by constitu- abroad and the personnel of his ward.
Commander of the Legion of National Vice-President of Girl tional ties, and it is through the Cabinet, including few outstand- Witness stated he knew Edward Honour, Commander of the Order Guides: She is on the Council and bonds of blood relationship and ones, would indicate that he is having been. at school together for of the Crown of Italy, and Grand Society, and Vice President of the ing figures, and many mediocre Zimmern for a number of years, of Couronne, Cross of Commander Executive of Duty and Discipline a common loyalty to the Crown no powerful figure at Berlin, about a year. The first time he Cross of the Crown of Roumania. Westminister Division, British Rad that the Empire is maintained The elections, by constitutional met him on his return from ShangHe was High Sherriff for Hertford Cross for 16 years; and holds the de a united Empire.
law, will be held within a few hai was in the beginning of March shize for a year in 1926 He is same office in the League of Mercy; weeks, and in the interim, Hitler last year. He had met the deceased married and has one son, and the Sunlight League and Queen After the Ottawa Conference is certain to gain in favour. Fung once in Shanghai, and he did daughter. rauhol by Mary's Needlework Guild. those bonds will be strengthened, Already the Nazi leader has al- not see him at the Hotel Nathan David Davies
C.M.G. but the secret of Imperial unity most won Prussia and his good Plot to Kill
David Davies, Plindeda pro Col. Badham-Thornhill. showing in the Presidential elec and strength will always be at- tions indicates his growing Mr. Lindsell I want you to be batu in May 1880, and was educated Thornhill, D.S.O. (1917)who
prietor of Montgomeryshire Was Colonel George Badham- tributed to the simple phrase popularity. If Hitler wins at very, very careful now in detailing at Merchiston Caitis School, Edin was born in 1876, has been Mili- "For King and Country" A the forthcoming elections the the conversation. Try to get it burgh, later going to King's College tar Attache at Peking since phrase which possesses as much European problem, already com- as exact as you are able to. How Cambridge, where he graduated 1928. He served in China dur significance in the Dominions and more dangerous A seri Christie: Accused asid. This Historical Tripos. He is F.R.G.8, ing the medal with clasp, and in
plicated, becomes more involved did it start?
M.A gained 2nd class honours in ing the Boxer rising of 1000 win- and Colonies as in Great Brious rift with France appears in-chap Fung is a rotter and a useless President of the University College the Great War tain. The King by his per evitable and the possibilities are were put out of the way" After
fellow. It would be better if he of Wales, and a member of the Court Mr. William; Percy Turner, who sonal qualities
many and alarming. With bas achieved
the University. He is chairman is in HM Consular Service. popularity accorded to few mor- Balkan countries on the verge
Austria and many of the another pipe of opium he said,
several important collleries and CREAT "Supposing 1 were to ask you tó đo
how mich would you want
railwa establishments archs. During his reign there of bankruptcy, and
Col (temp Brig.) George lied, "How am I going
the Great Fleming, D.8.0. (1916), has been do it? have been many trying and dif- despairing and desperate, war
Cheng, said, “With
Commandant of British Troops gun. ficult periods, the War, the Irish looms threateningly,
position calls for skil
to get a revolt, the economic crisis, but manship. Of course, Hit always His Majesty has by bena-power may be more moderate volent and wise rule
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