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SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932.
CHENG KWOK-YAU
COMMITTED.
Connecting Thread in Evidence.
DEFENCE RESERVED.
After 25 full sittings, which en- tailed 33 appearances of the ac-i cused, and in which 45 witnesses were called, the case in which Chen Kwok-yau (20) is charged with the instigation of the murder of George Fung at Village Road on the night of March 24 last, con cluded its preliminary hearing at the Central Police Court yesterday afternoon, when the Magistrate Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones, committed the accused to stand trial at
THE CHINA MAIL:
BALDWIN EXPLAINS REVIVAL OF TUDOR
POLICY ON ARMS
BRITAIN IS PREPARED FOR SACRIFICES
PROGRAMME
OUTLINED
London, Yesterday.
An important declaration of the British disarmament policy was made by Acting Premier Stanley Baldwin in the House of Commons to-day. He prefaced specific proposals by pointing out that the British Government cordially welcomed President Hoover's the recent declaration, because it called for a really substantial mea text Criminal Sessions at the sure of disarmament and sought to apply two principles of qualita: Supreme Court.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Public Pro- tive and quantitative limitation,
secutor, appeared for the Crown.)
Mt. G. K. Hall Brutton, who acted: for the defence..
afternoon.
there was no case tu answer.
Case To Meet.
contribution.
SCENES: Unique Exhibition in England.
OAK-TIMBERED HAMLET.
London.
inventions
modern
WORLD FLIERS CRASH.
'Plane Completely Wrecked.
BUT BOTH MEN SAFE.
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NOT A POOR
FISH.
Lucky Goldie Rises to Regal Status.
New York, Yesterday, Clicking turnstiles were all that
Disaster has put a sudden stop separated the bustle of modern Lon- don from a mellow-tiled oak-timber-to the round-the world flight by the ed Tudor hamlet clustered round Its American airmon,, Jimmy Mattern traditional village green complete and Bennett Griffin, who had made with pump, dove-cotes, stocks and a good start from New York and seamed certain to break the record ducking-stool of four centuries ago, at the recent Ideal Home Exhibi- put up by Post and Gaity.
Their machine was forced down tion in Olympia Hall here.
Near by the Tudor village, which at 1 a.m. yesterday, near Norissov, in the region of Minsk (about 300 consists of six full-sized brick and miles from Warsaw), and was com mortar houses, is Portcullis Avenue,
pletely wrecked. representing a shopping thorough- The airmen were only bruised. fare of bygone London. Beneath
It is reported that damaged con- the worn gray gubles of the shops trols had led the airmen to change are names of famous firms which their direction as Minsk was not have been carrying on their trades on the route over which they for more than a century?"-
planned to fly. Success at Geneva depended even to one-third, both in the
An atmosphere of more leisurely
Mattern and Griffin, who set out accused, reserved the on general agreement and the case of capital ships and cruisers, times is wonderfully well conveyed from New York on, Tuesday, made Hoover proposals were put for- could be made in future construc- by these old houses and streets, a record trip across the Atlantic,
as a contribution to an tion. As regards capital ships, which look as if they have taken covering the distance His Worship commented that the ward
American proposal would years to build; yet they will soon be hours.-Reuter, evidence given was scattered, but agreed general programme. Bri-the be found the connecting thread tish proposals should also be re-leave the size of these enormous supplanted by wireless which joined the evidence such as garded as contribution to gen-ly expensive vessels and calibre and motorcars of other exhibitions.
eral agreement, he said. British of their guns untouched, if any. From antiquity, however, the vigi- to form a prima facie case.
agreed As a Police Court ease, it is the further
with
constructed Presi Were
in future. tor in search of his ideal home soon longest in the history of the Colony dent Hoover in that the three Every figure involved in these passed to the brilliant and throughout the keenest interest problems of military, naval and huge dimensions, initial cost, City of Light beneath the huge! was evinced, especially by the air disarmament were inter-upkeep, personnel, ammunition, dome of the hall, Chinese public.
connected.. Britain,
the stores, docks, would be maintain- like
Appear to All Ages. The Eager young couples and more Yesterday
after United States, found her strong-ed at the highest level. Trame-Sergeant A. R. Brittain, est arm in the navy and although United Kingdom proposal, while sedate but no less eager elderly
C. Detective Sub - Inspector R.naval contributions to disarma- securing no less reduction in ones thronged the 12-acre floor, Rozeskwy and Chief-Detective- ment on a large scale had already total tonnage, evaded these con- space arrayed with novelties, inge-
This is not a tale of a "Cinderel Inspector A. N. Reynolds had given been made in advance of present sequences by reducing the size of nlous labour-saving devices and evidence. Mr. Hull Brutton, ad- the conference, the British Gov- guna and ships. If the calibre of colourful, artistic decorations of la" with a silver slipper, but a true dressing his. Worship. said that ernment now offered a further gun was reduced to twelve more than 1,000 different firms. story of a fish with a golden hue. inches, th maximum size of a Most of those who passed from one It was not a "poor fish," either, Cut to Bone Already.
ship could be reduced from inviting stall to another visualized for it has been raised to regal To-day it is one of the Dealing with land disarma- 35.000 to 25,000 tons, and an m-two pictures one the wekome ad- status. Mr. Wynne-Jones: I don't think ment, Mr. Baldwin said the Bri- mense saving effected under both ditions and alterations they could household of Prince Takamatsu in
Government found them-heads, both initially and conse- afford to make to their I need call upon the Crown to sub-tish
present Japan. mit any further arguments. It is selves very largely in accord with quentially. The British Govern- homes, and the other, that "home! Nobody knows its ancestry and, furthermore, nobody cares. But quite obvious that I have studied President Hoover's proposals. ment were ready to apply the of their dreams." They laughed all the evidence quite closely. British troops in Britain, her same principles to cruisers, to!
as they passed its history is the thing. It is a must necessarily point out that my Colonies and India had been re- reduce their maximum size and through the "Curious Homes beyond souvenir of the recent Sino-Japan's If a fish has business here is merely to satisfy duced as compared with the year gun calibre by international the Seas" section, where primitive hostilities in Chapei."
"little goldie" must memory, the present dwellings of distant races are re-a myself that there is a prima facie before the war from 269,000 to agreement from
-have poignant recollections of the eass, and that whatever the defence 207,000, this heing effected by figure of 10,000 tons and 8 inches produced in faithful detail.
Suddenly one units.to 7,000 tona and 6.1 inches.
passed from the stirring times through which it may be, there is sufficient evidence disbandment of many
For it was in the heat of main hall into a maze of beautiful passed.. to go before
Can't Reduce Armament. Now a jury.
the America had proposed a division evidence which has been produced of land forces in police compon- It would thus be possible to re-gardens, described as the "Gardens the battle between the Japanese before me has been, I might call, ent and defence component, and duce the size of capital ships still of the Novelists," each one having bluejackets and the 19th Route acattered-a bit here and á
from Army, during the fierce attack an bit upon
that basis British land further and fix the maximum at been inspired by a passage there and a bit somewhere else-forces had already been reduced 22,000 tons, wth 11 inch guns, some well-known book.. There is the Commercial Press bullding in as very often happens in these much below the number recognis-This would nearly halve the ini- Lady Dedlock's garden from "Bleak Chapel.
Another is the garden "Little goldie", resided with al cases, and all I have to be satisfied led as necessary for maintenance tial cost of any future capital House." is, that there is a connecting thread of internal order, without makship and greatly reduce the cost planted by Old Jolyon with cypress number of other goldfish in a small trees in John Galsworthy" "In Chan- glass jar on a window ledge in the which joins this evidence in such ing allowance for forces needed of maintenance.
It had been Other Thus the whole scale would cery."
riovelists whose Commercial Press. a manner as to form a prima facie on lines of communication with CANO. It is not my business to dis-Empire.
come down together and there visions are pictured in bouldered neglected, with its companions, by
atream, In flowering shrub and its owner definite return to
during the hurried cuss the strength of that thread. Britain had already joined in would be a That is for the jury. I think I rejecting chemical and bacterio-smaller dimensions. On this summer flowers are Warwick Deep-evacuation of the threatened areas kuow this evidence very well by logical warfare and in regard to basis the United Kingdom's pro-ing, J. B. Priestly, Harrison Ains-of Chapel.
Then came the Japanese advance now, and I find there is such a land guns had proposed abolition posal would effect ultimate re- worth and Mrs. Gaskell.
Crowds collected to
the Press building. A shell "y on thread. Having found that thread, of all mobile guns above 155 mon. duction in capital ship tonnage
Little House struck the wall supporting the A com- Bwthyn Bach"-the therefore, it is my duty to commit. calibre. Regarding tanks, the alone of 195,000 tons.
Government agreed with Mr. parable figure under the United-which is a birthday present from ledge on which "little goldie" and the Welsh people to Princess the other goldfish had been left. Hoover in desiring that speci-States proposal would be about 1 Mr. Hall Brutton: Does that fically offensive weapons be pro-175,000 tons. As regards air-Elizabeth, six-year-old daughter of There was a shivering, splintering
Ihibited and had advocated aboli-craft carriers the Government the Duke of York. It is an exact crash and the wall collapsed.
Some days later, a party' - of{ Mr. Wynne-Jones: If I do find tion of all tanks over 20 tons, were in substantial agreement model of a thatched cottage, com- a thread connecting the principal which type were especially adapt with the Hoover proposals and pletely furnished and equipped with Japanese bluejackets were engaged round the modern convenience in in clearing the debris points of the evidence I should able for offensive employment. suggest reduction in size from every
Commercial Press when one of the This case is really in two Lighter tanks, however, could not 27,000 to 22,000 tons with conse-
party came across a tiny goldfish parts. and it gave me a certain be regarded as offensive weapons quent reduction in tonnage from
"Little amount of difficulty at first. as I and constituted essential com- 185,000 to 110,000 tona. Britain
goldie" was rescued.
.the It was think it gave you, Mr. Brutton, but pensation for lack of numbers in favoured the abolition of sub-
only living thing In the vicinity, I find a thread right through. a small voluntarily enlisted army. marines, which would also make
with the exception of the Japanese Mr. Hall Brutton: An unbroken Britain had on land already put possible reduction of destroyer
marines. For this reason it was thread, your Worship?
into practice a measure of dis-tonnage by about one-third. If Mr. Wynne-Jones: The thread, armament which more than con-submarines could not be
Carad for by the Japanese blue- in my opinion is unbroken, but formed to the standards propos-pletely abolished, their surface
Jacketa, the goldfish - was subse won't discuss the strength.
ed by Mr. Hoover, the Minister displacement should be fixed at
quently presented to Prince Taka The formality of cautioning de-declared.
250 tons with strict limitation of The tourist who comes to Bri- matau as a souvenir of one of the fendant was then proceeded with Can't Reduce Numbers. total tonnage and number of tain for his holiday should count it severest engagements fought during and he was asked by the Court if Coming to naval proposals Mr. units, said Mr. Baldwin.
la blessing that among our host of the recent hostilities. It is now in Baldwin said it was essential that The Government were prepar-hotels there lo at least one the royal household. He replied that he did not wish they be adopted by general ed to go to any length with other group whose houses are dotted to say anything himself; his agreement. Having regard to Powers to preserve the civilian about all over England and who ear solicitor would be speaking on his the widely scattered responsibil-population from the horrors of be relied upon to serve a good plain ties of British Navy, it was not air bombardment. The Govern- English meal for a moderate price Mr. Wynne-Jones: You are, practicable for Britain to cut ment proposed a complete prohi- at any hour of the day or night. therefore, committed to take your down the number of her unite bition of all bombing from the
The group, of course, is Trust trial at the next Criminal Sessions beyond a certain point. Occa-air save within limits to be laid Houses, Ltd.,, and it controls 180 at the Supreme Court.
sions might arise, calling for down as precisely as possible by houses. The Trust sign hangs presence of ships simultaneously international convention. At above the door of many different FOR in parts of the world far removed tacks upon civilian population buildings, some big and others from one another. It was essen- would be entirely prohibited, small, outside the sina in Little tial to bear in mind the very Strict limitation in unladen Swafflingham, as well as outside the large reduction in the number of weight of all military and naval hotel in Birmingham. But Inhide ships of all categories which al-aircraft, must be kept...
the traveller can rely upon certain ready had been effected. If com Concluding, Mr. Baldwin said things. He can rely upon good parison was made with the year that although Britain's reduc-plain food, and what will be even before war it would be found tions in all three classes had been more attractive to foreign than to that capital ships had been re- beyond comparison greater than English visitors, upon
English You A fine of $100, or in default, three duced from 69 to 15, cruisers those effected elsewhere, outside visitors, upop English food. months' imprisonment was imposed from 108 to 52, destroyers from countries disarmed by the Ver-must judge of country by Ite ou a seaman named Cheung Shing, 285 to 147 and 'submarines from sailles Treaty, she was ready and fruits, and when the foreign visitor who was charged with being in 74 to 52. Numberial reduction in eager to join in further measures comes to England he wants English charge of the steam laanch Fu the British Navy had, therefore, for which general agreement runs and not indiferent French Hung, on July 8, without being already been applied on a very could be attained. British ones, qualified. An additional. fine of large-scale and, indeed, the cral Wireless Service.
Accused Committed.
thread run right through?
commit.
he wished to say anything.
behalf.
STIFF PENALTY
SEAMAN.
In Charge of Launch.
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bonts through the southern entrance limit to numberial reduction. It
of Yaumati Typhoon Shelter. was perfectly possible and in the G
When sccused appeared before highest degred desirable to Be
Commander G. H Hole at the cure by other means e large di-
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