TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933.
PROSECUTOR'S
ACCUSATIONS
Bribery, Sabotage And Espionage.
WIRELESS REPORT OF FINAL PROCEEDINGS
CUSTOMS LAUNCH DECLINING
DESTROYED
Found 15 Miles From Macao.
PIRATES ATTACK VESSEL ́ WHEN STRANDED
Fire, From Point-Blank Range
THE CHINA MAIL.
TRAFFIC ON
UNDERGROUND
Londoners Changing
Habits.
SELF-CONTAINED SUBURBS
• London.
To-Day's Short Story.
THE MAN WHO BELONGED TO ME
By Giovanni Papini.
CAN'T say exactly how long down on another bench quite close to I London. To-day.
Amico Dite's body and soul me I took out a cigarette, and he took one out, too, and waited to light When the Court reassembled yes-
Remarkable changes have over-had been following mine, because his until I had mine. The Chinese Maritime Customs taken the habits, of Londoners, if I left off keeping a diary years terday Vyshinsky, continuing his launch Chezan which was pirated one may judge from the figures
All this amused me and irritated speech, first discussed the break-yesterday near Pang Chong Island, just pablished by the London ago. I am rather absent-mind-ine at the same time. "He may be ed, so probably I did not notice a humorist with nothing to do," I downs at the electrical stations at fifteen miles from Macao, and stol-Underground Group, which show a
self at my expense." At last I which the accused are claimed byen by the pirates after they had fa-sharp decline Inst year in tube, what day my second shadow (a thought, "so he wants to amuse him tram and bus traffic compared with solid and more, or less living made up my mind to solve, the pro- the prosecution to have been guilty ficers, Mr. E. E. Pearce and Mr.
tally wounded two European of 1931.
Here are the reasons which Lord shadow) happened to make its blem in the quickest way possible, of machine wrecking, endeavouring W. G. B. Baldwin, has been found Ashfield, Chairman of the Group, entrance on the dim stage of my so I went and stood in front of the to show that the breakdowns must almost totally destroyed.
man as if I were going to ask him gave his shareholders for the de-life.
who he was and what he wanted. have been intentional,
It appears likely from the con-cline, which he said was most
One morning, as I was leaving But there was no need for me to ask He then said that he would dition of the boat that the pir-marked in casual pleasure traffic: home, I noticed I was belag follow him. The man in blue got up, took turn to the "Characteristic of the ates used dynamite in order to
Suburbs are tending to become ed by a man of about forty, who off his hat, smiled, and sald very crime committed by each indi-wreck it. The searchers have
self-contained; there are better wore a long blue overcoat; he seem quickly! vidual."
decided that the boat is not worth
a
a few
some 200,000
there are London traffic area.
The coach has taken the
managers
think....
shops and amusementa; and fed gay and lively (but not too much. "Excuse me I'll explain every He said it would be necessary salvaging,
there is not the same incentive so), and followed me at a respectful thing. But first let me introduce to take into account, that "Wel The launch was attacked early.
to go to the centre of London. distance, so that I could not very myself: I am Amico Dite. I haven't
Theatre traffic has have before us such facts as cun-yesterday when stranded on
largely well turn round and ask him what any definite occupation, but that fessions of some of the accused." mud bank by the falling tide.
passed to private cars, of which he was doing.. I had nothing in doesn't really matter. I've got Jols He dwelt upon the importance of Her crew were attempting to re-
in the particular to do, and I had only of things to tell you, but-well, up the confessions in general, dis- float their vessel, when a large
come out to get away from the sound till now-I wanted to write to you. place of a wood fire crackling in the grate:I actually did write to you two- or cussing the legislation of differ-number of pirates approached
of the bus for country excur- so I amused myself watching this three times, but I don't always send ent countries in this respect, them under the pretence of as-
sions, and "hiking often takes man, although there was nothing the letters I write. and stated that, "In England alsisting them.
Otherwise I'm the place of both. confession obviates the necessity The pirates were allowed to ap-
remarkable about his appearance. Theatre and cinema
quite an ordinary kind of person, of proving the charges."
proach and when only
I was eure he wasn't a detective, although will no doubt bear witness to the because I'm so lacking in physical
you might sometimes Paragraph 58, Section 6 of the yards from the launch they open-adverse effect Criminal Code did not apply to per-co fire from a point-blank range, suburban amenities on the influx of talked about that I have always kept of improved courage, and I so much dislike being
Here Amico Dite stopped and sons who informed themselves of There was no possible chance of such facts
,patrons into the West End. as crop yields or dim-the pirates missing their victims.
out of active politics, and laziness One of the most remarkable fea and clumsiness culties experienced in Socialist con- Two of the European officers, tures of the figures is that the rate manual work have saved me from in any Bort of Mr. E Pierce and Mr. Baldwin.}, He contrasted foreign laws on es- were killed when the Chinese traffic was 50 per cent, more than didn't think this man in blue could of decline in Saturday and Sunday earning my living through crime. 1 plonage with the Soviet law, which Maritime Customs motor launch, en ordinary week-days, London- be a thief after my purac. Every is peculiar of the Soviet State just Chenan, was attacked by pirates ers, indeed, seem more and more one in the neighbourhood knew I as the laws of other countries were after she had grounded on a mud to be spending their week-ends at was rather poor; and you could tell drafted in accordance with their bank, near Paug Chong Island, home. own peculiarities.
about 15 miles from Macao yes-
I wasn't rich by looking at my Dealing with bribery, M. Vyshin-terday.
Part of the drop, of course, is clothes, which неге untidy, not attributed to trade sky said, "Monkhouse might call his
hesitated a little; then he went or A Chinese engineer was also while the bad weather presumably
depression, studiedly careless. bribes presents, but
Although there was no reason quickly, as if he had suddenly re- Englishmen killed and a boatman was injured. helped to keep many people Indoors. why I should have been followed, Imembered something extremely im- must be made to learn that what Mr. Baldwin, whose hand was-Reuter. they call prosents we call bribes," smashed walked for hours before
began going round and round the portant: complicated streets in the middle
struction.
He then cited English Acts re- he found a sampan to carry him garding bribery, and reminded the to Macao. He arrived there at HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS
Police Sergeant Runs Into Woman.
Soviet accused that according to 1 o'clock this morning and was the English law bribes were punish-immediately removed to hospital) ed both in the ease of the giver and where the limb was amputated. of the receiver. The law of the He died at 7 o'clock. Soviet Union on this matter was
The Mucno Harbour Master} even more severe. It was not despatched an armed launch to A Chinese female Ma Siu Ying,
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's story will be "Senka's Masterpiece," by S Andrew Wood.
"Wouldn't you like to drink some-
of the town to make sure I hadn't talug? A drop of Marsala perhaps made a mistake about it. The manor some coffee? still followed me, looking more We both went off together quick- pleased as he went on. I turned offly as if we both had the same in-
into one of the principal streets, and stinct to get the matter cleared up began to walk more quickly; but there. As soon as we saw a cafe there was still the same distance be- we both dashed in, like people who a drink at once in a great I want
hurry.
However, we sat down in
Apecially provided for in Paragraph the scene of the outrage, where living in a hut in Sau Yuk village, tween me and the man in blue. 58, Section 6, but M. Vyshinsky im-Pearce was found in a sitting pos. New Territories, was admitted to went into a post-office to buy a
plied that it was being considered. ture, apparently having died from the Kowloon Hospital, yesterday, known man came into the same shaping anything.
three-halfpenny stamp; the un- a corner by the fire, without order-
as it is an attempt of our enemy to disorganise our country," paid.
Was
"In the whole of
The cafe was little, our Criminal loss of blood. The dead engineer suffering from injuries to the left| Code, bribery is the biggest crime, was also found.
foot, sustained when she and also bought a three-halfpenny and all full of smoke and cabbies, It is reported that British and knocked down by Sergt. Woods of stamp. Then I get into a tram; my und the waiter looked a fearful he Chinese authorities will pursue the the Police motor patrol.
smiling follower got in, too, and scoundrel; but we hadn't time to
choose anywhere else. when I got out, he got out just be- pirates.
Her condition is not serious,
"I should like to know..” 1 CONTRAST OF ENGLISH AND the piracy
Both of the European victims of Chung Fat Cheong, of 12, Park hind me. I bought a paper and he
the bought exactly the same paper. I began. SOVIET JUSTICE.
are well known locally. Street, Yaumati, reported to Mr. Baldwin was formerly in the Police that while riding a bicycle sat down on a bench, and he sat Royal Navy, attached to H. M. s. near Ng Chau Street, he ran into Opening his speech for the pro- Hermes. He was a well-known two Chinese boys, Chun Luk, 101 secution on Sunday evening, M. boxer, and in January this year, years, and Choy Tang Ching, 9 Vyshinsky said that the case which the eyes of the world were Tournament.
on participated in the Naval Boxing years, who both sustained injuries LONDON "CITY to the back and knees. set, had revealed
many things.
He was runner-up for the China (juries were not serious.
The in-
FRAGILITY.
Of Capital.
"I'll tell you all about everything, said the man. “I don't want to keep' anything from you. I'm in rather a difficult and unfortunate situation
OF-but I'll tell you at once, I have the greatest trust in you. Here I am, then; I put myself in your hands. I'm yours to do what you like with....
"Our foe has forgotten that there Fleet Lightweight Championship are limite which cannot be over in 1931, and this year defeated DOLLAR ADVANCES Russian Novelist's View stepped however strong such Leading Seaman country may be," he said.
Hall for the Championship in one of the most)
It was plain, he continued, that sensational bouts of the season. there could be no justice in the
Baldwin left the Navy shortly Soviet Union but a contrast be afterwarde and joined the Mari tween the Soviet Court of Justice time Customs. For the past six and the Capitalist courts was that weeks he has been employed on pa the former were erected against trol duty in the vicinity of Hong the exploration of poor. English Kong and Macao. justice, on the contrary, was al-
ways hostile of the poor.
The Court, he said, would do a
great source to humanity ARMED KIDNAPPER
showed British public opinion the way in which it had been so cruel-
ly hoodwinked. He said that the first liar in the campaign of mobilising British public opinion
·was probably Monkhouse,
Attacking the Russian accused he suggested that the crime against the electrification of the!
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"But I don't see...."
"I assure you, you'll see every- thing in a moment. Let me explain.
"MANUFACTURED GENTLEMEN" Didn't I tell you who I was. I know,
London.
my name doesn't tell you anything about me. Well, I'll tell you what Bort of person I am-1'm an "London is unreal, fictitious, and ordinary man-appallingly ordin inexact mental feature of this gigantic city ordinary way, to have a really thril- as a dream. The funda-ary; but I want to live in an extra
La fragility."
King and amazing life.” These are some of the comments
"Forgive me. .“ "Yes, yes. I'll forgive everything.
The local dollar this moraing Improved to 1/35% an advance of % on Thursday's closing price.
The latest silver price quotations forward price ni 18 1/16 and the novelist in Russia, made in a book Only, as I told you, I simply say are those of April 13, showing the Evenburg, a popular woman spot price at 18.
This morning's quotation for the she has written about England what I have to say." I trust Seven Years' Term For New York on London cross rate is and describe English customs for saviour, my spiritual adviser, and She was ordered to visit London you implicitly. You shall be may -G$3.45% as against C$3.414 Soviet readers, So she says of master of my body and my soul fon, Thureday. No quotation is
given for the London on New York London:
I'm too chytious, too respectable; ATTEMPT TO CARRY OFF rate which was quoted at 4-G33.-|
"All the gentlemen go to cricket I'm too much of a gentleman -too matches. DR. WONG
40% on Thursday morħing,
Only Englishmen and must just like myself.. · You've Australians play cricket; one year written so many fantastic, stories, England wins, the next Australia. so much among extraordinary novels,
Chinese.
Soviet Union by "These second- Li Bing was this morning seri-i
heinous. There was a vast differ- with hard labour, for robbery and
"The making of a gentleman de--and I've lived so much among all
class wreckers" was particularly tenced to 7 years imprisonment KOWLOON WEDDING
mands great art In Cambridge your characters that I dream about Savard - Remedios and Oxford thoroughbred gentlemen them in the night and think about
are manufactured.
them in the daytime." I sometimes And Mr. A. M. da Luz, “In Hampstead are long streets think I see them in the street, and
ence, he said, between wrecking by attempted abduction of Dr. Wong]M;AKE
employees of the State no compar Cheung-lam, en March 10, when he
ed with the activities of foreign-appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,
and cottages, all the houses alike. then I get absolutely wild and de-
era. Foreigners implicated were in the Criminal Sessions at the The wedding of Miss Helga You could walk for hours and spairing. I want to suppress them in a different-category and would Supreme Court this morning.
were brought|
be tried accordingly.
Three charges
¡¡Marla'da Lut, the son of Mr. and
Eleanor Savard Remedion, the belleve. "you were in the same and forget them for øver and He then reminded Monkhouse against the defendant, (1). Robbery daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C. A. Sa-street" Reuter.
ever, that there was no use suggesting by two or more persons. (2). vard-Remedios, and Mr. Archibaldo)
""Thank you... but *** -that the firm of Metropolitan Forcible taking of Dr. Wong, with Mrs. 8. E, da Luz, took place at
"Wait one moment, please. FI Vickers was sitting in the dock intent to procure a ransom. And the Rosary Church, Kowloon, yes- G. O. C. TO VISIT SHANGHAI you and why I followed you. A few explain now why I thought about Monkhouse was personally respon- (3). Forcible detention of Dr. sible so far as the Court was con- Wong with intent to procure a ran
terday afternoon...
days ago I said to mysalf," "You are cerned.
The Rev. Father Spada, officiated.
Major-General: 0. C. Borrelt, C. a fool, the kind of person you can Vyshinsky divided his secusa-
Following a reception at 16, p., C. M. G., C. B. E. D. 3. O., will meet anywhere any day; and you've On March 10, Li Hing, together tions under three headings, wreck with three other persons unknown, Carnaven Road, Kowloon, the new shortly pay his first official visit to got this craze of wanting to live a ing, military espionage and brib-attacked Dr. Wong Cheong-lam andy married couple left for Repulse Shanghai, as G. O. C, China Com- glorious life, all risks and Ad- ery. So far as espionage was con- attempted to abduct him in his own Bay, on their honeymon, corned, he said, the crime was well understood.-British Wireless Ber-
vice.
CAT.
mand, He will be accompanied by ventures, like the people in sixpenny Mrs, Borrett, Col. F. P. Nosworthy, stories and chean novels. But you've Dr. Wong escaped from them, CHINESE BITTEN BY TWO DOGS D. SO, M. C., G. §: 0, 1, and Mrs; no imagination, so you can't expect however, by pretending that be
Nosworthy, and Lieut. FR. Lto have that sort of life. The only wished to get out of the car to crank Chan Hang was admitted to the Mears, A. D. CA
thing to do in to look round till you And an author who makes up extra- the engine. Kowloon Hospital, yesterday, buffer
ordinary characters and make him a Defendant pleaded guilty to the ing from dog-bites on his left leg
Mr. T. E. Jackson reported to the first and third charges, and the inflicted by two black chow dogs, the The Dollar Linor "President present of your life, so that he can Police that while-driving his car. No. 127, in Shanghai Street, Kowloon, at second charge against him was property of Mr. Lee Chi-kung, of Coolidge" will sail from Hong do whatever he likes, with It, and 10.18 Lod: yesterday, he knocked down withdrawn. Mr. Lindsell sentenced Portland Street, Kowloon Kong for Manila at 7:00 am. Wed- turn it into something really excite boy named Lau Lallying who him to three years on the frat The dogs have been removed to nesday, April 19, instead of ating and beautiful and unexpect tained Injuries to the foot necessitat count, and four year on the third the Matankok slaughterhouse for 6:00 pm on Tuesday, April 12,, ed. ing his removal te, the Kwong, WAL
count:
a previously advertised. Hospital
observation.
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