MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1933.
JUVENILE COURT
OPENED
To Sit Regularly A Central Magistracy. GOVERNING REGULATIONS
The Juvemh Court sat for the first time in Hong Kong Un moru- ing at the Central Magistraer, when a number of children, whose uger ranged from ten to 16 years, were brought before Mr Balfour. charged with various offences, in-¡ cluding stealing and hawking with out licenses.
The Court was cleared with the those exception of parents directly connected
with the caseS.
were
while newspaper reporters had the privlege of attending, bul placed under certain restrictions.
The cases which came before the Court were carefully dealt with, the child's parents, in many cases, being instructed to Indiet the punishment determined.
The Court will now it regularly? at the Central Magistracy, and ] Inter it is hoped will have a separate"
Court of its owm,
Children who are to be brongit before the Court will not be kept at the Police Stations or at Victoria! Gaol, na formerly, but at the new - Juvenile Remand Home
way Bay.
11 Chisar
Rules Governing Court.
Mr. W. Hamilton. Senior Ma- gistrate, beszan proceedings thle the morning by announcing that Juvenile Court would be held to day, in camera, and reading Ordin- ance No. 1 of 1032, Section 4, as follows:
"The regulations
Juvenile Court
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Gesture That Failed
The husband she was accused of conspiring 19 kill startled spects- torn in Chicago court room by dashing to Mrs. Bessie Opan and embracing her. The gesture had little effect on the Jury sa Mr. Opas was convicted and sentenced to from one to five years
"Rumours" Of Events At Fukien
(Continued from Pape 11
sentat:54 of a newspaper that a NANKING MAY MEET
excluded except
rept by special order of the Court, and provided that
shall publish the mute, address, s band, photogrash or anything likely to ud
in the identification of the evid
Young person heface the Cart with perenssing of the Court my far as may be required the
at the
Ni
Oedinice.
"Any nrson who wote m contraven- tion of the wrovisions of this Ordinanc hall he Bable. 13 MAYU 1995) JUNI CAT viction, in a fine not exceeding $260 at mmprisonment for a term not exceeding three months."
SEVILLE ANARCHISTS FIRE ON RIVALS
Continued from Page 1.
FUKIEN LEADERS.
Secessionists Invited To Conference.
CO-OPERATION APPEAL
Nanking. To-day.
When
discus the "important sians" concerning the Fukien deve lopments were rompleted in Shang-
the Nanking Government | fenders, including Mr. Wang Ching wei, returned here.
ed
THE CHINA MAIL.
EMBEZZLEMENT OF
To-day's Short Story.
$8,151 ALLEGED
Canteen Manager
Charged.
ADMIRALTY CONTRACTORS
DEFRAUDED
A Deal In Ostriches
And
By H. G. Wells.
turned round and
of
ALKING of the prices of excited: He "This, I've seen an ostrich talked into my ear. He would not A charge of embezzlement of $8,151 was preferred against that cost three hundred pounds," buy the birds; he would have Chan Wing-yim, canteen man said the Taxidermist, recalling his diamond. He demanded bis ager on board H.M.S. Sandwich, his youth of travel. "Three hun-rights as a British subject. His diamond must be found. He was at the Central Police Court this dred pounds!"
He looked at me over his spec. firm upon that. He would appeal to morning, before Mr. Hamilton,
The money. the property of tacles. "I've seen another that was the House of Lords. The man in charge of the birds was one of the Wing Fat Company, is alleg-refused at four."
chaps to have been embezzled on
any those wooden-headed "it wasn't "No," he said,
you divers dates between June 1 and fancy points. They was just plain can't get a new idea into anyhow. November 16 this year.
ostriches. A little off colour, tooHe refused any proposal to inter-
there fere with the birda by way Mr.
to dietary. Ho Sau-slu. manager of jowing the Wing Fat Company, appear-wasn't any particular restriction of medicine. His instructions were to ed as complainant. represented the demand either. You'd have feed them so-and-so and treat them thought-five ostriches would have so-and-so, and it was as much as the defendant.
Mr. Lo said that the com-ruled cheap on an East Indiaman. his place was worth not to feed plainant's firm were Admiralty But the point was, one of 'em had them so-and-so and treat them so- and-so. Padishah had wanted a Contractors and that the money awaflowed a diamond. was taken from accounts
The chap it got it oft was Sir stomach-pump though you can't col-
tremendous do that to a bird, you know. This lected on behalf of the firm. The Mohini Padishah, defendant. he said, admitted swell, a Piccadilly swell you might Padishah was full of bad-law, like both the deficiency and failing to say up to the neck of him, and then most of these blessed Bengalls, and write up the books.
an ugly black head and a whopping talked of having a lien on the birds, Mr. Remedios said that he was turban, with this diamond in it. and so forth. But an old boy, who. Junaware of the defendant's hav. The blessed bird pecked suddenly said his son was a London barris- ing admitted anything of the and had it, and when the chap made ter, argued that what a bird swal kind and asked for a week's ad- a fuss it realised it had done wrong, lowed became ipso facto part of the and mixed bird, and that Padishah's only and went journment for enquiries, which suppose,
to preserve remedy lay in an action for dam- itself with The others was granted.
all happened in a ages, and even than it might be its incog. It
to show contributory minute. I was among the first to possible arrive, and there was this heathen negligence. He hadn't any right of Koing over his gods, and two sailors way about an ostrich that didn't and the man who had charge of the belong to him. That upset Padi- birds laughing fit to split. It was shah extremely, the more so A rummy way of losing a jewel, most of us expressed an opinion The man in that that was the reasonable view. come to think of it.
FIRE DISASTERS IN CHINA LAST YEAR.
$11,000,000 Damage And 550 Lives.
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charge hadn't been about just at CHEKIANG PROVINCE WORD the moment, so that he didn't know
SUFFERER
"The
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be Ancient Sin," by Michael Arlen.
As
lawyer aboard
which bird it was. Clean lost, you kce. I didn't feel half sorry, to tell Nanking. To-day.
you the truth. The beggar had Statistics issued by the Nanking been swaggering
over his blessed [Ministry of the Interior show that diamond ever since he came aboard. "A thing like that Roes from fire disuatera occurring during last year in the various Provinces of stem to stern of a ship in no time. There wasn't any China were 1.943 in number, caus-Everyone
was talking about it. ing damage to the extent of $11-Padishuh went below to lude feel to settle the matter. so we all talk- 1000,000. Casualties were put
[ed pretty free. At last, after inga. At dinner-he pigged at a
that 1650.
table by himself, him and two other Aden. It appears Chekiang Province records the Hindoor-the captain kind of joer-round to the general opinion, and highest number
of fire disasters ed at him about it, and he got very charge and made an offer for all went privately to the man la and has ronsequently suffered most.
Central News Agency.
five ostriches.
PRISONER DIES IN
VICTORIA GAOL.
Death From Natural Causes.
at
As the result of The Shanghai A verdict of death from na-
NEW FIRE BRIGADE APPLIANCE.
Small Outfit For Use
On Peak.
he came
"The next morning there was a fine shindy at breakfast. The man hadn't any authority to deal with the birds, and nothing on earth would induce him to sell; but it seems he told Padishah that a Eurasian named Potter had ready made him an offer, and on that Padishah donounced Potter But I think the De-before us all.
OTHERS TO BE SUPPLIED TO OUT-STATIONS
discussions, the Nanking Govern-tural causes was returned by the The local Fire Brigade The remainder of the Republican ment has wired the Fukien leaders jury at the Coroner's inquest, held partment has been strengthened most of us thought it rather smart and also General Feng Yu-haiany at the Central Police Court this by the addition of a new Austin of Potter, and I know that when Mr Tu #au-min, strongly morning, into the death of Lu "10" fire engine for use on the Potter said that he's wired at Ad-h uruing them to proceed Lo the Gaol,
strength was dis'ríbuted among a half dozen minorities of from 10 to
50 deputies, ranging from rightist to leftisi extremes.
RAMA
Capital where a conterence in
heal
10
with
and external problems
:fternal
during the national crisis.
The telegram also appeal for their co-operation in working out the waisation of the country.-- Central News Agency
TSAI TING-KAI DOES NOT FAVOUR SECESSION.
Choy,
a prisoner
at
who died
Victoria Peak. Saturday
culosis.
DRAMATIC WIN BY M.C.C. AT NEW DELHI
(Continued from Poņe 1).
FIL
Pot-
Mr. Balfour acted as Coroner contained and is equipped with "At Suez Padishah gave way to and the Jury consisted of Messrs. a portable water pump, power-tears-actual wet tears-when Pot- Birger Maeas
[foreman), Lam ed by a twin-cylinder 10 horse-ter became the owner of the birds, Kwong-sik and Kwan Mok-chung, power water-cooled engine, and and offered him two hundred and contains a hose, stand-pipe and fifty right off for the five, being more than two hundred per cenci necessary gear.
The vehicle is at present sta on what Potter had given. tioned at Gough Hill Police Sta-ter said he'd be hanged if he part- Ition in charge of Sub-Inspector od with a feather of them-that he The M. C. C. have a fixture card Sheppard.
meant to kill them off one by one of 32 games, Including three Test It is understood that the De-and find the diamond; but after- matches of four days each.
two The partment will obtain or wards, thinking it over, he team, which Is comprised of the three more similar vehicles for lented a little. He was a gamb- following, is due back in England use in out stations such as Aber-ling hound, was this Potter, a little on March 7:--
deen and Un Long.
queer at cards, and this kind of D. R. Jardine (Surrey) (capl.), B. II.
prize-packet business must have Valentine (Kent), F. Walters U.S.S. AUGUSTA DUE Buited him down to the ground.
Worcestershire), W. H. V. Levett (Kent), C, 8. Marriott (Kent), J. H.,
ra.
to London to buy the birds, and It has a locally built two would have an answer at Suez, I The problem of the Republle now be held in order to reconcile the dif-afternoon from advanced tuberscater body and resembles cursed ratty richly at a lost op- concerns the pronounced conserva.
emall lorry. The outfit is self-portunity. live and extreme rightist swing de ferent views held among them as to
policies in dealing monstra'ed in the April and Sep- tember partial municipal elections for town councillors and members of the Tribunal of Constitutional Guarantees. The conservative re- publicans of Lerroux and the Agra- rians, a farmer party not for re moved from monarchist teneta, swept upward with mighty gains. The Azann Republican-Socialist coalition cabinet fall under this Dvalanche,
Nanchuang, To-day. Lerroux replaced Azana, and re-j That General Teal Ting-ksi does signed when he saw that it was im not agree to the extreme measure possible to govern with Congress of breaking off relations with the us it was constituted. He was re- Central Government by organising placed by his chief side, Diego an independent Government, is in Martinez Barrion, heading a repu- dicated in a confidential telegram Human (Cambridge U.) Langridge
Anyhow, he offered, for a lark, to Bell the birds separately to blican coalition government which which IB stated to have been re(mes) (Sussex), Nichola (Essex),
separate people by auction, at a last month dissolved the constitu- ceived by Marshal Chiang Kai Verity (Yorkshire), Townsend (Derby"
starting price of £80 for a bird. tional congress and convoked elec. shek. The telegrem was referred ahire), Bake well (Northamptonshire). Gregory
But one of them, he said, he meant to the Nanking Government lead-Clark (Northamptonshire),
(Surrey), Barnett (Gloucestershire),
to keep for fuck, Mitchell (Yorkshire), Elliott (H);
"You must understand this dia- On receipt of this telegram, Mar- |(Derbyshiro).
The U. 8. S. Augusta, flying the ahal Chiang is reported to hold Major Ricketts, who acted in a flag of Admiral F. B. Upham, Commond was a valuable one-a little a diamond merchant. high hope of amicably settling the similar capacity with the All-India mander-in-Chief of the U. S. Asiatic Jew chap, Fakien developments. Central team in England in 1932, is the Fleet, is expected to arrive in Hong who was with us, had put it ́ ́at] News Agency,
Kong on Thursday or Friday of this three or four thousand when Padi- manager.
week.
shah had shown it. to him-and this The Augusta relieved the Houston idea of an ostrich gamble caught
Shanghai flagship at
Now it happened that I'd Saturday, the Houston leaving for been having a few talks on general America via Japan..
subjects with the man who looked. after these ostriches, and quite in- INCONCLUSIVE ・・ DISARMAMENT | cidentally he'd said one of the
NEGOTIATIONS
birda was alling, and be fancied it had indigestiou. It had one feather "(Continued from Page 1).
In its tall almost all white, by
tions.
MASS ARRESTS IN BARCELONA.
Bull-Ring Turned Into Concentration Camp.
Madrid,
ers.
Lindberghs May Explore
Southern Atlantic Route
So many hundreds of beggars undi suspecta bave been arrested in Bar celona under the new Vagrancy and Corrupt Persons Act, that the old Candelas De Tuy, Spain, Nov. 14. flight from Santona, Spain, ` to, bull ring is to be turned into a con Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said Lisbon, and, said they would resume" centration camp to necommodata here to-day he was thinking of the trip to Portugal when weather them.
making an exploration tour across conditions. improved.
na
THIS WEEK.
Relieves Houston As Flagship.
14
on on.
The gaol is full to overflowing. I the Atlantic by the southern route They have visited Scandinavian A proposal to adjourn the Gen- which I knew it, and so when, next prisoners have had to be accommo- similar to his rocent flight across countries, Russia, the British Isles, eral Commission from December day the auction started with it. I dated even in the corridors,
the northern route" by way of France and other countries since 4 to January 4 is believed to have capped Padishah's sighty-five by This unorthodox use of the bull Greenland and Iceland.
completing their North Atlantic considerable prospect of realiua- ninety, 1 fandy I was a bit too ring, which would have raised an
{tion.--Reuter, The noted flier pointed out he Survey trip the last of the summer.
sure and eager with my bid, and some of the othern spotted the fact outery only 10 years ago, haa pass was engaged in Aurveying routes The prospective southern- route Direct Franco-German Negotiatioma? ed--alomst without comment from for the Pan American Airways for trip might be by way of the Azores som
Party, that I was in the know, And! the "fans."
a possible trans-Atlantic commercial Islands and possibly Bermuds, as It is reliably learned that the Padishah went for that eaetschfar Further evidence of the decling service and said he had no thought these points are included in plans French Premier, Mr. Albert bird like an irresponsible tunale, of Spain's national sport is provid of a spectacular non-stop fight like of the Pan American Airwaya to Sarraut, is considering direct negoAt last the Jew diamond merchant ed by the fact that circus turns, that from New York to Paris in spau the Atlantic. The northern tiations with Germany on arma got it for £175, and Padiahah sala bull-fighting with motorcars and 1927 which brought him to world route, which, is much shorter and mente in the event the Disarma-180 fost after the hammer came free gifts have recently been in-fame."
is largely over land, would be used ment conference breaking updown-so Potter declared. At any troduced at the Madrid Ring In an Col, and Mrs. Lindbergh landed during favourable summer weather France would thus seek to learn rate the Jew merchant secured It. "effort to bring back the former here yesterday after losing thale and the longer southern route at the exact nature of Germany's de- and there and then he gotɛn“ gùn-
crowds.
way, in a atorm and fog when on alother seasons.
sires, and thus hope to open the and shot It. Potter made 'a Hader way for a solution:
(Continued on Paga 10),
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