WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.
CHINA UNDERWRITERS
MEETING
UNFAVOURABLE
CONDITIONS IN
HONG KONG
Debit Balance Shows Big Reduction.
IMPROVED CONDITIONS IN CEYLON AND STRAITS
LONG FIRM FRAUD
TRIAL
Suspicious Peking Cheques.
CROSS-EXAMINATION OF BANK CASHIER BY DEFENDANT
The trial of Jose Lizarraga. Wong Sau-mo and Nicholas Levit- thirteen sky, alias Lemon, on ; That the debit balance of the counts of conspiracy to defraud Profit and Loss Account was re-and of fraud, was continued be-: duced to $12,700 from a sum of fore His Honour the Chief Jus $63,121, in spite of extremely tice, Mr. A. D. A. McGregor, at unfavourable conditions during the Supreme Court this morning. the year. was reported by Mr.
Mr. J. H. Fraser is conducting
A. L. Shields, who presided at the tenth annual general meet the case for the Crown and the do-
Tendants are unrepresented. ing of the China Underwriters, Ltd., held at noon to-day at the Company's offices,
The jury empanelled are Mr. E. J. R. Leitas (foreman). and W. Coulson, Fung Richard Shim, Ng past year, there was some evid-Chu-ping, Cheung Kit-sang and ence of improved conditions in Saurbeck.
Although the depression had Messrs E. continued in the main during the Chick-mun,
the Straits Settlements and Cey- Pun To, the first witness for the lon, added the Chairman.
prosecution called this morning.
A
and
Mr. A. L. Shields was supported gave evidence of the delivery to by Messrs. Li Tse Fong, P. V. Bo-the defendants of scales and telho, C. A. Roza, Mok Ching Kong safe from Messrs. Mustard and H. R. Sturt (Directors), the Company. shareholders present being Messra.
Mr. W. II. Adler testified to the Wong Ching-ho. Sze Taun Yue. I sule of Ovaltine to the third se W. Shewan, H. J. M. de Figuelre-cused.
A. Jardine, assistant- do, J. F. Wright Jnr., Chan Nat- Mr. R. pan, J. Coulthart, H. Dreyer and cashier at the Hong Kong and Mr. Wong So.
Shanghai Bank, gave formal evi. dence regarding cheques which had been dishonoured.
Chairman's Speech.
The Chairman, in proposing adoption of the Repurt and counts, said:
the Ac
Lei Koh-yan, delivery coolie of Messrs. Reiss, Mussey and Co., these gave evidence "Before commenting on
he had Accounts I am sure you will wish lievered the Ovaltine
me to express your regret at the fandants. death of Mr. Robert Gordon She-
thut to the
POST-DATED CHEQUE
THE
Titanic Survivor
Edith L. Razali
On the 22nd anniversary of the greatest disaster in marine history, Edith L. Russell, one of the sur- vivors, recalls her experiences in the wreck of the Titanie in 1912. She is slown as she broadcast her story over station WINS, New Tork
RELIGIOUS RITES
TO-MORROW.
High Mass At St. Anthony Church.
CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story.
THE URN
It was a splendid
By: Louis Bromfield.
The classi
was a splendid and "fashion-, she sat upon a low dais directly with many before the urn that contained her members of the American colony husband's ashes. A wreath of tube- (that is to say, those whose roses circled her hair just above the names add a peculiar Justre to pince-nez that embraced
4 thick, the social colouom of the Paris rather too fleshy nose. "Daily Herald") seated about cal effect was somewhat marred by the room.
the tiny gold chain which led from The religious element was also the pince-nez to a patent gold spring! well represented: besides members that lay concealed in a fleur-de-lis of the more conventional sects, there pin on her ample bosom. Otherwise wore present Theosophists and the contours were as Greek as could Spiritualists, Buddhists and Yagis, he hoped with a figure so-full-bosom- New Thoughters and Christianed and given to ample curves. Scientists, for Mrs. Wimpole had spray of tuberoses lay across her always entertained an experimental plump arms. During the ceremony attitude of mind toward religions, her small blue eyes were fixed upon and having, as she observed, "a space with the expression of one who beautiful gift for friendship," she sees beyond the mists and confu- had picked up many acquaintances sion of this world.
A
on her way through conversions to Misa Hoskins, a gaunt, thin vir- gin, with prominent eyes, who had
one or another of these necta.
So they bad come at her request gone somewhat cynically through to the funeral of her husband, most many conversions and tried almost of them perhaps a trife curious to as many faiths as the Bereaved her- see the service which she had plan- self, read the service in the over- ned herself, "as a sort of eclectic crowded little salon of the house in celebration of the mysteries of the Rue Spontini, to which Lydia death."
One or two of the more Wimpole, had brought her husband Trakish and cynicial members of the after oil had been discovered in the
funeral audience held a secret be- backyard of their Arkansas home. lief that she had been waiting in- patiently for her husband to die in order that she might try out this "eclectic service."
As the funeral people said, "There The "Feast of Our Lady Help of was never such a devoted wife be- to-fore in the history of the world. Christian" will be celebrated morrow at the St. Anthony Church, She gave up everything for him, es- 179 Third Street, West Point with pecially in those last years when he a solemn High Mass at 8 a.m. only-llingered so. She never left his side.
At the Salesian Mlesionary Semin-
UNIFIED FOOD CONTROL
"
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Englishman Abroad." by Inez Holden.
The atmosphere was heavy with the thick scent of flowers, and Miss Hoskins, who was very near-sighted,| deary. No. 1 Island Road, there will One or two thought. "That woman) de-be a solemn High Maas at 10.30 am. is a monster......She devoured her read the service (all in verse of In the evening there will be a Pro-husband slowly,. bit by bit. He Lydia Wimpole's own making) halt-] cession in the compound of the
never escaped from her for a mo-ingly and without regard for the ex- It was only at Mr. Joseph F. Tavares, cashier Seminary followed by the Benedic-ment. She gave him no peace....."quisite rhythms. wan who was Chairman first of
Even in death he had not escaped the moments when Miss Hoskins, The Consulting Committee and at-Messrs.-Reiss, Massey-and-Com-tion_of_the_Blessed Sacrament.
All co-operators are invited to at-her. Imprisoned in the urn that reading uncertainly, found herself afterwards of the Board of Direc-pand, stated that a cheque to the
stood on the Louis Philippe table with an extra syllable on her hande tors from the commencement of value of $433.33 had been received tend.
on the eve-
were the ashes. To the very end that the countenance of Lydia Wim- the Company until his retirement from the defendants
ale was using him as an object on pole, sitting on the dais, dressed as ning of February G. Noticing that through ill health last year.
which to practise the terrible devo-the, Bride of the Hereafter, changed You will no doubt also share the it was poat-dated until February
At such expression. tion which led her to say, "People its Directors' regret at the loss of 10. he had locked it up until the! Mr. Allan Cameron's valuable ser-due date. It was paid into the
any that my nature is almost too in-times a dark and troubled look of tense-it burns.”
exasperation crossed her counten- vices on the Board, owing to his bank on February 10, and return-
Strong Appeal Made By She was the centre of interest. once. She was an optimist. If she retirement from the Colony. Mr.ed on February 12. The cheque
Dr. Li Shu-fan. Cameron was an original member was for three cases of Ovaltine. of the Consulting Committee and for which no payment has been re- has served in that capacity or as ceived since.
SANITARY BOARD DISCUSSION Director since the inception
Mr. Dennis Latimer, un elec- trical engineer employed by "I wish to emphasise the fact that In the Accounts Rupees and Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Co. the multiplicity of licensing authori- Straits dollars have been converted said that he delivered a refrigeratics for the sale of food, as to sterling throughout at the pori-tor, on Lizarraga's instructions. exists, is not in the interest of public $10 Fine For Offender.
the Company.
or
now
tier. Silver currencies have been at the Standard Products Company health", said Dr. Li Shu-fan, at the
Dressed all in white like
Kerenc
a bride, had not been she would long ago. have abandoned her religious ad- ventures.
LOCAL POLICEMAN ASSAULTED.
When Miss Hoskins stumbled badly over the more passionate pas- sages of the Song of Songs with which the Bereaved had chosen to
end the service, the face did not
change ita expression. Mrs. Wim-
converted to Hong Kong dollarsjon February 10, To date no pay Sanitary Board Meeting yesterday. Mr. C. Lauritsen, managing pole had not written the Song of
and other currencies to sterling at ment has been received, and when
These remarks were made in pre-director of the Dragon Motor Songs. So it was of no importance The current monthly rates for Re-it was delivered it was not signed posing the adoption of a mation Car Company, appeared before to her how it was rend.
From time to time a discreet and venue purposes, and at the market for.
seeking to establish the Sanitary Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen- rates on December 31, 1933 for Kwan Cheuk, electrical fitter at Board as the sole licensing authority tral Magistracy this morning on admiring murmur drifted up to the Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Coin the Colony for restaurants, eat-a charge of assaulting a Chinese dais. She was certain of what they For the purpose of showing the testined to having delivered the ing stalla, stalls for the sale of cook-constable, Lo Wo, who was exe-were aaying......"Doesn't she look Accounts in Hong Kong dollars the. refrigerator at defendants' pre- Jed food. premises for the sale or cuting his duty, and in uniform, serene and lovely. She has made of
Balance Sheel purposes.
Shu-fan.
..
SICKNESS, Like ACCIDENT,
Is No Respecter of Persons.
It visits rich and poor-high and low, It often comes when least expected, Hospitals have no "off season,' Most physicians are overworked.· ́
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Sterling figures arrived at as above mises in Nathan Road, where
death a beautiful thing!" he cooked meat hawkers.
jon May 13 in Fort Street. have been converted at the rate of connected it up and left it in work-
Sergeant Kelley stated that on Everyone forgot the small bronze "Those absence of unified control Hong Kong $1 to 1/5%d.
ling order.
by a responsible authority such as May 13 a Chinese boy, employed urn, wnbossed with the esoteric The difference between the CX- Mr. R. V. Dodd, an assistant at the Sanitary Board la fraught with by Mr. Lauritsen, and a Portu- symbols of three religions. change used last year, 1/3d, and Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Co. danger, particularly in times of geuse boy were having an alter seemed less the centre, the reason that used on the present occasion, stated that he had visited Lizarrage wide-spread epidemics, such as cho-cation outside Mr. Lauritsen's for the occasion, than simply 1/5%d, has the effect of decreas at the office of the Standard Proleru, typhoid, etc.," added Dr.
The Chinese constable other piece of bric-a-brac in a room Lihouse, ing all the Revenue items on both ducts Company and talked with
was ordered to go there to make which already resembled a second- sides of the Account in respect of him about the purchase of Oval-
enquiries.
hand shop. In death Horace Wim- The motion was carried. the Sterling portion of each item. tinc, and also of a typewriter.
Mr. Lauritsen pleaded guilty to pole was obscured as he had been in There were present Mr. R. A. D. The exchange adjustments as up-
Lo Wing, a foki at the same firm. Forrest, President, Hon. Mr. R. M. technical offence, saying that life. piled to the funds brought forward
The ashes were kept there on the gave evidence of the delivery of Henderson, vice-president, Hon. Mr. Lo Wo was talking to a lady, and at the beginning of the year are the Ovaltine.
N. L. Smith, Secretary for Chinese he thought that the constable table during the days of packing for shown in the published accounts in Mr. A. C. Donn, of the Mercantile Affairs, Dr. J. M. Gray,
was abusing her. He laid his the return to America. They were the various departments and speak Bank of India, Ltd., gave
hands on him and was about to surrounded always by a wreath of formal Officer of Health, Mr. Wong-Kwong- evidence regarding cheques paid tin, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. F. C. Hall, turn him around, but did not fresh and sickly scented tuberoses.
strike him.
Callers who came to hid her fare The depression referred to in the inte that bank and subsequently Mr. L C. F. Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu-
Mr. Lauritsen was fined $10 well found that there was a depress- Chairman's remarks last year has in
C. J. Eoe, Secretary, and Mr. Im for laying hands on the constable. ing truth in her assertion that the main continued during the Mr. Hormusjee. Ruttonjee, the period under review although there owner of No. 45, Hankow Read, Ping-tseung, Assist. Secretary.
CANCER CAMPAIGN
for themselves.
Conditions Unfavourable.
dishonoured.
RENT NOT PAID
is some evidence of improved condi-stated that he had leased a flat there
tions in the Straits and Ceylon. On to Levitsky, who had signed the
Medical
fan, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Mr.)
+
the other hand, conditions in Hong agreement in the name of Lemon. cheques were returned marked "No Kong have been extremely unfavour-When asked for the rent, defendant Funds." Able.
had told him that he would pay it
FUND.
Horace was not really dead at all: he was always with her there in the house in the Rue Spontini.
The plans for the burial occupied her mind a great deal, and the faith-
Address On Cancer By Miss Hoskins came in daily to
Dr. Montgomery.
HOPES FOR THE FUTURE
discuss the question. And at length it was settled, in all its details.
She described it to a friend (a Mrs. Blanchard, whose acquaintance!
Cross-examined by Lizarraga na Life Premiums at $573,819 show on his return from Canton. The to why the Standard Products Com- a decrease, as compared with last rent has not yet been paid. pany's account had been closed. year's Agure. This decrease is al-
Siu Wong-chow, accountant at Mr. Veron stated that there was no most entirely due to the rate at Messrs. Wong Bros., of Pottinger obligation for a bank to retain any
A stirring appeal based on tragic she had made during her studies in which Gold currency figures are non-Street, stated that he had sold a account with which they wore not reasoning and a comprehensive Spiritism). verted. The actual income in only typewriter to the Standard Products satisfied
knowledge of "the greatest scourge "I have thought it over," she saidj slightly less than last year.
Company, for which his firm had not The depositions of Mr. H. M. W of the human race" was the address in a voice which was known among Claims at $98,625, are less than been paid. Yuen Hing and Cheung Hamson, of Messrs. Butterfield and broadcast from ZBW last night by her friends for its "sweetness." "I half those shown in last year's 'ac-Him, of the same firm, gave evidence Swire, who is In Japan, were read. Dr. J. H. Montgomery, Superinten have thought it over, and I feel that count. In arriving at this figure we regarding the delivery of the type Chan Lot-hing, Thomas Yung.dent of the Matilda Hospital, in Horace ought not to be buried on have deducted the Reserve set up for writer, and the attempts to secure Ley Ng and Kong Chu-ming, all em-support of the Empire Cancer Cam- foreign soll. He will rest more a cinim referred to in last year's payment for IL..
ployees of Messrs. Butterfield and paign Fund..
quietly in his own homestead in Account, but which has since proved
Mr. George Veron, cashier at the Swire, gave evidence regarding the Whilst not sparing his listeners Arkansas. Near our place there---- not to be payable.
Banque Franco-Chinoise, gave evid-delivery of sugar to the Standard the harrowing story of the recent the place where all was discovered (Continued on Page 7)
ence that the second defendant had Products Company,,and of subse-growth of cancer, Dr. Montgomery-there is a mountain with a pointed opened an account with his Com- quent efforts to obtain payment.. was able to brighten ; then picture rock at the top. I propose, to have pany, with a deposit of $250, and Mr. F. II. Carvalho, of Mesars, with the statement that selence had the ura" (she made one of those that they had given him two cheques, Anderson, Meyers and Co., stated made considerable advances in graceful, gestures which she had drawn on a Peking Bank, for collec that defendants had ordered, and re-checking and curing the disease. learned at a class in Greek polse, to tion.
ceived delivery of, one case of Pala? Comparing cancer today with include the object on the marble On February 16 or 17 the police tol L Chan-pat and Lau Sue-go, tuberculosis 85 years ago, the spea- topped table), "I propose to have the A monster's tooth has been found by excavatora at Plantsch-had communicated with his bank delivery fokl and shroff of the same ker said that there was every hope urn sealed in that rock, following a becken, near Duesseldorf, asking them to enquire about these firm gave evidence of delivery and that the latter would be purged from little ceremony which I have:
two cheques. A wire was sent to attempts to obtain payment. Peking, and a day or two later the (Continued on Page 7.)
THE 2-FOOT TOOTH
Cologne.
It is nearly two feet long.
Router
Hong Kong and China as it had been thought out.""}
from many European countries Me MY(Continued on Page 21).
The above amounts will be doubled in the event of bodily in- juries being sustained by the Insured while in a Public Burning Building or while riding in a non-serial Public Passenger convey-
AJCE.
Special Compensations.
One or more Toes One or more Fingers
200
1550
Dislocation of Joints (as per Schedule) From 25 to 300 Fractured Bones (as per Schedule)
50 325
-
+
Hospital And Surgical Expenses.
Hospitalization up to
*>
(This expense in addition to indemnity payable under
above benests).
Hospital and Surgical Expenses for injuries not specified
"above, up to
500
...... 100 Medical Attention for injurias no requiring hospitalization,
up to ...
Total Disability, up to 52 weeks
Weekly Indemnity, per week ..... Hospital Confinement, up to 12 weeks
50
SICKNESS BENEFITS.
28
Expenses, in addition to Weekly Indemnity, per week, up
to
500
(This expense in addition to the Weekly Indemnity and
Hospital Expenses above)
Surgical Expenses as per Schedule, up to
No payment will be made for, any sickness which arises with- in 21 days from the payment of the first premium.
In the Far East where income continues aven during long periods of disability, the average person is more concerned with Insurance which covers the expere incident to the disability than he is with a Policy providing the wallly fidemnity which fre quently does not meet his needs. Any injury or sickness of a seri our nature requires, special hospital treatment often a surgical operation. The expense is immediate and considerables. A Special. Emergency Fund to take care of these burdensome billa is mr- gently needed.
The benefits payable under this insurance are designed to pre- Vids this emergency fund. The amounts payable are flexible. when the expense la hoary, the Indemnity talorgs.
IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY.