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-me and Nicholas Levit- sky, alias Lemon, on thirteen
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 de- ing of the China Underwriters, fendants are unrepresented.
Ltd., held at noon to-day at the Company's offices.
The jury empanelled are Mr. E.
J. R. Leitas (foreman), and Although the depression had Messrs E. continued in the main during the Chick-mun,
W. Coulson, Fung Richard Shim, Ng
past, year, there was some vid. Chu-ping, Cheung Kit-sang and H. ence of improved conditions in Saurbeek.
the Straits Settlements and Cey Pan To, the first witness for the prosecution called this morning. lon, added the Chairman.
Mr. A. L Shields was supported gave evidence of the delivery
of scales and by Messrs. Li Tse Fong. P. V. Bo- the defendants telho, C. A. Roza, Mok Ching Kong safe from Messrs. Mustard and H. R. Sturt Directors), the Company.
to
and
shareholders present being Messrs. Mr. W, H. Adler testified to the Wong Ching-ho, Sze Tsun Yue, sale of Ovaltine to the third ac W. Shewan, H. J. M. de Figueire-cused.
do, J. F. Wright Int., Chan Nal- Mr. R. A. Jardine, assistant- pan. J. Coulthart. 11. Dreyer and cashier at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, gave formal evi. dence regarding cheques which had been dishonoured.
Mr. Wong So.
Chairman's Speech. The Chairman, in proposing adoption of the Report and counts, said:
the AC-
POST-DATED CHEQUE
THE
Titanic Survivor
Edith L. Rusia!!
On the 22nd anniversary of the greatest disaster in marinë history, Edith L Russell, one of the sur vivors, recalls her experiences in the wreck of the Titanic in 1912. She is shown as the broadcast her Itory over station WINS, New York
RELIGIOUS RITES
TO-MORROW.
High Mass At St. Anthony Church.
The "Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians" will be celebrated
Lo-
CHINA MAIL,
To-day's Short Story.
THE URN
By Louis Bromfield.
TT was a splendid and "fashion-, she sat upon a low dais directly able" funeral, 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 thick, the social colounm of the Paris rather too fleshy nose. The classi "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 were present Theosophists and the contours were as Greek as could Spiritualists, Buddhists and Yogis, be hoped with a figure so full-bogom- New Thoughters and Christian ed and given to ample curves: A 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-j had picked up many acquaintances sion of this world.
on her way through conversions to Miss Hoskins, a gaunt, thin vir- |gin, with prominent eyes, who bad.
one or another of these sects.
So they had come at her request gone somewhat cynically through to the funeral of her husband, most many conversions and tried almost, of them perhaps a trifle 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 balon of the house in celebration of the mysteries of the Rue Spoutini, to which Lydia
death."
One or two of the more Wimpole had brought her husband rakish 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 im- patiently for her husband to die in order that she might try out this "eclectic service."
As the funeral people said, "There was never such a devoted wife be- fare in the history of the world. 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 hef a solemn High Mass at 8 am, only lingered so. She never left his side.
At the Salesian Missionary Semin- de-ary, No. 1 Island Road, there will de-
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
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AP
Lei Koh-yan, delivery coolle of Messrs. Reiss, Massey and Co., "Before commenting on
One or two thought, "That woman Hoskins, who was very near-sighted, these gave evidence that he had
be a solemn High Mass at 10.30 am. is a monster......She devoured her read the service (all in verse Accounts I am sure you will wish lievered the Ovaltine to the
In the evening there will be a Pro-husband slowly, bit by bit. He Lydia Wimpole's own making) halt- me to express your regret at the fandants.
cession in the compound of the
ingly and without regard for the ex- death of Mr. Robert Gordon She.
never escaped from her for a mo- Mr. Joseph F. Tavares, cashier Seminary followed by the Benedicment. She gave him no peace.....'
It was only atj quisite rhythms. wan who was Chairman first of
Even in death he had not escaped the moments when Miss Hosking, theConsulting 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 hands tors from the commencement of value of $433.33 had been received tend.
were the ashes. To the very end that the countenance of Lydia Wim- the Company until his retirement from the defendants through ill health last year.
she was using him as an object on pole, sitting on the dais, dressed as which to practise the terrible devo-the Bride of the Hereafter, changed You will no doubt also share the it was post-dated until February
tion which led her to say, "People its serene expression. At such 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 l
say that my nature is almost too in-times a dark and troubled look of vices on the Board, owing to his bank on February 10, and return-
exasperation crossed her counten- Lense-it burns." Mr.Jed on February 12. retirement from the Colony.
She was the centre of interest. ance. She was an optimist. If she The cheque of Ovaltine.
Dressed all in white lika a bride, had not been she would long ago Cameron was an original member was for three caseH
have abandoned her religious ad-| ventures.
on the eve- : Ining of February 6, Noticing that
of the Consulting Committee and for which no payment has been re- has served in that capacity or as ceived since,
a Director since the inception of Mr. Dennis Latimer, an elec-! the Company.
trical
UNIFIED FOOD CONTROL
Strong Appeal Made By Dr. Li Shu-fan.
SANITARY BOARD DISCUSSION
by. engineer employed
"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 refrigera- ties for the sale of food, as
ΠΟΥ
LOCAL POLICEMAN ASSAULTED.
When Misa Hoskins stumbledį badly over the more passionate pos- sages of the Song of Songs with which the Bereaved had chosen to not end the service, the face did change its expression. Mrs. Wim- Mr. C. Lauritsen, managing pole had not written the Song of These remarks were made in pro-director of the Dragon Motor Songs. So It was of no importance
motion Car Company, appeared before to her how it was read. seeking to establish the Sanitary Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen
to sterling throughout at the pari-tor, on Lizarraga's instructions, exista, is not in the interest of public $10 Fine For Offender. Uies. Silver currencies have been at the Standard Products Company health", sald Dr. Li Shu-fan, at the converted to Hong Kong dollarsjon February 10. To date no pay Sanitary Board Meeting yesterday. and other currencies to sterling atment has been received, and when
the current monthly rates for Re-it was delivered it was not signed posing the adoption of a venue purposes, and at the market for.
Balance Sheet purposes.
From time to time a discreet and
raten 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 dals. She was certain of what they For the purpose of showing the testified to having delivered the ing stalls, stalls for the sale of cook-constable, Lo Wo, who was exe-were saying...."Doesn't she look Accounts in Hong Kong dollars the refrigerator at defendants' pre-ed food, premises for the sale of cuting his duty, and 'in uniform, serene and lovely. She has made of
he
Sterling figures arrived at as above mises in Nathan Road, where have been converted at the rate of connected it up and left it in work- Hong Kong $1 to 1/5%d.
ing order.
The difference between the
ex-
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jon May 13 in Fort Street.
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death a beautiful thing!" cooked meat hawkers.
Sergeant Kelley stated that on Everyone forgot the small bronze "The absence of unified control) by a responsible authority such as May 13 a Chinese boy, employed urn, embossed with the esoteric change used last year, 1/3d. and Messrs. Reisa, Massey and
Mr. R. V. Dodd, an assistant at the Sanitary Board in fraught with by Mr. Lauritsen, and a Portu- symbols of three religions.
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danger, particularly in times of geuse boy were having an alter seemed less the centre, the reason
Lauritsen's for the occasion, than simply that ased on the present occasion, stated that he had visited Lizarraga wide-spread epidemics, such as cho-cation outside Mr. 1/5d, has the effect of decreas at the office of the Standard Pro- lera, typhoid, etc.," added Dr.
The Chinese constable other piece of bric-a-brac in a room house. Ing all the Revenue items on both ducts Company and talked with
was ordered to go there to make which already resembled a second- Shu-fan. 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. tine, 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 ap-
Lo Wing, a foki at the same firm. Forrest, President, Hon. Mr. R. M.
a technical offence, saying that life. plied to the funds brought forward gave evidence of the delivery of Henderson, vice-president, Ifon. Mhe thought that the constable table during the days of packing for Lo Wo was talking to a lady, and The ashes were kept there on the at the beginning of the year are the Ovaltine. shown in the published accounts in
N. L. Smith, Secretary for Chinese
Mr. A. C. Bonn, of the Mercantile Affairs, Dr. J. M. Gray, Medical hands on him and was about to surrounded always by a wreath of was abusing her. He laid his the return to America. They wore the various departments and speak Bank of India, Ltd.. gave formal Officer of Health, Mr. Wong-Kwong turn him around, but did not fresh and sickly scented tuberoses. for themselves.
evidence regarding cheques paid tin, Mr. M. K. Lo, Mr. F. C. Hall, Conditions Unfavourable.
strike him.
Caller who came to hid her fare- The depression referred to in the into that bank and subsequently Mr. L C. F. Bellamy, Dr. Li Shu-
Mr. Lauritsen was fined $10 well found that there was a depress- fan, Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto, Mr for laying hands on the constable. ing truth in her assertion that Chairman's remarks last year has in the main continued during the
Mr. Hormusjce Ruttonjec, the C. J. Roe, Secretary, and Mr. Im
Horace was not really dead at all: period under review although there owner of No. 45. Hankow Road, Plog-tecung, Assist. Secretary.
CANCER CAMPAIGN he was always with her there in the
house in the Rue Spontini.
dishonoured.
RENT NOT PAID
is some evidence of improved condi-stated that he had leased a flat there
tions in the Straita and Ceylon. On to Levitsky, who had signed the
the other hand, conditions in Hous agreement in the name of Lemon. cheques were returned marked "No Kong have been extremely unfavour-When asked for the rent, defendant Funde." able,
had told him that he would pay it Cross-examined by Lizarraga as The to why the Standard Products Com- pany's account had been closed.
Life Premiums at $573,819 show on his return from Canton.
a decrease, as compared with last rent has not yet been paid. year's figure. This decrease is ál-
FUND.
The plans for the burial occupied her mind a great deal and the faith-
Address On Cancer By tal 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) Siu Wong-chow, accountant at Mr. Veron stated that there was no
Mrs. Blanchard, whose acquaintance 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 con Street, stated that he had sold alaccount with which they were not reasoning and a comprehensive Spiritism). verted. The actual income is only typewriter to the Standard Products satisfied.
knowledge of "the greatest scourge: "I have thought it over," she said slightly less than last year,
Company, for which his firm had not The depositions of Mr. H. M. Wil- of the human race" was the address in a voice which was known among Claims at $98,525 are less than been paid. Yuen Hing and Cheung lamson, of Mesars. Butterfield and broadcast from 2BW 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, wero read. Dr. J. H. Montgomery, Superinten have thought. It over, and I feel that count. In arriving at this figure weregarding the delivery of the type- Chan Loi-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 soil. He will rest more a claim referred to in last year's)
ployees of Messrs. Butterfield and paign Fund.
homestead in quietly in bla' own Account, but which has since proved
Mr. George Veron, cashier at the Swire, gaye 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 oil was discovered (Continued on „Paga 'V)
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 the picture rock at the top. I propose to have pany, with a deposit of $250,- and Mr. F. H. Carvalho, of Messrs, with the statement that 'sèlence had the urn" (she made one of thom 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 defendanta had ordered, and re- checidag, and curing the disease. learned at a class in Greek poise, ta fceived delivery of, one case of Pala? Comparing cancer today with include the object on the marble-
payment for it,
THE 2-FOOT-TOOTH
Cologne.
tion.
It is nearly two feet long-
A monster's tooth has been On February 16 or 17 the police tol. Li Chan-pat and Láu Sue-go, tuberculosis 35 years ago, the apes- topped table), "I propose to have the found. by excavators at Plantsch-had communicated with his bank delivery foki and shroff of the same ker said that there was every hope urn sealed in that rock, following, a which I have becken, near Duesseldorf, saldog, them to enquire about, these firm gave evidence of delivery and that the latter would be purged from little ceremony
|two cheques. A wire was sent to attempts to obtain payment. Hong Kong and China as it had been thought out.", Reuter
|Peking, and a day, or two, laber: the "(Continued on' Page. T.). from many European countries
Page 11)
(Continued
One Thumb and Index Finger of Right Hand One Thumb and Index Fluger of Left Hand
10,000,00
10,000.00
Within
10,000,00
90 days
10,000.00
trom
5,000,00
date of
1,833.33
accident
2,500,00
2,000.00
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ANED.
Special Compensations. One or more Toes One or more Fingers
200
160
Dislocation of Joints (as per Schedule) From 20 to 300 Fractured Bones (as per Schedule),
50
295
Hospital And Surgical Expenses.
Hospitalization up to.....
500
(This expense in addition to indemnity payable under
above benefits)
Hospital and Burgical Expenses for injuries not specified
above, up to .....
50.
Medical Attention for injuries no requiring hospitalization,
up to ...........
SICKNESS BENEFITS.
Total Disability, up to 52 weeks Weekly Indemnity, per week Hospital Confinement, up to 12 weeks
Expenses, in addition to Weekly Indemnity, per week, up to Surgical Expenses as per Schedule, up to
-75 500
(This expense in addition to the Weekly Indemnity and
"Hospital ́ Expenses above) (
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 avan during long periods of disability, the average person is more concerned with insurance which covers the expense incident to the diablility than he is with a Polley providing, kes wekly Indemnity which fre quently does not meet his needs. Any injury or sickness of a seri ous nature requires, special hospital treatment often a surgical operation. The expense la Immediate and considerabla. A specifi Emergency Fund to take care of these burdensome bills 14 nr. benefits payable under the insurance are designed to pre- wide: this purposer, fund. The amongla, parable are fonible. when the expense is heavy, the Indemnity is. Largs.
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