BANKING LEGISLATION IN AMERICA
New Recommendations Declared Unnecessary
SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL. (By Telegraph, Copyright, Telegra phio Messages Ordinance, 1895. Re- ceived December 11, 2,10 p.m.)
Washington, To-day. The United States Treneury Secretary, Mr. Henry Morgenthau, U. Fletcher,
Senator Duncan
Florida Democrat, and the Chuir- man of the House of Representa tives Banking and Currency Com- mittee, Mr. Ilenry B. Steagall, conferred yesterday, after which, Mr. Morgenthus said that the Treasury would make only a few recommendatiana for banking legis- lation.
Senator Fletcher and that now
unnecessary. - legislation
Wits
CHINESE CONVICTED
FOR ASSAULT
Sequel To Fokis?”. Fight On Ship
JURY MAKE RECOMMENDATION FOR MERCY
Fuklenese
Ho Kam-chuen, a hotel-runner, on a charge of assault, occasioning bodily harm, was this morning sentenced by His Honour, the Chief Justice, "Mr. A. D. A. 5 months' hard MacGregor, to labour at the Criminal Sessions.
similarly Ho Yat-fa, who was charged, was convicted on an amended charge of common assault,! and was sentenced to one month's) hard labour.
The jury, in returning their United Press per. S. F. Levy and verdict, entered a recommendation Company.
for mercy.
The Chief Justice heard the case before the following jury:-Mesars.
HENRY WONG GAOLED!W. C. Lyons (foreman), G. A. Har-
Plea For Banishment
Not Granted
"MOMENT'S PLEASURE”
riman, J. F. Grosc, A. M. M. Stephen, G. A. Bond, F. J. Wilkin-
on, and Chow Chin-cheng.
Mr. J. A. Fraser, the Assistant Attorney-General was for the pro- *secution.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1934
. Three panels from a newsreel cameraman's remarkable photo- graphic record of the last momenta of the assassinated King Alexan- der of Yugoslavia. At top an aide lifts the dying monarch more fight-comfortable position in the car
Fight On Sirdhana The charges arose out of a
Fukienese hotel-runners "For a moment's pleasure, I com-between mitted the first two charges", said on the s.s. Sirdhana on October 31 Chan Fuk-kin, alias Heary Wong, 18 as she was lying alongside the No. years, who appeared on five criminal wharf of the Kowloon wharves, charges, before Mr. E. I. Wynne- and which resulted in one of the Junes at the Central Magistracy Chinese fokis, Au Hat Sik-mui, be- Ing knocked into the No. 2 hold of this morning..
was added the vessel, resulting in serious in- One further charge against accused this morning, who juries to his spine. was remanded on four charges yes- When the second hearing was re- terday, that he stole a battery, two sumed this morning. evidence of motor car registration plates, and arrest of the first and second ac- four side-screens from car No. 2880, cused by two Chinese Police con- the property of Mr. Weight between stables and of the interpretation of the statements of the accused made November 28 and December 3.
The first two charges which Chan at the Water Police Station, wax referred to, were that he, on Decem- given.
owner.
Centre, King Alexander regains consciousness. Bottom, he breather his last.
EUROPEAN CAR DRIVERS FINED
FOR OBSTRUCTION
PARK CARS OUTSIDE WHITE LINE
LORRY DRIVERS IN RACE AT WHITFIELD
ber 2, drove private car No. 2880 The injured man's dying desposi-
con- Mr. H. A. Greig, of the Hong without a driver's license, and with- tion (Au Hat Sik-mui was
sidered to be in a very serious condi- Kong and Shanghai Bank, and out the permission of the He was also charged with the theft, tion at first, but has since recover-¡driver of private car No. 1721, was of a clock, the property of Mr. F. jed) was then read to the jury. Hangland; at No. 13 Bay View Man- sions, and the theft of two rings from Mr. Kodaka, at Messrs. Komor and Komor.
Statements Volunteered
from the witness hox.
To-day's Short Story,
THE
APPOINTED
By Rupert Croft-Cooke
KEY
I WAS the first to arrive. I did instead, and a drawn, harrowed ex-
...
not feel at all sure that pression returned to his face auto- either of them would come, but matically, as though in smiling he as it was only five to eleven I had been forgetting himself for ordered a drink and prepared to the moment. I think I should still walt half an hour at least. An have recognised him, but he was appointment made fifteen years very much changed, and the change before by three schoolboys was was of the sort that you could not likely to be kept, but I felt imagine taking place in a night." that I could not go home until I Nor could I put it down to ill- had given them that amount of health, for his bronzed features grace.
suggested almost invulnerably good We must all have been preposter-health. He sat down beside me! ously young, I thought, to have and ordered two double whiskies. promised each other to meet at "No sight of Race yet?" he asked. eleven o'clock in Exactly fifteen "No, I don't suppose he'll come.| years' time to compare the stories It seems absurd to expect him, real- of our lives, like the brothers in [ly. All those years ago... such' "The Arabian Nights.” Although Ijboys . . . a fanciful arrangement.” was doubtful about Grogan, I be lieved that in all probability Race would turn up.
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Do I Tell?" by Anthony Mills.
When we had left school Grogan had been bound for South Africa. and it was he who made the sug- gestion that we should meet at a fixed hour and place fifteen years later. "We won't write," he had said: "It will be far more exciting if we have not met?" Race and F concurred. It had acemed very{ "oh, romantic then
and even as Grogan. sat there eyeing the clock. I felt
"I am glad you believe so. I will a little peeved with myself for my be interesting to compare notes. doubts, earlier in the evening. I've seen his name in the papers about. leaving my fireside to come often enough, of course: Brilliant foot on this uncertain errand.
advocate. We always thought he would be successful, did not we?"
It was Grogan who came in first. I looked up at a touch on my
Race will come," said|
"Rather. He was that type." I shoulder, to see not at all the looked at Grogan when he said that, Grogan I had expected. He smiled, because I thought I detected some- but only so long as our greeting thing bitter in his voice, and that, of all things about him, was most surprising.. He seemed so different from the boy I remembered that I
DIPLOMAT TO MARRY felt almost as though a stranger
GLASGOW SINGER
Gaimusho Reverses Stand
PERMITS WEDDING.
were trying to get into conversa- tion with me-a thing that I great- ly dislike.
But just then I was relieved to sce the tall figure of Race at the other end of the the tables he had geen us in our corner, and, without; smiling until he reached us, he was threading his way across.
fined $5 by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Magistracy this morning, Ho Kam-chuen, the first accused, when he was summoned for causing] aid he wished to make a statement an obstruction with hia car, by parking it outside the white line, Accused said he was the master in Pedder Street, on December 1.
Tokyo.
I thought at once that he was' Number Plates Changed
Mr. H. O. Bramble, of Messrs. of the Cheung Wah Boarding House
His Dodwell and Company, and driver Reversing his previous stand the least altered of the three. Referring to to-day's charge, Sub-jat No. 85 Connaught Road West. Inspector O'Donovan stated that un! Referring to the incident on the of private car No. 1474, was also against international marriages tight skin, his grey eyes and, strong said there fined $5 on a similar summons, at among officials of the Foreign thin mouth were just as I remem November 28, Mr. Weight parked .8. Sirdhana, accused his car in Connaught Road Central was no reason why he should have the same place and time as Mr. Office, the Foreign Minister, Mr. bered them, and though, of course, Koki Hirota, on December 4, age had begun to leave her marks, and the next day, it was missing. pushed Au Kat Sik-mui down the Greig.
Lorry Driver Summoned signed a permit for Miss Lillian they were imperceptible in detail Defendant removed the number hold.
"It seems very incredible that I Summoned at the instance of Watson Green, a concert singer and only touched him in effect. plates and substituted two others, and drove in the car to Komor and should have gone on board the ship Mr. L. A. Billinghurst, of Messrs. af Glasgow, and Mr. Toshio With urbane cordiality he greeted Komor's where he obtained the rings to obtain a small sum of $1.50 from Butterfield and Swire,, Yung Ting- Katsube, heir to a large fortune. us and became at once, as of old, the
Attache, leader in our conversation.
"I could not have made a mistake, under false pretences. He then ob-the injured man's brother. If I chuen, driver of lorry No. 8154, ap- and Foreign Office tained two batteries from two local had any business I would have con-peared on a summons for danger-assigned to the Japanese Em-
bassy in London, to wed. Simul- about you," he said to me. "You The men ous driving. garages and took the original bat-ducted it in my shop.
was that did take part in the alleged Mr. Billinghurst, in evidence, said taneously, Mr. Katsube received always look the same. Now tell us Bogota, all about it. What has life done to tery out of the car. The car later abandoned in Hillier Street assault were not arrested, whereas that at noon, on November 30, he orders to leave for
was driving private car No. 2189. Colombia, where Mr. Toshio you?" and the defendant left for Canton, 1, who had not taken part, was,
"Really." I said, "I have nothing No Connection Plea following two lorries, along Whit- Iwate, Minister, recently opened where he pawned one of the rings,
worth telling. You can imagine for The second accused, Ho Yat-fa, field Road, proceeding east. When a Japanese Legation.. obtained from Mr. Kodaka, for $30.)
Defendant pleaded guilty to all also elected to give evidence in the near the Yacht Club, the leading Mr. Hirota was said to be yourselves. I have got on quite
witness box. He stated that he lorry, which was in the middle of opposed to the wedding on the well in the bank, you know
several inter- married charges.
had When asked what he had to say, was in no way connected with the the road, was overtaken by defen-grounds that defendant asked permission to speak charge made against him, but that dant's vehicle on the left side. Had national marriages had from the witness box, which was the charge was in connection with the leading lorry gone to the left, tragic endings. granted. He said that he was Wong Yuk, a foki who was owed said Mr. Billinghurst, there would ashamed of his previous sentence of some money by Au Ark Soon, have been a collison. three months' imprisonment.. Helbrother of the injured man,
Wong Yuk who was called by week. asked to be sent away from the Colony as he had mude some bad the second accused, said he went on board the s.s. Sirdhana on Octo- acquaintances in gaol.
-Canton-Trip-Desired--
.
The case was adjourned for one/finding that his wife was a spy garden. You must come down. ;-"
Careless Rounding of "Eva"
got three kiddies
"Charming," commented Race. One Foreign Office clerk, it was
"And grow roses," I added. "I recalled, committed suicide after should like you both to see my rose-
for another power..
"Delighted," said Grogan. "We On the other hand, it was will. And I envy you your kiddies, pointed out, many high officials A fine of $15 was imposed on in the Foreign Office to-day have too. And I am sure that there are a lot of interesting things-in-that] ber 31 to obtain 87 from Au Ark-Chan Yin, driver of private car No. foreign wives. Mr. S. Kurust, life of yours that you are trying to soon, brother of the injured man. 2706, for driving without due care chief of the Commerce Bureau, dismiss as commonplace. But let's In summing up His Lordship and caution at the junction of Dea married an American, while Mrt Race's story out of him first. mitted the first two charges" con pointed out to the jury that in the Voeux Road and Pedder Street. S. Togo, chief of the European He's the big noise now, you know!" tinued Chan. On the third charge, case of the second accused, there Sergeant Bentley stated that deand Asiatic Affairs Bureau, has Again I looked at Grogan, for he he said that he needed money
to was no evidence to show that, he fendant turned right around "Eva" la German wife. buy gasoline and stole the clock,was in any way connected with Aulin à careless manner and nearly which he sold for $2, the receiver of Hat Sik-mul's fall into the hold, collided with a car coming down
was evidence to Pedder Street, which was sentenced to one month's although there hard labour yesterday. Referring show that he had taken part in the In this connection it was to the rings, he said that he pawned fracas. them to enable him to go to Canton, only possible to enter a charge of where he had advertised for a job. common assult against the second
Inspector O'Donovan asked for a accused.
"For a moment's pleasure, I com-
severe sentence, as defendant had been convicted on six criminal charges of obtaining proparty' by│ false pretences and by fraud last June. He also asked for full Policaj supervision after accused's release.
S.C.A. Advice Not Taken
A
FRONTIER INCIDENT IN ABYSSINIA
(Continued from Page 1)
NEW AMERICAN SECURITY REGISTRATION
&
spoke in a strangely quick and nervous way, and was Race eagerly.
"Well, I suppose. I have
· WOMAN LEAVES $5,000
story to tell, sald Race lighting a Genoveva Gomes d'Eca, widow, cigar with careful, dexterous. move late of No. 4 Cameron Road, Kowments, "and you will both be sur New York, To-day-The Securi-loon, who died on January 28, prised to hear that it is a what
is generally called a love-story." ties Exchange Commission is short 1934 at the age of 48, left local I certainly was surprised. I had Imagined that he would have some reminiscences of his early struggles as a lawyer, but I had never asso- ciated romance with Race. He be gan in a deliberate, rather detached way, describing details which he thought Important, emphasising an
ly to issue rules for per cent. estate valued at $5,000. Letters of security registration United Press administration have been granted
Frederico Pedro, d'Eca; purser. per S. E.. Levy and Company.
Britain's Employment Increase
Defendant was released from pri- Instructions have been sent to
London, To-day was also shown in shipbuilding yards occasional point, as though the son on October, and since then his Colonel Clifford, that, as the work
Unemployment returns fegued last and the distribution trades. On the whole thing was premeditated and father had been communicating of the Commissioner cannot pro-
Just after TI came down, from with the Police concerning his ceed in view of the recent incidents, night show that at the end of other hand there was a further re-spoken from notes. activities. Defendant was taken to he should return to British Somali-November there were approximately duction in the building and public the S.C.A. after his release, but, land,
10,212,000 Insured persons aged 18 works contracting, brick manufac- Oxford," he said, "my father died characteristic of Race that he apparently, the advice given did not It has been suggested to the auto 64 in employment in Great Bri- ture, shipping, tailoring, and pottery abruptly. It seemed to me do him any good, Bald Inspector thorities concerned that steps tain. This was 6,000 more than a industries. O'Donovan M
should be taken as quickly as pos-month ago and 252,000 more than a Registered unemployed numbered should use that word; the right 1,729,888 wholly unemployed, 809,843 word, of course, but how many After hearing accused's evidence, sible in regard to the demarcation year agoTRALI
death? His Worship said: "I am afraid of the frontier-British Wireless Employment has continued to in temporarily stopped, and 81,804 nor people would use it of their father's
prove in the cotton, wool, hosiery, mally in casual employment, boot and ahoe, and the motor indus- a total of 2,120,785. This
more than a month ago,
than
am not fimpressed by your state Service... ment.”data
Sentences totalling 12 months hard labour was imposed, and a two year" "Police" supervision, after lease, was provided; she
Two cases of diphtheria and one tries case of typhoid fever were reported
In the Colony during
ended December 9...
There was a substantial reduction 48 hours in the numbers temporarily stopped
in the mines, and some improvemen
160 It meant that I came into Har 289 cleaves, our place in Norfolk You total probably remember It, for I bellave king you both cams and stayed with me 48,675 there one summer holiday,
(Continued on Page 10.)
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