"THE LATE ADMIRAL CHARGE OF ARSON.
MAY.
AN ORGANISER OF VICTORY.
(FROM A COBRESPONDENT.]
GRAVE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST FATHER AND SON.
ASSISTANT ATTORNEY
LINES CASE.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930.
CORRESPONDENCE.
accomm-
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with an alleged attempt at arson Serious allegations in connection
were made by the Assistant At- BEGGARS IN THE STREETS. torney General, when the proprio.
tor of the Tin Sang Tong shop. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG his son, and two foki, were charged before Mr. R.-E. Lindsell jester.
casi, Mr.
DAILY PRESS."]
AMERICAN SENATE AMERICAN VIEW OF
ELECTION.
MRS. McCORMICK TURNS IN BILL FOR $16,000.
-
SPENT $300,000 ON THE PRIMARY.
[UNITED PRESS.]
EXTRALITY.
FOREIGN PRIVILEGES TO CO SHORTLY.
SHANGHAI MAY BE AN EXCEPTION.
[UNITED PRESS.]
Washington, October 29,3frs.
3. Washington, October 28.-Ameri- Ruth Hanna McCormick. Repabean extraterritorial privileges and Find nomines for the Senate from such privileges of other nations as Illinois, to-day' announced that showell will soon be abolished, accord- estimated her election expenses ating to a statement, to-day by Mr. only
Charles K. Moser, chief of the Far East Section of the Department of Commerce. Mr. Moser has just completed ค study of Oriental markets.
C. $10,000
This was, she added, exclusive of
shadowing. Senator. Nya" which the amounts which she spent in
she did not name.
*Admiral-of-the-Fleet Sir William May, who died recently at the great age of eighty-one, was one of the most notable Admirals in the British Navy during the critical seurs before the Great War. It was in the spring of 1000 that the day.
St-I would like very much if In outlining the Channel Fleet and the muttered
you would be so kind as to allow squadrons of the old Home FleetFitzroy said there were still a good
me à small space in your paper. many enquiries to de made, and we're concentrated by Sir John
The other evening, while walking Fisher, the First Sea Lord, into were out of the Colony. The fourtion was drawn to a beggar of the many of the witnesses for the Crown down Ieo House Street, may atten- one command. Into this armada, defendants had been Eving at 77, known as the Home Fleet, and later Wingfok Street. The first necused
streets. He was showing his foot
"There is an almost universal be- the Grand Ffect, were to be poitreitenrried on business as the proprie sympathy. In my opinion he was
to the public to arouse their The Nye affair thus brought back lief. on the part of foreigners in ail the new dreadnought battleships or of the Tin Sang Tong rm suffering from cancer, as half of happenings subsequent to Mrs. Me extraterritoriality will be complete. into the limelight had to do with Shanghai," said Mr. Moser, that then on the stocks; the battle and the second defendant was his
his foot was decayed, What was Cormick's primary campaign lastly abolished within cruisers, and most of the light FOU, The other two were fukia. left of it was a most revolting April, in which she spent G.8239,000 crainers and destroyers. It was the The shop dealt in Chinese me spectacle, nothing but raw Hesh and by her own admission to which an- British answer to the creation ar djeine, and evidence would be pro- the white bones showing through other C.867,000 was, subsequently the German High Seas Fleet, and diced before the Court to
Cannot something be done to pre-added as having been spent in her the new building programme autho that after going into occupation, vent the like of this in the public behalf.
the proprietor had carried out thoroughfares? I think it is time ertwin structural alterations on attention was drawn to someone to the premises. The stairense was try and have it stopped.-Yours,mittee headed by Mr. Gerald P. Nye," formerly in the rar part of the etc., premise instead of at the front,
of North Dakota bogan a thorough- AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS.going probe which included break-need not expect to see a large Mr. Moser added that Americana as was now the case. After having
HONG KONG, November 2 taken the premises, some of the
ing open Mrs. McCormick's private volume of trade developing in China tiles of the first floor had been re-
office, raiding her private files, in the near future, for the reason moved and the wooden parts ex-
"planting" detectives in roots where political conferences were in progress and "tapping" her tele
rised at Berlin.
show
An Tatiring Organiser. Sir William May was chosen for the supreme command. Though he had not had very extensive experi- enco as Ang officer aflons, his work at the Admiralty had proved him to be an untiring organiser af nausual ability. He had, moreover.posed. the scientific mind, and to him
All this, suggested Mr. Fitzroy, oficiency caine before tradition. It was part and parcel of the pre those days the senior officers had paration to burn the all received their early training in down. There was a big store TODI the navy of masts and yards, and which made a regular funnel. This had then passed through the period was called "the odds and enda when paintwork was of more im- room.” A certain amount of the portance than gunnery. But Sir stuff in stock was contained in & William May knew the quality of variety of pots, with their names the splendid young navy across the attached. North Sea, where the methods of Nelson'a day, were not preferred to the innovations of modern science.
Preparedness.
Insured for $20,000.
premises
would be called to say that he was known as the master and owner of the shop.
Proceeding, M. Fitzroy said that when the trail was laid it must. have been done quite late, because
Tin of Gaolene.
Suspecting the circumstances of such large outlay, a Senate comi
phone wirea
Attempt to Bribe Detective. 3rA McCormick retaliated by hiring operatives of the W. C. Dan- enberg Detective Agency in Chi ago to trail Senator Nye and his investigators. It is known that she paid G.81,500 as a retainer in this
epnection. There was much subse
tertain witnesses who were work- ing on the ground flour would say that the things later found there had not been on the floor when they left at 6 pm. The carpen tera on the ground floor would also say that packages had been deliver.quent excitement including charges ed at the shop on the Saturday
that Senator Nye's detectives had Attempts were then made to inufternoon of the fire.
tried to bribe Mrs. McCormick's sure the business. The Crown had
detectives. traces of two attempts, both for
Former Soutor James Hamilton From Sir William's flagship, the fairly big suns but both were un-
Twe bins, one full of gasolene Lewis. Mr. McCormick's Demo- famous Dreadnought, the Home successful, At last an insuraneo and the other of kerosene,
policy for the sum of $20,000 ontaining five American gallons or election, announced to-day that his con-cratie opponent in the forthcoming Fleet was prepared for war al a moment's notice. Life in the ships
the General Accident, Fire and our Imperial gallous, had
been election expenses have amounted to Life Insurance was secured cover-purchased and carried to the Poa total of $14,000. The election becaine n'steady round of tactical exercises, evolutions, gunnery and the furniture, fittings andai Shop, which the first defendant expenses of both candidates were of torpedo practice, by night as well clothing.
had taken over four days before surprising small amounts in com- as by day. The gunnery staffs had
When everything was rendy, is had been taken there and one
the attempt had been made. The parison with the admitted expendi- to hit their targeta as never before, there seemed to have been a hole them wrapped in paper was
14 of Mrs. McCormick in the every torpedo must be in running made in the floor of "the odds and later removed by the third defen-primary order coaling must be done at top enda roon" which was filled with daut. He was not sean to take it speed, and, above all, ships had bales of palm leaves, shavings and employco had seen him taken it to any particular place, but an to be handled with mathematica! other highly inflammable material. away. precision: Not only Captains, but On the top floor there was a ham. Commanders had to learn how to mer and capthalene alIS which
An extraordinary fact was that the total amount retrieved by the police was four galious, and the
leaves which had been found on the
con their abips without hesitation or had been amushed. Pole of gasoCrown's explanation was that that error through intricate manœuvres, fene were strewed about in various was where the tin had been taken. Though no profound tactician, and parts of the premises. On the Pointing to the packages of plan sometimes worsted at these exerground floor big bundies of palm cises by younger officers, Sir. leaves had been brought in ni somo William was a supreme drill-master time or other and had been sente of the fleet. How often at the comtered about in heaps in various pletion of an order at sea the plays in pots containing a certain Inconic signal: "Negative, evolu- amount of gasolene. tion well executed," would flutter from the Bagabip, and all would be done over again!
For
premises where the attempt was bo ing made, Mr. Fitzroy said that they bore the name of the Po Tri firm, where they had obviously been same people were carrying on the taken. That would show that the.
two businessCI.
GERMAN WANTED" IN CANTON.
HONG KONG AUTHORITIES NOTIFIED.
five
years
through sheer force of Chinese
CHUTO,...
"The only possible exception is the area including Shanghai and extending toward the sea, includ- ing the mouths of the Yangtson, but many believe it will disapplar there
that "with the cessation of civil wars and the restoration of any thing liko peaceful conditions, it will be surprising to see China's production of cotton, and growth E corton, mills, develop faster than anywhere else in the world."
Local industry will thus, so far the cotton trade is concerned at any rate, keep ahead of the Chiness demand, în Mr. Moser's opinion.
MRS. VICTOR BRUCE.
MAY ARRIVE HERE TO-DAY.
that they have received a Petroleum Co. (South China), Ltd., Wo are informed by the Asiatic
cable stating that the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce left Bangkok at daybreak on Saturday morning for Hanoi. As
from the Indo-China port to Hong it is only a few houre' serial hop
Kong, it may, therefore, bo possible that she will and in Hong Kong sometime this 'afternoon.
CHEERO CLUB DANCE.
FUNCTION LARGELY ATTENDED.
The Ladies Committee of the Cheero Club (Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.) are aiming at the organ- ization of monthly dances for ser vice men, The first of the series was held at the City Hall last night, when many couples enjoyed dancing to the strains of the Cheero" orchestra, considerably
According to the Canton verunen- lar Press, the Bureau of Public Safety has issued an order for the arrest of a German who is alleged to have absconded with over 8800. He had been a muchanie in the Festoon of Shavings.
The evidence against the fourth
Medical Departinent of the Sun Yat defondant, beyond the fact that he Sen University, and was sent to The trail went rount two beds was present, did not seem to be and ended up underneath one of very strong to show that he had Hong Kong last Saturday to pur augmented, under the leadership Trial and Error,
them. It was then carried up a Mr. Fitzroy thought that as the
taken any part in the attempt. thaw chinery, but did not ro- of Mr. G. W. E. Truc. William's ladder which was festooned with evidence developed perhaps the case
turn to Canton.
Daniing commenced at 8 p.m., by years Sir
The authorities requested the crowded, and as the evening pro finger was on everything, from shavings all ready to carry the fire against him would not be support-
which time St. George's Hall was gunnery drill for boys to the orp, through the bole in the roomed, but he had enough evidenco Geraion Consul at Shamech to gressed and with the arrival of ganising of squadron battle prac. to the highly inflammable stuff, him to continue the case investigate the matter, and it was many more couples the hall was fico. A magnificent right it was to Once alight there would be a mass watch three or four great ships of flames in a few iniutos steam past their targets, pouring Mr. Fitzroy mentioned that the out a briel and rapid bombardment, stock had been examined 'and, the, the results of every shot being sub- total amount of ginseng was worth
Flames Sean. soquently analyzed, and any cause about $3,500. Hod-it boon of the of error traced to source.
sery finest quality the value might started, but of course there were The fire appeared to have been The First Battle Squadron at first have run into thousands and thou no witnesses who had seen it start- consisted of three dreadnoughts sands of dollars. There was also. A flame was seen and some- (Dreadnought, Bellerophon and a certain amount of clothing worthy bad blown a police whistle. Temeraire), two of the Lord Nelson less than 8100.
on to Bay
on the promised found that the man had formerly thronged with diucers. A specist
at this stage. dant had been on the premises, aud'
was an employee of the firm, and committed a similar offence in have knowledge of something that descent. The Bureau has notified all the people there appeared to Malayn and was originally of Polish was going on.
the authorities in Hong Kong. Shanghai, etc.
CHINESE SMUGGLED BY AEROPLANE.
CHARGE.
It was not known whether the per- son engaked to blow a whistle had eless, two pro-dreadnoughts and a Mr. Fitzroy went
dono bo too early or whether it had LOS ANGELES, AIRMEN ADMIT battle-cruiser. Steadily the new that it was a well-jaid plan to do
been an outsider who had given the alarmi EN giants were delivered from the the insurance Company out of tha
Fortunately a policeman saw the hipyards till the squadron was money irrespective of the damage flames and opened the door of the himogenờu and the First Battle that might have accrued to sur-thop. There was in such a stage Cruiser Squadron was also in being, rounding property.
that a blanket thrown over it 8000 smothered it,
It was a gruelling time, but the The difficulty, continued Mr. quiet, unasadnung man on board the Fitzroy, was that the inan who had Dreadnought went his own way, and got the insurance was not in the
the fruit of his work was the iron Colony, being in Canton, and who Kaip of the British Navy, which in ther he could identify any of the the end brought down German Im defendants or not the Crown could perialiani. Sir William May's name not way. It was not known when was never prominently before the lie could be got down from Canton, public, for the serious historian There was evidenes that the first de
Onant A tong the Fedaye the man white record of the British Navy in con- the inaster, and other witnesses sidered worthy of study.
(Continued on text Column:)
was set aside as a tea room and room adjoining the dance hall
g the evening. The dance was a proved a great boon to many dur
Ladies' Committee of the Checro Accesa in every
way, and the
Club need have no doubt nn to the success of their next dance.
FINES FOR "BUCKET SHOP DEALS.
!!
CANADIAN COUNT INFLICTS BIG IMPOSITIONS.
GNITED PRESS]
.3200,000 was imposed to-day he Toronto, Oct. 29-A Ane of
a Toronto count upon, Mr. 1. W. C.
POWELL'S
10, Ice House Street,
Are now showing a smart selection of the newest
PULLOVERS, SWEATERS
and WAISTCOATS
Made by the leading English and Scottish Manufacturers-including Jaeger. etc.
or
There are many Smart Designs and Colourings. Pullovers-with without Sleeves, also open or closed Neck, from $10.75 to $29.50..
WHITE SWEATERS
in Coat Style, Polo Collar, Stand Collar, also Open Neck, from $8.50 to $22.50.
We have made an especial large purchase of" White Cable Stitched Sweaters--which enables us to offer same at last Season's Price.
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OF
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AT
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WE ARE NOW SHOWING OUR NEW STOCK
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IN
PARTICULARLY ATTRACTIVE DESIGNS AND COLOURINGS
FOR
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WE HAVE ALL SIZES
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Los Angeles, Oct. 29-Harold Welch and Jack Williams, aviators, pleaded guilty here today to In the course of the evidence of charges that they had smuggled the prosecution, the landlord af 77, Chinese over the United States Wing Lok Street was called. He harder from Mexico in their acro stated that be rented the house out
Mills, was fined 130,000, paid three months rent in advance at 8980 a month.
plane. The tenants
The two men were recently on Federal authorities ecently ar-victed on a charge of conducting a had he consequently never
went rested them after their "ship "bucket shop," in connection with near the premises. The various had landed near Hollywood. It was
their brokerage house which is well out by Mfr. Fitzroy to witness, who believed that several Chines mony showed that no stocks were structural alterations were pointed
known in Toronto Court testi stated that the alterations were escaped.
sally.kondied anil the nised was Olin Leing i San Frucisco carried out withiant his authority. After further evidence, the hear
Chinese, awaits trial as an accom market, Nelson
„according to movements of the ng was adjourned until today. plice in the smuggling,
Both fines were paid.
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