lamy was struck in the back of
Shanghai. June 30. A police board of inquiry was yesterday considering the trouble which occurred between Settle ment Police. Japanese sailors and mobs in Hongkew late on Wed-
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Round the Courts, a resume of the casex taken in the local Courts yesterday is given on " Page 6
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Miss R. L. Gatierrez late of "The Birdcage" left local estate. of Page 6 $11,000.
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pistol and hit one sallor in the face with It. The other gallor at once ran to the landing Party Post near Haining Road, whence a pa- trol was sent to the scene and the patrol took the supposedly in-nesday night and early on Thurs-
day morning. Jured sailor, Bellamy, and the two
In addition to the police inquiry Chinese constables to the post, a
a general investigation is planned In view of the proportions of the crowd following.
Bellamy understood to have affair and the questions of author denied he drew his pistol and theity and discipline involved.
The Japanese naval authorities Japanese authorities do not insist he struck the sallor, although meanwhile are awaiting the find-
The swimming gala to be held. they are convinced he drew the Ings of the board of inquiry. They
maintain that Sergeant Bellamy on Saturday at the V. R. C. pro- gun.
mises to be a big attraction. the head or hit the saller on
Page 10 shoulders and that policeman drew his pistol; they assert they can prove these points.They further state that the sergeant, was kept at the Landing Party Post in or- der that naval officers might get to the bottom of the affair then and there.
At the patrol post Bellamy was closely questioned by the officer in charge and subsequently by a stad officer of the Landing Party, while outside the crowd was swelled by cinema-goers returning from the Japanese Towa Theatre and three other cinemas in the neighbour- hood. It was said that Ballamy was not allowed to telephone from the post.
Quiet was reported throughout Hongkew last night
LOCAL AND GENERAL
One case of enteric "fever was! The Canadian Pacific Hiner Ex- reported for the 24 hours ended on press of Russia is due here from
Shanghai at 3 pm. to-day.
The Philharmonic Society ah- | July 2 nounces a meeting of the members
A whist drive will be held on and others interested in the in-
01 Friday, tended production of the concertboard H.M.S. Tamar version of "Merrie England" to be commencing at 8.45 p.m. held at St. John's Cathedral Hali on Monday, July 9, at 5.30 p.m.
The Japanese gunboat Saga ar- rived here yesterday and will sali The meeting at which Mr. An-
for the West River on Saturday. derson Miller, the Honorary Con- ductor, will be present, will be no: The Japanese destroyer Tachikaze, so much a rehearsal as an oppor- which arrived in Hong Kong last tunity for taking stock of the vo-week, sails for the North to-day. Part of the indecision which cal talent available in the Colony,
and seems to reign may be due to the
discussion of future for a development of communications. plans in regard to practices, etc. THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN In the past British officials were
HONG KONG. JULY 4, 1934, -
SAFETY. FIRST!
Making Sure That Right Fee Is Paid
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The French sloop Savorgnän de Brazza arrives in Hong Kong from Bwatow, to-day and will remain in port until Tuesday next.
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Latest Wimbledon tennis Home Cricket results appear
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CHINESE GIRL DIES IN FIRE
Two Injured On Jumping To Safety
Shanghai, June 28. Trapped in a blazing room early yesterday morning ten-year-old Wong Keng-dee was burnt to death, her father, Wong Tau-tsal, not being able to get into her room because of the flames. Two other occupants of the house suffered. slight injuries in jumping, to safe- ty
HMS. Berwick is due to arrive
The fire took place at 48 Joffre from Welhafwel at 7 o'clock this morning, and will proceed to Terrace 263.30 am." and apparent Singapore and the United King-ly broke out in the first floor back room, over the kitchen, in which Wong Keng-dee was sleeping. Captain. Shosuke Shimomura, at- Wong managed to help his wife- The many friends of Mr. Wynne- Jones, Kowloon Magistrate will tached to the Japanese Naval and young son to safety, but could, regret to learn that he is at pre- General Staff, left Tokyo for Lon- not get to his daughter, who was sent a patient of the Kowloon don on 28th ult., via the United heard once to cry for help. Mr. Hospital. His place on the Bench Etates in the N.YK. mv. Tatsuta Wong Tau-tsal. sometimes known
Captain
is as Mr. K. L. Vaughan, is a build- Shimontra was yesterday taken by Mr. J. H. Maru. B. Lee,
proceeding to Europe on generaling contractor. orders and it is understood he will A woman and a twelve-year- The two privates of the South play a prominent part on "the staff old girl, who were sleeping in a Wales Borderers, Wifred George of the Japanese delegation to the room on the second floor, jumped Starmore and George Walker, who preliminary naval
from a drying stage, as the stair-
They es were reported to the Police
case had caught fire. discussions now under way in Lon- Enquiries made at Police Head-
caped with injuries, which did not quarters yesterday. eltelted the missing from Barracks since Fri-don.
cause them to be detained in hoë-1} news that the ubject of the new day, reported at Kowloon City order requiring motor-car owners Police Station yesterday morning.
Two young well-dressed and a-pital.
temple racketeers
Fire damage, to the house was the They stated that they had been tractive certificates 01 furnish weight of their vehicles on re-hiding in the hills and had lost making both the righteous and un-practically confined to the room in righteous of Harbin quake in their which the girl died; and to the Hcensing is to guarantee the pay their way.
shoes, says a report from Shang- staircase, other portions suffering hat. Their method of extortion is from water damage only. most original. The system is for one of these "ladies" to approach
$18
disarmament
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compelled to act upon their own Initiative. In these days of rapid Shanghai has suffered recently telegraphs perhaps, the home gov- the from two incidents in which British ernment does not realise
situation as it is. Hence the subjects have been manhandled by nobs of Japanese hooligans. These officials out in the East do not Incidents in Shanghai are to be have the free hand which is essen- that un-tial to rapid decisions, Whatever attributed directly to fortunate day when Japanese may be the cases,which lead to troops making use of the Honkew a policy of drifting, in, this case settlement as a base, attacked the of the Shanghai Settlement and Chinese
The whole the maintenance of order therein, in Chapel action of the Japanese was init is sincerely to be hoped that excusable, as the Lytton report steps will be taken to ensure that clearly declared. The destruction the prestige of the flag will in no
Gold mining in the Soviet Union of Chapel, with all the loss of way be stained. Every act that
It was pointed out that the in- private property, and the killing of tends to lower this prestige might formation given by manufacturers is becoming a highly developed While mechanized gold women and children by Japanese have a bad effect on British trade, of cars in many cases under-states industry. aeroplanes,
is" a terrible con- such things do lower Britain in
the actual weights, with the re-routput in Tzarist Russia in 1913 demnation of the state of Japanese the estimation of the Chinese.
sult that in some cases the appro- amounted to barely 20 per cent. voice demand $10. otherwise she her friend, and that he should be civilisation. An army by force of We sincerely hope that the prlate licence fees have not been of the total, now 70 per cent, of threatens to create á public scan-tarred and feathered and chased. the total output come from the dal then and there. As soon as through the streets. This haran- circumstances may be led to cause Japanese forces in Shanghai will paid.
fields. Soviet the Ice is broken, the second gue generally clinches, the bargain As the result of the new require- mechanised gold death to women and children be asked to give. an explanation of
new "lady" Joins the party, and her If 810 is not forthcoming they will convincing. She accept $5 after receipt of which accidentally. The deliberate action their attitude, and of their future ment, calling for certificates of geologists have discovered of the Japanese armed forces was attitude, and that such explana-weight, the police state that al-rich gold deposits in Aldan, Balel tirade is most
Northern Caucasus, loudly asserts that she knows the they leave the flabbergasted male abhorrent and repugnant to all tions will be published for all, to ready the revenue secured from Barassun,
an increase of Kazakstan, and the Altai moun- victim, by now bewildered, that he to search for another source of decent minded people. That the read, and not merely kept in the licences show's
!tains.
is a Don Juan, that he has ruined income." Japanese
something like 87,000. should take action dossiers of the chancellories.
ment of the correct licence fees.
a man of ripe years, and in a firm