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"POSSESSED OF THE DEVIL"
Alleged Remark By Stockbroker
A stockbroker, who was al- leged to have remarked "I have been possessed, of the devil" when questioned regarding share transactions, was com mitted for trial on a charge of fraudulent conversion; when he appeared before Ald. Sir W. Coxen at the Guildhall recent- ly.
He Is James Monteith Erskine, 31, of Hillside-road. Ewell, Surrey. His ball' of £1.000 and a surety of £1,000 was continued,
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GENERAL
Flashes From Szechuen
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
CHUNGKING RED CROSS
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General Hot Kuo-kwang. Chair- man of the Committee, which is seeking to raise $25.000 for the Chungking Chapter of the Inter- national Red Cross Society; has announced that the membership campaign will be further extended. About $15,000 has been collected.
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MADAME SUN
IN CANTON
Confers With Geu. Wu Te-chen
(From Our Own Correspondent)-
Canton, Aug. 24. Madame Sun Yat-sen, widow of the founder of the Republic, received high officials and wo¬~ men leaders this morning con- cerning national salvation work which is to be vigorously, pur- sued here.
It is significant that this is the first public activly of Madaine Sun {since the days of the Wuhan Gov-
ernment.
He was accused of fraudulently MINISTER ARRIVES.
Madame Sunconferred with converting
Callever, shares ini
Dr. Wong Wen-hao, Minister of
Wu Te chéo. Mayor Canadian. Marconi . Ltd.
Economics returned to Chungking | Governor Crompton Parkinson, with" which from Hankow. As already report-Tsang Yang-tu and General Eslang General "he had been entrusted, to the use ed. Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Foreign Han-ping, representing of Erskine and Co.. Throgmorton-Minister, is also now in the war- Yu Han-mou. street. He pleaded not guilty and time capital: "so is Dr. T. T. LI, reserved his defence.
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Mr. E. Clayton. prosecuting, sald that the charge related to securi- tles belonging to three clients. Apparently the amount which had been illegally used was £5,000.
The clients, he ́said, were In- troduced by Mr. Bambridge, and Erskine did all he could to keep the use of the securities from his knowledge. A Mr. Mann, who was taking the securities to the bank, polated out to Erskine that he was not entitled to use them in that
way,
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chief of the Department of Intelll- gence and Publicity of the Foreign Ministry.
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CONFERENCE POSTPONED
China to reach Szechuen,
. Canton is the centre of, the national revolutionary move- meat, and Madame Sun en- visages great possibilities of this city pushing forward na- tional salvation work, which is to be intensified in view of the Japanese Inroads into this country.
The Economics Society of China,] a national organisation of scholars} which was to have met at Mount Omel, in South Szechuen, for its
Despite the air raid alarmia yes- annual conference. has decided to terday. Madame Sun visited the postpone the date on account of Monument of the 72 Heroes on the inability of many members at Yellow Flower Hill and the Na- Changsha and other places Intonal Sun Yat-sen University. She will remain in Canton for a day The Agricultural
Society of
or two and will then return to China will hold its annual con- Hong Kong. ference at Chengtu on August 27.
It is probable that public bodies. here may request Madame Sun to remain longer in Canton to direct the masses in their work of saving the country and to revive the re- volutionary spirit of 1926.
NANKING WAN PAO
Erskine replied. "I do not mind what I do now. I shall probably! get seven years. It may give me a chance to study human nature, for I do not seem to have learned the oldest evening newspapers in the Chinese capital, is now being published in Chungking.
much so far.”
The Nanking Wan Pao, one of
"SAVE THE FIRM"
The Nanking Wan Pao has the Mr. Clayton said that Mr. Bar- distinction of being the first Chi bridge got to know about is, and nese journal to be registered witri said, "You know it is a criminal the Central Publicity Board of the act." Erskine replied, "Yes, I Kuomintang. It was founded in now. I am sorry it is happening. May. 1929. You have always been decent to There are me, but i thought if we were doing irregularities we might as well do shem пож and save the firm." Later he said, "I have been pos- sessed of the devil,".
now half a dozen tabolids in the wartime capital.
HISTORY OF WAR
Under the editorial supervision for the Department of History of Det-Inspr. Protheroe said that the College of Arts and Letters of when arrested Erskine said, "What the University of Nanking. now re-
PINE TREES AND
TRESPASSING.
Charged with possession of ten pine trees, valued at $90, and with trespassing on Government pro- perty: Chan Yuk-ying, widow, was yesterday Aned $180, in default three months' hard labour, wher she appeared before Mr. Barnett at the Kowloon Court.
Charged with similar offence,
I did was with only one motive to moved to Chengtu, Szechuen, another woman. Li Tal. was fined save dozens of small ellents, who history of the Sino-Japanese $130, ta default, three months hard had invested thets all from being struggle is being compiled overwhelmed by the slump.
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CROWN WINS IN SUCCESSION "DUTY CLAIM
Lord Wolverton's-
Gift To Son
A claim by the Crown for Succession Duty on £50,000 paid by Frederic the fourth Lord Wolverton, to his son, the Hon. George Edward Dudley Carr Glyn," succeeded in the King's Bench Division recently. In his reserved. Judgment Mr. Justice Lawrence directed that the amount of duty should be assessed, and that the Crown' should have the costs of the claim.
Lord Wolverton and his son are now dead, and the respondents were Glyn, Mis and Co.." the Lombard-street bankers, who are trustees under a family settlement: of 1833.
AIR DEFENCE BONDS
The Szechen Provincial Gov- ernment has decided to issue $4,000. 000 worth of bonds to cover the necessary air defence works, In- stead of $3,000,000 as first proposed.
NEW ENTERPRISES
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Sentences of one month's imi prisonment were imposed on the two defendants on the charge of trespassing at No. SB Government Plantation.
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Ma Yuet was committed to stand trial at the Criminal Sessions by Mr. Edwards at the Central Court yesterday on a charge of possession of 20,000 Heroin pills on August 4.
Defendant was arrested on the to a house in stairway leading
Lockhart Road.
Two companies are being or- ganised with head offices in Chung- Two boilermakers, Wong Chiu king. each calling for a capital of and Wong Ching, were ordered to $200,000. Orie is the. Fu Hsing sign a personal bond of, $25 each Flour Mill, application for regls to be of good behaviour for one tration of which has been approved year, when they appeared before by the Department of Reconstruc- Mr. Butters at the Central Court Stephens was in charge of the pro- tion of the Szechuan Provincial yesterday.
Government. The other, the Raw Wong Ching, "the complainant. Medicine Trade Company, is now alleged that Hong Chiu had hit in process of incorporation.
him. In the head with a piece of İzon.
CHUNGKING" NOT CAPITAL IN NAME.
(From Our Chungking
Correspondent) •
Mr. Butters found that the as- sault had originated from a fight which both parties were much to blame.
ATTACK ON POLICE GUARD
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Mr. C. Y. Kwan. was for the defence, and Revenue Oficer
secution."
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BURIED FOR ABOUT 100,000,000
YEARS A "LOST CONTINENT”
IS FOUND IN MEXICO
Discovery of a "lost continent" in northern Mexico, has been. America. The area was reported to the Geological Society of burled 100,000,000, years ago beneath the sediments of an ancient sea that divided North and South America.
Evidence of the missing land and sea was uncovered by Dr. Letis B. Kellum. Associate Professor of Geology at the University of Michigan, and Dr. Ralph Imlay of the Univeralty Museum of
With the recent arrival in A street coolle riamed Lam Sing. Chungking of Mr. Wang Ching- 30, appeared before Mr. Edwards Central Court gesterday Unider powers given by the wel, Deputy General Executive at the Wolverton Estate Act, 1921, Lord of the Kuomintang. and other charged with having inflicted griev Palaeontology. A grant by the Society will enable them to com- Wolverton released £50,000 to his ranking officials, it may be said ous bodily harm on Thaker Singh,plete their studies this summer in the Mexican State of Sonora. son. He died in 1932, some, three that Chunging is now no longer a police guard, on board the ss. years after the money had been only a nominal capital pald.
CROWN'S CASE
Haltan.
week WES
A remand of one Besides Mr. Tal Chi-tao and Mr. Chu Ching, presidents of the Ex granted, Bail of $500 was allowed. amization and Judicial Yuans.. who have frequently been In Chungking since January, Dr. H. for Estate Duty on his death, Suc. Kung, President of the execu- cession Duty became payable.
The Crown's case was that, al though that sum was not llable
tive Yuan, and Mr. Yu Yu-jen,
Mr. Justice Lawrence said the president of the Control Yuan. question to be decided was whether have also arrived.
the Wolverton Estate Act prevent-
ed the attraction of Succession
Duty. In his opinion, the original
settlement of 1833. created a "us" REMITTANCES TO
News Briefs
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surface over a
broad area and Its relation to the struc- ture of the enclosing rocks can be seen..
As traced by the geologists, the continent had the shape of a bear's paw pointing east and the from projecting 250 miles
An south border of Texas into "Its projection to the north- ocean..that lay in what is now east beneath overlying strata may Central Mexico.
well lead to disclosure of a reser- different types of voir in areas where source beds Layers of rocks, set like leaves of a closed of petroleum interfinger with or book, each with fossilized mar-overlie, the shore face.
In ore prospecting, knowledge" Ine creatures found during pre-
There were 86 traffic accidentsvious expeditions, gave the mer horizons in which ore deposi
in the Colony during the past their first cines to the discovery, tion commonly occurs may be week: two persons were killed and shoreline in the southern of
| 40 were injured. Those killed
cession" to which Mt. George GI KWANGTUNG NOW were a Chinese man, aged 25. and /section of Coatulla, exposed, blization has been found to be
was successor...
That succession having once been established, no act of the par-
a Chinese woman, aged 22, who CENTRALIZED
succumbed to injuries received Canton, August 23. whilst jumping off a moving bus ties could afterwards get rid of it.
Notices have been sent to and a tramcar."" Succession Duty would have been payable on the baron's death, and Chinese Chambers of Commercs in the family Act of 1921 merely ac- various foreign countries to send Messrs. J. Van Reekum and A. celerated the son's title to the their remittances exclusively to 3. Avramov and Miss G. Kantow elther the Hank of China or the sky left yesterday for Bangkok by money.
Imperial Airways plane. The £50,000 therefore remained Kwingtüng Provincial Bank in the part of the succession and was accordance with the wangtung Daedalus, which also carried 214. Provincial Government's recent 518 kilos of mail and 16.551 kilos order to centralize remittance, or of freight. The Della arrived on the oversea Chinese
Tuesday with one passenger. Mr. Hearing of the case before Mr. The Kwangtung Provincial Lunenburg, 251,454 kilos of mail "Barnett. at the Howloon Court, Bank has worked out a programme and 18.654 kilós of freight. '
against. Elfreda Bouza, "17, charged to prevent control of the mar-
liable to duty.
with having obtained credit by ket by merchants. Since these Five cases of cholera, two cases fraud to the value of $61.70, has measures were adopted, the rate of dysentery and orie case of become very measles were reported "In the been provisionally fixed for the of exchange han afternoon of Thursday, September, steady-
Correspon Colony on Tuesday. The cholera
total is how: 383.
dents.
Own
prime importance., If miner- erosion, gave added information. limited to one or two horizons in "Although these studies have the stratigaphie column, accurate! no direct economie application," mapping of the area, will narrow says Dr. Imlay "they are of. in the belt to be intensely prospect terest to both petroleum and ed."
Dr. Imlay's project is part of a mining geologists. because of their regional scope and bearing programme of geological studies in the nature and reflection in northern Bonora outlined to the overlying strata of a continental Geological Society of Americs in margin, and their possible con- 1934 by Dr. Kellum, who suggest tribution to knowledge of the faced that the work be carried out tors which control ore deposition by geologists from several Ameri-
jean universities. EXPLORATION FOR........
PETROLEUM
"In geologic exploration
for petroleum, the present. trend is toward search for baried aborelines. In south- Goxhulla erosion・・・ has shoreline exposed an: bld This can be examined on "the"
Dr. Kellum and Dr. Inlay were associated in an earlier expedi tion. to southern Coahuila and eastern. Durango, which was MP- ported jointed by the Geologics Society of America and the Uni- verity of Michinig~(Christfam Bcience Monitor).