HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS
CABLES
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1939. —PAGE 9
Briton's Death
Follows Brutal
Attack By Japanese Bluejackets
At Pootung
THETIS BUILDERS
GIVE £5,000
LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)
Armed Sentries Guard Doorless Cammel Laird and
While Emergency Operation Is Performed On Mr. Tinkler
RIFLEBUTT WOUND ON HEAD: THREE STABS IN ABDOMEN
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SHANGHAI, June 7 (Reuter)-Mr. R. M. Tinkler, employed by the British-owned company, the China Printing and Finish- Ing Company, who was wounded during a clash with JapaLOESG bluejackets at Pootung in the company's mill premises where he was trying to settle a fracas among his mill workers, died at the General Hospital in the Japanese-occupied Hongkew district of the International Settlement at 4.50 a.m. this morning, following an emergency operation which had to be carried out late last night after he had been brought across the river to Shanghai. “
It is understood that the British authorities are shortly protesting.
to the Japanese in connexion with Mr. Tinkler's "death.
The final form or the
protest
probably will not be decided until;
after the inquest.
Company, Unfiders of the `i fated submarine Thatts, are giving £5.000 to the Lord Mayor's Thetis Fund."
KENYA'S WAR
PLANS
NAIROBI, June 7 (Renter)-—-—-—-- The Governor informed the Legislative Assemby yeater-
day of Kenya's war plana,
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WELDER'S ASSISTANT CHARGED
ALLEGED SHOT AT DUCHESS OF KENT'S CAR
"I Didn't Hit Anybody, Did I?”
LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)—A siwn-off shot-run, about twelve Inches long, was showa to the Westminster Magistrate, when the man who was alleged to have fired a pistol at the car as, the Duchess of Kont drove from her home on ber way to a cinema, was' charged. He said that a General Officer The man. Ledwedge Vincent Commanding would be appointed Lawlor, 45, a welders assistant in the event of the outbreak of living in Walworth, was charged hostilities:
with having in his possession, at The plans provided for legis Belgrave Square, i arearm and lation against profiteering) com-ammunition with intent to en- pensation for civilian victims and danger life, or cause serious injury the prevention of foreclosure."
property. He added that two-thirds of
HIT BY STRAY foreign inhabitants would be en-
BULLET
Escorted by a British official Internment Camp
the Japanese authorities brought} Mr. Tinkler across the river at 11; p.m. last night and rushed him, in a waiting ambulance. to the
General Hospital in the Japanese- occupied Hongkew district of the International Settlement.
Emergency Operation
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Escape Sequel
WOMAN'S DEATH
rolled in the local militia.
SPECIAL MEDAL FOR PALESTINE
'LONDON, June 7* (Reuter)——Mr. Leslie Hore Bellsha, Minister for War, stated in the House of Com- mons yesterday, that he hoped ́`s, decision would be taken · shortly An inquiry was held at the Kowloon Court yesterday into on the question of issuing a the special medal for Palestine opera-
tions.
surrounding
Two German and two Japanese circumstances naval surgeons helped by two death of a 22-year-old woman,
an
· French Franciscan Sisters, began Liu Yin, hit by a stray ballet at emergency operation which the corner of Kwong Sal. Street was still in progress at 12.25 a.m.
Three armed Japanese sex- tries were posted outside the door of the operating room.
It transpires that Mr. Tinkler was not shot, but that he was suffering from a head wound caused by a riflebutt, three stabs in the abdomen and an injury to his foot.
SERIOUS VIEW
and Tam Kung Road, Matauchung, NEW FEATURE on February 7, and who succumb- . ed to the wound at the Kowloos Hospital on May 4 after sepais and toxemia had set in due to it being impossible to extract the bullet.
A verdict was returned of acet- dental death.' Mr. E. Kimsworth "sat as Coroner, and he was assist-
ed by a jury comprising Messts. R. Kirkwood (foreman), S. D'Azis.
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Chilsed and Caught
A Police Officer stated that he heard the shot as the Duchess drove away and Lawlor, who was cycling away towards Victoria, was chased by car and caught,
It was alleged that Lawjor said:
"I didn't hit anybody. dld I?".
When he produced the pistol. the officer stized it and Lawlor remarked: "There's no need
for all this fuss." Lawler was remanded in custódy for a week.
HONGKONG PERSONALITY INTRODUCED
ALL
SHOPS
STOCK
ALLSOPP'S
SOLE AGENTS:
GALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
S'HAI EXCHANGE CONFUSION
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Continged from Pate 1 *
airounts to dnance trade and in- dustry In Central China; also the Bushsing Commercial, Banx thiya- tened to appear in the Shanghal open money market as a wholesale buyer of exchange against National currency obtained from circulation of "Hongkong money."
Thirdly, the conviction that the ruling rates of the exchange, were MR. J. W. M. BROWN no longer in sympathy with the currency exchange situation and the market must be permitted to establish a new lower rate at which the Fund would resume its inter- vention.
Stop and think a moment what must be, the thrill, excita="/ ment and interest, when-you- have the complete world at your finger-tips...
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Right in our midst there is such a fortunate person, Mr. J. W. M. Brown. This small, quiet and sincere person is a Senior Revenue Officer in the British Government. However, when day L. is done he retires to his "home-made” radio itude and talks 2 with Buenos Aires maybe, or Daventry, San Francisco or what- ever friend on the air he wishes, to call, y
LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)-The and A. F. de Souza. British Government take an ex-
It is believed the deceased was tremely serious view of the "Tinkler hit by a bullet fred by Lance- incident. It is pointed out in Bergeant Rogers of the Police,
Indian London that the Japanese vir-who with two
constables tually control the mil area and was pursuing three men who were "for sometime there have been dis- fleeing from the scene of an as-
turbances among workers,
Bault in the vicinity of the In- There is little pertaining to phone and Morse Code is used on Following British protests
ternment Camp.
radio and its weird workings that this set which can pick up prac. armed British naval guard has
Lance-Sergeant Rogers fired two the shy gentleman from Edin tically any station broadcasting mounted over the mill but was rounds at the men in an endea-burgh does not know. Long hours it matters not where the location. withdrawn after a few days on avour to prevent their escape, of study, research and experiments! written assurance, from the Ja-being deemed dificult to catch up have given him this acute know- panese that British lives and pro- with the men who, had a good (ledge.
an
start and one of whom carried an axe.
perty would be protected.
Only yesterday the British Am- bassador to Tokyo raised the mat-
TWO MEN CÀUGHT ter with the Ministry of Foreign
Two of the men, of a gang of Affairs drawing attention to the several who had assaulted activities of certain Japanese in matshed-builder, Au K1, were fomenting strikes and the abcaught. The wounded woman and sence of steps by the Japanese to Au were taken to the Kowloom
preserve law and order.
MORE BAGGAGE
RACKET
Kowloon Wharf Argument
Two weeks ago the "Hong- kong Daily Press" revealed the existence of a “baggage racket" being conducted at the Kow- loon shipping plers and the train station.
Hospital, where the woman died nearly three months later. from blood-poisoning caused by the bullet which could not be removed. The two Indian constables. Rájal Khan and Meher Singh,
evidence that it gave
was only possible to prevent the fugitives' escape by firing at them.
The foreman of the jury, "Mr. Kirkwood, questioned the medical evidence regarding the length of time the woman had spent in hospital-Feb. 7 to May 4-before. she succumbed to the wound.
Dr. C. C. Petrovsky, who, con- ducted the post-mortem, stated that the bullet had been lodged in such a way it was not possible to find it although two X-ray
Yesterday morning another in-examinations were held. cident relative
.to
this racket occurred when a Chinese gentle-
man passenger from the P. and DEFRAUDING AND
O. steamer Rawalpinui secame in- volved with the Independent bag- gage coolie,
THEFT ALLEGED
Fin
EXCITING THRILL When Mr. Brown was home in England on leave in 1991 be re- The World War was Mr. Brown's ceived a queer and exciting thrill initiation into the "ether waves." when, standing near the radio Serving throughout the war as set belonging to friend, he radio operator at sea, be found heard a report from this part of himself in Kongkong, in 1919 at the world Inforining the receiver tached to HMS. Fame..
that a "Mr. Brown, a popular in- China appealed to him, there-tematiorial radio amateur, was fore, he joined the Chinese Mart-then in England on vacation, and
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"Amateur "radio-operator Brown's station VS6AB. in his hotne in Kowloon..."
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COUNTY CRICKET Further Bomb
LUNCH SCORES "LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)---- Lunch scores in County cricket matches are as follows:
Explosions
Near Telaviv
Adding that there Maka be no doubt that the Fund will resume operation, the "Evening Post and Mercury" states; The Chinese National Government is not going to let Shanghai down -entirely ini
Cambridge 93 for 2 v. Army; the matter of exchange."
Derby 119 for 3 v. Worcester; The paper concludes that the Northants 86 for 6 v. West Indies; moment has been reached when Notts v. Esser 125 for 3; Oxford 119 China's currency policy will be put for 3 v. Minor Counties; Somerset Further on a new and probably somewhat 99 for 3 v Middlesex; Sussex v. occurred in Tel-aviv. A track was different basis.
Warwickshire 115 for 4; Yorkshire dáminged when two bombs ex-
Leicestershire 112 for 2.
ploded near the Tel-Aviv railway station.
"Chinese currency, however, ap- pears far from doomed and is, 'in the not distant future, likely to have found again a steady level here," the paper concludes.
ROYAL PLATE-
·RESULTS
JERUSALEM, June 7. (Reuter)... bomb explosions have
One Arab was killed and three Jews wounded when stacks were made on them to-day.
* NO INFORMATION
LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)-The
Men of the Leicester Regiment LONDON, June 7 (Reuter)-Far result of the Royal Plate run to inflicted heavy casualties on an Eastern bankers laterviewed by day was as follows:-1 Llandaff Arab gang near Tulkaram. The Reuter had no information, to ex-119 to 437 2; Port Royal (100 to 3): gang is believed to be the mme. plain the drop in the Chinese 3, Snowy Owl. (100 to 6). Seven which attacked and - killed · four dollar, are of the opinion may be starters. Won by tour lerigths the policemen recently. that it intended to even the same distance separating second In south Fablas, another gang balance between exports and“ im- Jáng third,
for Arabs was dispersed.
ports.
It is also ruggested that Chinese control considers the pre- vidus rate too high, and desires the dellar to find its own level at a lower value. It may also be in- tended to undercut the Japanese- sponsored Huansing Bark's at- tempts to collar export billa. «^
One widely held view is that Chinese control deliberately drop- ped the rate with a view to squeez ing out speculators.
It is pointed out that this manoeuvre, though never publicly acknowledged, is not infrequently practised by control banks" gener- ally,
At the continued hearing before time Customs and spent over a It would be to the receiver'a 86- LANTAO HANDICAP Mr. R. Edwards at the Central year in and about Canton.
URGE RETURNED Radio work at this time
Fourteen
himself
vantage to meet him at such and such an address."
went
The usual custom among
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years ago "Jack"
STRICT LAWS
SPECIAL SWEEP
Over 130,000 · tickets have been
finances to the pursuit of the universe's ether lanes.
Small Deposit $2.78'
The passenger, with three, hags Court yesterday of the case in in his cabin and two peces of which Leung Kang-wu, 32, and luggage in the steamer's baggage Wan Kin, 48, were charged with room, employed one of the licensed | conspiracy to defrand three women, Py the boards" so to spear, he amateurs is the exchange of ac- sold in the special dollar" "sweep transfer representative of the
Kwok Ngan-ying, Kwok Tuk-chan put it out of his mind until 1924, knowledgment cards testifying to being conducted by the Hongkops the transportation of his luggage. drawnwork articles to the total established "China Travel Service." to handle and Lam Ngan, and larceny of this time Mr. Brown had the time and place where the Jockey Club on the Lantao Handl in service two operators first communicated cap, which will be run off on The three pieces of bag- value of $2,418, Kwok Ngan Yin for the British Government and with each other. Mr. Brown has Baturday, it was ascertained yes- tage were taken to the pier and Kwok Yuk-chan gave evi- made his home in the Colony, so many of these he has lost terday. and during the time the bage dence.
The old interest and urge of radio count, a trunk, and more, are full "gage representative was secur-
Chan Ping-kee, broker, stated returned and he commenced again of these interesting and valuable ing the release of the luggage la
that he knew first defendant. He with his hobby. the steamer a coolie came
first met Leung at the Tat Hing down the pier and picked up Co., Connaught Road Central. He Brown was responsible for the The British Amateur licence Maybe, someday our Mr. Brown the three bags of the traveller. was with second defendant, Wan dat local broadcasts from his laws are very strict, consequently, will take time to write a book Upon the arrival of the "China Leung asked him to introduce him own transmitter, having a ten there are times when Mr. Brown | explaining much of his knowledge travel Service" representative: a to buy some drawnwork goods, and watt output Records, remarks is apt to pick spots of news of and incidents connected with his loud and almost violent argument promised Chan 2 per cent. com- and various phases of local talent various countries, but this cannot, hobby; it would” certainly maks was in progress between the coolle m'asion of the transaction. Chan were put on the ether through be aled. Yet such information interesting reading" and the passenger in which the then introduced the complainants, the work, and, abilities of Mr. tar
any newspaper or he is a thorough "Senior Revenus travel service agent, also took part who delivered the goods to Tai Brown.
omicar the British
· Coolles and members of the Hing on April 12.
In 1927, he secured his "amateur general public gatherd and were After cross-examination by Mr. licence", and started to build the soum" Jained by a Chinese police. 3. M2 d'Almada Remedios, the powerful radio station man who dispersed the mot, and bearing was adjourned to May 13, which to-day is known in rupeimánded the coolle.
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