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Similar action will be taken against anilcensed drivers.
DAUGHTER LOSES *£40,000
FATHER WASN'T
SCOT
A woman lost' '£40,000—-be- cause her father was not a Scotsman,
Mrs. Pamela Woodbury of Dor- set House, Gloucester-place, Lon- "don, daughter of BT George Sutherland, of Cringetie, Peebles- shire, sought to establish that her father was a domiciled Scots man when he died in May, 1937.
Under Scots law she would thus have been entitled to a share of 557 his estate.
(S4.) C. G. PERDUE.
Commissioner of Police.
18th July, 1939.
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THAILAND AND
HER PEOPLE
LITTLE, IF ANY,, comment
V
FOUR JUDGES DECIDE Four judges of the Edinburgh Court of Session, however, ruled sgainst her, and "found in favour of the trustees of the estate, who clamed that Sir George was an Englishman.
Lord Fleming, who gave the leading oplition, said that sir George's father left Scotland in 1858 to go to India and re- turned to London in 1877 a wealthy man.
Bir George." sald his lordship, 'seemed to have conceived the idea that he was a descendant of a family of distinction, but this idea turned out to "be without foundation."
Not only was his business in London. but his private affairs were located there.
Fis holidays in Scotland, though of long duration, were much shorter than
time the to his business in Londer
has been aroused in world Monsignor Mario Zanin, Apos~ political circles over the deci-tolic Delegate to China, is to leave sion recently made by the Kunming for Hongkong in ten people of Siam to change" the days. The Holy See representa- tive arrived in Kunming from Chungking, on Sunday and in an interview declared that he wat
name of their
country to Nevertheless, to the
That.
EDITORIAL
HEROIN CASE AT SESSION
Man's Admission Alleged To Be Misinterpretation
Anglo- Polish Army Talks
WARSAW. July 17 (Reuter) Gen. Sir Edmund Ironside arrived here by
from Gdynia at 5 p.m. for talks with high Polish army officers,
Pills Discovered In Back Room announes the paper "Gazeta
Of Causeway Bay Flat
3.
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That a man's admission of ownership of certain heroin pills found in raid, which prosecuting counsel described "engaging frankness" was really a misinterpretation by a revenue, officer of a denial expressed in Cantonese was the suggestion made by Mr. Percy. Chen, who appeared at the Criminal Sessions yesterday before the Chief Justice, Bir Atholl MacGregor, to de- fend Wong Shum, charged with unlawful possession of dangerous drugs.
Mr. Chen was instructed by Mr. C. A. Sutherton Russ, while Mr. John Whyatt, Grown Counsel, con- Crown. ducted the case for the The jury empanelled was:--MersTs. Kwan Wing-hong (foreman), W. J. Crabbe, Wong Sul-tai, A F. Paul, Kuo Chin-chuen, T. L. Knight and R. E. Hyndman.
Tick, Kwan
"
were
Revenue Officer H. Millington said he conducted a raid on No. 5 Avenue, Causeway Bay, about 6.30 am. on June 21.
In the front sitting room five men and five women, includ- ing defendant. He asked who was the principal tenant of the floor, and a woman came from the next room and said that she was,
In
a small room at the back he saw. suitcases, one of which contained parkets of heroin pills and another an ounce of crude bero. In a rattan basket were clothes which defendant said were his.
MISSIONARIES
17
EARS BOXED BY JAPANESE WASHINGTON, July (T/Ocean) The American Consul in Shanghat has been instructed
exer- to "protest getically" against the boxing on the ear of two American missionary women by Japanese soldiers, announce the state department.
According to the American account this incident occurred when passports Were being examined by Japanese soldiers. The American Consul In Shanghai has already demand · ed that disciplinary proceed- ings be taken. against the soldiers guilty of this offence..
Chen, LONG DISTANCE
Witness sald he asked to whom the heroin pills belonged, and de- tendant sald they belonged to him.
Cross-examined by Mr. witness said the conversation in the flat was all the time conducted in Cantonese.
"NOT MINE"
After questioning R. O. Milling- ton at length on his proficiency in the Cantonese tongue, Mr. Chen said: "I put it to you that when you asked defendant about the
mine),"
FLIGHTS
French Planes To Visit Britain
LONDON, July 17 (T/Ocean)
«Polska".
He will confer with Gen. Smigly- Rydz and, among others, he will Gen. Kasprzycki, the War Minister, and Gen. 8tashlewicz, the Chief of Staff,
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He is expected to visit the Polish armaments factories and the "Gazeta Polska" says that "he has been entrusted with the task of ensuring collaboration between the allled stan.”
Supreme Command LONDON, July 17 (T/Ocean)-- General Sir Edmund Ironside, the former Governor of Gibraltar, now General Inspector of the British Overseas Fighting Forces, was expected to leave London air on Monday, at mid-day to to Poland..
TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1939
TRIAL CRUISES BY SUBMARINES: NEW ORDERS
LONDON, July 17 (T/Ocean) --The Admiralty has decreod that in future, members of the dockyard will not be allowed to partake in trial cruises by. new submarines, it' was report- ed by the "Daily Telegraph”. on Monday.
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Submarine specialists, how- ever, will still be allowed to be on board during such trials.
CROWDED PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME
Summer Recess To Be Curtailed
by
Ko
the
days
A Month That Made History
Thirty days' hath June--each. a hilt of the mosaic of history.
Here are some of the outstand- ing things that happened in the month which has just passed.
POLITICS: Registration of Britain's militiamen (June 3); General Gamelin, French Army, chief. in London (6); King and Queen in U. 8. A. (1); The King meets U. B. President (8); Trouble- in Tientsin (11): Strang. leaves for. Moscow (12); Japanese block- ade Tientsin (14); German Consul in Liverpool expelled (18); The King and Queen sall, for home
(15); Goebbels thunders in Danzig” (18); Japanese take Swatow (21); " The King and Queen home (22); Six Britona stripped by Japanese (23); Lord Halifax's stern warning":
Nazis (30). to aggressors ̈ (29); Foles warn
LONDON, July 17 (BWB)-During
fifteen parliamentary The visit is in continuation
FINANCE; Big coal merger. Dro- of that remain before the House of the military consultations envi- Commons rises for the summer re- Britain's export trade (14); Tote posals (13); £7,500,000 increase. In saged in the Anglo-Polish mutual cess the Government intend to assistance pact.
turnover £9,000,000 (14); "Arms dispose of all their emergency profits to be taxed (20),
transact
Disco-
The London 'Sunday press de-legislation as well LS clares that the question of a other outstanding business apart
SCIENCE AND ARTS: common Anglo-Polish Supreme from that which can conveniently very of handwriting believed to be Command in the case of war will be left over until the autumn ses- Shakespeare's (1); Open-Air-Thea- be discussed in Warsaw "in order ston. to achieve the most efectual operation possible."
Co-
In view of the crowded state of the parifamentary programme it is
In this connection a report of the "Sunday Chronicle" is of in-garded as certain that," quite
tre reopens (3) Sir Thomas Bea- cham decides to give up conducting for a long time (10) Watteau masterpiece stolen from Louvre
112).
terest, according to which during apart from the possibility of an CRIME: ...Nottingham cellar-
tish War Hore-Belisha.
the last visit to Paris of the Bri- emergency arising. the summer
murder charge (June 8); bombs in Minister
Lealla recess will be curtauea Mr.
post offices (9); bomb'explosions in A new Bill will probably be in-West End of London, 19 injured An agreement was reached between the British
and troduced in the Commons in the (24); girl accused of conspiring French military authorities that next few days by the Home Secre- with Paul Mitchell to defraud (27).
89 degrees in London (7); fur- coat Ascot (13); French submarine disaster (18); Wooderson last in
in the case of war Bir. Edmund tary to assist the police in checking Ironside should be given the com- terrorist acts by the Irish Repub-disaster (June 1 to 3); Heat-wave, GENERAL: Thetis submarine- mand of the British Expeditionary lican Army. Forces. The Supreme Command over the entire Franco-British troops would be given to French General Gamelin.
The British War Office" was un- able to furnish any on Sunday as to
information
the
how long Sir
countries of the Orient, part-favourably impressed by what hepils, he said 'ng hai ngo ke' (not One hundred French warplanes are pdmund Ironside would remain death is announced of Lieut.-Colaster (20); First of series of City
cularly in the present un
in-
his
saw in China's wartime capital. settled and eventful times of He revealed that he had an the East, the decision which terview with Generalissime Chiang the Siamese Government has while in Chungking. During made contains A certain stay in Kunming, he will call political significance.
meeting of Catholic bishops in UP TO THE PRESENT, the Yunnan and Kwelchow.provinces, Government of the present boy King, Anahda Mahidol,
+
Isn't it
unusual for a
man to
to make a flight to London Tuesday, in return for the visit of
week, it is reported in the "Dally Mail."
on
London, merely confirming that a "arrangements have been made for Sir Edmund, to visit. Warsaw." DISCUSSIONS THURSDAY WARSAW, July 17 (Reuter)
in
Victoria-street
DEATH OF LT. - COL. mile of the century" (17);" The King'a Jockey dies in lost plane SIR HENRY EARLE
(20); France abolishes public ex- LONDON, July 17 (Reuter)-Thecutions (25); Bélgian canal dis-
fires," Queen in Warsaw. The War Office also Sir Henry Earle, D.S.O. R. O. Millington: No, he said hal British warplanes to France last gir Ironside would start from Aug. 15, 1854, he was educated at makes first Atlantic passenger flight
typist dead (23); Born at Brook Farm, Lancashire Barbican (27); Yankee Clipper Becond fre ngo ke (mine).
refused to state the exact time
Eton and Trinity College, Oxford. (28): Joe Louis beats Tony Galento make an admission like that?—It | а
He served in Jowaki Campaign The flight, the paper says, will is not often made.
(29): The King and Queen be probably carried out at night,
1887, the Afghan War from at Russian Ballet, Covent Gar- Wong Shum, accused, said in without landing in England.
1878 to 1880 and in the Egyptian den (29) Dempsey down with evidence that he had come to
In case of unfavourable wea-
War in 1882: He also took part in Hongkong from Toishan
appendicitis (30). Vinther, the flight might be postponed
numerous military expeditions and Macao, three days before the raid to Wednesday. He denied pointing to the suitcase that there are reports that 1,000 and the Foreign Minister. Colonel casions in the Frontier Campaign The paper adds. After seeing Marshal Emigly-Rydz was severely wounded on two oc-
say they were his. containing the pills, nor did he men are in readiness to carry out Beck, to-morrow, General Ironside in Tirah in 1897-98 and in South a second long distance fight, the will have an opportunity to carry Africa at Modder River in 1899- In answer to Mr. Whyatt, defen- destination of dant said he did not take "the re-southern coast. of France.
which is the on military discussions on Wednes- | 1900. venue officer to the back room. The total distance to be covered cises on Thursday when he is also in
The case will be resumed at 10 is said to be 3,250 kilometres.
lunching with General Kasprzycki, a.m. to-day.
the War Minister.
under the Council of Regency The Trustees of the Temple Bar has worked successfully and, college, Tric. Washington, have re- during the last three years, cently conferred the degree of Siam has made remarkable Ph.D. upon Dr. Mak Ting. Sum, progress
MST, F.P.C. DST. towards self-suf- DM.T..
(Lond), FNA.M-Th (Lond.), of clency and political and economic well-being.
Kuala Lumpur. Dr. Mak's scienti- The
fe work and his interesting thests, significance of the change of The Ethical Philosophy of Con- name is that it is a step which fuchas," have earned him this hon- must be taken to mark theur. Dr. Mak is a Cantonese, born complete passing of monar-in FMs. chial authority and the ac- ceptance of Democratic prin- ciples in the administration
FOUND IN HOTEL "
three years' hard labour after he "ASPIRANTS" BEAT
Wong Chan was sentenced to
"was found qulity of possession of 30,000 heroin pills on June 27, at
"FLICKERS"
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day and to witness a military exer- He was several times mentioned
He will return to England on Friday,
"
TAILORS DON'T LIKE NEW BATTLE DRESS
'despatches. for, exceptional
bravery,
The late Sir Henry also served
RUSSIAN BALTIC
FLEET REVIEW
LED BY NEW
in the last Great War from 1914 to NAVY COMMISSAR
1916. -
750-1 YOUR AIR
MOSCOW, June 8-Admi. Kua netzof, Russia's young Commissar for Naval Affairs, yesterday inspected the Baltic "Fleet in the Gulf of Finland.
The Admiral, who is barely 37, and the youngest supreme chief of
RAID CHANCE Even if you live in a town of military importance" the chance of your being hit by a bomb is 750 any navy, is a real sailor, not a 1 against, said Wing-Commander The "battle suit" of the Army T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave in a radio khaki "blouse and trousers—was talk recently;- criticised at the conference of the This calculation was based on the National Union of Tallors and presumption that in a town of ten
a room in the Tai Koon Hotel In the second round of "the
the omcer A. W. Grimmitt. which was raided by Chief Preven-third tourney in the Ewo League, the "Aspirants" defeated the The jury were Messrs. Hai Wai- ! “Flickers" by 215 points, at the pang (foreman), Wong Hay. Yeung Hongkong Bowling Alleys yester Tse-fong. A. V. Fernandes, KP day evening. Young, Ip Wing and F. Castilho.
Detalled scores were MAN & WIFE CONVICTED
follows:- Sentence of three years' im-A, G. Goldau; L. Gaddi and R. U The "Aspirants":-3. 6. Landolt, prisonment each was imposed on Wong Tung, unemployed, and his Duddridge: 661, 808, 58; total wife. Li Yee-kam, who were found guilty of possession of 15,000 heroin Wong, T. A. Madar, W. K. Way Bernard Sullivan.
"Fuckers": Johnston pills and 451 ounces of pink mass.
The jury comprised Messrs. D. total 1,609.
and C. B. Fosselet: 497.551,561:
1,824.
The
of the country. A Bangkok ment, there is no doubt that newspaper gives the text of the Japanese will redouble- a speech made by the Premier their efforts to gain the on the occasion. He referred favour of Thaliand's political to the national aspirations of leaders. the people and then made an STATESMEN in Siam, how- appeal against allowing theever, in awakening to the trade and commerce of the responsibilities which they country to be conducted by owe to their country have not foreign nationals. It is not been slow to realize this and our intention," he declared, the recent report that the "to oust these foreigners or Siamese to do anything which is not asked Britain and the anti-B. Clark (foreman), R. Wright, R. consonant with justice and aggression bloc for similar W. W. T. Van der Gaag Leong fair play. All we ask is the guarantees which have been Ting-swee, W. Heitzie and Kal right to earn our living in made to the smaller states of Howe-Zeaming,. Thailand, which is our own Europe against threat of The defendants, together with a country."
domination by the Axis gin, a fuvenlie, were walking in HERE, THEN, is an example Powers, show that the leaders Taipo Road when they were met A fire which broke out in the
of the country fear the poten- by Wong Wing-tin. a police re-baller-house
the Imperial tial danger which menaces servist. They were searched and Chemical Industries, Ltd., works them if Japan is unchecked the basket and tin which they at Billingham-on-Tees spread
Government
'had
tain the drug.
130 FIREMEN IN: LCL BLAZE.-
rate.
of
The blaze went
the
MR. OKAZAKI HERE pulverised boat bunkers of the
Salutes were exchanged yester-
bollers, and 130 remen, using more day afternoon when the Japanese than 5.000ft, of hose, risked an ex warship, Bags, with the Japanese plosion of coal dust escaping from Conal-General in Canton, Mr. K Casal, on board, arrived from
the bunkers.
after five hours, the damage being The fire was got under control
estimated at several thousand pounds,
of another awakening of a country and its people to the responsibilities of its exis- tence and to the part which in her plan of an "Asia for were carrying were found to con- among oil-like fuel at an alarming It must take in world affairs. the Asiatics." The decision of The Premier's statement must Thalland to throw in her lot be regarded with special re- with the Democracies is proof ference to Japan, whose that she will have nothing to nationals have, with their gain, but a great deal to lose, unorthodox methods of trade if she condones such in am- and unprincipled ideas, bitlor. The position which sought, not only to influence Thailand occupies, neighbour Siamese sentiment in their ed by the colonial possessions
Canton yesterday afternoon. favour in their political and of Britain and France, must have come here to confer win Mr. Okazaki is understood to Industrial expansion in the give her a sense of strong local Japanese consular officials, East, but have even hoped for security against dominance the duration of his visit being un- the day, perhaps, when they by any one nation. The could overwhelm Siam with leaders of Sirm realize that ruthless force; of arms and the idea of an "Asia for the add it to their dreams of a Asiatics" cannot but prove to Japanese Empire in Asia. The be irrational and unpolitic Premier's statement must, and they have decided that therefore, have come as a it will be better to enjoy the rude shock to Japan's states- benefits of trade and culture men who had come to regard with the West than to subject Blam as a complacent and their country to a ruthless in- ready victim for their vader whose authority will re- schemes. It is an enunciation tard their progress, econo-
known.
Appearing before Mr. RA. D. Forrest at the Central Court yesterday charged with assaulting Mr. N. 5. Halladay, chief engineer on the transport vessel Wave at ave members of the crew were the Royal Dockyard on Sunday, remanded for 24 hours when they pleaded not gulity to the charze The men were Pan Yeung, 41, stoker, Lix Jan, 52, stoker, Ip
Kau. 42. ptaker, and Liu Yu, 20, stoter.:
of policy which will not per-mically and politically, to a Kwal, 62, second engineer, Mo
mit discrimination and, in position of merely puppet the face of this announce- importance.
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NEW RELAY RECORD FARIS, July 17 (T/0.can)
A new world record for a three lay 500 yards relay race was established on Sunday in a competition by French, women athletes in Monte Carlo.
A team of the Faris Women's Lacas, Vincent and Fize cover- Sports Club, consisting of Miles.
ed the distance in 1.22.6/10 minstes.
The old record, which was held by Italian Club, Tenchl Unles, was 7.32 minutes."
Garment Workers in London. square miles Afty bombs' would be "No one in the trade has a good dropped, and that everyone within word to say for it," said "Mr. afty feet of where the bomb struck
"It is ugly, would be able to be hit by frag clumsy, unhealthy, expensive and ments. complicated to make."
The chief characteristic of a The Government, he said, had raid would be noise. Much of this ordered about 500,000 suits during would be trom our own anti- the last few months.
aircraft guns, and should be On the trousers alone there were reassuring. 27 buttons, and "there were 11 an Civi defence," concluded. the keep the shells off!" the blouse "armour plating to Wing-Commander, could be made
so good that the enemy would have to "pack up" or try some- thing else.
politician. After rapid promotion," he became Admiral-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Fleet before his recent nomination as Commissar.
On arrival at Kronstadt, yester- day he hoisted his special Com- missar's flag in the latest Russian- built destroyer and put out to sea. with a new flotilla of destroyers, all built in Russia, which came into service for the first time at this year's Spring manoeuvres.
BATTLESHIP INSPECTED
Adml. Kusnetzoff then reviewed the entire Baltic, Fleet, afterwards Inspecting the battleship October Revolution, 23,258 tons.
I hear that the Russian naval. mission which, headed by Adml. COUNTY CRICKET
Isakoff, Vice-Commissar for Naval Affairs, spent eight months in the LUNCH SCORES
United States, is now on the way A sum of $1,000,000 raised by back to Moscow... LONDON, July 17 (Reuter) the Ninghsia Provincial Govern- County cricket lunch scores are as ment will shortly be remitted to Its object was to purchase follows;
the Central Government for re-.. srmour plate, machinery for mak-... Derby 61 for 2. v. Yorkshire (no warding the soldiers at the front, ing it, and other equipment for the play before lunch); Dumam 101 according to a telegram received Russian dockyards. Three hig 245 for 6 v. Surrey 286; Hampshire shes from Gen. Ma Hung-Kwel, cordance with the Kremlin's deci and 42 for 2Y. West Indies; Essex by Generalissimo Chiang Kal battleships are to be built, in ne
Glamorganshire (no play be- Chairman of the Ninghsia Prosion to create a real battle feet for fore lunch); Kent 182 and 188 for vincial Government. The tele-
the high seas 8v, Gloucester 170; Middlesex 36 gram reveals that another m
The fact that the Mission stayed
for 1 Nottinghamshire 660 for of $63,000 contributed by the eight months in the United States ↑ dec.. Somerset v. Lancashire 181 people of Ninghsia on the decasion would seem to show that it muc- for 2 (rain stopped play): Busser of the second anniversary or ceeded in placing contracts, not 158 for 5 v. Northamptonshire 338; the outbreak of the Sino-Jap-only, perhaps, for dockyard equip- Worcester v Leicester 88 for 1 anese hostilities on July 7 winment, but also for the actual frain stopped play).
also be remitted
Chungking equipment of warships. abortly.
TEMPERATURE FALL
Dr Klang Kiang-hu, formerly Three new cruisers will be launch- professor at McGill University, There was a fall of 10 degrees ed this week The first in the Canada, and a well-known" au- in temperature between Saturday Migeria (8,000 tons, twelve 6-inch thority on things Chinese, who has and yesterday morning. Tempera- guns and eight 4-inch and air just returned to China from the ture at 10 am was 77 degrees,
World's Fair in New York, will be with humidity at 98 per cent.
the speaker at Thursdays meeting. while the maximum temperature
of the Hongkong Ya Men's Club at 4 pm. was 36 degrees,
at the St. Francis Hotel at 1p.m
craft gums); the second Dido (6,450 tms tam 5.25-inch guns) the third Mauritius a slater ship to the Nigeria (BWS).