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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920.
日九廿月弍十
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LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents.) SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
SEVES BRITISH CANDIDATES RETURNED.
Shanghai, February 17. The Municipal Elections resulted in the return of Mr. A. Brooke with, Mr. C. M. Bain, Mr. W. P. Lambe, Mr. G. T. Edkize, Mr. H. acIntyre, Mr. M. Benjamin and Lieut. Col. F. A. Cox (all British),
Goh (Japanese) and Mr. S. Fessenden (American). Gere were 15 nominations for nine seats. Messrs. Brooke Smith, wain, Lambe and Gob were ex-members. There were two American candidates-Mr. Fessenden and Dr. S. A. Ransom. Besides the latter, the unsuccessful candidates were:-Messrs. A. E. Algar, E. T. Byrne, W. B. O. Middleton, A. J. Hughes and J. F. MacGregor. Mr. Edkins
$36 PER ANNUM.
ANOTHER BURGLARY 'FLU IN HONGKONG. CRIMINAL SESSIONS. killed him. The defence which
IN QUEEN'S ROAD.
JEWELLERS' SHOP RANSACKED.
LUSS ESTIMATED AT OVER $25,000,
OVER 100 DEATHS THIS YEAR
ter
Readers possibly noticed day that a new departure as made by the Sanitary authorities in issuing the weekly. hesith the first time to the number of returos, reference being made for deaths that had resulted from influenza.
On enquiry this morning, à
WAS
OPENED THIS MORNING.
Mr. Justice Gompertz presided this morning over the February Criminal Bessions.
JAPANESE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER. Goshio Nakana was indicted on a charge of manslaughter.
The following jury were empanelled-Messrs. J. Evans,
he set up, when charged at the Police Station on the same day, was one of accident. I may say that the charge then was one of murder, and his statement was i reply to a charge of murder. In each case the essence was the act of killing. His defence, as I have mentioned, was one of accident, His statement is
plead as follows-"I
not I to the guilty
charge. Vader circumstances which, to ear the least, are mysterious, a
had a quarrel with the deceased. and while we were quarrelling burglary has taken place at another local jewellery shop, the
Telegraph representative C. F. Lay, H. W. Webb, F. the deceased picked up a knife and said he would kill me. I victims being Messrs. Mohideen and Company, at No. 38, Queen's informed that a record is being
doing the knife may have touched Road Central, opposite the Hong-kept of all cases in which death Wonoford J. C. Ribeiro, and G. took the Eaife away and in so Mr JC Riberio applied for him. The wound was 114 inches kong Theatre.
Whoever the burglars are-and occurs from influenza or supposed A Carvalho.
influenza. As the complaint is present indications cast doubt on not a notifiable disease, no record exemption on the ground that he deep beneath the heart. It seems by accident. One might have the theory that this robbery was
The Puisne Judge-Everyone read of people in the old days who Chinese New Year. Did you their swords. The deceased may make an application to this Court? have got the wound by falling on Mr. Melbourne My Lord, he the knife. The knife must have made an application and it came been held pretty firmly in that before the Chief Justice. The case. I do not think that could Chief Justice remarked that if he have occurred. With the defence jewellery and articles of little being taken into account. Up to presided over the Sessions he as raised by the prisoner the only would not grant the exemption point for you to say is whether the prayed for.
prisoner deliberately stabbed the The Puisne Judge-This is deceased, or whether it might
an accident, not an Appeal Court against the have been
be remembered as taipan of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in carried out by the clever gang/can be made of the cases that bad exceptionally heavy work to to me that it hardly occurred
ong. Ed. H.K.T.)
CAPTURED AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
ANOTHER MISSIONARY TO THE BESCUE.
Shanghai, February, 18. Dr. Elliott Osgood, of the Chuchow Foreign Christian Mission, leaves for Canton to-morrow to attend a conference at the American Consulate preparatory to a single-banded attempt to rescue Dr. Shelton from the bandits at Yunnan-fu.
EARLIER SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents)
ITALIAN VESSEL SCUTTLED.
-explosions were feared.
Shanghai, February 17.
PEKING AND PART LOAN.
of robbers who have recent occur, but the compiling of a record showing the extent to midst- been busy
our in
finish.
they certainly had no qualms in which influenza is fatal shou d 18 exceptionally busy before the committed suicide by falling on
making a clean sweep of the Their jewellery in the shop. work was most thorough and the only articles they left behind were of little value, consisting, in the cf imitation greater part.
To give a clear idea of the value. mysterious nature of the case, a place is helpful. To begin there were the usual with, night lights burning, and there
be of value.
The practice of specially auch deaths WAS noting started with the New Year, the Chinese and non-Chinese popula- tion for the whole of the Colony the present, as fewer than 112
have desthe
been medically certified as being due to influenza majority of these being Chinese,
The keeping of such & record should make it possible for the
or.
MR. ROBERT LANSING, whose resignation as U.S. Secretary of State is just
announced.·
discription of the lay-out of the supposed influenza-the large decision of the Chief Justice. whether it was done in self- is not the You will have to take your seat protection. That
point raised, and I do not think I The Hon. Attorney General should say anything on it. If with the ot ser jurors.
was also a watchman, who is authorities to check the period said:The person in this cas you raise the point that it was
most evident, and, possibly, to over which the complaint was institute some kind of preventive
measures.
is charged with manslaughter of done in self-defence and the kill-
the ing was
only possible the prisoner to Teikai Mart. The prisoner was thing for
man employed on the steamship
TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
The closing rate of the dollar, on a third reman on the ship and save his life, you must weigh demand, to-day was 59./1044. the deceased secondfireman on the these
prisoner matters. The sarde ehip. On the 24th January has not suggested this thing. these two men, the prisoner and Manslaughter might amount to deceased, had a quarrel about a munder or it might be of such a nature as to justify a short lock. They quarrelled about 20 minutes at breakfast that mart-term of imprisonment or a fine. ing in the mess room on board. Manslaughter varies in degree Eventuaily they came to blows very much. I do not suggest
THE WEATHER.
ForecastRain. Barometer 30.04. Temperature 2 p.m.-6L Humidity 2 p.m. -95.
FUTURE OF SCHLESWIG..
A Reuter's telegram to hand yesterday stated that the North Schleswig plebiscite has resulted
supposed to have been awake and kept an alert eye on the hole in one of the door shutters through which the light showed. A second fact which requires the utmost Investigation was that the three doors as the back, through which these being forced open and then the burglars are supposed to have flung on the ground after their cffected entry, were secured from valuables had been extracted.
"There were two big safes in the the inside, and the bolts, bars and padlocks which secured them shop which evidently baffled the An Italian submarine chaser docked at the Rowing Club caught showed no signs of an attempt the robbers, for no attempt was fite owing to back-firing of the engine. The vessel was scuttled as having been made to force them.made to break them open. From and then they separated and that the case is a bad one, a3 On the contrary, they were, as all the show cases a clean haul seen by a representative of the was made by the barglars, who apparently the deceased, not the the deceased first picked up the
came out again with a knife and
The jury returned a unanimous Telegraph this morning. quite left nothing but a few gems which prisoner, went into his cabin and knife and attacked the prisoner. inset and lying on the ground were not of rauch value. The con-apparently threatened to take the verdict of not guilty. His Lord
in 75,151 votes in favour of union as if having been carelessly tents of the main show case were life of the prisoner. The fight ship discharged the prisoner.
with Denmark and 75,231 for Ger- ANOTHER ACQUITTAL, thrown there by the burglars after all, taken, these consisting of all began again and the prisoner took kinds of jewellery, such as jade-up a poker and defended him-
Lau Yau-chai was charged with many. There is evidently a mis they had opened the doorS.
These three doors, which open stones, rubies, sapphires, blood-self with the poker. He then
stones, brooches, necklaces, etc. grappled with the deceased and robbery at Men Teo Ngan, in the take in the figures. In fact, a into a passage wherein is a
The wall cases struck the same this continued on the landing New Territories, on December private telegram has been received staircase which leads up to the
and jewellery being Schleswig has decided by a big majority in favour of union with offices of Messrs Setna and Coote of emptiness, excepting passage on the deck. There, ap-11th, a clock, clothing and various in Hongkong stating that North Cooper and Co., and other firms, for a few jadestones and several parently, the prisoner got the articles knife away from the deceased, stolen.
The prisoner pleaded not guilty. 'Denmark, which is quite in accord lie behind each other, and in strings of imitation pearls."
After having finished with the and instead of being satisfied
The jury returned a verdict of with expectations, seeing that 90 order to get into the wooden partitioned room located at the other cases, the robbers turned with having disarmed his assail- back of Messrs Mohideen and their attention to the window show ant he used it against him and not guilty by six to one, and per cant. of the population are Company's, these barriers would case, and a curious fact is that one stabbed him with the knife and prison I was acquitted. have to be overcome to succes-half of this case was emptied of sion. The first two were of iron its contents whilst the other half bars, reinforced or covered by was left severely alone. The work sheets of close-mesh wire netting. of extracting this jewellery was They were secured with padlocks quite easy, as the window was and bolts from the inside. The screened by shutters.
One
box of pearls third door was a wooden one and was secured also from the inside placed on the safe was taken, as with a strong iron bar. The wire also was a box of jewellery,
valued at $1,000, which netting of the first two doors was
Shanghal, February 17. The Powers will not advance the Part Lean before the Chinese
Year. Japan is negotiating for an immediate loan singly.
SHANGHAI EXCHANGE.
Shanghai, February 17. Exchange went down to-day to eight shillings, but was firmer pards closing time.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
PEACE TREATY BEFORE U. S. SENATE.
Washington, Feb. 15.
Senate. The The Peace Treaty is again before the prospects of ratification are brighter and it as stated that Pres. Wilson is prepared to give further concessions on the Benate reservations nad Senator Lodge is ready to make a compromise. The latter wow suggests that until America's voting power in the League of Nations is equal to that of any ur colonies, the other member, including the dominious United States will not, be bound by any decision in which a member and its dominions cast more than one vote.
COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE.
London, Feb. 13.
The Commission of Jurists appointed by the League of Nations to inquire into the organisation of a permanent court of international justice includes Baron Descamps, Belgian Minister of State; Signor Fadda, Professor of Naples University; Mr. Gram. ex-Judge of the Mixed Tribunal of Egypt, Doctor Loder, Supreme Court of the Netherlands; Lord Phillimore, Mr. Eliba Root, M. Vestaitch, Jugo-Slay Ambassador in Paris and Mr. Satsum Akidzuki, ex-Japanese Ambassador in Vienna.
HUNGARY'S FUTURE.
Paris, Feb. 13.
The Hungarian Delegation has submitted a note contain. ing observations on-the Peace Treaty. The note emphasises the necessity of maintaining the integrity of Hungary, demands the talking of a plebiscite regarding the disputed territories and promises to guarantee the rights of minorities
&
of very small pattern, which customer had deposited with the precludes the possibility of any shop for repairs, and was stolen instrument being inserted through from the show case at the back of it to operate on the padlocks in the shop.
This method side. attempted, as a close examination showed.
was not
The exact extent of the loss has not been calculated, but a rough estimate, places it as be- In the partitioned room there tween $25,000 and $30,000.
This is the second occasion on was a window which was strongly
the same jewellery barred and also reinforced with which
It retting. This room communicates shop has been burgled.
remembered that with the drapery shop of Messrs. will be. Chellarem and Company, next two years ago, at the beginning succession of stores door to the jewellery shop, by a of the door which, it is stated, was left burglaries, Messrs. Mohideen open last night. The manner suffered a similar loss through in which the burglars gained the agency of burglars who enter- access to the jewellery shoped the shop one night by cutting from this room was extremely away the floor boards above
ceiling
shop. of the simple. The pa-tition between the the
The c rcumstances of the pre- victimized shop and the room was
facts strengthened in the upper part by sent robbery have a mysterious iron plates, but at the bottom this aspect considering the
the precaution was not taken. It was mentioned regarding the position
padlocks. If thought that the sheet of wire of the
people netting which covered this parti-explanation of the
shop, neighbouring tion would be sufficient protection of the against any attempt to tamper that the locks were in their right with it." But in this calculation places, when the burglars made the proprietor of the jewellery their entry, supposing that they did shop was mistaken. By tearing enter from the outside, is correct, off the sheet of wire netting, then it is puzzling to account for which operation was quite easy, their being forced, or opened, as the burglars evidently brought it was a matter of impossibility their instruments to bear on that for them to do so from the outside. bottom part of the partition The intact condition of the which was not protected by iron wire netting seems to exclude this. plates, and cut away a square theory
Again, the Indian watchman hole large enough to allow one men to creep through. In this outside must have been dead work, be was screened from asleep or extremely negligent in detection from: the street duty, as the work which the by
show a large
case. burglars set themselves to per- The dest behind this case was form must have taken at least forced open and a sum of money balf-an-hour. Into all these amounting to some $30, as well mysterious circumstances, De- as two cheque books, were stolen tective Sergt. Dorling is investige-
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