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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
-roUxDap 1881
ITEL. C. 269.
"NO. 21, 314 LADVA-+ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
3,
THE IRENE PIRACY TRÍAL.
TRIAL. LIES & CALUMNY.
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE
ENGINE-ROOM.
A PANIC.
INDO-CHINA REGIME
Chins.
DEFENDED.
1
OLD BAILEY LIBEL" ACTION.
BOLSHIE EXECUTIONER AS WITNESS.
A SOVIETS PRISONER.
London, Nov. 2.
ANNUK
1927. A+WA+HINGLE COFF 10 CERTH,
BUICK 1928
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WATCHMEN'S BILL. "GOOD BYE AND GOOD SALE OF SHARES.
SECOND READING IS POSTPONED.
LUCK."
FIRST CRUISER SQUADRON LEAVES PORT.
DISPUTE OVER THE
TRANSFER..
"BOY" AS NEGOTIATOR.
The transfer of ten shares in the Hongkong and Kowloon Land and Loan Company, Limited, re-
ing, before the Puisno Judge, Mr.
The plaintiff was Mr. J. F.
GOV.-GENERAL'S FAREWELLA
TO-DAY'S COUNCIL SURPRISE. HOMEWARD BOUND.
On the eve of his departure
It may be forecasted, as the re-
With messages of farewell and from Indo-China, the Governor.
sult of Information available this goodwill hoisted at the,foremasts: A thick-set, swartby map, whe morning, that an announcement to of the vessels, the Firet Cruiser sulted in an action being brought, SUBMARINE'S APPEARANCE CAUSED General (M. Alexandre Varenne),
at a meeting of the Government was referred to as a Bolshevist the effect that the Government has Squadron left Port at 9 o'clock this Council, held at Hanoi on the 21st executioner, and other Soviet offdecided to postpone with permis-morning, for Malta, where then the Summary Court this morn of last month, pronounced an elals, including a member of sion of the Legislative Council, ships will re-join the Mediter J. R., Wood, when, in a $1000 claim, important discourse in which he the Ogpu (Cheka), werd among further consideration of the Bill ranean Flect, the ratings of the it was stated that the executed retraced the work necomplished numerous Russian witnesses for the providing for the regulation and other craisers in Harbour cheering transfer had not been handed over. since his assumption of the post trial of Harry Pollitt. Dick Beech, made by Sir Joseph Kemp, K.C..
defence on the seventh day of the registration of watchmen, will be their departing comrades. ENGINEER INTIMIDATED. in the present situation of Indo- und Thomas Strudwick, charged at the Hon. Attorney General, when All the ships of the squadron Wright, trading as Messrs. Wright..
In the first place, be dealt fully the Old Bailey with fidelling David the Bill comes up for second read-cast off from their buoys punctual and Co., Prince's Building, and
Scott, a seaman, In the Internation- ing to-day.
ly at 9 o'clock, with the ratings the defendant was Chan Tung, The resumption of the preliminary hearing of the charge of with the campaign of disparage-el Seafarer, published by the
lining the decks. At the top of alias Chan Shi-wah, 32 Stanley movement, of
The plaintiff Sir Joseph Kemp is further ex- the foremasts of all cruisers were Street, first floor. piracy against seven Chinese, arising from the Irene affair in Blas ment and calumny, which he said national minority Bay, was notable today for the evidence of the second and the third had been systematically directed which the defendants are members. [pected to announce that, before the the code messages "Good Bye and félaimed $1,000, being money paid by the plaintiff to the defendant against him, and for that matter,
Scott has been prominent at anti- Bill is re-introduced, law officers Good Luck."
on September 23, 1927, for u con- against all his predecessors as Communist meetings in England of the Crown will give further at-
As the ship began to get upsideration which had wholly fail- weil. On this subject, he recall-since his return a year ago from tention to the clauses which have
the cry of wrath to which Russia, where he was imprisoned. created so much comment and ateam, ratings of the other navaled, or in the alternative was for. former Governor-General, M. A-He made a statutory declaration agitation among the watclunen. ships in Port cheered their depart-the delivery of a duly executed ing colleagues, while there were transfer of ten shares in Hong- hert Sarraut (now Minister for with regard to his treatment to the
The decision does not mean, we private motorboats containing per-kong and Kowloon Land and Loan the Colonies at the Metropolis), Vational Union of Seanien on. hls gaye vent when quitting Indo-return, after which the Internare given to understand, that the sonal friends of some of the Co., Ltd., sold by the defendant mal Seafarer ncensed Scott of dis- Bill is to be dropped entirely, but officers, cruising around firing to the plaintiff under a contract. reputable criminal conduct while in it seems unlikely that this. after-crackers.
noon, any definite dato will be Russia-Reuter.
fixed for further debate.
No official calls were made this morning prior to the departure of Mr. F. C. Jenkin, the eminent the squadron, the Commodore and loen! barrister, who was retained other officials having paid their by an organisation of the Indian visits yesterday, when, Commodore watchmen in the Colony to present J. L. Pearson took leave of Rear- their views to the Council, will not Admiral Boyle. appear at the Legislative Council!
engineers, both of whom were in the engine room when Submarine LA opened fired un, the pirated ship.after it had refused to heave to,
The excond engineer, deposed to having been, threatened with death by ʼn pirate armed with a pistol when the warship called upon the ship to stop. The pirates were in a panic, and tried to hide between the boilers. One shell entered the engine-room and wrecked the machinery. Another struck the ship and set it on fire.
The third engineer Was also in the engine-roam at the time. He stated that at the dulset he had been intimidated by armed pirates, and while hiding behind his cabin door, 'n shot was fired by one of the men into the settee, in order to frighten him.
Both this morning's witnesses identified several of the accused at the identification parades held subsequently at police headquarters,
SEVERAL ACCUSED IDENTIFIED.
The trial of the seven Chinese
China in 1919,
M. Varenne then referred to the concession affair, which was the cause of his recall to Paris to "face an interpellation before the Chamber of Deputies on charges of favouritism. He spoke in defence of the absolute probity of the procedure he followed in this affair, and the injustice of the charges levelled against him by a dissatisfied colonist.
Reforms Accomplished. He then noted the measurco taken, with the concurrence of the He recalled the first defendant metropolitan government, for the in connexion with the pirker of as being the man who moved about putting in order of the land, and the China Merchant S.S. Co.'s on the ship with an automatic, and sen defences of the Colony, and Irent was continued at the Central the same man who was later pick-for the reinforcement of the de- Magistracy this morning, hefure ed up by the sabmarine and on fence force of the country with whom was found an automatic. white effectives in view of the Mr. R: E. Lindsell..
Of the remaining four who wit-changing conditions of the Far Mr. T. 3. Whyte Smith prosecut neas identified, all were active Bhat, which measures were in ed, and Mr. Leo" D'Almada e
pirates carrying guns. The fourth accordance with the decisions of Castro, jur.. Thstructed by Mr. defendant was described as the the Defence Council. Leo D'Almada e Castro, Sur, re person who kept watch on deck. He recapitulated the numerous presented the fourth defendant. Witness stated that there was con- Mr. C. A. S. Russ watched the pro- fusion on beard all the time during ecedings on behalf of the owners! the piracy, and also when the sub The second engineer, Mr. Carol marine showed up, but added that C. Olsen Hallavik, was the first there was no confusion in between witness called to give evidence. He said that he had been seven years on the China Coast. It was his first trip on the Irene.
Third Engineer's Story.
reforms effected in the customs, administrative, economie and (50- cial services, and the reorganisa- tion and retrenchments effected in the the directions, notably abolition of the Board of Economic Affairs.
The Third Engineer (Mr. Albert He spoke of the measures taken Bernard Demer) said his whole life with a view to the amelioration About 8.15 a.m. on October 19, was practically spent on the China of the situation and conditions of he was at breakfast in the saloon Cast, his hore being in Shanghai, service of native functionaries, He was first made aware of the the organisation of credit for the when he heard shots fired in
He occurrence of the piracy when sleep-benefit of agriculture, and of the various parts of the ship. felt a bullet fly past him, to strike ing in his cabin, while off-duty, forthcoming opening of provincial saloon boy who was standing he was awakened by the incidental banks, throughout the country. behind. Witness threw himself comaintion on deck. On hearing on the floor as a measure of pre- shots being fired, he immediately Other matters to which His Ex- He then noticed armed jumped out of his berth and hicellency, referred were the creation caution.
From the of postal savings banks, kind the cabin door. men come into the saloon.
Six or eight pirates entered the direction of the saloon he heard development of the medical and shots and cries, and presently, an health work of the country, saloon, of whom he could identify armed man entered his cabin, by and the big anti-cholera vaccina- the first, second, third, fourth and ring open the door. A shot red tion campaign in which it was Afth defendants. It was the third into the room lodged in the setice estimated that millions of persons defendant, who, carrying a gun, after going through a jacket left were treated--n campaign without took witness to his cabin, and made thereon, and witness thought that equal in any other country. a search of the room for arms, but this shut must have been fired with could find none.
Shots Fired.
On October 20, about 8.29 pan..
the object of frightening him and dissuading him from putting up a resistance.
He was taken out of the cabin in
New Plans,
ANGLO-PERSIAN OIL PROFITS.
THE QUESTION OF COMPETITION.
London, Nov. 2. Sir John Cadman. presiding at the annual meeting of the Anglo- Persian Oil Company, pointed out that the excessive production in the
A COOLIE'S CRIME.
HANNA
Shanghai Lady Brutally Attacked.
Shanghai, Nov. 3. A discharged coolic attack- ed Mrs. Porestier, the wife of an assistant In the Asiatic Petroleum Company, with a chopper, and the lady is in a grave condition" and is not expected to live-Our Own correspondent..
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United States, and the larger ex- ports from Russia, were necessarily disquieting factors, but fortunately the The Anglo-Persian company was not
impelled to over-produce.
Ile mentioned that the net profit for the year exceeded £250,000, but warned shareholders that unless there was a radical change of prices, the profits in the current year were likely to be reduced,
The Persian imperial commila- sioner, Mirza Eisaakhan Fayz, ex- pressed the Persians' admiration He revealed the broad outlines for the manner in which the com of projects which were to be pany had developed the part of brought up for the examination Persia in which it operates, and of the Government Council suggested that the company should firstly, for the reform of local found schools in co-operation with assemblies, and secondly, for the the Persian Ministry of Instruction
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dated September 22, 1927.
Mr. L. D. Turner was for the
ed in person.
plaintiff and the defendant appear
His Lordship remarked that on: previous occasion Mr. C. A. S. Rusa was representing the defend.. ant. He asked the defendant whether he wished to dispute the claim, and received a reply in the affirmative.
Purchaser Wanted.
this afternoon in view of the latest In connexion with the departure development, Chough it is under- of the squadron, a very spectacular atood that Mr. Jenkin addressed a searchlight tattoo was given last private meeting of the Unofficial night similar to that given by the
on cruisers in port on the King'e- . In outlining the circumstances, Members for over an
Birthday last June. The five ships Mr. Turner said that on or about Tuesday.
all contributed to the display, the September 20 the plaintiff's "bop** various lights playing in a variety of patterns.
hour
A NEW MOUNTAIN RANGE.
SIBERIA.
about
seven
was approached by a man who claimed to be the agent of the Arriving here
defendant, and naked whether he months ago the first cruiser could find a purchaser for the shares. The "boy" ultimately squadron is under the command of Rear-Admiral W. H. D. Boyle, C.B., found that the plaintiff might posz DISCOVERY IN NORTH-EAST RN., Dying his flag in H.M.S. Fro sibly buy them. In consequence. bisher, Captain T. F. P. Calvert, on September 22, the defendant D.S.O., R.N. The other ships are went to the plaintiff's office and ALS. Dragon, Capt. P. R. Stevens, offered to sell the shares to him. London; Nov, 2.
D.S.O., R.N., H.MS. Danae, Capt. The plaintiff offered $1,000, being An expedition to north-east 1. Mackinnon. R.N.; H.MS. $100 per share, but this offer was Siberia last year, which resulted in Delhi, Capt. A.H. Taylor, G.B.P., refused by the defendant, who the discovery of probably the last.N.; and H.31.S. Dauntless, Capt. said that he wanted $1,200, or
$120 per share. great mountain range on the globe, K. D. W. Macpherson, R.N. is described by the explorer, Serges
Aa the Frobisher led the Obruche in the Grographic squadron out of Harbour she was Tournai.
flying the paying-eff pennant....,
The mountains are 625 - miles long and 180 broad, and are thus of larger area than the Caucasus, while they have altitudes up to 10,700 feet. being the greatest in north Siberia, excepling the Kamchatka volcanoes.
"The Russian Geographical Socic- ty has called the new mountains. which lie on a great promontory castward of the River Lens, the Cheraki Range, in memory of the well-known geologiat.--Reuter.
COMPULSORY LABOUR QUESTION,
REPORT TO THE LEAGUE.
#
FRANCO-AMERICAN TARIFFS.
FRANCE REPLIES TO US. NOTE.
Later in the day, however, the defendant rang up the plaintiff in his office and informed the latter's "boy" that he was willing to sell for $1,000. As a result the plain- tiff made out the usual contract for the sale of the shares at that price, and sent's copy of it to the defendant, who was staying at an hotel.
The next day, September 23, the defendant visited the plaintiff's office and handed over the share certificates, They were all in Chinese characters and at the time Paris, Nov, 2.
the plaintiff thought the transfer The French Reply to the recent was endorsed on the back, where been American Note concerning the new Chinese characters had tariff was communicated to the written, but as a matter of fact, American Charge d'Affaires this it was not endorsed, and there was
no other document attached. evening.
The plaintiff handed to the de-.
It proposes the establishment of a provisional regime pending the fendant $994, being $1,000 less stamp duty and commission, being conclusion of a Commercial Treaty the usual fee allowed to brokers.. with France, and suggests that
witness was in the engine room. his pyjamas and searched and was We had been told to keep the then taken back into the Tomaty lighting dim. He heard one or interrogated as to the possibility two shots fired, and the tele- of his pyessing firearms. Return graph signal told him to stop: ag a negative reply, it was himei Preparation of an Ordinance for in inaccesible parts, of Persia, spokesman, Mr. Grimshaw, has under the Safter a while some pirates to him that, a lot of trouble would the purpose of protection of con- where the benefits of education were came down and made it clear that be coming to him if the cabin was ditions of labour and of emigra-not available. Reuter they wanted the engines going at searched and a discovery of arms tion of Tonkinese workers employ.
od abroad. full speed. Witness complied and was subsequently made.
On the night of the 20th (when He revealed the financial posi-: started the engines again, Up till that time the Chief Engineer had the pirated vessel entered Biasion of the Colony, as it develop- been in the engine-room with with Bay) witness was in the engine ed since last year, showing how, ness, but he was removed by three room with the Chief and Scond from being trimmed down to nine millions through advanced or four pirates, and witness was Engineers, -left with the third engineer, with
several pirates guarding them.
+
DENMARK ALSO BORROWS.
ference. Reuter.
the United States enjoy the same for putting through the transac rates as prior to September 6th. tion, so that in fact the defendant received full value. The money Geneva, Nov. 2.
except as regards articles whereon
was paid by cheque. less than the minimum rates were
No Transfer. The International Labour Office paid and which would now come minimum schedule:
Shortly after the defendant. had made a statement to the mandates France, in return, requests the commission outlining the views of discontinuance of the investiga-left, continued Mr. Turner, the the native labour cammissjon, tions, carried on by American plaintiff discovered that there was no transfer, so he told his. "boy" namely that compulsory labour agents French
at"
exporters' should only be employed on essen-premises, the recission of the to ring the defendant up, He did tial public works, and should be restrictions placed (en sanitary so and the defendant, saying it was paid at local rates, while the work grounds) upon the entry of French mistake, said he would bring the should not exceed 18 hours agricultural and pharmaceutical transfer at three o'clock that after- week, and sixty days a year, save products, the settlement of cernoon. By three o'clock he had not appeared, so the plaintiff sent his Some three or four shots from payments, the Colonial credit had TO PAY OFF OLD LOAN
in exceptional cases.
tain fiscal matters now in dispute "boy" to the hotel where the day big guns were heard by witness, risen to 24 million pinstres at the
Mr. Grimshaw stated that the and the dropping of the re before the contract had been de Two of the pirates appeared to and the last shot: if he was not end of five years, which latter
Copenhagen, Nov. 2. Labour Office would submit its prisals" duties recently decreed by livered, but it was found that the the witness to be wanting to hide mistaken, carried away the steam au was now more than enough
The Dunish Landbank haa con- themselves between the bollers, as pipe and shook the ship. He was to meet normal requirements.
cluded an agreement with American completed report to the 1929 con- the Federal authorities. It is defendant had loft.
auggested that decrees enforcing His Lordship: Is the defondant The reorganisation of finances, banks for a loan of G$5,300,000.
this provisional regime could be also a broker-Not so far as the they were running to and fro in scalded somewhat by the steam. the engine-room. Another pirate escaping from the burst pipe, and notably with the imposition of aat five por cent., and the proceeds
adopted immediately,
plaintif knows. It was not a the deck. The new internal tax of two per cent., from this will be applied to the con-
As regards an eventual definitive transaction between brokers. held a revolver at the witness escaped on ta head, and kept repeating the words ship was already on fire when he had readjusted the equilibrium of version of the six per cent pan MORE RAIDS IN INDIA.
agreement the French Govern- Continuing, Mr. Turner went on got there, and after procuring a the financial position..
af 1925-enter.
ment is prepared to negotiate but to say that certain enquiries were "You are going to die."
He heard two gunshots, which life-belt he leaped overboard from
It was even estimated that the
is disinclined to make final made, as a result of which the plain- were followed later by three more. the stern and swam towards the measure would yield an increase
arrangement until it is acquainted tiff got on the track of the defend- One shet exploded in the engine- L4. returning to Hongkong on the of 3 millions in the present year, establishments and the defence
with the result of enquiries into ant, who had disappeared from his and an increase of 5 millions in the expenses in Indo-China of an un- room, and that was the time when submarine.
the comparative costs of produe-hotel; and they ultimately had an left the engine-room.
next, thus permitting the carrying usual nature, the, position, now, witness
tion in the United States and interview at the offices of Messrs." Another shot burst on the stoke-
out of the programme of great with the reserves they had restor The police, following the raids in France. Subject to that reserva Hastings, Dernys and Bowley hold and set the ship on fire. Wit
At an identification parade held public, works or the service of aad; was superior to what it was at Bengal mentioned yesterday, have tion, France is prepared to grant That was on September 24 or 26.
The defendant then, for the first ness took temporary refuge in by the police, on October 22nd. loan of 64 millions.
the close of 1926,
extended their activities.
the United States.a "most favoured) bathroom and as soon as he had witness, from a row of 30 men
Sound Finances.
Inconcluding the Governor They have searched houses at La-nation clause" in proportion as time, refused to hand over the an opportunity he went on deck, picked out the first, second, third,
General, expressed his farewell to pore, Allahabad, and Cawnpore, France obtains fresh outlets for transfer, and alleged that further. where he was given a lifebouy by fourth and fifth defendants. He the second officer. He jumped in was only "suspicious" of the sixth The fiscal regime, revived and the country, stating that no one and seized prescribed literature, re her products from Washington. The were due to hire and that in fact ho had not agreed to sell the water and was later picked up defendant.
stimulated, had restored to the could have worked harder for its volvers, and materials for the manu-Reuter.
for $1,000. by the L.4 and taken to Hongkong. Of the first defendant; witness Budget its lost elasticity, and had welfare, or had it interests at facture of bombs.
Soveral persons have been arrest- could recall his actions on the permitted the putting aside of an heart more than he had done, Identification Parade.
The departure for France from ed-Reuter. steamer. Witness assumed he amount to meet all requirements: On October 28, witness attended was one of the leaders from the or eventualities. Thus, despite Hanol, of M. and Madame Varenne, A message yesterday referred to an identification parade at the way he shouted out orders to the the advance estimated against the on October 26, was the occasion the seizure of documents in arald Central police station, and there other pirates, and at one time, 1928 Budget, of 3,000,000 plastres, for receptions to delegatione from in Calcutta, Indicating widespread
sedition: of new the French and native residents. necessities he picked out the first, second, asked witness, in pidgin English, for
(Continued, on Page 14) third, fourth and fifth defendants.
A
Identification.
the
REVOLVERS AND BOMBS.
Delhi, Nov. 2.
TO-DAY.
Dear on demand Linghting-up
2/1/18 5,45 p.m.
The plaintiff therefore instructed. his solicitors, who wrote a letter to Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bow ley, calling upon their lent to dellvor the transfer, stating that (Continued on Page 8.)