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TÉL. C. 269.
The
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881. # MATAZXU
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928. Hя-
WORST COLLISION POLITICAL CRISIS IN THE LAW SOCIETY
FOR YEARS.
FIRE ENGINE CRASHES INTO TRAM.
TWO FIREMEN ARE INJURED: SEVERE DAMAGE.
BERLIN.
DEADLOCK OVER EDUCATION
BILL IS FINAL.
A GENERAL ELECTION.
PROSECUTION.
HOUGHTON SUMMONS,
DISMISSED.
Berlin, Feb. 15. LAW OF BLACKMAIL: IS PUBLIC
The efforts of the Party leaders to reach a compromiso on the Government's Eduention Bill have|
BY TRAFFIC BEACON. | failed.
Accordingly, the Right and Cen- One of the most serious collie Party leaders of the Coalition 'alons `occurring in the heart of the
city in recent years, in which a Government can consequently be tramer and a fire engine were regarded as being politically dead, badly damaged, and two fireman compliance with their threat to
badly hurt. occurred, shortly after 'nine o'clock this morning near the beacon in Des Voeux Road Central.
Fire Appliance No. 8 with a 'crew of 6 Chinese firemen and an Indian driver, was cutting into th junction where the Red Beacon slands, from Chater Road, when ́ft collided almont, head-on with a
western-hound tram and ghot into] the pavement under the Hongkong Hotel before coming to a rest byer the gutter. Two firemen were in- jured, one very seriously, while
much damage was done to both Stram and fire engine.
From the point of view of the impetus, the damage done and the casualties caused, it was one or the worst smash-pps witnessed for some time past, and a sururising feature was that both vehicles were afterwards able to proceed from the scene under their own power.
Eye-Witnesses' Story.
The precise circumstances pre- -ding the mishap will probably
established at a fatur enquiry, it from the accounts given by eye-witnesses it in possible to re- construet these with fair accuracy.
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QUARREL.
MR. BALDWIN MAKES FURTHER EXPLANATIONS.
QUESTIONS IN HOUSE.
London, Feb. 15. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, addressing the House of Commong, "ni answer to a question concerning the rubber, enquiry, and that be nouncement was"publicly made, the Houghton for an alleged offence ed the Advisory Committee on the The summons against C. M.Colonial Office confidentially Inform- under the Legal Practitioners Or dinance of 1871, was dismissed by Stevenson Restriction Scheme, that Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central the Government had decided to
exambio the scheme.
CLAUSE
DECISION.
سی
REFUSED SIGNATURE SINCE YEAR 1920.
DEAD MAN.
JURY AWARDS $8,000,000 ON J. B. DUKE ESTATE:
SUM MAY BE TRIPLED.
Newark, Feb. 15. Probably the largest sun in damages ever alloted, to an in- dividual plaintiff, were awarded to-day to the New England manu- facturer, Mr. George D. Haskell, against the estate of the late Mr. James B. Duke, the "tobacco king."
estate.
EXPLOITS.
FORGED HIS FATHER'S
SECURED PROBATE WHILE FATHER ALIVE.
any an- NO CHANGE OF VIEW.
SESSIONS SENTENCE.
London, Feb. 16.
The amazing exploits of an 18- In the House of Lords, a debate
year-old Chinese who employed After a lengthy hearing, the forms of the law and committed took place on a motion by Viscount Cecil urging the Government, after jury directed that Mr. Haskell be perjury in order to obtain posses- Police Court this morning.
consultation with the Dominions, to paid a sum of $8,000,000 from the son of his father's estate, while withdraw their Ministers in the
his father was still alive, were told'.. Prior to giving his decision, his absence of a satisfactory settle-Worship enquired of Mr. D. II. or the industry itself, could have manent Court of International Neither the Advisory Committee, accept the jurisdiction of the Per meat of the dispute.
Evidence was given that the at the Criminal Sessious this morn- Blake (who appeared for the Law been properly consulted at that Justlee in judiciable disputes,,by late Mr. James B. Duke promised ng before the Chief Justice, Sir
Henry Gollan. Society) whether the latter had time, he explained, bul; he told the
to back Haskell in exploiting huge It is understood that the Gov-found any further authorities to House that full opportunity would signing the Optional Clause,
The prisoner awore affidavits that aluminium ernment will now make every bear on the points, raised. Mr. be given to representatives of the Lord Cushenden, in reply, said he United States and Canada, but of his will was a true copy, making properties in the his father was death and that a copy cert to push through the Budget. Blake replied that he had not. industry to submit their views to was unable to hold out any hope afterwards sold out to an "Alumi-him (prisoner) the executor. The. after which the Reichstag will be]*
the Committee of Civil Research. dissolved.
proceedings were so successful that' that Britain. in the immediate nium Trust."
Haskell claimed damages of probate was actually granted and future would change her policy, $15,000,000 actual damages, but the frauds ware not discovered until Mr. Baldwin added that it was: not usual for the Cabinet to give which had been consistent since sued for. $45,000,000 under the the prisoner's father returned from The form of the Section pa details of the Cabinet Cimittee's 1920.
the country. Federal anti-Trust law which au- Mr. D'Almada o Castro, jnr., who which this charge is based-procedure, and he criasised that President Hindenburg recently Section 27 of the Legal Practition the last thing the Government It would be unwise, Lord Cushan therises triple damages for losses dufended, male a strong plea for resulting from a conspiracy tond-leniency and told how the prisoner appealed to Dr. Marx to allow all erst Ordinance, No. 1 of 1871 wished to do was anything likely to den added, to go beyond the cusing towards the restraint of trade. had been induced to lead a gay life differences over the Education Bill was apparently derived from See.
cause stress to the rubber industry-tomary system of arbitration by to be dropped until the pressing 13 of Ordinance 13 of 1856, now.
When the Cabinci was able to problems before the Reichstag will long defunct, which made opora form an opinion on the report of the signing the optional clause, which be settled. It was thought that the live in the Colony most of the
he did not consider really affected appeal would have the required provisions of 6 & 7. Viet C73. ammauma
the question of peace. effect.
It may he regarded as certain that Germany will be in the throes of a General Election ratly in May of this year-Reuter.
BRITAIN.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT DOES
NOT ADMIT GROUND.
Nature of Alleged Offence,
follows:
Is Worship's decision was as
Deductions' Difficult.
Section 2 of that Act made it an offence to act as a solicitor with- lout being enrolled and although the Act was entirely superseded by PERSIAN PROTEST TO later statutes culminating in the Solicitors and Attorneys Act of 1874 the original words of our 1871 Ordinance "practices or acts as a Solicitor" still remain in the Hong- kong Law to-day. The Home Act of 1874, however, substituted the new offenen of wilfully,and falsely It appears that in accordance
London, Feb. 15. pretending to be a solicitor for that with Departmental routine. Fire
Asked in the House of Con-of acting as such without author- appliance No. 6 was engaged on a morning drill which took on a mons, to-day, whether certain-de-y, and it was for that offence that circuitous route through the City. mands had been made by the Per the prosecutions in the case quot- In returning to the Centralian Government, particularly re-ed by the Mr. Blake were under
garding Bahrein, Mr. P. Locker Laken. Station opposite the -Central Market, the aliance had to eu Lampson said, "The Persian Gov- weeks across the tram traks near the ernment protested some
The essence of that offence is trafic beacon to get to its praag against the terms of the treaty
of Jeddah between Great Britain clearly fraudulent and delibeinte "per
the Kitle of
roadway At the same moment, an eastern- and Hejaz, on the ground that re-misrepresentation, and it is there
tal tram entered the function. ferences in that treaty of the fore dificult to deduce a principle 4 lad half passed the traffic bea-Islands of Bahrein is contrary to of law from the home cases, that on when the imminent danger of the territorial integrity of Perain." will fit the present one, the more
collision hecame apparent. Forced Between Two Trams, Skid marks left on the roadway appeared to show that the Fire Department driver attempted to avoid the collision by violently Wireless, swerving to the left. This, how- aver, forced the fire engine be tween the eastbound tram and a estbound tram then drawing up to the stop at the Hongkong Hotel.
In consequence the first pllance crashed into the front of
ap-
Last Thing Desired.
NATIONALIST TOUR.
Party Cancels Ceylon Programme.
Columbo, Feb. 15. The Chiren Nat missioners, fifteen, sa number, and" including Mesars, C. Wu, Sun Fo and Wu Han-min, have decided to cancel their voyage to Europe:
No reason for the change has been given-Reuter. SEE BRANCA Committee, they would give every consideration to the position of the industry.
Mr. E. T. Campbell suggested that the mudden change of arrange- ment might cost the Treasury great deal of money.
Mr. Baldwin said that he was
be carefully watched.-
Viscount Cecil's motion was later withdrawn.
Britain's 'Zeal and Haste, Lord Cushenden emphasised, in the course of his speech to the House of Lords, that his, main. difficulty in discussing disarmá- ment at Geneva arose out of the zeal and haste with which Britain had voluntarily carried out, din- armament,
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It is understood that Haskell's by two malicious friends, with the counsel will new move that the result that he ran into debt. This Court increase the award to $24,-plea was backed up by the prisoner's 000,000 under this, law.-Reuter's father in Court, and his Lordship, American Service.
THAT ARBITRATION
PACT.
remarking that some of the offences. were punishable by imprisonment for life, sentenced the prisoner to nine months' imprisonment.
Five Charges.
There were five counts in all, In- |cluding charges of the larceny of
MATTER BEING CAREFULLY. | deposit receipts for $981.98, utter-
DISCUSSED.
ing a forged will, demanding money from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank by means of probate of, a London, Feb. 15."), forget will and with intent to de-
In the House of Commons, at fraud, and two counts of perjury question time, Mr.. G. Locker-while on oath before Mr. C. D. Mel- He felt that if, regardless of Lampson stated that the preamble bourne.
draft économy, Britain had kept all her of the Anglo-American
The prisoner pleaded guilty to all.' armamente until she could have treaty of Arbitration, communicat-counts. Mr. Somerast Fitzroy ap-
sed them for bargaining pured to the British Government, con-peared for the Crown,
Mr. Fitzroy aaid that the poses, Britain would have been intained a clause condemning war
tremendously strong position, as an instrument of policy in the charges related to the stealing of and could have created the greatest mutual relations of the two coun-
certain documents and receipts for money, especially one for $500 and tries. sensation by announcing her deci
another for $450. Those receipts sion to carry out such disarmament
The whole subject was being were issued to the prisoner's
the Ki Fung Yuk wine shop In Perpetuhl Pact of Pence,
Bonham Strand West. On Octo2 London, Feb. 15,
ber 22nd, the father went away and did not return until the end of Mr. Locker Lampson also stated December. There was also a sum that the United States Government of $1,500 in the Hongkong and had communicated to the British Shanghai Bank which the prisoner
consideration had attempted to obtain.
at once as she had already done discussed most carefully-Reuter, father for money deposited with
by degrees,
"Is Majesty's Government are so because different Magistrates nt familiar with that point which nations had not disarmed in cor-
naware of any ground on which home seem to have interpreted the
law in different ways.. the Persian Government could base
The fuels, however, of the 1924
a claim to sovereignity, over these islands, and have explained this to case of the Law Society v. Leat the Persian Government-British Approximated, so far as one can judge from the report, very closely to those of this case, and there the London stipendiary found in favour of the defence.
THE LEAGUE OPIUM CONVENTION.
Cannot Agree.
the westbound tram, curried off BRITAIN ENCOURAGING THE pretending to be a solleitor in
the wooden casing of the vehicle, shot and continuing is career into the pavement under the Hong- kong Hotel where it came to a stop over the gutter.
Terrible Injuries.
A Chinese foreman fireman and
a fireman who were standing on the running board of their vehicle, were caught between the tram and tho fire appliance. The former was not very seriously hurt, but! the latter was crushed in between the two vehicles and he sustained terrible injuries.
Both men were rushed to Hos- pital in the motor-ambulance im-
RATIFICATIONS.
London, Feb. 15.
Mr. Blake submits that though there may have been no fnisely
this case,
yet the defendant's letters and conduct on the 18th, 19th and 20th January amount to acting as a Solleitor.
With this view I regret that I
In the House of Commons, at question time, Mr. G. Locker- cannot agree. Lampson, of the Foreign Office, anid that the Geneva Opium Con-
Very Near Blackmail. vention, 1925, had not yet been
Defendant admittedly sent two enforced, because three out of the lettera which contain the same sort seven ratifications by members of of language as sollettors use, and the Council of the League were one of which includes a threat of still lackingit
criminal proceedings that comes Britain was doing her best to very near to black-mail, if not to encourage the other countries to criminal intimidation, but it does ratify-Reuter.
mediately summoned from the LINDBERGH'S REPLY Fire Station
*'..
TO DAVIS.
JUST WHAT MIGHT BE EXPECTED.
not need a solicitor to start criminal proceedings and the threat does not necessarily imply that defen- dant intended to institute auch
would
Rentor.
CHIANG'S MOVEMENTS.
He pointed out that other
Įresponding proportion.
The Dominions.
for Lord Cushenden, further ex- Government, pressed the opinion that the only, their draft for a pact of per- signing of the Optional Clause petal friendship with France.. CONFLICTING REPORTS FROM would have no real bearing on the He could not say what action the
NORTH.
Money Paid.
and the amount was paid. Later, he presented the receipt for $450, which was also paid, together with Interost. In accordance with the custom of the business, the re- ceipts were torn upajor did
The papers were taken from a question of peace. The field Government would take at this of danger appeared to ba early stage, but the mattor was box, where they had been left by the fully covered hy the Arbitration under very careful consideration. father. On November 19th, the Shanghai, Féb. 16, Agreements, of which there were Asked whether the proposals sub prisoner presented the deposit re- A communication from the Nan-eleven British with other coun-mitted to France would be taken ceipt for $500 to the wine shop king Government states that Mar-iries, excluding the ex-enemy, at into consideration in connexion shal Chiang Kai-shek is still re-
with the proposed Anglo-American treaty, Mr. C. Locker Lampson maining in. Suchow, but according present in existence. to Kuominchun circles,
affirmative. Mar-
the The field was covered by these replied in shal Chiung left Suchow at B um, equally well as it would be covered British Wireless, yesterday for Kalfeng.
by signing the Optional Clause. of the There might be some Dominions, including India, ready to sign the clause, although the Government of India had entered caveat setting forth their point of view na regards various Asiatic questions.
Mr. Ng Cho-wah, delegate of Marshal Yen Shi-shan, arrived at Nanking yesterday. After an in- terview with General Li Lleh-chun, Mr. Ng immediately left for Su chow in order to attend the Milf tary Conference with Marshal ChlangNam Chung Pro.
BRITISH MINISTER.
These latter would have to be very carefully constilered, but, sup- posing all the interests of the Domininions could be excluded
AMERICAN ACTRESS.
BANNED.
The prisoner then went to. Messrs. Woo and Nash where he succeeded in obtaining papers re lating to his father's estate by say. ing that the latter was dead.
His Lordship remarked that ho NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY IN understood probate was actually
granted.
LONDON.
Mr. Fitzroy replied that Mr. Woo took the ordinary steps in the mattor and various afdavits were There was no reason to
New York, Feb. 15. Following the refusal of the made. from the Optional Clause by are British authorities to allow the doubt that the documents were. servation, then it would be al-American actress, Miss Alden properly executed in accordance
a negative clause-
Reuter,"
SIR MILES LAMPSON NOW together
AT AMOY.
proceedings on his own; and furthermore, as pointed out in
The Optional Clause. Fleetwood's case, legal phraseo- Offee-workers returfing to work
Shanghal, Feb. 15. logy is not the exclusive posecEBÍON Si Milos Lampson, the British The Optional Clause referred to came upon a scene of wreckage.!
of solicitors. The front of the tram Wan
Moreover each letter bears at the Amoy at 3 p.m. yesterday.
Minister to China, arrived at in the House of Lords debate has denuded of its' yooden casing,
been signed by very few of the bond and foot the printed words which now lay partly broken up,
The distinguished guest was re-leading Powera signatory to the "South Chinn Trade Protection ceived by officials of the local Gov- League of Nations | Covenant, on the roadway. The fire escape
St. Louis, Feb. 15. Association, and that of the 18th ernment, which has heen instruct Germany is a most notable excop- which was coupled up with the
Colonel Lindbergh, the famous January is headed by the Chinese ed to request Sir Miles to pay a tion, Dr. Stresemann notifying the appliance had taken on a curious angle and been much damaged, American airman, says he does name of, and in signed by defen-visit to Nanking. Nam Chung Council in the momentous meeting while a small ladder mounted on not intend to give up experimental dant as accountant of the Asso- Pun
ciation. There is a hint in either 1hs side of the appliance was shat-flying,
ANGLO-EGYPTIAN DISCUSSIONS.
London, Feb. 15.
of September 9th, last year, that Germany would sign.
Gray, to appear in a play in Lon- with Chinese law and custom. don, the Actors Association of
Absolute Perjury, America has enquired of the
Having got that far, continued? American Consul-General in Lon-Mr. Fitzroy, the prisoner's next don, whether England has an im- migration quota and, if so, whe-step was to instruct Messrs. Woo ther actors-nre included-Reuters and Nash to write a letter to the American Servico. /
TURKISH PETROL.
AMERICANS TAKING AN INTEREST.
Hongkong and Shanghal Bank with regard to payment of the' $1,000. The father then appeared on the scene, however, and the whole matter was investigated.
In the meantime, on December 12th, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, in two affidavits the prisoner had tered to fragments, and the He is perfectly, willing to sacri-letter that the writer is acting
committed parjury on two distinct The Clause in 'optional because roadway was also littered with fee his life if he happens to be qua solicitor, and as regards the
oaths. He knew full well that the. the States which sign, accept com- broken bits of glass.
killed while flying. He considora interview between defendant and
whole thing was absolute perjury. Pang Chow on January 19th,
pulsory jurisdiction of the 'Por-
London, Feb. 15. that what he is doing is not though it is possible that black-
As to whether the prisoner forged manent Court of International hazardous flying in the sense that mailing threats were used by de-
Questioned with regard to the the will or someone else did It, Justice, to all cases between suoli he is taking unnecessary risks fendant, I cannot find any evidence,
States whatsoever, concerning (a) Turkish Petroleum Company in they had no information whatever. Kouter's American Service....
in the witnesses' statements to House of Commons, Mr. G. Locker- any question of international law, Dominions Secretary, stated that money Is my father's took the Replying to a question in the the, interpretation of a treaty, (b) the House, of Commone to day, When charged at the Police Lt. Col. L. C. M. 8. Amery, the Court, the prisoner said: “The show that he acted or claimed to Lampson said that discussions (0) the existence of any fact which, it is: understood negotiations are money to do some business for my act as a soliciter.
hetween the British and theif established, would constitute the An Anomaly,
Egyptian Governments were still breach of an International obin progress between the various living because I am unemployed
commercial interests concerned Acting or practicing as a solled however, they would be concluded extent of the reparation to be capital in the Turkish Petroleum tor in my view conveys the idea In the near future-British made for the breach."
(Continued on Page 7.)
Tram Passenger's Story. According to another account given to a Telegraph representa tiva by a passenger on the badly damaged tram, both trams were moving, when the fire appliance dashed ont of Chater Road. The appliance crossing the tram tracks, was compelled to pass between (Continued on Page 14.)
TO-DAY.
2/-3/16. 6.20. p.m.
Dollar on demand Lighting-up
In progress in. Cairo. Ho hoped Igation, and (d), the nature of for the participation of American/now. I did not write the will my-
Wireless.
Company-Reuter,
self."
(Continued on Page 11.)