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·BRUTAL CANTON
MURDER.
FIVE WOMEN STABBED ·
TO. DEATH.
TVIJA
MONDAY,
OPIUM TRAFFIC.
HONGKONG DISCUSSED AT GENEVA;
!
SEPTEMBER 3, 1928..
GRIM EVIDENCE.
PART OF AMUNDSEN'S
·PLANE FOUND:
Bot
DISTILLERY 'FINED.
DEFENCE PLEAD FOR COURT'S LENIENCY.
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London, Sept. 1. Brief messages received in The caso taken by the Import One of the most brutal and The Council of the League of Na Hongkong yesterday throw some and Export Department against dastardly outrages in the liistory tions yesterday considered the quas. little light on two acrint tragedies, the manager, and the consen of of crime in Canton city occurred tion of the control of opium traffic. Involving famous people. A British the Woo Fung distillery of Chin- About оле o'clock on Friday Mr. Mackenzie King, the Canadian wireless message from London wan was concluded on Saturday morning, and resulted in. five frepresentative, presented a report states that an aeroplane wheel, morning before Mr. R. E. Lindsell women being stabbed to death at on the subject and moved that the washed up on the coast of Iceland, when fines totalling $550 were Im- their home at No. 9, Gold Flower British Governmeal's proposal for has heen identified as part of the posed by the Magistrate on the Lane. Saf Kwan,
instituting a commission of inquiry machine in which Princess Lowen- manager, whilst the licenses was
sent stein-Wertheim set out from penalised to the extent of $60. The gruesome murder took place into the situation should be
It will be recalled that at a in a two-storied tenement house, forward to the Assembly, this ro- England on August 81, 1927, in of which the ground floor was forenes being necessary as the funds an attempt to fly the Atlantic. previous hearing, Mr. J. D. Lloyd, | Stay !.. occupied by a family of the for such an inquiry can be voted It is a strange coincidence that who was prosecuting, cailed wiL- surname Leung, consisting of an only by the Assembly, old woman, her son who was at Lerd Cushendun, the British rethe first concreto evidence of the nosses who gave
disastrous ending to the flight account of what was taking place the time away from home, her presentative, explained the propound should be found exactly one year in the distillery when they paid MORRISON daughter-in-law and a niece. The and anid that under the League after the attempt was made.
a surprise, visit. Mr. M. K, Lo, for the defence, called into the upper floor
occupied by Convention of 1912 tho British and
It rasy be recalled that Princess witness. box a Chinese scaffolding another family--a widow and her other Governments were plodged to three grown up daughters.
A gradual suppression of the trade Lowenstein-Wertheim
out coolie, who gave evidence of the with Colonel Minchin, a pilot of breaking of a certain kong which, The story of the crime, built up in and use of prepared opíum, from Investigation made by the Efforts had been made to carry Imperial Airways, and Captain according to that witness, account- Canton police, is as follows: out that undertaking, but owing to Leslie Hamilton, known as the ed for the disappearance of cer- On Thursday evening the family conditione in the Far East arent "sky taximan" and "aerial gipsy, tain molasses in fermentation. below received a visitor, a man difficultion wore experienced, ospe to fly over the Atlantic. Their ma
Fokker monoplane call- The coolie was later charged STANDS ALONE who came from the country special- cially at Hongkong where it was chine was ly to see the son of the house. found impossible to provent illicited the "Saint Raphael" and a start with perjury and sentenced to
His FOR PLEASURE was made from Upavon in Wiltshire four weeks' hard labour. As her son was away and it was trafo. late in the evening, the mother
stein-Wertheim Wis the first day, morning to a fine of $50. suggested that the visitor stay in in America would have soen how
Mr. M. K. Lo informed the EDUCATING woman to attempt a trans-Atlantic the house for that night. The indimcult it was to prevent the illicit fight. She was a British subject, Magistrate that he had had to vitation was accepted and nothing traffic in alcohol and would under-
boing daughter of the fourth speak very seriously to his clients was said or done to arouse
after the evidence of the scaffold- Auspicion. Sometime after mid- stand how much moro difeult it was night the man left the cubicle pre-traffic in opium
for Hongkong to prevent the illicit Earl of Marlborough.
She married a German Prince ing coolle and they had authorised, pared for him and entered the
in 1897, her husband being killed him to say that they were satisfied mother's room, stabbing the old
two years later when fighting for that the case they sought to set woman with a dagger. Her groans
In these circumstances the British the Spaniards against the Ameri-up on the evidence of the scaffold-
ing coolie could not be sustained, awoke her niece, who went to the
Mr. Lo then pleaded for leniency room to see what was the matter. Government had thought it desirable cans in the Philippines,
After the flight started various As she opened the door, she was that the League should appoint a struck down without warning, commission to examine conditions messages ware received from ships from the Court and mentioned that giving a sharp, loud yell as she independently and impartially and in the Atlantic purporting that on the day the distillery was sur- ua doubt they would advise as to the plane had been sighted, but prised, the manager was away fell to the ground.
The moaning and groaning of how the difficulties might be over-it never reached its destination from the premises. Mr. Lo parti- and the finding of a wheel pro- cularly stressed the case as re. the two dying women brought the come.
vides definite evidence that the gards the licensee, who, he said, only, other inmate, the daughter- He hoped it would be taken
down in the only visited the distillery once in-law, to the scene, but on enter-proof of the confidence which the monoplane came
week and was probably ignorant CASH OR EASY PAYMENTS ing the room, she was met by the British Government reposed in the Atlantic.
of what was going on.
He sub-
ARRANGED. murderer, who to make good his Lengue of Nations that it should he
milted that the licensee was not a escape and to prevent the young willing to hand over a matter touch-
party to the offence. woman from giving the alarm, ing such vast commercial and stabbed her also. Despite the material interests to ne impartial ed, she was able to shout for it would be taken as a proof of the numerous wounds she had recelv examination. He also hoped that
assistance..
Those who had followed events/On August 81. Princess Lowen-sentence was commuted on Satur- PLAYING AND
Commission to Advise.
as
British Government's desire to stop the traffic.
Governments would facilitate an inquiry in their Far Enatern dependencies. It was de- cided to refer the proposal to the LengueAssembly.
Amundsen's Fate Sealed. A Reuter message from Tromsoe picked up at sean seaplane float states that a fishing boat has
After Mr. Lloyd had made his submissions to the court, the
fagistrate imposed the fines men- ая tioned above. He added that the licensee' was fined $50 as a warn Ing for him to keep in closer touch with the affairs of his distillery.
first This is the
concrete evidence that Amandsen met with disaster, although the long absence of news has made it impossible for him to be found alive.
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Identified which has been belonging to Amundsen's plane. An Admiralty communique from Innocent Inquirers' Fate.
Delegate's Views. Oslo regarding the finding of the By this time the tenants in the
seaplane float quotes a telegram Monsieur Boncour, the represents from the Captain of the Govern upper storey realised that some- thing was amiss below. Believing tive of Franco and Holland, supportmeni steamer Michael Sars stating that someone had been taken ing the proposal declared that their that he examined the float which suddenly, the chief occupant, respective the widow, went down to enquire,
probably belonged to a flying but on the staircase she encounter
boat of the Latham type." ed the blood-thirsty marauder, who seized and stabbed her also:
As the Geneva Opium Convention, One of the widow's daughters,
har having been ratified by the requisito
London, Sept. 1. who heard the outery and
struggle
the number of Powers, comes into force mothor's
with
The Government of India have Captain Amundsen set out with murderer, rushed down and she also on September 25, the League Council
big accepted the recommendation of met with the same fate as the considered the appointment of Commandant Guilbard in a others. In her case the wound was permanent central board to be set French Latham seaplane on June the Tariff Board that the Indian so serious that death must have up under Article 19 of the Conven- 18. He left Tromsoe with the match industry should be protect
tion. The Convention provides hint been instantaneous.
The other occupants of the upper the United States must be asked to Intention of going to Spitzbergen cd by maintaining and converting storey fearing the worst gave the nominate a member and the Council in search of the Italia flyers, and into a protective duty the present The Govern- outery alarm. Their
brought decided to invite the Government in the absence of early informa- revenue duty of one rupec eight policemen to the house and the of the United States to do ation regarding his whereabouts, it Annas per gross.
was presumed that he had headed ment finds that the protective duty murderer was arrested. Four of British Wirelcen
to North Land to look for Nobile, is necessitated by the existence of KOWLOON MUSIC STORE, Days went by without news and an international combine with despite the searches by warshipsing the manufacture and sale of large financial resources control- of his
the women were found dead.
One
who was seriously wounded was
rushed to a near-by hospital, but POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. and ateamers, no died shortly after admittance,
At the Police Headquarters, tho murderer is alleged to have con- fessed that hò committed the brutal deed, but refused to state his motive. It is also stated that the murderer is a former bandit, which to some extent explains the sang froid with which he undertook the kliling of so many persons within such a short time,
U. S. REPUBLICANS TO USE WIRELESS.
trace
matches in a large part of world. seaplane were found and no news The adoption by the Swedish was received of his whereabouts. Match Company of a polley of Messages received on Friday re-supplying the Indian market with ported rumours of the finding of matches, made in India would re- wreckage of Amundsen's plane but quire reconsideration of the duty. inquiries indicate that the rumours British Wireless. were baseless,
RESULT OF LÉGISLATION IN ENGLAND.
CONSUL ARRESTED.
CHINESE DETAIN, A SOVIET REPRESENTATIVE.
New York, Sept. 1. The intensity of the Presidential campaign is indicated by the an- nouncement that the Republican The general belief in the organisation has contracted with QUALITY FOR VOTES. neighbourhood is that the deed is the National Broadcasting Com-
1180 pany to
its thirty-seven an act of vengeance.
atations thrice A later report' states that the broadcasting confessed murderer was found to weekly. Negotiations are in pro- be wounded in the abdomen but gress for additional periods of
Peking, Sept. 2. whether the wound was self-inflict-fifteen minutes in the morning.
London, Sept. 1.
Foreign offloial reports from od or not has not been determined,
To-day The newspaper magnate, Mr.
5,250,000 women Harbin state that the Soviet Vice- Hearst, has cabled the republican begin to qualify for the vote by Consul at Tientsin, M. Naumoff, headquarters from Paris pledging virtue of the recent legislation ex-was arrested by the Chinese the support of his twenty-seven tending the vote to women at the authorities near Chang Chun on to the Republican age of 21 on the same terms as August 30, and was taken to Iar- cause-Reuter's American Service. men. New voters are required tobin where he was detained in the
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