THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
EUROPEAN SPOTS ROBBERS.
WHAT IS PERISHALBE CARGO?
· UNSUCCESSFUL CHASE IN MOTOR CAR.
SEQUEL IN COURT. An armed robbery at No. 53 Shaukiwan Rond on October 13, and a burglary at Mr. W. H. Walt ley's house at No. 17, Broadwood Road on September 17, had their sequel in the Central Magistracy this morning, when the police arraigned three Chinese before
Hr. R. E. Lindsell on charges
burglary,
The first defondant is charged with robbery at the adress in Shaukiwan and also with breaking into No. 17, Broadwood Road. He is also charged with receiving a blanket stolen from the house in Shaukiwan,
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„INTERESTING POINT AT L
MARINE COURT.
Another case of working cargo on Sunday without a 'permit was heard at the Marino Court thle morning. Tho charge WIS brought against Captain A. F. Summerfield, of the 3.8. Kuoichaw, and related to onions and potatoes, freight from Tientsin, for dis- charge at Hongkong.
Lonch.
pours.
up the
MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
Moiseiwitsch-Hongkong's Apathy -Concert Conditions-This Month's Records.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
DEATH OF MR. J. M. FORBES.
FORMER EWQ AGENT IN SWATOW.
1928.
EDUCATED WOMEN
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EMIGRANTS.
MR. AMERY TALKS ON EMPIRE EXPANSION.
Nows was received in the Colony, this morning of the death which is took place yesterday. In Scotland, EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES of Mr. Jamos McGregor Forbes, late of the Swatow branch of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.
[BY "ALLEGRO".} '
Moisolwitsch's performances were superb in all respects. He is the
London, Oct. 81. most musical pianist I have listened
The late Mr. Forbes joined Addressing & meeting in con- to for many years; all his inter- pictations are interesting and poet! Blesars. Jardine Matheson & Co. nexion with the Society for Over-
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Rxcept for brief visits, the late, Mr. Forbes was never in Hongkong during the many years that he was in the East.
derhise.
Mr. Wat- cal, and he plays with inspiration, as long ago as 1881, but it was scas Settlement of British Woman, kina appeared for the accused, who are virtuoso. Some plan- not till 1903 that he came East. In the Dominions Secretary, Mr. L. M. pleaded not guilty. Commer. J. B. they never let the audience forget that year he acted as Agent for the 3. Amery, said the diffusion of the
they are playing something. hard: Newill, D.5.O., R.N., was on the they make pieces sound even more Arm nt Swatow and continued in British race over the world was Police evidence was to the effect difficult than they are. Moisoiwitsche services of the Company unt by far the biggest thing in all his arising out of the robbery that at 8.20 .m. on October 28, plays with such ease and self-con-Jhis, retirement in 1920. After gav túiry ATKA
ing the East, the late Mr. Forbes
The unity and development of the 9.6. Kucichow, was observed to trol that the techniceries ettled down at Forres, Scotland. the Empire depended directly pr Lo working eargo.
scem to disappear under his fingers On boarding, and one is left to full enjoyment
the successful flow of our people. it was ascertained that the ship of each piece from a musical point
from these shores to the Do- had no permit. The cargo being of view. Those who heard him for
minions, so as to bring about not worked was potatoes, onions and the first time last week are already
only a better numerical distribu- tion of our people, but also a better Mr. Watkins, for the defence, one of the handful of really great Mr. A. Copeland. Passes Away, distribution from the viewpoint of
aware that they have listened to atated that there was no inten- pianists. Most of the contempor-
The many
friends of Mr. A. opportunity to every man and The second defendant, who is tion to deny the facts, but the arises of pre-War days have become Copeland, Chief Officer of the ss.woman, and, above all, to every represented by Mr. C. A. S. Russ, question of working cargo dependeffaeed, but Moiseiwitsch has got Anjou, will regret to hear of his child. la charged with ́armed robbery `nt és
interpretation of to the very front-runk and one the address in Shaukiwan only..
What must be kept in mind was what was perishable cargo. The marvels at the perseverance and
The deceased was removed to the upbuilding of a great common- The thirit defendant, a woman, nature of perishable cargo was not concentration, no less than at the who is represented by Mr. Loo etoarly douned, and it was pointed musical talent, which has placed him the Government, Civil Hospital onwealth of nations for the welfare Friday last, suffering from abdo-of each and all. Everythink D'Almúila e Castro, Jr., has to face out that owing to the ship having there.
minul trouble and he succumbed, should be done to encourage A charge of possession of omitted calling at Swatow, the revolver and wix rounds of onions may have appeared frosher If cannot be pretended that the on Tuesday to typhoid fever. The educated women to go overseas. ammunition without a licence from thun asual. The vessel had dis audiences at either of his recitals funeral took place it Happy Val-
"We have succeeded," Mr. Amery the Captain Superintendent of charged such cargo na "perishable" was a good one; we have seen many ley last evening, among those pre-added, "In making this great Police, as well as a charge of for the past ten years and it was worse ones, certainly, so that this sent being officers of the Steam- question non-arty question, and receiving stolen properly.
assumed that they were perishable, artist's concerts mht be said to boat Company nd other sympa-that in itself is, I dink, a very Former Domestics,,
what was or was not perishable. Hong", but there is so much re-fis own vessel was not in har-made it in a very peculiar, sense- It would be impossible to estimate have been well attended "for Hong-thisers, all of whom,laid wreaths.great triumph. We have also
Outlining the
Mr. T under the Ordinance but it seemed is ashamed to have to make it. CANO,
The late Mr. Copeland, who was for discussion between the Govern
an inter-Imperial. question, a link Murphy, Assistant Director of that the solving of this point was Moiseiwitsch, who played in Singa-54 years of age, was a native of ments and Parliaments of the Criminal Intelligence, wito is pro- a matter of the master's discretion. pore to crowded houses from which Aberdeen and served for many Empire."--British Wirclean. Becuting, stated that the first and There had been no intentional eva-people had to be turned away, gained years on the const in various ves- second defendants had worked anion of the Ordinance and in view the impression that Hongkong sels. He joined the s.s: Anjou domestic servants for Europeans of the fact that such discharge far and away the most apathetic oi in the past and that the woman, had been carried out over 10 years, all the piores he has visiteul in the about five months ago, when that at the time of her arrest, was in should be considered that the Far East. Once again one asks Vessel resumed service on the West River, So far as eun 'be ns- the employ of a Portuguese family goods were perishable and there-the old query: "Why this difficulty as a domestic servant.
Mr. Murphy then informed his fore could be dlacharged without a in whipping up an audience which certained, he leaves no relatives.
Sunday permit.
shall be worthy of, these first-class Worship that on September 17,
His Worship, summing up the artists who conie thousands of miles some person or persons entered No. 17, Broadwood toad by opening a various points as submitted by to play to us for a few hours? bathroom door. From the premises both police and counsel, decided they atole a revolver which was then that the goods were not perishable, loaded in six chambers. Other ar-A fine of $200 was infileted, $60 ticles stolen included a string of above the usual Sunday permit pearls, which the police are now in fec. a position to proituce, a gald watch, which was subsequently recovered from a pawnshop, and a bangle, which has not yet been, traced, The burglary was reported to the policé in the ordinary way.
Dealing with the robbery at Shaulwin, Mr. Murphy said thal at 11.30 p.m. on October 13, the imaster of a cigarette and barber
Cheung Shu, master of a trading junk, was charged, with anchoring his craft in the Contral Fairway, thereby causing an obstruction, and, pleading guilty, was fined $10. He pleaded that his sail bad broken down and he anchored for safety,
ONE FAMILY.
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shop at No. 53 Shaukiwan Road, in | SIXTH BANKRUPTCY IN│" reapones to a knock on his door, opened it in the belief that a late customer desired to make a pur- clinse. Three men rushed into his shop and intimidated him with a revolver and a chopper.
The master of the shop was driven into a cubicle, but he was neither bound nor angged, or were the other occupants of the premises. The robbers atole from a woman a gold finger-ring and as they were leaving the house one of them snatched a red blanket from a bed, which blanket the police sub- sequently recovered from a pawn- shop.
LIABILITIES OVER £20,000;" ASSETS ONLY £160,
proach in that qualification that one flour.
it cannot be sold that it is be- cause a planist le not an attraction,
SMART WORK.
MAGISTRATE COMMENDS
EUROPEAN.
use, curiously enough, Levitzki we have had violinists 'rusi singers find good houses here. Moreover,
who have been very disappointed at their welcome, Misa Mabel Garrison "I should like to congratulate being so insulted at the handful Mr. Guest on his smart piece of who came to hear her that she even work," said Mr. W. Schofield, at mentioned it in an interview after the Kowloon Magistracy this she got back to America. Norgan morning, when a Chinese Was It be said that sweltering weather fined $50), or six weeks' hard la- or pouring rain prevented people hour, for stealing a camp hed from leaving their homes, at night: re- 'he Peninsula Furniture Store, of cently the evenings have been, per-Nathan Road. fect.
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PROMISSORY NOTE CASE.
INDIAN WATCHMAN WITII- DRAWS HIS' CLAIM.
The action brought by Sangat| Singh, watchman at the Tafkoo Sugar Refinery. against Mr. J. S.) Landolt, of the G.P.I., for the sum)
of 3440 alleged to be due under a Promissory note dated November 3, 1924, was withdrawn in the Sum mary Court this morning, before Mr. Justice Jacks.
According to the plaintiff, who was represented by Mr. C. A. S. Russ, the total summ due was 3840, but instalments amounting to $200
Mr. A. E. Guest was riding in a were admitted to have been palu,
I have no grouse against those rich along Nathan Rond yester-leaving the balance claimed.
ay morning when he saw n Chin- The defence, was that the note who are genuinely bored with music. The fact remains that so-se take a camp bed from the front in question had been superseded of the Peninsula Furniture Stare. By two other 'notes which had been. called music-levera RFI utterly casual and lethargic even where and walk away. After following, paid off. The notes were given musicians of world-wide reputation the mus for a short distance, Mr when the plaintiff stated to the de- are cancerned, and the excuses ad Guest seized him and later hand-fendant that the original note had The six members of one family vaneed for not having been to heared him over to the police. in Southport had all been through them are puitry in the extreme. There was a second man with the Bankruptcy Court wha disclosed laving been confronted for weeks he accused, but he managed to at Liverpool County Court, when with posters (romplete with porcăcape. Leord Cooklin, of Southport, ap-strait) announcing a corrert, people plied for his discharge,
will exclaim with suprise “Oh, was
been lost, and if was contended that Sangat Singh was trying to re cover on the original note which was supposed to have been lost.
This morning, Mr. Russ said ho had discussed the matter with Mr.
conducted the cuse for Mr. Ian- dolt, and the plaintiff was prepared to withdraw the action.
Hi Lordship accordingly per- mitted the cuse to be withdrawn and awarded costs to the defen-
The Olhein! Receiver, suspending that yesterday? What a pity! ! the discharge, anid Cooklin's should love to have gone, but I 1 OPIUM SELLER FINED.J. M. D'Almada Remedios, who liabilities when he was adjudicated the date slip by," Cr. "I had booked totalled £2,156 and assets £25 up a party for bridge and couldn't worth of book debts which had possibly put it off."
Or, "I Slept Through Robbery realised nothing, though £83 had|couldn't wake my husband up and A curious fact in connexion with heen recovered from a creditor who didn't like to go alone." Or, "The the robbery, as pointed out by Mr. was paid by the debtor after an act Theatre Royal sents are so uncom Murphy, is that there were three or of bankruptcy. four persone sleeping in the shop of the affair, as they slept right at the time, who could say nothing through the robbery. There were two children on the premises who
The Judge said it seemed as if began to cry on the robbers intrud- ing into their cubicle, and probably the family were assisting one an
unsuccessful business this was the reason why the robbers ther in did not remain long enough to transactions.
of the make thorough search house, Mr. Murphy gave it as his opinion that there was probably little of value in the house that was robbed.
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At 11.30 on the night of the rob- bery,, a Mr. Swan was proceeding home on his motor car when he no- ticed a cur drawn up on one side of the road opposite the address where the robbery occurred. Mr. Swan observed that the car faced the Lown, and that men were in the act of entering it, not in the paual way. through the car's door, but oyer the door, which was 'not even open. The car's headlights were not on, and from the buried looks
Liabilities of the six members
the Court between 1921 and 1925 of the family who had been through totalled £26,632, while the assets were £162.
into the house through the roof,
The Arst and second defendants were on the premises. A search by the police revealed the string of pearls stolen from No. 17, Broadwood Road. The two defen- Policc dunts were taken to the Station, and, in consequence of information volunteered by the first defendant, a party of police took the two men to No. 147, Woug Nei Chong Road, where, the third defendant was arrested.
Revolver Produced,
In describing her arrest, Mr.
of the men and the fact that the Murphy said that on arrival at No. joar atarled away, Mr. Swan's Buspicions were aroused and he 17, Wong Nei Chong Rond, the wheeled his own ear round and police knocked
gaye
at the door and
chase. He had the mis- after some time the woman put her fortune to be delayed by tramcars head out of a window and said which he had to pass and also ex-something to one of the two defen dants, to which the first defendant perienced delay in
responded with a request that the pedestrians.
avolding
Car Disappears. When he reached the Bay Viow Police Station, he stopped for a minute or so to make a report, but by the time he had, done so, the other car was out of sight. Mr. Swan was unable to observe the number of the fugitive car.
The police, after being notified, carried out the usual examination of the premises,
Acting on Information received, said Mr. Murphy, the police ralded No. 198, Praya East, top floor. A party of polive gained entry by climbing into the premises through the roof. Another party of police who were waiting at the stairway Landing were lot into the premises by their companions, who climbed
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revolver "be handed over 10 the people to whom it belonged." The woman withdrew and after about ten minutes produced a revolver done up in a parcel of newspaper.
The first defendant, said Mr. Murphy, next took the police to a pawnshop in Wanchal where the blanket was recovered, and certain other property was also recovered on voluntary information, given by the first defendant.
An Identification parade was subsequently hold, but the men were not picked out.
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Mr. Lindsell here remarked that there appeared to be no against the second defendant.
Mr. Murphy:There is some They evidence, your Worship. made statements,
The case is proceeding,
POSED AS DEALER IN MEDICINES.
Describing himself as a medicine-dant. fortable and I am under treatment seller, a Chinese, of No. 132, Can- for balls."
ton Road, was charged before Mr. How many members of the Phil-W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- harmonic Society, consisting of trucy this morning, with being In supposed music-lovers, were to be possession of 3.4 thels of prepared
at Malsciwitsch's recitals?"pium. How many even of those who Revenue Officer Tallon said that appear at the Helena May Winter when he raided the house he found Musicales as performers turned up men smoking opium. to hear him? Frankly, I have His Worship, remarking that spoken since the concerts to medicine-seller was an euphemism number of people whose protesta-for opium-seller, fined the defen-
sezn
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dant $279.
The New Neighbour,
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FAMOUS FENCE OF SHATTERED HOPES.
GRAND NATIONAL JUMP MADE EASIER.
One of the most difficult jumpa on the Grand National course at Aintree-the Cannl fence-where many horses have come to grief, has been entirely remodelied since last spring.
The ditch has been filled in and the fence lengthened by 32 feet, while the wings have been lowered by three feet.
It is at this fence that a full left turn has to be taken, and there is only a short distance for the Jockey to get his mount balanced for the formidable Valentine's Brook.
Formerly, if one horse tell it was almost impossible for those following to escapa interference.
In this year's Grand Natiorial nearly 30 horees refused to jump the, Canal fence, the only ones to get over being those racing on the extreme right. The record of falls In the last four years lat follows:- 1025
1027 ...B 1020......5 19283 The alterations are approved by a number of prominent trainers.
This morning's Harbour Office rehorts gave 18 arrivals and 16 departures, with British holding top place. The tonnage return was not comparatively good, but with British recording a total of cargo approximating. 16,000 tons, the highest inward returns, and the second best of the througha, the figures were up to the average. At 9 o'clock this morning there were 56 vessel in port, of whcih 25 were British.
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