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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1929.
MAJOR OGILVY'S WARNING TO SIKH FENG YU-HSIANG'S
DUTIES.
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE P.R.I.
LIEUT. COL. COMYN GIVES
EVIDENCE...
THE COURT-MARTIAL.
Lieut. Col. I. J. Comyn, com manding the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderora, - gave evidence when the General Court Martial hearing charges of negl gence preferred against Major Ogilvy while acting as President of the Regimental Institute was re- sumed this morning.
CONSTABLES.
TOO FREE WITH THEIR BATONS.
RICSHAMEN FIGHT.
"Both lost their tempers," said Inspector Shannon of two parties. in an assault case before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Police Court this morning.
An Indian policeman complained of being struck by a ricksha coolin In Ice Houso Street last night, aftor he had told the latter and other cooltos squatting in the street, to move on.
CAMOUFLAGE.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR COMPLETE.
FATE OF NANKING RESTS IN SOUTH HONAN.
ARSENAL DAMAGED.
Shanghai, June 6.
It is now generally accepted in They argued informed circles that the an- the point with him, and the defen-nouncements of the impending dant, after striking him with both retirement of Marshal Feng Yu- sts, tore his uniform shirt... halang from the political field, and
The charge of assault was the reported defection of the lead- denied by the defendant, who, say-ing Kuominchun generals, includ- He said that Major Ogilvy waning that he was the "aggrloved ing General Han Fu-chu, one of P.R.I, from the time witness took party, showed a weal on his back Feng's right-hand men, le so much over command of the battalion on as evidence of his having been camouflage, enabling Feng Yu- halang to complete preparations October 2nd, 1926, until he handed badly_handled by the Sikh, over to Major Lake, the new P.RI.
for the war with Nanking. in October 1928. Accused was the senior major of the battalion and had other dutien in addition to thone as P.I.
Standing Orders,
Mr. Hamilton observed that it looked to him more like the wenl left by a cane-something like the mark left on youthful delinquenta by the Court Sergeant three days after.
The altuation is believed to presage warfare on an immeneg scale, beginning In the south of Homan Province, where it is thought, the fate of the National Another ricksha coolle said the Government will be decided. Lieut. Col. Comyn went on to constable tore his shirt as he rench-Our Own Correspondent. give extracts from the battalloned for his whistle. standing order in which it was laid down that the duties of the senior major included assistance in the general supervision of the batta lion, charge of the Regimental Institute and control of the management of the sergeant's
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As P. R. 1. Major Ogilvy operat. ed four accounts. He was respon- sible for the receipt of all monies, the payment of all billa and the preparation of a balance sheet to be laid before the quarterly Audit Board.
Witness said he also held the P. R. 1. responsible that the ac counts were properly kept. Among the regular monies re- ceived by the P. R. I, were the re- bates from the NA.A.F.I. The latter enme in the form of a cheque
lo payable
the Commanding Oficer. Witness endorsed it and passed it on to the P. R. I.
Other regular payments paid
Mr. Hamilton said it appeared to him that there had been a fight. The constable started it and was rather heavy-handed towards the coolie. No doubt, the coolic struck the constable also, but what he should have done was to go to the Station and exhibited his weal to the Inspector-in-charge.
To the coolie: 1, can't fine you
for assault, but I must order you to pay $3 compensation for the damage done to the shirt.
Addressing Inspector Shannon, his Worship said that constables should be warned about the way they used their batons. His Wor- sip said he had perannally seen, near the Star Ferry, constables swinging their balons about. They were to be careful lest it might catch any- body on the head.
direct to the P. R. 1. were rebates BIG EXPLOSION
from the master tailor, swill money, subscriptions
from com-
panies for the cinema, Our Com-
rades Fund and
the Willard
CANTON.
OUT BOMB.
J
Feng and Yen Hol-shan.
Nanking messages from Chinese sources, show that the authorities realise that the talk of the resignations of Marshals feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hal-shan has been part of a plan by the two to enable them to complete war pre- parations.
It is understood that Feng Yu- hsiang has now wired to Shanst explaining to Yen Hal-shan rea- sons for his inability, to go abroad, atating that the Central Govern- ment has issued a warrant for | his arrest, and it is deemed unsafe for him to leave Honan until the Central Government has assured him of his freedom.
Nanking War Plans.
Generals Feng Chen-wu and Tang San-chi left Nanking yester IN day morning for the North arriving
at Pengfow in the afternoon.
takings from the men's recreation HAWKER KILLED IN DIGGING rooms at Murray Barracks and Mount Austin. It was customary for rebates to be paid monthly. Subscriptions and swill money were also paid monthly.
Messing Finances, Accused had no financial re- sponsibility for the messing ne count. Witness said he required : the mesaing officer to take the book to the P.R.I. before it was handed to witness. The P. R. I. initialled the book. This was done to ensure that the P. E. I. was au courant with the messing of the battalion.
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MUNICIPAL, HOME AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS. What does the ratepayer get for hia money? How would you make a three-legged stool? What are the main difference between paralin and petrol?
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.
Canton, June 6.
It is understood that the troops of the two generals have received Instructions to movo along the Lung-Hai Line towards Yenchow. and Tsining in readiness to launch an attack on Feng Yu-halang's forces.
Hanyang Arsenal Fire.
The Nanking Government has A terrific explosion occurred in been considerably alarmed by official news from Hankow to the the eastern suburb of Canton yes-effect that a fire broke out at the terday, with the result that
Hanyang Arsenal on Tuesday hawker nearby was killed instant evening. The damage is said to ly. Fortunately, the man wag alone in the vicinity at the time run into lakhs.
or the casualties might have been The Arsenal, which is said to be the biggest in China, has been Fenvy.
The exact cause of the explo-partially destroyed. Incendiarism sian ta not known, but an official is suspected and the Inference is police report states that it must that supporters of Feng Ya-hsiang have been enused by a bomb have been at work. which had been buried in the
Curious Methods.
Exactly how the story of Han
Once the P R I. had seen it witness signed the reconciliation statement certificate without fur- ther Inquiry,,
The P. R. 1's duties included thearth for some time by outlaws
for an unlawful purpose. purchase and sale of a certain
It is believed that the hawkor Fu-chu's alleged defection, which amount of stock, Including hose
came across something buried in is now regarded as quite untrue, tops, rackets, badges, titles, per- mament passes, regimental his-the ground and released the de- arose is difficult to fathom. It is tories and, he thought, silk stock-tonator by his unskilful attempt suggested in some quarters that it. When the polleo Han Fu-chu followed instructions ings. The officer responsible for to recover
arrived at the scene there was from Feng, but in Nanking. it is the stock was supposed to keep a
the record of it. In this case, the ac- nothing to be seen but a big hole now tacitly admitted that
in the ground, with the dead body Government circulated the story, cused, was responsible as P. R. 1.
In accordance with the regula of the hawker lying nearby.taking advantage of Feng's rigor tipne witness said he assembled a Nam Chung Pao.
ous censorship in Honan, in the quarterly Audit Board to check the
hope that it would restrain other accounts. From the end of the
lexders from allying themselves with the Christian General.
ACCIDENT.
June quarter 1928, the Audit DUKE OF GLOUCESTER Board certified that the Instruc tions contained in the King's Regulations had been complied with.
DETAILS OF POLO FIELD MISHAP.
London, June 5. H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, the King's third son, broke his collar-bone while playing polo at Brighouse Polo Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, yesterday,
The Duke's pony slipped and fell
Alliance Against Chiang,
Shanghai, June 5. New developments in Chinese politico-military affairs with no- tion-wide effects are bound to occur as a consequence of a plan dis- covered by Marshal Chiang Kai- shek that barshals Feng Yu-halang and Yen Hai-san have concluded a dual alliance against the Nanking
group.
Audit Board's Work. Witness said that the Audit Board record book contained a and space between a man walking space for remarks to be brought on a canal bank and a barge travel to the notice of the Commanding ling at 24 miles an hour. An even Officer. The remarks were points more abstruse calculation would be which suggested themselves to the needed to "determine the cable Audit Board after auditing the ac-
In connexion with previous re- capacity of a hypothetical pan-counts. Witness's attention was technicon with the aid of a rule, a drawn to certain things in 1927 as it was being put into a gallop and ports that Sheng Chien and Hou sketch of the posterior view, and and 1928 but there was nothing of the Duke was thrown heavily Isi-shan, are to side with Feng Yung-chong, subordinates of Yon its special importance or of an out-complete fracture of the collar-bone Yu-hsiang and that other generals, the slenderest of clues 10
standing character. When he con résulted. Ho received prompt medi- dimensions,"
aldered that anything called for cal attention and was afterwards including Tang Seng-chi and Feng action on his part he issued orders taken to his hotel, where an X-ray Chin-wu, are also favouring the accordingly.
photograph was taken and showed same movement, it is believed that Yon Hei-shan and Feng Yu-halang that the fragments were in an ex- cellent position, the injury having are the leaders of this movement. resulted in a clean fracture, without Nan Chun Kuo News Service. aplintering.
Feng's Big Bluff. The Duke arrived at Victoria, British Columbia, last Saturday
Shanghai, June 5. from Japan, where he had gone as Regarding the reports of an out- Order of the Garter to the Emperor. Honan, well informed opinion in head of the mission to present the break of fighting in southern He visited Vancouver yesterday to Shanghal in that Feng Yu-halang regiment and a local team--British bluf, repeating the tactics employ- Wireless. Men in Employ.
ed against Fengtien In 1924 and 1925, proclaiming his retirement In Are these men to all intents and
this instance while instructing his purposes employed by the P. R. 1.7sponsible for the functioning of subordinates to declare "allegiance"
Yes,
the cinema and the payment of to Nanking, He was responsible for seeing. bills.. in connexion with it. He enabling him to make full prepara- that they got their pay monthly? was also responsible for the auptions for major warfare. Yes, being a custom of the Service. ply of papers to the regimental. The challenging of Nanking's In reply to further questions recreation rooms and the payment power is now beginning. ---Our Own witness said the P. R. I. was re- of bills.
In the General Knowledge and Intelligence paper candidates are asked: "Suppose you had to ar- range a film entertainment for chil These are examples of the ques tren, ared from 10 to 15. What tions put to Metropolitan police three almis would you choose? constables who seek to qualify for Cive, brief notes on the subject of promation, at the hands of the each film." Civil Service Commissioners.
Domestic affairs do not fall be- The questions uppear in speci-yond the view of the examiners, for men examination papers for First candidates are asked to discuss the and Second Class Certificates, and relative advantages of linoleum, published by the Stationery Office. The papers reveal in fact, that ver. Carpets, and stain as coverings for cooks, the cinema operator and play in a polo match between his has been engineering a monumental
satility and nimble ingenuity of in- tellect are required of the am- bitious police constable,
sitting-room floors.
There is, finally, an opportunity of distinction for the thoughtful police constable, reflecting 18 he There is a superficial flavour of tramps his solitary beat, in the Einstein's mathematics about a following question: "What can question set for the Second Claes you say for and against the pro- Cortificate. Candidates are asked posal for a Channel Tunnel between to unravel the relationship-in Lime France and England?"
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Major Armitage: Did you hold the Audit Board responsible for checking P. R. I. stock 7-Yet, I consider the responsibility of the Audit Board in implied by a cer- tificate which I require them to render as regards the assets, be made by the P. R. 17-Yes. Were there regular payments to There was extra duty pay for
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