ALLEGED SECRET
PROFIT.
MR. "SOLLY" JOEL IN LAND DEAL.
H
TWO BLACKMAILERS SENTENCED,
ACTOR WHO ONCE EARNED
UP TO £10,000 A YEAR.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929.
·THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE..
THE RUSSIANS MAKE NEW DEMANDS.
Tokyo, Aug. 4.
THE PASSING · OF COVENT GARDEN.
PLEASURES OF
· INCENDIARISM.
"PYROMANIAC" SENTENCED AT VIENNA.
and 1928
LOOKING FOR A SITE FOR NEXT OPERA HOUSE-
Two actors were sent to prison
Covent Garden Opera House is At the town of Kreme, in on charges of blackmail -nt thei A message from Manchuli anya to go. The present leases of the Nether Austria, a airunge ease DUEL WITH COUNSEL.Old Bailey recently. They were: the Russo-Chinese negotiations are Opera House, which have been held recently, came before the court.
John Preston, 67, charged with threatened with rupture, the Soviet since 1890, expire in February, In the course of 1927 London, July 4. demanding money with menaces demanding the right to
station 1933 and, unless the proposals for most of the houses in the village Mr. "Sally" Joel, the millionaire from a London candidate (whose troops along the C.ER. Kharing the extension of the market are of Unterwindhng were destroyed racehorse owner, was cross-ex-rame was not disclosed)
at the the guard with the Chinese,
changed, the Opera House will be by successive fires. One farm amined when the hearing was con- General Election,. and Samuel; It is understood the Soviet con-pulled down in little more than two after the other was laid in ashes, tinued yesterday, before Mr.
Elwyn Leslie, 41, charged with tenths that the Chineso undertaking years time.
and the villagers lived in terror. Justice Luxmare in the Chancery counselling and procuring Presto restore the status quo anta (sic), So we break with a long tradition Eventually: a peasant's son, Ignaz Division, of the action brought by ton to commit the offence.
is valueless without such Mr. Froderick Alfred Tomlinson,
and perhaps begin another, and so Weber, was arrested, and he con- we reach a point in our cultural his-feused to having caused all the guarantee. of Colwyn Bay, against Mr. Solo-
After two witnesses had testi- mon Barnato Joel, and Barnato fled to Preston's high character,
tory where we must properly decido | conflagrations during the past two what opera means to us.
yeara. As a rule he first ignited Bros., of Austin Friars, E.C.; the Mr. Jones, a barrister in court, Beecham Trust Co. (in liquida-said, he would also like to speak tion); Mrs. Doris White and Mr.
Removing his wig, Mr. James Agnes Hickley, of Park-street, went into the witness-box and Westminster, SW, administratora said he had known Preston for 30 of the late Mr. James White's ¦
years, Prenton Wha once estate; and others.
the owner of a number of touring companies and 25 plays, and was making from £5,000 to £10,000 a year.
.
A detective said that Leslie'a
Agreement Reached?
It is reported that Mr. Tal Yun-hsiang has referred the matter to Mukden, and has been instructed every large capital of Europe there returned to take part in attempts It would be idle to repeat that in the barns; then he ran away and to refuse the demand.
is un important Opera House occupat saving the buildings. He even parted to be preparing for thebut in London, the largest city in stined to become his own property. Nevertheless, both sides are reling a position of civic grandeur, burned his mother's house, de- formal conference at Chita shortly. the world, there is none; for the Asked by the judge as to his
Reuter
English are different from other motives, Weber replied that. it The action concerns the sale of
nations and opera has grown but simply gave him pleasure, to see Meux's old brewery site at the
tardily on this soll. But It has the farms blazing. After each corner of Tottenham Court-road, |
grown. During the long two hun-conflagration he went to church Tokyo, Aug. 3. dred years' history of the Covent and, being a Catholic, confessed. W by Moners, Barnato Bros.,
From Harbin it is learned that Garden opera-from 1782 to the pre- It was only during the nights that through Mr. James White, for £550,000, to a syndicate of which correct name was Sidney George. Melnikov, hitherto the Soviet sunt day-the opera has been con- he felt the irresistible impulse
Consul-General at Harbin, crossed inuous except for the short breaks Mr. Tomlinson was a member. Goodchild.
the burder on Friday night, is alleged that a secret profit of
during the rebuilding of the of incendiarinn.
The experts declared Weber to £76,000 was made. This is denied,
He conferred with Mr. Tsai theatre; and, with this, there, has Yan-hsiang, the Chinese Commis-been an increasing popular demand,
he "pyromantle," and the jury Sirioner of Foreign Affairs at Har-One house has aucceeded another sentenced him to six years' inpri-
in at Manchali, abroad train
the summe historic sita sorment, heavily guarded by Chinese troops and this, the third
This is the third of a series of designed by Barry and opened
and purlegs at the border which began in 1858, has carried on on July 30. It is understood that amplified the tradition.
This house, with its vertical tiers મ virtual agreement has been reached to withdraw the troops on both sides, as a guarantee of peace, and also to resume darly the international trains along the changed, and, largely through the should be larger-as large as it is
-"Blackmail is one of the wickedl- est erines that can be committed and it is claimed that a payment by any human being," said of £37,500 to Mr. White was merely Ernest Wild, KC, the Recorder commission paid by the vendor, int is moral murder."
return for his services.
Mr. Tomlinson seeks a declara- tion that the Beecham Trusi, Limited, were trustees for Itim and olher members of the syndiente for the purchase by the Trust of the land referred to. He also seoks a declaration that the £75,000 re- | ceived by Mr. James White and Mr. S. B. Jerl, br Barnato Brothers, was a secret profit, for which they
must account,
Mr. Sally Joel's Denials, The defence contends that the payment to Mr. White of £37,500 was ordinary commission paid by the vendor on the sale, and that There was nothing wrong in the
transaction,
|
Leslie was sentenced to four years' jual servitude and Preston to two years' imprisonment in the seund division
A young woman in 'court mes into tears and had to be assisted outside.
the syndicate --That is not for me
to say.
Would you have done it?" Mr. Joci (indignantly): No. Mr. Jet added that it was not his kind of business.
Sir Patrick pressed Mr. Jóel for
a considerable time with a pro-
w
one.
of little boxes, was built for the opera-going public of seventy years age. Siner then the world has
agencies of general education, and' Chinese Eastern Railway.
now through the good work of Chinese officials at Harbin al-bandensting, the movement of lege that two Chinese passengers public interest, although slow, busa were killed and two wounded when grown and extended itself to every Soviet troops opened fire on a walk of life. seized Chinese steamer on the Amur River.—Renter.
What is the Demand? The demand has grown and grown, but there has been nothing have been prohibitive for the great mass of people, and even for those
position to this effect: 'Suppose | TREASURY WINDFALL. to satisfy it. The prices of seats Mr. White told his friends that the
CARRERAS CHAIRMAN.
Mr. Wfrid Greene, K.C., re-syndiente was £55,800 and the pur- sumed his examination of Mr. S. chase price £50,000, you agree HUGE ESTATE LEFT BY LATE who were able to spend the money B. Joel, who said that in 1928 M. White asked him to have a docu- ment ropled.on to his notepapers Mr. White wanted to show it to the Parent Trust (who were also-de- 1 fendants in the action) to satisfy
them that he was going to get £37,600.
that if Mr. White had taken com-. mission unknown to his frients it would be grossly dishonest? | Mr. Joel agreed, and he added that if a vendor knew of such a thing it would be dishonest to pay
such commission. That was not the case here, he declared.-
Mr. Greene said that the doen. ment started off with the state mont, "Baranta Bivia, receive £175,000, and the next £75,000 is divided equally between us as re-ter), ceived."
Mr. Joel agreed, but denied that he had ever unde any alteration in the original agreement to sell the site for £540,000,
Mr. Greene referred to a further letter from Mr. White saying that the profit to the syndicate would
be £1,250 pravided Mr. White's
Sir Patrick: Would you have trusted him implicitly Yes, up to a point.
Sir Patrick: You would not give him yote £20,000 for the syndicate until he gave you th: £55,000, would you 2-Mo. (Laughter).
Sir Patrick: No you aree that
seats were plentiful and less experi sive,
Auditorium for 5,000.
We may assume, therefore, that in a new opera house the auditorium
possible to make it acoustically: auditorium of 5,000 people-not better chance of paying for a per- a very large one nowadays-stands formance than one of 2,000. This would mean a change in our attitudo towards opern and our time-honour- ed klças of designing pretty opera- houses,
Boxes should be reduced to a minimum, and instead we should have grant sloping tiers of scnty. This has been done in Berlin with seats have been unobtainable, great success acoustically. It will Night after night the house has not give that exclusive atmosphère, been packed and hundreds still wait but nowadays the love of opera is patiently to get in. Season after not exclusive. season every sent has been sold, yet each project is said to have been demand a large site, and a site giv Such a large auditorium would unprofitable. Is there no solutioning good access facilities, for the to this question of dpera in our own great number of peuple and care, country,
It should be an island site at least 200 it. by 150 ft., and so placed
one
London, Aug. 4. The Treasury will get $2,000,000 in death duties from the estate of the Into Mr. Bernhard Baron, formerly chairman of Carreras Ltd. "What was your view of Mr. Areading to his solicitor the estate James White as to his commercial will amoun to £5,000,000 of Supposing that there were suf- honesty 7" asked Six Patrick.--- which £1,000,000 will Loficient support for the view that the as to be easily accessible in the "Well, he could talk a lot." laugh-charities Of this amout one fifth liberal performance of opera was as West End of London, yet set back
will be devoted to Jewish charities | essential in civilising the
com- from a main road so as to allow and the other four fifths to Chris-munity as
State-aided schools, room for the movement of arriv tian and undenominational.. The churches, and art galleries-and iting and departing cars without dis- money will be distributed over as difficult to see why it should not turbing the main road trallic, period of twenty years, The Mai he then the State would make There should be a large space near-
Come grant and opera could. To for by for the parking of cara, ward with greater courag. Then,
Amongst the available sitos in 24d not till then, comes the question London at the moment there is none that would serve perfectly, and only one or two that would serve at all. |propriate site for it. There must
The best one is probably the Dar some point at which, if makes the audience big enough, the chester House Alte in Park Lune, but, we understand, the arrange- never reached that point. We have ments for the sale of the house to turned away good, moury at the the National Sporting Club are al- most complete. Here, there would Our difficulty is to gauge the size | be an opportunity to erect a build-i of our potential opera audience in ing with some civle pride and one London; for we have no proper that could be auen in a pleasant set- means of judging it. Where it is ting. well known that a theatre cannot
Another possibility might be the hold many people, many people will not go near it, although they would site of St. George's Hospital with like to get into it. Sir Thomas the properties adjoining if there Beecham's League of Opera has were soilleient money forthcoming Naval wireless messages stute that over 10,000 subscribers. This is at to build the governors another hos- this trifling sum of £20,000 as in the French cruiser Waldeck-Rous-useful guide, but 40,000 does not pital in a quieter position, and per- the larger sum of £75,000? You ati, fixing the flag of Rear Admiral represent one quarter of the people suade them to move into it, said one thing in the correspon Mouget, expects to arrive at Hong- denée and had a secret and pri.kong or August 13 and will remain who would gladly go to opera if the
until August J. vale-
(Continued on Next Column.)
quis of Rending is one of the ex dentors and trustees,
Generous legacies are left in his if he told the syndicate that the employees and servants and of a great opera-house and an ap- will dir's that a smal Chidi expenses were agrood" te! A*The price was $550,000 and the real result of the deal would be," the price was £175,000, it would have Jack and the Stars and Stripes letter wind on that Barnato Bro-been swindling the syndicate?te that his wife, in a dudlerformance will pay. We have
all be placed with his ardes, be thers draw £475,000 for the site. Certainly.
at the Liberal Jewish Syure at You reveive £37,500 plus your Mr. Joel said that he had no sbare of the profits of the syndi- cension to tell anyone thất ho was ente, making the total received by giving White commission 'of you and Barnato Brothers £724,954, £17,500, and he did not know whe so you are getting a good bargain." ther the syndicate knew of it or
Mr. Jorl dented again that the nut. purchase price was ever agreed as £475,000,
Syndicate's Prolit.
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Mr. White's accounts, he said. showed a total sum receivable in respect of the sale of the site of £611.140. He reserved for penses £20,000, and showed net proceeds of the sale after allow anies of £588,000. The syndicate's | profits was £38,000,
Mr. Joel said that he drew the
gents of the property as against interest of 6 per cent, which he should have received up to cont- plotion. They were not enough to cover the interest, but he had never received the difference,
Mr. Joel agreed that when the site was sold Mr. White would re-
Willesdent. Reuter,
FRENCH CRUISER.'"
turn to him £5,000 of the £2000), WALDECK ROUSSEAU COMING reserved for expenses,
Sir Patrick-Did not you do pre-
cisely the same thing in regard to
31r. Joel-There was no secret from anyone so far as I was enp cerned. I did not know anyone but Mr. White.,
Sir Patrick-Do you think Mr. Tomlinson will get a penny from anybody unless he succeeds in this
tion-11 is difficult for me to answer.
Sir Patrick-Can you suggest for his guidance any source to whieh he can look?
The reply was inaudible in the laughter that followed.
Mr. Joel said that he agreed that Mr. White should reserve £20,000 out of the proceeds for expenses, but that, said Mr. Joel, was a per- zonul arrangement, and was not: intended to bind any other mem- ber of the syndicate. It meant
Sir Patrick-You would not like that the profit' of the syndicate to share with Me, Tomlinson, 1 would be less by the sum men- suppose?--No. tioned. He himself gave up £7,272
J
Sir Patrick referred fo the
to which he would have been en-statement of defence, which de- titled out of the £20,000 extra pro.clared that "If the defendants had At as a contributor to the syndi-¦ received more than they should cate,
have done it was by inadvertence." "What do you mean by that,"
Ridiculous.
Mr. Groene: Sir Patrick Hust-anked Sir Patrick, "Have you ever ings suggested that there was been inadvertent like that before?" something fraudulent or improper, | (Laughter.) What do you say?
Mr. Joe! Camiling): It is ridi-
culous.
There was no answer. Mr. Jack Barnate Joel, the brother or Mr. S. B. Joel, next gave evidence.
Barnato Brothers, said Mr. Joel. had parted with the whole of the
Answering a question by Sir brewery site to the syndicate for Patrick Hastings in cross-examina- a sum which was £37,500 less than tion, he said that he thought Mr. the £550,000. He denied that white was "a little shifty." there had been any fraudulent con- Sir PatrickHe was a man cealment of any part of the trans-who wanted watching?-Most mon action, and described as "abs-want watching. (Laughter.)
lutely false" the necusation that £75,000 was fraudulently received and retained, or that a secret pro- fit was made,
Mr. Joel was then cross-examin- ed by Sir Patrick Hastings, K.C., for Mr. Tomlinson, who asked: Do you think that in acting as he did and taking what he did Mr. White was acting honestly towards Mr. Tomlinson and other members of
Sir Patrick Did he want wat- ching more than most? -He waited, watching carefully, (Laughter.)
"Do you think White cheated the syndicate?" asked Sir Patrick.
"No," said Mr. Joel. "He was entitled to his commission. It is done every day of the week."
The hearing was adjourned.
TO HONGKONG,
dors
"The auntan back would be just, the thing to show off
that new, tan fot fon you bought."
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The Lansdowne House Site.
The available site at the end of Lower Belgrave-street, near Vic. toria Station, has also been men- tioned, but this is rather small and of a difficult shape. There is a part of Aldwych still unbuilt on, but here again there are difficulties: also It has been suggested that the only place where one could get the right amount of space would be on the Government properties in the neighbourhood of Exhibition-road;! hat would the call of opera be so strong as to take people out as far as that? Besides, one hopes that our next opern-house will have the character of a national monument in the centre of London, to be seen by all.
Perhaps the best of the available site IK the Lana- downe House site. It is, almost certain that it new street will be cut through along one side of as a prolongation of Strat- ton-street and there will be a new street at the buck, making an is- land site of about 200 feel by 150 feet. It is in the centre of the West End, it has streets on all siden two of them not used for through traffic and there is the large space of Berkeley-square as a setting for a fine architectural masterpiece and, incidentally, as a parking space for
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