THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
JUNK OWNERSHIP DISFIGUREMENT OF
PROBLEM.
CRAFT ORDERED TO BE RELEASED BY COURT.
LICENCE STILL HELD.
Under an order made by the Pulsne Judge in the Summary Court this morning, junk, seized for debt, is to be released by the Court, but the licence for it is to be retained in the eastoly
of the Court.
The junk hus figured promin eubly in actions heard during this year in the Summary Court. It was sought, in the original action, to decide the ownership of the craft, but oven after to-day's pro- coedings the ownership remains in doubt and the junk is now freed.
The matter arose out of three claims against a man called Chau Ho un promissory note Judg
was given for the three plaintiffs and after the junk had been seized, an application for its sale wits made. When
ment
the
ense was last before the Court in July, the Pulane Judge intimated that it would have to be establish ed that the junk was the property of the debtor.
Witness's Claim.
Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios to-day tendered evidence of, this, enlling a canvasser of the top Wo Arm, 246, Hollywood Rond who stated that Chau Ho was the owner of the junk, which was ased by his firm to transport. cargo to China.
Witness produred various books which his Lordship ruled out as inadmissable, saying that Chau Ho might have signed any num- her of documents and yet not be the owner of the jutth.
The witness further stated that Chau. He told him that he owned the junk.
The manager of another firm of freight brokers was also called and said he knew Chau Ho. He knew him to he the master of the junk, but witness said he could not discriminate between owner and master.
Insuflleient Evidence.
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His Lordship still held that the the junk could not he sold an ovidence of ownership which had been tendered.
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MEMORIAL.
·CHINESE CHARACTERS ON A KOWLOON MONUMENT.
WHAT VISITORS SAW.
During the recent visit to the port of the French flagship Waldeck Roseno, a detachment of sailors, under the command of Flag Lieutenant De Bryns, visited and pinced a wreath on the memorial erected near the Diocesan Girls School in Kowloon to the memory of the French seamen who lost their lives when the destroyer Fronde" sank in the dianstrous typhoon of 1906,
Now that the Waldeck Rosseau
has left Hongkong, attention may be drawn to EL circumstance which must have left a very poor impression, 011 our French visitors regarding the Colony's care of its monuments. We refer to the fact that on the marble tablet of the memorial which bears an inscription in. French, a number of Chinese characters have been printöd la black paint, enusing a most objectionable dis-
gurement of the
memorial.
What the precise import of the printed characters is,, we cannot say, but, whatever it may be, no credit attaches to the authorities for permitting the disfigurement on the to remain. Incidentally, wall of the Diocesan School opposite. the memorial, there are also a sumber of other Chinese characters, similarly painted..
We suggest that the least that! the Goverment can do is to give this Kowloon memorial a thorough clean-up, and, more particularly, to remove the Chinese characters It will be recalled that some few years ago, British and American
ailers, disgusted with the dirty condition of The Wanchai, mom- ment, themselves undertook the task of cleaning it, adding a wreath of tribute to those in whose honour the memorial was erected, when they had completed their self-imposed task. It would have been rather humiliating had the French sailors on Sunday morning done likewise at memorial.
the Fronde
PRISON AND BIRCH BANISHEE SENT TO
FOR THIEF.
MAXIMUM SENTENCE ON A PICKPOCKET.
sentence of a
ALERT WATCHMAN.
The maximum year's hard labour and 24 strokes of the birch was inflitted by Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, at the Central Police Court this morning, on a pickpocket, who was convicted of the theft of
purse from a small boy.
PRISON.
MAN WHO CAME BACK TWO DAYS TOO SOON.
A THEFT RECALLED.
AUGUST 21, 1929.
OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORDS.
MESSRS. E. D. SASSOON & CO. SUMMONED.
BASEMENT DISPUTE.
When the case in which a Chinese At the instance of the Sanitary was charged with returning from Department, Messrs. E. D. Sasson banishment two days too soon was and Co., us owners of No. 11. Wa mentioned before Mr. T. S. Whyte Hop Street, were summoned before Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy. Mr. T. M. Hazerigg, at the Central this morning, Detective Sergeant Pollee Court this morning, for Fowlie said that he had received allowing the basement of the build- instructions to preas the charge ing to be occupied as a workshop. This was the recond time with- His Worship remarked, on seeing in a week in which the maximum the defendant's criminal record, sentence had been passed, the first that accused had received having been the case in which a sentence of twelve months hard man Anatched a handbag from labour for theft in 1918. His woman.
Worship fancied that it must have a dia-been a bad theft.
THE KING RETURNING
TO HEALTH.
Doctors' Issue Oficio] Bulletin.
Case
The summons, it was explained, was brought under Section 45 of the Publle Health and Building Ordinance.
of
Appearing for the defendant Company, Mr. A. S. Gubbay said the summons came as a surprise to The police stated that
Of course, said his Worship, the them, as their position was that of trict watchman who witnessed the theft, arrested the pickpocket in reason the police were pressing the landlords, who had rented out the was because there were building as residential quarters. Kwong Yuen Street East, and re-
suspicious circumstances connect He believed that the tenant had, Worship did not think he could The owners were not to know what ed with the man's arrest, but his in turn, rented it to a sub-tenan take that into consideration. He had transpired on the premises. thought he was also bound to Inspector Foster, of the Sanitary assume that the defendant had only Department, said that Messrs. E. just returned to the Colony. Of D. Sassoon and Co., na owners of course the police might feel that great deal of property, ware
notised that the basements he had been here for months.
their buildings were not to be used for any other purpose than that of storage. The position was clearly defined, but at the moment (Inspector Foster) could not quote the inw on the subject, and as other case of a similar nature were impending, he would ask the Court te adjourn the case for one week to enable the Head of the Sanitary Department to prepare his case.
Mr. Gubbay-The people themselves sub-let the premises, and what they do with them they never let us know. This in the ftrat time we have heard of it. We have a lot of property we cannot go and inspect all of it.
SANDRINGHAM SOON.
London. Aug. 20. The following bulletin wAK Issued from Buckingham Pa- lace this evening:
The progress of the King's restoration to health continues, and is Majesty will be able to proceed to Sandringham in a few days,
The wound is steadily di- minishing and in healing Antisfactorily.
His Majesty is deriving benefit from breathing and other physical exercises, and both bodily and mental activity can now be undertaken without undue fatigue.'
(Signed) Stanley Hewett,
Hugh Rigby, Dawson of Penn.
--Reuter,
His Worship nid he would assume accused, had just returned and also assume that he was not doing anything for which he could be charged.
Sentence of one mouth's hard labour was imposcil.
EARLY MORNING ROBBERY.
WOMAN GAGGED & RELIEVED
OF BANGLES.
Mr. Hazlerigg said a landlord
The police received a report this morning, to the effect that reserved the right to see that his robbery has occurred in the western district.
A Chinese woman, living on the second floor of No. 45. Tung Street, Mays that at 6.45 this morning, she was in the kitchen, when, through a door which commands a view of the staircase, she saw a man going up to the third floor. Presently he reappeared and came into the
place was kept in good order, but: he had no general right to go round and pry into it at night or at any other time of the day to see, what the people were doing.
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Inspector Faster said, that landlords, it was the duty of the defendants. to visit the premises and see that the basement was kept locked up.
The Magistrate:-Still have got to be satisfied on that. I would. shall adjourn the case for week.
„TA, METAPACIRE PROF£21112 kitchen where she was sitting, and, hy the use of threats, forced her to submit to being gagged with alike to hear argument in that. I piece of cloth.
The Kowloon mentorial was erected by the British community turned the parse to the boy, who after the disastrous fynboon of 1906-und in May, 1909, it was in till then was not even aware of veiled by Mile, Morel, daughter of his lose. It was a fruitless enter
Mr. Remedios replied that one the Governor of Tenghing. It is the part of the thief, for
the junk was freed, it would be Although the sailed
away. licence might remain with the Court, the junk might be aniled away and might evade a police launch. The man would probably po an ixrd at night and plear nit. Mr. Roinedios said the judg ment creditors bad gone to the troublé to keep a watchma on board the junk, and he could not see how he could further satisfy his Lordship regarding ownership.
His Lordship said that he did not think releasing the junk deprived Mr. Remedios from the right of seizing it again.
Court's Decision.
The order for anle of the junk was refused, and an order Was made for the vessel to be releas
a granite obelisk, with inscriptions In English and French on marble tublets near the base of the monu- nout,
MILLION DOLLARS
DAMAGES.
"DRY". CHIEF'S CLAIM ON "MOPPING MABEL."
St. Louis, Aug. 20.
the purse was erupty,
The robber was joined by another
man, who took a pair of bangles
from her wrists, these being valued His Worship viewed the offence at $65. A few minutes later, both as a serious ane, from the fact that men ran down the stairs and made the victim was a mere child, be-good their escape. Ing uniler 12 years of age.
In a statement to the police, the The proscenting police officer in-woman says that neither of the formed his Worship that the pre-men was armed. seat was the third time on which this district watchman had arrest- ed a man for such larceny, and he asked permission to bring such come! mendable conduct before the notice of the Captain Superintendent of Pulice.
His Worshin ondarsed the sug-
DRAMATIC TURNS AT
•
THE HAGUE.
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of the allocations which are likely to accrue therefrom. It is learned that as the result of this failure, inmajority and minority reports will
be issued.
Mrs, Mabel Walker Willebrand, gestion, and personally commend been unable to agree on the amount formerly Assistant United States ed the watchminn. Attorney-General in charge of the enforcement of the Prohibition Act, is being sued for damages of G$1,000,000, by the fornier Chief of the St. Louis Prohibition Department,
Federal
on the
TYPHOON NEAR PRATAS.
ARREST REVEALS.
BURGLARY.
one
BANISHEE GETS A YEAR'S
HARD LABOUR,
The arrest of a suspect at Shan- kiwan in possession of stolen pro- perty has cleared up a burglary committed earlier at No, 39, Main Street, in that district.
It was found that the tenants
there had been robbed of property and money, amounting to a tot value of $200, by a cat-burglar, who had broken into the house and nude his escape, unobserved, Later. When the suspect was arrested, One of the British Treasury ex-and interrogated with regard to ground that she charged him The royal Observatory reportsperts has confirmed the reports the origin of the property found ed, the licence being retained by with "official misconduct while in that the unticyclone remains over that the Experts have been unable on him, he confessed to having the Court under execution until a office" in a series of articles on Japan and has weakened. A de to agree upon the value of the committed the burglary. It was further order, A further order Prohibition, which she is writing pression or typhoon has formed "concessions" offered by the other also found that he was an unde- was made for execution to lae in the Americas newspapers,
about 120 miles S.S.E. of the four creditor Powers to Great sirable, with a bad record, who amended by restoring direction Mrs. Willebrandt, who is called Pratus and appears to be moving Britain.
had been expelled from the Co- to arrest judgment debtár,
"Mopping Mabel" by the "Wets" slowly, westward,
Consequently, the Ministers of lony. a. Lordship added that be resigned her just shortly after The forecast till noon to-morrow the Powers concerned must them- The case was heard before Mà-
really holding the junk President Hoover took
Fresh; selves grapple with the problem.-jor C. Willson this morning, when over the 8-North-East: winds, licence pending a claim in it. Administration.--Renter's Ameri- fair at first, cloudy with rain later. Reuter.
the prisoner was sentenced to He could not release the Beeneel
can Service.
three months' hard labour for until he found nut to whom il
burglary, and further nine belonged. He was sorry that he
months for disobeying an order could not do what Mr. Remedios
of banishment. wanted, but the first step made! was a fake one, and that made by Mr. Itemedios's client.
Was
THE UNEMPLOYED PROBLEM.
was
EXPERIMENTAL AIR MAIL.
FROM IRISH PORT TO LONDON.
London, Aug. 20.
It was officially stated in Dublin 10-day that the Irish Free State
LATEST FIGURES REVEAL AN Post Office has sanctioned the ex-
INCREASE.
periment of transferring malls from the North German Lloyd liner Karl- sruhe, when she arrives
#t
London, Aug. 20. Galway, to an aeroplane which will The total number of unemploy-proceed to London, piloted by ed on August 12th was 1,169,300. [Colonel. Russell, of the Free State This was 15,371 more than the Air Force,
fortnight before and 144,859 less -Correspondence will be impressed than the year before.
The total was exclusive of per- sons rendered idle by the dispute in the cotton industry-British Wirelcan.
AMERICAN TOURISTS GOING HOME.
་
NINE THOUSAND ARRIVE
IN A DAY.
New York, Aug. 20.
The homeward rush of Amerk
with a rubber stamp bouring the words "Experimental Air Mail: Galway to London." No special charge will be made. The liner is expected on Monday.-British Wire- lena.
CALCUTTA JUTE MILL STRIKE.
AGITATORS CREATING NEW DIFFICULTIES.
Calcutta, Aug. 20. Over seventy thousand juto
can tourists from Europe has bo-workers are now idle, apparently
owing to the misunderstanding of
gun with the arrival to-day of the terms of the settlement of the nine thousand on board the rent liners, Malesite, Bremen, Ile de recent strike.
France And others. Reuter's American Service.
A speedy settlement is hoped for, but interested agitatora are creating difficulties.--Reuter.
"Would you feel more at ease if I went along, Honey?"
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris
Brussels Amsterdam
Berlin Copenhagen Vienna
singfors
Yokohina
-London, Aug, 20.
$129,845
.10.20
.817
-47%
..34.87 12.10
20.255
.18.215
.34.42
102
Bucharest Buenos Aires
Shanghal
.2/44 3/11.3/16
New York Geneva
4.84 25/32
25.205
Milolm
.92,726 .18.000
Prague
Madrid
Athens
Homb
Silver (spot)
Ogla
Bilver (forward)
18.205
1831
31.090
376.
.6%
1/5.25/32
.1/11%
.24.5/10
.24.7/10
British Wirelena.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships are now in port:
Basin H.M. Ships Tamar and Moth.
North Arm-H.M. Ships Ster- ling and Sandwich,
In Dock.-L.19.
Foreign.-U.S.S. Guàm and Chin- ese gunboat Kwang Kum,
There are
few
suitable
for small
LADIES' WEAR
AT
HALF PRICE.
Special Sale
OF
RAINCOATS
AND
BOOTS
AT
25%
OFF
Discount
REGULAR PRICES.
We have decided to offer the whole of our Stock of Burberry, " Poltinval,!". «Garberdine" And other Cloths at this large sacrifice to make room for the new automa Goods,-
All Sizes on Sale at
Wm. POWELL, Ltd.
10, Ice House Street.
Court Shoes
ANKLES
are shown to advantage in well fit- ting Court Shoes.........worn with an appropriate ensem. ble they are de riquer."
are popular.
NEW STYLES FOR LADIES JUST RECEIVED. ALSO "START-BITE" FOR CHILDREN,
GORDON'S
KAYAMALLY BUILDING. TEL. C. 4052.
We have removed
OUR -
TO-
SHOWROOM
AND
OFFICES
24B, Des Vœux Road,
LEE YU KEE
Sanitary Engineers.
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Cheapest and Beat
From, all leading Compradores.
TO-DAY ONLY at 5.20 & 9.15 p.m.
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EUGENE O'BRIEN
"SIEGE
The most vibrant story of married life over placed on the screen, striking, 'sensational in its depiction of a young wife's struggle against her husband's relatives."
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* MAJESTIC
THE
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON.