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YOU EATAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1929. AXTĦA OLE CORT 10 OANTE
PSYCHOLOGY OF A TENNIS STARS TO
́ ́MURDERER.
DOCTOR INVITED TO GIVE OPINION.
INTERVENTION BY CHIEF
JUSTICE.
CROSS STREET AFFAIR. "I think it is rather hard "to ex- amine the doctor on the psychology of murderers" said the Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions this morning when Mr. Hing Shing
TOUR EAST.
HENRI COCHET MEMBER OF THE PARTY.
GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
París, Sept. 17. Henri Cochet, the world-famous | tennis player and winner of the Open Singles at Wimbledon this year, has arranged to undertake a tour of the Far East accompanied by other well-known French players in the persons of Jacques Brugnon, Cocheťs partner in doubles, P. Landry, one of the younger school who is regarded 3 a future champion, and M.
FILIPINO'S TRIAL" CONTINUED.
WOMAN DENIES LOVE
FOR ACCUSED,
AFRAID BECAUSE OF THREAT
TO KILL HER
PHOTO INSCRIPTION.
Mrs. Natividad Frailadona, em ployed at No. 5, King's Terrace, Kowloon, this morning denied that she was ever in love with Luis
FIVE-POWER NAVAL WORLD PEACE IN
CONFERENCE.
BRITAIN & U.S.A. SENDING OUT INVITES.
CO-OPERATION ASKED.
London, Sept. 18. Definite steps are Bow being taken for the holding of a Five. Power Naval Disarmament Con- ference early next year.
THE MAKING.
LEAGUE COVENANT & KELLOGG PACT.
PROBLEMS TO BE SHELVED TILL NEXT SESSION?
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OIL FIRES IN US. & ENGLAND.
TWO DISASTROUS OUTBREAKS REPORTED.
HULL BLAZE DANGER,
London, Sept. 18.
Two disastrous fires, involving oll installations, are reported, one in England and the other in the United States. ...
RUSSIA'S BREACH WITH CHINA
SOVIET GOVERNMENTS LATEST NOTE.
NANKING ACCUSED OF GOING BACK ON WORD.
The fire in England has broken
OMINOUS MESSAGE. out at the Anglo-American · Oil} Company's great depot at Salt End, Hull, where half a million
An ominous note is sounded by gallons of paraffin, in a giant oil the Soviet Government in a com- tank, are ablaze.
munication handed to the German Tons of chemical oil-fire extin- Embassy in Moscow yesterday for fire, which, it is feared, will in-ernment of China, through Mr. volve the adjoining tanks.
Chiang Tao-pin, Chinese Minister
1
Lo asked Dr. Alexander Cannon Rodel, also prominent in recent Oliva, when the case in which Olin shall meet in London in the third the League Covenant should be guisher is being poured on' to the transmission to the National Gov-
whether he could tell from an ex- amination of a wound whether it
delivered by WAL
accident
tournaments,
The party, which will be the or strongest which has been seen in deliberately.
the Far East, is leaving on The case concerned. Yung Kwai-Saturday for Japan, via Canada. tin, alias Lau Sung-tin, who is charged with the murder of Ah Teoi, alias Yeng Lek-hong, in Cross street, Wanchai on July 25. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy appeared
to conduct the case for the Crown, Mr. Hing Shing Lo being for the defence.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
Attack in Street. Opening the case, Mr. Fitzroy said that the dead man was sitting outside a stall ir. Cross street be- tween four and five o'clock on the afternoon of July 26 when another up and spoke to him. man came While still sitting on the stool, the victim was half swung round by the shoulder, the other man then delivering a blow with some instru- ment he held in his hand. The man on the stool was struck in the chest.
There was little commotion at that time, continued, counkel, and apparently the incident was not seen by many people.
is charged with rape, indecent assault and common assault, was continued at the Criminal Sessions before Mr. Justice Wood. She stated that when her husband They will arrive in Japan on forgave her she thought she had October 14th, and will play definitely finished with accused. matches all over the country.
Mr. H. K. Holmes is conducting They will leave Japan early in the case for the Crown, and the November, will probably go Tientsin to play exhibition mat-Prisoner is not legally represent ches, and will then visit Saigon, Indin and Egypt.-Reuter.
The famous French players will pass through Hongkong on
their
to
.
way to Saigon, and the Hongkong public would doubtless be greatly disappointed if no effort was made to arrange for an exhibition in Hongkong,
are cer-
Such a propoan), "we tain, would not suffer from lack of support, and the matter is one which might well receive the at- tention of the . K. Lawn Tennis Association.
AMERICAN SHOOTING.
AFFRAY.
ed.
Speaking of the incident on the evening of July 20, Mra. Fralladona said there was one window in the room which looked on to a yard. A short curtain about one yard in length hang from the top of the window.
A Demonstration,
At Mr. Holmes' request, witness went to one of the Court windows and explained what she meant, motioning with her hands.
Mr. Holmes said he did not wish to quarrel with the interpretation, because he knew the difficulties,
It is intimated that Mr. Ramsay WIRELESS FOR CRISES. MacDonald, the Prime Minister, is sending invitations to the French, Italian and Japanese
Geneva, Sept. 17. Governments to participate in a The British proposal, advanced Five-Power Naval Disarmament by Mfr. Arthur Henderson, that Conference which, it is intended,.
week in January, 1930.
brought into line with the new will issue similar invitations to the universal signature of the The United States Government international situation created by the countries named.
Kellogg Pact for the renunciation of war. 43 ад instrument of national policy, was discussed at considerable length to-day by the First Committee of the League Assembly, which deals with constitutional questions.
Both the British and American Governments will submit to the Conference details of the preli- already been made public. minary proposals, which have
The Governments being invited will be notified that a favourable result cannot be obtained without their full and sympathetic co- operation, especially in regard to the question of limiting the ton- nage
of destroyers and marines.-Reuter.
sub-
CIRCUS PERFORMER
STABBED.
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The American disaster is re-in Berlin. reported in a message from San Francisco, which states that the!
The prospects of an early set. rich Ventura Avenue (California) tlement of the dispute over the oilfield is threatened by
Chinese Eastern Railway now. ep. advance, on a two-mile front, of a pear to be very remote. roaring wave of fire which has swept down from the Sulphur Mountain:
D
the
The flames attacked a tank con- taining 11,000 barrels of oil en route, with the result that the oil boiled over and flowed down the Sulphur Mountain,
The damage la estimated at five million dollars-Reuter.
OIL LAUNCH BLAZE
The communication, says Reu ter, is the Soviet Government's Reply to Notes of the Nanking Government dated September 9th and September 18th respectively, regarding the appointment of a Russian manager and resistant manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
New Conflicts?
Finally it Was "decided to appoint a special sub-committee to investigate and decide whether any action is possible during the present session of the Assembly.
Covenant Provisions." The British proposal requires modification of Articles Twelve and Fifteen of the Covenant in order to make the text conform to the text of the Paris Pact. At present they merely provide that SLASHED TO DEATH IN THE where an international dispute is submitted to arbitration of judicial settlement, or to enquiry. the latter fails to reach a unani by the League Council, and where
The precise nature of the alleg. ed repudiation of terms is not wrongs of the dispute, individual mous decision on the rights and
Nanking, Sept. 17.
quite clear, though it would seem. Considerable excitement was to refer to the proposed joint de- after three months members of the. League are free, caused at Hala
claration which Kwang, A
was drawn failure
ap at the end of last month, suburb of Nanking, yesterday which such
laid it down that both afternoon, when a steam launch the Soviet Government and the
RING.
from the
A man would be brought before MILL-OPERATIVES STRIKE TO think that that had been clearly attached to the circus, and on re-action as they please.
to agree, to take
the jury, however, who would say that he saw the blow struck. The "man who struck the blow moved off in the direction of Stone· Nullah' Lane while the victim walked into Tai street..
Victim Collapses! A witness would be called who Avuld say he saw a man dressed in dark clothing wipe an instrument he held in his hand. The man who had been injured collapsed in Tai Yuen strect and a crowd collected round. A man called Philip Chan
ATTEND FUNERAL.
New York, Sept. 17.
I
AT NANKING.
EXCITING SCENES ON THE WATERFRONT.
A
The Soviet Government declares that owing to Nanking's rapu-dia- tion of its own terms, the question of the venue of formal negotia-: tions becomes moaningless and, the message significantly adds, the responsibility for further con- fiets must fall upon Nanking.
A report from Java states that but he understood that there was a Mr. Arnoldi, ́ ́ champion trick. short curtain across the top of the cyclist with Isako's circus, was window and another curtain hang-stabbed to death in front of the ing down which was caught to one audience. It appears that Arnoldi side near the bottom. He did not reprimanded one of the Malay boya explained by the interpreter. Mr.ceiving an insolent reply struck Holmes added that he could get the him on the face.
As pointed out by Mr. Hender-with full load of gasoline National Government should ap information from Sergt. Fitches when he gave evidence, but he did noldi had just entered the ring, spirit of the Kellogg Pack, "the furiously for
Later in the evening, when Arson this is at variance with the caught fire. The outbreak raged point representatives to a con- A one-day strike of cotton mill not want his witnesses to contra- the Malay went straight up to him. main principle of which should be and completely destroyed the whole ing between them, in conformity some little time ference to settle all questions pend- diet each other.
and commenced to alash him to embodied in the League Conven- vessel and 2,500 cases of gasoline particularly to agree on the cond!- with the 1924 Agreement, and
in front of the horror-stricken au death with a large curved knife,
There were six Chinese seamen tions, for a redemption of the fon board. One of them was seriously Chinese Eastern Railway as laid burat and another is reported miss down in Article nine of the Peking pointed to consider the Financial was rescued by the Fire Brigade.
The special sub-committee aping. The remainder of the crew Agreement. Aid Convention, which provides for assistance to states which may find themselves the victims of ag-
the box and ut his request she drew His Lorship recalled witness to a pleture of the window und curtain on à piece of paper..
workers was declared in the Char- lotte, North Carolina, region to- day, on the occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Wiggins, who was shot and killed near Gastonia on the 14th instant when a lorryload of mill strikers were fired on by anti- Communists Incensed apparently suggested that you were, fooling by the mis-trial of sixteen textile your husband workers charged with the murder Were you?-No.
saw the incident from the window of Mr. Aderholt, the Chief of
of one of the houses in the street, Police.
went downstairs and rendered first
aid.
The trial is to be commenced all
Mr. Holmes:-It has
and this
Afraid of Accused.
been
man.
Are you in love with this man?
The main became insensible over again owing to the sudden in- | No; I am afraid of him, and died soon afterwards.
sanity of one of the jurors-Reu
A search was made for the aster's American Service.
sailant and he was apprehended la-
tor in the day near the Post Office.
The deceased and accused had
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Have you ever been in love with this man?-No, never. I am afraid of him:
Were you, in respect of the acts for which you asked your husband's
had a fight three days before the LEAGUE'S WORK FOR forgiveness, in love with this man?
crime and so far as could be as- certained it was over
a sum of twenty cents. There would appear to have been a certain amount of Ill-feeling.
When prisoner was charged he mude a statement saying that, de coased frst struck him with a knife and that he in turn used a knife.on the deceasedł.
Medical Evidence.
Dr. Cannon, the first witness, said the primary cause of death was bleeding into the heart sac, follow- ing a stab wound in the chest.
The secondary cause of death was syncope and shock,
ย
HEALTH.
TRIBUTES TO CHINA AND INDIA.
Geneva, Sept. 17. At a meeting to-day of the Second Committee of the League, a resolution was unanimously carried expressing approval of the work of the Health Section;
dience.
The attack was so instantaneous that, before anyone had time to interfere, Arnoldi was "beyond all medical aid. He died an hour afterwards.
BRITISH TROOPS FROM "RHINELAND.
SERVICE MEN TO RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE.
J
ant.
Financial Aid.
Position of C.E.K,
KING'S PROGRESS TO tion went on, that the position of. Both parties believed, the declara-
"RECOVERY.
the Chinese Eastern Railway which developed after the dispute, must be eettled in accordance with the Pe king and Murken agreements of 1924, on the understanding that all alterations should be settled by tho above mentioned conference.
PREPARATIONS FOR DAY'S
SHOOTING.
gression, has been unable to reach an agreed text for Article One of the proposed Convention. The matter which is proving difficult concerns the principle of financial assistance before the actual out- break of hostilities. It is felt in some circles that it would be im-
London, Sept. 17. possible to regard a country as a
It is learned that His Majesty, The Soviet Government" recom- victim of aggression before an at- the King has made such excellent mended that a manager and assie tack had taken place. -No, because I told him repeatedly
progress towards complete recovery tant manager for the railway be London, Sept. 17. that I wanted to have nothing to
M. Politis (Greece) submitted that preparations are being made immediately appointed by the Lieutenant-General Sir Williama resolution Instructing the Com-for a day's shooting for him at Directorate. The Soviet Govern- do with him, but he threatened to Thwaites, Commander-in-Chief of mittee for Arbitration and Securi- Sandringham, provided the weather ment would instruct employees of kill me.
the British Army on the Rhine, to ty to draft a text for Article Onecontinues to remain fine.. Witness" added that her husband day visited the War Office and had for submission to a special confer- readily forgave her when she asked consultations regarding the evacua-ence, or to next year's Assembly of King's favourite pastimes.
Shooting and yachting are the This his pardon and she thought she tion and movements of troope. It the League. The matter reets year he was unable to aall his cut had definitely finished with accused. is understood on good authority there for the moment,
Mr. Holmes: Did you consider, that the full time-table will be com because of this earlier intercourse. pleted. that this man could in future come to you with impunity or that you yere under a lusting obligation to submit yourself?
on July
Wireless for Emergency.
the railway who were Soviet citizens and the Chinese Govern- ment would instruct the local au- thorities strictly to observe the ter, Britannia, ut Cowes Regatta. conditions of Article Six of the It was also considered most un- 1924 Agreement. Both parties likely when he left Bognor Regina (would immediately release all those The position of many who may temporarily be out of employment that the League of Nations should with the guns this autumn-Bri with the incident, or since May 1.
Regarding the British proposal that he would be able to go out who were arrested in connexion on their return to civil life has also go ahead as rapidly as possible tigh Wireless. been under consideration..
General Thwaites le returning to wireless station, the sub-committee with the development of its own Wiesbaden almost immediately-appointed has decided unanimous- British Wireless.
ly in favour of the proposal.
It will be worked normally if by the Swiss Wireless Company, the present plans are carried out. and it will be handed over to the League Secretarint" in times of] crisis, when alane it will be need-
*All the speakers promised additional credits in order to Witness said she could not un- enable the Section to extend its derstand the meaning of the activities, while tributes were paid question and his Lordship asked to the co-operation of India and You submitted yourself China in the League's health 20? work-Reuter.
Witness-No, I did not. I locked, accused did not say any offered resistance and struggled. thing else to her husband who was
Witness later said the incident outside." occurred without her consent. Did accused call to your hus With regard to the other incldent band to see if he was still there? ed. complained of, the subject Yes, he called three times. of the second count, acous- Did accused at any time give ed explained to her that he you any money? No, never. would have something to show to other Filipinos in a barber's shop. He only offered to buy things Did he offer any money to you?
FEWER BRITISH
UNEMPLOYED.
When he conducted a post- mortem examination. the stomach of the deceased was full of rice, indicating that death must`hinve followed almost immediately after a meal. In the chest was wound, crescent in shape, being convex on the inner and upper side, the concave border being to the outer and lower aide. The wound was situated on the right side of the chest, one and a half inches from the centre of the body
London, Sept. 17. fine on n. level with the space The total number of unemployed between the third and fourth ribs. on September 9th was 1,140,700.
The wound had penetrated to a This was 2,550 less than the week depth of 5%1⁄2 inches, both the heart before and 160,277 less than the sac and lung being torn. There year before. British Wireless,
a large blood clot in the heart sac which was pressing on the heart, having caused a cessation of heart beats and death within a short time of the assaulte
Remarkable Walk"
In reply to questions by counsel, witness said it was possible for a
man to walk 90 yards after: receiving such a wound. ;
J
LATEST FIGURES REVEAL A DECREASE.
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE IN CHINA.
FEARS OF DISTURBANCES
*** FELT IN NANKING.
Nanking, Sept. 17.
for me.
Did he buy things for you? None at all. He gave me cake on one occasion and I accepted it.
Writing on Photo. Cross-examined by accused, wit- nesa denied that he first came to the house on May 16. He came on June 16. Accused referred
Ring Gift Denied, witness to one of the photographs, Answering accused, witness and the interpreter read the denied that he gave her a ring. writing on the back as follows:- She said that she bought the ring "Mr. Oliva, receive this little with her own money when accused photo of mine as a remembrance was with her. She chose it her of my love to you, Very kindly self. yours, Nati
FLAT OCCUPIER'S OFFENCE.
EXTENDS WATER SERVICE WITHOUT PERMIT.
The Snag.
In advising the German Ambag- rador of the Soviet's willingness to: aign this joint declaration, how ever, M. Litvino indicated that. the Soviet wished to retain the former Russian manager and as sistant manager of the Railway, but was willing to consider. new appointments if the Chinese Gov- The occupier of No. 6, Wing Locornment dismissed the present Building, Nathan Road, was fined Chinese chairman of directors... 425 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, af It is on this point that the the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- The Swiss Wireless Company alongside its existing station at vice to the back yard without per and recent Chinese Notes to already undertaken to publishing for extending the water ser-negotiations for signing the joint
declaration have broken down,
Cost of Scheme.
Franging, near Geneva, a beries of short-wave transmitters for extra European communications.
mission.
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Works Department, said it was a issue, Nanking declining to dis Mr. J. S. Dinnen, of tho Public Russia have dealt mainly with this
case of the detendant having cut off miss the present chairman, but On its part, the League of Na- the water to make a connexion, to apparently endeavouring to con tions contracts to pay a sum of 200, the inconvenience of the tenants of vey the impression that the nego 000 Swiss francs annually for the other flats. The water had been tiations were going forward by first few years, but the amount of turned off for two hours. this retaining fee" will diminish
suggesting a certain venue for d as the exploitation of the service know a permit was necessary,
The defendant said he did, bot conference, in a neutral country. Increases-Reuter.
FINE GENERALLY.
Another witness was then called Re-examined by Mr. Holmes, who gave evidence to certify that witnesa said she wrote that in her translations he had made of writ room at accused's dictation. ings were correct. He interpreted
The Royal Observatory reports the writing on the back of the Replying to the jury witness photograph as follows:June that the anticyclone is now central said that when accused visited the 27, 1929. Dear Olive, receive tils in the Pacific to the east of Tokyo. house on July 20, she heard him ugly photo of mine as store of The typhoon is situated about 180 there. If I should call toy out my affection to yon. Very klmily miles, E.N.F. of Manila, moving W. and you are not there, I will all yours, Natl.
or W.N.W. The forecast noon to your wife," After the door was
The case la proceeding.
morrow is :—N. E, winds, moderate; fine generally..
Asked by counsel for the do- The Nanking Government has is fence if he could give an opinion sued instructions addressed to all de to whether the blow was them to keep a keen lookout for delivered by accident or by design, Communist disturbances and do
monstrations in the near future
Provincial her husband stay
(Continued on Page 12.)
ROCHDALE'S RISE.
DARLINGTON BEATEN IN LEAGUE FOOTBALL,
London, Sept. 17, At Rochdale to-day, in the Third Division (North) of the Football League, Rochdale defeated Darling-
Russia's Attitudo..
The Russian Government, how over, refuses to consider négatia- tlons except in the event of the dismissal of the present Chinese chairman, or an agreement for the reinstatement
of
the. Russian manager and assistant-manager.
It is apparently alleged that the
Nanking Government originally by four goals to one, a success to one of these which lifts them to second place in and has now repudiated its former the league table-Reuter, ER décision,