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ALWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1929. #HA SINGLE EDPX 10 CENTS
BIG NEW WHARF AT MAN AMOK IN NEW SAFEST SECURITY HATRY DOWNFALL
KOWLOON.
GODOWN COMPANY'S
EXPANSION.
150 FEET LONGER THAN ANY EXISTING PIER.
STARTING NEXT YEAR.
TERRITORIES.
TWO MEN AND THREE WOMEN BADLY HURT.
CHOPPER ATTACKS.
RESULTS.
IS PEACE.
LORD CECIL'S SPEECH AT GENEVA.
BIG MUNICIPALITIES FACE
HEAVY.
The New Territory village of ASTONISHMENT AT MOTIVES Mongchow, situated in the Ping- ATTRIBUTED TO HIM. shan district, was the scene of a terrifying affair yesterday, when i villager ran amok and committed CHINA AND TREATIES.
au indiscriminate attack with
A
Certain of the important har-chopper. bour developments foreshadowed The account to hand, is not suf- by the Government, during the ficiently detailed to, show how the recent budget debate, will soon affair commenced, but it appears be forthcoming judging by the that after having obtained posses- plans of the Hongkong and Kow-sion of the weapon, the man rush loon Wharf and Godown Company, ed upon all the villagers within which have reached an advanced stage.
sight and wielded the weapon with disarmed, the berserk villager had deadly effect. Before he could be
wounded two men and three wo
It will be recalled that at the last annual meeting of the Com- pany, the Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Eeith, who presided, drew attention to men. the fact that the wharf accom- modation was severely taxed inmoved to the Tung Wah and Kow. The wounded persons were re- 1928, there being occasions when loon Hospitals by the police, who ships were compelled to discharge in reporting the case this morning, in the stream as no wharf was available.
In planning for the future, the Company has also taken seriously into consideration the certainty that bigger ships than ever before will soon be making Hongkong a regular port of call.
Starting Early in 1930. Sufficient progress has already been achieved to make it possible
for the Company to announce that
the construction of a new wharf will be commenced near the Naval Camber early in the New Year. The wharf will bá. 150 feet longer
London, Sept. 24.
as the principal British delegate. - Viscount Cecil, who now ranks
at the League Assembly, was warmly applauded this afternoon, when he addressed the members of the Third Committee on the subject of disarmament.
the suggestion made in certain He expressed astonishment at
armament resolution he was trying quarters that by submitting his dis to diminish the security of, any country.
Amazed by Suggestion. stated that they have the alleged any member of this Assembly "I am amazed." he said, "that assailant in their custody, a man
should think such, a thing. known as Tanng Ping Hop. Two of the women are in a critical state as a result of multiple wounds which they received.
RUBBER INDUSTRY
RESEARCH.
LONDON HONOURS AMERICAN RUBBER KING.
should be the first to oppose such
A course.
"I have only one thing in mind and that is peace, Pance is the greatest security. You cannot get peace only by a reduction of arma war material." ments, without the limitation of
He
announced that Britain intended
Great
to ratify the
SHARE DISCLOSURES?
London, Sept. 24. Conferences of the big banks are being held in London to-day for the purpose of dealing with the City circles: Whether the banks, question which is being asked in contrary to practice, should divulge. the names of their clients dealing in shares of the Hatry financial group to the Stock Exchange Cont mittée ?.
Mayor and other municipal officers The Town Clerk of Wakefield, the of Gloucester, have been in London of these municipalities with one of in connexion with the transactions the Hatry concerns.
Everywhere throughout the HAR- QUETTE there is evidence of excep tional goodness. In design, in con struction, in Bnish and Attings- all the things that go to make a better car, the Marquette provides in grester-, vaine than has ever been offered before at the price,
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UNHAPPY STRAITS THE MAGISTRATE'S
MARRIAGE.
GROUSE.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S CONFIDENCE.
SWISS WIFE GRANTED PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT FORESHADOWS EARLY
ALLOWANCE.
CHINESE HUSBAND TO PAY $125 A MONTH.
JUDGE'S REMARKS.
Singapore, Sept. 16. The impracticability of inter
upon both by Bench and counsel on marriage between Western and Eastern peoples was commented Saturday when the case in which ese husband for using criminal Mrs. Voon, a Swiss, sued her Chin- force and failing to maintain her was concluded with an order for $125 a month being made.
Another town affected by the
tion held a special meeting to-day Mrs. Martha Martinet. Voon, and Financa Committee of the Corpora sudden crash is Swindon, where the
in connexion with the crash.
The parties at variance were to discuss the town's investments her Chinese husband Dr. K. C. The Town Clerk of Newcastic-on-Voon. After passing through the Tyre to-day issued
local College of Medicine, Dr. Voon' a. statement, disclosing that £66,984, the monies proceeded to Edinburgh where he of the Newcastle Municipality, was qualified further before going to the tion in the hands of the Hatry Corpora Lucerne, Switzerland, and here he
Securities.
made the acquaintance of his wife, who was an orphan employed at the clinic as a typist earning a small Balary.
and General
I Limited-Reuter.
Later.
Interest in the Hatry affair is beginning to move to the where- abouts of the Italian financier, Glovanni Gialdini, one of the principals of the several Hatry companies, who is alleged to have left London a week ago for Italy
The Financial Times expresses the opinion that the liabilities of the Hatry Group are unlikely to loes will not be very widespread. exceed £20,000,000, and that the It will not, it is thought; Involve was anxious to pledge itself until I saw that other countries would to a very large extent the investing
and Provinces may happily not be do the same. It was possible, public and thus any extensive re- therefore, that Great Britain Percussion throughout the City a reservation regarding the signa- anticipated.-Reuter, tures of certain other countries.
Convention on the private manu No country, he added, however, facture of arms and munitions,
than any existing pier in the Har- CO-OPERATION URGED. might ratify the Convention with
bour, either in Kowloon or Hong- kong.
Kowloon
at
London, Sept. 24. Mr. Edgar, B. Davis, speaking to-day in honour of Mr. Frank A. a luncheon given in London Selberling, who was president of
Commission's Task.
The critics of his resolution had attributed varying motives to it. Some thought it was designed to intended to obstruct. postpone the work of disarmament and others thought that it was
RETURNED BANISHEE'S
THEFT.
-STOLE SHACKLES, FROM EMPRESS LINER.
The Government is interostin Itself in the proposals, and giving sympathetic consideration to the Godown Company's project,
Viscount Cecil said he realised On the question of disarmament, Admiralty concurrence has been the Goodyear Tyre Company till that the Assembly, for the time given for the construction of the 1920, and has been president of being, could do nothing directly new wharf which will be 120 the Seiberling Rubber Company in these matters. It had appoint- feet from the
Naval since, and who is now paying ed a Preparatory Commission and Camber and will run parallel to visit to Britain in connexion with it was for that Commission to the present wharves.
his position as President of the take positive steps and to drafta Rubber Manufacturers' Associa- Company's Guarantee. tion of America, advocated inter-,
Convention,' national Admiralty permission for the rubber industry,
co-operation in the new berthing facilities has been given
Mr. Davis expressed the view consequent upon guarantee that free space will be manufacturing industry in the that the rapidly expanding rubber left for manoeuvring lighters in United States was being hampered and out of the victualling yard because the Americans did not camber during construction work possess rubber plantations. and while ships are lying at the new whart, N
He was of opinion that the con- sumption of rubber could be This is only one part of a big measured in millions of tons if a Company has in hand and for was able to devote millions of which it is hoped permission even dollars to research, combined with tually will be obtained. Other parts the plantation Industry. of the scheme which is is hoped He added that the time had will soon be carried out provide for come for international co-opera-points contained in his resolution, record, which showed convictions the construction of another large tion for the development of the namely, the application of the under the Opium Ordinance, his wharf, similar to the, one which full resources of all branches of principles of reduction and limita- Worship remarked that he did not is to be commenced next year, and the rubber industry-Reuter.
the reconstruction and lengthening of one of the existing
'p
continent. He worked at a clinic in
Monthly Allowance.
and Dr. Voon made her allowances They kept each other's company every month." A year läter Dr.. Voon left the clinic at Lucerne and went to Vienna where he was an assistant to a Professor of tuber- cular diseases. The Swiss typist followed him to Vienna and they were married on Christmas Eve, 1928.
Singapore and prior to their de
Early this year they planned to come out East to settle down in parture the husband told his wife of mixed marriages. She appear ed to realise the situation and was agreeable to share the life with her
husband.
An Unfortunate Voyage. All went well until they boarded a vessel bound. East at Marseilles. The husband raised objections to. his wife's behaviour and, dancing
NOT IMMACULATE.
A TRESPASSING CASE.
When Chow Kiz, a blacksmith, was charged at the Central Magis- tracy this morning with trespass- ing on Crown land by having erected a matshed on a site oppo- site No. 12 Bridge at Shaukiwan East, the Magistrate (Mr. E. W. Hamilton) asked what difference there was between the man put-
putting some "muck" outside his ting up a matshed on Crown land and the Public Worka Department Mr. Hamilton's) window.
secuted, said he thought the Mr. W. E Hollande, who pro material was placed there in con- hexion with the building of the now Hospital.
was rather hard on him to bave all that muck placed where it Mr. Hamilton observed that it
was. He had written in about the
matter.
offence, Mr. Hollands said the -Speaking of the defendant's matched was not tidy. It had been pulled down three times, but no sooner was this done than the shed put up again.
A fine of $5 was imposed.
KIUKIANG AFFAIR
SCANDAL
EUROPEAN CUSTOMS OFFICER GIVEN TWO YEARS. "
IN CHINESE PRISON.
Kluklang Sept. 24. Much indignation is felt among foreigners regarding the treatment meted out to Mr. Anderson, the Russiau member of the Chinese
Maritimes Customs Service, who was arrested by the Opium Tax Authorities charges of receiving bribes from on August 8th, оп opium smugglerā.
The so-called trial has just been completed and Mr. Anderson has been sentenced to two years' impri-
Bonment!
He is forced to share a cell in a
Chinese prison with three Chinese prisoners.
·END OF REVOLT.
LEFTIST LEADERS DENOUNCE
THE PRESIDENT.
SITUATION IN HAND?
Shanghai, Sept. 24.
the arrest of General Chang & presidential decree to-day, order. Maraha) Chiang Kai-shek issued
tion, well in control. Fat-kwel, the leader of the Iron- Government has the internal situa- sides. He states that the Central
moment's notice, and a month Over 400,000 troops, loyal to
should see the complete suppres Nanking, are prepared to take the field against the Insurgents at a
sion of the revolt of Chang Fat-
kwel.
phraseology Illustrates his com plete confidence. He points out Marshal Chiang -Kai-abek's
that all previos attempts of provincial leaders to deny the authority of Nanking have met with disastrous results, and that all similar attempts will meet with the same fate.
End of the Leftists.
The final extermination of the Leftist group of politicians and passed. militarists will soon be encom
It is asserted that the Nanking Government still has the support of the military leaders in North- West China, including Yen Hai❤ shan and Feng Yu-hslang, while the Ironside Division contain units who exhibit their loyal support of the Nationalist cause.
are ready at any time to
Ironsides Moving South.
A British Naval message
Wireless
kwei
says that Chang Fat- and the Fourth Division (Ironsides) are making their way south through Eunan to Kwang- tung. General Liu Chik and other generals have been ordered to take the field against him.
quite clear of I-tu and 1-chang, The revolting troops are now and no interference with shipping is taking place."
Unfortunately, Mr. Anderson té a Russian subject, has no extrater ritorial privileges, and no-one can that the division under General Communiques from Hupeh state- intervene on his behalf. Ho been in prison for weeks now.
has Teo Wan-ahun, the Firat Division, has taken over I-chang, supported Mr. Anderson made on the British and the Ham Shing.
The case was based upon a rald by two gunboats, the Ham Ling
development scheme, which the powerful manufacturing company certain general principles in the was arrested leaving the ship who also disembarked at this ports.s. Kungwo. He found opium, but ·
مداد
ones.
A Year To Build.
The new wharf will probably
WORLD'S FASTEST
AIR-LINER.
take a year to huld and will PARIS TO MADRID IN FIVE
involve heavy capital expenditure
on the part of the Company.
Detailed plans are now in course
of preparation and the latest methods of wharf" construction
HOURS.
France now
Unjust and Unfounded. Both suggestions were unjust and unfounded.
He simply sought to emphasize way of disarmament of land forces, which he believed to be of vast importance.
Viscount Cecil repented the
tion to period and material; the limitation of the strength of forces elther by numbers, or by the period of training, or both, and the limitation of material- British Wireless.
Geneva, Sept. 24. Viscount Cecil's disarmament resolution was adopted.
China's Plea.
will be utilised when building of the fastest commercial nere-drawn up in connexion with the
wark commences.
"We understand that the second long wharf planned will be con-
Paris, Sept. 25. boasts possession
plane in the world.
The machine is fitted with a 500 h.p. engine and is capable
of
structed, if the present negotiations carrying eight passengers and are successful, immediately next to about a ton of cargo. that which is being undertaken
It flew from Le Bourget, Paris, next year. This would necessitate to Madrid, in 5 hours 11 minutes, the purchase of a fairly large an average speed of 144 miles an area of naval land on the Kowloon hour, without the assistance of the side.
wind-Reuter.
Long Felt Need.
The need for additional berthing accommodation has long been felt
'PREMIER'S VISIT TO AMERICA.
48
The First Committee met to-day to discuss the
new resolution
Chineso plea for making effec tive
Article Nineteen of the resolution expresses appreciation Lengue Covenant, The draft
posal and declares that any mem of the importance of China's pro- bor of the League may place on the agenda of the Assembly, a question ад to whether the Assembly should give advice 13 contemplated in Article Nineteen, regarding treaties which are now considered inapplicable.
Resolution Adopted,
A Chinese, who was arrested on a with certain passengers on board, charge of theft of three shackles There were quarrels and the wife from aboard the Empress of had said that she had been an or- France made his appearance be-phan all her life and not used to fore Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the being controlled by anybody. She Kowloon Magistracy this morning would brook no interferencs even on a more serious count. In addi- from her husband. They arrived in tion to an indictment of larceny Singapore in March this year and he was alleged to have returned Dr. Voon went to live with relatives from banishment.
at Owen Road. His wife stayed the The defendant pleaded guilty to Grosvenor Hotel as she wanted both counts.
complete rest. During these few It was stated that the defendant days a fellow passenger on the ship searched by the watchman, the yesterday afternoon. When
dined with her on one occasion. shackles were found concealed her husband at Owen Road on the Eventualy she agreed to live with under his clothes.
would leave him. A motor car was condition that she would give it a Looking up defendant's criminal month's trial, failing which, she placed at her disposal. The fellow passenger continued his visita and one evening he asked the doctor for permission to take his wife out to dinner and the doctor refused. There was a quarrel between hus- band and wife over this,
Not Happy.
seem to be as bad as banishees often were. His Worship added that he did not think that he would order a flogging
Detective Sergeant Kellett, who prosecuted, pointed out to, his Worship that there was a lot of stealing from ships going on.
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was forced to withdraw and his staff arrested with him.
Leftist Manifesto,
- Foreigners are indignant both re-
Widely circulated throughout
culously severe sentence imposed. It Chen Kung-poh and other Leftist garding the manner in which the China is a manifesto, ostensibly case was conducted and the ridi- coming from Wang Ching-wel, is alleged that no evidence was pro- members" of the duced, sentence being passed after Party, formally denouncing the Kuomintang a statement by the Opium Tax present Nanking regime, drawing authorities."
attention to the many alleged This represents what might hap-crimes of Chiang.g pen to any foreigner deprived of Consular Court protection. Naval Wireless.
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LATEST EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS.
as a militarist adventurer of the Chiang Kai-shek to described. Wu Pel-fu and Tao Kun type; who is working only for personal aggrandizement.porat
Chiang Kai-shek, the manifesto goes on, will always be a hin drance rather than a help to the reconstruction of the country,
From Owen Road Dr. and Mrs. On the charge of larceny, the Voon went to live at Rochore Rond defendant was sentence to four in a flat above the dispensary. His months hard labour with an ad-wife went out alone during the day ditional eight months on banishment count.
the returning only between 6 and 7 at night. She would not tell him where she went or with whom. On FURTHER DECREASE IN IDLE All his works, supposed to be for
CORROSIVÉ ACID ATTACKS.
ANOTHER CASE. REPORTED YESTERDAY.
the night of June 23 last she came home at 10 o'clock and there was yet another quarrel,
LIST.
London, Sept. 24.
the good of the country, are super- ficial and false. The removal of Chiang Kai-shek is necessary for
Wang Ching-wel.
The wife alleged that her hus- The total number of unemployed the completion of the revolution band was angry and throwing a on September 16th was 1,147,508, in accordance, with the wishes of cigarette tin and ash tray at her This was 2,192 less than the week Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Founder of ordered her to pack up and go. before, and 147,159 less than the the Kuomintang. She left the following morning and year before-British Wireless, went to live in a boarding hours." She agreed that her husband did not drink, gamble, nor was he cruel, amusement but she was not happy he gave her enough clothing and as their temperaments were dif- feront.
Temperamental Differences.,
WEATHER REPORT.
The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is highest over Japan and relatively low over the Philippines and the Pacific to the
A message from the Canton News Agency, however, says that In spite of the conflicting rumours regarding the whereabouts of Mr Wang Ching-wel, well-informed circles are satisfied that he fa.at!1) In Paris.
The latest news of him is that,
The attention of the police has been drawn to a diabolical form of acid-which appears to have been attack the throwing of corrosive used in two or three cases lately.
Following upon an attack last In Hongkong, and it is evident, as
week on the manager of a tobacco 8ir Henry Pollock sald last week,
shop at Mongkok, in which two that the Kowloon Wharf and Go-
The debate was lengthy, and men used corrosive acid, the police down Company is keenly alive to GUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE FOR Dr. C. C. Wu, in reply, said that have been informed that a In his address Mr. Mallal. char-eastward. A depression le situat
the resolution as it now stood similar outrage was committed acterised the case ea an unfortun-ed over the Lower Yangtzee Valley.in conversation with a French might not satisfy all parties. The yesterday in Nelson Street. ate one where a Western lady mar- The forecast till noon to-morrow friend, he is understood to have Chinese delegates had tried their best to meet the wishes of the cotton mill worker was on big wurdertaken to live together, as it hap Friends of Mr. R. Dormet, secre nothing to do with military affairs. In this case, It Is stated that a ried an Eastern gentleman, Two le S. E. or variable winds; fair. Baid that in regard to Kuomintang
people of different natures had un-
affairs, he is willing to offer his other delegatos,
home when he found himself
services, but he would have Dr. Wu expressed the opinion three man in Nélson Street, who results. The plaintiff considered tary to the Hongkong Police Force, Mr. Wang also declared that he of the necessary extensions to cope Ishboi MacDonald will be the
denly surrounded and bustled by pened in this case, with disastrous. with the situation in the future will guests of President and Mr that in any event, the resolution throw corrosiva-acid at him. He herself the martyr, while the de- who was taken to the Victoria Hos-would-refuse to be holated into. be considerable but is regarded as Hoover at White House from would prove of some utility for a was badly injured about the face Zendant thought he was the martyr. Pital on Monday week suffering power through civil or military, or essential in the interests of a port Saturday to Tuesday after their study of Article Nineteen: and head. Concerned with pro- There was little difference in the with typhoid fever, will be glad to other influences in order to maslet Hongkong.
the necessity of Increasing its wharf accommodation. He hoped that the Government would do all within its power to assist the ne- gotiations to a successful conclusion.
FOUR DAYS.
''; Washington, Sept. 24,
It is officially announced that
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The cost to the Godown Company Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Miss
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of the size and importance of arrival in the United States-animously adopted the sub-com- could not see clearly, who his as They married In Switzerland and a report received this morning accumulation of wealth
The First Committco un-tecting his face with his arm, he facts as disclosed by both parties. learn that beds now out of danger, others to high Posts, or to the
Reuters American Service.
mittee's draft resolution.--Reuter, sallants were and they escaped.
(Continued on Page 18.) stating that he was very much
better.
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