SERGEANT BREAKS FIERCE ATTACKS
FINGER.
STRUGGLE WITH MAN WHO
RESISTED ARREST. ·
SEQUEL TO BRAWL.
Sergeant Poekson, attached t the No. 7 (West Point) Police
BY SOVIET.
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
P.W.D. REFUSES TO BE HELPFUL.
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1929.
FATAL MOTORING
ACCIDENT.
MANCHULI REPORTED TO BE IN RUSSIAN HANDS.
NOT ADOPTING HABIT OF GIVING ADVICE.
COL. MATTHEWS INVOLVED IN TAIPO MISHAP.
Soviet artillery
STUDENT WITHOUT BUS TICKET.
A MAGISTRATE'S HINT TO. CONDUCTORS.
NOD NOT SUFFICIENT. ATTACK ON A TRAIN. THE SMOKE NUISANCE, OLD WOMAN KILLED.
That the Public Works Depart- Colonel E. D. Matthews, the Infining a Chinese student, of Harbin, Nov. 19.
and infantryment refused to give free advice Secretary of the Royal Hongkong No. 36, Kowloon Tong, $10 for Station had a finger broken yester- continue to attack "the railway was an intimation made by Sanitary{Golf Club, was involved in a motor riding on a Kowloon bus without! day morning during a struggle station at Manchuli and the conl Inspector Sinton who appeared be-accident which resulted in the with a Chinese at Des Voeux Rond districts at Chalainor, the Soviet fore Mr. W. Schoßeld at the Kow-death of an old Chinese woman in paying his fare, Mr. W. Schoñeld, at the Kowloon Magistracy this. bombing planes causing serious toon Magistracy tule morning to the New Territories yesterday. : Weet.
damage to the coal mines. The prosecute the management of.
morning, intimated that condue- trains on the C. E. R. en proceed
tors should not accept a nod from to Hailar, but no further."
passengers as indicating the pos- Sensational rumours arrived at
Worship remarked that passengers should be asked to show their tickets or, in default, pay the usual fare.
His attention called to a brawl between a number of men at Cen- tre Street, Sergeant Pockson was
sugar factory at No. 10, Ki Lung In a police report this morning, Street ou a charge of falling to it is stated that Col. Matthews was obey a Magistrate's order requir-returning in a motor-car from Fan- Inspector Sinton informed his and accompanied by a friend who Worship that Mr. T, S. Whyte was seated beside him, Smith had adjourned the summong
on the point of seizing one of them Harbin this morning to the "effeeting them to abate a smoke nuisance.ling, driving the vehicle himself, session of a monthly ticket.
when the latter broke away and led the officer on a long chase which took them to Des Voeux Rond.
Here the Sergeant caught up with his man, but the latter strug gle violently, "He did not strike me," said Sergeant Peckson, "but he twisted any arm and broke one my fingers,"
that after a fierce attack Soviet troops captured Manchuli from the Chinese forces;
hartment.
matter.
:
His
for two weeks and had suggested As they passed through the Tai- Telephone and telegraph com that the premises should be visited po district, on the main road, an munication between Manchuli and by an expert.
elderly Chinese woman started to Harbin has been interrupted since The Public Works Department cross the roadway in front of the
The defendant in the present Monday, and the wireless service of were accordingly consulted but approaching car. She had got on the Chinese military forces at they said it was not desirable that to the middle of the roadway when ease, told the Court that he had Munchuli with Harbin has also they should give expert advice on she hesitated, apparently undecid-informed the ticket inspector he been suspended.
the matter. Oficial Chinese circles in Rar The onus was on the defendanted as to whether to proceed farther, had a ticket but had lost it. He Manchurian to abate the nuisance and there and then, suddenly turned round offered to pay the fare, but the and darted back the way she, man refused to accept it and took However, hy pressing flown the bin persist that a
consulting engineers, in
the defendant to the Company's man to the ground, Sergeant Pack regiment is still controlling Man were
offices: sor" was able to keep him from dochuli, akhough, they have suffered the Colony whom defendant should came.
It was indicated that Col. Mat ing further harm until a constable heavy casualties and the Soviet employ to advise him. The P.W.D.
troops are continuing their bom-therefore had taken no steps in the thews, at this point, made a des- came to his assistapce..
perate attempt to avuid running In reply to his Worship, into the woman, but although he On Monday evening, a passenger spector Sinton said there was still
modera.c while
was proceeding at a its on
way room for complaint but he men Manchuli to
Harbin,
tioned that during the past few speed it was too late to avert an moving. The defendants had been fined on three previous occasions in connexion with this smoke nais
His Worship ndjourned the sum- Hundreds of Soviet plain clothes mons stede and said thus it could so much zeal that Sergeant Pock-soldiers subsquently boarded the be brought up again if there were son, giving evidence at the Central train, robbed at the Chinese pas-any signs of the nuisance recurring. A NEW Police-Court to-day, said he was sengers and workers, and took them It was stated by a representative the most aggressive of the three prisoner, marching the whole of the defendant company that the
group into Soviet territory,
factory was being removed,
It was stated that the brawl in Centre Street resuited from an train "argument over, the cost of dyeing from
a suit of clothes. The man to and whilst near Chalainor, days the factory seemed to be re-accident. whom the clothes belonged would was subjected to Soviet moles only pay ten cents. In the fight tation. The Soviet forces destroy which ensued, the run who was ed several feet of the railway subsequently arrested by Sereant track, chusing the train to be heldance, Pockson, also made it his own. quarrel, proceeding about it with
men concerned.
The man to whom the clothes The populace at Harbin' received belonged, was fined a dollar for news of the sensational attack on disorderly conduct and ordered to the train with much perturbation. pay 50 cents as compensation to the man who dyed his clothes for him.
Addressing the other man rested by Sergeant Porkson, Mr. E. W. Hamilton said:-1 daresay seems humorous to you this mat, ter of striking a policeman when resisting arrest. I think you had better take a month to consider it in prison,
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DARING FRAUD BY A BROKER.
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Continued from. Page 1.)
Answering his Lordship, counsel said that the only property at pre- sent was the shares held by the Mercantile Bank and against them the bank had a lien of $7,300-odd. All plaintiff would get it he obtained judgment, after paying the bank's lien, was roughly $4,000. A representative of the bunk was 'In Court.
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Peking, Nov. 19.,
A message from Harbin states that fierce fighting is going on in the Manchuli region.
It is reported that Manchuli, and the coal mines at Chalsinor, fare badly damaged by gunfire and
aeroplane bombs.
Trains are further than Hailar.
now running no
An unconfirmed report states that Manchuli is now in Soviet hands, to which colour appears to be lont by the fact that all communications between Harbin and Manchuli have ceased since
TOLL OF SUBMARINE CABLES.
US. EARTHQUAKE SHOCK DAMAGE.
The unfortunate woman was knocked down and received in injuries from which, it is under- stood, she died almost immediately.
THE
PROBLEM FOR RAILWAYS.
It was stated that the defendant! boarded the bus at Kowloon Tong and when nearing Waterloo Road the Inspector asked him for his ticket. He intimated that he had a monthly ticket, but when asked to show the ticket he said that be had left it at home. He gave the inspector his name, but when a search of the Company's register was later made it was found that no such person owned a ticket. At the Police Station, the lad gave: the police an entirely different name.
His Worship convicted the de- fendant but remarked that it would be better if conductors ask-. MORE PASSENGERS BUT LESS ed to see passengers' tickets first
REVENUE.
Despite the enormous increase in passengers due to the introduc {tion of chip excursion fares, the four big railway groups are faced Iwith a revente New York, Nov. 19,
problem. They the Yesterday's earthquake shocks are finding that although
the number of passengers has increase; along the eastern coast of United States and Canada haye re-ed by millions, the receipts have sulted in the breaking of ten out dwindled.
of the twenty-one Transatlantic Sir Joskab, Stamp, president of cables,
the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, has stated that if the big groups are to produce a profit they will have to get a still larger number of passengers.
The damage occurred between New York and Newfoundland and New York and the Azores.
Cableships are rushing to the November 17, even wireless com- breaks but it is expected that at munication with the Chinese Tensta fortnight will be required military headquarters in theto restore normality.. Manehuli aren,-Bruder.
NANKING RETREAT CUT OFF?
Continued frion Page 201 Mr. Leo Weill gave evidence that the Government troops" have "corroborating Mr. Jenkin's ré- about 30 planes at the two aerial marks, after which Mr. M. P. bases at Hsuchanz and Chengchow
Commenting on this statement, Com- an official of the Railway panies' Association stated recently that in the first six months of this
The earthquake sheeks were felt sharply at. noon along the New England coast from Boston year there were five million more to Maine, and also throughout passengers, compared with the
and then demanded the usual fare. In the present case, it seemed that no demand had been made for the defendant to pay the fare, but his Worship was satisfied that the lad had attempted to defraud the Com- pany by pretending he had n monthly ticket.
The defendant was fined $10 and ordered to pay to the bus Company the sum of five cents, representing his fare for the trip..
NATIONAL SPORTING
CLUB.
VACATING ITS COVENT GARDEN PREMISES.
It is understood that the
Na-
tional Sporting Club will give up
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and corresponding period last year its site in King-street, Covent
no yet the total receipts were down
y nearly £1,300,000,
"The railway companies, have been trying hard to get inore pas sengers-and they have succeed- ed." he said. "But they need even
more.
Talati, the landlord of No. 18. Ice and these machines are making fre- thing liko a panic in swaying ions at cheap rates have proved}
its neighbourhoad.
Headquarters Shifted.
Hankow, Nov. 19. Latest reports from Honan indiente that the Generalissime has shifted his headquarters from Hsuchow to Chengchow..
House Street, said that defenduntquent flights above Tengfeng and ronted the premises in his own name and paid the rent monthly in advance by cheque in his own name and not in the name of the firm. Witness said he visited the office an October 21 where he found a small boy with the keys He took the keys and locked the place up. Witness added that he had not seen defendant since and no one had approached him on be. half of defendant. Nothing was left in the office but furniture.
Quick Work.
attack on Loyang.
(excuraiona,**
parts of Eust Quebec, but
Garden, to the new, purchaser at damage was done. -
the end of the year. His nume Tall apartment houses swayed.
has not been announced, but it is and crockery rattled: in New York
probable that a theatre will be City.
built on a portion of the site. Mr. Earthquake tremors caused
of the Bettinson, the manager to fall In Halifax
club, is unable to make any state- chimneys maritime centres, causing some-
"The day and half-day exeur-ment as to its future home. The employers.
No. 43, King-street is a veritable office buildings.
enormously popular. There were store-house of sporti 1g cups, old rushed into the streets, and
27,500,000 more passengers several fainted.
ott engravings, portraits, and other The seismograph at Dalhousie these excursions during the first relics. But, in addition to these, six months of the year. But there the premises possess other claims University was put out of com- mission, preventing a full record was correspondingly a big drap in to interest. The beautiful old oak of the tremors, which lasted two ordinary passengers.
staircase, with its turned balus. "People who have hitherto beenters, was constructed from the minutes.
Submarine cables were put out in the habit of spending a few wood of the battleship Britannia, It is stated that he is later of action off Newfoundland, in days with friends are now up and dates back over 10 years. The proceeding to Heishihkwan, per-dicating that submarine distur-parently making shorter and Britannia was the flagship of Ad-
direct the Bonally to
coming bances had originated the shocks, more frequent visits by cheap day miral Russell, and had an honour- uble naval record. On the first -Reuter's American Service.
floor is the apartment known' ILA "King, Edward's Room," from its having been used by, the late Sovereign when he visited the pre mises. In another room, on the same floor, is a mantelpiece' of richly carved pak, the unmistak- able work of Grinling Gibbons.
the Beneath skylights on floor is a replica of a street of Shakespearean London, to which an interesting history attaches, The work was carried out whe the building was tenanted by the Falstaff Club, a theatrical or ganisation, which had not a very long life. On the creeper-clad front of an inn with latticed win- dows are the words "Fine old ales) and sack" in faded lettering, and other particulars of "The Pig and Whistle" have been effected by
Hitherto there are no signa of uneasiness in Wuhan, neverthe leas a big battle is momentarily expected in the vicinity of Siang- yang and Fancheag-Reuter...
EXCHANGE RATES.
Mr. E. Antonio, of the Mer cantile Bank, in charge of the loans department, said that de fendant was & customer of the bank. Defendant approached witness, as he had done on pre vious occasions, between 10.30 a.m. and I a.m. on October 18 and asked if he coull have
loan Paris against the shares, promising to Berlin
Geneva redeem them within a week.
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After consulting the manager. Helsingfors witness told defendant a loan Athens would be granted If he deposited Buenos Aires the shares with the bank. Defea Hong Kong dant then went away and retura New York ed with the shares at about 12.35 Amsterdam
Stockholm: p.m..or 12.40 p.m.. Immediately
the shares had been found corrent Vienna, defendant drew out the sum of Madrid $7,250 in cash and left, the trans- Bucharest action Anishing before tifin time.
Witness continued. that
the
Hio
amount' drawn had been debited against defendant's account bat haj had not been seen since. He had not redeemed the shares. The Lisbon Hen of the bank now amounted to $7,306.44 and interest to date,
Mr. D. L. Strellett gave evidence to advertisements being in- serted in newspapers and the
Gazette.
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Hls Lordship expressed himself
a satisfied, and gave judgment for plaintiff for the amount claim- ed, $11,700. He also made an
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British Wirelcan.
WEATHER REPORT,'
The Royal Observatory reports order for immediate execution that the anticyclone has moved to against attached property subject the south of Japan and the depress- to payment to the Mercantile ion has passed into the Pacific. Bank of 37,806 and interest up to Another depression is indicated and including the date of execu|over South Manchuria. Fresh mon- tion, with costs. His Lordship soon will prevail along the S. E. further gave liberty to apply as to const of China and over the China property not at present attached in Sea. The forecast till noon to- the event of other property being | morrow is :--N.E. winds, moderate; fourd
fair,
COONEA SERVICE UNC POLS. AT OFF,
"You remember that black satin dress I had last year Well, I just let out the hem and took in the waist-"
time.
top
The Falstaff Club were in pos- Bession of the premises after they wore vacated by "Evans's Hotel and Supper Rooms" (first called "The Star"),, which had the dis tinction of being the first resi- dential hotel in London. The music-hall, which formed part of the establishment, became known. as the "Cave of Harmony," and soon grew famous for its boxing matches. When the members of the defunct Pelican Club were seeking for new premises they fixed on Evan's Supper Rooms, and 1891. took over the building in The contests took place in the old dining-hall until the present theatre was built. twenty years ago.
The original house was occupied in 1696 by the Earl of Oxford, who is said to have held there the first Cabinet Council that ever-na- sembled In Englandi.
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