MISHAP AFFECTS
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EVIDENCE..
OPIUM POTS SMASHED IN AN ACCIDENT.
CHARGES DROPPED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MODEL OF ASAMA
MARU.
KOWLOON LAD'S GIFT TO N.Y.K. OFFICES.
DOCK INTERESTED.
During the course of the hear- A remarkable model of the new Ang'of two opium casos before Mr. | N.Y.K. Hney Asama Maru, which W. Schofield, at the Kowloon was completed yesterday, was Magistracy" this morning, Revenue handed to the manager of the Officer Powell intimated that N.Y.K., by Master Jerry Silva, of oplum pota which were found by Kowloon, to-day. the officers had been broken, and, in the absence of such evidence. he would have to accept the pleas of the defendants, who denied preparing opluri.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1929.
INSPECTOR'S "DINKY A BEAUTY SALON CHINESE BRAVERY
LITTLE CAR.”
CHINESE FOUND SLEEPING IN IT ON PEAK..
"
Inspector Shaftain's sports two- peater figured in a' ease, before Mr.
DISPUTE
REWARDED.
FOR RESCUE WORK.
LADY EMPLOYEES WHO LEFT | TWELVE MEDALS PRESENTED
WITHOUT NOTICE. -
pro
E. W. Hamilton at the Central JUDGMENT AGREED TO, COURAGEOUS DEEDS. Magistracy this morning.
Mra, M. J. Boten, No 2, Pratt "Bravery, humane conduct, and A Chinese, described as being Building, Kowloon, carrying en devotion to duty," was the keynote foreman of a gang of night-soil business at the Peninsula Hotel as running through all the reports the Peninsula Hotel Beauty Salon, presented yesterday in connexion carriers, was charged with tres-was the plaintiff in "two actions with the distribution of Belllics passing, in that he slept in Inspec- against employees which were Life Saving Medals, to a number
bered ne the maker of some beauti. In an open shelter on the Peak last this morning, defendants consent effecting the rescue of drowning The young man will be remom-tor Shaftain's car, which was left dealt with in chambers by the of Chinese, the majority of them Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) seamen employed on launches, for ful model ships, pictures of which night. It occurred to his. Woring to judgment. have appeared in the Telegraph. ship to ask Inspector Shaftain `ifi
persons on various dates during The defendants were Miss Katie the year. The function, very together with an article describ"It was the famous dinky little Ackerman, No 8 Ashley Road, Kow- Attingly, was made part of the An occupant of 135, Pel Hoing the work. His only tools are ear" mentioned in a recent case. Street was charged with preparing a knife and a small hatchet, and
foon, and Mrs. Cissie Forrest, No. annual display given by the Fire oplam and with being in posRDS the models are made from okl Inspector Shaftain smilingly re-819, Nathan Road. Mrs. Beten
Central Police Station. sion of 1.8 tools of prepared oplum. blocks of wood, discarded by theplied that it was. He had been alleged that she employed both Brigade on the compound at the The defendant denied the first led's parents.
much troubled by people getting defendants in the Beauty Salon
There were twelve recipients of charge but admitted the second.
nto his car at night-time and under verbal agreements which Oh the prosecution accepting his
Following the publication of the sleeping there. They had also been vided that one month's' notice must these coveted. Medals and of the plea, a fine of $140 or two months'
none too sareful, with the result be given of intention to leave. Missonetary grants that were made hard labour in default was impose
that they had smashed the side Ackerman'a commencing salary with them. As was to be expect ed on the second count, the first
glass screens on three occasions by was $200 a month, subsequently ed, the greater number of the had to do with rescue pressing their shoulders against increased to $230, and Mrs. For awards
incidents effected. from passenger In another case two Chinese
them when sleeping. It had cost rest received $100 a month.
According to Mrs. Beten's claim, and ferry Inunches, one of which, him $30 to make good the damage. were charged with preparing opium at 110, Tai Nam Street and
from frequent association with with being in possession of Ed
out justification and without giving these incidents, had come to bu ed to take the young lad into his taels of prepared opium."
car had alio put où it.
natice, left her employment and subbed as the "suicide ferry." later, on the same day, without Owing to pressure of spee, we The Brat defendant denied both office as soon as he completes his schooling. A number of the
Inspector Logan-The blame Justification, induced Mrs. Forrest are unable to reproduce in detail counts but the second defendant cials of the dock will visit had been pat on the police at first. also to leave without first giving the many stirring details which
Silva's home on Sunday next in
We thought a policeman was taking notice,
accompanied the official records |a quiet hilf-hour there. The re Plaintiff claimed from Miaslagued in connexion with these The prosecution Recepted the order to see the models which so sult in that I had to make visita Ackerman the sum of $230 na aawards, The following brief ac- plens and the drat defendani was.
pleased Mr. Dyer.
which did not very wall agree with month's wages in lieu of notice and counts will suffice to reveal the discharged while the second was All of the models are made to me.
$20 damages and from Mrs. For extremely hazardous circumstances Aned $100 or one month's hard senle, pletures of the ships being Defendant was fined $10, or 14 rest, $100 as a month's salary in in which many of the rescuca were fahour.
the only guide the young man has | diys" imprisonment.
lieu of notice.
carried out:
· Revenue Officer Powell, re-do work, from. The Astma Maru marked that a Chinese officer | model is, particularly well done, alipped on the office steps prior the day, wooden vessel being, a to coming, to Court and had broken complete replien of the giant the utensils which otherwise liner on a much smaller scale.
being withdrawn.
admitted the second and denied i the first.
would bave been producgd 44 evidence.
MUKDEN GIVES WAY TO SOVIET!
(Continued from Page 1.)
the first place,
developments in this direction In
U. S, Participation.
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Pictures in the Telegraph many rominent local people visited Mr. Silva's residence in order to see the models. Among them was Mr. R. M. Dyer, manager of the Hongkong and Whanipon Dock
Company, who was so impressed Inspector Shaftain also complain-on October 4 Miss Ackerman, with with the work that he has promised that the people who sent in his
MACAO GOVERNOR.
سيط
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was for Mrs. Beten, and Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios defended.
Mr. Rendall told his Lordship that Miss Ackerman applied for her salary to be increased to $250
The NY.K. officials were sur SENHOR RARBOSA' DUE HERE a month and threatened to leave if prised and delighted with the gift, and will display the model at their offices.
CONSERVING
TIN IN
MALAYA.
(Continued from Page 1.)
years ago
ducers,
NEXT WEEK.
her application was not granted. Mrs. Beten refused the application] His Excellency Senhor Barbosa; because Miss Ackerman was not Governor of Macao, ia due to ar earning so much, which could be rive in Hongkong about Decem-praved by the hooks, Miss Acker ber 3rd or 4th on his retarn from Home leave. He is travelling by the M.M. liner D'Arlugnan.
His Excellency is expected to |stay in Hongkong for about two days, and during that time he willi
The Silver Medal was awarded to Kwok Kanishing and to Kong Ping-fong, both members, of the crew of the 8:1. Man Ying asso- eluted in the plucky rescue, at Chinese woman who attempted to midnight on May 21 last, of a commit suicide by jumping off a Yaumati ferry.
The Silver Medal was a180 granted to. Cheng Loo and Ip Yau, seamen of the s.1. Cranley, for man left on October 4 without humane and courageous conduct" notice and returned later when Mrs. on May 24, in effecting the rescue Forrest was engaged in attending of a customer's hair and persuaded them herself from a Yaumati Chinese woman who had Mrs. Forrest to leave also, which ferry in midstream. It was noted she did.
that without divesting themselves
Mr. Rendall further stated that
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not the same as the factors of 100e the quest of H.E. Sir Cecil Mrs. Beten had received complaints of their clothes, both men jumped Sir Austen Chamberlaid, the
However that might be in the tlo Clementi. It is expected that on from customers regarding Miss into the water and rescued the
consequence woman after much effort. former Foreign Secretary, asked industry he had every reason to be one of the afternoons during his Ackerman, and as
The Bronze Medal was awarded whether any communication had lieve that a scheme for rationalinn-tay in the Colony, Senhor Bar- Mrs. Belen asked her to mend-her passed between the United States tion would in due course, and per- bosa will be entertained to a re-manners, otherwise she would be to two other men, Tsang Loi, a Government and the British Gov-haps at an early date, be proposed ception at the Club Lusitano.
dismissed. Defendant, naid Mr.launch hand, and Li Suren, a haw- erament on this subject, and whe- and made, acceptable to all pro-
Rendall, had since started a Beautyker, who effected the rescue, under Salon of her own.
hazardous circumstances, of ther any suggestion was made by the United States Government for
Mr. Remedios, in consenting to Chinese passenger who jumped off common representations to Russia nguinst the breach of the Kellogg
admitted they left their employ-Yee, on June 17th while the ferry Puct.
ment without notice, the whole was on the way from Hongkong to Yaumati. The act was viewed granting a half holiday each week. as being the more commendable on His Lordship gave judgment for account of the fact that the rescue Mrs, Beten on her claim with costs, was effected in the dark. ordering that the latter be paid
Several Dives. forthwith. He further ordered
"Mr. Henderson replied that in the
pute to a peaceful termination.
Joint' Action."
It seemed abundantly evident AMERICAN CRUISERS. judgment, said that bolli defendants the Yaumati ferry launch Man that the F.M.S. Government had already seen the folly of throwing Aly* métal ut unremunerative
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prices, and they, as a body of pro- NO WORK UNTIL AFTER THE trouble being over the question of ducers, must obviously hold similar views.
LONDON CONFERENCE.
PALESTINE RIOTS.
The Silver Medal for humano
* early days of this matter, communi- cations did pass and he informed the House at the time that we were pre-
Mr. Brown was particularly em-
Washington, Nov. 27. pared to participate in any joint phatic that their friends, the Chin- The keels of the three cruisers nction calculated to bring this lis-ese miners, mast in their own in-whose construction was delayed by that the cluira be paid within three terests jain the new movement President Hoover, recently, will not He thought that since then no their more expensive mining meth- be laid in any event until after the months, money to be paid to plain-¡ conduct and devotion to duty was further communication had been re-fods could not compete with the Five-Power Naval Conference in tiff's solicitors, with Iberty to awarded to a Sanitary Department ceived but that a communication modern dredge with tin below a London In January-Routers plaintiff to apply it
payments coolie named Tsung Hung, employ. had come from another Governmight | certain figure, unless in very, rich American Service.
were not made.
ed on No. 14 Sanitary Refuse and if joint action could be taken deposits, and the advantages of in-
Lighter, for saving a foki from we were prepared so participate, crensed consumption made possible,
Sentence of one month's hard drowning, after the latter had by Pesearch, and thereby better
labour on each charge was imposed overbalanced himself and fallen prices, must appeal to their busi-
by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kow- overboard. Tsang Hung had to loon Magistracy this morning, on dive in several times before he ness acumen..
a young Filipino, named Antonio Jugated the body of the unfortun-: Adcir, described as the captain's ate man in the harbour and boy on the 8.s. Kolumbugan, who brought it to the surface';", the was charged with (1) larceny of rescue was affected in 15 feet of a saxoplione belonging to Mr.water. Haifa, Nov. 27, Nine Arabs have been sentenced Peninsula Hotel, residing at 10, coolie named Kwan Wing, employ-
Ricaldo B.. Dizon; musician at the
Another Sanitary Department have part de joint action. I will cognised authority is the tre fully teen years' imprisonment for mura pair of gabardine trousers:sed the Bronze Medal for assistance to death and two sentenced to fif-Granville Road, and (2) larceny ofed on the same lighter, was award- consider the suggestion whether we ing Industry would be more fully dering a Jewish family at Safed well as two pairs of shorts, the he rendered in the rescue work |
The whale matter was dig. Rave it their wholehearted moral during the recent disturbances.property of another Pilipine of the initiated by Tsang Hung.
He looked to a large amount of support from them not only as a body but individually, for the Tin Producers' Asociation.
Sir Austen Chamberlain asked if Mr. Henderson would consider if it would not be proper for the Goy ernment to initiate fresh negotia- tions with the United States Gov. ernment on the subject.
Mr. Henderson replied: "As I
intimated, we are prepared to over,
ought to initiate that netion."
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cussed, said Mr. Benderson, at this morning's meeting of the
Cabinet,
- Mr. Hurris referred to a possible difficulty in consequence of the fact that neither Russiu nor the United Stated were membera.of the League of Nations, He asked if it was not possible to adopt machinery other than that of the League of Nations.
Mr. Henderson replied, "The act tion was contemplating was not an action associated with the League of Nations in the first instance, but joint action by the signatories of the Kellogg Fact who include both Russia and the United States. Reuter and British Wireless,
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The new Association was being welcomed by producers the world
and its success as a
re-
assured, if they in this country
!!
NINE ARABS SENTENCED TO DEATH.
support and their share of such Reuter,
financial heling as was necessary
for its purposeN.
(3) to circulate the Chinese case all Members of the League.
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Decision Awalted,
The decision of the "Nanking Government regarding this advice
now awaited. Meanwhile, the Minister "has emphasised China's ardent desire for pacific settlement of the disputé and her loyalty to the Covenant of the League “and, the Kellogg Pacl.-Reuter,
Paris, Nov. 27.
Mr. Kng La, the Chinese Mini- ster in Paris, called on M, Briand To-day and informed him as co- author of the Anti-War Pact of the situation that has arisen as a ré- ult of the Soviet invasion of Man- churia, Reuter,
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No Chinese Appeal Yet:
Geneva, Nov. 27.. The Chinese Government up to the present has not appealed to the League of Nations with regard to the Sino-Russian dispute, but the
Dr. Wang Criticised. Chinese Minister in Berlin, General | Chang Two-pin, on instructiona
Shanghai, Nov, 27. from the Nanking Government has Public feeling against the Soviet Bounded Governments which are invasion is running high amongst members of the League of Nations the Chinese at Nanking and Shang- Council and the Secretary-General hai.
Foreign
of the Lenguc_with_n view to an There is a big section of the Kuos eventual appeal to the Leaguo, mintang officials in the National
The Chinese Minister at Berne, Government which blames at the request of the Minister in Berlin, conferred with Sir Eric Drummond and M, Avenol, who in formed him that three courses are open to China:
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the Ministry for the delay in opening of formal no gotiations with the Soviet Govern- ment which has led to the latest affair.
The Shanghai City Kuomintang (1) to convene an extraordinary Bession of the Council of the members are leaders of the move-
Longue as provided in a case of urgency.
(2) to submit the matter, to the January session of the Council,
ment and yesterday morning the City Kuomintang peti- tloned: the National Government demanding the dismissal of Mr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign Minister.
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same address:
Competition for an old institution."
Li Kwan, described as seaman of the Star Ferry "Solar Star," was granted a Bronze Medal for kumane conduct and devotion to duty displayed in connexion with the rescue, on July 4th last, of a Chinese woman passenger, who threw herself from the top deck of the ferry bont,
Leung Fuk, a seaman of the team launch "Sing Yuan," re- celved a Silver Medal for humane) conduct and devotion to duty in effecting the rescue of a Chinese| girl, who had fallen into the har- bour...
Leung Kam Tal, seaman of the Star Ferry launch "Northern Star" received the Bronze Medal for", saving the life of a Chinese woman who had thrown herself over the ferry boat.
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The Bronze Medal was also awarded to Au You, a seaman of the steam launch Seagull," for bravery displayed in effecting the roscue of two Chinese, who at- tempted to commit suicide: to- getlfer by drowning, The report of the incident states that while on the Seagull which was lying alongside the 6.8. Kwong Sil, on the morning of October 29th, Au
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