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PÕUNDOÙ (RN) NO. 22,994
MĦN VETAEXUS THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930..
IMPASSIONED PLEA GINDRINKERS' BAY LADY LAMPSON'S SOVIET'S ANSWER
BY MR. BREWER.
DRAMATIC CLIMAX IN HIS
ADDRESS TO JURY.
DESCRIBED MR. UDY AS A GIFT FROM HEAVEN.
EXPLOSION.
BIG OIL-LADEN JUNK CATCHES FIRE.
THREE OF THE CREW SENT
TO HOSPITAL
DAMAGE OVÉR $23,000.
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CONDITION.
EXTREMELY SERIOUS THIS MORNING.
"SERAPIS" RUSHED. Late enquiries, made just before going to pren this afternoon, re- veal that Lady Lampson's condition is still very serious,"
As we announced yesterday, Lady
TO NANKING.
2016 PER ANNUMİ SINGLE, POPT 19 CENTS,
TROOPS RETURNING TO
·MANCHURIA.
MUKDEN OFFENDED BY THE REPUDIATION.
the purpose of saying "good-bye" Lampson was visiting Hongkong for THE OUTLOOK BLACK.
here to her sot, Graham, who da "be- accom-ing sent to school at Home. It had been arranged that the boy should
A serious explosion, ranied by a number of casualties, cccurred on a junk laden with guisolong and kerosene at Gin
“I AM NOT A CRIMINAL." Drinkers' Bay last night.
dramatic climax to Mr. Instone Brewer's address to the jury An impassioned plea for a favourable verdict was the on his own behalf, at the Criminal Sessions this morning.
"You have it in your power, gentlemen of the jury," he said, "by one word to make me a condemned criminal, to make me a pariah and an outcast, to deprive me of my name, reputa- tion, friends, personal liberty, and everything that makes life worth living.
"Do not come lightly to your decision for it means every- thing to me.
I maintain that I have been honest and con- scientious. I have not endeavoured to further my own -interests. I have never defrauded nor attempted to defraud in filing the Report.
"I am not a criminal and it is to you and you alone that I can look for deliverance from this charge."
At another stage in his address, Mr. Brewer said he looked upon Mr. Udy, the accountant who gave evidence on his behalf, as "a gift from heaven, probably to prevent a miscarriage of justice."
continue to England in the com- pany of a lady friend.
"Harbin, Jan. 22. Grave possibilities have arisen following the Nanking Govern The day before the s.s. Antenor ment's repudiation of the Ha- arrived in Hongkong, Lady Lamp-
DUNLOP
British and "Best
PRIME MINISTER'S BUSY DAY.
CHIEF DELEGATES VISIT DOWNING STREET..
PROBLEM OF NAVAL ADJUSTMENT IN FULL SWING.
son was taken fil on board and her barovsk Protocol," which repre- trading junk No. 1055 was lying port, was such that Dr. Black, who Texaco installation, A full carte dingused the case as one of which was signed by Mr. Tsai tied up to a jetty alongside the was called in, ordered her immediate for the settlement of the Chinese removal to the French Hospital, Eastern Railway dispute, and, go of kerosene and gasolene had meningitis, and Surgeon Com Yun-sheng, on behalf of the been taken on board, and the mander Gerrard, who has taken Mukden Gvernment, and an ac craft was about to cast off, on Professor Anderson's place at the the commencement of a trip to University, was also called upon sa credited representative of the
Moscow Government, Canton, when the explosion ac consultant. curred.
The accident happened watie condition, when the bont put into sents a preliminary agreement A MESSAGE TO AMERICA.
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For some reason which has not yet been determined, the cargo became alight and went up with a deafening report. Soon the junk was a mass of flames, visible for many miles around:
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Every medical care and attentlod
On reception of the information, has been bestowed, and although that the Nanking authorities ob the patient showed signs of injected to the Protocol, the Soviet prvencut yesterday, her condition officials are naturally indicating to-day le regarded pe extremely their atron dissatisfaction with versur
́the position and are stressing upon the Mukden Government that the terms of the Habarovsk Memoran- dum must be adhered to.
Sir Miles Lampen, who was in Shanghai, was immediately inform edot Lady Lampson's illness and he Ballad at once on board H.M.S Serapis, which was expected to ar- Horive here this afternoon at 2.1
A Turther message was sent this 10-ning asking for the boat to
make all possible speed.
Accused denied that the Statutory Report was made out with the object of boosting the business of the Instone Bankingly injured, being severaly burnt Corporation, pointing out that it contained no word of Chinese, and that the directors and shureholders of the bank were all Chinese with the exception of himself and Mrs. Brewer,
ACCUSED ON HIS PERSONALITY.
Three in Hospital.
The Soviet authorities say that On board were the master,
the Nanking Government can- Fook-kam, his wife, Ng Mul, and
not now object to the pro- their son, Ho Kam-hing, "
ecdure. Nanking had every year-old lad, who were all serious
opportunity of voiding her Sir Miles, who is recompanied by objection before the Protocol was about the body. They were rescu- Mr. Sterndaja Banzett and others negouated and should realise the ed in the nick of time, and are of his secretarial staff, will go at fiuting of endeavouring to change now lying at the Kwong Wah Hos once to the hospital on landing. He the situation at this stage. More grital.
wil be staying at Headquarters over the Central Government allow. The No. 1 Arefloat made for us the guest of the General cu Mr. Tani to proceed in the belief that he was their accre. the spot with all speed, but by the
Cfffrer Commanding, ̧ ̈ time it arrive, so fiercely had the
We learn that Master Grahamdited representative. Conflagration burnt, that the junk Miles is a the Peak Hegital under was practically destroyed to then, where he will remain water's edge. The loss of oil until Saturday. I declared free put at over $23,000, but it is
moval of the injured to hospital.
In his address to the jury this jactuated by such motives would,covered by insurance, morning, Mr. Brewer said he had perhaps, be important were it not
Police officials, arriving on thẻ thought he was fully acquainted that the transactions, as he would seene later, assisted in the re- with the fact of the case, but he show, were in themselves, apart was izdebted to the foreman of the from all question of cash receipts, jury, Mr. G. G. Stopani Thomson) valid and proper transactions, far giving him the realisation of bringing about a very important a fact that bad, until then, escaped result in the legal relationships of him." When the foreman asked the parties.
persuaded the
bim how he Directers to sign" the forms. he
must confess that
he did not
Purely a Bye-Product.
›Nearly 50,000 Gallons.
morning, and the firemen employ
The junk was still burning this
Jed on the scene have, no other
alternative than to allow the firef to burn itself out.
Graphic details of the Linse
nicecom, he will in his fa ther, his journey to England being Dustponed until later,
BRITISH ECONOMIC COUNCIL.
NEW BODY WITH PREMIER AS CHAIRMAN,
London, Jan. 22.
Soviet Threat.
An effective answer to hints that Britain, while talking of disarmament, has done nothing in the way of setting an example, was broadcast throughout the United States yesterday by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, speaking from his study at No. 10, Downing Street.
The Prime Minister showed that Britain was the only leading Power that had consistently reduced military ex- penditure, that we had reduced our aerial strength by over 75 per cent, and gave convincing comparative figures of "British naval strength at the outbreak of war and the present day, an' follows:
Battleships
Cruisers, 8-inch guns Cruisers, under 8-inch Submarines
Aug. 1914 Dec. 1929,
69
20%
27
11
81-
43
74
58.
Yesterday was the Prime Minister's busy day. He held a Cabinet meeting in the morning, and attended the House of Commons in the afternoon. In his spare time, he had separate interviews with each of the heads of the four Naval delegations visiting Great Britain.
His broadcast message to the United States also contained an eloquent appeal for patience and understanding.
NATIONS
MUST MOVE TOGETHER.
The most significant part of the Soviet protest to Mukden is con- tained in a throat to cancel the order for "the withdrawal of
London, Jan. 22. Jing amongst the countries affect-- Soviet troops at Manchull and alse-
The Five Power Naval Confer-ed.. where along the Chinese Eastorn ence begins actual business, to-
"Although I feel sure an agree Railway if the National Govern morrow morning when all the de-ment will be come to, I should like ment insists in interference with logations will meet in full session to warn all my hearers that there the work of the Mukden Com-ut St. James's Palace,
are many difficulties in the way... missioner of Foreign Affairs,
It is anticipated that at this we all go together?
"The question is, How far can sitting each delegation will makę
Problem of Adjustment,
"Some of us are willing to go:
realise he degree of thought that was purely a bye-product and by were given to a Telegraph repre- Ing question-time, Mr. Ramsay Aiaccompanied by guns, machine guns,ferent delegations and general in- directions, but not so far in others.
had inspired the question. Al-no means the
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Chinese Disappointed. Immediately following the receipt of the Soviet warning, Mr. Tani Yun-sheng Interviewed the respon- sible Soviet authorities seeking a compromise.
at the headquarters of the dif further than others in certain "Some of us make proposals for terchange of visits between the chiefs
reductions which do not suit the Minister began a busy day with make pronouns which are similar- At Downing Street, the Prime others and they, In their turn,
than is customery. the usual weekly Cabinet Council, rejected. which took place an hour earlier
"It is not ill-will; it is the pro- blem of adjustment. We shall Immediately afterwards he was strive to bring to the lowest com present there at a meeting between the various countries so that mon level all the programince of the French and the British do things will happen. Firstly, there legations, which Colonel Ralston, will be no more competition be the Canadian delegate, also atween us fa. building ships, and tended,
secondly, our programmes will be reduced to the very lowest possible ilovel and then within a few years,
Anglo-French Position
That the Soviet Government is i determined to adopt a positive at a brief plain statement of its posi
tion. titude on this point is evidenced by The swelling of cash receipts
the sudden return to Chinese ter-
To-day there was much activity In the House of Cmmons, durritory of a large number of troops, though he answered it to the best transaction. If that was so, then of the Hongkong Fire Brigade, decided immediately to establisa in
essence of the sentative. by Supt. T. H. Brooks, Donald anid: the Government had tanks and aeroplanes. of his ability in saying he believed the question of the motives of the who he had done it by personality, he Directors who entered into the operations. last night.
personally directed the Economic Advisory Council, ualer to use force should the necessity The Soviet is already in a position now realised that behind the ques-fransactions would not be of the tion was a train of reasoning importance they might be if the
the chairmanship of himself. which had uncovered a relevant cash receipts were the essence of that the junk's cargo consisted of orb the existing Commission of sued by the Moscow Government
Mr. Brooks stated this morning. The Council would, he said, ab-
Meanwhile, a decree has been is- fact which had escaped his at the transactions, when the point 30,000 American gallons of gas-Civil Research, and he hoped to
would be a very important one.
lene, and 19,000 American gal-ecure the whole-time services of ordering the reserves in the Fur Mr. Brewer continued that until
Proceeding a little further, con- dons of kerosene. The explosion two experienced economists to serve East to postpone demobilization. yesterday he firmly believed he nued Mr. Brewer, along the way when the fire commenced was an the Council-Reuter, had done it by personality and which Mr. Stopani Thomson terrific one, and within a few pounded the Directors for thead pointed, they came to the seconds the junk was a blazing sake of the firm. He knew the etter written to him (Mr. Brewer) MDSS. numents, he used, but the queen May 31. It was a cogent fact tion was whether he knew what that the instructions to purchase of 12 feet above the junk's gun-
The oil was stacked to n height: molives actuated them. The 480.000 worth of fully paid-up wales and nothing could possibly nts he used were that i-heros did in fact come from the have saved the vessel. During the
The purpose of this gathering say, five or six, we shall he in a materially benefit the firm Directors at a meeting at which earlier part of the fire the junk's
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mr. Trai explained the impossibil-was to review the points raised by position to make still further re- if the shares and loans were (Mr. Brewer) was not invited crew escaped to the shore.
URGES Á, REDUCTION,
ity of Mukden acting independen the French and British Govern-ductions. Thus, we shall, reach treated in that manner and he and did not attend. He submitted
y of the Nanking Government, and ments in their published one-disarmament and secured peace.” peline to nccept the rehat whether or not they had the
London, Jan. 22. he urged the Soviet to change the morands of December 20 and sponsibility of receiving the share den of swelling capital receipts,
The Executive Committee of the late and place for the holding of January 10. It was found that
Aboard Criticism.
colin full without an efficient that was not their real object in l'of the 10-year-old son of Mr. Ah of the spinners' levy from 3d. to It will be recalled that Nanking consider these points at a further ment which had been very widely
Empire Cotton Growing Corpora- the final conference between Chin- certain points nsaded further Mr. Brooks praised the action tien lins decided to reduce the rate cae and Soviet plenipotentiaries. plucidation, and it was agreed to answer quite specifically a state, The Premier said he proposed to baking mannger, and it was apmaking the transactions, because bas, an employee of the Texas Oil1d. Tar 500; 1b,, bale, as from July 1bjects to the Habarovsk Protocol] meeting next Friday, scattered, that this country, while parantly in response to that they had set the maiter out on Company, who lives at the oil de 18th next. ürgument that they signed.
In the afternoon the Premier talking of disarmament, was show- not at Gindrinkers' Bay, The lad
on the ground that' My, Tsaf had knew what had happened as sooner inconie will enable the whole ex-potentiary.
It is not expected that the small no authority to sign as a pleni- moceeded to the House of Com-in no example: EMPEROR mons, where ha remained during "In the case of the British Army In that letter, the Directors had fears were for two other funks deficit will be met from reserves. Tsal Yung-sheng that Moscow whom he had general discussion war days. There has been a
as he heard the explosion, and his penditure to be covered; but any they were convinced. by my argu-"tated « definite reason why they which were lying on either side of Reuter.
The Soviet authorities told Mr. visited by Bignor Grandi, with been large reductions since pre- question time, after which he was regular establishments, there have
ments or were they actuated by wanted the plan adopted. other motiver ?" It was impostsson to anticipate the ap
They the blazing vessel
will insist upon the holding on the conference business, ut limitation or personnel, material. sible for him (Mr. Brewer) to say mata sale of the shares and
of the final conference at Moscow This evening, he broadcast from and military expenditure general- not later than the date stated in the his study in Downing Street a tor, but the thought must be con-ent, ka far as to give a personal wart motives actuated the Direc-when It was considered that they gida-ed whether they were actust mirantee in respect of the loan ed by the destro to possess fully-elsed by Mrs. Brower under the it was, there can be no doubt that paid shares, or whether they were ran. It was more reasonable to fire and presented an even greater the other junks would have.caught actuated by the desire merely to that they were achinted by task to the Fire Brigade. produes an increase of capital an enthainism for the firm than receipts.
It was to think they would go to Two admitted by the pro- mich riak solely for the sake of secution that the explanation given welling canital receipta. by him (Mr. Brewer) at his public If their blea was to swell capital rushed to the scene, but by the examination seven months ago erept, they were only doing so time it arrived the fire had too and at all other times, was in the expanse of their own labi strong a hold to be checked. Ac Contire agreement with the com-it. In the event of the shares cordingly the three big fire mont- pany's books, and that the trans-maining unsold, it would be their tors were brought into action and actions were, in fact, treated inonsibility to pay back that loan. the efforts of their crews were the books exactly as was called for: Mr. Brewer went on to deal with concentrated on preventing the by-the plan followed, another paint arising out of spread of burning off over the
It was also true that the trans-other letter, written by him to waters of the Bay. actions had, in fact, provided the he Director, to which the previous Had the junk been farther Directors, who afgned the loans after referred to was a reply. Mr. towards the shore, care im with fully-paid-up shares and had. Brewer added: “I must say it la have been entertained in fact, purported to increase the another mistake I have made in safety of buiklinge at pital receipts of the company connexion with this case Attar Depots but 18-ihawan, tical question of politjux out that the two letters Curred 900
Directora" Motives,
The query, however, was deeper, The question was: "Am 1 sure
The fare of the letter.
Enthusiasm for Firra.
Rushing down to the beach, he
if this had not beca done when made coolles take boats out and DR. COOK LIKELY TO BE Habarovsk protocol. itow, the other vessels to safety.
Oil on Surface. Fire-fighting equipment
was
RELEASED.
BIG MAIL FRAUD CASE RECALLED,
New York, Jan. 22, A message, from Leavenworth (Kansas) says the Parole Board parole of Dr. Frederick Cook, the has recommended the rdcase on explorer and all-promoter, who is serving a sentence of 14 years for Dr. Cook bila so far served near using mails to defraud.
five years of his term Reuters American Servicer
BAN ON PARROTS
message which was sent by short "Our personnel to-day shows a Mr Tasi Yung-sheng has tels-wave station 58W and relayed reduction of 50,000 compared with graphed the result of the Interview throughout the United States. A 1914, and 162,000 compared with to the National Government stating little later he had a further con 1921 after the actual war forces that General Chang Hauch-liang versation with the shio Japanese had been disbanded. disappointed by the further com delegate, Mr. Wakatauki.
"We are the only nation among plications and the last-minute inter-
the leading Powers who can show vention.
Premier's Message to America, a continuous reduction, in expendi
tura on its army.s The Premier is his broadenst "I am making, no criticism of Plenipotentiary Resigns,
message to the United States anid: what the other nationa hiy cently appointed Chinese plenipoten- the delegations had been discuss that we have the this country
General Mo Teh-hui, who was 'TE- "Before the conference started I am only concerned to
dona:
lary to participate in the final ing their differences and we are ready assumed some of the risks to the Nanking Foreign Ministry matter of two or three delerations fighting power Bino-Soviet Conference, has wired hard at that now. If it were once by an actual redaction expressing inability to attend the the differences might be adjusted Conference on account of jil liealth in open conterence, but when there and requesting Dr. O. T. Wang to are five, many exchangen of views attend the conference himself,
rød, ja sand-ir deilzate no handling has to be adopted not
Preliminaries fout BELİRT
Remarkable Contrast,
“In the case.