LOCAL SHIPOWNER SUMMONED.
ANOTHER OVERLOADING CASE AT MARINE COURT.
SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE.
Mr. T. G. Bennett appeared at the Marine Court this morning. before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N, on behalf of Mr. Fung Che, the owner of the s.s. Cheung On, who was summoned for unlawfully allowing the vessel to be overloaded at 10.40 p.m. on March 10.
Mr. Bennett entered a plea of "Not Guilty."
Mr. T. B. Low, Boarding Officer of the Harbour Department, stated that he boarded the s.3, Cheung On on the night in question and examined her load-line. On find- ing that her load-line was sub- merged four inches in salt water. witness telephoned Mr. Cairns, also of the Harbour Department. and they together examined ber load-line again.
The master and the mate were not on board at the time, but the owner, Mr. Fung Che, was there Witness withheld the clearance of the Cheung On and examined her again at a.m. The mate was then aboard and informed witness that the vessel was still over- loaded, but she was still discharg ing cargo. At 1.30 a.m., the Plim- soil mark was above the water, and he then handed back the clearance to the owner.
Cross-examined by Mr. Bennet). witness said he saw the owner on. board between 10 and 15 minute after finding that the vessel was overloaded. Witness admitted) that the qwner had told him he had just called on board, after having come from a party at West Point.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1930.
MURDERED BISHOP.
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MURDER OF BISHOP
VERSIGLIA.
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The hands of both were tid WAR IN NORTH CONSIDERED to their backs. Both had been robbed of all valuables.
Mr. Bennett, after cross-examin- ing Mr. Low, said it would save time if corroborative evidence from
Mystery of Graves, another witness was dispensed of the bandits had his head-
When the mystery of the two with. He accepted the statement quarters, He appeared to be of the previous witness and, he shaken out of his usual tranquilityers were told that the villagers,
graves was investigated, the Fath informed his Worship, did not by the news brought by his want to base his argument
followers that they had done to fearful of being compromised with. death the what Mr. Low had just said.
two foreigners, and such grim evidence on their land, curved them for bringing about a had exhumed the bodies overnight The only fact that he wanted ealamity which he seemed to dread and taken them across the river, to dwell upon at all was that, if necessary, his client would go all gentleness to
as imading. After that, he was The villagers covered the mound into the box and produce evidence
the Chinese with bamboo plants transplanted
their and treated and promised them laservation.
freed:m at the first opportunity.
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SHANSI OPPOSITION.
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Court of Enquiry. The bodies were brought back On March 1st, the promise was fulfilled. One of the band divest shaken out of their lethargy, and Officials were to Lin Kung Hau Mr. Bennett quoted several an ed himself of all his arms, and set evinced a desire to thorities on the question of over-out as a guide for the
make what women. amends loading and submitted that no Choosing
were possible at that a circuitous route. he stage. offence had been commilled by saw, in the distance, smoke and planned for dispatch against the A military expedition was Mr. Fung in law. It was unfor-are rising, as the soldiers with-bandits (whose identity appeared tunate that Mr. Fung was an out compunction set fire to home-to be quite familiar to them), and board the ship at the time the stends in a district irretrievably Court of Enquiry was set up at Boarding Officer went On the given over to banditry and other Yingtak. Cheung On, and. Me. Bennett forms of lawlessness. pointed out, no attempt had been
The Court sat until the early made by the prosecution to show
hours of the morning, sifting Bandit Guide Captured.
Important decisions were reach-Telegraph." evidence and putting questions to that the owner had not done every-
Again. for the sake of his life, the three women and two bays!
ed at the Taiyuanfu military the rabber-guide was compelled to released.
conference on Tuesday evening,
APARTMENTS TO LET. take refuge in a ramshackle hovel
Yesterday, March 13,
those present including Marshal the having the description of a pigsty, funerals the late
Feng Yu-hsiang and Marshal Yen BURNISTON-4 Glenealy, top Bishop to escape
the attention of the Versiglia and Father Caravario Hai-shan. The meeting UR: Flower St. Vacant, single and double soldiers as they passed by. It was were to have taken place at Shiu- animously decided to appoint Mr. rooms with private bath attached. unfortunate for him that some kwan, whither have proceeded all Chao Tai-wan as successor to Good food and service. ·Apply Mrs. sudden inspiration should cause the chief Catholic clergy of Hong- Marshal Yen Hsi-ahan as Military Haughland, Tel C.380 or call. the searchers to make for the spot keng. Canton and Macho.
Commander of the Third where he was lying in concealment,
In the Catholic hierarchy Nationalist Army Corps, another with his erstwhile captives placed attending the funeral are Bishops name for the Shansi force. Al-
Valtorta, near-by. Despite all protestations
Nunes, Walsh and though making no official atate- of having done a deserving deed by
The Royal Observatory reports having brought the women safely
con- that depressions are shown to the through, he was seized. Now in
respectively. ference' announced that Shansi north of Chefoo and over the Sea custody of the authorities his end The Spanish Mission is represent- forres would resist any attempts of Japan. A feeble anticyclone is is probably not far off,
ed at the funeral by Father by Nanking to disband them. Meanwhile, Father Cavada was
Noval, while Father Spada has joined in the search by
zone lip Futher
from Hongkong. A Larena who had been summone special carriage was provided by by telegraph from the
the Canton authorities for the Mission headquarters
our Bishops and other ecclesias- ties on the train journey from Canton to Shiukwan.
The summena was dismissed. Regarding the
Case f the master, who was also summoned on the same offence, his Worship was told that the defendant had left the ship at Shanmei and the summons had not been served,
His Worship adjourned the summons for one week.
BACK FOUR MONTHS TOO SOON.
BANISHEE TO SPEND TIME IN PRISON.
With four months left to run, akwan. Chinese female banishee appeared |
Salesian at Shiu-
The path taken by the captives before Mr. Whyte Smith at the through the hamboo groves was Kowloon Magistracy this morning marked by occasional splashes of on a charge of disobeying an order blood, with here and there still of deporation dated June 1925. grimmer evidence of unparalleled The defendant was sentenced to ferocity, the robbera having hack- undergo the unexpired term in pri- fed at their captives while drag-
ging them along. Untold suffer! The woman was arrested yester-ing must have been endured by day. She told the Police that she the captives before a merciful end returned in the morning from the came with bullets through their
heads. country. The defendant's bus-
SOD.
dinance.
Italian, Portuguese, American and war against Nanking, the Fourquet. representing the ment of an intention to declare
French
Missions
YANGTSZE PILOT STRIKE.
COMPANIES MAY CONCEDE CHIEF DEMANDS,
News reaches the Colony this
General Han Fu-chu is with drawing his forces along the Ling-Hat Railway for Northern Honan, permitting the Shansi troops to occupy the Railway. His action has caused considerable suspicion and his loyalty to Nank: king is doubled.
MADMAN ATTACKS
WOMEN.
STABS THEM WITH PAIR OF SCISSORS.
A savage attack was made on band, or the man who was keep- The spot where an attempt had morning to the effect that there is two women by a Chinese, armed ing her, was also a banishee, but been made to conceal the outrage likelihood of the strike of Upper with a pair of scissors, yesterday, his time had expired. Both were was indicated by freshly turned Yangtsze pilots being settled by during which he stabbed them in departed under the Opium Or-earth, but the bodies were missing the firma conceding the principal the head. Fortunately their in-
Shouts of "Versiglia" and demands as regarda payment.. "Caravadio" were sent echoing
juries are not regarded as serious, through the woods as the levoted stant that the pilots were on strike Kowloon Hospital receiving atten- It was reported on the 3rd in-and they are at present in the Fathers from Shiukwan pursued for higher wages, and that all the tion. their search, still hopeful that they shipping companies excepting Chi- might meet with a glad response.
nese were holding out against the demands. Bodies Found.
The defendant was given four
months' imprisonment.
NOT VERY PASSIVE:
INDIAN RAILWAYMEN FIGHT POLICE.
Bombay, Mar. 13.
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On the other side of the river, distantly placed from the village,
from which the inhabitants had! fled, stood a clump of bamboos. Two policemen and 50 strikers It stood almost at the river's edge, were injured in a fight in a shed
and-striking circumstance—it | at Byculla, where two hundred of grew in barren sand. No natural the Great Indian Peninsular Rail-agency could have caused its way employees are offering pas-growth in auch inhospitable soil. sive resistance, lying prostrate The bamboos were found to and obstructing loyal workers.
have
AUSTRALIAN COTTON BOUNTIES.
TO BE CONTINUED FOR FURTHER PERIOD.
Sydney, Mar. 13.
The two women concerned are Lo Ho, a widow, aged 48, and Chan Ng, a married woman, aged 81; who both reside at 180, Temple Street, Yaumati. The
man, Ho Buddenly attacked Laicheung them without warning, but he was subsequently held under control, and later taken to the Kowloon Hospital for observation, as he is 'believed to be insane. ***
Professor R. Robertson, of the Faculty of Arts, at the Hongkong Mr. Scullin, the Premier, has University last night delivered an been planted overnight. announced his intention of
con-interesting lecture on "Utopias, The police arrested two leaders Digging feverishly, the Fathers tinuing the cotton bounties for five Ancient and Modern." He trace on charges of unlawful assembly eventually uncovered the body of a years from August, when the pre- the ideal of an Utopian State as it and trespass, and then dispersed man buried in an upright position sent bounty expires. the passive resisters with staves, Father Caravario.
It was the mortal remains of The bounty varies in diminishing ing social conditions of each suc- whereupon the strikers are alleg
amounts from 11⁄2d. to 1⁄4d. per lb., cessive century, from Plato's ideal The body of Bishop Versiglia finally disappearing in ed to have stoned the police.
1936 Republic to the Utopias conceived This led to a free fight-Reuter. was found, also in an upright Reuter.
by the colourful imagination of H. G. Wells,
was evolved through the chang
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