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C# WAAR TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936.
DIVORCE ECHO OF CURRENCY INQUIRY WAITING MUKDEN
MURDER TRIAL.
DECREE FOR LOCAL SHIPMASTER.
WIFE'S MISCONDUCT WITH CONDEMNED MAN.
FAR EAST INTEREST.
London, Apr. 7. There was a Far Eastern.echo in the Divorce Court to-day of the sensational trial of Sidney Harry Fox, the young man who was sentenced to death at Lowes Assizes on March 21 and who will be hanged at
Prison to-morrow for strangling his mother at a Margate hotel after heavily insuring her life.
BEGUN.
NO REASON YET SHOWN FOR ABANDONING SILVER.
OPINIONS INVITED.
The Committee which has been appointed to report on the Colony's currency problem has already got to work, a preliminary meeting hav- ing been held yesterday, when agreement was uninimously reach- ed on an important point, as the following communique sent to the Press this morning discloses:
DECISION.
RIVAL ARMIES FACING
EACH OTHER,
NANKING TO DEAL WITH DOUBTFUL TROOPS.
SLIGHT SKIRMISHES.
Shanghai, Apr. 7. anti-Nationalist forces in Shansi Although the Nationalist and
"The preliminary meeting of the Currency Committee was held on the 7th of April when details of the procedure to be followed by the Committee in the conduct of its inquiry were settled. The Bieling was unanimously agreed in the upinion that no reason had hitherto appeared to show that the use by Hongkong of a cur- repey based on any other metal lie standard of value than that prevailing in the neighbouring Country of China would be any-tance is sought by both camps. thing but detrimental to the in- terests of the Colony,"
日十月三
$36 PER ANNUM
SINGLE MOPY '10 CENTS
LORD BIRKENHEAD MORTGAGE CLAIM
VERY ILL.
JUDGMENT.
IN SERIOUS CONDITION AT BIARRITZ.
POLITICAL FIGURE.
He was
PLAINTIFF SUCCEEDS
IN ACTION.
SON AS ONE OF THE TWO DEFENDANTS.
DUNLOP CARRIES THE TR- FFIL
They're British, too.
LOCAL BRANCH: Pedder Bullding.
STRANGE VENEZIA
RUMOURS.
ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH ENGINE BEARINGS.
EMERY MENTIONED. Startling rumours are current in the Colony regarding the as. Venezia, the river steamer which was brought to Hongkong to go on the Canton run. The Venezia has
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PREMIER SPEAKS HIS MIND.
NO PLEDGE ON. THE LEAGUE COVENANT.
MOTION WITHDRAWN AFTER FRANK SPEECH.
1
London, Apr. 7. Lord Birkenhead Secretary for India in Mr. Baldwin's late Govern- ment, is lying very seriously ill at Biarritz. Lord Birkenhad is 68 years of age and took his title from
PROPERTY DISPUTE. been in Kowloon Dock for about CONFERENCE LATEST, his birthplace. Formerly a bar-
three weeks and rumours are rister. he entered Parliament as a
The Chief Justice (Sir Henry circulating to the effect that the ately made his mark with a fightment in favour of the plaintiff similar materials are mentioned Affairs in the late Conservative Conservative in 1906 and immedie Gollan) this morning in the
engine hearings have been
London, Apr. 7. and Honan are within strikinging speech in favour of protection. in the case in which Li Po-kwai, as being possibly responsible for Government, moved this evening Supreme Court delivered judg
tampered with.
Mr. Godfrey Locker-Lamps, Emery powder, sand and other Under-Secretary for Foreign distance of each other, a lull at
Attorney-General present prevails, despite the ex-
frum alias Li Kan, No. 1, Seymour the damage. The suggestion is in the Commons the adjourn- treme tension existing. This is 1915 to 1919 and was regarded as Terrace, sued Tsang Chuen and thrown out that the cumpering Maidstone
undoubtedly due to the fact that as one of the party's most witty and Li Nga-ching (stated to be with the engines was deliberate in
ment of the House both the Nanking and Shansi
audacious speakers.
"On  plaintiff's second son) for the order to affect the speed of the leaders are eagerly waiting for
definite matter of urgent HIB advancement has
developed when the Venezia made ment been return of land at Wing Kut ship.
public importance, namely It is presumed that the trouble the imminence of an agree- her last trip to Canton as when ment and foreign Powers rega: l- between the Govern- she returned her engineers advised ing the interpretation to t docking for the bearings to be placed on Article 16 of the and an Earl in Tsang Chuen for $25,000 with examined.
He re-out plaintiff's consent, and sub-
A Telegraph reporter
Covenant of the League of Kn signed from the sequently disappeared.
formed by the Company to-day tions without any consultation Government i n
that efforts to trace the source of with the. Council of the Lengue, Plaintiff's case was conducted the trouble have not been success and thereby engendering s October 1928 to by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., together ful. It was suggested that a fault picion and endangering the good join the board of with Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed in the oiling system might be relations with other Powers." Imperial Chemi- by Mr. E. Davidson, of Messrs. responsible for the
Industries, Hastings, Dennys and Bowley, bearings; or, on the other hand, overheated whose capital is while Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K. C. it might be possible that the £6 2,000,000. instructed by Mr. F. X. D'Almada, bearings had been maliciously Later, he became senior, of Messrs. D'Almada and dámaged. chairman of the Mason, defended. Greater London and Counties
Fox and his mother had bren living on his wits and both were practically destitute. His mother's body was found in a bedroom in the hotel after Fox had set fre to the room.
It transpired after sentence had been passed at the Assizes that Fox had previously been convicted on charges of fraud.
churian General, whose assis-
the decision of the young Man-phenomenally rapid. He was creat-Street. Plaintiff claimed the ed a Knight in property back on the ground 1915, a Baronet that Li Nga-ching had wrong- in 1918, a Vis fully mortgaged the land to
Expressing his confidence in the Nationalist Army, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in delivering a speech to a large gathering of Kuomintang enthusiasts at Government House this morning, said his visit to the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and
It is intimated in an advertise. Į ment to-day that the Committee is desirous of obtaining the views of as many interests in the Colony as possible, and all who wish to pre- In the Divorce Court to-day.
sent memoranda for consideration Peking-Hankow to-morrow was not Mr. Justice Hill granted a decree or to give evidence before the Com-entirely in connexion with the war nisi to Captain George Alfred mittee are accordingly invited to against the Shansi allies. Morse, a master mariner in ser-send, their names or communica- vice in the Far East, on the ground of the adultery of his wife with
Fox.
Divorce for Capt. Morse, Captain Morse is the master of the s.. Antung at present engag ed on the Hongkong-Singapore He joined the China Naviga- run. tion Company in 1902 and is very well known in the Far East.
It was stated in the Divorce Court that Captain and Mrs. Morse were married at Shanghai in De- cember, 1908. They lived at Shanghai, Hongkong and at other places and had two children.
Captain Morse, who is at pre- sent at 2, filed an affidavit in which he said that his wife Occasionally visited her parents in Sydney. She came to England in 1925 to send the children school. She was extravagant and Captain Morse did not live with her when he returned Home.
Evidence of Misconduct..
to
It was stated that she committed adultery with Fox in a fiat at Southsea in 1927 and at an hole! in London in 1928.
tions to the Secretary of the Com- mittee at the Colonial Secretary's Office before the 14th instant.
CHILDREN OF PARTY
LEADERS.
Doubtful Troops.
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count in 1919
1922.
cal
The Judgment.
ship said:
In giving judgment, his Lord-
He mentioned that the National Government had given him in- structions to reorganise the Na: Trust which controls electric light tionalist Army, and thousands of and power concerns and is connect troops whose loyalty to the Goved with a big American corporation. ernment is open to doubt, were Lord Birkenheal was, at one time, likely to be expelled and disband a prolic writer and, in addition ed before Nanking could begin war to books, wrote for the Press. It MAKE MAIDEN SPEECHES IN against the Kuominchun Shansi will be called that following a
PARLIAMENT.
allies.
discussion on Whether Cabinet Marshal Chiang concluded by Ministers should write for the saying that drastic measures Press, Lord Birkenhead was re-known would have to be adopted in dia-quested to refrain from doing 90 banding the "doubtfuls," as this by Mr. Baldwin-Reuter. was most essential.
say
London, Apr. 7. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Ram- MacDonald exchanged sympathetic smiles in the House of Commons to-night as their re- spective offsprings hroke
Chengchow Conference. the Parliamentary ice.
Miss Megan Lloyd George is the all is quiet on the Shantung-Ho- Shantung messages report that Member for Anglesey. while the
nan frontiers, where both sides are Premier's son. Mr. Malcolm Mac-missing thousands of troops in an- Donald, sita for the Bassetlaw ticipation of the outbreak of hos- Division of Nottingham.
tilities at any moment.
Miss Megan was encouraged in her maiden speech by a warm re- ception and a typically Lloyd Georgian quip. She settled down to a lucid and self confident style in support of the Government's slum clearance measure.
Shortly afterwards the Pre- mier's son took the plunge and made
his first
Parliamentary
It is understood that Fox, who did not appear in the Divorce Court, speech-Reuter.
knew nothing of the divorce case and did not enter an answer to the charge. Renter.
The trial
of Fox opened at Lewes Assizes on March 12 and
AUSTRALIAN MINERS AT VARIANCE.
lasted for a week. Fox is 28 years of age and he was found guilty of murdering his mother in room 66 | SOME ACCEPT AND OTHERS of the Metropole Hotel at Margate on October 23 last.
Crown Case.
Sir William Jowitt K.C. was the leading counsel for the Crown and opening the case said: makes this case almost unparalleled "What in this country is that this man
is accused of murdering his own mother. The case for the prosecu-
REFUSE TERMS.
A Brigade of Shansi troops is concentrating at Tehchow, on the Shantung Lorder, while two Regi munts of Shansi cavalry stationed at Pingyuan which is almost within striking distance of the Nanking forces.
are
Condition Improves,
Later.
The plaintiff is a merchant re- siding in Hongkong, and alleges in his statement of claim that on and for some time prior to March 9, 1917, he was the Crown Lessee of certain premises in Victoria
Street. These premises are here- as 18 and 20 Wing Kut; after referred to as "the property in question."
By deed of assignment dated March 9, 1917, the plaintiff, under the name Li Hung-cheung alias Ll Po-kwai, transferred the property in question to himself, under an- other alias of Li Kan, and the second defendant, who is his
was in-
The Venezia is expected out of dock in a day or so when she will resume on the Canton run. She will leave Hongkong at 7.45 a.m. and return from Canton about 4 p.m.
RESTRICTION OF TEA CROPS.
DUTCH TO JOIN WITH BRITISH GROWERS.
London, Apr. 8. The Financial Times understands that negotiations regarding the restriction of the current season's tea crops have been successfully concluded, and all producers will restrict output.
improved.
Lord Birkenhead's condition has A bulletin, signed by three doctors, states, that he broke a small blood vessel and that "no
The chief feature of the scheme serious apprehension is entertain-second son, as joint tenants, in is that for the first time the Dutch
professed consideration of the are ed."--Router.
co-operaling with British payment of a sum of $16,000 by growers, the assignees to the plaintiff. Hej It is believed restriction will be alleges, and on this point the on a sliding scale according to the plaintiff was not cross-examined. quality of tea,the finest leaf being that the second defendant was least affected.-Peuter.
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HOME FOOTBALL
RESULTS.
NORTHAMPTON HELD BY
COVENTRY.
London, Apr. 7.
Several prominent Kuominchun Commanders, including Generals Lu Chung-lin, Shih Yu-shan, Sun Liang-sing. Wan Shun-choi and Sun Cho, have arrived at Cheng- chow to participate in a big mili tary conclave which will discuss Several postponed League foot- plans to be adopted in the coming ball matches were replayed to-day offensive against the Nationalist the results being as follows.-- forces.
Second Division.
1 Notts County Southern Section.
Northampton
So far there has been no definite news of military operations in Charlton Shantung, but messages from Tsi- Sydney, Apr. 7. The coal miners at Adamstown between the Nationalists and the nanfu say that minor skirmishings the November compromise terms curred during the past two days have areepted, by 412 votes to 279, Shansi-Kuominchun allies have oc- which provide for a resumption at Pingyuan of twelve and a half per cent, in of work on a basis of a reduction nothing serious has developed.
and Yucheng, but
The condition in Western Shan-
the hewing rates and of sixpencetong is most critical and it is un-
in daily wages. These proposals derstool that small encounters be- were agreed to by the miners in tween the opposing forces have
tion is that he strangled her so that November, but were subsequently also taken place there, with no de-
he might reap financial benefit
from her death."
rejected.
cisive results,
Railway communication between
It was slated that Fox and his mother were in dire financial straits and spent every day a good deal more than their weekly pension of 18 shillings. Fax took out an in- | be, held tomorrow. to further dis part of the railway
Other miners have not followed Adamstown's lead, however, and Yucheng and Tsinanty has been four other bodies
rejected the suspended, and it is stated that the terms.
Further meetings are to Nationalist troops have destroyed track near
⚫surance policy of £1,000 which ap- plied only to death or injury caused by violent external means, this pur- porting to be signed by "Rosaline Fox." He took out further insur- ance, and eventually returned to the Metropole Hotel with a policy for, £3,000 which would become payable to him if his mother died by a violent death on October 23. the following day he raised ularm of tire and Mrs. Fox's body was found on the bed.
On
BE
Sir Bernard Splisbury gave evi- dence of finding a bruise at the back of Mrs. Fox's throat, caused ly strangling ly the band.
GETHSEMANE "BOMBS."
CHAS
the situation-Reiter,
DEATH OF AMERICAN BANKER.
MR. WILLIAM P. GOULD HARDING.
Tsinanfu.
Chiang's Mission.
Nanking, Apr. 7. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek an- nounced this morning that he will go to the front either to-morrow or Wednesday, with the object of re- organising the Government forces, rather than of directing operations against the rebels.
Boston, Apr. 7. The death has occurred here of Mr. William P. Gould Harding, or up the Tientsin-Pakow Railway, His destination will be Hankow Governor of the Federal Reserve but it is indefinite which. Bank of Boston and former Chiang Kai-shek declared that a Governor of the Federal Reserve friendly ally of the Government Board.-Reuter's American Service. would shortly start military opera [Mr. W. P. G. Harding was born tions against the rebels. It is be en May 5, 1864 and began his lieved that he has career as a clerk and book-keeper Manchuria-Reuter,
reference to
2 Coventry Northern Section.
2
Chesterfield
the
not aware at the time of execution of, the deed of assign-. ment, and he further states that in fact no consideration Was received by him in respect of the; transfer.
The statement of claim goes on to allege that by this assignment the plaintiff never intended confer any beneficial interest in to
the property in question upon the second defendant and that he re- tained complete control and possession of such property.
BRITISH SUBJECTS IN CHINA.
ACTION ON MURDER OF MR. SCARLET.
was being asked whether, if the was any reinterpretation of fr The Premier, replying, said he
ticle 16 of the Covenant involving interpretation was to be made, e fresh commitments, and if the re- would consult the other memb.rs of the Council of the League and give the House an opportunity of considering the draft agreement involving such reinterpretation if it was entered into.
No. Pledge Possible.
Mr. MacDonald said he was per- fectly certain that nubody would object more strongly than Mr. Austen Chamberlain if he gave such a pledge which would mean that it would be quite impossibly for any Government to exchange views or to express its views with regard to an article which Mr. Locker-Lampson knew perfectly well was somewhat vague in its meaning as between France and ourselves, Germany and ourselves or Czecho-Slovakia and selves.
our-
He continued that such a pledge would mean, if given, that France and Britain or Germany and Britain could not even exchange views as regards the meaning of the article without first consulting the Council of the League cf Nations. He could not take that pledge (Ministerial cheers), nor had the Rt. Hon. gentleman opposite ever taken that pledge or acted on it.
Continuing the Premier said "A reference has been made to cer- London, Apr. 7.
tain work that we have in han During question time in the just now, If we da discuss House of Commons to-day Mr Article 16 all that it amounts to Arthur Henderson reviewed the is that one says to the other 'What recent events in China. Regard meaning do we indiviually attach ing the murder of M Scarlet at to Article 16.'" Alleged Wrongful Act. Peltaiho last week, Mr. Henderson On March 7, 1929, the second said the British Minister would defendant, although he was aware,
make the necessary representa- tions. Mr. Henderson added that according to the allegations of he was satisfied that every practi- cable measure was being taken to subjects. Rentcr.
1 New Brighton o the plaintiff, that he had
beneficial. interest in
ZAMUNCULTUREBBERO HOT
STOP PRESS.
DESTROYER EXPLOSION.
Just before going to press we learn that an explosion ec- curred on one of the destroy- ers in part this morning.
Asked for details the naval authorities said that informa- tion of the explosion would be Issued this afternoon.
It was impossible to confirm the rumour that the explosion occurred on H.M.S. Sepoy or whether there were any casual- ties.
GENERALLY OVERCAST.
the
A Trying Period,
He added that that was not the case at Locarno where Germany's request for an assurance as re- gards her obligations if she joined
property in question, wrongfully ensure the protection of British the League of Nations involved a
mortgaged one equal undivid ed mofety thereof to the first defendant, who is a partner in, and acted as the nomince of the Kam Chuen Bank, of 105, Queen's Road Central, to secure repayment of a sum of $25,000 and interest thereon. Though advance of this amount is put in issue in the statement of claim, it was admitted at the hearing before me that the advance had in fact been made by the first defen- dant.
Plaintiff's Case.
MR. FOX SELLS FILM
INTERESTS.
new interpretation of the Article which could only be made by the Council of the League. That was A very serious thing.
the COMPANY HANDED OVER TO 1 as far as humanly possible tic
The case for the plaintiff is that the evidence disclosed a resulting trust in his favour which post poned the legal estate conferred by the mortgage on the first de- fendant to the equitable interest: of plaintiff, and the plaintif claims a declaration that he is entitled to the property in ques- tion free from the mortgage to the first defendant and to an order directing the latter to reassign this property to the plaintiff.
After dealing with the evidence and citing authorities, his Lord- ship continued:
A SYNDICATE.
Regarding the present negotia- tions all the Government could do was to say that, having, ascertain-
opinion of the county and the House of Commons, ntgotiations on these subjects would be con- tinued with that opinion always in mind.
New York, Apr. 7.. Mr. William Fox has sold the controlling interests in Fox Films and Fox Theatres to a syndicate That was what the Government headed by Mr. Harley C. Clarke, had been trying to do during the President of General Theatres past trying two and a half months. Equipment. Advisory Board for a period of Mr. Fox will be chairman of the
Party Heads to Bicct...
years. Reuter'a
American
five Service.
AMERICA AND HER NAVAL BASES.
IMPROVEMENTS TO COST TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
Washington, Apri. 8., The first defendant brings no The Senate has approved a mea It is officially stated that the
The Royal Observatory, reports tion of the plaintiff was on Marchi Naval Base Improvements on the evidence to show what the intensure providing, for miscellaneous "bombe" recently found in the to the Federal Reserve Bank of
that depressions lle over S.W.9, 1917, and he could hardly bo west-coast and at Hawall coating Garden
The Central Executive Com-China and to the west of Shang- expected to do so. of Gethauriane were Boston. He was the author of a mittee at a meeting this morning hal Coastal fog. The local fore-examination of the plaintiff, ques now goes to the House of Repre Turkish shells from the Great book on the administration of the capelled Yon Hai-shan from the cast is East or variable winds, tions were put to him suggesting sentatives. — Reuter's American In cross over ten-million dollars. The Bill War-Router.
Federal Reserve Act] :
Kuomintang-Reuter
moderate; generally overcast,
(Continued on Page 7), Service,!
Jerusalem, Apr..7.
in a private bank. He joined the Berney National Bank at Birming- ham as book-keeper and became President of it, later transferring
Yen Expelled.
Nanking, Apr. 7.
:
The Premier concluded by de- claring that if the leaders of the other parties would consult him whenever they thought that in- -formation with regard to the Con- ference was required, he would be glad to discuss with them the ad- visability of making a statement,
Sir Samuel Hoare, in the absence. of Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Lloyd- George, approved Mr MacDonald's suggestion for a meeting of the three Party leaders and Mr. Locker- Lampson withdrew his motion, British Wireless.
More Naval Questions.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Henderson, in the House of Compa
London, Apr. 74
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