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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1930.
“RED” MENACE IN JOSS WORSHIPPING
KIANGSI.
FOREIGN CHILDREN MOVE FROM KULING.'
NANCHANG CAPTURED.
Shanghai, Apr. 9. Martial law has been declared at Kiukiang and the shipment of goods has ceased.
children
Twenty-five foreign" from the hill station at Kuling are being sent to Hankow owing to reports that Communists have taken possession of the provincial capital of Nanchang,
CASE.
WOMAN SENT TO GAOL
FOR MONTH.
After hearing the evidence in the case of a'married woman who
appeared at the Kowloon Magia tracy this morning on a charge of of defrauding another woman money, Jewellery and clothing to the value of $57, Mr. Whyte Smith sentenced the defendant to one month's imprisonment.
POLITICAL RIGHTS
REMOVED.
EX-GREEK DICTATOR TO BE IMPRISONED.
CORRUPTION CHARGE.
Athens, Apr. 8.
of the A Special Commission Senate has sentenced the ex- Dictator; General Pangalos, to two years' imprisonment and has The case was one in which the further ordered him to be de- complainant banded the defendant prived of his political rights for the articles mentioned in the
a period of five years. charge for the purpose of worship- ping the joss to appease the spirit: The sentences follow a charge which was tormenting the com- of granting, while in power as A's reported recently, the bandit plainant. The victim was em Dictator, concessions which were and Communist menace in Kiangsi phatic in her evidence that the onerous to the Treasury is continually growing worse. articles were to have been return- savouring of corruption. Terrible atrocities and depreda-ed by the defendant and were not proceedings dealt with the grant- tions are being committed by given as fee for the ceremonialing of a gambling concession at 10,000 "Red" troops under Chu services. Teh and Mao Te-tung who control many parts of the north and west of the province as well as the entire river from Kianfu to Kan-
chow.
The defendant admitted that she had received the property men- tioned and that she had pawned it, but, when asked why she The procedure is to attack un- had disposed of the valuables, she defended points and to dash to expressed some surprise at the other districts when Government question. She intimated that as troops are sent against them. the period of the worshipping had Anti-foreign feeling in the pro- not yet expired, and as she was vince is worse than at any time responsible for the safety of the since 1927. When Yuanchow was things, she had pawned them for raided a city magistrate was boil-safe custody.
ed in oil, prominent persons were When' questioned further, the brutally murdered and shop-defendant suid the complainant keepers and others were tortured had promised to obtain the money and forced to contribute $60,000 to to redeem the articles from pawn: the "Reds."
The money, about $56, which she
Bandit activity fa also pro-hud secured on the property, had nounced on the upper Yangtze all been expended on the services. while there is increased banditry
in all the outlying districts around; Hankow.--Reuter.
A MARRIAGE HE FORGOT
EX-OFFICER SUES
FOR NULLITY.
LOCAL ESTATE OF $68,500.
LEFT BY MR, EDWIN HERMAN TUSKA,
Local estate to the value of $68,500 was left by Edwin Herman What was described as an "ex- Tuska, who died at Pleasantville, traordinary story" came before Westchester, New York, U.S.A., on Mr. Justice Bateson in the Divorce March 20, 'last year. Letters of Court on the petition of Mr. James administration with the will an- Grichton Cochrane, of Taviton-nexed have been granted to Mr. street. Bloomsbury, who before M. H. Turner, of Messrs. Deacons, the war was in the theatrical pro- who is the attorney for the widow, fession as James Ricardo, for a de-Maud Alice Tuska, the sole execu- cree of nullity of his marriage in trix.named in the will. August 1917
In the cause list the name of to his widow Se
Testator bequeathes everything Mrs. Cochrane was given as Jenya Cochrane, otherwise Milamootz, Chung. Pui-grL otherwise Limonack, otherwise chant, late of Beaufort, British Limanak, otherwise Limonk, other-North Borneo, who died at Yue wise Leminsck, otherwise Lemi-Hang Village, Fa Yuen District,
nock,
Serjeant Sullivan, K.C., Mr. II. D. Grazebrook, and Mr. Compton Miller were for the husband; and Mr. H du Parcq, K.C., Mr. Action Pyle, and Mr. for Lloyd for the wife.
Mr. Cochrane's allegation in his original petition was that at the time of the suggested marriage ho was mentally unstable because of the effects of war wounds, and for that reason he was unable to contract a valid marriage. He had now recovered.
In the amended petition Mr. Cochrane also alleged that at the time of the suggested marriage the respondent was already married, with a husband alive.
Mr. Cochrane at the outbreak of war joined the Highland Light In- fantry. As a second lieutenant ne went to Gallipoli with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and was severely wounded.
He recovered physically, but his mind became affected by con-. fusional psychosis that caused him, it was stated, to forget the past,
Began Life Again.
He began life again and had to learn to read and write. Because of his "patchy" memory it had been difficult to trace his move- ments after he left hospital.
Early in 1919 he complied with a request by letter to go to an ad- dress in Berners-street, W., and ask for a Mme. Lemonik. There he met the respondent and this,
rubber mer-
Kwangtung, on or about January 10, this year, left Hongkong estate which has been valued at $5,000, Probate of the will has been grant- ed to the eldest son, Chung Chao (or Shiu) Lang,, student, who is temporarily living at the Luk Hoi Tung boarding house, No. 150, Connaught Road Central.
Eleusis.
Marine Heroes Return with New Loves-Tricks.
Just desperately in love- with each other's
sweethearts.
A NEW DAME has them
Scrapping Again!
To Hand the Cock Eyed World Its Biggest Laugh
Now You Can Hear the Riot between Flagg and Quirt as They Fool; Frolic and Fume with Each Other's "Sweeties from Siberia to.
and The
the
General Pangalos has already spent two and a half years in prison awaiting his trial, which lasted for three weeks.
After a sound military training he became the Greek Minister for in 1922 and later ar
Com'-
mander-in-Chief of the army in Thrace. He later held several positions in the Cabinet but in 1925 placed himself at the head of a new revolution which began in the Salonika garrison spread to the entire army and
navy."
and
It was carried through without bloodshed, but he denied that he would act as dictator. In 1928, however, in consequence of "party fanaticism of the political leaders which hindered reconciliation" he declared a military dictatorship.
He banished ex-Premiers and Ministers, declared a forced loan, but later declared an amnesty and allowed exiled ministers to He eventually succeeded The will directs that everything return.
A Cabinet be handed over to Chung Chao- in organising
the former chairman lung to administer, half of the under
the Economies Commis- estate to be used for an ancestral of
powers sacrificial fund, maintenance of sion Eftaxias with wide wife, education of children, to impose the drastic financial dowries and marriage expenses. and other reforms necessitated Any surplus is to be divided as by the slump in the drachma—.
Reuter and I.B.S.. cording to Chinese custom.
MASKEE DUE HERE
AT MIDNIGHT.
ROUND THE WORLD JUNK
LEAVES SWATOW.
A cable has been received in the Colony to the effect that the Mas kee, in which Mr. J. L. Stevenson the world, ert Swatow yesterday. and his companions will sail round at 6 pm. før Hongkong and is due here at about midnight to-day.
GUIDE IN CHOICE OF VACATION.
EXPERT ADVICE FOR BOYS FROM BORSTAL.
Borstal boys are to be guided in the choice of a vocation by experts of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology.
For some time the Institute, under the inspiration of the Earl of Balfour and Dr. C. S. Myers, has been studying vocational On board the Maskee are Messrs. guidance in the conviction that Stevenson Price and Brande, scholastic attainment is not al- are ways a sure guide to a future The Kist two gentlemen notccompanying Mr. Steven-career. General intelligence and son round the world but are the reaction of the individual to assisting in. bringing the junk to various carefully devised tests are to the best of his recollection, was Hongkong, from where the ad important signs of true ability, the first time he had seen her. venture will start in earnest. He recollected no marriage cere- mony, it was stated.
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When interviewed
some days. In the amended petition the al-ago, Mr. Stevenson said given legation was advanced that, in favourable wind, he expected to 1910, the respondent married be able to bring the Maskee from Russian named Asher Lemonik, Swatow to Hongkong within 30
or 36 hours. who died in April 1918..
Mrs. Cochrane repudiated all the allegations.
The hearing was adjourned.
ARMS CONFISCATED.
SEQUEL TO SEIZURE ON THE
OPIUM ON HARBOUR BOTTOM.
RECOVERED OPPOSITE THE RAILWAY PIER.
and 80 successfully has the institute been in giving advice to boys in schools that it has been asked to devote attention to the problem of the "difficult" boy.
voca-
Trained men will in future examine the Borstal lads as they arrive, and decide which tion: they shall be trained for.
The Institute has tested 600 elementary school. children: They bave been advised regarding careers and their subsequent his tory is being carefully checked.
"We feel there are too many in square pegs in round holes industry just now," said Detective Sergeant Humphreys, official and that much, unhappi- The arms and ammunition, com- acting on information received, bass and friction would be re- prising an automatic pistol, a re-retrieved a large quantity of moved it we were in a position volver, 398 rounds of ammunition prépared opium from the bottom o extend our work in and three spare magazines which of the harbour yesterday when he Airection. I should say that at wore seized by Detective Sergeant "fished" up a canvas sack contain least 70 per cent. of those who Kellett in the steerage of the Pretaining 65 five-tael tins opposite have gone through our tests and sident Grant on Monday were or the Railway Pier, where the con- who have accepted our advice are dered to be confiscated by Mr. traband had been dumped by some making good, although we often Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magi- unknown party The opium is cut right across their precon
valued at a little over $8,000.
ceived Ideas." stracy this morning.
. PRESIDENT GRANT.
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