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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY,
APRIL 24, 1930.
HULL BEATEN AT LOST WALLET AT "RED" LITERATURE
BURY.
RELEGATION BOGEY LOOMS PROMINENTLY.
NORTHERN TUSSLES.
London, Apr. 23. Hull City's perilous position in the Second Division was made worse to-day when Hull were beaten at Bury by two goals to!
anc.
A CLUB.
LARGE SUM STOLEN
BY ROOM BOY.
SENTENCE OF FOUR MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT.
Bury's performance does A POOR EXCUSE GIVEN. not affect the position at the top of the League where- Blackpool are certain of promotion.
The theft by a room boy nt the Sai Lum Club of a wallet con-
CONCEALED.
CLEVERLY HIDDEN IN TINS
OF BISCUITS.
THE LATEST DODGE.
One of the most ingenious mel- hods of concealing illegal docu ments was disclosed in a case which came before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy' this morn- ing, when a charge of possession of seditious literature was brought against a Chinese.
The detendant admitted posses- sion, but said the tins in which the documents were contained had been given to him by a friend.”
The other team to go up into taining $3,291, formed the the First Division still remains subject of proceedings at the
Detective Sergeant O'Donovan undecided. Bury have now secur- Central Magistracy this morn- said that on April 12 the defendant ed 47 points from 410 matches, but ing when Mr. Lindsell sentenced was arrested in Canton Road, near Chelsen and Oldham, for the same Lui Wing, to four months im-house No. 74, by a Chinese detec number of matches played, have
tive. The defendant, at the time, prisonment on this count. 52 and 52 points respectively.
was carrying a basket and an um- brella. he was taken to the Wa the
ter Police Station and when the articles of basket was searcard, clothing and money were cialmed by the defendant. There were four tits of biscuits which were sealed,
follows:
The defendant pleaded not The position at the bottom of guilty. Mr. K. C. Loo, the com-
Second Division is now
plainant said that he visited the Club as a guest last night and before dinner went to a sitting room, where he took off his coat, put his wallet in the side pocket
Reading
of his trousers, and laid down ones their criginal state, giving the
impresson that they had not been At about 8-15 he went down for opened after they had left the dinner and about an hour later manufacturers. discovered that his wallet WALS One of the tins was open and missing. Both be and Dr. S. F. under the first layer of biscuits the Li went to the room, where the police found Communistic
The other tins were opened doctor questioned the defendant,ture.
litora-
The defendant told the police that
41 12 11 18 64 GG 36 Avila. Chty.
41 10 14 17 55 G6 34 Bradford C.
40 11 12 17 58 76 31 Barnsley
40 12 8 20 63 70 32 Hull
39 12 7 20 47 77 31a settee. Britsol C. 39 11 8 20 64 80 30 Stockport virtually lost all hope of promotion to-day when they were beaten by Lincoln by the my goal of the match. Their position now, as compared with and witness also said to the man and they were also found to con- that of Port Vale, is as follows:
"If you have my purse or pick ittain seditious pamphlets. Port Vale 39 27 7 594 86 61, and return it to me, I will give Stockport. 40 26 7 7101 43 59 you a tip of $100."
The defendant denied he had Results.01 matches played to-seen it, and said that if he hat he
as cabled by Reuter. are would have given it to the wit-in Hongkong, his residence being in further en- ness. Dr. Li then searched the the country, but on given below:
defendant but found nothing in his quiries it was discovered that he possession. They then sent a occupied a house in Shanghai Street and was seen to leave there on the message to Scotland Yard,
Mr. Landsell:--We don't call it day of his arrest. The principal tenant would tell the Court that Scotland Yard here. You the No. 7 Police Station.
she saw the defendant leave short- ly before his arrest with a basket and an umbrella.
day.
Second Division.
Bury
20
Northern Section.
Lincoln
1 Stockport
Scottish League.
0
Dundee Partick
} Rangers
2 St. Johnstone
AIR CRASH OVER HELIOPOLIS.
MACHINE NOT USED BY THE
PRINCE OF WALES.
AN ESCORT PLANE.
London, Apr. 23. Although the Royal Air Force machine which crashed yesterday * Heliopolis
not that in Was which the Prince of Wales travel- led from Khartoum
it to Chi was, nevertheless, connected with this flight.
from It is officially denied Cairo that the machine Was actually used by the Prince of Wales, but the Air Ministry here has
the no knowledge whether machine was the one in which the Prince travelled.
mean
A Posse of Police, Continuing, witness said that about five police officers arrived later at the Club-
Mr. Lindsell:-A regular posse ch?
These, added witness, searched the rooms, and as they were doing this defendant sneaked out of the sitting room and into the bathroom. Witness did not see him go to the bathroom, but he was followed by Sergt. Collins.
he had been given the tins to take back to the country for a friend. He also said that he had no address
ALL TALKING
THE TRIAL
OFA
MARY DUGAN
The case is proceeding.
MILITARY POLICE
Writhen
and. -Directed
by Bayard Veiller
STONED.
PATROLS COMPLAIN OF ACTS
OF SMALL BOYS.
P. S. Collins spoke to accompany- ing a party of officers to the Club
A CASE DISMISSED. about 10.5 p.. and as he was ap- proaching the sitting room on the
Allegations made by two Mili- third floor, he saw the defendant come hurriedly out of the room,tary Police officers against a Chin- brush past him and go in a bath- ese boy that he threw a stone at room. Witness became suspicious, them while they were patrolling although he did not know who the Spring, Garden Lane, Wanchai, last man was, and followed him. He night, were not accepted by Mr. saw a wallet on the floor behind the Lindsell at the Central Magistracy latrine. Ho asked the defendant to this morning, when he dismissed whom it belonged and he replied the case owing to insufficient evid that he had found it in his master's ance. bedroom.
Trying to Save Face. Defendant said that after com- plainant had gone to dinner he found the wallet but he did not know what it contained or if there. was any money in it. He put it The machines crashed over on a shelf in the cupboard and went Heliopolis, the occupants, Pilot down to his work. Then the com- Officer Barron and Aircraftsman plainant asked him to find the Cyril Davis, both of No. 47 Bomb-purse, and he replied that he had ing Squadron at Khartours, being not seen a purse. He promised to killed. The plane svas returning go round and look for it, and re- Khartoum when the accident turn it when he had found it.
Mr. Lindsell:-This is occurred.
When the Prince flew to Cairo statement! How do you account for eleven machines took part in theit being in the W. C.. and for you ilight, ten of these being used as being there?
Defendant don't know how escorts for the Prince's plane,
it got there.
in
In the course of their evidence, the complainants stated that on four or five previous occasions during the last month they had been subject to stone throwing in the same thoroughfare.
L/C, Frank Phippen, a 'G.M.P. of the Somerset Light Infantry said that he was patrolling Spring Garden Lane in company with L/C. Dixon and L/C. Brown, when a stone was thrown at them. It just missed L/C. Dixon and struck the wall opposite. A similar, thing had happened on previous occa- a fine sions,
and in the majority of cases the miscreants were small defendant ran away
In any case it appears that
Mr. Lindsell:-How did you know Pilot Officer Barron was not, the it was there?-I did not know it officer who piloted the machine was there. which carried His Royal Highness. -Renier's and British Wireless,
JAPANESE VESSEL
RAIDED.
Mr. Lindsell:-Oh! It was just by chance that you went to the latrine, where Sergt. Collins fol- lowed you? It is no good you telling lies. You are only making things worse." You are trying to save your face and only losing it. -Four months..
DOGOWNER FINED AT KOWLOON.
INSTRUCTIONS TO SERVANTS
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PIRATES BOARD SHIP OFF SWATOW.
Tokyo, Apr. 23. According to reports reaching the Navy Office, Chinese pirates raided the Japanese freighter Kamiyoshi Maru, which grounded on Sunday night off Swatow.
On a summons for allowing his The Japanese crew, totalling dog to be abroad without a licence, about thirty, are missing, and Ja Mr. A. J. Osmund, the local panego war craft are searching the billiards champion; was fined $5 nearby shores and islands for signs by Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kow- of them--Reuter,
loon Magistracy, this morning.
boys. The and they chased him for some 50 yards, when he was caught by L/C. Brown.
The defendant denied this, and said he was running away from a foki, with whom he was playing in the street.
L/C. John Brown of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders said thrown at they had had stones them on four or five previous oc- casions in Spring Garden Lane. The stone last night was thrown at them from behind, and they did not actually see who threw it. They turned round sharply and saw the defendant running ona way and two others running in the opposite direction. "
His Worship said the evidence- was insufficient and dismissed the
case..
C.P.R. COMPANY.
COMMON STOCK TO BE SPLIT.
The Canadian Pacific Railway
[This vessel is most likely the one The defendant said that the dog Company is applying to Parliament He for authority to change the par reported to have been sighted by had probably wandered out. the s.a. Cremer. As annouriced in did not know himself, but he had value of shares of its ordinary capl- the Telegraph yesterday, whilst given the servants strict instructal stock from $100 to $25, so that on her way to Hongkong, the Lutch tions that the animal should be from and after such change each steamer Cremer sighted a small kept within the residence. Japanese cargo boat, whose name
she could not ascertain, on White
Rock, near High Lammocks, and ac- Osaka in 1917, and owned by the cordingly wired back to the Water Abe Shokal Kisen Kaisha, her port Police to this effect. The boat was of registry being Kobe.] to all appearances deserted.
In yesterday's "account it was. stated that the Cremer noticed dis- tresa signals, but we have since been informed ..that there were no signals at all, s
Crew Rescued.
holder of a share or shares of the par value of $100 each shall be 'the holder of the same aggregate amount of the stock divided into shares of $25 each.
This action has been dictater by a desire to place the Company's shares within the reach of investors of moderate means and thus in- Tokyo, Apr. 241-
crease the number of shareholders. The crew of the Kamiyoshi Maru No change in dividend distribu has been rescued by a Chinese tion is contemplated, that on the steamer and taken to Amoy, a new stock, when issued, being The Kamiyoshi Maru is a steel cording to Navy Ofce reports equivalent to the rate on the pre- screw vessel of 974 tons, built at Reuter.
sent stock.
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