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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930.
REBELS RAPIDLY HONGKONG ROLLAR MURDER CASE AT
ADVANCE.
NANKING MAY GIVE
UP TSINANFU."
BANKS SENDING BULLION TO SHANGHAI.
OUTLOOK.
A FIRMER TONE AFTER
WEAK OPENING.
SHANGHAI REACTION.
The Hongkong dollar' again showed a decline at the opening this morning, the nominal rate officially quoted being 1s. 23⁄4%d.,
SURRENDER RUMOUR. which was d. below yesterday's
Tsinanfu, June 4. Fierce attacks by the anti- Nationalist troops near the Lungshan Station along the Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Railway this morning resulted in consider. able concern. here where residents in the suburbs heard gun-fire, indicative that the rebels had advanced rapidly on Tsinanfu.
The Officer Commanding the Shantung Nationalist troops, General Han Fu-chu, is directing
the defence along the Railway, but the consensus of opinion is that the Nationalist troops are about to withdraw from Tsinanfu in view of the inability of Nanking to despatch farther reinforcements
to relieve General Han Fu-chu.
All the foreign and Chinese banks at Tsinanfu have taken precautionary steps by removing their valuables and bullion to their business connexions in Shanghai, fearing looting by the defeated Nationalist troops when they abandon the city. The anti- Nationalist troops who are engaged in attacking the Tsinanfu- Kiauchow Railway are the picked Shansi forces directly under the leadership of Marshal Yen. Hsi-
shan.
Surrender Arrangement,
nominal quotation.
However, during the course of the morning, the market stendied up somewhat, the reaction taking place from Shanghai, where gold bars, which had come down to 580, went up to 588, whilst the tael rate improved to 1s. 6.5/16d.
In Hongkong, business in taels was done at 83 in the morning, and later there were sellers at 81, but no buyers.
During the forenoon, sterling was offered locally at is, 3d, for June-July, but there were no buy-
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SESSIONS.
JAPANESE ON TRIAL FOR LIFE.
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ACCUSED OF KILLING A CHINESE COOK."
TRAGEDY ON SHIP.
a
When the trial of Yoriicht Hori, alias Yamada, a Japanese subject, charged with the mur- der of Fung Sau-sham, Chinese cook on board the s.s- Tanda, opened at a special sitting of the Criminal Sessions before Mr. Justice Wood, this morning, the Public Prosecutor (Mr. Somerset Fitzroy), read out a dramatic statement, said to have been made by the prisoner after his arrest, in which he described the events of the early morning of May 5th, when the crime was committed.
A broker, interviewed on the situation, said that at the time of speaking the market was firmer than at the opening, but how long this would last it would be hard to
The case for the Crown is being say. With conditions as they are, conducted by Mr. Fitzroy, whilst it was as well to be prepared for Mr. Leo d'Almada, jun., (instruct- anything, and it was quite con-ed by Mr. P. M. Hodgson) is de- ceivable that before the day was fending, pleading "Not Guilty." over there would be a reaction in Mr. C. D. Ribeiro was elected fore-
man of the jury. the other direction.
On the opening rate, it pointed out, the dollar was Pad. above silver parity.
THE AGA KHAN'S FIRST DERBY.
was
still
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eleven on Diolite and the others proportionate.
The full list of runners in the Derby with their jockeys was es follows!
In this connexion it is con- sidered most unusual that the thousands of Kuominchun troops under General Shih Yu-shan n Blenheim (Wragg) northern Shantung have declined Iliad (R. Jones) to take part in the assault against Diolite (Cecil Ray) Tsinanfu. Rumours are gaining Silver Flare (Elliott) ground that General Shih Yu-shan Trews (R. Dick) has made an arrangement with Seer (Jelliss) General Han Fu-chu to surrender Noble Star (H. Beasley)
Ballyferis (Canty) to the Nationalist Commanders..
Case for the Crown.
In detailing the story of the crime, Mr Fitzroy said that the prisoner was accused of the crime of wilful murder. The alleged offence took place on the high geas, on board the 9.5. Tanda, in the early hours of May 5, when the ship was proceeding from Thurs- day Island to Sandakan.
After explaining the position of the accused's, the deceased's and the cook's mates' cabins on the boat, and showing that they led into each other, counsel said that accused, who boarded the boat as a passenger, slept in Cabin A, whilst deceased slept in Cabin D.
Somewhere about 2.40 a.m. on May 5, the officer on watch heard a noise going on down below, and 5 went to investigate. Upon arrival at Cabin A, he found prisoner out- 7side the door, held by three or four 8 Chinese He was wearing the produced, which were blood-stained. The man was, in fact, smothered in blood.
Weltering in Blood,
9 clothes Dick Swiveller (P. Beasley) The whole of northern Shan-Sponger (R. Perryman) tung has been occupied by the Sea Rover (M. Wing) Shansi rebels after a sudden re- Grand Salute (G. Richards) treat of the Nationalist troops Bargany (Carslake) there, following instructions by Rustom Pasha (Beary) Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, Marshal Tetragem (Lane) Yen Haishan is directing the Scout the Second (J. Childs) Shansi troops at Tehchow, which Parthenon (Golding) forms the Shansi 11.Q. in Shantung Province. Japanese re-
The record time for the Derby porta state that the Nationalist on the old course is 2 minutes troop movements and other arrange-34.4/5 seconds by Spion Kop in ments with the Police inside Tsinanfu Suggest an early
1920. The new course record of ganised retreat by the Nationalist tain Cuttle in 1922 was beaten by
2 minutes 34.3/5 seconds by Cap a fifth of a second by Call Boy in
defenders from Tsinanfu.
Nanking's Claims.
or-
1927.
-Reuter.
The officer examined him to seej if he was wounded, but found that) he was not, and he then went into the No. 1 cook's cabin, where he found the place regularly welter-| ing in blood. He also found an axe and a knife in the cabin, which were also covered with blood. The deceased was lying on his right
ship's surgeon was called and he side, being very badly wounded, and practically pulseless. The discovered the man to be suffering from a wound which had several ali
the veins and arteries in his neck. The head was nearly cut off.
The Aga Khan, owner of the The fighting along the Lung-Hai Derby winner, is the spiritual Railway seem to have reached a head of the Khojahs and leader of Evidence would be given to show stage where both armies are pre- the Indian Mohammedan com-that the axe and the knife belonged pared for a long struggle. There munity. He was accorded by the to the prisoner, and that he was are continuous skirmishes in the King-Emperor the rank and status vicinity of Lanfeng. It is de-of a First Class Chief of the finitely known that the Kuomin Bombay Presidency for life. He chun troops are able to hold Lan- has had many striking successes feng, despite the announcement on the English turf. by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek that!
the First Nationalist Division has
seen take them out of a box and put them back a few days previously.
Subsequently statements
were
taken from the man, who said that the cook was a bad man, and that he (prisoner) wanted to die. He was kept in the ship's gaol until
handed over to Inspector Dorling.
Accused's Statement."
been instructed to take Lanfeng at Kiangsi were kidnapped by Com- arrival in Hongkong, when he was all costs on or before Thursday. munists.
The *Nationalist Commanders claim that in'a battle at Kihsien near Lanfeng the Nationalists captured over 1,000 Kuominchun. prisoners yesterday.
Nanking's Predicament.
Later he made a statement which Shanghai, June 5.
threw light on the events of the) The vital necessity of dealing night in question. The statement Judging by the reports from with the very serious situation in was as follows: various sources it would seem that Hunan, coupled with Japanese "When I left Townsville, I had the present struggle.
between reports that the Northerners are with me £84, and as the ship left Nanking and Shangi will cul- exercising the heaviest pressure I gambled at fan-tan and won about minate in
in North Shantung, predicates £140. On Saturday evening I lost one of the most serious civil wars ever fought in that the Nationalist Government about £20 and on Sunday £1. Al- North China, as
fierce struggles will shortly be compelled to together I had left £169. are in progress in Shantung near shorten the northern battlefront, thought I would not play any more, Tsinanfu, in Honan near Lanfeng, probably evacuating Shantung so I put the money in my pocket
in Hunan at Changsha and on the Hupch-Honan frontiers along the Peking-Hankow Railway. The war zones cover hundreds of
province. Reuter.
and tied it round my waist.
I
"On Sunday morning, about 10 Fall of Changsha,
o'clock the passenger cook asked me to give him £10. I thought he Shanghai, June 4.
was joking. That night about 7 square miles. Along the Peking- General Chang Fot-kwal's
p.m. I again met the cook, and he Hankow Railway the Nationalists "Ironsides are reported to have pointed a pistol at me and asked claim that they have advanced defeated the Nationalists under me to give him £50. Whilst we General Ho Chien and are expected were there, some Chinese passen. much further after capturing Hsuchang.
to enter Changsha at any moment, gers came along towards us, and All British citizens have been re the cook put away the pistol and moved from the banks to the island. told me not to say anything about Admiral Waistell, aboard H.M.S.it, as he had a lot of Chinese Bee is leaving for Changaha.- friends on the ship, who would do something to me. Later I went up to the deck, took a small- mat with me and laid down somewhere
Communists in Kiangai.
A brief telegram from Kiangsi says that the Province has wit-Reuter. nessed a general recrudescence of Communism since early this week,
and
The Communists looted hundreds back and I thought he was getting near the hatch. At about 11.30, of residences and business houses his pistol, and I lifted my knife the Chinese, cook came up to me did considerable damage and touched the electric light with where I was lying awake, and when they looted and destroyed it. The light went out, and I stood looking at me until I became many of the telephone and tele-heard the cook shouting, but after ufraid. graphic administrations all over that I don't remember anything." the Province in an attempt, to Subsequently, the prisoner made
Bever-communicationa..
Money Missing.
Jaid
the following addition to the state "Two Chinese passengers The Nationalist troops stationed ment: "When I went into the down beside me, and I fell asleep. in Kiangs have long been with Chinese cook's cabin, he asked me When I opened my eyes I found my drawn for the fighting in the if I had come for my money and I hands and legs were numb and_my. North leaving the Province almost but the cook said "No, no, never" and found it missing. I went to said 'Yes'. I put out my left hand head heavy. I felt for my money defenceless and exposing tho This was said in English, and he the Chinese passenger cook's room, sands of peaceful farmers to the then said something in Chinese taking my axe and knife with me mercy of the roaming Communiat which I did not understand. He for protection: The cook was lying hordes along the Kiangsi-Kwang-put his hand behind him, and some- in the bunk awake and I asked called tung frontiers. It will be re-thing came on my eye, and I him to give me my money back. missionaries
that recently foreign swung my right arm round." He put his left hand behind his.
Kanchow in The trial is proceeding...
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