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MALTA FERMENT NAMES RIDDLE IN
SEQUEL.
ARCHBISHOP PROTESTS TO THE GOVERNOR.
LIBELS ON CHURCH.
Malta, June 11, ·
AMAZING CASE.
STORY OF SIGNAL IN
LAW COURTS.
con-
DROPPED GLOVE.
"A most remarkable The Archbishop has forwarded spiracy," was counsel's description of a case at Westminster Police a strong protest to the Governor Court, in which it was alleged against the action of the Police on that: the occasion of the popular de-i An agreement was made to buy monstration following the Cathed-a peer's Mayfair mansion for
£52,000;
ral service on Whit Sunday,
The Archbishop states that thej
A handkerchief and a glove Police gave the demonstrators were dropped from the Chancery every chance of creating a distur: Court as a signal for a plaintiff bance. He invites an assurance to rush from the court and es- that the future action of the Police cape:
will be such as to inspire full con- A mau posed as five different fidence, regardless of the interests persons, and
of persons on whom the Police de-i Another man was taken from pend and whom it may suit to a mental ward and used to re stage an artificial situation in the present someone else.
country.
of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930
EUROPEANS FINED AT KOWLOON,
DOGS ON STREETS WITH NO MUZZLES,
REPARATIONS LOAN BANKNOTES FROM
ISSUED.
REAL PLATES.
BRITISH SHARE AMOÙNTS TO £12,000,000.
AN ORDER FORGED IN LONDON.
Mr. W. F. Smith of the China Light and Power Co., Ltd., before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, was fined REDEMPTION IN 1960; $5 on each of two summonses ac- cusing him of allowing a dog to be abroad without a muzzle and of keeping the animal without a
Jicence.
London, June 11. Subscriptions are being invited for the British portion (twelve million sterling) of the Reparation Loin. The German share of the loan will be thirty-six million
bonds
arc being
AMAZING PLOT.
A plan, the conception of which has probably never before been equalled for ingenuity and bold- ness, is alleged by the prosecution in the Banco de Angola e Metro- pole case, which opened at Lisbon. The procuring of a complete is-
printed from the original plates..
The scheme included:
Fines of $5 were also imposed on two summons taken out against Messrs. A. L. Landsbert, of 1. marks. The York Road, Kowloon Tong, and M. issued at ninety and bear interest A, Cole of 3, Mody Rond, both of at the rate of five and a half persue of Bank of Portugal notes. whom wore alleged to have allow-cent per annum.-Reuter. cd their dogs out without muzzles.
HIDDEN OPIUM.
DRUG TIED AROUND A MAN'S LEGS.
London, June 11.
After discussions spread over many weeks, lasting until the arly hours of to-day, the Inter- national Conference of Bankers in Paris reached an agreement re- garding the first international loan to be issued under the Young Plan for the payment German repara: tions. The amount of the loan is
In the dock were Ian Forbes Townsend, 46. architect, of The protest by the Archbishop
Queen's-road, Richmond, Surrey, also includes an expression deep regret that the Governor al- and Leopold Ronald Basil Garcia,
A search by Revenue Officers of £60,000,000. lowed the Government Gazette to place, W..
47, schoolmaster, of Porchester- Chinese passengers who arived
The British share of the loan is be used to enable Lord Stickland)
from Pakhoi yesterday morning on £12,000,000. The prospectus of this on They appeared to publish a series of libels against charged with conspiring, with three had raw opium in their pos-that the Bank of England is au- remand the steamer Chengtu revealed that issue is available to-day. It states the Church and against the Clergy others unknown, to fabricate evi- session. They appeared before Mr.thorised to receive applications
The Archbishop's communication dence with intent to mislead the Grantham to the Governor follows the inciCourt of Chancery.
in the Central Magis for 5 per cent. sterling bonds to Townsend tracy this morning. dents on Sunday when crowds as-was also charged with making a sembled in the streets and shouted false statement for the purpose of Cheung Yan who had 45 taels tied per 100 nominal
A fine of $1,500 was imposed on bearer at an issue price of £30 in support of Lord Stickland and obtaining a passport.
The loan will be redeemed by England and against Italy and
means of a cumulative Sinking Mussolini. The Police Charged
Fund calculated to redeem the the crowd at various 'points and
purchased at or below par, or by hole loan by the 1st June, 1960, drawings at par.
the Archbishop was escorted to his Palace by Police amid the cheers of his supporters and the counter cries of his opponents. An Italian journalist was mobbed, there be ing a sequel on the following day when he left Malta.-Reuter,
CAR BANDITS' CITY DASH.
PENAL SERVITUDE FOR
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Alleged Offer for House.
tor of Public Prosecutions, said Mr. H. D. Roome, for the Dires that Townsend assumed at least five names for this conspiracy: Van den Bergh, Gore, Mankton, Best and Godolphin Osborne.
In February last year, Mr. Lofts, of Lofts and Warner, the- Mount-street estate agents, receiv ed a letter signed Van de Bergh on stamped notepaper from The Hall, Hook, Surrey, It made an offer for Lord Yarborough's house in Arlington-street, W.
A futher letter, said Mr. Roome, stated that Mr. Van den Bergh was going abroad and all further com munications should be sent to his secretary, Mr. W. Gore, Church- road, Richmond. house where Townsend was in the "That address was a boarding habit of taking meals," said Mr. Roomne.
round his shins and in his waist-- band.
A
false back was found in a
76 toes were found in it. He was box belonging to Lau Chu-wan and fined $2,000, while a fine of $5,000 who had 176 taels secreted in the was ordered against Liu Hing-yuen
false bottom of two baskets:
NEW CINEMA.
FEATURES OF "THE LOVE PARADE.**
The price of issue will be 90 in all countries except France, where it will be 98, in view of the fact that these bonds are to be tax-free.
British Wireless,
A clever forgery for this pur- pose of the signatures of directors. and other officials of the Bank of Portugal;
Establishment of a bank through which the notes would be put rapidly into circulation on a large scale; and
An attempt to buy up shares of the Bank of Portugal itself in or- der to obtain control, and then cover up all traces of their pro- ceedings.
It was a scheme, successfully carried out up to a certain point, to all appearance genuine, the for securing and circulating notes
printing of which, however, had not been authorised by the pro-
Five Years Ago. The fraud first came to light five years ago.
per authorities.
In 1925, at a time of extreme
financial stringency, while other banks were just able to keep their Angola e Metropole showed such. hendy above water, the Banco de extraordinary resources that the auspicians of the authorities were aroused.
It was an casy matter to utter the notes in Madrid, with the help of what seemed to be a well or ganised and successful banking institution.
A discreet inquiry was opened The tocal branch of the and the conspiracy came to light National City Bank of New York! Having forged the order for has received telegraphic informa- the notes, in London it was pos- tion from The National City Com-sible to smuggle them into Por- pany, New York, that they had re-tugal with the assistance of high- leased a $98,000,000 (U.S. curly-placed friends of the chief or-
German rency), One hundred male voices were International 5% Loan.
Government ganisers of the scheme. tested at the
The wood sound stage for the Grena-1930, and are due June 1, 1965.
Paramount Holly-relative bonds are dated June 1, A smash-and-grab maid and a
diers' chorus sequence of the first This loan was released at $90, desperate drive through the City
"The and is a direct and unconditional by a motor bandit were described
Love Parade," which comes to the obligation of the German Govern- original musical romance, at the Old Bailey when Reginald
Central Theatre beginning on ment. It is redeemable on June Burton, aged 30, clerk, and Charles
Saturday next. They were re-1 of any pear at $100. Advance Barwick, aged 22, clerk, were sen-
Then fellowed considerable cor-cruited from church choirs, vocal orders indicate that the issue will tenced to three and three and a half respondence, all being letters writ schools, from the Los Angeles be oversubscribed. years' penal servitude respectively ten by Townsend to Mr. Lofts in Grand Opera Company and from
They were found guilty of redifferent names. ceiving a stolen car and attempted shopbreaking. Barwick was fur ther found guilty of the attempted murder of Pc. John Roper and of causing bodily harm to John Brab- ham,
Then Lord Yarborough received a letter signed by W. A. Monkton, and purporting to be written from The Grange, Sutton Courtenay,
The letter told Lord Yarborough that the writer met a gentleman "Mr. Percival Clarke, prosecuting, named Mr. Van den Bergh, whom said shortly before midnight on Lord Yarborough had met at February 14 a car stolen in Cannes. Mr. Van den Bergh want- Leicester-square a month earlier ed to take a big house, and would stopped outside the jeweller's
pay something not exceeding £50.- shop of Mr. Davidson in
000.
St. Swithin's lane.
To avoid being knocked down, and probably killed, the constable sprang on a refuge.
Messrs,
the stage.
They sing the Grenadiers chorus with Jeanette MacDonald, leading lady of "The Love Parade," who
plays the part of the Queen of Sylvania. Maurice Chevalier, star of "Innocents of Paris" is starred in "The Love Parade."
INTERFERED IN A QUARREL.
FINE FOR ASSAULT IS THE
SEQUEL IN COURT.
After interfering in a private quarrel between a man and his Chicago annually drinks 23,000,000 worth of liquor, and subsequently reprimanded by the wife, a young Chinese who was pays another £3,000,000 for the woman and her son assaulted the Barton got out and hit the win-
Appointment not Kepi. privilege of drinking it. This latter with a hand plane, causing dow with a hammer. He was
sidelight on the Eventually, said Mr. captured by a policeman after a
habita of a superficial wound to his wrist. Roome, America's second largest city was The assailant was arrested and struggle. Barwick drove off at a Townsend's solicitors, terrific pace. At the corner of Woolf and Co., agreed with Lord presented to a Chamber of Com-when brought before Mr. Whyte
Roper stepped for- Yarborough's solicitors to buy the Peterson, city treasurer of Chica- this morning on a
by Charles S. Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy merce, audience Cornhill P.-c. ward to stop him, but the car was house for £52,500,
charge of driven at him.
go. He declared that the second assault was fined $5. Lord Yarborough's solicitors half of the huge sum is exacted eventually declined
According to the Police, a man to proceed as tribute from further owing to the difficulty of citizens by hired assassins
the drinking and his wife were having a and private quarrel when the defen- getting instructions from Mr. through bribery.
dant "butted" in and began to Van den Bergh, but Townsend.
abuse the woman. The couple's said Mr. Roome, went to another
Ison who was standing by objected firm of solicitors and got them to register an estate contract for the
and told his mother that she was to the defendant's interference purchase as a land charge on the
being abused. The woman there- house.
Garela and Townsend were re-who turned his attention to the upon reprimanded the defendant Suspicion arose that Townsend manded. Townsend being allow Pc Smith Bung his truncheon and Mr. Van den Bergh were the ed bail in two sureties of £100 son and struck him with a car-
person, and Lord Yar- each. same
penter's plane, causing a wound through the windscreen of the car
to his left forearm. in Princes-street, but the car only borough's solicitors made an ap stopped when it crashed into a bank pointment at which Mr. Van den at the corner of Lothbury. Bar- Bergh, Mr. Townsend, and Mr. up Coleman-street, Gore were to be present. The ap wick dashed and was eventually caught under a pointment, said Mr. Roome, was wooden staging.
not kept.
Dash for Liberty,
Still travelling at a terrific pace, Barwick knocked down Brabham, a postman, as he was crossing the road, and injured him so severely that he was not yet able to give evidence.
Both men declared the car was driven by a man named "Manches ter Jack," who escaped.
Two Desperate criminals, Detective-Sergt. Johnson, of the City Police, said Burton was sent to an industrial school as a boy for stealing chickens.
Meanwhile, Lord Yarborough had found another purchaser for the house, and his solicitors re- quested the removal of the regis tered contract. A writ against Lord Yarborough was thereupon issued at the instance of Harold Van den Bergh, Stanford House, Rechampton-lane. This, said Mr. Roome, was a stationer's shop.
In 1915 he was sentenced to 15 months' hard labour at the Old Bailey for robbery with violence,
Story of Court Signal. and in 1923 he was sentenced to
The action came on in the three years' penal servitude for re- Chancery Court, and Townsend ceiving.
and Garcia. were required for Barwick had a number of pre- cross examination. Mr. Roome vious motor-cars, wounding, and assault
stealing went on: convictions for
ing the police. He was a man who "When they went into the court, was rather easily led, and his Garcia went downstairs and Town. crimes of violence were generally send into the gallery.
committed when he had been drink-) "Lord Yarborough'a solicitor ing.
had brought a number of people His record was not so bad as to court, and when Townsend saw Burton's, although his conviction in them he dropped a handkerchief this case was for much more and a glove from the gallery as a serious offences.
signal, and upon that the sup- posed plaintiff, who was Garcia, rushed out of the court and es- Convicted by a jury at St. caped from the building. Louis for operating an unlicensed "When the case was called, the radio broadcasting station at his learned judge had to adjourn it home there, George W. Fellowes, because the plaintiff was not pre- an-Englishman, was sentenced to sent for cross-examination." serve one year and a day in the Garcia, Mr. Roome alleged, Federal penitentiary at Leaven- made a statement on arrest to the worth, Kansas. The judge. then effect that he was a patient in a "paroled" him for deportation to mental ward when Townsend pro- England as "an undesirable cured his release. alien." This was the first case
"Once he dressed me up to in-
of the kind ever to come up in terview the Duchess of Rutland
any United States court.
about the purchase through me,
s larold Van den Bergh, of her house," the alleged statement add- ed.
D-ASA MEA SERVICE DEL
TO LET
"Just like that, gentlemen, you can make a ten dollar note disappear; startle your friends.
The Bank of Angola e Metropole did a large business in real estate, but more especially in markable property such as jewellery and precious stones.
These used to be sent abroad in diplomatic bags and disposed of for gold or its equivalent, which established useful funds abroad.
30,000 Pages of Evidence. Although Alves. Rels, the alleg. ed chief organiser of the scheme, was arrested in December 1925, his lawyers have been able to spin out the proceedings so successfully that people were beginning to think he would benefit under the trial came up for hearing. Statute of Limitation before the
This hope has been defeated by the decision to refer the case to the Military Tribunal of Santa Clara.
But it is going to be a long case, as documents comprising the evidence occupy 99 volumes, or a total of 30,000 pages.
No fewer than 200 witnesses have been subpænæd, of whom 40 have been. called for the defence.
WOMAN WINS APPEAL TO PRIVY COUNCIL
FIRST EVER TO APPEAR IN PERSON.
"It has been a wonderful ex- perience which I shall never for- ) get. I consider it a great honour and privilege to have been allowed to appear."
With a smile of delight at her success, Mrs. Elizabeth Bethune ever Campbell-the first woman
·
to appear in person before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council-made this remark after judgment had been given in her favour.
She had just won her appeal in a case concerning the accounts of the estate of her mother Lady Howland.
Mrs. Campbell, the wife of a clergyman in the United States, has been working on the case in London since last summer.
After her long speech before the Judicial Committee last term she was complimented by the judges upon the way she had conducted her appeal.
No Legal Training,"
"I am very pleased with the re- sult," Mrs. Campbell said. "I should like to say I have been treated with the greatest consi- deration and kindness by évery- body.
..."I came to London in July last year, and have been working very hard in connexion with the case up to the end of the hearing. I did not have anybody to help me."
Mrs. Campbell said she had had no legal training whatever.
"At first when I appeared be fore their lordships I felt very, nervous," she said. "It was not an easy thing to do."
Mrs. Campbell is shortly return- ing to Boston to her husband and two children,
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