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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930.
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SEQUEL TO MINE PURCHASE IN AUSTRALIA.
DRAMATIC APPEAL.
Canberra, July 8.
A dramatic statement was made in the House of Representatives to-day by the Rt. Hon. Mr. Edward Grenville Theodore, the Federal Treasurer who resigned recently following the announcement of the Bindings of the Queensland Royal Commission of Inquiry into the circumstances attending the pur chase of the Mungana (Chillagoe) Mines by the Queensland Labour Government, when Mr. Theodore was Premier. --~---
The Commission found that he was guilty of fraud and dishonesty in procuring the State to purchase the mines for £40,000.
In the House of Representatives to-day, Mr. Theodore demanded that the Queensland Government make a formal charge against him and so enable him to appear before an unimpeachable tribunal and de- fend himself against "calumnies and damnable charges."
accusers."
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MEN SHINE.
Continued from Puge "1.)
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REVENUE OFFICER
CONVICTED.
PRISON SENTENCE IMPOSED AT SINGAPORE.
SMUGGLING OPIUM.
Surrey v. Yorkshire." Yorkshire had the unusual ex- perience of following on at Sher- feld where they were easily de- feated by Surrey. The match was interesting, however, in view
Singapore, July 3. The facilities afforded to of the batting performances of Sutcliffe and Leyland, who are Preventive Service Officers for both due to play against Australia smuggling contraband chandu and on Friday. Surrey batted first opium into Singapore were com and piled up 438 for nine wickets mented upon this morning when when they declared. The York- the trial of C. Patrick McCully shire bowlers failed to move the and a Malay named Abmat bin batsmen and Ducat stayed in to Haji Ibrahim, described as a brother-in-law of McCully, was make 102.
concluded and both accused were convicted.
Sutcliffe was the backbone of the Yorkshire batting and of the 206 compiled in the first innings The made 95. Yorkshire had to follow on and this time it was Leyland who came to the rescue with a valuable. 98. The whole team was dismissed for 201, the margin of defeat being en innings and 22 runs. In Yorkshire's first innings Fender took four wickets for L
Sussex v. Kent.
McCully, an officer of the Pré- was charged ventive Service, with being in possession of con- traband chanda, and a similar charge was preferred against the Malay, Ahmat. Tan Yong Seng, a steward employed on the Dutch motor-vessel Cremer, plying be tween Singapore and China ports. who was arrested subsequent to the arrest of McCully and Ahmat, claimed to be tried on a charge of importing chandu into the Colony..
The case was heard by Mr. C. Wilson, the Singapore Criminal District Jadge.
Three Baskets.
ALL THE STARS OF STAGE@AND SCREEN SHINING IN ONE PICTURE!İ
My Stars!"
JANET GAYNOR
CHARLES FARRELL WILL ROGERS
EDMUND LOWE
MARJORIE 'WHITE WALTER CATLETT VICTOR McLAGLEN RICHARD KEENE 'FRANK RICHARDSON-
WILLIAM COLLIER, Sr. ANN PENNINGTON
DIXIE LEE: EL BRENDEL DAVID ROLUNS GEORGE JESSEL . J. HAROLD MURRAY,
• REX BELL
FARRELL MACDONALD - LEW BRICE FRANK ALBERTSON NICK STUART SHARONLYNN"Whispering" JACKSMITH
GEORGE OLSEN. GILBERT EMERY THE SLATE BROTHERS CHARLES EVANS MARTHA LEE SPARKS, CLIFFORD DEMPSEY JAMES J. CORBETT GEORGE MäcFARLANE
A century by Woolley who Mr. Theodore declared, "I have stayed at the wickets until he had kept my hands clean of anything made 102 was the feature of unworthy of my position of trust. Kent's first innings which closed and at 297. Langridge took five for I cannot take civil action
In describing the arrest of Queensland should afford me a fair 52. It looked easy for Kent when Sussex were dismissed for 159 in trial and enable me to face my their first knock, Freman taking McCully and Ahmat, Mr. P. H. Kent, however, could Elkins, of the Preventive Service, The Commission also found that six for 66. another Labour ex-Premier, Mr. only make 163 in their second stated that on June 24 he went W. MeCormack, and also Mr. God-innings when Tate took four for 41. to the old Post Office building With the match in a very interest- at Collyer Quay with a Chinese
Revenue officer. dard, who was mines manager of ing stage Sussex went on to win, Senior. Chilingee, were also guilty of fraud making 302 for eight wickets about 8.35 p.m. a white motor-
when they went to the wicket a boat second time. H. Parks knocked up 112. Freeman was more sub- dued this time and took four for 135.
and dishonesty.
The
In an interview at Sydney to-day, Mr. McCormack said that his con- nexion with the Mungana Mines had been well known in Queensland for the post thirteen years. charges o dishonesty in his 3680- ciation with the transaction were based wholly on inferences drawn by the Commission, but they now must be finally decided in a Court of Justice. He had not attended the Commission owing to a ner vous, breakdown in London and the Commission's report reeked of poli- tical malice-Reuter.
BOMB THROWN ON RAILWAY.
· (Continued from Page 1.) Maritime Customs at Yochow, Both are being held for ransom.
also been taken away.
A number of rich residents have
Leicester v. Middlesex. Leicester made 262 when they batted first, Beveridge taking six for 66. Middlesex replied with 300, Hearne getting the measure of the bowling and knocking up Leicester, however, were 105. dismissed for 190 in their second knock, Hearne taking four for 58. Middlesex had an excellent chance of winning, but they failed dismal ly, being all out for 122. Snary was well on the mark and captured six wickets for 36 runs.
came in from tho
At
sea
and appeared to hesitate before the Government Monopolies Pier and then came alongside Johnston's Pier. Two or three persons, then got out and he saw three baskets being lifted on to the landing stage. He then went back to the main road, Collyer Quay, and noticed a motor car turning round on the road and heading for the Victoria Theatre. He saw McCully sitting behind in the car and he shouted to him to stop. The car slowed down and when witness got alongside he noticed the baskets.
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Described as Fruit.
Then McCully told him, "If you want some fruit there is plenty on the Cremer." Witness replied that he wanted to examine the
and Mc- Lancs, v. Warwick.
three baskets MacDonald's bowling was large-Cully said that they contained fruit. ly responsible for the downfall of He said, "These are baskets of me by the second Warwick at Birmingham. In the fruit given to first innings, when Warwick made steward of the motor-skip Cremer. 217, he had an average of six for If there is anything else Inside 72. Lancashire went in to batI know nothing about it."
Continuing, Mr. Elkins said that strongly, Watson making 97. of the Yochow is again very quiet total of 366. MacDonald took he then escorted the car to the after the departure of the Com-five for 135 in Warwick's second Monopolies store at Johnston's Pier munists, but the latter are under-innings when the team was dis- and then telephoned to Mr. I. C. stood to be staging a come-back rs missed for 278. Lancashire got the MacMillan, Head of the Preventive the troops return to required 132 for the loss of only Service and Mr. Gordon, who was in charge of the Harbour Division. three wickets.
While waiting for Mr. MacMillan Northants v. Somerset... to arrive he pushed his fingers into An attempt by Northants to one of the baskets and felt tins..
The second accused, Ahmat, was force a victory failed in a rather high scoring match. Northants sitting alongside McCully in the batted first and compiled a total car when it was stopped by him.. of 457 for eight wickets. Bake-Two of the baskets were on the
soon as
Hankow.
Chiang Abandons Offensive. Shanghai, July 9, As the result of unusually stub- born resistance by the Kuominchun forces on the Lunghai front, behind strong defensive positions, especial-
ly at Lanfeng, Marshal Chiang Kai.well knocked the bowling all over seat beside the driver and the other shek has abandoned, at least tem- and went on to score a fine double one was at the back. Mr. MacMillan porarily, the offensive which com- century, his wicket being taken arrived just after nine and the ac menced on June 19th, with Kaifeng when he had-scored 204. Somer-cused were taken to the offices of as its objective..
set replied with 339, Considine the Government Monopolies. One This step has been taken after contributing 77. Northants de basket was opened at Johnston's three weeks continuous fighting inclared at 89 for three in the Pier to make sure. At the Mono- polies. Office the three baskets were which the total casualties to both second inninge, but they could opened and 1,123 tahils of Red Lion not get Somerset out in the time. Brand chandu were found conceal sides exceeded 40,000.
stumps being drawn with their ed in the baskets, The accused score at 50 for four wickets.
were then charged with being in possession, and samples of the con- attraband were sent to the Govern
ment Analyst.
Marshal Chiang has reinforced the Nationalists at Yenchowfu, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, with
Derby v, Worcester. 50,000 men, preparatory to a new offensive on Tsinonfu.-Reuter. Worcester had to follow on
Nanking, July 8. Chesterfield when, in the first
Sentence Passed. The Shansi forces are reported innings they made only 211 after
His Honour passed sentence of to be attacking Fiehsien, which is Derbyshire had gone in to bat und
had declared at 434 for six 12 months' rigorous imprisonment situated to the north-west of
wickets. Storer was the highest and a fine of $5,000, or two years Hsuchowfa-Reuter.
scorer with 132. Going in again in default, on McCully and a fine of Peking, July 8. Fighting between the Shansi | Worcester repeated their previous $1,000 or twelve months in default troops and General Han Fu-chu's performance practically, making on Ahmat.
one run less this time. In their forces his commenced in the
first visit to the wicket Mitchell vicinity of Tsingchowfu.
The Yellow River bridge has took five for 87 and in the been repaired and through trains second innings Slater captured have now commenced from Tien-eight of the wickets for 46 runs.--- tsin to Tsinan. It la expected that Reuter. the service will shortly run south- wards to Taian-Reuter,
REQUEST FOR TWO MAGISTRATES.
MÁN AND WOMAN FACE FOUR CHARGES.
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"Four charges under Ordinances governing the traffic in women were brought against a man and a woman before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when Sub-Inspector H. R. Kirkby intimated that the prose- cution desired two Magistrates to hear the case.
To-day's Matches.,
The following matches are starting to-day:
Gentlemen v. Players at the Oval,
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Notice of appeal was .given da behalf of McCully.
At 9.15 p.m.
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Kent v. Middlesex at Folkestone.
The Hongkong Excavation, Pile. Suszex v. Gloucester at Brighton. Driving and Construction Com Warwick v. Notts at Birming-pany were summoned for an al-
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For the first time in its 200 years' history, the famous Sword
Store licence, before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court, this morning.
The summons, which was taken out at the instance of Sub-Inspec- tor Shaftain, was in respect of Condition No, 15, it being alleged that the defendant Company fail- ed to provide watchmen for their Magazine No. 11 at Aberdeen.
Mr. C. Shank, who appeared-for
His Worship pointed out that of Justice was hung in a court the Company, declared that there only the last charge brought under other than No. 1 at the Old Bailey were two guards at the Magazine, Ordinance 2 of 1865, dealing with Previously, when the High Court
guilty."
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the detention with intent to sell judge has not been sitting, the, at all times. He pleaded "not of a woman against her will, could sword has been put away. It has
Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P. informed be tried by two Magistrates, the now been decided to place it in the others being indictments "for court of the senior sitting judge, the Court that Sub-Inspector unable to attend, adjudication by one Magistrate.. So, in the absence of Mr. Justice Shaftain was
The case was adjourned until Swift, the sword was hung in the being away on short sick leave next Tuesday afternoon for hear Court of the Recorder, Sir Ernest The case was adjourned until
Wild, KG.
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