ARTIFICAL WREATHS
· IN A VARIETY OF
SIZES AND DESIGNS
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
China Building,
T.L SO209.
DISCHARGE FROM BANKRUPTCY.
“POINT OVERLOOKED IN LOCAL CASE.
PARTNER OF W. G. HUMPHREYS NOT EXAMINED.
SMALL DIVIDEND.
It was revealed that a public examination which 'should have
been held when Mr. Alfred David taken place in 1926 had not yet Humphreys and Mr. Ernest Humphreys, partners in the firm of Messra. W. G. Humphreys and Company, applied for their discharge from bankruptcy be
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Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED
NO, 23,147
MYSTERY OF AIR CRASH.
MACHINE DISINTEGRATES IN
. THE CLOUDS.
INQUEST VERDICT.
disaster being unknown.
a minute examination had revealed
$30 PER ANNUM
VOTĦAXW THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1930. HTAAN Biser OPT 12, Uhers
“REDS" PLOTTING ATTACK ON MR. P. OIL COMPETITION
IN NANKING.
OVER 200 SUSPECTS ARRESTED.
MACHINE GUNS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT SEIZED.
LOUREIRO.
SHANGHAI MAN GUILTY OF ATTEMPTED MURDER,
PLEA FOR LENIENCY.
Shanghai, Aug. 14. Peter Zavalin and Jean Isak ap- peared on remand at the Special District Court yesterday On R charge of attempting to murder Mr. Pedro Loureiro, Inspector in the Salt Revenue Department of the Ministry of Finance, August 1.
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charge and asked, for leniency on Zavalin pleaded guilty to the
Isak denied connexion with the the grounds of mental deficiency. crime. Judgment was reserved.
The attempt on the life of Mr. Loureiro resulted him in receiving a superficial gunshot wound.
powerful touring been
IN MANILA.
UNION COMPANY TO INVADE FIELD.
TWELVE MILLION PESOS TO BE SPENT.
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OFFICIALS" ARRIVE.
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The Union Oil Company of California, a $300,000,000 con-
Philippine market and to com- cern, has decided to invade the
pete with other oil companies
demand of the Philippines, ac which are now supplying the oil
cording, to announcement made. by Mr. W. S. Grant, Manila re. presentative of the company.
RESISTANCE
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tyre of
LOCAL BRANCH.
AIR ENDURANCE RECORD.
BEATEN BY MEN WHO MAY FLY 1,000 HOURS.
FEAT AT ST. LOUIS.
St. Louis, Aug. 13. A new world's record for a sus tained flight of 654 hours 41 minutes was made this morning by the airmen Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brien, beating by an hour the record established by the Hunter brothers at Chicago last month.
Jackson and O'Brien are still
The record breaking aeroplane,
Paddar Bldg.
FERRY COXSWAIN CHARGED.
SEQUEL TO FATAL COLLISION.
| ALLEGED FAILURE TO RENDER ASSISTANCE.
NEW PROCEEDINGS.
There was a sequel nt the
"London, Aug. 13. Inquest was resumed to-day on the six victims of the crash of the Junker aeroplane at Meopham while the plane was flying from Lo
BIG COUP FOILED. Touquet to Croydon on July 21, The victims were the Marquia of Dufferin, Viscountess Ednam, Sir
Nanking, Aug. 13.- Edward Ward, Mrs. Henrik The arrest of over 200 Com- seen, pilat, and Mr. Shearing, re- of a quantity of machine-guns,
deluge of rain the breaking of the coxswain of a Cheung Chau Loeffler, Lieutenant-Colonel Hender-munist suspects and the seizure
flying and talk of remaining aloft Marine Court this morning to for a thousand hours. Despite the case in which To So-tar, the serve pilot.
record was greeted by a great roar ferry launch which is said to The cause of the disaster was hand grenades, pistols, etc., dur- left unsolved. The jury found that ing the past few days have con-
horas: from the cheering crowd of specta- tors blowing sirens and motor have collided with a junk off the deaths were due to falling from vinced the Nanking authorities
Green Island in the early morn aeroplane, the cause of the of the presence in the Nation- alist capital of a large gang of fore the Chief Justice (Sir
Major Cooper, Inspector of Ac-"Reds" awaiting an opportunity The shooting took place when
"The Greater St. Louis", is equip ing of July 24, resulting in the Joseph Kemp) in the Supreme cidents, Air Ministry, stated that to stage a big coup in Nanking, Mr. Loureiro, who was returning
ped with a 170 horse-power engine death of a Chinese male child, Court this morning.
and up to the present has flown aged one year, was charged with ur. J. T. Prior, for the appli- no evidence of faulty material or the Nationalist troops fighting the Hungine Golf Club, found that for months, conducting, exten- 5,000 gallons of petrol and has been manslaughter..
taking advantage of the absence by car from a visit to friends near Mr. Grant has been in Manila 55,000 miles. It has already used cants, explained that the public bad werkmanship in the construc- on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway draw cross the road hade brasive surveys all over the archips-re-fuelled in the air on 125 occa- It will be recalled that when the
Mr. A. D. Hum- tion of aeroplane. phreys had been overlooked and He found no evidence of negll- The hundreds of Communist sus-bridge. The car had no lights lago to determine the advisability sions. Reuter's American Service. case came up for hearing at the he could not apply for his dis-gence of any kind. The Minister pects, many of whom are local and appeared to have been abans Geld. He declared that his sur cord with 420 hours before it was Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Public of the company's entering the Jackson and O'Brien held the re-Kowloon Magistracy on Wednesday, charge until it had taken place, of Air had decided to refer the hooligans, will be put on trial and doned. Mr. Loureiro instructed veys convinced him that despite broken by the Hunter brothers. Prosecutor, withdrew the charge of which would probably be at the whole of the evidence available to it is anticipated that from them his chauffeur to alight and ascer the business depression, the Former endurance records are as manslaughter and substituted an next Bankruptcy Court. His Lord- the Aeronautical Committee of the
thin what had happened. When ship granted the application in Ministry and to submit matter for
the chauffeur was approaching the Philippine market gives an excel- follows: regard to Mr. E. Humphreys, but further investigation to that body.
darkened car, a man suddenly lent outlook for the future. suspended it for three months, due. Major Cooper added that the
jumped out of a creek by the side to the smallness of the dividend. wreckage was scattered in a more
of the road and pointing a pistol i or less straight line over a distance Entirely Overlooked.
at him demanded a pump and of one and a half miles. · It seem-
petrol.
The chauffeur ran back to Mr.
roan. When this man was repeat-
other foreigner, also armed, ap- peared on the scene and shouted they also required whatever else that besides the pump and petrol was movable,
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the police may obtain some in formation concerning the intention to create disturbances in the capital.
War Developments. Nanking officials have expressed ed that the heavier items were confidence in the First Nationalist tion and the lighter articles were
C. J. McKeever, export manager of the oil company, ia arriving this week from Singapore. Mr. McKeever has been on an exten- sive trip throughout the Orient offices and trade connexions
Jan. 7, 1929. Army plane other charge under the Merchant "Question Mark commanded by Shipping Act of 1894. Major Carl Spatz at Los Angeles. 150 hours.
May 26, 1929. Reginald Robbins and James Kelley, over Fort Worth, July, 6, 1929. Roy Mitchell and Byron K. Newcomb, over Cleveland.
Mr. Prior said that when he fled found in an extreme westerly diree Division under General Liu Chi, Lobeiro, closely followed by the with a view to establishing branch 172 hours.
found in an easterly direction, hav-new moving rapidly along the
was what was to be expected from a complete structural failure accru- ing to a given point.
for Tainanfu, and the Government different parts of this line damag- has assigned $100,000 for repairing ed recently during the fighting.
the application he was not aware and could not guess that Mr. A D. Humphreys had never had his ing been carried by the wind. That Tientsin-Pukow Railway heading ing his demand to Mr. Loureiro an- various points. public examination, which should have been held in 1926. For some reason or other It had been entirely overlooked, but it was not
Other witnesses related how they the debtor's business to apply for saw parts of the machine dropping public examination. It was the from clouds, first one of the wings, business of the Court and unfor- then the tail and finally the fusel- tunately Mr. A. D. Humphreys | age.--British Wireless," could not apply for his discharge at present.
Mr. Prior added that he hoped that the public examination would take place at the next Bankruptcy Court and enable the application for his discharge to be made at the following Court. The public examination of Mr. E. Humphreys was finished in October, 1925,
Continuing, Mr. Prior said that they were only concerned with the position of the firm, Messrs. W. G. Humphreys, and Co. of Stephen's Building, Nos. 67 and 69. Des Voeux Road Central, as there was no personal bankruptcy at all.
HUGE OIL MERGER PLANNED.
TOTAL ASSETS, MAY EXCEED A BILLION DOLLARS.
The Kwangtung troops, which captured Taian and Kiehshow have advanced and passed Kiehshow, after disarming all the Shansi
remnants.
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To Spend P.12,000,000,
company in China and Japan an
He has opened offices of the oll is going to Manila to look into the Mr. Loureiro protested that he local business conditions and make had neither pump nor spare petrol, final preparations for the estab but offered to give the men some lishment of the office of the com- petrol from the tank of his car.pany, of which he is export mana- Upon this offer being refused, heger. intimated his willingness to give. It is reported that the home of the men a lift to a place from fice of the company, located at where they could telephone to a Los Angeles, California, han decid- ed to spend about ten or twelve million pesos in the invasion of the Oriental field. Part of that money will be spent in the Philip- pines to establish the local office.
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Japanese residents in Tsinanfu are perturbed by the amashing Na- tionalist victories and the simul- taneous fighting along the Tient-garage. sin-Pukow and Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Without further argument, one Railways, fearing that with the of the men then shot Mr. Loureiro war interrupting the through com- through the arm and attempted to munication between Tsinanfu to shop the chauffeur in the head. New York, Aug. 13.
Tsingtao it will be Impossible to Mr. Loureiro and the chauffeur Plans for an oil merger with withdraw to Tsingtao. total assets exceeding a billion
immediately jumped from the car Prominent dollars are disciosed by the calling,
Japanese citizens and
into adjacent paddy of a special meeting of share- have formed a public committee fields and escaped Our Own Cor- holders of the Sinclair Consolidated which met yesterday and decided respondent. Oil Corporation to authorise the tating a withdrawal of ali Jap- to make all preparations for facili-. issue of five million new prefer anese onec the Nationalist troops ence shares and for the sale for besiege the city. The Japanese $72,500,000 of certain of the Cor- intend to leave for Tientsin. The poration's interests.
The company has in view a huge express to Tsingtao can proceed to report of the Official Receiver the acquisition of Prairie Oil and
scheme for expansion including Tsingchow only, (Mr. E. P. H. Lang) which stated Gas, Prairie Pipeline and the that a Receiving Order was made Tidewater associated companies.--- on debtors' petition. According Reuter's American Service.
Financial Position
Mr. Prior went on to read the
City Bombarded.
R100 RETURNING.
EARLY MORNING DEPARTURE FROM MONTREAL
Montreal, Aug. 14. The airship R100 left here" at
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Invade Foreign Field,
174 hours.
The New Charge. The following is the substituted" charge That you, To So-tal, be ing a person in charge of the steam launch Sun Tai, which was in coll sion with trading junk Licence No.
July 12, 1929. Loren W. Mendeli T6531H on July 24, 1930, in Victoria Harbour, failed to render and Roland B. Reinhart, over to the other vessel, her master and Culver City. 246 hours.
July 30. 1929. Dale Jackson crew, such assistance as was pract ticable and to save them from and Forest O'Brien, over St. Louis, danger caused by the collision, con 420 hours.
July 4; 1930. John and Kenneth Hunter, over Chicago. 559 hours.
DOLORES DEL RIO MARRIED.
WEDDED TO MOVIE ART DIRECTOR.
trary
Merchant Shipping Act of 894."
to Section No. 422 of the
Mr. Hin shing Lo, who appeared for the defendant, in his statement to the Magistrate (Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole,) sald he hoped his learned friend Mr. Fitzroy would not say he was wasting the valu able time of his Worship, but be had to ask his Worship to note that i was necessary for him to submit two pleas.
Alternative Plens.
Continuing, Mr. Lo said
"Your
Worship, my client was yesterday
nt the Kowloon Magistracy acquitt- ed on the charge of manslaughter,
man-
The Manila office, in the near
Santa Barbara, Aug. 6. future, will file papers with the Dolores del Rio, the Mexican
As Mr. Lo could not legally ask bureau of commerce and Industry motion picture star, and Cedric and will then actively enter the Gibbons, movie art director, were his Worship to place on record his local field Storage tanks
two pleas at the same time, he. and quietly married to-day by the would submit first of all the plea other structures necessary for the father of the Augustinian Mission of autrefois acquit, and, if his Wor deposit of large quantities of off here after first overcoming difficul-ship thought this was bad, he would. and by-products will be erected in ties caused by the fact that the ac submit one of "Not Guilty." Manila. Gasoline stations will
When they first went to the mis- also be established in various treas is a divorcee. parts of the city and the provinces.sion the father refused to perform the ceremony, saying that a dispensation would be necessary. The Union Oil Company of Call-The actress said that it was true. Mr. Fitzroy-I beg your pardon, The residents of Tsinanfu were 2.28 a.m. Greenwich mean time on fornia, incorporated in 1890, is one that she had divorced her husband, Mr. Lo The charge of panic-striken this morning when the return journey to England. of the oldest oil companies in that Jaime del Rio, in January, 1928, slaughter against your client was to debtor's statement of affairs the
Nanking acroplanes manoeuvred Reuter's American Service, total assets were estimated to pro-
around the city and dropped
state. It has developed many of but explained that he had. dled withdrawn. He was not acquitted duce $39,713,96. That figure in-
One Engine Not Running. bombs near the military barracks.
the oil fields now located in the abroad last year. She said that on that charge. cluded the sum of $25,000 for
The latter retaliated with gun-fire.
Montreal, later.
western states. Until recently, permission to marry again had No Gross Negligence. goodwill and trade marks, but the
No serious damage has been done,
The R100 is making the home the company had confined its dis- been granted to her by her church
activities to in Los Angeles, and this was con Mr. Fitzroy later, pointed out. trade marks only realised a few
apart from a few houses destroy-ward telp with one engine out of tribution and sales hundred dollars and the goodwill
ed. None of the bombs hit the commission, the officers having de the United States.
firmed by Father Stack of the that the Crown did not propose to subsequently proved to be value, :
¡Shansi fortifications or barracks. cided that as the other five en-
A few years ago offices of the Hollywood parish. In view of this proceed with the charge of man-- less, which left the remaining
The Shansi Commanders have gines are running satisfactorily it company were opened in Mexico, the mission father, then agreed to slaughter in the absence of evidence assets estimated at $14,713.96.
of gross negligence and intimated ordered the troops to retreat along is unnecessary to repair the de British Colombia, South America, perform the ceremony.. According to the statement of The Duke of Northumberland the Tsinanfu-Kiaochow Railway, fective one.
and later on in Australia and New
The marriage licence was ob that they did not consider the case, affairs, the total abilities expect- passed a fair night. Although his being content to hold Taingchow, The trip is expected to take Zealand. Late last year, the com
were strength is well maintained, there making it the last Shansi defence about 50 hours. The passengers pany opened offices in Japan and tained at 3.44 p.m. and the wed- serious enough to justify a charge
'ding took pace at 5.40 p.ma several estimated at $352,423.70, whereas is still cause for great anxiety-line. It appears that they desire include
journalists, early this year in China. Offices the total claims admitted amount British Wireless.
to mass more men for the defence amongst whom is Mr. E. W.in the Straits Settlements and the This is the first intimation of Tsinaafu.
Grange, Canadian manager for Philippines will be opened. India ed to $332,760.24. The assets
received of the Duke's illness. He
Reuter's Agency, and also M. Jac-is also included in the list of coun- ultimately realised a sum of ap is the eighth holder of the title
ques Cartier, descendant of tries to which the company will proximately $23,965, and after and succeeded his father in 1918. payment of expenses there remain- Formerly. a
Canada's famous pioneer naviga- extend its activities. Captain in the
tor who sailed from France to St. Lawrence in 1534. In time mea
ed to rank for dividend
DUKE'S SERIOUS ILLNESS.
STILL CAUSE FOR GREAT ANXIETY.
London, Aug. 13.
Koominchun Success, The allles of the Shansi troops, ed the sum of $19,100.43 available Grenadier Guards, he served in the Kuominchun army, have been for distribution, which enabled a South Africa, the Soudan and the more successful in operations in return of 5.74 per cent. to be made Great War. He is 50 years of Northern Anhui and along the Bured by hours, M. Cartier will to creditors who had proved, as a ago] firat and final dividend.
Dividend Pafd..
The report concluded that the dividend was paid on June 16, 1930, it having been found neces- sary to continue the bankruptcy for several years, owing to difculty in recovering a sum of approximately $20,000.
LORD BIRKENHEAD
IMPROVING.
CONDITION STILL SERIOUS, HOWEVER.
London, Aug. 13. Lord Birkenhead had a good night The report also stated that and his chest symptoms have im debtors had given every assis proved. There is a slight increase tance they could in the bankruptay in general strength. His condition, und that the Official Receiver had however, remains serious-British no grounds to submit against the Wireless. te granting of the application for
Lung-Tai Railway where they cross the river and ocean route have captured Pochow, considered which bis ancestor took weeks to to be an important point.
complete-Beuter's American Sor-
TO VISIT PALESTINE AND CYPRUS.
The scéne of many fierce vice, battles between the "Nanking and Kuominchun troops, Fochow. has changed hands no fewer than four times, and the fact that the Kuominchun troops have been fighting hard for its possession ́is" explained by the advantage of Ita geographical position which affords a chance to the Kuomin-
DR. DRUMMOND SHIELS. TO MAKE TRIP.
London, Aug. 13.
W..
EUROPEAN LADIES ROBBED.
TWO CASES REPORTED TO THE POLICE.
The residence of Mrs. Nelson, at No. 2 Cornhill, Quarry Bay, was entered by a thief inst evening
During a period of half-an-hour when Mrs. Nelson was sway,, the thlef entered the drawing room and chun troops to concentrate at The Colonial Office announces stole a sum of $35 which was in a Fochow, awaiting a favourable that Dr. Drummond Shiels, Parlia note-case. moment to come out from Anhui mentary Under-Secretary for the The drawer in which the money and assail the rear of the Nanking Colonies, will take the opportunity was kept was found open when troops at Hauchow, the Nationalist during the Parliamentary recas Mrs. Nelson discovered her loss at Headquarters.
* of making a short visit to 7.30 pm. A report has been mado discharge made by Mr. E. Hum-the bankruptcy. The cause of the
Palestine:
to the police. Pe phreys, other than that the first bankruptcy was shown in debtor's
It is contemplated that in the bather at Big Wave Bay, Mrs. and final dividend was less than 60 public examination to be due to per cent., but indhe opinion of the the terrible depression of trade way has been hindered by the in- will also call at Cyprus.--British police that she was victimised by a Fighting on the Lung Hal Rail- course of his Journey Dr, Shiels B. S. Squance, has reported to the Trustee no further dividend was in 1020-25. undation of districts to the north relous
thief while on the Shek-O.. beach anticipated, "
yesterday
Railway Flooded,
No creditors appeared to oppose of the Railway where the old
AMERICAN TRADE DECLINE.
REDUCTION IN BUSINESS WITH EUROPE.
of manslaughter. Y
Mr. Lo, however, argued that the question of negligence did not arise until collision had been proved. He pointed out that his client was therefore placed in peril of two legal penalties on the same recusa- tion.
His Worship Explains.
At this Juncture, his Worship Washington, Aug. 13. said that if Mr. Lo meant that the Official figures show that Ameri- charge of manslaughter having been can imports and Exports with withdrawn against his client, no. Europe during June declined by other charge should have been $30,000,000 compared with the made against him, he (his Wor same month last year, while ship) was afraid he could not agree exports from Asia to the United with Mr. Lo States fell by $24,000,000, Mr. Lo hustily assured his Wor- The decline is partly attributed ship that he was not complaining to the slump in rubber, United about the Court at all, but was only Staten' exporta to South America arguing on legal points. during the same period tell from The case was adjourned until $49,686,000 to $27,635,000-10,30 am on Wednesday, Augus: Reuter & American Service,
SHAMROCK CROSSES;
ATLANTIC.
ARRIVAL AT NEW LONDON REPORTED.
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As regards the question of ball his Worship fixed the sum at $1,000
a before
Mr. Lo pointed out that that was the amount fixed when his cilent was on the charge of manslaughter, and asked his Worship to coneider reducing the ball as the present charge was not so serious
His Worship said that if the he was
New York, Aug. 13 A message from New London, defendant was
iamrock láble to a
Mr. Prior went on to say it was the application and his Lordsnip course of the Yellow River is flood, heen smashed by the advancing Returning from a dip, she die a case where admittedly, the granted the application. He added with water from four to five Knominchun troops and that Mar- covered that a rattan basket she dividend was small but, on the ed that in view of the smallness of feet deep making trench warfare shal Chiang Kai-shek has shorten- had left on the beach had vanished Connecticut, states that other hand, the applicant had not the dividend he would have to exceedingly, dificulta
ed all lines along the Lung-Hai In the basket, besides other belong the Fifth Sir Thomas Lipton's imprisonment ald applied for his discharge until five suspend the discharge for three Japanses sources state that the Railway, being content to remain inge, were Jewellery and money to yacht, Las arrived there Reiter's He therefore did not think years after the commencement of months.
Arst Nankinger defence Ine has inside Kwelten,
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