ALLEGED CRUELTY TO GIRL.
MOTHER SAYS DAUGHTER WAS DISOBEDIENT.
QUESTION OF FINE.
Inspector J Murphy, of the S.C.A., before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- ing, charged a Chinese woman with having assaulted
2 young girl 11 years of age.
The defendant admitted the charge and said the girl was her daughter and not a mui-tsui. She had beaten the girl because she was very disobedient.
Inspector Murphy produced a medical report from the doctor at the Kowloon Hospital with regard This to the injuries on the girl stated that the girl had nine weals across the shoulders; three on the elbow; two on the left elbow: five on the right thigh; four on the left thigh and four on the right calf All these injuries could have been caused not more than five days previous to the examination. There were also some bumps, on her head, which could have been caused not more than 10 days previously.
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Inspector Murphy:-The girl was beaten with firewood.
the case.
The Magistrate--You are ask ing for a nominal fine?
Inspector Murphy:Yes. The Magistrate-I propose to fine her $50.
Inspector Murphy:-P asked her for bail of $50 and she could not raise it.
VISAS FOR U.S.A. REFUSED.
(Continued from Page 1.) General thoroughly examined the books of plaintiff's firm,
Reason for Refusal,
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930.
TWO MOTORISTS
FINED.
LOCAL" SOLICITOR AS THE COMPLAINANT.
"A SORT OF RACE."
The defendants were
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(Continued from Page 1) his selection. Duckworth, who came out to join Larwood, played on to a ball from Fairfax when he had made three and the ninth SARCASTIC COMMENT. wicket thus fell át.391.
Peebles had made three when
Shanghai, Aug. 12.
on the The Increasing desire part of Ch'n'se to adopt foreign clothes is regarded with consider able misgiving by a certain sec- tion of Chinese officialdom.
certain Mr. Wu Recently,
a
It was plaintiff's understanding that the application for a visa was
Mr. C. E. L. Grist, Jnr., a soliel-Larwood mistimed a ball, from denied him solely because he had not shown to the satisfaction of the tor, was complainant on a motor Grimmett. It was a tricky delivery Consul General that it was his summons against Lo Cho-chak. And and Larwood got his leg in the He had the United Lam Wing-kee, owner-drivers, be- intention to enter
made 19. Stutes to become a member of a fore Mr. Lindsell at the Central way and was given out.
England's tail had wagged but firm already existing there, and Police Court this morning.
charged which is already carrying en #
with dangerous driving in Wong weakly and the Australians were Chao-kung, made the suggestion to trade with China.
that the neichong Cap Road at 7.30 on July faced with the task of making 105 the Chinese municipal authorities Plaintif submitted
to equal England's performance. that a tax be collected from all denial of the application for a visa 26. The police stated that one of the The English innings lasted for Chinese who displayed a desire to was in plain violation of the Sino- American Treaty of 1881 and of cars, driven by Lam Wing-kec, was seven and three quarter hours, wear foreign-style garments. Mr.
Wu is quoted in the Immigration Act of 1921, for rea-proceeding along at a fairly fast The detail score is given below:
speed, followed by Lo Cho-chak, sons which he sets forth,
It was added that plaintiff had who wished to overtake the other been apprised by the Consul ear. The first car, however, held General that in denying the on to the centre of the roadway and application, he was acting under obstructed the other. the instructions of the Secretary of State and of the Commissioner General of Immigration, and that it would be useless for plaintiff to request either of these officials to over-rule the Consul's decision.
Plaintif claimed that he had no. other adequate or, speedy remedy than by Writ of Mandamus order. ing the Consul General to grant him a visa,
The Magistrate: If the S.C.A. press the case you will have to put
No Jurisdiction. the daughter in the box to give evidence.
The plea of the defendant's Inspector Murphy:-Yes; but counsel was that the United States that would not be in the girl's Court for China had no jurisdic. interest, because the S.C.A. willtion to issue a Writ of Mandamus then have no power to take the against the Consul General in his girl away from her mother after official capacity, and that the Court had no jurisdiction to issue such writ ordering him to issue a visa to an alien to permit him to enter the United States in any case, and particularly in this case, The Consul General. in his answer to the petition, denied several of the points put forward by the plaintiff and stated that after thorough investigation of all the facts, he had, and still has, good reason to believe that the Inspector Murphy:-Yes.
plaintiff is inadmissible to the The Magistrate-Would you United States સ 21 merchant, like time to consult the S.C.A. being of the opinion that the particularly with regard to what plaintiff had no intention and does would happen to the girl after the not now intend to enter the United case? If there is an undertaking States for the purpose of therein that she would be treated well in the | engaging in business as a mer future I shall have no objection to chant within the meaning of the giving a light fine. You might askimmigration laws of America, or the S.C.A. to suggest a penalty, to enter the United States solely having, in view the girl's future to carry on trade in pursuance welfare.
of any existing treaties between Inspector Murphy said he would the United States and China. do so, but he thought it would | Our Own Correspondent. take at least 48 hours.
The Magistrate:-Do you want her to be given a fine which she can pay?
The case was remanded until
Thursday morning.
HOW COLLISION WAS AVERTED.
COXSWAIN OF MOTOR BOAT FINED.
How an accident was just averted on the night of August 14th was described by Sgt. May at the Ma-
before the rine Court,
Hon.
Commdr. G. F. Hole, this morning, when Leung Fuk, the coxswain of the molor-boat Sing Chau, was summoned for failing to observe the rule of the road. Defendant pleaded guilty.
TRADING JUNK FOUNDERS.
EIGHT CHINESE MANAGE TO ESCAPE.
Eventually both cars got abreast of each other and went round a corner at a speed between 25 and 30 miles an hour. Mr. Grist, was behind and reported the matter to. the police.
The charge of dangerous driving was denied by both defendants.
England, 1st. Innings,
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vernacular press as saying, that two purposes will be served by the tax. First, Chinese men and worben will be hindered in their attempts to ape foreigners.. Secondly, Chinese goods will reguin
of the. 3ground foreign goods have taken
from them.
some
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J. B. Hobbs, e Kippax, b Wall.. II. Sutcliffe, e Oldfield, b Fairfax 161 W. Waysall, lb.w., b Wall K. S. Dulcepsinhji, e Fairfax,
b Grimmett w. I. Hammond, b McCabe M. Leyland, b Grimmett R. E.
M..
S. Wyatt, e Oldfield, b Fairfax
Tate, st Oldfield, b Grimmett H. Larwood. l.bw, b Grinimett G. Duckworth, b Fairfax LA. R. Peebles, not out
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"If prohibitive measures not taken," says Mr. We, "our 10 people show signs of becoming 19 crazy to adopt foreign.clothes, food, 3 houses and goods. Unless We 3 check this fad, native industries will suffer even more than they have.. Before long We my" even ace ricksha coolies and farmers in the backwoods wear- ing foreign collars and ties."
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Fall of wickets: 1 for 68 (Hobbe), for. 97 (Whysall), 3 for 162 (Duleepsinhji), 4 for 190 (Hammond), for 197 (Leyland), for 367 (Sutcliffe), 7 for 379 (Tute), & for 379 (Wyatt). 9 for 391 (Duckworth). Bowling Analysis,
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Mr. Grist stated that he was in his car going up the road behind these cars when one of the drivers endeavoured to pass the other. The ear in front pulled across to the right hand side of the road in what looked like an effort to prevent the other from passing. The driver of the second car forced his way until he was abreast of the first, and both then proceeded to go through a further corner. "I should judge." stated Mr. Grist, "from the way they were driving that they were
both knew each McCabe They friends. other and were driving in company in a sort of race. One of the cor- ners was quite blind."
Holding that it was a case of very dangerous driving, his Wor- ship convicted
bath defendants,
fining Lo Cho-chak $75 and Lain He warned them Wingsker $50. that their licences would be cancell- ed on a repetition of the offence.
NANNING SIEGE ENDED.
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Northern Chinese, who are more conservative, ex- usually press approval of the suggestion, state the vernacular newspapers. The movement started in Shang- hai has been taken up in Peking.
Commenting on the subject, one Chinese newspaper saysThat
clothing has foreign-style definite place in
daily life is indisputable. People will keep on using it so long as there is no better wearing material found to take its place. Valu- able awards should be given to clever designers who can put out It was hoped that Z.B.W, the local attractive and practical patterns of the pre- broadcasting station, would be able which can make use to pick up and relay the "ball to ball" sent Chinese-made fabrics. These description of the Test Match which was radiated by Amalgamated Wire patterns should combine the ad- less through the short wave broad-vantages of both the Chinese and easting station 2ME, Australia, but foreign-style clothing." the reception yesterday evening wasB.
subject to fading.
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faint and
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the local studio stood, re-broad-them alone. There is no hope for
GIRL'S DEATH IN GARDEN:
One Nanking official points out; however, that "haman nature is It was possible, however, to catch the same in China as-anywhere occasional messages, and at intervals elso. If some people wish to be was able announce freakish, it is better to leave (Continued from Page 1)
the total as it casting being impracticable. asking for reinforcements, adding
There are naturally many difficul- them," he added. that the Kiangsi Provincial Gov- ties to be contended with in re-broad- ernment has ordered the with- casting from
such a distance,
A long drawal of the 34th
constant Kangsi and the
interruption by Brigade for Naachang, the capital, morse signals and atmospheric dis which is facing a Communist in turbances made it impossible for the vasion and consequently the Com-description as received, to be relayed. munists are organising whole sale plundering of Kanchow.
The Canton Government has signified Its intention of sending one regiment
southern into Kiangsi.
Nankanghsien and Nananhsien are among the other big cities in Southern Kiangsi evacuated by wealthy Chinese residents who are flocking into Northern Kwang-
particuarly tung,
Namyung,
It was explained that before the messages were received in Hongkong they were transmitted from the Oval to Chelmsford, thence to Sydney, and finally to the Kowloon Observatory, where they were relayed to the studio in Hongkong,
HOW FAIRY LIGHTS WERE WIRED.
CABLE LEFT - "LIVE." How a girl was electrocuted while playing hide and seek was told at an inquest at Thames Dit ton on Rowena May Kettel. (17), of Garden-court, Copseham-lane, Oxshott.
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MEN? cargo of cement and sugar to Macao early this morning.
(Continued from Page 6.) According to the report of the
uncle of the girl, said he was pre- master, the junk left Hongkong where the presence of about eight he is doing something that appears sent at a garden party at the
Canton Government to us to be silly. But everything house. The grounds were illu on Sunday morning, but, there hundred being no wind, it anchored at a troops is effective in preserving that I do, or that you do appears to minated with electric fairy lamps.
peuce. Trade
can be silly to some people. place called Yim O, near Lantao order and
The following night the children seek Island. At about 2 a.m. to-day, a nexions between Shiukwan and Some may think it very silly that were playing hide and favourable wind sprung up and Namyung with Southern Kiangsi a serious and elderly woman should around the pond. He saw Rowena A SUMMER DANCE
But, fall and catch hold of a tripod in have been interrupted by the play a mouth-organ in bed. Communist disturbances.
to me that is no aillier than collect the centre of the pond. She was Disburbing news of the Coming foreign postage stamps, or in about a foot of water. When munist reign of terror in Kianfu snuff-boxes, or first editions, or sit- he took hold of her hand he him- and Taian, where the "Reds" have ting for hours watching men play self got a shock. The switch was
extensive perpetrated
incen- with bats and balls, or paying out off, and normally there should be money to prove how sincerely you no current going through. believe that one horse faster than other horses.
the junk then continued on its way to Macao.
ed.
In answer to his Worship, Sgt. May said his police launch was pro- ceeding from west to east It had not gone far, however, on the night in question when de- before heavy seas were encounter fendant's motor boat suddenly cut The junk was buffetted about across his bows from south to until it capsized at about 6 a.m. north.
The occupants of the junk, Continuing, Sgt. May said he had numbering six men and two girls, de managed to launch a sampan, the right of way, but the fendant ignored his one-blast signal which the junk carried, and made and if the police launch had not their way to Tai 0, whence they stopped, a collision might have oc- returned by the tow this morning.
curred.
The junk now lies sunk at a Looking up defendant's record, place called Tung Chung, near Tai his Worship found that he had a0, with her mast showing above previous conviction for failing to the water.
stop when called upon to do so by
a Police Officer. Defendant admit-
led having been brought before the Court before.
A fine of $20,,with the alterna- tive of two weeks' hard Jabour, was imposed.
"CAT BURGLAR'S" FATAL FALL.
SHOTS FIRED AT A FISHING BOAT.
CRAFT CAPTURED 'WHEN
MASTER LEAVES.
diarism, has been brought to Kani- chow by the Chinese refugees from the interior of Kiangsi.
MALTA COMMAND.
MAJOR GENERAL OLDFIELD APPOINTED.
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Mr. Percy, Ansell, electrician, Leatherhead, said that owing to a If I were to give a detailed de- mistake the positive wire had been scription of my daily day, numbers taken to the plug instead of to the of people would say: "What an switch. This kept a "live" sido eccentric fellow!" And I should out on the temporary wire 'even resent the remark. To myself when the switch was off. Despite appear to be a very ordinary fellow.. that, had the wires been properly We all do.
Insulated nothing would have happened.
!
Part of Wire Bare.. Leonard Coleman, chauffeur. said that he connected the wes for the garden party. He knew a little about electricity, but was not a qualified electrician, Electric House, Leatherhead, said
Mr. William Henry Owen, of
We all like to think that we are normal, but none of us is, and if London, Aug. 18. The War Office announces that ever we did find a really normal Major General Oldfield has been man we should all agree that he appointed General Officer Com-was a lunatic who ought to be put
under control. manding at Malta, with effect from We call diverge, not only from February, 1931, in succession to the common norm, but from the Major General Pritchard.-British norm of our own character, and we Wireless.
ajor General L, C. L. Oldfield, pass more of our lives in the diver-
gence than in the centre. A story of a junk being attacked C.B., C.M.G., D.S.0, has been com- We are all eccentric: all of us, by an armed fishing boat and the manding the 47th (2nd London) that is, who do what we want to abandonment of the craft by its Division of the Territorial Army do, without considering whether in master whilst three fokis were left since 1927. He entered the Army our set, it is "done." In other SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES IN in the hands of pirates was told on (Roval Artillery) in 1892 and at- words, all of us who are really
the return of the master to Hong-tained his present rank in 1926. alive. kong.
He was Adjutant of Volunteers Failing to gain a secure footing
Tsang Yung, master of fishing from 1902 to 1906,, and saw much in an attempt to enter a house in boat 444 OC of Sai Heung, in the service in the Great War in France Because he had suspected a wo-would not have been killed."
was and Flanders. He
made Queen's Road from an adjoining Nam Tak District, reported to the house, a "eat burglar fell into the Police that at about 9 p.m. on A.D.C. to the King in 1924, and in man of having accused him of the street from the second floor Saturday he was sailing his boat, that year and 1925 was Chief In- theft, a man residing at 25, Mac- Aand suffered injuries to his head with three fokis, travelling from structer in Gunnery at the School
from, which he died three hours Nam Tau, Chinese territory, to of Artillery.]
HOSPITAL.
after admission to hospital. "
Lung Ku Tan, British territory:
"Arriving at Lam Kat Chiu he was
ten.
the bare part of the flexible wire was touching the suspension wire, which was connected to the tripod. and when Miss Kettel caught hold of the tripod the electricity passed through her body to earth through
the water.
"Had it not been for the water," said Mr. Owen, "this young woman
Dr. Crabbe said that in his
opinion death was instantaneous and completely painless.
A verdict of "Accidental death" was recorded.
On the way home from West
Gregor Street, Wanchai, stabbed the woman with a pocket knife, but fortunately the injury was not serious and only required treat- In a police report issued this pursued by a small fishing boat
ment without detention in hospital. morning it was stated that an unmanned by a crew of about
When a train from Surbiton According to the woman, she was! known Chinese was removed to He was called upon, to stop but re- was entering Waterloo Station asleep in her cubicle at 8.30 p.m. the Government Civil Hospital fused and three shots were fired at recently the engine and first coach yesterday when a clansman of her Africa, 13 members of the crew early this morning suffering from his post. The master jumped over- jumped the rails and the engine husband entered the cubicle and of the Newcastle steamer Ashlea injuries due to falling from the board and swam ashore.
then charged towards the end of charged her with having accused developed malaria. One died and second floor of 162, Queen's, Road, He intimated that he saw his own the platform and ran up the alope, him of stealing a licence belonging his body was landed at Portland. Central. He had attempted to boat being taken away by the It came to a standstill with the to the woman's husband. He them Four other members of the ere, enter the premises. from the ad- pirates in the direction of Macao. buffers only a few inches from a stabbed the woman in the arm all belonging to Hall, were taken joining house but slipped and The three fokis have not been seen signal bridge. Passengers in the with a pocket knite. The as to the Port Sanitary Hospital at fell into the street. He injured since and it is not known what has coach complained of shock, but sailant ran away, and the woman Weymouth, and three others, no one was hurt. The derailed was removed to the Government whom the port medical officer his head so severely that he died happened to them. at 4.40 am., three hours after
train blocked four lines of traffic, Civil Hospital, where she received certified to be convalescent, were
treatment but was not detained. sent to their homes, causing some delay. admission.
The master reports that the loss sustained amounted to $479:-
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