COLLISION WITH A OFFICER SHOT IN
RICKSHA.
SEQUEL TO ACCIDENT IN
QUEEN'S ROAD..
ALLEGED DAMAGE.
An incident which occurred in
THE BACK.
TRIBAL OUTRAGE ON THE INDIAN BORDER.
FIGHTING FOLLOWS.
Simla, Aug. 25.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930.
NURSE AWARDED
DAMAGES.
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age had made her seek a mate. It further represented that she was not fit to mix with good company and that she was not a fit person to be a nurse.
His Lordship:-I agree that the I want to know exactly what she article is generally insulting but has suffered by it.
Queen's Road, opposite the China While reports from the Kurram Building on August 6, was recalle ragion chronicle the complete sur ed before Mr. Lindsell at the Cen-render of the Massozal tribesmen,' tral Police Court this morning a serious clash has occurred with when, on the complaint of Lau- the Hathi Khel Wazirs, resulting Man-cho, a member of the Chi- in heavy casualties in hand-to-ber, and her friends thought the nese Press, a summons for fail-hand fighting. ing to report. "an accident was The British casualties are eight brought against Lam Kal-tit, dri-killed and ten wounded, including ver of motor car No. 2073.'
'Captain' Ashcroft killed.
Mr. Horace Lo was for the de- fendant and intimated that the defendant admitted having struck the complainant's ricksha, but that there had been no damage whatsoever, elther to the vehicle or to the complainant.
Inspector Alexander Indicated that the complainant was thrown
to the Traffic Office be exhibited an injury to his arm.
The Hathi Khels lost 26 killed and five wounded, while seventy were taken prisoners-Reuter.
Simla, Aug. 25.
LICENSING LAW REFORM.
NEW PLAN OUTLINED BY
LORD CECIL.
ABSURD CONTROL -
Placing a new scheme of pub- sing Commission, Lord Hugh Cecil lie-house control before the Licen-
said: "My principle is that the In the witness box, plaintiff naid licensing lawa should be regulat she knew the article referred to ed to public convenience. For example, I dissent altogether from same. It had come to the notice the present policy of trying to of the Directors of the Tung Wah suppress night clubs, assuming Hospital who had instructed the they are well conducted. House Surgeon to make enquiries "If people want to drink cham- with regard to it. Plaintiff fur-pagne at two o'clock in the morn- ther stated she considered that her ing, I do not see why they should reputation. had been damaged.
not. I think the law which tries When his Lordship asked what to stop them goes far away from Details of the Hathi Khel clash harm the article might have on public conscience and is absurd." show that Captain' Ashcroft, with plaintiff's future career, Mr. Lo Declaring that he was, express- a mixed force of infantry, frontier sald it was probable that whenly against total abstinence, Lord constabulary and police, moved plaintiff had passed her examina- Hugh suggested that: from Banru to occupy the ground | tions and wished to set up her own 1. A licensing authority should Mullah had been advertised.
difficulty in doing so for the reason borough or municipal boroughs, that expectant mothers would not one-half elected by the magis the article, frivolous and flirty, to local authority, and composed of want the type of girl indicated in trates and the other half by the attend them.
persons who would be required to sign declarations that they had no pecuniary interest in the liquor trade or that they thought it de- come total abstainers.
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MIXED BABIES OF CHICAGO.
PARENTS IGNORE DECISION OF A JURY.
FATHERS INSTINCT,
The now famous dispute over the when the rival parents-Mr. and "mixed bables of Chicago" ended
Mrs. Watkins and Mr. and Mrs. Bamberger decided to keep the babies already in their possession and ignore the decision of the jury of experts that the infants had been muddled in hospital at birth and should now be exchanged.
Clue of the Labels.
Human affection proved stronger than the wisdom of the scientists at the conference between the Bam- berger and Watkins familles, both sides announcing they had become so attached to the babies that they were unwilling to exchange them.
These boy babies were born the same afternoon lo the same
broiled in a bitter dispute when a Bamberger Infant and Watkins" label was found on the a "Bam- after the mothers had returned to berger label on Baby Watkins
tangle, Chicago's Health Commis- their homes. To unravel the sioner yesterday summoned 13
on to the roadway. When he went where a meeting under a hostile private practice she might have be set up in county,... county hospital, and the families were em-
The Mullah appeared with a Mr. Lo said that if the com-attacked Captain Ashcroft. While large force, one member of which plainant had been thrown to the the Intter was defending himself ground then it was clearly an ac- he was shot dead from behind. cident, but that was absolutely denied by the defendant. The car hit the ricksha but there had been no injury or damage,
A general engagement followed in which the Mullah himself was killed,
Officers and men of the Royal cases had been too frequent of late | airable that all citizens should be medical experts.
Lau Man-cho, in the witness Air Force attended at Jirga in box, stated, that his ricksha was Kurram where the Massozais travelling from East to West intendered complete submission. Queen's Road opposite China They brought in all fugitives from Building when it was Buddetly justice hiding in their territory, bumped into from behind. Wit- ineluding a man who had been ness was thrown to the ground, outlawed for twenty-five years. while the coolie was pinned un- The Mazzozala agreed to ban the der the ricksha. Witness spoke Congress preachers in their terri- to the defendant, who was the||tory,--Reuter, driver of the motor ear 2073,
which had collided with the rick-
sha, and demanded an explanation WOMAN FINED ON
as well as costs for the repair of
the ricksha. Damage to the ex- tent of $15 had been caused, wit- neas producing a receipt for that. amount.
Mr. Lo:--Your ricksha was swerving gradually to the right hand side of the road?
His Worship asked if the ques- tion were material and intimated that who was to blame for the accident was neither here nor there. The whole
puint was whether there had been an accident and whether the defendant had reported it.
Later his Worship allowed the question to be put from the point of view of compensation.
When asked, the witness denied that the ricksha bad swerved. He also denied that the ricksha had stopped without any, warning to traffic approaching from the
Fear.
Witness intimated that he did certain work for the China Tribune but denied being responsible for an account of the accident which appeared in that paper the following day.
Mr. Lo: And the article is -slanderous to the defendant?
His Worship: Surely I am not 'concerned with that?
At this juncture the summens was adjourned till Friday at
noon.
BELLICOSE WHARF
COOLIE.
DANGEROUS MAN SENT TO PRISON,
"You are a dangerous man and a fighter," said Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning to a wharf coolie, who was charged by Inspector Marks with having assaulted Ip Sul, an electrician, in Canton Road last night.
SERIOUS CHARGE.
POLICE RAID ON HOUSES OF
ILL-FAME.
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Sub-Inspector W. Le F. Cheva- lier, before Mr. Whyte Smith at Kowloon this morning, charged a Chinese woman with having run a "aly" brothel.
The Inspector said that there were two houses, Nos, 10 and 4,
Cheung Lok Street, and when one
was crowded the customers were sent to the other. They had both been under police observation for over twelve months. When he raided No. 4 last night, he found two Europeans there. The houses were run by a clique of about 10 people, but the defendant was the mistress of No. 4.
The defendant said she was an amah and was running the place for one day in the absence of her mistress who was in the country. The defendant admitted it was "sly" brothel,
Sub-Inspector Chevalier asked for a heavy penalty, as conditions in that street were disgraceful.
A Gine of $75, or six weeks' im- prisonment, was imposed.
FANATIC ARRESTED ON TRAIN.
BELIEVED DESIGNS ON THE EGYPTIAN PREMIER.
Cairo, Aug. 25.
2. This committee should have power to prescribe sale of liquor hours either for the whole of the area or for any part of it, even for any street.
Back to Pre-War Hours. The committee would have pow. ers to penalise ill-conducted pub- lie-houses by shortening their hours. On the other hand, well- conducted houses would be allow
After a long debate they decided by a majority that one infant had been substiuted for another, and they were now with the Wrong parents. Nine experts voted for this decision, one against and, two abstained.
When first told the verdict Mr. Bamberger declared: "I won't give up the boy I have. I'll barricade my house."
Disgusting Articles. Mr. Lo continued that such and the Colony should be "puri- fied" of the "mosquito" paper at- mosphere. The people responsible for such papers were always making attacks on persons who could not defend themselves, and they should be sternly prevented from printing such disgusting articles. Plaintiff was a defence- less woman and had no money for legal proceedings in order to de- fend her character and reputation. case was not a matter which con-ed to sell during very long hours. How he (Mr. Lo) came into the
Threat of Force.
cerned the Court.
Equally excited, Mr. Watkins aa- Maximum hours might be pre-war serted that he would take his baby hours and the minimum hours from Mr. Bamberger by force. either war
hours or hours still Both male parents were distracted j shorter-possibly hours for Sunday.
the
present and the mothers hysterical when they met in conference early to- Replying to Mr. L. Hitchings (day. member of the Commission), Lord The family doctors made peace Hugh Cecil said that he consider by advising the parents not to ed drunkeness was when a man make an exchange as recommends was a nuisance to his neighbours. by the experts, pinning their faith "As long as he is only damag to the shape of the infants' heads. ing his own health you have no more right to stop him than when doctor tells him not to." he eats lobster salad when his
Concluding, Mr. Lo said that damages came under four heads, contemptuous, nominal, substan tial and vindictive, and he sub- mitted that 'the case
was suffi ciently serious for it to be brought under the last-named heading..
His Lordship agreed, saying he was very sorry for plaintiff and expressing the hope that such a scurrilous and unfounded article would not injure her career. the
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Summary Jurisdiction, however, case had been brought in
the limit which could be awarded was $1,000 and he would award that amount to plaintiff with costs.
Judgment was
entered accor- dingly.
TRADĖ STATISTICS DIFFICULTY,
FORMER P.W.D. MAN STEALS WIRE.
BADGE PRODUCTION OF NO AVAIL.
A former employee of the P.W.D., Wa Hon, was charged before Mr. Butters at the Central Police Court this morning, with the theft of a quantity of tele- phone wires.
(Continued from Page 1) clerk to copy from an invoice a quotation such as Pivc dozen Autos No. 1 is useless to the Department, for the Office is not Mr. Giggs, of the P. W. D. said to know that it refers to razors. he believed that the wire came
"Then again, invoices from Ger- from a telephone extension many, France,
Czecho-Slovakia, Severn Road. He knew the man to at Belgium or any other foreign coun- have been employed, until tries, are entered in their own weeks ago, in the wireless section particular weights, measures and of the Electrical Branch of the trade-names, and it is inconceivable Department. that the Statistical Office should translate them.
"I feel sure that neither the Chamber of Commerce, who are re sponsible for the compilation of
the Classification List, or the mer- chants, would entertain the idea
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Inspector Shaftain, prosecut- ing, said Wu was stopped by an Indian constable at Magazine Gap, and questioned with regard to the wire which he was carrying in a bag.
"We guess our instincts are as good as the opinion of the experts," the fathers finally declared in deciding not to exchange.
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The experts who decided that the bables had been changed included an anthropologist, a dermatologist, a pathologist, an obsterician, psychiatrist and an ophthalmologist. The only dissenting opinion came from Dr. Ferdinand Watzék, a criminologist, who said that a com- parison of fingerprints had shown positively that no mistake had been made.
The scientists made a minute ex- amination of the babies' skin, hair, eyes, anatomy, blood and psychi- atric reflexes.
The health commissioner, Dr. Kegel, is astonished that the pa rents have flown in the face of the considering whether he can pursue experts' decision, and says he is
of public policy, the case further in the interest)
WHEN MUSIC IS A NUISANCE.
STONE-THROWING BY A NEIGHBOUR.
A Berber dressed as a waiter, of allowing duplicate invoices, to workman's badge, the constable stone into a neighbour's house and armed with a sharp axe, was be submitted to the Statistical found in the corridor of a train, Office. outside the compartment in which the Premier, Sidky Pasha, travelling to Cairo, shortly after the train left Alexandria.
Was
The man, who was arrested, is believed to have had designs on the Premier's life.-Reuter.
On the production of a P. W. D.
was going to let Wu go, but on second thoughts, he detained the man, while telephoning to Inspec tor Shaftain for directions.
Subsequently, after being taken to the station, enquiries revealed that the man was no longer con- nected with the Department.
A householder who throw
and broke a picture of the King as a protest against the coatinumi wireless was summoned at Croy- playing of a gramophone and the
don: The summons Was missed on payment of £1 damnge dig and 21 18, Costa.
Exchange Conversion. "You must also remember that the value of the goods has to be quoted in local coinage at F.O.B. Inspector. Marks stated that the
rates, and you cannot expect the
He was Harold Perks, of Old defendant was arrested by a dis-
Statistical Office to have to trans-
Lodgelane, Purley, and he was trict watchman and was first, ac-
Cairo, Later. late the value of goods which are
Mr. Giggs said that in any case, summoned for doing £5 damage to. cused of the theft of a gold wrist The man arrested on the train is quoted on foreign invoices such as the badge produced by the man a picture of the King in the hall watch belonging to the coma Sudanese named Hussein Taher, those from France, Russia, India, plaluant. It appeared that the de-He is a draughtsman employed by etc where the coinage of the parti was not one which would have of the house next door of Charles fendant was sent from Mong Kok the State Railways and was cular country is entered On the been issued by the Electrical De- E. Grogan.
Mr. Perka said he had spoken to assault the complainant. educated at Gordon College, Khar-invoices, to the corresponding value partment: During the scuffle the watch drop- tur. His father, Taher Bey, In local coinage.
to Mrs. Grogan about the tinual annoyance of the gramo- pad on the road but was recovered formerly a Deputy, is a
phone and wireless. On July 11 later.
following further annoyance he threw a stone into Mr. Grogan's hall as a protest. He realised now that this was perhaps a little foolish.
The defendant said the com- plainant had assaulted one of his clansmen some time ago, and when be asked the complainant not to touch any of his elansmen again, he lost his temper and started the fight:
British supporter.-Reuter.
keen
SNATCHED BANGLES FROM BABY.
In addition, this 18 made
more impossible by the fact that most firms have special contract quotations, so that the ordinary rates of the day would not apply."
Defendant was sentenced four months' hard labour.
ROBBERY NIPPED IN THE BUD.
POLICE GET WIND OF A
GANG'S ACTIVITY.
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He had told his house at a loss because of this annoyance.
Horace Austin, another neigh- bour, complained of the "hellish noise, jazz, and that kind of thing" from the garden.
As a piece of advice, Mr. Lloyd emphasised that any merchant or retailer who was in doubt con- cerning the correct entry of a par- ticular article could always remedy his difficulty by making enquiries from the clerk-in-charge at the -Receiving a timely warning of Statistical Office. He could send a the intentions of an alleged, gang was, bound in a bond of $100 to age, appeared before Mr. Lindsell receive every assistance from the Murphy and a.party of detectivesan, said that no doubthere had
representative round, who would of armed robbers, Sub Inspector M. Office.
Defendant's record showed that this was his second offence for Assault. He was now sentenced to one month's imprisonment and
keep the peace for one year.
AMERICAN BASEBALL.
BOY'S FUTILE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE.
A young Chinese, 14 years of
at the. Central Magistracy this morning on a charge of snatching a pair of bangles from a child be ing carried by its mother at the jungtion of First and Centre Streets yesterday morning.
The defendant, who admitted the
TWO GAMES PLAYED IN THE charge, was alleged to have snatch
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York, Aug. 25.
Four Points.
The four chief points which firms should bear in mind were:
(1)--Possess a copy
of the Classification List and when in doubt refer to it.
(2):-Don't enter goods in their proprietory name and don't use
ed the bangles and run away. The woman raised the alarm and 'a Chinese constable who was attract Two games were played in the ed to the scene followed, arresting trade-names. American baseball league to-day the defendant after a short chase. (3)-Don't allow clerks to en-
His Worship ordered the defen- [ter from invoices.. 3dant to be detained for 48 hours (4)-If the Classification Liat 6 and to receive 16 strokes of the does not solve your difficulty, con-
birch.
sult the Statistical Office; they will
resulting as follows: Philadelphia 2 Washington Detroit
7 St. Louis Reuter's American Service.
Sir Arthur Spurgeon, the chair-
been intolerable inconvenience from the Wanchai Station were for the defendant. instrumental in frustrating the plans of the gang by having the inen arrested.
On the appearance of four Chin- been received that a gang of armed ese before Mr. Lindsell at the Cen- robbers was travelling, from You tral Magistracy to-day, they were mati to Wanchai with the inten charged with being in possession tion of committing a robbery. A of a knive, a dagger, pointed pieces party of police laid in ambush in of iron, wire and potatoes which Triangle Street and on the men's were alleged by the Palice to have approach they were challenged. been for an unlawful purpose. The secend defendant, who had The men admitted: possession one of the knivca. was seen to of some of the articles mentioned, discard it in a short chase. but denied possession of others,
Sub Inspector Murphy informed his Worship that information had
On the application of the pro- secution the defendants were all remanded for one week.
POWELL'S
10, Ice House Street.
DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE MONTH WE ARE OFFERING ALL OUR WOOL
BATHING COSTUMES
at $10.00 each.
Usual
prices range from $14.75 to $25.50,
Call and make your selection early as the best ones are bound to go first.
LADIES' and MEN'S included.
All Sizes from 32 to 46".
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AUTOTYPES AND
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