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RECALLED.
REJECTED LOVER
IN COURT.
TOLD THAT ONLY THE DEVIL WOULD LOVE HIM!'
SUICIDE ATTEMPT.
Because of unrequited love, Ho Yau, a cook employed at a West Point establishment, is stated to have attempted suicide by throw. ing himself. into the harbour on the 17th instant. Half-drowned, That a sandwich does not people, and to-day faced a charge he was taken out by some boat- constitute a "regular meal" of assaulting and inflicting grievous within the definition of the bodily harm on the Indy of his conditions attached to an ad- cholce, Wu Ting, un amah employ junct liquor licence, was the ed at the same establishment.
Detailing the case for the pro- ruling of Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morn-accution, Mr. Horace Lo said that Ho came up to the young woman ing in connexion with a sum-on a day prior to the alleged as 'mons against O. Morita, the
sault, and making amorous ad- licensee of the Chitose Kwan vances, said to her:-"Everybody Hotel, No. 1-3, Mow Fung Lane, says you love me. You had better Wanchai
marry me." Disillusioning him, she advised him to stop his raving and not further make a fool of him-
Morita was charged with a breach of the conditions of his licence in that he sold liquor to two Euro-self. pean police constables, disguised as seafaring people, on- August 14, without regular meals. He claimed that sandwiches were sold with these drinks, and stated, in reply to the Bench, that two sandwiches
Miss Amy Johnson
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Pedder Bldg.
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HELIKON PIRACY HUNGARY THRONE MUKDEN GENERAL SHANGHAI DEATH UNUSUAL CRICKET
QUESTIONS IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
·NO RECONSIDERATION OF
PROTECTION.
NAVAL GUARD ISSUE..
SUCCESSION.
THE PRETENDER MARRIED IN ENGLAND.
PUTS LOVE FIRST.
London, Aug. 26.
It has been disclosed that Archduke Albrecht of Austria was married at, a Brighton registry office on the 16th instant to Madame Irene Rudnay In the House of Commons (formerly Leibach) recently, questions were asked who was recently. regarding the piracy of the s.s. divorced from har Helikon by the Bias. Bay gang. husband,
M. it being stated by Mr. C. G.Rudnay, former Ammon, Parliamentary Secre-Minister tary to the Admiralty, that the
Sofia.
to
in
EXECUTED.
SEQUEL TO RECENT
PLOTTING.
ALLEGED INTRIGUE TO AID NATIONALISTS.
+
PACT ECHO.
CABARET GIRL RETURNING TO HONGKONG.
PÁRENTS' DEMAND.
return home.
RESULT.
GLOSTER TIE WITH AUSTRALIA.
FOUR INNINGS AND SCORE JUST THE SAME.
CHAMPIONSHIP ISSUE.
London, Aug. 26..
Shanghai, Aug. 27. Miss Wang Pei-ying, a' cabaret dancing girl and the central figure OFFER OF $500,000. in the sensational Tong San-mao suicide pact, ense two months ago, Peking, Aug. 26.
sailed yesterday on board the Em-. Political intrigue at' Peitaiho,
press of Canada for Hongkong. It The match between the Aus- concerning an offer of $500,000 is stated that her parents read ac-tralians and Gloucester ended in by the Nanking Government to counts of the Court proceedings in a tie to-day, both teams complet- two - Manchurian Commanders
the Hongkong newspapers and ing two innings and scoring a daring coup to organise
North China by assail wrote demanding that she should exactly the same number of ing the. Shansi
runs. Gloucester made 72 and military stronghold at Tientsin so as to Tong Sap-mao was sentenced to 202, a total of 274, while the facilitate the Nationalist occupa-for instigating the girl to commit The County championship still two years imprisonment last month Australians made 157 and 117. tion of the whole of the Tientsin-suicide. He gave notice of appeal. remains undecided. Notting Pukow Railway, has been re- Complainant, a former student hamshire and Lancashire 'drew, vealed..
of Fuhtan University, Kiangwan, married and, when he proposed Yorkshire lost alleged that accused was already each team taking four points. On the first marriage to her, she rejected him innings to Surrey
and con Accused, she said, had made sequently take three points. several threats to commit suicide The present positions at the top- and to kill her and, for this pur- of the championship table are pose, he showed her a pistol he as follows: One Executed..
had bought. On the night in ques- Official Manchurian circles state tion, she had gone for a motor ride
week-end, suffering from brain As they were returning, he at- disease, but it is learned from in- tempted to obtain ber consent to dependent sources that he was ex-marriage but, when she refused, he ordered her to throw herself into Peking reports state that the de- the Whangpoo River. However, he tention of Commander Ma and the reconsidered his decision when he exécution of General Chan Tsak-thought the matter over and have placed the Nanking politien! then bought a bottle of poisonous sang of the Manchurian Cavairy realized that she could swim. He
volved in the plot were Regimental The two Manchurian leaders in- Commander Ma Yin-fu, who has been sent back to Mukden to face a military tribunal, and General Chan Taak-sang-
were thus disposed of with the two fendant runaing away, but did not consider its decision that the cost Great War. He was a rival to the I that General Chan died during the with, him.
bottles of beer consumed by the customers,
"Regular Meal,"
His Worship:-Even assuming that what he says is correct, do these two sandwiches constitute, a regular meal?
see any weapon. A blood-stained chopper was subsequently found in
the house by another servant, but there was no evidence, said Mr. Lo, which would connect this chopper with the defendant.
of protection against piracy must be borne by the shipping industry?
Government Reply.
Government did not consider the The couple, who are both aged 33 incident provided any ground years, first met in for reconsidering its decision in the Archduke's sick respect of protection of ship-room at The Hague ping against this form of piracy.a few years ago, of the Admiralty if his attention back to health: A suit for the Mr. Hannon asked the First Lord and Madame Rudnay nursed him has been called to the recent act annulment of her former marriage On the 17th instant, said Mr. Lo, of piracy committed upon the is being proceeded with in Rome, the woman was fixing up her morn-British steamer Hellkon in Chinese as divorce is not recognised by the ing toilet, when she felt herself struck on the head with some sharp waters; whether this ship was pro-Roman Catholic Church.
Archduke Albrecht is the richestį instrument. She would say that, tected by guards; and if, in view on looking round, she saw the de-of this and similar recent incidents, of the Hapsburgs, and is the only His Majesty's Government will re- son of Archduke Friedrich, the Austrian Generalissimo in the
boy, Archduke Otto, for the Hun garian Thorne, but it was report- ed a few weeks ago that he swore Mr. AmmonMy attention has allegiance to his cousin, Otto, pre- been called to the recent act offering a love marriage to King
| ship.-Reuter. piracy on board the Chinese-owned steamship Helikon when a gang of garded as Pretender to the Throne The Archduke Albrecht, long re- Chinese who had been embarked as passengers seized the ship. This ship was not protected by grilles and carried no guards, although Indian guards are provided by the Hongkong police if a ship upplies for them, neither was the ship in- cluded in the anti-piracy special system of inter-communication. No resistance was offered, no casual- ties occurred on board and no dam- age was done to the ship. I do not consider that this incident provides any grounds for His Majesty's Government reconsidering its de cision in respect of the protection of shipping against this form of piracy.
Wu Ting, the complainant, said she was in hospital for ten days Mr. T. Murphy, who prosecuted, after the assault. She testified as stated that a meal was defined into the proposal of marringe made. a restaurant-keeper's licence as be-by the defendant.
ing worth not less than 30 cents, His Worship:-You rejected but was not so set out in the hotel him and abused him? keeper's adjunct licence held by the defendant, a regular meat" being the only definition given in the lat
ter.
Defendant declared that he charged 20 cents for the two sand- wiches served to the constables.
Witness:-Yes. I asked him who but the Devil would love him, and also said that I would love him only when he was dead.
Mr. Lo informed his Worship that the defendant was missed for some hours after the assault. The next they heard of him was when he tried to commit suicide by jumping into the harbour.
The case was adjourned, until Saturday.
MR. HENDERSON FOR
GENEVA.
TO LEAVE LONDON NEXT
WEDNESDAY.
Navol Guards.
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AZJALAN UNIŠTAVI ORANGEÁLUMINAT Dunton
DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP IN SHANGHAI,
Compradore Kidnapped by
two Armed Men.
CAR FOUND ABANDONED.
Shanghai, Aug. 27.
A daring daylight hold-up occurred on the French Bund near the offices of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire yester- day morning when kidnappers made off with Mr. Wang She-- feng, the assistant compradore of the Yangtsze Insurance Association in a hire car.
Mr. Wang whs held up by two armed men while he was riding in his ricksha on his The hire
ecuted.
emiasaries visiting Peitaibo in a tablets, according to complainant, most embarrassing position, as and, when they reached the Burling there is a strong suspicion that ton Hotel, he forced her to take they were involved in the plot to them. As she swallowed them, ac bribe the. Manchurian Com-cused looked on. manders.
:
Accused denied the charge and New Nanking Envoy.
said that he and the girl, had on the latter's suggestion, entered, a In view of the delicate situation death pact. He denied having following the discovery of the ever suggested that the girl should sensational plot, the Nanking commit suicide and said that it Government has sent another dele-was complainant herself who pro- gate, Mr. Li Shih-tseng, who left posed this because he was not free Tsingtao yesterday, to Peitsiho to marry her.
General Chang Hsueh-liang has instructed three Manchurian gun boats to be placed on patrol duty at Peitaiho during his visit..
:
Lancashire Yorkshire Gloucester
Played Pointe.
27 27 26
147
. 142 136
Nottinghamshire 26 139
Results at a Glance. “
The Australians tied with, Gloucester at Bristol. Warwick Leicester at Hinckley won on the first innings against
Sussex beat Worcester by 136 runs at Eastbourne.
Glamorgan won on the first innings against Somerset at Cardiff.
Notts, and Lancashire drew, cach team taking four points,
Hampshire won by nine wickets against Northants at Bourne- mouth..
Essex won on the first innings against Derbyshire at Derby,
Surrey won on the first innings, v. Yorkshire at the Oval.
Kent
won by nine wickets against Middlesex at Lord's.
It was then that she suggested that they should take poison and he agreed. Accordingly, they went to
The Honours List. a drug store and bought some
The principal batting and poisonous tablets, after which they War Progress.
Look a room in the Burlington bowling performances during the The Nationalist Commanders are Hotel, whilst he walked to the other matches which ended to-day are withdrawing six Divisions, 30,000 side of the room to drink some set out below: men, from Shantung to the Lung- lemonade and, when he returned,
Batting. Hai Railway, fully realising the in- the pills had disappeared. As the ability of the Shane troops row girl had spoiled the pact by taking concentrating and consolidating all of the tablets, witness himself positions at Tehchow to organise removed her to Paulun Hospital.
immediate counter-attack Our Own Correspondent. against Talnanfu. The Shantung withdrawal is considered to be significent as it means a change in the Nationalist plan to maintain the offensive along the Lung- Hai Railway.
an
Served by Waitress, Setting out the facts of the police case, Mr. Murphy said the two officers went into the Hotel | shortly after eleven o'clock at night and asked to be served with drinks. A waitress, who was in. Court, came along with two bottles of beer, poured them into
Mr. Day asked the First Lord of two glasses and set them on the
the Admiralty whether he has any table. She then stated that the
information and can stale the num- price of the beer was 70 cents per
ber of naval guards' that have been bottle. Two dollars were handed
furnished to ships during the 12 over, out of which the officers,
London, Aug. 26.
months ended to the last, convenient who were dressed in dungarees,
Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign date in the China seas; and whe received G0 cents in change. Secretary, is
way to the office. returning to the ther, in view of the continuance of The waitress returned three Foreign Office to-morrow, after a piracy in these seas, it is proposed minutes later with a plate, on three weeks' holiday. He leaves to increase them? which were two sandwiches. The London
on September 3rd for Mr. Alexander: As regards the officers declined, but she said:- Geneva to attend the meetings of first part of the question, figures "Oh, you must take them with the the Council of the League of as to the number of naval guards beer."
Nations, beginning on September furnished are not available. Within There were about 15 sailors in 8th, and subsequent meetings of reference to the second part, ar- the shop at the time and they the Assembly of the League.
rangements are now in force be- of Hungary is the youngest child of were all drinking beer. It could British Wireless.
tween the shipping companies and the Archduke Friedrich and Prin-informed that for twenty days no LEAVES SCOTLAND TO DEAL the Hongkong police for the sup- peas Isabella of Croy, and was born artillery operations along the Lung- ply of police guards according to on July 24, 1897, at Weilsburg near Hai Railway have occurred, and sandwich for each man. Three WARRING CHINESE IN the requirements of the companies, Baden. He is an only son and has quiet conditions prevail at Lanfeng men were gathered at one partica-
six sisters. Albrecht was given aand Chengchow, the Kuominchun lar table with an equal number of
very thorough education, specialis-G.. H. Q.. bandwiches placed before them. While they were there, the officers did not see any other customer ask for or served with what could be regarded as proper meals.
also be proved, sald Mr. Murphy, that on each table there was a
prices of beer, and he found that
70 cents was the standard price
•
The Magistrate:-You call one sandwich a regular meal?
Defendant:-Certainly.
NEW YORK,
DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL
RESIDENTS.
New York, Aug. 26.
States' District
SIX KILLED IN AN AIR CRASH.
who bear the cost.
War Materials Export.
Mr. P. Oliver asked the President
which the last licence was issued
Car
was purloined from a chauffeur and was later found abandoned. Our Own CorresTM pondent.
The Peking Legations have been
PREMIER FLIES TO LONDON.
Wyatt (Warwick) Shepherd (Surrey) Watson (Lancashire) Arnold (Hampshire) Cutmore (Essex) O'Connor (Essex) Storer (Derby)
*Not out.
Bowling
Freeman (Kent) Parker (Gloucester)
Mitchell (Derbyshire) Mayer (Warwick) Hornibrook (Australia) Brook (Worcester) Ryan (Glamorgan) Herman (Hampshire)
Tate
and
(Sussex)
WITH STATE AFFAIRS.
London, Aug. 26. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald flew ing in law and economics, and then At Taikang and Kihaien the Kuo-been taking a holiday, to London, Bowley
from Lossiemouth, where he has entered the Austrian Army, minchun trenches are five feet deep After the collapse of the Dual with water, which has made it im-
motored to Downing Street. "
Smith warfare.
The Premier hopes that he will Fender (Surrey) Huge Damage:
be able to despatch the State Wright (Kent)
Peebles (Middlesex) Authentic Chinese sources estim-business on which he has come to Allen (Middlesex)
of the Board of Trade the date on Monarchy, the Archduke Friedrich possible to continue with trench tea with Royal Air Force officers, ()
to foreign оп ita
countries is considered
been obtained.
Chinese, estimate that from
AN APPEAL TO BUY COTTON.
.174*: 154
3 for 43
7 for 54
7 for 100
40
6 for 21 5 Lor 6 for 43 5 for 53
5 for
4 for 41
4 for "86
for
for 33
41
1 for
4 for 48
4 for 50
4. for 32
4 for 30
4 for" 48
Australia v. Gloucester.
One more run would have given Gloucester the distinction of being the only county team to defeat the Australians during their pre- sent tour. As it was, the teams each played two innings and scored exactly the same number of runs,
Following the recent outbreaks for the export of war materiala and his family eventually settled in He. (Mr. Murphy) had also gone of "teng" warfare and the expiry from this country to China; and himself popular in Hungarian 80- Budapest where Albrecht made to the trouble of looking up the of the time limit allowed the will he consider the desirability of ciety. He often announced his at-
leaders to adjust their differences, refusing such licences in the tachment to Hungary and has been ate that huge damage has been London and to resume his holiday for the particular brand of beer
Police Commissioner Mulrooney future? with which the officers were being has recommended to the United Mr. W. Graham:-The last such regarded as one of the candidates wrought along this Railway since, at Lossiemouth before the end of served....
for the Throne, his rivals being the commencement of the Nanking- the week British Wireless. Attorney rounding up and deporting of all Every application for a licence to the late Kaiser Karl, and Josef
the licence was issued on July 11. the young Archduke Otto, son of Kuominchun, war in March. Charge For Sandwiches. Chinese "living illegally in the export war material Defendant, in reply to a ques.city.-Reuter's American Service.
Frank, son of the Archduke Josef, $5,000,000 to $6,000,000 damage has been done to property and farm merits and no decision to issue or who after the Karolyi regime was anda during the six months of war, tion from the Bench, declared that his price was 60 cents, the
refuse a licence is taken until the for, & time Palatine of Hungary extra ten cents being the charge
views of the Foreign Office and the but retired from that position ow with about $5,000,000 damage done indirectly to firms whose cargo for each sandwich.
Service Department cu cerned haveing to the objections of the Entente transportation in Honan has been TEXAS GOVERNOR'S PLAN, TO a tie being the result. Gloucester
Albrecht, who is the principal suspended by the military opera- Mr. Oliver: Does not the right heir to the still considerable pro- tions: The damage caused by the hon. gentleman think that, in the perty of his father has based foods, is under $50,000. interests of our trade and of peace his claim to the Throne of Nanking states that the Nationa in China, these licences should be Hungary, not on the fact that liat troops along the Lung-Hal and definitely, stopped?
he is a Hapsburg but that he is Peking-Hankow Railways have been a descendant of the Arpands ordered to prepare for a big offen- and he would take the Magyar sive against the Kuominchun forces cestry is on the alde of his mothe title of Bela V. His Magyar an soon.
A Neutral Attitude. Arpad kings who once ruled Hun-
Peking, Aug. 26. In the absence of war news, the vernacular papers are daily featuring the cominge and goinga at Peitaiho, where politicians, Router delegates and leading military men are continually interviewing. Chang Houch-liang; but he in Shantung. His emissaries are was characterised by a fine bat. appears to be as determined as alleged to have landed at Haiyang,ting display by Wyatt, the captain over to maintain neutrality, while north-eastward of Tsingtao, whereof England's fifth Test team. expressing friendship for both they are enllating the "Red when he scored 174 not out. War aides-Reuter.
Spears" and also the notorious wick compiled a total of 372 bandit leader Wang Lan, who com Leicester were skittled out for only mands several thousand followers, 58 runs. Mayer taking slz wickets.
Liu Chen-cien le reported to be for 21 runs. They were forced to sending troops to suppress them follow on and took their second irregulars Routers
(Continued on Page
P. C. Thorpe, who, with P. C. Freyer, was 'served with the drinks, gave evidence bearing out Mr. Murphy's opening statement, and was asked by the Bench if he had brought the bottle of beer into
Court as an exhibit.
P. C. Thorpe: Yes, your Wor-
ship.
Empty, I suppose? Yes. (Laughter).
Detective Sergeant Moran spoke of visiting another Japanese shop bearing the name of "Nagasaki Joe" at Wanchal where he found that the price for Asahi beer charged there coincided with that which was.asked for in the de- fendant's establishment.
Small and Stale.
non-
MILITARY PLANE DISASTER IN FRANCE.
Chartres, Aug. 26. commissioned officers, the occu-
Two officers and four pants of a military aeroplane engaged in manoeuvres, were kill-would require to be addressed to ed when the seroplane developed another to the Foreign engine trouble and crashed into other Department, to the
BOMB EXPLODES AT POLICE STATION.
No Jurisdiction.
Mr. Graham:-That question
who boasts her descent from the
gary.
a village street, damaging three duty of the Board of Trade in this unoccupied houses.-Reuter.
matter is merely that of licensing authority. I have no jurisdiction beyond, han
licences without consulting some Lleut-Commander Kenworthy other Department? What has happened to, the embargo
Mr. Graham: That is made on arms to China, which was signi- clear in my reply. The other De ed by a great many Powers, in partments are very fully consulted cluding ourselves?
and the duty of the Board of Trade Mr. Graham That is plainly a ja merely to issue licences after the matter for another Department. In consultations.es better, any case, I should require notice of
Mr. Oliver-Will the right hon. SAY MAKAN oorge gentleman make representations to Mr. Lambert:-Surely the right the Foreign Office to see if these hon. gentleman does not Issue licences could be stopped?.
SIX PEOPLE INJURED IN ̈
INDIA Calcutta, Aug. 28.
A bomb exploded to-day at the On his going into the, defen- suburban police, station at Jorabait. dant's place a quarter of an hour gan, six people being injured.
(Continued on Page 7.) Reuter.
"Red Spears" Enlisted.
Peking, Aug, 26. Chang Chung-chang is reported to be attempting to stir up trouble
HELP FARMERS.
made 72 In their first innings, the Australians replying with 167 Austin (Tex), Aug. 26. To-day Gloucester made: 202 in The Governor of Texas has tele- their second knock, Hammond he
to all Governors of ing successful against the Austra- graphed Southern States an appeal to buy. lian bowlers and making 89 before. a bale of cotton" of the 1930 crop his wicket was taken. The most at 15 cents a pound. www bowling damage was done by If the nation responds, he says, Hornibrook who took five for 49. they ought to take five million The Australiane failed under the. bales off the market and so raise Gloucester attack, however, being the price to
farmers dismissed for 117. Parker took suffering through the drought seven of the wickets for 54. runs.
Warwick v. Leicester. Warwick's first and only Innings
assist