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POUNDED. 1881 NO. 23,185
830 ANNUM
TAQ MPAAÆF THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930. ||+TAŁ I OPI Cars
LIBERAL PARTY'S AMBULANCE IN AN OPIUM SEIZED ON COSTES PROMOTED BAD SARDINES IN
FUTURE.
SEPARATE POLITICAL
ENTITY.
NO FUSION WITH LABOUR ADVOCATED.
PACT RUMOURS DIE.
London, July 3.
The recent rumours regarding the possibility of a fusion be
ACCIDENT.
HITS OVERHANGING BRANCH
OF A TREE.
OCCUPANTS INJURED.
One of the ambulances attached to the Central Fire Station is now parked in the Station yard with the top of the body of the car badly smashed. This is the result of an accident which occurred yesterday evening when the ambulance was conveying a patient from Shauki- wan to the Government Civil Hos- pital.
MOTOR BOAT.
·BIG HAUL OF OVER
800 TAELS.
A CHINESE REVENUE OFFICER AMONG DEFENDANTS.
SAYS WAS CHASING.
Mention was made before Mr. Lindsell, at the Central Police Court this morning, of a huge seizure of illicit opium which
|
TO MAJOR.
SOUVENIR HUNTERS RIP THE
PLANE FUSELAGE
NO SERIOUS DAMAGE.
Now York Sept. 3. Souvenir hunters have ripped off a piece of the fuselage" of Costes' plane and the damage may winning prevent the flers from Colonel Easterwood's prize of £5,000-Reuter's Amèrican Ser- vicc.
New York, Later.
KOWLOON.
FOUR SHOPKEEPERS CHARGED.
GASES LET OUT AND TINS RE-SOLDERED.
NEARLY 5,000 TINS. Summonses against four Chin- ese shop dealers who are charged An examination of the "Question with having sardines unfit for Mark" shows that the souvenir
tween the Labour and Liberal bulance was in Upper Albert Road was made by Revenue Officer hunters have not seriously damag-human consumption in their pos-
parties are answered in a mani festo of the Executive Com mittee of the National Liberal Federation which will be dis- cussed at the meeting of the Council of the Federation at Torquay next month.
The manifesto, which has been prepared to afford guidance to candidates and others, deals at length with the tariff question and declares that there is no hope of economic recovery unless the system of open markets
upon which the very existence of the nation depends is maintained.
Britain's true policy, it adds, is to take the lead in co-operation with ather Free Trade or low tariff countries in a movement towards is general reduction of tariffs. which is as necessary for world
and prosperity peace
the "general reduction of armanents.
The Party's Future.
It advocates a vigorous policy of Empire development by means other than tariffs, and outlines proposed measures for industrial re-organisation. the development of agriculture and a revision of the system of unemployment relief.
Regarding co-operation withi Labour, the manifesto gives the
It appears that when the am- on its way to the G.C.H. the top part of the body of the car came into contact with a thick overhang- ing fork of a tree on one side of the road. The wooden structure was smashed to pieces, together with the glass windows of the am- bulance.
Powell in the harbour early yesterday morning, when seven men were arrested, including a Chinese Revenue Officer.
Mr. Horace Lo was for the fourth defendant. who described as the coxswain of a motor boat.
3
was
Although some of the occupants were cut by the breaking glass, no
In applying for a remand. R. O serious injuries were sustained. Powell informed his Worship that. taken into the ambulance at Shau-wait in a sampan in the junk The patient was unconscious when acting on information. he laid in kiwan and was still unconscious anchorage at 2 o'clock yesterday when the mishap occurred. One of the two friends of the patient was cut and received treatment at the G.C.H.. but was not detained. The driver and one of the attendants of the ambulance also received super ficial injuries.
The ambulance was able to con- tinue on its way after the mishap. and after taking the patient to the G.C.H.. returned to the Central Fire Station at about. 10 p.m. pro-
morning, when he saw a sampan leaving the 3.8. Sui Tai at the Macao Wharf in Wing Lok Street. The official party made towards the sampan, but, before they were able to reach it, a motor boat went alongside and began to tow towards Yaumati
it
Motor Boat Breaks Down.
Before it had left the anchor-
viding a sorry contrast to the red-age, the engine of the motor boat spick and span barely four hours cross cur- which left the Station broke down' und the Revenue before.
THE GOVERNMENT & SOCIALISM.
terms of a resolution to be put for MUST BE OF SLOW GROWTH
ward for discussion at Torquay: "That while approving of the i conditions under which the leader.
of the Liberal Parliamentary Party.
TO LAST.
of
Officers were able to overtake it On boarding, two packages opium were found on the motor Laat on which were the seven defendants. There was nobody on the sampan.
His Worship:--I understand the first defendant is one of your own men?
R. O. Powell:-Yes, your War- ship. I allege, that they had no intention of bringing the opium back to the office.
fore you came up? yone in the northerly direction be
His Worship:-How far had they'
London, Sept. 3. bas met the Prime Minister 19 Union Congress at Nottingham, in During his speech at the Trade consultation upon national que which be
was interrupted by tions, the Councilar-affirms the about thirty intre lers, apparently where from 150 to 200 yards R. O. Powell:-1 should say any- complete independence of the Communists, Mr. J. R. Clynes, the through the junk anchorage. Liberal Party and renews its in; Home Secretary, said Socialists sistence upon its maintenance, as a ould only be made by argument separate political entity and par, and example. It was in that liamentary force."-British Wice spirit that the Government had Continuing, the officer said that purred it course, and thes the first defendant was C.R.O. No.
A Second Search.
looked to the immediate future 62 and when the party boarded the and the remote time ahead with motor boat he told them so. He the knowledge that the things was asked if he had gone out with that were to last must be things the knowledge of any European officer, but the defendant replied of slow growth.
in the negative. All defendants were then taken to the Imports and Exports Office, where they were asked if there was any more opium on the boat. They denied the pre- sence of any further contraband, hut, on a second search, another 119 taels were found.
The Bromley Election.
London, Sept. 1. "Shock for Party Politicians, "Surprising Vote for Redwood "Fall of Conservative Majority," Referring to the Government's are the headings of the Evening intention of reversing the Trades Standard, the Beaverbrook organ. Disputes Act, Mr. Clynes said it which indicate the important
was the purpose of the present effect the Bromley result is likely. Government to give back to the to have on the general politica! Trade Unions the freedom of which they were deprived by the Parliamentary action of their The Evening Standard congratu- lates Lard Rothermere on the im- opponents.-British Wireless."
situation.
mense support he received in a consistently Tory division, where
His Worship: The fourth de- fendant, I understand, is the coxs- wain of the motor boat, the motor boat engaged by the first defen-
he had the courage and vision to WILL CARRIED OUT BY dant?
put the Empire Trade issue to the test.
Mr. Redwood, the Empire Trade candidate, interviewed after the poll said "we have lighted a fire that can never die out in this country."
Empire Traders Delighted.
mere
FATE.
VAN LEAR BLACK'S WISH FOR SEA BURIAL.
Baltimore, Sept. 3. Mr. Van Lear Black, who was drowned recently when he fell
R. O. Powell: All we want is what instructions he got from the other people-where he was going at the time.
His Worship:-Didn't he say where he was going? R.O. Powell:-Yes.
"Wild Statements."
charge him with possession?
His Worship: Then how can you
The Evening News, the Rother- overboard from his yacht, left organ, congratulates Mr. several millions. He bequeathed Redwood
R. O. Powell: He was in charge on his remarkable $100,000 to Miss Alice Bone, his achievement In
"one of the secretary in England. Miss Bone of the motor boat. We allege that sternest tasks ever undertaken by is the daughter of Mr. James Bonc, and they had been out before as a the whole party know each other a Parliamentary candidate." London editor of the Manchester
The Star, the Liberal mouthpiece, Guardian, who also benefits. The party. declares that the Empire Free residue of his estate is
His Worship: You must not divided make these wild statements which Trade party is so delighted with among his widow and children. Mr. Redwood's poll that they in- There is a curious, coincidence amount of prepared opium?..
cannot prove. What's the tend to fight all the official Con- in view of the fact that he was
R. O. Powell:-834 taels of pre- servative candidates in future bye- drowned, his will directing that he pared oplum and 36 taels of
should be buried at sea.-Reuter's Persian raw opium, Americon Service.
elections.
The Rt. Hon. Mr. Neville Cham- berlain, Chairman of the Conser- vative Party, telegraphed Mr.
you
Defendants Stories.
The charge was then put to the
E. T. Campbell congratulating SOUTH OF ENGLAND V. defendants, the first stating that
him on his "courage, steadfast- neas, and well-carned triumph,” adding "Bromley Conservatives demonstrated sound, good sense, as well as loyalty."—Reuter.
AUSTRALIA.
GOOD START MADE BY THE
ENGLISH TEAM...
The body of a Japanese, named
-London, Sept. 3.
he had been chasing the sampan and had seized the opium during the course of his duties, The
little doubt that Costes will proceed Whyte Smith at the Kowloon ed the fabric and there is now session came up before Mr. to Dallas to win the £5,000 prize. Magistracy this morning. Costes and Bellonte will be guests
Mr. L. R. Andrewes, Assistant of President Hoover at a luncheon Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, while on Monday.-Reuter's American
Senior Sanitary Inspector Taylor Service.
was the complainant. Paris, Sept. 3. Intense enthusiasm has been
aroused throughout the country by the feat of Costes and Bellonte. Provincial towns, like the capital,
INTERPORT LAWN BOWLS
AT SHANGHAI,
Weather May. Interfere With Today's Game.
S.R.C. TEAM CHOSEN..
Shanghai, Sept. 4. The Interport lawn bowls teams from Hongkong and Hankow are down to play their first, ganie to Jay, when they meet the Shanghai Re- creation Club.
Some rain fell yesterday, and it does not seem partícu-. larly likely that to-day's fixe ture will take place. How- over,,there is often room for optimism in regard to' Shang- hai's weather. "In any event. it is hoped the visitors will have the opportunity for some į. practicé.
The rink chosen to re present Shanghai Recreation Club against Hongkong is as follows:-Messrs. T. G. Main (skip), S. Shirvington, A. J. Brown, and W, T. Manley,
The Hongkong team is stay- ing at the Palace Hotel- Our Own Correspondent,
of
salute it are betlagged and seventeen guns was fired at Vichy. Costes has been promoted to rank of Major and Bellonte been given a commission.--Reuter.
the has
The defendants wore
RESISTANCE /
FORT
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tire of Bagged Strength
LOCAL BRANCH.
SILVER OR GOLD LOANZ
U.S. BANKERS DISAGREE ON CHINA PROBLEM.
CONCESSION ISSUE.
Padder Bldg.
HOME FOOTBALL RESULTS,
BLACKPOOL'S WIN AT
MANCHESTER.
NORTHAMPTON LEAD IN THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
San Francisco, Aug. 29. Opinions of financiers concern- ing financial aid for China differ) widely, it was indicated to-day at hearings of Senator Key Pittman's THAMES LÖSE AGAIN. committee on problems of China trade.
The home football teams are Some favour a gold loan and rapidly getting into their stride others believe that a large silver following the opening of the sea- credit would be most, serviceable. son last Saturday and the ma.. Mr. C. Wilson, San Francisco jority of teams have now played advocated silver loans. He also banker, told the committee that he a mid-week fixture.
supported the return to a policy of First Division, paid a successful Blackpool, newcomers to the foreign concessions, rather than a visit to Manchester City's ground drift in the other direction, unless yesterday where they won by four early measures were taken to re-goals to two. On Saturday, they stare order.
lost at home to the Arsenal. Sun- Fears were expressed by, Mr. derland took a point from Shef- Lei Wu, Lee Sui-fai, Ho Leung and Ho Sit. Wilson that Japan and Soviet field, while Chelsea, the other pro The second defendant was not pre- Russia might assist China to gain moted team, failed at Newcastle. sent in Court, but his nephew ap-wide control.
on Reading lost their own. peared on his behalf.
He said that he believed China' ground to Oldham in the Second preferred to borrow from the Division, but in the other four United States Government instead games the home team won. of from private banks, and he Northampton are going strongly urged that money obtained by such in the Southern Section of the orrowing be employed to build Third Division. They have play roads and to disband armies ined two matches away from home China.
Mr. Andrewes,. outlining the facts of the case; said he would first deal with the charge against the Lei Wu. On July 17, Inspector Taylor went to No. 16. Reclamation Street, third floor, and found a boy in charge of the floor and a large quantity of tins of sardines there. He noticed that the tins were blown and distended out of their proper shape, and, regarding the circumstances from a health point of view, he informed the Medical Officer.
Tins Re-Soldered.
of
BRITISH ASSOCIATION
MEETING.
WOMEN TO LECTURE ON PSYCHOLOGY.
and have won both. Notta. County, who were relegated from the Second Division at the end of last season, have also won both their opening engagements.
Results of the matches played Reuter yesterday, as, cabled by are given below:
First Division
4 Leeds
2 Blackpool
3 Manchester U.
Chelsea
1
3
Sunderland
Second Division..
2 Port Vale
2 Plymouth
3. Cardiff
2 Preston N.E..
Oldham
Third Division (South).
The Medical Officer arrived and
Derby with Inspector Taylor made an
Manchester C. examination of the floor and they
Landon, Sept. 3.
Middlesbro' found in all 3,200 tins of "Sca" Three thousand scientists, in- Newcastle brand sardines, all more or less in a cluding representatives of most Sheffield U. blown condition and smelling offen- of the Universities of the Domi- sively. They also found a certain nions, United States and the Con-
they tinent, gathered at Bristol for the Bradford C. quantity of equipment and were informed that the boy was opening of the hundredth annual Bristol C. crigaged to puncture the blown tins meeting of the British Association Bury so as to free the poisonous gases for the advancement of science Everton inside and then, by means under the Presidency of Professor Reading wooden blocks, the blown tina F. O. Bower. were pressed into their proper Besides questions which' are shape again, re-soldered, cleaned purely scientific, the agenda in- Bournemouth
Brentford and re-laid, so as to give the ap-cludes many topics of popular in-
Brighton pearance of perfectly normal tins. trest such as town planning and Exeter
Inspector Taylor then
housing schemes.
Gillingham quired 3.3 to who rented
Not the least notable feature is Notts. County the premises and as a result they that thirty women will address Swindon visited a grocery shop in No. 38. the gathering, appealing mainly Torquay Reclamation Street, by the nume to the younger generation. The Watford of Chung Tai. The Inspector took psychology section in this the boy there and found that Lee hexion is likely to prove most in Sui-fai was in charge of the shop teresting with lectures on "Varin- Wrexham and questioned him.
tions in Emotional Development of Normal Adolescence" and Ado- lescence of the Young Wave Ear- West Ham
Arsenal thener!
Allegation of Lies.
con-
2. Queen's P.R.
Northampton
1
Southend
Luton
1 Bristol R.
4 Thames
4 Walsall
3. Crystal Pal.
Third
2 Norwich
Division. (North).
3 York
First Division Table.
It is announced that Codof, a Later on in the day,
visited the shop Professor Bower's presidential Aston Villa
Derby friend of Costes, will fly the Inspector
when again, and saw Lei Wu, Lae address dealt with size and form |
Leicester "Question Mark" to Paris
The Inspe in plants.-Reuter. the flights to Dallas and Washing- first defendant. ton have been completed.
Costes and Bellonte had a tumul tuous welcome. The air was full of planes, and a crowd of 25,000 sur- rounded the tired airmen, slap- ping their backs and shaking their hands..
French.
tor asked Lei Wu whether he knew anything of the tins of sar- dines, and the defendant denied all knowledge of them: Ho Sit, however, was also in the shop, and, hearing the conversation, he advised Lei Wu not to tell lies.
DEATH OF MAJOR CAMPBELL..
UNLIKELY THAT AN INQUEST
WILL BE HELD.
London, Sept. 3.
Portsmouth
Birraingham Sunderland
Bolton...
Newcastle Cheleex Blackpool Middlesbro
Wednesday
Liverpool
Huddersfield
.2 2
Grimsby... Manchester. C. 2 Sheffield U....
They were rescued by two Lei Wu then admitted that he mechanics, who carried them pick-had rented the premises at No. 16) a-back to the hangar, where they and that the boy was a foki be- briefly broadcast, speaking in longing to the Chung Tai grocery
shop.
It has not yet been decided to Leeds Costes related how they struck Ho Sit was being charged with hold an inquest on Major Duncan, Manchester U28 dirty weather after passing Ireland, having been in possession of 1,180 Campbell, formerly of Shanghai. Blackburn
0 0.2 and were forced to fly higher than tins of sardines on July 18, at who was found unconscious on the they wished. Later, they descend- No. 985, Canton Road. There was seafront at Folkestone and died ed to a low pressure area, and also another charge against him of later. It is unlikely that there will Tottenham found a tall wind, but subsequent having been in possession of 12 be an inquest, as the Coroner, who West Brom. ly the weather worsened.
tins of sardines at 32, Shantungis awaiting the result of the past Costes and Bellonte will fly to Street. Ho Leung was also being mortem examination, is almost Dallas, Texas, on September 4, charged with the
.
Second Division Table.
Bury
Oldham
Wolver
and thus qualify for the £5,000 the same 12 tins also at Shantung natural causes.
possession of satisfied that death was due to Bradford C. prize recently offered by the mil- Street. lionaire, Colonel W. E. Easter- wood.-Rester's American Service.
Washington, Sept. 3.. President Hoover las telegraphed to President Domergue:
"Fránce hins
established
寫
glorious record. I hope that in the future many other of your citizens will come to us in this manner."ya Reuter's American Service.
ERICSSON HOLDINGS
:
SOLD.
second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh defendants all said they had acted as informers to the frat FURTHER PURCHASES BY
defendant.
1:
His Worship:Five' Informers Don't tell such
I: Kuta, who was reported to the The match started at Folkestone for one catch! Police at 11 o'clock yesterday mor- to-day between a South of Englies. What's the good of lying ning as being missing, was found land eleven and the Australians, like that? floating in the harbour of the England batting first and carrying The fourth defendant, for whom Taimahtaui Pier last night and re- their score to, 249 for five wickets Mr. Lo applied for small ball, moved to the public mortuary.before play ended for the day. was granted ball in the sum of The feet were tied together with a Hammond scored 54 and Wyatt, | $250.-/ small towel and it is suspected captain of the last Test team, 51, The case was adjourned till that the man committed suicide.
Monday morning.
Reuter,
1,180 More Tins.
In connexion with this case, Ins- pector Taylor, in the course of his duties at Canton Road, near the
Everton Major Campbell, before going to Stoke Folkestone, consulted a London Preston N.E. specialist who anticipated the pos- Swansea sibility of sudden
iness. Reuter.
RAPID SALVAGE ON THE EGYPT.
CAPTAIN'S CABIN AND THE SALOON ENTERED.
.2 0.
2 0 0
Port Vale Barnsley Bristol C. Notis, Forest Bradford
Southampton
2. 3.5
Cardin
2 26
Charlton
0.2.2
Millwall
Reading
Burnley
Southern Section Table.
vicinity of No. 985, had his atten- tion attracted by a very offensive smell. He went to No. 985 and- made inquiries and a boy came out of No. 22 Shantung Street with a key and opened the door of No. 985. The Inspector walked in and found the premises uninhabited. In the backyard he found a large quantity of sardine tins, altogether 1,180. He seized them and had
Northampton Brest, Sept. 3. them subsequently destroyed, to-
Notts County. Salvage work on the P. and O; gether with the 3,200 tins in the liner Egypt is proceeding more Exeter
Swindon first seizure.
anticipated, Torquay rapidly than was Stockholm, Sept. 3. The Inspector then suspected thanks to calm weather. Divers Fulham has sold his large hold at 32, Shantung Street and ac- from where the safe will be secur- Walsall The manager of the Ericsson that there must be some more tins have entered the captain's cabin, | Queen's inga in Ericssons to the Kreuger cordingly went there and founded, and also the dining, saloon, New Port interests who had already a con- that it was a grocery shop. He where there are quantities of sil- Crystal Pal Gillingham siderable interest in Ericsson. went inside and saw Ho Leung in ver
Southend The chairman and managing direc. charge whether spector asked Ho If the weather holds the divers Bournemouth tor of Ericsson have been replaced Leung whether he had any tins will soon reach the third deck and Enton **** by Kreuger men-Reuter.
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THE KREUGER INTERESTS.
2 0.0 8 2006
·250 0.8 4 21 10 2 1
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