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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1930.
"GAY PAREE”
Staring
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POLICE RAIDS IN BOMBAY.
RESIDENCES OF AMERICANS SEARCHED.
ANOTHER MAIDEN
SESSIONS...
MR. JUSTICE WOOD GIVEN WHITE GLOVES.
POLICE COMMENDED,
Following on the record in the criminal history of the Colony in 1928, when there were two maiden Criminal Sessions calendars within six months, a further record has been created this year by the oc- currence of two successive maiden calendars, an event which Mr. Justice J. R. Wood described this morning as unique.
TROOP MOVES IN CRICKET AVERAGES
SHANTUNG.
BUFFER ZONE "IDEA PROGRESSING.
MANCHURIA LEADERS CONFER
ON SITUATION.
DEFENCE OF PEKING.
COMPLETE.
SUTCLIFFE REMAINS BEST OF BATSMEN.,
PARKER'S BOWLING.
London, Sept. 17. First-class cricket has now ended with the Rest of England defeating Lancashire, the Cham- pions.
The revised averages show that Sutcliffo retains top position among the batsmen, his average being 64.22 runa. Sandham drops from fourth place to seventh, whilst Hobbs moves slightly up.
Of the bowlers, Parker retains premier position, having captured 179 wickets at an average of 12.84-a splendid performance. Dick Tyldesley's average Is slightly lower than when the last figures were compiled, but he still remains in third place.
Shanghai, Sept. 17. Following the announcement concerning the possibilities of The first occasion when white the formation of a neutral zone gloves were presented to the Chief in Shantung by a group of three
Nationalist Justice, a time-honoured custom influential.
and to mark a lack of criminal cases, Northern Generals, troop move was in November, 1904, and ten ments in Shantung Province are years elapsed before the ceremony being keenly watched by all was again performed in June, 1914. It was not until another observers and in this connexion 14 years had gone by that there it is understood that the forces was another maiden calendar, in of General Shih Yu-san are The completed averages are as March, 1928, and a record was moving towards Northern Shan- set up when there were no cases tung, indicative of a desire to for the September Session of the strengthen the defences on the
Shantung-Chihli frontier..
Bame year.
Sir Joseph Kemp was the re- cipient of white gloves last month, prior to his departure on leave, and the ceremony was again per- formed this morning as there were again no cases down for trial.
After Mr. Justice Wood had taken his sent, he was asked by Mr. C. D. Melbourne to accept a nair of white golves to mark the maiden calendar,
follows:
Ins
Sutelle 41 Duleepsinhil
Parker
Batting.
2.011
Aver 64.22
FLS. N.O. 173 2465 333 2 49.69
..43 ..43 1.961
Dot out.
211* .50 2.200 204
2.084 218
2.178
Bowlag.
52.72
49.89
31,40
31.20
R
48.82
€9.40
49.14
50.58
0. M. R. W. Aver 1,0163 301 2.299 179 1286 408 154 TEB 04 12.42
.1.052.1 352 2.263 140 18,16
G07
120 1888 8 16.20 401 4,426 -204 16.75
617
229 1.278 71-18.00
1.102
311 2526 138 18.30
871
343 2,463 133 18.44
740
278 1,262 43 15:55
1.251
456 3,531 123 18.00
Hammond to Sandham The troop movement seem
Oktrayd
..sa 1,285 164*
145 .42 2.103 confirm in part the reported Hobbe
E. Tyldesley.47 1.904 95£• establishment of a buffer zone.
Whoa!l 6.47 2,174 248 this withdrawal
.48 for Ducat With
Leyland .60 Northern Shantung, the northern! Shantung, the northern bank of the Yellow River has now been cleared of the Shih Yu-san forces. Vertly
General, Han Fu-chu is another Tyldesley
Larwood commander of the Shantung Freeman troaps reported to be one of the Young (Somerset)
Mitchell (Derby) His Lordship thanked Mr. Mel- three directors of the Shantung Prebles bourne for the presentation
no Rhodes of movement. He has issued
Walto the gloves and remarked that denial concerning the rumours and from his perusal of the records he is spending his time in had found it was a unique occa-solidating his position in the sion in the criminal history of the capital of Shantung. Colony, inasmuch as there was a maiden Sessions calendar fast month and another one in the present month. He commented on the vigilance and good work done by the Police, which had contri- buted largely towards such a satisfactory result.
MR. TANG SHAO-YI DEPARTS.
AGAIN DENIES POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
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London, Sept. 17.
Rest of England won by ten wickets in the match against Lancashire, the Champion County,
Lancashire, taking first knock, scored 116 runs, Jupp securing siz wickets for 28 runs, and in the second innings obtained 100 runs.
The Rest of England amassed a total of 263 in the first innings and 43 runs for no wicket in the second.--
Reuter
Manchurian Issue After further postponement, the Manchurian conference, which was full of possibilities, was formally opened this morning. Details and results of the day's sitting have not been disclosed, but from a Mukden source it is known that the Manchurian leaders likely to remain | ACCUSED OF ENTERING neutral, inclining, 'however, towards loyalty to the Nanking Government.
are
The Manchurian commanders will refrain from interfering in milltary activities outside Man- churia, provided that the Nan- de-king-Shansi war will not involve
Peking or Tientsin.
Among the passengers who parted this morning for Shanghai on the Asama Maru was Mr. Tang.
Peking Precautions.
STORE.
EVIDENCE WHICH WAS NOT
STRONG ENOUGH.
A Chinese was charged before) Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with having broken into a store at No.
Shao-vi, the veteran Chinese The Peking Government is pay-13, Castle Peak Road, Cheung Sha diplomat and former Premier of the Republican Government at ing the greatest attention to the Wan, with intent to commit a Peking. Travelling with his Manchurian conclave and has felony. family, the erstwhile Premier is summoned a meeting of local
Ka,
Sergeant Baker said the com-
returning to his Shanghai resi-newspapermen, warning them of plainant heard a noise about 10 dence after an extensive trip to the need for serious care in publi- p.m. on September 16th as if some Tong Ka Wan, his native district cation of war and political news,thing had been broken. He went in Kwangtung, where he has de- The spokesman of the Govern-out and found that the lock of the voted much of his time and experiment said the Shansi Garrison shed, which was used as a store, ence in studying the possibilities Command would suppress any of was broken and the defendant
which the journale
published standing near by. The complain- of developing a free port at Tong news about the war and the ant chased the defendant and Peking Government other than caught him. Nothing was found That the former Premier is de-information issued by the Govern- on the defendant and he did not termined to refrain from becomment and Garrison Command. actually enter the shed, though he ing involved in the turmoil of Peking newspapers state that had broken the lock with the in- Chinese politics was again con- the Superintendent of the Peking-tention of doing so. veyed by a statement made to Mukden Railway has ordered the The complainant said he did not local newspaper men before his concentration of all rolling stock see the defendant actually break departure, to the effect that he at Mukden, Kanchow and Shan- the lock, but he saw him standing was looking for tranquillity in haikwan Pass. The same near the door.
Shanghai. He added that all journals explain that the seizure Defendant said he did not touch rumours of his departing from the is in connexion with a Manchurian the lock, nor did he try to open peaceful life of a retired politician determination to mobilise for the door. He was leaning against
to assume the role of peace-maker Peking. The rumour remains to the door taking shelter from the between the Peking and Nanking be confirmed. Governments were entirely groundless.
Attack on Kaffeng. Mr. Tang Shao-yi also denied
Resumption of warfare is having an interview with Madame reported at Kaifeng, the capital Wang Ching-wei while in Hong of Honan, which forms the Kuo- kong. In this connexion it la in- minchun stronghold along the teresting to note that Chinese Lung-Hai Railway. The Nation- telegrams from Peking and Shang-alist forces have been instructed hai state that the former Premier to renew active bombardment was interviewed here by Madame against Kaifeng. Wang Ching-wel, wife of the Kuomintang Leftist leader.
COUNTERFEIT NOTES AND COIN.
CHINESE SENT TO PRISON FOR POSSESSION.
The Kuominchun troops in the
rain, when the complainant with five other men rushed out of the house and assaulted him
The defendant was discharged.
POLICE INSPECTOR ACCUSED.
(Continued from Page-1.)" vicinity of Kaifeng are retreating Cheong Lonng should come forward towards Western Honan, and Nan- to say that he was present through- | king sources state that the Kal-out and saw you assault him, would feng defence will not be main-you say he was an absolute Har? tained by the Kuominchun troopan
Sergeant Whelan:-I certainly The Nanking messages further would say that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang Questioned by his Wordship rẻ- la at Chengchow, and news has garding the interpreter, Sergeant leaked out from the Kuominchun Whelan said the latter might have Army: to the effect that the Kuo-seen an assault if one did take minchun forces may withdraw place.
from Honan and Shenai for Witness said he found no incri- Chibli in a final effort to combine minating articles in the three pieces with their allies the Shanal troops, taken from the Yue Cheong Loong for the defence of Peking and and, later, claimed by Lam Hing. Tientsin.
HONGKONG EFFORT
Two charges in respect of pos- session of counterfeit money were brought against a Chinese of Lower Lascar Row on his appear ance before Mr. Butters at the Central Police Court this morning.
The defendan,t who was repre-. sented by Mr. F. X. d'Almada, slejr., was accused of unlawful pos- session of nine $10 Hongkong notes and one $100 note, as well as a $10 note and a $1 note, of Bin-" gapore currency. The second NAVY LEAGUE SEPOY FUND charge alleged unlawful possession of six counterfeit coins of Chinese currency,
Nambiar, both of whom are ters of Mrs. Naidu, who is at the prevent time in Yeroda gaol.
APPRECIATED.
PRAISED.
It is understood that the raids were connected with an un- authorised news sheet publlabed In the city in defiance of the
The August number of The Navy, Viceroy's Ordinance. The police Bombay, Sept. 17.
seized papers, correspondence and
Mr. d'Almada entered a plea of the official organ of the Navy Lea cyclostyled leaflets and handbills guilty to both charges and in-gue, has an editorial comment on The Criminal Investigation De-in some of the places raided.
timated that the defendant's story the fund organised by the Hong partment has simultaneously raid-
The residences of two Ameri- was that the money had been given kong branch of the League in ald ed nine places in the city, includ- cans, N.. W. Kwelt and Harry him to carry. Under the air of the dependents of the officer Ing the offices of the Red Flag Somers, who had recently arrived cumstances, the defence left the and men of H. M. S. Sepoy who lost Union, the Young Worker's Unfor, In Bombay, In the fashionable case in his Worship's hands. their lives owing to the accidental the private residences of Miss Chat- Malabar Hill quarter of the city, The police produced a previous explosion of a depth charge on the topadhyaya, headmistress of the were also searched but nothing conviction for larceny against destroyer. A sum of £1,425 was Bombay Girls' School, and Mrs.)was seized in them-Reuter. the defendant, who was sentenced collected and sent Home, with spe
to five months hard labour on the cial instructions that $25 was to be Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY Brat chargé and fined $50 or a paid in cash immediately to the FRANKLIN, at 1 and 8. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria further month's imprisonment on widow or next-of-kin of each of
the victims. Hongkong.
the second,
Witness Called.
In view of the allegation made against him, Sergeant Whelan said he proposed to call a Chinese detective who was with him in the case.
This Detective when called, could only say that he was not pre- sent throughout the interview, but was in the office he could, however, was passing in and out. While he say that no assault took place.
The case adjourned at this point until to-morrow afternoon.
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