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INDIAN DRIVERS AT LAW.
LESSONS IN DRIVING AND SALES OF TYRES.
NEARLY THIRTY
STOWAWAYS.
THE SU!
RECORD NUMBER FOUND ON
SANG.
BIG COUNTER-CLAIM. NINETEEN SENTENCED
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1930.
EXECUTIONS BY THE SOVIET.
FORTY-EIGHT MEN DOOMED WITHOUT TRIAL.
ALLEGED PLOTTING.
Riga, Sept. 24. Two Indian motor-car drivers What is perhaps a record num- were involved in a lawsuit which ber for a stowaway charge was} The Ogpu officially announce case before Mr. that the execution has taken place, engaged the attention of the created in a Acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice Butters at the Kowloon Magistracy without trial, of 48 so-called food Wood) sitting in Summary Juris this morning when Detective Ser-specialists. alleging that they had dletion in the Supreme Court this grant Kellett charged 29 Chinese disorganised food supplies and with having stowed away on the conspired to create famine con- plaintif morning. The
ditions.-Reuter. Khallanda Khan, who claimed thes. Sui Sang from Singapore.
Reference to this allegation of sum of $125 from Kartar Singh in respect of the sale of five motor had tickets but these had
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car tyres. Karter Singh counter. claimed for $212, alleging the money to be due for training
drivers for plaintiff.
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall represented Khallanda Khan in both actions while Kartar Singh'conducted his
own case.
Giving evidence in the first action, plaintiff said he obtained the tyres from a friend of his named Wong and sold them to defendant. Wong was not in the tyre business but had asked plaintiff to find buyers for the tyres. He did not get commis- sion for selling them but he was responsible to Wong for payment. Plaintiff continued that Kartar Singh agreed to accept the tyres and had done so but he had not paid for them.
Cross-examined by defendant, plaintiff denial that he was paid $60.
tickets.
been
UNEMPLOYED MAN SENTENCED.
THREE CHARGES OF THEFT PROVED..
JEMMY POSSESSION..
TELEPHONE. WIRE THEFTS.
OFFICE BOY CAUTIONED AT KOWLOON.
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An unemployed Chinese, Tam "I had no intention of stealing Kam (32), appeared before Mr. H. the wire," pleaded Chân Wah, bể R. Butters at the Kowloon Magi-fore Mr. H. R. Butters at the Kow-
on three) stracy this morning charges of larceny and one of pos-loon Magistracy this morning. The session of an unlawful weapon pre- defendant was charged by Detec ferred against him by Sub-Inspec- tive Sergeant Naughton with the tor Elston.
theft of some scrap telephone wire The first charge related to the from the Hongkong Telephone Com- Ten of the defendants said they intentional disorganisation of the theft of three bangles, one mah stolen from them on board the food supplies in Soviet territories long set, one penknife and $1.30 Dany in Nathan Road on Septem- GLYN. & Co 's
Wing, of 6, Kai Yee Road, on The defendant further said that ship. The rest of the defendants was contained in the following in money from a widow, Shun ber 23,
a large lot of scrap lead cover pleaded guilty to not having message from Moscow on Septem- September 23,
ber 22:
The second charge related to the and wire was sold to the Hip Yick [An official communique relat-theft of $3.20 from Lau Sum, an marine dealers by the Company, Defective Sergeant Kellett in- formed the court that the defening to the discovery of a "counter-amali, at the G, Kai Yee Road.
and he seeing some odds and ends, revolutionary mischievous spying danta
found were
The third charge was also of which had apparently dropped out different parts of the ship. There organisation in connexion with the larceny, on September 21, of a wool. of the lot intended for the dealers, | supply to the population of meat, len blanket, the property of a gar-lying about in the store room, col- were altogether over 1,400 passen.
dener at 52, Cheung On Street. lected them, and tried to sell them. gers on the vessel. The defen-
The last charge was of posses- dants
A Chinese detective said he had were all given an oppor.
sion, at Sai Kung Road on Septem-arrested the defendant when he was tunity to pay their passage money,
|ber 23, of a jemmy for an unlaw-selling the wire to the Hip Yick but they all refused to do
ful purpose,
marine store. Defendant said he Some of them had money in their
The defendant pleaded guilty towas the storekeeper at the Tele- possession. but the others had no
the first three charges, but said phone Company and that he had get that in regard to the fourth, he the wire from the Company. He had picked the jemmy up in a side was taken to the Company and la- street about ten days ago. He did ter, after enquiries had been made, not intend to use it and in fact had the charge was preferred against the idea of throwing it away had him. he hint been arrested.
money at all.
hidden
in
So.
Giving a list of the defendants who had money on them the Police bad Sergeant said that N. 2 $12.50, No. 3 hnd $15.40, No. 5 had $144.71, No. 410 had $10. No. 11 had $. No. 20 had $18. No. 21 had $12, No. 22 had $4, No. 24 had 37. No. 25 had $7, No. 26 had $4, and No. 28 bad $7. The rest had no
money.
Addressing his Lordship, defen- dant said he rehased four tyres
Mr. Butters-Is this, the largest only, the price being $18 per tyre, making a total of $72. Or that batah you have had? amount he had paid $68, leaving Sergeant Kellett:-Yes. When balance of $12, this amountstowawaya are found they are having been settled between them always given the opportunity to in another secount under which | pay their passage money, and if] defendant had trained drivers for they refuse they are threatened plaintiff. As regards the fifth | with being reken ta'f'ourt. But in fyre, he did not buy it because it this case the Chief Officer could was sold to the driver of car Sant adopt that method, becausej 143.
they would have exceeded the num her that the vessel, could carry,
Plaintiff denied that his pupils were given lessons by defendant. remarking that he was a licensed driver himself and could have given any lessons needed.
Defendant Did you not have a quarrel with me in Chater Rond a few days before this action?- No, but I asked you for payment of this account and you said you were not going to pay so I said! would go to Court.
Plaintiff denied that on that occasion he said he had already been paid but as no receipts had been given he could claim the money again.
Replying to his Lordship, pigin tiff said that he paid Wong be cause if he had not done so Wong would have sued him.
Telling his story in the witness box, Kartar Singh agreed that live
documents were receipts in respect of five tyres.
His Lordship:-Why did you sign for five tyres when you have sald you only bought four?-Be- cause the owner of car No. 143 was not present. I received it for him and was asked to hand it over to him.
Is the owner of that car here? He is not in Court but I think he is in Chatur Road.
Defendant's Version.
Defendant explained he did not obtain receipts from plaintiff be- cause he was told by plaintiff that he would give receipts to Wong. With regard to the $12 owing, he taught four of plaintiff's men to drive a car and that amount was taken into consideration for money owing to him by plaintiff under that account.
RESIGNS.
Mr. Nicolas Roosevelt. after being appointed Vice- Governor of the Philippines has resigned the post to become U. S. Minister to Hungary.
The Chief Oflicer, Mr. S. Scho- field, said the defendants all came From Singapore. Probably they could not find work there, owing to the trade depression. Thore were altogether 1,145 deck passén-; gers. The passengers, usually bought. their tickets from the slice on shore, but if a person ash, tinned goods and vegetables," arrived late his passage money says that seventeen members have would be on accepted an board the ship. The defendants were all ained. in conjunction with foreign admitted that the organisation discovered
yesterday morning
capitalists, at making the supply
when the passengers were counted system miscarry. thus creating a and all the tickets bought
famine, hoping that the discon-
Mr. Hatl, Engineer in charge Sub-Inspector Elston said the at the Telephone Company, said defendant was arrested when he that the defendant was an office tried to sell the blanket. The pro-coolic and had nothing to do with perty which the defendant had the wires. The Company was sell- stolen amounted to $85.50.
ing some scrap wire to a marine store and probably the lot which the defendant possessed had drop- ped in the street. The defendant had been employed by the Company for three years.
In reply to Mr. Butters; defendant said he came from Strun Tak about 20 years ago.
Mr. Butters imposed sentenes of tour months' imprisonment on the first charge, two on the second, and six weeks, each on the third and fourth, the sentences to run con.. currently.
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The defendant was cautioned.
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MACHINE TO BE INSTALLED listener-in from another planet-
a not impossible person-cause for IN MAJESTIC THEATRE.
wonder. Whether this is a requisi- tion of the majority or the minor- In keeping with the developmentity, or whether it is one of those of the Peninsula, the management public concessions that so
often
of the Majestic Theatre has decided are merely what is believed to be to instal the first talkie machine in the general desire may be matter Kowloon. The apparatus at for question. anticipated that it will be ready. present being installed and it is
middle of October. to be put into opération at the
For those who prefer silent
A Friend in Need.'
shore accounted for. It was then tented masses would overthrow pictures, the management, it is new chairman is the arranging of
found that 19 of them had tickets and on a search made, ten more were found hiding in hosts, winches and other in- genious places.
former
but
What seems to be a desirable thought for the board under its
the dictatorship. The heads of understood, will retain their con-
programmes so that there should never be a time when a reasonably landowner. being the organisation were a former tract for the supply of the best of large minority of the people who
General,
Major- these films but "talkies" will be do not necessarily want to be do- Professor Riazantsev, shown more regularly than silent ing what, everyone else is doing, and the former Chief Editor of pictures. The present system of or thinking what everyone else is should lose his ticket in gambling? Industrial Gazette, M. Karatyguin. produced will be maintained
Mr. Butters: What if a man the pre-revolutionary Trade and securing the more prominent films thinking, can find a friend in need. Mr. Schofied:-The winner gets The majority of members are greater variety will be provided by through all right, but the loser former nobles and ex-officers under contracts being made with several
the Tsarist regime, and members other producing companies would be prosecuted.
of the constitutional democratic will be required to supply only the Menshevik parties. The organisa- best of their productions. tion was also connected with the The management are of 'the
a good deal more urgent than its White Guards. The Ogpu has opinion that the theatre is the best une merely to replace a jazz-band been entrusted with the investign-in the Colony for the reproduction or a gramophone for a merry party tion of its activities.]
of sound and with a machine who could easily supply their own similar to those installed at the
want in that matter. Queen's and Central Theatre they should obtain excellent results.
A fine of $25, or one month's imprisonment, was imposed on the defendants who pleaded guilty, and the others were
remanded until to-morrow..
MUKDEN POLICY
OUTLINED.
WOMAN OPIUM
DEALER.
.CONVICTED TO-DAY FOR POSSESSION.
were im-
A BOARD ROOM TRAGEDY.
FURIOUS BATTLE WITH REVOLVERS.
It is a paradoxical characteristic of the "wireless" that, whilst it is the most universal channel of ideas, who it is at the same time the most intimate. Indeed, its importance in this respect is from acme aspects
and
pro- Possibly a third London gramme would settle the problem as nearly as might be. As things are, the alternative between educa- tive or "high-brow events" Continued from Page 1)
the wholly unimaginative is a little direct. There is a minority that churiau Army has informed
lies between-people who enjoy Japanese correspondents that the
their Milton and Masefield without Manchurian Government will con- Fines totalling $800
the somewhat. cle- any need for mentary instruction occasionally tinue to remain firm as a "neu-posed by Mr. Lindsell, at the Cen-
offered with them, but for whom tral" The expedition to Pekingtral Magistracy this morning, on Noob Singh, a witness called by and Tientsin to bring pressure Queen's Road, Central, on charges a Chinese woman residing at 289,
Baltimore, Sept. 24. the eternal eleven o'clock resource Mr. Maxwell Byers, President of American jazz-tunes from Kartar Singh, said he was pre upon the warring factions, urging of being in possession of 15 tacks of the Western Maryland Rail Piccadilly or the May Fair leaves esent in Chater Road when the them to stop hostilities
quarrel occurred and confirmed the people from more suffering. prepared drug.
to save of raw opium and seven taels of the way, was found shot dead and a heart unsatisfied. that plaintiff said he could claim The Peking occupation was pre-
Mr. Dudley Gray, Vice President, "If everyone is supposed to go to that amount again as no receipts arranged with Marshal Yen Hai-together with a youth, was repre- pany's board
The defendant, who, appeared seriously wounded in the. Com-hed at eleven let the "Good Night. had been given to defendant,
room. Mr. Gray Everybody" be final and sincere. shan and consequently not a Shot sented by Mr. F. X. d'Almanda, jnr., died later.
To "hand over to a jazz-band is Cross-examined by Mr. Rendall was fired, and the Shanst forces who entered a plea of guilty to both; witness said the incident occurred
The two had been at logger-simply shirking work at the very on the eleventh or twelfth of the were able to preserve their powercounts on behalf of the woman, but heads for some time regarding time when quite a large minority!
not guilty for the man.
certain litigation in which the of serious people have a little lei- present month. Mr. Rendall even with the loss of Chibli.
R. O. Grimmitt accepted the plea Company was involved. The sure pointed out defendant had stated
for something really worth it occurred before, the issue of pover was a necessity, as it was and stated that the man had only argument developed into a furious listening to. the writ (September 2), to which never the intention of the Man-arrived from Macao the day previ- revolver fight in which five shots
ous to his arrest. The prosecution were fired. were satisfied that he had had
The preservation of the Shansi
witness replied in that case thechurian leaders to declare war parties must have had an earlier with the political factions now nothing to do with the opium. quarrel at which he was not pre- ruling different parts of China. 'sent. He affirmed that he was pre- The Manchurian officer con-premises? sent on the eleventh
Baltimore, later.
At the inquest on the bodies of His Worship:-Are these dealers' Mr. Maxwell Byers and Mr. Dudley or twelfth cluded his statement adding that
Gray the jury came to the decision R. O. Crimmitt:-Without of September and heard the re the preservation
that Byers was shot dead by Gray of the Shansi doubt your Worship..
whe then mark passed by plaintiff.
committed suicidę.— forces, therefore, was forced by first charge and $300 on the second,
The woman was fined $500 on the Reuter'a American Service. His Lordship, after stating his circumstances which
the Mum- findings on the details of the
churian transaction, gave judgement for
Government could plaintiff for $30 and costs.
help, no matter how much the The counterclaim was then pro-desired developments be other- Nanking Government would have coeded with. In this matter
wise. Kartar Singh said that defendant approached him and asked him to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the train four men as drivers, saying Commander-in Chief of the
not
the alternatives being six months'
BAND CONCERT FOR TO-NIGHT.
SOMERSET MUSICIANS AT WELLINGTON BARRACKS.
the
The band of the Ist Batin.
hard labour in all. The man was District Court to-day, when he Somerset Light Infantry is to discharged.
BRITISH CONSULATE
ROBBED.
CHINESE CLERK EMBEZZLES PASSPORT FEES.
gave details of how he had come give a concert at Wellington Bar- mitted the. thefts during his
employment over a period of 18 racks at 6.30 p.m. to-night, when
years.
↑
an
excellent programme will be Mr. P. A. North, Vice Consul, provided. Admission is free. The prosecuting, said that Woo had programme will be as follows: be would be responsible for pay Nationalist forces, will be return-
pocketed the passport fees instead 1. March Martial Moments, Winter. ment, Plaintiff agreed to training to Nanking towards the end
of handing them over and this 2. Selection-The Chocolate Soldier, three men for $70 each and
Strauss. one of the month, with the cessation
was discovered when Mr. C. H. 3. Overture.-Light Cavalry, Suppe. man for $100, making a total of of serious warfare along the prin-
Howard of the Hongkong and 4. Waltz, The Choristers, Phelps. $810. Plaintiff explained that the cipal railways. Marshal Chiang
Shanghai Bank caused inquiries 5. Selection.-Rio Rita, Ticrren. $100 man knew nothing about a car while the other had had some the Kuominchun and Shansi troops Rabingot office of the paid for his passport had not been 7. Two Frang
has issued a declaration urging
Shanghai, Sept. 24: to be made on the 16th Inst. when 6. Selection The Gondoliers, Woo Pah-sing, clerk anploy-he found that the money he had
Sullivan. experience, hence the difference to surrender, promising them equal British Consulate General, has recorded. in price. Defendant, he con- treatment and positions in the tinned, paid $98 cash on account. Army. The proclamation is in confessed to having embezzled leaving a balance of $212 which he ferpreted to mean that the Nanking approximately $3,000 belonging custody after having promised to 8. Two Dale Danece, was claiming,
Commander-in Chief is tired of the, was arraigned in the special Own Correspondent.
to the British Government. He refund the missing funds. Our 9. Selection of Songs, The case is proceeding.
prolonged warfare in the North.
10, The German Patrol,
Woo Pah-sing was remanded in
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