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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1930.
FLEET. EXERCISES IMPRESS.
EMPIRE DELEGATES SEE THE NAVY AT WORK.
MODERN GUN-FIRE"
while
London, Nov. 2.
STARTLING ARSON ALLEGATIONS.
PLOT
(Continued from Page 1)
or other and had been scattered about in heaps in various places in pots containing a certain amount of gasolene, all ready for burning Jun nicely.
Festoon of Shavings.
FIRST COLD SNAP OF THE YEAR.
MERCURY DROPS 18 DEGREES] IN FEW HOURS.
KEEN NORTH WINDS.
A temperature of 79 degrees at four o'clock on Saturday afternoon compared with a temperature of Go degrees at the same time yes- terday, while there was a differ ence of 23 degrees in the highest open-air temperature recorded on :
day. Saturday and the lowest yester
of
A cold snap over the week-end Yesterday's visit of the Imperial. The trail then went round two Conference delegates and Indian beds and ended up underneath one introduced winter to the Colony guests to the Atlantic Fleet took of them. It was carried up a ind- with startling suddenness, dull der which was festooned with weather and a keen north wind place in grey, stormy weather.
The visitors went to sea in shavings all ready to carry the fire causing the mercury to descend H.M.S. Nelson, flagship of Admiral up, through the hole in the room 18 degrees in a few hours! Sir Michael Hodges around which to the highly inflammable stuff. were about sixty ships, ranging Once alight there would be a mass from 35,000-ton battleships te of fames, taming and roaring like
a furnace in a few minutes. small auxiliary craft.
Mr. Fitzroy mentioned that the Flying-boats met the Nelson as she left Portland Harbour and stack had been examined and the she made a passage through total amount of ginseng was worth specially laid minefield, the para-about $3,500. Had it been of the vanes at her bow cleaving a way very finest quality the value might to safety.
mine-sweepers have run into thousands and thou- also took a share in the exercises, ands of dollars. There was also There followed manoeuvres by a certain amount of clothing worth large sea-going submarines and a well under $100, demonstration of the effect depth elargest The firing
It was a well-laid plan to do the
Company out shells of 1,950 pounds from the insurance Bfteen-inch guns of the batteships the money irrespective of
that damage
might have Barham, Malaya and Warspite, at the
long
illustrated accrued to surrounding property. the accuracy of modern gun-fire, The difficulty. continued Mr. for the target suffered sadly. Fitzroy, was that the man who had There was also a torpedo attack got the insurance was not in the by the 6th Destroyer Flotilla and Colony, being in Canton, and whe an attack on the wireless-control-ther he could identify any of the ed battleship Centurion.
defendants or not the Crown cauld
very
ringe,
ol of
A Well-Laid Plan.
of
The delegates expressed them not say. It was not known when he from Canton. selves greatly fascinated and in-enuld be got down pressed by the demonstration. There was evidence that the first British Wireless
defendant was the man who acted as the master, and ather witnesses would be called to say that he was known as the master and owner of the shop.
"THE MORNING AFTER."
Proceeding. M. Fitzroy said that when the trail was laid it must have STORY OF GENERAL
been done quite late. because cer- CROZIER'S "CONVERSION." ·
tain witnesses who were working Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier on the ground floor would say that has been much in the limelight for the things later found there had some years. His "A Brass Hat in not been on the floor when they left at 5 p.m. The carpenters on the No Man's Land" was an attack on the manners as well as the ground floor would also say that thods of the military thus equips packages had been delivered at the and shop on the Saturday afternoon of in Impressions
ed.
Now.
Recollections" (T. Werner Lauris, the fire.
Gasolene and Kerosene.
218. net) he extends his criticism and his blame to all sorts and cont ditions of me.
vocate.
Cooler conditions were,
main- course, overdue, the warm sum- tained the thermometer over the mery weather which had 80's for more than a week being un- seasonal. The normal mean mini- mum for this time of the year is 65 degrees and the normal mean maximum 74.3 degrees.
The Royal Observatory reported this morning that a strong anti- eyelone central to the north of the Yangtze Valley dominates the map. The local forecast is:-NE. winds, fresh: fair.
SOVIET TRADE WITH U. S.
£29,000,000 PURCHASES
CLAIMED.
New York, Oct. 1. The absence of diplomatic rela- tions has not prevented a large Russian trade
with the United States, according to the Amtorg Trading Corporation.
In its fiscal year ended yester day this official trade representa- tive of the Soviet announced that lars' (£35,100,000) worth of busi- it had transacted 177,000,000 dol- ness with the United States.
145,000,000 dollars Of this
represented pur
Two tins, one full of gasolene and the other of kerosene, containing | £29,000,000) This is his apologia pro vita a five American gallons or four Im-chases here, largely agricultural Like another apologia, it tells the perial galons, had been purchased and electrical machinery and cot- Po Tai Shop,ton, while the sales of Soviet pro- story of a conversion. General and carried to the Crozier is an ardent teetotal ad- which the first defendant had taken ducts in the United States amount- Nearly every ill, accord-over four days before the attempted to 32,000,000 dollara (£6,100,- ing to him, is due to alcohol. But had been made. The tins had been 000). Purchases increased 35 per it was not ever thus. Conversion taken there and one of them wrap-cent, over the preceding year, and rame in a Night-on a St. Patrick's Bed in paper was later removed by sales by 314 per cent. with fa- the third defendant. He was not vourable balance of 113,000,000! for the night, to be exart.
It was Canada, and the next seen to take it to any particular lollars. (£22,600,000) morning, as he puts it: "wake place, but an employee had seen United States. up with the most perfect headachehim taken it away.
An extraordinary fhet was that I have ever had to endure." He W 203
tranger to headaches the total amount retrieved by the For he writes in repentant mondpolice was four gallons, and the about "tippling"
in Strebl and Crown's explanation was that that was where the tin had been taken, ("eadmin T
eleting The Pointing to the packages of palm beadache" turned "perfect
abstainer. Here theeves which had been found on the "Brass Hat" book and much of this premises where the attempt was be- Jing made, Mr. Fitzroy said that i volume.
Though most of his life hasthey bore the name of the Po Tai firm, where they had obviously been spent in soldiering. the taken and then from there to Wing-per Soviet credit and thus natural Erigaslór has been many other lok Street. That would show that things-tea planter in Ceylon thte same people were carrying on
into
been
a!!
aim
farmer in Canada, a Hudson Bay the two businesses.
value.
Peter Bogdanov, chairman of that the the Amtorg Corporation, in face of repeated charges agency is mixing propaganda with was a purely business enterprise trade, insisted that the Amtore und had no intention of contract- because of these ing purchases political attacks. Ile again said. however, that attempts to place obstacles in the way of Soviet sales to this country would ham- ly reflect on purchases.
Ivy Lee, New York's "superi Press agent," who represents the trapper, a commercial agent in The evidence against the fourth Rockefeller interests in their re- Nigeria. But these "impressions defendant, beyond the fact that he lations with the Press, returning fare too egotistical to be of much was present, did not seem to be very from a visit to Moscow yesterday, strong to show that he had taken also again defended the Soviets, In his early life he wrote home any part in the attempt, beyond denying any studied attempts to from Nigeria: "1 am always get his employment. Mr. Fitzroyaccentuate depression through the ting myself into tangles," and the thought that as the evidence deve- dumping of wheat. words describe his whole career. loped perhaps the case against him He made many friends, but arous would not be supported, but he had ed more antagonisms. In this enough evidence against him to con-
ferring to the night of the fire. book, for instance,
to have been one man istinue the case at this stage.
The fire appeared called a rogue: another, told "an The fourth defendant had been started, but of course there were no absolute " for profit a third on the premises and was an em-witnesses who had seen it started. "started a robber-gang." And the ployee of the firm, and all the peo-Aflame was seen and somebody bud gallant soldier who thus hurls ple there appeared to have know-blown a police whistle. It was not Wholesale anathema is a frequent ledge of something that was going known whether the person engaged to blow a whistle had done so too speaker for the League of Nn-on. Of course there was also the tions.
fact that the first and second de early or whether it had been an out. fendants had gone to the Po Tai sider who had given the alarm. A Chinese had his bail of $5 and told the witness whom his estreated by Mr. Butters, at the Worship had already heard that the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. place was being burned down. when he failed to appear on
Alarm Too Early? charge of having played football The third defendant was suspect-1 In Austin Road to the annoyance ed to have been told to carry off the of the public.
bouks, continued Mr. Fitzroy, re-
Fortunately a policeman saw the flames and opened the door of the shop. The fire was in such a stage that a blanket thrown over it. soon smothered it.
The case is being continued this afternoon.
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