GIRL TRAFFICKER SENTENCED.
GETS TOTAL OF YEAR'S IMPRISONMENT.
HABITUAL TRADER.
cases
in
DUTCH BANK'S
PROGRESS.
SPACIOUS NEW OFFICES OPENED TO-DAY.
SPEECH BY CONSUL
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931.
YOURA GULLER'S TRIUMPH.
BRILLIANT PLAYING AT YESTERDAY'S RECITAL.
of
MURDER CHARGE
PREFERRED.
CUSTOMS CUTTER SEAMAN MISSING,
TWO BROTHERS HELD.
Po, brothers.
BONDED STORES
PROSECUTED.
PREMISES IN UNTIDY.
CONDITION.
NOMINAL FINES.
The censCER of four bonded
Des Voeux Road West, wore aum- liquor warehouses, at 298 to 302, moned by Mr. Tudd, of the Imports and Exports Office, before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning, the charges being that they failed to comply with certain regulations regarding the upkeep of the premises.
Little did the audience realing when Youra Guller started her piano recital yesterday that there was in store for them such, musical revelation, auch แ Wa Chi-lam, convicted as a tra- The Increasing advance made in
The disappearance of a seaman performance by [1 Meker in girls, was sentenced by the business life of Hongkong y marvellous
cutter while left in charge of Mr. Schofield at the Central Magis the Nederlandsch Indische ins- pianist of the first rank. In the belonging to n Chinese Customs
two numbers (eighteenth- tracy this morning to a total of adelsbunk N. V., was exemplified first
Ruspected junk in Chinese waters year's hard labour.
this morning. when the official century Sonatas by Antonio Soler off Pingchu on December 31 inst and anul Albeniz), the pianist gave has exelted suspicions of foul play. The penalty infileted was in res-opening of the firm's new
two different
spacious premises in Itogal Build- little Inkling of the tone-power The matter has engaged the atten- pret of which he is shown as having taken lug, which is part of the old and virtuosity at her command. tion of the Hongkong Police u
wn girls from
for King Edward Hotel site, took place Deliency was the dominating note thorities by the arrest in the Colony the Colony
of two members of the junk's crew, the purpose of prostitution. in the presence of a large gather-ig rarely rose above a mezzo-
Mr. Todd said the premises warej In the first case, the evidence in dit bankers, brokers and clients, forte-and the ensy manner revendes that in February last, The ceremony, brief but very playing the pieces disguised their they being Chan Ching and Chan
visited on March 19 and 20 by The facts, as reported previous Chief Preventive Officer Bullock, after having Judiced Chan Yak-tai, happy, took the form of a recep dificulties, an 18-year-old giri, to live with tion, during which the success of In the Largo of Leonardo Vinei, ly, are that on December 31 last, when it was found that the licen him on a promise of marriage, he the Bank WALM enthusiastically and Ph. Emm. Bach's Andante, we junk was intercepted off Phugchau aces were not complying with cer- Customs cutter thin of the regulations, ns, for in- took her to a town in Kwangel car tousted.
were at kept rather in the dark by the Chinese
On the alleged discovery stance, they had a large number of Kwang Chow Wan, where she was In proposing this tonst, Mr. M.
As to Mile, Guller's full capabill-Pak Tau.
of suspected anit, forced to practice an immoral calling. Quist (Consal for the Nether; ties; all that was best in her of a quantity
taken into empty bottles, heaps of sawdust, until the matter came to the antlerlands »ald! ---Mr. Badert und | 14%
board and packing cases and things like that, whilst in two cases, stocks of the District Magistrate and she gentlemen,We are attending the playing, the well-defined phrasing, one of the crew was was rescued by the police.
official opening of the new offices the wonderful range of tone custody and transferred
were as placed that access to them technique, were On her return to Hongkong, the of the Netherlands India Comitis, the beautifully finished the cutter. At the same time, a apparent only reaman from the cutter, named Li
WAG to the
made difficult. They could girl reported the matter to the mercial Bank to-day, and, as it is when her first group calminated in, was transferred over
not get at these stocks to chuck Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, customary to say a few words on Ja Fr. Bach's Concerts. The Junk to act as a guard, while the and Wu Chi-lam was arrested. such an occasion, I am pleased to audience realized by then that junk was released temporarily with them enally. Thirdly, the doors
While Investigations were still do ko,
they were listening to playin
The windows were supposed to, proceeding, a second complaint was
It is only a wook ago that i anitt
In this the process of interrogation,
The junk did not turn up at
have wire setting. In one case, n part of the world: they were In Line dated from the end of 1901: the presence of a master of the Shamun, and the Customs cutter window opening on to Des Voeux I can go one better in respect of keyboard and an exponent of the searching for it the following day Road had no wire netting, and it the Bank with which i had agreech school whose rendering ang found it at Pingchau, deserted by would be easy to pass goods through
wist the crew,
There was no sign at the bars, alle relations as early as 1998-9gested Harold Samuel or Harrist
Mr. Todd:- The the guard and the suspiclon was en- When a Consular enfet in Stugas Calen
am not pressing pore. Shipping requires the ser-nthusite increased with each gendered it he was overpowered the ease, it is only a technical vires and help of the Consul daily, moment that passed, and it was by the two members of the crew offence. I understand from the Superintendent that they have not se banking: it is rare oc
¡ rapt and respectful audience left susion when the Bank stands in
which settled down to listen to ved of me. is, officially and the Chopin group which came
There has so far been no trace privately, who need the flank.
next on the programme,
of the body of the missing seaman, Chopin's Ballade in F minor- one and in the ease in which they are of his biggest and
portle
charging Chun Ching and weary you with details about the worka--makes great demanda upon Po, on the capital charge.
than police authorities here are proceed- Bank. A few may suffire. The the imagination.
of the performer.ing without the production of the the technique, After hoaring the evidence in Bank is about 67 years of age. and it is not very often included in body. both case, which were
taken a big bank. as all you know.
Chief Detective Inspector Rey pressing the view that the ease and has Colonies alone, it hance that she possessed those very nalis to-day applied for a further kept in a tidy state, and while ad- i separately, Mr. Schofield, in exOriginally my meant for Holland Programmes. Miec, Guiler proved at was a serious one, with no evidence] gradunity established allers atalities of poetic feeling and ro-week's remand for futher investiga vising his clients to plead guilty, I
mnntricism which are essential to thons, and the case was adjourned he told them to see Mr. Todd after-
made by Laung Yuk-chan, 25 years that my conexions with the Javach has rarely been heard instructions to call at Shamun for and windows were not satisfactory.
f age, who identified Wu as the Individual who in September inst deceived her with a promine of marriage and subsequently enused her to be put on a vessel bound for Indo-Chinu.
On board, she continued. 1 met a man and a woman, complete strangers to her until then, who informed In that she had been sold to them. Under compulsion,
NIX
These Two, she practised prostitution in Angan far months before she found wherewithal Jo redeem herself
and to return to Honghorns.
Bank's Bistory.
Gentlemen, Ì nm not going to
of any honed occupation furnish- Singapore, Hongkong, in
Fal their
ՆԻԼ,
west
310 1
ed by the perused, convicted Wa Japan and India; the expansion ghod Chopin player, Chi-lum on three changes,
of the Bank the last 15 years or Inspector 1. Murphy, of the an has been phenomenal, Secretariat for Chine Affairs, I know this, namely that. tha: #gived that the acetond appeared | Bank Building at Amsterdam
bekind. ti possessed of his rifle, murdered and his body thrown overboard or otherwise disposed of
annntil next. Wednesday.
amazing technique equal to all the difficulties of the Ballade. The Inst three pages, however, would have been more satisfactory if they had been taken at a slightly les Sas hurried pace, which would have bviated a certain amount of blur-
19
tre b. babitundle edgaged now double the original size and
seducing girls and selling them that the offices in Messrs.
into prostitution. He was waist-anon's building here have proved ed by a woman who lived with too Amall. Commodious and ring
was still at spacious offices have been found tent and made their musicnt con- i
him. large,
The wemah
On a charge of harbouring the girl Chan Yak-tai. the erased received six months and labour, On each of two other charges. Pamely taking part in the sent ing of the two girls out of the titution, the accused received a further three months, making an - aggregate of twelve months*
imprisonment.
was a
clearer. The
Prelude in F
AN EXTRADITION PROBLEM.
CHINESE WANTED IN RANGOON.
A Chinese who is wanted
tthe alleged
little gem. In complete con- in the old King Edward Hotel, trast to thin and the Shady in F now baptised the Royal Building minor. Youra Guller ended, this I am ready to admit-1 hare this
with a brilliant rendering of tangoon for group ont good authority-that the Bank he talke in 4 Flut (Op. 34. No. 1), has been doing good business an the old building, but we hope that in which her range of tune-power was disclosed to the full: such Mr. Endert will succeed in stil virility from a woman pianist of ly the profits, of course-un the ply amazing. now premises.
il
been
warned several times but have not put their house in order.
Mr. M.K, Lo, for the licensees, remarkod that in the ordinary Course of things It was to be ex- Chanted that such things as were necessary for the storage of liquor should neesmulate there. and were more or less part of it, ile un- thorities required the place to be derstood, however, that the au-;
tira
#t
dis-
appearance of Rupees 75,000 from foreign firm there, appeared before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning, when return to Rangoon of his own free will, thereby waiving all extradi- tion formalities.
wards to ascertain what was re-i quired of them. That course would save the time of the Court.
His Worship imposed nominal) fine of $10 on all four summonses.
CROWN LAND SALE AT P.W.D.
KOWLOON LOTS SECURE GOOD PRICES.
Culoar for the purpose of pros- nercasing the business-especial-not very robust physique was sim-he expressed his readiness to Kowloon were disposed of at the
CANTON WAR ON FANTAN.
P.W.D.
of
Thren fols of Crown land i public land sale, at the yesterday afternom, when Kow- loon Inland Lot No. 2450. in Fai Your Galler confined herself to Happy Atmosphere,
modern Spanish works In her third The position created by this Yuen Street, consisting of about 18,410 square feet, with na upsel Gentlemen, I liked the atmos-group and here again proved the cholee was defined by Detective price of $12,218, was knocked phere in the old offices, but I hope adaptability of her interpretative Sub-Inspector Elston, who said down to Mr. Fung Pak at $44,200, that you, co-bankers, clients and faculties. It was evident that she that in effect the fugitive was a Kowloon Infant at No. 2451. brokers will enjoy the atmosphere had immersed herself in this type free man until the arrival of the situated at the junction of this office still better. The lat- of music and thoroughly enjoyed requisition. He wanted to know interest and Bute street, con self at any rate, as in 1914-1910 gracefulnes of the Dance of Grana- whether the Tugitive was willingsting of about 18,040 square feet, ter statement I can make Tor my-every har of it. Whether in the
to go back voluntarily now.
Or with an upset price of 1570, WAR good dos, the langerous lilt of Albeniz's wait until the arrival of the docu-sold to Mr. Fung Bak, for $47,200; on one or two occasions, whiskey and soda was dispensed Tenge, or the brilliance of the same
and New Kowloon Inland Lot No. to me in the exact spot in which composer's Triana, she caught in-
Appearing for what he describ-1447, in Shek Kip Mei Street, con- Mr. Endert has his private office stantly the mood of the music and The possibility of the CankBadert's courtesy, I am going to amidst all the delightful rubator in. C. Macnamara said there had feet, with an upset price of $18,- † By the Bank's and Mr. maintained a satisfying thythm as "the private prosecutor." Mr. sisting of about 12,150 square enjoy this cup of champagne on which it abounded. Perhaps the been considerable trouble in gel- 675, was knocked down to Mr. Lo the very spot of long ago; my only climax of her powers as a virtuoso ting hold of the fugitive, regret is that, when coming to Wats
SAID TO BE DISGRACE TO KUOMINTANG.
Canton. Apr. 7.
Government carrying out drastic
measures to check gambling activi. ties in Honan, the mainland opp
site Canton, eventually leading to
ILOW.
ments.
and Fat, at $34,700.
the auppression of all fantan houses morrow again, we shall only re-reached in the Dance of the argued that the man should not bei
A
Hent hack to Burma without JL Worshippers by Da Falia, in
He might escape AMATEUR DETECTIVE is conveyed in a recommendation ceive spiritual enjoyment of an- which piece it seemed sometimes as proper escort. Submitted to the Provincial Exern- other kind-business. But this though two pinnos were playing at at the first port of call.
The Magistate asked if it could
HAS A SURPRISE. tive Council by the Canton Kuomin- you all know, gentlemen, that we once; yet all the while her excen tang Department.
shall continue receiving a fair and tion was as clean and fnelle as it be arranged for the fugitive to be
at Singapore by a police RECOVERS OWN PROPERTY. The proposal says that the per- square deal at the hands of Mr. was--from the point of view of met
andoleer. -mitting of fantan gambling near Endert. I ask you, gentlemen, to outward brilliance-thrilling
Inspector Elston replied that An estate agent who ussumed the city is a disgrace to the Kun-join me in wishing the Bank all hair-raising.
fittle benefit would result From the role of A detective hnd mintang regime. It is explained possible success in the new pre-. At the conclusion of the recital, that, as police escort from pleasant surprise when he found that the Kwangtang Governmises.
Mile. Guller received an enthusias-lurma would have to go through that the stolen property he had ment permitted the opening of Mr. Endert (Manager), there fastan houses at a time when brief response, thanked Mr. Quist remained in their seats, determined mission from the Singapore police.ben George Usher (34).
tic reception from the audience who the formality of securing per recovered was his own.
The story was told at Maryle the Provincial Treasury was drain for his generous references to the to hear at any rate one encore be- ed by continual warfare
The fugitive was formally re- with Bank and also all their banking for their departure. they weremanded
of Plumbers-row, porter, for another week, friends, brokers and clients who rewarded by the performance of enable the police to consider the four months' hard labour for steal- Kwangsl
to Whitechapel, was sentenced to With the restoration of peace the had attended the function
that
Rosenthal's Papills, which was position.
F Nanking Government now deems morning to give the Bank
ing a raincoat from the car it possible
antriumph of delicacy and groer. Her to cancel the tikin encouraging start in its new home. masterly performance is all the
John Stoward Gardner, catate tuxalian even at the big sneri He could assure them that they more remarkable considering the fice of a colossal revenue, and the would continue to do their utmost feel that the pianist was suffering
agent, of Queen's-gardens. Bays- water. Kuomintang recommendation to give satisfaction to all concern- from a sprained ankle which made
geats that Kwangtung should make further sacrifice by doing away
With fantan.
COTTON MERGER
BREAKDOWN.
IMPERIAL BANK DECLINES NECESSARY LOAN.
Bombay, Apr. 7-
A proposed scheme for a mérger
of thirty-five cotton textile mills
und
with the Bank, and they looked the pedalling both awkward for a continuance of the happy re-painful. lationship which existed between not only them, their clients, but Your Guller may not be accus their brother bankers and the tomed to playing to such small brokers.
audiences as a piano recital nt- tracts in this Colony, but at my rate she may have the satisfaction of knowing that at no local plano recital within the writer's memory has an audience come away with such a feeling of satisfaction and genyine amazement. “ALLEGRO,”*
ARGENTINIAN GOLD DRAIN.
RESTRICTIVE MEASURES
REMOVED.
Buenos Aires. Apr. 7.
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caused by a blunt instrument rather than in a fall,
In reply to Mr. D'Almada, wit- ness said he did not think the wounds could have been caused by a fall. The injuries were not so serious as to justify her being ad- mitted into hospital. He occasion- At the Kowloon Magistracy thle ally came across children
MEDICAL EVIDENCE GIVEN IN COURT.
a
Detective,Hayward said that Mr. Gardner noticed Usher in Oxford-terrace, and became Bus- picious. He followed him to Praed-street, and there saw him go through the pockets of a rain cont he was wearing, take it off, and enter a second-hand clothe New York, Apr. 7.
shop. Ho entled a constable and Mr. Montagu Norman,
the then, to his surprise, discovered morning, before Mr. Hamilton, similar condition, Governor of the Bank of England, that the coat was his own. It medical evidence was heard in the Dr. K. Uttley said ho examined addressing American financiera in had been taken from his car. case in which a woman, Li Yat, the girl yesterday. Drs.Court cluding Mr. Andrew Mellon, the
is charged with having kept an and Smalley were also present Secretary to the Treasury Depart
and they had
arrived at ment, and Mr. Meyer, the Governor
unregistered mui-tani, and also unanimous conclusions. The girl of the Federal Reserve Bank, urged
with having ill-treated her and as-was small and l-nourished, and periodical conferences between the
The Royal Observatory reports saulted her on various dates be- had two extensive cuta heads of the Federal Reserve Bank that the anticyclone central over
Jon the skull, a septic finger and the central banka of Europe.
N.E.
China has strengthened tween July and March.
left on her
hand, The statement is reported in the slightly. Strong to fresh moon- Mr. Q. A., A. MacFadyen, of the a one-inch scar on her right leg New York Tintea, which also quotes
WEATHER REPORT.
at Bombay has been abandoned be- In order to facilitate foreign cause the Government of India exchange operations, the Govern- has refused to forgo entirely themont has decided to allow gold to three and a half per cent, stamp the value of three-eights of any M. LONGWONTH SUFFERING an unnamed participant in the soon along the NE const of China duty, which represented an outlay transaction to be deposited in preliminary to the merger of Argentinian Embassies abroad in £250,000.
enjoying a gold The Govorament of India offered
FROM PNEUMONIA.
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anted polley if American
Ea Bear.
abdomen. They were, all more and numerous small scars on her. than two months old, except the
S. C. A., prosecuted and Mr. Leo conference as saying that while and over the North China Sen.
D'Almada (srir} defended. periodic meetings would not have
Dr. A. H. Kwan said he examined septic finger, which was more effect, It would be a
recent. notifiable the girl, Li Yit-sim (12), on March injuries, he was of opinion that t. As regards the abdominal Last week's return of diseases shows four. CASES of the negotiators a rebate of half Hitherto, owing to the constant It is announced from Alken in
ignored conditions In
diphtheria, three of typhoid and two 22. She was very thin, palo and they wore the result of Chinese- drain the amount,
The scalp wounds of gold from the Argentine, South Carolina, that Mr. Nicholas foreign countries. The failure was also due to the restrictive measures have been Longworth, the Speaker of the The discussions at the meeting of smallpox, one of the latter being trembling and looked illnourished. treatment.
were due to being, struck by “ans fifty-one Inability of the mills to arrange imposed on gold movemonts. House of Representatives, in seri-wore of a general character, touch- deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis. She had wounds on the scalp, up instrument.
currency ouely 11], a loan of £7,500,000 with the Im- Recently, Argentinian
auffering froming broadly
of Yoaturday's roturn shows two cases of per left eye and back of left hand, Further hearing was adjourn American international finance and trade typhoid and one each of diphtheria which in his opinion, had boon for April 15. erial Bank of India to @nance the has improved considerably In the pneumonia.-Renter's
exchange markets-Renter.
Service.
Retter's American Service.
and puerperal fever, Amerger.-- Retitor.
upon matters
Imported." There FONG-