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Two moter-cars collided with a terrific crash, and one of them
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FOUNDED 1881 NO. 23,331
-·· + MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1931.
Settlement in Sight.
THE MORATORIUM OFFER.
FRENCH APPROACH TO GERMANY.
AIR OF OPTIMISM.
10-
Optimism now prevails garding the French altitude to President Houver's war debts moratorium offer and it is
Major Franco.
believed that a speedy agree- SECRET OF
main issue in
ment on the dispute will be reached.
Me. Andrew Mellon. the
of the US. secretary
Terasury: Department.
who
han been Aurion's chief representative in the negotiations in Paris, has despatched a report on the result
REVOLT
AT TABLADA.
REPUBLIC.
his discussions with the leading PLANS FOR SOVIET French Ministers to President immediately burst into flames.Hoover, in when hands it the wreckage rapidly being con- [resposes, verted into a raging inferno.
One of the victims was so burn-
ed as to be unidentifiable.
One of the dead men is believed to be an American tourist, his name being given as Milton Green
of New York,
his
Replies Ta-day.
NOW
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Prime
VIRTUAL ARREST OF MAJOR FRANCO.
CLOSING STAGES
OF YAUMATI. MURDER TRIAL.
Crown and Defence
Speeches.
THE EVIDENCE OF DR. UTTLEY.
The closing stages of the Yaunati murder trial were en- tered upon at the Criminal Sessions this morning. before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) when counsel made their final addresses.
Mr. Pitzroy, to the Crawn, urg- en the jury to accept the evidence and opinion of Dr. Utley as to the cause at rinath, while Mr. Jenkin, argued that the evidence had no weight at all.
To-day was the fifth of the trial concerns Wong Cheung, Watch Latios Wong Sik-cheong, who is charged with the murder of Kau Shuk at Vaunuti, on April 1,
Addressing the jury for the Crown, Mr. Fitzrny sold it was not a case where two medical men ex- pressed different opinions. They had only one doctor and one set of medical evidence in front of them. Cousel received this evidence, say-
The President's reply ought to be in the linnds of Mr. Mellon - fore the conversations sumed to-morrow (Monday).
M. Minister, through
Laval, the French)
the German BOMBING THREAT.ng that when Mr. Uttley made the Ambassier, has naked Berlin to give
that the Fra. (the amount tu
kasurance 4
Of the four injured victims, Three were women. The man who | 10,500,000,000 escaped with
Iffe in which Germany will benefit ander Japanese, Tokvickhire tomu, who Is a visitor to England bailing from Tokyo.--Beutere
Madrid. June 28. The dramatic developments
post morteat examination he had no doubt in his mind that death was flate to strangulation. At the end of a close cross-examination he held his mind.
the Hoover proposals) will beat Tablada have had a sequel the same opinion with no doubt in devoted strictly to economic ends. in the virtual arrest of Major and that there will be no more Franco, the famous airman and sabre-rattling in Germany.
M. Laval has also asked her the leader of a series of acrial
"LONG FIRM" FRAUD many sincerely to endeavor in
ALLEGED.
POLICE SEARCH FOR THREE MEN.
The police are looking for a m ber of men concerned, it is alleged. in a "long firmn" fraud. Recently. a firm was started at No. 21, G- man's Bazaar. its business usten- sibly being to deal în imports al esports, with electric goods as its special line of business.
Pon- of over
co-operate with France in the la terests of European peace.
The Garinan Reply to the French request is alga exported to-morrow. -Renter
revolts against the Monarchist
regime.
The arrest has not yet been Major effect as carried into Franen is lying ill in a sick-room, at the Republican Civil Guards have posted men on guarst, and it i eertain that he will be taken
recovered.
Not Natural Death,
To the suggestion that the man
136 PER ANNUM
B+E SINGLE COPY 19 CENTE
LOCAL BRANCH.
BUILT FOR THE
JOB!
Padder Bldg.
GLOUCESTER BUILDING PROGRESS. Exhibition
Gloucester Building, occupying one of the Colony's finest business Nites, is rapidly nearing completion, work having just commenced on the tower, the top of which is 186 feet from the ground. Several shops opened for business on the ground flour for the first time to-day.
Service Flats in
might have died of concussion, Dr. Uttley had said in that case the New
Building.
Fire Disaster.
Dutch Pavilion Destroyed.
Priceless Art Collections.
Immense Loss.
Paris, June, 28. The great French Colonial Exhibition near Paris was the scene to-day of a dia- astrous fire, which swept through the Dutch Pavilion and caused damage which is estimated at nearly fifty million francs.
Some of the most famous paintings in the world are be- lieved to have been engulfed in the flames, accounting for a great proportion of the heavy Josa.
The entire buildings of the Dutch Pavilion were destroyed in the fire, which was caused, it is believed, by a short circuit in the electric wiring:
Copy of Famous Pagoda.
FRENCH "RED" The Dutch Pavilion was a copy
GIVEN
STIFF SENTENCE.
remember READY AT END OF SINGAPORE TRIAL
ת!
THE YEAR.
CONCLUDED.
C
of the famous Sumatra Pagoda and for the purposes of the French Colonial Exhibition, it
contained a priceless art collec-
tion. The Pavilion was only recently officially opened by Queen”- Wilhelking-in person.
lungs would have collapsed, would at have been congested as in the present case.
The jury also had to that the conditions found the body would not have been present had the resin died a natural death. Would the jury be prepared to put Gloucester Building bids fair, 1 is officially stated that Major their own opinion before that of a to rank as Hongkong's finest FOREIGN OFFICE BAN Minister in
medical man, and say that the doc- 1 ranco's supporters-including tar was not capable of judging? business building.
pleted, it is anticipated, at the! sive block will be finally
POSEIDON RELIEF study as soum as he has
FUND.
TOTAL NOW EXCEEDS
$41,000.
EXONCIARANCSHAHIT NERETICSCAL
The new firm, opened under the style of the "Vao Chemg".
Now donations to ·The Navy tracted for the purchase
Longue Poseidon Fund up 1 noon from the to-day amounted to $604, or which $600 worth of goods Kwong Fook Electric Batteries | The British Legion contributed Company, of 320, Des Voeux fond West, and also twn lots of electric torches, valued altogether at over $1,100, from the Star Co., of 55, Canal Street West. The ponds were duly supplied, but whe Payment became due, during the week-end,
the "Ya i was discovered that Cheung" had moved out.
Three men are believed to have been concerned in the alleged fraud, and their whereabouts are at pre- seu being investigated.
JUSTICE FEETHAM'S
REPORT.
THIRD VOLUME EXPECTED ON WEDNESDAY.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, June 29, Volume II of Mr. Justice Feetham's Report is expected to be issued on Wednesday.
THE LAST WEEK.
The Navy League Poseidon Funt chesses
Saturday, Don't forget to send in contributin27.
Your
FOLIANT DIRIANYCOMBEZINGENIEROSTARIEMONETI RAMENSKEJAD
now
of eers from aerodrames all over
Medien Evidence.
Spain secured six hundred band Were they going to say that they grenades and a number of aerial know more than the doctors bombs from. the Government stores at Seville, on the pretext that they intended to make experi- ments therewith in Morocco.
Mr. Fitzroy agreed it would be impossible for another medical man to say. from the short notes Dr. Immediately the plans for the Uttley made, what did happen, or revolt were completed, Major offer any oliter upiaion. Was Prance announced that if his plans there, however, any diverse present were interfered with Seville would which could have caused the man's be bombed from the air, and that death? There was none, and he the Biers would
concentrate (counsel) would ask the jury to particularly upon the banks, Govern. ment offices, military barracks and accept the medical evidence given by a qualified doctor, and accept his opinion of strangulation the cause of death.
convents,
言語
The impres-
com-
sur-
EVADED.
of
The hitect of the building had tears in his eyes as he witness ad the calamity. Princess Juliana who is Crown Princess of Holland, the Dutch and the wife of Parls
visited the scene while the Bre was at. Its height and were visibly affected.
The fire spread with such rapidity that efforts to save the valuable. pictures and other objets d'art in the Pavilion were quickly frustrated.--Renter,
OIL FROM GOAL.
AFRICA.
end of the year; the final stages -H.K. CONNEXIONS. of construction being marked by
One the commencement of work on!
of the most startling the fifty-feet clock-tower
political trials in the history of mounting the main structure.
Over 4,700 tons of steel have Singapore was concluded lust been employed in the framework week with the conviction of and thousands of tons of cement Joseph Ducroux, a Frenchman and bricks in adorning the steel who came under the notice skeleton, some of the vertical stan- the British Foreign Office as BRITISH SCHEME 'IN SOUTH chona being required to support early as 1923 while in France, He was sentenced to eighteen a weight of 850 tons.
The Cupetown Burger, under- From pavement to the top of months' rigorous imprisonment.tands that British, interests are the tower, which will contain ar
In spite of a world-wide circular responsible for a scheme to build well as #1 huge water-tank as clock, it is 186 feet, while the main issued by the Foreign Office to factory at one of the coal-pro- prevent Durroux from getting a ducing centres in South Africa to structure is 135 feet high.
from manufacture oil from coal, adding passport, and particularly reaching India, he succeed in that capital of £2,000,000 sterling obtaining one under the assumed already guaranteed. In an interview with a represen-name of Serge Lefranc and left Investment France. He visited Shanghai and tative of the Land hud
The Government, however, had been
forewarned of the
Counsel went on to deal with the pro- gramme, and were able to nip the evidence of witnesses, concerning pint in the bud.
the fight and prisoner having put something round deceased's neck, Fact und reminded them prisoner said they bore no uninosity to each other and Crown witherker
they surmised,
The most sensational feature or the official revelations is that the revolt at Tablada aimed at the proclamation of Soviet Republic in Andalusia!
$500. The grand total is $41,182.67. We appeal for fur- ther subscriptions, in order that at least $50,000 may be raised, The latest list is as follows:
$500,00 British Legion
Martial law has been declared, well 25.00 and the situation is now 25.00 under control,
Mr. J. W. Mubaster
Mr. Ho Leung
Anonymous
26.00
Dr. R. E. Tottenham
25.00
R.C.S.
3.00
809.00
Total
re-
POST AND GATTY HELD UP.
:
This volume will contain commendations for carrying out of the proposals contained in Volume 11.
SASSOON BANK INTERESTS.
A TRANSFER TO HONGKONG.
GENERAL ELECTION.
Service Flats."
There is also an understanding that the Government favours the Europeans immediately.
said not what they saw but what Company, owners of the building,) Hongkong and arrived in Singa-schemo, which will employ 1,000
Public and Murder Triais.
Ducroux had been there only when his about three weeks
mezzanine and
The undertaking, says the Bur- will provide most of the
SUGAR REFINERY FOR SHANGHAI.
MILLION DOLLAR,
CAPITAL.
this morning, the Telegraph learned pore in April this year.
be that four upper floors are to entirely devoted to residential purposes,single rooms, each In associating himself with the with bathroom-the facility of a presence became known to the er Chief Justice's directions to the service restaurant being provided. Singapore Criminal Intelligence Union's needs of petrol and oil. Department and official brains The promoters are enthusiastic en jury at the close of the sitting on at the top.
were pitted against those of the the subject of tests made in Eng- A Few Minor Incidents.
land, which yielded satisfactory Friday-that hey were to refrain
ground . The
Frenchman.
Dueroux opened an resulta office at Winchester Ноиве, Meanwhile, the general election from discussing the matter with floors will be composed of shops
but anybody
themselves-Mr. and work-rooms, and the first, mee
Collyer Quay. In the heart of Already acknowledged 10,875.67 for the forten laves her pre con- Jenkin said he had fund tits the second and third foors will be let Singapore's business quarter, spe
throughout Spain, The cam-
it with the usual equip. .541,482.07 | puign has been generally peaceful murder case seemed to what the oat as offices.
Two gearless lifts-the first of ment. His sole employee was an hitherto, though minor incidents reading publie's appetite more
Any other Item of news. He the type to be installed in Hong-Indian peon who only worked until than have occurred in various places. continued that he had bees prae-hong-will serve the upper storeys 12 noon-about the time Ducroux
A Republican-Socialist majority
at the Bar for ove 20 at a speed of 450 feet a minute, left his office for lunch. la expected to be returned in thing
Mr. R. H. Onraet, Director of FIVE Madrid to-night, but the national years, in the course of which he more than five miles an hour.
had met people who formei con-
Shopping Centre.
Criminal Intelligoneo, engaged an results will not be tabulated for a clusions from what they read in
In Winchester House, | thuy or b. tr.
newspapers,
The shops on the Pedder Street cffce Newspaper reports, wore, of necesside of the building have been opposite to that of Ducreux and abridged and the only people occupied in the Inst two or three men were detailed to watch the sity. Madrid, Lator:
or will be occupied this movements and visitors. of the Qualified to give, a declalon were days.
Frenchman. Daily reports were The early election returns Indi-those who had been. in Court and week. Those on the Des Voeux ente that there wil be a Republican had seen the witnesses giving Road aide will be ready for occa- regularly received as well as in- oat the night at Habarovsk repair. Socialist coalition, such as that on evidence. During the cure only of putton on August 1 and the arcade formation from the sweepings sponsored by Mr. H. H. Kung, the ing the engine of their machine, which the Provisional Government the case, Mr, jenkin said he had shops on September 1. The rest from Ducroux's office. His letters Minister of Industry, and pro- the most of the building will be made avail- were intercepted and found to be minent sugar merchants from which they found had developed is based. These parties have won heard people make
dent .to soma being offietal figures extraordinary observations ha table from time to time as the year partly in French and partly in Cuba, le lu process of formation. the day though no
cipher, trouble.
Mr. Kung is representing the progresses, repairs are completed, but are available.
Messrs. Sunnet Frores, Colonial addresses in Shanghai and Hong-
to France Nanking Government, while the owing to adverse reports on the
Barcelona, June 29,
Doctor Criticised.
Dispensary, The Little Shop (from kong weather conditions in the Northern The Marela Party has won forty- Pacific. the aviators are awaiting two of fifty-three seats allotted to
With regard to Dr. Uttley, coun-Shanghai), Canadian National Enil. Ducroux claimed to be the travel- Cuban, merchants are known to be sugar corporations in their coun- signs of a clearance,
Catalonia in the new Cortes.
sel said that if he appeared to be ways and Madame Chiffon are oc-ling representative for a Paris representatives of one of biggest.
On the afternoon of June 1 the try. Immense enthusiasm has been h on the doctor, there would cupying, the Pedder Street shops: firm of hardware manufacturers.
Schmidt the Queen's Dispensary,
When established, the company. was set for a lightning and the stage shows throughout Charlie Republic Court they did not care who or Swalow Trading Company, will be round-up feltem, and a number of with a capacity of at lasat 1,000
Catalonia and personal of In and Co.,
of Frenchman, two open its refinery in Shanghai. may be proclaimed. Troubles are what a man was in private life or found in the Des feared..
practice. They were entitled to mises, and in the Arcades will be other Chinose suspects living in tons a month.
found Messrs. Hwamor and Com various parts of the town. Mr. with the highest degree of
STORM AND ENGINE TROUBLE.
Harbin. June 29.
Post and Gatty worked through-
THE
The airmen hope, nevertheless, to take off again some time during to-day-Router.
Government Victory.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, June 29. The Sassoon Banking Company has been incorporated under the Hongkong Companies Ordinance for the purpose of transferring the banking and. Anancial interests of Messrs E. D. Sassoon and Co., Ltd., that the Northern depression has turned either to Barcelona or to from Shanghai to Hongkong kimThe transfer will take effect as Hakodato. The depression. N.W. Five people have been killed
WEATHER REPORT.
The Royal Observatory reports
deepened and moved east to
their convictions.
pre-
and others
Shanghaj, June 28.
A big sugar refining company' A capital of $5,000,000,
Vore with
The airman Franco has not re-examine his conduct and opiniowany, the Jade Tree Inc., N.Onract himself burat into the Chinese Government -- and the?
Seville.
in
The contract Between the that the evidence and circum Lasarus, T. Nakao and Co., Eve, offices of Dueroux and his two Cuban merchants governing the stances warranted. He would put Caravan (curios), China Phono visitors, one a Hupch Chinese and formation of the company it to them later that Dr. Uttley's graph Company, and C. N. Brown the others returned political be signed in the course of the nex
few days
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