THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931.
MACAO DISASTER | AMERICAN FLIERS UNUSUAL SESSIONS SMART AMATEUR
AFTERMATH.
TO BE CHARGED.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF FORTIFIED ZONES.
'TRIBUTES TO GALLANT' HELPERS
CHINESE FUNERALS.
PUBLIC CLAMOUR.
(Our Own Correspondant.)
Maeno, Aug. 17.
Another act in the tragic hap-
Ponstruction has already begun.
•
INCIDENT.
JURY DISCHARGED AND REPLACED.
-JUDGE'S RULING.
A piracy trial at the Criminai.
· DETECTIVE.
HOW KIDNAPPERS WERE APPREHENDED.
TRIAL AT SESSIONS.
The exploits of a man to whom Tokyo, Aug. 14. Sessions this morning, before the | Mr. T, S. Whyte-Smith referred as The Rungo news agency was Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp), an amateur detective, were related informed by the procurator's was marked by a Komewhat unto jurors in the Supreme Court office to-day that Clyde Pang-usual
heard shortly after the Lindseli
kidnapping
The Telegraph's full 'reports of The questioning indicated that The explosion were much appre- the nvestigators believed that the sinted here and were eagerly rendiers' object in taking this photo by Mneno residents,
graphis might have been that of intending to sell the pictures of the fortifications if the pictures -,4*14、 * Ztu༢\l,
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Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, for the his part very effectively, declared Marcia Toren (Mozart), « Bourtw การก will be long in posed upon them was not indi-Crown, referred to the convictionMr. Whyte-Smith, and avomed to
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of another man in 'vonnexion with be a very useful member of
El Capitan March (Sousa), have been cut deeply into the face
Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa). Pangborn was questioned for the same offence in 1928, and it saciety.
Arthur Pryor's Band. 35805. of the city will take long to efface.
cine heurs and Hugh Herndon for was decided that this might pre- The charge against the accused Tripoll (D'Anna). It will be long before A correct (seven hours in separate rooms judice prisoner,
WEN that they had kidnapped Syncopation (Creatore), estimation can be made of the yesterday, after which they were
Yeang Yung-kan, a five-year-old Prisoner is Chan Sam. Who is child, on July 28. entire extent, the dainage su9- ordered not to leave Tokyo pendileged to have pirated a shing stealing the child but said the
Both denied tained by Marno. In the meaning a decision on their ease, under time, however, the work of repenty of grot
10at. with others unknown, off and led him away, not knowing Lan Tan Island, on January 29
They were 1927: to have assaulted and put had been stolen.
Mr. ia fear of thefrs lives Ng
undefended, while Lai and
Whyte- others, and to have stolen, with Smith conducted the Crown case. force and violence, the
The following jurymen were ship. sword: Mesars +lothing and
A. S. Abbott thes tackle. mariners na board. He is not reforeman), A. Zimmern, C. Jackson, Chun Yat-lung, R. G. Craig. L. A. presented.
Rozario and J. A. Lau. The aviators were not permittel! At the beginning of the case the
According to Mr. Whyte-Smith tos ieave the building during the following jury was empanelled:-
the child
missed by his Lancheun
12199 questioning,
Messrs. J. W, Bandred (foreman), parents at 3 pm, on July 28 soon furnished them.
C. A. Lopes, J. F. Anderson. I. E after his father, a stall-holder at Lammert, W. G. C. Han, Lau Tal-West Point, gave him a cent to fine and In Tak-chung.
buy some sweets, Shortly after his case, Mr. Fitzroy that time he had evidently met the made
prisoners, for at 4 pm, the child was sentenced in 1929 but who iflicult and hazardous task American Embassy had made that was relevant to the present prisoners and another man, who
car cleaner, in Lockhart
Itoul, whether questioned
Wanchai, arcompanied by the two Tormed by soldiers and other
presentations, expressing hope workers to remove live della from that there would be no repetition case or not,
After some discus had not been apprehended. The the dangerous situation in which
car cleaner became suspicious of they were stored, li is grafitying " By similar affair in the future, slan, his Lordship said he did not
think he could Koon with 1 pensent jury, adding it was dilli- the lehas issir of the trin af adults, as the men were standing apart felt to discuss the matter before
from the woman, and beckoning the jury and there was le fassilj Hity that prisoner might be pe
her on and making signals. judiced.
Information was always diffent to obtain, and it is only now after a sufficient number of days, har passed that full information' re- garding the heroic labours of Beers and men engaged in the work of removing shells, digging intr rained hourey, and other hagartans wick can be sretnož,
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was
T Minister of Communicn tions Me Koizumi, kas reported
detail al
case to the
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Cabinet. He als explained that No special stress can be laid on the fers expressed regret over the work of any one man, in the the picture inciteat, and that the land since been released, and his was seen by the amateüf defective. Song-Mighty Lak' a Rose (Stanton-
Punishment Demandet.
to "nate that officers d 41 conducted themselves with the utmost
courage, carrying ther Aves in their hands, for bentes, | di tippars thu whole
Patristic
arieties
individuals
re are
The Foreign Ollier la reported
day Urough. | clamouring for the punishment of In charge of This work were the alemen, Major de Andrade. Cominis. sioner of Polive, LA. Gaudenciu de
to have suggested that the airmou Conceicao, Oficer in charge at the shown leniency, but the War Anumanition depots, 14. Manuel
juet | Department reportedly hail adopt- Simors, fr., of the Mozambique fed quite a different altitude, Company of Infantry, Lt. Antonio -Several veriacular newspapers
report that the Procurator has stablished to its sutisfaction that the dising of the Tortilled zone was preconceived and intentional
Jone, assisted by Sorg. Ferreira, Sergi. Espadinha of the Artillery Company
who directed the work of the African Troops of the Mozambique Infantry, a company of men from Tinner, and Chinese Pangborn and Hernday, however, workmen of the Public Works deny that ruch was the case. Department. No praise can be
then whe
10 great for these carried out their work in the most dangerous circumstances, where live shells were known to be in a
heated condition, ready to explode.
any moment.
at
Thors were scores of workers
engaged in removing the injured
from falling housea and wall broken by the blast of the expo- |
DEATH ENQUIRY
VERDICT.
Lordshigi
New Jury.
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He kept the group under olser. vation for about an hour, and Anally saw the winan take the into the Grand Theatre, Wanchai, while the two men look- a bus to the city. The watcher then sammunicated with a friendl of his, a Chinese detective, and, under his instructions, went into women and child. When they came the theatre and sai behind the out about 9 pus, the male accused whas waiting. in addition to the
After remarking that he could pot se, himself, that
prisma wilt be in any way pryjudical. Mr. Fitzroy and if his Lordship desired if he would certainly #free to a fresh jury being sworn. This course was decided upon and the following new, jury was sworn in: Messrs. A. Piorey tore man). A. O. Halsey rd, Chinese detective. As the accused
Soares, Itemedios, M. M. de V. Pane Kok-sni. Tara Pak-shiu and
were walking down Spring Garden Lane leading the child by the Chung Wai-lam.
hand, they were apprehended by the Chinese detective, and is an-j swer to his questions said the child woman's grandson. They
P.
amat
In outlining the ease
for the Crown, Mr. Fitzroy explained that Ng Lai, his wife, Sun Tai, a small
irl and another man left Macatered their tale when charged. at about four o'clock on the morn
however, declaring that ning of Jatiuary 29, 1927, in A MAN RUN OVER BY A
small fabing boat, and when uff named Ab Yu gave them the boy LADEN TRUKK.
Lantau Island, just, outside the to look after for a while. waters of the Colony, they were The boy had been returned to Sitting Coroner yesterday attacked by six seven people his parents who found that his 11.11. The workers were drawn afternoon at the Kowloon Mugis-in anot
bern entirely Che man was clothing hal principally from Red Cres
Sertrars, Mr. Fraser conducted an en-seriously injured and ever
In another boul.
changed. eventually vice, assisted by workmen from quiry into the circumstances at med, at his death was to concern The Jury found both accused the Public Works Department. tending the death of a man named of the present case except as to guilty. In sentencing the male ar- Lieut
Amorim, of the Red Cross Wan He, aged 46, who was run evidence of what took place,
ensed to imprisonment. for four Service, and Lt. Col.
Schiappa over by a truck and received in-| However, three pirates boarded years. Mr. Justice Lindsell said Monteiro. Director of Public Works, were responsible for this is to his chest, from which the fishing boat, and it was alleged that fortunately the boy had been
died.
that prisoner was one of them, returned and had not been stolen. work, with Dr. Diniz to direct the medical part of the work. Hrais
The jury empanelled consisted of They tied the master and his wife ad he been, he would certainly have given the decused the "cat." Into Chinese territory, where the Din account of the woman's age, he
ordered a sentence of two years, victims were taken ashore and detained. The woman was even- tually released and went away to
of the arveral sections of the Mesars, R. Horridge (foreman.te the mast and sailed the boat Public Works Department ably. A. Fisher and Chan Yuk-in. assisted, Mr. Mosteira Lopes, hini- After the Coroner had explained self a sutlerer, among them, the legal definition of negligence,
Major Pinto Lello, Chief
of the jury retired and later returned sin money for ransom, but the Staff, was early on the scene of the verdict of "Accidental Benth," explosion and contributed nota tudding a rider that all trucks of girl disappeared entirely. Ng lai little to the general service render, the deseription and weight mention and his wife were both released ed by the military units. Pred in the enquiry should have later and were put on board a regular passenger junk which minent among his assistants were brakes.
took them to Macao. The fishing bost was not acen again.
Prisoner's Stery.
Lt. O'Cosin. with L. Sin Cara and Lt. Marie Cunha, and the
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Officers and men of the Artillery wreath on the collin of ruch of the
also vulgable.
Fine Police Work.
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BRITISH, WOMEN ATTACKED.
HANKOW INCIDENT
PROTEST.
in of the inquest to-day from Britistition urges a demand or
the punishment of the Chineso officials who failed to take action against
foreigner sailants of the
Hankow, Aug, 13. Public feeling in the British community was rising in Hankow, lo-day as the result of the recent attack by ricksha enolics on a Company whose assistance was thinese victims in the explosion.
After pointing out the oppor- }
British woman and four men in a A guard of honour, drawn from Lunities SL would have off The jury to-day returned an
flooded street of the former Ger. the various units in the Colony studying and getting to know his open verdict at the inquest at Cam-
man Concession. Two American fled past the coin, and the captors and other people who berley on Lieutenant Chevis, the
women were also in the party. Last, but not least, the Police the public were admitted to the were in the vicinity of his place youni artillery offieur who died Even in the face of allegations Service comes in fer spreia! men-hall, to the lying-in-state of the of confinement, Mr. Fitzroy read from the effects of strychulue that the women were indecently tion, their work embracing a wide remains of those who died as
prisoner's statement, muude at the poisoning, after
fter eating a partridge assaulted the Chinese authorities field of activity. For it was the result of the entastrophe.
Police Station when charged. It at Aldershot on
are still failing police who set up guard over the Following the simple
to punish the The open verdiet signifies that refemo- was to the effect that he worked affected region,
culprits. controlling the nies the funeral wended its way Hing Yung's boat as a foki the jury were unable to determine
Membera of the local British traffic and assisting in extricating through the streets of the Colony when they were captured by bow death was caused. the dead and injured. This work on to the Barrier Gate through pirates. The pirates forced him Known as the "hooray telegram" community to-day were drafting a petition to Mr. Arthur Henderson, was directed by Major 4. Andrade, which it passed on its way to the to go along with them. ie final case, this most strange and tragic the British Secretary of State for Capt. A. Majer. Lt. J. Tavares homes of the Chinese dead, for in ly left Hing Yung's boat and went affair has excited publle interest Foreign Affairs, drawing attention Souza, Lt. Guedes Pinto, assisted termical, The remains of Mr. and to work on a junk but was subse for weeks past. On the resump to the "increasing insecurity o by the Inspectors of Police, among Mrs. Kan Woon-theong and Mr.quently arrested by two of the
subjects in Jankow. whom was Inspector Silva, who Kan Chu-am, whe
from pirates.
August the Corner stated there The Jost his little daughter and a bru Shekk, will be conveyed that it was not true that he accom-how the strychnine came to ther Before the Magistrate he anld was not a shred of evidence as to ther in the disaster. When all elty, after suitable arrangements | tinnger from explosives had past,have been made.
panied the woman to Macao us the partridges, nor as to whether if he had done so she could have it was an accidental death or a had him arrested. "I did not de- foul murder. mand or borrow money from her. The strangest feature of the The Government has appointed I am prepared to awear it in the case was a mysterious telegram a. Commission to recommend men-face of Heaven. They are faleely sont from Dublin to the father of The authorities also owe a debt sires to be adopted for the relief accusing me." Prisoner admitted Lleutenant Chevls. The telegram to the sinff of the Macan Electric of the sufferers in the explosion that he did take part in removing read "hooray, hooray, hot and
by "J. Martigan,' Company and the Telephone Ser-of the Government ammunition their belongings by order of the efforts of the police to find vico forprompt measures to restoredepot, and to furnish lodging, pirates. electric light and telephonic com- hospital treatment and financial Mr. Fitzroy, commented that the the unknown aender have so far munication, which had been inter-assistance to those found to be in belongings were not removed until been frulticas, though they are
boat' arrived
in ill proceeding. The members the fishing rupted by the effects of the ex-need of auch.
---The father of Lieutenant Chevia plosion.
of the Commission are:---Mr. Hen-Chinese territory.
Both Ng Lai and his wife gave also received a postcard from Bel- rique Nolasco da Silva, Chairman
mystery of the Municipal Council; Major evidence, in the course of which fast rending "Tis a
they referred to their foki having they'll never solve.-J. Hartigan, been fatally wounded by a shot Hooray." from the pirate boat, his body after- wards being thrown overboard by the pirates. Both witnesses also Identified prisoner na being one
of partments are closed, while the At the same Lime Captain the pintes who boarded the fishing Portuguese flag files at half-mast Guerra, of the Infantry Force, boat, and the woman added that
has been appointed to Instituto ho was one of the man who carried that the Southern typhoon Is The Royal Observatory reports over all Government buildings.
At the Klang Hwa Hospital a an enquiry into the causes of the their belongings ashore when the shown nu a depression over South apecial ceremony took place this explosion and as regards the steps bont reached ⚫ Chinese village China. The Northern typhoon la morning at 11 o'clock, when His to be taken by the Government In named Sam Co.
less than 300 miles. E.S.E. of Ing Excelleñoy the Governor laid 'connexion with the disaster.
The case Is proceeding.
Shanghai, moving W.N.W.
it was the police who had to mount guard over the damaged buildings.
with
and to provide the occupants of
the houses in the vicinily
protection, for severni days.
Funeral Ceremony-
In memory of the Chinese who Jose Guerreiro de Andrade, Com- died on the occasion of the ex-missioner of Police: and Bir. An- plosion last Thursday, another tonio de Vasconcelon Kaposo, Sub- public holiday has been declared Director of the Treasury Depart for to-day, and all Government de- ment.
Was
Tho
THE TYPHOONS.
The Chinese have not taken action although the assault oc- curred on August 6. It was the climax of a dispute over fares to be paid to the rickaha coolics. One British subject in still suffering from injuries arising from the attack.
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