POLICE SEAMAN
CHARGED.
STOLE JACKET FROM BARBER'S SHOP.
PRISON SENTENCE.
Gbarges of larceny and miscon- ducting himself na à police oilleer were braght against a seaman, Au Yuk-Ini, attached to the Water Police Station. before. Mr. Fraser
41
the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Probenting. Mr. I. H. C. Cal- Irop, A.S.P., said that at about (trop,
defendant 10.30 am. Yesterday,
went to the ground Boor of No. hú Temple Street, which
W11
cupied by a barber, and
4-
Ask-
shave. The shop ed for full at the time, and the defendant sat down to wait bis turn, fle had walked into the shop with Vest and trousers, but without a Jucket.
Whilst silling down, defendant started to search a jacket which was hanging on the wall, but attrution was paid to him, ne it was thought the coat belonged to him. After a while, the delen dant was seen to walk out of the shop carrying the cont with him.
The master of the shop then realised that the defendant had taken away a jacket which did not belong to him.
In fact, the ja
ke tolonged to the master him- f The defenlan WIS ther brought back to the shop and there he naked in tot atf A police offer arrived and took the defen dank to the station,
Defendant dested having stožer the jacket, saying that & was his. Fle had just grine all duty and wree wotne fe
He pretend
#
up" with waiting and walked on
the shop. In the progde there ared him of having stolen the coat.
Evidence was given be the toki of the shop, wha sidd the defen dent, entered the shop without a cout and walked out with, i The master of the shop identified i thi
as one belongin to him.
Mr. Calthrop said the defendant joined the Fury in January last your and was quite a good man. His opinion was that the defen- found the templation
Jik
With
THE HONGKONG
MURDER OF BERLIN POLICE.
Drastic steps were taken following the asspasination of two Berlin police captains recently. Our photo shows pedestrians being searched.
TA
14235
Police reinforcements arriving at Bulow Square, the scene
of the assassination. The outrage occurred during the plebiscite
CROWN JEWELS
MYSTERY,
SURPRISE OFFER OF RESTORATION.
Lonibor, Sept. 5.
riots.
A 24-year-old Trish mystery is in the limelight rain.
EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
Continaed from Page ta
Astero's Story,
WHA
TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1931.
£1,000 ROBBERY AT WATERLOO.
BOXES OF SILVER
VANISH.
Two wooden
London, Aug. 15.
boxes containing
£1,000 worth of shillings and six-
pencer disappeared yeterday from the Parcels Office nt Station.
Waterloo
Last night Scolland Yard detro- Lives were co-operating with rail- way police officers in an effort to trace the thieves.
Two men who were seen near the ofler with a motor van during the mhday break of some of the station to have been staff, are believed concerned in the affair.
The mumy was in transit from Barclays Bank hend
office to n branch aus.
Etic
Weighed 15015.
Both boxes were heavily sealed
padlocked. sveurely
They
wilah 150i, ch
The robbery was not discovered i until employees of the bank came to collect the box. Sentland Yard was immediately notified.
All employees of the railway who were anywhere near th parcels office at the time the boxes disap- pered were inforviowerl, one of them saying that he saw two men with a fantmercial motor-vau in the station approach..
Detectives early fo-day were con- sidering the possibility of the rob- bery, having been carried out with The help of A MAH wearing the dufform of a railway porter.
At this perigd of the year many porters From suburban stations. work at Waterloo, in their
time and casud outside helpers arv to be found at the station entrance. Among these, it is thought, a man in a borrowed uniform would be able to pass andetyeted,
JOCKEY CLUB SITE WASHOUT,
FURTHER FALL OF EARTH REPORTEDŁ.
The ruin of the past few days has caused #further washout near the site of the Hongkong
new stables, bul dockey Club'a furtinately without any casual- tius.
Asters, after being sulained, was jfurned over to Detective L. Scott ¡or the Manila Secret Service, nud
he took the Filipino to
head- jquarters, where he was detained, Ant
The authorities. Files Ben
The drunk.
informed that the famous Uroga
subarquently His Worship said there Wax
interviewed when he told a stors jewels which mysteriouzly Bendant doubt that the guilty. He was in a position of red from the strong rem at of being set upon by a passenger, Dublin Easth in 1967 will be re-whose name he had forgotten, and was sacrificing all trast, and hir
turned if certain antees are that he himself had acted in self- his privileges for one incket.
defence.
His assailant, be con- On the first charge, his Worship
The jewels, which were worth tended. attacked him with a knife sentenced the defendant 10 14 gaydon and which were to be used and wounded his right hand. days hard Jabar and on the during the opening of the inter- vealed a cut hand to substantiate second, to six weeks, le seulemees
national Exhibition, were stulen;
this.. 10 run consecutively.
bren It was intimated by the Police under the eyes of detectives on the. preasion of the visit of King that Astern was being returned to Edward and Queen Alexandra. the Philippines by the Hawaiian heep are of the jewels has ever Sugar Planters Association as
CANTON DRIVE
FEARED.
DEFENCE MEASURES
IN HUNAN. ·
Shanghai, Sept. 19%..
made,
He
Land the authorities areilsame, and according in detre. retirent concerning. th "surprise"¡tives, he attacked his companions Leffer fur their resturation, ¦ without provocation. Another res It is believed that the jewels are port, however, is that the trouble either in England or on the Con-jwas caused by one of the steerage tinent and that the holders are passengers Acessing Astero ansions to sell them.
Estealing ten piastres, un Recun
tion which the Filipino resented,
Efforts by Nanking ComFATAL FALL FROM
Fortition-
ders to strengthen the tions at Yochow, Chaneshn Hengehow in unas have been made following an order issued by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in- siructing
Human Military
[
finvernor, General Ho Chien, and the peh Commanders to runke
SCAFFOLDING.
YOUNG APPRENTICE SUCCUMBS.
Patal injuries were received by;
Stowaway In Court,
V. Pangaehet, tuged 27, ap peared before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning ton a charge of stowing away on th Empress of Japan from Hongkong to Manila on September
4.
It was stated that the Bopress
all preparations for an invasion an apprentice bricklayer who tell tort Hongkong on the evening of by the Cantonese And Kwai from building under constructhe 4th, and the defendant was allied forces. The
news of the tion in Morrison and Leighton
found in the first-class lavatory Cantonese occupation of Cheng- Rouds, yesterday morning. chow in Southern Bunun has result of the scaffolding giving the next morning. sovured the greatest attentionway.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek leaving for the front on Monday and will visit Yochow and Chung- sha to supervise this construction of the fortifications.
Meanwhile the Nanking Ceneri-
sibility for the preservation
The prosecuting offrer sold the The deceased, Ip Fong, aged 17,1defendant stated he stowed away of the Tung Shan contractors from Shanghai to Hongkong by mutshed, Connaught Road West, 'hiding in the dummy fuunel, but was elimbing the seaffolding sur-this they were inclinded to dis- rounding a house under construc-belleve is they did ant think it tion at Happy Valley at about 10 ponsible. The ship' engineers fourth floor the discover the man.
lissings has entrusted the respon
of welnek yesterday morning and on inspected it every day, and did not
Other tlan peace in the North to General structure ve away. He fell on this, the Police did not know how Chang such-linar which conveys to the third floor of a neighbour-the man canie to the Colony.
was taken by A fine of $50, or dine month's the impression that the Nanking in building and Commanders may give up Shan- tokis into the matshed. He hard labour was imposed.
Mancunibed, however, to his injuries. fung and Honam in the churian Government in return for at 6 p.nl. services of keeping the anti- Chiang Kai-shek military elements in the North from organising any military movement to render as sistance to Canton.
General Chang has definitely cancelled his trip to Mukden be- Cause military affairs in the North after Chiang Kai-shek's de parture from Nanking will demand full attention-Rensha.
CLOUDBURSTS' IN GERMANY,
BERLIN STREETS
FLOODED.
Berlin, Sept. 6, Heavy thunderstgrams, necom panied by cloudbursts, wrought havoc yesterday
throughoul northern Germany.
chlef the
capital.
In
the
No report of the arcilent was made to the police until after the death of the apprentice.
U.S. BANKS CLOSE THEIR DOORS.
BIG BOND COMPANY
BANKRUPT.·
CHINESE WIDOW'S
ESTATE.
GRANT OF PROBATE MADE.
IL
It is reported that at about 5
Afternoon yesterday o'clock small slide nearred on the west side of the Jockey Club site but that there was no apparent danger to. life ar property. A sound of Public Warka Department work-
were immediately on
The seine and got to work draining the; water away,
MOTOR SHIPS FOR CANTON RUN.
TO OPERATE AS FROM NEXT MONTH.
A new Treight service between Hongkong and Canton is to be in- augurated in mid-October, when the Hol Fook Shipping Co., Ltd.. for whom Messrs. Brundi and Co. are agents, will place into service the new motor vessels Hoi Kong and Hui Chu. These vessels, 135 feet in length, are of 300 tons
deadweight.
The ships will leave. Hongkong daily at 7 pm, arriving there are 7 a.m.. and will leave on the re turn trip at 5 p.m. arriving here
at 6.1.
WONDERFUL PLUCK.
LONDONER, WINS JUNIOR GRAND PRIX.
London, Sept. 9. Extraordinary pluck and deter. mination was shown by D. J. Plric, the young London motor-cyclist, who was the winner for the second year of the Junior Grand Prix motorcycle race, at an average speed of nearly 70 miles an hour.
Pirio last week crashed badly and was taken to hospital. He emerged yesterday to compete in the race on 40 a Velocette machine. against
his injuries, he others. Despite established several new records on
extremely the
difficult course, which is 220 miles long.
Local estate to the value of $33,100 was left by the lute u Car Hui) p-ahi, alina Hui, Tip Shi Sze, widow, who died at No. 18 He won by nearly 5 minutes, and Elgin Street, on June 9, 1951.then collapsed completely and was hospital. Brittan Probate has been granted to her taken back to second son, Hui Pun-hing, No. 20, Wireless. Elgin Street..
Scranton, Penn, Sept. 5, The Dosak State Bank, with deposits of $5,500,000, did not open its doors to-day..
A message from El Paso, Texas,
After making a bequest of First National $1,000 to the executor's daughter, states that the
LEAGUE SYMPATHY. Bank of Cat, Texas, with deposits testatrix directs that the remain- of $105,000, and the Cochise der of the estate shall be divided ASSISTANCE FOR CHINESE County State Bank at Tombstone, into five shares, two to go to the
FLOOD VICTIMS. Arizana, with deposits amounting executor and three to her third
Geneva, Sept. 8. to $410,000, have also cloned their son, Huf Hok-chau. She explains
that Hak Chau is to get three There was a generous outburst Chiengo, Ill., Sept. 5.
shares because she regards him as of approval from the entire League The American Bank and Mortgage Company to-day filled a the successor to her eldest son, Assembly this afternoon when
decoused,
British resolution expressing_sym- voluntary petition in bankruptcy.
pathy with China in the flood dis asters was carried unanimously.
Lord Cecil's suggestion that the Health Commission League's Iwas adopted-Reuter.
coura
thoroughfares were flooded and traffic was paralysed for several hours, while all fire brigades were mobilized to remove fallen. trees It is understood that the con- Testatrix expresaos a wish that cern's Habilities total approxi- her third son shall perpetuate the For the memory of her late eldest son' by matoly G.$60,000,000. most part the asaçta of the Ameri- the dus, abservance of the anniver- can Bond and Mortgage Company saries of his death and birth should give assistance to China
according to Chinese custom."
and electric conduct masts.
The material damage caused by the storm is huge, but its extent cannot yet be ascertained. people were killed.
Threo
are frozen.
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£3,100,000 ELECTRICITY
SCHEME.
NATIONAL POWER CHAIN NEARLY COMPLETE.
With the announcement that the Central Electricity Board has adopt- el the South Scotland Electricity the Scheme the mapping out of
for the whole of Great Britain supply of electric power is nearly complete.
Only North Scotland remains to he surveyed. The total expendi- ture on the South Scotland scheme, covering an area of 4,308 square miles, is estimated at £3,468,234,
The romplete unification of ensta production for all the under the electricity grid scheme is now in sight.
of
This of course,
areas
is the first
objective," said a representative of the Hourd to a reporter.
"Ultimately it is hoped this will apply to distribution, but that is looking some years ahead.
Boan to Villages.
"The more immediate effects of the national power system when it is in operation over a wide area will be the introduction of chemper electricity in the small towns and villages. It means greater effici- eney and economy of production.
"The price of the electric unit when the national scheme is. com. pleted depends upon the distribu- Lors and consumers.
the
"If consumers in any given aren think
not getting Ink that they are power at tius correct economie cost. they will be able to make represen
the central body, tutions to
Ministry of Transport."
It was pointed out that It is un- Bikely there will be one national standard price for current, becating of the varied costs of production in the different areas. Many the price anomalles which now exist in certain districts will, how- ever, gradually disappears.
of
STOLEN TYPEWRITER.
-SHANGHAI BRITON CHARGED BY DR. DOLECKI.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Sept. 9. Alex Morrison, a British subject, was this morning charged before the Magistrate, Mr. Haines, with stealing and pawning a typewriter. valued at $40. He was charged on the complaint of Dr. Dolecki and was remanded pending the recovery of the machine by the police.
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