THE HONGKONG ⠀ TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1981.
HOUSE LETTER-BOX TEA-LEAVES DRIED
RIFLED.
OFFENCE WHICH IS RARELY DETECTED.
THIEVES SENTENCED.
What was described us a com- nion offence, though seldom de- tested, was related by Detective sorgeant Flattery, in the course of prosecuting two Chinese at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for the larceny of letters from a letter-box at No. 174 Reclamation Street, Yaumati.
The police officer said that on November 9, one of the defendants walked up to a letter-box in Re- clamation Street, and from it extracted aume letters, Fic was seen by a man at work of the ground floor of No.
179, who followed the accused and saw him meet the second defendant. The Police were informed and the two men were arcsted.
Sergeant Flattery added that thene offences were quite common srl many ronplaints had been made to the Police regarding them.
The Orst defendant was found guy of the theft, and the second
FOR RE-SALE.
ABERDEEN GROCER'S
STOCK,
MOULDY & INFECTED.
à charge of selling tea unfit for human consumption was brought against a grocer of 1, Wu Nam Street, Aberdeen, on his appear ance before Mr. Grantham at the Contral Police Court this morning The defendant said that the tea but been left with him to wall.
SEQUEL TO CITY BURGLARIES.
THREE MEN IN COURT
THIS MORNING.
་
ALL SENTENCED.,
CLAIM AGAINST LOCAL SHIP.
UNPAID SEAMEN AND OFFICERS.
ATTEMPTS TO SETTLE:
Cinima for
whges by three
are
Two recent burglaries were re- called at the Central Police Court parties'ngainst the a.. San Nam this morning when three Chinese King, a vessel owned by Lan Yat, appeared before Mr. Williams on alias Lau Tok-hing, No. 67. Con charges of larceny and receiving, naught Road West, were com- The defendanta were alleged to menced in the Supreme Court this have stolen a quantity of articles morning in Admiralty Jurisdiction to the total value of 335.60 from by the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Winglok Street and cloth and Kemp). There three plain- blanket valued at $72 from 14. tiffs. (1) the neamen of the ship. (2) Ignacio Marin Cordova, Cap- Lyndhurst Terace.
The defendaal ndmitted thetain, anif (3) Antonio Pinto charges of larceny in connexion Marques, ship's with the first met
mentioned burglary. Mr. Leo
Junior, while the first accused admitted instructed by Mr. D. B. Evans, of stealing the articles from Lynd- Mesara. Johnson, Stoken and In evidence Mr. E. R. Povey anidhurat Terrace but the other two Master, is appearing for all three that the total extract was deter denied that they hnd been plaintiffs, while defendant, Lau mined and found to be 17 per cent. concerned in that theft, although whereas genuine ten should not be the third defendant admitted re- Тенн than 30 per cert. The relying stolen property which he results of the analysis indiented hnd taken to pawn. that a considerable amount of the tea leaves had been exhausted.
Sanitary Inspector Bradley informed his Worship that accord ing to the analyst's report a ample of the tea which was sub mitted to him was mouldy, was infested with insects and consisted largely of exhausted leaves.
His Worship asked if the exhaustion was due to nge but witness replied that the leaves had
Worship:--It
not Poisonous in any way?-No. it
|
Detective Sergeant D. Fitches said that the two burglaries occurr. ed on October 24 and 28 respective
s Admittance to the premises in each case was gained by the de- fendants cimbing on the shoulders
other and then,
after
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is conducting his own case. At the outset of the pre
proceedings Mr. D'Almada said it would be better to take the three actions separately as the ovidence different in carts and no time would Chief Justice agreed to this course be
Thrill Me. by consolidation. The savod
being taken, and the case of the seamen was taken first.
Mr. Almadu explained that the
with being an-accessory after the probably been used once and dried. of each iron work at the top total claim of the seamen amount-
fact. They were each sentenced to tre month's hard labour.
PANIC REIGNS IN TIENTSIN.
(Continned from Pogr 1.3
America-at the Længue next Monday is taken to
Council indicate
the importance the United States attaches to the meeting, and seems
breaking the of the doors, lifting the boft. It ed 10 $2,271.10 and pointed out would unt hurt.
was believed that the second de- that although ten days' double Inspector Bradley told the Court fendant always kept watch while wages were due to them under the flint that was the second sample the other two
went inside
and Merekant Shipping Act, 1894, for of tow he had taken from Aber-committed the thefts. They were delayed payment of wages with- deen. On the first orension he subsequently arrested and the pro- ut reasonable cause, no claim had had warned the seller but this porty recovered from no less than been made in this respect. Coun time the Bend of the Sanitary 13 jawn shops where the Police sel asked for the claim to be Department wished a warning to had been taken by the defend, is amended to include double pay, fe issued by the Magistrate. Miej All three defendants bul cri- His Landship explained to the do.
was not pressing the ease.
minal records, the first having beear fendant that, under the Merchant in the hands of the Police on several | Shipping Act, if a master failed, occasions previously for
larceny
without reasonable cause. to pay and other offences. Ju was given wages at the proper time, then he
..
A fine of $10 was imposed.
League Council,
to imply the taking of a more l'aris for the meeting oľ active line by the United States Government..
Washington Optimistle.
"That's War".
the four months' hard labour on each was liable to pay pages and, in charge of larceny the second fournddition, double wagen for ten days, months for stealing in the irst if the delay extended for ten Jnstance, and the third three days, and asked defendant if be months for theft and a further one had anything to say against the stalen claim being amended in this receiving month
respect.
"The most serious situation A more optimistic report from Manchuria" was interpused during The House of Commons debate on Washington, however, drove away the clunds from many faces,
the Address in reply, by the Li and
beral member. Mr. le Mander, who, in the meantime, the Chinese de-
denouncing t legatini claim to
warlike have received communications from Chinese compleading that the Mellonica
Pact should be upheld, expressed the hope that if the League's moral force was insufficient "to get Japani to adopt a proper attitude", they should adopt a boycott and econo- mic pressure.
to
munities throughout the world ex- pressing they determination observe u boycott of Japanese govin
Walkers, (Sir Eric secretary),
Captain Drummond's private
who arrives in Tokyo to-morrow, will get in touch with the Japanese authorities and make a report on the situation.
"Cease Fighting" Appeal.
London, Nov. 1.
ว
"Thn's war" chorussed the Con- servatives.
President Houver on Peace.
Washington. Nov. 11.
A peaceful settlement in Man- thuria, without resort to the pres- sure of diplomatis ostyneism' and|
property.
for
FATE OF THE UNIVERSE.
SIR OLIVER LODGE'S
VIEW.
SUNS STILL FORMING.
What fate hos destiny in store for our planet?
Is the univers slowly running
Defendant said he had no idea of the cause of delay as the ship wens chartered. He was no party to the document which signed on the crew as he did not sign it and. knew nothing about it.
His Lordship decided to amend the cluim as requested by counsel, adding that defendant's points i would be considered later.
It was later pointed out that the ship was chartered by the Lee Sai Steamship Company, No. 284. Des Voeux Road Central, and at the time the crew were engaged the was under charter to that ship company.
h the course of evidence given.
A call to China and Japan economie boycott; is the firm hone down and life coming to an end? on behalf of the seaman, the Cap
cense fighting was altered by The Hume Secretary, Sir
Is there a Mind behind the order-tuin stated that since the issue of of American officials following the Samuel, when addressing a League 1 Stimson had received a "very con.it need be, reorganise the scheme to settle the claims both by Lau Laconic announcement that Mr. ed unity of the stars, which could, the writ attempts has been stade
Note" ciliatory
Japan of things? through Mr. Tebuchi yesterday
of Nations Union demonstration in Manchester tu-night.
from
Sir Oliver Lodge dealt with the in a
said " feel certain that f Mr. Stimson declines to issue the conflicting answers of religion and
am interpreting the mind of this meeting when I say your message to China and Japan is:--Ceuse fighting: draw your troops apart: diseass and settle: if need, be arbitrate. Conform to the behests of the League of Nations, of which | you are both members.
Fulfil your obligations under the Kellogg Pact and renounce war,* T'1st helleye is the voice of public opluton in the civilised world,"
Caution Urged.
text of the Note, feeling that its publication might embarrass the nations and serve to obstruct a peace solution to the prablem.
science to these questiona lecture at Hove last night.
"Certain speculations about the so-called fate of the universe are certainly depressing," he said, "but "Pence is the protiret of pre- then they have no philosophic basis paredness fur defence," opened athey do not really take everything stirring Armistice Day address by into account. They deal with the President Hoover, who added 20 warning that "peace cannot be had inorganic or physical universe only. by resolution or injunction alone. The chief apostle of this cosmogony hut requirien the patient settlement
is Sir James Jeans." of controversy, and the dynamic development of the forces, of good will."
All Ready for Monday.
Paris, Nov. 11.
Yat and the charterers. They bad asked him to wait for a long time but had not paid him any thing at all..
Defendant remarked that he did not even know the ship had been scized.
Replying to the Chief Justice, witness said that before the issue. of the writ he had nothing to do with Lau Yat at all in the matter. He (witness) said he was engaged by the charterers.
Kwok Po, in his evidence, said The process
of evolution, Sir that last year he was engaged as Oliver said, was still going on and navigating officer and his wages Suns were still forming. Our own were not paid towards the end of system of stars was the result of May this year. The total amount one of these great nebular evolu- owing to himself and his three tions, and far
nebule were still re- of the writ, September 1-a volving, throwing out spiral arma period of three and a half montha and producing each its own system was $805, of which sum $357.90 of stars. There was nothing in all had been paid on account, leaving: this to cause apprehension; rather, $447.10 still due. it manifested the majestic scale on The case is proceeding. which the universe was built.
The authorities are determined of space others in the depths fokies up to the date of the Innue
A Ministerial alterance iL favour of moderate action on the part of the League came from Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby Gore, First Con- } missioner of Works, who, in there shall be nothing lacking to speech at Croydon, said the first facilitate the business at the most duty of the League regarding momentous meeting in the history Manchuria was to do everything of the League of Nations which to stop bloodshed; the next was opens on Monday. to get the dispute settled without recourse to force.
Labourites Uncassy.
ness never sleep.'
the Sino-Japanese hostiilties, yet
powerful certain
British
papers had condemned the League action, and had asked the Britia
Government to dissociate itself from that action.
The First Lesson. "The first lesson thereby taught
French army cartographers are putting the finishing touches to n huge and specially prepared man of Manchuria which will hang in the famous clock room at Quai from the point of view of re- D'Orsay where the Council willgien," said Sir Oliver, "Is that the
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"STRANGERS MAY KISS”
"How do we know the effect of
Our
THEY
MUSTN'T TILLI
Uneasiness in the Labour ranks lest the League should lose caste
Universe is one, all demonstrative, Paris.. It was the same room in and a single scheme; one system of Gene over the Manchuria Issue, was incet. voiced by Mr. Herbert Morrison in which the Kellogg Pact
law and order reigning through- Berlin.. speech insisting that the danger signed. Is that the real powers of dark-ments have been made within the that it will be found that the Buenos Aires
out.,"
Helsingfors. My belief," continued Sir Oliver, Athens deliberating chamber, and the running down of the Universe la Shanghai He asserted that the League had Salon, after being fitted up, will only a human conception, and that New York.. made friendly efforts to terminate give ample room for the various it need not really come to an
jours- secretaries, experts and alists, while, for the benefit of the in the dreary way we now imagine. Stockholm walling world, new telephones mean that the Universe had a be- Bucharest.
If that should be true it must Vienna have been installed, and a special ginning, as otherwise it would have Hongkong
Madrid
telegraph office opened.-Reuter
run down already. The fact is, we Brussels... Mr. Morrison expressed the hope
Tsitsihar quiet.
are not entitled to speculate with Milan that the Government would in no
our present knowledge upon these Copenhagen, Peking, Nov. 12.
Progus. way discourage the work
tremendous themes. at The Manchurian Government "What Life and Mind are, I de Lisbon. Genova for the prevention of war.
Alluding to General Dawes'a omphatically denies rumours that not pretend to know, but I know Rio...
Consular
Bombay officials presence at the Paris meeting of Jahr have been molested and Thore is every reason to know that Montreat
Japanese
at they are not functions of matter. the League Council, Sir John Simon, in a speech at Bir rounds that conditions there are exceed even apart from matter, and that injured by Chinese, and reports we ourselves continue to operate, the world has good grounds.
the destruction of the material or- with the distin-ingly quiet. guished presidency of M. Briand. It is alleged that Japanese ganism only interfores and this proof of America's moral ve demanded the surrender of
commanders at Taonan mode of manifestation. support, the League's effort have
Life and Mind. promoto
Heilungklang to the Manchurian "The Universo seems to me knowing. an amicable settlement in Man- Independents under Chang Hai- churla may be obtained, and thepang,
General Mn Chang-ahan, the act-realities which I bellove to uxlat in Mind operating on the physical
This has been refused by great reservoir of Life and Mind-- moral authority of the Longue su- military governor of Heilung space, and which will survive the world? We see it all around us, stained.
ing
Birth and death of worlds and con- Mind is an organising, arranging Nothing shall be whating on kinng. the part of my own efforts to at- |
report, concerning skirmishes tinue long after the mutorial Uni-principio, sorting and ordering. tain this
"The physical Universo left to result" concluded Sirat Tallal on Tuceday, says that a verse has run down, if its fate is to John.
full regiment of Indopondents aur-run down. I do not myself believe itself may be running down, but
for hope that.
to
conelllation
and
It is understood that Lord Cacil frondered to General Ma Chang- that that is its fate because it has Mind can reorgatile it and reverse only been predicted by Ignoring the process, or can start It afresh." will accompany Sir John Simon to'shan.-Renska.
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