COLLISION ACTION RESUMED.
CROSSING FAIRWAY IN FOG.
DEFENCE
POINTER.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C.. marked that "no sane Captain would cross this
fairway in a fog," when he continued his address in the consolidated actions brought by the China Navigation Company and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha against each other in the Supreme Court this morning.
THE HONGKONG
BRITISH PLANES
AT WUCHOW.
FINE EXHIBITION OF FLYING.
Wuchow, Dec. 14. Shortly before one o'clock thin of the steady drone afternoon Peroplane motors caused the resid ents of Wuchow to look south- Astward. A few moments later,
the crowds were rewarded whon two crimson-culatred aeroplanes, with British pilots, shot night.
Into
com.
On Sunday, a telegraphic munication from Canton heralded the arrival of the planes at Wu- chow on the following day, and ennrequently their coming
WO
WDA
not entirely a surprise to many, This case, which is being heard it is said that the planes were in Admiralty Jurisdiction, before from Hongkong and are
for the the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph use of the Kwangai Army, Kemp) and the Harbour Master
Before proceeding to the Wo- (Hon. Commander G. F. Hole, chow
al port, the
flying R.N., Retired) as Assessor, is one machines circled the city several arising out of a collision off Kow.
times. That no
novices жего loon Dock Point between the handling the "sticka" was evid: Kiangsu and the A. Tokookn | “**
enced by the skillful manner in Maru.
which the pinnes were manoeuvred The China Navigation Company, both in the air and on the landing of the Kianga claim field, which is situated on the $40,000 damages from the NY.K..| while the inter are claiming forth bank of the West River, $40,654 damages against the China opposite from the city of Wachow, In the afternoon the best ex- Navigation Company.
| kibition of flying that has ever Look The been witnessed in Wachow
owners
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TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1931.
SESSIONS OPEN ON ELECTION · EXPENSES.
MONDAY.
FIVE CASES ON THE CALENDAR.
There are five cases down for trial at this month's Criminal Sessions which are to commence at the Supreme Court on Monday.
The first case on the list in ano of judecent assault, in which Sit Shek will be charged with that offence against a two-year-old girl Ramed Lo Say-mui, on October 31, 1931.
AN AMUSSING BILL OF 1826.
With accounts for eleciton ex- penses coming in thick und fast, it is interesting to recall the amusing "model electioneering bill," which Sir Mark Somerville had presented to him, in the bad old days of bribery and corruption, by the pro- prietors of the Trim Hotel during a contested election at Meath in 1826. A copy is subjoined,
Sir Mark had given orders at the hotel to bourd and lodge all that should vote for him. His Instruc All the other capes consist of tions were carried out to the jet- was duly robbery charges. Chan Yu-wing ter, and the account will be indicted that, on December tendered: Sir Mark had this uni 31, 1931, with others unknown, que document framed, and it still they together robbed Chau Ping-hangs in Somerville House. chung of $160 In money.
Chung Кіни-тан and
MY BILL.
I
16 Free holders above stairs for Sir Mark, at 38. 3. per head, is to me To eating 15 more below
Li Fat will be charged that on October 16. 1931, at Kik Hang Village, Kow-To tenting loan City, with others unknown, they together robbed the inmates of money and jewellery.
There are three counts in a case in whi
which
there are two accused. Cheng Wing and Lam Lun, lies Tai Shoße-lin
The
Biral
count against both of them is that os November 22, 1931, with others unknown, they together
robbed The Leung Kam of $775,90. second
And third counts against Cheng
Wing only, the second charging him with procur a commanding Lam Lun and
ing
arc
Mr. Potter, together with Mr.
C. Jenkin, K. C.. i for China Navigation Commny, while
others unknown to commil The Mr. H. G. Shelton is
offence, and the for
third with con- N.Y.K.
spiring with others to commit the
Effect of Anchors.
The
Mr. Potter reminded the Couri that when they adjourned yester day. they were discussing the weight and effect of anebars, and pointed out that the elfeet at my anchor being dropped was altmat immediate on the motion of the ship. He submitted thank if the two anchors of the Tukooka Maru had been dropped. the militaion would never have occurred,
Counsel went or to emphasise that Capt. Ritchie knat
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place when the pilots put their respective planes through their
s A miniature dying circus
ensued, which was greatly enjoyed | robbersyn. Ng Tak and 15 Kam
AN
by the thousands of spectators who made up the interested nu- are the neensed in the last ease. dienen. Our Den Correspondent,
The indictment against the first two is that Ng Tak, on November 20, 1931, at Sheung Sga Po Village. Kowlo Kowloon City with others known, together robbed Wong Fan-man of bi rails of cloth, and that Sin Tim was, at the same time and place. Riding and abetting. Ng Tak is additionally charged with receiving ten rolls of cloth, while Kant is charged with re- ceiving Fight rolls.
INTIMIDATOR GAOLED.
LOCAL TERRORIST GETS DESSERTS.
On charges of demanding money with menaces, and of intimidation, a Chinese who appeared before. Mr. | William
at the Central Police
cisely as it wan porrible to know, without taking the exurt position where he was, as he was about in the middle at the fairway in which he knew it was the day of both Court this morning was sentenced inward and outward-bound ships
to three months' hard labour o
to keep to the starboard side. wach emant, the terms to run con- The captain of a ship was, in law,
entitled to assume that the other captain would obey the rule of the
road.
currently.
to
TOYS FOR LOCAL
MUI-TSAI.
GIFTS OF LONDON. CHILDREN.
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The defendant was alleged to have forcibly taken the complainant away from a ten-house and, with In addition, Capt. Riche knew the assistance of several others,
A touching gift te teen that there was no other ship behind let him to the Ste Wa Chub, in ceived from England of two cases him
or in front of him an the Queen's Rond, where he was held of logs, to be distributed among starboard side, and he was only prisoner until he consented
released mui 1MIN
during the concerned with the one outward-join the Club and paid $50 member Christmas sekson, bound vessel, the Tokeoka Maru.
The ship fers. After the money bad)
cases were seal to the Se Also, being in the fairway, he been handed over, the complainant would find an outward-bound ship book and a medal, and then allowed could never anticipate that he was provided with a membership
freedom. way, where he eventually found the Tokona Maru. He was not bound. in law, to anticipate such
on the northern side of the fair-hisaree of illegal detention was
a manoeuvre.
A
tbal
Soriety and two letters were sent eretary of the Anti-Mui Tani
Salavation Army Home and the with the toys addressed to the C.M.S. Victoria Home and Orphan
Age.
The toys are forwarded by Mrs. Hazlewood who, in letter to the Commandant
of the Salvation Army Home explained that they! were gifts from little children in the East End of London at Bow
released mui tsaie,
also brought against the defendant,. but this was dismissed on ageount of discrepancies in the evidence. The Only Conclusion.
Insperior duhn Murphy, Who proserated, informed his Worship Counsel went on to say that the Kiangsu had a following current,
whilst there was nothing and he sulmitted, as a matter of known against the defendant. heto seanianship, that it was essential was regarded as a terrorist in the for Capt. Ritchie to keep proper Central District and people viell and effective steerage way on his mised by him were afraid to make ship so that he might keep to hiaj say report to the police. own course and prevent his ship drifting into the course of an out-i ward-bound ship.
He would submit on the evit- ence that the only conclusion fo which Capt. Ritchie could come was that the other ship was out- ward-bound. He heard fug signal from the Japanese boat at 7.46, and, luving heard that signul en his port bow, he came to the only conclusion to which he could
come.
Mr.
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GOVT. POLICY ON BURMA.
DELEGATES NOW SATISFIED.
London, Dec. 16. In committee of the Burm. Con-
Potter remarked: "No | ference, Lord Peel, presiding, said wane Captain would cross this fair his statement on Friday was in-
Approaching Closer. Counsel went on to deal with the matter of the Tokooku
tended to define for their guidante
They have made a great many of the things themselves" the
etter explains, "and in many in- stances have given their own little treasures. They come with much Love and affection.
to
The toys were forwarded Hongkong free of charge Messrs. Alfred Hol and Co., Liverpool, to whom the Society have written a letter of thanks.
stairs, and two priests after supper, a to me T 18 hores and 5 males
about
yurd all my night, at 13s, every one of them, and for a man which was lust on the head of watch- ing them all night, in to me... Ta & beds in one room. and 4 in another, at 2 guíneas every bed, and not more than 4 in a bed, at any time, cheap enough, God knows, is to me
For breakfast on Tay in
the blarning, for every one of them, and as many more as they brought in, as near as I can guesa, is to me To Raw Whiskey and
Punch, without talk. ing of pipes and tobacco, as well na for breaking a pot above stairs, and other plas sea and delph for the Next day and night, I am not very sure, but for the three days and
a half of the Election. as little as I can ex it. and to be very ex nel. it is in alt or thereabouts, a near
un I can guESS, and not to be too par- tetlar. is to me., at Jeuxt
For shaving and crop- ping off the heads of 49 Freeholders for Sir Mark, at Ild. for every tread of them, by my brother, who has a vote. is to.
me
For a
a Womit and Nurse for poor Tom Kärnan, in the middle of the night, when he wat not expected, is th me tet
ogs, I don't talk
of the pipers for Heep- ing him sober as long as he was sober, is to
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Signed in the place of Jenny Car's wife, his mark, X, Bryan and by Geraghty's mark, X. You may say
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£11, so, your honour, Sir Mark send me this Eleven Hundred by Bryan himself, who and I prays for your success always in Trim, so no more at present.
GANDHI FAILS TO SEE POPE.
LOIN CLOTH NOT QUITE PROPER.
Premier Mussolini
PIGS IN PUBLIC STREET.
FIVE OWNERS FINED
AT KOWLOON.
about in
way, in a fog and the only conclu- sion that Capt. Ritchie could come a field of useful discussion. The to was that the other. boat WILM object of the Conference was to outward-bound, moving about east- frame a Constitution embodying
Rome, Dec. 12. north-east, and would, inevitably, responsible government at the cen- Mahatma Gandhi, on his way clear him, ka an outward-bound tre as well na in provincial matters, back to India after the round table A rather unusual cuse eame
would ship
clear him." Capt. subject to reservations and safe conference at London, missed an before Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Ritchie never had any reason to guards. They should consider the opportunity for un audience with Magistracy this morning when five alter that conclusion.
virtue of compromise in arriving the Pope to-day, because his old villagers were charged with at a settlement along these linga, costume did not conform to the allow the public street at To wander their pigs to Lord Lothian said the view held Vatican's requirement of modesty, Wan, near Messrs. W. S. Bailey Maru'r the Government, as expressed
received him, Ka signais becoming "fine" on the by Lord Peel, was that the princi after the Indian Nationalist tea and Company's
y's shipyard. der had spent more
Inspector Logan, who prosecut- Kiangan's port bow and submittedule of the declaration of January
ed, sald he had received many that that would be no indication 18th applied to the future County visiting the Vatic, than an hour Authorities at the Vatican asid
from neighbours and to Capt. Ritchie that she was, in tution of Burma.
the arrangemente for
and on visiting the with the Pope had been
he found several fact, a crossing ship, and was not
because the pontiff and other prea-pigs wandering on the road. sing engagements. But it was learned that they felt Gandhi's You must not allow your pigs to His Worship to defendants):- loin cloth was improper and that run about. I suppone if they were they considered it would be in-run over and killed, you would delleute to nak him to do more claim damages. Don't forget you clothing.
are now in a town and not in the country.
U Ba Pe, who raised the ques on her proper side of the fairway. Hon, expressed satisfaction, and It only indicated that the ships the three Burma delegates who, were approaching clager, as they protest. had abstained from the would do in any case when passing discussions, have resumed an ec- in opposite directions in the fair-tive part in the deliberations.
British Wireless.
way.
"The Chief Justice remarked tint
he thought it would be dificult, - anyway, to draw conclusions as to
Jone
audience passer 6730
AMERICAN SUPPORT OF LEAGUE.
a ship's position by means of such knew he was crossing the fairway signals, with which Mr. Potter against an in-coming ship, while did not. If the agreed, saying that, at the most, Capt. Ritchie the signals would give to the bearer Japanese captain had thought for only the approximate position. a moment, he would have
Capt. Ritchie might have consi-sornothing, but he did nothing.
Mr. Jenkin then read Capt. INTERESTING PARIS MEETING. dered that the Japanese ship was
which on a mum northerly course, but Ritchie's evidence hat she would, inevitably, at the proximated to the facts contained
Paris, Dec. 16. The United States Ambassador proper moment, port her helm and in Mr. Folter's address, after take the ordinary and proper course which the case was adjourned in Paris, Mr. Walter Edgo, visited
of an outward-bound ship.
It would never enter Cupt. Ritchie's brain that a ship would
until to-morrow morning.
ap-
Defendants were each fined $2.
Ia connexion with the Christmas party at the Volunteer Headquarters on December 23rd, "Father Christ- mas" wishes to
announce that all replies to his invitation should be Rent in before next Sunday.
Quarantine restrictions have been! 3. Briand to-day to offor the Ame-
Hongkong against Mr. Sheldon indiented that horlean Government's congratula imposed by
the arrivals from Amoy on account of would argue that the Klangautions upon tho success
amall-pox. was travelling at an excessive League Council session. speed through the fog, and that M. Briand replied that they had Capt. Mitente's proper course greatly valued the support lent-by-The Royal Observatory reports The captain of the Tokooka would have been to stop the America to the League in the very that the anticyclone has weakened. Maru was the one man who knew engines on hearing the signals delicato Bino-Japanese" affair. It to central near Shanghai, moving
cast. the whole of the position, as he from the Tokooks Mard,
bo crossing the fairway in a fog
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SECRECY IN CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL.
MAGISTRATE AND ELECTION CANDIDATE,
The case of alleged blackmail in which the prosecutor-referred to na "Mr. Y."--was a candidate at the General Election, was heard at Marlborough-street.
Charles Lester Kerr, aged 45, « retired naval commander, of Be- gent-street, London, W., and Cran- ley-gardens, Kensington, is accus- ed of threatening to divulge cer- tain facts in "Mr. Y'a" past and demanding that "Mr. Y should apply for shares in a company in which Kerr was interested,
The charge is denied,
Mr. E. F. Lever (for the de- feneo) said that he had a great deal of information which he thought would destroy the pro- secution in another place.
Mr. C. Hornby (prosecuting) referred to the name of a mon mentioned by Mr. Lever and said that if it were published it would inevitably identify "Mr. Y, and he asked that the man should be known by an initial only.
The Magistrate-The whole ab- ject of this secrecy is to deprive blackmailera of their strongest weapon--publicity. I am going to do nothing which will after the attitude taken up by the courts.
Mr. Lever said that the point ho would submit was that there could be no evidence of intent to extor where there was a debt or an honest belief of a debt.
Kerr was remanded on bail,
PHIPPS FINDS A THINKING ROBOT.
(Continued from Page 8.)
Manhole Covers, and yan can't miss them.
Around them sprout "Dead Slow,' "Blind Corners," and many other luxuriant arterial Prowths. Over the way you have a panorama which embraces range upon vauve of bitumiorus asphalt.
So Intriguing.
Yes, here is an anthology of all that goes under roads, over roads, in roads, and on roads. (Pedes- trians excepted; but it has been found that they have a uniform bounce on any surface.)
in
I was intrigued by the "Human" traffle control signal which, spite of not having been to a public school, is able to think. directe traffic, unlike the time- signal, according to the amount which has accumulated, but it in not yet known whether it will be able to give old ladies thoir bearings.
What would a Roman urban council have thought of road- drills, concrete mixers, tar-spray. era, stone-crushers, bitumen-boil- егв and hooligan-proof play- ground equipment?
it Talking of steam-rallers,
that sooms possible
even this progress of civic
MRY emblem auffer an eclipse. Oll-engined rollers are now, I understand, con-
sidered very choice. There were
several of the latter on view.
One steam-driven
model, how.
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