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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932.
MOB ATTACKS ON LAUNCHES SAFETY PROTESTS
POLICE
SERIOUS INDIA INCIDENTS
VALVES
HEAVY FINES FOR INTERFERENCE
TROOPS OUT AT on April 2 Interfered with
PESHAWAR
Londen, Apr. 18.
or to be
IGNORED QUEENS THEATRE
GERMAN
SEIZURE
OF BRITISH FUNDS
The case in which Ho Lan, the coxswain, and Chan Kan, the en- gineer, of the steam launch Fook Wo, were charged with having
London, Apr. 18.
of House Asked in the caused the safety valve under control of the engineer by Commons to-day whether arrange- had been made for removing the padlocks fitted by menta
restoration to British the Government Marine Survoyan, the came up again before the Hon. owners of the remittances belong- In a statement circulated in the Comdr. Hole, at the Marine Court, Ing to them, recently detained in German banks while in transit House of Commons, reviewing the this morning.
from Budapest- to London, the events of last week in India, Sir
At the last hearing, Mr. F. H. Under-Secretary for Foreign Af Samuel Houre referred to a re crudescence of Red Shirt activi- Loneby, for the defence, contend-fairs, Captain Eden, stated that ties in a part of the Peshawar ed that the launch was one which the Foreign Secretary was clear District, north of the Kabul River, ran outside territorial waters, and that the British bondholders have visited Canton. If any very strong claim to the relense where large crowds made efforts, often
to trouble arose at Canton with the of those funds. with considerable писсеня, interfere with the electlans,
anfety valves, his clients, on their arrival in Hongkong, could not be The Police had to be reinforced held responsible for the valves by troops to disperse stone-throw-having been toneled in Canton. ing crowds armed with lathis.
The British Ambassador in Ber- in has again been instructed to press this viewpoint strongly on the German Government.
The German Government has
Comdr. Hole, this morning said) In one instance, the Police were
the it seemed to him that the prosecu- compelled to fire and here casualtics were twelve police in-tion had clearly proved that the taken no step to provent the deten- one padlocks had been interfered with, tion by the Dreadner Bank, Berlin, jured, two seriously, and rioter killed. After the poll, theif Mr. Losely could prove that his of the remittance, which was made clients had no opportunity to reby the City of Budapest and which situation quieted.
were arrested was in transit to England for the port, before they Despite the special efforts of in Hongkong, that the valves had service of the City of Budapest's the National Congress Party to been touched in Canton, then he obligations to British subjecta,~~ rouse public interest in "National would hold that it was a technical British Wirelons, Week", the results were singular-Fence.
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of distur
ly small. A renewal bances occurred in Allahabad,
The engineer testified
Lit
where owing to continued brick while in Canton a seaman when and stone throwing, thirty rounds clearing the deck had broken the were discharged, two riotera be-pin on the starboard side.
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technical
ing killed and twenty injured. Comdr. Hole administered The situation was controlled with caution to both defendants, in two or three days.
marking that it was a Activity also occurred at Cawn-offence. pure but improved quickly when the Palice were reinforced, and in
Leung Lau-man,
coxswain of
NEW INDIAN GOVERNOR
SIR R. GRIFFITHS
INSTALLED.
London, Apr. 18.
Bombay National Week proved the steam launch Wah Hing. Was Willingdon, who flew to Peshawar |
almost a complete failure.
where throughout
effects of National
negligible and in
The Viceroy of India, Lord
from Delhi last week, to-day
Sir installed
Ralph Sergeant MacNamara, for the formally procecution, said that on April Griffiths us first Governor of the pro at 3 p.m. he boarded the Wah North West Frontier Province.
A talking film was taken of the Hing at Belchers Bay. He found] the safety valves covered with a ceremony British Wireless.
Ife found the piece of canvas. locks in place, but open. He went into the engine room and saw the
Elac-charged with a similar offence.
Inelia. the Week were several
statement report, it passed almost unnoticed. --British Wireless
vinces, concludes the
NO MORATORIUM EXTENSION
ELECTION TOO NEAR FOR HOOVER
steam gauge registering 140 the endangered the ilves of the launch
He
He asked the coxswain and the crew. In view of the fact that engineer. Two Pa, for the survey defendant had no previnus con- chit, but they refused to let him victions against him, he was go- have it. He took them to Blake ing to impose a light penalty.
the Goy would be fined $250 or in default] Pier, and reported to
three months' imprisonment. rnment Marine Surveyor.
The engineer, Teo Po, was also Mr. S. Ashworth, Assistant Marine Surveyor, giving evidence, charged with having placed Ave Washington, Ajr. 18. stated that he connected a stan- pounds greater pressure than the dard pressure gauge to the main conditions of the licence of the
and launch permitted. Government circles indicate that they do not expect President steam gauge of the launch,
The same evidence was heard, found that the pressure was 135 Hoover to initiate another mora- torium when the presont periods. The stipulated pressure was and the defendant in answer said. 130 lbs. The enfety valves were he did not meddle with the valves, just being lifted up.
He did not know who had touched The statement follows the out-
In answer to the charge, de-them. ery of the anti-debt revisionists fendant said he knew nothing
it Remarking that avert and may be designed to further attacks until the public about safety valves. The trouble worth while "monkeying about" with the valvos of the launch reaction to the recent suggestions was due to rust.
Comdr. Hole remarked that as while at sen and endangering the Hole of Mr. Al Smith and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, the latter having a coxswain he should know some-lives of the crew, Comdr. always been a strong advocate of thing about the safety valves. It imposed a fine of $250 or cancellation.-Beuter; --
was a very serious offence and months imprisonment,
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Mr. C. E. Holmes, summoned for speeding at 35 miles an hour at Whitfield betweon the Electric The Minister of Agriculture, Sir Light Power Station and Watson John Gilmour, announced in the Road on April 11, admitted to Mr.
Schofield at the Central Police House of Commons to-day that Court this morning' that he was two reorganisation commissions exceeding the speed limit, but are to be set up for the agricul- modified this plea by declaring
that he was doing only 27 miles, tural Industry-one for milk and A Traffic Sergeant at whose milk products, and the other for instance the case was brought,
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Sir Edward Grigg will preside between 34 and 38 miles an hour during the period that he had him over the first and Colonel Lane under observation. Against this estimate he had to allow for being!
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two miles out on his speedometer.alia, will consider the quantitative Mr. Holmes pointed out that regulation of imports of pigs and although there was a sign at thej
turning into Watson Road, It was bacon.-British Wireless. not distinct, being placed on the! left side of the road and naturally
not to be observed by the motorist Five shopkeepera were charged who would have to look to his before the fon. Comur, Hole, at the right for approaching vehicles in Marine Court this morning, with rounding the bend. He also ask- having boarded the sis. Tjillboot with- ed if it wore not a fact that out permission. Evidence was given although ten miles was the limit by the Chief Oficer, who said that in the district, vehicles had been two passengers had complained to him allowed to go nt double that rate, that the defendants were stealing. Inspector Saunders agreed, but their luggage. The dafondante were fact each fined $10 or one week's imprison- pointed out that the mere that it had been found necessary ment,
to have a danger signat at that spot should be a clear Injunction:
to motorists to proceed carefully and directed that the attention of the traffic authorities be directed when entering the district.
His Worship considered that a to the placing of the danger post fine of $15 would meet the case, at a more conspicuous spot.
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