SHIP GAMBLERS CAUGHT
POOR BOX GETS THE
BENEFIT
A party of police, unde Detre- tive Sergeant D. C. Mardonald, boarded the 9.8. Sui Tai as she was lying at the Wing Lok Street wharf at 10.30 lust night and ur- realed 32 Chinese, sume of them members of the crow, on charyes of gambling.
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Twenty-two of them were found playing compartmen pai kan, while the other ten were indulging in a rank of puder in another part of the ship.
Of the pai kau players, three of the arrested men appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Central Police Court this morning, when The keeper was fined $75 and the other two 33 euch. The remaining nineteen, who failed to make appearance, had their bail estreat- et. A sum of $17.74 was confisent- el to the Poor Box.
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ap- Six of the poker players peared before the Magistrate and in the case of the keeper a time of $75 was imposed, the others being fined $3 each. The alsenters had their bait of $5 each estreated. Th
Por Bax benefitted to the extent or another $11.86 which was seizert,
MORE KOWLOON THEFTS
RESIDENTS REPORT
LOSSES
Trum foreign
Further thefts
have been esidents in Kowloon reported to the polier during the part two dayn.
Mrs. R. A. Piericia, of 7, Knuts
toor, has
the above
Ford Terrace, ground notified the authorities that some time between 3 am, and a.m. yesterday someone state a jacket in which was a wallet containing a sum of money, from address. The total value of the loss was reported as being $76.
A report was made to the police by Mrs. N. Y. Noronha, of X. Gordon Terrace, Hanhoi Road, to the effect that some time on Sun- day or Monday some-olte seven bathing costumes clothe line. Three of the costumes have since been recovered.
stole front a
QUEER WEATHER.
Summer Snow Storm
Wrecks Crops.
Pekine, July 7. According to reports from an chow, provincial capital of Kansu, the summer crop at Lungte, eastern Kang, was destroyed last week by an extraordinary snowstorm which t We hours. swept the city for Vesetation was frozen by the cold weather coming as it did at this time of the year.
The situation in southern Kan, west of the Tao Nu River, Is said to be grave due to the long drought and famine. In order to mitigate the plight of the people, the pro- vincial authorities have decided to exempt those districts from the farm tax for a perical years. Kun Min.
of three
BANDIT CAPTIVES.
Two Missionaries Return to Hankow.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.
Workmens dynamite was destroying Fort St. Anne at Antwerp, when this spectacular It was part of the Belgian government's programme of dismantling war picture snappedl.
LANDLORDS WIN.
Claim for Rent Exemption Not Upheld.
Ce of the most interesting legal and battles between landlords tenants over the question of rent. payment, which attracted a large number of spectators during each First Shanghai hearing in The Special District Court, was brought Born- To it conclusion on Tuesday ing, the Court giving decision in favour of the landlords.
ss on
by
The action was for the payment
brought of rentals and was Algar & Co., Ltd., against 13 Chi- nese shop proprietors doing busi- Pakhoi Chekiang and Roads. During the period of reent hostlities Dear Sino-Japanese Shanghai, the defendants. being lenants of the plaintiffs, refused to pay ntals on the ground that they should be exempted from pay- ing such rentals because they did no business during the war their shops were chosed following a
and
general strike proclaimed by the leal Chinesis General Chamber of Commerce.
The plaintiffs, represented by Mr. A. M. Preston, attorney-at-law, asserted there was no legal justi- tication for the refusal on the part of the defendants to pay rentals the because, counsel pointed out, premises occupied by the defen
lants were situated in the Contra'] Distract, the safest place in the entire city during the recent fight- ing. Moreover, counsel asserted, the defendants reaped good profits during the period of recent fighting onbeletting their houses at - Teased charges
Argument for Defence.
Me. Lou Ching-yang, counsel for the defence, Ungid his contration on Article 441 of the Civil Code which read: A lessee is not re- : leased from his obligation to pay his rent by the art that he is pre- vented from using the thing leased or from collecting fruits therefrom
ither wholly or partially, through. a cause brought about by himself." Counsel stated his clients could not use their premises when they re- reived an order from the Chinese | Chamber of: Commerce, for a gen-) eral strike and that therefore it was not their own fault as provided for in the Article mentioned above.
Mr. Preston then argued that the strike of the defendants was a voluntary net on the part of the Chi- nese merchants and that the order of the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce could only be taken as a matter. It private and personal
was not a case of force majeure, he Fargued, and there was no tegal instification for the refusal to pay house rentals.
for
the
Hankow, July Mesars, D. Wrong put A. Nyhus were both releaseal by the Tor bandits who captured them
late hist ransom at Chikonstan
In giving judgment month. They arrived in Hankow last night. They stated that their plaintiffs, the Court held that the district where the defendant's pre- release was due in the fact that the mises were situated was the safest bandits felt that they were misplace in the entire city during the defendants sionaries and "good people" who, recent war; that the not being rich, could evidently continued to make use of their pre- yield anything in the way of a good mises during the period of fight- ing; and that the defendants were net exempted from paying the municipal rates, which fact showed that they did not suffer from the effects of war as the residents of the war zone.
ranson.
After they had born released the bandits ordered them to go to the town of Kwangshui on Friday where they caught the train or Hankow.-Renter.
the
In a running gun battle Central District at Shanghai on Tues any one armed robber was shot dead
of
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The recently completed Arlington Memorial Bridge point- ing the way in Arlington House, the historic residence of General Lee,
Revealed in a stirring pratorie al pase, the William Jennings Bryan staing which Gutzon Borghum, noted sculptor, is shown carving.
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Reported Decision of French Police.
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Chinese gaoler by the French Police, S. Gladkih, the deceased Russian's brother, who reported his French police on to the The San Tai Laing, Store, one of
brother's death after being in- and another arrested in Fokien Rond, the largest shops of Juho Vilinge
formed by three other Russians, behind the Commercial Press, by was completely looked last week by
will be the complainant. censtubies of the Central Pair the villagers who declared that they! the proprietor of
The Chinese court authorities has been received by Messrs. Pen- Station. The couple were members did this because
still insist that only the court's treath and Co. gang of four robbers who raided the shop, Hu Shan-en, served the Chinese fur dealer's at Chichang
chang nation's enemies during the recent Japanese
procurators have the right to hold Alleyway, Rue Petit, at fum. After troops. The inoters numbered from
occupation of that village by
autopsies on bodies of decensed having ransacked the house and
prisoners under the court's juris- posscusion they mistook for valuabera, which 1 500 tu 600, but the police arresed none|
of bag of
them. After the Japanese evacun- nf
According 10 information diction, but declare they are pre- byton, a number of petitions were sub- decamped, being closely followed by tion, a an occupant. At the corner of Rue witted in the Chinese authorities by emanating from Shanghai Chin-pared to hold an autopsy on the arrest ese court oficials, the French body of a Russian, alleged to be villagers, demanding the in-d
the gang
Road and Siking Road joined in the
that there
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GAOLER TO BE SUED.
Montauban and Avenue Edward VIL the ment of Hu Shan-en, but police authorities have decided to that of George Gladkih, as soon as a French police constable was formed of the robbery and the gang- the Chinese authorities failed to do institute legal proceedings against the French police withdraw their the head gaoler of the detention demand for such autopsy to be sters, hotly pursued, opened fire on anything on the ground
housc of the Second Shanghai held by themselves and as noon as the pollesman, and fed to the Settle-was no evidence against Hu.
Special District Court, French the police are able to prove that in Kiangse ment. Four constables
Concession, who in alleged to have George Gladkih and George Ladi- Commencing to-day, Messrs. Lane, maltreated a Russian prisoner chiaff, the latter being the Rus- died recently in the one of the robbern was shot dead in Crawford, Ltd., are showing a repre-named George Gladkih, resulting sian who
court's detention house from l Foklen Road. Another gangster was sentative range of goods from various! arrested, while the remaining two departmente, at the Victoria Hotel, in his death.
Should legal proceedings be ness, are one and the samo pers were lost sight of.
Shameen, for three days,
actually instituted against the son.
chase. In the subsequent gun battle,
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