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SHIP GAMBLERS CAUGHT
POOR BOX GETS THE BENEFIT
A party of police. unier Detec tive Sergeant D. C. Macdonald, boarded the 8.8. Sui Tai n the was lying at the Wing Lok Street wharf at 10.30 last night and ar rented 32 Chinese, some of them members of the crew, on ebarres of gambling.
Twenty-two of them were found in one compartme playing pai kan, while the ather ten were indulging in a rame of poker in another part of the ship.
Of the pai kau players, three of the arrested men appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Centrall Police Court this morning, when the keeper was fined $75 and the other two each. The remaining nineteen, who failed to make an appearance, had their bait estreat- ed. A sum of $17.74 was confiscat- ed to the Pour Box.
Six of the poker players ap- peared before the Magistrate and in the case of the keeper a fine of $75 was imposed, the others being fined $3 each. The absentees ha their ball of $5 each estreated. Th Poor Rox benefitted to the extent of another $11.86 which was seized.
MORE KOWLOON THEFTS
RESIDENTS REPORT
LOSSES
Further thefts from foreign residents in Kowloon have been reported to the police during the past two days.
Mrs. R. A. Piericia, of 7, Knuts- ford Terrace, ground Door, has notified the authorities that some Time between B .m. and 6 an. yesterday some-one stole a jacket in which was a wallet containing a sum of money, from the above address. The total value of the lows was reported as being 376.
A report was made to the police by Mrs. N. Y Noronha, af. 9. Gordon Terrace, Hanhoi Road, to the effect that some time on Sun- day or Monday shme-one stole Seven bathing costumes from a cloths line. Three of the eostumes have since been recovered,
QUEER
WEATHER.
Summer Snow Storm Wrecks Crops.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1932.
Workmen's dynamite was destroying Fort St. Anne at Antwerp, when this spectacular picture was 90apped. It was part of the Belgian government's preväine of dismantling war fortresses,
LANDLORDS WIN.
Claim for Rent Exemption Not Upheld.
One of the most interesting legal balties between landlords and tenants over the question of rent payment, which attracted a large number of spectators during each bearing in the First Shanghai Special District Court, was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday morn-1 ing, the Court giving decision favour of the Inndlords.
The action was for the payment! brought by: of rentals and was Algar & Co. Ltd., against 13 Chi- nese shop proprietors doing busi-
9 09 Chekiang and Pakhoi Ronds. During the period of recent Sino-Japanese hostilities Henr Shanghai, the defendants, being tenants of the plaintiffs. refused to pay rentals on the ground that they should be exempted from pay-; ing such rentals because they did un business during the war their shops were closed following a general strike proclaimed by the local Chinese General Chamber of | Commerce.
and
The plaintiffs. represented by Mr. A. M. Preston, attorney-at-law, i asserted there was no legal justi-; fention for the refusal on the part of the defendants to pay rentals because, counsel pointed out, the premises occupied by the defen- danta were situated in the Central District, the safest place in the entire city during the recent fight- ing. Moreover, counsel asverted,· the defendants reaped good profits: during the perind of recent fighting b-letting their houses at 8-
Argument for Defence.
Peking, July 7 According to reports from Lan-ivased charges chow, provincial capital of Kansh. the summer crop at Lungte, eastern Kansu, was destroyed last week by an extraordinary snowstorm which eity for wept the
two hours. Vegelation was frozen by the cold weather coming as it did at this time of the year.
The situation in southern Ransu, west of the Tao Ho River), is said to be grave due to the long drought and famine. In order to mitigate
Ale. Leo Chung-yung, counsel for; The defence, based his 'contration
n Article 441. of the Civil Code? which read: "A lessee is not re leased from his obligation to pay his rent by the tact that he is pre- vented from using the thing leased
from collecting fruits therefrom either wholly or partially, through a cause brought about by himself." Counsel stated his clients could not
the plight of the prople, the prose their premises when they re-
vincial authorities have decided to The districts from exempt those farm lax
for a period of the years. Kuo Min.
BANDIT CAPTIVES.
Two Missionaries Return to Hankow.
Hankow, July. Messrs. D. W Vitoor and A. E. Nyhus were both released by the bandits whe
for captured them ransom a Chikmushan late last month. They arrived in Hankow last night. They stated that their release was due to the fact that the bandits felt that they were mis sionaries and "good people" who, not being rich, could evidently not yield anything in the way of à good
ecived an order from the Chinese Chamber of Commerce for a gen- eral strike and that therefore it i 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 act on the part of the Chi- uese merchants and that the order of the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce could only be taken as a private and personal matter. It was not a case of force majeure, he Jargued, and there was no legal justification for the refusal to pay house rentals,
Tor
the
In giving judgment plaintiffs, the Court held that thej district where the defendant's pre-1 mises were situated was the safest place in the entire city during the recent war; that the defendants continued to make use of their pre-i mises during the period of ‚fight- | ing; and that the defendants were not exempted from paying the After they had been releases the municipal rates, which fact showed bandits ordered them to go to the that they did not suffer from the town of Kwangshui on Friday effects of war as the residents of where they caught the train or the war zone.
Janson.
Hankon.-Reuter,
In a running gun battle in the Central District at Shanghai on Tues-
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The San Tri Lung Store, one tiny one armed robber was shot deal the largest shops of Liuho Village and another arrested in Fokien Roul, was completely luotes fast week by blind the Commercial Press, by the villagers who deelneed that they een tables of the Central Palles did this because the proprietor of Station. The couple were members the shop, Hu Shan-en, served of a gang of four rabbers who
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CHINESE PRISON.
SENSATION.
Reported Decision of French Police.
GAOLER TO BE SUED.
Chinese gaoler by the French Police, S. Gladkih, the deceased
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Russian's brother, who reported The following cable at the close market yesterday the French police on his of the sugar brother's death after being in- has been received by Mesara, Pun- formed by three other Russians, treath and Co. will be the complainant.
The Chinese court authorities still insist that only the court's procurators have the right to hold autopsies on bodies of decensod prisoners under the court's juris-
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Rue Fellt, nt G an. After troops. The looters numbered from ransneked the ouse and taken 400 to 600, but the palice arrese
the house sion of a bag of coppers, which of them. After the Japanese evacua- According to information diction, but declare they are pre-asking These mistook for caluables, the
tion, a number of petitions were sub- gan decamped, bring closely followed by mitted to the Chinese authorities by omanating from Shanghai Chin-pared to hold an autopsy on the court officials, the French body of a Russian, alleged to be an occupant. At the corner of Rue the villagers, demanding the arrest eRe Montauban and
Edward VII, and punishment of In Shan-en, but police Authorities have decided to that of George Gladkih, as soon as in the Chinese authorities failed to do institute legal proceedings against the French police withdraw their anything on the ground that there the head gaoler of the detention demand for such autopsy to be house of the Second Shanghai held by themselves and as soon as Special District Court, French the police aro able to prove that! Suffering from scalde to his legs. Concession, who is alleged to have George Gladkih and George Ladi- # Russian prisonor chiaff, tho latter being the Rus- chase. In the subsequent gun battle, Chung Cheung, aged 21, mem "boy" maltreated
In the one of the robbern was shot dead in of the Royal Engineers' Meas, at named George Gladkih, resulting sian who died recently
court's detention house from Foklen Road. Another gangster was Wellington Barracks, was yesterday in his death. arrested, while the remaining two admitted to the Government. Civil Should legal proceedings beness, are one and the same per were lost sight of.
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