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JAPANESE WARSHIPS ORDERED TO
PREJUDICE
EVIDENCE
IN
DEFENCE ARGUMENT IN CHENG TRIAL
AGENCY DOUBTS
CROWN PROCEDURE
CRITICISED
"This is a clear case of the Crown establishing by evidence of the commission of one crime that accused must have committed: the other," said Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C, in the Full Court this morning when argument on cer- tain points of law arising out of the Cheng murder trial was com- mented.
Mr. Potter dealt first with the Crown indictment. "You will appreciate" he said, "that the in- dictment charges the areused with wing an accessory before the Ret, that is to say. that Lau acted as his agent for the purpose | of committing this murder."
Mr. Potter quoted briefly from Halsbury to support his conten- tion that accused was not an ae- Tessory before the fact, or, other words, that the agency of Lat had not been established.
KERNEL OF CASE.
in
"As the trial judge put it in his summing up, the agency of Lau is the kernel of the whole! case," said Mr. Potter, "and my submission will be that the evidence relied upon by the Crown for the purpose of proving that fart, not only did not prove it, hut was inadmissible evidence"
Pruceeding, Mr. Potter suidi the plot to murder Fung had been i concocted between Lau and Tsui long before Zimmern and Christie
of He
HOSTILE ACTIVITIES IN HONGKEW ALLEGED
SINO-JAPANESE TENSION NEARING BREAKING-POINT
hu
SHANGHAI
Admiral Sakonji's flagship, the Idzumo, in which he is rushing to Shang-
hai from Hankow.
MAYOR WU TO LODGE PROTESTS TYPHOON'S MOLLISON RUNS INTO
(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH.”)
SHANGHAI, AUGST 29.
ACCORDING TO INFORMATION FROM RELIABLE OURCES, THE JAPANESE FIFTEENTH DESTROYER SUADRON COMPOSED OF FIVE WARSHIPS, UNDER THE COMIAND OF ADMIRAL SAKONJI, HAS RECEIVED ORDERS FOM THE JAPANESE NAVY OFFICE TO CONCENTRATE AT SANGHAL
The strain in Sino-Japanese relations in Shanghai is now rapidlyleaching the breaking point and the fear of a resumption of hostilities is no longer fined to the uneducated mass, who believe any rumour that is put into circulatio
.
The gravity of the situation may easily be judged from the inereing activity of the Japanese marines, who have been considerably strengthened shore and who have already established military telephone communication in Hongkew District.
Hundreds of Chinese residents of Hongkew and Chapei, the proble storm centres if trouble breaks, are leaving for "safer" zones and apprehensi of/fur- ther trouble is becoming more and more infectious.
Admiral Sakonji, the commander-in-chief of the Fifteenth Squadron at pre- sent at Hankow. He is rushing back to Shanghai aboard his flagship, user Idzumo, which, it will be recalled, was nearly blown up by a depth mine ely in
the year when lying at anchor off Hongkew.
Japanese goods, therebhoping to escape the wrath of agita-
The
MAYOR RECEIVES DEPUTATION
The Chinese authorities are attempting their tors. Federation of tional hardest to pacify the Chinese residents of Hongkew and salvation Associations, up of Chapei, about whose alarm there is no doubt, and Mayor Chinese so-called patriotipieties il the engagement of Wong, Wu Tieh-chen is, at the same time, making representa- has issued a manifeste fessed
were
thought
related
the incidents which surround-
and
declared
the gunman that a complete, coherent and self-! contained story of the murder of Fung by Tsui and his accomplices had been put before the jury.
GAP IN EVIDENCE.
no
1 The only element missing-in". the Crown case," continued Mr.
there is that Potter, is evidence to connect the accused with that shooting or with Tsui's plot, or to prove that Lau in any way acted as his agent. The story!
is complete and self-container!.
"When you come to Zimmern į
and
to the Japanese,commun here-
tions to the commander of the Japanese marines, asking in it is stated that the linese him to restrain their activities.
Representatives of Chinese residents in the Chapei, Hong- kew and Yangtsepoo Districts have, in fact, sent a deputation to Mr. Wu Tieh-chen. The Mayor received them at office this morning and promised to do his best to assist them.
They asked the Mayor to apply_strong pressure upon the Japanese and to prevail upon the Consulate-General that the warlike activities of the Japances marines must cease.
The Mayor is also likely to lodge a strong protest with theị Japanese Consulate General against the recent hostile activities.
people have exhaust their patience in the face of nese aggression and provocadacta" and that the boycott has re- vived in the hope that tapan- ese Government will ch' its "stiff" policy toward Chil
SNATCHER SENTO
PRISON
I
TOLL
IN FORMOSAI
TRAIN WRECKED IN
THE GALE
MANY LIVES LOST
The entire northern part of Formosa was almost devastated by the typhoon which caused the, heavy week-end rains in Hong- kong.
A message from Taihoku says that the cyclonic gales were ar- companied by fierce rains, and elaimed many lives and infieted widespread loss.
Twelve persons were killed and two injured when a train overtura- ed as a result of the storm...
Taihoku was inundated. Two flouting prataurants in the Tansúl river were carried away, and six waitresses were drowned.
Keelung was also inundated and i suffered serious damage.
Four small steamers have not yet been accounted for.
ANTI-CIVIL WAR FEDERATION
END OF SHANGHAI CONFERENCE
FOG
Lands Eighteen Miles From St. John
St. John, Aug. 28. Mr. J. A. Mollison, Aying here Trom New York, landed safely in afleld at Nerepis, about eighteen miles from St. John, Fog pre- venting him from landing at the airport in St. John-Reuter,
JAANIRMAALINENSENTONOVLJIVALTAAT GENERACONTRI AJETURA KATINKERS
THE COTTON
STRIKE
THE RAIN
+
EARLY IMPROVEMENT
EXPECTED
TWELVE INCHES RECORDED
A HONGKONG SUMMER WEEK-END
Twelve and a half inches of rain have fallen upon Hong- kong this week-end and numerous small landslides have occurred, although on the whole, the Colony has escaped comparatively light- ly.
The ran commenced at 2 a.m. on- Friday and has continued in- cessantly ever since, with occa- sional intervals of mere drizzle.
The heaviest fall was register- fed between midnight on Saturday And midnight Sunday when 4.48 inches fell at the Royal Observa- tory, while over the whole period. there were two hours in which more than an inch fell. QUITE LOCAL.
MAGNITUDE NOT YET torded, and between 11.30 a.m. and
KNOWN
Between 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 1.18 inches were re 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, 1.20 inches were registered.
Between o'clock yesterday and 10 o'clock 10 to-day, 3.64 inches have fallen:
The Royal Observatory states
TEN DISTRICTS that the heavy rains have been i
DOUBTFUL
(Telegraph Special.)
quite local and there is every prospect of an early improvement in weather conditions.
LYTTLETON ROAD CRASH.
A serious landslide occurred London, Aug. 28.
on Lyttleton Road, caused by the The magnitude of the Lan-bedded in the retaining wall of loosening of a huge boulder em-. cashire cotton strike will not be the pathway leading to definitely known until the factory Terrace, whistles blow to-morrow morn. jing.
Basilea
The mass of earth and rock came down yesterday afternoon The weavers left their work at with a crash that aroused the en- the usual time on Saturday and tire neighbourhood. The P.W.D. it is fairly certain that the vast was notified and steps were taken majority will ignore the whistles to shut off access to the to-morrow.
upper pathway on the dangerous side.
There is, however, some doubt about what will happen in the ten
PATHWAY UNDERMINED
the
to
(Special to "Telegraph")
Shanghai, Aug. 29. The conference of the National manufacturing centres where the The slide blocked almost Anti-Civil War Federation held operativen recently made separate entire width of Lyttleton Road, its final session yesterday after-greements with their employers. but enough of the fall was re
In these districts, it is believed, moved to allow free pasange noon when a committee was a the operatives are content with vehicles, pointed to take charge affairs of the Federation after the working conditions, but it is not very old there is a fear that still As the property is elosing of the conference.
certain whether they will strike in more of the retaining wall sympathy with their less fortunate collapse should the heavy rains tion urging that branch organiza
The meeting adopted a resolut colleagues,
continue.
The pathway to the terrace has vinees in order tb build the
been dangerously undermined at
VICTIMISED Christie, you have another "EVENING POST" SOUNDS WARNING
complete story and each story has
reference to different crimes. It is a clear case of the Crown
of
the
HEAVY LOSSES. If the stoppagė
The growing tension in Shang- cott,plus the Japanese inclination labour with 12 strokes of fretions be established in the pro- establishing by evidence of the hai as a result of the renewed to depend on force to fight the boy-wing at the Kowloon Mahuy Federation into a powerful organ Great Britain will lose business
colt.
when he was charged witch-
KOWLOON LA
Sentence of nine montard was passed on a man sampag commission of one crime, that the
The situation has not yet moved before Mr. Fraser this ing of public opinion.-Reuter." accused must have committed the anti-Japanese boycott efforts has other."
already been marked by the action so far that the roots of further lo- ing a handbag from Mehn The Crown had to establish one!
¡¡ent trouble cannot be torn up, but thing, and one thing only, added the Japanese naval Junding the policy of drift may prove fatal," Pinquet at 8 p.m. on Satu Mr. Potter, That was the agency headquarters in strengthening the the editorial aaid, of Lau. If they could establish regular patrolling force.
Control for peace must be that, the case was complete, and
A statement was issued, declar-war. he could offer no defence. There:
ing that ample protection will be exercised now while there is yet would be no need for a lot evidence about motive. Every provided for Japanese residents, thing clec would go by the board despite the recent "extension of terrorism by Chinese ultra once agency was established.
patriots."
NO RESERVATIONS.
of
ALLEGED THREATS.
·DOLLAR RISES A weekly. "Shanghai cannot afford another
¡time."
FARTHING
MARKET IN STATE OF
UNCERTAINTY
Α
PEAK SLIDE.
will
is complete, one point. to the value of £1,000,000 weekly while the cotton workers will lose! half a million sterling in wages eight tons of earth and rock be- A quantity of approximately Inspector Elston, stathat Mrs. Pinquet was walkining
Meanwhile, Rohie is congratulat-about 100 yards from the junction came dislodged from the hillside Cameron Road towards en
ing itself upon the securing of of Stubba Road reduction in the Itailan cotton
and Craigmin Road on Saturday night de- fondant eame up from hd.
industry without a strike,
Road, on The Peak, blocking the gave her a push and saater
north side of Stubbs Road
for MERCHANT FEARS.
handbag. He ran off was.
ITALIAN CUTS.
some time. Pinquet shouting after här.
In the vicinity of Merchants whose business Is Pinquet came on the acondis
Shlu message from the
Italian Terrace, Stubbs Road was partial- ·
Fai Intready at a low ebb as the result moment and joined in the,
capital states that a ten per cently blocked by a small landslide, The Hongkong dollar rose- of political uncertainties and de-catching the thief after sin farthing this morning to la. 4.d. minimum wage earners
acut in wages for all but tho but the debris has now been clear- Reverting to Zimmern and
preciated silver, believe that re-tance. By the time he wast, The local market opened steady, Italian cotton industry has been ported to Police Headquarters in the ed. Sergeant Billingham has re- Christle, Mr. Potter said the The Chinese-owned China Press
newed Sino-Japanese hostilities defendant had discarded whole
but later the undertone. was agreed upon after long negotia-that a small landslide occurred evidence was reports in a news story that an would subject of their
the commercial thrown before the jury without a organisation, of Japanese mer-structure to a strain
but he later pointed it ougeasier, with an uncertain outlook. tious. which it reservation of any kind, and the chants has threatened the lives of would be unable to
complainant,
Silver advanced 1/16th in Loż The conclusion of the agreein Glenenly Road:
about 30 yards above Caine Road withstand. jury were invited to say that if leaders of the anti-Japanese Wholesale
In the bag was $30 In; doa on Saturday, bankruptcies would
an official India bought, ment is welcomed in arfi, other articles to thland China sold. There was small communique as a triumph for the Hang Road was also reported yes- they believed he had done what movement, who intend to hold a follow.
A slight washout on the Tal Zimmern and Christle had said he national convention in Shanghai.
value of $150,
business. In spite of this attitude in re-
Fascist industrial policy, which, terday. had done, they could infer he was The holding of such a conven-sponsible
After Mrs. Pinquet hin quarters, tho anti-
In New York, silver rose 3/8ths safeguards the interests of the while making strikes illegal, fully Lau's principal.
tion, it is admitted, might indame Japanese
evidence of the bag-unatel ngitation continues,
to 29, the market being steady. "Boiled down, the Crown case is the situation to proportions it The "Blood and Iron", societies cident, sentence
was pnes
lower paid workers at a time when that because the accused procur- achieved last winter prior to the are carrying on their
the cotton. Industries of other warnings ed Zimmern and Christie, he must outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostili against
countries are paralysed by labour merchants allegedly! have been the man who procured ties.
conflict.-Router. handling Japanese goods. Threats Lau," said Mr. Pottor.
of violence are becoming numerous NEWSPAPER WARNING. ¡and instances of bombs being In a front page editorial on Fri- placed within shops as warnings.
Proceeding, he explained that
one of his main objections WOB
above.
U.S. FLIERS LO
APPARENT FAILURE REACH NORWAY Oslo, Au Extreme anxiety la being also
8-Oslo for the two young A various
ESTABLISH PICKETS.
that the evidence of Zimmern and day, the Shanghai Evening Post from the sociotion continue. Christie had been thrown before Hounded a warning that disaster is the Jury without, the slightest re-ahead if lawless Chincad elements
The agitators have do not cease promoting the anti-
stablished Japaneso boycott by violence.
pickets at
servation.
Mr. Potter then told the story of
the Zimmern and Christle evidenze The editorial was entitled, Drift wharves and warehouses seeking lors, Clyde Lee and John from the time of the dinner at the Toward Disastor of Control for to observe any incoming Japanese on, who hopped off last T Yeo Fong Chan Restuarant to the Ponce." The Post declared that goods. visit to the solicitors.
Sino-Japanese relations are again
from Harbour Grace, Net
FINANCIERS IN SESSION
HOUSES COLLAPSE. Excavation work was in full brie in three houses in Yat Fu progress this morning on the de Strest, West Point, where, as u rosult of a rock sliding down from the hillside, the house collapsed and a number of leading Ameri- shortly before 6 o'clock last oven- can financierk.
The British programme in re-who are now in hospital, and kill- ing, causing injuries to two men forence to its. December, debt paying a young boy. ment to the United States was
The huge boulder crashed into one of the topfes uppermost in the row of houses at the extreme New York, Aug. 28, -
the minds of the head of the end of Yat Fu Street and caused What high financial aireles ternational financiers.
British bank and American in-Nos. 12, 16 and 17 to collapse. The termed "the most important pri
Inmates were buried by the debris Another matter of great im- but rosous work carried out by the ference of the year wild hold at was the creation of an affective ed in seven women and "The bein Bar Harbour, Mafun, last week ho plan looking toward Internatiorial Portricated with batsmineTA U PRV teen Mr. Montagu Norman co-operaHUONETAR
THE "MYSTERY MAN"
IN AMERICA ''A'
As a result of the activition land, on a projected fighvate international finance con-portance which was discussed Fire Brigade and the police results
the Atlantic to Norway.
It is another complete history creating a marked and increasing against Chinese merchants, scores It is feared that their of another criminal offence, he tension in Shanghat, due to the Chi- of there have published statements would be exhausted by 1
nesa pandency: towards floral and in the Chinese vernacular prose day Lt they had fown un
ving that they are not handling, ums
anid.
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