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INTERPORT CRICKETER SLIGHTLY WOUNDED
CHANNEL WINS
HOPELESSLY ADVERSE
CONDITIONS
ZIMMY GIVES UP
ATTEMPT
(Telegraph Special.)
London. Sept. 11.
Charles Zibelmann. the
Ziramy -the
Терия
was abandoned.
Awimmar
legless American swimmer, whose attempt to cross the Cannel better known as "Zimmy," failed in his attempt to swim the Channel from! Dover to Calais.
Conditions were all against the A strong Auccess of the attempt. south-westerly wind and a choppy sca prevailed throughout the perio Zimmy was in the water and
after leaving Dover he was, fighting vainlessly against a strong
ide.
30 MILES IN 19 HOURS.
Donal
le started off from Dover on Friday with a large supply of his favourite cigurs for nourishment, but he was compelled to abandon the effort in the early hours
of!
yesterday morning after being in the water for approximately nine-
teen hours.
il
GOLF LINKS CHENG CONVICTION
DRAMA
BRITONS IN FIGHT
WITH BANDITS
CLUBS V. GUNS
MESSRS. MELHUISH AND HANSELL
(Special to "Telegraph.")
Shanghai, Sept. 12.
A vivid story of the golf links Idráma near Harbin when two senior members of the staff of the Hongkong and Shanghai and Bank fought desperately
BATTLE OF with success against five armed
MARNE
bandits to avoid sharing the fate of Mr. Corkran and Mrs. Pawley, is related in messages from Har- bin.
transpires that
It DOW
the
FRENCH ANNIVERSARY. heres of the affair wore Mr. R. P.
CELEBRATIONS
"REMEMBER”.
(Special to "Telegraph".)
Paris, Sept. 11.
Melhuish and Mr. W. N. Hansell, both of the H.K. & S. Banking Corporation.
The baits attempted to kleinup them on a golf course near Earbiji! un Saturday afternoon.
to light.
TO STAND
FULL COURT DECISION AGAINST DEFENCE
SENTENCE TO BE PASSED
ON WEDNESDAY
SENTENCE OF DEATH WILL BE PASSED UPON
CHENG KWOK-YAU ON WEDNESDAY MORN- ~ ING NEXT, THE FULL COURT TO-DAY ANNOUN-
CING A DECISION UPHOLDING HIS CONVICTION
FOR PROCURING THE MURDER OF GEORGE FUNG, ALIENATOR OF THE AFFECTIONS OF LAI MING-FAY, HIS FIANCE,
The judgment centred upon the admissibility of the evidence of Edward Zimmern and Christie and both judges upheld the decision of the Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions.
Crowds thronged the court-room and corridors, but Cheng Kwok-yau was not present to hear the decision.
Mr. R. C. H. Lim, counsel for the defence, in the absence of Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. F.. C. Jenkin, an- nounced that application would be made for special leave to appeal to the Privy Council.
FULL TEXT OF JUDGMENTS
KAM TO MEETING.
Mr. George Hutchinson who, with his family, is feared lost in the Arctic Sea,
ARCTIC SEA DISASTER FEARS
S.O.S. MESSAGES FROM HUTCHINSONS
FLYING FAMILY
NO TRACE FOUND BY RESCUE CRAFT
Copenhagen, Sept. 11. There is grave reason to fear that disaster has over-
M.C.C. TEAM en Mr. and Mrs. George
SURPRISE
K. S. DULEEPSINH
DROPS OUT
FOR REASONS OF HEALTH
London, Sept. 11.
Hutchinson and their family in the Arctic Sea.
5.0.5. signals were received from their giant amphibian ma- chine. A powerful British traw- ler rushed at full speed to the and failed to find any rescue trace of their craft.
The S.0.3. messages were pick- ed up at Angmagsalik towards which the plane was flying, Mr. Hutchinson demanding urgent ns- sistance, announcing that the craft It is officially stated at the had been compelled to make a Staines residence of
the sea the forced landing on Maharajah of
Nawanagar the Greenland coast. (Ranji) that K. S. Duleepsinhji
near
The message was also picked up
will be unable to go to Australia by the British trawler, Port Talbot, which immediately ceased fish- with the M.C.C. team.
ing operations and went at full The famous Sunsex skipper is speed to, the rescue. jshortly going to Switzerlaúd ́ for
health reasons..
RADIO SUDDENLY CEASES.
Paynter, the Lancashire left Mr. Hutchinson must have: res were hander, has already been asked toalised that the rough seas accompany, the M.C.C. team to dangerous to his craft and main- Australia fest Duleepsinhji should tained wireless contact with the
BANK MEN ATTACK. Although their assailants were five in number and were all armed Fance is to-day celebrating with revolvers, Mr. Molhuish and In that time, remarkable the eighteenth anniversary of the enough feat for a legless swimmer, Battle of the Marne and the one Mr. Hanseli acted swiftly, decid-
the War
best! he had covered a distance of at word "Remember" is the keynote ing that attack Joust thirty iniles, but owing to tie of French feeling.
defence, and sailing in vigorously adverse conditions, carrying him It was inspired by ¡L sprech
with their golf clubs.
The Puisse Judge, Mr. Justice: One of these men was known steadily away from his objective. ¡delivered at the unveiling of the
the he was only half-way across when Varelites War Memorial.
So purposefully did they wield Wood, delivering which
principal as Ah To-nui. he consented to be taken out of the was pre-ented to France by their clubs that the bandits took judgment, said:-.
Tor As they dispersed, The accused was indicted Americans, M. Herriot performing water.-Router.
the ceremony.
ying in different directions, how-murder. The particulars in thei Ab To-nui was known to Lau. be unable to join them. More-Port Talbol for over an hour, im-
of them hesitated 'a indictment indicated that Observing that France had fre.ever, one
the Lan. Taui and Ah To-nui had over, there has been some cri-pressing the urgency of the mat- supported by been quently accused of late of moment to turn round and fire at charge would be
together on or about ticism in certain London journalster. SPANISH ROYAL, M. Herriot claimed the Britons with a Mauser pistol evidence adduced to show that February 25, On March 8, at of the inclusion in the team of two After au hour, despite all the he was an accessory before the the Kam Toi Hotel, in the after- Indians, the argument being that efforts of the Port Talbot's wire- INTERPORT CRICKETER. EXILES
fact in the murder of George noon, Lau, Tsui and Wong were an English team should be chosen. less operator, no answer could be Mr. Hansell was struck in the Fung. The murder was alleged together. Lau Was there at It is not, however, thought that obtained from the Hutchinson arm, but the wound is not regard ve been committed on March different times between 3.30 p.m. the criticisms have affected Duleep-machine.
21, 1932. The incidents evidenced and 10 p.m. France, he said, had been care ed as serious.
for the Crown occurred between conducted from the hotel, upon well for some time past and was
Observations were sinhji's decision. He has not been PORT TALBOT'S REPORTS. ful not to awaken by imprudent Messrs. Melhuish and Hansell February 21st 1932 and the date the movements of Fung demonstrations those instincts joined the Harbin branch of the nf the alleged murder.
On unable to appear in the closing March 9, Tsui rented a cubicle in matches of the season.-Reuter. towards the employment of forceHongkong and Shanghai Bank at No issue other than the issues the Happy Valley district for the Madrid, Sept. 12.
which could not be controlled once i the end of last year as manager raised by the indictment
was use of the conspirators. This and nasistant manager respective- divulged at the trial by the de-cubicle was resorted to by Fifty-five Monarchist political they had been let loose.
both He expressed the gratitude of ly.
fence either by evidence or in Lau and Wong. A fire-arm was deportees, mostly granders and France to American state-nien
The accused kept there. Mr. Hansel was formerly of cross-examination. "endeavouring were including relatives of the ex-King who
to
Shanghai. He is
expert was convicted. Sentence has been that order!
On the evening of March reason Don establish by Alfonso, Don Alfonso and
cricketer and played in the inter- postponed by the learned Chief Tsui, Wong and another man went been disturbed by Francisco Bourbon, have been sent which had
port match against Hongkong in Justice who was the trial judge, out from the cubicle intending to [{violence." to Cadiz from prison en route taf
pending the consideration by this shoot Fung. No shot was 1923-Renter
fred Court of certain questions of law and the attempt was Spanish West Africa.-Renter,
abandoned | reserved.
on that occasion:
MONARCHISTS GOING TO WEST AFRICA
DE VALERA READY TO FIGHT
MUST BE NO TALK OF SURRENDER
London, Sept. 11. There must be no talk of Bur- render, declared Mr. de Valera, in
Lint a heartfelt desire for peare! had inspired all her actions.
FORCE INSTINCTS.
He emphasised in particular, the value of the floover proposuis (for the reduction of armaments.
Reuter.
MANILA SHIP WRECKED
ÁLL ON BOARD SAFE
ASHORE
CORKRAN
SUBSTANTIAL POINTS. ·
NEW AGENT.
19.
DOLLAR REMAINS
UNCHANGED
DESPITE RISE IN-
SILVER
OUTRAGE points may be stated as follows: Kwan to kill Fung. named in London and New York.
THIEVES SMASH
WINDOW
The Inst messages from Angmagaalik consist of reports from the master of the Port Talbot, which arrived this evening ut the position given by Mr. Hut- chinson and found no trace of the machine..
It was only four hours after the receipt of the first 8.0.8. call from the Hutchinson machine that the Part Talbot arrived at the post- tion given, namely, Lat. 65.28 North, Long. 38.45 W.
two
The Hongkong dollar remains
AMPHIBIAN PLANE. The questions of law have been
unchanged at Is. 4.1/8d, despite On March 20, Tsui enlisted the rises in the silver quotations both formulated: but the substantial services of a new
The machine was an amphibian agent
The A second peni market is very quiet,
and there was overy hope that she Whether the evidence of the two firearm was introduced into the
would ride the acas until the witnesses for the Crown, Zinner cubicle on the same
Silver rose in London 3/16ths.arrival of the rescue ship. The date and Christie to the
for China and India bought, and there | Port Talbot is now engaged in effect that Kwan's use. RANSOM DEMAND
On March 24 at the necused incited thom to mur-7:45 p.m. the conspirators attend-| were small offerings.
Reouring the district for miles STORY UNTRUE der Fung was properly received,ing at the cubicle included Tsui,
In New York, «ilver advanced around in the hope that the craft and further whether the case as and Kwan went out and loitered 1/8th, the market being steady. (was forced down elsewhere than There is no truth whatever in evidenced at the trial should not in Shan Kwong Road. Fung and
Mr. Hutchinson belloved himself Munilu, Sept. 9. the reports that the bandits who have been withdrawn from the Lai Ming-fay came out of a house
to be. a speech at Kilkenny to-day.
The interisland steamer Mie kidnapped Mr. Charles Corkran jury."
and Fung WAS shot by Wong: He re-affirmed the intention of amis, of L Everett and Company, and Mrs. Pawley near New-
The facts proved for the pro-Taui was present in a car in order to was wrecked on a rock off Calavite chwang have demanded the secution are these:-George Fung to ald the assailants to escape. the Fianna Fail Government withhold the land annuities from Point, north Mindoro, last night, payment of $250,000 as ransom. Shan Kwong Road, Happy Valley. to Tsui as a reward to the
was killed on March 24th in On March 26th, Lau paid $2,000 England,
according to radio
message The local naval authorities have He was shot at close range from spirators. We are going to fight," he said, intercepted by the Bureau of Posts received a wireless message from behind by one Wong Nam Sheung
win. We radio station at Iloilo at 11.15 last H.MS. Sandwich, relaying in-The shooting occurred. at "and we are going to
7 8.30
FAY'S DEPARTURE. must be prepared for sacrifices but night and relayed to the Manila formation from the British Consul there is no soft bargain with office. The messago was sent by at Newchwang declaring that no m. and he died within half an
On February 22 (I go back in Britain."-Router.
H. D. Cranston, local
businesa ravisam has yet been asked for as/hour. With the deceased at the date and cito the 'ovidenco given)
In broad daylight yesterday man who was a passenger on the contact has not yet been estime was a young woman named by Lai Ming-fay), Lai Ming-fay morning, some person or persons Misamis bound for Culion, and tablished with the captors of Mr. Lai Ming-fay.
was Hving with the accused at broke the window of Messrs. read as follows:
Corkran and Mrs. Pawloy.
No. 60, Village Road, Happy Sennot Freres, jewellers, of Glou- "Misamis total wreck and
Valley. On that day. Fung took,cester Building, and atolo a number
an ordinary undercarriage for abandoned in rock Calavite Point, DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE. Lal Ming-fay had lived under a room for her at the Nathan of wrist watches, the exact number land flying when she took off from north Mindoro. Everybody anfo
New York but this was detached "It is urgently desired," the the protection of the accused who Hotel, Kowloon, which was used and value being at prosent un- but short of food and water.)
known. A report of the theft was proceeds, "that this intended to marry her, for two by the girl and himself.
nt Nova Scotia -and sent by Notify owners and send help im-message mediately.
On the 24th February, Lal Ming-made to the Police by Mr. C. E. Rassengers safe
erroneous report should be sup years prior to February 22. Dur- ол ahore, Sydney Maru taking me to pressed as it is likely to lead to a ing the second year she had fallen fay met the accused in the Hong- Bacci. It was stated that the in-steamer to Edinburgh for the later
time bo-stages of the flight-Router.. eldent took place some and relaxation of efforts to trace the in love with the
WANG CHING-WEI
NANKING SCHEMES
GO ASTRAY
Nanking, Sept. 12.
*
It is reported that Mr. Wang Zamboanga. Notify Mee Ching-wol's recent departure from Cullon ofce."
LAI MING-FAY.
doccased and
con-
WATCHES STOLEN AT
.SENNET'S
captors and establish contact, and finally, on February 22 she left kong Hotel by her own appoint-tween 7 am, and 11 am,
ment. Thoro ahe handed him dc. certain jewellery and asked him
Nanking was due to the rejection The Misamis left Manila at similarly, a relaxation of public the accused and joined the
intorest und Buch
not to interfere with diplomatic ceased.
her any of a proposal to appolut two sub-pm.. last Wednesday for Coron,
The accused was in affluent cir- bu as may ultimately
more. stitutes as members of the Stand-Culion, Cuya and Puerto Princesa
cumstances. He had in his.um- in ployment a chauffeur tamed Lau would never let the two live hap The accused replied that he ing Committee of the Central Poll-with passengers and endgo, The required to achieve success tical owing to the absence of was owned by Carlos Palanca and securing their release."
Tho present whereabout of the Hing. General Ching Kai-shek and Mr. was operated by L. Everett, and missing Britons are unknown,
day between February, 28 pily together and would spend all and March 8, Lau Hing mot one bly money in preventing it.
early On 18th March in the Toul Yung-sham who has been a
room
Hu Han-min.-Router.
Co.
· On
A fine of $60, or, in default, siz The Royal Observatory reports that Crown witness, gave him $60, morning the girl loft the At the half-searly meeting of the works imprisonment, was imposed by pressure is highest to the north-east pointed Fung out to him and in- occupied by herself and Fung in Yokohama Spools Bank, Ltd., held on the Hon. Comde. Hole, at the Marine of Hokkaido, and relatively low over cited him to kill Fung, “On the the Nathan Hotel to answer the Batridat net profit of You Court this morning on lam than, the Northern China Bes. The 44 follow jus days. Tuhé přečured telephony (which mind peermed, to
STUDENT RIOTS SEQUEL
FOUR RINGLEADERS EXECUTED.
Peking, Sept. 12. Four of the readers in the
The party aboard the missing machine consists of Mr. and Mrs. George Hutchinson, their daughters, aged eight, and six respectively, and a crew of four.
They were attempting to fly from New York to Edinburgh, vin Groenland and Iceland. They arrived at Julianshaah safoly, on September 7, from Godthaab, and took off yesterday for Angmag salik
The Hutchinson machino carried
Besides being ah outstanding achieved example of what can be without a sox theme, the picture now being shown at the Queen's, Theatre under the title of "When a Feller Needs a Friend", serves as another vehicle for display of clover Juvenile acting talent on the part of little Jackie, Cooper With him (Chick) Sales,
also sprears Cha Mandelons but
in the part of altogether likeable old:charestar: who befriends the roung er poli