THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1933.
AGED JAPANESE MINISTER'S WARNING OF
FANATICAL YOUTHS
OBSERVATIONS ON MAY 15 TRIAL
DEATH OF
INUKAI
MR.
NO ALTERNATIVE.
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POLICE SPOIL A 'CONSPIRACY
MEN
WITH CHOPPER & KNIFE CAUGHT
PRISON TERMS
purpose.
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by
the
Mr.
AIR SERVICE TO MANILA
REPORTS GOOD PROSPECTS
SAFE HARBOUR IN LUZON
on trips from Hongkong.
NEGLIGENT DRIVING
TWO SOLDIERS IN COURT
ADMIT OFFENCE
time.
DISHONEST CLERK SENTENCED.
PROSECUTION BY FIRM OF PHOTOGRAPHERS
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11
DICTATORSHIP
ANOTHER “CAT" SENTENCE
12 STROKES AND PENAL SERVITUDE
ARMED MAN'S
ROBBERY
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Another case-of which there have been several lately-in
the
Re-
•
FRACAS SEQUEL
CHINESE SENTENCED FOR RESISTING · ARREST
An attack on two Sikh cou- stables at Shamshulpo on August 20, by a mob of Chinese, had a sequel at the Kowlson, Magistaury bofore Mr. Butters yesterday afternoon whon Lee Tong, his 'wlfa Kwok Sze and Lo· Yụng, wern charged In connexion with the affair.
The first defendant was chatk- which the "cat" was prescribeded with hawking without a ceder as part punishment for robbery and resisting arrest; the second with violence, was concluded at with creating disturbance; and the Old Balley recently, the the third with larceny of 4.10. prisoner belag a young man volver from one of the constables. and a first offender.
It was alleged by Dotective In passing sentence
Sergeant Goodwin, who proscent- corder stated:
"The judges of the land are ed, that the first defendant was determined that robberies with arrested in Lalchikok Road by an forhawking violence, particularly when the Indian constable robbers are armed, shall meet without a licence. While he wan taken to the Shamshulpo baing with condign punishment.'
Polico Stationis wife," ChmeTM The case concerned a man who, along and prateated against the
hc
The Magistrate: The man may
to receive twelve strokes of the Attracted by the commotidi "cat."
another Indian constable came of agent at the same time. be a servant but he may be an
When asked to plead the defen- He was Dudley Gordon King, the scene. He. tried to disperan was the crowd, but his efforts only dant pleaded guilty to the charge. aged 25, a valet, and
convicted of robbing with violence caused more trouble. Hande wor Mr. Sin sald that the defendant Mr. Francis Salt at a Villiers-laid on both constables, and just bad, things began to look servant and was stroet rifle range in July, 1932, as was a trusted
to cashire Regiment, came along and considered by his employers to and with stealing three automatic Private Bottomley, of the Lan- be a reliable man until his arreat. pistole. He pleaded guilty So trusted was he that his salary stealing a woman's handbag from helped the officers. He was hit was raised from $40 to $70 per the May Fair Hotel, and asked by a stono and cut in the hands. month at the beginning of this that another charge of theft
A Chinese detective came upon
Taking. as lenient a view was possible, Mr. Wynne-Jones, at the Central Police Court yeater- day afternoon, sentenced Loung Kit-ming, 29, a clerk of Mesara. A. Several. Europeans figured as Shek & Company, to one month'a A sharpened chopper. knife,
defendanta at the Kowloon hard labour for the fraudulent | soven lengths of wire and three
Magistracy this morning when Mr. conversion of $451.63 worth of pears, presumably to be used as
Butters dealt with another batch photographic supplies received In were exhibited Kugs,
Manila, Aug. 23. of traffic summonses,
from the Eastman Kodak Com- Tokyo, Aug. 21. Central Police Court this morning,
The Manila-Hongkong airline Signalman Bryce and Signalman pany between June 28 and July "If affairs continue to move in when Detective-Inspector M. Mur- their present course, it is to be phy charged four Chinese, with to be established by the Pan-Cord were included, the former 24 inst.
Mr. P. H. Sin appeared, and said lorry along Salisbury Road on July greatly feared that Japan will be conspiracy to commit a crinie of American Airways will most summoned for driving a military dominated by dictatorship; I fear violence and possession of the probably be routed via Santiago 29 without an appropriate driver's he had consent from the Hon.
I.P.G. to prosecute. alrumenta, fit for unlawful island near Cape Bolinao, in licence, and driving the lorry in it greatly," declared M. K. Taka-
Lingayen Gulf, Mr. W. Snegligent manner, and the latter When the case was first called The case was heard hashi, the aged Minister of Fin-
Grooch, chief pilot of the air for allowing Signalman Bryce to in a warning uttered before | Wynne Jones.
marked that by the particular a gathering of Japanese press ro- The defendants, Chan Shing, 17, company, indicated yesterday drive the lorry knowing that he had on Saturday, the maglatrate re- unemployed, afternoon shortly after his re- no licence.
Trafic Inspector Nicol sald the section the defendant was charged Lat Wal, 22, both presentatives.
Chan Man, 30, street coolle and turn to Manila from a survey
case for committal. Yesterday,, In the evidence given by Sub-Yip Kan, 18, night soil coolic, flight to the northern end of attention of Traffic Sergeant Scrim under, he would have to take the
was attracted to the defendants Lieutenant Yamagishi, whose pleaded guilty to the first charge Luzon. order: "Further talking is useless of conspiracy. The first two do- He ales sald he can land his because. Signalman Bryce swung he stated that as the defendant
Hived a Jekyll and Hyde existence, her husband and the constable, being sometimes an excellent valet and in the resultant scramble Fire!" called forth the volley of fendants admitted the second count passengers 75 per cent. of the the lorry from Chatham Road on wen not a factor his Worship was in the words of a police officer, arrest. She tried to get between and back into Salisbury Road, The Mr. Sin: It is stated in the and at other times going about crowd gathered Some of the pistol shots which struck down the while the third and fourth dented time in front of the Manila Hotel to Salisbury, then to Nathan Road, Wrong in what he had said. then Premier Mr. T. Inukai on
armed, and acting as a "terror," more rowdy elements began to said that Inspector Murphy
Mr. Gooch, accompanied by WII-lorry was on the wrong side at one charge that he is a servant. May 16 last year, there occurred,
was sentenced at the Old Bailey throw stones. a statement which not only
to three years' penal servitude and learning that preparations were in Ham Ehmer, mechanic and radio
Both defendants admitted the plained, in the most concise man-hand for an armed robbery on the operator, took off from Cavite on
fined $20 for negligent driving and nor, the immediate reason for the mainland, Chinese detectives went the gray Sikorsky seaplane at 8:15 charges, and Signalman Bryce was plot conceived by himself and his
to the Yaumati Ferry wharf, where yesterday morning, flow direct to $10 for driving without a licence.
After Lingayen Gulf and then headed to Signatman Cord was fined $15. comrade, but also showed most they saw the four men. clearly the danger that may they had bought their tickets they ward north as far as Cape Bolcs-
For failing to renew his driver's were apprehended by the detec-dor. As he flew northward he itcence and his car licence, Mr. apprehended even yet from others
the Important J. M. Jack was fined $5 and $10. tives. The chopper was found on circled around of his way of thinking.
the first defendant, while the towns on the western coast of It was stated that defendant re- lengths of wire and the pears were Luzon to locate prospective landnewed both licences the very next "We thought," he said, "that the in the possession of the second ing places. He had to fly at a low day that he was told he was going termination of the London Naval man. The knife dropped from altitude several times to get to be summoned.
Mr. Butters-He was given Agreement in 1936 would find either the third or fourth culprits. good view of the places inspected.
Asked by the magistrate if he
month's grace?, Japan at the greatest crisis in
Inspector Nicol,--They don't get year. The complainant firm had should be- taken into considera tho scene and joined in. With hlu Japan's history. We concluded, had anything to say, first defen-
From Cape Bojeador he veered a month's grace. They get a rear Kodak Co., David House, and Mr. Anthony Hawke, prosecut-assistance, the two constables and therefore, that we must act before dant replied "I am absolutely the Japse of the London Treaty. It ignorant of the law here."
the plane southward, alighting on sonable 'time in which
when photographic supplies were ing, said that King was not arrest-Private Bottomley were able to Second defendant: "I was go-. was our conviction that there was
His Worship. But they are needed the defendant was sent ed until Inst June for the attack take the first defendant away in a
with the orders. In the early on Mr. Salt. King declared that no way to save Japan except by.ing across to the other side and Lake Paoay which he found to be their licences.
· Reyolver Taken. month, aren't part of July, the complainant he was compelled by another man doing away with the various organe I was going to use the wires to tie the only safe all-weather harbour
In that part of Luzon. The party generally given a blch atand between the Imperial something with".
stopped there for nearly half anthey?-Yes.
Mr. Badatsky, of 26 Hankow firm received invoices from the already sentenced to take the Later one of the constables. Family and the people."
and pistols, at the point of a revolver. P.C. Larata Singh, discovered that hour. The two flyers chatted
his revolver had been taken away WATCHED. with the boys and other persons Road, was fined $10 for driving his Eastman Kodak Company
from him. He discovered that who out of curiosity approached car in Nathan Road while holding they noticed certain goods
Investiga knowledge whatever.
With regard to the May Fair the third defendant was holding the plane as it rested on the lake, only a learner-driver's licence. In which the complainants had no
said it. He gave chase and eventually after caught him with the weapon. a ré-woman, was also taken to the the porter and wished to write a story. station. He was kept under observation, and sat down at a table on which Giving evidence, P.C. Larata a handbag. He was Singh said when he arrested tho there was
a gold first defendant, the man was. spoken to, and produced
going quietly, until he was incited wife - to resist. The "He showed marked disinclina- by his cigarette case from his sock. tlon to get up from the settee," woman, he alleged, was holding continued Mr. Hawke. "Force him by the back of his belt, and bad to be used to move him, and he was forced to blow his whistle a waiter came up and produced for help. The crowd then gather- haded and threw misalles at him an automatic pistol which
and at the constable who had Mr. Sin added: My instructions been found on the settee." are, although the charge is very The Recorder, when sentencing responded to his call. serious, not to press the charge King, said: "It-is-perfectly-trur against him, because my clients you have not been convicted be. He said that after the first de--
fendant was put aboard a bus, ha think the man committed this fore, and you are a very good va found his revolver missing. It offence because he suddenly yield- let, but you interspersed. Your must have been taken from him ed to temptation: during the past honest occupation with few months he has been suffering crimes of a serious nature,"
-health and the proceeds he got
The "various organs" to which he referred were the Diet, the big Anancial houses, and the Court perts held by advisers nearest the Throne.
n
**SAFE HARBOUR.
to renew
an account with the Eastman tion,
of
I was searched by the policemen and secured from them Informa-spector Nicol sald defendant had tions were made and subsequently Jiotel offence. Mr. Hawke
found fit
туля Third defendant-"I
in Canton before. The coolie
defendant gave me
the fourth knife".
Fourth defendant said: "When
drive a car. Big financial groups had to be had nothing.on me at all."
For not showing his licence disc, did in fact obtain the goods on broken up because, not only were "Seems rather a pity that the the town, which fa located at a
short distance from the lake. fourth and
defendants they regarded as the corrupt allies third
After securing all necessary Dr. Y. Y. Tang was fined $3. He sccount.
Gave Police Assistance. admitted the offence, but stated about the lake, the flyers that the disc, which was stuck to data of the political parties but also as should get away on the second
and being ruled by financial consider-charge" remarked the magistrate
Mr. Sin remarked that in fair- his windscreen with gum, had ations to the detriment of national in passing sentence of six months once more took to the air
become loose and dropped out. Ileness to the defendant it was to be hard labour each on the first and beaded toward Manila, defence requirements.
defendants.
three and
LAGUNA LAKE. second
had been busy for sometime and said that when he was arrested he did not have it properly fixed. admitted unreservedly that he did months' hard labour each on the
as far as They went south
Mr. D. W. Waterton was fined a obtain the goods and ho gave third and fourth defendants.
Laguna Lake, closely following similar sum for a like offence. Sergeant Mintey every facility in the Pasig river. The purpose of
tracing most of the goods. Some cameras were not recovered. the flight to the Laguna Lake was to locate a safe base for the plane to be used, on the Manila-Hong- kong air service. After looking over conditions there, the flew toward' Cavite. came down on the water at 2.58 yesterday afternoon so that the CASES BY DOZEN FOR Havana, Aug. 21.
MR. WYNNE JONES The strike of Havana harbour flyers were in the air for a little workers which has tied up the over alx hours, not consisting the Paony
There was another heavy st commerce of the island was set- half hour they rested on
Lake.
of cases it the Central Police tled to-day.
COUNTRY-WIDE SYMPATHY. · Holders of such important Court Privy Seal and posta as Lord
Grand Chamberlain had to be re- moved by violence, because they the were able to over-rule even advice of the high naval and mili-
HAVANA STRIKÉ
TO WORK
tary command--as happened at STEVEDORES RETURN the time the London Naval Treaty was signed. In other words, in- so-far as the naval participants of the plot were concerned, the pri- mary object was to ensure that, at the naval conference due in 1935 for the revision of the present treaty, Japan's demands for parity with Britain and Americn would not be whittled down by the in- fluence of party politicians, finan- cial magnates, or liberal advisers near the Throne.
Three thousand stevedores, long workers horemen and other greed to return to their jobs at n.m. to-morrow after the ship- ers had recognized their union and accepted other demands.
Two persons were slain and an Although there can be little: doubt that the country as a whole attempt made to lynch a third in disapproves of the violent means the Santiago district. taken by the plotters, there is equally little room for doubt that
SOUTH WALES
the greatest sympathy is held END OF STRIKE IN country-wide for their motives." Their denunciation of party politi- clans as selfseeking and corrupt la recognised as being all too well founded. So, too, is their con- demnation of the unwholesome alliange between party politics and "Big Business." On top of this, and of much else besides, is the The strike of 17,000 anthracite "aincerity" of their patriolic miners in South Wales has ended fervour, no matter how tragically and to-morrow they will return to misguided it may have been. work in the 21 collieries in which
they are employed.
FANATICS AT LARGE.
ANTHRACITE MINERS BACK AT WORK
Swansea, Aug. 20.
The
party plane
MAGISTRATE
SNOWED UNDER
for these photographic supplies
soon
midnight, saying he was
"FLUTTERS"
Various
EFFECT OF COURT DECISION
bus.
during the struggle with the crowd. He looked round and saw the third defendant holding it in his hands. He eventually
This evidence was corroborated by the other constable P.C. B154, the Chinese detective and Private Bottomley.
The frat defendant admitted. hawking without a licence but denled the other charge. The other defondants also denied the charges against them.
"I feel sanguine over the pro- Court this morning, making it were used for medical purposes. TAX ON COTTON caught him.
He has a family to keep and he spective establishment of the Ma- necessary for Mr. Wynne-Jones will be dismissed from his service,
the majority of nila-Hongkong air service," said to dent with Mr. Grooch after he had made a "fresh" hawkers' cases at 12.30 and in view of the circumstances:
I ask your Worship to deal with brief narration of his flight yes-p.m. to-day.
After the morning's Police him leniently. He has given no terday. "On the trips from Hong kong I can alight my plane in front cases, he disposed of the hawker trouble to the prosecution at all. Defendant stated he had been of the Manila Hotel 75 per cent, of raid cases remanded from yester-
was for some. ilme and borrowed the time, to discharge passengers day, following which there
Mr. Justice Finlay ruled in the and their baggage and then take the usual weekly batch of rickshaw money from Canton, and as he had the plane to my base, either at summonses.
no money to repay he obtained King's Bench Division recently the Cavite somewhere at
so. that profits minde on "futiers" in Sub-Inspector Russell remarked those
goods in order to do WAS another raid Laguna Lake, for cleaning, over-there
Ho would re-pay his employers cotton futures were able to in Worship imposed a fine of $5 or hawkers yesterday evening.
come tax. hauling and refuelling.
a week, and convicted all defen- He was hearing an appeal by dants on the other charges. The Mr. Wynne-Jones-Having any more raids to-day?
the Crown from a decision of the first was sentenced to six weeks woman to two months and
or
MANILA NOT SAFE.
for
is more
On the charge of hawking, his
by loans from friends.
The magistrate: Ho S. I. Russell-Probably will, than n, youth, Ho is a Krown "So far I am not prepared to
man with a family, and he should Commissioners of Inland Revenue the make any recommendation rogard-this afternoon.
hin responsibilities. I for the Kettering area of North and the third to three months. Mr. Wynne-Jones adjourned for realise ing the permanent base to which I
After passing sentence, hia could take the pinne after each trip seven days a case in which four don't think his reason is good amptonshire affecting Mr. J. P.
Worship commended Private It was stated that although fr. Bottomley on his public-spirited to Manila, whether Cavite or La-Chinese are charged with dis- enough. I think I must send him Grundy, an agricultural imple- guna Lake. The Manila harbour is orderly conduct by fighting in to gaol. I don't like doing it but ment manufacturer..
Grundy knew nothing about cotton behaviour. not safe enough as the waves often Des Voeux Rond. The defendants, I am afraid I must. Ro over the breakwater and with who were all on bail, denied the. strong winds the harbour easily bo-charge and there was insufficient Defendant's elder brother, he gambled in the rise and fall of comes rough. And so is Cavite time in which to hear the evidence. Government clerk, was presont in prices, and made about £6,000 in
Court.
16 transactions between February His Worship (to defendant)-17, 1919, and February 28, 1929. A special meeting yesterday se-harbour. As regards Laguna Lake, portion which was
am afraid you will have to go to cepted the majority recommenda1 bound a
aol for one month, and that is tion to return to work.
muddy, which makes landing thoro unsafe.
lenient. dangerous and mooring This has to be studied very care fully..
When the aged Finance Minister uttored his soleman warning about the possibility of a dictatorship. It In probable that he had in mind a full realisation. of the Influence progress since
The strike, which has been in
August 14,
that all this is bound to exercise on caused by a dispute over wages.-|
the Japanese masses, especially at Reuter.
a
time like the present when
uational sentiment is still at a high
pitch and inclined to be hysterical as a result of developments during the past two years.
FLYING OFFICIALS.
LO WEN-KAN GOING TO SINKIANG
Fanatica! elements are still t large, ready, at the frat oppor tunity, to try and stampede the country into war with Soviet
Nanking. Aug. 24. Russin, America, or even Britain,
Mr. Lo Won-kan, Foreign in order to divort the people's attention or, like the, May 16 Minister, whose resignation has plotters, to resort to further acte been intimated, is proceeding to of violence and terrorism in the Sinklang to-morrow by air. hops of compelling the authorities Mr. Sun Fo has postponed his to impose martial law and thore air trip to Kuling owing to indis- by forcing the Army, willy-nilly, position.--Reuter. to take matters into their own "handalan
BANISHEE COMES BACK
THOUGHT HIS TIME AIRWAY RECOMMENDATION. · ·
HAD EXPIRED, "Now with regard to the possible airway to Hongkong, my recom-
Banished in December 1928 for mendation naturally will be for five years, Kam Tung was charged routing the trip via Santiago la before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the land, which is located at the Central Police Court this morning, western ond of Lingayan Gulf. If with a breach of the Deportation this route is adopted, it will mean Order.
was
Defondant-Will your Worship please reduce the sentence?
His Worship-I have already considered that.
STRIKE THREAT
BETS, NOT PROFITS,
Local estate valued at $80,600 wan. left by James Sidney Arter, late of Deceaser] Kuala Lumpur, F.M.S.
at the died on August 18, 1932, Bungear Hospital, Kuala Lumpur. Glenmoria | Mr. Grundy's case, which the He was manager of the
Commissioners had uphold, was Estato. Letters of administration that the "utters" wore entirely have been granted to his widow,
formerly Mr. Mavis Home disconnected with his business: and now Mrs. Housley, of Kingsville and that they were betting trans Private Hotel, Carnarvon Road, Kow- actions and not profits or gaina loon. assossable for income tax,
Giving judgment, Mr. Justico
Finlay said that in his view the
If the decision of Mr. Justica
Arter,
profits were liable to tax, and the inst few years, and this le obvious-. appeal of the Crown would boy a test case which they will uno allowed with costs, and the case to justify the assessment of all remitted to the Commissionera at kinds of transactions in the nature
of a gamble.</ Kottering for assessment.
But this decision may be two, Finlay is carried to Italogleni conclusion (writes an income tax edged, and may lead to many ap expert), it is likely to have rovo-plications from taxpayers to set luttenary effects on Income tax re-off against the tax on thelen
comes the losses they make in turns among taxpayera. Et
Dealing in cotton options is akin gambling in cotton futures, and to, doaling in stocks and shares oven in stocks and sharea. If the their Butter on the Stock Ex-Ary profits from these sources it change and make profits which have may lead to greater evasion, and 'the dificulty they will, experience never been regarded as taxable. in obtaining and checking Infor TIGHTENING THE NET more will be d The Revenue has been tightết. Cher
·SERIOUS SITUATION AT SHANGHAI 70 miles shorter than tho Paoay Defendant remarked ho thought' route. The distanco from Santiago his time had expired.
Shanghai, Aug. 24, laland to Hongkong ls 555 miles. Inspector Vincent-He
"On the other hand, the distance banished on an oplum charge. Following a prolonged disputo from Paoay to Ilongkong is only Although the warrant is dated with section workers, nil employoc 10 miles, which means 45 miles December he did not go until April of the British-American Tobacco shorter. However, if the route is 1929. He gets the benefit of that. Company are threatening to walk mapped out from Manila vln The magistrate passedèsentence out on a general strike to-morrow.
Despite the advice of the Bureau Paony, it will mean 70 miles of three months' hard labour.
of Social Affairs, which is nastating longer. The question now is
mediation, the employees appear to whether aufflelent traffic and mail could be obtained for that part of They are all excellent harbours, be determined to strike.
re-instatement of discharged work With the problem of putting Nailons both falling due that yoar; Luzon to warrant making Paoay as but none in as good as Lake Paony Tho strikers are demanding the and thousands of people" have Revenue.domanda to assess ordin through another over-awollon
and with the general feeling of a bass on the jump to Hongkong. for all-weather purposes, whils budget with a hugo deficit next excitement, discontent, and unrest I inspected Santiago Island na Santiago Inland is unexcelled by strike would affect thousands year: with the prospect of 1930 among the people at large, Mr. well as other harbours on the west, any of them looked over of employees. M being a particularly critical year Takahashi's somewhat pessimistic coast of Luzon, Indliding Banto Santiago Island as we returned to Precautionary measures aro for Japan on account of the naval warning is understandable, even Toman which is near": "Lingayen | Manila, and found the harbour being taken Our Own Correspon
enterence and the termination of though it may prove unwarranda Goland, which I found quite ideals there safe enough for landing."""; dont
ora..
Adding the net of taxat
allon during the