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DEATH PENALTY FOR NEGLIGENCE
Kni-shek.
Kuling, Sept. 20.
ONG
THE UNITED THEATRES
Appointment of Receiver Ordered
COURT ACTION.
MONDAY,
TWO KILLED AND TWO INJURED
EXPLOSION ON EAST.
RIVER BOAT
.
RADIO BROADCAST
While the Shang Shang Motor TO-DAY'S BROADCAST. Boat which plies between Canton. and Wal Chow was anchored at the Shek Lung landing, discharging passengers and cargo, an explosion occurred.
The Yik Sun firecracker store
were consigning a shipment of crackors and "sundries" to Heung Shui Hui.
RELAY FROM KO SHING
· THEATRE ·
6-8 p.m. European programme. 6-0.18 p.m.
"Although so young, he ja an old. offender" sald Sub-Inspector
All officers below the rank of: Dredge before Mr. Balfour In the brigado-mujor are to be, set exa- Central Magistracy this morning,minations to test their knowledge A motion for equitable rellef, in- whon a boy, Chan Kwan, aged 12 of military matters, according to cluding the appointment of a re years, was sent to prison for seven the latest edict of Gen. Chlang to conduct business of the United ceiver with full power and authority days for stealing two rolls of cloth from the Cheung Wah Company apply only to the Government Judge Milton D.
At first, the deeree will Theatres, Inc., was granted by Purdy last Queen's Road Central.
armies in Kiangsi, Hunan, Hupoh, week in the U. S. Court for and Honan. The examinations China, in the action of Ko Leong will take place once
in thren Hoe, Lo Kan, and twelve other
Brothers Co., against the United Theatres, Inc., which operates the Grand Theatre, Cathay Theatre, and several other cinemas and con- cerna daing motion picture busi-mediately, two others were serious-Chorus Chauve-Souris-Duct from
The defondant pleaded guilty to stealing and also admitted three previous convictious for larceny
As the coolios were loading the sundries" basket the man
from
and another for attempted the months for officere below the rank Chinéso stockholders, and China the store shouted out "Be Careful Piano Solo-Balládo No, 3 in A Flat
S. I. Dredge luformed the Court that salesman observed the boy syalking about in the shop with his arme akimbo. He' questioned' him," made him uncross his arms and the cloth fell to the ground. The boy was Hongkong born but had no parents living..
THREE KILLED IN QUAKE
COMMUNICATIONS
DISRUPTED
Kanazawa, Sept. 21.
An earthquake which started at 12:12 this afternoon rocker west-
of divisional commander, once a month for those below brigadlor, and once a week for those below regimental commander.
notice.
but the coolles gave it a toas and as it struck the boards of the decle it exploded. Two of the boat
were killed Im cargo coolies'
Men Lac (G. M. Witkowski).
Robert Casadosus (Piano) and Orchestra Symphonique of
Paris' conducted by the;
Composer. 9625/6 6.18-6.55 p.m. A Concert.
(Chopin, Op. 47)," Chorus-Chauve-Souris The
Ignaz Friedman. DX466 Knito Grinder's Daughter (Traditional).
Pique Dame (Tschaikowsky).
N. Ballet's Chauve-Souris Company..DX440:
ly wounded and two passengers were so badly wounded that they had to be carried from the boat and taken to the Adventist Mission Accordeon Duet-Cavalleria Rusticana Hospital at Wai Chow when
-Intermezzo (Mascagini), Accordeon Duct-Blus Danube-Waltz bout arrived.
. (Strauss). Song-Eileen Alannah (Marbre and The Destifane Brothers. DE718
the
Oillcers above the rank of negs. brigade-major are liable to a per-
Dr. G. Sellett, for the plaintiffs, sonal examination by Gen. Chiang stated that defendants embarked on Kai-shek at any time, without a Tis. 3,000,000 business with only Tls. 1,917,000 paid in. As a result, thoy experienced difficulties dospitó Officers found negligent in curry-the fact that the Grand Theatre, ing out orders in connexion with was making, $20,000 to 25,000 and A number of others were struck | the anti-Communist campaign are') Cathay Theatre, 5,000 a month. by flying bambaos and boards, but liable to various severe sentences, Since August 29, numerous vore given first aid at Shek Lung including capital punishmentions amounting to Tis. 535 and were able to return to Canton
000 were filed against the defensor return home. dants, while other suits not filed asked for payments amounting to The Yik Sun store at Shek Lung Tis. 500,000. The assots of the has been closed by the police and defendants as a going concern ex-all connected with it are being held ceeded the total of all their obliga- for investigation. tions by approximately Tls. 1,200,- 000. Should all actions against the defendants be permitted to go to judgment, the assets of the firm
Reuter,
CASTLE RAIDED BY NAZIS
ern Japan, taking at least three HIGH STATE OFFICIAL lives and causing scattered damage.
The shock was most severe in Ishikawa and Tokama prefectures; on the Note peninsula, where it was markedly perceptible for thres
minutes.
The damage, which was less than at first feared, including smokestacks shaken down, roofs and walls cracked, crevices in ronda four inches wide in some places, and railways twisted.
ARRESTED
Berlin, Sept. 20.
would be entirely consumed, and the creditors would not be paid in full. The motion for the appointment of a receiver was to save the business" and the protection of interests of both creditors and stockholders.
Thomas),
SongMachusla (Rowe and. Mac-
Murrough).
Heddle Nash (Tenor). DB603" Violin Solo Serenade Millions D'Arlequin (Drigo, arr. Woodhouse) Violin Solo Sorenade (Schubert).)
Albert Sandler, 6.55-7.20 Dand Music.
and
DB568. Orchestral
7 p.m. (Closing Local Stock Quo tations; etc.)
TWO MEN EFFECT Chanson Triste (Tachaikowsky, arc
PURSE SNATCHING|
DISTRICT. WATCHMAN OBSERVES INCIDENT
Ho Loung, convicted by Mr. Balfour in the Central Police Court this morning on a charge of aiding and abetting another Chinese to steal a purse, contain-
Nazi Storm Troopers and politi cal police raided a castle in the Franconian Jura, near the town of
NOMINATIONS MADE. Heidenheim, to-day and arrested On the question as to who should 41 men and women on a charge of be appointed the receiver, Dr. plotting against the National So-Sellett nominated Mr. R. W. Peters, cinlist state.
while Mr. W. B. Harrington, for certain creditors, nominated Mr. H. The names of the prisoners were F. Payne. After some argument.ing 82 cents, from the pocket of not disclosed, but a Nazi official Dr. Sellett stated that the reason a compatriot, was sentenced to states they are composed of a high, he objected to the appointment of one month's hard labour, The It was several hours before de-state official and his family, several Mr. Payne was that he had con- stealer, Tang Kau, who pleaded tails were available, communica-judges and professors and some nections with a certain party ob- guilty, was sent to prison for three tion being disrupted. The Noto aristocrats. They are described as ligated to the defendant firm to the weeks with hard labour. section suffered most, and Nanao, highly intellectual people," and amount of more than one million lida, Wajima, Wakura and Ana- according to the leader of the taels. In this connection, Dr. mizu were heavily rocked. Fukui, Storm Troops who participated in Sellett mentioned Mr. Grant Mark Nagano and Nilga prefectures the raid, they will be dealt with and said both Mr. Mark and Mr. were more lightly shaken,
more severely on account of that Payne were officials of a certain concern which undertook to write approximately Tis. 3,000,000 shares to be paid in by December 81 this year. If all this money had been paid in, the defendant concern would not be in the difficulties it was now.
de. Judge Purdy reserved his cislon as to who should be ap- pointed the receiver.
COINING COPPER
'COINS
CHINESE "CHOP" MAKER. SENTENCED
Cashman.
Constable . Police patrolling in Man,Wa Lane on Saturday afternoon, happened up on a ma making counterfeit Hongkong copper cents, using a hammer and chisel.
to four
CHINA FINANCE ZONES
MR. T. V. SOONG'S NEW PLAN
Fact. Reuter.
FRANCO-AMERICAN BARTER PLAN
COTTON FOR FRENCH GOODS
New York, Sept. 20.
DETAILS OF COMPLAINT. Following are extracts from the complaint:~
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF Shanghai, Sept. 25. In order to maintain the OUR WISDOM IS NO LESS AT FOR- One case of typhoid was reported efficiency of the financial ad- TUNE'S MERCY THAN OUR WEALTH. to the local Health authorities on
Friday: ministration, Mr. T. V. Soong is -Rochefoucauld. reported to have drawn up a plan for the division of China into several zones in each of which a finance inspector will be appointed to supervise and direct the im- provement of the administration.
The B.I. 8.5. Sirthana will leave.
Amoy for this Port to-morrow after noon and will arrive on Wednesday
The Eastern and
Nankin left Meft for this Port on the 23rd instant, and is due. here on Wednesday afternoon.
Stewart).
Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, DB900 Cavalleria Rusticndin Intermezzo
(Mascagini).
Milan Symphony Orchestra, 9664 Stealing Thro' the Classics No. 5 (arr.
Somera).
Debroy Somers Band. DX380 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt
Wood).
Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's all Orchestra, DXO 7.20-8 p.m. Variety. Orchestral Stormy Weather. Orchestral Spanish Sweetheart.
Scott Wood and His Orchestra MR942 Vocal Duet-When the Wild Roses
Bloom,
The incident occurred on the praya near the Cheung On wharf. Vocal Duet My Wishing Song.
Reilly and Comfort. MR881 Two district watchmen observed Tang Kau walk on the complain-Orchestral-Say It Isn't So. [ant's left and the other defendant Orchestral-Let's Put Out the Light. Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut on the right. Ho Leung, it was
-Yankees. CB624 alleged, impeded the unwary com-
Sleep, plainant while Tang Kau lifted the SongTry Gettin' a Good Nights
Song-Ev'ry Little While.
purse.
Ho Leung pleaded from the dock that he was arrested merely on suspicion.
Frances Maddux (Soprano). DB1089 Instrumental-Alaný Happy Returns
of the Day. Instrumental-Blaze Away,
Eddie Peabody. DE661 Orchestral Tell me To-night. Orchestra-Here's Hoping.
The B. B. G. Dance Orchestra. OB528
Savoy Hotel Orpheans. CB486 8 pm Local Time-and-Weather- Report.
8.3-11.30 p.m. A relay from the Ko Shing Theatre.
11.35 p.m. Close Down, All records in the above European programmes are kindly supplied by Messra. Anderson Music Co.
LOCK TAKEN FROM NAVAL CANTEEN
PLASTERER CAUGHT IN LOCKSMITHS
L
Mr.
Besides Dr, Sellett, other lawyers cera of defaudanta made plans for appearing included Mr. H. D. carrying on business which would The American banker Neideker, Rodger and Mr. M. Weiner for the require a paid-in capital of Tis. who returned recently from a trip defendant firm, Mr. F. J. Schubl, 3,000,000 and in carrying out to Paris, is to go, according to the Mr. N. E: Lurton, Dr. F. Wilhelm, these plans incurred obligations Orchestra-Ooh! That Kiss. Journal of Commerce, to Wash- Mr. P. Falson. Mr. C. P. Holcomb, and expenses which could be cur- ington with the object of negotiat Mr. W. B. Harrington. and Mr.rently met only if approximately Chan Sik, 42, a licensed "chop" ing there the purchase of three N. F. Allman for the creditors.
Tls.. 3,000,000 of shares of the maker, was brought before Mr.million bales of American cotton
capital stock were issued and paid Balfour in the Central Police Court in exchange for French mer-
up. In consequence, the de-
11.30 p.m. To-day's Opening 10 this morning charged with (n)chandise. It is added by the
fendants oxperienced difficulties. am. Stock and Commodity Quotations possession of an instrument for journal that the two governments to the
The defendants were organised Several suits have been filed by as received from New York by Messrs. making counterfeit coins, and (b)would accord credits
merchants concerned.
on or about January 22, 1932, and creditors demanding payment of Swan, Culbertson and Fritz. making the coins..
have an anthorised capital stock sums aggregating approximately He
sentenced Wan
All knowledge of this trans- of one million shares of the par $750,000. The contractors and action is denied by well informed value of Th. 5 per share, making material-men who built and months' hard labour.
Fronch circles, and American a total authorised capital of Tls. furnished the Grand Theatro have cotton dealers also declare that 5,000,000. To the date of filing also filed suits against defendants they are not aware of it. It is this complaint approximately and a bill in equity has been filed remarked in some circles that the 383,400 shares have been issued. praying for the sale of the theatre figure of three million is either of the Tis: 1,317,000 paid in for to satisfy one of said liens. Other erroneous or funtatile, as France the issued shares, the fourteen secured and unsecured creditors does not consume more than from complainants held Tié, 504,500..
of the defendants having claims soven or eight hundred thousand.At the time the firm was amounting to approximately $600,- bales of cotton, Havas.
organised, the directors and offi- 000 are pressing for payment, of their claima. There is also rent due and unpaid covering a period of about one and two-thirds Tal Tung-sang, an artistic months in the sum of approximate- plasterer, charged before by $36,013.28, payable to the owner Schofield, at the Central "Magle, of the land upon which the Grand tracy this morning, with the Theatre is situated, and a_civil larceny of a brass door lock from suit has been filed in the Court (tho Lam Wu Contractors building. Australian F.S
against defendants by the land-in Gloucester Road was sentenced lord for repossession of the land to six weeks hard labour,
Defendant aald that he was and Grand Theatre for an alleged breach of the covenant of the employed there, and as he has lost a suit of clothes he was taking lenge.
the lock to have a key made for it. Should all the above-mentioned Sub-Inspector Nolloth said that suits be allowed to proceed and re the defendant was arrested coming sult in judgments, seizures, and out of a locksmiths shop in Tai The RMS. "Empress of Russia" is
forced sales of all the property of Yuan Street. He said he had duc at Nagasaki on Tuesday at 6 p.m.,
The R.M.5. "Empress of Japan" left.defendants, the defendants would taken the lock to have a key made leaves Nagasaki on the 27th at 6 a.m., Kobe yesterday at 7pm. la due at be "ompelled to coasa conducting for it. It was given him by a leaves Kobo on the 28th at 8 pm, and Shanghal on the 20th Sept, at 4 pm, their business, and only a small friend. The lock had been taken leaves Yokohamn on the 30th at 3 pm, and leaves Shanghai on the 27th percentage of the real worth and from the Naval Cantoon under
Sept. at 1.30. p.m. for Hongkong. value of said proportios would be construction in Gloucester Road. Knocked down. by a motor cycle at
Yung Kan, a cook employed by the realised, with the result that only the junction of Argyle Street and Kathan Rond on Saturday afternoon, Chinese moes at the No. 2 (Wanchai) fully secured creditors would be Lam Sap (35), a Chinese male, was Police Station, Wag removed to fully paid and the unsecured admitted to the Kowloon Hospital. Hospital yesterday, suffering from creditors would remain unpaid. scalde received through a pot of boil- and the shares and stock hold and ing water being accidentally upset. owned by the stockholders would Many towns reported numerous
A would-be suicide, Hui Lee-azu,
bo without value and the invest- cases of malaria, conditions being aged 42, was admitted to the Govern- As the st. Charles Hardouin was at
A bad case of cruelty to especially bad at Clonfuegos. ment Civil Hospital during the week-anchor outside the Yaumati break-ment in total loss,
chickens was rolated by A, S. I Mobs of workers, said to be supond after being rescued from the water yesterday, it was involved in
Flatttery to Mr. Balfour in the. porters of the revolutionary re-harbour into which she had thrown a collision with a junk. The impact gime of President Gray San Mar- herself from the seawall at Kennedy was received by the steamboat on her Upon the intervention of the Contral Police Court this morning, tin, in power since the first of Town.
bowe, damage to the extent of $50 court and the granting of the When Chan Tak was charged with being caused.
cruelty. Accused who admitted equitable rellef prayed for, includ the offence, was fined $10. the month, are threatening to
M. G. S. Borsky, `BE, unemployed, seize the Soledad sugar mills near appeared before Mr., Balfour in the Inspector Vincent charged two ing the appointment of n receiver, The Inspector stated that Clonfuegos, and the Tacnjo mill Central Police Court this morning, Chinese, Lam Ping, and Wong Mon- the business can be profitably con accused, was with another man in Orients, province.
charged with entering the Colony ylu, both returned baulsheas, before ducted so that in a roasonable carrying the chickons in a crate, The tense labour situation at without a valid passport, and with Mr. Balfour in the Central Police period of time the just claims and taking them from the market to Santiago resulted in bloodshed vagrancy. A conviction was registor Court this morning. Sentence of six demands of all creditors can be the cafes Several-of-the-birde--- when army units commanded by ed on the first chargo and defendant months hard, labour was phased on fully met and the value of the underneath were trampled on and revolutionary students fired on a was committed to the House of De. Lam. Ping while Wong Mat viu a stock of the corporation preserved were dying when brought to tho
tention. An expulsion order was sent to prison: for one year. He communist demonstration, wound made on the application of Detective served a similar period in 1080 for and protected for the benefit of Station. There was no room for ing four persons.
Sergeant Mottram,
breach of his deportation order its stockholders
them to move about.
North China and the Yangtse Valley will be divided into separate financial zones.- Central News Agency.
CHAOS EXTENDS IN CUBA
(Continued from Page 1.)
of warehousemen ends shortly there will be a shortage of food in Haydna.
afternoon.
Wong Chai, a painter, charged at
the Central Magistracy this morning of members of St. Andrew's Club The fifth Annual General Mecting with stealing two tins of paint from will be held in St. Andrew's Taikoo Dockyard was fined $30 or Church Hall, Kowloon, to-day at 9 one month's hard labour.
His condition is not serious.
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