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• 'No.. 14110
五拜禮 號六月十英港香 FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 6, 1933.
WANCHAI FIGHT TRAGEDY SEQUEL
European Charged
With Manslaughter
WOUND IN THROAT
COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL LIKELY
RELEASED-ON--
BAIL
Bearing a long sweeping scar around the neck from under the ear and with his eyes swollen, Douglas Chur chill Phillips entered the dock at the Central Magistracy this morning to face a charge of the manslaughter of Suzeff Hamissy, an African.
Phillips, who was described as a marine engineer, aged 42, was ot- tired in a white aummer lounge sult. He was represented by Mr. R. H. Cole of Messrs. G. K. Hall Brutton and Co., who did not. pload.
retranded for a
Accused was week on ball of $1,000.
Detective-Inspector Chester Woods, for the prosecution, applied for one week's format remand,
Mr. R. H. Cole, applied for bail. Insp. Chester-Woods: Capitain Kirby, who is present in Court, is willing to sign n bond for $1.000. This is agreeable to the prosecu•, tion.
SHORT HEARING.
Was
Replying to the Bench, the Inspector said the course adopted with the consent of the law officers of the Crowi.
The Magistrato: Is the hearing likely to be long?
Insp. Chester-Woods: It is not likely to take more than one afternoon. It will be a case for committal.
are
Mr. Cole: The defence anxious to get the case on as soon ns possible.
His Worship: I asked because I am leaving the Colony on November 4.
WANCHAI INCIDENT.
It is alleged that accused came into conflict with an African in Wanchai at 1.30 a.m. on Wednes- day following which the African died at the G.C.H. the same day. Phillips was the second engineer ..of the 8.s. Wing On.
The African, who was a motor- car driver, and who is said to have
TWELVE WINNERS
IN A ROW
TANGSHAN BATTLE
FANG CHEN-WU RETURNS TO ATTACK
Richards Score Five MARTIAL LAW AT
More
London, Oct. 5. Gordon Richards, the champion Jockey, advanced sharply towards 3 now record to-day, when he won the first five races at Chepstow, having then ridden twelve winners in succession.
His total winners during the season is 217. Fred Archer's record is 247 winners. There are thirty: nine more racing days.- Reuter.
KAMIKOLAOSARFANttanaman
DISQUIET
IN SPAIN
STATE OF SIEGE IN
CATALONIA.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS
Madrid, Oct. 6. Acuto nervousness exists throughout the whole of Spain, following tho collapse of the Ler- roux Government."
Serious developments are feared and strikes are breaking notably in Catalonia...
HAITIEN
Shanghai, Oct., 6. According to Chinese reports, heavy fighting is still in progress between Government troops and the rebel forces under General Fang Chon-wu.
A battle is said to be raging near Tangshan, and both sides are reported to have suffered henvy losses.
The front no is only a mile from the Tangahan hot springą. and shells have landed in the city market.
A detachment of General Fang'a cavalry is also reported to have been seen in an advanced position near Knollying, but they falled to enter the elty, being repulsed by: the Government troops in that sector of the line.
Martial Law was declared at 7 o'clock yesterday evening in the Haitien area of l'eking, where the Tsinghua and Yenching Universi ties aro situated, owing to the proximity of Hallieu to Tangshan. |---Reuter
LUANTUNG CHAOS
AGREEMENT REACHED WITH JAPAN
Peking, Oct. 6.
It is reliably learned in official circles that the bandit suppression out,problem in Luantung districts has been satisfactorily settled as the result of negotiations with the Japanese delegates.
"A State of Prevention," has been.declared in the Province, this being tantamount to a preliminary The Chinese special police force, state of slego. This is the out which was unable to proceed to come of a strike of the workers in the bandit-infested quarters of the electric supply companies and the ex-war zone owing to Japanese the gas works, creating a situation objection, are now expected to of peril.
Pending a settlement of the Ministerial erlais the situation is not likely to improve and in this matter, President Zamora is in a dilemma, with Socialists demand- ing revolution to the bitter end, while the Right Wing, backed by the weight of public opinion, calls for the dissolution of the Cortes.
Government is functioning tem- In the meantime, the Lerroux
porarily.-Reuter,
been unemployed for some little NO MORE WATER
.time, resided at No. 12, Burrow
Street, third floor.
Afr.
BIG LOAN TO NANKING
ADVANCE BY THE BANKERS
SHORTAGE
MACAO'S PROBLEM
SOLVED
(Our Own Correspondent).
Macno, Oct. 6. The informal final tests were carried out successfully yester- Dr. Rajchmann accompanied by day afternoon of the Macao
Shanghai, Oct. 0.
T. V. Soong, arrived here by Waterworks Company's
air from Nanking yesterday.
new
One of their missions to Shang-mains for supplying water from
the river. hui' is to make arrangements with
Among the visitors who watched Shanghai bankers for the sale of the $100,000,000 worth of Customs the demonstrations wore the Treasury Notes. It te learned Governor of Macao and his wife, and the Chairman of. the Municipal Council.
that the bankers have promised to pay in advance to the Nanking Treasury a first instalmunt, of $50,- 000,000 in respect of the treasury notes--Central News Agency.
COLONY'S TRADE COMMISSIONER
MR. PELHAM ARRIVES ON CORFU......
Mr. G. C. Pelham, recently ap pointed Trade Commissioner In Hongkong, as well as Commercial
I
resume their march towards Fu- ning district, the walled city of which is still under the grip of
the bandits-Central News.
CHEERO-0. CLUB
BUILDING FUND DONATIONS
Cheer-O Club Fund have been re-
ATA BINGLE COPY IS GENTS
$30.00 PER ANNUM
DUNLOP
provides
the greatest possible
TYRE ECONOMY
INTERPORTER'S MISHAP
The Shib Di Ping Shi, which was wrecked at Mindanao, shown with members of har crew...
VIOLENT STRIKE SCENES
SERIOUS RIOTING IN UNITED STATES
TEAR-GAS BOMBS EMPLOYED
WASHINGTON, OCT. 5. CONFLICTS BEWEEN POLICE AND STRIK- ERS, IN WHICH MANY HAVE BEEN INJURED AND IN WHICH TEAR-GAS BOMBS HAVE BEEN EMPLOYED, ARE REPORTED FROM MANY DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
-Nine strike pickets were shot or clubbed into uncon- sciousness during a charge of two hundred deputy sheriffs on a picket line at Cambridge in Pennsylvania.–
The strikers were finally overcome with tear-gas bombs, the fumes from which routed hundreds of spectators who were clustered on an adjacent hillside.
Police were involved in a similar attack on five hundred strikers at Steubenville, in Ohio, after their pickets had stoned employees of the Weirton, Steel Company.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S PROBLEMS
violence;
Mr. Cullen Seriously
Hurt at Kowloon Dock
DR. DOLLFUSS'S ASSAILANT
Now Confesses to Boing a Nazi
Vienna, Oct. 6.
Bortil, Dr. Dollfuss's assallant has now confessed- to membership of the Nazi. party, according to a police communique. ...
Two of his friends, sus- pected of connivance, have been arrested-Reuter.
FIFTEEN FOOT FALL
CONDITION NOW MUCH IMPROVED
OUT OF MATCH
TO-MORROW'
A serious mishap has be- fallen. Mr. F. Cullen, the Interport bowls player, who yesterday fell from a flight
€4302 of steps in the vicinity of the
Kowloon Docks Recreation
SHOCK FOR Club and suffered injuries to
HERTZOG
his head.
Un-
Only brief details of the fortunate accident are available, but it is understood that Mr. Cullen, who le employed in the
CAPE REJECTS FUSION tares department of the Kowloon
PROPOSALS
Docks, dropped from a height of about fifteen foot and struck his hond against a balustrade.
It is understood that Mr. Cullen"
EARLY GENERAL was picked up suffering from con-
ELECTION
cussion and a serious ankle injury. It is believed that his ankle was broken as the result of the fail.
TURN FOR BETTÉR,
He had just left the reading roum of the Dock Recreation Club, of which he is the President, when the mishap occurred.
Capetown, Oct., 5. General Hertzog's ideas re garding the fusion of the Na- tionalist and South African Parties received a sharp setback to-day at Port Elizabeth.
Although he was conveyed to A general election in the
near hospital in a serious condition, it fature is now regarded as almost was learned this afternoon that [Inevitable.
he has now taken a distinct turn The blow came at a meeting of for the better, his general condi- the Cape Nationalist Congress tion having much improved. when a proposal for the fusion of
DUE TO PLAY TO-MORROW.--- the parties was made by Mr.-|-~-
Mr. Cullen was to have played Fourie, the Minister for Mines, on behalf of General Hertzog.
in the first Interport bowls match Powerful speeches were made in against Shanghai on the 'Craigen- support of the proposal, but the power green to-morrow, having criticism was, severe and the pro-been selected as No. 3 to R. F. Luz, posal was defeated by an overtime Recreio sklp. whelming majority,. 142 votes to
80.
MALAN VICTORY.
The margin of defeat was more astonishing than the setback it self. General Hertzog's hopes of fusion In Cape Province are da. finitely destroyed.
He will, of course, be out of the game and the Bowls Association will have to call on a reserve.
Mr. W. Mair, of the Police, has been selected to take Mr. Cullen's place in the interport team.
CABINET MEETING ON DISARMAMENT
The sway of the Congress ágainst On his return to Washing-quence of further outbreaks of ton to-day, President Roose- While five hundred miners have personal victory for Dr. Malan, Hertzog is regarded as o great velt found himself faced returned to the coalpita and the formerly General Hertzog's right The following dorations to the with a number of new deve-sned, there has been widespread hand man and now his principal Sir John Simon Staying
opponent. ceived:
lopments in the recovery rioting in the Pennsylvania coal- It is considered.highly probable feld and clashes between strike that the vote, which practically 50 situation.
piekoto and police in the amounted to one of no-confidence, Tho
President's price-fixing Pittsburgh area.--Reuter.
will produce the resignation of 20 schemes are now seriously challeng-.
General Hertzog from leadership 10 od.
of the Nationalists, with an early general election-Reuter,
Mr. A. S. Gubbay
The Stall of the Secony-
Vacuum Corporation
C. B. Brown ..
H. R. Forsyth
J. A. Sleap
H. L. Prophet
The Hon. Mr. A. W. Tickle The Canton Insurance
Office Ltd. ....
The Hongkong Fire In- surance Co., Ltd. ...... Previously acknowledged
$
125
0 The Consumors' Advisory Board
RELIEF MEASURES,
The Relief Administrator, Mr. s of the National Recovery Adminis-H. L. Hopking, has been instructed 100 tration, for example, have reiterat-
supplies. The purchases will
ed their strong opposition to to create a non-profit corporation to purchase and distribute rollof 500 any proposals for price-fixing in the Coder and have suggested 500 that it is the responsibility of consist entirely of necessities of fo and will be given without Federal agencies to got busy in charge to men unable to find detecting and preventlig profiteer-
employment.
9,280
$10,595
lug.
LATEST LIST OF DONATIONS
It le said at the White Houas that Mr. Roosevelt believes that
CREDIT EXPANSION.
in London
London, Oct. 6. A Cabinet meeting which, it is understood, will be mainly concern-- ed with the present position of the disarmament negotiations will be held on Monday,
Sir John Simon, who returned LORD COWDRAY from Genova last week-end, will
remain in London to attend it..
The Foreign Under-Secretary; Captain Anthony Eden, will pro- ceed to Genova on Saturday to attend Monday's meeting of the Dlearmament Bureati British Wireless,
DEATH RATHER
SUDDEN
particularly polo, and politics. For soveral years he was a Libéral Momber of Parliament.-British Wireless.
MA CHAN-SHAN
WISHES
SHORTER HOURS: MORE PAY.
London, Oct. G. this, to be the quickest method of] Viscount Cowdray, who died Meanwhile, Mias Francos Per-relieving distress and increasing suddenly to-day aged 61 yeare, was CATHEDRAL FUND kins, the Secretary of the Labour the purchases of agricultural pro- connected with the well-known
Department, the only woman in ducts. It is added that he feels Engineering Contractors, Mesere..) the Roosevelt Cabinot, addressing that the states and municipalitics Weetman, Pearson and Co. and n meeting of the American Federa- are not adequately caring for the took an active interest in sport, DEFERS TO NANKING tion of Labour and endorsing the unemployed. plen of Mr. Green for still shorter All unanimously declared that
The following additional dona-hours and still higher wages, has they were satisfied that a cations to the St. John's Cathedral thrown herself in with the group
The President has written to plete solution of the Colony's Restoration Fund have been re- which hold that only by this method water problem had been found.
cun employment be spread further, Mr. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporn- $ 10 INFLATION OPPONENT. tion, authorising him to carry out
3,440
the plan of encouraging the banks The Democratic leader, Senator to sell portions of their capital de- $3,450 Robinson, who has just returned bentures to the Corporation and from Europe, has come back, with thus increase their working the firm conviction that currency capital. The President also bo- IMPROVEMENT SHOWN volunteer activities in Manchuria. Inflation is dangerous and harmful lieves that the action will also He declared that recovery effects provide increased credit. for could not succeed by means of in-business.
The Company proposes to fur- nish water gratis during the fort- night preparatory to the inaugura-
tion of the house serves.
The formal inauguration cere mony has not yot been announced, but it will probably take place early, in November.
- OCCASIONAL RAIN
coived: Pamela Mary Jarvis Previously acknowledged.
RICE TAX
FUKIEN FOLLOWS
The Royal Observatory reports
EXAMPLE
Foochow, Oct 0. Following the example
of
Secretary to the British Legation that the anticyclone has passed in China, arrived in the Colony into the Pacific to the east from Shanghal aboard the ..
Corfu this morning.
Mr. Pelham is accompanied by
his wife and child.
of
Japan; a depression is moving Kwangtung, the Fukien authori
castward ncross the 'Yellów: Sea.
Local forecast:Enst: Winds, ties announce a decision to tax moderate, cloudy, occasional rain, foreign rice import.
STOCK MARKETS CLOSE FIRM
ALL ROUND
London, Oct: 5.
Tientsin, Oct. 6. General Ma Chan-shan returned Lo Tientsin yesterday. He said that some of the troops and off- cers who fought, with him in Hellungkinng in 1931-1932 will be incorporated with the Nanking army and he had no immodiato Intention of resuming the
Detective-Sergeant Moran charged Chan Cheung, 30, before Mr. Balfour in the Contral Police Court this morn-.
Nation and ho suggested Instead For more than ten days, tho the revelation and the stabilien-Administration has been under The stock markets closed gening with returning from banishment. tion of the dollar, together with tremendous prosaure from the orally firm. British funds were Defendant, was banished in July this prudent adjustment of price in inflation ground fr strong, with war loan 8% per year for five years. Sentence of six lovale,
Working hand in hand with the cent. at 1017/
months hard labour was giron. anti-inflation loaders, the consor Gorman bonds were also highor, vative newspapers, and especially but Kafire were weak. Tin shares donation of $25 from Mr. F.D. the financial Journals, are conduct were buoyant, and Internationals Tracy to the Street, Sleepers Fund
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PENNSYLVANIA RIOTS.
In the labour field, the outlook again rather serious in'con.
firm.
His acknowledged."