THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY NOVEMBER
THE "PEOPLE'S
PRISON SENTENCE
ON BANKER
CROWN
RESIST PLEA
FOR LENIENCY:
A nudden change in the attitudo of the Crown towards the pro- secution of a Chinese banker for perjury, was announced by Mr. J. A. Fraser, when, at the Criminal Sesalons this morninke. bo Inform- ed Mr. Juntles Wood› that he was unable to support a plou for leniency.
Prisoner, Kwan Wal-chow, banker, of 163, Queen's Road Cen- tra3, was committed to prison for two months without hard labour, his Lordship remarking that the “sentence would · Impress· upon him the gravity of his offenen and would deterrent to other
nerve as a people.
}
Mr. D. McNel, Instructod by Mesora. Lo and Lo, represented ac cused who had been remanded In custody from the previous day in order to ascertain further facts, after he had entered a ples of guilty.
The charge of perjury. (sus brought by Laung Fung-shi, widow of a son of laung Klä, whone death had been sivorn as occurring in 1927 when it actually took place in 1910. The false date enabled the administrator, Leung Yeuk- chi, another son, to avoid a con- "siderable payment of duty which, It was disclosed to-day, had ` not yet been made.good.
CROWN'S ATTITUDE.
This morning Mr. Fraser sald that the attitude of the Crown towards this prescention had changed in consequence of en- quiries made since the previous day, and 'ho was not now able to support his friend's plea for Jentency. The case. was not, as he had been instructed, connected
·with another caso where full dia, closure and settlement had been made and where the Crown would not have Instituted criminal pro- ceedings.
This misapprehension .wasnot the fault of anyone concerned in the present hearing.
The facts of the present case only came to the knowledge of
'Jaw officers' of the Crown when
prisoner was committed from the
Magistracy.
Qu
EX-WIFE'S GIFT
TO LOVER
'DREADFUL' IF HUS- BAND HAD TO PAY
1933.
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT" FORMED
SIR JOHN SIMON CLEARS AIR
HAPPIER MOOD AT GENEVA
EXTRA-LEAGUE
CONFERENCE?
LI CHAI-SUM AS CHAIRMAN
CANTON ANXIETY: CHAN CHAI-TONG CALLS A CONFERENCE
COMMUNIST INFLUENCE
APPOINTMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. AS FOLLOWS TO THE "PEOPLE'S PROVISIONAL GO- VERNMENT" FORMED BY THE ANTI-CHIANG KAI- SHEK FACTION AT FOOCHOW YESTERDAY:
Li Chai-sum: "Chairman of the Government. Chen Ming-shu: Chairman of the Political Council.
Tsai Ting-kart Chairman of the Military Council.
Hau Shih-ching: Chairman of the Financial Commission.
Eugene Chen: Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Affairs,
Cheung Pak-cheun: Chairman of the Com- mission for Education.
Geneva, Nov. 20..
Suggestions that Communist influence has played A happier atmosphere prevails at Geneva in the a part in the formation of the government appear to be disarmament sphere, though given colour by a feature of the announced programme, Italy's plainly-expressed dis- namely, "each citizen will be allotted an equal share of satisfaction with the League land with the ultimate object of realising collectivist.
control of agriculture." is being somewhat anxiously discussed.
It is important to note, however, that the question of Mr. Arthur Henderson's resignation has not been raised, It is assumed from this that the President of the Con- ference is satisfied that the flip ho has given to the proceedings has borne useful fruit.
In the circumstances, it is felt that an adjournment does not mean procrastination.
CHEN MING-SHU
FOOCHOW. MEETING.
AN ABSENTEE
-Central
LORRY MISHAP
INQUEST ON TWO MEN COMMENCED
Dramatic evidence of a lorry's wild career down a steep slope when jis brakes failed to act, was
FIRE ON SHIP.
SMALL OUTBREAK ON THE SILVERWALNUT
Fire broke out in ong of the holds of the M. V. Bilverwalnut yesterday. afternoon white she was lying at Kow-
given by Wong Wah; the driver of loon Docks undergoing repairs. lorry No. 1051, nt a Coroner's in- quiry opened by Mr. Hamilton at the Contral Magistracy, yesterday afternoon into the deaths of two coollen, Chan Yim and Wong Kau, who were killed when the lorry crashed at Chal Wan Gop.
The jury comprised Mensra, O. B. Payne (foreman), T. V. Lopes and
The accident occurred
оп
the
afternoon of October 28. The lorry was being driven into the city from Stanley with a load of molassea mash. Soveral coolles were in it. When coming down the slope at Chai Wan Gap, the driver applied the brakes, but found they did not act. He gave the warning, and some men jumped clear. The loft door of the cab struck a rock,, ánd the lorry skidded across the road. but did not turn over. One man was found dead, and another, died in hospital.
The Coroner said he observed they had the evidence on the deaths of two men,
·
The Fire Brigado was "at once motifled, and two fire-floats were im- mediately went to the scone. The Dockyard atall was already combating the flames by the time the fire-floats arrived, and when the hoses from the fire-appliances were brought into full play, the outbreak was quickly sub- dued......
It is understood that little darango was done to the ahip, itself.
The Blverwalnut, which belongs to
the Silver Line, for which Mosare. Furness (Für East) Limited, are the. local agents, arrived' in Hongkong from New York vin` Shanghai, last Thursday.
FIGHTING SPIRIT.
ANTI-WAR FILMS TO BE BANNED
Shanghai, Nov. 20, Further showing of anti-war pictures in the theatres of Shang- hal, will be banned by the consors, it is announced. Traffic-Sub-Inspector Nicol The decision. fa a result of zo-· One man was taken direct to the presentations made by the Shang- mortuary and the other died in hal branch of the Kuomintang to samo night. They Nanking that anil-war filme, such the same "vehicle, |as "Cavälende," which atross human hospital the your Worship. Dr. Thomas and suffering and a side of war. tending
to the reduction of morale, Dr. Pringle are both here.
burtful to China at a time when she needs the cultivation, rather, of a fighting public spirit.
were both on
· Medical Evidence. Giving evidence regarding Wong Kau, 30, Dr. G. H. Thomas,
RUPEE ATTACK
are
́DEPRECIATION IN INDIA
DEMANDED
The Chinese Board of Censors medical. officer, Government Civil informed the cinema interests to Hospital, said he was admitted on this effect to-day-Our Own Cor October 28 at 5.40 p.m. in an un-respondent. conscious condition and died at 9.20. p.m. without regaining conscious- waiting until further develop-ness. Two days later he made a menta occur.
He post Foochow, Nov, 21.
mortem examination. In view of the serious develop found no external wounds, but on Twenty thousand people, in- ments, General Chan Chal-tong opening the skull, found that cluding prominent officials of the is urgently summoning his beneath the scalp was extensive Nineteenth Route Army, Fukien subordinates to Canton where an bruising. The skull on the right and Kwangsi officials and repre- Important military conference is side showed a faint crack and the sentatives. Can a wife living with her has
ог other provinces to be held to-day to discuss what entire surface of the brain was
Bombay, Nov. 20. band order in the husband's name
The recent depreciation of the should take in covered with blood clots. There It is believed that Sir John assembled yesterday morning at attitude Canton something for a man who is con- Simon's visit did much
the public recreation ground at to clear ducting an intrigue with, and
lung
agitation of Indian business men against-the eighteen-penny rupee. make her husband pay for it? the air, while M. Paul-Bonceur Foochow at the inauguration of face of the threatening situation. was also contusion of the right American dollar has, revived the
NANKING DECISION. That was the point argued in stated that the British and the the Independent government.
General Chen-Ming-shu, sald to
Witnem attributed death to con- The powerful East India Cotton Westminster County Court ro- French altitudes had drawn closer be the leading spirit in the acces
Nanking, Nov. 21. tusion of the brain, and the in- Association at an extraordinary cently,
together.
ston moviment,
Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President juries were consistent with a heavy meeting, brought forward a ro- was not present and is said to be indisposed, but of the Executive Yuan, presided fall on his right side and head.
solution demanding the substan Judge Dumas held that she could
Marshal Li Chai-sum, Eugene over an emergency meeting of the
tial depreciation of the rupce to Dr. Thomas added. No opera-keep pace with the depreciation of It is now generally conceded that Chon, Chiang Kwang-ual, Tsai Central Political Council last diplomatic negotiations and com-Ting-kal, Tai Chi (former Shang- evening, which was devoted to the tion was attempted because he was the currencies of other countries too deeply unconscious. In these and with a view to securing an of real progress and an admission mander) Oong Chao-yann, and munications offer the best chance) haf-and Woosung Garrison Com- discussion of the Fukien trouble.
After a brief discussion, a re- cases an operation is very seldom adequate return for the agricul- that the negotiations will go out-George Hsu Chien were notable solution was unanimously passed successful.
turists' products.-Router, side the disarmament conference is figures present.
that the Central Government boj
Dr. L. D. Pringle, medical officer taken to imply that the reorganisa-
urged to mote out severe punish-in charge of Victoria Mortuary, ment to those who are responsible said that on October 20 at 10.86 tion of the League will be discussed
included many Government in Fukien.,
for the organisation of the now a.m-ho-performed-a-post mortem. as well-as-the-future-of-the-Saar-The gathering Busin
on the body of, Chan Yim, 35. The other provincial representatives, It is suggested that a meeting
A draft telegram which is to be enuse of death was fracture of the
вр
not,
Mr.
It was discovered that the duty payable in 1928, on the death 12| years previously of Leung Kin, amounted to $12,100, whereas the
Charles Kempton, Eyre only payment made on the estate Court, Finchley-rond, was sued by was $1,000 which was the duty payable if the death had occurred a West End firm for £5 18th
Price of two silk foulard dressing "The gowns," said Mr. Kempton, "were ordered in November, 1930, by my ex-wife from whom I have since obtained a divorce. The two
In 1927.
NO PERSONAL BENEFIT..
There was no suggestion that accused had derived any personal benefit from the false alemationf.
gowns.
LEAGUE REORGANISATION.
NEW PARTY...
When Leung Kin dled In 1916,} gowns were involved to me as one will be held at San Remo at which and of Interest to Hongkong was circulated to the Governments of akull. laceration of the brain and he was connected with the Lal On gown. One was given to mo by Mr. Henderson will be present the presence of 'Mr. Kwan Cho various provinces, was also agreed shock. Outwardly the body
Firm and the Sui Tak Bank, his my wife as a Christmas present share in the latter being valued and the other she gave to the.co- at 308,498. In 1928 it was worth| respondent,"
$112,000. From 1921 onwards the
be
Judge Dumas: It is a drondful
Reuter.
RUBBER PROBLEM,
SOLUTION POSSIBLE IF NECESSARY
bank was ignorant of Loung Kin's this Christmas present), and gave the Disarmament Conference vincial Government, proposed that menace is completely suppressed. skull Immediately behind the right intervention should be stopped. If a
ge.
In fairness to accused, sald Mr.
conta.
Fraser, it should be pointed out
that there may have been some.
question of the solvency of the Lai GREAT BRITAIN
Wan no such
On firm in 1921, but, as far as was known, there question in 1910, and Loung Kin's share in the bank must be assessed ut its then value.
FINLAND
day.
new party.
TO SUPPRESS MOVEMENT.
cC=-neee-ne
po, until recently the editor of a
at the meeting.
peared healthy and death had oc Chinese newspaper here, who was
The telegram states, in effect, curred about 18 hours previous to
Batavia, Nov. 20. BUREAU MEETS TO-MORROW, among the directors elected.
that since the national crists, the the
The Governor of the East Const examination. Thero wero The leaders delivered
whole country has been working numerous lacerations of the scalp, of Sumatra has given it as his London, Nov. 20. apeeches In which Marshal; bank gave credit In Loung Kin's
Representatives of chief Powers Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanking hard to achieve salvation for the multiple abrasions all over the body opinion that if it is certain that name to the Lai On Firm to the thing to hit a man for a dressing now at Geneva met at the house Kuomintang were both strongly country. The Central Government a compound fracture of the left rubber restriction is both neces
progown supplied to his wife's lover. of M. Avanol, Secretary General criticised,
la prepared to embark upon. an elbow and a simple fracture of the sary and useful, a method of carry- extent of $51,560 in three
also an ing it out can surely be found. missory notes, and it must
Kwang-nal, ambitious national reconstruction left wrist. There was General Chinng
Ho suggests that governmental The judge held that Mr. Kemp of the League, to-day and decided nssumed that the manager of the
ton must pay for only one Kown that a meeting of the Bureau of Chairman of the Fuklen Pro- programme as soon as the "Red" extensive repreased fracture of the
car, the fragments of the bone fair, margin of profit is reached death or acted with full knowled- judgment for £2 10s. dd, with should be convened for Wednes- the new regime should sover all
being driven in and causing lacera-by producers. connexions with the Kuomintang
At this critical juncture. the tion of the brain.
The question of amuggling wasż establish Efforts to reach an understand-and
more difcalt, ho admitted, and ing on the way to remove the He recalled the Nanking Govern- telegram proceeds, the Central
Government is surprised to learn The injuries were consistent with would probably require interna- deadlock caused by breakdown of ments refusal to aid the XIX Route that General Chan Ming-shu and the body being thrown to the tional arrangements-Router. &the
October negotiations at Army during the Sino-Japanese Geneva, and the withdrawal of conflict in Shanghai early in 1932. certain others are starting a re-round with considerable force.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shok's volt, in league with the Com-
Jumped Off Lorry. Germany from the Disarmanient
and a boy scout, Ip Tung-shan, of London, Nov, 20.
Conference, were begun on Satur-alleged organisation of Fascist munists and the so-called Third
Young Hing-yes, the owner of the 10th. Troop, wore attending troops and the government's policy Party leaders in Fukten, and also Ratifications of the commercial day, and private conversations be towards Japan were both attacked: circulating malicious statements the lorry, said that he was told the the other injured when he arrived.. against the Contral Government. lorry could carry one and a half Three of the victims wore sont to agreement between the Govern-tween the delegates will be con-
THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE.
Faced with such a state of affairs, tona (about 24 piculs) and it was hospital. ments of the United Kingdom and Finland, signed at Helsingfors on
'Brakes Fall to Act. the Central Government is com carrying over twenty picals. He asked the driver to stop when they September 29 were exchanged ut
Wong Wah, the driver of the the Foreign Office to-day.--British
The telegram also appeals to the driver did not, paying that the lorry lorry, said that he was not the re-
had no brakes. He did not see Wireless.
co-operate with the Central Gov- gears before this. The lorry then bean engaged to drive it on the ernment in putting down the gathered pace, and ho jumped on accident, when he had driven it in morning of the day previous to the volt as quickly as possible to the running board and then to Wanchai and the Central District. Central News Agency.
the ground. The lorry had dis- He then had occasion to apply the AMOY REACTION.
appeared when he got up, and he brakes and found them in order. Amoy, Nov. 21. walked along the road and met the Following the establishment of driver, who said there had been an On the afternoon of October 28
last was driving back from Stanley, an independant Government in accident week before the ac- and travelling at 13 or 14 miten an Fuklen, the local authorities have client, and the river had thea re- hour. At the top of the hill at taken over control of all revenue
Gap he changed into Becond
If Loung Youk-chi, who obtain ed letters of administration to the catate, could be found, he should, be in the dock baalde accused.
MISSING MAN.
сase
The prosecutrix in this came to Hongkong to nurse her
father-in-law in 1916. He died at TRAWLER WRECKED. 30, New Market Street. Later, abe returned to the country and there lived on an allowance of $50 a month paid to her through the Sang Lee Bank by Leung Youk-chi who was the manager. When the bank closed down, the allowanco
EIGHTEEN PERSONS SAVED BY LIFEBOAT
London. Nov. 20. The Icelandic trawler Gexsirro stopped and Leung disappeared. 58 was wrecked this morning on
Torness Point, Orkney.
A warrant was issued for his ar rest but he had not yet been found.
Seventeen men and one woman,
Meanwhile accused, who had who were on board, were rescued been in the country, returned to by the Longhope lifebont Hongkong in September of this British Wireless.
yuar. and was arrested.
The attitude of the prosecutrix
was that she had boon deprived of of perjury which occurred in her maintenance, and she bore Court, the Inw decided which
tinued to-morrow.
ITALY'S ATTITUDE.
"The right of the people must be
Meanwhile, M. Avenol leaver/Protected and it is the now party's pelled to take steps to suppress the reached Chai Wan Gap, but the
movement.
Geneva to-night to attend the inch of China's soll against aggres various provincial authorities to whether the driver had changedular driver of the lorry, but had
aim to strive to preserve every
funeral of Signor Scialoja in Rome, aion from abroad," doclared Genova messages suggest that M. Chiang Kwang-nal, who invited all Avenel, while in Rome, may have revolutionary members of the Kuo- an opportunity of discussing with mintang, who are not satisfied with Signor Mussolini Italy's attitude things as they are now, to join the towards the League of Nations. new organisation. There have been suggestions that Italy might follow Germany's example, and withdraw from the Longue-British Wireless.
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ILLEGAL USE OF WIRELESS
[EXCHANGE TIPS FROM
SHANGHAI
Dairen, Nov. 17.
were Arrested to-day
grudge against all who had had should be the subject of proascu- Three Manchus and three
a hand in bringing about this tion and which not. state of affairs.
NO FRAUD ATTEMPTED,
He suggest-Japanes
NEW FLAG,
The meeting decided to abolish the Nanking flag of the blue sky and rising sun.
he
The
WAX
A new national ensign of red bureaux-formerly under the direct ported to him that the brakes wore Chair before going down the
:
steop.
lorry was going slow
and blue with a yellow star In the control of the Nanking Govern-in good order." centre was formally adopted. The ment, such as the Salt Gabello, Wong Wai, a. student, who was at the time, and when he found it ceremony came to a conclusion at as well as the Faklen branches travelling on the lorry, said that was gaining speed he pressed the 11 o'clock after lasting two hours.of the Central Bank of China, the they were near the tea shed by foot brake but nothing happened. Foochow was quiet yesterday, all Government Wireless Stations Chat Wan Gap when he heard the He then applied the hand brako shopa declaring holidays following and the Government Telegraph sound of the gear being changed, with the same results. He gave
orders. A manifesto to the coun-Office-Central News. try setting forth the new. Govern- ment's foreign and internal pollefes will be issued shortly,
· CANTON UNDECIDED.
FAR EASTERN TRADE. SOUTH AFRICA APFOINTS
COMMISSIONER
The lorry was then travelling at an the alarm no brakes, and tried to ordinary pace. He then heard the run the lorry to the left side of hand. brako applied, and the lorry the road in order to stop it. He then started to slide increasing In felt the loft door of the cab hit a speed. He then heard the driver's rock, and this resulted in the lorry out of no brakes and jumped off, being thrown off its course, and it landing on a pile of earth and skidded right across the road, but ed that had the law been the solo for violating the Japanese Inw
Canton, Nov. 21. Pprohibiting the use of wireless to
rolling into the nullah. He found did not turn over. All the cargo Judge in this case inьtoad of a
Extreme secrecy surrounds the dlaoursions which were hold by
London, Nov. 20.
the two deceased men in the gutter was upset. He was not hurt at all. woman disappointed of her claims, socure exchange quotations.
With him in the enb was Yau Chol. Mr. McNeill said he was glad accused would not have been pro-have made a profit of 300.000 connexion with the Fukien Trade Commissioner for South Shaukiwan Follow Station, said that and it only took him a short while
The prisoners are alleged to the Canton leaders, yesterday in
Mr. A. T. Brennan, Assistant on the left side of the road."
Acting Inspector Logan, of the He went up the hill in third gear, that the question of settlement socuted. had been cleared up. It was not
during the past two months by developments...
Africa in London, has been ap- he went to the scene on receipt of to change into second gear, which Sentence was passed as stated securing advance tips of Shang- It is believed, however, that as pointed South a case of attempting to help
African Trade Tientsin and friend, and, while not belittling above, and Mr. McNeill then ask hat,
Tsingtaon result of the discussions, the Commissioner for the Far East a telephone message, and found one he did when he started down the
man doad and another seriously slope. have a great Canton Government will continue with headquarters in Batavia injured lying on the road. The Hearing was adjourned until the offence of perjury, he would ed for and was granted a Corti- quotations, which
influence on local rates.-Reuter, to maintain a policy of watchfull Router. remind his Lordship that in casos fente for leave to appeal,
Fathers from the Italian Convent Thursday afternoon et 2.80 p.m.