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WREATHS ON CENOTAPH
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A pleasing ceremony was held uk. the Cenotaph this. ing when the Committee and members of the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League observed Trafalgar Day, placing a wreath on the Cenotaph.
Captain W. J. R. Cragg, A.D.C., representing II.E. the Officer Ad- ministering the Government, also participated in the ceremony and laid a second wreath.
The League's wreath WILA anchor-shaped and decorated with pink roses, cosmos, ginger lies and silver leaves. The inscription on the card read: "To the glorious mentory of Nelson and all who fell at Trafalgar from the Hongkong Branch of the Navy Lengue.”.
The wreath was jald by the Hon. Sir Henry Pollok and Mr. A. L. Shields. Other members of the Lengue present included Messrs. Cyril C. Champkin, S. T. Williamson, S. Hampien Rosa and H. W. Dulley.
During the morning, two other wreaths were laid at the Cenotaph. one from the Commanding Ofleer and Officers of the Hongkong Naval Volunteer Force and the other from the Commander-in- Chief, Commodores, Captains, Officers and shipa' compantes of the China Fleet.
Prior to the ceremony at the Cenotaph, the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League laid a wreath Ht the Sailors' and Soktlers* Memorial at Happy Valley.
MATSHED CHURCH FOR ARMY.
FUNDS NOW BEING RAISED
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In order meet a pressing need, the Army Church authori- ties are, at their own experac, erecting a matshed church at Shamshulpu, capable of seating about 600 people.
of '97
The recent movement families to Shamshulpo has ren- dered even more acute the problem of providing religious tenching and divine worship for the troops stationed at this camp. The Army "Chaplains have for some time post been endeavouring to obtain some tort of building for this purpose, but owing to the temporary na- ture of the camp. it has been found financially impossible to do anything from public funds. it is this curcumstance which has induced the Army Church authori- ties to take the matter in. hand and erect a church adequate for its purpose,
TELEGRAPH. --MONDAY,
OCTOBER 21, 1935.
The late Mr. Arthur Henderson, former Secretary of the British Labour Party and Chairman of the Disarmament Conference, chose
death accurred yesterday.
Cartoonist Killed
SIDNEY SMITH IN MOTOR CRASH
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CLEVER FRAUD ALLEGED
SWINDLE ATTEMPT- ON AGED WOMAN
CROWN CASE OUTLINED
Alleged to be one of the prime movers of an extremely clever at tempt to fraud an elderly Chinese Indy, Ip Kim-wan, 43, unemployed, of 229 Ki Lung Street, stood hi trial at Criminal Sessions this forged Promissory Note on April morning on a charge of uitering
17, 1936, purporting to be made by Chiu Sit-shi, 74-year-old widow of No. 28 Gilman's Bazaar.
Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, Puisne Judge, took the case and the follow- ing jury was empanelled: Messrs. 6. B. Baven (Foreman), H. II. W. Sander, Li Wa-fun, V. T. Low, F. Carvalho, C. J. Triggs and P. M. Silva.
Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith, An- sistant Crown Solicitor, spoke for an hour and a half outlining the case which the prosecution had compiled against the accused and which went back to March 1929.
The plot, was mainly attributed to a man described ng "Chan" and whose whereabouts were not known.
In March 1929, said the crown
(Special to "Telegraph")
Harvard, Oct. 20.
creator of "The Gumps"
Sidney Smith, aged 58 years, prosecutor, the old lady visited solicitor's office to devise strip, one of the most popular fea means of protecting her property tures of its kind in the United and there she met Chan in the States, was killed to-day when a capacity of a clerk. On his advice motor-car in which he was riding she gave him two photography and side-slipped. The car was driven made a finger-print on some blank by Martin Watseke, who
waspaper for the purpose of register- severely injured.
ing her property at the land office.
Smith was catapulted from the car against a telephone pole and his head was almost severed.
At the time of the accident, Lake Generi, after signing a new Smith was en route to his home at
The blank sheet of paper was then made out in the form of a Promissory Note in favour of the finger-print of the old lady. The accused and bearing the name and
tenth of the latter who was even idea originally was to wait for the
contract to continue "The Gumps" for a further five years, for which he was to receive $150,000 nn- [claim against her estate. nually.
wards to present the note as a
then at an advanced age, and after-
BUT SHE LIVED
However, the old lady lived on
Smith, was one of the wealthicat comic strip artists in the world, his income from royalties amount- ing, it is estimated, to at least and it became apparent that unless the "note" quartor of a million dollars a year. something was done
would become invalid by the lapse -United Press.
of time-the note only being good If presented within six years.
CEASE WAR ON
PASTORS
BERLIN ORDER TO NAZI SERVANTS.
(Special to "Telegraph")
Berlin, Oct. 20. The suspension of all disciplin- ary measures against pastors for the time being has been ordered by Herr Kerr, Minister of Church Affairs.
Chan and accused In August, 1034, went to Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist and instructed them to issue a writ for $1,500 on the Promla- Rory Note, together with $2,027 accrued interest. When, a clerk was about to serve the writ, Chan came Into the office and said that by chaned the old lady was...ut. that moment walking in Ice House Street. There was then no heees- sity to go to the old lady's address a procedure the conspiratora wished to avoid-and the writ was served in the street on the person who was actually a dummy paid to say she was Chiu Sit-shi.
represented.
In September, 1934 accused went to court where judgment was given - Simultaneously, the leaders of for him against the old lady who, the Confessional Synod have ignorant of the whole plot, was not issued a proclamation acknowledg- Ing the new Church Committee ap pointed by Herr Kerrl to settle the dispute, "because it obviously. means the end to force in Church affairs."
WRIT SECURED
The next step was to get the money, and accordingly a writ of execution was secured by Chan who
A committee of military and civilian Indies is undertaking to raise funds Tor the purpose, and in connection therewith a bridge and mah jong tournament is to be held at the Peninsula Hotel on Thursday, October 31 at 3 p.m. All pastors who had been placed said he was acting for accused. An earnest appeal is made to all in the concentration camp in Mr. Millington, head balliff, went bridge and mah jong players to Saxony have been
to Chiu Sit-shi's house and there, be present, but in case of those order of Herr
for the first time, the old lady be came aware of the debt she was alleged to owo, the allegedly faked service of the writ on the dummy
unable to attend, any donation, Special. however, 'small will be very wel- come. Contributions may be sent
released by Herr. Reuter
to Mrs. Edwin Taylor, 410 The BARON SYSONBY and the Judgment that had been
Peak; Mrs. Fordham, Repulse Bay Hotel; Mrs. Morris, 12 Tak Shing Street; Mrs, Harrison, 5 Thorpe Manor; Mra. Bateman, G Felix Villas; or Mrs, Smalley, Kowloon Hospital.
SPURIOUS COIN CAREERS
JUDGE ISSUES A WARNING
Pleading guilty before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor, at the Criminal Sessions this morn- ing, to a charge of importing 352 counterfeit Hongkong five-cent ploces from China, Lau Kan; aged 65, unemployed, was sentenced to three years' hard labour. The accused was arrested at the Kow- Joon Ralfway Station on Septem. ber 26.
Chan Cho, 25, unemployed, was also given a three years' sentence when he pleaded guilty to import
DIES AT 69
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TREASURER TO H.M. KING GEORGE
given against her in her absence. Mr. Millington suspected some- thing was wrong and the matter was brought before the judge. Judgment was suspended, an en- quiry was set afoot and the old lady then recalled the Incident, Ave years before, of attaching her finger-print to a blank sheet of paper,
London, Oct, 20. The death has occurred of Baron Sysonby, formerly Sir Frederick : The trial of an issue was or- Ponsonby, at the age of 69 years.dered, said Mr. Smith, and accused The late Lord Sysonby, who reluctantly proceeded to try and was created a Baron a few months establish his clním. Under the ago, had been. Deputy Governor of severe cross-examination of Mr. Windsor Castle and Coustable of F. C. Jenkin, x.c., in April this the Round Tower since 1928. He year, his case wilted and he and
had been Treasurer to H.M. the Chun absconded before the hearing King since 1920 and keeper of the was over. Accused was arrested for forgery and fraud on Septem- Privy Purse since 1914.
Educated at. Elon, he became bør 10 by a Chineso constable to # second Bentonant in the whom he at first denied his Iden- wastity. He was committed for trial. Grenadier Guards in 1889, A.D.C. to the Viceroy of India in from the Magistracy after telling 1893-94, was Equerry and a story which confirmed that he Assistant, Private Secretary to and Chan were liars and cheats." Queen Victoria 1894-1901, also holding these positions under King Edward and King George.
He served in the South African War in 1901-02 and in the Great, War from 1914 to -1918, being
ing 98 counterfeit Hongkong five-mentioned in despatches.--Reuter, examine but when His Lordship
cant pieces from Canton to Hong- kong.
Mr. Fraser, for the Crown, sald the obvious Inference was that
both accused were carriers.
GENERAL SUCCUMBS
Washington, Oct. 20, The Judge remarked that he General Gresley, a veteran of would pass heavy sentence month the Civil War, who rose from the by month for this type of offence ranks, diodto-day Ho was "until it penetrates the intelll- an explorer and scientist as once of these people that the well as a soldier of note- game la lot worth the candĵo." United Press.
OLD LADY CALLED Chiu Sit-shi this morning gave evidence bearing out the opening statement as far as she knew.
Accused at first declined to cross- pointed out that he was on trial he put questions seeking to show that he was an old acquaintance of Chiu Sit-shl and her relatives. Witness denied that she had ever seen accused before he appeared in court in connection with the case. Au, Kwok-toung, clerk of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, corroborated Mr. Lockhart Smith's statement.
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