HONGKONG STAMPS SCRAPPED
SEAMEN
DESIRE
PEACE
CORONATION ISSUE VOTING TO RESUME
BEING PREPARED
MAY BE SOLD DURING MAY
The Telegraph learns from London advices that as a result of King Edward's abdication the of Hongkong stampa Issues already prepared for sale in May have been scrapped.
New Coronation stamps of radically new design, It is understood, are now
of in course preparation. These three slamps will be issued at
bo of pictorial charges, and will design with pictures of the King and Queen on them.
Design for a picture stamp similar in size to the Jubiler issue have been produced. Since
the inception of postage stamps, King Edward's profile is the only one that will not be seen on Colonial postage stamps.
WORK AT ONCE HOOVER SAILING
SATURDAY...
San Francisco, Feb. 2. The members of the striking mari- time unions are reported to be voting overwhelmingly in favour of accep- tunce of the terms of settlement with the Pucifle const steamship operators,
spokesman. according to a labour
Shipping offices, to-day, are busy booking passengers and freight on the assumption that sailings will re-
ter.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Supervising Germans Who Live Abroad:
Berlin, Feb. 2.
A special department of the Foreign Office Nas been establish- ed for supervising Germans liv- Ing abroad,
07-
The head of the foreign ganisation of the Nazi Party has Leen appointed head of the new department and he will work directly under the Foreign Minister and will participate in Cabinet meetings whenever ques- ilona concerning Germans living abroad are deliberated upon.-- Reuters Buliciln Service.
suine on Friday and Saturday--ReWhite Slave
ACCEPTING MAIL
San Francisco, Feb, 2. The Dollar Stentship Company has notified the Government that it is ne- cepung Pacille mail for the President Hoover. tentatively ordered to sail Saturday for the Far East.
n consignment of trans-
It is Indicated that nearly two- thirds of the balloting in the maritime strike has been completed and is
Hongkong's issue of Coronation stamps will be replaced, probably at the end of the year, with a complete issue of King George VI stamps.
The three new stamps will probably believed the result will be overwhel be on sale during the second week mingly in favour of a return to werk.
in May, and will be sold until thene 1,000 voters at San Pedro are ex-
pecting to finish balloting to-night supply is exhausted.
United Press,
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COLONY DELEGATES AT BANDOENG.
London, Feb. 2. Delegates from Hongkong, Malaya, India and other centres are attending League of Nations Conference at Banlong which is to deal with traße in women and children. The Confer- ence was upened this morning.
It is not considered Ukely that Hongkong will issue a special Air Mall stamp, despite requirements for
The Dollar Steamship Line this the Pan-American Pacific service. It is pointed out that ali first class morning received tesegraphie advices mail will probably be carried by from Sun Francisco stating that prosof Imperial Airways machines, at cur-pects are favourable for a settlement
of the strike to-morrow, rent rates elther at the end of 1037 or early in 1030.
Australian Mission To U.S. Planned
As soon as the strike is settled, the President Wilson will sail from Los Angeles und the President Hayes will Hail from Honolulu on their kound- the-World Service. The President Hoover will all from San Francisco and the President Grant from Seattle on their regular schedules,
The remainder of the fleet will follow on regular schedule, and the company expects to be able to inform the pubile as to the definite arrival and sailing dates of its steamers be-
STATE DEPARTMENTfore the end of this week.
GIVES APPROVAL
Washington, Feb. 2.
MORE STRIKES
New York, Feb. 2. Building service union men have designed begun a series of strikes ultimately to affect 240 business and apartment buildings and force re- union contracts.—United newal of Presa.
WAGES RAISED
The first move towards the es- tablishment of an Australian Mission in America is the recent notification of the Commonwealth's desire, for warded to the State Department, which approved the plan to-day. It
New York, Feb. 2. appears that it proposed to attach an
the British The American Steamship Owners Australian oficial to Embassy in the capacity of Coun-Association has agreed to raise 1.S.U. suilor.
It is believed the cultivation of Australian and American mutunl interests in the Pacific is the reason
envisaged, for the proposal of the mission.
M. Avenol, the Secretary-General the League, gave an Informal claimed that the place and character address, in the course of which he of the meeting proved that the League of Nations was not an ex- clusively European institution.
The Conference ja being attended by missionary organisations, as well as by Government delegates, and by an observer from the United States. -Reuter.
NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION
Washington, Feb. 2.. Congressmen have orgonised a bloc favouring the inclusion in neutrality legislation of mandatory embargoes un exports of munitions, war mater- ials, loans, credits, as compared with the President's proposals to make dis- cretionary embargoes munitions-United Press.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1937.
SPORTS WRITER'S DISMISSAL
APPEAL AGAINST LIBEL AWARD JUDGMENT.
RESERVED
ERADIO BROADCAST
Piano Syncopation By
Pomping Vila FOSSICKING FOR GOLD
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 ke'a), 31.40 metres (9.52 m.c's).
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme.
7 pm. The Philadelphis Sym- phony Orchestra.
An appeal against the decision of
"Parsefal"-Symphonie. Synthesis Mr. Justice 3. J. Hayden, Acting
from Act. 3, (Wagner, arr. Stokows- Pulsne Judge, in awarding. $200 damages to Leung Kam-hoo, a sportski),...Danse Macabre, Op. 40 (Saint- writer, in his action for libel against Saens); Yablochko Russion Sailors the Tai Chung Yet Po, was heard by Dance (from "The Red Poppy Ballet). 7.30 Stock Quotations and long- the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, and Mr. Justice J. A. Fraser kong Exchange Market Report.
7.35
Two Songs by Connie in the Full Court. this morning.
The Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada Jnr., Boswell. On the Beach at Bail- instructed by Mr. G. S. Hugh-Jones, Bali; I met my Waterloo.
Studio. From 7.40
the of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, ap peared for defendant-appellants. Hawalian Music by The Waikiki Plaintiff-respondent was not in Court, Trio nor was he legally represented.
1.
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I want to learn to speak At the outset, counsel asked per-
My mission to prove service of notice at Hawaliun; 2. Hawalian Sunset; 3, the end of the appeal, in view of re-Forward Kamehameha 4.
Hawaiian Isles; 5. My Jane. spondent not being represented.
8 pm. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
The Chief Justice agreed, and counsel then went on to say that the appeal was against the judgment of Mr. Justice Hayden, sitting in Sum-A mary Jurisdiction, in connection with an action for wrongful dismissul and
bel. They
alias
8.03 The Voice of Inexperience." humorous monologue by Oliver Piano Wakefield,
3.
8.10 From the Studio, 1. Is it true what they say about ed we were now only concern Syncopation by Pomping Vila. took the form of n notice published Dixiel; 2. Blues Serenade; in the paper on June 28 last and Sweet Sue; 4. Ehelk of Arnby: 5. which read as follows: "Notice by Lady be good: 8. You: 7. Always.
The Bournemouth this paper. Leung Kam-boo,
8.30 p.m. Siu Ngang, sport news corresponden!
-Municipal Orchestra, of this paper, is dismissed on account
Largo (Handel): Le Prophete of a certain matter. Anything that
danegs two imps (Alford); Three nothing to do with this paper." person may do hereafter shall have Coronation March (Meyerbeer); The from Nell Gwyn, (German); 1. Country Dance; 2. Pastoral Dance; 3. Merrymankers Dance: Carlsbad and AB- Doll Dance (Pieler).
8.55. London-News. nouncements. ncements.
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In the Summary Court, both plain- titt and his solicitor, in opening the dis- case, admitted there had been missal. In other words, the dismissal was true and that, counsel submitted, formed a complete defence to libel.
the
DEFAMATORY OR NOT? The sole issue before the Summary Court as it was now befere the Full Court was whether or not the words complained of were in fact de- famatory, and no question arose as to whether or not they were capable of bearing a defamatory meaning, because no innuendo had been plead ed.
all but Sording to Odger's Libel
wages by $10 a month. The ofder affects 55,000 men on ships of the East Const and Gulf ports-United [Press.
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
THE STATE ALONE IS FREE, WHICH STRENCIH AND OWN RESTS ON 179 It is noteworthy that Australia and America are large Pacific traders and DOES NOT DEPIND UPON THE WILL OF
a joint ANOTHER-Livy. planning that they are trans-Pacific' airline line.-United
Press.
TROTSKY ATTACKS SOVIET
London, Feb. 2.
A woman named Pun Tal was taken to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries re- ceived when in fight with other women in Sai Wo Lane.
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A 3-year-old boy, named Tong Po, taken to Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering from scalds re- celved when a pan of boiling oil, accidentally upset in the kitchen, fell sa h'n.
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The P. and O. liner Rawalpindi is due here from Shanghai at 6 a.m. on Friday.
The C.N.A.C. have issued a calendar which includes their time-table, and has a fine coloured picture of the Great Wall taken from the air.
For trespassing in the Shamshuipo Miltary Barracks a young Chinese was this morning fined $10 or three weeks' hard labour by Mr. Mac- fadyen at the Kowloon Magistracy,
A Concert. Planoforte Solo Polonaise No. € in A Flat Major, Op. 63 (Chopin).... Rubinstein; Tenor Solos- Arthur "Meistersinger Preislled (Prize Richard Crooks; Song), (Wagner).. "Lohengrin"-In Fernem Land (Lo
In hengrin's narrative: Lands),
Violin (Massenet);
well, Ye
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Distant Crooks;
ninaltation
Op. 3 (Kreisler)
Kreisler: So- and prono Solonne d'Arc"-Fara (Tschaikowsky); continued counsel,
lon, "Herodiade" He is kind, he is good words, for the purpose of defamation, might be divided into Ave classes, (Massenet).... Marla Jeritza: Piano- (1) obvious defamatory, (2) prima forte Selo-Polonaise-Fantaisie No.
(4) In A Flat Major, Op. 81 (Chopin): facie defamatory, (3) neutral,
...Arthur Rubinstein; Bass-Baritone prima facle innocent but capable of a
-Solo-Bedouin Love Song (Pinsuti) defamatory meaning, and (5) incap-
Peter Dawson. able of a defamatory meaning.
p.m.
In regard to classes 4 and 5, In- nuendo must be pleaded. The learn- ed trial Judge, in the Court below, held that the words complained of were prima facie defamatory by say ing. As
consider these words to be prima facie defamatory, it is not necessary to plead an innuendo."
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London-Big Ben. Dance Music
Fox Trot-Life is empty without love; Fox Trot--Man of my dreams; Fox Trot-I'll never let you go; Fox Trot-I'm one-
ahead of my step shadow; Quickstep No words nor high Quickstep Sky anything:
Tango Clavelito; Fox honeynwon;
In next time you're Trol-Drop in
Trot-Unbelievable; passing: Fox Fox Trol-One rainy afternoon; Fox Trol---Me and the moon,
10.35 London" Wo There:"
Was Fossicking for Gold in Western Aus tralia, 1880-1894. A talk by E. H (Electrical Recording). Adlington.
10.50 Viennese Waltzes. Viennese Memories of Lehar (arr. Henry Hell), played by Marck Weber and His Orchestra,
11 pm. Close Down,
CLYDE YARDS BUSIER
"As I read that sentence,' Uinued Mr. D'Almada, "the learned trio Judge was bringing the words complained of into Cinss 2 If you looked at the examples given submit he was wrong there because by Odger you will see that in that class you have words totally distinci and different from the kind com- plained of here. You might have the charge that the man was a llar or a fraud, and that sort of thing goes under class 2 for which innuendo need not be pleaded. But here you Yeung Yeo-tal, aged 57, was taken have words of a much more tem- to the Kowloon Hospital yesterdayperate nature and you cannot sug- suffering from injuries to the hands, gest they could go under any head- class 4 or 5. face und legs, caused while he was ing other than either dynamiting fish off Sung Wong Tei, The words complained of, I submit, are much more closely akin to those Kowloon City.
in class 5 than class 4. I will sub- mit further that these words, in view of the admission as to dismissal, are not defamatory. If you apply proper rules of construction and look BIG NEW CONTRACTS at them in their ordinary meaning. the only conclusion you can come to is that the plaintiff was dismissed and that he was dismissed for a certain reason. But you cannot go further than that and say that that reason Clyde shipyards, with the announce- no innuendo has been pleaded.
Denny Brothers, of Dumbarton, REFLECTION ON ABILITY? have been commissioned to bulld The Chief Justice: Need one go two 4,000-ton cargo liners for the so far as that? Is it not arguable Henderson Line of Glasgow, and the ordinary Mourse Line have instructed Connels that these words in their meaning would convey to a normal of Scotstoun to buila a motor liner reader the fact that there is a reor $,200 tons deadweight. flection on his ability?
We have received from the local M. Leon Trotsky, now la exile in Mexico, made another nitack on the adice of the Confederation Life As
He said sociation
D calendar bearing Soviet regime last night.
picture showing the majority of the men who had striking-coloured been executed following the recent Canada's "Royal Willium," the first mass trial were bureaucrats, not po ship cross the North Atlantic Bitical figures. Trotsky suggested
Ocean under steam power. that M. Stalin had embarked on this series of State trials because he him- selt was responsible for the creation of a new bureaucracy.
Trotsky is anxious that there shall be an international commission of
the
Queen's
While he was walking in Road Central yesterday a man named Leung Cheung-kee was accidentally knocked down by a bicycle. As a result of the accident, Leung was re- maved to Government Civil Hospital,
the
ANNOUNCED
London, Feb. 2. February has started well for the
Inquiry Into the State trials, ond he day. The injuries were caused when 34, unemployed. when he admitted was a discreditable reason becausement of three new contracts.
has promised to give evidence before any such body.-Reuter.
ALABAMA MOB KILLS NEGRO FIRST LYNCHING IN MORE THAN A YEAR
Sulfering from injuries to his left 56-year-old man named thigh, a
taken to
A fine of $100, or two months' hard Wong Sung-kee was Government Civil Hospital yester labour, was imposed on Ho Lau, aged Wong was knocked down by a lorry, the possession of 50 heroin pills at driven by Cheung Chuen-yip, in Belcher Street on January 27, at the Central Magistracy to-day, Inspector Connaught Road Central.
M. H. Hourihan said defendant was arrested on suspicion.
•
While working on a ship in the No. I'dry docks of the Kowloon Docks a coolle named yesterday morning, Leung Wing missed his footing and fell into the dock, receiving severe Injuries.
immediately rushed to the Kowloon Hospital, but succumbed to his injuries later in the day.
Не Was
Charges of breaking into 163 Sheung Shu Po village, Kowloon City, with intent to commit a felony, and
was
An unknown man, aged 40, picked up unconscious at Custic Peak Road yesterday with serious injuries to his head. It is belleyed that he was knocked down by a lorry which did not stop after the accident. His condition is serious and he is being treated at the Kowloon Hospital.
Scotstoun
Mr. D'Almada: If that is so, the Six months ago, the answer is that once you proved the yard was without a keel--a position dismissal is true that is the end of It. which had obtained for over six case where the Court years, but work on five vessels la This is not
being now could presume the dismissal was faise
commenced.-British because it was not an action for Wireless. wrongful dismissal. One might be
An unemployed man appeared be dismissed for reasons, good or bad, Abbeyville, Ala., Feb. 2. The state's first lynching in more
fore Mr. E. Himaworth at the Kow-but assuming that the defendants hud
himself only proved that the dismissal was most regrettable that the successful than a year occurred to-day when a of returning from banishment were toon Magistracy this morning mob of more than 100 men forced preferred against an unemployed charges of stealing six iron nuts and due to retrenchment and not to a respondent has not found
itself able to be represented here. Per- their way into the gaol here, ejected Chinese, Wong Kau, before Mr. E. bolts and a clamp from the P. & D. discreditable reason, that in
haps, it is a simple but nevertheless and hanged a young negro, Wesley Himsworth at the Kowloon Magis-Tilawa nt the Kowloon Godowns, and would have been sumcient.
Counsel then went on to say that very interesting point and in view of Johnson, 22, who had been accused iracy this morning. On the applica of being on board without permission. of assaulting a white woman. He had tion of the police a week's formati The accused was
a $10 or three the triat Judge, in his judgment, had the fact that he is not represented made it clear that the words could here, my brother Fraser agrees with remand was granted, it being stated weeks' hard not been tried.
the that the case would be taken for
only be capable of bearing a defama- me that it is well to take time to The Governor has asked
Returning
to the Colony before the tory meaning by imputation, and consider our decision and put it in
proof writing. Attorney-General to institute Im-committal,
expiration of his banishment, with under the circumstances the peachment • proceedings against
During the absence of the master the intention of hawking sugar cane, that the dismissal was true was sum- Sherif Louis Corbett, whom the mob
of the Wing Fat knitting factory of resulted in the arrest of an unem-elent answer to the setion. overpowered.---United Press.
Mr. D'Almada further submitted LI Cheung 188 Ma Tour Chung Road, Kowloon | ployed man City, one of the female employees, nged 21, yesterday. Brought before that once the dismissal was admitted Choung Kwan-ying, a
married Mr. K. Keen at the Central Magis- the judge should have directed him- women, stole a basket of clothing tracy this morning Li was sentenced self that the words "for a and money to the total value of $85, to five months' hard labour. He was matter could not be capable of a the property of her employer. On banished for 10 years on January 16, defamatory meaning because no in-
muendo had been pleaded, or, alter- ALHAMBRA the woman's appearance before Mr. 1933,
EXPLORER'S WIFE FOR NIGHT CLUB LADY WILKINS TAKES ON NEW ROLE
lover in
named
certain
the
Was
natively, the words were not action- able libel because the dismissal was E. Himsworth of the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning she was bound. While lime-washers were busy admitted. He should have stopped
sum of $30,
eleaning the kitchen of the second the case there and then, and not let floor of No. 28 Po Hing Street on it go any further.
48 a New York, Feb. z.
Referring to the proof of service Arrested at the Wing Lok Wharf January 20 they came across. Lady Suzanne Wilkins, wife of Sir yesterday for possession of prepared S. and W. revolver carefully hidden on the respondent, Counsel said Mr.
the chimney. The weapon, Zimmern, who was still on Hubert Wilkins, the noted explorer, opium, a widow named Leung Yuk-up has rehearsed in preparation for ann was brought before Mr. K. Keen covered with a dirty leather holster, records as plaintiff's soločitor
at night club here on the Central Magistracy this was old and rusty. It was handed to wiling to give evidence as to that. appearance at
The Chief Justice remarked that as Wednesday, when she will sing a morning. Defendant admitted the the principal tenant of the flat, who
Be-Mr. Zimmera was willing to assure chanson
about a London street- chargo and was sentenced to a fine in turn handed it to the police.
Central the Court there had been notice of walker. She said she was planning to of $2,000, or imprisonment for six fore Mr. K. Keen at the
morning Sergeant service, it was not necessary to have her husband's months. Revenue Officer Stephens Magistracy this support herself, as funds were being devoted to the said the opium was hidden in the Sullivan, asked for an order for the evidence.
Reserving judgment, His Lordship building of an under-ico bont false bottom of defendant's traveli- confiscation of the gun. The order
aald: It Is, from our point of view, United Press,
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