EUROPEAN WOMAN IN FIGHT
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1938.
In cross-examination, Mrs. Peara unid she could not give a reason for the attack.
hot been crossing Hankow Road my stomach and two teeth had been' when n car coming down the road loosened. My right hand was sore! from the Star Theatre passed just und still is.” In front of her, without sounding a horn, and ran over her left foot. She screamed, and the car stopped. The occupants, the tailor and his wife, look no notice of her and just But there, so she went up and touched him on the shoulder and said he was
Declares Chinese Mannot fit to drive a car.
Blows Exchanged
Defence, Questions
Mr. Lo: It seems to me it what
you say is correct and they had no reason for the attack, they must have been medThat's what I thought.
· H.M.S. KENT RETURNS
SOON TO H.K. STATION
H.M.S. Kent, on completion of large repairs at
And Wife Attack
I put it to you that my ellent had Chatham, will be recommissioned to return to her former She then walked off. After she been drawing up at his shop and Her In Roadway
had gone about 20 yards down the the moment he pulled up, you came service as flagship on the China Station, in succession to read, she heard someone running up and struck him with your closed Calls Defendants' her, and Bowry excited and fat. Did you do that?--No, I only the Cumberland. The Kent was paid off into ́dockyard
tilor. He was very touched his shoulder. #poke in broken English which she Thich the moment after he was control over a year ago, and up to March 31 next an Tales Lies could not understand. His manner struck the man left his car and asked
was most unpleasant, and she told you in English why you had struck estimated sum of £481,000 is being spent on her. him that she would not argue in the him. No. He did not. road and asked him to come to the
against
Then
lic.
You did not answer him but you
Recent appointments the Admiralty include:
notified by
Dld you ever scratch his face at any time7-No.
Captain L. II. Arhmore to Kent,
Did you klete him while he was
10
him back.
Describing how she was hit in the face and kicked in the stomach when a Chinese tailor and his wife attack police station and settle it there, began to scratch his face--No, It's
up, his wife came and ed her in Hankow Road on February
the face. 2. Mrs. Bertha Pears, of 108 Austin sucked Mrs. Peurs in Road, Kave evidence at the Kowloon Mrs. Pears struck her back, where Magistracy yesterday when hearing upon the tailor hit her and said she in the assault case was resumed be-must not strike his wife. Again howarding off your attack?-While he fore Mr. K. M. A. Barnett.
hit her, and she kicked him on the was lifting me I kicked him to keep Mru. A
keep him off. shin cross-summons
The woman returned to the car, Pears for assault was heard at the
Is it true that the wife left the same time.
und returned with two paper pack-car in order to separate you from her Tho Chinese, Lai Kai-ming, 31,nges containing a number of 10 cent. husband? No, it's a lie. and Ho Suk-yuen, 27, appeared on pieces, which she threw into Mrs. bail of $25 each, and were repre Pears' face, causing her nose to bleed. "She was very excited, like a tiger sented by Mr. Hinshing Lo, while Mr. C. A. S. Russ acted for Mrs. cat," declared Mrs. Pears.
J. F. Penra. Detective Sergeant Scott was present for the police.
Explaining why he had charged the Chinese Instead of telling Mrs. Pears to issue a summons against them as was the usual custom, Sub- who had Inspector T. McMahon, been on duty at the Water Police Station, said that about 10.35, Mrs. Pears and two European men came into the charge room, followed by the tailor and his wife,
In the meantime the man had taken his overcoat off.
Two European inch came up and tried unsuccessfully to stop the fight. Then Mr. J. C. Power drove up in his car, and getting out, told the de- tendants to stop.
Instead, the woman caught hold of Mrs. Pears' scarf and pulled, as if trying to strangle her, and her hus- band hit Mrs. Pears again. An omah came up and caught hold of Mrs. Pears and then both the tailor and his wife struck her.
Mrs. Fears endeavoured to
pro-
lect herself by holding on to the wife's hair and pushing the umah away. Mr. Power seized the fallor,
She suggested that instead of quarrelling there you should go the police station and settle the matter? she said nothing either in
She Chinese.
never English spoke; she just hit me.
Did she say to you that you had no right to assault her husband in the never spoke the street? No, throughout.
While she was suggesting going to the police station you come up to her and caught hold of her hair and scratched her face.-No.
In command (April 7), and os Flag Captain
Commander-in-Chief, China (un transter of flag).
Lt.Cdr. A. F. Matheson to Kent (G). (March 213.
The Cumberland, Suffolk, and Cornwall, of the same class as Kent, have already been refitted, and the Berwick is now in hand at Chathum. The alterations include the fitting of extra armour protection, the in- anti-aircraft of the 4in. crease
BRITISH STEAMER STOPPED
Chuen Chow Boarded
By Japanese
En roule from Macao to Hongkong, the 8.9. Chuen Chow was stopped at
upon the defenseless Chuen Chow. After a search had been made of the
armament from four guns to six, and 9.30 a.m. yesterday morning by provision for three amphibious air-Japanese destroyer No. 23, which has former single been cruising in South China waters craft instead of the
for some time. Six men-a lleuten- schplane.
Captain L. H. Ashmore, at present ant, two petty officers, and three Did you at any time catch her by Assistant to the Admiral Command-sailors-boarded the passenger vessel, while the destroyer lay 150 yards off the hulr?--Yes, but I held her by hering Reserves, will join the Kent la hair so she couldn't attack me.
command on April 7. This will be the starboard bow, its guns trained his first command as a captain. Since his last service aßoat la command of the sloops Walldower and Cyclamen, hag on the Atrien Station, he
rad Defence Colleges. In the War he served as sub-lieutenant and licuten- ant in the cruiser Essex and in sub-
command marines, obtalning February, 1918, In 1923-20 he com- manded motor-launch No. 8 in the Rhine Flotilla.
Did you scratch her face?—No. But there were signs of abrasions on her face-I hit her but I did not seratelt her.
When Mrs. Pears anid she had not
men, Mr. Le brought in a European woman, Mrs. Greenway, whom he said he would call as a disinterested witness. Mrs. Pears said she had not seen her there at the time.
Mrs. Pears mentioned that she had a weak heart and was frightened of shocks,
ship and its cargo, the Japanese leutenant in charge spent a full
fully all the ship papers.
Mrs. Pears complained of being assaulted, and was in a very nervous state. She was bleeding from a cut on the bridge of her nose and said she had internal pains, Her cont cont collar had been nearly torn off and
to be bruised. and eventually all parties went to seen any other witnesses except the Kraduated at the Staff and Imperial twenty minutes inspecting very care- her hand appeare The Chinese had slight abrasions on the police station-Mrs. Pears in Mr. their faces, but no bu
other signs of Power's car, and the defendants In both their car, the number of which had Injury. After hearing from parties what had happened, be con-been taken down. sidered the case serious enough to "I was in a very bad state," cald All three Mrs. Pers. "Never in my life have charge the defendants. were sent to the Kowloon Hospital been in anything ke it. I had for medical examination.
been kicked in the stomach, but don't know by whom. I felt as if I were going to faint. I felt a pain in
Mrs. Pears then gave evidence. She said that about 10.15 am, she
An adjournment was made to 230 pan. on Tuesday, March 0,
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SIR PERCY NOBLE'S RETURN
It is anticipated that His Excel- leney Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble will be returning to Hongkong from the
about Singapore manoeuvres March 12 in the Flagship, H.M.S. Cumberland,
CAPTAIN FOR AUSTRALIA Captain, W. R. Patterson, CV., who is being lent to the Australian Navy, and was to leave for Sydney to-day, March 1, with join the cruiser Canberra as Flag-Captain and Chief Staff Omeer to Rear-Admiral W. N. Custance, who Is to succeed Rear- Admiral R. H. O. Lane-Pool in com- mand of the Australian Squadron to April.
Captain Thomas Brown,
com 2 mander of the Chuen Chow, stated that the Japanese wished to ascertain the ownership of the vessel. "Luckily," he said, "the Chuen Chow as always been British-owned." Captain Brown went on to say that all Chinese-owned passenger vessels were being confiscated as well as those which had been Chinese-owned but had been transferred to British ownership at the outbreak of Sino- Japanese hostilities, "Several ships," he continued, "had already been seized by the Japanese."
Chinese passengers, particularly those crowded into the second and third class accommodations, were quite nervous us the moustached Japanese stalked about on their tour of inspection. The first class passen- gers were both angry and curious as they edged on to the bridge to watch the licu-in-charge go over the ship's popers.
PASSENGERS, STORY
Captain Patterson is 44, and has been 31 years in the Navy. He was of sub-lieutenant during the War torpedo-boat No. 32 and the torpedo- gunboat Jason, and lieutenant in the
A passenger describing the in- erulser Lowestoft and the flotilla
cident sald: "I was standing at the leader Saumarez up to February, rail when a steward pointed out a
was selected to 1018, when he
smudge on the horizon. As we got specialize in sunnuded the King few minutes inter a launch put out His ships us closer we could see it was a warship. gunnery officer
the Mediterranean, the and headed towards George V. in the
us, while the cruiser Dauntless (in which he made
We could warship, which we the world cruise of 1923-24), and-the-was Japanese, began signaling. battle-cruiser Hood. As a a commander hove to and the Japanese
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boarder from 1928 to 1933 he was squadron
rudely pushing their way gunnery
officer in the 1st Batte the ship,
crowded third class og Squadron and executive officer of the through the
HUNGARIAN has an inspection of cargo. Our British Kent, flagship in China. He
fumed quietly but very since commanded H.M.S. Folkestone officer
and noticeably as the boarding party then in China and the Effingham
the Reserve peremptorily took charge Hawkins, flagships of
bridge and the ship papers. Fleet.
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"I was more amused than frighten- FLEET MEDICAL OFFICER
ed by the Japanese boatswain who Surgeon-Captain A. E. Malone has kept springing to the rail to answer been appointed to H.M.S. Nelson for semaphore signals from the destroy- CT. When the Japanese were de- duty ns Fleet Medical Officer in suc- cession to Surgeon-Captain E. St. G. parting the tension was relieved by spilor who got 5. Goodwin, and will be relieved by the anties of one that officer as naval health officer separated from his party. The in the Plymouth Command. Sur- Japanese launch had moved to the geon-Captain Malone, who has been other side of our ship, but he seemed
the Navy wasto years in 23
to think, it had left him over medical officer during the War of Whlie the destroyer tooted furious
Thistle In China, Zuma the gunbaat
and signals and the men in the Inunch also at Pembroke Dockyard and shouted in Japanese, the little sallor hospital. He was medical officer of ran around and around in the interior
cruiser Capetown on
sighting his the of the ship. Finally America and West Indies Station comrades from the first closa deck, from 1924 to 1927, naval health of he swarmed over 1he Fall and ficer in the Nore Command from tumbled into the launch amid peals 1927 to 1930, and assistant to the of laughter, slightly edged with Medical Director-General, Ad- nervousness." miralty, from 1930 to 1934.
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