Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January, 26, 1939.
CHIEF JUSTICE
UPHOLDS APPEAL
"Jimmy" to Return Compensation Money
CONVICTION ON RECEIVING CHARGE IS QUASHED
AN appeal brought before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl Mac- Gregor, at the Court of Appeal this morning, by Kwok Cheuk-him, master of the Cathay Dining Ware Company, of Des Voeux Road Central, against his conviction by Mr. T. J. Houston at the Central Magistracy on December 14 on a charge of receiving
DICTATOR NATIONS WARNED
Trade Retaliations From Britain If Necessary LONDON, Jan. 25. APPROVAL OF the re-
Thick Fog Blankets
The Harbour
THICK for blanketed Hong- kong harbour until 8 o'clock this morning. Small vessela CX- perienced some difficulty in main- taining their bearings 115 they proceeded through the eastern part of the harbour, where the fog
was thickest
weather Already delayed by Overseas
conditions along the coast, large Iners originally scheduled to enter harbour this morning were unaffected. The Empresa or Canada, which is running hours late, is not now expected to arrive until Saturday morning. The Conte Verde is not ar- riving until to-morrow morning.
a quantity of knives, forks and spoons, knowing them to bave been cent warning given by the
for stolen, was upheld. Kwok was originally fined $300 with the Secretary alternative of three months' hard labour, and also ordered to pay Trade to the totalitarian $100 compensation to Mr. Aaroon Landau, proprietor of Jimmy's countries concerning their Kitchen, who had ordered the goods in question.
trading methods was voiced
The goods had apparently been stolen from a consignment, for when the consignment arrived in the Colony in August last for Messrs. John D. Hutchison und Co., from whom Air,
Landau had ordered the goods, they were found to be incomplete. Samples of the goods were inter found in Kwok's shop at Paddy's Market. where they had been brought by a man named Tsing, who asked Kwok to sell them for him. Kwok later took the goods to Mr. Landaunt Jimmy'n Kitchen, where Mr. Landau agreed to purchase the articles. Kwok was subsequently arrested and charg ed.
coming to his Andings an all three by the chairman of the grounds of appeal.
His Lordship allowed the appeal, Westminster Bank at the and quashed the conviction. He also annual meeting to-day. ordered that the fine, if paid, and the He said: "The Secretary for money paid in cumpensation, should Overseas Trade struck the right be returned to the appellant.
Ribbentrop
24
note when he said that if the GUERILLAS
countries concerned continued to employ these unorthodox methods we should fight them at their own gume, and if we fought, we should win. These
In Warsaw words will have to be backed by
Warsaw, Jan. 25.
deeds. As I see it, bulk-selling |
have to be countered by bulk-1 |selling on our part.
TEAR UP TRACK
Fiercely Active In Contral Hopeh
SIAN, Jan. 26.
A WHOLE MILE of rail-
on
the
FIVE MEN FOR THE "CHAIR"
American Murder Drama Nears End
OSSINING, N.Y.,
Jan. 25. DOCTORS
SING-SING to-day reported that Philip Chaleff, aged 27, who is suffering from diabetes, is now in his best physical condition since he arrived at the gaol.
Doctors have been treating him with insulin in order to keep him alive so that he can be exe- cuted on Thursday night with his four companions, all of whom were convicted of slaying a de- tective in a hold-up.
Oments said that if the five men were killed as scheduled it will be the largest number electrocuted for one crime in recent years,
The five incn still hope that Governor Lehman will extend last- minute clemency.-United Press,
Fortifying Guam
Export's Testimony
To Committee.
Mr. M. A. da Silva represented the Given Warm Welcome under the aegis of the State will appellant this morning. while Mr. J. B. Prentis, Assistant Crown Solicitor, appeared for the respondent, Detee- The German Foreign Minister, Herr| "However much it may offend Live Sub-Inspector W, R. Ritchie. Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his wife, |
against our characterisile individual- Mr. Silva sald his appeal was based accompanied by ten officials of the Isin, and however great may be the on three grounds, firstly, against con- Foreign Once, as well as emis dificulties of securing co-operation way track north of Yuan- Is Advocated viction, recondly, tha the theft of the newsupermen. arrived here this
volun- goods forming the subject matter of afternoon, and were welcomed at the among trade rivals, we have
torily to forge a weapon capable of
Shihchiaochwang the charge had not been proved, and station by Colonel Beck, as well as writing this new form of attack of sain, twenty miles south of
officials thirdly, against the award of $100 by several leading
of the compensation to Mr. Landau,
Office, and the per- of the Totalitarian
Reference to the trading methods Polish Foreign
countrics wns Peiping-Hankow railway in PROSECUTION GAPS
sonnel of the German Embassy, also made by the chatrinan at the central Hopeh, was torn by Dealing with the
Herr von Ribbentrop who is second ground first, Mr. Silva pointed out that there turning the visit paid to Berlin by annual meeting of Martins Bank, who
Chinese guerillas recently, first urged the use of every appropriate were certain gaps in the prosecution's Colonel Beck in 1935, is the
German
10 come means to expand our exports, even according to military re- evidence, which had been filled
Foreign Minister by
If it meant adjusting our procedure; Inference on evidence which was not to there. No evidence had been given
to meet the tactics of the Totalitarian ports received here. his stay, Herr von Ribben- by the witnesses for the prosecution trop will reside at the Palace Blanc, countries-Reuter. that no authority had been given any-acquired and restored by the State. one to sell the goods. All that had The palace has interesting associations been said was that certain goods had with the famous composer, Chopin, been lost on a certain date.
who lived in it for some years during) his youth-Trans-Ocean.
Regarding the first ground. Mr. Silva said that though the goods were stamped with the name of "Jimmy's," it was not challenged that no one in the appellant's chan had the slightest knowledge of English. It was true that the borilart had formerly drai with Jimmy's Kitchen,
und there
was ample ground for the Magistrate to come to the finding he had, but the Magistrate else found, as record-
and
np- mart
Mercury Passes 70 Mark Again
ré-
ed in his depositions, that the pellant might not have probably did not know, that Mr. The seventy mark was again pass Landau ever had possession of the ed by the mercury during the last goods. It that was the case.
then 24 hours in Hongkong, the maximum temperature being 71, with a mini- the appellant had presented a reason- able account of how he came by the mum of 50. goods in his evidence.
Egypt's Worry Over Mediterranean
sea-
The guerillas after their botaging work also carried away
Washington, Jan. 25. A fully-equipped naval base on the island of Guam would provide "valuable and needed assistance" to the United States fleet in protecting Haw Hawal, the United States continent. And the
large quantities of electric wires, miralama Canal, testified Ad-
weighing half a ton.
Traffic on the north section of the Pelping-Hankow railway has been disrupted for many days, the reports
say,
Leahy before
the House
of Representatives
Naval Committee to-day, but he added, that such a base was not proposed in the Navy's current programme for the establishment or expansion of naval air basc
candy, tuprada Court,
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Sensational Coat Values
offered this week
at WHITEAWAY'S
FUR COLLAR COATS
DRASTICALLY REDUCED FROM $49.50
ALL
WOOL
To $30.00
TWEED SUITS
Originally $52.50
Reduced $35.00
to
****
LT. WT. WOOLLEN
COATS
Formerly $62.50
الامرية
Now $30.00 to clear
WOOLLEN 'DRESS
MATERIALS
54" wide in all the new smart colours. Originally $5.95 yd. Sale Price $3.95 per yd.
FLECKED WOOLLEN MATERIAL 36" wide. Originally $3.95 yd. Reduced to $1.95 yd.
20%
OFF
FANCY CLIPS, BUCKLES.
BROOCHES. ETC.
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
Ile declared that Gunn would be At the same time, the Chengting- Taiyuan railway cast of Tsingsing on Navy's defence power in the Pacific. | KAWWWWWWWWWW/www.
ery valuable in augmenting the Hopeh-Shansi border
was No foreign Power could advance at American territory without first re- ducing such a base.
the Paris, Jan. 25. Egypt's attitude towards the recent | damaged at a number of points by development in the Mediterrnments, the guerluas who also carried away especially those questions relating to quantities of wires. In a chance en- the future of the Suez Canal, was counter with a group of Japanese, explained to the Foreign Affairs the guerillas killed a score of the Committee of the French Chamber invacers. to-day by M. Mistler, who had just returned from a visit to Cairo,
Subsequently it was decided to claimed to have been damaged at authorise the chairman of the com- many places near Tehchow.Central
report on the News. mitive to prepare a extent and character of French pro- paganda abroad."
it was further decided to authorise M. Mistler to obtain from the the Foreign Minister Premier and
The glass remained high at To, The appellant's attention was not o'clock this morning, registering 67, drawn to the name "Jimmy's" until while humidity was 75 per cent. a certain customer came into the The weather report issued by the shop one day, and even then he bad Royal Observatory stated that pres-B but the slightest suspicion. He had sure is recovering over China owing particulars regarding the nature and thought in his own mind that if the to the formation of another anti- extent of the supply of raw materials goods were stolen,
he would return cyclone, pressure being highest over them to Tank, but if they were not, Mongolia. The depression is moving delivered to Germany by France and to Soviet Russia, as well as detalls of then he would sell
the deliveries of arms to Germany and Soviet Russia by French firms. Trans-Ocfatt.
them to north-eastward across Japan.
Jimmy's Kitchen. He had taken the Local forecast is:--North and goods to Mr. Landau, and as no in-north-east winds, light, freshening dication was given him by Mr.ne to cloudy. Landau that the goods belonged to
him, he proceeded with his negotin-
loss for sale. Mr. Silva submitted
that the Magistrate had misdirected America's Gigantic
himself in convicting the appellant.
Dealing with the
award of
cont- pensation to Mr. Landau, Mr. Silva remarked that the Ordinance
pro-
Koode
Trade Balance
of
Japanese Plane Off To Bangkok
Tulkokus, Jap, 20.
Company,
The Tientsin-Pukow railway was
U.S. Deficit Reaches The Limit
Washington, Jan. 25.
"If the United States is to main- tain an Asiatic squadron, the main-. tenance of Guam as an auxiliary base is essential, and if the United States
is to withdraw its Asiatle squadron, Guam would serve as a deterrent
against fin attack ол Hawall," declared Admiral Leahy. Reuter,
Joy Ride Sequel In Court Martial
and
Signalman F. N. Gordon has been sentenced to 14 days detention ordered to pay the costs of damage to two cars as a result of a Court Martial held last week.
Gordon pleaded guilty to impro- Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary perly taking and using two Austin to the Treasury, is reliably said to cars of the Hongkong Signal Company have reported to the Ho
House of Re- on New Year's Day and causing
sub- presentatives
damage to them estimated at £5, 0s, committee that
appropriat000,000 ad. and £45 13s. Od. respectively,
way.
GRAND SERVICES CONCERT
on
FRIDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1939, at 9.00 P.M. TO BE HELD IN THE ROSE ROOM, PENINSULA HOTEL,
Under The Distinguished Patronage of His Excellency. The Governor of Hong Kong, Sir GEOFFRY A. S. NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.
ARTISTS ARE AS FOLLOWS:—-*
MISS AUDREY OAKENFULL Ballot & Acrobatic Dancer
from the Arcadia Salon and Rochester Casino
budget would Tot enklanger the besides losing various tools. vided for compensation to a person
Washington, Jan. 25,
The German Beinkel plane "Nogi" Federal financial or credit structure. Accused said he went for a joy who had no knowledge the
The Department of Commerce re of the Japan Aviation
His utterances which were given ride in the course of which he collld- were stolen, and had paid for them. ports that the United States in 1038 which arrived and stayed overnight privately to the committee indicated) ed with a post and damaged the first Mr.
Suiva
submitted it did not apply had a favourable foreign trade bal- here on a goodwill flight from Tokyo that the Secretary to the Treasury car. Afterwards he took another Gaston D'Aquino (Tenor).` in the present case to Mr. Landhu | ance
"danger point" cur and picked up two privates of the $1,133,587,000, compared to Bangkok, capital of Slam, left here was reluctant to sel His Lordship said that up the with the favourable balance in 1937 at 7.35 o'clock this morning local for the national debt, which the Royal Scots and took them to
budget now raises to the statutary Stanley. the car overturning on present stage of the appeal, he could of $205,409,000,
Helen Lockhart (Soprano). the not see how 31r, Landou could be n The Department said that the tm-time en route to its destination.
Covering the distance of about limit of $45,000,000,000. person aggrieved.
portant factor in maintaining us!! 3,000 miles between Tokyo and Mr. Morgenthau is reported to
Eva Turner (Soprano). Replying, Mr. Prentls referred to year's exports was the increased sale Bangkok, the plane will reach its goal have said that they can carry out authorities in submitting that the form products abroad, United In the Siamese capital about 0.00 the 1040 Ascal programme withi per-
The Harmony Three. Magistrate had ample grounds for Press.
o'clock this afternoon.Domel,
feet assurance-United Press.
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