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二拜送辦二月二十年四十二百九千一英

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1924. 日六初月一十于中大中

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Held Up An Hour And Half.

Considerable excitement was enused at the local Canton wharf last night when police took possession of a Canton steamer just as it was about to sail..

On a re-arranged sigint (belig stated; alr, Wolfe, accompanied by | given-a dong" blyet ou" a police seveni' others, have sled un her whistle the Clin. Navigation for Ciniton, ostensibly to witness a river "Stisalater "Putsinn"," war frther search ordered back to her winrf a minute with more time at their disposal en rival when asp after her depasture for Canton, and the possibility of clearing the at ten o'clock bust night, when a curg, their efforts might be at large posse of police surrounded the tertabled by success. wharf and steamer, under the As the Police took such great Esupervision, of the Hon. Mr. pains to porfeet their surpriso raid, [E, 18°C. Walle tirptains Superins it is surmissed that the informa Rondent of Pedige ind surfedtion, whatever it might have been, The ship from stem toisieną.

must have deen very definite, While uniformel members of th Force stond with their les at the ready" at the entrance to tige Steamboat Co.'s wharf and at all possible exists from the steer, officers from the Criminal End- ligence Departament carried out the

reh, the personnel of the "Fat | shau's

complement passengers and all parts of the ship coming u or dose attention. By about hall past eleven nothing usual had

ON

OPIUM DEBATE,

CONFLICT OF VIEWS LESS PRONOUNCED.

(Reuter's Service.)

GENEVA, December 1.

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At the resumed debate. at the

prohibition of the export of opium, but its internal prohibition. This would affect India, Persia and other countries. His impression at the proceedings of the advisory committee was that the domestic use of opium and coca leaves. in raised at the Conference? producing countries was not to be

Blaze At Catchick Street.

OLD WOMAN BURNT.

A fire occurred at 3.30 p.m.. yesterday in the rear part of the first floor of Na 19, Catchick Street where about 200 piculs of rattan Company was stored. The upper belonging to the Pacific Rattan floors and the first and second 17, were also involved. floors of the adjoining house, No.

Heavy Damages.

houses are occupied by an iron The ground floors of both the and engineering shop, the master of which reports damage to his goods, to the extent of $5,000. The goods were not insured.

Woman Killed.

WANTED A.D.C. FOUND.

Thought To Have Been In China.

(Reuter's Service.)

Lontion, December 1.

According to the newspapers the second man, whom the police are seeking in connection with the Midland Bank case which ended in the Law Courts after eight days' hearing, during which there were many sensational developments, is an aide-de-camp.

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to his whereabouts. The prevalent bere of his suite,

The reports vary considerably as the mysterious Mr. "A.", or mem- fact that two Scotland Yard officials Developments In Paris. have gone to Paris does not neces- sarily mean that he is there.

PARIS, December 1, Two British detectives brought the aide-de-camp from the office of the British Tourist Agency as the Champs Elysée, where he is employed, to Police Headquarters where he was detained most of

acceptance of the warrant. the afternoon pending the French

Lady In The Case. The reason of the detectives visit is to interrogate a woman friend of the aide-de-camp's with regard to his whereabouts.

A Chinese woman, 63 years old, who was in an adjoining rear cubicle on the second floor was burut to death. A servant girl' was also picked up in an unconscious condition with a wound on the head. It is believed that the wo whither he went from San Francisco, He was last reported in China, man wis knocked down the stair-"It is alleged he has been con- case by the inmates in their hurry cerned in the bootlegging business to escape from the building.

in the United States.

STARTLING CLAIM.

LAW.

RIGHTS OF A FATHER

MAY KILL SON WITHOUT

„HEAVY PENALTY.

been distivered and the stoner Opium Conference Sir Malcolm

·was allowed to proceed to Canton, Delavingne contended it was only taking with her the C.S.P. anti a possible to enlarge the scope of the MR. POTTER ON CHINESE Cumber of officers; Harper and Conference by mutual consent. Chinese who age believed to be Acceptance of the American' d'rictly concerned with the, et ses proposals would mean not only

Unless appearances ferrived, the police were on the Hokout for irftes, Hitherto ruins. Ind jenne dove from Cantion that

of the Chinese crew-stated to be the engsroom and salon stalls, respetively--but been inder suspicion and tui hern weiched by both side Chinese Customs and General Wochen's Canton Police Commissioner) mon.

itospons that the police did go wish to alarm the culprits. who ever they might have been, so that dentraband would ha taken on board the ship. Aseis Pistomary with departing river steamys the police serchers carried out, their roubine, examination before rking the grilles and clearing the ship This procedure was gone through last night and punctually at te the "Patshan" left the Staatbot Co.'s whart with gugines at Full-speed ahead. A police office

who must have been concealed at report

An official of the Home Office may possibly go to the East to interview the Eastern potentate"

FIRE INSURANCE.

INTERESTING CASE IN BRITISH COURT,

SMYRNA DISASTER ECHO.

(Reuter's Service.)

It was announced this evening that an agreement had been reach ed between the British Embassy detective bureau and the Ministry of the Interior with regard to the

arrest.

The charge in the warrant is one af receiving a cheque for £150,000, which was stolen abroad.

The man arrested is described as a captain, aged 42 years. He was accompanied to the Police Headquarters by a colonel, whose name was not disclosed.

He will be handed over to the i British authorities to-morrow.

Earlier History.

The

(A Reuter message, published'in the "China Mail" of Saturday, and The rather startling claim that

LONDON, December I.

dated from London on November a father under Chinese law might

28, reads:A most sensational casé An important test case, arising, ended in the Law Courts to-day, matter was outside the scope of self; open to any considerable September 1922, and involving,

Britain took the view that the kill his son and yet not lay him out of the great fire at Smyrna in after eight days hearing. unless agreement the Conference. He declared that penalty was put forward by vast sum of money has begun in maker, sued. the London and Mid- plaintiff, Charles Robinson, a book- was reached Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., in the the Commercial Court of London. between the manufacturing and Supreme Court this morning producing countries they in effect, at

The plaintiffs are the American alleged to have been paid out land Bank to recover. £125,000 had failed.

the final •hearing of Tobacco Company. They claim on his account. The Bank as the test will case which is being to recover insurances on property serted that the money was not heard to decide. what principle destroyed in the fire from the his and alternatively charged The delegates from Japan, shall in future govern the action Guardian Assurance Company, that Poland, China and Coba favoured of the Hongkong Registrar in The liability of a number of In- of surance Companies to pay insur discussion of the American pro-making grants of letters"

widows posals, The Conference finally administration to

inances on other destroyed property decided by 26 votes to one, respect of the property of their will depend on the judgment. there being 9 abstentions, to refer deceased husbands. the American proposals first to a committee for examination and

Put To The Vote.

Canada and Ireland voted with

Mr. F. C. Jenkin is upholding the widows' rights and Mr. Potter contends, that the head of the family has first say in the admini-

the far end of the pier is thought the majority. Britain, Australia,stration of the estate. to have given the pre-arranged signal. Simultaneously the other France, Greece, Portugal, Yugo Mr. Potter claimed that the old embers of the surveis party fon-Slavia, Turkey, the Netherlands Roman, doctrine of pater potestas and Bolivia abitained from vot under which the father had full verged on the wharf, ayting. India

powers over the body of his son comprised the ing in motor-eurs. Captain Ritchie minority. Mr. Campbell recorded was applicable to the Chinese. was ordered to bring his ship back his reservation, which the pre-The fact that it was not exercised, and make fast again. Parties wesident intimated would be noted, he said, did not mean that the told off to search the different parts

The result of the vote means father had renounced his rights- of the fp while others, stone that the conflict of views between public opinion was such guard to make sure that nobody the United States and India People did not kill their sons or left and thus, if any anns were on has been temporarily disposed of. oppose them to any great extent. board, the culprits.raukt not make There is no indication at present n breakaway.

what the committee will decide to recommend.

After being at the Wharf for an | hour and a half, during" which no- body was allowed to leave by ap proach the wharf, the "Faishan” pulled out a scrolling.

REVAL REVOLT.

TWO MINISTERS' LUCKY ESCAPE.

SIXTY ARRESTS MADE.

(Reuter's Service.)

REVAL, December 1.

As

It transpires that M. Akel, the Premier, and the Foreign Minister escaped by the nerest chance before the revolutionaries sur rounded and forcibly entered the Premier's residence.

An armoured car routed the insurgents.

Heavy Casualties, sp

RIGA, December 1. The casualties in the street fighting'at Reval '\include" · 18 soldiers and a much larger number of communists.

Sixty persons were arrested and have been handed over to a Court- Martial

An Eathonian Protest.

REVAL, December 1;--- The Esthonian Foreign Minister has addressed a Note to the Soviet Government, protesting against the recent anti-Esthenian demon strations at Petrograd.. The Noto

demands that an energetic enquiry

bo'made,

CHINA AND LEAGUE.

APPEAL TO AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.

(Reuter's Service,)

LONDON, December' I.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, received Mr. Chu Chao- hsin, Chinese Chargé d'Affair, at the. Foreign Offices this afternoon. Mr. Chu ëm. phasised the importance of China's Asso ciation with the League of Nations and China's 'desire.

for a seat on.. the council.

Head Of Family.

Case For Plaintiffs. Plantiffs' Counsel said the issue was whether the fire was accidental or came within the exceptions of the fire policies on which the action was brought. His case was that the fire was accidental.

Hearing was adjourned.

MUSSOLINI'S

Mr. MESSAGE.

obtained

it bad beep conspiracy, in which Robinson, by means of a blackmailing Mrs. Robinson, her friend Mrs. Bevan, two men named Newton and Hobbs and an aide-de-camp to an Eastern potentale, whose name. was not divulged, were alleged to have been involved. It is alleged the conspirators entrapped the potentate, who was mentioned throughout the proceedings in Court as Mr.A with Mrs. Robinson in a hotel in Paris, New- ton passing as the lady's husband.

A," through fear of ex posure gave two cheques, each, for £150,000. One of them was that APPEALS TO ITALIANS TO stopped, but the other was passed

KEEP ORDER.

through the London and Midland Bank by Hobbs who, using. the trame of Robinson, drew (Reuter's Service.)

out the money. Of this sum £25,000, it was stated, was ROME, Décember (. paid to the Robinsons, while to the local Fascist executives, shared the remainder. The Signor Mussolini, in a message the other alleged conspirators declares that a revision of the Robinsons denied that they had Party's moral, mental and political been parties to a conspiracy and position is necessary; though he alleged they were unaware, until attaches no importance to changes later, that more than £25,000 had in public opinion.

paid by, Mr. "A.". The jury found there was a conspiracy but the Robinsons had not been a party to it. The Judge ruled that the Bank was not guilty of negligence. Judgment was deferred, pending legal arguments next week.]

The application' that Mr. Potter made of this was that it did not follow that because if the Chinese widow. had been allowed grant of probate that the head of the family had given up his right."

Reviewing the evidence of the witnesses for the plaintiff, Mr. Potter said that, as His Lordship had pointed. out at the time, they deposed to a Chinese widow | having even more rights than an English widow which was contrary to "all that; ode" heard, observed and readAucording to these witnesses a Chinese lady could dispose of- property at her will without consulting anyone-in fact that she was the head of. her family, and yet one of these witnesses had admitted that Chinese ladies were confined almost exclusively to their homes and the only male folk apart from those of the familly' with whom they came into contact were the tradespeople.

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Mr. Potter claimed that these witnesses had entirely mis-stated the position of the Chinese lady Mr. Chamberlain was sympathe and that it was because they were tic, but made it quite clear that be imbued with the Republican spirit could not pledge himself to any. and Republican-decisions. action in the matter.

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NEW YORK FIRE.

FOUR PERSONS KILLED IN OUTBREAK,

- (Router's American Service.)

NEW YORK, December 1.9 Two man and two women were killed here to-day in a fire in a large apartment house.

One woman was killed and most of those injured were hurt by

Jumping from windows.

DAGGER IN HAT.

THEE MONTHS. JAIL SENTENCE

BENITO MUSSOLENT

Mussolini says the impression, resulting from recent. incidents,

·must be ëffaced. "The people supported Fascism thinking it would re-establish order. This confidence must not be abused; discreditable elementswhatever ñu Chinese Sirested at a tea their past vervoer maar te concealed inside his hat, and who quarrels. house in Yaunath with a dagger eliminated also personal was' remanded, what brought up at Mussolini concludes bý referring the Kowloon Magistracy last week, to the forthcoming gatherings of hard labour by Mr NL Smith Nations Council and Holy Year was sentenced to three months foreigners in Italy for the League of

He appeals, to the, Italians to preserve order.

this morning.

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U. S. CONGRESS MEETS.

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PRESIDENT TO GIVE MESSAGE TO MORROW.

(Reuter's American Service.)

TOPALGA

WASHINGTON, December J. Congress met to-day. Senator Albert Baird Cummins presided in the Senate, while Congressman Frederick Huntington acted in a similar capacity in the House of Representatives.

President Calvin Coolidge ex- preased his latention to transmit bis budget message to Congress to-morrow, and the regular message on Wednesday.

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