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No. 25,799 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1928,

GOVT. SERVANTS.

SOVIET “PEACE.”

Disarmament Conven- tion Draft.

GIRL ACQUITTED.

Saiwan Murder Case. Concludes.

[Supplementary Vote For Hong Kong.

JURY UNANIMOUS.

LOSS ON EXCHANGE.-

+

Good Pay Differences.

Victim Of Conspiracy To ShieldCormons Passes £15,613 To Make Complete And General Disarmament

A Man?

In Four Years.

L

Moscow, Yesterday.

The jury brought in an unani-

THE TERMS.

COMBINED ATTACK.

Nationalists' Plan of Campaign.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

CHANGING ITALY.

.

New Electoral Reform Bill.

TAX EXEMPTIONS.

State Officals And Heads Of Large

· Families, a dead

Rome, Yesterday

"Your Eyes Are Bafe. With Us

N. LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician

· (Establi, had' Over Forty Years)... Manager: RALPH A COOPER, MAOA, Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam, (Personal Attention).

INDUSTRY UPSET.

Premier And Rubber Traders.

MORE ASSURANCES.

Association Asks For No Changes Until October 31.

FLOWER SHOW.

Horticultural Society Anninal

SIXTY NEW MEMBERS.

But Number Of Entries Not Encouraging

Fat forward this year in order":

on

PEKING DESIRES. PEACE? Movements Of Principal Chinese Armies.

London, Yesterday.

Having arrived at tangible re-

London, Yesterday In the House of, Commons a The draft disarmament conven-sults at the Kalteng conference, Mussolini has approved the in the House of Commons, in to avoid the Iog, the annual moes verdict of "Not Guilty" at supplementary vote of £15,613 tion sent to the League of Nations Chiang Kai-shek (Generalissimo Electoral Reform Bill under which reply to questions, Mr. Baldwin flower and vegetable show of the the conclusion this morning of was agreed upon to make good aims at a general and complete of the Nabking Nationalist the kingdom will form a single said he had received a communi- Hong Kong Horticultural Society the hearing of the charge against the loss due to the fall of ex-disarmament within four years, a Army) and his ally, General Feng electoral college of deputies to the cation from the Rubber Trade will be held in the grounds of the a little "miui tsai" of the murder change in the pay of Government 50 per cent. demobilisation in the Yu-hsiang (the "Christian Gen- number of 400 candidates, to be Association in regard to allowing Volunteer Headquarters of her seventy-six years old mis-servants in Hong Kong.-Reuter. first year, the destruction of all eral"), commander-in-chief of the proposed by 18 large national the present restriction scheme to Thursday afternoon starting at tress at Saiwart, Cheung Chau on

[On inquiry at the local Tres-stores and arms, the abolition of Kuominchun, have decided to re-corporations and other organisa. remain in force until October 31. 3 o'clock, December 21.

suzy, the "China Mail" was in- all the ost important naval new the offensive against Peking on ames will be examined by the ance with the notice issued by the sented to distribute the prizes at tions important to national Iffe. He pointed out that in accord- Lady Clementi has kindly con- At the outset of this morn-formed that this vote had no-armaments and air forces and all Briefly, the plans announced ing's hearing. Mr. T. S. Whyte thing to do with the Hong Kong war institutions. In the follow-by the Nationalist allies are Grand Council of Fasciam, which is Colonial Office on February 1 the 5 p.m., and the Band of the 2nd

Government whose servants are ing three years a permanent in-

Chiang Kai-shek and the Na-empowered to add to those selected scheme could not be changed for Batt., King's Own Scottish Bor- raid locally and in respect of ternational commission will be in tionalist forces to move up the names of people distinguished three months from that date and derers will be in attendance dur- whom no such call could be made control with commission in each Tientsin-Pukow Railway; in science, literature, art, and gave an assurance that when the ing the afternoon. on the Commonê, The vote must country. Règional commissiona The "Christian General" tá politics.

Government took a decision oni 'Although membership of the refer to the salaries of servants will be charged with the execu-move up the Peking-Hankow Mussolini's Proposal,

the committees report it would under the administration of the tion of the convention by repre- Railway with two smaller columns The Council has also adopted a have full regard to the character Society has increased by 60 new members this year, Mr. J. A. Admiralty who, in the event of sentatives. of the legislatures and on each side.

proposal of Mussolini exempting and time of any public announce-

Plummer, hoa..secretary of the due to fall in exchange, public organisations. The "toil-

from taxes the fathers or heads of ment and British interests in Society, says, that this is still not Peace With Shungi? would have recourse to Parlia- ing class" will sit on the commis- The Nationalist allies have been numerous famili

or dependants solved. ment]

sions.-Reuter.

attacking from betwen 400 and who are employ by the State.

He was not yet in a position to good enough, and they want at 300 miles south of Peking with The same exemp

is granted to say when the committee would east another 100 new members. varying degrees of success. Then other male adul

it employed by report and emphasised that in In other words, the Hong Kong Horticultural Society requires the the Kuominchun retired because the State on wh, 10 or more male such matters there must be a cer- of supposed revolt in the rear, but children and děj Ådent.

tain amount of uncertainty, what-support which it richly deserves.

Good Prospects. later reports show that this re- Should more than half of the ever date was fixed.

votes be in favour of the proposed Mr. Austin Hopkinson asked: It is thought that the reason list, the Court of Appeal which will would, the Commission report be- why some people hesitate to join have charge of polling will declare fore the whole plantations passed the Society is because they are the list approved and proclaim as into foreign ownership?

under the impression that they elected all candidates in the list.

No reply was given. Beuter.

must be owners of gardens. The "China Mail" has been, asked to. GROWERS AGAINST ANY

emphasise the fact that this is not CHANGE.

the case. Anyone is welcomed as a member of the Society, and, there are sections in the annual show in which members are not required to exhibit products of' their own grounds,

Smith, Assistant Crown Solicitor, addressed the jury on behalf of the prosecution laying-stress on the different statements made by "prisoner at varying stages of the case. In the first report to the neighbour'she had referred to two robbers assaulting the old woman and later she had implicated the man Yip-Choi who had subse- quently been charged and dis- missed. The first house at which she stated she gave the alarm was some way away from the scene of the murder and there were huts in between.

Counsel suggested that from the evidence it was clear that pri- soner did actually call in one of the huts before giving the alarm

loss

MOTOR GARAGES.

REQUIREMENTS OF POLICE PERMITS.

SUMMONSES ADJOURNED.

DRAFT OF RUSSIAN PROPOSALS.

Submitted By Soviet.

Geneva, Yesterday. The sittings of the committee: of arbitration and security have opened.

At "traffic time," in Major C. at the neighbour's house subse-Willson's Court this morning, quently and that there she gave eloven cases were mentioned in The Soviet representative, who the murdered woman's head orna- which owners of garages were was present as an observer, sub- ment to a man named Wong. summoned for storing cars in the mitted to the League Secretariat In conclusion, the Crown solici- premises without a permit from a draft convention of general dis- tor referred to the bloodstains the Captain Superintendent of armament based on the proposals found on, the prisoner's jacket, to Police.

of Litvinoff in December last.- Reuter.

Horace Lo for the other.

the finding of two bloodstained Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for choppers and to the hearing of ten of the defendants and Mr. the old woman's eries by the two witnesses who had deposed to her having called the prisoner's name and begged her not to strike her.

·

The cases were adjourned from last week when Mr. Loseby in- quired as to the definition of a Garage and contended that there as no clause in the Ordinance covering the requirements im- posed by the police conditional to the issuing of permits.

Difficult Position. When the

EARL OF ERROLL.

SUDDEN DEATH FROM HEART

FAILURE.

Case For Defence. In addressing the jury for the prisoner, Mr. Instone Brewer, in dealing with the changes in the

DIPLOMATIC POSTS,' prisoner's statements, suggested that at first the prisoner had en-

London,. Yesterday. cases were again It is announced from Koblenz deavoured, acting on instructions from Yip Choi's brother, to shield mentioned this morning, Mr. that the Earl of Erroll died sud- Yip Choi by alleging that there Loseby said that he had spoken denly from heart failure., Former were two robbers, by leaving the to the C.S.P. on the matter and ly Lord Kilmarnock, he had held head ornament with Wong to the latter, rather than there the position of British High Com make it appear that robbery was should be adverse decisions on missioner on the motive and by smearing with either side, has agreed that an ap Rhineland Commission since 1921, blood the chopper which was sub-lication be made for the sum-He became Charge d'Affaires in sequently found in addition to the monses to be adjourned sine die. one lying beside the body. When, Counsel said that this was be- Berlin on the resumption of diplo subsequently, she gained con cause of the difficult position in matic relations with Germany after

the Inter-allied

the war.-British Wireless' Service.

fidence with the knowledge of which the defendants *were The late Earl of Errel was the police protection she had given placed: If they were to comply 20th of the line and was born on with the requirements immediate-

the true story.

Counsel suggested that prison

by it would cost them many hun- er was the victim of a conspiracy dreds of dollars. to conceal the identity of Yip

Issued Conditionally.

October 17, 1876: He Was the

Не

CANTON'S NEW BONDS.

Twenty Millions In Treasury Notes..

the

are

New treasury notes to total value of $20,000,000 contemplated by the Canton Gov- ernment, according to reports from political sources.

The project is to base the in- sue on the surtaxes, 21⁄2 per cent. on importa and.5 per cent. on luxuries, as outlined at the Washington Conference, These surtaxes" "have been collected at Canton, and other ports, for some time now.

The declared; intention of the issue is to obtain funds to secure Bank of China, which are now the notes issued by the Central

of face value. quated at from 30 to 35 per cent.

Previous treasury note issues at Canton have not been popular. However, it has not been stated that the Canton Government has decided on the issue.

Should more than half of the votes be, against the list, it will not be approved. Parity in vot- ing will mean approval of the list.

Reuter

PAN-AMERICANISM.

REORGANISATION OF UNION

DEMANDED.

THE GOVERNING BOARD.

"Considered Policy.""

...

London, Yesterday; The Rubber Growers' Association There appears to be even some has issued a statement urging that members who do not appreciate any radical and hurried departure this fact, and this accounts for from existing conditions of the in-the comparatively small number dustry would be fraught with of 55 exhibitors who have entered grave danger and serious loes to for the show. These 56, axe all concerned and adds that detalla hibitors, however, havet op- exhibits which run are less important than a con-tered Havana, Yesterday..

sidered policy which, when decided, into hundreds, so that given The heads of all delegations have shall govern the situation for an fair weather, this year's flower signed the convention for

show bida well to be one of the the agreed term of years-Reuter. reorganisation of the Pan-American

best ever held... Union in respect of its governing board and general activities. Reuter's American Service.

BIG ICE JAM.

Moscow, Yesterday.. volt against the "Christian Gen- A large ice jam occurred on the eral" was not as serious as made Kuban River, near Krashoder, where 80,000 acres were flooded.

out.

Britain and U. S. A. Sir Austen Chamberlain was

Number of Exhibits,

asked whether any communica This year's exhibitors are fair- tions had passed between the Bri-ly evenly divided between the tish and United States Govern- Peak and "bottom side" which in- ments within the past two months cludes all districts other than on the subject of the rubber rethe Peak. striction scheme. He replied in the negative.-British Wireless Service.

INDEPENDENCE OF LITHUANIA.

eldest son of the 19th Earl and province. The majority of the situation is dangerous.--Reuter,

A great deal depends on Shansi The waters are rising and the AFTER TEN YEARS. Mary, daughter of Edmund and Peking Generals suggest throw- Choi and stated that the absence Permits, Mr. Loseby said, will Lady Harriett l'Estrange.

ing in their whole weight against 1900, of the two witnesses who had pre- therefore be issued conditional married in

Mary Lucy Shansi first, so as to clear the way viously, deposed to the prisoner upon the requirements being com- Victoria, only daughter of

Principal Results. having called at their.hut on the plied within a certain period at Allan. Mackenzie, of Aberdeenshire for operations against the National finance has been achieved. night of the crime and confessed the end of which time, if the and bad two sons, one of whom is The section which prefers peace The principal results of these BRITAIN'S FELICITATIONS. to the murder of the old woman defendants failed to carry out the dead. His heir is Lord Kilmarnock. with Shansi is gaining favour and conferences were: (one of

being

the brother

had fled rather than face cross- examination with the possibility

of the true story being, proved against them.

fendant represented by Mr. Lo.

Loseby's clients as well as the de-

INCREASE IN PUBLICAN'S LICENCES.

"SPECIAL OCCASIONS.”

not available to give evidence, at

Sir

tionalfats and the Kuominchun.

the

'The number of exhibits entered in the various sections of the com- ing show are as under:

Pot Plants, over 200 from the Peak and about 175 from other districts,

Vegetables, between 110 and 120 exhibits from the Peak and. about an equal number from "bottom side."

Cut flowers, 80 exhibits from the Peak out of which no fewer than 12 are sweet peas. The number of lower level entries in this section is poor.

London, Yesterday. these witnesses work, they could be proceeded

Peking may yet come to terms 1-All national taxes which

Sir Austen Chamberlain has of Yip against.

with Shansi. A representative of have been detained by the Che Chei), went to prove that The Magistrate granted the

Shansi was present at the Kai-kiang provincial authorities are addressed the following telegram they had been deliberately trying application and adjourned sine COUNCIL MEETING. feng conference but he seems to immediately placed under the to M. Voldemaras, the Lithuanian Only Three Children's Entries. to shield someone and that they die the summonses against Mr.

have taken only a minor part in control of the Ministry of Finance Premier, "On the occasion of the In the general decoration sec- the council-of-war.

of the Nationalist Government. 10th anniversary of Lithuania's tion, eight ladies have entered These Canton's Enemies Assemble.

include the revenues independence, I take pleasure in for the table decorations and six vage decorations." A dis- Further victories for the Wu-accruing-froin

Opium offering you on behalf of His for Han Nationalists (friends of Can- Suppression Bureau and the tax Majesty's Government their sin appointment is in the children's The Cry At Night.

ton because they oppose Nanking) on reclaimed lands and fisheries.

cere congratulations on the pro-baskets exhibition for which only Counsel suggested that it was the Scasions, His Honour thought The. Legislative Council is to are reported. Several units of 2-The Chekiang Treasury gress achieved by your country, three-entries have been received. unlikely that a person attacked in the jury would come to the con- meet on Thursday at 2.30 p.m. Hunanese troops (who profess agrees-to-increase-its-contribu- and their best wishes for its in- The children's baskets exhibi- the manner in which the old clusion that the evidence given by

A motion, included in the allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek) tion to the Nationalist Treasury creasing prosperity and peaceful tion was to have been divided into two classes, one for 'children-ten woman must have been would them was false, also, with regard agenda, is to be moved by the are said to have surrendered to cut of provincial revenues from development." have called out the name of the to the two witnesses who alleged Colonial Secretary, as follows the Wu-Han Nationalists in Hu-$500,000 to $700,000 monthly and M. Voldemaras has replied: years of age and under, and the attacker and suggested that the, that they heard the old woman That the scale of fees payable nan and the west of Hupeh. · · will subscribe to the amount of "Deeply affected by the congratu- other for those over ten, and it is -old woman, having been awaken shouting prisoner's name that for Publican's licences shall be In another part of South China $2,000,000 of the new 2% per lations which your excellency has a pity that not more than three

ed by the movements of a man in night, that the jury would come altered and increased, in respect (the south of Kiangai, province), cent.-surtax bonds.

sent to me on behalf of His children have entered. the House, had been attacked by to the conclusion that that evid- of each and every extension of former enemies of Canton are 3. The Chekiang Provincial Majesty's Government on the oc Mr. Plummer says that the therman and hat called on the ence, which was given at a time the hours of business granted by assembling these including the Government will abandon the casion of the 10th anniversary of Society would like to see more "mui tsai's" name instinctivelv. 1

The children's exhibits, and thinks when Yip Choi was the accused, the Captain Superintendent of remnants of the Ironsides, an in-projected provincial business Lithuanian independence. With reward to prisoner's hay was also false and could not be Police in respect of any occasion dependent division of Cantonese, taxes on cigarettes and kerosene Lithuanian nation and Govern- that the small number entered is ing given the alarm at a neigh- taken into account.

deemed by him to be a "special and some ex-Whampoa Cadets, and agrees not to levy any addi- ment gratefully remember the not due to lack of interest but bour's house some distance away

Prisoner's final statement, con- occasion," in accordance with the the latter having left Kwangtung tional tax on these two articles. constant and friendly support rather because it is not generally and omitted to call at several sidered His Honour, failed to ac- following scale:-

when Li Chaf-sim returned to huts on the way, counsel asked if count for all the circumstances

For the first hour of the power. it was not natural for a girl so of the case and it was difficult to extension stated in a Class A late at night to go to the first avoid coming to the conclusion

permit, $50. house, where she knew there was that between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. a married woman rather than call that night the prisoner assisted at the huts where she knew there a man in the house. It was dif- were only bachelors of the coolie, ficult to avoid coming to the con- type.

clusion also that she went so far in her assistance that she used

Jndra's Summing Up.

For each and every subse-1 quent hour of the extension stated in a Claas A permit, $100 (additional).

For the first hour of the ex-

'.' FINANCE RELATIONS.

Soong & Cheklang Provincial

Government.

REDS EXECUTED,

Nationalists Continue Campaiga

"

Hankow, Yesterday. A further twenty-nine alleged Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Communists were executed yes- tepsion stated in a Class B per-Finance of the Nationallat Gov- terday. Others are being held mit. $25,

For cach and every subse-ernment, has returned to Shang- for trial while wholesale arrests quent hour stated in a Class Bhal from Hangchow after com-continue. The campaign, if any. permit, $50 (additional)... pleting a series of conferences thing, is more intensive than And further the consequential there on the financial relations before-Reuter. amendments (in connection with between the Cheklang provincial

[Note: The Wu-Han National-

These relations Nanking, are in control, at Han

given to them by His Majesty's known that exhibita need not be Government to assure the in-products of private gardens. This dependence of Lithuania, the is emphasised in the hope that existence of which is necessary parents of would-be exhibitors for the maintenance of general will bear it in mind for future peace and the promotion of pro-years. perity in Eastern Europe"-Bri- tish Wireless Service.

TO VISIT GRAVES

.~ U. S. GOVT. FACILITIES:

TO RELATIVES..

Washington, Yesterday

Special Prizes..

In the matter of prizes for this year's show, in addition to those Usually offered, there will be two In the course of a lengthy sum-Yone of the choppers which she ming-un. Honour Mr. Justice herself later hid.

souvenir prizes for the cut Her story

flowers section, one for the Peak J.-R. Word wave his reasons for about putting blood on the chop-

and one for the other exhibits. holding that he did not think the ner to make it appear that there

There will also be four champion- jury cold that the prisoner's had been two robbers was, His

ship cups for the Pot Plant and statement ranording the choppers Honour thought, obviously false.

Vegetable section, two to be com there was reasons for not retired. ad 12.40, returning at the Schedule of fees set forth in Government. was true and uggested that. After the summing-up, th jury the above alterations) be made to authorities and the Nationalist ists, supposedly in opposition to

peted for by Peak exhibitors and

accepting the whale of the pri- 1.05 p.m.

the Liquors Consolidation Ordin were indefinite during the two kow. Red activities were The House of Representatives two by other exhibitors. soner's cjury as toll finally. "The The foreman of the jury an ince, 1911,

preceding andministrations, caus-reported yesterday from Sintl and has passed a bill to enable mothers. These cups will be awarded to first stories, voire admittedly not nounced that their unanimous ver- i

ing disorganisation of national Kienli, towns further up the and widows of service men buried the individual. Peak and lower true. 71. Aset might be explain-diet was "Not Guilty

in Europe to visit the graves at level exhibitors who score the Yangtaze.] finances, y

The result of the conferences,

Canton Vigilance.

Government expense. Visits not highest number of points in each the Kup Min news agency reports, The Canton authorities are still exceeding three weeks, may be section. Points will count as fol- was entirely successful, and a de- maintaining vigilance against made any time in the next three low: three for a first, two for Prisoner was immediately al- The clearing rate of the dollar, cisive step forward in the pro-Red suspects and further arrests years, Reuter's American Sera second and one for "highly

vice.

commended" exhibit, fon demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16.1gramme of the unification of na-have been reported.

ed as an empt to protect her Tover hut the serond could not be so explainal f

As in the witnesses who had left Cheung Chau and were

His Honour The jury have unanimously found you "Not Guilty, you are discharged.

lowed to leave the Court.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.