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WIMBLEDON TEST OPENS.

BRITISH DEFEATS.

WEATHER GLORIOUS AND COURTS SPLENDID.

BETTY AND THE SINGLES.

Wimbledon, Yesterday.

The Wimbledon tennis tourna-

China Mail

No. 25,906

LANCASHIRE'S BAD TRADE.

QUESTION OF HELP.

THE DOMINIONS” SECRETARY EXPLAINS IN COMMONS.

COTTON GOODS ABROAD. .

London, Yesterday.

In the House of Commons dur-

ALISHED

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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1928.

THE "JERVIS BAY'S' NARROW ESCAPE.

CAPTAIN'S STORY.

FIRE MIGHT HAVE HAD TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES..

STOWAWAYS SENTENCED.

Colombo, Yesterday.

ENGLAND LOOKS LIKE WINNING.

TEST CRICKET.

WEST INDIES ONLY SCORE 177 IN FIRST INNINGS,

THE FOLLOW: ON.

London, Yesterday.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

HOW NOBILE WAS SAVED.

HIS INJURIES.

ICE FLOE 200-YDS. LONG WITH 8 INCHES OF SNOW.

NOBILE'S NARRATIVE.

Rome, Yesterday,

GENUINE SIR WILLIAM CROOKES (English Mado)

LENSES

Are the ONLY PROTECTION against the tropic son they absorb the ultraviolet and infra red rays so dangerous to the eyen

Many Imitations-the genuine from

LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician.

“SHUN PO" PROPERTY 2 COURTS MARTIAL.

VANISHING.

ONE MACHINE LEFT.

AUTHORITIES TAKE SURPRISE ACTION.

DISTRAINT FOR RENT.

SENTENCES.

PRIVATES GUILTY.

PERIODS OF DETENTION NOW CONFIRMED.

ted.

"RESISTANCE" CHARGES,

Accused in two District Courts The Hong Kong "Shun Fo's" premises at No. 41, Pottinger-Martial held on June 16 have The "Jervis Bay" stowaways At Lorde on Saturday the first A wireless message from the street, just below the main en- been sentenced. In one case, a ment opened in glorious weather, ing question time, Mr. L. S. were charged at the Police Court Test Match between England and "Citta di Milano" states that Gentrance to Police Headquarters, part of the sentence was remit with the courts in splendid con- Amery said that it was impossible on five counts, including that of the West Indies opened In fine oral Nobile has a partially frac-[were closed yesterday.

weather before 22,000 people. to make a grant from the Empire arson.

But not by order of the author- Private. C. W. Foden, lat Bat- Marketing Board Fund for the Captain Daniel, in his evid- The wicket was on the hard tured right tibia

ed right foot with considerable ities, even though there is a judg- talion, the Queen's Royal Regi ment by the Police Magistrate ment, was tried on two charges, encouragement or sale of Lanca-ence, said that wireless messages side.

England won the toss and elect-suffusion of blood but that he is outstanding against the publisher the second being an alternative shire cotton goods abroad. He were sent from the ship owing to favoured doing anything possible the nervousness of the passen-ed to bat.

Eight wickets went down for progressing well and it is hoped and the partners in the firm of one, namely:- to help Lancashire produce, but gers. He denounced as wicked help would have to be given in the imputation that the crew 882, the top scorers up to this that he will be completely recaver-printers! Action was taken by

dition. There was but a small at- tendance at the start, which was fixed an hour earlier than usual.

In the first round:-

Cochet beat M. Sleem (India) 6-2, 8-5, 6-2.

Tilden beat M. Summerson 6-0, 6-1, 6-0.

another form.-Reuter,

MENEY WILLEN, WABI O G.

Henri Cochet, of France, Wimbledon singles champion for 1927

R. Boyd (Argentina) beat God-

Erce 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.

Defeats.

A series of British defeats fol-, lawed; all the losers were Davis.

Cup players.

Peters (England) beat Crole

Recs 6-2, 6-2, 6-1.

Hopman

(Australia)

Higgs 6-2, 6-4, 7-5.

beat

Kingsley (England) beat Turn-

'bull 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Miss Betty.

Hennessey (America) beat Mather 6-1, 6-0, 6-2.00

Lott (America) beat Crosbie. 6-2, 6-0, 6-0.

Another British Davis Cup re- presentative who was defeated was Moon (Australia), who lost to Gilbert 6-7, 6-1, 6-0, 6-4.

THE TEA DUTY,

BRINGS IN SIX TO SEVEN MILLIONS A YEAR

TO STAY.

were involved in the disturbances. Captain Daniel explained that he wirelessed for immediate assistance when smoke issued from the ventilators of the room where the stowaways were impri- [soned because the electric cables, vital to steering, ran near the room. If these had been severed by the stowaways' crowbar or by fire the ship would have gone adrift. No member of the crew had been involved. 21

Hammond.

ed in forty days' hence.

and crush-

the landlord, who took out dis- traint for arrear of rent amount- Nobile's own account says that ing to $200... when the Swedish pilot, Lundborg.

Only one watchman was on the landed he (Nobile) requested him premises when a "China Mail" man called yesterday. A cursory

1-"Striking a superior offiear' in. the execution of his duty" by strik ing him in the face with his fist in Kowloon, on June 5, when he was being taken into custody, 2-Resisting an escort

As announced in the "China

On

This

to fly back firstly, with the injured look inside showed the place to be Mail" then, he was found not mechanic, Cecieni, the Czecho-almost bare. Printing furniture guilty on the first charge. Slovak, Professor Behounek, the and accessories, Chinese type, 'the second, the Court sentenced

etc., had vanished wholesale. him to 28 days' detention. mechanic Troiani and secondly Even a platen printing machine sentence has been confirmed by with himself, Lieutenant Viglieri, had ostensibly walked out, Icav-the acting General Officer Com- and the telegraphist Blagi. ing a small flat-bed as the only manding, South China Command. Captain G. A. Pilleau, M.C. Lundborg, however, insisted that item worth any money. 122, Noblie should go first as he was were a few-dilapidated chairs in (Adjutant, 1st Batt. Queen's

evidence also.

Royal Regiment) prosecuted. Lt. and wanted for information and to help

A. M. S. Harrington (of the same regiment) defended. England were all out for 401. Italians. Constantine, the visiting fast

Others backed up Lundborg, 50 bowler, took four wickets for 82. Nobile agreed "with a heavy heart"

West Indies could only produce

Another officer stated that a large oil-fuel tank was beneath stage being E. Tyldesley the stowaways, and it might have Chapman 50, Sutcliffe 48 been set afire, in which case Hammond 45. there would have been little hope for the "Jervis Bay."

The Sentence,

In the rescue of the other lost

Jupp took four Viglieri.-Reuter,

The Amundsen Search.

The stowaways were found guilty on four counts, but dis-177, of which Martin secured 44 to hand over the command to charged on the arson count, as and Nunes 37. the magistrate doubted whether wickets for 87,

The visitors, following on, had they intended actually to destroy

lost six wickets for 55 runs at [the vessel.

Each was sentenced to 5% close of play-Reuter. months' rigorous imprisonment. -Reuter.

EARLIER TELEGRAME.

Colombo, June 25. The "Jervis Bay" arrived here this morning, but passengers A pre- were not allowed to land, liminary inquiry is being held on

London, Yesterday.board." The House of Commons during The disturbing incidents aboard the "Jervis Bay" have turned the committee stage of the Finance out not to be as serious as radio Bill rejected a Labour amendment messages from the ship conveyed,

IT MAY RAIN.

S. winda, moderate, generally elendy, occasional rain,

the

official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.

Stockholm, Yesterday. The floe on which the Swedish aeroplane landed to pick up Nobile, is about 200 yards long, 300 wide and is covered with about eight inches of snow.

There

WHAT IS A PERSON? Crown Wants Revision of the Sentence.

Later

Part Remitted. Private D.. Stables, 2nd Bat- talion, King's Own Scottish Bor- Lieut. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O., oa- derers, faced three charges, cupied the bench in the First Court namely: at the Central Magistracy this morning, when Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assistant Attorney-Gen- cral, made an application for re- vision of the decision he gave in the recent case against the print- ers and publisher of the "Shun Po," who were summoned at the in-

1.-Disobeying the Inwful. com- mand of a superior officer on June 8, in Victoria Barracks,

2-Using violence to a superior officer by catching hold of his throat with both hands,

3-Resisting an escort by strug-

gling.

He was found guilty on all

The Government la preparing to stance of the Secretariat for Chin-charges and sentenced to 84 days

despatch a number of similar light machines to Spitzbergen.

Another telegram from

Rome

saya Pressure is still highest to the

that Cecicnl of Nobile's east of the Bonins. The Jap-party, has been saved.--Reuter. anese depression has passed into the Pacific. A shallow depres- Bion covers the whole of China.

challenging the tea duty, as wholly When the vessel arrived it was GRAVE ALLEGATION.

learst, that eight stowaways, unnecessary.

headed by a half-caste Cuban, The labour member, Mr. Gillett, objected to work when discovered said that while there had been a de-jand swaggered round the deck cursing. They were eventually

crease in the amount of tea coming incarcerated below hatches, but

other countries.

The Government was unable to

RAIL DISASTER.

60 TO 70 PEOPLE INJURED IN. U.S.A.

Iola (Kansas), Yesterday.

ventilators.

Saloon Invaded.

"MANUFACTURED" POLICE EVIDENCE?

SOLDIERS AS DECOYS.

ROYAL RESCRIPT.

EGYPTIAN CABINET

DISMISSED.

NAHAS PASHA'S PLEA.

Cairo, Yesterday,

The Chamber has adjourned till

ese Affairs for breach of the Cen- detention. The acting General. sorship Regulations, and the Emer-Officer Commanding has confirm- ed the sentence, excepting 14 ency Regulations of 1922, Mr. Fitzroy said that

he was days, which part was remitted. making the application under sec- t. J. G. Shillington (Adju~ tion 36 of the Magistrates' Ordin- tant, 2nd Batt. King's Own Scot- ance, under which it was providtish Borderers) prosecuted. Ac ed that within seven clear days of cused conducted his own defence. the giving of the decision, it would The Court which tried both be lawful for either side to apply cases comprised:-Major G. M. H for review of the decision.

Ogilvy (King's Own Scottish Bor-. Proceeding, Mr. Fitzroy aald derers), Captain H. L. Graham, that under the Ordinance no ap-M.C. (Scots Guards) and Lt. plication could be made for rev-J. F. K. Ponsford (Queen's Royal sion, if steps were being taken to Regiment). have that decision reversed.

His

ag

Worship had granted leave of ap- ORIGINAL " ALICE.”: in from British colonies there was broke out with the assistance (as) Adjourned from last week, aa new cabinet is formed.

peal to the defendants in the case. a large increase in the amount from the officers believe) of a crow-bar case in which the proprietor of a China, the Dutch East Indies and surreptitiously slipped down the boarding house at Nos. 5-18 dismissing the cabinet and was ap-making an application for revision. Nahas Pasha read a Rescript The appeal had been abandoned

M.S.S. RESOLD IN now, and he (Mr. Fitzroy) was now

UB.A. Pak-hoi-street is charged for It is intereating, he said, to know

THE PRINTERS CONCERNED. using his house for immoral pur-plauded. whether the movement to control They invaded the saloon, creat-poses, was continued at the Kow-

Philadelphia, Yesterday. Amid an excited crowd of stu- Dealing with the Magistrata's

The original manuscript of the output was having any appre-ing a disturbance, till the ring-loon Magistracy this morning, dents and others yelling "cowards! Powers in the matter, Mr. Fitzroy ciable effect on the amount coming leader was knocked down by an with Mr. Schofield at the bench.

said that sub-section 4 made it "Alice" in Wonderland has been from parts of the Empire.

officer. A general melee followed, Mr. Loseby appeared for the and traitors," an apparent re-lawful for the Magistrate to grant resold with a copy of a rare first Bir H. Samuel said he was look- and the stowaways rushed along defence. At the previous hear ference to the ministers whose re- such an application, whilst sub-sec-insue of the book, to an American ing in into the matter and hoped the deck and pushed open the ing no legal person represented signations led to the crisis, Nabastion 6 states that it is lawful for collector for G$160,000-Router. In a few weeks

terrified the defendant.

the Magistrate to re-open, re-bear] to obtain

doors, where an cabin analysis of the position. They women and children had fled for In a lengthy argument regard-Pasha motored to the Saadist Club the case, and to reverse, vary or would then be able to come. to a safety.

ing the charge, Mr. Loseby said and made a speech from the confirm his decision.

with regard to the Printers Pab- Four British Naval men, who there was absolutely no evidence verandab appealing to the people

In applying for a revision of the conclusion.

were returning to England after that any act of immorality. had not to create trouble but to leave decision, Mr. Fitzroy asked the shers' Ordinanco, "person," service in the Australian Navy, been committed in the boarding

Magistrate, if possible, to vary his he had already tried to make clear, included "firm" among. Its defni- accept the amendment because they helped to overpower and battenhouse in question. He said he the leaders to deal with the situo- decision with regard to the priations, but not for the purpose of could not afford to lose six to down the stowaways, and mount objected to the evidence given by tion in a calm atmosphere, ers of the "Shux Po." seven millions. which the tea duty guard over them.

He added: "I know there are Inspector Shannon at the pre-

Mr. Fitzroy said that the imprisonment.

Referring to section 5 of the same brought in-Reuter.

Mattresses on Fire. vious hearing, alleging that the enemies of the constitution but summons against the printers The stowaways then set fire to Inspector and one other person with God's help we will triumph in came under the regulation whereby Ordinance, Mr. Fitzroy said that their straw mattresses and thrust had deliberately manufactured the end."

"no person

shall print matters that section gave power to the them out of the portholes, when evidence against the defendant by The "Mokattam" comments that which had not been submitted to Captain Superintendent of Police to the amoke threatened them with sending soldiers to the house. this is the first occasion since Eri- and approved by the S.C.A." and issue licences for the purpose of suffocation. The crew turned on Inspector Shannon, Mr. Loseby tish occupation that the Egyptian "no person shall print in a news carrying on the business of prin- the hose, extinguishing the fire, continued, said that he knew that ministry has been dismissed with- paper matters tending to induce ters and publishers. In the in- and effectively quelling the stow one of the girls was a prostitute, aut British having had a hand in persons to refrain from dealing stanca of the defendants. In this awaya violence.

but. that was not enough. The the matter.

with certain other persons."EN case, such a permit was loaded to Sixty to 70 persons were injured The Captain then wireleased Inspector must go one step fur- The Royal Rescript was asued Mr. Fitzroy asked his Worship to Poon Ng-hong, who was put down sioned by E. Andrews, a young by the derailment of the Missouri for assistance and the stowaways ther and prove that the rest dismissing the Ministry on the consider the meaning of the word as the manager of the Chung express, believed to be owing to a were forced into submission by were, and that they were carry-ground of the break up of the coall-person, on which he said ristration, however, the Chung broken rail near Yates Centro, being deprived of food. sing out acts of Immorality on the ton-Reuter, Kansas-Reuter's American Ser- The officers, khile emphasising night of the arrest.

A Fresh Sensation.

Referring to the Interpretation Fat. Company, was put down, that the crew never participated Mr. Loseby said that he object-

London, Yesterday. Ordinance, Mt. Fitzroy Bald that but that left no doubt as to who in the trouble, think it possible ed also to the fact that the de- Londen, Yesterday-The London that some assisted the stowawaya fendant was not previously warn-

In connection with the Egyptian under section 89 of this Ordinance was the responsible person. papera consider that Mr. Kellogg's to embark. Most of the passen-ed as to the continuance of the political crisis at Cairo, telegrama the word "person" could be applied Proceeding, Mr. Fitzroy said that Note deserves a prompt welcome, gers discount the idea of danger, said offence. The soldiers, coun- state that the Opposition news to include bodies corporate, Joint it was possible to convict a firm but the Paris, press has hitherto and declare it was unnecessary to sel alleged, had been sent papers. published documents alleg- tenants and tenants in common, once it was sued as an entity and shown no enthusiasm.-Reuter. summon a warship.

especially to manufacture ed to be signed by Nahas Pasha, Under section 35 relative to Bodies had appeared as such, but it was Nothing Stranger "Since The evidence against the girls the Premier, Wissa Wasser, Prest Corporate, a "person" means a body not possible to say that the firm

was not rightly in Court......... and defendant. They were dent of the Chambor, and Gafar corporate or a firm. A firm was, of

PRINTED UNKNOWINGLY. London, Yesterday. sent to prove that the girls were Fakhry, a landing Ward Deputy course, a body corporate.

Vanaf a crowd, including Tilden, rushed The newspapers are frankly prostitutes, but there was no These three were the lawyers LEFT NO DOUBT.✨✨ from the centre court to No. 1. puzzled by the explanations given evidence that any act of indecency engaged early last year by the The word arm”, as)) court. The play of both was of the "Jervis Bay" affair, had been committed that night. mother of the mad Prince, Ahmed for "person, counsel scintillating. In the fifth The "Daily Telegraph for ex Therefore coumsal begged is Seifeddin, who escaped from Ens also appeared under the Andrews, by fierce forehand amplo, declares that there has Worship not to look on the state land. She wished them to obtain Publishers Ord driving and amazing recoveries, been nothing stranger than the tale ments of Inspector Shannon as the removal of the restraint under Mr. Fitzroy emphasi led 4-1. Hunter drew level at of the stowaways, on the "Jervis evidence against the defendant which the Court had placed – the for the imposition 44 and was thrice within match Bay since the voyage of Jonah If a European man goes into prime points in the tenth game, The Daily Mail" May it is still a boarding house with a Chinese

ged that these Andrews with his superb passing not clear why messages should have girl; shots, ratiled Hunter

First Sensation.

The "first sensation was occa-

Cambridge Blue and a New Zea land champion beating Francia Hunter (America), 6-4, 5-7, 6-4, 2-6 7-5

Hunter was defeated by sheer merit and while the game was on

vice.

Voyage of Jonah.”

been sent out, flist; alarmed, the mo The crowd cheered the winner. world, and adds that there

Betty Retires, Ohta (Japan) beat Destefani (Italy) 6-5, 16, 61, 6-3.

Wilbur Coen beat Axel Peter- sen (Denmark) 7-5, 6-3, 6-3,

Miss Nuthall has retired from the singles. Reuter,

surely be other and important air case was remande cumstances to be

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