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POLICE ADVICE: GET A “REBELS" HAVE TO

HAMMER!

PLAINTIFF'S STORY.

BRITISH COUPLE SUE LADY OF. BOARDING HOUSE.

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"LOCKED OUT," THEY SAID. That after he and his wife had been locked out of their room (in which

DISARM.

NANKING WINS..

CHIHLI AND SHANTUNG FORCES SURRENDER.

CHIANG AT NANKING,

Mukden, To-day.

LISHED

184;

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

PRIME MINISTER'S RETURN.

NOW IN PARIS.

GREATLY BENEFITED BY HIS HOLIDAY.

IN LONDON ON SUNDAY. London, Yesterday.

SUZANNE LENGLEN RETIRES.

OWN STATEMENT.

"I SHALL NEVER PLAY: AGAIN," SHE SAYS.

REINSTATEMENT RUMOURS.|

Nice, Yesterday.

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ENGLAND'S WOMEN AUTOGIRO OR WIND.

VOTERS.

NEW REGISTER,

"FLAPPERS" NEED NOT DIVULGE THEIR AGE.

MILL PLANE.

CROSSES CHANNEL.

Optometrist (Canada) F.LO. (London),

ALLEGED MURDER IN P.I.

2 MEN HELD.

ASCENDS & LANDS PRACTICALLY FILIPINO SAYS SLAYING WAS IN

VERTICALLY.

UNORTHODOX APPEARANCE.

دينيه

Faris, Yesterday.

SELF-DEFENCE.

P20,000 BAIL SET.

Manila, Sept. 19.

COMPULSORY RETURN.

London, Yesterday. A message dated yesterday] Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Mentioned by Reuter regarding It is stated that for the purpose An official welcome has been Two Americans, Christopher was their luggage) the from Yang Yu-ting reports that Prime Minister, who has greatly rumours that she is seeking re- of the compilation of new voters, accorded to the Spanish inventor, Schlaterer of Manila and a Mr. Juan de la Cierva, on his arrival Beyeradorffer of Mindanao, have benefited by his holiday at Aix-

as an amateur, the register, which will include from London on the completion been charged with murder by the Police advised him to get a the Chihli and Shantung troops, les-Bains, France, will be back instatement

women of 21 years to whom the of the first trans-Channel flight justice of the peace at Zam- great hammer and smash the door after some days' fighting, have in London on Sunday night. He

franchise has recently been ex- in the Autogiro or windmill 'plane, boanga. The alleged crime was in" was reluctantly admitted by surrendered and are disarming. and Mrs. Baldwin are

tended, every householder will be which machine is of an uncommitted in August but Mr. required before the end of the orthodox appearance, fitted with Schlaterer is still held in confine year to fill in a form giving parti 200 horse-power engine, capable ment due to his mability to raise culars of his household.

of 100 miles per hour and ascends the P20,000 bond fixed by the This return will be compulsory and lands practically vertically judge of the court of first instance and fallure to make it will entail Reuter.

of Zamboanga. Mr. Beyers- dorffer has secured his temporary release.

one of the joint plaintiffs in a Summary Court action heard this morning, in which all parties are foreigners.

Paris.

now in

At Nanking.

Nanking, Yesterday. Mr. Baldwin will remain at Downing-street, for a day or two Political circles are showing re-and will have consultations with newed activity with the arrival members of the Cabinet. He will| Mr. and Mrs. A. Howarth, now of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, who leave on September 26 for Yar- living at the Palace Hotel, Kow-immediately called a conference mouth where, on the following loon, sued Mrs. L. R. Castellian, with Tan Yen-kai and Ho Ying-day, he will address the Conser of No. 2a, Queen's-road Central, ching.

for damages.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara was for plaintiffs. Mr. Leo d'Almada, Jr., instructed by Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, Sr., defended.

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vative Conference. It is expected that he will make a pronounce- ment on the future programme of the Government.-British Wire- less Service.

DRIVER AND FARE.

Not Serious. Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min news agency's] correspondent in Mukden wires that upon the receipt of the newa of the unexpected defeat of the WHY HE REFUSED TO GO TO Manchuriana by the Northerners, General Chang Hsueh-liang Manchuria telegraphed to General Yang Yu-ting (chief of staff in

of

KOWLOON TONG.

COURT CASE,

of a

"Suzanne,”

a penalty of £20.

An interesting feature will be that women will not be required It will to divulge their age. simply be a question of whether the woman is 21 or over-British Wireless Service.~.

SPAIN'S DICTATOR.

FALSE, RUMOURS AS TO GENERAL DE RIVERA.

STILL IN BARCELONA.

Madrid, Yesterday.

Machine Described. A British Wireless message gays:

The judge first fixed the bond for each of the two men

at

Senor de la Cierva, to-day, P40,000. Later he lowered it to made a flight across the English P30,000 and finally, after an earn- Channel in the Autogiro which he est plea by their attorneys, it has invented. He has been tour-was placed at P20,000. ing Britain in it, and is now going to exhibit it on the Continent. Zamboanga

According to Frank H. Young, attorney, Mr. Starting from Croydon ha Schlaterer, with two other FORMIDABLE LIBRARY.

crossed the Channel from Lympne Americans, left Zamboanga in At the outset, the Pulsne Judge

to Cape Grisnez and landed at July on a prospecting trip to the (Mr. Justice P. Jacks) gave leave

Saint Inglevert near Boulogne. eastern coast. of Mindanao. Spectators of the flight were After going some distance the for the writ to be amended so that

greatly interested in the machine, party encountered bad weather defendant's name would read Mra.

For refusing to carry a Euro-!

which presented a strange appear-and returned to Sibuku, a small L. R. Young as she had married Munchuria) to rush reinforce pean passenger to his residence in

General Primo de Rivera has ance alongside the air Union liner town where Mr. Beyersdorffer, a shortly after the writ was issued.

ments to Changli at all costs. It Kowloon Tong when requested to

and the Moth aeroplane which former aoldier, has had a planta- Mr. Macnamara, in his opening.

not returned from Barcelona, and escorted it. said that the facts and the law con- adds that Chang Hsuch-liang has do so in the early hours of the

tion for the past ten years. the air is full of rumoura. It is The Autogiro combines the The two companions of Mr. cerning the case were simple. He wired to General Pei Chung-hal morning, a Chinese driver

reported that he has been fired on features of the helicopter or ver- Schlaterer returned to Zamboanga was surprised by his "friend's" (commander of the Nationalists public vehicle appeared at the formidable library of legut, works co-operating with the Man Kowloon Magistracy this morning

to answer a charge of refusing Suzanne Lenglen declared she and wounded in a rising at Bar-tical ascent machine and ornihop-but Mr. Schlaterer was forced to ter or machine that flaps its wings remain because he was exhausted on' counsel's table).

churians against the Northern-

like a bird. In the parlance of the from the trip and was suffering Mr. and Mrs. Howarth, according

had not touched a racquet for celona. to the case for them, took a bad-ers) that the Manchurian Army The complainant was Mr. E. D. months. She added: "I shall There is no sign of trouble in aerodrome it is a "windmill from fever. room and private bathroom at Mrs. is capable of disposing of the Shank, manager of the Hong Kong

Find Man in House. never play again, either as an Madrid although the troops are 'plane." It does not glide into the air but darts after only a short Young's for $65, for a fixed period Northerners without assistance Excavation and Pile Driving Co.

On August 10, Mr. Schlaterer, of one month (August), at $65 pre-from the Nationalists and declar. Defendant pleaded not guilty, amateur or a professional."-Reu-

General de Rivera's departure to run, and when it descends it Mr. Beyersdorffer, his wife, a na- paid, meals consumed to be charged ing that the reverse sustained by He said that Mr. Shank had offer{ter. ↑

Barcelona on September 15, in comes down so straight that the tive woman, and her brother, view of rumours of the Separatist heading for a crash. It is thought Beyersdorffer home. Mr. Beyer- airman gets the sensation of Vicente Escosio, were all at the movement in Catalonia, was com that this sensation will require sdorffer went into his wife's bed-. Imented on with much interest and;

some overcoming.. no little curiosity. It was const- dered that his likely object was to take a personal hand in straighten- ing out the tangle which had re- sulted from the recent wholesale arrests. These were made ; irres- pective of guilt in connection with recent alleged conspiracy the against the Government.

for at 50 cents each.

SAW THE BAILIFF.

hire.

his subordinate was not serious. ed $1 as fare to Kowloon Tong, It goes on to state the belief but he refused as he thought it that prevails that General Pel, was too little. He asked for $1.80,

On Aug. 14. Mr. Howarth said Chung-hai has withdrawn his but complainant refused.

he was going to Australia at the forces to the left bank of the Mr. Shank said that last night) end of the month, Mrs. Young Luanho River. In order to allow after alighting from the ferry he then asked Mrs. Howarth if she General Chang Hsueh-liang

were going to pay any compensa- free hand.—Reuter.

tion in lieu of notice. Mrs. Young ∙asked for $32.60 but Mrs. Howarth

refused to pay as she had taken the room for the fixed period of one month.

On Aug. 27 Mrs. Young said de- finitely that she intended to take proceedings. Mr. and Mrs. Howarth dined in Kowloon and stayed the night there.

On the morning of Aug. 28 Mr. and Mrs. Howarth returned to Mrs. Young's where they found they had

DUTCH BUDGET.

SHOWS A SURPLUS OF

8,000,000 FLORINS.

REDEMPTION OF LOAN.

went to defendant's car which was the first one waiting on the park ing stand, and he and his wife got in the car. Defendant asked for $1.80, and complainant answered that he did not care how much the fare was, so long as he got home. It was raining. at the time. How- ever, defendant refused to move forward, and when asked the rea-

cars,

STILL: FAIR.

N.E.. winds, fresh, faft, is the forecast until noon to-morrow.

The anticyclone remains cen tral to the north of Japan. A trough of low pressure extends from Indo-China.

REFERS TO SHIPPING.

confined to barracks.

...

There is now no doubt that there

Unconfirmed.

CHILD WELFARE.

EMPLOYMENT OF POLICE- WOMEN ADVISED.

SLAVERY ABOLITION.

rested.

Geneva, Yesterday.

room and accidentally found :- a man hidden under the bed. He hurried to the kitchen to ask his wife who the stranger was. Instead of answering him, she ran from the house.

Believing the stranger to be an Impostor, Mr. Beyersdorffer re- turned to the door of the bedroom and asked Mr. Schlaterer to come Lord Cushendun, speaking on the to his aid. Sensing danger, the was a widespread plot, implicating report to the Fifth Committee on stranger came out of his hiding freemasons, socialists, republicans child welfare and similar ques-place, grabbed an automatic shot so he did not answer. Mr. Shank HOLLAND'S QUEEN. and even, it is said, an archbishop. tiena, said that experts after care gun from the wall and endea then went to the police constable

ful consideration had given, their voured to shoot his way out of the The Hague, Yesterday. controlling the parking of

The attempt upon De Rivera is unanimous opinion against the house. The three men over- Presenting the Budget, which and asked him to

summons the DELIVERS OPENING SPEECH AT been locked out and forcibly pre-nounced that the $40,0000,000 driver, which he did by taking the

DUTCH STATES GENERAL.

still unconfirmed. As the rumours licensed house system. He could powered him, however, and took are unusually strong they are be-not therefore imagine that the goy the gun away from him, t vented from getting their baggage, floring, the Finance Minister an defendant to the Water Police Sta-

The stranger, who it was later Heved by more than the man 3n ernments concerned would not feel They went to the Police, then to the nouneed that the $40,000,000 tian. When asked in the charge

the street," especially as. De it their duty not to leave the mat learned was a Filipino by the ballift at the Supreme Court, then loan issued by New York

Rivera had not returned when ex-ter any longer where it at present name of Vicente Dinago and an

intimate friend of Mrs. Beyers» · to Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist (who bankers after the war will be room why he refused to move, the

pected. they found out were acting for partially redeemed in 1929, driver again refrained from an-

The Hague, Yesterday. {swering.

Officials attribute the acare to On behalf of the British Gover-dorffer, was young and strong Mrs. Young) and then to Messrs. Reuter.

while both of the Americans are Driver's Story.

Queen. Wilhelmiina, in her speech "hostile machinations."

ment he strongly endorsed the re- Deacons who advised them to pay

While they were at- over 60, In Court this morning, defendant in opening the States General, said

port's recommendation of stricter tempting to tie him up he broke the $32.50 under protest.

related a story of how on a pre-that Dutch shipping was suffering A communique states that De measures against souteneurs AI loose and secured a bolo with vious occasion, in answer to a tele- from surplus tonnage on the world Rivera is still at Barcelona, where As regards the recommendations which he attacked: those who jphone message from the Kowloon

were trying to capture him. Cricket Club, he had taken Mr. market. She regretted that Inter-be received fournalists and ex-in favour of the employment of pressed satisfaction at his enthu- women as police, the experience of

Took Bola from Man.” Shank's home, for which he was national efforts towards reduction slastic popular welcome-Reuter. Britain had proved them so valu The Americans were successful paid only $1. This, defendant of armaments had not led to more

able that he was sure public in taking the bolo away from him For the third time within two maintained, was very little con tangible results, but was gratified

opinion in England. would gladly but both were weakened in the tarted by Messrs. Wilkinson & months, the Tai. Tung native dis-sidering he had to wait 35 minutes that international co-operation was

support the extension of the system struggle. Then Dinage produced Grist Hereupon Mr. d'Almada, tillery has become involved in outside the club. When defondant

various spheres,

and the strengthening of the small a dagger and attacked Mr.. Jr., interposed to say that the re-prosecutions. brought by the returned to the garage in which he 1ncreasing in

forces at present employed. Beyersdorffer. Seeing his life turn had been made without his Superintendent of Imports and was employed, the master rebuked especially in economies.fak

Commenting on the report on endangered Mr. Beversdorffer him for obtaining so small a sum The bill to ratify the Kellogg

slavery submitted by Mr. G. Locker- ordered his brother in law-to Before Major C. Willson, for hire. The master had also in- Pact, in which was a new gilar

Lampson, the British Under- shoot the intruder. As a result distress warrant had been taken af O.B.E., this morning the licensee structed the defendent that if ever antee for the maintenance of peace,

Secretary for Foreign Affairs, be of the ahots, Dinago was killed. by Mrs. Young. Hers was a lodg of the distillery, the accountant he again took Mr. Shank as a pas would shortly be placed before the

fore the Sixth Committee of the ing, he added, and not a keeper's house; and there was no right to and the "sze foo" (skilled work-senger, he should first arrange pay House. Reuter,

THE “TẠI TUNG”

on

PROSECUTED FOR THIRD TIME IN TWO MONTHS.

A LODGER'S GOODS. After "a lot of trouble," their property was returned to them Aug. 29.

Continuing, Mr. Macnamara sald that the $32.50 was subsequently re-

consent.

Mr. Macnamara asserted that no

. lodger.

Exports.

counts as follow:

have any lien ou the goods of aer) were each summoned on three ment of about $1.50 at least. De-

fondant, on this occasion, had FAR EAST FLIGHT. (1) Unlawfully distilling motherefore first tried to arrive at an The sum of $32.50 had been claimed by Mrs. Young in effect, laases mash from certain "konge" arrangement, placing the figure at BARON VON HUNEFELD, SETS said Mr. Macnamara, as damages

without a permit;

OUT FOR TOKYO.

$1.80,

for breach of an alleged contract br. (2) Falling to keep a record of The magistrate, Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. and Mrs. Howarth to take the the mash distilled;

remarked that it appeared to him occasion on the ground that last

AN 8 DAYS ATTEMPT.

· · At Barcelons.

SHIPPING STRIKE, SEVERAL PORTS STILL HOLD

OUT.

SUMMONSES ISSUED.

Melbourne, Yesterday.

FUKIEN PROVINCE.

RAID TO PREVENT A RED

***UPRISING.

The waterside workers at Bris League, this morning, M. Rappart, bane, Adelaide, Fremantle, and the Swiss delegate, called particular Newcastle still refuse work under attention to the fact that since the the "two

ups" system and last session, slavery has been com- pletely abolished in Sierra Leone, cargo at Adelaide la declared through most effective and prompt "black"

Other transport unions action by the British Government Shanghal, Yesterday.

According to a message from may be involved but negotiations M. Rappart recalled how within for a complete settlement are pro- barely two-months of the Judicial Amoy, the military on Sept. 15 Berlin, Yesterday,

ceedin

decision being taken concerning, raided the headquarters of the Baronyon

The Federal Attorney General bas

the rights of owners over slaves, supervisory committee of the Chin the Atlantic

the Legislative Council of Sierra ess Communist Party of Fuklen, fasued

against the

| Leone voted – in favour of omMAN the members of which had been Kool Waterside Workers Federationn on

plotting a general uprising In Fu Inge to strike cipating all slaves-In the Prot the Arbitratorate numbering some 200,000,

Mr. Locker-Lampson was unani mously appointed Reporter on the alavery question before, the Asse bly Reuter-

“The German, sirah

room on a monthly tenancy. Mrs. (8) Removing 50 jars of spirits that defendant had refused on this Young was not jusifled in shutting without special foil; and them out and detaining their goods.

(4) Removing eight jars of time, he had not been paid enough. Further, her conduct very seriously spirits without special foil.

Asked by the Magistrate why he Mr. M. K. Lo again represented did not approach Mr. Shank in the Hunefeld aggravated the case against her. MR. HOWARTH'S RELUCTANCE. defendants and raised no objet proper manner when he thought he in the "Bremer

tion when Mr. H. A. Taylor, Gor had not been paid enough, defen- and

In the witness box, Mrs. Howarth ernment Analyst and assistant dant replied that he did not have

sald that she got her luggage back Superintendent of Imports and

at 12 noon on Aug. 29, it being Exports, asked for a week's for

thrown out on the pavement. She mal remand.

etated that Mrs. Young claimed to

opportunity to do so.

His Worship: I can see no rea son for your action. Your proper course of complaint if your fara sufficient was to object fu

have had a distress warrant. She

and her husband,, by reason of Mrs.

E

Young's action, had - beɛn unable he had been in the East for ab

the

to take their passage to Australia twenty years, the last occasion for

on the as, “Tanda”” which left on about eleven yaara,"

'évide

then remanded for

the driv

by

the against the aw

tion, Court. Reute

ARGENTINE OIL

to GOVERNMENT'S ACTION WITH

REGARD TO OIL WELLS

Buenos Aires, Yesterday,

Jon of

EARL'S DEATH.

EARL OF DURHAM BUCCEED

BY TWIN BROTHER

len

A number of communists were arrested and a large quantity. communist Ilterature was, séíred. Reuber

You te After

Aug. 81. She would now have to When asked by : Mr. stay on at the Palace Hotel until whether he acted on the advi Sept. 28 and she had paid $200 in Police gave him, Mr. Haworth ap- advance there. am peared reluctant to answer. --Br Cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada,| Macnamare then asked gis What ad. Urwitness denied that Mrs. Young vice did the Police had intimated that the tenancy was a pause, witne to be a monthly one and that the great hammer and [would="require a month's notice, in32-Mr. Howarth

Their luggage, consisted of four least the delay trunks and about six suitcases, out of

Mr. Haworth, an engineer, said i

that the cost him in Ber

was $550

the fret Baferlan to and from Italy,aled

Charts675

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