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The

Love Burnett

kprying Director.

China Mail

No. 27,181 HONG KONG,

DISASTER

FATABLISHED

1845

FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1929.

BOMB THREAT FOR CLEVELAND CLINIC PREMIER AND "WHITE

WUCHOW

FROM THE AIR

BRITISH WOMEN AND CHILDREN TO LEAVE

CANTON OPTIMISTIC

The Cantonese military authori- ties threaten to bomb Wuchow wireless station by aircraft.

British women and children have leave for Hong

been advised to

Kong.

Extensive operations are expect- ed during the forthcoming week. The Cantonese military authori ties expect to take Wuchow.

A KWANGSI MANIFESTO.

The "China Mail" has received from the Trade Office

of

PAPER" INCIDENT

DUE TO COMBUSTION REPLY TO LIBERALS

GIRL TELEPHONE OPERATOR'S WHAT SIR AUSTEN SAID AT

WONDERFUL PLUCK

KRA.

MORE VICTIMS SUCCUMB

་་

Cleveland, Yesterday

BIRMINGHAM

CONSERVATIVES CONFIDENT

London. Yesterday.

PIRATES BUSY

VILLAGERS SEEF SAFETY IN KONGMOON

BANDITS' TOLL

[From Our Own Correspondent]

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

"Your Eyes Are Safe With Us"

N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician

Extablished Over Forty Years). Manager:-RALPH A. COOPER, Registered Optometrist by Canadian

Govt. Exam. F.LO. (London) (Personal Attention).

WRITING EXPERTS NEW GOVERNOR OF GEORGE DUNCAN

FALLIBILITY

SUMMING-UP.

CHIEF JUSTICE DEALS WITH

TRICK THEORY

FIJI.

SIR A. M. FLETCHER

FORMER HONG KONG OFFICIAL'S PROMOTION

DISTINGUISHED CAREER

London, Yesterday.

of

In 1916 he

COMES BACK

HAGEN OUT

RESULTS OF THE SECOND ROUND TO HAND

LADIES' SEMI-FINALS

Kongmoon, Yesterday. Kumchuk, Kweichow, and the VERDICT THIS AFTERNOON surrounding districts are again overrun by pirates and many vil The Supreme Court was crowd-: The fire is officially attributed to Mr. Baldwin addressed a meeting lagers have fled from their homesed this morning long before the

London, Yesterday. Sir Arthur Murchison Fletcher, spontaneous combustion among the of electors of the City of London Many have gone

At Moortown, Leeds, to-day, in to Hong Kong, resumption of the case between has been appointed Governor of the first round of the golf tourna- elluloid X-ray plates in the this afternoon. Within the general whilst others have come to Kong the Treasury and the Hong Kong Fiji and High Commissioner of the ment for 1,000 gulneas, George basement storeroom, due to over- area of the City of London, he moon.

and Shanghai Banking Corpora Western Pacific.-Reuter. heating, as the result of a leaking said, was unrivalled financial power

Duncan beat W. Hagen by one It is said that bandits are exact tion.

(Sir Arthur George Murebison hole. steampipe.

and responsibility. It had not beening a safe conduct fee of $80 .OR The building still reeks of poison built up on new

Mr. Eldon Potter, counsel for Fletcher, K.C.M.G., C.B.E., C.M.G., policies but preach Canton junk passing the rapid. the plaintiff having concluded his of Ceylon, was (as is well-known Duncan fluffing his second shot at who is at present Colonial Secretary Hagen opened with two wins, marily on old.

The Government has ordered that final address to the jury yeater- here) Colonial Secretary of Hong the first hole and taking three A Brave Girl Outstanding among the many industries.

Referring to the safeguarding of the boycott of Japanese goods must day afternoon, the Chief Justice, Kong for many years until, in fact, putts from twenty yards at the

Mr. Baldwin

A said it cease, but nevertheless demonstra Sir Henry Gollan, summed up at

ittle more than three years age. heroic attempt at rescue is the would normally be applied after tinns were carried out on the 9th great length this morning.

He came to Hong Kong in 1901 as next. story of a telephone operator named

a Civil Service cadet and gradually His Lordship said that it was worked his way through various de-a three-yarder, and the American Duncan won the third, holding appreciation of specific industry instant as a reminder to the people Gladys Cibson, of Scottish ancestry and after impartial inquiry. Iron of the humiliation of Curious Document From Office in who remained at the switchboard and steel would be treated exactly Demands.

the 21 to be regretted that so much partments. Sir Arthur is the son of

valuable time

won the fourth, Danean squared sending out warnings to every part like any other industry. It would

of the jury was Dr. Fletcher of Highgate, London, Hàng Hong

at the sixth but was buikered at of the clinic. summoning Police, have to make out its case before the $1.34 to the Hong Kong dolar, have must realise

Silver coins, which have been taken up in the case, but that they and was born in 1878.

married Miss

Rogers- the importance at Harrison,

the seventh. He became one firemen and ambulances. She col-

daughterothy and taching to the issue of the action. Rogers-Harrison, I.M.S

Lt. Col. down, but squared at the eighth, lapsed and died as she was being Tribunal. He had pledged himself slightly appreciated in value

M.S., and brought where he holed an eight-yarder to impose no food duties.-British are to-day quoted at $131. No

Bank and Customer

his-bride--to Hong Kong. They have the Bureau of Construction of carried out.

Wireless Service.

doubt this is due to the surrender

two sons 125 Deaths Kwangsi, Bank of Canton Ruilding.

In 1927, in the absence and took the lead for the first time For many years, his Lordship of the Governor, he administered the at the twelfth. He lost it at the Hong Kong, a very lengthy type- The poison gas, acting on the

of the Navy and the general feeling said, the Bank and the Treasury Government of Ceylon, While in sixteenth, when he missed a one written document headed "A State: blood of yesterday night's victims is

that there will be no more trouble. had been on friendly terms as Hong Kong Sir Arthur was widely- and a half yarder. the ment by Tsung-jen and Group responsible for

additional

Although it had been raining banker and customer. It was one known, and his departure from the (Contributed). It purports to have deaths hourly.

steadily, but not heavily, almost of the duties of the Bank to Colony was made the occasion, both every day for the last two weeks or honour cheques if properly sign kindly references to his work as an shots.

Chinese and Britons, of many been signed by Li Tsung-jen, Tsow So far 125 have died.. Shi-cheng, Tsang Shi-hou, Tien The most stringent investigation

so, the padi fields are still in wanted by the customer. If they had official. It will be recalled that be- Soong-yao, Lai Sing-hay. Yang Sen, proceeding.-Reuter's American

of water. The Premier, at the outset, re-heavy rain the flood up river is would have to

As the result of to-day's paid out on forged cheques, they fore the late Sir F. H. May came to Hu Yo-tu, Lo Tac-chow, Li Chia-Service.

stand the солье- Hong Kong as Governor, he was for plied to the Opposition attack re beginning to rise.

of the Fiji quences. The issues in the action brief spell Governor

-Islands.] garding the issue of the "White There are now 98 dead in the Paper" and mentioned that the sales

under review all centered on thres papital disaster. Forty others had already exceeded the cost uf

cheques drawn on December 30, 1927. The amounts, which were over $260.000 in all, were debited to the Government, and the Gov- ernment now alleged that these amounts were wrongly debited, because the signatures of Mr. Messer and Mr. Black

were not written by them nor by their con- sent. The defence said that the signatures were genuine and were in fact, signed by Mr. Messer and

yu, and Chen Tin-hsin. Underneath

is the information: "Translated

freely from Chinese copy).

Earlier News

women

Premier And "Misrepresentations"

Fashionably dressed mingled with top-hatted business and industrial magnates af meet ing of the City of London electors, addressed by Mr. Baldwin.

The document may be genuine most critically hurt have only a production. He charged the Liberala [

even

throughout,

including the typewritten

names of the signa- tories, but there is no covering let-

ter signed in ink in the regular manner by Li Tsu g-jen or any others of the group mentioned.

the scheme, as this would have been

fighting chance of surviving. The doctors are still desperately ad-

with acting unconstitutionally and being guilty of misrepresentation ministering artificial respiration. only 4 or 5 deaths to burns.

The Coroner last night attributed when they asserted that civil ser- The Vants were unable to find a flaw in survivors declare that the agony of Mr. Lloyd George's scheme. the incinerated people was almost The Goverument forbore publish. Apart from the breach in the ob- less horrible than the convulsions ing the civil servants' criticisms of servance of the usual formalities of the victims of the deadly gas, the document itself is unfortunate ly of such a nature as to preclude its publication in our columns by reason of the libellous and defama tory statements with which it

The "China Mail" is a said that the victims were dead in ready always to afford space for the less than one minute after inhaling Birmingham, said that Mr. Baldwin propaganda of either the Kwangai it,

teens.

the identity of which is not definite- unconstitutional, and did the only ly established.

possible thing to stop further mis One of the founders of the clinic representation and to protect civil is of opinion that it resembles the phosgene used in war time.

Deadly Gases

servants..

It is

or the Kwangtung parties in the

The deadliness of the gases given present unhappy conflict, but it most naturally be couched in tem-off by the burning X-ray films is porate and reasonable language. ir-evidenced in the case of a woman respective of the objective of the on the first floor. authors in seeking publication thereof.

MARTIAL LAW

Ship Fired On By Shore Guards

[From Our Own Correspondent.}

Kongmoon, Yesterday.

The situation here is normal. Martial law after dark has been enforced, however, since the mutiny of the Canton navy. Aeroplanes are often seen hovering over the city, coming from and going to Canton.

Criminals are daily being brought out for execution in batches of five and ten. The authorities do not think it safe to keep them in prison during the crisis.

was

20.

Confidence!

Sir Austen Chamberlain, at

votes

had invited him to continue to be Foreign Secretary in the new Parliament and he proposed to do

The Polling She smashed the window in order

With the huge increase in the to leap into the net spread below, electorate and the consequent mil- but as she was climbing to the lions more

to count it is window sill she was enveloped in expected that fewer election resulta a mist of noxious vapours, and fell will be announced on polling night, back into the room dead.

and even these will be later than A doctor, interviewed by Reuter, in previous years, said that the gases given off were Furthermore, principally carbon monoxide, car- "summertime," election, the polling bon dioxide. ammonia, and hours may be extended one hour in boroughs and industrial divisions. This is a further reason why the authorities in many constituencies may postpone the counting till May 31.-Renter,

bromide. Reuter

GREEK SCANDAL

EX-PRESIDENT AND OTHERS ARRESTED

SERIOUS CHARGES

Athens, Yesterday. Ex-President Pangalos and ex- Ministers Vogopoulos and General Nider have been srrested on a charge of speculating in foreign advantageous contracts during their exchanges, and with concluding dis- administration three years ago.

Reuter.

GERMAN LOAN

300,000,000 MARKS FOR PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION

28 this

is а

HEADING BACK

"GRAF ZEPPELIN" HAS TWO MOTORS BROKEN

WIRELESS MESSAGE

FAIR TO SHOWERY

To-day's weather report from the Royal Obeservatory states: The anti-cyclone remajas to the east of Japan and has weakened considerably. Ą trough of low pressure extends from S. China across Formosa to the Pacific.

Forecast:-S. W. or variable winds,-moderate; fair to show-

⚫ery.

WAR LORDS FIGHT

MORE DIFFERENCES IN THE NORTH

NOW SETTLED?

Mr. Black.

by

CHINESE ADMIRAL

MAKES OFFICIAL LANDING

THIS MORNING

VISITS ARMY HEADQUARTERS

The seventeenth was. halved, both men playing great second

At the eighteenth, Hagen, putt ing first, laid

a stymie, but Duncan

cleverly negotiated it from twelve yards and holed out. First Round Results

George Duncan (unattached) beat W. Hagen (America), one up.

A. G. Havere (unattached) beat Gus Faulkner, 3 and 2.

W. H, Davies (Wallasey) George Cadd, 3 and 1.

beat

Jurado (Argentine), 3 and 2.

W. T. Twine (Ashford) beat J.

H. C. Tolly (Foxglove) boat L.; T.

Rear-Admiral H. Y. Chen and his Cotton (Coulsdon Court), 5 and 3. staff made their official landing

Archie Compston (Coombe Hill) from the Chinese cruiser "Hai beat Aubrey Boomer (St. Cloud), on Yung" this morning at 10,30.

the 21st hole.

C. A. Whiteembe (Crews Hill) beat

D. Dudley (America) beat Sayner (Birkdale), 2 and 2. Watrous (America), one up.

Leo Diegel (America) beat Al.

up.

At the Queen's Pier were Col. T. II. Cotton (Langley Park), 2 and Cheque Forms Genuine

W.D.S. Brownrigg, D.S.O., and 1. Touching upon the

E. circum-Capt. Sillitoe, A.D.C. to H.E. the stances which gave rise to the Governor, to receive the visitors. A action his Lordship said that it guard of honour drawn from the was quite clear that Carvalho Yeo King's Own Scottish Borderers was convicted of uttering forged paraded outside the pier, and at cheques. The case was a very im- their rear was the full band of the portant one. and that the jury same regiment. must not allow themselves to be Rear-Admiral. Chen, on landing, influenced by Yeo's case. They was received by Col. Brownrigg. were to decide the issues in this He then inspected the guard of case according to justice and law. honour and the party drove to the It must be remembered that the Army Headquarters in motor cars. cheque forms were genuine enough. They were taken from

of

Ockenden bent Claude, Gray, one up. Abe Mitchell (private) beat F Robson (Cooden Beach), on

Joe Turnesa (America) beat E. Whitcombe

the (Bournemouth) 19th hole,

Horton Smith (America) beat Tom Barbour, 2 up.

at

J. J. Taylor beat J. Atkinson (Lees Hall), 4 and 3.

S. F. Brews (South Africa) beat A. Bradbeer, up.

A. Young (Sonning) beat Bert Hodson (Newport) at the 21st hole. Second Round Results

W. H. Davies (Wallasey) beat A: G. Havers (unattached), 1 and 2.

George Dupean (unattached) beat Ockenden, 6 and 4.

Chefoo, Yesterday. During the past few days some fighting has taken place at Hwang- shien, where General Chang Ching- the Government cheque books and not challenging the honesty kin (former Minister of Industry) all the jury had to determine both Mr. Messer and Mr. Black, declared against Yin Yin-chi. The was whether or not the signatures He had, in fact, said that he be latter has now successfully disarmed were forgeries.

lieved that both Mr. Messer and Chang Ching-kiu and is controlling His Lordship then reviewed the Mr. Black had honestly thought the situation.

evidence as adduced by both that they had never signed those H. C. Tolly (Foxglove) beat W. T. American Consul reports that all is count

A telegram received by the parties and of the exhaustive ac- cheques."

Twine (Ashford), 8 and 6,

Archie Compaion (Coombe Hill) of the procedure in the It would be for the jury to con- best Abe Mitchell (private), 4 and 2: quiet.

Treasury us. given by both Mr. sider carefully the trick theory.

Turneza (America) Considerable anxiety was felt Messer and Mr. Black.

It was suggested that the signa- Hoston Smith (America), 3 and 2. last week regarding the differences Coming to the theft of the 60 fures could have been obtained by JI. Taylor beut S. F. Brows between General Liu Chen-nien and cheques, his Lordship said that a forged voucher. Well, the jury (South Africa), 8 and 2, General Yin Tlu-chi. These, it is the plaintife'

Leo Diegel (America) beat E. D.

5 and 4. reported, have been settled, and the Tsang-On-wing was in the bear the name of the payee and C. A. Whitcombe latter is proceeding to Tehcho. swindle, there was no object iu also the amount. Mr. Messer had General Liu Chen-nien is controlling stealing the cheques. Of course, denied that that was possible. the erritory as far as Lurgkow, the defence had given other views The other suggestion was that the Reuter.

on that question.

cheques had been signed in blank. This was also hotly denied by the

STATE FUNDS

GOVERNOR'S IMPEACHMENT

ABANDONED

Baton Rouge, Louisiana,

Yesterday.

The s.8. "Stin Tung Woh" fired upon a few days ago near! Kamchuk, whilst on her way down from Canton. She returned fire and was lucky to escape being pirated. When near Pakkai she was again fired upon, but this time by the shore guards. Not being aware that vessels are not allowed to enter port after dark, she replied: and it was some time before the true situation was grasped. Onc dead and two wounded passengera were found on board the vessel on her arrival at the Customs front.

Junks Being Released Passenger junks which have been commandeered for carrying troupe

Conference With Passengers are gradually being released, and

tion. It will be issued at 99 with

Friedrichshafen, Yesterday. shipping traffic, has resumedi.

General Chu, Tau-shan's troops

interest at seven per cent. It will Commander Eckener decided to for five years, return at 6.35 in the evening after withdrew into Kongmoon and. Pak not be redeemable kai on

the day after the Navy's after which ten per cent. of the conferring with the passengers can Service. mutiny. Without heavy artillery, total will be repayed annually. Reuter. however, they were helpless and Reuter. could not have prevented the Navy from coming in.

Long

case was

Joe

beat

that if had heard that all vouchers must Dudley (America (Crews Hill) beat

were

obtained, and

A. Young (Sonning), 2 up.

BRITISH LADIES

Results of the Semi-Final Ties

The competition at St. Andrew's the British Ladies' Open

*

Miss Doris Park

beat Miss Enid

Miss Glenna Collett beat Mrs.

Vivid Imagination New York, Yesterday.

Commenting on the expert evi-plaintiff. dence regarding handwriting, his His Lordship said that it must The "Graf Zeppelin" which early this afternoon passed over Barce

Lordship said that handwriting be borne in mind that both Mr. lona, wirelesses this evening: "Two

experts were not infallible. How Messer and Mr. Black were high for ever honest a person might have officials of the Government. They Championship is now reaching its motors broken, heading back."

New Yorkers' Disappointed

"REGARDLESS OF EVIDENCE"ben. there were many things held positions of trust and bore closing stages. To-day there was. which might have tended to dis an unimpeachable character. It fine weather and a large attend- Later. Much disappointment is

tort his handwriting. Dr. Shell- would therefore be absurd to think ance. felt

Results here through the

shear had made many high claims that they could have been so an- postpone. ment of the visit ol the In the Senate Court the impeach- for himself saying that he could practicable and unbusinesslike as "Graf Zeppelin", for which elabor- ment has been abandoned of time and material, but then an there was the last suggestion to Watson, 3 and 2.

detect any forgery

if given the to sign cheques in blank. Then Wilson, at the 19ta. TERNS ISSUED : ate arrangements had been made Governor

'on charges at Lakehurst, to which hundreds of of misuse of state funds, bribery, expert also possessed a high de consider. It was suggested that Miss Joyce Wethered beat Miss Berlin, Yesterday.

marines and special police had been etc., owing to Long's political supree of imagination as evidenced the cheques in question had been Molly Gourlay, 7 and 5. The Minister of Finance

the paint

Mrs. Guedala beat Miss Pyman, 3 an-despatched to cope with the enor- porters inducing a sufficient number in

raised by Dr. filled in for "Eighty Six" leaving

and 2;-- nounces that

at present only mous crowds expected-Reuter's of citizens to sign a statement Shellshear in regard to the " in plenty of room both in the writ

Semi-Finals 300,000,000 marks of the big loan American Service.

declaring that they will vote for his the signature of Mr. Messer. Ing space and the space for Miss Joyce Wethered beat Mrs: will be offered for public subscrip-

acquittal regardless of the evi- Mr. Jenkin had also forcefully figures. With this cheque. the Ovedalla, 5 and 4

Misa Glenna Collett beat Doris dence, as they believe the charges argued that if the cheques were signatures have been brought in violation of forged, the forger must pecessari- that the party to the fraud filled Park, and ---Reuter.

in Eighty six thousand and.. » the Constitution-Renter's Ameri-13 possess high skill, and if a

man had that skill it would be 18,000 Cheques Examined untenable to suggest that he would To this both Mr. Messer and make such a silly mistake in writ- Mr. Black had said that could not ing the line under Mr. Messer's be possible, because in all the signature. The plaintiffs had also cheques they had signed there made much of this point. It was never had been so much room left "SYMPATHY AND INTEREST" gaid that Mr. Messer always had out in the spaces' provided. No made that line in every conceiv- fewer than 18,000 cheques ́had able way, but on the three dig been examined and each one of puted cheques, that line was too them was filled in such a way announces that no officer of the Mr. H. Stimeon, (State Secretary) Simla, Yesterday.

that all remaining spaces had been Federal Reserve Board or any other The Viceroy bes issued an All

Mr. Jenkin's argument was not carefully ruled out. Would it India Thanksgiving Appeal to com- necessary an answer to the sug- then be possible for a cheque fill serve in the International Bank of the officials will be permitted to memorate His Majesty's recovery.gestion. It was remarkable how ed in that manner as suggested to planned by the Conference of Be- The proceeds will be utilised for the often men, criminals or otherwise, have escaped the notice of the parations Experts in Paria. alleviation or prevention of sickness combined skill and nerve with signatories? and disease in India-Reuter.

He declares that the United fetishness.

Continuing, his Lordship said States Government viewed with Mr. Jenkin's Fairness

that the jury had seen- that the sympathy and interest the work of. The suggestion had also been cross-examination of both sides the experts, but did not wish to made by the defence that the had been very severe. He (his have any American official directly signatures were obtained by & Lordship) would be doing wrong or indirectly consceted with the trick. Mr. Jeakin had acted very he had interfered. Severity in collection of German reparatione

A Wireless Message

Berlin, Yesterday,

The "Graf Zeppelin" has wire- River gunboats are still to be Murrayfield was won by the Edin miles south of the Rhone Delta, The seven-a-side tournament at lessed stating that she is eight eeen at Ma Ning and Yung Ki.burgh Academicals-thanks, largely, travelling Their attitude is so extraordinary

slowly against that it is not known if they have G. P. S. Macpherson. They dis-

to the brilliant generalship of strong wind.-Reuter. surrendered or not.

Over twenty posed successively of the Glasgow EX-CONSUL'S FATE of these small craft, including the Academicals, Clasgow High School, four "Kongs" have been seen at Ma Heriot's and Watsonians. Ning by passing junks.

HUNAN SUCCESS

Capture of Kweilin and

-Pinglo

SUICIDE IN HIS HOME IN MELBOURNE

Chien stating that the Hunan troops captured Kweilin yesterday morn

AN

2

HIS MAJESTY

"ALL-INDIA THANKSGIVING

APPEAL"

ISSUED BY VICEROY

Melbourne, Yesterday. Mr. Henry English Fulford, ex-

ing while Pinglo has also fallen Consul-General in Tientsin, hes to the Government army-Reuter. Nanking, To-day Marthal Chiang Kai-shek has re Pinglo was reported in the "China dead. He had lately been in

The capture of both Kweilin and been found in his bedroom shot ceived a telegram from General Ho Mail" on Wednesday.]

health-Reuter.

י

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR

The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/11 5/16.

neat..

*

fairly when he said that he was

(Continued on Page 7-)

REPARATIONS

WASHINGTON AND THE PROPOSED BANK

T

Washington, Yesterday.

Reuter's American Service.