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TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1929.

CHANGED HIS MIND LIGHT INTERRUPTS

YEN HSI-SHAN STILL WITH CHIANG KAI-SHEK

CONFERENCE AT MIDNIGHT-

Peking, To-day: Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is still working hard to persuade

2ND TEST

ENGLAND AHEAD

| SOUTH AFRICANS GET LEAD ON FIRST INNINGS

Ships in Kowloon To Discharge Water To V.R.C. General Yen Hai-shan to remain. SUTCLIFFE AND KILLACE OUT

PUMP TO FILTER BEDS

An old resident of the Colony in the person of Mr. C. J. Cooke has propounded a scheme, which has been submitted to the Water Authority, for dealing with the present water emergency.

in China.

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MASS OF CHEERING HUMANITY

KING IN LONDON

AFFECTIONATE & ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME

A ROYAL MESSAGE

DOUBLE MURDER

JUNK EMPLOYEE FACES CAPITAL CHARGE

SAMPAN AS EXHIBIT

GANG ROBBERY

WHAT COLLAR BAND OF A COAT REVEALED

INSPECTOR SURPRISED

The Criminal Sessions for June were

Chau Kau, a junk employee, was resumed this morning before the Chief

charged at the Supreme Court this Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, and n jury. A Chinese named Tee Hung was

morning before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, with the murder of a sam- charged with committing an armed robbery with three others not in cus- South Africa eventually gained body on May 1 in the servante' quar!

London, Yesterday. pan girl in the harbour on March ed his determination to, depart, a lead of 20 runs on the 1st inn- ters of No. 1A, Armend Building, Kow- After their wonderful drive to 18.

Among

various exhibits only to have Chiang Kai-shek perings in the

Buckingham Palace, through a Second Test Match loon. suade him to stay. for a further which

Mr. H. X. Holmes, Crown Solicitor, mass of cheering humanity to-day, produced by the Police was a continued yesterday at

prosecuted. The accused conference.

Lord's and will finish 1 day,

was not the King came on to the balcony sampan in which the gruesome deed legally represented. Yen Hsi-shan then ordered his

Bad light caused stups to be

accompanied by the Queen and was alleged to have been committed. Mr. Holmes said that the robbery other. members of (to leave Pedrawn earlier than was aid down train te be ready

the Royal The

in was pinced sampan was committed by a gang of men. No. king). He called on Chiang Kai- and, at that stage, England had 1A, Armend Building faced Kimberley

family.

Their appearance was the entrance to the Court Build- wiped off the arrears and estab- Rond, and there was a scavenging lane the occasion of another outbursting, and after the Assistant lished an advantage of 29 runs at the back. The servants quarters of cheering from the great crowd Crown Attorney, Mr. H. Somerset but for the loss of the two open- wer as the basement, with a window and this was redoubled when the Fitzroy, had outlined the case, the ing batsmen, Sutcliffe and Killick. looking out to the lane."

King lifted his amall grandchild, jury were led downstairs to in- The cook boy employed on the pre-Princess Elizabeth, and held her spect the junk. England's batting order for the

mises would any that on April 30, he in his arms while she waved to 2nd innings

changed,

saw the accused and another man in the people below. Hammond and O'Connor being

the lane and the accused was seen kept for to-day (if required?) and peoping through the window into the. Leyland and Hendren being "pro-room occupied by the servants. moted".

The details of this scheme, which deserve to be considered very shek just before midnight to say fully, are given in the article we publish below.

USE OF V.R.C. BATH

The scheme, in brief, follows:

Tankers, water-boats, etc., would berth against the West end of the Naval Yard Quay wall, and dis- charge their cargo of fresh water into the V.R.C. bath, the bath acting as a receiving basin. A pump or would be erected upon the pumps would be or is that imme-

diate vicinity.

This pump or pumps would draw from the V.R.C. tank, and force the water up a pipe laid in the Garden Road nullah into the Bowen Road filter beds, and thence into the gen- eral distributing system of the Colony.

As a supplement to this scheme It is suggested that an emergency pipe line, consisting of drawn steel pipe about six inches are with or- dinary screwed joints, be at once laid across the Harbour from Kow- loon Point to the V.R.C so as to enable ships lying at the Kowloon Wharves to discharge water into the V.R.C. tank, whence it could be pumped into the Bowen Road filter beds.

Water from Shing Mun could also be conveyed across the Harbour in this pipe, and pumped up into the Bowen Road filter beds.

The V.R.C. Tank

The V.R.C. bath is 75 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 9 feet deep, and will hold about 580 tons of water. By bricking up four doors, and using the walls around the bath as containers it should, without any further reinforcing, permit four feet more being placed in the bath, thus raising its capacity to over one thousand tons.

By bracing the walls a further increase in capacity could no doubt be made. But it is believed that as the bath le only to be used as a receiving basin for the pump or pumps to draw from that about five hundred tons will be ample.

Pumps

:

As a temporary measure it is proposed that one of the Tangye pumping engines now at Tytam Tuk should be dismantled, and re-erected upon the V.R.C. premises or in that immediate vicinity,

These Tangye pumping engines, though in good running order, are of little or no use in their present situation, as they are unable alone to handle the entire discharge from Tytam Tuk, and they are over- powered when it is attempted to run them in parallel with the large Worthington pumps.

There seems, though, to be no reason why as à temporáry men- sure the pumps should not be carried upon a foundation made from tim- ber braced with steel beams and plates, in which

Later,

farewell.

The railway station officials were later mystified by Yen Hsi- shan's failure to turn up. it was learned that instead of saying good-bye, Chiang Kai-shek was begging Yen Hai-shan to stay for another talk!-Reuter.

Yen Not Going. Yet

Peking, To-day.

A final conference between Yen

Ha-shan and Chiang Kai-shek case the pumps was held last night at the Hotel could be in running order in not de Pekin and considerable sígni- ficance was attached to Chiang's more than three weeks.

attitude towards Yon as the lead er, has refused to accept Chiang's advice to remain in office.

The pumps, boiler, etc. are shown in the detail plan as erected in the V.R.C. Gymnasium. This would entail the removal of the floor of the social hall of the V.R.C. and also the removal of part of the wall of the building to get the pumps and boiler into place, so it would, per

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Yen will return to Taiyuan this afternoon to meet Feng Yu-hstang for a joint trip to Japan. He was scheduled to leave Peking in the morning but, due to some import- ant matter which he had to at- 343&tend to, this has been postponed

until the afternoon..

WATER SUPPLY HOURS

Victoria and high level

districts:-

6 a.m. to 8 a.m.

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Severn Road (Eastern

Section only), Barker Road, Magazine Gap and Wanchai Districts:-

6 to 8 a.m. and 4 to 5 p.m.

Remainder of the Peak:-

6 to 9 a.m.

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and boiler to the immediate east- haps, be better to place the pumps

ward of the V.R.C. bath in the Naval

Yard, and house the machinery in

a corrugated iron shed or other temporary building. Pipe Line Up Garden-road Nullah

The pipe line up Garden Road nullah would be about four thousand feet in length, and would be made of any suitable pipe in stock.

It would be placed upon the side of the nullah as far as possible, and where it was necessary to place it! in the nullah itself the pipe would be placed as high up on the sidei wall as practicable, and securely an- chored in place.

It is believed that the use of the

nullah as a right of way for the pipe line will very much expedite its in-

WAS

England's Bowlers At the lunch interval:

yesterday, the South Africans' score was 169 runs for 4 wickets, with Morkel and Cameron batting. The for mer was dismissed "Icg before wicket by Tate and Canteron fell to a catch by Leyland, off Robins's bowling. Owen-Smith who was in first after lunch, carried out

To-day's rainfall 0.15 inch 1929 rainfall.14.87 inches

Average....

.39.98 inches

25.11 inches DON'T WASTE WATER I

Later.

. Deficit According to later report, Feng Yo-hsiang and his wife will make their journey to Japan before Yen

•Series Tank"

Gary, 20000 tons)

Gagged and Bound

On May 1 at about 7 p.m. the cook boy was at work upstairs-leaving his wife, Lau Kwai-ying, a child and an- other woman in the room at the base- · ment. The women heard a noise and on asking who was there, three men entered. The accused was standing

The King's Message The King afterwards issued a message in which he said:

Mr. Leo d'Almeda, jun,în- structed by Messrs. Lo & Lo, ap- peared for the defence.

It will be remembered that the case was originally fixed for trial "I wish to express my heartfelt in May, but as the prisoner was gratitude for the affectionate and under medical observation, it was enthusiastic welcome I have receiv-

ed on returning after long months postponed to the June Sessions, of illness, to the capital of my Em-when, owing to Mr. d'Almada's in- pire."

disposition, it was adjourned until "Looked Remarkably Well" to-day. The general impression was

osecution in the doorway. The men gagged and that, considering the strain on his bound the women. They stole a gold health, the King looked remark finger ring, one $10 bank note and 50 ably well and he was certainly

cents from Lau Kwai-ying, and from

Case for Frosecution The facts of the case, as out-

lined by the prosecution, were that the accused was employed on

the other woman they stole à $1 bank gratified by the enthusiasm and a junk. On the day in question

affection shown by the crowds.

note.

Evidence would also be called to show that the accused had used a knife to 806830********* pry open a box, from which several pieces of clothing were stolen.

A report was subsequently made to the Police, who found one knife near the staircase landing and another one in the lane.. A raid was carried out on

the following day. Accused was not there, but several pieces of clothing |

POR TANKERS

BLAKE PIERN

GHEDEN ROAD

MULLAHSA

PIZ LINE UP KRIden romp fusaka,

"BOWEN BAND FATER BESS

Hsi-ahan, who will remain

Last Words

Bell each got a few between them and the whole side was ut just before the tea interval

Tate, White

and Kobing had most of the bowling and majority of the wickets.

RINAL YARD

B

NEW PREMIER 7 –

Mr. Hamaguchi m Audience at Palace

Tokyo, To-day. H.I.M. the Emperor of Japan has summoned Prince Saionji to advise as to the successor to Baron Tanaka end of the Sel-8 yukat Party Premier am For. E eign Minister

At noon Mr. Hamaguchi (head of the Minseito Party, which is the Opposition) was summoned to the Palace.--- Reuter.

[Earlier cables on page 7.]

the junk was anchored near the Praya wall at Kennedy Town. The son of the master of the junk went on shore in the morn- ing to attend school. Later in the day the junk went alongside the 8.8 Shantung" which was in mid-stream opposite the Wing Lok Wharf.

Two girls, aged 17 and 19, res- pectively, daughters of the junk master, also went on shore in the afternoon. Toward evening, ac- cused was asked by his master to sew the matt cumparncin the shore" in order to meet the boy from school. It so happened that the boy mete his two sisters, and the three together went to transact same business which kept them. till about 8 p.m.

There would be evidence to

01306066816686850088 show that the two girls and the

boy boarded the sampan from the Wing Lok Wharf, and the scous-

It is expected that Their Majesties will remain in Backinged rowed them out to mid-stream.

ham Palace for about a week before proceeding to Sandringham (Nor- folk) where they will stay throughout the summer.-British Wireless Service.

The Attack Described The boy would say that instead of rowing them toward where the junk laid, accused rowed them in another direction. There were". words exchanged, and accused, brandishing a knife, struck at one. The weather this morning was of the girls. After having dispos dull and cold, boding ill for theed of the first girl, whose body King's return to his Capital.

Earlier News

London, Yesterday.

fell overboard, accused stabbed The event drew a multitude

the second sister. along the 2-miles route of the iso attacked and he

The boy was was also Save Procession from the Albert

pushed overboard. He, however, Hall to Buckingham Palace.

was not so badly wounded and There were many from overseas

was later picked up in a state of and Americans who are now

collapse by a passing craft. thronging London.

ed from Windsor, were due to.

The father later learned the fact that his son and two daughters

The rain held off and the sun at į his bat for 62. The tigenders, were recovered. On May 3 the Police broke out, shortly befire noon, stallation, and also save expense and home for the time being.-Nan Dalton, MacMillan,

Oelise and raided another house, where more when Their Majesties, who mato were seen boarding a sampan row-

ed by the acensed... the disturbance of the roads.

stolen clothing was recovered.

A Comfortable “Lump"

On the following day the 8am- In this connection it is suggested Chung Kuo News Service.

Accused we next day arrested intake their seats in the open State pan was found drifting about near that, in all cases where the pipes run along roads or cross them in

Ladder Street, Hong Kong. At the carriage at the Albert Hall," Police Station à curious thing happen-

There was a great send-off at Green Inland and in it was the hody of the second, girl. It was connection with this emergency

the ed. As Inspector Darling got hold of Windsor, where a bugle sounding with the murder of this girl that scheme, no pipes should be baried,

the accused by the collar of his jacket the Royal Salute announced to the and that where wheeled traffic has

"the accused had been arraigned the Detectives citizens thronging the streets, win because the body of the other girl Stumps Drawn.

in order to take him

roofs, that Their Sutcliffe and Killick opened Room to explain the charges to him, dows. and England's innings once more, vestigating the unusual hump, a $10

he felt a lump in the collar band. In- Majesties were leaving the Castle was not recovered until some days

vided.

Harbour

Peking, Yesterday. Yen Hai-shan has not yet left for Taiyuan..

Members of Chiang Kai-shek's entourage declare that Yen Hei-

later.

to cross pipes timber ramps be pro-shan has given up his intention of going abroad but, on the contrary, Emergency Pipe Line Across Shansi officials state that this is after tea, but the professional bank note, rolled up to the size of a A mighty cheer went up mingl- It has been estimated that about Hsi-shan still Intends to depart for not stay very much longer after Accused was identified by the women

without justification and that Yen succumbed early and Killick did postage stamp, was brought to lighted with cries of "Good Luck, The capacity of these Tangye en-

Your Majesty," and "Good gines is about 1,250,000 gallons per seventy ships use the wharves at day against a head of 500 feet, the Kowloon during the month. If they Japan on July 6,

However, it seems the last word Leyland had gone in to partner as one of the men taking part in the Health."

Hendren was in next and robbery and also by the cook boy as the him. engines making about 25 revolutions on an average carried four hundred has not yet been eaid, as Ho Cheng- then play was stopped on account man he saw peeping through the win-hat and morning dress, and the that he did not conmmit the crime per minute, and developing about tons each this would total 28,000 chun was closeted in Yen Hat-shan's of the light. The match con 350 LH.F. It is understood that tons or over six million gallons. In house all this morning, carrying ontinues to-day and the result will they can be forced, if necessary to addition, every time

negotiations, while Yen Esi-shan's be in to-morrow “China Mail" make about 88 revolutions per min-shower of rain even when it is not ute with a corresponding increase enough to make much difference to special train waits with steam up for certain Scoren to date, 13

to carry him to Taiyuan for the cabled by Reuter- the storage of the reservoirs, many millions of gallons run to waste purpose of fetching Feng Yu-

hsiang-Reuter

in output.

They consume about four tons of coal per day.

The steam for these pumps is at present produced by a battery of Lancashire boilers.

there is

down the Shing Mun river.

Much of this otherwise wasted water could be directly piped across

Mast Still Obey

Shanghal, Yesterday.

On his arrival, here on June 30,

the Harbour to the V.R.C. tank, and yen Hsi-shan had a two-hours con- pumped up to Bowen Boad, ference with Chiang Kai-shek at the The discharge pumps of ships will Hotel de Pekin, discussing the usually pumy against a pressure of worth western problems.

England 1st inpings"

H. Sutcliffe, c Mitchell, b Bell E. T. Killick, b Morkel

100

W. R. Hammond, c Christie, b

Morkel

J. O'Connor, b Morkel

E. Hendren, h Morkel

M. Leyland, b Bell

MW Tate, Cameren, b Ball R. W. V. Robins,

e Mitchell, b

at least 50 lb, per square inch, that According to Yen Hai-shan's is, about a head of 100 feet... statement, Feng Yu-hsiang is de- Bell

Allowing a loss of bead of about snitely going abroad and has given H. Larwood, b Bell

It is not proposed to interfere with these boilers, the pipes from them to the removed engine being merely blank-flanged off. It is pro- posed to drive the pump in its new situation by means of one of a num- ber of Scotch boilers lying idle in the Colony, and thus available for this duty.

From inquiries made it is believed that these engines, exclusive of their Darcy's Formula). The pressure

weeks.

50 feet to force the water across the orders to the Kuominchun generale JC. White, b Bell harbour pipe line, a six-inch pipe to obey the command of the. Duckworth, not out ***** 5,000 feet long has a capacity of National Government,

about 425,000 gallons per day

What Ten Said

Peking Yesterday.

Accused's Denial Accused was subsequently ar rested and brought back from the The King was attired in a silk country. When charged he said.

and that it was another man nam led Wong Yam who did it. This man would say that he was not In the Colony on the day in ques tion and had not, as a matter of:

dow on the day previous to the rob- Queen in a fur-trimmed coat of

cream and gold. (Case proceeding).

South Africa let innings

R. H. Catterall, b Larwood B. - Mitchell, st: Duckworth,

Hammond

J. J. Christie, ran out 3D. P. B. Merkel, Lb.w, b Tate

HG. Deane, b Tate

B. Cameron, c Leyland, Robins

H. G. Owen-Smith, not out

43 E L Dalton, b Tate:

78 Q. MacMillan; e Killick, b White

15

AL. Ochne, Duckworth,

White

A J. Bell, b Robinz

85 Extres

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS

Extras".

Total

BOWLING ANALYSIS

-Larwood Tate Hammond White Robins

Leyland

new foundations, could be dismant the pipe at Kowloon from the When Interviewed by Chinese tled, removed from their present site Shing Mun source will be about 225 pressmen here. Yen Hal-shan mated at Tyłam Tak to Hong Kong, and Th. Ter square inch or equivalent that he and his wife

making re-erected in from two to three tombout 517 feet of head. Allowing preparations for a trip to Japan, Dehas

a loss of head of 420 feet to force probably embarking on this Journey Morkel To make new foundations of con- the water across the Harbour pipe from Tientsin on July B. After Christle crete would take from dive to six line, we have under these conditions spending the summer in Japan, it is MacMillan weeks That le, it would be ebout a capacity of about 1,130,000 his intention to tour Europe and Owen-Smith two months before the pumps would fons per day. This water would be la lan Thung treo News be in running order again.

(Continued on Pare 8)

Service

Hell

0

Both were obviously delighted at their welcome.

Kensington in Gala Dress

The Royal Borough of Kensing-fact, been in the Colony for a long time. His master would also 29 ton was in gala dress.

70 High Street was a blaze of say that Wong Yam was in Shak

ki on the day in question. 88 flags. One building flew the

emblems of all the

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Dominions and Colonies.

British

Counsel asked the jury to bear. in mind that accused did not know

that the young boy, who was the Unseen by the crowd, Their only eye-witness, had been saved

6 Majesties, on arrival at the

17 Albert Hall at noon, changed into until the second hearing of the

an open Landau and entered Ken-case at the Police Court. The al-

18 sington Gardens, amid tumultuous legation against Wong Yam was maintained on the first day of the 13 cheers

The King Bronzed

hearing but on the second day, when the accused was confronted His Majesty's bronzed face, with the boy, he made no more light step, and the manner in reference to Wong Yam. which we helped the Queen into The Defence?

the carriage showed his strength

Counsel added that he under- was quite restored.

stood that the defence would be Waves of cheering burat from one of insanity. The Joya: multitude waiting an Mr. d'Almada obiected, saying Longland-2nd inaingsigusly to see for themselves how that he preferred the Crown not H. Sutcliffe, CoCatterall, Morkel 10 the King looked. The King reto touch upon his defence at that ET. Killlek, c Markel, b. Christle

24peatedly raised bis bat, and the Queen bowed in response to the

62 20

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(Continued at fort of Nest Column,)

Tayland not out

2 Hendren, not out

Total (for 2 wkts.)

welcome,

(Continued on Page 8.)

stage....

Medical evidence

Case proceeding

| given by Dr. R. Dover.

then