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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929...

THEFT OF CLOTHING

2 CHINESE CHARGED BEFORE MAGISTRATE

A BOARDER'S OFFENCE

in

IN RUSSIA ·

HOLIDAYS GRANTED TO PRISONERS

CRIME AND CLASS

The Soviet Judicial

many polats of and practice, differs

writes

THE CHINA MAIL,

HOLIDAY " TOLL"

25 DEAD AND SEVENTY-ONE INJURED

SMASH AT STAINES

Two Chinese appeared before Mr.

system, T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon

London, Yesterday. theory Magistracy, this morning on a charge

Twenty-five persons were killed of stealing 40 pieces of European cloth-

from and 71 injured during last week- ing and 22 pieces of Chinese female those of Western Europe and end in road accidents. clothing, to the total value of $182, America,

the Moscow The most serious was that of the property of Yung Chi, a young correspondent of a Home paper.motor ear crashing through a para- unnumbered house in Prince Edward- conceptions of law and justice are 25 feet and resulting in one being Chinese married woman, living at an Some salient features of the Soviet per at Staines Bridge and falling road Mongkok.

brought out in the course of an in-killed and four seriously injured. terview, granted in written form to

The number of accidents, doubt- the writer by Mr. Nickolai Krilenko, less, were minimised because the Soviet roads to London last night were so Attorney-General of Union and public prosecutor in jammed by motor cars that they many famous political cases.

were obliged to proceed at funeral The organisation of the Soviet pace-Reuter. courts, as outlined by Mr. Krilenko, may be briefly marised .as day cases

follows: Every- are tried in so-call- ed People's courts, consisting of a judge and two assessors. More serious civil and criminal cases are heard in provincial courts, which

First accused pleaded guilty, and said that the second accused had no connection with the netual theft. A Inspector H. Phillips said that first accused was a hoarder in the old house of complainant, on the condition that she kept her boxes in the attic there. On inspecting her house complainant found that the boxes had been broken open and all the clothing stolen.

First accused was arrested and found in possession of the goods, but at the same time he had given second accused, who had just come down from Canten to stay with him, thirteen pieces of the clothing

he was to pawn, because "hard up."

The pawn tickets were later found in second recused's mother's house in Canton-read.

His Worship decided that although second accused did not actually steal, he could be charged with receiving stolen goods.

Sentence of six weeks' hard labour was passed on first accused, while the second was fined $25 with the alterna- live of three weeks' jail. The clothing was ordered to be restored to complain- ant on payment of money to the pawn

brokers.

INSTONE BREWER

(Continued from Page 1.)

the

ARM-

MOTOR BANDITS

THE C. 1. D. BEING AUGMENTED

London, Yesterday.; Viscount Byng, chief of the also possess appellate functions and Metropolitan Police, has promoted exercise general supervision over 50 uniformed police to augment the the conduct of the People's courts Criminal Investigation Department though The tribunal of last appeal (al- of Scotland Yard to meet the grow

ROUND THE CINEMAS

WILD ORCHIDS: COMING TO

QUEEN'S

ETERNAL TRIANGLE

The story of "Wild Orchids," which will be shown at the Queen's Theatre from Thursday to Saturday, although built op about "the eternal triangle" is fresh and interesting.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

HONG HONG WATER SUPPLY

Information as to the hours of

Lille Sterling (Misa Garbo), the

with him for Java, where, he plans to 8th instant, water will be turned wife of an American business man,T IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that engrossed in his own affairs, leaves commencing on THURSDAY.

buy coffee plantations. Lillie meets

On board, on for 2 consecutive hours in each Asther), a Javanese, who determines

Prince de Gace (Nils Rider Main District daily. to win her love. Lillie is repelled by the savage characteristics which the prince displays at tinies, and yet fascinated by his good looks, and his ardent love making. Her husband, played by Lewis Stone, is unaware of what is going on, and eagerly accepts an invitation to the Prince's palace in Java. Here, through a series of slight accidents which he manages to create, De Gace forces his love upon, Lillie.

Sterling discovers Lillie's unfaithful. Ness, and at a tiger hunt secretly gun, leaving the Prince, defenceless smptios the catridges from De Gace's before the onrush of the tiger. At the last moment, Lillie intercedes for the Prince, and Sterling fires a shot which

Executive Committee always has ter.

the All-Union Soviet ing menace of motor bandita.--Reu-staps the tiger before he can kill. De

the right to commute death sentences) is the Soviet Supreme Court, which also judges cases of exceptional political im- portance, settles disputes be- tween separate Soviet Republics. and is the authorised organ for the solution of questions of constitu- tional practice.

MOTOR SPEED

NEW FLYING LAP TRACK RECORD

supply to any particular property may be obtained on application at the Office of the Water Authority. the Secretariat for Chinese. Affairs at the Tung Wah Hospital.

Water will not be turned on to houses where plpes and fittings are found to be defective.

The principal mains will be closed nightly from 7 p.m.-6.a.m

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Public Works Department,

Hong Kong, 6th August, 1929.

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Gace. In the encounter. De Gace is badly mauled, and it is necessary to take him back to his palace, There, Sterling decides to leave Lillio with

N. INTERIM DIVIDEND of the Prince, and secure a divorce. She Fifty Cents per Share has convinces him, however, that, in spite been declared payable on TUES- of her momentary unfaithfainess, she DAY, 27th AUGUST next, on and still loves him and cares nothing for after which date Dividend War- the Prince.

rants may be obtained upon ap- plication at the Registration Office of the Company, Canal Road East, Bowrington, Hong Kong.

London, Yesterday. Kaye Don, driving a "Sunbeam,"

The background of exotic life in established a new flying lap track Java has been faultlessly brought to To a question as to

whether record at Brooklands,. by travellinged to intrude upon the story itself.

the screen, but yet has not been allow Soviet courts were bound to impose over 134 miles an hour-Reuter. definite penalties for definite crimes, Mr. Krilenko replied:-

IN OTHER PLACES

CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA

Mr. A. H. Flowerdew expects to

HERR WELSBACH

road Central.. On May 16 of the! "The Soviet court applies re- same year, it received the certificate pressions for concrete socially INVENTOR OF INCANDESCENT dangerous actions, but in determin-

to commence business.

His Lordship then asked Mfr.ing its repressions the court is Brewer if any deposit or security bound to appraise the degree of was required from the company social danger both of the crime and under the Ordinance and Mr. of the person

who committed it Brewer said "No, my Lord." Since, depending upon changing varied conditions, times,

Mr. Agassiz dealt with the ap-and pointment, by shareholders' resolu-places, and the individual pecu tion, of Mr. Lee Tung as the com-liarities of the criminals, the pany's auditor. He pointed out degree of danger in. the that, under a "Cazetta" notifica- same

crime, under different

tion, he was an auditor of Chinese circumstances, is not identical, the limited companies.

sentences of the Courts for crimes;

tion not

in the ultra vires proceeding,

of the same kind are distinguished by considerable flexibility."

Prison Policy

GAS MANTLE DEAD

Vienna, Yesterday. The death is announced of Herreturn to Malaya from leave early: von Welsbach, the inventor of the incandescent gas mantle.--Reuter.

SINGAPORE BASE

JAPANESE EXPECTANCY

ABANDONMENT

in November.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the REGISTER OF MEM- BERS. of the Company will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, 13th AUGUST, to MONDAY, 26th AUGUST, 1929, both days inclu- sive.

By Order of the Board,

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

Hong Kong, 6th August, 1929.

WANTED

Miss Hyacinthe, Portal, second daughter of Brigadier-General and the Hon. Mrs. Bertram Portal, of Southington House, Overton, Hamp OFshire, is to marry Mr. Malcolm

Mackintosh at Shanghai in the WANTED-Experienced House› Boy. autumn, according to the Home Must speak and understand English.

-Apply 12, Magazine Gap Road,

papers.

Nothing But a Name.

PRESS COMMENTS Mr. Brewer replied that at that time (of the resolution) he knew

Tokyo, July 6. The death has occurred of Mr. nothing of Mr. Lee Tung, who was

Abandonment by the Labour Gov- Lindesay John Robertson, who was nothing but a name to him, and Discussing the prison policy of ernment of the Singapore Base is Lecturer in Hindu and Mohamme- SHADOWs before. that he (Mr. Brewer) had heard the Soviet Government Mr. Krilenko confidently looked forward to by the dan Law, Council of Legal Educa- that Mr. Lee Tung audited 15 com- declared that the present tendency Japanese press which, after noting tion, 1919-27, and Lecturer in COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED panies' books.

is to puniah petty offenders with that its construction was decided Muslim Law, Colonial Office, 1919-

IN "CHINA MAIL” Nearly a year later, Mr. Brewer forced labour, reserving confine on during the Imperial Conference 26. He practised at Bombay dur said, he investigated Mr. Lee Tung's ment in prison and exile for crimes of 1921, declares that this decisioning 1885-1912.

Social Functions qualifications. He found. he of a more serious character. Among was "the reply made to the anti-

To-day Dinner Dances at Hong -added, that the Ordinance was not the characteristics of the admini-Japanese elements in Australia and Mr. James Brailsford, a well- Kong Hotel, Repulse Bay Hotel and

clear and he thought he could not stration of the existing prisons he New Zealand who feared that known sportsman in the Midlands, Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p.m. upset the appointment of Mr. Lee emphasised educational work, aim-Japan would wage aggressive war recently arrived in Singapore by Aug. 29-At European Y.M.C.A. Tung.

In this statement, Mr. ing at the elimination of filiteracy on them." Brewer also referred to the Regis- and the organisation of manual

The Tokyo "Nichi Nichi" (Tokyo Brailsford.

the "Malwa" accorapanied by Mrs. Kowloon. Flannel Dance. 9 p.m.

He has been appoint

Entertainments trar "purporting to find a distinc- training courses, the granting of Daily News), sister paper of the ed .assistant manager of the To-day- Queen's Theatre;

Ordinance--an vacations to prisoners (probably a powerful "Osaka Mainichi" (Osaka Malayan Collieries, Batu Arang. Uncle Tom's Cabin

unique Russian practice) and the Daily News); contends that it is During the past four years he has To-day World Theatre; elimination from the prisen regime impossible for Japan, however eff been manager of the Barnsley Main "13 Washington Square." of everything that is not connected cient her navy may be regarded, to with the problem of social

Colliery. Previously he held a Today Star Theatre; safe wage such a war on account of the

the Peking "Wickedness Preferred."

To-day Majestic Theatre; suppression of

the human dignity covered.

"The Lovelorn.” of the

На prisoner."

Lammerts' Auctions In his opening address to the a3 the figure for the

of Ceylon, the Aug. At 42, Humphreys' Legislative Council ber of persons now in

Governor of Ceylon stated: "While Building, Kowloon, household fur- finement

Russia in

Proper,

congratulating our late Attorneyniture, 11 a.m. General, Mr. Elphinstone, on his Aug. 7-At Sales Room, Dud- promotion to be Chief Justice of the dell-street, valuable leasehold pro- Federated Malay States, we regret perty (situated at Shameen, Can- his departure. His legal and his ton); 3 pm....

Aug. 8—At 10A, Mody Road, Kow- political work alike were enlightened

loon, household furniture, 11 s.m...

Ang. 8-At Sales Room, Duddell Street, a collection of curies, 2.30

Sport

Mr. Brewer agreed with Mr. Agassiz that Mr. Lee Tung's Eng lish was poor, but he pointed out that Mr. Lee Tung read Eng guarding, that aims only at the Past distances that will have to be similar post with

better than he spoke it.

gave

nura.

On Mr. Agassiz asking whether it

"The Australians and the New would not have been better to have

Zealanders, however," it says, "con appointed a European auditor, Mr.

fused impossibility with probabi- Brewer replied that ns 930 as he

con- lity and pressed for the construc- had the power to do so Messrs.

tion of the Singapore Base in order Lowe, Bingham & Matthews "got excluding Ukraina, White Rus- to block Japan'a exit to the sia. Trans-Caucasia, and Central Southern Pacific. This stirred the Arla 118,555, declaring that

animosity of the Japanese, result was considerably below the coring in a disadvantageous position responding pre-War figure.

for Great Britain in the interna,

the job."

"Yet you acquiesced in Mr. Lee Tung's re-appointment at an ad- journed ordinary annual meeting?" said Mr. Aganaiz.

this

Syndicate mines.

advice."

p.m...

In reply to a question about the tional politics of the Far East." and enlightening, and both the To this Mr. Brewer replied that death sentence, Mr. Krilenko stated The paper then recalls that the Government and the Council have then he had only just got back (to that "the application of this highest first Labour Government discon owed much to the wisdom of his the Colony) and that he did not measure of social safeguarding by tinued work on the Base and argues know some of the things he knew the courtis is limited to crimes that, with the signing by all of the which are precisely mentioned in multilateral pact to outlaw war,

Mr. Anthony Murison, son of Sir Aug. 16-At European Y.M.C.A. Main Cause Failure?

the Criminal Code, which represent the British Commonwealth does not William Murison, Chief Justice of hard courts, knock-out tennis tour- Mr. Agassiz then asked "Do you

the greatest social danger and strike require such obsolete" things as the Straits Settlements, was step- ney, 5.15 pm. agree that one of the main causes at the bases of the Soviet orcer." Bases to safeguard her position. In ping into the launch to rejoin the

Home Mai! of the company's failure was lack He added that in 1928 in Russia expressing i hope that Mr. Mac Malwa at Colombo when he To-day-Outward for Europe via. of capital?

Proper death sentences were Donald will see his way to have the slipped and fell into the water but Marseilles ("Patroclus”), 6 pm.

Miscellaneous

now.

Meeting

Mr. Brewer replied " entirely passed on 479 persons, Of Base abolished, the "Nichi Nichi" was rescued, none the worse for the disagree." "He went on to say that this number 239 were com- concludes its editorial by saying immersion. Mr. Murison has just Aug. 10 and 24-Europeau at the time of the liquidation there muted by the Supreme Court, that it is strange that a Liberal, left Trinity College, Cambridge, and Y.M.C.A. bathing picnics. was an agreement to pay creditors while the Soviet Executive John Lambert, brought the ques- it is understood, after spending in full and shareholders 75 cents in Committee commuted about 30 per tion of abandonment of the Base up, some time with his parents in To-day-Sanitary Board Meeting, the dollar. That is not failure," he cent of the remainder.

"the Liberals having thus outwitted | Singapore, he intends to return to 4.15 p.m. concluded.

Mr. Krilenko declared that serious the Labourites in a very important England te study as a chartered When the Court shorthand-writer crimes in the Soviet Union had international matter.” --Singapore | accountant. asked Mr. Brewer to repeat this sharply diminished in comparison Free Fress. Bart of the evidence (it having been with pre-War times, and that a pro-*** delivered rapidly) Mr. Brewer said cess of diminution had been notice- "That is pat failure; it is a raverse"able ever since the end of the civil

Another series of questions and war, although there had been from BEQUEST OF MAN WHO LEFT atzwers followed and then M time to time waves of certain kinds Brower said categorically that the of criminality, such as hooliganism, Bank was never short of cash bribe-taking, etc.

A bequest of £1 a week during "until Mrs. Jansee Chin failed to

widowhood was made to his wife pay her debt or June 1, 1928" The Soviet Attorney-General gave by Mr. Charles Haywood. Bath The examination is expected to be the following exposition of the road, Walsall, a spur manufactur continued this afternoon.

principle of class justice which is r, who left £14,653

"Class Justice

WIDOW'S MITE

£14,663

-Two totem poles, a birchbark canoe, some negro spirituals, and The marriage took place at the an expert from California to teach Church of St. John the Evangelist, the Indian sign Janguage, will be |Bukit Nanas, of Mr. Philip James among the contributions of the Dwyer, of Messrs. Robinson and Co., American Scouts who are now in Ltd, Kuala Lumpur, and Miss Marie England for the World Scout Josephine Smith, of Rennes, Paris, Jamboree, which opened at Birkens The bride was given Away by Mr. head on Wednesday. W. Greig and was attended by Miss Square. Mr. T. R. Bennett was best man and Mars. F. R. Comben and F. A. Here were ushers.

being spent

so often mentioned in the process. To his widow he also bequeath reception was afterwards held at inga of Soviet courts:

ed his furniture and household the residence of Mr. W. Greig, The Jugoslav Consulates in Vienna,"Consideration of the social post- effects and stipulated that should honeymoon is Budapest, Berlin, Rome, Paris, tion of the criminal is an obligatory, she remarry the residue should go Fraser's Hill. Bucharest, Prague, Buenos Aires, but not a decisive element in deter- to his children.”

and Corfu are to be abolished, while mining the measure of social safe

new consulates are to be opened in guarding. Naturally, in the case tion of the social menace Hamburg, Bordeaux, Genoa, Pith-of two quite identical crimes the of the given

person and burg, and São Paulo, and a new Soviet court will act differently to the cri from the standpoint of the legation under a charge d'affaires in ward the bourgeois, who has com interests of state the pro Riga

mitted the crine as a result of his letarian dio ship as a whole. class ideology and habits, and to acts demo

that the who com

dan-

At Reno, Nevada, Mr. Joseph Prward the toiler who has committed majority of O'Brien was granted a divorce a crime rom against wife, Mabel Taglafe

tue

wife left

not person

in the tiom

crimes counter-

others

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