1929-09-17 — Page 7

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1929.

BISHOP'S MURDER

TERRIBLE BUTCHERY OF

INNOCENT PRIESTS

"IN COLD BLOOD"

:

THIEF SENTENCED

THE

CHINA MAIL,

KOWLOON TRAFFIC

SHADOWS BEFORE.

· PLEADS FOR ANOTHER MAN PROSECUTION BREAKS DOWN COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED

AT SESSIONS

BURGLARY AT SINCERE'S

IN CAR CASE

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

Entertainments To-day Queen's Theatre; "Heart of a Nation."

IN "CHINA MAIL"

Social Functions To-day-Dinner Dances at Hong Shanghai. Yesterday. Tang Yee-bing, when sentenced to On the ground of insuficient Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel. Bishop Trude Jans, was travell-three years' hard labour by thejevidence, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith | 8.30 p.m. ing near Lantang. Hupeh, accom- Puise Judge. Mr. Justice Wood) yesterday dismissed a summons in To-day-Dinner Dance at Repulse panied by Father Bruno and Father at the Criminal Susions yesterday, which Mr. A. Brown, of the Hong Bay Hotel. 8.30 p.m. Rupertus, when, it appears, they for the jade burglary at Messrs. Kong Hotel Garage, and a Chinese were attacked by bandits and the Sincere Co. on the night of July driver formerly employed by the whole party murdered in cold 25-25, said as he was leaving the Peninsula Hotel Garage were charg- blundi.

dock for the cells) that he knew befed with driving two motor cars in Farther details of the dastardly had done wrong, but had to ask his a reckless manner in Chatham-road ontrare afe not yet available.~| Lardship not to ill-treat another at 7.30 p.m., on August 11.

prisoner in the case.

Chief Inspector Aris estimated re- On Tung Yee-hing pleading that Mr. Brown's car was doing 35

"guity" to breaking into Sincere's, to 40 miles per hour with the other, a second charge was not proceeded ear following immediately behind. with Mr. H. K. Holmes, C.B.E. The defence was that the cars (Crown Solicitor) said that the could not have been immediately stolen property was valued at about behind each other as the Chinese $4,500, and all but $200 or so had driver did not leave the garage until been recovered.

five minutes after Mr. Brown, whilst Mr. G. T. Gover, of the Peninsula Hotel Garage, whó was with Mr. Brown, gave evidence that the car

ever went more than 17 to 18 miles) per hour.

Reuter."

The Panciscan Procuration. ceived news from Ichang of another terrible crime in Hupeh by brigands or Communists, involving the death of three members of the Procuration, including Bishop Trudo Jans, who has been a resident in China for the part twenty-twn years.]

MINISTERS MEET

NANKING OFFICIALS ARRIVE AT SHANGHAI

SHORT STAY ONLY

Yuen Ping-chung was arraigned ou an indictment of receiving some of the jade, knowing it to have been stolen. He stated that the articles had been presented to him by Tang Yee-hing, and did not know that they had been stolen. His Lordship! entered a plea of "not guilty." Thei

R described

Shanghai, Yesterday. A Shanghai radio yesterday an-trial (held to-day> Rouneed the arrival from Nanking elsewhere in this issue.

of Chairman Chan Ming-shu, General Tang Yin-wa, Tsai Ting- kai. and Li Yang-kin.

The parts will remain in Shang- hai till next Saturday, when they leave for Kwanglung, and Minister Sun Fo and General Wi Te-chen, who were expected to have depart-

ed on the 14th, will accompany | them.-Canton News Agency.

Mr. Sun Fo Departs

Shanghai, Sunday.

JURY'S RIDER

"NO REFLECTION AGAINST WITNESSES"

BRIBERY CHARGE FALS

3

After retiring for short interval, the jury in the 'bribery case,

WOMEN WARRIORS

WONDERFUL SHOTS IN

AFGHANISTAN

We have heard a great deal about Afghanistan lately, but perhaps some of you do not know the part that the women, of this warlike country take in the fighting.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

KOWLOON FOOTBALL CLUB

INTER-CLUB MATCH.

Possibles Versus Probables

:

Teams to be picked on the Ground, 5.15 p.m., WEDNESDAY, September 18, 1920.

HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

DRAF

To-day World Theatre: "The Emden" (Continuous per- formance from 1.30 to 11.15 pm.).

Po-day - Star Theatre; RAFT PROGRAMMES and "Man, Woman and Sin."

ENTRY FORMS for the Today Majestic Theatre; SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING "Naughty Nanuette." (auded ai- to be held on MONDAY, 14th Oc- traction, Nina and Jacques, at 7.15 tober, 1929 (weather permitting) and 9.15 p.m.).

may be obtained at the Race To-day At Theatre Royal, Course, Hong Kong Club and Forbes, Russell Comedy Co., in "The Causeway Bay Stables. Fatag" or "Molly Make Believe,” Entries CLOSE at 12 o'clock 9.15 p.m.

Noon on MONDAY, 30th Septem-

Hong Kong, 17th Sept., 1929.

Sept. 21-Kowloon Football Clubber, 1929. Concert, 9.15 p.m.

Oct. 21-Nelson Day Concert at Lee Theatre, 9 p.m.

Lammert's Auction Sept. 20-At Sales Room, Dudell | Street, household furniture and

blackwood furniture, 2.30 pm,

Home Mails To-morrow-Outward for Amer- iea and ports, and Europe via San Francisco ("Shinyo Maru"), 830

a.m.

Sports

Sept. 21 Victoria Recreation Club Night fete.

Let us suppose that a scoat has come hurrying into some little town Sept. 29-St. John Ambulance with the news that an armed tribe Brigade aquatic sports, King's Col is approaching. The order goes out lege bath, 10 a.m. immediately to arm the citadel.

Meeting Men and women hurry to the

To-day-Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.15 p.m.

Miscellaneous Sept. 19-Reception at St. Peter's Young Men's Club in honour of the Rev. Norman L. Watkins, 9 p.m.

Sept. 20Reception in Church, Kowloon, in honour of the Rev. J. Horace Johnston & Mrs. Johnston, 9 p.m.

Union

PUBLIC AUCTION

HE Undersigned have received

Á action

Tinstructions to sell by Public

ON

FRIDAY, September 20, 1929, commencing at 2.30 pm.

at their Sales Room,

Duddell Street

A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

Comprising:

Teak Hatstand, Glass Cabinets, Deeks, Chesterfield Couch and Chairs, Electric Fans, Wireless Sets, Ornaments, Carpets, Rugs, Gramophones and Records, Cloi- sonne Ware, Pictures, etc.

Teak Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Dinner. Wag- gons, Crockery, Glass Ware, Ice Cheats, etc.

Teak and Iron Bedsteads, Ward- robes with Bevelled Mirrors,

at the Criminal Sessions yesterday strong fortress with ita numerous It is understood that the Minis brought in a verdict of "not guilty."slits of windows. A man takes the ter of Railways, Mr. Sun Fo. has The foreman added that the jury place of honour at a loophole, and booked passage on a "President" considered there was a possibility his womenfolk line up behind him. boat, which leaves here on Satur- of a mistake having occurrai and Maybe he is a young man of about day. for South China. The visit, that it was not intended to throw twenty-four, in which case he has It is learned, is being made to give any reflection whatsoever Mr. Sun Fo an opportunity of study-witnesses for the Crown.

or the probably been married recently to the girl of twenty who stands be- ing railway conditions in the South

Defendant, Ip Lam, faced an in-hind him, ready to hand him his with a view to des #lopment. There dictment of offering a bribe of $20 second rifte or to tend him if he is. is no confirmation of the report to Mr. W. R. Hillyer (Chief Insper-wounded, for it is her place to sup Park-road, on the occasion of Mr. Cheats of Drawers, Dressing that he will accept a portfolio intor of Junks and Cargo Boats. ply bandages for the men. the Kwangtung Provincial Govern Harbour Department), with a view the young wife stands the warrior's 4 to 6 p.m.

Behind Fung Ping-chan's 70th birthday, Tables, Chamber Stands, Wash- stands, Shanghai Bath, Enamelled ment.

General Chan Ming-shu. (the public servant.

to influencing his conduct as a junmarried sister, a girl of seven-

Baths, Toilet Crockery, etc. He was defended by teen or eighteen, or his mother, or Canton Civil Governor) Mr. Fan

Ind Mr. Kec-mo. (the

Hin-shing Lu, instruered by even his old grandmother, if he Canton Finance Minister) and General Tang Yin-

has no sisters. Should the soldier Messm. Russ & Co.

fall and his wife be obliged to go

wa the Canton Commissioner of Defendant gave evidence, and a Reconstruction) are leaving Nan-fisherman was also

king for Hangchow on a short trip defence.

before returning to Canton. It is

believed that the party will leave

or Saturday with Mr. Sun Fo for Hong Kong.

Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the chair- man of the Nanking Judicial Coun- | el, is leaving shortly for Geneva in connection with the desire of the Chinese Government to secure the abolition of extrality in China.

called by the

DUTCH LAW

hind her. The

of women are wonderful shots. મ fierce siege, usual

Sept. 20-Reception at No. 1

PARCEL DELIVERY

HOW THE POST OFFICE AT HOME WORKS

these

to his assistance, the young sister springs to the loophole and takes her brother's firearm, while her Office handles over

Every year His Majesty's Post mother or grandmother waits be-million letters, not to mention some six thousand

150,000,000 parcels. In Afghanistan transactions the railways of Great After Britain are called upon to play a quite prominent part. Over eighty per old grandmothers, cent.

of the letters, amounting cr young girls. to Tearlessly at the loopholes, holding parcels, are conveyed by train each to 25,000,000 bags, and 140,000 the fortress till the men who have Amsterdam, Yesterday.. been fighting elsewhere come There were remarkable scenes, their aid.

ALLEGED MURDERERS OF COLLEAGUE LIBERATED

PUBLIC SCENES

fer

it is

stand

year.

to

The foreign tour of Marshals Yen Hsi-shan and Feng Yu-shiang lasting into the early hours of the which has been postponed many morning, here, following the deci-ADVENTURES AT 70 intermediate points by the travel- times, is now reported to be planned sion by the Appeal Court to liberate for the end of September.

EVEN IN 1919

VIENNESE COMPOSER'S ROMANTIC MARRIAGE

STORY OF STAGE LIFE

two railwaymen, named Klunder and Theunissen, who have suffered four and a half years' imprisonment for the murder of another railway-

man.

Of all the operations con- nected with the handling of mails by railway, the most spectacular is the receipt and delivery of mails at

ling peat offices, while the mail trains are travelling at full speed. For this purposca mail sorting- coaches, specially equipped for this Mr. J. Woodcock, aged 70, a pag-exchange, are used in conjunction senger on the White Star liner with suitable ground apparatus at

Corinthic," which arrived in the line-side.

MOTOR-BOAT VOYAGE TO SOUTH AMERICA

A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE On View from Thursday, Sep- tember 19, 1929.

Terms: Cash on Delivery. Catalogues will be issued.

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers, Hong Kong, Sept. 17, 1929.

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Sept. 23rd and 24th

"By Candle Light ”

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The accused were originally sen- tenced to fifteen years' imprison- Southampton from New Zealand The apparatus for receiving the ment, and they have unceasingly recently, is shortly to start on a mails consists of a large net, fold- protested their innocence.-Reater. voyage to South America and then ed neatly into the side of the coach,

to the upper reaches of the Amazon and extended ready for use as engineer of a 70ft. motor-boat. means of a lever inside the coach. He will accompany the Rev, A. For delivery purposes each sorting-

BRITISH ENTERPRISE

met during the voyage. W. Benton, a missionary, whom he coach is provided with two traduc-

tor arms, normally folded

An operetia romance in real life has led up to the marriage between Herr Emmerich Kalman, the Vienna operetta composer, and Mlle. Yera cement factories are springing up In spite of the fact that Portland Natascha. Herr Kalman was re- cently introduced to the bride, a

in all corners of the world, it is "We hope to take the little ship coach-side below the level of the young refugee of Russian aristo- Interesting to note that the manu-out from this country to Southnet, but swung outwards when the cratic birth, at a cabaret supper facturers of "Tunnel" Erand Fort America," said Mr. Woodcock, "and delivery is to take place. At each party in Vienna.

land Cement have installed another then up the great river to that part fixed location where exchanges are To his surprise he learned from large rotary kiln, bringing their the country where Mr. Benton's arranged to take place, a corres-

duties take him." her reply to a question that she annual output up to 250,000 tona.

ponding ground apparatus is pro- was playing a small role in his The necessity for this step is the and to visit Wellington 45 years net to receive the bags from the Mr. Woodcock set out from Eng-vided. This consists of a capacious Operetta, "The Duchess of Chicago. fact that the high quality of Engago, but it was only during the last train, and a high.rotating standard, The marriage will take place at lish cement enables English manu- Ischl Spa.

weeks that he facturers to more

arrived the arm of which is bent over at than hold their there. On the voyage out he want the top, so that it can be swagg own against increasing competition ashore at Hobart, missed his ship, out towards the line carrying the in markets abroad.

and settled down to work. PLAGUE OF ANTS

bags for the train, when the latter The British Standard Specifica-

is signalled as approaching. Sub- tion for Portland cement is the most

ITALIAN LAW

stantial construction of all appar Southend was visited recently by exacting standard in the world, but

tus is essential, and it is also a swarm of flying ants. In their Tunnel" Cement shows nearly 100 thousands they attacked the occuper cent, greater strength than that row High School, states that his be exchanged in stout leather Mr. E. A. Cave, principal of Har- necessary to enclose ali mailbags to pants of deck chairs, and in High-required by the specification. street and Alexandra-street were

daughter, the wife of Professor pouches, as the strain to which ap- flying in clouds or crawling along

Carlo Rosselli, is in an Italian paratus and bags are subjected it the ground.}

prison in consequence of her hus- high speeds is considerable. band's escape from Lipari Island.

HEROIC NUN

six

GIRL OF 13 TO MAN OF 73

There is much resentment just

Visitors coming from the beach encountered them at the top of Pier Harrington, the acting other to ask the Foreign Secretary if he

The funeral of Sister Celestine He proposes, if she is not released, MARRIAGE PROTEST Hill, and there was everywhere a superior, who sacrificed her life in can intervene. wholesale slaughter. So thick were the Hayling Island Convent fire, they in some parts that many took place at Havant recently after sor of Economics at Genoa Univer-

Signor Rosselli, who was Profes women fled from the streets. To solemn Requiem Mass at Southsity, was imprisoned by the Fas- wards evening they disappeared as Hayling Roman Catholic Church by cists for alleged complicity in the now in Benares at the marriage of quickly as they had come, and by the Right Rev. W. T. Cotter, Bishop escape from Italy of Signor Turati, a Vaid, or practitioner in the Auyer seven there were but a few strag of Portsmouth, assisted by six the Socialist leader. Three weeks Vedic systera of medicine, aged 18, glers, and hundreds of dead bodiespriests and a special choir.

ago Professor Rosselli, with two with a girl of 13. to tell the tale.

A crowded congregation included companions, escaped to France...

The different social and · com- nuns from the convent and children His wife and his brother were munal organisations have held from the school whose lives were arrested, apparently as hostages for meetings to condemn the marriage. Lt.-General Prince Alongkot, saved, as well as the vicar and the political good behaviour abroad Chief of the General Staff of the curate of Hayling Island. During of Signor Rosselli. Signora Ros- Siamese Army, will leave Bangkok the night the cofficed remains re-selli was taken to Aosta prison, for Singapore by the south mail. His posed before the high altar at the and, on account of her poor state Serene Highness will embark on the church, and school-children lined of health, was transferred to the "Katori Maru" for Yokohama, and the sides of the path through which prison hospital. will be present at the forthcoming the cortege passed. Japanese manoeuvres to take place

M. Pierre Marraud, the French at the end of this month or the ke- Mr. Topham, acting general Minister Public Instruction, was ginning of October. He will be ac-manager, Perak River Hydro-Elec married at Tulle, in the east of companied by Lt. Col. Lang Ram tric Power Co., Ltd., Ipoh, accom- France, to me. Renee Lechat, M. Biddbirong and Major Luang Sora panied by Mrs. Topham, has left for Albert Sarrant, his predecessor in siddhya Nikorn. The party will home.

office, being best man.

also have an opportunity of inspect

ing other • work of the Japanese The funeral of Mr. Lim Guan army and on the return will visit Thar, a well-known towkay, of Lank- Indo-China. Same five months will kat (Sumatra) and Penang, took be required for the whole trip.

place at Penang,

Puepi, where several miners last their lives in serious disturbances, is calm ngain. The Rumanian. Cabinet are investigating the affair.

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