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THOSE “IN-LAWS

One Who Tried to Teach the Police

LYSOL IN WINE

Weng Kiu, a married Chinese woman, who appeared before Mr. Shanghal. Wednesday. Feng Yu-hsiang in reported to have T. 5. Whyte-Smith last week on a left Tungkuan Pass on March 24 for charge of putting lysol into her Shihchiacltuang, where he will await the arrival of Yen Hai-shan for a con- mother-in-law's wine at 149, Re- ference before procceding to Cheng-clamation Street, and was ordered to the prison hospital for observa- Feng Yu-hsiang has recommended tion of her mentality, made another Tong Yueh-liang, the ex-Vice Foreign Minister of the National Government, appearance at the Kowloon Ma-

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HONG KONG, FRİDAY, MARCH 28, 1930.

LIBERAL MENACE TO CONSERVATIVES

TO ABSTAIN FROM VOTING ON THE COAL MINES BILL

MR. CHURCHILL'S WARNING

London, Yesterday.

YOUNG IN CRIME Housebreaking Case in Kowloon

WAA

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR - The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/6 3/16,

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

KING'S FIRST LEVEE

comprised

Dainty Eyeglasses N. LAZARUS

Ophthalmic Optician

13, Queen's Road Central.

AVOID CRUELTY

Best Method of Carrying Chickens

AN EXPERTS TESTIMONY

The ideal method of carrying a chicken-that of not tieing it up at all but simply placing it in the

TRADE DEPRESSION WORST FOR YEARS

BRITAIN LOST HALF HER INDIAN COTTON TRADE

MORE JAPANESE IMPORTS

In the House of Commons to-day

SINCE ILLNESS

DEPARTURE FROM USUAL DISOWNED BY PARENTS

CUSTOM OF STANDING

At the Kowloon Police Court this RESTORED TO HEALTH morning before Mr. Whyte-Smith, a Chinese, 19 years of age

Rugby, Yesterday, H.M. the King to-day held at Buck- The passage of the Government's charged with house breaking and Ingham Palace his first levee sines his palm of one's hand between the Sir Herbert Samuel, the Liberal

first and second The 600 guests iness.

finger-was leader, raised the question of un- Coal Rill in the House of Commons stealing at Ichikok Road.

It was stated that there were officers of the Navy, Army and Air favoured by Mr. Walter J. E. employment in the cotton Industry. Liberals not to

M.C., support vital three in the ging, but the other Farce, politicians and Church digni-Mackenzie,

M.R.C.V.S., He observed that trade depression is assured by the decision of the amendments and to abstain from two, according to latest informatories. For the first time the King re- Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, at in Lancashire was worse than it had voting at the third reading of the tion, have game to Canton.

ceived the Soviet Ambassador, M. the Kowloon Magistracy this bean within the knowledge of the Det.-Sergeant W. G. Humphreya Sekolnikoff. The previous levee which morning, in connection with the whole generation, The cause of the Bill.

Dangerous Compact stated that the complainants (Chan M. Sokolnikoff attended was held by the case in which two Chinese men perilous condition of the Industry at The danger of a Liberal Labour Lei-aze, and Cain 8. Jong, her hus. Prince of Wales, His Majesty depart were charged before Mr. T. S. this moment was to be found in the to Yen Hsi-shan as Provisional Minis-gistracy this morning. The Court compact to the Conservative Party band) bad, just returned from ed from his usual custom of standing. Whyte-Smith

with cruelty to decline of experts. In India wa Ho sat on the Golden throne, surround-chickens. ter of Foreign Affairs of the new Pek-was crowded with interested spec-was the theme of a speech by Mr. America and took a house at 249ed by the great officers of State.

had lost half the cotton trade. ing.Government.

Winston Churchill at Peking. He Lalchikok Road, first floor, at the The King and Queen will hold five An Indian policeman gave evi- Under shelter of the cotton tariff, Yen and Feng have decided to com-

At about Courts this year mence military activities on April 1. The Magistrate, reading the prideclared that it was more than pro- corner of Poplar Street.

on secount of the dence to the effect that the defen- Indian production of cotton goods the imports Yen will proceed to Taking to organise sou medical officer's report, said bable that Liberals and Socialista nine o'clock on March 12, the thres large number of applications for pre- dants each had a chicken, which had increased, while

an under-thieves, who had evidently seen all sentations. It is authoritatively paint-they had tied up by the wings, of Japanese cotton goods into India the new Government, while Feng will that so far there were no obvious had recently reached

had grown enormously. Prefer direct operations at the front.

signs of insanity in the woman, standing which may mean that the the occupants leave the house thased out that the re-appearance of the and carried in that manner. and he suggested that she be sent Socialists will be kept in office until morning, went to the floor and, by King at the Royal Courts is a definite

Five Methods

ence, supposed to be given to Bri- Indication that he is completely restor

tish cotton as against Japanese, to the Government Civil Hospital. the Electoral Reform Bill is passed,

ed to normal health and can carry out Prior to Mr. Mackenzie entering/was regarded here as in no degree All the members of the household and the Conservatives in 1981 might

his usual routine without interruption, the box, the Magistrate outlined balancing the large duties 23 the office of C.1.C. of the Eastern were in Court, and the husband said have to face a "Lib Lab" combina-

British Wireless Service,

the chicken problem, and.said that British cotton. Route, to which post he was appointed that he wished his wife to come tion, working a dear food" cry for

there were five methods for their by Wu Pei-fu. Generale Yang Sen back to the house, but he would not all it was worth, after twisting the

conveyance. and Tien Chung-yue are reported to agree to living away from his electoral law into a form most have made war preparations against father and mother-a suggestion harmful to Conservative and Im- Liu Hsiang at Chungking who remains put forward by Det. Inspector perial interests.--Reuter. loyal to the Central Government.

Szechuen Situation

Chungking, Wednesday. General Yang Sen assumed on March

Rebels Routed

tators.

Falion.

The Magistrate cautioned the woman, and bound her ever to be

Hauchow, Wednesday. With the assistance of the 3rd Na- tional Division under General Chen Chi-cheng, General Han Fu-kui defeated. ed on March 25 the rebels under Sun Tien-ying on the Lung-Hai line. Gan- eral Han is now at Lluho to direct re-

habilitation and to order the repair of bridgen destroyed by rebels.

Kaifeng-Hauchow Traffic

Miners' Working Hours

Rugby, Yesterday.

of the

A conference was held to-day of good behaviour à year and to between representatives come up for sentence when requir-miners and coalowners to discuss the question of the miners' work- ing hours, which Is now the sub ject of legislation, with a view to reaching an amicable

agreement.

Father-in-law's Fears

The father-in-law, who at first agreed to the woman's return to the house, put a different complex- ion on the case after she was bound over. He told the Inter- Nanking, Wednesday. Following the defeat of the rebels preter to let it be known that the under Sun Tien-ying on the Lung-Hai woman, when she returned to the line, the railway trafle bêtweet Kai-house, might run away or even feng and Hauchow has been restored. commit suicide!

Hankow, Wednesday. Inspector Fallon pinted out that Chun of Greater the father-in-law was one of those Shanghai wired to General Ho Cheng people who thought a lot of them chun on March 25' that the Press re-selves, and had tried to teach him, between when he arrested the woman! The port regarding compromise Chiang and Wang in groundless. Pre officer declared that where fathers- sident Chiang met only Minister TV-in-law and mothers-in-law

were Soong and General Hsiung Hsih-hui concerned in a household there was upon his arrival at Shanghai, whereas

always.trouble! Wang Ching-wei was still in Kong.

Mayor Chang

Heng

Mayer of Kwangtung

--Nanking, Wednesday. Mr. Wa Tleh-cheng, representative

of President Chiang Kai-shek, and Mr.

The police officer suggested that he would take all the parties before the S.C.A., and then they could de- cide what could be done to avert any more serious trouble.

Lam Wen-kol, Mayor of Kwangtung, the Magistrate.

arrived at Mukden on March 25, where

the former interviewed General Chang

Hacuh-liang on the same afternoon.

yang.

Mukden, Wodnesday,

It was afterward stated that certain proposals had been made which would be placed before the Miners" Executive. Officials of the Miners" Federation left London this evening for the International Coal Confer ence at Genera. As they will ba absent a week, a meeting of the ners' Executive will probably be held the week after bert-British Wireless Service.

CHARGE CHANGED

A Way with the Indian

era.

Constables

RAIN PROMISED

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states: The Yanguza depression has moved N.E. to Korea. Another has formed over the Upper Yangtze Valley. Coastal fog. Forecast:-3. winds; moderate; overcast; rain.

or

GOLF

Starting Times for Sunday

On

Gravity Admitted The first, which was Mr. W. Graham, President of the regarded by the S.P.C.A. to be Board of Trade, admitted the most humane, was to carry the gravity of the conditions in Lanca- bird in the hollow of one's hand, shire. The latest figure indicated as was described by the Veterin there were 154,000 people registered ary Surgeon. Secondly,

variable

downwards, generally

Rainfall Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day 1.08. Rainfall since January 1. 10.33 inches against an average of 5.76 Inches.

Temperature and Humidity

The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock

were:

The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club notifies that the starting times for Sunday are as under:

9.12 a.m.-C. B. Riggs and J. Thayer.

9.16 a.m.-R. M. Chaloner and H. Spicer.

9.28 a.m.-A. G. Coppin and F. Ortlepp.

9.32 a.m.-E. M. Bryden and J. Coulthart.

as out of work. The committeo a chicken could be which had been appointed to carried by ita legs with head investigate matters would shortly with string, and a complete the taking of evidence similar method without string, as and prepare its report, a third. The fourth was that of carrying the chicken by the wings.. tions, without string at all.

As the result of representa- the Indian authorities had stated that, while they Mr. Whyte-Smith naked the could not modify their tariff Veterinary Surgeon, from his of 15 per cent. the alternative knowledge of the anatomy of the remedy would be to impose add!- bird, and from his long experi- tional duty against foreign cotton once, what method he regarded as goods. Lancashire had been re- correct for the carrying of alleved to some extent. by that an- 9.86 am.-E. Stone and L. Yates. chicken, and he replied aa report noancement but since than it had 9.40. a.m.-I. H. Gears and T. Ged above.

been indicated that an amendment. Bennett.

But, Mr. Mackenzie pointed out, would be accepted in India which 9.44 4.m.-E. S. Morrison and with the ideal method there was would take away that form of pre- the possibility of the bird flap-ference to British goods. Great as 9.48 a.m.-J. F. Pilcher and D.ping its wings, and thus that was the difficulty for Lanca-

he method was rendered impractic- [shire,

did not thing 9.52 a.m.-B. J. Lacon and E. able, especially in the case of the

Government could make purchaser who had his or her any further representations, or carry 9.56 a.m.-W. A. Butterfield and hands full with other things.

an appeal beyond the stage to which Regarding the second method, it had been carried.-British Wire- Newhouse and

the witness stated that it would (less Service. cause undue suffering if the string 10.04 am-L. C. Parker Rees were tight, and it would also give IMPULSE TO STEAL and W. M. Pittendrigh.

Forbes.

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Hồng Kong. Macao

Temp. Humid.

-99

Pratas Island:

78

99

E. D. Lawrence.

Manila

12

88

Amoy

64

100

Swatow

66

95

Chefoo

44

100

Kern.

Shanghai

57

08

D. J. Keogh.

10.00a.m.-E.

G. W. Reave.

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10.08 am.-W.

C. Shields

And

cramp after a little duration.

The Magistrate indicated that the question before them was the 10.12 a.m.-A. Sommerfelt and carrying of a chicken by the wings with string-did it consti- 10.18 a.m.-J. R. Hinton and tute cruelty?

10.29 a.m.-A. Leach and J. P.

Sherry.

Suffering Later

Barrister's Wife Sent to a Home

"I thought I was charged with means of either breaking the door hawking without a licence and not or By duplicate keys, entered the This was accordingly ordered by with obstruction" exclaimed a Chin- flat and stole a gold watch and

ess when he appeared before Mr. chain, valued at $25 gold, and some N. E. Kent. T. S. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon women's clothing. It is surmised | Police Court to-day.

they immediately went to the pawns. T. Butia. The defendant alleged that, at shops. The object of Mayor Lam's trip to manders of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th Kowloon City, the Indian policeman Yesterday the defendant was C. C. Roberts.

Mrs. Doris Gardener, aged 39, af Mukden la to study the municipal and 8th Divisions; the 4th and 7th

Shelley Court, Tile Street, Chelsen, affairs of Tsingtao, Dairen and Sin-Divisions are being organised. It is in- who charged him asked him for his arrested and he took the Police to

Mr. Mackenzie replied that to S.W., the wife of a barrister, was teresting to note that each of these licence, thinking that he did not the pawnshop where all the articles

chicken by On his producing his were found. S

10.24 am.-A. B. Purves and carry a

the wings, brought up at London Sessions on She had Kwangst divisions comprises only 1,000 have one.

with simply the hands.

February 18 for rentence. and no General Chang Hseuh-liang has de-troops, and the total number of eight licence, the policeman changed the

N. K. Littlejohn. A Serious View

cause the fowl a stealing four dresses within three days pleaded guilty a fortnight before to cided to call an important conference divisions are. therefore less than 10,000 charge to one of obstruction, as it

The officer asked his Worship to 10.28 a.m.-Capt. Ashby and P. S. string, would on March 28 at Slnyang to decide on strong.

little discomfort, but after a long from a West-End shop. Wang Shao-hung and Pel was a motor bus route. the steps to be taken concerning the Tsung-hsi are Commanders-in-Chief of

take a very serious view of the case, Grant.. Mr. Whyte-Smith Intimated

10.32 a.m.-J. S. Drammond and time it would suffer.

it was then stated that she had as the three men, ages 19 (de- present altuation, Generais Chang Tao-these divisionsCanton News Agency. that he WAS afraid that that

He made it clear that carrying baby two months old. From childhood halang and Wen Fu-lin having been!

stealing .Earlier Cables

was often done in the case of hawk fendant) 18, and 17, had begun to D. J. Gilmore.

10.88 a.m.-C. H. Bradley and a chicken by the wings suspend she had been in the habit notified to attend.

indulge in crime when so young,.

ed with string was definitely re- small things. In 1926 she was seb The Indian policeman, when ques-would be like in years to come!

tenced to six months' imprisonment fox and he did not know what they H. A. Mila.

10.40 am-T. Low and I. A.garded as cruelty, Chen Kung-po, a prominent

theft. Ksuchow, Wednesday.

Sergt. Humphreys said that the Rosa.

The Magistrate queried what Dr. Morton, governor and medical President Chiang Kai-shek decided to supporter of Wang Ching-wel and tloned, in turn stated

10.44 amA. Anderson and C. effect there would be on a chicken officer of Holloway Prison, giving evid leave Ningpo on March 26 morning and other members of the second warned the defendant fifteen min-defendant's parents would have no

|which was carried by its legs with [ente, sald that he did not was expected to arrive at Bangchow Plenary Conference of the Kuo-utes prior to arresting him for thing to do with him, as he had Mycock.

10.49 am-A. 0. Brawn and head downward?

consider that Mrs. Gardener was in- In the some afternoon. The Chekiang migtang, who are reorganisation- "obstruction." Provincial Government and represents- ists, arrived to-day from Tientsin, The Magistrate said he always not want their family name stained C. W. Jeffries

To this witness replied that it sane. She had a sudden impulse to do 10.52 a.m.-J. L. Adams and

things and had not got the full men- tives of various organe have prepared where they had a conference with felt suspicious about these

would cause cramp and a rush of tality to fight against it to accord the President a hearty wel-Yen Hsi-shan's representatives, stables warnings, and let the de-to any greater extent.

G. W. Tate.

Sir Robert Wallace, E.C., the chair- fendant go with a fine of $1.

10.56 am.--Capt. Grant and W. B. blood to the head, also discomfort.

Divisional Inspector Marks: man, said that sentence would be post- Hiller.

11.00 a.-A. C. Meredith and What would you call a long dis-poned for six months, and Mrs. tance before a chicken, carried by Gardener would be liberated on bail on R. H. D. Wade.

11:12 am A. F. Judd and H. V. the legs or wings, would suffer? condition that she went to a home in Mr. Mackenzie replied that it Kent and remained there until the would be about ten minutes. One court granted her permission to leave. would contrast It by tying one'e

DUKE'S GIFT own finger with string for that period.

come

President's Trip

Attack on Kwelping

Peking, Yesterday.

After a further conference here. they are going on to Taiyuanfu this evening.

that he

BANISHMENT DENIED

com.

Canton, Wednesday. According to intelligenes · from the

It is understood that they op 6th Routa Army E.Q., the 6th Route

of anything A Chinese, who was seen to carry Army will now be responsible for the pose the setting up attack on Ewolping from the upper in, the nature of a military gov-a small amount of raw opium inte West River, with the 8th Division under ernment at. Peking, but suggest a contractor's matahed in Peking General Mac Beng-wen as the advanc- that a Central Secretariat be or Road, was arrested. At the Porce Ing column, whose vanguards are re-ganised here for the present, and Station, unfortunately for him, it ported to have arrived at Wulin and later, if a Government be estab-was found that he was 'a' returned

.

Feng's Activity

Colony in 1928 for ten years.

However, on the man's ap

twice been convicted and they did

The accused was sentenced to six months hard labour and the articles were ordered to be returned to the complainant on payment of the redemption price to the panbrokers.

"OFFICE THEFTS

Chinese with Forty-one Pawn Tickets

Parker..

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11.16 a.m.-E. Des Voeux and F. A Redmond.

11.20 a.m.-W. Feltham and J.

Forbes.

s

11.24 am-H. A. Lammert and D.

11.28 a.-H. G. Williams and C. B. Brown.

11.82 m. C. Shrubsels, and F.

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Weighed Alive Here He went on to say that it was most peculiar in Hong Kong that the market fokis weighed indivi- dual chickens alive, because in

A Week's Rent and Arrears Wiped Off

Talwu. The 50th Division under Genlished, it must be through the banishe, being sent away from the eral Tan Tao-yuan are pushing forward Kuomintang. from Yunghu, while the Ord Indepen- dent Brigada under General Had Hei- cheung are heading for Mongkong.

The main feature of the situa-pearance at the Kowloon Magis A Chinese was this morning charged Lobel.

morning before before Mr. R.. E. Lindsell with break- 11.85 ; a.mi—G, B. Mathews and other places the Individual and Milibank estates have received the The capture of Kweiling the old capi- tion is the activity of Feng Yu-tracy this

Mr. T 8. Whyte-Smith he ing into, three offices in town and with H. F. Clark

About 1,000 London tenants of the Dake of Westminster on the GrosvenÓT

chicken was dead before it was following letter:-/ 1140 mA. D. Humphreys and 0. weighed. D From the Canton Trading Associa- Eager

tal of Kwangal, has been confirmed by halang, who since he arrived at a telegram despatched by General Liu Tungkuan has ordered all the admitted the opium offence, but larceny, as under Chien-shu to Canton, stating his Hunan forces at Shansi and Kansu to absolutely denied the banishment

charge. forces entered Kweilin on March 18 concentrate in. Honan, d

The dispositions of the Cantonese concentrate in. Honance In view of his dental, the then, th armies are thus:

portos ordered the hand has eas remanded to Monday morning, camera. On the right wing, the 60th and appointed the Kansu Governor to on both charges, when Inspector Ting-lal and Chang Kwong-net are and chairman of Shensi and Kan-will be present for the Identity of

Divisions under Generals Teal be commander of the rearguard Vincent, police official photographer, Fedder Building, wall clock. to advance from Watlan to Hi

the accused's finger prints.

On the central column, the 150th Feng Yu-belang is marching G3rd Division under Yu Hen from Tungkuan to Loyang with and Li Yang-king are to head for the troops of Sun Liang-sing, who Lingsian in Kwangtung in order to was prominent in the fighting Intercept the communication betroen against the Central Government the Ironsides and the Kwangat Iten; | Jast:

On the left wing, the 62nd Div)-4

elon under Heung, Hon-ping and

:·

To mark the occasion of his maY. riage, the Duke of Westminster des sirds me to inform you that he will be very pleased to remit to you this week's rent,

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A reporter was informed that bealdes:

Mi tion, fifth door, Ching" Building, a: 11,44 am.—E. N., Monie and 9. 8.

Mr. Whyte-Smith remarked that 'n allver

it would be of no use to suggest Cornch, and Perry

11.48 am--H. Catlin and H. A. Ba new method for the weighing of From the Mitmi Chosen Kafsha, Conanf."

chickena by the Chinese market 11.52 am C. M. Gee and O. D. men in Hong Kong.

this gift the, Duke has also signifjed

• From: the Texas Oil Company, Brown. Queen's Buildid an alarm clock, and 11.04-3. Fleming and A. Bitchie and in other places, they used of rent which may be owing by any Witness stated that at Home, his willingness to forgo any arrears

ju. Budika; curls.

11.08.-F. A. Merry and elaborate steel square cages to of these tenants, socused pleaded gulity? to all |Russell.

Murphy, asked

Mot

atole £4,000

to make same

"WHAT NONSENSE !!!

weigh the fowi in. The cage gave,

In certain cases this involveks a con-

the bird room for a natural tiderable sum.

stance, but that was more scienti-

fio than practical, and was used

by farmers who went in for the town for them to take on to Taim When a Chinese youth was at pedigree breeding of poultry. sha-tsui from Portland Street.

owloon Magistracy this That method would be impractic A Warning

Magistracy as His Worship that the

Shantung con- take a month of Sundays to get defendants had spent

hegode in through a crate of chickens, and noons over, this case, and time reut for half you would need a poultry market might mean money to

discharged the

at every two streets

Asked by the Magistrate where them": 179>You thay bought thế, chicken

ith: It could

thal

anta.replied that