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No Trouble Expected in the Colony.
POLICE PRECAUTIONS.
May Day has been ushered in very quietly in the Colony, the local Communistic element being very little in evidence as compared with
former years.
Up to the time of going to press the China Mat is able to state, on reliable authority, that no demon-
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No. 27,476
AMERICA AS A NAVAL POWER.
DEMOCRAT URCES. MORE SHIPS TO BE BUILT.
THE LONDON PACT.
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
SUMMONED IN ERROR Case Against P.W.D. Official Withdrawn,
A POLICE MISTAKE.
When a summons for keeping a
APPEAL ΤΟ
VICEROY
DANGER OF JAILING GANDHI.
GOVERNMENT MUST UPHOLDAW,
bitch without a licence' from the OFFICIAL REPLY. Washington, Yesterday. Senator Robinson, one of the LG.P., was brought against Mr. United States signatories to the Bevan, of 5, Railway Terrace, at London Naval Pact, stated that he the Kowloon, Magistracy this morn- thought it would be "Wholesome" for the United States to build up tong, the defendant intimated to his stration has occurred. This is, of the programme contemplated in the Worship that he had a licence for course, due to the excellent prepara-act. He added that, the expendithe animal and produced a paper tions made by the Criminal Investiture involved amounted to $100, testifying to that. gation Department to deal with all 000,000, a year. emergencies, based on past experi-
ence. ►
It is probably due to knowledge of the preparedness of the Police, rather than to lack of desire
The democratic leader said that
the country must build more ships or abandon her position as a naval power. The United States had con- structed few ships since the War
the
Viceroy
-TO-DAY'S - DOLLAR, -The closing rate of the dollar .on demand, to-day was 1/6 .
PRICE $3.00
FLYING DUCHESS. Return to Croydon After 19,000 Miles' Flight. BRILLIANT NEW RECORD,
London, Yesterday.
The Duchess of Bedford left the Bulgarian frontler this morn- ing and arrived at Croydon`at
5.30 p.m.-Router.
Д
Per Month.
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central
LIBERALS IN GREAT CONFUSION.
EXISTENCE OF LIBERAL-LABOUR PACT DENIED.
FULHAM BY-ELECTION.'
"
"TEA MONEY.”
$50 Paid for "a-Job in. Tramway Co.
"BUYING "INTRODUCTION."
It coat a Chinese $50 to get job as a conductor in the Tram- London, Yesterday,
way Company. He did not have Mr. Ramsay Muir, writing in the the money to pay, and had to sign Glasgow Evening News, gives the promissory note."
The money Rugby, Yesterday, first authoritative statement re- was paid as "tea money" è buy The Duchess of Bedford in her garding the alleged Liberal Labour an intraduction: to the Tramway... Simia, Yosterday.
Fokker aeroplane, piloted by Cap- pact, and denies the existence of Company. The correspondence
tain Barnard, landed at Croydon any Lib-Lab siljance, but says that between
The promissory note which this at 5.30 this afternoon. She left when Free Trade la seriously threa-Chinese had signed formed the and Mahomed All has been published. The Lympne on the morning of April tened, the relationship between subject of an action heard at the that the summons was ever served not
His Worship: How was it then latter appeals to the Viceroy 10 and has thus accomplished the the parties supporting Free Trade Summary Court this morning be-
to "permit the situation.
flight to Capetown and back, a naturally tends to become more fore Mr. Justice J. R. Wood. to become worse by the arrest of distance of 19,000 miles in 20% favourable. The liberals through- on Mr. Bavan?
The plaintiff was Lai-Fui, who Gandhi, and says that the Govern-days. Had her machine not been out considered it their duty to aup claimed $76.50 from the conduc- Sergeant. Hughes: I suppose ment has sufficiently demonstrated.
forced down in Bulgaria owing to port the King's Government, how-tor. The sum owing was said to to cause trouble, which has made and most of the ships were old. He there was a mistake about it some-its strength, and hopes that con- would have been completed yes- something contrary to
blocked oil-pipe, the journey over constituted, until it
does be $50 and the balance
repro where.
I will ask to withdraw it, alderations of prestige will prevent terday evening in 194 days. principles.
Liberal sented interest duc. neither the Government nor Gandhi Nevertheless the Duchess and her
Plaintiff alleged that he had then.
The Party confusion at West lent the money in cash to the de- ratracing the steps da establishing pilot have created a brilliant new Fulham by-election was further in fendant on May 1, 1927. He had His Worship remarked, on learn- peace and freedom.
record. They have done a double evidence by the announcement that applied for repayment on several Lord Irwing's Secretary, replying. Journey in 20 dying days. Ing that the defendant bought a
A Prof. Ramsay Muir, President of occasions, but the defendant had licence early in March, that the prompting Mahomed All's letter, Moreover, the single journey from would address a Liberal meeting at
recognises the spirit of goodwill day was spent at Capetown. the official Liberal organisation, put him off from time to time. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord summons was served on March 201[but draws attention to the fact that England to Capetown in 91⁄2 days which he would appeal to his hear-{
Loan Denied. Sergeant Hughes, replied that it some Indian leaders, tstead of ac has beaten by
Defendant maintained that he a big margin a ers to support the Labour candid never borrowed by, money from may have been that the licence number was not tacked on to the
Frevious record made by Lleuten-ato at the general election; he will the paintiff. The note was sign- ant Murdoch. of the South Afri-preside over's Conservative meet-ed and given to a man called Lut dog's 'collar, when Sergt. Brand caught it.
A large crowding which the ex-Liberal Minister, Yau. This man was the father- :can Air Force.
had gathered at Croydon Aero- Mr. McCurdy, will address-Reu-in-law to the plaintiff. drome to welcome the aviators, in- ter cluding Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation, and Lieutenant-Commander Perin.- British Wireless Service.
the local "Reds" behave,
Of course, there were a few at- tempts to broadcast seditious liter- ature, which is regarded by Of cials A$ inevitable, but even this was done in a half-hearted spirit, and the leaflets which have been picked up were of a decidedly, mild nature compared with those which were once very much in evid.
oncé.
;
Seditious Literature.
The only case of an attempt to distribute literature on the island
believed that the people of the United States were in accord with the treaty arrangements which were "as near parity as could pos- sibly be ascertained."--Reuter.
Terms Of The Pact.
Rugby, Yesterday.
of the Admiralty stated in the House of Commons that the effect of the London Naval Treaty in re Kard to cruiser strength was as ollows. Great Britain would not construct the two eight-inch 10,000.
His Worship (to defendant); I
occurred last night, when a Chinese ion cruisers of the 1928 programme don't know how this arose, Mr.
showered some leaflets into the
street from the roof of the Melchow Hotel. He soon repented his action
and discovered that his "trick" STOP PRESS
was not effective, for the Police went to the hotel roof and got him. The man turned out to be "yellow" | Instead of "red" and surrendered without even, offering the mildest kind of "excitement."
On the mainland, two other equally "yellow" men made at- tempts to broadcast literature with. out the least show of enthusiasm for their task. They just crept: along in the gloom of the pavement under verandahs and threw small batches of leaflets into the darken- ed doorway, of a few houses.
One of the men operated in the Shamshuipo district and the other in Mongkok. The Police were lying In wait for them under the verandahs and they were seized after they had been observed throwing the leaflets into a few doorways. All the leaflets were that subsequently collected, so
when morning came there was no indication, for those living in the vicinity, that the Communists, had 'been at work during the night.
Their Bravest Deeds. The three instances related
Peking, To-day." The Leader states that from to- day no salt revenue will be trans- ferred from the districts controlled by the Northerners to the Nan- king Government, while the Tien- txin Customs above the original Sve per cont. on which foreign kuns and indemnities are secured will also be retained. The Leader estimates that the revenue in-. volved is $2,000,000 monthly as re- gards salt and $1,000,000 as re- gards the Customis. It declares that the action is likely to have a decisive effect in other parts of the country, which will now under- stand that Marshal Yen Hsi-ahan ia irrevocably committed to estab- lishing
Government. Router.
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London, Yesterday. It is officially announced that an agreement was signed on April 18 defining the friendly relations be tween Britain and the slate of Perlis, In the Malay Punimuin.- Router.
Bevan, but in any case it is with- drawn.
SEPOY FUND.
Total of $11,235 Reached This Morning.
AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.
The Australian cricketers epened their tour in England yesterday when they opposed Worcestershire. Details of the first day's play will be found un page 8.
cepting the hand of friendship The fund first suggested by the proffered by His Majesty's Govern- China Mail and opened by the ment to form a round table con- Hong Kong branch of the Navy ference, "rejected the way to reason League had reached a total this in favour of destructive methods,"
morning of £52.10.0 and $11,736. and concludes that the Government's The fund will be closed in a few desire for conciliation mafus, but days and those who have not yet while the law is dead he worn subscribed are requested to do solment must resist Subversion-Reu as soon as possible. The ninth ter list of contributions shows a second donation of $150 from Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor and Co., Ltd., and a donation of $100 from the Sailors' and Soldiers? Home.
This latter sum was part of the proceeds of a concert at the Home and is considerably more than the half which was promised. The concert was not so well support- ed as had been hoped, but the Committee agreed that if that should be the case the Home should suffer rather than the
who were
above were the "bravest" deeds of and the one eight ch 10,000-ton Sepoy Fund. It is pointed out the "Reds" in preparation for May cruiser of 1929 pr ramme. The that two of the men Day 1930. A few other agents who United States, which entered the killed in the Sepoy explosion had been chosen to further the Conference with a projected pro-apent their last night in the Home. Cause were so careful for their own gramme of 23 eight-inch 10,000-ton sking that they dumped their loads cruisers, would not completa more as follows:-
The ninth list of donations is of literature in various latrines than 15 of this type before 1936. Previously acknow. and "called it a night's work," as retaining only the option to have one of the anti-"Red" aquad put it three more under construction not this morning. The leaflets were to be completed before 1986, 1937 taken by the Police and destroyed. and 1938 respectively.
......$10,578 £62-10-0
ledged Gande. Price & Co.,
Lid Reuters, Ltd.
Japan would remain at her pre-J. E. Henry
on fresh construction as previously Jebsen & Co.
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20
In a few isolated, places the "Reds" put up some posters, but
10
again the Police were wide awake and promptly tore them down.
sent figure of 12 eight-Inch 10,000- J. Douglas Butcher 50 ton craisers and would not engage] H. Rég, Latham EE.S.
20
100
100
100
kind
Rev.
100
10
the
It is not anticipated that anticipated. As regarded six-inch A. S. Watson & Co.,
Communists would have gun craisers, the Naval Treaty only Club Lusitano
Ltd..... the courage to do anything allowed generally speaking for re- Sailors' and Soldiers in broad daylight in view placements, except in the case of
Home
(per of their half-heartedness, even the United States, a special pro-
Laveur of under cover of darkness, last gramme was made for carrying out! C. Knight aight, but the Police are not taking the long-postponed cruiser con- any chances and are ready, with struction-British Wireless Ser-Kowloon Cricket Club
T. several emergency aquads and a vice...... small army of plain-clothes men to
deal with any eventuality.
The "Rode" will, perhaps, make another attempt to-night, but they will And the Police as ready for them as they were last night
No School Holidays in Shanghai.
FACTORIES CLOSED.
WIRELESS 'PHONES.
London Talks to Canberra.
1
VOICES VERY CLEAR,
London, Yesterday, The wireless telephone, service
witain and between
Australia Shanghal, Yesterday. was officially opened with a talk While the Chinese, authorities between Mr. MacDonald, from have declared Labour Day a labour No. 10, Downing Street, and Mr. holiday, the local Kuomin-
tangheadquartoza have notified
Scullin, in his private room
the school authorities that the Parliament house at Canberra.
nehölldays will be allow- The voices were very clear,
hal for commémoration of various
Anstey)
Hong Kong Tran
Ways Ltd. Anon Bathgate & Co., Foo-
chow District Office "Nash" FM. Raymond
Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co. Ltd. (Second Donation)........ Nestle & Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk Co. The Sports Club ..... The Royal Hong Kong
Golf Club Chairman Lam. Chan Tung Heung Hwle
28 63 284
100
..50
150..
100
311,785. £52-10-0 WA DOWLEY,
Hon. Treasurer.
LEAPED OVER VERANDAH.
A SUICIDE PACT? Alleged Trick to Hide Murder.
"SORT OF A ROTTER"
An allegation that a man staged he had murdered a gho jus in a suicide pact to hide the fact that love with him was made Malda shot recently.
Henry Waltor Fleming, aged 24, A chef in an officers' mess at Alder- shot, was charged with the murder of Marjorie Cissie Brown Hill, aged 20, in a room at Victoria-road.
[The Moslem leader, Mohamed All, who was Gandhi's right-hand man in the earlier non-co-opera: tion movements, has venmently Aldershot, 'denounced Gandhi's civil disobedi ence movement.
Prosiding over a huge Moslem meeting, Mohamed Ali described civil disobedience as a desperate attempt to impose the domination of caste-ridden Hindus over Mohamedans.
Mr. Bashley, for the Public Prosecutor, said that Fleming, who had a wife in London, had known the girl since May 1928, when they were employed in hotel.
a Folkestone
Fleming had made love to her. and she was about to became a The meeting passed a resolu- mother. Fleming had admitted that tlon urging the Moslems not to he was, responsible. join the Civil disobedience move- ment:3 ...
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Jall for Gandhi's San.
New Delhi, Yesterday. Devidas Gandhi, a son of the Mahatma, has been sentenced to a year's rigorous Imprisonment on a charge of sedition-Reuter.
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When the police entered the alt- ting-room they found the gas had been turned off. Miss Hill was lying on a settee, dead, with "a blanket over her body and a length of flexible tubing lying near, one ond under the blanket.
Fleming was on an easy chair with a blanket over his head. Ho wag dazed, but conscious. He said, "The tube fell down and I turned
the gas off."
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MODERATE.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:.
The anti-cyclone is central over N. Japan.
Pressure is relatively low over the S. China Sea.
Forecast: Easterly winds; moderate; fair.
ni
Rainfall
Rainfall since Janu Rainfall to 10 am. to-day ay 1, 12.98 inches against an average of 11.84 inches,
Temperature and Humidity
The temperature and bumidi- ty at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock.
were:-
Temp. Humid.
Hong Kong Macão
76
75
93 96.
Pratas Island
80
88
Manila
79
86
Amoy
70
95
Swatow Chefoo Shanghai
79
95
48
100
59
96
JAPANESE ART.
Plaintiff: He is also the father- in-law to the defondant. He has two daughters; I married one and the defendant married the other. Continuing, defendant said that the father-in-law had promised to introduce him to an employee of the Tramway Company and that he could got a job as a conduc- tor on payment of $50 tea money. Ha, obtained the job but as he did not have the monoy, he was asked to sign a promissory note. The note was written out by him. self according to a draft, prepar- ed by the plaintiff,
Witness said that although the note was made out to the fatherha In-law, the name mentioned there was the name of the plaintif be cause the father-in-law did not want his name to appear. Some time later he paid $40 to the father-in-law and last year he paid another $25 in full settle ment.
who
A witness WAS called testified to seeing the defendant paying the two suma mentioned. Judgment to Defendant.
In giving Judgment, His Lord- ship sald that it was quite clear to him that the note was signed and handed to the father-in-law in payment for tea money. He was also satisfied that the defen- dant had paid $40, but he was. not satisfied in regard to the last payment, because the date men- tioned by the defendant did not agree with the date given by the witness. Plaintiff in this action Messra. Komor. and Komor are at had nothing to do with the trans- present displaying a selection of action and he should not have paintings by Japanese artists which sued on the note. It was a mat ter between the father-in-law-and no art lover in the Colony dan pos- the defondant. Judgment was ac-
Striking Use of Colour.
Deliberate Murder.
sibly afford to miss. A China Mai cordingly given to defendant, Fleming was cautioned, and then representative who called this said "We agreed to end it to morning, who himself is an artist' in gether." Mr. Pashley continued:
When the case first came to very humble way, was astonished light it looked like a case of a to see colour used, in such a bold suicide pact. From the evidence and effective manner. The use of in our possession the prosecution water colours, as is well known, Has no hesitation in saying that)
it is not only not a case of mur- were solved by Japanese artists der by suicide pact, but a deli-long ago. There are probably few berate intent to murder en the artists of any nationality who can part of the prisoner.
CIVIL WAR,
Nationalists Claim a Victory.
AN ENEMY RETREAT.
Shanghai, Yesterday. Hostilities between the Nanking usa colour. In such a delicate manner and anti-Nanking forces are un- derstood to have started along
Fleming intended to kill this. girl and to save himself. When as the Japanese. the police arrived the gas had Konda has some exhibits in oil the western section of the Lung, been turned of, Fleming was which are strikingly original in the hai Railway, near Kweiteh, which perfectly conscious and behaved bold use of colour. The artist is situated near the Kiangsu
Honaa frontier, in north-eastern in a perfectly normal way. He not afraid of light, and his execution
Hona. had apparently made no attempt is quite masterly. From every to use the gas tube himself, but point of view, perspective, drawing.
After preliminary encounters
he killed the woman with it with and composition, the paintings will with the Nationalist forces, the Kuominchun troops, under. Gen- out a doubt
satisfy the most hardened critic. I say this is a deliberate mur Japanese astiat excel in por-eral Sun Tien-ying, retreated from der, because who could have trayal of seascapes, and there are Kwelteh Approxmiately forty placed that tube on to the gas some appealing examples of their miles from Kweiteh, at Pochow, the bracket, put it under the blanket craft at the exhibition.
Nationalist forces claim to have de-
In the House of Commons Com- mander Kenworthy (Lab.), asked whether work was proceeding on the battleship docking and re- pair plant at Singapore Naval Base Into the woman mouth, and, Time did not permit of a detailed feated and disarmed hundreds of
© Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord,
eventually when she had had examination of the pictures, but the troops under General Sun Tien-ying. replied that work was proceeding enough, taken it away and pull- China Mail ropresentative left with
Nanking, Yesterday. on the main contract dated Septamed it down except Fleming 7 a mental note to visit the exhibition
Chiang Kai-shek arrived here at ber, 1938, including the provision"
Divorce Hope
again in a non-professional capacity. noon-Reuter. of a graving dock, but all addi-Mis. Kate Hill, of King's Road, It is not often that one gets such a tional, work was stopped for the Leytonstone, E., mother of the girl, glimpse of rare-beauty.
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FOKI DROWNED.
ed in any local school, In Shang- there being entire freedom from of Aberdeen, described, as of no mic to interfere or make any which read: "I hope to get enough being offered at absurdly cheap In a report to the Police yester
A Chineau named Wong Lin (31), time being. It would not be econo-produced a letter from Fleming Some of the small paintings are during the fifteen fixed abode, was yesterday romoved changes at present The whole money to get a divorce. I am prices, and it is understood from day, Fung. Kam-hol, master of a to the Government Civil Hospital question would be imusdiately con-several sorts of a rotter, but I am Mr. Komor, who is a genuine art cargo Junit, stated that at about suffering from a fractured thigh. aldered in consultation with the looking after her. We love each lover, that the majority of them are 6.80 p.m.. yesterday, whilst the The man had entered the first floor dominion-Renter.
"anniversaries in May, and leavý of absence for any student may only
be granted upon the production of
precautionary measures taken jointly by the Un the International Sattlem
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of 9 Main Street, Aplichau, to com mit larceny. He was discovered. of by the inmates after he had helped service himself to a suit of clothing, and nable in his anxiety to escape arrest the man rushed to the verandah and jumped over. He fell heavil to the pavement land, Infüred thighi
HER NEW GOVERNOR.
prob
ned to day that that the
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other, and are very happy, but Mar- already ordered, we d forie is terrifled that those at home
will come and denounce her, and gether last December." Fleming then, the will be honteleas. For admitted that ha marrlet my own self Ido
Superintendent
Flenting
sald
with seven children, bad had a child by
junk was lying alongside the sa Ammon, at No. 52. Buoy, a foki named Kwok Kwok (86), a native of Talping, accidentally fell over- board and was drowned. The un- fortunate man sank immediately ön
the water and did not res^i
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