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FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1930.

Surely it is time that the slogan MURDER AT SEA. of the pacifist Home Government,†

8.8. Tanda.

JAPANESE CHARGED,

wounds could have been inflicted by the chopper and some by the knife. In his opinion the wound

Inflicted by

probably havo been the chopper.

Witness said that he saw the chopper on the bank in the cabin

"Peace at all costs and any sueri- Grim Tragedy Aboard in the neck--the fatal one-might fice," should be changed to "Sanity at any price, if the Bri-{ tish Empire is not to fall?" In- [stead of building up on the fickle |

and the knife on the floor. Both Junthusiasms of delegates, who are

were bloody. Invishly entertained and hypno-

When the s.s. Tanda arrived in

Hands Strapped Up. port yesterday from Australia Questioned by Counsel, Dr, tised into sharing a most un-and ports, a Japanese passenger Sproule replied that when he healthy, impractical view of a named Yamada was handed over went to the cook's cabin, accus milennium; instead of ranting to the Police, charged with the ed was standing outside with his and covered with pausenting treachery that murder of the No. 1. steerage hands strapped up,

cook aboard the ship. The affair in blood. we should give up Gibraltar and is alleged to have occurred carly Asked if he wished to question sacrifice Suez; instead of urging in the morning of May 6, whilst the doctor, accused, leaning for- the total abolition of the sub-the ship was at sea, and approach ward from the dock proclaimed in

ing Sandakan,

a lamenting tone that he did not marine and now the battleship-

Yamada is alleged to have, enhurt the cook. surely the Government could do tered the cook's cabin, and to have The hearing will be continued something to compensate for its attacked him with a knife and this afternoon. fatal mistakes before it is too [chopper. The victim raised au late, and we have lost what we of the crew gained access to the jalarm, but by the time members

may never recover? Pope has 'cabin, the assailant had inflicted declared that "Man's greatest wounds from which the cook died two hours later. The affair was enemy is himself," and that

reported at Sandakan, but the aphorism, applied to the British passenger was brought on to Empire, is one of the réusons Hong Kong for trial. The body of why some of us feel that we are moved to Kowloon Mortuary upon the victim was embalmed, and re- entering upon a decline.

arrival here.

News in Brief

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LEGAL COSTS.

Lawyers and Their Fees.

TENANTS PLIGHT.

for $3.01 at the Summary Court. A Chinese this morning was anted

before Mr. Justice. J. B. Wood. The money was due to the landlord for

Charged in Court. Yamada appeared before Mr. seventeen days' rent at 23 cents a T. S. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon day. The landlord was represented Magistracy late yesterday after-by Mr. F. C. E. Rendall.

Defendunt admitted liability and Two cases of small-pox (Chin-noon on the capital charge. He ese) from Kowloon and Victoria gave his name as Yoriichi Horl, handed over the money in Court. City, were reported to the Mediand described himself as an un-Thinking that ended the matter, he cal Officer of Health on Wednes-employed cook. Deceased's name began to walk out, when the question

was said to be Fung San-sham. lof costs arose. day.

Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, con- Mr. Rendall said that he could tax Charges of kidnapping and re-tion. After outlining the circum-class scale, which would be over $30. ducted the case for the prosecu-his costs according to the second ceiving Chinese boy, aged five stances of the case, he produced He, however, was willing to necept of Aplin Street, were brought, the weapons said to have been $30. against a Chinese woman and avsed. He also explained that de- probably be modest and to the this morning. His Worship fixed velling

man, at the Kowloon Magistracy fendant was a deck passenger tra- pay such heavy costs. He was not

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Defendant said that he could not

effect that it is perfectly able to the hearing of the case for May Japan. from Townsville tn a rich man, otherwise he would not,

take care of itself.

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As to motive, it was difficult as

Accused's statement, which had

Other suggestions are implied Leung Yee-king, a travelling yet to find any.

have delayed in paying his rent.

His Lordship decided against him, and he was ordered to pay $30 costs. Another case of a similar nature

in his speech which only serve trader staying at the Cheung Wah rot yet been translated, might was when Mr. A. Covey, of Meestes, to embarrass the relations be-Hing boarding house, 138 Con- possibly throw some light on the Hall Brutton & Co. sued a Chinese tween Great Britain and the aught Road Central, has report affair. On the morning of the for $67 being balance of legal fees

ed to the Police that between 3) United States which, Mr. Ramsay and 7 p.m. yesterday during his crime he had told the ship's Chief due. MacDonald claims, are "botter absence, some one entered hisOfficer that the cook had threaten- 'Defendant said that he originally now than ever before." We doubt room and, forcing open a locked borne out, it would be necessary Co. in an action, and the cost agreed ed to kill him. If the defence was engaged Messrs. Hall Brutton and this. Either Rear-Admiral Jones suit case, stole $1,500 in notes.

to have accused medically examin-upon was about $100. He had, how- led.

ever, paid $270 in various amounts Evidence of arrest

from time to time. Against his having

A claim for $969.81 was made against Messrs. A. and P. Leong Hing Kee.

has only just recovered from the Mak Lum, pantry "boy" on spell that Mr. MacDonald laid board the s.s. San Kam King, re teen given, the hearing was ad-payment he received only a receipt upon him when he attended the Forted to the Police yesterday the

for $260.'. He alleged that another London Conference, or else he has said that he entrusted to a coolie

theft of a quantity of rice. He journed until to-day.

Chinese and cheated him of To-day's Proceedings.

$20. succumbed to the influence of the nine bags of rice, worth $42, to

Since he had pald Grim descriptions of the brutal over and above what he hail anti-British campaign which the deliver at 61, Bonham Strand. wounds inflicted by a martial-minded Mr. Hearst has was not delivered and on making given to Mr.-T. S. Whyte-Smith at

Later he discovered that the rice and a knife,

chopper undertaken to pay, he did not me on the cook were any reason for paying more, been conducting in his Press. If inquiries found that the coolie the

The case was adjourned for argu- Kowloon Magistracy this ment. neither of these alternatives he had sold the rice to the Sze. Hop morning by Dr. William Sproule, the true explanation, then Rear Lung rice shop, 48, Market Street, M.D. (Edin.), ship's surgeon, at and absconded with the proceeds. the continued hearing of the trial Admiral Jones has deliberately

of the Japanese, named Horifchi gone back upon the promises he, Sentence of seven weeks' hard Hori, alias Yamada, together with his co-delegates, labour was meted out to a young The Court was thronged with uttered at the Naval Conference. Chinese at the Kowloon Magis interested Chinese, but there was Perhaps, in the face of this new convicted by Mr. Whyte-Smith on

tracy, this morning, on his being ne Japanese present.

Accused, dressed ih dark blue trend of American public opinion, two charges of theft, of clothing clothes, and with a half-grown led by the shepherd Hearst, he has from a cobbler, of Yunnan Street. beard, was seated in the dock, the found it more convenient to for- Cricket Club respectively. With

and a groundsman of the Kowloon Magistrate ordering this,

The Interpreter engaged at the, get, or to cry petulantly, as he did the accused were three alleged ac- last moment for this morning's Major E. Bamford's in the Senate yesterday, that he complices. One was charged also proceedings was Mr. W. Morinaga.

Estate. Apparently Mr. MacDonald has did oppose the text of the Naval with stealing and got three weeks' of the M.B.K, failed. Many thought that he Treaty when it was proposed, but were discharged, on the ground Prosecutor, is conducting the case Tamar, who died in 'Shanghai on jail. The third and fourth men Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Public "Major E. Bamford, of 'H.M.S. would. Idealism is a dangerous that what he said was never that unlawful receiving had not for the Crown, while the accused September 30, 1928, left estate in basis for matters so titanic as published. Truly, "conscience been established.

Hong Kong, Friday, May 16, 1930.

"PLAYING THE GAME.”

WINGED ART.

Mr. Remarkable Shorthand

Speed.

Mr. Covey, who said that $100 had been paid on account applied for a week's adjournment as there was a possibility that the balance would be paid.

The application was granted.

MONEY LEFT.

la not legally represented.

the Colony amounting to $1,400. His Dr. Sproule said that he was gross estate in Great Britain is said acting as ship's surgeon on the to be 1,400. Tanda, from Sydney to Yokohama.Great Britain is said to be £986.3.0. His gross estate in On the early morning of May 5 Letters of administration have been at 2.40 a.m. he was called to the granted to Mr. D. J. Lewis who is cabin of Fung San-sham, the, the attorney for the executrix, Mrs. steerage passengers' No. 1 cook Blanche Edythe Myers, of 40, Rich- Entering the cabin, he saw the mond Park Road, cook covered in blood.. The berth

Surrey. the floor were also sprayed with in which he lay, the calling, and blood.

in length.

East Sheenin,

Ten Years Ago

the sacrifice of war. And it is doth make cowards of us all." not through any fault of Mr. We hesitate, in the face of these MacDonald, or of the members of distressing revelations, to pay to the Conservative benches. They Rear-Admiral Jones and to his were openly opposed to the Lon- Nation the tribute which don Naval Treaty, and scarcely Fenper Brockway paid to Japan veiled the threat that when the in the House of Commons yester- opportunity etme they would day. He said that Japan was a What is believed to be a shorthand réscind it. But the Treaty was great nation which had always speed record for China has been

STOWAWAY CAUGHT. signed and it had to be respected, "played the game" with us. No achieved by Mr. Yeo Yankes, of the Nature of the Wounds, even though it needed ratification. doubt

Amèrican Consulate, Swatow. In

Arriving here from Manila, on the Imperial Japanese connection with the International The bombshell has come from people will be interested in this Shorthand Competitions of the forehead, ahout an inch long, be- passage, Bermaba Alfare. un- On examination of the body, he the States Steamship Co.'s Golden found an incised wound on the Mountain, without paying his: the United States. According to encomium from a British Social Sloan-Duployan Society (Head-) Rear-Admiral Hilary Jones, who ist.

quarters, Ramsgate), Mr. Yankee neath which was a fracture of employed, of New Washington, (now appears in his true colours as

bone.. Capiz, P.I., was at the Kowloon It is apparent that Mr. Mac- the highest speed of 200 words a There was an incised wound on Magistracy this morning fined $50

gained the gold medal in Class 4 for the right frontal (skull) a "Big Navy" advocate, America Donald has failed, because, treaty minute for five consecutive minutes. the upper left eyelid, and also, or one month's hard labour in de- has no use for the London Treaty or no. treaty, public opinion in The test was undertaken under strict one on the right cheek, this be- fault of payment. whatever. American Naval America is clearly antagonistic to pervised by a local committee cop-

conditions, being witnessed and su- ing about one inch and a half opinion, he asserts, was entirely the British recommendations at slating of Mr. F G. Year, Advocate A large lacerated wound ex- disregarded by the Conference, the Naval Conference. And pub and Solicitor; Mr. E. C. Y. Ching, tended from the back of the right and he even goes so far as to in- lic opinion In America is half-Advocate and Solictor: Mr. C. S. ear to the mid-line of the front sinuate that the principles of the way to legislation,

of the neck, all the soft paris and Yong, M.D., Consulting Physician; It made and Mr. H. K. Tyman, M.D., Con- the blood vessels being severed. Treaty are in no whit in accord-Prohibition, although it cannot sulting Physician.

There was also a superficial unce, with that which the now un-make it. The United The translation of the shorthand wound one inch below extending To-day's dollar is worth 4/-03⁄4d. American War Office has in mind. States most obviously is unwilled by the candidate in 65 minutes

notes Into longhand was accomplish from the back bone to the mid-

Ilne:

The new scale of Civil Servants" Insult to injury was added ing to allow its strength and its there being only one slight error,

On the right upper arm there salaries It is reported has resulted when Rear-Admiral. Jones boastfuture to be sapped by parasiti. "at mending being transcribed as was an incised wound about four in great dissatisfaction among the ed very unnecessarily that if the cal obligations and ideals. It very "amending," probably due to mis- the direction of the muscular seems to be no equality of [n= inches long, which extended to Government employees. There. British and American Fleets were possibly believes Mr. MacDonald bated.

hearing of the dictation.-Contri

tissues.

cidence in the new distribution.. ¡ined up; and "fought it out," to be simple and sincere, but it

Bled to Death.

While some members of the service they would win. Wiser tongues prefers to regard his idealistic

Speaking of the man's condi- gain handsomely; others remain at will not click with such glib irres overtures with suspicion. It is a Spanish Registrations.

tion, at the time, Dr. Sproule atat practically the same rate and ed that he was unconscious and others again will apparently suffer ponsibility on matters of grave vulgar but effective way of evad-number of cars registered in Spain to death. He was removed to the will be some unfortunates who will Interesting facts concerning the pulseless, and had practically bled lons: It is even alleged that there and dangerous import.. Rearing its promises. The danger of during January, 1980 are to hand. ship's hospital. The case was a be naked to refund a portion of the Admiral Joncs is not familiar, the American attitude lies in the The Ford would appear to have hopeless one for the man expir previous increments apparently, with the handling of contempt to which it exposes the been the most popular vehicle, 885 ed two hours after. Death was The most wonderful point about explosives, else he would not Naval Treaty, It means that the cars of the make having been re- due to hemorrage, shock and loss the whole business is that em- hurl his metaphorical sticks of Treaty, no longer a sacred docu- question, while the Chevrolet oc In his opinion the fatal wound will remain on the old scale of gistered during the period in of blood caused by the wounds. ployees can choose whether they dynamite with such careless rapment of faith between nation and cupled second place with 175, was the one that cut the arteries, Edopt the new. This would seem reputation for discretion, but if it very easy, figuratively, to tearre for & British car was in chopper and knife, and the wit benefit will accrue from the new fourth with 140. The highest Mr. Fitzroy then produced the itself is doubtful whether any were to give a reply it would to pleceń.

the case of the Austin, with 13ness stated that some of the rates.

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