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Wong Wah (29) described as an habitual criminal and a life banishee from Singapore, was at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning sentenced to four months' hard labour for stealing seven, bundles of firewood from a hut in Tai Kok-tsuj.
Extradition proceedings against Tang Yin were resumed yesterday at the Central Magistracy before Mr. R. E. Lindsell. The man is Bought by the Canton Police on a charge of the alleged murder of two of his clanamen. The proceedings were again adjourned..
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1930.
KAI TACK THEFT.
An Epidemic' at the Aerodrome.
AN OFFENDER CAUGHT.
WEDDING.
Ceremony in St. John's Cathedral.
MCCLELLAND-BOLD.
The continuat loss of valuable articles from the Kai Tack Air third son of Mr. Ezekiel and Mrs. Mr. John Muir McClelland, Port, such as petrol, oil, and tools, Helen McClelland, of Ballymena, was brought to light by Flying County-Antrim, Ireland, was mar- Officer E. B. Webb, R.A.F., at the ried to Miss Ethe! Bold, eldest Kowloon Magistracy, this morning daughter of Mrs. William H. and when he appeared as complainant Mrs. Ellen Bold, of Salford, Man- Before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith chester in St. John's Cathedral against two Chinese, one a fire this morning. The Rev. H. F. A Chinese boy named Kow man and the second mun a marine Foley, R... officiated. Chow-chuten, five years old, was store dealer, who were charged The bride, who was given away taken to the Government. Civil with stealing and alternatively in marriage Hospital yesterday suffering from receiving. 16 coils of
by Mr. Edward control MeNay, was a fractured skull, the result of cables, the property of H.M.'s georgette and
prettily attired in lace with fall from the verandah
gold on the Royal Air Force.
A crinoline hat. second floor of 11, Wing Wo
She was Fist defendant pleaded guilty attended by Miss Barbara Budden, Street. His condition is serious.
to the theft, while the marine as bridesmaid, who wore dealer admitted being the unlaw- vorgelte. ful receiver.
of
A motor driver, Luk King-chung, reported to the Police inst might that after filling up his petrol tank from the pump in Poel Street, the rear
while the matron honour whe Mrs. Edward McNay (sister to the bride).
Outlining the case. Sub-Inspec- tor Elston said that first defen- dant was employed by the Air
Mr. Ernest Tuck was best man. After the ceremony a reception of the car burst into Force at Kai Tack as crane-bay, was held at Messrs. Lane. Craw- flames. The damage is estimated for about two years and a half. ford's, where at $200. It is thought that the Near the crane.
many friends is a hut fire was caused by the carcicas seroplane accessories
where corded the happy cuple the usual of little toasted honours. dropping of a lighted cigarette,
value are stored. Yesterday The bridegroom is ʼn Sergeant
аст
According to a report made at the morning F/O. Webb saw the first in the Naval Yard Police, Hong
the Water Police Station, Mr. J. de Noma, plumber on board the Fre sident Lincoln, which is lying at the No. 1 wharf of the Kowloon Godowns, stated that between, 6 and 8 p.m. yesterday, he either lost or had stolen from his cabin, a gold watch and 21 pearis, to the total value of $100.
defendant take the of this hut and sell them to the
16 coils out Kong.
second man, who was just outside the fence.
That "Squeeze",
His Warship supposed that th Arst defendant thought that there as no reason why he should rat make a little "squeeze."
MR. K. LEE.
Funeral Service at Pokfulam.
Many
relatives and friends Asked if he would like to say gathered at the funeral of Mr. something. Flying Officer Webb K. Lae, the Canton journalist who Deciding that it would be better replied that these petty larcenies died in the French Hospital on to send him to prison instead hed
been going on for a long Saturday after a very short illness. of flogging him, Mr. Whyte while. Residents in Kai Tack The Rev. Kwan Wan-yew, of the Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy Bond, which is outside the Aero- Wesleyan Church, conducted the gér- this morning sentenced to two drome grounds, had witnessed what vice at the Chinese Protestant should it provide the basis for a monthy' hard labour a Chinese who he saw yesterday-that of selling Cemetery. display of sensationalism in the pieces of brass from a shipyard in articles which had been taken father, his two sisters, and his uncle. pleaded guilty to the theft of twelve to itinerant marine store denlers The chief mourners were Mr. Lee's Press in a Colony in which the Bri Kowloon City district. It was from the R.A.F He asked his Others present included Dr. Arthur tish are enormously outnumbered stated by Sub-Inspector Elston that Worship if it was possible to Woo, Messrs. T. Bolt, Harry Hong by Orientals? Similar offences by Kwong Wah Hospital
the youth was employed in the make an example of this case, so Sling, Alfred Lee, Wu Wai-man, Lui non-British figure in the Magis-ago, when he also atole some brass,
some time as to stop these urcenies.
Fook-yuan, A. Chan, Fung Yiu- His Worship said that he would cheung, A. G. Sufiad and Dr. C. H. tracies every day, but the Press for which he got eight strokes of take into consideration
the fact Wan, not only relegates them to the
the cane..
that the first defendant had been
Floral tributes were sent by:- less prominent columns but
employed by the Air Force so long. Father and Mother, sarrowng wife When Ho Sing was charged be- and had been a comparatively good Dot, sister Irene, sister Mary, loving as often as not does not even give fore Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kow-worker: He imposed a fine of $25 children Lucille and John. Teachers the names of the breakers of the loon Magistracy this morning with with the option of three weeks' law.
with disobeying his banishment hard labour on each man.
and pupils of the French Convent order, the Magistrate said: "You
School, Colonel Wong Keung, A. Chan, K. C. Lau, Ho Wing, Hà Tu, Staff of the Canton Gazette, Tong Mankai, Wo Walman, Emily Poon, Mr. and Mrs. Coxon To, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hong Sling, J. D. Bush, Leung Shiu-yu, H. C. Szeto and cthers.
...
You
SOLDIERS' FRACAS.
Assault on a Bus Inspector.
5
the £600 WORTH OF HATE,
It may be argued that it is the are a very bad character. province of the Press to publish have got three previous convictions news.
'You With that we must natur for larceny from a person.
were banished for
ten years from ally agree, but there is a vast 1924. Why did you
come back?" difference between the publica- Defendant: I returned to see my His Worship: Eight tion of news and the treatment sister-in-law.
MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT. accorded that publication. In the strokes of the birth.
months hard labour and fifteen
Private J. McKean, of If unfit for Argyll and Sutherland Highland- particular case under review the the birch then you will do two ers, was fined $15, and ordered to Magistrate is reported to have months in addition. admitted that "there was a good deal of vagueness about the case" and there was a conflict between the witnesses for 'the prosecution. All of which upholds the conten-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 17, 1930. tion that sensationalism
"In Uniform."
A section of the Press appears to have given unnecessarily great prominence to the case at the Kowloon Magistracy in which voldier was fined $15 and ordered
the sum of $5 for al-
Even then washed
more
.
Donation to Theatrical Fund Refused.
ray so compensation, as a result of a fracas aboard a China Motor IPOH BLAZE. Bus on May 30. It was alleged Caxton Press Building aulted a bus inspector, who r the Royal General Theatrical Fund that McKean, together with tivo! Money that's needed, but not other Privates in the regiment. wanted, la turned from the doors of Extensively Damaged.monstrated with them as to their of London.
conduct toward two female pas- sengers.
Ipoh, June 7. A daylight fire of some intensity
CHEUNG CHAU NOTES.
[From Our Own Correspondent,}---
Cheung Chau, Yesterday. the rough weather on
The party of ladies who braved Saturday
careful
The author of "Peg o' My Heart" side of the War, and made a strange was not willing to forget the dark provision in his will that the New York Nation thus comments on:
"We are glad to record that the An Exception. His Worship added that he had down the offer,
Royal General Fund has turned travelled on buses every day, and "A British ship captain, who saw soldiers of the defendant's died recently, provided that all his regiment on board, but he had savings be used for the benefit of never seen any bad conduct on German sailors; the German author their part. He said that their of the Hymn of Hats' has regretted conduct was not only correct but his words publicly; a British naval they were very courteous.
He officer not long ago received cordial had to regard the present case asly in Britain the U-boat commander an exception.
than moderation has weighed
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith decided with certain purveyors of news. in the heart of the European busi-to discharge the other two, there Moreover, there is a temptation
ness area at about five o'clock yes- being, an element of doubt in the to describe the Magistrate's little many of the business people who doing so he said:
terday afternoon hurriedly recalled case, and convicted McKean. Ιπ
"Six hundred pounds' worth of homily to the unfortunate soldier had just gone home. When the as rather gratuitous under the Caxton Press building in a row of of liberty-a certain amount of £600 to the Royal General Theatre "Perhaps you imagine that you J. Hartley: Manners, the playwright; hate is for sale cheap in London. police arrived they found there entitled to a certain amount who died
a year ago, bequeathed circumstances: but respect for the Court makes us refrain.
six shop-houses, adjoining Prit- licence when you go to a for- Fund of London on condition that chards and the Georgetown Dispen- eign land, er rather when you go two of his plays, both of them It is, however, pleasing to read sary, ablaze. In spite of the light abroad. I don't think you would violently anti-German, should be to compensate a bus inspector in that the Magistrate added that rain and although the fire engines behave like
that on a Glasgow given annually for at least six years arrived shortly after the discovery tram. I won't say anything about at benefit performances in the he had travelled on buses every the fire rapidly took hold and the fact that you were in un Drury Lane Theatre. lleged assault. Some time day, and saw soldiers of the de-threatened the adjoining houses. form, and that you should have to his own words, the bequest was According ago when soldiers of
ner fendant's regiment on board, but strain of the shops eventually should have behaved, but that's a of the atrocities committed by the
more Strenuous work in deluging the bean tain regiment figured rather pro-
how you made in order that 'the remembrance minently in local newspaper reduct on their part. Their conduct Press is badly gutted, especially the officers will attend to without kept alive at least for that period.'
The had never seen any bad con-subdued the blaze, but the Caxton matter that your company your Germans on the British people be ports, it was decided-and quite rroperly to have future alleged was not only correct, but they upper floor, whilst the Lakahmy my interference." offenders against law and order were very courteous. He had to and water. The fire was not sub-
silk store has been ruined by fire; dealt with by the mili- regard the present case as an ex-dued till eight o'clock. The Caxton tary authorities rather than by eption. This tribute is one that Press is understood to be insured. the Magistrates.
will be fully shared by the whole Ex. much dirty linen was
civilian community, whether some through subsequent
be obsessed by Courts-
a superiority Martial being open to the Press. complex or otherwise. The life No member of the Services-of the average Jack or Tommy in Navy, Army, or Air Force-whoa Colony with a climate like that flagrantly breaks the laws expects here is far from being a bed of week voted their meetings a euc-. any sympatify to be wasted upon roses. There is no need to ex- cess in spite of the fact that they him. But, when It is considered plate on the need for either each were held up over their time, on ac- count of the Ferry,not running. It that the men of the Services con- day to do his duty by the public. came in with all awnings furled stitute only, a fractional propor-
Rather should there be a greater and went at once to her anchorage.
of tion of the European population, expression of comradeship be- A similar series meetings Mr. George Burton, who for tween the British civilian popula- will be held early next year, and many years had been the Middlesex and that, moreover, a solitary con-
tion and the Services, and the viction may reflect adversely upon
another Rotreat" in the Autumn. scorer, died in St. Peter's Hospital, Another large party of about 40 Covent Garden. He was 79 years that particular arm of the Ser members of the latter should arrived on the same ferry for the of age.
never be made to feel that, al-opening ceremony of the new Given a trial for Middlesex on the vices concerned, the practice of open trials either by a Magistrate though in a British Colony, they have a very successful work in umpire, in 1881, he did great work
the famous 84d. Chapel of the Peniel Mission, who advice of Thomas, or by Court-Martial is not in there strangers in a strange land! Yaumati. The Rev. A. K. Relton, for the country as a bowler up to Shamshuipo was roused to a high Eest interests either of the Ser-
the founder of that work, came, 1893.**
pitch of excitement soon after 9 vices, or of the British Govern-
Old and new over to open this branch,- A party
generations of p.m. yesterday when it was dis of the church members mot on the Middlesex cricketers held him in covered that a Chinese constable. pler to welcome their friends. great respect, and in 1888 tho had been attacked and stabbed to Public would be well with the inherent assur
More applications are coming in Middlesex amateurs commemorated death by a band of desperadoes. ance that all offendera against the
for houses, but they came too late A great performance with the ball It appears that Constable C348, The quarantine restrictions im and many will be disappointed. againgt Surrey by the presentation|| Leung Kai, who was off duty, was law will, on conviction, be punish posed against arrivals from Shang- We had a visit from some ser- of en inkstand and set of candle-taking a stroll in Kremmer Road ed. Why should coluruns be de- fever have been removed.-
hal on account of cerebro-spinas vice men who managed to find time sticks
at about 9 p.m. when he was sud- voted in the Press to a case in p
for-more agreeable exercise in the Burton was on the Lord's grounddenly attacked from behind by which Private Dash or A.B. Bold, Amon
water than the military manoeuvres staff for 21 years and had two bone several men armed with knives, and the passengers returning that called them here. A fita from his county, In 1892 and before he had a chance of defend- or Airman Blank has momentarily to the Colony yesterday on the other party of Chinese girls came in 2005.
Ing, he was stabbed in the back. forgotten the code of a gentleman) E., D. C. Wol
Empress of Asia was the Hon. Mr. over on Saturday in charge of two" He did good work as hon. sacre Thirteen men have been arrest- and of a British citizen?
European ladies Irom one of the tary of the Cricketer's Fond Friended and are being detained by the Why of Police,
Hong Kong churches.
by Boclety.
Police for investigation.
ment. The
atisfied
News in Brief
GEORGE BURTON.
Middlesex Bowler and Scorer Dead.
".
who had torpedoed his ship and gallantly rescued him and his crew; German students may once more study at British Universitles; the common soldiers who fought each other have compared notes and found out that war is one part insanity and three parts mind and terror."
Ten Years Ago
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