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No. 27,533
MOTOR LORRY CRASH.
Driver Charged with Manslaughter.
MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS.
RENT TANGLE.
MAN AND WOMAN FIGURE IN LAWSUIT.
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"ONLY A SCHOOL NAME.”
His Honour, the Pulene Judge (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood),
Was In connection with the lorry called on to decide the relationship accident near the Tai Hang dis-of a man and a woman who appear-
on June 24, { tillery at Aberdeen
Court in
woman named To Sze, the driver brought against the man by the On
of the motor lorry, Fong Yee-Kat Tong arm. chon, appeared before Mr. R. E.
Lindsell to-day to face a charge of
ABLISHED
1845
HONG KONG, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930.
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. - The 'he closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
ANOTHER RISING IN BRITISH GIRL WINS THEFT FROM GIRLS'
INDIA BEGUN.
Law Breakers Ready to Launch Campaign.
KING'S CUP RACE.
Defeats International
Pilots.
POLICE INJURED BY MOB
HER FIRST LONG FLIGHT.
Yeotal, Berar, Yesterday.
thousand Eight
volunteers,
Law
SCHOOL.
Marauder Caught Red-Handed.
A SHARP SENTENCE.
A
second
POLICE RESERVE.
Dainty Eyeglasses
N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician 13, Queen's Road Central
ORDERS FOR THE CURRENT WEEK.
LIFE SAVING CERTIFICATES.
Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector-General
Police, state:
General.
SCISSORS BLADE
WEAPON.
AS
Husband's Attack on His Wife.
CONFLICTING VERSIONS.
The Wyndham Street stabbing
The inan, whose name was given as fully equipped, from axes to am- Miss Winifred Brown, the 26-year charge was preferred as to the the H.K.P., Special Constables, Ku Cho-kai was sentenced to six the case of Cheng Kam-yau alias Cheng Choi.bulance cars and bandages and old Manchester girl, won the air theft of clothing belonging to a Kong Police Reserve and to all on his wife, Yeung Yuk-fa, a wash
was sued for the recovery of $56 in has a qualified doctor in attend-race for the King's Cup against Jamah employed at the school. respect of two months' rent dun ance, under his tenaney at No. 6 George
Street.
An employee of the plaintiff firmu
manslaughter in Leung Tong only.
When he appeared before Mr. Lindsell on June 26, before the deaths of the two victims, Fong pleaded guilty" to a charge of "wanton and furious driving." thereby causing bodily harm to sail that the On Kat Tong was 25 passengers of the lorry. Hon of rent collectors.
epresented by Mr. fendant was the occupier of No. guilty to the manslaughter charge.
a
a competition of over 80 men
in
'the Bund Gardens. The proces to the start from Hanwell on a
dicappers placed her fourteenth handed by an Indian constable as
arms.
Jamah employed on the third floor
of 2, Wyndham Street.
Rugby Yesterday.
Ku Chi, an unemployed Chinese, was charged before Mr. T. s. After Miss Amy Johnson's won- which resulted in the death of aed before him this morning in the forming the first batch of the cerful solo fight to Australia and Magistracy this morning with weekly revolver practice (volun- evening of June 21, had its sequel
Whyte-Smith at
Revolver Practice. The regular affair, which occurred on the the Kowloon an action Forest
breakers, man named Leung Tong and a Summary
have the Duchess of Bedford's record launch the Satyagraha campaign Africa, another British airwoman students of the Diocesan Girls' It will be open to all ranks of morning when a Chinese named marched to Pusad in readiness to breaking journeys to
the theft of articles and clothing, try) will take place at the Bowen before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham and from valued at $50, the property of Load Revolver Range on Wednes- at the Central Magistracy this on July 10. The expedition is earned distinction yesterday when School, Kowloon.
day, from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Sharpshooters' Company, Hong months' hard labour for an attack
Poona, Yesterday..
pilots, including many of Inter Detective - Sergeant Naughton persons holding permits to carry A large procession proceeding ed an Avre Avian machine with premises by climbing over the national fame. Miss Brown pilot-Bald that accused got into the
Police Training School. to Yeruada gaol in
a Cirrus three engine. The han-Wall. He put the stolen articles Reservists at the Police Training out homage to
The weekly classes for Police The woman, who had just come Mahatma Gandhi, was held up in
a bag, and was caught red- School, Kowloon, will be held to
of hospital, but was still
until the early morning, and re- but she steadily improved her treas of the school, gave evidence Squad who have not yet passed First he asked for $10, then $7 The de- sionists squatted on the road 750 mile's round Britain flight.
The was leaving.
morrow at 5.30 p.m. Ali mern weak, gave her evidence sitting on Miss H. D. Sawyer, head mis-
Eers of the Chinese and Indian la chair. She said that accused Companies and of the Flying came to her to ask for money, the police and several policemen fully acourate course, arrived back were made at first in the name of
were injured, also a military offi-at Hanwell 11 minutes ahead of the property belonged. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, the Cheng Choi. The woman was also cer who was passing by in
His Worship convicted, and Public Prosecutor, conducted the residing in the same flat.
the second machine flown by A. S. The motor car. The police finally Butler, one
Chinese Company. of the pioneers of passed sentence of five months'
she had no money to give him. case for the Crown.
defendant remained a tenant until charged with lathis and scattered aviation, who was piloting a De imprisonment on the first charge, R16 Ow Yeung Kin-heng is ap with him to his uncle to raise a Equipment Officer. Crown Sgt. Accused then told her to go the last the crowd, several of whom were invilland Moth with a Gipsy two the sentences to run concurrently: Sub-Inspector E. Mew Fung
and two months on the second-pointed Equipment Officer vice loan, but she refused. Finally he Chinese year, when he re-injured-Reuter. quested that in future the receipts for rent be made out in the name
sinned, with effect from. July 4. him as he had a secret to tell her,
asked her to go downstairs with, Indian Company.
She followed him down. Parade. All ranks of the Indian Company are reminded of suddenly turned round and, seiz
On the second floor landing he the parade to be held at Police ing her with one hand, stabbed Headquarters to-morrow at 5.89 her with a weapon which he held p.m. sharp. Dress: White Uni- in the other. The weapon look form and belt and cap with white led to her like a scissor blade. He
is now
Horace Lo, and pleaded "not George Street and the rent receipts fused to disperse. They stoned position and following a wonder on behalf of the girl to whom Part 2 of Training Course are re-and then $6, but she insisted that
Dairy Farm Incline.
the seventh
moon
of
AJ.
FUTURE OF INDIA.
INTEREST.
In outlining the facts of the case, Counsel said that the lorry was driven down the incline lend- ing from the Dairy Farm to the of Cheng Kam-you. He alco-stat- distillery at a high speed. Ited that Cheng Choi was only his 'swerved from vide to side, school name, and that Cheng Kam- KING'S SPEECH AWAITED WITH balanced on two wheels on one yau was his proper name. side and then en two wheels on though the name on the receipt was the other side. Then it got back changed, defendant was still to pay | ROUND-TABLE CONFERENCE. on all four wheels. continued the rent, but he did not do so for downhill for a short distance, and two months. Witness added that then suddenly swung toward the the woman in Court with defendant side of a bridge on the road. It was, in fact, his wife, and that the hit, the side and then toppled over | plaintiff firm had on its side. Twenty-five Chinese, any payment in respect of rent from men and women who were riding | her. in the lorry were thrown out and injured, two so seriously that they subsequently died in hospital.
Just before the lorry hit the side of the bridge, the accused jumped out and left the lorry to its fate. The sudden swerving of the lorry to the side of the bridge was probably due to the driving wheel being swung round as the accused jumped off.
By the Magistrate: The lorry had a right-hand drive.
Lost His Head?"
Mr. Fitzroy said that the "spill" occurred when the lorry was near the level part of the road. Had the accused stuck to the wheel and kept the lorry straight, the -accident would have been pre- vented, but apparently he lost his head.
never received
Not His Wife.
.'
Defendant denied that the wo
Rugby, Yesterday,
It is expected, that this week the terms of reference and the detalla of the personnel of the round table
conference on India due to open fa London on October 20, will be announced simultaneously in Lon man was his wife. He said that he don and India. had vacated the premises, and the refer to the future of his Indian The King will rent receipts were then changed into the woman's name. Cheng Kam subjects when on Tuesday he opens au was the woman's name and not India' House, Aldwych. His speech his.
will be broadcast and will be in Plaintiff called two witnesses to reply to the address of welcome by testify that the
the High Commissioner. fendtut's wife.
In the witness box, the woman The composition of the round denied that defendant was her hus-table conference and its terms of re- band. She added that her husband ference are awaited. with great was away and that the defendant Interest. The attendance of all was merely a fellow countryman of classes of representative Indian hers, She admitted taking over opinion desired and the possession of the house after the terms of reference are expected defendant had vacated.
to be vary wide.
de. woman was
In giving judgment for the de Suggestions that a free and open fendant with costs, his Honour asid conference will virtually lead to the that it was quite clear to him that shelving of the Simon report are, When the lorry was found by two months' rent were owing, and however, emphatically denied in the Police the brakes were found that the defendant had been a ten official circles. It is thought pro- to be in excellent order. Tho
ant at the house. He was also bable that Mr. Wedgwood Bean will lorry was driven to town and, satisfed that the defendant had remake a statement on the situation going at 20 miles per hour, it wasquested that the name on the re in response to Parliamentary ques- pulled up within 18 feet when the ceipts be changed, but he also felt tions which will be addressed to him brakes were applied.
certain that the name of Cheng to-morrow-British Wireless Ser- Kam-yau was not defendant's name, vice.
Dairy Farm Hill, Mr. Fitzroy explained, fell very rapidly down
and at some point down the in-
No matter what the relationship
engine.
Tremendous Ovation.
Flight Lieutenant Waghorne, ANGLICAN CHURCH.
DELEGATES TO LAMBETH CONFERENCE.
Britain's Schneider Cup winner, was third in a Blackburn Bluebird Gipsy one engine, and
with A
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:
to
A shallow depressión covers China. A trough of low pres- sure extends from the Philip pines to Guam
in Forecast:S.E. or variable winds, moderate; fair. showery.
The American Consulate- General has received the follow- ing typhoon warning from the Manila Observatory:
To-day, 8.50 am-Typhoon in about 127 degrees Long E. and 17 degrees Lat N., almost stationary.
Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day 0.61 inch. Rainfall since Janu- ary 1, 84.57 inches against, an average of 41.87.
quested to attend.
cover.
300 BISHOPS ATTEND.
London, Yesterday. The largest assembly of the episcopacy in the history of the Anglican Church gathered in St. Paul's Cathedral yesterday for strength of the Flying Squad and three times and then collapsed
Flying Squad. Strength. The following re Crufts have been taken on the
the service in preparation for the posted, as under:- opening of the seventh Lambeth Conference "to-day.
There were over 300 Bishops from all over the world, white, yellow, and black, including the Japanese Prelate, who was once 2 Buddhist; the native Lord Bishop of Dornakal, South India; and Bishop Howell, a native of Africa,
FLIGHT FAILS.
..
stabbed her on the breast, left foot, and right arm. She ran away from him. She thought she called out "Save Life" two or
She
Constable R884 Harold Kew and became unconscious.
was in hospital for ten days.. and R335. Tam Kong-ling to
Desertion. Alleged. Hong Kong Section 83 from July 6.
Accused's statement was that · Constable R351 Amos Bush to his wife deserted him in Swatow, Kowldon Section as from July When he heard that she
working as an ama in Hong The weekly Instructional patrol Kong, he came here to persuade of the Kowloon Section will take her to return. This she refused place to-morrow. Fall in at the to do, saying: "You mind your
C.
khaki cover.
cap
Was
As
The deliberations will be secret Telm-tan-taui Fire Brigado Sta-own business now, and I will mind and will last five weeks, the unity tion at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: mine. Don't interfere with me. Typhoon in about
of the Church being the principal Khaki uniform and 140 de-
with Go away." item on the agenda, including the grees Long E. and 14 degrees
He (accused) told her: "You South Indian Teunion Lat, N., almost, stationary.
scheme. The weekly instructional patrol are my wife and must obey me. Rainfall
The conference will not hold of the Hong Kong Section will What is the use of having a wife legislative powers, being merely take place on Friday. Fall in at if she goes to work ofitside...” advisory-Reuter.
the Central Police Station at 5.15 The woman's reply was to de- p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki uni-mand that accused sign a docu- form and cap with khaki caver. ment agreeing to separate.
Sharpshooters Company. they had been married for ten Strength. Constable R405, Lyears and had no trouble before, L'1-sang has been taken on the accused concluded from this that strength of the Sharpshooters the woman had a lover. So, still Company as from June 12,
with the idea of taking her away Itevolver Practice. Revolver with him, he deceived her into practice will be carried out on going with him, promising to Rugby, Yesterday. the Bowen Road Range on Wed-take her to some one to draw up Squadron Leader Wynne-Eyton nesday from 6.30 p.m. to 7.30 pm the separation agreement. crashed this morning when start-Members will bring their revolvers,
Temperature and Humidity
The temperature and humidi- ty at certain specified centres. this morning at 8 o'clock were:-
Temp. Eumid.
Hong Kong
79
86
Macao
79
90
Pratas Island
24
89
Manila
75
96
Foochow
81
01
Amoy
60
74
Swatow
79
96
Chefoo
72
05
ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR
Shanghai
79
81
MAJESTIES' WEDDING.
was between defendant and the wo MARRIED 27 YEARS. cline the lorry must have been man, he felt sure that they were put in neutral, and, with the not husband and wife.. And since brakes not-effectively applied, ita the action was taken out against weight naturally caused it to the man, he would, therefore, give gather speed on way downhill, judgment in his favour.
Then the lorry care to a double bend on the road and it was con- cluded that in going round these bonds the lorry went out of con- trol. The people riding in the lorry did not know much of what actually happened, but the spil! was seen by some persons of the distillery.
Plans of the scene-of the acci- dent were then put in by Mr. C. H. Lamb, of the P.W.D., after which some evidence was taken and then the case adjourned.
MOTOR SPEED,
POLICE PATROLS ON
CYCLES: London, Yosterday..
The House of Commons has ap- proved the Government's proposal
RAID IN GODOWN.
HAUL OF 422,009 CIGARETTES.
A PREMATURE ALARM.
A Chinese named Leung Sik-pu, described as a cook employed at a Chinese shop at 131 Queen's Rond West, to-day pleaded "not guilty" before Mr. R. E. Lindsell to a charge of unlawful possession of 422,000 dutiable cigarettes.
Rugby. Yesterday.
Mrs. A. S. Butler, wife of the Congratulations from all parts second pilot to arrive, came fourth of the world were to-day receiv-in a De Havilland. Puss Moth ed by the King and Queen on the machine. celebration of the 27th anniver
Fifty-eight machines completed sary of their wedding. Yesterday the course and Miss Brown re- Dr. Julio Prester, President-elect ceived tremendous cheers en ar of Brazil, and members of his riving when she descended from suite, Junched privately
with her machine, her face blackened
WORDS OF PRAISE.
'PLANE OF WOULD-BE ATLANTIC FLYER CATCHES FIRE.
PILOT BURNED.
The
Miscellaneous.
Uniform-
ing from. St. John's, Newfound- beits and holsters.
No Premeditation? land, for Harbour Grace, pre-optional.
When they got down stairs they paratory to a trans-Atlantic solo
again quarrelled and the woman flight In a light neroplane.
tried to run away. Accused said: Life Saving Class. At the ex-"I caught hold of her and we machine caught fire and was desemination held by P. Sergt. R. J. struggled. Then both fell to the troyed, Eyton received face in Hunt, Royal Life Saving Society's ground. On the ground my hand juries and was taken to hospital. examiner, on July 8 at the Ken touched the broken scissor and I
British Wireless Service..
nedy Town Bathing Beach. the seized it. Then I cut her acci following members of the Hong dentally. I did not bring the in- Kong Police Reserves qualified strument with me, and even after for the Life Saving Certificate I seized it I had no intention of and Medallion:-
Mr. Sirdar Khan, A.S.P. (R.) meditated, so I leave the matter injuring her. It was not pre Conatables R215 Fazal Mohamed, to your Worship. I only want to R235 Mohamed and R250 Mohamed add that she is my wife and 1 Ludon, Saturday..
R250 A. Hamid of want her back." Major Kingsford Smith and his the Indian Company, and Co-
in the "Southern stable R838 A. Mooney, of the passed sentence as stated above. His Worship convicted, and
WORLD FLIGHT.
KINGSFORD SMITH'S GREAT FEATS.
Ramzan and
(Sgd.) D. L. KING,
D.S.P. (R.)
·5,000 HOMELESS.
WORKS.
300 HOUSES WRECKED,
London, Saturday.
“REDS” IN WANCHAI
SHORT DEMONSTRATION QUELLED,
Their Majesties at. Buckingham with. exhaust fumes, and later companions Palace-British Wireless Service. when she received the King's Cup Cross," who flew the Atlantic last Flying Squad Section.
and Siddeley Challenge Trophy.reek, have arrived at Oakland. Miss Brown had never before California, after flying acrona, the flown such a long distance. She United States. The following appears in thte maintained an average
It was from Oakland that these speed of C.P.R: Bulletin for June:- 102.7 miles per hour over a 700 airmen started on their 'trans-i Revenue Officer Grimmitt said General Agent Hong Kong, in his 'miles course. Irrespective of the Pacific flight. They are thus that on information received, Re-report covering the Empress of handicap the best times were the first to fly round the world venue men raided a godown altuat- Russia's March-April voyage, says: those of Butler in a Gipsy Moth by the direct route over the Pact- RESULT OF EXPLOSION IN DYE STONES AT TRAMCAR. ed in the basement of the house on For this sailing outward there at 129.7 miles an hour, Mr. fic and the Atlantic. Kingsford
Three arrests were made in Saturday. There were three exits were three passengers who were Butler in. a Puss Moth at 129.5 Smith piloted the machine on to this place and as only one was booked Vancouver to Honolulu tolles an hour and Flight-Lieuten every stage. He has been pre-
Wanchaf last night as a result of guarded, most of the people con only, Mr. and Mrs. H.M.S... and ant Fielding, piloting Frince ruoted to Wing Commander-Reu
a."der vistration, alleged to to abolish the speed limit for motor nected with the place got away.
have been instigated by local Mrs. E.SIS. cars by n, two to one majority. It The accused was arrested. In the pleased with the steamer that they was 120 miles an hourBritish
They were so well George's Hawk Moth, whose speed ter and British Wireless Service.
Reds. Shortly. before seven is proposed that when the decision shop. He had a key which atted, asked for their passage to be ex- Wireless Serviço,
The death roll in the Castleford 'clock a shouting crowd, hended takes effect a system of Police pa the door of the basement. He was tended to the Orient and return An Eatlier Report.
first of the 88 starters was a single chemical explosion has now (risan by standard bearers with red trols on motor-cycles and in motor seized as he was trying to run back to America. Accordingly London, Yesterday.
seafer Moth which left at eight to twelve. The accident occur rags tied to poles, raced across away. After the discovery of the Purser Moir arranged through The King's Cup air race was won powerful Vickers Vellore, left at Partners, Ltd., which are located Road. Here they threw stones at 'o'clock. The scratch machine, a red at the works of Hickson and the reclamation to Johnstone to be met out of grants from the cigarettes the sccused said that the Honolulu Agents to obtain return by Miss Winifred Brown, who flew 10.40. Crowds watched the in one of the most congested the trams, holding up the service Rond Funded basement was rented by his master accommodations for them on the an Avro Avian machine and com- flyers depart from Hanworth and parts of Castleford and cover an for a short time until the Police Mr.. Morrison, the Minister of to the Sang Lee shop. W Empress of Busala pleted the course at an average desembled at various points along area of eight acres arrived on the scene, and restor- Transport, said the speed limit This shop was also raided but ap-There were also Mr. and Mrs. speed of 102.7 miles an hour Mies the course where the conditions The whole of the plants were order. system had broken, down, but that parently those connected with E. P. K who were booked from Brown also won the Siddeley prescribed compulsory halts with the abolition, efforts to pre had been warned and got out be Honolulu to Manila and return to Trophy for light aeroplanes, The route embraced Leicester, scattered over an area of over a lowing the arrest, the Police found destroyed and the wreckage was after the crowd had melted, fol- vent dangerous drlying would have fore the raiders arrived. A quan America by the (naming aves A. 8. Butler, In an OH. Pass Hall, Newcastle (turning point), mile away from the works
basket full of papers believed to be redoubled The Government fity of papers were found here and cal of another liner and they were Moth came second, and Flight Leeds, Manchester Liverpool, Bir-
tion three hundred to be of, seditious nature. The would publish Highway Code" the prosecution wanted time to get so pleased the Empress of Lieutenan
wrecked and five papers are being translated and for the education,” mot, only of these translated. motorists, but also for pedestrians, The Mag
ople have beet. nder in the meantime the tired arrested esthere is hardly a men are being held in custody, fahouse intact in the They will probably come before.
cars will be established, the cost
it equally. itish mande
MOTTOW
thair
In a mingham, Bristol and Southampton.
There were seven women competi tors including Lady Bailey and the Miss Winfred Spooner Reuter,
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