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Hong Kong, Friday, July 25, 1930.

SENSATIONALISTS.

"located," and gave wild pro- phecies (more welcome than the Observatory's callous reticences to the Press), concerning junt when and where it would strike the Colony.

And it never came. Just a gale.

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1930,

Yet we must not, perhaps, be too CHAINED BY NECK

critical of these sensation mongers. Where would a certain section of the Press be without them?

News in Brief.

One case of typhoid fever was notified yesterday."

AND FEET:

در

Alleged Torture of Witnesses.

IMPORTANT ISSUES.

HOME WILLS.

TIMBER IMPORTER LEAVES £69,059.

Mr. Andrew Charles Christie (84), of Warning Camp House, Warning, Arundel. Sussex, and of 5. Royal Crescent, Brighton, chair man of Christie's Wharf, timber, importers, Charlton, S.E.7, left The China- Mail regrets to three Chinese who are wanted by £69,059 (net £46,855). report the death, which occurred the Canton authorities for alleg Mr. William Eden Walker (87), yesterday after a few days' led murder in the village of Tal-of Riftswood, Saltburn-on-the-Sea, neas, of Patricia Fowler, the

The extradition case against

,

infant daughter of Mr. R. Fowler, fu, In Namboi district, again oc- formerly chief partner of Walker of the Prisona Department cupied the attention of Mr. R. E. Maynard and Co., The Redcar Irons

works, loft £77,031 (net £68,321). Death was due to meningitis. Lindsell yesterday.

Mr. William Joseph Butt. (69), This is the case in which Mr. of 22, Overstrand Mansions, Batter Sentence of three months' hard labour was passed on a Chinese Hinahing Lo, for the defence cea, S.W., and 65, Lower Thames merchant, Jeft named Lam Choi at the Kowloon lodged a protest against the im.Street, E., iron

| £7,909 (not £7,257). Magistracy this morning by Mr.prisonment at Fatehon of a party Mr. Fred Fook (86), of 177, Whyte-Smith. He pleaded guilty

to the larceny of some clothing from of men who were sent up to pro-Preston Road, Brighton, late senior married woman living at 4, cure photographs for the defence. partner of J. B. Barry and Son, Cheung Lok Street.

Yeung You was one of the men Cannon Street, E.C., left £48,787 who was so detained by the Chin- (net £48,710), As the result of a collision In thease Police. He went into the wit- Mr. James John Frost (04),. of harbour yesterday. between aness box yesterday and testifed The Glebe House, Hayes, Kent, a Cheung Chau ferry launch and a that before being released, he was, director of British, Ropes and of junk, which was anchored off with the other members of the Frost Bros., 32, Cavendish Square, Kennedy Town, three children be party, kept in a Chinese temple W., left £38,825 (net £23,918). longing to the junk were drowned. in Fatshan. He was chained by Mr. Abxander Marr, of 41, The junk. was badly holed and the neck and feet, and at ene Grosvenor Place, Aberdeen, retired sank. Five men and three women | period, saw Tam Kwai, another paper manufacturer, left personal were rescued by another junk which member of the party, who Jooked estate value £26,898. was near by, but the three children, as if he had been tortured. There Mr. Francia Ernest Cockayne, of two girls and a boy, disappeared. were burne

Abbey around his ankles.456,

Lane, Beauchief, while his back also showed weals Sheffield, chairman of T.B. and W. that he Cockayne and Co., left £19,153 (net

£15,338).

A remand of 24 hours was grant-and bruises, suggesting ed at the Kowloon Magistracy this had been severely beaten,

Tam Kwai is still in custody, Gross value means the total value morning by Mr. Whyte-Smith in a case in which Tung, Fuk was although the other members of of the estate, including both real charged with the theft of a felt hat, his party

released, and personal property. Net assets

have been

a raincoat, a woollen blanket, and Claimed by the defence as one of (which is included in gross value) a mah jongg set, the property of their most important witnesses, represents only personal property, shares, leasehold, Mr. T. Imura, of the M.B.K., re-his detention by the Chinese au-such as money, siding at 2, King's Terrace. Det.-thorities has been in the course but not freehold property, and all of the case the subject of much personalty after deduction of all Segrt, Fitches prosecuted.

eritielem by Mr. Hin-ahing Lo, liabilities, including funeral counsel for the defence, who con-penses and debta. tended that his case has been

CORRESPONDENCE crippled thereby.

"CRAZY FLYING.”

Mr. Lo argued that such inter- ference

was unwarranted, and. irrespective of whether a prima facle case had been made out or not, he asked for the discharge

of all the fugitives on the ground: that there had been a deliberate i interference with witnesses for the defence by preventing them from obtaining material evidence.

NEGRO STATUE.

PHILADELPHIA BANS ITS

EXHIBITION.

ex-

Astonishment has been caused,

He characterised this as an at-in New York by the action of the tempt, to pervert the course justice.

of

of wind, such as one might experi- ence at any time at Home during March, a few disgusted rolla of

To the Editor of "China Mail."} thunder, and the kind of rain that Sir In your yesterday's issue a leading article we hear is always falling on the rou published

under the beading of "Crazy Fly West coast of Africa. "Oh, what ing" and from it I gather you are a shame!" one lady was actually under the impression that the

Philadelphia Art Alliance in re overheard to exclaim when she Hong Kong Flying Club is em-

fusing permission for the exhibi. heard that the typhoon had gen-Member of the

barking on "crazy polley," as a

Lion of the statue of a nude negro Committee I as

Frame Of Mind.

on the ground of face prejudice. erously avoided the Colony and all sure you that this is not the case Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, referring The statue in question is the danger was past. She wanted in and the exhibition to be given o to Tam Kwal's interest in the case, work of Mr. Antonio Salemme, à "emotional experience and she August 6 by Mr. Howen, the Club said that the man went up there of young sculptor of New York City,

Instructor, is for was was terribly" disappointed ment of the Club Members who shown

the entertain his own accord, and it had been who is highly regarded, and he had.. that on ruching Taifu as his model Mr. Paul Robeson, the that nothing should have happen- will doubtless be present in large village he was afraid to go in, but negro singer and actor now appear- ed. The fate that people of this numbers. There is no intention sent the others on to take photo-ing as Othello in London.

on the part of elther the Com-graphs of the scene of the crime. kidney deserve is something akin

- Mr. Salemme had been invited to mittee or Mr. Howes to teach That showed what Tam Kwal's exhibit this statue by the Sculp- to those delightful little methods erazy flying or even to permit frame of mind was at the time. tors' Committee of the Art of Torquemada, the Grand should

any Member Indulge in His subsequent arrest by the Chin-Alliance, but the Executive Com- Inquisitor. Do they really want this form of aviation.

ese authorities was in connection mittee who arranged the exhibi- this sort of thing to happen; just

Regarding 'crazy flying', this is with a matter entirely dissociated tion refused permission. a perfectly safe form of aerial from the present case. In reply The statue has been exhibited for the sake of a cheap stunt when carried out by an ex- to representations from the Hong for one year at San Francisco, and perienced pilot and there is no Kong Government, the Chinese auto now being shown in Brooklyn question that the proposed exhibi-thorities had said they were unable Museum, Mr. Salemme says he is “At Fukuoka 11 persons were tion is to include any manoeuvre to return. Tam Kwal to Hong Kong, not interested in the adverse deci killed ashore and 21 are miss which will either endanger Mr. because they were holding him on asion, because "we sculptors don't ing. Eighty-eight were in-Howes or the machine.

serious charge of associating with sell many statues in Philadelphia." bandits.

"thrill ?":-

B

Within

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Maij," July 25, 1920.1.

:

To-day's dollar is worth 3/-

jured, and over 1,000 houses You also bring up the question were destroyed and 10,000 dam-of the Flying Club opening up an

Supposing the Chinese authori- aged. At Nagasaki, where their line between this Colony and ties returned Tam Kwai to Hong wind attained a velocity of 112 Canton: I should like to point Kong, what guarantee would they miles an hour, it is reported that out that the operation of an fhave that he would be returned to 600 houses were destroyed and line is a matter that requires them for trial on the serious charge 1,800 damaged, and over 200 very much larger staff than the they had against him? boats, mostly sampans, sunk."

Club has and, besides, an air line five minutes of his return to Hong "Thrilling" isn't it. this ac

commercial proposition Kong, a local application, for writ count of drowning and sinking, of whilst the Club is not. Plans are of Habeas Corpus would be issued, people ruined and homeless? already being prepared for the and Tam Kwai would then be lost. And they would like to see some this Colony and as soon as they

operation of air lines to and from to the Chinese authorities.

Tam Kwara detention by the The forthcoming visit of Sir thing of the kind in Hong Kong, are ready they will be placed be. Canton authorities, Mr. Fitzroy Maurice Fitzmaurice, who will ad- no doubt, that they might the fore the Hong Kong Government, held, did not touch the present vise the Government on the dove- better write Home to their sisters publication of this letter,

Thanking you in anticipation' of matter at all.

lopment of Hong Kong Harbour. His Worship adjourned the pro- should occasion much interest. ceedings for one week to consider During the war and since the con- the question.

•Yours, etc., R. VAUGHAN FOWLER Hong Kong, July 25,

4

BOY SCOUT'S DEATH.

clusion of hostilities, achemos, for improving Hong Kong and adding to its prosperity have been large-· ly talked of, special emphasis, al- ways being laid on the harbour.

Once again the sensationalists have been disappointed; robbed of an emotional experience. Yester- day saw them on tip-toe with Jexcitement, peering through the rain-blurred windows, trying ineffectually to tele... Iphone to the Royal Obser- vatory, or studying the China Mail typhoon map. Was it coming when would it come; what would it be like; would it do much dam age? These and kindred ques- tions were no doubt rained upon many of us by those people who

or brothers, or young men or go through life seeking "emotion young women, giving the kind of al, experiences." They belong to vivid" description that some of the type which can never forget our much-maligned journalists the occasions of mal-de-mer that are said to use. Often persons of overcame them when crossing the this type see the "fun" in a Indian Ocean, or whose ten crap," which may be a war in- minutes flight in an aeroplane volving the lives of thousands of with Mr. Vaughan Fowler at Kai Tak will never cease to be a topic into a street when the fire engine men on both sides. They dash of conversation, like Mrs. Levy's clatters through, and hungrily

Peter Douglas Rosslyn Dalziel, appendix in "Abie's Irish Rose." watch the flames spreading their

although 12 years of age, WIN A They thought that a typhoon way to disaster. In the less

keen Scout and was much lik Detective Sergeant Johnson yeaed by all his companions. would be exciting," "thrilling," enlightened days of our race, they terday afternoon charged a Chinese The funeral took place this contravening the terms of Ita something to "write home about." used to gather in the market before Mr. H. R. Butters for morning at 9.80 o'clock and affcence by not running to schedul They wanted to shiver and square to see the martyrs burned bank note. It was alleged that the present to pay their last respects once to passengers connecting guttering a false five plastre French large body of Boy Scouts were ed time, causing grave Inconveni- crouch in a corner and wince with or the poor wretch Buffering agony accused tendered the note at an ice Deepest sympathy. Is extended with the Star Ferry, The Magis, dramatic agony as the vast fury in the stocks. It gave them a cream shop and demanded 30.80 in to the bereaved parents.. of wind and lightning and rain "thrill." What à pestilence is this local currency. A foki of the shop, yerlər metrostan made the walls tremble as though neurotic craving for sensation! changer that the note was worth however, ascertained from a money some heavenly trumpeter had Based on subtle, dim origins of only $6.10, and change was given to accused said that he had come to Police. outdone the farfare of Jericho, sadism, which is the "Art of de- the accused at that rate. As Hong Kong from Canton only on They read their newspapera with lighting in others pain, it is the of the shop opposite gave informa-examined the note carefully before At the Central Magistracy two

soon as accused had left the master Monday. He said that the shop Toki the eager precision of a young one weakness of wo school master correcting the exer them under - cises or his first class.

They may

the

FORGED NOTE.

CHASE, CAPTURE, AND CONVICTION.

Hong Kong Boy Scout to-day moura the loss of one of their young and promising members, whose death occurred yesterday at Kowloon,

Ten Years Hence.

[From the China' Mall" 'of

July 25, 1940,3 ····

At the Kowloon Magistracy a Bus Company was summoned for

trate ordered the licence to be en- dorsed and asked the. Police', off- ̈ cer in charge to report the Com- pany to the Inspector-General of

It places tion that the note was forged, and giving him change, and suspected landlords were summoned for not and accordingly accused was chand and that a forged note was subsequently taking the necessary precautions. strøstad, zu A foki of the shop substituled for the que he had against a typhoon in respect of opposite, said that he recognised the tendert He had not been in their properties in the centre of to be accused as the man who had passed Hong Kong prior to Monday, and so the city, The Building Authority, whois similar forged note in his shop in could not have passed”” a note in who prosocuted, gave evidence of this April and chiained change for it. April is alleged by the foki of the the utter disregard of warne,

After Mr. Y, Segalèn, ⠀ accountant, other shop: The Magistrate con: Inga- regarding Insecure windows, sease as we should like, it is far of the Banque de Fimo-Chime had victor and passed sentence of four doors, and roofs, and fines of $25

It is deplorable given expert evidence on Thote, montig hard labour. Danske

ench were imposed floorplan, cops a

studied maps with a ruthless care diverse phar which if they could only use in charmin the office would make them tal-is

were the typh