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Library, Supreme Court

China Mail

No. 27,576

ESTABLISHED

1846

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1930.*

BRITON SHOT IN THE DUKE'S FUNERAL. BOMBS HURLED AT ATTEMPT TO KILL

BACK.

Captain Ashcroft Dies During Engagement. TRIBESMEN DEFEATED.

Rugby, Yesterday.

In a weekly appreciation by the Government of India of the situa-

TO BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

PRESCRI TIVE RIGHT.

CHIEF OF POLICE.⠀⠀⠀

Assailant Killed by Piece of Shrapnel.

CHAUFFEUR INJURED.

PREMIER.

Strange Action of Anti- British Fanatic.

SON OF A DEPUTY.

Cairo, Yesterday.

*

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. -The closing, rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/3.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

DISGUSTING LIBEL AGAINST NURSE.

Scurrilous Article · in "Mosquito" Paper.

JUDGE'S SYMPATHY.

•

Dainty Eyeglasses

N. LAZARUS Ophthalmic Optician

13, Queen's Road Central..

NEW YEAR HONOURS THREAT TO STARVE

INVESTITURE AT GOVERNMENT A BUSINESS WOMAN.

HOUSE.

HAICHING ECHO.

His Excellency the Governor, (Sir William Peel, K.C.B.E., C.M.G.), will hold an investiture

Peculiar Partnership Issue in Court.

$200 FOR WITNESSES ?

A peculiar case was heard at the

this

Rughy, Yesterday: The Duke of Northumberland, who died on Saturday, is to be buried in Westminster Abbey on

Calcutta, Yesterday.

"This is getting too much. My at Government House on Monday, The Dukes of Wednesday,

The Commissioner of Police, Sir The man arrested on the train Lord. The mosquito" paper at-September 1, at 10.50 a.m., for Supreme Court this morning before Northumberland have the pres- Charles Tegart, interviewed, was is a Soudanese nimed Hussein mosphere is setting intolerable in the purpose of conferring honours the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph H. tion in India, it is stated that by criptive right to burial in the very calm, and said that the Taher. A draughtsman on the Hong Kong, and there must be a upon the following gentlemen, all August 19 the Afridi Lashkar had Abbey and also to the use of the bombs landed, one to the left and State Railways, he was educated deterrent," said Mr. M. K. I to of whom appeared in the 1930 Kemp, K. C. Orignally the case for for the plaintiff was conducted by dispersed, although Tew small great west door, which is the en-the other to the right side of the at Gordon College, Khartum, and the Puiane Judge, (Mr. Justice New Year'a Honours List: parties still remained in the dis- trance to the Abbey reserved for car. He took his revolver from jis said to be an anti-Egyptian, J. R. Wood) at the Summary C.B.E. Rear-Admiral R. A. S. by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by a cupboard and told the driver to anti-British fanatie. His father, Court this morning, when he ap-Hill, R.N., Commodore-in-charge, Messrs. d'Almada and Mason, but trict. Congress emissaries from Royalty. British territory are, however, ro- No other family in the land has pull round, and when the car had Taher Bey, was formerly a Deputy peared to prosecute Lo Cheung of Naval Establishments, Hong

wan, Editor of a small paper call-Kong, and Civil Establishments, when the case was resumed ported to have passed up the Bara this prescriptive right, but it has turned back 10 or 15 yards, he and a keen British supporter.

ed the Tai Fai Fut (Grant Joy). Naval Yard. The saw a fellow lying, in the corner Valley to urge Afridis to renew not always been exercised.

morning. Counsel did not put in on coffin will be taken through the jof Dalhousie Square. Sir Charles

The plaintiff in the action was O.B.E. (Military).Dr. (ex-appearance. hostilities.

A Berber dressed: ostitit 3,000 Afridis were pre-groat west door and placed in the Tegurt jumped out and ran to the and armed with a sharp axe, was at the Tung Wah Hospital, who Gerrard, M.D., M.R.C.P. (Lon-

Au Lai-yung, a girl student nurse Surgeon-Commander, RN) W. I. man earth contractor, conducted her sent at the usual Friday Jirga at Northumberland tomb in the spot. short August 22 and an aero- Chapel of St. Nicholas.-British badly hurt and died or outside the compartment in which defendant in consequence of an cine, Hong Kong University, and

He found the man very found in the corridor of a train, claimed $1,000 damages from the don), D.F.II., Professor of Medi-ewn case. efterward. Two bombs and a plane doing reconnaissance there Wireless Service.

loaded revolver were found in his travelling to Cairo, shortly after July 21.

the Premier, Sidky Pasha,

article published against her on medical consultant, Hong Kong was fired upon. At the northern

Government. border of Peshawar district laji

possession.

the train left Alexandria.

O.B.E.-Captain 0. H. Farrar, The man, who was arrested, is

O.B.E.-Mr. Robert Ferry. M.B.E.-Mr. F. C. Duxon. M.B.E. Mr. A. J. Johnson. M.B.E.-Mr. A. de Mello. The honours awarded Captain Farrar, and Messrs. Perry, Duxon,

There has fortunately have remained active among the been a marked improvement in upper Mohmands and Utman the Sind, where the communal

of Turningzai and his emissaries vigour.

Two constables arrested an- other Indian, who was bleeding, He is a law student.

Earlier News.

48 4

waiter,

Outlining his case, Mr. Lo said that the plaintiff had been made

Khel. The Firga of two sections situation was reported last week and had a revolver and a bomb believed to have had designs on the the'subject of ridicule as a result!

of the latter tribe interviewed the to Deputy Commissioner on August now under control.-British Wire-

bo serious. The position is

less Service.

Assailant Shot Dead.

Sir Charles Tegart added that! Lone bomb struck a coolie and dam- nged two motor cars and the front of a shop. Pieces of a bomb pierced the door of his car. One was embedded in the tyre, and another slightly injured the driver in the arm. The bombs were of the Mills type, made of aluminium and alloy.

Arms from Japan.

16. They undertook to commit no more offences against the Govern-

Rugby, Yesterday. ment, to refrain from joining any hostile Lushkar, and to refuse An attempt was made to-day to passage to any hostile Lashkar of kill Sir Charles Tegart, the Police other tribes. In view of this Commissioner for Calcutta.. Two undertaking their 11 prisoners bombs were flung at his car as he captured at Pallai were released, was motoring to his office. They It is clear, however, that Haji has exploded in the road, wounding met with a good deal of success the chauffeur and damaging the

Later, among the upper Mohmands and car.. Sir Charles Tegart himself

The law student arrested in Leaping from the connection with the attempt on possibly some part of the Uthan was unhurt.

great car, he drew his revolver and shot Sir Charles Tegart is named Khel tribe, and still has hopes of raising Lashkar to at one of his assailants dead. Then Dinesh Chandra Majumdar. The tack Peshawar district by way of he chased another of his assail- Police assisted by armed Gurkhas, ants, who was captured by a are searching a number of houses police sergeant. The third assail-in the city. It is stated that On the Kurram border intenant was wounded by the explosion. 5,000 revolvers of Japanese make sive bombing of Massozai and Sir Charles Tegart, who is 49, has were recently distributed among Par: Chamkannis had a very good been in the Indian police since the extremist students. effect, Massozai Jirga

and 1901-British Wireless Service.

Gandao.

Intensive Bombing.

one

Band of Terrorists.

Calcutta, Yesterday.

Premier's life.-Reuter.

SLAVE TRAFFIC.

Report Of Committee Of Enquiry.

of the article complained of.

His Lordship: Is it a paper with a wide circulation?

A Dollar & Copy.

The defendant, a wo-

The Ho Shing firm, who was the plaintiff in the case, first brought an action against the Ying Fat fem for the recovery of $2,200.. They. obtained judgment, but the woman, who was alleged to be a partner in the Ying Fat Arm refused to pay: She said that she was not a part-

Mr. Lo said ordinarily the paper Johnson, and de Mello are for per-ner and denied all responsibility. had a very small circulation, but sonal bravery in frustrating the The present action was therefore in- with no article of that scurrilous attempted piracy aboard the 9.9.stituted against her on the ground nature, it commanded a very big Haiching on December 8 last year, that she was a partner.

sale. People would even pay $1 At the time of the piracy Captain

for

A witness from the plaintiff firm

a copy, and without such Farrar was in command, Mr. articles, the paper was not worth Perry was Chief Officer, Mr.said in evidence that he had been five cents. It was well-known Duxon Chief Engineer, Mr. John-engaged by the defendant for the that "mosquito" papers in the son, second officer, and Mr..de Ying Fat firm, and he remained there' Colony, were thriving on articles Mello, third engineer. of that kind.

Geneva, Yesterday. The "committee of inquiry Continding, Mr. Lo said that the into the fraffic in women and plaintiff had been a student nurse in the hospital for three years, children in the Far East has

and it was her hope to pass out concluded its work, and has

this year. The article in question decided to confine the inquiry bad done her much harm, and it to international aspects of

was needless for him to say that there was absolutely no truth in the question. Nevertheless,

lit. the investigators way, if The Offensive Article............:: necessary, inquire from a The article in question in its

was as translated form a national basis, should nation-

fol. lows:- al conditions promote the

[Miss Au Redressed her traffic. The investigators Grievances in a Justifiable will be instructed to seek the

Way.] assistance of native organisa- tions which have developed in recent years, particularly in China.--Reuter.

The First News. ⠀ *V* Jirga of

section of

Calcutta, Yesterday. the Para Chamkannis have

Two bomba were thrown at Seven arrests were made at come in to Para Chinar to make overtures for settlement. The midnight in connection, with the car in which Sir Charles Tegart, agitation, however, has spread to attack on Sir Charles Tegart. It the Police Commissioner, was driv

is understood that the searches ing to his office. They exploded on other tribes.

names of the roadway and fragments wound- On August 19 Ahmadzai'Ghilzai revealed the list of collected Lashkar on Peiwar Kotal members of a terrorist band who ed the driver and damaged the car.

Sir Charles Tegart was unhurt] in the neighbourhood of Utsar were planning outrages in Cal- and Bargawisar. Reconnaissance cutta and Bengal. Those arrested but one of the assailants was hit aeroplanes were heavily fired upon belong to the same body as the by the fragments and it is belleved from these two points and Militia Chittagong armoury raiders. was mortally injured.-Reuter.

[Sir Charles pickets in upper Urram were fired Reuter.

Tegart, C.I.E., on from Utsar. Thanks to the

Another Report.

M.V.O., joined the Indian Police Simla, Yesterday. Force in 1901. He was awarded Details of the Hathikhel the King's Police Medal in

excellent defensive

measures

adopted by the Kurram Militia

1

1911.

and village levies, together with Massozai clash show that Captain He is the son of the late Rev. J. PILSUDSKI AGAIN. the successful measures adopted Ashcroft, with a mixed force of P. Tegart, of Dunboyne, Co. Meath, by the local Afghan authorities to infantry and frontier constabulary and was educated at the Portora restrain the tribes on their side of police, moved from Bannu to oc- Royal School and Trinity College, the border, the rebels dispersed cupy ground where a meeting Dublin. He was knighted In after a few days without further under a hostile Mullah had been 1926.] committing themselves.

Provincial reports for the first

advertised. The Mullah appeared with large forces, one of which fortnight of August continue to he was defending himself.. He attacked Captain Ashcroft, while show marked improvement ini most of the provinces. In Madras was shot dead from behind.

A general engagement, follow-

a number of breaches of law and ed, in which the Mullah himself consequent prosecutions continues was killed.

CANTON'S ZOO.

·GENERAL TENG DONATES A TORTOISE.

Canton, Yesterday. to fall. In Bengal the improve-

Officers and men of the Royal As previously reported, the con- ment has been so marked that it Air Force attended Jirga instruction work on the new Zoo- is possible to discern a tendency Kurram, where the Massozais logical Garden and Aquarium. to return to normal conditions. tendered complete submission and located on the site of the former There has been less picketing, brought in all fugitives from French Consulate at Wai Oi Road. particularly in Calcutta, and the justice. hiding in their territory, has commenced since April 27. movement generally has much including a man who was outlaw-As it is now on the point of com- weakened. A good sign in several ed for 25 years. The Massozafe pletion, the various magistrates In -districts is the increased; attend-

Ance at schools, and the boycott "greed to ban Congress preachers Kwangtung have been instructed

by the municipal government to! of educational institutions seems

from their territory.

send in the different kinds of animals to the garden for exhibi- tion.

to be falling.'.

Attack on Schools. **

New Hostile Forces,

London, Yesterday. The Government of India's ap- In the United Provinces the preciation of the situation up to chief feature of the fortnight was attack on educational institutions August 23 mentions the peace moves by some tribes on the On the

General Teng Yin-wah, the Com- missioner of Reconstruction, has been pleased to send in a "fai from which Muhammadane, North West Frontier.

Moo" (tortolse); weighing over however, kept aloof. There has contrary, the massing of new three feet to that garden.

200 cattles and measuring over been very serious interference

The with atudles

at Allahabad. ostile. forces is reported in cer Tai-Moo" was caught at 'El Sha Benares, and Lucknow Univer- tain districts, but India proper is island some time past-Canton

sities, but a recent report in the Press states that students have

"distinctly easier."

The notorious Haji of Turang- zai has been active in trying to

News Agency/

revolted at the first mentioned raise an invading force to attack YUET-HAN RAILWAY University against this interfer- Peshawar district from the north. ence with their future careers.

The Punjab records a definite The agitation spread to Kurram and practically universal decline on the border, and caused a re- in Congress activities and move crudescence of activity in Waziris- ment is moribund. The situation

tan.

PURCHASE OF NEW CARGO COACHES.

Canton, Yesterday! in Bombay City is more stable so

Although the situation in most With a view to meeting the re far as law and order is concerned, of the provinces is easier, con- quirements for the transport of but economic conditions tend to ditions nowhere are normal.cargo on the Canton Shfukwan line deteriorate and more 'milla have

Reuter.

(Yuet-Han), the railway adminis, been closed down.

tration has obtained the approval The above record of improve-Simla, Yesterday of the Ministry of Railways to ment must be qualified in certain. While reports from the Kurram sanction a sum of $900,000 for thé respects. The boycott of foreign region chronicle the complete sur-purchase of dew cargo co goods in still effective In many render of the Massozal tribesmen,

Earller News.

Understood that, an

towns and picketing, although on the Hathi Khel Wazirs, resulting the decline, is still practised to a considerable extent. Although, heavy cazuties

|'u 'Berious"" clash, has occurred with had been placed with, 8 Arm

for, auch new coiches

therefore the situation

provinces is disti

no provicë

hand fghtingNATHA

The Bri

In

hand-to-

have now been receiv

that the coaches im July

DICTATOR OF POLAND BACK

IN OFFICE..

TO FORM A CABINET.

Warsaw, Yesterday. Marshal Pilsudski has formed a Cabinet Reuter.

Marshal Pusuðski

(By Ki Ki), "Miss Au is studying în · a medical school in which people addressed each other as "Miss.” For this reason I also call her as such. The place in which Au |

is studying is-known as the "Western China Hospital."

for seven months..

someone else, who was also one .Defendant's Denial. of the people in the hospital. Defendant denied this and sai Next day, the chauffeur want-that she had known the witness's ed to have a talk over love with

the very one he loved and the father who was also an earth con- beloved one was in the room for tractor. It was witness's father confined women. When he was who had asked her to patronise the who had also about to push open the door to Ying Fat Arm, and go in, he discovered Miss Au told her that he had a share of was there. She stopped him, several thousands of dollars in the saying: "Did you not know the firm. She did. The firm was a rules? Can anyone rush into bank and money changer.

After

a room for confined women?" having deposted some mancy there, -The chauffeur being debarred she later found that the Ying ́ Fat' by the rules retired sullenly firm had closed down, and a foki and narrated" the matter to told her that the plaintiff had with- some other people and the drawn every cash in the bank. matter was better known. Continuing, defendant said she Miss Au has been the subject of went to see the plaintiff on several a small periodical in which she occasions in an attempt to get her was described as the "Three money back.

Plaintiff and his son and Half Mouths."

Generally Insulting.

scolded her and said that she was saucy. On one occasion they point- Commenting on the article, Mr. ed their fingers at her, and said

get a

Au's sweet age is nearly 24, Lo said that the only construction that they would get ber involved go Although in her study of medi-one could put on it.was that the that she would not even

plaintiff was cine she acquired a large stock morals; a woman whose age had

2 woman of loose mouthful of food to eat. of knowledge from textbooks, made her to seek a mate, but had no

Too Late to Sue. yet she has not acquired the means of gratifying her desire. knew that the plaintiff had paid put Defendant further said that she experience in practical work. She was represented as a The demand of her age and not fit for good company, and that purpose of this case, but she was woman $200 to buy their witnesses for the physique for something is cer- she was not fit to be a nurse. unable to produce them unless the tainly not confined to Miss Au His Lordship: I agree that the Court made the order. She added alone, but she though rich in article is generally insulting, but that as amatter of fact she was her talent, is poor in beauty. I want to know exactly what she going to sue the Ying Fat firm. Her form is small and not had suffered from it.

graceful and her line of beauty

Evidence

is not prominent. She is fond Plaintiff in the

Was then

called.

box said that in

but she was too late as the other party had done it before her.

The case is proceeding.

of laughing charmingly and she laughs in the same way as that reading the article, she knew it re- ferred to her, and this opinion was of Lon Chaney. The reason

Even

IS YOUR NAME HERE ? why the title as a Mise of Au als held by her friends.

the Directors at the Tung Wah could remain unchanged up to

Mall has been received at the the present moment was be-Hospital had instructed the House cause her way in laughing was She felt that her reputation had the following persons:

Surgeon to enquire into the matter. American Cousulate General for like that."

The Prince Charming.

1

"In spite of this Au wanted

been damaged.

Geo. A. Allan, Miss F. Bont. Asked as to what harm it would wicke, J. A. Conley, R. G. Cooper,

to get rid of her title as a Miss have on her future career as a nurae S. Domingo, VH. Donnelly, H. C. for a long time. It happened and midwife, Mr. Le explained that Evans, Fish, F. Hamilton, S. that a certain doctor of the said all students entering the Hospital Madripan, Miss E. S. Maynard, J. three years. Murphy, W. G. Ockland, Miss A. hospital invariably rode on a would have to serve

They were not paid anything, ex-Riggin. G. B. Rogers, Sadiq, Mrs. car when he went out to or came in from the busy centre and cepting their board and lodging, K. Smith, A. B. Taylor, G. L. that the chauffeur of the said and should they break their contract Townsend... doctor was In Sai Tso (that is before the three years were out, their parents would have to refund Tam) being handsome young man. The nature of the latter a certain sum of money to the Hos- was both sweet and gentle, so pistal for their board and lodging. that fair sex was very fond of After three years, the students were him. Miss Au, working in the sufficiently trained to enable thems the Midwifery same place, was well acquainted to study under with the said young man and Board for one years, and they could eventually fell in love with him then set up their own private for some time. One evening she practice,

invited him to go to a cinema Frivolous and Flirty." house.The chauffeur being He would not go so far as to any ignorant of the fact that she it, but there was the probablity had fallen in love with him, that plaintiff's reputation was in- however, declined to accept her jured to such an extent that even invitation.The said Miss got if she passed out, she would not be very, wild. A third party able to set up her own practice, for secretly watched all this and the simple reason that no women the said Miss declared that he wanted a frivolous and flirty mid- ⠀⠀ (the chauffeur) was like a toad wife to attend them during their

Intending to eat the flesh of a confinement.

swan. The chauffeur too got His Lazdship: Yes, quite pas- wild and explained the whole Bible

matter and people in the hos In his final submission, Mr. Lo pítal took that as material for said that the case was not one in gossip. The sald Miss Telt more Indignant than ever

Pilsudskins known as of Poland, adopted at Cover Someone Else atic attitude which cause vision in the Parliament, which he was obliged to res

sign office);20

which pecuniary damages was to be taken into copaideration Thosa sort of cases had been too frequent of late, and the Colony should be

The chauffeur, was not piece of stone or wood. He purified of the mosquito" papers however, concentrated his love atmospherefor not on the said Miss, but on

(Continued on Page D.). ***

·FAIR WEATHER.

The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day states:

Pressure la relatively low. near the Bonins and to the west of Korea

OF

Presaura gradients are shal low over the Chlua sea,

Forecast Light SE. variable winds; fair.

Rainfall Rainfall to 10 am. to-day- 0.08 inch. Rainfall since January, 1, 66.50 Inches against an average of 64.02 inches.

Temperature and Humidity,

The temperature and humidi.. ty at certain specified centres. Ahle morning at o'clock.

wered

Hong Kong Macao Pratas Islan

Manila

Foochow

Amoy

Temp. Humidi:

70

94

95

96

Swatow

Chefoo

86

Shanghai