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THE

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Double-drop frame-lower, stendier, and

costlier

Self-adjusting

proof

spring shackles rattle

HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25, Queen's Road C. & at Stubbs Road.

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

RIGHTS ON THE HIGHWAY.

Rikisha Fare's Claim

for Damages.

STORY NOT ACCEPTED.

The

China Mail

No. 27,687

PRINCESS ROYAL.

PASSES AWAY PEACEFULLY IN HER SLEEP.

HEART FAILURE,

London, Yesterday. II.R.H. the Princess Royal died: at 2.30 p.m. to-day,

A bulletin states: "The Princess

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. — The

BLISHED closing rate of the dollar on

'demand, to-day was 1/- .

1846

HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.

PIRATE JUNKS ABROAD?

Alleged Attack on Local Vessel.

NAVY TO THE RESCUE !

News of what is alleged to be

FELIX VILLAS TRAGEDY.

Alleged Murder of a House Boy.

CASE FOR THE CROWN.

Chu Suk-mei (22) a Shanghai na-

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

DUNLOP Special

Extra

- Construction

-

For

Overseas Motoring Conditions.

FORT MOTOR CYCLE TYRES.

LOCAL BRANCH. ·

Pedder, Didg.

VAST AMERICAN OIL MISS AMY JOHNSON. SKELETON OF IRISH

COMBINE.

Powers of "International Company, Limited.”

HEADQUARTERS IN GERMANY.

New York, Yesterday.

AVIATRIX FORCED TO LAND IN POLAND.

'PLANE DAMAGED.

Warsaw, Yesterday, Miss Amy Johnson was forced

KING FOUND.

Treasure Concealed in Royal Vault.

EXCAVATIONS AT TARA. to land 60 miles north of here.

Mr. Justice T. Jacks this morn-

She was unhurt, but the under-

Rugby, Yesterday, ing gave judgment in the Sum-Royal passed away peacefully in an attempted piracy upon a Hong tive, appeared before Mr. R. E.

The Standard Oil Company of carriage of the 'plane was smash-

Remains 2,000 years old, have mary Court in the case in which her sleep at 2.30 in the presence Kong trading junk, by two other Lindsell at Central Magistracy New Jersey has strengthened its ed.

Taken to Warsaw.

been found on the Sheebeg Mount- B. Kawahara, a Japanese eating of her daughters. Princess Arthur junks, was communicated to the this morning, on the charge of the operations abroad by the forma

of Chan Yee (33). tion of the "International Com-

Warsaw, Later. tain, near

Carrick-on-Shannon, house keeper of 19, Peking Road, of Connaught and Lady Maud Naval authorities by the s.s. Hang murder

Engine trouble Felix pany, Limited," in which are con-

during fog. Ireland. Kowloon, brought

action Carnegie, who received urgentang last night, as a result of house boy employed at 9,

After removing “hun-*. against Mr. A. B. Didsbury, Prin. messages at their homes in Lon-which H.M.S. Semme was sent to Villas, Mount Davis Road, where solidated all the shipping activi-forced down Miss Johnson. She cipal Printing Officer, Victoria don when signs of heart failure the scene, and took charge of the the alleged crime was committed in ties of its subsidiaries in foreign was taken into a priest's house, dreds of tons of rack, rubble and

whole three, and their Jail, claiming $500 as general became apparent."

crews, the early hours of Saturday, De-waters. The plan provides for whence she telephoned to the block dressed masonry weighing damages arising out of a motor!

There will be six weeks of Court which were escorted back to Hong comber 13.

bunkers and all other floating Embassy. She intended proceed 10 tons barring the entrance, anti- The case for the Crown was con- equipment of its 17 subsidiaries ing to Warsaw by train, but the quarians found in the Royal vault accident in Queen's Road East, mourning for the Princess Royal, Kong, where the suspects were near Seven and Six Penny Hill, four full and two half-Reuter. anded over to the Police. ducted by Mr. T. Murphy, 2nd. in Europe to become "pooled" into Embassy despatched a motor car

a King and on the afternoon of October 12.

Earlier News.

A Police report states that the A.D.C... whilst accused was not one organisation and one manage, to bring her. She said that she the skeletons of The Judgment.

London, Yesterday. junk said to have been attacked legally represented.

Iment, which is believed to be the encountered extremely bad wea- Queen facing towards the former His Lordship read his judg

The following bulletin, signed by, was bound for San Mun with gen- Handing up photographs, and largest private oil carrying marine ther immediately she left Berlin, Royal Scat of Tara. Treasure and ment as follows:-

two doctors, was issued at Portman eral cargo and pigs. The inci- plans of the building to his Wor-outfit on the other side of the and adverse winds drove her in a The plaintiff claims that he has Square at 12.15 .m. this morning: dent occurred off Ping Hoi. The ship hir. Murphy explained that Atlantic.

northerly direction. Finally she armour are believed to be conceal- suffered damage from the defen-1

The Princess Royal, who has alleged pirate junks contained house No. 9, was the end one on The lines on which the company landed in a small field on rough ed in another chamber.--British

Wireless Service. dant's negligence in driving his been an invalid for some time paat crews of six men each, as did the the west side of a block of houses. will be operated are said to be ground.

The master of the Hang One photograph showed that the similar to those of the Standard

Fall of Snow.

[In the early centuries of our car No. 2807 in such a manner as en account of heart trouble, has re- trader.

Berlin, Saturday. to collide with great force with cently shown signs of increasing Sang observed the affair, and kitchen door was opened, and that Shipping Company, representing stood by, meanwhile communicat-the window had a perpendicular several thousand oil tankers,

Miss Amy Johnson resumed her era Ireland was occupied by races public rikisha No. 489 in which weakness."-Reuter. the plaintiff was being driven ini [The Princess Royni. H.R.H.ing with the Naval authorities. iron grille. Coming to the case, barges, and equipment for oil fight to Peking at noon, taking off from Milesia, and practically all. Queen's Road East on October 12,. Louise Victorin Alexandra Arms Dumped Overboard? Mr. Murphy said that the houseboy commerce in American waters. from Liege in the hope of reaching, the Milesian pedigrees converge 1930, causing personal injuries to Dagmar, is the eldest daughter ofi Twelve suspects were handed was employed at 9, Felix Villas The headquarters of the new Berlin. She landed at Cologne at on three ancestors in the second the plaintiff. The plaintiff was the late King Edward VII. She over, but it is understood that so (the residence of M. and Mme, R. Company will be established at 2.34 p.m.

century-Conn Cetchatach, King Lichtenstein.

Her flight from Liege was car- in consequence put to expenses in was born in February 1867 and far no arms have been discover-

a steady fall of of Tara, Cathair Mor of Leinster, medical attendance and massage married the 1st Duke of Fife in. It is learned, however, that

The operations will include rled out through treatment and was also prevented July 1889.

She plans to continue her and Ailill Aulom of Murister. She is Colonel in Chiefs H.M.S. Somme approached the

the complete control of all other snow. from following his occupation.

of the 4th-7th Dragoon Guards.] The plaintiff

allocated to various foreign subsi-ther permitting.

Milesian conquest is the establish- was unable to state how the accident occurredį,

diaries affiliated to the Standard

ment of a central monarchy at of proving negligence is on the ing. and he did not call any evidence to plaintiff, but he contended: prove negligence on the part of

First: That en December 18 is as follows:- the defendant, for reasons which the defendant's solicitor paid a 1 will refer to later.

Defendant's Facts.

sum of $12.60 into Court "hoing the amount admitted to be due to the plaintiff," and the admission

The defendant's solicitor stated

vessels the attackers were seen to dump something overboard. The Police investigation is proceed-}

The text of the Naval message

As a result of information re- ceived from the s.s. Hang Sang to the effect that a junk was being pirated by two pirate junks near Pedra Blanca, H.M.S. Somme was sent to in- vestigate. H.M.S. Somme took charge of the three junks and: suspects, and returned with; them to Hong Kong, where the suspects were taken over by the Police' authorities.

The facts as stated by the de- that anything is due on a claim fendant are as follows:~

for negligence is an admission of On October 12 at about 5.30 the negligence on which the claim p.m., the defendant was driving is founded.. his car No. 2807 in a westerly direction along Queen's Road that he had no intention of admit- East, when he was passing rear ting negligence, but his

client Wellington Barracks there were thought it was only fair that he two cars in front of him. These should pay the plaintiff's doc- overtook a tram, and as he was tor's bill." about to follow them the rikisha

Unfortunate Letter. In which the plaintiff was a pas-

The letter accompanying this senger drew out from the left "payment in was unfortunate. behind the second car, which had for if there was no intention to first overtaken it and the tram;ladmit negligence, the payment the defendant was then only about should have been made with a de- four yards behind the rikisha nial of liability. with the tram on his right. He

Chung Wai, & P.W.D. coolie, ap- I did not believe the defendant put on his brakes, but before his intended to admit negligence, but peared before Mr. Butters at the car came to a standstill it touch- reserved my decision on the Kowloon Magistracy to-day, and ed the side of the rikisha and the point, though under my general was sentenced to one year's im- off-wheel of the rikisha was caught power

to rectify errors, I prisonment and 20 strokes, for bag

on

CLUTCHING HAND.

JAIL AND BIRCH FOR BAG SNATCHER.

incident occurred int

Mrs. This Chatham Road, yesterday.

the buffer spring of the could have allowed the defen- snatching defendant's car and lifted a few dant to amend his payment in by 'The inches off the ground. The riki-adding a denial of liability. sha was not overturned. The has been done in Higher Courts in Louis, of No. 2, Humphreys rikisha puller was

not thrown similar cases (Davis v. Scott-Lewis Avenue, was walking along the down, the occupant jumped clear 1918, W.N. 166); but this might street when defendant snatched and disappeared

her handbag, breaking the strap. amongst the have involved an adjournment. passers-by.

decided to proceed with the hearing A European gave chase and The rikisha puller helped the in order that I might see for my caught him. The value of the defendant to lift the rikisha off self whether the exclusion of the contents of the bag was $82. the buffer spring and then willing-admission would in any way pre the offence defendant said that he When asked why he committed ly accompanied the defendant to judice the plaintiff's case, but in

the Central Police Station to mitke view of the plaintiff's next conten- had no money!

a report of the accident, The tion I do not believe he had any in- defendant said he did not see the tention of proving negligence on plaintiff's face, so was unable to the part of the defendant, even if identify him in the crowd which he could do so, for his second con- had asesmbled and could not take tention was ***** him to the station as well. He further said that he had no rea- maxim "res

That this case is governed by the ipsa loquitur" and son to suppose he was injured.

At the Police Station the de- that it was for the defendant to

Plaintiff's Version.

rebut the allegation of negligence, not for the plainti to prove it.

MRS. J. M. XAVIER.

ed.

SECOND APPEARANCE AT MAGISTRACY.

Mrs. Jesuina

Maria

Xavier,

DRIZZLE OR MIST.

To-day's weather report from the Royal Observatory states:

A strong anti-cyclone is con-. tral to the North of Korea.

of

The typhoon appears to be about 400 miles East Padaran, moving West.

Moderate monsoon prevalls along the S.E. Coast of China and over the N. China Sea.

Forecast:-N.E. winds; mo- derate; generally overcast, some drizzle or mist.

The American Consulate- General has received the fol- lowing typhoon warning from the Manila, Observatory:-

Sunday, 10 a..--Typhoon in about 120 degrees Long. E 13 degrees Lat. N., moving N.W.

Rainfall

to-day Rainfall to 10 a.m. 0.01 inch. Rainfall since Janu- ary 1, 001 inch against an average of 0.12 inch, Temperature.

The temperature at certain specified contres this morning

at 6 o'clock was:-

Hong Kong

68

Macho

63

Pratas Island

76

Manila

Foochow

65

Amoy

67

Swatow Chefoo

67

30

'Shanghai

ទម

floating equipment, which will be light to Berlin to-marrow, wea- The peculiar characteristic of the

Later.

confined.

Oil Company of New Jersey. The Miss Amy Johnson hes arrived Tara, where until the end of the routes of cargoes will be design- from Cologne several hours late third century Milesian power was sted and additional tankers will owing to bad weather.-Router, be chartered, if necessary, or idle tankers be chartered to the "pool."-Reuter's American Ser-

vice.

GERMAN AVIATRIX.

SOLO FLIGHT TO WEST AFRICA.

TO JOIN EXPEDITION.

The remains discovered may joe those of King Cormac MacArt jund his Queen, about whom there, are many records in connection with Tara. King Cormac is anid On the night of the crime,

to have founded here schools of the baby umah was sleep-

military science. Inw, and litera- ing upstairs with. B child.

ture. Tara village, in County The wash aniah and' the

Meath, is celebrated for the Hill of cook were in their respectige quar

Tara, well known through Thomas tera, whilst the victim andaja wife

Moore's ballad, and for many cen- shared the same bed in H (the

The German aviatrix Elli turies & royal residence and the victim's) room. Evendence would be Beinhorn, took off in a light aero-scene of great meetings of the given to say that the victim secured plane from Staken, near Spandau, people. The hill, upon which ave all the doors before retiring. It this morning for West Africa, highroads converged from differ- appeared that just a few minutes via Spain and Morocco, to join ent parts of Ireland, is about 510 before five o'clock on the morning Professor Struck's scientific ex-feet in height, and stands isolated. of December 15, the deceased's wife, pedition in Portuguese West There is a mound and other earth- was awakened by her husband get Africa.-Reuter.

ting out of bed to unlock the door.

Just as he got outside to the pas

sage, he made a half-right turn

Berlin, Yesterday.

POLICE AND COMMUNISTS CLASH IN GERMANY.

MINERS ON STRIKE.

works, on which stands a pillar etone, held to be the stone of des- tiny on which the Irish Kings were crowned. In the time of St

of Druidism and idolatry, and in about 560 it was abandoned as a Royal residence, having fallen under the curse of St. Ruadan].

with the intention of switching on REVOLVER BATTLE. Patrick, Tara was the chief seat. the electric light. The light in his room was on at the time. His wife heard him shout "Ai Yah" several times, saw him come forward, and then fall to the floor. Then a mat- ter of a few seconds followed and the woman would tall the Court that she saw the accused come into the main dear, and stand there with

Berlin, Yesterday. One Communist was killed and and Com-

a long knife, which was stained and several Policemen

hand.

BOAT WOMAN'S FATE

NECK.

which he was holding in his left munists wounded during a revol- BODY WITH ROPE TIED ROUND

battle between Police and Neither spoke a word and ver the accused then disappeared aut Communists in the coal mining district on the left bank of the Rhine, where 32,000 miners are striking-Reuter.

[of sight by way of the kitchen. Ohl) for about 18 months, first as

Blood on the Steps. house coolic, and about three The deceased was lying in a pool months before the crime was com-lof blood as shown in a photograph, mitted, he was No. 1 boy. The ac-and Mr. Murphy pointed out that cused was employed there also as the steps bore marks of blood which No. 1 boy up to the time of his die went to prove that he went forward missal about three months before a little before collapsing. The the crime. Both were Shanghai men, and in the house were also a baby amab, wash amah and cook.

BURMA RIOTS.

AXEMAN CAUGHT.

PLANTATION.

FLOATING IN WATER.

The discovery of a sampan boat, drifting on the water near the Lalchikak Government Waterworks Docks, has aroused suspicion of an armed robbery, as there were no persons on board, but a few pieces of clothing and a stain of

blood was found on one of the dock- boards. The boat drifted into the dock at about a quarter past ten o'clock last night.

alarm was raised and the master FURTHER CLASHES WITH THE

CHINESE. (M., Ohl) came-downstairs, and the Police were communicated with. fendant paid the rikisha puller $1

FIRM STEPS TAKEN. Previous Discord.

Acting on a statement which the in order, as he said, to have no He cited the case of Byrne made her second appearance before Continuing, Mr. Murphy said wife made to the cook, the Police

Rangoon, Yesterday.

At about two o'clock this morn- further trouble with what he con- Boade in support of this conten- Mr. R. E. Lindseli at the Central that the house was surrounded on went to 28 Kennedy Road, at which sidered a trifling matter, The

was place the accused had been employ-injured this morning during a re-

Six persons were killed and 88ng, the body of an unknown Chi- hese woman, aged abðut 80 years, rikisha puller would

not have tion, but that case does not apply Magistracy this morning, on the two sides by a wall which been satisfied with this had any hero, for in that case the plaintiff, charge of having attempted to seven or eight feet in height. The ed as No. 1 boy for about a month, rudescence of the Chinese and was found ficating near the East serious damage been done to his whilst exercising his public right murder art fred J. Manton at victim and his wife occupied the and had occupieil a room in the ser- Burmese rioting. The total from wall of the dock basin. The body

416 Lockhart Road, on December room across the yard. They slept, vants" quarters. rikisha.

to use the highway, was injured by 27, by firing at him with a revolver with their heads toward the kitchen normally slept there, but on the killed and 66 Injured. Strict steps peared to have been the victim of a

The accused the beginning of the trouble is 10 was in a fresh condition and ap The defendant's evidence of a defendant in the exercise of a

Detective-sub-Inspector M. Mur-and the door opened inward, to-night in question two male frionda have been taken to prevent the murder. A rope was tied round. what took place at the Police private right.

phy informed the Magistrate that ward their feet. The door was of the cook stayed with them. One trouble spreading-Reuter. her neck, whilst her hands were. Station was supported by the evid-

No Presumption." ence of Inspector Shaftain.

The maxim "res ipsa loquitur he had seen the doctor this morn- closed at night but not fastened. slept with the accused whilst the

tied together across the front part does not apply to an accident on aing, and was told that Mr. Manton It appeared that the accused boy other occupied a spare hed in, the

of her body, which did not appear: ghway. Those who go on a high-was not out of bed yet. He was was dismissed for causing quarrels room. These two men would say

to have been in the water for any great length of time. She was The plaintiff said he was struck way, or have their property ad- Setting on as well could be expost with other servants, with whom, he, in evidence that the accused rotired as a matter of fact, had even at about midnight, and then, at

dressed in dark blye puter jacket, on the back of the neck, but he jacent, and sustain personal hurt

His Worship romanded Mrs. fought. He was dismissed and the three o'clock in the morning, got CUTTING TREE IN GOVERNMENT blue under looket, with a white does not know what struck him; there, or damage to their property Xavier for another week-

victim was appointed in his place up, dressed himself 'and went 'out

jacket next her skin. Her trousers that he was thrown out of the lying beside it, can only show a

as No. 1 boy. It also appeared that alone, not returning till a little

had been removed. rikisha almost under the car, and right to recover by affirmative evi

the victim was evidentally In fear after seven o'clock. He was ar

The woman appear to be of the that he was dazed for some time, dence of fault in the person doing

of somebody doing an injury to reated by the Police then, being

bost population and has been I cannot believe his recollection the damage. The fact of an ac

CASE WITHDRAWN. him, because in bis room was a pad-fully dressed.

This can have been clear, for had he cident raises n presumption.

man wanders all over Identifled by her kingfolk. Flock and a 'box lock, ^ been on the ground T feel sure man crossing the road is knocked

Aberdeen, supplying various con- body was taken from the water and that the defendant would have down by a cart.

Furthermore, continued Mr. Mur- Merely to prove FALSE MORPHIA LABELS ON

He was taken to No. 7 Police tractors with odd lots of wood," removed to the Kowloon Mortuary. phy, the victim kept an iron BOTTLES. taken him to the Police Station, this shows no cause of action. The

bar in his room, and it is assumed. Station, and later the C.D.I. (Mr. remarked Mr. H. Green. Superin- The Police are making investiga- "The plaintiff, though dazed, plaintiff'. must go further and

that that was there fors defensive Reynolds) and himself (Mr.Lendent of the Botanical and For-tions into this mysterious affair.. Fald he took the number of the specify some breach of duty on the

Their suspicion was at the Central Magistracy when a rikisha and the car before the part of the defendent-the car was fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell, the case purposes. The key that opened his Murphy) made an examination of estry Department this morning

door also could open the door which the accused. latter left. It would seem that driven too fast, was on the wrong against a dispenser of the Queen's led to the yard, and also the door aroused when they found red de Hakka man was charged with hav he might at the same time have side of the road, or swerved, or was Dispensary and two others, who

posite on two of his fingers. They ing trespassed in a Government easily made himself known to the no properly constructed, or was were charged with the unlawful of the foreign kitchen.

took him to the Bacteriologist's In-plantation. He pleaded guilty defendant

stitute, where all the deposit was and diso admitted a previous, con- One Week's formal remend was. varloaded, benco, the accident. possession of six tins of morphine

granted at the request of Petec- The plaintiff said he saw a doc-it is as much the duty of foot at the Tin Wah Teahouse, 19 Des It also opened the wooden door taken from the accused's finger viction in 1928. tor late, and then went to the passingers attempting to cross the Youx Road Central, was withdrawn leading to an open space. During nails, and certified to be blood. Ac- Mr. Green said that it was an tive-Sergeant Goodwin, at the Central Police Station to make his road to look out for passing vehicles by the Revenue Department, the time that the accused was em eused also had a little abrasion on ordinary tree cutting case, and, as Kowloon Magistracy to day, when report Inspector Shaftain said as it is the duty of drivers to see It was stated that on enquiries played at the house, it is alleged a finger of his right hand, also, on the value of the wood was so small Tong Ping was charged, together he also asked for the number of that they do not run over foot pas made it was discovered that the six that he had four duplicate keye the middle finger. His clothing they only charged him with tres with others not in custody, with the defendant's car though if we sengers. The pullers of rikishes hotties contained a mixture of some made, and that three went amlas also hore a few status of blood. An praying, although, when arrested, assaulting Wang Sik-chain a ara to believe the plaint he had has duties whilst using the big drugs resembling morphia, and the ing. The remaining one was found exhaustive search was made for the he was actually cutting a tree. Chinese doctor at No. 60. Laichi-

Kacel way as well as the drivers of motor

orphis, labels, were stuck on the on the fable in deceased's room it. instrument, but without result. Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of lok Road, on March 27, 1920, The latter were obviously had been suficiently bent so as to Exidence was then called, and £50 with the alternative of four armed with tyo pistols and two

aqidaggers.. work the mechanism of the lock the hearing adjourned." **l weeks' hard labour.--

Cases

this kind the onus

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At the Central Magistracy, be

falko.

Duplicate Keys.

Incriminating Stains,"

PENALTY FOR TRESPASSING.

AFTER TWO YEARS,"

The