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DECISIVE STAGE IN THE "A SHAMELESS OLD BRITISH BOMBING HOUSEBOY CHARGED GENERALS MEET IN THE ROMANCE OF

HISTORY OF INDIA

PLANE CRASHES.

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES

DELEGATES ĜENERALLY PLEASED WITH

NEW CONCESSIONS.

SIGNIFICANCE OF FEDERATION

WOMAN!"

Still Telling Lies at 70 Two Officers and One

Years of Age.

Mechanic Killed.

EIGHTH FATALITY.

London, Yesterday,

The Round Table Conference has ended as it opened-in on atmosphere of subdued enthusiasm. Queen Anne's drawing room in St James's Palace was packed for the historic scene when Mr. Ramany MacDonald this afternoon rose to deliver the speech wind-Kong. ing up the Conference.

. Journalists for the first time were admitted to the drawing- room, also to the adjoining salon, where a microphone was fitted. The "talkies" were installed in the drawing-room to record the final proceedings.

DRUGS FOR ACTOR.

was unhurt.

WITH MURDER.

Owner of House Aroused By Shrieks.

TALE OF A FIGHT.

At this morning's hearing of

HONG KONG.

One of the Kwangsi "Big Four Here.

A PEACE TALK.

Canton, Yesterday.

ADVERTISING

Wiles of Hoaxers and Swindlers.

CHESHIRE CATS.

"Seventy years old, and still)

One of the regrettable features you tell lies," said Mr. R. E. Lind- A Royal Air Force "Virginia" the case in which a "boy" is General Wu Ting-yang, the of the history of advertising is sell, at the Central Magistracy bombing 'plane crashed at the charged with murder at Felix erstwhile Kwangsi divisional com- the frequency with which the this morning, to a Chinese woman aerodrome building at Worthy-Villas in the early morning of mander, who was on a mission swindler has invoked the help of who was charged with having had down, near Winchester to-day, two December 18, witnesses were last fortnight to Kwangai, as pre-publicity in order to snare his a quantity of opium and 8 lbs, of dying officers and one aircraftman closely questioned about a door from Hong Kong to Lungchow, this disreputable partnership can viously reported, taking the route prey. Though a brief survey of permits. tobacco in her possession, without being killed. A fourth occupant communicating with the house, at

Eight clerks in the the end of a short passage from via Annam, returned to Hong scarcely be edifying, yet it may Defendant pleaded that she hallding were injured and two the kitchen.

Kong on Saturday in company serve a useful purpose in point- Mr. Ohl, master of the house, brought the druge down to give motor-cars wrecked.--Reuter.

with General Wang Shao-hung, ing out the unchanging methods to an actor at a theatre in Hong [This is the eighth fatal air crash who stated that he was now liv. one of the "Kwangsi Big Four" of the trickster and the unwaver

She did not know the in the Royal Air Force in Great ing at No. 2, Felix Villas, said and called on Canton the following credulity of

the general name of the actor or the name of Britain since January 1 of this that the door in question was in- ing morning in order to report on public.

year.] the theatre.

variably kept open.

the result of his trip in connection It was pointed out to him that in the with the repentence of the rebel varied his technique, his victims If the trickster bas. never Police photograph it was shown leaders to the Canton civil and shut.

military executives.

can roughly be divided into those After having submitted a satis those who get what they deserve,

who suffer Aroused by Shrieks.

undeservedly, and Mr. Obl could advance no ren, factory report, General Wu, ac- son as to why it should have been officer attached to the 8th Route stance are to be assigned the companied by Mr. Ho Tung, Chief To the latter category for in- shut, as when he was aroused by Army Headquarters, proceeded to citizens of Chester, who shrieks, and came downstairs on

Hong Kong, defendant replied Asked if she had ever been in

that she had not been at all, but later said that she had been onee to Wanchai. She added:

Mr. MacDonald's speech, reviewing the work for the past ten "I have been in Hong Kong twice weeks, was cordially cheered when it renewed promises of the confer.only." ment of Dominion Status in India, and gave assurances that India was destined to achieve full self-government.

PROBLEM OF FRANCHISE

"Some Sausages."

His Worship: Then why did you come at all?

Defendant: I brought some sausages with me to give to my friends in Hong Kong..

Mr. Lindsell: You are really a shameless old woman. (then to I don't

London, Yesterday. India would then walk in the ways Reveriue Office Ward) The Maharajah of Patiala, Sir of constitutional progress and de- want to send this woman to jail. Muhammad Shafi, Sir Srinivasa velopment. He concluded by say-She is 73 years old. Sastri and the Begum Shahnawaz ing that Great Britain would not

the

TRAFFIC IN OPIUM.

MODERATE.

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

The anti-cyclone Over S. China has dissipated. AB- other has formed over S.E. Mongolia.

Moderate to fresh monsoon prevails along the S.E. Ccast of China and over the China Sea.

Local forecast:-N.E. winds; moderate; fair.

Rainfall.

Rainfall to 10 a.m. to-day nil. Rainfall since January 1, 0.11 inch against on average of 0.68.

Temperature,

The temperatthe at certain specified centres this morning at 6 o'clock was:-

the hands of the Police.

Blood Stains.

were

8

the night of the crime, he dis- Hong Kong yesterday, with the hoaxed in the year of the Battle tinctly noticed that the door was object of consulting further de- of Waterloo. The city was open. It was still open when he Kwangsi situation with General stating

tailed arrangements of the placarded with advertisements returned with Sergeant Clark.

that, in view of from No. 7 Police Station. After Wang Shao-hung, who was un-Napoleon's exile to St. Helena, it that he left the entire matter in able personally to visit Canton, WAB necessary to make that due to sea-sickness on his voyage island habitable: that at pre- The widow was then recalled. to Hong Kong.

sent it was suffering from She said that when she came out

To Submit Surrender. plague of rats and mice: and that into the passage to give the The object of General Wang in order to rid the island of this alarm the door was shut. She Shao-hung to Hong Kong is to re- pest, the Government would pay herself opened it, so as to call out present the Ironside Kwangsi sixteen shillings for every into the house.

Generals with full authority to athletic full-grown tomcat, ten submit a wholesale surrender to shillings for every adult female It had previously been estab-the Central Government. As puas, and half crown for every Jished that the door opened into soon as he obtains an understand-thriving vigorous kitten." the passage, and the Acting Chief ing from the Canton authorities, Citizens Justice, Mr. J. R. Wood, remarked General Wang will depart together their superfluous cats to a certain were told to bring that there were blood stains with General Wu for Nanking to street in the middle of Chester President shown in It in the photograph, on interview

Chiangat

a given hour. Thousanda the passage side.

Judging by the constant visit of were hoaxed, bringing their cats The first witness called was a General Wu at Canton coupled in tins, baskets, cages, and port: house coolie employed at No. 9. with the recent arrival of

manteaux. The cast went mad, He said he had been employed General Wang Shao-hung at and pandemonium lasted for there for some little time, going, Hong Kong, it appears that

several hours. there after accused was dismiss- peaceful movement of the Kwang- stampede, which followed the In the furious ed, and taking the place of the si situation is now in sight.

crowd's discovery of the hoax, victim, who had been promoted to Vigilance Relaxed.

The Ironside-Kwangai insur-lives; and tradition says that it several thousand cats lost their twice at the house after that. gents have relaxed their vigilance is as a result of this attempt of Witness said he alept with his in Nanking and other ports Chester to sell its feline popula- brother in an inner room across along the upper West River, indi-tion that the Cheshire cat main- the duty of the boy to lock the cative of the conclusion of war-tains to this day a perpetual and gate in the yard, and witness saw fare being fast approaching. A proverbial grin.

Hong Kong

68

Macao

58

Pratas Jeland

70

BEING CONTINUED ON AN

Mánila

68

Foochow

47

IMMENSE SCALE.

Amoy

48

No. 1 boy. He had seen accused

Swatow

48

Chefoo

24

Shanghai

38

LEAGUE INTERVENTION.

Geneva, Yesterday.

ARMED ROBBERY,

WOMAN CHARGED WITH

RECEIVING. RING.

him do so on the night in question. [cording to a report, the insur-

p.m.

awakened Inter the woman.

cluding the provision in the con-Dominion, whether Ireland, Aus-quest for information.. Some gave gold finger ring, which had been noticed that the back gate was pen; and these under Chang Sui-|

for

drugs.

open."

R.O. Ward said that the opium all spoke, thanking Mr. Mac- bo deterred from performing the was found concealed in a patch, Donald and colleagues, also Con- duty of discharging her obliga.which had been sewn on the out- servatives and Liberals, fer tions by threats or violence. She side of a rattan sack. The tobac- their help, guidance, and encour- could and would be won as she co might possibly be for her own agement, to which Mr. MacDonald hoped to win India, by sympathy, consumption, he added. replied by thanking them and goodwill, and co-operation. saying that much work was still. Sir Tej Sapru appealed to the His Worship remanded the to be done; hoping that all would Prime Minister to take his cour-deavour to find anyone who could case till to-morrow, in the en be spared to see it substantially age with both hands and release advanced.

all political prisoners and let a speak up for the old woman. The Premier read a message new era.be established and the from His Majesty replying to the struggle of the last few months Conference's loyal message and be forgotten. wishing the delegates Godspeed.

Give and Take. Mr. MacDonald concluded by

Sir Tej Sapru began his speech adjourning the Conference sine (which concluded by appealing dic.

The delegates gave three for a release of prisoners), stress- hearty cheers for the King Eming the unanimity of feeling peror, the Prime Minister, Lord among the Indian delegates that Justice Sankey, and Mr. Wedge they were leaving behind a friend- wood Benn. The band of the ly Britain whose greatest states- The League of Nations Central Coldstream Guards in an adjoin men came to talk terms of equal. Opium Board of publicity and pro- ing room played "God Save the ity in a spirit of give and take, paganda has failed to reduce ap

In fact the man asked witness if he gent soldiers in uniform are sel- That the rage of a credulous King" and "Auld Lang Syne.". not to dictate to Indians. Hepreciably the world traffic in opium,

had done so, and receiving a reply dom seen in the Kwangsi capital; mob's disillusionment may well At the Conference this morn- said that three central ideas had reported Mr. Lyall, the Chairman

in the negative, bolted the gates they are said to have entrenched prove a menace to the peace has ing the session unanimously pass-emerged from the Conference, of the Opium Committee to the

immediately. ed a resolution expressing the firstly, the materialisation of the Council.

This was about 8,80, themselves in the neighbouring been shown time and again. Per

villages and towns of Nan-haps the most notable instance opinion that the reports of the idea of an All-India Federation, He said that the traffic continued

Awakened By Screams. sub-committees afforded material largely owing to the patriotic at en an immense scale, and failing

king, in the virtue of avoiding a was the Bottle Hoax in 1749, of the highest value for use in titude of the Indian Princes; other means the Board must use its

Witness. then retired, and was possible conflict with the Canton when, in order to test the framing

credulity of the public, the Duke by screams from forces at the front. constitution for secondly, the idea of responsibili powers to denounce the countries

of Montagu advertised that on He and his brother

Cantonese Dispositions, India, embodying as they did sub-ty at the centre; thirdly, that which are in danger of becoming

ran acrosa to the kitchen, the door Before receiving orders for a certain evening at the Hay stantial agreement on the main india must in future be prepared centres of the illicit traffic.

e man "would ground plan; also expressing the

Io connection with the armed

of which was open, and the light in-further advance, the Cantonese market Theatre to defend herself. He was pre-

side burning. opinion that arrangements should pared for many doubts in India Council complains of certain coun-second floor, a

tavern bottle, with- They went through force of the 69th division under get into a The report of the Board to the robbery at 62a Banham Road, to the passage. "There I saw the Yu Hon-mou and the Independent out equivocation, and while there

woman appeared be made to pursue without inter-about the scheme, but emphasised) tries, some of whom have signed before Mr. R. E. Lindsoll at the ness sald, "The boy was lying on are now stationed in Penyang; any spectator to handle the ruption the work on which the that there had not been a single the Geneva Opium Convention, Central Magistracy this morning,

boy's wife and my master," wit- Brigade under Wang Yam-wanaing several songs, and suffer Conference had been engaged, in-constitution established in any being slow in responding to ita re charged with having received a

the ground. As I returned Ithose under Lai Ting-kam in Lai-bottle."

Thousands besieged the then- stitution of adequate safeguards tralia, or South Africa, which had the figures only of legal Imports, stolen.

kwei in Kweiping,

tre; and when it became appar- Mussulmans, depressed classes, Sikhs and all other im- not been taken exception to by not referring to the seizure of illicit

Cross-examined, witness said ho Since their withdrawal to the jent that no such miracle was to Detective-Sergeant Meadows, for a certain number of people. portant minorities.

or four Yunnan border, the Yunnanese take place, the infuriated mob, Others lumped their tro- the prosecution, said that there had been to No. 9 three Remarkable Change.

pical and European territories to- would be evidence to say that times a month before he went to troops, having participated in the led by the "butcher" Duke of Sir Tej Sapru referred to the gether; while Information from the when the

He was then living Kwagsi campaign, have been re-Cumberland, set to work MacDonald appealed to 20 dele-attitude of the Conservative Party can States was almost entirely ab- passed the ring on to another per- the back, not his.

It is perhaps inevitable that gates down to speak to withdraw as voiced by Lord Peel and paid a sent.

ed by General Lung Yun, C-in-Cladvertisements should form a their names, in view of the short-tribute to the wisdom and states. The Council adopted the Board's He asked for 24 hours' remand in said that the boy and accused had a for Kwangsi again with Posen as the quack doctor and chemist. Answering His Lordship, witscss of the 10th Route Army, to head valuable weapon in the hands of ness of time. A number did so, manship of the Lord Chancellor, suggesions that it should be allow- Police gustody, and this was grant fight once, but appeared to him to their objective, so as Then Mr. Patiala resumed the who was largely responsible for ed to recommend an embargo on the cd by Mr. Lindsell.

to bring The advertisements. of the general discussion and emphasis the success of the Federal Struc-imports of drugs from the offend-

direct pressure on the insurgents Eighteenth Century ed that the Princes could only tures Committee. He appealed to Ing countries; also that the origiz day, a man was charged with hav- Witness became confused when Canton News Agency.

It will be recalled that yeater-

to submit an early surrender-miniscent more of Mumbo-Jumbo federate with British India, which his countrymen in India to make of illicit drugs seized should be re- ing participated in the alleged rob asked by the Foreman of the Jury

than of medicine, In August, was self-governing. Mrs. Sub barayan urged that women must provement of Lord, Sankey's

a further contribution to the imported to the Board-Reuter.

1778, when the Silly Season was bery, and with having stolen pro if he had seen the pair fight. be given full opportunity to con- scheme,

He witness gave him a good recom- at its height, an advertiser camé tribute their services if India which was that it had not bolted one of the merits of

first of all said that he saw a flat-mendation to another gentleman out with an arresting offer of fight lasting about half an hour, in who wished to engage him.

The Lisbon Dirt Drink." In was to take a rightful place among the door. against further sugges The League Counet's proceed- $10 FOR PROTECTION:

October, but after considerable

Two Burglaries, modern nations...

spite of its unappetising name, questioning by the interpreter said As regards two burglaries at his it appears to have enjoyed a Lord Peel said that the out- “Advance of Liberty, much time being saved by a pro- For causing malicious damage he did not actually see it at all! his house, he was of opinion that wide demand; and the manu atanding fact of the conference Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, in hisposal of Mir Henderson, the pre to the property of Chan Shet-ying He had been told about #f thethloves gained acces to the facturer, who probably did not had been the great change of opin-speech winding up the Conferident, to discontinue the practice at 109, Temple Street, at about

His Lordship: The answer to house from the front. However, he go further than the nearest dust- ion that had brought the concop-ence, paid a handsome tribute to of the reading of long reports by 9.80 last night, Leung Yau appear the question is therefore that wit had given strict instructions that leap for his panacea, made an tion of a federal India to a state the Simon Commission Express- the rapporteur. Only the resolued at the Kowloon Magistracy tonesa did, not see any fight at all the back gates were to be kept mmense fortune. of reality. future attitude of Conservatives gress

Those of the gullible public, He said that the ing regret at the absence of Con- tione appended to reports will be day. The charge of malicious He was telling a story about some bolted at night

representatives, he said read in future redantage was waived, but accused thing he had heard!

On the night in question there who survived the Lisbon Dirt would depend upon complete that he was one of those who be The Counell agreed to the Chin was convicted for assault and In- Witness added that he had never were in the house his wife and Drink, fell ready victims a few equality treatment being granted leved that he who stirs enmity ese application for the services of ed $20, or three weeks seen the accused carrying & weapon himself, a European nurse, the years later to Dr. Graham, the to British traders and British between peoples is not going to Sir Arthur Salter and Mr. Hans The complainant, a Chinese girl. Mr. Obl, in evidence, said he got The baby amah employed at the Health in the Adelphi.

Rows With Cook baby amab, and his three children. proprietor of the Temple of trade, in connection with which advance liberty in the world to advise on the reform of Chin- said defendant came to see her

His how surprised to see rosor Referring to the necessity of ese finances, and the organisation inst alght and quaquabble opsied rid of acused because he continual house, answering Mr. d'Almada, avowed object was the pro tions made in some quarters, on the inclusion of safeguards in the of the inland waterways, because she would not give him ly had rows with the cook and said she had never seen accused pagation of a much more strong, January line aid that Liber constitution, the Premier eald Mr Henderson observed thit £10 to join a spelety for protes codles! He had himself stopped a and the boy's wife together beautiful, healthy, visa and

Lord Rearing said Liber that one such category was in the Council was happy to learn of tion from

fight one night between the accused The widow was then again revirtanus, race of human beings als supported the poller of con- very free constitution in the thia application from China, and

and the cook

called. Cross-examined, she said than the present puny, insigni- " ferring responsibilty to the cen world. Another category which the interest the Chinese Govern

On the night of the crime he was that she had little occasion to Acant, peevish, fooliay, vicious, tre, provided the safeguards were was necessary in India's own inment was taking in the League.

awakened by the woman's shrieks speak to accused. She was na-and nonsensical race of Chris adequat and, after listening to treat concerned finance and the The Council adfouted to Janu

That would be about 454 am. Ha turally annoyed with him because tians." He achieved his end went down to investigate, and later 24 had hurt her husband in the principally by mesin of a Medicos Carvajal fetched the Police. Cross-examin- Course of a Bght. She was hat electric process; but the pièce de Freed, witness cald he was reluctant angry because he had complained resistance of the Temple of at 1 to part with accused, who was that she made too much noise Health was a Celestial Bed con,, to very good boy. He dismissed him when she visited her husband at which conferred all sorts of bene?

anally upon a

fits, and which could be hired, for. |$100 a night—Morning Fost.

Women's Place.

Police went to the

work there.

At the Plenary Session Mr. recent remarkable change in the South American and Central Amer!- woman's house, she (defendant) duty of the boy to bolt the gates at fresh troops, who are now order

at No. 7, Bowen Road. It was the inforced by two contingents of mantling the entire theatre.

to change their attitude.

tion.

Long Reports.

Geneva, Yesterday.

inga have been most expeditious.

son who threw it into a dustbin.

perty to the value of $340,

LOCAL WEDDING..

they saw no reason existing services. The third re-ary 20, when the report of the The forthcoming marriage is an

Leelated to the communities at 31 Trebaratory Disarmament Commis, nounced of bazarı

He asserted that the Govern 'sion will come up ved Sanchis, engineer hoped ment was not pro-Hindu or pro- The Countil has accepted

their shyb cable:to that the ran betwe

sed: pride of $10,000 for preparation of a indus and conference on reform of the calen

addres

be friendly, afterwards.

Witness Confused.

Muibe care is proceedin

dis

were re-