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HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

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

The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

PORTUGUESE GFTS THREE YEARS

Robbery from Japanese Woman,

UNANIMOUS VERDICT.

For TERETAFER ELE

Library, Supreme Court

Business Manager.

ChinaTMTM Mail

No. 27,728

WAVES RISE 80, FEET ABOVE THE SHORE.

Phenomenon in the Cook Islands.

RESIDENTS TERRIFIED.

Wellington, Yesterday.

TÄBLISHED

846

HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1931.

RUPTURE IN RANKS

OF LABOUR.

Sir. Oswald Mosley As an Apostate.

LIKELY TO RESIGN.

Without 'retiring, a jury com-

London, Yesterday.. posed of four Britons, two Por- A despatch just received from British politics are becoming tuguese and a Chinese unanimous-Raratonga, Cook Islands, reveals curiously complicated. With ly found Anastacio dos Remedios that a terrific submarine disturb-Conservatives split by the Marques, who was this morning ance occurred in the Pacific on "Imperialist" Press Lords, as charged at the Assizes, "guilty" January 28, a few days before the illustrated by the East Islington on a charge of robbery by two or great earthquake in New Zealand. by-election, and Mr. Winston A series of tidal waves suddenly Churchill aloof on the Indian The Acting Tuisne Judge, Mr. rose outside the lagoon, though question, now Labourites Justice R. E. Lindsell, in passing there was no wind and the sky threatened with a definite rup sentence of three years' hard la was quite cloudless, and the seature in their own ranks. bour, remarked that he concurred was otherwise calm. with the jury's verdiet.

Marques was not legally repre-

more.

sented,

The waves, with a thundering noise, rushed up to the harbour submerging the wharf, swamping

are

There is a distinct possibility that Sir Oswald Mosley and his

followers may resign from the Labour Party in the course of the week. By the middle of the week

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Assist- the sheds with foum and spray the "Mosley-group" are publish- ant Crown-Solicitor, who 'conduct and rising to 80 feet. The pheno ed the case for the prosecution,menon continued all night longing a pamphlet outlining their said that the victim of the rob- and terrified the inhabitants, who policy as distinct from that of bery was

Japanese woman caught glimpses through the the official Labour policy, pre- named Seiji Nishioka, who lives spray of the ocean beyond, which paratory to launching a platform alone on the second floor of 58, was perfectly calm.-Reuter. Haiphon Rond, Kowloon., 'At about 9.30 p.m. on January 5 she answered, a knock on the door of her flat, and found the accused him. outside.

ped out of his clothing unknown to

When he discovered the pasaport She recognised the accused as was missing and consequently be a man who had called on two pre- could not leave the Colony, was it vious occasions, On the first oc- unlikely that he would return to casion, on December 31, accused look for it? inquired if any Portuguese lived Fortunate Accomplice.. there and then departed.

Referring to the fact that no called again on January 5 and money was found on the accused, asked if she could give him lodg- Mr. Whyte-Smith said that prob ing, but went away when refused. ably the Japanese accomplice bad

Forced His Way In.

He

been more fortunate than the ne

On the night of January 5, as cused and had got away with the soon as the door was opened, the money, and no doubt was not out of | accused forced his way into-the the Colony. flat, followed by a Japanese, who,

The victim, in the witness box,

the woman claimed, had also been said that she was a manicurist. to the house before.

When the accused visited her on ask for lodg-

Both men seized the woman by January 3 to the throat and demanded her ing money. The accused also tried to

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force a potato into her mouth and office.

he mentioned that hof.

ne working

the Post

campaign in all the principal in- dustrial concerns.

The Press Association's Lobby hood that official Labour members correspondent foresees a likeli-

will interpret this development as the question of Party discipline, A challenge which may involve Therefore, Sir Oswald Mosley and his henchmen may anticipate official action by resigning from the PartyReuter.

TURKEY TO REDUCE OPIUM TRAFFIC.

Factories Ordered to

Close Down,

EXPORT PROHIBITED:

Constantinople, Yesterday. The Government has issued an On the night of the rob- order designed to prevent the. in the process one of her teeth was bery her money was on the table dispatch of contraband narcotics loosened, She claimed that in the flat, under a kimono, She to foreign countries. revolver was also produced, but had just Anished counting the provides for the closing down of The order

•Mr. Whyte-Smith commented money which she intended banking three factories of opium deriva that it was probably a toy.

After she had been so roughly

the following morning.

tives in Constantinople until they Sub-Inspector Rosezkoy said have presented lists of their handled, the woman told the men that when the accused was caution stocks and the names of the im where her money was. They took ed and told he would be detained porting countries.

A special

it ($119) and other things men-he said in English: "I slept at the agent has been appointed to super- tioned in the indictment (a silver Star Ferry last night. Find the vise each factory, which in future? watch, a Japanese chop, a key and Japanese and he will settle this have daily to notify the Health a ellk purse) and then left the matter." flat. Whilst the men were help- ing themselves to these things, the woman had crawled under the bed and she remained there until after they had gone.

Tooth Produced.

Accused's Statement.

Department of the quantity of opium purchased and the quantity The accused elected to give evid-of narcotics manufactured.

The eace un oath. He said that on export of narcotics to America is January & a Japanese friend in prohibited.-Reuter.

vited him to dinner. He drank

to excess. Then he was taken some-

Then she went to a Japanese where by the Japanese, but could

BOMBAY SCENES.

VOLUNTEERS.

SALUTING THE FLAG.

friend, who accompanied her to not recollect where. At 6 a.m., on POLICE ARREST 400. CONGRESS the Water Police Station. She January 6 he awoke and found him- arrived there with her hair in self on board a-Star Ferry launch. disorder and bleeding from the Then he searched and found his mouth. She produced a tooth which she had become so loose to the Japanese friend's house to passport was missing, so he went that she had taken it out...

Bombay, Yesterday: Leak if the latter knew anything | The Police went to the woman's about the whereabout of his pass-Congress volunteers who formed The Police have arrested 400 house where they found the pota-port. As he was entering 28, Hal-up on the Maidan in the centre of to which had been used as a gag, phong Road two Chiness in plain the City to salute the "National and a Portuguese passport made clothes came up and arrested him. flag," including the President and out in the accused's name and As soon as he got to the station he members of the so-called "War bearing his photo.

told the Inspector that he wae Council."-Beuter.

The Police then set a watch op drunk on the previous night and posite 28, Halpong Road which did not know what happened. was-understood to be the address

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Replying to Mr. Whyte-Smith, ac-

Riots in Rangoon.

Rangoon, Saturday. Further disturbances have coccur

MUI-TSAI BOLTS.

SPENDS A NIGHT IN POLICE STATION.

of the Japanese who had been cused said that it was possible he red in the Tharrawaddy region, the concerned in the affair and who had been taken to the complain most serious being at Zaingthwe had not been seen since.

ant's house but he did not recollect! A mob of 400 villagers clashed with At about 7 am. on January 6it. It was not true that he had 40. military policar and 25 villagers the accused wes seen to come been to the house before. He all were killed-Beuter. along Haiphong Road and enterways carried his passport with house No. 28. Two Chinese him. When he lost his passport he policemen followed him in and ar- did not think of going to the res rested him. On the way to the taurant in Yaumati where he and Water Police Station he said that the Japanese had dinner, to look he knew why he was being arrest for it. It entered his mind that ed. He had been to house No. 58 probably his Japanese friend might the previous night with a Japan- have taken charge of his passport

OWNER FINED $50.-- ese and there had been a fight.

for him lest he should lose it whilst A Dental.

under the influence of liquor. That Li 8am-kee, was this morning When charged in the Police was why he went to the man's charged before Mr. W. Schofield at Station, the accused made the folhouse.

the. Central Magistrsey, with hav lowing statement: "I did not rob Intoxication No Excuse. * --- ing bad in his custody a 16 year old „anything."____ When before the In his address to the jury. His mul teai, who was not registered in Magistrate in Kowloon, Mr. H. R. Lordship suid that In English law the Colony, Defendant pleaded Butters, the accused made this intoxication was no excuse for guilty. statement: "I don't know any crime of this nature. If they be- Mr. Q A. A. MacFadyen, Annis- thing, I was under the Influence llaved the evidence of the woman, tani, Secretariat ~ for Chinese of drink or W

then, whether intoxicated or not, Affairs, said that the defendant The Police searched the accus- the accused was guilty. They bought the girl when she was ed in the Water Police Station might, however, believe the ac- thirteen, since when she had lived and only two pawn tickets were used's claim that all the blame was with him in Quarry Bay, Shauki- found on him and these had no on the Japanese, and that he was so wan. Owing to a dispute between connection with the mobbery.drunk he did not know what was them, the girl ran away on Friday Mr.Whyte-mith then comment going on and only stood by. They night, and slept in a Police Station ́ed that the jury might think it odd must take that possiblilty into for the night, and t that the accused's passport should consideration. But, she had said Asked by the Magistate why have been found in the woman's at the start. If the jury believed he failed to register the girl de- house. There was this probable the woman's story of the part ac fendant replied that he could

tion Zor that? It war bělý cused, took in: the affair, even

the Jory," believed the

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· man :contem ald-ciso contemplate: cused was drank

Where

STOP PRESS

London, Yesterday.

An amazing new air weapon has completed its tests at the R.A.F, experi- mental station. It is a "Gloster" single-senter fight- er armed with éix machine- guns. Two are synchronised in firing through the pro- peller, the cthers being ar ranged in pairs on each wing. All are controlled in unison from the cockpit with sights converge between 100 and so, arranged that lines of fire

300 yards from the machine. It has a speed of nearly 200 miles an hour and the ceil ing is 20,000 feet. Hence the oxygen carried can climb 15,000 feet in nine minutes. It does 23 miles an hour in a dive-Reuter,

.

Palermo, Yesterday. Sicily has been almost iso- lated from Italy for the past two days. One of the most

violent cyclones ever experienced, torrential rains, and strong orchards. Trees Werd uprooted and railways and telegraphs interrupted. The people of Palermo (the worst sufferer) are using boats owing to the floods. All the rivers in their Catania plain burat banks and many houses col- lapsed. Four persons were · killed and numerous life- stock were lost-Reuter,

Tokyo, To-day. General Yamanashi, the former Governor-General of Korea, whom the procurators an, November 21 recommend- ed to be sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour in connec tion with his alleged participation in the Fu- san rice exchange scandal, was acquitted in the Tokyo

district court. It will be re- called that General Yamana- shi's indictment followed the exposure of a series of scan- dals in high places during the Tanaka administration which were revealed shortly after the formation of the present Hamaguchi Cabinet in July, 1929.--Reuter,

Vienna, Yesterday, Five ski-ers 'were buried by an avalanche rear Innsbrueck. One crawled dut and another was dug out by rescuers, but his legs were fractured. The search for the three others was abandoned" after six rescu- ers themselves were buried.

The latter were safely dug out Router.

Naples, Yesterday.

. A woman and five children were buried in a landslide for Posilippo, but were safely dugʻ out, although one child died later-Reuter...

5

Madrid, Yesterday. Six persons have been kill-

ed in a snow "svalanche in Huelds. Reuter.

MORE DRIZZLE.

The Royal Übservatory's weather report staten::;"

The anti-cyclone is central over NE. China.

Fresh monsoon along the Coast of China and over the N. China Sea.

Forecast-N. E. winds: fresh; overcast; drizzle and mist.

Rainfall. Rainfall for 24 hours ended at 10 am to-day-0.09. Rain- (dall wince January 1--0.67 inch against 'añ. average of 2.77 inches deficit 2.10 inch.

The temperature at certain ́ specified centres’tkis mörning -at-6 o'clock WIG-HAZMA 81

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Pratas Island 4. Martia Foochow

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Chetoo

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR,

The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11d.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

LITTLE MOTHER OF FAREWELL

MERSEYSIDE.

Death of Britain's First Woman Lord Mayor.

WELFARE WORKER.

London, Yesterday.

A SECRET?

An Irish Motorist thinks that the Dunlop Rubber: ·Company possess a valuable secret. Read what he says:-

from practical experience

1 have been long since convinced that Dunlop covers and tubes are the best made for care.. motor cycles and cycles. I say this from long experience.

"The Dunlop Company, I think, is like Guinness & Co. It has a manufacturing secret, andiscovered by its compelltors."

The Dunlop Rubber Co., (China) Ltd. Pedder Building.

Telephone 24554.

TO MR. ARE W. KENT.

Presentation at Police Recreation Club.

•

“AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE.”

A pleasant function, at which

оп

THEY PIRATES OR NOT?

Closing Stages of Pedro Blanco Affair.

WHOSE JURISDICTION 7..

The closing stages were reach- The death has occurred of Miss Mr. W. Kent, A.S.P., was the guested this morning at the Assizes in Margaret Beavan, the first woman of honour, was held in the Police the trial of twelve men for alleg- Lord Mayor of Britain, who was Recreation · Club,

Saturday ed assault with violence on the known as the little mother of evening, presided over by the Hon. high seas, off Pedro Blanco, on Merseyside," owing to her magni- Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., In- January 4. ficent and ceaseless work on be- spector-General of Police and Pre- half of mothers and children in aident of the Club. About fifty satcalled the master of the attacked The Acting Chief Justice re down to dinner, including Mr. C. Djunk, with reference to the exact | Liverpool.-Reuter.

[Miss Beavan, the first woman Melbourne, Mr. H. Somerset date of leaving Wootung. Wit- Lord Mayor of the City of Liver Fitzroy, Mr. T. H. King, D.I.G.Pness said that he handed in his pool, founded the Liverpool Superintendents D. Burlingham, licence to the Chinese Customs Child Welfare Association, the C. G. Perdue, L. H. V. Booth. W there on December 81, but the Liverpool Open Air Hospital for La Bart Sparrow, Mr. A. J. C. actual date of leaving was January Children at Lensowe, the Royal Taylor, Chief Inspector P. Grant, 3. Liverpool Babies' Hospital, and Chief Detective Inspector Murphy, the Tired Mothers' Rest Home, members of the Police Force and In 1929 she contested the Everton friends. Division of Liverpool as a Conser- The Hon. Mr. Wolfe proposed the each trip. The steersman on the vative and was made a Justice of toast of the guest of the evening. day in question was a new man: the Peace. She had written He first of all expressed on behalf Of the remaining four fokis several articles on child welfare.] of the Hon. Mr. E. R. Halifax, aboard, two were new hande..

Colonial Secretary regret for be Later, members of the crew of ing unable to be present, and also the Hong Kong trading junk gave the Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. Messer, but evidence corroborative of that of. he was glad to see an old esteemed other witnesses for the Crown. friend of the Police present in the

Case for the Crown, person of Mr. Melbourne, who though consistently hiding hig

GUN RUNNING IN

S. AFRICA.

Posse of Police Come to Grips with Smugglers.

Witness added that it was' cus- tomary to engage the steersman

Mr. Fitzroy then addressed the

ht ander a bushel, shone very jury on behalf of the Crown. He brightly when subscription lists held that the waters where the were circulated on behalf of Police assault was committed were in- - OFFICER FIRED AT.

objecte, his signature 'always being Admiralty jurisdiction, but apponded. Johannesburg, Yesterday.

The speaker also con- agreed to leave the point to the gratulated those responsible on the decision of His Lordship. Con- Gun running and drug smug happy idea of entertaining Mr. tinuing, he held that the crew of gling from Portuguese East Kent in the place which had been the trading junk had been at- Africa has become so rampant his home, and where he had helped tacked and put in fear of their that Colonel Colliers, Chief of during all the years of his con- lives. As to the actual firing al- the South African C.I.D., has noction with the Police.

leged, the only people who could History of the Club.

possibly know were the crews of enumerate Mr. Kent's the three junks concerned.

taken charge of operations. Sixty armed Union Police countered on the borders drug

en-

To

The

and gun runners conveying thou activities would mean giving the sail of the Hong Kong junk was

of the Falice-Recreation pierced by ballets, although with Before 1904, the Club as a rifle of small calibre they would

It

sands of pounds worth of opium history to Swaziland. The Police fired at Club Captain Coetsee of the C.I.D., now known was not in existence, not make any ragged marks. thinking he was a smuggler, but but in that year Mr. Hallifax was was, of course, quite impossible fortunately missed him. Reuter, able to acquire the ground at Happy for either the 8.8. Hang Sang or Valley and a tent erected and the the as. Soochow to have heard Club formed, to be replaced in 1905 any firing. by-a matahed. This was destroyed

"What reason would this junk by a typhoon and the new one erect have to hail a ship and go along- ed met the same fate in 1908. In dde, if they were not being at 1917 the old matahed, having been tacked?" asked Mr. Fitzroy. "It renovated from time to time, was is ridiculous to suggest that the practically useless, and Mr. Kent other two junks, who are said to and 0 few others suggest have been rowing very hard, were A youthful but well-known ed to the Government that merely out fishing.” "joy rider," Eric Fleming, aged they might

do Mr. Fitzroy concluded by put

"A CAR MANIAC."

EUROPEAN YOUTH GETS A WHIPPING.

OLD OFFENDER

be

able to

15, made an appearance at the something, and in 1929 the pre-ting it to the jury that the pri Kowloon Magistracy this morn-sent Club House was erected. Dur-soners were obviously out to steal ing. He was charged with driving all these years every phase of cargo,

Risen from the Ranks.

for:

ing Private Car No. 769 without the Club's life and activities could Arms Thrown Overboard, a driving licence, and without the be punctuated with the name of Mr.

every Mr. permission of the owner, Dr. J. Kent, he having acted in

Hin-shing Lo, MeElney, at 1.80 a.m. on February capacity on the Committee Club the defence, dealt at length 16 in Granville Road. He was member, and Chairman,

with the evidence of Mr. also summoned for riding a motor

Moodie. The assumption cycle in Laichikok Road on The speaker went on to say that were thrown

was, he claimed, that arms February 12 without a driving Mr. Kent had given an excellent the chase by the Hang Sang.

overboard during licence and without permission example he had abone in sport There was no proof of that at all.. from the owner.

and also as a Public Servant Neither was it likely that the two Sub-Inspector Mason prosecuted Joining the Force as & constable in junks would pursue the other until and said he had been instructed to 1898, he had risen to be Assistant practically abreast of a steamer. ask His Worship to take a seri- Superintendent, to which rank he ous view of the case.

was appointed in 1928. He had the chase of the trading junk con

Mr. Lo also pointed out that also served as a Stores Officer and tinued for three long hours,”

Similar Offences.

They were

His ambition was realised Dome out and He had always tried

settle down.

Sub-Inspector Nicol said the in this capacity he had acted as a youth was an old offender, hay model for any A.S.P.'s who did not during which time no other vessel ing committed three similar exactly shine when it came to was sighted. Also, Mr. Moodie had relied absolutely upon the offences in 1927 and one in 1929. stores and accounts.

compradore of 88. Hang Sang as In 1927 he drove a two-seater, pleased to congratulate Mr. Kent five-seater and a seven-seater car on the bestowal of the King's Police to what had happened previously.

The case is proceeding." To Mr. Kent they owed Medal. He was caught on the last escap- ade in Cox's Fath. In 1929 he a debt of deep gratitude.. He had took a Studebaker car, but the set an example that the younger Home. owner refused to prosecute, men might well follow-keen and After that he made a promise to active in sport, as well as a keen and he was able to Mr. Burlingham, Superintendent and useful Public Servant. Start- of Police, Kowloon, never to drive ing at the bottom of the ladder heto do his best which sometimes he another car in the Colony, and had risen to the top, being ons of found most difficult.

To the Police Club he presented had received a thrashing from three who started as Constables and his father.

aspired to the rank of Superinten two cups--one for lawn bowls and Mr.. Buttera: Defendant is a dent-Mr. Kerr, now in Melbourne, one for golf, the conditions of which car maniac?":

Australia, and Mr. Gerrard, whose he left entirely to the Club Com- Sub-Inspector Mason: "It loss they still mourned.

To. Mr. mittee. Only by keenness could scems like it."..

and Mrs. Kent, on behalf of the they win, and, only with the spirit. In convicting His Worship sald Club, he wished. long. lfe and liap-of the game could they smile when that it was not fair to the public piness in retirement,

[they lost-and... these two Cups and car owners that unauthorised After the toast musical tonours would stimulate this keengeza. He people should drive around in were awarded, with lusty cheers for thanked the Club for the gifts, and vehicles that ware not their own. both, these being led by the Hon. also the President for the splendid

Twelve strokes of the cane was Mr. E, D. C. Wolfe, we

·words concerning his servios. brdered to be given,

ANTI-SOVIET PLOT

SCHEME TO OVERTHROW

-REGIME OF STALIN.

RESULT OF INQUIRIES.

Moscow, Yesterday.

A presentation was then made on behalf of the Police Recreation Club of two attache Cases and an engraved blackwood tray for Mrs. Kont

© Ambition Realised..

The Hon. B D. C. Wolfe then toasted "Our visitors,"

M. Somerset Fitzroy, in replying thanked the Folice Club on behalf of the visitors for the opportunity of saying good-bye and au revoir to Mr. Kent, for all who had had any In replying to the toast, Mr. dealings, with him would remem Kent gave a brief history of his ber him, and all who had..., known life from the time he ran away from him, would miss him. He "wished his home in 1890 In his desire to Mr. and Mrs Kent long life and be at een, but whose parents had happiness.

The existence of a counter not the same desire. During his During dinner muskor was pro- revolutionary organisation in career in the Marines he travelled vided by wireless, and songs were, Russia has been revealed by a considerably, and was in Hong rendered during the evening by Mr. preliminary inquiry into the act Kong in 1898, and on his return to Jakes Bandmaster, 4 and. Sergt. show has been vities of certain members of the Biltainuas most.. anxious to get Jenkins of the South Wales Bor

Bocial Democratic Party, who will back again, in spite of the badderers, and

the evening the

it might have drop-

shortly be tried by the Court Reuter.

me reputation that Hong Kong, than company-was-ent

keld in the byes of the people at Dudley Bai

Mr.