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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1931.

MYSTERIOUS PRESS TRIBUTES TO HAUL OF 1,382 TAELS AUSTRALIAN GOLD

YAUMATI

HOW POLICE TRAP

WAS SET.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Healthy Effect of Loan To Austria. GERMAN BONDS RECOVER.

REVENUE STAMPS England had made an interim

DEMAND FOR NAME

OF INFORMER.

OF OPIUM.

Woman's Reticence to Give Information.

FINED $100,000,

A haul of 1,382 tacks of pre- pared opium was made on a sam-

yesterday morning, about seventy yards from the shore at Choung Shu-wan. The craft was apart from other earpans moored in the vicinify.

pan which lay in the harbour

In connection, with the drug, a

Paid For The Job, - '

Rugby, Yesterday. The news that the Bank of

advance of 150,000,000 schillings to the Austrian National Bank, pending completion of the nego tintion for an International loan to the Austrian Government to provide the necessary funds to guarantee the liabilities of the Credit Anstalt, has been received Chinese boat-woman was arrested, At the resumed hearing this in Vienna with an expression of and appeared before Mr. Schofield morning, before the Chief keen satisfaction.

in the Central Police Court this Justice, of the case in which

The promptitude of the Bank morning. She was charged with To Luk and Fung Chau-pun are of England's action is warmly possession and pleaded guilty. charged with possession and approved in financial circles here. uttering of, a number of 510-

The City Editor of the Even- Prosecuting, Chief Preventive Hong Kong Bills of Exchange ing News says that since the Officer Buller said that the woman Stamps. Mr. Hing-shin War the Bank of England has would not tell the Revenue Depart for second necused, subjected consistently pursued a policy de- ment anything as to where she was Lai Pui-lam, a witness for the signed to promote general world conveying the opium, but the Crown, to further lengthy stability under the conviction fact that she had been paid ten cross-examination, Before resuming his question are now so bound up together

that world monetary conditions dollars for the job, ing, Mr. Lo, addressing His Lord-that every industrial country de-

alternative of one year's hard ship, said that he wished to bring pends for prosperity on the mea- up a point of law arising out of sure of general stability. witness's answers yesterday. He, entry into the present Austrian (Mr. Lo) wished, if required, to complications after appeals by quote authorities to show that if the Austrian authorities is ac- necessary and material for the tuated by this motive. purposes of his defence, he was entitled to demand the name of the man who had brought wit- ness into the case in the first in-

'stance.

Greater Confidence.

Ita

SHIPMENT.

Important Bill Passed By Senate.

TO MEET OBLIGATIONS,

Canberra, Yesterday.

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.- The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 11d.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

SIR G. HADDON-

SMITH PASSES.

Took Part in Ashanti Campaign.

MERITORIOUS CAREER

Rugby, Yesterday.

The death is announced of Sir

DUNLOP Ratesforced Meter Crida Tyres

Local Branch. Pedder' Bldg. Tel. 24554,

FEMALE DIGNITY CAUSES A WAR.

Tribal Conflict Due to Offended Virtue.

TROUBLE DIES DOWN,

Durban, Yesterday. Seventeen natives were killed

ME

THROW OVERBOARD'

FEARS OF FILIPINO ON EMPRESS.

The Senate has passed a Bill

which will thus be enacted former Governor of the Bahamas fighting mentioned earlier. The Router.

and the Winward Islands. Ho trouble has now died down. The

authorising the shipment of gold, George Haddon-Smith, aged 68, a and 17 wounded in the tribal BORROWED KNIFE

L

(A Melbourne message stated was Acting Governor of Gambia Hlongwas agreed to let the that the Australian Common-Colony for a short time and was law take its course and wealth Government has decided for 11 years Colonial Secretary of called off arrangements for a to introduce legislation authoris- Sierra Leone, acting as Governor counter-attack on the Amabom- ing a shipment of £5,000,000 in of the Colony on many occasione. vus, mature in London at the end of gold to meet Treasury Bills which-British Wireless Service.

The perpetrators are being [Sir George Haddon-Smith, rounded up and two arrests have June. It is understood that the K.C.M.G., C.M.G., was born in Nov., been made hitherto, All is now measure will empower the Trea-, 1861, and was educated at Victoria quiet in the tribal area. surer to ship any portion of the, College, Jersey. Entering the

It appears that the trouble gold reserve, which now amounts Colonial Service in 1886 he was for started owing to a party of to £15,000,000.]

a time Private Secretary to Sir Amabomvu girls who were at- Gilbert Carter, and later served as tending a Hlongwa wedding re- MOTOR CYCLE SPEED political officer on a mission to ceiving undesirable attentions, the interior tribes of Lagos Colony whereupon they departed indig in 1893. He was Private Secre- nantly and their menfolk hurried- tary to Major-General Sir Francis ly mobilised. An Impi surrounded Scott during the Ashanti Campaign|the Hlongwa village-Reuter. Britain Challenged by officer on the staff of Colonel Sir of 1896-6 and served as political.

James Willcocks of the Ashanti

Durban, Yesterday. pan was ordered to be confiscat Six European Entrants. Jame cocks of

Serious alarm is felt at the In 1901 he was appointed Acting Governor of Aict in the Mtamo location, near possibility of an inter-tribal con- Icharging a Chinese before his 110 M.P.H. DOWN MOUNTAINSIDE Gambia Colony and the following Krantzkop, as a sequel to a cold- Worship, Revenue Officer. Hum-

year Colonial Secretary of Sierra blooded attack on the Hlongwa phreys said that accused was "just

Rugby, Yesterday. Leone. He was appointed Gov- tribe by the Amabovus. an illicit dealer," who prepared The motor-cycle speed champion-ernor of the Bahamas in 1912-14

A fine of $100,000, with the

labour, was imposed. The sam-

ed.

CHAMPIONSHIP.

B

INDIAN PROVINCES

Earlier Cable.

"WRITING LETTERS FOR THREE DAYS,"

"I am a passenger and those Japanese people threatened to throw me overboard.. I under- stand that they were talking about throwing me overboard, and it was about three days that they were writing letters against me. I understood that when we will come close to Yokohama they will tie me

with a rope and throw me over- board. I have no knife of my own, because I gave it to a Japanese boy. When I left Honolulu, at the time when the Japanese were trying to at- tack me, a Filipino friend gave me a knife and I started to stab them all.'

Customary Caution.

The City Editor of the Even- opium and sold it. The quantity ship of the world will be contest-and of the Windward Islands from threatening to fare up for some Graciano Bilas,, a Filipino, when ing Standard, commenting on the with which he was charged was ed to-morrow over a mountain 1914-28.3 more assured feeling in the mar- found in # Talcum powder tin course in the Isle of Man' and the His Lordship asked Mr. kets reported from German fin- which was concealed in a stone world's best viders from Germany, Fitzroy (for the Crown), if he ancial circles, of which features pillow on the first floor of 18, Tai Belgium, Sweden, Austria, Italy, raised any objection.

of promise are that some money Wong Street East. has already returned to Ger-

Accused was fined $860 or four: many and that the Reichsmark months" hard labour in default. has been steadier, says:----

Not To Be Made Public! Mr. Fitzroy replied that he would have none, provided the name was handed up. He did not. want it made public. "If my friend wants anybody in particu- lar, he is entitled to subpoena him," he added.

His Lordship said there was no objection to the name being written down, and com- municated in this way to the Court and the jury. It should not be made public.

"The most important factor leading to greater confidence in Germany is the help which the Bank of England is giving to Austria. Credit granted to Austria should be a means of restoring stability in that country and increasing con- fidence throughout Europe."

POLAR SUBMARINE

TO BE REPAIRED.

Admiralty Offer to Aid Vessel in Plymouth.

central DISABLED, IN MID-ATLANTIC,

A feature of the foreign money

Mr. Lo said that that was satis-market in London to-day was a

:

POSEIDON FUND-NOW $26,842.26.

total

of

Inter-tribal feeling has been This statement was made by years, and was brought to, a head the customary caution was ad- when a number of armed Amabovu ministered by Mr. Williams in braves, surrounding in the dead the Central Police Court this of night some Hlongwas who morning. Prisoner standa charg- were celebrating a wedding, ated with the murder of Chan Ki- tacked the unsuspecting revellers yu, on board the Empress of in the middle of the festivities. Canada on the high seas on June The raiders set fire to a hut in 5, between Honolulu and Japan. which some of the wedding party had taken refuge, and eight wo- men and a child were burned to death. A man was fatally speare when attempting to escape.

Dr. P. F. S. Court, acting medical Two thousand infuriated officer in charge of the Kowloon

Mr. T. 8. Whyto-Smith, Assistant Crown Solicitor conducted the case for the Crown

AND THE VOTE.

Separate Inquiry to Be Made on Franchise, We are informed by Mr.. Arthur, Treasurer for the

NO CONFERENCES YET. Navy League Roseidon Fund a total of 2060, was re-

Rugby, Yesterday. ceived between noon. yester

Asked in the House of Com- day and noon today, makmons whether in determining the Hlongwas are now on the warpath, Mortuary, said that on June 18 at ing a

details of the provincial consti-thirsting for vengeance, only await 9.15 am.. he performed a grand

post $26,842,26,

tutions in India it is proposed to ing the signal to launch a counter-mortem on Chan Ki-yu, the skin of hold conferences of the interests attack.

which body was coming away ali Amongst the latest dona- affected in each province separ The local authorities are doing over the surface. It had a stab tions are $500 from Dodwell ately, the Secretary for India, their utmost to effect a reconcilia-wound one and a half inches in & Co., 250 from the Hong Mr. Wedgwood-Benn, said that it tion, but the tank is difficult owing length from the heart to the mid- Kong Fire Insurance Co., was not proposed to hold provin-to the wild nature of the country-line. There was an incision four $250 from the Union Insur cial conferences at the present-Reuter. ance Society, and $345 from stage, but when the time came to the staff of Jardine, Mathe- settle the details relating to son & Co.

franchise and constituencies the Committee appointed for this America prior to an attempt to ROBOTU purpose would, no doubt, have to reach the North Pole under

hold separate Inquiries in each the ice and which was experiencing Switzerland and elsewhere are province.British Wireless Ser- engine trouble in Mid-Atlantic, la challenging Britain's supremacy..vice. being towed by the U.S.S. Wyoming In this senior Race the winners to Queenstown.

London, Yesterday.

factory, as long as he could get sharp recovery in German bonds. that the Admiralty has offered to

the man into the box. if neces--British Wireless Service.

sary. At the present moment.

he had other lines of defence to

rely upon,

Kowloon Geography,

DORNIER DO-X,

The News Chronicle announces

Basist Sir Hubert Wilkins to repair the Nautilus at Plymouth-Reuter. [Early messages etated that the American submarine Nautilus, in which the Australian explorer,

The cross-examination of Lai GERMAN FLYING BOAT ARRIVES Sir Hubert Wilkins, is crossing from

Pui-Jam then continued. Witness

W28

taken through a lengthy series of questions as to his move- ments in Yaumati on the night, of May 17.

AT BAHIA.

ALL ABOARD SAFE.

New York, Yesterday. In the course of the discus- The giant German flying boat, sion, block plans of Yaumati Dornier Do-X, has arrived at

was vice.

Early Cable.·

Port Natal, Yesterday,

The DO-X took off to-day for Bahia.-Reuter.

At

reported Was

PRESS-CANARD.

FORECAST OF REPORT “A TRAVESTY OF CONTENTS,"

CHAIRMAN ANGRY.

inches in length which had been stitched up in the right groin, The. stab wound went in between the fourth and fifth ribs and penetrated the loft chamber of the heart.

Cause of Death.

Replying to Mr. Whyte-Smith, witness said that it was undoubtedly a stab wound, and could have been London, Yesterday. The Daily Herald forecast of produced in Court. The cause of caused by the bigger blade of a knife

of the two Tourist Trophy Races DEBATE ON NAVAL by the already held will participate and it

the report of the Committee on BUILDING BILL.

spent several hours making futile about 80 miles per hour involving attempts to establish contact a mountain descent at 110 miles with the Nautilus in order to take hourly, will be reached. British France to Build Cruiser her in tow. An eight-inch Manila Wireless Service. hawser was placed in position, but]

the submarine was unable to make

fast, owing to the rough sea and QUAKES IN JAPAN.

were brought into use, but con- Bahia.-Reuter's American Ser-U.S.S. Arkansas that she had is expected that the last speed of siderable explanation required before the locale was definitely clear to all concerned. Witness said he went to the first of two cafes named Tung Fong. He had expected the first defendant to produce some of the (A Port Natal message the pre-inability to manoeuvre] stamps there.

Mr. Lo: You made it quite clear vious day stated that the Ger- that you were to examine some man giant seaplane DO-X had failed to rise, when trying to take stamps.Yes.

Did he refuse to enter the place? off for a trip along the Brazilian No. We went in together. He coast.] was quite willing.

f

YAKEDAKE ERUPTS.

Witness went on to say that first defendant. did not show him any stampa. The place was crowded,

Tokyo, Yesterday.. and there was no proper accommo- Yakedake, an active volcano-in dation.

the Japanese Alps, west of Pre-Arranged Meeting. ・・ Matsumoto, saddenly, burst Into Did you think the meeting be-violent eruption at half past eleven o'clock, scattering quantities of tween first and second prisoner ashes all over the countryside. was by arrangement. Yes, that Reuter

WOMAN AVIATRIX INCINERATED.

'Plane Crashes & Bursts Into Flames.

LOST A LEG IN, 1928.

London, Yesterday.

SEVEN CASUALTIES IN TOKYO,

YOKOHAMA IN DARKNESS.

to Counter Deutschland.

BILL ADOPTED.

Finance and Industry is declared death was "stab wound penetrating by Lord MacMillan to be "en- the heart." tirely unauthorised and a com- Sub-Inspector A. H. Elston de- plete travesty of the contents of posed to boarding the liner with the report."-Reuter.

Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., and Sub- Inspector Murphy. The former handed witness the knife

Comprehensive Nature,

[An earlier message stated: severe indictment of the policy of the leading banks, including the Bank of England, will be the central feature of the report of

LEEWARD ISLANDS.

Rugby, Yesterday. Lord MacMillan, Chairman of

Police Sergeant P. Kellett sald the Committee on Finance and that, he boarded the Empress of Paris, Yesterday. A long debate in the Chamber Industry, hopes that the report Canade, and had the defendant re- on the 1981 Naval Building Bill, of the Committee, which, in moved to the Government Mental including a 28,000-ton cruiser, to political circles is believed to be Hospital.

of a very comprehensive and im- The Crown's case, was closed.. counter the new German Tokyo, Yesterday.

Deutschland, finally resulted in portant nature, will be presented The Magistrate committed pri- There were no deaths and only the adoption of the Bill, but with to the Chancellor of the Exche soner to stand his trial at the July seven slightly injured as a result an amendment virtually deleting quer in the course of next week. Assizes.

British Wireless Service. of last night's earthquake, which | credit for building the cruiser. caused much confusion in the newIt is understood that the lay- theatres and cinemas, the buildings ing down of the cruiser has been shaking and swaying

suspended pending a further The famous airwoman, Miss A lesser quake occurred, shortly study of the question. Reuter. Cicale O'Brien, and her woman after midnight and Yokohama was passenger, who has not yet been plunged into darkness for several STATESMEN TO VISIT identified, were incinerated when hours as a result of damage done the light plane in which they to the electric cables, I think because he must have been at the Kum Tol Hotel, witness said were flying crashed and burst The epicentre la belleved to be waiting for us outside all the time, he did not know that Police off into flames near Hatfield at the sea bottom in Sagami Bay. He called out to us from behind cere had booked Room No. 03 Miss O'Brien was the daugh- Further tremors are likely but when he met the first man. That there, when he was in No. 58. Heter of the Irish Baronet and nothing serious is anticipated was about 9 o'clock. There were was merely told to pross the bell sportsman, Sir Timothy O'Brien Reuter quite a lot of people about, and all at a certain time, and the Police She was one of the first women the shop windows were let-up, would come in He was to presa 10-lly across the Channel with a

Mr. Lo" You never even asked it twice. It was the ordinary Bell. Woman passenger. In 1028 sheer for the second man's name?-No. used to call servants. As a mat lost a leg as the result of an air

His Lordship That would very ter of fact, when he did press the crash but resumed flying as soon CHAT likely have given the game away bell, the hotel servants came up as site was able Reuter

Mr. Lo: What did you do with with the Police, but did not enter the envelope containing the ten the room,

was my opinion,

How do you think the second man knew where to meet you?----

stamps that the frat man handed Mr. Lo was putting more "ques- to you !---Put it in my pocket. - tiora, when Hie" Lordship sald *Did you now-enspect the second there could be little dispute about man had the Police procedure. He did not Epreviously told me

alf was 500 why so many questions were lying in the necessary, on this.

id the en- that fro

handed hotel he was

allon with

tared, the

coninu:

MR A. MELLON.

AMY JOHNSON TO FLY.

WITH GOVERNOR OF BANK OF ENGLAND.

SEES TWO MINISTERA

TO PEKING.

New

to Be

GERMANY.

Premier & Henderson

Accept Invitation.

Industry, headed by Lord Mac the Committee on Finance and Sir S. Armitage-Smith To Rep

On Finance, Millan, according to the Daily Herald. The journal gives a fore- cast of the Committee's report, which declares that the Bank The Secretary for the Colonies would immediately and pub has, with the concurrence of the stantially improve trade by Lords Commissioners of the making credit more easily Treasury, appointed Sir Sydney available, increasing the amount Armitage-Smith to undertake a Rugby, Yesterday of monetary circulation. The mission to the Leeward Islande, The Foreign Office announces Committee urges that this and at a later date to St. Lusia in that the Prime Minister and the policy be carried out in co the Windward Islands, as financial Secretary of State for Foreign operation with the American adviser, with the object of submit Affairs have accepted the invita Federal Reserve Board and other ting a report on the revenue and tion of the German Chancellor central banks.] expenditure of those places. and Herr Curtius to visit Berlin | gy

Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith will on July 17 British Wireless The output of creamery butter also, closely examine the possibility Service

Apps in Saskatchewan for the month of of improving the financial position

March amounted to 71,185,888 The official statement for the pounds. This is an increase of of the Colonier in question, and of thereby reducing the calls which first three months gold production 102,000 pounds or 20.4 per cent are now being made by them on arlo, issued by the Provin over the February, output and an Imperial funds, mainly "ad a result

ent of Mines, shows increase of 488,000 pounds or 7 of the depression in the sugar in

b per cent, over the output of March, dustry, and in the case of Dominica

80 1980.

the month of the hurricane in the Summer of question is slmost 200,000 pounds

her than reported in any feat

1880.

Skakatchewan .... Sir Sydney Armitage-Smith will "make" for the Arst fares l'also be a member of a commission fof 1981 flaconsiderably of inquiry to be appointed in cor-v than the highest year on nection with recent disturbances ins

the Carib Reserve in Dondinica.

Was 1926