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HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD." (Incorporated in Hong Kong.)

A HIGHWAY

ROBBERY.

Unsavoury Defence

Submitted.

JUDGE'S STRICTURES.

Chan Yu-wing was charged

ESTABLISHED 1845. .

No. 27,985

HONG

KONG, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1931.

JAPAN'S WANTS TO GO TO

POLICY

A PRELUDE TO ANNEXATION.

before the Puiste Judge-at-the-LIKE Asgizes this morning with rob- bery by two or more.

KOREA ?

CLEAR CHINESE

AUTHORITY.

MANCHURIA!

Mother Refused to Aid Her Son.

A PECULIAR AFFAIR.

Arising out of a peculiar Inci-

TEST CRICKET IN SYDNEY.

Australia All Out for 469.

A, WEAK TAIL,,

Bydney, Yesterday.

TO-DAY'S

DOLLAR - The

closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/5 9/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

ROBBERY FROM

MONASTERY.

Two Chinese Get Haul of $775.

HOSPITALITY ABUSED.

Before the Puisno Judge at the

DUNLOP

BLAZING FURNACE

HEROIC ATTEMPTS. AT RESCUE.

In a class by

Itself

'VARSITY EXAM RESULTS.

Faculty of Arts

Successes.

PROVISIONAL LIST.

The following is a provisional

ation by the Senate:---

dent at No. 173, Wong Nei The Australian eleven resumed opening of the December Assizes FOUR FATALITIES list, which is subject to confirma- Cheung Road on December 4, a their Gret insings in the Test this morning, Cheng Wing and Lam Chinese youth named Wong Pak-match against South Africa, with

allas Tai Shak Lun; wore yai was this morning charged at the score standing at 444 for seven Luo, the Central Magistracy, before wickets. The remaining wickets charged with robbery by two or Mr. Schofield, with assaulting produced only 25 runs.

: Chan Shi with intent to rob, and being armed with an offensive weapon.

Scores

Grimmett.

The statement of offence was that he on December 1, at Victoria, with others, unknown, together robbed one Chau Ping-chung of

London, To-day. $150 in money. Ile claimed trial.

South Africa-1st Innings. The Daily Herald, in an editor- Stating the cuse to the jury,j

Mr. F. X. d'Almuda appeared | B. Mitchell, b McCabe' to the Japanese Mr. Whyte-Smith said that this ial, referring

BJ. A. J. Christy, c'Nitschke, b was a highway robbery. The ultimatum, says that Japanese for the accused and entered

Grimmett complainant was a pork butcher policy is to clear the remnant of plea of "guilty."

Chinese authority out of It appears that, on December D. P. B. Morkel, st. Oldfield, b in the Central Market. At about the 8 p.m. on December 1 he was Manchuria as it was cleared from 4, some person rang the door bell

of the ground floor premises at H. W. Taylor, c Lee, b Grimmett house in Korca 35 years ago. proceeding from his

The Manchurian indepen- No. 173, Wong Nei Cheung H. B. Cameron, b Wall Chinese Gutzinff Street to theatre when he was attacked in dence," like the Korean "inde- Road, at about 10.30 p.m. Chan E. L. Dalton, b Grimmett Po Yan Street, off Hollywood pendence," is to be the prelude Shi, a female, the principal ten K. Viljoen, & Ironmonger

the door without c. L. Vincent, not out .. unt, opened Road. He was suddenly sur-

asking who was there. A man, E. L. Brown, b McCabe rounded by five men, of whom

who had a hood over his face N. A Quinn, l.b.w., d McCabe the accused was one.

and carried a rattan basket in one A. J. Bell, b McCabe cused told him not to move or!

He put the shout and threatened to beat

hand, stepped in. basket down behind the door, him to death if he did not obey.

anti, producing a knife, seized the woman by the right wrist, telling her to put out the lights.

to annexation.

This is the "active policy," as The ac- the Japanese call it.

The accused then seized the complainant by the throat and with the help of the other four threw him to the ground. Then the complainant's girdle was cut and his purse containing $150 was stolen. Four of the robbers then run away, one of them tuk- ing the purse. The complainant! heki on to the accused and strug-i pled with him until a District Watchman came up and took the accused into custody.

War and army. are its instru-¡ ments, in spite of the League of Nations and the Kellogg Pact.

The facts are unpleasant, but they are facts that Geneva has got to face. Reuter.

LOCAL SHARE MARKET.

Morning Session Opens Steady.

A Bolt for Safety. As he did so another occupantį of the house appeared and defen- itant picked up his basket and bolted. He was chased down Wong Nei Cheung Road by a cook boy who heard the alarm, and was finally caught by two con- stables He was then still carry- ing the basket with his trousera and the hood mask on top. The) basket contained ten gags, some by cement, and several other to-day things.

The prosecution said that ac- cused did not act in the manner of an armed robber.

RATES WELL MAINTAINED. Accused's Serious Allegation.

The official summary issued When

accused the charged the

Stock Exchange said: "I have nothing to say," states:- but when before the Magistrate. The morning session opened serious allegations quietly steady with rates fairly he made

He well maintained. against the complainant.

Sales. alleged that the complainant had interfered with a boy named Tai Banks, $1.505. Ma-lam and made an improper Hotels (old), $15. suggestion to him. The boy Humphreys (old), $19. walked along. Hollywood Road China Lights, $27/4/527. and the complainant followed Lands. $80. him. Near the Belilios School, Unions, $415/$415. the boy complained to him (ac-

Buyers. cused) and he followed the com-) Douglases, $24. plainant. Later he (accused) Providents (old), $5.15. met two other men and told them! Providents (new), $2.35. what the boy had told him andj H.K. Lands, $80. they also followed.

Ewos, Tls. 15.80.

Cements (combined), $19. Cements (old), $121⁄44. H.K. Government Loan, $21⁄4

cent. premium. Raubs, $40. Hotels (old), $15. Hotels (new), $14%. Chinese Estates, $95. China Lights, $27.10. Dairy Farms, $281. H.K. Amusements, $19.30.

Sellers.

Then the boy went into a lane und the complainant followed him and again made the improper suggestion. The boy refused, per and the complainant gave him 201 cents and ten copper cents. Wit- ness then entered the lane and remonstrated with the complain- ant who struck him. He retaliat- ed and they struggled on the ground, and then a District Watchman came on the scene and complainant gave him in charge for alleged robbery.

The complainant denied the accused's suggestions and anid that during the struggle with accused he shouted "Robbery" and blew a Police whistle and this brought the D.W. on the

acene.

Undesirable Compardons,

Hotels (old), $15.10. China Lights, $271/2. Ewos, Tls. 15.70.

NO COMPROMISE.

Paris, Yesterday.

A downright declaration that France would "never be so Im-1 prudent as to accept the formu-

Behaviour Explained.

Mr. d'Almada said he could offer some explanation for his strange behaviour. During the recent rioting the accused be- came obsessed with the idea of going to Manchuria to fight against the Japanese, and on two occasions went to his mother in Canton to get money to take him there. His mother said she had no money. At No. 173, Wong Nei Cheung Road there was an amah who used to look! after accused, and he was going to get money from her.

оп

A conviction was registered

Extras

Total

FINE TO CLOUDY.

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

The anticyclone Is contral to the north of the Gulf of Pech, moving, east.

Forecast: N.E. winds, mo- derate; fine to cloudy..

Rainfall

Rainfall for 24 boura apd ed at 10 a.m. to-daynil Total since January 1-79.98 Inches against an average 82.74 inches deficit 2.76 inches.

Temperature. The temperature at certain apecified contres this morning at 8 o'clock was:-

Hong Kong Macao

Pratan Islandë. Manila

Foochow

Amoy Chefoo Shanghai

BOWLING ANALYSIS.

MOTHER AND TWO

CHILDREN.

more, the statement of offence being that the accused, on Novem- |ber 22, Victoria, with others un-

London, Yesterday. known, together robbed. one Leung! In spite of heroic efforts to Lam of $776.90 in money,

rescue them, a mother and her two children and another woman There were further charges were burned to death in a fire ugainst Chêng Wing of counselling, which broke out early this morn- procuring and commanding Laming in a home in Toxteth, Liver- 7 Lun, alias Tak Shek Lun, and others pool.

11 unknown to commit the robbery;

The sole survivor was

land of conspiring with others un- children's grandfather,

an old age pensioner.

37 known to commit the robbery,

Cheng Wing pleaded. "guilty" to

2 the second charge only, while Lam 5 Lun, alias Tai Shek Lun, admitted

taking part in the robbery.

Intermedinte: Part I: (Names of Students deferred in one sub- ject, have been omitted).

Group I Trang Koon Cook. Group III: Chin Thin Siu, Miss Leung Tit-seng, C. T. Law, Miss Wong Sleu Kwong.

Group Vic:-Chow Nal Chang, Miss Langley.

Part··IL

Group III-Misa H. A. Todd. Group IVe Misa Graco Chan, Miss Ho Slew Heng, Miss. Sai Pon the Kan, Siu Chik Kung, E. H. A. who is Woolley.

Group V: Seah Tiang Djoe. Soo Cheng Hee, Woo Chai Ghee... Final: Part I. Group I: D. J. N. Anderson, Miss Cheng Mee Heng, Chew Yan Fook, Miss Choy Oof Chee, Miss Sung Ngau Lon, Tang Wai Keen.

The outbreak started in the kitchen, and soon the whole house was a blazing furnace.

Victims Trapped.

The victims, who had been! Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Assistant asleep, awakened to find them- 153 Crown Solleitor, accepted Cheng selves entrapped in the upper Wing's plea and decided not to storey owing to the collapse of proceed with the charges of rob the staircase.

One man climbed up the drain bery and of conspiracy. He then proved a conviction against the pipe to make a valiant attempt seco Accused in 1924, when he at rescue, but he fell down to the

sentenced to 28 days for pavement and injured his back.

Other persons succeeded in smashing the windows, but were driven back by the volumes of smoke and flames.

0. 31. R.

18 8 46

W. 1

12 5 13 24 12 28

the first charge, but after Wall warning the youth not to go try-McCabe ing to frighten people with Grimmett knives, the Magistrate bound him Ironmonger 12 1 $8 over in a bond of $200 to be of Lec... good behaviour for one year.

PASSENGER TRAINS

DERAILED.

24 7. 1 Australia-1st Innings. W. M. Woodfull, e Mitchell, b.

Vincent

Was

larceny.

In a Monastery. Asked by his Lordship for the facts of the case, Mr. Whyte-Smith said that the robbery occurred in

Buddhist monastery at 19, Staun ton Street on November 22. 、

Group I: Miss Ada Leung, Miss Hu Wai Han.

Group III: Chan Kai Yin, Lum Swee Chum, Chen Pin.

Group IVa: S. A. Broadbridge, Cheung Shiu Tong, Chew Kohik, Lee Ka Tung, Miss Rose Perry, Tam Yuk Tsun.-

Group V: Lee Fuk Fai, A. T. Nomanbhoy, Wong Siew Leng

Final: Part IL

Bodles Beyond Recognition.

The following are recommended The firemen, on entering the house when the outbreak had for B.A. been got under control, found. Group IMiss O. H.. de the bodies of the mother and her Basto, Mies Choy Wai-hip, Toulien The first accused, was are two children and the other Hung Kec. lative of the chief monk, The woman burned beyond recogni- Group IVA Cheung King Pak, monks, he explained, kept their tion-Reuter's Special Service. Ng Kwong-yuen, John Pau, Yeap money in a box with three locks,.

Chung Yew. the key of each lock being kopt by a separate monk, so that all three had to be present together to open. the box. In that box, at the time of the robbery, was $827.

EMPIRE BROADCASTING.

London, To-day. The British Broadcasting Cor- poration will begin on January 4

Group IVC-Abu Baker, Miss Whitley.

Group V-Wong Kwang Yan.

WOMAN'S ALLEGED THEFT.

On the day of the robbery, the to transmit a dally service of three chief monk visited the place on news bulletins, taking fifteen Mrs. Cheung' Suey-ngos, who re- four occasions 'before I p.m. The minutes each, from the short-wavo cently arrived here and had been last time he left at 12.45, leaving station at Chelmsford, thus mark- held by the Police on a deporta- the cook alone In the premises. ing an important stage on the de- tion warrant, for the alleged theft Soon after the chief monk had left velopment of Empire broadcasting, of G$800 in Canada, was three men entered the premises. The bulletins will be broadcast morning discharged by Mr. W. The second accused was one of the at noon, 6 p.m., and midnight Schofield at the Central Magio- three men, and he had a revolver. Reuter.

tracy.

It was not known if the first accus-

ed was there at all.

The cook was bound and gaggod

DRIVE ON BANDITS.

Tokyo, To-day,

4. by the three men, and later, a coolie A general drive against bandits 4 and another man who came in were in the districts around Changtu,

this

Chief Detective, Inspector Rey- nolds said that the Canadian au- thorities refused. to go any further with the case, and would not go to the expense of an escort.

"If it is Communiam which can

1 similarly treated. The robbers Fakumen, and Hsinminfu WAN

broke open the box and stole launched at 4 p.m. by Japanese anve the world from the present ter- $775.90. All the money was not forces according to an argentxible crisis, you will find me an taken because 825.07 wAN to Press telegram from Mukden. enthusiastic Communist," says Dr. 58 different compartment of the box Reuter.

and the robbers did not find it.

W. H. Ponsford, b Quinn ..... K. Rigg, b Bell

.127

112

Christy, b

D. G. Bradman, c Viljoen, b

Morkel

Two Outrages Within SJ. McCabe, c

A Week.

RAILWAYMAN KILLED,

Calcutta, Yesterday,

Vincent .... H. C. Nitschke, b Bell P. K. Lee, c Cameron, b Brown W. A. Olddeld, e Gameron, b

Boll Grimmett, not out :..

Total

Accused's Arrest.

Inquiries made by the Police led to Information which resulted in 79 the first accused's arrest on the 47 24th at 6.20 p.m. on board the 8.5, 0 Wing On, which was due to sail for Kongmoon at. 7 p.m. Information 8 also led to the arrest of the second 9 accused on the 27th on the Ping 6 On wharf, from which a ship was) also due to leave for Kongmoon: 153 None of the stolen money was re- covered, and no particular violence | 469 was used in the course of the rob

bery. There was no record against 0. M. E. W. the first accused, .46.5 6 140

las of hope "at the "Disarma. For the second time within a Wall, e Morkel, b Bellez The accused elected to abide ment Conference and thus com- week a passenger train has been Ironmonger, c Cameron, b. Bell by what he had told the Magis promise the country's security maliciously derailed

in India trale, and said there was no need was uttered by M. Laval in the owing to the removal of fish- for him to say anything in that course of a speech, adding that

plates, Court. The Judge accordingly France's Army Appropriations |

The derailment occurred at read the accused's statement to would be utilised solely for de- Asansol, 110 miles from here. the jury, and then accused call-fence and not aggression. There

casualties. Bell ed his father to give evidence.as Reuter.

though the engine and nine Quinn' bogfes jumped the rails and are Morkel

were

BOWLING ANALYSIS,

to character.

The father said that the ac-them had gone to Canton.

The jury, after retiring for lying at an angle of 45 degrees. Vincent cused, who was 18, worked with

0 98

0 75

0.100

him as a coolic. He was a good ten minutes, returned an unant-

The other derailment occurred Brown

Bombay. One railwayman was

son and of good character, and mous verdict of "gulity against on December 17, 40 miles from had never been in trouble before. the accused.

Reuter.

He did not know Tai Ma-lam, the His Lordship remarked to the killed and a passenger injured. boy referred to, and did not know accused that the jury had right- if he was his son's friend. ly found him guilty, and by; ao]

A scal, nearly twelve feet in Mr. Whyte-Smith mentioned doing had indicated that they re- two other names to the witness jected the accused's rather bath length made an appearance at and the latter, admitted that some defence. In this defence Thorpe Bay, and for three hours they were undesirables and he the, accused had tried to throw reclined on the bathing stage. had scolded his son for going gross insinuations on the char about with them. He also ad-acter of a respectable individual, mitted that those two men had and thus accentuated the gravity unearthed the leg bone of a huga not been seen since his son's ar- of his offence. He would go to bison bearing the teeth marks of a rest, and he knew that one of jail for 2 years with hard labour. byens

Excavators in East Yorks have

In sentencing the first accused

1 for procuring the commission of the 1 robbery, his Lordship' said that he

had abused the hospitality of the

1 monks and induced others to rob them, he would go to fail for three -Reuter. years. A similar sentence was passed on second accused for the part he took in the robbery.

Yet you

You are busy, want to be informed of the news of the day. Then, turn

to the back page and glean

the

news. It's there con..

for veniently summarised

'You,

There are 4,700,000 hachelors in France out of a total of 13,000,000) adult males, according to official statística.

A Mohammedin prophetess, named Babajan, who is reported to have been 125 years old, has died; at Poons.

Albert.

WARMTH WITHOUT

WASTE

(Meals cannot. be enjoyed in a cold and Yet it would be cheerless dining room. Inconvenient and wasteful to have a solid

fuel fire burning all day. In the interests of comfort and economy you should have ' modern gas fire which will give you cheerful, radiant warmth the moment it is needed.

GAS FIRES FIXED FOR

FIVE DOLLARS

On Hire (at $10 a year) Hire-purchase or Sale.

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