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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932.

FALLING DEBRIS MENACE.

AEROPLANES FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

Manslaughter Charge if Chinese Show Patriotic

Anyone Killed,

DEFENDANT WARNED.

on

Spirit.

COLONEL LAU'S RETURN.

MR. DE VALERA'S CAUTION.

Oath of Allegiance Negotiations.

THE LAND ANNUITIES.

A fine of $100 was imposed

'Canton, April 4. (Reuter's Special Service). Chan Choung, of the Hung Tak firm

Colonel Lau Chik-yim, who was

London, Yesterday. of building contractors, on a sum recently sent by General Chang Mr. Do Valera has been care- mons for failing to take necessary Hai-chang to the Philippine lelands ful to leave the door open for a precautions in regard to falling to raise funds among the overseas conference between the British debris at the junction of Des Voeux Chinese there for purchase of aero- and Irish Governments, accord- Read Central and Gilman Street, planes to reinforce the country's ing to well-informed opinion. where four houses are being de inadequate Air Force, has returned The Irish reply was finally

to the city after a most successful sealed and despatched to-day. ' trip.

Mr. De Valera's aim, it is

molished.

Sergeant Brown, prosecuting

Raid that, at the time, there were

The Chinese in the Philippines understood to be, is to decline to several people passing in rikishas,

are most enthusiastic in coming to consider any question of nego дом well as, pedestrians in the the support of their native land, tiating over the removal of the street. He warned them, but they and so the appeal for funds met Oath, but he is believed to be took no notice of his warning. with a most ready response. Dur-prepared to state a legal case for His Worship warned the defening the short period in which the retention of land annuities. dant that if a person was killed by Colonel Lau was in the islands, he u falling brick, it would result in

managed to collect enough money those being responsible for the

for the purchase of about 15 work, being probably charged with

machines. murder, but most certainly mans- laughter.

MEXICAN SUBJECT EXPELLED.

Certificate of Identity Unapproved.

On a charge of being in the Colony without a valid passport, Ramon Mendoza, a Mexican sub- ject, Was brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police Court this morning.

Mr. L. H. V. Bootli, Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence; (Political), said the defendant was a seaman and had been in the Colony for about three months, ar- riving here on a German ahip. Considering that Mendoza was an undesirable, the Police proceeded

These machines will be brought||

SERIOUS TROUBLE FOR G.P.O. CLERK.

back to Canton by the Philippines Forger of Bank Drafts

Chinese themselves within two months, and will be formed into a special Philippines Chinese

Squadron-Canton Gazette.

SOME RAIN LATER.

The weather report issued by the Royal Observatory, to- day, states:-

An anti-cyclose of moderate intensity has developed to the North of the Yangteze Valley, and a depression is situated to the East of Hokkaido.

Forecast: Light variabio winds, fresh and freshening from N.E. Fair at first, pro- bably some rain later.

Pleads Not Guilty.

Tang Yuk-hung, alias Tang Yee- chau, a clerk employed in the Dead Letter Office, of the General Post Office, who originally plead- ed "guilty" to charges of the theft of postal matter, forgery of bank drafts on the Yat Yik Import and Export firm, to the total of $506, and obtaining money by false pre- tences, reversed his plea to one of "not guilty," through Mr. G. K. Hall Bratton, before Mr. Wynne- Jones in the Central Police Court this morning, when the case was called,

Mr. R. E. Lindsell appeared for the Crown, while Mr. P. M. Hodg son was for the firm concerned.

Mr. Hall Erutton pleaded ex- tenuating circumstances. He said

to go into the question of hers FRENZIED TRADING that he would plead guilty to the

was

port, and found that he had a cer- tificate of identity which issued to enable him to land at Bristol in June 1931.

The LG.P. was not prepared to His approve of this certificate. methods of obtaining a living were,

vague and possibly subject to question. All the Police asked for was an expulsion order.

OF PESO SECURITIES.

charge of forgery only. The man who had actually perpetrated the crime had left the Government service, and defendant was merely a scape-goat to this man. Defen- dant's mother was prepared to re- Valparaiso, Yesterday. The abandonment of the Gold view of that, Mr. Hall Brutton ask- pay the defrauded firm, and in standard by Chile is assured by ed his Worship not to send the a special law passed by the Sen-

youth to prison hut to impose a ate in the Chamber and which is ane, or even for the defendant to Mendoza stated that there was a now awaiting the signature of enter a bond for his future good possibility of him being given the President. job on the Dollar Steamship line Frenzied trading

of peso He had been staying at the Sea-securities occurred to-day in the case was not one for a fine. After men's Institute and three days ao expectation of a heavy deprecia- explaining the facts, Mr. Lindsell he came to the end of his tether. tion in currency exchange rates said that the evidence would go to

His Worship made the expulsion when restrictions on exchange order, accordingly.

Frenchman Charged. George Arthur De Houx De Fastree (48) described as a motor engineer, of France, also appeared before Mr. Wynne-Jones charged

behaviour.

Mr. Lindsell submitted that the

transactions are removed-Reu-show that defendant was not the "catapaw to a stronger mind," but he was also in the swindle. The

ter.

ARMY OFFICER ROBBED.

| object of punishment, in this case,

was to act as a deterrent.

Local business suffered a great

On a charge of the theft, of $65 loss, when these thefts occurred in with entering Hong Kong without and ten shillings, the property of the Post Office, in which depart- A valid passport, and also with the Capt. J. R. Smeathers S.W.B, who ment defendant had been for two unlawful possession of a lives at 2. Married Officers' Quar-years.

millimetre automatic pistol, on the ters, Mount Austin Barricks, a His Worship said that he would third floor of 20, Yik Yam Street Chinese employee was at the Central like to take time to consider this yesterday.

Police Court this morning before very serious matter, as it was bis Mr. Booth prosecuted.

Mr. Schofield sentenced to two duty to apply a deterrant to this Defendant admitted possession months' hard labour.

sort of crime. He adjourned the of the weapon, but explained that]

It was

stated by Sub-Inspector case till to-morrow morning, when He contended Chester-Woods that the Police had he will give his decision. that his passport was valid. recovered $27 and the 10/-, the re-

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