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HONG KONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1932. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

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COUNSEL CHARGES CROWN WITNESS PLANNED ATTACK ON FUNG

ENGLAND SIDE FOR

AUSTRALIA.

Tate, Leyland" And"

Verity.

MODERATE BOWLING SIDES IN OPPOSITION.

Verity A Passenger?

(At right)-AN-

OTHER FARE

WELL.Dr. H. H Kung, former Minis- ter of Industries, photographed at a farewell reception given in his honour

Tate, Leyland and Verity have by the National been selected to fill the three

vacant places in the English Child Welfare Asso-

touring cricket party for ciation of Chinese Australia this Winter. R. W. V.N

Robins, who was originally in Shanghai.

selected, has unfortunately had

to stand down, and his place has

not yet been filled. Reuter.

The policy of the selectors has

again tended towards the all-

rounder side and Tate and Ley- NY. STOCKS STEADY

land have thus secured their

The Tollowing have been selected to visit Australia this Winter:-

D. R. Jardine (Surrey)

(captain)

K. S. Duleepsinḥji (Sussex)

F. R. Brown (Surrey),

RE. S. Wyatt (Warwick) Nawab of Pataudi (Worcester) G. O. Ailen (Middlesex)

Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) Hammond (Gloucester) Larwood (Notts) Voce (Notts) · Duckworth (Lanes.)

Ames" (Kent) Tate (Sussex) \'!' Leyland (Yorkshire) Verity (Yorkshire);

AFTER SLUMP,

Sales Sink Back To Normal Level.

PANIC IS ENDED.

E. A. Pierce & Co. Says "Market Irregular."

The New York Stock Exchange on Saturday had returned to n level of normalcy, both with res- pect to sales and average values, but the market is still "irregu lar."

FRINCE BORN RUMANIAN

ROYAL HOUSE.

Princess Than Is Mother Of Boy.

Vienna. To-day. After 48 hours of acute anxiety and the most skilled of Burgical attentions, Princess Iliana, sister of King Carol of Rumania, gave birth to a boy.

Both are reported to be "doing well."-Reuter.

HONG KONG DOLLAR

FALLS A LITTLE. Pound Advances By Fraction.

SILVER WEAKENING.

A slight decline in the Hong

THIRTEEN KILLED IN

TEXAS STORM.

Scores Injured When Hurricane Strikes.

PANIC IN GALVESTON. Rumblings Warn Of

Wind's Approach.

Houston, Texas, To-day. Thirteen are known to have been killed and more than 100

injured in a hurricane which

swept Gulf of Mexico coast.

the

US. ATHLETES BEAT EMPIRE TEAM.“

Win By 6 To 4 After Great Contest.

EVENT FOLLOWS OLYMPIC GAMES.

Hampson Leads Half- Milers To World's Record.

San Francisco, To-day.

The United States beat the British Em- pire by 6 events to 4. in the athletic relay events here yester day.

The United States won the following teams' events:—

400 Yards Relay. One Mile Relay. Two Miles Relay. 120 Yards hurdles (team of four)— averaged 14.2-10 seconds, equalling the world's record.

Three Miles

Teams,

ZIMMERN DESCRIBED AS "SWINDLER"

DENIES ENCOURAGING CHENG IN PLOT

MURDER TRIAL PROGRESS

CROWN AND DEFENCE IN SPIRITED EXCHANGE.

Mr. F. C. Jenkin, K.C., counsel for Cheng Kwok-yau, charged with instigating the murder of George Fung, made the sensational suggestion to-day, during the progress of the trial in Criminal Sessions, that Edward Zimmern, Crown witness, and a man named Sydney Christie, had encouraged the accused in his desire to wreak vengeance upon his successful rival in love. Zimmern, on the wit- ness stand, steadfastly denied such implications. Fung was murdered on the night of March 24.

At another stage, Mr. Jenkin declared that he thought witness "a blackmailer," but changed his appellation to "swindler" when His Lordship, Sir Joseph Kemp, ruled that there had been as yet no evidence of blackmail in the case.

Proceedings were marked, too, by spirited ex- changes between counsel for the defence and Crown, Mr. H. G. Sheldon took exception to Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., terming certain evidence non- sense, and His Lordship reminded the leading Crown counsel that he was not cross-examining. Mr. Potter, acknowledging his error, added that isolated when telegraph record time of 7 mins. 40 2/10 sec.)hen the time came he would have a great deal

Premonitory rumblings of t storm enabled numerous persona to take shelter in time to escape. The weirdest scenes were ob served in Galveston. The city

was

were

Dow Jones averages on Satur- places. The remaining vacancy! will probably be given to landay" slowed a slight gain in, in- Peebles, who will take the place dustrials and losses in rails and

wires were blown down and a slow bowler utilities, but the trend of the of Robins 28

plunged in darkness. Peebles was the only English |

windows Plate glass the market had lost its steepness. Kong dollar bowler to. cause Bradman

was noted to-day smashed, trees were uprooted Blightest anxiety during his re- The panic which followed the when it slipped to 1/8/3/4, a drop and families spent the whole cord-breaking tour in England. sudden drop from newly-gained of 1/5 since Saturday's quota-night huddled in panic in any

Possible Eleven.

peak prices, has apparently sub- tion.

shelter they could find. With the party almost com-

Spot silver is still weakening sided. Only 1,800,000 shares plete it seems highly: probable

and is now down to 17.18/16 that the England XI for the first changed hands on Saturday, as from 18% reported for Saturday. Teat will be comprised of the compared with the 3,500,000 turn- Bar silver forward is quoted at following;

Sutcliffe, Wyatt, over of the Saturday previous.

17.15/16, 100 Hammond Duleepsinhji, Jar-

The value of the pound has dine, Pataudi, Brown, Tate, Lar-E. A. Pierce and Co., New!

risen a little, the" London --and wood, Duckworth and Voce, with York, report that market still ir- New York cross rate being the possible inclusion of Peebles regular.

£-G$3.47%, a rise and New instead of Pataudi, and Ames For a week past the New York York on, London cross rate may be preferred to Duckworth. Exchange has showed an un-£G$3.48%, a 1% rise from the

Opening Bat Problem.

usual activity. A week ago last quotation. Glancing at the list eight bats-Saturday the buying rush had men of first-class calibre atand out, got well under way and the bull but who is going to partner Sut tendency of the market was ap- cliffe? Will it be the sixteenth

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US. SCHEMES FOR TRADE REVIVAL.

Hoover Has Plan To Aid Unemployed.

A FIVE-DAY WEEK 7

Industrial Leaders To Join Parley.

Washington, To-day.. A big scheme to stimulate the revival of trade has been launched by President Hoover, by the summoning to a National Conference of business and industrial lead- ers of 12.-Federal-Reserve Districts.

The agenda will include plans for the wide expan- sion of credit facilities, a programme for the repair

BASEBALL CARDINALS AND REDS SCORE DOUBLES.

Bill Terry And Melvin

Olt Hit Homers.

FOXX AND RUTH ALSO.

New York, Te-day. The feature of yesterday's- Baseball results was the double-leader triumph of the St. Louis Cardinals, World Series Champions.Outhit by the Cubs in their first en counter the Cardinals secure ed a two run advantage as the result of lapses in the field by the Cubs player. In the second. game. the Cardin als won convincingly," regin- tering 13 to 6 hits and 2 to 1 runs,

The Cincinnati Reds gained a double win at the expense of the Boston Braves in a most con- vincing manner, but Brooklyn Dodgers failed to improve their position when opposed to New York Giants WOMEN LA Z

Foxx and Ruth."

Though winning comfortably

and maintenance of rail-in their first game by 6 runs to roads, and an organisation for spreading existing employment, presumably

an industrial five

Secretary of Com- A. C. Chapin, de- President Hoover's

Four lap steeple

The British Empire wont té

The Miles Relay (in the world's

The Empire team was: T. Hamp-

(Great Britain), Powell, more to say. (South Africa), A. Wilson and D. Edwards (Canada).. Half Mile Relay.

Four Mile Relay. One Mile Medley Relay.

All the Olympic representa tives of the two countries took -part in this event which al- ways follow the Olympiad. Eddie Tolin, Frank Wykoff, Toppines and Ralph Met- "calfe--"were: opposed ·te Wal-

tera

and...... Jourbert (South, Africa), Elliott (New Zea land Percy Williams (Cana da), Golding (Australia) --and .. EL Page, Carr and Eastman (U.S.A.) were. opposed to Hampson, Harper, Burghley and Cornes (Britain), and Wilson and Edwards (Cana- . da), in the middle distance re lays." Hampson, holder of the world Half Mile record, carried · the British flag to success in the Two Miles Relay,

America won this event four years and, again, two years ago after the British This year's Empire Games contest was even and exciting throughout, the result hinging on the hurdles relay.c

N.Y.K. LOSE $40,000 APPEAL.

8.S.Toyooka Maru

At Fault CROSSED FAIRWAY IN A FOG.

this mor

1, the Athletics could not hold the Judgment was delivered in the Red Sox in their second game. Full Court of App Jimmy Foxx added yet another the app action home-run to his big tally

Babe Ruth the success over the Ben

plant is bound to make an in- the 1 atant and definite peal to

men throughout thes

euters Ameri

Asks For Ruling.

questions on that statement When Court resumed, Mr. Pot- and the witness could be allowed ter, for the defence, asked his to see that statement to refresh Lordship for his ruling on cer- his memory.

tain statements made by the Mr. Sheldon, for the Crown, witness. Edward Zimmern, with stated that a statement made by regard to alleged conversations a Crown witness could not be between the witness, accused and used by the defence as evidence. Christie at the Nathan Hotel in "Let there be no mystery about the early morning of March 21, this a " he added. ' on their way to the Star Ferry Mr. Potter I am not saying wharf, and in the Prince's Cafe there is any mystery .. in Hong Kong. The conversa- Mr. Sheldon - Thank you. tions were not contained in the Mr. Potter added that he was statement handed to Mr. Jenkin, not going to question the witness K.C., on Friday afternoon. with a view to contradicting the

statement.

Counsal quote authorities to support his contention that the defence were entitled to ask

Court's Agreement, His Lordship agree that the witness could be allowed to see

COMMUNIST ARMY the statement to refresh his mem-

NEAR SHASI.

Disarm Portion Szechuenese.

CRITICAL SITUATION.

Gunboats Rush To Aid Nationalists.

ory.

Mr. Jenkin then rose and pro ceeded with "cross-examination of Zimmern.

After taking witness, over the conversations on which he gave detailed evidence on Friday, Mr. Jenkin said: "in", your "evidence in chief here, I may remind you --I must remind you so that I may at the same time refresh the memory of those who are present you gave a long and detalled account of how it came about that Cheng discussed with A large body of Communist you and Christie the murder of troops driven from the Han Fung. River defences which they had "Did you?

Hankow.To-day.

Yes.

set up, have turned their retreat

Mr. Jenkin I suppose you into an attack and have met and will agree with me that this is defested a portion of the Sze very important evidence, if it is chuenese garrison of Shast true, I can only remember to

Fierce fighting two miles from the best of my ability Shast has alarmed the inhabit ants of that city and there is an trate that after your arrest you

Did you say before, the Magie air of tension pervading the made one statement and one place

statement only 1 — Yes I did, section of the Shasi garrison that true? Yes, it is true. disarmed

Counsel Tilt. Referring to the statement handed to him (Counsel) on Fr

That

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