1933-05-23 — Page 7

TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1933.

MANSLAUGHTER

TRIAL AGAINST

BRITAIN EXTENDS

INCOME TAX

M. W. HALLUMS Co-operative Societies

Continued from Page 1.)

Witness said he saw T-2051-H that morning after Faising through Lyemoon Paas at a little after 7.30;

$133,

To Be Hit.

NECESSITY OF EQUALITY

London, To-day.

EMPIRE DAY

MOVEMENT

THE CHINA MAIL.

Earl Jellicoe Sends Message.

TRUE EMPIRE SPIRIT

Pa

To-Day's Short Story,

THE SCREAMING SKULL

By F. Marion Crawford.

I HAVE often heard it came the potted at it was dening

The following Empire Day, mes-] Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chan sage has been received from the No, I am not nervous, I am with the Pratts one night when I The launch's gig was lowered cellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Jellicoe, not Imaginative, and I never be told them the story that afterwards that morning for the purpose of in the House of Commons, moved 3 G.C.B., 0.3, G.C.V.O., President lieved in ghosts, unless that thing made so much difference. It was making contact with the junk, wit-financial resolution to authorise of the Empire Day. Movement: is one. Whatever it is, it hates a vet night in November; and the ness and five other Chinese seamen legislation to carry out the recom- "In sending my hearty greet me almost as much as it hated sea was moaning. Hush!—if you forming the crew of the gig. mendations of the Committee uponings and best wishes as President Luke Pratt, and it screams at don't speak you will hear it now..i

Boyle said that when the rig was income-tax in relation to Co-opera of the Empire Day Movement to me.

ity s

Do you hear the tide? Gloomy lowered the junk was about 40 to 50 live Societies.

(every part of His Majesty's Domi- yards away in a Northerly direc- Under the present law undle- nions, I wish to express my admira- ugly stories about ingenious ways this time of year-hallof-there it If I were you, I would never tell sound, isn't it? Sometimes, about tion. The junk was heading North tributed income derived from tradtion of the magnificent spirit which of killing people, for you never can is!

Don't be frightened, man-it with her bow to the East. He was ing with members is exempted from has dominated the whole Empire tell but that some one at the table won't eat you-it's only unaware of what was happening taxation, and the Government's during

a noise, the very difficult year may be tired of his or her nearest (after alli -elsewhere but noticed that his intention is to repeal that section. through which we have passed- and dearest. I have always blam- But I'm glad you've heard it, be- crew had become very excited. Mr. Chamberlain explained that year in which industrial depression ed myself for Mra. Pratt's death, cause. there are always people who Immediately afterwards he heard efforts had been made. to reach ar has caused much suffering and sor and I suppose I was responsible for think it's the wind, or my imagina the splintering of wood and thought agreed basis of taxation with Co-row to all classes. It is a happy it in a way, though heaven knows tion, or something. You won't the Customs vessel had collided operative Societies, but this had thought that the great Conference I never wished her anything but hear it again tonight, I fancy, for failed, and the Government had had at Ottawa last year drew still closer long life and happiness. If I had it doesn't often come more than "We took no arms on board the to formulate its own proposals. the tics which bind the Empire to not told that story she might be once, gig and as far as I know the per- The effect of the resolution was gether in a bond of mutual co-alive. yet. That is why the thing Yes, it was on a night like this, sons on board were unarmed. I'merely to put these Societies in the operation for the benefit of all. screams at me, I fancy.

when I was at home for a spell heard nothing but the splintering same position as the other trading

"The true Empire spirit which She was a good little woman, with waiting to take the Olympia out on of wood.

companies carrying on identical inspired the representatives at a sweet temper, all things consider- her first trip. Ninety-two was the

Ser Ottawa from all the Dominions fed, and a nice gentle voice; but I year, early-in November.

sounded a very welcome note of remeniler hearing her shrick once; hope for the future industrial when she thought her little boy was prosperity of the Empire. Should killed by a pistol that went off, we not then unite in a firm deter though every one was sure that it mination, when celebrating Em-was not loaded.

into the stern of the junk.

Witness Warned.

activities.British Wireless

Mr. Fraser asked His Lordship's 'vice. permission to refresh the mind of witness as to the statements he

made at the Magistrates' Court. TWO PICK-POCKETS Mr. Fraser-You told the learned Magistrate that you saw something on the launch f

GAOLED.

Boyle: Yes. I told him I had Watchman Commended. scen smoke from dhe gun, and

It was the same

pire Day, to support Empire unity scream; exactly the same, with a both in spirit and in deed?

sort of rising quaver at the end; Remember the watchwords of do you know what I mean? Un- our Movement: Duty, Responsi-mistakable. heard two reports, but as you did Lam Siu Sang, with two previous bility, Sympathy and Self-sacrifice, not ask me the question I did not convictions against him, and whose for the Empire." give this explanation.

term of ten years banishment ex-

JELLICOE,

A. F.

TO-MORROW'S STORY.

To-morrow's story will be the concluding chapter of "The Screaming Skull," by F. Marion Crawford.

The truth is, I had not realised that the doctor and his wife were The weather, was dirty. Pratt His Lordship:-(To Witness). "Ipired in March this year, in com-

not on good terms. They used to was out of temper, and the dinner bicker a bit now and then when was bad, very bad indeed, which have recorded in my notes that you pany with Yip Kau Kan, with five

I was here, and I often noticed that didn't improve matters, and cold, Bald in your evidence 11 few previous convictions against him,

tttle Mrs. Pratt got very red and which made it worse. minutes ngo, "I cannot

The poor Bay were charged before Mr. Wynne

bit her lip hard to keep her temper, little lady was very unhappy about whether 1 heard A yun

or Jones, at

the Central Magistracy LUNCH PARTY FOR CANTON while Luké grew pale and said the it, and insisted on making a Welsh not.' And now, you say that you this morning, with attempting to

VISITORS

most offensive things. did see the smoke and heard two pick the pockets of several per-

He was rareblt on the table to counternet that sort when he waa reporis. You had better be care-sons on May 19.

in the the raw turnips and the half-boiled nursery, I remember, and after-mutton. ful of what statements you make.” Both defendants were sentenced On Thursday a lunch will

Pratt must have had a be warda at school. He was Mr. Fraser: When you left the to three months' imprisonment with offered at the Hong Kong Hotel in cousin, you know; that is how I patient.

my hard day. Perhaps he had lost a launch you were given certain in-hard labour, and the first defendant honour of Dr. Kan Chia Hau, In-came by this house; after he died, a nasty temper.

At all events, he was in structions by the accused, were you is to be automatically bauished on spector General for Foreign Affairs and his boy Charles was killed in

"My wife is trying to poison me, the expiry of his sentence, while of the Kwangtung, Kwangal, Yun-South Africa, there

re-you see!" he said. "She'll succeed Witness: Yes, that le so, I was the second defendant, being a native nan, Kweichow and Fuk-kten pro-lations left.

some day." I saw that she A lower the gig, get near enough of Hong Kong, is to remain under vinces in Canton by Commander A.

One always remembers to pick up a man from the water Palice supervision for two years.

Bianconi, Consul General for Italy mistakes much more vividly than and said that Mrs. Pratt was much one's hurt, and I made believed to laugh, and then get back.

District Watchman No. 111, Yue in Canton..

one's clevereat things, doesn't one? too clever to get rid of her husband What was the object of your de-Sin Po, was commended by His Several other guests from Can-

in such a simple way; and then I Worship for his work in arresting ton and some personal Hong Kong He stated in friends of Mr. Blaneoni will attend

began to tell them about Japanese tricks with spun glass and chopped horschair and the like.

not?

ing this? It is obvious.

Cross-examined by Mr. Macna-the two defendants. mara, witness sald that when he and evidence that he saw the two pri- the lunch... his crew arrived back in the launch. Boners attempt to pick the pocket of -they made to follow the junk to

a Chinese in Des Vœux Road, Hong Kong harbour.

Central.

"Packels Thrown Overboard." "On the way back I noticed a crowd of perhapa five or six ver- sons throwing small packets re- sembling rolled up silk stockinga from the starboard side of the junk!

SERIOUS CHARGE

ADJOURNED.

Into the sea. They were as large Defendant To Marry

De a man's fist, and were as many

Mr. Fraser.

Girl In Case.

aj could fill a bucket.” Re-examined by Boyle said that they did not pick up motor-car driver, was charged with The case in which Lam Fung. 24, any person as they intended to.

having carnal knowledge of Ng Yee

ing thrown overboard from the

were no

OPIUM DIVAN OWNER.

STATE UNEMPLOYED BURDEN $175 Fines Imposed.

(Continued from Page 6.)

like the

WAS

Pratt was a doctor, and know a lot more than I did about mettle, and I told a story about a woman in Ireland who did for three hus- bands before anyone suspected foul

Man Fook, charged with being in play. possession of non-Government

Did you never hear that 'tale? burden of the taxpayer. But these plum, and with keeping an opfum The fourth husband managed to divan at 172, Third Street, was fin- keep awake and caught her, and abe estimates of future liability are ed $100 or five weeks on the first was hanged.

estimates of 'Sir Carte

How did she do it?) Blanche when he is building a new charge, and $75 or one month's im-She drugged them, and poured prisonment on the second charge melted lead into their ears through house, invariably exceeded. chill's Bill for widows' pensions has

We remember how Mr. Chur- by Mr. Wynne Jones, at the Central a little horn funnel when they were

Magistracy, this morning. All asleep. At the time the objects were beai, alias Leung Kam, an married old age pensions in 1911 was

been mounting up; and the cost of opium, lamps, and pipes, were con-

No-that's the wind whist-' Bacated,

ling. It's backing up to the south- | Junk, he had no idea what they xiri under sixteen years of age, on £6,299,981, which rose in 1925 to Revenue Officer Grimmitt stated ward again. I can

April 19, at the Wan Hol boarding £22941,288, and is far more to-day fought with the raiding Revenue doesn't often come more that once tell by the in evidence that the defendant had sound. · Besides, the other thing In reply to Mr. Fraser he did not and also with harbouring an un-same

Connaught Road West, while the cost of poor relief in the Officers, and had thrown the opium in an evening even at this time of think they floated but could not be married girl, Ng Yee Mui, without £15,000,000 odd to £36,000,000 odd.

period has risen from out of the window of the house, but year when it happened. sure. There were five or six per the consent of the girl's mother,

Yes, it The reception sons standing on the starboard alde

accorded to the it was later recovered,

was in November. Poor Mrs. Pratt was concluded before Mr. Wynne Government proposals by a section of the junk. The articles were

died suddenly in her bed not long! Jonca, at the Central Magistracy of the Opposition gives shoved over in one heap.

us fair

after I dined here. this morning. In reply to His Lordship, witness-

warning of the other danger latent said that as far as he could resine die to enable the defendant to sneers, jeers, and suspicions

His Worship adjourned the case in the State's decision. The collect, one of the shots, was fired

hots warned carry out his promise of marriage. presed by a politician of the off- when the junk had side to the launch's forward gun

were.

house at

ex-

Both parties admitted the cial standing of Mr. Greenwood is

and a few minutes when she had that it appeared that the mother of of unemployment relief may and intimacy. Mr. Wynne Jones said an ugly reminder that this question

her port side, this by means of changing her course.

LOCAL PROPERTY SALE.

$208,014 Transaction.

Luke must have been lonely here after she was dead, I should think; I came to see him now and then, and he looked worn and nervous, and told me that his practice was grow- Ing too heavy for him, though - he] Negotiations for the sale of wouldn't take an assistant on; any. the girl had used the immoral pro-will be used by the Socialists to KLL. 524, situate at the corner of account Yeare went on, and his ceedings in order to obtain money gain votes. in which case it will Cameron and Chatham Roads, for son was killed in South Africa, and become an engine of political cor- the sum of $208,014, have been after that he began to be queer. ruption.

completed by Messrs. Fred Kew & There was something about him not If only Mr Chamberlain would Co. brokers acting on behalf of like other people.

from the defendant.

Relating his arrival back on the launch and his subsequent conversa- tlon with Hallums, Boyle said that

she could remember, lielumse had ORDER OF ST. JOHN told him that the junk's crew had

thrown bomba at him and he had Mrs. Rosa Langley As

A "Serving Sister."

fired at the junk, not. intending to

do any damage but to frighten the janka crew. A

be bold, as Mr. J. W. Hille sug-vendor and purchaser.. "Completion Luke: was a red-headed man with gesta be gaight be, and take a shill-of the sale of this 20,000 square a pale face when he was young, and Ing off the income tax, he would feet property will take place in he was never atout; in middle-age halve the employment.

But July,

he turned a sandy grey, and after] will be, or is he stupefied by Mr.

The same firm have al sold at his son died he grew thinner and “Dynamlie Thrown At Junk"! His Majesty the King, Sovereign Baldwin's fatalism In recently parcel of land, on Waterloo Road, thinner, till his head looked like a Jay Mun, said he was a member Head of the Venerable Order of St. endeavouring to prove to Lord comprising 25,850 square feet, to skull with parchment stretched over of the launch's crew on April 1, and John of Jerusalem, has been Wolmer that he, Mr. Baldwin, is the Metropolitan Land and Build-it very tight, and his eyes had a had been responsible for the load graciously pleased to sanction the not auch fool as he looks, the ing Co. The vendor was Mr. Lee, sort of glare in them that was very ing of the gun from which the admission of Mrs. Rosa Langley as Lord Presidentexpounded the and the anle price. 30,420,

shells were fired.

a "Serving Sister" of the Order of doctrine that Conservatiem, as it Asked by Mr. Fraser why the gun St. John, as from February 17 is generally understood, is impos was fired, witness said: "Because 1983, the date of His Majesty'e Signsible to-day, and that the only

Manual. dynamite had been thrown at us,"

thing to do is to swim with the Jay Mun said he loaded the gon a An, announcement of this honour tide! I do not believe the local few minutes after the gig had left will in due course appear in the associations share this the launch, the gun being fired soon London Gazette,

after. 2

Asked who had fired the gun, wit

nos, replied, "The accused fired, the gun, two successive shots at short Intervala."

FAN TAN PLAYERS LOSE BAIL MONEY

view.

News In Brief.

disagreeable to look at

| ....... He had an old dog that poor Mrs. Pratt had been fond of and that used to follow ber everywhere, He was a bulldog, and the sweetest tem pened beast you ever saw, though Leung Cheuk, was fined $80 or he had a way of hitching his upper hopeless three weeks Imprisonment with lip behind one of his fangs that

:: hard labour, for being in posses frightened strangers a good deal. sion of 105 Fo Plu lottery tickets Sometimes, of an evening. Pratt and at Connaught Road, Central, by Bumble-that was the dog's name Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central used to sit and look at each other at Chan Tak Chuen and Muk Fat,

BOND PROVIDED FOR SPANIARD Magistracy, this morning, a long time, thining about old Cross-examined by Mr, Macna- charged with running a Fan Tan

Gift times, I suppose, when Luke's wife At the Central Magistracy, y58- A summons brought by Mr. W. E. used loʻsit in that chair you've got. mars witness said, "Two sticks of school, at Pottinger Street, were terday afternoon, Mr. Wynne Jones Curtis, who has a house and pencil That was always her place, and this dynamite were thrown at us. Be- absent from the Central Police withdrew the expulsion order made factory, at Cheung Sha Wan Road, was the doctor's, where I'm sitting. fore the first shot was fired I saw Court when their names wire call-againat » destitute Spaniard, Jose against Lo Po, owner of a rattan Bumble used to climb up the foot someone light, the fuse of what ip- this morning,ch

Vad hade del Pan, last Saturday, nova factory just across the road from stool be was old and fat by that peared to be; dynamite and then : In consequence, Mr. Wynns Mr. Leo D'Almada, Sur. assured |Mr. Curtis, house, was-beard by Lime, and could not jump much, and throw it. It did not bit the launch Jones ordered their ball of $20 each Worship that the brother of Mr. Butters at the Kowloon Maria bis tooth were getting shaky. He but fell into the water where it ex- to be estreated. The sum of 38.72 Ton del Pan, who was manter of tmser, yesterday afternoon. Li. Po would look beadly, at Lake, and ploded

which had been seized at the scene the Station Hotel, Kowloon, Wan was fined $20 Cop

va, noise | Latke looked sbeadily at the dog, his The case is urposedthe

neighbours. (Continued on, Paar 10.)

fof the gambling was confiscated prepared to algu a bond for $1,000 sufficient to distur

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