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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934.

KWANGTUNG PEACE PRESERVATION CORPS BEING ORGANISED

THREE LETTERS READ

IN MURDER

TRIAL

NEW ANGLE FOR MOTIVE

IN NULLAH OUTRAGE ACCUSED EXHORTED TO BE BRAVE

The remarkable contents of three letters which were found in a basket, purported to be the property of Ng Loi-yuen, who is facing his trial for the murder of Michael Pine, aged 8, on June 22, were read to the Court for the first time at the Criminal Ses- sions this morning, when the trial was resumed.

The letters were referred to in the opening of the case yes- terday by Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney-General, who said, "one of which may give a little clue as to the motive of the crime."

FINANCE COUNCIL

MEETING.

$91,420 In Supplementary Expenditure.

JUNE STORM COSTS $81,000 Supplementary expendi

The letters, translated

Chinese, read as follows:-

from

Letter 1. "le who dares to kill the European will be a great hero.: Please be righteous and brave: man who will be a great hero."

Letter

2 "Those who have courage are requested to be brave mien"

Letter 3. "I cannot tell you all, If you students are brave enough to die our Country will never die. All of us should work hand in hand. ture amounting to $91.420 will be first, we must read the Sam Man submitted at the Finance meet-Chiu Yu (The Three Aspects of ing, to be held to-morrow air-

Democracy) Secondly, we should noon, following the Legislative act in accordance with the book. Thirdly, people of the modern ‘age .o..29991TaT.?ilast,eobe' hrh riw

The votes include one of $81,000 who also read it, and of the 600,-

100,000 people of our

Council Meeting.

country

as 1,

for general repairs to damages sus-hose who are determined tained in the typhoon and storm of can also become a righteous man June last. Considerable damage to and, brave man who will be a great Government buildings, roads, water-i hero.

works and drainage systems was Signed, Ng Yick Shan, Decem- incurred and the above amount is ber 10, 22nd year of the Chinese | required to meet repairs.

Another vote for $5,000 for rental

of No. 2 Embankment Road, Kow- ioon Tong, where it is propoard to establish a Remand Home for Girls. will be submitted,

COMMUNIST NOW MENACE KWANGTUNG

Republic.

Strange Affair in Tunnel Evidence was also given by the European soldiers who assisted in the rescue of the children.

Police

PWA Plan Long Urged By Briton,

-day's Short Story.

Roosevelt

Typical PWA project recommend.. ed by Keynes.

John Maynard Keynes.

voted President At the back of the huge sums Congress Roosevelt to spend as "he saw " to push forward the public works administration projects looms the figure of Mr. John May. -nard Keynes, noted British economist, who for decades han pleaded for a large public works expenditure fund as a means of pulling Mr. Keynes recently talked nations out of depression doldrams. for several hours at the White House with apparent effect, inas- much as the chief executive immediately asked for increased accurately PWA appropriations, The influential British scholar foretold the world crisis after the "disastrous" Versailles treaty in 1919, and withdrew from the peace conference in protest against its "injustices"

EUROPEAN

CAR DRIVER_TO

HAVE SOLICITOR Sequel To Collision In

Queen's Road.

was

INDIAN CONSTABLE ROBBED

Pocket Picket In West Point.

A

MURDER

By Storm

Jameson.

No murder of J. Blaber.

TO ane can have regretted the crawling, and anuffing round it in He a professionally unpleasant way,

was not the sort of man one re- gave it as his opinion at the in- grets. He was rich, dirty, and quest that the wound had not been illiterate. He was very rich Belf-inflicted. how rich no one knew until his

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had

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TO REPLACE REGULARS

RELIEVED

TROOPS FOR THE

FRONTIER WAR

:

NEW DEPT. HEAD SWORN IN.

POWERS OF A COMMANDANT murdered OVER 900,000 MEN NOT GIVEN

(From

Our Own Correspondent) Canton, To-day.

sudden end, when the sum of *So Яomeone

as the news fifty-nine thousand pounds was Blaber. As., 200R discovered in the bread pannikin. spread he ceased to be the object: became The rest, a trifle of thirty thou-of mild speculation and

sand, was in the bank. This the centre of a positive maelstrom Brigadier-General Fung Chuk-fan pigs. He did not keep them; he They said there was a new Rip was sworn in yesterday as head of bought and sold them. He also per abroad. They said that the the department in charge of the bought and sold old horses. . Vicar had been very queer in his Peace Preservation Corps, the oalb He lived in a shabby, insani-manner ever since, at Easter, he of office being administered by tary, tumble-down cottage of two was suddenly confronted by Miss General Chen Chi-tang, Comman rooms at the very gute of Sir Edith Snow in magenta salin and der-in-Chief of the First Group

money had all been made out of of talk, clues, mystery and terror,

she

Baw

has been

Thomas Severn's drive, and when kid boots. They said that Miss the Income Tax collector called Snow herself wasn't herself when Army,

The department a man and J.. Blaber on him with a request for six hundred pounds he produced the was a man, after all. The village created to look after the affairs amount, in notes, from his pocket, let itself go for the first time of the Peace Preservation Corps, numbered at over an threw it sulkily on the table. since Mrs. ffoliott. ran off with which is He objected strongly to paying the jockey, leaving a note between 900,000 men, scattered in differ-

for which he could her husband's teeth in the bath-jent parts of the province. away money see no return. When it was re- presented to him that he was, in fact, supporting the British Em- pire, he showed a deplorable indi- And fference to his privileges. he. could not sign his name.

In addition, he was the most squalid object in Dorset. He had never been washed since his se cond birthday, when his mother gave up her perfunctory attempts on him. The windows of his cot- tage were stuffed with old rags.

room.

TO-MORROW'S STORY

To-morrow's story will be "The One-Er," by Michael Home.

A detective came down to assist

and

Gen- eral Fung has not been given the powers of a Commandant who can issue an order direct to the Corps, but he is merely one of the department heads of the First Group Army.

General' Chen Chl-tang is the officer commanding this large army, but all routine and administrative work is in the charge of General Feng, who does not have direct contact with the Corps.

These 900,000 men will undergo

The outside was unspeakably filthy, the local police. He put up at the regular military and political train- and decayed. Taken together, he village inp, where the only other ing, and it will be their duty to and his cottage ruined the en- guest was a young. Mr. Eilat, maintain peace and order in the Formerly, these guards trance to Sir Thomas Severn's known to be courting Miss Cather counties.

And there was ine Severn, Sir Thomas's niece.were under the control of the majestic house. Private Simmons, South Wales

no way of getting rid of him. He Everything else about him was county executives or Pacification Borderers, spoke of his abrupt

owned the land on which his equally well known. He was poor, Commissioners, but now they are contact with the accused in the

wretched hovel stood. The hovel not liked by Sir Thomas, and he under the command of the First tunnel and of the latter'e

DEPENDANTS DISCHARGED had leaned close to the side wall worked in the Foreign Office. This Group Army,

Certain farm taxes were collected reluctance to leave his position.

of the lodge since the lodge was last implied that he was some sort He struggle and fought before be- ALLEGED SPEEDING AGAINST

built-two hundred years ago. of alien himself, probably a spy. for the maintenance of this Corps. (Continued from Page 1)

Charged with the theft of ing carried with his face down-

TRAFFIC SIGNAL

fountain pen from the pocket of The original owner of Severn Hall The falt that he had sleek black Now these taxes are remitted to No serious trouble is expected wards to the end of the tunnel,

Sadar Singh, an Indian constable, had no objected, nor had any of hair, an olive skin, and a languid the First Group Army, which seta from the Communist invaders, he said.

Pleading not guilty to the aum-in Queen's Road Weat last his descendants, until it came into voice made the last practically aside certain monthly expenses. After the unit is properly trained, Wong Slu-kit, an accountant of

very distant certain. unless they can launch a simul

Before the detective had been they will relieve the regulars who Janeous. drive with their com-the Swatow Drawnwork Company, mons for failing to drive with due evening. Chan Shing and Au Man, the possession of &

in the village an hour five per-will be sent away for frontier de- rades from Western Fukien. The said that the aceded came to his care and caution, the case against two unemployed Chinese were dis- Seven, to whom Blaber and his Communists in Southern Hunan, ahop on June 21. He was former Mr. D. J. Hill, of the Hong Kong charged this morning by Mr. E. W. hovel were sheerly maddening.

Sir Thomas was a bachelor, of sons had come to him indepen-fence. however, have occupied the Yu-ly employed as a coolie in the Electric, was remanded until Thure Hamilton at the Central Magis-

He dently to say that on the morn- at the Central tracy,

wide and exquisite culture. shing county which is close to shop, and had a brother who now day afternoon,

worked at the shop.

Magistracy before Mr. E. W.

Complainant stated that while he collected glass and Dutch pic-ing of J. Blaber's death they had Kwangtung.

Hamilton this morning.

Under the warmth of his seen Mr. Eliot walking away from Chinese Wong Kom, a

was walking along Queen's Road tures, On the Fukien front, it appears

Sergeant Youe said that Mr. Hill West, near Water Street, the first taste and his income the Hall and the cottage into the planation be- WHY ROOSEVELT WANTED JOHNSON TO REMAIN HEAD that the Communists are now Sergeant, said in evidence that turning their attention towards the basket in Court was handed was driving along Queen's Road defendant closed in on him, ex- the gardens flowered into an un-hind. He had seemed vaxed or

West near

Belcher Street, on tracted the pen, valued $7, from his familiar loveliness. Only Blaber's excited, waving his arms

muttering: sobbing, ons woman (Continued from Page 1) the South-west sections of the to him by Ng Yick-mei, brother of

aaid. province. A regiment of the the accused, who brought it from August 8, when a traffic-officer gave upper right pocket, and threw it to hovel married the pattern.

Sir Thomas tried persuasion,

The detective-his name was The correspondent points out First Independent (Kwangtung) the rear of the shop. It was stat-the signal to a bus, which was pre- the second defendant.

Discharging the defendants, Mr. threats, money.. Blaber did not

Orme, and he had been educated that the alteration in the Admin- Division fought with the Redsed to contain all the belongings of ceeding ahead of defendant's car,

and the at Shanghang, South-western the accused. The basket, he said, to go, and a signal for his car to Hamilton said that he could not understand the first,

at Rugby and Baliof-was not un-istration's polley is due to the Fukien. and repulsed them. was not opened until he reached atop. Defendant then attempted convict them on one man's evid-threats produced a contemptuous used to the mania of suspicion change in internal conditions on to squeeze through and collided with ence, although he believed big chuckle." As for money--well, which hangs like a cloud of files the one hand by the cost of living General Yu Han-mou. officer the Central Police Station.

It was also alleged by the story. commanding the first Kwang | Evidence was also given by Act-the bus.

what could money mean to a man over most villages. But, in spite rising, owing to the shortage Inspector Nourihan: "He was who kept notes in the bread pan of himself, he was impressed by caused by the drought, and on the tung army, has instructed his Ing Sub-Inspector O'Donovan who traffic-officer that Mr. Hill officers at Talyu to keep a sharp said that teste were carried out driving very fast at the time.

lucky to recover his pen." nikin? He didn't want money. He the unanimity of the testimony. other hand by general trade fall- watch on the Southern Kiangsi on the bridge where Mrs. Fair- Mr. Hill pleaded not guilty and

wanted his two warm, dirty, fame Then, when he caught his first ing, partly owing to the increased front, where a push by the Reds burn stood when she saw the asked for an adjournment to secure DESERTING SEAMEN Ţiliar rooms.

glimpse of michael Ellot, disap-costs in production, Sir Thomas took to driving pearing down a shadowy passage This, the correspondent con- nullah the service of a solicitor.

CHARGED.

through his gates with his face in the inn, he recognised him as a cludes, throws light on President averted. If, drawn by a dreadful man whom he had known a little Roosevelt's instructions to Gener the and disliked a great deal at Ox-al Hugh Johnson, National Re- Enter Colony Without fascination, he glanced to

Passports.

right he was almost sure to see ford. In those days Eliot had been covery Administrator, to work out the grotesque, leering face of J..

a languid, sinuous young gentle and carry out a plan for the re Harry Streck and Louis Paul Blaber watching him with an air man given to black cloaks and organisation of the N. R. A.-Reu-

of furtive amusement. It was al-

(Continued on Page, 10)': sensitive Wong Tung-sang, driver of bus Warner, two members of the

minded man. Sir Thomas began No. 581, was fined $15, by Mr. E.jcrew of the s.s. Golden Mountain, most too much for a W. Hamilton at the Central Magis-a States Steamship liner, were

to think of going abroad. in custody when

So that though no doubt he tracy this morning, for falling to remanded drive with due care and caution. charged before Mr. E. W. Hamil-

Traffic-Inspector Alexander Baldton at the Central Magistracy was shocked and startled--he was accused drove his bus into an ambu- this morning, with entering the not very sorry to hear that J. Blaber, had been found dead in lance while parking in Connaught Colony without passports.

Detective Sergeant Mottram the back room of his cottage, shot Road, opposite the Star Ferry Wharf.

stated that the men deserted the through the heart with his vessel and came to the Colony gun. No one was very sorry. J. on August 10, and asked for a Blaber had no friends. week's remand pending the arri- long time the police could not val of the s.s. President Taft on find that he had any relatives. which they will be deported to In the meantime enquiries were

He added begun into the manner of the United States. that the United States Consul death. It was at first assumed was not able to aid the men that he had shot himself-perhaps owing to their desertion from the by accident-perhaps because he

had suddenly seen himself. the local doctor, after long cogi- tations over the body, walking,

is expected.

Chinese climb railings.

over

the

One case of typhoid fever and one case of puerperal fever were which occured at the Central Ma- reported in the Colony during the gistracy on August 8 when, during 48 hours ended August 19. Jan interval of the Court hearing.

In The

ADDED

ATTRACTION

UNIQUE ENTERTAINMENT

BY THE

"EMPIRE TRIO"

He also spoke of an incident CAR DRIVEN INTO

AMBULANCE.

Driver Fined $15.

ROOF GARDEN

Mae Haird

Archie Thomason

Harry Simmons

DURING

THE EVENING

-HONGKONG HOTEL

ON

SATURDAY

25th

AUGUST

UNTIL 1 A.M.

NAVAL OFFICER. FINED $5.

European Woman Did Not Cary License.

Misė G. Simmons was fined $5 by ship. Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy this morning, when she Messrs. E. Bathurst, of the Chinesa Customs, and S. W. appeared on a summons for falling Maritime to produce her Hcense when asked Coleman, were also fined $5 each.

A warrant for the arrest of Chan by a traffic officer. Miss Simmons was driving along Morrison Hill Yick, driver of lorry 2932, was order Road at the time.

ed to be issued by Mr. Hamilton, Lieutenant-Commander Skyrme, when Chan falled to appears in

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