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CONFERENCE AT MONTREUX

Straits Convention To Be Signed

ITALY'S ATTITUDE IMMATERIAL

Montreux, To-day.

It

The Straits Convention will be signed at Castle Chillon. The first. reading of the draft convention was completed last evening. was agreed to drop the Straits Commission. in view of Turkey's objections It was decided that aircraft be prohibited from flying! over the fortified zone.

The convention will remain open for the signature of Italy. but the absence of Italy will not! affect the enforcement of the con- vention when it is recognised by at least six Powers, nor the right of Turkey to fortify the Straits

on the signature of the conven- tion. Reuter.

TO ADVANTAGE OF FRANCE Paris: The French press ex- presses gratification at the com- promise reached between Soviet Russia and Britain at Montreux! on the thorny problem of war-i ships passing through the danelles. The papers point out!

Dar-

Yola, of the team Yola and Paul, who will make their bow to the Hong Kong Public in the Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday next.

THE CHINA MAH, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Four cases of enteric fever and; The June aumber of the "Hong one of measles were reported - to Kong Scouting Gazette," the of- the local Health authorities dur-ficial organ of the local Scouts ing the 24 hours ended yesterday: organisation, has just been issued

The committee of the Russian The s... Tibadak will sail for Orthodox Community, will hold alAmoy and Shanghai at 10 am, on memorial service for the late Friday next.

Nicolas JE, Char of all the Russias,

.

HOW AWFUL OF HIM

The latest "Spoonerism" was perpetrated by Capt. Richard Ed- wards, when speaking at the Un- fonist Canvassing Corps meeting in London last month. He referred to a porter at a block of flats as the porter at the flock of bats.” There was uproarious laughter, and Capt. Edwards exclaimed, “How awful of me.”.

to-day at 6 pm at the Russian The RMS. Empress of Canada. Orthodox Church, No. 18, Jordan from Vancouver via ports, is due: Road.

here at 5.30 pm. to-day and will berth at the Kowloon Wharf. She MAN ON SERIOUS

BANK OF CANTON

(Continued from Page 1)

is due to sail for Manila at 5 am.

to-morrow.

His Lordship Moos. H. Valtorta.

Vicar Apostolic of Hong Kong,

that the Company was incorporat-will arrive from Italy on board the ed in 1912-and carried on success-m.v. Victoria, which is due bere fully, increasing its capital and next Tuesday morning. the number of branches from time-

to time, until September of last

year, when it found itself unable to meet payment and accordingly suspended payment, putting in a

BRITAIN AND US. petition for winding-up. At that

ALL SQUARE

Annual Lawn Tennis Encounter

Eastbourne, To-day. The annual Anglo-American that this agreement is of advan- lawn tennis contest run on Davis

CHINESE MALE'S DEATH

Some Mysterious Circumstances

CORONER'S ENQUIRY HELD

CHARGE

Alleged Attacks With Scissors

WOMEN AND CHILD SEVERELY HURT

Following a quarrel over rent, a barber, Sn Ching, aged 56, at- tacked four members of a family

yesterday at Hung Hom, as

器

result of which they were all sent: to the Kowloon Hospital. The wounded are:-

Kwok Hing, aged 31, of Hung

tage to France, the oil supply for Cup lines commenced here yesterpetition was fed,~~~Mr. D'Almada at the Tung Wah Hospital on wounds in arm.

the

the French fleet in case of war! now being guaranteed, and mutual assistance between France, Russia and Rumania be-i ing endorsed-Traps-Ocean. Ser vice.

FASCIST PARTY ARRESTS

Tension Continues In Spain

STATE OF ALARM EXTENDED INDEFINITELY

Madrid, To-day.

About 185 leaders and officials

of the Spanish Fascist Party andį many of their followers in Madrid

on

по

the

and the provinces were arrested

Wednesday aight, Kround that they intended to be gin a subversive movement in a few days. The permanent com- mission of the Cortes has decided to prolong the state of alarm in- definitely, owing to the general tension-Reuter's Bulletin

vice.

Ser-

SENTENCED FOR THEFT

Articles Melted Down

DIPLOMAT AT INQUEST

necessary

Court.

time, Counsel continued, the Bank had many branches in China and one in San Francisco, and the fact that the bank had 36 many branches accounted for the delay between the winding-up petition

An inquest was held at the Hom, stab wounds in body.

Lee Fuk, aged 23, his wife, deep and the petition which was now Central Magistracy this morn-! before the Court.

ing' to inquire into the circum-slashes in body, condition very

critical. stances of the death of a Chin- "FEELER MEETINGS

Ip Kin, aged 56, her mother, Shortly after the winding-up ese male, Ah Chow, who died

Kwok Chee-tong, aged 3, Kwok's day. Fred Perry (GL. Britain)

some creditors of the May 29, went on,

Mr. C. B. Burgess sat as daughter, severe slashes in back, Wimbledon champion for the past bank, in collaboration with some three years, beating Bryan "Eitsy" of the contributories, got together Coroner and the jury was com-condition serious.

The scene of the attack was Grant 6-3, while

(U.S.) 7-5, 0-6, 5 and put forward a scheme for the posed of Messrs. D. Montalto,

Donald Budge, pro- reorganisation of the Bank, and (foreman), A. Gomes and No. 77, Bulkley Street, Hung Hom, where the alleged attacker carries bably America's finest singles play decided that in the interest of Lee Yuk-tong.

After hearing the evidence on his business as a barber. er and Wimbledon semi-Snalist

everyone concerned. preliminary two years running,, accounted for meetings should be called before the jury retired for nearly 20

Vicious Attacks R. W. "Bunny Austin. Britain's

Kwok, who is principal tenant second string player, by 2-6, any attempt was made to obtain the minutes and returned a verdict directions from the that the deceased had died in

the Tung Wah Hospital, but of the premises, went to collect 6-0, 7-5, 9-7--Renter.

These "feeler" meetings result- there was not sufficient evidence the rent about noon, it is stated, ed in an overwhelming majority in to show how death was caused and a quarrel followed, resulting Dr. R. D. Begbie, medical of-in the barber picking up a pair of favour of a scheme of arrange-

viciously attacking ment and when the matter finally ficer in charge of the Victoria scissors and came before Mr. Justice Lindsell, Mortuary, was the first witness the four people.

Passers-by were attracted to the he gave all the necessary direc-and he stated that on May 30 at tions for properly convening and 9.10 am he examined the body scene by the screams of the women of a Chinese male which was iden-jand the sight of the child running conducting the meetings.

tified by Lam Ping on the follow-into the street with blood flowing HEARTY APPROVAL

ing day in his presence and that from a deep incision in her back. Counsel continued that Dr. Li of Sergeant J. S. Riddell as that After a struggle the man was dis-! |Shu-fan

was chairman at the of Ah Chow. On examination helarmed and handed over to a Chin-

on theese constable. Sir Sydney Waterlow, British meeting of the creditors. of the found a small abrasion

The man was later charged with when an overwhelming outer end of the left eyebrow and Minister in Athens, sttended the Bank

his attempted murder and ́is at pre- inquest at Droxford, Hampshire, majority was for the scheme of counter-irritation marks on

{sent detained at Hung Hom police last month, on his brother, Mr. arrangement, and at the meeting chest and neck.

On internal examination

he station. He gave his name as Su Cecil Beauchamp Waterlow, aged of shareholders, which was pre-

of the skull Ching, aged 56. 49. who was killed by a train at sided over by. Mr.

Joseph Mow found a fracture

Lee Fuk was the most severely Soberton, Hampshire, the previous Lam Wong, the result was the un-about 4 inches long, commencing week.

animous approval of the scheme. on the left side of the base to 34 wounded and little hope is held The jury found that Mr. Water- Mr. D'Almada said that there inches above the left ear. A for her recovery.

present low committed suicide while of was no objection to the scheme by 3-ounce blood clot was

the membrane | KIVANEMZET2250879/55/17/158112313:422201216) unsound mind.

any creditor or any contributory, sad pressing on Major John Herbert Norton, of and though a creditor would na-covering the brain. The deceas Green Hill, Upham, Hampshire, turally be vitally interested in fed had also early lobar pneumonia said that Mr. Waterlow, his the issue, not one of them had affecting both lungs.

The cause of death was a frac brother-in-law, suffered from de-

tured skull and haemorrhage. It pression which had become rather come forward to oppose the peti-

tion. There was, however, some was possible that the more acute during the past few sort of objection by way of

the

a fall when he was The depression alternated official Receiver's report, but Mr. Was due to

D'Almada said that he submitted overcome by faintness brought

about by the early pneumonia.

No History Of Case Mr. Waterlow had been under that as this

there was no winding-up by the "Doctor Y. F. Ip, resident doctor medical attention and was in 2 home for some weeks last, autumn. Court, or by anybody at all, the of the Tung Wah

Brother's Jump In Front Of Train

EVIDENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS

years. with a certain amount of exulta- tion at periods.

was a case where

fracture

Hos- May

Cheung Chan, aged 27, was sen tenced to eight months" hard labour by Mr. C. B. Burgess at

pital said that on Coroner, Mr. A. L. Bowker: Was Official Receiver had no jurisdic- the Central Magistracy this morn- that voluntary or not?-No; it was tion to make such a report which,

126 an unknown patient was ing when he was charged on three not voluntary. He was certified Counsel concluded, should not brought in by a Chinese constable counts, the theft of 3 silver and discharged shortly before have been included in the file at in an unconscious condition and powder-box, silver mounted mirror Christmas, being no longer certifi-all

that no history of his case could and shoe horn, the property of Dr. Able. He went abroad for a short Counsel then dealt at length be obtained. No relatives accom- J. Guzdar, of, a chromium-plated while and then returned to his with the clauses contained in the panied him. The witness carried clock valued at $32, and with loi- home at Wilmot, Wickham, Hamp-report, giving his answer to each out the usual clinical examination tering near No. 125, Robinson shire.

one of them, at the same time but could find, no external in- Family Anxious

reading Mr. H R Forsyth's juries. The man was in an ex- "I ought to say," Major Norton jaffidavit concerning them.

tremely dirty condition. Later the added, "that his family had been Mr. Macnamara then said his doctor tested the urine and blood | anxious about him for the past first duty was to satisfy the Court but could find nothing abnormal. few days and had considered his that all the necessary technical A provisional diagnosis of in- June 2 On July 10 Mr. Salter going into a home where he could steps had been taken in connection duenza was made and treatment reported the loss of the clock and have a rest cure not to be cer-with the reduction of the capital, given, but the man died on May on the following day the defen- tified.”

from $8,665.600 to $1,083,200. 29 before there was an opportun- dant was seen peeping « into the

Road, the residence of Mr. A. Salter, on July 11.

Sub-Inspector Kirby said that the articles mentioned in the first charge were reported missing on

arrested

Dr. Hugh Mallinson, of Twyford, INSIGNIFICANT MINORITY ity for further examination. window at his residence and was Hants, said that he had attended His Lordship remarking that As the witness was not satis- Questioned, defendant Mr. Waterlow, who suffered from he had already seen the affidavits fied with what he had found with said that he was looking for some a mental illness for three years in this connection, Mr. Macnamara the diagnosis he had the body sent furniture that he had been told to There was no need for special went on to say that there was an to the mortuary remove..

precaution.

Defendant ́admilled the thefts, AH Hayward, of Elmside, insignificant minority who oppos

FREE PARDON PLEA

Papers Received By Solicitors

to

CAMPSIE FELLS TRAGEDY

Student Killed By 100Ft Fall

In reply to questions, the wit- ed the scheme but who, however, ness said that there were ΔΟ and the clock, which had been sold Guildford, driver of the train had not come forward in Court bruises over the eybrow on May for $2, was recovered, while the said that he saw a man leap

to do so. He concluded by say-26 and that he went round the silver articles, which had been the side of the track. sold for $9, had been melted down. "He took one running jump from ing that he associated himself ward every morning and saw the The man had never re- the embankment to the side of the with all that Mr. D'Almads had patient. line and the train was on him," said, and in reply to a question gained consciousness. He slept on

from His Lordship regarding a mat on the floor. he added.

Mr. Waterlow was a cousin of month's adjournment, Mr. Macna- Sir Edgar Lutwyche Waterlow, jmara replied that this would be. chairman of Waterlow and Sons fatal, and in any case, due to the Ltd. and was related to the late fact that all the bank's branches Sir William Waterlow, Lord Mayor would have to be notified of the of London in 1929-30. He was adjournment, it would take con- An acknowledgment of the unmarried, and had been an in-siderably over a month, as there papers and evidence sent to the spector of Mechanical Transport was a branch in San Francisco, Home Office has been received by in the Army with the rank of and the expenses involved would the Dartford, Kent, solicitors who captain."

be enormous. -

Mån: 18-year-old Glasgow Univer- are acting for Mrs Jane Buckley,

In granting the application His sity student was killed last the St. Mary Cray caravan dwel-

Lordship said that he would do mouth when he fell 100ft down a let, on whose behalf a free pardon

so on condition that the figure of clif on the Campsie Fells near is sought

Ralph Ward the Tottenham Hot-50,000 was substituted for that of Glasgow. He had been walking on Mr. Buckley was sentenced to sper right back, tand Miss Mabel 20,000 in Paragraph 4; and thehills with a companion, and three months hard labour at Greenwood, of Bradford,wers if this was not complied with attempted a hazardous dessent Cannock, Staffordshire, on Easter married recently at "Oadby nes within three months compulsory into the Biane Valley Two Tuesday, for fortune telling.

Leicester.

{liquidation would be ordered. evelists found his body,

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