CHARCOAL SOVIET AND MURDER TRIAL PAVLOVA Evidence By Accused's ESTATE
Relatives
THE STRANGER
The step-mother and step-brother of Chiu Yuk-fai, 24-year-old P.W.D. draughtsman accused of the murder of 27-year-old Cheung Yuk- ching, gave evidence on behalf of the Crown this morning, when the case now known as the "Charcoal Murder Case" was continued before the Chief Justice, Sir Atholl MacGregor.
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Moscow, To-day.
The Soviet Government has at last succeeded in collecting part of the fortune left by the famous Russian dancer Pavlova.
Acting on behalf of the dancer's aged mother, who lives near the Government has Leningrad,
in a obtained. £15,000 deposited London bank.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 28, 1937.
CANADIAN
TRADE PACT STOP PRESS
CRITICISM IN THE COMMONS
MR. RUNCIMAN'S DEFENCE
London, To-day.
A resolution amending the Otta- wa Agreements Act, 1932, for the purpose of giving effect of the new Canadian Trade Agreement was Altogether, Anna Pavlova is be-
approved by the House of Commons lieved to have left about £80,000
by 265 votes to 126 after certain and steps are now being taken to features of the agreement had been The accused is represented by recover the rest of her fortune, de-
criticised by Labour and Liberal the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada, junior, posited in various foreign banks. speakers on the grounds that it was Using the power of attorney inopportune at a time when trade Attorney General, is for the Crown. made out by the dancer's mother, negotiations might be impending to The following jury is hearing the the Soviet yesterday obtained Court diminish the inelasticity of the case: Messrs. J. L. Robinson (Fore-release of part of the fortune de tariff position. man), C. R. Wilson, Yew Man-chiu, posited in a London bank.
while Mr. E. H. Williams, Assistant
B. W. Simmons, M. B. Reyes, E. A. Kinsey and F. J. H. Jenner.
Wong Hop, residing on the second floor of No. 325, Reclamation Street, said she saw accused and a woman going up to the top vacant flat. Immediately after, she heard shouts of "Save Life" in a woman's voice.
Cross-examined by Mr. D'Almada, witness said that the door of the vacant flat was opened and closed by accused. She recognised accus- ed. She had often seen him, and was at his wedding ceremony. In reply to the Chief Justice, witness said that when accused closed the door he appeared to have seen that she was observing him.
“SAVE LIFE”
The President of the Board of The Soviet representative yester-Trade recommended the agreement day had to answer nearly 500 ques-
as part of the Governments general tions before the order was granted.
policy of reducing trade barriers: -Trans-Ocean.
Royal Procession On Thames
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London, To-day. To-day, for the first time in 100 years, a King and Queeri made a State journey down the Thames, when they went down in the new Royal Barge from Westminster Pier to the Na- tional Maritime Museum at Greenwich-
Princess Elizabeth accompanied
Wong Lai-chun, who' resided on the floor beneath the vacant flat, testified that she heard shouts of her parents.
with charcoal.
The duty reductions Covered about forty per cent. of British trade with Canada: He thanked the Canadian Government for hav- ing met the British most generous- ly. The agreement would increase Imperial trade without increasing a single duty on foreign goods either side-British Wireless.
COUNT CIANO FOR
TIRANA
Official Call Upon King Zog
on
Rome, To-day. Count Ciano is off on his travels
Europe.
TEL. 20022 or 33993
INTERESTING
AIR FREIGHT FOR HONG KONG
MEDALS, A FILM AND
MARGARINE!
The Imperial Airways Service which arrived from Penang yester- day brought some interesting freight. One was a consignment of silver and another a film of the arrival at Croydon of the Divine Wind, the aeroplane which recently made the epic flight from Japan.
again with the object of spreading "save life" between 2 and 3 p.m. The whole length of the Embank- the influence of Fascism in Central About 20 minutes later she saw two ment skirting the Thames along men going up the stairs. One was which the barge, escorted by four This time he goes to Tirana, Goronation Medals for Hong Kong, carrying basket
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of charcoal. motor torpedo boats proceeded, was capital of Albania, where he will Later, smoke came into her flat. thick with cheering spectators. Accused told her that the smoke His Majesty wore a naval uni- visit King Zog. He is due to leave was due to attempts to light a fire form and was accompanied by the by air to-day, accompanied by For First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir eign. Office officials and newspaper
correspondents. Trans-Ocean. The step-brother of accused, Samuel Hoare-Reuter. Chiu Chi-fong, said that at about 4.20 p.m. he heard shouts of "Fire"
NEW MEMBERS OF and saw accused in the kitchen,
NAZI PARTY
Over Two Millions To Be Enrolled
where there was a burning heap. Accused left hastily on hearing one of the firemen remark that the heap contained a dead body.
REMINDER OF OLD Something of what the River Thames meant to the London of the past as a highway linking the City and its merchants with Westminster and its Parliament and leading out to the seas beyond where British mariners carried the freights of THE STRANGER.
Britain's commerce, were recalled
Berlin, To-day. Cross-examined by Mr. D'Almada, by the King and Queen's triumphant
About 2,500,000 new members are Ng Tseng, an amah employed by progress in the Admiral's Barge to be enrolled in the Nazi Party us accused, said that the vacant floor with naval escort, down the river to
a result of the recent decision to re- was usually used to dry clothes on Greenwich, where the King opened rainy days. The occupants of Nos the National Maritime Museum.
open the ranks of the party which 319 and 321 used the floor for the
had been closed for several years. The day was bright and sunny same purpose. There was a door and great crowds had gathered between the balconies of the ton along the embankments, on bridges floors of Nos. 321 and 323: When and wharfs, and the decks of ships witness visiting the vacant floor on moored alongside.
two occasions that day, she saw the Their cheers mingled with the same stranger with accused.
screams of ships" sirens and the
Mr. C. W. Brand, of the Mong Kok-Fire Station, told how accused attempted to prevent him from en- tering the flat.
The case is continuing.
DISARMAMENT
The new members will be carefully
the Labour Front, 300,000 workers chosen from 750,000 members of
of the Nazi social welfare associa tion, and the Storm Troops.
The-Nazi Party, which now has
Both these consignments London on the 17th April.
left
The 'Delphinus' also carried the first freight for the through air journey to the Philippines--á con- signment of margarine from Bang- kok!
BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER STARS FOR THE COLONY
Melbourne Inman And Horace Lindrum
Billiards and Snooker enthusiasts of the Colony, will be pleased to learn that they will have an oppor- tunity of seeing Horace Lindrum,
roaring of aeroplanes overhead. a membership of 3,500,000 will thus the Austrálian Snooker wizard”
KING'S SPEECH
be increased to 6,000,000-Trans-and Melbourne -Inman, winner of Ocean.
MISS AMY JOHNSON
the "Daily Mail” Gold Cup in 1936, and ex-Billiards champion, in ac- tion in the Colony,
In declaring the Museum open, the King said that but for the en- terprise, courage and character of British seamen, the British Com- monwealth of Nations would never Miss Amy Johnson has lodged have come into existence. The with the Royal Aero Club an entry MEETING. DELAYED {qualities of Drake, Nelson and for the New York-Paris air race, players left England on a world's
Franklin were as necessary to-day which takes place in August. She
ever in the past and it was well will
French twin-engined The session of the Permanent that the exploits of men such as plane. board of the Disarmament Confer these should be recalled so that the Miss Johnson, who is the wife of ence, originally convened for May 6, part which seamen had played in Mr. J. A. Mollison, the airman, has be expressed the wish to be known in has been postponed by the acting Britain's history might never
future by her maiden name. President of the League Counc.l, forgotten-British Wireless.
Geneva, To-day.
Jas
sever
other members of
the
fly а
According to a letter which I re- ceived from Inman, the two famous
tour last Saturday and are expect- ed to arrive in the Colony in July. The Hong Kong Billiards : As- sociation should lose no time in making arrangements for exhibi- tion games during their stay here.
Dr. Wellington Koo, until the next Council meeting on May 24.
The P. and O. 8.s. "Rajputana" Printed and Published for the Pro- The postponement was decided Disarmament Conference who are left Shanghai for this Port yester-prietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., By Gordon Cade Burnett, at SA, upon at the request of the Greek now taking part in the Montreux day at 3 p.m. and is due here on
Wyndham Street, Victoria, Hong Minister in Paris, N. Politis, and negotiations, Trans-Ocean,
Friday at about 7 a.m.
Kong.
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