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BRILLIANT BANQUET.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMERCIAL CONFERENCE THE GUESTS.

LONDON, May 26th. The delegates to the International Parliamentary Commercial Conferenca

were guests at a brilliant Government hanquet in the Royal Gallery of the

House of Lords. The Prince of Wales, who was the chief guest' in an Ässeinhly which included the Japanese and seven other Ambassadors, proposed the roast of the Sovereigns of the kingdoms and Pre- sidents of the republice represented. Mr. Winston Churchill presided.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 28Tя, § 1926

THE

TRROCOR BUTER'S AGENCY. I

FAR

BIG ARMS SEIZURE,

CHINESE SENTENCED AT EAST

HAM.

LONDON. May 27th. A Chinese seamen employed on the s... Pembrokeshire charged at East Hanı, with concealing 8 automatic pistols, two walking stick guns, and 8,200 rounds of ammunition, told the C'estoins that the {- arms were given to him at Antwerp by. a Cantonese, who asked him to take them to Hongkong promising him #3 for each gan delivered.

The seaman was fined £138 or three months imprisonment with labour.

R.A.F. FLIGHT.

PULFORD AND LLOYD LAND AT HELIOPOLIS,

CAIRO, May 7th

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

"THE" JAPANESE DISASTER,

DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE

ERUPTION,

Toxo. May 27th. The latest news from Hokkaido says the eruption destroyed, over twelve miles of the Furano River and five miles of the

Kambetsa. River, 3 bridges, 70 hours, a mile and a half of railway, and thres

CANTON NEWS ITEMS.

THE CONSTANT SEARCH FOR

MONEY.

FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)

To strengthen the defence of Canton City during the absence of troops, General Chiang Kai-Shek, will station a military police force there.

THE EXPLOSIVES CASE.

MR. ARCULLI REFERS TO ...“ MYSTERIOUS MR. X.""

THE WEAVER OF THE WEB,

ORDNANCE CLERK SENT TO

PRISON

THE WEAVER OF THE WER

Mr. Arcul then went on to refer to the "mysterious Mr. X," whom he de scribed as "the weaver of the web" in which the defendant was caught. It was |not for him (Un-Arculli) to question the legislature which admitted police proter- tion to police informers. There might, he the question in some cases of salting a

The "explosives case in which a clerk rogue to enter a rogue, but in this cas The Euomintang are asking the Cabin the Ordnance Department was alleged where the defendant had no intention of ton Strike Committee to assist the party

to have entered into a bargain with a breaking the law it was a polico informer by furnishing 350 of their unemployed Chinese detective, who posed as the Chief who had been instrumental in getting him for military transportation service.

Strike Piekot at Shun Chun, to sell to charged. The polics informer had been The Central Executive Committee of an explosives consisting of sulphide of kept in the background. He had not been the Kuomintang has made a formal rearsenic and potassium chlorate, and asked to give evidence, and his maroc hai

miles of roads. The damage is estimated quest to Mr. Wang Ching Wei and Mr. chloroform, described in Chinese

at 54 million yen.

In addition several hundred houses were submerged, and seriously damaged. whilst there was much destruction to paddy Belds, farm lands and also at a

Hu Han Min, to return to Canton and

to co-operate with the other leaders in the promotion of party interests.

It is proposed to raise a war fund of many million dollars in Kwangtung by

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"poisoned water" was concluded at the Central Magistracy, yesterday afternoon.

After M. A el Arculi, who appeared for the defence in this case, bad addros ed, the Court at length, "reviewing the

not been divulged,

Mr. Lindsell: You know who he is Mr. Areulli

his name has not been made public.

Mr. Arculli; 'I de' your Worship, bat

Continuing. Mr. Areuli said be con-

The Royal Air Force aviators, on their sulphur mine, from which. 25 bodies have road tax of a dollar a head for alt evidence given both for the prosecutionsidered it highly unsatisfactory, "Mr. "

way Home after completing a 14,000 miles Blight, landed at Heliopolis.

**NG AND CONFERENČN.

LONDON, May 27th.

General Haking and Air Vice-Marshal His Majesty the King granted an Swann congratulate Livät. Palford audingo to the forty delegates of the In- } and Lloyd. After an overhaul, the ternational Parliament Commercial Conmachines will continue on their fight to

Terence His Majesty recalling the 1918 Conference, when only eight countries overe represented, thought the present encouraging inerense indicated a general desire to assist reparation, and the in- juries the War inflicted on the world's

commerce.

His Majesty picked out from the Con- ference's Agenda the production and dis. tribution of coal, shipping law and cus- toms which he declared was of vital im- portance to Britain and doubtless to other countries.

MOROCCAN WAR ENDS.

England.

THE COAL CRISIS.

MR. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS OUT.

LONDON, May 6th

In a speech, as landudno, Mr. Lloyd tieorge roundly blamed the Government for ita muddling and lack of thought, especially forethought, as regards the coal situation for the past ten months and also for the restoration of the gold standard whereby the price of exported ecal was raised.

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He declared that he unreservedly con denied the general strike and supported

the Government's measures to preserve ABD EL KRIM SURRENDERS TO order and carry on the national services.

THE FRENCH.

PARIS, May 26th. It is officially announced that Abd el Erim has surrendered and that he will be taken to Taza. He has put himself and his family under the protection of, Frante. Abd el Krim, before entering the "French lines, sent bacť sil Ereach, Spanish and native prisoners.

An earlier message from"faraz ngency said that Abd el Krim was going to the French lines to surrender and that he had sent back all the French prisoners to Targuist.

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YAR REACHING EFFECTS OF SURRENDER.

LONDON, May 27th.

Abd el Krim's surrender does not merely end the career of the world's most picturesque figure, whose five years guerilla warfare against two European Powers began by a crushing defeat of the Spaniards in 1021, "but probably ter minates, the secular quarrel between the Moors and Spaniards.

Abdel Krim, no ignorant mountainer, was the guest of the Government of Madrid, for two years before he attack el them. As a result, of his special course of study in Madrid he engaged foreigners to teach the tribesmen methods "of modern warfare, and he controlled the Riffian troops by means of an exten sivé telephone system.

Among the political consequences of the Riffian adventure has been the estab lishment.cf a Dictatorship in Spain, and the recognition by France of the neces sity of close Franco-Spanish co-operation i. Morocco, while the downfall of Abdel Krim will have repercussions in the whole of the Moslem world.

Tal - Times, in an editorial, hopes Abd el Krim's correspondence. will be published in order to reveal to the world. the intrigues of the mining concession aires and financiers who exploited Riff eupidity and fanaticism.

THE BITTIAN COLLAPSE.

TANGIERS, May 27th

The surrender of Abd el Krim was not surprising, as it was known he was in Bight, if not hiding, fearing assassina tion by the disappointed followers of the French who had captured the greater part of Jebel Hamman, the mountajä fastness which was Abd el Krim's last sanctuary

His own tribe, the Beni Wariaghel, had submitted, and practically the whole Bil territory was in the hands of the French and Spanish.

The only two tribes intact, the Gho mara and Djebela, were apparently un- aware of Abd et Krim's collapse.

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been recovered.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.

CHINESE ATTACK "CHRISTIAN". GENERAL IN MOSCOW.

SHANGHAI, May 27th. Chinese messages revived here state that two Chinese attempted to assassi nate Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang whilst he was inapecting an arsenal in Moscow.

able persons. Those unwilling to pay and for the defence, Mr. R. E. Lindse will have to work four days on the ronds convicted the defendant, whom he sen- The total population, of Kwangtung istenced to terms of imprisonment waking

nine months' hard labour in all

more than 37,000,000.

chants.

BANK NOTE FORGERIES. STIFF SENTENCES ON HUNGARIAN !

OFFICIALS.

GINGER GROWING IN NEW TERRITORIES.

might be a man of the very worst char- acter, and he believed he was, but ho

could not go into that when he was pot called. His evidence might be worth Gothing "Mr. I had not been called by the prosecution and anything which

defendant in his connection with "Mr. might be deemed to count against the

should be wholly disregarded.

Mr. Arculli submitted that the evidence

given by the Chinese detective, could pot be believed, and proceeded to review it.

The Merchants League of Kwangtung, The clerk in question is Hajah Salleh. an organization of Bolsheviks claiming of No. 11. Hrard Street, who was charged to represent the commercial interests of under various Ordinances, including the the Province, is asking the Kuomintang Conspiracy Ordinance:(a) With being to abolish the General Chamber of Com-in possession of an explosive substance merce and to recognize the League as the known as sulphide of arsenic and potas official channel of communications besium chlorate, for other than a lawful Marshal Feng was not injured, and his tween the Kuomintang and the mer object; (b) with possession of sulphide assailants were arrested.

of arsenic (c) with possession of a pol

Touching the "red book " (the mili-» son, namely chloroform; (d) with posses; | täry book dealing with the gunpowder sion of 55 ounces of sulphide of arsenic : | plot,etc.), Mr. Arcülli submitted that this (e) with possession of dangerous goods, was planted on the defendant by Mr. X." It was an obsolete book issued namely 6 ounces of potassium chlorate.

An outstanding point in Mr. Arculli's for military purposes 19 years ago. De- address was his criticism of the mysteri. fendant had made no attempt to conceal According to the Industrict & Commerous Mr. X." (the police informer) whom

Mr. Arculli submitted that the state" cial Daily News, a party of Chinese he referred as "the weaver of the web."

ment made by the defendant that the merchants is raising a capital of $100,000 Mr. Arculli said that although it was not chloroform was for

the purpose of to promote the growth of ginger in the for him to question the legislature" which curing the toothache of the Chinese was Mr.. New Territories. It is stated that Hong- admitted police protection to police in Doves had said that he had never heard. kong handles i preserved ginger trade formers, he considered the position of the of bombe being made with chloroform as

an ingredient. of nearly $1,200,000. Since the boycott, police informer in this case was highly however, this has suffered owing to the unsatisfactory, in view of the fact that lack of raw material which hitherto has his name had not been divulged, that he come chiefly from Kwangtung.

had not been called and that his evidence might be worth anything or nothing.

BUDAPEST, May th.. Sentences of ten years' penal servitude have been passed on the ex-Chief of Police dogy and Prince Windischgraetz and two years on Geroe, the Adviser to the Cartographical Institute in connection with the forged frane note affair. Two

At the same time, he was unable to. work myself into a pitch, of righteous anger against the men, who, however mis-other members of the Cartographical takenly, unwisely and wrongly were Institute, Windischractz's Secretary, risking their own livelihood to help cum- rades in a desperate plight."

Rabn, and other accused have been sen: tenced to. between 18 months' and one month's imprisonment.

He had favoured getting back to the stutus und he strongly supported oral" contained in the Archbishop of the sagacious and statesmanlike pro-

Canterbury's appeal. Therefore he ad- vocated conciliation. Ee supported the Samuel Report and urged the Govern ment to legislate over the beads of the miners and mine owners and thus shorten the conflict.

DISARMAMENT,

LITTLE ENTENTE REPRESENTA- TIVES' VIEWS.

:

GENEVA, May 26th. The Preparatory Disarmament Confer ence concluded its first session, with the adoption of the report of the Drafting Sub-Committee.

Hungarian and Greek Memoranda on general disarmament were referred to technical sub-committeen.

The interesting feature of to-day'a dis- cussions was the unanimity of views of the Little Entente representatives DD the volluminous Hungarian memorandum.

The Yugo Slav delegate disputed the statement that the Yugo Slav army, con stituted a menace to Hungary and de- glared that Yugo Slavia, which did not hate Hungary, was ready at any moment Hungary and other neighbours to conclude a pact of non-aggression with The Rumanian and Czechoslovakian delegates supported Yugo Slavia.

Viscount Cecil said that the Hungarian

memordanum was referred to the sub- committee on the understanding that no modification of existing Treaties was in- volved. Viscount Cecil added with re ference to the date of the next meeting of the conference which the United States was anxious to have settled, that the work of the sub-committer muat gin work immediately in order not to thorough and complete. They would be

waste time.

VISCOUNT CECIL'S OPINION.

be

F

Barose, the Director of the Savings Bank, and Szoertoge, Vive Director of the National Union, have been acquitted.

APPEALS LODGED.

LATER.

CHINESE MERCHANTS'

ENTERPRISE.

SLEAVING TO-DAY.

PASSENGERS, ON *** EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."

it.

a; reasonable one and was true.

The case for the defence was that de-

fendant procured the powders for the Chinese for the purpose of making boub crackers in Macao, which was not un- lawful.

EXPLOSIVE OR NOT?

Mr. Arculli then proceeded to argue the law in respect to the various charges, and quoted various legal authorities in support of his argument

CASE FOR DEFENCE. At the outset of the proceedings, Mr. Lindsell remarked: It appears to be

Referring to Charge A, he said that it quite clear that charge B cannot, stand,

was a mixture which might explode ar On the evidence of Mr. Dovey (Gavern-might not explode, according to Mr. ment Analyst) sulphide of arsenic is not

Dovey.

an explosive substance.

Appeals have been lodged by the pro-Several well-known local residents are secution for more severe sentences and by leaving the Colony to-day in the R.M.S. the defendants for a mitigation. Mean-Empress of Russia which sails for while all, except Prince Windischgraetz Vamouver, rid Shanghai, and Japan Intelligence, who prosecuted in the case): and Nadossy have been liberated.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

*** BOOTLEG” “LIQUOR, CANADA DEFRAUDED OF EXCISE TAXES.

According to an interim report of the auditors engaged by the House of Com- mons "Customs. Probe Committee " to

ports at noon.

Mr. T. H. King (Director of Criminal

Mr. Lindsell: Mr. Arculli, I can't see

Mr. Lindsell: Mr. Dovey also said, that it was an explosive substance.

Mr. Arculli: It was stated also that: it was B substance which had equal- chances of exploding, flty-fifty.

Mr. Lindsell: When you say an ex- plosive substance do you mean one that is bound to explode.

Mr. Arculli: Yes, your Worship. Mr. Lindsell: In any circumstances i Mr. Arculli: Yes, your Worship. Mr. Lindsell: I ́esn't follow that I am &fraid.

Referring to charge D, Mr. Arcalli said that Mr. Dovey had stated that sulphide of arsenic was not used by' western train-

though it was used by Chinese. He submitted that the Ordinanca "did not. cover Chinese medicipo.

lating to potassium chlorotid have been Mr. Azculli said the charge re-

In the definition, an explosive substance Among those included in the passer includes any ingredient contained in any ger list are Mr. R. A. Nicholls, Manager

explosive substance. Under the Ordi- of the Cosmopolitan Dock, for Vancouver ; |

napce it states that an explosive sub- Surgeon-Commander G. P. Adshead, of

stance shall be deemed to include any the Royal Naval Hospital, Hongkong, materials for making any explosive sub- and Mrs. Adshead (who were married, at stance. I do not propose to press charge St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday) B, but the grounds on which defendant en route for England vid Japan and were charged were because he had posses-ed doctors for medicinal purposes, a Oggada; Mr. J. Hooper, who has just sion. That, I submit, puts the onus on investigate liquor smuggling in conne-retired from Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf the defendant. tion with the business of certain Mon & Codown Company, en route for Eng treat companies engaged, presumably, in land With Mrs. Hooper; Mr. C. V. Stod the export of liquor to the Uniteddard, Passenger Agent of the Australian States, the Dominion has been defrauded Oriental Line at Sydney, for Europe of huge sum in excise taxes. The Audi Mr. R. J. Saunders," of the Eastern Ex-get out of possession of chloroform? I tore found that the incomplete records tension Telegraph Company; for Europe; of one Company showed sale values of

MR. L. Bridger (Managing Director over 87,000,000 worth, mostly for export of Lane, Crawford) and Mrs. Bridger for to Mexico" vid Detroit, and the sadi-England; Lieut. H. C. Gould, Head tors oping that at least a part of the quarters Staff, China Command, for Eng liquor never left Canada and that the land; Mr. D. J. Lewis, soBeitór, on a

$1,000,000 anpaid excise taxes:

defrauded of possibly round trip to Japan: and Mr. and Mrs. which lasted for an hour. At the outset bedant had no guilty knowledge in con Dominion was

The Customs Commitice is probing further.

AMERICAN ALIEN LAW.

LATER Viscount Cecil, interviewed by Reuter did not anticipate that the Disarmament Conference could assembled before the WAR VETERANS” NOW ABLE TO end of 1927

Summarising the work of the Prepara tory Committee, he said that the two positive decisions taken were, that only

ENTER U.S...

"WASHINGTON, May 26th. President Coolidge has signed a Bill that when the Conference met, each State permitting aliens who served with the should submit a scheme showing what armaments it needed, both in personnel American forces during the world war

peace armaments could be. limited and

HH, Priestly, for Shanghai.

· PROPERTY SALE.

At the China Auction Rooms yesterday

hide of arsenic`unmixed

how you can get out of pleading guilty. at any rate to a technical offence on charges C, D. and E. "Under the Ordi-preferred, if preferred at all, against whatever his intention was. How can you Dance defendant is guilty of an offence Mr. K” Mr. A was the real

possessor.

chloroform.

is not denied that defendant knew it was Mr. Arculli replied that be took it that the Ordinance applied to the dealers. and got a receipt for it he would not be If he bought anything at a dispensary guilty.

MR" ARCULLI'S ADDRESS. Mr. Arculli then commenced his address,

touched on defendant's 22 years' service in the Naval Ordnance Depot and men tioned that he had a wife and family and that a conviction would spell bis ruin. Defendant had an exemplary, character with regard to his service in the Police Reserve.

Reviewing the evidence given in the

Mr. Lindsell: He might be charged'

well, but defendant was the physical

possessor.

While admitting this, Mr.. Arculli said defendant only had possession of it for for him. He submitted that he could Mr. X and was carrying the atof

pot be charged with possession with guilty knowledge.

In conclusion, Mr. Arcullf said' defen-

pection with any of the charges brought against him. He had a reasonable belief that the material be bought at the China. Dispensary was sold by him for the pur- pose of making moh crackers in Macao. On this ground he asked for the dis charge of his client.

Mr. Lindsell I think there is a doubt as regards charge D as to whether this amount of sulphide of arsenic comes within the definition of the Ordinance. therefore dismiss the defendant on this

DEFENDANT SENTENCED. Continuing, Mr. Lindsell said As

and material, together with a supporting to enter the United States regardless of the buildings known as No 250 and 281, at the Dispensary. He also gave reasons regards the other charges, it seems to me

statement. The committee had added two other schemes to its programme, quate restrictions, namely, the control and supervision of armaments and an investigation into the question of chemical warfare.

PARIS-TOKYO-FLIGHT.

MAJOR D'OISY'S MISHAP AT- WARSAW.

Paars, May 28th.

D'Oisy's aeroplane, whilst attempting to take off in the rain at Warsaw aerodrome, turned over in the mud and is unit to continue. D'Oisy was not in- jured

Havas message from Warsaw says the machine capsized when D'Oisy was hop ping off for Moscow; The airman was unhurt, but the machine was amished.

NICARAGUAN REVOLT. AMERICA TO INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION.

WASHINGTON, May 26th

order of the mortgagee, leasehold prospect to defendant's purchases from the perties situate at Kowloon, and known a show that he believed he was not doing China Dispensary everything tended to

Sub-section 10 of Section C of Kos dant, had attempted to conceal nothing Section B of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 356 wrong in making the purchases. Delen-charge.

whatever. He gave his name and address loos Inland Lot No. 421, together with and occupation when he bought powders for buying the powders he did. It was Temple Street.

true that the manager of the China Dis pensary had stated that the chloroform was not sold by his dispensary, but it ad horse that the exhibit bottle of chloroform pat in by the police corre sponded in shape, size and other ways with that produced from the China Dis- pensary,

The annual Crown' reat of these pro D, is, 88.91, and the area is about

774 square feet

The upset price was $10,000, with bids of 100 acceptable. There were two bids The Senate Foreign Relations Com-only of this amount, Mr. Leung Kam, of mittee has directed Senator Borah infor No. 33, Connaught. Boad Central, third mally to investigate the Nicaraguan re Boor, becoming the purchaser for $10,200 Volution, after the Committeeman, Mr. Mosca, declared he was informed that the American Marine had closed the Customs office there. Mr. Moses wanted to know what had happened to the Cus toms" receipts and he also understood that a gun-running expedition had re cently left New Orleans for Nicaragua,

At the Central Magistracy rester day two Chinese were sentenced to two weeks imprisonment for stealing some hinges, wire and other fittings from the Hongkong Hotel

that your argument Mr. Arculli as to a guilty mind is practically beside the point, because if I believe the prosecution there is abundant evidence of a guilty mind. It is a question as to whether I believe the prasscution or the defence.

Mr. Arculi: The onus of proof is on thent as regards the sale to strike pickets.

Mr. Lindsell I convict the defendant. Mr. Arculli submitted that defendant on charges A, B, C and E. On charge had been open and above board in his & he will go to prison for six months dealings at the dispensary, and in fact with hard labour; on charge B for three throughout the whole circumstances lead. months with hard labour, the sentences to ing up to this case. Even at the time of

ran consecutively; and on charges C and his arrest and afterwards in his volun for three months each with hard tary statements to the police, defendant labour, the sentences to run concurrent had not made the slightest attempt, atly-nine months in all. evasion. He had behaved exactly as any innocent man would behave after being arrested for something which he deemed not uniswfal

Mr. Areulli: Without the option your. Worship, o

Mr. Lindell I don't think this is

a case for a fine.