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PORTUGUESE REVOLT.

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

ESTABLISHED.

NO POLITICIANS WANTED IN NEW CABINET,

franOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]

PARIB, May 30th, A message from Lisbon says that the revolutionary movement, in which the Lisbon and Opotre troops have joined, has now spread throughout the whole country.

REVOLT A SUCCESS.

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LONDON, May 31st. The Daily New Lisbon correspondent says the military insurrection has spread all over the country, and the President of the Republic has conferred with the revolutionary delegates and has consented

to their demand to rule the country,

A MILITARY BICTATORSHIP.

Listas, May 31st. The fourth revolution within twelve months, and the twenty-fifth since King Mannel was overthrown, has ended in the establishment of what is practically a military dictatorship, making the fifth now in Europe, the others being Italy, Spain, Greece and Poland.

New from Lisbon is meagre, but a „parently the cup was accomplished with

out firing a shot. The Da Silva Govern- ment was taken by surprise. After issu ing the usual communiqué on Saturday that the Government were controlling the situation, they had to admit later

that the revolutionaries were marching on Lisbon, and that it was impossible to

send Government troops to check the advance as the railways refused transport A proclamation by General Da Costa.

the Commaniler of the Portugurse troops in France during the war, who started the revoit at Braga, says the movement was tended to xave the country from politicians who are vulning Portugal.

NO POLITICIANS WANTED.

LASI

The success of the military revolt in Portugal is apparent by the announce ment from Lisbon that the President of the Republic has charged the leader of revolutionary forces, Commander Mendes Cabecadas,, with the task of forming a Cabinet.

the

Cabecadas has accepted, and has pro visionally taken over control of all the portfolios. Cabecadas, interviewed, dr. clared the Government would consist of civil and military personages quite out- side the political parties, and in perfect agreement with the delegates of the military divisions.

There have been several minor revolu tionary movements in Portugal in recent year's Cuti 1910, Portugal monarchy, but in October of that year ¿ Republic was proclaimed, after a short revolution, and King Manoel II., who had succeeded to the throne on the 4

sassination of his father and elder

brother two years earlier, fed the coun try. He has since resided in England Dr. Manoel de Arrings was the first President, and he held office until 1915 The present President is Dr. Maribel Texeira Gonez. Only a few months ago, there was an abortive revolutionary out

FRENCH COMMUNIST.

THE COAL STRIKE.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JUNE 1ST, 1926

HOW RUSSIA IS HELPING THE MINERS.

LONDON, May 31st. The British coal strike is placing a heavy impost. ON Bussian Trade Unionists who are called to contribute 93 per cent. of their wages, according to a Russian Embassy statement, while immediate assistance has been sent to Britain from Traile Union Funds.

POLISH PRESIDENCY,

GENERAL PILSUDSKI REFUSES THE POST.

WARSAW May 31st. General Pilsudski has been elected

President of Poland.

LATER.

General Pilsudski has declined the Presidency because the Constitution does no" wathorise the President to dissolve Parliament.

SAVE YOUR EYES.

TINTED GLASSES WHICH RELIEVE

GLARE.

FAR

EASTERN CABLE

NEWS.

[ranoUGH MACTER'S AGENCY.]

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SHANGHAI SITUATION.

CITY NOW QUIET AFTER DISORDERS.

PIRACY OR NOT?

INTERESTING SUPREME COURT ACTION.

CLAIM FOR $4,000.

Air. Fitzroy: Why do you say you don't. think it was piracy

DISHONEST YOUTH.

DR. KEW ROBBED BY EMPLOYEE.

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Witness: He (defendant) said it was a piracy off the Nine Islands, near Maczo,

At the Central Magistracy yester but he said the pirates Ere was not re-

E. Lindself, 1 turned. Because of that I did not believe day, before Mr. E An interesting case which commenced him. As Chinamon we ought to fight Chinese youth was charged with the theft in the Supreme Court yesterday, before until we can't fight any longer, and then of one gold-plated alarm clock, "one gold surrender. When, the "boat "came to Ah wrist watch, one gold chain, one gold Sir Henry Gollan, concerned the circum-Chuk Mi he did not report the piracy. stances of an alleged piracy near Macao Although ho was then discharging cargo

tongue-scraper, and a felt hat, the total SHANGHAI, May 1st.

value of the articles being $113. The whole city this morning was quiet. of a junk bearing cargo, valueil at 214.000, for several daya......... tram and bus services operating normally. The Wing Yuen arm, consignces of goods There were no extra police on the streets, on the junk claimed damages amounting and nothing to show that Shanghai to 117 for alleged breach of agreement yesterday was the scene of serious rioting. to carry goods from Hongkong to Hoi- The police are well-satisfied at the pins. The allegation by the plaintiff firm is that an “arranged" piracy accounted present state of affairs, and do not antici- for the loss of the eargo, and that, if there had been a piracy it was the result of a deviation from the contract route.

Mr. H. G. Sheldon appeared for the plaintiff, and the defendant, Lai Kwong," was represented by Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy.

pate further serious disorders.

Yesterday's rioting appears to have been general throughout the city, but in every case the police were able to cantret the situation without resorting to fre-

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arma.

The three days strike called by the Labour and Students' Union has proved a dismal failure. Shops are all open, and the great majority of labourers ate at work, and the merchants and "better class Chinese seem determined to oppose

I never go for a holiday without in cluding in my kit bag a pair of tinted spectacles (says a Harley Street doctoral violence. in the lage Evening Feys.}

Personally I prefer the tint to be green, but that doesn't matter very much, What matters is that the eyes should have protection from the glare which a strong

sun always inflicts on them.

This glare is much more widespread

than most people realise. It is especially severe by the seaside.

For the sea acts as a huge mirror and throws back into the faces of all those near it or on it innumerable rays of light-a fact which is known to every photographer.

These rays put an immense and con- tinuous strain on the eyes.

Tinted glasses, which should not be quartz glasses, reduce this light bombard ment to small proportions and se afford an instant sense of relief.

FOREIGNERS MOLESTED,

LATER

The police are still vigilant. Three students were arrested this morning fer distributing inflammatory handbills, and propaganda partics continue to invite things in Shanghai and contiguous

districts.

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Sporadic stone throwing necurred last night, many foreigners being molested. In one case the mob besieged a foreign' house, where foreigners had retreated.

Mr. Sheldon in opening said that ar- rangements were made between the parties through an agent, Leung Tut Che, of the Kwong Hing firm, to carry the goods by a junk with the registered number of TASSZEI

The plaintiffs claimed that, there had been no piracy or that if there had Soom there had been connivance; and that in

Mr Fitzroy But he

says that the pirates took them to Ah Chuk Mi and brought boats alongside and made them unload the cargo into them.

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Re-examined by Mr. Sheldon: Is it net the practice when goods are lying in a junk in the harbour to insure them i

Witness replied that he never insured.

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These articles, the property of Dr. F. Kew, of 47, Wong Nei Chong Road, were found en the defendant when he was arrested at a tea-house, and were identi fed as part of the property stolen from

the doctor's residence.

"The defendant pleaded guilty.

Defendant was formerly employed

on a licensed juuk plying between Hong-under Dr. Kew to look after the dogs, kong and the country.

and this enabled him to enter the house

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In reply to a further question, witness said he could not call this shipment a very large or a very small shipment.

and steal articles from time to time.

Dr. Kew said that he had done quite a lot for the boy, in an endeavour to make him good, but he persisted in rob-

Asked whether it was the sort of cargo en which he would take out insurance.bing him oven, after running away from witness replied, that he ought to have the house. He asked that defendant be taken out insurance. If the time the junk given aflegging and then banished. was going to sail had been reported to him he would have taken out insurance.

AGENT'S STORY.

Eis Worship remarked that, flogging was not provided for an offence of this nature and sentenced defendant to six months' hard labour.

Leung Yat Cho, an agent of the Kwong y event the piracy must have been at Hing firm, said his business was to en- soras point of deviation from the pre-defendant, who was the owner of a junk.

gage space for cargo on junks. He knew POSSESSION OF FORGED NOTES. Witness saw Lai Kwong (the defendant)

scribed course. Evidence would be entled, said Mr. Sheldon, to show that the bont

alleged to have occurred and reported was seen two hours after the piracy was

nothing unusual to the coxswain of a launch which was in patrol in connection with anti-piracy measures.

on September 2nd or 3rd, and in con

dan: hnd a junk and had not business sequence witness told plaintiff that defen-

at the moment, and therefore wanted

At

CHINESE CHARGED AT MAGISTRACY.

the Central Magistracy yester-

day. botone Major C. Willson, a Chinese freight. On September 9th or 9th, wit-

was charged with being in possession of ness took the defendant to plaintiff's thre forged $10 Hongkong banknotes; The owner of the junk had told office, where, following an interview, plain- knowing them to be forged.

In some instances shots were fired in the graphic tale on his return of the alleged tit said he would ship some cargo, but;

piracy on October 15th early in the morn

A Chinese constable on search duty at the Aberdeen Ferry Whari found the

air and to the ground to disperse the

A number of motor cars are ing, and had stated that 50 armed mened in defendant's junk he (plalar) | notes in a parse which was concealed in

moha,

had overtaken them in launches and over- powered them, it taking two days for the

stipulated that when the goods were lead-

should be informed in order that a super- cargo could be placed on board, with a

damaged, one belonging to a Japanese being burnt.

Notices urging the anti-British ard cargo to be taken of and landed. view to insurance being effected. For example, I have been able, again anti-Japanese hoycott bave been posted Fort had been made at the Water Police and again, to cure cases of "hellday up. Stúdents of three Universities and headache by applying glasses, and two women's colleges, have not returned"] have also seen most remarkable, effects

to their studies, and intend to conduct produced en cases of giddiness and faint-

open-air propaganda,

€89.

The reason is that light, like heat and sound, is a stimulant. In small or mode- rate doses it exhilarates and cheere; in

large doses it produces pain and distress. The body cannot endure it. STARING AT THE SUNNY SEA. This fact is well known to all visitors to the Riviera and to the High Alps. People at home, however, seem to think that, because our weather is so variable, we have nothing to fear.

It is difficult to envince them that every big white cloud they see jo the sky is a floating mirror, sending down millions upon millions of strong rays into their eyes.

THE DANISH FLIGHT,

OSAKA, May 31st. Commander Botved has arrived here.

DEFAMATION IN HEADLINES. COURT OF APPEAL REVERSES

DECISION.

The question of the implications in the word "story" used in a newspaper head- just been published, entitled Health in Appeal, London, on April 15th. Messrs. In a very interesting book, which has line was considered in the Court of Childhood, Colonel Elliot calls attention Hulton and Company, Limited, the to the danger of staring at the sun. He is referring to the times of eclipse when and the ancester Daily Dis proprietors of the Manchester Daily many people, and especially children. indulge in this most hazardous practico

patch appealed against a judgment for But staring at the sun" can be per-

£10 given against them in a libel action formed in other than the direct way.

brought by Mr. Owen Dennison, of Bess borough-place, London. Staring at the suuny sen with the naked eyes is a ense in point.

Station.

The case for the defence was a complete denial that Lai Kwong was the owner of the junk or had held himself out to be the owner. There was admission that a contract was made between plaintiff and the Kwong Hing firm, a` firm of brokere, but no agreements made between plaintiff pr his agent and the owners of the junk were admitted.

The freight charges, continued witness, were $800 in Chinese subsidiary coin. This money was paid to the Kwong Hing firm, and by them to the defendant. Re ferring to the question of insurance, witness said the rate of premium was 124 dollars to the thousand. Witness said he went with defendant to Macad to see that the way was safe, and also" went on other occasions by himself for the same purpose. Attempts were made on these visite to join a convoy of Chinese war ships to ensure the safety of the junk and failing that to engage a steam launch to tow the junk.

a bundle under defendant's trousers haud. Asked what it was defendant. said it was Chinese tobacco.

Mr. R. P. Moodie, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, said that the notes. were forged."

The defendant said he received the notes in Macao from the sales of some duck's eggs.

Sergt. Hill, who prosecuted, said in view of the fact that the constable was Cantonese and the defendant Hoklo, he did not, propose to emphasise the co- varsation when the defendant said the packet contained tobacco. If the defend- ant did say that, then it went to prove guilty knowledge, by attempting to con- coal them.

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Remarking that the notes were auch obvious forgeries that the defendant must have known they were so, Major Willson sentenced defendant to three months' imprisooment.

Mr. Sheldon, however, said that evi dence would be given to the effect that Adefendant had held out himself to be the owner, Plaintiff would also give evidence of conversations which had taken place

On October 26th, witness saw the defen- between him, the defendant, and the dant who told him that the junk hud

The goods had been taken over on hacker who had acted as go-between already sailed on October 10th or 17th. Later defendant said that the junk had

non-sailing had been advanced from time Macao, and that the pirates had towed. September 12th, but various reasons for heen pirated off the Nine Islands, near

to time including the activities of atrike them by a steam launch to Ah Chuk Mi, pickets and the fact that the junk could where the fukis were forced by the pirates not get a full cargo. Plaintiff had stipu to unload the cargo into twenty or thirty iated that he should he informed when the dingys t came alongside. Witness. junk made its voyage but the first be had told the defendant that he (defendant) heard of it had been the fact that the had never informed them of the date of Junk was alleged to have been pirated sailing and now he had returned suddenly He had not been informed it had sailed. and said they had been pirated. How

Something in the nature of a sensation MANAGING PARTNER'S EVIDENCE. could be tell the skipper this story, when

was caused. at the Central Magistraty. Kong Wing, managing partner of the the pirates. The defendant had replied charge of unlawful possession of camphor he (defendant) had never even fired at yesterday during the hearing of a

Mr. Stuart Bevan, K.C., for Messrs. break. Personal ambitions of political Colonel Elliot writes: Many people to Liverpool who received a Hulton, said Mr. Dennison was a young and military leaders and rivals under-ink it is quite enough of a safeguard to lie Portugal's unsettled administrations.observe the reflection of the sun in

legacy owing to the death of an aunt and pail of water. Not only have I seen rame up to London. In London he was eclipse blindness come or after doing falsely charged with stealing books from a fellow member of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was acquitted of that charge. The papers in question headed their account of the police court proceedings with lines "Student's Legacy No exception was now taken to the actual report. What was complained of was the heading.

DEATH OF TÓMASI IN RUSSIA.

PARIS, May 31st. The laconie announcement of the death of the well-known French Communist Tomasi, in Russia has astounded Tomasi's family, who had not heard of the illness of Tomasi, who was investigating Soviet Trade Unions.

"NEW STEEL ALLOY.

SHEFFIELD MAKERS -- CLAIMS.

SHEFFIELD, May 31st. Steelmakers at Hadfelds announce the discovery of a

this. But I have even met with it in peo- ple who, in tropical countries, have ridden or walked long distances with the sun shining up into their eyes reflected from the flooded rice fields before the

SENSATION IN COURT.

MISSING MAN ARRESTED AT MAGISTRACY.

creen rice shoots have come up well above Story" and "Student's Etory of Legacy," plaintiff firm, giving evidence, said that to that that witness could make investigwood against two, women from Shauki-.

the surface.

CARE OF CHILDREN'S SIGHT. A little further on the same distin- guished writer says:-"To stare at bright lights is, even apart from the dan ger of losing one's sight, the surest way of weakening the s and making them, for long afterwards, tender to light."

Holiday-makers ten wonder why a

Mr. Jackson, K.C., for the respondent, submitted that the Court of Appeal should not interfere with the finding of the jury in this case.

THE ORDINARY MEANING. Lord Justice Bankes, giving judgment,

he would not have interfered. He should

his share of the cargo was valued at $3,726.74, and he also claimed for the

tions.

wan when a Chinese spectator from the Asked if it was not possible to insure body of the Court was taken into custody return of $230 Hongkong currency which the goods when they were shipped, wit- he had paid on account of freight and

ness replied that he thought if he hady a forest guard He was identified as Customs dues. The junk left without his asked, for a policy he would have been

the man who escaped at the time of the knowledge though he had previously

raid on Saturday morning. given it. apoken to Lai Kwong, and had informed

In answer to Mr. Fitzroy, who ques-

It was mentioned that since the arrest.

day by the shore or ly amé inland lake said that if he had been left to himself him that he (Witness) had received a lettioned him regarding his 'visits to Macao of the two women a three-year old son of proves sa tiring, and why, next morning,

have thought it reasonable to hold thatter from Hoiping pointing out the illegal in relation to the convoy and prospective one of them had accidentally fallen from they wake up with their eyes dul and uncomfortable and their brains heavy. the head line might suggest that the story activities of the strike pickets. He had engagement of a steam launch, witness varandah and was in a serious condi new steel alloy with. The reason, in the great majority of of the legacy was a cock and bull warned bim not to start until he gave TAC said he failed to secure either, in spite on in hospital In view of this the

standing abnormal temperatures, and claim a gas turbine constructed with this will run at the colossal speed of 55,000] revolution per minute in a temperature of 18/40 Fahrenheit.

cases, simply an overdose of brightness.story." But the other members of the

Had they worn'a pair of dark snecta eles, they would have escaped all the dissent, because he did not want it to court thought differently. He would not

trouble and been fresh and at case. be thought that this case was of any

Again children often decome fretful | importance at all. and unwell when they have been "out in the sun" too long, and sometimes this is followed by restlessness or sleeplessness at nights. These children, had they worn smoked glasses, would have escaped this suffering.

It is not very easy to persuade children to "wear spectacles," but a little tact and some simple explanations usually suffice to overcome a natural prejudice. The spectacles, of course, are for use only on very bright days and only when the child is remaining beside the sea or other water.

VILLAGES WIPED OUT. TERRIBLE STORM. IN BURMAH.

RANGOON, May 30th. Devastation followed in the wake of a disastrous storm on the Arankan coast, which burst on both sides of the Maya mountains, causing a tidal wave on the Nedd River, inundating the country and wiping out whole villages.

In many cases children, of their own. Twelve hundred deaths have been rothey say, doing

volition, put the glasses on because, as takes the feeling of ported up to the present."

strain out of their eyen.

Lord Justice Scratton said suspicious people might get a defamatory meaning out of even chops and tomato sauce. But the opinion of suspicious people was not in point. The words used in this case were not capable of a defamatory meaning,

Lord Justice Atkin said that to treat

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these words as capable of a defamatory meaning would be unduly to restrict the vocabulary of journalists, and to deprive them of one of their pet words, which, in its ordinary meaning, did not connoté falsity at all

Mr. Bevan-Then the appeal will, be allowed. The defendants do not ask for costaither here, or below.

Lord Justice Banken-Very well.

word.

He had been:

of three visits to Macao. He then re the woman was leniently dealt with by prosecution did not press the case and He had no chance of insuring his pro- turned to Hongkong. perty, and no supercargo was put on acting as the representative of the plain- board. He wanted to put a supercargo tiff, and as he had airanged the shipment on board because the junk was supposed of plaintiff's cargo he had considered it to call at other places in the course of his duty to endeavour to secure safe con the trip.

duct of the junk into the country.

Cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, witness said that Lai Kwong told him that he was the owner.

CHINAMEN OUGHT TO FIGHT,

After further cross-examination, Hia Lordship adjourned further hearing of the case until 10-50 this morning.

Further cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, Loch Ah Tam, the Chinese shipowner, witness said he saw the defendant on who was executed at Walton for the mur October 28th, after the piracy. Defender of his wife and two daughters, laft £12,000 He appointed his son, sole dant told witness he had been pirated. legatee.

a fine of 815. The other woman who bad

eently was fined $100, or eight weeks* been fined $50 for a similar offence, re

hard labour.

When the man arrested inside "the Court was subsequently charged with being concerned along with the women in the removal of wood, he claimed to bet a victim of mistaken identity. Evidence was given of his escape during the raid, and on his own admission that he was a friend of the unfortunate woman in the case he was found guilty and fined 175, or six weeks hard labour.