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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 24th, 1928.

JAPAN'S ROYAL WEDDING. BANK FRAUD HUNT.

PRESENTS ARRIVE,

DOWAGER, EMPRESS'S TEA PARTY.

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It has been decided that the wedding of Prince, Chichibu to Miss Setsu-ko Matsudaira will be solemnized

time between September 25th and October 3rd. No definite date has as yet been selected but this will be settled by the middle of September when it will be nanounced to the nation and, at the same time, to the spirits of the Imperial ancestors by Court ritualists.

The Prince met Miss Matsudaira

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for the first time since their engagement at tea given to the young couple by the Dowager Empress who formally introduced them to each other. Besides the Empress Dowager and the betrothed couple, only Mias Matsudaira's mother was present.

Among the gifts that the couple will receive are a table clock from the Emperor and Empress, full suits of Japanese clothes from the Dowager Empress and a jada neck. lace from Marchioness "Nabeshina, aunt of the bride-elect. The foreign communities in Japan are busy pre paring suitable gifts. The Swiss community will give a silver model of the highest peaks of the Alpa, and this is regarded as very appro- priate since Prince Chichibu is as ardent mountaineer and scaled some of the highest Alpine peaks when he was in Europe some time ago. The model, which is 25 centimetres high and 15 centimetres broad, has arrived in Japan,"

The Navy proposes to give them an elaborate silver model of the cruiser Myoko. This is being exe- ented at the Yokosuka arsenal, the model being about 45 inches long and its main mast about 35 inches high.

TOTAL AMOUNT NOW

£150,000.

EUROPE SEARCHED.

THE MURDER OF DR. SEYMOUR.

STRONG NOTE PRESENTED BY U.S.

GOVERNMENT DEMANDING MURDERER'S PUNISH.

MENT.

It is now believed that the gang of swindlers who obtained £90,000 from banks in London, and Brussels

SHANGHAI, July 19th. by means of forged letters of credit,

According to" a despatch from have within the last few months Washington, the American Govern- ment has authorized the delivery of made at least £130,000, says the

a note to. Dr. C. T. Wang, Minis- Daily Express of June 30th

No such colossal frauds have beenter of Foreign Affairs, demanding committed in England since the the punishment of the murderer of Dr. Seymour, the American mis- famous Bidwell gang came to Lön- doo from America sixty-five years sionary who was killed by Nation ago and received more than £100,000 alist troops at Tsining. This is res in gold from the Bank of England ported to be the strongest of a in return for forged bills of ex-series of protests on this subject,

and to be most severely warded. changa ng 13

The four members of that gang were caught because when they wept to cash, the last bill for £23,000 it was noticed that the document was, not dated. That slight error led to their aest

Narrow Escape. The principals in the present crime narrowly escaped capture. The astuteness of the manager of one of the London banks all but led to their undoing. It is most un- usual for lesters of credit to be issued for large amounts, and when the swindlers presented their letter of credit with a request for £10,000 the manager, although he could detect nothing wrong. decided to have further confirmation, and asked his callars to come for the money on the following day.

They did not do so. They went to other banks in West London, fleeced them of about £60,000 in all and few to Brussels in an airplane which they chartered, at Croydon.

Although it was not possible to learn from local American officials what the exact contents of this note Note on the subject of Dr. Seymour were, it is, however, known that a

was presented recently.

A Dastardly Crime, Dr. Walter Seymour met his death at the hands of the soldiers, while remonstrating with them as they were pounding on the door of a girls' school adjacent to his own mission.

soldiers entered Tsining on April It appears that the Kuominchun

16th and immediately began to loot mission property there. When they came to Dr. Seymour's mission, he politely showed them through the

rounds and building and saw them to the gate of his compound Then, be saw the soldiers making for the girls' school and realizing the peril in which the girls found themselves, he left his mission compound and went out on the road.

Several soldiers attempted to seize Dr. Seymour, but he tore him- self loose, ran back into his com pound and bolted the door. The They visited other banks in soldiers then fired through the door, Brussels, which they swindled to and two bullets struck the mission- the extent of at least anotherary, one passing through his left £20,000.

arm, the other through his heart.. His clothes were torn open and he' was robbed of his watch and loose money. Mrs. Seymour and a mis- sionary colleague, Dr. Eames, rush ed to him but he never regained. consciousaeSA and died in 15 minutes. Dr. Seymour had been with the Presbyterian Mission in China for 35 years.

There is little doubt that this is the same gang that has been re-

for sponsible

passing forged cheques-one was for no less than £60,000-in various Continental cities during the last eighteen months, and the Scotland-yard de tectives who are investigating the frauds have no illusion about the clever type of men responsible for them..

The future residence of Prince and Princess Chichibu has been com- ploted. It is constructed along European lines, is Occidental in furnishings, and, is in the heart of Tokyo, yet at the same time in a quiet and sequestered spot, about 10 minutes' distance from the Tokyo Central Railway Station. "Miss Matsudaira is already maintaining a sort of semi-royalty and, as Prin

It is obvious," cess Chichibu, will be extensively

exid a bank entertained and be hostesa at in manager to a Daily Express repre numerable parties. It is also quite sextative that this gang has not probable that she will often de- only an intimate knowledge of bank- putise for the Empress at public ing business, but includes extrême- functions, as Her Majesty's Eealthly clever forgers. is not all that one could wish, with the result that every effort will be made to relieve the First Lady of Cherry Blosson Land from all undue strain.

YANGTSZE PILOT'S".

SUICIDE.

FIRST DESTROYS PRICELESS CHINESE COLLECTION.

£1,000 Forgery.

"A cheque for more than £1,000. sashed only a few weeks ago at

HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.

CLOSING QUOTATIONS.

JULY 23, 1929. B.K. Bankı........$1,292§ bay. 1,800 sel.

Dơi, London.....23 40 nom, Chartered Banks bay,

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a bank in London. It was after- Mercantile Banis, A. zB...£38 num. wards proved to be a forgery. It. was a marvel of ingenuity, and the | F. &'0.) Banks forgery was so cleverly done that East Asia Banks..........$75 bay. it would not be in the public in- Canton Insursaces.......3030 buy. terest to detail the actual methods Union Insurance........3343 bay. employed."

North China ina........... Tin 145 suý. The London detectives, who are Yangtze insurance......M $50 nom working under Chief Constable China Underwriters......$21 bay. Wensley, are convinced that one of Chins Fire Insurances....$240 buy. the gang is employed in an Italian Hong Kong Fire Ina..... $723 bag. bank, where the letters of credit Dongines

..1366 buy. H.K. Steambosta ..............

$271 881. were supposed to be issued on the H.K. Tag........... ..38 nom.. banks in London. Everything in Indo-Chinsa (Pre).. the documents was in order, and be

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GLENDALE, June 21st. After spending practically the entire day destroying his priceless collection of Chinese and Oriental curios and works of art, Capt. Jack A. Richards, 61 years of age, lay

One of the wanted men down on the floor of the kitchen in described by Scotland-yard as being his home, 1311, North Alameda a native of Brazil or some other Street, last night, a hose lending part of South America He is tall, to the gas range in his mouth and smartly dressed, and has a dark turned on the gas. His body was complexion. He is believed to be found this morning by a neighbour, an international criminal who has Arthur S. Pearson, who forced his been convicted of similar frauds in way into the Richard home when France and America. his occupant, failed to make his customary early morning appear ance in the grounds surrounding his house.

His name and description were telegraphed to the Belgian police by Scotland yard, and a reply was received that this man was seen in Brussels soon after the arrival of the Croydon airplane, by which two of the garg travelled.

A strict watch is now being kept by the police in all Continental cities and at seaports and nero dromes. The general opinion, how. ever, is that all the members of the gang will make their way to

Richards, who was formerly pilot on the Yangtze River in China and who collected valuable antiques and pictures during his stay in the East, had evidently gone deliberately about the work of des truction. Marks of revolver bullets, sears of knife, shears and augers, were all around, and shattered and torn articles of great value were America strewn about the living-room and dining-room; when Detective Ser. geant Charles P. Blake and Detec. tive Sergeant F. C. Williams reach- ed the house.

Two letters were found. One id- dressed to Miss Ora Les Redding, 2008 South Alameda Street, owner of the house in which Richards had lived, thanked the girl for nursing his wife during her last illness and said that he wished to bid ber good-by." The other, addressed to Dr. P. B. Richards, 1237, West Ninety-sixth Street, Los Angeles, evidently a relative of the deceased sailor, was found unstamped in the mail box. It stated that Richards intended to end his life and added that he had wrecked his art collec- tion because he did not wish it to pass into the hands of anyone else.

Richarda is believed to have been wealthy and to have left consider- ablo money, besides other property. He came to Glendale a few weeks ago from Burbank, where is he said to have resided at ap apartment- hours and he had formerly lived in Los Angeles for several years. He had been twice married, his second wife dying about, three years ago, An inquest will be held.

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