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A DEFAULTING

COMPRADORE. -

SUED BY REISS BROS., LTD.

GOODS SOLD AND NOT AC-

COUNTED FOR

A SUM OF $51,000 INVOLVED,

WING ON FRAUD CASE,

SIGNATURES IN BANK DE

POSIT BOOKS.,

FORGERY ALLEGATIONS.

Fok Chun Yuen, the Chinese who has been committed to stand his trial for alleged forgery to assign-

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

GAS WARFARE.

AGAINST MEN, WOMEN,

AND CHILDREN.

"NO POSSIBLE ADVANTAGE CAN BE SACRIFICED,"

[BY CAPTAIN W. H. LIVENS,

D.8.0.. M.C.,

ho screed on the Directorate of Gas Services during the war on? invented the Livena projector for gar attnek),

picture the next war. and strangely different it will be from the last. There is no need to think back ten years or fourteen years. Toerente

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8th, 1928.

THE UNEXPECTED IN

DESIGN.

(Continued from, Page 3.)

ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS.

COMMANDER KENWORTHY DISCUSSES BLOCKADES.

the

BRIDE'S LOST PRESENTS.

MISS ROSEMARY LINDSAY.

VANISHED SERVANTS.

Loupes. July 13th.

Shortly after the disappearance

REDS' CLUB DE LUXE,

POOR SEAMEN'S £32,000 BUILDING,

SYDNEY,

Sydney's recently established In- of the butler and a footman fromternational a house in Berkeley-square, Wavowedly Canimunistic organisa

Seamen's Clüb, the which has been taken for the season

it was found that a large number premises at a corner site in the by the Hon. Mrs. Robert Lindsay, tion, has purchased pretentious of valuable wedding presents were

city in the vicinity of the town hall for £32,000,

ta

"

The Graham-Paige. apart from

UNLIKELY TO BE EFFICACI the advantages of its four-speed

OUS IN FUTURE WARS. gear-box, is a very agreeable car to handle. It holds the road well

Lieut-Commander It is very well sprung, and the M.P., speaking at the Congress on Kenwerthy, ment deels in connection with the

engine is full of life. It is a char-Anglo-Ameriena relations, held by Before the Chief Justice, Sir. Bank of Canton, Ltd., was again

acteristically American production Prevention of Cocon

National Council for the missing. from end to end with just that die- Power, the Price of Freedom,

They belonged to Misa Rosemary Henry Gallan, at the Supreme before Mr. R. E. Lindsell on fur-

Lindsay, who is to be married at ther charges of conspiracy with two

tinction of a four-speed gear-box said that the acceptance of the Kel-St. Margaret's, Westminster, By changing the name of the Court yesterday morning, Messrs.

others, now in gaol, to defraud the Little imagination is required to, to mark it out. Very high speeds Dominions and the other great

logg proposals by the British Mr. W. A. Sanford.

institution to the Marine Trans Reiss Bros. Lid; of No. Quay Wing On Company of 850,000.

are claimed on the top gear and Bowers, and the consequent renun- reporter that they were all out at hope to include in its members all Mra Lindsay told a Daily Mail port Workers' Club the organisers Street, Manchester, England, sued Mr. H. Somerest Fitzroy pro

on third, but although I had no ciation by them and us of war na

a dance when the presents ap classes of maritime labour. Robert Yin, alles Yip King Ling, secuted on behalf of the Crown,

opportunity of driving the car" to

an instrument of national policy,parently disappeared. must mean, sooner or later, a re- and Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed

its full limit I was certainly per- statement

"Earlier in the day," she said, Expensive alterations are al- Edward Yip, aliera Tip King Snu..hy Messrs Deacons appeared for our scene all we require is to com. suaded that it is what we in this Britain in regard to her right of and other articles were sent to the will be devoted to bathrooms, the of the position of a quantity of jewellery, dresses, ready in progress, The basement and Thomas Yip, alias Yip King the defendant. "

bine what we know of the results continent are accustomed to call British Navy could in the future my daughter chose some of them. ground floor to.

blockade. The theory that the house from a West End store, and Yuen, for the sum of 851,451.26.

The Red Deposit Book." of a trivial accident in Hamburg fast CAT. That high-geared top reduce her enemy by blockade in

a cafeteria, the Defendants

The Cashier of the Banking dewith what we saw at Hendon.

The remainder were to have been first floor to club rooms, offices, a Werr not present

speed is naturally an encourage aerism were reduced was doubtful,

the way Napoleonism and Kai- sent back. neither were they legally represent partment of Messrs. Wing On ex- It will be remembered that a few ment to maintaining high speeds added Commander Kenworthy. We ed in Court, the action was there plained in the Court the method weeks ago at Hamburg an old owing to the comparatively low fore heard ez parte. The plaintif employed for the receipt and de-cylinder containing phosgene (one)

revolution rate. firm was represented by Mr. Elden | pexit of noney? The rad deposit of the most deadly gases used in Potter, K.C, instructed by Mr. H.

Look "

was similar to the using the last war) leaked in a crowded C. Macnamara,

**bank book," A depositor on quarter of the town. The cylinder opening an account with the firm was only one of many just as would be given a red deposit book Hendon was but a display, not a in which the amount hanked, would battle. So we must enlarge our our righette and imagine the mass- ed aerial squadrons, and behind them the industrial power of a great

It appeared from the statement of claim that Robert Yip was formerly employed by the plaintiff firm in Hong Kong as

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pradore under an agreement in

WIS

writing dated February 11th, 1929. In his capacity of compradore he liable to the plaintiffs in respect of the sales, of goods, loss on goods resold and interest due from Chinese dealers.

The other two defendants were brothers to Robert Yip and they were surd as sureties.

be, entered.

nation.

The Voices Of Women And Children

Are Stiled.

The bodywork I also found to be a little different from the ordi- nary run. There is more leg room in the rear compartment than is ordinarily the case, and the back sent is considerably deeper than usual, and has the advantage of being cleverly tiltedo kive the passenger the maximum of support. workmanlike, and at the price is The finish of the car is plain but decidedly interesting. It is sold by Graham Paige Motore. Ltd. Brix ton Road, Londen, S.W..

were not likely to have the same favourable conditions in another war that we had in the last one.

Having accepted proposals in principle, we should the Kellogg declare our intention of going the whole way with America, and em sodying the second of President Wilson's

to the dance by the butler, George second and third floors to residen- After dinner we were seen off ¦ library, and a lecture hall, and the Macfarlane, who is about 30, and tial accommodation with beds at the footman, James Kember, aged 24. I engaged both of them in 10 a week. May.

Special accommodation will be References Gana.

provided for women. "This morning when I came downstairs the footman had laid the breakfast and he went for the coffee. Shortly afterwards he left the house. It was then found that the butler had disappeared daring

the night.

Nearly

should have been, sent back to the all the things that

store were missing, as well as number of other presents that my daughter had received..

*

The footinan seemed quite nor

д

Source Of Money.

As the majority of the club's pre- sent members are apparently im- poverished seamen the public are wondering how the project is being

financed.

Giving evidence recently before a Royal Commission in Sydney con- cerning another matter, Mr.

Picture the hot and breathless ELECTROCUTED AT HOME, national Court of Justice, said mal. He was sent to find Macfar, Bailey, president of the powerful

air

The back bad six Pages, three of which were devoted to deposits, while the last three were for withdrawals. The mounts would also be entered in the firm's ledger with correspond ing serial numbers. Then the bank book would be handed to witness ight, multitudes cheering and way- ing Aags. And then the distant for affixing the firm's "chop hum, drening through the which was in the keeping of wit-louder and yet more loud, the flash ness. The "red book" would also ing beams of searchlights, the rattle be sent to the Manager's office for aircraft shells and the popping of of machine-guns, the scream of anti- Outlining the action. Mr. Petter his signature: The hook would be bursting shrapnel thousands of feet said that after Reiss Bros. Ltd. the encased in a special envelope went into liquidation in 1923. and and handed to the depositor. Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Matthe amount withdrawn exhausted thewa were appointed special the amount deposited the red managers. the defendant Robert Look" would not be handed hack Yip took delivery of large quanti but instead a clearance paper ties of goods by means of an "ap would be ined: plication for delivery order" to the general manger, who in turn would issue the usual delivery order. These goods; Mr. Potter said, had not been accounted for by Robert Yip. He left the Colony on February 13th, and had In fact he

not been seen since,

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WOMAN'S DEATH DUE TO SWITCH DEFECT.

JURY AND HANDLES OF"

VACUUM CLEANERS. where the screen of Eghting planes shows clearly in the glare.

The death Then the swoop of the great bomb- Eugenie Wilman, the wife of Mr. ing squadrons and the thud of giant. Williman, a Lamich Borough of Mr. Emma cylinders of gas as they rain down Councillor, while using an electric and burst. Hendon and Hamburg

vacuum cleaner in her home at Hilldown-road, Streatham, S.W., was stated by an expert at the in- at Camberwell" to be due to a switch defect which he would not expect to find in one case in 10.000. Mr. Williman said that his wife bought an electric vacuum cleaner from the County of London Elec- tric Supply Company. It had been used about 20 times.

thousand fold, and death cuts swathes through the packed masses. Each puff of wind carries the "Hot Genuine,"

deadly thing along with the heated nir, streets are made desolate and Certained depit books" the voices of women and children to witness by Mare stilled. Then the fading hum were handed Fitzroy and after examination of the retreating squadrons seeking witness declared that certain signa tack, and silence,

fresh supplies, another city to at tures in the books handed up were not genuine.

When asked, witness said that he went away with a great deal of the remembered the Kwong Cheong money of this firth," added Mr.firm. Several years ago sums of Potter. Counsel asked for judg890,000 and 830,000 were deposited ment with costs and an order to at in two lots by that firm. tnch certain immovable property belonging to the defendant,

His. Lordship asked what would

that Robert Yip

10t

was the com-

ATTESTATIONS AS TO SIGNA- TURES.

The hearing in the afternoon was

Wit-

"To Destroy The Enemy By Every Means."7

If war were declared to-morrow any one of the Great Powers could carry out sach a programme, and with each advance in application aeroplanes become invention and larger and faster, increase their radius of action, and grow more numerous. If such devastation could be caused to-day, who knows what the possibilities may be in ten years

inspected by an international dis- stringent disarmament clauses of armament commission! Under the the Versailles Treaty, drawn Up Germany has the right to manufac the best technical experts available, ture phosgene on a scale which would have allowed her by now. sufficient to poison half Europe, had she wished; an accumulation

Phosgene.

Fourteen Points in solemn Treaty This would mend that we agreed to the abandonment only admitted the closing of the of blockade in a private war, and trade routes of the sen by inter- national action for the enforce ment of international covenants.

Lord Thomson, the chairman, re- ferring to the question of an Inter- that all existing courts were de pendent on Governments and For eign Offices to a very large extent, and it was open to discussion whe ther it would be possible to create this completely independent body af men, and womer perhaps, whom he Would describe as world citizens, really inspired by the wider out- look.. The British

Workers' Union, de-

lane, and, discovering that he had Australian

one, Kember apparently went in-clared that Russian money, was en- to his, bedroom, threw his livery tering Australia. coat on to his bed, and left the house."

Scotland Yard is looking for the me. Macfarlane is described 48 very thin and pale. He is sit, sina. in height. Kember is n good-look- reservationsing man, about 6ft tall

the execution of the Kellogg pro- pesals than these put in by the morning she found that the re were a far more serious bleck on

Mrs. Lindsay said that when she looked in her bureau yesterday. Freach.

ferences and all particulan of the Answering a question by a women were missing. man in the audience, on the spirit of such displays as the Hendon Air Frgeant, Lord Thomson observed that of the war spirit that such enter- was a proof of the existence tainments could compete success fully with other entertainments.

Fealing Between The Two'

Nations.

He has used the cleaner himself Mr. J. M. Robertson said that and never had any, trouble with it,

he was deeply perturbed at receiv- and he had not heard his wife coming the testimonies of trustworthy plain.

men on both sides of the Atlantin as to the existence of a state of positive

ill-feeling among the people of each antion against the other. nation as a whole. Such feelings undoubtedly arose from (Continued on next Column).

Mr. Williman, replying to Mr. F. G. Maw, his solicitor, said his wife received zo warning sa to any possibility of danger.

Mrs. Warner, a neighbour, said she was called by Victor Holman, a youth employed by Mr. Williman 28 messenger and houseboy, and found Mrs. Williman on the floor with the top part of the vacuum eleaner in her right hand. The gas stove looked as if it had been süd- denly pulled over. Mr. Willi- cleaner was making a sound which man's right arm was hot. The ceased when, the wall plug was

pulled out

Mr. Cowburn (the coroner): Are you familiar with these electric cleaners-I bave a new one, which shall send out of the house now.

A Long Shock,

King's College Hospital, said that Dr. Lucas, a pathologist at Mrs. Williman died from paralysis- of the heart caused by a long-con- tinued electric shock.

Mr. Cowburn: Would the shock. cause the hand to contract on the apparatus so that it could not be released --Yes. The initial shock might not be sufficient to cause death, but if, long continued it

inspector of the London County would do so.

Mr. C. A. Baker, senior electrical Council, said that the top of the handle of the cleaner was metal covered and contained the switch which started and stopped the snator

be the value of defendant's pro-confined to atteitation by members

Nor can we comfort ourselves perty and Counsel replied that he of local banks of the signatures on

with the thought that it would be was not instructed as to the exact

incredible that nation could no net certain documents handed to them. against nation. In war no possible amount, but he thought it was

Chan Kai Suen, the cashier of advantage can be sacrificed. The staff "big enough to cover the claim.

the Industrial & Commercial Bank which did not plan to alay, to cripple, Did Not Appear At The Office. said that the Ewong Cheong arm enemy by every means within their to disorganize, and to destroy the Mr. John Fleming, a partner in made a deposit in the Bank on power would be guilty of the blood Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mat- August 7th, 103 of $4,000.

of their own troops and civiliana and thews said in evidence that news had never been to the offices forgiveable treason to their coun-I

try. throughout the liquidation, his firm of this firm, but knew one of the Can war be limited again and had acted as special managers for partners, whose same he gave as national convention? In the first such things be forbidden by inter- the plaintiffs The procedure was Au Kim Lui,, (This man was one place, why should they be forbid. to appoint one of the partners to of the two who have already beenden-? If there is war at all it in the work and he took over the convicted on the same charge). evitably means the death and tor. duties in Jund 1024 when he knew Mr. Hugh Jones, solicitor of ture of multitudes. In the second. place, there is the disquieting and Mesars. Wilkinson & Grist was call-ironic fact that those gas-cylinders pradore. The defendant continued ed by the prosecution and WILE were in Hamburg, in Germany, in as such after the firm went into banded a book. Witness said that a country supposedly combed and liquidation, but on February 13th, he was to act as anliciter in a claim 1926 he did not appear at the office against the Wing On Company for and witness had not seen him since. 850,000 in 1924. The plaintiffs Witness also said that during the were Au Kim Lui of the Kwong liquidation, large quantities of Cheong firm and another man un- goods were delivered to Chinese known to him. "Witness also, anid dealers in the ordinary course of that he received the book for the business. These were supplied to purposes of that cast. He could Robert Yip on his written request not say how he came by it, hor, from the Compradore Department, could be remember it being brought The money due for these goods had by Au Kim Lui. Witness also re things. The case merely shows the in this particular machine was de- : never been accounted for, and ac marked that the action had ap-futility of attempting to eliminate tion was started against Robertparently been commenced by an poison gas from warfare. Yip and bia twa sureties. Witnesa other solicitor as the contents of If we cannot eliminate the pos- added that they had compromised and witness thought it possible can Governments protect us? The were fitted with an ebonite handle the books were already translated tibility of poison gas by conventions Mr. Cowburn: If auch machines with the sureties but the amount that the book came from this general answer must, I think, be such a fatality could not take claimed was still outstanding.

solicitor.

no. Even the possible measures of place --Not if the ebonite were Evidence, were also given by Mr.

Comparing The Deposit Books.

partial protection become absurd good. when examined. Are Governments C. E. H... Beavis of the firm

The enshier of the Wing On Com- pany was re-called and handed gas-marks sufficient for every man,

to keep in readiness vast stores nf of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist as

several red deposit books." Wit- to the agreement being drawn in ness examined them and pointed to institute gae-drill

woman, and child in the country, in infant his office between Robert Yip and out that the paper of one

different from another.

was schools, to enforce regulations that the plaintiff firm. Mr. E. D. "da also said that the water mark lines rights in the year, and create a new Witness all shall sleep in gas-masks so many Roza incorporated accountant of in one were further apart than an Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and Mai-other, while certain brackets and army of inspectors to enforce re numbers of pages were not in the

gulations ? thews also identified the defen-correct positions.. Other small dis- dant's signature.

crepancies between the books, were. also pointed out by witness. One Half Not Genuine,

Magistrate that

Witness also pointed out to the one half of the firm's chop on one of the red de- posit books appeared to be genuine, other half. but witness could not vouch for the

His Lordship guve judgment in favour of the plaintiffs for the amount claimed with costs, and also gave leave to issue execution against the defendant's intérest in a piece of property known as Sec tion D of Inland Lot 141.

The case was adjourned.

Phosgene is an industrial chemical required for certain manufacturing processes. So are other deadly

brought one protection against war But poison-gas and acroplanos in general before lacking. Until now the men who declared war and those who hoped to profit by it rarely suffered. Now diplomats, politicians, publicists, and pro fiteers, their wives and familles and all that is theirs, are as likely as the rest of us to be wiped out, with a suddenness as extreme as uncom fortable.-Daily Mail.

"I do not think the handle of the cleaner should be in the electric circuit at all," he said. "The handle should be entirely insulat ed."

Mr. Baker said that the switch fective, a condition which he would not expect to find in one machine in 10,000.

before heard of a person being kill

Mr. Baker said that he had never

ed in this way.

Anyone holding this cleaner in one hand and touching a gas stove with the other hand would receive supply. The pressure in this house the full pressure of the electric

was 205 volts,

Jury's Recommendation. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death caused by a de- fective switch" in the Vacuum cleaner. They recommended that vacuum cleaners should not be sup- plied to the public unless the handles were properly insulated.

Mr. F. M. Iredale, representing the makers of the vacuum cleaner, said that a new design of handle made of 'ebonite was now used on their machines.

EVENING NEWSPAPER

PURCHASE.

LORD ROTHERMERE'S DEAL IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

LONDON, July 10th. The Daily Mirror Newspapers. irritations over such things as the Limited, have nequired the Glou- War Debt, but, they had an unfor-cestershire Echo, the Cheltenham tunate effect in creating a certain

erude body of public opinion that evening paper, with its weekly lent itself to the most lamentable illustrated paper the Cheltenham of manifestations-the utteranees Chronicle and Graphic. They will of men of the fighting services as pay £ for every £1 share in the to the possibility, even probability, of a war between the other Coun- Cheltenham Newspaper, Company. try and the United States.

which runs the papere, and £11,000 One of the great reasons far compensation to haping that the Pact proposed by

directors and Mr. Kellogg would be carried out others. make inapossible once and for ever £13,000, the share capital of the was that ita ratification would The total purchase money is all these lamentable vapourings 25

a probable or possible war be company being £32,000 fully paid tween the nations. (Applause).

THE TYPEWRITER

THAT

INTERESTED

H. M. THE KING.

WHY ?

up.

Because, not only was it British, but it was proved to be better and cheaper than Foreign-made typewriters.

HOW ?

Not only the Home, Dominions and Colonial Governments, but also the Swedish Government have decided to replace Foreign-made typewriters by the "Imperial."

BECAUSE

As the result of open competition they were proved better and cheaper. Leading Firms in Britain, Australia, 8. Africa and Canada are doing the same.

The

IMPERIAL" TYPEWRITER

is a typewriter no Firm that values Efficiency and Economy should fail to inspect, and the stricter the in- vestigation, the more surely will ita overwhelming superiority be proved.

NOW ON SALE

T.

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by the Sole Agents:

E. GRIFFITH, Ltd.

6, Queen's Road Central.

Tel C. 8317.