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And since Britain pays for these MADAME CHIFFON SUED. goods that are received from the Dominions and Colonies largely by exporting to them her manufactur- ed articles it is clear that the expansion effected has been mutual. ly benefcial.
SECURITY FOR COSTS.'
BILLS OF EXCHANGE DISHONOURED?
Among the list of cases coming before the Pulane Judge, Mr. Justice P. Jacks, at the Summary Court yesterday for assignment of dates, was one in which Madame Chiffon is sued by Messra, L. Ron don & Co. for $1,000 in respect of alleged dishonoured bills of ex-
THREATENING LETTER WRITING.
GANG ROUNDED UP AT SHANGHAI,
CHINESE DOCTOR PUNISHED.
CHILD CONFESSES TO A ·
.MURDER.
TO TAKE HER MOTHER'S GUILT.
PATHETIC SCENE IN SHANG- HAI COURT.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 10th. Not for some time has the Pro-
SHANGRAI, September 10th. With the recent arrest of Ave Chinese coolies and two alleged visional Court provided one of dramatic incidents female accomplices who were before those little
more typical of the the Provisional Court on Saturday, which are the police believe a death blow has movie sob stories than of the law een struck at one of the foremost courts but such a one took place wholesale aggregations of threaten- on Saturday morning when ing letter writers that his flourish-crowded court room heard a de Mr. C. A. S. Russ appeared fored in the Shanghai district for someclaration by a little girl of six
time. the defendant, who is as present away from the Colony, and Mr. H. Macnamara represented the
change.
On the basis of the pries levels of 1024 the value of imports from Empire countries to the United Kingdom rose from £388 millions in 1924 to £40 millions in 1927, an increase of nearly 9 per cent, in a period during which the population is estimated to have increased by only 1 per cent. It is, therefore, clear that the British people at home are buying more per head of the population and not
Thirty charges of obtaining money merely increasing trade by expand-
C.
and attempting to obtain "money ing their numbers. The exports | plałatiff firm.
frora rich Chinese were lodged from Britain to the Overecas Em.
At the outset of the case. Mr. against them, and the case was re- pire increased in the same period Russ told his Lordship that he hadmanded for two weeks to give the by 13 per cent, while exports to applied to Mr. Macnamara for police an opportunity to gather foreign countries calculated on the security for costs but had received additional evidence against them. same basis fell by 5 per cent.no reply.
In reply, Mr. Macnamara asked Empire development is, therefore, clearly a question of mutual in-bis Honour to fix a date for the terest, and the further it can be hearing of the ease. carried the more it will help the prosperity of the partner nations and the more employment it will give both to home and overseas.
Mr. Russ: My friend" is not en- titled to make any applicatier until he has paid security for costs. Mr. Macnamara: I have never heard of that rule.
Mr. Russ then told the Court
One British case of diphtherin was that Madame Chiffon was at pre- reported on Friday.
sent away from the Colony, having gone away before the writ was. issued. She would, however, "Lo back in October.
Frederick Owen Richarda, native of Wales, has been absent from the House of Detention since Thursday.
The E.E.A. and C. Telegraph & PRIZE Ltd., announce GOLD
that, owing to faulty cable connection, telegrams MEDALS.
to and from Shanghai and beyond are subject to abnormal delay.
IT NEVER VARIES!
SOLE AGENT÷
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PHONE C. 616.
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helping on this interchange of Empire trade, which is the essen- tial basis of Empire development, that the present Government decid ed some two years ago to institute the Empire Marketing Board. For this purpose a aum of one million pounds a year was voted.
The second annual report of the Board has just been issued, and after two years' experience it is
Mr. Macnarara said that the action concerned dishonoured bills of exchange and suggested that Mr. Rusa should communicate with his client.
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years who told the Judge that she, and not her mother, was respon- sible for the murder of her father.
The little girl appeared in Court because the Pollee desired to have instructions for her care, in view of the fact that the mother had already been remanded on a charge It was alleged that though the of murdering her husband with the leaders may have described them help and connivance of the alleged any lover, selven a coolies, they were thing but modest in their demands, At the previous hearing of the as instances are cited in which they ease on Friday, the mother confess- are alleged to have set sums ranged that, after her husband had ing from 81,000 to $15,000 as the found out her relations with her price of cessation of their hos-lover, who was also charged in
connection with the crime, the lat tilities.
Trap Set By The Police, Specific instances were
ter had held her husband while an cited accomplice stabbed him to death. '
The Court ordered that the child in which the apprehended" göng were alleged to have been active, should not be placed in custody In one a wealthy Chinese living at with her mother, and all were No. 907, Boone Road, was the re-touched by the and spectacle of the cipient of three letters of a threaten-parting the little giri sobbing ing nature between August 2nd and bitterly as she was led from the August 8th. The sum demanded court room. was said to have been 83,000 and a The mother
and her alleged rendezvous was, ramed whereat the partner in crime are to appear in Court next Friday.-North China Daily News.
money was to be turned over to a designated member of the gang,
The second case was that of an-
vicinity of Boundary Road whe was alleged to have $5,000 demand. ed on pain of serious trouble should the crowd's demands not be met..
Mr. Russ: It will take about a month for, the letter to get there and a month for her to answer. Iether wealthy Chinese living in the shall be quite satisfied with that. H.E. the Officer Administering Mr. Macnamara: The defendant the Government (the Hon. Mr. dishonoured three bills cl exchange W. T. Southorn, C.M.G.), has ex- and put the plaintiffs off with all pressed his intention of being pre-sorts of offers of settlement until sent at the Queen's Theatre to see she found it convenient to go to the famous jungle picture "Chang" Europe. at the 5.10 p.m. performance on- Tuesday next.
Mr. Russ. That is an es parte statement and we know nothing about it.
Dame Helga Gascoigne, of Ashley- gardens, Westminster, S.W., who died on June 14th, widow of Major-your statement, Mr. Russ."
Mr. Macnamara: That applies to
General Sir William Gascoigne, K.C.M.C., a former G.O.C. at Hong Kang, left unsettled cetate of the Gross value of £17,686, with net
personalty £17;469.
ship.
In both cases the victims had
presence of mine enough to call in the police and a place was named in the Hengkew district where the payments would be made.
SHOT FROM A TRAIN.
BULLET THAT RICOCHETTED AND KILLED A, NURSE.
Glasgow when a Territorial named Remarkable evidence was given at
John Daly was charged in the Sheriff's court in connection with the shooting of nurse, Mias Torrance, in the Cathkin Braes district of Glasgow on July 7th.
kad passed the head of a young The police found that the bullet
man walking behind Miss Torrance,
Doctor And Waiter Sentenced. A Chinese doctor and ́a waiter It was stated that Misa Torrance were sentenced by Judge Koh and and a friend were walking along Jr. Russ: The allegations Dr. F. Ramonding, Senior Consul's quiet country road when she was
shot. against Madame Chiffon" are "un- Deputy, to three and five years
The road is flanked by a railway founded. If I were to make them respectively, on a charge of send-line, and the accident occurred as against your client, I don't knowing threatening letters demanding train was passing. what you would say to his Lord-100,000 from a wealthy Chines: in the Settlement. The letters werd Mr. Russ added that Madame sent at various dates between March | grazed the skirt of a young woman, Chiffon, would be back by October and July, and were couched in 13th. Mr. Macnamara agreed to terms of violence if the demands the case being heard at any date were not complied with. ··· after that. The case was according The Police were notified and ly fixed for October 18th.
acensed were arrested by Det. Mr. Russ again applied for ¦ Inapř. J. Hunter as a result of an security for costs, pointing out to appointment made with the know his Lordship that the plaintiff firm ledge of the Police. was not within the jurisdiction of Besides their prison sentences, the Colony.
accused were deprived of their civil Mr. Macnamara, agreed that his rights for life and were further client would have to pay sach ordered to return the sum of $400 police that between 7 and 6p.courity, and that he was waiting to the complainant North-Chind
The Infant Free School situated at Nos. 4 and 5, St. John's Terrace, Robinson Road, which is run by the Chinese Catholic Young Ladies' Society, is holding a bazaar to- morrow on the school premises. Toys and other suitable objects will
be very gratefully received by the organisers of the bazair.
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Mr. A. Gillard, Chief Traffic Assistant of the Hong Kong Tram- ways, Ltd., has reported to the
on Thursday, six of the Company's motormen from various trama on
the Shaukiwan Road reported that
to hear from them. In the mean- || Daily Neuts,
for the personal undertaking of a time he thought that it was usual"
GUERITE DOROTHY, daughter of pertinent to ask whether its work they had found, metal steel puuch solicitor to be accepted.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. DAVEY.
DEATHS.
DAVIS-ON September 8th, at Shanghai, GRETCHEN MAE, wife of ROBEET WALLACE DAVIS, DYER.-On September 5th, at Shang. hai, WILLIAM JORN NORMAN DYR, partner of Messrs. Whee Mack & Co., aged 59 years,
Street
has done anything to increase the ings in the grooves of the tram- consumption of Empire products in lines. Thirteen auch deposits were
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A Chinese dentist was attacked by three highway robbers in Prince. Edward Road early yesterday morn- ing. Money and articios valued at
the period under review, Research in a ricksha at the time when the London Office: 21 Bride Lane, work, for instance, which the Board three men attacked him. Two of
Fleet Stroot, E.C
is encouraging in many directions them held him down while the third and to which a large part of its went through his pockets. The funds are devoted, must in many ricksha coolie who appears to have cates be a
slow and laborious been a spectator of the assault was process before any results can be paid his fare by the robbers before
they ran off..
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The Daily Press.
HONG KONG, SEPTEMEZE 15TH, 1928.
obtained.
PATERSON-DUMONT AND THOMSON-SHEARER.
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LLOYDS INSURANCE BROKER'S ESTATE.
and had ricochetted from the road- way and struck Miss Torrance.
Daly, when challenged, admitted frring the shot. He explained that when practising at a rifle range one of the cartridges jammed in his rifle, so he took it out and put it in his pocket.
thought he had better get rid of it. He fired the cartridge from the ear- riage window at some cows and ad- mitted that the line of his shot was in the direction of the roadway. Although he heard of the accident to Miss Torrance he did not think it concerned him at all,
On his way home by train he
Daly was sentenced months imprisonment.
to three
TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.
J.
£1,714,286 PROPOSAL FOR THE SCHELDT.
BRUSSELS. The late Mr. W. B. Harris, an
The authorities have long had insurance broker of Lloyds, Lonunder consideration the question don, and who died on December of "linking up the right and left
in
sent ferry boats are used as a the Colony means of communication.
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Re-sealing of the probate and two codicils of deccaecd's will has been granted to Mr. M. H. Turner, of Messrs. Deacons, attorney for the executors. Mr. W. L. Carry, a brother-in-law of the deceased and Mr. G. Bentham Rae, of No. 31, Threadneedle Street, of the Lan- den Stock Exchange.
and plans have been drawn up and are to be submitted to the pro- vincial councils of East Flanders and Antwerp for approval.
When this has been obtained the
Government will submit a Bill to Parliament, probably in Novem her, to secure the necessary powers to proceed with the work.
the United Kingdom in a degree picked up from the loop opposite FORTHCOMING WEDDINGS. THE LATE MR. W. B. HARRIS. commensurate with its expenditure. the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. But in asking this question it is! necessary to remember that many of its efforts are planned to take
The forthcoming weddings are 30th, 1097, at No. 29, Marloes banks of the Scheldt at Antwerp effect over a considerable time, and
announced: Mr. T. G. Paterson, Road, South Kereington, Middle by a bridge of a tunnel. At pre- Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice Houss could not possibly bear fruit within $33.70 were stolen. The, victim was c/o the Hong Kong Club, to Marion sex. leit estate
Dumant (widow), of the Victoria amounting to $1,500.
Other pro- The tunnel system, according to Hospital, the Peak; Mr. A. Mc-perties in England are valued at experts is the most convenient, Arthur Thomson, of the Tytam Tuk | £17,604, 45, 4d. Pumping Station, to Miss Elizabeth Ferguson Hutchison Shearer, who is en route to Hong Kong from Home by the P. & O. sa. Jace donin; Mr. H. Beck, engineer of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., But apart from this important
One of the two companions of Ltd. to Miss M. C. Middleton, side of the work there is much to Mr. John Hornby, the English ex- China Sugar Refinery, East Point; be done by propaganda and the plorer (their bodies were found in Mr. H. Hion, clerk, Banque de Road to Ming Chan, No. 13, Sau advertising of Empire produce a lonely hat in the wilds of North Indo-Chine, of No. 56, Robinson, wherein for more rapid results may West Canada) was Mr. Edgar Wa Fong, Hong Kong. be expected. In this field there is
Christian, aged 20, "the son -Lieut.-Col.-W. F.Christian, D.S.Ö. no questioning the fact that its
„Royal Artillery, who is serving in activities are meeting with con,
others of the family are to join him China, where Mrs Christian" and.
-much-evidence that its work has proient at Bron, Dirion, near questionably beginning to spread to materially strengthened the demand Clynnog, Carnarvonshire. Mr. John others who try to look at things in Great Britain for Empire pro- Hornby was her cousin, and she last from a large Imperial point of duce and has definitely increased heard from her son about 18 months view. It was with the object of the sale of particular commodities. I ago..
EMPIRE MARKETING.
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
FOR some time part the British that the Coart has, by virtus of the Provisions of Section 58 of Ordinance public has been steadily growing more convinced that the greatest- hope of trade expansion lies within
No.2 of 1897, made An Order Limiting the Time for Creditors and Others to send in their Claims against the above Estats to the 1ST DAY OF OCTOBER
1928.
the Empire. This has been one of siderable success. The Board is
of
All Creditors and Others are accord- the fundamental beliefs of the able to claim that it has received in December. Mr. Christian is at
ingly hereby required to send Claims to the Undersigned on or before that Date.-Conservative-party, and it is un-
Dated this 6th day of September, 1928,
DEACONS,
Solicitors for the Administrator Prince's Building, Hong Kong.
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BRITAIN AS JAPAN'S MODEL.
It is estimated that the tunnel will take three or four years to construct at in cost of £1,714,286 and that a further £1,142,857 will. be needed to build up the left bank of the river.
WEATHER REPORT.
deputation representing the GERMANS VISIT EX-KAISER. Japancec Ministry of Railways inspected at Southwark, on August
THE HAITE Yesterday's weather report, fore. 17th the local method of disposing Before leaving Holland, the Ger- cnet and remarks, issued by the of house refuse and the crushing mans taking part in the equestrian Royal Observatory, at 5.47 p.m., plant.
sports at Amsterdam paid a visit to stated:-
Mr. 8. Suaumura, the resident the ex-Kaiser at Dooru.
Their leader, Freiherr Yon The typhoon is about 50 miles representative in London of the south of Shanghai, moving W.N.W. Ministry, said that in these sub- Langen, received from the ex- Local Forecast NW to West sidiary undertakings-as-well as in Kaiser the latter's photograph sign winds, moderate, faiz at first, some railway administration, Japan took ed. "Den Olympiade Sieger, rain later..
Great Britain as its model.
Wilhelm."
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