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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1929.

ARMEND BUILDING GANG

ROBBERY.

SMART ARRESTS BY THE POLICE.

Efforts by the police to trace the gang who carried out an armed robbery at the servants quarters of Mr. D. Harvey's residence in Armend Building on Wednesday eyening have been successful. Five en were arrested as the result of raids carried out in the neighbour hood of Lastar Row.

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NEW GOVERNOR FOR

PHILIPPINES.

APPOINTMENT TO GO TO BRIG. GEN. F. R. McCOY.

Washington.-President Hoover has virtually decided upon the up- Fointment of Brigadier Genera} Frank Ross McCoy to be Governor- General of the Philippines, replac ing Colonel Henry E. Stimson who resigned when appointed Secretary

According to the report made by the victimised

few minutes after the robbery, four men armed with daggers entered important their quarters. fenture of the arrests was that some of the stolen property was also re-expedition into covered. It may be found after the completion of investigations that fe in evidence of the men being concerned in other recent crimes.

Th arrested men will probably be brought before the Kowloon Magia trate this morning, and applica

SHIP ON FIRE.

TERRIBLE STORY "FROM THE VISAYAS.

CREW FORCED INTO SHARK

INFESTED SEA,

Nineteen persons are missing as the result of burning of the Inter- Island Air. Viking in the Visayan Sea, according to report received on April 2 at Manila.

Those missing include the cap tain of the ship, and it is feared all are lost.

The Viking, from Manila to Cebu, caught Are and burned to the of State in the Hoover Cabinet.

water's "edge, the hulk inter sink. General McCoy, has seen much

ing. The rescue steamer Delhi service is the Far East, including picked up 10 survivors. Ap

the Philippines campaign and the

Members of the Viking's crew Mindanao and

attempted to jettison the when the ship was discovered afire, according to messages from the Delhi, but were frustrated when cage of gasoline aboard exploded with tremendous force, enveloping the whole snip in flames.

tion made for a formal remand..

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BOMBAY OPIUM

CONSUMPTION. GOVERNMENT ACTION.

The Government of Bombay have

L'ommittee appointed 3

to in- quire into the causes of the exces sive consumption of opium in the City of Bombay and to suggest measures for checking it.

The Committee is now holding its sittings and has drawn up a questionnaire for supply to inf dividuals and public bodies desir. ing to give evidence, before it

CZAR OF CHICAGO'S

UNDERWORLD.".

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IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE.

PRISONER AT AN ISLAND CASTLE.

Jolo. He commanded the expedi- tion against Datu Ali, Moham inedia leader, in 1903, and was aide-decamp to the late Governor General Leonard Wood during General Wood's, service in Cuba, and the Philippines

cargo

crew attempted, to escape the in- There were dramatic scenes as the

ferno of blazing fuel. Many sailors jumped overboard into shark in-

ested waters.

The rescue steamers Martan City and Newcastle searched unsuccess- fully for the 10 missing members of the Viking but failed to find them.

He was a member of the Special Mission to the Philippines in 1971 the governor and assistant to general in 1921-23. He was Direc tor General of the Red Cross nad commander of the American Relief Mission to Japan in 1993, follow. ing the great earthquake which devastated Tokyo and YokohamL.

During the Coolidge Administrą tion General McCoy was appointed Newcastle were attracted to the The Delhi, Mactan City and

of the by President Coolidge to supervise

spot

disaster by elections. in presidential the

great column of fame and black Nicaragua and at that time came in close contact with Colonel Stim-smoke which arose from the Viking, on. who was the President's per and did not receive any S.O.S. sonal representative in Nicaragua, calia Some lifeboats were launch- Recent dispatches frequently hava ed by the Viking and were picked mentioned General McCoy as a up by the Delhi. leading possibility for the Philip pines post and bave indicated his appointment would meet with ap proval from Colonel Stimson, who bas maintained lose touch with Philippines affairs since his return to Washington.

NICARAGUA CANAL.

NEW EFFORT TO PUSH THE SCHEME THROUGH

CONGRESS...-

Washington.A new effort to

LOW PRICES FOR" RELICS. hasten plans for the construction of a second canal to parallel the Panama Canal may develop during the present. special session of the Congress.

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MANUSCRIPTS THE THING.

Al Capone, "Czar"

the Chicago's underworld and Ace of American gangsters, is a prisoner of fear in his palatial Miami' home, living hourly in apprehension of death.

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of Al Capone's gunmen, and that vengeance has been sworn against the murderers.

Whether these direful oaths are responsible for Capone's fears. only he himself knows, but it is a fact that when he has had a drink 'or two he confesses to his intimates that sooner or later someone will get me."

£1,000 Parties.

His Miami castle of Spanish de- sign is situated on an island, which can be reached only by routes strongly protected by his private bodyguard. His luxurious motor car is eteel-lized and bullet-proof, and when he takes a ride his great fear is that a tyre will be punctured

and, that during the enforced halt he will be assassinated.

Sothebys was not a big price, but The sensation at a recent sale at a small one--the £3 given for Dickens's well-worn writing-desk. authenticated by Mias Georgina Hogarth as having been presented to the young Dickens by Forster in 1833, and constantly used by him in all probability the desk on whichPickwick' written:

Was

A fierce competition was anti- cipated for the possession of this. most interesting relie, but no one seemed to want it.

Among the mass of books and MSS. sold were other important literary relics, but apparently the slightest letter or scrap of "copy"" written by a great writer is worth more than anything actually used by him.

Capone is ageing rapidly under the strain. His athletic figure is losing its firm lines, and his hair is thinning and greying with sleep-King.". less nights.

He was once a moderate drinker, but now it is reported that he drinks too freely,

But his days are not all misery. Sometimes be starts from his morose lethargy and gives a party to the élite of Palm Beach. He is a lavish host and his invitations are eagerly sought. He will sometimes spend more than £1,000 on a single evening's entertainment.

He never accepts a return invita- tion because of his fear of a trap. Even when his guests assemble they the always under the watchful eyes of their host's young guards. These are a well dressed as the gucets, but beneath their smart evening clothes are automatic revolvers ever ready to spit fire.

WIRELESS REPORT OF "SUICIDE."

MUSICIAN TO SUE FOR LIBEL

Senator Walter E. Edge, Repub- lican of Atlantic City, N.J., "has announced that he will soon confer with the Secretary of War, Mr. James W. Good of Iowa, to discuss a survey of the proposed new canal across Nicaragua by engineers of the United States Army. This would be in accord with a resolu tion introduced by Mr. Edge which fready has been adopted by the

Senate.

In connection with his statement Senator Edge submitted an analysis hy the chief hydrographer of the Panama Canal, Mr. Kirkpatrick, showing that construction of the proposed new Nicaraguan Canal would shorten the distance between the porte of New York and Yoko- hama for ships by 280 miles, and the distance Between New Orleans and Yokohama by 320 miles.

ENGAGEMENT RING LAW. WHEN A GIRL MUST RETURN IT.

Idylla of the King,” Six pounds was all that was bid for Tennyson's black cloak so Judge Owen Thompson, K.C., familiar in portraits and remini

expounded the law of the engage- scences, while Mr. Wells of Newment ring at Bow County Court, York gave E640 for six pages of the during an action in which William manuscript of the "Idylls of the Rowe, New-road, Ilford, a labourer, Burns's bannock toaster sued bis former sweetheart, Miss given to his wife on her marriage, Annie Pack, of Old Ford, to recover that has been often displayed as £5 which he had entrusted to her precious relic at Baras festivals towards the purchasing of their went for £3, while the letter in

home, a dress ring, and an engage- which Barr's says he "Looks down ment ring, or their value £13 159. on the future as I would into the

Rowe stated in his evidence that bottomless pit was sold for £400.Miss Pack ended the engagement..

Still another curious illustration Judge Thompson said that a of the comparative neglect of relics decision of the High Court, laid it was in the Thackeray sales. Thirty-down that the action had to be two pounds waa an absurdly low

brought in the High Court, and he price for the goid.pen in a silver had no jurisdiction to try the case. case which Thackeray gave to his

"The law," he added, is that friend Elwin, who had praised his if the girl breaks the engagement poem on this very pen. A little she has to return the ring, but if earlier a letter in which Thackeray the man does so, she can keep it refers to Dickens as a prodigious also if the engagement is broken off genius" had been sold for £190.

by mutual consent."

costa

It is reinarkable in view of the

The action would have to be contempt shown for the great man's desk that the American dealer dismissed and Rowe would pay the should want a presentation copy to Charles Lever of a first edition of "A Tale of Two Cities

to the extent of giving for it the highest price in the day's sale-£1,300.

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A sheet of paper containing two incomplete stanzas of The Revolt of Islam in Shelley's hand was Becured by an English dealer for The Administration of Posts and 700, and the odd turns of the Telegraphs, which controls one of market in. the values fashion puts on the MS. of various writers was the wireless transmitting stations of France, is to be sued by the shown by the far lower price paid musician M. Saint-Granier because for an autograph of a poem by it broadcast a report that he had Kents. The queerest thing in the committed

M. Saint- sale was the good sum for a letter Granier and his wife bad merely in which Lander says that he been injured in a motor car accid. wouldn't give three farthings for the autographs of the most famous Interviewed by the Journal, he men explained how much annoyance the report broadenst throughout France had caused him. All his relatives in the provinces had heard the news

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immediately taken the first train to Paria. Thirty reporters called at the house to take particulars and a couple of photographers had come along to obtain views of the corpse. The musician as a result of the motor-car accident is bandgaged, and he fears that he will never live down the wireless report of suicide. People, he thinks, will insist that the tale of an accident is "a blind" and that if he did not actually take his own life he must at least have attempted suicide.

SOLDIERS SENTENCED.

THEFT OF BICYCLES.

were

Privates Drake and Bennet of the Middlesex Regiment, who charged with the offence of criminal breach of trust in respect of two bicycles belonging to a dealer in 'St. Thomas Mount, Madras were sentenced by the Fourth Presidency Magistrate to pay a fine of Rs. 30 each.

These soldiers will be tried by the military authorities for deserting the army.

MAN MASQUERADES AS A WOMAN.

STRUCK UNCONSCIOUS IN A HEATH SCENE.

Frank Walton, aged forty-five, o the petroleum inspector under London County Council, of Went- worth - mansions, Kents grove, Hampstead, who was accused" at Hampstead Police Court of insult- од Hampstead ing behaviour Heath, was stated to have worn a woman's complete outft, includ ing silk stockings, golf socks, and earrings.

It was stated that a woman com- plained to her husband, and when the police arrived, Walton was found lying on the ground, having" apparently been knocked uncon- scious by a member of the crowd. Walton, it was stated, bad held an important position for twenty years.

It was urged for the defence that Walton had no intention of insult- ing, women, and made no attempt. to do so, and that he was only foolish enough to masquerade as a

woman.

The chairman, Sir Andrew Tay- lor, in discharging Walton on pay- ment of £3 148. costs, said that the Bench thought that he had been ex reedingly foolish in his conduct.

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