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CONSTABLE CAUGHT RIALTO IN GLOOM.

RED-HANDED.

THEFT FROM MOTOR-CAR.

KNEELS DOWN TO PLEAD

FOR MERCY.

Sentence of six wocks' hard Inbour was passed by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on P.C. B717, Abdul Rahman, for stealing sweater from a motor-car on the night of September 2

The sweater was left in Mr. T. W. King's private motor-car in Wanchai Gap. Mr. King and a friend loft the car for twenty minutes and on returning they found the sweater gono.

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Mr. King then looked round in various directions and saw Indian constable in Mouns Caraerou Road, walking away from the car. Ho intended to hail, the constable and nsk him if he had seen anybody near the car, but changed his plans whom he saw a white object (his awenter) travelling through the air into the bushes. It had apparently been thrown there by the constable.

Going up to the man, Mr. King ordered him to retreive the sweater and said at the time that he would' report him. The constable then, according to Mr. King, began to "cringe"

and seized Mr. King's knees with his hands. He also sat on the running board of the car and continued to plead until Mr. King managed to shake him off and drove

| NEW TAX RUMOUR CAUSES

ALARM,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930.

CORRESPONDENCE.

For obvious reasons, the identity of his correspondente must be known to the Editor. All letters intended for publication must be accom panied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, un- lets to desired, but as evidence of

not give this information wili nal to the effect that the Government | see their letters in print:~~ED] --- will shortly introduce a scheme of

Great concern was shown in and around Ice House Street yesterday

SEDITIOUS PAMPHLETS. WOMEN GUILTY OF ARMS

MAGISTRATE'S WARNING TO YOUNG DISTRIBUTORS,

SMUGGLING.

SHIP STEWARD THE CHIEF OFFENDER.

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Two Magistrates (Mr. H. R

as a result of a persistent rumour Good faith. Correspondents who da, E. Lindsell at the Central Magis Butters; and Mr. E. II. Williams)

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " HONG KONG DAILY PRESB."]

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Six elderly Chiness and sloven boys were charged before M. H

tracy yesterday in connection with sat at the Kowloon Magistracy the distribution of auditious papers yesterday to hear a ease in which Laxation whereby curtain local com THE REALTY CO. MEETING.. the Central district on the night of s.s. Porthos,

and pamphlets in various parts of Cheang Ngok, steward on board the once in bat value over other panics at present enjoying a busi-

makes, no matter whether October 8,

was charged with

it is a hat at $19.50 or ness monopoly will be affected,

being in control of a quantity. Dealing with the boys, Mr. Lind- of arms, comprising two automatio

higher price the difference sell asked them if they knew what pistols, a Hanser pistol, and 30-

is discernible. the papers contained, and they all Mauser pistol clips. halders who did not attend yester-

Sin-As one of the many share-replied that they did not.

day's meeting of the Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., I am making these remarks with your excellent report of the proceedings as a basis.

The Colonial Secretary, in his Budget speech last week, gave no indiention of any such tax, but the report is taken very serionaly on the Rialto, Business yesterday was practically at a standstill, nobody apparently being wishful to buy,

It has not been possible to trace the origin of this rumour, but it appears to be based upon belief i that the Government will not proto the views urged on behalf of the I have nothing to say with regard ceed with its plan to increase the Requisitionists except that they assessment tax, but will seek some other source of additional revenue.

appear to be sound, but it struck me that the Chairman, in his an- swers, did not cope with the subject as he should have, either because he would not or could not.

EUROPEAN FINED AT KOWLOON COURT.

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BIOTOUS CONDUCT · AND ASSAULT ON POLICE.

In the first place, there was no attempt at any explanation why an outside broker had to be em ployed in transacting the anle,

A plea of guilty was tender.which broker reaped a fine harvest ed by Mr. Thomas

in commission. Gibbison, engineer, residing in Kowloon,

Secondly Mr. Scott Haraton's when three charges were preferred remark that the Bank would have against him at the Kowloon Magis.

had something to say regarding a tracy yesterday before Mr. H. R.total cash payment for the building Butters. The charges were (a) instead of a mortgage as part price seems, in my opinion, to bear out

It was alleged that, on the arrival

these papers 1

His Worship: Who gave you of the vessel, the arms woro trans-||

ferred to three Chinese women, who were also before the Court on charges of possession.

The boys: Nobody gave them to us.. We bought them from different shops.

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His Worship: If you tell fies like that you won't get off.

did buy, these books from

The boys: It is the truth. Wo

stationery shop.

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His Worship: Who gave you money t

The lads replied that. in nome casca it was their parents.

Dot-Sergt. O'Donovan told bia Worahip that the pamphlets were specially printed to be sold at the Moon Festival. They were books of luck" and wore something in the nature of fortune-telling. Nowadays some of these books were used for propagande, and in some

cases contained seditious matter.

Magistrate's Warning. Addressing the lads, bis Worship

away to the nearest Police Station behaving in a riotous and disorderly the arguments of other side regard. Į said:" Now you boys have leamed

where he made a report.

Pleaded for Mercy,

Mr. E. L. Clibborn who was with Mr. King at the time, corroborated Mr. King's evidence. He told the Court that as Mr. King was return. ing to the car the constable knelt down several times before him, as if pleading for mercy.

The constable giving evidence, stated that he saw a car in Wan ehsi Gap and noticed in it a sweater, a sleeve of which was hanging out. He waited half an hour by the car and sounded its horn, but nobody appeared, no he decided to remove the sweater and take it to the Police Station.

Mr. W. I. Scott, A.D.C., inforra- ed the Court that the man bore

what was officially described as ni good character. He had been three years with the Force. As stated above, sentence of six weeks' hard labour was passed.

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Court Crammed With Chiness. The case commenced at 2.15 p.m. hour before, that time Mr. Lindsell's Court gradually began to fill up, and at two o'clock all available seating and standing Tom was occupied, Tho constables on duty had all their work out out to keep other curious people away from the entrances.

On entering the Court Mr. Lind- seli instructed his interpreter to inform the crowd that the case about to be heard was a simple case

manner while drunk in Nathan Road; (b) refusing to pay the fare of 00 cents to a ricksha puller; and (e) assaulting Lanco-Sergt. Blakey in the Yaumati Police Station,

Det. Sergt. Fitobes said that an Indian Sergeant on duty saw a crowd near Nathan House in the centre of which was the defendant with a ricksha puller. The defend- ant chase the coolio away and truck & Chinese, woman, subse- quently assaulting the Sergeant. The officer continued that on the way to the Court in the morning the defendant Baulted Lance- Sergt. Blakey and tried

break free. The defendant had several previous convictions for being drunk

ing contingencies.

Finally, in dealing with the ques

tion of the risks involved in share

deals. I cannot think that the Chairman seriously attempted to meet their contention, he having confined himself to

& general re- mark on the risks one must run in life.

As this meeting is one which has roused much public interest, I hope you will give place in your columns to my letter. Yours faithfully,

DISSATISFIED Hong Kong, October 8.

APATHETIC HONG KONG.

DAILY PRESS,”].

and disorderly and for refusing to [ro THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG XONO pay ricksba fares,

In answer to the Magistrate, Sergt. Fitches said that the coolie had not got his 60 cents as the de- fendant had only five cents in his pocket,

Defendant was fined $10 or ton days' imprisonment, on each of the first two charges, and 620, or three weeks, on the third charge. He was further ordered to pay $1 com- pensation to the ricksha coolis.

HEALTH BUREAU CASE

REHEARING.

FIXED FOR TO-MORROW AFTERNOON.

of larceny by an Indian constable, and there was nothing of any great

An application for re-bearing, of interest about it. The crowd had the case in which Kwok Chun Shing, apparently gathered under the mis

a former employee of the Health apprehension that a much more

charge against another Service. Intelligence Bureau, was Indian was to be beard, but, charged with alleged misappropria- although disappointed, the carious tion of funds, was made before Mr. crowd stayed on to the ead.

R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis- tracy yesterday,

serious

ALLEGED MURDER OF HUSBAND.

There were originally 10 charges preferred against the defendant by Siow Choon Long, on all of which

SIB, Talking in Ice House Street this morning with a broker and one he was interested in the meeting of the Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., which was hold yester day, I was surprised to learn that the Requisitionists to that meeting had had the promise of the support

a lesson. You know that what you have done is illegal, and you also get this warning from me that if

you are caught doing this sort of thing again you will be severely whipped. I will let you go,"

The six elderly Chinese were next dealt with, and when asked to plead, the űrst accused said:" I bought these books to see, and I can't read. I did not know what the books were about."

Second accused ploaded: "I van't' road. I was selling them. I did not know that they were soditious."

Third accused said: I can't read, I did not know what the booke wore about."

All three pleaded guilty to dia- tributing.

'Evidenco was given that revenue officers had received information be- forehand and waited for the women; at the Kowloon Wharf. The wo men were taken into custody and searched at the office, the contra band being found tied round their waists.

The Magistrates found all tho accused guilty, the steward receiv ing a sentence of four years' im prisonment and the women #ix months each.

OPPOSITION TO THE YOUNG PLAŇ.

GERMAN OBJECTIONS.

Capital writes that German. nowe

Paris, Oct. 1.-The financial daily

papers deriving support from the heavy industries bavo formulated four objections to the Young Plan. They are:-

1.-Economic onditions have changed all over the world within a year and particularly in Ger many whore the number of unen-

ployed has trebled.

2-The gold value of payments to be made by Germany has a creased by 10 per cent., as a result of the fall in world prices.

3-Too Young Plan has had an worla extremely bad effect on economy and must be considered responsible for the difficulties in some parts of the world.

4.-The impossibility of selling killed the plan. For the immediate Young Plan bonds has practically future, it is uolces thinking of a new attempt to realise another: fraction.

The Gorman papere conclude by

The fourth, fith and sixth ac-stating that something must be cused admitted solling the booka, done to reform the present system and added that they sold them be of reparations settlement, but more cause it was a festival day. It was depends on the goodwill of the also the custom to sell these books United States than Frence. on the seventh day of the seventh

moon.

with the alternative of seven days'

His Worship imposed a fine of $6

of no less than 150 shareholders, jail each on the three accused, most of whom had signed proxies.

Monday:

FRENCH EX-PREMIER

AGAIN.

Tho absence of all but a handful and third men were remanded till

The cases against the first, second M. POINCARE MAY ́ RE-ENTER

POLITICAL LIFE. of them from the meeting goes to confirm the long held view that for sheer apathy, oven where self- interest in concerned, the Hong Kong public is hard to beat.

I write neither as a shareholder nor as a party interested in any way, but only as

A SORROWFUL OBSERVER. Hong Kong, October 9.

SHANGHAI.

HONG KONG NAVY

LEAGUE.

NELSON DAY CONCERT AT LEE THEATRE.

One of the features of the Nelson Day concert at the Led Theatre on

Paris, Sept. 38.—M. ́ ́ Poincaré was present at a tifần given by the prefect of Bar le Duo, the district' which Poincaré represents in Parliament.

This is the first time since his illness and resignation that the former Premier has attended a political banquet. This fact is arousing strong rumour about the possibility of a comeback of the

THEFT OF JEWELLERY IN Tuesday, October 21, at 9 p.m., will ex-Premier. His friends way that be the screening of special film be kept a strong majority for more obtained through the Navy League than three years and left power only because his physical condition. LOCAL POLICE LOOKING FOR in London. Entitled "The Royal did not permit him to stay Pre-

A HOUSE BOY,

Navy Ashore, and Afloat," this film mier. It would be quite natural was produced with the co-operation that if some ministerial difficulties Polico Headquarters here hava and approval of the Admiralty.liament, M. Poincaré be asked to arise at the re-opening of the pari ho was acquitted by Mr. Grant received a circular from the Police In all, four sections will be shown, reform the cabinet. ham, Mr. M. K. Lo appearing for of the French Concession, Shang- these dealing with aeroplanos, sub- the complainant and Mr. F. X. hai, offering a reward of 81,000 for marines, destroyers and fleet exer- Accused of the murder of her d'Alada, sen., for the defendant information loading to the apprecises. In the last-named, every type husband, Tang Yeung, an elderly Another prosecution followed behension and conviction of a Chinese of vessel, from picket boat to fing Chinese woman, was committed by foro Mr. Butters, and the defendant for alleged theft, in the French chip, will be soon. the District Offeer- North for trial

Sessions. The accused lived in a outrefois acquit. village at Au Tau in the New Territorios,

WOMAN COMMITTED FOR

· TRIAL..

nt the forthcoming Criminal

M. POINGARB'S RETURN TO

OFFICE FORECAST,

Paris, Oct. 2-ExPremier Poin- was again discharged on a ples of Concession; of 31 pieces of jewellery.. Another big attraction at the card's early return to power us

The name of the wanted man is concert will be the full band of the Iremier of a now Cabinet as gon The case, was then taken to the given as Tseu Ah Tebing, 31 years 2nd Battalion, Argyll and Suther-here in their speculation, on the orally foretold by political circles At the preliminary hearing of Appeal Court when the Judges old, and a description of him is laad Highlandore, and besides a significance of yesterday's meeting the case at the District Court, Tai ordered a re-hearing on the ground given in the circular. He had number of special turns of a varied untween M. Poincaré, Promier po, it was alleged that the nocused that while the learned Magistrate worked as a house-coolic with a

character, there will be items by Tardieu and the Minister of War embracing their daughter-in-law was correct in trenting the plea at European family living in the vocalists:

on Guding the husband

Genera) | Maginot, at the latter's some of the Colony's leading

country estate, the contents of their attacked him with a bamboo pole the convenience of the Court, he French Concession, and speaks a The concert will be attended by conversations being kept secret. at the end of which was an iron was wrong in accepting it as a good little English as well as the Ningpo His Excellency, the Governor (who It is pointed out by quite a num spike. A further allegation was

and Shanghai dialects. ples. that after disabling the man he was

has just become Patron of the local bor of politicans that Premior Among the missing articles are an branch of the Navy League, which Tardeu's difficulties are growing strangled to death and then buried In the application for a re-her- Eterna gold wrist watch and is organising the concert). Lady daily and that he would probably with the assistance of secused's soning, Mr. Horaeo Lo, on behalf of two other pieces identifiable by Peel and party, H.E. "Major-Gen- be glad to surrender the helm of and three clansmen,

The murder charge was brought Mr. M. K. Lo, and Mr. F. X. ription, te le 2 gold chain cral Bandilanda, and Rear-Admiral the ship to the former Premier and with cross attached. On the back. A 5, obtainable at the Ander- of the Interior. Furthermore, it

Hill following the exhumation of the ( d'Almada, son, appeared for the of the cross are inscribed the words

to return himself to the Ministr tudy some days later. The others respective parties. After hearing Vera Margaret Lauderdale, from sob Music Cos are 8-and-81, with is stated that M, Poincare consi

with and en they were discharged to creumstances of the cafe, the garlanjang mas malvini zove crews prouers nudes treat or Dice

with a big diamond, the for Bervico men and their friends,mier essential for himself as a step inscription on the inside of locket this latter including trom, faro to, ping-stone for his candidature in boing

From Omar Jordan.” and from the theatre.

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