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EUROPEAN WARDER WOUNDING CHARGE,

STABBED.

ATTACKED BY PRISONER AT VICTORIA GAOL.

"CONDITION SERIOUS,

PRISONERS' STATEMENTS IN WITNESS-BOX.

"DEFENCE""ALLEGE PERJURY,

A atalhing affray as a result of Alogations that a witness in the case had given false evidence to which a European Warder was seriously injured occurred in get them into trouble were made by Victoria fioal at 11 a.in, yesterday. the three accused at the Criminal According to information avail-Sessions yesterday, on the second able, it would appear that a short day of the trial, when they made form prisoner was responsible for, statements from the witness-box.. the stabbing of Acting Principal They are charged with wounding Wardor H. Plumb in a hali in the three other. Shanghai mer in old block of Victoria Gaol. The Pitkem Street on August 7, prisoners were then being mustered and one of them is alleged to have doliberately walked up to Warder Plumb and stubbed him twice in the back with a sharp instrument believed to be an improvised dagger

made from a file.

The injured man lost no time in presenting himself for attention at the gool hospital, but a couple of hours later he is reported to have lost consciousness and was then romoved to the Government Civil

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, - 1930.

CORRESPONDENCE. | LATE MR. J. CARR.

VALLEY.

For obvious reasons, the identity LAID TO REST AT HAPPY of his correspondents 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 All letters intended for publication must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, un- ies to desired, but as evidence of good faith. Correspondents who do not give this information will_not

Many tributes of sympathy were extended to the bereaved relatives at the fupera of Mr. Jonathan see their letters in print.-ED.] Carr at the Protestant Cemetery,

THE STANDARD OF LIVING.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HOND ZONO DAILY PRESS."]

1.

the

Happy Valley, Justórday, when the Bo HY. Koop conducted the

service.

THE KIDNAPPING

· INCIDENT.

NO FURTHER NEWS OF MISSING JOURNALIST.

In connection with the kidnapping outrage on Eunday night in the out- akiris of Canton, the family of Mr. either from him or his captors. B. F. Wong has received no lettor

A village older, residing near the Mr. Carr, who was 4 years old,

scono of the outrage told a Press re- passed away at the French Hospital presentative that the Saichuen road, the previous day. He was an over-

where the kidnapping occurred, is .818,-II

seer of the Public Works Depart very deserted after sunset, and Hia Excellency Governor thinks the standard of inent and was connected with the

there are no police on duty there living in Hong Kong is too Craigengower Cricket Club as a

at night. He added that the poople; luxurious, he would be doing the lawn dowlor, taking part in the residing in that locality are law- The first accused Was

among public a really good turn it, from junior league since his return in abiding pensants, and he was of those wounded in the affray and his seat of Government, he definite the early part of this year.

albidi that the outrage must have taken to the Kowloon Hospital. 1tly denounced such extravagant

Chiof mourners at the funeral been committed by the outlaws was alleged that the second and customs as he has encountered dar were Mrs Carr and the deceased's living in the Tear Tau or Tong Kai third accused also participated in ing his short stay in Hong Kong, no sons and daughter, Among Villages. the fight but had escaped by the The public would then, in all prob- those present were the Hon, dr. Other villagers declared they time the Indian constable appeared ability, be ashamed to sustain auch H. T. Creasy, C.B.E., Messrs. Eheard no alarm raised by the cap W. Carpenter, E. Newhouse, H. tivo on Sunday evening, or they

would have gone to his assistance.

on, the scene.

Customs

It seems rather an anomaly that, Green, C, W. E. Bishop, Edwards, Giving evidence of the arrest of the two inen, Sergeant Fitches said while Government servants are J. J. Hirst, W. Pryde, G., W. R.. that on the afternoon of August 8 granted a high cost of living" Griggs, C. S. Coom, W. H. Ed. three men were seen near the Yau-allowance, the public should be told,monds, T. Bolt, Woodward, Twem- ati Police Station along with when asking for a little alleviation low, Stephens, H. H. Rosa, A. D. .. women. They said that they from taxation, that it is not the W. Mooney, and MacNider. That his condition was serious wanted to bail out the first necus-

cost but the standard of living that was indicated by the fact thated, who was then in hospital, so

is high.Yours, eto,

TAXPAYER. arrängemonts were made to take he took them inside the Station

HONG KONG, October 22. the man's depositions during yes and naked for their hatacs, terday afternoon.

Hospital.

At 10.30 p.m. it was ascertained that the patient wna, doing as well as could be expected, but that he was not yet out of danger.

BELGIAN SOCIALIST IN CANTON.

SERIES OF LECTURES

ARRANGED. *

his suspicions were aroused, and the

mon refused to give their names, he gave orders for the two men

BOOSTING THE NAVY,

Floral Tributes.

A family wreath was incribed "From his sorrowing wife and children, Jack, George, and Lil- Fan." Included

among other

wreaths sont were tokens from fr. and Mrs. C. Bond, Mr and Mrs.

to be stripped. He found [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG R. R. Wood, of, and Mrs. A. Hyde

abrasions on two of the mon (sc- vond and third accused) and they were then charged.

Mr. E. P. White, of the Heng Kong Hotel Garage, was called as a witness on behalf of tho first dectised. Witness gave details of service of Cheung Shuen Hing, one of the complainants, and Lok M. Emile Vandervelde, the Shan, the first accused. He said Belgian Socialist ex-Minister for both men were employed as pain Foreign Affairs and President of tera. Cheung left on August 1 and the Second Internationale, who is did not return. The first accused at present on a tour of the Far left on August & after asking for East, arrived in Canton from Hong Kong aboard the 8.4. Fatshan on Tuesday.

Before M. Vandervelde and his party arrived, the Canton Govern- ment dispatched Mr. Leung Taic Wai and Mr. Kao Sun Ting to Hong Kong to meet him.

M. Vandervelde, who was accom. panied by his wife, recoived a warm welcome at the wharf from repre-

DAILY PRESE."']

Sin, I suppose 95 per cent. of the great audience at the Lee Theatre last night know something

Lay, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Coom, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Shank, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Stone, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fox,

Carried Away on the River? One villager said he saw a man, bound with rops and with his head wrapped round with cloth, carried down to a boat from the Shs Puil village, but he could not say whe ther this man was Mr. Wong.

aro

Canton police authorities taking energetic action to trace the Mr. Wong, but so far no defnite! kidnappers and effect the release of

clue has been found which can be

followed.

from Canton, and the city polies Enichuén is only about four milos

are making every effort to comb the

district in search of information

about the British Navy before they Mr. and Mrs H. E. Strange, Mr.kely to be useful in tracing the

specimen

and Mrs. Ponsford, Eric And Phyllia Ponsford, Mr. and Miss Stephens, Mrs.

Wiltshire and daughter, 'Mra, MacNider and family.

Messra Harold T. Creasy, H. H.

kidnappers.

Five of the elders from the village of Saichuen are being de- tained by the Canton police for examination, although they all deny

saw the Navy League film. It is to be boped so, for anyone wholly ignorant of the Senior Service, and getting his first impressions of it from that picture, would form o very poor opinion of it.

The film was about the poorest Rose, F. H. W. Haynes, J. any knowledge of the incident.

of photography ever Wells, W. H. Wu, Alee Summers,ceived by. Mrs. Wong from her hus No communication has been re- shown on the screen in Hong Kong. A. G. Pilo, A.. O. W. Mooney, band's captors demanding any ran-] Surely there is somebody in the Ward, T. M. Pile, W. Allen, C. two hours' leave owing to the al-Navy capable of taking first-class leged illness of his wife, but he Tuesday were like the first efforts 8. Smith.

cinema pictures. Those shown on and E. D. Shank, F. E. Filmer, som, although some such letter was

anticipated. of a youngster with a pocket cine-

General Works. Office, P.W.D., camera,

I feel that our local branch of European Staff of Waterworks the Navy League should take this Office, Engineers of the Waterworks matter up with headquarters, and Maintenance Department, Water- if nothing better than what was shown last night is available, then works Inspectors, Engineers of the out out this feature (one cannot Waterworks Construction

Ofice, truthfully call it an attraction) from Land Baillifs, P.MD., Staff of futuro programmes.

never returned.

Alleged Conspiracy. Giving ovidence from the witness. box, the first accused said that on the evening of August 7 he was in Jordan Road on his way to borrow some money from a friend on ac count of his wife's illness when ho

dragged to Pilkem Street. alleged that the assault was made in order to pay off a grudge.

PRETTY WEDDING · AT CATHEDRAL.

LOCAL CLERGYMAN MARRIED.

There was a large gathering at

The pictures were poor in the Building Ordinance Office, EuroSt. John's Cathedral yesterday sentatives of the Government and was assaulted by six men and selection and the handling of sub-pon Members of the Drainage, when Miss Hazel Maude Somerville,

educational

organisations. They

motored to the New Asia Hotel where three rooms were reserved for

Ha

ject; they were poor in photo- Office, Chinese Members of the graphio quality; they were dis fointed, unreal, unconvincing, and

"to a great extent uninformative.

The Navy League had better get somebody from Hollywood to "como over and help us if this is the best they can do.-Yours, etc.,

ANDREW.

HONG KONG, October 22.

Drainage Office, Clerks of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Waterworks Office, Colleagues at

Somerville, of Wellington, New Aberdeen Dam.

Zealand, was married to the Rev. Laurenco Neville Watkins, of St. Poter's Church.

Stall of the Botanical and Fores try Department, Hong Kong Ex- cavation, Piledriving & Construc-

The bride, who was given away tion

by Professor L. Forster, was attired Co., Ltd., Craigengower Cricket Club, Civil Service Club, in a dress, the bodice and tight Officers' Mess, Victoria Gaol. sleeves, being of guipure lace, with a parchment, satin skirt, and gold and silver brocade abocs. She wore

the distinguished visitors Inter, The second accused denied that M. Vandervelde called upon the he was present at the affray. He aeting Chairman of the Kwangtung said that he worked in his employ- Provincial Government, Mr. Hauer's garage in Hong Kong on the Ching, when he and his party wore wight of August 7. The next day entertained at a ten party.

be heard from two women relatives M. Vandervelde will give a series that they had received information of lectures in Canton on the that his brother (first acoused) bad Socialist movement and Madame been assaulted and taken to hospit[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG REFUSED TO BE SEARCHED. veil of Brussels lace, and carried. Vandervelde will also address theal. He then called the two women," students of the Kwangtung Provin his employer and the third accused

cial Girls' Normal School.

"FAKE" HIGHWAY

ROBBERY.

FURTHER ARRESTS.

KOWLOON UNION CHURCH PULPIT.

DAILY PRESS."]

and visited the hospital, where he

Sin, With reference to the re- saw his brother in the prisonor's pert on a special meeting of mem

bers, subscribers and adherents of ward. From there they went to Kowloon Union Church, which you the Yaumati Police Station to bail published in your issue of Satur out his brother. He and the third day, the 18th iust. I shall be obliged if you will kindly publish accused were put under arrest fol- in your next issue a letter from the lowing, the prisoner alleged, a Rev. Frank Short, of which the en- false accusation made by the conclosed is a copy.-Yours, sta

In connection with the false re- plainants who woro brought in port of a highway robbery in later by the police. Acoused deni- Hillyer Street on July 31 last whened that he had any abrasions on his

bank mossenger was supposed to hand ave been robbed of 810,000, two further arrests have been made.

The third accused, in his state- ment, alleged that Wong Shuen

an

It will bo recalled that the mes- Cheong, the master of the Pilkem senger was sentenced to one year's Street shop and one of the com imprisonment for conspiracy to stenl

old grudge and for receiving money which had lainants, had

against him, and went on to relate been stolen,

Regarding the fresh arrests, Maun incident which occurred in 1928. Accused denied that he was in

D. GOW, Hon. Secretary, Union Church.

KOWLOON, October 22,

[ENCLOSURE]

INCIDENT AT MONGKOK

FERNY WHARF.

"You are not very great, and you are only a servant of the Crown." Such was the remark alleged to have been made by a Chinose woman when she refused to be searched by a woman searcher at { Mongkek Ferry Wharf. She was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

Defendant, who described herself as the wife of a Mr. Fisher, who, Dear Mr. Gow, I read with she said, was the son of the late great interest and care the report Chief Sanitary Inspector Fisher, in the South China Morning Port of the special meeting of the mers stated that she had some valuable hers and adherents of tho Kowloon paper in her basket. She told the Union Church, and I havo ascer-searcher to be careful because if tained that it is a satisfactory re- part of the niveling.

one of the papers was blown away In such discussions as I have had she would lose money. Committee I indicated that only if with you and other members of the

The searcher told his Worship

Sut Sang was charged before Mr. pitkem Street on the evening in -E.-W. Williams yesterday with con-

spiracy to steal and sigo with mis-qucation and corroborated the evid.there were a large measure of un- that when she searched the defend

enes of the other man regarding appropriation of 810,000 belonging to the Ng Chow Bank of 30, Bonham ho visit to the hospital and his Strand: The accond man, Ma Siu subsequent arrest at the station. Li, was alleged to have conspired with others to steal and also have received stolen property,

Both defendants pleaded guilty, whereupon Det.-Insp. Shannon ask- ed for a remand, stating that tho

An adjournment was made unbil 10.30 this morning, when, the third atcused will be cross-examined by the prosecution.

in the country and they could send ants.

a messenger for the amounts, which

The defendants wero accordingly

Continued at foot of next column), remanded till next Tuesday.

animity could I give any serious ant in course of her duty at Mong- consideration to an invitation to the kok Ferry Wharf, defendant became pastorate of Union Church.

very excited and made the above remark,

I feel that it would be better to inform you at once that, as there is very clearly a division on the question at issue, I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by taking any farther steps

in the matter.

But I would, like to assure you that during any interregnum I will gladly rondor auch - service asia

His Worship convicted and cau tioned the defondant, tolling her that she should not refuse to be searched when called upon to do so.

I pray that the Church, in its this letter to the congregation.

quest for a minister, may be guided Yours, etc.,

from on High. Be (Continued at foot of next column.).

FRANK SHORT. KOWLOON Toso, October 19.

a bouquet of pale pink gladioli.

The bridesmaid, Miss Patsy. Hynes, was dressed in shell pink] georgette, and the flower girls, the Misses Maureen and June Booker, were pale green georgette.

The duties of "bost man" were performed by W. Bailey Waishaw. assisted by the Rev. H. V. Koop, The Very Rev. Dean A. Swann,

officiated, and the hymns were "Lead us, heavenly Father,

lend us

"O Thou who gavest power

to love

Stainer.

"God be in my head, and in

my understanding Sevenfold Amen........

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of

eroztiont

Organ Music: Spring Song and Benediction Nupiafe.

Psalm 37.3-7.

The Wedding March. Mr. F. Mason, A.R.C.O., LT.C.L.; was the organist.

The Reception. After the ceremony, a reception was held in the Cathedral Hall, and Professor was largely attended. Forster, in tonating the health of the happy couple said that Mr. about a year and had been very Watkins had been in the Colony for popular with the clergy, Minn Somervilio came to this Colony from New Zealand about ten days ago and had already become very popular here.

Later Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, left |-

Manila, the honeymoon being apont in Baguio. The bride's going-away dress was a rose and blue frock with cont and hat to match

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