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CHINESE VIEWS ON CURRENCY.

MEETING TO BE HELD AT

EARLY DATE.

EVERYBODY WELCOME.

Some idea of the big task which the Currency Mission, han before it, can be gleaned from the conflict of opinion expressed at the Chinese Chamber of Commerec yesterday when that lidy held its usual monthly meeting.

The discussion isrome out of a misunderstanding regarding a eer- tain person who had been elected to represent the Chamber before the Mission. Actually, the Chamber, in answer to a request from the Government, furnished the name of that person as one who, it was thought, should be heard.

The question was asked as, to whether the person chosen would give his own views or the views of the Chamber before the Misaion. After it was pointed out that the gentleman would not in any way

H.K.C.C. TENNIS.

TOURNAMENT.

STILL NO PLAY.

On necount of the rain, which continued to fall yesterday, all matches had to be postponed. To-day'á programme is:-

Open Doubles.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1931.

BARONET'S EX-WIFE AND £2,000 A YEAR.

APPEAL AGAINST DIVORCE

ORDER FAILS.

"ARTIFICIAL WIDOWHOOD !! OF LADY. FITZHERBERT. Lady (Diana Isobel) Fitzllerberi appealed unsuccessfully before the M. K. Lo and M. W. Lay. Ho Mastor of the Rolls (Lord Han worth) and Lords Justices Law Ka Lay and Yaw Man Kit.

rence and. Slesser from an order of the President of the Divorce Division, by which an allowance of £4000 a your (payable by her

P. Kong and W. T. Leo #. H. La and Io Tak Cheuk,

Handicap Singlos "A." H. F. Foley (ser.) Holmes (owe 15).

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BRAVE WOMAN | CRUZ-SENTENCED IN

SCIENTIST.

NEARLY BLIND FOR HALF

HER LIFE..

WONDERFUL WORK IN DARKENED ROOM,

Oxford has lost one of its most brilliant

TERUATch workers-and also a wonderful woman-in the death of Dr. Florence Buchanan, daughter "of the late Sir George Buchanan, chief medical officer of the Locst Government Board, and

C. E. divorced husband, Sir Hugo Meya sister of Sir George Seaton nell FitzHerbert, Bb, of Tissington Buchanan, of the Ministry of Enll, Ashbourne) is to be reduced Health. to £2000 net on Sir Hugo's death and to £1000 if she re-marries at any time.

Handicap Doubles, Owen Hughen And More (owe 18) r. Low and Dowley (ree. 570),

Miskin and Binker (owe 1/8) f. Haworth and Turner (scr.).

Rodger and Rolgor (owe 1/0) ↑. Henderson and Hishop (owe 176).

Stock and Humphreys (ree. 3/0)

Nash and Hill (owe 270). Humphreys and Wild (owe 3/0) Buttress and Woodman (ree, 5/0).

Wood and Lennox. (reg. 13)7. be representing the Chamber,, some members asked whether it would | Reyserling and Jensen (scr.).

-nut be possible to forward to the Mission the views of the Chamber itself,

Mixed, Doubles.

1. W. Sewell and Mrs. A. Pierey

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Dr. Buchanan was responsible for important scientific work-and for about 30 years, nearly half her life, she was practically blind.

Room São Could Barely Sao, For many years Dr. Buchanan had worked in a room that sho

SHANGHAL

ONE YEAR'S HARD LABOUR

FOR FRAUD AFFAIR.

THEFT OF IRON PIPING.

At H. M. Supreme Court Judge Sir Peter Grain anutenced Henry Cmiz one year's imprisonment with hard labour, on a charge of

valued at Tis. the theft of galvanized iron pipe,

17,043.40, Messrs. Imperial Chemical Is dustries (China) Ltd., by repre- seating that he was authorized to

receive the nine on

from

behalf of

Mesars, Elm “& Ob; Ltd. The ense for the defence was presented yes. terday and, following the summing The Appeal Was Dismissed.

up by counsel, the jury retired for ten minutes, returning a verdict of It was contended by Mr. Alex ander Grant, K.C. (for Lady Fitz-

guilty and adding a rider that Horbert), that such, an order was

they suggested that the sentenco be, unprecedented in divorce practice. could barely see. Sheer dotermina-tempered with a certain amount of

Mr. Grant said the marriage was tion made her carry on research in Junuary, 1920, "the husband work of a stromous kind, and at the same time make a very careful older than his wife. record of her own case, She analys ing 20 years There was no manringe settlemented the sensations that came with

approaching and there were no children. -

blindnes, noting many strange facts and preparing diagrams to illustrate the symp toms.

The Inte Lord Hanworth said that at the Lime of their marriage

husband was 48.]

(owe 1/0) ; A.. D. Humphreys and Lady Fitzherbert, was 98 and her scientific career, towards the end

Against this muggestion were | Miss Thomas (owo 15). - Kyrral members who pointed out.

in any person, whether he was

♫ member of the Chainber or not,

was quite free to go iwford the Mission. The Chamber should therefore leave out the question of its views.

THOMPSON REGAINS

CHAMPIONSHIP.

"WORLD WELTERWEIGHT BOXING TITLE BOUT.

Views of the Chamber. The meeting thought, however,

Cleveland, Ohio, Apr. 14.-Young that the Chamber's views should go Jack Thompson, coloured Cali- fornia boxer, to-night regained the world when he scored a technical- kuorkout victory over Tenuny Free- man of Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the twelfth round of their schedul led fifteen rounds bout.

before the Mission. They then pro-welterweight championship of the eceded to discuss ways and means of obtaining the views of the Chamber.

A suggestion was made to the effect that opinions and views. should be collected, and after these

So badly baltered was Freeman and so hopeless were his efforts to stand up against the arvore beat had been sifted by a connnittee, toing Thompson, was inflicting that I appointed, they were to be for- the referee stopped the fight to save warded to the Mission..

the former champion from further punishment.

Against this suggestion, there was one, which, while favouring the calling in of views froni all sections of the Chinese community, was not in favour of the idea that such

The bont was staged under the auspices of the American Legion at the Cleveland Public Hall. It was in the same ring that Freeman won

the title from

September. It was also the first Thompson last

time that Freeman had sought to defend his crown since he annexed ic.

views should be sifted before being presented to the Curreny Mission

After much discussion, the meet.

At that time Freeman was award- ing decided, that the low of the eu a decision over Thompson last Chinese Chamber of Commerce autumn many sports writers ex- could best be obtained by calling pressed their belief that the fight had been. "fixed," that the hard public

tho Teeing, when

hitting negro had been robbed " stabilisationists and anti-stabilisa-of a victory which rightly should tionists could thrash the matter have been his. out. If neCOBERTY the Chamber euld forward the verdict of the meeting and coup's with it a min arity report.

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Thompson the Aggressor. Throughout the fight to-night Thompson was the aggressor, He had entered the ring & favourite to win and he amply justified the con- Ifidence of his backers.

1 was decided that the meeting should be called at a very early Thompson first became the world's date in, view of the likelihood of welterweight chanrpion on May 9, an early departure of the Currency 1930, when he whipped Jackie Fields Mission from the Colony, Adver in a 15 rounds battle at Detroit, tisements will be inserted in the Chinese newspapers calling for those who have any suggestions to make to attend the meeting:

People's Contarence,

It was announced in the Chamber yesterday that a letter - had "bern received from the Macao Chinese Chamber of Commerce pointing out that neither the Macao nor the Hong Kong Chinese have been invited to attend the National People's Conference to be held in Nanking on May 6. The Mação body suggested that attention should be drawn to this ommission. The Chamber decided that they would not assent to such a sugges tion na there was a possibility thab the Tailure to invite Chinese in

·Hong Kong and Macao might not have been an oversight.

It was, moreover, Bikely that such a matter was outside the province of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Selection of Committee.

Regarding the question of selec,

Chairman announced that, in re sponse to a letter 'received, signed by seventeen ex-committee members, a meeting to discuss the propriety of the recent election would be held ou Wednesday afternoon.

Late in 1920 Fields had won the title from Jos Dundee on a foul. Thompson held the championship

but four months before be lost it to Freeman but to-night he won it

pugilist very badly battered. inck again and left the Arkansas

Despite his poor showing. Free- man received 30 per cent of the re- cripts for to-night's bout. Only ten per cent. went to the now chani- prion.

MYSTERIOUS BODY IN

A TRUNK

GHASTLY DISCOVERY OF

MUTILATED CORPSE.

Asahigawa, Japan, April 15. Police here today were confronted by a gruesome mystery in the form of a brutal "trunk_murder.". A

Their married life was unhappy, as Sir Hugo was addicted to drink and was guilty of gross cruelty. In November, 1925, counsel said," he struck his wife with a riding whip and in 1927 she filed a petition for judicial separation."

The Mastor of the Rolls- don't understand how these facts are

germane.

Mr. Gran contanded that they were relevant because the conduct of the parties was a matter to be taken into account in fixing the alimony. It had been admitted that Lady FilzHerbert was likely to have to meet medical expenses in consequenes.

It was right at the outset of hor

af the 19th century, when she was studying under Ray Lankester at University College, London, that sho Brat showed how she could rise superior to her falling sight. Bit- ting for her degree as doctor of her sight becoming so serious that science she found the condition of she had to stay in bed for three months. In that period she diotat- ed a long paper dealing with the electrical responses of the muscle in various stages of contraction. Largely because of this she gained her degree.

With the dread of blindness al- ways before her, Dr. Buchanan steadily pursued her scientific work. She went to Oxford in 1836 physiology, very highly specialized and applied herself to electro- work. The results she obtained 'nt- tracted wide attention.

Refused to Give In, "Even in those early days," a friend told me, "she refused to give in, and to the end she main- tained this attitude.

Husband's Denial. Mr. Bayford, K.C. (for, Sir Hugo). I have said from the be- ginning that her state of health her as her research work. It was "Nothing mattered so much to would have, to be taken into con- highly technical work, mostly de- sideration in nasessing the amount, voted to the study of minute hap- penings in the organiams of ani- band has denied that he is in any electromonter 'sho, registered the but, from first to last, the hus-mals. By the oscillation of an lectrical stimuli of the muscles, or depicted the beats of the heart of the goldfish.

way responsible for her state of health. Never from the first has there been the least admission that the husband has been guilty of cruelty or drunkenness.

The Master of the Rolls said that the Court of Appeal did not inter fere with the discretion of the Pro- which he had taken into considera- sident, particularly in matters

tion.

matters had not been taken into Mr. Grant submitted that them

consideration by the president,

Lord Justice Lawrence.Are you suggesting that the President did not exercise his discretion, or that he exercised it in the wrong way? Mr. Grant-I say both. Thors is practically no precedent for the reduction of what has been, descríb. ed as a jointure in the event of and, in this case, Mr. Bayford the wife surviving the husband,

nover asked for it.

Counsel submitted that that part of the order could not possibly stand.

£3,000 to the Mother.

Lord Justice Lawrence.-Was the husband tenant for life, of his

estates 1.

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Mr. Grant. With regard to small portion of the property he is tenant for life, but with regard to the major portion he is absoluto owner-subject-to-an annuity of about £3000 to his mother, who is 70 years of age. In 1927, when Sir. Hugo was examined for purposes of life insurance, his life was found

to be uninsurablo.

Lord Hanworth-The danger of the wife's allowance becoming au tomatically reduced is not negligi

ble.

"Her room was always practical ly in darkness. She could not stand sunlight or artificial Hght. Yob'sha always noted as if in possession of all her faculties.

"Not a single article in her room was ever altered. If the smallest thing were moved it had to be ro.. placed in exactly the same position. In this way, by feel, she was able

to do hor work.

"A fow years ago, when she had passed the age of 60, she acquired a bicycle, and used to ride it re gularly without accident, even on the Banbury High Road. How she could do it was a mystery.

"Mostly, however, whe confined her rides to the vicinity of the knew the road perfectly. She told physiological Inborntory where ahe

me that she had taken to cycling deliberately because she felt it was so great a stimulus in her fight again the helplessness that blindness might otherwise bring. But always she chose the grey days; she could

stand any streng light. "Her inability to write in the later years of her life was over- come with the Barns heroic spirit. he bought a typewriter and used it by touch.

tive of Dr. Buchanan's scientific "But nothing was more indica

work than the systematic study she gave to the blindness that had over taken her. It arose from a detach ed retino, and she was particularly impressed by the brillant colours that she could soo. They were much are intense than any seen by per- Bons with normal, vision. They would even, she said, keep her

Mr. Grant.-It is one wo regard ing on the case. as so great that we have been hurry-awake at night." eentral Lord Hanworth said that here

Nagoya, large city box, shipped to Asabigawa from

in

The box was received here on January 11. It was accompanied

tion of committee members, the pan, has been found to contain they had the case of a woman who the badly mutilated body of a brought no fortune with her, who woman.

had no income or means of hor during the time she was married own. There was little doubt that by instructions-to-bo-hold-until her position in life was improved called for. The decomposition of from what it had been. the contents of the box made it nevemary to open it yesterday, re-

CAPTIVE BANDITS SHOT.

REPORTED EXÉCUTION OF 300.

Gulting in the discovery of the nur

der,

The murdered woman is believed

to have been about 35 cars of age, Police have despatched telegrams to all parts of the Empire, asking | police in other cities to aid in iden- titying the victim of the trunk murder:"-

Peiping, April 13-General Hun Chu is pursuing his campaign against bandita in South Shantung * and it in cinimed that in a recent Evidenen obtained by the police clash 200 bandits were killed and indientes-that-one-Hatsu-Taubio further 300 taken prisoners. It is shipped the box and its gruesome alleged in some papers that these contents to Asahigawa from 300 were afterwards takes" out"and Nagoya. As yet no trace of the shot,"

murderer has been found.

"Now her position would be that, oven when her husband had passed. away, she would have an income

of £2000 a year," he said.

Was the court able to say the President had gone wrong-in ap- plying the principles that ought to guide him? He thought not.

Marriage with a man of--very large moans did not necessarily connote", that whàn a wife had so. parated from her husband she ought to expect to reign in allu once as if she were still chatalmine of a ing house."

He thought adequate provision had been made:

lenience on account of defondant's

stupidity.

Henry Cruz in evidence stated that Kohler, who was hentenced at the District Court on March 11 after admitting complicity in tho alleged fraud, had never dent him any money, and said there was no conspiracy. He stated that he had. worked for nine years with the Chartered Bank and for some time with Algar & Co. and had good references from both. He had been

salary of $75 a month and their in the employ of Keller at a

relations were that of master and servant. He admitted that he had signed chits for a lorry under the alias of Smith, and said that he had twice been to the offices of 1.C.I. on the instructions of Kohler. Cross-examined by the: Crown Advocate, Mr. A. G.. Mos Bop, defendant, said that he was honest throughout, but that he had heon hoodwinked by Kohler. He Kohler's, and represented the re- thought that tho piping Was mainder from jobs carried out and that it was available for sale. He denied using the name of Smith to cover his traces,

Question of Stupidity. After the summing up, the jury retired for ten minutes and gave their verdict. Asked if he had anything to say to the verdict, Cruz replied in the negative,

which

did the Crown Advocate. Mr.

tuilty, as the stupidity to Wing, Counsel for defendant, sug- gested that the finding of the jury really amounted to a verdict of Not they referred formed the whole of his case. He also pointed out that the jury had not had the exhibita before them when they retired. (Here the Judge pointed out that they could have had them if they wanted them.) Mr. Wing added that the records of defendant's ser vice and employers were before his lordship,

fondant, stated that the case was Sir Peter Grain, addressing de

one of a very serious fraud, over a long period. He did not agree with the jury in considering that ho had taken a landing part in the fraud Ho had found a receiver, and taken goods to a receiver and sold them

Kohler had told his story in court, continuing, Sir Peter said that he did not think he was en- tirely justified in speaking to the jury as he was going to, but said that he had no roneon to disbelieve Kohler's story. Kohler was convict ed in another court, and' whatever he said in H.M. court would not help him. He believed Kohler, Sir Petor said he was entitled to con- sider that Crur took a leading part in the affair and would treat him the same as Kohler had been treat- ed, He therefore sentenced Cruz

hard labour. to one. year's imprisonment with

Addrasing the jury and saying that he was sorry ho could not agres with their rider on stupidity. Sir Peter thanked them for their services and exempted, them from jury duty for one year. The jury was comprised of: Meesra A. J. Hickmott, S. O Thorley, T. Ren nie, A. V. White and C, 8. Holds- worth:

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