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H.M.S. POSEIDON TRAGEDY.

NO HOPE OF SAVING ENTOMBED SAILORS.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LIBERAL LABOUR

SPLIT.

DEADLOCK OVER LAND TAX SCHEME.

(THROVOK EKUILE'S AGENCY.)

LONDON, June 11.

Wer Hai Wei, June 112—The Liberal-Labour deadlock on It is now certain that the

eighteen, entombed, sailors in H.M. submarine Poseidon are not-alive,

CHOO, Juno 11."

the major issue of the Government's developed into a serious throat of land tax scheme has suddenly the dissolution of Parliament. The Government, it was reported yes terday, sent an ultimatum" to the Liberal leaders that the official "A" Press "reporter" returning

Liboral amendment, if persisted in, from Wal Hai Wel reports that would be treated as a question of the Naval authorities are aban-confidence. The amendment due doning af hope of saying any

to he moved on June 18 would prac tically wreck the scheme by limit- of the eighteen ratings who are

ing the land tax to undeveloped 'entombed."

land on the ground that otherwise the scheme would violate the tradi-

·HMS, Medway was in com- munication; with eight of the éntombed sailors until last night.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931.

REBELLION

BURMA.

TIVELVE PARTICIPANTS SENTENCED TO DEATH,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

THARRAWADDY, June 11.

MURDERERS CAPTURED.

OUTRAGE AT SALVATORIAN MISSION.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGKNUY.)

PEIPINO, June 11,

It is learned that the "Reds”: A special Tribunal passed tha death sentance on twelve men for who were recently captured at Kienning murdered Fathers Mel- participation in the rebellion lastor and Geser, two German December

It was then reported that 26 were sentenced to imprisonment for life; four acquitted and seven dis charged,

tional Liberal objections to double WIFE'S SIGNATURES Attaxation · AS developed land is

It is proposed to use com pressed air to raise H.M, sub- marine Poseidon, but, it la un- darstood that at least a week must alapse before this will be -- accomplishable.

...

"Daily Press Leads the Way, A fand has been opened by the Daily Press " for the de- pendents and relatives of the unfortunate sailors who lost their lives in the Poseidon disaster.

Anyone wishing to donate to this most deserving fund may send their

donations to the Hong Kong Daily,

Press, for which a receipt will be given and an acknowledgment, will in "due

columns.

Course appear in Our

SHANGHAI, June 11. The "Horth China Daily. News" has opened a fund för the benefit of the dependents and relatives of the Poseidon: victims.

Lying in 100. of Water.

WEIHAIWEI, June 11. It is difficult to obtain authentic information regarding the Poseidon survivors who are still aboard,

H.M.S Medway is standing by the wreck of the Poseidon, which is lying in a depth of about 100 ft., twenty miles from the harbour

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There is apparently no hops of saving the eighteen entombed

sailor,

W

Divers have been tapping the hull but lately there has been no response.

The funeral of the two dead men takes place at 2 p.m..

already subject to income-tax. The' offer, of the Liberal Chief Whip to modify the wording of the amend ment, provided the substance of it

ON

CHEQUES.

were retained, in no way eased the ACTION AGAINST A BANK. situation.

The Labourite paper, the Daily Herald, "seeks to extort a Liberal surrender; asserting that the Liberals, by causing the downfal} of the Government, would assume responsibility for the destruction of the land tax, the round-table con: forenes on disarmament, and elec- toral reform.

The Liberal paper, the New Chronicle, however, believes that Mr. Snowden is the principal stumbling block to an agreement and if the amendment is carried an election can be averted by the withdrawal of the and tax pro-

posals and the resignation of the

Chancellor.

INDIAN AIR MAIL PROGRESS.

FIRST PARCEL SERVICE LEAVES TO-DAY,

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

Rucny, June 10,

The first parcel air-mail from India to Britain will leave Karachi on the Imperial Airways Service to-morrow aud is due in London on June 16.

Although the Indian air-mail has been in operation for three years the service has hitherto been for passengers, letters and freight only, By the new service, parcels will occupy five days in transit as. against nineteen days by the fastest surface transport.

Catholic Priests belonging to the Salvatorian Mission at Kienning.

ABNORMAL NAVAL

SPEEDS.

BRITISH EXPERTS NOT

· IMPRESSED:

Speeds approaching fifty miles: an hour have been attained by the latest torpedo craft built for the French and Italian varies betwe which there has developed a keen competition for the naval "blue

riband.".

What was described by cunsel as a curious case was heard at the Manchester Assis by Mr. Com missioner H. due Parcq, K.D.,`in which Bortis Greenwood, dairyman, of Marion, "Blackpool, sought "a declaration on a banking acount against Martins Bank, Ltd. Mr. Cyril Atkinson, K.C., and Mr. Catterall Jolly represented the plaintiff, and Mr. T. Eastham, vessel which claimed to have estab Last month it was an Italian K.C., and Mr. Rice Jones the delished a world's record by tearing

fendants.

Mr. Atkinson explained that the plaintiff, a customer of the bank, claimed that the Intter was not entitled to debit him with certain choques which were forgeries. They were forgeries by his wife, whc. shot herself in, he thought, June

Records are made and broken slmost monthly, as new destroyera, with the dookyard paint still fresh "Pen their bulls, put to a for their steam trials.

MARTIAL LAW IN SHAMEEN.

OUTCOME OF CUSTOMS DISAGREEMENT.

(Wah Tee Tat Pro.).

Canton, June 11. Martial law was declared in Shamcen yesterday afternoon and additional police guards were placed at all strategic points. It is alleged to be the consequence of the Can- ton Government's throat to seizo

the Customs funds if the Customs Commissioner did not act in com pliance with their wishes regarding the disposal of the Customs funds

The Customs Commissioner left for Hong Kong on Tuesday night.

DENUNCIATION OF

CHIANG.

NO" BETTER THAN A COMMUNIST"

(From Our Own Correspondant.)

CANTON, June 11,

In a circula telegram to the various military organs throughout Chine,

National Government in Canton issued yesterday, the

again denounced Chiang Kai-Shek for the present deplorable condi.

tions in China.

The National Government "in"

Canton, the telegram wont on, stands for unification of China through reconstruction and the adoption of a federal power system. in way of government. It opposes Chiang Kai Shek's method of unify- ing the country by armed force and a strong centralised government.

· The, local authorities blamed, the. “Nanking despot" for the un- checked and widespread ravages of the Communists and brigands in Hunan, Hupeh and Kinngsi, declar TOtical purposes. Both Kwangtung ing that he instigated them for poli-

GERMAN DECREE

ISSUED.

EMERGENCY MEASURE

MEET CRISIS.

HEAVY REDUCTIONS IN

EXPENSES,

Berlin, June 4-As at Chequers officials of the British and German Governments

were

conducting

friendly conversations" 10-day a decree was signed and issued in Berlin by President von Hinden-

through the water at a velocity ex- ceeding 42 knots. Now this per formance has been bottered by the French flotilla leader Gerfaut, which attained 42.7 knots on a full-burg. Por run. She is no mero spoed diver," but a sizeable ship of

service, and mounting a heavy ar

mament.

1. Secret of British Speeds,

Nowadays the trial speade of British warships are not disclosed, and cur shipbuilders and engineors

The decree raises taxes in Ger-

many and reduces the expenditure

expected to produce 1,500,000 marks, which will leave a surplus of 660,000,000 marks after covering the defcit of 1,240,000,000 marks.

The deeree is intended to coin cide with the Chequers conversa

the present situation."

DARING ROBBERY

IN CANTON.

OFFICIAL'S MOTHER RELIEVED OF $5,000.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

CANTON, June 11. A most daring caso of larceny occurred in Canton during the small hours of yesterday morning, when two armed robbers, forced their way into the sleeping room of Mrs.

Ng Hon Chi, whose sons and daughters are prominent officials of the present Canton repime, and relieved hen of valuables estimated at over $5,000,

A ROYAL WELCOME.

"PRINCE AND · PRINCESS RETURN TO JAPÁN,

ÍTHROUGH. KEUTER'S AGENOT.)

TOKYO, June 11.

A truly royal welcome is being prepared for Prince and Princess Takamatsu, who are arriving at Maru this afternoon. Yokohama aboard the Chichibu

They will be escorted into the harbour by a naval dirigible, and a large number of aeroplanes, to gether with a squadron of des- troyers.

and Kwangsi have long been rid of this terrible messes, and Chiang could have done the same thing in. his territory if had wished to.

Chiang Rai Shek is, therefore, no better than a Communist. 4

The Prince and Princess, who The suppression of Communists have been away on their honey- and brigands must go hand in hand

moon since April 21 last year, will with the movement for the over-travel to Tokyo by special train. throw of Chiang Kai Shek, con- cludes the manifesto.

BARONET LOSES FORTUNES.

SIR CHARLES MARKHAM'S VANISHED £100,000;

How a young baronet lost two fortunes totalling £80,000 was told at a meeting of creditors of Sir Charles Markham, of Little Sussex Place, W., at London Hankruptcy Buildings last month, MA AN The meeting was adjourned to enable Sir Charles to formulate and

submit an offer to the creditors.

Parke, reported that bir Charles The Official Receiver, Mr. E. had stated that in 1016 he succeed- ed to the baronetey on the death of his father, who left estate valued

The German Government simulat £700,000.

Sir Charles share was allowed taneously issued a manifesto con to accumulate, and in 1990, on at veying Germany's first official pro-taining his majority, he received. nouncement that the Young Plan £20,000.. must be revised since Reparations no longer can be paid from foreigu loans.

of last year. The plaintiff and his.) 2,500 tons, built for ooran-going of the German Government, It is wife had a joint account with £250 at the defendants' bank, and che ques were signed by both. In September, 1928, plaintiff sold his dairy business for £450, and in the following November epened with £400 n new account in his own name. He had deposited a bond licity which their Continental ing the necessity of Reparations re- are therefore deprived of the pub-tions for the purpose of emphasiz for £1,000 as security for £100 borrivals enjoy. This is probably the ef and to emphasize Germany's rowed, and gave his wife a cheque main reason why of lato years own drastic measures to cope with for this amcant on this account to British yards have secured such a repay the bank the £100 advanced. meagre share of foreign naval One of the pleas of the defen work. Although Admiralty re

strictly forbid any dants was that the plaintiff had acgulations cepted his wife's signatures as forcing of the, machinery of now genuino. This the plaintiff said warships, it is know that several of our latest destroyers have steam was grossly, untrue. He had gone ed from three to four knots faster

Money on Marringe.

through chequos produced and than the rate for which they were

On his marriage in 1921 he be found they were forged, to the designed. In ordinary conditions

came entitled to stocks and shares of wind and weather they would

The decree also aims to relieve valued at about £60,000, all of which number, as was thought,, of 44. Her probably be as fast as any of the

was realized and the proceeds lost was Emmin Greenwood, and Continental craft whose trial runs the labour market through a reducin various ventures, and choques ware endorsed "Emily" have been so well advertised, tion in working hours and the In 1924 he received a further Greenwood, Nothing was drawa British naval opinion is inclined creation of a voluntary labour £30,000 under the trust fund, and that had also been realized and out of the bank after the plaintiff the abnormal speeds for which army. Secondly, it will facilitate lost. learned of the forgeries. The ex

Continental designers are striving, free competition in view of the all- About 75 per cent, of his interest raordinary laxity of the defca Even in war it is only on rare co-around price reduction. Thirdly, holder of the baronetcy was dant bank, counsel contended, wAS

casions that full-power aming it completes the Government efforts

invested in the con industry,

His income from that source was the cause of the whole trouble. It

becomes necessary, and when that' conied as if the forged signature happens an excess of one or two to protect agriculture. It provides £23,000 in 1924, but latterly aver had come to be accepted as that knots is unlikely to be of any great for a 44 hours week for all Govern- aged only 24,000 or £5,000,

He was divorced in 1927 and independent, of Randolph-gardens, geries was £410.- " Maida-vale, was acquitted on

A TEETOTALLER ACQUITTED.

MAN WHO WAS ILL,

NOT DRUNK,

The United States salvage ship Pigeon from Tsingtao in expected to arrive this afternoon to assist in the efforts to raise the sub- marine. The C.in, C. aboard H.M,S. Suffolk is expected on Saturday.'

VICTIMS LAID TO REST.

Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, the phy. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

sician, stated at Marylebone Police SHANGHAI, June 11. court that symptoms ausing from The funeral of Mr. A. J. Lovock very low blood pressure had been and Mr. Albert Winter, both vic-mistaken for drunkenness in the tims of the Poseidon disaster, took caso of a septuagenarian who had place to-day.

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te question the practical value of

MAPA Later. Enthusiastic cheers from im- menso crowds greeted the Royal pair on their ayriyal at 11.45 a. 12.

COST OF PIRACY GUARDS.

LEGAL ACTION IN LONDON.

The legal liability of shipowners Crown for ships trading in Chin to pay for guards provided by the ese waters was argued before Mr Justice Rowlatt the King's Bonch Division on May 13 in aa action brought by the China Navi- gation Co., Ltd., of Billited-square, .C., against the Attorney-General.

for the guards, and the defonce tion that it was not bound to pay

The company sought a dechra

was that there was a contractual, relation between the parties pro viding that the payments should be made.

Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., for the company, said the action related to the claim of the Crewn to com... pal shipowners to pay for the cost of protecting British chipping in the Chine sens against piracy. Early in 1930 the Crown dooided. that after March 31, 1930, guards would only be supplied for a limit ed period on ecndition that the shipowners paid for the full cost. His Lordship: You have had the

guards, and the question I have to decide is whether you have to pay for them after that dato

Sir Leslie That is the point, The hearing was concluded on May 19, when his Lc ruship. in giving judgment held that the ease was not on the same footing as the cases in which officers of the Crown had sought payment for the por

them. In applying the analogy to the Crown itself the claim failed; because the word duty in the two cases. was made to describe two totally different things. The duty of the officer was a duty in the ove of the Court. In the case of the

The survivors of the disaster, The accused, David Golden' (70), presented by the 44 obvious for additional fraction of speed in the Government to impose a 44 tipkeep of the three children of the

been a total abstainer for years, of the plaintiff. The amount re-value. Above a certain limit everyment workshops and it empowers agreed to pay £1,000 a year for the forinanco of functions confided to

numerous officers and men from British ships, the British Consul and party, Chinese Marines and a detachment from the Italian cruiser Caboto, attended the ceremony.

ANGLO-GERMAN PARLEYS.

DEBATE ON REPARATIONS

UNLIKELY

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

$7

In cross examination the plain- charge of being drunk and incap tiff said he never signed any che able in Dorset-street; Marylebone. que on the joint account after ho

'A constable said that he saw the Bocused lying on the footway. He assisted him to his feet, but ha staggered and was unable to walk properly. His breath smelt..of spirits,

Dr. Howard Wise, acting divi- sional surgeon, said, that he was called to examine the accused, whose condition was consistent with his being drunk. Witness now Know that defendant suffered from very low blood pressure, and many of his symptoms when wit neas examined his might have been accounted for by the stata of Bubby, June 10,

his health. Answering questions in Parlia The Magistrate (Mr. Hay ment regarding the Chequers, dis- Halkett) But he smelt of drink, cussions with the German Minis.I could not be certain, of that. ters, the Prime Minister said that as regarded the scope of the dis. cussion he could not add anything to the communiqué issued. As had always been intended, the discus sions took the form of a general exchange of views. He added that no conclusions were renched other

volves a wholly disproportionate increase in engine power and fuel hours week in private industries. consumption.

The manifesto declares that:.. "We have done our utmost to meet the obligations arising from the lost war: The limit of the privations we can, impose upon our

Our latest destroyers are engined for 35 knots, which is considered ample for all purposes, though i hecessary they could be driven much faster without unduly strain self is not a weapon, and the sacri- people has been reached. ing the machinery. But speed it fice of strength and durability, to

marriago. E N

Met Mr. Hooley.

In 1993 he was introduced to Mr. E. T. Hooley, who was trying to

dispose of a secret process for the prevention of cancer

say nothing of the enormncus cost,The assumptions on which the it transacted no business.

craft,

A company was formed for the purchase of vaccine. He had acted as a director of the company, but

latilities: at £5,000, of doubtful Sir Charles roughly setimated his realisable value and the equities in various properties.

Crown and the use of its forcas what was called the duty was not the same sort of thing at all. The Crown had not any obligation which came within the purview ch the Courts of Law. It was a dif- region, altogether. It was merely forens sort of thing in a different

a political duty. The case for the company was based on a complete: fallooy, The Crown had not been receiving money without the con soat of Parliament. It was not as if the Crown had raised a force on local pay and not authorised, it as all. The forces were simply used for reward and paid for by money provided by Parliament. The r

the Crown. The claim was accord ingly dismissed with costs,

had opened a private account of his own. Ho very rarely went be the bank himself. His wife took money to be paid in, and when any cheque was drawn his wife cashed it. When be found cut about the forgeries he knew his wife had been implicated For nine months after and until his wife's death which phenomenal velocity entails, Young Plan was created have been he did not go to the bank. She is considered by British naval had asked him not to expose her experts to be not worth while proved to be false, owing chiefly to Mr. Eastham called attention to Hence their detached interest in world developments. The Govern- the fact that most of the cheques the present speed competition, be

He attributed his insolvency to were for small amounts, and said tween French and Italian torpede ment is aware of the extremely loss on the sale of his pedigree when they were taken by the wife

menaced economic and financial cattle, to expenditure on estate it of a customer that would disarm

position of the nation. It is aware|provements, and to fiability under suspicion. He admitted the defen

that the situation imperatively.com guarantees given on behalf of other dants had paid the money without

people,: the authority of the customer, and that they were therefore prima ROUMANIAN ROYAL mands relief from the intolerable Mr. McClure (for the polica): facie liable. There was then the

question whether it could on estab

TANGLE,zoparations burdens, The world's

economic recovery also depends REDS THREATEN SHIPPING opt of the money was credited to He sucks some peculiar tableta,

Bir Bruce Bruce-Porter said that lished that the plaintiff. had he had been attending the defen "adopted" the signatures on these

upon the provision of just such re lief." dant at intervals for about 2 cheques. Having quoted a number

The crisis tax, provided for in years at the request of his own of cases, Mr. Eastham said in this doctors Recently the accused had case the plaintiff admitted he know

the manifesto and which will yield. become very much clder than his in October, 1929, about the for

400,000,000 marke, is the most im- years, and his blood pressure, norgeries, but did not want to cause. than those, not forth in the com-mally 180, had fallen L 100. He any bothor" Counsel submitted

portant feature of the new German that Tuan Teh Chang, an ally of Hankow, June 6-It is reported was liable to get giddy and so rail, there was here adoption of the

taxation programme But no re the notorious Communist leader Bo M Batasoy MacDonald also add. He had boon, advised that he should sigontures and that there was estop- ed that "the German Chancellor not go about alous, but as he had pal of the plaintiff. He could not

duction in the Army budget is Lung, is in possession of the Hung had invited him and the Foreign demonstrated in court he was not come forward and raise the point King Alexander of) Jugo-Slavin

tured the town of Tashi-tao, on Becretary to pay a return visit to an easy man to argue with Ho of the forged signatures whomion. And the Boutonninn Prime Minister, specifled The United Press learns ake district and that he has cap. Berlin The Government had had had gond out Alone, and what had his own admission he did not want M, Jorga, are jointly credited with that Army appropriations have not the river bank, where he is mount, great pleasure in accepting the happened was due to his health to raise trouble during his wife's effecting-friendly settlement of boo

They have simply ing guns to menace river shipping Bucharest, June 6-Troops and invitation, but no date had yet been and a perfectly legitimate mistake lifetime,

the unfortunate tagale in the been transferred to 1032 in order His army la estimated to number money are being asked for with 10,000 men, who are all well armed which to fight an army of locusts ou the part of the police as The Judge, who heard the case Ronconian Court, In reply to supplementary Mr. Edmond O'Connor (defend without a jury, decided in favour Regarding the future of ex-Queen that they may be used as a basis for and equipped

us that is invading lower Bessarabia question, Mr. MacDonald said he ing) anid that he made no sugges of the plaintiff, and gave judg Helen of Roumanis, who resides negotiation during the world disLiver steamers report that there The locusts are devastating all are, big troopa movements in the vegetation in their path towards. did not think a debate on the pre- ticn, whatever against the police ment for £410,

permanently abroad, she will be,

armament confere which has

Priper River ports that the the Danube delta and a serious. sont position in relation to repara officer. He thought that the con- On the application of MrEntitled to visit Roumania three

general direction.

to be situation must arise. If they cannot tions and inter Allied debta would" stable had behaved thoroughy rea- bam stay of execution for fourteen times a year to sea her son, Princo been convened by the League

Michas!

Mations at Genera for 1905

Towards Ching

be checked and exterminated;fnas usal.sonably and with great kindness... dBYE, WAS

be helpful

for

EX-QUEEN TO VISIT SON THRICE YEARLY:

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUY,]

VIENNA, June 10.

GUNS MOUNTED ON RANKS OF YANGTSZEL

ugh

TROOPS CALLED OUT AGAINST LOCUSTS.

BATTLE AGAINST PEST IN ROUMANIA.