1931-06-13 — Page 7

MAN WHO RAN AMOK.

·HANDED OVER TO LOCAL POLICE.

RECENT "EMPRESS", TRAGEDY

RECALLED.

The Filipino, Graciano Bilas. who ran amok on the R.M.S. Empress of Canada recently and atabbed two Chinese members of the crew to death besides injuring 20 others, was handed oyer to the police authorities on the arrival of the ship in Hong Kong yesterday morning

According to fellow passengers, Bilns boarded the ship at Honolulu and at the time seemed perfectly normal but showed signs of being tinsettled during the voyage.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1931.

REFUSING A FARE. HONG KONG STOCK

ARMIES DRAW CLOSER.

PUBLIC CAR DRIVER FINED.

MATHESON CASE ENDS.

The case against a public car driver for refusing Mrs, Matheson of Huntingdon," Stubbs "Road, -as-a-faro, was concluded at Central Magistracy yesterday when the driver was fined 83.

M Horace, Lo, for the defonce called two other drivers both of whom alleged that, Mrs. Matheson had been underpaying them.

In his addrons on

half of the

definition of the defendant, Mr. Lo gave the legal torm, refusing

a fare without reasonable oxcuse." He said "a

the certain knowledge by the driver, born of past experience, that he wohld be underpaid.

On the point of a legal remedy the morning of the tragedy being always available to drivers "Bilns was in a cabin occupied by who considered they were under- 33 people. A Filipino and his wife paid, Mr. Lo said it did not affect were sleeping near the door of the the attitude taken rp by the de- cabin, but Bilas did not molest fendant in the present case, and, thom. It would appear that in any case, it was for the prosecu! Japanese, who was at the time writing a letter in the cabin, was the first victim, receiving a wound in the arm Bilas then made his way to the door of the cabin, stali bing, indiscriminately as he went along.

Stabbed at Random, On gaining the alleyway on the port side he continued along the passage in the direction of the for- ward part.. As he walked along he "stabbed at random at those he hap-

·pened to meet. · · He traversed more than 100 yards of alleyway, and finally came to the steerage airing

spree.

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Three" meu were making their way up the companion way from a lower deck, when Bilas arrived on the scene. He rande for the foremost of the trio, and succeeded

in inflicting a terrible wound. The other two men bolted. Bilas, on reaching the lower deck, stabbed several more people,

Maniac at Bay.

Ha once more ascended to "B" deek, by the way he had como, and elimbed down a steel ladder down a hole known as the tunnel escape, which leads to the engine room. It wins in this passage that the man

was finally trapped, being caught by the Master at Arms and the 'Chief Officer.

A member of the crew who took part in the capture said that when the man was cornered he was called upon, to throw down the knife, he replied "What for?" It was not until two shots had been fired that

he did so.

The two men who were killed were both Chinese members of the Crow-Chan Ching, Becond-class deck steward and Chan Yiu, the No. 1 joiner The steward was found in a dying condition in the passage, stabbed in the neck. Chan Yiu was stabbed through the heart.

FRENCH ART SHOW

IN JEOPARDY.

LIMITATION ON LOANS BY LOUVRE.

It is learned that unless the French Government alters its pre- sent decision in regard to the loan of pictures from the Louvre the projected exhibition of French art

not be held.

at Burlington House next year

The

tion to prove unreasonableness.: Drivers, he said, did not go into the motoring business for the plon- aure to be obtained from it. It represented for them a serious means of livelihood, and they must weigh the receipts in comparison with the wear and tear of their

vehicles.

No Complaint, Inspector Alexander, reverting to the failure.cf the defendant to complain to the polics if he con- sidered he had been underpaid by Mrs. Matheson, pointed out that 28 public cars wore allowed by

Government to park on the stand at Chater Road for the convenience of the public. It would be a sorry plight if a member of the public wore to approach one of these cars

tom.

privileged, and he refused cus-

Conversely to the ruling that a customer could charge a driver, for asking more than the legal fare, the driver on his side could always bring a summons or complain to the police of having been under paid. There had been one or two such complaints by drivers. It would seem tha e defendant in the present, ez. id made no at tempt to do

he

Magistra Comment. His Worship, in giving a deci- sion against the defendant, anid was not satisfied with the evi dence which defendant had given of his having bargained with Mrs, Matheson over the fare to be paid, which might have boon a reasonable 'excuse for not accepting hire. A reasonable excuse, his Worship de-

food, was when both parties failed

MARKET.

CROUCHER & CO.'S DAILY FORCES IN HUNAN ONLY

REPORT.

A good deal of activity together with improved rates in the specula.

tive counters were the chief fea- "tures of to-day's trading On the other hand sterling shares are not easy to place at quoted rates Banks and Unions were dealt in at $1,995 to 82,005 and $603, resper tively China Underwriters, after boing, quiet for a time, were sold at 85.00 and a small lot of China, Firès at 8075...

Steamboats suffered on Settle mont aucount and are offering at

Wharts continue in demand at 8107.50 and Providents at 86.80,

*Hotels showed outstanding strength and were booked in fairly largo quantities up to $17.30 cash and 817.90 August and at the close are in good demand..

Lands are quiet at $09.75.

Humphreys, after declining from 823 a week ago, are now with buyers at 821.

Realtya are atcady at $14.40. Ewos are much better with buyers at Tls. 3.70.

Among the Utilities, Trams and China Lights received most atter tion, business being done for cash and the Settlement at 821.60 and

$27.

Telephones continue on offer at

837.50.

Cements are firm at 821 cash and 21.25 July and Ropes are 822.25 cash.

Dairy Farms were again, firmat 231.25 with sales at 832 August.

Sales of Lane, Crawfords' were effected, ut 87.50.

Constructions at $8.00-show- slight advance.

MISSING AT SEA.

MR. G. W. SELLARS.

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A brief message was received yesterday by Messrs., MacKinnon MacKenzie, local agents for the P. & O. Steamship Co., Ltd., that Mr. G. W. Bellars, the accountant of the company, who left here on the s.s. Comorin on May 23, Inst, on bome leave, was missing when the vessel arrived at Adon.

It is therefore presumed that Mr. Bellore "fell overboard and was drowned..

20 MILES APART.

GEN, CHIANG TO MAKE HIS

BASE AT NARCHANG

Nanking, June 9According to private advices from Hunan pro- ince the first line of Government troops is now separated from the Cantonese forces by only 20 miles No clashes have taken pince yet, state the reports.

The first line of Government troops in composed of the forces of General Ho Chien, three divisions. Behind them are five divisions of Nanking trcops.

These forces are a little porth west of the town of Yichang on the Huaan-Kuangtung border.

A mandate issued. hero to-day

appoints General Feng Yi-pel com mander of the National Guards, which are to be expanded to two divisions. Part of the Nationu Guards will proceed to Hunan with General Chiang Kai-shek when he goes to take charge of operations in that province,

NEW WEIGHTS SYSTEM.

GOVERNMENT DETERMINED

TO ENFORCE IT."

SHANGHAI SELECTED

FIRST AREA,

The National Government, which promulgated in 1920 the new weights and measures system, has decided to enforce this law. with. out further delay, the Ministry of Finance having been instructed to issue an order to the Government revenue bureaux in the various provinces, such as the Maritime Customs, the Native Customs, the salt fereaus bureaux, the consoli dated tax bureaux, etc., for the adoption within one month of the

weight" and

measurement

now

standards.

Notes, according to Nanking: messages were also sent by the Waichinopu to the varicus treaty Powers last Saturday, suggesting a revision of the various foreign Powers' commersial treaties with

Starts on July 1.

China in so far as the present weights and measures systems used by Chinese Maritime Customs are Accompanied by Local General.

concerned. The Netes recommend Nanking, June 0-In his im-

that the now systems as provided pending trip to Kinngai, President

a. the law promulgated 'in 1920 be Chiang Kai-shek will be ateom substituted for those based Kuang panied by General Hsiung Shih-ping (weight) and Kuang Chih húi, Gendarmerie Commander for (measurement) which are now in the Shanghai-Woosung area, and

use among the Chinese Maritime! Mesars, Shao Lih-tzu and Chou Customs in accordance with China's. Fu hai, The Commander-in-Chief commercial treaties with the vari is expected to leave the capital ous foreign Powers. aftor the convention of the oth Plenary Session of the Central

While it will undoubtedly ro Executive and Supervisory Com

quiro' some time for the Govern- mittees scheduled for the 13th."

ment to enforce this law in the in- General Halung, being a native

terior provinces where standards of of Kiangai, is fully acquainted weights and measurements varyin with local conditions in that pro-almost every district, a joint or vince. It may be recalled that it der has been sued by the Commis was in response to a summons last sioners of Public Safety and Bocial November from President Chiang Affairs for the City Government who was then visiting Kiangsi, of Greater Shanghai, saying that, that General Hsiung was seriously by order of the Ministry of In- hurt in the aeroplano" disaster. at

dustry, the unification of standards Shanghai, Gonevel Hsiung has will be brought about in Greater just recovered from his injuries. Shanghai on and from July 1 and that, in order to attain this ob- ject, the local merchants are ad-

visdd to use the now standards at

It is definitely learned that Gen cral Ho Ying-chin, Minister of War, will soon leave Nanchang to proceed to the south-east of Kiang-ence so as to adapt themselves to si to take command of one sector the new change. of the bandit-suppressica opera. tions; and that the headquarters of General Chiang Kai-shek will be removed from Nanking to Nan- chang..

Military dispatches from Chang The news came as a shock to his sha indicate that the Kuangai re many friends in the Colony, wherebels gathered in the Changan

earn.

From now on, the order says, merchants will be forbidden to make or sell scales of old graduations and, from June 11 to the end of this month, officials of the two bureaux concorned will visit the 22 markets in the Chinese territory

Mr. Sellars has resided for many Liuchow region in northern Kuang- to see if this order is being obeyed

LOST AND FOUND.

KIDNAPPING CHARGE AT

'MAGISTRACY.

si, totalling about 20,000 men, have by the stall holders. Should any allied themselves with the bandits of the latter, be found to continue along the Hunan-Kisagai "border: using old and illegal weight stand- come to an agreement on the

The latter have received instruoards, they will be punished accord- tions to create disturbances so

ing to law. to engage the attention of the In order to warn the people mount to be paid. The absence of a complaint to the police was

Government forces while the rebels against the manufacture and use another point against the driver.

make for western Hunan through of the old standards in future, tho On the other hand, his Worship

Kuoichow. General Ho Chion, order quotes Article XIII of the was certain that the driver must and recovered as it was being taken Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Criminal Code which says that por-"

Government, has, however, provid-sons found to manufacture or sell ed adequately against any posse legal standards of weights and measurement ara liable to a year's. imprisonment or a fine of 8000; and those found to use illegal stand

have had ground for complaint

against Mrs. Matheson,

HEALTH IN EASTERN PORTS.

The following health bulletin of eastern ports, for the week ended June 6, states:

Plague,

Cases Deaths ........... 10 1

Baghdad Prom-Penh 1

will.

J

Calcutta

Chittagong Madras

French Government has formally sanctioned the plans of the Louvre Authorities to send pictures to London, but the permission is

limited to five or six examples.

It is certain that such a limitation of the extensive scheme contem. plated by the Louvre would wreck the whole project.

The National Gallery and the Wallace collection cannot lend works of art, and English private collections are not strong in French pictures. That being so, if the 'ranch Government refused to co- operate adequately, English committee, with the best will, in the world, remains helpless.

Cholera.

Pondicherry... Ilo-110: Pnom-Perh Saigon

Cases Deaths

9467

How a child was kidnapped from Lee Tung Street Causeway Bay, out of the Colony, was recounted at Central Magistracy yesterday when 2. woman and a man were charged with kidnapping.

attacks.

Tokyo, June D.-General Jiro Minami, Minister of War, review

ad the situation in China at toards are liable to two years' im- prisonment or a fine of $1,000 and those found in possession of illegat weight and measurement standards are liable to a fine of 9100 or less.

Based on Metric System..

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In outlining the case against the defendants; Sub-Inspector Roweskay said that the mother, on missing day's Cabinet Council and said the child, at once told her husband, that advices to the War Office in who on inquiries being made, learndicate that the position of the ed that a kidnapped child had been National Government in Nanking taken to Macao. He lost no time is not menaced by the subversive in taking passage to Macao in the movement in Canton. The rebel

As reported some time ago, the hope of tracing his child. In the groups in Canton appear to in meantime the child's unclo went to elude many, unharmonious elements, ac weight and measurement sys- which is the metric system, keep a lookout at the Kowloon the Minister said. He believed the tom,

position of General Chiang Kai-has been introducted by the Na Cunton Railway Station.

shel as head of the Chinose governtional Government with a view to The uncle saw the child being

ment in socurely

bringing about an unification of carried into the station on the back

China's weight and measuremont General Chang'e Plans, of a woman, whom he stopped and

standarde. While the law questioned. As a result the male Tokyo, June General Chang

governing the new standards defendant was traced. He was on Taung-chang, former military the train at the time and on his ecafer with representatives of citizens only, foreign arms governor of Shangtung, hopes to can be enforced on Chinese Cases Deaths person was found a train ticket to Marshal Chang Hauch-liang in

Canton. The woman also had a Dairen regarding a pust in the doing business with Chinese North China administration, ac will alec have to abide by the law. ticket to Canton on her person carding: to unconfirmed reports in Local merchants recently petition

A search of the pockets of the the vernacular pressed the Government for a three child showed two 'bus tickets and General Chang, accompanied by months extension of time to pres the bus conductor, who issued the large suite, sailed from Moji, on tickets was traced, and he would the Harbin Maru for 'Dairen yes paró: for the adoption of the new

terday morning. His secretary system in view of the fact that tlio, my that he remembered issuing the said he was going to visit his mo tickets to a man and a woman who ther It was recalled a report was

adoption of the new system will

alighted near the ferry."

current in Tokyo some months ago incur a complete revision" of the The case was adjourned after that the former Shantung war lard business records of many houses as might be made military governcz well as the re-graduation of 'the' ovidence support of the opening of one of the Manchurian border

scales. had been given.

regions.!

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