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FIRE. DISASTER. INQUIRY.

STAMP FORGERS GUILTY

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931.

HONG KONG STOCK THE TEST MATCH.

MARKET

CORONER AND JURY VISIT JURY'S VERDICT AT THE CROUCHER & CO.'S DAILY

THE SCENE.

SHOP PROPRIETOR IN WITNESS-BOX.

The inquiry into the fire at 35, Staunton Street, on June 9, as a rosult of which, sixteen ives were lost, was continued at Central Ma. gistraty yesterday. Mr. W. Schofield eat as Coroner,

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SESSIONS.

SENTENCE OF FOUR YEARS'

HARD LABOUR.

REPORT.

On the eve of the largest settle ment we have had since 1025, the market ahews no signs of weakness or decline, and there are many buyers picking up any shares that may be offering.

The trial of two men on charges of possession and uttering of

A fair amount of the settlement forged revenue "stamps concluded at the Criminal Sessions yesterday has already been set off between after a hearing lasting three days, brokers and clients, and this will It was 0.30 p.m," whon" the jury; | make things easier to-morrow. after retiring for five minutos, found the prisoners guilty on all the counts on which they were in

dicted.

The first witness called was. Mr. E. I Dovey, Government Analyst, who gave evidence on the result of examination by him of cortain crackers found in the debris.

In passing sentence of four years Producing a big package," Dovey stated, that the crackers con- imprisonment, the Chief Justice tained explosive consisting of said that the forgery of revenue aliminium powder and potassium stamps was a very serious offence, chlorate. The latter was prohibits not only would it have the effect ed in the manufacture of fire of defrauding the Government out also involve members of the public crackers in Hong Kong.

In answer to a question by Mr. in a serious loss. Armstrong who is watching the interests of the joss-paper shop proprietor, Mr. Dovey said that such fireworks .38

were examined through spontaneous combustion, loon, ou May 10. The firat accused

To Luk and Fung Chau Pun were on two separate charges of possession and uttering of 240 forged revenue stamps of $10 face

Banks and Unions were naturally easier with the rise in exchange, business being done at 82,000 and

9600

Lands were picked up at 894 for cash and $85.50 July, with sales at the close at 90 August.

Hotsis were offering at $17.70 and Humphreys at 821.80.

SOME SURPRISES: THE NEW BROOMS GET TO WORK.

When Leveson-Gower, F. T. Mann and Jack White were replaced by Plum Warnor's. now. Selection Com mittes-Percy Perrin and the Lanca shire Secretary whose name escapes me-there was a general feeling that the change had been wisely made. Everyono realized that the older mon were drawing near the end of their Test Cricket careers, and now blood was expected. The list now pablished consists of four amatours, D. R. Jardine, K.. S. Duleepsinghi, R. W. V. Robins and LA R. Perbles, while Sutcliffe, Hammond, Larwood, Voco, Amco, Bakewell, and Arnold are the pro fessionals completing the side. It had long been rumoured that Jar dine would skipper the side and no Ewb Cottons eased to Tle, 14 great surprise was caused by his Utilities were in demand at quo- selection. He is an imperturbable tations, though a few Lights chang-bat with a beautiful style and did' ed hands at 826.25.

Gements at 821 August. Prowell on the last visit to Australia. vidents 85.00 continuo stendy. He is a year older than Wyatt, as

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he is 31 now. Wyatt, however, did not come off particularly well in South Africa and it is now recog

who cannot pull his full weight. Chapman's fielding will be much missed but one cannot help realiz ing that he is most unlikely to make runs. And, of course, this Test against New Zealand is being used as a dress rehearsal for the next Australian tour.

HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.

UNDERS 165UED BY THE 'HON, MR. E

C. FOLIE, CALC., INSPECTOR.

GENERAL OF POLICE].

General,

Revolver Practice: The regular, weekly revolver practice will take. place at the Bowen Road Revolver Range to-morrow at 5 p.m. It will be open to all members of the Flying Squad, Hong Long, and Kowloon Sections. All members of the Flying Squad who have not passed Part lll are requested to attend without fail.

Training Course Part II

The wrokly assos for Police Ro. Borvists at the Chinese Company's Headquarters 17, Queen's Road Central, will be held as usual to day at 6.30 p.m. All members of the Chinese Company and of the Flying Squad who have not passed Part II of Training Course should attend."

Flying Squad.

The mal instructional patrol of the inonth of the Hong Kong See- tion will take place. on Friday, and. all members should take part

Polica. Station at 5.15 p. sharp. Dress-Khaki uniform and cap with

by him wore not likely to take fire Falus at the Kum Toi Hotel, Kow- | SALARIES DISPUTE. Inised as madness to have a skipper in this patrol. Fall in at Central

but if the manufacture of the fill- inga was taking place in any house, there was a very considerable risk of fire,

In answer to another question by Mr. Armstrong, witness agreed that if the fireworks wont off as a result of spontaneous combustion, there would be a terrific explosion, Witness pointed out, however, that the probability of spontaneous combustion was very sight indeed, so slight that he would put it at about 1 chance in 10,000.

Chances of Spontaneous Combustice,

"Mr. Armstrong than produced a smaller packet of crackers, and, handing it to the witness, observed that evidence would be forthcoming to show that the size of the 34 caacs of firecrackers on the first Boor were all the same as the packet then produced in Court..

On examining one of the smaller crackers, Mr. Dovey, said that potessium chlorate was absent an that variety and the chances of spontaneous combustion was prae Lically mil.

The Coroner, accompanied by the jury, together with the head of the Fire Brigade and representative of the Police then proceeded to view the premises. The inquiry was resumed after a lapse of 45 minutes.

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Wong Chow Ki, the proprietor of the joss-paper shop, who had earlier given evidence, then con tinued his evidence. He told the Coroner that he had been in the fire-cracker business for 17 years

Witness went on to say that too total quantity of fire crackers in the 34 cases stored on the first floor was about 2,331 and that they were all stored under the stain. case. Asked whether he had taken any precaution, to guard against an outbreak in that part of the premises, witness said ho had the underside of the staircase lined with tin plate so that the pos- sibility of any lighted thing burn ing its way through the stairway was removed. The total value of the crackers stored in the 34 cases was about 2900. There were also $900 to 8300 worth of crackers stored in cupboards on the first floor. The crackere on this flock, explained witness, were moved in from the godown about a fortnight before and were not intended to be there permanently.

No Smoking Allowed. Asked about the crackers on the ground floor, witnem said that there were about $300 worth in the shop and a further $700 in the basement. None of the crackers were labelled with his shop's mark,

Smoking, said the witness," was not allowed on the premises and witness had given his fukis specific instructions to this effect, Cooking was done in the cook-house on the ground floor and on the first floor cookhouse,'

was also charged on a third count of uttering ten forged stamps on May 17.

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy conducted the Crown case, and Mr. Hin

Shing Lo (instructed by Messrs. Lyson and Hall) defended the so.. cond accused.

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A Successful Trap. The accused were arrested, as the rosult of a trap ect for them by the police in which the principal Chipese detective's nephew was used as an agent for the purchase of the stamps.

Statements made by the accused

Specio Bank, and that he was given the stamps to deliver to Ah Lum. Second accused's answer to the charge, was that he received the stamps from the first accused, who lived with him."

Making a statemene from the dock, the first accused implicated the second acouser and asserted that he was an innocent agent without guilty knowledge.

GUILDS COMPROMISE PROPOSALS.

INDO CHINA S.N. CO.'S FLOATING STAFF

Surprizes.

We all knew that Hobbs was gracefully retiring from his Test match career, and indeed that he

khaki covor.

Sharpshooters' Company; - Inspection of Rifles: All riflea not already turned in to the Police Armourer for inspection should be so turned in at once.

Riot Drill Riot Drill will be carried out on Kennedy Road to -morrow at 5.30 p.m. Members,, will fall in outside the Queen's is not playing as much county Pier at that time with boits, hola- cricket as in the past. But one

and truncheons.

·tors, revolvers had got so used to Maurice Tate,

Uniform optional. that, to me at any rate, it came as a big shock to find him out of the side, But his work has been

(Sgd.) D. L. KING,

D. 8. P. (R).

Very Now.

Arising out of the dispute betweon the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company and its European floating staff, the China Conat Guilds sub- mitted to the Company yesterday, certain compromise proposals which wero endorsed at a meeting of men bers of the Guild.on Saturday..

Interviewed by a Daily Press To resentative, Capt. T. T. Lavironson, in answer to the charges were pro-D.S.C., the branch Secretary of the Guilds, said he could not disclose duced at the close of the Crown the nature of the proposals. He case. First accused stated that he stated, however, that they were in done. Not only is he thirty-six stayed with the second accused,accordance with a resolution which Fang Chau Kun, at the Yokohan had been passed by the Guilds in years of age but he has been play Shanghai and which embodied the ing ericket almost continuously for

To us out here the names of Bake- views of every member of the Guilds the past six or seven-years, I be- employed on Indo-China Company eve. Well as he bowled in Auswell and Arnold will come as an steamers. The text of the resolution was received by mail from Shang-tralia he is not quite as successful enormons surprise. Both are very hai on the morning of the meeting

as he was, and his bowling is well-young cricketers. Bakewell, who and later an unanimous, endorse known there. He is one of the was born on 2nd November, 1909, ment was recorded.

greatest bowlers we have ever had only came into the Northampton

laurels as a Tost player. and can well afford to rest on his side hallway through 1998, but he I had has stoglily advanced and in 1939. rather expected to see Larwood got 1,455 runs (average 28), while in dropped, as he met with little 1830 his bag was 1,817 with au success against Australia in Eng- average of 34. He is at present a land. But his bowling does better little weak in defence. As he re- perhaps on Australian wickets and gularly opened the Northampton- he has some fins performances to shire innings with C. N. Woolley, his credit this season in County his inclusion may solve the ques cricket.

tion of who is to be Sutcliffe's now opening partner. "But curiously enough John Arnold (born 30th November, 1907)- also opened the Hampshire batting with George Brown. He came from Oxfordshire and only qualified for Hampshire after five matches had been played in 1980. He managed, however, in 39 innings to collect 1,166 runs for

maid by Wisden to bo" a really fine batsman with plenty of strokes and an excellent temperament for a batṣman. ph

In his address to the jury on behalf of the second accused, Mr. Lo submitted that the crime had not been brought home and that

there was no conclusive ovidenes of the stamps being forged, although twc expert witnesses were called by the Crown.

Police Methods Criticised. Dealing with the ovidence of the police agent who was used to trap The accused, counsel said that the evidence of this witness tallied with the statement of the first ac cused, indicating that one or both of them wore lying. He also at tocked the credibility of the evidence given by the second police

agant."

the police trap was un undignified Mr. Lo said in conclusion that attempt to decoy innocent guilty persons into a crime in or der to arrest them as offenders.

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In summing up his Lordship said that the trap, was a proper one, as that was the only way I which a criminal could be caught, and in this case there was no in- ducement on the part of the police for the men to commit crime.

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A Very Serious Crime, On a verdict of guilty being brought by the jury on all counts, his Lordship said that the charge of forgery was a very serious one. Whether it was forgery or uttoring thero was no excuse.

No Likelihood of Strike.

annual meeting of the Indo- It will be remembered that at the China Company the nature of the dispute was outlined by the Hon, Mr. J. J. Paterson, who stated that the Company had intimated that on and after April 1st, this year, salaries would be paid in full in Hong Kong dollars on the basis of 18 id, exchange the Guilds were

very much against the now scheme.

Amas at Last..

Objections to New, Basis. Capt Laurenson told our repre- sentative that he could not discuss Both in the Testa in England and the Guilds proposal in detail, merely mentioning that the Com- in South Africa Duckworth showed pany were being requested to recon- signs of becoming very in and out sider their decision. Regarding the in his form bebind the sticks, and likelihood of a strike, Capt. Lauren son said he hoped there would not it is not surprising to see Leslie be ona. "That is the last thing Ames selected as stumper. He is which the Guilds desire," he con-

a couple of years younger than cluded.

SIX NURSES GAIN CERTIFICATES.

The Side As a Side. Considering the team as an eleven (and not as a Trial teami) there appears to be plenty of youth with

The result of the meeting on Farrimond, who did so well in South Saturday has been cabled to the Africa after Duckworth crocked. an average of thirty-two. He i Head Office in Shanghai and the As he is only twenty-six, and a next stage in the dispute will now to the Guilds proposal depend on the Company's response really first class bat his selection is merited. But I am rather sur- prised to see, that Freeman in not included. His crop of wickets is huge every year, and if he does rather specialize in rabbits he got all ten Lancashire wickets the other day. But I assume that Authorities won't have him on Australian wick ets, where he is not so successful, and his age this year is forty-two, so his omission is, perhaps, easily explained,

PLEASING CEREMONY AT

THE G.C.H.

sound balance of experience. Hammond, Sutcliffe, Jardine and Larword are well proven players. Duleep is probably the best and, certainly the most dashing amateur bat to-day. For all his comparative youth Peebles who is twenty-three is well high a votoran in experience, The two newcomers are young and. enterprising batsmen and they can field or they would not be picked- we have at last learned that lesson. Amos strengthens the batting be- siden being very sound behind the sticks. I believe (but here I speak

could take on stumper if Ames was subject to correction) that Jardine hurt, b

***** Weak Bowling.

There was a pleasing ceremony on the grounds of the Government Civil Hospital on Saturday, after- neon' in conjungtion with the pre- Unexpected Arrivals, sentation of certificaten to six nurses who had completed four Duleepsinghi, Hammond and Sut His Lordship continued that the years of training at the Hospitalcliffe, of course, are obvious and Regarding the electric wiring on

tho The Principal Matron, Miss

Voce, the premises, witness anid that two accused were agents in

bowled aged twenty-two, that was installed by the previous distribution of the stamps accord Girling, was in charge of the ar- tonant, who happened to be the ing' to the evidenes, but if there rangements, which comprised tea, quite well enough in South Africa to justify a further trial. Peobles, landlord. Witness did not at any were no agents, the principals tennis and golf. timo alter the wiring or add to it. would not achieve their objectIt Mrs. D. J. Valentine presented too, comes under the same class,

The Coroner naked witness if he was, an intention not only to do the certificates to the six nurses

It appears that the weakness if could explain the presence of a fraud the Government but to in- who had finished the course and now that he has given up his Ox

ford Crusade But I confess I had any lies in the bowling. You have number of small bulbs and flexible volve members of the public in nin return was presented with a

basket of flowers by Mias P, Chun not expected to find Robins back a fast and fast medium in Larwood electric, wiros on the promises and serious loas.

in the team. Sentents of four years' imprison and Miss M Ng The certificatsbridge and Middlesex cricketer and two googlie bowlers in Peebler The young Cam and Voce: medium in Hammond: witness replied that those were used to illuminate paper houses mont with bard labour was passed were awarded to Miesos E. Cheumado a successful debut in the and Robins, It is hardly enough on on cach of the counts of possession, Poon, M. Ng, P. Cheung, in Test matches in England but he a plumb wicket and frankly I can made by the shop,

The jury asked whether witness and uttering of 40 forged stamps, and Li Pak

Among those present were Pref. rather faded away Inter and we not see Robins and Peebles both thought of telling his fokis, at the the sentences to run concurrently.. commencement of the outbreak, to In regard to the third count WI. Gerrard, Dr. and Mrs. D. have not heard much of him this in a side. It is true Peebles, can try and rush instairs to rescue against the first accused of utter. J Valentine, Dr. and Mrs. I year. In 1930 ho played 10 innings Bowl-and often does bowl-medium some of the immiston on the firsting ter forged lamps his Lord-Newton BrisT W-War Dra times not out, with an average to aatish with a bit of leg stuff. wickets for But it looks as if Hammond might floor Withean replied that he ship said he regarded it as part, and Mrs. Lee, Dr. T. 2. Bao, of 30, and looksar heard his fokis shouting upstairs of the other crime. A like sentence Dr P Pan, Dr. Cheung, Dr twenty two and a half runs spiece. have too much work thrown on him. He also shouted to his foki to go was passed to run concurrently Hsin, Dr. M. W Shu, Dr. N. E. As he is a brilliant field, both at. But this particular game is AL upstairs. The latter, did not go with the other sentence. Karanji, Miss E. Johnson and cover and in the deep the autho- Lord's and Larwood can be a perfect The Court was adjourned until sisters from the Peak Hospitali rities evidently think him worth lemon there if the wicket begins to 10 am, this morning when the and sister from Victoria and Kow further trial TONG Yaumati murder case will be hoard; loon Hospitalit

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the fire was raging fiercely on the first cor at the outset

The inquiry was adjourned.

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