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FROM NEWSBOY TO CANADIAN FARMERS

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR.

ROMANTIC CAREER OF MR. DAVID LU

GRIEVANCES.

CHEAP GRAIN AND DEAR

GOODS

Ottawa.-Western members of Parliament have beoncal. ling attention to the contrast between the prices of the

pair of workman's shoes. A far mor brought eleven dozen eggs to town, and sold them for a dallar. with this he paid for lunch for himself and his boy and a pair of shoelaces. The eggs would have provided a meal for sixty poople Mr. Spencer, another member of

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931

THE HAWKER

FURY

DIVES AT 240 MILES

AN HOUR.

"PLANE'S DAZZLING

PERFORMANCE..

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EDDIE GUERIN

SET FREE.

APPEAL COURT DECISION.

LORD HEWART'S CRITICISMS,

Mr. F. Levy, Guerin's counsel, guid that Guerih was in custody at was written and when the postal the time when the anonymous letter

order enclosed in it was issued.

NAVY WEEK PLANS.

INSTRUCTIVE ENTERTAIN MENT FOR VISITORS,

Preparations are proceeding apace for this year's Navy Week-August I to August 8 Sunday excluded— when the public will be invited to Ky

"see the Navy' at Portsmouth, Devonport, and Chatham.

Special railway and motor-conch trips are being run to Portsmouth, Chatham, and Devonport from all ing arrangements are being made: over the country, and special park.

The B.A.C. are distributing maps of routes through the three towns to the dockyards.

David Lu, formerly of Tenching, Poiping, and at one time a "news- boy in Kanine City, was recently

The Court of Criminal Appeal granted a Fellowship in Journalism

(the Lord Chief Justico (Lord at Missouri University. Behind this

Hewart) and Justices Swift and simple phrase lies what is perhaps grain which the farmon has to sell Mr. C. W. A. Scott, the hero of Edward (Eddie) Guerin against A splendid entertainment, at once

Charles allowed the appeal of the most romantic story recorded and the commodities which he has to record fights between Airtra his conviction at the Central interesting and instructive, is pro- concerninga Chinese subject to buy. Mr Coato (United Faria and England, was officially re- Criminal Court on a charge of mised to visitors. At Portsmouth David Lu, born at Youching, at n iners of Alberta) tells of the price coived at Brooklands Aerodrave on he had boon sentenced to three a boat and a submarine. A uttering forged cheques, for which an action will he staged between very carly aga emigrated to the of five bushels of wheat being paid June 8 by Lord Amulroo, the Air years pena! servitude

demonstration of life anying will be U.S.A. with his parents, a hard for half soling a pair of boy's shoes, Minister. Mr. Scott flew over in

Mr. F. Lovy appeared for Guerin given by the Coastguards, with working people of the poorer middle and of sixty bushels of Darley, his much-travelled Moth and ar-O'Connor and Company), and Sir are torpedoes, and divers will be (instructed by Mosare. Edmond rocket apparatus. Destroyers will class. Mr. Lu's mother, having bringing in just enough to pay for rived in the middle of a very ex- Percival Clarks for the Crown (in sont down to the bottom of a dock, had the advantage of receiving a

collent display of flying organised structed by Messrs Wontners). A wirelessly-controlled motor-bout certain amount of education at the

by the Brooklands Aviation Com The ease. was before the Court on will speed round one of the dock hands of missionaries prior to loaý«,

May 20, when Mr. Lovy, produced yard basins with ho one on board, ing Chinn, coupled with the thirst

Fany and the Brooklands Acto an anonymous letter, which, he and scale model of the Victory, Club. The Moth which has the anid, was a confession, thin some bo lece father, son put the family in

name Australia "painted in its signature on the cheque hear at the battle of Trafalgar. Ele

person other than Guering prate the | will; ndnmuvre as did her original position to open & amali restaurant. in New York. From there they re

side as well as a red inscription in ing was then adjourned to enable Battleships, aircraft carriers, ntoved to Kansas City and started

what may be Chinese charaders, the signature on the letter and the cruigere, destroyers and sub- a similar business. It was here

looked none the worse for its two siganture on the cheques to be marines will be on view

examined by a handwriting expert. that David and his brother, in order to help awell the coffers of the the UF.A., said that it would tremendous fights, and fr. Scott family, started selling newspapers take a sheep to pay for a hearty himself, though bronzed and blister. for a living. Having made a cer- men in the dining-car of one of ed, also looked a picture of health tain amount of money on his own the Canadian railway systems, A and hard condition. account, and coupled with a sum provided by his parents, Mr. La went to school where, he says, he had to start to learn to read and write his own language. A number of scholarships eventually landed him at Shanghai where he was able

Mixad farming does not afford to study a course in journalism, a subject in which he had taken more a remedy. Last year sheep in than an ordinary interest since his Western Canada sold at from 81 early days. Later showing promise to 83 a head. Cattle are down to in journalism he was asked to help in a scheme for founding a school six cents a pound, hogs to four in the same subject at Peiping. and five cents a pound. In the Agreeing, he came into contact with ease of hogs a further drop is ox many of the noted English and pected, because the abundance of American journalists of the day rough feed causes an increase in His spare time he devoted to free hog-raising. In February butter lance writing and possessing a style was selling as low as 15 cents a essentially his own his writings "pound, and eggs at from 8 to 15 soon became known and were cents a dozon. Mr. Speakman, sought by all the Chinese and another member of the U.F.A., ex American journals. By this time he plained how the Danish farmer had become known as a brilliant oculd andersoll the Canadian in writer and his appointment to the bacon. When hoge wore selling at University of Missouri probably 5 cents a pound in Canada, the came moro" as a surprise to him average price of bacon was 40 that it did to his many friends who conts per pound, In Denmark, at had always predicted a brilliant the same time, the farmer was re- future for him. Not that Mr. Luceiving T centa a pound for the did not think himself worthy of the hog, while the bacon was selling noon, I have never seen a more is a gang working together it donnordör was issued Sat Shaftesbury-

farmer who raised 25,000 bushels of wheat, oats, and rya found that after soling the suffered a not loss of $2,000.

post, in fact he had boasted years at 2 cents.

before that such a position would one day be his. But the appoint- ment did come before he exoceted

work.

Banks Criticised.

it. In his new position Mr. Lu Banks are crivicised not only for shews further promise, and as he an illiberal policy in making loans is still comparatively a young man but for exacting illegal rates of there are still higher levels to which interest. The maximum rate: fixed he right climb in his fascinating by the Bank Act is 7 per cont, but

Mr. Campbell, a Progressive men ber from Saskatchewan, says that the law is evaded by technicalities, and that 8 and 10 per cont are be ing charged on past due loans. Sir John Aird, head of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, defends tho high interest rate by referring to heavy losses in Western Canada. Mr. Campbell retorts that tho farmers who pay up ought not to ad by others. be penalised for the losses occasion

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WAITERS' CLAIM TO £110,000.

SWEEP TICKET DISPUTE,

Fourteen, waiters at the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, who claim an interest in the Calcutta Sweep ticket which drew Cameronian were parties in an application heard in the Chancery Division,

Mr. Leslie Mumford applied for leave to serve short notice of motion on defendants, who included Mr. Caspar Berther, also a waiter at the hotel

Plaintifs claimed that there was a system of pooling tips given by guests, and alleged that Mr. W. H. Marks, another defendant, gave a half of the ticket to Berther as a gratuity. They contended that the proceeds ought to go into the pool,

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"I believe," said 'Mr. Mumford, "that the prize won was something like £110,000."

He asked for an injunction re- straining defendants from parting with 24,280 received for a half share in the ticket, and also to restrain Berther from parting with any other sums he may receive in re "spect of his half share.

Mr. Justice, Bennett: You must serve defendants before mid-day to

morrow,

The Hawker Fury,

The submission was advanced for Guerin that he had been a victim of & miscarriage of justice.

Identification Facts.

Detective-Sergeant Wheeler told the Court that only two out of 15 people who received forged choques identified Guerin as the man who presented teal

not the only attraction of the after. cheques

The arrival of this grout pilot was

attractive and better organised evil fying display. A wonderful flight was made by Mr. P. E. G. Sayer in Hawker Fury with Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine. This is the now interceptor Eghter, and a Bight of No. 43 Fighter Squadron will show off its paces at the Hendon display

on the 27th.

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Guerin after, his arrest wars, that his conscience was clear. However, two people identified him but, al- though. Guerin had lost is part of two fingers of his left hand, neither of the witnesses noticed that fact. Guorin repeatedly stated, that he was innocent, and be made the significant expression: "You know I don't niix with the gang."

Lord Amiree, in welcoming him, remarked that Mr. Scott, like him self, hailed from Perthshire, and his achievements would give specialy great satisfaction in the North.. Scott made a short and modest, reply, but Captain Matthews, who has also flown to Australia, gave

Bir Percival Clarke, explaining it as his opinion that Mr. Scoit had his theory how the anginyamous letter dene something really super-human and postal order came into axis which could only be fully appre-tence, said it was significant that ciated by those who had tried to Gueria received a visitor while he do the same. It certainly is, sur was in Wandsworth Ginol. Im No doubt appellant has a bad prising that Mr. Scott should have mediately afterwards a person Ho is 71 years of age, and has rocord," continued Lord Howart, decided to fly home, for I have met counsel suggested that it been previously convicted eight a pilat who helped him in Caleatta Guerin's visitor bought a postal times. He was released: from sorv. on his outward journey and he order and signed upon it names ing his last sentence in September said that Mr. Scott was thoroughly that had been written on, the two last year, and since then, accord- tired of his flight and was hating cheques alleged to have been every minute of it. This makes the negotiated by Guerin.

ing to him, he has been employed record on the return flight all the

Lord Hewart: We have to assumeby bookmakers at dog races, more amazing.

Lord. Howart added that the that the man who bought the postal order had materials from Court had had the advantage of which he could copy on to it the hearing further evidence as to the names that had been used in the had been negotiated, and as to the number of stolen cheques which Bir Percival: Yes, and if there circumstances in which the postal avenue Post Office, at a time when great stratch of not require a imagination to think that might be Guerin was undoubtedly in cus

tody. what happened. O

"One thing is perfectly cleari we Mr. Justice, Swift: One of the difficulties in that ao mention was are dealing with a crime which was made of the gung at the Old Baileyst carefully thought out, and during the trial. Why did not that was probably the work of various come out! Everybody seems to minds and various hands," he foretaste at Brooklands to-day. Itioned it.

But we got a good have known it, but nobody men- said. No such case was presented to the jury, but in the state of Sayer started with burst of

the 'Sir Percival said it was not part

information before us we have speed low down across the aero of the case, against Guerin. All he the duty and responsibility of de- drome. I have never seen any was charged with was uttering two factory or not.

ciding whether the trial was satis- thing resembling it since I saw cheques that were forged Waghorn flash past the winning. post at Ryde in the Schneider two in the interests of justice that known to the police, was placed "It is clear that something loss. Mr. Justice Swift: Surely it is than the whole story, as it was years ago. Then the Fury showed should be known that 19 cheques before the jury. In our opinion its most remarkable powers of wera, stolen, 15 were eashed or Pre the jury ought to have known that climbing. It shot up in the air sented, and only two persons identi: 19 choques had been stolen, that 10 almost vertically for several thou-fed Guerin as a man who passed a saad feet until it became a mere cheque. Surely it is the duty of the of those cheques bad been cashed, But there is something more in tiny dot in the sky. This was re- proseuction to bring out all the and that it was only in regard to

two of them that any evidonosim the West than discontent with the peated several times, and then the facts. It might have been very use banks. The whole monetary ays pilot varied the proceedings by rollful to Guerin to be able to say: plicating the accid was eing tom is under fire. Mr. Ian Masing the machine as he climbed, and vor, had a good word to say for

redN afterwards he did loops at the top Kenzio, Libera! M.P. for Vancou

of his olimb when it appeared to the banks, pointing out that not onlookers that the engine could single bank in Canada had en hardly have power left to carry the dangered a ceat of depositars" machine over." money, while in the United States The climbs were followed by dives 8000,000,000 of depositors money in which, so the pilot told me, the had been jeopardised. Mr. Luens nir speed indicator read 240 m.p.b. (United Farmers of Alberta) do Finally he showed off the speed clared that we are living under a range of the machine by crawling debt-increasing system which has through the air at 60 m.p.h. After become top heavy and will break Sayer had Janded blood was found flown of its own weight. Debts are on the propeller and on a strut, ocntracted during periods of in- and it is supposed that an urfor fiation, and then only is credit tunate skylark had been unable to plentiful. A farmer obtains a cat out of the way of the hurtling long when wheat is 31:25 bushel, Fury Wooden propellers have and must repay it when wheat is been known to fly to nieces when only 35 cents a bushel. He likened they have hit a bird, but this the position of the farmer to that metal propeller seemed none the of Great Britain, whose huge war worse. The programme als in- debt had been contracted when all oluded an impressive display by an commodity prices were at the autogiro flown by Mr. Brie and, a ponk: and he predicted that nei demonstration of auto-towed alid ther Great Britain nor the farmer ing." would liquidate the debt if the present monetary system were maintained. Whether those views be accepted or not, they express a fooling that is prevalent through- be the cause, the situation in seri

INDIAN GOVERNMENT AIR cut the Canadian West. Whatever

POLICY

aus.

Tarifs No Remedy for the Farmer.

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN GERMANY.

Here, there were 15 choques cash ed and only two people can identify me, and that a month after tha cheques were presented. Surely there has been a mistake.

Lord Hewart said the problem was how to explain the names on the postal order, side by side with the evidence of the hand-writting axpart, on the hypothesis that Guerin was guilty

Bir Percival said one fact which might help the Court was there markable courage of Guerin-if-be were a guilty man-shown when, on the second day of the trial, he de- manded to be allowed to write down the names. Up to that time he declared that ho had never seen the cheques, and certainly not with sufficient leisure to examine them

Guerin Rebuked.

Unsatisfactory Trial.

"More than that, it is difficult to resist the reflection that, if the whole story had been before the jury, they might have doubted the identification of the appellant by the two witnesses

think, further, that this

trial was unsatisfactory because of the facts that were elicited as to Guerin's bad character. That dis closure of facts was made in the Brst instance by Guerin's own counsel and it might well be that Guerin cught not to be allowed to take advantage of that disclosure, There was no doubt that the dis closure gravely prejudiced the ap pellant in the byes of the jury.

We all think, without expres sing any opinion as to the gullt Guerin, springing to his foot, or innocence of this man, that if declared from the dock, I have the whole story had been before the not even seen those chiques yet, jury and appellant's charactor had Lord Hewart: It would be better not been divulged, the jury might that you should not make remarks not have convicted him extent through your counsel. In these circumstances we have Mr. Levy said that the two poople come to the conclusion that in the who identified Guerin declared that fair administration of the criminal the man who cashed the cheques had law the conviction cannot stand Berlin, June 22-That unemploy nothing wrong with his hand. and the appeal will be allowed." ment in Germany is decreasing. When Guerin held up his hand in

Guerin Warned," much slower than had been expect Court, added Mr. Levy, it was scon PREFERENCE FOR' INDIAN.

ed and is usual at the present sea that two fingers were missing. Turning to Guorin in the dock,

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Bon, was once more shown by the That was further proof that the Lord Hewart said: "Guerin, you The tarif policy of the Bennett the labour market during the first Guerin

official report on the development of man who cashed the cheques, was not have had a narrow escape. Let it London, June 24.-Replying to a Government bolds out in promise half of the present month, With The judges Guarin was about to leave the

and were onestion in the House of Commcns of relief, but rather tends to aggra- decrease of a mere $5,000, the total consultation in private for 40 Court when Mr. Levy announced Mr. F. Montague, Under-Secretary/vate the difficulties of the Western number of the unemployed in re minutes BANANA that he would like to make an ex- for Air, said he understood that farmor. It is true that the Govceipt of the dole still stood on June On their · Lordship's return to planation, adapuntang pina the Indian Government had placed rpment has taken power to re- 15 as high as 4,000,000,

Court, Lord Hewart related how Then Guerin had better be chstacles in the way of a fight tavan increases of which

arly in March last abire White here," said Lord Hewart, and over Indian territory of machines undue advantage in taken by

had a handbag stolen from an hotel Guerin returned other than Indian machines with charging higher prices. But this fan de

in London. In that bag was a book You can come down into the Indian pilotain of no value to the Western far The Government is faced with a containing 10 cheques According well of the Court, Lord Howart.

In regard to air transport kor.mar, for whom orament prices are question that bina boon distasted to the evidence, two days later told him/her godde vices he understood it would be far too high. Prices of manufac in England-whether in time of Guerin, in a tobacconist's shop. Mr. Levy said he felt he should. contrary to that Governments tured goods are likely to fall for depression it is better to save or selected a pipe, presented and say that he had received the s policy to subsidine any company reasons outside the tariff, because to spend. It has chosen the former signed a cheque for £s in the name test assistance from the police and other than an Indian company the cost of raw material is falling, alternative in an effort to reduce, of Frank Jackson, and was given the sclicitors acting for the pro- with Indian personnal. He added and because of lossened purchasing the deficit caused by falling revon the change. It was also alleged secution, and he was very grateful that the Secretary for Air was fu- nower. In this way, the Westernues and rising expenditure. Talk that Guerin attered another cheque to them for that help, whi

pulise to the importance of con- farmer may obtain some relief. But Lof drastic coonemies and of reduce

Gearing with small-brown tinuous, development of air routes, ho icoke with na favourable syo oz ing the Civil. Berylce alat has caus.

paper, parcel under his arm, was throughout the Empiro, and his tariff intended to maintain prices ed consternation in Ottawa, where

mat at the exit from the cells policy was directed towards that at their present level.

the Civil Service:is a large elament

Joft the Coprta in company With end

(Oontinued at foot of nert column,) in the population:

two or three friends,

for Com the unme of famed Morton, and that both choques were from the book that had belonged to Mrs. Whiteley Pa

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