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THE YAUMATI MURDER "TRIAL.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931.

In most murder case the Crown. A FISHERY SURVEY, VESSEL.

is able to say: A murder has

THE now fishery surveg Устие! been committed, the prisoner Challenger, which is being built at in a position to have done it, pólice investigations have

Chatham, is expected to be ready have revealed noth-to Commission for service towards Asking! ing that exonerates him (ur the charge would not be made), and there are certain facts that suggest the prisoner was guilty. Generally a motive can be addused,

News and Views *

Solemn Thought1.

· Put your Foot Down, by all

ware of pressing the Accelerator monna, if it is necessary, but be

instead of the Brake,

Mr. Maxton" for Buszla

Mr. James Maxton is going Rusin in July. It is part of his preparation for writing his life of Lonin, which is likely to be publish- od in the spring. As he put its "I want to see the pitch the man

the people with whom he was 6880- played on, and to meet some," "of

ciated." A study of the Five-Year Plan is not his intention for he says, he believes in the old, Scottish

the end of August. She is a fush Man of the House to dishevelled decked aloop of some 1,400 tons, mald's designed specially for exploration "Yes, air, but I am prettier, still

"You look pretty dirty

work. Her role will be a novel one when I am olean 4 in the Navy, since she is to be under the instructions of the In poison cases the defence frat Ministry of Agriculture and The Minister of Transport has Col. John Buchan, M.P., was the saying that "fools and bairns

Fisheries. She will be commanded been advised by the London and guest of honour at Leys School, should not see things half done..

Woman Golfer of 81,

aceka to show.

No Overhead Bridges for London,

True Aristocrat..

other that the ex- by an" officer of the Survey Service, Home Counties Trafo Advisory Cambridge; speech day. In an ad- |

perts have not proved that death was due to poisoning, or that the poison was self-administered. The foriner plea was successfully urged

bo manned by naval ratings, and fly the White Ensign. Therefore, the position will be that, whilst the Challenger is under Admiralty ad- ministration she will be practically lent" to the Ministry of Agricul- ture and Fisheries. In view of her designed purpose, this seems a very wide arrangement. The

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Committee that overhead bridges in dress to the boys, he said:-"It London streets would tend to ob has been often said that the glory Mrs. Abbey Collins, of Aldeburgh scure the vision of drivers and of the English public schools was (Suffolk), motored 100 miles to would be unsightly, and that their that they produced gentlemen. I Ealing, V, to take part in the Their use would also be irksome to is their duty to produes an aristo Ladies Golfing Association. She construction in not recommended. would go further, and say that it spring meeting of the Veteran in the famous Greenwood case.

pedestrians. He concurs in the when Sir EDWARD MARSHALL HALL

view of the Advisory Committee. cracy, for the whole hope of our won the president's trophy for the

nation and for democracy is to best return, and bent 85 competi secured an acquittal largely by

Death Duties in England,

make it also an aristocracy, Mytors with s not score of 60. Sho throwing doubts on the evidence Ministry is naturally in much bloser given by Mr, Snowden are rather who gives more to the world than of 35. Bogey is 73, so her hadicap The death duty figures recently definition of an aristoorat is a man wont round in 104, with a handicap, of the doctors and analysts called contact with the fishing industry surprising. The figures have risen he takes from it, and one who is by the Crown. It always handi- than the Admiralty can possibly be. 000 in 1921-22 to not far short of both of thought and of netion. One fins, who is 61, asked: "What de steadily from a little over £82,000, worthy to run risks in the world, was reduced to 31. And Mrs. Col- caps the prosecution if the defence It knows the views and the needs £93,000,000 in 1030-31; nad only of the wisest sayings of to-day" he the bright young people think of can raise oven

of the trawling 'community, parti- once in 1920-30-has there been any continued, "was that of Sir Josiah that shadow of

cularly, with reference to the open-set-back in the yield, and then a Stamp-You can only pay your doubt of there having been fouling up of new fishing grounds. ·

| very small one. There must, of debt to the past by putting the France's Trade Decreases.

course, be a limit beyond which the future in debt to yourself!". This ha play. In what was called the As far as can be gathered, the special taxation of great estates can saying contains all the law and the

Green Bicycle Case," some years work of the Challenger will be very not be pushed; but it would seem prophets," ago, a girl had been found dead similar not, of course, more limit pecially if it be true that the num on a county road, near her bicycle. There was always a possibility that a chance shot across the rond might have struck her, "and the man laat

not yet to have been reached, as-

bor of estates taxed has increased as well as the yield of the tax.

Olympic Games President.,

шарение

Hinda and Mohammedan,

That France's foreign trade renched during the first five months of the present year the lowest level of the past several years both in ed to the work of a former famous

To anyone who has seen even a official statistics recently published.

exports and imports, is shown by bearer of her name. She will carry

little of India,. there is something unreal in the idea that the Com- 1031 French imports totalled: 18,290 In the January-May period of out deep water soundings for the

munal question can be settled by million francs as against 22,670 purpose of making occan charts,

Mr. William May Garland, who a compact, between Hinds and millions in from which the trawlers will be is president of the United States Mohammedan leaders or that such period of 1930 while exporte de- the corresponding able to decide where they can fish Organising Committee for the 10th a statement should be a condition sreased from 18,250 millions in seen in her company, when put on and where the depths are too great Olympic Games, which are to be of the renewal of the Round Table January-May 1930 to 16,790 million held in Los Angeles next year, is Conference. There is no Hindu france in 1931, Imports were thus trial, was acquitted. Mr. F. C. for their gear. Scarcely less it on a visit to England, after tour authority which is capable of dis lower by 15 per cent, and exporte JENKIN some years ago defended portant, she will report upon the ing the Continent. He and his wife ciplining the hundreds of millions by as much as 20 per coat, while character of the sea bod. Whether and son came to meet Sir Harold of Hindus, and no Mohammedan the balance in favour of imports a man accused of the murder of she will carry any marine biologists succeeded Lord Rochdale as chair pesce being kept by its adherents. Franes.

and Lady Bowden. Sir Harold has authority which could insist on the rose from 3,420 to 5,570 million his wife, whose dead body, with a amongst her complement has yet man of the Council of the British. The thing flares up suddenly in rops round the neck was dug up to be disclosed, but it is more than Olympic Association and, of course, towns and villages from causes un- Waterloo Day.

will attend the Games, Mr. Gan discoverable and unpredictable, and in the accused's garden. The de likely that she will do so, sinee of land is silver-haired, has a fine depends on states of feeling or de- We are bad at celebrating our viously thero will be a most probearing and a courtly manner,grees of education, which vary in victories. Trafalgar Day, it in fence was that the woman hanged mising field for their labours in "We hope," he told me to at all parts of India. I believe it is true, is rendered noticeable to Lon- tract 4,000 athletes to Los Angeles, necessary for, the present to retain | doners by the suspension of some herself, and the husband cut her such a vessel. Nominally, she will and we would particularly like the the separate representation of greenery on the Nelson Column down, and, in a panic buried the be a survey ship, and no doubt she British contingent to be a strong Mohammedans; but even if this The victory of Waterloo, however, will contribute in great deal of ons. Invitations to send competi-l were conceded by the Hindus, it is marked by only two ceremonies. body. Mr. JENKIN by means of a useful information to the Hydro- tere have been extended to 00 could not be taken as a settlement There is the speech day at Welling nations. About a million pounds of the question! That is an initon College, when the head boy re enck of saud and a model gallows graphic Department of the Ad-in being spent on accommodation tegral part of the whole question ceives the prize of meritorious con demonstrated to, the Court that amiralty. She will naturally be an and general amenities for the gen- of securing peace and law and duct, and the parents thereafter eral public and for the competi- order in India, and it is for the consume strawberries while gazing independent command, since she tors Mr. Garland, who is in Round Table Conference to con- at the rhododendrons. And year ropa so cut would fray as the rope could not possibly be under the banking and real estate, was much sider what kind of authority or by year on June 18 the Duke of round the woman's neck had fray orders of any senior naval officer impressed with the brightness and system of Government is most likely Wellington motors to Windsor, and ed.

gaiety of London and the excellence to cad this strife or keep it within hands to his Sovereign a little Orown failed to prove and of the Ministry of Agriculture and variety of the restaurants of bounds.-Mr. J. A. Spender, the silken fag. This flag represents the The what had looked like an overwhelm. at one and the same time. Service the West End

Radical publicist.

rent he pays for Strathfieldaays, in the vessel should prove an in- ing ease against the prisoner.

teresting job, although, like all When more than one person apsurvey work, apt to become rather pears to be implicated the difficulty monotonous

CORRESPONDENCE.

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[All letters intended for publi. cation must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer, not for publication, unless so desired, but as evidence of good faith-ED.]

A MORATORIUM · FOR. CHINA!

of securing a conviction is increas ed. One of the first examples of finger-print evidence was when two men committed a burglary and murdered the occupant of

the house. The case was olinched when the Crown produced a lantern, found in the dead person's room, and having on it oily finger prints.

of both men,

Shortly after the war the same difficulty arose in the [TO THE EDITOR OF THE prosecution of two men, FIELD and GRAY, who had taken an unfortu nate girl, for a walk along the cliffs near Eastbourne and murder-hit tette, he approached with the request that the mora torium be applied to China "also. If China should be relieved from paying her debts for one year, silver value would no doubt recover itself. Yours, etc.,

July 13, 1931.

It is very seldom that a prisoner in convicted of a serious offenes on his re-trial after a disagreement of a jury, and there was no sur- prise when a remarkable murder trial ended. at the Criminal Bessions last Friday, with a verdict of “not guilty." The case was an unusual one, and gave great anxiety to all engaged on it; the evidence against the prisoner seem. ed, when the Crown case was open- ed, extraordinarily strong, and yet, when assailed by Mr. F. C.

ed her. In the final phase of the JENKIN's skilled advocney it was

case, before the Court of Appeal, impossible not to agree that there were very real doubts as to how each aceused the other, but, giving far the prisoner had been instru-evidence, the two prisoners clearly mental in a man's death. The case implicated each other. Apart from for the prosecution was that the evidence tendered in Court the prisoner and his father had at police had information to the effect. tacked and strangled a man. One

[that these two roughs, had been The night and dumped the body in the previously engaged upon similar street. The father absconded but work, and both were hanged, the son stayed at work and faced. the consequences. Three women, and a young boy, who was the prisoner's brother by adoption, said they actually witnessed the crime and heard tho struggle. Two of" the "women "went" so:"far" sa "ko: say they saw the prisoner throw a rope over the neck of the dead an. This would scem good enough, but Mr. JENKIN was able

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* Local Notes and Events *

Ono non-Chinese case of typhoid was reported during Saturday and Sunday.

Quarantine restrictions have. been imposed by Hong Kong against ar rivals from Swatow on account of cholera.:

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending June 27 amounted to 91,042 tons, and the sales during the period to 58,477 tona.

Convicted on a charge of having conducted a fan-tan game in factory of the Green Island Cement Company in Ma Tau Wei Road on Saturday afternoon," Chinese

nounced of Mr. Frank Xavier at the Kowloon. Magistracy yester youth, Leung Yau, was fined $50, The forthcoming wedding is an- or twelve strokes, by Mr. Hamilton, Garcia, No. 640 79th, Seattle, day. A second man was fined 83, Washington, U.S.A., to Miss Emily or in default seven days, for having Young, No. 41, Mosque Junction, taken part in the game. Hong Kong.

Silk Silature employees in Shang-Looking Back 25 Years. hai have been agitating for the reinstitution of the original wage

The coolics who return from the

At the Central Police Court yes terday, a Chinese was charged with stealing a bicycle, belonging to Mr., Roy Kirman of 82, Morrison HONG KONG Hill. The defendant was remand- ed for further enquiries to be made,

To-day being the occasion of the scale, to which they agreed to ae-Rand apparently do not regard Sin-la order to relieve the French National Holiday, the Concept a reduction last November, themselves ne slaves. Most of them silver stamp, I would like to sug-s-General for France will be At owing to depressed business con- find themselves with more money gest that the Powers, particularly Home at the Consular Residence, ditions. The Bureau of Social than ever they had before, and it 13, Peak Road, from 11.30 a.m. to Affairs, according to the Chinese leads them to indulge in all sorts 12.30 p.m.

Press, were to have mediated the of excesses and dissipation. A malter

number who have recently arrived to Shanghai after going ashore on

The as. Vili has been brought A minor collision occurred at have been giving the local police in Hongkong from South Mrica an uncharted rock at Kaimun, off Shanghai last week when the C.N. considerable trouble. These men, Wenchow, on June 27 and badly! s.8. Szechuan, bound for Hong Kong now living in ideness, are continu damaging her bottom. She has and Canton, and the Ning-Shao . ally getting into mischief. They been taken to dock where she is sin Ning Shao, jaward bound from rob each other, they quarrel with now undergoing repairs,""

Ningpo became involved at the bach other, and fights calling for. Garden Bend. Both steamers sus police interference are common. Sir William Hornell and Mr. N. tained very slight damage and the Nearly every day some of these coo Happy Olguse."

5. Brown returned to Shanghai Szechuen had to put back for re-lies are placed before the magis Miss Edna Best, the English no from Nanking last week after at pairs. She was able, nevertheless, trates, but heavy fines deep Labe tress and film star, who amazed the tending the meeting of the Board to leave for her destination.

no deterrent Hongkong Daily Hollywood to see her husband, said of the British portion of the Boxer United States by running away from of Trustees for the administration

Press, July 14, 1908, The Heilungkiang Provincial when she arrived in England. "All Indemnity Fund,

Government is negotiating with Looking Back 50 Years, that the newspapers published was

certain Cuban merchants for sale perfectly true. I was absolutely General William Crozier and loan of $30,000,000, which is to be: Matters in Achean appear, to be, fed up The Hollywood people did Mrs. Crozier, Colonel and Mrs. I used for the readjustment of the anything but a satisfattore condi- everything they could to try and Nowell and Mrs. W. J. Calhoun, provincial finances, says the Chinese tion. This provines of Sumetra make me happy, but it was no old residents of Peiping, are due Press. The proposed loan is to be has proved a costly possession to good. There is an unwritten clause to pay a return visit to China secured on the railway revenues the Dutch, owing to the intratable in film engagements which is known shortly. They are expected to ar of Heilungkiang Province. A con nature of the natives and their not run away told heavily in his as the happy clause. That means tive in Shanghai about the latter tract will be entered into between indisposition to submit to the rule, favour, and, what is unusual in that if an actor or actress is uns part of next month

the partica concerned as soon as of the Netherlands Indian Govern permission is received from the ment. Little, by little, however=" happy the Hollywood people will invitatea such eases, he seemed a man of do all all they possibly can to make A Jeho message to the Shanghal Manchurian Political Committee, inch by inch, it might simost be very pleasing personality. He them happy, and even allow them Chinese Press states that an am says the Chinese Press, un fort said the Dutch subjugated these could easily have given reasons why to do on I did, though it has munition, dump in that city explod. That foreign merchants and for-throm Malaya and mon their way

through the junglous nover been done before, I actually ed several days ago, resulting in. the women and his father's adopt left before we started shooting my the demolition of five buildings, eign firms in China sould be re- which proved a natural fortifien ed son should have given evidence film, because I knew that once that The damage is estimated in excess quired to comply with China's tion for the Achineso. The war against him, but ho preferred to was started I would not dare to of $100,000 but the message does Stamp Revenue Regulations with lasted for years, and the Dutch say nothing on the subject. It is leave. All the way back in the not say whether there were any out delay is the subject of a peti-operations were conducted with s train to New York, where my hus casualties. T betrag tion, forwarded to the Administre deliberation that to English soldi not all prisoners who show appre band was waiting for me, I locked into print tive Yuan by the Greater Shanghaiers would have been simply exas- Mr. E. 8. K. Ho Tang, member Chinese General Chamber of Coms,perating, but they "lost" comparn. clation of their Counsel's efforts on myself into my compartment and their behalf, but the final not in pulled the blinds down, Because I of the Shanghai Stock Exchange morce Hitherto, the petition says, tively few troops, in action, and Anton Iswould I and was of fling Robart and Lade, forelim merchants, in this country I wore dut the resistance of the native this long and careful investigation | be arrested Miss Best has come Ho Jung, left last week with his have not been ordered by the Gov. | chiefs, who, at length submitted one down exact nofos of the case, at i was the courteous. thanks of the to England to make a talking film family for singtao on the 6.8 ernment to attach revenue stamps after another's until the autho

prisoner and his wife to the Eng- with her husband Mr Herbert Saarbruecken. He will be away for to their bills and documents in spite of the Governor-General Wes

Marshall, of AA Milne's Michael short while but his family will re of the fact that pajent of this tax blished in nearly the whole and Mary, in which they appeared main in Teington throughout "thin the duty on the part of all mer (Sumatre-Hongkong Darly

diva | chants, whether native or foreign, July 14, 1881SET together on the stage, natur,

man...

man

to cast a very real doubt us to whether

was strangled, and showed reason for believing that a blow might have caused death. The marks on the dead man's neck did not show the im pression of rope-strands and the doctor who made the post-mortem examination had omitted to put

the time. Relying on his memory

le found himself making contra

dictory statements under- cross- examination.

In the caso heard bere last week the father, who had absconded, was clearly the prime mover in the erna, The question was whether the prisoner had merely dumped the body, or had really been in accomplice. The fact that he had

lish lawyer to whom they owed the man's life and liberty;