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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1932,

ACID THROWING CHARGE.

BURNT WITH JOSS STICKS.

MURDER BY HOIHOW

ARMED ROBBERS

REDS.

"ACTIVE.

STALL FOKI'S STRANGE:

EXPERIENCE.

MOTIVE OBSCURE.

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BRUTAL TREATMENT OF YOUNG GIRL.

Four months hard labour with- out the option of a fine was the sentence imposed upon a middle After having been in hospital foraged woman of a village in the two months, a Chinese who was the Sheung Shui district for serverely victim of an acid throwing incident,urning the Back of a nine-year-old

girl with joss-sticks. -recovered, sufficiently to appear at complainant in a case yesterday in which his alleged assailant WHM charged with causing him greivous bodily harm,

The ensowas trick by Mr. T Magárry, District Officer (North), On Wednesday.

It appears that 11] Assistant Superintendant of Police, Mr. Detactive Inspector Androys PruH C. Calthrop, when travelling serated and su, cuidining the case the New Territories three weeks against the "defendant, explained

ngo, came across the woman chas that the complainant was a' stall

ing the girl ovidently with the in- foki who steps at a still at the tention of punishing her: On the juetion of Hollywood" Rond and

A.S.F.'s instructions the pair were Sing Wong Strest

takan ta Sheung Shui Police Sta tion by an Indian Polics sergeant, where they were released after being questioned. |

On the night in question, the man retired-about--13 o'clock, there being another man in the bed be occupied. He had covered himself entirely with a corton quid and fell asloop, but was wakened some time" lator by somente pulling up his "quilt and he then saw defondant

standing near his bed with one- thing in his find.

There was д

street light of 1,500 candle power near the place where the explain ant slept. The, acxt thing the com- plainant knew was that something way thrown at his face and he call ed out for help. It was significant, Inspector Andrews pointed out, that the complainant gave the nanic of defendant when his, futher, ar- rived or the scene,

The Evidence"

Three Weeks in Hospital. On arrival home the "giri was abused by the woman for being the cause of a long walk to the Folice Station, and was stripped and burned on the back with jose-sticks. The girl was in a serious condition when found by the police, and was

detained in the Kwong Wah Hos- pitúl for three weeks,

She will probably be handed over Lo the Secretary for Chinese Affairs,

TADPOLE" CASE.

COURT CLAIM DECIDED

IN HIS FAVOUR. ·

PROMINENT HOTEL MAN SHOT./

Naws has idot come that Mr. Wa Sang Hin, proprietor of the large Kiu On Hotel in Hoihow was shot dead last night by Reds in his own village hohe Afteen miles south of Hoihow, where Mr. Wii had gond to apend the night. Latoly that section of the country has been Cron from attacks by Reds and it was considered safe to travel, .

„TWO VILLAGES VISITED:

"REVOLVER USED.

HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL·

QUOTATIONS.

As a role of a neaturnal visit With the exception of strong by armed robbera a farmer of demand for Wharves, Hotels and Shang Kwai Chung villago icef Trama the rost of the market wag six chickens and a small sum of rather quist yesterday morning. money, and suffered the experience of being threatened with a dagger and trussed up. The occurrence was reported to the police on Wadner- day night"

Noise:1

Mr. Wu was a public spiritel wealth and a hard werker. He wan panied another armed citizen, # man of considerablo An element of humour acccan- intensely interested in the develop

robbery ment of Hainna Lately he has which took place the same night, a Spm On Choung village. The supervised the widening of thes publio read between Kiungohow. His death comes a great shock revolyer, made a great noise broak City and the Ferry at Tam Hau. robbers, who were armed with a

to the community and to his many ing down the door of the house to friends in Hong Kong and Singwhich they gained admittance, but pore. A strenuous effort is being made by the military to prevent the threatened dire penalties to the escape of the guilty and it is-ro inmates if they so much as spoko, ported that one of the Reds has striking one man on the head with already been caught,

the butt of the gun before he had time to open his mouth, i

4.

New Year's Festivities. New Year's day was celebrated

Entrances t on Ingge scale. other public institutions were be Yamons School, Hospitals and

autifully decorated with cocoanut leaves and branches from banya

almost continuous. A large public. gathering was held in the Bun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, attended with

trees. The roar of fire crackers was

the usual speech making.

WATER

Vigorous Japaness Boycott, There is much evidence of firm decision to carry out the boy- cott of Japanese goods. It is sur prising how quickly gonds and

from other sourcos, have j found their way to the shalves #cr-; merly occupied by Japanese pro- duets. A great deal of propaganda is being carried on to encourage the nae of articles of Chinese meets facture.

The robbers made good their recape with property to the value of 860.

EATING HOUSES AND WINES.

MAGISTRATE QUESTIONS

POLICE POWERS.

On the ground that there was no authority for the police to prosecute under the Public Health and Build- ing Ordinance, Mr. Schoßeld dis The New Leper Home Started.

missed two summonses against the Bids have boon received and cou proprietors of eating houses who tracts let for the construction of were accused of allowing wine to the first five building units in the new loper Sanitarium, The Kheng be consumed on their premises. Shan District Magistrate, Mr. Mr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for

Evidence would be called, said Inspector Andrews, that the e- fendang had been soon pausing and· repassing Sing Wong,, Street prior

udgment has been given by the to the incident. After the incident, Puisne Judge (Mr. Justicb Land- continued the Inspector, a bottle sell) in the Summary Court action was found by the police near brought by Messrą. Mamak & Cu, the place where the complain of 20. Wing Lok Building, Kow ant had slept. A starch of defen-loon, against W. P. Tsai, better dant's house, revealed a bottle iden-known as “ Tadpole " of the Honger sixty odd blankets and chety for a Police Officer to prosecute

tical to the one found in the street.

The one found in the house con-

Lained medicine while the one found " in the street contained, according to the Government Analyst, misria acid."

Evidence would also be called, said Inspector Andrews, that a certain person had gone with the defendam to purchase the nitric acid. The defindaas and this wit- ness went to an opium divan where the former extracted the bottle of acid from his person before lying down. The keeper of the eptum divan would give evidence to the effect that he had naked defendant what the bottle contained and had been told it was medicine.

Another bit of evidence would come from two men, who were on

Kong Cricket Club, who is trading in sporting goods under the name of Tadpole and Sons, Lee House Street.

Plaintiff sued to recover a sun of [-6408 ns the cost of two dozen tennis requet frames of "Tadpole " mark, sold and delivered to the de- fendant. The defendant repudiated paymens on the ground that the

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nequets supplied were not of mem chantable quality, and evidence was given at the original hearing that several racquets supplied to his customers were retarned na,, the frames had eracked soon after use. ».

Jn giving judgment for the de- fendant with costs, his Lordship held that the frames were not of merchantable quality...

Salon,

Trams, #22 40. Unions, $410. Steamboats, $24.- Hotels (now), $14.00/13. Powella, $32.

Buyera.

Wharves, $154.

Douglases, (24).

Chiese Estates, 205.

Singapore Trections, 3/-.

Hong Kong Ropes, $15. Lane, Crawforda (old), $6.40.

- Constructiona. (now), $1,80,

Hotels (old), #15.35.

Hotels (new), $14.85.

Providents fold), 85.35, Providents (now), 8:40. Trams, $22,40,

Cementa (old), (19). Dairy Farms,.890.. Powells, #31.

Hong Kong Government" Loan, el per cent. promium

Sellers.

Indo-Chinas (Pref.), 845.

Indo-Chinas (Def.), $32. Raubs, $39.

Entertainments (old), $162.

AFTERNOON SESSIONS.

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No material.change took place in the course of the day, business being or a restricted scale.

Selor;

Lane Crawfords (old), 88. Powells, 831.

...Buyers,

Hong Kong Electrica, 8 dements (combined), '919)

Sellers, Entertainments (old), $16)in,

HELENA MAY CONCERT.

LARGE AUDIENCE.

Chen Meng Dong has given a plot one of the defendants. After her LUBA PECKER ATTRACTS of 20 English acros of public land for the purpose and the surveying ing the evidence of the prosecuting of area and branch road has al Police, Officer, Mr. Schofield said ady been completed. The Chinese that he could not find any author. Mission to Lepers in Shanghai has

Christmas gift to the inmates of the summonses but remarked that hundred and fifty dollars ns # under the Ordinance. He dismissed the local colony.

if the police found any authority, he was prepared to re-open the

Travelling in Interior Dangerous, Travel in interior places is still beset with considerable danger dus to communists and bandits. On the 2nd inst five men were killed 'near the market of Sui Kam m the Chen Mai District. The men were carrying stones for the construe- tion of a fortress when the attuck

was made.

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TAIPO ROAD MURDER.

STONE-BREAKER FOUND

A

STRANGLED.

Cases.

PAPUAN PYGMIES.

EXPLORATION PARTY SHOT, AT WITH ARROWS.

PROGRAMME OF CHOPIN AND LISZT,

Miss Luba Peaker scored a per- sonal triumph at the Helena May Institute yesterday afternoon, when she made her public debut in the Colony with a pianoforte, recital The ball was filled to capacity, in itself an unusual occurrence, and the audience was unsparing in its applause. Miss Pecker was very generous with her encores, and it was with obvious reluctance that the audience at last permitted her to leave the stage.

The New Guinea exploration ex pedition under Dr. Bylmer has re turned to Amboina after having Miss Pecker showed some lack of found the pigny Papuas of the confidence in the opening items, and was Upper Mimika River, ear Iwaket-wan obviously suffering somewhat

Chinese stone-breaker found dead, having apparently to.

beun, strangled with a piece of rope, child agreed to accompany the ex had been introduced for the occa at the Kam Tak Shaung watchman's

Fcur adulta and one from the fact that the piano, which

Mr. F. C. H. Rendall appeared for shed, on the Taipo Road near the pedition for a short distance, but sion in place of the usual Helena

their way to a ma jongg house on the plaintiff and Mr. Horace Lo was third mite stone, yesterday morn they disappeared during the night May instrument, was insensitive, and |

the night of the incident. As it happened the mu jongg people were doing a "moonlight flit" and were moving their furniture at the time. The two would-be visitors heard police whistles at the time and they would say that shortly, afterwards they" apcke to defendant and asked what the whistles were about and he replied that it had nothing, to

do with him, or words to that effect,

In Hospital for Two Months.

"The complainant," said Inspec- tor Andrews, has been in the Government Civil Hospital" for two

months and is still being attended as an outpatient. The motive for

the "crime is obscure but the police

for the defendunt.

ing

The dead man was a native of Sam Door Chuk village. It is be lieved the motive, for the alleged been ascertained if

NEW SHIPPING LINE. If anything was

JAVA-SOUTH AFRICA RUN TO SHOW PROFIT.

The Sourabaya Handelsblad, dis

cussing the prospects of the Java-

South Africa Line, which was in-.

takon.

leaving the child behind them.

The child was then left on one pedal completely damping out the tinny, the application of the soft of the banks of the river and was

notes.. later taken away by the parents.

Towards the middle of the pro- Later the boat, in which the ex- At a late hour last night the pedition was travelling, was shot gramme, however, Miss Pecker not- police had nothing further to rat with arrows, It is. concluded ably gained in confidence, and the port, though they are preceeding with the usual enquiries.

OBITUARY.

augurated eight months ago by the DOYEN OF MALAYAN BAR. Royal Packet Steamship Company,

Bays that the optimism of the initin MR. R. G. VAN. SOMEREN DIES

The route has been changed alight

tors has not been disappointing.

ly since the first journey, the stonım."[

IN PENANG.

Penang, Dec. 20.-Thodendh

|ors not touching Padang any mora, ocourred early this morning of

at the residence of Mrs. Lunberg,

but geing straight from Batavia to Mr. Robert Carling Van Soeren

that the pygmies want to keep their

abodo a secret.

Scherzo in B flat minor (chopin) was delightfully rendered. It was not until La Chasse (Liszt) was reached that the artists really triumphed over her difficulties, and in this she gave such an excellent the opinion that the pygmies are account of herself that the audience

Further Investigations have fail- ed.

These latest discoveries boar out

a type of the Papua race and that they do not from a separate race.

ST. PAUL'S SAFE.

RESTORATION WORK LASTS 17 YEARS.

demanded, and were given, a re- petition.

From then onwards Miss Pecker never faltered, and responded to the applause that greeted the end of the programme with three plena- ing encorgu.

are satisfed that the complainant Mauritius. Reunion Island and where he had lived since the death

The ProgramLINQ. lends an lenust life."

Tamatave, in Madagascar, have of his son Major W. V. L. Van

The full programme is given be Evidence was then given, Inspec- also been struck off, sa the French Someren

low tor Andrewe mentioning in the protectionism in the shipping busi. Mr. Van Someren would have been The doyen of the Malayan bar,

After a most careful scientific 1.-Etude F minor .............. Chopin, course of his opening that Dr. G.

news excludes every possibility of eighty yours of age in a few months survey of the entire fabric, the aur-

Etude (Butterfly) H. Themas, who was to have been competing successfully,

time. He was in good health until

2.--Fantasio--Impromptu two months ago. He leaves a veyor to St. Paul's Cathedral, Lon- one of the witnesses in the case,

sharp minor ...ndesrascenda From Mauritius the steamer widow in Sutton, Surrey, and two don, has reported to the Dean and 3-Valse Eminor..... would not be able to appear until now go straight to Lourenco Mar daughters, both unmarried, in Chapter that the Cathedral in now

Yalso G flat...... a later date as he was auffering from quee, and from there vis Durban Surroy

4.-Scherzo B flat minor and Port Elizabeth to Cape Town," diphtheria,

His three song are practising doc.

5.Un Sospiro (Etude du Beira, Zanzibar and Membosa tors, one in Edinburgh, one in The work of restoration began in Concert) Mr. Hin Shing Lo in for the Only once in every two months does Romery and cne in the East African 2014 and has since been carried: on Dance of the Gnomes....

the Houtman visit the Boychelles, Government service. One son was

7-In Chasse whe defence, but did not appear in with a cargo of sugar and private killed in the War and another continuously. It procended more 8-Hungarian Rhapsodie, court yesterday as he was engaged goods. The paper adds that wy gored by wild buffaloes in Enat rapidly in the years following 1924 No. XL at the Supreme Court. Mr. Wilson the line will be worked with Africa. The youngest son died in when the greater part of the Cathe9-Valse de Concert (Faust) liams mentioned that the arnés- a profit.

Panang. It was the death of this The revenue of the last journey hon, who showed much promise at dral was closed for some years. examination of witnesses could be

of the Houtman held over until Mx, Lo could attend. F1.100,000.

afe.

A amounted to the Bar, that broke the agoi ad- sum of £400,000 has been spent on'

ivocate.

the restoration,

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