IN BANKRUPTCY
SALT FISH DEALER'S MISFORTUNES.
DEBTOR ALLEGES HE WAS
ROBBED.
At his public examination in the
Bankruptcy Court yesterday, To Pa
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1932.
CORRESPONDENCE. JUNK AND CARGO
WHY NOT A SCOTTISH GRADUATES" DINNER?
[TO THE EDITOR OF TUS "HONG KONG DAILY PIRMB."]
LOST
CREW RESCUED BY THE
S.S. SUNKONG.
Twenty Chinese, rowed from a Frading junk which sank after
brought to
Six-For several years now tollision, has been suggested that graduates
were
the
Colony yesterday on board the 8.5.
Sunkong.
ALLEGED THEFT IN HOTEL.
YOUNG CHINESE IN DOCK.
CANTON OFFICIAL THE
VICTIM.
A csse same befaro Mr. E. H. Williams at the Central Magistracy
was charged with attempting to yesterday in which a young Chinose
commit a felony.
Wan, alins To Sik Pan, of the Colony, should hold an ananal of Scottish Universities, resident in
Canton Road, formerly trading as the Sro Cheong salt fish dealers, dinner on the same lines as the stated when he was publicly oxOxford and Cambridge function amined on his own petition by the and those held by public school old
For some re Offcial Receiver (Mr. B. L. Agamiz)
boys associations. that his failure was caused by loss on, however, the master has never -in business and also because he was been brought to a head and as 'Sunkong and foundered in. less than defendant, Inspector Andrews-said.
rubbed of a Septembar, 1930:
Debtor had. liabilities amounVÍNA 10 $1,880 and assets worth $318. He said that he started business with a capital of 81,000 and was the sole proprietor, but owing to
sum of $9,720 in
there is quite a rumber of Scottish graduates in Hong Kong, I think an effort should be made this year
to hold a dinner before the hot weather sets in.
Would you therefore, ir, allow me the courtesy of your columns to
on board.
The trading junk, Wing On Tai, was on. Its way from Macao to Hong Kong with 2,000 picule f general cargo
Aftor passing the Tai Wok and Ni Wck Islands, the craft gollided with the
The occupants go half an hour. into the only lifeboat on the junk and were picked up by the Chinese steamer. The junk, valued at $14,000, and cargo belonging to overal merchants, was a total loss The Sunkong, which did not suf-
Hop
Mr. V. C. E. Rondall appeared for the defence and Detectiva Inspector Andrews prosecuted.
Outlining hip base against the
that cn January man, named Ng, rented room No. 318 at the Luk Hoi Tung Hotel and on the same day, the adjoining
Canton cfficial, a member of the room, No. 317 was rented by la
Finance Bureau.
The cfficial
business Tessa he became indebted inform Scottish graduates that I for any material damage, is brought two pieces of luggage with would be willing to undertake the ssel of 329 sons and is owned by initial steps to the matter? I shall,Kan Tin Cheung, whose agents in therefore, be glad to receive the Hong Kong, are the Wo
the dinner, alter which 'n meeting names of those willing to attend Steamship Company.
would be arranged, committees formedl #325/ final arrangömerti finde.
to different people.. Helcarried on. the business until September, 1931. He was questioned at length on' his evidence chat in September, 1930, he was robbed of the sum in question by three men who press- ed the muzzle of 'n revolver into his stomach while he was asleep. He said that one of the robbers might have hidden himself in an empty fish tab and when all had gone to bed opened the door for the other two members of sia gang. He had reported the incident so the police and one 'man' WIS др rested but discharged. The same man, however, wag, convicted another chargo and sent to prison.
on
The examination was adjourned for the Official Receiver to make enquiries about the robbery,
Petition Adjourned,
Thanking you again for allowing me the courtesy of your columns.- I am, Yours etc,
GAUDEAMUS,"
c/o Hong Kong Daily, Preu.
BIG
BLAZE AT APLICHAU.
FOURTEEN HOUSES GUTTED IN EARLY MORNING FIRE.
Fourteen houses were completely An application for hearing a
gutted while others were consider petition against Mesere. L K. Cipley and Company, China Build-in Main Street which is in the heart ably damaged when a fire brake out
dag, wi's adjourned wine die, Mr.,
of the business section of AP P. CE. Rendall, for the position-
lichau epposite Aberdeen, in the jag reditor, stating that his client
was sick in Macao "and could not attend.
"The petitioning creditor is Cheng Din-to, 420, Quton's Road, West, who applies on a deby of 20,200, alleged to be due under a Chinese borrowing note,
A Receiving Order was made in
the uber of Hsu Sum-pak, trading
+
early hons of yesterday. Amongst those injured were AÐ elderly
Injuries through jumping over the women and her son who sustained verandah offans of the
upper Aoors on to the street below.
NO NEW TANKS NEXT YEAR.
ANOTHER ECONOMY IN THE ARMY.
14
17
FAR BELOW STRENGTH.
It is unlikely that any further batch of tanks will be ordered for the British Army in the coming year's estimates.
him, one being a canvas bag. At o'clock on the 3rd he left the hotel and his room door was locked and padleekod. On returning, the doers were stilt found locked and padlocked, but when i was opened, the defendant was found inside the room,
It was stated that the defendant, who had been in room 318 with Ng, probably climbed across a par ition, which did not quite reach the ceiling, in order to obtain en-
Py into room 317. "
.1
A Canvas Bag,
The defendant it was alleged," was found examining the contents.
HONG KONG
··MARKET.
STOCK
YESTERDAY'S OFFICIAL
QUOTATIONS..
A very quiet tone prevailed at the morning session yesterday, but prices wore still more or less un- affected.
Sales.
Hotels (old), 18:30. China Lights, $96.00 Trams, $29.00..
Oamenta (combined), $19.65,
Buyers.
-Douglases,~~$254.
Chinese Estates, #05. Trams, 822.40. Canton Joss, $51. Ropes, $16.
Dairy Farms, `$29.20. Constructions (now), $1,80. Providents (old), $5,30, Providents (new), $2,10" Singapore Tractions, 37- Cements (combined), $19.80 Cements (old), 812). Sincezes, $16.
Hong Kong Government $23 per cont. premium.
Sellers,
Loan,
Indo-Chinas (Prof.), $45. Indo-Chinas (Def), $32. Telephones (part paid), 828).. Entertainments (old), Raube, $39. Ewos, Tls. 16.
Dairy Farms, #23).
ra.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Throughout the day the market
of the canvas bag when the door remained, as at the opening, vory was oponed. The only thing dis- quiet, with the exception of a covered stolen was an overcoat, but strong demand for Trams at 102,60
was not with defondant and was and Benquets at $11,
It seems that, concry apart, this decision is a further "ges- turo in view of the Disarmament.never recovered. Conference, The formation of a permanent tank brigade is niso like
to be postponed.
There is reason to believe that the check
оп the construction pro- medium, but also to light tanks.. gramme will apply not only to
The man was taken to the Police Station, buy was released the same day. On the following day ho was arrested.
room
At the close of the afternoon's sitting, his Worship indicated, in answer to a subinission made by The replacement of our present Mr. Rendall what he had no case up-to-date 16-touners has, indeed, believed the evidence of a obsolescent: medium tanks by the to answer, that he (his Worship)
nevey really begun. Owing to the boy who had stated that he saw repeated economy cuts of the last the defendant in room 317 when The outbreak started on
Jews years, a mere hardful-less the door was unlocked. ground floor of 116, Main Street
Mr. Rendall (indicated that ij which was occupied by the Ping On than half a dozen-of these highly Tong medicine dealers and as soon efficient battle-machines is all that that as his Worship's view is was
the
OF.
If his client was found in a locked room, he was obviously there for la unlawful purpose. He asked for an adjournmat in order to get further instructions from his client,
as the first alarm was given (at have been provided. So the pre- not of any use for him to proceed. as the Wai Liam Firm, of 2; Stafford about 12.15 am) the Aberdeen Road, Kowloon Tong, and 334, Stasion was communicated with and sent thinty-armoured 11-tonners of Des. Vieux Road West, cn his own Gengh Hill Station and the Cag they in turn got in touch with
an eight-year-old model will carry petition
tral Fire Brigade Station who rush Mr. D, D. Evans made the ap-ed all their appliances to the scene. plication on behalf of debtor, and|- the Official Receiver
орроце.
did
not
Across the Water.
If the fact is" proof that the "life" of tanks is far longer than used to be calculated, it means The fire fighters were handicapped that the Tank Corps is not fit to by the fact that they had to be take the field in emergency with- Debtor's liabilities were shownaken across the water to the scens a 883,533.17 with assets of $13,000. uf the outbreak by a fire float and out risk of disaster.
by the time the hand appliance
As the new. 16-tonners cost some-
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN ·
ASSOCIATION.
Sales,
"
·Unions, #406/410. Providents (new), 82.42)
Buyers.
Trams, $92.60. Benguets, $11.
FIGHT AGAINST DOPE MENACE.
"TRUTH EXCITING AS FICTION."
CLEARING WESTERN
EUROPE.
The illicit traffic in drugs to which the Geneva Convention ap- plies, manufactured in
Westera Europe, has to all intents and pur- poses disappeared.
This was a statement by Mr. 'M. D. Perrins, of the Home Office, the adaninistrative officer of the Danger-
from Gough Hill had arrived, the thing like £15,000 apiece-so long as PREPARATIONS FOR ANNUAL ous Druga Act, in a lecture to the flames were raging furiously, the WIFE'S WINTERS ON fairly strong breeze blowing at the they are ordered in driblets-the
RIVIERA.
HUSBAND GETS DECREE.
5
Lord Merrivale graarted a decree it in the Divorce Court to Mr. Edwin Marshall Spink, diamond merchant, of Oriel-road, West Ken- sigion. W., on the ground of the miseonines of his wife, Alice Clun, with Raoul Chierico, owner and manager of the Hotel nonciato, Mentone.
Mrs. Spink had denied the ac. cusation, and alleged that she had condoned misconduct by her hus band but her defence "was with- drawn. M. Chiorico had obtained leave to allege collusion between
An-
SOCIAL.
Pharmaceutical Society.
time helping it to spread rapidly need for economy has naturally an
There was some reason to bape, Houses on either side of No. 116important bearing on "the question
he continued, that the traffickera qirickly caught fire and the breez
would also be driven from Turkey, carried the fames scrow the small of replacing the old with these up- At a committee meeting of the which was the source of much of the lane and on the houses on the to-date machines. But this factor Hong Kong University Christian illicit traffic. (opposite side were alight;
has much less forte in regard to the Association, on Wednesday, it was cord of the fight against this trafic Mr. Perrins said that in the re- provision of light tanks, which are decided that either the Bishop of there were true stories quite equal but a tithe of the cost of their big, Victoria or Dr. Allan of Unioni, excitement to the average fiction
on the subject. Church. Kowloon, would be invited! The principal markets for grang- to speak at the annual service of | gling drugs were now the USA, the Association which has been fixed China, Egypt, India, the South. American Republics, and, to a lesser extent, Canada.
brothers.
As was to be expected, the in- habitants of the village were, in panic and even before the fire had assumed serious dimensions, the two over the verandah on the Arst floo: people referred to above jumped
"A Muddled State." of No. 116 into the street and were injured. They were, Lau Ho (70) and har son, Yuon Ming (80). An
The interruption to construction other womua was found lying in will leave our tank battalions not "the strest suffering from injuries merely in a deficient but in a' The annual social will take place
which, it is believed, were sustained when aba jumped into the street She was removed to the hospital together with the other two injured people.
Good Work by Firemen,
for January 31, at 9.30 pm., at St. Stephen's Church.
muddled state.
in the Great Hall on January Some sixty light tanks are or, at 8.15 p.m., when there will prob will soon be available.
But for ably be a concert and a variety of their establishment to be complete and uniform our four tank batta acs. lions need on the minimum scalo, some ninety light tanks. And to Meanwhile the firemen set to completo the light battalion, which Mr. and Mrs. Spink, but it was work with a will and so thoroughly is now a necessary part of any tank stated that he would not give or did they do their jobs that by 999 brigade, a further thirty to forty dence. He denied misconduct. Ma.m. the flames were under control light tanks are required. Spink admitted misconduct, which, although the "all clear" signal -he said, had been condoned.
I
was not given aŭti) about "4 ñ.m
Even if our battalions were com
Presentation of Bibles.
The presentation of bibles to the. graduates of 1991 will take plans on Sunday at 4.30 p.m. at the Union
Mr. and Mrs. Spink wero mar The Aremon were handicapped izpistely equipped, we should st7 Assembly Room. The Vice-Chan ried at Holy Trinity Church, Wal their task owing to the fact that have, only four, as compared, for cellor (Sir William Hornell) will lington, Surrey, and there was one acme of the live wires, cams into exple, with the 25 tank batta probably make a speech.
Mr. Boxer, Warden of Morrison contact with the water and this had ions of the French Army. And the latter are of a much large size--the
child.
Lord Merrivale, giving judg the effect of giving the men shocks French company comprises twenty Hall, who has just returned from mont, said that Mrs. Spink made More than once they had to drop one tanke, whereas ours is organis England, has been elected as auditor charges against her husband, but their implementa suddenly while they were not now persisted in. Mr. Fitzhenry had the misfortune with five medium and seven of the Association for the year 1832 He held that there was misconduct to be sont flying off his feet when light tanks.
Editors Re-elected,
between Mrs. Spink and M. his torch, came into contact with a: Our own Army's provision of new Chierico during Mrs, Spink'a visits live wire. This difficulty was not tanks has been so curtalled for some to Mentore in the winters of 1020 overcome until the fuses in the dis years past that the manufacturing Migs B.M. Pope and Mr. Lam and 1031.
tributing box had been broken industry has only been kept alive Kow Cheong were re-elected editors There was no evidence that Mr. | down.
by orders from abroad. Spink was crush, to his wife, and; As a result of the fire, over- Thin may be a tribute to our on-
of the Zampadce Phorus, the official. the gaot of misconduct. had been twenty Chinese families have been | pincering skill, and to the outstand organ of the Association; Pia, condoned. Nor, was there any cyl- rendered homeless. The extent of ing progress achieved by British Christmas issue of the denco of collusion.
the damage is estimated at thou brains in the development of cross-
magazino Coste ware awarded against M. sunds of dollars but it is not known country vehicles, but it is not alto. was a most successful one, the col Chierico, and My, Spink, was given whether any of the shops wen gether a happy state, when our own tents including articles by_Prof. L.. custody of the child.
covered by insurance.
Army's deficiencies are considered. | Førster and Dr. G. A. C. Herklots.
In the U.S.. he said, the problem was intimately connected with run- running."
Methods and Routes.
At present the principal world routes followed by smugglors ware from the Dardanelles to Mar- Bailles, and thence to the USA. and the Far East.
Mr. Perrins described the prin cipal methods of smugglers:
''' Packing " -- concealing the drugs in other goods, such as common soda, aspirin, articles of furniture:
* Switching "--getting at the drugs en route and letting the empty casca go on
personal
Emuggling by post, a risky and inconvenient method;
Carrying drugs în luggage, an expansive method, involving the payment of farce over enormous distances, ap' in- dication, too, of the profits to be made.
Concealing drugs on board ship to be smuggled ashore by a mem ber of the crew, a method of the Tan Easte Until we discovered more about the causes and cure of addiction, however, by suppressing the traflo- kar wo were engaging the enemy Da one flank only.
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