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OBITUARY

MISS PHYLLIS RATHFAM

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1932.

SHANGHAI OUTRAGE SUBSTITUTES FOR PEER'S DAUGHTER

BRITON FIRED AT BY

ROBBER.

It is with much regret that we have to record the death of Miss

Pluckily attempting to seize a Phyllis Rathfam, which occurred on trespasser on the premises of his Saturday night at 7.30 at the residence, Mr. R. 'A. Wright of the Matilda Hospital. Death was due Shanghai Telephone Company and to typhoid after a fortnight's ill-a British subject, narrowly escaped). 1189. Deceased was formerly death when the man, a Chinese, student in, the Diocesan Girls' fired at him with a pistol. School and until recently had boon in the employ of Mustard & Co. She is survived by her mother, father and brother,

The funeral took place yesterday and was attended by a large circle of friends. The was a profusion of foral tributes.

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Mr. Wright saw tho man shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday, in thứ compound of the house, 08 Great Western Rond. He gave chaso to him and seized the man's leg as he was half way over the wall.

The Chinese rapidly drew

JAPANESE GOODS.

A FURTHER WARNING TO

MERCHANTS.

Chiness merchants dealing in Japanese goods are urged by their General Chamber of Commerce to substitute either native or Euro pean products for those imported from Japan, says the North China Daily News.

WANTS HUSBAND.

FINANCIAL TROUBLES FORCE GIRL TO DISCARD PRESTIGE,

"Wanted; a matrimonial chance

ARMS SMUGGLING IN JAPAN.

YEN 600,000 WORTH OF

PISTOLS PASS THROUGH KOBE.

The Osaka police have tracked a by a well educated, able-bodied, and gang of smugglers of pistols into good looking daughter, 28, of a China and the South Sons, and have Viscount." This was one of the effected the arrest of Kajiro Ugai want ads that recently appeared and two others at Koshien. They are on the trail of Suiken Moemoto, the alleged ringleader, and about ten members of the gang, who are

In a circular letter to the various in the Tokyo dailies, giving rise to much comment and made many trade guilds, the Greater Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Com-wonder who the advertiser could merce reminds them of the three resolutions adopted by a meeting

be,

Women trying to get in the mur·

still at large.

A big safe with its interior skil fully reconstructed was landed at

pistol and Gred, the bullet whizzinged by representatives of the varion of newspaper advertisements are Tsingtao on July 24 from a ship

past Mr. Wright, who let go the man's leg and took cover alongside DAYLIGHT ROBBERY the wall, while the bandit escaped.

WANCHAI HOME RAIDED.

Four men and a woman were con- cerned in a gang raid on 174 Wan chai Rond on Saturday at 12.45 p.m. The gang was armed with revolvers and daggers and they sue. cessfully held up the inmates on the premises and ransacked the

house.

The gang decauped with money and jewellery to the value of 8500.

BANK OFFICIAL SUED.

BREACH OF PROMISE ALLEGED.

1 held in September last and attend-riage market through the medium But for girls born nothing new. and brought up in aristocratic cir- eles, where convention for its own

So far as Mr. Wright could see the Chinese was unaccompanied.

Mr. Wright immediately rushed to the telephone and informed Bubbling Well Police Station as to what had happened. The station Alarm was sounded and two Car loads, of police, armed with steel waistcoats, hasteaed to the scene of the shooting, Inspector Bishop being in charge, while motorcycles. also went out on patrol. A cordon was thrown around the neighbour hood and searches of motor cats and pedestrians made, but without

any result,

Police inquiries are proceeding.

PEIPING HEARS OF WOMAN SPY.

$50,000 AWARD TO CHINESE WORKING FOR MANCHUKUO TO GATHER INFORMATION,

LADY.

Shanghai, August &-Mr. Jian H. Cher, deputy governor of the Can-

tral Bank of China and chairman of the committee appointed to study the abolition of the tael, who is one of the most trusted friends of Mr.

T. Y. Soong, was ordered by the Second Branch of the Kiangsu High Court yesterday morning to pay Miss Yen Sob Fan the sum of $30,- 400, damages alleged to have been sustained by plaintiff as a result of defendant's breach of promise to marry her. The amount of the judgment was exactly one half of what Miss Yen claimed,

Plaintiff, who is the daughter of a former high official in Peking and the sister of Mr. Yen Quo-yaan,

Peiping, August 4.-Local Chinese circles are greatly excited over the report that a beautiful Ilussian woman, alleged to be in the secret service of Manchukuo, has arrived here for the purpose of spying on leaders and also obtaining military the movements of local military

and political information.

It is said that she is trying to work her way by offering her ser vices as a maid-servant or nurse to

certain influential

personaga

П

here.

The local Chinese press also re counts the circumstances which led her to enter the employ of the

Manchukuo secret service. She is

arriving from Kobe, and on exami. nation by Customs officials it was found to contain 180 pistols.

The

Osaka police were immediately com municated with, and their subso. queal. activity led to the mentioned.

Arrest

local trade guilds. The three re- solutions are that the severance of contimis relations between China

Fake governs, the vary idea struck and Japan should be strictly on the public as singularly unique. forced; that native banks and for-

The advertiser, or rather the prin- eign-style banks should eens doing

cipal figure, proved to be Miss business with shopa dealing in Japanese goods; and that "picket-the late Viscount Toyosuke Yama

Wakako Yamanouchi, daughter of ing groups" should be formed by nouchi and cousin of Marquis Toyo-large scale. Sometimes, arma were the various trade guilds for the purkage Yamanouchi, scion of the pose of keeping a close watch on their membera buying Japanese goods.

Despite the adoption of the above three resolutions by the merchants themselves, the circular continues, the Japauere imports to Shanghai have shown a considerable mcrease since the signing of the Shang hai armistice agreement with the re- sult that the nation's enemy has been

Provided with more funds to en-

able him to intensify his aggressions in China,

Warning to Merchants.

After stating that Chinese mer. chants dealing in Japanese goods are solely responsible for the in Japanese exports to increase China, the letter urges that in fu- ture native or European products be used by merchants who have been hitherto dealing in Japanese goods. Only this, the letter states in con- clusion, will prevent the country men from denouncing the merchants as the selfish and "traitorous" peo- ple.

Besides the letter of the Chinese

Chamber, arging the use of nation- al products, a manifesto has been issued by over 80 local tradė guilds, demunding the immediate release of Yung Wei Fan, a Chinese youth, who was arrested by members of the Nantan Public Safety Bureau

love with another Russian, who is, a widow but recently she fell in last Friday for throwing a bomb

into the premises of a cotton cloth

feudal lord of the Tosa clan,

been going on for some time on a It seems that the smuggling has

shipped out from Osaka, and some times from Kobe, Nagasaki or Moji, The value of the smuggled pistols hitherto discovered is put at over

Late Father Well Known,

nouchi, was the head of a branch

Her late father, Viscount Yama-Yen 600,000.

The smugglers are said to have

who distinguished himself by purers in firearms pistols which the family of Marquis Yamanouchi, bought from Osaka and Kobe deal-

suading the late Prince Yoshihian latter had smuggled into Japan Tokugawn, the 15th Shogan, to re-themselves, and have been smug- storo full administrative power togling them out again, realising the Throne, which went a tong way big gaina in the transaction. Big toward accomplishing the Meiji safes are a favourite camouflage to deceive Customs officials, because of Restoration.

their heavy weight.

Her late father, having business acumen, embarked some 20 years ago on several business enterprises, and for a while he did fairly well.

The unnecessful outcome of the re- clamation of Yokohama's tide flats,

however, reduced him almost; to ponury.

on

All he had, including his stately mansion Mikawadai, Azabu,

The Vis Tokyo, changed hands.

few years count passed away a later. The widowed Viscountess, with seven children, moved from

SIGNING THE AGREEMENT.

MR. MACDONALD'S SERVICES.

Lausanne, Jaly 10.-The Final Act of the Lausanne Conference

was signed at a plenary session opened at 10 o'clock yesterday one place to another, until she sett! morning in the hall of the Beau ed down at Kochi, the native place Rivage Hotel at Ouchy. The de where their forefathers held away legations were seated, as at the first in the bygone days.

meeting, at tables arranged in horseshoe form.

Miss Wakako in due time was graduated from the Kochi girls' high school but the ebb tide of her family's finances has so far stood in the way of tying a nuptial knot The advertisement in question was inserted by Mr. Kizoji Kato, retired

taught her at Mikawadai primary

As soon as Mr. MacDonald had

upened the session, Sir John Simon made a statement reassuring the smaller countries on a point which, like several others, had, presumab-

Friday evening. He desired, he

former Premier of the Peking Gov however, too poor to afford a honey shop off Boulevard des Deux Retencher of a primary school, who fly, been overlooked in the haste of

ernment, alleged that she became

moon trip to Europe. He therefore publiques. At the Public Safety school, Tokyo, while the Yamanou said, to make the following state- engaged to defendant soine 15 year suggested to bar that she offer her Burenu, the youth admitted having chis were yet able to uphold a Vis.ment on behalf of his Majesty's

ago, before the latter went to America to study in the University

of Ohio. At the time of the engage ment, plaintiff alleged,, defendant

services to Manchukuo as a spy.

thrown the bomb and said he had Her presence in Peiping was this done so to warn the shop proprio- covered through the intercaption of for against dealing ta Japanese a letter alleged to have been writ- goods,

countship diguity.

Three Responses, Thus far three prospective bride grooms have answered the call of

the advertisements, Boys the Osaka Mainichi. One of them

Government in the United King- dom in order to make clear the position as regards the War' debta due to Great Britain by the invited Powers.

The effect of the Declaration of the Conference signed on June 10,

was not as wealthy as he is at presten by her to her lover, in which The manifesto issued by the local eat so she, having money at the she said that when she returned to trade guilds asserts that the act of time, paid his expenses. However, Mukden and got a large sum of the arrested youth is & patriotic while in America, defendant met

money from Manchukuo, their action similar to that of the vol-

therefore, he should be acquitted of of a secondary school. As a Muni the carge against him and imme-cipal clerk he carns Y.85 a month. diately released. The manifesto- further states that as the Govern ment does not want to punish the volunteer army because they fight the Japanese troops in Manchuria, it certainly cannot punish a mere

and fell in love with another girl honeymoon plans would be settled. unteer army in Manchuria and, says he is youth of 20 and graduate/1932, is extended to cover the sus

whom he subsequently married, De-

The woman is said to have been fendant, upon his return to China

here once before with her lover and several years later, informed plain-

her two children. Local police ex- tiff of his marriage and offered to give her freedom but she refused pect to have her arrested shortly.

COMMANDER FITZROY, TO COMMAND DRAGON.

and declined to recognise the mar riage, saying that she was the affianeed wife of defendant. Plain tiff alleged that she had not married and that she would marry 'into no other family other than that of de- | FOR TWO YEARS COMMANDER fendants

OF THE ROYAL YACHT.

Another Engagement, Defendant alleged that, during Shanghai, August 9.-Commander! his absence, plaintiff became engaged R. O. FitzRoy has been appointed

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spect of such War debts until the peusion of the payments dus in re-

Lausanne Agreement with Germany from The second one comes

which wo are signing to-day has youngman of 31, an instructor of

primary school in Taiwan, who come into force, or until the deci- says he expects to pass the highersion has been reached that it will civil service examination soon. The not be possible to ratify that agree- third is from a youth of 27, now ment.

M. Germain-Martin, the French earning X.75. The last named says

ness career if the Viscount is only willing to advance him 7,300,000.

youth whose action has been espirodha is anxious'to ́embark on a busi. Finance Minister, and Signor Mos-

by a sense of patriotism.

ROBBERS KILL SHOP OWNER.

cond, the Italian Finance Minister, associated themselves with this ar rangement on behalf of their re- spective Governments. This reas were not long ia showing their insurance did not suthes to persuade teations, for Tsang shouted out the smaller countries to abandon "robbers." Then three shots rang the reservations they had made on Friday, when they protested that Neighbours had heard the shouta they had not been given enough mander FitzRay was promoted Shanghai, August 9.-An armed and the shots, and looking anziour-time to examine the document, and of this, he naturally concluded that in December, 1998, after two years robbery that failed became a ensely into the street, saw the two men the only non-inviting Power to sign he had been given his freedom-so-in-the-loyal Yacht-Victoria and of murder-yesterday morning, when

to a Mr. Fu, a relative of a former Tooyin of Shanghai and was sub- sequestly married to him. Hearing

le married another lady,

Plaintiff, denying that she was ever at any time engaged, much less married, to Mr. Ka, onid that hor relatives, sooing" that sho Was ad. vancing in years, arranged, without her knowledge, for her betrothment to Mr. Fu but, as soon as she heard of the matter, she immediately ter minated the arrangement, with the consent of the Fu family, to whom the circumstances of the case werd explained. *

When tho cass came before the Shanghai Special District Court, judgment was given in defendant's favour but plaintiff appealed, with the result that, she has now been gives judgment as stated.

to the cruiser Dragon, at resent in Canadien waters, which is under orders to return home to recommission at Chatham. Com-

;

SHANGHAI CRIME,

out

St. Luke's, Hospital. A potice con-

Albert, and he commanded the the victim of bullets fred by the run out of it and down the road. yesterday was Poland. aloop Crocus in the Persian Olf in would-he-robbers diod-at-St-Luke's Then an old woman who lives next The Final Act was then-signed.

Hospital. 1929-30.

door to the shop went in, to find Later he was commander of the The dead man, Tsang, Ching Teang lying badly wounded on the by Mr. MacDonald as President of Frobisher, Reserve Fleet flagship, Sung, 20 years of age, was the keep floor. Just afterwards Teang's the Conference, and then in order and last winter he took out to or of a small cigarette shop at 907 wife returned and the two got him by the principal Belgian delegates, China a destroyer division in East Hanbury Road, where he lived into a rich and took him by Sir John Simon for Great Bri- H.M.S. Witch, returning in com- with his wife. mand of the Serapis and of the Tsang on Sunday night was stable called to the scene telephoned tain, Bir Granville Ryrie for Aus division of relieved vessels. Early sitting behind the counter of his to Kashing Road station and de-tralia, Mr. Howard Ferguson Tor in the War, Commander FitzRoy shop, awaiting the return of his tectives commenced their investiga Canada, Sir Thomas Wilford for was sub-lieutenant of the battleship wife, who had gone out to buy hot tions immediately. Nothing had New Zealand, M. Herriot and his Centurion, in the Grand Flect. He water. Prior to her leaving the been stolen from the shop.

colleagues for France, Signori Mos. afterwards went in for the com- house the front door had been bolt- Tsang, who had little hope of liv-con and Beneduce for Italy, Mr. ing as all three shots had taken Yoshida and his colleagues for mand of coastal motor-boats, and ed. was interned in Holland from Within a minute of her depar, effect, two in the stomach, and one Japan, M. Zaleski for Poland, and, August. 11 to December 18, 1018. ture, two men, of whom one was in the left hand, died at 0a.m. finally, Herr von Papen, Baron von after an action in which these craft armed, entered the house. They yesterday: The inquest will be held Neurath, and the other -German-

Ministers. (Continued at foot of next column.) to-day, were engaged:

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