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MARSEILLES TO SAIGON

BY AIR

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933

AUTEMPTED MURDER NEW HOME FOR

OF A JOURNALIST

II.--FROM CORFU TO THE PERSIAN GULF Alleged Assailant Caught

ATHENS, DAMASCUS, THE TIGRIS AND

EUPHRATES, BAGDAD AND BUSHIRE

In this article Bishop F. Chalze, of Hanoi, continues his in- teresting and racy account of his journey by Air Orient hydro- plane from Marseilles to Saigon. Yesterday, it will be remembered the story was taken to a return to Corfu owing to fog at Athens the next port of call.

Below will be found a fascinating picture of Corinth and Athens, of Bayrouth, Damascus, and the ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates.

The concluding article wil: appear to-morrow, Saturday 14. Rose at 4.30 .m.

4.10.

The population was cosmopolitan of various religions and cults. French is fairly generally spoken hare. It is the Capital of the Libanasian republic and under French mandate.

After Long Chase

STOCK EXCHANGE

Mr. Potts Lays Founda-

tion Stone

Further evidence was taken by NINE-STOREYED BUILDING Mr. Wynne-Jones at Central' Ma- gistracy yesterday in the case in which a young Chinese was charg- ed with the attempted murder öl;

Lo Wai Keang, the proprietor of the Tin Nam Daily - News.

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The outrage occurred at No. 19, Lyndhurst Terrace on the night of April 18, and the accused W219 alleged to be the man who fired five shota at the complainant who had a most fortunate escape, only being wounded alightly in the left shoulder.

Mr. J. A. Fraser, assistant At torney General, appeared for the prosecution, and the defendant was represanted by Mr. Horace Lo who reserved his cross-examination.

The Chase.

SINGAPORE CAUSE CELEBRE

|WELL-KNOWN EURASIAN ACQUITTED OF HOMICIDE

Singapore, May 11.-There was a dramatic climas at the trial, before the Aasize Court, yesterday, "of Harold Vincent Perreau" who was Yesterday in Ice House Street, charged with culpable homicide not Mr. G. H. Potta, a member of the amounting to murder. At the coil- Hong Kong Stock Exchange, when elusion of the case for the prosecu- it was first opened, laid the foundation the jury unanimously decided, tion stone of the new nine-storeyed that there was insufficient ovidence building that is to be the new home to convict and his lordship. Mr. of the Stock Exchange.

Justice Mills, discharged the accus

There was a good number of ed. brokers and their friends at the formal function and an interesting feature was the fact that the stone was fixed in position with "Green Island Cement, the product of the well-known local company whose shares' have, from time to time been the main counter in the local Rialto.

Perreau was not chiled upon to make his, defence. The accused is a member of a well-known Euraian family and the charge' followed 'the death of a Chinese woman named Piab, alias Puteh, leged to be a prostitute, who lived in a house in Lorong Stangee, off hat Const Road.

The pilot wished to try and gain the time lost and reach Beyrouth in the day, but with a head wind rain and thick fog we had to wait for daylight. We started at 7.30 the a fresh false start, on course as the day before up to the line of the mountains of Greece. Very bumpy, mountains enveloped in thick fog. We turned again and arrived back to the base at Corfu, not without severe but

are when at about 7.45 he heard wishers of the Stock Exchange as fetting by gusts of an angry wind. of olive trees and gardens planted report like the firing of a crack sembled to drink to the success and jurics, including broken ribs, an I thought of. St. Paul pursued by with fruits and banana trees, vines er. A few seconds later he heard prosperity of the Stock Exchange | injury to her right lung and rupture

the tempest.... and in compari- son found myself fortunate.

We returned to the hotel and in the meantime the Company con- tinually enquired by wireless the weather conditions in the Athens area. They would let us know if it would be possible to continue the journey in the afternoon. I employed my time by making some notes on the first part of the jour. ney, but the throbbing of the mo. tors had sa affected my nerves that my hand trembled so that I was scarcely able to write.

Our passports were rapidly ins pected and we got into a motor car to catch the aeroplane at Damascus a distance of 110 kilometres, across the sharp slopes of Lebanon. leaving Beyrouth we crossed fields

On

After the formal ceremony a adjournment was made to the pre- Lance Sergt. Lai Loi Hing told sont premises of the Stock Ex que tout that on the evening in change in the ground floor of Ex- question he was on duty in the change Building, where a large neighbourhood of Lyndhurst Ter-gathering of friends und well

and its members.

Mr. G. H. Potts in welcoming the

On January 14. Piah's body was found in her bed. The front door of her house had been broken open and it was discovered that she and been dead for many hours.

Medical evidence showed that the

woman had terrible internal in

of the liver and spleen.

Perreau, who was once a profes-

swore that

Perreau called at his house on January 16 or 16 (be could not say definitely which day) and confessed to having beaten the womda Pish until she died.

Would Be Murdared."

oo the slopes of Liban and numer a second report, and this time he ous villas built at the side of the thought it was the firing of a gun, He turned round and saw a man, road. Then over the snow-bound whom he identified as the accused, guosta recalled the early days of sional boxer, was arrested, but after peaks, we travelled on an asphalt running into the street from house the Exchange and the troublous preliminary investigations he was road with snow melting under the No. 19. Witness was about 120 times they had been through dur discharged. Later he was re-arrest- sun's heat. There are many dan feet away at the time and immeing its 34 years existence in the ed, this time on the strength of a gercus spots on this road and diately gave chase. The man was Colony. He told the gathering that statement made to the police by one suffered several awkward moments dressed in black and when outside one of the many people who had Albert Monis, who for fear of crashes, as we passed house No. 49, Ng Tak Wing, who grown old with the local Stock Ex- many motor CAPS. I searched eventually caught the accused, change was Mr. Joseph Gould, who, in vain for the famous Cedars of joined in the chase. They were Lebanon but there is nothing left, then about forty feet behind the he said, was in a better position they have been cut down. However man, who ran down Gage Street than anyone else to tell them of we met many camels small pack and then to Chuk Hing Lane. times members have been through. horses and donkeys. We crossed a Witness followed the man to Chuk

Mi. Potta thanked, the guests for The departure was put off till the small valley close to the hills of Hing Lane, while Ng Tak Wing honouring the Stock Exchange with next day, and in the evening I Anti-Liban entering Syrian terri

continued his way down Gage their presence. Street. visited the town of Corfu (populatory and debouching on

The man then turned to would like to see a mord optimistic tion of 40,000) with large gardens plains of Damascus.

Gatzlaff Street and there witness tone everywhere and he wanted to and imposing houses in contrast

was rejoined by Ng and a Chinese seo more "Bulls" than "Beara " with very narrow streets.

constable C.300. Near the mouth as that was a sure sign that things of the Street, the man took off his wore looking up. jacket and threw it away.

C.300 picked it up. The man then ran to Wellington Street and turned to the right to Graham Street from where he ran to Queen's Road. After running along Queen's Road the man turned to Peel Street and then to Staveley Street where, after he had run

Over Historic Grence.

Sunday 15th. During the night the wind fell, and the sky cleared It was a clear moonlight night, and we started at 6.30 am. We dew over the mountains of Livadia al a height of 2000 metres, and then at a lower height we flew the length of the gulf of Corinth, which separated 118 from the isthmus of Mores; and on the right I picked up Lepante..

We fought against a head wind which bunetted about the machine and we crossed the isthmus of

Corinth above the Canal which con Dects the Gulf of Corinth with

that of Athens and we went on our curved course at about forty 'kilo metres an hour. I was not able

the

Damascus,

to the

the

Damascus is a city of 200,000 in. habitants in the middle of a won derful green oasis of some fifteen kilometres long and 7 bread, I had not time" to visit the town because we went straight to airport situated some nine kilome tres away. We had a rapid break fast on the aerodrome (belonging partly to the military and partly to the Air Orient Company). At 1 o'clock we took our places on a Farman machine, tri-meter mono plane of 700 h.p. and a mean speen of 180 km. an hour. With a fol- loving wind we actually did 210 km. an hour.

about thirty

yards, he was caught by Ng Tak Wing.

After further evidence had been given by C. 300 regarding the chase, the hearing was adjourned.

We flew at a height of 200, metres meanders. The plain of the over the deserts of Syria and Iraq; Euphrates resembles an immense unfortunately to pick out the Acro-where a recent rain had left a few the river Euphrates like the Tigris we saw the bed of a dried up river canal system practically all dry, polis where St. Paul preached. As pools of water but there was no which we were shortly to cross in wo dropped the mail and filled up vegetation, for a long time we fol- course of time, has dropped some with patrol there was just time for lowed the course of motor cars five to six metres probably due to a cup of coffee and we started off doing the journey from Damascus the removal of all the trees from at 10.30 for Castiercest, distance to Bagdad. We saw two or three the mountains which is the source about 800 kilometres. We encou broken down lorries which appear of these two river. tered further bumps above islands of the Gulf of Athens, thened to be having a difficult time. perfect weather, a following wind, At four o'clock we were aver stability perfect except perhaps for the middle of the desert close, to the vibration of the motors. We flew at 2,000 metres under a clear sun above a sea of scattered clouds and I did dus honour to a small cold repast served in the machine. We crossed the Cyclades and the Sporades, Islands of the Aegean Sea (I thought of the unhappy Icarus, & percursor of aviation) We skirted the town of Rhodes which is situated on the North East Point of the island of the

of

He said that he

Felicitations from Colleagues. Mr. W. J. Carroll, on behalf of the Hong Kong Sharebrokers' As- sociation thanked Mr. Potts for their hospitality and expressed the hope that the Stock Exchange will enjoy many years of prosperity in that the members of the Share- Hong Kong. He assured Mr, Potts

brokers' Association would always stand by the Stock Exchange and lend their co-operation to the older institution on all occasions.

Mr. C. Champkin, speaking on behalf of the Exchange Brokers' Association also expressed the hope that things will look better and

trade revival which must lead to that there will soon be a general prosperity on the "Rialto,"

The New Buliding. The new building is to be nine storeys, and when completed it will be twenty feet higher than the The Delta of "the Tigris and National Commercial and Industrial especially that of the Euphrates Bank which stands at the corner formerly so fertile, are actually of Ice House Street. There will be the fort of Routba, at 330 kilometransformed into an arid plain.

a big hall on the ground floor where tres from Damascus and 420 from Ate o'clock we landed at Bagdad, the brokers will meet in the morn Bagdad; this fort constructed by situated on both banks of the river ing. There will also be a very the English during the time their mandate over Iraq is Gar smiling aspect and houses are in There is space on each side of the

Tigris. It is a large town with a large room on the mezzanine floor. risoned by Iraquian troops. It is terraces surrounded by palm trees ball for a shop. The upper storeys, a large quadrilateral of 80 kilome and gardens. The formalities of which will be served by two lifts tres a side. In the centre a garage passport, eto, made us lose some will be used as offices for the mem- for motor cars, in the interior ac time, the pilot became impatient, bers of the Exchange. The build- commodation for soldiers and started his motor, a violent airing is designed with an imposing travellers, one sido is reserved for current thus caused blew away the the hotel equipped with convenient passporta and in the confusion the frontage on Ice House Street and roome with electricity and ventils ticket of the Italian journalist was is built in "pagoda " fashion, the tors the current being supplied by lost, but the agent of the Company upper storeys decreasing slightly in the wireless company. It was managed to put this right. rather cold and the heaters were We hoped to push on as far as lit in the different rooms.

Round Beyrouth which is 630 kilometres to the fort there are some Arab tents the East of Castel Rosso but the made of skins of animals. One hydroplane which we met coming sees also vestiges of the Old water from Beyrouth signalled rain and wheels said to have been introduced bad weather: So we slept at by the Romans and still used by Castel Rosso, a small Island close the Arabs to draw water.

same name.

Castel RossO.

to the Turkish coast: We descend ed into

We started again at 10.20 in a East South-Easterly direction for Bushire, 800 km away where we arrived at 3.45 p.m. at a speed or 220k.m., an hour. A little after Bagdad we entered Persian Terrt tory and frequently saw the mean dering Tigris comparable to a huge

size

The contractors have undertaken to complete the new home of the Stock Exchange by February next year and the cost of the building is estimated at $750,000.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange was founded in 1801, and for many years was in Ice House Street.

superb creek well protect Our pilot profited by the falling serpent. The river sparkled under When Exchange Building was ecum ed by a line of high craters, one daylight and want some distance the sun like a large golden ribbon, pleted in 1920 they moved into their side of which is situated the from the fort and rested on a It is very like the Euphrates present premises in the basement picturesque town of Castal. This tomb; he heard a noise behind him whose course at times recodes from of that building. The new building was occupied in the late War by | and jooking round saw a hyena and at other approaches the Tigria. the French who fortified the cra- showing his teeth in a somewhat Everywhere are immense dame, will thus be its third home in 43 ters of the islands against the hostile manner, so he discreetly with pools of water over which we years, Originally there were very Turke and established a hydroplane retraced his steps to the fort. Al fly at a low altitude, villages far few members but with the growth bash there. Actually the Island is though the desert is absolutely arid apart Blocks of goats and sheep of the Exchange a limit of 24 whs under Italian mandate the popu- one finds gazelles, hyenas and grazing, a few bosts on the river fixed some years ago. In view of lation is orthodox Greck of 15,000 jackals; there were also nomad and frequent islands of sand people and now reduced to 3,000 Bedouins tending some meagre on account of violent earthquakes flocks of goats and sheep, fed by of Amara, then the plain deepens, We passed over the little town of 1998 and by the prohibition made the motor service from Damascus and is covered with numerous pools by the Turks to trade with them, to Bagdad...

We passed the night at a little house rented by the Company Air Orient, we were very cramped but they very kindly reserved a small room for me and my two com panions had to double up together.

As Last Beyrouth Monday the 16th. At 5.30

we departed in clear weather, and

The Tigris and Euphrates.

the demand for seats even this num ber has been found too small and in recent years it was raised to 30.

NEW MILITARY POST

BARRACKS IN THE EAST.

·RIVER DISTRICT.

Under cross-examination by Mr. A. U, Braga, counsel for the de- fence, Monis admitted that he had

when he was first interrogated. not told the full story to the police.

He did not tell the police every- thing in the first instance because he was afraid he would be mur- derect."

Protection,

Have the police guaranteed your life now -No. At least they have guaranteed me protection."

Why did you not tell the police than about the truth—if it was the truth--and ask for protection 1~-~~-Į was afraid then.

Mr. Braga I put it to you that every word of this alleged confes- sion or conversation made to you by Mr. Perreau is an invention 1- No. It is the truth and nothing clac but the truth

Mr. Braga: And the whole thing was put up to you to say 1-No.

Mr. Braga: It was this belated statement of wours that chased the ro-arrest of the accused 1-Yes.

had been made out and asked his Mr. Braga submitted that no case lordship to draw the attention of the jury to the provision in the Code by which they could return a verdict of not guilty at that stage if they considered there was insuf- ficient evidence on which to con vict

point and in five minutes returned The jury retired to consider the with an unanimous decision that there was not sufficient evidencs.

Perreau was accordingly discharg“.

ed.

EXHIBITION OF HOME-MADE GOODS

OPENED AT HANGCHOW.

“An Exhibition of Home-Made Goods was formally opened at Hankow on Tuesday. the prices of all goods were re- There were 180 exhibitors and

duced to encourage purchases.

The Exhibition was attended by crowds of enthusiastic visitors, and Probably will continue for 1 days

It has been officially announced by the Committee of the Exhibition that a Carnival will be held on the 16th and 17th instant and that a hearty welcome will be given, to women, visitor and the Labour and Commercial Unions on the last day of the Exhibition.

· TO CLEAN PIRATES

CHINESE TROOPS FOR BIAS BAT.:

Bias Bay still has the evil reputa

of water and disappears under huge morrasses.' A' bank of clouds' forces us to climb to some 1500 Tuesday 17. Departure at day distance of some 130 km. we metres then at a lower height at a light by a clear sky for Bagdad and strike the North East point of the Boushire. We are trying to make Persian Gulf with its blue waters the East River district between Owing to the great importance of up the time lost in the Mediters-bordered with immense sand and Tai Po and Swatow commercially nean by doubling our stages. We morasses At go'clock wa arrive and otherwise, General Chan Cha km an hour and in two hours with its Bingle storied houses built to Mooy Yuen to select a site for dew with a following wind at 200 at Bushire, & amali Persian town Tong has sent Mt. Zip Chik. Nam k.m, which separated us from Bag courtyards of palm trees which When a suitable site is found pirates, and Admiral Choy. Ting and five minutes covered the 420 with dried brick, around spacious new military barracks tion as the rendezvous of robbers and dad. We passed the Euphrates at overhang the high walls. Each building operations will commence Fai has sent a body of troops there. Ramadi, a hundred km, befors house assesses a large tank to at once with a view to closing the pirate We skirted the Coast South West Bagdad. We saw a little vegets hold their reserve of water as Its reported that these barracks, base and thus protecting ships of Cyprus, in places abrupt in tion, some trees growing on the rain is very scarce in these parts will be occupied by the Mooy Yuen piracy... places undulating, with mul

with clear waters which nowed last but the customs formalities more billet themselves in private houses another special campa banks of the Euphrates a river We intend to push as far as Djask troops who will be forbidden, to Admiral Choi has also ordered y through the middle of the deserts, particular in Porsis than any According to the plane, the new month. And it is beli describing an infinite number of other country, took so much time larracks will house one Division this locality will soon

(Cehtinued on next Column) that we obliged to sleep at Bushire, of troops.

of pirately

a light breeze. We headed straight

for the East towards Beyrouth at

an altitude of about 1,000 metres.

towns dotted about. We landed in

the port of Beyrouth at: 10.30 a.m.,

a fine town with a population of

180,000, situated on large; pro montory.

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