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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933

THE RAILWAYS

IN HONAN

MURDER ON FRENCH WARSHIP

MURDER CHARGE

AT SESSIONS

OLD WOMAN 'FOUND

STRANGLED

Vast Improvement In ANNAMITE KILLS YOUNG

Four Years

EXPRESS TRAÏNS AND

TIMES KEPT

(From Our Own Correspondent)

KALPENG HO, July 8. Two fourths of July, four years

hetween.

No, I am not to refer to two celebrations but to two great con trasts in regard to railway travel. Four years ago trains in and nut of Kaifeng were scarce, uncertain as to time of arrival or departure, now the reverse, the train team being fined if there is time lost.

Four years ago

we got out of Kaifeng in an iron truck with sol diers, this fourth of July we deft on time by express train in a good compartment with an electric fan in motion.

OFFICER

terrible

Tokyo, July 19-A tragedy occurred on Monday even- Ban Hing 20, was charged be

the ing aboard the French warship Refore the Chief Justice at guluse lying at the Mitsubishi Criminal Sessions yesterday with Dockyard, the second in command, the murder of an old woman at 57, Lieutenant de Vaisseau Sourdille, Kam Wah Street, Shaukiwan being murdered by an Annamite boy named Kim employed as table servant.

The crime appears to have been motivated by revenge as the boy the hal heen reprimanded by officer owing to the unsatisfactory way in which carried out his duties and threatened with dismissal on the return of the ship to Indo.

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POPULATION OF JAPAN

RECKLESS DRIVER

SENTENCED

Four Babies A Minute

BIGGEST INCREASE EVER

KNOWN

KILLED CHILD IN PASSING A TRAM

The case in which an Indian motor driver named Dost Moham- med was charged with negligent driving and having inefficient brakes on his vehicle, publio motor car No. 631,'at Sai Wan Ho on the night of July 2, was continued be- fore Mr. Wynne-Jone yesterday, when Lo Kau, an employes in the Taikon Dockyard gave evidence.

Witness told the Court that he was outside the Lai Heung tea- house, Shaukiwan, at about 8 p.m. on the day in question when he sAW

car proceeding from East and West. Two motor cars were attempting to pass the tram, one on each side, The car which was on the south side of the road passed the tram car safely but the one on the other side knocked_n Witness said that he boy down. saw the number of the car which Wan GIL

The dead woman is Po Mui, aged 60, and it is alleged that she was Tokyo.-According to the vital lured to a vacant basement five statistics just, made public_by the doors away from her own address, Statistical Bureau of the Cabinet, 47, Karn Wah Street, and there Japan's increase of population last strangled with a cotton singlet. year exceeded one million.

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At The births last year totalled

a tram and 2,182,743, an "unprecedented figure. torney General, prosecuted, Mr. C. Macnamara, instructed which works out that there were 24 births an hour on the average. As by Mesara. Lo and Lo, defended.

The jury was composed of compared with the previous year. Soon after seven in the evening Messrs. F. Mow Fung (Forsman), there were 80,737 more births. The H. A. Castro, J. A. 8. Alves, Orate per thousand of population is Lieutenant Sourdille. who had com- pleted two years' service in the Far B. Raven, D. Ellis, A.

22.09,"or somewhat higher than the hie Gomes, and H. D. Brown.

when it stood at previous year East, was sented at the table

Mr. Fraser, in his opening state-

02.01. cabin addressing the labels for his trunks as he was to have left by ment said a post mortem examina

Death Rate Lowest on Record. / Cross-examined by Mr. Rendali, the. Nagasaki Maru for Shanghai tion of the body indicated that

The en route to France on leave, when death was due to strangulation.

deaths totalled 1,174,873, for defendant, witness said he did the boy opened the cabin door and Round the neck was a tightly tied which means that there were 131 not know the father of the deceas The Peiping Hankow Train Ser vice has just been altered to an

fred at him with a heavy, calibre ligature which would be produced deaths an hour on the average. Ased (the boy subsequently died of express every day hoth ways. The the forehead and after traversing

The shot entered in court. naval revolver.

compared with the previous year, a his injuries) until after the accid. Deceased went to live 47, Kam decline of 63.597 is noted. The ent had happened although they in hour stopa at the bigger

-Street, on April

30 death rate per thousand of popula. hoth worked in the Taikoo Docks, stations are now reduced to fifteen the brain emerged at the base of Wah

And with her were three tion was 17.72 against 18.98 for the He was not related to Hoi Cheung minutes. The run from Chengehow the skull.

the eldest of previous year. to Peiping now

An officer who had been reading grand-daughters, takes nineteen

It represents the (the boy's father) nor hail he dis hours, and southwards to Hankow in a nearby cabin, rushed into the whom kept the house. Prisoner lowest rate recorded since the early cussed his evidence with anybody

before coming to Court. from the same central point, eigh-rangeway on hearing the shot and and his wife rented a cubicle in vers of Meiji. teen hours. Leaving the Lunghai i turn the weapon upon after they had been living there five tion, that is, the surplus of births and not two?-I only saw two.

Mr. Rendall Would it surprise The natural increase of populato know that there were three cara was just in time to see the Anna the house at 83.80 per month and express at Chengchow there are and shoot himself through days the man obtained work at the aver denth shows an unprecedent Would it also surprise you about twenty-five minutes between

decks. He remained at this jobed figure of 1,001,868. arrival from the east and departure

the temple.

The murderer died forty minutes until May 28 and during that time words. population increased by 115 ceased says two cars passed hei to the south of the Kin-Han ex-

received 80 wages. A further 81.30 press.

before the one that knocked the which was due to him had not been per hour on the average.

Enough for a New Provinces. drawn.

As the population of Iwate pre have been so.

boy down game, along? It, might |

was put at 1,008,100 the natural boy I did not see it.

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We left Kaifeng at 5 pm on the 5th were on the top of Chikong sban, almost incredible! More noticeable was this; we were try- ing to eat at noon on the 4th, in great heat, and at noon on the bth, our hostess was asking if we were

cold!

Had we left one day earlier we would have been less lucky, ap armoured car had been derailed north of Chengchow, and this accl dent upset the Express timetable during that day. After leaving the important station of Yencheng, an official whose acquaintance Thad accidentally made a few hours tur ther up the line, came to tell me that thirty extra soldiers had just hern added to the train guard be. cause a company of soldiers had that morning revolted at the town to which we were then drawing near, namely Siping, and that it. was possible they might attack the

-express.

I assured him that, as the time was then midnight, the troops would probably be asleep after their looting and carousal of the morning.

We passed by the town without any sign of danger or trouble.. Two Chikongshans, Seventeen Years Between,

gjies.

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later and the wounded officer died at about eleven p.m. in the Inter- national Hospital to where he was rushed after receiving attention

The wife stayed at home and she

In other

to know that the mother of the de

From the Mitsubishi Dockyard doc. borrowed small sums from deceased/fecture in the North-East last year Which part of the car bit the

tor. At the hospital be was operat-amounting to 60 cents. ed upon by Dr. Schmidt but it was impossible to save his life and he did not recover conscionaness from the moment of being shot.

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A significant fact which showed incense of population was fairlyMr. Rendall put it to the witness that the old lady had money and quivalent to the number of in that he did not get to the sens habitant in that prefecture. Asaf the accident until after every- that prisoner and his wife sware of that fact, was the lossompared with the previous year, thing was over but witness denied of 8100 from a belt worn by da.the figure shows an increase of this. He heard a sound (the im-

the boy This money was found by 146,334. The rate of increase per pact when

hit) the wife in the presence of her thousand of population was 15.90 although he did not actually sen

the accident happening. husband and the deceased and was against the previous year's 13.18.

This extraordinary nural io. returned to the old woman.

crease is due at once to the increase to the decline of of birth and deaths,

Efficient and Popular Officer. ceased. Lieutenant Bourdille, who was a very efficient officer and had specia. lined in the submarine branch of the service...was thirty-five years of age. He was very popular with his fellow officers and a farewell dinner had been arranged for him on the He came night of the tragedy. from Brittany and had been looking forward to seeing his wife and young child again.

had been in the Mitsubishi Dock The Reguluse, a patrol vessel,

The weapon used by the murder, er was taken from a rack in the ship's armoury and it is presumed that the boy purloined the keys of the Officer in charge of the am- munition locker in order to secure. the three cartridges with which the revolver was loaded, one of which remained unused-Japan Chronicle,

MR. HAYLEY MORRISS

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Mr. Rendall: When you saw the mother carrying the deceased, wasn't she going back to her home -No, abe was running after the car.

tram car.

In sending the defendant to, pri- on for three months without the| option of a fine, Mr. Wynne-Jones remarked that it was the most shocking piece of driving he had ever heard of.

S.M. RAILWAY

On the last day of the month a matshed theatre attracted a large audience including tenants of 47.

The Upward Course. Kara Wah Street, and a about 7 p.m. there were on the floor only In connection "with the vital After further evidence had been deceased and her eight-years-old statistics just published, Mr. Haseen, Mr. Rendall submitted that grand-daughter, an old woman and gawa, Director of the Statistical he had no case to answer do the another child besides Pan Hing Bureau, says that in the early first count, but the Magistrate asked for some peanuts and the de, of population in Japan was only then gave evidence and said that and his wife. The granddaughter years of Meiji" the natural increase ruled otherwise, The defendant for the past month undergoing recessed left the house presumably around 200,000. There had been aon the evening in question he was pairs and was due to leave to-day to buy them. That was all that gradual scaling up since until in driving along Eai Wan Ho and he

it her departure has been poet was known of events in the house 1900, the 500,000 mark was reached; wanted to pass

He poned until after the funeral of the at that time as the other woman in 1968, the 600,000 mark; in 1911, swerved to the right and when he the_700,000 mark; in 1925, the was going back to his side of the dead officer." The service will take had gone to sleep. Church and full naval honours will as the theatre which continued its mark. It was place to-morrow at the Catholic Kwok, the granddaughter, was 900,000 mark; in 1926, the 200,000 road he knocked the boy down.

even assumed that be accorded him.

performance until dawn, and at if cases af default in reporting about 3 am, prisoner came to her births were taken into account, the and paid her the rent and other figure for 1925 would have exceeded money, that was owing. He added 1,000,000. Although in 1913 "the that he was moving to Fouth natural increase was less than Street. When she returned to the 300,000 owing to the very high house Kwok did in fact, find pri- death rate from the virulence of soner and his wife packing and the epidemic of influenza, there is they left soon afterwards. Mean little doubt that Japan's naturel while Po Mui had not, returned and increase of population has steadily Kwok went out to look for her. taken an upward course.

PLANS FOR MARKETING She met with no success and nt

An Unexpected Jump.

THE NEW SHARES 4.30 p.m. that day she informed the police. They were unable to

'Since 1027, however, the annual AN APPEAL DISMISSED. find the woman at first but search natural increase has fallen short of couraging the national interest in Tokyo. Partly in the hope of en- of the empty houses in the vicinity,300,000, with the exception of 1930 Manchuria (Special Air-Mail Service) Fasulted in the discovery of the when that mark was exceeded.

and Mongolia, the South Manchuria Railway Coan- crime.

rate of natural increase per thou- London, July 4. Investigations were made with a

sand-of population, which stood at allow the people to subscribe to its pacy may devise some measures to An appeal by Mr. Hayley Morview to tracing prisoner and his 15.6 in 1926, never reached 15 dur new shares to be marketed abortly. riss, of Pippingford Park, Nutley,wife but enquiries at Fourth Street ing the following six years, it fall. For that purpose is suggested a Sussex, from the verdict and judg. were a failure. A few days later, ing to 12 in some years. This trend group Mesars. Baines and Co., Ltd., pro- Aberdeen and on the pretext "that few years bas, encouraged a belief become shareholders in the name, of ment in a libel action against however, a watchman saw them at of natural increase during the past which will enable several persons to subscription" method

prietors of the "Leeds Mercury," they were wanted in connection in some quarters that with 1926 as their representatives."

with a debt, he induced them to representing the.. highest, water: The South Manchuria Railway enter a public service vehicle with mark, the downward course has set Company which was authorised by him and handed them over to the in regard to the rate of natural the last session of the Diet and ap Shaukiwan police.

increase. Last year's Mr. Morriss had been awarded After evidence in support of the have,

figures proved by a general meeting of its one farthing damages.

falsified this Morriss, asked for a new trial on

Crown case had been called, the belief. The natural increase last shareholders some time ago to in- Mr, Doughty K.C., for Mr. case was adjourned. The defence year reached the unprecedented to Y500,000,000, is to carry out the crease its capital from Y.410,000,000 the grounds that (1) the verdict

will open this morning,

figures of 1,007,868. with the rate of scheme this summer. increase at 15.2, which runs.close to made public the following general that of 1923 (15s per thousand of population). Whether this extract; 1.-Or the total number of shares

arrangement: dinary, increase is merely ephemeral of 7,200,000 3,000,000 shares are to or whether it is indicative of an the subscribed by the Government, other upward tendency of natural 2,200,000 shares by the existing increase of a lasting natural, it is shareholders and impossible to say at present.

200,000 shares divided among its staff members, placing the remaining 1,200,000 shares on public sale.

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It is seventeen years suce your correspondent last saw this sum- mer resort. The change is very great. There seem to be. many nore houses now than then. There are certainly many more trees, where of old the view was open now there are delightful shady walks, and vistas of trees stretch- ing ahead. Only staying for a week end, I never realised what a beauti ful place it is. The mountain tops stretch away in apparently endless succession: this you see whilst you shave or take a meal, Move a chair two paces from the verandah, then you sit and gaze into deep valleys. Sueb views at Kuling are seer after a climb above the house

This is the Erst time in three or four years that visitors have come here in any number. Each day now is seeing additions and other houses are being opened up. Along one ridge for about three miles, there seem to be an unbroken line of bomes. Then there are various

was against the weight of evidence; from that ridge showing many buildings. There is a largo (2) the late Mr. Justice McCardin three storied structure,

admitted questions in cross-exam- pressive, known as the Taj Mahal nation which were not permissible of Chikongshan, it was erected by misdirected the jury.

in & libel acttion; and (3) the judge General Chin Yuin Ao. There are four other large build-alleged libels was headed: "Hay Mr. Doughty said one of the ings, also new to me, two, making ley Morrise in China; A Life of up the American School; one, n

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Steady Deleat of "Reds." Another comparison made, that of the Chisongshan of this year and conditions here only Inet year.

was dismissed with costs by the Court of Appeal (the Master of the Rods and Lords Justices Lawrence and Slesser).

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An Unprecedented Figure. unprecedented figure of 2,182,743, The birthe last year showed an

Giving judgment, the Master of

while the deaths totalling 1,174,875 the Rolls said the Court did not that she had been beaten by de-carly years of Meiji. What cause shareholders

The girl complained to the 8.C.A. represent the lowest rate since the think any evidene had been given fendant's son, who was fourteen are responsible for all this it is August 10, to subscribe to the new which ought not to have been ad

years of age. It was found that impossible to say, "unless a thorough shares at a ratio of one to two old bemitted, and they thought the sun she had not been paid her wages study is made from various angles.shares.

ming-up was careful, accurate, and since the day of registration the But it is noticeable that births were fair. The appeal would be dismiss ed, with costs.

3 The 1,200,000 shares for public amount due totalling 848.55. There particularly numerous in autumn marketing to be placed on sale were no masks of violence on the and that the number of marriages through the syndicate banks during well-treated.

days of 1931 and the early part of 15. constantly ill, and that was why years.

Defendant paid that the girl was last year was larger than usual she did not pay any wages.

Mr. Schofield Äned defendant 820 and ordered her to pay $48.55 As regards the deaths, it is in. on behalf of the girl to the 8.C.A.teresting to note that the rate of

three since been polteed by the soldiers girl and she appeared to have been that took place-hetween the closing the period between August 11, and

Last year three CommunistĮ armies were attacking at places aiming at its capture and of Liu. Chen Hua. The reranants the control of the Kia-Han Rail of the above three armies have way.

been pressed back out of that re Those three places were. Kwang-gion. A man I know well has been shui in Hupeh, and Lichiakini and living, in "Chinese dress, for Sinyangchow in Honan. Being de-month or more in the latter city. fented the "Reds" came here but It was in this same city that the were dislodged in a few hours. Communists paraded their captive Trenches may now be seen on lower the Rev. II. Ferguson...

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spurs of the big ridge. These were Our most notable visitor to Kai-rate. This, mupled with the fact the total list of mortality) was in all village offices, post officer, dug by the soldiers to guard leng of late has been the Rev. Dr. that the birth rate in this country particularly low. against return of the "Reds."Zwemer, Arabic Scholar and proh- does not yet manifest such a mark-servable that the climatic conditions They did not return; instead, they ably greatest living authority oned tendency to decline as in the last year were, on the whole, con made away to the west, frld Shen- Mohammedaalem. During a brief principal Western countries and thicive to health. af; there they were deflected from visit of a dozen or so hours, he that there was actually a ̧ remark- Even if these considerations, may capturing : Sianiu, · and now their grossed much interest and address.able increase in the number of be completely ignored, the spread rempante are harassing eastern and fed two crowded gatherings, a

births last year, seem to have of bygienic ideas and improved north-eastern Erechuan province- He is now in the north-west of brought about the unprocedented equipment for the advancement of The Soviet Government centre Kansu province, and is due later gure of natural increase; con nublic health have, no doubt, or the cities to the east of here called to speak at Kuling and Mokancludes the Director of the Statistributed to the decreased death Kwangshan and Sangeheng have shan.

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