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THE DOLLAR

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THE AMBULANCE|

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Annual Dinner Darice Next Month

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The Hong Kong dollar register-

ed a further advance of a farth- ing yesterday, opening at 1's, 114d The

market locally. was very steady, with the business-rate about 25. 04d. and 22 03d.

Around the Courts

KIDNAPPER TO STAND TRIAL AT SESSIONS

HIGHWAY ROBBER -

CHARGED

The disappearance of two chil-"

A sequel to the alleged attack The enquiry into the death of

The St. John Ambulance Asso-dren, one female, aged 13, and a made upon a married woman Kwok, Ma Ho Tal, a Chinese male who

ciation and Brigade are holding 3-year-old male, on December 13 Mui, at Island Road, Stanley, on died as a result of injuries sus-

their 3rd Annual Hall on Saturday at 268 Tai Nam Street led to the Saturday afternoon was the ap- tained when knocked down by

April 6th, at the Hong Kong Hotel appearance of Cheng Kam alias pearance of a 33-year old un- car driven by Mr. A. E. Ainsworth

The official rate remained un-under the distinguished patronage Shek Pat, a 28-year-old widow of employed. Yu Chung before Mr. on February 1 at the Junction of

Governor 58 Ta Ku Ling Road, Arst floor, Schofield at Central Magistracy changed in the afternoon, but of His Excellency the Jordan Road and Nathan Road there was great activity in the Sir William Peel, KCMG., KB.E, in the dock before Mr. QA.A

yesterday, on a charge of high- at about 4.30 p.m. was resumed market in the morning with a

way robbery.. The defendant is yesterday before Mr. A.W.G.H.

fair amount of profit-taking by

alleged to have received a sum of Grantham with the following jury chinese speculators. Business, was

$5 from the woman and to have: assisting: Messrs. Frank Tock

done at varying rates from

used personal violence, (foreman), H. G. Lemm and Lagid to as high as 25. 1.8d: Later Mr. Li Cher Chl

shade for the enter ainment arrange

ments, and Miss Azalea Reynolds will give an exhibition of solo

Pak Him.

Mr. J. M. " d'Almada Remedios represented Mr. Ainsworth.

At yesterday's resumed hearing Hung Fu was recalled for cross examination and was questioned

the market became a easier.. »

29.

It is interesting to note that the official rate of Is. 11d. is just silver parity.

-In Shanghal, the rate went to as to the direction and the dis-1s. 8.13/16d. during the morning. tance between the witness and the but later eased off somewhat to iron post marked "slow" Further is, 81d. questioned witness said that the car was travelling at a high speed but was not in a position to ex- plain or calculate the speed:

Sharp Nolse

IL

is responsible

(Knight of Grace of the Venerable | MacFadyen at the Kowloon Ma- with Order of St John of Jerusalem).gistracy yesterday charged

The whole of the first floor has the kidnapping of the two chil- been reserved.

'dren with others not in custody:

The complainant. Ng Lai Ho, aunt of the first child and mother of the second was absent from court through illness and her place was taken by her husband Sub-Inspector Payntz who pro- secuted outlined the case,

dancing.

The Hon Sir William Shenton (Officer of Grace of the Venerable

Tickets

Order of St. John of Jerusalem). will be the President of the Ball. for the Dinner and Dance ($5.00), may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary and

Kong Hotel and the King's Dis-

On December 12, the elder child, Leung Ki was carrying the young-

Inspector Logan, prosecuting, asked Mr. Schofield to fix a date for the hearing of the case, which is for committal, and Wednesday afternoon was fixed."

KOWLOON THEFTS

er "Leung Chig Tung on her back Before Mr. Grantham at Kowloon and left 266 Tal Nam Street for Magistracy yesterday Leung Hing. 267 Keelung Street where she aged, 21, and Mak Fung-yam, aged

TWO NEW PEPYS members of the Committee. Hong played in front of the house. While 28, were charged with stealing a

Wong Ming. afitter employed DIARIES FOUND

at Messrs. Wallace Harper, stated

In evidence that he was engaged with the repairing of a car but- side the service shop and heard a "sharp noise like that of a car going at a fast pace. He turned round immediately and heard the sudden, braking of a car and la- ter the same car was at a stand- still. A man was seen lying on the road.

Intense Political Interest

(Special Air Mail Service)

London, Feb. 12.

The discovery has been made by Mr. Arthur Bryant, the Pepysian authority, and Mr. M'Dougall C.

Two new Pepys diaries have been discovered. For two hundred and

45 to 50 m.p.h.

fifty years they have lain in the

K. C. Ah Cha

Pepys Library at Magdalene Col- retired mer- & chant was the next witness call-lege, Cambridge. ed. On February 1 he was stand- ing near Wallace Harper's watch- ing a mechanic repairing his car Witness heard the sound of an onrushing car and on looking up caught the vision of a car com- ing from Tsim Tsai Shui at a very high speed between 50 to 100 feet away from witness. The car pass- 'ed him and continued on its way. The speed was estimated by him at about 45 to 50 m.ph. He watch- ed the car approach the controll- ed area to see whether it will re-terest. duce speed. When the car pass-

Turner, librarian at the college.

Mr. Bryant, in conjunction with Mr. Turner, is collecting material for the second volume of his "Life of Pepys," which is to be published

In the autumn,

persary.

CRITICS: DUPED FOR 30 YEARS

Kreisler's Classics Own Compositions

(Special Air Mail Servicej

Vienna, Feb, 12" Kreisler told of the "immense joy" he had taken during the past thirty years in maintaining the secret that so-called French and Italian classical pieces in his re- pertoire were in reality his own he said, compositions, and, as

they were there the defendant en- tavelling rug from No. 16 Chatham ticed them away. Nothing fur-Road on February 24, a Buit of ther was heard of the, affair "un- Chinese clothing from No. 37 Hum- til about 6 p.m. the same day phreys Building on February 26, when a report was made at the and two travelling rugs from No.

110 Austin Road on Saturday. Sham Shui Po Police Station,

It was stated that, when the two- On January 4 information was received by a Chinese detective men were arrested on information. "and as a result of investigations in connection with the last charge the father of the second child was they admitted stealing the other sent for and questioned. Inform- articles. The property was recover-- atton was however received trom fed from pawnshops.

children Walchow that the

bad been brought to that place.

Rescue Effected The authorities at Walchow were

communicated with and as a re- sult of their efforts the childrer were rescued. Several arrests were made but the defendant and .an- other woman were missing.

The children were brought back to Hong Kong and through fur- ther enquiries, defendant was ar- rested at Shaukiwan. The follow

The first defendant, who admitt- ed all the charges was sentenced to a total of two months' hard labour, while the second defendant, who

pleaded guilty to the first charge only, was sentenced to one month,

Li Hon-lung, 17, and Li Mai, 18 were bound over by Mr. Wynne- Jones at Central Magistracy yester- day on a charge of stealing two Bundles of vegetables from a stall in Hing Lung Street. It was stat- ed that after the arrest of Là Hon- lung, the second accused, Li Mau was caught hawking the stolen ve getables.

Evidence was then given by Leung Yick Hang (father of the second child) Leung K, Chinese Detective Wong Cheuk. Ying Lee Chan, Interpreter after which the

Caught in the act of transferring a bucket to a basket. defendant made a statement from fish from

Man Kau, 50, unemployed, was the dock to the effect, that on January 4 four of them 1.e.. the brought before Mr. Wynne-Jones at

and herself

yesterday- principal, tenant, 2 Puntal women Central Magistracy

were there in the charged with larceny. Defendant house. She was asked by the pleaded: "I have nothing to say,

The two diaries, which are writ-duping the most famous ex-ing day, she was charged.

perts." ten in longhand in the diarist's unmistakable language,

are-des- After being decorated by the

tense political and personal in- cribed by an authority as of In-President of the Republic with the Officers Cross of the Austrian Order of Merit, he revealed to a They deal more with political small circle of friends, the secret ed the sign board he heard the matters than with social life, and which has surprised the world. screeching of brakes. *The car shed a light on a period of more

"I can fully. confirm," he said, continued to skid and then swer than 30 years after Pepys's origin-gured on my programme for the that the various pieces which ved to the right and mounted the al diary. Ad "Island". Witness heard a sort of

last thirty years as compositions bumping and then saw an object

of Couperin, Porpora, Pugnay, and

Young and Striving "You ask me why did I use the names of these masters? Thirty years ago, when the pieces were composed, I was a young and striving musician. I already had compositions under my own name. on my programme several of my

after Pepys's diary the Author lived I however wanted to increase the a very Interesting life," an au- scope and variety of my pro-

fly up in the air on the level of diaries deals with the days of the Vivaldi were my own compositions Principal tenant to go with her since the accusation is such; I have:

The Popish Flot" -- One of the newly discovered the car for 5 or 6 feet. There Popish plot. The existence of this was no movement in the object. diary had never been suspected. Witness then described the scene The other diary was already and the conveyance of the deceas-known to exist. It deals with the ed to hospital.

investigations Charles II. and his Privy Council into the "affairs of the Navy Office. "For more than thirty years

Cross examined by Mr. Remedios witness said that he had 21 years' experience in driving and he es timated the speed by the noise of the engine and the wind ve-

carried

out"

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to the country and was engaged by her to carry luggage.

Bables Carried

been in Hong Kong for 17 years and have fever been in a Court." He was sentenced to three weeks hard labour,

The two Puntai wosten were not known to her and each one of

A charge of stealing eight sets of them carried one of the children.

mah jong from five different shops When they arrived at Walchow

was preferred against Wong Hing. She went back to her home and knew nothing further about the aged 19, unemployed. before, Mr.. matter. On January 22 she re-Grantham at Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, Detective Sergeant afrested on February 12, by the Police.

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locity, and the speed it went past thority told a reporter."Yet the gramme, but my modesty and tact turned to Hong Kong and was wanklin stated that the total value

him Further, witness said that a car travelling at between 45 to 50 m.ph. would pull up at 30 feet without skidding and 65 to 75 feet with skidding.

diary stopped just when Pepys was new pieces by me.

did not permit annouricing further coming into contact with person

Moreover, it ages of national importance.

was obvious that I could not figure "Now these diaries reveal a with my own compositions.

twenty times on my programme vast mass of information of which Mr. S. Spary deposed

"I therefore attempted to com- Pepys scholars are in ignorance, pose music in the style of the removal of the deceased to hos-including a day-to-day record of seventeenth century masters, and pital in his car after which Trai Pepys's almost daily association made strenuous efforts to attain

to the

His Worship committed the de- fendant to take her trial at the

next Sessions.

of the stolen property was $112, all of which was recovered from pawn- shops. Defendant was sentenced to three months' hard labour.

•

Things have been missing from TRADE MARK CASE

the huts, particularly when the Summoned before Mr. W. Scho-soldiers are at dinner," said De-

ic Sergt. McInnis gave evidence. with Charles II, and the members the style and flavour of these field at Central Magistracy yester tective Sub-Inspector Poyntzat.

Sergt. McInnis described the skid märks and the measurements he took of the locality...

Faulty Brakes

On February 3 he took car No. 4105 out and travelled along Na- than Road at 30 m.p.h. and when near Wallace Harper he applied full brakes and pulled the Up at 76 feet.

car

The car sustained slight damage in the accident but this was in b...way responsible for the test. The brakes according to witness was hot in good condition.

of his Government in connection classic composers. with matters of extreme national importance.

h

THE SOVIET BUDGET

Revenue Exceed Expenditure

MOSCOW.

Should the brakes have been in good condition the car travelling

At the plenary session of the at the same speed would have Budget Committee of the Central Executive Committee of the

tuition/

[

Kowloon Magistracy yesterday. when he prosecuted two farmers, Chan Mul, aged 40, and Chan Mo-il. shu, aged 49, for trespassing in the Shamshulpo "Military Camp...on Saturday. Defendants were each fined $2 or, in default, one week's

...

hard labour, Bergeant Benson,

day for (1) Dassession of rubber "The first attempts were crown-afdes in wrappers, bearing a false ed with success This induced me trade-description, and (2) having to continue my experiments and applied a false trade description to mang violin pieces which appear wrappers containing rubber shoes, ed as works by these classical com calculated to deceive. Li Hung- posers adapted for the violin by lung, acting manager of the Yue Fritz Kreisler' were in reality the Cheong at No. 27, Jervois Street, chlidren of my own musical in ground floor, and No. 60 Bonbam the East Lancashire Regiment, was

Strand, East, was convicted on the the complainant, "You ask me how it occurred to second summons, but was dismiss- choose these Italian and Frenched of the first. Composers. I played the new com- His Worship Bred defendant $100 positions, and their great music with costs of $200 and the rubber became a second nature, I felt shoes contained in the false wrap and lived with this music, so that pers to be handed over to the com- I had developed into a posthumous plainant. pla Couperin and Pugnant. It was, of The complainant was Chan Tae-

Batten & Company, who was te presented by Mr. G. K. Hall Brut ton, while Mr. Leo D'Almada, anr. appeared for the defendant.

L'ATLANTIQUE HULK

Paris.

pulled up between 45 to 55 fee USSR, the People's Commissar of course, an immense joy to dupe hang, assistant manager of Mesars, L'Atlantique when the 52,512-ton

At this stage the enquiry was adjourned until March 11.

CROWN LAND AUCTION

Garden Lot Sold

Finance, Chinko, made a report on the most famous musical experts the U.S.S.R. State budget of 1934 of the world for thirty years. and the budget estlinates for 1935. These compositions were prats- Grinko described the financial | ed all over the world as great results of the past year as entire masterpieces, while those which ly satisfactory State budget appeared under my own name re- extimates for 1034 provided for 173 Ceived moderate or just benevolent milliard roubles of revenues and criticism. It shows how hard it is

INTENT TO STEAL Sentence of air weeks hard la

In order to avola heavy liabilities in connection with the towage of French super-liner was damaged by fre in 1033 British under- Writers informed the original own-

·ers of the vessel, the Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique, that they were renouncing all interest in the hoặc

A lot of Crown Land, reglater- 484 miliard roubles of expend for a young composes to push him-bour was passed by Mr. Wynne-nique was extensively damaged by ed as Garden Lot No. 80 at Mid-tures. Actual revenues in 1984 self with his compositions.”

die Gap Road, Mount Cameron, reached (49.7 miliard roubles and was put up for publie anction at expenditures 46,7 roubles, the ex

It was stated that French under- writers would do likewise, L'Atian- Jones at Central Magistracy yes fire in the English Channel in terday or Kwah Chul, unemployed. January, 1933, with a loss of seven- who was charged with being found teen lives The ruperliner was in- in Room ft 312, of the Hong Kong sured for 176,000,000 francs Hotel on Bunday night with intent The hulk of L'Atlantique is stur to stent.

worth a considerable sum, but for According to Det-Bergt, P. O. eign salvage firms, whose rugs tow build who prosecuted, the room ad the French liner to Cherbourg. was occupied by two stewards of have been claiming $50,000,000 Franes from the French and artisa Consolidation 10.15 a steward had occasion to underwriters as the legal owners.

currency to to the room and he found the

There are other large liabilities fiko stated that the defendant inside, with his hands such as for dry-docking,

btcepted on the dressing table.

and pay for oara-tak kmounts to Defendant was dismissed from

underwriter mcluding the hotel in August last year. The Lloyds, decided to ren revenue than he stated he was looking for, terest in the line! blan for ex- Kō Shing, was dismilased in Decem- insura

the offices of the Public Works cess of revenues over expenditures gramme of accumulation of say, Department, yesterday afternoon, amounting according to preliminings and deposits in banks has the upset being based at five ary data, to 18 milliard roubles been considerably exceedell (430) cents a quare foot.

Analysing individual items of million roubles. Instead of the The site situated near Rural State reventies in 1934, Grinko planned 300 mullon) Buildng Lot No. 237, has an area noted that the collection trade Emphasizing that, these figures of about 5,250 square feet, with rurnover tax exceeded the sum indicate considerable, strengthen the hotel. On Sunday night, about an annual rental of $12 it was provided for by the

ing of the cold at the upset price of $263 to a result of extension of Mr. EL Allan Taylor Assistant

Superintendent and Monopoly turn Aalyst of the Imports and Exports Department.

Mr. B. Reed, Superintendent of Crown Lands and Enveys wi the auctioneer.

of commodi

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spointed out

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refuse own