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OUR LONDON LETTER Gossip Of The Week

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1936.

"GOLD CLAUSE"

BONDS

TEST CASE BROUGHT BY HOLDERS

London, July 2

London, June 29. ing his games, as there was in Til- In Portsmouth, I am told, the den. With Tilden one felt that outstanding impression left by the here was the "on at bay," with

The Court Appeal were yesterday Royal visit is the King's abiding Burotra it is "he must win:" None

asked to interpret a "gold clause" interest in the Navy--and, above as the younger players, not even

in bonds issued in America by the all, in the welfare of its person-Perry, has this power. It probably

But All-British Government in 1817. nel, writes a correspondent. comes partly with age.

son, as he showed a little in his With doubles yesterday, has it. him one feels that here is a dour fighter with his back often against the wail,

three-

The King's inspection was very thorough. I took him quarters of an hour to inspect H.M.S. Excellent alone. He walked slowly past each platoon and look- ed searchingly at every officer and man.

The boys from the St. Vincent also had

Training Establishment their full share of the King's at- tention. Some of these had join- ed the Navy only a few days pre- viously

LINER "POOL” MATHEMATICS

JAPANESE SHOT BY UNKNOWN

'LANDING PARTY TURNS OUT IN FIGHTING KIT

Mystery Surrounds

CHINESE CONSTABLE TO DIE

SEQUEL TO SHOOTING

Shanghai, July 11.

Death senterica was passed by the First Special District Court yesterday upon Trang Tsing-mur,

Clerk's Wounding CFC No. 26501 attached to Way-

side Police Station, charged with The International Trustee for the

murder and attempted murder. Protection of Bondholders, Aktien-

Shanghai, July, 11.

the The Chinese constable, on gesellschaft, of Lichtenstein, ap-

A young Japanese clerk was shot morning of June 2, carrying his from behind and critically wound-service pistol, to an Avenue Foch pealed from "the dismissal by Mr. Justice Branson, in the King's Bench Division, of a petition of ed early last night by an unknown house where he shot dead one Chao Pools in Atlantic liners have this right by which a declaration was / Assailant in Chapel, and, as a re- Zang-kwel and seriously wounded sought that principal and interest suit of the crime, the Japanese Chao's wife, because of the Chaos" Naval Landing Party turned out in alleged gossip about his affection should be paid in the currency large numbers. In full campaign for a chauffeur's wife.. equivalent of their gold value, 13-kit, in manner reminiscent of the stead of on a "dollar for dollar"

early days of the Nakayama case basis

last November.

year come back to their pre-1929 popularity. During the depression the pool on one of the big liners shrank.to as little as £100.

The average total of the auction each might on the Queen Mary's voyages has been running tato several hundreds.

The King made particular in- quiries about them, asking the divisional officers where the boys | che

from and how they were

same

getting on.

ONE OF KING GEORGE'S

LAST ACTIONS » One of King George's last acts, it was revealed by the Duke of York yesterday, was to make a gift of £20,000 to King Edward's Hospital Fund for London. George was an annual subscriber nt £1.000.

£600.

Occasion

On It has

more than

exceeded

Many a big pool has been won by a little intelligent guring with engine revolutions, speed calcula- Hons, and consideration of the announced hour of arrival.

The gold clause was a promise to pay in New York in gold coin of the United States of America of the standard weight and fineness existing on Feb. 1, 1917, or in London at the fixed rate of 4 de- cimal 88) dollars to the pound.

The victim, Kosaku Kayau, a 32-

was

year-old employee of the Mitsu- bishi Trading Company, was shot through the back of the head at 8.15 o'clock, in Asia Li, Chi Met Road. He

carrying a tiny Japanese infant at the time of the attack, the child of a friend living in the neighbourhood. Only one bullet was fired, lodging in the left frontal lobe of the brain, and blood issued from the wound so as

Mr. Justice Branson bad held that English law applied to the contract, and that, as the United Thus during the Queen Mary's States had declared it illegal to recent homeward voyage, from pay debts in gold coln, so much of

оть the option as related to the pay-to stain the baby's clothes. noon on Saturday to 9 am King

due atment of gold coin in New York Monday (when she was Cherbourg) she had approximate- | fad become vold. There remained an obligation to pay in London at The gift of £20,000 ls to be held ty 1.227 miles to run with 43 hours This was taking into to do it.

the fixed rate of exchange. as capital, and the interest will be included in the annual distribution ( account the two hours the clock

would be put forward.

to the London, voluntary hospitals, thus providing a permanent re- minder of King George's life-long regard for the hospitals.

Added significance is given to this gift when it is realised that it was the result of King George's" experience of the work of the Fund during 34 years.

During this time he had been i active President for nine years and its patron for 25 year.

The Duke of York made the' an- nouncement at the meeting of the President and the Council of the Furla at St. James's Palace jester- day. The Duke has succeeded the present King as President of the Fund. The King, who is now Pat- of the Fund, was, President ron for 16 years.

age.

tion

The village itself is so large that the Australians' kangaroo mascot is probably the only visitor who has explored it al

It has, a shack-like appearance beside the substantial stone bun-† galows which Germany provides for her sporting guests. But then the Berlin village is there to stay. When the athletes march out, the

Reichswehr marches in.

THE DRAMATIC TENNIS PLAYERS

A simple division sum showed that she could do this easily at

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speed of about 28.5 knots and, therefore, that the low figure of the field, which that day happen- ed to be 660, would almost cer- tainly not, be reached.

The winner therefore bid £40 for the choice of fields. He chose the low feld, which won easily with a day's run of 649 and re- turned a total of £313.

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The constable himself W3L3 wounded following an exchange of shots after he had escaped to the. Concession, and was arrested. Woo Zung-z, the chauffeur's wife, was charged with being concerned in the murder and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment.-("North China Daily News").

took from Dixwell Road through Chi Mel Road to Asia Li had been i drawh at the scene of the at

the tempted murder earlier in evening. The infant's brother, aged Ave. CONSULAR INTEREST also was with Kayau at the time, Mr. Arata Sugihara. acting and may prove an important wit-Japanese

TWO WITNESSES

here

Consul-General Sir William Jewitt, K.C, (for the ness of the attack. Neither child told Domei late last night that he bondholders), sald that case was was injured. A Japanese woman has asked Gen. Tsai Ching-chu brought in order that the bond-who was to the poorly Highted Director of the Bureau of Public holders might test the position.

On the English authorities he did not think the matter admitted of much doubt, and he thought Mr. Justice Branson, rightly decid-

lane, only a few yards from the scene of the crime. saw the flash from the would-be murderer's gun. but she did not get a good look at the assailant himself and was not

Safety of Greater Shanghai, t leave no stone unturned in his search for the assailant and he warned Gen. Tsal to take stricter steps for the protection of Japani ese residents in Chinese territory. A similar communicaton Was to addressed by Mr. Sugihara Major F. W. Gerrard, Commission- e of the Shanghai Municipal Po-

ed that the contract must be look- even able, to say whether more ed an as an English contract which than one person participated in must be construed according to the attack. English law. "

Settlement police from the Dix- Counsel said he did not suggest well Road Station, close by, were that the Courts of this country the first to be called to the scene lice.

to do & Chinese physician was summon- would require anyone here

ex-

"It was only yesterday," Mr. in a foreign country that whiched by a foreign sergeant and he at Surthara said, "that I called on was illegal in that country. But once realized the seriousness of the den, Wu Te-chen, Mayor of the

to he thought the Attorney-General wound. "Kayan was conveyed in Shanghal Municipality, would agree that if, on the true rickshaw to Foo Ming Hospital and change promises of co-operation in construction of the contract in his attended there by Japanese phy- the promotion of Sino-Japanese case, the introduction of "gold" sicians and Dr. T. M. Burton. The amity through the prevention of

of X-ray photographs untoward Incidenta.” and "gold coin" was merely to fix taking

Mr. Sugihara said he will call the measure of the obligation, showed that the bullet, probably there would be nothing illegal in of 38 calibre, had traversed the on Gen. Wu again to-morrow.

number of brain from the back of the head paying the larger

and come to rest near the fore~ dollars.

The hearing was adjourned tillhead. to-day."

The victim did not regain consciousness, and he was given only a few buurs to live. Dr. To- kuji Yoshida, of the hospital staff, definitely declared that 'Kavau "would probably dle.”

about the place, several score of Marines being posted in the neigh- bourhood. Next arrived the Japan- ese Consular Police and the Chapel Police, the latter actually having Chape Police risdiction. The

when military reputations were

LANDING PARTY ON SCENE built up in Egypt and the Sudan.

After the Bettlement Police, the In fact he is the last survivor among the seniors of that period. Japanese Naval Landing Party since General Sir Reginald Win- were the Arst to get to the scene, and, in steel helmets and with fix- gate was only a major at the Bat- tles of Atbara and Omdurman,ed bayonets, they threw a cordon when Hunter was commanding the

vision. Although General Hunter rose to fame with Kitchener in the Sudan, possibly his best military service was in the South African War. He was Chief of the Staff to Sir George White 'during the Siege of Ladysmith, and in that Fosition he impressed his influence upon the sorely pressed garrison by his indomitable courage and cheerfulness during the darkest days of depression, bred of disease and starvation.

asked for the assistance of the settlement Police, which was im- mediately granted, and high uni- formed and detective officials, in- cluding Mr. 8. Uyehara, Assistant Commissioner, attended,

IDOLATRY AT WIMBLEDON The worship of the great at Wimbledon takes all sorts of forms There will be found eager groups In ardent conversation about their favourites. The main entrance of the All-England Club is ringed round with a patient crowd who NOT SO SPARTAN ATHLETES gaze entranced at the players as "Visiting athletes who have al- they step out of their cars. When ready taken up their quarters in a player is recognised there is a Berlin are delighted with the ac- chorus of "That's Kay Stammers." commodation at the Olympic Vill-Orten a player is not recognised and all sorts of guesses are ban- Bedside lights, telephones, mo- died about, none of them right. dern furniture, and the attendance The autograph-hunters are re- of the stewards of the Norddeuts-lentless and tactless, for they ask cher Lloyd do not accord with all and sundry not only as they Spartan ideas of athletic prepara- go into court but also when they come out, hot, tired, and beaten. Sometimes the quarry affects lofty condescension and with "you will be the death of me" air proceeds to scribble blindly on any The wooden hut in which Dr. piece of paper presented. But Til- Carl Diem, Becretary-General of den would never sign his name be-mixed Egyptian and Budanese di the Games, lived at the Los An- tore a match. A tactless person gelea Games in 1932 has been re- once asked for his 'smature b

"After erected in the Berlin Olympic VIII- fore he played Borotra age.

wards. not now," was the reply, and afterwards it mighty shaky signature too

When Mrs. Moody was here last year there was a demand for "Balls used by Mrs. Moody, please." Th tactful person in charge of the

In a few minutes Dixwell Road used balls would carefully search

was humming with activity. Japan- the stack of boxes and never fall

ese naval patrols were riding up to produce a box which had been

Hunter was a most modest and and down, instructions were shout- In watching the doubles match used by that great player. Po

unassuming man and disliked ́alled and men posted at strategic yesterday at Wimbledon between sibly, they were different from n2-

alive, points. Brotra and Brügmon and Craw-dinary balls. Certainly there was publicity. There must be

however, many of the survivors, of MOTOR ACCIDENT RESULTS ford and Quist one could not but an astonishing quantity of them.

the Ladysmith alege who know As an indirect result of the compare it with a Davis Cup match between the same pairs in Paris Amateur golfers, I heard it said, denying himself all luxury, he turnout, a serious motor accident two years ago. Then the crowd during the week-end, have deterio-distibuted his own private store of occurred at the intersection or was turbulent in its anxiety that rated since the nineties. The preserved foods amongst those who Dixwell Road and Pao An Road, a had not had opportunity to make block from Chi Mel Road," "within the French pair should win. Yes Open Championship was won

adequate provision for themselves. twenty minutes of the crime, when terday the Wimbledon crowd must three times by amateurs between

During the later operations in a westbound Japanese motor-cycle. have wanted Borotra to win-it 1890, Mr. John Ball's year, and

South Africa Hunter commanded patról" and an eastbound roadster nearly always does,-yet people 1897, when Mr. Harold Hilton, hi.

a division and then mobile forces driven by a foreigner, collided fait placid enough to keep up a cigarette gined as always to his

in the Beld His most spectacular head-on. The two Japanese ma- running commentary on the styles Ups, won his second victory.

success was the capture of Prin-rines with the motor-cycle and and oddities of the players, and

Comparisons with the past can-

While it is trasloo and his commando in the Free sidecar were seriously injured, "es- even, after a set or two, to depart not be exact. for a cup of tea. What they want that balls and clubs have improved. ed, one felt, Just as much as a this ls to a certain extent onset Borotra victory, was a five-set by the great lengthening of cour match,

ses and stiffer bunkering." There was none of that tenseness It is a fact, however, that there yesterday which, in Paris, had are probably five times as many seemed to oppress even Borotra, first-rate plagers, professional and note of that one-sided en-and amateur, as there were he- thusiasm which had shaken even fore the War. Propofilonately, it the imperturbable Quist Yester is more dificult to make any im- day Quist, with his quiet jokes—pression. such a sitting, impassive, on a This year the leading amateur, linesman's knee, rivalled Borotra Mr. A. D. Locke, the 18-year-old at times, and Borotra was up to South African tied for eighth all his cheerful devices, the loud place. But his score, 204, would "Ou!" of appreciation for a good have been good enough to win ik shot, the happy-go-lucky chasing any pre-War year but one-1908, after impossible shots. Yesterday when Braid did 291 at Prestwick sonal drama which Borotea so well For many years General BirThe Air Marshal will therefore evokes; he was winning a match Archibald Hunter whose death is hold the position for two years and from a losing position with a part-thnounced, att been living in four months. He was appointed whom the Admiralty permitted to ner obviously feeling below form. quiet retireme great soldier of last week to the Coastal Command learn to Ay As a result he reached Borotra, he can made it Dore the coldal war era that came to under the reorganisation of the his present rank, which is equival

RAF home commands.

ent to that of vice admiral, early. than a game a fight against odds a close at the beginning of the ir which one's sympathies cond century, his almost a forgotion

last year, when none of the mid- only be on one aide. There is fame. Yet he is the most

shipmen of his year had risen this power in Borotis of drudatious of Kitchener's senior omcers

higher than captain,

AMATEURS V. PRÓS.

too there was that element of per- A COMRADE OF KITCHENER

Btate.

DEFENCE COLLEGE

COMMANDANT

The command of the College goes to each service in turn. Under normal circumstances the present

pecially the marine in the addecar. whose chin' was crushed againit the machine-gun carried on the

I hear that Air Marshal Sir Ar. framework. They were taken to thur Longmore is to succeed Mathe barracks of the Naval Landing

or-Gen. R. Haining in the fin- Party in Klangwan Road,

The foreigner, who was not in- portant post of Commandant of

jured, was questioned by police the Imperial Defence College.

from Dirwell Road Station Ac- cording to the Japanese press, the driver was a Mr. Brooke, British. attached to the Chinese Customs. Immediately after the accident. further Marlies from the Landing Party Barracks were posted about the scene and the ground marked with chalk to indicate the paths of two vehicles Chalk marke showing the path which Kayau

commandant's tenure of the ap- pointment, which is for two years, would not have expired till Dec. $15

Major-Gen. Baining, however, is wanted at the War Office to suc- ceed Lt. Gen. Dill as Director of Military Operations on Sept. 1.

lasing service is the longest in the R.A.F. It dates from 1911, when he was one of the first four omcers

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