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Manslaughter Hearing At Kowloon Magistracy

SEQUEL TO DEATH OF BAGGAGE

COOLIE ON A STEAMER

Committal proceedings against Chung Chau, allegedly member of a gang of “pickpockets) on a charge of manslaughter of a barrage coalle, Chan Ping-leung, on the ... Tsinan on the morning of June 12, were commenced at the Kowloon Court yesterday before Mr. Barnett,

In an outline of the case given

by Inspector Ritchie, prosecuting.

it is alleged that three coolies, Chau PICKPOCKET

Man, Chau Ping, and Fong Lum, has been carrying the baggugë of a passenger when an onlooker had given the alarm that their em ployer's pocket had been picked. In the ensuing excitement - the thier had been seen to have given a wallet to an accomplice. both escaping.

CAUGHT

IN THE ACT

Anywhere between 900 and 1600 people alight every night at the Kowloon-Canton Railway Station from the night train. This train arrives from Canton about 10.45 p.m.

EMBEZZLEMENT

CHARGE, SHROFF GAOLED

"I don't like, the Court to be used

when

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938.

SEAMAN FACES

CHARGE OF

LOOK

MURDER

OUR

OUT

-HALL

Chan Ki. 24-year-old seaman of

FOR

MARK

il.

as a debt collecting agency re- the 4-5. Tyndareus, appeared be- marked Mr. Macfadyen, at the tore Mr Barnett at the Kowloon Kowloon Court yesterday

Court yesterday on a charge of sentencing Ho Shing, shroff in a murder of Tse Tong, ship's com- knitting fum, to one month? im- pradore, and Mak Hung, ship's prisonment with hard labour for embezzlement of a sum

of $270

account.

cook.

It will be recalled that the com-

collected by him on his employer's pradore was found on the star- board alde of the main deck after midnight on August 1; bleeding He had taken the money in profusely from severe head in- January, but his employer, hopingjuries, to which he later succumbed to regain the money privately, had The cook was found dead, lying ad not reported the embezzlement to the police until late last month.

A friend of Ho's appeared in Cour with $370 to repay the "debt." In view of this, the sentence on Ho was light.

from a blind street sentenced" by

camp bed.

The Tyndareus was on her way to Hong Kong, about 150 miles out wher the deaths were discovered.

Det.-Sergeant A. F. Cochrane ap- plied for a week's formal remand.

Tong Wu-lam, allegedly wit

EUROPEAN SENT ness to the whole affair, was also.

STOLE FROM BLIND TO SESSIONS bé alleges, later a witness to the

Pickpockets daily find a victim boarding of the ship by a gang or two from this vast crowd of

STREET SINGER

Charles Hossack Telfer, ance- of men, suspected pickpockets, who people. At the Kowloon Court had attacked Chan Ping-leung with yesterday, it

Charged with stealing a musical sergeant in the Hong Kong Police, W35 revealed that | Instrument

was yesterday at the Kowloon Iron bars and had beaten him up complaints are made every day in singer. Ho So was

Court, committed to stand his trial.| allegedly in revenge for his having spite of the

extra precautions Mr. Macfadyen at the Kowloon at the next Criminal Sessions on given the alarmi.

taken by the police.

Court yesterday to three months two charges of having, with three Seen by Chau Man on July 13 Ko Kl-sang.

Shanghal a hard labour. The Magistrate re- Chinese members of the force at- entering an opium divan at Des salesman, was caught in the act marked that it was a particularly tempted to extort sums of $20 and Voeux Road, Chung Chau was ar of trying to extract" three. dollars mean theft.

$10 from two mahjong schoại pho rested on his having informed the in Canton currency and a watch

prietors of Temple Street. ¿ pollee. At an identification parade. from the pocket of Wong Kau, Tong Wu-lam and Chau Ping had marine engineer, on Sunday even-

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identined him as a member at the ing. He was sentenced yesterday PRIMATE'S

bad

attacked Chan by Mr. Barnett to four months'

hard labour.

gang who Ping-leung.

Hearing of the case will be con- tinued this afternoon.

NOT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

Lo Shing-heung, who appeared before Mr. Butters at the Central Court yesterday charged with rob- bery. was discharged. owing to lack of evidence..

He was alleged to have entered the ground floor of No. 51. Leighton Hill Road, about 3 am. on July 4. together with two others and robbed the Inmates of $50 and other gold ornaments.

«Yeung Chi-wäh said that she was awakened by noises coming from the door. On turning round she saw two persons, one of whom had

a knife. They demanded the keys, and ransacked the cockloft. She

THREE RUSSIANS IN TROUBLE

''ཛི་---་

Sent Away From Hankow,

Came To Colony

CHARGE TO

For approaching within 30 yards of a vessel flying the quasantine fag at the Quarantine Anchorage on August 7, Wong Lol-sing, boat- man.. was fined $23 when he ap peared before Mr. Barnett at the

THE NATION Kowloon Court yesterday.

Bible As Greatest Possession

The Archbishop of Canterburs, Three Russians, who were stated Dr. Lang, recently. adjured the to have been sent away from Han-nation to keep and value the Bibi: kow by the Chinese authorities, as the greatest of its possessions. were yesterday charged before M. He spoke at a service relayed from Edwards at the Central Court for Broadcasting House to celebrate entering the Colony without valid the 400th anniversary of the plac passports and being vagrants.

ing of the English Bible in all They were Stephan Nikandrovich parish churches. Gladishev, 35, a motor driver. Pavel Ivanovich Shtikon, 28. and Mingas Batarhin, 42, bookbinders.

Explusion orders were made against them and, meanwhile they were committed to the House of

Detective-Sergeant P. J. Loughlin

peeped out and saw a man, whom Detention. shé identified as defendant, carry- Ing a blanket.

美

Queen's

prosecuted.

Poppies At

"Hill 104" Memorial

• The King and Queen spent their last day In France on the bat- tlefields of the Somme at the village of Villers Bretonneux.

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There, with impressive ceremony, the King unveiled a memoria! to. 11,000 Australian and New Zealand war' dead who lie now in an- known graves in the shadow of "EXIT 104,"

Hundreds of their comrades joined in this last tribute to the Anzac unknown soldiers and a crowd of over 5,000 saw the King and Queen arrive.

The Queen wore white and the King was in morning dress with medals.

The Bravest Girl In The World

Warrior Girl Guide, 21-year- old heroine of China-in-arms, Mis Yang Hul-Min, is coming to London to talk about her adventures.

When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wanted to send a message to the famous "doom- ed battalion in a warehouse-. fortress at Chapel ordering them to retreat he chose Miss Tank Hufhu to carry the *far.

Just a walk of a hundred yards with two companions through a deadly hull storm of machine-gun bullets...

Dr. Lang said, was not that as literature it was so noole, not even that in it there was a progressive revelation of God, but that through

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Personages

Began Rise In Manchester

Manchester has contributed some outstanding figures to the na- ∙tional life of Britain.

A four-roomed house in New York Place, Manchester, marks the birth- place of David Lloyd George, war-time Prime Minister, and it was in this city that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John. Simon, was born.

Manchester formed the scene of the early activities of one of the foremost statesmen of the nineteenth century. Richard Cobden, the champion of Free Trade.

Incidentally it was a Manchester

man, Lieutenant Colonel Worsley. who, on the instructions of Oliver it. God still spoke directly to men Cromwell. "took away that bauble"

from the House of Commons. every age and clime.

The city has had great writers

There were at least three ways

Is which the Bible stood unique and supreme.

It reached and spoke to the very simplest and humblest of men

It was bound by no barriera of education, or tradition, "or custom, or race or language..

It found its way into the heart not only of highly elvi- lised nations; but of the peoples of India or China or Africa......

To all I make my earnest plea," the Primate concluded, "that you should give it a great place in your lives and in your homes,"

Grace Darling

like Thomas de Quincy, John Refused A

Byron, Harrison Ainsworth. Mrs. Gaskell, and Louis Golding.

A Mancunian, John Alcock, made the first fight across the Atlantic

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with Arthur Whitten Brown. a Had Grace Darlifig., the life-boat Scot, in 16 hours and 12 minutes, 19 years ago. Flying at an average speed of nearly 120 miles an hour, they brought with them the first Atlantic aerial mail.

John Dalton, the natural scientist, who first revealed his discovery of the atomic theory in a paper read before the members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical So-

1803, ciety in

came from Cumberland to reside here as a young man, and may be truly designated a Mancunian. Lord Hewart of Bury, the present: Lord Chief Justice, attended Man-

TEACHING OF FREEDOM Mr. Hore-Bellsha. War Minister. Points from other services', ofļ accompanied by General Gouraud (celebration included: and several French ministers were The Rev Cyril Cresswell, chaplain on the dais.

for the Savoy Chapel, where John With the King was President Wycl. the prophet "of the Re-chester Lebrun, Lord Gowrie, Governor formation, used to preach, praised prominent journalists like Robert General of the Commonwealth. Birthe Bible 28 the Mother of Blatchford began their careers Errol Page, deputy Prime Minister Democracy. "Ita teaching of

ruinisters.

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here.

Grammar School, and

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of Austraila. and other Australian freedom, love, kindliness, chivalry. In maste Sir Charles Halle is still

service and reference has," he said, remembered, and the songs

produced that same democratic Leslie Stuart live on spirit which we treasure

The long road winding up the hill from the village station where the Royal train arrived was lined with 15,000 officers and men French Infantry regiments.

The memorial, whose tower 105 feet high, dominates A countryside of tragic memories and brave deeds. The whole -site. 10 acres in extent. is. bounded by hornbeam3. hedge and a belt of pines.

Planes droning overhead. the King advanced to pul! the allken cord that released the great flag covering the ponn.

men..

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30

earnestly in this day of changing. LEADING GEOLOGIST

of ideas.

As It fluttered down a great hun was broken" by--a fanfare from She did it and she stayed in trumpeters on the top of the the warehouse to the end helping tower.

Sir William Boyd Dawkins, one I would say that our influence of the leading geologists of the in the world today, this spiritual nineteenth century, became pre- democracy which is such a pri-sident of the Manchester Geological celess heritage, was born from the Society, and William Cawthorne Bible."

Unwin, for seven years apprenticed in Bir William Fairbairn's worka MISSION FIELDS

in Manchester, is remembered for Bibles in foreign languages were his work in connection with the presented at the altars of three harnessing of the power of Niagara churches in the parish of Wolbor-for electricity purposes ough. Newton Abbot. Two were Thomas Wright, a Manchester bought by the pennies of Bunday tron-foundry foreman, started a school children, three by members movement which now helps thou of the congregations.

sands of British convicts as soon Bibles in Chinese will be sent to as they emerge from prison gates.

Miss Clare Wyatt, a Newton Abbot Wright spent practically the missionary in China; four in whole of his leisure" hours finding the wounded.

The Kinz. in his speech after various African dialects will go to jobs for discharged convicts and After that she won more fame the unvelling sald:-

[Nigeria, where Mist Bryant is a eventually the late Lord Shaftes- with the Chinese Air Force in Hankow. They "oravest girl in the world.".

As

now

heroine, cared to leave the quiet of a seafaring community for the gay life of London, she might have become a famous stage star

After the courageous rescue by the 22-years-old girl and her father of survivors of a wrecked ship. the blaze of publicity made Grace a national heroine, She was invited to appear on the London stage, 'but rejected the offer. Four years later she died, The letter from the proprie- tor of the Adelphi Theatre in London offering Grace. 4 'con- track at £10 a week with all expenses found is one of the relics on view at the Memorial Museum which was opened "xt "Bamburgh (Northumberland),

recently, 100 years since the opic-rescue. Lifeboatmen, members of the fish- ing fleet, and society, women crowded into the village church for the special dedication service conducted by the -Bishop of New- castle (Dr. H. E. Blbrough). Crowds outside heard the service relayed by loud-speaker, The museum, which has been built by public subscription opposite the churchyard in which is Grace, Darling's tomb, was hand- ed over to the Royal National` Lifeboat Institution by Lord Armstrong, and was opened by the Duke of Northumberland.

DESCENDANTS SEE BOAT

Bir Godfrey Baring (chairman of the institution), accepting the building, said he hoped It would stand for many generations as a memorial to a deed which show- ed the finest characteristics of self- sacrifice.

Descendants of the Darling family

were among those who crowded: into the building to see the frail boat, 21 feet in length, in which Grace and her father, made his tory,

"It is a privilege for me to wel- missionary, and to an African mis-bury, Charles Dickens, Gladstone, our race-courage and call her come the President of the French sion centre where, before ordina Disraeli, and John Bright became Republic, on whose soil we are tion, the Rev. A. P. Mole, the associated with a national fund a reward for her bravery standing, and to whom' the events Wolborough curate, was a mission which enabled Wright to leave his

foundry work and 'devote the re-i they are sending her to the World that we recall today have bound worker. Youth Congress at Vassar College, us with ties that the passing years At Cardin large crowds attended mainder of his years to the task New York, this month. She is ean never weaken.

an exhibition of rare Bibles and of helping discharged prisoners looking in on London on the way "The surroundings of this monu- religious manuscripts at the City along the road to better citizen-

She first used a rifle against the ment are emblematic of that com-Hall. It included copies of the first ship. Japanese in Manchuria in 1931. radeship which is the watch At 14 she was one of a corps of word of our British Empire." student-volunteers, who marched

the deremony, the Queen laid a bunch of Fland- ers popples at the side of the King's wreath on the memo-

off to the front and fought for several months.

She will be accompanied by eight Chinese delegates. They salled for New York, with the

After

rial

Bibles translated into Welsh, In cluding Salisbury's Testament of 1567-Early Bibles of Celtic races

EXECUTION OF LAM CHUN

in the Irish, Scottish, Gaelic | Breton and Manx languages were It is officially stated that the displayed.

execution of Lam Chun, murderer

A copy of the first edition of the of Mrs. Ruby Challinon, wife of the Three good British cheers were Great Bible was on view in the district manager DI Imperial British representatives of the given for the King and Queen as Brotherton Collection at Leeds Chemical Industries will take place Youth movement on August 6. they left Villers Bretonneux

University.

on Wednesday August 17

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The coble, which is on per- manent exhibition: free"

a glass-lined charge, is in room the floor of which is covered with silver sand from the beach

Other relles in the adjoining room Include a lock of Grace's hair. the gold medal presented to her

by the Royal Humane Society, letters, and clothing. <-