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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

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No 21,860

二拜禮 號二月二英港香 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

FRAUD CHARGE. SEQUEL

ALLEGED ATTEMPT ON WING ON CO.

$50,000. INVOLVED.

A cunning conspiracy to defraud the Wing On Company of the sum of $50,000 was alleged to have been attempted by; three Chinese, when at the Central Magistracy this morning.. before Mr. R. E.

4

TO KOWLOON THE HAYLEY MORRISS MANILA TRAGEDY RIOT.

CASE.

ALLEGED RINGLEADER IN COURT.

APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCES FAILS.

OFFICER'S DAUGHTER DIES OF BURNS

COURT'S, DECISION.

London, Feb. 1.

2, 1926. 日十二月二十

EUROPEAN BANKNOTE

SCANDAL.-

PRINCE ACCUSED OF FORGERY.

BISHOP ALSO CHARGED:

SINGLE: DOPT 10 ENTO

136 PER ARNDR

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HAINAN OFFERS NO

RESISTANCE.

COMMISSIONER TO BE

APPOIN ED.

THE DRABON MOTON CAR CO., LTD.

13 WONE NOI CHUNG AS,

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TROOPS

.$3600 ..34000

MOVE.

MILITARY ACTIVITY IN CANTON.

LI CHAI-SUM MENTIONED. INVASION FEARED ?

MORE ARRESTS MADE."

STOVE EXPLODES. The police are leaving no stone unturned in their endeavours to

Miss Sally Robinson, £4 year-old

Budapest, Feb. 1." A report states that troops ad-j Following the recont visit of Mr. daughter of Colonel Jarges Parsons bring to justice the principals, in

Robinson of Camp Stotuenburg and in the banknote affair has been the important market centres on Yen-kai to Wuchow, to attend an A seventy-seven page indictment vancing southwards have taken all Wang Ching-wai and General Tan the moh attack on the police in

niece of John Van A. MacMurray, served on Canton Rond on Sunday night, and

twenty-six persons. It accuses Prince Louis Windisch-Hainan Island and disarmed the important military conference," and The male accused only appealed United States Minister to China, graetz of personally directing the forces stationed there, without en- the subsequent report of General of the arrests already made, against that part of the sentence,

died early last Tuesday morning work of the forgery of 80,000 one-countering resistance, and expect Chang Kai-ahek having paid a fly-

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed the appeal of Mr. and Mrs. Hayley Morriss,

Lindsell, Au Kim-lui, Fok Cheung man alleged to have been a ring-consisting of a years imprison.at Stormberg General Hospital, housand franc notes, assisted by

yuen, (master of the Oriental Com Icader was charged at the Centralment without hard lobaur-Reuter from burna sustained when "an M. Gorpe, of the Cartographical to reach Ngal Chow, the most im.fing visit to the North River sector,

Magistracy this morning, charged with obstructing, the police in the execution of their duty and with

alcohol stove exploded

and

Institute; whilst M. Nadgy is portant market centre on the south report is received which states ing false passports in order to faci charged with conspiracy in procur- of the stand, in three or four days. that the section of the Canton- It is reported that people from Hankow Raliway from Yuen-Tam Jitate distribution.

persons includes Bishop Zabravecz sent a petition to the Government The second group of the accused Hainan residing in Canton have

Pa Kong to Shiu Kwan has been busily employed in transporting former" Chaplain General to the

troops night and day.

·

I will be remembered that enveloped her in a sheet of flames, Hayley Morries was sentenced to

Miss Robinson was standing near having, committed offences against two years with hard labour for

an alchol stove in her home, at Camp Stolsenburg at about 5 o'clock girls under sixteen years of ages Sunday afternoon when the stove! Army, who is charged with com-recommending Chan Chak, Superia- Sub. Det, Inspector Andrew pro He was further sentenced to twelve exploded, igniting her dress. Her plicity in assisting the distribution; tendent of the Bureau for the Sur-

whilst M., Baress, Director of the pression of Opium, to be the Civil Post Office Savings Bank, is accus- Administrator of Hainan. It will

It is stated by the Canton authorities that this movement of troops is part of the scheme for the suppression of banditry, but it Is said that bandits are in reality most active at the points from which the troops "Aro

being

mercial Company, 2, Queen's Road Wost and Lan Fuk-chiu, (master of the Wah Hing printing shop).

The charge against the defen-aiding and abetting the release of dants was that between April 26th

prisoners. and August 15th, 1923, they "on- spired together to defraud the secuted, and he told the Court months without hard labour on the Wing On Company, Ltd., of the that the man sum of $50,000 and $663, interest with missiles in his possession sum not exceeding a

was actually seen other counts, and ordered to pay a

screams attracted members of the household who extinguished the ed with complicity on the ground- thereon, by a false representation and was also heard inciting the pounds for the costs of the pro- fore she was terribly, burned abouthdraw and destroy the forged

thousand

flames with blankets, but not be that he illegally granted a loan to be remembered that Chan Chak vo- that the Company were indebted for erowd to mob violence.

enable the other accused persons to lunteered to lead a naval attack on secution. The sentences are to run the face and body. She was pla those suma to a firm styled Kwong- The "Magistrate remanded the consecutively. His wife was sen- an auto and rushed to the Stern security, although it was M. Baroes' owing to the unfit condition of the removed, and that unless the places

lotes deposited in another bank as Hanan, which did not take pisco Cheong, and by the production of accused for a wook pending fur-tenced to nine months with hard such false representation as ather developments.

berg Hospital, arriving at 7 o'clock official disclosures which led to the gunboats at the time. He is labour.]

proceedings-Reuter.

protege of the late Dr. Sun Yal of these units are quickly filled up where Army doctors pronounced her

sen, and, was at one time in chief by other troops, the bandits wit condition as critical. After a los-

command of the Naval Bureau. take advantage of the opportunity ing five hour battle with death.

It is said that the Government has to carry on their depredations with decided that no military or naval Miss Robinson succumbed to her injúries.

forged deposit book.

It is stated that the police have Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by re-arrested three of the men ar- Messrs. Hastings, Dennys, and rested as gamblers on Sunday and Bowley appeared for the prosecu-crowd intervention.

who subsequently escaped through It is stated tion: M. T. G. Bennett defended that they were arrested shortly the first and third defendants, and after eight o'clock last night in a Mr. J. A. Leask the second.

tea-ship in Canton Road. Four of the men who were released by Mr. Jenkin said he understood the the mob were handcuffed, but police would also appear as pro- far no trace has been found of secutors when the charges were taker, and he asked for a remand for a week.

Mr. Leask and Mr. Bennett offer- ed no objection, the latter stating he would like to raise the question

of bail.

In opposing buil, Mr. Jenkin said

either the handcuffs or wearers,.

the

SHOP QUARREL:

--

CONSTABLE ACCUSED OF

KICKING.

The deceased was el known in Army circles and her demise Canter

kiwan alleged that an Indian con-

A Chinese shop-keeper at Shau-as a shock to her many friends.

stable kicked him, on appearing

GERMAN LINER'S. RESCUE WORK,

man is to be appointed to such greater intensity, high civil offices, and that the petl tion has been pigeon-hole.

It is believed to be the intention

Reports state that a regiment of

the 19th Division has already been

CIVIC WELCOME TO CAPTAIN.

of the Government for the present despatched to the North River Rugby. Feb. 1. -

to appoint д Commissioner of sector, and that two battalions of Captain Wurpts Commander of Tranquilization frst, which post the Super-Disciplined Division hava

Li Chai-sum.

before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the NEW AMBASSADOR TO /the North German Lloyd liner will probably be given to General entrained for Samshui, on the West

Central Police Court this morning,

charged with assaulting the police. Inspector Blackman said the de- MAN'S INGRATITUDE.endant had apparently been caus- ing a small obstruction outside his shop yesterday morning, and, as,far STOLE FRIEND'S CLOTHES. as he could find out, it seemed the Indian constable took the law into:

JAPAN.

SIR CHARLES ELIOT'S DEPARTURE.

After his six years' stay in Tokyo, The story of a man who repaid his own hands, and treated the de-Sir Charles Eliot, British Ambas friend's hospitality by stealing fendant more roughly than he fsador to Tokyo, will leave Japan

River *6ector.

Moreover, many large junks are being commandéer-

Bremen, received a civic welcome! when the ship, reached Queenstown to-day. It was in acknowledgment THE R.M.S. "ASTURIAS."ed and sent to Whampoa for transs

of the rescue by the Bremen of six men of the British steamer Laristan, and of the persistent but unsuccessful attempts to save the remainder of the Laristan's crew.

The six rescued men, in an inter-

the

got into the boat, which was drawn

twenty-four men.

MAMMOTH OIL DRIVEN LINER.

Rugby, Feb. 1.

portation purposes.

The report further states that' the whole of the 2nd Army Corps, under Genel Tan, Yen-kai, is to take up strategic points in three northern districts as follows:-At

three regiments are at present

the $60,000 was in fact the pre-some clothes, was unfolded before should have done. The defendant for London by the N.Y.K. steamer view, expressed their gratitude to perty of the defendants, but they Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central lost his temper and the scene ap-Kashima Maru which is to

An important event in the an-Nam Hung, four regiments of in- attempted to obtain an additional Police Court this morning. when parently ended in a fight.

gall the Captain and crew. of the nals of the British Mercantile fantry, one regiment of artillery, The from Kobe on February 4.

Bremen. They told how the

one battalion of machine-guns, and $50,000 by

a Chinese was charged with the shop-keeper had carried on his busi- false pretences--by

theft of clothes valued at $4.

Sir John Anthony Cecil Tilley, Bremen, responding to a wireless Marine will take place on Februane battalion of Mausers; at Chi mean of a forged deposit book..

pes at Shaukiwan for the last who has been newly appointed to distress call, came to the Larisan's ory 26, when the first large high-Hing and south-eastward so as to Inspector Ogg said the denfen-twenty years, and he did not wish succeed Sir Charles Ellot as Bri-aid in mid-Atlantic but found it speed oil driven ocean liner to

be in touch with Lien Ping, four Continuing, he said it was rather dant lodged for a night in the to press the case against him. tish Ambassador Extraordinary impostible to launch a boat a common form of conspiracy to complainant's house, and left on)

regiments of infantry, one regiment The constable said the defendant and Plenipotentiary at Tokyo, is heavy sea. The Laristan, however, sail regularly from a British port of artillery,

one battalion of defraud. The manner in which it January 30th, with the clothes. was sitting in the middle of th reported to have left London, by had a boat clear on the starboard will make her maiden voyage.machine-guns; whilst at Yan Fa, would be done would be that The complainant met the defon-main road at Shaukiwan East, and a P. & O. steamier on January 8, aide and a line was fastened to This vessel is the Royal Mail stationed for duty. The head- one man, a customer at the bank, dant in the street the following efused to move when requested, and will arrive in Japan' in the mid- this. Seven of the Laristan's men Steam Packet Company's Austrias quarters of the 2nd Army Corps is would deposit $50,000, with the in-evening, when the latter attempt-In reply to Mr. Lindsell, witness dle of February. tention of withdrawing it in aed to run away, but was chased said he had a certificate for Chin:

to the Bremen, but, one man was of 22,500 tons gross and she is at Shia-Kwon and the field head- Sir John Tilley, aged 58, was very short time. Therefore the and caught. The clothes had been ese, and, when requested, repe: ted educated at Eton and, is a MA. of washed off the boat and drowned. designed for the Southampton-quarters is temporarily at Che owner of the money would run very pawned for $3.50, and it would the words he used to the defendant King's College, Cambridge. After was in the boat, was also washed South American service,

The carpenter of the Laristan, who

Hing. little risk of losing it. He would cost an extra. 30 cents to redeem in that language. This effort drew passing a competitive examination off and tossed up and down on the

The 19th Division, under Genera) obtain a deposit book, and another them. The defendant had that the remark from

The Asturias which is driven by wong Kung-mów, has been ordered book would then be obtained by amount in his possession.

Mr. Lindaell he was appointed a clerk in the high waves, but he got aboard the double-acting diesels, was "Very good, but not very intelli- Foreign Office, March, 1893,

built to take up positions fa' Yung Yuen opening up another small account."

Bremen with the other five men. gent." Addressing the defendant, who This second book would then he is a mafoo, employed by Messrs.

Continuing, witness said the de-l He was appointed secretary to Repeated attempts were made by and engined at Belfast. Her and Ying Tak, with headquarters at the latter place, whilst at Lien altered until it was like the original, Brown, Jones and Company, un fendant, or entering his shop, took the Committee to inquire into mat- the Bremen to rescue the rest of machinery consists of two eight Ping, on the border of Kiangsi pro- showing a deposit of $50,000.

total vince, a part of the 1st Army Corps dertakers, Happy Valley. Mr. Lind-up a fighting attitude, and when ters concerning the consular service the laristan's crew by shooting cylinder motora, having a Their case against the third man sell said he had taken advantage witness tried to arrest him a strug- December, 1902. Subsequently lines with life-rings, but these un-horsepower of 20,000 and a pre- and also part of the 6th Army would be that he performed the of a man's hospitality by stealing 1gle ensued. Witness claimed he he was appointed acting ist See-fortunately failed. The Bremen cisely similar installation will be Corps has received orders to forgery part. By these means they his clothes, and he would be sent had two packets ripped out,

and retary in the Diplomatic service, stood by the Laristan the whole day fitted in her sister ship, the mobiliee at Kin. Nam, Lung Nam would attempt to draw out another to prison for four weeks. He or

When Alcantara and in the new Union and Tug Nam, these being con- lost a watch. $50,000, with interest. When the dered that the $3.50 for redemp

August, 1906, and was employed and the following night. The defendant said the witness in that capacity at Constantinople daylight came, only pieces of Castle liner, Carnarvon, Castle, re-sidered strategic points against a matter had been gone into fully tion of the clothes should be paid kicked him, and in the struggle from September, 1906 to Augus, wreckage, were to be seen. The cently launched. There will be possible Kiangaf Invasion. The an additional charge of forgery by the defendant.

Laristan had sunk during the night, tore four jackets he was wearing. 1908. would be added. The case was

Asked about the kick, defendantj

Sir John. was granted an allow-with the remainder of her crew very sorious, and he asked for d

rolled up his trouser leg and show-ance for knowledge of Turkish. Captain Wurpts declared to-day committal.

February, 1907: He received the Mr. Lindsell discharged the de- Coronation medal, 1911, when he regret very much that our fendant.

was a Gold Staff Officer at the attempts were not crowned with | better success.”—British Wireless, Coronation of King George, He was British Representative at the African Liquor Conférence in A robbery which occurred at a

Brussels, January, 1912, and pro- money-changer's shop at No. 123,

moted to be chlei clerk of the For- Connaught Road Central was in- vestigated by Major C. Willson, at]

STUDIOUS LAD GOES FREE.

jelgn Office, October, 1913. He was appointed Foreign Office Represen..

Rugby, Feb. 1. the Central Magistracy to-day.

Seven Chinese boys appeared be-ative on the Governing Body of the

The story that Great Britain had Coincident with the surreptiti-fore Major C. Willson to-day as de- New School of Oriental Studies,

intimated to Poland that she would ous departure of one of the iu fendants on a charge of gambling, November, 1923.

be unable to support Poland's) mates at one o'clock yesterday as the sequel to a raid carried out) Sir John was appointed Acting

application for a permanent seat on morning, an amount of $15, con-by Detective Carey on a floor in Assistant under Secretary of State:

Five rnombers of the League of the Council of the League of VISITS SAME TOWN SAME sisting of rolls of centa, disappear-Hollywood Road last night.

for Foreign Affairs, January, 1919, Nation Council, including France, Nations if Poland persisted in re-

DAY. The Spanish avintor France based from the till. Detectives were The youthful looks of the defen-Jind an Assistant Secretary in the Italy and Japan have requested ducing her military establishment, called in, and in due course the dants drew forth same comment. Foreign Affairs, Jamiary, 1919, and postponement of the meeting of Foreign Office to-day. It was was emphatically dented by the

New York, Feb. 1. missing man was located, and and it came as a relief to dincover ap Asalstant Secretary in the For the preparatory commission for pointed out that such a suggestion message from South Bend states. speed of 97 miles per hour since confession drawn from him re amongst the defendants was one cign Office, April; 1919. He wan leaping Spain. He has 2,057 in les vealed that the cents had been con- on whom some praise cou'd be bes- made a K.C.M.G., June, 1918, and the Disarmament Conference fix from Great Britain would constitute that approximirately $2,000,000 to cover to Buelius Aires to which Verted into silver money at another towed. He was, in fact, dutifully was a member, and subsequently ed for February: 10 but propose which she has followed in regar business district, which deatroyed a reversal of the policy and practice damage was caused by a fire in the money-changer's shop. About $10 attending to his school lessons when chairman of the inter-Department-that it be held before May 16. he expects to start to-morrow. was recovered on the prisoner, and the raid took place and the reason al Committee on British Communi After this he will probably ly to the balance is supposed to have why he came to be included in the tits abroad. In 1820. He was the suggestion to other members it has had on more than one this was raging a second fire in an- The Secretary has telegraphed war. The British Government, as nine large retail shops. While the United States, via Panama and gone to enrich an accomplice, to batch of prisoners was that he was sworn a Privy Councillor, Decem-of the League Councillors and occasion of showing in recent Cuba, and return to Spain win the whom the haul was passed in the at the time sitting in the same cu- her 1920, and appointed Ambas- those invited to the Commission months, remains at It has always other part of the town destroy

frat instance. Asores. Reuter's. American · Ser-f

hicle as the gamblers. This boy saddr xtraordinary and Pen- A majority for an adicurament been, whole-heartedly in favour of the Standard Oil Company's Bentence of six weeks' labour was discharged, while the other six potentiary at Mo de Janeiro, Jam is assured owing to Spuin accept any skective scheme of disarma-aus was passed by the Magistrate. tefendants wars fined $8 each ary, 1921

Ing the proposal--Buster

mont

opposed

Inspector Fallon also bait on behalf of the police, and Mr. Lindsell said that in view of the fact that further charges were to be added, he would refuse ball. The case would be adjourned until -February 9th, at 10 a.m.

SPANISH FLIER.

. A FINE PERFORMANCE

Pernambuco, Feb. 1.

average

flown 3,585 miles at an

STOLEN MONEY.

THIEF SENT TO GAÖL

ed a small bruise.

BOY GAMBLERS.

DISARMAMENT.

' POSTPONEMENT OF PREPARATORY COMMISSION.

Geneva, Feb. 1.

no difficulty in recognising this whole of the 1st Division of the trio wherever they may be owing let Army Corps has been ordered funnels with which they are pro-Hunan frontier, the 7th Division to the two large but very low back to Walchow, whilst on the

has taken up a position at vided-British Wirices.

Chang, which is the headquarters of the 3rd Army Corps; the 8th Division is to be stationed at Sing Taze and vicinity, and the 9th Division at Lion Shun. It is also

POLAND'S POLICY.

OFFICIAL BRITISH DENIAL said that field telephones are being erected at all stations and outposta

to armaments since the close of

TWO BIG FIRES.