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MECHANIC CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF TAMPERING.

FRIDAY,

NANKING CONFER-

ENCE.

WANG CHING-WEI'S ELIMINATION.

SEPTEMBER '16,

MUI TSAI ABROAD.

MAN AND WOMAN CHARGED WITH HARBOURING.

R.E.

1927.

EFFORT TO ELIMINATE FENG.

SILANSI GENERAL MOVING TROOPS.

In evidence, the girl stated that she was bought from her parents and adopted, whether as a daughter

Fengtien official circles state or mui-tsai she did not know, Into a family surnamed Leung. But that it has been decided to take this she did know, and that was advantage of Chin Yun-ao's attack she had to turn over all her wages and launch a general offensive It is claimed that amounting to $3 or $4 monthly against Feng. which she earned as a lenf-sorter Yen Hsi-shan has at last agreed to at the Mum Chan Tabacco Fac- move his troops from the Peking- Hankow line to enable the Feng- tory, to her foster-parents.

to tien force

move southward against Feng-Reuter.

A Chinese man and a woman Tokyo, Sept. 15, A man who appears to

have

were charged before Mr.

Peking, Sept. 15. Shanghai, Sept. 15. specialised in tampering with.

An unconfirmed report from Wang Ching-wel's resignation Lindsell at the Central Magistracy electric meters was caught by a Chinese detective recently in the was unexpected, but, apparently it yesterday afternoon with harbour-Hankow states that Chin Yun-no leaden seal explains the reason for certain of ing an eighteen-year-old girl with has captured Kaifeng and Cheng- chow. It is generally believed act of removing a from an electric meter at the Mai Chiang Kai-shek's former col-out the consent of her guardians.

The case was conducted by Mr. that Tang Seng chi is supporting leagues going to Nanking. 27 Kwong mirror shop at No.

The vernacular papers state that R.A.C. North, of the Secretariat Chin Yun-ao against Feng Yu- hslang with arms and ammuni- Queen's Road Central. He was produced before Major C. Will "provisional" session of the Con- for Chinese Affairs,

tral Supervisory and General Exe-

tion, believing that Feng's elimina- MOB at the Central Magistracy cutive Committees is sitting at Nan-

tion would strengthen his position yesterday afternoon on a charge king this afternoon for the purpose

on the Yangtaze. of wilfully damaging the meter. A

of electing certain members to form Mr. L.R. Andrewes, of Messrs.

a special committee which will dis- Johnson Stokes and Master, apcuss the reorganlantion of the Kuo- peared to prosecute for the Hong mintang and Nationalist Govern- kong Electric Company, and in ment. giving the facts of the case, stat- The special committee will be in ed that on Information received session to-morrow, after which the to so-called fourth plenary joint meet- a Chinese detective was sent the Mai Kwong mirror shop on the ing of the Supervisory and Execu 5th September. He went into the tive Committees will take place.

It is finally planned to summon shop shortly after one o'clock and caught the defendant in the act the Nationalist assembly for the of tampering with a meter belong purpose of organising a sound cen- ing to the Hongkong Electric Com-tral headquarters of the Kuomin-She spent all of that month's pany. The defendant was asked whnt he was doing, with a screw driver he had in his hand, and with a leaden seal which he had succeeded in removing from the meter.

The Leaden Seal.

In explaining the purpose of the leaden seal, Mr. Andrewes said that a person, after remov ing it, was enabled-to get at the lever which registered the amount of current passing through the meter. His object would then be to set the lever back and allow more current to pass through than was registered. The

xle. fendant would reap advantage, in this offer from the consumer: "Look here, if you can fix up this meter and let me have more cur

tang.-Router

5

One day recently, old man

the Cheung went into country leaving witness the custody of her own earnings for that month.

wage on herself, and, dreading the inevitable interview with an en, raged guardian, packed up her things and went to live with a girl-friend.

Conference Postponed.

Nanking, Sept. 15. It has been officially announced

Then she asked the friend to that "owing to the sudden retire- ment of Wang Ching-wei the Con-aid her to find a passage to re- to her own mother in the ference scheduled to open to-day turn will be postponed. A tea party country.

at the ferry or another preliminary Conference will be arranged to take its place."

-Reuter.

"DAY OF DESTINY."

IRISH FREE STATES ELECTIONS BEGIN.

Dublin, Sept. 16. "Although the polling in to-day's

They were met

wharf by a man (now appearing as the first defendant in the case) who, after hearing their story, took them across the har- bour to the house of an old wa: man at Portland Street. . This old woman had staying with her three girls who she claimed to be all mui-tsuis.

of

Witness stayed at this home for three days, at the end which a woman (who was now second defendant to the the

Witness was induced to get

rent than I pay for, I will make momentous general election in the charge) appeared with a hired

it worth your while."

them every assistance in con-

Fate in the Balance.

Shanghai, Sept. 15.

•

The fate of General Feng Yu hsiang is again at the balance. Open hostility between the Chris- tian General's army and that of General Yun-ao broke out in Yin- cheng, Monan, on the 12th, and according to latest reports the Christian General has been bal defeated. Feng is finding his! situation very dangerous for thei Fenglicnites are pressing on him from the north, and the armies of Chin Yun-ao, Tien Wel-chun. the Wu Pei-fu army press him un the south. The Red pears and

and other former commanders f

other similar armed bara in Honan are disturbing the Chris- tian General's rear. General Yo Wei-chun, a former subordinate) of Fang, has deserted him and joined General Chin. Yun-ao, Wah Kiu Yat Po.

DISTRICT,

Irish Free State opered slowly car. The prosecution, Mr. Andrewes continued, were not bringing up there la every prospect that more into this car and to proceed with RUSSIAN EARTHQUAKE people will vote than ever before. the defendants to a railway sta- any consumer, because the man in-The voting is by numerals under? tion in the belief that she was be-] volved in this case had given the proportional representation ing helped on the journey back SERIOUS DAMAGE IN YALTA nexion with the charge, and from system and the task of placing pre- to her mother in the country a sense of honour, the Companyferences in this election is faci- had decided not to proceed against litated by the fact that there are a hundred fewer candidates than him. But in the CaRo of any

not in last June and there has been other consumer who would give this assistance, Mr. Andrewes an elimination of three smaller stated that the Company "would political groups. go for him very vigorously."

Other Company Watching. Regarding the defendant's of- fence, Mr. Andrewes said that hel was caught red-handed at the shop and was arrested by the de- tective and taken to the Central Police Station.

Posters declare that this is the Free States' Day of Destiny."- Reuter.

been specially instructed by the Chairman of the Board of Direc- tors of the Hongkong Electric Company to ask the Court to give the full punishment that was allowed, under the section.

At the railway station the party Chinese de- were stopped by a tective, and taken to the police station for examination.

The Magistrate convicted the male defendant and sentenced him to four months' hard labour.

The woman was discharged.

ESCAPES DEATH. ⠀

CONDEMNED SPY FREED TO

SPY AGAIN.

Helsingfors, Sept. 15..

Mr. HJ. Armstrong said that the defendant had interviewed

As regards the section itself, various other consumers of the Mr. Andrewes said that it was the

It is believed that M. Goyer China Light and Power Com-only section that could be found is a Finnish sailor who was pro- pany at Shamshuipo and Yaumati, to cover the offence. He remark- minently engaged under the Rus and the China Light and Powered that it was a strange thing sian Czarist regime and then under Company proposed on the evidence that after looking through the the Cheka in most European coun- in this case to endeavour to ob-

whole Ordinance he could not tries. He was not executed, des- tain convictions against these find any other on which to pro-allowed to resume work for the pite the official announcement, but other people who tampered with ceed, having regard to the na-

Cheka under another name on their meters. Mr. Armstrong hadture of the offence. It was D

pany.

abilities.Reuter.

Moscow, Sept. 15. Further details of the earth- quake along the Black Sea coast show that Coreis and other places in the Yalta district were serious- ly affected. Several buildings were involved including many rest-houses and sanatoria,

The big rock Simeis called "Napoleon" crumbled to dust and the huge water reservoir at Ore- anda cracked, the water leaking. out at the rate of 350,000 litres daily.-Reuter.

ITALIAN TRIAL ENDS.

SOCIALIST EX-DEPUTY

SENTENCED.

Rome, Sept. 15. The trial of Sig. Savona,' the so-

therefore appeared to watch the fortunate thing, too, for the de-account of his valuable espionage cialist ex-deputy. Sig. Philippe course of the case on behalf of fendant, that the punishment A message dated the 14th Turati and others who assisted the China Light and Power Com- provided for by the section was stated that apart from the cryptic Terati's flight in a motor boat limited to two months. The Com- and incoherent semi-official ac-from Italy to Corsica on the 12th Defendant, in replying to the pany had been defrauded and was counts of the Leningrad espionage of December last, has ended. Sig. LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHS Magistrate, said that he was in- being defrauded to a serious ex-trial and the sharpis conflicting Turati and five others were sen- vited by Ho Chuen, a younger tent through these petty thefts accounts of various newspaper tenced to 10 months imprisonment, brother of the "man in the shop and adjustments of meters, correspondents, insufficient ma- one was sentenced to 11 months ALBUM OF 40 VIEWS- -$3.00

at No. 27 Queen's Road Central" Mr. Andrewes assumed that the terial is avilable to show even the and four acquitted. Sig. Turati to come over from Shamshuipo. China Light and Power Com-nationality of those convicted or was sentenced in absentia.-Reuter. POST CARDS 75 CENTS PER DOZEN.

He accepted the invitation when paný took the same viewpoint. the specific charges. Goyer is of it was again made, and BEST SELECTION IN HONGKONG.

after One of the principal difficulties Acially described as an English mecting at a teahouse, they went for the Company was that they sea captain and unofficially de- to the shop, where it was pointed could not get enough evidence to scribed as a Dutchman.]. MEE CHEUNG.

out to him that too much current convict or to catch the offenders had been used lately and that it red-handed. The loss to the Com- Branch 7, Beaconsfied Arcade, was desired that he should in-pany in addition to that of re- spect the meter and see if there pairing the breakage, was in the was anything wrong with it. He expense of sending out men con- mounted оп a chair and had tinuously to inspect these meters.

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Fall Punishment.

Major Willson decided to con- vict, and asked Mr. Andrewes if he had

any remarks to make. Mr. Andrewes said that he had

SALESMAN ŞAM

MORNING, MISS KEYS! WHY SO

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NOTHING, MR. HOWDY, ONLY THAT FRESH OFFICE BOY

INSULTED ME!

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Major Willson agreed that this was a very important case for the Company concerned. He imposed the maximum sentence under the Section, of two months' hard la- bour.

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MEXICAN STORM.

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New York, Sept. 15. The reports of the Mexican storm are still very meagre. Three thousand are reported to have fled for refuge to high ground. overlooking the West coast. Moun- The general election for the tainous walls of water rolled in- Skupsting has resulted in 190 to the towns, demolishing piers, scats being gained by Government buildings and wharves and tak-

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