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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

DARING ROBBERY.

THURSDAY, MARCH 29,

192

CHINESE WILLS.

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BOWRINGTON CANAL HOUSE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

DISCUSSION.

pany, w

the house.

RAIDED.

NORTH AND SOUTH FAIL

TO AGREE

Paking, Mat. 28.

A daring armed robbery was A meeting of the Chinese Cham- perpetrated at 9.25 yesterday mor- bor of Commerce was bold yester ning by four men who entered and day at the premises of the Chamber is understood the Northerners looted a Chinese house in No. 39, in Connaught Road Central. There are not altogether satisfied with présent a representative the progress toward agreement Tang Lung Street, Bowrington were Canal, the home of Chinese labour-gathering of Chloese business men, with the South regards the ers of the Nanyang Tobacco Com including Mr. LI Yau-taun (Chair-tariff question. The Northerners man), Messrs. M. K. Lo, Wong with the Nationalists to agree to The attack was made at a time Kwong-in, Ho lu, Li Yik-mui, T. the presentation of A. Note simul- to the Powers uri ng tariff autono when most of the adult inmates N. Chau, Chau U-teng and Ip Lan-taneously by Peking and Nanking were at work in the tobacco chuen (Secretary).

An Interesting point touching my on January 1, 1920, and an! factory and only a man, a woman, the granting of probate by the interim tariff meantime, but the a girl of 14, and a youth were in Supreme Court of Hongkong was Southerners up to the present have

brought up for discusalon.The not agreed. Shortly after nine o'clock a man Chamber had before them a letter: The Northerners, according to asked for Leo Fook and the girl written by a widow, who explained reliable Chinese reports, are will- answered the door, telling him that her husband died in the Colony that the former wasnt in. Five leaving some money in one of the Ing that the surplus customs, after minutes later the man returned, foreign banks. Naturally the Paying loan charges, should be bringing with him three others bank in question would not release retained by each port pro rata, but and they succeeded in gaining the monoy until the proper probate apparently the South are bolding admittance into the premises by was produced to them. She took out for a atlit larger proportion, breaking the fastenings of the her husband's will to a solicitor though it is suggested the arrange. and in due course the will was ment would give them a July sur door.

Inmates submitted to the Supreme Court plus. They threatened the

The Northerners are still hope- with knives, one of them re-and appeared in every way to com maining on guard outside the door. ply with the requirements of the ful that the Nanking Government The trio gagged and bound the in-law in Hongkong. The solicitors will agree to the presentation of In question, however, advised the the Note, but suggest otherwise For a whole hour, the men widow, that, the will being that of that they should send Mr. Ed- stayed in the house, ranancia Chinese, it was necessary for her wardes again to Shanghai to dis-

obtain the signatures of two cuss the matter. Reuter, Ing the place and made good their to

cape with property, consleting persons to testify that the will was of clothing and jewellery to the in accordance with the require-

ments of Chinese law. value of about $411.

mates.

The boy eventually freed him self, and raised an alarm. A posse of Chinese and foreign detectives arrived and un elderly Chinese was detained by the Police on sus picion. After being subjected to interrogation, he was released.

Expensive Signatures.

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The letter stated that the services of two Chinese gentlemen A GOODWILL FLIGHT IN THE were obtainable for tant purpose, but that the charges were $75 for each signature. As the sum at the a few hundred

Washington, Mar. 28. bank was only dollars, the widow explained in her Colonel Lindbergh conferred for letter that she stood to obtain two hours with the State Depart EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS. very small portion of what was ment, and qutlined plans for a left behind by her husband, if ahe had to pay the Court's charges, the goodwill fight to the Far East, DAMAGE IN NORTH ITALY solicitors charges and the fees of with a non-stop trans-Pacific flight to Tokyo, thence possibly across the experts in Chinese law. AND JUGO-SLAVIA. :...

The Chairman, informed the Asia and Europe.-Reuter's Ameri London, Mar. 28.

meeting that he had personally can Service. Telegrams from Rome and Bel-scen Mr. M. K. Lo on the question grade show that an earthquake and the latter gentleman had been recorded by the seismographs at kind enough to furnish the cham-England." The wiil might turn out Kuw, Brussels and Munich at 9.30 bar with the law relating to wille to be perfectly valid in English law, but, the testator being a Fren- yesterday morning, was felt silghtly and probates. at Rome and more severely in the Carnatic province of North Italy, also at Slovenia, on the Adriatic coast of, Jugo-Slavia.

Tolmezzo, Cavazzo and Verzegal suffered most.

Many houses

were wrecked.

This was read to the meeting by chman, it would be necessary to the Secretary, and the Chairman prove that the same document was also invited Mr. Lo to speak to the equally valid in French law, and meeting on the points raised by consequently to prove the will, French lawyers would have to be the widow's letter.

Mr. Lo, addressing the meeting, consulted.. Baid that in yours gone by it was

The position out here was some- The cathedral at Tolmezzo now held by the Courts here that any what different. Mr. Lo said that Chinese will which complied with there being no law on the making fissure, Hitherto eight the law of Hongkong was sufficient of wills in China, any paper on deaths are reported-Reuter.

has

JAPÄN-CHINA.

for the granting of probate. The which there appeared the signature present Chief Justice held, however, of the testator could be held to be that the will of a Chinese, although his will, if that could be proved it might be in compliance with the to be a document relating to his laws of the..Colony, had also to be estate and bearing his dying wish. in compliance with the laws of In regard to the widow's com- plaint, Mr. Zo' aald that any Chinese gentleman who was a man of letters and who knew something about the laws of China could do the necessary testifying.

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The Chamber, after hearing Mr. at Shanghal from Tomie, Goto

Continuing, Mr. Lo said that he Island, South-west of Nagasaki, which left this morning, taking had never heard of a cane where a La, decided that the two Chinese four and a half hours on the flight, will complied with the exacting representatives on the Council requirements of the Colony's law should be approached with a view which is of an experimental nature but not with the laws of China, to negotiating for the removal of to ascertain the possibility of Strictly speaking, China, had no law the extra requirement of the opening up a regular air mail and on wills. The ruling of the Chief Courta,

Mr. Lo added that where a testa- passenger service between China Justice here, apart from being

had movable property in and Japan.

correct and justified, was a necessity tor

China, the will, if certified to be The seaplane belongs to the in other parts of the world. Japan Acrial Transportation Mr. Lo instanced the case of a in accordance with Chinese laws, Company-Reuter,

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