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AMERICAN MARINE. IN TROUBLE.

ENDEAVOURS TO PROVE AN ALIBL

Anthony Ketarisky, a corporal of United States Marines, was arrested on Saturday night on a charge of stealing, cigarettes from a ställ in Pedder Street

MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1928:

HABEAS CORPUS: RULINGS.

(Continued from Page L.).

crime in respect of which the fugitives stood compritted.

Royal Assent.

NANKING LEADER'S

MOVEMENTS.

CHIANG LEAVES FOR HSUCHOW.

Shanghai, April 2.

It la reported from Nanking that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and his staff arrived at Hauchow early yea« | torday morning. Marshal Chiang and his officals were met at the station by Generala Liu Chi, Ho. Yow-cho, Koo Chuk-tang and other officers of the Nationalist Head- quarters at the front.

His Lordship held that the validity of the Form was provided The hawker was closing up his for under Section 17, but at the same time dhe thought that the stall for the night, when the cor poral canio along, and walked off learned Magistrate would exercise with a number of packages which the widest caution in such cases in adding to the description of the were done up in a bundle.

Police whistles were blown and crime a statement as to its place

and date.

Further officials are leaving Nan- two Indian constables followed

od that Ketarisky to Blake Pler, where Mr. Lo had argued that the king for Hauchow this afternoon. On receiving a telegram from a sent with amendment of 1927, of the Chinese Marshal Feng Yu-hslang which re- they found him on

Extradition Ordinance of 1889, the packages beside him.

immediately move to the Northern It is alleged that on the way was ultra vires in that the amend quests General Li Chung-yen to to the Police Station, Ketarlaying Ordinance and boon passed front, the Nanking Government pressed the constables to accept without the compliance of the wired to General Li to this effect. $1.05, after anxiously enquiring held that this was not sufficient to has replied promising that he will Royal Instructions. His Lordship It is reported that General Li "How muchee 7"

Invalidate it. Royal Assent had leave for the front with Li's forces Ketarisky since been given validating the as soon as the conference at Chang- amended Ordinance from the date sha is concluded.—Nam Chung Poo. of its commencement.

It was stated that was quite sober.

He appeared befond Major Willson this morning on charges of stealing the cigarettes and of bribery, and pleaded not guilty.

His Lordship then came to what he termed the real substantia!

Two "buddies" were exiled by contention of Mr. Lo-that, assum- (825 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the above | defendant to say that at the timing the amended legislation to bel

affective, its affect nevertheless

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of the alleged offence defendant entitled the prisoners to discharge. was on Blake Pier, faoling" and The position Way this:-Tho larking with them, waiting a boat to return them to the U.S.S. destroyer "Anderson.

His Worship found the charges proved, and fined defendant $50, or four weeks, on the first chargo and $25, or two weeks' on the second.

Theft From British Bluejacket.

the

Ordinanco

Chineso Extradition had been passed to give effect to the Treaty of Tientsin which pro- vided that criminals, subjects of China, should be handed over from Hongkong upon requisition by the Chinese authorities. It had been decided that the word "criminal" not only signified a person convict ed of crime, but also one accused]

Canton's Rights.

CORRESPONDENCE.

April Fools.

[To The Editor of Hongkong “

Telegraph.]

of.

Sir, I think a protest should be Kowloon-Canton Railway author- made against the inaction of the ties in falling to notify the general public that a change of time-table would come into force on April 1st. So far as I have been able to diss A senman of the U.S.S. Pilts-of-crime.

cover, no notification was published burgh was fined $100, this morn-

in any newspaper that the summer ing by Mr. R. E. Lindsell on being

time-table was starting on April found guilty on a charge of the

The fundamental contention of 1st, and there was a large number darecny of $100 from a British Mr. Lo had been that as the of golfers and others made "April bluejacket named W. A. Anscom-Treaty of Tientsin was made to Fools" yesterday morning when be, of the H.M.S. Cornflower. the then Emperor of China, only they went to catch the old 9.04 fast

Originally two men were his successors were entitled to re-

train to Sheung Shui. There was charged in connexion with the tain the rights as laid down within no such train and they had to pro- larceny, their names being C.

cced by the slow 9.10, many the Treaty. Mr. Lo had suggested them arriving at the Golf Club too Mawhorton and W. Shelby, but that the only successor to the on the police offering no evidence

late to take their starting times.. against Shelby, he was discharged. Emperor of Chinn was the present-

Surely, it is customary for rail- It was given in evidence that day Republic and Government of way authorities the world over to Mawhorton and Shelby both visit-China, and that the British Gov notify change of time-table well ed a brothel and that during the crnment was under no obligation ahead. Perhaps our officials in night Mawhorton went into to any other Government than Hongkong are too busy? complainant's cubicle and was the Government functioning in Further, I would like to ask why seen by one of the inmates of the place of the Imperial Government. it is that the railway time-table is brothel stealing the money out His Lordship stated that this published only in the Daily Press? of Anscombe's trousers pocket. fundamental contention was not Could you not publish it also,

Mawhorton, in his statement to supported by the authorities hear-please?--Yours, etc.,

MERE PASSENGER, the Magistrate, totally denied the ing on international law. His'

Hongkong, April 2nd, 1928. charge, explaining that the money Lordship quoted authorities to.

[The railway time-table appears found by the police actually be-show that

contracting longed to him and his friend parties to the Treaty of Tien- in the Daily Press as an advertise- Shelby.

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SHANGHAI FIRE. STAMPEDE.

(Continued from Pago, 15) safety. All were more or less in

tsin. were

and

the

State the

of

one

a state of complete stupefaction, where his jurisdiction was exer- those at the foot of the stales, ¦ cised. particularly, being in a state of absolute collapse.

Many of those who were jammed against the walls and the door had broken bones and two of these were so badly trampled upon and A

aubsequently died.

Still Part of China.

Tho inhabitants of Kwangtung were still members of the State of China and they would have legitimate grievance if their

THE US. NANKING SETTLEMENT.

(Continued from Pape 1.)

The issues considered by Great Britain to be irrelevant were the cause of the deadlock, and it is hoped to overcome these in the course of future parleys,

Sir Sidney Barton remarked that Sir Miles Lampson has been longer in Shanghai than he bad'intended. When he arrived, he said, he was not expecting to be here more than a few days, but the negotiations

in other ways injured that they rights under the Treaty were dis-over the Nanking incident had Nineteen women, in all, were re-regarded. In His Lordship's view been so protracted that his stay moved to hospital, two of whom the obligation in respect of fugi: had lengthened into three weeks. died, eight were detained for treat- tive criminals so far as applied The Minister had been unable to ment and nine allowed to proceed to Kwangtung would continue so remain away from Peking longer, to their homes after treatment. long as Kwangtung remained part: There were many others who auf- of the Chinese Stato, whatever and this was the reason for his

departure. fered minor injuries but who resh- political relations between portions dd to their homes as soon as they of China might be. were released.

Other Nations.

It was obligatory on the Hong- One of the interesting features kong Government, in his Lordship's the negotiations had been conduct

In reply to a question as to how. of the occasion was the appear view, to entertain. a requisitioned, considering the number of ance of a small patrol of Chinese from a local Chinese authority and nations involved in the actual Boy Scouts from the Chinese so far as tho Ordinance. provided outrages, the Shanghai Times, was Chamber of Commerce who turned machinery for that purpose the informed that negotiations had out and rendered valuable ald in Ordinance must be upheld as valid, been opened by Great Britain, the holding back the crowd. Under Whether the name of a Chinese United States, Japan, France, and the troop leader they formed authority represented a Chinese Italy on very much the same lines, barricade along the section of the State or not seemed to him not but that differences in circum- street immediately affected and, to be a matter for this Court but stances and interests among the grasping their staves, end to ends for the Executive Council,, : different nations had, effectively kept the crowd from encroaching on the work of the police and Fire Brigade.

CANTON RED PLOT PREVENTED.

mado

His Lordship held that the uniform negotiations Impossible. Ordinance as amended did in fact Only two nations had been con- provided the machinery for carry-cerned in the firing, for instance, ing out the Treaty obligations of while the loases suffered by the the British Government, and in so nationals of the different countries doing the Legislature had dono were in different proportions, and united nothing that his Lordship could consequently prevented say was contrary to the terms of negotiations. the Treaty, and, so far as this contention went, his Lordship held that it did not avail the prisoners. Ils Lordship also held that it was not necessary for the fugitives to have been actually charged in to each of the Government depart China and, after dealing with other ment headquarters, whilst a large points raised on behalf of prison force table up position at the headers, he adjourned his delivery of quarters of Marshal LI Chaf-sum. the judgment until this afternoon

Additional troops were also sent

(Continued from, Page 1.) them being sorved out with: 300 cartridges.

Numbers of troops were also sent

to the various stations of the three

BETTER WEATHER PREDICTED.

The Royal Observatory weather report states:-The anticyclone.is still central to the North-east of Japan. Anothor has formed over North China. The depres slon now covers the South China The name of Sub-Inspector D Sen. Pressure is now to the east and other messages were sent tow. Barnett was omitted from the of the Bashi Channel, Fresh to the authorities of various districts' in the province to keep a sharp list of recipients of Police medals moderate monsoon may be expect- in Saturday's issue. Sub-Inspector ed along the south and south-east look-out on extremistä

principal railways, while telegrams

It is said that the action taken Barnett is awarded the 2nd class consts of China. The forecast up by the authorities was unpreced-medal for bravery and devotion to to noon to-morrow Is-North ented, except on the occasion of duty on December 2, 1925, when winde, moderate; overcast, with the suppression of the Communist he encountered armed robbers and drizzle and fog at first, improving,

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