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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1928.

WET IN MORE THAN FROM HOLLAND TO COTTON WORKERS' CONSPIRACY TRIAL

ONE SENSE.

CAFE IMPERIAL SELLS BEER

AFTER HOURS

MILITARY COMPLAINT..

"Why did the sergeant take the pint of beer if he was on duty 7 If I was doing wrong, he was doing worse." So remarked Mrs. Anderson, proprietress of the Im- perial Cafe, of No. 60, Nathan Road, Kowloon, when she was charged before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, with selling four glasses of beer during prohibited hours, namely, at 9.30 p.m. on May 14th.

The defendant said it was rain- ing at the time and the boys" wanted beer with their meals. She was strongly tempted and supplied

JAVA.

RADIO-PHONE TALKS NOW REGULAR.

NOVEL SCHEME ORGANISED IN BATAVIA:

RELATIVES- CONVERSE.

Batavia, May 12.

Wireless enthusiasts will learn with interest of An experiment that is being made in Java,

relatives in:

WAGES.

PROPOSED REDUCTION IS NOT APPROVED.

FEDERATION VOTES.

London, May 22. The ballot on the proposal to reduce the wages of cotton workers by 12 per cent. shows that the requisite majority was not obtained.

Only 28 per Egyptian Section wero in favour of the resolution, which was sup- ported by 65 per cent. of the American Section.

cent. of the

No further action is being Laken.-Reuter.

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ENDS.

OVER THIRTY POLES

2 SENTENCED.

I

EX-DIET MEMBERS GET LONG SENTENCES.

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PRIEST ACQUITTED.

Warsaw, May 22.

Thirty-seven of the 56 "White" Ruthenian Communists, charged with conspiracy, have been found guilty.

SCOTLAND. YARD ENQUIRY.

CONFINED TO ALLEGATIONS OF THIRD DEGREE.

A SPELLING ERROR.

London, May 22. It has been decided definitely. that the proposed tribunal inquiry into the Hyde Park Case will, be confined to the circumstances in which Miss Savidge was taken to Scotland Yard and interrogated for many hours by detectives.

It is now disclosed that the name

of the lady connected with Sir Leo Chlozza Money in the case, is spelt "Savidge" and not as former-| The chief of the postal und tele-

The proposal to reduce wages by

ly reported.-Reuter. graph services has organised a.

Four of the accused who were The Home Secretary's motion to series of private radio-telephone 122 per cent, was contained in a former members of the Diet, name-appoint a Committee was postpon- conversations between residents resolution passed by the Generally MM. Tarasckiewicz, Rakmichay-ed until a substantial agreement them with drinks. The defendant in Java and their

Committee of the Federation of lowski, Woloszyn and Mioka, were by all parties notably of the La- added that they were Service men Holland. The experiment at pro Master Cotton Spinners Associa-sentenced to twelve years" penal bourites was and had come in from the rain.pent is only in the initial stages. tions at Manchester on May 4th. servitude, and the others to terms enquiry should be limited to the reached that the A copy of the resolution was varying from eight years to three interrogation of Mas Savidge She had also treated two of her but it has been carried out with

auht to the Members of Federation with two ballot papers, friends.

one for the American Section öf the industry and one for the Egyptian Section.

complete, one might almost say, as II Worship-Were these cus-tonishing success. tomers very wet, then?

The method employed is as fol- Defendant: No; they were not lows:-Half-a-dozen well-known very wel, but they wanted heer and pilicials, or commercial men are I was tempted to give it to them, invited fit send in the names and Inspector J. Ogg prosecuted and addresses of anyone in Holland said as the results of complains to whom they desire to speak und received from officers of the to attend on a certain evening at Queen's Regiment, that quite a the head offge of the telegraph number of soldiers had been gel-services.

ting drunk, it was suspected that The arrangements

the defendant was supplying them with drinks,

are tele- graped to the Hague, and at the time named the guests sit round Two police recruits, accompanied ; by soldiers, went to the defendant's table in Butavia, each wearing cafe on the night in question and carphones and communication

opened with the Hague, the line were served with beer.

Inspector Ogg' said it was rain-being relayed from the Malabar despatching Station near Ban- ing and it was possible it was On this needunt the defendant had dec served them with beer.

His Worship said that under the circumstances he would register ʼn conviction and a caution.

ARMED ROBBERS

ESCAPE.

POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO MEN,

Shortly after eleven o'clock this marning, a report was received at Police Headquarters that two arm ed robbers were escaping after a successful visit, which they made to a house in the central part of the city.

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to enforce the demand..

the

years.

The nineteen who were acquitted include the priest, Father Ostroski, and the politician, M. Luckiewicz. --Reuter.

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on May 15 and that the issue should not be obscured by Sir Loo Chlozza Money's case.

In the meantime one of the The Federation Members were

most important witnesses for Sir asked to vote whether they were

Leo Chiozza Money's case, known willing to leave the question of the

Over 2,000 Witnesses,

as the "man with the umbrolla," reduction of wages to be dealt Over 2,000 witnesses were called has turned up and interviewed Sir- with by the Federation Committee for the prosecution in the trial of Leo Chlozza Money's solicitor. He and to close the mills if necessary the accused who were alleged to the man who, when the detee- be members of "White" Ruthen-tives were taking Sir Lee Chlozza iam Cominunist organisations Money and Miss Savidge to the known as "Hromada."

station, handed over the umbrella The accused were charged with which Sir Lec Chiozza Money left conspiring to throw over the pre-behind. Hitherto he had remain- sent regime in Poland; also ed in the background and had not. forcibly to detach, for the benefit been identified-Reuter, of Soviet Russia, a purt of Poland inhabited by White-Ruthenians,'

"A LITTLE DRUNK”

JAPANESE SENTENCED AT KÓWLOON.

Financed by Soviet.

A fine of $5 was imposed by Parents Hear Children.. Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon

On March 18th, one of the chief Magistracy this morning, on # Each person is allotted

witnesses for the prosecution was three Japanese, named Tajima, who was murdered in a restaurant. The minites conversation. Those who charged with being drunk and in-murder was alleged to have been have been privileged. 10 re-capable at the Yaumati Ferry committed by several well-known ceive an invitation tell me that the Wharf yesterday. voices in Holland were just as dis- The defendant ndinitted that he Communists, who were later

tinet as if they had been speaking was a little drunk." on the telephone front a neigh- bouring house. I learn, says a correspondent, that parents have been quite overcome with emotion on hearing, the voices of their children.

His Worship-I seem to remem- bor his face; he's been here bé- fore, hasn't he?

In these experiments everyone taking part hears the conversation of each person in turn so there is 10, secrecy, and of course anyone elsewhere can listen in.

When these communications are:

Inspector Marks:-Numerous times, your Worship.

"His Worship:He seems to run straight for three or four months and then break out again.

Inspector Marks:-When does break out, he does strongly.

he

so

Sentence of növén days' hard

SCOTS GUARDSMAN CHARGED.

at on a commercial footing and a labour was imposed In default of It appears that two men visited regular service opened there will payment of the fine. the second floor of No. 14, Cochrane be privacy in the despatch and re- Street, where they found, as the feeipt of the messages, but there sole. Lenant, a woman whom they will still be the publicity due to easily terrorised with a show of "listening in." This difficulty will weapons.,

naturally be à limitation to thei They took her personal trinkets general use of such a service for and were on the point of making n search for other valuables on the important commercial or domestic

meganges. premises when, it sens, they were frightened into making a hasty

light

Untold Possibilities.

arrested

Soviet Sentences.

Riga, May 22, The Soviet Tribunal at Smolensk, which has been trying cases of per- sons alleged to have taken part in an economic counter-ravljationary plot, has sentenced two aten to death and awarded long terms of impri- sonment to six others.-Router.

RECENT JUNK PIRACIES:

FOUR MEN CHARGED AT KOWLOON.

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HAWKER VICTIMISED.

PAID $20 FOR USELESS "LICENCE."

A very curious Incident occur- red at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a Chinese pro- duced an affirmation for distress for which he said he, had paid $20, for the privilege of hawking cloth. The document was described as having been "curiously filled in,"

The defendant was charged with selling cloth without licence and when the indictment | was road to him he said he had a licence which was in the posses- sion of the police.

Sergeant Hargreaves handed his Worship a document, which, after examination, his Worship said was 'an affirmation for distress and was curiously filled in.

When asked where he had obtained the document, the defen-- dant said that he had paid· $20 ( for it. He was given the paper. Recent piracy outrages on hoard by a man in the compound of the ALLEGED ASSAULT ON FIRE' trading jonks and fishing boats, Centrul Police Station.

OFFICER

in British waters, have culminat-; Sergeant Hargreaves told his ed in the apprehension of four Worship that, the defendant had Pollen officers arrived a few min- This, no doubt, will be over- A charge of assault was prefer-men, alleged to have been concern-apparently been victimised and utes after the robbery, but the come in time, and in fact there are red against Guardsman John Dun-ed in an armed robbery committed appeared to be quite genuine in mën could not be traced In the persistent rumours that a local in-can, Right Flanking. Company, on.a fishing boat in Lung Ku Tan his belief that the document meantime, all the Police Stations Ventor has already discovered Д Scots Guards, Nanking Barracks, Harbour, New Territories, on May served as a licence, although" he. had had a proper licence some. have been circularised and dcter- | method.

before Mr. W. Schofield, at the 15th.

three years ago. His previous tives sent out.

Certainly it will open up untold Kowloon Magistracy this morning, In addition to charges of robbery licence had been.cancelled, but he In her statement, the victim said possibilities for the future and the complainant being Mr. J. Ilau, preferred against the four men, should have known What a that one of the robbers was armed would add enormously to the value sub-ollicer of the Kowloon Fire who appeared before Mr. W. Scho-conce looked like. with a knife, while his colleague of the present experiments which, Brigade.

fell at the Kowloon Magistracy Sergeant Hargreaves added that had a revolver and also a dagger. by the way, are, the first of the The incident was alleged to have this morning, they were also it might have been a teacher, who They gained, admittance by push-kind in the Far East,

taken place at the Laichikok ben charged with kidnapping the mushad done a similar thing to a ing up the trap-door which covers Yesterday, the experiment was at 5 pm. on May 18th.

ter for rùnsottu:

woman last week, who had vic- the top of the stairense.

carried a stage further and com- The complainant Intimated that The men were more or less well- munication opened between Ban-he was calling seven ladies and

Sub-Inspector Dorling, who pro-timised the defendant. dressed, having their hair parted doeng and England for the special two gentlemen as witness, while the secuted, applied for a date to be

according to the American style" and they also wore socks and shoes. They spoke Cantonese,

MAN'S IMPOSSIBLE POSITION.

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benefit of Mr. Ormsby-Gore.

Mr. Ormsby-Gore's Talk. Sitting in his own room at the Preanger Hotel, Mr. Ormsby-Gore was able, by means of special ap- paratus, to hold a conversation "with his chief, Mr. Amery, who spoke from his office in London, and then with, his wife, Lady Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, who spoke from her home.

SEVENTY-TWO, NO WORK AND NO WHERE TO GO. "What will betome of him if he can't curn a living?. He can't get Mr. Ormsby-Gore told Mr. Amery. a licence and' there is no poor-that he was highly impressed with house, how can he live?" Thus Lt. the laboratories at Buitenzorg, and Col. F. Eaves at the Magistracy added that there was nothing to this morning when a Chinese was equal them in the British Empire. brought before him for hawking He conversed with Lady Beatrice on family matters, inquiring parti- without a license."

cularly after the health of the children.

The man stated he had been in the Colony for a long time. He was seventy-two years of age and was hawking in the hope of making a living.

Following this the telegraph au- thorities had a conversation with officials at the London Genera!) Post Office. Altogether It was a demonstration highly successful

His Worship wan about to re- commend the man for a free license, when the officer in charge of the new invention., of hawkers informed the Magis trate that no more licenses could.. be issued this year.

His Worship: Is there no poor- house or refuge for these poor people? No, your Worship.

Addressing the defendant his Worship said that the law sald he' could not hawk without a license: and that being so, his. Worship had no alternative in the matter. He closed the episode by telling

SHOES AT FIVE CENTS A PAIR.

OLD MAN IGNORES COURT WARNING.

An old Chineso, discharged with

a caution yesterday by Lt. Col. F-|

the defendant to. "go to some Eaves for hawking shoes without

Chinese Hospital and see if they can't help you."

A Chinese passenger on the Golden Star, which left the Kow- loon Wharf at 7.30 p.m. yesterday attempted to commit suicide by

a licence, was brought before his Worship again this morning, ar rusted by the same constable,

This time the old man was not

go fortunate, and, in imposing a fine of 82, Lt. Col. Eaves remarked jumping into the harbour, He that he had cautioned him yester- WRS rescued by the engineer of the day and he could not do so again. steam launch Kwong On'and sent to Hospital

defendant remarked that he had tree witnesses.

flxl,

When asked if he knew the man- who had given him the paper, the defendant replied that he was o Chinese teacher who gave lessons Ho (defendant) to Europeans. would be able to recognise him again,

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Agents:- The defendants were remanded The case was accordingly ad- for one week formally, the case journed until 2.15 p.m. on Friday, being fixed for hearing on Thurs June 1.

day afternoon.

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CCAUNE

ÖINK ́NÝ NEA Déndice me:

'The old man claimed that he sold shoes at 5 cents a pair.

"Nice bag of fresh roasted peanuta, Ikdy?”

His Worship discharged the de- fendant, informing him that the "licence" was not in order.

HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

TODAY'S QUESTIONS.

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Dally Express,

Answers, for those who nee them will be found on Page 14

of this issue.

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4 Name the largest church in thei

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