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3#D" WITя^XX* WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1928. 'AWAŁ

BRITISH ANSWER YEO EXTRADITION

TO CRITICS.

CLEAR STATEMENT ON NAVAL AGREEMENT.

FOREIGN SUSPICIONS QUITE UNCALLED FOR.

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ARREST.

|FORGERS CAREER END.

FRAUD ON YOKOHAMA SPECIE

BANK REVEALED. -

[INTERNATIONAL GANG.

CRICKET.

LEADING COUNTIES IN DRAWN GAMES.

TYLDESLEY AND V. W. C. JUPP IN GREAT FORM,

Berlin, Aug. 21. Smart work by the Berlin police SURREY'S

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RECOVERY.

INJURED.

ALLEGED ATTACK BY K.O.S.B.

("DESERTER.

TAIPO INCIDENT.

TO EGYPT.

IMPORTANT WAFDIST

DISCLOSURE.

NEGOTIATIONS INITIATED BY NAHAS PASHA,

A sensational story of how he was attacked by a European passen- ger who had engaged his car is told by a Chinese-chauffeur in-a'roport mado to the police at Taipo. The assailant is stated to be a soldier BRITISH DISPLEASURE. of the K.O.S.B. who had deserted from his regiment.

First news of the affair was re-

BIG TREASURY LOSS.

Küünexpected development has occurred in Shanghai in con- nexion with the detention of Carvalho Yea, a Eurasian, who FRANCE, JOINS DENIAL. was arrested by the Shanghai

has brought about the arrest of Police on the request of the

Cairo, Aug. 21. "The most remarkable son ever the leaders of a gang of Inter-

Rain all over the country seriously

An Important disclosure has. London, Aug, 21.

Hongkong authorities on charges born" was the description applied national forgers, which in the interfered with the majority of celved by a party of Europeans who Well-informed quarters in Lon-arising out of the huge fraud to Fok Chung-yuen by Mr. F. C.

county cricket matches, though in were spending the evening with a don strongly deprecate the stg recently perpetrated on the Hong-Jenkin at the resumed hearing of last two or three years has de- low scoring matches, definite con- friend at Taipo on Monday. They been made by the Wardist prese restion that there is some, sinis kong Treasury, involving the sum the forgery and conspiracy charges franded different banks all over clusions were reached. There were were sitting chatting together when la connexion with the surprising at the Criminal Sessions this Europe of sums running into hun-no surprise performances, though the chauffeur came up to the house announcement that Mr. Kellogg, der significance behind the Anglo-❘ of $260,000.

morning, before Mr. Justice Jncks, dreds of thousands of pounds. Essex did well to win against in a very distressed condition, withi

The frauds have been carried Somerset after being in arrears on severe Injuries to his head. It was before leaving for Paris, offered

difficult at first to ascertain from an arbitration treaty to Egypt. French naval compromise.

Yeo is alleged to have Inspired This comment was made after ac-1

According to this morning's It is emphasised that the com-the operations which made the cused had confessed that although out by means of forged Letters the first innings.

Of the leading counties, Lan- the chauffeur how he had come by his father had assigned every of Credit. promise Is perfectly straightfor- fraud possible and to have taken stick of property he possessed to All the police forces of Europe cashire and Notts both won on the his injurice, but the party went out

yond Tain Market, where they Premier," Nahns Pasha, who ward and that no attempt has been the principal part in the forgeries, help him (Fok Chung-yuen) and have been unsuccessfully pursuing Arst innings, while Yorkshire and with him to a point somewhat be-newspapers, it was the former

Yeo has made several appear his brother, Fok Tat-fui, he, had the gang for years,

In view of Hammond's remark. found his car drawn up at the side initiated the negotiations between.. made, to cunceal the detalls from

The crash came in the last Stales for whom it has any con-ances before the Shanghai Pro- not thanked his father for it.

Accused further enld that he did week. An elegantly dressed man visional Court in the extradition not say anything about it to his presented a Letter of Credit for been father and his father did not men-£5,800 on the Yokohama Specie proceedings which have Instituted to secure hia return to tion it. Mr. Jenkin put it to Fok Bank at the Munich Branch of the

Chung-yuen that the rensen for Deutsche Bank, and drew £1,000. Hongkong.

his reticence was because he knew

First Slip. his father knew nothing about the

a further He tried to draw assignment and he did not want

£1,600 on the same Letter of Cre- him to know. This was denied.

This morning's hearing was de-alt on the following day at Nurem- vated to eross-examination of the burg, but became alarmed for It is now revealed that Mr.nccused by Mr. Jenkin, who is some reason or other and dashed L. P. Lane, the Chief Detective prosecuting for the Crown. Mr. out of the bank premises. Inspector of the Hongkong C.I.D., II. G. Sheldon is defending.

Shanghai yesterday, left for nothing defnite can be done until accompanied by

.ceril.

The absence of any ulterior mo- tive is quite evident from the fact that the agreement can only be operative If the other Powers who are members of the Naval Dis- armament Commission agree to adhere to the terms.

Attention is drawn to the fact that the terms of the compromise have been communicated to other Powers concerned, that the nature that of the agreement is such

A Hitch has, however, arisen over the question of his nationall ty, and the proceedings are being delayed,

Mr.

that

T. M.

Mr.

Forged Signatures?

Ling Man-lai, of the Bank of Canton, was asked whether the

He was later arrested in Ber lin, and identified as Luigi Milani, a man "wanted" by the Italian police for fraud and forgery. A

it has been considered by the Pre-Hazelrigg, the Crown Solicitor paratory Disarmament Conference, attached to the Treasury.

It is understood and that it has been designed with i a view to assisting towards a gen-linzelrigg. will argue the legal signatures on the documents could IDMAT SETTUCE ASSETSADA DE eral agreement on matters touch-aspects of the case before ing nayal disarmament.

US. Queries Answered. The United States Government, It is now revealed, after consider- Ing the compromise, requested elu- cidation

certain on

.points, which the British Government :recently answered.

Shanghai Court.

the have been made with the chop. Mr. Jenkin remarking that the witness had, at Mr. Sheldon's re- quest, conducted certain experl- ments.

SHARK IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.

Witness replied that the signa- tures could possibly have been forged by using the chop and tracing the impression over,, char-|

BIG FELLOW SIGHTED THIS acter by character.

MORNING,

It has also been sinted in London' that the publication of the terms

› Fortunately for Hongkong of the compromise has been defer- red in order to permit of certain sharks are seldom seen in the elasticity which would not be pos- waters of the Colony, but the ap sible once the terms became de-pearance of one in Hongkong Har finitely known throughout the hour is reported to-day. world.

E.

The foregoing which must be re- garded as semi-official is made in answer to reports of perturbation in American political circles, and the obvious suspicions in the minds of German observers.

German Distrust.

According to a report made to the Water Police, the Captain of the river steamer Sul An whilst coming through Sulphur Channel this morning sighted a which he estimates to have been about eight feet in length.

shark

Smaller, sharks than this have occasionally been seen in local

Germany has gone much farther waters, and about a month ago than the United States in the mat-some Chinese fishermen caught one ter, the Government newspaper in the region of Castle l'eak. Germania having alleved that Bri- taln has "concluded an alliance giving Britain an important naval Buperiority over America which appears to guarantee to Britain supremacy of the sens in a new form."

It is hoped that anxiety and dis- trust will now be dispelled by the clear statement of the exact post- tion.

NEW ASSASSINATION

PLOT REVEALED.

MEXICAN GIRL, & POISONED PIN SCHEME.

Mr. Jenkin then demonstrated with an apparatus in Court. This consisted of a box with a glass top, inside being an electric bulb. After switching on the light, Mr. Jenkin showed how a plece of paper, on which had been impress- ed the characters on the chop, could be laid on the glass top of the box with the light shining through. If the deed was placed on top of the paper, the characters codld easily be traced on the document itself by means of the light shining through from underneath.

then

Mr. Sheldon asked the witness if he could say it was "probable" that the chop was used.

Witness replied that he could' say that.

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FIRST PICTURES OF BIG FIGHT.

Exciting Episodes in the Tunney-Heeney Contest.

TOMORROW'S TELEGRAPH.

The first pictures of the Tunney-Heeney fight, one of most sensational contests in which a Britisher has appear- ed, have arrived in Hongkong and will be published in the Telegraph to-morrow:

The photographs were taken. at the ringside, rushed to a telephoto apparatus in Now York, transmitted thereby to San Francisco and arrived here yesterday on board the R.M.S. Empress of Russia,

"The pictures show Heeney knocked out in the tenth round, which definitely settled the con- fest,

Kent shared points.

all-round achlevenment

of the road.

In the car was a brick wrapped America and Egypt with regard able against Worcester, other Individual up in a towel, and the chauffeur into the arbitration treaty,

It appears that performances are somewhat over-dicated that it was with this that 242 runs for Lancashire against from behind, whilst in the car. United States proposed the con- shadowed. Ernest Tyldesley made he had been struck on the head Lelcaster, while V. W. C. Jupp with

Whilst investigations were pro-clusion of the pact for the re

whon the

18 wickets for 152 runs had much coeding, a European, said to be a to do with the Northants victory.deserting soldier, emerged from be- nunciation of war, and when hind a rock, and he is stated to Britain, In reply, seemed to wish RESULTS AT A GLANCE.

have admitted that he struck the to make reservations affecting chauffeur on the head brick.

Essex defeated Somerset by

Boven wickets. Notts won on the first innings

Derby.

"

v.

Lancashire won on the first

innings v. Leicester. Middlesex won on the first in-

nings v. Surrey, Yorkshire v. Kent. Match drawn. Warwick defeated Hampshire on

rune

the first innings. Northants won by 74

against Glamorgan, Sussex defeated the West Indies

by an innings and 87. HONOURS LISTS.

The principal Individual per- formances were as follows:

Batting,

with the

Objected to. Being Bought.

Apparently, he had hired Egypt, Nahas Pasha telegraphical- tho Egyptian the car for the purpose of getting ly, instructed away from Hongkong, and when he reached Taipo ho had a dispute Legation at Washington to sound with the chauffeur over the question Mr. Kollogg in regard to the Amorican attitude towards Egypt, of the payment of his fare..

The alleged assailant was then taken to the Police Station, where: he is said to have been identified as a soldier who had been missing from duty since Sunday and for whom the police had been making a search. He was then placed uran important factor. in inter

national peace,

in der arrest.

The Egyptian Minister Washington in placing Nahas

The Egyptian Minister was also: Instructed to point out that Egypt's geographical position was

MORE EMIGRANTS FOR Pasha's views to Mr. Kellogg

CANADA.

A STEADY INCREASE IS EXPECTED.

urged that Egypt was an indepen- dent sovereign State and could not admit that she could be bought or sold like mere merchandise.

After

in some discussion Washington, the Egyptian Legation replied to Nahas Pasha informing London, Aug. 21. him that the attMade of Washing- Lord Lovat, Under-Secretary for ton to Egypt was favourable, upon the Dominions, has concluded the which the Waldist Premfor took conference which he has been practical steps with the United holding at Ottawa, with the Cana Statos Government with a view to dian Immigration Department.

Tyldesley E. (Lanci.

242

E. T. Killick (Middlesex) Whysall (Notta)

170

157

Iddon (Lancashire)

113

H. W. F. Franklin (Essex) *Hendren (Middlesex)

104

104

Bowling.

V. W. C. Jupp (Northanta)

7 for eg

G for 44

An official statement issued at of war.

the Kellogg Pact, for the outlawry-

6 for 59

5 for 15

Ottawa saya it is confidently ex- pected that the negotiations will

Wonsley (Sussex) Ryan (Glamorgan) O'Connor (Emex) Parks J. (Sussox)

Mr. Kellogg's reply was an offer. 5 for 14 result in a steady increase in the of an arbitration Treaty similar to flow of sultable British emigrants that concluded with France, Italy, and eighteen other countries, to Canada.

SURREY SAVE THE GAME. · Middlesex in Strong Posllion

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wickets.

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Detalled arrangements are to which in many cases was designed to be worked out between the to replace the old Root Treaty.

Washington Attitude. Dominion and Provincial Govern- ments and the Overseas Settlement Department in London.—British Wireless.

RUBBER RESTRICTION

SCHEME.

It has been argued in America that because the second article of that particular Treaty excludes from arbitration all questions in- Britain's interests are fully pro- tocted. volving the rights of other parties,

British political circles are very much in disagreement with this CEYLON DESIRES TO BE point of view, it having been: pointed out that Egypt's position RELEASED.

at the moment is such that little can pass between Egypt and Colombo, Aug. 21. The Secretary of State has re-another State without in some way Under the Declaration : 1922, plied to the resolution which was affecting British Interests, Middlesex: 428 for 9 wt moved in the Legislative Council

(deed.)

at the Oval, Middlossex gained a first in- nings lead of 202 runs at the Oval Prisoner Questioned.

second man, Ugo Marchesini, a fand declared, but at their second Mr. Jenkin cross-examined Fok former Court jeweller in Rome; attempt, Surrey made a brilliant Chung-yuen, who agreed that he was arrested at Frankfurt, while a showing and saved the game with said yesterday that the only time third man, Alfredo Palmeri was ease. In spite of many stoppages. he saw the assignment was in the arrested at Marseilles, which wing to rain nearly 1000 runs office of Messrs. Thos. W. Simmons apparently was the headquarters were scored for the loss of 25 and Co., Ltd., when it was shown of the gang.

Two Middlesex centuries and to him by his younger brother Fok The police have discovered that Tat-fui. Mexico City, Aug, 21,

the Letter of Credit on the Yoko- some fine bowling which sent back French Statement.

During their investigation of the

Prisoner said he noyer saw Mr, thama Specie Bank was genuine, the Surrey alde for 136 runs were assassination of the President- Reater's Paris correspondent tele. Elect, General Ohregon, who was. E. 11. Beavis at any time with but the name of the owner and the features of the game. The scorea

In the office of Messrs.lv altered--Router. graphs that the French Government shot dead on July 18th, the police regard to the document, and he was amount of credit had been clever-were: has also made a statement in con- have discovered a plot for the mur. Wilkinson and Grist in connexion nexion with the compromise in the der of both President Calles and with It. form of a semi-official communique, General Obregon intended for April The French Government cm-lost during their visit to Celaya.

Seven women and five men have phasises that the naval agreement is not a diplomatic act involving the bean arrested and charged with signature of plenipotentiaries, but ploiting to assassinate the Mexican brings an end to an Anglo-French leaders. dlaagreement.

According to the police, a girl "It is therefore inaccurate,, of 21 intended scratching them with the communique goes on, "to speak a poisoned pin while dancing of secret clauses, since there has Renter's American Service. been no signed Convention."

The statement dwells at some length on France's need for small

submarines

and 'high-powered light cruisers in order to maintain, 'Its naval eficiency, and explains that the compromise is meant to serve as the basis of a settlement of the whole disarmament pro- blem-leuter.

"NAVY WEEK” AT PORTSMOUTH.

never

Prisoner remarked that he saw who brought the document to Simmons' office, but, when ques-: toned as to whether it was the same document, said it was so long.

DEATH OF MR. W. H. COATS,

ago that he could not recollect HEAD OF FAMOUS COTTON whether he saw anybody from Mesers, Wilkinson and Grist or

not.

FIRM.

London, Aug, 21.

Surrey: 136.

Surrey: 433 for §.'

It is significant that War-

on July 5th demanding the release Britain granted Egypt the privi of Ceylon, not later than August leges of an independent sovereigd Surrey met with disaster from 1st, from the rubber restriction State, but made important resor

communications. the start, the Middlesex bowlers scheme, and its intrigue against vations in regard to defences and taking every advantage of a fav-the economie interests of Ceylon,

Waldist Fears. ourable wicket and the whole side whether Malaya desires to remain

in the scheme or not." was dismissed for 186.

Middlesex began xone too well,In his reply, sent by telegram,

that the presentj оп an improving wicket the Secretary of State says that he dist newspapers to-day are ap Mr. Jenkin:-Your memory with Mr. William Hodge Coats, head Hendren and E. T. Killick got toge does not see his way to meet the prehensive regard to the document of Roof the great cotton firm of J. and P.ther and trounced the Surrey at-wishes of the Legislative Council Egyptian Cabinet: will wreck the Etates "in order to antisfy the Bri long ago is quite uncertain and Coats, died to-day at the age of 62 tack Hendren' gave a most at until the expiration of the Angust negotiations with the United

tractive display, but he was dis- October quarter-Reuter.

tish Government which is displeas hazy 7-What I do remember is yours.

ed with Egypt'e demarches in re- that my younger brother brought He was one of the richest members missed soon after he had reached this to me and asked me to sign of the Coats family, in which there his tenth hundred of the season..... in two places. When I saw this have been twelve millionaires since Killick went on to make 170, his document, there was a Chinese the business started in small way bighest score in first-class cricket. -Surrey went in facing fearful signature of my father and also 104 years ago-British-Wireless.

but

the English next to it, which had' The deceased, who was educated odds, but the wicket had recovered been crossed out.

at Marlborough and on tng Con so well that they defied the Mid tinent, was Deputy Lieutenant and dlesex attack until stumps were J. P. for the County of Renfrew, as drawn. well as J. P..for the County of Glasgow.

Is that all you remember about that document? That is all,

Didn't Read It.

WARSHIPS THROWN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

London, Aug 21. Portsmouth is having what is known as Navy Week, during which warships are open to the publle.

One of the principal features la the air craft carrier Furious. Replying to further questions, BIHAR AND ORISSA READY TO H.H.S. Furious, is prominent by prisoner said he know at the time

CO-OPERATE.

SIMON COMMISSION.

.

The Legislative Council of Bihar

Ranchi, Aug. 21.

and Orissa has decided by 50 votes

reason of its superstructure. Be that the deed was for the assign. low the main deck sha is an ordi-ment of lila father's property to nary cruiser, but above the main the new company. He did not

MORE SHOWERS.

A WHYSALL CENTURY Noffs Nobbed of Fair Chance of Victory. Interfered with by rain on

PENALISING DRUNKEN gard to the United States.

MOTORISTS.

INTERNATIONAL CONFER- ENCE AT WORK.

Antwerp, Aug, 21. The International Congress, for Combating Alcoholism has passed a resolution pledging itself to work for, firstly, the enforcement

Reuter.

BRITAIN'S ARMY OF WORKLESS.

SERIOUS INCREASE REVEALED: IN FIGURES.

London, Aug. 212

ort several occasions, the match be of severe penalties against drun-The unemployment returns don

The total number of worldessions deck she is a vast steel aircraft read it, but accepted what his To-day's Observatory hangar of two floors, on top of to 44 to appoint a committee to co which is a flying deck 75 feet above younger brother had told him. states:Pressure is high over the tween Notts and Derby at Ilkeston ken motorists, including the with- tinue to show an Increase,

When did you first learn that Bonins and low over Guam and S. had to be left drawn, strongly in drawal of driving licences, and

rules for doctors drunkenness in was 9,229 more than the fortight. the case of persons involved in before and. 290,050 mora, than operate with the Simon Commie- the water line. Aircraft are raised your father was described in the W. China. The forecast up to favour of Notts, who gained first secondly, the Jaying down of exact August 18th was 1,814,200, whicht

a year ago British Wirelcen sion, and has rejected a Swarajiet from the hangar to the flying deck, deed as being a partner in the noon tomorrow Is-Southerly innings points

street accidents-Reuter winds, moderate; fair to showery amandment in favour of a Round or brought down from it, by steel

lifts-British Wireless. Table Conference-Reuter,

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