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HOTELS

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BRITISH AIR MAIL SERVICES.

STEADY GROWTH DISCLOSED

IN LATEST RETURNS.

MANY NEW AVENUES.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 192

WAR LOAN FRAUD SEQUEL.

EMPHATIC DENIAL BY HUGO STINNES.

London, Aug. 81,2 | NO The Postmaster General an nounces the steady growth of British air mall traffic during the quarter ended June last.

KNOWLEDGE OF USE FOR

ILLEGAL PURPOSES.

را

FINANCED A GROUP.

CHINA TO JOIN PEACE PACT.

JAPAN INTERESTED IN U. S INVITATION.

IS IT RECOGNITION?

Shanghai, Aug. 31. At a conference of the Nanking Nationalist Council to-day it was decided that China shall become an adherent to the Peace Pact. During the quarter, acarly.

Reporta from Chiposo circles 14,000 pounds weight of parcels

state that the Japanese Govern- were sent by air to Germany, as

Berlin, Aug. 81ment is paying much attention to against 9,000 pounds during the corresponding quarter of 1927 Herr Hugo Stinnes, son of the America's request to the Nation- and over 6,000 pounds to Paris, late Herr Hugo Stinnes who was alistGovernment to join the compared with 5,000 pounds Germany's greatest magnate of the Peace: Pact, seeming to entertain Letter traffic to France and post-war period, interrogated by the idea that the gesture may be Germany showed an increased of the Judge in connexion with interpreted as the U.S. recogni alleged fraudulent tion of the Nationalists "As the 80 per cent. and 50 por cout charges of respectively, while over 4,000 conduct In the registration of representative Government. pounds of letter maila woro des- newly-purchased War Loan, ebao-China, JAM patched by the Cairo-Basra ser lutely denied that he was aware

Marshal Li Chal-sum.

Shanghai,, Aug. 31.

of

'It is stated that Marshal Li Chal- surn has wired Mr. Chang Ching- kiang, Nanking Moderate politi- clan, that he is leaving Hangchow to-night for Shanghai.

Confirming the above message,

pounds in the corresponding provided Von Waldow, his secro- ($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the vice, compared with about. 3,000 that the money with which he quarter of 1927, or an increase of tary, to purchase War Loan was

being used for illegal purposes. over 50 per cent.

Since the opening of this year's

He says that, at the suggestion summer season, several new afr of Von Waldow, he financed to the services have Been made available, extent of £20,000 a French group the most notable instance being which possessed a large amount of the new air letter service to Loan, and it was only subsequently Perain in direct connexion with that he learned that the group the London-Moscow air service: consisted of three foreigners who in Peru, for lettere and parcels founded the Company in Paris fortes with 30 bodyguards, are leav- Ho Iquitos and certain other the sole purpose of buying German

places; and the recently-establish-Government aecurities. ed service to South Amortea via Franen' and Dakar.

French Deputy's Bonds,

a Hangchow report says that Mar- shal Li Chai-eum, Mr. Tai, Chi-tao and nine of Marshal Li's subordin-

"

ing Hangchow to-day for Shanghai, Fengtien-Nanking Rapprochement,

Shanghai, Aug. 31. It is reported that General Chang Air parcel services have also These persons in Paris: signed Hguoh-liang, of Mukden, has tele been opened to Norway, Sweden affidavits that they avere original graphed to Marshal Chiang Kai- Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary. were consequently entitled to In-Chief, enying that the Man-

than now churlan Government has made up: All those servicos represent a higher revaluation really appreciable gain in time holders. He stated that a former its mind to join the Nationalists over the ordinary, routes, in some French. Deputy declared that ho by hoisting the Nationalist flag on cases as much as several weeks.owed 28,000,000 Marks worth of November 1st.

METROPOLE-SAVOY-BOA VISTA and Denmark, and to Australla, holders of German War Loan and shek, the Nationalist Commander-

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Mining Area Quiet, ing that the air parcel service Von Waldow has been provision- offers not only rapid transit but ally released but the indictment According to naval also spoedy clearance through the against him still stands. His law messages received in Hongkong Customs in the country of deatina-yors state that "he protected this morning, about 6,000 troops Stinnes until the authorities dis-under General Chang, Chin-yao tion.-British Wireless,

covered from other sources Stin-moved into the Tongan district on noa participation in the matter." Thursday. The mining area con- -Reuter.

tinues quiet.

THE EXTRADITION PROBLEM.

(Continued from_Page_1.) ›

The Alleged Fraud.

A meandro of yesterday stated that the draud complained of conalsted of buying German war stock abroad and registoring it in Berlin as original War Loan stock which rad not changed hands anco the 1018.cevolution and

A friend vialt was paid to the Kallan Mining Administration on Thursday by General Chu Yu-pu who was shown round the mines.

Some Fengtien troop movements have taken place outside the Wall

Arrive in Shanghal. -.-

Shanghal, Au. 81.

Extradition Demands. Paragraph (3) of Section 4 of the principal Ordinance provides

Dr. Wang Chung-hul, the Minig- that & fuglbive criminal shall not be whichshoda.consequently been re- surrendered unicsa on engagement valorised by the Government, tor of Justice, and General Hau Is given against his being tried for whereas all stock which has chang-Chun-chi, the former Canton Com- an offence "other than the extradi-ed in inci1918: la practically mander-in-Chief, both arrived b tion crime on which the aurrender worthless.

la demanded." Demands are some- Von Waldow, who was arrested times made before the facts are some weeks ago, declared that completely known. Further, the Stinnes was aware of the projected categories of English law and Chin frauds, but Stinnas has denied the ese law do not necessarily fully cor-acousation.

respond to one another. It is

possible accordingly that the re-

Shanghai this morning.

Japanese Killed.

Peking, Aug. 31.

The Japanese who were captured by bandita at Wanhafen last May and for whose release demands for a huge ransom were frequently 200 miles north of Wanhalen,-- Reuter.

quisition may describe a crime national of China unless he proves made, were killed on July 17 about which differs in certain details from the contrary?"..

the crime subsequently disclosed by

the evidence. The surrender is

eventually made in respect of the

crime.disclosed in the evidence, and

1.

Four New Sections.

Section 7 of this Ordinance adds

it is to that crime that the proceed four sections to the principal ings in China subsequent to sur Ordinance. The new Section 21 render should be confined. Accord-provides that the requisition shall ingly Section 4 of this Ordinance be transmitted by the Governor to substitutes the words, "other than the Crown Solicitor and shall be the extradition crime or crimes admissible in evidence without proved by the facts on which the proof. upon production by the surrender is granted" fer the words Crown Solicitor or any police in the present section, "other than officer not below the rank of sub- the extradition crime on which the inspector. surrender is demanded." The The new Section 22 provides phrase now substituted is in fact that no objection to surrender is the phrase used in the English Ex- to be taken on the ground that no tradition Act, 1870,

warrant has been issued in China

The Requisition.

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THE CRACKER-FIRING NUISANCE.

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PROTECTING PATIENTS OF THE G. C. H.

The Gazette notifies that, owing to danger likely to accrue la patients at the Government Civil Hospital, no application, under Ordinance No. 3 of 1888, for per

ission to discharge fireworks will for the arrest of the fugitive be entertained if such application criminal, or on the ground that no relates to any place or spot within Section 6 of the principal Ordin-accusation has been made against the following area:

All that area within and bound. ance provides that the Governor him in China. This is to meet an may issue his order to the magls- argument raised in Ro Sun Ah Waned by a line along the whole of trats upon receiving a requisition (1910) & H.K.LR. 33, and in Re Lo Ko Shing Street to its western by a "Chinese authority." It is Seung (July, 1918). It is true end or function with Des Voeux arguable that this means that the that in Re Sun Ah Wan the court Road West, thence along Des

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authority making the requisition painted out that the Hongkong Voeux Road West to its Jucting MYSTERY-ROMANCE INTRIGUE! must have been previously legislature. had apparently dell with Contre Street, thence along declared by the Governor to be aberately departed from the English Centre Street to its junction with "Chinese authority," This was. Extradition Act, 1870, on this Bonham Road, thence along and not the intention when drafting point, and expressed the view that including Bonham Road.to a point Ordinance No. 17 of 1927, and, a. formal accusation in China was found by producing the eastern whatever the soundness or weak-not a precedent necessary for sur boundary of Pound Lane, then to ness of the argument may be, It renders, but that view was stated and along and including Found sooms desirable to set the doubt at only obiter. In Re Lo Seung the Lane, thence along and including rest. The new Section 6 which is argument in question was overrul- ollywood Rond to its juction with substituted by Section 5 of thised, but there is no report of that Queen's Road West, thence along Ordinance, therefore, is intended case. It is therefore, thought Queen's Road Woat to its junction to make it clear that the declara- better to place the matter boyond with Queen Street, thence, along tion of the Governor may be made doubt,

Queen Street to its junction with elther previously or subsequently. The new Section 28 provides that Ko-Shig Street, the point of com- Section 18 of the principal no objection to surrender is to be mencemennt The course, of the Ordinance, as amended by Ordin- taken on the ground that the ex- said line is such that boundary anco No. 17 of 1927, provides that tradition crime is not described in streets and roads not specifically

or in the every fugitive, criminal whose the requisition,

Included in the ares lie outalde the surrender is demanded shall: beGovernor's order, or din ca deemed to be a national of China magistrate's warrant or or unless he proves the contrary, dor, in the technical terms Now the term "Eugitive criminal" of English law. Even in simple

Mr. Frederick Maurice Powicke, Is defined as meaning a national cases like murder or larceny the of China who is accused of an connotation of the Chinese term Professor of Medieval History In extraditable crime. It seems probably differa in detalls from that Manchester University, has been therefore more correct to sub- of the English term, and such appointed Regius Professor of stitute the word "person" for technical distinctions as that be- Modern History at Oxford, in suc- the words "fugitive criminal" tween larceny and embezzlement cossion to the late Mr. H. W. C. in Section 18 of the princi- may be wholly unknown to Chiricas Davis..

pal Ordinanco, so as to avoid law. It ought to be enough that

the possible paraphrase, "the documents referred to describe

national of China accused of an offences, or recite facts, which are surrendered to any Chinese author- extraditable crime shall be deemed or amount to substantially the of ity that in the opinion of the Gov- to be a national of China unidas fences for which the surrender is ernor will have jurisdiction to try the crime. Without such a pro- he proves the "contrary" The granted. paraphrase of the amended section The new Section 24 provides vision it might be difficult in the will be a "person accused under that where the extradition crime present state of China to know to this Ordinance of an extraditable was committed on board a Chinese what authority the accused should crime shall be deemed to be a ship the fugitive criminal, may be be surrendered.

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