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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NATIONAL IDOLS & TO-NIGHT'S' GRAND

U.S. ELECTION.

STRONG PARTY METHODS TO INFLUENCE VOTERS.

TATTOO.

PLENTY OF GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE.

TUNNEY V. LINDBERGH| TRAM & BUS SERVICE.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1928.

TO BURN BOTH OIL AND COAL

TREASURY FRAUDS TRIAL.

Katz and Company. By the end replied that was in respect of of. 1927, the account of Katz and Government contracts and that 'he Company stood at a very small would have to draw against it to NEW BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE balance with the Netherlands pay sub-contractors in the course Trading Society.

Yet Another.

jof a day or two. On January 4, the sum of $85,000 was drawn and a few days later $500 was drawn, leaving $617.78 in credit,

hat date, he was not seen again by the Netherlands Trading Society... On January 4, a cheque purport-

Chequo Allered

DESIGNED.

After REDUCED FUEL COSTS.

Londen, Oct. 4.

A locomotive designed to burn

Darlington.

The engine is stated to be capable of high speeds and reducing Tue! costs by 60 per cent.

In Octobor, 1927, the defendant called on the Compraders of the New York, Oct. 3. Members of the public attend- Equitable Eastern Banking Cor- The high pressure methods of ing the Grand Tattoo at Soglumproporation, and, representing him-

Ing to be drawn on the Hongkong both oil and coal, built by the arm the political campaign managers to-night who have not booked their self as Yeung Tak-lee, sole pro Bank for $78,300.41 by the Colonial of Messrs. Kitaon at Leeds, is being to. Influence the voters in the seats must now buy them at the prietor of the Man Lee Co Treasury in favour of the Min Tak subjected to tests on the London coming presidential election, a ground, as booking for the Tattoo Government contractors, asked to demonstrated by the publication to-day closed at noon. This has be allowed to open an account: Company was paid by the defendant and North Eastern Railway ht of a cable from Gene Tunney, after been necessary in view of the fact Asked for reference, the defendant lato the Min Tak's account in the tis-marriage to Miss Mary Lauder that the scnts sold by the four said that he would be introduced stone Bank. The defendant was In Rome, addressed to the Domo-hooking offices must be checked up by Messrs. Katz and Co., who asked whether he proposed to draw

Mr. Kitson Clarke, the Managing cratic National Committee and ex- to see what seats remain for to banked with the Netherlands cash or whether he required che ques. Defendant said that ho fo pressing best wishes for the night's display. Gool seals will, Trading Society. That being veri-quired cash as he had to pay his Director of the firm, states that tho principle of an internal combus- however, be available for to-night's fed, the defendant started an sub-contractors. success of Governor Stolth

on engine applicable to railway This follows closely on the show at the ticket boxes on the nccount with the Equitable Bank Various payments were made and announcement that Bobby Jones, greand.

angines is being tried out. The the famous amateur golfer, has

withdrawn from that account, but,

The next day, $60,000 was drawn engine evolved has pulled a train up been rallied to the Deraocratic

"If the experiments, are comple- and suggests that the

as in the case of other banks, to Democrats are placing great faith

wards the end of 1927, the balance out of the account and the day fol, in 400 tons.

fraternity.

said Mr. Hazelrigg, the defendant presented but as that would reader

the cheque was not paid. The devolution in locomotive traction three firms at The Republican Committee has

controlled the accounts of the an overdraft at the Instone Bank, we shall witness the greatest r

their respective fendant, who was at the bank, then since Stephenson invented the first countered with a telegram from

and there altered the cheque to steam engine.British Wireless, Those wishing to secure. seats banks.

Turning to the question of the $12,000, and the amount was paid Col. Lindbergh, the Atlantic flier, for to-morrow night and Saturday and idol of young America, addressed to Mr. Herbert Hoover, can still do so any time to noon cheques used in the alleged fraud, out

on the day they wish to see the Mr. Hazelrigg said the Govern On January 4, a cheque purport- declaring that he flew to his hone

Seats are sold atment form differed from the oring to be drawn by the Colonial Grand Talloo. at St. Louis to register as a voter the YM.C.A., Kowloon; Messrs. dinary cheque in that there is no Treasury on the Hongkong Bank in because he believed that the suc-Moutries; the Sincere Company; stamp and there are the printed favour of Mesra. Sang Cheung for cess of the Republican candidate

words "On His Majesty's Service." $73.786.54 wa paid into the c- was "supremely important" to the and the Wing On company.

The form is supplied by the Bank count of the Man Lee Company at PLAINTIFF PRESENTS BILL country-Reuter's American Ser-J

to the Treasury. After receipt at the Equitable Eastern Bank. Mr. the Treasury the word "Bearer" Hazelrigg sald that that was not is deleted and the word "Order" one of the cheques concerned in the substituted. At the bottom of the fraud. The cheque in question purposes resulted in an netion in cheque the words "Colonial Trea-was returned by the Hongkong the Summary Court, this morning, Bank to the Equitable Eastern before Mr. Justice Jacks; when the aurer" and "Cashier" appear.

in enlisting the aid of the sporting must be bought on the ground, was very small. At that time, flowing a cheque for $12,900. Wately: 'successful," says Mr. Kitson,

vice.

IMMENSE U.S. GOLD RESERVES.

IN SPITE OF REMARKABLE OUTWARD FLOW.

ECONOMIC DISCOURSE.

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Philadelphia, Oct. 3. Some interesting figures relating to America's financial status, were given by Mr. G. W. Young, the Governor of the Federal Reserve

Board in the course of an address to the American Bunkers' Assoclu- Lion to-day.

Advance booking for to-morrow night will close at noon to-morrow, after which tickets for that night The same will apply on Saturday, hooking closing at noon on that day.

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and

COOK AS A PAPER AGENT,

BUT ACTION FAILS.

A deal in paper for sucrificiul

Decorated Tramcar.

To-day

decorated lluminated tramear of the Hong kang Trways, Limited, was ran ning through the streets of the elty advertising the Tattoo.

A serial number, it was pointed Bank for guarantee of endorse Wing Cheong Firm, 49 Queen's Strikingly decorated in red, white and blue, little can be seen of the out, was put on the top of the ment. As Sang Cheong & Com Road West, paper merchants sued actual single deck car on which is cheque and towards the end of the puny were not customers of the Chan Mui, alias Hin Lung, a cock prominently displayed the Tattoo year it was customary to insert Equitable Bank, they were not on board the s.s. Chung Kong, for imblem und neat

advertis- the word "December." "The Buc-able to give the necessary guaran- $278.40.

Mr. W. D. Owen was for the ing signs. To-night the car cessful perpetration of any fraud," tee of endorsement and the cheque will be lit up with red, white said Mr. Hazelrigg, "necessitated was accordingly returned to Man plaintiff while Mr. F. X. D'Almada, and blue lights and will run from the using of cheques of that type." Lee Company. The defendant, on senior, defended.

questioning the bank, was told one end of the city to the other,

what was lucking. That cheque The driver and conductor of the

I was customary, to order che-was never again presented. cor are arrayed in period unl-

On January 6, the defendant forms, the whole being a novel and ques six hundred at a time, owing well conceived advertising dis- to the number of cheques that prescuted a further cheque for

were used. They were supplied 95,412.19 in favour of Man Lee The plaintiff's case was that the play.

The Tramway Company an- In a book which had three cheques Company. That cheque was con- nuncea that between 6.50 p.m. to a page. Mr. Hazelrigg explaincerned in the charge and that was and 8.30 p.m. on each night of the ed that In 1927, It was customary one of the cheques which wan Grand Tattoo in intensive service to keep one cheque book in reserve met. af ears will be run from the city as it was impossible to say, exact- ly the number of cheques

Dealing with almost unprece dented flow of gold out of the to Sookumpon it hitervals of about United States during the past year, now apparently brought to an end, Mr. Young declared that the half a billion dollars worth of gold United States has lost no less than to the rest of the world."

Reserve Cheque Book:

...

According to the plaint, de- fendant ordered a quantity of paper for the Him Lung Firm, and asked for credit. The salesman, however, said he would not grant credit as he did not know the firm. defendant then represented him. self to be the Him Lung Firm,

The managing partner, giving evidence, said that defendant was formerly a cook, in the employ of another firm in which he (witness) Because of that was a partner. he trusted the defendant.

Big Wad of Notes, 50 seconds. At the close, as many required. The cheque book in re-

The defendant subsequently ears as possible will be parked serve was kept in the book safe.

The defendant's story was that' augside the Polo Ground, in ad- The cheque book in use was also drew $79,550. The Bank's con the usual loop at Causeway Bay dition to a frequent service round kept in that safe after office hours, pradore asked him why he need

The defendant's duty consisted of such a large amount in cash he ordered the goods for the Ifim terminus.

of taking charge of the collecting and he replied that he had to pay Lung Firm at Haiphong, that lle expressed the view that the

The Hongkong Hotel Garage books of the Hongkong Water Ac his sub-contractors. He produced being one of the ports at which matters. large wnd of banknotes to estal-hia boat called. He carried cor- losa was desirable, because the recipients of the gold were using will run a continuous bus service count and other small it as a basis of monetary recon- to the Tattoo ground, starting at The books which defendaat kout lish his hana fides, as it were, and respondence between the two firme from were also in the book safe in the it appeared to the compradore that and when he received the goods struction, and by this means they Blake Pier at 7 pan, and

the defendant had access.

000. The necessary cash covered of the Him Lung. He denied that removed from foreign trade with Caroline Roud after the Tattoo. office, and to that particular safe the wad amounted to about $80,- he acknowledged them on behalf he represented himself to be that by the defendant's chèque, was the United States, the risks arising The fare will be ten cents, from unstable exchanges and dis- organised conditions among its foreign customers.

U.S. BASEBALL.

To-morrow's Motor Parade:

Sixty Cheques Removed.. paid. The next day a further firm.

He said that he had never been

The de-

2, they supplied another book, also On January 8, the defendant, re- In summing up, his Lordship from each of these two books, the paid a month's salary in lieu of merely a carrier for the in containing six hundred cheques signed from the Government and decided that the defendant was final thirty cheques were removed ptice.

Lung Firm and judgment was without authority. That removal]

Identification In accordingly entered for the defen- Details of was done somewhere between re-

dent. ceipt and the last week of Decem- Hongkong were then specified to

his Worship.

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MAGISTRATE ALTERS SENTENCE.

Mr. Bazelrigg, continuing, said $14,900 was drawn leaving a very personally pressed to pay the For the motor parade at the that on November 3, the bank small balance in credit.

Tattoo to-morrow, nil Mr. Young added that even with Grand

Wing Cheong to press the Him. Lang for payment, this remarkable loss, the gold re-vehicles are to assemble at the supplied one book containing six fendant had never been seen since money but he had been told by the serves of the United States were ontranen of Leo Gardens, on the hundred cheques and on December at the Bank. still a billon dollars in excess Caroline Hill Side, at 8 p.m.

Drivers should be instructed of their legal requirements.

carefully and promptly to carry Reuter's American Service.

out instructions conveyed to them from time to time by officials of the Automobile Association.

The space between each car will be ten yards and drivers must keep ber

The shortage of these cheques

Denied Forgery. station. The pilot car will set the pace and all cars must keep was alleed by the clerk in charge

defendant's The

statement, in line and take corners as in- of the cash book, but when that structed; taking care to keep off clerk lad a look at the covers of when charged with forgery of the all parts of the arena which are the books, which always showed cheque drawn in favour of Katz the first and last number of the & Co., was as follows:-"1-did not preserved.

The grounds of Lee Gardens will cheques in the book, he found that do the forgery of the cheque, I be available all day on Friday to in the cuver the final number had will say only that now and uny- been altered and there were what thing I can do for the Government complete decorations.

The parade actually starts on ta appeared to him to be certain I will do in Court," The arena at 10 p.m. but as the initials. From that, the clerk 10 pars must be got into line and final drew the erroneous belief that the

fore, it is absolutely necessary to each when they were arrive not Inter than 8 p.m. from the bank. He attached no Ladles

RESULTS OF THE WEEK-END MATCHES.

New York, Oct. 3. The week-end results in the baseball leagues were as follows: AMERICAN LEAGUE.

Detroit

Chicago Cleveland St. Louis

Detroit Chicago

St. Bouls

Cleveland

Saturday,

19 New York

4 Philadelphia

& Boston

5 Washington

Sunday.

6 New York

1 Philadelphia

1 Washington

2 Boston

NATIONAL LEAGUE,

New York

Boston

New York Brooklyn Cincinnati

Saturday.

2 Chicago

1 St. Loule

Sunday.

7

4 St. Louis

2

G Philadelphia

1

Chicago

adjustments made some time becheque books had only 570 cheques when charged was

received

DIFFICULTY RAISED OVER SURETY.

At the Kowloon Magistracy, this morning, Mr. W. Schofield re- In relation to the Min Tak Co's considered his sentence given at a defendant's statement previous hearing of the case in cheque,

"That is all which a former fireman of the Em- about the same as Katz & Compress of Asla was convicted of on-

saulting the No; 3 fireman.

The defendunt, it will be re- participating should importance to the matter, and bay charge."

In regard to the Man Lee cheque, arrange to join their respective made no report. Later on in the cars at Lee Gardens entrance not year, towards the third week of defendant said: "It is all the membored, was ordered to pay the further to sign a personal security December, when he was using the same as I have said in answer to complainant $50 compensation and later than 8.30 p.m.

last hook, he asked the bank to the first charge," supply a book of 200 cheques, and

for $200. Mr. Horace Lo was for the prosecution. they supplied a book of 400.

NO MARINE STORE LICENCES.

KOWLOON MAGISTRATE IMPOSES FINES,

The master of a marine store was fined $25 by Mr. W. Schoßfeld,

Clerk's Report.

On the charges of uttering, the defendant's three replios were:- "I think I will not say anything about this charge here; I will do

in Court."

This matter was mentioned by the clerk who drew attention to

The various statements were the bank supplying a book, of 400 instead of 200 cheques. The clerk: signed by defendant in the name also mentioned that he thought of Y. T. Tsim..

at Legislative Coun duced from that at the clerk had cil's Budget anceting.

I reviewing his sentence this moring, his Worship informed the defendant that his personal secu- rity was not sufficient, and asked if he could get. anybody else to stand surety for him

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The defendant replied, in the the spare ones could be used up Mr. Hazelrigg mentioned that he negative, and he was sentenced after all as he was sixty cheques was unable to call the Colonial to two months' hard labour in de- at the Kowloon Magistracy this short. The report was made in a freasurer, as the latter was en- fault. Reuter.

morning, for carrying on business casual way and the Treasurer de-gaged at No. 3, Tung On Street, without

only under-estimated the amount Mr. Thomas Black, accountant of a leence. Shanghai, Oct. 4.

Mr. Leo d'Almada appeared for of cheques required. Mr. Hazelrigg the Colonial Treasury was then call- The regulations governing the

Central the defendant and entered a plea said that the cheques which were ed to give evidence. He said that reorgatilsation of the

1926. The Hongkong Government's Government were passed at a meel of guilty to a technical offence, used in the fraud wore cheques he joined the Treasury in February ing of the Central Executive le mentioned that the defendant supplied on the 2nd December. Committee yesterday afternoon.

ber.

L

LORD ALLENBY IN AMERICA.

CONVENTION.

Mr. Hazelrigg then showed how general account was with the Hong-TO ATTEND LEGION'S ANNUAL had purchased his goods at a re- the shortage of cheques would kong Bank. All cheques since They contain 48 itaras, and procent auction of naval stores. They affect the Treasury's serial num- March 20, 1920 bore the signature

London, Oct. 3. of Mr. Messer and that of the wit-

Field-Marshal Lord Allenby, ar vide that the Chairman of the ware intended for export.

The defendant stated that he

Returning to the "defendant's ness. Council will bo, concurrently

companied by Lady Allenby, is Gooralissimo of the Nationalist started business only four months banking operations, Dr. Hagelrigg The case in proceeding.

making a short stay in New York said that Cungnga.

on January 3rd, fighting services-Nam

before proceeding to San Antonio, In another almilar case an elderly.

Texas, to attend the American woman, who informed his Wor- this year, a cheque purporting

The Captain Superintendent of Legion's annual convention. ship that she had carried on busi- to be drawn by the Colonial Trea-

surer on the Hongkong Bank in Police calls attention to an error

Upon their arrival in New York 985.33 was paid by the defendant

Puo.

An official reception will be held eas for the part three years, was Lavour of Katz and Co. for $86, in the preparation of the Governin the liner Majestic, Lord and

by the Portuguese Consul General

at the Lusitano Club on Friday

fined $50.

morning in celebration of the an

About 500 bunches of grapes niversary of the Portuguese: Re- publie Local officials, Portuguese from Hampton Court Palace viné residenta and all friends will bewère sold to the public at 6s. 4 welcome.

the Netherlands Trading Society.

into the account of Katz & Co., with mont advertisement regarding Lady Allenby were welcomed by the motor trame during the Grand Mayor's Reception Committee and Tattoo. In the fourth paragraph other high personages, including Staples" should read near Jar United States Army British Wire.

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