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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TO-DAY'S TRAFFIC MARINE COURT CASES. SCISSORS ARE NOT

CASES.

35 OFFENDERS "CAUGHT DURING WEEK.

DAGGERS.

MAGISTRATE HESITATES TO CONVICT

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928.

OBITUARY.

MR. O. BERGMANN OF SHANGHAL

The deepest regret was evidene- ed in the local German community on Friday last, when it became

a

HSINCHI DISASTER

CRITICISM.

LIFEBOATS SAID TO BE

IN BAD CONDITION.

MASTER OF MOTOR

SCHOONER FINED....

Relatively heavy fines were in- fleted on masters of craft at the Marine Court this morning. The accused in all cases were charged;

known that Mr. Oswald Bergmann | CAUSE OF THE PANIC. FINES FOR SPEEDING. with breaches of Harbour Regula- AN INTERESTING CASE, had passed away, a victim to

tions, the principal offender being

typhoid fever and pneumonin.

Shanghai, Nov. 18. No fewer than thirty-five traffic the master of a Japanese motor A charge of being in possession of Mr. Bergmann was born in Kiel,

The Rev. Samson S. Ding, tho) cases were heard by Major C. Will schooner, who was enlied upon to a pair of scissors, an instrument and in 1923 came to China for the

fit for an unlawful purpose, was firm of Messra. Schnabel, Gaumer education of the Methodist Epis

|general" svcretary of religious son at the Magistracy this mor- answer four different counts. ning. Of this number, twenty-one, Lan Tai-kong, master of the brought against two. Chinese & Co. First of all he was station- were for obstructions in various Japanese motor schooner Shiu before Mr. E. 1. Wynne-Jones ated in Hankow, and then for a brief copal Church in China, who was parts of the city, soven spoeding Maru 1, originally charged with the Kowloon Magistracy

passenger on the ill-fated this period in Shanghat. In October, steamer Hatchi which was run and negligent driving, three of attempting to leave the port with morning.

1926, ho returned to Hankow, and ashore at Tai Island, and after- loitering, two of disobeying signals out a proper clearance pleaded The first defendant pleaded that had remained there until Septem-wards looted by pirates and burn- and one each of soliciting passen-guilty. but three additional be used the scissors for cutting ber of this year, when he once ed to the water's edge, writes to gora and of falling to produce

charges were made by Inspector leather for the manufacture of more came to Shanghai. - license.

the Shanghai. Timos regarding the Andrews, these being (a) using an

In spite of the brief period of circumstances attendant on tho unlicensed molor beat, (b) using) an unsurveyed motor boat, and to denied all knowledge of the Instru- stay there, Mr. Bergmann was wrecking of the steamer.

In very popular being under way without a certi- ment.

munity. He had a fine tenor on life preservera when the ship He states that the first to put ficated coxswain on board. Pleas His Worship remarked to Sor-voted, and this, coupled with an struck were the sailors and the

fully were, entered except in geant Portallion, who prosecuted, engaging personality, made him respect of additional charge (a),

stowards, and they immediately that these cases were rather welcome in all local circles. He was bunched around the Hfeboats. In respect of this, a police difficult. After all, he said, a pair also an amateur actor of consider-There were not enough life pre- wan Road on November 12. Both offleer stated that he apprehended of scissors was an ordinary domes-able talent, and took part in one sorvors for all the passengers, but for two of the performances of the oven so the passengers remained pleaded guilty and were each fined the boat when she was passing tic implement.

German A.D.C. die was just over comparatively calm while the ship $20 by his Worship, who remarked the flashing lighta in Lyemun

26 years of age. that racing was a tangerous prac-

was headed for the island. Captain Thomas A. Grayson,

Most of the lifeboats woro in bad condition and the reason why

In regard to the speeding cases, fines ranging from $10 to $20 were imposed and in the remainder, fines of $5 and $6.

An interesting case was one in which two laxi drivers were charged with racing on the Shauki-

tice.

A Chinese driver who was sum moned for speeding in Queen's Road East was stated to be doing

-28 miles per hour between Arsenal Street and the Wanchal market, He was fined $10 as was another man who was charged with negli- gent driving in the same locality, In regard to the latter case, Inspector Alexander maid he him- self was proceeding at about 20 miles per hour when the defendant passed him and eut' in 'front of an approaching car,

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the hours of 530 and 8.30 on that day. Al the latter time, when arrested, he was only drifting with the current.

second shoes. The

were searched.

defendant

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Sergeant Portallion replied that Pass. The accused produced the defendants were arrested at 2 plearonec and a licence, which, oni being examined, proved to have o'clock in the morning. When expired during the latter part of challenged by a district watchman, Another of Shanghai's old hands the boat in which the No. 2 com- October.

the first defendant put up his passed away on Thursday, when pradore and others drifted out to His Worship pointed out the hands, as ordered, and held the the death took place of Captain sen was because no one on board dates of the two documents, but scissors behind his palm. Think Thomas A. Grayson at the age of it knew how to handle an ear. In accused sald he had no others, and ing it to be a dagger, the watch-80; Captain Grayson was a well such a bad condition were the life- he did not go to the Japanese man drew his revolver and blew known figure among the local boats that they were all lost except Consul for new ones, as he was his polico whistle. On the arrival shipping men in the merchant one. only testing his engines between of another watchman, the men service, but for the most part his

The second defendant was dis-history, so it seems, is lost in the was made by some of the fishermen ages, and there are very few in to get away with Dr. Barclay's charged.

Shanghat now who can speak of baggage, but on the Intervention In regard to the first defendant, his early days. The police officer in charge of his Worship said he thought there

of Mr. Ding the fishermen'desist- the case said that the beat had might be a serious miscarriage of

Captain Grayson, it is known, cd, stating that they merely want- were and engines In another

Sergeant full cargo case Wagian prosecuted learner moving at time of arrest. Defon-Justice if he convicted. He appre- was born in Liverpool in 1848, ed to take ashore things which driver for driving in Rond dant stated that he was intending clated the difficulty the police and he came out to Shanghai about they thought might be lost in the of his death it appears doubtful At midnight the pirates came, without being accompanied by a to go to Keelung, but was not have in such cases, but, at the 1880. From that date to the time sed.

sou chauffeur and also with departing until two or three days in time, he thought the case that he ever went home again, but Miss Todd, one of the passengers,

might be a perfectly legitimate His Worship found the accused one. After all, he said, a pair of during those many years he saw was unable to get away in one of was driving his motor eyele with guilty on all charges and inflicted scissors is a pair of scissora. much service on the Yangtze River the junka owing to an injury to in various companies and in many scrambling into a sampan, and it her leg and the difficulty of his dog enge on the side, when I fines of $25 in respect of each ease; they were in pieces, then they ships. Some there are who say was a brave Cantonese who volun- |

might be termed daggers.

His Worship gave the defendant that he was one of the first capteered to go to Encog lighthouse | the benefit of the doubt and dis- charged him.

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driving on the wrong side of the later. road. Sergeant Waglan, said he

the defondant cut into Hill Road from a skle street and thereafter kept on the wrong side of the rond. Fings totalling $15 were imposed, Some humour was provided by RO Imlinn, the owner of car No. 243. A man employed by him was charged with obstruction, but failed to make an appearance in eourt. The owner stepped for ward and told the Magistrate that since the 18th of this month, his driver had resigned and he did not know where he had gone to. "If

Other Cases,

Leung Sing, master of the steam taunels Kwong Thong, pleaded guilty to a breach of the rule of the road and stated that he was leaving Jardine's Wharf to pro- ceed to the s.8. Tilawa at the time of the slice. He admitted cross- ing the bows of a police launch shout 300 fest ahead, he having

KWANGTUNG SILK STRIKE.

tains on the middle, reaches of the to seek assistance, taking two days for the trip. The passengers on the faland suffered terribly, but in the circumstances were compara- tively calm.

river.

Shortly after he arrived in Shanghai Capt. Grayson joined the China Merchants Steamship Co., as 2nd Officer. Four years later

In conclusion Mr. Ding states he became Chief Officer and after that the unnecessary fear and

passengers

that bent on his starboard bow at THREATENED UPHEAVAL INeveral more years passed he left strange behaviour of a Russian

the time, but he would not offend again and asked for leniency.

I see him, I will produce him into the police officer stated that this court" added the owner. His Worship adjourned the case for a

week.

the boat crossed within 12 yards and it was necessary to go full speed astern to avoid collision.

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NAM HOL

ALLEGED THEFT OF FRENCH DOCUMENTS.

a lapse of six years was made panic of the

and captain of the str. Kuling. After crew was the direct result of the this company, and it is not known officer who was the first to reach at present what he did during the the island. Canton, Nov. 19.

following years. His next record The silk filature workers in the that can be found is in the books Nam Hol district are threatening of the Indo-China Steamship Com to strike in the event of the per-pany for May 1916... At this time sistence of the employers in their most of the regular officers of this A fine of $25 was inflicted,

refusal to grint wage increases..ine were at the war, and a man It is understood that several of of 68, Capt. Grayson, too old for Clan Fuk, Chan Shing and Li Kam, Busters of passenger boats, the employers are seeking the pro-service, volunteered to take up were charged at the instance of tection of the Chaton authorities work again although he had pre- Captain Thomas, of the Dollar against possible riots. They are viously retired, and once more set Line, with boarding the ss. Presi-apparently determined to refuse out on the trips from Shanghai un dont Jefferson without permission, the wage demand. they stating that passengers had asked them to conver luggage on shore.

Inflicting a fine of $20 in each use, his Worship pointed out that posing a fo on this ran remark-hey could not break the law, to en that if the defendant had want-

For loltering in Connaught Road, near the Tank On Wharf a Chine was fined $5. He ex- plained to the Magistrate that he was waiting for a fare when an Indian constable approached him and asked him to move OIL, He asked the Indian where he could park so that he could be near his fare, and the Indian is alleged to have replied: "If you want to wait for Station wait at the Police

His Worship in im-

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oblige passengers.

their!

FRYE

ed to wait for a fare, he should Leung Kai-ming, master of a

have waited at the proper parking place.

TORPEDO TARGETS.

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VESSELS WARNED TO KEEP CLEAR,

HANKOW DIRECTOR

DISMISSED.

NOT WANTED BY THE NATIONALISTS.

TRIAL BEGUN IN PARIS.

Paris, Oct. 12. The trial began to-day before! the river and back. After the war the eleventh Correctional Court of) was over Capt. Grayson remained Robert Desailly, formerly a de- with the company until, in 1925, partmental chief on the staff of he felt that it was really time the Reparation Commission, and that he retired from active service Mile. Marie Louise Delassalle, hi and left the shipping world for former mistress. who Was good.

employed by the Commission ns a From this time on, for the past shorthand typist. They were three years, as might be expected, charged with having stolen con-

trading junk, pleaded guilty to

he has lived very quietly by him-fidential documents belonging to anchoring in the Southern Pair-

self, until finally death overtook way. He stated that he did not

A naval wireless message receiv-him at the age of 80. know the regulations. He wased in Hongkong from Hunkow to-|-* fined $10.

day states that Mr. L. N. Chang,

Kwok Yeu Tai, master of a fish- Director of the Special Adminis

The champion of the permanent ing boat, was charged with (a)trative District No. 3 (former Brit-waving competition at the White falling 26 stop when called upon ish Concession) under the Chen-City Hairdressing Fair was Mr. by a police launch and (b) throw- O'Malley Agreement, has been dis-Adolphe Bhend, of Upper Regent- ing articles overboard to avoid missed by the Nationalist Govern- street, W., who won £36. There

were 80 entrants. A Nutice to Mariners was issued seizure. The censed, pleaded ment. by the Harbour Olive this morguilty to both charges.

Police evidence was to the

ing relative to torpedo targets which are to be laid out at Laichi-effect that defendant's sampan was sadh loitering at the bows of

Hok. The text of the notice is the a. Michael Jebsen at Bucy follows!

40. On approach, the sampan gớt Target moorings consisting of two small mooring buoys are laid under way and it was only after a chase as far as Buoy, 15 that the in a position 217 degrees 2,000 launch could effort, an arrest. yards from the outer extremity of During the chase, defendant was Laichikok torpedo range plor or

seen to throw something overboard, 3061⁄2 degrees 2,100 yards from but the exact nature could not be the 231 ft. summit at the western ascertained. When questioned, end of Stonecutters island.

the accused said, he was dumping Vessels should not attempt to ashes, but there was no sign of pasa butworn these buoys,

ashes in the boat. Later, at the When the target is moored in Water Police Station, he said he the above-mentioned position, it is marked at night by a fixed white light.

"A red flag holsted on the target Indicates that the range is in use.

FINE WEATHER NOW.

was throwing coal overboard. A search of the sampan revealed nothing suspicious, while the Chief Officer of the s.s. Michael Jebsen, when Interviewed, could not state definitely that anything] had been taken.

Defendant told his Worship that whilst fishing for shrimps and prawns, he had picked up a num The Royal Observatory reports

ber of stones and lumps of coal that the depression has passed into and it was this material that had: the Pacific. The anticyclone is been thrown overboard. The wind central between Shanghai and had carried him away from the Nagasaki. A typhoon about 160 police launch, and he was unable miles north enet of Yap is moving to stop when hailed. Wost-North-West,

Moderate to

Finding the accused guilty on

fresh monsoon will continue over both charges, his Worship inflict-

ed fines of $25 in euch case. the China Sea.

The Forecast till noon to-mor-i row is: North east winds, mo- derute; fine.

Stamp collectors in New York aro paying 128, 6d. each for cancelled four mark stamps on onvelopes, and 8s. 4d. eack for mark stamps on postcards brought by the Graf Zeppelin,

ROYAL TRIP TO EAST.

Brussels, Nov. 19. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant (the Crown Prince and Princess of Belgium) are leaving immediately on a long voyage to the Dutch East Indies-Reuter.

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BISZ, DY MEA SERVICE, ING

AZE U. B. PAT.Org.

"Yesair, when I seen you in that play twenty years ago I never dreamed I'd meet with you socially"

the French delegation on the Reparation Commission and to have sold them to German indus- trialists,

On being interrogated by the Judge, Mlle. Delassalle admitted having given certain documenta, Including

# letter from M. oncaro to M. Chapeal, the French delegate on the Reparation Commission, to Desailly, but de- clared that she had no iden that they were confidential, or that Desailly was likely to make money out of them, For his part, Desailly told the Court that he took the documents because he wanted to collert historic papers. He strenuously denied that he had sold them te Germany.

The Court postponed judgment.

GLAND REJUVENATION

DOCTOR ON “SERIOUS DANGER TO THE RACE.

A heated debate followed an address on "Voronoff', and 'hia. Rejuvenation Experiments" by Dr. M. Beddow Bayly, at Essex Hall, Strand, recently,

One man was hissed, booed, and clapped in turn when he suggest- that Voronoff" should be allowed to experiment,

....

Dr. Baly said that Voronoff's ape-gland operations constituted a serious danger to the race, and that they might result in pro ducing a degraded type, lower, more bestial than anything which had ever affected, humanity. He Atated that zome Voronoff's stoutest supporters were Roman Catholic priests and missionaries who helped to supply him with an increasing number of monkeys, as well as saying special masses for him and his work.

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Dr. Bayly suggested that the theory of man being descended from the ape should be reversed! and that instead chimpanzees and i other apes wore, descended from human beings.

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