1929-04-16 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONEY OWED FOR FOUR YEARS.

BIG SEIZURE OF SPIRITS.

TORY ELECTION BUDGET.

INDIAN MONEYLENDER GETS $10,000 CONSIGNMENT FROM

QUICK RECOVERY.

DEFENDANT'S PLEAS.

In view of the fact that an In-

MACAO.

A LUCKY CAPTURE.

An attempt to evade revenue on huge consignment of spirits of

wine has been frustrated with the

seizure of the junk on which it was being smuggled into the Colony from Macao.

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more

(Continued from Page 1.)

undoubtedly to-day П powerful, more wealthy, more securely founded, commualty than five years ago. We were steadily Improving our conditions and compared with most European countries, were maintaining our pre-war level.

Gold Standard.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1929.

WOMAN TAKES THE KOWLOON LARCENY

BLAME.

MAY HAVE CUSHY? TIME IN GAOL.

SMUGGLED. SPIRITS.

Preventive Omeer S. J. Clark con

Mr. E. W. Hamilton and Chief dian moneylender had been without

curred this morning, at the Police his money for four years, and was

Speaking of the gold standard into the Colony is a matter of gori

Court, that the smuggling of liquor only entitled to recover the amount

and the cost of living, Mr. Chur-ous moment, the Chief Preventive "lent without Interest, the Puisne

In the small hours of Sunday ward carried with it privations as mum penalty in such cases did not chill admitted that the gold stan-Officer pointing out that the maxi- Judge (Mr. Justico Wood) gave hin permission to issue immediate morning, chance brought a Prisons well as reward. His hope and scom to be sufficient. execution in a case which was heard Department lauuch, conveying a faith was that the privations were

A Chinese woman, the owner of in the Summary Court this morn-party of Prison ofcials returning minor and temporary and that the a fishing boat, and hor foki were from a late call on the Gaol at reward would be major and per- involved in a case this morning, ing. His Lordship remarked, re-Lafchikok, into contact with manent, Producing industries as the Chief Preventive Officer state ferring to the defendant, "He has mysterious junk which was sailing well as the entrepot trade had ing that yesterday at Chal Wan been shirking it for four years and without lights in the fairway. On derived a inating benefit from the Island, otherwise Barker's Island, the plaintiff should have immediate the craft being hailed from the resumption of the gold standard, near Eyeemun, a Chinese delective leave for execution."

launch, something bulky dropped He referred to the benefits it found 6 full jars of spirits of wine

which constituted the keystone in jars.

INCIDENT.

BED RAIL THEFT FROM

··HUMPHREYS BUILDINGS.

A WEAK EXCUSE.

bed rail from No. 9, Humphreys A charge of larceny of an iron'

Building. the residence of Mrs. unemployed Chinese before Mr. Capell, was preferred against an T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon magistracy this morning.

The defendant entered a plea of not guilty.⚫

The plaintiff was Indar Singh, with a splash into the water from had conferred on Overseas Trade on the boat, and also 19 empty steal the bed. rail. Witness said!

the deck of the junk. gistered moneylender, of No. 10,

Instinctively, the auspicions of Tai Hang Village, and he sued Lau one of the seamen were aroused. Sing-cheung and Cheng Cheung, of At one time he was a senman on the Sun garage; Caroline Rond, bond one of the Revenue Causeway Bay, Indar Singh claim | launches, and upon hearing the ed $1,040, 'on a promissory note | splash, he sensed at once that dated April 15, 1925, being 91,000something suspicious was afoot. principal and $619 Interest at the The junk was accordingly take rate of two per cent per mensem for, under tow and pulled to a place of 32 months. The plaintiff conducted anchorage opposite the Imports bin own case and Mr. J. M. Hall was and Exports Offico. for the second defendunt, Cheng Cheung. Lau Sing-cheung was not present.

International Market.

Detective Sergeant Humphreys intimated that the main witness was a postman, who had been warned to attend but had not appeared. Capell stated that he was called by A houseboy employed by Mrs. an Indian policeman and told that] the defendant had attempted to

that the rail was kept on the times of peaco of our economic It was obvious that the woman verandah, which position..

was enclosed by defendent had been doing a thrly- iron bars. London, despite the uncrifices ing trade amongst the fisherfolk,

The defendant, when asked if ho made by Great Britain during the and the Preventive Officer asked had any questions to put to the War," had regained its solid inter-the Court to Intllel the maximum witness, enid that the rail had been national prominence,

penalty on both defendents.

protruding over the steps of the The woman stated that she was house and he merely picked it up We were still the greatest inter-The spirits of wine had come from verandah.

not concerned in smuggling at all. and pushed it back an to the national market and we had been Macao and she was merely trans- able to paintain money rates porting it for a couple of dollars. fendant was accused of theft by a An Indian Sergeant said the de-i lower than those which normally The reason why her husband, postman had been informed from another bills of exchange

Meanwhile, the Revenue Office prevailed is

Witness look accused to New York, while whose name appeared on the fish the station.

on Londe ng boat licence, was not present quarter of an attempt to smuggle which after the war were 80 to protect her was because he was was called by the policeman tho The "boy," recalled, said when he Mr. Half explained that although big consignment of spirits of seriously menaced, had in the last dead. The statement by the Chi-defendant was holding the rail. Cheng Cheung signed the note hewine into the Colony, and had, in few years regained their time! did not sign it as a principal. He accordance with that information, honoured position as the favourite had run away was nonsense.

neso detective that her husband The defendant repeated that he: only signed it because he was nak-posted men to look out for the international instrument and token was death and that was the end of merely pushed the rnil "out of his ed to do so as a witness. Although vessel at both Aberdeen and Sam-of commerce.

way," could sign hin

the matter. in shuipe. They were agreeably sur-

"Chai Wan Island seems to be three months' hard labour, the de Is Worship passed sentence of English he could L read|prised therefore to discover that There had been a decline in the an ideal spot for liquor English. A second defence was the junk captured by the Prison cost of living as the result of our smugglers," said Mr. Hamilton / fendant having one previous con- that the transaction did not take launch. was the one for which they allegiance to squad inaney, This "and one can almost get a motor viction for larceny only last month.

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name

The plaintiff said that he was a registered aloneylender,

his

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Cost of Living.

He

decline of eighteen points meant car down there now by rond." an increase in the purchasing Pressing for a double convic- power of wages equivalent to ation, the Chief Preventive Officer remission of £100,000,000 a year in stated that in smuggling cases the indirect taxation.

women seemed to take all the

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MONROE DOCTRINE

RE-DEFINED.

MEANING AND SCOPE BROUGHT UP TO DATE.

place at the plaintiff'a registered | were searching, address, and a third that if his A check was made of a number Lordship found the defendant to of tins on board, and it was found be liable, then the amount due was that there were no fewer than $500 and not $1,000.

262 of these containing spirits of wine, valued over $10,000, Type Note,

In regard to the debt operations blame, and that was why he asked The precise loss to the Colony's of the present Parliament, the for the Toki, too, to be convicted. Revenue which this and other Chancellor said the nominal dead-He did not know whether the consignments might have produced weight of £7,598,000,000 had women took the blame because! address being No. 21, could not be stated, but the effect fallen to £7,601,000,000. The in-they had a "cushy" time in guol. Ilang Village. Formerly the must have been enormous, stated terest on the debt by the operation or not, but nevertheless it was

Washington, Apr. 8.. house number was 10 but it had Chief Preventive Officer Clark of the sinking fund had been re-true!

The State Department has pre- heen changed to 24. The note when he charged two men who daced by nine and a half millions a To this the Magistrate pointed pared an exhaustive review of the was made out on April 15, 1926, were in charge of the junk before

out that the foki was not a partner Monroe Doctrine and its applica- being typed by the first defendant Major C. Willson this morning.

of the woman, and therefore could at the request of the second de Unfortunately, the Ordinance, in fendant in a cockloft at No. 9. its present form, admitted of only lun, Mr. Churchill said that al-an employee, and would be dis-claration of American policy with Explaining the ten duty remis-not be convicted. He was merely ions, with a view to working out a new definition of the famous de Caroline Read. It was typed at maximum fine of $500, and antil though three-quarters of the ten missed. about half past two in the after-the Colony had a new Ordinance drunk in Britain was produced in

The woman was sentenced to a regard to the American continents, giving wider powers to the Re- Afterwards the mole was takes vento Department, it would be the British Empire, tea from Java fine of $500, or three months the United Press learned to-night.

entered appreciably into the cheap-imprisonment,

noon.

to plaintiff's registered address diffult to keep down-smuggling. where the writing was filed in by C. P. O. Clark pointed out that the first defendant and both dethey could still ask for the con- fondants signed it..

fication of the bout, as well as of the dutiable apirils.

Plaintiff stated that be paid over.

In imposing a fine of $500 on $500 to Cheng Cheung and had

Worship from him the sam of each defendant, his received $65 in payment of interest. The issued an order for the confisca last payment of $20 he received intion of the craft and the spirits October, 1925. Afterwards both of wine. defendants went to Kwong Chow Wan.

According to Cheng Cheung's SIR A CONAN DOYLE'S

GHOST SURPRISE.

story, he signed the note in the etekloft at No. 10, Caroline Road. Although he signed his name in

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year,

To Benefit.Poor,

the maximum

est brands used by the poorest penalty, her boat and the smuggled people, and to retain for Imperial spirits of wine to be confiscated. reasons the tax on foreign, tea.

would exclude from the benefits of silk industries had risen from remission the very class which the 26.500 to over 70,000. Treasury was seeking to benefit. The home price for artificial The abolition would cost appro-silk had fallen recently by 25 per sinutely £6,150,000 in the present cent, and the quantity available year, and he had every reason to far home consumption had increas- believe that the consumer would ed by 50 per cent. The tax, benefit by an immediate reduction incidentally, produced assured re- in the price of tea by id, per lb. venue of over £6,000,000 per annum,

Two Billa. The old tea duty was dd. per lb.

Silk Dulles Value.

Mr. Churchill announced that Defending the retention of the there would be two finance Bills, with duties, Mr. Churchill said that the first to contain only the neces- the imports of foreign artificial sary provisions for the protection English be was unable to read that { NOTTINGHAM SPOOK SPOOF,( silk yarn had shrank to one quar. of revenue, such as income tax, the ter and British exports had in repeal of the tea and the betting creased by fifty per cent. Home taxes.

All the complicated eonsequential

Parliament.

Nairobi, Mar. 13.

langange. He denied receiving the money.

His Lordship:-Why did you A photograph of a "ghost" was production of artificiul silka hai

The document contains a tenta. tive re-definition of the principles of the Doctrine, it is understood, and constitutes President Hoover's pledge to continue the work of clarifying the various statements of past Administrations as to the Doctrine's meaning in modern times and the scope of its applica tion.

The review which has just been finished was started during the Coolidge administration under the direction of Mr Frank B. Kellogg, then Secretary of State, and with the approval of Senator Borah, the chairman of the committee foreign relations of the upper house of Congress.

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Various Republican leaders have been consulted and the proposed new definition of the doctrine is proval of the Party. Later. Mr. Charles Evans Hughes,

aig? The reason was because the occasion of an unexpected and risen from £26,408,900 worth telauses would be left to the next understond to have the full ap | my master wanted to borrow dramatic “appearance" at Sir £61,000,000. money from the plaintiff and was asked to sige us a witness.

1Arthur Conan Doyle's third and Twenty-one artificial-silk fac-l The Commons agreed to the Bud- while secretary of state, did con- last spiritualiet lecture in theories had been recently erected in get resolution including the residerable work on the programme England, same by foreign firms, peal of the tea and betting duties, and the number of persons en: The House then adjourned-Reuter played in the silk and artificial and British Wireless.

theatre at Nairobi last night,

Only an Employee,

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's lec- Defendant, further said, that heure was on "Ghosts and Fairies, had never paid anything to the and was illustrated by lantern plaintiff and he had never been ap-

slides. proached to do so.

He was mere- While the famous spiritualist ly an employee at the garage. Ifis and litterateur was showing on master was at present in Kwong the screen a picture of a "ghost" Chow Wan. Defendant denied which he believed to have been

that he went to Tai Hang Village, but averris that the money was handed over to the first defendunt in the cockloft at No. 1, Caroline Rond.

His Lordship remarked to Mr. Hall that he had better rely on the terms of the mute itself for wint they were worth. It seemned to his Lordship that Mr. Ḥall'a other defences were not gond,,

Mr. Hall agreed.

His Lordship then asked Mr. Hall what, in his opinion, the effect of the note was, to which Mr. Hall replied he thought the note was vold, or at least the plaintiff could not claim more than $600. He thought the note was void because the sum of money was not certain.

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taken in a house in Nottingham, named England, ja Nairobi man Arthur Spencer Palmer, a dentist and local controversialist on re- ligious matters and "pyramid pro- phecies," stood up in the audience.

Mr. Spencer Palmer declared that the photograph was one of himself, and that, he WIH the ghost.

Invited to explain, Mr. Palmer! said that, 20 years ago, he and a party searched it Nottingham house for two weeks for a ghost.

At the end of the first week, us he and his brother arranged to no success attended their efforts, play a trick upon the other mem- bers of the party,

How Spirit Photo was Fuked,

Mr. Spencer Palmer states that: he dressed himself up in a white night-gown and grimaced before, his brother's camera,

Then by a nianipulation of ex- poure-a ghostly apparition was produced on the plate.

After some discussion, his Lord- ship held that the note was good for $500 only. The plaintiff had admitted receiving $us which would reduce the amount to $435. His Lordship added that as the defendant had been shirking the debt for four years, the plaintiff should have Immedinte leave for Mr. Palmer, however, admitted execution.

that later he did see a ghost in this cx- Mr. Hall said he was fustruct-Nottingham; and that

perfence supported Sir Arthur's

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle accept- ed Mr. Palmer's explanation, and stated that he would never show that photograph again.

ed to apply for instalments, in the contention that elementals and event of judgment being given earthbound spirits do exist. against the second defendant,

His Lordship pointed out that the note was signed four years ago.

Sir Arthur left Nairobi to-day for Nomboru and home, after a strenuous African tour conducted in the interests of spiritualism.

→ 1924, BY MEA BERVICE, INC. |

"I wouldn't be remindin' you so often, Miss Boggs, but you know I have to meet monthly payments on this place. myself."

of compiling a review of the principles and the applications of the doctrine and in a speech before the American Bar Association in 1923 ro-stated the genesis and scope of the Doctrine as it stood at that time. This work has been carried forward until now a full re-statement of the attitude of the United; States with regard to the operations of foreign powers on the American continents has been prepared.

46 CENTS AS COST OF A LIFE,

QUARREL OVER SQUEEZE IN

A HANKOW RESTAURANT,

Iankow, Apr. 1. The Sin Seng Road was the scene of a row ending in a tragedy last night. Four men. reputed to be mechanies in the fiying corps, went into a hotel and told the tea- boy to order a meal for them. When they asked far the hill. he presented one for $4.50. Doubtful as to the amount, three sal on, while the fourth went to make in- that the quiries. He found amount charged by the kitchen WAR $4.04 and started a big row.

Polico interfered In vain. The four men declared that they would deal with the tea-boy, who had rushed up to the third floor when the row began. Believing that he was being pursued, the youth tried to let himself down from a window to Rome adjoining property, but he lost his balance, fell into the street and was killed. For some reason, the police failed to detain the four men responsible for scar- ing the boy, and it looks as if they will not be found again.

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