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三拜道號二十月五英港香 WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929. BRO SINGEN OOPT 14 CENTA

LEGAL ARGUMENT LATEST AMERICAN LIVELY ELECTION

IN BANK CASE.

POSITION IN LAW OF

MR. MESSER,

INFERRED KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHEQUE LOSSES.

BANK'S SAFEGUARDS.

SENSATION.

TUNNEY SUED FOR BREACH OF PROMISE.

A G$500,000 CLAIM:

BATTLES.

LABOURITĘ SUED FOR SLANDER.

TORY CANDIDATE BADLY HURT BY BRICK.

GOLFING MARVEL IN PARIS

HORTON SMITH TWICE GOES

ROUND IN 66;**

AND IS JUST 21 TO-D.

TO-DAY.

Paris, May 21. .~* Something of the brilliant form which made the youthful Ameri- ca player, Horton Smith, the golfing sensation of America in

1929 Model T-19 G, M. 0. Truck Uhassis are available on very attrap.. tive hire purchase terms. Blustrated catalogues and complete specifica- tjons will be forwarded on request, Chassis price.

IX. $2,500

THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Talaphone Central 1240 or 1847.

33 Wang Nal Chung Readii......, Happy Vallay". *

P.W.D. OVERSEER'S MISSING AIRMEN'S KWANGSI SUFFERS

SUICIDE.

INQUEST HELD THIS MORNING.

THREW HIMSELF FROM A WINDOW IN HOSPITAL.

COURSE.

BELIEVED TO BE STRANDED ON TIMOR.

DUTCH TO AID SEARCH.

New York, May 21. A remarkable breach of promise action, in which Gene Tunney, the former heavyweight champion of the world is the defendant, has caused a considerable sensation. BIRMINGHAM THRILLS. recent months, has been repro- TEMPORARY INSANITY. Darwin, have failed to reveal any

The suit has been filed at Legal argument in the action York woman, Mrs. Catherine King Bridgeport, Connecticut, by a New between the Hongkong Govern-Fogarty, who is suing Tunney for mont, and the Hongkong and alleged breneh of promise and Shanghai Banking Corporation claiming G$500,000 as damages, was opened before His Lordship, the Chief Justice this morning.

Gene Tunney was married less when Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., lead than eight months ago to Mias Josephine Lauder, 籍 famous Ing counsel for the Government American heiress, and a great made a formal application for

niece of Andrew Carnegie. judgment on the Andings of for Tunney, of course, denies the alle gory by the special jury,

gations.

The argument on the question of

estoppel was then opened by Mr.

mit that if the customer of a

or claim, nileges that attement The plaintiff, in her statement

F. C. Jenkin, for the Hongkong divorced her husband in May 1925, and Shanghal Banking Corpora- Gen Tunney proposed to her and tion, who said that he would sub-she accepted him. banker became aware of fnets Simultaneously, with the filing which indicated that a forgery was of this netion, Tunney's $14,000 afoot, or that there was a pro- calate at Stamford, Connecticut, bability or possibility that a fas been attached and banka, in gery would be committed, it was Stanford and Greenwich, where to have his duty, at least, to communicate Tunney is believed those facts to the banker so that accounts have been garnisheed. the banker could be on thie same- Tunney retired from the ring. plane as the customer.

an undefeated champion, when he Counsel said he would further was married. His wife is heiress to submit that these facta should be a fortune of at least G850,000,000. communicated with reasonable-Reuter's American Service. despatch in order to safeguard the banker. He would also put it to

the Court that if the customer de-IMPORTANT SHANGHAI "pute, quite properly, the looking

after the checking and safe; custody of cheque books to a de- puty, that deputy was required to,

LAWSUIT.

exercine with regard to those THE I.S.S. AND THE FRENCH mattera precisely the same amount of prudence and diligence as the customer himself should exercise.

No Escape.

He would also submit that the customer could not escape liability of Bafeguarding bank by deputing that class of duty to a subordinate, and taking no measures to see that the duties

LOTTERY LAW.

Shanghal, May 22, Widespread interest attaches in Shanghai to a law sult brought against the International Savings Society by a former employee, which is opening in the French Consular Court to-day (Wednesday)..

i.

SET-BACK.

· 5,000 MEN REPORTED CAPTURED.

SMALLER FORCE SAID TO BE NEAR CANTON.

Sydney, May 21. The Australian airmen, Flight Lieutenant Moir and Flying Officer Owen are still missing. Anxious searches in the vicinity of duced on the St. Cloud course at

trace of the England-Australia POSITION NOT CLEAR, Paris to-day. London, May 21.

Horton Smith, who failed to A Coroner's enquiry touchingliers, and it is regarded almost Day, and the election campaign in England, did

With only nine days to Polling coine

up to expectations in the death of Mr. William Keegan, as a certainty that they have not

There now seems little doubt full swing, a certain freeliness ap-rounds in the £500 Professional Department, was held by Major Cing himself in the search. has re-tung has met with a serious

two sensational an overseer of the Public Works crossed the Australian const,

that the main forces of the Sir Kali Smith, who is interest-Kwangst Army invading Kwang- pears to be developing in several Invitation Tournament which com- Willson, with the aid of a jury, at ceived a message from Koepang, révorac, although, on the other of the coaststuen.'s,

the Central Magistracy to-day. menced today, and led a very Mud-slinging has been particu-

Mr. Keegan died as the result the place from which their plane hand, other Kwangsi roops are in the Wednesbury strong field at the close of the day of a fall from a window at the was last gaen, to the effect that reported to be near Canton, larly notable Division, as the resuit of which by no less than twelve strokes,

Moir and Owon, when sighted on In the morning, Horton Smith Government Civil Hospital, where the 18th, Aeriving in a North- An official messago issued by the two wrns for alleged slander have been served on Mr. Alfred Short, lowered the course record ty two be was a patient, on the morning North-East direction.

Canton Press Bureau, cabled to the Labour candidate, by the Con- strokes with a round of 661 This, of the 4th instant, and...the to enquiry was held the Workers candidate, Mr. Gee, as in the afternoon, playing a determine whether it was due to servative candidate, Mr. Rubin, and however, was only half the story, Coroner's respectively.

second 18 holes, he repeated this an accident or to auicidal motives. field with an aggregate of 132. brilliant acore, thus leading the Mr. E. L. Newhouse, road en- gineer of the P.W.D., with whom Special interest attaches to the the deceased was associated, stat performance as the American ed that doceased who hold the player celebrates his 21st birth position of a first-class overacer, day to-morrow, when the conclud-joined

Department

in ing thirty-six holes are to be January, 1920. Two days before Excitement has been running played. The leading scores In-his death, deceased appeared to be

his usual solf. high in the borough and there have clude:

Witness hold no been some unpleasant incidents. Norton Smith _(U,8,A)}.

conversation with him, and knew Mr. Rubin, the Conservative can-n. Cotton (angley)

78 7-14 nothing of his private affairs. didate, is now lying in the Wolver-a.

Batavia, May 21. Doctor's Evidence, hampton Hospital suffering from 0. Duncan (unattached)

Dr. T. W. Ware, of the Govern- firms the view of the authorities The Resident at Kupang con- concussion on the result of a brick G. Sarzen (U.B.A.)

ment Civil Hospital, sald deceased that Moir and Owen have mot being thrown at him at an open-w. Hagen (U.8.)

came into the hospital at 6.50 p.m. landed at Atamboowa-Bouter. air meeting.

оп the 3rd instant. There did not appear to be any evidence of any allment of which he complain- ed, and he was admitted by winces only at his special request,

late Parliament; in fact, hus re Mr. Short was a member of the

presented Wednesbury, which is near Birmingham, for more than ten years.

Candidate in Hospital.

At King's Norton, also near Birmingham, there have been some lively scenes. The Austin Motor Works are situated at King's Nor- ton, and Sir Herbert Austin, the chairman of the company, and the Conservative candidate, said recent- ly that if the McKenna Safeguard: Ing

were replaced in the new Parliament, the Austin Motor, Works might. have to close on account of foreign competition,

Duties

Farrell (U.B.A.)

.72 73-146

.71-74-145 .75-73-364

79 72-181 -Reuter.

SHOOTING MISHAP IN NEW TERRITORIES.

BEATER WOUNDED IN HEAD

· BY ACCIDENT.

the

seen

This, of course, was in almost the Telograph this morning, states and Sir Keith Smith says that the Tsingyuen yesterday from 8 am the opposite direction to Darwin, that severo fighting took place at machine was to have turne, back to 6 am, and that the Canton The airmen were probably trying Army captured 5,000 Kwangsi · to reach Alamboewn on the Dutch troops, island of Timor.

The Telegraph correspondent at

The Dutch authorities have been Canton, writing under date of asked to search Timor for trace yesterday afternoon, says It is of the fliers. Hopes of their reported from two different re- safety have now been partially able sources that the main Army. revived, though the absence of of the Kwangsi troops have met news of any description is regard-with a severe defeat at Lupa, at ed as serious-Reuter.

the junction of the North River and the Bamboo River.

K

JAPAN AND CHINA.

QUESTION OF NANKING RECOGNITION.

Other Forces Near.

On the other hand, our corres pondant reports that on Monday night other Kwanal troops were very near Canton, and a number of Cantonese gunboats proceeded up the river past Shameen and anchored in Regatta Rench about a milo above the Shek Wal Tong and Wong Sha Railway Stations. Their decks, were cleared for action and no river traffic Was allowed to pass after dark. Thfa is a very unimportant branch of the river only utilised by sampons, small junks and launches.

Appearing to be normal in other respects, the only unusual thing which pitness noted about the deceased was that he was wearing an extraordinarily, thick overcoat

Tokyo, May. 22, -the thickest that witness had It is learned that the Govern perspiring ment has suggested to Nanking A shooting party of three guns, ever seen. He was headed by Ngai Bong-ping, freely, as it was a warm night that Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Labour Challenge.

formerly the General commanding Questioned, deceased said he was Minister to Chinn, should present the 2nd Division of the Canton afraid of catching a chill. Withio credentials to Marshal Chiang This seems to indicate that The Labour candidate, Mr. R. Army, had their holiday sport ness had deceased twice Kai-shek on the 29th instant, on trouble was expected within a few Dennison, who defented Sir marred by the accidental shooting previously, for minor complaints the occasion of the removal of Dr. miles of the city; now comes the Herbert Austin, by the narrow of one of the beaters..

such as a boil, or cold. The plaintiff, M. Ruedolf, is margin of 133 votes at the 1924

Sun Yat-sen's body, but consent news of the defeat of the main The former General, who is now

hoa not yet been' received,

body of the Kwangs! troops at aiming cash damages under selection, caused a senaution to-day living in retirement at 60, Kowloon

Fall From Window. eral bonds issued by the 1.S.S. and by issuing

It is reported that Dr. C. T. Upa, some twenty miles from a statement he alleges that the Society Is opereffect that if the

to the Tong, yesterday reported, to the

the On the morning of his death, the Wang,

Chinese Austin Motor police in Hongkong that he and chief clerk came to witness and Minister, would prefer that the ting contrary to the French law Works, or any other works, were two Chinese merchants, friends of said he had received a telephone presentation be postponed until a

Foreign Caston.

Situation Puzzling. prohibiting lotteries,

closed down in consequence of the his, planned a shooting trip on M. Rudolf is asking for an return to power, of the Labour May 19 and, made their venue the sage from the Out-Patients later date.

It is practically impossible, says order from the Court, prohibiting Party, the Labour Government village of Wai Tai in the Taipo European had fallen from the leave Tokyo on the 24th instant, situation, the whole of which Department anying that a Mr. Yoshizawn is scheduled to our correspondent, to guage the the holding of monthly drawings, would take control of the works,, dlstrict.

building. The decision will be of the great- Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the In that village they engaged

and the presentation of credentials appears to be more a matter of ext importance as hundreds of the Labour leader, speaking at Burn-several beaters and worked the Witness proccoded to the Mor- is taken as indicating formal arrangements between various If there were abvious grounds bonds issued by the 1. S. S. ure ley to-day said he had just travel rough country in the vicinity, atuary grounds, near the Hospital recognition of the Nanking Gov-military leaders rather than actual for suspicion the duty for the held by Shanghat residents, and led 1,400 miles in Scotland carry-startled deer ultimately being entrance, taking with him a ernment, though the Foreign fighting. customer to net was consistent their value, may be materially afing the messure of the Labour sighted. All three guns fired, but steward, two stretcher-bearers and Once intimates that this is not with the general spirit of the 'fected-Our Own Correspondent,

which were deputed were in fact being carried vot

Forgery was the very thing against which n customer was bound to take reasonable precau-

tions, as laid dove in a judgment by Lord Chancellor Findlay in the

case of the London Joint Slock Bank and McMillan,

law. A banker undertook the ordinary risks of forgery, but if vircumstances arose in which those risks changed to extru ordinary ones in that the customer knew there was a possibility of forgery, then the customer was not permitted to remain silent, and by that silence to inform the banker that the risk was still an ordinary one. Counsel said he would aubmit that those arose out of the contractual relationship between customer and banker...

Breach of Duty.

LANCASHIRE COTTON

MERGER.

SHAREHOLDERS TO DECIDE FOR OR AGAINST.

movement, and he added:

ment."

FINE FOR THEFT OF BRASS RECEPTACLE,,

In Canton the situation is casier

| again, but it is possible that it may once more be reversed within the next twenty-four hours.

Referring to the removal of specie to Hongkong, our corres pondent anys it looks as if those in power at the moment are deter- mined to leave empty coffers if they have to get out.

the deer survived and one of the the Chief Clerk. He found Mr.necessarily so.-Reuter. "You will see wonderful things heaters was wounded in the head Keegan lying unconscious, show- as the result of this election. Oft was not known by which gun. ing evidence of external injuries one thing I am sure, and that in The hunt was called off and the to his chest and right leg. The

AT THE FOUNTAIN. the return of a Labour Govern-injured man was taken to the village injured man was removed to the where he was examined by a Chin-Receiving Room and his injuries dealt with. He was then cae medico who pronounced that "he were Nominations and Electors. is suffering from, a wound in the Laken to his ward where he died skull and advised that the beater ut about 10 a.m. the same morning The four nominations for the be cent to hospital.

without having regained соп

On a charge of larceny of an old Combined Universities (Sir, Mar To this the beater strongly ob-faciousness.

brass pan, a Chinese was fined $10, tin Conway and Sir Selby Bigge,jected and his wishes were acceded

Witness performed Д post- or fourteen days' hard labour, by Conservatives, Prof. R. S. Conway, to, the beater returning to his home mortem examination that after- Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow- It fe rumoured that arrange Liberal, and Miss Eleanor Hath- well compensated by the ex-General. noon, and found that deceased had loon magistracy this morning. bone, Independent) and the belat-

menta may be made to hand broken his breast bone, six ribe on James, the receptacle was left at a without any fighting. The fact According 10 Sub-Inspector Canton over to the Kwangai troops the left side, the right knee cap

London, May 21. A series of shareholders meetings are being held in Lancashire next week for the various mills interest-ed nominations of two further

Northern Reaction.

ed to approve or otherwise the pro- Liberal candidates, brings the ALLEGED POST OFFICE and the right shin bone. Deathstreet fountain by the owner to that everything is so acomingly

posed merger of the Egyptian spin total of the nominations to 1,730, ning mills.

of which seven have been return Fourteen companies, controlling ed unopposed, leaving 1,723 can- over 3,000,000 spindles are condidates to fight for 608 seats, cerned, and the Boards of Directors

Some striking figures are issued

of these companies have a dy from Somerset House giving the agreed provisionally to the terms of new register of electors of 512 the proposed..

constituencies, for which returna have been received.

He would further submit that the duty of safeguarding in this case also arose by the course of dealings which had extended, on the evidence, for at least 20 years. Mr. Jenkin quoted from Appeal Casca 1918 the case of the London

Part of the scheme enables the Joint Stock Bank and McMillan, pointing out that in that case it provision of between £2,500,000 and was held that there was a breach £2,000,000 in the shape of new of duty in the manner in which capital, a substantial amount of a cheque had been filled In, and which will be car-marked for work-

ing capital-Renter.

that although the case dealt with crasure of cheques there were statements of a general nature In

RULING.

In these constituencies, there are 13,167,631 women voters and 11,808,225 men voter, a total of 24,976,856,

FRAUDS.

HONGKONG MAN ARRESTED

IN SOURABAYA

On Information cabled by the Hongkong police authorities, Jose Antonio da Souza, a clerk former jy employed at the Hongkong General Post Oflee, has beon ar- rested at Sourbaya on a charge of This compares with a complete fraudulent conversion of a portal total electorate of 20,654,542 at the document. 1924 election, and the registers of Souza in being held by

come in.

dition to this Colony.

RAIN LATER,

the course of the judgment, | RECENT JOCKEY CLUB 103 constituencies. have yet to Sourabaya police pending

Counsel also quoted from Appeal Cases 1886, Sekolofield and the Earl of Lonsburg and also from Kulsbury who said "Where a bank is by law. or by special arrangement under, duty to a customer, the customer owes t to the bank to take reasonable precautions and where the cus- tomer's negligence

APPLIES ONLY TO HORSES NOW NOMINATED.

in

Previous Refusals.

maintain his position for the

brass.

A

witness' opinion, was due to buckets which he had taken away pencful here at the moment is shock following these injuries.

The pan was valuelas except as old attributed to the new develop

ments in the North. Ils Worship naked if there were Replying to the jury, witness nobody else at the fountain at the and Chiang Kai-shek ecriously said he had previously refused to time. admit Mr. Keegan Into Hospital, Sub-Inspector. James replied that and only did so on this occasion at there were so many people that his special request. There was they all had no interest in anything nothing abnormal in the appear but their own receptacles. ance of the deceased,

Replying to the Coroner, witness said there was no reason for him to keep the deceased under obser- If such was deemed vation. the necessary, deceased, would have extra-been kept in the observation ward provided for that purpose.

Miss, Agnes Lowcock, a Chinese North Ireland Election.

nurse, at the Hospital, deposed Polling for the Northern Ire-

that at 7.15 in the morning she and, Parliament takes place to-

saw what appeared to her to be a morrow. Of the 52 seats, 22 havo: The Observatory reports that big parcel falling down from A already been returned unopposed, London, May 21.

comprising sixteen Unionists (Con pressure is highest to the east of window on to a tree. She called Japan and relatively low over out to a dresser and coolic, who, It was officially stated to-day servatives) and six Nationalists.

China generally. Depressions are with a European pallent, went to There are 61 candidates for the indicated over the Eastern Sea and the epot. and found Mr. Korgen a that the Jockey Club's new rule, Causas breach the customer may be under which from May 9th, 1929, romaining 80 seats, namely:

Tongling. The forecast till noon lying there, unconscious. stopped."

tomorrow is:-S. Www.winds, moderate; cloudy: rain later.

Unionists

Ind. Unionists

In the avent of Feng Yu-hring

coming to grips, there would be a possibility of the Cantonese throw- ing in their lot with Kwangal.

It has been known all along that His Worship remarked that the the sympathies of the Canton owners of the bucketa behind the people are with Kwangs, but a stolon receptacle were probably number of the leaders prefer to pleased to see it removed as it obey brought them one step nearer to the from fountain.

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U. S. RESERVE BOARD DECISIONS.

`REDISCOUNT RATE MAY BE ́INCREASED.

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implicitly. Instructions Nanking.. However

ff the Central, Government. should be seriously, threatened in Nanking: there would be no further reason for the Canton leaders to play up to it.

Official Claims,

7

Canton, May 21. Information by the Canton Washington, May 21. The Federal Advisory Council morning was as follows:

Army Headquarters on Tuesday has recommended that the Reserve Board permit. Banks desiring to do repulsed the Kwangsi forces in all The Canton Army successfully so to Increase the rediscount rate fronts, including the West and the The Verdict.

to six per cent.

North River sectors. The Council has endorsed the Tho Kwangsi troops had at one After further evidence, the jury Board's action to restrain the use time approached. as near as Taf returned a verdict of suicide, as of Federal Reservo credit in tong and beyond Satnam and Ho follows;

speculation, but nevertheless how "Deceased died as a result of declares that the amount of the The Canton Army, has also re- throwing himself from a window country's credit absorbed in Eparties to communicate that fact season, the old regulations will aidates, one an official Unionlet majority in the last Parliament of while temporarily of unsound not been substantially lowered Boccas Tigris are to be reinforced. /

clear at the Government Civil Hospital speculative maturity loans has captured Hoyuan. The forts at Reuter's American Service.

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nominations for races will not be Counsel said that if a discovery vold on the death of the nominator, was made" of a class made in the only refers to nominations made

present case, which pointed to after May 5th, 1929.

only to one conclusion, that a

This notification is of the

forgery was afoot, it must have greatest importance as it means been in the contemplation of the that in the present flat racing

(Continued on Page 8.) apply-Router.

Socialists Nationalixta Liberals Local Optionists Independents Town Tenants There are.

twis

27

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women

Thirteen of the contests are being 2 held at Belfast where excitement 2fs running high.";

The Unionists had

'and the other, a Local Optionist, sixteen. Reuter.

mind."