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STABBING INCIDENT

SEQUEL.

MAGISTRATE TO REVIEW

HIS DECISION.

TOO HEAVY SENTENCE

A case which was dealt with by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, in which a mam was sentenced to eight months' hard labour on charges of atabbing a detective and resisting arrest, was mentioned in Court this morning when his Worship Intimated that he intended to review his decision. His Lordship said he thought he had exceeded his powers in sentencing the defendant to eight months' hard labour. He said that Section 38 of the Magistrates Ordinance only gave him power to eentence a man to six months imprisonment altogether.

He added that the offences took place in different streets and at different times, but he regarded them as one incident.

Is Worship quoted the nection which reads:"A Magistrate shall not, by cumulative sentences of imprisonment (other than for de fault of finding securities) to take effect in succession in respect of several assaults committed on the 'same occasion, impose on persona imprisonment for the whole exceeding six months."

INSURANCE FIELD PROBLEMS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

It is obvious that such a state of affairs cannot continue in- definitely but unfortunately no *igns are yet to be discerned of any practical steps Being taken to bring about that all round, im- provement to which all those con-i cerned in the business have been anxiously looking forward for the past few years.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1929.

INVITATION GOLF

TOURNEY.

HORTON SMITH RESISTS THE

BOOMER CHALLENGE.

SPLENDID SUCCESS.

QUESTION. OF BODY REMOVALS.

STREET FOUNTAIN SQUABBLE.

THREE WOMEN BEFORE THE KOWLOON MAGISTRATE.

GALLONS WASTED.

A fight at a street' fountain in Shamshuipo led to three women appearing before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy alleged to have assaulted the third, this morning. Two of them were while the complainant in the as- sault charge was accused of wast- ing four gallons of water,

The defendants admitted having had a fight, but stated that the complainant was the cause of the stance into the water. trouble by putting some dirty sub-

SOLICITOR ESTABLISHES A

COMMON PRACTICE. ·

Ploading an old practice, Mr. F. H. Loseby obtained the with- drawal of the case against a Jeampan woman, who was charged Paris, May 22. jon remand, before Major 0. Will- The commanding lead secured on this morning, with removing yesterday with, the remarkable the body of her infant child with aggregate of 132 for thirty-sixout a permit. holca, practically established Hor- the mother, with the view to say, The child died on a sampan, and Reductions in London.

ton Smith, the "baby" American ing funeral expenses, removed To those of you who may be professional, as the winner of the in the habit of observing the ac- £600 Invitation Tournament at St. the remains, to a dispensary at

Shaukiwan. counts of the leading British in- Cloud. surance companies, as publised

At this stage she came under Requiring only ordinarily good police notice, questions being ask- in the home papers, it will have golf to win, Horton Smith, cele-fed as to why she had not first been evident that the marine un-tated his 21st birthday to-day by taken out the necessary permit derwriting results of 1927 and further superb play, returning from last year have generally been most cards of 70 and 71, which gave him before moving the body, and also the Sanitary authorities unsatisfactory.

A considerable final figures of 273, an average of as to why it had been necessary proportion of our premium income fifteen under fours."

for her to pay money to is derived from business written in the London market and, as I re:bility of a challenge when Aubrey

There was just a remete possi-person who took the body, over,

the

Boomer, who is the professional at this morning said. It had become For the defence, Mr. Loseby gret to say that our experience of it has been no more favourable than that of most

the St. Cloud course, returned, a. of our com-

an established practice in out. petitors, after giving the matter card in the morning revealing the lying districts for bodies to be careful consideration we have re-

performance of almost super-

He went round in removed to such institutions as cently taken steps which will effect human, golf.

dispensaries, and that the pay G1, eleven under fours, knocking

His Worship ordered all parties) neven atrokes off his previous beatment of a fee in such cases was for the course and five strokes off customary, to ensure that the to be bound over in the sum of $50 burial arrangements would be each to keep the peace for six the record set by Horton Smith.

earried out and that the body months. would be treated with respect,

Mr. Loacby pointed out that if charge of wasting water, his Wor

In respect of the more serious the woman had wanted to do so, ship she could have dumped the body Hoare that the only two witnesses Sub-Inspector overboard. "I think I have satis-in the case were two women who fed the Head of the Sanitary were antagonists, whom he regard- Department that what has beened as being prejudiced.

our

substantia! reduction in London account and will, we hope, eliminate much of the business which has been found to be un- profitable, without impairing the

His card rend:

Out: 8 6 4 4 4 3 3 3 4-33 Kress and the prosperity of the Company. This policy will be In: 3 4 3 3 3 3 243-26 maintained until such time as In the afternoon, he went round results generally furnish ample in 71, and thus equalled Smith's 'evidesice of a very marked im-aggregate of 132 for 30 holes, but toprovement in conditions in the falling five atrokes short of the

London market.

His Worship pointed' out Detective Inspector Fallon, who was in charge of the case, that the question was arguable whether! the offences could be regarded as the same occasion or not.

His Worship remarked that the defendant in the case would be brought before the Court on Saturday morning for decision.

EINSTEIN'S CREED.

RELATIVITY AND A CRY

OF ATHEISM,

: Fall in Income.

winner'a score.

72 73 74 71200

78 71 76 74--268

(71 72 73 76-262

204

..70 72 72 10-20%

--Reuter.

The leading scoren were: Horton Smith (0.8.A.0 0 0 21-21 Working account for the year A, Boomer (St. Cloud)...24 72 61 71-2TH .75 71 67 72-286 1928, after twelve months' work-

G. Barmer (U.8.A.) Other scores: ing, shows a fall, la premium in-, Farrell (U.S.A.) come of approximately $440,000 A. llorer (Nice) and the balance of $1,837,848.86 Cotton (Langley)

W. Hagen (U.S.A.) carried forward is less by $667.-J. Turnen (UA) 133.03 than that for the year 1927 at the same period. These 'de- crenses are due partly to the policy of curtailment, to which I have already referred, and also to ex- ceptionally heavy losses through out the year, the total of these as at 31st December 1928 exceeding that for 1927, after the same. period of que year, by $209,803.82.

FOREIGN SHAREHOLDERS.

C.E.C. PROBLEM RECURS IN SWITZERLAND.

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Zurich, Apr. 17.

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of

done in this case was in accor- dance with the practice of the Colony," Mr. Loseby added.

The case was dismissed.

STOLE £85,000 TO GAMBLE.

BANK CLERK "HOPED TO PAY BACK."

Johannesburg, Apr. 24: James Rennie Aldred, aged 32, formerly a clerk in the South African Reserve Bank, was to-day sentenced at the Criminal Sessions to penal servitude for the theft of £85,000 from the bank.

New York, Apr. 25.

The year 1928 has undoubtedly Professor Einstein, famous for inflicted a number of unusually

The Motor-Columbus,

Aldred said he got into financial his Relativity and Space-curvature severe total losses upon under- theories, has been put through writers generally, including those line, finds itself forced to take the National Bank. When he the leading firms in the electric difficulties when he was a clerk In fort of "Shorter Catechism" by of the liners "Vestris" and

capi-joined the Reserve Bank in 1924 enble.

"Celtic," the fatter boing by far measures against foreign Following are the question and the largest vessel that has been talists who are trying to get the he was an unrehabilitated insol- the bank was answer which have passed between lost since the War. This account majority of the shares. For this vent (although

now insuing unaware of this). the Rabbi Herbert Goldstein in has yet another twelve months to purpose they are

Aldred said his troubles preyed America and the great scientist at run, however, and judging from 170,000 new shares, two-thirds of Duesseldorf, in Germany:-- the way things have been going which must be in the hands of on his mind, and he speculated In

Q. Do you believe in God?-- from the end of last year to date, Swiss owners approved of by the order to pay his creditors,

(Goldstein).

we are hopeful that, despite its board of directors. These shares ['} inauspicious commencement, it of £2 each will have the same may yet show a moderately satis voting rights as the 170,000 £20 factory outturn when it has finally shares, but a very limited claim run off, taking into consideration for dividends. the present unfavourable cond!- lions of marine insurance business,

A. I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the orderly harmony of what exists; not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings.(Einstein).

I am informed that the Rabbi Goldstein was prompted to ask his blunt question by a romurk of Cardinal O'Connell, of Boston, Маня.

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Speaking recently to members of New England Catholic clubs, the Cardinal warned them against the Einstein theory of relativity as "a befogged speculation pro- ducing universal doubt about God and his creation."

Such a theory, the Cardinal said, "eloaks a ghastly apparition of atheism."

Not a Polytheist, Having received the Einstein reply (as above) to his query, the Rabbi Goldstein now expresses the view that Professor. Einstein, by his positive acceptance of God, cannot be classified as an atheist | or even an agnostic.

Sir Robert Ho-tung, Messrs. A. H. Compton, L. Dunbar, A. S. Gubbay, Henry Humphreys,. T. E. Pearce and A. II. White.

Man-hin.

.

Embezzled 1o. Invest.

The complainant was equally emphatic that the defendants were the originators of the trouble and made the water dirty. denied the allegation that she had

In reply to his Worship, Sub-1 Inspector Hoare said there were no outside witnesses.

informed

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MYSTERY QF A MISSING MILLIONAIRE.

PROBLEM

OF £45,000 BANK ORDER.

New York, April 24. A letter bearing a London post- mark is one of the few clues in the hands of the New York Police Missing Persons Bureau, which is now endeavouring to trace Dr. Charles B. Brancati, a millionaire resident of New York, who has been missing since November 19, 1928,

ently signed by Dr. Brancati, to Another clue is a letter, appar-

Messrs. Hardy and Co., brokers, asking them to deliver stocks valued at £45,000, belonging to Dr. Brancati, to a person mentioned in the letter.

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Depositor Dlaappears.

This was done. The proceeds were deposited in one of New

This money he embezzled from the bank, expecting to receive back the capital with profits with-York's Italian banks, and with- drawn subsequently by the person "If I had done so," said the who had made the deposit. He defendant, I would have paid has since disappeared, leaving no back the money."

trace.

ín, six months.

1

But the two stockbrokera came

Assets Show Lowering.

again and again to him for more money. He gave them altogether An analysis of the balance sheet

£85,000-of which he had got back shows that our assets as express- ad

Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and only £3,000. both in Sterling and Matthews and Percy Smith, Seth

In passing sentence, Mr. Justice Hangicong Dollars stand nt

and Fleming, were re-elected Krause commented upon the "en- a lower figure than 1 year

And inducementa ago, the

auditors on the proposition of Mr. couragement item for "Agency Balances" accounting for this red. Arnold, seconded by Mr. Le held out to the prisoner by other

people." duction, largely as result of our

He added that he was impressed change of policy in London.

There were present at the meet-by the manner in which Aldred You will observe that the infing Messrs. A. H. Compton, A. Sgave evidence, and the manly way vestment and exchange fluctuation Gubbay, Henry Humphreys, T. Ein which he had faced the matter

count shows an increase of Pearce, A. H. White, Ho Kom-tong, when found out. $108.327.27, which is due to the Lo. Man-hin, D. V. Stevenson, J. improvement in the market valung Arnold, (representing the Steam-intention of passing a severer sen- The judge modified his original of both our gold and silver invest-boat Co.), C. Bernard Brown, A. A.tence. As a first offender, Aldred

Rumjahn, J. H. Seth and H. W. must serve only 41⁄2 years. Moon (Secretary).

Reuter.

ments.

Dividends Maintained.

Reinsurance fund is up by $115,- 564.23 whilst underwriting sus- penso account is down by $149,- 219,20,

The surplus to be dealt with ja "Einstein points to a unity," $1,086,868,10, out of which has

anys the Rabbt. "Einstein's theory,

if carried out to a logical con-

been paid an interim dividend of $18 per share. We now

recom-

clusion, would bring to mankind | mend the payment of a finál divi-

a scientific formula for mono- theism.

"He does away with all thought of dualism or pluralism. He has no room for any aspect of poly- theism."

Pringle-Pattlsun,

in

dend of $22 per share and the transfer of the balance, amounting, to $686,868,10, to underwriting suspense account to close 1927 and previous roara. The balance of $1,837,868,86 nt credit of 1928 account allows of the payment of the usual interim dividend of $18 for that year..

[Prof. the "Encyclopædia Britannica," writes: "Spinoza's' philosophy is a thoroughgoing pantheism, which I do not think there in anything has both a naturalistic and a further that calls for special re- mystical side. The foundation of ference but I shall be pleased to the system is the doctrine of one

answer, to the beat of my ability, infinite substance, of which all any questions arising out of the finite existences are modes or accounts which shareholders may limitations (modes of thought or wish to put, after the accounts modes of extension). God is thus themselves have been duly second- the immanent

of the ad. causo universe; but of creation or will there can be no question in Spinoza's system. God is used throughout as equivalent to Na- ture."]

FAIR TO SHOWERY,

The Royal Observatory reports that pressure is now highest to the north-east of Japan. It is relatively low over China generally. A depression is situated between Kochi and Tokyo. The forecast

I

resolution:-

now propose the following

"That the Report, and Accounts, as presented, including the payment of a Final Dividend in respect of the year 1027 of 822 per alure and an Interim Dividend in respect of the year 1928 of $18 per share and the addition of $686,868.10 to Underwriting Suspense Account be adopted and passed."

This was seconded by Mr. D. V. Stevenson and carried unanimous-

ly.

Other Business,

The following Consulting Com- till noon to-morrow in S.W. or mittee was elected on the proposi- variable winds, moderate; fair totion of Mr. C. Bommard Brown seconded by Mr. Ho Kou-hin:- showery,

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1928, BY NGA BERVICE, ING,

REL U. M. PAT. DEY

"I'd have taken that job at the Lyric but I like the unf

form better here."

The third clue is a typewritten letter of faulty construction re- colved by Dr. Branoati's brother. It boro a signature like that of Dr. Brancati, and said that the writer was going along all right, and add- ing that demands would probably be made for money, and should be met. The London letter, which was received by Mr. Pasquale Simenella, president of the Italian Savings Bank, and Д personal friend of Dr. Brancati, was the inst to be received.

Dr. Brancati, who is a bachelor, old Gouverner Morris mansion, and lived with his brother in the

Hardingavenue, New York, sald that he was going to see a friend on the day he left home. police do not know whether he dis-, appeared intentionally or was kid- napped.

ORANG-OUTANG'S SWAN-SONG:

THE DEATH OF "PETER GOLIATH."

Budapest, Apr. 17.

Tho

. Peter Goliath, the orang-outang who was bought last year, with his mate and little one, for the sum of twelve thousand · pengo, has died, at the Zoo.

When the Goliath family were brought to Budapest no effort was spared to make them feel at home, They were installed in two large enges ned with glass and filled with damp air of a temperature. of 25 degrees C. above zero, Branches were fixed

the cages, and small irds were in- troduced into the cages to give the orang-outange the illusion of being back in their Sumatra jungle.,

across

But in spite of these precau- tions, and à studied diet of milk, eggs, figa, oranges, and bananas, the female and the baby suceumb. ed within a fow months, After the death of his mate, Peter Goliath developed & propensity which aroused the astonishment and interest of the exporta; every. evening after eating his supper he would sing a melancholy song. and a few days ago, after his

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