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A very smart piece of work on the part of a Chinese youth was described to Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy. Yes terday when two Chinese were charged with breaking into No. 936, Shanghai Street and stealing 84 articles of clothing. Together with a woman the two defendants were also charged with receiving stolen property.

All defendants pleaded not Bujity to the charges

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

CAR PARKING,

SUMMONS WITHDRAWN AT

THE MAGISTRACY.

The adjourned summons against the driver of private car No. 967 for using an unauthorised stand. to wit, Rumsey Street, was again. before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

20 YEARS OLD DEBT.

CLAIM FOR MONEY DEPOSIT-

ED IN 1909.:

A promissory note 20 years old figured in a case which came be fore the Pulens. Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) in the Summary Court yesterday afternoon. The plaintiff was Ip Fong, No. 5, Sheung Fung: Lans, and he sued the Ying Ming Cheong Kee Lan Firm, vegetable dealers, New Western Märket, as the maker of a Chinese promissory note dated September 18, 1909 for the sum of 3990, payable on demand, Alternatively the moner. Was claimed Having bean lent to the defendant

The summons was brought un- der Section 85, of the Vehicles and Trac Regulations, which reads: "Except with the permission in writing of the Captain Superinten dent of Police, no vehicle shall Detective Sergeant Fitches said use as a stand any road or public that the complainant in the case place, or part of a road or public was a working woman employed at Place, other than the authorised Mongkok. The other occupants stands for vehicles of ita class as of the house wore a small boy set out if Parta II, III, and IV of blaintiff and Mr. F.C.E.. Rendall and his mother. The boy's father Schedule B of these Regulations." was the principal tenant of the Coor, but did not sleep on the pre-

tnises.

About 7 am on September 8 the complainant left the house, fock ing her cubicle before departing. Shortly afterwards the small boy left with his mother, thus leaving the house untenanted. The main door of the premises was locked by the small boy,

At about 10 o'clock the boy re turned to the house and found the lock of the front door wrenched off. On entering the floor ho found that the lock on the complainant's cubicle was also detached. In- side the cubicle the lad discovered that boxes and baskets had been forced open and the contents rified.

the

After looking around the floor the boy observed, from the stair- case landing, four men on upper landing examining some clothing. Two of the men were recognised as the male defen dants The lad came to the con- clusion that they were robbers and went to his father's shop, in Dundas Street.

He reported what he had dis covered and later a telephone message was sent to the Police. The two then returned to the floor and kept watch at the bottom of the stairs. The two defendants were seen to descend, the second

defendant carrying a jacket which was identified as having been stolen from the complainant's house,

The son was instructed to follow the two defendants and on the arrival of the Police the father told them the direction they had taken. The two men were found In a pawn shop attempting to pledge the jacket.

They were taken to the Station and later the two defendants were conducted to the second floor of Nor 936, Shanghal Street which as quarters by was occupied terrogated but none of the stolen property was found there al though the four men had been seen sharing the proceeds on the landing outside.

The two male defendants were taken back to the Station and later the first accused volunteered to take the Police to where the clothing was to be found. The Police were

taken to No. 988, Shanghal Street, access to which was by the same starcase as to No. 938 from whize the clothing had been taken.

Mr. Horace Lo was for the

defended.

the case, Mr. L. R. Andrewes, for In asking for the withdrawal of

According to plaintiff's story ha the police, said that it would be deposited the money with the de perceived that the Section was ua- fendant at the latter's suggestion. der the heading of "Public. He was Arst of all going to put Vehicle," and that, he said froze" the money in a bank but defendant the matter in discussion straight suggested that he (plaintiff) away. As they read the Section, should deposit it with him (defen- It became more and more appar-dant) saying that he would pay ent that the summons could not $100 interest yearly.

stand. Although it said in the Replying to Mr. Rendall, plain- Section "no vehicle," still they denied that he was given á could read "no public vehicle small book to present when he into that, for the reason that the drew out money, He said he came Interpretation Clause of the dinance covered the omission of year in order to collect the In Or to Hongkong at the and of every the word "public. So that when terest. For the first five years be they referred to a subject under received $100 each year but after- that heading, that heading awards he received odd sums, such turally covered vehicles of the as $50 and $60, class they were talking about.

not

In the present case, the vehicle in question was a private vehicle, therefore the Section was applicable. On that ground he asked that permission be given for the summons to be withdrawn. to go further than that.

His Worship: I would like you Mr. Andrewes replied he would and went on to express the view had the summons been brought under any other Regula tiens, it could not have succeci ed.

that

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Rumsey Street not Mentioned, Take Section No. 95, which related specifically to private Andrewes motor-vehicles. Mr. said that the object of this Re- |gulation was to allot certain specified stands or reservations to such private vehicles, Rumsey Street was not so reserved in this list or in that set aside for public vehicles under Section 85

Answering his Lordship, plain- tiff said he had been paid about $1,000 but not as much as $1,590.

$600. Overpaid.

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CEYLON SALARIES SCHEME TWO VESSELS ARRIVE FOR

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FIRST TIME.

The Select Committee of the Two vessels new to the port figured Legislative Council of Ceylon in yesterday's Harbour Oflce Reports turned down the increased salaries these being the motor vessal Taleyin

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Canton Agent JEHSEN & CO. P.O. Box 90.

PACIFIC CRUISE.

FIRST OF ITS KIND TO HE INAUGURATED.

With 375 passengers on hoard, the s.s. Molola of the Matson, Line will. leave San Francisco at noon on Sep

following

to Government servants recomand the e.s. Caucasier, which arrived tember 21 on a cruise round the mended in the last report of the Salaries Committee.

in port at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday Pacific, and will call at the The latter is under the command of countries in that Order:Chin

Mak Chan, managing partner of the defendant firms, admitted signing the promissory note and receiving 990, but he denied that the payment of interest and said there was any arrangement for

Capt. E. Hubert wit

with a crew of 30 (including Hongkong), Philippine

Heads, Indo-China, Slam, Straffe Bat This decision was in the nature Europeans. that all the money repaid was of a thunderbolt to the large num "The details of the motor vessel Toitlements, Java, Australis, New Zea respect of the principal. About ber of members of the Public Yin were given in these columnsion land, South San lands and Hawall

This tour is the first of its kind $600 was overpaid because of a Service who were expecting not Wednesday. She, together with four mistake but when he (defendant) only increases, but that the in-sisterships, was built in 1928 by the to be inaugurated in the Far East Deutsche Worke at Kiel. All the and will occupy 90 days. A. large came to know of the mistake be

creases should be retrospective ve vessels will be put on the New number of the 375 passengers ste

York-Far stopped payment. Altogether he from last October.

East service

in duo Courso

members of the San Francisco Cham- had paid $1,590 to plaintiff. De-

The Colonial Secretary (Mr. F A steel scrow steamer, the Cauca ber of Commerce, and the State rendant said be last saw plaintiff

G." Tyrrell) brought forward sier was built in 1911 at Flensburg Steamship Co. are the Oriental agents a motion for the inclusion as the Sydney. She has a gross tort for the tour. tn 1917 and had not seen him at

nage of 5,852 and a natt tonnage of

i arrive at Hongkong The of three million

Mololo will all since that date and he had not

Гареев in 3,613, her dimensions being: length

at noon on October 24 and will leave meet the 450 feet, beam 58 feet and depth 27-for Manila at 6 pm, on October, 28. received letters.

in delivering judgment, his the Budget to Lordship said he proposed to base increased salaries for last year feet. Registered at Antwerp, the

Scheme recommended by the NH.P. his judgment on the Statute of accordance with the Salaries was engined by the builders to 720 Limitations. The law provided Salaries Committee.

places, will b be viited whils Lastly, turning to Section 75, that there must have been some

Peking is also included in the Eat they found that its object was to acknowledgment of the

The motion was thrown out by

No tourist

ourist party in flangkong la prevent vehicles from remaining, within three Years before the a large majority, and a motion by including a tax on betting, and of cities, to be inspected in Chi

without the agents. arrisking. or standing longer than it was money could be recovered in am the Unbiicials that, the matter from the Railway

should be brought up in open It was farther recommended plote, with

Bay, which is necessary to get down or take up mary jurisdiction. Plaintiff, hay Council after the Budget was dis-that the surplus balance should be sometimes called the "Mentone" of

sometimes replenished by realising some of the Far East. On October 25, the passengers or in the ease of ing been given notice of that de- lorries, to load or unload, in any fence, had to prove acknowledg posed of was carried.

Government's investments, al-tourist party

ill drive to Regulse thoroughfare enumerated in ment of the debt within three The action of the Unofficials is

ed that the money. Invested. did and rickshaw rides, through, the city.

have, uise been arranged pledze broken, as there appears not belong to Government. to have been an undertaking that, after the scheme was considered by the Finance Committee it would

debt

The Itinerary, which has already been mapped out, is interesting and varied. At Japan, some of the most

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coolles. The inmates were all in Schedule C of the Regulations. years. To do that the plaintif looked upon in the light of though it appeared to be overlook-Bay Hotel where they will have fanch.

Rumsey Street again, sald had set up payments on different Andrewas, was not included in the dates within three years, but he enumeration.

For the defendant, Mr. E. had to show that lp Chan in fact Davidson said that while he thank-trade those payments and further ed Mr. Andrewes for having thus that he made them with the expressed, so clearly, the legal authority of Mak Chan. Els

On the previous afternoon the position, he himself had intended, Lordship added he thought the

had failed on those yote for the Hydro-Electric De if the case went on, to argue plaintiff more on the facts and merits it points. Plaintiff had to go still partment was passed in the teeth had for him. His view was that further and show that the pay-of opposition, and proposals to any owner could leave his car out-ments were acknowledgments of postpone the scheme Indefinitely side any shop in the Colony, aub- the debt, and in addition he had and reduce the staff either im ject to the restriction set out in to show that the acknowledgments mediately or six months hence the Ordinance with regard to cer- were not personal acknowledg were lost. tain congested areas. In any un-ments of Mak Chan or the defen- congested street, such as Rumsey dant firm. His Lordship remark Street, a private car, may be so cd he considered that the plaintiff parked, provided that it was not had also failed to establish those causing an obstruction, in which points. case, he agreed, that the driver could be summoned for causing

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The property was recovered and the third defendant who occupied the part of the floor where the clothing was found, was later After hearing the evidence his Worship convicted all three defen- dants, the first two on the more serious charge. The two men were each sentenced to "four months hard labour and the wo- man to one month's imprisonment.

DECENTRALISATION.

MUSSOLINI RELINQUISHES SIX OF HIS FORTFOLIOS.

Rome, Sept. 12.

Signor Mussolini has relin- quished six portfolios the For- elge, Air, War, Marine, Colonies and Corporations.

the

The Colonial Secretary (Mr. F., G. Tyrrell) announced to the mem bere of the Select Committee that a telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for Concluding, bis Lordship said on | Colonies asking for any proposats those grounds he thought that the that they had to make in case they defendant should succeed. If the desired to "ahare in the Colonial Mr. Davidson went on to say terma of the note were strictly Development Scheme, in connezion that he understood the police had adhered to then, on the plaintiff's with which a million pounds sterl no objection to people leaving their cars there, outside the Wing own case, he had already been re- ing has been reserved, for all the On Company, to make a purchase; paid. His Lordship gave judg-Colonies. Consideration of the but that the police would object ment for the defendant,

the obstruction.

If the cars were left for one or

two hours.

matter was deferred. "

Balancing the Budget The Unofficial members of tha

His Worship dismissed the BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. Council have decided in Select

summons,

Canton, Sept. 12. "

It is officially affirmed that there

"INVITATION TO DISCUSS

ISSUES,

OUTSTANDING

London, Sept. 12. The British Government bas

is no truth in the report which sent the Soviet authorities a Note peared on September 11 in Hong-announcing Britain's readiness to kong papers that an attempt was The respective Under Secre-made last Sunday on the life of the resume conversations on proce- taries have been appointed Minje-Commander-in-Chief, Chan Chai.dure, at a date mutually suitable. ters-Reuter.

tong.--Canton News Agency.

WHILE

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-Reuter,

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