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DRUG SMUGGLERS CAUGHT.

HEAVY FINES IMPOSED AT THE MAGISTRACY.

DIALECT DIFFICULTY.

ABNORMAL SKULL.

TRANSPARENT AND LIKE

TISSUE PAPER

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

An abnormally thin skull which was described as being trans- parent and liko tissue paper was stated to have been the direct

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1929.

AUTOMATIC PHONE BULGARIA DEFENDS

OFFENSIVE TRADE

PROSECUTION.

AMNESTY POLICY.

PROGRESS.

LINE TO FATSHAN NOW IN OPERATION.

· NOTE. TO JUGOSLAVIA.

Sofia, Aug.

| CROWN ASKS MAGISTRATE TO REVERSE DECISION.

The Bulgarian Government has handed a communication to Leuba

Noahitch, Jugoslay Minister at RAG PICKINGS CASE.

use of the death of a foki of the BOON TO MERCHANTS. Soft, replying to a note from the Mongkok Poultry Market who died subsequent to a quarrel between him and a fellow employee on August 10 last

Belgrade Government sent to Bul garin 10 days ago relative to the amnesty law recently passed by the Parliament at Sofia

Notwithstanding a decision in favour of the defence in a previous caso, Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith Is again asked to give a ruling on the question whether clean machinery clippings from singlets and stock- Trade Ordinance as rag pickings. '.. The occupier of No. 58 and 60; Wai Ching Street was summoned before his Worship at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning and was defended by Mr. J. M. Remedios. The case for the prosecution was conducted by Mr. L. R. Andrewes, Assistant Crown Solicitor.

within the Offensive

Canton, Sept. 17. The first long-distance telephone to be opened under the automatic. system recenty inaugurated in Cany In its noto Jugoslavia asked Bul- ton, was opened to the general "garin how she karmonized this

This service public yesterday.

Amnesty to political military leaders connects Canton with Fatsban, guilty of drawing Bulgaria into warings come

against Serbia, and of committing about 12 miles distant.

Calls have first to be put through atrocities upon Serbian civilians to the Administration building in, during the period of occupation, Canton and are given strictly in with clauses in the peace treaties rotation. The charge is 10 cents which provide that such persons bo state that their for every five minutes or part of punished and five minutes. Urgent calls may al punishment is a matter of interna so be applied for and these will be tional import. The note also asked put through immediately, irrespec- Bulgarin whether the amnesty meals tive of order. The charge for that it now approves the war policy urgent calls will be 30 cents. of former Premier Vas Radoslavoff and colleagues and whether it con- dones atrocities committed by Bul- garian authorities upon the Serbian population mapplet fairyoga f

Much of the contraband opium smuggled into the Colony within recent weeks has been traced to the ports of Kwang Chow Wan and The disclosure of the deceased's Pakhol. The arrival of the ‘s.s, Į congenital deformity was made Wing Lee from the French port when a charge of manslaughter the other day was consequently against Lo Choi (18), was in awaited with more than ordinary vestigated by Mr. T. 8. Whyte expectancy. Nor were the Re-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy venue Offeers disappointed, for yesterday afternoon. as soon as the vessel put along- side the Saikong Wharf and the passengers were being discharged, they arrested a man in possession of a large quantity of the drug.

Attention was rivetted to a was black box which the man carrying. Later, when the box

The automatic system, which examined at the Revenue

was inaugurated on the 25th of Office, a wooden partition was

August, has given full satisfaction lifted from the interior to disclose

to subscribers so far, and is very false bottom, within which

much appreciated by all those who The defendant was alleged to have had any experience of the old some 74 ticis of raw opium of have accused the deceased of hav-telephone system in Canton, when Kwangsi origin was snugly secreting hidden his wooden shoes. The it was quicker to send a chit to the affair started in a sporting manner other end of the town than to try but later the pair became angry to get the communication over the and had a scume. It was alleged that the defendant struck the de- ceased with a clog.

Was

ed.

Detective Inspector Fallon, ap- Feared for the Crown and in de talling the events leading to the appearance of the defendant be- fore the Court said that the two men were fokis of a stali in the Mongkok Poultry Market. It ap- poarad from the ovidence of wit nesses that at about 9 am: August 19, the defendant and the deceased, Chan Muk were "trick ing about" over the hiding of a pair of cloga,

on

Familiar Black Boxes, Revenue OBeer A. Grimmitt, who brought the smuggler before Mr. E. W. Hamilton this morning, The deceased fell to the ground referred to the practice, which by in a faint and other fokis of the bench. He now has become well-known, of stall lifted him on to smugglers using a square black regained consciousness and went box similar to the one produced to Argyle Street where he remain- in Court, as a medium for imported for sometime and then returned ing the drug into this Colony, to the market again. After speak ing to the defendant he wont back Chinese officers, however, have been warned not to break oper condition became bad.

to No. 5, Argyle Street where his these boxes when searching the effects of passengers on their own account,

the

Medical Evidence.

His relatives sent for the am- balance and he was taken to Hos- pital in an unconscious condition. He remained unconscious until 4 a.m. the next morning when he died..

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In its answer, worded in very friendly Language, the Bulgarian Clovernment states the amnesty was effecting internal harmony and con- cord, but that it violates no clauses in the peace treaties; that it is purely an internal matter solely Further long-distance telephones within the competency of the Bul- are under construction to various garian state; that the Sofia Govern points throughout the province, ment unequivocally and emphatical. and it is hoped before long toy disassociates itself from the war open the new line between Canton policy of the amnested loaders and condemns all acts committed con- and Kongmoon.

We have already announced the trary to the rules of war, and that signing of the contracts in con- the Bulgarian Nation and Govern- nexion with the line between Can-ment are stanchly determined to ton and Hongkong, which is to be Pursue a policy of peace.

the completed before

end August, 1930. Much improvement in the trade relations is expected between Canton and Hongkong when this long-distance fine is Correa- functioning-Our Own pendent.

of

Instead, they were provided with rods for measuring the sides of boxes coming within suspicion, and to take such boxes to European officers when they think. In the meantime the defendant that the matter requires further was alleged to have disappeared 1,000,000 DEATHS PER investigation. This order was and was found by accident, al- issued to avoid unnecessary damage to the luggage of inao cent passengers, and it Was Indicated by R. O. Grimmitt that there would be trouble for the Chinese officers who disobeyed the order.

Dialect Difficulty.

though it was not thought that he had attempted to run away. IIe was arrested by Detective Inspec- PROFESSOR LEONARD HILL'S tor Fallon himself on suspicion and taken to the Police Station."

Continuing, the prosecuting offi- cer said that the doctor would, tell the Court that no mark what-

soever was found on the deceased's in the present case, much skull. There was nothing to show trouble had been caused to the what was wrong with him.

The fight took place on a cement authorities by the prisoner's ap-floor and it was not known whe- parent inability to speak any ther the blow received was caused other dialect than the unfamiliar by the clog or the fall. The de- one of the place from which he ceased's skuli was very thin. originated After the resources of both the Police Department and the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs had been investigated without auc- cs, the pro-sution nad to admit to-day that they were without the Lesary interpreter.

The prisoner at a previous pearance had, however, shown that he was at least to some extent, familiar with Cantonese, and an attempt was now made to explain the nature of the charge to him in that dialect,

Another Man Blamed,

His Worship: Abnormally thin? Detective Inspector Fallon: Abnormally thin, your Worship.

Mr. C. A. Grimea produced plans of the market while Dr. K. C Cheng, medical officer of the Kwong Wah Hospital, gave evi- dence of having attended to the decensed. He said that on, ex- amination he found no external marks of injury on the man's head

any other part of his body. He died at 4 a.m. on August 20.

Dr. 3. E. Dovey, speaking of the results of the post mortem examina- tion, said that externally there! was no evidence of bruising but He replied readily in the same jon removal of the scalp there was dialect, and having once been fairly a deep bruise of the left temple launched on it, was not inclined to muscle and a fissured fracture of the small temple bone. The skull was stop.

abnormally thin over this area. It was so thin that it waя trans- parent.

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He made a very lengthy state- ment, from which it was anderstood that he blamed another man, who had tricked him into carrying the box ushore.

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After observing that the prisoner apparently had no diffleulty in un derstanding the charge and reply- ing to it, his Worship imposed a fine of $8,000, or a year's hard la-

bour.

There was a rupture of the left middle, meningeal artery which was ruptured when the skuli cracked. Haemorrhage caused this pressure on the brain and was the actual cause of death. of the skull was The deformity

other side also present on the showing that the deformity congenital.

was

Another Chinese, who was ar-

Further examination showed rested on the Tung On wharf, in that the patient was in a bad light | possession of 57 taels of opium, was suffering from a beri heri cond!- fined $6,800, or a year's hard lation and a malarial spleen.

bour.

A

PUBLISHER'S LOSSES.

£100,000 GOLD STORY.

When Angus Brodie Show, de- scribed as a publisher and com- pany director, of Creed-lane, E.C, was publicly examined at the Lon- don Bankruptcy Court (liabilities

Continuing, witness said that the injury was a result of the con genital abnormality of the skull which was like tissue paper and not the force of the blow. Any! jar, light tap or even a faint would have ruptured the brain and the artery. It was difficult to say that it was the tap of a clog which had caused the injury.

this afternoon...

The case was adjourned, till

£51,801, assete nil), he said that in CHELSEA RESTAURANT

1925 he was introduced to a Michael Dennis Corrigan, who Baid he was interested in oil, gold and silver consessions in Yucatan, Mexico,

IN FLAMES.

WOMAN CASHIER BURNED TO DEATH

London, Sept. 3.

restaurant atj

From time to time he paid Cor- rigan.aums for an interest in a syndicate which was alleged to own the concessions. In all he advanced about £30,000 but could Chelsea was discovered in flames get no definite information about early this morning.

A four-storey

Three people sitting on 2

the concessions, and now regard-window still in their night clothes. ed them as valueless.

He last saw Corrigan, who owed screaming, were rescued.

him some £30,000 by £40,000 in Paris in March, Corrigan told him that he had been "dons down and had no money, but there was

The three most heroic "fire-

men," who were badly burnt, proved to be the manager, his wife and daughter.

£100,000 worth of gold then being resulted in the discovery of the A search of the premises Inter. Tened. Corrigan. then cleared out, and he had not seen him since charred body of the woman

cashler.

REVELATION.

U.S. POST OFFICE ISSUE.

ELECTRIC LIGHTS GOLDEN

JUBILEE STAMP.

Mr.

Andrewes said the facts of the cdae were that on August 13 Inspector. Seddon visited, Nos. 58 and 60, Wai Ching Street and discovered a large quantity of clean machinery clippings from singlets and stockings, A who was spoken to by the Inspec tor, stated that no licence was held for carrying on the trade.

man,

On August 20, a Sanitary Department notice was issued under Section 26, Subsection 10

on the 23rd. it was served on the of the Public Health Ordinance, and

the no- premises, the notice expiring on August 30. The effect tice was that the tenants should cease to carry on the business of an offensive trade.

On September 2, Inspector Sed- don again visited the premises and found the business still being car- red on.

Continuing, Mr. Andrewes said the reason he was appearing was' because on June 25 last a very simi- lar case came before his Worship. Mr. Andrewes sald that he had a report from the Telegraph as re- ference. His Worship would remem- ber that Dr. Fawcett gave evidence was decided that the actual point turned on the definition of what was rags."

His Worship: Yes. Quoting from the account, Mr. Andrewes said that his Worship something held that "raga"" was torn and worn.

The United States Post Office Department has issued a new and it GRAMME OF TOXIN.

postage stamp to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the perfection by Thomas Alva Edi- son of the incandescent lamp.

The new stamp is the same size as the ordinary 2-cent stamp, London, Sept. 4.

75/100 by 87/100 fnch, and la Professor Leonard Hill, in his printed in red ink. The central

His Worship: That's right, Presidential address before the design is a picture of the original would interest his Worship to know Continuing, Mr. Andrewes said it Conference of the Sanitary In-lamp with rays issuing therefrom that Magistrates at Home had ar- spectors' Association

at Lowes Immediately above and partly rived at a similar decision as his toft, called attention to certain encircling the lamp is a easily-cultivated bacillus, "which with the words "Edison's. First decision had been reversed on ap ribbon Worship had arrived at, but their shall be nameless," and said that Lamp;" above this and reaching peal.. one gramme of dry toxin produced the top of the stamp is a semi- by them would be sufficient to circular kill 1,000,000 people,

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His Worship intimated that at panel with the words the last hearing he had not had any "United States Postage" in white authorities quoted to him. 4 The toxin acted if it was in- Roman letters. In both upper

Mr. Andrewes said he thought the baled, or if it fell on the eye as corners are ribbon scrolls with the authorities he had mentioned would n powder.

year "1879" at the left and "1929" satisfy his Worship that there Professor Hill added: "If men at the right. On either side of were reasons for him to change his start to prepare such a toxin and the lamp and through the rays of opinion on the last case,

appears the following scatter it by aeroplanes, what will light

His Worship intimated that he be the use of the panoply of wary" legend: Electric Light's Golden did not have time to hear the case Jubilee." The white numeral this morning and adjourned the "2" appears in both lower corners proceedings until Thursday, Sep- within dark circles, which are tember 26 at 2.15 p.m. connected by a dark panel form- ing the base of the stamp and containing the word "Cents" in white Roman letters.

JAPANESE PAPERS.

BAN ON THREE SHANGHAI JOURNALS.

The new Edison commemorative stamp was first placed on sale Shanghai, Sept. 17. June 5, 1929, at the post office at Three Shanghai Japanese news- Menlo Park, NJ., and due to an

demand for papers have been banned from unprecented

this the malls, under a Nanking Gov-issue, the first issue of 180,000,000 ernment order, without warning. is already sold. A second 135118 No reasony are given. The of 110,000,000 Was then "ou- Japanese Consul is protestingthorised by the Post Our Own Correspondent.

partment.

$273. FOR MARBLE STAIRCASE.

DORCHESTER HOUSE RELICS GO CHEAP.

London, Aug. 14. More than £100,000 was spent Office Deon embellishing Dorchester House,

"Good morning, Mr. De Hoxworth. I have an idea by

which you can make some money."

the famous Parle-lane manaion that is to be pulled down, when

it was built in 1857.

Yesterday the interior decora- tions and fixtures fetched less than £4,000 at auction.

The magnificent marble stair- caso, which realised only £275, cost between £25,000 and £30,000. Each of its 40 steps consisted of a solid slab of Sleillan marble 8 feet wide and 5 inches thick, the whole being surrounded by à mag- nificent marble balüstrate,

The highest price was £315, pald for a magnificent chimney piece reaching to the celling of the prin elpal salon. It was the work of Alfred Stevens, who spent over four years in decorating the man- sion.

Another "Stevetie" mantelpiece was withdrawn at the last minute, having been presented to the Vic- toria and Albert Museum "by an anonymous donor."

One of the biggest purchasers was a Mrs. Lewis, of the Caven- dish Hotel, who secured nearly one-third of the lots.

"Some of these," she told a Daily, Chronicle, representative, "are going to America, and others are to go to Blackrock, Cowes."

Perhaps the cheapest lots were the remarkable series of walnut bookcases in which was once pré- Berved the famous Holford Library The 18 book-cases, each measur ing 20 feet by 15 feet, and erected a cost of several thousand. points, made between them a total of £112.

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Several lots, notably the tensel lated paving in the halls, falled to arouse an offer, which was no doubt due to the difficulties attend- ing its removal.

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