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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929.

LABOUR MINISTRY YEN HSI-SHAN AND MOTORIST COLONEL

IN AUSTRALIA.

| MR. SCULLIN AND MR. BRUCE REACH · UNDERSTANDING.

PLANS IN ABEYANCE.

Melbourne, Oct. 14. Following a long conference with the members of his Govern ment, Mr. Bruce met Mr. Seuliin, the leader of the Australian

NANKING."

DECLINES TO MEDIATE

IN DISPUTE.

UNCERTAINTY REGARDING HIS PLANS.

Labour Party, and arranged, pend- ALLIANCE WITH FENG? ing Mr. Bruce's resignation, which will be tendered to the Governor- General at Canberra on Saturday. that. Mr. Seullin shall hold in abeyance his plans for the forma tion of a Labour Ministry,

~CAUTIONED.

"FAILING TO STOP AFTER

AN ACCIDENT.

KNOCKED MAN DOWN.

Colonel John Macdougall Has- kard, of the. General Staff, China Command, figured as the defendant in a summons before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Central Magistracy failing to stop after being involved this morning, charging him with

in an accident which resulted in a Shanghai, Oct. 14. Chinese being knocked down by the The tension in North China is car which he was driving, at 2.30 not a whit relaxed. Troop move-p.m. on October 1, in Pedder Street. ments continue on a bigger scale. Before returning any plea, de- It is learned that the now Par Cables from Nanking, Shanghal, fendant asked for the legal defini- lament will probably meet for the and Tientsin are aald to be, pour- tion of an "accident," as it appeared first time between November 13thing into Taiyuanfu; the capital of to him that the whole gist of the and 20th, the first date being very Shansi urging Marshal Yen Hsi- thing lay in that word. The man probable-Reuter.

shan to use his endeavour to avert ran into his mudguard and London, Oct. 14.

the outbreak of war between Nan: able to get up again. king and the Kuaminchun, and many of these messages are from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's party in Nanking.

The Daily Herald in a leader says "Well done Australia." It says that Mr. Scullin and his colleagues will bring to a new type of im- perial problem-that of securing world peace-a aw type of im- perial mind.

The Financial Times publishes a message from Sydney which says that labour'a sensational victory has caused perturbation in financial circles and it is uncertain how far the new government will go in pursuit of the party's declared financial policy regarding loan raising, reconstruction and the Commonwealth Bank, etc.--Reuter.

ICE.CO'S CAPITAL

REDUCED.

(Continued from Page 1.)

At an extraordinary meeting which followed, the Chairman said: Gentlemen,As it is now past the time for which this meet- was called I will ask the Secretary to read the notice con- vening the meeting.

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Lounge and Billiard Saloon. Three minutes from Ferry. Families specially from the notice, it is proposed to

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The Secretary ther read the notice.

The Chairman:-A8 you will sec reduce the capital of the Company from $400,000 to $200,000 by re- ducing the face value of the shareh from $10 to $5 each. Your Board s now come to the conclusion the reduction is necessary in order to place before you a sound balance sheet at the nest annual general meeting.

The reason which actuated your Board when they decided to re- commend the reduction of capital Livas the fact that nothing has been written off the, assets of the Com- pany for depreciation since its in- ception. And for that reason your Directors are of the opinion that the capital of the Company is not represented by available assete to the extent of $200,000.

was

In evidence, Lam Wing-kam, a young Chinese dressed in European clothes, said that at the time in question, "he was going up to the parking space in the centre of the. Pedder Street, where he had left his car. He emerged from the verandah outside Jardine, Mathe-,

Marshal Chiang recently sent General Ho Chen-chun, to Tai-

Hsi-shan with the object of person's yuanfu to interview Marshal Yen suading the Shians leader at least to preserve neutrality in the, dis-

pute.

offices and the frat Colonel's car thing he noticed about the was that it was stationary, and apparently waiting for a parking space in the stand,

Knocked Down,

The interview between Ho Chen-chur and Yen Hsi-shan took place on Saturday and While crossing the road, making Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is quoted for the spot where his own car as having stated straight was parked, witness was run into forwardly that he long agoknocked down after being struck by the Colonel's car, and WOR abandoned all hope of settling by the left front mudguard. The the Kuominchun-Nanking dis- car went on without stopping. pute by pacific methods.

"I got on my feet again and, fol. Regarding war with the Kuo-lowing him, asked why he did not He and some- minchun, ns inevitable, the Nan- sound his horn. king Government has dispatched thing which I could not under- four airplanes to Hankow. These stand, and continued to drive on." arrived on Sunday and immediate- The Magistrate:-Did you wish, ly flew to the Hupch-Honan border. him to stop?

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Some surprise was caused when Witness: It was his duty to certain tanks, which the Nanking have stopped Government despatched on the The Magistrate:-What would Tientsin-Pakow Railway during you want to do to him? the week-end with Kweltah Witness: It was his duty to their destination, returned to stop to see if I was hurt. Hsuchowfu, yesterday evening. The Magistrate:-1 put it to you The reason is unknown, but it has that you ran into his car?

Witness explained that while been assumed that the Kuomin chun troops may be advancing taking an oblique direction across rapidly towards the Tientsin- the road, he had his back turned Pakow Line, and that the officers towards, the car which was two commanding the tanks have shops' doors away when he first thought it dangerous to risk, annoticed it. encounter and the loss of the war machines..

Headquarters at Hankow? Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has ordered General Ho Ying-ching to leave Nanking for Hankow to establish headquarters for the Nanking Government troops in Hupeh and Hunan.

General Ho Ying-ching will act as administrator of the Hankow Military Office.,

Defendant could not have failed to see him, and in any case he should have sounded his horn.

As to this, Colonel Haskard said he realised the complainant was not hurt because he was walking alongside the car and was speak- ing to him through the window,

Colonel's Version. Giving his own version of the affair, Colonel Haskard said:—On. the day in question, I had just pulled out of the rank oppoaite the Hongkong Hotel. I was pro- General Sun Liang-sing. the ceeding down Pedder Street on The Company's balance sheet First Kuominchun Divisional Com-bottom gear and at about walking has been before you and shows mander, is understood to be con- paco. A Chineso came out of the quite clearly how the various as centrating his forces at three arcade with his back towards me, sets of the Company have been centres, at Tung Kwan, Shenchow looking up at the top of the build. written down to a conservative and Papling.

ing or at the sky, and appeared to. market value and 1 do not propose

A clash between the troops of be going backwards as he looked to go through them in detail. In Sun Liang-sing with Nahking up at something.. I had no time addition to this, the Company, as troops on the Honan-Shantung to blow my horn. He eventually you will see, has no reserve and frontiers is said to be imminent bumped into my left mudguard. this is another factor which your

Panic reigns at Chengchow I could not evade him because of Directors have taken into consi- where Nanking troops are under the

on my right and I on. He got deration when deciding on the re- stood to be digging trenches and had to go straight duction and it is hoped after the fortifying the city in anticipation up to the front of the car and he reduction has been completed to

of an early attack by the Kuamin-asked me why I did not blow my horm. I replied that he should show at the next annual general chun.

look where he was going, or words. to that effect. I realised that there was nothing wrong with the individual. I was moving in- finitely slow, at two miles hour, and was barely moving and could see through the window considerably that there was nothing wrong with him. I have been here since April

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Creditors Not Affected. The Company's shares are, as you know, Tully paid up and there- föré as the proposed reduction of capital does not involve any re-modified in tone. duction of asets ́ except in book The situation along the Yang-and have never seen him before." value, it is not a matter which can tsze River is quiet.-Navat Wire His Worship drow Colonel Has- affect the Company's creditors. less.

This will facilitate the Court in It does not follow from the granting the necessary order con- above report that there is less firming the resolution and when cause for alam. It is far more the formality has been complied probable that the Nanking Govern with, your Directors feel that atment is exercising a more strict the next annual general meeting control on the nature of news they will be able to put before you published.

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kard's attention to the particular Section in the Traffic Regulations which explicitly states that if a vehicle comes into collision with any person, animal or thing, it is the duty of the driver, as soon as he reasonably can, to make a re- port of any injury caused to such person, animal or thing to the nearest Police Station. In present case, they could not get away from the fact that the vehicle came into collision with it I now formally move the follow-quiet, and there does not appear to the complainant. Therefore

defendant's duty to ing extraordinary resolution: be expectation of an attack, for the was

have stopped the vehicle, "That the capital of the Company present.

could' Troops are constantly being re- and he

then have be reduced from $400,000 divided

called from outlying districts, proceeded to the Police Station. into 40.000 shares of $10 each to while further forces are arriving Perhaps the Police Officer could at $200,000 divided into 40,000 shares of $5 each and that such reduc-from down river, all of them being tion be effected by cancelling the despatched towards the Peking

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more nearly in relation to the mar-

ket value of its assets.

Hankow, Oct. 14. The situation locally continues

the least accept a telephone message and Colonel Haskard could then explain that he had reason to believe, or that there was reason to suppose, that the person so knocked down had not received any injury in view of the fact, that he was able to get up again on his feet and talk to him Russlan through the window. No matter

'capital which has been lost or in

Makden, Oct. 14. unrepresented by available asérts The Russian occupation of the to the extent of $8 per share town of Lahasudu on October 18 upon each of the 40,000 shares is officially admitted. which have been issued and are The Chinese lost three gunboats now outstanding and by reducing which, were sank, and 500 sailors the nominal amount of all the were drowned. The

sharea in the Company's capital losses are claimed to have been how slight the collision was, it

from $10 to $5 per share."

Mr. Grose seconded.

The Chairman:-Gentlemen,—

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before putting the meeting the question which you may wish to resolution proposed by myself and ask me. geconded by Mr. Grose, which in There were no questions, and the order to have legal effect must be resolution was put to the meet- found by a majority of three quaring and carried. The Chairman ters present at this meeting. I announced that the confirmatory shall be pleased to answer any meeting would take place on 4th

Novembor.

was the duty of the Colonel to have reported to the police. Under the circumstances, it was quite clear that the, summons had, beon proved.

Inspector Nicol said defendant had been driving since April 20, and possessed a clear record

The Magistrate (to defendant) Cautioned."

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