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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929.

RECENT WILL CASE ABDUCTION CHARGE

SEQUEL.

PROBATE GRANTED BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE.

"ORAL ASSERTIONS.”

AT KOWLOON.

MARRIED WOMAN FACES FIVE SERIOUS CHARGES.

S.C.A. PROSECUTING.

ALLEGED DEALING NEW EDUCATIONAL LATEST AVIATION

IN DRUGS.

SHIP'S STEWARD HELD ON

SERIOUS CHARGE.

JOURNAL.

DEVOTED TO PROBLEMS OF THE TROPICSTM

A CLEARING HOUSE.

London, Oct, 24,

SERVICE.

BETWEEN MALAYA & DUTCH

EAST INDIES.

STARTS NEXT YEAR.

Medan, Oct. 11.

Lo Kol, a married woman, sp- Local wills recently dealt with. at the Supreme Court include that peared on five charges before Mr of. Dr. Hung Kwai-cheong, alias. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Hung Sing, who died at Canton on Magistracy this morning, in con- February 28, this year, leaving nexion with the alleged abduction Hongkong estate worth $9,700, of a 19-year-old girl, who was There was litigation over this cited as the complainant. estate in August when two wills Egured in an action before thé Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan),

In that case rung Sai-chuen, the fifth son, produced a will dated February 22, 1929, which atated "19 years, for the purpose of pro-send for a man from Calcutta this placed at the disposal of the educa- preparing a landing ground

know my fifth.eon, Sai, Chuen has always proved methodical In his management of all affairs and amicable to all his relatives and friends. I now appoint my fifth son, Sal Chuen, to be my exccutor." This will also gave over the management" of testator's Hong kong business to Sai Chuen, and directed that branches at Honam,

Kongmoon and Macao be managed by other sons and rändson.

gery,

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The charges against the defend- ant were that she did (1) take part in taking away from the Colony by force intimidation or fraud, à fe male named Young Sz-tong, age

stitution in Malaya; (2) take part in bringing, taking, decoying or enticing the girl away from the Colony with Intent to sell, pledge, let out to hire, or otherwise dis- pose for the purpose of prostitu tion (8) procure or attempt to procure a female to leave the Colony with intent that she might

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Kwok Man, a steward on board. the 8.8. Kum Sang, was this mor- ning charged before Mr. E. W Hamilton at the Central Magi stracy, with dealing in drugs.

Revenue Officer Grimmott sald The first number appeared to- The proposed air service between the man was searched when the day of a magazine called Overaca Batavia and Singapore will be boat arrived in the Colony, and Education, which will be published opened early next year, declared letters discovered in his posses-

mander-in-chief of the D.E.I. Army sion relating to dealing in certain by the Oxford University Press for General Snijders, former Com- drugs, including cocaine. They the Colonial Office.

Its general aim is the encourage and Navy, and now a director of were proceeding with the enquiries from Calcutta, and he asked for ment of educational research and the K.L.M. (Royal Aero Company)

experiment in tropical and sub-in an interview.

The route will be via Muntok week's forfnal remand.

The Magistraté:-I don't want tropical areas. Information and any more of this Manila business, criticism of what is being consider R. G. Grimmett:-We shall noted and attempted will thereby te blon authorities and those interest- ed in education in those areah.

It is hoped that this will stimulate Inquiry and at the same time prevent time and money being wasted on investigation of re-schemes that have been tried and found wanting, or regarding which full information is already avail-established, the latter will be used. Prior to the Batavia-Singapore able.

Batavia-Palembang service will be inaugurated, and that will happen in noout six weeks time. The trial flights have been

time, your Worship.

Mr. M. K. Lo appeaed for de-

fendant and asked for bail. This was allowed in $2,000, which is the maximum fine that can be imposed for the alleged offence,

The accused was formally manded until Friday next.

HAWKER ACCUSES

CONSTABLE.

SAYS HE DEMANDED AND TOOK MONEY:

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and Singkep, and the cause of the delay has been the necessity for Singkep. The Muntok ground is ready, and the authorities at Singa"

use of the aerodrome there. pore have granted the company the

The service will be started with aeroplanes, acaplanes being con- sidered too expensive, but later, service has become when the

It is also hoped that the service the magazine will be found useful in certain Dominions, India and the United States-in fact, in all parts of the world which are interested very successful,

Extensions to Medan, and later in the problems of tropical educa- to Sabang, are contemplated, and tion-and that information from these countries will be contributed we in Medan hope to have air com- munication with Batavia at about the journal, which will thus the same time that Singapore ob- Charged with obstruction and to bribery, a hawker told Mr. E. W. become a clearing house of ideas tains it. The Medan aerodrome Hamilton, at the Central Magis and information-British Wire-ia very good, the aeroplanes which tracy this morning, that an Indianless. constable demanded: money from him and five other hawkers, and that when accused refused to give . His Worship remanded the him 40 cents, he took him to the defendant formally for one week Police Station and, on the way, and fixed the hearing for Novem-took 30 cents out of his pocket."

Defendant alleged "that constable said the money was for CLEVER DRAWING OF HONG

KONG HARBOUR. erry, and as he insisted that "he had made a similar statement in

become an inmate of a brothel chewhere: (4) by force, intimida- take A cayent was filed on behalf of tion or fraudulent means,

decoy or entice a female, away Hung Sai-kat, medical practioner,

from the Colony for the purpose third son, Hang Li-shi, fourth

of emigration; (5) take or cause concubine, and Hur Sai-man,

to be taken an unmarried girl out sixth son, medical practitioner. who brought forward another will of the possession of and against the will of her father, Yeung Yan. dated February 16, 1929,, which,

Detective Sergeant Fowlle ap- they stated was testator's proper will and that the other was a for-plled for dates for the hearing to be fixed and intimated that the would probably take two This will set out that it had case

afternouts. He also remarked been written by Sai Kat in the

that the Secretariat for Chinese following terms: Because my father's wrist was weak and his Affairs would prosecute. oyesight was defective, the will written by him was in a mess and illegible. He therefore special ordered Sal Kat and others to afber 27 and 28. tend at his bed and directed me, Sai Kat, to write out on his oral assertions as contained in the will written by him, a fair copy

follows."

According to that will, testator directed that Sal. Chuen should not be allowed to stay in the Hong- kong shop and referred to him in unfavourable terms.

Judgment was given against Sai Chuen on August 15 when his Br, F. C. Jenkin, an- counsel, nounced during Sai Chuen's cross examination by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, it had been decided not to pro- ceed further in order to save something, if possible, out of the *mall estate.

MILITARY OFFICER

CONVICTED.

(Continued from Page 1.).

Station. He added that he had perhaps gone faster than that on previous occasions, but he did not think that the officer alleged he had travelled at that speed after he had passed the Station. Until yesterday he had thought that the rond passing the camp was a pri- vate thoroughfare,

Probate has now been granted

His Worship remarked that he to the successful parties to the action, Hung Sai-kat, "Hang Li-as afraid the defendant's record

shi and Hung Sai-man, with power

Lended to show that he was a to make a like grant of Hung Sai-peedy driver. Fook on his attaining the age of Sub-Inspector Hoare said he

certainly gave the defendant ereiliti 21 years.

Tam Law-sze, alias Lo Kwai-for being a good driver. hing, alias Lo Shing (or Sing) His Worship asked Sub-inspec Yee, widow, who died intestate at tor McWalter, otheer in charge of No. 1a, Hillside Terrace, long the Traffic Office, his opinion of Kong, left local estate to the value driving at 30 miles an hour on of $8,500. She is survived by two | Lalchikok Road. sons, one of whom, Tam In-faux a. Chinese medicine dealer, has been granted letters of adminis tration.

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Letters of administration, to the of The Chung-3132, escate tractor, late of No. 4, Triangle Street, Wanchai, who died in teatute at Chiu Yeung Li Village, Haiping District, Kwongtung, have been granted to Tse Pak-ping, son, who is also a contractor. The widow, Tae Kwan-shi, has re- nounced her title.

Survivors are the widow and two sons, including petitioner."

A NIGHT IN CELLS.

SUFFICIENT. FOR FIRST OFFENDER.

Not Safe...

The officer replied that the road was often crowded and it was un safe to drive at that speed. ·

His Worship That was what was saying. I don't think any body should be going at more than 25 miles an hour.

The defendant:--I shall have to cut it down, your Worship.

His 'Worship imposed a fine of $15.

Compensation Question.

Sub-Inspector Hoare asked his Worship to consider the question of compensation, remarking that the girl had received minor in- juries.

After considering the question, his Worship remarked that he did not believe in giving too much con-

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a ease like that, set Light Infantry prosecuted as it might become too popular. young stone breaker before M. His Worship then made the fine T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon $10 and ordered $5 compensation.

Gapt. Thicknesse of the Somer-pensation

Magistraty this morning on a

charge of trespassing on the rest volver range on the Taipo Road.

The defendant was stated to have gone to the range to collect spent bullets. Considerable dam- age had been cansed to the range by these people:

His Worship warned the defèn- dunt to tell his friends that the

CANTON ROAD ROBBERY.

DATES FOR HEARING NOW FIXED.

next time an arrest was made the Dates for the hearing of the case culprit would be logged. The de-in which six men are charged with fendant was cautioned, his Wor-} armed robbery and conspiracy in- ship remarking that, he had al- ready spent one night in the cells.

JUNK PIRACY:

NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE.

AFTER A YEAR. ·

connexion with the outrage com. pitted at 869, Canton Road recent- ly, were fixed by Mr. T. S. Whyle Smith at the Kiwloon Magistracy this morning.

It will be recalled that following the robbery the alleged robbera were chased by a constable who ahot and fatally wounded one of the men, while six others, were subsequently arrested.

Police have made a number of His Worship remanded the de- arrests resulting from an affair fendants for one week formally and which occurred last year when a on Detective Sergeant Fowlie in- junk conveying a large number of timating that the hearing would women grass cutters was pirated take three afternoons, fixed Friday, and its occupants taken to Chin-November 22. for the opening of ese territory from where a number the proceedings. have been since released on the

payment of ransom.

Details concerning the arresta

The forthcoming" marriage la ara meagre, excapt that identifica-announced of Mr. Harry. Owen tion parades were being held at Hughes, the cricketer, residing at the Contral Police Station at No. 402, the Peak, to Miss Frances which some of the victims of the Isobel Oakley of No. 867, the Peak. affair were present.

the

KOWLOON PUPIL'S SUCCESS.

the charge room, the Magistrate The success of students of the adjourned the case for 24 hours Central British School, Kowloon, for the attendance of the Inspector in drawing is further attested by and the interpreter, allowing bail the appearance in of $250.

reproductions from the Royal Drawing Society's examination papers of a clever defendant attempted to bribe the of Form 3. This appears under the The prosecution alleged that the piece of work by J. Miller, aged 15, constable in the course of his duty section devoted to original over- and that the latter took the man seas drawings, and is a picture of to Police Station where he handed Hongkong Harbour, with a junk in the foreground and the island over the bibe.

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WHY A BANISHEE RETURNED.

have arrived from and loft for Holland during the past few weeks having had no trouble here, in spite of exceptionally heavy rains..

Homeward Air Service. Referring to the air service between Holland and the Dutch Indles, General Snijders said that the bad condition of some landing grounds was not the fault of the British Government. The British, he said, were far too sporting to wish to hinder Dutch attempts to establish air communication, but he thought there was a little jealousy on the part of the Indian Government,

Malaya and Dutch Air Mail. ·

There was a danger, he said, of a spirit of narrow-minded exclu- siveness hindering the development of commercial flying, but he hoped that this would be replaced by in- in the background. It is excellent-ternational understanding and co- ly done and is a credit alike to the operation. young artist and to Miss Hall, the Drawing Mistress, whose ex- cellent training has been.reflected in many successes obtained by Central British School pupils in the Society's, examinations.

Included in the same publication are pictures of a travelling restau Banished for a period of ten rant in China, by M. Neave, aged years in December, 1919, a Chinese 16, of St. Helens, Cockermouth, appeared before Mr. T. S. Whyte and of a Chinese fisherman by Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy A. G. White, aged 14, of the Shang this morning on a charge of dig-hai Public School. obeying the deportation order and

DID SO AT REQUEST OF HIS FIANCEE.

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was sentenced to six months' hard] WEATHER REPORT.

labour.

The defendant said he had been The Royal Observatory reports living in the country with his that the anticyclone is central to fiancee and at her request he had the north of Hokkaido and has in- returned to the Colony with her.creased considerably in intensity. Detective Sergeant Fowlie said The typhoon is situated about 30 the defendant was arrested in miles east of Nana, moving N.., house in Temple Street, Fresh monsoon will prevail along where en arms warrant the China coast and over the The de- North China Sea." The forcenst had been executed. fendant had returned about the till noon to-morrow is N.E. month before the expiry of

winds, fresh; fire.. sentence,

his

His Worship remarked that that] would have been a better excuse Lieut. Commr. (E) R. T. Grogan than to have told the Court about has been appointed to H.M.S. his sweetheart.

Cumberland.

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"that's why it's been such a rotten season for busi- neas; people spendin' their money on such things as radio

and care.”..

The Penang correspondent of the Straits Times wires that the question of the transmission of mails to Europe by the Dutch Air Liners operating between Holland and Java has been engaging the attention of the local postal

ministration...

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It is stated that, as the Dutch air mail service is still in the ex- perimental stage, no move so far has been made in this connexion since the introduction of the ser- vice two accidents have already be- fallen their planes, the last curring quite recently in the wilds of Siam. However, several " more lights are expected to be before the Dutch authorities come to a decision as to whether the service should be made permanent or not. If they decide to continue probably be made for local mails the service, arrangements will

to be conveyed by air, in all proba hility catching the plane at Medan.

21 YEARS AGO.

made

SOME EXTRACTS FROM THE "TELEGRAPH" FILES.

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The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended. October 23rd. 1908:

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The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 19.9.3/8d.

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The annual report of the Dairy Farm Co., Ltd., showed a profit of 375,548. A dividend, of $1,30 per share was recommended.

The s.s. Haiyang, built at Home for the Douglas Steamship Com- pany left Singapore on her trip' to Hongkong,

At the annual meeting of the Lusitano Recreation Club, Mr. A. G. da Rocha was elected Presi- dent.

The Interport cricket match at Shanghal resulted in Hongkong being defeated by ten wickets.

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A forewell dinner to Rear Ad- miral and Mea. Stokes was given

at Government House.

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