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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MOTOR CAR OWNER PROSECUTED.

SERIOUS CHARGE OF STEALING ACCESSORIES.

BAILED AT $1,000.

Three charges of stealing motor ear accessories were preferred against a Chinese, name Kwok Sul-kan, the owner of public motor vehicle No. 26, at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning. There were alternative charges of receiving.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER

PACIFIC AERIAL SERVICE.

DIRIGIBLES TO CALL AT MANILA.

CO-OPERATION OF IMPORTA.

INTERESTS ASSURED.

MAMMOTH AIRSHIPS.

MUTINY OF TROOPS IN MACAO.

REBELLIOUS SOLDIERS FORCED TO SUBMIT.

HOLD OUT TWO DAYS.

Further details have been re- ceived in the Colony regarding the mutiny of a number of Portugução artillerymen at Macao. It appears that some seventy of these mea revolted because of dissatis faction regarding their pay, and that they held out, in the fort in Akron, Dec. 17.

which they were quartered, from The co-operation of steamship, Sunday, until this morning, when they surrendered and were "dia-

Loyal troops armed.

hud airplane and financial interests in the first all-American Zeppelin alr-previously surrounded the fort

mutineers out, ship line on the Pacific ocean was with the iden of starving the disclosed to-day in a list of new dir- ectors just added to the director The articles alleged to have ate of the Preife Transport Com- been stolen or received by defea-pany, dant included a motor car bumper; a jack, pliers, wrenches, brushes,

The complainants were the Hongkong and Shanghai Hotela, Company: Lam Ying, of the Sang Yee building contractors, and Chin Si-kee.

etc.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall appeared for the defence, and the defendant plended not guilty to all charges.

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When the 8.8. Chuen Chow arrived in Hongkong at noon to- morning, a Telegraph roprekenin day, having left Macao early this tive gathered from those on board at The now directors represent the that the trouble broke out uteruste above mentioned and their Monte Fort sometime during Sun- addition to the directorate consid-day. The mutineera-about 70 in erably broadens the scope of a number isointed themselves in company, which formerly was lim their particular section of the

and refused fort

vo oboy ited to the Goodyear Zeppelin Con- pany interests. The enlargement orders until their demande for a of the directorate was announced revision of pay were acqeded to. here to-day by Mr. Paul Litchfield, chairman of the board,

My. Rendall asked for a date to be fixed for hearing, and applied for bail.

Mr. Hamilton, the Magistrate,ulrship line between said he must fix bail at $1,000, a the police were bound to regard the alleged offences as serious, as ear thefts in the Colony were becoming common, and this was not an isolated case.

Mr. Rendall pointed out, that the defendant earned his living in Hongkong by means of owning a public car, and he was not likely

to run away.

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The company contemplates an the Pacific cost and the Orient. Hangars are planned for the West coast and the Far East, while at first only a moor- ing mast will be erected in Hawaii.

Bi-Weekly Service.

Earlier reporis revealed the scope and significance of plans being laid for the coast to Manila - dirigible service.

Financing, operating and building plans are all made for giant dirig❘ The case is to be heard on Man-ibles which will eruiee from the day next.

ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF VICEROY.

Pacific coast to Manila carrying 80 passengers and up to ten tons of express and mall, in bi-weekly. ser vice, reducing by one-third the three-week journey now made by steamships.

It is believed that the first com mercial dirigible will be ready for operation by the end of 1932 and the full trans-Pacific airway will be opened before the end of 1933.

Through to Manila,

The Government took prompt measures, calling all other troops on Instant duty and putting all available police on the streets to preserve order. Throughout the of Sundny - the remainder mutineers remained adamant and the Government conveyed. to them an utimatum that unless they sur rendered within 24 hours they A military would be fired on.

over the acroplane reconnoitred fort to make this threat more impressive.

Monday morning still saw the disaffected troops holding-out and the Government again renewed its threat of strong action. It was not until early this (Tuesday) morning that the mutinous men gave in, and, as the boat was about to leave Macao, it was learned that the men had been disarmed and placed under strong military guard."

Throughout Sunday and Monday the people of the town were more or less apprehensive, few being seen on the streets, the theatres and gaming houses doing very little business.

(Continued from Page 1,3 Lord Irwin and his staff were returning to Delhi at the conclu- aism of a most successful tour of the leading Indian states. The

"We contemplate going right

The acting Consul for Portugal bomb was placed on the rail and through to Manila in our initial exploded us the train passed over operation," says Mr. Paul W. Litchin Hongkong informs us that he re- The whole of the train was confield, president of the Goodyear ceived, this morning, a cable from siderably shaken but nevertheless arrived at Delhi punctually. The Zeppelin Company, who was made the Governor of Macao briefly re- opinion is expressed that the out-chairman of the board of the Pa-porting on the affair. This stated cific Zeppelin Transport Corpora- that a small group of soldiers of rage was an attempt at sabotage

tion,

the garrison atationed at Monte against a conference with the Na-

The dirigibles planned for the Fort, and led by a sergeant pus- tionalist lenders.

service will be the largest Zeppe-pected of advanced ideas, rebelled The Viceroy's train was travellins in the world. In design they on Sunday and disregarded the

will be similar to the two new orders of the Government. ing at fifty miles an hour in a thick fog, two miles outalde Navy nirships ZRS-4 and ZRB-5, cast approximately the New Delhi station, where which will the Viceregal welcomers heard the $4,000,000 aplece to build. They detonation, at first attributed to a will have an overall length of 800 fee! and a gas lifting capacity of fog signal.

6,500,000 cable feet. The gas cn- nacity of the Graf Zeppelin is 3,700,000 cubic feet and that of the new British dirigibles 5,000,000 cu- bic feet.

A medical officer aboard the train first discovered the disaster.

Leaders' Wiskes.

Four of these ships will maintain It was while visiting Hyderabad that the Viceroy received an in-a server out to Hawali, the trip Limation that the Nationalist requiring a day, and a half west- leaders, Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, bound across the Pacific and two Patel, Jinnah and Sir Tej Sapru, days returning. The difference in wished to give him their views on time will be due to the fact that the the recent announcement regard-ppailing winds across the mid Pacific are easterly, The through ing a round table conference on the future constitution of India. trip to Manila, a journey of nearly The Viceroy accordingly invited 6,000 miles, will be made in one them to meet him at Viceregal house to-day.

The meeting was additionally im- portant as the All-India Congress opens at Lahore on Thursday to consider action to he taken by the Congress Party in view of its decision at the beginning of the year to start a campaign of civil resistance to British rule if Dominion status is not granted by December 31,

week of flying.

Emergency Mast.

The telegram states that the! mutinous troops, were immediately surrounded and they, submitted this morning to military force. No usualties occurred, and all parties responsible have been handed over to a military Tribunal.

It is added that the city in per- fectly quiet and normal.

REMOVING TRADE

UNCERTAINTY."

MR. SNOWDEN ON REPEAL OF DUTIES. BUDGET POSSIBILITY.

London, Dec. 23. In the House of Commons to-day, with a view to "removing "We have picked out a far point industrial uncertainty regarding under the American flag," said procedure in the event of the silk. Commander. Hunsacker, one of the sugar, McKenna and Safeguarding directors, "and that point. Manila, Duties being repealed in the next. determines our present sphere of Budget," Mr. Philip Snowden, the operation. Our only two known Chancellor of the Exchequer, stopping points will be Honolulu made an important statement,

have an Whilst he declined to anticipate and Manila. We will emergency mast probably on the the. Budget, Mr. Snowden, sald if jeland of Guam, but we will not the silk and sugar duties were make regulur stops there. The repealed, some scheme of rebates The Nationalist leaders' request to the Viceroy was construed as a question of the California base has would be devised to meet the post- not yet been decided upon. We are tion of holders of duty-paid stocks. bid to reach a compromise; hence planning to build a large "con- Regarding the McKenna and. it was thought the bomb outragestruction hangar somewhere in Safeguarding Duties, Mr. Snowden was designed to wreck any possi-southern California. The alle has said drawbacks on duty-paid ex- bility of reconciliation.-Reuter, e

poris would continue to be paid. not yet been selected."

of The Chancellor Commander Hunsacker said that a large part of the construction Exchequer has already made it work of the first of the Pacific known that various Safeguarding dirigibles; would be done at the Duties will not be renewed after new dirigible "dock" at Akron, the period of which they have been Ohio, where the Navy craft are to imposed.-Routeri be built.

INDIA'S MINIMUM

.DEMANDS.

(Continued from Page 1.)

Without the Governor-General's Bunction, the Legislature, they suggest, should be incompetent to deal with the public debt and publle revenues, religious affairs, British defence forces, and foreign relations.

The

Committee: also

recom-

THE YOUNG PLAN.

MIL. STIMSON THINKS IT BENEFICIAL.

Washington, Dec. 28., mends that the India Office should Mr H L Stimson, Secretary of transfer to the Government of State, in the course of his daily India powers to raise loans and re- talk with newspapermen, express- crait services. -

ed gratification at the defeat of the opposition to the Young Plan in Germany,

the

WAR MATERIALS FROM GERMANY. EXPORTATION: TO, CHINA QUERIED.

London, Dec. 23. During question-time in the House of Commons to-day Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secre tary, stated that evasions of the prohibition of the German export of war materials had so far been insufficiently important to justify the attention by the League of Na- Lions Council. being drawn thereto, Sir Froderick Hall asked whether Ho said he still felt strongly the proposed exportation of sixteen that the Young Plan would prove Fallway truckloads of munitions to beneficial to the general stabilien- China was insufficient to justify in- Hon of economic conditione intervention. Finally, they propose that a| Europe, "and also expressed plea-Mr. Henderson promised to con- Military College and a Supreme sure at the settlement of. Sino-sider en Inquiry into the matter if Court should be established In Russian difficulties, Reuter's Sir Frederick Hall would provide. India. Reuter.

him with information, Reuter

It feels that the Secretary of Stato. for India should be assisted by tivo Indian Under-Secretaries, at least one of whom should sit in Parliament..

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