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FOUNDED 101

U VETAEXPF "SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1930 #A+ GOPI IN CENT

HEAVY SENTENCE CLARENCE HATRY.

ON HATRY.

PENAL SERVITUDE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS.

MOST APPALLING FRAUDS IN BRITISH HISTORY.

COLLEAGUES' FATE.

London, Jan. 24. Terminating in dramatic cir- cumstances, all the defendants withdrawing, without warning.. their plens of not guilty, and substituting plens of guilty, the trial at the Old Bailey of Clarence Hatry and his three co- defendants, Edmund Daniels, John Graham Goodfellow Dixon and Albert Edward Tabor closed to-day.

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Mr. Justice Avory passed, sen tence of fourteen years' penal

survitude" on Hatry, seven years' penal servitude on Daniels, five

Clarence Entry, the City financier, who

to wax rent

- penal servitude for fourteen "years at the Oki Bailey yester- day on charges of forgery and

fraud.

BRITISH OFFICER

ARRESTED.

years on Dixon and three yearsFIRST EXTRALITY TEST CASE on Tabor.

Various sentences were imponul

upon the other counts in the In-

, dictment, but they rau concurrent-

AT HANKOW.

ly and the effect of them is that CONSUĻ INTERVENES, daring the first two years of the main sentence, each prisoner will undergo hard: Inbour,

Mr. Justice Avory described.

• .. the frauds as the most appalling that have ever, disfigured the commercial, reputation of Great Britain.

Defendunts faced charges of extensive forgeries and frauds, involving over two million pounds.

they

Forged Certificates:

Lo

the

Hankoy, Jan. 25.

The rst extrality test case, re- sulting, in the arrest of a British naval officer, has arisen here,

It seems that Pay Commander McBride, of the Naval Office, was driving a motor-car when he ran over a Chinese boy, aged sixteen years, who was at the time cycling,

The boy was killed,

BLAZE ON DANISH SLAVERY SYSTEM IN RICH MERCHANT

VESSEL.

OUTBREAK ON THE M/S. BINTANG.

FIRE FLOAT ENGAGED FOR

OVER AN HOUR..

BRIGADE'S GOOD WORK.

Only prompt work by the Hongkong Fire Brigade averted a very serious outbreak of fire an board the Danish motor-ship Bintang in the early hours of this morning. An outbreak occurred round about 5.30 a.m. in the after-part of the vessel and threatened for some time to involve a large cargo of teak wood and rice.

It was nearly an hour before the volumes of water poured into the vessel's holds and the desired effect, and it was some time Inter before the" blaze WAN finally

subdued.

The Bintang is lying at Buay

C.36.

Soon Subdued,

On the outbreak being discover ed, the Fire Brigade was immediate ly informed and No. 1 fire float was rushed to the ship. Supt. T. H. Brookes personally took charge of the float and directed the whole of the operations.

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The blaze was subdued in a Bit-

tle over an hour, with comparative- ly little damage,

The fire commenced between two holds, and is believed to have ori- comprised part of the vessel's cargo. ginated in n pile of cordage, which

Subsequently, Commander Me-wiseman, MTA İÇİRELİ AZERİ, 20 Bride was arrested by the Chinese police and taken to the Native City.

Representations were later made

The main counts against them were all directors of what was known as the Hatry Kroup of companies were that

by the British consular authorities, they conspired fogether

with the result that the Commander forge certifientes of stock of the Corporations of was released by the Mayor, Mr. Swindon, Gloucester and Wakefield Lin. *. on which they raised £789,000, and The case is naturally aeasing that they fraudulently withheld | much interest in view of the Ná- or appropriated a further sum, of tióna! Government's recent declara- over £822,000 which they received | tion abolishing the extrality system for the gemine stock of these ny from January 1st--Reuter, 'three Corporations,

Sir Gilbert Garnsey, the noted accountant, in the course of his evidence slated that the following amounts were owing to corpora- tions:

Wakefield Gloucester

Swindon

.£333,219. .£253,799. .£251,171.

Enormous Liabilities,

SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPT. ARTHUR.

A WELL-KNOWN RESIDENT

: PASSES AWAY,

many friends and acquaintances

REAPPEARANCE OF THE IRONSIDES.

Junction Effected With Kwangsi Forces.

WỤCHOW THREATENED.

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It is reported, according to news teaching Hongkong, that General Chang Pat-kwel, the Ironside leader, has gathered together the remnants of+his troops and has effected n junction with Kwangel forces.. Thase combined forces are now said to be threatening Wuchow.

At the moment, Wuchow is quiet, but communications be- tween that pork and Nanning are severed:

Just before going tổ press, we srn with regret of the death of Captain G. D. Arthur, à partner in Taking the whole of the comthe well-known firm of Carmichael panies under Hatry's contral, he

tated that the total figure of and Clarke, of Queen's. Buildings.

Captain Arthur appeared in his outside unsecured liabilities ex- pected to rank was approximately usual health yesterday when he met

£12,500,000, to which must be

Had the fire spread, it is certain added the portions of the share and his sudden death has come that rice and tenkwood, which com- capitals held by the outside public profound shock. He passed" of £1,200,000 giving a grand total away at his residence in Nathan prised the bulk of the cargo in the of unsecured claims of £13,750,000. Rond, Kowloon, this morning from holda, would have burned like tind- er, and great damage would have heart failure. There was very Httle reasonable

been done to the steamer. chance of a dividend, and there would certainly be nothing for the

Danger Averted, hareholders.

Gialdini Blamed.

The late Captain Arthur wae formerly in the service of the Blue Funnel Line on vessels running to

Fortunately, however, in spite of the Far East. Many years ago he left the mercantile service and join-dense smoke, the firemen were able ed the Union Insurance Society of to get at the heart of the blaze, and Cantou. After several years ser- careful handling averted a danger vice with that company, he became our situation,

An emotional speech by Mr: Norman Birkett, K.C. (for Hatry) temporarily bushed the Old Bailey.

a partner in Messrs. Carmichael Most of the damage was caused He declared that Hatry's action and Clark in 1922, joining Mr. by the quantity of water that had was a "shining desire to protect T.G.H. Brayfield, the present princi- to be oured into the burning cord other people." He alleged that it

pol.

ago to prevent the spread of the wia Gialdini (the Italian director

The late Captain Arthur was fire, but, as mentioned above, the who fled) who first suggested the

Gialdini universally liked and had many damage caused by fire and water duplication of stock. threatened to blow out his brains friends in the Colony and other was not serious, immediately if a decision was not parta of the East. The funeral

Local Agents. taken immediately to transfer will take place, to-morrow at 4 p.m. shgros

The Bintang is a Danish motor vessel of 2,779 tons (gross). She la commanded by Captain V.L Relater, and is owned by a Copen- hagen company, the local agente for which are Messrs. John Manners & Co., Ltd.

The other defendants, he said,

protested, but Hatry assured them the time that I was saving the that he was undertaking negotia- situation and thereby protecting tions which enable the duplicate stock to be immediately redeemed., my creditors.

"Sir Gilbert Garnacy has told "Those negotiations," added Mr. you that not one penny of the Birkett, "were actually successful, money, irregularly raised has gone but they were too, Inte,"

into any of our pockets. So long as I am given the opportunity to prove, as I will have no difficulty

Hatry's Earller Statement.

She arived here from Holbow at 7 am., on Thursday, and has been discharging cargo since that time.

BAN ON PARROTS.

CEYLON.

LADY SIMON NOW RELENTS A LITTLE

HONGKONG INVOLVED.

London, Jan. 24.. Ludy Simon," the wife of Sir John Simon, the noted Liberal leader, and head of the Simon Com- mission, in the course of a specchi at Wellingborough •-to-day 6,made Į reference to a recent address in which she indicated her intention

KIDNAPPED..

A DARING SHANGHAI

OUTRAGE.

$200,000 DEMANDED AS RANSOM MONEY,

THREAT OF DEATH.

MEMORIALS

MARBLE GRANITE

and

BRONZE

Designs and Estimates Free.

C.E. WARREN & CO., LTD.

Chlas Building.

Tel. 0.368.

Bulls and Inners

ធ ព From the Office Butts.

It is denied that the U. S. War Talking of family baths, we do Department's order, barring not approve of the method adopted liquour from Army establishments by the move cyclist who took his in the Philippines, is really two sisters with him into the designed to speci up the Harbour.. Inauguration of week-end air-trips between Manila, and Hongkong. In Kowloon, special concessions are being made to hawkers during

We notice that America is ready China New Year. They don't to scrap eleven old battleships, need any in Wyndham Street;

there are none left. The Prohibitionists would ur-

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The slogan of the Hongkong Itinerant Skin Sellers Society: "Furs Come: Furs Served !"

□□ "Woman's Seat in Congress in

The Chinese delegate ut Genera la anxious to effect the prohibition of the sale of opium.

We sug gests that he comes back to Chinn and grows rice in some of those. poppy fields.

starting a crusade against

Shanghai, Jan. 21. .. Ceylon ten In order to induce the Ceylonese to put an end to slavery:

Police of Shanghai yesterday Lady Sinton's remarks in that were conducted an extensive particular speech aroused a strong search for a gang of daring chorus of protest in Ceylon, and kidnappers, who, in broad day- to-day she emphasised that she light and in the presence of the Balance," says a newspaper the Fu River. had always distinguished between scores of persons, abducted Mr.heading. Like our dollar, she hoof

pen and avowed slavery, such as Ho Yung-mei, wealthy manager must be on a rather unstable the abuses arising from any Cotton Mill, Nantao, Mr. Ho has existed in Arabia, Abyssinia, and of the Dah Loong Shing Kec basis. system of child adoption for domestic purposes.

residences in both Chinese terri- The child adoption system, she tory and the Settlement.

amourit to said, might not slavery, but it might involve serfdom and sometimes led to eruelty as revolting as anything in the history of slavery.

Chinese households in Hongkong While many Ceylonese and

doubtleax treated their adopted children kindly, it was impossible. to deny in the face of published reports that there were terrible cases of maltreatment. She stressed the necessity for seeing that stronger measures were taken to stop these dreadful crimes.com. Reuter.

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"NO-TAX” CAMPAIGN TIZZLES OUT.

KATHIAWAR DISPUTE NOW

SETTLED: A

Bombay, Jan. "24.

the The struggle between faimers and the authorities in

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The naval scrapping at Hong kong last Saturday, will not, it is hoped, complicate Britain's atti- Conference.

Traße has been suspended on No longer fut the

០៨ "Maths:"In reply to your question—“If u silver basia standa on its own axte thereby paralysing parity, can a common denominator restore equilibrium, providing, all

determined premium be created to counteract the disparity, in, in Itself, subject to fluctuating dia- count, ad valorem": Why bring that up?

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Ransom of $200,000 is being detuda at the London Disarmament things being equal, that an un-

manded by the lddnappers, who, in a letter to relatives of the vic tim, declare that Mr. Ho will be tortured for two days and killed amount is forthcoming. on the third day unless the full

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London liquor dealers are com plaining that the cocktail habit is declining. Shake up, England!

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The abductors lost no time in No doubt we communicating with the relatives, shall see a little the abduction taking place on Sun-Christian spirit day morning and the first letter displayed at to- bring received late on the after- night's boxing. noon of the same day.

Important Clues.

The British Chancellor of

The trail yesterday led to the foreign concessions and police of the Exchequer both the Settlement and the is likely to earn French Concession, as well as the. soubriquet Chapel, have been communicated of Bir Mount with and requested to aid in the Snowden! search for the kidnappers. ВО Chinese police have several im- As the old portnut clues and are confident lady said,. that arrests will be made within Why don't they

24 hours...

Relatives of Mr. Ho, however, are fearful that the gang, appre- the vicinity of Khulkharechi Vil-hensive of police interference, will lage, Kathinwar, is over, the civil murder their victim.

lesobedience campaign having collapsed.

Witnessed By Scores.

The dispate has continued for At the time of the crime, Mr. a fortnight or more, the farmers He was travelling in his private ricshu and was in the vicinity of stubbornly resisting the system of "forced labour" and refusing the Temple of the God of War, to pay certain taxes. They have the hour being about 8 am, and come to an agreement with the the street filled with scores of

pedestrians. authorities, and the participants have withdrawn their resistance. The farmers who were arrested during the conflict have been re- leased and declare themselves antisfied.

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reduce the size

of the dollar,

but keep. It

at

the. samic

price?"

He Your lipstick is coming

"Sho: No, it fan't,

He: It is..

She: I'm sure it don't,

He: Liston! Any time“ I got as close as this to a girl her lipstick is coming off.

It is hoped that 'all Snappy;

People Can

Attend the

S.P.C.A. masked

ball on March

7th.

白

The schooner

-some of those

minsters learn

the Harbour Regulations, the better.

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It all depends on" whether you

are a winner or

a loser as to

whether there is skill or Joas ́irt- pitch-and-toss.

Last night a local Scot created All credit goes to the Hongkong considerable discord by describing constable, who, while patrolling Glasgow as the most god-forsaken Lugard Road, captured what look. ed like a three-foot lizard. We've many a time seen them, but they place in the world!

always proved to be too elusive.

It has been estimated that the average man speaks about twelve and a half million words a year. This, however, takes no account of Budget debates in Hongkong..

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As the rieshu coulie threaded his way through the traffic be was forced to move near the footpath, and as he did so three men stand- Ing there produced pistols and forced him to stop. Mr. Ho leap- Ice," says a newspaper, heading,

"

"Home Government on Thin

are

Why

Scotsmen like Peralana? Because they are rugged people. Help! *

Some of these compradorie'

The campaign has fizzled out in spite of the blessing bestowed ed from the vehicle, but was ImOf course, they may be skating chicken, are further than

mediately seized and forced to around some of the problems, but, away from Scratch. upon it by Gandhi. He proposed enter a motor car. Almost at the on the other hand, not all their to despatch large force of same time the driver of the car leaders are cracked. "passive resistance volunteers" covered the licence plates with

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to aid the farmers, but It is now evident that any attempt by Gandhi to keep the dispute going will be too late.-Reuter,

INDIAN STUDENT'S

FLIGHT.

A FRESH START MADE YESTERDAY.

ploces of cloth.

Bystanders and spectators were powerless, under the guns of the kidnappers, to

interfere. The ricsha coolle made a move as if to run and was struck on the alde of the head with a pistol, knock- ing him to the street and inflicting a deep wound:

Mr. Ho, apparently satisfied that It was useless to struggle, and also dangerous to do so, permitted "the 'men to force him to enter the motor car. With two men stand- ing on the running board, both London, Jan. 24.

with drawn pistols, the car was Mah Mohan Singh, the young driven away rapidly, before the Indian who recently made an un-police in the neighbourhood were successful attempt to fly from informed of the incident.

England to India, to win the prizę

of £500 offered by the Aga Khan

to the first Indian doing the

Constable Left Behind,

journey in 1930, started on an attempted to overtake the car, but A Chinese constable on a bicyle

other attempt to-day.

Witnesses was left far behind. He left Lympne Aerodrome did not learn, the number of the shortly before, one o'clock this car, but it is stated to have been afternoon-Brílish Wireless. a medium-sized tourin car, paint- ed blue, and is also declared to have entered the French Conces sion, although this report could not be verifiedA--

LANCASHIRE COTTON

INDUSTRY.

PRODUCTION CURTAILMENT

MOOTED.

London, Jan. 24. A special meeting was held at Manchester to-day of the spinners of the American Section of the Lancashire cotton Industry, when it was decided to recommend the State of Trade Committee to con- sider further the question of the

production.

curtailment. of Reuter.

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It's so very, very easy,

That it causes much surnrise To

our experta bright and breezy,

All so clever all no wisc. They simply take a standard, Monkey-brand, or other oddity; One that never has

pandered;

been

But it must be a commodity. They then proceed to fix it, With a value nearer parity, Though they take care not to

mix it,

With some other wanted rarity, Whether pork or tar or honey.. Doesn't matter ons ista When you're making better

money.

But take care you get

quota.

'

ever

The prohibition. announcement in Manila was greeted with loud booze.

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Women do not like to see them- selves in print; they prefer either. silk or salin.

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If you see spots before your eyes, you should get glasses.. These will enable you to see them. much clearer.

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The trouble with most of our; Kowloon hills in that they appear much flatter op the map, a

A local lad from North of the Tweed was advised to drink less whisky. He pointed out, however, your that when he had a few drams

he couldn't say "sarsaparilla.”

Po-Hi-ical Econ-o-mist, - Will prove a willing server; And if he seems as clear as

...Log;

Just call upon Observer.

If he in turn's a thicker log,

·Onlooker's vfow may aid you, But bet your boots, These export coots, Will bewilder and evade you

There was a young man of Japan Who, wrote verse that never would

scan

When they said: "But the thing Doesn't go with a swing,"

He said: "Yes, but I always 'tay la to get as many words into the

last line that I can

Britain holds her own in speed, Would the adoption of a gold standard prove a sovereign against the world. Even the girls,

are fast, remedy? ;

On Saturday un employee of the establishment of Mr. Ho noted a number of suspicious-looking men faltering about the mill. One of them was questioned and asserted that they were detectives on the alert for a dangerous criminal belleved to be In hiding in the neighbourhod. The employee was dollars, but they certainly knocked not quite convinced, but failed to the stuffing out of the goose that report the matter to his superiors. laid the golden egg,

ato Sunday afternoon, the first

Our sage financiers may have thought it wise to mint per

On the Penk it is quite infra dio, To say that you feel like a

"swig-

You may take the odd spot" And, drink the bally lot, Though not if it's syrup of fig

It will be recalled that before in doing, that, crazy as appear to Hatry was committed for trial he have been my actions in the light made a dramatic statement from | of subsequent developments, I

communication from the kid. It is said that when an Ameri the dock in the course of which he was actuated solely by a desire to

nappers arrived at Mr. Ho's can tourist received change for a A French opera sin "said:

do the right thing, and that my

PRESIDENT HOOVER ISSUES

residence. It was carried to the gold dollar here the other day, he been sent to prison for counter motives were clean and creditable,

· PROCLAMATION. "My name has become

house by a small boy, who stated immediately converted the rest of folling activities which a by.

that he had been given, 10 cents his pocket money and became a proved to have extended word, and when I leave, prison, then I will take whatever punish- whenever that may be, my punishment is in store for me, and

Washington, Jan. 24

to deliver it. The letter, he ex millionaire were many years Evidently the whole ment will begin all over again. shal not complain, ungd

President Hoover hus Isaued

plained, was handed to him on the ODG tenor of his life was base Tabor was to-day found not | Proclamation prohibiting the im

stroet, in the vicinity of the home, A native of Borneo was caughtOD "I do not pretend to be a fool; guilty of being involved in certain portation of parrots, from South of $20 per cent. has been declared in by a man whom he had never seen after twice" escaping from the Today's stray bat from I fully realised all this when I fraudulent transactions, mention America owing to the recent out the case of the Hongicong Develops before Police were notified and House of Detention. He is now belfry "How should one- took the risk, but equally I had od in one of the counts breaks of psittacosis in the United ment, Building and Bevings 804 searched the vicinity for the man, wilder than ever.

listen to a cigar band7/25% every reason to be convinced at Reuter and British Wireless States Router American Service. Ciety, Ltd. (In Hquidation Fall but falled to find him.

It is notified that a third dividend