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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1930.

RED FORCES BEING HOOLIGANISM AT A SICK MAN CAUSES

SCATTERED.

THEATRE.

ACTIVITY OF GOVERNMENT HAMMER ATTACK ON PO HING

! TROOPS.

SWATOW ANXIETY.

GATEKEEPER.

BENCH DETERMINED.

Swatow, May 28.

That he would try to stop The return of 1 limited number hooliganism at the Po Hing of the 61st Division in the last few Theatre where quite a number of weeks has eased the situation as Chinese have attempted to secure against the communists consi- free admission was the promise made by Mr. Whyte.Smith at the derably.

Kowloon Magistracy this morning when he sentenced a man to six weeks' imprisonment without the option of a fine on a charge of assaulting the gate-keeper of the Theatre.

The reinforcement of the small numbers which were holding Mei- hsien (Kaiyin) produced a feeling of security where previously some thing akin to alarm had been felt In view of the continued activity of the force under Teu 'and Ma.

More recently troops were sent up country from Swabne, to which port they were sent from Canton. These are variously reported to be one or two brigades, and

thes passed rapidly up to the Ng-fa (Choong-lok) region.

Other troops would seem to have been sent up the East River, for Government troops arrived just in time to relieve the important city of Hin-ling. This place is a key point on the road across from the East River to Meihsien and the Chochowfu-Swatow district. The city had already been evacuated

when the troops arrived in the nick of time.

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According to Inspector Marks, the defendant went to the Theatre at 4 p.m. yesterday and tried to secure free admission. He was stopped by the complainant. The accused left and returned at 6 pm. with a hammer and startel assault the complainant. An Indian arrived on the scene and the defendant ran away, to be arrested by Sergent Linden. The hammer had been discarded and could not be found.

His Worship remarked it seemed the usual thing that if a man were not allowed to get into the theatre

ADJOURNMENT.

INDIAN UNREST CONTINUES.

COMMISSION MONEY CASE IN SUMMARY COURT.

15,000 PEOPLE RAID A SALT DEPOT.

WAGES DISPUTED. TROOPS CALLED OUT.

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LONDON'S WORST ROAD : TOLL.

THREE HUNDRED DEAD IN

THREE MONTHS.

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A TRAGIC MAP.

Peshawar, June 1. The appalling toll of life and The case concerning a claim

Seven were killed and 9 wound-imb that street traffic takes of for chuc tin moucy was agained when police and military ware London's citizens is growing to before the Puisne Judge (Mr. compelled to fire on a mob which terrible proportions and the quar- Justice Wood) in the Summary attacked them, as a sequel to the terly report on street accidenta Court this morning, when the case rifle, whereby

accidental discharge of a soldier's will show an increase of, roughly, A woman was 25 per cent. over the figures for for the defence was opened. The wounded and her two children the corresponding three months

last year. killed.-Reuter. plaintiff, Wong Shung, alias Wong

Raid by 15,000.

Statistics show that 251 people Tung-shun, No. 44, Bonham Strand

were killed in the streets of 'Lon- Bombay, June 1. East, sucs the Kwong Wing

don in January, February, and Fifteen thousand volunteers Cheong Kep firm, No. 17, Wing rushed the police cordon in the March in 1929. Woo Streat, for $554.80, being $550 course of a "final" raid on the balance of chuet tin money due and

Wadala salt depot.

The military were called in, and $4.80 as an allowance for hair-the raiders ware driven back. cutting and shaving. Plaintiff's Twenty-five persons were slightly Injured. A number of arrests case concluded at the last hearing. Include eight. Sikh women, also

Lieut. Col. J. A. A. Pickard, Mr. A. el Arculli is for plaintiff Mrs. Munshi, the wife of the secretary of the National Safety and Mr. F. C. E. Rendall is defend-former Assembly member who was First Association, told a Daily taken into custody earlier.-Router. Chronicle representative that ap ing.

Later. parently 1930 would set up a new A number of the raiders aut-record of casualties. In opening his defence, Mr. Rendall pointed out that the firm ceeded in securing quantities of was one of some substance, with salt.

The raiders were called off at 11 the head office in Hongkong and

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It is estimated by Scotland Yard that the figure for the first quarter of this year will be ́at least $20. That is the worst -record in our history of traffle

tragedies.

Swelling the Death Stream.

New motor vehicles are coming

before the advancing Communists free he went away and returned branches at Penang and Canton.fp.m. by a buglecall sounded by on to the roads at the rate of thou-

The detachment sent up from Swabue has checked the increasing activity of the Communists who have been alternately threatening

yang.

with a weapon.

not very serious.

Inspector Marks intimated that the injury was The man was taken to Hospital but not detained.

Chang-lok and the borders of Kit-Worship asked what kind of an act Addressing the defendant his When, however, all this scatter- it was to force, his way into à ed activity of the meagre Gavern. theatre with a hammer." ment forces has been chronicled the fact remains that the Com munists hold the same area that they did before. All that has been done is to hold them off whatsary. from, a Government point of view are more important districts.

The defendant denied that he had a hammer and in reply to a further question said that he did not know that a ticket was neces

His Worship replied that a ticket was always necessary when a per- son went into a place of entertain- ment.

The force under Tau and Mo which has gained 50 much notoriety since its successes in the province of Kiangsi a month or In passing sentence of six weeks' two ago is not far away. It is now hard labour his Worship said that reported to be within a day or he would have to try to stop such two'a march of Methsien. To-hooliganism,

wards what outlet it will turn next

is not clear. Possibly it is wait- ing on the movements of the Kwangsi armies of Chang Fat- kwai.

CAR RIDE WITH COLONEL.

OF STRUGGLE.....

Extraordinary allegations against Lieut.-Col. Henry D'Oyley, of Churchill-road. Boscombe, were made by his companion-secretary, Miss Ethel Barton, at Bourne mouth Police Court.

Forty arrests were effected, and include eleven women.—Reuter,

They were engaged in the export Congress members. trade of marine delicacies. In Hongkong the business last year

Salt Raid Repulsed., mounted to something over one lakh. At the beginning of the

Dharasana, June 1. last Chinese year the business was Mounted and foot police have Lin was appointed manager of the Gandhi's followers, 106 of whom re-organised, and a man named Lo repulsed a determined salt raid by Hogkong branch.

were injured.-Reuler.

On the re-organisation it was

Volunteer Camp Seized. decided that instead of the com- mission money, cheut tin, being

Vederanyam, May 31. paid yearly to employees, this The Madras police have taken should be dispensed with and possession of Satyagraha's camp wages should be increased to al-and arrested 130 volunteers and all the inmates of the central most double.

acamp.-Reuter:

More Communal Outbreaks.

Dacca, June 1.

sands a week to swell the death- dealing stream in London's crowded streets, and a very large proportion of the 2,000,000 vehicles that it is estimated will ' be on the roads this year will be registered in London.

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It is difficult to assign any rea- son for the increase in accidents this year. It may be that with less wintry weather more mo- torists kept their cars on the roads instead of laying them up for the winter. It will be

remembered

during the early months of last that conditions of ice prevailed

year, and there was noticeably fewer cars about.

accidents are due to the human element on the part of pedestrians and motorists.

Plaintiff was engaged at

a month and not salary of $80 $100 as he had stated, and there was never any agreement between

The Human Element. In view of the recrudescence of plaintiff and Lo Lin with regard to cheut tin money.

communal outbreaks many Hindus

The National Safety First As- Witnesses for the defence would are departing in a state of panic.sociation has made

1. careful say that the document produced The Hindu shops have not been analysis of the statistics, and this by plaintiff, did not bear Lo Lin's opened despite the efforts of the has revealed that 83 per cent. vf.

peace committee.--Reuter. signature and that the chop wag These cutbreaks began on May the correspondence chap and was 26, following a Moslem lad being not the chop that would have been hit while playing with some Hindu affixed to

Scotland Yard keeps a watchful the document. Mr.lads. In the first riot thirty. In-

of London Rendall added that Lo Lin was dians were injured and sent to where the traffic is densest. A

eye on the sections sick and could not therefore be Hospital, where, six died. To pre- giant map that has been made called.

serve the peace, armoured cars An accountant employed by de- patrolled the city. The disorders showing the greatest casualty fendant firm stated that plaintiff's continuing, such a serious situation areas is a maze of little crosses, wages were $80 a month. Plain- was caused that the local au- each one of which marks the site tiff was not entitled to chuet tin thorities wired to the Viceroy for of someone's death. money because when wages were adequate police, "so that the people increased that payment was dismay feel that they are living under pensed with, which was before British rule."]

The victory of the provincial troops in Kwangsi seems to have been sufficient to relieve the threat WOMAN SECRETARY'S STORY along the West River, but it has not broken the enemy. The fron- tier along south-west Kwangsi has been for the time being cleared of the enemy. It is reported, how- ever, that his return from the north part of the province into the north-western borders of Kwang- tung is feared, and dispositions are being made on the North River to

Miss Barton summoned the withstand a possible attack. It is colonel for common assault and always possible that the elusive applied for an adjournment. Obtion of the firm. Ironsides may find allies in the Communist bands that so long jecting to the application, Mr. C. have been moving freely in the Kemp, Colonel D'Oyley's solicitor, provincial borders.

suggested that there was a strong clement of blackmail in the case.

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Much desire is expressed around Swatow for a return of the 61st

The magistrates decided that the Division in strength, and its pos-

case was not proved, and dismiss sible diversion to other parts ised the summons. watched with some anxiety. Purt of IL

reported

Tea in the Car. to have been drafted to the North Miss Barton said that on April River. The proposed sending 22 she went for a drive with the men in substantial num-colonel in his car. Near Christ- bers to the war in the North will church they stopped, and the inevitably weaken the province's colonel made tea. resistance to the enemies on its

of

plaintiff joined the firm. None of the employees had received that| commission since the re-organisa-

The case was adjourned sine lie to enable Mr. Rendall to call Lo Lin when he is well again.

QUEEN'S THEATRE,

"PUTTING ON THE RITZ"

NOW SHOWING.

The picture-goer will find much enjoyment in "Putting on the Ritz" which has been advertised for Captain Roger L'Estrange Mur- some time past and which was ray Rede, who died at Cagnes-sur-screened for the first time at the Mer, had expressed a desire to be Queen's Theatre yesterday. buried at sea. His wish was The film combines the best that carried out. Covered with a has so far been available in the Union Jack, the coffin was development of the talkies with the taken on board H.M.S. Resolution, drama of the stage, the whole be- his old ship, at Golfe Juan. ing varied by song and dance hits, The vessel. immediately put which leave a deep impresion to sea and the body WAS com-with the audience. It is voted one

borders, though it is clear that the She refused a cup, and there-mitted to the deep at a distance of the best of its kind since the needs of the Government in the upon, she alleged, he became of 10 miles from the shore, in the advent of the talkies and should Northern war are urgent, and abusive and used horrible lan presence of the crew, the British by no means be missed, make a strong claim-Our Own | guage.

Consul and the chief of police ati "Putting on the Ritz" is being Correspondent.

He struck her twice with a small Nice.

shown until Thursday. portable table and threw a kettle of boiling water over her clothes. "I struggled to get out of the car," she added, “and I broke the

BRANDMAN'S UNIQUE

FEAT.

SCORES THOUSAND RUNS IN side curtain."

MONTH OF MAY.

The phenomenal batting of Don Bradman, the young Australian bats- man, who is touring England with the Southerners, has even at this early stage created a record for an Australian in that he is the first player to score 1,000 rurs in May and thus joins the select quartette of English players who have performed a similar feat.

Bradman had amassed 954 runs

Later they drove on, and the colonel held her down with one arm and drove with the other.

She broke the windscreen with her foot and eventually went home in a passing car.

Her Real Name.

Cross-examined, Miss Barton. said her real name was Ethel Ifron, and that she was the

in the first nine matches, in a number | daughter of a Russian Jew.

of which he had only batted once, and it was felt that unless the Australians batted first on Saturday in their match against Hampshire at Southampton, Bradman would be deprived of a dis. tinction which has not been held by an Australian tourist before.

She

denied that she wanted anything to settle the matter, and alleged that the colonel made an offer of £50, which she refused.

Dr. E. Grant, of Boscombe, said Hampshire, as luck would have it that, on the evening of the alleged won the toss and elected to take assault Miss Barton visited him. first knock. C. V. Grimmett, ver. Her only injury was however,

a small came to the rescue and quickly dis- abrasion on one finger. missed the home players, whose tota! Colonel D'Oyley said that Miss reached 151 runs. The South Au- Barton refused to take tea, and stralian captured seven wickets for that she behaved childishly. She 89 runa thus bringing his total of wickats taken during the season to shrieked when he pushed her on the arm and asked her to put the

When the Australians wont in to tea things away.

bat Bradman quickly got set and was Later she became violent again. soon within eight of his coveted He had to hold her, he said, to 1,000 runa. When

play had finished for the day he had collected 47 russ

prevent her injuring herself. The

to bring his total in May to 1,001. 250 suggestion, he alleged, came

He is not out and when stumps were

drawn the Australians' total stood at him.

83 rune for the loss of two wickets. Walter Charles Wilson,

In scoring 1,001 runs in the month Christchurch, said the colonel's

from Miss Barton and not from

of

QHT SEA CERVICS MIC

COM-

"Hello, I want to give the census didn't get."

man some names he

of May. Bradman is the first All car stopped near where he was stralian to achieve the distinction and Joins Hayward, Grace, Hammond cycling. Miss Barton got out.

and Hallows, who are the only

She made no complaint, but the players to have previously performed colonel. complained of her a similar font.

duet,

The death map shows that Char- ing Cross is the worst spot in Lon- don, with a death rate of nine per- sons per furlong. It is followed closely by Newington Butts, with 7.5 per furlong, and High-street, Camden Town, with 7.3.

Year by year the figures, go up. In 1920 there were 638 deaths. The figure rose to 1,003 in 1926, and 1,362 in 1929.

THE B.B.C. OF THE TELEPHONES,

PLAN FOR NEW CONTROL BOARD,

A-scheme for the 'creation of a Board, to which the telephone new statutory body, the Telephone system could be transferred, was launched by the Telephone Deve- lopment Association:

The present ground of complaint by this body is that the system is wrong, and that this is partly due to political control, but mainly to a "strangle-hold," which, it is claimed, is put on our telephone system by the Treasury,

Mr. H. E. Powell-Jones, secre- tary and director of the associa- tion, in a communication says that nine countries are ahead of us in telephone density,

Among cities of the world with a higher density than London

are:

Adelaide, Paris, Havana, Berlin, Copenhagen, Auckland,

Helsingfors, Oslo,. Stockholm, Geneva, "The basic fault is the Treasury stranglehold," he says,

Money available for develop- ment of the service, year by year, depends not on its needs, but on arbitrary, decisions of the Trea- sury from which there is no appeal.

An explanation of the new scheme put forward by the associa- tion is contained in a booklet Issued.

The proposed new board would work on similar lines to the Port of London Authority or the B.B.C. Points in the scheme include: Transfer of entire present per- sonnel to the T.C.B.

System to be run as a comercial concern to give maximum service.

Development by loan fotations, stock to be listed as a trustee security.

Provision to be made for com pensation to Parliament for -loss-

of annual revenue.

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