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DISPUTED LAND CLAIM.

SAME PARTIES AS RECENT LOAN ACTION.

TERMS OF A WILL.

An action between two parties who were both defendants in the

NEWSPAPER OWNER KIDNAPPED.

DARING COUP BY GANG IN SHANGHAI.

RELEASE SECURED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1930.

COUNTY CRICKET -

MATCHES.

(Continued from Page 1.)

cester batted first to make 144, Sinfield taking five for 60. Glou- cester piled up 355 to take a com- manding lead, Geary taking five for 57. Coleman came to Leices- ter's rescue in the second lanings and played a fine innings to add 144 to the score before his wicket was taken. Leicester's total was 239.

Shanghai, Aug. 16. Acting on information given by $50,000 loan case, in which the a 12-year old boy who had been fast second defendant becomes plain-asleep in the car when kidnappers In their second knock Gloucester

early yesterday morning carried off made 50 for two wickets. Mr. Wong Poh-wel, proprietor of the Eastern Times and well-known

tiff and the first defendant appears as defendant, was com menced in the Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp). It is expect ed to last for several days and is of a complicated nature.

Yorkshire v. Notts.

SOVIET'S WAIFS AND STRAYS

APPEAL FOR HELP BY

LENIN'S WIDOW.

EVIL TOLERATED. ·

On the pages of the leading educational monthly. "Na Putisch Novol Shkole" (On the way to a new school), Lenin's widow, Mme. N. K Krupskaja, has published an article which gives us an idea of the awful position in which the children of kulaks and those who have been deprived of their voting rights in the U.S.S.R. are at pre- sent:

FIGHTING FOR AN EARLDOM.

PENSIONER'S STORY OF HIS ANCESTORS.

EGMONT SUCESSION.

A retired optician, and old age pensioner, told a romantic story in the 'Chancery Division when Mr. Justice Eve had before him two summonses raising the ques- tion of the succession to the settl- ed estates of the Earldom Egmont, which has been before a Master in Chambers.

of

Mr. Frederick Joseph Trevelyan Perceval, a former rancher da Alberta, took up residence at Avon Castle, Ringwood, Harap- shire, last year, with his 15-year- old son, and he claims to be the 10th Earl Another former claim- ant to the estates was William Perceval, baker, of Birkbeck-road, Hornsey, London, but he was not before the Court.

property owner, the Water Police Yorkshire had the worst of luck searched the boat on. Saochow at Bradford, being robbed of cer- Creek in which the man was detain victory on account of rain. tained shortly after 9 a.m. and ef There was no play at all to-day "In fighting against the kulaks," The plaintiff is Lau Yick-cheuk, fected his release, Three Chi- when Yorkshire were in a most writes Mme. Krupskaja, we have administrator of the estate of Lau nese were arrested and will be commanding position. Notting quite forgotten their children, and Ping, deceased, No. 58, Kennedy charged in connexion with the hamshire batted

first and were it is most necessary that we should Road, and defendant is Lau Lam-kidnapping.

sent back for 153, Macaulay tak- think of them. The kulak has shi, widow, executrix of the estate Mr. Wong Poh-wei had left his ing four for 41. Yorkshire went often, besides his own children, of Lau Yu-fong, her deceased office on Chekiang Road at 12.35 in to pile up a total of 451 for eight fatherless children who have been husband. Plaintiff is claiming yesterday morning, proceeding by wickets at which score they de placed in his care or who have been. (1) a declaration that five pieces the back door which leads out of clared. Mitchell made a fine 176 in his service. Has anyone taken of land on the Praya East

the art department, along an alley-while Percy Holmes lost his wicket an interest in these little ones? 1 Reclamation were bought by

Chekiang when he needed only three more fear not. And what about his own plaintiff and the late Lau Yu-fung, Road where his motor car

way until he reached

was runs for his century. When play children? It often happens that out of money which formed part parked. Employing no chauffeur, ended on Monday night five of the the parents of these children are in of the estate

of Lau Ping. Mr. Wong had engaged the small Nottinghamshire wickets had fal- prison, and the little ones are cast deceased, and were bought and held by them as administrators of boy to look after the vehicle while len in the second innings for only out into the street and left to look

It had been atated that no cer- he was in the building, and set the 37 runs and Yorkshire had every after themselves. Everybody tificate could be found of the rear- the estate of the late Lau Ping. car in motion without awakening chance of winning by an innings. pities these children, wandering riage of Lady Cecil, from whom executrix of the will of Lau Yo./him. He had proceeded only. a/Their victory to-day was frustrat-about in the streets, but nobody he claimed descent, but he had evi fong, execute an assignment of short way along Cheklang Road, in ed by rain. one of the properties to plaintiff the direction of Foochow Road,

(2) An order that defendant, ds

when six men jumped on to the running boards of the car, four of them armed with pistols.

car had

of forcing a win.

Mr. Robert Pownall, of Haydock, Lancashire said he challenged the Master's certificate in dismissing him from the action.

dence of it in a book in the Bri- tish Museum.

.

"I have the particulars here," added Mr. Pownall, "in the diary of the first Earl, who had one son and two daughters.

мон married

dares to shelter them in' their homes, for are they not the children Northants v. Middlesex. as administrator of the late Lau

of-thë kulaks, and who knows what Bright batting by Durston in evil consequences such a rash ac- Ping's estate,

both the Middlesex innings mark-tion might entail?" Defendant asserts that she is

led the match at Lord's where Mid- While, however, Mme. Krupskaja the sole beneficiary as well as the Mr. Wong was hustled out of the dlesex batted first to make 284 clearly defends the small children eolo executrix under the will of driver's seat and the

"In 1736 that runa, of which Durston contributed of the kulaks, at any rate in the Lau Yu-fong and as such bene quickened its pace towards Foo-51. Northants improved on this educational Press, she is more re-Catherine Cecil, second daughter ficlary she is entitled to one chow Road when one of the total by only nine runs and when served as regards the bigger chil- of James Lord Salisbury. Of this fourth share in the estate. She ployees of the "Eastern Times" who Middlesex went in again they de-dren, saying that in this case the union there was born Phillip Tuf- states that although she has happened to be in a neighbouring clared at 259 for nine in the hope question is more complicated, requested plaintiff, as sole aur. tea house which overlooked the road

as ton Perceval, from whom I claim viving administrator, to give her and who had seen everything that not out. The match ended with already had its effect upon them.

Durston was 92 the influence of the parents has descent. information and accounts of the had been done, raiaud an alarm by

ber Married Pretty Actress. administration, and also to trans-blowing a police whistle. The kid-Northants second innings score at Nevertheless, according to fer her share to her, he hasnappers then turned westward down for 1.

idea, it is impossible to let them perish altogether, and it is quite 1740.. At 22 he was in command

"Phillip Tufton was born ⚫ refused to do so. She puts plain- Foochow Road and, proceeding at a Somerset v. Hampshire.

wrong to overestimate the in- tiff to proof of the fact that the high speed, were lost to sight. properties were purchased with The kidnappers became aware of Portsmouth when

There was some high scoring at fluence of the parents. It is, thereof the greatest warship of the age. Somerset de-fore, the task of the school and the In 1790 he married Catherine money out of the estate of the the boy's presence when the car clared their first innings at 488 "revolutionary street" to change Hennessey, poor and pretty stopped near the intersection of for nine, Longrigg having scored the idene of these children, and comedienne. The issue of that Ferry and Singapore Roads. Not 153. knowing what else to do with the Arnold making 113. The match being done, as is seen from the mother,

Hampshire replied with 340, she thinks that this is already marriage was Sarah, my grand- youngster, they hailed a ricksha came to an end with Somerset's following letter of a boy:

The Judge: Have you no and instructed the puller to second innings score at 109 for

materials to show when she was born?-Only a book which I saw at the British Museum,

late Lau Ping, and also that encumbrances upon the properties were necessary and justifiable in the administration of the late Lau Ping's estate.

his fare

in

Mr. Pownall handed up a photó- graph of the page of the book.

"I will now tell your lordship where I come in," continued Mr. Pownall. "Sixty-six years ago my father, a poor man, presented me with this book."

Princes and Peasants. The documents explain that Lautake him back to Chekiang four. Ping died in 1898, leaving four Road, paying

"I should not like to be the son him sons, Lau Siu-cheuk, Lau Yu-fong, of 40 cents to

of a merchant; it is far better to do so. The

Glamorgan v. Derby, Lau Yick-cheuk (plaint) and boy, however, rode to Pootoo Road)

be the son of a poor pensant. How Glamorgan had a Lau Kwai-cheuk. The estate was Station where he gave information win at Derby when they had to give up his small shop and to be- comfortable often have I asked my father to at first administered by plaintiff leading eventually to the arrest of thank Turnbull for a respectable come a farmer? and Lau Kwai-cheuk but the latter the gang and the release of their first inning's score. The

And he has died. on December 7, 1911. On victim.

team finally complied with my request. was sent back for 260 runs, of But now I am fatherless, as they August, 1912, letters of adminia-

The three men were taken to Poo-which Turnbull made 135. Derby-took my father away some tration de bonis non to the estate too Road Station and Mr. Wong shire replied with 237, Ryan ták- ago, I do not know where to. I days of Lau Ping were taken out by set at liberty.

Mr. Pownall opened an old and ing six wickets at Lau Yu-fong, who co-operated

a cost of 86 pledge my word that when I am stained volume entitled. "The runs. Going in again Glamorgan grown up I shall belong to the Right Hon, Spencer Perceval," and with plaintiff. Lau Yu-fong, how-

made 213, Mitchell taking half the Communist Party in order earnest- added: "My father said, 'Robert ever, died on September 21, 1927,

wickets for 54. The leaving plaintiff the sole adminis-

task setly and zealously to fulfil the duties when you have the opportunity Derbyshire was much too big and of the proletariat. I shall also do look up the family history. There trator.

the Glamorgan bowlers sent the my best to convert all the children are great titles and estates. The team back for only 71 runs, Ryan to the new form of life." taking six for 27.

Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, Mme. Krupskaja adda to this letter: "The boy asks for nothing. He was the seventh son of Tuf- was my grandfather's brother. How ideas have changed! There was a time when children wanted.

It is further stated that the cro- perty in question was purchased by plaintiff and Lau Yu-fong on August 14, 1912.

CHINESE BANK'S

AFFAIRS.

CANTON BRANCH TO PAY BIG PERCENTAGE.

munists."

ton."

• Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Instructed

Surrey v. Warwick. Surrey got the decision on the by Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, of

A decision of the Canton High first innings at Birmingham when to become princes and princesses; [Spencer Perceval was the Bri- Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, is for plaintiff, while Mr. Eldon Potter Court rules that the Canton branch Warwick batted first to make 243. now they wish to be the children of tlah Prime Minister who was aa- K.C.. together with Mr. F. C.of the Industrial and Commercial Surrey replied with 894, the in- the poorest peasants and

Com-assinated

in the Lobby of the Jenkin, instructed by Mr. A. el Bank, which as previously intimat-nings being marked by a brilliant

House of Commons in 1821.] Arculli, la defending.

ed had to close down due to the batting display by Sandham who

His lordship said Mr. Pownall In opening his case, Mr. Sheldon failure of their head office in Shang-made 204. Warwick made 216 for

had sought to establish a great briefly set out the relationship of that, should pay. from 80% to 90% the loss of only four wickets in

many things which could only be their second knock-Reuter. the parties, and continued that as to their creditors.

established by what he himself said. He thought the Master had come to the right decision in dis- allowing his claim

V.

at

To-Day's Matches. M.C.C. v. Wales at Lord's. Kent v. Northants, at Dover. Hampshire

Yorkshire. Bournemouth. Sussex v. bourne.

Derbyshire v. Gloucestershire at Chesterfield.

Lancashire at East-

far as plaintiff knew defendant The decision was arrived at from had never asked for her share to the Law governing Banking Houses be transferred to her. It was, which states inter alia that a branch however, agreed that her claim ju of a bank in liquidation be inde

pendent from the losses of the head that respect was correct..

Mr. Sheldon went on to deal office as far as the payment of debts with the early history of the land from the branch bank to creditors in question, saying that on June outside the city wherein such 2, 1922, an agreement was entered branch bank is situated are con into between plaintiff and Lau Yu-cerned; and that only and until such

Worcester v. Surrey at Worcester. fong and Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- creditors in the locality of the son and Company, Limited, agents branch bank are paid are outside Somerset v. Middlesex at Taunton. for the owners, for the sale of the creditors entitled to the assets of Glamorgan v. Essex at Swansea, land to plaintiff and Lau Yu-fong. the branch bank. The price to be paid "was $4 per

As a result of this decision Can- square foot and the sum of $30,000 ton depositors may expect early wna paid as a deposit, the balance payments of the greater part of to be paid on September 15, 1922, their deposits within a short time.' and the total purchase price work-Canton, Gazette,

ing out at $368,276,

ONE RUN. SCORED AFTER TEA.

}

With regard to the properties, of which four were grouped into

one, by various assigaments the

STOWAWAY ON A DUTCH SHIP.

three

whole property was vested in the name of Lau Un, which was a fictitious name. After the death

FERRY COXSWAIN CHAGED.

(Continued from Page 1.) asleep again and the next thing he knew was when he felt a bump: and found himself in the water.

CHINESE MURDERS IN U.S.A.

SECRET SOCIETY FEUDS BLAMED.

New York, Aug. 12.

Junk Turns Over. On looking round he found that his junk had capsized, and was floating on the water with her keel, upward. He noticed the green and red light of a vessel which A Chinese has been murdered at was about 10 feet away from New York, another at Chicago, where he was swimming, moving and a third wounded at Minnea- astern, Ife gave.a shout of "Save polis. Life!" and did not see in what The police attribute the crimes direction the launch sailed away. to the resumption of quarrels be- (Continued from Page 1.)

He found the other members of tween secret organisations. They the Australian wickets

crew also floating. in the have effected a number of arrests. had fallen. More rain prevented fur-water and together they kept up a-Indopacifi ther play except for the ten direction the launch sailed away. for help. A minutes as stated above.--Reuter

time and picked up all the crew! A bedroom boy at the Hongkong Australia need only three more except witness's two daughters Club reports to the palice that years of hard-earned money which runs to equal England's total and his nephew.

him Charged with having stowed which was compiled as follows:

Describing the position of his he collected and kept with junk, witness said it was heading was stolen yesterday from a N.E., and that he had his bow drawer in which he had concealed anchor down.

it, the

armount being $801. A fellow-employee is said to be under suspicion.

of Lau Ping and Un Hoi-u, a Court MAN STEALS PASSAGE FROM and British Wireless.

Order was obtained to vest part of

the property in the name of the

administrator of Lau Ping's estate

JAVA.

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and the other part in the admini-away on board the s.s. Tjisandari,

England, 1st Innings. strators of the estate of Un Hol-which came into port yesterday U. The result was that half the from 'Java, Chinese named J. B. Hobbs, c Kippar, b Wall property was vested in plaintiff and Cheung Chung, was find $50, or one H. Sutcliffe, e Oldfield, b Fairfax 161 Lau Yu-fong and the other half was month's imprisonment by Mr. W. W. Whysall, l.b.w., b Wall vested in the executors of Un Hoi- | Whyte Smith at Kowloon this morn-K S. Dulcepsinhji,

However, the Lau Kwong Yu

U.

ing.

Tong wished to purchase the pro-

perty and they did so.

The case is proceeding.

2,050,000 IDLE.

UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASES

· AT HOME.

London, Aug. 19.

b Grimmett

Fairfax,

13

50

A ship's officer said the man was M. Leyland, b Grimmett

W. R. Hammond, & MeCabo found among the steerage passen- R. E. gers a day after the ship left Java. Fairfax

afria Wyatt,

He refused to pay for his ticket and M W. Tate, Bt. also refused to give his name. He

had no money.

b Grimmett

Oldfield,

Oldfield,

H. Larwood, 1.b.w., b Grimmett G. Duckworth, b Fairfax

Another man was also discovered on board the ship. He gave his A. R. Peebles, not out name, but said he had lost his ticket, so he was not being charged."

FAIR WEATHER,

There has been a further in- crease in unemployment during the last fortnight, the total num- ber now being 2,050,000. On

that depressions are August 6 the total number of un- employed was 2,011,000, this being over South-West China and to the

Extras

Total

*constant chorus

was

Didn't See Nime. Cross-examined by Mr. Lo, wit- noss said he had been floating in] 13 the water for about half an hour

Mr. Maurice Marks, of Con- before he was rescued. He

naught-gardens, Muswell Hill N., not aware that the typhoon signal who left £5,292, gave his property 64 was up, and contended that the to his wife, stating she had been water was not very rough, "the best wife and companion" to 19 although it was worse than usual. him and the "best mother on In answer to Mr. Lo, witness earth" to his son (her stepson).

10

3 admitted that he did not see the On her death, after certain be- 10 name of the launch which collided quests, the remainder is to be with his junk, but had only been used for "further research in Fall of wickets: 1 for 68 (Hobbs), the man who rescued him and other their son died at the age of 21. 405 told that she was the Sun Tai by T.B." the disease from which 2 for 97 (Whysali), 3 for 162 (Duleepsinhji), 4 for 190 (Ham-members of his crew. He himself Mr. Charles Hamilton, of High- mand), 5 for 197 (Leyland), 6 for had nothing to say against the street, Evesham, Worcestershire, 307 (Sutcliffe), 7 for 379 (Tate), 8 accused or the Sun Tai at all.

draper and outfitter, of Messrs.

for 879 (Wyatt), 9 for 391 (Dack- The evidence of the sister-in-law Hamilton and Bell, who left of the previous witness and his £48,277, gave £1,500 to his mana-

The Royal Observatory reports worth), 10 for 405 (Larwood); R. W wife, was, also taken this morning.ger Tom Bush Boon, and £1,000 to'

indicated

0.

M.

87 6 08 2 as was that of the master of the his manager, William Thomas

60.2 18 135 junk which rescued the occupants Boulton, for their services in con

Wall Fairfax the first occasion on which the east of Ishigaki. The local fore- Grimmett total had exceeded the total of cast is:South-west winds, mo- McCabe two millions since 1921.-Realcr. derate; fair.

31 9628

22 4401 of the capsized junk.

Horalbrook

15 1 64 The case is proceeding.

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