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CANTON'S LATEST PLANES.

TO TAKE AMMUNITION TO WUCHOW.

THE KWANGSI WAR.

Canton, Aug: 27:

ין - ו

SERIOUS BREACH

OF DUTY.

CHIEF JUSTICE AND ESTATE CASE.

'NO ADMINISTRATION AFTER THIRTY YEARS.

JUDGMENT GIVEN.

The two new fighting aeroplanes which were recently, delivered by an American firm in Hongkong, to the Kwangtung Provincial Govern ment, after having been ordered

The fact that the legal per some time ago by the Kwangsi Icadera, have recently been sonal representatives of Lau officially named by His Excellency. Ping, deceased, appeared to have General Chan Ming-shu, Givil been guilty of several breaches Governor of Kwangtung, one being of duty, namely in the failure to called the Kukkong" and the administer the estate even after

undergone now

MAXIMUM FOR A -SNATCHER.

PRETENDED TO BE MENTALLY DEFICIENT.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS.

On the, appearance of a Chinese, on remand before Mr. Butters at the Central Police Court this mor ning, on n charge of snatching a handbag from Mias S. Remedios in Des Voeux Road, near the Cen- tral Market on Tuesday, the de- fendant was given the maximum months' hard penalty of twelve labour and twenty-four strokes of the birch.

other the "Ying Tack." These 82 years, and the mortgaging of their trial tests and are expected Godown property to secure the but his Worship was told that the

two planes have

to leave for Wuchow to-day or to morrow, carrying heavy loads, of ammunition for the Kwangtung Provincial Air Fleet at present stationed at Wuchow

The machines are 320 hp biplanes, having seating accom- modation for six persons and speed of 150 per hour.

a

am-

con-

Throughout the hearing the de- fendant assumed the demeanour deficient, of a person mentally overdraft of a firm, was

man had only adopted these mented on by the Chief Justice facial expressions since he was (Sir Joseph Kemp) this morning. taken to the Police Station. He He gave judgment in the case was perfectly normal when he where Lau Yick-cheuk, as ad- was arrested and on his way to the ministrator de bonis non of Lau Police Station,

Pin, claimed against Lau Lam-shi, The case, it will be recalled, executrix of Lau Yo-fong, deceas-was adjourned from yesterday ed; a declaration that certain pro- for the evidence of Mr. M. H. A large consignment of munition is being sent to Wuchow,perties formed part of the estate Tong, who had chased and arrest- and the most urgent part of this of Lau Ping, and were bought by ed the defendant, but this morning will be taken by these two planes, the plaintiff and the said Lau Yu-Sub-Inspector MeWalter informed The consignment will consist of fong out of moneys forming part his Worship that Mr. Tong, who was a newcomer. to. the Colony, 400 boxes of 150 lb. bombs, 100 of the said estate.

could not be found as he had been unable to give the police the num boxes of 100 lb. bombs, machine guns. machine gun. ammunition and 500 tins of gasalenc.

ber of his house.

The aeroplanes will remain at Wachow for the present and, together with the rest of the Squadron,will be engaged in carrying out raids on the Kwangsi rebels.

His Lordship suid he was pre- the declaration pared to make asked for, but he thought that Lau Lam-shi acted quite reasonably and properly in defending the action as she had:

Mr. H. G. Sheldon was for the plaintiff and Mr. Eldon Potter, K. C., and Mr. F. C. Jenkin for the defendant.

The Judgment.

The full judgment of His Lord- ship is given below:

An Indian constable was called and he stated that he saw the defendant running along Wing Kat Street with a Chinese in pur-

When the accused suit. caught he was handed over to witness.

Was

When asked if he wanted to make a statement, the defendant i simply denied the charge and said a case of mistaken that it was

and identity. He could not see In this case the plaintiff. Lau knew nothing about the affair.

His Worship registered a Yick-cheuk, as administrator de bonis nou of Lau Ping, deceased, viction and imposed sentence as claims against Lau Lam-shi ex-stated above. ecutrix of Lau Yu Fong, deceas- ed, a declaration that certain pro-

to

I

con-

"The 63rd Division, under General Li Yang-king, has been transferred to Tal Ping by ordera of General Chan Chai-tong, the

¡ of Commander-in-Chicf

the Nationalist forces in South China, This Division is being held in reserve for the present.

Another Division under General Luk Chi-wan, which for some time past has been garrisoning the North River District, is being transferred to Kwangsi to rein-perties, subject to certain exist- Godown property to the Hongkong force the Nationalist forces there. ing encumbrances, form part of and Shanghai Banking Corporation This Division has arrived at Sam

secure the overdraft of the the estate of Lau Ping deceased, Shui, where it is to be inspected and were bought by the plaintiff Kung Yuen firm. to-day by General Luk Chi-wan, after which the troops will embark and the said Lau Yu Fon out of on junke for Si Wui and Kwang moneys forming part of the said Nin on the Kwangtung-Kwangai estate, and were held by them, the frontier and aweit there for plaintiffs, and Lau Yu Fong, as further orders from the Com-administrators of the said estate. mander-in-chief, General Chan

The plaintiff also claims an order for the assignment of the pro- Chai-tong.

of this perties to the plaintiff by the de- The 1st Regiment Division has proceeded direct to fendant. The defendant put the Wait Sap, in eastern Kwangsi, plaintiff to the proof of the above called no evi. where it will co-operate with two allegations. She Divisions of loyal Kwangsi troops dence herself. in attacking a small but active hand of Kwangsi rebels which has been giving considerable trouble in that district for several months.

Our Own Correspondent,

Printed and Published for the Proprietors by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3. Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria Hongkong.

I

wish to say nothing to minimise the gravity of such entail very serious consequences breaches of duty, which might on the legal personal representa- tives of a deceased person, and if the course followed in the case

this

A com- of

estate. is

саве in the mon practice

partnerships of Chinese think that the legal personal a deceased représentatives of partner run a grave risk if they Lau Ping, Yuen Oi-yu, and Lau follow it, as the beneficiaries Ng were partners in the Kung remain entitled to the value of the Yuen firm. Lau Ping died in 1898, share of the deceased partner at leaving four song as his bene- the date of his death, plus either ficiaries, ie. Lau Slu-cheuk (now the profits attributable to the use deceased), Lau Yu-fong, Lau Yick-of his share of the partnership cheuk, and Lau Kwai-cheuk. Lauassets or eight per cent per annum ANOTHER MOTOR BIKE Yu-fong died in 1927 and Lau Yick upon the amount of such share, at

STOLEN.

cheuk is now the sole surviving adoption. This risk is run even if ministrator de bonis non of the the legal personal representatives have acted in perfect good faith. estate of Iau Ping.

POSSIBLY BY GANG OF THIEVES.

The theft of a motor-cycle, the second reported within a few weeks, has suggested to police investiga- tors the possibility that there is in existence in the Colony an organised band of criminals. who specialise in such thefts:

The latest victim is LL. A.H. Musson, whose B.S.A. machine, outside the which he left parked Star Ferry Pier at Kowloon last night, was found to have vanished when he returned to the spot two hours later,

Part of the Estate.

Yuen Oi Yo died in 1911, and Lau Ng. in 1918, Without any

All this does not, however, in authority Lau Ping's, personal re- presentatives allowed his share to my opinion affect my finding that remain in the Kung Yuen firm and all parties intended that all they have never wound up the moneys paid into the Lau Kwong estate, and by this serious breach Yue Tong account should be re- of duty they have rendered them- parded as part of Lau Ping's

estate. selves liable to the beneficiaries, It

on behalf of was argued to whom they may at any time defendant that, though the oral have to account in accordance with evidence may have been to the the principles of section 42 of the above effect, the manner in Partnership Ordinance, 1897.

Firm Reconstituted.

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which the moneys credited to the Lai Kwong Yue Teng were dealt with, and the way in which the In fact and in law the posi- Kung Yuen firin was carried on Cases have been discovered where tion appears to be that the and in which its profits were dis- motor-cycles' and even cars were 6rm

was reconstituted, though tributed, show that those found at Canton, although repaint- not perhaps expressly, on dealing and acting were not acting ed and in other ways having their the death of Lan Ping and on behalf of the estate of Lau original appearance altered. It is thought that a possible line of en quiry may be suggested by these precedents in connexion with the two motor thefts which are now oc- cupying the attention of the po lice.

NOT TO RECOGNISE MARRIAGE.

that his sons

were

It

admitted Ping at all. I cannot agree,

I am therefore prepared to make as partners. Similar reconstitu- tions appear to have taken place the declaration asked for. upon the death of Yuen Di Yu, will, however, be made without Lau Ng, and Lau Yu Fong. The prejudice to any question which Kung Yuen firm has all along been any of the beneficiaries may be carried on as an ordinary Chinese able to raise as to the propriety of the encumbrance subject to partnership.

must be

•

A special account was, how. which the declaration ever; kept under the name of Lau made. Kwong Kue Tong, and this name: Temporary Safeguard. was, I find as a fact, understood

FRIEDRICH DISAPPROVES OF by all parties, including the

SON'S UNION.

parties of the Kung Yuen and the legal personal representatives of Lau Ping, as a name for the estate of Lau Ping:

·

In view, however, of the serious breaches of duty to which I have referred, and to the ignorance of those duties which has been dis- Budapset, Aug. 27.

played, I am not prepared to order Archduke Friedrich announces

I also find as a fact that any the properties to be assigned to that he will be unable to take cox moneys credited to that account the plaintiff without some tempor nizance of the civil marriage in

were so credited with the assentary safeguard. The defendant England of his son, Archduke Al- of the above parties and with the will therefore be ordered to assign brecht of Austria, to. Madame common intention that they should the respective properties in ques Irene Runday, which was conduct be held in trust for the bene- tion to the plaintiff when required ed without his knowledge or ap- ficiaries of that catate. I need by him to do so for the purpose of of the hardly add that. It does not, how the immediate sale proval.

The Archduke declares that un- ever, follow that the assets of Lan respective properties and the der no circumstances will Al-Ping's estate are confined to that plaintiff will be ordered to brecht's wife be recognised as a member of the Archducal family, Renter.

account.

r

Breaches of Duty.::

present defendant.

I think that Lau Lam Shi acted

pay the.. net proceeds of any such sale forthwith inta Court to await any order which may be made in the administration In carrying on the business of action 0. J. action No. 156 of 1930. the Kung Yuen, and in dealing which has been begun by the FINE WEATHER", with the moneys paid into the Lau Kwong Yue Tong account, the The Royal Observatory reports legal personal representatives of quite reasonably, and properly in that pressure is abnormally high Lau Fing, or some of them, sp defonding this action as she did. to the north of Tokyo. Pressure Pear to have been guilty of several therefore think that on the au- gradients are shallow over the breaches of duty, eg the thorities cited on her behalf she China Sea. The local forecast is: failure to administer the estate is entitled to her costs as between even after thirty two years, and solicitor and client, out "of the Light, westerly or variable winds; Ane,

the mortgaging of the Yuen Yuen estate.

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