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HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.

FOOTBALLER SENT

TO PRISON,

SNATCHED GOLD CHAIN FROM

CHINESE LADY.

GOLD STANDARD ADVOCATED.

RECOMMENDATION OF THE LEAGUE COMMITTEE.

BIRCHING ORDERED CHINA'S CURRENCY.

A South China footballer, who was stated to have played for the Association during the past sea- son, appeared before Mr. Lindaell at the Central Police Court this morning on a charge of snatching a gold chain from a Chinese lady outside the Taiping Theatre, West | Point, on the 14th inst.

Geneva, Sept. 23.

KOWLOON LOTTERY

PROSECUTION.

FATHER AND SON 'FINED FOR ORGANISING.

JEWELLERY PRIZES.

Mr. F. Ritchie and Mr. M. Rit- The effect of a probable de chle, father and son, were sum- crease of the world's gold produe moned before Mr. H. R. Butters, tion upon commodity price levels at the Kowloon Magistracy this is the subject of an interim re-morning, the first-named with hav- port by the gold delegation of the ing, between August 1 and Sep- Lengue of Nations Financial Com-tember 15, at Kowloon, unlawfully mittee."

written, printed or caused to be

It estimates that the gold pro- written or published, an announce- The defendant, Tae Klu-shun, duction in 1930 will be of a value ment relating to a lottery of jewel- was alleged to have stolen a gold of £80,800,000, but will decline an-lery prizes to be drawn in Decem- neck chain from Mrs. Tang Miu-nually to £74,000,000 by 1940.ber, 1930, and the second-named hing, the wife of the manager of after which the decline will pro- with having unlawfully announced! the Taiping Theatre, as she was bably be accelerated as the South the above lottery at the Russlan leaving the premises in a motor African mines arc gradually Club in Salisbury Avenue.

exhausted,

car..

situation."

Both defendants pleaded guilty It considers that the Detective Sergeant Clark told

present to the respective charges. his Worship that the complainant economic depression may result in the weakening of the Indian de-

Detective Sergeant Poyhtz sald was leaving the Theatre in a mo-mund for golu, though the decline that this lottery was different tor car and was sitting in the cen-in the price of silver may lead to from a raffle, because the prizes tre of the back seat together with increased purchases of gold. It In question did not exist, Thero two children and a servant. The also alludes to the possibility of were altogether to be 170 prizes, car had just started to move and China employing gold for car and the first defendant had said was gathering speed when the de-rency purposes owing to the silver that he had not bought the jewel- fendant rushed up behind and,

lery as yet but that the amount outting his hand through the open- ing at the

for the jewellery would amount to back of the hood. snatched the gold chain from the

less than the tickets sold, thereby enabling the defendant to get a complainant's neck. The thie! got away and no report of the While it welcomes the discon-profit out of the lottery. The first incident was made to the police nuance of gold rain fe domestic defendant had also told him that until they later received infoma-currency it recommends an inter-he (the defendant) had run a simi- tion of the affair and had the de-national agreement for lowering The D. S. P., K., (Mr. Burling- lar lottery some time last year,

fendant arrested...

the legal minimum of gold gover against notes, together with a gon-ham), did not want a serious view certed sound currency policy, an taken of the case, because it was the adoption of a gold standard by the first of its kind, and the de- countries which have not yet fendants were prepared to re- stabilised their currency-Reuter fund the money already collected.

The defendant continued the officer. had played football for South China and his previous character was very good. He told the 'police that he would turn over a new leaf after the present] · cuse had finished,

The report foreshadows a peri- situation when trade revivas unless timely measures be taken.

NO NEWS OF JAI'ANESE FISHERMEN.

The lottery, however, sald the Sergeant, was illegal and a fine would be sufficient as a warning to the defendants. The first de- fendant had been a resident in Hongkong for the last 13 years and he (the Sergeant) was informed

ing the war. employed in the Police Reserve.

His Worship remarked that it was a very serious thing to snatch from women and children and he could not possibly overlook it.

The defendant was sentenced to MEN FROM IRUKI MARU ARE that the defendant had been, dur-

nine months' hard, labour and

wenty strokes of the birch,

DRUG TRAFFIĆ AND

THE LEAGUE.

CHINESE REASON FOR NOT

SIGNING CONVENTION. ·

Geneva, Sept. 24. Before the League Committee discussing the drug traffic, the Indian delegate stated that the eultivation of the poppy and the consumption of opium in India had decreased considerably.

STILL MISSING.

It is now almost a fortnight since fourteen members of the crew of eighteen of the Japanese fishing trawler Ibuki Maru set out on two rafts with the hope of reaching safety, rather than re main on the vessel on the chance of being picked up by passing craft after she had struck a reef in Hainan Straits.

other, men had been seen.

A fine of $10 each was imposed.

RECITAL BY JOVITA FUENTES.

SINGER'S BIG-SUCCESS, IN MANILA.

Manila papera give enthusiastic reports of the return to her na tive land of Jovita Fuentes, the Filipino prima donna who has ap

with much peared

Buccess in

at the

It will be recalled that four men, the master, chief officer, en- gineer and the wireless operator, were rescued and brought back to the Colony ever a week ago. A few days Inter, three men were re- Heported to have reached Hoihow, arged that measures should be with the story that no sign of the Europe and America, and is now on a Far Eastern tour under the the manufacturing adopted in countries against the illicit traffic

direction of Mr. A. Strok. The in drugs, and expressed concern Company, have made repeated Hongkong next month,

The local agents, the Horal singer is to give one récital in over the development of manufac- ture in countries not belonging to efforts to locate the missing men. Theatre Royal, and local musle- but so far they have been un-lovers will be interested in the the League of Nations,

Mr. Chao-chu Wu said that successful, and little hope is now triumphal appearances she has made in the Philippines, as, pro- China had not ratified the Geneva entertained for their safety. Convention because she regarded

The Karumo Maru, another fish-mising great things for Hongkong. it as, in some respects, retrograde, ing trawler, left Hongkong just He proposed that all States be over a week ago with the express asked to investigate the problem purpose of attempting to find these men, but up to now no news of in their own territories.

Mrs. Hamilton (Great Britain; success has been received in the gave an assurance of whole-Colony, hearted British co-operation in the conference on limitation of the drug traffic, as the first practical step towards a solution of the problem involved.---Reuter,

BRITISH MANDATES

DISCUSSED.

GERMANY'S INTEREST IN

TANGANYIKA.

Zealand and -South

WORLD DEPRESSION

ENQUIRY.

At the Grand Opera House in Manila the vocalist appears to have scored with a variety of songs, indicating a very wide range of her powers. On her first! with appearance she opened Beethoven's "Ah, Perfidio," and conveyed perfectly the different moods of this composition. Pieces from Schumann, Schubert and Brahms followed, as well as the two arias from "Madame Butter-

LEAGUE'S ENDORSEMENT OF By." Afterwards she gave some

:

INVESTIGATION..

Geneva, Sept. 23,

Filipino folk and other songs, and compositions of Strauss, Debussy and several Italian songs, in all of which she is reported to have pleased greatly.

The Economic Committee of the League has eventually agreed to

Jovita Fuentes is to appear in an Indian proposal for a scientific enquiry into the causes of the Hongkong on October 13. Book- present agricultural and induxing for her recital will open at

Moutrie's on September 29. trial depression.-Reuter.

"

THEFT OF WOMAN'S PROPERTY.

Geneva, Sept. 23. The Sixth Committee of the League has satisfactorily disposed An earlier message stated: of the work of the Permanent

Geneva, Sept. 23. Mandates Commission, after

Objections to the proposal for speeches by representatives of preferential treatment of European Australia, Great Britain, New grown cereals in European marketa Africa, were voiced at the second committee dwelling on the difficulties of the meeting of the League in the course administration of their mandates.of a discussion of the most favour- ONE MAN DISCHARGED AND

Lord Buxton, for Great Britain,ed nation clause by Mr. Riddell of

OTHER SENTENCED.. said that no decision would be

Canada and Miss Susan Lawrence taken as regards the scheme to of Great Britain, who pointed out

The evidence of the police inter- form an administrative union of that the proposal did not harmonise preter of the Yaumati Police Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya with the League's past pronounce Station was taken by Mr. Buttera without consulting the Mandatesmenta and was calculated to closes at the Kowloon Magistracy this: Commission.

important markets to products from morning in the case in which two Herr Koch Weser (Germany) oversea countries. They argued Chinese, Tse Kui and Leung Chiu, reminded the Commission that the also that it was tantamount to the were charged yesterday with the Tanganyika mandate should be considered as

abandonment of the most favoured larceny of a married woman's pro an independent nation clause.

perty to the value of $118 from 5, unit.

Tong Mei Road, Kowloon, on September 21.

Miss Lawrence appealed to the The French and Italian re- presentatives offered their con- Committee to support the Indian gratulations on the improvement proposal for an enquiry into agri- in Palestine.-Rcuter.

cultural and industrial depression -Reuter.

I

· SUICIDE VERDICT.

BUSINESS LOSS HELD RESPONSIBLE.

Shanghai, Sept. 23.

At the inquest held on the body of Herr Schlettwein, the German merchant, who was found dead at

The statement of the first de- fendant as read out by the inter- preter was:"I went with two men to steal, and one of them gave me a purse and I handed it over to the

JACK DIAMOND GETS other man who later gave it back

to me with no money in it."

· ́· RELEASE,

The statement of the second de fendant,read: "I was asleep there and I saw them go in to steal.”: I walted there until they stole some. things and came out. Then I rán away."

BUT ORDERED TO LEAVE

PHILADELPHIA.";

Philadelphia, Sept. 23. The gangster leader, Jack Dia- his residence yesterday, shot mond, who returned from Europe through the head, the jury and was arrested hero has been re- brought in a verdict of suicide due leased but has been ordered to quit to worry over business losses. Philadelphia immediately Reuter's tenced to six monthe" "imprison- Our Own Correspondent.

American Service?

Mr. Buttera, remarking that there was no case against the rec- ond defendant, discharged him.

The first defendant was sen-.

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