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MURDER IN NEW TERRITORIES.

STRIKING ADMISSIONS BY WOMAN WITNESS.

CLANSMEN LOOK ON.

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The

* THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17 1930.;

THE “SANNING" IN WARRANT AGAINST TAX ON SPINSTERS TWO ACCIDENTS IN

COLLISION.

SAID TO HAVE SUNK AN ARMED LAUNCH.

BOW BADLY DENTED.

extraordinary

With a big dent in her bow, the stances surrounding the death of river steamer Sanning returned to the Colony last evening after be Choung Pak-yau, aged 63. of

ing involved in a collision with a Sheung Tse Village, Pak Heung launch when she was in the vici- Valley, Au Tan, on September 1.nity of Samahui on her last trip when it is alleged by the Crown. to Wuchow. he was murdered by his wife and Under the command of Capt. daughter-in-law,

farther E. P. Smith the Sanning left elucidated at Taipo Police Court Hongkong on Sunday evening and should have reached Samahui, on yesterday before Mr. E. 1. Wynn Monday. It is stated that when Jones, when the Crown case was he was there, she collided with proceeded with.

and sank another vessel, said to be an armed launch. It la further stated that one man on the launch was drowned as a result of this collision.

were

There are four accused, these being Tang Yung, aged 63, the widow, who is charged with the murder: Cheung Yuk-shun (son). Cheung Yau-luk, Cheung Shin and Cheung Shiu-hing, the last four named being charged with aiding and abetting.

BROKER.

AND BACHELORS.

GARDEN ROAD.

CRIMINAL BREACH OF TRUST GERMANY'S FINANCE REFORM, NO LIGHTS TO MARK HOLE

ALLEGED.

SINGAPORE AFFAIR.

Singapore, Sept. 24.

PROPOSALS.

WIPING OUT DEFICIT.

IN ROAD.

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CONTRACTOR FINED.

Berlin, Sept. 80. * A warrant has been fasued for The Chancellor, Hörr Bruening ing lights to mark an excavation

submitted to the arrest of Mr. W. B. Penmun, has

President in Garden Road, two Europeans the Government's had narrow escapes from serious' a partner in the firm of Rose Hindenburg Macphail and Penman, Ltd., stock financial reform programme to accident, when their cars tripped and share brokers, of Singapore,cover the budget defelt of 37. over the hole on the evening of The charge is one of alleged 500,000 due to unemployment and September 23. criminal breach of trust and the the decline in revenues, and to amount involved is believed to prevent a further deficit in the

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coming year.

It is anticipated that the Reich-feet across, and over four, feet stag which is to meet on October deep, while proceeding up Garden 13 will reject the programme and Road. The result was that his that President Hindenburg will steering, gear was damaged and authorise the Government to the two doors were torn away. legalise it and adjourn Parliament until the Spring.--Router.

The caso was brought to the notice of Mr. Lindsell at the Cen- exceed $10,000.

tral Magistracy this morning, Very little information, was

It is understood forthcoming in response to in- salaries of the members of the Landale St. was summoned in this that the when Kin. Lee, a contractor of 12, quiries made this morning, but the Cabinet will be reduced by 20 respect. He stated

that he in- development follows closely upon per cent, the salaries of all State structed a watchmen to put up the several meetings of shareholders officials, six per cent, the employ-lights, which were subsequently and directors called to consider ment insurance tax increased by stolen. the position of the Rose, Macphail two per cent to six and a half per Chief Inspector P. Grant" said and Penman, Ltd, und decide upon cent, spinsters will probably

be that Lt, W. Tigha, of H.M.S. the future of the firm.

taxed, and the expenditure of gov- Tamar, driving a Studebaker two- Seen by a representative of the The present charge against Mr.ernment departments reduced by sester, No. 2291, went into the Telegraph this morning on board Penman is understood to relate to £8,000,000.

hole, a large one, measuring five the Sanning, which is at present a number of rubber shares pur at her wharf in Connaught Road, I chased through the firm of which Mr. L. R. Andrewes is conduct-Capt. Smith explained that owing he was a partner and a director to the nature of the affair, he by a Malacca client at various ing the case for the Crown and

could not say very much on the dates in January and March of accused are undefended.

subject. Ho confirmed the report this year. When Fun Chiu-ling continued that the ship had been in colli- According to the information laid,

Soon afterwards he (Mr. Grant), met with a similar disaster, in her evidence yesterday. Mr. An-

sion, but further than that, heit is alleged that the purchaser left

swerving to make room for two. drewes asked permission to treat

sald, he was sorry he could not blank, transfer forms, duly signed, her as a hostile witness on the

The Government's financial pro- cars coming down the slope. He throw any more light on it.

in Mr. Penman's personal custody ground that her evidence did not

Before dismissing the subject, and that the latter committed crim-posals have been published and gen-falso fell into the hole, and the tally with previous statements to

brench of trust

orally they follow the forecast front wheel and the near in xe- the police. His Worship gave

Capt. Smith said that the colll-inal

wheel were damaged. He manag permission and Mfr. Andrewession occurred at night. As a respect of these shares by converting cabled earlier.

Departmental expenditure is to ed to extricate himself and found questioned witness as to how she sult of an examination he carried them with the P. and O. Banking

Corporation against an overdraft,be reduced by £15,000,000, there will Lt. Tigha near-by standing by could reconcile the discrepancies. out after the mishap. he did not The discrepancies are stated to be a surtax of five per cent, on the his damaged car

think it advisable to continue to

A fine of $25 was indicted. Wuchow, as the ship had a big have been discovered by the incomes of bachelors and spinsters, were while an increased tobacco tax to turned the vessel's head for long- affairs of dent in her bows. He accordingly chartered accountants who

appointed to investigate the be imposed is expected to furnish an kong and steamed back as quick-and Penman. Ltd., subsequent

Rose,' Macphail additional £8,000,000,-Reuter."-

ly as he could,

a meeting held on Aug. Asked if he had any difficulty 10 to consider the company's finan in taking the ship back, Capt. cial position. Smith smilingly said he had to So far as can be ascertained. Mr. perform "all sorts of mental Penman has not been seen in Singa- Kymnastics," before he got her pore for over, a fortnight and the tied up to the wharf last evening.information on which the warrant

Assisted in Attack.

Witness then admitted that in the course of an incident during the morning the deceased took her trousers down. She went on to say that at about five o'clock first accused told her she intended to go down and deal with her husband, and invited witness to go with her. They weat down- stain and first accused enterei the room where her husband was. witting on a stool with his back towards them. First accused picked up a piece of hambao pole, about five feet long, from behind the door, and attacked her hús- band with it, striking him several times over the head, after which he fell off the stool.

Witness went into an adjoining Juom in which beancurd WON made and picked up a piece of split-pine firewood, about 14 ins. long and dins, in diameter, this piece of wood being fairly heavy. Then they drugged deceased to the front of the house and struck him until his cries, ceased. Chong was still alive

ther, according to the witness, sù she obtained a plece of rope which she tied round the old man's neck.

Between them (first accused and witness) they strangled him to

death.

Buried by Clansmen,

Deceased's wife then called on clansmen who had gathered round to carry the body away and bury it which they did. Witness ther returned to her own house.

The next witness was Cheung Wan, a 13-years-old boy, who was reprimanded by the, Magistrate several times for telling untruths. It was noticeable the 'boy kept on looking at first accused when questions were asked, in order. it would seem, to get un indica- tion of what answer to give.

He stated that he lived in an unnumbered house in the village and looked after cows. On the morning of September 1, at about eleven o'clock, he was in his father's house, there being also present his father, first accused, second accused and some, clans-

men.

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It is understood that the San-was issued was laid late yesterday. ning will have to go into dock for The police authorities at Penang repairs because, as Capt. Smith have been notified of the issue of explained, although the dent does the warrant.-Straits Times. not appear to be very serious, a great deal of work will be re- quired to have the plates straigh- tened out again. The ship will probably have to be in dock for quite a long time.

MAJOR IN A HEROIN CHARGE.

ROMANTIC CRAFT: THREATENED.

SAILS OUSTED BY OIL ON THE THAMES.

A FORMER DOCTOR'S DRUG IRON REPLACES WOOD.

CONVICTION.

What the felucca is to the Nile or the junk to the busy waters of

Later.

YOU CANNOT TEACH YOUR WIFE.

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CANTON AFFAIRS

OUTLINED.

THREE AERIAL SERVICES

PROPOSED.

'Canton, Sept. 300

At the weekly memorial service held at the Provincial Government office on Monday, Commissioner Hau Hsung-ching, of the Depart- ment of Civil Affairs, described the outlook of the present war thus as being in favour of the Government force on all fronts. He referred to the death of President Tan Yen kai of the Executive Yuan as a great loss to both the National Govern- ment and the country.

Which is all very well. But WHAMPOA PORT PLAN. have yet to meet the husband who could speak calmly when his wife, overcome by some mysterious and irresistible fascination, steera dead for the front wheels of a three-ton lorry laden with bricks. Now, I don't know whether you have noticed it, but all these things which a husband cannot do are related in one definite respect. In each case, if the man is to make a success of the job he has got to be boss. On the tennis court, on the dance floor, at the card tables, or on the road, he must assume the initiative and the control. And his wife simply isn't going to have it, so there you are.

It may seem discouraging, par-

Major Geoffrey Bradford Wil-Shanghai, so is the Thames bargeticularly to the young married

to London, part of the landscape

mer, otherwise Melville, who was arrested at Northampton, appeared at Maidenhead on a charge of being in possession of 16 grains A warrant for his arrest was issued at Maidenhead last Decem-

of heroin.

of the river, writes "A. B." in the man, to think that he will not be Morning Post. The low gunwales the woman he loves into his hours able to carry the partnership with scarcely rising above the water, of relaxation, but life is like that. the broad deck, overshadowed by an ample russet sail-the primeval And to cheer him up i will let him into a great secret. It is this: barge has been in the estuary for when you see a couple who, admit frankly that they cannot do any thing which must continue for of these things together, then you

can be quite certain that two people are ideally happy.

Successful marriage, after all, is largely a matter of common sense, and the surest sign that man is blessed with this his

ber, following the conviction of a centuries, and, seems a static. man who was formerly a doctor for offences under the Dangerous ever. Drugs Act. It was then alleged that the drugs for which prescrip- tions had been given were supplied to a man named Major Wilmer, or

Yct we may not sce

that.

those

romantic shape tacking down on the ebb very much longer. Añ- other fifteen, twenty-five years, perhaps, and the sailing barge Chlef Inspector Protero, of may be a curiosity, even as the Scotland Yard, said that when spars of a barque lifting above admission that he knows his own Wilmer was arrested at the rail-the warehouses of the docks ha elimitations.

Melville.

way station he said he was going

become a curiosity.

Red sails cannot stand against

to London to see his solicitor be- fore surrendering to the police. the perfection of the times, and Wilmer: I have been in a nurs- the oil engine, odoriferous and ing home in London under a very disinheriting. must ultimately eminent specialist for the past have its way. Already the barge month. I left that place a week has suffered one major change ago and I went to the country in from progress; iron has supplant a very abnormal state of mind and ed wood. Not many hulls that a very bad physical state of body, leave the Thames yards now are I went to try to fight it out with built of seasoned planks such as myself, and with the help of a very gave service often for fifty and kind and dear friend I think I won sixty years. Will the new flotillas my battle.

of ironsides last" so long?

Wilmer was remanded' in cus- tody.

The deccused entered, drew a dagger from his belt, and threatened the life of his wife and son. Deceased's annoyance was apparently caused through the fact that his wife and son had informed the villagers of un incident with the daughter-in-law earlier in the morning, Witness SOLDIER UNDER HAIL ran away and at about five o'clock in the afternoon, when

he wa-

near deceased's house, he saw first accused and the daughter-in- law beating the old man and tying a rope round his neck.

The hearing was adjourned" at this point.

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The Commissioner continued that

in order to facilitate travelling and expedite the mail, complete plans Air Services are being drawn by the regarding the operations of Public Aviation Department, according to which three lines will shortly operate, namely, the Canton-Wu- chow, the Canton-Waichow, via Swatow, and the Canton-Pakhoi.

With regard to, the. opening. of the Whampao port, it was decided to complete the survey this year, and to commence the work of con- struction and dredging, cariz nex! year, which work was to be com- pleted within

The two years. expense for the opening of that port would be secured from the re- turned Boxer Indemnity, as sane- tioned by the State Council.

In respect to foreign affairs Com- missioner Hau said that a fortnight ngo the French authorities on Sha- meen enforced a regulation that Chinese merchants carrying parcels through the French Concession were required to obtain a so-called "pass permit". However, upon the protest of the "Municipal Govern- ment the French Consul had the rescinded. Canton News Agency.

Arrested at Hampstead, at 3.30 a.m... on a charge af loitering, with intent to commit felony, Herbert Erie Coppin, a young motor me- chanic, of Flask-walk, explained at Marylebone Court that he was walking about because, having re-regulation turned home late, he had not the moral courage to face a row with his landlady. "I owe the landlady some rent," he said, "and I did not like to knock her up" He was discharged.

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WHOLE STAGE AND AUDIENCE of ten will tell you that they pre-o'clock, she was in midstream fer sound wood; the stuff: that again, on the way to Greenhithe

IN A PANIC. made the Temeraire 13 good barge yard for permanent repairs; Miss Josephine Baker's enough for them. While lying for

Such are the examples quoted panther caused consternation in a orders, or in taverns of an even- in argument to show the nobler Parts music hall recently. ing, from the Medway to London

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But at the root of the preference, negro dancer intends to train to appear with her on the stage, had only arrived the day before by aeroplane from Amsterdam, and was evidently not accustomed to its surroundings.

I think, is the unconscious aware- ness that no man can entertain for grave-cold iron the affectionate sympathy called out of him by strong and during wood.'..

In the middle of a much ap leapt from the box where Miss preciated dance turn it suddenly Baker and her party were sitting and landed in the middle of the orchestra.

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A moment later the animal-ap- peared on the stage, putting to flight the terrified ballerina. Up- rear and panic in the audience followed, and was increased when the panther, getting stage-fright,

Further efforts to probe the Crew and staff have already boen jumped back into the stalls and

in the engaged. Distinguished British hid under a seat, where it was secrets of whale-life

Fifty descendants of the three peared to be out of use at the The metal hull sweate, and in

Timber or metal, there are many earliest settlers in New South Aldershot Command Rifle Menta seaway so they say does not idle days of lying for orders, now Wales, Harriott Hobbs, and John ing.

behave so well. But the newer that depression has fallen on the and Thomas Rose, met at Par- He had got about half-way construction has proved the

great City which the Thames so ramatta recently and decided to across when a heavy burst of fire faster; only a month or two ago faithfully serves. The Dutch- subscribe £3,000 to enable repre- was heard, and scores of bullets iron barges were victorious in the barges come and go in their im- sentatives to proceed to England from the 600 yards firing point estuary races. Chief of all the memorial privilege of using; the and lay claim to two fortunes whisticd over his head.

arguments advanced by the school highway free, and London, skip known as the Rose and Hobba He immediately dropped to the of planke and nails against the pers staring from Inactive quays, millions, which are said to be turf, and took cover behind a school of plates and rivets is that watch a little bitterly Dutch Hans worth £20,000,000 and £8,000,000 hummock, where he lay until prae- your wood barge, in emergency, is and his placid family making respectively. The claimants aver tice was finished.

easier to repair; with a strip of efficiently for the Pool. - that the Rose's mother was a lady- Then he rose and set off again.board and a corner of tarpaulin It is strange, by the way, that in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, Before he had cleared the zone of miracles can be done.

the English family has never, as and that John Rose was a natural fire.... however, another barrage An illustration: Last week off is the common fashion of the son of George III. They allege began, this time from the that George III. left extensive pro- yards firing point.

500 Greenwich a little after midnight, Continent, gone afloat to form a eventually captured by an at- Antarctic are to be made this win scientists are now on their way to

one of the wooden craft loaded self-contained unit of crew. perty in various English counties This time the soldier raced to (ironically, I will say, without Often owner of his vessel as well in trust for John Rose. The con- wards the firers, finding safety by intending a base pun) with 150 ng master, the Rotterdam trader nexion between the two fortunes, taking a direct line between the tons of iron for Dover, went signs on his wife as cook, his son married Harriett Hobbs, daughter three yards apart.. of Robert Hobbs, whose brother

stantial fortune.

hole some six by eighteen inches.

Intending Competitors of the

Capetown to join the vessel. The tendant and restored to the owner. ter. The Royal research ship. Dis scientific ship, William Scoresby, covery IL, was to set sail from which returned from a two-and-a- South Africa for the Autaretle ear balf year's expedition in the An gations, begun & few years ago reconditioned at St Katherine's that are expected to have an im Dock Tower Bridge, London, and portant bearing on the future pros will also sail for the Antaretio this, perity of the whaling industry. Imonth.

it is stated," was that John Rose fire of two men lying no more than athwart a dredger and stove for engineer; and his daughter as Annual Tournament organised by fly in September to complete investi- tarctic early in Junes.is now being

He covered the distance in re-She was beached just as spare hand; and it is a system the Ladies Recreation Club, are is declared to have left him a sub- cord time, and emerged behind was dush with her the water I that begets prosperity. A similar raminded that entries close on

before the dawn that day, at four system is seen in France.

the riflemen unhurt.

Saturday, October 4th.

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