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SOLICITING AT CHINESE METHOD OF

KOWLOON.

RECKONING.

WOMEN WHO ACCOSTED TWO LEADS TO DEFENDANT BEING

POLICE OFFICERS.

EACH FINED $25.

Two Chinese women, Lau Ngan yuk and Chan Kan-ying, appeared before Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on charge of solicing at the junction of Bowring Street Nathan Road last night.

Mistaking two police officers, who were in raufti, for ordinary civil- ians they approached them, and started a conversation which eventually ended in their dis comfiture when the police officers marched them off to the Yaumati

station.

REBUKED.

A misunderstanding of the Chinese method of calculating monetary units by their weights caused a prisoner who appeared be Police Court this morning, on a fore Mr. Lindse!! at the Central charge of possession of 1.6 teals of prepared opium, to be rebuked by his Worship,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

BREEDING FROM THE UNFIT.

DEAN INGE ON NEED FOR EUGENICS.

CHURCH'S ATTITUDE.

question of "breeding from the should not be indifferent to the A warning that the Church

wrong end." was voiced by Dean Inge at the Church Congress at the Central Hall, Newport, Mon-

The defendant admitted posses-mouthshire. and sion of the opium, but said there

indicated in the analyst's report. was not such a large quantity as

fendant said that each of the eighty In reply to his Worship, the de- pots produced contained 3.6 mace of opium. opium on the defendant's figures, After calculating the amount of his Worship rebuked the prisoner Mr. W, la Bart Sparrow, A. S. P. and said that on his own showing (K), who was one of the gentlemen' there was over one tael more than in question, said that about 11.10, claimed by the analyst's report. p.m. yesterday, he was standing The defendant hastened to point with Sub-Inspector Elston on the out to his Worship that the pots pavement at the junction of Nathan contained 3.6 mace (sam funlsk) in Road and Bowring Street, when he money and not in weight. heard a shout of hullo. Both he

The defendant was fined $150. and his companion were in mufti. or three months' hard labour in He looked up, on hearing the shout, default. and saw the two defendants ap- proaching from the direction of Austin Road. When they got within

ten yards of them, the second de- ALLEGED FRAUD ON

THE DEFENCE OF FRANCE.

PRESIDENT'S WORDS APPLAUDED.

Paris, Oct. 10.

BETRAYAL OF KOUTEPOFF.

TRAITOR WHO POSED AS A FRIEND.

President Doumergue's resolute speech at Brest yesterday champion SOVIET CONFESSION.

and naval forces for purposes of necessity of the French military ing France's policy of peace coupled with security, and emphasising the defence, finds a wide cche in the Press to-day.

6, 1930.

Russian investigator, has to-day

Paris, Oct. 12. Vladimir Burtsev, the veteran.

published ir Les Dernieres Nouvelles, bis long-expected re- and death of General Koutepoff, Figaro,velations concerning the kidnapping Burtsey's Information is based upon a statement made to him, he declared, Andre Fikhner, secretary of the

br

"Everyone," writes "Eugenists," Dean Inge, said, knows M. Gaston Doumergue's "have no wish to introduce the gilance in following the develop methods of the stud farm into ments of foreign policy. He under or cranks. But they know that we to recall the public mind to a con- formerly second human life. They are not fools stands that the moment has come cannot gather grapes from thorns sideration of present duties. Sen-Soviet Embassy at Berlin and onco or figs from thistles, and that a timental appeals to future humanity a highly trusted agent. of the Ogpu. good fruit. We cannot repeal the The reality is the memory of two taken to publish within a few weeks, corrupt tree cannot bring forth furnish fnelle phrases te orators. This statement Fikhner has under-. laws of nature by ignoring them invasions, the evidence of a situa and, if he does not, affidavits by two ticular

"I am not advocating any par

tion full of risk, the need for our other men in possession of the facts programme of racial

country to organise (ta material will be published. hygiene. I know

defences. M. Doumergue yesterday aware of the great complexity of made an initial effort to wake up tions are given on the authority of

enough to' be the problems which this

The following facts and allega.

young science has to deal with.

the Parliament and the country.” very

Burtsey. Fikhner has worked in It may be that the time has not which may be the

L'Avenir describes the speech. and in 1929 was appointed that or Germany since 1924 for the Ogpu, come for drastic measures,

last important the mental attitude of Churchmen before reaching the term of his Europe. He was known in the ser-

It is pronouncement by M. Domergue

ganisation's "illegal resident" in to these questions that I desire to office, as "the good President's will. Misha."

vice by the alias of "Comrade see modified."

the political testament of the Old regular service of agents, has, as (The Ogou. besides its trinste qualities of future genera- has killed all anti-religious secre-second string of secret agents who

The desire to improve the in Jacobin in whom love of country

may not be generally known, a tions, or to stop their further detarianism." terioration, was, he added, a pure,

are not even known to the official ly disinterested and public-spirit

The Liberte says and started asking them where they Two DISTILLERY LICENSEES,

that "the Ogpu representatives.) ed quest.

speech was a solemn warning." "A Towards the end of last year it came from and other questions, Wit-

most important speech," declares was decided to kidnap General .ness asked them where they lived,

CHARGED.

"Dysgenic Selection."

the Temps, "that will produce a Koutepoff and to carry him off to and the defendants indicated that

Stating that there is a "dysgenie

definite effect throughout the Moscow. This task was entrusted they resided further down Nathan The licensee, se fu and a foki selection" going on, the cumula country." The Debats says: "Mto Fikhner. Four men, whose Road. In reply to another ques of the Shing Mee We Distillery attive effects of which must result Gaston Doumergue's object was to names have already been publicly tion, the second defendant said, in Lyeemun, and the licensee and progressive degeneracy, Dean fulfil his duty and give a needed mentioned in connexion Chinese, that they wanted $1. These fu of the Sam Shing Lok Keeinge said that we were at present warning to the French people. The case, were, according to Fikhner, first defendant, however, said in Distillery also of Lyeemun, were breeding not from the learned pro- President spoke according to his employed by English, that they wanted $2. After brought before Mr. Lindsell at the fessions, or from the capable and conscience and to the duties imposed were aided by five special agents a little more conversation, they told Central Magistracy this morning self-respecting artisan class, but his office. We trust that his whose names are not at present the defendants that they were police en charges of conspiracy to de- from the dwellers in the slums, patriotic words, will be understood given; these men arrived in Paris officers and arrested them. On the fraud the revenue in respect of the waste products of our social and bear fruit.”

on January 24 and 25. way to the Police Station, the de-duty on spirits at their respective system, and especially from the tendants conversed between them-

distilleries.

mentally deficient.

Belrayed. selves, and arranged that they would say that they were returning home from the theatre, to which they had gone with Europeans.

Sub-Inspector Elston corroborat- ed this evidence.

fendant addressed them but they made no reply. The two defen- dants then came on to the pavement,

I

GOVERNMENT.

Mr. H. A. Taylor, Government

"I do not think,"

he

Mr. Sparrow, addressing Mr. DOUBTFUL REPORT OF the Consultative Counell Butters, asked that a serious view

be taken of the case.

received complaints

They had

About the

penalty to be such that it would put a stop to this kind of thing.

Mr. Butlers imposed a fine" $25 each.

of

ROBBERY.

BEEN HELD UP.

added,

of the

has

Eastern Defences.

with the

or with him. They

M. Maginot, the War Minister, Monopoly Analyst, appeared for "that the Church ought to be in who has just returned from an in-a false communication to the effect On January 25 Koutepoff received the prosecution and intimated that different to a system of laissez France's castern frontier, now in from Russia, wished to

spection of the fortifications of that a group of friends, just arrived Mr. M. K. Lo would be defending.faire which largely increases the process of construction, has made secretly the following day. The see him On the application of Mr. Tay-number of criminals, falten lor, the defendants were all re- men, and others who prey upon Journal, in which he says: "What I called "The Interior National Or- Wo- an important statement to the group ostensibly came from a body The defendants both denied havdate for the hearing will be fixed. tians, all this is no business

manded until Monday, when society. If we say that, as Chris have seen surpasses my hopes.. Iganisation of Russia," which was ing accosted the officers. The first The two licensees were granted ours, how shall we justify the ac- could be obtained with the bad defendant said they were returning ball in the sum of $2,000 each. tivities of the Church in combat-weather this year.

of did not think that such results conspiring within the Red army. from the theatre, to which they had while the others were allowed bailing particular social evils, such as obstacles the execution of our pro- October, 1929, and after some Koutepoff had first been put into yone with some Europeans, and, in the sum of $500 each.

In spite of all communication with this body in they did not know why they were

drunkenness and gambling?"

gramme of defence is fr good hesitation held meetings with agents arrested.

Breeding from the Dregs. case,

from it in Berlin. The invitation Dr. A. F. Tredgold, a member of ficult. To-day all the smaller works from Fikhner to Koutepoff by a "The beginning was the most dif- now received was evidently passed Eugenies Society, said that it was We shall thus shortly have a first Misha's" purpose, and yet enjoyed: are finished or now being completed: traitor who knew "comrade no exaggeration to say that for line of defence capable of assuring the nuisance caused by this type of

some time past the nation people, and he

general's full confidence. would like the COOLIE'S STORY OF HAVING been steadily breeding from the four troops in case of need a serious Fikhner does not reveal who this dregs rather than from the cream.portant works, they are mostly be- he was not one of Koutepoff's own support. As regards the more im-was, and the doubt as to whether Increased medical knowledge gun, and I de not doubt will all be officers in Paris has wrought great Regarded by the police as doubt and facilities for ful, a report has been made by fo. humanitarian sentiment, and the which I gave to the Chamber. The organisations, led in turn, by Gen- treatment,ished by the end of 1924, the date harm among the "White" Russian Kan, a delivery coolie employed by general trend of sucial legislation system we have adopted will assure eral Wrangel. the Grand Duke the Wing On Company, to the effect had, he said, combined to encourus of the protection we need." that he was stopped by three footage the survival and propagation

Nicholas and General Koutepoff. pads in Hatton Road last evening, of the unfit; and to and dispossessed of $24.40, of easier for them than for the fit. which $22.60 had been collected by "Every child." he added, "has him from a customer."

the right to start life unencum There is an unconvincing ringered by disease and defective. in the additional detail he related inheritance, and it is a wicked of being first asked by the man as (and should be a criminal to who he was before he was for any individual to produce o!T- The Union of Patriotic Associk robbed. The affair is supposed to spring burdened in tions has most indignantly pro-have occured in Hatton Road, where cannot but feel that this is a mut

this way. tested against the presence of the coolie had been to deliver a ter upon which the Church, with Soviet delegates at the Prepara parcel. tory Disarmament Commission.

its opportunities for teaching, is The police are investigating the in a particularly privileged posi The police took precautions at the case,

tion to render incalculable ser-St. Michael's Church, Lumb-in-then and, there from the effects of railway station on the arrival of

rice alike to the individual, the tossendale, where the police had the chloroform on his heart, weaken- the Soviet delegates, but there were

community, and the race."

to eject 70 people last Decembered by a wound received in the war. no incidents.-Renter.

for disturbing the service. London, Nov. 5.

The body, Fikhner declares, was Complaints are made by the tuken overland in a Soviet vicar (the Rev. T. Caleb) that a diplomatic valise to Stettin, and few who still attend the church thence by sea to Leningrad, uti- ale persecuted in the streets and mately being cremated at Moscow when at work.

in the presence of Kremlin and Ogpu chiefs.

UNPOPULAR SOVIET DELEGATES.

NOT WANTED AT GENEVA CONFERENCE.

Geneva, Nov. 5.

The achievements of the Imperial Conference in regard to the set of problems dealing with arbitration and disarmament, and the position of the British Commonwealth at Geneva, have enabled Lord Cecil, head of the British delegation to the preparatory Disarmament Com-

GIANT FLYING BOAT

SETS OUT,

INTENDED CROSSING OF THE ATLANTIC.

The

Berlin, Nov. 5. twelve-engined Dornier

mission, to set out for Geneva, dying boat Do.X took off from

M. Maginot has addressed a warm make life letter of congratulation to General

Belhague,. Inspector-General Fortifications.

ACCIDENTS DUE TO

CARELESSNESS.

act

COMPANIES ADOPT SAFETY FIRST LECTURES.

in 1928.

I

VICAR'S COMPLAINT.,

CHURCH-GOERS SAID TO BE PERSECUTED.

of

been someone from Berlin; but the The traitor might equally have

two chief agents with whom Koute- poff dealt there, de Roberti and Popoff, have since both been shot by the Bolsheviks in, company with a hundred more officers in the con- spiracy, which suggests their in-

nocence.

Disposal of the Body.

In any case Koutepoff went to the The trouble is not yet ended at chloroformed in the car and died rendezvous, was kidnapped and

..

lic took a reporter to six houses, the occupants of which, supported All the men except himself and his allegations. In one case it one other contemed in, the kid- The report of Lieutenant-Colonel throwing; aunther gan

was said there had been stone mapping have since, Fikhner says,.. where the Commission meets to-day, Lake Constance to-day on a flight Mount on railway accidents

salt habeen executed hy the Soviet Gov- in har with the knowledge that on three to Calshot, via Amsterdam, pre-Great Britain during 1929, issued certain work because he attended clumsiness or to destroy the exis

been deprived of duin

svençal to a punishment for their important international issues the paratory to an attempt to gy the by the Ministry of Transport, shows the church; and at other houses

Lishon anil the that three passengers were killed in the people said they had been in-Russia and the other survivor is

tence of witnesses. British Commonwealth speaks as a | Atlantic via united body.

Azores.-Beuter.

Fikhnér hás refused to return to train accidents, compared with 48 ulted in shops and on their way kept at Moscow under strict super- Amsterdam, Nov. 5. Like the United Kingdom Gov- ernment, the Dominions Govern-at the naval seaplane base at killed in 1929 was one in 568.400,- ceased attending the church in principal collaborators are con

The Do.X flying boat has arrived

to or from church. The chance of a passenger being ments will be disappointed if the

Some people said they had vision. This story, as to the main Schellingwoude.--Reuter.

truth of which Burtsey and his work of the preparatory Disarma-

Amsterdam, Nov. 5.

000, and the chance of injury was forder to have peace, ment Commission is not able to pro-

The Do. X covered the voyage

one in 3,100,000.

vinced-an exception being made ceed rapidly enough to render ย from Lake Constance to Schelling-

perhaps as to some of the names- full disarmament conference next woude at the rate of 114 miles an

is the same as that already sketch- year. As far as the British Conimon- | hour.--Reuter.

ed to the Morning Post by Burt- wealth is concerned, there will be no

sev, but it now receives great ad- disagreement to complicate the work

ditional weight by the revelation of of the preparatory Commission,

Previous Day. Yesterday, the name and personality of his in- when it comes to build a framework. of disarmament and decide the

123,6714 former, who was unquestionably a

items to be included.-Britiel Wire.

25.03 man in a position to know the facts, 20.38% Burtsev, it may be added, was less.

18.16 put into touch with Fikhner by two 192 men living in Brussels, whose names are known to me. One is a former Cheka agent, and the other a for- 1/7 4.85.19/32 mer high official of Arcos,

12.00% both converted from the Soviet 18.10% faith and working against their 3440% former Bolshevik masters.

A bullock which was on its way

to the slaughterhouse yesterday afternoon had an interesting run

with

FRENCH WAR BOND QUESTION.

NO COMPENSATION FOR

EXCHANGE RATES.

.123.776 .35.03

20.39

20

18.10

The number of passengers injur ed was 607, a decrease of 209 com- pared with the previous year. The average for ten years was 552.

In regard to accidents at public road level crossings the report Paris. states that the 15 pedestrians killed Geneta and seven of the eight pedestrians Berlin. injured contributed to the accidents Oslo. by not exercising proper caution. Helsingfors 103

No fewer than 20 passengers Buenos Aires..38%

Athens

376 were killed when attempting to sh

Shanghai 1/7 enter or leave trains, and 35 by New

York

4.85.21/32 falling out of carriages during the Amsterdam

19065 Stockholm running of trains.

18.105. 34.455 In the case of fatalities to rail-.

(205) the report

BRITISH HOLDERS.

London, Nov, 5. The Financial Secretary to the round town. It went careering Treasury, answering a question in along Queen's Road East, and the House of Commons in regard to way servants. when by the Naval Yard it collided, British representations

Bucharest to the states that 60.9 per cent. were due Montevideo a Hongkong Hotel hits. French Government respecting the to want of caution or misconduct on Hongkong About half a minute later it ob position of British holders of 1925 the part of the persons milled,

Brussels jected to the approach of a tram- French War Bonds, stated that ic car and took a tilt at to the regretted to say that the reply m-personal care and insistence

"Only by the encouragement of Milan bullock's obvious discomfiture. It ceived froth the French Government strict regard to the safety regula-Lisbon.

on Copenhagen. Prague was unfavourable and expressed in- tions can a reduction in such cases Rio ability to grant any equitable com- be obtained," states the report. Bombay pensation to British holders. "It is satisfactory to find that rall-Yokohama

The matter was under the con-way companies are now incorporat-Silver (apot) 16.18/16 sideration of the Treasury.Bri-, ing safety propaganda in their lec- Silver (forward) 104 tish Wireless,

tures to permanent way men.”

then trotted off and, without fur ther exciting incident, was last seen by our informant jauntily capering along by Causeway Bay. What the driver was saying all this time doesn't matter..

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