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FIJI HURRICANE.

OFFICIAL ESTIMATE OF THE FATALITIES.

Suvn, Mar, 2.

It is officially announced that 160

People, including, four Europeans. | perished in the hurricane on Februs,

ary 21.Reuter,

[Earlier reports placed the death roll at 230, and later at "over 100"," including five Europeans.]

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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1931.

THE DOWNFALL OF HU HAN-MIN.

(Continued from Page 1.)

ROLLER SKATES

STOLEN.

SAID TO HAVE BEEN TWICE PURLOINED.

MR. HEARST AND A SUIT OF ARMOUR.

WHAT MILLIONAIRES

PURCHASE. -

C. Andrade v. Sotheby and Co. Thi was n disputo concerning Y.M.C.A. BOY CHARGED. the sale of a sull of armour, vri- ginally the property of an Aus- trian count.

The plaintifla, Messrs. Cyril-

Hanover-square, W..

Andrade, claimed from the defendunta,

he was rendy to adopt the Pro- visional Constitution during the present period of political tutel- age, as it aimed at the protection of individual rights and property. The President denounced Mr. Ian-min Car opposing the Pro- Sinted to be a "boy" employed at visional Constitution for no other the European Y.M.C.A. a Chinese reason than a desire to retain His who appeared before Mr. Hamil power in the Legislative Council. ton at the Kowloon Magistracy

this morning was charged with Messrs. Sotheby and Company. stealing a pair of roller skates New Bond-street, W., damages. for belonging to the son of Dr. and alleged breach of contract to pre- cure the parchaser of certain ar- Mrs. H. E. Sommers, of the Pen-mour to pay 10s. in the £ on the insula Hotel.

purchase price, and damages for alleged detention. The defence was a denial of inbility,

Speech Censored.

A serious blow wna delivered to the followers of Mr. Ha Han-mis when the President announced that Mr. Hu would resign in favour of Mr. Lin Sen,

This morning the Kuomintang, Office requested all Nanking news papers to censor the speech de- livered by Marshal Chiang, for

reasons not stated.

·

The defendant stated that the skatex had been taken by an odd job conlie employed by the contrac- Mr. Rayner Goddard said that

Costa for engaged on the construction of Mr. Cyril de

Andrade from the now Y.MC.A. extension. The bought a suit of armour

Colint Trapp, an Austrian. In colle had since absconded.

1928, Mr. W. R. Heural, the Detective Sub-inspector A. H. American newspaper magnate, at his skates Eiston said the complainant had with a Mr. R. Bartel, visited Mr. on the ground | Andrade's galleries, saw the ar- whilst he was looking at some mour, and offered £4,000 for il.

After the session at Government Hunse, an important conference took place at the Central Komia-machinery in the back yard of Mr. Hearst did not fulfil his part

Previous Split.

It is interesting to note that Mr. #fanm was almoprat Įrganisers with the late Dr. Sun

tang Headquarters, when Kuonlatang officials were inform fed of the wich of President Chiang

Kai-shek to summon a Commission had disappeared. The boy's In 1929, the armour wont to consisting of ten Kuomintang of parents, who were looking out of Messrs. Sotheby's to be sold. Mr. feints including Dr. Wang Chung. their window, had seen a Chinese Bartel was supposed to be bidding but.Mr. Yu Yu-jen, Chairman of pick up the skates and walk into Lon behalf of Mr. Hearst, the ar- the Control Yuan. Messrs Trai matshed. The police were mour boing knocked down to him Yuan-peri, Wu Tze-hui, Ting Wai-notified and later the defendant for £5.000. No deposit was taken fan and II. H. Kung. to draft the was arrested, the skates subse as it was understood that he was Provisional Constitution in readi- quently being found in the mat-acting on behalf of Mr. Hearst. ness for the coming meeting of shed.

Later, Mr. Henrst repudiated Mr. the National Assembly.

Bartel's authority to hid for him. It was die owed in evidence that

Messrs. Andrade said that the after the skates and disappeared defendants should have insisted from where they had been left by upon a deposit of 10s, in the £ The complainant. Mrs. Sommers, ¦ ing paid by Bartei on the purchase who had gone to the yard to price of $5,000, and they now sourch for them, had subsequently jelaimed £2,500 fruns Messrs. seen from her window a man take¦ Sotheby's. them out from under a driving machine. She recognised the man whom she had seen as the same Mr. Cyril de Costa Andrade. man who was later arrested by the Į giving evidence, sald; The mat- pulize,

Ret for these kinds of goods arlaos when the American millionaire Sub-Inspector Elston intimated come to this country for the shoot- to his Worship thint the policeing season and visit museuraa, presumption was that the skates galleries, and other places, had been stolen twice. The first fine they were hidden under the machine and then removed from there and taken to the shed. There was no evidence that the

The Y,M,C,A. and when he went of the bargain, and it was cancell- to get them, he found that they ed.

Revolutionary Partyi amat +!!! many deer jon he held importart positions with The CantoIP GOLSTA

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This is not the Best time in which he has been in serious polis [tical disagreement with the Nation- alist Government, ns, following a split with the Nanking Govern. ment in 1928, he went into volun- tary exile in Europe, when he re- mained for several months,

.

MR. JUSTICE EVE AND A RICH WIFE.

EXTRAVAGANT; DETER. MINED; and SELF-POSSESSED.

Mr. Justice Eve commented on extravagance in a judgment given in the Chaurery division,

defendant was responsible for the first theft, but the prosecution Were trying to establish that he hal taken them the second time. The hearing was adjourned till Friday for Dr. Sommers and other witnesses to be called.

HOW KIDNAPPERS OPERATE.

REVELATIONS IN CASE AT KOWLOON.

31. Rence MacCaw, of Cado- gangardens, S.W., had claimed: from her husband, Captain Guy Hardy MacCaw, an account of moneys and investments belong- ing to her which had been received by him. No dishonesty was im- As they had been of naalstance pated, but she wanted an account. in the recovery of a child whom Mr. Justice Eve is ill and they had kidnapped, two Chinese judgment was read. In it he re- women who appear before Mr. ferred to Mra, MacCaw "box-

Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis sessed of intelligence, self-posses tracy this morning had the usual sion, and a determination much sentence reduced by half. above the average, and quite eap- able of transacting business mal-Fitches, the defendants were the According to Detective Sergeant fers," but, like many others of her members of a gang of fifteen kid- sex, not inclined to devote - *iny Textravagant attention to them.

mappers, of whom cleven have been He added:

arrested, the last to be sentenced being three men who were recently before the Court. The gang occupied three huts in Po Kong village, Kowloon City, and the thres men, at present undergoing terms of imprisonment, rode around the district on bicycles with a live bird. Whenever they met a child they gave him the bird to play with and then took him away to get

"Both husband and wife knew perfectly well that they were liv lug at a rate turgely in excess of their joint income. Both were of extravagant habits.

The Market."

Asked by Mr. Miller why he did not sue Mr. Hearst, Mr. Andrade replied: "Beenase I have nothing to do with

the matter. If Mr.

Hearst is willing to carry out his bargain, I shall be willing for otheby's to have their connais sion."

Mr. Justice Rowlett-- You have) been living in the hope that Mr. Hearst would take this armour" Not in the hope--he had righ to take it.

WHA

Major Felix Walter Warre, of the defendunt company, eruss-examined by Mr. Hayner Goddard, who asked: There have been occasions when Mr. Hearst repudiated bids. You had reason Ito

him now Mr. suspect Hearst had "cried off" before.

Giving judgment, Mr. Justice Rowlatt described the case as an unfortunate one, which arose out r unfortunate happening. Although Messrs. Sotheby may or| may not have done absolutely the right thing, it could not be suid that they did a wrong or negligent damages and no breach of duty, thing. Therefore there were no and there would be judgment for Messrs. Sotheby with nosta

An

NEW "FOREST” ON MARS.

CAPRICIOUS

GROWTH

VEGETATION.

OF

A new forest aren has been noted on the planet Mars by several os- tronomers.

"The husband, more alive to the inevitable result of living beyond their means, protested from time to time, but without much suc-more. cess, the wife endeavouring to ex- Victims were taken to one of the tenuate her folly by asserting the three buts and then removed to a undeniable truth that

This planet was at its nearest to one could second the same night. The follow-the earth for a period recently of only be young once."

ing day they would have their hair rather more than two years, and eut and their clothes changed, has for this reason beet receiving the special attention of planetary observers.

With the exception of two itera

of £57 and £600 Mr. Justice Eve eventually being taken to the coun- held that Mrs. MacCaw voluntari-3.

ly approved of the use made of In the present case the defendants her capital by her husband, Judg. had assisted the police to recover ment was given for her for those the boy from the country,

"The new growth," Dr. W. H. Stephenson, who recently retired from the Directorate of the Mars Section of the Royal Astronomical

sums, with Interest, at four peix months' imprisonment, pointing Society, explained "is an extension

cent.

Counsel said that since the trial it had been found that a further £500 had been spent by Captain MacCaw, who agreed that this also should be repaid to his wife.

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of the development round the "Lake or the Sun, which was noted by astronomers in 1926 and 1928-the dates of the two last oppositions. growth of vegetation is to some ex- "It may be supposed that the

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"These areas on Mars sometimes look green. But through a small Cantor, Mar. 2. telescope, their apparent colour is The Canton branch of the Royal apt to be affected by the red colour. Society of St. George held their of the surrounding desert, and this The Union Waterboat Co., Ltd. anuni hall at the Canton Club would tend to give a grem appear- advises that, subject to audit, the Theatre on Saturday, when there ance to any dark area. Through a net balance at credit of Profit and were some forty-five hosts and two large telescope, however, many of Loss Account for the year ending hundred and fifty guests

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