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COLONY'S NEW HOSPITAL.
Tal. 10269.
LIKELY TO OPEN IN DECEMBER,
·PEAK HOSPITAL TO CLOSE DOWN.
A magnificent modern hospital, with an imposing exterior, equipped with al- most every facility known to medical science, and re- presenting the completion of Hongkong's wonderful tri- bute to the heroes of the Great War, will, it is hoped, be officially opened on De- cember 1 next.
Hongko
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Library, Supreme Court
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUND WATƑEXEF. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1931.
81,300
日二月四
JOURNALIST'S Betting Tax for YOUTHFUL RED War Imminent
FAMILY IN CROSSING SMASH.
MR. LILIUS'S CAR WRECKED.
F.M.S.
י.
Two Per Cent. Duty
to be Imposed.
WIFE AND CHILD ROTH TOTE AND SWEEPS.
BADLY HURT.
MANILA MISHAP.
Aleko Litius, journalist and traveller, who spent some time
The Government of the Fede- 'rated Malay States, faced with a |problem similar to that of the] Hongkong Government, namely the discovery of sources of new revenue, has decided to put into force a betting tax.
SENT TO
GUILLOTINE.
MURDER OF AGENT OF SURETE.
CLOSING SCENES AT SAIGON TRIAL.
in N. China.
Kuominchun Break Out Again.
WHILE IRON IS HOT.
Shanghai, May 17. While confirmation is lacking. reports are current that hostilities hetween the armies under General "NOT A GAMIN." Shi Yu-shan and Sun Tico-ring, (wo ex-Kuominchun Divisional Commaders controlling Honan and
Saigon (Received To-day), Shantung, and troops under the in Hongkong, his wife and four- This is a tax which has been Rather pathetic scenes mark-command of Marshal Chiang Kai- year old child were sent to Saint Suggested for the Colony. A navsed the closing stages of the trial shek's Divisional Commandera are Paul's Hospital in Manila last sage from Kuala Lumpur discloses of Nguyen Hui, who was sen- imminent.
Generals Shih and Sun have dis- week, suffering from serious in-tax will be introduced at the next killing Inspector Legrand, of the obeyed the National Grease the that the bill imposing the betting tenced to death for shooting and juries sustained in a level cross-meeting of the Federal Council. Surete. during a demonstration disposition
recent instructions regarding the Ing smash at the intersection The Bill will provide for a two last month.
of their forces, and between Pila and Calauan. per cent, duty on bets made on
Gonerai Shih has moved his main The War Memorial Hospital Laguna, while enroute to Pag-the totalizator at race meeting was the extreme youth of the ac- clearly preparing for war.
The tragic feature of the cane budy into northern Honan and is on Mount Kellett Ridge has at-sanjan.
jund also on sweeps promoted by; tracted considerable attention
cused, an admitted Communist, Nationalist Regiments under Mr. Lilius is not very seriously racing clubs or associations. lately as the work of construc- injured, with ents on the head
He paid the extreme penalty of Gen. Liu Mian-yin are only thirty The new amendment to the
the law at the age of 17 years. miles from Gen. Shih's troops and tion has been drawing to an end, and a broken nose, but Mrs. Lilius Stamp Epactment is as follows: During the proceedings, the in the event of a failure of negotia some surprise having been and the child are very badly hurt. "On every, bet made
On a Criminal Court was closely guard- tions between Generals Shih ad evoked by the magnitude of the Mrs. Lilius sustained cuts about totalisator or pari-mutuel promoted by military and police.
Sun and the Nanking Government project.
the head, broken leg. and nosed by any racing club or associn-
The facts of the crime were regarding disbandment in Shan- The opening of the hospital sible internal injuries while the tion exempted under acction 15 of cited by the Public will practically synchronise with child has three fractures of each the Betting Enactment, 1913, and (Mr. Lafrique) stating that Inevitable.
Prosecutor, tung, a rupture is considered in- the losing of the Peak Hospital, leg and several other wounds, jun every contribution towards any
spector Legrand, ondeavouring to A report from one source states the property of Mr. J. E. Joseph, the
sweep promoted by such racing En route to Pagsanjan. well-known local financier. Lent
club or association there shall be arrest a speaker at a revolution that elsewhere along the Peking- to the Government at a time of The party lell Manila for Pag-charged a duty of twe per cent.ry-meeting convened under cover Hankow Railway fighting has brb- dimculty, the Peak Hospital pro-sanjan, where Mr. Lilius wanted of the amount paid or contributed. of a football match, was shot by ken out between Nanking and re- Nguyen Hul, whose avowed pur.bellious forces. There is no doubt perty will be returned when the to show the falls to his family.
pose was to shoot down any Surete that the truculent northern forces new hospital is ready to receive who arrived about a month ago
agent who might interfere with are seeking to take advantage of patients.
the speaker..
the Canton revolt to squeeze funds out of Nanking.
Sir Paul Chater's Plan, The developments which led up to the construction of a hospital as a War Memorial are worthy of record. In 1920, it was deelded,
Onus oa Secretaries,
from Sweden. Mrs. Lilius, whe "The secretary of any mich shall is also a writer, and the child ar-racing club or association- rived to join Mr. Lilius who has draw up 1 statement of the decided to reside in the Philip amounts received as bets on each| pines indefinitely.
race and of the amounts contribut
hand.
Caught in the Act. Legrand collapsed, exclaiming | hey have wounded me." Nguyen They were riding in a roadster, ed to each sweep and shall affix owned and driven by Mr. Lilius thereto stamps to the value of the Hui was seized by another French ofleer, the revolver, smoke atill this sec as an initial step to erect the and came to the railway crossing. duty chargeable under Cenotaph in front of the Hong-where the accident took place ation. The statement herein reissuing from the muzzle, in his kong Club, and in 1921. Sir Paul 10:30 am. According to Mr Li-ferred to shall, within Afteen days Chater assumed the Chairmanship lius, the train did not whistle nor after the last day of any race- Evidence of the shooting of 1:1 the Committer which wns make any signal. Furthermore, meeting held by such racing chub Inspector Legrand was given by controffing the large san remain-there was no watchman nor any er association, be delivered to the four Starrte agents, after which "collector who shall cancel the accused said he was when he įstamps, thereon in the manner pro- came into contact with the An- ivided by section G ti) of this namite revolutionary known un
der the name of La Bachelier "Hua, the entartment. After troublesome times regard-
"The collector may at all rea-He was then sent from Indo China ing the question of the site, and tracks, it was stick by the train.! the Stubbs Road site had hern The crash sent the car into an en-sonable times require the producto a revolutionary school at Can-
RDY booke, accounts, ton. abandoned for that on Montaukment, shattered to piecca and tion of
wrecked. Mrs. Lilius vouchers or other documents re- Kellett Ridge, the foundation stone completely
in from public subscriptions. gate. immediately sponsoring a scheme
for the erretion of an up-to-date Nursing Home.
-Goud Progress.
*Thu work
of erecting and
Just
Thrown From Car.
as they put astride
Hongkong Congress,
ARMY OFFICER MISSING.
PONY RETURNS HOME RIDERLESS.
BURMA INCIDENT.
SINGLE COFT HE CENTE
STRENGTH 7
FORT
FORT
DUNLOP
The Tire of Resoedd Strength
LOCAL BRANCH,
Padder Bldg.
GENERAL ESCAPES IN DISGUISE.
THRILLING STORY OF WHAMPOA BATTLE.
FUGITIVE COMMANDER MAKES WAY TO HONGKONG.
SPECIAL INTERVIEW.
SMUGGLED out of Whampoa in the guise of a village volunteer, twice held up and scrutinised by Cantonese troops but evading detection, General Yung Fei-ting, commander of the Peace Preservation Corpa, escaped through Chan Chai-tong's cordon of troops and arrived in Hongkong during the week-end. A number: of his staff officers also slipped the net and have dribbled into the Colony.
It is now revealed that no actual "revolt" took place. The Peace Preservation Corps, it is stated, rejected Chan Chai-tong's overtures, bringing upon themselves the attack of the Cantonese forces. The decisive engagement before their surrender took place round the main fort at Whampoa, and over six hundred casualties were suffered in the battle. The Peace Pre- servation Corps lost over a hundred killed and two hundred wounded. Many casualties were caused by the Canton aeroplanes, which bombed the "rebel" lines heavily.
CANTON OVERTURES REJECTED..
to
Details of this rather thrilling aive bombing attack, in the course escape and of the full story of the uf which 50 bombs were dropped battle which raged for many on various objectives. hours round the forts of Whampas 'The engagement became general. before the final capitulation of the at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Peace Preservation Corps to the Gunboats landed the Cantoneso Rangoon, May 18. Cantonese troops were' to-day re- troops at points opposite Ping Considerable alarm is. felt forlated to a Telegraph representative Kong-and-Fu-Tip Kang forts, and the safety of Lieutenant Colonel by a staff officer of General Yung the attack was, pressed against i. T. Morshead, of the Royal En Fei-ting, who, with the latter. Is these two positions until the de- gineers, whose pony has returned now taking up temporary quae of the new edider was laid in April and the child were thrown out of lating to any, totalisator, pari-
the car, but Mr. Lilius remuined in mutuel or sweep promoted by any ile said he was present at the riderless to Mnymye, which is inters at the Great Eastern Hotel, fenders were forced to fall back on the main fortress of Cheung last year.
on the Central waterfront. association famous secret Congress of all An- the "rebel" zone.
Chu. it until he was able to extricate him-such racing club og
within his jurisdiction. rell from the muss.
numite revolutionary
It is feared that Col. Morshead parties at
He said that the intentions of:
Forec Overwhelmed. "The duty required to be puid Hongkong in 1929. Në
has fallen victim to a tribal attack. General Chan Chal-tong were first was 15 They were picked up by a pass-
Colonel Morshead, who did good communicated by deputies ing motorist and taken to the Ca.under this section shall be a dobt years old when he attended the
For over an hour, Commander lamba Sugar Central at Canlubang due to the State in which the debt Congress, which was prelude to work in connexion with the surver General Yung at Whampoa, from where first aid treatment was given, arises and shall be recoverable by the revolution, short-lived, but at of Indin before the War, during which it was made clear that the Yung stoutly held this position They were then taken to the any of the ways and means tended by much bloodshed, in which he served in Flanders, was Cantonese leader desired the in-gainst repeated assaulte, until Calauan hospital where they were fores for the time being for the January of the following year. member of the Mount Everest corporation of the Pence Preserva- overwhelmed by concentrated fre from vastly superior numbers. anti- Own tion Corps into his [treated by Dr. M. O; Marfori. Af-recovery
due to The He was easily the youngest re- Expeditions of 1921 and 1922,
When the and was in sight, he In 1921, he was a member of Nanking volutionary at the fateful confer the party which camped twenty- To these deputies, General Yub and thrown into the river.
combination military (Continued on Page 7)
ordered the guns to be dismounted When the Congress decided on Everest. He is a
five thousand feet up Mount gave the answer that his allegiance
Fellow of the was irrevocably given to the Civil It is estimated that losses in a mutiny of native troops and to
Royal create in Indo-China & new Com-Reuter
Geographica! Society,Governor of Kwangtung (General killed and wounded on each side Chan Ming-shu), and that as the totalled 300. The remnants of munist Party. Nugyen Hui was
raison d'etre of the Corps was the Commander Yung's Corps surren sent to Saigon with several com panions. He arrived there in
preservation of peace in the pro-dered. and are now incorporated vince of Kwangtung he would re-into General Chan's forces. August 1929,
Commander Yang owed his sist to the utmost any attempt to
escape after the decisive engage- disturb that ponca.
ment had been fought at Tse. Ki. Shan; to n fortuitous circum- stance. Dragged away by his This interview took place on the Chief-of-Stall, he took refuge in a 8th instant, and the firm nttitude
and
equipoing the War Memorial Hospital has progressed steadily
is now nearing completion. According to an offelal of Hospital Committee, it is fidently expected that the building will be declared open on December 1.
con- лен
The Hospital, which is de- signed 10 accommodate abriut 50 patients, is spacious, com- modious, and completely up-to-date In equipment, including an X-Ray department and 11 Operating Theatre. It will be controlled by na entirely new staff, including European medical officera and nursing sisters,
In the course of enquiries a Tete. graph representative leaned the.
Information that upon the opening
of the War Memorial Nursing
Home, the Peak Hospital would
State.
of debts
WHAT THE ORACLE TOLD THE ADMIRAL.
Law Enforced To Turn Fukien
Vegetarian.
couse to exist. The present staff It is doubtful if history con- Government, who is an ardent will be absorbed by the various tains a precedent, writes the Buddhist, visited Kushan Mon- Government Hospitals, and the pro-Telegraph's Foochow correspon- story last year and asked for light perty will be handed lack to Mr. dent, for an extraordinary state as to w everything was ġolng: J. E. Joseph.
of affairs existing in Foochow wrong in poor Fakion.
The oracle replied, first, that a and other parts of Fakien Pro- monument recently erected at the
Sir Claude Sevèra's Tribute.
ence.
The President: You were pro- vided with money by the Com- munist Party!--Ycs.
Nguyen Hui soon became £1 chief of the loen! "cell".
.
Unrepentant,
TEXTILE COMBINE
FORMED.
·MANCHESTER SHIPPING
HOUSES ACT.
London, May 18
Partial Defection.
The President: Where is the
of the Commander of the Peace Private house at Man Kuo village. headquarters of that "cell"?
In an attempt to meet the rapid Prenervation Corps was not to be Watch Handed Over. The nerused: I cannot tell you full of the textile trade in the Farshaken thereafter. although that.
East. a number of well-known serious defection occurred of K Subsequently that place was Manchester
shipping houses are portion of his troops which went visited by General Chan's troops forming a combine, to be known over to General Chan Chai-tong. and in the house-to-house search as "Motco" (Manchester Overseas This defection was one of many that followed, he came under the Trades Company),
It is expected that the combine ucts designed to bring pressure attention of a number of soldiers on the Commander, and ultimate-who asked if he had any money. will reduce overhead costs and charges, thus enabling them to offer lower priced goods in India, China, Burma and Sourabaya.
The combina's exports will pool their knowledge for the purpose of this scheme.-Reuter.
H. E. the Officer Administering vince, where the Government is South Gate must be removed, and do you know what you are doing? effect considerable cuts in freighty, on, the 18th flast Wednesday). He had none on him--a fact.which
the Government (Sir Cloud Severn) seeking to. force the populace, second, that the killing of cows
in revealing to the Legislative Coun-into a sort of limited vegetar- must stop.
cil in 1922 the generous gesture of ianism,
Mr. Joseph, said, inter alia that
Mr. Joseph had bought the property Acute dissatisfaction is mani known as the Peak Hospital and festing Itself, though there is no by an act of great generosity had Indication that the decree will be handed it over to the Government relaxed.
as a Nursing Home for
period as they wished. By so
Buch
do
Mr. Joseph had relieved a very dificult altuntion, as the previous
owners of the Hospital had deter-
It is now many months since
most of the inhabitants of the Fukien caplial fusted · beef,-
The President: Will you tell me who your Chiefs are?
Accused (laconically): No, The President: You are young: Accused: I know perfectly well PYou desired to kill? A. Yes, I intended tu kill, P-Who told you to kill? A-Nobody. It was my role. P-Where did you buy the re-
what I do,
A-At Saigon, from
person GERMANY STANDS
FIRM.
TO PERSEVERE WITH CUSTOMS UNION.
Geneva, May 18.
a commencement of hostilities was appeared to furnish a cause for made, on the initiative of General resentment on the part of the Chan Chal-tong.
soldiers, and they then threatened Commander Yung had under to shoot him. That, would serve, him a forse of over 2,000 men, ne useful purpose, he hastened to then securely ensconced on the convince them. He had a Swiss island on which the various forts watch of valdable make-souvenir grouped under the name of the from a friend-which he offered, Whampoa Forts standa. The first to his interrogators. They were shots announcing the outbreak of satisfied, but, before leaving him. hostilities were fired from the Yee gave vent to their foolings by Chufort, garrisoned by General striking him twice with the butt Chan's soldiers, across the river of riile. opposite Whampoa
Aerial Bomb Attack.
・・・ The monument was' actually moved, nrui is now at the en- trance to the public playground where the Athletic Sports have recently been held; and no!
the long after
prohibition volver? against killing of cows was put
now dead. Into effect.
The Public Frosecutor, in his It must be confessed that even final address to the Court, said a The reasons given at the time those who might most respect the year ago when other revolution
At another of these...frequent. minod to close it by the end of the for the suspension of the killing religious faith of a leading man aries were on trial, they were not
interrogations, encountered as ho. monti.
of cattle were various. Some sald
creed in these yet Communiste. To-day it was a
made his way to a fresh plaes of The Government had taken res-It was because of the prohibitive who holds to his
any purely Communist affair which
This was followed by an aero- refuge, he had difficulty in con- ponsibility for seeing that the pro- tax imposed, some that the old seculariet days, do not see perty was put in thoroughly good Chinese prejudice against killing immediate result in the direction they had to judge. It was an
At midnight, after long dall-plane dropping pamphlets making vincing a soldier, who had taken order, and when the Nursing Home,
unfortunate populace..
Moscow to demonstrate the spiritborations, the German delegation a final appeal to the members of note of the fact that he was which was to be erecteŭ na part an animal that works in the fields of alleviating the sufferings of the affair.ongineered by agents of
was sufficient oxplanation; othéra
It now appears that not only of discipline.
to the League of Nations Council the Pence Preservation Corps, wearing leather leggings, that giving them until 2 o'clock on the he was only a minor military the War Memorial of the Colony said the farmers were afraid that, of
of Thursday as the man. announced that both Austria and aftorno for compliance with that same, afternoon & Presentegs The opportunity later "No Gamin."" was ready, it was proposed to hand there would not be enough animala Cows, but even pigs are to be
Germany are determined to per- back the property to Mr. Joseph to for this work, and had paraunded spared, and that the Fukienese
will have to do without their much "For me, onid the Public Pro-severe with their proposals for an General Chan's wishes,
to Commander Yung of deal with as he wished.
the Government to stop the killing valued pork, Chickens and mut secutor, there can be no doubt Austro-German customs unlon, in However, troop movements were from hiking awkward situationg He was sure that the hon, mem- of cows.
not relaxed, and over 5,000 of With the help of
timely bers would wish to be placed on re- But the most consistent explana naturally gone up in price. One ditation.
ton and even gosts' Rosh have regarding the question of promo spite of the French arguments.
accused
The German delegation insists General Chan's troops were finally tance, ho rigged hansei Upan cord the appreciation which they, tlom, if not the most likely, is as wonders whore algo could to found said he went there to himals that the proposed economie union asembled under the command of dress ofs vilnas voluntas As representatives of the comfellows
a province or place of any sort young assassin, raised in a Com does not affect in the loast Aus a subordinate for an encircling the disguise spent the munity in the Colony, falt towards
It is said that Admiral Yang, where people were being made munist school at Canton, and also tria's political Independence, attack on Whampoa A squadron time waiting for a passage out o the Chairman of the Provincial vegetarian by Law
of aeroplanes conducted an.
Mr.Joseph for his most philan- throud action in the matter.
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