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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST. 6, 1931.

DEBTOR'S SOCIAL | Ye Oom-pah Horns of Olden Tyme.

POSITION:

LIVING COST ISSUE

IN COURT.

INTERESTING POINTS IN

BANKRUPTCY. !

CLERK'S EXPENSES.

Allegations that Chan Ship- tsun, of No. 63, Des Voeux Road Central,

the chief clerk in marine department of China Underwriters, Ltd., after becom- ing bankrupt through "rash" speculation, had taken the at- titude he was not going to pay

the any more, while at

same time having his children educated at expensive schools and living on a scale unjustified) by an undischarged bankrupt.) were made in the Bankruptcy Court this morning before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp).

Living in Comfort,

The Official Receiver Mr. F. L.. Alz) appiled for an order that after welting aside the

the

nf

$350 a month,

bulance debtor's salary should be paid to the Oleint Receiver.

Mr. C. B. Johnson, who was for uplication.

deblur, opposed the

Mr. Agassiz and it was true that, probably, the case was made better § for debtor by the fact that his ere- ditors, brokers, But have been

You might think they were playboys at a plenic of the Amal. gamated Pretzel Banders. Instead, however, they're very digni. fied bandemen who appeared at the Command Horse Show st Aldershot. The horn-for they really are horna-ware called "bass serpents" in the days when they were played for Queen Anne. In the centre is a musician with the modern counterpart

of the strange" instrumenta

FRENCH PILOT

KILLED.

TRAINING FOR THE SCHNEIDER RACE.

aware of his funnel position and 31.

© Marseilles, July 30. Berault, one of France's

yet they allowed him Lo sgamble most moled nyinlnes, was killed,

Wh

and gave him credit. His pubrols-to-day when a seaplane in which xiun

however, that that he was dying at a speed of 200. miles an hour plunged into the pen, i course of conduct on the part

When he met his death M. the creditors did not reifèr of the gbligationsceiver

he had incurred. The Beint

continued: -"Lie in living, sulamit, "in the greatest comfort and in not puit- | Das himself to the slightest per- Lineonvenience, this endlaren suna!

are being etuated at

·MISSING GERMAN

AIRMEN.

BERLIN NEWSPAPERS

IMPATIENT.

SOVIET PROMISE.

Berlin, Aug. 4.

The German press in growing impatient over the failure of, the Government to procure the release of the two German #liers, who four weeks ago, were shot at and forced down by troops in Outer Mongolia, when piloting plane of the Eurasia Airways Company from Peking to Irkutsk.

Although the German Govern- ment has asked for the good ser. vices of the Russian as well as the Chinese Government in order to obtain the release of the liers, and although the Soviet authorl- ties promised to intercede with the Mongolian Government which fa under Soviet Russian influence, all efforts seem so far to proved fruitless. The papers are now asking whether unknown forces are at work with intent to

organisation prevent the

of a direct air servien between Chiun fond Europe, which has been the. aim of the German-Chincné car- poration in promoting the Eurasia Company.

have

ITALIAN JURIST'S from Brga, Rathje is being kept

"THREAT."

STEP'S HEAVILY ON

CORNS OF GERMANY.

.CUSTOMS UNION.

Berlin, July 30. A storm of indignation has been

Bouault was ending secret evoked both in politicul quarters speed trials for France in prepara-and in the Press by a speech of the tion for the Forthcoming race for Italian Senator. Signor Selatoja, made in his capacity as counsel the Schneider Trophy,

for Italy before The Hague Court during the hearing of the case for und against the Austro-German Customs Union project.

Mr.

Johnson: Mr.

Stort

Standard Two High.

attach a portion of his salary us living. T

done at

At

M

According to private reports

prisoner in that city, while companion. Korlber. who was

his

severely wounded when the air- plane was fired at." IN lying in hospital near Erga.

CAPONE'S SENTENCE

POSTPONED!

PLEA OF GUILTY MAY BE WITHDRAWN,

Chicago, H., July 30. The technicalities which make for the law's delay worked to-day to give Scarface Al Capone at least another day of freedom.

Capone, convicted on scores of charges of violating the federal revenue laws, prohibition and appeared, in the federal court to day before Federal Judge Wilker- on to be sentenced, However,

schools at an age when they ought here, and will give evidoner, to be earning their own livinga,

Arguing against the projet. instead of living un creditors. My

Signor Selatoja is reported to have declared that "if the Council of submission will be that debtor ja

Mr. Agassiz,, replying to points the League of Nations has no fur- determined not to make any fur

was ther jurisdiction in this mutter. ther effort to meet these liabilities." raised, remarked his point

Continuing, Mr. Agassiz said that debtor's standard of living that might mean war to-morrow, Judge Wilkerson refused to sen- debtor had paid $150 a month for was altogether too high for an The newspapers unanimously tenge the racketeer, beer baron, gangland leader under a com- tin and four years and had now taken up undischarged bankrupt and was denounce the "threat" as an un-

unjustfiled. The disguised attempt to bring the attitude that he was not going absolutely

poli-promise between defending And to hear upan

the prosecuting attorneys. He said to pay any more. Owing to a de-objections were to expenses for tical pressure

he could receive # fect in the local Ordinance it was entertaining. education and the Court, which, it is pointerl out, has

compromise in the cost of expressly been charged with the statement only as a recommenda- not possible to obtain an order to

task of rescuing the issue from the

tion.

could be

ilante.

Johnson-My submission stifling atmosphere of inter- present debtor was in a position. if a man has business to donational politics, to consider it

solely

its legal me on to sit down and say that he was in the marine instrasee business, not going to pay anything more, he is much more likely to get it The Vessische Zeitung, acidly and that was the attitude be had from a man if he gives him a good commenting on the speech, insists timin. It is common sense and. | Chat the distinguished, Italian adopted.

perhaps, more applicable to the jurist apparently mistook the Should Suffer Somewhit. East than to the West, Debtor isjonvironment in which he made his for the "Although I have no sympathy Paid to deal with wealthy Chinese-able utterance

Hall of the league of with the creditors in this and if he does not keep up his

appearance be will not be worth Nations, where Much แก ex ought nat to br Teel that people

salary in his emplovers.“ Mr.Jaggerated interpretation allowed to dash into bankraptry Johnson added that debtor's three pas even though it would be just might and avail therazelven of the ye children were 16, 18 and 20 yearslas irrelevant at Geneva na it substantial protection which

jat The Hague. offered by the Bankruptcy Law of this Colony, without, at any rate Aulering some slight personi in- vonvenience."

merit.

wag

Promptly the brilliant array of legal talent employed for Capone asked for permission to withdraw their notorious client's plea of guilty" In this request Judge Wilkerson will rute to-morrow.

Capone has returned to his armoured suite at the Lexington Hotel, hopeful that he will he able to obtain a new trial and avoid serving the next few years in a

He fieavily guarded when he appeared federal penitentiary. ja court to-day and he appeared confident that his counsel will win still more freedum for him.

Was

It was obvious, -be rufiles, that! The Catholis paper Germanin, debtor would never get a rise it generally regarded as the mouth. A month ago #apone was to the order was granted, boynund the piece of the Chancellor, Dr. have been sputeured but the that jextra money would simply go to Bruening, reiterates the German for sentence was postponed be- The Official Reveiver concluded his editors, and debtor would captenilen that only a legal and

manse of the illness of the rackis -by-remarking that he was nekipe, probably lose his job, through not not a political scrutiny of the teera NOSS Federal operatives for a dividend of 20 per cent, only being able to get business. Pact project is sulmissible and worked for two years electing And the order asked for WAN · Mr. 1. R. Sturt. managing expresses confidence that the the evidence on

which Capone a very proper one under the cir-director of China Underwriters judges will not allow themselves was indicted and which resulted

| Lui," said that debtor had Mr. Johnson pointed but

been to be intimated by the "blustering" in the charges to which he plead- ihat with the company siner 1924. He Italian lawyer, whn, if he has done a "guilty," debtor had paid sibh a mouth for was paid a salary of $450 anothing else, has at any four years and ten months,making month.

committed s a grave breach of inter- He said a tutul paid of $8,700.

national tact, which, ranfpares un- it could not be disputed that he

favourably with the atrietly legal ind been guilty of rash specula- Mr. Johnort:De your consider if debatable arguments against tim but the procedure of the

that salary is more than sufficient the advanced from the for his livelihood?---Nn,

cumstances.

brakers, in dealing with a Chinese,

without any other security than his salary, mounted almost to

The ukers enticement.

trad

made no enquiries and did not

Mr. Johnson added, "I is

Neem

*to

care.

Not Too High.

Wilfess said that entertaining)

French side.“

rate

was one of debtor's business points which called for certain payments. He paid no interest expenses. It was probable that if and gove no acknowledgment but debtor's salary was reduced to Wong was p personal friend of 68350 a his payments in November, ability suffer. no creditor has attempted or even applied for any further pay- ment whatever, I think it is, very

Selle het that,

although debtor $45 a month, his appearance and his

Fresh Trial.

Chicago, July 31. Al Capone, the gangster, was permitted to-day to withdraw his plea of guilty to the indictment charging him with violation of the

case

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A Concert.

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8.03-10.30 p.m. Concert.

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10.33 p.m. Close Down.

NOTHING BUT HUMBUG!

Continned from Page 6.)', favourable tide. Already in Lan- cashire we see it beginning to flow. But even with such a tide It is. evident that in challenging the Liberal and Sociallat parties at the same time we have undertaken

task.

AT CHornious

Above all things let un be care- ful that "the next House of Com

as does not present under an- other which has dishonoured the present

guise the Assembly. It must always be a same stalemate

great diandvantage for any one party machine to fight against the other two.

double set of opponents, or- ganisations,, canvassers, placards, newspapers, all flinging them- selves upon a single sel, must mike the buttle very much harder to

win

Would it not be well, in what- over time may yet remain to us, without giving up our essential, policy to seek Home means di directing Liberal hostility upon the Socialists that have so roundly abused, and thus maal the opinion of a real majority of Srin tish men and women upon the side of stable and far-sighted govern- ment 7

income tax laws.

Federal Judge Wilkerson set the se for trial on September 8. He announced that he would reserve until then his decision on the gangster's motion to with draw his plen-of guilty to the indictment charging him with con- spiring to violate the prohibition law,

Capone was to have been sen- tunced

yesterday, but apparently fearing that he was to be given à Then we should not only be If you cannot afford to pay the charges. If he is convicted was going to come but, what is severe "rap" he decided to fight sure of when a general election me $150 a month out of your

Will Take Time.

10 get business would Mr. Agassiz:-Do you intend

lever to repay it?—Yes. In In cross-examination by the When?--I cannot any because ofleinl Receiver, witness agreed have no mangy to spare. debtor had paid $150 a month obvious that they don't content-

from February, 1926, until Novem plate receiving anything more."

ber, 1930, without affecting his Mr.

Johnson referred to

to an er authority

in which the opinion was business to any marked degree. given that a bankrupt's means of

it la stoing to take | he probably will be given a heavier] even more important, sure that it Hvelihood ought not to be euther the

of all members salary down too closely, and that he the staff was raised with the some time to repay $1,200, isn't sentence than he otherwise would would be followed by action, and should be allowed a liberal mar-xception of debtor's. gin.

Debtor's Social Position.

that in Noven salary Witness explained

you

of

it?--Yea

have,

Why did he lend you this money,

Debtor, he said, could not poчhelped him.. albly keep up his social position and business abilities on $350 month. He had been employed since 1924 as chief clerk in the

Principal Reason,

marino department of China was the principal reasou. We $1,200 out of dinners7--No.

SPAIN TO HONOUR IBANEZ.

PUBLIC FUNERAL IN MADRID.

I see. If it had not been for with no interest and little pros- inving creditors you would! of getting it back?-He is a pect have raised his salary?—-Well, giving him a rise would not have good personal friend of mine and

also a man of means. Debtor said he entertained Wong Ngal-tong sometimes,

Mr. Astansiz: Was the arrange- That is the reason why?-That ment. that he should take the

Mudrid, July 30. pre did not look for another reason. Underwriters. In this sphere

Replying to Mr. Johnson, debtor Preparations are complete for tion was very keen, and Can you give any valid reason stated that as compradore of the the transfer of the remains of the hard to get, but debier why he should not still pay $150 company Wong Ngai-tong would Spanish Foet and Novelist, Blasco was expected to get business for the next six years without naturally attend dinners given for Ibanez, from Mentone to the which made it necessary for tim collapsing? It is impossible to business purposes.

of the Spanish Repubile capital that absolutely. good appearance and to keep up

Hia Lordship directed that where a statue will be erected in You did not give him a entertain to a considerable extent

risoebtor's discharge be suspended exte because of

This memory. order to get his businena.

his undeserving until he had paid a

a dividend of 15 The re-interment will take the Tumbly expenses, is cent, la payments of 350-character of a public funeral, to grew up, must obviously function of the company to pay his month, commencing on the first which such close friends of the have increased, and he could not creditors.

day of next month. His Lordship late author as M. Herriot, Signor now afford to make further pay ments.

any

Debtor, giving evidence, said explained that debtor had already Niti and Professor Painleve will he had borrowed the sum of $1,200 paid 18 per cent and he would be invited by the Government. His Lordship-Can you supportin amall amounts at different have to bring the total to 15 per Ibanez was Republican re- your statement on business by times, from the compradore, Wong cunt, before he could be dischargvolutionary. He died in exile. ovidence from the company? Ngal-tong," in "order to keep up his od:

revival.

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