1931-08-21 — Page 7

HANKOW OUTRAGE PROTEST.

CABLES LONDON ON LADIES! ASSAULT.

ACTION REQUESTED.

'London. Aug. 17,

Only the barest details of the at tack made on a British and two American ladies and four British men having been received by the Foreign Ofee, officials at White. hall are unable to appraise the im- portance of the incident. From information receive it is under- stood that the British And Ameri- can consuls-general in Hankow are acting energetlenlly to obtain the necessary redress. The incident is not officially regarded as on the same plane us the disappearance | of Mr. J. H. Thorburn.

Hankow Protest.

Feeling is running, high among the British community of Hankow at the failure of the Chinese nu- thorities to act in the recent inci- dent in the ex-German Concession when one British and two Ameri- ean women were manhandled by is mob, and severely beaten.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931.

GERMAN__MINISTERS IN PARIS.

Our photo illustrates the remarkably warm reception accorded to Dr. Brusning, the German Chancellor, and Dr. Curtius, the Foreign Minister, when they visited Paris recently. The return visit by M. Laval and 19. Briand has been postponed owing to the ill-health of M. Briand,

CHIANG NOW IN NANKING.

TALK OF WAR WITH CANTON.

YEAR'S GAOL FOR KIDNAPPER.

WOMAN GETS MAXIMUM SENTENCE.

IMPROPER USE OF SAMPAN.

WOMEN IDENTIFIED BY COIFFURE.

Nanking, Aug. 20. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek arriv ed here this morning by train. TRIED TO SELL GIRL. FIFTY DOLLAR FINE.

At the Station he was met by the Foreign Minister, Mr. C. T. Wang,

"They could be told by the cut of their hair," was the submission made by Sub-Inspector Chevaller, before the Hon. Comdr. Hole, at the Marine Court this morning, in prosecuting a boatwoman named Cheng Sze-mai, for having used her boat for the conveyance prostitutes yesterday. The defen- dant pleaded not guilty.

Sub-Inspector Chevalier Bald that yesterday at 8.10 p.m. he was a private motor-bont on patrol

A serious view was taken of a As a result, a strongly-worded and other high affinis of the kidnapping case which was men Five Council The Nationalisttioned before Mr. Williams at the petition has been rant to Mr. Ar-Generalissimo intends to stay for Central Police Court this morning, thur Henderson, the Foreign Se-only n few days to confer with Mr. and, on the application of Inspec- cretary, drawing his attention to Yu Yu-jen. the Chairman of the tor John Murphy, attached to the Censure Council, and his Divi-Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, the Incident and to the possibility tonal Commander on the Canton his Worship inposed the maximum of increasing trouble in future un-situation.

penalty of one year's imprison It is believed that the Nanking ment. fens the Chinese officials concern-

The defendant, a woman, wasi, ed are punished.

Government is preparing for war and that the rumours of Madame alleged to have taken the victim, Sun Yat-sen having assumed the a 13-year-old giri to Canton and, role of mediator are being spread on failing to sell her there, return-duty in the harbour. He came up

far certain political reasons.

Madame Sun is indisponed and a

admitted to hospital

in

her

The petition reads: "Urgently request the personal attention of the Foreign Secretary towards the Increasing insecurity to British subjects in Hankow as exemplified wER by the incident on the sixth instant Shanghai where she intends when in the Chinese-administered rest. She has appealed to Marshal vx-German concession district as Chlang Kai-shek through they were quietly proceeding home brother, Mr. T. V. Soong, asking wards one British woman was in for leniency to be granted to 3TF. decently assaulted and benten, Tenk Yen-ta, the Kuomintang and four British men were attack extremist who was formerly an ed and one seriously injured by active member of the Hankow! roolles supported by the Chinese Government. Marshal Chiang bas police, and later, at the police consented to examine the whole station were forcibly refused per charge against Tong Yon-ta before mission to communicate with the allowing the Shanghai Clef Court Consul by the police superinten-to, proceed with the trial.

dent.

Extrality Issue,

"It is imperative to note that this

is the culmination of a series of in-ed

Detention Rumours.

Shanghai, Aug. 21. Matane Sun Yat-sen has decid

to remain in hospital for a cidents based on the assumption, week. Special detectives from the necording to the statement by the Police Headquarters and Munici Chief of Police after the Melride pal Government have been detailed case, that extraterritoriality to protect her at the hospital. Hankow has been abolished,

This In

has led to the spread, of that she is under the any ease. the bestial, unchecked rumours attack on a woman is unpardonable surveillance of Marshal Chiang and must lead to incidents produe. Kai-shek. tive of grave issues and unless the Chinese effials concerned in the present incident are punished ex emplarily and the impression treat ed among the Chinese authorities is definitely corrected ninjor inci. dents of a like nature are inevit. able."

STOCK EXCHANGE DECISION.

PROVINCES LIKELY TO FOLLOW SUIT.

London, Aug. 20.

Mhu

“TELEGRAPH” ART SUPPLEMENT.

More Macao Disaster

Pictures,

To-morrow's issue of the Telegraph Art Supplement will contain a whole page of pictures of the Macao disaster und of the funeral of the Portuguese vletims.

There will also be a

a varied selection of other pictures of topical interests, these includ Ing the bowls match between K.B.C.C. and the Electric Co.. the funeral of the late M.

Q. S the wedding of Mr. Hugh Peter Lim and Mias Lilian Chinn, the S.C.A.A. footballers with trophies won on their recent tour, and fur- ther photos of the wash-out

Wognelchung, which · re- sulted in the loss of six lives.

Madame. Sun has issued state- meats expressing her intention to leave for Russia as soon as recovers from her ailment. She man regrets that her return has caused the dissemination of news that sheet to Hongkong where the girl

to re-enter polities became seriously ill and is about Rensho.

admitted to the Kwong Wah Hos- pital.

DANGER OF TOO MUCH LEISURE.

Continued from Pope 6)

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in connxelon with the derision be slow murder-unless there of the London Stock Exchange

a side interest or a previously cul- to open on Saturdays on and after tivated hobby to tilt that blank and September 19th, it is to be noted bridge the chasm into the calm sen that the pre-war practice of open-of fiture case. ing for a half-day on Saturdays was suspended in April 1917, and had not been revived, although

Wall Street and most Continental Bourges have

Saturday late business.

over

of

on the starboard side of the City of Lille, and saw five sampans trying to make fast to her. There was no gangway at that spot. He made a search of the sampans, and in four of them there were only crews, but in the fifth, No. Å 1254V, owned by the defendant, he caunted three women and three girls, all of whom admitted they He took them were prostitutes.

to the Water Police Station and charged the defendunt.

convey

The defendant aald that six wo- men ad hired her boat at the Yaumati Wharf to

them to the City of Litle, at a charge of ten cents per head. They had asked her to wait until they came off the steamer. She did not know who they were. She was making her bout fast to the gangway when the police arrived.

Sub-Inspector Chevalier, recall ed, said the three women were dressed in black clothes and the three girls in gaudy attire. There could be no doubt as their identity from their appearance, as it could be seen by the cut of their hair that they were prostitutes."

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Comdr. Hole convicted the defen- dant and imposed a fine of $50 or in default six weeks' imprisonment, adding that if she appeared before him again she would be fined $100.

GREAT WARSHIP EXPLOSION.

TEST IN BATTLE CONDITIONS.

RADIO BROADCAST

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME OF

RECORDED MUSIC.

To-day's radio programme to be broadenit by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metros:

8.00-7.00 p.m. Chinese Programme. 5.30-0.00 p.m. The Second of a Series of Lectures on "The Scientific Explanation of Common Natural Phonomena" by Mr. I. T. Pan, B.B.C.

7.00-10.30 p.m. European Pro- gramme of Victor Records kindly applied by Messrs. Tanng Fook Flaño Co.

7.00 p.m. Stock Quotations, Binil Notice, etc.

* 7.05-7.47 p.m. Variety.

Orchestral-Honeymoon Waltz, Orchestral-Sweet Blue Bird.

Green Brothers' Marimba Orch. 10801, Whistling Solo-Tout Passo. Whistling Solo-Listen to the

Mocking Bird.

Margaret McKee. 10894. Piano Solo-The Warid in Waiting

for the Sunrise. Plano Solo-Dorothy.

Nightingales,

Frank Banta. 21821.

Dawn in an Old World Garden.

Actually recorded in Beatrice Harri- son's Garden, Oxted, England. 20088, Song-Sleepy Time Gal.

Song-Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue.

Geno Austin (Tenor). 1989).

Banjo Solo-St. Louis Bluce. Banjo Solo The Doll Dance. Eddle Peabody and His Banjo. 20608.

7.47-8.00 p.m. Opéralle.

Band-Trovatore-Anul! Chorus

(Verdi).

Arthur Pryor's Band. 10879. Song-Rigoletto-Mid the Fair

Throng (Verdi).

Enrico Caruso (Tenor). 500. Chorus-Faust-Soldier's Chorus

(Gounod),

Victor Malo Chorus. 19783. 8,00 p.m. Local Time and Weather Heport.

6.03-8.17 p.m. Havalion Music. Three o'clock in the Morning. The Missouri Waltz Irene Frederick-Al Mason (Hawaiion Guitars). 20965. In the Heart of Hawaii. My Honolulu Dream Girl.

Hilo Hawallan Orchestra. 19680, 8.17-8.45 p.m. Orchestral.

Dance of the Toy Regiment

(Green-Shilkret). Warblings at Eve (Richards).

Victor Salon Orchestra. 19840. Polianka. Odessa.

Kirillof Russian Balalaika Orchestra. 19776. Hungarian Dance No. 1 (Brahms). Spanish Dance (Dizet).

Philadelphia Symphony Orch1113. Spanish Caprice (Rimaky-Korsakow), San Francisco Symphony Orch. 1186.

8.45-0.35 p.m. Concert Items. Piano Solo-Naila (Delibes-Dohnany!). Piano Solo-A Dream of Love (Liszt). Whelm Bachaus. 6682. Song-Simonetta (White-Rumbold). Song The Little Damazel

(Weatherly-Novelló).

Lucrezia Bori (Soprano). 1102. Cymbalem Solo-Hungarian Dance

No. 5 (Brahms). Cymbalom Solo-Csardas (Hungarian

Dunce) (Hubay)

Feri Sarkozi. 20841. Male Chorus-The Bells of St. Mary's

(Furber-Adams). Male Chorus John Peet

(arr. Andrews).

Associated Glee Clubs of America. 19061, Piano Solo-To Spring (Grieg),

Myrtio C. Enver. 22163. Song Kathleen Mavourneen

Crawford-Crouch).

Song The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls (Thomas Moore). The Silver-Masked Tenor. 19918. Violin Solo-Rosu in the Bud

(Forster).

Violin Solo-One Little Dream of

Love (Gordon).

Renee Chomet. 1132, 9.35-30.00 pm. Organ Solos.

Jesse Crawford. 20003.

Jesse Crawford, 20283.

Jesse Crawford. 20000, In a Little Spanish Town. Just a Bird's-Eye View of my Old

Kentucky Home,

"Jesse Crawford. 20158. 10.00-19.28 p.m. Band Selections. The Yellow and Blue (Gayley-Balfe), University of Michigan Band. 10071.

In reply to his Worship, Inspec- toy Murphy remarked that he was not asking for a committal In the ense, because the witness all belonged to the floating population and might not be easily found.

Describing the facts of the case; The blank that follows retire-

H.M.S. Marlborough, the last ment may well be fatal. The mental. Inspector Murphy said the giri change on release from work and was betrothed to the complain-of the coal-burning battleships, Hant's son and was Uving with her which is shortly to be scrapped. the Inck of balance and support may;

mother-in-law. it and is being used for experiments that on March 16, 1930, in preventing serious damage from Because. the mother of the girl handed her internal explosions in battle, un- whom she had been living on acverest tests to which a warship

to the complainant with

derwent recently one of the Cherie, I Love You,

Ting-A-Ling. board

boat.

hna ever been Bubjected.

Dinah. The increased strain of modern On July 2 this year, when the "The experiment was carried out

Always. life takes its toll in wear and tear. boat was lying in Causeway Bay, in Plymouth Sound, two miles from There is more nerve trouble to-the girl was sent ashore to pur-the shore. It consisted in ex- day—at least among the well to do; chase

of cordite in the some sweets, and while ploding 1,000lb. in order to re- one does not hear much about her walking along the street she met forward VONB break-down among the

the defendant, whom she had not produce the probable effect of R It is expected that the Pro-poorer people. They have to "get seen before. The accused invited hostile aheli bursting among the vincini Exchanges will follow the on with it" or call their malady the girl to accompany her to ammunition. lend of London, which is generally by another name,

Hongkong, to get some clothing. shipping was warned to keep well received by the Press, which One wonders sometimes how any The girl went with her to Sham- regards it as an effort to encour man can throw everything aside to shulpo to her house and was them at least a quarter of a mile away,

and

the battleship was moored at a age increased business activitylour his days out. Why should a given a parcel, after which they shallow spet in

In caso she sank, British Wirclear.

man who has worked happily for re-crossed the harbour to long- The magazine blew up with a years be presumed to have lost his kong and boarded a boat which roar that was heard for miles business capacity when he attaine the defendant said would again around. Then through the clouds the-mora.mature judgment of Inter take them to. Kowloon..

of smoke six Navy tugs dashed life, and be fit only for the shelf?

alongside, in caso-the famous bat tleship, with her crow of experts, of harness to another interest or a The girl noxt found herself in who had remained on board, was well-developed hobby. It is no good Canton where several people were sinking. But she withstood the waiting till the leisure comes, for brought to see her. The defen: shock well, and sustained no dam- that only means a sudden and grow-dant had admitted to the police age below the water line. Ing sense of shock to a system long that she had taken the girl to When the experts, in

gas maska, Inured to routine and the rhythm Canton to sell her,

were able to make unsuccessful, had brought her through the fumes and the great back to Hongkong. The girl was heat they found that while the pathy from the King on the death becomes empty and Job, existence again taken to Shamshulpo. and decks and bulk-heada of the maga

purposeless, and while there she became i

She zing were, buckled, the of Lieutenant G. L. Brinton in the day by day petty fancles, worries was taken to the Kwong Wah Hos plate was undamaged. accident at Calshot on Tuesday and Imaginary symptoms creep pital, but her condition became during the training for the

worse.

before yesterday, when she was Schneider Race, which he has upon and submerge him.

Many familles dread tho day conveyed to the officer's relations. when father

The defendant got alarmed and seen in Connaught Road Central, retires

told the boat people that the girl she was seleed by the complain- Father, unless there is very was in hospital. The child's own ants and taken to Yaumati." In He has also received a message from General Balbo, Italian Alr strong reason for it, had better mother heard of her daughter's Canton Road, near Hamilton Royal Air Force, and especially else to do! Indeed, for a certain hor. The giri's mother-in-law was crowd collected. to the splendid team at Calshot, type of man it is better ho should later informed and then a search Watchman who went to make the deep sympathy of Italian keep on till he drops. As a rule was made for the defendant, but enquiries, took the parties to the pllots."British Wireless. *--

ho will be much longer dropping.she was not found until the day Police Station.

SCHNEIDER TROPHY

TRAGEDY.

MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY RECEIVED.

London, Aug. 20. The Air Minister, Lord Amulres, has received a mosange of sym-

A man should slip gradually out

of the business life.

Boreft of his ilfo

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Teken to Hospital-

being

Armour

The Black Horse Troop (Sousa), The National Game (Sous)

Souan's Band. 19741, "Lights Out" March (McCoy), National Emblem March (Bagley),

"Arthur Pryor's Band. 19842, Electric "March (Creators American Army Match (fassell),

Creatore's Band. 19844. 10:28 pm. Rugby Mid-day Press

10.30 p.m. Close Down,

Nows

STOCK EXCHANGE.

·DECISION TO OPEN ON SATURDAYS.

London, Aug. 20. In view of the situation of the country, and the desirability of affording facilities for stock and share dealing, the London Stock Exchange has decided to opon on Saturdays, beginning from Beptom District ber 19.

Minister, making "to express to the keep on a bit ar find something plight and went to the hospital for Street, & quarrel ensued and

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There has been no Saturday open- ing since the outbreak of the war.

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