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MR. CHURCHILL ON POLICE USE A

REALITY ·

WORDS OF WARNING IN THE COMMONS

BRITAIN AT HOME

AND ABROAD

"We are trying to pay off reali- ties with words."

Mr. In that one crisp sentence Winston Churchill, speaking for the first time in the House of Com- mons after his long linces, ung his "i'accuso" at the Statesmen and politicians, not merely of Britain, but of the world.

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Mr. and Mrs. Laffond. Win Mixed-Bogey Pool.

The mixed bogey pool competition played at Fanling during the Christ- mas Holidays resulted in a win for Romarkable evidence was given Mr. and Mrs. Laffond, who finished at West London

Police Court: two down. There were when John William Bell, aged 40, altogether.

10 entrios Inn assessor, of Fenchurch-street, London, and Nizell's avenue, Hove, Staex, was charged on remand!

TUESDAY, JANUARY

1933:

BRAVERY REWARDED.

MEDALS PRESENTED TO HEROES OF SHANGHAI WAR

Nanking, Jan. 1,

RADIO BROADCAST

·THE TRIAL OF VIVIENNE WARE

A vory Impressive ceremony was held at the National Government this morning when medals were presented to Generals Taal Ting- kai, Chiang Kwang-nai, Tai Chi, Chang Chi-chung and Yu Tal-shih 355 for their bravery against the Japanese in Shanghai during tho

year.

Generals Taaf, Chiang and Tal Nineteenth Route Army which put up a gallant fight against the Japanese. Gonorals Chang and Yu were in command of the Fifth Army which also participated In the defence of the Woosung and Kiangwan arons-Router.

metres (845 k/c). From Z. B. W. on wave-length of

5-8 p.m. European programme.

6-7 pm. A programme of Victor & II.B.V. records. 6-6.22 p.m.

Nights in the Gardens of Spain (De Falla)... Symphony Orchestra con- 5.22.5.40 p.m. Gilbert & Bullivan Selections. Patience Overtura.

Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Bargont. 11070. The Yoemen of the Guaru-Vocal

Gomis.

with burglariously breaking into a of additors at Queen Victoria-Sino-Japancas fighting early laat house in Kensington-court on streat, where there was a strong room. Some time In September April 18, and stealing property, Mr. Walah, an employee of the aro commandors of the Cantonese ducted by Flero Coppola 0703/0706, worth £25,000.

The articles Included a bronzo! firm of solicitors, met Bell in the statuette of Aphrodite, Egyptian City, and Bell said that he had a gold plate, a Greek pottery vase, suitcase which he wanted Walsh a sliver bust of a man, a Paduan to put in the strong room. The statnetto, four pendants, two gold request was complied with. They For an hour and a quarter he watches, and lour rings. wrenched at the garments of inter- belonged Radiona,

On November 10, he said, Rell ruthless national illusion with

Bell, was also charged with re- went to the solicitors' office before. verbal tugs, and then, with a

celving,

he went to Rothfield's, and gesture half of smiling irony and

Outlining the case, Mr. E. Clay-given the bag. Mr. Walsh would cold fury, he held up the half of colony and begged peoples ton (for the Director of Public tell the Court that Bell took out and politicians to look with courage Prosecutions) said that there had the statue, which was wrapped in Press here. been no trace of the thief. The cotton-wool.

upon their nakedness.

Reality was his theme. The word threaded his quick, pointed, balanced sentences--reality about India; reallly in economic affairs; reality in international conferences; reality in disarmament; reality about the fears, the military pre- parations of Europe; reality, above all, in our own attitude to European entanglement, and in the Govern- ment's unshirkable duty to pre- serve "that strong and unassailable neutrality from which we must never be drawn except by the heart and conscience of the nation."

Intertwined with this remorseless Inalatence was a strand of irony, looped in places to ensnare the Prime Minister and, in one instance at least, Mr. Baldwin.

Tilting at the Premier.

He began by harking back, with a smile and a sting, to a previous day's debate: "When I heard the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister, those two veteran Socialista, going for each other hammer and tongs across the Table, I felt that I really could onvr we Prime Minister, with nil the fellow- feeling of ono fractious invalid for another, my most sincere con- gratulations. I am glad to do 80, because they are very nearly the only congratulations I shall have to, offer him."

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statuette of Aphrodite was insur- The police afterwards went to ed for £20,000. In addition to the the solicitors' office and thero re- police, an assessor, Mr. Diekin, ceived a bag in which were the was notified. Mr. Dickin nctad Padduan gure and a Greek pot for Lloyd's and a reward of £2,509

tery vast. All the property had was offered.

On September 19 Mr. T. s. been recovered with the exception Wilding, a solicitor acting for of the gold plate, the jewellery, Lloyd's underwriters, was called

Mr. Clayton said that there was on by Bell, who produced a photo- graph of the statuette of Aphro- no doubt that the gold plate had Mr. Wilding asked Bell been melted down. Bell said so. where he got the photograph, and. The silver bust was handed to the he said he got it from the police.police by the defence. It had been

in Bell's bed-room. Bell, it was alleged, said to Mr.

Count Radiono gave Wilding, "I will get the property

evidence and Baid that the Aphrodite for you if you will pay £5,000."

Wilding was taken aback, said statutette had been in a sale for Mr. Clayton, and said he must £23,000. All the articles were in- have time to consider this and toured with Lloyds for £25,000, and Bell he had started civil proceedings consult the underwritern. onid that the articles were im to recover it. mersed in a canal but were at- Cross-examined by Mr. Davis, tached to the side and could be he said that he could not say if his brought up at any time. He anld, claim was being contested that the money was to be divided between a great number of reopln and added that the underwriters would be sorry if they did not agree to the proposition.

the underwriters

Mr. Davis-lo it not a fact that the underwriters did not agree with the value you put OR the property?- do not know.

Police Listen-In

You know that Mr. Rothfield was "Not Under Water"

acting in your interests to recover Wilding always put Bell off. the property 7-A few days ago I anying he had to await instruc- was told that a man had done tions, proceeded Mr. Clayton. Bome work in the matter, and at About October 11 Bell called the suggestion of the police I again and said his previous In-wrote to Mr. Rothfield thanking formation was incorrect. He had him. seen the gold plate and the status and they were not lying under water. Then he suggested that Detective Inspector, Skelly, gly. should make ing evidence of the arrest, said A moment later, and he was at it their decision at once.

that he and Sergeant Smith secret again: "Looking back on those

Subaquently, said Mr. Clayton, ed themselves in a room above July days when the Prime Minister Mr. Rothfield, who kept a tobac- the shop. In the room was a de- was welcomed In triumph on his conist's shop in Cranbourne-ally, tectorphone with a loud-speaker return (from the Lausanne Con- Leicester-square, approached Bell attached and a microphone had ferente) by the Cabinet and the at his office and said he wanted to been placed in the shop. They Under-Secretaries, drawn up like buy the thing he had offered to latened to the conversation a row of Grenadiers of varying Wilding. The price named was, the shop. sizes at the railway station, we can

£4,500. Bell said he would see When they went into the shop, see how absurd was the claim that the man who had the statue and be said, the statuette, wrapped in Lausanne had saved Europe and consider it. The £4,500 was to be cotton wool and brown paper, was! that a new era had opened for the divided in the following way: on the table together with world."

| £2,000 to go to the thief and the remainder to be divided between Bell dud Rothfield. More inter- views took place and it was ur- ranged that the money should be handed over on Noveinber 10 at Rothfield's shop.

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bundle of notes value £3,260.

Mr. Davis appiled for bail which was refused at the

last hearing.

that 74

Inspector Askew said

And again, towards the end of his speech, came the prick of mock condolence. It must be very de- pressing for the Prime Minister to feel that the international situation

miniatures had been traced to bad become

Bell's 109session. It was pure during his stewardship. We would all like, Bell went to the shop and pro-conjecture that they were atolen and here he quoted one of Mr. duced the statue.

The money was property, and atopa

were being on the table and Bell put it in taken to find out to whom they MacDonald's utterancea upon disarmament, to do the brond. his pocket. Then the police came belonged.

and arrested him.

worse

just, fundamental, eternal thing."

That, sald Mr. Churchill, is "noble if somewhat flocculent eloquence,"

Conservatives and India

There were rooms above the shop. Baid Mr. Clayton, and detectorphone had been fixed up by the police, who heard the con versation between Boll and Roth- field.

Mr. Clayton explained that Bell was formerly employed by a firm

Mr. Davis-There is a proper answer forthcoming about these miniatures.

The Magistrate allowed ball in one surety In £1,500 or

two in £750 each.

The surely was forthcoming, and the bearing was adjourned.

Mr. Baldwin also suffered. His disarmament speech of last week revealed "the latent and often carefully concealed powers which reside in my Right Honourable DAY BY DAY: NEWS IN BRIEF friend," but (the wit vanished be- fore the realist) it had a sense of

WITHOUT WOMEN THE LIFE OF! There will be a meeting of the fatalism, and even, perhaps, of MAN WOULD BE WITHOUT AID AT Sanitary Board at 4.15 this afternoon, hopelessness. The responsibility of THE DEGINNING, WITHOUT P ZASURE when the business will be entirely Ministers to guarantee the safety of the country from day to day SOLACE and from hour to hour was direct d'ivudcot, and inalienable.

'IN

THE MIDDLE,

AT THE

AND WITHOUT END.-Madume?

formal.

One of the most attractive calendars for 1033 comes from the Wah Mei Electric Co. of Hongkong, with a Mr. Arthur Piercy has been author-coloured portrait of a lady. He was careful to remind the led to sign for Messrs. Jardine Government that there were two, Matheson & Co., Ltd., per procuration. Mr. H. E. Goldsmith, M. I. Struct. aides to the Indian controversy-

E., M.L.M. & Cy. E.. has been admitted "the view of the late Socialist Gov- Mr. and Mrs. Wong Kwong-tina partner in the firm of Menara. ernment, now adopted by the Na- were amongst the passengers who Denison, Ram & Gibbs, Architects & tional Government," that there arrived from Manila by the Presklent, Civil Engineers.

Coolidge. should be immodiately erected a j Federal Executive responsible to an |

A plain and fancy dress carnival A all-India Parliament elected upon a Contrnet, is to begin its screenings at the Docks by the Kowloon Dock The British film. "The Love, dance was held in the Reading Room democratic franchise, and the view at the Central Theatre to-morrow. Recreation Club Inst night, an enjoy. of the majority of the Conservative Winifred Shelter beads the cust, this, able evening being, spent by all who Party, and of the overhelming being her first starring role. majority of the people who knew anything about India, that it would be better to let the Provincial ex- periment precede any attempt to set up an all-India Executive.

A slight murmur of dissent greeted his phrase, "the majority of the Conservative Party."

"Thone." retorted Mr. Churchill, "are not my words. They are the words of the Morning Post, which is a newspaper extremely well in- formed on the interior characteris- tica of the Conservative Party,"

attended.

or Palee-Sergeant Michael O'Connell, at 16. Nam Chung Street, Shamsbui The wedding will shortly tako placo Injured in a fall down the stairs Quarry Bay Police Station, Hongkong, po, Chan Yip-tong, 60, was conveyed and Miss May Hughes, of "Seaside,, to the Tung Wah Hospital yesterday Rusk, Co. Dublin, en route to the He was discharged after treatment. Colony per x.s. Naldera.

Wave of Pessimism

Nanking, Jan, 1. A tone of general pessimism prevalla throughout the Caneso

In Chinese circles there is a general opinion that the country will be called upon to face a greater, monaco to its national existence this coming year, there being, a fear that Japan will strike nt. Peking and the Tientsin area and even possibly at

Yongtsze Valley. Reuter.

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ROBBERS POSE AS CUSTOMERS

TERRORISE INMATES WITH WEAPONS

Three customers who appeared late last night in a shop at Shek Kap Mi village, Shamshulpo dis- trict, proved to be armed robbers, when after securing entry, they exhibited a revolver and a knife.

With these weapons they terroris. ed the inmates, eventually escaping with money and jewellery to the value of nearly $200.

STOCKBROKEN'S FAILURE

NON-DELIVERY OF A TELEGRAM

The statutory first meeting of the creditors of Kenneth W. Kon stam, described as a stockbroker. of London Wall, was held at Bank- ruptcy Buildings, W.C. recently.

who presided, said that, according to statements made by the debtor, shares of a speculative nature on in September, 1929, he held various margin to the value of approximate ly £15,000. He went abroad, and, on receipt of the news of the Hatry "crash," wired to his bank to sell every share he had open.

Mr. B. Parke, Official Receiver.

Through some error his telegram was not delivered. In the result be was left, after Hatry's arrest, without margin and a heavy de- preciation of his shares, which were eventually sold at a loss of £4,000. Ife attributed his failure to the next- delivery of his telegram.

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ties at £7,000 and his assets

The debtor estimated his Habili-

£85. apart from p reversionary interest, which should realise some hundreds of pounds.

Mr. F.S. Salaman was appointed trustee.

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CAMBRIDGE BLUE'S

CHALLENGE

A big consignment of Irish Free State sweepstake tickets for the Grand National, of a face value of about £90,000, has been seized by the Liverpool Customs authorities. The tickets were found in a ship which arrived in the Mersey from Dublin, and were apparently in- tended for distribution in England, FROM CHESS TO BOXING stated "We have recently been who has had a distinguished career A Liverpool Customs official A Cambridge University "Blue"

kept bony on the look-out for con- in many branches of sport, has signments such as this, but this is issued a challenge to aby ether the biggest by far. The consign- Cambridge man for П contest Customs officials in London, and pastimes, the whole to be completed ment lins been forwarded to the embracing fourteen sports and

what the ultimate fate tickets will bo I do not know."

of the within three daya,

The third meeting of the Sernion Messrs. Hastings,, Denny & Bowley! 1932-33 of the Hongkong Branch of advertise that the interests and res the English Association is advertined Wal-lol, 10, living on the first floor

While hanging up a basket, Chan' onsibility of Mr. II. L. Dennys ceased to be held in the Helena May Is-of. No. 5 Li Shing, Street, toppled on 31st December, 1932; and that may stitute to-day at 5.30 p.m. Mr. C. over the balustrade of the verandah from 1st January, 1933 the business Maonaniara will spenk on "Light into the street, yesterday, und auffer- will be carried on under the firm Verse."

ed injuries lending to her admission kame of Hastings & Co.

to the Government Civil Hospital.

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At the Methodist Church, Wanchal, The health bulletin for Eastern on Sunday, the preacher at the ports for the week ended Decembar; morning servicn was, the Rev. F. E.

Letters of administration to the

The challenger, who wishes to remain anonymons for a time. matriculated in 1928. He gives the Bested match: following list of events for the sug

Althletes (three truck events and three field events), Golf, Boxing, All-in Wrestling, Fenclug, Swim- ming, Cross-Country (seven miles), Jawn Tennis, Real Tennis, Squash Racquets, Shooting. Racquets, Billiards, Chess.

A contest on the lines suggested

That accend view of India's pro-4. shows the following cases of in. ("Bobs") Ford, the Tos 1 to $27,300 local celato of Tang Leung would be a test of endurance as blem, he added, was not to be ro- fretious diseanor and deaths there who, with Mr. II. Chappell, in tour

Alexandrin 131 Ing the Far East in connexion with she, alias Leung You for You), als well as of skill. So far, however, garded as reactionary or dichard, from Small-pux,

eases 22 deaths, Dagdall four cases the furtheranes of the Toe II. move-Tang Leung Sze-you, late of Fun Fat the challenger has not insued four death. Basrah four rus ment. Next Sunday the Rev. Mr. Street, have been granted to her son,- two deaths, Macas one case, and Can- Ford will preach at the Cathedral at Tang Yul-ki, of 192, Queen's Road details, such as the length of the

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Government would steal fairly with

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