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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1933.

SELLING DELUGE HITS NEW YORK STOCK MARKET

A SEVERE BREAK

ACTION TO CORRECT SPECULATION

LEADS TO RUSH

New York, July 19. A deluge of selling hit the New York Stock Exchange to-day, precipitating crashes in values.

MURDER TRIAL CLOSING

ADDRESS FOR THE DEFENCE

NOT CONFESSION OF GUILT

The closing stages of Shaukiwan murder trial renched before Chief Justice at the Criminal Sessions morning.

least an equal opportunity as he of committing the crime. The Crown had made no attempt to show_that| this woman could not have been guilty.

COMMUNISM IN KWANGTUNG

The manner in which the money REDS wиs spent on necessary domestici articles and on Jowellery for the wifo-and the discovery of a large sum in the possession of the latter, strengthened his submission.

AND ANTI-REDS IN HO-PO

NEW CHINESE HOTEL.

OPEN SHORTLY AT WANGHAI

CORRESPONDENCE

Cabaretto Curfew

authorities.

Accused, Fan Hing, aged 20, int was not a confession of guiltago with the sudden arrival from Naval Canteen, is easily the tallest In order to restrict their calling,

was not

It is

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THEFT OF CAST IRON SPIRALS

GUARD MAKES ARRES

IN WATERENJEK

HOME MADE OIL

London, July 19.

La Lung, qu' unemployed, charged before, Mr. Schofield, at: the Central Magistracy this mont By the end of next month, an im- (To the Editor

ing, with the larceny of four cast portant addition to the Colony's

Hongkong Telegraph)

iron spirals from the Government accommodation för guests will have

Quarry at Quarry Bay, was fined: been effected when the large cara day's Telegraph on the subject of

Sir.Your leaderette in yester-800 or in default six weeks' hard HECTIC PERIOD

labour. NOT CONFESSION OF GUILT.

vansary being built by the Luk Hol the curfow hour imposed upon the defendant and another man plek- An Indian guard noticed tho Tung interests on the new Praya enbarets, raises a point that shoulding up the spirals, and gave chase. After a hectic period the Ho-po at Wanchai is thrown open to busi- bo Immediately cleared up by the One man got away, but defendant Dealing with the direct evidence the provided by the accused's state-district, lying some eighty miles подз. were ment, Counsel sald the mere pre- to the South-west of Swatow, is now quiet again-quiet, but not

Whatever the merits or demotita jumped into the water, and bid Woodsence of a passive spectator at a

The

new bullding occupying of the cabaret question, the police, behind a junk. The guard also this murder was not sufficient evidence unapprehensive.

15,000 sq. ft. of reclaimed land a of aiding and abetting. The state-

unless they can definitely show un jumped into the water, and The trouble began two months short distance beyond the new der what Ordinance they have im arrested the defendant, but a statement of defence.

posed their will on private citizens a statement made to the police,

the Puning district of soveral structure in the new district. It have exceeded their duty. Under Mr. Fraser rose to reply when the small bands of Reds: These start, has eight storeys Including the the Section 13 (1) to prosecute any The wheat market was similarly blamed his wife for the crime.

The murdered woman, Po Mui, Chief Justice said he did not wished a guerilla campaign of pro-mezzanine floor, is of

USING BRITISH badly hit, plunging perpendicular- ly and closing weak.

aged 60, of 47 Kami Wah, Sir set, to hear him unless Mr. Fraser wish-paganda and petty terrorisation, szeret

reinforced person responsible for any noiso

PRODUCT turning up in the evenings at signed on improved lines having section of that Ordinance gives AIR DEFENCE ADOPTS

throughout,

calculated to disturb or interfore and de- with the public tranquillity, but no in the selling of the recently Wah Street, on June 2, and round for the Jury to say whether there is and then kidnapping and holding water services will be installed, in thing at such and such a time.

Stocks were swept overboard was discovered dead in the un-jed particularly to speak.

tenanted basement of 57, Kam The Chief Justice added: manding food, orating, and now the

places least expecting them, de-

rogard to Its purpose. buoyant "Wol" or "nlcoholic".

In them power to tell a private citizen issues, which at one time suffered her neck was a portion of a cution any loophole in the evidence or not. for ransom a merchant or other addition to the usual flush water)

rooms, cold and hot that he shall do such and such.n singlet with which she had been losses varying from seven to strangled.

Mr. Fraser then addressed the nonwerker Little bloodshed ac-closet system. twenty-five points.

Fan and his wife were arrested jury,

companied these raida; but the

If the police have power to inflict The rush of selling orders by a ruse a few days later and

cumulative effect was

their will upon the proprietors of The Home Defence Air. 'Squad" carried the rest of the market both were committed for trial the murderer was

to dis- He said the police deduced that organize the whole district. The large cafe

The main interior features are a cabarets by fraposing a curfew hour, ron is flying solely on oil extract with it, but to a lesser extent, the The Chief Justice, informed the or that there were two murderers; youths unaccustomed to any fight-in addition to the usual offices,

very strong soldiery then in Ho-po were local from both sides of the ground floor, tell a private householder that he Philip Sassoon in the House of prices of stocka in other groups jury that the woman

and lounge opening they must also have the power to ed from British coal, stated Sir

dropping from ,two to

saven standing her trial with her hus-Mni wae likely to come to the base-tight in the market, ignoring the represents the most ambitious un-certain time.

must shut off his radio at a certain Commons to-day-British Wire- that the murderer knew that Poing, and these, preferred to sit points.

Built at a cost of eight lakis, it hour, or get rid of his guests by n Zess. band, owing to the position his ment because preparations had been appeals for help from the neigh- dertaking of the kind by Chinese in- The total turnover for the day casation against her had creat-made for her, the murderer needed bouring villages. Once, indeed, terests so far in Hongkong. The gives the police power, to ask a KING AND QUEEN

The Summary Offences Ordinance was 7,460,000 shares, the largest; since May, 1930.

money and knew Po Mul would they went out, but it was not to general manager, Mr. Chan Foo-Magistrate to inflict a fine on any Attorney General, prosecuted for

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant have some,

fight-only to burn, as a warning, cheung, fa a much travelled busi-person contravening its provisions. the Crown, and Mr. II. C. Mnenn-

"The motive was not robbery", some houses in a little village that nesaman, and he claims for the now But before this can be done, the Magistrate must have sufflelent mar, instructed by Messrs. Lo sald Mr. Fraser. "It was murder had given food, though under com- enterprise the incorporation of and o represented accused.

and robbery, for robbery with no

pulsion, to the Reds."

number of unique ideas.

evidence that the public tranquillity and secondly, to the action of the. Mow Fung, (Foreman), II. A.

The jury is composed of Messrs. murder meant no security."

has been disturbed. The fact that INSPECT ADVERTISING These bands of Reda were be-

Chinese hotels of the chaan, or an occupier of a dwelling has dis brokers in raising the marginal Castro, J. A. S. Alves, O. B. Raven,

lievers in Communism and were boarding-house type, are notoriously turbed the public tranquillity does requirements from an average of D. Ellis, A. D. S. Gomes, and H.

looking forward to the time when lacking in the conveniences desired not, under the Summary Offences

London, July 19. twenty-five per cent. to sixty per D, Brown,

His Lordship: Supposing they they would be the local guides to for family residence. The new Ordinance, give the police power to Olympia to-day and made a tour The King and Queen visited both went to the house, ons with a larger force that was to come Luk Hoi Tung hotel at Wanchai make and enforce regulations fur of all the principal features of the cont.

the intention of killing and both down from Kiangsi. They had will attempt to remedy this defect the compulsory closure of any advertising and marketing exhihi. with the intention of sharing the heard of the defeat of the Govern-and-combine with a spotless clean- private dwelling. does that in your opinion make went about proclaiming that the the type of guests who insist on that, despite the fact that there ing industries have collaborated.

tion in which the press, printing, money after the woman was dead, ment troops there earlier on, and liness, exceptional inducements for It should also be borne in mind advertising, and many other lead them both guilty at murder? time was fast approaching when modern comfort and reputable our-have been two prosecutions at Kow- British Wireless. Must there be common intention the Communists would over-run roundings.

loon, not one conviction has been to kill?

this district also.

registered yet against the proprie All the rooms are walled, se dis-tor of any cabaret in Hongkong, Sumatra, but have never seen due Mr. Fraser: "I submit that it

tinguished from the cubicle ar- I hold ro brief for dancing rangement, and private telephones academies in residential areas, but, at 3 years of age, weighing mors” is not necessary to have common Actually-though this they did connected with a main switchboard as regards these, the police have than 800 to 1,000 lbs. intention to kill" and quoted not themselves proclaim-these

on each floor will add to the ameni-always had a remedy in the Sum- Halsbury In support..

¡ties offered,

I rauy mention that I myself pant mon had become Communists not would originally through political con-

mary Offences Ordinance. Com-n vialt to the menagerie of th designviction or economic

The furnishing will be European made in respect to only two or four annuals including the

plaints have, I understand, been Great Chinese Circus and saw ati was to share the proceeds after just as the result of a long-stand-equipment and installations will add three of these cabarets, and for the one, and should say that all four

causes, but throughout. The cost of interior the woman was dead. the facts of this case the common numbering several thousand meu, Mr. Fraser: 1 submit that on trict. The clans involved, cach

ing clau-feud in the Puning die-another-lakh to the total outlay.

authorities to impose a curfew on together would not weigh more every one in Hongkong, savours too than 5,000 to 6,000 lbs. The interests behind the under-much of autocracy. design must have been to kill.

Trusting that you will excuse ing started the feud some seventy or taking are confident of immediate His Lordship: Not on

What we want in this Colony is taking so much of your valuable the eighty years back, and early on success, on account of the great at- little more common sense and a space hoping that you will let me imitated unconsciously the Wars traction it will hold out as the first little less Bumbledom... It is hard know as to how the weight of the and smallness of prisoner's earnings, Mr. Fraser: The common of Roses by adopting as their hotel of its kind in Hongkong and enough living hore now without elephant in question was

This need of money, and his know design need not go so far as emblems the one side a red flag China.

Banctimonious officialdom interfer- tained. need only have land the other side a white flag.

Ing to the extent they have done! common design to rob.

At that time there was no political

with what little pleasure we have. Chase the cabarets out of the re-

The break is attributed in the first place to reports that the leading bankers are considering the taking of action to restrict loans for speculative purposes;

The action of the brokers led to

a rush by the speculators who are

cd.

DEFENCE SUBMISSIONS.

without suffelent enah to meet the that there was no case to go to the Mr. Machamars in submitting margins. Reuter.

jury, said the case for the Crown had been stated to be that the murder was committed by a person for persons and prisoner by his own admission was present," but being present at a murder was not in!

LITHUANIA IN MOURNING

ATLANTIC FLYERS BROUGHT HOME

itself the crime of murder.

"I submit that my friend has prov-j ed a good deal more than he set out to prove. According to evidence for the Crown for the purposes of my argument, whatever else that evid- der was committed by this man's ence proves, it proves that the mur

wife."

Kovno, July 19. Fifty thousand people, including members of the Cabinot and: Diplomats, stood in mourning at the Aerodrome hore to-day when the bodies of the trans-Atlantic points made with regard to Lithuanian flyers, Darius Girenas were landed.

THE COMMON DESIGN.

His Lordship said it appear that the common

The testimony of the witnesses was circumstantial evidence and the present fucts.

the

Both of the intrepid aviatora, ledge of Po Mui's possession of murder. They who gave their lives in the cause money, told equally againat his wife of aviation, have been posthumas against himself, quely awarded a number. of decorations-Reuter

On the night of the murder, the Levidence showed that she had at

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ADVERTISERS more than ever demanding proof of circulation, Economy In newspaper advertising depends entirely on the popularity of the media, or in other words, the actual, cash sales figures.

This is why you notice the names of all enterprising commercial undertak- ings in the advertising columns of the "Morning Post" and "Telegraph", Based on certified cash sales, the cheapest advertising (and, of course, the most effective) is that placed with these two leading newspapers.

Based on the latest circulation certificates: prepared by - Mesars, Lowe Bingham & Matthews; Glar....... tered Accountanti, "241,088 - copisa per month" "Joint sales todre.record-

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Mr. Fraser: If the jury come to that conclusion I shall be quite satisfied.

ORIGIN OF BANDS.

..

investigation is generally sidential areas, by all means. But

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A. JUNGLE

leave them alone in the business us was approximately 8,860 lbs and The figure officially supplied to quarter.

not 9,300 lbs. This was probably: an under-estimate as it was ascertained when the elephant was weighed on being shipped some months ago. The average weight of a full-grown elephant is 7,000. Ibs which is a little over 3 tongy

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Sir-I must say that I did not:

of the end of

the

Hio Lordship: That they did significance attached to the rol-such not have. They did not intend ours; but when that significance edly lacking. taking anything from this woman came, the clans, rather than while she was alive. That is change, still stuck to their colours Further, one of the captains of clear on the facts. It is quite and developed the one red Com-he newly arrived force belongs to clear also that they did not set munistic sympathies and the other A family of the district that in young man can go to at nights.

white. Last spring the latter, ex. recent years has lost eleven of its out to rob this woman in the ord-ploiting its colour, obtained official

help and defeated the red clan so captain does not feel too badly that about a thousand of its passionate; and a sinister rumour nien decided to leave the district, has spread concerning him. On It was bunds of these who appear meeting the head of the local yesterday's date, I was surprised

Sir-On reading your issue of 2 cwt-Ed, H. K. T. REMARKABLE CROWN CASE. ed in the Hopo district.

charitable association he is said to to find that one of the elephants have asked: "How many coffins has of the Great Chinese Circus had Mr. Macnamara, addressing the

These mon were Reds of their your association?". "A few tena", died and that the weight of the fully appreciate what your con- jury, said in his opinion the case own choice, but they soon started was the reply; to which he rejoin-case was some 3,300 lbs. Contributor intended as a humorous. had been presented by the Crown to compel others less willing to ed, "That's not enough-I'll want sidering that a full-grown ele.description

few voluntarily 1501". So far some twenty men phant case was before the magistrate the joined them, won over by their have been seized and shot. The weigh round about this weight, I in a remarkable way. When the join them. A

(Burmese) would only circus elephant. present accused and his wife were speeches in the various villages Red bands themselves have dis-am at a loss to understand how the sufficiently developed atate to dis jointly convicted of the murder. visited (attendance at such spee- appeared into the blue, no one weight of a baby elephant, which pense with these unnatural and Is not the civilised world in n For some reason he did not under-ches was obligatory for the whole knows where, and these are local this one was, should be 3,300 lbs. pitiless cxhibitione? To me it stand and which had never been village population). But many folk suffering in their place. And. explained the case against the more assumed a friendly attitude latest news says that two Reds well over 100 years and I shoulding and feeling human being can Elephants in some cases live seems incredible that any think wife had not been proceeded with. towards them purely as an ex- have been captured at Nam-san, say 70 years would be a good take pleasure in the perpetual Int "The point I wish to emphs/pedient for avoiding further un-ten miles East of Ho-po, with yet averago at the time of death from prisonment of an animal. The size," he said "is that it is not welcome pressure. In one case. another record book! for you to criticise the way the gain, clan animosity proved the

natural causes. As the one that elephant in Inw officers of the Crown see fit to deciding factor, one clan coming to The military have made the dis- died at the Circus was on 8 baby-taken from its natural question—a mero conduct their business, and what friendly understanding with the trict safe for travelling, and the years old it was only a baby It haunts of green forests, chained bands in the hope thereby of annual Baptist Conference for the may be of interest to know that and pushed and shipped; and ever they have done cannot in any enlisting their help against the Swatow-Molyen district is at the big elephant of Harmston's badgered by brilliant lights and way prejudice the position of the stronger clan fee. In this way present meeting in Ho-po; but for Circus which was in Hongkong Yaccused. He is entitled to say cissension, mutual suspicion, and the local people the new quiet is some 18 months ago was practical thronging mobe, little wonder the that this crime was done by his unrest grew apace, and nobody † mingled with much apprehension. Ily full grown and woighed only animal pines and dies in infancy). wife and that is what he has done felt safe. And the Reds seemed to And six hundred men have decided 1 tons. I myself have purchas

It is time that pleasure obtained all along. But she is not accused, turn up everywhere and to know to leave the district altogether, for ed elephants at various ages and molyby a sight of animal Your finding to day will in not everything about everybody, way prejudice the wife in

a time-Our Own Correspondent, prices in India, Barmah, and misery, be prohibited.

Any the

further proceedings that Crown may hereafter take against her."

THREE ALTERNATIVES.

SOLDIERS APPEAR.

And then suddenly 300 or 400 coldiers appeared from the Hal Continuing Mr. Macnamara said that they too knew everything

Luk Fung reglon, and declared that in such a crime where two they, too, had had their spies n persons were present there wore the markets just as the Reds had; three alternatives. The first was and now that they had inished that, the present accused..per-learing up their own district, potrated the crime, the second they were going to clear up Ho-po that B, his wife, did it, and the too. Moreover a Rod, for private third that they did it together.ransons, had surrendered up to the If both had done it, it was natural Hai Luk Fung district magistrato to expect that they be tried to- the record-book of all recont Com- gothor. The way the prosecution munist activities and all thoir conducted the case was awkward. agents and sympathisers in that It was suggested that, they both district, and this book incriminat did it and if that was the case he e'l some of the Ho-po folk too. Bo failed to see why the wife was not there was to be a time of reckon in the dock with the present accu-ing, tho goldfora saki; and people sed.. JENSTANDER feared now more than before.

The statement of the accused Communist record books are dan was not in his submission: a congerous things and the method of fession but a statement by which their compilation disastrous, for ho sought to prove his Innocence they include besides the names of by putting the blame on his wife. host of names put down from genuine members of the party k If the statement was to be believed chance hear Bay or again for Im the real murderer was the sun's pressive election others. Beruz wife The weight of the evidence pulous investigation is needed bus wont to show that the wife.

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