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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1933.

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DUBLIN MOB THREATENS O'DUFFY BLUE-SHIRTS

BATON CHARGE ON

CROWDS

LIVELY STREET SCENES LAST NIGHT

DE VALERA ANXIOUS

DUBLIN, AUGUST 9.

STONES, BOOING AND HISSING FROM A CROWD OF OVER FIVE THOUSAND GREETED THE APPEARANCE OF A BAND OF "BLUE- SHIRTS" IN THE STREETS OF DUBLIN THIS EVENING, GIVING A FORETASTE OF THE GROWING HOSTILITY BETWEEN RIVAL POLI- TICAL FACTIONS.

An ominous spirit is abroad and the crisis is expected to be reached on the big Republican anniversary on Sunday.

Mr. de Valera has prohibited the appearance of General O'Duffy's new National Guard, which appears to be a Fascist organisation, distinguished by the wearing of blue shirts. General O'Duffy expresses determination to carry on and threatens to challenge Mr. de Valera's right of veto in the courts. Apprehension is growing throughout the city, therefore, in view of the fact that the Irish Re- publican army are also intending to parade on Sunday and there is the grave possibility of a guinary clash when the Blue Shirts parnde.

san-

The Blue Shirts were making their first real appearance in public to-day when they arrived at the Metrople ball-room for the first annual dance of the Army rades' Association.

CROWDS CHARGED.

Com-

to

The police were compelled charge the jeering crowds with batons when they ventured further and began to hurl stones at glass panels and the doora,

the

General Balbo, leader of the mass Italian Olght, passing through

onthusiastic crowds.

HUNGHOM BAY PORT

DEVELOPMENT

(Continued from Pape 1.) ·

coal may be delivered direct from

tankers may be proceeded with at uy time independent of the carry. Ing out of the rest of the scheme, The estimated cost of the works in- volved, including ten per cent. for contingencies, is as folowa; Reclamation, including protective Formation of basin by dredging and

works on the south and west side $215,000 Including cost of constructing quay

colliers to storage areas or loaded to craft at the piers or in the basining Fiers thus providing for the more economical handling of this trade.

The storage area will accommod ate 76,000 tons of coal, which, ex-

Dredging; excluding the cost of dredging which will be necessary to entry out in connexion with the arincipal portion of the schemo for the developmens of this Bay ..........

A-Apportioning this sum over the area,

cluding the stocks of local industry and shipping companies is proximately the normal amount stored in the Colony; and in view of the fact that the percent- age of ships using oil fuel is in creasing, it is considered that this storage capacity will be Aufficient unless the recovery of coal in South China is found to be of commercial importance, in which ense additional provision SOME AMAZING, the report suggests that will be required." For this pur-

CONVICT NOW. UNCROWNED “KING"

ESCAPADES

DEVIL'S ISLAND

ESCAPE

Port of Spain, (Trinidad). A French convict who was sent to Devil's Island for murder, but Mr. Cosgrave and other ex-escaped after terrible hardships Ministers attended the dinner, but has become the uncrowned "king" they were merely paying a formal or a little-visited tropic isle. visit and left soon afterwards.

This man was once a doctor in

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FASCIST LEADER.

General O'Duffy, the organiser

of the Blue Shiris, was Mr.

an area of Tai Wan be reserved, there being no considerations which precluded economic develop ment of the sen bed adjoining the

aren...

PIPE LINES.

"It is anticipated," the report continues, "that sufficient accom- modation can also be provided in this locality to deal with any ores that may be possibly imported by rail. The necessary land should be reserved for railway communi. ention.

about 389,000 square feel, provided for the storage of coal, it is rquivalent to unit cont of RENA per sq. ft.

Oil fuel and dolphin Dredging: excluding the cost of

#755.000 $180.000

$150,000

CLAIM

Morbid Mania MONEYLENDER'S For Prodigality

ACCUSATION AGAINST MME, TETRAZZINI.

Rome.

Alleging that she was the proy to a "morbid mania for Prodigali- ty" Signor Pietro Vernati," the'

A SPECIAL JURY EMPANELLED

IMPORTANT CASE OPENS

A claim for over $25,000 against

youthful husband of Mme. Louisa a former colleague for alleged Tetrazzini, the famous prima malicious prosecution and false donna, has brought an action imprisonment was commenced by against his wife to restrain her an Indian registered moneylender from selling her. house in Rome.

at the Supreme Court before the Signor Veranti asked the court Chief Justice Mr. J. R. Wood, to prevent Mme. Tetrazzini from this morning. dissipating what was left of her formerly huge fortune.

strong difference in such cases and. the present. A paragraph was not easily remembered but in an action, such as the one they were dealing with, Honseone would say for years, and years afterwards, "Was ho not summoned some time ago? Peopla.

would not lay such serious charges

against him without some founda. tion and I would not trust him fur ther than I could ace him,**

IIe submitted that the severest penalties should be inflicted in a case of this kind.

FIVE POINTS.

In order to establish this action, continued Counsel, his client must prove,

1, that defendant prosecuted him; 2, that the prosecution terminated In his favour,

3, that the charges were false," 4, that the charges were made by defendant without reasonable ur probable cause,

5, that the defendant actē maliciously.

The parties are Hazara Singh, a registered money lender, or 8, Morrison Hill Road, and Sawan, On behalf of Mme, Tetrazzini italso a registered money lender, of The first two could be catabileñ- was claimed that when she has 9, Morrison Hill Rond.

ed by the records and the refusni "responded to the impulse of her Singh claims $20,000 special of the Attorney General to pro- heart" she has done so to help damages, $5,840 money owing to ocute could, he submitted, he relations.

him which he was unable to collect taken as equivalent to the throwing owing to his arrest, $500 solicitors out of an action by a Grand Jury. costs, $138 travelling expenses, and The plaintiff would say that the costs of the present proceedings. charges were absolutely false and that the defendant knew they were false. A person who made-charges

for a month.

The court postponed the hearing

PARTICULARS OF CLAIM.

Mme. Tetrazzini became a brido for the second time when she

The facts alleged in the parti-which he knew were false could married Vernati in Florence in 1926. She was 55 and he was 20. culars of claim of the plaintiff are not possibly have had a proper

She caused a sensation at her left the Colony for Shanghat and

that on November 12 last year he motive. wedding by wearing vell Amoy for the purpose of collecting scintillating with jewels from sums of money due to him, there head to foot.

A

Mme. Tatrazzini obtained 11.000.000 legal separation in Rome in 1928

on a plea of Incompatibility.- Reuter.

$120,000

dredging which it will be necessary to carry out in connexion with the principal portion of the scheme for the development of the lay .. $10.000

$2,200.000

NEW WHARFAGE. ·

Exploring The Arctic

(b) Wharfage adjoining Holt's Ocean

Wharf.

The construction of the wharf- age and area of reclamation and to the north of Holt's Wharf may be curried out at any time independent of the carrying out of the rest of the scheme. The estimated cost of the works involved, including 10 per cent. for contingencies, is us follows:

12,026,500 Quay Wall

$100,000

Reclamation

Tambora, protective works, the cost

of which will be saved in this wharfage encried out, simul taneously with the adjoining, por tion of the schemo Dredging outside line of wall

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SIXTEEN RUSSIAN

AEROPLANES

Moscow..

THE INFORMATION.

Dealing with the information on promissory notes,

Jaid by defendant and upon which On November 10 defendant warrant was issued, Mr. Mac- falsely and maliciously laid ju- Neill said it stated among other formation before Mr. G. S. Kennedy things that plaintiff owed

bim Skipton, police magistrate, and $8,000 odd, and that he borrowed procured a warrant for plaintiff's a further $3,800 from defendant arrest upon

on just before he left the Colony. a charge that November 4 and 10, 1932 he ob- During the latter part of October tained from defendant by false plaintiff transferred. his interest of money, in a large number of Promissory pretences two sums $1,350 and $3,800, with intent to Notes made out in his favour by. defraud.

Chinese debtors, to Ganga Singh. who was also a registered money lender. Plaintiff then left "as I the

ARRESTED ON WARRANT.

Plaintiff was arrested on this verily bellove" · continued wurrant at Shanghai on December | statement, for Indly, and as he 3 and was imprisoned there until | had not told him that he intend- December 14 when he was brought | ed to go for a trip, defendant be- i to Hongkong. Three days later he lieved that he intended to defraud · was formally charged before Mir him and other creditors. Wynne Jones. He was remanded That information, said Course), {' and again imprisoned unt! De resulted in the Issue of a warrant? Sixteen Russian aeroplanes are cember 24 when he was released or and was the first of the malicious. prosecutions. It was true that being sent to the Arctic regions to bail. serve the whole shore of the

The bearing of the case, occupied plaintiff had left the Colony and wa Northern Arctic Ocean

January 10, 11, and 15, and defen- transferred from

his interest in dant by false and malicious Murmansk to the Behring Sen.

re-Promissory Notes, but it was presentations, procured plaintiff's absolutely falsa to вау that Part of their job will be to committal to the February Criminal | he borrowed money before he left. 195,000 "A strip of land 15 feet wide

$25,000 observa the movement of ice) Scasions, Mr. Cosgrave urged the police the South of France. After alongside the 60 feet road to the

He did sign a Promissory Note on: remain inside the Metropole sensational trial, he was sentenced west of the coal storage areas is

throughout the year. These

| November 10 for $8,800 but he did $2,126,000 until the conclusion of the dance, to life imprisonment in 1927 for reserved for pipe lines connecting wall to the south area of reclama-of about 350 miles.

FURTHER STATEMENT. The 1,200 feet length of quay

observations will cover a radius:

not get either money or credit_by'] owing to the threatening attitude the murder of a creditor whose with the oil storage tanks. At the tion adjoining the wharfage above

On January 24, through his signing that note, of the crowd.

solicitor, falsely and maliciously

ALLEGED BORROWING. body he kept locked in a cupboard seaward end, the pipes-will-be-laid described, together with the con- passengers and make actial sur preferred before the magistrate

The_aeroplanes will also carry of his laboratory for some weeks.

He was transported to French a pier 300 feet long and 40 feet struction of the back area of

further charge against plaintiff of Further information was laid by veys. 100 feet

December 8 that Gulana in 1928, and for a short wide, having a depth of 36 feet of reclamation and the

water alongside.

The majority of the machines having, with intent to defraud his defendant on read may be proceeded with

creditors, made 3 transfer of plaintiff borrowed the $3,800 from time was in the terrible enges in 'Cosgrave's chief to the Civic which from 30 to 40 convicts are provides berthing accommodation rest of the scheme. The conlence has shown that exploration promissory notes to Garga Singh him for the purpose of carrying: This pler together with a dolphin at anytime independent of the will have shore bases, 48 exper- Guard. He woa dismissed from kept,

for two oil tankers, which may dis-struction of Jetty No.

I should from ships is hampered by the between October 16 and November on his own business and arranged for the money to be paid back by the post by Mr. de Valera without Then he injured his foot, and charge the oil fuel direct to the not be undertaken until work on the difficulty of rising and landing in being given a reason.

This further charge was heard instalments, Under the Impres was sent to the prison, hospital storage tanks. The proximity and quay wall to the southern the iceberg regions.

area He has since been engaged in where on account of his medical elevation of the latter should admit of reclamation is well in hand.

One of the most important on January 30 and 31 and defension that plaintiff was still in the establishing the Fascist organisa-knowledge he was retained per- of the satisfactory oil fuel bunker-This jetty may be carried out in tasks will be the investigation of tonto nitions and malicious money lending business, the loat

manently.

ing of vessels alongside berths at two instalments, the first section landing sites and the line of the representations procured his com- was granted, but from enquiries that were made defendant said he Mr. de Valera is very apprehen- He was allowed a pint of wine sive about Sunday's possibilities, day, but did not drink it. Ench

Plaintiff was released from ball | "verily believed" that plaintiff hai providing berthage of 1,250 feet on future "Great Northern Aerial mittal to the .Sesalons. WALL CONSTRUCTION. Its outer side and 1,205 on his inner Road."-Reuter.

on or about February 9 and from disposed of his business by mak- He has made attempts to prevent day he sold it to fellow convicia

| further custody, the Attorney ing, over hla interest in certain elther the Blue Shirts or the for one franc, and saved the "It is recommended that all the side for the use of atcamers and second junks respectively. The

General having signifed his re- Promissory Notes to Ganga Singh." Irish Republican Army from money in the medical library, quay walls in this scheme be con-

fusal to prosecute the plainita on |Defendant added that he was une parading, and, at the same time, which he was allowed to visit, he structed in blockwork with ashinr-section providing 1,650 feet length

either of the said charges.

able to find a money lender to has surrounded himself with a found a map of the Coast from faced masonry super structure. of steamer berthage may be com-

menced simultaneously It will be found possible by dredg-subsequent to the carrying out of picked bodyguard of fifty men, Guiana to Panama.

By reason of these, circumstan- whom plaintiff had given a power: The Royal Observatory reports ces plaintiff had been injured in of attorney and came to the con ing to found portions of the quay the first section." who are staying at the Govern

that pressure is highest over the his reputation and suffered painclusion that he had abaconded. ment Building-Reuter.

walls upon natural ground and where hard ground is not obtained

Western. Carolines. The typhoon of body and mind. He had been Plaintiff would also say that? is aftunted near the eastern cx-prevented from attending to his defendant know this was not 60% to escape. Each contributed at suitable depths to be reached

tromity of the Hainan Strait, business and had incurred expense continued Mr. MacNeill. sum of money, except the doctor by the blockwork, the walls should whose contribution was his man be founded on pellmell rubble works, including 10 per cent for moving W.N.W.

to no purpose in going to Amoy

He Local forecast:-South-east winds, and. Shanghai,

therefore and a knowledge of navigation. mounds deposited in trenchea contingencles, is given in the re-

fresh to moderate, cloudy, occlaimed special damages as set His plans were suspected and a dredged to depths at which sui- port as follows:-

(e) Quay Walls and South Aren casional rain.

out above. spy set to watch him. He de- table foundations do exist. A ceived the spy by revealing to him pitched

superstructure of Reclamation. rubble mound

Quay Wall!**********

tion.

DEEP WATER BAY QUARREL

DEATH OF MAN ON FISHING BOAT

THE PLOT TO ESCAPE. Then, with eight other men con- victed of murder, he made a plot

he

Hunghom Bay or Kowloon Point.

slope

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founded on

with or

QUAY WALLS. The patimated cost of these

It

a bogus plan of escape to Dutch brought to the level of low water eolamation of arena to be used in Guinna, while really

wa will protect the south side of thu Temporary, Protective Works. planning a fight to Venezuela.

At last, after five weary months, con! depot and the frontage adjoins the moment came. The eighting jetty No. 4.

THREE WEEKS OF AGONY.

connexion_with wharfage ...........

esiimased that 380,000 wil£ be anred if this wharfage in earried out Imultaneously with the adjoining partions of the schema

fabout 115 Reclandation

acres) which includes area of the 100 feet roadway and temporary protective

worka

Quay Well on outer ride for use of

$1,678,000

OCCASIONAL RAIN,

19.

"SOUGHT JUDGMENT.”

The $3,800 which plaintiff was alleged to have borrowed came to him at a money-lender's auction DEFENCE DENIAL

when, he was the highest bidder, $320,000 and 86 feet of water alongside at The particulars of the defence and in circumstances which de law water, with the necessary ac-deny that plaintiff went to Amoy fendant must have known. commodation for junka and other and Shanghai for the purpose When plaintif left the Colony $119,900 small craft could be provided. Ap-stated; deny that defendant false he owed defendant $3,500 but de- portioning this sum over the lengthy and maliciously laid the infendant-knew that his investments $1,305.000 of steamer berthage, it is equivalent formation which procured the war-here were considerably, greater to a unit cost of $2,204 pèr lineal rant of arrest; deny that he or than this sum, and also that ho

his solicitor falsely and malicious-had only gone to Amoy. A normali ly preferred the further charge

$220,000

$2,348,000

$2,610,000

font.

L

SHELVED IN 1925.

was issued.

to

Plaintiff had nindo arrabge- In Shanghai, whose promissory menta with a man named Ribeiro nota he hold, for an early settles ment, but before this could, be effected he was arrested,

DEBT SETTLED.

HOKLO DETAINED murderers allpped away in a canoe COST OF RECLAMATION.

they had bought. As they paddled

In regard to the three piers and Consequent on a fatality at past the port of St. Laurent, a dolphin, it is proposed to carry out Deep Water Bay, a Hoklo hand warder saw them and opened fire, their construction in reinforced omployet on a fishing Junk is be- but the overhanging branches of concrete: Groups of steel piles ing held by Polles for investign-trees aided them to reach enfety.enensed In concrete and suitably Jay No. Ar

In an interview with the Tele. and deny that he procured plain-man would not have felt any ap tions which may lead to a charge,

braced abové low water level will

but Sawan for some reason want a graph this afternoon, an official tiff's committal for trial; and deny prehension at plaintiff's absence of manslaughter.

They went down the river for carry an ordinary type reinforced) Flest Section,

stated that after the scheme was that the prosecution referred to ed a judgment on the debt and the next 48 hours, rowing at night, concrete docking. The crow of the junk had land- hiding in crecka by day. Several Selected filling material should pin connexion with Jetty...

Clemmer ***...$1,120,000 propounded and laid before the was terminated by reason of the do this he had to get the debtor to Hongkong. He accordingly $215,000 Logislative Council a copy was refusal of the Attorney General to ed on a small island in Deeptimes police picket boats passed be used to All in the spaces be- Temporary Protective Works, the

Hent to the Home Government. It prosecute. plaintiff. post of which will be saved if the Water Bay for the preparation of within a few feet. At last the tween the walls of the feltles and

Mr. Duncan McNo!ll, nesisted by made the false statements to the Azet and second sections were cars

was despatched on February 12, the morning meal. A violent bont load of murderers reached also behind all other quay walls

ried out conjointly ...............ARILY

468,000 1926, but with the advent of the Mr. Leo D'Almada, Jnr., instructed magistrates upon which a warrant argument occurred while the meal the open Bon, where after 21 for a distance of about 260 feet Quay Wall on faner wids for the use

of Janks

4410,000 strike in June the whole matter by Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios, was being consumed.

agonising days of hunger, thirst where the widths will allow, The

la appearing for plaintiff; Mr. F. was set naldo.- and exposure to the torrid sun, remaining areas of reclamation

(*) Decond Beckton.

The question had not been ro-C. Jenkin, Instructed by Mesers. One man made à remark that they reached Venezuela, emaciated may be filled in with material

opened by the local Government Lo and Lo represents defendant.... the congee (or rice gruel) was scarecrows of men with sores and dredged in connexion with the Qor Walls and Retum (including

SPECIAL JURY. heavy mooringe) ............................................. carrying out of the scheme, the pulling in connexion with welly

#1.010.000 from 1925 until the present day rather on the thin alda,—a remark bilsters all over their bodies.

1178,000 and it was not certain when the

A special Jury has been convenod which was resonted by the man Here they separated, and, it is surplus being deposited within the

scheme would be proceeded with. 23,125.000 responsible for the preparation of believed that only the doctor did areas of proposed further reclamant Dredging.

It was an ambitious project but consisting of Messrs. L. J. Black- not die from exhaustion. After tion at Shamshulpo.

when the present world depression burn, foreman, W. O. Ogley, V.

On the advion of friends, plaintiff many vicissitudos, he arrived in a Having regard to the develop-l Ocuide line of quay wall at south

lifted it would probably be the Benjamin, A. M. Parker, 8. A. Enraged, he is alleged to have certain Isle off the Venezuelan ment of the reclaimed areas, care-res of relation

future Lopes, D. L. Prophet, and. W. T. settled his debt to Sawan ons ar starting point for the Datalde line of-wall of Jetty

about January 11 by paying $1,750, kicked the other in the abdomen, count, where he began to practiae ful consideration will require to be (first seellon)

$180,009 development of Hongkong as a Lee,

After outlining the facts of the the real amount of the boar causing, it is suspected, a ruptured medicine among the natives and given to the question of lower in Dotide itse at Wall of Jetur No. i

port. spleen. The injured man collaps- the fow white mon.

Itfal cost of reclamation by the

$815,000 When questioned regarding the ease, Mr. MacNeill remarked that Evidence would be given that. as few about the same time Sawan asked

·ed and died on the spot.

Now he is comfortably off, deposition of dredged material an

$1,270,000 Buggestion made in the Telegraph such actions were rare The assallant made an ineffec- married with two children and he against the higher initial cost of The report adds that the estim- recently that the land at Black-people were wicked or rash enough the magistrate, outside the court to take the risk, defondant had for leave to withdraw his charge. tual attempt to escape, but was has a motor car in which he sets more suitable filling.

ated cost of constructing the abova hond Point bo developed as

wore of fraud against plaintiff,ANS trapped on the leland, and subac-out on his rounds from the little

THE COST.

portion of the scheme if carried out Lido, the official stated that the taken. The consequences

The court adjourned at h quently tracked down by a party white house with a verandah that

Continuously, including the cost of Governmen had not considered the sometimes very serious indeed. of searchers organized by the Is his dispensary. Glad greetings Estimates of Cost

dredging, would amount to 80,406, matter. The land in queation had There were cases in which a porpoint until the afternoon,: Court other fokis of the boat and in meet him wherever he goes (1) Coal Depot, gle.

D00, for which sum a total length always been intended for use in son's reputation could be injured informing the Chief Justice, which the crews of other craft in amongst the grateful islanders the construction of the coal depot of 4,100 feet of steamer berthage, connection with the rallway or by a paragraph in a newspaper or the case would probably last

Including provision for berthing off having depths of§ 34 feet shipping

pa periodical but there was very day (theoviginily took partiy Fr Reuter.

tho meal.

(second Lion) and Approach Channel

$110,000