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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933.

ALDERSHOT AND BORDEN TROOPS FIGHTING BIG HEATH FIRES

MAN FACES VERY BEDROOM ASSAULT ON DROUGHT IN KOWLOON OPIUM

SERIOUS CHARGE

MAGISTRATE INSISTS.

ON COMMITTAL

A charge, for which the penalty

la life acntonce," was preferred

TWO MEN

Four Robbers Fail in Their Quest

Lo Chu, Chan Kau-shing, and against Ng Wah, a marine atore Ho Yu-kong. were sentenced to collector, who appeared before four month's hard labour each Mr. Schofield, at the Central Ma-by Mr. Schofield, at the Central

latracy this morning.

He was indicted with having thrown corrosive fluid on Ching Yuot-ying, a woman, with intent to burn, maim, disfigure or Krievous bodily harm at Queen's Road, West, on September 0.

do

Sergeant Davies asked for 48

hours remand. He said he had been instructed not to ask for committal..

Mr. Schofield, think it la bot ter to have it for committal.

don't like dealing with such cases myself.

months hard inbour.

Ping,

BRITAIN.

FIRES START IN NEW FOREST

.

DIVANS.

VERDICT DELIVERED BY MAGISTRATE

CRISIS AHEAD

#OOSEVELT FACING CRUCIAL PERIOD

London, Sept. 11. A crucial stage has been reach- "I discharge the defendant anu ed in President Roosevelt's Na-

NEW YORK STOCK C, 3.3.

EXCHANGE

YESTERDAY'S MARKET

FIRM

7214

Chase National Bank 24%. Chesapeake Corp. 46%. Chryalor Corpora..

tion....

Columbin ( &

Cement

47

18 863% Ung 42%

Electric....... 17 Consolidated Gas of

N.Y. Continental Gu hold that there is no caso to antional Recovery Administration According to Mossre, Swan, Cul. Corn Products

Douglas Aircraft swer," said Mr. Butters at the campaign. The sovereat test of bertson and Fritz, the New York De In Kowloon Magistracy yesterday the President's policies will com-market was firm yesterday. But Du Pont de Nemours 7844 afternoon, when he delivered a mence this week, according to nens done 1,920,000 shares. The Wall Eastman Kodak ... 82 VILLAGE WATER

Bond & verdict in an interesting case in Sir Percival Phillips, in a cable Street Journal report' on yesterday's Electric which a woman named Ll In was from Washington to the Daily markol: The market advanced from Bharg Stagiairney this morning, for hav-i

PROBLEMS

General Electric convicted at the first hearing for Mail,

опе to as much as 9 points dus

General Foods ng navaulted Tam Chong; a build-

allowing an oplum divan to be ing contractor, and Tam bricklayer, with intent to rob at

The atmosphere of Washington to better outlook for stimulation General Motors London, Sept. 11. carried on at No. 280, Tai Nan No. 23, Rai Wong Street, ground

The prolonged drought in Street, of which she was prinel is only comparable to that of Lon-of major industries on weaker U.S. General

don at the outbreak of war. The dollar. "Wet" stocks were strong- pal tenant. floor, on September 10. Cheung England continues and the

samo activity, feverish energy owing to anticipation of repeal of

Goodyear Tyre & Chu, charged with

This judgment ended a lengthy and grim determination are char prohibition by aiding and forecast indicates that no caso which commenced early last acteristic. Eighteen hours a day this week. The Sugar and Coffee International

four more states Rubber td sentenced to two break in the fair weather is month, when Mr. Ifin-shing Lo is the normal stretch for the Pre- Exchange will be closed on Satur

for sn indefinite period. International Sub-Inspector Nolloth said that to be expected for the pre-appeared for the defence and sub-sident's officers and associates, day's the first complainant was awak-

that his client had no despite the intense heat.

Our New York Office cablo (This venter ...! knowledge that the two cubicles

morning). Stocks: Better trade news International Nickel 19 ened about 1.80 n.m. on Septem-sent. ber 10 by someone gripping his

Meanwhile, representatives of started a rally which broadened with International Tel. & throat and pressing him down: causing some anxiety in the small being used as an opium divan.

The water shortage problem is she had rented to a mag were big business, the erstwhile dicta- renewed inflation rumours. The ad- Tel.

10 somewhat Johns Manvilla The

complainant, who towns and in villages in several

At the first hearing, the Magis- tors in their particular fields, are vunce in likely to carry

further without serious interruption. Kennecott Copper ... trute decided that there was a awaiting the pleasure of their Whent: Cables were ignored. Duying Lehman Corporation 08 was asleep in the cockloft, was parts of the country. Sergeant Davles. will also similarly treated. Suddenly proach the Assistant Director of the men ran out

There wore further outbreaks to- reasonable inference that the de- new masters.

greatly increased. Strength of stocks Liggett and Myers. of the

and cotton siding inflation talk again President Roosevelt's staff con- affecting prices which advanced easi Loow's Inc. the Criminal Investigation Deparl-chased by the complainants. The past few days

floor, day of the fires which during the fendant knew the second

have devastated third cubicles were used

as tinues relentlessly to uproot tray. Constructive side favoured. Co Lorillard ment with a view to committal. Arat accused was Arrested and hundreds of acres of kenth and com-

divan. He passed sentence of ditions and to destroy financial ton: Fundamentals are not bullish MeIntyre Porcupine 20% Mr. Schofield. see I have no taken to the police station, and morland causing heavy damage by $200 or three months' hard

theories, in preparation for a new but the possibility of inflation is in power to take such cases myself, following information given by the destruction

national charter which may even the

The Government's Montgomery the background.

Ward 2316 because the penalty is life sen-him, the others were arrested. particularly in the South of Eng- Three days later a similar case tually affect the republic's very efforts to curtail the next crop and the National City Bank 27%.

ROBBBERY PLANNED.

land.

Improvement in other markets are en- National Dislers, appeared before Mr. Butters, and foundations. The application for the remand It appeared that the robbery Troops from the Aldershot Com-this

couraging senie time the defendant,

selling is yet to be North grauted,

defendant had been planned over And

fort-mand, wearing

No democratic head ever pos-amount of hedge selling urge New York Central gas masky and woman, was discharged. Mr. C.

American night previous by a cook, employ- helmets, have been engaged stuce Y. Kwan, who appeared for thesessed such great power as Pre-absorbed, Silver: The market closed placed in police custody.

Company ed on the floor, who was not In Saturday in fighting a fire near defendant, successfully pleaded Johnson, a man of dynamic per-markele. Our New York Office cable Owens-Iliinols Glass 78%

sident Roosevelt. General Hugh strong sympathy with other

Pacifie (Last Night). in the sonality and the President's clos dullness indicated to-day but a firm Ordinance referring to a "prin- est nide, is the real buffer be-

Stocks: Continued Electric ripal tenant in the sense that tween the virtual dictatorship and tone istifies the holding of stocks. Pennsylvania Rail- they understood the term.

Wheat: Cables featureless, Buying Phillipa Petroleum its many industrial and financial side lacks leadership despite

bullish

Phillips Petroleum. The term "principal tenant" antagonists.

developments. Constructive side nd- Reynolds Tobacco had been used in the charge and

visable. Cotton: Such speculative The need for haste in the re-buying as is apparent is based on con the Magistrate, who could find organisation of Industry is shown idenes of the ultimate realization of Sears Rochuck 40 nothing in the Ordinance refer by the outbreak of strikes In Scythe Government's plans for higher Shell Union... 0 ring to "principal tenant," diseral parts of the country. prices. Worth Street reports continu Socony Vacuum missed the case.

Corporation..... 1344 ed improvement of anten of print and

Southern California sheetings.

Edison Dow Jones averages!

tence.

Was

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NEW PUBLICATION TO BE

ISSUED SHORTLY ·

At the re-hearing on August 31, owing to a request made by

changed, the term "principal tenant" being omitted and oc- cupler" used Instead.

40 Bonds

Juneau Mining Co.

Chemical & Dye American Can American &

Power A now edition of the Hongkong Amer. & For. Pow. Street Index is in course of pre- American Metal 193% paration, and judging by first re-American Smelting 37%

Tel. parts, the work has been a formid-Amerienn able task, in view of

the many

Tobacco changes in the three years that American have elapsed since the last edition came into existence.

Water- American

works It has been necessary to examine Anaconda Copper.. some 21,000 Land Ofice memorials,

Atlas Corporation

Baltimore & Ohio

86.61

80.70

Texas Corporation.

27%

2814

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32

29%

307

Union

Carbide

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46%

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custody. He was really the ring Petersfield and at Bordon Camp that leader, and the four defendants military operations have been sus- were merely dupes. They were pended to release the troops for fire amateurs at the game, for they fighting. failed to find the keys of a safe,

the

One-third of 110 calls answered in which there was a considerable by the Fire Brigade in the County REVENUE DEPT.

in the complainant's Jacket poc- London Council area during the "The rain did its job as a amount of money. The keys were week-end were to deal with burn- Policeman yesterday, but not as a kot, which was hung up on aing grass and undergrowth.

Extra patrols are on continuous Rovenue officer," smilingly remark. nail.

The man vere admitted into duty in the New Forest where the ed Mr. Wynne-Jones In the Central Police Court this morning in deal the house by the cook, and they first fires occurred during ing with a batch of opium offen slept on the premises. At the week-end.-British Wireless. ders,

appointed time a cough by the cook was the signal for them to come assistance. down and give him They attempted to gag one of the complainants with rat accused's Jacket. They also had a number of strands of wire, but this, was Kerrison not used. No property was stol- The fourth Chineseen, with raking rubbish outside No. 1, was to keep away a cobbler, who Chater 'cad. Defendant was usually slept in the cockloft, un- caught at a.m. and fought with the foreman. He was eventually taken into custody by Insp. Kerri- son. Defendant was fined $5 or soven days.

The activities of thieves curbed yesterday, there being not a single larceny case on the Court list. The only Police cane con- with charged cerned a woman hawking without a licence,

Sanitary charged an unemployed

Inspector

OGPU'S NEW LAIR

accused's job FORT IN CENTRE

LENINGRAD

ROOF

thare was nothing

Case Re-opened. Having convicted in the first case. Mr. Buttera then decided to re-open this case on his own ne- cord..

Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant At- torney General, appeared for the prosecution, while Mr. Hin-shing' OF Le again represented defendant.

til the robbery had been carried MACHINE GUNS ON Mr. Fraser, the charge was out.

after passing Mr. Schofield i

sentence remarked that the de- fendants had better be sent back to the country after serving their terms.

Helsingfors.

who hea

workman

A Finnish just succeeded in escaping from the Soviet Union gives an interesting account of his recent experiences in Leningrad, while employed on building work in connexion with the new Ogpu headquarters on the Spalernaya Ulitsa.

The administration is already faced with an abnormal rise of prices, but officials are undismay- ed.-Reuter,

in

30 Industrials

20 Rails

LOCAL STREET INDEX. Alaska

charged Wu Ho, aged 22, was with possession.cf opium and keep. ing a divan ut 3, Wing Sing Street.

fined Wing Fung Street, 37, Ship Street He pleaded gulity and was 3170 ten weeks' graal. Revenue and 12, Ship Strael, respectively, Omeer

to Grimmitt, prosecuting, and who also pleaded guilty stated there were five pipes, five possession of quantities of illicit oplum, were fined $100 or six Jamps, and thirteen-smokers.-

With a previous conviction, Ng weeks, $196 or ten weeks, and $130 On was fined $200 or eight weeks or eight weeks' gaol, respectively, for keeping a divan at 3, Hing | A total of eleven lamps and eleven ordered to report to the local prove that his cliont was the occidental documents.

pipes were seized.

Lung Street and a further fine of $128 or six weeks was imposed for the possession of 1.6 trels of illleit opium.

Three other divan keepers at

A Hoklo was fined $50 or four weeks in default, on a charge of possession of raw opium at Tai Ping Shan Street,

THUNDER-CHARGED DRAMA THAT SWINGS IT?"ACTION ACROSS TWO CONTINENTSI

From Sun-Drenched Jungle to Swarming

Citles... Warm

Romance, Lavish Spectace, Spun into a tals of Unbridled

Thrillat

THE

THRILL PICTURE

19334

OF

KING: JUNGLE

THE LION MAN (BUSTER CRABBE) PRANCES DEE

11. Paramount Piction

AT:

FROM FRIDAY

Having completed the large cement lined cellars, all workmen, although in 10 way ailing, were medical officer. The latter found that "working in damp cellars had affected their health," and ordered them to be employed elsewhere.

Mr. Lo submitted that although his client was the principal ten ant of the floor, she was not the occupier of the whole floor. In law, his client was not the or

cubicles which were used as an several hundred Crown Lease Bethlehem Steel ... cupier of the second and third nearly 3,000. Crown leases, and Auburn Automobile 58% opium divan... He said that he plans for leases still unissued; also Borden Company, had no case to answer and the some 900 contracts of sale, grant, Borg Warner onus was on the prosecution to and exchange, and many other in Canadian

No ft wer cupier.

than 80 now streets, represented by the Wanchai reclamation and other recently developed areas, have inserted, and the book has had to be completely rewritten in

Magistrate's Views.

At yesterday's hearing, Mr. Only later did the narrator Butters in passing judgment said: certain that the final completion of

"It was found as a fact that parts. the building had been entrusted to Street consists of an open show this publication and who have not the ground floor of 280, Tai Nam Persons who desire to purchase tried members of the Communist Party, but he was nevertheless, able and three cubicles which were already placed their orders, should to get some interesting informa-rented by the defendant for communicate with the Government tion with regard to what had been The to rear cubicles she sublet Land Officer, Mr. W. J. Lockhart- | twenty-seven dollars " month. Printers or with the Assistant Koing on there.

The cellars, when completed, to one Hui Chim for eighteen Smith,, at an early date, as only a dollars a month, retaining for her limited number of copies will be were packed with machine-guns, rifles, explosives, and ammunition. 2ccupation the cubicle next to the available for sale to the public. Machine-guns were placed in shop and the shop. The cubicles

specially constructed embrasures on the roof, and all doors and windows were supplied with metal shutters; which could be immediately and Himultaneously closed at the first alarm.

The building itself is connected by means of underground passages with different parts of the town, so that there may be no fear of the garrison ever being completely cut off from the outside world.

A FISH KEEPS SHIP AFLOAT

STRANGE AFFAIR OFF

IRISH COAST

London.

How a large ish refloated leaking ship is told by the owners

are usual type Chinese tenement

which in

cubicles and are reached by door- ways from a coridor turn may be reached through the shop in front or through a door in the rear of the premises. The second and third cubicles were used by Hul Chim as an oplum divan on the day in question.

"There is no evidenco” that the

NANKING PARLEY

POSTPONEMENT OF SESSION POSSIBLE

Nanking, Sept. 11. The convocation of the Fifth

defendant was in any way con- Kuomintang National Congress on cerned with the management or November 1st, which has been control of second and third cubf-opposed by the South-Western provinces, will be reconsidered at

cles.

a meeting of the Contral Execu- "Mr. Lo has submitted that tive Council this week.

these facts disclose no offence by bis ellent under the sectiun

· Purpose of Amendment.

Well-informed Chinese nources Jare of the opinion that there is a possibility of the meeting being "The Assistant Attorney Gen-Postponed, not exactly due to eral has argued (1) that as the of the possible inability of im

Canton's opposition but becauso

occupier of the divan is covered

by the principal ordinance,

the portant members of the Central Executive Counell, such as General occupier of promises referred to Chiang Kai-shek and General-Ho In the added sub-section must hol other than the actual divan Loop- Xing-ching, to attend the mooting The Admiral (342 tona) arriving ment is to strike the principal present work, ben

er, that the purpose of the amend-without interference with their at Wicklow (Ireland) with a cargo tenant and that if he is exclud

of the stormor Admiral, Mesers. Monroe Brothora of Liverpool.

Should the Congress meet as

of coal grounded at the entrance ed from the scope of the amend-scheduled, it is further pointed

of the harbour and her hold began mont, it becomes meaningless so out that postponement of" tha to fill with water.

far an "occupier" is concerned; meeting is allowed under Party The pumps were set going while (2) that in law the present de-regulations-Reuter, 150 tons of conl, were taken ashore. fendant, as principal, tenant.is

A few hours later the hold was occupier of the whole floor, and found to be empty of þwater.

the divan kenpor... te, marely of The chip's surveyor wont below lodger

one and the same place, namo- ly the divan: -If the principal and found six inches of a large "Before I deal in detall with tonant is the occupier of the Ash's tall in the leak. The fish these two arguments Iventurs, whole promises, a part of which was wriggling, but only a trickle with grant respect to suggest is used as a divan, the divan of water was onlaring the hold. that they contradict each cuther, keeper must be taken as the por

The tall of the fish was coment-It was submitted by the lanened son having the use temporarily Led in this positions a certifleste af

Khi divavi "or having, care or

|the Admiral'sut off for Liverpool, usvan-keeper, hot. « beings joint | Mr. Battors then went on

where she is now undergoing-over--tenan

ould not be Suote-a-numberci

orition, Jhaul and röðßird" Restor

time in occupation, and dischafgod, the defendant. -

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