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PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOIL

"DEATH BAND" LEADER ON TRIAL

Tokyo, Oct. 18.

"Every school In the country ought to display pictures like Millet's 'The Agelus' and othors inspiring love of the soil. Buch plotures should replace those of old world warriors and bloody fights which now adorn the walls.”

These peaceful sentiments were uttered in court during the trial for murder and violence of Koza- buro Tachibana, lender of the "Formers' Death Band," the little group of civilians who co-operated, with naval officers and cadets in the murder of the former Premier, Mr. T. Inukai, and other acts of terrorism on May 15 last year,

Tachibana was listened to with rapt attention by a crowded court while he expounded his philosophy of the soil.

Enunciating the slogan of his band, "Soil, Brotherhood and Toll," accused's bearing and. discourse were those of a zealous preacher

rather than the testimony of a criminal on trial.

Tachibana saw in agriculture and the soil, the farming communi-

greater value on diplomas and

ing up the character and practical ability of the student.

ORIENTAL THEATRE BRAWL

Operator Attacked By Two Portugese

Before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning two Portuguese youths, R. Creatijo and A. Silva, wore bound over in 800 to keep the peace for six months for having assaulted Lo Tsang, a film operator, at the Oriental Theatre on September 80. The first defendant ordered to pay $5 compensation to the complainant.

Was

also

Mr. A. W. Mackinlay appeared for the prosecution. He said that complainant went into the gentle men's lavatory and saw the two

defendants there. Second defen- dant had a towel in his hand, and he asked defendant not to take anything away. Both defendants then ran past him. He followed, in the entrance hall they attacked him. On the following morning, Wong Shu, a witness in the case, saw the defendants in Lockhart Road, and informed a constable who took them to the station.

UNDER PROVOCATION.

had done nothing.

The complainant also denied. that he had insisted on fighting. The towel which second defendant carried belonged to the theatre, and he did not see the initial "B" on it. He denied having struck the first defendant at all.

THOSE WHO BENEFIT. Denouncing the "gross exploita- tion of the farmers," prisoner quoted figures to prove that city workers and industrialists were the only persons who benefitted under the present economic sys The first defendant admitted hav- tom. Marxism, capitalism, the ing struck the complainant over the doctrines of Malthus and the eye, but he said that it was under materialistic conceptions of west-provocation, as the complainant ern civilisation all come under the had first struck him and insisted on sweeping condemnation of Tachi- fighting. The towel was the pro- bana.

perty of the second defendant, who only tried to separate them.

"The rural villages provide the nation with 70 por cont of the. youths who so roadily lay down their lives for the country in times of war, while the city youth wastes his time in cafes and dance halle and in a mad scramble for wealth," Tachibana Boid.

POLICE SHROFF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1933.

MINERS' WAGES FREEDOM OF

CLAIM

MINISTER ASKED FOR}

INTERVIEW

The executive of the Mners* Federation of London have decid for a further interview on their ed to press the Minister of Mines claim for the national regulation

af wages.

The present position is one of absolute deadlock.

PRESS

DEATH PENALTY

PRISONER'S DEATH

́ ALLEGED ́ TO HAVE TAKEN

POISON IN GAOL.

ENDANGERED BY Katherine Hadley, Rusafan-born circumstances of how Yam Wai

CIVIL LIBEL EXPLOITATION

BURGLARIES AT SHAMSHUIPO

WOMAN SENTENCED IN SHANGHAI

CHINESE IMPRISONED Shanghai, Oct. 18.

A myatory seems to surround the ON TWO CHARGES

British subject, was sentenced to (22), a newly sentenced prisoner, Two Chinese, Leo Chuen and death today for the murder of cama into possession of a rock-Chiu Yiu-fong," were charged be Capt. Waltor Clifford Youngs.

Ilke substance, which has been foro Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kow- Although she received the sen analysed as argenic sulphido. loon Magistracy this morning fence calmly, she collapsed during

with burglary at two different the hearing yesterday, and sobbed The deceased was seen to awal-addresses in Shamshulpo on the bitterly as she related the story of low a quantity of this substance, nights of October 15 and 17. JOURNALIST GIVES

a life of misery with a lover whom and immediately after was taken

*Detective Sergeant Goodwin al- SOME ADVICE :: she characterised as "a wolf man." seriously ill. He was sent to the

This afternoon, the jury after a prison hospital and died at 6.30leged that the two defendants broke into No. 218 Took Wing London. 72 minutes absence, brought in a p.m. on Tuesday evening..

Strect on October. 18 and stole a The miners, at their Scar-

The "exploitation of civil libel" verdict of guilty with a strong re The circumstances surrounding wrist watch, a table clack and horough conference in July, de- ered that peaceful and stable was described as a danger to the commendation for mercy used his death were the subject of various clothing, but this was not conditions can only be secured freedom of the Press by Mr. J. R. indictment against the accused.

the Contral Magistracy yesterday|ber 17 defendants again broke into through the establishment of un- Scott of the Manchester Guardian Judge Grant Jones then passed the Coroner's inquiry which opened at reported to the Police. On Octo The prisoner received the verdict afternoon, with Mr. Schofold alt- No. 202 Fook Wing Street and ting as Coronor, The Jury was stole 11 gramophone and 80 tional machinery, and the execu-at the Institute of Journalists' Con-death sentence.

"Freedom, of course, can never without any sign of emotion,

composed of Messrs. G. A. Harri-records. tive were empowered to take any ference at Eastbourne. action, even including a national

Judge Jones, in summing up man (foreman), W. E. Denison oven to-day many restrictions, pointed out that the defence ples and G. L. T. D. Cato.

The latter occurrence was re- should be attacked.

ported to the Police, who arrested stoppage of work, if district wages be complete," he said. "There are

Moreover freedom of the Press is of provocation owing to Intoxicn- not a concrete thing which either tion was insufficient to reduce the Dr. G. V. A. Grinths, the the accused after extensive in-

murder to man-medical offcor of the Vic-quiries were pursued.

toria Gaol, testified that about is or is not. Like other forms of crime

Accused admitted the offences liberty it is a delicate adjustment slaughter.

The sentence must be confirmed 11.55 a.m, on Tuesday he and wore sentenced to eight of rights and duties. There are

months hard labour each, three aspects in which I suggest by Sir Miles Lampson, British was

Hitherto no woman has beca that this adjustmont is open to cri- Minister to China, ticism to-day.

executed in China by order of a British Court,

WHAT OWNERS SAY.

The owners have persistently replied that wagos can only be regulated by districts and have declared that there to no intention their part of reducing the ratee of pay in any of the coal areas.

No such demand has yet been made, nor evon threatened, but to provide for any future contingency the miners nak that the optional clause in the Mines Act, empower-

to a national tribunal, should bo made obligatory.

Mr. Brown, the Minister for Minds, has stated in reply that ho can sce no other way to secure national regulation thon by compulsory arbitration but this solution has been rejected by both sides,

He has now asked the miners to send him details of the machinery they propose and the latter's exe cutive have replied by making for a further interview, in which they may be enabled to restate their

OIL COMPETITION.

case.

"We may well question whether, in the invasion of private life, liberty has not outrun Its legiti mate bounds and degenerated into licence.

"On the other hand exploitation

of juries has become so systematic

the 18

into

"More far-reaching danger to the free expression of opinion which has resulted from the concentration of power the hands of a few ludividuals.

"For reasons which will readily occur to you, there le no assignable limit to the commercial advantage which accrues with the growth of a newspaper combine."

from

A pathetic figure in the witness box, prisoner broke down before the searching questions of counsel and starting from her life in a house of ill-fame, narrated how she was taken away by Youngs to be his mistress and how her later efforts to break away on a naw clean trail

"A man may run a cotton mill at ware frustrated by his ruthless (ed. This too was vomited out, brought up, said that he was

little or no disadvantage as against the owner of twenty, but with new papers there is a law of increasing Another subject which was dia-returns which ensures to cussed was the displacement of him that hath shall be given British coal by the growing im-even more abundantly. The growth

that

persistenco.

Talpige, as Mrs. Hadley is also called, frequently asserted between tears that she left the "Wolf" time and again but he always "hunted" her out and forced her back to the

called to 800 the de cuased prisoner, No. 16969, numed Yam Wal. The deceased was then in the reception room of the pri son. Witness was informed that when sentence was passed on him. he had takon somo poison. He or- He took him out to the waiting. Prisoner's Collapse. dered the deceased to be carried to room, and remained with him for ties and honest tail on the land, the Evidence was given by com- future salvation of Japan. He bit-plainant and two witnesses who

With her life at stake, Mrs. hospital immediately. He con- about twenty-five minuten. Ho [ducted an examination, and de- noticed nothing unusual about de- terly denounced the present educa- all deposed that the first defendant tional system of Japan an laying had struck the complainant in the ing either side in the event of a of civil libel, protected by the Hadley, a widow, had preserved acided to use a pneumatic in con-censed. Deceased sald · nothing atoic calm until yesterday. Then junction with # hypodermic to anyone, and did nothing. At turning out athletes than on build. bye, but that the second defendant wage dispute to refer the question vagaries of the law and the caprice when she told of her misery, of the stimulus. The former was apo-the end of twenty-fivo minutos, ho as appreciably to impede fair com-life of sordidness she had lived morphine and the latter stry-received the committal warrant

down. She ment and the publication, of with the murdered man, she broke chining with digitaline. When the and took deceased to the gaol, was charged with first paruzyam of vomiting bad where he handed him over to the legitimate news.

stabbing him in the nack aft.

subsided, he obtained a speciman Indian warder with his luggage. drinking bout.

of the vomit and sent it under This bag was in Court when de- scaled cover to the Government ceased was there. Witness ant on Analyst.

it in the waiting room, and deceas nd dil not, take anything out of He continued the treatment, and it gave the man the antidote, an iron Procedure. at Station. mixture, which was vomited out, Inspector Brennan, the Inspect- and he had to repeat it. He then or on Duty at the Central poltco had canter-oll given to the deceas-station when the deceased was but a second dose retained. This searched in his presence by L/S C was followed by raw eggs benten 74. His finger prints were then up in milk. By this time the de- taken and he was sent to the cells. ceased was in a bad way. His The search involved a thorough general condition later improved examination of his person and clothing. Els alocs were also Kreatly, and he did not complain were there any signs of such. He except two watches and some visited the deceased again shortly money. The piece of rock was The Last Night.

after 4 p.m. and he appeared to not on his person. If he had seen be satisfactory, apparently nor-

thia piece of rock he would not Events culminated in a fierce mal.

have known what it was, but drinking bout on the night of

Prisoner Collapses.

would have made Inquiries. The September 17 when she herself

About 6.10 p.m. he received a prisoner was not searched after foro losing consciousness.

deceased had collapsed. He saw No one saw him in the colle Prisoner's evidence concluded the deceased at 6.20 p.m. and found ed. by what they read in the daily

with the statement that she did not him in a very collapsed state, and L/S C 74, Lui Tam-fook, sald newspapers.

"It cannot but be a considerable remember anything more until she with convulsions and moribund. that he had searched the prisoner. dom that access to the minds of the self at the police station where she stimulants as before, except that but he (witness did not take them people should be so largely con- learned that her dreaded lover had he also used some other and em-off, but ran his hand over his feet trolled by a handful of men. been found in the Yangtszepoo dia-ployed artificial respiration. But and found nothing. He did not Particularly is that so when the trict with knife wounds in his deceased died at 6.30 p.m.. feel between his toes. He did not qualitics by which they have .neck.

Hd made 立 post mortem see the piece of rock on the pri- achieved this position have little of

Capti Youngs, B nomadic examination yesterday morning,soner. Prisoner brought no`lug- the relation to the wise exercise of character with a reputation for and found that the stomach was gage with him. the power which it carries with it. recklessness, was 64-years-of-age, in-a-very-congested condition with

Mr. Scott said that to-day, vast as was their influence to educate the public before a crisis arose newspapers had shown themselves to have oven less power to resist an attack upon their liberty when it came. The Reichstag fire occurred at 9 p.m. At 10 p.m. the whole of the opposition, newspapers were suppressed.

In his explanation of why he and his disciples had resorted to violence, accused asserted that they believed that only by violence over-thrown and argiculture be re- could the present social, political and economic system of dupan be

stored to its proper place. Reuter, MODERN MATA

CASE

ELEVEN NEW CHARGES FRAMED

portation of foreign oll and petrol, of the Press during the lost terrible existence she had begun of any pain or discomfort, nor searched, but nothing was found,

This is regarded by the miners generation has coincided with a as a grave menace of further dedecilne in the influence of Parlia-. pression in the industry, and a ment and the political meeting. resolution was passed, though not unanimously, urging members of the Federation, and especially the miners' M.P.8. to use every effort

A CONSIDERABLE MENACE, "Increasingly men's minds aro

with him.

A charge of Inreeny by ballco of to increase the employment of filled and their thoughts are colour. drank nearly a quart of vodka betelephone message saying that the he left the cells and want to Court.

$18 was withdrawn and eleven

raw British coal in industry and also to assist in its greater utilisa tion for the development of

tion plants.

HARI ARRESTED the issue of licences on compl hydrogenation and low carbonisa-menace, therefore, to effective free woke from her stupor to find her. He gave the same hypodermic Prisoner had a pair of socks on,

additional charges, alleging the embezzlement of 38,170 being de- nosits of owners of public cars for ance with Traffic Regulations, were brought against Ng Wing-toi, BIG GERMAN SPY former shroff of the Accounts De-

pantment, Police ORGANISATION

whon lower Court proceedings Metz, Oct. 13. word commenced before Mr.

Headquarters. Beware The

arrest,-on-a-chargo of Schofield-at-the--Central--Polico Blue-Eyed

The espionage for Germany, of "Belle Sophio," a modern Mata Hari, has led to the discovery by the French authorities of what is described AB the biggest German apy organisation unearthed since the Armistico,

Court this afternoon.

Defendant also faces three fur- ther charges of the embezzlement of two sums of $200 each, and $170 (Arms foon) received on behalf of the Police Department from Lance. Sergeant Clarke, Shatin Police

Brunette

HUNTING MISSING WOMEN IN U.S.

Hollywood, California. your wife T blue-eyed

The recent completion of the Station. new French fortifications on the Chlef Detective Inspector Shan- eastern frontier are believed to non, prosecuting, asked leave to have offered an irresistible at-withdraw the charge of theft by traction to German curiosity. bailes of $18 and stated the only brunette?

Eight new arrests are now re-renson he did this was because in ported, bringing the total so far to twelve..

Havas saya that the woman sent a number of plans of fortifications and a new model of an automatic rifle to Germany, TRAGIC EXPLOSION IN INDIA

30 KILLED IN FACTORY DISASTER

TRAVELLING BACKWARDS.

18 years older than his mistress. some gritty material mixed with

The Chinese Revenue Officer, re-

It was taken to Court ·

He was discovered by police lying mucus adhering to the stomach called, said that the luggage was in a pool of blood in a room near and heart. There was congestion not talon to the station, but kept locked up in a room at the Revenue Muirhead Road, Shanghai, which of the intestines likewise. 'The bore evidence of a desperate heart and lungs were healthy, but Office, struggle. In the naxt room the dis- there was a good deal of conges- the following morning, but deccas- traught woman who was later tion of the kidneys and liver. He ed had no access to it. charged with the murder, was lying sent the heart, kidney, spleen,

on a bed. Younge died while being liver and stomach and other small removed to hospital...

..intestines

At the preliminary hearing in Analyst. the British Police Court, a Russian

Soldier of Fortune.

months

order to prove the charge it would If so, keep a close watch on her. be neccesary to call Mr. Stone. This hot tip camen straight from and he was at present out of the the Los Angeles Police Depart- tion, withnessed a widespread ex-with a knife.” Colony. The deposit made by the ment, for according to their re-tension of freedom. It was taken owners of public cars in each case cords more than 75 per cent, of almost as axiomatic that in duo was $200. These were made under all "missing" women

to course all countries would establish traffic regulation 01 which re this description.

a frco Press. quires as a condition of fasue of licence to public vehicles the sum of $200 as a deposit,

48 Д shroff

answer

past is a mystery.

a man

to the Government

The Piece of Rock.

Mr. G. L. Buchanan, Chief War- der of Victoria Guol, sald that de- In reply to the foreman of the ceased was fined $1,000 ar six The nineteenth century, every-barber and his wife testified that Jury, witness said that such cases months imprisonment for branch where an era of change and libera- they saw a woman stalı

of sudden collapse had been re- of the opium ordinance. He was admitted to the gaol about 11.40 ported before,

witness a.m. and about 12 noon Traces of Arsenic..

was informed he had taken poison.. Mr. V. C. Branson, the Govern-He went to the prison hospital and Five

ago Captainment Analyst, said that he had re- there found him receiving treat- Youngs was employed as Chief colved a piece of pink rock from ment from the Medical Officer. "Recent events," Bald Mr. Scott, Omeer of the e. s. Shinon. His And, conversely, if your spouse

the Superintendent of Prisons and Witness was then given a piece of happens to be a blonde, you can have administered a rude shock frienda describe him as a awash- the vomit in a bottle. He examin- rock by Warder Cornwall, the re- lesson your vigil. for according to to these casy assumptions. Much

sulphide. The defendant joined the Police the same authority. It is very of the ground gained has been lost, buckling soldier of fortune whose ed the rock, and identified it as ception room officer, who said he

native arsenic

He had found it in the prisoner's Since 1914, when he first came to examined the vomit specifically right hand facket pocket. This in seldom that a blonde wanders from and in many countries restrictions Daartment February, 1925 as class 6 and on home. You get an even break with as severe as those in force in the the Chine Coast Captain Youngs for arsenic, which he found pre-

was sent to the Government December 1, 1931 was promoted to a red-hended wife, for this type 18th century have been reimposed." career was said to have led him aent in a large quantity. He

Analyst. About 4.30 p.m. he Class G (a,. lle was entrusted strikes a happy medium between "In the face of great movements from job to job with the passage of found that there was arsenic instructed Assistant Chief Warder with the collection of revenues and the other two.

like these we are bound to ask our the years.

equivalent to at least two grains Palce to take the gaol interpreter Those interesting facts were un-selves what lesson they have for He was at various intervals em- of arsenic oxide. He had just re- and get a statement from deceas paying out certain monies and also

on behalf of covered recently while a search us. Do they perhaps portend a ployed in the service of the colved the pont mortem intestines. to collect deposits owners of public cars. He was was being made through ' various The explosion, the origin of very satisfactory, in fact his work police files in search of authentic new phase in the growth of our Jardine, Matheson and Co., the and and not as yet made an exam. ed. He identified the body yester which has not been determined, was above average up to 1932 and material for "Bureau of Missing social structure, an era in which China Merchants Steam Naviga-nation mot ad yet made an dxanve day afterncou in the presense of

the loss of tion Co. and worked for Major had to eat approximately 2.1 he was trusted quite a good deal Persons," a screen mystery drama these great liberties in order to Chauncey P. Holcomb as master of grains of the rock to have this Vizagapatam and caused consider because year by year he had prov- ablo damage to other buildingsed satisfactory and nothing was and factorica in the vicinity.. suspected and no complaints about The thirty victims, all employees irregularities had been received by of the plant in which the disaster Police until January 30 this year, occurred; were dismembered by the when he falled to turn up to work. blast, their bodies blown into bita and thrown high into the air. BODY FOUND IN

Madras, Oct. 13. At least thirty workers were killed to-day in a terrific explosion at a fireworks factory at Vizagapa-

tam.

rocked the-ontire town

RAVINE

AUCTION OF OIL PAINTINGS

NOT KNOWN TO LOCAL LATE CAPT. PURVIS'S

VILLAGERSTM

The body of a Chinese woman In a condition indicating that death occurred a number of days previously, was discovered. In.. raving near the historic village of Kam Tin, in the New Territories yesterday.

Villagers called to identify the body, declared they did not know

...the woman.

Poltea have removed the body

COLLECTION

A collection of all paintings be longing to the late Capt. T. G. Purvis, well-known painter of marine sublects, and forming part of the estate being taken care of

by the Official-Administrator, was under instructions, auctioned at Mars Lammert's Rooms this morning.

A total of 22 plecos were dis- to the Mortuary, and until the reposed of the prices paid ranging sults of a post-mortem examina up to $80. tion being held have been dis-i closed, are unable to say whether death was due to foul play.

The purchasers were mostly Europeans.

revealing the never-ending world wide hunt of the police to find the 100,000 persons who mysteriously disappear in the United States each year-Reuter.

SINGAPORE FEAR FOR AIRMAN

"

RELIEVED WHEN PLANE IS DISCOVERED Some alarm was occasioned in Singapore Inst week by the failure of the Flying Club's plane to return to her bago,

Several R.A.F. machines were sont out in search for the machine or for signs of Licut. Potter, her

pilot,

The plane, the Cutty Sark, was found on a remote island some dis tance from Singapore, having been forced down by engine trouble.

Repairs were effected enabling the return to Singapore on Thurs- lay afternoon, after being absent for two days.

nations will condone

Dr. Grifiths.

The hearing at this stage was

operating between Shanghai and vomit,

October 25, when Ave other wit- small islands nearby on. the. China Dr. Grimths, recalled, said that nesses will give evidence, and the Coast, it is said.

in his opinion the post mortem and Government Analyst will depose as Rumours of his having engaged in clinical appearances were in keep-to the condition of the intestines.

ing with arsenic poisoning. He could find no other cause of death. He was however, not prepared to Awear that the cause of death was arsenie polsoning."

achieve a powerful single direction the steam launch Silver Star quantity of arsenic oxide in his adjourned for the afternoon of of national affairs?

GRASPING AT CENSORSHIP. "The very fundamental and corn- plex issues of nationalism and in-gun-running and various smuggling ternatonalism are also overywhere activities before going to Shanghai profoundly affecting the form and were deprecated by former marine

associates.. 4 the powers of Governments.

"It is very evident that in the Although Captain Younge was strife, and contention on both of the possessor of a British passport

A Question of Search... these vital mattors there reside and claimed to be an Englishman it

Revenue Officer Ellis then gave grave clements of danger to the was generally known by his friends freedom of the Preas. A Govern- that he often remarked that he was formal evidence of the arrest of ment striving to control and to In reality a British gypsy. His the docensed at the Ping Nam direct economic activities or bant complexion and features wero whatf. Raw oplum was found in deceased had. The deceased gave upon fusing the nation into a typical of these nomadic people, the bottom of a false box which the passionate homogeneous racial unit known the world over.

Whenever the captain had been his name at the officó ng Loung confident of its own rectitude and impatient, as authority always is, questioned by friends as to his past Wal. He sent the deceased to the of disintegrating criticism, may he had declared that ho was an Central police station in charge of easily grasp once more at the reins officer in the Chilean Navy before Chinose Revenue Officer 1. The Chineno R. O. had searched the de- coming to Hongkong In 1914,

coaned's clothes at the office, but of Censorship.

That is the danger which, in

had not examined his shoes.

Chinese Revenue Officer 1, Chan the turmoll of the fight. Journalists should never forget. Ench of us from me to belittle the Importance Chun, said that the deceased had doubtless, has his own Ideal as to of such views, but let us remember oven his name to him as Yam Wal the host way of organising the that our freedom to contend transe was the same man who he had functions of government or the inconds an importance even that about arrested and brought up in Court, Doteased did not say anything ter-relations of nations. Far be it which we contend."-Reulor.

TRY

MASKED DANCES

AT

YELLOW-DRACON

ACADEMY

Oct 20th, 1933,

Free Admission