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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933.

AN APPEAL AGAINST LICENCE REFUSAL

TO GO TO

GOVERNOR

HANKOW ROAD'S DRINK ESTABLISHMENTS

CHECK APPLIED

The application of Mr. S. L. Smyth, a partner of the Orpheum Buffet, Kowloon, for the renewal of a publican's licence, without bar, which was previously refused, came again before the Licensing Board, which met in the Council Chamber to-day at noon.

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The U.S.S. Auguain, new flagship of the U.S. Asiatic Flast, which la arriving in Hongkong this after- noon. The new_commander-in-chief, Admiral F. B. Upham la joining her later.

MACAO LOTTERY.

TICKETS

ON WHARF

SHAMSHUIPO CRIME

THE PORT-MORTEM RESULT

NO FURTHER CLUES

I.G.P.. APPEARS AS PROSECUTOR

KOWLOON MOTOR

OFFENCES

Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Ins- pector General of Police, appeared) as complainant before Mr. Wynne- Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning in two cases in which motor-drivers were summoned.

In the first case, Ho Man, a

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The Chairman (Hon, 'Mr. C. G. Alabastor) addressing applicant, asid:-Your application for publican's licence without bar in respect of the Orpheum Buffet came up at the laut meeting of this Board. they refused your application. 500 · BOOKS THROWN Since then you have written, with enclosures to the police, and that has just come to our notice, The

When the river steamer Sui Tail position is this: the Board having docked at the Wing Lok Winrf refused to grant you a licence. Inst, night, on arrival from Macno, you cannot apply again for 122,600 tickets of a Santa Casa da months. But you can appeal Misericordia de Macau lottery, agalnat our refusal to the

were thrown on the wharf, where i Governor-In-Council. Would you like your letter to be sent to the

they were left unclaimed,

Lato yesterday the Police Governor-in-Council? If so, we Before Mr. Balfour at the Cen-officers working on the Sham-bus-driver employed by the Kow- will forward your appeal. That trai Police Court this morning, shuipo murder case were able to loon Motor Bus Company, was letter is here, and we can do it Revenue-Officer Grimmitt made identify the victim as Leung to the left of the rand while stop- summoned for falling to keep well for you. Your application there-application for the confiscation of fore will be treated as an appeall the tickets, which he stated would Sam-mui, a 15-year-old waitress ping his bus at the junction of to the Governor-in-Council under be. immediately burned.

employed at the Fun Hoi tea Nathan Road and Jordan Road, Section 13 of the Ordinance. The The tickets comprised 500 books, house at Prince Edward Road. Mr. Wolfc explained that there decision of that Council will, in each containing 50 tickets.

were a couple of trees growing due course, be communicated to

A relay from Daventry. (Should As stated previously, her almost near this stop, and defendant reception prove satisfactory, this re- nude body was found on a vacant stopped his bus close to them, but lay will be continued to 11 p.m.). allotment at the Intersection of too far out into the road. He did 10.30-11 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press ADVERTISING TRAIN. Boundary Road and Sai Young not think the offence was very News.

Taol Street,

10.30-11 p.m. Close Down, serious, but when defendant had

All records in the above European Except for marks of strangula- his bus there, he blocked all the

arc selected from tion with a piece of cloth, no other traffic on the road. Mr. Wolfe Programmes

ZB.W.'s Library. signs of violence were discovered thought a caution would meet this at a post-mortem examination, and case, and told his Worship that he the indication furnished by this is would get in touch with the that the attack was one suddenly Botanical Department with the made and with wanton killing as view to removing the trece. the object.

-His Worship accordingly cau- aptioned the defendant.

you.

In reply to Mr. Smyth's query as to when he might expect a re- ply, the Chairman said he could not give a definite, date.. Appli cant, however, could carry on until then on a publican's licence.

Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, I. G. P. (roprosenting the police):-The police will not object until a reply has been received from the Governor-In-Council.

COMPANIES COOPERATE IN

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London, Nov. 23. Four principal railway com- pastes are assisting in providing an exhibition train which is being POLICE AND KOWLOON.

organised by private enterprise to display British manufactured The view taken by the police goods during a three months' tour authorities of applications from of the Southern half and part of Kowloon is that there are more Northern England. The train will than ♫ sufficient number of call at sixty important centres.- licenced premises on the Penin-British Wireless.

aula; and two new applicants,

undeterred by previous refusals

are not 80

Signs of a struggle were rent on the ground.

LEFT BUS.

"PROTECTORS.”

In the other case, Lam Klu was summoned for dangerous driving on the Taipo Road on October 29, Mr. Wolfe said he was going up Taipo Road when he saw dofon- dant's lorry coming in the opposite

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MORE TRAFFIC OFFENCES

OVERLOADED LORRY

EVIL

Several traffic aummonses camé

The highest fine for this offence, $20, was imposed on Shum Ping- lam, the driver of lorry No. 3495, who carried an overlond of 45 jewt.

Yick Sui-man, the driver of a

The girl who lived at 167 Yiu Chow Street, at Shamshuipo, was last seen alive the previous night direction. Standing on the lorry before Mr. Hamilton at the Cen- when she boarded a No. 10 Route wore four man, and defendant wastral Magistracy this morning. who appeared before the Board to- that they would oppose a

liquors bus after leaving the teahouse at driving at well over 20 miles an The police have been taking en- day, in the one case for alicence? Well, this Board takes her usual hour of 11 p.m. The hour. Mr. Wolfe said this was publican's licence without bar and the view that there is already a spot whero her dead body

was very dangerous because if defen-ergetic steps against lorry drivers in the other for a restaurant-sufficient number of licenced pre found was about 150 yards from dant had occasion to pull up for overloading in view of the re- keeper's adjunct licence, found mises in Hankow Road. If your the atop where she left the bus, suddenly, he would certainly have cent necidents, and several drivers themselves equally unsuccessful.

were altunted farther presumably for, a rendezvous. flung the four men into the road, were brought up and fined. Mr. F. A. Lowe, of the Trocadero premises Buffet, who is already in posses-away, where there

The stage reached In the in- Besides the danger to these men, there was also the danger to other sion of an hotel-keeper's adjunct many licences, I think they might vestigations has not yet permitted traffic on the road. licence, applied for a publican's take a different view, but I am of any definite theory, but with

A fine of $20 was imposed. licence without bar in respect of not prepared to grant-you-a-licence-the-identification-of-the-victim-as premises he had opened up on the in Hankow Road,

la teahouse waitress, a possible clue.

NO LIGHT. ground floor of the hotel nt 12,

is being followed up in connexion Peking Road,

RENEWALS GRANTED. with certain practices known to Appearing for a 14-years-old lad, The Chairman: I understand you

bo Associated Messrs. D. M. Goodall (Exchange.

teahouse L. D'Almada Remodios, who was private car No. 4185, was fined with already have been granted an ad-Building Restaurant), I. L. Golden-waltresses and their calling.

summoned for riding a puah $10 for dangerous driving. Traf- Junct licence, and now you wantberg (Palace Hotel), and S. F.

bicycle without a light, Mr. M. Ane Inspector Nicol said defendant to have a publican's licence with-

da Silva criticised the actions of drove out from behind a bus in out bar downstairs.

Shum (Canadian Confectionery Well, the

the Shantung, constable concern- Board are not very keen on grant-and Bakery Co.) whose applications This clue is suggested by the ed in the case. He pleaded guilty Queen's Rond, and Sergeant Davis ing any more publican's licences for renewal, respectively, of a fact that, in the past, scoundrels to the offence, but submitted, as an coming on a motor cycle in the In the district, because there are publican's licence without bar, an who have constituted themselves extenuating circumstance, that apposite direction had to swerve already more than enough licensed hotel-keeper's adjunct, and a re- "protectors", have preyed on the sudden puff of wind blew out the to avoid a collision. premises to serve all possible staurant-keeper's adjunct licence, carnings of these girls, at times light.

Armistice Day Offence. needs there.

were proviously adjourned owing splitting up into rival gangs with With regard to the actions of the Applicant sald the adjunct to their absence, appeared before methods closely resembling rac-constable which he complained of, For having failed to stop when licence he had did not pay. He the meeting to-day when their ap-keteering. It is thought possible Mr. Silva said that after the con- called upon to do so during the pointed out that he started inplications were granted. Mr. that the girl was the victim of stable had stopped the boy, he was Two Minutes' Silence on Armis- business before the others, and had Goodall anid he WOS absent at gang rivalry.

taken to the boy's uncle, who tice Day, Wong Fook-hing, wished to apply for n publican's | Canton when the notice convening |

furnished him with details of the driver of public car No. 43, was licence but was not then in a the meeting appeared in the news-

name and address. The constable fined $10, Inspector Nicol stated was not satisfied with that, Mr. defendant was called upon to stop Leung Pat, a woman, who admitted Silva alleged, and insisted on drag by a police officer in uniform in of assistance to the police in a de-

Members of the Board presenting the keeper of n aly-brothel at ging the boy, to the tongkok Garden Road, but carried on.

10, Uppor. Lascae Row, was fined $75, portation case.

Ilon. Attorney-General or six weeks, by Mr. Balfour at tté Police Station, The Chairman: The police are (Chairman), the Inspector-General Central Magistrney this

Mr. Silva submitted that netion morning. definitely of the opinion that the of Police (Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Another woman, So Mul, who absent was very much to be deprecated. licence being asked for by this Wolfe), Major II. B. L. Dowbig-ed herself on a charge in respect of a The name and address of the boy applicant is superfluous?

ein, Mr. J. L. MacPherson, and Mr.ly-house at 0, K Sin Lane, had had been supplied by the boy's Hon. Mr. Wolfè: It is

her bail of $100 estreated by the uncle, and the next stop should un-J. M. Wong.

Court. fortunate that this applicant had

have been to take out a summons, There was absolutely no necessity

position to pay for it.

Applicant claimed to have beon

no money to apply for a publican's licence when he desired to, ns at the present time there are

more |

papers,

were

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

the

Tal Yui, driver of a private car, was fined $10 for having failed to stop on the correct side of the road when picking up a passenger. In- spector Nicol said defendant was driving In Bonham Road from east

to west, and saddonly shot across

to drag the boy to the station. the road to pick up his master in

The constable, however, stated front of an on-coming car. that he did not go to the boy's other car had to swing from the

The

than enough facilities for drinks in VIRTUE, THOUGH IN HAGS, MAY One case of diphtheris and two home. He met the boy's uncle in left to the right to avoid a colll- that district. There are, actually CHALLENCE MORE THAN VICE SET cases of typhoid were reported to the the street and they all went to slon. three publicans Ileences within OFF WITH ALL THE TRIM OF CREAT-health authorities on Wednesday, the Police Station together. 100 yards of his premises, and two NESS-Masninger. others within three minutes' walk.

Rov. Erris C. H. Tribbeck grate- That I think is sufficient for any Ling Ngai-ying, a schoolmistress, fully acknowledges, on behalf of the is said to have attempt suicide yester Committee of the Sailors and Sol- The Chairman (to Mr. Lowe) day by taking oplum. She was adders Home, the following donation I regret to say that the Board lsmitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital, to its funds-Treasurer Trafalgar his uncle understood the Welhai-fined.

district.

not prepared to grant you n publican's licence.

who parti-

Day and Navy Day $2,700. Coolles Two ricksha cipated in a game of nat katt in Dud- U. S. S. Augusta arrives here this dell Street laat night were fined 14 afternoon at about 8 p.m. from Amoy. each by Mr. Balfour at the Central The American armed yacht, U, 8, 9. Police Court this morning. It was Isobel, with Admiral F. B. Upham on stated that four others escaped. In board, arrived at Canton this morning all, $1.25 was picked up.

from. Swatow and is expected here on Monday.

His Worship pointed out the Li Kwan-pul, driver of a pubile difficulties of the constable, who car, summoned for the same of did not understand English in the fence in Queen's Rond near same way that neither the boy nor Queen's Theatre, was similarly

wol dialect. Moreover, he did not .. think there was any harm dono in going to the station,

A fine of $3 was imposed.

:

SOVIET AND JAPAN.

BOOTBLACK "PIRATE"

CAUTIONED FOR OBSTRUCTION

the

Wong Chol, an unlicensed, boot- black, was charged before Mr. Court this morning with obstruc Balfour at the Central Police tion in Pedder Street, und was cautioned,

THE GENERAL" CAFETERIA. The other new application, for 1 restaurant-kooper's adjunct licence, was made by Mr. Lothar Hammann, on behalf of the General On the arrival of the 9.8. Szechuen

LEAGUE COMMITTEE NOT Cafeteria, of 22, Hankow Road. yesterday, a steerage pasaonger, Hin Amongst tho passengers who

TO BE CONVENED Applicant was told by the Chair-Vick-yin, reported to the police that arrived today by the Empress of man that the Board considered during the voyage a considerable sum Japan were Da and Mrs. Black, Dr. J.

London, Nov, 23. was stolen from him by an unknown P. Fohlly, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lam- there were already sufficient licons- person. The money comprised $2,000 bert, Mre, and Miss Potter, Mrs, and day. Mr. David Grenfell, M.P. In the House of Commons to ed promises in that locality and In Hongkong currency, $200 in Chinese Miss Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hall, (Labour) suggested the convening that they were not disposed to money and 2,000 francs. grunt any additional onga,

of the Leagua committee appointed Tho Chairman Wore you

Mr. W. H. Balloy, who has, hoen The kiddien had a great time at the to watch Far Eastern develop not, at the time you opened those temporarily appointed in charge of Talt Shown in Kowloon yesterday and monts, in order to investigate the

Inspector Androw, 'replying to premises, Informed that the police the Government Gunpowder Depot at night, and the much-advertised special strained position between the his Worship. aafd defendant had

Green Island, was wrongfully describ-performance went over with a bang. Soviet and Japan. would opsoas any application for a ed yesterday as Gunger. On retiring There will be another matinee to-day liquors licence?

Applicant They told me that after I had applied.

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The Chairman:They told you

and Dr. and Mrs. H. Tv.

no pitch. "Ho là what we call a

from the Army, at which time he was at 4.80 and again to-morrow at the mittee was concerned with Sino-

Capt. Eden explained the. Com-pirate," he added. Master Gunner /e Mount Davis Bub rama time. The Tait Shows will give Japaness dimculties, not Soviet and that he had better apply for

The magistrato told defendant District, he hold the rank of. Master their Inst performance on Sunday Gunner Warrant Omoer.

night, leaving for Manila on Tuesday, Japancae.--Router.

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