1933-12-28 — Page 19

LEIPZIG TRIAL VERDICT

GENERAL GERMAN

APPROVAL

BERNARD

MOCKS

.on

SHAW

London's favourable comment

the Reichstag fire trial

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1933. ●

DEATH OF MR. LAM WOO

WELL-KNOWN LOCAL CONTRACTOR

One of the Colony's oldest and best-known Chinese building con- tractors in the person of Mr. Lam night at his residence, 1 Tramway Woo panned away peacefully Inst

Path. Ho had been alling for the past month.

EUROPEAN MYSTERY DIPLOMACY

BALKAN VISITS TO PARIS

London, Dec. 27. Sir John Simon, who Founder of the well-known firin arrived in Capri on Sunday, of Lani Woo & Co., the deceased will arrive in Rome on gentleman was widely known for.

INQUEST ON NURSE

TRAGIC DEATH IN THE VICTORIA HOSPITAL.

RADIO BROADCAST

A Coroner's Inquiry into the death of Jessto Ann Shum, a pro- bationary nurse of the Govern- TO-DAY'S BROADCAST. ment Civil Hospital, whose death occurred in tragic, circumstances at the Victoria Hospital where she was a patient, on November 20, was begun by Mr. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon.

The Jury comprised Messrs. H.. C. B. Way (foreman), C. A. Evans

verdict echoes the feeling in the large number of big contracts January 1 to confer with and C, E, Roza Perolra. Germany where general ap-carried out in the Colony. He had Signor Mussolini. proval has been given, apart been in the business for the past. from the Nazi organ Korrea 40 years, having established him-

The problenis of disarmament self as a contractor on his return will form an important feature of pondenz, which says that if the to Ilongkong from Australia where their talks, but considerable nt- verdict had been pronounced in he had spent his younger days. accordance with the modern na-

tention is likely to be paid to the tional sense of justice, It would

Italian demand for the reform have been very different from this plain miscarriage of justice. An official rebuff was adminie tered to a party of three British and one Czecho-Slovak,

the

SELECTIONS BY THE S.S. CORFU BAND THIS EVENING From ZDW on a wavelength of 856 molres:

5.8 p.m. European programme. 8-6 p.m. A relay of the Hongkong Hotel Danco Hongkong Ilotel Roof Garden.

Orchestra from the 6.6.30 p.m. Children's Concert from the Studio.

Sonata in F Minor (Brahms,

6.80-7 p.m. Op. 120, No. 1).

Lionel Tertia (Violin) and

Harriet Cohen (Planoforte).

1st Movement-Allegro appai-

alonato.

2nd Movement-Andante un poco

acingia.

3rd Movement-Allegretto

grazioso.

4th Movement-Vivace. tions, etc.

7p.m. Closing Local Stock Quota-

Dr. Isaac Newton, medical of ficer in charge of Victoria Hoa November B, Miss Shum was ni- pital said that at 11.30 a.m. on mitted to the hospital, having been transferred from the Gov ernment Civil Hospital. She had Mr. Lam Woo was 63 years of of the League of Nations, regard-seemed to be out of proportion to

A native of Sun Wui, the late

neck and some fever. The fover a small boll at the back of the age and during his long residence ing which no definite proposals the severity of the boil. In the Colony he becanio nssuclat-

Her blood was examined for malarial and Institutions. He was keenly ed with many local establishments have been submitted..

parasites shortly after admisalon, Interested in the Anglican Chinese

but nono were found. Her blood who ar-Church and was, one of

was again examined the foilow- ing day with the same result. On rived in Leipzig to accure on founders of St. Paul's Church as

November 13 her temperature have armed guard and

the St. Paul's Girls' to accompany School,

well as the three acquitted Bulgarians to

Ing been rather high, ranging be tween 108 degrees and 101 de- the frontier.

grecs with intermissions, typhoid The

was suspected. A blood test, how. treated as from then as a case of over, proved negative, but ako was typhold. On November 10 her blood was agnin teated

subsided and was between 99 de- for malaria, but no parasites were found. The temperature had then

All relays from the Hongkong grees and 100 degrees, and

Hotel are by courtesy of the Manage- second test for typhoid was takened music will be broadcast from the ment and during the latervais record- which proved positive,

Studio.

party. included Ivor Montague, the brother of Lord Swaythling.

The Leipzig pollee told the party that the matter was in the hands of the

Minister of the Interior and that their présence 'was unnecessary. They were also assured that the Balgariana would be safe.

SERENE IMPARTIALITY.

The Leipzig judgment is form ing the topic of lengthy editorial comments in the German press, which

appear to be unanimous on one point, namely, that the verdict afforda irrefutable proof of the German Supreme Court's serene impartiality.

announced in

TOUR POSTPONED. Meanwhile, following the Paris conversations, it is learned that the official trip planned by M. Paul Boncour to Warsaw and The late Mr. Lam Wog took a Prague will not take place before great interest in education and February. It is besides being a keen supporter of the Chinese Y.M.C.A. he was the Paris that M. Paul Boncour will treasurer and a director of the attend the Chamber opening Lingnam University's Agricultural session on January 9, after the College, Some founded a free school in his address the Chamber in the course avo he holiday recess, and will, no doubt, native district of Sun Wul and wards its erection and mainten-policy. contributed a sum of $40,000 to of the discussion THI forelyn

ance.

years

บ

tween normal and 99 degrees un-

Her temperature remained be til November 20; when it rose

i

7.3-8 p.m. From the Btudio. Selections by, the .. Corfu Band. 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Report,

8.3-10.30 p.m. Chinese Studio Con.

cert.

10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Prena Νουκ

10.30 p.m. Close Down. Should recoption provo satisfactory, the programane between 5 and 6 p.. will be replaced by a relay from Daventry,

On January 15, the Foreign The Inte Mr. Lam Woo and the Minister will attend the meeting late Dr. Sun Yat-sen were personal of the League Council in Geneva, friends and Mr. Lam Woo fre

and on January 21, he is expect-rapidly, and by November 23 it|FAMOUS MANUSCRIPT. quently provided financial support to the late Dr. Sun in his many political campaigne.

was again at 204 degrees,

thie

ed to participate in the meeting of the Disarmament Conference time remaining there night and Steering Committee.

day. She was seen during her Arst attack' and 'second rise by Dr. Moir in consultation with himself, and on November 24 he considered her heart to be suffer- Professor Gerrard who agreed her condition was dangerous. Her mental condition while in hospital was much the same typhoid cases: It was a disease as in most

and strict diet, and which required very strict rest some degree of depression..

occasioned

A hard and conscientious worker, the late Mr. Lam was a

ROYAL VISITS? director of several local Chinese firms, including the Sincere Co.,at the end of January, of Ming from the disease and called in

Moreover, the visit is expected, the Bank of Canton, On Lok Yuen, Titulescu, Sam May and the Shanghai Pirotinister, who has

Rumanian Foreign According to London dia- Insurance.

omletally ne- patches, George Bernard Shaw

cepted the French Government's seized the opportunity to sum-

Mr. Lam Woo leaves three sons invitation to proceed. to Paris marize the renction of the British and three daughters, all of whom, from St. Moritz, where he is now nation with the declaration, "No with the exception of the youngest resting. It is rumoured one could have awaited a juster son, are married. The youngest King Carol of Rumanin might that decision" and took the ncension to son recently went to America to also arrive in Paris simultaneous- pour out his famous wit on the continue, his studies.

ly with M. Titulescu. Mr. Jovitch, "participants of certain mock

Yugo-Slavian Foreign Minister, trials who now find themselves in his wife some months ago.

Mr. Lam was pre-deceased by will, very likely, be naked to moot turn amusingly mocked."

his French colleagues In Paris The possibility is not excluded that King Alexander of Yugo Slavia will arrive in Paris at that time. Hatas.

CASE OF VAN DER LUBBE.

The death sentence pronounced

against Marius Van der

Labbe

cannot be changed or commuted

HIDDEN OPIUM

by any other court. Nevertheless | HEAVY SENTENCES ON

the sentence will not he carried out before an appeal for mercy has been submitted to the Presi

SMUGGLERS

CODEX SINAITICUS ON

VIEW IN LONDON

century manuscript of the Bible

London, Dec, 27. The "Codex Sinalticus," fourth bought from the Soviet by the Government Museum for £10,000, was brought

for the British.

by a courier and it is being placed from Russia during the week-end on view in the Museum to-day.

Many substantial donations linve been received in anticipation of Heart Failure and Shock. the opening of a fund for the pur- and everything had to be done for They include £500 from the So- The patient was a difficult one, chase of this famous manuscript. her by the Sisters, who had to ciety known as the Friends of Na- wash and feed her. She would tional Libraries, as the first dona not allow the amaha to attend to tlon. Lord Wakefield has sont her. About 5.55 am, on Novem-cheque for £1,000.-British Wird- ber 26 he was summoned by tele-less. phone and wont to the Ward, where he found her lying in bed →→ with n cut across the neck. Scales was there, and he found she had cleaned wound and had caught the partially Bevor-

wrapped up in gut skins in the Sister false bottom of a trunk. He was and the Straits were arrested ment. He was a passenger for hold Two passengers bound for Java fined $5,000 or one year's imprison-the yesterday at the Po Tak Wharf, Java.

of

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ed windpipe and lifted it out of

had ceased, but decensed lived for the wound, thus enabling the de- very cheerful, and was very fond

five minutes after. She actually

ceased to breathe. Haemorrhage

been acquainted with Miss Shum mont Civil Hospital said she bad

dent Hindenburg, who alone has

ever since January 1, 1932, when she joined the constitutional power of say

probationary nurse. She was quite normal and ing Van der Lubbe from the supreme penalty,

at the Central-Magistracy this Li Sing for possession of 150 tacls and charged before Mr. Hamilton. A similar_fine_was imposed on

of.har work. Conforming with the stipula-morning, by Revenue O'lleer

A Normal Patient. tions of the Emergency Law for Grimmitt for posscagion of on- (of prepared oplum.

Jessie Scales, nursing sister at protection of state and nation, Government prepared optura. 1. O. Grimmitt said the oplumdied of heart failure and shock, the Victoria Hospital," said that criminals convicted for high Wong Sit had concealed 84 taels was concealed in tins fitted Into The actual injury was not in it-Miss Shum firat came under her treason must be hanged. It is of

prepared opium carefully the inside of the box. further stated that the preventive arrest of Torgler and the three Bulgarians was ordered by the Supreme Court to protect them from acts of violence!

DISMISSED HOUSE-BOY RETURNS TO STEAL

Arrested in Raid in Yaumati

Formerly employed by Mrs, M.

S. Rose, of No, 300 Prince Edward Road, as a house-boy, Chan Yan was charged before Mr. Wynne Joncs at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning with larceny of two ld rings, a bangle and a silver necklace, valued $86.

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

PRIDE HATH NO OTHER GLASS TO 8HOW ITSELF HUT PRIDE-Shake-

apeare,

Those who have not yet seen the Appearing on behalf of Mr. J. A. V. clever magician, M. Henry, will have Ribeiro, who was summoned for al-another opportunity on Friday night, lowing a white and black dog cut when a charity performance will be

in the street without a muzzle on aid of the New Territories medical

given at the Ke Shing Theatre in Post Mortem Shows Typhoid.

Central

on her face.

self sufficient to cause death in a charge when she was on day duty normal healthy person, especially and the last fourteen days of her after the treatment given. Hellness when she was on night considered Sister Scales had done duty. She seemed quite a normal the entirely correct and proper Chinese patient. About 5.45.a.m. During the four days ended De-thing by her action.

on November 26 she thought Miss cember 20 one case of typhold (im- After death ho examined her Shum did not appear too well. ported) and two cases of meningitis bedding for an Instrument but The patient had food at 5.50 a.m. were reported to the local health au- could not find one. He found a and she left the patient about five Mesra, Mackinnon, Mackenzie &

thorities.

note written In Chinese in what minutes later. She had previous- Co., local agents, send a copy of the

appeared to be very coarse pencil.ly given the patient an extra P. & O. S.N. Co.'s 1934 handbook

The sixth annual dance of the The first five characters ware in blanket. The patient then was for the Straits, China and Japan. Hongkong Ladies' Hockey Club will ink. In the bed he also found two quite bright, and said she felt bet-

***

take place at Lane Crawfords restaur-quarters of a Chinese orange. He tor. After the patient had had The annual Christmas tree party ant on January 12 at 0 p.m.. will be held at the Police Recreation Tickets are obtainable from the com did not find the other half, her milk, witness noticed her Club, Happy Valley, un New Year's mittee.

Oranges of that type were not mouth was discoloured and dirty. Day, commencing at 2 p.m.

supplied by the hospital. He also Sho cleaned it and asked tho found an eyebrow pencil. He patient what she had been eating, examined, the bed table and her but she only smiled. Witness did bag for a weapon but found not ace any letter at the time. nothing.

She saw the eyebrow stick. Sho was of opinion that the eyebrow fined $8 by Mr. Wynne-Jones at the performances, at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.structions of the Police Magised the discoloration of the mouth. December D, Miss Olga Ribeiro was benevolent work. There will be two held a post mortem

At 10.30 a.m. that same day he stick had been used to write the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.

on the inletter, and that it may have caus- Tickets are $1 and 60 cents.

trate. External examination Thought It was Haemorrhage. For Healing three yards of silk at altogether from 124, Des Voeux Rond Central by Mr. Balfour on Lam Ping-fun, 22, two and a half inches long which amah, Ah Kam, told her that the Six weeks' hard inbour was passed showed a transverse wound about It was before 6 a.m. that the where he was employed, Wu Chi-ful It was stated by Detective Ser-by Mr. Balfour in the

was fined $50 or ene month's prison coolie, in the Central Magistracy this had cut through all the tissues patient had blood

morning for stealing seven chickens down to the windpipe and had She went to the ward, and saw tho geant Franklin that defendant left Magistracy this morning. Inspector from a chicken house at the Italian severed all except the back wall blood, and thought the patient Mrs. Rose's employ on November Brennan said defendant was arrested Street. Inspector Hourihan sald de- hand corner of the wound was aamah to get the doctor, and went

Convent Foundling Homo,

High of the windpipe. Froin the left had haemorrhage. She asked the 30. On December 28, he was seen going into a pawnshop. He bolte fendant was traced through another small superficial cut about one to get a morphia Injection. When on the landing, of the house by but was caught by the detective. Dr. M. E. Asger, who not knowing

man, to whom three of the chickens inch long passing upwards, and she returned she noticed it was a who he was, ordered him away.

Believed to be

Intoxicated,

a man missing.

at the right hand corner were a cut in the neck, and she held the. Looking over her belongings, Mrs. named Wong Tong-chol, was sent to Rose later discovered soveral

the Government, Civil Hospital this

number of similar marks. Run-windpipo with a pair of forceps. morning. He was found at 4 a.m. to- Returning to business yesterday ning parallel with the wound and There were no visitors to the pleces of jewellery to be missing day on a bed in a hut on a hillside morning after the Christmas holl about one-eighth of an inch ab ve ward during the time she was on

above Dragon Terrace with a gog of Acting on information, Sergeant iron tied loosely with a plece of wire, the Malan Book Store in D'Aguilar No big vessels were sevored. The eral times, and never saw the de- of days, Mr. Mahan, the proprietor of it was another superficial cut. duty. She was in the ward soy- Franklin raided a house in Re- The police believe the Rag was tied Street, discovered that his shop had Inner margin clamation Street yesterday after-by the man himself. The man, atated been broken into and the drawer of showed braises which looked as if hands. There was no reason why of the lower lip ceased having anything in her noon and found defendant who to be a rag-picker, was unable to give his desk rifled, over $120 in cash be- they wore teeth marks. Interral anything could have been still had two pieces of jewellery a coherent account of his condition to ing stolen. The shop was closed on belonging to Mrs, Rose on him." the police.

Christmas Eve, and it appears that examination confirmed typhold room at all. She saw the half the robbers gained access by the and the damaged condition of the the orange, but could not account: Pleading guilty, defendant was sentenced to

The mistresses of four sly brothels Attempt to forth the cafe prov: heart was very thin owing to the and the two amahs had access to back door, which they broke open, heart. The muscle wall of the for it being there. Only horasif six weeks' hard were produced before Mr. Hamilton,ed beyond their ability. labour..

at the Central Magistracy, by Sub-

disease. He examined the stomach the ward, and the two Inspector A. V. Baker, this morning.

and mouth and gullet for any in were in and out of it all night, amaha Wong Yoe, Widow, was charged in Voeux Road West, which laun-

On a charge of entering 218. Des atrument but found none.

Ah Kam was

not in the ward When arrested in possession of an Stone Nullah Lane, and

He had noticed nothing unusual when she was there. Both amahs respect of the second floor of No. necupied, Li Chuen, a coolie, was sont about the deceased. She never came when Doctor Newton arriv oplum pipe, Tam Tain-ling, formerly $100 or two months, and a similar Balfour in the Central Pollco Court sald anything to him which suged, and they could not have taken

fined to prison for one month by Mr. employed at tho Canton Bureau, told the local police three in respect of the second floor of No, the attempted theft of three wooden to thought there was no doubt that Bilor Mallows and Stator Custom fine was imposed on Li Lan, widow, this morning. A second charge of gosted she would commit suicide. anything out of the room. After different storien. Charged before Mr. 144, Lockhart Road. Chan Yuk,

suleido theory. The Duff were in the ward, and, alo this morning, the man was sentenced No. 10, Lee Tung Street, and Li Luk, . H. Hourihan said it was not known the superficial cuts were typical Balfour in the Central Police Court widow, for keeping the third floor of tools, a tea can and a cash board, was about the

withdrawn by the police. Inspector typo of wound in the throat with did not know anything after that. to two wooks' hard labour. Dot- widow, in respect of the second floor how the man entered. He was caught of suicide. Sergt. Goodwin sald defendant was at of No. 5, Stone Nullah Lane, were by a detective when he was about to.

The hoaring was at this stage prosent unemployed and had no fixed each fined $250 or four months secamp with the property. Defendant matron in charge of the Govern-afternoon.

adjourned, and will be resumed place of abuse.

Sarah Isobel Summerskill, on Wednesday, January 8, in the they had previous convictions,

nd a previous conviction in 1920.

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