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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH (1

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ESTHONIA FASCIST COUP ATTEM

CAPTAIN BEER'S CLAIM

KAMO OFFICERS DENY ALLEGATIONS

OF CONSPIRACY ·

Machine-Guns Cover

LIAR AS WELL

AS THIEF

STIFF SENTENCE AT KOWLOON.

With five previous convictiona against him for the same offence. Kom Chung was charged before Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Magistrney this morning, with

Shantung Street on Saturday afternoon.

WIRELESS OPERATOR ON theft of $9.31 from Liu Chang in

OCKSEW INCIDENT

Evidence by the two officers, of the Foo Hong Steamship Com pany, emphatically refuting the suggestion that they had con- spired to oust Capt. L.. N. Beer, of Marble Hall, Nathan Rond,

MILITARY

ACTAR IN TIME

FIERCE FIGHTING STORY DENIED

EXCITEMENT:: INTENSE.

Sub-Inspector Mair stated that the complainant was walking Thomas McGill Brown, Chlef along Shantung Street when he

Berlin, Mar. 13: Officer on the Kamo when she is folt a tug at his left hand pocket. hand which WAK alleged by the defendants to have lie seized a

Political excitement is in and in the struck a rock or roof off Ocksaw holding his wallet

`scuffle, the wallet

tense in Esthonis' where, i Island, said he gained his certi- resultant

the dropped to the ground. Defend is believed, ́an attempt' `by ficate in 1900, worked for from his post as master of the Union Steamship Company, and ant, who was the man alloyed to Fascists to stage a revolu s.s. Kamo, was given at the Berved from 1906 to 1927 with | have atempted to steal his wallet, Supreme Court this morning

He said he felt a bump and when hearing of the Captain's claim for wrongful dismissal went feet from the tsland.

100 to 150 was con- against the Company tinued.

Capt. Beer claims $1,36h from the Company, being three months salary as from July of Inst year. He stated that he was de-rated by the Company and refused to accept post as Chief Officer with them. He was now a Second Officer em- ployed by the Steamboat

The

company

allege

that

Burns Philips and Co..

"WE'RE SINKING."

The captain camo up on deck almost immediately afterwards in pyjamas and said, "We're sink- ing!"

ran away bet complainant caught him after a chase.

After evidence was given, de- fendant's statement in the charge- room admitting the charge was read, but defendant alleged that he was struck in the charge-room and this was the reason why he admitted the offence.

Sergeant Flaherty, who was on charge-room duty at the time, denied that defendant was struck. Detective Sergeant Lamont also testided that nobody struck the de-

Mr. Sheldon-Js Captain Beer's a floating story that she struck object true?

Witness: Sho struck a rock, or fendant. Com-

reef as far as I know.

His Worship (to defendant):- Why did

put "Struck You lied to you

me that somebody obstruction" in your log-Be-

struck you. cause he told me to.

Inspector Mair sold in view of the defendant's bad record he would ask hia Worship to take a serious view of the case, and to impose the maximum penalty.

Sentence of six

two years* police labour with supervision was passed;

pany. plaintiff was negligent.

Mr. A. D. A. MacGregor, Chief Justice, is hearing the case and is assisted by Comm. G. F. Hole, Harbour Master, as Nautical As-

ненвог.

Mr. H. C. Macnamara instructed by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton ap- peared for claimant and Mr. G. H. Sheldon, instructed By Mr. W, A. Mackinlay represented, defend

лnts.

Questioned as to the alteration of the Harbour report, witness anid that when the signed sheet

was returned to him by the Cap- taln for transmission to the Har- bour Office, he noticed that there was no reference to the incident,

He and he put it in himself. agreed that this was a breach of discipline, but thought that it was his duty at the time.

NO ENMITY.

Counsel for defendants recalled Capt. Beer this morning to ques- Burveyor's tion him on a Lloyds

suggested. certificate which, he disproved plaintiff's statement Witness denied that he was in that some of the damage to the a conspiracy against Capt. Beer. hull of the Kamo was done near He had no enmity against him, Amherst Rocks., Counsel he said. Referring to an incident suggested that it was caused off at San To port he denied that he

came back to the ship drunk. Ocksow Island on July 8, 1933.

Capt. Beer replied that he was thoroughly familiar with the

the

months' hard

ALLEGED FORGED $100 NOTE

COURT SHROFF

What

UNCERTAIN

AS

was described "extremely clever forgery" was

possession of a forged Hongkong

tionary coup d'etat was pre- vented only by sharp military action.

There are reports of fierce fighting between the Fascists and Go- vernment troops in the streets of Reval, the capital, but they have. not been confirmed.

Reval presented a war-like ap pearance all day yesterday, th Government taking drasti measures in preparation for th tenst sign of disturbance.

A State of Emergency has been proclaimed throughout the country, revealing that the crisis is not yet over, although it is thought that the Government has the situa tion in control.

LEADERS ARRESTED

Mr. Macnamara (cross-examin-produced at the Kowloon Magle-front of the League headquarter Machine-guns were posted f ship's bottom and as the damage] ing):~~~You have told us where trucy before Mr. Wynne-Jones in Reval and the troops were pr

you were up to 1927, but you have when a not told us where you were be- tween then and 1932.

Witness: I was doing nothing I was just walking round on shore. You were perhaps living on private means7-Yes, I was living on private means.

that the surveyor had not made a report of it before this occasion when he was told to examine every injury.

"A CONSPIRACY."

William E. Kirby, joint secretary of the China Coast Oflicers Guild

and the Marine Engineers Guild of China, B:Lid hu B&W

Mr.

Williamson arnel Mr. Ramsay and suggested that instead of de-rating Captain Beer, they should suspend him. They said they would consider this and Mr. Williamson made a remark about a conspiracy between the Chlef Officer and the Chief Engineer to

get rid of the Master.

He added, continued witness. "The Chief Officer is out of luck, as I have sacked him."

You know about Satan Binding some evil for idle hands to. do: perhaps you want to some public houses?—No, I didn't.

Ng in was charged with being in the police carried out their rai and, Shanghai Bank $100 note and arrested the officials and seals a forged Mercantile Bank $10 notes.

the establishment.

It was

It is believed that the closur stated by Detective Sergeant Lamont that the $100 of the Ex-Servicemen's Leagu and would have deceived almost plan which was organised by th note-was-a-vory- elever forgery, Dipped in the bud a Fasciat Putec The $10 nate was an League for putting into effect to anybody. obvious forgery.

day-Router. The Magistracy shroff was called MARTIAL LAW FOR Why did you leave Burns, in and asked if the $100 note was Philips?—For private reasons. a good one, but he could not de- To put the matter in plain initely say one way or the other.

SIX MONTHS His Worship necordingly re-

Later. Inaguage, you were dismissed for

manded the case for 24 hours, and The seriousness of the situatio: drunkenness ?-No.

You are on oath.Yes, The in the meantime ordered the note is revealed by a Government an manager said "If you have private to be sent to the Enak for inspec-nouncement, that the State o reasons, all right." I said "Yes, tion. I don't want to go to sen again for a few years, and that was all."

SOMETHING SOLID.

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Cross-examined, witness said he

Questioned at length, witness made his suggestion because he considered it averse to discipline admitted that he could not say to reduce any Master to a rank what obstruction the ship struck, in which he might serve under a but he was sure it was something man who had formerly served solid, as the ship lost wey com- under him, or where the second pletely and immediately. He went mate might be a Chinese.

on deck

took Houndings And This concluded. the case for which showed 10 Sathoms all plaintiff.

afterwards the captain came in

round.

DEATH OF MR. H. L. doner, who led the National for

PEREIRA

Emergency will continue through out Eathonia for six months.

M. Pacts will act as Presiden: He has appointed General La

|ces which drove out the Bolshevik In 1918 and 1919 to be komman der-in-chief of the Army, and ho

maintaining internal order.

TRAGEDY DISCOVERED entrusted him with the task

-THIS MORNING

excitedly and said, "Sparks, send did you not mention it to tragic circumstances. out an S.O.S."

have

FASCIST THREATS

I

We regret to record the death

All branches of the Fascis of Mr. Hector Lawrence Pereira, Federation of Ex-Servicemen hav Chak Kwok-ming,

of Mr. Macnamara:—Why did you the 21-year-old brother wireless

Mr. now been dissolved and the le off Ocknew alter the Harbour Report after F. D. Pereira, the well-known In ders arrested, following threat operator, said that Island he felt a bump and shortly the captain had signed it? terport cricketer, who passed away of terrorism made by the Fedo Witness: Without any malicious at his home at No. 25 Yuk Sau ation, which had formed militar Stroet, Wongnelchong, under

organisationa Why

It is officially stated that Discovery of his death from disturbances have occurred an him?I see that I should done. I thought it was a fair poisoning was made at 8.30 this

whore-Reuter. thing

to do.

morning, when he was found, You know that the happened sometime before, and you bad, Doctors

Incident | lying, almost fully dressed, in his summoned from residences in the vicinity, had been through several ports their since? You have had a lot of ex could only pronounce life extinct.

body perience and you know that Hong-The

W30 taken to the kong was not the proper port to Mortuary. enter It? It is something, I did The funeral takes place to-, not know before.

morrow morning,

"I told him I should require a written notice for this and he went qut," added witness. "Tire next morning he told me to keep quiet about the incident."

In reply to Mr. Macnamara, witness said he did not see the captain write an order.

Witness denied that he was drinking in the Chief Engineer's cabin when he should have been supervising bont drill.

REEF OFF OCKSEW Rownovald Ellefsen, acting Chief Officer on the 8.8. Ilai Ching Haid that two years ago he was passing Ocknow Island when he saw breakera "which could only In reply to his Lordship he be caused by a reef" but which stated that the draught of the were not recorded on the chart, Kumo at the time of the incident

He altered the ship's course und was 14 feet,

told the master, Captain Stewart.

Cross-examined, he said he did

not actually ace a reef or rocka

not his job.

ANOTHER DENJAL.

Peter Urquhart Mudle Cairns,

HONGKONG FIRE

INSURANCE CO.

PROPOSED DIVIDEND AND BONUS

THEFT OF SERGER

JACKET

FORMER COOK-BOY, BOUND OVER

: MARTIAL LAW

eadquarters

M. Guichard, Director of the French Judicial. Police, whose retirament has been ordered by the Doumargue Cabinet in connection with the Stavisky scandals.

FRENCH POLICE CHIEF SACKED

STAVISKY AFFAIR ECHO

UNDELIVERED SUMMONS

Paris, Mar: 12. M. Guichard, the Director of the Judicial Department of the Paris Police, is to be retired.

His dismissal is the direct out- come of the Stavisky scandals, the sequel to the non-delivery, of a summons to the former Cabinet Ministers, M. Dalimler and M. Julien Durand, to appear before the Bayonne magistrate in con- nection with the judicial enquiry.

The Cabinet discussed the fallure this afternoon after which

wae, announced that M. Guichard, who reached. the retir ing age some time ago, would be retired on April 1. – 5.

GUICHARD'S CONFESSION

CYPRUS FACES DIFFICULTIES

ECONOMIC INQUIRY

ORDERED

London, Mar. 12. The Colonial Omcu announces that in view of the economis difficulties of the peoples and particularly the agricultural classes, of Cyprus, it had been de- elded to despatch a Financial Commissioner to the Colony, with following terms of reference: *“To examino and report on the financial position and policy of the Government of Cyprus in. relation to the economie resources and prospects of the Colony, und, In particular, to advise na to the. development of those, resources and as to any changes which may be necessary or desirable in the existing basis of rovenue and in expenditure on sorvice,”

Sir Ralph Oakden, late of the Indian Civil Service, has nocpoted an invitation to undertako this Inquiry, and he leaves for Cyprus next month, Mr. F. A. Stockdale, Agricultural Adviser to the Colonial Secretary, will also visit the inquiry*** Cyprus during British Wirelcas.

NEW CHAIRMAN

OF

L.C.C.

LORD SNELL OF PLUMSTEAD

London, Mar. 12. It is disclosed that the new County chairman of the London Council has been chosen from out-. aide its ranks.

The chairman will be the well- known Labour peer, Lord Snell of

Plumstead, who was a member of

the L. C. C, from 1912 to 1925 and Labour M. P. for East Woolwich from 1922 until his elevation to the peorage in 1931.--Reuter,

MARINE OFFICER'S

CASE

PORTUGAL AWARDS

£800

London, Mar. 12. The Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Anthony Eden, stated in the Com mons to-day that the claim of the British mercantile murine officer, M. Guichard on Friday last con-Mr. Brewer, against the Portu- fessed that the summons was not guese Government has been satis- delivered. The summons, he factorily settled by an award of sald, was found in the Stavisky £800.

Mr. Eden expressed the appre- dossier where it must have slipped while he was studying the dossier, clation of the British Government It may be recalled that M. of the attitudo adopted by the Chautemps called for the resigna- Portuguese Government in making tion of M. Guichard in January. this award and in arranging a The request appears to have been retrial of the caso against Mr. cancelled when M. Daladier took Brewer, as result of which he was offico.Reuter.

eventually acquitted by the Supreme Court at Lisbon.-British Wireless.

NAZIS CELEBRATE

MARK ANNIVERSARY OF

ASCENDANCY.

CHINESE Y.W.C.A.

ACTIVITIES REVIEWED AT ANNUAL MEETING

The fourteenth annual meeting of members of the Chinese Young Munich, Mar. 12. Thousands of Nazis, officials, Women's Christian Association of Stormtroopers and members of Hongkong was held last week. ex-soldiers' organisations, gather- Miss F. C. Woo M.B.E., presided ed here to-day at the Exhibition and extended a welcome to a very Hall at a ceremony which com- large number of members and memorates the Nazt seizure of friends present. She gave a brief account of the growth of the epower in Bavaria in year ago.

Association during. the last fourteen

5

Sir, Can any of your numerous readors kindly let me know the name of the author of the following Hines which I came across quite accidentally:

worth

birth, It was stated by the complainant NotWhat was his station?" But We are officially informed that that the coat was hanging on a "Hail he a heart 7"

Chancellor Hitler himself was present, and led the procession years, and expressed the hope that its subsequent history would prove into the great hall.

The Bavarian Prime Minister, that the Association as a Christian Herr Siebert, gave an account of Woman's movement would prove the work of the Bavarian Govern-Itself of increasing value to ment in the Interests of Nazi-iam. .community.

The proceedings were Impressive

the

The opening devotions were taken

Miss

In the extreme, and concluded by the Rev. Li Kau-yan. with a reverberating chorus of Vice-President, presented the re

Kwok Sheung-man, the thousands of voices which joined

In the singing of "Horst Weasel," port of the nominating committee. and the National Anthem.-Router new term of office Include Miss F

The Board of Directors for Special.

SILVER STRENGTH

AMERICAN BUYERS*- '

HUGE HOLDINGS

C. Woo, Mrs. Chol Nai-sing, Mrs. Cheung Ting-kong, Mrs. S. B. Tan, Mra. Ng Shisheung, Mrs. X. K

Chow.

Miss Sin Tak-hing is the General Secretary, and Miss Elliott the Western Secretary,

"The Measure of a Man"

Mrs. Wong Tse-chuen presented. Lam Cho, 66, unemployed, was NotHow did he die ?" But

the audited finance statement for. the year, showing a balance of a. convicted by Mir. Balfour in the

"How did he live?" Central Magistracy this morning. NotWhat did he gain?"But

London, Mar, 12.

littlo over $900, which was adopted. on a charge of stealing a blue

Financiera hero, attribute the “What did he give?"

After Miss Shin had read a brief Jacket from Bachan Singh, of 81 These are the white to measure the continued firmness of silver less to report of the year's work, thirteen Wyndham Street, an import and or as a man, regardless of absence of sellers, as there appears under Miss Wong Yuk-mool's able the special demand than to the members of the Wah Kwong Clubs, export shop.

to be a tendency to hold en and he did not report the matter Chlef Engineer on the Kamo' sald

to leadership, presented "A Four- stocks,

teonth

Anniversary Ceremony," This tendency fa posathly ex-which cloverly depicted various de to the Harbour Office as that was he felt a bump and felt sure they the General and Consulting Com- nail on the wall. He heard the And How did he play his plained by the American roports partments of the Association's

had struck a rock or reef. He mittee of the Hongkong Fire In-noise of rustling of paper, and

or ready with words of that President Roosevelt must work. Counsel: Do you not think it is denied bolng in singular that thousands of officers against, Capt. Beer, and said that at the forthcoming meeting of premises with the coat wrapped up To bring back a smile, to banish a and Include largo

conspiracy aurance Co., Ltd, will recommend saw the defendant leaving the

extend his economic programme of merchant ships have passed he was de-rated temporarily for shareholders, to be held on the

purchases of Just out from prison, q young un thero and have not reported seeing allowing his assistant to go on 27th March, the payment

silver, owing to the fallurs of the employed Chinuso is again in mmol,, on Defendant stated he formerly Not What was his church" Nor-big gold purchases to raise com- this time for alx weeks. He was a reef?

shore against Ficet Regulations account of the year 1932 of a worked for the late Mr. George "What was hle crood?" Witness:Yes, (1 is angular.

modity prices.

sentenced by Mr. Hamilton this mor He was not drunk at San To. Would it not be singular if the

dividend of $10, together with an Grimble and his last employment But-nd he befriended those really

What truth there may be inning for stealing a water meter cover expert officers of His Majesty's were not drunk?

Mr. Macnamara:You any you "Exchange" bonus of $1 per share was cookboy at the residence of in need?" Navy failed to mark a dangerous Witness:-I have

absorbing $440,000 to pass their. Andrews, of the Ponk Tram-Not"What did the sketch in the these reports nobody knows but it in a scavenging land at the rear of

nowspapers May 7"

in pointed out that American silver Des' Youx Road West. A P.W.D. red presentative stated the value of the rocf off this island 7--Yes.

never been lance of $02,180,22 to the credit way Company.

But-How many missed him when speculators purchases are new article was about ana-dollar. The of Reinsurance Fund, and to carry defendant a chance, and bound The Magistrate decided to give forward $595,470.19-in respect of

he passed away?”.

estimated at 200,000,000 ounces valdo would probably be about three Yours, etc.,

and that they are most anxious to cents to the defondant," his Worship: the year 1933.

him over.

unload.-Router.

remarked

Or that the people at the light. house have not reported it? Yes.

drunk.

2

The hearing was adjourned to 10 a.m. to-morrow."

In

papor

God-given part?

good cheer.

tear

CURIOUS.