1936-11-09 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER

9, 1936.

"Telegraph" Report of Keelung Incident Creates A World-Wide Sensation

JAPANESE RELEASE TEXT OF CONFESSION OF THREE SAILORS COMPLETE DENIAL OF BRITISH VERSION OF INCIDENTS IN FORMOSAN POLICE STATION THE inside story of the Keelung_incident, published exclusively in the "Telegraph" last Monday, has created a world-wide sensation.

It was republished next day in nearly every important London and American newspaper, and was followed by a demand in the House of Commons that the Commander-in-Chief of the China Squadron refrain from visiting Japan again until adequate recompense had been made by the Japanese authorities, `

The story, which revended that three British naval sailors had alleged that they had been tortured into signing a "confession", alsu created profound excitement in the Far East.

Following the grave allegations made by the British sailors, the Japanese authorities have now released for publication sworn state ments by the five Japanese palice officers involved in the case, deny- ing that they had manhandled the men, and have also released the text of the "confession" signed by the sailors.

The "confession" reads:

"To the Chief of Pulice, Krelung.

"Last night, Wednesday, the 8th of October, at 12.30 a.m.. we travelled from the capital, Taikoku, to Keelung by lari at us charge of Y.6. Bring under the influence of drink, we failed to After being detained at the police station pay the taxi driver. for the night, we realised what we had dune. for the trouble we have caused.

"We wish to submit our sinerre apologies.

It will be

11'e are very sorry!

(Signed) H. G. Smith,

J. J. Turner, George Robert Harrison."

the recalled that

After consultation, with Policeman GA Interpreter, "Telegraph" revealed last Monday Nakamura, acting that at a Court of Inquiry held in Lieut. Packs-Beresford was allowed This he did in Hongkong subsequent to the Incito question the men,

the presence of Yoshida, dent, the three men concerned had testified that a confession had been extracted from them under torture.

Wit

willingly

"SIGNED STATEMENT" When questioned by the British of-

fleer, Smith is alleged to have stated Japanese authorities. however that he had not paid the fare, as it insist

the that

"confession"

had been agreed between them that sigued by the three men

Harrison is Turner was to do 30. and of their own accord.

They are also stated, necording to reported

the

to have said the same.

Government anti-aircraft guns at Madrid..

The Spanish lovalists

have several such guns, but few trained soldiers to mount them.

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12.30 p.m.

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1 p.im. Time signs and Weather. 1.03 p.m. The J. H. Squire Celeste. Octet.

1.20 p.m.

Vocal Gems froin "A

Country Girl" sung by the Light Opera Company,

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Weather Time and Announcements.

Variety Items.

Close Down,

Dance Music from the Hongkong Hotel Roof-Garden,

1.40 p.m.

2.15 p.m.

6,7 p.m.

.p.m.

Qunriet.

The Lener String

Grosse Fuge in B Hal major (Beethoven). Op. 133'; Moment Mustent No. 3 Transcription (Schubert); Minuet-Transcription from Sonata in G. (Schubert), Op. 78; Gavotte-Transcription (Gluck- Brahms); Barcarolle Transcription (Tschaikowsky).

7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock: Quotations and Hongkong Exchunge Market Report.

7.35 p.m. Harry Roy and H

HONGKONG ROUTE Tiger-Ragamuflias.

BLUE FUNNEL LINE TO START

BUILDING NEW FLEET

THE "Telegraph" understands from a London source that Messrs. Alfred Holt and Company, owners of the Blue Funnel Line, have completed plans for rebuilding their fleet engaged in regular trade between Liverpool, Hongkong and Japan.

Ten fast motor liners, each of about 10,000 tons, are the Japanese version, to have ad- Turner, the police report states, told to be built within the next three years. They will replace officer that he had "forgotton" to the Blue Funnel liners at present engaged on the Far East nay

Following this admission, the men route. were taken back to the office of Sub- Inspector Vorhida, where they are said to have written the statement

mitted their misconduct to Lieutenant Pack-Beresford, of 11.M.S. Bruce.

According to the story told to the British Court of Inquiry lo ng kong. Lt. Pack-Beresford was him-

self threatened with violence. This

is dealed by the Japanese authuri- Lies.

Denying the British allegations, the Japanese report states that the whole trouble arose following the failure of the three sallers to pay one Ichiro Tei, a taxicab driver, in whose car they had ridden from Taiboku fu

and #pologised,

The sailors, the report said, left the station at six o'clock accompanied by Lieut. Pack-Beresford.

The ships remained in Keelung for two days after this occurred but no action was taken by the British au- therities, during that time, Japanese officials declared.

The contract, amounting to more than £2,000,000, will be shared among a number of English and Scottish shipyards, and will provide work for several thousand

men.

In addition, many existing ships and the at present using coal will be con- Verled to oil-burners, contract will involve an expendi tare of many thousands of pounds. Blue Funnel liners In service be- tween England and Hongkong Include Jelenus, the Patroclus, Memnon, Calchas, Ajax and Lyenan. Issued against

Messrs. Alfred Holt and Company, of George the owners and managers of the Line, the Great Allied date their existence In lun, his

MCMAHON'S WRITS FOR ALLEGED LIBEL

BEER CONSUMED IN TAXI Having missed their last train at Talboku, the salfors are said to havej hired Tel to take them to Keelun for Y.6. When boarding the car, they carried three bottles of beer, one of which they constimed un the way,

Arriving in Keelung, the report Kerulein, of Clement's continues, they left the car, and en-solicitor. A. writ for libel has also Ocean Service from the year 1852

been

Write have 263 cinemas on behalf Andrew McMahon by

Mr.

when Mr. Alfred Holt bought the ship Dumbarton Youth and started the Line's career.

tered the Cafe Daruma without pay heen issued on his behalf against ing their fare.

Tei followed them: Gauniont-British Distributors, Lud..

McMahon was sentenced on Sept. and demanded to be paid.

To-day, the combined fleets under Failing to obtain any satisfaction, 14 to 12 months' hard labour, charged

producing near the Alfred Holt colours comprise 78

aggregating 624,210 the report goes on, Tel, proceeded to with "unlawfully

Bross a police box where he made a com- the person of the King a pistol with vessels

register tons. plaint. Accompanied by Policeman intent to alarm His Majesty."

Susumu Nakamura, an interpreter, a party of police headed by Sergeant Hanichi Tashiro went to the Cafe Daruma.

When the police began questioning the three lors-J. J. Turner. of H. M. S. Otin; . J. Sinith and G. R. Harrison, respectively, of H. M. S. Bruce and 11.M.S. Rover-a putty- officer; who gave his name as S. AB- Kood,, Intervened and said he had seen Turner pay the taxi driver.

Allgood, the report stated, said la

had chmuged. Y.10 note for Turner. giving the latter two Y.5 notes, one of which the sailor asserted he had used to pay the taxi driver

OFFER TO PAY SECOND TIME

The policemen immediately turned

Rebel At At Figthing

on Tef and searched his pockets, find- many

25-Still

92 At

"We ought

Margot Grahame & Sonja Henie In Lawsuit

Hollywood, Nov. 10.- MISS Margot Grahame, the British film star, and Miss Sonja Henie, the ice-skating champion, are parties to a law. sult which will shortly come be- fore the court here.

Miss Grahame is being sued by Mrs. Anna B. Askam, wife of Mr. Percy Askam, the opera

Fox-Trot Medley: Quick-Step- Jazz me Blues; Slow Fox-Trot- Cheerful Blues; Waltz Medley.

0.52 p.m. Two Songs by Richard Crooks (Tenor).

1. Kathleen Mavourneen (Juba Crawford); 2, The Merry Widow" Juve you so, (Franz Lehar).

8 p.m. Time signal, Weather and

Announcements.

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8,05 p. A Relay from the Shing Theatre (Chinese). 11. Close Down, 8.05-11 p.m. European pro- gramme from 2. E. K frequency of 640 kilocycles.

Bournemouth 8.05 P.m. The Municipal Orchestra With Danny Malone (Tenor).

Orchestra "Pique Dame," Over ture, (Suppe); Song-The dear little Shamrock, (Jackson); Orchestra-- Pizzicato (Strings). Intermezzo

Irch): Crocta Time--

for Strings (de la Riviere). Song-The Hills of Donegal Sander-

(Pleler);

Boa); Orbad Doll Dance Dance Novelty Duet (White); Song-When Irish Eyes

are smiling (Ball); Orchestra- Raindrops-Plzzicati for String (de a Hlviere); A Fairy Ballet (White); Song-Mother Machree, (Olcott and Bail)..

8.45

p.m. Recital by Carroll Gibbons.

Selections-The

A

Jazz

Charm

Plano

School: To beat the Band: You've got to

admit: Judy: Stars fell on Alabama.

9 p.m. London-News and nour.cements.

An-

9.20 p.m. Band Selections.

Source Florodorn, (Stuart); La Ballet (arr Winterbottom); Curmien

(Bizet):

Frolics Faust. Caprice (Gounod); Wee MacGregor Patrol (Amers); Policeman's 11oliday (Ewing).

9.50 p.m. Harry Lauder-Vocal Gems, Sung by The Scottish Male Voice Singers.

Ben.

10 p.m. Dance Music.

London-Big

11 pm. Close Down.

The fallowing wave-lengths and frequencies

singer, for £300 as rent, alleged | DAVENTRY PROGRAMMES to be due on a house in Holly- wood occupied by Miss Grahame before her recent visit to Eng.

Miss Grahame is counter-claiming £450 and on accounting of furniture alleged to have been removed by Mrs. Askam, while Sonja Henie is suing Mrs. Askam for £123, alleging was dispossessed of the house which was sub-let to her,

have more women in

sald, Jand. MRS. Charlotte Despard, aged

fighter for women's freedom, the House of Commons," she

"und we must tackle the question of veteran of the suffragette days, equal pay for women workers, of fair revolutionary thinker, is plan- treatment of women in official ap ning a new trip to Russia-at 92,pointments,"

Mra, Despard does not believe wo-that she In her lifetime she bus addressed

men should necessarily abandon their surging, shouting crowds, and seen

changes, soctul revolution,careers when they marry, Ing one Y.10 note and a Y.11 note, and chaos, in Brussels, Amsterdam,

"There are always people who Paris, Leningrad and London.

can look after children," she said. in addition to small change.

In the circumstances, the three. Yet when I spoke to her in her "The fact that women have children sailors were escorted to the Keelung home at Whitehead, Co. Antrim, Police Station where they were ques- found Mrs. Despard not only making ought to make them more keen to

plans for her new agrarian trip but build a better world for children. Sub-Inspector Yoshida. toned by

Allgood proceeded to call Lieut. also correcting proof of a new book of the of poems, she has written, writes the phortly

Pack-Beresford, who appears and Sunday Chronicle Belfust

police sintion

asked for the men's release,

1

corres-

to be

"Why should I drop out of things because I'm 937" she asked me. "People keep on asking me about my memories. But I don't keep thinking of the past. It's gone. Gone. Only the present maiters. "We must live in the present, live beautiful. I love getting about."

The pondent. The book is coon then

The published, 3,30 o'clock. time was British officer was not in unt

uniform. estioned When

Sub-Inspector by Yoshida, Turner is reported to have offered to pay "for a second time." As this Implied that the driver was charging a double fare, this was re- fused, the sailors being urged to ad- mit that they had lied at the quiset and recognize that they were in the to the full, Life is interesting and wrong. When they refused to do so, they were lat in room, while Yoshida left the start for an hour. Returning at Ave o'clock Yoshida

TWO LIVES IN ONE Yet Mrs. Despard did look back for again 'found Leut. Pack-Beresford me over a life which, as she confess- awaiting him. The officer, it is said, ed, "seems two or three Ilves, not had changed into a uniform,

one."

Good

Germans

Should Eat Their Bread Dry

Berlin, Oct. 1. The German population is invited to eat more bread and potatoca in place of fat.

In an article published by the Reichs Agricultural News Servico it is stated that Germans are eating 25 per cent. more fat than they formerly did, and are thus causing a shortage.

They should be instructed, it con- cludes, that potatoes, bread and sugar are as good as any fat.-Reuter.

"TOOK MY FURNITURE"

"It is one of those cases which never ought to have urisen," declared Grahame to-day. "I left Hollywood hurriedly for England Miss Just May, and instructed my agent io And a suitable sub-tenant to take over my lease,

"Next day Mrs. Askam, called, took possession from my buller, and claiming that the house wLA damaged and in a dirty condition, alfached furniture belonging to me to cover the cost at repairs aml cleaning alleged to be necessary. "Afterwards Mrs. Askam let the house to Miss Henie, but later dis- possessed her,"

Miss Grahame is now living at a Beverly Hills hotel.

Three cases of Diphtheria, and one ease each of Typhoid and Meningitis were reported to the local Health Authorities on Friday.

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Bervice- 4.15 p.m. Musical Interlude.

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The B.B.C. Empire Orchestra, Talks 'Belentats a Werk BAD p.m. The News and AnnesimIE. Greenwich Time Bigosi at 8.45 p.m.

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72 pm. The Policeman's Lot." 7.47. Havda Heard and kis Hand, R15 pm A Belial by Australian Artlata. 8.49 D. Variety.

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