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THE CHINA MAIL:
SUPPRESSED SCREAM.
GOVERNMENT HOUSE CRIME.
CHARGE AGAINST COOLIE.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25. 1921.
BUNGALOW CASE.
SUIT FOR DAMAGES.
SUMMARY COURT ACTIONË “
21
[HONGKONG · UNIVERSITY.
MATRICULATION EXAMINATION..
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LIST OF THE RESULTS. ›
munity. cannot be upheld. The been trying on something of the Chinese als are divided on the surt, to judge by an indignant pro- question of mud tsai." In any test in the Daily Mail, "which" ae- case, a community that is "an-cuses it of proposing to level noyed by opinia must learn not down the state of the profession by to he, if it is to continue under the la grading system suitable to a jam British dag. The China Mail be factory or any kind of standardized lieves that it was a false excuse manual repetition work." So far anyway, trumped up as an after-as the Northcliffe Press is concern. thought. We suspect that theel, we are told that the Directors Government itself was annoyed." have intimated that they would the charge of murdering an amh, age alleged to have been done to at the prospect of getting more shut down before they would Chan Cheuk, in a bathroom 13 Gov-adjacent property by the building of Rau Tse Zung, 53 Medhurst College, work to do as a result of such ex-yield. To show that this is not a comment Blouse on the right of Janus bungalow, was set for hearing in Wong Zong Pai, 54 Medhurst Col-
lege.
The trial of Tong Tim, a coolie played at Government House, on
The results of the Hongkong An interesting suit involving dam-held in December 1920 are as follow
University Matriculation Examination
SHANGHAL.
posures. I thought it had more bluff," they mention that events ay 2, began yesterday afternoon be the Summary Court this morning be| Dung Tse Tsa. 57 Public School for
I will force the issue as to whether permitent effegs upon its pasi-1 Solicitor, sppeared for the prosect- Father A. Henriques, who is sulang Sze Yuen, 60 Public School For
Chinese.
Chinese.
Chinese.
C. Z M, 56 Public School for
Chinese.
power than it has. and is abused have proved that the temporary rear, R. E. Linksel ; the Magis-
tore the Puiste Judge, Mr. Justice its power. It is now in a hole, a[stoppage of a
Chinese. virile deep-rooted cy bad hole. We wke it this case newspaper for weeks or months has
Mr. Hazelrigg assistant Crown Wood The plaintiff is the Rer. Cong Teh Zee, 59 Public School for
Chinese. this Government can be allowed to tion. We would have liked to be tions Mr. F. C. Lyson for the Mr. George Theodore Lam for $203. continue its attempted policy of told more about these "events." delerse.
Outlining the case, Mr. Hazelrigg The plaintiff's solicitors are Jobason, He Cheng En. 61 Public School for suppressing opinions it does not which are unknown to us. We like. We say attempted policy rather hoped the S... would per-said that the body of the victim was Stokes and Master; the defendant'à for the reason that it is a policy severe with its demands, and so found on the morning of January 3 are Lo and Lo. Owing to the indis F. Z. Chum, 64 Public School for that has very evidently failed. The get the Northcliffe Press to fulfil bying by a side path leading down position of Mr. Eo the case was Z. Z. Dzan, 65 Public School for
Chinese- Government, as we pointed out etits threat; but in the same article from the east gate of Government postponed and a new date for the time the China" Mail, we bewe see a remark that they were House towards the Helena May In- Bevë, being the only paper to refer ** withtrawa,”. So we are easy stitute, On examination, it was bearing will be set on Friday. to then lacked the foresight with minded. Much as we dislike the found to bear marks of violence on The plaintiff resides at Shiu Hing which to see that such an setion company, we agree with the the neck, indicating ther death had in the Province of Kwangtung and must operate against its own policy Harmsworthy Press that such been caused by strangulation. There is a clerk in Holy Orders. He is the (of "hash.** The Haslewoods are grading" cannot be done, so far were signs also that the body had been owner of Kowloon Inland Lot No. busy getting a bit of their own as our own job is concerned. In-dragged some distance. These signs 1318, which he acquired about back." There is no job which cidentally, the Daily Mail's last were traced back into Government prorokes more enthusiasm, or is paragraph may interest more than mor" ardently pursued, than the journalists. It says job of getting even. There used to be talk of banishing a China Vail writers He would have devoted the rest of his time to making the Government sorry. It is quite easy. Lexal knowledge, discreetly Ltd in the right quarters at
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MARRIAGES.
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At the moment the outlook for newspapers. with certain excep- tions, is dark indeed. Unless there is a great fall in the price of paper, stoppages of some journals and amalgamations of others will be inevitable in 1921.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Hate, could take the Govern- ment's bed here anything but one od kombe The Haslewoods are doing their box, and have made a fair showing; but they are 302- teurs, and have not done all that
The St. Andrew's Church Men's could have been done, by one Association will hold their first Showing Bost. However, they annual meeting on Thursday, January have achieved enegh to wake the 27 at 3.45 pm, in the Church responsible official sorry he ever Hall. medin with the rights of this pugnacious lady. What we went now is to rub it well in, so that no similar attempt at Bolshevik tyranny will be made again, t
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.
Lord Derby spoke alert France and England last month to the Manchester Chamber of Com-
iziere
Notice is given to mariners by Mr. Arnold Hotson, Harbour Master at Canton, that the light keeper's hut and platform attached to Fen Shui Tou Beacon have been destroyed by fire. Pending re-erection, a fixed Red Light will, as heretofore, be ex- bibited from the Dolphin Beacon which remains standing.
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There were no eye- House. itself, wimess, either of the crime or of the dragging of the body. It would be necessary to depend on circumstantial evidence to bring home the charge.
The victim was a widow, 44 years
February 12, 1919.
The defendant resides at Victoria, and is the owner of Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1321, contiguous to the plaintiff's property. He acquired it about November 5, 1919.
Chang Nyee Tsung, 69 Ellis Kadoorio
School
Tong Chang Woo, 72 St. Francis
Xavier's View Framjee Viccajee. 74 Thomas
Hanby School for Boys. Koo Tah Yong. 77 St. Francis
Xavier's.
Chicese.
Chinese.
The following Candidates have kal- ed in the Matriculation Examination. The plaintiff alleges that in 1918 but are eligible for Senior Local
Certificates: of age, and had been employed, with he built two "bungalows with a her three sons, at No. 56, the Feak. compound and boundary walls, laz Tsung Kya, 51 Medhurst College. The prisoner, Tong Tim, had been completing them about March, 1919. Yang Chi Thang. 52 Madhurst Cof-
lege. employed for ten years at GovernIn 1920 the defendant commenced ment House as a house-coolie, his building operations on his lot. The Shou Pio. 50 Public School fer duties being to keep certain rooms on plaintiff was entitled to have his com the first Roor in order. He slept in pound and boundary walls supported Lai Shaw Wei, 63 Public School fer the servants' quarters."
by the soil and land adjacent to his compound, The defendant, he says, Mo Ding Yan, 23 St. Francis The deceased and the prisoner had wrongfully removed the support of Xavier's. been on friendly terms for about ten the soil and omitted to shore up or A. Lewis, 75 Private Study. years, and the former had been in the otherwise secure the plaintiff's com- Zi Ing San. 73 St. Francis Xavier's. babit of visiting the prisoner, at pound and boundary walls. As a Government House, usually on Sun-result, he says, his walls and com-Li Lo Chih, 315 Wesley College. days. She had no other friends pound were damaged.
In particular, he alleges, cement among the servants at Government House. There were also business concrete surfacing of the compound relations between the two of them has subsided and cracked and requires Abom 15 months ago, being short of taking up and relaying with cement money, the prisoner had formed a to the thickness of 4 inches, and re- four association. There were 21 surfacing over an area of about 50 shares in all of these the deceased square yards, including the repairing Liu Forg Wu, 306 Crith John Col- held two shares; and some of the of the surface channels affected. servants of Government House held The boundary wall for a length of j The following Candidates have fail Ten shares among them.
60 feet or thereabout has crackeded to the Matriculation Examination.
MUCHANG
Sa Chung Hai, 317 Wesley College, In Tong Pang. 318 Wesley College.
Candidate Cheng Chung 311 is entitled to a Senior Certificate.
HANKOW.
Chao Ching An, 301 Griffith John
College.
Tege.
College.
HANKOW,
About 11 o'clock out the morning and is leaning outwards slightly bet are eligible for Senior Loca! One case of paratyphoid fever, of Sunday, January 2, the deceased towards the defendant's building, and Certificates: Although he advocated with warmth, and it the interests Indian, was reported yesterday. Last after expressing her intention of going the cracks require to be filled up with
week five Chinese died from influenza, down to Government House to see the cement. The defendant, he says. Chang Li Wes, 300 Griffith Jon of peace, an alliance betweez France and England, he made re from diphtheria, one from smallpox, her possession not less than $30, plaintiff's compound and boundary Li Kwei Fong, 305 Grifith Jona Col- two from cerebro spinal fever, one prisoner, left the Peak. She had in has erected within 10, feet of the ference to the saperation of Eng-and exe from plague. Two cases of given her by her son. She tried sey- walls a building, part of which land in son of the French papers, enteric fever, one British and the eral times that day to see the prisoner within such 10 feet extends to a and denied that these writers really other Indian, and
and ultimately succeeded. She was France which he diphtheria, Chinese,", were also re Texresented maintained. is not militaristic.
lest seen alive at 8 pm. ported.
The question whether France is
opinion.
reflect
ope case of
Lady Stubbs has kindly consent
at present the prizes
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The China Mail.lities and in French opinion. under joint Sino-American operation,
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Evidence would be called to show that the crime was committed in the bathroom attached to the supper room. at Government House a part of the
}lower level than the foundations of the plaintiff's boundary walls; omit- ting, in breach of the ordinance, giving him due notice,
Iot.
Tege.
Wong Ai Chiang, 305 Grimh John
College.
JUNIOR LOCAL
SHANGHAI. Tseng Sau Sai, 121 Nieh Chin Koei
Public School. Yui Zong Chen. 122 Nień Chin Krei
Public School.
*
Kwan Pah Chien, 124 Medinest Col- Zien Zen Men, 128 Medhurst Col-
lege.
lege.
School.
School. Voo Leh Dee. 142 Ellis Kadoorie
School, Distinction in Chinese, Wang Vong Ming, 143 Public School for Chinese, Distinction in Chi-
mese.
Chinese.
for Chinese, Distinction in Chemistry.
Zao Zou Ting, 154 Public School for Chinese, Distinction in Drawing. Koh Che Ling. 156 Public School for
Chinese.
Woo Tao Han, 157 Puble-School for
Chinese.
or is not militaristic does not now
The defendant denies that the concern us, though we could ver ture the assertion offhand batled to
plaintiff was or is intituled or acquired Quakerism is not the religion of the Bellios Public School prize building to which the prisoner had no any right to have his compound and the country.
distribution to be held at Queen's' ) rigix of access. But the servant boundary walls incumbered with bich some College on February 1, at 11 am. whose dury it was to inspect the land subjacent and adjacent thereto. buildings supported by the soil and The extent to French journalists
the Mrs. Severa has kindly consented per roots and lock it at night placed He admits he made excavations on opinion of the French people does to perform the same office for the the key in a position which must have his land, but denies that he made Sung Tohah Siang. 135 Ellis Kadoorie " not enter either, at this stage. Ying Wa College in the YMCA. been within the knowledge of the them adjacent to the land of the Perhaps the Quai d'Orsay does not auditorium, on January 27, at 6 p.m. prisoner cruises and pull, and plaintiff without leaving proper supe Yang Zur Pao, 139 Elis Kadoorie
occupied between 8 and 9 p.m. and port for the plaintiff's land or his represent the great heart of the
the servants were principally occupied compound and boundary walls, or people any more than these jour- The American Federal Wireless nalists do, or than Westminster at Telegraph Company of San Francisco at that time in the dining-room. The that the plaintiff bas suffered any present represents British public is reported in a cable from Peking to
prisoner, however, would not be damage thereby, working then.
The defendant denies that he was One thing is clear. Money talks, have signed on the 8th inst a con-
Between 8 and 9 p.m. that evening, guilty of negligence and says that the tract to erect a powerful main in France as elsewhere. It is in-wireless station at Shangbai, with Cart Wamer, private secretary to alleged damage was not caused by possible to ignore the fact that the sub-stations at Canton, Shanghai, the Governor, was in the lounge when any of his acts, but from the nature Chang Chi Piao, 145 Public School Russian indebtedness to France has Peking and Harbin, at a total cost of he was disturbed by a noise which he of the plaintin's soll, which consists for Chinese. counted and is cunting in French $4,200,000. These stations will be took to be a suppressed scream. He of fillings, and from the weight of King Yiu Quen, 146 Public School
sent a servant to my and find out what the buildings in the defendants land for Chinese. MACFADYEN.On Dec. 11, RUTA, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.
They would sooner shake hards and controlled by the Chizotangpu, it was, but the man made no dis-causing compression of the soil in the Wong Chin Sou. 147 Public School with the Germans than bow to the which will cater for official and covery and hearing nothing more, plaintiff's land.
for Chinese. Wickhurst Manor, Sevenoaks
Russian villaing who threaten to public business. After ten years the Capt. Wamer let the matter drop. Further, be says that the damage Bong Zung Sung. 143 Fublic School "Weald, Kent, wife of Eric Mac-
repudiate the Russian debt. There whole system will revert to the The prosecution suggested that this was caused by the plaintiff's for Chinese. fadyen, of a son.
BLONGKONG, TUESDAY, JAN. 25, 1991.
was actually at one time a proposal | Chinese Government.
scream was the prelude of the crime. negligence in building, the boundary Gee Waite, 151, Public School for to enlist the aid of Germah troops
The following morning, about 6.45 wall on the extreme edge of the against the Russians. If Foob's
o'clock, HONGKONG SLAVERY."
lamp lighter going his concrete foundation next to the Ede Foh Zien, 152 Public School for Baltic army" Dd not actually It is understood that further
Chinese. include Germans, we have misread retirements from the Flag List of the unds to extinguish lampe, noticed defendant's lot, instead of allowing The comments from Truth we the papers of the period. France Royal Navy, either voluntarily or by that lamp 305 was or. The unused the foundation to project equally on Chang Hong Nien, 153, Public School
incident particularly attracted his at-bath sides. By reason of this faulty at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E reprinted yesterday show that the was for Koltebak and for Derikin, the operation of the non-service rule, tenoo On his way to the next lamp construction, he says, rain percolating gitation regarding our local slav- and would be for any new cham- will take place shortly. When this he found the body of the deceased through the surface of the defendant's refers to two kinds, though pion who promised to restore Tsar-happens, certain officers who took a The police were notified and Inspec-land caused the wall to settle on one not all readers would notice that ism or such other Russian govern-ceive a step in rank. Amongst them is
distinguished part in the war will re- tor Appleton discovered the trail by side only, towards the defendant's For our part, we are less shocked ment as tight promise to pay the WHITE-BURTON. — On Monday, by the one than by the other. The Tsir's debts to French bondbold.Vice Admiral Sir Frederick C.T.Tudor / which the body had been dragged from
Government House. Certain traces January 17, 1921. at Shanghai.vils of the
who was Third Sea Lord in 1914-17, **mui tsai David White, son of Mr. David undoubtedly exist, though they are it is not something that is openly in China, and who is now at the head of this,
systemen. It is natural enough, though and afterwards Commander-in-Chief of blood were the principal indications The trail was traced back, White, Barrhead, Scotland. 19 being exaggerated. As certainly admitted. President Wilson was at his rank and das for promotion to through the Government House ment Bacteriologist, was the first wit Kathleen Burton, daughter of the system has good in it, which roundly abused in the French Admiral in the next vacancy. At the grounds, across a grass plot, along less for the prosecution. He said he the late Charles Burton and of is, naturally enough, ignored by Press because his doctrines threat- top of the rear-admiral's list is Sir the verandah, into the supper-room, made a post-mortem examination of Mrs. Burton, Wigan, Lancashire, those anxious to destroy it. The end the security of these invest-Roger Keyes, while the senior captain and so is the bath-room in the pas. the deceased at 9.30 a.in. on Janu KINGSLEY BENJAMIN China Mail at the moment is less inents. In the same way it abuses is now Ernest C. Hardy, firmerly sage of which was found a small pool ary 3. There were horizontal marks
Wednesday, January 19, 1921, At Nanking, China, Oliver Silas indignant against the mui isai
the British Premier because of bis Assistant Hydrographer of the Navy. of blood. The Crown suggested that and the neck, a large bruise on the Kingsley to Daphne Hilda Ben-System (which can be called either occasional lapses into idealism, The advancement of these three the prisoner extinguished the street head, a small punctured wound over Chen Chi Tsan, 216 Griffith John
slavery or adoption, as you please into business commonsense. If officers would leave at the top of lamp before he removed the body, so the right eyebrow and other slight
College, Distinction in Mathe- than against the system of intellec- hates any statesman who seems to their respective lists Vice-Admiral that it might not light up his dark marks of injury. SANDBACH HAYWARD. On
of which the Hongkong Govern nose to spite his face. tual slavery to the imposition lack the courage to cut off his Sir Alexander Duff, Commander in deeds. In the bathroom was found sions and much dirt on the fronts of Chiang Ta Wei. 217 Griffith John'
College, gesture Chief in China; Rear-Admiral Sir human hair which on a microscopical both thighs, the directions of the at Shanghai, Rotard Millet, Sand- Bach, to Ella Dorothy Hayward, guilty, as het lige to plead that does not seem unworthy to Cecil Lambert, Director of Personnel examination was found to be similar catches being from above down- Hwang Shih Ping, 218 Grifith John
The face was cyanosed, and has to be an some angry French
at the Air Ministry; and Captain in every respect to the hair of the wards.
College, JACKSON HARDINGE. O agitation, and we are to be con-
Aubrey Smith, commanding the deceased. The prisoner's strange the tongue was protruding. The in- Koh Kwan Seng, 219 Grift John January 19, 1921, at Shanghai, sulted, we will request our readers
battleship "Ramillies."
manner M the morning alter the termal signs showed that death was
College, Distinction in Arith Percy Vernon Jackson to Frances of two evils to choose the bigger QUEER TRADES UNIONISM:
crime attracted the attention of his due to asphyxiation; the organs were
metic. Chinese, Mathematics, Raymond Hardinge.
fellow-servants; he was also seen otherwise healthy. The injuries did
and Biblical Knowledge. with a cloth in the vicinity of the pot appear to have been self-inflicted. Loo Kuo Ping, 220 Griffith John Col- Press about child slavery in Hong- The National Union of Journal-
supper-room where his duties ordi- From the appearence of the thighs the
lege. kong. Whether her views were ists, unlike the Institute, is a trade
narily would not take him. Witnesses body had been dragged face down-Li Yen Tze, 221- Griffith John Col- KING. On Dec. 10 at Addiscombe, right or wrong, she had the right union. It is concerned chiefly with
would say that he seemed frightened wards and head foremost.
lege. Distinction in Chinese.. Croydon. George King, late to do so. She was not a govern-higher wages and shorter hours: |
and excited. As he was known to be must have occurred about ten hours Teng Peh Lien, 222 Griffin John Col- P. & O. Co.. Madras and Singa- ment servant, shhject to the de- This is quite right in the case of
acquainted with the deceased, Inspec before his examination." He had made lege. -pare, aged 86.
partmental bylaw which forbids factory labour, sad other forms of
tor Appleton took him to the Mortu- the comparison of the hair found with Wu Chang Ching, 223 Griffith Jono THOMSETT.—On Dec. 11, at
communications to the Press. The manual work, but a newspaper:
ary: to assist in the identification, that of the deceased and found it
College, Distinction in Arith- similar. Southampton, Mary Susannah official warning to her husband, office is not a factory Newspaper
He exhibited great reluctance to go
Various blood stains and metic. Thornsett, eldest daughter of late Lieut. - Commander Baslewood, work is not work that can be stan- The feature offering at the Coronet near the body and when he saw it clots found on leaves of trees, in H. G. Thomsett R.N., C.M.G., that unless he stopped his wife dardized. It will be impossible to Theatre beginning to-day is Sylvia denied that he knew whose body it Government House, and on the pri- of Hongkong,
CURE THAT COUGH. from pursuing the subject, he "grade" joumalists on any sye- Breamer in "Respectable by Froxy" was. The prosecution suggested rob-soner's coat had proved on examina- WILSON.On January 7, 1921, at would be superseded and sent ten that will be fair either to The title suggests all sorts of clever bery as the motive of the crime.tion to be human blood
WHEN you have a troublesome Amoy, William Wilson..
Mr. Sutton, Public Works Depart-YV nough, it does not mean that you Home, was tyrannous and wrong journalists themselves or to news possibilities, and the picture it is eald, When arrested the prisoner had one
or that you STEPHEN-On January 18, 1921. It shocks us far, more than the paper readers. You cannot pay does more than live up to them. It is dollar in his pocket and 43 dollars hid-miem, par in a plan of Government have consimption
at Chinking. Captain Robert Jui tsai system does. The genius and character a "stan pronounced one of the most enter den in his clothing. His hands bore House and its vicinity; Mr. J. W. going to bave it, but it does mean that Stephen, aged 66 years, formerly comments EXCUSE Yr Yrs.and apertz the rank and taining pictures that has come this indications that itched-recently-en Deakin custodian of Government your logs are threatened, sad it is just House, explained, the arrangement of Chamberlain's Cough Eamedy before it of the 1.-C.S. Suvo." and Haslewood's letters-there was, file of merely capable journalism way in many a day. The rest of the gaged in a struggle. latterly of the Ewo Hulk Chin iz angears, only one-were caus- expect the rewards of genius. Yet programme is up to the usual high Dr. H. H. Scott, Superintendent of the various moms and corridors.
is too late. For sale by all Chemists and Ho."
the Victoria Mortuary and Govern-1 ..: The hearing was adjourned.
Storekeepers. Ling annoyance to the Chinese com- apparently the National Union has standard of the Coronet.
jamin
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Wednesday, January 19, 1921,
DEATHS.
for immediate attack. Mrs. Häsle-
wood wrote one letter to the local)
KINEMA. NOTES.
CORONET FICTURES.
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There were abra-
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for Chinese.
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for Chinese.
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