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BANK MYSTERY. FURTHER EVIDENCE IN I.B.C. CASE..
ANOTHER ADJOURNMENT. Before the acting, Chief Justice, His Honour Mr. H. H. J. Gom pertz, in the Supreme Court this morning, the case in which the International Banking Corporation
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1984a97
YESTERDAY'S FLOODS.
DAMAGE BUT SLIGHT.
A FEW INCIDENTS.
CANTON UNREST,
RIOT ACT READ.
NO FIGHTING. YET. In return for her generosity in providing fimula for flood relief has yet been manifest, great dis
Although no attendant exodus our neighbouring province, Hong content exists among the civil kong was frented to miniature
their grand victory parade as Anita Stewart lo "Sowing, the is suing the compradore and his put intà illsorder any place where sponsors of the Merchants" Volun-
slap in the face to the foreigner showing a cynical disregard for the workers' interests they have been all along actüated by political motives.
Exactly
August 13. World Theatre; "The 4th Musketeer."
August 13-Queen's Theatre: "Love in the Dark."
PUBLIC AUCTION. August 28.-Tammert Bros., at land, 3
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what these political motives have Sales Rooms, valuable building appearing, for the plaintiff (the (the presence of a minbow) atid,
been, beyond trying to humillate the Shameen community, it is a
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Mr. Eldon Patter, K.Chand Mr. COMPANY MEETINGS. little difficult to say unless the August, 14.-Second meeting of Messrs. Wilkinson and
Campbell Prosser, instructed by the Sandakan Light and Power strike was being used as a weapon, (1992) Ltd., at St. George's represent the defendants, by one of the Canton factions to Building, Chater Road. 11a.m. Kai-un, compradore, discredit Dr. Sun Yat-sen-whose
anxiety to have the trouble settled has been well-known from the
outset. Should this have been the case, the settlement is a feather in
September 16.-Extraordinary general meeting of The Chips Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office of the Company, Pedder Strest, ricon.
October 1-Seed meeting of the China Sugar Refning Co., Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street, noon.
Grist, (In and Ho
Dr.
reproduction of what a deinge can do population of Canton city, the human beings congregate. Ateer Corps. Other factors have. Hireet fortune-teller whose also combined to give an atmos- guarantor to recover the sum of $200,000, lost from the bank's stand bad literally been washed out phere of unrest but it is still hoped carried a further stage. premises in September, 1922, was remarked to a "Ching Muil" man, that a solution will be possible and profvious that Canton will be spared open Mr. C G. Alabaster, KC., in there had been
been Dingon disorders which have structed by Messrs. Deacons, is
taking his miglity drink threatening.
As reported in yesterday's without warning, the Silver River China Mail," a consignment of in Heaven (the Milky Way) bad arms-now stated to be 4,850 rifles been upset with its contents over and 4.800 Mausers together with turned,
1,000 rounds of ammunition for Hist as evening was drawing on each weapon-had, arrived by the there was a brief prologue in the Norwegian, steamer "Hav. Ngaklau, the guarantor).
The evidence of the compra pels of thunder and slabs of light Sun Yat-sen's government had doret of the international Bank
The rain-laden clouds despatched the cruiser" "Wing sued by the Bank in respect, of which had been hovering over the Fung" and the gunboat "Kwong she disappearance of $200,000 from our by hills move a space and the woo" to stand guard over the the Bank in September) con- rain came down in torrents. In se vessel. cluded this morning, with Mr.unis 27 indies fell but if read-
ing's had been taken för every five Latest reports give a very flimsy Alabaster's cross-examination,
minutes at the begining of the excuse on which the authorities torn they would have provided in seized the windfall. It is stated teresting study as the ruin eased that a permit was granted for the of after half an hour or so in which arms to be landed from a steamer the majority of the rain fell. arriving within.40 days and that Scenes of several feet of water in the permission was rescinded 'as streets and doorways were by no the steamer arrived in about 7 was means tare.
At other places it only days. It is also further alleged required a slight stripch" of the that, a représentative of the imagination to feel that one was authorities announced his suspi standing in close proximity to the cions that the arms were from pids at the Shishing Gorges o Chan Kwing-ming as they had the West River or other tortuous arrived so quickly. Mr. Alabaster: It might passages on the River Yingte. A detachment of the Yunnanese. have been taken by someone,
As usual, that part of Queer'e OTHER MESTINOS.
who had possession of the Road Central between Chins Build-army is also stated to have forcibly prehioved a small portion of the Angust 13, Lecture at the H.K. keys or duplicates of them. ing and Tak Cheong's, the level of Theosophical Society, 1 Queen'e Defendant: It cannot
say. which had been altered some time arms while Dr. Sun's warships got If it was taken at ago, was like a swimming-pool, the Volunteers Indignant. Road Central, on Mental and Mr. Alabaster:
night in that way the person shops opposite the Queen's Theatre Magnetic Healing," 5.15 p.in.
August 14-Extraordinary Gen- would have to try all the keys and being nimble to keep out the witter on his return from a forcedral Meetings of the "Hongkong would have to know the com- in spite of water gates as the water Tose several feet over the top of the sojourn in Shanghai, predicted Jockey Club in the Board Room binatio 1.
gates. The same thing happened that his term of office would be of Messrs. Jardine Matheson and
Co., 5.30 p.m.
at the Astor House lobby, very brief. Others pleaded for time for the "Father of the Repub- lie' and, on his behalf, promised improvement in the Flowery Re- public but particularly the "Broad East" Province. We do not pro- fess to be qualified to express an
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's cap. However,
The buillon shroff of the Bank as it has ever been a futile task
was called to give evidence and a HCM essaying to understand Canton's
October 18. Extraordinary little of this had been taken when curiously involved politica, further General Meeting of Douglas $.5. the case was adjourned until the
Co., Ltd, at the Registered Office afternoon. speculation, in this direction is a of the Company, 20 Des Voeux, In answer 10 Mr. Alabaster waste of time and we must content Road, Central, noon.
the compradoresaid that he was ourselves with rejoicing that an The China Sugar Refining Co., missing.
October 20-Third meeting of satisfied that the money intolerable situation has now beenTa.. at Co.'s Office, Pedder Mr. Alabaster: You don't sug- brought to an end with the strike Street, noon,
gest that an armed force broke in November 5-Further leaders, as we have said before.
extra- and took the money by force? ordinary meeting of Douglas S.S.
Defendant: No. taught a very salutary lesson.
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ITS LESSON9:
Dr. 'Sun's Position.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's present stay in Canton has now lasted eighteen months. There were those who,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
the balance.
Great indignation has been ex- pressed by the Merchants' Volun- teet Corps as they had gone to Defendant: Obviously.
great expense in importing, the Mr. Alabaster: The person,
arms with which they had hoped who attempted to take it in this Other parts of down also came to provide themselves with molera way, would have to go the bank in for attention as drains were equipment. The commander-in- where people were working who choked" in many places or the chief and his No. 2.are mentioned would ask him his business and street side-channels were too sam as having resigned in protest, there would have to be collaborato cope with the rush. At places their action. being taken to mean tion between the manager, sub- where uphill streets joined Queen's that they wash their hands of any
the combination.
seen and even along the transmute result. Here it should be mention- 'doorways were flooded. Defendant: Yes.
ed that the Volunteers, although Mr. Alabaster:
Sutherland Street, near the about 10,000 strong, have been unlike that it happened in the Electric Co.'s Chinatown schooled in street fighting hut. daytime we have to consider the station was a river which linked up) possibility of it not having been the waterways on Des Yous Road have not received their baptism taken, from the vault at all but West and Connaught. Rond West of fire. from somewhere else and that by some sleight of hand, jugglery, or gross piece of negligence it never got there at all.
opinion as to how long it requires that Benny Leonard cutpointed manager and someone who knew Road, miniature entaracts could be disorders that may break out as a
A Cleveland message states
Pat Moran in a ten-round bout. He thus retained the world's light weight championship.
a reformer to get things ship
However, let us turn to shape. what he has accomplished Beyond uniting the strained cliques in his
A London telegram- says that own party and gradually recover-the General Post Office announces ing power for his Cantonese sub-that_mail matter for Japan as well ordinates who have stuck to him as China will be sent by the through thick and thir, little im-Siberian route if so addressed provement is evident. His hope
The return of notifiable dis
of linking up China has not been As the result of a search'made realized. We would fain portend by the police at No. 7, Kwong political developments without Yuen Street, a Chinese appeared very definite grounds for them, before Mr. R. E Lindsell at the Magistracy yesterday on a charge In view of what has happened at of possession of a revolver, which Kow Kong, however, we would was found in a cupboard in the suggest that it is time to extend defendant's home there. The gase the hand of restriction to the was formally remanded on an "ap- mercenaries, who are under-mining (plication by the police. the fabric of the parts of Kwang- tung under pro-Sun rule. The news to hand from Canton to-day eases for last week shows a total would appear to signify that of 10 cases of typhoid, and two the citizens are determined to deaths. The cases were 4 British, stand up for their rights and it is 3 Chinese, 1 Scottish, 1 Japanese, to be hoped that Dr. Sun Yat-sen 1 Indian, I imported. Eight of the cases occurred in Victorfà and 2 in Kowloon. The only other notifi- able disease reported were 2 Chi nese cases of diphtheria, one fatal. The daily return issued yesterday was a blank.
will head the writing on the wall.
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And as it is
Defendant: It is possible.
· Mr. Alabaster asked if it was
right that, on the morning of September 20, the Bank cashier was late and as a result $20,000 was
drawn from the chartered Bank.
Defendant: Yes.
Mr. Alabaster: These were in two bundles of 34 notes.
Defendant: Yes.
Mr. Alabaster: The procedure of the tank points to the extreme probability of these bundles being put into the lakh drawer of the
safe.
"
Op inquiry Troy the Public This morning it was rumoured Works Department it was learned in Hongkong that Dr. Sun had that there were no home collapses returned the arms seized, hence and the Fire Brigade had not been the holiday at the various depart- ented out. Landslides of no inment stores like Sincere's, Wing portance niki "which will
On's and the Tai Yau Co. There obstruct fuffie had areurred on was nothing in the rumour as the "outside rods and Stubbs Road holiday had been planned some but these were nothing to write days ago when a day was fixed for the inaugural ceremony of the whole corps, ie., to-day,
home about.
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Much Excitement.
An Occasional Correspondent.),
Canton. August 12 Both volunteers and regulars
BOME INCIDENTS. There were strange sights along Caine Road when the storm was it its. height. At points where the steps lead from the higher to the lower levels the water shet across with such force that taxis were uhla to pass underneath the arches so formed but at other points ponds į Defendant: What is the use of that were hardly miniature and are on the move to-day and the putting that to me? I was not gathered and passing cara splashed city is a hubbub of excitement. present at the opening of the safe. along with water up to and in About. 3,000 Volunteers crossed
Mr. Alabaster: One theory is some cases over the axles.
the river to-day to Honam, but for that some evilly disposed person As there had been brilliant sun- what purpose is not known.. put these bundies there in pretence shine and tittle indication of an of their being lakh bundles and Iam approaching storm up
During the day there have been to five demonstrations in the streets and, trying to ask you to negative this.(o'clock, several Repulse Bay parties it is stated. outside Dr. Sun's
Re-Examination.
were caught unawares and those Yamen. Volunteers from Canton cross-examination and Mr.. Camp clouds started to roll up were faced to join the protest against the This concluded Mr. Alabaster's who did not start back when the crossed over to the Cement Works bell Prosser rose to re-examine his with the alternative of spending alleged unlawful seizure of arms. several hours in their nataliedi, Would you take responsibility with the water pouring in upon Civil Governor Liu Chung-oi is
cashier's reserve.
Yunnanese Troops.
Canton, August 12. Ten junk-loads of Yunnanese troops together with recruits from
"Give me a quarter of an hour,
Hung Sang, Contractor, 43 A.. and I will give you all the rudi-Queen's Road East, summoned by ments of the Chinese tongue." Public Works Department This staggering claim was made surveyor, for using defective. Hime witness. by an American Professor of for building the T. heads of three languages in the course of con-houses at Kow-Pu-Shek, Kowloon for the whole of the vaults?" them, or of risking the journey back. reported as having announced the versation with the Right Hon. City Road, was fined $200 and asked Mr. Prosser.
Those who decided upon the latter reading of the Riot Act and ne T. P. O'Connor, M.P., and is re-ordered to pull down the T. heads corded in the latter's Table Talk within seven feet of the foundation, too big a responsibilty."
"No," replied defendant, "it is course had rather exciting times having warned the Volunteers with the lightning playing around that they will not be permitted to in "T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly." before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the
Would you have taken re- the metal work and huge water-hold meetings for other purposes By itself the remark would hardly Kowloon Magistracy, this morning.sponsibility at any time?" fulls from the beights shove des- than those directly connected with be worth comment, for similar A previous conviction on July 9
At no time would I be respos ceuding onto the road and spine- the performance of their duties as claims are constantly being made for $100 was recorded against sible for the whole of the contents times onto the ears. Large pisces volunteers.
defendant."
Massed assemblies by experts of all kinds who appear
of the vault."
of rock washed down onto the road without cause will be dispersed, it deduced from Hongkong's famous to ignore the fact that other
This having concluded the re-ex-had to be avoided and there was it stated. The Chixx Mail.
A man charged with stabbing seamen's strike, that a European people's minde have not been a pork coolie, at Vaumati Market amination, Mr. Potter asked if His always the danger of more falling community can organize to keep specialised along similar lines; but last Monday, was remanded at the Lordship had noted that the pro- For the greater part of the way BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, ALetar 13, 1994 essential services going, despite claim is the credence placed in it until 10 am, August 19. Mr. J. M. money consisted of two lakh bund the result that some of the motor (From Our Own Correspondent.)
even more surprising than the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on the point that the missing water of considerable depth with secution and defence were agreed | (lie cars were splashing through
the most determined efforts by T.P. and the conclusion it leada d'Almada Remedios appeared for THE SHAMEEN STRIKE AND Chinese employees may make to him to "That the study of the defence and applied for bail.les of $500 notes, a portion of the isis had their light generatore ron.
dered inoperative and one party) the contrary. Therefore, when we languages is not difficult provided Inspector T. Murphy stated that Mr. Alabaster: We have only way stranded at Aberdeen. are told that the Shameen Council one gets the right teacher and the that complainant is confined to said that it was probably so.
right method." We are inclined to hospital and will not be out before Mr. Potter: You said to me After lasting nearly a month had brought its strike measures think that if T.P. had to live under August 18, though he is recovering in this Court that you did not dis had at any time put a large number the North have arrived in the city the Shameen strike has been to a pitch which made it possible the same roof as a struggling from his injuries. Ball of $5,000 pute it in any shape or form. Mr. of notes into a desk basket) for and proceeded to Tai She Tou at
Courtney, as acting manager of the pradore's stat to abstrict the twa
anyone apart from the settled. The terms under which to fight the strike indefinitely, can student of the Chinese language, was granted.
com 2.30 this afternoon. Bank, led as to believe that he had lakhs from the basket. :
General Strike Coming? the employees resume work have it be said that the atrike leaders he would soon be convinced that not yet been published here, but have carried the day? Certainly his conclusion does not hold good
Later. in respect to that language of
Latest advice renching Hong- we are assured that they amount the Shameen's Europeans muat
many tones. Those of us who
Mr. Alabaster I am not going that anyone apart from the com- kong to-day give indications of 4 compromise. However, have been feeling the strain. awake to curious sounds from
pradore's staff ever passed the desk. preparations for a general strike although neither side as we are Apart from the fact that the adjacent rooms would be only too The leave granted to Major E.A was taken in this form and Mr.shroff, of the Bank, was the next meant a strike of labourers but a
to say definitely that the money
Nak Hing-cheung, the bullion in Canton city. By this is not told can claim a victory it must routine of their daily lives has glad if T.P. were right; for the Penney, IM.S., expires on Courtney can only say what he witness and he gold that his duty cessation of all business as a pro-",
feeling of admiration, which the September 30. be clear to every impartial been utterly disrupted, the actual courage and determination of the
thinks, he wasn't there. observer that the strikers or financial losses entailed must have early morning student moves us to
Mr. and Mrs. Peter B. Kyne sail Mr. Courtney who said that the and carry them to the cashier. who have no political creed and Mr. Potter was allowed to recalls to receive the cash balance test against the alleged high-hand- each evening, count the bundles action towards the Volunteers should we say the political mal-been exceedingly heavy. But if at first, reasonably gives place toad from San Francisco on August only conclusion he could come to Witness's balance had to agree have always helped to preserve contents behind them?have been the Shameen's Europeans have one of annoyance when the months & aboard the Dollar Line steamier was that the money taken was in with the cashier's balance, also
roil by and the student gives little
President Monroe" on a ronud- this form.. taught a very salutory lesson. felt the strain, the Chinese have Indication of ever reaching the the-world journey.
Mr. Alabaster still maintained the same amount as set out in the
the money handed over had to be order.
Hurried meetings are being They evidently thought to intimi- felt it ten times more. This stage when his early morning
that he did not definitely admit balance sheet. If the money was held: and it is expected that if no Lieutenant C. I. Yeo and date the Shameen Municipal Comm-spplies, of course, to all but the voice-production, exercises will no Lieutenant V. N. Richards, of the that the money was taken thus,
Mr. Potter said that this was an accurate, the cashler signed a solution is coming by tonight, a cil into surrendering its control strike leaders. While some of the longer be necessary. We are rat. Bb. East Surrey Regt, have entirely new theory, apart from that receipt and witriess's responsiblity strike la Ukety. over the Concession. This arrogant merchants have been brought to afraid there is less-truth in T.P's been granted leave 02 private or are Jews why had previously was at an end. did accompanied
contention than there is in the oft-affairs from August 16-22.. attempt has failed abjectly, and all the verge of ruin and the repeated saying that after seven
conducted the case and from Mr. the cashier to the vault; however, the cashier carrying the cash Alabaster's operfor the perfervid rejoicings in Canton employees have been reduced to years you think you have learnt The forthcoming wedding is
Hie Lordship said he thought it reserve and witness the black box. Witness' was "present" when the pity. cannot disguise the fact. Nor severe hardship-only a few days Chinese; after fourteen you dis- announced of Mr. A. M. Loptson, would be best to go on with the safe was opened each evening.
cover how little you know and maissonary of Cheung Chan Island, evidence and he called the com- At this stage, the case is this all. The strike leaders have ago we were told that they were after twenty-one you begin really to Miss Faith Clan Hoerl, also a pradore to ask him it wore possi been shown, what they might have receiving no strike pay and only to understand it.
mlusionary of Chong Chau Island: 1bio (atauming that Mr. Hodgkins adjourned.
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po doubt in his own mind that the money taken consisted of two lakh bundles.
Defendant replied that would not be easy. It was very rarely
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