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EXTRALITY"
OPPOSED.
not
appointment that the Commission dogs
And It expedi- Lent to "recommend the im-
mesflute
"extra Abolition of lity owing" to the present:
Sunning" Inquiry.
The Government's
decision
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1926,
BANKNOTE CASE. CANTON BOMB.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT IN BOX.
(
ONE KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED.
WEST BUND PIRATES?
Pirates are
belleved to
have
in ope 04 the
And several were
The tow-boat for Kongmoon w
conditions of the country. Again PREVENTING FORGERI. 3. it is hot within the power of the Commission cr of the Powers to The case was resumed at the improve existing conditions them- Supreme Court this morning. In thrown a bomb
which the Hong Kong and Shang-busiest centres of Canten about 9 selves. They can only await steps a: Banking Corporation is sued o'clock last night, when one peg- toward progress and reform by a Chinese lady who alleges that son was killed being taken by China herself. Ita genuine $500 note was refused injured,
payment. is for the Chinese themselves to
Mr. H. S. Fitzroy (instr .cted alongside the West Bund (clone to bring the abolition of "extrality" by Mr.-W. B. Hind) appears for the Taiping-maloo, formerly West within the range of practical poli-plaintiff and Mr, Eldon Potter, Creek) when a loud explosion was K.C. (instructed by Messrs, heard on board, followed by a shat tice.
Johnson, Stokes and Master) for tering" of woodwork, the defendants.
Pelice took charge immediate- Mr. G. E. Towns, acting Chledy nd are investigating. Accountant of the Bank, was call, It is suspected that pirates throw led this morning by Mr. Fatter.the bomb as "a" reprisal for their that the "Sunning" inquiry shall He spoke to 22 years' banking ex-demand of blackmail being ignored, be held in private has caused gen-perience, and in reply to Mr. eral surprise. The decision "isPotter said that he could not say certainly hard to understand. that the note as presented to the bank and mounted for the pur- The facts of the attack and the poses of the case was a genuine recapture are pretty well-known one.
It will be recalled that the if there is any more to tell thel public is entitled to hear the de-levidente of the plaintiff was that tails. This right is no mere the note was in the pocket of act Bahadow, The whole community garment which was washed and is vitally interested in the pro-ironed and that when discoveral blem of piracy. The life, liberty it was. only possible to pat to.
Believed to be the oldest for and property of any citizen cangesher certain pieces, others hav
Feign resident in the Colony. Mrs. easily become involved in the pro-ing been reduced to pulp.]j blem through a journey as short Mr. Towns, in the course of to Seemah Bellion, the widow of as the trip to Canton or Macao. day's evidence, said that he could Mr. E. R. Belilion, C.M.G., passed Then there is the wider question not be sure that, all the portions away at the King Edward Hotel of law and order as it affects the 83 produced were all portions of yesterday morning at the advanc whole Colony. Therefore the pub-the same note. They might be led age of 90 years.
The late Mr. Belibics, who was, lig has a grievance when it is portions of more than one. It was kept in the dark concerning & rolly impossible to say whether a well-known. Hong Kong mer matter so important as the "Sun- the bottom portion of the extract-jchant in his day, was for some
Council ning" inquiry. There is another led pieces might belong to one and time a member of the Legislativė point which requires comment, the upper to another.
Mrs. Bellion came to long. Calcutta over 60,
וי
OBITUARIES.
HONG KONG'S OLDEST FOREIGN RESIDENT.
MRS E R. BELILIOS.
brief
The terms of reference instruct Witness added that although he the court to consider the supply thought they were, he could not Kong from
thes the sign-years ago and since them, except of armed guards, the number to definitely swear be carried and their administra-ures on the recovered parts off for brief visits to her friends and tion." Had the wording of that the robe were the signatures of relatives in India and clause stopped at "to consider the Mr. V. M. Grayburn or Mr. period during which she resided in England, she has resided here. supply of armed guards,' we Maybie..
Her health has caused her would have no quarrel with it, looking to the fact that it is a)
In reply to Mr. Potter's ques-friends some anxiety for some
.
A "Fine Art."
would "assist and further the mook point in many minds whe-tion as to whether many ingenious considerable time and her passing efforts of the Chinese Goverther armed guards are of any attempts were made at forging was not entirely unexpected. ment to effect such legislation use at all, but the additional anknotes, not only those of the Mrs. Belilios carried on much Fahd judicial reforms as would words appear to deprive the defendants, but banknotes gen- of the philanthropic work for warrant the seven Powers in re- court of any discretion in the materally witness said that this was which her husband had beer.
ter. We hope that this is not so.. Modern forgery had been noted in his lifetime. inquishing, either progressively the intention and that the scope brought to a fine art. That be
or otherwise, their respective of the inquiry will cover rights:
of extraterritoriality."whole field. Owing to various causes the Com-
JOBS FOR THE AGED
Sympathy will be extended to the ing, so, it was essential, for the family in their bereavement. #
identifying notes, that the Bank There are should have the date and numbers number
'bf
13
of notes. (These were missing Calcutta
from the note as presented }
Shanghai
two daughters and a grandchildren in. and. R SOл
is
who
ότι a well- Another son.
Apart from his official capacity, known oculist.. added witness, he would not as a who was practising in Hong Kong private citizen, accept a note as a barrister, predeceased her unless it bore the Bank's number. four years ago.
The funeral took place yester- Questioned farther with regard
by means
J
MR. A. J. M. GOMES.,
mission was not inaugurated until Jamaary last. Its work has been HAWKERS FINED. hampered, firstly, by railway in-
TO-DAY'S POLICE COURT terruptions due to the civil war:
PARADE and, secondly, by the refusal
to security the Bank had to give day evening at the Jewish of the Canton authorities to per
to the Government for notes cemetery, Happy Valley, many mit the Commission to pursue
issaed, witheas said that they had friends of the family attending. "Only twelve left when you were a certain amount of free security The Rev. Isaac Elas conducted its enquiries in Kwangtung.
arrested would be nearer the truth," after which they had to pay dollar the service, assisted by Mr. D. S.. The attitude of the Powers said Mr. R. E. Lindsell to a Chin- for dollar for every note sued. Gubbay does not differ in any material ese woman charged with hawking There was a tax of 1 per cent. per respect from that so deliberately eggs without a licence at the Cen-annum on notes in circulation.
De- İtral Magistracy. this morning. expressed in the Treaties of 1902-fendant pleaded that she was
Mr. Towns produced books dealing with the methods of uc- 1903... No one
knows better stranger from the country, that she counting of the Bank and the The death is also announced of than the Chinese themselves the did not know the regulations and manner in which the number of Mr. A. J. M. Gomes, a well-known ezza. notes outstanding was ascertained Portuguese resident of the pressing need for the reform that she only had twelve
Fined $2.
of serial numbers. Colony, who had lived in Hong (this word is carefully inchided
The next defendant.. a Chinese Uncer the present system of at: Kong practically all his life. in the Treaties already mention-charged with hawking, informed counting, the Bank, if they paid Having received his early educa
he ed) of their judicial system. In- the magistrate that he was only out on this note or any note with- tion here,
proceeded to "Well out the number and date, could Oxford University and on his re- deed, "judicial system is a mis-standing outside his shop.
confine your activities to ita interior not write it off the books. Neither turn held various positions at From Peking comes the report nomer! Reform cannot come
in future," retorted His Worship, could they get the money back local solicitors offices. He was of the Extraterritoriality Com- from the Powers-that is the who fined the defendant $5.
from the Government.
about 50 years of age. The case in which a woman was "Charge The Whole System.” mission. The Chinese judicial duty of China herself to effect.
selling cigarettes Mr. Potter: I understand that system-comes in for severe eriti- All that the Powers can do is to charged with cism, hence the report opposes "assist and further the efforts of elicited a statement from Sgt. the Bank made enquiries from. Nolloth to the effect that by agree-the Colonial Treasurer as to its the immediate abolition of extra- the Chinese Government." That ment between the Secretary for position and was informed that another denomination, they were
There lies the erux of they have always been ready to Chinese Affairs and the Superinten- the Government would only re-so discoloured.
Mr. Fitzroy put it to witness the whole problem of "extrality." do. But they are still willing to dent of Imports and Exports, the fund money on unidentified notes Great Britain has never deliber-do it. The pity is that their hands number of itinerent hawkers of if the Bank changed the whole that, assuming it was found by genuine, the Bank could deduct ately rejected the idea of the must, be tied so long as. China isigarettes was to be cut down by system of accounting and opened the court that the note was
half and confined,, as far as posa Suspense fund for such. the sible, to the aged and infirm. The Witness: I was not present at that amount from the amount in abolition of "extrality":"but she disunited and so long as
circulation and no yearly interest has been compelled to lay down Powers know not where to find a defendant in this case was fined the conversations.
Asked what the note issue in need be paid on it. Government strong an unequivocal condition. Thus, Chinese
"You appear to enjoy life in jail the Colony was, witness said that, in the British Commercial Treaty enough to act for the whole na- of September 5, 1902-24 years tion in establishing courts of law ago, be it noted-Article XII worthy of the name of courts of
justice!
lity.
states:-
*
$8.
Witness did not agree that this I see you are an old friend-Including the notes of the three was practicable.
Re-examined by Mr. Potter, twelve previous convictions." and issuing banka, it was approxim
to be pre- Mr. Lindsell to the defendant in the ately $50,000,000, that of the Mr. Towns said that it was not next case brought before the Bench. Chartered Bank being approxim-infrequent for notes Blood was the commodity dealt in ately $16,000,000 and of the Mer-sented at the Bank without num- On an average, they might The Commissioners make im- this unlicensed vendor, who was cantile, $1,600,000. Silver dollars bera. "China having expressed a
were used very little as currency, have as many as one a week. The portant recommendations ra-sent to jail for one month. strong desire to reform her
The last defendant received some which was almost entirely in bark practice was always to refuse judicial system and to bring it lating to non-interference with
sympathy from His Worship who notes. The receipts of silver payment.
A New Aspect. It urges the into accord with that of West- the judiciary,
said that he felt it was a case for dollars at the Bank averaged less
This concluded the evidence be- Great Britain adoption of a programme for the vestigation. The woman before than a thousand daily, and these ern nations, agrees to give every assistance improvement of the existing the Court was a widow with six were chiefly from the Tramwayfore the court, but His Honcur Observing that Company and from the Treasury. commented on a change in the to such reform, and she will legal, judicial, and"
prisons Young children.
the defendant had sufficient money When received by the Bank, they aspect of the case which had also be prepared to relinquish systems. It urges the extension with which to ball herself out at were not released into currency taken place since last hearing. her extraterritorial. rights of the system of modern courts, the police station, Mr. Lindsell but were used as reserves against The only point at issue then had when she is satisfied that the prisons, and detention hanses. cautioned the woman.
state of the Chinese laws, the Moreover, pending the abolition arrangements for their admin of extraterritoriality, the Fowers, istration, and other considera-with the co-operation of the
was taken оп
ARMS CONFISCATED...
bank note issue.
been whether a "material" change. Mr. Towns Cross-Examined. had been made in a genuine note. Cross-examined by Mr. Fitzroy, Since then, the genuineness of witness said that it might not the note, had been challenged by always be the practice at the Mr. Towns. The plaintiffs, on
tions warrant her in so doing." Chinese Government, should The Police applied this morning Hong Kong Bank to take numbers the assumption that this point. China began in 1997 to reform make certain modifications in before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the of notes when changed and com- would not be raised, had not Kowloon Magistracy for the confls-pare them with lists of lost notes proved the genuineness of those her judicial system, but no action the existing systems and practice cution of 100 rounds of ammunition with which the shroffs were sup parts of the note which had been the 1902-1903 of "extrality; and concede, the and a revolver which were found plied. It was obviously impossi-produced, the onus of which was
on them.AN Mr. Fitzroy: With regard to Mr. Potter suggested that, ai- Treaties with Great Britain, right of the competent author.in the crew's quarters of the "Pre-ble in all cases. Japan, and the United States. ities" of the Chinese Government sident Jackson." No arresta were your suggestion that these pieces though the onus was on the plain
made. The application was grant of paper might come from diftiffs, he would get into touch with There matters remained until the to levy taxes on foreigners.
ferent notes, do you seriously Bug- Mr. Grayburn, one of the now famous. Washington Conven- The Chinese delegates, repre
gest that a man would tear up, signatories to Hong Kong and tion at the end of 1021. A reso-senting the. Peking Government, Two coolies were sentenced, to say, half a dozen $500 notes in Shanghai Banking Corporation lution adopted by that Conven- fall to appreciate the great courseven days hard labour each at the order to make up this patchwork notes, and ascertain from him whether or not his signature on tion expressly bound the Powers cessions recommended by the Kowloon Magistracy this morning quilt?
for stealing salt dah from the Kow- Witness reiterated that it was the note as produced was genuine. confine to establish a Commission, whose Commisalon,
them loon Godown where they were an impossible to identify all the This course was adopted and
pieois Bone andght Be scraps of the esse adjourned until 2.15 pm recommendations, it was loped, solver to a mere expression of die played on
ed.