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TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1927.
STOLEN BANGLES.
A "MARVEL" & FOOL IN COURT.
a
OPTICAL GOODS.
“RECEIVING" CHARGE
FAILS.
NO GUILTY. KNOWLEDGE.
The lle direct is given to Mr. Lloyd George and a certain sec- tion of the Home Press which re- fuses to believe that the anti- foreign outbreak in China is the TWO YEAR'S OLD THEFT, work of Moscow and not simply
wali-
The case in which two Chinese " an ebullition of Chinese "Nation-
The case in which alism." One of the illustrated dressed Chinese was charged were charged with "receiving" a posters exhibited in Hankow-in with the theft of a pair of gold quantity of optometrical instru- the British Concession-displays bangles by means of a trick was ments. alleged to have been stolen the Soviet flag, with the hammer concluded before Mr. R. E. Lind-by a shareholder in the National and sickle prominent; also pic. sell at the Central Magistracy Optical Company, Ltd., Queen's tures of Marx, Sun Yat-sen, and yesterday afternoon, his Worship Road Central, was again before Lenin; and, finally, a representa-finding the defendant "guilty" Mr. W. S, Schofield at the Central' tion of Russia holding out the and sentencing him to six weeks' Magistracy yesterday afternoon, hand of friendship to Young imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. Duncan McCallum defending China. In contrast with this isl Defendant surrendered to his the two accused.
It will be recalled that a third the picture of a bloated John Bull ball of $1,000.
of two standing on the necks
Mr. F. H. Loseby watched the man, who, it was alleged, re- prostrate Chinese. The next proceedings on behalf of the com- moved the goods from the optical illustration shows the same Chin-plainant, but did not examine the establishment, was originally ese waking up and half upsetting witnesses, Det.-Sgt. Rozeakey charged with larceny, but failed John Bull; whilst the final pic-prosecuting on behalf of the to put in an appearance at the last hearing forfeiting his bail of ture shows the same Chinese on Police.
At the resumed hearing yester
runner,
Was
Cross-examined, witness "said
top of John Bull and bayoneting Complainant, a married woman, $600. him through the heart. There is, said that the defendant had hired of course, "suitable" letterpress a back room in her house in anti-day afternoon, the 2nd. defen- in Chinese. A clearer case of cipation of the arrival of his wife dart, who described himself as a
They were on boarding-house" Bolshevist-inspired propaganda from Macao. against the British could scarcely friendly terms for several weeks examined at some length by Mr. be conceived. It is a deliberate until one day he asked witness to McCallum.
Witness said that, acting on in- insult to Great Britain. It is a lend him her two gold bangles in wilful attempt to fan the flames order to have them copied Wit-structions from the lat. defen- of feeling in China. against the ness agreed to do so, but it was dant, he took a quantity of opti- British. Is it not time that Moscow understood that they would be re-cal goods to No. 54, Connaught was asked by the British Foreign turned the following day, De- Road Central. Witness could not Office to explain matters and fendant then disappeared and say to whom they belonged. He forced to cease for all time its was not seen for nine months, had not seen the first defendant. pernicious propaganda outside when witness' husband met him since his arrest and did not know Russian borders?
in Wanchal, In the meantime, whether he had left the Colony or however, a pawn ticket had been not.."
two found in respect of the bangles which had since been that he did not know why the redeemed by witness,
goods were taken to the roof of Again Disappears. the boarding house. Everyone recognises that the
Defendant had taken witness' The 3rd. defendant gave simi- Chinese workers must be per- mitted facilities, along with the husband to a house where he pro-lar evidence. Witness admitted ly run amok-what careth the workers of other countries, in mised to obtain money to com-taking the goods on to the roof, the coat of tut did so upon the instructions bettering his lot. But is the guild pensate her for
Witness" Nationalist Government? Not à
system, as conducted in the past redeeming the bangles, but had of the 1st defendant. scrap! It is no concern of its." If the best means by which the disappeared through another en-had no knowledge at the time that foreigners, supposed to be pro-worker can obtain representation trance and had not been seen the goods had been unlawfully re- afternoon moved from the premises of the tected by the sacred rights of in industrial matters? And is the until last Tuesday
An alter did not know that anything was Treaties, choose to live and trade guild really run for the benefit of when witness and her husband National Optical Company and
the worker or for the benefit of met him in the street. in a piece of "unredeemed China" those in whose hands is the cation followed and all three wrong.
In reply to a question from his they do so at their own risk. executive control? It is generally went to Wanchai Police Station.
In reply to his Worship, the Worship, witness said that it was They are merely asking for trou-known that there were large. de-
faleations on the part of certain defendant said that the woman's quite a common practice to store things on the roof of the house, ble from uncontrollable hordes of Guild officials in Hong Kong in story was entirely untrue.
Ho Yau, a coolie employed by camp beds and other things often coolies. Prevention of outrages is July of 1925 when the strike
Hong Kong Guilds.
'
time.
no Business of the Nationalist broke out, and attention has complainant, said that he had being left there from time to was The Magistrate said that he' Government. That, in effect, is again been focussed on the ques-seen the defendant several times
tion by the allegations of a solici-curing the period that he
was satisfied that the two defen- what can be read into Mrtor in the local courts. this week alleged to have disappeared.
Mr. Lindsell said that he diddants had acted under the orders Eugene Chen's "explanation" of as to the conduct of Guild officials "the attitude of the Cantonese Gov-whom he alleges fled to Canton not think the witness knew any-of the 1st, defendant who, unfor The thing about the case except what tunately, had absconded. There ernment toward foreigners" in with the workers funds.
events of the past year have he had been told to say by his was no evidence to show that the men in Court had guilty Hankow and other Concessions. brought hume to the workers the mistress, which had "apparently two
all muddled up." knowledge of what had taken Should that be a misconstruction true nature of the motives which become
place earlier in the evening, and then he has his own phraseology actuated many of the officials (laughter.)
Complainant's husband corro-they would therefore be discharg. who were supposed to be working
¡ed! to blame for it."
in the interests of the workers borated her story, adding that he Furthermore, as the "Daily they represented, and it has be found the pawn ticket under an News" points out, to hand over to come apparent that guild officials abacus on his desk."
The pawn-broker's accountant and agitators have been at the a howling mob the task of expro bottom of much of the trouble identified the pawn ticket.
A Marvel and A Fool! priating the Concession was an with which Hong Kong has been
In reply to his Worship, witness act of barbarism. Mr. Chen's faced from time to time, their JOHANSSON.-On January 5, 1927,}
activities being concerned more said although it was nearly two at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. placid acceptance of it as an as-with podtics than with locking years ago, he remembered that DR. S. W. PHOON'S HONOUR."
complished fact and as a just tri-after the trade interests of the the man who pawned the goods "bute to a high moral purpose of members. A tour of the city will wore a coat similar to that which was wearing in Nationalist policy has in it a cer- show that quite 50 per cent. of the accused tain air of impudence not un-the guilds are no longer able to Court.
Mr. Lindsell: You remember keep up headquarters and, many worthy of Mussolini and his of those still having offices are in that? You're a marvel
It His Worship asked the defend-ial methods. The real significance of very low water financially.
BIRTH.
G. A. Johansson, a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
NASI-JACKSON.-On
and
January
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1927.
UNMASKED?
OBITUARY..
MR VAN GENŅEP LUHRS.
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Defendant: It is all wrong.. His Worship: What's the use saying that, you silly fool? The defendant said that he had
M. Lindsell: No one ever said never pawned the goods.
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DEGREE DAY.
CONGREGATION AT THE
UNIVERSITY..
Among the recipients of dis- tinctions at the University Degree Congregation this, afternoon is.
Dr.
Phoon Seck-weng, of the medical staff of the Alice Memor- Hospital, an old University graduate. An M.D. degree, for which Dr. Phoon has qualified, has only been conferred by the Hong Kong University once previously to Dr. G. II. Thomas of the Tung Wah Hospital.
In 1921,
His Worship convicted the Dr. Phoon will be heartily con- man, sentencing him as stated gratulated on the well merited distinction to be conferred on
above..
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3. 1927, at HB.M. Consulate General, Shanghai, before E. G.
the message rests in the implied may be that, in common with the ant if he had anything to say. Jamieson, Esq., H.R.M. Acting Consul, and afterwards at the intention to recover as soon as it workers in other places who have had brought home to them the Holy Trinity Cathedral by the can-in whatever manner pre-emptiness and foolishness of pro- of Very Rev. Dean C. J. F. sents itself-control of all for-mises held out to them by profes Symons, M.A., Harold Hamlyn Naah, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. eign Concessions in-China. This, alona) agitators, the members off the guilds will never again be
While at the University, Dr. Nash, Shanghai, to Vera of course, is unthinkable at willing agents in any such hap-you did. It is somewhat extra Phoon won many highly prized Brumfield Jackson daughter least if the same methods as at penings as those which have ordinary that the person who did, scholarships, including the King of the late. Mr. W. H. Jackson Hankow are to be followed. Take brought only misery to them- however, should have given your Edward VII scholarship, the Belilios scholarship, the Univer- Mrs. W. H. Jackson,
Are M. selves. It is to be hoped that the name. Shanghai, for instance.
A Grudge.
the Chan Kai sity prize, Shanghai.
Government realises that some- Borodin and Mr. Sun Fo going to thing is needed to replace condi- Continuing, the defendant said Ming scholarship and the first make inflammatory anti-British tions under which artisans and that it was a case of a grudge. The Jordan scholarship. speeches inciting the Chinese in labourers are ruthlessly exploited complainant's husband frequent when he graduated, he had con-
by professional agitators. Whyly visited his, the defendant'sferred on him the M.B. degree. Shanghai to mob, rule? Is it
house at Macao where he made not a Labour Protection. Union remarks about his wife. Every Dr. Phoon has worked at the Since leaving the University, intended that howling hooligans for Hong Kong?
time he had seen the man since Alice Memorial and Affliated should invade the British Settle-
that occasion he had reminded Hospitals, specialising in tropical It would seem at first sightment in Shanghai, menace the
him of his conduct at Macao, ¡medicine. that Mr. Eugene Chen has given lives of British subjects, and himself away. Invited by the wantonly assault and insult Bri- London "Daily News" to explain tish Marines and Volunteers?
him, not only by friends in Hong the attitude of the Cantonese And, if so, does Mr. Eugene Chen
LOCAL C.M.S. WEEK.
Kong but also many in Singapore. Government toward the foreign intend to take the expropriation
He comes of a highly respected In connection with the annual family of Chinese in the Straits, The death is announced of Mr. population of Hankow, Mr. Chen of Shanghai as an accomplished
Church Missionary Association his father being a well-known. states that "now that the Con- fact and talk large of the duty Van Gennep Luhrs, proprietor of weex, organised by St. Andrew's landed proprietor who has now re the Holland-Pacific Trading Co., cession ceases to be a piece of un- subsequently of giving "effective who passed away at his residence Church, Kowloon, a successful bale tired from business.
of work was held yesterday when
Dr. Phoon's brothers were all redeemed China,, my Government protection" to foreigners ? in Macao on. Friday.. regards the effective protection Such is the logical inference of The late Mr. Luhrs, who was 36 something like $300 was raised. The graduates of the Hong Kong. sale was opened by the Hon. Mr. University and held the unique of Britons and other foreigners his "explanation" in regard to years of age, firat came to Hong H. T. Creasy (Director of Public record for three brothers of hav
Kong in 1914, when he joined the Vital interest to the position in Hankow. Again, Netherlands Trading Society. Later/Worka). In connection with the
ing secured the King Edward Mr. Eugene Chen may say that he, went into business with Mr. same work a service for young peo-scholarship in three successive Two things can be read into the inference is wrong; but he will Heyblem after which he started on plé is to be held this evening at six his own account as the Holland o'clock, followed by a service for that. First, Bo Lar as the "effecfind on all sides entire disagree Pacific Trading Company, Ltd. adults at the Vicarage at 8.30 p.m. tive protection" of foreigners is ment with any other inference. This business was liquidated in 1928 To-morrow the annual devotional
then re-established at service will be held at St. Andrew's TSINGTAO MURDER. concerned, it does not weigh one He must stand or fall by the and was
A. D. Stewart. On Thursday at 8 CIGARETTE CO. EMPLOYEE ounce with the Nationalist Gov- plain English of his own utter- Macao where it has since been car when the speaker will be the Rev.
KILLED ernment so long as they are re- ances as cabled to London. Andried on.
The many friends of the late Mr.P.m. there will be a lantern lecture aiding in a part of "unredeemed these, uttarances spell connivance Luhrs will regret his death and on India; and the week will be
An engineer named Semenoff of China." There may be murder, with the bowling mob and exalta- sympathise with the widow and two brought to a conclusion on Friday with a musical evening In the Chater Room of the Church Hall. the British Cigarette Co., Tsingtao, assault, robbery, insult if a for-tion at their act of barbarisma in children in their bereavement.
was murdered on December 29 when eigner in a Concession is affected ejecting the British from the
TRY THIS FOR YOUR COUGH. returning from work Two assau the Nationalist Government will Concession in Hankow, thus say
servous hacking cough cannot be sine have now been arrested who heed not and care not. Hooligan ing the Nationalist Government mobs may invade a foreign Con- recourse to the ordinary civilised
cured. by a glass of water, but it admit firing the seven fatal pistol will disappear under the healing and shots. Both are namad Wong. The cession, decimate the foreigners, mode of procedure by negotiation
meds. Every user is a felend. It is murdered man was recently promot ed over one of them at the factory. seize their property, and general and agreement.
in Hankow B Nationalist China."
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Following the discovery of the so-called "Peking man," anthropolo gists, in Feking assert that it has been definitely proved that man
existed 1,000,000, years ago.
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Taingião, Jan; 4.
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