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TRIAL OF CHINESE CONSUL
MR. AND MRS. KAD YING FACE DRUG TRAFFIC ALLEGATIONS
CASE WATCHED BY U.S.
30 CENTS BRIBE
CONVICTION OF CHINESE HAWKER
NEST OF SMUGGLERS| IN COLONY.
A WELL ORGANISED AND VERY CLEVER GANG
WOMEN & ILLICIT OPIUM
The one was concluded before Mr.
A SENSELESS STORY
Remarking that he could not help thinking that some thing had beenj Nanking, Yesterday.
going on in the vicinity of the What is believed to be an inter-matshed market in Wanchai Road, E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magis- national drug smuggling ring oper- but that the defendant, as in the tracy, yesterday, in which twa Chin- ating on
the China Coast, and recent Whitfield case, had not been ese women were charged with the au- across the Pacifle, to America, was particular as to who he "came bark" lawful possession of 61 taels of raw revealed when Kan Ying, ex-on, Mr. E. W. Hamilton this morn-non-Government opium on the top floori Chinese Vice-Consul to San Fran- ing convicted the Chinese hawker of 61, Queen's-road Central. cisco, his wife, and Suen Foon, ex-who was charged with obstraction, In convicting his Worship said that Chancellor to the Chinese Con- and offering a bribe of 30 cents toe was quite satisfet that it was a sulate at San Francisco, were the Indian constable who arrestert of anugglers in an extremely well organised place, and that the whole lot are a very clever gang. It will be remembered that when The first woman. who was Bl Height of Fashion
he appeared before the Magistrate charged with dealleg in illicit opium Kao Ying was called first, and yesterday, the defendant alleged was fines! $2,000, or, in default 12 dismissed after, a few preliminary that the constable had asked him for months hard labour; whilst the other questions. Mrs. Kao Ying, who money and when he said that he was toed $68 or one month's imprison- cunie next, was dressed in the could not afford to give any, tookunt in connection with two tacis of height of Western fashion. She said him into custody. On the way to the opian which was found on her the baggage belonged to Chen Sen. [the station, he alleged, the constable) person.
Cantonese living in Shanghai. put his hand in his pocket and ex- and was put aboard her steamer attracted some silver coins, saying Hong Kong by Chen Sen's agent, This is for curry." His Worship one Wen Yu-hsien.
brought up for trial in the Nanking | him. District Court to-day.
4
Dope-Running
then adjourned the case for further Inquiry.
BOY SMUGGLING
REGULAR TRADE ON THE
►
PAUL BEAU”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.
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ACROSS EUROPE
A ROMANTIC JOURNEY BY TRAIN
EXCHANGES
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
On Loudon'
Bunk, wire
1/8
Bank, on demand... 1/8 13/16 Bank, 30 days' sight
On Paris- On demand Credits, 4
sight
On Berlin-
[By A Correspondent]
Customs apart, there is something singularly romantic about crossing Tank. months' sight 1/9 frontier; and I have always Credits. months' thought that the station-master at sight Vallorbes, for fistance, must lead Documentary 4 months' an enchanting life, straddled be. Bight tween two countries and able with a hop, skip, and a jump to be out of his native land and into the territory of the foreigner. Indeed. "A CUTE LITTLE KID"
the very business of passports' and Customa has an air of romance. Is "Do you know what the inside of there no pleasure in travelling
about with a a jail is like?"
request from Sir E. W. Hanillton, to-day, of
This question was asked by Mr. Austen Chamberlain that all those whom it may concern will allow the Chinese boy, stated to be only nine bearer to pass freely, without let or years old, who appeared on remand hindrance? Is there no spice in the His Wonship said that the story in connection with a charge of fact that, although you are in all given by the defendant was a sense-smuggling two taels of prepared Probability a perfectly blameless less one. If the constable had in non-Government opium which were character, you are treated by every fact asked him for money and then concealed in two vegetables which country, including your own, as if you were a smuggler with kega of
On demand took some from his pocket, he would he was carrying.
brandy and baloi of all secreted in
On demand your Gladstone bag? To my mind,
On Shanghai- turous side, and that is part of the 30 day'a sight (privata
paper)
put his hand into his pocket and made no mention of curry in that taken some money. but defendant
Upon arrival in San Francisco,
This morning the Chinese inter- the trunks were to have been depreter at No. 2 Palice Station sald livered to two persons. She námed that in answer to the charge the de- them, but repeatedly professed fendant did any that the Indian bad Ignorance of their address and other particulars. Mrs. Kao Ying's statements gave rise to the belief that the baggage was the property | of a dope-running ring, which dealt in drugs and narcotics worth mil lions. The trial was adjourned until to-morrow morning,
Social Event
|
statement.
Story Made Up
+
1/9 21
1/9 %
months'
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1147%
On New York-
On demand
On demand Credits, 60 days' aight 44
On Bembay
423%
Wire
116
'On demand
116
On Calcutta-
Wire
116
On demand
116
On Singapore-
741⁄4
On Manlia-
844
77%
The American Consul at Nauking, Mr. Adams, is watching the case in the interests of the US. Gavern. be mad to subsequently make a The Magistrate gave a remand ment. The normal accommodation charge of bribery against defendant. yesterday to enable Revenue Officer of the court is 100 but over 300 Defendant had no doubt made a Grimmitt to make some inquiries these discomforts have their adven-On demand
ran an
were present, mostly very fashion-general counter charge of bribery about the Ind. ably dreased women, giving the against the constable, but it was not This morning Mr. Grimmitt re-fun of a trans-European journey. affair an atmosphere of a social until he had had time to think mat-ported that he had discovered that, event rather than a trial-Reuter.ters over and realise his awkward the accused and another
The journey from England to On demand
On Yokohamı- position that he made up the story opium divan for Chinese passengers of all, there is the familiar stretch
Greece is full of vicissitudes. First Gold Loaf, 100 fine in on board the .. "Paul Beau" and from Loudon to Paris; then a couple Sovereigns
(per tael) made regular trips on the ship to
of hours is vouchsafed you for and from Kongmoon.
Mr. Hamilton (surprised): What,
C.E.R. DISPUTE
Soviet to Bear All Responsibility
Nanking, Yesterday. The Foreign Ministry to-day fasued, a lengthy statement regard-1 ing the C.E.R. dispute, attributing the deadlock to a failure to reach mutimally acceptable basis for formal negotiations.
After dwelling on the Soviet's alleged subversive activities in China prior to the taking over off the C.E.R, the statement charges the Soviet with unprovoked acts of degression.
It concludes by stating that should a state of war eventuate from the Soviet Government's "Incessant provocations," the responsibility for, it must be borne by the Soviet Later.
}
which he subsequently gave Court.
Defendant was fined $2, or, in de- fault, four days' hard labour for ob struction, and $10 or 14 days" impri- aonment for offering a bribe to the constable. In the event of the fines not being paid, the jail terms are to 1un consecutively,
MARINE COURT
Several Minor Heard
This Morning
Mr. T. W. H. Hosegood, sitting as Marine Magistrate, disposed of say- erat minor cases at the Marine Court this morning.
A mistress of a passenger boat fined $5 or five days for carrying four passengers in excess of the number alowed by her licence.
A master and a mistress (charged seperately) with carrying cargo when their licences permitted only The Foreign Ministry has des- passengers to be carried, were dis patched identical telegrams to all
The "prosecuting officer charged. signatories of the Kellogg, Pact stated that the offending articles drawing attention to the alleged consisted only of passengers' lug repeated Soviet incursions into gage, although when he boarded the Manchuria, and maltreatment of junks, he did not see any passen- Chinese prisoners in Russia.
gers. There were no signs of com- mercial cargo.
The telegrams briefly outline the formal statement as to the C.E.R.- Reuter.
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causing one of the gear wheels to Government Building:-
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Office,
that?
Hire of Pipes
crossing Paris and dining before you climb into the Simplon Orient express.
buying rate) Silver (per oz.) Bar Silver in Hong
Kong
38
(Bank's
11.10 23%
Par,
Nominal
...... 3% prem.
7% p.a
22c dis.
1
You will not see much of France Copper Cash Mr. Grimmitt: Yes, he is a cute that night; and the transition to Copper Cents little kid, and has no fewer than ten Switzerland will not, if you are a Rate of Native Inter- opium pipes which he lets out on the heavy sleeper, disturb you. But est .. ship for the purpose of smoking the next morning you will open your Chinese Sub. Coin opium supplied by him. He makes eyes on the black flanks of the Alps, quite a good profit. I understand, and before long the train, with a and runs opium ashore sa a side despairing shriek, will plunge into line.
the interminable dark of the Sim- plon tunnel.
Mr. Hamilton then asked the question quoted at the top of this report.
The boy said that he was not ac-perience than the moment of emerg- quainted with the inside of any jail,ing from the Simplon tunnel into Mr. Hamilton (to Inspector R.Italy. The air is suddenly soft and Shannon): Take him outside and warm; the rocks which twenty minutes ago were sombre and cold show him,
have put on the colours of the sun; A couple of minutes later the ladit is as if you had walked through was brought back to Court looking a door and found yourself In the very scared.
South. And there is that indescrib- Magistrate: Now you know what able feeling of descent, descent a jail looks like. Would you like to from the chilly Alps into the fer- be locked up in there for six tile, murmurous plain of Lombardy, months?--No.
You will be If you continue to fields and stucco houses of northern All day you look aut at the maize smuggle oplum,
Italy; then about tea-time you come to the Lagoon, cross it, and enter the railway station of Venice.
The Boy: I did it unknowingly. A Caution
Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par.
LONDON EXCHANGES
London, Yesterday.
123.86
4.87 15/16
I know few more vivid moments in the average traveller's ex-
Puris New York Brussels Geneva Amsterdam
34.87
25.17%
12.10
Milan
93.00%
Berlin
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Stockholm
18.15
Copenhagen
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Vienna Prague
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1644
Helsingfors Madrid
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Lisbon
108
375
Bucharest Rio
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Buenos Aires Bombay
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Shanghai
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Mr. Hamilton: "Its no good you telling me stories. I know all about Night falls before you come to you. Your hemel in Kongmoon the confines of Yugoslavia. But in and you go up and down in the "Paul the morning the train seems to have Beau" dealing in opium: Dis-lost its way for ever in a plain,
charged with a caution this time. The fields swing- away into an
To Inspector Shannon his Wor-illimitable distance; the slow-mov- ship said: Perhaps he won't being people at the stations look "be- caught now for about a week. The Inspector: Probably three days, your Worship.
Athens
Hong Kong Silver Spot Silver Forward
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2/2 2
1/11 17/32
1/8 14
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A pair of silver and bronze vases, hour. I am told that the southern for the purpose of developing the a table cloth and electric torch, valued part of Yugoslavia is very fine; the automobila together at $78, which the accused is time-table of the Simplon-Orient the Empire.
industry throughout also alleged to have stolen, have not does not allow you to judge for been recovered;
This will result in establishing His Worship pointed out that the ac at four o'clock next morning you tres Overseas, and it is hoped to yourself. I can only tell you that additional offices and service cen cused had been sentenced to three will be reminded of the existence of greatly increase the number months hurd labour in March last for
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