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ANOTHER VICTORY CLAIMED.
Nationalists Capture Lushan, in Honan.
REBELS IN RETREAT.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1930.
MUI-TSAI CASE.
RIGHT TO JUSTICE.
"EXCESSIVE BEATING MUST STOP."
:
MAGISTRATE'S WARNING.
STRONG COMMENTS BY A MAGISTRATE.
Dr. J. N. Laing, the Manchester peiles surgeon, was sternly rebuk. ed by the presiding magistrate. Mr.
on or about driver.
So Tul, a married woman of 501 | Laski, AF "Manchester City Court Canton Road was to-day summon when Alfred Taylor, a motor deal- ed before Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smither, Dr, Davies Street, Antouts, was Kweiteh, Tuesday. According to a reliable report two counts of having illtrented accused of being drunk and dis from military circles, Marshal and assaulted her registered mul orderly and assaulting a trament Chiang Kai-shek had first intend- tai named Lai Yi,
August 30:
An inspector stated that Taylor, ed to places the two crack Canton- | BE
Mr. John Barrow, of the Secrewher arrested and charged, asked divisions under Generals Chiang Kwang-nei and Tsai Ting: tariat of Chinese Affairs, said that to be examined by a doctor.
Dr. Laing was telephoned for, kai as general reserve to support for a reason which he could not the Ping-Han and Lung-Hai lines, ascertain, the girl was beaten by and was alleged to have refused to when necessary.
Now the Mar. her mistress with a piece of flat come on the grounds that he "could
do no good." shal has decided to despatch these firowood. The girl told the police
It was stated that Taylor had tro divisions for the capture of that she had been chastised be- Lanfeng, the vanguard having al cause she had let the other tenants only elghtpence in his possession. ready moved from Kweitch to on the floor know that her mistress and it was alleged that the inspec was moving, which was against the tor exclaimed, when he made this wards their objective.
The G.H.Q of the 19th Route latter'a wish. On the other hand, disenvery, "What-you want a doc Army under
the mistress said that she beat her tor for eightpence!" Chiang Kwang-
"Doctor's Duty,” Mr. Laski pointed out that where nei still remain at Yenchow, but mui tsai because she had made the will be removed to Hsuchow upon other children in the same house the arrival of new recruits there, cry by, teasing them. She was do- there was a conflict of opinion re garding a man's condition, the doc- dospatched from Canton. It is
tor's fon was a secondary matter. further learned that some 2,000 ||
It was the doctor's duty to attend Shansi prisoners, captured at:
the police station. Tainan, will be sent to Canton, to be reorganised as "Peace Main- tenance Corps."
Capture of Lushan.
A telegram from Kweiteh claims that a contingent of Na- tionalists under Yang Fu-chengi captured Lushan, in the heart of Honan, on September 7. The re- bels retreated in the direction of) Tengfeng and Loyang, being closely followed by the National- ists. Another portion of Yang's forces are reported to have arriv-] un-jed at Kucheng and are now press-
ing on Tengfeng,
fruits that are denied to the official public. But he is entitled
not.
HOW MUCH MONEY?
Result of Local Cinema Contest.
The amount of cash in the CAUGHT SHORT" contest "featured in the China Mail on
Tuesday totals $39,804.19.
Considering the large num- -ber of entries it was surpris- ing that no correct resulta were received, but the manage- ment of the Queen's Theatre are sending free tickets to many contestants whose Gigures were nearest the co- rect answer.
"Although a man may have no money," said Mr. Laski, "he is still entitled to justice."
Mr. Laski added that the police were not always truthful; and that the charge of being drunk and disorderly ought never to have been brought.
The Bench were unanimously of the same opinion, but Taylor was fined £3 for assaulting the tramcar driver.
"MIDGET GOLD.”.
London, August 14. Midget Gold," the Intest American craze, is entching on so successfully in England that the Merwibay (sic) Council, although it is receiving 43 per cent, of the takings has been compelled to ban the play.
ANTI-SEMITIC RIOTS.
According to a wire received to receive just treatment, and we from Siu Chi-tso of the 40th Na- do not consider that it is just or tionalist division, it is stated that
his forces have succeeded in oc-1 proper treatment to induce men cupying Sankuanmiu, Kuankiu, to take up high posts in this Yenhwotsi, and Wulutsi, strategic ing that so as to be fair to the Colony and then leave them to points in the vicinity of Taikong, other fellow-lodgers. The girl The Counc on August 2, their own devices in the matter of after a day's encounter with the went to the police station crying, granted a site to a private firm, rebel forces under Yen Ying-chi, and reported what had happened, which took £80 in eleven days, ant. housing accommodation. It is who, although being reinforced by She was taken to the Kowloon sixpence a hend. simply a clear case of mis-the Kuominchun commanded by Hospital and examined.,'
Owners of boarding houses management on the part of past Cheng Ta-chang, were subse- "Unreasonably Severe."
complained that visitors were quently defeated. During the Dr. K. H. Uttley stated that on leaving owing to the huge crowds Governments who had the oppor-struggle, many rebels were killed. September 1 he examined the girl. besinging the course. tunity and the land, but who and hundreds of riftes and 50.He found eight bruises on the back It is stated that £25,000,000 is stupidly, sold lots to private per-horses were captured by the and outer side of her right leg, invested in the game in the Unit sons and never even stopped to Nationalists. The fall of Taikong and six similar bruises on her left, ed States, where it is played by
is imminent.
leg. Thres of these had broken floodlight till past midnight and is sider whether the Civil Servant)
A Peking message asserts that the skin. She had been beaten so popular that the proprietors of required a roof over his head or Feng Yu-hsiang is personally with a rod of some sort. The cinemas and theatres are becom-
directing the defence between largest bruise was four inches long ing alarmed. I has been the constant habit of minor fighting has already broken an average physique for
Chengchow and Hstchang, where by 1.1/2 inches across. She had a child certain sections of the Press to at-out.
of her age. The beating was, ini New Terms Offered. tack the Civil Servant until he
his opinion, unreasonably, severe. has, in their view, "not a leg to
Shanghai, Tuesday? He held that it would be excessivej AMAZING STATE OF AFFAIRS IN Due to the refusal of Admiral beating every time that the skin
ROUMANIA. stand on." But this virulent Shen Hung-lick to assume the post broke, criticism has done nothing to re- of Minister of Navy, and the recali In reply to his Worship, Dr. Anti-Semitie rioting in Roumania move the Civil Servant, or our of Dr. Wellington Koo and Mr. Lo Uttley said that it depended a lot reached Its climax recently with Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 11, 1930. need of him. For, in spite of the Wen-kan back to Mukden by General on what force was used when beat the burning of the Jewish village
Chang Haugh-liang, Yen Hai-shan is ing with firewood, He did not cf Boresa in Transylvania. many inefficiences and procrasti- greatly disappointed over the think it unreasonable to give a Two hundred and fifty houses nations which are the fault of attitude of the North-eastern child a beating with firewood, He were destroyed, and 3,000 Jews HOUSING SHORTAGE.
authorities. Yen is reported to considered that the punishment on rendered, homeless by the fire, every Government, Colonial or have wired to General Chang, this girl was probably inflicted two which blazed with fierce intensity. otherwise, the Civil Servant does Houch-liang, offering new terms days before.
The rioters had filled the sur- -The housing shortage, in Hong run the Colony for us, and runs it by appointing more Man- The principal tennant, named Horounding wella with stones, in Kong is so apparent and so acute pretty well, too. Consider the] churian nominees as
Ministers, Ying asserted that if her child was order to hinder the fire brigade in that it seems almost typical of state of our roads, which are the Peking Government.
if the young General take part in naughty she would beat her as their work.
If not, severely as defendant had beaten "Give me time, and I will restore the Colony, like a typhoon. Here among the best in the Far East; General Chang is requested to be a the mui tsal, just as a warning. She order," replied King Caro! to a de- we find people living in hotels and our sanitation, and, most import-mediator and to issue a "peace" cir- agreed that the marks would stay putation who waited on him on be-
for a day or two, but added that if half of the Jewish villagers. boarding houses and dingy apart-ant of all, our water supply. For ular telegram. ments who should be living in the management of all these bo ignored, it is intimated. Yen not be much.
Should either of the above requesta there was any blood there would
their own houses, or at least, in public services we have to thank would lead, his army back to Shansi, The Magistrate (to Mr. Barrow): good-sized flats. But with the the men whom some of us take leaving the Hopei province to be "I am not going to set her up as characteristic middle-headedness such a fiendish delight in attack-eral Chang will bring Yen's wire up in fact I will set up nobody, not
defended by Feng Yu-hsiang. Gen- an authority on beating children
The trans-Sylvanian papers re- and lack of foresight of the local ing, and who are denied the decen- for discussion at the coming meeting even Dr. Uttley. Of course, I ac-port that a young, shoemaker re- authorities, we find ourselves as cies of a clerk in Wimbledon, of the North-eastorn Political cept Dr. Uttley's evidence as to the cently settled In the town Europeans worse off than
severeness of the beating, but-it | Hatszeg,
quickly became the who at least has his villa and his Council.
stops there."
famous for his "miracle" cures. other communities resident here. bit of garden. If there are found Peking Government.
A tailor living on the same floor The doctors of Hatszeg, who had Perhaps in the case of the busi-to be too many Civil Servants in Following the announcement of rave evidence aimilar to He Ying, suffered severely owing to the ness man it should be the concern the Colony, then it will be the Yen Hal-shan's assumption of the and the mui tsai, in her evidence to secession of their patients to the of his firm to ensure that he en-duty of the Retrenchment Com-Council on September 9, the Pelding been inflicted with "a big plece of shoemaker, who then disclosed post of chairmanship of the State the Court said that her beating had "miracle worker" prosecuted the |joys at least a modicum of committee to weed out those who are Government is considered to have firewood", and that it was very pain that he had earned the university
fort, or, in the case of bachelors, not strictly necessary; but for been properly formed.
ful.` Owing to
degree of doctor of medicine but Pardon Asked. the lack of finance, Yon intends first: those who are considered neces only to establish four ministries, to provide a mess.
had decided to pose as a quack The defendant: 1. aak your as there was more money in it With the Government official, sary, who do urge fairer treat-namely, the War, the Navy, the Worship to pardon me,
and times were extremely hard for however, the position is quite dif- ment and the provision of some Foreign Affairs and the Finance, His Worship:- "Whatever may genuine members of the profes- ferent. A Civil Servant (who form, however, humble, of hous- the rest pending avaliable funds. be the opinion of the witnesses I am sion. belongs to His Majesty's Services ing accommodation.
just as much as the sailor and the soldier), should have quarters found and supplied for him, his wife, and family. He should
News in Brief.
For trespassing in a Government
The budget of the Northern au-strongly of the opinion that it is
Yangisze Situation.
Was
AMATEUR QUACK.
and
Budapest, July 30.
of
thorities is $7,000,000 a month, of very unreasonable to beat a child Mr. G. Kelly, of the C.P.R., re- which $5,000,000 are for military to break the skin in three places." ported to the Polleo yesterday that expenses $1,900,000 for civil affairs, The Magistrate added that If the between 1 pm, on Saturday and 9 child had been beaten so severely a.m. on Monday, someone rifled a and $100,000 for party affairs. fuat for teasing children, which, drawer in his desk at the office and
News released by the Hankow after all, was not an offence, what stole $230 in notes. hardly be expected to have to plantation above the Taipo Road, F.H.Q is to the effect that the 18th would be the punishment. had the
four Chinese women were to-day.at search for lodgings when he at the Kowloon Court fined $25 with Kiangal Division, directed by Gen-
girl stolon some money? rives, a stranger, in the Colony, the alternative of three weeks hard eral Taf Yon, arrived at Pinghalang would be from her and that
Defondant replied that stealing | Ten Years Ago. Yet that is practically what does labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith on September 8 and are now pushing trivial, and was not so bad as, teas- It was learned from Mr. J. J. Hirs: toward the eastern sector of Hunan ing other peopio's children and occur in the majority of cases of the Forestry Department that Nanchang, the Klangal capital, is making them.cry. Men of every profession, possess the women were caught raking pine now garrisoned by General Chang
His Worship imposed a fine of ing often, the highest qualifica needles and cutting dead pins Tel-chen; Kan by General Teng $100, and added: "This excessive tions and long experience in branches.
Ying; Kanchow by General Kin beating of children must stop." Hon-ting; Kluking by General Government service, find when
Another fatal accident as the re- Wan Sen; and the Kiuldang-Nan- they come to Hong Kong that Bult of kite flying has to be report thang lins by General Yoh Sen. ** there is no housing accommoda, ed. The victini fe a Chinese boy Although the Communists having tion provided for them. They named Ng Bulchuen, (12), Living been driven out of the vicinity of have to live in an hotel or take the foot of the house forced in the city, stationen on first fiser of 86, Caine Road. Changsha, martial law is still on an expensive flat.
General Chu Pei-teh Informs the on Tuesday afternoon and received Kiangal authorities that he has General Tang Seng-chih, Is re- Interior or for a depth bomb, ha Tang Seng-ming," a brother of thing that will explode in the serious injuries to his head and lega. The lad's father did not inform the wired to General Chan Chal-tong ported to have been captured at will size you up and hand you Police but himself took his son to In.C. of the 8th Route Army, to Hengchow, Hunan, while working after due ritual a "Pink Lady," or the Government Civil Hospital, questing the mobilisation of Canton in co-operation with the Ewangel "A Korean Widow's Dream," or whare he died at 4.46 p.m. yesterday, 050 forces for Kiaugsi for the faction. Reuter.
"An Ice House Strost Twister.!!-
It would perhaps be going too far to say that the Government Servant is entitled to receive all the advantages of life and the
From the "Chine Mall,"
September 11, 1920.3
To-day's dollar is worth 4/244.
Everybody that is anybody knows, "Bezele Bar", and would admit that though a really good annihilation of Reds and bandits "Cerpse Reviver con se had there, Canton News Agency.
the.
Hotel has a tame Peking, Yesterday variety. If you ask him for sume- General's Brother Captured? mixologist who achieves greater