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BLISHED 大英元月廿八𩾃 禮拜三 中華民國庚午年拾二月初十
1845
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1931.
FIERCE BATTLE IN WANCHAI
Indians Fight with Poles, Bars and Knives.
NOT PROVEN. -
DEMANDING MONEY BY
MENACE.
MAGISTRATE'S WARNING.
At the District Office (South) yesterday afternoon, Mr. W Schofield heard a case in which two Chinese were charged with having demanded with menaces and threat a sum of $200 from
POLICE ATTACKED BY VAST MOB.
Forced to Fire on Crowd of 10,000.
SEVERAL KILLED.
Patna, Yesterday,
It is officially stated that Ave persons were killed and one seriously injured as а
SIX IN HOSPITAL. About thirty Indians, divided into two divisions with, it is stated, twenty en one side and ten on the other, became engag ed in a force battle near Star Lau Cho, a farmer at Tai-0.. result of the police firing Street, In Wanchai, shortly after Outlining the facts, Acting on a crowd of 10,000 who right o'clock last night, and ap-Sub-Inspector Hallam said that attacked them in a village of parently created a great stir in about a month ago there was a Monghyr district, after a number that district. During the combat, row at Tung Chung, when a man of leaders had been arrested in iron bars, bamboo poles, pieces of not in custody, and named Teang connection with Independence) wood, and, it is alleged, knives Ling, accused the complainant of Day celebrations. Nine mem were made use of, with the result having
(Tsang's) bers of the police were injured.- His Worship Renter. that six participants were remov-daughter-in-law.
a private..watchman.
Mír Ackbar (30), guard No.
638.
sold his
ed to the Government Civil Hos- would remember that the girl was pital. They are!
up before him eight months ago, Mohammed Ajar, stated to be and after hearing the case, allow
ed her to return to Mongkok. It that on Decem- appeared ber 18, the two defen-
in dants,
with company Tsang Ying, met the complainant | on the hillside, and demanded |$200, adding that if that sum was not paid over he and his two sons would be killed. Defendants were
Akthan Gual (32), private watchman,
398.
or.
Mir Aslam (28). guard No.
Abdul Khan (26), motor driv- Sobat Khan (28) stated to be unemployed.
wounds on various parts
COTTON CRISIS.
PREMIER TO MEET WEAVERS'
́REPRESENTATIVES.
PERSONAL CONSULTATION.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Prime Minister has invited
arrested on January 18 this representatives of the Weavers' year, but Tsang Ying was still Amalgamation and Employers' Or- missing.
ganisations to meet him on Thura- day for the purpose of informing himself personally of the position regarding the dispute in the cotton
Stab Wounds.
After Lou Cho and his two They are suffering with stab
of the sous had given conflicting evid body, and the condition of Ajar ence, the Magistrate said: "I am and Aslam le considered to be very much afraid that the evid serious. The others received ence does not hang together suf- slight cuts on their faces. It is ficiently, and in any case, one stated that Ajar and Aslam were
stabbed just above the stomach.
The Police have taken the affair in hand in the hope of getting to
the bottom of the trouble, which at present is unknown.
BANK PRECEDENCE.
POSITION OF DOMINION COMMISSIONERS,
Rugby. Yesterday.
industry.British Wireless Service.
thing stands out as plain as a DANGEROUS GOODS pike-ataff that these two mien did
not really make the threats. CHINESE FINED FOR POSSESSION Tsang Ying was really the offer- der."
OF GUNPOWDER.
Addressing the accused, his Worship said:-"Defendants, I As a sequel to Tsang Wah be- do not think that the case has ing charged with carrying gun- [been made out sufficiently to powder without a licence and not oblige you to answer the case. having a label affixed to the conclusion, I would ask you to package in Boundary Street, have as little to do with Tsang Chaung Kon-leung, a contractor, Ying with his money demands. appeared before Mr. Butters at I think the less you have to do the Kowloon Magistracy this
H.M. the King has been pleased with him the better. You are morning, charged with allowing
to direct that on ceremonial occi-discharged.”-
sions, except when the Dominion
Ministers are present, Dominion OPIUM OFFENCE. High Commissioners in London!
JOSS STICKS.
bis servant to carry gunpowder.
The second defendant was dis- charged, but first defendant was fined $75 or six weeks' imprison- OFment on the first charge and cau-
tioned on the second.
shall rank immediately after the DRUG HIDDEN IN PACKET Secretary of State and that thei anme shall apply to the High Com- missioner for India. This order corresponds with the feelings ex- At the Central Magistracy this pressed on the question of pre-morning before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, to a package, but denied know- cedence at the last Imperial Con-Wong Sze, an employee of 9, Gil-ledge of its contents. ference and does not affect the man Street, was remanded
The opium, it was alleged, was position of visiting Dominion charge of the unlawful possession concealed in a package of joss Ministers.-British Wireless Ser- of 800 taels of raw opium, Defen-sticks, which was taken off the vice.
dant pleaded guilty to possession Sui Tal last night.
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