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regenerate the country. The time for these matters to be taken, in hand, soberly and justly, and with wise statesmanship, is when she has put her own house in order. And at the moment it is panion. The latter then dashed course, the number of perforations very far from being, in order, across the road from the left depends on the size of the stamp. The threatened war with the hand side and got on to a bus go- What about the paper?-It is al- North is, in our opinion, directly taui. He got away.
ing in the direction of Tsimsha-ways similar. It is supplled to the printera by the Crown agents, against the Interests both of the The accused continued walking alag being specially made and South and the whole country. in the direction of Mongkok specially watermarked. The sole motive for hostilities Chinese constable, came up. The for making theas stamps?—I have until near Argyle Street, when a Have you ever examined a "die" appears to be dissatisfaction prisoner then boarded a bus. The never had any opportunity of do with the character and the rule constable followed and got the ac-ing so.
of one allegedly corrupt and in-then came up and the accused
cused off. Another constable Government Analyst's View.
Mongkok Police Station.
main corroborative. He said that Mr. Whyte-Smith said that the in addition to those in question. accused made a statement before he had also examined the 240 the Magistrate in which he said stamps, subject of the other that he and his friend were walk-charges. In his opinion, they were Ing along Nathan Road all forgeries.
when a blew Д
woman behind Cross-examined, witness said he Police whistle. had not made a special study of A crowd gathered, and was stamps. He made no claim to do hostile, so they got on to buses, go.
efficient dictator. Apparently, went peaceably with them to the Analyst, then gave evidence, in the Mr. E. R. Dovey, Government too, the governmental system is so thoroughly bad that he cannot be induced to resign and cannot be thrown out of office by legal means. To get rid of this fly in the political ointment, it seems, the whole country must be thrown into a devastating and wasteful civil war, and trade and he (accused) going toward Sham- Mr. Lo Am I right in suggest- industry be disorganised for an
shuipo where his camp was. ing that in this case your evidence indefinite period. It is wicked,
Woman's Version.
is entirely based upon a compari-· '' The complainant, who said that son beween four genuine stamps foolish, and unprincipled. No her husband was a seaman, told and those alleged to be forged 7- wonder that foreign Powers re-the Court that she lived on the Oh, yea, fuse to negotiate loans with second floor of 24, Bowring Street, Are they good imitations?-Very
Yaumati. She China, or that so many reputable corroborating Mr. Whyte-Smith's
gave evidence good.
Would you have taken them for foreign firms refuse to have opening statement, and identified genuine without having genuine dealings with her.
the accused as the soldier who stamps to compare them by? If I China has one chance of mak-snatched her property.
had seen one by itself I certainly Both men struck her after the would. ing good, and that is for the snatching. The taller of the two Then it was only by comparison Nation to summons a conference (not in custody) kicked her in the you arrived at your conclusions?— of political leaders of all parties cheat, whilst adcused struck her Quite. By direct comparison. and settle for once and for all the on the left side of the face. She Lai Pui-fam, who said he was un. superficial disputes which are at
fell and one knee of her trousers employed, and had just left school, was.cut.
then gave evidence bearing out the bottom of the trouble. Un-
Counsel's opening.. fortunately, the Nation has not will be a victor wars in China that power, has no voice at all are not fought according to that in the affairs of the State. The principle. It is all a question of other solution is for China to funds; when these are exhaust-split into two separate units, the ed, and the contending sides have North and South, with indepen- squeezed the people dry and have dent governments, independent no more money left with which rulers, and independent finance. to pay their troops and purchase China is vast enough for this; more munitions, "negotiations" and everything, including her are begun. Generals are paid off lingual and racial differentiations, and settle down in vanquished is to be said for it.. provinces with all the omni- potence of-feudal barons, and for
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The lowest open air temperature yesterday was 81 degrees. humidity was 74 at 10 am. and 80 at 4 p.m..
The case is proceeding.
"Muddled by Questions In cross-examination, the wit- ness was not clear what direc The jury is composed of Messrs. tion the bus accused boarded D. M. Goodall (foreman), J. was going and fîn the end ad-Ulderup, F. Label, J. A. Victor, E. mitted that she was muddled by Antonio, E. M. Satimet, and Wong so many questions. When her
Tin tai property was snatched she seized the taller man by the back of his tunic and he turned round and. kicked her in the chest. She was, in front of the accused when he struck her on the face. was any reason for her failing to Asked by the accused if there
PRIVATE VISIT.
U.S. TREASURER CALLS ON PRIME MINISTER.
Rugby, Yesterday.
Mr. Andrew Mellon, Secretary identify the other man who was of the United States Treasury,, who paraded with others before her, the complainant said: "He got away before I could see him properly. I followed you all the way until you were taken into custody."
In reply to another question, thes complainant said that the other man was less than a head taller than accused.
a time there exists, a lull in con- lict which an historian with his tongue in his cheek might de scribe as peace. We who watch China know that it is not peace, however. Peace can never come
Chol Yuk, returned banishee,
.Re-examined by Mr. Whyte-Smith out of a political system which is who was sent away from the Colony on the bus incident, the complain- fundamentally corrupt and un- for 10 years in 1930, was charged ant said that the accused crossed sound.
before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the the road to board the vehicle, Kowloon Magistracy this morning:
"Leave It At That," Many of China's political lead-Twelve months', hard labour was ers are fond of dilating on the imposed. "philosophy" and the "morality"
o'clock last night.
As the man was on the left of the road, this would mean that the bus he boarded was a Tsimshatsui
Mr. A. Mellon.
STABBING CASES.
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He saw one of the soldiers snatched by a pocket knife, which wAR something white from the woman, used by another Chinese during a The accused, he asserted, was the fight in Public Square Street, Yau- man who kicked the woman, knock mati. The injury is not serious.
Suffering from injuries to her A chase followed in which he leg and chest alleged to have been Chinese man, a Joined. When near the Yauma-inflicted by tl Government School, he spoke woman named Luk Yee (62) of 11, to the soldiers in English say- Queen's 'Street, was admitted to Ing: "If you took this girl's the Government Civil Hospital for Her assailant- is al- money, will you please return it." treatment. He was sure the soldiers heard leged to have disappeared. him, but they did not answer."" complainant's confusion by, saying He, endeavoured, to explain the
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director vehicle, and rather than confuse of their actions. They refer to of the Institute of Sexual Science the witness further, Mr. Whyte- the incessant wars as Autumn (Berlin) and President of the First Smith commented that he would and Summer manoeuvres, mere International Congress for Sexual leave it at that and get it out of the incidentals in the historical "de-Reform, will give a lecture on some other witnesses, velopment" of the country. They lantern slides, before the National commented that it was very diffi- private visit, called on the Prime sexual problems, illustrated with Mr. Scott (foreman of jury), has just arrived at London on a point to the mistakes of Europe Medical Association of China, Hong cult, to kick a person in the chest Blinister in his room at the House in the past, as though these were Kong Branch, this evening at the and asked exactly how the com-jof Commons this afternoon--Bri- essential parts of the programme o'clock.
Chinese Merchants' Club at 8 plainant was kicked and where. tish Wireless Service. Hong Kong, Thursday, June 18, 1931. of unification. But where is the
She indicated the breast bone and said that the soldier kicked her philosophy in a civil war; where A case of suspected kidnapping with the toe of his boot. One Way to End It. the morality in destroying youth was notified to the Police by Tang By his Lordship: Besides the
Two cases of fighting, in both and fertility with a merciless and Sze, a married woman residing at 2 accused and his companion, witness
Chiu Yuen Lane. War is never a solution. How callous hand?
She stated that saw no other soldiers on the road.instances, knives being used, have her son, Li Ping-kwan (8) and determinate the victory;|
Chinese Student's Story..
been reported to the Police. If China enters upon another daughter Li Yuk-lui (6) had been A Chinese student of the Sacred
Chunk Pak (1) who resides at there is nothing about conquest war she will be sowing the first missing from the house since, alx Heart College gave evidence that the Gas Company, Jordan Road was that can compare with the clean seeds of dissolution and decay daughter returned at 2 o'clock this woman and the snatching occurred suffering from a small wound in However, the he was walking a little behind the removed to the Kowloon Hospital cut of the surgeon's knife which for whatever the result of the im-morning, but the boy has not been after the soldiers had passed him. his side, alleged to have been cause severs the canker from a healthy pending conflict between Canton located yet. organism." War is at best a tem- and Nanking, it can never en- porary expedient, silencing by gender an era of peaceful "de- CORRESPONDENCE. force the dissentient cries of op-velopment. The idealistic planj pression and revolt; at its worst for the unification of the country, EUGENE CHEN'S DISCLAIMER.ing her down. it is the foulest instrument of whose area varies between:
[To the Editor of "China Mail"] mankind, destroying the perfect 4,227,000 and 4,800,000 square
Sir, It is entirely false to state and the promising, the useless miles, can be accomplished only as you have done in your isane of and the effete, without dis- by the united determination of June 15-that certain leaders of the erimination. A province is laid for-seeing and. uncorruptible National Government at Canton, ia waste to gain a province; a bat statesmen to re-mould the coun- the apportionment of land in China cluding myself, are in favour of} talion is butchered to regain a try on the lines of a modern into collective farms in the manner Jost position, the land is ravaged State. Among the more urgent of the Soviet's Five-Year Plan that both men crossed from the left and mutilated at the price of needs of China to-day are the re- I must be precies. In order to of the road. Then accused handed victory, retarding trade, educa-organisation of her sanitation suurd against the possibility of any something white to the other man tion and progress; thousands services, her educational system, language on your part. In the tau bus. Then the accused re- further lapsenses of thought and and the latter boarded a Talmaha- starve, thousands are thrown out and her mediaeval agricultural interview referred to, I told your crossed the road.and walked on to- of employment, as the result of methods; the development of her representative that if empty bellies ward Mongkek, finally boarding a man's inhumanity to man.
in China were to be filled with food, shamshuipo bus, in which he was Samahui on Wednesday afternoon and communications; a
Fifteen minutes after leaving then the paramount consideration in arrested after he had taken a scat. Ching is on the verge of an thorough revision of her legal any solution of the agrarian ques- other civil war; fratricide might codes and the reformation of her tion should be productivity, and that witness said that he did not voyage from Wuchow to Hong Kong
In reply to Mr. Whyte-Smith, the the, British steamer Kochow on of the great continent Chinese Until these are accomplished grow two plculs of rice where his companion, but he would go toned the Captain through an inter be a better term. On both sides unstable form of government. I would be in favour of a land sys-know what the white thing was was stopped by a signal from a tem which enabled the peasant to that was passed by the accused to Chinese gunboat. Three men not are massing against Chinese, China can never hope for uni-hitherto only one plout was grown so far as to say that it was the digging trenches, laying mines, fication or for economic prosperi And in reply to a question by your same white thing that the accused searching the ship. The Captain preter and said they Intended storing up munitions, for an on-ty, whether there is world trade presentative, I said that if collec-snatched from the complainant.
protested and returned with his slaught of blood and pillage. The depression or not. Questions of ve farming could yield such a re-
** The case continued after the ship to Samahul, where a confer new-found spirit of progress in foreign rel ions," China” will be retarded for torfality, and
ths, possibly for years, the treaties.
est will be destroyed where the
whi now are hardly
"ove
roads
ault, then I would be in favour of it. extra-terr) verds nor did Laxy any timn interval.
so-called unequal thing to Imply, that I was categori
as well be left cally in favour of collective farming
in China
ES MAS vere ten years ago,
Yours, ete, dical fallacy on the er leaders to believe that the forelmer and uraving the influx of fe likely to
Cantón, JunG
Chen's
officere.
Ten Years Ago.
From the "Chỉña. Mail” of
June 18, 1921.);
To-day's dollar is worth 2/6%.
In uniform came on board and ques
férehse was, held with the Harbour Master and the Customs Commis
a long discussion aloner, and the local Magistrate w the, Magistrato, gave the Captain a had come on board with an offcere pass to proceed without a search) The Commissioner drew the ite Just as H.M.S. Cicala was seen Treaty condition under which & Bri- tion of the Magistrate to the
EUGENE CHEN.
Baling entering the port. The" British italicised Commander came on board and etlah ship could not be searched In pressed approval of the Capta Chinese waters except by Customs
ut foot of pre Column,
lict
The Kochow then prpoood- out;further interference. A