MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1934.
CONCUBINE'S
ESTATE CLAIM
CASE RESUMED
Ching Dynasty Laws Cited In Court.
"NO RULE AGAINST WIDOWER
TAKING CONCUBINE”
Mr. Hu Wa-yun, a lawyer of the Canton Bar, gave expert evi- dence at the resumption of the hearing of the claim by Ling Cheung-nang and Wong So chúng cóncubines, for letters of administration to the $20.000 'estate of Lo Wai-cheun, deceas ed.. before the Chief Justice, the Hón. Mr. A. D. A. McGregor, ati the Supreme Court this morning.
Mr. Hin-shing-lo, instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist: represented the plaintiffs. The defendant, Lo Pak-wai. alias Lo Kwai-woon. appeared in person, assisted by Messrs. Ruse and Go!)
Mr. Hu Wa-yun stated that ac-| eprding to the laws of the Ching Dynasty formulated in 1842, there was no express rule against; a widower taking a concubine and, further, that it was the custom of many great person- ages in China to take concubines during the life of theje "wives,
In Chinese law, he said, a wifej must be married with the proper ceremonies, and takes the first) place in the household, while the concubine is merely bought with]
ceremony and is classed. legally, as a junior or serondary
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wife.
Mr Hin Shing-lo: "What is the object of keeping a con- cubine?"
Warns of "Great" Auto Strike
· Despite pacifio efforts of General Hugh Johnson (lower left), NRA Administrator, tension increases in automobile industry as W. S. Knudsen (upper), executivę vice-president of General Motors flatly tells National Labor Board his corporation will never recognize an American Federation of Labor union or sign a contract with it. At right, Presi» dent William Green, A. F. of L., sa be predicted greatest strike in history of auto industry.
SIR T. SOUTHORN IN R.A.F. PLANE.
G.O.C. Also Taken Up By Visitors.
\LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
FLYING BOATS LEAVING ON [yesterday, a
SATURDAY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-day's Short Story.
A
MEMORY
By Howard Bach.
TRANS - CONTINENTAL memory of the past?" said the Eng- train rolled and lurched lishman. through the night. In a second- "Not unless the shock produces in- class compartment four men had sanity. That is a different thing. reached the point when what I am speaking of a temporary cea apologies for sleep they had been sation of the ordinary mental facul- vouchsafed during the previous ties."
four hours were now exhausted. At this moment the fourth oven- By way of passing the time, a pant of the compartment, who had stout Jewish man, aged about been lying back in his corner...... ap- forty, with black, wavy hair parently indifferent to the converas- which had receded almost out of tion going on around him, auddenly sight, had begun to discuss a leaned forward.
His eyes were topical and sensational murder deep-set and extraordinarily pier with his immediate opposite. cing.
"Counsel is trying to establish "But memory of the past," he [that the murder Was committed said, "that is not affected. Is that
during a period of insanity and that what you said?", afterwards the accused had no re-
collection of the deed."
"Rather a stretch of the imagina- tion, isn't it?" replied a tall, grey- haired Englishman to whom the re- mark was primarily directed,
"Imagination! Could you break' your wife's head open with a hat- (chet and then go into the kitchen
and make yourself a cup o' tea?”-
"I think I should have persuaded
TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "Snake-bite," hy Hedley Barker.
It
All eyes turned to the speaker. her to make the ten first. I have He was a man of average height always regarded it as the wife's pri-with a mass of iron-grey hair. vilere." This from a sandy-haired was difficult to estimate his age- Iman in one of the other corners.
something between 60 and 70. His "Seriously, though," he continued, body in a well-cut suit of indefinite! "as a medical man I can assure you colour suggested extreme virility. that I have known of cases in which, His hands were beautifully shaped as the result of shock, a man's con-
Falling from the cockloft on the sclous mind has lain dormant and with long, sensitive fingers. It was first floor of 176 Wellington Road his actions for a period of time have his face, however, that gave him his character. His deep-set eyes under Chinese, ip Shuen been entirely guided by subconscious heavy lids gave the impression of Kwai, aged 18, received severe in-influence." juries and died in the ambulance on Flights over Hong Kong were the way to the Government Civil Mr. Hu Wa-yun: "The object made yesterday afternoon by H. E. Hospital,
His Lordship: "I do not think you need to be a barrister at the Canton Bar to know that."
of concubinage is to obtain heirs Sir Thomas Southern, the Officer for the succession, and to add to Administering the Government, and
Sentence of one month's hard
the diguity of the household by H. E. Major-General O. C. Borrett, labour was imposed on Ng Chung, producing many sons."
"Do
these attacks affect the
K.O.C., in the R.A.F. Supermarine unemployed, by Mr. Q. A. A. Mac- CORRESPONDENCE. "The order of seniority in Southampton machines which are Fadyen at the Central Police Court Chinese household is the kit fat now visiting Hong Kong from Sin- this morning, for the theft of $1.10) wife firat. the fin four wife
from Kwan Mut in Hollywood Roud second, with the concubines fol-
last evening. lowing," said Mr. Hụ. **
The case is proceeding.
MAN WHO STEALS
$10 NOTES..
Six Convictions For Same Offence.
Pleading for leniency at the Cen-
gapore.
Lady Southorn and Mra. Borrett were taken up in planes of the Far Eastern Aviation Company.
intense hardship or suffering. There were hollows in his cheeks and the corners of his large sensi-. Live mouth were turned down +8 though in bitterness,
"Not to any extent!" replied the doctor. "Certain incidents mighti he blurred or indistinct But the general trend of character, back- ground, custom, etc., would be
SPEAKING TO A BUS DRIVER tained in detail."
To the Editor, "China Mail.")
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For being in possession of a Chin- Sir Thomas Southern was piloted]ese pipe in Morrison Road yester-
Flight-Lieut., King, while Squa day. Li Bung, unemployed and of Sir-Permit me the use of your His interrogater paused before dron-Leader Floyd piloted the flying au fixed abode, was bound over for valuable columns to draw the atten-replying. He lit a cigarette and his boat in which the G.Q.C. travelled. a sum of $50 to be of good behaviour tion to whom it may concern to an
Lady Southorn was taken up by for six months, by Mr. Q. A. A. incident which occurred this forehand was trembling. Then he con- tinued in a calm modulated voice (Mr. Murray, of the Far Eastern | MacFadyen at the Central Polleonoon between 10.30 und 10.45. | Aviation Company, and Lord Dau-Court this morning.
I boarded Bus No. 611 at the stop which had a trace of a drawl.
"You would be surprised then to las Hamilton accompanied Mrs.
near Po Leung Kuk. Only two or Borrell.
Pleading guilty to the charge of three passengers at rear of Bus at hear of a man who had lived an in- Arrangements for the fights were stealing $7 and some clothing from this time.
A man In uniform, tensely active and, shall we say, ex- tral Police Court this morning, be made by Group-Captain Sydney Tsang To last Thursday, Li Sang, whom I took to be one of the Bus citing life up to the age of 60, whose fore Mr. Q. A. A. MucFadyen, Yuen Smith, who also accompanied
conscious mind suddenly collapsed the unemployed, ая sentenced to a Company's employees going off duty,
and. Suny, unemployed, was sentenced to visitors around the nerodrome. month's hard labour by Mr. Q. A. A was huddled up in the right hand for a period of six months, 12 months hard labour, for the theft of a $10 banknote, from the for Singapore on Saturday.
The three flying boats will leave MacFadyen at the Central Police corner of the front seat, and kept when it resumed its normal func-
Court this morning.
up a continuous conversation, or a tion, all recollection of 50 years' Hang Yu Tai Rice Shop, No. 31)
series of interrogations, with the activity had been completely blotted Cochrane Street, last Saturday.
out? Wong Pul, an unemployed 17-Driver, the front glass partition be-i
"The man had gained consider BOY ATTACKED BY year-old youth, was remanded in ing slid open as usual. A Chinese police custody for 24 hours for in- lady boarded the Bus about Kennedy able notoriety.
SHARK. vestigation, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton Road and alighting at Garden Road, certain data which came into his able to deduce his at the Central Magistracy this where I also got off, spoke a few hands he was morning, when he was charged with words to this man as she passed to identity and then by careful study the theft of silver ornament, valued front exist, and on alighting turned of early newspapers, books, etc., to at $8, from Chan She, in Lee Tung round and spoke again. Then build up the fragments of his form-
speaking to me in perfect English er life."
"What was the condition of his remarked that such conduct Was jeopardizing the safety of all the mind when he recovered?" inter- passengers. At this time the Bus posed the Englishman.
"That of an unusually intelligent was nearly full. I thought so too,
adult. He could understand and and told her that I would write a
graep all things present. Only the leomplaint to the Company.
Accused had six previous convic tion for the same offence. He was also ordered to be placed under Police supervision for two years af ter his release, upon the applications
of Detective-Sergeant Guild.
"Leniency, in your case isn't do
CHOPPER ATTACK ON MRS. POLSON.
Arrest Made In Canton.
ing any good". Anid the Magistrate MAN ANSWERING LIKENESS
in imposing the sentence.
BY WAITER.
TO HO MAN FAI
It is learned from the police
Mr. Ford Pays $50 Bond nection with the brutal chopper
Street.
VISITOR ROBBED OF $1,738.
Burglars Active In Robinson Road.
$13 EMBEZZLEMENT (that a man, answering the des- Jeription of Ho Man Fai, the com- Ipradore's coolie, for whom a war-
rant for arrest was issued in con-,
fassault on Mrs. J.. C. Polson, of No. 9. Stanley Terrace. Quarry For the embezzlement of $13 from Bay. on August 2 last, has been Mr. Chung Wing-sang, a visi-| Santa Singh at the Indian Eating arrested in Canton and will be tor to the Colony, residing at brought to Hong Kong to-night No. 47e Robinson Road, first on the s.s. Tung On.
floor, reported to the Police that
For Defendant.
As the result of
Swims To Shore After Being Bitten.
Durban (Natal).
A shark attacked a boy, Allen MacArthur, while he was bathing in the sea at Winklespruit.
MacArthur was not far out when he saw a flash of white in the
I consider this a most serious mat-past was completely lost."
"What an amazing story!" said water beside him. ter, and would add that this has
the doctor. Would it be asking) occurred on several occasions.
too much for you to go into greater detail?"
"PETER PEATRACK."
MALE CHICKENS DOOMED
Glut Reported On U.S. Poultry Farm.
JAPANESE EXPERTS EMPLOYED
Bellingham, Washington. The old "law" of supply and de mand has, in the opinion of a group of Whatcom County hatchery "¡men, decreed the slaughter of male
[chicks. He yelled and kicked and frigh-
Organisation of a chick sexing tened the shark, which, however, company by the hatchery men was announced by B. C. Young, pre- "As you have probably guessed, gushed his leg. He is a strongjsident of the Poultry Men's Hat- the story is my own.. I am now swimmer and quickly reached the chery and past president and now nearly 70 years of age and my state shore where he was medically a director in the International Baby of health does not suggest that I treated.
It will be the first unit of its The wound showed 15 punctures.kind in the United States. --Reuter.
Poultry men have obtained the services of two Japanese experts to determine the sex of the chicks, soparating the baby pullets from the cockerels at a cost of from L to 14 cents a' chick. The group produces about 1,600,000 chicks annually.
House, No. 14 Morrison Hill Road on August 28, 1932, Liu Chak, a former waiter at the same address, Polson was taking a walk with her morning, his residence was en-
It will be remembered that Mrs. between one and six o'clock this TRAGEDY AT CHINA was bound over for a sum of $50 to dog at about 9 p.m. on August 2, tered by robbers who stole money
SOCCER TRIAL. be of good behaviour for six months, by Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Can-and had reached the end of the Ter- and property to the total value Hawker Killed By Fall further."
tral Magistracy this morning.
Mr. E. Ford, the accused's present employer, appeared in Court and paid the $50 bond and $13 to Mr. Singh, on behalf of defendant.
STUDENT'S CAR ESCAPADE.
Fined $150 On Two Charges.
race when she was met by a cookie. of $1,738.50.
The dog, it is believed, anopped and Mr. Chiu San-sein, manager of barked at the coolie, who, without the Williams Motor Company,
From Hillside.
HUGE CROWD.
warning, drew a chopper and as residing at the same address, also SLIPS WHILE MOVING AMONG saulted Mra. Polson, Inflicting a deep reported that $150 in Hong Kong cut in her shoulder.
banknotes had been stole from him.
*
Mrs. Polson fell to the ground and her assailant proceeded to alash her No arrest has yet been made.
lega and body. Her screams were heard by her husband, Mr. J. C.
Folson, of Talkoo Docks, who at MR. COATE'S BICYCLE
fonce went to her assistance, The
attacker then threw away the chop-
per and took to his heels.
STOLEN.
A fatal accident attended the chinese Olympic soccer trial be tween Eastern China and Southern
China, which was played at Caro-
line Hill yesterday.
י.
There have much longer to live. seems to be no need to suppress it
There was a general murmur of assent as the occupants settled down In their corners. The speaker lean-)
ed back with his eyes fixed on the THE INCRIMINATING small gas jet which provided the only illumination the compartment boasted.
EVIDENCE.
"I awake to dusk of a summer Negro Reveals Himself night. Lighta are twinkling over
As Burglar. stretch of water. Small white sailing boats are hurrying before
Pleading gulity to charges of Ho Man Fai, was known to have! Thief Wants Money Toa height of about 30 feet, while of Toronto, Canada I am seated been identified by a witness as the
Return To Country.
A Chinese hawker, Lal Sui Man, the wind in the direction". of 'the] aged 24, fell down the hillside from lights, It is the Royal Yacht Club
watching the game, and was killed. on a bench overlooking Lake On The deceased, who lived at "286 tario. For some moments I am Hennessy Road, Wanchai, was held by the scenes, my individuality
Chick Association.
Young declared that the plan will result in untold benefit to poultry men, explaining that, it they save pullets and destroy Too- Los Angeles,
[sters, bróflers will immediately ad- . Abraham White, a negro, had vance in pricó.
Cockerela are to be destroyed: man who burgled a house here. driving car No. 289, belonging to been in the vicinity of Stanley Ter-
for the present, he said, due to en
Mr. Llu Ti-kiu, without permission race at the time and subsequently
Unwittingly, he set at rest any over-supply of poultry in storage. Because the Japanese experts and for driving without an appro- failed to return to the Wo Sang Tai "I wanted money to go back to stated to have been hawking his suspended. Then I become aware doubts as to the, truth of the identi-are excluded from operating in priate license in Leighton Hill Road, Compradore shop where he was em the country", was the reason given wares among the large crowd of of music in the distance. I turn fication....
Petra this country under immigration Ng. Yuk-fal, a student, was” åned ployed as a delivery coolle, .. by Pun Fu-yan, when he was asked spectators who were watching the and see the lights of a fairground Asked sternly by the Judge whe-regulations, a sexing depot has $100, in' default two months! Impri- Mrs. Polson was taken to hospital by Mr. Q. A. A. MacFadyen at the game from the hillside bordering the perhaps a mile away. I can just sonment, on the first charge, and in a critical condition, suffering Central Police Court this morning ground. Exact details as to how see the rise and fall of the horsether he had anything to say, White been established on the Canadian 150, in default a month's Imprison from severe loss of blood. Her re- why he stole a bicycle, the property the accident occurred are not avail on a roundabout and hear distant replied: ment on the second charge, by Mr.covery was only made possible of Mr. E. Coste, of the Eastern Ex; able, but it in believed that he slip-shouts of laughter. Then, as if I "All I got to say is that it 'pears E. W. Hamfiton at the Central Ma- through careful rest and treatment. tension, Telegraph Company, yester pad while moving in among the am awakding from a long sleep, I try funny to me I should be identified is now 98 per cent perfect and gistracy this morning. And ph It is understood that the man will days
to place myself, to adjust myself to by a guy who kept his head under will eventually be done by Ameri- crowd, NEARES
The body was taken to the Publje my surroundings"
the bedclothes all the time I was cans. The practice was develon- Mortuary,
(Continued on Pape 10
"there."---Reuter.
Accused had committed a similar be charged before the Police Magis Bentance of three weeks hard a offence previously
I trata' to-morrow morning."
bour was imposed on accused.
..::..
side of the International boundary.
ins at Blains."
Young said that sexing of chicks
ed by Japan-Reuter.