BRITISH
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1937.
POLICY
TRADE
Statement
Important Runciman
INDIAN POLICE CONSTABLE ON TRIAL
MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE
KOWLOON CITY INCIDENT
a 50-year-old pig breeder,
Indian
Din, a young
Ahmed
Charged with the manslaughter of policeman, stands his trial at the Criminal Ses Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell
sions before His Honour the Puisne
The Prosecution allege that
be-
cause deceased explained to the con-
stable that his (deceased's) son, who
was being searched by accused, was slightly deaf, accused for no ap- parent reason kicked him in the side and caused injuries which resulted in death.
Mr. M. J. Abbott is for the Crown,
while the Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro junr., instructed by
EMPIRE TO
MAINTAIN SYSTEM
OF PREFERENCE
London, To-day.
Trade policy was discussed by the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, in the House of Commons last night in a speech in which he made reference to the negotiations for an Anglo-American trade agreement.
Defending the tariff system introduced in 1931 and 1932, Mr. Runciman said he would like to em- phasise his views:
Firstly, that if you carry tariffs too far they become madness,
Secondly, that if you attempt to dispense with them in a world which has adopted them as a fixed Mr.policy, you reduce your bargaining facilities and you are bound to suffer and the United Kingdom Min this respect would suffer more perhaps than any
country in the world.
D. McCallum, are for the defence,
Outlining the Crown case, Abbott said that deceased was pig-breeder who lived in an numbered hut in Kowloon City near the Ho Wang Temple.
un-
On March 23, he left the hut at about 10-a.m., as was his habit, to go to some vacant land in Boundary Street, where he made it a practice of collecting refuse which was used for pigwash. He went to the stall of Pun Kau, with whom he was acquainted, arriving there at about 11 or 11.30. He sat down and smoked.
SON. SEARCHED
in
At 11.45, accused, who was uniform, walked into the enclosure where many hawkers' stalls were situated, and went to Tsang Choi, son of deceased,
him and asked what he was doing. He then search- ed him. As his son found some difficulty in hearing a question that the constable put to him, de- ceased mentioned that the son was whereupon accused kicked him in the side and almost toppled
deaf,
him over.
more
not
fact there is He was prepared to agree that overlook the
of preference adopted than one way in which preference any form might be subject, if necessary, to can be applied, but we must alteration to suit changed condi-be asked to abandon the preference system, which is now an essential part of our Imperial policy. We cannot abandon it and do not seek to abandon it."
tions.
PREFERENCE TO STAY
"In making a new survey of the world, as we are doing, we will not
OPIUM HIDDEN IN PLUMS!
200 Taels Seized By Revenue Officers
Speaking of his American visit, Mr. Runciman described the frank exchange of views he had had with President Roosevelt, whom he call- ed one of the most remarkable men of the age, and Mr. Cordell... Hull, the American Secretary of State.
LABORIOUS PROCESS A new method of concealing and
Since then, he said, they had smuggling opium into the Colony was revealed at the Central Police been trying to find foundations on which a trade agreement with the Court this morning, when 21-year-
Senior Revenue Officer A. W. Accused then went off in the Grimmitt stated that the drug was direction of Kowloon Tong at 1found concealed inside preserved p.m. Deceased, who was in great plums. pain, accompanied by his son for The
He could not make any statement
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PACIFIC SHIPPING
PROBLEMS
American Competition In Tasman Sea
London, To-day. The second meeting of the Paci-
PRINCE MICHAEL IN WARSAW
Lays Wreath For Marshal Pilsudski
old Chan Li-chun was charged with United States could be built.. fic Sub Committee of the Commit-
"The Anglo-American negotia- possession of 200 taels of opium tions for a trade treaty are still in
tee on Shipping questions of the in Connaught Road West.
at the preliminary stage," he declar- Imperial Conference, was held
the Board of Trade, under the chair- ed, and present efforts were being manship of Mr. Walter Nash, New concentrated rather on establishing
Zealand. la basis for negotiation.
The matter of American competi- accused pleaded not guilty It was a laborious process. ex- tion traffic from a shipping point a part of the journey, started for stating that a friend asked him to amining the whole ground bit by of view was under discussion. The home. His mother-in-law, Ho Mui, carry the goods to a house in Jer-bit and reviewing each of hundreds meeting was adjourned until Thurs- saw him crawling towards the hut vois Street. The case was adjourn of items appearing in the sche day.-British Wireless.. and set off to bring in his wife, led by Mr. K. Keen to 11.30. a.m. dules. who was working in the fields. Jon Friday. When they returned to the hut, they found deceased sitting on the A fine of $50 with the alternative at present beyond repeating that so Government ground holding his stomach. After of six weeks' imprisonment was im- far as the British-
were concerned they wished to they had helped him on to the bed, posed on an elderly Chinese woman, a report was made to the Kowloon Lo Tin, by Mr. K. Keen at the Cenreach an agreement, than which City Police Station who sent a de- tral Police Court this morning for they sincerely and consistently felt tective, who examined deceased, and cutting trees with intent to steal in that no greater contribution could be made by Governmental action to
Warsaw, To-day. found a swelling on his left side. Bowen Road yesterday afternoon.
extension of world trade.
Crown Prince Michael of Ru- REPTURED SPLEEN
Mr. Runciman added that the mania yesterday laid a wreath Deceased was placed in an ambu-fication parades.
In conclusion Mr. Abbott said discussions this week within the the steps of the Belvedere Palace lance and removed to the Police Station and subsequently to the that the jury had to satisfy them- Imperial Conference would turn on in remembrance of Marshal Pilsud- Kowloon Hospital, where was selves on two points,
some of the economic questions ski.
Prince Michael attended a grand suspect- (1) Did deceased die as a result with a direct bearing on the nego- ing a ruptured spleen, communi- of an unlawful and felonious act tiations for an Anglo-American rally of youth societies and took the cated with Dr. J. T. Smalley, who committed by somebody.
trade agreement and on British re- salute in Boy Scout's uniform performed an operation which con- (2) Was the accused the person lations with the United States. He left for Bucharest in the firmed Dr. Lo's diagnosis.
who committed the unlawful and The Imperial Conference was afternoon, being seen off by the now examining the world economie Foreign Minister, Colonel Beck, and In a report, Dr. Smalley said that felonious act.
If they were satisfied that accus- situation and would not overlook many civil and military dignitaries. accused's spleen was considerably
Trans-Ocean. person who had com-the fact that preferential duties enlarged, as a result of an attacked was the
mitted the act which resulted in could be levied in a variety of ways. of malaria.
The Minister concluded his In his opinion, the injury was not deceased's death, then, said Coun-
Printed and Published for the Pro- a spontaneous rupture as the pedi-sel, they must return a verdict of speech with an optimistic review
guilty. cle was torn.
of the condition of leading indus-prietors, The Newspaper Enterprise Evidence was called and the case tries.-British Wireless and Trans-Ltd., by GORDON CADE BURNETT, at 3A,
Wyndham Street, Subsequently accused was arrest-
Victoria, Hong Ocean.
Kong. Land identified at several identi-lis proceeding.
examined by Dr. Lo whoe
on