THE MAGISTRACY.
Inspector Dymond prosecuted ten Chinese with frequenting an opium divan at No. 63, Third Street, first floor. The dirt man was fined $250, or three months' hard labour, and the others were fined 83 each.
A Chincoe, who was arrested in an opium divan in the Western District, was brought before Mr. Hazeland and charged
Flo with returning from banishment. was sentenced to six months' imprison- ment and four hours' stocks.
Before Mr, F. A. Hazeland, a Chinese was charged with disorderly conduct. It
was stated that there was an obstruction
at the junction of Connaught Road West
and Water Street. An Indian constable appeared and ordered its removal, but defondant told the people not to do so, afterwards threatening the constable. In fining defendant $25 or a month, his Wor- ship sharply reprimanded him for his conduct, and told him to behave himself in future.
Before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, a Chinese who said be had just returned from Aus tralia after working there as a gardener
unlawful possion of a rifle and am- Shenton Mr. W. E. L munition. defendod. It appeared that the arms and ammunition wore found concealed in a box belonging to the defendant on board the Tai On. Mr. Shenton pleaded guilty to a technical offence, but said it was done through ignorance. The man was going to the Sun Ming district, of which he was a native, and brought the rifle with him for the protection of his person and his hard-carued savings. The man read the Chiness papers, and conceived an ex- aggerated idea of what was going on in his native country, and thought the rifle was bessary. His Worship said he was watished the man was a bond-fide Colonial, He and took this into consideration. would be fined $100.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE STV, 1918.
THE IUNG KWE-SHING TRIAL.
A LEGAL DERATE,
ADJOURNMENT. ́ ́SINE DIR."
commenced from 8watow to Bangkok. Referring to the tickets, found on tho passengera, Mr. Lowis said that until this case came up nobody, either at Messrs, Butterfield & Swire's, the.N.D.L.,
The trial of lung Kwo-shing upon or any sub-agents, knew a word about
What hap-obarge of being concerned in the murder these white or blue tickets.
of Sung Chiao-jen was oponed in the City pened appeared to be this. As soon as
can be said to have been made. From the vory outset, says the NC. Daily News report, objections were raised, these com-
YET MORE CULPRITY.
INTIMATIONS
-It is hard work, too, talking against Counsel for the Sung Innily again the shrieking, strident notes of the music, reiterated their demand to have Chalo so naturally the actora constantly require Ping chun present. They pointed out little liquid refreshment, and an that flung had escaped by pretending to attendant, is prompt in offering tea in JOHNSTONE'S
the shin started an officer was detailed to of Shanghai on Friday, but no progress the attendance of Chao and the others dresses of the principal characters,
count all the passengers on board the ship. As soon as they were counted, the compradore of the ship was told to collect
their objection to the Court.
The Procurator-General ultimately
their fares, A Chineso passenger could ing from both sides, and ultimately, after said that he would do his best to bring thread, wears a golden embroidered robe
not book from Hongkong to Bwatow or anywhere elso through Messrs. Butterfield Swire, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, or any sub-agenta, The coolie when he went on, board had to pay a dollar for his passage to Swatow. The compradore would ask him for it, and then he would produce ons of these blue tickets. The compra- core, knowing the chop, took the ticket, and was debited in the ship's books for the dollar, and was indeed debited for every passenger on board. When the ship returned to Hongkong, the compradore went to the firm issuing these tickets, and secured the dollar ou esch. Ho him- self had already probably paid the ship, The coolie could go on any boat he liked, and until his ship left he was fed and
sitting for three hours, the Court had to adjourn without having been able to enter apon the evidence.
A certain amount of anxiety had been felt in the City over the trial, and in old precincts of the Court of Justice, the
lagistrate's yamen, several guards were stationed, but the streets leading to the entrance to the compound were without Admission was any special protection. strictly by ticket, so that a fairly large crowd which had assembled was unable to gain entrance.
THE COURT,
The procedings were interesting from counsel appeared in robes, said to po a spectacular point of view., Judges and fashioned after the Japanese model, and, with one or two notable exceptions, the proceedings were conducted on the model of a European Court. The judges were three in uuniber, all from Soochow and
sick. Now Chao was in hospital, and the tiny round basins the Chinese use; ho might also escape. A summons should and nobody say anything incongruous be first issued, and if this were not obeyed in his standing there with the teapot bandy, and in slack moments taking a Warrant should follow. The proposal to adjourn the caso for hip himself.
But with all this bare erudity the mentioned was opposed by counsel for
whether they are supposed to represent men or women, are most rich and beauti- the accused, who strongly persisted in
fol. The general, with his hideously painted face and long black beard of that is priceless; a soldier, a sort of Dugald Dalgety, who pits himself against a modestly clad scholar, appears beautifully embroidered with gorgeous in a bite sutin of the most delicate shade, lotus flowers and palms; and the prin sipal ladies, who are really rather pretty weird head-dresses, wear robes that are.
spite of their highly painted faces and priceless.
the three other men mentioned to Court, as it was his duty to get these people
apprehended.
The Court adjourned, the ruling being made that for the future Lung Kweshing should be accessible to his relatives. The adjournment was taken for the purpose of considering the various objections that were made and no date was ixed for the further bearing.
A THEATRE IN PEKING.
The following article, which we take. from the pen of Miss Mary Gaunt, from the Daily Chronicle of May 2, is
sister-in-law of Dr. Morrison Peking:-
were
that is, one where only women the actors, and women who hold a very low place in the social scale. The three rickshaws put us down at as upen door way, decorated not with pictures of the charming damsels to be seen within in their latest creations, but with bright red sheets of paper, on which the delights affered for the evening were inscribed in characters of gold.
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The fun apparently consists of repar- tee, and every now and thon the audience, who are silent and engrossed, instead of applauding spontaneously ejaculate, na if at a word of command, ́ ́ Hao!'” which, 1 am told, means "Good-!"
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It was without the great Tartar wall insisted mostly of men, as far as I could packed close together, with here and the Chinese cy not the most importante, of the middle class. They wore and age combined with experience for 15 years was charged with being in provided with sleeping accommodation. they wore bombazire gowns with yellow theatre--that was glused for political reaiherre a little table or bench; and up and and skill can produce.
He was then sent on to Bangkok by the collars, and low crowned black hats sons, they say, because the Governinent docs dawn went vendors of apples, oranges, same ship in which I had travelled from fringed with yellow. These hat; in shape nut wish the people to nesenble together.
are similar to the old mandarin's head-bat a minor theatre, a woman's theatres of sugar case, cakes, and sweet. Hongkong, or in any ship of the same dress, minus the button and feather, and gro worn by counsel as well. The robes Company, or in a vessel belonging to a of the lawyers were similar to those of rival line.
It served the same purpose as the judges, except that they had no a Cook's round-the-world ticket. He had yellow, although one or two of them that ticket, but without the defendant's affected a collar of black velvet,
On the bench beside the judges were the knowledge or consent. The white tickot Clerk of Court and Procurator-General, was a letter of credit on one of the coolie who conducted the prosecution for the
It was issued by a
Government, and he was distinguished henge in Swatov.
from the other members of the bar by person who the Company or the Com-wearing a purple collar and cuffs. pany's agents did not know, and did not In a foreign court of law the last man to make his appearance is usually the recognise.
judge, who seldom takes his seat until counsel, prisoner, etc. are in their places, In the case of the City Court this pro- cedure was reversed, and the judges were on the bench before the public was admitted to the Court. After a minute or two counsel representing the Sung family made their appearance, and were followed by others representing the necused and his employees. Jast of all came the prisoner, as usual well dressed. accompanied by a guard of soldiers. He was handcuffed, but the irons wore removed on his entrance to the Court, and
theatre, put there by the Government to he stood in the dock during the proceedjection; but the custodian of thus
enere law and order, would object."
"Hermann Oltmanns, master of the Wong Koi, was charged with allowing the ship to clear out and proceed to sea on a voyage of more than seven days' duration, namely, to Bangkok, conveying 24 Chinese emigrants without a licence.
Mr. Lewis defonded, and defendant pleaded not guilty,
L.B. Glendenning said he boarded the vessel, which was a German ship, and asked tho Chief Officer to allow him to look at his passenger list. There were 24 passengers on board, and all had tickets for Bangkok. These men were Chinese, Bo far as he could judge.
There were
also 29. other passengers on board for Swatow. The Chief Officer produced the clearance, but handed witness no certi- ficate or anything else.
were 53 on hard,
In answer to Mr. Lewis witness said the vessel cleared on the night of the 8th May and the clearance showed 30 passengers, whoreas on the Sunday morning there The clearance only phowed Swatów passengers, and witsasa saw only 29. He did not know that the owners of the boat were the Nord- The tickets for Bang deutscher Lloyd.
the Swatow kok and also those on
The defendant was called to give evidence, and the case was raided
nutil the 14th inst.
RELATIONS OF THE BALKAN ALLIES.
Major Gregoriades, ex-Vice-President of the Greek Chumber of Deputies, writes recently as follows to the Times: In view of the rumours that the conclusion of peace may be followed by serious: friction among the Allies, may I be per- mitted to point out briefly the inherent improbability of any such outcome? No doubt here and there may be a small measure of friction, but I am convinced that the Allies themselves appreciate the need for the pacific development not only of the territory which they have newly acquired but of their own lands, which have not hitherto had a fair opportunity of expansion.
·
ings.
The President of the Court was Mr. Chang Ching-yuch, and his Associate Judges. Mesura, Yun Fa-chun and Yang Shu-yu,
The Procurator-General was Mr. Tai Chi-ping, and counsel were as follows:-For the Sung family Mr. King Manlan and Mr. Kao Su; for the accused. Mr. Yang Ching-ping and Afr. Tein Lion kuei; for the accused's employers who have been arrested Mr. Loh Shan tung.
THE PREMIER WANTED.
The proceedings were opened by a few formal questions to the accused, who gave his name and stated that he was a scholar by profession.
Counsel for the Sung family then asked for an adjournment, as they had been instructed only very recently, but this the Court refused to grant
We went along a narrow passage with a foor of hard-beaten earth, and behind a wall we could hear the weird strains of There appeared to the Chiness music. be only one door, and here at a fat and smiling Chinese, who explain to my friends that, by the rules of the theatre, the men and women were divided, and that I must go to the women's gallery. They demurred. It would be very dull for me, who could not understand a word of the language, to sit alone Could not an exception he made in my favour 7 The doorkeeper was courteous, as it is my experience so far that all Chinese arc. and said that for his part he had no
OBSERVING THE RULES,
There were also people who supplied het, danny towels. A man stood here and there in the audience, and from the outer edge of the theatre came hurtling to him over the heads of the people a bundle of these towels. For a copper or so spiece he distributed them, the members of the audience taking a refreshing wipe of face and head and handing the towels back. When the purveyor of the towels bad used up his stock and got them all back again, he tied tarm up into a neat bundle and threw then back the way they had esme, receiving a fresh stockin refuri. Never did a bundle of towels fail in reaching its appointed place, and scores of coppers must the vendors have pocketed. They offered us towels up in the dignified seclusion of our box, but We fell we could sustain life without washing our faces during the progress of the entertainment. Ton was brought too 201 the handleless Chinese basins-ten without milk or sugar but good enough
pleasure: to stand alone, and I drank it with
Opposite us was the women's gallery, with Chinese ladies and Manchus with their high head-dresses. They, too, re- freshed themselves with to and no may went near them!
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He, being sent for he was one of the military police, in a modern black and gold uniform-sympathised, but declared
And as the little plays go even I, who that the regulations must be carried out. It was put to him that these regulations understand not a word, get a vaguo iden OF FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION. were archaic, and that it was high time of what is happening. The dresses belong they were altered. He sailingly agreed. to a previous age. The conic servant or They were archaic, very: hit then, you cantryman wears a short Jumper and a are, they were the regulation. He was piece of white paper and powder about in to ste that they were carried out, his nosa. It certainly dess make him look and he suggested as an alternative that funny. The dignified scholar is arrayed we should take one of the bosch at the all in black; the soldier the gayest of side. The question of sitting in front embroidered silks and satins; the land- was dismissed, and we gave ourselves to lady of the inn ar boarding-house the consideration of a box, for which six pleasant, smiling women with roses in dollars was demanded, It was put to the her hair and tiny, maimed feet--has her doorkeeper that the price was very high, forehead painted in black lace-work and that as we were sitting where we did pattern; and when the male characters not wish to sit he ought to come down, are very fierce indeed they wear long and He did. Shades of Keith and Prowse flowing beards-ideals which very seldom
are attained to by the Chinese.
Take the case of my own country,
·Greece. Every Greek patriot knows that the one great need is development. Industry and agriculture are in a purely embryonic stage and can only be properly developed under peace conditions, which will inspire the operation of foreign The Procurator-General then opened qapital. Although the country is full of the case for the Government, and im minerals, there are no furnaces to treat mediately thereafter counsel for the Sung them; the raw product has therefore to be family brought forward another objeeTwo dollars!
We went up some steep and narrow
About 11.30 the entertainment ends teexported and then in its finished state tion. They pointed out that in addition
Excellent beetroot with ten to the nocused the Procurator had steps of the most primitive order, were
with a perfect crash of music and the per cent, of sugar, is produced in the mentioned the names of three others, admitted to a largy hall lighted by most orderly audience in the world goes reimported. country, and yet there is no refinery in numely, the secretury Hung Shih-tzu, electric light-in Cambulac-surrounded cut into the streets of the Chinese city Greece, and all sugar is imported from Cano Ping-chun, the Premier, and Chun by galleries with a dainty lattice work into the clear night. Only in very recent Austria. Straw is so plentiful that the Ching-shi, another secretary. Why was it of polished wood, such as the Chinese years, they tell me, have the streets of Formerly the yel there is no paper-making plant in Court?
places in a box humbly furnished with
soom to have taken very kindly to the The Procurator said that the most imbare benches and a plain wooden table. People went to bed at dusk, but they the vessel, or the N.DL or Messra, existence, though one is being built.
Up-to-date iron works and dockyards are purtant of these was Hung, and a Just beneath us was the stage, and the Busterfield & Siwire, or any other agent needed at the Piraeus. Harbour works telegram had been sent to the Central play was in full swing-actors, property/Change, for the streets are · thronged-
have to be carried out, and manufactories: (lovernment asking for his extradition of all sorts introduced, for none at present from Tsingtao. His idea was to try to men, and orchestra all or at once, It. There are people on foot, people in riek
We cannot even distil the per-
was large and square, raised a little shaw, people in the springless, Peking exist.
get him first, and if the others were shown labore the people in the body of the hall carts, and important personnges with fumes of our own flowers, which exist abundance. We import our neat, and to be concerried, they could easily be
and surrounded by a little low screen of vatriders and footman in the glass brought.
At the broughams which the Chinaman affects, we cannot even make our own ham. The
Counsel for the Sung family strongly the same dainty attic work. country is absolutely undeveloped fron the point of view of communication. We urged that the trial could not proceed back was the orchestra, composed only of and their are the military police.
without their presence,
The family had men in ordinary coolie dres-dark blue population is law-abiding, and would are a generation in arrears with electric | suffered such a gross injustice that they cotton-with long pigtails. There were keep order on its own account, but now light, sewage, gar, and water.
wanted justice done now, and they con-
castanets and a drum, cymbals, violin, every corner, looking incongruous and Agriculture is even in a more backward sidered that Chno Ping-chun was the most and various brazen instruments that out of place, is a military peliceman in! important man. In law all suspects were looked like brass trays, and they all black and yellow with a rifle across his considered the same as accused people, apparently played untiringly and against and why proceed against only one man the actors.
Yet taken altogether the They declined to proceed with the case result was, to say the least, distinctly unless the others were brought down.
passengers did not contain the name or Pasarits burn it to get rid of it, and that only one man was now before the employ for windows, and we took our Peking been lighted.
of the vessel. He had not procured any of the tickets, nor did he know that two tickets, one blue and the other white, wore He was not on each of the passengers. familiar with the laws regulating the port of Swatow, nor did he know that no passenger could be bucked through to any other port,
Evidence was then given by the clerk
In answer to Mr. Lowis, witness said the Harbour Office was closed at 4.30 on Saturday afternoon, and did not re-open till Monday. The Captain cleared on
OBJECTION TO THE COURT.
Wagnerian.
Saturday night, stating the number of disappeared. Even the breeding of thunder Article 48 of the Code no judge altogether. passengers he then had on board. If he sailed on the following day, and more passengers-cale on board, he had no op portunity of correcting his clearance.
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In the legation quarter they talk of these military police one understands that wars and rumours of wars, and looking at The entertainment consisted of a num- there is unrest in the air. Surely there ber of little plays lasting from five must be some purpose behind all this minutes in length to about a quarter of military display, which can soarely be an hour. There were never more than meded to discipline a people where the half a dozen people on the stags at once merest rickshaw coolic seems more cour and very uften only two in the play tous and more well-disposed towards his The story was more often fellows than the ordinary crowd pouring
Scenery Whatever the reason there they are, rifles STUDY conveyed by dramatic gesture and vowel out of the stalls of a London theatre. inflection than by language. was as it was in Shakespeare's day; iton shoulders, at every few yerds; and ny soft. high frown the walls
the Ming OF was understood. When a gallant gentle down on man with tight sleeves, which proclaimed builded in past ages by him a warrior and a long beard of bright dynasty.
And so we go on through the thronged red thread which made him a very fierce warrior indeed, snapped his fingers and streets, across the Beggars Bridge of THE EYE lifted up his legs you knew that he was glorious marile, under the mighty arch- A mountain, the ways of the city gates into the legation quirter guarded like a fortress, and so panel of usereen which leated drunkenly to our sleeping hotel and to hed. against an ordinary chair, giving shelter represented a leopart and the face of the grinest and most ferifying of that
in charge of the entrance and clearancendition. Thessaly, which once had a He million and a half inhabitants, used to grow wheat for all the Eastern Levant department at the Harbour Office. said he gave a clearance to the Chief
Nowadays it only has 350,000, and is n Officer of the Wong Koi for 30 passengers practical desert. You can traverse the whole country without seeing a tree, for Bwalow.
except at the village of Velestino and ove or two other spots near Carditza. On
Mr. Yang, leading counsel for the de- Lwolfth of the country only is cultivated, and the vast numbers of domestic ani- fence, How rose to take an objection to mals which once existed have nearly all the Court, which was composed of judges from Socchow. He pointed out that Fantous Thessalian horses is decadent and there are not enough in time of war could be appointed except by the Pre- to mount a single squadron of cavalry, sident, upon the recommendatio of the Yet such was the fame of the horses that Ministry of Justice, and the names of I recollect when I was employed in Thes were of the members of the Court had ever appeared in & Presidential Mandate, saly years ago as a sub-lieutenant I was
the Soochow Mr. F. P. Laufesty, second clerk in the constantly coming across pieces of old He also recalled that Harbour Department, said the Wony Koimoney bearing the design of the Thessa judges had been repolnunded for the lian horse with a suitable inscription action they had taken with reference to had no emigration licence. If the Car Indeed, such is the state of agricultural this case in Shanghai, and he raised a tain went to the Harbour Office and asked decay that in some years the inhabitants furiker objection in that au official of getting over a wall. for a clearance for Chinese deck passen- gera for Bangkok vid Swatow it would not be granted, unles, he had an emigra tion licencon
Mr. Lewis submitted that there was ng offence, not even a technical one, This vessel, belong ing to the Norddeutscher Lloyd, plied and Bangkok and Swatow between between Bangkok and Hongkong. That was her two freight-earning runs. When the ship arrived at Swatow from Hong kong, every passenger had to get off, as no passenger from this. Colony could go
in
this
else,
species.
CRUDE SCENIC EFFECTS.
SHIPPING NOTES.
of this rich province, instead of supplying higher Court had been sent to re-conshads side of it, was represented by one wheat to Greece and other comtries, have stitate this Court With such a state of to buy it themselves from Russia.
affairs. with an official, of. a higher short, what i wanted is an agricultural Court in this Court, to whom could the very evil spirit with a dress that bank and a land bank, which can take in hand the development of the soil and people appeal? He went on to point out
Another addition to the fleet of the P. save the unfortunate cultivators from the that, according to another article, a hands of the usurers who now lend prisoner had a right to decline to be against mortgage at the rate of 38 per tried by a judge whom he believed to be prejudiced against him, and on this
This was a play that required much & 0. Company has been made by the cent. of the value of the crops.
ground he further objected to this Court.
The with a face painted all black and white Mesera Caird & Co.'s shipyard. In short, we need everything, even The President of the Court asked how property to be displayed, for a general launch of the steamship Nellore from
insurance companies, which could particularly take in hand at the Rocused could know if he were pre- and a long black beard, with his army of vessel is of 7,000 tons. She is similar to Oraco-foreigu
coming judiced against him.
Uv, took refuge behind a stout city wall reasonable rates the certain
Counsel replied that the Court had no that was made of thin blue cotton stuff the Nankin, Novara, and Nagoya, and is development of the Mercantile Marine. Are we, then, likely to further impoverish power to present any defendant appresupported on four bamboo poles that the last of an order of four vessels of the ourselves by internecine feuds and hending that he was prejudiced, -
The President said that he had instrue marched on to the stage in the hands of a spirit outside the wall did terrible beyond Swatow. The passengers had all badly need? And what I have said tions from the Higher Court to hear the couple of stout coolies: A mountain to be medically examined, and had to of Greces applies to the other Allies. If case, and quoted a clause in the laws to things, Ever and again flashes, of fire Swatow for we develop our country properly, we have show that the Court could take suchhurst out after his sperch, and I presume when leaving
von were not supposed to see the toolic Bangkok, passage tickets issued at the low quite enough to do to last for many power.
years, and I am convinced that the Greek Argument at times became heated, and who manipulated that fire, though he office of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire at nation is now resolved seriously to take the discussion between the President and stood on the stage as large as any one of
Mr. Yang lasted a considerable time. Bwaton A perfectly new passage was the matter in hand.
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