SUPREME
COURT.
Tuesday, July 8th
IN ORIGINA. JURISDICTION.
AN IMPORTANT WILL CASE.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9TH, 1913.
ORGY OF BLOOD
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On Wednesday and Thursday the various beadquarters of the conspirators of the Tao Chien Tang-another name for the Kai, Ching Tang--were discovered. at Bwangtopo, Hsiaochia Lane, and Chia-chu Street at Wachang. Considerable numbers of conspirators were arrested, of whom most ate Husanese and dis- banded soldiers. They were tried on Thursday in the Wuchang Military Court and they confessed, according to official
rtbellion in Hupeh province. A few of throw Yan's government by starting a reports, that they were plotting to over-
not know themselves what they would be they were enlisted on soldiers and did used for, Proclamations recounting Yuan
but no munitions were found. Forty-seven Shih-kei's crines and badges bearing the characters Min Tang" were disclused, of the criminats were condemned to death, of: whom eighteen were beheaded at the Parade Ground, twenty-one at the Teh Sun Temple, and eight before the Mili- At midnight to proprietor of a tin shop fary Court
INTIMATIONS.
opposite. This, however, socmed to be impossible. In section 5 the conspicuous The point is utterly immaterial on a question which neptitude of the Premier and Finance
Minister is reviewed. iurned upon the meaning of the Chinese emphasized that the holders of thes
NEARLY FIFTY EXECUTIONS. language. Everything depended upon the exalted officers are expected to realize the
The Hankow Central China Post of fraguage used by the testator in his will. tremendous responsibilities which devolve upon them. Yet it is a fact that both Mr. Slade then proceeded to outline the Premier Chao, Ping-chun and Chow 28th June says-From official sources we BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR W. RES facts of the case. He said the testator such-hsi, the Finance Minister, have learn that forty-seven men were executed
DAVIES, K.C.)
died in 1874, and the trouble arose out of been absent, from their posts for months, at Wachang on Thursday. The govern- certain articles in his will, which was whilst although the Minister of Educasent detectives had discovered what they taken his place. Moreover, although the government, and the victims of the made in the same year. Chan Ying fintion resigned months ago yet no one has believed to be a rerious plot to overthrow was appointed as his executor, and in the Cabinet Ministers frequently raise hopes sword were alleged conspirators,
about to eventuate through the adoption has arisen since the establishment of the following year probate was granted to that something practical and beneficial is. The sedition was the most serions that It was not dried that the pro-by the Government of some policy they Repablic, if the number of exeations can him. perties concerned in the claim were those lave enunciated, yet nothing has been done be taken as a criterion. Never since the which were stated-in-the-will. The in any shape or form justifying hopes of Chunghus Republic, which are, and for properties were worth, comparatively any improvement in the prospects of the speaking, only $5,000 or $3,000 then, but months past have been, gloomy in the were worth ten times as much at the extreak. present time. substance of these properties up to 1806, a fast which was admitted. Ying Xin, the executor, died on the 21st September, 'Mr. M. W. Slade, K.C. Gnstructed by 1906, and after that plaintiff received no effected by mandate, not by the Legisla headquarters in Hankow were raided a to commit incendiarism as a sign for the watchful selection of berries, the
In the inatter of Choo Yizi Chu and Choo Ching Taz v. Tso Sin Ip, - Plaintiffs claim as legateer under the will dated 18th October, 1874, of one Choo On, aléas Yune Cheong-alias Wing Chen which will was proved in the Supreme Court of Hongkong on the 20th June, 1875, by Chan Ying Yin, to have the trusts of the paid will in so far as the samo affect the Iplaint:is in regard to such parts of the kstate of the said Choo On situate within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court garried into execution..
Mr. Needham, of Messrs. Ewens and -Neetham), was for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. H. Sharp, K.C., and Mr. F. C. Jen. kin (instructed by Mr. W. B. Hind of Messrs. Brutten and Hett) appeared for the defence,
.
Mr. Sharp thought it would be con- venient to clear up the main issues at the outset. There was one main issue raised, and one sub-issue by the rejoinder, and it was on the question of the true transla. tion and construction of Article 6 of the will of Choo On. The second principal issue was that defendant contended that plaintiff was reared up as a grandson by an old women, who was the second con- cubine of the testator..
Mr. Sharp asked lesye to make certain amendments in the statement of defence, and to substitute the name "Lau" for "Kwan" Che.
more.
Plaintif received the
His Lordship Why
for Mr.
lo usked Slad-Because necounts.
Continuing, Mr. Sinde anid that at the time of the death of Chuo the defendant was a snall boy, a little over ten years of age. He had been adopted as a son of the testator and his third wife, Kwan Che, whose name had just been struck out of the statement of defence.
ARRAIGNMENT OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
ILLEGAL, PROGREDINGS.
PEXING, June 27th.
on both sides of the gate in order to About two s'elock yesterday morning a prevent popular excitement. fire occurred at Kwan Yin Kao, near the Hanyang gate, Wachang, and as a result thirty houses were reduced to ashes. Two women fost their lives in the flames. On Thursday night three fires broke out at three different points in Wuchang
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belonged to a new society, the Tao. Chic the conspiracy. The impeachment includes the enumera Hwei, which is believed to be the Kai are held to Eave been anlawful. They are seditions outbreak, under another name, tion of six acts of the Government which Ching Tang, the organ of the last as follows: (1) The formation of the and obicial opinion conuects the disturat Hankow was arrested on the report of thought and care that go into the Audit Department was undertaker and hers with the Kun Min Tang, whose colie, who said that he had ben asked making of every pound. tur, (2) The establishment of a Military few nights ago. A proclamation issued outbreak of a revolt at Wochang. The
blend and the exact Tribunal in Peking is wholly irregular, by General Li Yuan-hung late yesterday proprietor, named Sun Hung-chuis, was thorough double cleaning, heing unwarranted and unprovided for says that bad characters have come to identified as a deputy of the Tao Chic in the law of the land. Its decisions and try to turn the troops against the govern. Tang. He and a few others were tried perfect nets are illegal, while its interference with ment, and alleges that evidence of con- yesterday in the Military Court at roasting combine to give you For a few days the Wuchang gendarmes such deliciousness as, we believe. the liberty of citizens and executions by spiracy have been found in the office of the Wuchang. its authority of people without proper Min Kuo Erh Pao," the Kuo Min Tang
LOTUS" COFFEE trial as provided for in the Constitution newspaper. Among these evidences, it is and General Li's guards have been on the no other Coffee has ever attained are as disgraceful to the administration stated, were draft documents prepared by alert and have kept night watches. The reinforce sive to the people. (3) The suppression tiun announcing the rewards and punish-Li's yamen at night and his guards have 45 they are barbarous, and grossly offen the rebels as follows:-(1) A proclamu Maxims have been planted before General of several newspapers, the imprisonment ments for soldiers for assisting or been greatly reinforced. without proper trial of editors and resisting the cause; (2) a proclamation ments have been consented in the rooms managers, and the violation, which such crdering that the paper money of the arbitrary acts constitute, of the principles, present government should not be depre- † of liberty of speech and freedom of the ciated after the rebellion; (3) annOWNER- Press, being de facto infractions of rights went of the purposes of the proposed International interests were involved by conveyed by the Constitution, are of rebellion. couree flagrantly illegal. The exceedingly objectionable practice of intercepting a farther invasion of Concession territory INCOMPETENCY, PROFLIGACY, DUPLICITY, AND letters and the censorship of telegrains, by Wuching detectives. Fificen of thes which has been going on for months, were arrested by the French police, and constitute gross, violation of the inalien three of them were still in custody at
A party of Russian and French officials able rights of all free peoples and am latest reports last evening. We under- consequently quite illegal. (6) The duties stand that the Cousuls interested visited Wuching yesterday, to protest The impeachment of the Government by usually performable by a Treasury should considering what steps shall be taken to against the arrest in Concession territory
in open defiance of all precedents and jurisdiction in futura,
There were indications yesterday that The Russian authorities took action
because the arrest was Mr. Slade said his friend was making Members of Parliament was completed be undertaken by the Bank of China, but i prevent similar violations of Concession of National Senator Dz. Binkbu. Hor. this change at the last moment to get out yesterday. It sets forth that Yuan Shih-regulations the Ministry of Finance has
a resident of the French Concession. of a sea of absurdities. He objected toka's Government has utterly failed to arduined that the Bank of Communica, the pureroment, felt the need of (a Russian Concesion without permission, The party consisted of Mr. A. Voznes- the alteration, which altered the whole perform the four essential duties of all tions shall act for the Treasury. This is further precautions: Guns were mounted and the French becative Sellator Hon we
which approved it is entirely responsible. transported into Wuchang
nsky, Vice-Consul, and Lieutenant basis of the plaintiff's case. The plain-democratie Governments. In specifying an illegal act for which the Government at Hanyang, and artillery was
the delinquencies of the higher authorities (0) The Budget, long promised, was soldiers are reported to tiff's case was that plaintiff, when be was the impeachment states:-(1) Since the presented to Parliament only when the despatched to Wachang and Hanyang Bibaslo, Russian representatives, Dubreuil, French representatives. a baby, was adopted as the son of formation of the Cabinet by Chao Figeriod covered by it, i.c., the six months In Bankow Chinese city armed soldier Mr. L Troy, Vic-Consul, and Captain
EXECUTIONS A SICKENING SIGHT.
These officials interview General Li deceased's second son, and as the grand-chan no attempt has been made to improve ending June 30th, 1913, had hunt were placed on guard.
WrCHANG, June 26th. Bour-of-the testator.. The allegation of the the financial affairs of the nation, by expired. Further, the Budget does not ! placing the syster of the collection and approach a complete statement of the
We have had ons more feast of Blood. Yuan-hung und were informed that Mr. defence was that he was never adopted expenditure of revenue on a sound basis nation's revente and expenditure and is into the scoond family at all, but into with a view to equalizing income and lacking in appendices giving information About 2 o'clock this afternoon some bad been arrested by mistake, that the third family-and therefore he had expenses.. On the contrary, the Govern- relative to provincial budgets. Finally, eighteen men were hurried out of the he was a personal friend of General La's ment has manifestly depended upon loans the impeachment criticises the Governing a Hsu Yuan (the military head and that he would be released immediate- no connection with the second son.
The he did so. Itin Lordship said if he made the as a means of meeting current expenses ment's conduct in connection with the quarters) to the parade ground in front ly. It was greed that he should return thus increasing the burden of the people Quintuple £25,000,000 and the Austrian of the Provincial Parliament House and to Hankow with the Concession party, and
It denounces these there very clumsily despatched.
In the meantime other act of the without attempting any £3,200,000 loans. amendment he would have to do it on enormously condition that the defendant paid inci- amelioration of the condition of the transactions and dilates upon the un-executioners appear to have heen nervous
toiling millions, which is undeniably justifiable and wholly illegal procedure and new to the job and took two or three same drama was being played in Hankow, or FINEST QUALITY AND HIGH PRECISION.
Furthermore, of the higher authorities in rushing them blows over most of their victims--making. Fiften detectives from Wuchang, heated Mr. Siade, continuing, said the defen- pitiable in the extreme.
incurred heavy financial responsibilities. dants contended, in the third place, that not only has the Government recklessly through without obtaining the consent of a naturally sicking sight more sickening by Colonel Hwang, had entered Senator. by the negotiation of loans, but it has the Parliament, which was in session at still. The bodies were then taken and Hou's House in the French Concession preserved the strictest secrecy respecting the expenditure of the hundreds of millions of dollars it has borrowed from foreign financiers. Bankruptcy, it is asscried, stares the nation in the face as the direct result of the ineptitude, the extravagance, the avarice and the illegal Clause 2 of the Impeachment deals with and unconstitutional acts of the executive, lamentable incapacity exhibited by the higher authorities in the spheres of diplomacy. As an instance of this it is
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if such adoption did take place, it had no legal effect, according to Chinese law and custon. They also cuntended that be was not of the same surname as the testator's can, that an adopted son must be selected among persons of the same surname, and that there were no dus ceremonies. The plaintiff submitted that he was adopted as the son of Chou Yau The Taz, the doceased's second son. defendant said, according to this new
the time these liabilities were conteneted.
China Republican.
AN EASTERN ROMANCE.
A MIDNIGHT ELOPEMENT, LOVE IN A CAVE AND THE LAW.
Truth is stranger than fiction, and romance-more real and more thrilling
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Northern have been
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rebellion.
made in the
ENGRIMISÄTING EVIDENCE.
and
thrown, coffined, outside the Eastern and were making a search. Learning of wall, and there they lie to-night a prey to this, Mr. Nussbaum, head of the French i polich, went to the scene aud arrested the Fany ravenous beast in that direction.
Xo notice of the crime they have Wochang men. Later in the day all but expisted is anywhere announced. Rum three Colonel Hwang and two subor our has it that in addition some twenty-dinates-wero released, one were executed in the Liang Hu Hsu
The detectives who were taken by the Yuan and others outside one of the city gates, making some fifty in all. Further French police while searching Senator it is again asserted that five women have Hon's house yesterday had a tag which they said they had found on the premises. lost their lives.
People a left to surmise what it is It was a red ensign, with a blue spice, and rumours of the last two Concessions, there seems little doubt that this is the aftermath of the recent attempt General Li's life. Nothing short of somewhat arious state of things can account for the great official secrecy in
though, if half of the rumours are true, the present case. Once more appasently General Li has come through unscathed. he has had no marrower escape.
When will China trarn the lesson other. nations took so long to learn, that public executions and throwing to the dogs of criminals bodies are revolting actions that do neither government ner people any good!
One of the prisoners arrested in the
$1,300 and documents, including a tele- German Concession, as reported yester
gram to or from Peking, that were con- day, had in his possession & sum of
prisoners had also a badge with the word, sidered of an incriminating clinracter.
Tuo Ynan in se Ngo chun chi kwan Chinese reports say that one of these
The Hupeh provisional military headquarters to attack Yann's."
amendment, that he was taken as the pointed out that the effect of its handling than that of the printed page-neireles all about. Putting all the happening" and a white star on the blue. It was
of Outer Mongolian affairs in general us, yet we see it not. At the Court of Mr. grandson of Lan Che, the widow of Yau and with Russia thereanent in particular Paul E. Pieris, District Judge of Colom together both here and in the foreign supposed to be the flag of the projected! THz. He (Counsel) thought he would be has resulted in a degrading finado, Men-ho, the veil was lifted from an Eastern able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt tion is made of the fact that although romance of youthful love, and, in the that any sort of son could be adopted, Chinese troops engaged in operations didactic and emotional language of the against Mongolia frequently mutinied witness-box, the story of a midnight elope whether of the same surname or not. and even gravely disturbed the peace in ment, of a hurried fight from parental Plaintifs also submitted that the law as sections of the country through which they wrath of a fortnight of bliss in a lonely i intestate succession had nothing to du passed, by rubbing, noting and grossly cave, of a heart-rending parting, and of He was quite a young man, Mentis his with the questions at issue, and, thirdly-treating defruzie peasant and an ending full of pathos was told.
villagers, yet so incapable were the officers that according to the terms of the will it in charge of the operations against Mon name & pathetic figure as he stood in the was quite inunaterial what the surname golia that they were unable to summarily dock facing the Judge to answer a charge put an end to such shocking exhibitions of kidnapping Rosalina, the fifteen-year of lack of discipline and proper regard old daughter of Caralina of Pawakpiliya for the fair fame of their Fatherland. It was at midnight on March 11th, so the Clause lays stress upon the manifest evidence run, that Rosalina quietly left neglect of duty revealed in the Central her pazruts house to join her lover, to
her step-father. Government's attitude towards Russia inescape (as she alleged) the ill-treatment of connection with the latter's intrigues in and designs upon the integrity of Mon- Bolia. It points to the fact that it strong arted forces on the borders of squandered millions of dollars in massing South China with the obvious purpose of waging war against the people in South China, leaving the great dependency of absolutely overwhelming evidence as to inner and Outer Mongolia practically at jungle which, for a fortnight, they mad. cheaper in consequence to their own and
of the plaintiff was. They also denied that the plaintiff's original surname was Wong, and contended that the evidence of his reception into the family as a was to complete and so long continued that the presumption was overwhelming that all the requisites of adoption had hern fulfilled. As to the surname of the plaintiff, it would be held by him that it was Choo, although, he had no divest evidence to that effect. The plaintiff had
the position fixed for plaintiff in the family, to the acknowledgment by every member of it, and to his receipt of pro- perty which he could only get if he wers This newly a properly adopted - son,
There is no terror to evildoers like the justice. It is not the magnitude of a terror of an incorruptible, unavoidable punishment but its certainty that keeps from crime.
When Mendis joined her he said it was before dawn. By six o'clock the young important that they should get as far duy as possible from her parents' home couple reached Dehiowita and stayed at the house of a friend named James, but are subsequently discovered a lonely cave
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There is no one who has gazed on these sad and sickening sights to-day who is the There are many who hold life rearer virtue for them or the further from
China seems to have other people's. little us today for the teaching of the Sege who had them not to gaze upon unseendy sights.
A. RECORD DAY OF SLAUGHTER.
PRECAUTIONS AT HANYANG Precautions against any outbreak are cry apparent at Hanyang. Soldiers are everywhere to be seen, and these are fully tion. Foreigners who paid the Hanyang return journey they met à corps of eruipped with marching kit and ammuni hill a visit about dark report that on the artillery making their way to the top with two nine-pounder gans and an adequate supply of ammunition.
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their home. In the daytime Mendis tho neroy of Russia, with the inevitable would leave the cave to find food for his result that Muecavite officials scized what sweetheart and for himself, but one day. to them was a golden opportunity to make when both were fast asleep, the village most unreasonable demands. These had headman made his appearance and they to be granted owing to the manifest were taken into custody. unpreparedness of the Peking authorities
True to the ethics of romanes, the slip
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OF discovered father was a fiction of the de- to withstand the pressure brought to bear of a girl took upon herself the whats tors who wow convicted of plotting to hull are in fairly good condition, the! fendant's brain, Nobody had ever heard upon the situation by aggressive Russian blame of the elopement, and, ut Inst, over Never in previous conspiracies was so length and narrow.
While the engine- cannot marry any one time. More arrests were made yester-ja portion of the time, is now necessary to of this retired fishmonger Wong, whom diplomats. Thus bad Onter Mongolia come by her feelings, exclaimed, I slipped from the control of deking into
room has been cleaned out naturally the the defendant alleged was the plaintiff's the hands of a powerful potential enemy.
It was a tragic moment for the young day bell at Hankow and Wuchang. On keep the holds dry. father, antil defendant was asked to The next clause relates to the rank dupli-
when the Judge pronounced Thursday evening and yesterday morning
four small fires occurred at Wachaug, machinery did not benefit much by its THE EYE render an account. It was a providential city of the Government in its dealings lovers
diarism, so far no incendiary has been (will be necessary to put it in ruuring order again. To use Captain Hennings discovery at the eleventh hour, when the with the people, who were assured re-sentence-a year's rigorous imprisonment.
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words "The Nippon slid off the reef like The Rizal's tow lines accounts were asiced for. There were peatedly that in order to reduce the and outside the Court the young girl was end, though there was a belief of treen-water treatment and considerable work
a piece of bacon:" several other subsidiary points which ha/national expenditure the disbandment of seen overcome by grief.
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The recruiting has been going on a huge judgment was perfectly correct,
much so that instead of the nation having claim of the plaintiff then was that the sele, and is in fact still proceeding, s testator died intestate, and that he was to provide the means for maintaining fifty the heir to infestate succession as having divisions, upwards of eighty divisions funds. Reference is also made to the been adopted as his son and heir. In this have now to be supported out of public rase the difference was that the claim was squandering of national funds upon large not based upon intestate succession, but supplies of all kinds of munitions of war, concerned, are not of the slightest value upon direct succession under the will, which, as far as Mongolian affairs are The next point was that defendants to the nation, for war is at present out. declared that testator was domiciled inside the pale of reasonable discussion. Macas, but plaintiffs contended the while complits surrender of China's sovereign rights in Mongolia is equally
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