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PRESS, THURS HY, AUGUST 2ND. 1918,
OPIUM PROSECUTIONS: POSSESSION OF FORGED GOVERNMENT LABELS.. CHINESE SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS' EARD LABOUR. LABOUR.
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At the Hongkong Magistracy, yes tarday before Mr. E. D. C.. Wolfe, a Chinese was charged with having beefi in possession of number of labels par porting to be Hongkong Government
opium Inbels.
ALLEGED KIDNAPPING.
CHILD NOT RECOVERED, At the Hongkong Magistracy, yes- terday, before Mr. J. R. Wood, a Chinese was charged, on remand, with kidaapping a small boy at Yaumati on April 21st,
Luspector J. J. Watt prosecuted, The case for the prosecution was to the
ect that defendant was seen with the boy on the day in "question at noon, Mr. D. W. Tratman prosecuted, and and two or three hours later the little Mr. Agassiz appeared for the defence.
boy was missing. The father did his Mr. Tratman said that on August 12th
utmost to discover his son, but no trace he received two small parcels containing of him or the defendant was found. A some substance resembling opium, also few days after the kidnapping be received a small pot and two big pots, together a letter from defendant, which had been with a package of labels, purporting to be posted at Macao, directing hint to follow Government opium labels. He gave some certain instructions, if he wished to re- of the labels to Mr. Taylor, Govern- cover the boy. He communicated with mont Monopoly Analyst: 4
the Police, and later went to see a certain Cross-examined: The labels wouldChan Yau, by whom he was asked to pay easily deceive anybody; he had to $160 for the liberation of the boy. After scrutinise them before he found out the difference. No persons except the Gov. ernment printers or his Department should be in possession of the Government Iabels. A man might be in possession of them without knowing they were forgeries
at all.
great deal of difficulty the father managed to raise the necessary sum and accompanied Chan Yau to Macao. They were disappointed, however, as neither defendant nor the boy was to be seen. The father paid another, visit to Macho and this time met defendant at a board-
A Chinese Police Sergeant related howing-house. Defendant asked for the be had arrested the accused, whom he
money, which was handed over, and then met in the road, accompanying a coolie, he said, the bey was, and bring him to promised to go over to Ma Wan, where, who was carrying a large box. The his father. The father waited in Macao cused said he had left, the key of the box for some days, but defendant mysteriously at a blacksmith's shop and took witness.
disappeared. there, where the box was opened by was arrested at Macao on an extradition Subsequently, defendant mutual consent. The labels and i'small pot of opinor were inside the box, "Accused did not tell witness to whom the articles belonged. Later the key of the box was found in accused's possession.
warrant
Several witnesses gave evidence. Defendant said he was a soldier in the Chinese Army. He denied haring ‘kid- Mr. Tratman produced a document.
napped the child. He said that he did in Chinese, found in the accused's pos-complainant, with whom he had tea ocen not know any of the witnesses except session. In this, the writer wanted to ionally. One day he went out to Macao know the price of morphia in Hongkong and was met by complainant, who asked He had heard it was cheap, and wanted him to go to a gambling house. to know whether business was possible. so and they indulged in a game, He also inquired the name of a suitable. ship to take the morphia from Hongkong naked defendant to lend him some, De jaw-law, Complainant lost money and to Chinn
charged with kidnapping complainant's fendant refused, and, as a result, hexas child. He had never received $100 fron complainant.
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Continuing, the witness said that the defendant never denied that the box be longed to him.
Mr. Taylor, Government Monoply Analyst, deposed to the fact that the labols were forgeries, Un examining the three pots of opium, he found that one had a forged inbel and contained 2.8 candareens of Government opium, instead of candareens, as one might expect. The labels on the two big pots were genuine. One of the big pots contained molasses.
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Mr. Agassiz intimated that he was quite satisfied from the evidence that the labels were forged. He quite understood that Mr. Tratman did not wish to call be of the printers, to describe the small differences between the forged labels and the genuine onES,
Mr. Wood remanded the Saturday:
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ense: till
HONGKONG · MAGISTRACY. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF
BRASS.
A Chinese youth was charged with being in unlawful possession of a brasa hydrant cap and one bruss deck cap. reasonably suspected to have been stolen from a shop in Queen's Road. * Defendant said he bought the "articles from a marine bawker for 43 cents with the intention of re-selling them at F profit.
Mr. Wood fined defendant 85; in de- fault, seven days' hard labour.
EXTRA ELECTRIC LIGHTS, A Chinese woman pleaded guilty to fixing additional electric lights in her
residence.
Mr. Bannerman, of the Hongkong Electric Company, prosecuted; and Mr. Hung (of Messrs. Deacon, Looker, Deacon & Harson) defended.
LIMERICKS. Friends, Romans, and countrymen, lixṛ 1- There's a man who lives up in the mist And laughs up his sleva At the merchants who grieve, For haven't they got what they wished? Some folks who live up at The Peak Andecane down to earth' once a week, | Aren't feeling so
Since H.E, said Kirkee!"
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The reason I leave you to seek.
"Mr. Jones, as we we from your papers, You're in sole charge of Smackintosh, drapers; Very well, Mr. Jones" (Quite audible groans),
We'll soon put un end to your expara,
And you, Mr. Brown, as we know, Are thires, unnrried, and so, As this Colony suffers From too many duffers, Very well, 311. Brown, you will go." Reporters who write for the Press. "Official accounts," more or le Should be trained from their youth To speak this whole truth,"
Mr. Hung asked the Magistrate to And if they weren't there-well, confess, deal leniently with the defendant.
To manar a cinema-play Mr. Bannerman said it was a very Lavite all your friends (you don't pay !), serious matter. The wires had been fixed
If the film gets tou "hot" by an unauthorised person and might
Say Certainly net! have caused a fre
Mr. J. B. Wood fined defendant $50. INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE.
A Chinese was charged with snatching
little child in Eunghom. a gold-mounted rattan bangla from a
Complainant stated that she was wit- the child on her back, when defendant nessing a theatrical performance with
anatched the bangle and red away. A hue and cry was raised and defendant was arrested.
-Defendant said that he, too, went to witness the performancs. He denied the snatching.
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there was insufficient evidence against Mr. Wood discharged defendant, as
him.
THEFT OF FOWLS.
A Chinese was charged with stealing one crate of 18 fowls, valued at 301, from a Chinese on board the s.8, Heangshan,
A lubang stated that be was on duty at the Canton wharf when he heard that a robbery had been committed on the, steamer. He went on board the vessel and found defendant in the wildst of crowd. One of the men charged defend ant with the theft of fowls, and witness
ALLEGED. DESERTER FROM arrested him,
HONGKONG
A soldier named James Grant (40) was committed for trial by the Kingston-on- Thames Bench recently on a charge of stealing money and articles of the value of £ from a house-in Fictoria Road, Surbiton.
When arrested, prisoner was wearing two rows of war decorations and a cor pornt's stripes, to which he was not entitled. By direction of the chairman of the magistrates these were removed, his property, but could not explain how in Hongkong, and worked his way to Prisoner was alleged to have deserted the labels got into it. He had never pre-America, afterwards coming to England. viously seen them or the pots found in- side the box.
The accused admitted that the box was
Under cross-examination, the accused declared that the letter produced was not his property; he had never seen it before; it might have been à paper in which he wrapped his money.
He admitted breaking into the house, the old man's place." saying, “I went in at the back and upset
POSSESSION OF OPIUM. TWO FIXES OF 81,000 EACH..
Mr. Agassiz pointed out that the, pro, secution had not proved guilty know-Two Chinese pleaded guilty to having ledge on the part of the accused of been in unlawful possession of 20 and 2 the fact that the labels were forged. It feels of opium respectively.
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Folks talk of The Zeebrugge Raid,"" But what of our Fire Brigno? Inside of an hour
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There's a wonderfal Hongkong suciety, Conducted with utmost propriety, **Cons'stowh'nal Reform," Yes, the weather is warm That's why they don't seek notoriety. In
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My Little Gray Home in the West" There are people who're doing their 'hest At winning the war. By ragging their jaw,
O, why don't they give it a rest!"
HYPHEN-HATED.
RACES OF SOUTH CHINA WHERE THEY DIFFER FROM NORTHERN COMPATRIOTS,
Mr. J. H. Freeman, an Amerïenn, who July number of tbc Chinne Recorder a has lived 23 years in Siam, writes in the
brief but suggestive article on the races of South China na differing from those of the north The Mandarin speaking Chinese of the north, whose language is spoken by 200 millions, have written history. But events of recent years show the great part played by the south poli- tically. Leaving aside the mutinoda tribes such as the Maos, the writer main- Defendant denied the offence. Mr. Wood remanded the case till Tais. There was a time two thousand tains that the great bulk of the rest are to-day..
years ago when practically all China ALLEGED THEFT OF ADMIRALTY south of the Yangtze and somewhat to the
A coolie deposed that defendant order. ed. him to take the crate of fowls to a village
COAL,
theft of a quantity of coal, the property of the Admiralty.
A Chinese, woman was charged, with the
ing coal from the Ping Saey. When the accused's junk was employed in carry Inspector Gordon mid that the
work was completed, a quantity of coal was found under the accused's sleeping compartment, in such a position that it must have been placed there by some
persor
Mr. W. Barnett proved that the coal transported and the coal found in the women's junk was exactly similar. The three hundredweights found in the junk were worth about $4.
The case was adjourned,
THEFT OF CLOTHING, Two Chinese were charged with steal-
Mr. G. Haywood appeared for one of
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north of it was Tai territory. Gradual
arises, did South China continue the home pressure from the Chinese on the north led to Tai migrations which peopled Siam and Indo-China. The question
of the Tais "Or did those who did not
never conquered south-western China." it is to be remembered (1) that Chinese move southward become absorbed in the Chinese race? To answer this question
The hordes of Kublai Khan coming from the west, in the thirteenth century, over- later all China, Only then, some six ran Szechwan and Yunnan frst, then
union of south-western China with the hundred years ago, did any effective north, come into the existence. It was the Mongols, not the Chinese, who over- west: (3) the extent of Chinese authority threw the Tai kingdoms of the south- and the number of real Chinese in the south-west is apt to be over-estimated (3) very few foreigners who knewal Chinese, who have visited there can speak to them in their own tongue." was incredible that the accused shouldRevenue Officer Clarke said that on
Recent attempts have been made by tha have walked about Hongkong in broad August 10th, shortly before noon, two
French and others to fix the languages daylight with a box full of incriminat searchers on duty near the Seamen's Home
of these races, with the result that a government commission expressed it as ing documents. He might have sent the stw a sampan lying alongside the Haing & quantity of clothing from No. 29, spoken in French, Siamese, British ar their conclusion that Tai speech, whether box by a coolie, er he might have evening. They noticed the sampan pulling Cook Street on August 15th.
Chinese territory, though written in at disputed ownership of the box The to the shore, and saw that when the two
east four different alphabeta, was essen- accused had assisted the Police in every passengers caught sight of the searchers the defendant.
tially one language. Farther linguistic way, by helping to get the box opened. two parcels, which they had in their ia uniform on the prays they dropped
that the Cantonese also, both in blood and and historical study is sure to declare He asked the Court to accept the evidence hands, into the bottom of the boat. The
in speech, are closer to the Tai of. Siam. of the Sergeant with extreme caution; searchers boarded the sampan and found
to the Chinese of the north. Their enl and Tonkin and Yunnan than they are the two parcels contained opium. it was absolutely untrustworthy.
Mr Agassiz asked that the Magistrate
third of their common speech is common ture is Chinese, but something like a submitted that sufficient doubt had arisen would take into consideration the post-
also to the Tai of Siam. Mr. Freeman to give the accused the benefit of it.
tion of the two accused. The first bad
continues that two, or even four thou- a wife and seven children, and the conse older man escaped through the back and years ago South China was the Mr. Tratnan reminded the Court of quences to them would be very serious if door, while the youth was arrested The home of the Tai: Muang Tai," " Land the accused's statement, made to the second accused, was only a boy, and had caught at West Point. The couple had quite possibly not the Cantonese speech Le was heavily fined or sent to gaol The same evening the older defendant was Police, that the things in the box 56-been probably led to the commission of effected an entry to the house by burst alone, but many other dialects of South of the Free" as the Siamese fondly say. contended that the letter, was really found as was to oftes done in Courty made up of stolen trousers at the time the Police found to be more or less closely related, longed to a friend named Ching He the pilence by someone else. The two ing open the lock with a chisel. The China not usually thought of as Tai (or accused had pleaded guilty, and had not, youthful defendant was wearing a pair Shan as English writers call it) will be. a cock and bull story. The first accused arrested him, sest tag once employed on a was a fisherman, and the second, who was Mr. Haywood said that his client had character, rather than an identity of to it. The fact of a common writtent out of employment,
launch, was now been influenced by the older man. He commen speech, unifies North and West The Magistrate observed that he had Hongkong. He asked the Magistrato to socech, perhaps as wide as Tai speech in was a raw youth who had just come to China, for there is a wide variation in Mr. Tratman pointed out that the
to consider that these men might have deal with the case considerately and in- Bouth China and Indo-China. Tai specch forged labels could be put to so many
been employed by someone else
Mr. Agassiz said the prosecution did offence.
fict a fine, as it was the youth's first and nationality probably is not the key usce that the offence must be regarded as
not press for a heavy fine.
to South China in any degreo an is serious.
The Magistrate fined the accused $1,000 ant to three months' hard labour and mon" written character is wanting, if for Mr. Wood sentenced the older defend Mandarin in the North, because a com The accused was sentenced to sixench with the alternative of three four hours stocks, and fined the second no other reason. All Tai dialects, includ months' hard labour.
months hard labour, remarking that defendant $10, warning him that shoulding Cantonese, can be well representec. (Continued at
ordinarily the fine would have bem he be charged again he would be sent to by either of the two written characters. $2,500
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The Magistrate replied that he was satisfied that the letter was found on the accused
at foot of nezi Column.)
fendants, one of whom waa
Inspector Brazil said that the two de- entered the house at 8.30 am, in the a youth, absence of the occupants and commenced noticed this immediately informed a ransacking two boxes. A little boy who neighbour, who also saw the men at work, He then shouted out "Thief," and the
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