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WOPING THEATRE TRAGEDY.
THE CASE FOR THE CROWN.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26TH, 1991.
HOUSEHOLDER ATTACKED.
AN OPEN LETTER.
HOUSE COOLIE ALLEGED TO BE TO UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS OF THE
CONCERNED.
tracy, yesterday two
Before Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Magis
Chinese charged with entering a house in Anton wore Street,
That the Woping Theatre tragedy Das made a great stir amongst the Chinese community was evident from the great crowds that besieged the Magistracy directly it was known that the prelimi Dery magisterial investigation was in Progress. Yesterday afternoon, in spite said that, at 8 o'clock on Wednesday Inspector Blackman, who prosecuted. of heavy rain, great crowds assembled night three men visited Japanese 1 hour before the hearing was, anindy's flat and held, conversation with nounced to begin. Over 300 were necomi the house-boy. modated at the back of the large court
As a result the door was flung open and they entered. and as many were turned away. Many rushed to the room, where the complain They of these remained standing in the courtant, a Japanete tailoress, named Futa Jard, beneath umbrellas, at the long baya, was in her bed, and, while two of afternoon, content to xt re, through the them hold, her down, the third man throw door-ways, at the accused in the dock:
her face. pepper By 4.30 p.m., the evidence for the
little
The WOMAN.
managed to call out to her
STRAITS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
The following interesting open letter tive Council of the Straits Settlements to the unofficial members of the Legisla appears in the Straits Times:- GENTLEMEN,
that was
THE LEIPZIG. TRIALS.
„VIEWS OF AN ENGLISH BARRISTER.
Crown was practically completed, and daughter, who was also in the room, to have thus escaped the critici you on the evidence of British soldiers, |
short session, this afternoon, will conclude this part of the investigation. The defendant has still to be committed, of course, but the fact that a special Criminal sessions has been fixed fon Kooday week to deal with the case, was openly mentioned in court.
Mr. R. E, Lindsell is the presiding Magistrate. Mr. T. M. Hazlarigs (As sistant Crown Solicitor) is conducting the prosecution; Mr. D. J. Lewis defends the accused, and Mr. A. E. Hall holds a watching brief on behalf of the dead actor's family."
blow a police whistle and raise the alarm. The little girl did this and the robbers abandoned the attempt and sought safety in Hight. They scunded down the stairs, but were seen and chased by art Indian reman who heard the police whistle exception of the first defendant The robbers made their escape, with the brought to the Police Station and search. When ed ilns man still retained traces of pepper on his bands. Chinese detectives sent to Anton Street to investigate, reported that they discovered a packet of pepper
and a coil rope.
Blackman said he could not ascribe any In reply to the Magistrate, Inspector, motive for the attempt, except that of theft.
The first day's evidence sought to establish that a man in a white long coat stood at the foot of the stage of the Woping Theatre, at 8.30 o'clock, -on the night of August 18th, fired at an. actor on the stage, and bolted. Three complainant's daughter. She stated that Evidence was given in English by the witnesses spoke to this one, a boy, not she was seized by the neck by two men only spoke to it but acted it. most dramatically-only one of the three, bow-bus succeeded in blowing the police ever, associated the man in the white long cont" with the defendant.
Shin Chan, a detective, is the prin eipal witness for the Crown. He gave evidence, un the second day, that he was in the theatre at the time of the shoot-
ing incident. He saw the face of the man in the white long coat as he ran.
whistle As to the part played by the houseboy in the affair, witness stated watched the struggle but took no active stood on the varandah, and
that he
part in it.
Remarking that the offence was a grave one, Mr. Orme sentenced the elder pri- soner to six months' hard labour and
The Ciril and Müitary Gazelle prints Hallins, an English barrister, who was an interesting article by Mr. Claud presens at the four trials at Leipzig, and who takes a somewhat different view It ennnot perhaps be reckoned af of their results from that whith is most dereliction of duty to betray a trust general outside Germany. In the Erst never reposed in you. nor placo, he points out that the sentences, a personal scandal that when your Cloy-while grotesquely inadequate from the Colony you should join in the spectacle gering from ernor sits and watches, the ruin of this English standpoint, were positively stag- and so it is more in sorrow than in literally unable to see or understand the the Gorman," which 15 anger that I address you.
hideousness of the cruelties brought to The public bul no voice in your light, In the second place Germans Appointment and so has taken little in have been convicted in the German court. terest in your conduct;
that alec which the judges declared to be no less not afford you even a negative satisfac own untionals torates level against their leaders, can- worthy of credence than that of their tion nor that on your
In the third place the will be recorded in the Minutes of your establishes the principle that war crimes
there
fact that the trials have been held Council, with all the traditional senti- render the perpetrators liable to punish- mentality of an epitaph an appreciation ment, at the instance, and in fature by the Government of the iluable ger-possibly, at the hands of the aggrieved vices you have rendered.
astionalities. However this may be, it helpful advicy, you have offered to the Germans would inflict severe panish- Let me not stint, my praise for the obviously foolish to expect that the Government on many occasious and the vast amount of work you have done that the Allies, and no one knew this better ment upon their own.criminals to oblige few of the public ever hear of. But it than Mr. Lloyd George when' be agreed is not necessary to be Legislative Coun- to the arrangement. cillors for this, you or others might well there is a service that only Councillors render these services as public men. But
can render, a service that can render-
A COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY.
service is not the protection of the com- ed by no other body of mea; and that TBADE DEPRESSION IN. THE munity against Government injustice,
STRAITS 18ETTLEMENTS.J which is happily rare; it is not the ex- pression of public opinion, which you are out of touch with; these services are you "alone are empowered to perform. casual Your chiefest function, which which if you leave undone make you
Derfluous encumbrance, is continuously to counteract. by such courage and per- sistence as may well bring you into dia- favour, the evils that flow from perhaps puted to the Government, a vice inherent in its nature and the nature of all Gov. ernments,procrasination.
from the place; it was the defendant. remanded the house-boy in police custody the only vice that can seriously be im-
He saw him divest himself of the coat and throw it down outside the theatre.. weblt fell as though it contained 'something heavy. Once or twice, he nearly pap- tured the man, whom he was pursuing with shouts of Stop running, or I will shoot you dend!' Eventually, at the
·corner of Gilman Street, he got the man; other polier officers came up and the man was overpowered. The witness swore that the defendant was that man, When he arrested the defendant he said to him, "Where is your pistol?" and the defendans said "Over there."
Mr. Lewis objected to the admission of this conversation as evidence, but the Magistrate admitted it, and noted the objection.
On the third day, yesterday, three or
until to-day..
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THE F.M.S! IN 1920. THE CHIEF SECRETARY NO
1920, says:
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This Colony is sinking beneath the im. measurable burden of an unprecedented depression. That the Government should wait, postpone, equivocate, conceal, is deplorable, but to be expected. It is pre. and I know it. And it is your function cisely what a Government does, and you
instanter, when it would postpone; to to urge, when it would wait; to press demand clear and unmistakeable state- ment, when it would equivocate; to thrust your lanterns into its dark corners.
issued, recent y, appoints the following A Government Gazette Extraordinary, sentimen to constitute a Commission to make a full enquiry into the present state of trade depression brought about, in the, main, By the continued depres tion in the rubber industry." and the extension of credit facilities:-The Hon. Mr. Hayes Marriott, Mr. A. E. Badde- ley Hon. Mr. J. W. Campbell, Hon. Mr. Choo Kino Peng, Hon. Mr. Gibbbas, Mr. DH. Hampshire, Hon. Mr. R. C. M. Kindersley, Mr. W. H. Macgregor, Hon. Mr. John Mitchell Hon. Mr. Y Perkins, and the Hon. Mr. J. H. M. its proceedlings. opinion and recommen- The Commission will report Robson.
of appointment. dations within two months from the date
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four officers confirmed this report of lof produczion, and with consequent dis-is traditional and, though unwelcome. article, quotes the Government of India.
what passed between the detective and the defendant, Mr. Lewis still objecting, occurred in the theatre and coming upon A district watchman, hearing what had
the coat in the doorway of the side exit,
the
to
revenue.
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Other witnesses were called to trace the "coat, pistol, bullets, etc., from the theatre. from hand to hand, to the Police world cannot get on without our supplies. this stupendous downfall of the Colony not surprising that Indian: mill-owners;
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ourt, where they were marked and fettered Exhibit A, B, C, D." and so forth. The identity of the deceased man was similarly traced.
To-morrow, with particulars of parades beld for the purpose of establishing the identity of the accused, the magisterial bearing wil be concluded.
The rouble is shown in the earlier para graphs to be that the world's power of consumption has fallen away owing to labour unreat, and other world-wide troubles As soon the world reguins its lost power, it must come to us for our rabber and tin, and it must pay us a price which remunerates us for comply
with its requ
requirements.
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Mr. W. George Maxwell, the Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States, in his annual report on the F.M.S. for brightly The year which had opened so with rubber at a very remunerative price with tin at record figures, and with the Government revenue and treasury bal. Some of you have expressed an em- ances in a highly satisfactory position, phatic difference of opinion on the prin-
A London telegram to India, ated closed amidst gloom rubber at a pricon and depression, with siple of bills; but, as that is welcomed.
average cost it is not courage. Some of you asked August 9th. says:- with rin being bought by questions difficult to answer, but, as that The Manchester Guardian in a leading location of the Government finances, yet expected, it is not great courage; but return of cotton imports into India from trouble is only temporary. The Govern rice of Government, persisted in until attention to a decline in the figures by Though the present situation is acute, the merciless attack against this inherent the United Kingdom for May and calls ment's financial position is strong; its you become regarded first, as a nuisance felt the coat, which was wrapped round normal revenue is in excess of its ex reckoned with, and lastly as the intoler than ever. Referring to the large in-
assets greatly exceed its liabilities; its to be humoured, then as a force to be of the cotton trades is
ance nearly one half. It says that the case now stronger something hard. He stood guard over spenditure upon reverne account: and a able saviours of your Country, this is until the police returned with their pris oner; the something hard was found lean flanted in London would enable us indeed courage. It would, be hard to
crease in the output of Indian mills it to be mauser pistol which had been to provide for our new railways, roads incur blame for ill-success; but a perusal emphasises that they are only taxed
and public buildings from a loan account, recently fired..
of the records of this lamentable chapter upon cloth in the grey, thus increasing instead of, as in the past, from current in the history of this Colony does not the advantage of the nominal 81 per cent. we are strong in the knowledge that the
In regard to rubber and tin, discover even an attempt,
difference between the import and excise And it must never be forgotten that
duties. The paper declares that it is was preventable.
are making enormous profits while the Whether it is a good Lancashire industry is suffering from trial causes, there can be no sort of a er a bad principle to interfere in indus heavy depression and it suggests that if doubt that, had the Government inter Government still maintains that the in- fered, the downfall of the Colony would creased import duty is not protective have been prevented. the incalculable misery averted. An industry may obpect obvious remedy would be for Indian mill but for the purpose of revenue the to interference, but as Councillors vou owners to pay the same tax as Lanen- is
& matter of grave concern to the the industry; and if you say that it is
are concerned with the Colony, not with shire manufacturers. Government that sa little interest has in the past been taken in industries in the terfere in industrial causes, I reply that a bad principle for Governments to in- Federated Malay States. The reason has it is a worse principle for Governments undoubtedly been that the lure of the pro- to sit and watch the downfall of their fita to be made in rubber and tin has peoples until there are no industries left A sub-committee of the Standing Com mittee on Trusts appointed to inquire prise in this country. The present tem- turns of this miserable exhibition, did into costs and profil's in the dyeing porary slump will be of permanent bene- you press continuously? Did you urge finishing, bleaching, and printing trades fit to the country if it turns thoughts into persistently? Did you demand unequi- has been unable to arrive at any definite.
In paragraphs 27 and 33 vocal statements? of this report, I have referred to a few proteat
Did you reign, in conclusion on the questions referred to instances of recent enterprise in local
them in consequence of the failure of the industries. I wish that
Bat though I will not concede that non-representatives of the industries to supply record some instance of enterprise in the will ask you why, if such is your view note that ever the four allied trades taken erprise in the intervention was the proper cours. I adequate information. From such re manufacture of rubber.
turns as were furnished, however, they There seems to be no reason why Malaya should not sup you hare allowed this Government, which represent the ply, not only ite own requirements in the apparently shares it, to take six months 1913 and 1910 by 207 per cent, and that as a whole prices were advanced between United" in a league water-pole match way of manufactured rubber, but those of holding off action for that expression; tomewhat less percentage of against the H.M.S. Tamar, to-day, at
to express it, the industry meanwhile profits in the latter year represented a its Dear neighbours. India, Siam, and why, when the industry is left to its own. 5.15 p.m. sharp-A. E. Simmon; valid reason why all our tin should be of salvation, you allow the Government could be assumed that the poundage or
China
Nor does there seem to be any
of the total Razavet and $ Leonard; E. W. Railton;
resources and formulating its own scheme
turnover of that year than the profits of G. T. May, D. Laing and A. Botelho,
1913 did of the turnover of 1913. ** If it exported to other countries for their tin plate industries. The Far East trade of suddenly to hint that may be it will yardage output of 1819 was the some BA the world flows past, to and fro, through
nevertheless intervene, 50 that even now that 1913, it could be deduced that the Singapore and Penang it carries off our when the ruin is almost complete it is actual profit made was nearly three times tin and rubber; but no local industry or
not known what are the Government's enterpriss has ever yet sought to bring months you have played into the official retained were roughly two and a half
intentions. Through all these
as great in 1919 he in 1913, and that after more of that trade into British Malaya.
Wynducting excess profits duty the profits hands. I do not blame the Government; times as great but no information is for their attitude is precisely what one given as to the comparative turnovers in ALLEGED FALSE DRAFT FOR festation of à disense not occasioned by no definite deduction of the kind can be would anticipate and expect, the, manithe two years in question, and, therefore, their own fault, and in other directions made on the strength of the information they are a good, benign, and honourable given in the returns" tempt to perform your chiefest functions. Government. But you, if you fail to at what good are you?
SPORT.
WATER POLO LEAGUE;
The following are the results of yester turned all thoughts from any other enter to interfere with. And through all the
day's matches:--
V.R.C., 19; 2/Wiltshire, 2. Lusitano, 5; R.GA, 2.
Wood played a good game in goal for new directions. the Wiltshires.
The matches for this evening are
5.15 p.m.-H. M.S; Tamar e. United 'Athletic.
**
22 19
3.45 p.m.-E. M.S. Foxglore v. Lusitano.
The following "will
"SOME FISH."
MANILA'S GAS SUPPLY ALMOST
CUT OFF BY A FISH.
We take the following from the Manila Times of Saturday, August 20th —
The Manila Gas Corporation was on the verge of auspending their entire pro- cess of gaa manufacture Friday after." Doon. And all on account of a fish
846,000,
With apologies to
Singapore, August oth, 1921.
JUNIUS.........
About six weeks ago, saya the Straits Times, & Japanese, named Bideo For several days the corporation had Torigae, presented a draft from Kobe experienced great difficulty in obtaining on the Netherlands Trading Society at So far as this public is concerned, you Water Service, for the operation of their paid over on the man producing his discarded without even the formalities of an adequate water supply from the City Singapore, for 846,000. The money was were appointed, without. ncquiescence, re- tained without approval, and would be boilers, gas cooling system and,
nd, gan passport, and other papers, the bank engines. Friday afternoon, the situation, affitials being quite satisfied as to his regret..
and it was thought, the plant identity, Later on, as the advice of the would have to be shut down, although draft did not reach the local bank, a men from the Metropolitan Water Diseable was sent to the Kobe branch, and trict
were
doing their best to locate the it was ascertained that the draft won a trouble
The large water meter was forgery. The detective station was, in- Fully
formed and as a result of onquiries tested and found to be in good con- the Japanese was arrested, and is being dition; finally the inlet to the meter, charged before Mr. Ball with cheating four inch water main, was disconnected in respect of the draft. and a stokor thrust into the pipe
A number of located the whole trouble a few feet from exhibits will be produced in court in- the end in the form of a four foot fish
cinding a bank draft for it is alleged, mesurements estimated not guaranteed —which was alive and apparently well According to scientific men this fish was of the Aguila (Palau) species. Na tive employer of the gas company esti
This
0.5.K. FREIGHTER" SUNK. OFFICERS AND MEN MISSING
The OSK freighter Shöchu-máru,
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PROFITS.
AMAHS' RING IN MALAYA.
in order to help break the present ring Slump" writes to the Malay Mail:-
keeping up the high prices asked by Chinese amahs I am now applying for Comp at $35 per month with no extráx whatever. I have not yet succeeded in getting one, but, as there must be now a fair number out of work, I think that if all people in need of an amah were to stick to the above' figure from now onwards we might be mutually helpful} to each other in trying to reduce cost Fof Living. If an 'amah's ring why nớt an in amount sent back to Japan as well from Spurabaya. July 9th, with 484 tons on those who, without an amah must {[employer-sing? This may be rather a as a deposit receipt in the accused's, copri and a quantity of sundry goods needs do all the work themselves, but for Oerka, Kob and Yokohama, excdú- hands for a large amount on a bank in inred, o valor on Angst 8th and went it will only be by some such action that Rangoon. It is alleged that Torige was ground off the Lechons (Okinawa Kpm), wages will ever be reduced. I would paning through Singapore, cashed the Fer hull was broken in two. and she welcome any criticism of the figure draft there, and went on to Rummelistely want to the bottom: One Roted abore as 1 kw that at present where he deposited some of the ev man driffd johor but Captain Kendo amaha are getting 245 45 365 per- mònth
mated the market value at approximatelyHe was on his way back to Japan on and 44 officers and men are missipoharbiy day wizce they like
P.10.
“All together, now Some Fian)".
He was arrested at Singapore.
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