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BRITISH TRAFFICKER IN
ARMS SENTENCED, YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE IN SHANGHAI COURT.
«MAXIMUM ·· PENALTY FOR MAN
WIFE DISCHARGED,
THE APPALLING STATE OF EANTON,
SHANGHAI VISITOR'S
IMPRESSIONS.
The following letter appears in the N... Daily Neur of October 23th
"If British subjects, deal in arma in
Si-With reference to the threat this unhappy country, it is an offence no issued by the Sun Yat Sen Administration British Court canor should overlook to convert Canton into a free port if the Customs receipts are not turned over to There is no question in my mind of a
them, and Sun Yat Sen's recent des fine. I sentence you to the maximum patcacs expressing his "indigan.ion *** penalty, which is three months' imprison against the election of Two Kun, to ment. You will further be fined £20,"gether with his declared intention of! leading a punitive expedition against the anid Mr G. W. King at F.M. Police North, these can only be interpreted as Court at Shanghai last week in sentenc poor jokes. ing George Dixon (28), described as a salesman, for dealing in arms contrary to the China Orver in Council of is Emilie Dixon, his wife, a well dressed and attractive young woman aged 23, who stood beside him in the dock, accused of the same offence, was discharged, the Magistrate giving her the benefit of the doubt under the law of coercion.
The firearms, 16 automatic pistols, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition, were pro duced in Court.
Mr. E T. Maitland. Police Prosecutor, anid that information had been received about the accused, who were husband and wife, There was no question but that they were dealing in arms. A Chinese constable was sent to get in touch with them. After several conversations with them the officer managed to purchase for $500 the great number of weapons and the ammunition produced: On his being arrested, the police searched the husband, but not the wife. Something, however had been noticed in her packet. It was a box of ammunition. After the prison ers were taken away from the charge- room at the police station, a coolie found- two revolvers on the floor, near where the woman" bad been standing. Mr. Mait Iand proceeded to point out, with refer- ence to a possible legal point on coercion by a husband, that the woman had not been separated from the mais.
Announcing that he would try the case summarily, the Magistrate pointed out that the question did not as yet arise, but said he thought it very considerate of the prosecution to have mentioned it.
:.. PRISONER A SMALL COG...
Det. Sgt. Knight described a visit paid by him to..155, North Szechuen Road, shop. Dixon was arrested. When the charge was read over to him, and he was duly cautioned, he stated
I have recently returned from a visit to the South, and I can say this much, that not in recent times has such debucte-of-usaladministration been wit
eased in China as bas bean sweeping Canton during the past six months. Busi- ness Hongkong is consequently az a. standstill, and some of the foreign firmas that have branches in Canton are begin- ping to glow them up. In this connec tion, I might add that I have just order- ed my branch to cease operations because taxation, piracy, robbery and government seizures have destroyed the very founda tions of eredith deta
Conditions in the North, bad as they are are infinitely better than they are in the South. The long line of motor boats tied up for the past many months along the Shameen Bund testifies eloquently of banditry almost at the city limits. The foreigners are afraid of budging mor than 10 miles out of the city except on the armed houts running to Hongkong and Macao. The Hongkong-Kowloon Railway has not operated since spring. Conscription of labour, imprisonment of and extortion from citizens and arbitrary assessments have all become commonplace Occurrencies
The question is, How long are we mer- chants going to put up with this carica- ture of a government in that part of China, and how long are we merchants to be duped by the propaganda of this celebrated "Idealistt' The British mar- chants and newspapers show come evid ence of a serious intention to force a show down There is talk of making re- presentations to the Colonial Office, but I wonder whether anything will come of it. And I wonder how much longer other nationals and their friends, many of whom are vitally affected, will continue nerveless, enthralled by the echoes of the ancient refrain about the Southern
patriot."
I admit having taken part in this A Reuter telegram from Casten car transaction, but I am not the principal ried by you and published last week, putg I am but a small cog in a big wheel the situation in Canton mildly. It states: He also said (witness continued) that the that the land inquisition in Canton is principal in the affair was a man named still in progress." This inquisition ". Charlie. Prisoner did not know his simply means that officials now in the other name. Witness then turned to the add in Canton have sent out an onler female accused and asked her if she knew that all property owners must bring Charlie's name and whereabouts forth, their title deeds to their lands, and She replied that she did not know. Dixen there be any titles not dating back was searched at 165, North Szechuen to the Ming Dynasty (ended 650 years Road, where the pistols and a
gov. ammunition | ago) the property is seized by the were taken from him.
ernment and sold to the highest bid- Police-Sgt. Champion gave evidence of ders. This astounding banditry which arresting the woman outside the shop at seizes the very land from under one's about 5.13 p.m. She was wearing a cloak, said the officer, which had two pockets. One of them was very bulky. Witness put-his-band-in-it and found a packet of ammunition!!!
In answer to the accused woman, wit nesa anid she was not holding the um- munition in her hand. The ammunition was in her pocket.
The prisoners elected not to give evi- dente. Dixon stated from the dock that he expected to be convicted, but implored the Court to release his wife, who was absolutely innocent He was a tool of somebody else, and bad entered into the "affair to make a little money, being hard up and out of work. He was not a re- gular dealer in arms
et has andoubtedly relied from the government's" success in selling the public temples some weeks ago and per- mitting the purchasers to demolish them -temples which anywhere else in the world have been cherished and preserved as relics of an ancient and admirable civilization, cold in Canton for the bricks and gilt they wontain:
Law and order have not only ceased at the city limits but are only extant in the city within those districts policed by the Canton Volunteer Corps, in organi zation of shop men and responsiple citizens, numbering some 7.000 and all fully armed. This organization is openly opposed not only to the present govern- The Magistrate intimated that he had ment but to all military bucaneers. From power to fine Dixon, but there would be this body miny grow something some day no question of an option. Passing to the which not only in the South but through doctrine of coercion, by which if a wife out China may revolutionize things. cmitted crime in the presence of her There is the germ of a big idea in it, bushand the law presumed that she acted But the foreigners in Shanghai and in coercion, he recalled the case of Capt. abroad, who cars have so often listened ↑ Peel, who was married to one of the to the "Southern Idealist" tune that Jardine family. He was a swindler. The they can hear nothing else, are doing Magistrate anid he was not tender-heart-little to speed the day. Indeed there are ed or sentimental, but he was inclined to still them in America who support think that the doctrine applied to the the Republicans" and "Constitution. female accused. St
alista" of the South with money while Mrs. Dixon exclaimed that she knew generalissimes and mayors" revel- nothing about the affair. She thought her husband was going to the shop to see some other woman, ja
A well educated woman like her would take no part in a thing like this," her husband went on. She was only married to me a short time ago and likes to accompany me everywhere
THE MAGISTRATE'S CENBURE
Addressing Dixon, the Magistrate said: find you have committed this" crime., It is one that no British Court in Chima can overlook, Trade in arms in China is not a clean game. British subjects are in China enjoying extraterritorial privi- leges. We have an obligation to China If British subjects dealing arms in this unhappy country (as it is to-day) " no British Court can or should overlook the offence.
ling in legalized vice and tyranny which can never be legalized flout foreign treaties as they do foreign and inciden- tally American interests continuously. How long 1 to
This challenge would doubtless be taken up by some of the "Southern Saviour's local driplex If, so, they will have some embarrassing questions to answer and we may get some facts.--I now eto,
AMUSED BUT FED UP Shanghai, October 23rd, 1821.
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE
AT SHANGHAL
A BRITISH
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There is no question in my mind of a
SUBJECT AGCUSED. fine. I sentence you to the maximum penalty, which is three months' imprison- Andrew Taylor White, described as
nent with hard labour. You will further 14 well known in the Far East" was be fined £20, or three months' more im rested at Shanghai last week or a was prisonment.
rant charging him with embezzlement. Turning to the female prisoner, "the The charge against him renda nefol- Magistrate said: birs. Dixon, in your lows: For that be, at Tokyo, Japan, an case, and I trust I am not weak, I feel at Shanghai, on dates between May 7th, that the law of coercion is in your favour. 1973, and October 24th, 1923, being a clerk I give you the benefit of the doubt. You or servant of the Poldi Steel Company may god b
(En ind), Ltd, fraudulently did em An order was made ofiscating the bezzle the sums of £1,000, £500 and Yen arins and ammunition to his Majesty's 1,000 received by him for and in the name Government. Mr Maitland applied, for or account of the said company, contrary payment to the Municipal Council of $500 to the Larceny Act, 1910." When arrest- expended in buying the arms. The co-ed he was released on bail of Tix 5,000, cused man protested that the money had but when he appeared before the Magis come into his hands. He did not know trate the bail, was reduced to Tls. 3,000 how he could do without it. His wife had in two, sureties of Tia: 1,500 each” Two to live. The Magistrate said the Council British subjects later come forward as must bear the cost
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