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SHAMEEN DESERTED BY CHINESE.
INTIMIDATION, BY
GUILDS.
LABOUR
STRIKE PROTEST AGAINST POLICE
AND TRAFFIC REGULATIONS,
On Wednesday all de Chitose employ, ed on the Shamtern-the foreign with ment at Canter-left their employment
THE
OBJECTION TO PHOTOGRAPHS,
We nuderstand that our of the regula- Lons which is especially resented is the Police regulation requiring applicants for passes to be allowed to enter or. leave after 9 pm to furnish three photographs of the person, for whom pasa" is wanted-one to be cancelled by the appliqnet's signature "or chop, and the others for fling**
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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 17TH, 1924
KICKED OUT OF and worst", Cross-examined by Mr. Alahuster, the Witness asserted that the ineffent related i | by him regarding the plaintiff's fight with
the amah was true.
occasion last year she turned up when Mr. Alabaster You say on another you and your hrothers were having tiflin at Wiseman's. Did she ante in anu sok what he was eating!
jumping and singing. The witness; She
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YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
"SEE TAU" OR "SEE TAU POR."
rez is asking the Court to grant prolinte The case in which Rosa de Lima Cotier-
to her as executrix appointed by the will of the late Francisco Maria Gutierrez, inte broker of Hongkong, was continued yesterday in the Supreme Court Before
was howling and She was very at the dictation of the Labour Guide in
his Lordship (the Chief Justice) sitting excited. une Chinese city as a protest against the A length manifesto has invo, published in Probate Jurisdiction. The will is
Witness, in reply to a further ques- tion, said he was aware that the defeu... new police and traffic regulations which denouncing alleged oppression by the being contested by the deceased's thrgedant had to have a special diet of rice. we brought into force on August 1st.
imperialist Powers in several parts children, who claim that the, deceased's Mr. Alabaster: Did you ever tell her it will be recalled that these regula of China, Meuljun, is, made of the Lin-estate he shared equally amongst then the year 1919 that she would be kicked
out of the house --No. Bions were adopted (až. a niveting of the theng oatrager, the foreign gunboat after the death of the said Rosa de Lima ratejuyers of the British Concession befd squadrons in the Yangtse, the Canton Gutierrez.
The French Micipal Customs question and other episodes as on June 30th.
The Ilon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C.. authorities associate themselves with fistrating the oppressive policies of the represents the plaintiff, and Mr. Eldon the - regàlations (and they have been Powers, Great Britain, Japan and Ame-Potter, K.C., appears for the three child, issued as by order of both Municipai rien being swcifically mentioned. There ren of the deceased who are leseribed Councils. At the ratepayers' anesting tois, also a reference to the Shamcey out-
ns the defendants in the case. which reference is made above, H.M.'s rage in connection with which the stygges-
Cross-examined by Mr. Alabaster, Mr. Consul Biegivral (4r. Bertraue Giles) tion that the sulprit was Chinese is re- M. tutierrez, who gave evidence on zention that the tradie regulationsented with indignation. all this being a
the previous day, said it did not know were not drawh up as a result of the prelude to the call to resist the new Sha- whether the deceased left his wife, or recent bond outrage, but, had been moot-meen regulations" by boyentting the for whether she left him. He did not know seri as far back as Abril last, were drawa viguer in the form the beat had if the man Silva took the deceased's wife up in May, and were sent to the Chinese taken. Chamber of Comaterer, who were asked to prepare a munkaan "which should be clear to the less diucated among the
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to Adhi. The son did not tell Him that his mother was in Manila with Silg
Regarding the telephone incident, wit ness repeated what he said in his evidence ir chief and said that he told deceased:
not a man.
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Did you over say to her: 1 wit see that you will be kicked out of the house-I never l
a wardrobe of your own and you will be Did you ever say "You will not have kicked out "2-No.
Did she answer that she would walk out of the gates with her head" first (menning, explained Mr. Alalaster, that she wank he carried cut nà a corpse) - { So, we never had such a conversation.
was no affair of mine.
And that you got quite heated on this
subret and your brother called you into his room!--So, this lacident never 100k place,
INCIDENTS IN TIS SICK-ROOM.
Chinese community." This was dones f. Last night a party of British marines he was ashamed of him and that he wasuga hrother named Gregorio, The
in command of an Officer was despatched
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Witness added that there was a child
Mes. Mary Francis Julyan said she was a cousin of the deceased. She visited the feceased on April 25th, a few days before his death. He was in bed nad there were a number of people present, includ plaintiff asked him for the deceased's
take orders only from his brother. Later he handled the bank books over to de ceased who, in turn, handed them to plaintiff. The plaintiff then asked de ceased: "You give me these books will ugly le replied: "Keep it he opened the wardrobe and put them there.
'aho translation at the request of the
(hitaber, was checked at the Consulate Steamboat night steamer, presumably for
to Canton by the Hongkong and Canton living with the deceased and the plaintif bank books, and he replied that he would Gençoal, a few minor alterations wereguard duties on the Shams.
made, and the Pavised 1stnshation was forwarded on the Chamber and was re-
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At the time of the declaration of the daried in due course to the Municipal strike it appears that there only twe Conigl. These regulations, the Consul foreign guuboats in port-a Japanese and an American. All the British gun „sáid, had ben véry cur-fully drafted by. the uncil and their warding, tel
louds were away on river patrol. These, thought, afforded no grind for contror some of them have lagh re-called and versy and should make it clear that the erg due to reach. Canton Yesterday. sede aith in prosenting them for the ap
INTIMIDATION RIFE.
powa of the ratepayers was.to provide, Methods of intimidation are used as their name implied, for the regula-apparently with considerable success. ties of traffic on Shäumen, which of Even practically all the coolies in the lale years had bevoies Juerencing, heavy employ of the various police authorities and diffenit to handle,
Shameen have cleared uut Chit Though it has been plain that umbragecoolies, whose day it is to collect chits had been taken at these new regulations From the river steamers and deliver them din certain Chinese"eirvies. no representan Shamsen, have refused duty, stating tions had been made to the Shameen that they dare not go on to Sharren. Municipal Authorities against them by LANDING, MEAT SUPPLIES UN any mild he thinkse employees on the Shameed or any other guild, and the gyneral strike of Chinese on the Shameen Wednesday came, derefers in the nature of a surprise.
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SHAMEEN,
When the Langshus arrived in Can the Shameen for the terms of discharg ton yesterday morning, she anchored off ing into wampans an unusually large supply of neat and stores frais the Dairy A. SUDDEN DEVELOPMENT:
Farm Co. for ita branch on Shameen. these stars, in charge of a European It is clear that the rudy was organised Flutcher, also set up from Hongkong by by "the Ladour Guild in the guise of sue same beat, were safely landed on The Society to llesand the Abolition Shameen sal delivered to the Branch. of the Shamon Regulations." Mention
is also made on the Station Employees Geißral Federation -..di
of whome existence nobendy lund ever weard' before. Handbits were ereutated on Wednesday morning to every Chinese mployer on the Shamen saying that This Society to. Demand Abolition of the Shameen Regulations." bad unani. mously decided that all the Chinese
ployees on the Shameen must leave the istand before o'clock up the peeing of July 15th pending a settlement of the
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to information brought own by last night's steamer frosa. Can ton, there is no material change in the situation on the Shameen. The Island
is absolutely bra of Chinese
armed with rifles and bayonets, are now Patrols of European special constable, be ser on the Shamen. The French and British Municipal Councils have arranged for special com mitte to be formed to deal with a
lies, transport. and the opening of a
corumunal kitchen.
made
The Councils have
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Me Alabaster: Do you think it is u very fair thing to suggest to your brother that he should turn her out?
The witness did not appear to under. stand the questions and his Lordship isk ed: Your opinion was that these people from the matter of the telephone incident were living together in sin and that apart you would like to have seen her turned out
Witness agreed.
Later Mr. Alabaster asked: I put it to you that apart from your testamentary relationship with your brother, you were not on very good terms with him?
Witness: was always on good terins with him.
PEIEST'S EVIDENCE.
The Rev. Father Bianchi said he was
a friend of the deceased, having known him for seven or eight years. Ile re membered visiting him when he was first taken seriously ill. He administered the
On the next thay, witness went back to the house. The plaintiff opened the dont and accompanied her to the sick-room. The plaintiff complained that the priest had not turned up and expressed fear that Gregorio had had something to do with it. Father Bianchi arrived later and denied this allegatipu. Witness ask-
the deceased if he had prepared any will and further asked Did you prepare any will for your children The de ceased replied: "Don't you worry. I will leave it to her, and after her death | to divide to my three children.' The. plaintiff was present, as were Father Bianchi and others.
His Lordship: Father Bianchi has not still anything about this.
Mr. Potter No. my Lord; I don't know whether Father Bianchi remembers that. I am quite prepared to have hi re-called.
·last sacmment. Witness asked deceased if he had made his will and the deceased said everything was settled. He told witness that the income of all his pro perty was to go to Miss Rosa Gutierrez and after her death everything was to and just before his death the deceased went to turn her out." I refused to go go to his children. During his last illness
Continuing. witness said the plaintiff sed then caught her by the shoulder and dictated a document which witness sigu ed as witness to the deceased signature. and the plaintiff asked:Have I not got The deceased handed him cheque for authority as mistress of the house? As the shares which were mentioned in the the deceased was very frightened † an document, payable to Messrs. Ellis & Co. | swered :.' Yes." The is no need to fup On the next day he again visited theme out. I will go willingly myself. decensed and found him very much better Father Bianchi then said: “If you con so he handed big back the cheque. sider her mistress I cannot stay here.
Then the deceased caught hold of Father
On the day of his death witness asked
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He said he was willing to pardon his wife regarding the children there was no need to pardon then as he had nothing against them. Speaking about his perty on that occasion the deceased again told him that the income on his property was to go to Miss Rosa Gutierrez and after her death the property was to go to his children.
In reply in his Laniship. Mr. Eldon call the deceased's wife and her son and Potter said that he did not propose to
second daughter as they were in Manila.
"AN "ANGRY, LADY,
The Canton Gorlle geports an inter- view with the Chairman of the Society SOUTH AFRICAN YOUTH GOES TO r of five or six pals plants into larger
zu demand Abolition of the Shanen Regulations," which was holding a meet- ang on the Ten House Labour" Quild's
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"It is not. now I consider her mistress. It was a few years ago.
Cross-examined witness guld there was
nothing said about calling a solicitor.
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Mary Charlotte Hingston, cousin of the deceased, said she was one of those pre- sent at the sick-bed who suggested that the daughter should have a private inter who was present, said an not in need: view with the deceased. The plaintif
of any adviser " and called witness "stupid."
Relating another incident witness" said she once me, the deceased and be said he was not well. She suggested a trip pointing out that he had to keep a lady to sea and he replied he had no money,
to provide for. and after her death he had thede ofildren
EFFECTIVE INTIMIDATION. Like a flock of sheep, all the Chinese on the Shame promptly obeyed the call, as happened on the necasion of the
Another brother of the deceased, "who gcurral strike in Hongkong a few years directions.
an apprat. for help in various was, formerly Hongkong Government go. By 6 o'clock it is calculated that being utilized to transport food, etcy told the Court that for a time he lived Huropean volunters are servant, "And now in receipt of peasion. about 800 Chinese had left their employ from the Band to the Dairy Farm store. ut in the settlement and the desection A shortage of vegetables exists on the Hongkong one a month for his pension
in Macao and "used to journey over to sening to be as complete as it was in Shaqeen, Hongkong. This is explained, of course,
On our accasion bis brother asked him
WHAT THE SERVANT" SAW. Jay the fear that refusal to obey these
to come and stay with him at his house.
Mrs. Louisa Candida said that in 1015 birders would entail
He did s. On the morning following his Son barbaricus punishment.
arrival at the house he went with the she had an interview with Airs. Ratus deceased into the garden and beard him | Gutierrez in Minus when it was suggest-
ed that she should work at the develsen house. arranging with the gardener for the trans-
a salary of $20 a month. The pats. While, the gardener was doing this deceased went to Macao and confiraled the plaintiff came on the scene and asked this arrangement. On the day following, Kenneth Keast, a houth African youth, who gave orders for the transfer of the
she returned' with deceased and as wel rvinists. The interviewer was told that who was described by Mr. Franks, Supe) etsed and Anid the See fru (master). later did not agree to the soils plants. The gardener pointed to the received at The Bird Cage. Plaintiff this is not a strike. but a resignation intendent of Prisons, s a "bag egg, gươn bằng of all the Chinese employers was sentenced to six weeks' imprison-Plaintif said: He is not the Se fair; offered her şa month. At the plainti's
since the Shame authorities exchided ment at the Central Magistracy yesterday he is the Kwai kang (keeper of a bro- special request she stayed on. There
nem frats freely entering and leaving for failing to return to the House of thch. I am the See tin por (ladly of the a cook, but he ran away, when plaintiff the shed-When asked whether they Detention,
house)" (Laughter.) The plaintiff then struck him. Two days after she arrived would eventually return to their work, The Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) | started pulling up the plants, breaking the deccused took ill and Dr. Sousa was. the" directing genius replied * aut "until Lasked if the boy could not be sent back them in ball.
called. The plaintiff treated the deceased The regulations are abolished."**
to his relations in "South Africa. Mr. Mr. Potter: I need hardly ask you this well while the doctor was pecaent, Int The interviewer inquired "how about Franks stated that the Rev. T. E Powell, She was very angry t-Yes.
as soon as he left they had a row. Wit- those who continue to work in Sha of St. John's Cathedral, had repeatedly
ness was not allowed out of the house. meen, and the reply was that they visited the prison to see if anything could
The door was locked, and the plaintiff will be severely dealt with." And the be done for the lad, but Keast was
kept the key ayorage Chinese knows that the Labour always absent, Guild in anti-is a far greater power than the Government.
The strike leader, replying to further. questions, is reported to have said list not only had all the CLinese in tur Shar men joined the movement, but " the
Witness continuing, said the deceased was very quiet and very timid and told me, that he was going to bed and asked me to follow him.
Mr. Potter: He thought that was the safest place. Tsuppose? (More langbter.) Plaintif shortly after this asked witness soda with her. She then asked to be to have a drink and be had a whisky and exused for a moment und went upstairs. taking off her slippers before ascending
her stockinged feet. heard a bang
Witness then
of the Chinese Maritime Customs, retired Captain J. T. Eldridge, Coast Inspector on the 15th inst, on reaching the age of GO years. Capt. Eldridge, who was a son public organisations in Cantoni " had of the Inte . George Jackson Eldridge, done so too. What amount of truth there liritishy Consul-Generul at Beyrout, Syria, in in this last assertion remains yet to
the Naval Training Col- was educated at be seen.
His Lordship: Had the lady her slip Chinese in the employ of foreigners ge, H.M.S. Hrcester, and on complet-
residing on the Shameen-for in- ing his term was commissioned in the era in her hand (Loud-laughter.) stance, the foreign firms on the Band and served with the British India; Steam I found the plaintiff striking the amah Royal Naval Reserve. Subsequently he thought something might have happened. Lis private residences at Tungshon-tre Navigation Co. and in October, 1880, he The amab was on the floor and plaintiff not involved in the strike. They are, at received a coramission in the Royal Indian was on top of her. prenant, working as usual..
"NOTHING TO DISCUSS." Lieut. Col. R. M. Cross, Chairman of the British Municipal Council, is report
Marine. Two years later he joined the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and was appointed to the revenue cruisers,
The witness: I ran patairs as
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His Lordship: Das this got anything to do with it all this little tattle of a house bold?
Mr. Potter: It brings in a vist number conduct of a certain persau of easer to establish certain course of It is very dilleult to get direct evidence that a céf
in person signed certain documents and to show to the Judge or jury that they conduct of the plaintiff was such that the deceased was entirely dominated by her and to show whether or not her will wa his will.
His Lord: Well, I have half a page of notes and there has been nothing so far. Mr. Potter, after further argument said: If your Lordship thinks it is not admis- sable I won't go may further with it.
His Lordship: I don't say that; af 1 want you to do is to use a little discretion about it.
beating the amal?
Mr. Putter: Did she say why she was
reaching the rank of Commander in 1890.amah talking to the deceased.
The witness: She said she caught the in 1699 he was made Assistant Harbour ed by the Canton Gazette as saying in Master at Shanghai, in 1901 Deputy advisable for me not to stay. I told my continual rows in the house and after
Witness: After this I thought it was Continuing, witness said there were tim court of an interview. that the Const Inspector, and since 1915 he has brother I had better leave, so I left by three weeks stay she decided to leave Council had recaived no demands from been head of the office. Capt. Eldridge, Monday's boat. the guilds or any guild, and had nothing as is well known, has done valuable work to discuss until the strikers stated what and has a long list of Chinese decorn-nouncing that this closed that particular ing Mr. Potter, intimating that he had The Court then rose, Counsel an- The case was adjourned to this morn- particular "regulations, they object to. tions.
incident,
without asking for her pay.
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