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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 1924
TRAGIC QUIET OF CANTON.
PRESENT STATE OF STRICKEN CITY.
WEDNESDAY'S BATTLE DESCRIBED.
A graphic description of the state, of↑ The Volunteers of Houam, who had affairs existing at Canton after the re-battle, formally surrendered on Thurs pade no attempt to take part in the cent fighting, is given below by a repreday night. sentative of the Daily Press who return. ed from there to the Colony yesterday
aiternoon,
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ALLEGED FRAUD.
THE CHARGES AGAINST TWO SOLICITORS: CLERKS,
The cross-examination of Wong Tak Yin by Mr. E. Davidson took place at the Central Magistracy, yesterday afternoon. when the case in which Cheung Pui Chuen, alias Charles Kent, and Lo Shu Fan, two clerks in the employ of Messrs. Hastings and Hastings and Dennys and Bowley, who were charged on three counts, was continued. ".
During one of the hottest oxchanges wife of Dr. J. E. Harvey, of the Canton of fring on Wednesday, Mrs. Harvey,
It was alleged that they had conspired Hospital, was struck on the weist by together to defraud Wong Tak Yin of bullet. while aboard the 8.8. Kwong Suher property by false representations, lying in the rivers
that Lo Shu Fan was owner of cortain lands in the New Territories and had tonaferred the same into the name of the said Wong Tak Yin and desired to modrtgage the same. The other two counts alleged that the defendants conspired together to induce the complainant by false representations to sign two deeds of sale.
Canton, he says, is a stricken city of destruction and desolation, whose in-,
Our representative visited several of habitants, Müzed and wondering still as the defented Volunteers' barricades up the horrors through which they have pas. the side streets leading to the Bund. The defending forces had obviously been ex ed, are yet beginning to make bewilder-pecting an attack for some time before ed efforts to return to an ordered state of it actually occurred. for the barricades things.
Dr. Sun's forces have established eum. plots command throughout the city, which is now held by them" in strong force. Armed pickets, of anything from five to twenty men. are almost ubiqui- tous, and strong patrols, commanded, by officers, move constantly along the streets in commandeered cars and lorries.
had been carefully constructed of big beams insbed together, -large sand bags, and big blocks of granite. The countless discoloured ridges on the wood and stone, the riddled bags, and pools of dried and showed that, at these paints at least, the evil-smelling blood behind the barricades, fighting must have very fierce.
which was brought on board the Kinshan, I have no confirmation for a rumour just before a sailed, by
辔 Cantonese
official, and was excitedly discussed by By order of Sun Yat Sen looting has the Chinese passengers. This was to the effect that trouble is brewing between been stopped. The supreme commander's Dr. Sun's own Cantoness followers and methods to do this have been of the the Hunanese troops attached to his most rigorous kind. On Thursday, six any, and that fighting between them is imminent. It is, however, a fact that Junaliese saldiers and twenty of Dr. each has a certain antagonism for the "Sun's own Cantonese troops were shot by other. the General's order. for having taken Shops banks, and business boases are Meanwhile, all is quiet in Cantou. part in the looting of shops and houses.apen, and people are taking up their No pillage has occurred since then, ordinary life again. But their furtive zhough up to the execution of this drastic tell that the memory of the terror they look and cowed demeanour Brem ip disciplinary action, it was rife every-have seen will never leave them. where.
The news of the shooting of the twenty six convicted looters was iminediately communicated by unit-commanders of all ranks to their men, and has apparently seted as the strongest possible deterrent.
When landed on
FLEEING FROM, CANTON. CHINESE BOARDING HOUSES DOING
In the last two counts, the defendants. were alleged to have acted in conjunction with Au Hon Fu and Ho Shai Lok
LOCAL SPORT, LEAGUE FOOTBALL.
TO-DAY'S MATCHES.
The following matches is the Hong- kong Lengue are down. For decision to-
day****
Divisional.
Kick-off at 4-43 p.m.. Kowloon . Hongkong Club, Kowloon, F.C. ground. Referee: Mr. Smith; R.A.
Fast Surrey Regt,, . Hongkong Police, South China ground. Referee: Mr. Collins.
South China Br. R.A., Navy "A" ground. Referee: Mr. Bailey.. H.M.S. Tamar ». South China!" & "; Sookunpoo "A" ground. Referee: Mr. F. Smith.
Division II.
Kick off at 3.15 p.m.
St. Joseph's B. Sacred Bract, St. Joseph's ground. Referee: Mr. Smyth "South China Av. Club de Recreio
"A" South China ground. A feree: Mr. Grber.
East Surreys Reserves e. St. Joseph's
“A," Sookumpoo ground. Referee: | Mr. F. Smith Hongkong Club Reserves r. East
Surreys Drums, Hongkong Club ground. Referee: Mr. Ford. University e. Club de Recreio *** B.** Navy"" A" ground. Referee: Mr. Bailey. Kowloon Reserves e, South China "B", ground. Referee:
Mr. M. K. Lo prosecuted and Mr. E. Davidson appeared on behalf of the de- fendants. Mr. H. S. Fitzroy, instructed by Messrs. Lee and Russ, watched the proceedings on behalf of Lo Shup Cheong, the purchaser of certain property in Kowloon "A volved in the case.
Mr. Smith, R.A. Mr. Lo said: Will your Worship allow Worship will remember in my opening on the Railway ground, Kowloon, to-day me to make a statement I think your
The local football derby will be seen of this case the story of the prosecution between the Hongkong F.C. and Row- was that this woman, Wong Tak Yie signed one agreement at the office, and loon FC Both clubs are turning out Was induced to do so by a story their strongest teams and a very good told to her. by her son. It related to property for which Mr. Ho same should be seen. The score will be desired the woman Wong to met on low, as the defance on both sides is very his behalf My attention has been drawn strong With R. Rodger absent from to a newspaper report of the evidence goal for the HK Club, Kowloon should given by Wong Tak Yin. By this report turn the tables on last year's result, and the public and general newspaper renders just get home. Paseo appears to strelig may have arrived at some misunderstand then the Kowloon attack, and with the ing. I want to make it quite clear, as inclusion of H. Wheeler in the hurdu far as the prosecution is onerred, and their middle line will be very ly nothing whatever to do with this case against the H.A. will probably be absent, as far as I know, dir, no bite-
strong. Kaigat who put his knee "out from the beginning to end, and if the
Hola is a respected mein-"
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BIG BUSINESS, Yesterday ily Press representative had a chat with the proprietor of four the Bund, writes large Chinese boarding houses on the our representative, the air was thick Praya Business, our informant indicat with the aerid sinn of sinoke anded, had never been better than at present. sinouldering wood. Numbers of housesAll his boarding houses were full with had been gutted, and their autor walls refugees from Canton. He bad had to stood blackened and gaunt, enclosing aanrn many people away owing to lack of story of the prosecution is believed, thehut Kowloda have a good, reserve back char of fallen rooing and charred accommodation and he knew that the mere use of his name is part of the cob. in Moreton. beams, along which flames still fickered same thing applied to other Chinese piracy. in places.
Un the Garrison ground will be seen a boarding houses in the Colony. He add. ber of the Chinese community and holds fast game which will attract the greatest and women and little children, squatted in the recent serious 6ghting in Canton, Mercantile Book
Chinese of all ages, but chiefly oil marned, however, that he had suffered severely responsible position in the flongkong crowd at the matches on the island this week. The game has been transferred around them, weeping at the sight of his boarding house there, situated close
Mr. Davidson: what had once been their homes,
I am informed that from the Navy A "ground in view of Money-changere shaps had suffered looted by soldiers that business could not have stated in reporting the proceedings
to the Bund, having been so thoroughlygae, if not two of the local newspapers, the large crowd expect
The Police and Surreys on the severely. In the course of a short walk be carried on. rend, the City I saw
of this case, that defendants were clerks South China, ground a dozen or more
"lately" in the employ of my firm. As well contested although the mili which had been fired, one indeed being nothing more than a mass of smoking debris, with a twisted metal signboard yg atop the only indication of the
that had
buin English waking Chinese "zesident
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AMAZING » ESTIMATES, THE VOLUNTEER VERSION......' [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] who create Unton elitizens by. Beds, The destruction of Canton City and the
of Canton told ine that the Chinese Stereunder the order of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, on one of the biggest concerns in the town,
October 15th; as far as figures go, gather
a matter of fact, both men are still em tury: team ployed by my firm. This statement in ferred that the man had been dismissed, and naturally people would think that they had been dismissed as a result of
this case.
will
should be
start "favourites. The Surreys were not very convincing fast week and they badly missed the ser- vices of Eaton. The Police put up a good show against the RA in midweek and should give the shield holders a good run to-day,
had been totally destroyed, involving & ed from various sources, were responsible question stated that her son did not/abould win against South China "B"
loss of $9,000,000. whose premises
Apother business
andoibtedly considerable.
A French officer of Marines, stationed
examined yesterday, and in reply to a Complainant, Wong Tak Yin was cross
On the Navy "A" ground tho R.A.
fur deaths amg aged persons, mostly nothing against him at home, and opening match with the Club last week. gamble, drink or attend feasts, There who made a very poor show in their were looted and burned, was that women, and chile'ren, numbering 4,800 to of M. Sales, a French inerchant. of Yuen 400 and 1,500 to 2,900 shops or offices, she did not know what he did when he Several of the "B" team played in the Cheung Strent. M. Sales total losses wholly or partially ruined; while the was outside. She admitted that sonic-second league match fast week before have not yet been computed but they are to no less than $25,000,000. Exact figures that would no longer be responsible South China and Club de Recreio "A damage to business and property amounts tisements in the newspapers to the effect
time ago his father had inserted adverturning out against the Club.
In the junior games that between the will never be known, and the number of fer his son's debts, but this, she said, teams should be worth watching. Both bomce sacked, persons more or Jess on Skameen, who saw the fighting of the wounded by stray bullets or injured by applied to all his sons and "not to Shai. teams hail good wins last week, the Club 15th inst., told me that his information burning buildings, or in resisting ploting. Lok in particular. He had never applied getting home by six to love and South 23 to the number of casualties among and the outraging of women, while they to her for money. He had a monthly China by seven to two. soldiers and civilians resulting from the are undoubtedly large, may not be as fallowance, and was never in need of A very even game should be seen at fighting and the fires, was approximately large as those given in some vernacular my
Sookunpoo in the junior league and the Surreys erves should be out to re- verse the result of the College team and the "Drums" last week when the Eve civilians got home by the odd goal in
as under:
Volunteers killed
Wounded
Lintonese killed
Wounded
200
1.300 to 100 30
50
Civiliana 'burned to death
killed by falling masonry...... 300 Injured
150
Is is not to be assumed that the city has been practically razed by fire, and that entire streets have been annihilated. There is not the case. In many streets there are several houses either gutted, or partially burnt, the total being consider able; but it must not be supposed that the ruin is es complete as earlier reports suggested.
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MORE DETAILED ACCOUNT.-
A more detailed account of the severo
Press reports.
It appears that only about 400 Reds were shot and 200 seriously and 700 slightly wounded, while some 600 Mer chants Volunters were left to be account- ed for yesterday (17th inst.). Among these, about 50 were given up as dead, 100 wounded, and 150 as having been taken prisoners perhaps by the many Red commanders The number of streets partially or wholly destroyed was 23, according to the latest figures.
Forty squads of unemployed coolies were formed to commit the incendiariem which did so effective a service in the destruction of the most prosperous busi- ness section of Canton, including the Ta- tung, Tang-lung, and the Sup-sam-bong Streets, the Wall Street ton, the home of the action of Cao-
capitalistic
in-
Mr. Lindsell adjourned, the case.
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ANOTHER SNATCHING CASE.
· EUROPEAN LADY ROBBED:
There has been another case of bag; snatching reported to the police. The victim this time in Mins Collison of No.
4 Basilea, Lyttleton Road,
- Miss Collision was walking along Babington Fath on Wednesday when a young Chinese snatched her handbag, which contained money and papers. · The snatcher made good his escape.
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.
L
Up to the evening of October 18th Dr.
The Club Reserves should account for the Surreys Drums on the Club ground, while Kowloon, University and Sacred Heart should take the points in their respective matches.
CRICKET.
INDIAN R.C. D. CIVIL SERVICE C.C.
aétion on the 15th inst. (Wednesday), is terests, the term used by the Beds ago Sun Yat-sen had failed to comply...with Ackbar, R. Nazaria, Y A. Wahab," A. K.
now available.
the native bankers!
The following will represent the Indian Recreation Club 2nd XE in a friendly match against the Civil Service Cricket Club 2nd XI. on the latter's ground at 2.15 p.m. to-day; J. S. A. Currõem, 8. A. R. Ismail, Sirdar Khan (capt), J. S
The earliest shooting broke out at West
By order of the Red authorities in the request of the Canton charitable Ming, A. R. M. Samy, A. Kitchell, B. As Giate at 3 amg and by 4.50 it had ex. Canton, no Cantonese may now possess associations not to put captured Mer- Hamid and I. Hassin. Reserves: S. A tended, with increasing vigour, as far arms, and anyone doing so will be treat-chants Volunteers to death by strangling R. Bux; A. R. Minu and J. Cassumbhoy.
Taiping Maloo. Just before 8 a.m. ed as a rebel against the Red Generalis- and dismembering of their bodies. Some hot light was raging along the West simo Band and Shakee, and it was at about this time that the first incendiary fires
bika uut.
These were the work of the Harbers' Guild, which, like all the other workers'
families of prisonera whose bodies have Masons and carpenters in Canton have been dismembered are now asking that been forbidden to accept service, in the the heads with faces unmutilated be left construction of street gates and other for identification. barriers to their community.
A family of non-combatants at Bhao
MOTOR BOAT PASSENGER
DROWNED..
Guilds, had thrown in their lot with Sun the Canton police the day previous to the Shing Sin Kai, of 14 members, mostly POLICE CONSIDERING CHARGE OF
Yat Sen.
The first house to be set on fire was in Ti The Poo, and the incendiaries quickly set many houses ablaze in the following streets in turn:
Maloo,
Wu To-chen, who regained control" of Canton Massacre, according to a Hua Shang Chung Hui l'an report, is detain ing Mr. Li Long-yu, the outgoing police chief, for his former connection with the
Merchants Volunteers before he becanter
Red several months ago.
women and children, was put out altogether by Reds, when a servant of the family, failing to understand what they were at, offended the looters by keeping the door shut.
MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST
COXSWAIN.
A passenger was drowned in the har- General Liu Chen-huan of the Kwangai bour yesterday afternoon ander such Ti Pat Po, Chong Yuan Fong, Taung
mercenaries, who resigned from the Reds circumstances that the coxswain of the Lan Street. To Tong Street, Sap Sam
Reports have beca heard that Dr. Sun commission & fortnight ago, visited Can-motor-boat in which the passenger was Hong, Yuen Hing Street, and Yat Tak Yat-sen has authorized his Reds in Canton from Hongkong on October 17th in travelling, is likely to be charged with
ton to order a contribution of a sum order to join in the petition to Dr. Sun manslaughter. Fighting in the blazing streets con equal to three months rent from each to refrain from arrcating mothers, sisters, It appears that ten Chinose engaged Linued with bitter intensity on both sides household not destroyed on October 15th and wives of Merchants Volunteers for the motor boat Sun Tak Wa and asked until the evening, when there was a full as a wartax for the still talked-of but having sons, brothers, or wires partici- the coxswain to meet the Shek-ki junk The engagement continued intermittent never-intended Northern Expedition. pating in the recent movement to oppose in the Central Fairway. The coxswain ly, however, throughout the night until,
It is somewhat astonishing when talk taxation and oppression by the Kuomin obliged and on meeting the passenger early on Thursday morning, the Volun- ing to persons who were eye-witnesses to tang Government in Canton.
junk, ho fastened his motor-boat to the teers, having exhausted all their ammani. the Canton Massacre to find that some Practically all the 8,000 barbers in Can-side of the junk and was being towed tito, capitulated. Exhausted parties of of them refer to law are relating on too joined the Red Army recently and along. Nine of the motor-buat passen- ntrained and miserable men dragged to what happened. A refugee thought the incendiarism on October 15th, during gers boarded the junk whilst it was in themselves up to the nearest pickets of that the Russians might be acting law the Red Massacre of Cantonesa, per motion but the tenth in attempting to Dr. Sun's men, before whom they laid fully as instructors about war in the chants, was mostly the set of these people. do likewise missed his footing and fell
lown their arms, mostly carry weapons Soviet Diation school in. Whampoa, the
A Merchant Volunteer, Law Too-ting, into the water hetween the junk and the of ancient pattern in token of surren
of the Shun Yuan Wine Company, Can motor-boat. A search was made for his Bun Yat Sea's forces then occupied the
on, saved his life by offering 86,000 to body but it was not recovered j General Line Hong-chao, & Red com- Merchant Volunteers! Headquarters, and the fight was over,
mander not belonging to the terrorist section:
Military Academy, but they were inter fering with the internal affairs of China. by actually commanding the cadets from Whampoa during the Canton Massacre !
(Continued 'on nézt Column.)
The coxswain is said to be to blame for allowing the passengers in his motor-boat. to board the junk whilst in motion. Página
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