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THE HONGKONG-CANTON SITUATION.
POSITION EASIER. IMPROVEMENT IN THE RIVER
TRAFFIC.
During the past few days the position as regards the river traffe besworn Canton and Hongkong has been easier and, considerable improvement has been
anted.
Passengers are now travelling without hindrance or interference as, the part of; strike pickets.
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Travellers to Lanton now experience no difficulty on arrival in obtaining facilities for landing. Until quite re cently it was practically impossible to -procure sarapans in order to land, except by paying exhorbitant squeeze." Now the sampan people appear to be willing torisk any displeasure of the strike pickets and convey passengers from the steamers to the shore without demur and at a more or less legal fare for transit. Further, the extraction of "squeeze" on their part appears to have vanished.
Further, it is satisfactory to note that the steamers have for the last two or three days been bringing a larger number of passengers to Hongkong from Canton than they have done since the strike began. Many of these travellers include strikers" anxious to return to work, and there appears every reason to expect 2 daily increase in passenger traffic.
Another encouraging indication of im provement in the position in connection with the Hongkong-Canton river service is that not only are the pickets refrain- ing from interfering with passengers ar- riving at Canton by the steamers, but: They have now ceased to molest people wishing to embark for Hongkong.
No passengers are now being over- carried, as had been the cass up to the last few days. So far the Honam has shown the largest increase in the number of travellers brought here from Canton. This week she has carried a great number than in any week since the trouble began. The Fatshun, also, continues to maintain a fair average both on the up and down
run.
THE DELEGATES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY.
́JAPANESE DELEGATES IN
HONGKONG.
TO STUDY SOUTH CHINA CONDITIONS.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (STA HENRY GOLLAN).].
A SERIES OF RUBBERIES The Criminal Sessions, opened yester
Arriving in the Colony by the sa docea Mare yesterday afternoon was a day Party of six Japanese delegates, accpta- panied by a secretary. They have come for the purpose of obtaining an insight into the conditions prevailing in South China:
They were welcomeil on arrival by the Japanese Consul-General (Mr. S. Taka hashi).
A Chinese, named Mok Kan was ar raigned on three counts of larceny, and with having returned from banishment without permission.
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. H. K. Holmes), outlining the case, said that defendant's first victim was a person re- siding at the Chinese V.M.C.A. in Bridges Street. On the 14th September The delegates travelled to Hongkong while he was out, defendant, asked for from Japan in Formosa, Amoy and him, and was taken to his room and left
watow. It was learned on enquiry "yes"
and left. Arrested on October 5th he ad terday, that their intention is to visit there. He packed up all be could and Canton, if conditions are favourable totted to the polies that he had stolen this being done, so that they may study the articles, and that he had taken them to several pawnshops, at which establish- on the spot conditions in that City. No definite arrangements, however, had been ments most of the stolen property was made up to yesterday afternoon. The recovered. members of the delegation were to be entertained at a Chinese restaurant last Right by the members of the Japanese community in Hongkong, and it was pected that deânite decisions regarding the Canton trip would be formed after this opportunity had been taken of learn-
local views on the subject. It was indicated, however, that no conference with the Chinese authorities at Canton had been contemplated by the delegation,
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NOVEMBER 20гu 1925
Replying to Me. Fitzroy, he said that the sosper belonged to his master. When prisoner met the decenied they began quarrelling, and he moved away. When he was about ten shops away, he heard the old man' cry out. Save life," and saw prisoner stab him. Aakeď as to why he ran away when he had done
could not find prisoner. nothing wrong, witness said that he was afraid the Police would airest him if they
Mr. Fitzroy: Why did you"not run back and help the old mant
Witness: I was afraid and in I can
AWAT.
At this stage, the bearing was adjournçıl until to-day.
UKPORE TICE PUIENE JUDOX (MR. JUSTICE WOOD).] CHINESE MERCHANT CHARGED WITH FORGERY. Wong Man Wai, a well known Chinese merchant, and described as a managing" partner in the Ka Leung Bank, appear Continuing, Mr. Holmes said, thated on charges of forgery. There were in prisoner had also pleaded guilty to the all-four charges, to all of which the second charge. On September 14th he necused pleaded guilty. The fourth entered a dwelling house in the Colony, charge was with uttering a forged, docu- and stole a jacket, a pair of links. a ment, amely a letter, to the Hongkong Electric Company, Ltd., purporting to be signed by Wong Chik Cho, requësting fountain pen, and 33 in money.
them to send all outstanding dividend warrants belonging to Wong Chik Cho to him care of Messrs. Moxon and Taylor: This charge alone was taken up.
AN INGENIOUS KUSE
On October 3rd he stole three trunks and a basket, some baggage, owned by a Japanese, had been sent down to the praya to be put on board .a sampan. There was no sampan available at the time, and the baggage, therefore, was left on the praya in charge of a weman, FORTHCOMING RECITAL AT THE Defendant accosted her with the request
A PIANO PRODIGY.
CITY HALL
Mischa Wigdorcik, who is only six years of age, will give a pianoforte recital at the City Hall on Monday next. He will offer examples of the work of Beethoven, Bargmuller and Kublan and those who have heard this youngster play promise musical treat. Mischa Lévitzky, who was recently in Hongkong, spoke very. highly of his ability and forecasted a very brilliant future for him.
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Mr. S. Collett and Mr. H. Edvic Gardner, will contribute songs to the programme. Tickets for the concert may he obtained at Anderson's.
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that she should go to the Post Office to buy some stamps for him. She replied that she had charge of the baggage, and he said he would look after it until she returned. "Atter a little persuasion she On her return acceded to his request. she found that four of the ive packages were missing, defendant baving got away with them in quick time.
With regard to the fourth charge of having returned from banishment, Mr. Holmes said that accused was banish for ten years on June 18th, 1995 Pris oned admitted that he was a banisher, but pleaded that he needed money, and Bought an opportunity to earn some.
On the first chargs he was sentenced to five years hard labour; on the second and third to 18 months; and on the fourth charge to two years hard labour, all the sentences to run concurrently..
AN OLD MAN'S DEATH Chuen Hi, n-young Chinese painter, was charged with the murder of an old man, tamed Ha Wo, at Tai Kok Tsui on September 20th...
Sir Henry Pollack, K.C. (the Attorney-" General) instructed by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, prosecuted for the Crown, and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, defended.
De-
The Attorney-General said that defend- ant was a friend of a man who had many aliases. This man was now dead.. fondant had advanced various sums of
There money to deceased's family, amounting in all to about 800,000 or 260,000. was some delay in taking out letters of been entrusted to defendant by the administration, which seemed to have family, and he was given possession of certain scrip which belonged to the de-
censed.
Without going into detail, he could say that he was satisfied on behalf of tention of either defrauding the family the Crown, that defendant had no in- or the revenue. Had he thought there was any intention to defraud, he would have considered it his duty to proceed to charge him on all counts.
Defendant
THE ITALIAN OPERÁ CO.. This afternoon, the, representatives of
The Italian Opern Co. were unable to the four leading Chinese Commercial Guilds of Canton are expected to arrive present La Boheme" at the Theatre for a conference between them and the Royal last night, owing to Mme. Laura Hongkong Chambers of Commerce and being indisposed. This was to have beco leading local merchants to consider the Mme. Laura's benefit right.
This evering they will present "La posibilities of re-establishing normal
and Toach with Signorina Lydn Betti trade relations between Canton Hongkong The delegates number 16 in the title role.. This is probably and will be representative of Canton's Signorina Betti's most successful part and the one in which she has achieved her commercial interests, and include two re
greatest.triumph. In the dramatic second presentatives from the strike executive.
Act, where she kills the Chief of Police who has made her honour the price of her lover's release from torture, she plays with a realism that can be equalled by only a few of the leading operatic singers And then her beautiful reader ing of the pathetic lament "Vissi d'arte " is worth going a long way to bear, Last, another painter, he was painting asked His Lordship to inflict a fine that
THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SOUTH. ANTI-REDS GROWING TIRED OF
FIGHTING.
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
A Red communiqué regarding the proevening the Company gave La Boheme gress of the Kuomintang army in the да a benefit for Mme. Amelia Laura. southern districts of Kwangtung, reports This
evening's performance will be the surrender of two brigades formerly Signorina Lyda Betti's "benefit." serving under General Chan Ewing Ming.
The commanders of these two brigades,
with the men under them, will be incor. ELDERLY CHINESE ASSAULTED
INDIAN CONSTABLE SENT TO PRISON.
porated in the Red army. The cont «muniqué adds that, according to the the opinion. of Chen Meng' Shu, divisional commander in charge of the
For misconducting himself as a Police Southern Kwangtung campaign, the anti- Reds are not showing any sign of a fight officer, and for assaulting an elderly Chinese at No. 112, Aplui Street, Shati thinks the military ing spirit. He.
Shai Po, on the night of the 18th inst., operations will come to an end shortly.
an Indian constable charged before Mr. E: W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday, was fined $25, or month's imprisonment on the first charge, and on the second was sentenced to two months' imprisoninent with hard labour. constable entered the house in Aplui Street saying that he was searching for opium, and when an old Chinese raised an objection the constable struck the man on the bead with a stick. The house was not on the Indian's beat.
OIL SUPPLIES IN WUCHOW. Residents of Wuchow are complaining about the oil monopoly established by the Kuomintang. There is a considerable shortage of oil fuel, and the Kuomintang cannot get supplies with the result that many motor, boats are now unable to operate.
was, in fact, acting more or less an ad ministrator of the estate of deceased. With regard to the revenue charges due, all the money had been paid on the state, including the penalty of $1,000 mentioned in the Ordinance. The total July 8th the accused wrote a letter in the amount paid was $18,000. On or about Sir Henry Pollock, K.C. (instructed by came of the dead man, to the Hongkong! Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith), conducted the Electric Company, requesting the Com case for the Crown, and Mr. Somerset pagy to send him, c/o Messrs. Moxon and Fitzroy (instructed by Mr. G. R. Hay-Taylor, all the outstanding dividend war- rants belonging to the deceased. He wood) defended."
knew that he was acking the Company to pay these dividends as being due to the dead man, and that he had no right to send this letter to the Company, and signing it with the dead man's name.
in conclusion, Sir Henry said that under the circumstances, and in view of the opinion he had formed, he thought the case would be met by a fine, but would be substantial.
The Attorney-General said that prisoner was arraigned on a charge of having murdered as old man, at Tai Kok Tsui on September 20th. The main facts of the case would be gathered from the evidence of two witnesses for the pro- secution. The accused was a painter at the Chung Ki shop in Sham Shui Po, and on September 19th accompanied by Man
house at Tai Kok Tsui. Man Po had a
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, for the defence, said scraper, which he placed on the ground. and a few minutes later it had disap-that the Electric Co. shares had been pearod. He mentioned pis loss to pri- collected for the purpose of handing them boner, who said that a blind man over to the dead man's wile. The de- had just passed and he probably took it. tendunt had been a strong and staunch The man referred to was nicknamed benefactor of the family. He took con → blind man,
because he used to lead trol of the authority of the dead man's around a blind boy. They found the wife, who was a resident in Canton. **blind man," and prisoner searched him, Mr. Jenkin objected to the Gne being a But found nothing Prisoner then sug-heavy one, because his client had no in- tention of defrauding either the revenue gested to Man Po, that the "blind man Light have given the scraper to an old or the family
Mr. Justice Wood," addressing defend man, tamed Ha Wo. Man Po suggested that no more should be said about it, but ant, that he had pleaded guilty to a very prisoner held that the scraper should be serious charge. He had sent a letter in recovered On the evening of September the name of his dend friend, and that 20th, after having their evening meal, was deliberate iraad? If such a prac prisoner and Man. Po went for a walks tice were allowed to go unpunished, busi- to Tai Kok Tsui, and there met the old ness confidence would be damaged in the Such an offence rendered him map. Frisoner requested him to return Colony.
The evidence was to the effect that thegled to the shop, where Maa To bad el, but he wished him to know, and wish-
SWATOW CUSTOMS.
the scraper, the possession of which the able to three years' imprisonment. The old man denied. A quarrel arone, and learned Attorney-General, however, had the prisoner produced a knife and stabbed requested that the full penalty should and then ran away. The old man not be imposed. A fine would be impos "Tun. Man Po then got frightened and ed it generally to be known, that in im also ran away. He went to a place at posing a fine of this kind, the Court was East Point, and was later joined by the not limited in any way. The fine which prisouet. Ip the house at East Point, he was going to impose might be con another employee of the arm was staying.sidered by some people to be a light Prisoner told him that he had stabbed an fine. but he reminded defendant that. under different circumstances, the no old man.
would have been considerably heavier."
A fine of $750 was imposed.
TROHASTLY WOUND.
The Attorney-General said the medical evidence would show that deceased on being admitted to the Kwong Wah Hos- pital was suffering from a stab wound in the lower right portion of the abdomen,
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SUPERSTITION AND REPUBLICANISM Kuomintang clubs are being formed in 4 good many villages and the red flag is being prominently displayed, but it is interesting to note that the club mem- bera cannot gaat aside their old super-
ROBBER WHO TOOK FRIGHT. stitions: even when embracing the most REDS NOT TO TAKE THEM OVER. up-to-date forms of Republicaniam. A
A Chinese, charged with having par- On enquiry at the Naval Secretary's club as recently organised at Taotong in the Hoiping, district but the members office yesterday morning, a Daily Press insisted upon slaughtering a rooster in reporter was informed that there was no and that three feet of intestines were ticipated in an armed robbery at a house the old fashioned style before swearing truth in the rumour that the Reds bad, protruding, the wound having perforated in Sai Wan Ho,- small village east of allegiance to the party of the late Dr. or were about to take over the Chinese- the abdomen. The doctor at the Govern Tuikoo Docks, on September 25th, was Sun Yat Ben. After the rooster had been Maritime Customs at Swatow. No furent Civil Hospital, whence defendant found guilty, and sentenced to five years' killed with all the ancient rites the re- ther incidents of any kind had been was removed after being attended to at hard labour.
the Kwong Wah, would state that the Mr. H. K Holmes conducted the case mainder of the programme was carried reported.
wound was caused by a sharp narrow for the Crown through satisfactorily including a theat
instrument. On September 21st deceased Prisoner, was arrested after evading & rical performance to which the villagers
bad peritonitis, and died next day police searcher, who wounded him with WITNESS WHO WAS AMD revolver shots. He, however, got away, and was later discovered in a matshed Mas Po's story was outlined by hiding under some dry grass counsel. He saw prisoner stab the old A woman residing in the house, which, man, and became so frightened that he had been the scene of the robbery, isid bolted, and when the wounded man came that prisoner was accompanied by three to the shop he bufried away to Fast Point. other men. She identified him as the
taken cinge from her and gagged her Next day he did not go to work, but robber, who, nemed with dagger had prisoner went
for miles around were invited.
CROP PROSPECTS.
WEATHER REPORT
The drought in Northern Kwantung is The Royal Observatory issued the fast destroying the young crops, accord following report al 4.05 last evening ing to reports reaching Canton. It is The anticyclone over China has increased A fresh monsoon considered that the farmers will be 'ex-slightly in intensity. tremely fortunate now if they are able to will continue along the Const and over gather in ally per cent of the harvest the Northern Chins Sen. Local forecast:
N.E. winds fresh cloudy drizzle or mist. that was expected a short while ago.
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