CHRISTMASTIDE.
THE HOLIDAY PROGRAMME. The spirit of Yaletide was very evident yesterday all over the Colony. Shops," hotels, restaurants and other public places were all gaily decorated with streamers, flowers and folinge. "Flower Street" was thronged all day, by people buying flowers and Christmas greenery, and a rich barvest must have been reap "ed by the dower-sellers, w
There, will be long holidays this year, business houses closing down last night, and not re-opening, in many cases until Monday morning.
KING EDWARD HOTEL CARNIVAL
A Christmas Eve Carnival and Cabaret took place in the dining room at the King Edward Hotel Inst night, and the large gathering who attended spent a thorough ly enjoyable time. The room was attrac tively decorated with streamers and fags, and the Empress of Cannula Orchestra provided the music.
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"The entertainment opened with dinner, and afterwards, the cabaret dancing proved very popular. During the ever- ing songs were given by Mr. C. Edg. cumbe, Mr. and Mrs. J. Witchell, Miss Minnio, Mr. A.-G. Pile, Mr. A. and Mr. G. Lee and Mr. Tung (violinist).
CHILDREN'S PARTIES.
The children of the Colony have been having plenty of Christmas parties this weck. In addition to those already re ported there was D large party on H.M.S. Ambrose, and there was one yês- "terday at Wellington Barracks followed by a dance.
TO-DAY'S CHURCH SERVICES. To-day there will be the usual Christ- mas morning services at the various churches,, at which Christmas hymus and carols will be sung. At St. John's Cathedral the collections to-day will be devoted to the Diocesan Boys' and Girls' Schools and Orphanages. At St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, there will be an organ recital and Christmas carol service on Sunday evening. The Patronal Festival is to be celebrated at Cathedral on Sunday
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CHRISTMAS DAY SPORT. There are three cricket matches to-day, which are as under:-
Hongkong C. 7. Army on the Hong kong C.C. ground (two-day match). University 1st XI Royal Navy 1st XI. on the University ground. Indian Recreation Club, Married r. Single, on the I.R.C. ground. At Fanling Golf Course there are special holiday competitions.
The Fanling Hounds meet at Mr. da Silva's bangalow at 10.30 am.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1925
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. [BEFORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR HENRY GOLLAN, "X.C..]
THE MURDER TRIAL The trial of Sing Cheung who is charged with the murder of an Indian constable at Ngau Shi Wan on July 3th was con- tigued yesterday.
Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith (Assistant Crown Soliciter) prosecuted and Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn defended.
INSPECTOR BLOOR EXAMINED, -
At Wednesday's "hearing Inspecto) Bloor, Kowloon City, stated that, the prisoner's son had made a voluntary statement. Mr. Zeitlyn demanded that this statement should be produced.
Yesterday morning the Inspector was again in the witness-box, and the state- meat was produced. Replying to Mr. Zeitlyn, he said that the statement was in his (witness's) handwriting. Questions were put.through an interpreter and the answers as translated were act down. The statement was not signed because it was voluntary.
Witness denied that the questions Fat to the boy were suggestive, but te admitted that the boy was taken out of the cell where he had been locked all day, when he was questioned. He admitted "that he had make a mistake when he had stated at Wednesday's hearing that the boy's mother and, the village school. master visited the boy and talked with him. They had brought food for him only.
Counsel pointed out that several words in the statement had been crossed out,
and witness said that he had done that
THE STATEMENT.
KOWLOON SHOOTING AFFAIR. MEDICAL MISSIONS IN CHINA. HOUSE COOLIE SENT TO PRISON. THE NEED OF A BRITISH GESTURE
OF GENEROSITY. VIEWS OF DR. THOMPSON OF YUNNAN,
At the Kowloqu Magistracy yesterday, Capt. Joll's bouse-boy who was arrested together with two other servants on November 13th, was sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labour, on charges of assembling with others, without lawful excuse, and with being found loitering, there being reasonable suspicions that they had committed or intended to commit a felony.
Defendant' bad been remanded several times pending the trial at the Criminal Sessions of the other two men concerned in shooting at the Police. Those men bave been sentenced to nine months' hard labour this week.
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ALLEGED SHOPLIFTERS.
RUSSIAN WOMEN · AGAJN
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The two Russian women, Daria Samoi- loff. and Tamara Loskooloff, who are charged with the larceny of four rolls of silk, valued at $473, from the Wing On Company, agaiş appeared at the Central Magistracy yesterday...
Mr. CA S. Russ, who has been in- structed for the defence, was unable to and Detective Sergeant be present, Meadows intimated that the defence were asking for a further remand until Monday. The remand was granted and bail was allowed in the sum of $100 each.
prisoner. Further pressed he said that he personally had told the policeman that prisoner was the man who had shot the Indian. He did not see the Indian being passers-by. He agreed that he had told shot; he had only heard of it from tho police magistrate that when the police came frst to him he did not know who had shot the Indian. Further questioned he said that he did not see prisoner from June 2nd to July 20th. Asked whether On his be had said at the Magistracy that he did not remember the date, and that following the wounding of the constable he had seen prisoner in the village, for a few days, he said that he had never said it
Mr. Zeitlyn then read the statement said to have been made by the boy. It stated that the last time he saw his father was on July 7th. His father was » Christian and he was reading his Bible. Next day his father went out to cut wood, and he wept to school. return his mother told him that sonicone had told her that his father had shot an Indian, and was in hiding.
Mr. Zeitlyn, after pointing out that several words and phrases had been crossed out and others substituted re- sumed his cross-examination. admitted that after the boy had make the statement he was again locked in the cell.
Re-examined by Mr. Whyte-Smith, wit. nese said that the boy appeared quite willing to make the statement and "seemed quite happy."
Witness
Hi Lordship: You don't imagine that is any reason for keeping anyone locked up in a police station, do you? Thia completed Inspector cxamination.
SEARCH FOR ACCUSED.
'Bloor's
An Indian Sergeant stated that he went to the village several times and failed to bad defendant. He also went to Saikung where relatives of prisoner lived, and still failed to find prisoner.
THE AFTERNOON HEARING."
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Details of the valuable work carried
on by the Medical Missions in Chins were given at a well attended meeting hold in the Hall of University College, London, last month. Bishop Charala prended, supported by Dr. Gordon Theopson, of the Junaan Mission Field, China; the Rev. Stuart Cox, Lus
And Sir Arthur Phayre. organizing secretary; the Kav. C. C. ingu
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The Chairman referred to the great work accomplished by the Medical Mis ions and anid industrial, evangeltane and educational missions bad all done'; a great part in the conversion of the world. But he ventured to think that no class of mission was so stressful as the Medical Missions Alluding to the remarkable type of men and women who had rendered invaluable service, he said he thought Mrs. Starr ought to have a special place in the hearts of Oxford people (applauso.) "
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Dr. Gordon Thompson, prior to des cribing the hospital work in China, said the position of affairs in China He one was constantly being asked what WLs asked them to realize that there was s a European side. Wa British Chinese side to the question, as well a singled out for the anti-foreign move- ment, and, therefore, it was largely anti- British, because we had had a tremendous hand in the development of China, and because we had a great interest in that The British were perfectly country. within their rights in what they were doing there; wo were doing no more than we were entitled to do according to the various treaties made with China, but most of those treaties were made years ago, and it was time that they should be We were carrying out our revised. obligations to China to the letter, but not in the spirit of Jesus Christ. We wanted to show some magnanimity as we did to we went in the spirit of long service, and South Africa after the Boer War. 11 gave them the gesture of good-will. having their welfare at heart and revised the treaties, we should win China as our friend, and if we won her as such we would be doing a tremendous service. The result of the prosent Conferenco" a Peking would be a recommendation that the old treaties should be revised. The terests in China had put us in this fact that we had such tremendous in position when China wanted to be the The master of her own household difficulty was that we had no settled Government to deal with. Of all the ways to give the gesture of good-will, surely there was none that could equal the medical missionary work. 11 they could go out there in the same spirit and persuade them that they they were there simply to serve them to the best of their power, they would be doing & great thing-(applause) The speaker went on to describe his experiences in the more particularly with fixed hospital interior province of Yunnan, dealing work and the work of the medical schools. He instanced the long journeys which were taken to reach the hospitals, and the pitiable condition in which many arriv ed. Speaking of a bandits raid on a small farm, he said the valuables and three days later the farm was visited money of two brothers were taken, and by another lot of bandits who demanded money.
A Chinese widow of Kowloon City, who said that her husband, Ling Yuk Shan, who died on October 26th was a property and land broker, was the next witness. She had known the prisoner for a long time. She heard about the wounding of the ladian constable, and a month later saw that a reward of $1,000 was offered for his arrest. Prisoner's wife came to see her between the 30th July and 9th house owing to its being mortgaged, and August, because she desired to sell the wished her (witness's) husband to find buyer. On August 20th she went with defendant's wife to see him at Wong Kong Tau, which was in Chinese terri- BOXING DAY EVENTS..
tory. He was staying in the house of a man, who was formerly a teacher in Ngaa Sporting events to-morrow include an-
She told him that the house other meet of the Fanling Hounds at the
Shi Wan. This man used to live with prisoner. had already been sold and he must get
When one brother explained Kennels, Kwanti, at 3.30 p.r when a
Cross-examined by Mr. Zeitlyn, wit back to British territory to sign his name. paper chase will be the attraction; more!
ness said that he knew prisoner. He had She requested him to go to Taipo and that robbers took all only a few days come to the police statica on two occa- be said he dared not go there, because previous, the bandits disbelieved him, golf at Fanling the annual yacht race
fetch pice
and put him over a fire, burning his legs went to to Macao, and football at Happy Valley sion a long time before the Indian was when he
Indian constable'; and proached, and when he could only give at 4 p.m. when Scotland will meet murdered. On one occasion he came to on the hillside at Ngau Shi Wan terribly. The other brother was then ap- He that was why he was at Wong Kong the same explanation his eyes were. Portugal in the Sunday Herald com- report the finding of a plank beletging he shot
to a case in which fuses werc.stored petition. There are five cricket matcher knew defendant so well because he was Tau She later saw him in a board pierced. After a fourteen days journey, a constant visitor to Kowloon City on ing house at Shumchun He then pro- over diicult pdases,, the injured brothers for to-morrow. They are as follows:-
market days. He first visited the primised that he would go to Luwu when arrived at the Medical Missionary Hos Hongkong C.C.. Army on the Hong-soner's native village on the morning of she informed him that his property had pital, where they were treated so success.
kong C.C. ground (continued)
July 8th, the day the constable was shot. been sold for $3,000. He was, however, fully that those men became Christians 1st XI. . Royal
He Kowloon C.C.
started about 6.30 a.m. and it took still dubious, and she told him that he That was the work they were doing, the Artillery on the K.C.C. ground. him about half an hour to reach the need have no fear, since he pould return Touble ministry of the work of Christ
the combination of medical and spiritual Police RC, Footballers v Cricketers, village.
"I then enticed him over the harder work-(applause.) He mentioned that oa the P.R.C. ground.
Mr. Zeitlyn: Then you looked for pria con as he had signed his name. University 2nd XI. v. Kowloon C.C. soner that day, some time before the
news. St.e pickets took him to the journeys to the hospital included: 28 2nd XI. on the University ground. Indian was shot-They reported it be to Lawu on October 2nd," continued wit taking the contro of Yunnan, the various Craigengower C.C., Married t. Single, tween six and severi..
Further questioned, he said that a card boundary and saw him pass over the days from the West, 14 days from the! on the C.C.C. ground. To-morrow a aveial evening for the from a European was received at the railway bridge into British territory. IN.E., 12 days from the East and 55 days Naval and Military men has been ar- police station, and he then started for awaited him near Luwu railway station, from the N.W.
arrived there be whore two policemen were in hiding. I ranged by the Christian Endeavour So Ping Shek village. He are was then told kept him in conversation for a short time, and at a sign from me the two policemen ciety at the Union Church, Kennedy tween seven and eight. Boad, when the programme will include by a man named Yeung Sasg that it was music, entertainments and refreshments. prisoner who had shot the Indian con came up from behind and arrested him. At the Civil Service Club the usual stable, He visited the house but pri He held to the iron work of a stationary not there. He afterwards railway carriage, until he was forced to Christmas Tree will be held, and at soner
visited
matshed which was built over let go. He later went away with them
the peaceably Craigengower there is the customary
of Ping Shek Cross-examined by Mr. Zeitlyn, she sident's Dance, which is always & happy the water some fifty yards away from function. There will be a big astraction sea wall in the locality at the Hongkong Hotel the Boxing village. This matshed was used by de- said that she heard of the wounding of fendant for working the nets while he the Indian constable on July 8th, and Night Carnival.
Mr. Zeitlyn You were anxious to earn was fishing. He (witness) secured a boat heard of the reward a month later. and searcaed the shed, but defendant was not there. Prior to the wounding of the it?-Yes, because he had done something Indian constable he used to sec prisoner against the Government occasionally drawing in his nets He She had known prisoner between 6 and "SUNDAY HERALD CHARITY CUP. -On Boxing Day (to-morrow) on the disagreed that the sets could only be a years, and had never heard that besides
atske fisherman, he being.
Hongkong FC ground, teams represent- worked from inside the hut.
Questioned as to his visit there with working at "fung shui"
Mr. Zeitlyn: You were trying to selling Scotland and Portugual will play in Inspector Bloor and the party, he said that the prisoner's son was asked the his house: I was trying to trick him this competition. Kick-off p.m. whereabouts of his father.
over to hand him over to the Govern- ferme Mr. Smyth Linemen: Messrs.
Ford and Melvor. ment. wife was not questioned. He did not hear the boy say that his father had gone Witness stated that she had walked to Wong Kong Tau, but he did hear him from Wong Kong Tau to Shum Chun, and when Mr. Zeitlyn suggested that it that be say he had gone to Annam.
Yeung Sang, & faberman, living in a would take four hours to cover the dis FELICITOUS MESSAGES EXCHANGED village Dear Ling Shek, the person who remondir she mid I do not know
had told the Indian constable that pri- but I do know that I was lame with walk, Boner was the man who had shot the
ing it.
Pre
At Kowloon, it has been decided to hold a "One Club" competition at Kowloon City Golf Course Players may select any club they choose and the competi tion is to be decided on strokes, less handicap allowance. All cards have to be submitted by 1.p.m, the same day." "On Sunday a drag bunt will be run by the Fanling Hounds, meeting at Mr. Potts Bungalow at 10.30 am.
¿CHRISTMAS GREETING TO THE COLONY.
WITH HULL
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The Rev. Stuart Cox expressed his gratitude to the Master and Fellows of University College for the loan of the hall, and to all thoan workers who were spreading the cause of the Medical Minions in Oxford and the neighbour that in hood He also expressed the hope that progress.
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Bouth China cannot field a representa tive side to day therefore the England v South-Chins game has been postponed. KOWLOON GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP.
In the first round of the Kowloon Golf
W. J. Carroll boat B. Johnson,
Mr. Cecil Indian, was the next witness. He said She denied that any of her evidence Championship: H.E. The Governor, Ciecasati, C.M.G., has received the that he had known defendant between was fallacious, and at this stage the case
and 30 years. He used to see him following Christina wessagy
Mr. Whyte-Smith intimated that there. often, but he did not see him at all after was adjourned until Monday,
were five more witnesses for the prose
Heartiest Christmas greetings and sincere wishes for a prosperous New
the Indian was shot..
Cross-examined, he said that he was
Year-From the City of Hull, Lord also a stake fisherman like prisoner, and cution, and Mr. Zeitlyn said that he had-
Mayor.
to get to his nets he had to pass proven for the defence,
The following reply has been aunt by sonera matahed. He heard of the wound- His Excellency:
Hongkong cordially
THE ATHERLEY CASE
ing of the Indian constable on the mora
It was announced in Court that the iprocates ing of July 8th. A policeman visited him your good wishes for Christmas and the and told him that he was looking for Athorley case could not be taken until
Tuesday nex (Continued on next column.) New Year!
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