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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1926
"DISAGREEMENTS AT CANTON. PUBLIC CHARITY IN CANTON.
DR. WU AGAIN THE "MEDIATOR."
(TROX OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. J. Through the mediation of Dr. C. C. Wa, acting Mayor al Canton, and upon the advice of General Tan Yen Kai of the and Corps and General Chu Pei Tch of the 3rd Corps, General Li Tsai Sum of the 4th Corps of the Kuomintang Army,
ANOTHER GOVERNMENT
MONOPOLY!!!
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. } The Kuomintang Board of Charity in Canton, organized recently to take all charitable institutions in the City under their direct supervision and management,
THE BANK LOAN CASE. CHIEF JUSTICE ON BANK MAN- AGER'S EXTRAORDINARY
BUSINESS."
CASE AGAIN ADJOURNED. The ease in which Messrs. Moxon & Taylor are suing the Man Chuet Bank for the recovery of $37,000 alleged to have been lent to the bank through
MORE TOURISTS.
RESOLUTE DEPARTS AND
"LACONIA " ARRIVES.
Wretched weather yesterday again marred the programme of the tourists on the s. Rerolate during their last day in Hongkong, and few ventured beyond the Hongkong Hotel and the central shopping district.
The Resolute left Hongkong last eveni
has finally consented to issue a formal has issued an order prohibiting persons of Messra. G. P. & H. A. Lammert, was ing to resume her cruise, and took a few! statement denying that neither he nor organizations from seleiting funds for continued before the. Chief Justice, Sir passengers from Hongkong for Manila... his subordinates have been in any way charitable or educational purposes in the Henry Gollan, in the Supreme Court responsible for the recent attack by circity without its permission. The Govern-yesterday.
culars and other literature, on General ment Chiang Kai Shek, Inspector-Cieperal and until lately Commander of the 1st Corps, of the Kuomintang Army in Canton.
has also ordered that persons
soliciting fands for purposes however worthy must not approach officials of the Government who are now forbidden to contribute towards charity.
BANDITRY IN KWANGTUNG. 60 CAPTIVES REPORTED TO
Mr. Eldon Potter; K.C. (instructed by Messrs. Johnson, Stokes & Master), appeared for Messrs. Moxon & Taylor, and the defendant bank was represented by Mr. F. C. Jeokin (instructed by
Messrs. Lee & Russ).
Mr. Tsang Chun Son, the manager of the defendant bank, was further cross- examined by Mr. Eldon Potter..
Before the Resolute loft yesterday un- other around-the-world tourist vessel had arrived in part, this being the Cunarder s.s, Lacoste, which is now on her third trip around the world, and will have steamed over 30,000 miles when she com- pietes this voyage.
The Laconia arrived early yesterday morning and brought over 600 tourists, so that during part of yesterday there were some 000 visitors in the Colony.fin- cluding the 300 tourists on the Resolute).
The statement of tieneral Tá has been expected for some time but it was not made until March 15th, before which date Mr. Wang Ching Wei, chairman of the Kuomintang. ou behalf of the Canton Jegime, informally correled to General Li certain powers and rights. These in- cluded that all the revenue derived from the districts along the West River and the Territories of the lower eight prefectures of Southern Kwangtung" and the island of Mainan should be under the constel and direction of General, Li, who is netually war lord in these places because of his military occupation; that all politica! and for ransom which was not forthcoming they never informed him that it was a 150 of the Laennin's passengers Went up
financial officials to be appointed to these places were subject to the recommenda
General Li: that' tion, and Concurrence
HAVE BEEN SHOT.. FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] Reports from Fatkong. "North River, say that the "Reds," or bandits under the guise of Helshevists there, recently shot down 60 captives whom they had held
The place of this outrage is but a few miles from Yingtak City.
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General Li's appointment to the post of
RUSSIANS IN GOVERNMENT Chief of Staff should not mean that be was to be automatically removed front his SERVICE IN CANTON.
* ?। 1st of commander of the 1th Corps: that
FROM DE CUINESE CORRESPONDENT.) all staff and line officers as well, as political advisers under him in the th
With the absence of M. Borquin. High Torps should be appointed only with the adviser: 1. Seminoff. "Naval Command- consent of General Li: and that the flainan Coast Fleet should he part of ant: and other Russiars from Canton. the 4th Corps under the direction of there are left but a little more than 30 Russians in the Kuomintang Government General Li and outside the sphere of in fluence of the Kuomintang Naval Bureau.
service excluding members of the Soviet This concession is regarded by those Consulate and Third International pro Chinese who understand local politics, as a girat victory for the tight, or anti-Red Fagandists and other agents who are not Section, of the Kuomintang, since it indirectly in Kuomintang cployment sures for the moderate members of the There are now about six Russians serving late Dr. Sun Yat Sen's faction in Southas experts in the Aviation Burgau, four Chiza i territory in which to conduct in the service of the Navy, three as pru- their activities.
How long this armistice between "the Left and the Right Wings of the Komin tang will endure remains to be seen. In the meantime, both M. Borodin, Soviet High Commissioner to South China and adviser to the Kuomintang. and Mr. Hu
fessors in the Central Politico-Military Academy at Whampoa,' and others scnt- tered in different army units as experts
or advisers.
"
There are other Russians in Canton, Ian Mlin, nominaily the Foreign Minister including a large number of women con. at Canton and Ambassador to Mosnected with the dance halls and restau ew, each heading a separate faction in Pants along Taiping Road and the Bund the Kuomintang, are racing back to the last they are only here as private Southern Capital, ad are expected to residents. reach Canton about the end of this month.
neral Chiang Kai Shek, who is de serified as feeling strengthened since hearing of the early return of 3. Barodin
for whom he had despatched urgent
CANTON JUSTICE.”
He said that he sold the 200 Wharves at a sacrifice in order to meet an urgent need of the bank. He reiterated that there had never been mention of a loan, and be regarded what passed on June 5th as a promise by Lammerts to give hin the money, Questioned with regard to the letter he had signed stating that the transaction wna a loan, witness said Joan. He gave the same reply in answer to a similar question by His Lordship.
Mr. Potter Why didn't you press them for repayment -They said, that the Sugar shares which I held ng security had gone down. I did press thein for payment, but they could not pay
Replying to another question, witness said he could not understand it.
#18 LORSHIP'S COMMENT.
His Lordship remarked that he did not think that witness was doing justice to himsell. He was not a banker himself but it seemed to him that it was an extra ordinary way of doing business, and quite frankly it seemed incredible to him.
As in the case of the Resolute tourists, the Zacomin passengers were prevented from enjoyment or aight-acting by the incessant drizzle which enshrouded the Peak in fog and haze up to tiffin time, giving place to a downpour in the after- noon.
Despite the inclemency of the weather
to Macao by the morning river steamer, but the majority had the day free and were left to their own resources.
It is interesting to note that the Hong- kong Hotel served no fewer than 760 extra tiffins, in spite of the lack of de commodation.
Amongst the prominent people on board the Laconia are Governor Osborne, of Iowa. Colonel Daniels, "who is reputed. to be a millionaire forty times over and a prominent American banker, Mr. Pugsley, who is accompanied by a party of ten, including his son, Mr. Chester Pugsley, a lawyer of international te
pute.
The Laconia tourists form one of the annual world touring parties of Mr. ME Potter: You had already entered Frank Clark, and for purposes of cop
order that the ground can be adequately Sugars; you had bought 200 from Lincovered. Alternately, the groups will into a number of commitments for Chinavenience are split into three groups in inerts at 727-15 that in my pame or in visit the Peak, Macao, Repulse Bay, and will make the trip round the New Ter-
# the name of the lank!
ritories.
The Laconia remains in port until Saturday and on Monday evening or Tuesday morning her place will be taken by another Cunard around-the-world liner, the s.s. Franconid, which is bring- Mr. Potier: All matters whether, theying over 400 tourists. are yours personally or for the bark are
His Lordship: This is the first speciño detail of any other transaction I have heard of. 1 am only dealing with the transactions of the bank.
The Hongkong Hotel is making all the Arrangements for the entertainment of in your name are they not-No there the Laconia's passengers, and today the I gave instructions to trips which could not be carried out is a difference. the bank's transactions under separatomenecu.. Chan Wing Fook, to put my own and yesterday by the tourists will be com
accounts.
That was not done -1 don't know whether he carried out my instructions
ATTEMPT TO ROB A.P.C.
INSTALLATION..
You sold 200 Wharves at $188 Why THE INCIDENT AT NORTH POINT did you sell them at two points below market quotation By selling them, 1 could get money for some more profitable business.
dollars:
The hearing of the case concerning a daring plot to rob the Asiatic Petroleum You wanted money badly then, since Company was continued at the Central FROM OUR CHINESE CURRÈSİONDENT. }.
you were prepared to part with these Magistraes yesterday before Mr. R. E. After having been kept in irons since shares at two points below the rate? Lindsell when a Chinese employee of the to the charge preferred against him of rasages since General Li's alleged ci- August 20th last, under suspicion of being There is not a great difference in two Company appeared on remand in answer culars attacking, in fact, the Reds as implicated in the assassination of Liao, You really say that as a banker Du being concerned in an attempt to steal
Point Installation of the a.P.C. whole more than himself personally-has Chung Hui, a Kuomintang Inbour leader, you really mean it-I got money for six tons of crude oil from the North
other husiness by doing it.
Evidence giren at the previous hear- determined to employ drästie measures to Mr. Chin Sze Wai, formerly of New York |
You had to pay 830,000 to the Dutch count out all opponents to himself nu histy, was on March 15th found to he Bank at the time --Yes, on June 5th 1ing showed that at about 1.45 am. on politico-military elique. For this pur innocent by the Special Prosecuting did not have the money.
to prosecute pose a new military tribunal is to be Attorney who decided not errated, nominally to try all enlisted men him. Mr. Chiu, however, has not been vigating army regulations and promoting released, as his friends expected. He is sedition. This new military tribunal bas to be turned over to the District Prescent Seen empowered to pass death sentences ing Attorney to be tried on a charge of o civilians as well when found guilty of extortion on' evidence which it is stated espionage. This new tribunal is an an has been developed since the assassina swer to General Li's attempt to incite tion charge was first made. another political change in favour of the Right Wing of the Kuomintang.
Outwardly, the Left or Red Wing of
the Kuomintang in Centon, has had the THE PAY OF BOYCOTT PICKETS.
upper-hand in the recent under-current struggle with the Right or anti-Reds. The loss to the latter included the dix- missal of General Wang Mau Kung from hir post of deputy garrison commissioner
[FROM OVE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
The income of strike pickets in Canton
the morning of March 2nd one of the And your Counsel stated that at the Watchmen saw someone on the pier, and time your account in the Hongkong & almost at the same time & watchman at Shanghai Bank was $30 overdrawn-Yes. another post also saw the man. A watch Do you still say that you did not require man went to the end of the pier and this money urgently On the 5th I was arrested him. It was found that a coo- that another pipe was connected up to in need of money to pay my liabilities on trol wheel was fixed on the pipe line, and Do you still say that you did not a small boat. Two other men were also authorise Chan" to raise a loan, as you seen to go down to the water and an have already sworn in your affirmation other swam away or crawled under the I naked to sell and not to borrow. pier and got away.
the Bib.
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On June 6th the necessity for this money. It was further stated that on the night had departed-1 had money enough in of the attempt the electric light failed and that oil was discovered in the boat the forenoon.
But though you had plenty of money to the amount of six tops, having been you agreed to sell your 200 Wharves at
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82 below the market rate?-I promised run into the craft through pipe line. A watchman, it was mentioned, had fred on supposed accomplices, who approach- Chan to sell them; and I kept my pro
Then why did you enter into a contracted the pier and tried to recover the boat body-guards and the flight of Captain the Revenue Cotter Service. This into rebuy them at $1921 1-1 thought the containing the oil.
at Canton and the disarmament of his is higher than that of men connected with
mise.
Ay Yang Lin, commander of the Kuo-formation is revealed in charges made by buy them back mintang Navy flagship Chung Shan and acting Naval Commandant in the absence troops and pickets against one another.
shares would rise; that is why I would Then why did you not buy them back they would rise later on.
of Comrade Seminoff, which was followed The Revenue Cutter men say that pickets at the June Settlement 1-1 knew that
"
hy the arrest of 12 officers of Chung around Hutament are getting a “spiceze '
han and the disarming of more than of not less than $2,000 daily for passing 1,200 nerubers of the Marine Corps of which Captain Aw Yang used to be the goods contrary to strike regulations. officer commanding.
CHINESE BARRISTER, ADMITTED IN THE SUPREME COURT.
The struggle now temporarily stayed has the effect of strengthening the power of the 2nd and 3rd Corps of the Kuomin tang Army, composed mostly of Hunan and Yunnan mercenaries under Generals Tan Yen Kai and Chu Pei Teh respec- tively. They are now holding the balance of military power in Canton with the
Mr. Hin Shing Lo, a Chinese barrister labour leaders of the Strike Committee who are also a body which the present was admitted to practice by Sir Henry militarists and politicians in Canton can-Gollan, the Chief Justice, in the Sup not disregard,
The Left or Red Wing of the Kuomiareme Court yesterday,"
The Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp (the tang in Canton, at a recent meeting, decided to allow only the pickets of the Attorney-General) moving Mr. Lo's ad- Strike Committee to carry arms, all other workers to be denied such a privilege. mission,, said that he was born in Hong. It is rumoured that the anti-Reds are kong, educated at Queen's College and trying to arouse opposition in Canton to Hongkong University, where be took his the much-hated strike pickets. The Reda, to protect the pickets, at least until antis- B.A. He then studied at Cambridge and settle secured the degree of M.A. He had been factory arrangements are made the boycott problem, are allowing them called to the Bar in June, 1993, and since to carry arma; but they have ordered the
then had practiced in England. Police to disarm all other worker,
You realize as a banker that you were paying 141 per cent. per annum Yes.
You were therefore paying to Lammert a considerably high rate of interest, than you were getting from them 7-It did not matter in dealing with Lammerts.
So that is your answer as a banker? You did not require money at this time, and you paid Lammerts the high rate of interest when they owed you 913,000-, That was only to oblige Lammerts.
At yesterday's hearing, another Police. guard gave evidence and said that he heard a whistle blown about 1.30 in the and found the defendant there in the morning and went down to the pier head custody of another watchman.
The defendant's hands were oily, said witneas, but when cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada admitted that the night was dark and that he could not so very well. He only felt defendant's hands
A guard who made the arrest was recalled and cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada,
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His Worship at this stage of the pro ceedings adjourned the case until to morrow, for a further witness to be call.
And the only reason for your paying this extraordinary amount was in ordered.
Witness gave a total denial to tho not to break your word with Chan 7-Yes. statement made by Chan Wing Fook with Mr. Potter: If it is true that it was reference to an interview which he stated agreed at the time that it would be set that he had with witness in Ice House off against Lammerts' debt to you; do Street.
Counsel then reverted to the rate of you not think it was rather a dishonest
No; Chan promised. witness reiterated that he did not consider interest which witness was paying, but document which they handed, you to sign 7 His Lordship You were in a position it to be high. Questioned with regard to
to insist on that because they wanted your signature 1-Yes, but I trusted
the letter which he had signed, and which on November 6th, witness agreed that it stated that the money would be repaid Chan's word, was a serious document to put the bank's signature to."
(Continued as foot of next Oolumn)
The case should have gone on in the afternoon, but after Counsel had con. ferred, with His Lordship, the action was adjourned until this morning.
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