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MR. HU HAN MIN RESUMES OFFICE.
GATHERING OF KUOMINTANG
LEADERS IN CANTON.' MR. EUGENE CHEN'S ARRIVAL FROM OCH CHINESE CORRESPONDENT,] Mr. Ha Hän Min, Kuomintang Minister of Foreign Affairs in Canton, resumed active charge, of his department on as
His return to power in Canton is being watched with utmost interest, nx many Southern Cainese wish the moderates to arcure control.
ved.
Mr. Wang hing Wei, acting Chairman of the Kuomintang, has again submitted his resignation. He is now on fick leave and wishes to go either to Muscow or to the Straits and to leave the active lender. ship of the Party to Mr. Hu, whose ri- election to succeed. Mr. Wang is generally expected.
Among the arrivals of members of the Kuomintang Executive Committee for the meeting on May 15th, is Mr. Eugene Chen, late editor of the Peking in Pao
to
Mr. Chen is being again request direct the editorial policy of the Coatin
Buzette,
According to the Chang her in Pune General Wu Te Chen, retired Commis- sidner of Canton Police, has never been under open arrest as some journals have 'hinter General Wu was free enough; it least, to give an interview to the cor respondent of the Min Pao, in which he was reported to have said that he would always submit to orders issued by the
party chiefs.
De, C. C. Wu, arting Mayor of Canton, without whos consent General Chiang
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5TH, 1926
BANKRUPTCY COURT SEQUEL. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MANAGING PARTNER.
FALSE STATEMENTS ALLEGED.
The case in which the managing part- ner of a local Chinese firm is alleged to
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE. EUROPEAN THE DEFENDANT.. SEQUEL TO CAUSEWAY BAY
MOTOR-CYCLE FATALITY, The case in which Mr. S. J. Squire, of the Hongkong Electric Company.
QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT.
THE CANTON SITUATION. Sir A, Chamberlain, Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Birmingham, W.), re plying to questions by Mr. Looker. Essex, S.E., U.) and Mr. Pethick-Law- rence (Leicester, W., Lab.) about the
have made false statements to the Official Ltd., 'is charged with manslaughter, and ranton Government and the strikers, iaj
the House of Commons on March 29th.
Receiver, in relation to a petition in bankruptcy filed against his firm in February, again came up for bearing at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell
'The proceedings have been against this man in view of matters aristo a serious motor-cycle accident, involv-vity General Chiang Kai Shek, who is
also with driving in a reckless manner, came up for first hearing before Major said:-It appears that the Russians in C. Willson at the Central Magistracy Canton, together with certain Chinese Communists, plotted to expel from the yesterday afternoon.
taken
ing out of the bankruptcy case.
Siu Hin, Chau The defendant is managing partner of the Wing Shing Bru, of No. 38, Ko Shing Street.
There are five charges, in all, preferred against him.
The first alleges that on or about April 16th, he unde false statements to the Officia Receiver eclating to the affairs of the Wing Shang firm.
The xeron charge is an alternative one alleging that he made the statement knowing them to be false or did not lieve them to be true in relation to the affairs of the firm. The remaining three charges allege that defendant concealed, destroyed, mutilated or falsified certain account books relating to the firm's affairs, destroyed, etc.. these books with
intent to defraud; or concurred in mak- ing false entries.
MES. C. Brooks appeared for the rosecution, and Mr. Andrews appeared for the defence.
CE RECALLED,
The case, it will be recalled, is a sequel
dug the death of a Chinese, which oceur. red ut the Causeway Bay tram terminus on the night of Saturday, April 17th The Chinese received severe injuries cwing, it is alleged, & Mr. Squire run- ping into hisa while riding his nictor- cycle. He died in hospital a few hours later.
Yesterday afternoon Chief-Inspector W. Kent appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Traffic Department of the Police, Mr. J. A Gordon Leask was for the defence, and Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy held a watching brief on behalf of the widow and dependents of the deceased
Chinese.
RUS OVER BY MOTOR-CYCLE.
in command of the troops there. The general thereupon took counter measures, arresting the strike leaders and some of the Russians and Communists. His ac elements in the Canton Goverumeat, who tion was supported by certain moderate are believed to be in favour of a settle- ment of the boycott. "But the situation has not yet been cleared up.
Mr. Looker. Will the right hon. gentleman support any action of the Hongkong Government declining to re-
Committee f cogaise any claims of a blackmailing nature put forward by the Strikers
Bir A. Chamberlain.-It I am to be
asked about the action of the Hongkong Government ought to have notice of the question and to be able to consider.
its exact terms.
Mr. Pethick-Lawrence (Leicester, W.. Eab. Is the statement that negotiation is proceeding entirely without founda- tion
The one
A Chinese constable, who was on duty
Sir A. Chamberlain.-I have not said near the Causeway Bay tram terminus on the evening of Saturday, April 7th, s
Replying to Mr. H. Williams (Read- Previous pidence given in this case
described how the Chinese in questioning. L. Sir A: Chamberlain said:-As was run over. He said that he saw two regards the position in North and Cen-" showed that defendant entered into an arvenient to sell the business" for $12,000 without the consent or knowledge of his motor-cycles coming from the direction tral China, I have nothing to add to two partners, who lived in Canton and of Causeway Bay towards Central. At what has appeared lately in the Press; the tin there was a Chinese squatting nor, as regards South China, to the state- ment which I have made this afternoon only visited Hongkong shout oặce a Near It was also stated by the prose outside the tramway "shelter, and motor-
Enst Essex. The latest report from the sution that fair important books relating cycle No. 59 ran over him. The driver in reply to the hon. member for South- to the financia: transactions of the arm of the motorcycle was a European and had been destroyed, or had disappeared, after running into the Chinese he fell Acting Commercial Counsellor at Shang- Th eale was eventually completed, and to the ground unconscious The engine hat (dated January 1st, 1928) on the trade the balance of the money handed over of the machine was still running. The situation in China states that as far as cerned, and with the exception of certaint Kai Shek recently dismissed General Wat the Official Receiver, a bankruptcy second motorcycle drove away along Northern and Central China are cca- Te Chen from the offer of Police Con Pelition having in the meanwhile been. Caroline Road.
well-defined localities, the boycott bas fled in connection with the Wing Shing missioner. is still unwilling to withdraw
firm.
practically ceased to exist. the resignation which he submitted as a
great hindrance to British as to all other
protest against General Chiang's action,
trade is the state of civil war, with itz trail of brigandage and lawlessNESS. Mr. Koo Man Yu, a professor of Peking
Anti-British propaganda and agitation Asunfortunately continue in China, but Government University, has arrived in
there are indications of a change at Can- ton which may hasten the end of the Canton.. He will be asked to take over the presidency of Kwangtung University!
boycott.
On May is the Third Nation Con- ference of Chinese Labour in asion in Canton unveiled a tablet outside the Kuomintang. Building to mark the place where the late Mr. Lino Chung Hoi, chief of the Labour Division of the Komin tang, was assassinated on August 20th. Mrs. Liso Chung Hoi was present at the unveiling ceremony and replied to the several addresses praising the services of her husband to his party.
TABLET UNVEILED..
REPORT DENIED.
Mrs. George Hsu "Chien, wife of the acting Chairman of the Canton Diploms tic Commission to Peking, has telegraph- ed to her many friends in Canton deny ing the recent report that her husband was shot while the Kuominchan Army was retreating from Peking to Nankow. Mr. Hau was one time President of the Sino-
Witness went to the scene and so did It was suggested by the prosecutwo Europeans. The Europeans sent tion that the bankruptcy proceedings for two rickshas in which the driver were entirely collusive between the peti- of the motor-ycle and the injured man tioning creditor and the defendant, and were removed to the French Hospital. that petitioner's debt and that otherWitness then telephoned to No. 2 Police debts shown in the looks of the firm were Station concerning the accident. fetitions, and did not in fact exist.
Yesterday afternoon. Mr. Mr W. Lo pinduced the original agreement for the sale of the Wing Shing Shung firm, and said that it was prepared on the in-pital. structions of the defendant. and 'the pur-
there was no doctor at the French Hos- pital the European and the Chinese were refused, admittance, and they were then removed to the Government Civil Hos
other vehicles of any description about
at the time.
In answer to Inspector Kent, witness chaser. Eis firm was acting for, both said that when he first noticed the There were no parties. Witness recognised the defend-motor-cycles they were about 10 to 20 Lant. According to his instructions he houses distance away.
understood it defendant was the sole proprietor. Defendant had admitted to him however, after being questioned that there were two ar three sleeping partners in Canton. The agreement was gned by the defendant in the presence
witness.
In answer to Mr. Andrews, witness enid that he advised the defendant to Ginzeti the sale.
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At the request of Mr. Andrews; the agreement was shown to the defendant
who admitted that there had been an agreement for the sale.
A PARTNER'S EVIDENCE. One of the complainant partners in
inspector Kent: Did you see the two machines collide-Witness: Yes I diù. How fast were the machines going At an extremely fast speed
How many Europeans were there on each cycle ?-One on oneh.
There were no passengers 1-No, only the drivers of each machine.
Was deceased sitting quite close to the
Fust at the entrance to the tramway shed tramway shed, or out in the gutter
Was he on the rond or on the foot path-On the pavement by the "tramway" shed.
Reexamined by Inspector Kent: Can motor-cycle -Witness it is over ten days you identify the European rider of the ago. I cannot recognise him now. I would not know him if I saw him.
DOCTOR'S EVIDENCE
Dr W L. Paterson (medical officer of the Governigent Civil Hospital) recalled the admittance of a Chinese to the hos nital on the night of April 17th, at 9.50 Witness described the severe injuries from which the man was suffering, and said that although he operated shortly after the man had beer. admitted very
died the same night at 11.45. On the little could be done for him. The man following day, witness performed a post-. mortem examination and found that in addition to the injuries he had mention- In reply to further questions, witnessed wound bad penetrated the abdominal said that the fellowing day he went to cavity and there was also a small super- the Government Civil Hospital and cial wound, of about one inch lons, in identified the deceased Chinese as the the lower part of the abdomen. man who had been injured the previous night. When the cycles were coming to
the road.
In answer to a question, witness said the wound in the abdomen would neces
Russian College in Peking. This College ant without his knowledge or consent; wards him they were in the centre ofsarily be caused by some very sharp
has been closed since the occupation of the Northern Capital by the allied troops. The report of Mr. Hsu's death was given wide circulation in the North.
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN. Yesterday (May 4th) was the festival of the Tien Hau, or Queen of Heaven, but ine usual pilgrimage of Hongkong Chi-
the Wing Shing Shung firm who gave evidence at the last hearing was recalled for cross-examination. Last time he gave evidence to the effect that the sale of the business was entered into by the defend and also stated that when he came to Hongkong he inspected the hooks of two Chinese firms to whom defendant had stated payments of 80,300 and 31,500 res pectively had been made on behalf of the Wing Shing Shung firm, and did not find any entries bearing out this state ment.
CROSS-EXAMINEN. „*
Mr. Lensk: When was the, collision between the two machines-Witness: When they were coming along together. One, was touching, the other.
In reply to another question, witness said this occurred before they passed the police box where he was stationed on Did you signal them to pass 7-They
duty.
thing-
Inspector" Kent suggested that the front number plate of a motorcycle might have caused such a wound, and witness agreed.
Witness added, in reply" to a further question, that at the time the Chinese was admitted, a European, named Mr. Squire was also brought into the hospital.
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DOCTOR CROSS-EXAMINED.
Mr. Leask: If the pamber plate bad
nese to the Temple of the Queen at Chek could not sell the business, but, witness were driving very fast and did not give already been bent over before so that
In reply to Mr. Andrews, witness said that he did not produce the partnership book to show that the managing director added, he did say that defendant as wan, Chinese Territory, by a special fleet managing partner could not sell, the busi. of steam launches or janks did not take ness because there was no rule authoris place this year, on account of the uning him to do so...
In answer to further questions, witness Mettled conditions. As a consequence the mid that he had seen the partnership little-known temple to the Queen of book at Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist's,
rule or article saying that the managing partner had any power to sell the bust ness The book did not authorise him to sell the business. and neither did it specially-forbid him to sell it.
wished to go.
me the signal as to which way they one corner was making a jug would that Was it not your duty to stop them ?cause the laceration you mentioned?—
Witness: Yex. I was too slow to stop them.
Were there any injuries to the bead or Did both these cycles pass your back as if he had been thrown against box-Yes, hoth on the left hand side.
In answer to further questions, witness anything -None. cycle No. 50 mounted the pavement and Chinese. travelled on it before running over the
Heaven at Fat Tong lur, just outsid. I but admitted that it did not contain any said that after passing his box motor- the Harbour, has been much frequented the last two days. Few clubs, however, took the trouble to organise parties for
to years past the Hong. Witness corrected a statement he made kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Com- at the last hearing, and said that the pany and other large concerns have often defendant had been in charge of the busi ning over the Chinese.
ness in Hongkong for 17 years, and not two years as previously stated by him.
the occasion.
despatched special steamers to Chekwan for the festival.
WHY, MR. HU HAN MIN RETURNED. RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSING FACTIONS.
WITNESS REPRIMANDED...
An assistant accountant of the firm was next enlled, and as he was on subpoena, Mr. Brooks intimated that he proposed to treat him as a hostile.witness.
His Worship remarked that he did not think it was necessary, but later, after witness had made certain statements. then retracted and contradicted them a number of times. Mr. Lindsell had ne- asion to reprimand severely and caution him as to his behaviour and conduct.
Hie Worship remarked: First you any one thing and then you say another you. Do you want to go to gaol?. You are to speak, the truth, otherwise, if you contradict yourself again you will go to prison
Witness. went on to state that both machines were scraping against ench other prior to reaching his box. but that was not the cause of one machine ron-
When you went to look at the Euro pean who had fallen off his cycle, did you. notice any other motorcycle standing near?-There was no other machine there. Who were the two Europeans you mentioned ?-I don't know who they were or where they came from. Witness added that he would not know them if he saw them again.
You are quite sure there was one European on each of these two cycles you aaw coming along -There was only the rider on each cycle.
If the two Europeans who came to pick up the defendant come into Court and say that they were on the second cycle
In your opinion could he have lived it: Not even if he had been taken up fat on his back on a stretcher 1-No. he had been attended to earlier No.
Would the artery have been ut in this Case Tes, several.
Witness added that the immediate How had lost so much blood that nothing cf blood was almost fatal. The Chinese could be done apart from the other in- juries.
First aid at the time would not have helped him-Nothing at all.
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STATE OF DEFENDANT.' What was the state of Mr. Squire when he came in to the hospital-He was suffering severely from shock.
Any injuries-Slight abrasions. Nothing that would make you think he had been violently thrown from a motorcycle -No.
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It is possible that il Mr. Squire'a machine and the other cyclo collided with each other that shock might have ensued and caused Mr. Squire to suffer
FROM OUL CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] The firss expression of views on public questions given by Mr., Hu Han Min, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kuamin. If you go on like this I shall commit would they be wrong?—I did not see loss of memory as to what had happen-
tang in Canton, since his return from Russia, dealt with his reasons in returning to Canton at this time.
Mr. Hu said that he had to break bia stay in Russia because he had heard of the breach hetween the so-called Keds or Left Wing and anti-Reds or Right Wing of the Party in China. He had returned early in order to effect a reconciliation within the Party. He could not see how Canton could undertake a Northern Expedition when the Party was divided against itself.
During his evidence, this witness said that the accountant of the firm lelt and went to Canton. During this man's absence defendant kept the books and accounts. Witness during this time hund nothing to do with the books.
Showa certain books, witness said that up to the time he went away no entries had been made in them.
His Worship adjourned the case for farther hearing to-morrow afternoon.
two persons on one motor-cycle. I say ed-I have never experienced it, I have one motor-cycle turn into Caroline Rand, heard of it, but in my opinion it would take a very severe chock to cause this In answer to further question, wit state. but did not see it come back... ness said that the Chinese referred to was In reply to further questions by Mr. squatting alone, but there were five or Leask on this point, witness said that six other people standing at the entrance light shock was not likely to cause to the tramway shelter. The injured amataia. man and the European were eventually remoted to the Government Civil Has pital in a private motor-car ordered by the other Europeans, as it was thought quicker than waiting for the ambulance which witness had telephoned for.
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After further formal evidence had been given by other witnesses, His Worship adjourned further hearing of the case un- til Friday afternoon
It was indicated by the prosecution that the case was likely to decupy two or three more hearings.
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