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CANTON SURTAXES.
BUREAU OFFICIALS START
-WORK.
STEAMERS BOARDED.
POSSIBILITY OF TROUBLE OVER DUAL AUTHORITY.
According to reports from Canton, the officials of the recently established In- spection Bureau have commenced work in real earnest.
It will be recalled that an Inspection Corps was organised to examine the goods of passengers on all incoming and outgoing trains and steamers, "with a view to protecting the sources of rescour and putting stop to all forms of illegal activity."
are
The members of this Inspection Corps
THE HONGKONG DAILY... PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND," 1926.
REDS AND ANTI-REDS.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.
PEACE REPORTS SAID TO BE BASELESS.
RUMOURS OF AN ATTACK.ON CANTON.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Both General Sun Chuan Fang, com. manding the troops of the five provinces
of Anhwei, Cheklang, Kiaugsi, Kiangsu and Fukiem, and General Ho Ying Yuma, commanding the "Reds" at Swatow, have informed the Chinese Fress in South China that there is no basis for the reports current, that peace will be
decinted shortly.
THE "FAIRY" CASE.
JUDGE DECLINES TO PASS OPINION.
ALLEGED SPIRITUALIST LOSES HER CASE.
The case in which evidence figured as
"magic tea" propitiatory to the
to "spirit" and an alleged midnight scene in the course of which it is alleged that. a spirit took possession of a woman dictating to the master of the house in which she was a guest that he should marry the woman in question, caine to
a conclusion yesterday before Mr. Justice
Wood at the Summary Court.
THE POLICE COURT.
CHINESE CONSTABLE BREAKS THE LAW.
OPIUM IN THE JUNGLE.
A Chinese constable, stationed nt dant in an opium case heard by Mr. R. E. Pokfulam Police Station, was the defen- Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yester
day.
According to the evidence of another stable, accused was seen to enter t sleeping quarters on Saturday evening,
remove two tins of opium from his jacket and place same, in his locker.
Witness informed the Sikh sergeant on
Mr. M. K. Lo addressed the Court for duty at the time and the latter, accom the defendant (a Chinese accountant who
panied-by-the-witness, entered the sleep- was alleged to have given the woman plaintiff 81,000 as a wedding dowry anding quarters and proceeded to search the
accused's belongings. then to have taken it back as a loan and
Accused anatched up the jacket and ran not repaid it).
out of the door. One tin fell out of the jacket pocket.
"Latest developments appear to be that General Sun Chuan-Fang has deftitely asked General Ngai Bong Ping, a former The plaintiff, who was the former wife Canton oficial, to command the "anti-of the defendant, claimed for the return
now boarding all steamers and usually present the Captains with a long questionnaire to be filled in. This pro- cedure obviously brings the Captains Reds" in Kwangtung in co-operation with of the $1,000 and it was alleged against threw away. Both tins were subsequent- }
Sun's own troops, that General Ngai bas taken steps to solicit funds from Can tonese in Shanghai and ether ports for
This the defendant picked up and
found in the bushes.
under dual authority-that of the Chinear Maritime Customs and of the Inspection Bureau and cases may easily arise where instructions given by the one the attack on the "Reds"; and that the also alleged that she received the $1.000 he knew the regulations regarding opium |
hotly are contrary to the instructions
given by the other.
her by the defence that she had by pre tence to supernatural powers intimidated the defendant into marrying her. It was
marriage dowry and kept a promissory
suing. A Pai Sun Poh."
Been Telling Lies. Acoused denied the charge, adding that and that he had never possessed even
Mukden war party under General Chang Tso Lin has instructed his associates in note for its payment on which she was the smallest quantity of the forbidden
Tsingtao to dispatch Northern Chinese warships to Canton waters to assist in the "anti-Red campaign against the Kuomintang.
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Mr. Lo said that the only question in the case was as to whether or not the plaintiff did, pay to the defendant the sum of 91,000 under an acknowledgment
A ship may be ordered by the Customs to take up its berth in the harbour with out delay. The officials of the Inspection Burena may detɑand to examine the¦ ship's papers and may instruct the Cap.
A report says that Mr. Hu Han Min, tair not to proceed until they are satis Mr. Chay I and other Kuomintang fed 'that these papers are in order. leaders of the Right, or anti-Bolshevistas a loan, having already received it as a wedding dowry. This was denied What is the Captain to do in the circum- Section, have joined General Ngai in his by the defence which had put up a differ. stances? Such conflict of authority is proposed attack on Canton and that onent story and he (Mr. Lo) submitted that certainly calculated to throw shipping the other hand many would-be supporters the evidence bore out the defendant's in the harbour into confusion and must, of General Ngai have withdrawn, on sooner or later, bring about a rupture account of the alliance with these poli-story and that the plaintiff had failed to prove the alleged repayment in the form between the Customs and the Inspectionticians. Bureau. It would appear difficult to derise any scheme under which there can be smooth. working by the two bodies, lat as a preliminary step towards that ad the duties of the Inspection Corps should be very much more closely defined than they are under the regulations re-
cently published,' .
The officials boarded a French steamer and demanded a fee of approximately
General Ngai, adds the report, is going to raise some $1,000,000 through the sale of "anti-Red" bonds.
"Anti-Reds" admit that bandits in Fukien have adopted the Kuomintang red flag and are occupying some of the places which they had been intesting even before they received encouragement from the
Reds."
of a loan.
who and what the plaintif was.
Mr. Lo aaked his Honour to consider As against her story as to being engaged the harmless and innocuous occupa tion of a herbalist be submitted that from the evidence of the defendants his Honour could not, but come irresistibly to the con- clusion that she had held herself out to be something more than an ordinary, per- son. The evidence pointed conclusively
drug.
His Worship: Do you mean to suggest that all these witnesses have been telling lies in order to send you to jail?—Yes.
Mr. Lindsell: Oh, I see.
But can you
explain why There had been a quarrel on the previous Friday. It was over the question of cleaning the revolvers on Monday mornings.
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Mr. Lindsell: There may be something in that, but are you asking me to believe such an extraordinary thing as this: that police officers going out to search for something they saw you throw away, find two tins of opium-opium in the jungle?
The accused maintained his denial, pro testing that the story had been fabric- ated. Defendant was fined $1,000 or six months.
A Tall Story.
found in his possession, when he was To explain how 64 lottery tickets were
arrested at Belchers Street, a Chinese
twenty per cent. of the passage money utility services, repeating the same to her having held herself out to be a youth said that, in passing, an unknown
on account of each passenger.
methods used more than a year ago, to defeat the uprising of troops led by General Lia Chen Huan, and Ġeneral Yang Hai Min, who were at one time
the Kuomintang.
man threw the tickets at him, and it was pai un pao (one practising in the super-due to his good marksmanship that the
natural).
Mr. Lo further submitted that certain
matters went to prove that the state-
tickets dropped into his pocket.
Defendant's story was not believed by the Magistrate, who ordered 10 strokes
The Captain naturally refused to pay any such charge. It is difficult to under. stand upon what ground it was made, but the officials insisted and altimately went to report the matter to their Hen trying to oust the extremist section of paid over by the plaintiff to the defen- with the rattan to be inflicted. quarters, saying that the vessel would be heavily Ened.
ments made as to the money having been dant were rehearsed In, support of this, he drew attention to the fact that cer-
A Domestic Squabble. In spite of all present difficulties, how-tain of the witnesses were relatives of
Inspector, Blackman had a case in which In the meantime, however, suae French ever, trade seems to be steadily increas the plaintiff and referred to the evidence
of the servant girl Was it likely, he one man was charged "with assaulting arines were seat on board and it willing. The Taishan is not securing any asked, that her mistress would have another at Wanchal, and said that it great quantity of cargo it is true but this taken a servant girl so fully into her arose from the defendant's objection to be interesting to watch' developments,
is thought to be a passing phase. The confidence as to explain that her husband, the complainant suing for the hand of or his firm was in financial difficulties and that she was lending him to tide over bad times the very money he had paid as a marriage dowry?
THE TRADE POSITION.
MERCHANTS AND BOYCOTT EXTENSION COMMITTEE.
STRENGTH OF LABOUR ELEMENTS.
[FROM QUE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]
The Inspection Buredu, organised by the Ministry of Finance, must not, in any way, be confused with the Inspection Committee which has been formed to Ierret out and to label British goods in the shops of Canton,
Both organisations are now function. ing, but the Bureau is an official body which is undertaking duties very similar to those of the Chinese Maritime Cus.
toms
The committee for the extension of the -boycott is an unauthorised body and its
Chinese boats coming to Hongkong are usually loaded to capacity and gradually Bore cargo is being taken into the Canton godowns for shipment on British steamura.
his widowed daughter-in-law. When the complainant became insistent, defendant seized a screwdriver and jabbed him in the bend with it.
Both men were bound over by Major C. Willson,
Sawyers Quarrel.
In another case of assault, heard before
A Newspaper Report. Dealing with the denial of the plain- tiff that she had pretended to super- There is a slow but noticeable tendency natural powers by which she had in- towards improvement, and although the Buenced the defendant and the kit fat activities of the Boycott Extension Com-wife she had replaced, Mr. Lo said that the same magistrate, it was stated that it was unadulterated perjury. He sub. mittee are resented and may do härm, mitted that the evidence of the Chinese the two men concerned were engaged in although the Government may not open-reporter who called at the house and driving a saw at a Shaukiwan boatyard. The man at the end nearer the ground ly order the disbandment of the Com- wrote a report in the Chinese Press went
was accused of getting out of line, and inittee organisation, there is a general to show this. As an unbiased witness, was hit by the other on the head with a sing trade in the same manner that the that a young man, already with a kit fat seven days, and ordered to pay $5 as feeling that it will not suceed in paraly. merely recording something unusual, stone. The aggressive one Was given boycott did. And the hope is that, in wife, was taking to himself time, the Committee, being unable to many years his senior," the reporter had opensation to the other, mar, failing which he was to undergo a further termi of seven days... command complete success will lose its correctly reported the facts of the case, adherents and fade out of existence. said Mr. Lo. The report clearly proved that the woman bad claimed to exercise supernatural powers.
woman
Deserting Fireman,
... General Chiang Kai Shok.
A fireman charged by Captain Blox- Kuomintang mail censors in Canton,
Mr. Le termed as an idiotic story" ham, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, with says, the Chung Hua Min Pos, bare the plaintiff's contention that the defen- deserting from one of the police launches, discovered a letter purporting to have come from an officer of the 2nd Corps dant and his former kit fat wife had was sentenced to four months hard confirming the wounding of General conspired to é Seadish and diabolic plot labour. He was also found guilty on two against her and that it was subsequent other counts of posing as a police con- Chiang Kai Shek in Kiangsi during to this that the defendant and his former stable and of stealing a licence from a battle which took place in the early part kit fat wife had prevailed on her to hawker, and the additional sentences of of last month ̈ ̈ ̈
marry the defendant. Mr. Lo said that two months' hard labour imposed on each of these two counts, were made to run
Telegraph operations and other em-
the defendant would have had to have been a senior wrangler in resealdom' to have conceived the plot and to have fabricated the subsequent story as the plaintiffs alleged.
His Lordship Not Batisfied.
concurrently..
PAWN SHOP BURGARY. ALLEGED THRASHING BY POLICE. Alleged to have hired a professional burglar to rób the Hee Hing Pawnshop, Wong Yiu appeared on remand before Major C. Willson, at the Central Magis tracy yesterday afternoon. Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared for the complainant, and the defendant was represented by Mr. W. B. Hind
activities are resented by a great many ployees of the Chinese Telegraph and merchants. Some, however, believe that ministration in Carton are asking for an increase of wages. Some have asked a certain section of the Kuomintang are for an increase of 36 and others for a behind it and as ground for their belief increase of 810, making an increase in they state that whenever a protest is the monthly budget of almost $10,000.
The Director-General of the Administra- Mr. J. M. Remedios, for the plaintiff, made to the civil or military depart tion is asking the Commissioner of He- termed as unfair" the suggestion that nents of the Government, such protests construction of the Kuomintang, who has the plaintif had been dishonest in ber are always countered by questions re the supervision of this service, for his trade, which was merely that of a herba- list, in corroboration of which the Court garding the promised subscription of opinion before replying to the workers.
November 11th being the birthday of had the evidence of witnesses who had $1,000,000 to the Kuomintang war bonds the late Kuomintang Chief, Dr. Sun Yat beer, cured by her means without the "or questions concerning the redemption Sen, there will be a general holiday in introduction of such supernatural mani- Canton on that day. The unemployed festations as had been alleged in this of treasury notes.
workers now lodging in the free board case. With regard to the events of the The fact of the matter seems to be that ing houses of the Canton Strike Com- marriage the Court had the evidence of The defendant was arrested on October the Kuomintang are afraid to put them mittee, the newiy organized Labour the kit fat wife of the defendant who 20th. On October 24th, the charge was selves in too direct opposition to the Volunteer Corps, and other organizations had stated that she wanted her husband preferred against him, when he is said
will stage a parade,
to marry the plaintiff.
to have admitted his guilt. The defend- workers. When General Chiang Kai
In giving judgment, Mr. Justice Wood at later on told his lawyer that he was Democratizing" the Judicial Bystem. said that a great quantity of evidence thrashed by the police and was forced Shek suggested the abolition of the boy-
Many workers are greatly pleased with had been called as to superstitious prac into an admission. Defendant was sent cott more than a month ago the Kuo- the recent action of Mr. George Hsu tice and other matters. He had not been to hospital on the 28th for examination. mintang: army was carrying everything Chien, Chairman of the Kuomintang able to ruis any of that out as irrelevant
At the commencement of yesterday's before it. Lately the fortune of war Judicial Commission and Chief Justice and war of the opinion that it was all hearing,, Mr. Hind told His Worship of the Kuomintang Supreme Court in properly called He did not find it neces seems to have turned and General Chiang Canton, who is democratizing the judicial sary to express an opinion as to what that there has been socle mix up at the Kal Shek has not been for some time the systems in South China by admitting non- actually occurred between the parts is bearing the same name as the defendant hospital. It appeared that, another man professional men to the service. In the this direction q- of the form taken by controlling figure. A
In case of an anti-Red revolt in days of Dr. C. C. Wu and Mr. Loo Hing the alleged partitious practice and it was also sent to the hospital for examina
Yuan, two returned barristers-at-law influence on the conduct of the parties. tion, but by a different doctor.
His Worship: Well, we have got the Kwangtung the workers would be called trained in British universities, only men He was not satisfied that the plaintiff upon to tie up the railway traffe, ship with some sort of law certificate or had made out her claim to have fent the right man bere
diploma were admitted to the Canton $1,000 to the defendant and he therefore Mr. Hind: Yes, but we have got the ping, water, light, and other public Bar and judicial appointments Mr. Hau gave judgment for the defendant with wrong doctor.
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