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FROM THE WAR AREA. EVACUATION OF HANKOW.
TROOP MOVEMENTS „AT..
KASHING.
The coming and going of soldiers. is the main topic of conversation at-Kashing says the F.-G. Daily News correspondent writing on the
FINE MORALE. ON 'CROWDED STEAMER.
WHAT BRITISH »REFUGEES PUT UP WITH.
"CONFIDENCE TRICK.
CASE. TO BE RE-HEARD.
COURT A GAMING HOUSE! THE "WING WO". PIRACY,
INGENIOUS POINTS RAISED IN LOTTERY CASE.
**A WICKED LEGISLATURE.”
-FURTHER DETAILS.
PIRATES PROTECT VICTIMS FROM OTHER MARAUDERS.
A Chinese report gives further
To deprive someone of some thing temporarily does not con- stitute larceny,” said Mr. Duncan Mr. F. H. Loseby in defending All British men remaining in MeCallam, at the Central Magis two Chinese, a farmer and his son, Hankow are interred inside the tracy yesterday afternoon, when he against charges brought by Deta details of the attack made on the 5th instant. Armoured trains TU AP.C. Compound, with supplies applied before Mr. R. E. Lindsell! Piu lottery tickets and, incidentally Fing Fe, by, robbers on January
Sergt. Carey, of possession of Po
up and down the line followed by troops trains. A single, passenger train with sometimes as many as 1
coaches drags a weary schedule from Bangchaw to Shanghai and back again. Almost as many come back, from Shanghai as those who Bed during the panic..
Business has gone on more quietly and schools are open again to finish op courses and hold examinations. before the Lunar New Year.
enough for 19 weeks and fully armed, says the M-0. Daily News for a rehearing of the case in which of January 11th.
gers, of whom 23 were children.
A
case. (Laughter.)
of raining a lottery establishment 5th. a well-dressed Chinese, named Laimade the following ingenious pleas As reported in the Daily Fress" The Tunguo which left Hankow Wa, was sentenced to äix weeks'
Another legal aspect of the Ordi-on Tuesday, the a Wing Wo is' a narce was such that where lottery Chinese vessel plying between Hong on January 5th carried 80 passen imprisonment on Monday last on a tickets were found in an ordinary Kong and Kwang Chow Was, and Besides the usual discomforts which charge of larceny by means of a house, it made of that house that after leaving Hong Kong on
COZIRON gaming-house. were necesarily experienced on the trick.
Again January 5th, she was attacked by under this ruling, the Court at that four armed men just off St. John's voyage in which first class accom- The case, it will be recalled, was moment was just a gambling den, Island. 'modations usually allotted to 19" passengers stretched to accommod that Lai Wa, after having won the because of the presence of the to Judging from the soldiers that regarding two sick ladies for whom asked the wife for her pair of
married couple, kets exhibited as evidence in the ate 53, there was anxiety on board conâdence of have passed through Kashing, Mar mmbulances were waiting at the shal Sun Chgan Fang must have & Oh Ningpo Wharf, where the
gold bangles saying that he wished considerable army at or near Hang
to have the designs copied. The steamer berthed. chow. Chapy, on Hangchow Bay. near the boundary between Chewho arrived Saturday and Sunday Wa disappeared. He was arrested Like the refugees from Hankow bangles were given to him and Lai kiang and Kiangsu, has had they had boarded the steamer at after chance encounter in the mobile garrison to prevent a raid "short notice and were able to bring from Fukien by-boats.
told by these passengers about the only hand luggage Stories were street about two years after.
In support of his application, Mr. difficulty of getting their baggage McCallum pointed out yesterday on board, picketing coolies being that on March 27th the pair of on the Hankow wharf and insisting. upon carrying the foreigners' lug bangles pere given to the defend
foreign lady said she had paid $20 same was in the possession of com- for five small pieces and that lady accompanying her had paid $40 plainant's busband the very next simply because she bad it.
day. Now in British Law, Mr. McCallum said when a man is charged with theft and before he could be convicted, it must be proved that he steals that article permanently and not temporarily.
Boats and launches have been here in readiness to send reinforce ments to Huchow anticipating an
attack from Anhui,
Mahal Sun Alert,
The report now says that the boatswain identified the leader as a former cook on the boat, who had As the commencement of yester three accomplices. Between them day's hearing the Central Magis- they had two pistols concealed in tracy before Mr. W. Schofield, Mr. a basket of goods. They took the
a wicked as to say that a man canOn the morning of January 6th, Loseby expressed his belief in that only other two frearms on the ship "even the Legislature cannot be from the captain's cabin. be presumed to have something in about half the cargo was discharged his possession for sale which is ab and seven men were taken from the solutely worthless."
leas" was a lottery ticket found on The "something absolutely worth-
A Clever Marchant. his client, and in introducing an nese interests are at Fort Bayard, A Chinese merchant whose busi-
extenuating circumstance into the was a passenger on the Fing FFs,
boundless optimism of the defen- at once disguised himself as a "a reason for possession, in the was carrying with him. $20,000. He
dants to clear off a debt over their stoker and was allowed to go about land, with the money they hoped unharmed, and incidentally ho to win in the lottery, before the saved his money, Chinese New Year.
bout
Marshal Sun seems to be alert. He gage at outrageous charges. One ant, and the pawa ticket covering case, Mr. Loseby said he had found at the time of the piracy, and he
knows "this territory and formerly could move quick and strike hard The other side seem to be trying to delay, divert and dissipate his förces...
A young Shantung officer told me that they were going on to Hang chow to do some real fighting." His men were well equipped and in good spirits. The people here are in the frame of mind of the man whose wife was sick, and whe, said I wish she would get well or" something."
Chang Chung Chang Tries Propaganda.
Hankow. Finished 221 —— British living in the French Con- cession were told on Wednesday
step further, Mr. McCallum. Now His Worship: We will go one
supposing if I take away your cigarette case without your know ledge, pawn it, and return the ticket to you.
Would I not be
guilty of larceny?
aight. Questioned about the be longings left behind one of these refugees said, "Hankow is finished as far as we British are concerned and I don't expect to ever see any thing that I left behind again."
The Tigra had bad luck from the start, according to the first officer, as she struck a junk shortly Taking a leaf out of the Kuontia after leaving Hankow, then had to tang book, General Chang Chung anchor in pouring rain, causing a "Chang is reported to have organized delay of several hours.". Another
3r. McCallum: No, I would a propaganda corps on the same stop-was made in Nanking where only be deprived of it temporarily. lines as the Kuomintang's pro doctor was taken on board to at His Worship Well, we will pagandae corps, excepting that his tend à maternity case and Mrs leave that for later discussion men will have a their object the Ramsay infering from a spinal Now call your witnesses. preaching of an anti-Bolshevik affiction. Supplies of bread were campaign. Mr. Ho Hei Ming, also taken on at Nanking to relieve former member of the Peking the passengers of the tedium of Parliament, is said to have been ap biscuit diet. pointed commander-in-chief of the corps, and Mr. Chie Wo Chu is
to take command of the local section and will establish bis head quarters in Chapei.
ל .
A Village Defence Oorpa.. His Worship: Then where is the reason for the possession of a long
list of names?
Solicitous Pirates.
The pirates were said to have accorded their victims protection against other marauders.
Outside
While the pirates were on board Mr. Loseby: The list is of a col the Fing Wo several junks sailed organization of a Defence Corps for the report, but they were warned lection raised in connection with the up and threatened the ship, ya the defendant's native village off by the four pirates. against robbers and other evil the bay, a gangway was lowered doers.
for the pirates to leave, the mis- His Worship rejoined that he was creants insisting on the Portuguese not impressed with the story, captain accompanying them to the
Det.-Sergt. Carey said that the sampan as proof of good faith.
ist was a long one, the characters were the same as on the tickets, and be, Sergt. Carey, thought that the police evidence was conclusive on that point.
Mr. Loseby: We know the Inspec- tor does his work thoroughly,
Dealing with the legal aspect of
About half the cargo was removed and the loot totals about $10,000, including large quantities of copper centa which were being taken from
tung. Eong Kong to the south of Kwang-
the case, Mr. Loseby said that the C.M.A., WEEK CONCLUDED. Ordinance stated that anyone found
A Witness's Memory» Tong Lai Sha (41), sister to the defendant, said that her brother was a partner in a kerosene busi- Not only were the refugees sub in question he was at her house neas in Kengmoon, and on the day jected to inconveniences while they as Mrces, where she was celebrat would be presumed to have them
in possession of Jottery tickets ENJOYABLE MUSICAL EVEN- were evacuating the Concession, but ing her "great birthday."
ING AT ST. ANDREW'S Her for the purpose of sale. He, Mr.
CHURCH HALL'
Elverside Bullies:
the bandit gangs and bad characters husband was also with her on that Loseby, was liable to be brought of the river plied their trade. An
SECESSION FROM MARSHAL instance of this was told by May, having returned from Manila
FENG.
"FLAMING EVANGELIST" DISGUSTED WITH
BOLSHEVISM.
H. Gray, an inspector in the police, who arrived on board the Tunguo, Mr. Gray after the Concession was taken over was held a captive for a day. He finally made a dish PEKING, January 8th. for liberty and succeeded in getting According to an informant, Mar- on to the
"Tingwo. shal Feng Yu Hsiang's second-in- Shortly before the ship set sail command, General Chang Chih) on Thursday night Mr. Gray, from Chiang, who is a prominent Chris- the decks of the Tunguo, noticed
known as
the Flaming that a woman passenger, had just Evangelist," disgusted with Bol boarded from a sampau. Her shevism, left for Peking and sur- bandbag had been left in the boat. rendered to Marshal Chang Ts
Wishing to be of assistance he
tían
o a certain day two years ago.
His Worship: You seem to have remarkable memory for dates? f
Witness Yes, why not? Facts concerning toy own affairs can never escape my memory.
His Worship. I am also 41 years old, and I cannot remember dates
BO well.
Witness: But I can. His Worship. You are lucky.”“ Chang Hai Yan, brother of the last witness, a real estate broker said that he was also in Macao
question and that he had seen defendant there.
A very successful Church Mission- " before his Worship because he had ary Association Week, organised one or two lottery tickets in his by the teachers of St. Andrew's house. (Laughter.)
Church, Kowloon, to which we.. Continuing, Mr. Loseby said that made reference earlier this week, by an extraordinary process of was brought to a conclusion yester legislature the presence of one tic-day by a musical evening, which ket would make an ordinary house proved mest enjoyable.
The progrante was given in the
a common gaming house. As a matter of fact, until the contrary was proved, his Worship's Court Chater Room of St. Andrew's was at that moment a commen ga Church Hall before a good atten- ing house. (Laughter.)
dance of Missionary Week workers. The entertainment was arranged
The only evidence in the case, cantinued, Mr. Loseby, was that of the father, and his Worship was bound to accept it. The man had said on oath that he had bought the tickets and had given a reason for buying them
Me Hapert Baldwin, the organist at St. Andrew's and those contributing were Mr. Rchsan, Miss McGill, Mr. J. W. Baldwin
Lin, betraying all Marthal Feng took it upon himself to go to the at his sister's house on the day. Sergh Carey then rose to address and Mr. Jackson (songs), and the
in
Yo Hsiang's and General Chiang sampan and get her grip and in so Kai Shek's plans and arrangements doing had to enter the Chinese
In answer to the Court, witness with Moscow.
quarters along the water edge. On The-Fengtien campaign has been arriving there he was accosted said that he had a great number of organized in the light of these dis by about 40 ugly-looking Chinese lady friends, closures, and concentrations "have boatmen who came along in two His Worship: Do you remember heen virtually completed.
all their birthdays? Sixty thousand Fengtien troops Before, the officer could get the are at present in Honan and will handbag on board several of the oross the Yellow River to take Wu. number stepped up and demanded
sampanagi
his Worship, but Mr. Loseby, muid laughter observed that the Police Rev. W Walton Rogers, (recita- had closed their case, and as the lions). Pianoforte selections were officer was not the Attorney-Gen
tion
eral, he, counsel, mrst object played by Mr. Rupert Baldwin, His Worship sustained the objec and an entertaining competition paddenstoe was conducted by Mrs. J. H. Hunt." Mr. Schofield: If this was not a Tottery place what on earth was
During the evening refreshments your client's list for I am afraid were served, and the Rev. G. R. I am not prepared to accept his Lindsay (Vicar) gave a short ed- dress, in which he returned thanks
Witness: Yes, if they have social intercourse with me,
Mr. McCallum told the Court Everyone: Buys Tickets."
"stdry.
to all who had worked for the
ahengkuan if Marshal Wu Pei Fu's from him $300 before he could get that that was all the evidence heMr. Loseby: You have a statutory Missionary Week, and commented
generals cannot, and simultaneous the valise Having only 390 on his had to offer. His Worship replied attacks will be launched elsewhere. person he was shortly relieved of it that he did not think the evidence
The gang then made off in, their as convincing,
---Reuter,
WHY MISSIONARIES DISAPPROVE
offence and I have a perfect answer.
Here the thing is being done open on the success the effort had proved. ly; everyone buys the tickets. It has never been suggested that this
man was a principal. I also say
two sampang. The handbag was Mr. McCallum further argued finally recovered from the sampan that it must strike anyone as rather that in this case your Worship is KUOMINTANG PROPAGANDA WHERE CHARLESTON CAME coolie who seemed to be of the more extraordinary for a man to have fore the defendants can be convict entitled to have more evidence be
IN SHANGHAI, FROM.
honest type
"obtained a pair of bangles undered. If these things are being sold. A secret Kuomintang rendezvous On board the Tuckto were false pretences, then go and pawn openly, there must be more evi- at Shanghai was discovered and several other refugees, all women them and return the ticket to the the benefit of the doubt. We are Sunday afternoon, as a result of dence, if not, then I am entitled to raided by the Chinese police "Inst who were forced to evacuate the owner. And nothing was done dur often convinced that people are tell which a man named Ma Cruz Hua Concession with no money, all they ing all the time, until a chance ing lies, but it would be a very poor was arrested. This individual had The superintendent of the Ame-had on arriving in Shanghai being encounter in the street, where a cause we did not belleve stones the mintang documents, a quantity of day I people had to go to jail be in his possession. a number of Kuo rican Methodist Episcopal Church':
what they could borrow in amall little altercation took place, and, contrary to which was not proved inflammatory anti foreign and suti in the Transvin and EastAfrica, condemning the Charleston, Good Comfideship Prevails, of the difficulty, was to go to the the faich geld mid that be found bag certificates a list of names
DJs. kuma.
naturally enough, the best way but by the prosecution are s Allied propaganda, ten Kuomin
Mr. Schofield tang African jungle, where he had seen In spite of this the spirits of the Police Station to settle matters. He would be fined $30 for possessing and seven envelopes bearing the it performed by savages.
women were far from broken and The defendant, Mr. McCallum id the tickete, and a silar sim for chop of the Committee (Kuomin Other clergymen point out that there was a spirit amongst them while they are endeavouring to which was truly extraordinary, was not unwilling to go to the be concerned in the running of tang) of Becret Service. His es
the lottery.
planation that he was given these wean the natives from barbaris What was one's seemingly belonged Station.
With regard to the son, he would papers by an acquaintance was not tribal dances, the knowledge that to all, each sharing his belongings Eia Warships granted that the Europeans are dancing the Charles. with fellow, passengers and doing
ton must paule the natives and in all in his power to make the other case should be re-heard on Tuesday fluence them adversely,
person as comfortable as possible,
morning.
be fined $10 for aiding and abetting considered very convincing, and he his father in connection with the is, being detained by the police first offence The second charge pending further inquiries.-V.-C. against the bay would be dismissed. Dally News.