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KRETA AYER SHOOTING AT SINGAPORE.
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HISTORY OF THE RIOT.
'HONG KONG IMPORTS.
FORTNIGHTLY FRICE CUE HENT AND MARKET REPOFT.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Mr. Thompson · Heard A great nois and no cut da, see what was thx.tvrpon he sW Inspector Tule Hg attacked and stagecasage into the station, follow ed by a hostile crowd, while twei constables who were on traffic duty BY THE HONG KONG GENERAL and who had gene in the help off Inspector Dale were being badly
The fortnightly price current and An inquest was opened in the assaulted. The police armed with Criminal District Court of Singa batons attacked the crowd and market report, published by the pore on March 17th afternoon, bedrove them back. Upon that, the Hong Kong General Chamber of fore the acting Coroner (Cononel crowd followed the police practical- J. H. Tyte) and a jay consistingly up to the station door, and then of two Europeans and three leading Mr. Thompson beard four shots Chinese residents, late, the deaths fired, though he did not know who of six Chinese who were killed in gave the order to fire. the shooting affair in front of Kreta Ayer police station on the Sun Yat Sen Anniversary.
have to be called, addr
Commerce, dealing with imports,
statea:
COTTON PIECE GOODS AND FANCY COTTON GOODS-A little more en- quiry has been noticeable and sales It would be for the jury to decide of Whites and plain Blacks are re ported. Deliveries have been well who, if anyone, gave the order to maintained and must be consider. fre. All the Asiatic police saided satisfactory. Cotton quotations Sitnesses
estimat. that when Inspector Dale staggered show little change, the latest boing those of 23rd inst. Eg. Sakei 13.35d.
ed that the harfing will last onto the station and fell down on & Ame" Spot" 7.83d fortnight.
chair be said, "If they attack the station Bro on them." Inspector Dale would say quite frankly that after he had been assaulted ho did not remember whether he gave the
Mr. Seth's Opening Address. Mr. Seith, The Solicitor General, in opering the proceedings, said the day of the shooting was the order to fire or not, because he was anniversary of the death of Sun in a dazed and fainting condition Yat Sen, and the first chapter was for a few minutes. concerned with the celebrations of that anniversary,
The last act of the drama, Mr. Seth stated, was when Mr. Onraet, About three days before the shoot- Mr. Dickinson, three inspectors and ing certain representative Chinese other police arrived in motor cars. gentlemen approached the Chinese from the Happy Valley and dis- Protectorate and said that the parsed the rowd. The police were able to state that nos more than 33 Chinese wished to "höld s com-shots were fred, and there were 21 memorative service on the Sun Yat police in the station. Sen anniversary.
Ko Speeches!
COTTON YARN.-The market re- mains dull. No sales have taken place since the last report and prices are on the easy aide. Quota tions are purely nominal: "No. 10s $145 to 8108, No. 19 8150 to $160, No. 16 8166 to $170, No. 90m 8170 to $175. Arrivals ait, shipments. nil, sales ail, unsold stocks 12,000 bales; bargains 12,500, bales.
amall
WOOLLIS.-Buying on scale proceeded during the first period since last report bus demand has since lessened and the needs of the market seem to have been met for the time being
BAW COTTON.--Nor business to be
port.
METALS.-Market quiet, very little
doing. THE EVIDENCE.
FLOUR MARKET REPORT.-Stocks:
#50,000
Market: SATKE When the inquest was continued About.
Quotations: last Friday afternoon, Mr. Oliver Steady.
American Thompson, Trade Superintendent Patent, $4.50, so 840 per sack; of Singapore Tramways, said that American Straight; 83:15 to $3.55 when he arrived the crowd was per sack; American Cut off, $3.25. howling, shouting, waving flags to 360 por sack; Australia No: 1 and behaving in a boisterous man- 83.45 to 83.80 par sack; Canadian Cut off $3.15 to $3.25 per sack; Canadian Straight, 83.10 to 83:20 per ack: Canadian Mixture, $3.05 to $3.30 per sack; Canadian 2nd Clear, $2.95 per sack.
They were referred to the Chief Police Officer to whom they said, "All we want is to have a meeting place in the Happy Valley. Sua Yat Sen's portrait will be hung uper. The procession was then com- there, and various Chinese clans posed more or less of small boya.
The Coroner You don't mean will come in an orderly way, pay children-1 do, sir. their respects to the photograph, and then go away quietly. There will be no speeches made, no attempt to influence or agitate any ope, and there will be no proces- sions to obstruct the traffic."
The Chief Police Officer replied that if that was all they did not re- Ele quite a cence from him. knew, however, that there would probably be crowds of people pass ingl along the streets, and that the polico ought to be ready in ease of any trouble.
He kept the police well away from the locality, but ready, at the stations in case they were needed. He put traffic police on duty out- side the Happy Valley, as he had to do, but so far as the police were concerned they did nothing what ever to provoke any idea of a clash between the public and the police. All that they did was. sations in the vicinity. Pagar, Kreta Ayer, and tive station, to stand by.
to
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Mr. Seth: Up to what aga From eight to fifteen years.
were
to
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SUGAR-Market quiet, with down- ward tendency.
SALTPETTE-Stocks 14,000 baga. Market very quiet since last cir- cular.
BETTING TAX.
FOUR PER CENT
Mr. Churchill expressed con- dence in the House of Commons that the cost of collecting the betting tax would not exceed
The mass of Chinese, continued witness, who were making the noise, were not marching. They had collected when the procession stopped: Nothing could move and it was one mass of people. As the procession was moving towards Singapore he was confident things would get worse.
He looked around to see if there police inspectors or officers but could see no one, in ho MANILA THIEF SENTENCED. £130,000 a year, but pleaded for phoned the Central "Police station.
When here entered the station, the native police congregated in the He could not doorway looking out. say whether they were armed at the time or not. Then the men up- stairs came running down the stairs They were not in uniform. They took hold of rifles and batons.
He saw ammunition on the table and the men helping themselves. He did not actually see any rifles loaded, being more concerned with the telephone at the time.
Inspector Dale. Injured.
STOLE MONEY COLLECTED FOR CHARITY.
Eliseo Florante, founder
and
manager of Perla del Oriente," charitable association of Manila, was sentenced last week by the Supreme Court of Manila to serve six months in jail for having embezzled the funds which he had collected from: Manila and nearby
Jist at that moment Inspector Provinces for the ostensible relief Dale came rushing into the station of sufferers from public calamities, bleeding profusely from a wound The Court also ordered him to in- the detec-in the back of the head. He was indemnity his victims, in the amount
mufti Witness placed him in a chair and say be was in a very bad of P.423.43, or imprisonment in casa condition. The native police then insolvency, from whom he had rushed out armed with rifles and collected that amount.
At the Happy Valley.
Witness saw the armed men stand-
fag with theiririfles ready round the
At the Happy Valley the proceed-batons. ings were perfectly orderly unti! the Hailams came on the scene. The other clans came by lorry, or on foot and filed in until about 1.30 p.m., when the Hailam con- tingents arrived in a body. The proceedings started at noon, and there were no disturbances of any sors until the Hailams arrived in a body of about 2,000, and hardly had they entered when they started to make speeches, and the com-
mittee men, several of whom were
Between May to September, 1925, posing as the champion of the
station, their bayonets fixed.
Wisness then marked the position needy, he collected the sum of on a plan where a constable in plain P.88.40 from charitably disposed olothes was lying being beaten. He was striking out with his Eaton to people in Manila and adjacent pro keep the crowd away. He was a vinces upon representation that the Bengali One Chinese was be-
a wooden chair, money was to be used for the aid abouring him with and another was hitting him with a of the sufferers from public cala steal. Others were kicking.
mities Only a negligible postion Witness saw armed men coming to of this sum 'ever reached any reedy the rescue. After some thote had
statement, less
delay when asked if there had been an appreciable decline in receipts owing to a reduction in credit booking.
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HONG KONG STOCK
EXCHANGE
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
March 29th, 1927.
a.K. Baak...$1,090 buy..
Du Londen...#112 nom Chartered Bank.ill com Mercantile Bank AB 2 nom,
Don
Pid O. Bank East Asia Bank
... num.
Joy bay.. „$74 Bei
| Uhing Underwriters$0,80-bay.·
Canton InsuTENOS
Enion Te
North Uhans Erin.
Insurance
Experience does not suggest, he said in reply to other questions, Yangtze insurance
that the estimate of £150,000 for Unite Fire Insurance...
Do
Fla. 155 Fons.
ne bay.
Mex $38 nom.
..$205
buy
the annual cost of collecting the Hong Kong F 540 bay
MT: 20 BeL duty will not prove to be aubetan- Douglases nom tially correct. Comparing this with Steamboats.1 bay
Tone tttse-t the estimated yield of the duty, for Hong Tags$1.10 nom a full year of £6,000,000, the per-Indo-Chinas (Prof.). $30 sel
Wet.) $44 bay. centage cost works out at 4 per
Shell Transports...9/6 sel cent."
Comment on this calculation Star Ferries for 4 per cept on £6,000,000 Waterboats.
to £240,000-was for
Bigars.*** Etalabon sugars. when Ladyb amounts
next time you Bengueta...... Astor asked, gotten in laughter
Kalla faing Ast... num. bring in a Bill like this, will you · Kningkata (combined
Lie. (single) ......Tix. 10) nom. take the advice of some of us who know?" To this Mr. Churchill regas Explorations...Tls. nom. sorted, "I was not prepared to re-shanghai Lana
a. 7.nom. ceive such a confession."
14
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buy.
159-
7.50 BELL
KARIM Further Legislation.
Tromol Mines The text has been issued of the Cital Caspians
E.K. & W. Dock......... nom. the House of Commons to prevent. Bill introduced by Mr. Churchill in HK. & K. Whans... 199 bag., 102 sel evasion of the betting tax by mak ing bets with bookmakers in other giring. 11. bt man
Hotels H.K.G countries. The "Betting Overseas lock. 10 bay.
37 bay (Prohibition) Bill," as it is called,EK. Landa 3581 buy. declares that it shall not be law- Hong Kong Realtys....3 bay.
Atates....d buy. ful for any person in Great Britain HK. Ternicras an event to be determined in Great Prince's Britain, unless the bet is made in Haral. Great Britain." A bet with a for- Ewa eiga branch of a bookmaker carry Urientals ing on business both in Great Bhaughan Coutons (oli)...Tia, b nom. (18) 17 LOW, than the Britain and abroad would
9 m. B.K. Tramways... 20 nat Peak Frams (old).......
Do.
to make with a bookmaker o bet on 589 nom
be
Cortons
been fired, he saw Inspector Dale person, and even according to his walk to the door and shout some OWE thing to the constables in Malay amount of P.44, according to the illegal. An excise penalty of £100 Chins Buses after which the constables stepped
Justices of the Peace, interfered back and there was silence for a fadings of the Court, and pointed out that they had while. Mr. Dals then sat down guaranteed that there should be no speeches.
The Hailams would not. Histon, and when a committee man and another official tried to stop them they assaulted Mr. Ng Seng Pang, who was a J.P., Mr. Ten Lye Hes and Mr. Wong Siew Yuen, who was very badly burt.
The police tried to interfere, and P.C. 298, a Malay was very badly. wounded, while P.O. 670 was attack. ed with knives, cut about, and knocked down.”
Ia soliciting voluntary contri- again, and there was more howlingbutions from the public, Florante and a band started playing. was followed by bring. He heard employed the services of several no order for fring given and could women.-Manila Times, not say whether such order was given or not. Mr. Dale again went to the door and shouted to his men in the same manner as he did when the first firing occurred. Several Europeans then drove up in motor cars, one of whom spoke to the native police who immediately afterwards lined up two deep. Witness then, took Mr. Dala to hos pital.
Firing Justified.
Asked if he could express any) opinion as to whether the lives of The Hailams streamed out of the the people in the station were in building saying: "We are going to danger, witness, replied that they hare our procession; we do not care certainly were, He came to that about any police regulations." The Hailams went out of the Happy conclusion by reason of the attitude Valley in a truculent mood and of the Chinese when they attacked the Bengali constable. He heard no marched down Anson Road, Max orders given in English to hrs. He well Road, and into South Bridge thought that Inspector Dale was so Road. They formed a large mass seriously injured, that he was unable of people shouting, gesticulating to take propez: command of the waving flags, and dropping pain station. He thought that, judging phlets which were apparently by the temper of the crowd, some directed against "plutocrats." of them would have stopped at The evidence of Mr. Thompson, of nothing. He felt that they were the Tramway Company, would be going to rush the station and such that he was held up by a crowd a small number of men, even armed whose demeanour was anything but rifles, could not have held out for peaceful. He went to the Kreta long. He thought the fring was Ayer station, where he telephoned | justified." to the Central Station.
The hearing was adjourned
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1/111 Telegraphia Tranater Bank Bills, on demand ....1/11 18/16 Back Buiz, at 50 days'night Bank Bills, at 4 months'
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•
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Tia. Zi
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Singapore Tractions......11/- bay.
317.60.anl. Amusements
Canton Loss Nor
Dements (combined)......$7
Do. Da.
boy.
(old) ...... nom. (now)......$1 Bel
Uzins Lights (comb.l.314 buy-
DA
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China Providenta .............. Constructions in Dairy Farm......... Der Wings
Credits, at 4 months' sight 9/13/16 Documentary Bill
months' right .. 2015/16 LK, Electrics
OX PAXIS,
$3.90 bey $£30 DOM. 318+ x. div. sol. $8 nom
$524 nom.
194.05
3494
Масло дес
Plectrics.
$35 noxi
12.13 20.47.13/16
Bank Bills, on demand
18.123
OF NEW
Credits, 4 months' sight -
Yoxx
924 1,300
HK
Hopes (old)
10 ot.
34.53
481
Bank Bills, on demand'
Oredite, at 60 days' night... 43
192.70 2.33/640 Boxkar Tash 47.0/30 4.85
elegraphia
Brak
Twater
on demand... 1923
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5.47/64
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