COST OF FREE MEALS.
THE NEW BRIGADE.
$10,000 A DAY.
INCUBUS OF THE STRIKE COMMITTEE.
A UNITED KUOMINTANG IN THE SOUTH?
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)
The Political Commission now
THE HONG KONG DAÍLÝ PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 10th, 1927.
AMERICAN DEBTS.
FIRST CONTINGENTS DUE AMOUNT OWED TO GREAT
NEXT WEEK.
FIVE TRANSPORTS.
CAMERONIANS LEAVE PENINSULA HOTEL
The Cameronians left the Penin-
The 15th Infantry Brigade, with its attendant Field Batteries of Royal Artillery, Field Company of Royal Engineers, Motor Transport Company of the Corps, 2
NEARLY
ing reading.
BRITAIN.
FIFTY MILLIONS.
SIXTEEN SONS.
DISPUTE OVER THEIR FATHER'S ESTATE.
TWO YOUNGEST SEEK TO DISAVOW MORTGAGE,
BIG SUMS INVOLVED.
A dispute between the sixteen sons of a wealthy Chinese over their father's disposal of his money led
yesterday before Mr. Justice J. R.
Wood, neting Chief Justice. The father died at Macao in 1907,
The case centred upon a mortgage of $400,000 made in February, 1995. Plaintiffs, who alleged they were under age at that time asked that the mortgage be made null and void as far as they were concern-
The report states that a satis- factory feature of the past year is the prompt and honourable manner in which the large majority of the smaller Spanish-American Repub Army Service lies have complied with their en- Field Ambulance and
Guatemala, however, gagements. General Hospital, sailed from Eng-again receives a rebuke in that shed. They also alleged that they
had not benefitted from it. The defence contends that at all mate rinl times the plaintiffs were of age, and that therefore the mort- gage can stand.
COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTE CHARGE.
FRESH EVIDENCE AT RE-OPENED HEARING,
REPORTER WITNESS CEN
SURED. PRISONER
DISCHARGED,
The case of a Chinese committed for trin last work for possession of a counterficit $500 note was re- opened yesterday on the order of Mr. R. E. Lindselt following some
information tendered by
Sub-Inspector Shaftain,
Chan Sau Fung, a Chinese re porter who gave evidence at a pre- He vious hearing, was recalled. Was questioned regarding his He friendship with defendant.
in denied having met the man Macno, or that he know his address: in Hong Kong, or that he knew certain men named by the Magis-
rate.
In view of the somewhat aerimonious comments by Treasury Officials and others, which have been recently cabled round the world regarding the British War sa hotel yesterday and moved Debts to the United States, the into the Rope Factory. The change annual report of the Corporation was presumably dictated by the of Foreign Bondholders; just pub. to an action in the Supreme Court fresh need of making room for the re-lished, makes particularly interest administering the affairs of Kwang-inforcements which, as is known, tung are accking means for disband- are expected shortly. ing the hordes of "strikers," who enjoy free board and lodging under the auspices of the Strike Com- mittee, and the merchants are con sequently being urged to raise the promised loan of $1,500,000 before May 15th. The loan, of course, is needed to pay the strikers the land last month and the first two "gratuity" agreed upon in order transports are due here next Sun- to recompense them for the loss of day. The other three transports the privileges they now enjoy.
are only a few days behind, so that There is, however, very consider the whole of the force, represent able divergence of opinion regarding approximately 5,000 officers and ing the numbers entitled to the payment. If the statements of the Strike Committee can be believed there are still 33,634 strikers from Hong Kong and Shameen for whom tree meals have to be provided. The Strike Committee have 981 ofbeinin and 1,500 pickets being fed. at the publie 'expense. The cost to the Canton Achninistration $10,000 a day. The strike and boy- rott, as ia known was officially ended on October 10th last year, but the strikers were promised com-- pensation at the time and refuse to break up their organisation until that compensation is forthcoming.
men wife he in Hong Kong and comfortably installed in their billets within the next two weeks.
The 15th Tufantry Brigade com prises:
End Batt. Scots Guards. 2nd Batt. Welch Regiment. 1st- Queen's Royal Regiment. 1st Northamptons.
The other units include:
anth Field Company. R.E. 32 Field Battery, R.A. u8th Field Battery, R.A. 38th M.T.Co., A.S.O 10th Field Ambulance. General Hospital.
The Transports, The transports are the City of Marseiller, the Derbyshire, the Memassa, the Neuralia and the City of Puona.
Vive more students were arrested at the Sun Yat Sen University on Saturday on the charge of being
The City of Marseilles, which Reds, but they are in no danger brings the 15th Brigade Headquar- and it is generally understood thatters, the 2nd Batt. Scots Guards ao more arrests of this character and the 10th Field Ambulance, will be made. As far as is possible lift England on April 11th and friends of Mr. San Fo will be given offees in the Canton Administra tion and it is hoped that the Kuo- mintang will soon be a united body again in South Chinu.
has made no provision for the pay ment of the arrears of interest which she undertook to settle in 1917, although the current service of her external debt is being paid. Honduras, after a default of more than half
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Mr. Eldor Potter, K.C., and Mr.
Witness was asked how be know defendant's address, and he replied that he found it out from some of his friends. Asked by His Wor- ship why he did not bring Inspor tor Simftain direct to the defen-
dant's address on the day he and the Inspector went to look for the defendant, witness said that he was not sure of the address.
The defendant's answers to these questions were unsatisfactory, and his Worship remarked that the man
was obviously lying..
The defendant was discharged His Worship said that no jury would convict on such evidence and he believed the defendant did not have access to an unlimited supply of false notes as the repor ter had stated.
century, has dis-H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. appeared from the "black list," L. Strellets appeared for the but Ecuador, while maintaining plaintiffs, and Mr. P. C. Jenkin, the service of the prior lien bonds instructed by Mr. G. G. N. Tinson of the Guayaquil and Quito Rail for defendants.
The plaintiffs were Loo Kwong way Company, remains in total default on the remanider or its Lawn and Loo Kwong Hin, the latter obligations, and enjoys for the pre-formerly an infant in law but now sent the unenviablo distinotion of | of age; and the defendanta I Koon being the only Latin-American Re-Chun and Kan Tong Po. The plain public which does not provide fortiffs' application was that à mortgage the service of its external debt. dated February 10th, 1995, between Before the Court adjourned Mr. Then follows the Corporation's themselves and Lou Kwong Chun, Chinese reporter, and stated that Lindseli severely reprimanded the "Black List" giving a table of the Loo Kwong To, Loo Kwong Wo, he was fortunate in that there was principal loans still in default. and Loo Kwong Wai in respect of not sufficient evidence to convict
property in Hong Kong known as him of perjury. 62, 64, 68, and 68, Queen's Road Central, and 19 and 21, Stanley Street, be set aside.
In this table appears the name of the United States (Southern) | with a principal outstanding of £16,040,000, making, with interest,
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is due, as stated, on Sunday next. It must indeed be a disagree-persons, mortgaged certain property The 8.5. Derbyshire, with the 2ndable spectacle to most Americans,' Batt. Welch Regiment and the
snya the Council, "to
seo these s8th Field C. R.E.'is dus the same defaulting. States sheltering them-
selves behind one of the amend
day.
"Yuk Nok Estate Society," As a result, about 1921 a society called the "Yok Nok Estate So- city was formed, the name of of Lo Kau. Certain property was which he understood was an užs
handed over to the society, the-in- come from which was divided among the sons of Lo Kau. The eldest brothers were directors and man- agers of the Society. Payment of $100 per month from the funds of the Society were made to each of the sons or descendents of Lo Han,
They also applied for an injune- tion tu restrain the defendants, a total in arrears of £40,632,000. their servants or agenta from sell The Corporation has same strong, er otherwise dealing with the remarks to make in connection with that the court might think fit. property, and sich further relief the continuance of the disgraceful They also claimed their costs. | default, of eight of the Southern
Opening the case, Mr. Patter States of America.
said the transaction was one by which the plaintiffs, with four other to the defendants on February 10th, 1925, for $400,000. As his Lordship knew, there were many cases in the English Courts in which infants There was still disantisfaction, relied on the Law of Infancy to however, and on February 18th, avoid meeting what one might con- 1924, a settlement was brought into aider just liabilities under certain existence, in which it appeared pretences. He would submit, how that the trustees had the power to ever, that there was no such inten- distribute to beneficiaries, whether tion in the case in question. they were 21 or not. The position fants took part in a transaction for regard to that settlement was that case in which the in- adopted by the eldest brother with the purpose of borrowing money, it was purely a voluntary one, and pot for their own pockets, but to was for the purpose of ending be paid out to others. His Lord family dissent. ship would be told in great detail, Still the brothers were not satis- later, how much the infants got outfied, and a firm of solicitors was of it. There were two mortgages consulted with the result that an put through, one for four lakhs, action in Original Jurisdiction was and-another for 8100,000, but of brought in 1924. One of the four that the sum actually received by plaintiffs was the first plaintiff in
United States which prohibits their creditors bringing them into Court, while they continue year after year violating the provision of the Constitution which forbids any State of the Union to impair the obligation of contract. This must he doubly humiliating at a time when the United States are insist
In the meantime, however, the The Merasa, bringing the 1stments to the Constitution of the Bureau of Reconstruction, formerly Queen's Itoyal Regiment and the presided over by Mr. Sun Fo asst Northamptons is expected about Commissioner, is unable to transact May 17th, the Neuralia with the any important business owing to General Hospital on May 25th and the absence and resignation of the City of Pomma, with the Field many members of the staff. Ap Batteries and the motor Transport parently they feared complications Co., about May 26th. when the campaign against the Reds started and they have since failed. to put in an appearance. The new Commissioner, Mr. Chen Yao Tao, quarters will be at Whitefield Bar.ing on the repayment of the money
The Billets.
The 15th Infantry Brigade Head-
a brother-in-law of Mr, Wang Ching racks. The Scots Guard, the Welch Wei, unable to secure the assist. Regiment and the 1st Northamptons ance he requires, is showing signs will go to the Peninsula hotel and of dissuuragement and there is taik the 1st Queen's Royal Regiment to of his possible retirement. The Wellington, Victoria and Lyemun Bureau of Reconstruction has super- Barracks. vision over the railway lines and The Field Batteries R.A. will be public highways of the Province.
accommodated in the Rope Factory, By special order of the General and the Motor Transport Co. and Officer Commanding the Troops in the 58th Field Company, R.E., at Kwangtung, railway workers are not shatushaipo. The 10th Field Ara allowed to strike when they please.bulance will go to King's College It is stated that as the railway is and the General Hospital to the & public utility and of vital import Diocesan Boys' School which build- ance to military transportation ita ings, of course, are now under the service must not be curtailed owing control of the R.A.M.C.
to any grievance on the part of the workers.
PROPERTY SALE.
The armed farmers, the militia aganised some two or three yearsNO. ; QUEEN'S ROAD EAST. ago, who are generally under Red influence, still refuse to submit to
At Messrs. Lammert Brothers the dictation of General Chiang Auction Rooms, Daddel! Street, Kai Shek and the Canton militar yesterday afternoon, there was sold, ists. They are now the greatest by order of the mortgagee, e lenee menace to the Nanking faction in hold property at No. 25, Queen's South China and reports are con Road East.
between them and troop CO13-
tinually reaching Canton of fighting The premises are held for the manders supporting Chiang Kai term of 999 years, from June 1st, Shek. Pro-Chiang Kai Shek troops, 1867, and the property has an area now at Shiukwan, are preparing to of 940 square feet, and the annual
invade Hunan and to march on
Crown rent is $12.02. Changsha to bust the Reds who The upset price was 820,000, and still dominate the situation there. there followed some brisk bidding On Sunday the inmates of the by stages of 8100, 8200 and $300, Canton Prison attempted to escape until the figure of 223,000 was by first overpowering the guards reached, for which wum Mr. Fung and warders on duty, but the dis- Pok Um became the purchaser. turbande attracted the attention The property at No. 64, Sai of other officials, and police re Kung Road, Kowloon Bay, which inforcements soon ended the at- was to have been sold by order of tempt. The inmates were trying to the mortgages at the China Aue- take advantage of a change of staffs tion Rooms yesterday afternoon
in the Prison.
was withdrawn from the market.
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borrowed from them by European countries in order to carry on war against a common foe, in the success of which they were 20 vitally interested.'
on
1t was
the first plaintiff was $4,000, and by the second $5,000. That was all out of five lakhs of dollars.
In reply to His Lordship, Mr. Potter said he would not be trou: bled particularly with the second
present action, and on the Original Jurisdiction writ he sued as an in- fant by his best friend.
Mr. Potter added that becA NGE he aned as an infant then, he would With the exception of Russia
not suggest that that proved he mortgage.
was an infant in February, 1925, these Southern States provide the On December 15th, 1907, man only use
but it did prove that he did not. record where the named Lo Kau died in Macao. He come to Hong Kong with the inten- obligation to repay money borrow was a man of wealth, and had tion of concealing his age from ed for industrial purposes has been adopted the not uncommon Chinese anyone.
practice of investing money in re- property in the names of other people. That procedure bad caused trouble in Chinese families before now, and in the present case it was undoubtedly the direct cause of the action.
definitely And deliberately pudiated, and recognition of the debt forbidden by law.
STREET FIGHTERS ARRESTED.
SETTLING AN OLD SCORE.
Lo Kau
Fraud Charge To Be Refuted. Turning to the question of fraud, which Mr. Potter said had been alleged against them, he was going. to establish that they had not com- witted fraud, and his submission would be that it was wholly irre- levent.
One Wite And Nine Concubines.
Lo Kau had a kit fat wife and
Referring to letters, which Mr. ning concubines, and altogether he Potter said contained the allega; bad 16 sons. The only names His tions, he said they merely alleged Lordship needed to remember at that by reason of the infants sign- the moment were Lo Ling Yuk, the ing certain documents in which eldest, aged 24 when his father they were not represented as in died, and the two plaintiffs. The funts, they suggested that they first plaintiff was born on april were of nge, and that was fraud, 26th, 1904, and the second on He would submit that an infant August 2nd, 1905, and were resper could not be expected to under tively the 14th and 16th sons of stand such documents unless they. were explained, and he said the. Both had spent some time in documents the infants signed were Hong Kong and had been partly not even, read over to them, educated at St. Stephen's College. He then referred to two inter- mitted by the defence which went the Central Magistracy, later in a The dates of birth were not ad preters, T. L. Bung, formerly at so far as to say that the plaintiffs, solicitor's office and now dead, und were, at all material times, 21 years Loung Wing Cheung, solicitor's of age.
interpreter. He said it appeared Continuing, Mr. Potter said he that Bung had agreed to help the would call evidence which he brothers, if they would pay him thought would leave no doubt in 10 per cent, of the amount recover his Lordship's mind that the plain-od, and Sung later brought in tiffs were born on the dates he had Leung Wing Cheung who agreed given.
to help for five per cent. He also Mr. Potter went on to speak of referred to statements made by dissatisfaction arising among the Bung in which he affirmed the in- sons with regard to the property. fante werb of age. He understood the Macao property Later the brothers again saw had been dealt with, and the poi Sung and Leung, and six of them tion taken by the eldest son was signed a promissory note for $8,000 that there WHE no Hong Kong each to terminate the agreement property. However, rightly or
Three Chinese men-one of them with a bandaged hond-and a woman appeared 越光 Kowloon Magistracy yesterday before Mr. W. Schofield on a charge of assault. It was stated that the defendants were seen fighting with bamboo poles in the middle of a large crowd yesterday. The quarrel was the result of a land dispute in the New Territories of some four years standing. The third defendant, alleging that he and his wife had been assaulted by the other two defendante, said that his name had been assumed and used to acquire a piece of land belonging to him.
The Magistrate: The Brat defen- dant some to have had the worst of it.
The first defendant stated that the third defendant and his wife had struck him on the arms and forehead with bamboo poles.
The Magistrate: If you have
they agreed to help for a percen Officer.
thought that a great deal of the tage. The notes were signed. the Dietrices, take them to wrongly, a number of the brothers which they had entered into which The first second and third de property was really their father's During the afternoon Mr. Petter fendants were ined 68 each and and that they should have a share cited fully a number of legal bound over to keep the peace for | of it.
analogies after which the case was one year in the sum of $1,000 each,
adjourned until the morning.
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