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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 23rd,
JUNK PIRATES SENTENCED.
BLAME PUT ON AN ABSENT PERSON.
JUDGE AGREES WITH VERDICT.
1927.
CORRESPONDENCE. DOCTOR AND SIKH
CHINESE EDUCATED
ABROAD.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESB.]
POLICEMAN.
COUNTER ALLEGATIONS OF ASSAULT,
DEFENDANT FINED $100.
SIR,The article by Sir Sidney Low in the Daily Mail, which is A rase in which there was a good The sequel to the theft of a junk reproduced in your issue to-day deal of conflicting evidence came i atan Mei, in Chinese waters shows that this gallant knight before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the (helween Swatow and Hong Kong) knows very little about the real Central Magistracy yesterday morn took place at the Criminal Sessions state of affairs in China. He based ing, when Dr. Alexander Carinón, į yesterday, when four Chinese ap-his information entirely from the one of the Governmient, doctors, peared before the acting Chiefverent speech of Sir Auckland summoned an Indian traffic con- Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) Geddes whosi the Westminster stable with assault in Morrison Gap and a jury, charged with possession | Gazette characterized as a "poli-Road on Monday Inst, about 7.45 of a junk at Cheung Chau (Dumician without consequence "" bestand) on May 12th, knowing words to that effect.
it to have been stolen outside the Celony, on May 10th.
All the prisonera pleaded guilty."
or ..
Chinese students educated in the United States are not ipso facto not anti-British, and contrary to what
Sir Sidney said, the Universities Soli-in the Eastern States, have more Chinese students thank those in the Middle West. If some Chinese are
Giving evidence, Dr. Cannon said that he was proceeding in his Austin car front Happy Valley to wards Wanchai. The light on Stubbs Rand corner was ngainst him all the way, and he had to p ten yards shart of the pornér of Stubbs Road.
Mr. II. K. Holmes (Crown citor) appeared to prosecute for the Crown, and in opening the case re ferred to the section of the ordi- į hostile to Britain, it is not due to At the moment the doctor saw nanee under which the men were their education but to other reasons. no ear coming the other way, but charged, which is to the effect that No one would charge Mr. Welling-presently three cars appeared from every person, who without lawful fon Koo with anti-British tendency the Wanchai direction and proceed- excuse receives or has in his posthough he received his training ed on to Stubbs Road. The dartor session in the Colony any property in the United States.
sounded his born to make his pre stolen outside the Coleny, knowing such property to have been stolen, shall be liable to a penalty.
On
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the other hand, Chinese sence known, but the light was still! officials who are to a certain extent against him. He shouted at the * How much considered to harbour hostile feel-Indian constable, Although, generally speaking, theing towards England are Mr. longer do you want me to siny Colony was not concerned with Eugene Chen and Mr. O. C. Where?" The Indian shouted some offraces committed outside its houn- neither of whom studied in the thing at the witness in a strange
daries the law provided for posses Middle West but acquired their tongue. sion of property stolen outside to education in London, England.→ prevent Hong Kong from becoming Enclosing my card, I am, etc.
repository for stolen property,
The junk, with some 70 piculs of
charcoal, was lying at a place be
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COLLISION,
INDIAN GUARD'S LONG SWIM WHY LOWER GRILLES WERE NOT UNLOCKED,
Mr. Russ: I know n. lot of Harley j THE CAPSUIMUN Street specialists who are cantari- kerous.
Dr. Cannon: And I know a num When the light was turned to green, the doctor was unable to her who have not much to dos-You- start his car. The constable then will find that even amongst lawyers shouted a great deal more in n only those with little work to do strange tongue, and the doctor lose their tempers,
There was further argument be The enquiry into the death of tween Hong Kong and Swalow on JAPANESE ON THE MODERN alighted from his ear and approach- May 10th there being on board the
ing the constable asked, "What do tween Mr. Russ and witness, and Chief Beer Martin and others a a result of the collision between the master, and three other men.
you want, shouting at me?" Then Mr. Russ said the constable this he received another volley of had been in the Forec five years. Leung Kwong and the steam the same strange language, and thead bore an excellent character.launch Moonshine at Caponimun doctor said that the constable was He had been specially trained as Pass on May 8th, was continued at
a traffic policeman, a department the Central Magistracy yesterday: evidently in a farious temper.
into which the Palier at their best
Mr. R. E. Lindsell men. He had passed with a per Coroner, with a special jury com- prising Messrs. F. C. Hall (fore- man), W. Logan and J. E. Joseph. Harbour Master (Liout. The Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N.) was also
GIRL.
FINDS HER QUITE HOPELESS.
TOKYO,
the
On that night, the master with another slept on deck, and the re- maining two slept in the hold. The raster and his companion were aroused by a party of men who Forty years hence, when
Glasses Broken, were cloths over their faces, and flapper, of to-day looks back · upon
He asked for the constable's num- they were forced to join the other her youthful folly, she will be most ber, but not getting it he approach-centage of 74.5. twn men of the crew in the hold remorseful, ii' the opinion of Dr.ed the man in order to ascertain it after which the hatch was dropped into place.
They remained in the hold until about three o'clock in the morning when they were called on deck, put in a small boat, and cast adrift.
Before leaving, the master asked to be allowed to take some account books with him, and this he was permitted to do.
The
were utterly ruined.
The defence was that the doctor
sat
on the Bench.
Mr. T. G. Bennett is appearing
Inaza Nitobe, the Japanese author, for himself. He was then struck asked the policeman to come to the who has just returned to Japan on the left side of the face, appar-car, and when he refused rushed Hig at him without saying a word, took after serving for three years as the ently with an open hand. representative of his country in the spectacles were smashed, and the hold of him by the shoulder and secretariat of the League of Nations. Indinn trampled on them so that wrenched his shoulder strap off. It for the owners, coxswin, and erew The was hard to believe that an Indian of the Moonshine; Mr. G. K. Hull "modern girl," as Dr. they Nitobe views her, is, he says, "an doctor bent down to try and re- constable would strike a European. Brutton for Captain Wilson of the attitude of mind," best shown in trieve his glasses, and he was then He (counsel) had never heard of Leung Kwong, and also for Mrs, the misuse of words. "They take struck a blow cross the buck with it happening, and he had been here Martin, widow of Mr. F. E. Á. some years. Even when there was Martin, who was drowned; and Mr. shelter under an approved voca
Witness said he did not retaliate any trouble with sailors outside G. S. Hugh Jones for the owners of bulary to suit their own conveni-
bars, the Indian police either call the Leung Kwong. at all. He managed to get a
Yesterday evidence ence."
glimpse of the constable's numbered a European or kept out of the and proceeded to the No. 2 Police was. They certainly never struck from another Indian guard and the pilot of the Leung Kwong. Fazal Station to make a report. He felt the Europeans, whoever they were.
Defendant's Version.
Khan, the guard, said that after that the man was rather dangerous
The Indian policeman said that the Leung Kwong had Jeft Hong at the time.
there were two cars coming from Kong.at 6.30 p.m., he was on duty,
·
The crew were eventually picked up by a fishing junk which took them to San Mei, where they re He illustrates by quoting an ecived information which caused American girl's approval of the them to cune to Hong Kong, growing divorce rate as a proof of In the meantime, the Hong Kong the liberation of womenkind. Police as the result of enquiries boarded the junk at Cheung Chau wore the four prisoners were ar rested.
Prisoners Denials,
When charged at the Police Station, the prisoners all denied complicity in the theft of the junk, and said they knew nothing about the craft having been stolen. They stated that they were engaged by a man named Yung Pong, the master, who had disappeared. At the time they were arrested Yung Pong was ashore at Cheung Chau attempting.
to sell the cargo of charcoal.
The Crown Solicitor stated that the police had made every effort to trace this man, but had failed to du so,
Surely she could not mean that American girts are forced into marriage from which they can be "liberated." Amerien is the Inst
a truncheon.
Oross-Examination Amenities.
Was Luken
Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who appeared Wanchai and at the same time two His post was on the upper deck
Then above the grilles, with the No. 1) place where a girl may be married for the Indian constable, cross-coming from Stubbs Road. against her will. That girl and examined Dr. Cannon, who said he noticed the doctor's car coming guard. After the collision he and
I use different vocabularies. To
upper deck grille and when this her liberty means licence; service that he took the trouble to obtain up from Happy Valley. He let the the No. 1 guard rushed to open tho means serving oneself or the the Indian's number because police two cars from Wanchai paas first, pandering to pleasure; sacrifice
the individual. The modern girl Dr. Cannon denied that he had looks upon this truth as the "in- dulging of the satisfaction of sent in a lot of complaints, but one's senses without regard for the said that he had mentioned several
matters to the Traffic Sergeant.
Mr. Lindsell: I am not surprised if he has..
welfare of others.
him to keep quiet and offered to At the Magistracy the first pri- give him $10. soner made a statement in which.
"Come
was done passengers came rushing
out.
Lo Tai, who had been No. 1 pilot on the Leung Kwong for over years, ssid in evidence that at
He did not see the Captain- means the sacrifice of others for authorities would require it, when and then let the Stubbs Road cars
at the time of the collision, but oneself.
he went to the Station to make a pass., Then the signal was turned
in favour of the doctor's car,
Chiel Officer Martin came up and Next to their wrong use of report of the matter.
After that, went on defendant, ordered him to lower a boat which words is their mistaken idea of
Mr. Russ: Have you not sent in personality. It is generally ac
the boat the upper deck became cepted that the development of a lot of complaints about traffic the doctor beckoned to him with he did. While they were untying his hand and called: "Come flooded. The lower deck grilles personality is the highest aim of policemen
here!". He did not go, so the were still locked and the aware of prevented him from gong down, to doctor drove his car to the past, passengers from the upper deck got out, pulled him by his shoulder the lower deck to open the grilles. strap and again said:
He further stated that he swam here," taking him to the side of ashore to the left side of the the car. The Indian tried to ward channel. It was nearer than the the European off, but did not know other side, but it took him one and whether he knocked his glasses to Mr. Russ: Were you not irritated the ground. Witness denied strik half an hour to reach safety. When asked at the Supreme when you could not start your caring the doctor with his truncheon.
The policeman admitted that he Dr. Cannon: It is one thing to became excited whilst this was the time of the collision he and he said he was engaged by Yung Court yesterday, if they had any Pong, who asked him to engage thing to say in reply to the charge, have a temper and another thing happening and kept calling out to the Chief Officer were in charge of the doctor: Don't you touch the bridge, When they passed the He got excited because the south end of the channel, they were another three. Seeing men on the prisoners all denied complicity in not to be able to keep it."
Mr. Russ commented that the de.me!" junk which was pointed out to him the theft, and made similar state-
Light. He could also see the Red shoulder.
or Mà Wun Light. The first 'sign prisoner said there, was already ments to those proviously given to tendant did not stop the car unduly held him a blow on the about 200 feet from the White of the approaching vessel was her the Police and at the Magistracy lung. He saw two cars approach- a crew on board but Yung Fous They each stated they were engaged ring from Wanchai Road and another Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse said white and green lights. She sp replied they were passengers. The by Yung Pong as members of the two from Stubbs Road. The com- that he considered, the policeman's
Hepeared to be in the bay on his side of the Red Light, and could not. priconer engaged the thres other crew.
The jury, after a brief retire plainant after shouting at him rush-character a very good one. prisoners and when they went on ent, found Nos. 1, 3 and 4 pried to him, tore the trap off his had been commended for bravery ave been more than 200 feet away Inspector Jamics, said that he was from the Red Light. The Leung board Yung Pong ordered two soners guilty and No. 2 gr shoulder and struck him.
on duty at No. 2 Station, when Dr. Kwong was heading straight up the nen who were sleeping on deck to soner "not guilty." This man was Mr. Buss (to witness): You were Cannon made his complaint, and channel towards the Red Light.
stated to be 17 years of age, while go below which they did willingly. the others were many years older, not annoyed at all; can you suggest sent a European sergeant out to The approaching vessel did not watch the Indian at work and to seem to have burned and appeared Later four men in the hold were
The policeman was relieved at 6 kept on her sourse and could see In sentencing the other three
You connot understand Hin. p.m., and on his return to the the starboard light of the vessel prisoners, His Lordship said that
station emphatically denied all that ahead. The Chief Officer requested All four men made other stato he thought the verdict was a correct dustani-how do you know the man the doctor had asserted.
The him to sound his syren, and he gave ments which were substantially the one, and that the three prisoners was annoyed I have heard Hin-shoulder strap was detached when it two blasts. There was no re-
belonged to; à band that planned same, except for one mado by the to attack this jury on May 10th dustani spoken in the gaol, and the man returned to the station but spouse. Another two blasts were firet prisoner in which he said at San Mei, and were about to could make out that this man was the shirt was not torn. The button then sounded, which brought a ro had unquestionably been broken off, from the on-coming, vessel. The when the four men wore put in a dispose of the cargo at Cheung speaking in an absolutely different and nut cut. The policeman was indication of the two blasts was that the two steamers should pass all boat seur Ping Hoi ho realis Chant when they were found.
His Lordships sentenced the three tone.
cach other on the starboard side, or green light to green light.
As this stage the enquiry whe again adjourned, until this morn ing, at 11.30.
No.
يه
A Good Character."
put a shore and took some booka dischargedoner was accordingly why the Indian should be annoyed see whether he was sober or not. Ito be stationary, The Leung Kwong
with them.
:
ed that Yung Pong had pirated the boat. He told Yung Pong he could not help him. Yung Pong told (Continuer on next Column.)
Witness: I cannot.
perfectly, sober when he reached the
inen to-five years hard labour., The doctor also said that he did station.
After pronouncing sentence, His not lose his temper, adding that Lordship commented to the jury that the verdict they had arrived only people with little work could character. I will not send him to
at was an entirely right one.
afford to do that.
Mr. Lindell: Defendant must be convicted. In view of his previous gaol I will find him $100.
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