PUTTING DOWN OPPOSITION.
THE REFRACTORY UNIONS.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 1st, 1927.
THE CASTLE PEAK TRAGEDY.
The Police authorities are station. ing special armed constables along' the Band, Canton, to guard against possible uprising of pro-Hankow A DISSERTATION ON SUICIDE.
workers..
Every Anti-Red" committee, GOVERNMENT'S REASON FOR in the City and in the country
THE RAID..
ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES FOUND.
districts, is to select a sub-com- mittee of ten membors whose duties
it will be to hunt down all "Beds," to bring to book all corrupt officials, [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. and to report all who have abused olcis positions by "feathering. their own nests."
By the forcible closing of a nuri- ber of pro-Hankow labour unions
It has been reiterated in Canton in Canton, the control of the that the liqur aud peasant's move Nauking or Chiang Kai Shek nents initiated by the Kuomintang! will continue to receive the full -section-of-the-Kuomintang-over-the
Southern Capital is now complete, support of the Party, but labour A recollection of the names of the fermier "Red" leaders in Chaton brings to wind that there is now no personality of any consequence' in that régime still active in the City. Mr. Kan Kun Shick, who was con- sidered a Red' was released frour amilitary custody at Woosung. Several days ago, after being fined a nominal aimount for at- tempting to join his comrades at Hankow. He is reported to be re-
MEN FAVOUR HANGING; WOMEN DROWNING.
Yesterday morning the ens in which a Chinese is alleged to have urdered his wife at Castle Peak was resumed at the Central Magis tracy bfeare Mr. R. E. Lindsell,
THIEF WHO NEARLY GOT { WATERFRONT BULLIES.
AWAY.
COOK BOY WHO WAS NOT ̧VERY' DRAVE.
MAGISTRATE'S SARCASTIC
COMMENTS: ---
GUILDERS DEMANDED FROM RETURNED EMIGRANTS,
SHARP SENTENCES
INFLICTED.
Fivo Chinese were yesterday charged at the Central Magistracy, before Major C. Willson, with in- timidating returned emigrants from.
the Dutch East Indies.
A Chinese who was found in the servants' quarters of Mr. T. Grim- shaw's house No. 8, Stanley. Ter- rave, at 3 am, on Wednesday, was
Inspector F. W. Shaftain, attari. The proscention is being conduct brought before Mr. R. E. Lindsell ed by the Assistant Crown Solicitar at the Central Magistracy yester ed to the S.C.A., told the Court Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith), while Mr. day morning and charged with be that the Java-China-Japan Lijn. J. A. Gordon Leask is for the de-ing in these promises without offices at Amoy and Jayn ́had authority. The excuse accused ton-rereived letters from the Chinese fence.
dereil was that he was on his way to Chamber of Commerce complaining visit a relative. The cook said he that returned emigrants on arriving was lying awake when he heard at Hong Kong often had great dit- footsteps on the balcony Vifside his fulty-in-getting their belongings. They room door. He switched on the
gang of electric light and saw the accused were also bullied by crawling out of the his room to coolies who demanded From 2 ta guilders from ench of the wards the room next door which was occupied by the amah. The emigrants for taking their luggage witness went downstairs and Bum-shore,
The .C.J., Inspector Shaftain moned the assistance of another
said, have their own uniformesi coolies who charge nothing for carry-
Dr. J. E. Dovey was regalled and cross-examined. He sinted that i the deceased had met her death by hanging and then was cut down and the rope tied areal her neck, the mark on the neck duo to hang ing might disappear. There would, however, be other signs which would point to hanging.
Witness agreed that most hang
It would ing cases were suicide. be very difficult to kill another per- son by hanging.
union pickets will no longer be allowed to arrest, fine, or imprison persons in their quarters. Under Red rute during the last two ur three-years, the labour unions became an imperium in imperio, nd by surrounding an administra tive.or judicial office in large num- Mr. Lensk: Is it not also true rs were able to force whatever that the most common method of levision they liked upon the ad-suicide after drowning is by hing [ing Not amòng, the Chinese..
makk
removed from the steamers.
When he returned upstairs he called out to the amah to switching passengers baggages ashore. on her light, but she rushed out But these coolies were also in calling out "Thief." Witness, and timidated by the gang who prey on his friend grabbed the accused, but the emigrants. It was very difficult for the ship's officers to check the Mr. Lindsell: You are brave activities of the gang, as when a by taking an overdose of opium, people, not to be able to secure one steamer is berthed alongside the turning to Canton but any "Reds" orker from forcing another to join but probably hanging was the most man between the two of you!-He-wharf, hundreds of men at once
inistration and officers of justice. Witness went, on to say that the he broke loose and ran downstairs.
The Canton Police have just sued an order prohibiting any
particular unioni.
|
Chinese preferred to commit suicide
common form of suicide among people of other nations.
expecting a leader will be greatly disappointed, 85 Mr. Kun has de The Seamen's Convention now be serted. M. Borodin and Mr. Sung held at Taiping Theatre, last
It was, he said, most common to Fo, to join General Li Tani Hain Wednesday ejected a number of ind PAREN of drowning dinong and other heads of the preisntleged Reds" from the meeting. woman and hanging among men., régime.
In the case of suicide by hang-", The Kuomintang have issued an rder from Nanking making every ing if the body was cut down im mployee of political organizations mediately afterwards the face would itin Kuomintang Territory ahe pale, while in the case of murder The reason being given for the member of the Kuomintang and sub-by hanging the fase was usually raid is that the Bankow Inction of acting them to all party rules and suffused. A baging groove the, Kuomintang some time ago re? | gulations.
ARMS AND EXPLOSIVES
SEIZED...
the
-mitted $250,000 to Carton-$150,000 | The Ministry of Finance at
for General Chen Chi Y. and
anton has during the five months $100,000 for the "Reds" in sup
ding May 31st remitted part of a coup against the present
support $3,000,000 in
of administration. They also allege that "Rode" have, since June 23rd, arthern expeditionary force.
t is likely that the Ministry been at Shekpai and at other poitits east of Canton City in readinessofinance will abolish the recently for an attack on the City. It is ersted luxury tax, but there is now reported that considerable pisibility of some modification so qualities of arms and ammunitious nito exclude certain necessities. have been seized. In houses and Anti-Japanese boycott_in] other places belonging to influentių) | Caton if carried out will mean pro-Red labour unions; and that it allow grade," or Japanese over 30 pounds of high explosives gods in the City must be disposed Irad, been discovered in a union within 15 days and that no one: headquarter. Aurong those arrests patronize Japanese banks, ed in the raids were a number of shops, and insurance. Chinese per-
nemployed strikera.
✯s having accounts with Japanese ***CLEANING " THE UNIVER.biks must withdraw them within a
SITY AND THE PARTY.
admit
The Kuomintang Authorities now that the Sun Yat Sen University has been a hot-bed of Bolshevism and a training school for radical propagandists." Accord ing to the Special Committee in vestigating the affairs of the Sun Yat Sen University, there have been found 444real Bolshevists" and
:>
The period from to-day (July 1st) to August 31st has been fixed as
th.
The National Chinese Students? lion has been affiliated to the
Bil W
rope
was very strong!
Witness and his friend chased along the new rond to the reservoir, but when they lost sight of the ac. cused round a bend they decided to give up the chase because they were afraid of being taken by surprise.
Magistrate: You
fellow!
Arc
swarm onto the ship, most of them for a legitimate purpose,
The Bve defendants went on board the ex Tjikemang when she ar rived here on June 26th. The first defendant went to one of the emigrants who had a chill in his arms, and demanded ten guilders a brave from him.
The cook further said that some time later the secused was brought in by a Chinese constabile. Witness the recognised the accused because
saw his face clearly in the tight trans-while struggling with him.
The mah said that when the cook called out to her she got of bed and while looking for her clogs planted a foot on back.
usually oblique, but if the was passed twice, round neck the groove would be verse. The Grat iwpression the witness had when he the deceased's body was that the rap round the neck bad been connected to that round the waist for the pur- pose of reaving the body far burial. Otherwise the witness could not account for the presence of the rape round the waist.
The cake was again adjourned.
A SECRET SOCIETY,
ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT,
CHINA.
TWO MEMBERS HEAVILY FINED.
Two Chinese were charged at ang People's Division of the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday komintang, and the head office of with membership of an unlawful Union will soon be transferred society. The defendants were re- Ini Canton to Nanking Recently presented by Mr. J. A. Gordon
Boy Scouts' Association in Leask. Citon was also brought under the K-mintang.
Sub-Inspector Dorney asid that
at 6 p.m. on June 16th he visited
-day being the second anniver- Kowloon Fire Station with a party str of the return of the Kuomin of Chinese detectives and searched
Complainant said that he could his luggage ashore and he saw no get the Company's coulias to take reason for paying the ten guilders, which is equivalent to about 8. The defendant threatened to throw his luggage overboard and bad actually scattered his belongings in all directions breaking one linsket in the process. Eventually the com- plainant paid over the ten guilders. Another ten guilders were then de Magistrato: Then you got a hor-manded for deck space on which the luggage stood. The complain. rid shock and jumped out of the nnt hesitated to pay this and the
om servaining 7-Yes.
defendant summoned several of his When the accused broke away gang who assaulted witness. from the cook the witness blew a police whistle.
a mai'2
A Chinese constable said he was attracted by the police whistle and saw the accused on the main road -running hard with a conved after him. Accused stopped and was immediately arrested."
The filth defendant was charged with threatening to kill several of the witnesses if they would appens to give evidence against him and his colleagues. The defence in this.
case was that accused was a runner”“ for a boarding house and was sent up to the Police Station to bail the other defendants out. The Police arrested him at the Stationi.
The Defence."- Accused said a "boy" employed at No. 12, Stanley Terrace was his
The first defendant was sentenced friend. As he (accused) was re- to three months' hard labour, the turning to the country that morn-second and third to two months.. ing, he went to his friend just be The fourth was discharged, and the fore sailing time to see if the latter fifth man got four months. had some money to take to latives. It was while he was on his way to the friend that the constable arrested him.
re-
Convicting the accused, His Wor- ship advised the witness to be more careful in his choice of friends in future.
Accused WAS sentenced to Bix weeks' imprisonment.
A HONOLULU “LUAU,”
FOR FORMER CHINESE RESIDENTS OF HAWAII.
Hui Aloha, an informal organiza- tion of former Chinese residents of
THE WHOLE TOWN'S
TALKING.
ANITA LOOS FILM AT THE QUEEN'S,
[ax OUR FILM CRITIC.]
"The Whole Town's Talking" is shewing at the Queen's to-day and Saturday. It is a typical light comedy from Hollywood, a modern- ised version of the Sunshine Come. dies. Possibly we got rather tired of Hotels where cisterns burst and lions chased scantily clad damsels not think that the modern version
"pinks among the professors and students. It was decided yes terday to take action against these to power after the suppres the baggage of two Hoklo membera alleged Teds," but long before of the Kwange and Yunnan of the brigade. He found some the raids of the 20th, practically all tops originally hired and brought papers relating to the Fuk Ye the suspects had left the Univer-Canton by the late Dr. Sun Yat Ling Society in a box belonging to there will be a holiday in one of the defendants. The man sity..
fnton. It will also be marked by was arrested and taken to the Water Honolulu, are to have a "luna." up and down the stairs, but we do
or native feast, on the afternoon t inauguration of another "anti- Police Station. Later in the even of July 11th on the grounds of makes up in subtlety what it has lost in uproarious absurdity. This banese boycott. Following the ing witness visited a wooden hut Ying Wa College. The men, which the time limit for "cleaning the vedores decision to handle no on the Hong Kong and Kowloon style, will consist of poi, pig ronat looked in the general effect of dull- is, of course, of native Hawaiian film begins very slowly and a cer tain amount of good acting is over- party," and before the end of the
are Japanese goods. the cotton Godown Company's premises, and under
ground, sweet
potato, ness. But it is good when it really next month, it is eppected that all
merchants have also an-here a small parcel of similar bananas, squid, fish, and other does get started, and the com- ousted. the "Reds" will
unced that they will cease buying papers was found thrust into a Honoluluan will appreciate.
which possibly only a former plicated chases and fights are as
thrilling 8 In spite, however, of everythingow grade goods beginning from crevice in the roof. The name of Hawaiian music, Hawaiian danccs Otis Harlan, the amorous fat man as any in this type of film. done by the Government the Reds
day.
the other defendant appeared on and Hawaiian spirit of Don't who is blessed with a ferocious wife, caro what color, all same brother," continue active, and are now doing
these papers, and this man WES their best to
cause disaffection
also arrested. among members of the Central
Witness added that he had heard Labour Union, which the Kuonin tang have taken under their special
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RIVER LEVELS.
BULLETIN
of the Fuk Ye Ling Society. Its
whole of China,*:-
care and, patronage. They have WANGTUNG CONSERVANCY activities extended throughout the been working, it is fumoured, with
Li Hong, watchman at the Kow some success to induce a section of the important Mechanics Union to West River at Shiuhing: June loon godowns, said that on the 28th, 18ft bins.; June 29th, night of June 16th the police visited break away from the Central Labour
falling: highest level on re- his hut and found the papers in the Union. The "Rede" are said to
cord a teas; lowest on receiling. Witness knew the second be rallying round the Revolution.
Bord Oin.
defendant-Kong Fat-and had 'a)- ary Workers' Delegate ConferenNorth River at Tsingyued: June! which is practically the same as 28th, 9ft. lin.; Juno 29th, lowed him to place the papers there falling; highest level on re on June 14th. When he left the the Kuomintang Workers' Delegate
bord 8ft. 7ina.; lowest pin.
papers in the hut Kong Tat had Conference, prescribed on April
told witness not to let anyone see 15th That, when the coup d'etat was effected. Up to yesterday, nearly 300" Reds" were arrested in Can- bon. This second round up was
started in the early morning of the 29th,
orth River at Samshui: June 28th, oft. Bins.; June 20th, eft. 9ins.; highest level on re cord 27ft. Jins.; lowest sft.
them.
The Magistrate (Mr. W. Scho- East River at Sheklung: June field) fined the defendants $150 each
"87th, 4ft. lin.; Jubo 29th, with the alternative of two months
4ft 1in highest 15ft. gins.; lowest aft
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are expected to add to the attracas Trixie Friganza to placate in The Whole Town's Talking." She makes a most imposing figure The "Tuau is intended to wel- and despite her enormous size s some soine friends returning from rather charming one, and her hea Honolulu and some who are going, packed husband is excellent. You the latter including the Rev. Cheung will remember how good he was in Chok Ling, of the Union Chapel "His Secretary." How pathetic, of the Church of Christ in China absurd, and yet loveable, and he is at Bonham Road, Miss Lum and we think even better in this film.
Those inglorious rôles are by no
SHORT STORY WSELEY several others.
A group of Honolulu Chinese, means easy, and unless stamped by
SYDRET A SEA-POWER clever characterization they
IN THE PACIFIC. By B. C. Bywaru... baseball players, is expected at real
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YARNS OF THE SEVEN SEAS. By F. G. COOPER Hong Kong during July, and they are dull
By Saust Hou may arrive in time to attend the dull, every gesture he makes counts
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By F. 4. MACKENZIE A committee has been appointed one misses him.
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luau, and since there will be no Horton, also a short while ago in formal invitations all former Hono-"Poker Faces." Ho gets a good relatives desiring to attend should certainly good actor but we liked tuluans and their friends and inany laughs in this film and is communicate early with Mr. Hin him better as a husband than a Wong, hon. general secretary of lover. South China Athletic Association There is plenty of movement aud at China Building, or with Mr. laughter after the beginning of Richard Shim, headmaster of Ying The Whole Town's Talking Wa College, 8, Bonham Rogd. come good acting all through.
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