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·TROOPS" AT NAN- CHANG.
DESIGNS ON CANTON.
VICTIMS OF THE 'BOMB.. OUTRAGE.
THE ANTIJAPANESE BOYCOTT.
THE NANKING
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,
ONLY JUST BEGUN." | CASTLE PEAK
THE TROUBLES IN CHINA.
TAXES.
FRENCH REFUSE TO PAY EXTRA TONNAGE DUES.
BRITISH TO TAKE SIMILAR ACTION.
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SIR FRANCIS AGEEN'S VIEW.
The Central Asian" Soalety hald ita annual dinner on July 8th at the Hotel Cecil, Lord Feel pre-
iding.
The taxes proposed by the Nan- Field-Marshal Lord Plumer, in king Administration, which range proposing the toast of the Society, [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT] "from 7% to 571% ad valorem, are expressed appreciation of what it not to be enforced until September was doing in making people better 1st. An attempt has been made, | acquainted with what was happen- however, to collect the proposed ing in the countries within its increased tonnage dues and it is circle. interesting to note that the Franch have refused to pay them,
More victims of the bomb outrage the Luk Yu Kui tea house have succumbed to their injuries. The number of deaths in connection with
the affair has reached six, and there are others. with little hope of re
The French Consular Authorities at Shanghai on July 30th sccepted payment of the Treaty tanange dues and granted Consular clear. ance to the French mail steamer covery. The outrage is not attri-after the Customs officials had re buted to a dispute among the rival fused to accept these dues and to
give Customs clearance certificates lenilers of the Chinese. Senmen's
The steamer sailed and there was Union.
no further incident.
"
Cantonese troops. guarding the Kiangai-Kwangtung borders have now no doubt that the Red armies concentrating at Nanchang have designs on Canton, Official information has been issued to this
effect.
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General Li Thai Hsin has been calling in troops to the city, and
Regiment of the Canton Army will How undertake the protection of this port.
It is understood that the British Minister has authorised the British Consul General at Shanghai to tako similar nction: with regard to British vessels.
According to present information it is not intended to enforce the payment of these extra taxes in Canton until November 1st. The excuse for the taxes is, of course, the promise of the abolition of likin
and the abandonment of all dues payable by the coastwise trade
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The Chairman, in reply, said the Society claimed to be the focus and centre of information from Asia.
Major-General Sir Neill Malcolm proposed the toast of "The Guests," and spoke of the position of Chinese in, the British Empire.
Sir Francis Aglen, responding. dealt with the present position in Chins. He said that latterly there had been a fall in Chinese affairs. The Times correspondent in Peking, a worthy successor of the famous Dr. Marrison, in one of his recent utterances expressed the opinion that it would take an astrologer to determine what would happen in China, and that
true. It would be most difficult to say when China was going to settle down be- cause, in his opinion, the troubles in China had only just begun. The so-called Nationalist movement could not be stayed. In spite of the reaction taking place against
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MURDER TRIAL.
CROWN CASE OPENED.
AUGUST 9th, 1927.
CORRESPONDENCE.
EUROPEAN AND CHINESE ATTITUDE TOWARDS DISTRESS.
JUDGE AND JURY VISIT SCENE [TO THE EDITOR OF THE “HONG KONG
OF THE TRAGEDY.
تمبر 71
DAILY PRESS.”1
The Castle Peak Marder case, Sta-There was witnessed at the which occupied several days during Welch Regimental Band concert at the hearing at the Central Magis-Kowloon Dock beach on Sunday tracy recently and excited great afternoon an incident that should interest locally in view of the re- not be passed over unrecorded. markable circumstances: of the Attracted by the music was a alleged crime, opened at the ad- journed Criminal Sessions at the Supreme Court yesterday morning, before the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood). There was, however, very little evidence taken.
The case was continued till about 12.30 p.m. and the Court then ad journed until 10.30 this morning.
The reason for the adjournment was that His Lordship thought it advisable that he, counsel and mem. bers of the jury should visit the spot at Castle Peak where the alleged crime took place. This would enable Counsel to make many points affecting the case very much clearer to the jury.
His Lordship, Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, acting Assistant Attorney. General, who is appearing for the Crown, Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, who conducted the proceedings at the Central Magistracy for the Crown, and is instructing Mr. Fitzroy, Mr.
the inspection.
The ease in question is one in which a Chinese is charged with the murder of his kit fat wife, at Castle Peak on April 7th.
group of some twenty blind Chinese girls. They had approached the beach, by a rugged path and stood almost as the edge of an embank. ment some three to four feet high. From this position they were listening to the fine music of the
Welch band. The leader of the group in an endeavour probably to approach the Dock grounds slipped down the embankment. Mr. Geo. Duncan, M.B.E., of the Dock staff, seeing the poor girl's predicament, rushed up to the group and, help. ing the lender to regain her feet, gently led her and some of her companions to a shady part, within the enclosure of the Recreation Club's lawn. Mr. J. M. Graça Ozario, another member of Dock Staff, rendered help to the other girls of the group. On the law the blind girls were left to enjoy the Tegimental concert with a number of people who had crossed over to Kowloon from Hong Kong,
the
Strange to remark, two or three
י.
the 13th Division and the 38th Apparently the idea is to levy the Communism, there was no reason F. C. Jenkin, appearing for the Chinese coolies who stood nearest additional taxes only in the larger to suppose that it would make any defence, and Mr. J. A. Gorden the girls cynically laughed at the centres where possibly it is hoped difference to-Chinese-relations with substantial amounts will be forth Russia, or to feeling towards this Leask, instructing him, together sight of the leading girl in dif- coming from foreign owned steam-country. The Chinese, however, with the seven jurors, and other Sculty.
One prefers to think that it was ers. No plans, however, have been realised that they were being steer officials connected with the Court As people wearing uniform in the drawn up by the Chinese authorised by alien influences in directions procedure, met at the Kowloon thoughtlessness that offered no help streefs enjoy in these days certain ties" and it would seem that the contrary to their true interests. Ferry yesterday afternoon and pro-in the circumstances, rather than a scheme they have in view is entirely They were awakening to that fact, seeded to Castle Peak to carry out callousacss that contrasted so strik privileges denied to the ordinary
ingly with the kindly act of the two impracticable, and will, even it and he hoped there would be a citizen, many persons have taken enforced, eventually defeat its own change for the better. The patience
Europeans.-Yours faithfully,
EYE-WITNESS. to wearing uniform without being object. An immediate result would and courage displayed by our conn- be undoubted a great increase in trymen in China, were worthy of entitled to do so. The Kuomintang
smuggling.
the greatest admiration and sup- have consequently issued an order
port Our policy of conciliation- The woman's body was dug up on A BATHING BEACH THIEF. and patience had landed us into the hillside, it wil be recalled, and announcing that uniforms must only
armed intervention for the proter she is alleged to have been murder- tion of our people, and there wased by her husband following quar- no prospect of setting any form to reis over a concubine. The defence that intervention. It must be pur-is that deceased committed suicide. sued with resolution, and it was in China's interests that, we should abandon all idea for the present of scuttling and deserting Chita, of giving up our large interests and running away. We must it tight and we should win through in the
be worn by bona fide members of the Army and Navy.
Home Comment: Writing on the subject of the new taxes the China Express and Teles
graph, says
A grave problem has been creat ed by the new tax proposals of The control of the Kwangtung
the Nanking Government. The Section of the Canton-Harkow Rail-
additional duties on imported way, from Wongsha to Salukwan, goods and the surtax on tonnage will be taken away from Mr. T. Tare themselves serious enough, but Lee, an appointee of Mr. Sun Fo, who had jurisdiction over the line
as the Minister of Communication before being dismissed some time ago as a "Red." Mr. Hau-Wei Tang has been appointed by the Nanking Authorities to succeed Mr.
Lee in Canton.
the plan to cover General Chiang Kai Shek's military expenses up to the end of the current year by the flotation of Treasury notes to the end... value of $50,000,000 secured on. the sal
Sir Francis Aglen, whose mar-
Case Outlined,
Outlining the case, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said that the prisoner and the woman were married 20 years ago, and soon after prisoner went to Ameries, returning later, to re- join, deccased.
About six years ago, the prisoner thok 4 concubine, and evidence would be called to show that quar rels occurred between the defendant and his wife. On one occasion the concubine held the wife while the prisoner beat her with a broom.
NEATLY CAUGHT BY NAVAL
MEN
A caretaker at the Kowloon Dock bathing beach was charged at Köw- loon Magistracy yesterday with attempting to steal from the poć- kets of sailors last week.
The defendant pleaded "Not guilty."
W. H. Rogers, A.B. of H.M.S. Sterling, stated that he and Ave other seamen had lost sums of money and other articles so they decided to lay a-trap. Five of them went down to the beach, leaving witness in a small shed
revenues of Kiangsu and riage at Brompton Parish Church Chekiang constitutes a flagrant to Miss Anna Moore Ritchie was violation of the Re-organisation recently announced, is the Inspec- Loan Agreement of 1913, and cau- tor-General of the Chinese Maritime not be recognised in any-way as a Customs who, it may be recalled,
from which the dressing shed could valid obligation. The matter, has
was removed from office in the early
Eventually the prisoner and his be teen through a storlee. When been before an emergency meeting part of the year for refusing to
witness a the caretaker' enter The Kuomintang Political Party the Diplomatic Corps in Peking, carry out the Peking Government's wife were not, on speaking terms,
run through tba Various ia. Swatow have actually participat but it is not surprising, in viewstructions regarding the collec- and on April 7th the woming was and ed in the anti-Japanese boycott, in- of past inactivity, that there is aon of unauthorised taxes. As the missed by a mai trai, who after a bundles of clothes, they then -ar- stead of simply influencing other general feeling, both in foreign outcome of vigoreus protests by the search, found the body of her misreated him.
Defendant said he had seen the organizations-the workers and the official and unofficial circles, that Powers and by influential Chinese tress in a doubled up. position in
clothes lying upon the floor and had it is useless to protest unless, the financiers, an arrangement was an outhouse. students-to carry it cut In
Home Governments are prepared to made by which, while retaining the The mu tai, however, did not only picked them up. Canton, however, the Kuomintang give their fullest support, and this title of Inspector-General, Bir say anything of the finding of the does not directly enforce the boy- the Powers have not at any time Francis was given a year's leave body, and later the prisoner said borative evidence. Witness added cott as a party activity."
exhibited any readiness to do since of absence on full pay, pending to friends and relatives that his that since last Tuesday seamön Chinese people in Washow are China's prezant troubles began. retirement. The new Lady Algen wife had gone to a relative. He from HMS. Sterling had lost calling upon the local authorities to The position of the Salt Gabelle is is the second daughter of the late later said she had run away with 8250. Of this $35 was stolen the
now extremely unsatisfactory. "The Mr. Murray Pringle Ritchie, of protest against the recent visit of a
great bulk of its collections go into Liverpool and Chili Bir Francis, Japanese gunboat to Wuchow,
unauthorised hands, and though who is 37 years of age, married in The Kuomintang Administration the revenue still reaching official 1906 Senga Marion, daughter of have explained to the merchants hands, mostly from Tientsin, more the late Professor Sir Bayley that the luxury tax has been misthan provides for administration Balfour. She died in 1925. He numed. It is not a tax on luxuries expenses, which are small, the has three sons and two daughters. only” and was never intended to be. margin must be a narrow one. Last year the revenues decreased
tax."
"SPEEDING UP" THE TELEPHONE.CO.
It should righly be called a foreign by 89,347,000. This year they will goods tax but it was thought a' tax be further decreased. About £400,000 on foreign goods would call forth is held in reserve," but this alone:: protest from the Powers and, there- does not suffice to meet the Septem- A Chinese who obtained $50 for fore, for want of a better name the her requirements of the leans of a cumshaw, on a promise that he tax was described as s luxury 1912. and 1908, which together would have a telephone installed The Committee of Canton amount to £525,807. In these cir-immediately, appeared yesterday at merchants, who were petitioning the cumstances the future of the Gabelle the Central Magistracy.
can only be described as very Defendant told Leung Yam, `& stallholder in the Western Street Market, that he would speed up the installation department of the Telephone Company for the sum of $50.
Government to abolish the tax have decided to take no further action.
uncertain."
L. H. Boyce, A.B., gave,corro-
a man. after trying to poison him first day, $147 the next day, and (prisoner) with arsenic.
The prisoner was not arrested until May 20th, and it was not until six days later that information as to a body having been buried on the hillside was received,
When the body was dug up it was found that there was "a rope Lied round the neck, the knot of which was in the middle of the back
of the neck. Mr. Fitzroy asked the jury to pay particular attention to
868 on Friday.
The Magistrate (Mr. W. Scho-
frid) sentenced prisoner to two
months' hard labour.
GRUDGE AGAINST
FOREMAN.
COOLIE SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT.
Because be thought the foreman the noose. The Crown, he said,had got him dismissed, Chinese would endeavour to establish that ex-employee of the P.W.D. attack. the noose seemed to indicate the ed the said foreman with a ham strangling of the woman as it had mer. He was charged yesterday at not slipped to the upper part of the Central Magistracy. the throat. In an ordinary case of A representative of the FW.D
foreman had hanging the rope would slip, and stated that the would not go straight round the nothing to do with defendant's
neck.
Sergeant Whant said that other When the body was examined it
dismissal.
The Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lind-
Mr. Looker gave notice in the The opium sale monopoly in House of Commons that he would, Canton has been given to a Hing on July 13th ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whe Wuri Syndicate for the annual con- ther his attention had been drawn tribution of $9,000,000, or $300,000 to the increase of the existing charges would probably be brought was found to be taummihed, there still sentenced defendant to six
Customs duties proposed by the a month. It is expected that some Nanking Government, and whether, against defendant. He asked for being no blood and no soft tissues weeks hard labour, telling him that ̈000,000-thels" of opium will be con in view of the treaties between The Magistrate (Mr.RE. Lind so that a bruise could not be seen. he had-no-earthly reason for as
Band Great Britain and China, he would sumed locally in Canton, every say what steps he proposed to take well) red bail at $250, with two Therefore, the usual test could not
be made.
in the matter.
a remand, with bail in $1,000.
surties of $250.
saulting the foreman with a piece
if iron, even if he did report him.
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