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SHANGHAI PROVISIONAL COURT.
SETTLEMENT MERCHANT HANDED OVER TO
NATIONALISTS
AN ATTEMPT AT EXTORTION?
NETHERLANDS DEPUTY'S STRONG
PROTEST.
feree Mr. Ong into the Wei Taung Hotel. A Chinese policeman wit nessed the attempt and heard Mr. Ong shout for help. He rushed to his assistance and after asking a few questions took both the soldier and Mr. Ong to the police station. At this time there was no repre sentative of the Chipese authorities present, the witness said.
What is believed to be the Erst ↑ that at 8' a.m. op. Monday, on Foo- direet accusation against the local chow Road, a man dressed in the military authorities of extorting or uniform of a Chinese (Nationalist) arresting for the purpose of extort-soldier was seen endeavouring to ing money from the wealthier class of Shanghai merchants was made in the Provisional Court, Shanghai, last Tuesday, say's the Shanghai Times, by Consular Deputy Box, of the Netherlands Consulate-General Deputy Bos sat with Judge Ling and heard an application made by the Chinese military authorities for the 'handing over of a wealthy and Frominent pawn-shop proprietor of
The Chinese constable who pre the International Settlement named vented the "kidnapping"
COTTO- Qag Tah Yuen, aged 33, who has borated the evidence given by the been a resident of the International detective relating to bis responding Settlement for 32 years. In addito the accused's cries for help and |tion-to-being a pawn shop-propria added that the soldier insisted that tor Mr. Ong is the representative he should also accompany him into of the Pawnshop Guild of Shanghai, the hotel where an aide-de-camp one of the wealthiest and most
was waiting. I told him that if influential organizations in the city he did not come with me to the Detective Inspector Conduit, of police station I would use my Leuza Station, informed the Court pistol," said the C.P.C. that Mr. Ong had been arrested on
Judge's Suggestion. Monday morning on Foochow Road
Judge Ling, in reply to Attorney by " detective attached to General Yang's reiterated opposition to the Yang Hu's, the Defence Commisapplication, informed counsel that sioner's, army. No effort to secure he could make his application for the co-operation of the Municipal the release of the accused to Police was made and had it not General Yang Hu's headquarters to been for the timely intervention of which Mr. Yang replied that he a wide awake officer Mr. Ong might could not and would not do that. have been spirited away to paints
Judge Ling accordingly granted beyond the Settlement without any one being any the wiser. The agent of General Yang Hu carried a warrant for the arrest of Mr. Ong in which he was charged with being a Communist...
I am a business man with my business at 60, Hupeh Road," said Mr Ong to the Court, "I have been in business for 3 years and I have
the request of the Chinese military representative and ordered Mr. Ong to be handed over to the military on the charge of being
Communist."
Dutch Deputy's Protest. Deputy Bos disagreed with the Judge's decision and entered the following protest:--
no connection with ary politically
party.
Ysang Li Kyi went into the wit ness-box and testified that he was judge of the Chinese Military Court. "We suspect the accused to be connected with the Communist Party," he told Judge Ling, and I ask that he handed over to us.”
*No. Proot.
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WAS
HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD
AND.
MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.
“Fun o' The Fair"
WILL BE HELD AT
LEE GARDENS,
on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1st.
To be opened by LADY CLEMENTI, M.B.E., and under the distinguished patronage of
HIS EXCELLENCY SIR CECIL CLEMENTI, K.C.MG.
SHANGHAI POST OFFICE
CHAOS.
NATIONALISTS AFRAID OF
THE UNIONS..
THE RECENT STRIKE.
F
AMUSEMENT TREND.
BISHOP'S FEAR OF THE FUTURE.
THREE QUARTERS OF LIFE IS WORK.
boy
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EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
Atecar 18TH, 1927. A.K. Bank..................$1,055 buy.
• Doy.
London...114 nomi.... Chartered Bank
230 20m.
Mercantile Bant, A. &B...£39 nom.
Do
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China Fire Iniurisca
Rauba
$13' nom
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$54 buy, 541. $16.90, now.
$15 Be
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T. 84 non H.K. $3.65 bay. .....19/3 num.
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3112 buy.
$35 now. T. 188 buy. Tia. 4.40 buy, 't. SU LOM,
Presiding at Uppingham School 0. Bank buy. East Asia Bank......65.nom. Canton Insurance $590 That the Postal Commissioner speech-day, the headmaster (Rev.
China and other executive oficials of the B. H. Owen) said the greatest need his Underwriters (..)...$1 set.
North China Las... 143 nom. Union Insurance WAD Shanghai Post Office are almost of the moment was for the coun-
... kay, 983 ra. powerless towards the subordinate try to recover its capacity for hard anglate Insurance... 137 nom.
$210 bay. staff of the institution," which has work. In all ranks of society à Hong Kong Fire ina......3500 sel. formed a formidable background in restless craving for amusement and Douglasce the ships of the Postal Employees' excitement was evident, and this
Hong Kong Toge Tinion, is the assertion of the had largely displaced devotion to Indo-Chinas (Praf}
Du. (DeL) Shanghai Nippo, Shanghai the more seriaus things of life. Sball
1 Transports There was too conscientious a pur-gar Ferries Japanese newspaper. Political in- tricacies have brought about this suit of frivolity, and this was hav- Waterbout........ situation, it is stated
ing a tremendous effect upon young - Chlida Bagus le people, making them believe that Malabon Sagars The Nationalist _ authorities,"
nort was the one really im: Benguet-122
thing in life. A
Mining Ad5/- bay. "I must protest most emphatical the paper asserts, are afraid to brought up under such conditions Lang kata (odzbined.....The. 19 mom. against the decision of the judge. offend the Union lest trouble fol- had sooner or later to discover that Shal Explorations. Tit. 3 nom.
Do, (single) No Pevidence was shown to the Court that: then accused had Com- lows, therefore the officials of the about three-quarters of his life had a muistic affiliations.
cess came only through devotion to Trench Mines...... It appears Post Office are not now in a posi- to be spent in work, and that suc. Banghar Louns that the accused
arrestedtion to discharge any employee, no a routine of duties necessarily |
Ural CarpianE ............ 2 man dressed partly in
and sometimes irk the uniform of a Nationalist soldier, matter, how idle or disobedient that monotonous.
H.K. & K Wharfs some. Unless boy's home Efe HK, & W. Docks..... without proper warrant and without employee may be..
taught him that, he had to pars Hongkow! .......-***** the assistance of the International
Members of the Postal Em- through a period of sad disillusy Naw Engineerings... Police, which, in fact, is mere kid-ployees' Union are enjoying a sort and disappointment. napping, which would have succeed of ammunity and privilege entirely
Shanghai Dooks The Bishop of Peterborough (D. HES. Hetals. cd if the International Police had foreign in other classes of employ Blagden), who distributed the H.K. Lands not appeared on the secne.
ient, and this is affording wonder prizes, remarked that, whatever Hong Kong Hesitys.....$6 sel A letter was received later from ful opportunity for the Communist harsh things had been said about HK Territorials dili sal General Yang Hu requesting the element to become active. It is the public schools, it could not be Humphreya Estates. nom. Irovisional Court to hand him over. generally believed that it would said that they had not turned out. Prince's Building.....199 As I stated above, no evidence was take considerable time and energy year by year and generation by Kural Lands given and I suspect that at the back on the part of the authorities be generation, a succession of men Eve Cotton at this is an attempt at extortion.fore they could put a stop to this." who did their duty and who served Oriental T. 1.50 bay,
The strike of the Postal em God and man to the utmost af Bhaughai Cotton (old)...T. 51 nem, Accused has had a "pawnshop
What had been
Do. (new)......11s 25 nom. in the Settlement for 32 years and ployees, prior to the arrival in their power.
B.K. Tramways ..... so far as the police could tell the Shangha: of the Nationalist troops, achieved, however, was but a frac-China Buses over to the military the latter must Court they knew nothing detri is still fresh in the minds of Shang- tion of what could well be achi Peak Trams (old) unine 14 self ***
mental against him. The accused hailanders. It demonstrated the ed. He sometimes felt frightened. is the representative of the Pawn power of the Union. The strike of when he went to London, to see, the shop Guild which in my opinion is the letter carriers, dorters and thousands and thousands of people
others of the Union completely who appeared to have no pur very indicative.
A visitor to the "Oxford The decision to hand this man auspended the postal system here in life. Further details of the arrest of over to the outside authorities on and caused no end of inconvenience, and Cambridge match at Lord's,
delay and financial losses.
for instance, if an observer of Mr. Ong by the agent of the no evidence whatever tends to
human nature, could not help but be frightened at the thought that Chins Lights (comb.).....$18 sel undermine the authority of the military authorities were given by International Settlement. (Sgd.)
Do. (old)......$9) nom H. Bos, Netherlands Deputy.
there were so many thousands of
who scemed people
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H.K. Electrica ....
Mr. Yang Ling, a Chinese at torney, appeared on behalf of Mr. Ong to
oppose the application. The Chinese authorities have no proof that the accused is a 'Cor munist," he said, "and before this Court can order him to be handed
prove that he is a Communist. So far they have shown no proof at
all."
!
Chinese detective 138 who stated
SIR A. COBHAM'S FILM "SWOOP.
BOMBING CHINESE
INSURGENTS."
RESCUE" FROM THE AIR.
Mr. Basil Emmott, the camera man who accompanied Sir Alan on his Cape to Cairo fight, was in one of the passenger 'planes filming the scene from the air.
Yelling Chinese."
In the village below no fewer than fis, other cameramen were "crank I saw some thrilling scenes from ing" their cameras, with Mr. the air, says the Daily Mail film Maurice Elvey, the director, high critic, flying over the Chinese vil up on a platform roaring out in lage built on the edge of the Stag structions to the hundreds of supers Lane Aerodrome at Edgware for garbed as Chinese, who yelled, the film "The Flight Commander," now being produced under the supervision of Sir Alan Cobham and in which he himself is taking a part.
shouted, fired off rifles and looked like overwhelming the principal- actors-until retribution came from the air.
The strike lasted for days and in the meantime hundreds of baga of mail accumulated but could not be distributed. The postal authori- ties alleviated the situation some what by keeping the post office open and permitting persons to call there for their mail
On the day following the arrival of the Nationalist forces a group of uniformed postal employees at- tacked a foreign" man who was driving on North Szechuan Road, Without waraing a uniformed postal employee opened fire on the foreigner, several bullets" striking the car, breaking the glane and O
Tóf narrowly missing the occupants of the car.
JAPAN TO INCREASE POSTAL RATES.
REVENUE EXPECTED TO BENEFIT Y.07,000,000.
Sir Alan's bomber seemed as if There has been a revolt in the it must tear into the buildings or
Tokyo, August-9th village, the English residents, in sweep, half the crowd away. But It is reported that the Depart cluding the heroine, are in immin with a precision reckoned in inches ment of Communications, we are object of increasing its révenue, ent danger of being killed by a he performed the numerous evolu has decided the raise the 1.5 sen Rescue tions that the scenario called for postal card to 3 sen. It is said surging mob of natives.. comes suddenly from the air. and was up, away, and back in that, by the raising of the charge. Sir Alan, in a bombing 'plane Croydon almost before the crowd for postal cards, the revenge of the Department will be true of the woops low along the main street, had recovered from their astonish Yen 87,000,000. terrifying the rebels and dropping ment.
a couple of bombs." After him come four troop-carrying machines, When he landed it was found that which circle over, the buildings, the "boinbs "ground charges un- triking new fear into the insur der the soil and exploded as be gente, land and disgorge their flew over the village, had singed freight of British marines who one of his wings and riddled it have been rushed to the rescue, with holes.
Regarding the raising of the charge for the ordinary sealed let ter from three sen to four sen, it is reported that the matter is still undecided. If this is realized, the revenue of the Department will be increased by Yen 18,000,000.-Tope.
EXCHANGE.
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