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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY,
“JAPAN AND ELECTRIC
POWER.
TWO BORNEO SHOOTING CASES.
SEPTEMBER 22nd, 1927.
ELUDING DUTY ON
SHAMSHU...
GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING WILD MAN OF THE JUNGLE CAPTAIN OF THE SAI ON
NATIONALIZATION I
ENORMOUS EXPENSE.
There is some talk about the nationalization of electric power in Japan, Strong competition is being carried on in the business, which has brought home both to the Gov ernment and the trade the import sace of co-ordination. The Minis terial Party, which has made the nationalization of electric power part of its platform, is drawing up a plan, the Osaka draki reports, while one of the leading men in the industry goes so far as to predict that a Bill will be introduced at the next session of the Diet for pure chase of the industry by the Gov-
arament.
The scheme so far proposed may be divided into two groups. One is to purchase all the largest
TWO JAPANESE PLANTERS CHARGED.
ERAS IN IGNORANCE,
CHINESE DISTILLERY OWNER
SHARPLY FINED.
There is a case pending in the
The moving of two cases of Scrsions Court 43 Jesselton, North Borneo, which is of a somewhat medicated sumabu from the 1.3. unusual nature. In it two Japanese Shi On without duty having been planters will be charged with an paid, resulted in a Chinese distil attempt to murder a cooly by shoot-lery owner being fined "850 and wounded man, who has fortunately ing him, The allegation by the Capt. Campbell of the Sei On, 23. recovered from two serious bullet
The Chinese was charged with re- wounds, is to the effect that the moving dutiable liquor without a manager of the estate and his permit and Capt. Campbell was assistant appeared at the Kongsi late in the evening armed with a charged with allowing the liquor to rifle and pistol. They arrested the be removed from his ship without man, led him off towards the jungle demanding the proper permit from and after a scuffle shot him, first in the thigh and secondly through the the consignees. Both defendants back with abistal The man seems appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell to have been able to crawl back to at the Central Magistracy yester- his Kongsi the next morning after day. lying in the jungle all night. He was taken to the hospital at Beau fort and attended to by Dr. F. P. Jocelyne, the District Surgeon.
At the preliminary enquiry the
self-defence.
Mr. C. A. S. Rass appeared for the Chinese distillery and Mr. F E. Nash was for Capt. Campbell.
Evidence given by a representa.
Rundown-from the heat-or worry? enterprises carried on by private Japanese stated that they acted in tire of the Import and Export
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HOW ROBBERS ENTER A HOUSE.
The story, as told in Court yestër- Reference has been made to the day, of how three robbers gained
Office was to the effect that the capital. The other is to take over
Fai On arrived in port on Septem- part of these enterprises, includ-
ber 7th with six cases of dutinble ing the principal generating plants of the Sipitang District, is charged ship's manifest.
In another caso Marang, a Tagal liquor: These were declared on the Hong Kong Excavation Pile Driv-admittance to a house in Laichikek and transmission equipments. The with shooting and killing Tundah, paid on four cases and the liquor plan
Duty was dulying and Construction Company's Road is reminiscent of “Ali Baba Mhiisterial Party will attack the another Tagal, nearly two years was removed ashore. A few days structures to replace matshed at to build semi-permanent problem at its easiest approach and ago. The Tagal, who is a primi later, the consigues of the remain Repulse Bay bathing beach.
and the Forty Thieves." recommend that the principal gene- tive sort of person, has a way of ing two cases of wise had been
Theopas sesame" in this case rating plants, high pressure trans- doing his killing by night. His taken away. Ee admitted that he have also a scheme for new bathing brought a
Messrs. Shawan, Tomes, & Co. was "Please open the door I have mission lines and main connecting favourite method is to load his gun had taken delivery without a per- beach structures of an attractive lines in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and with slugs of varying shapes and mit
present from America the northern part of Eyushu should sizes and fire its through the wall
The door was character, and owners of burned for your son." be purchased by the State. or door of his enemy's house by the
matsheds have been circularised to promptly unlatched by Chinese- Many advantages are claimed for light of the Are Within. Long be
this effect and given particulars of woman, who bowed to her visitor State ownership. One is in the fore the inmates have recovered
the type of structure proposed for and invited him to a cup of tea. matter of financing. The business from the shock of the explosion the
Repulse Bay. needs a large capital. The Tokyo murderer is back in the cover of Electric Company, which is work-the jungle..
:
His Worship was informed that Capt. Campbell was a new master, who was probably unaware of the regulations and that a heavy fine fee of $5 was imposed. was not sought for. As stated a
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ing to its limita, needs 30 million In these cases everybody knows
As regards the other defendant, yen to carry on, while other com- who has done the dead but giving his Worship remarked that he could panics, such as the Toho, Daido, evidence against man who has not understand how a man who was Nippon and Ujikawa, require more revengeful relations does not appeal a dealer and distillery owner than 50 million in order to carry out their construction plans. The ne- cessary funds will be secured more easily when the enterprise is in the hands of the Government and the interest charged may be reduced to 5.3 or 5 per cent. from more than 3 per cent. paid by private capital. Diffenities of Scheme.
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to them. Evidence sometimes does could plead ignorance of the law, come out if one is suficiently pati- He imposed a hae of 850, and ent to wait for it and sufficient has ordered the confiscation of the to withstand typhoons.
o far been collected to send wine. Marang for trial. If things go ill for him the witnesses will give his relatione, if he has any, a wide TROUBLESOME BOY FROM berth.
THE COUNTRY.
P.
CONCERTS FOR WINTER
SEASON.
The price at which the nation-| HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. alization can be effected is a khotty problem to solve. Putting consump tion in Japan at a million kilos and the construction of generating plants nt Y.700 per kilo, this would make 700 million yen, to which the price for 800 miles of transmission lines at Y.70,000 per mile is to be added, making Y.756,000,000 in all. Sup- posing the private enterprises grow at the rate of generating 250,000 kilos more per year and the exten- sions figure at Ý.700 per kilo, about 28 million yen will have to be added to the transmission cost.
Before nationalization Can be effected the difficulties in figuring out the construction cost will have to be overcome. Moreover, the possible objection raised to the scheine on the ground that the Government is going to help out those companies whose mismanage ment has placed them in a difficult position must be overcome before the scheme can find sufficient sup- port.
PROPERTY LOSS TOTALS $203.054.
NINE MURDERS, AND 89 ROBERRIES IN AUGUST.
October
1977,
13th-Gilbert and Sullivan. 27th-18th Century Music. November
10th-Folk Music. 24th.-Romanticist Music
December
TO BE BEATEN AND RETURNED.
These are small bathing sheds. The visitor told the woman that with a ground area to suit the site he would like to speak to her son, (20 feet by 15 feet) allotted to per- mittees. The shed will contain two whereupon she sent Ear niece to dressing rooms, each one being fetch him from a neighbour's house. 9 feet by 7 feet, while the verandah While the niece was away, the rob- in front of them will be 10 feet er said that he had two friends wide, and strongly built in order waiting outside and if missie have no objection,” he would “like The framework will be of hard to ask them in." Consent was wood supported on cement con readily given, and the two accom erete foundations. The exterior plices were entered. A few minutes walls will consist of grey fat lafer the son returned, and "Italit" asbestos cement shecting, began to talk with the three set in timber frames, in which they visitors visitors, nene of whom he will be slightly sunk thereby secure or his mother had seen before ing a panelled effect. Similar
Suddenly one of them men sked material will be used for separating for a piece of paper, on which ho the dressing rooms. The roof will wrote an address telling the young be covered with either red or grey man to go there and claim the pre- Italit "corrugated sheets with sent from America. Another of the ridges to match. Suitable flooringi invited the son to the kitchen will be provided.
then
saying that he had something to The present plans are amended tell him in private, but once in- ones to those submitted to the side the kitchen the visitor bran- and which were abandoned.
dished a dagger, warning the lad Government about two years ago. to hold his tongue or he would be In each hut the floor will be stabbed. Meanwhile outside, one of feet above grade, and gives an open the robbets had hold of the mothe... air space underneath the building. and the other of the niece.. There is plenty of ventilation pro- rided, and the walls can be either white or grey, the woodwork in dark brown or green, and the roof in red.
At the Central Magistracy yester Each concert beginning at 5.26 day morning, a Chinese youth was charged with picking the pocket of another Chinese in Des Voeux Road Central the previous day, and stealing B1. He admitted the offence. According to the police the defendant was whipped for a Similar offence in June this year Asked why he continued to steal, the defendant said that he had no one in Hong Kong to depend on and be had no money to buy food. He had come here from the coun- try in the hope of lading employ January
ment, but had failed to find "any- 12th.-Music from Shakespeare. thing to do. He would like very 26th. French Modern Music. nch to go back to the country but February
had no money to pay his fare. OthMusic of Childhood.
The Magistrate ordered the lad In our correspondence column the 23rd Modern Music.
to receive 12 strokes of the cane, Hong Kong Smail Investors and March
and instructed the police to make Real Estate Co: also set out pro 8th--Choppin.
arrangements for the boy's retura nosala for rebuilding the Repulse 22nd.-Miscellaneous Programme, to the country afterwards. i Bay structures,
18th Allec in Wonderland,"
Music and short play
1923.
gang.
The provisional estimate places the cost at 8750 for each hut, but further equipment if needed may added to this cost
The robbers thought they had bluffed the borachold into silence, but the boy put up a atrenuous fight, and eventually managed to wreat the dagger from his cantor's hand. Those outside seeing that the tables were turned thoug dis cretion the better part oflour, and ran away.
The only man caught trought. before Mr., W. Schabbat the Kowloon Magistracy, and Eri day morning was set for the hear- ing of the case.
CRIME IN SHANGHAI. August 10th; the death in hospital 20th, it was ascertained that one unlawful purpose were further arms when three pistols and one on August 19th of a Chinese who of the deceased, a youth of 14, had charged with armed robbery and hundred rounds of ammunition. was stabbed the previous night been abducted on the Hankow Road sentenced to varying terms of im
were seized. Two were sentenced while lying on a camp, bed outside sometime at the beginning of prisonment. Of the 229 persons on a house on Woochang Road and August.
La imprisonment, one was fined and The other deceased had remand at the end of July charged one was sequitted Three Chinese the murder of a Chinese who was been appointed by the youth's with armed robbery, 112 were dealt were arrested for being in posses shot in Yangtze poo district on the father to negotiate with the abdue-with. One was sentenced to death,sion of firearms for an unlawful night of August 21st by an armed tors for his release and for this 68 were sentenced to imprisonment, purpose. Two were sentenced to purpose had been given the sum of one was handed over to the Chinese terms of imprisonment and one is Ten men were arrested and 83,000. Four persons wanted by Authorities, one was fined and 43 on remand. Three men on remand charged during the month in con- the French Police for armed abducwere acquitted. Fourteen persons for this class of offence were desit nection with murders that occurred | tion were arrested and handed arrested in connection with armed with. One was sentenced to im- in 1991, 1928 and 1977: The accused over. Six men were also arrested robberies which occurred in the prisonment and 'two acquitted. An appalling number of crimes are on remand. The case against for the armed abduction in the French Concession, were handed vai committed in "the International
a man arrested in February 1927 French Concession of a piece goods over to the French Police. In coa- * Motorista Attacked, Settlement during the month of for being concerned in the murder desler on August 12th. At the rection with armed robberies which August, according to figures pub of a ship's fireman in November, time of the arrests the victim was occurred in Chinese territory two the month of persons being attack- Four reports were 'received during lished in the current issue of the 1994, was concluded when the accus liberated, while one pistol, a quan- persons were arrested and were ored by armed Chinese whilst motor- Municipal Gazette. Nine persone ed was sentenced to a term of im-tity of ammunition and several dered to be handed over to the au- ing late at night on outlying roads were murdered, one of them a prisonment. Three men on remand motor car number plates were thoritica concerned. woman, during the month; a high-charged with the murder of a found. The sum of 8100,000 was
in the Western district. On three way and dwelling house robberies wharf coolie in the Wayside dis- demanded in this case. On August which no arms were used, were re by s gang of eight or nine armed Two robberies from premises, in occasions motor cars were stopped were committed, the stolen property trict on January 2nd, 1927, were afst five men and one woman were ported. Eleven reports of highway men and the occupants robbed but loss amounted to $203,054; 25 bir dealt with, two being sentenced to arrested for armed abduction of a robbery in which no arms were not otherwise molested. The vic- glaries were committed, four motor- imprisonment and one acquitted. Chinese boy on Robinson Road on ists were attacked by armed Chi- In connection with the murder of July 31st. The boy was found at nection with these reports eighteen eigners and on the other occasion used were also received. In con-tims in "two instances were for nese and seven persons were shot a Sikh watchman who was shot an address on Kungping Road. persons were arrested. Twe were two Chinese ladies. An attempt to during armed robberies,
dead by armed robbers in Louza! One of the abductors was fired at sentenced to imprisonment and six stop another car, containing two. The report of the Municipal district on May 11th, 1927, one man and wounded while attempting to teen are awaiting trial. Gazette for the month follows: - an remand was found guilty and escape and another injured himself
foreign passengers, by placing & barrier across the road, was fras Serious Crime.
sentenced to death. One man on by falling of a wall
Property Stolen.
trated by the chauffeur who drove This includes the murder of two cerned in the murder of a will de remand "charged with being con-
Robbery.
497 reports made under this through the obstraction.
Two Chinese lime merchants who were fective in Yangtze poo district on
Sixty-nine reports of armed rob heading during the month repre shots were fired at the car as it shot by a gang of armed men while March 11th, 1927, was sentenced to bery from premises and twenty on
sent an estimated loss of $200,054 passed but neither took effect. On in bed at a house on markham Road in the early morning of
a term of imprisonment.
the highway were received during and include 25 cases of burglary, August 30th a police patrol met the month. Beven cases of at two of house-breaking, three of and exchanged shots" with a gang Angust lab; the murder of an ex- mill foreman who was shot in the Three cases of armed abduction tempted armed robbery were also godown-breaking and is of shop of these men who escaped into the reported. Shots were fired by the and office-breaking. Buccessful in country, A Chinese has since been Peotoo Road district on the night were reported in the Settlement robbers in even instances result. vestigation was made in 123 cases, located suffering from buck shot of August 5th by two armed assas daring the month. In eath ing in teen Chinese being wound-resulting in the recovery of pro wounds and is at present detained sins; the death in hospital on instance the procedure was someed Three robbers died of wounds perty valued at $45,583; in addition by the Chinese Authorities. August 8th of a Chinese who was what similar, the victim being held
to which recoveries, to the extent of injured, in a fight in which ares up by arised men and removed in received at the time of their arrest. 298.070 were made in
"Crime Beyond Settlement Limits. connection In connection with the foregoing with reports received prior to were used in the Sinza' district on | waiting motor cars. In one case
Thirty-two cases of armed rob- August 6th, the murder of a Chinese, the person abducted was able to and reports of armed robberies oc- August 1st. In addition, success bery and one of piracy were report female whose dead body bearing make his escape while being driven curring, prior to August lat, forty-ful results were obtained in tened during the month as having oc chopper wounds was found lying in through the Settlement, but in so one persons, twelve of whom were esses reported as having occurred curred in territory under Chinese a field in the Gordon Boad dis doing he was bred at and wounded in possession of loaded firearms, out of limits and in one instance jurisdiction in the neighbourhood of trict on August 10th; the death in by the abductore. In connection were arrested. Three died of where the property was reported as Shanghai. In connection with the hospital on August 17th of an on, with this case two persons were arounds, one was sentenced to im jest known Chinese who was found in an rested and two loaded firearms Prinpont, one was acquitted and Three unconscious state suffering from axe seized. Arising out of the finding thirty-six are on remand. wounds in the head in the Yang of two murdered bodies off Fraser men on reanand charged with being tzspoo district on the night of Road and the morning of August in possession of frearms for an
Armed Abduction,
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above cases two persons were fired. at and wounded. Four "cases of Trafficking In Firearms,
murder and four of armed abduc.. Three foreigners and cas Chinese tion were also recorded.Shanghai: were arrested for trafficking is fire- Times.