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CANTON SEEKING
ALLIES.
INVITATION TO CHEN MING SHU AND HSU, CHING TANG.
NEW THREAT FROM KIANGSI?
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT,]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1st, 1928.
RAPID GRAVITY FIL-ROUND THE POLICE JUNK ROBBERY AT
TRATION PLANT.
DEMONSTRATION TO-DAY AT BOWEN ROAD FILTER BED.
SOME DETAILS OF THE MACHINERY,
COURTS.
FU TAU MUN.
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REPUDIATION OF AN IO.U.
EUROPEAN LADY ROBBED. FOUR CHINESE CHARGED. ALLEGATION THAT IT WAS
PUBLIC SPIRITED CHINESE HAN ALLEGED HAUL-OF $2,240--
CONGRATULATED. "
[BX REPOSTLE.]
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I went round the Police Courts yesterday and the case of chic
by Chinese. European lady
gave chase Another Chinese who and caused the arrest of the thiet was congratulated by the Senior Magistrate, Mr. R. E. Lindsch
Four Chinese_were_yesterdax charged before Mr. R. E. Lindse!! at, the Central Magistracy with committing an armed robbery on a
25th and stealing money, clothing| and vegetables valued at $2,210.
The third defendant charged with being a returned banishee.
Evidence given by the master of
WAS
also
FORGED."
GARAGE CLERK'S STORY DISBELIEVED,
A defendant in the Summary Court yesterday afternoon alleged
By the permission of the Water General Li Tosi Hsin is doing his Authority. The Paterson Engineer- interest concerned the rubbing of a junk at Fu Tau Mun on January that an Indian watchmen was de best to secure as many allies asing Company will give a demonstra- possible. Among Cantonese milition of their newly installed Rapid cary leaders Chen Ming Shu and Gravity Filtration Plant at the Hsu Ching Tang are to be consult Bowen Road Filter Reds to-day. de with a view to their taking othee in Canton Corwin members of the West Hill party have also been up- proached and some of them are now in Canton A serious attempt is
A general description of the plant is given below:-
Another case also of soune i portance was a' charge of stealing iwo letters brought agninat a young
on Friday.
frauding him and telling lies whea he (the watchman) said that he (defendant) owed him 830 under an IOU. He denied that he owed the watchwen any money, and al- beged that the plaintiff had made
The case which was rather un-
merly a watchman, at the Hong Kang Hotel Garage, who sued Ling Shung, a clerk at the saune Sarage, for 830, stated to have been
The raw water is taken from the Chinese. The case will be heard the junk was to the effect that the falso entry in a book."
Bowen Road Conduit by a 15' C.t.
junk arrived at Shaukiwan 03
also being made to reorganise the pipe and delivered to the inlet Chinesa for his public spirited January 24th from Shan Mee with usual concerned Bhag Sing, for
chamber which is controlled by an automatic inlet control valve from The which it passes over
Kuomintang 19 Canton adulting conservative only the .more
The dilucultivo, muitary elements. and financia, are far too great to
A weir be solved unless several doubtful fluctuations in the level of water elenials can be brought in to supflowing over this measuring weir port the party now in power.
Much fear is felt in Canton that automatically control the supply of the defeated Hunanese and the Cantonese in rivalry with the Kwangi Clique, will join" in South- era Kiangs and make a joint attack on the Kwangsi forces first
the chemical reagents necessary to effect purification. The reagents used are sulphate of alumina and hydrated lime which are added to
The Filter Beds.
then
in Kwangtung and then in Hunan. the raw water sa it Hows over the At present the Kwangs "party" headed by General Pei Tsung Hs measuring weir and are and Li Tsai Hain have full control | thoroughly mixed with the water in of Hankow and Canton
General Li Tani Hain has been passing through a mixing chamber. The water then enters a feed giving oficial dinner parties, to officials during the last few days, conduit which runs the whole length and he proposes soon to entertain of the fijter beds and thence to the foreign, Consula to a banquet at which the Canton leaders, are ex beds through regulating valves. pected to make important stato inents on the foreign policy of the
The filter beds, which are six in present regime.
Speculators whe hold
number, constructed of reinforced amounts in Canton notes are tr-concrete, are of the Rapid Gravity ing to influence the Administration type cach ge′ 0′′ × 12′ 0" giving a to borrow money for the redemp tion of notes and thus enhance the value of money which they bought at 25 or 30. The general public would rather see the whole iscue collapse and disappear from the ⚫imarket.
large
total filtering area of 1,798 sq. ft. The filtering capacity is rated at 72 galls, per sq. ft. per hour, giving a maximum output of three million gallons per day.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell praised a nation in helping to arrest a foot pad who had suatched a handbag belonging to Miss öylvia Keigh, 102, Second Street. walking along Queen's Road West, It appeared that Miss Keigh was when the culprit snatched her hand bag.
She immediately cried out "stop thief in English and Mr. Leung Nam Hin who was standing outside his shop gave chase with the result that the thief was ar charged yesterday
rested "and morning.
In centencing the prisoner to strokes of the birch, Mr. Lindsell aine months bard labour and 20 said, that be considered Mr. Leung Nam Hin had done extraordinarily well and that it was a pity that there were not more mea lise him in Hong Kong,
ROPES FROM A STEAMER." Two Chinese were charged at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr. W Schofield with etealing ropes valued
$500 from the as. Wing long The charge was amended to one of receiving stolen property and the first defendant was sentoused to
weeks' hard labour.. The second defendant who had a previous con viction was given two months' hard labour.
"
CHINESE LADY DOCTOR AS. COMPLAINANT.
Sunday and Monday passed off in Canton without disturbance, and the threat of the "Reds was merely propagandist. The Police were particuarly vigilant but the unearthing of Red plots" has simply been the collecting of literature distributed by the Kuomintang when the latter was dominated by the Reds. Some of valve controlled by automatic was instructed by Mr. James Hall
Each bed contains, specially grad.. ed sand to a depth of 1" laid on-top-of a boil of specially graded pebble 18 in depth. The water
A Chinese boy was charged be gravitates through this filtering tore Mr. R. E. Lindsell with steal- medium. is collected by a strainering two letters belonging to a ripe system laid on the floor of these lady doctor named Leong filter bed and "is drawn off into Wai Kong. covered inspection boxes, through
Mr. Hin Shing. Lo said that he
جندة
been
Waste
bome
these publicasions have been stored up by innocent persons đặ
There DANCE. genuine Red" activity behind The scare but a good deal of it has beca worked up by detectives
and secret service mien.
The.
Red leaders are said to be suggesting that they should term themselves the Socialist Democra
for the prosecution and that the complainant viewed the charge in a very serious light.
The case
was remanded until Friday morning and bail in the sam of $1,000 was allowed. It is under. stood that Mr. A. E. Hall will be
pearing for the defendant.
gear. The filtrate then passes to vered pure water channel and so to the servico reservoir.
The Srst twenty minutes flow from ench bed after cleansing, ante- matically flows into a low level wash water tank below the filter beds, from where it is pumped to a high level wash water tank on the roof of the Chemical House, ready for the Party. The surviving mem-fiter washing. bems of the recent "Soviet Govern- When the alter becomes choked
The ease against the Indian con now in with accumulated impurities, it is stabls who is being charged with in Canton are ment!! Shanghai and the Straits Settle- cleansed by first agitating with com
pressed air through the nozzles of Larueny of a gent and kid, belong. the strainer pipe system and then ing to an indian watchman em flushing the loosened impurities to proyed by the China Light & Power specially designed wash water chan-o., Ltd, was continued before Mr. nels by a reverse current of clean- W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magie
tracy yesterday afternoon. king water.
ments.
Canton-Kowloon Railroad Authori- ties have been ordered by the Can- ton Administration to levy a tax of 10 per cent on travelling tickets in aid of the relief fund.
The Hong Kong Chinese Stud-
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The Chemical House.
THE GOAT AND KID CASE
His crew
a curgo of vegetables, shoes and poultry. As the junk was nearing Fu Tau Mhs, the defendants craft
opened dred on them. crossed his bow and simultaneously
took tright and ran into the bold. The robbers then shouted to com- plainant to stop which he did. The defendants and another man, not in, custody, boarded the junk and crdered the complainant to get into the hold or else he would be. shot. The robbers were armed with rides and daggers:
The robbers then took the junk to Tai Mui (Joss House Bay) where they ransacked it and took away property valued at $2,240, ỌC 49 pigs on board the ship, the pirates took 20. The other 98 and some green peas were removed by an- other gang of bandits the next day. The robbera remained an board until January 26th when a motor boat came alongside with food for Almost at the same time, them. the police patrol launch was sight ed, and the occupants called out to the Police for help. The robbers took fright and rowed themselves ashore where they began to run up
ahill. The Police saw, what was happening and began to fre on the After a stern escaping thieves. chase the four men were arrested, and one of them was shot dead.
After further evidence had been given the case was adjourned
DANGEROUS DRIVING
SUMMONS.
INGENIOUS DEFENCE,
OVERTAKING POLICE SIDE. CAR EQUALLY, GUILTY!
An ingenious defence was made by Mr. Horace Lo in an excessive speed case brought yesterday, be fore Major C. Willson at. the Cen- tral Mag.tracy, against the Chi- nese driver of public motor-car No. 413
His point was that if his client were driving in a dangerous manner the Tratic. Sergeant who followed him in a sidecar must have been driving still more dangerously
to overtake him.
His Worship dismissed the plea Mr. L. D. Turner appeared for the prosecution aid Mr. K. S. and fined defendant $90. Chowdbury (instructed by Mr. A.Traffic Sergt. F. J. Clarke said E. Hall) defended.
westerly
borrowed under an: 1.0.U.
„Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who appeared for plaintiff, said that plainti!! was obviously not a moneylender and cortinly not registered as one. Both plaintiff and defendant were, at the time in question, employed. at the Hong Kong Hotel Garage, defendant being a clark.
Plaintiff was now a guard at the Victoria Gaol and the defendant was still employed at the Garage, The two points to be devided in the case was (1) whether plaintiff was a moneylender, and (2) whether de fendant was the man to whom the money was lent
Giving, evidence, the plaintiā said that he obtained employment at the Hong Kong Garage five daya before the defendant did. Or De- comber, 15th, defendant came to his quarters act asked for a dean of 850. Witness said he ultimately loamed 850 to defendant, for which defendant signed a 1.0.U., which was made out by a friend of plain- tiff's. This friend bad since re turned to India. Plaintiff asked for repayment on January lat and failing to recover the loan be issued. a writ on defendant.
Allegation Of Forgery.. ́. Defendant's ory was to the effect that there were two books kept at the garage dealing with cars going out and coming in, and that he kept one and plaintiff the other. Every evening, when plain- tiff came on duty, witnese handed his own book to plaintiff, reclaim- ing it the following day,
He produced a book in count, and alleged that it was on a leaf from this book that he wrote his name at the request of plaintiff, who had asked him how he wrote, his name and how he spelt it. He said he did not know what plaintiff did He with this leaf afterwards. alleged that plaintiff put the letters 1.0.0. at the top of the leaf. De fendant denied that he had ever borrowed any money from plain-
an L.O.U. tiff or that he had ever made out
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Solicitor's Indignation.
The whole, washing process is ac-
Asked by His Lordship if he had ents' Union, an organisation of complished and the bed is again
any questions to ask dofendant, period of ten students who left Hong Kong for operation within
that at 12.45 p.m. on January 24th
Mr. Russ said he would not bother. Canton during the anti-British minutes. One man can carry through
On the conclusion of the case for he saw the defendant's car travel It was obvious that defendant had strike of 1925, will be proscribed by the whole operation without moving the prosecution, Mr. Chowdhury ling along Des Voeux Road, past contradicted himself during his the Canton Anthorities.
|from the operating platform.
evidence. Mr. Russ added: If I submitted that there was no prima Wing Lok Street, in Pro-Kwangtung inilitariats report
fucie case against the defendant, direction The car was going at a may say so, with all respect, your that the 4th Army under Chang
The Chemical House, which is a nad remarked that the evidence of high speed, so witness chased and Lordship; it seems disgraceful that Fat Fuf is expected to occupy the
thres floored bricked and reinforced the complainant was fabricated. caught up with the car at Centre people should come into your Lord- Hoifung and Lukfung Districts in Eastern Kwangtung where at pre-concrete structure, contains the lime Mr. Chowdhury commented on the Street, where they stopped. The ship's court and he like this with- mill and alumina tanks on the top complainant's refusal to accept car was being driven, in witness's out some drastic notion being sant "Red" tyranny is oppressing Anor, the reagent proportioning gear $100 as settlement.
estimation, n about 25 m.p.h. all taken." the countryside. Chang hopes to
The case was adjourned.
the way. It was the day after recruit some of these disorderly on the middle floor and the pumps on the ground
Chinese New Year and the streets and compressors
Witnces had elements into his depleted force.
floor, while the roof carries the high
were very, crowded, level wash water tank.
Sergt. Buckner in the side-car.
Sergt. G. Buckner corroborated Replying to Mr. Lo, witness skid the car was about 50 yards ahead
THE POPE'S SORROWS. "SAVAGE EPISODES". IN
The alumina solution which is prepared by dissolving alumina. ferric blocks in twelve-hour capacity tanks, is piped to a regulating box which controls the flow by means of an automatic taper valve under a constant head.
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ANOTHER RETURNED
BANISHEE
ELUDING THE POLICE.
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell a Chinese Was sentenced to nine months hard labour and twenty strokes, for returning from banish CHINA AND RUSSIA.
ment. The defendant was banish. ed in 1920 for three years, but re The Pope, answering Christmas
The lime mixture is prepared in turned within a few months, when delivered a short address, mention the lime mill and pipes to the lime he was imprisoned and banished greetings from the Sacred College,
which has continuous for ten years. This is "his second ing the reasons for the joy and container sonnow that fill his heart. Among agitating gear, actuated through return to the Colony since 1990. the first be alluded to the rejoicing shafting from an underabot water over Japan, where the first native wheel driven by the incoming raw bishop had been appointed. Among water. From the fime container the the reasons for sorrow enumerated solution is fed to automatic tipping by bis Holiness were the savage buckets which can be set to give any episodes, cruelties, and atrocities desired qua.tity of reagent."
Provision Against Breakdowns. happening in Mexico, Russia, and China, it seeming to be impossible
To provide against breakdowns that all the Governments should not rise up and put an end to them the air compressors and wash-water pumps are in duplicate, ane set of The words the Pope are taken the former being operated by an to mean that Great Britain and electric rotor and the other by an Franco ought to bring pressure to bear in China, and that the same oil engine, while one set of the latter countries, with the addition, prosperated by a water turbine and bably, of Germany and Poland, the other by an electric motor. should do the same thing in Russia,
SOVIET IN SOUTH CHINA. GERMANY TAKES CHARGE OF INTERESTS.
The new filters have been con structed within one of the old, slow sand filter beds and the two remain- ing beds have been covered over and. Converted into-filtered. water service reservoirs. The plant was designed and manufactured by the Paterson Engineering, Co., Winsor House, Kingsway, London, to the specifica
A coolle appeared before Mr. W Schofield, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, oo -charge of aiding and abetting an offence by a street vegetable hawker.
His Lordship commented that he did not believe defendant's story, and entared judgment for plain- tiff, with costs.
when the chase began and gained CORRESPONDENCE.
lead of about a quarter of a mile He considered that the car was dangerous speed, travelling at
but not the combination.
THE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK.
DAILY PRESS."]
Mr. Lo submitted that he had no case to answer. The estimated "[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “ HONG KONG speed, according to the prosecution. was 25 ni.p.h. and they had it from the lat witness that he did not consider that the combination was travelling at a rate dangerous to the public.
His Worship pointed out that the witness had said be considered the car was being 'driven danger-
According to Sergt. Hargreaves. ously. the defendant seeing a police patrol
3. Lo replied that he thought
in Shantung Street, ran into Canà aide-car was very much more ton Road and spoke to a hawkerlaagerous-It was well-known that able, and the brakes were much whe immediately picked up his cars were very much more manage
better. The defendant was fined 810 baskets and eluded the police
THE TRIAD SOCIETY CASE.
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The cass in which fifteen Chinese are charged with being members of a Triad Society was concluded yes terday, before Major C. Wilson.
The first defendant was fined $100 and bound over in a personal bond
The Magistrate said that Mr. Lo bad a case to answer and defcadint was called.
instruments only
Sta. Apropos the earthquake shock on Sunday night, I note the Observatory'ż learned remarks about deueste being aware of same. The Obser vatory is quite wrong as 1, in com mon with many other two-legged delicate instrumente, distinctly felt the disturbance, which was quite big enough for any being of ordinary Enclosing my card.-Yours, etc., intelligence to know what it was.
IGNORAMUS.
The defendant said that the road His Worship: The officer travel- was not very crowded and he was led at a high-speed in the execu not driving at a dangerous speed.tion of his duty.
Sub-Inspector. Alexander said it was always crowded in the day time and there were many side Mr. Lo: The combination must
His Worship said that what he Mr. Lo argued that if his Wor- would like to know was whether the ship found that the combination
was not going at a dangerous! road was crowded.
speed, he could not find that the The Soviet Government has retion of Mr. R. M. Henderson, of, $100 to keep the peace for 12
car in front was going at a daa- quested the German Government M.Inst.C.E., MLMech,E,, Water months.
The second and third defendants
gerous rate. It was a question of opinion, but 25 m.p.h. was at no to take charge of Soviet interests Engineer.
each sentenced to three tuming, In Sobern China In view of the Erection was carried out unfer were
time a dangerous speed unsettled state of affairs in South- the supervision of Mesars. Pater-months hard labour, nise, other ern China the German Government zon's representative and Messrs. defendants were fined $100 and the have-been travelling in a dangerous Major Willson said the defendant hao agreed, and has instructed the The Hong Kong Excavation Pile other two accused were each fined rammer, under the circumstances, had been fined last year for speed.
The defendant
fired as German consuls to watch over the Driving and Construction Co. were $50 and also to enter-into-personal as the toy was travellig at 20mg-in-Connaught Road Central inters of Soviet citizens within the constractors for the reinforced bonds of $100 each to keep the m.p.h.
pence for 12 months.
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