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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1928.
OPIUM DENS IN TIENTSIN.
SPRING UP LIKE MUSH-
ROOMS.
_RESULT_OF "PROHIBITION.Z
PIENTSEN, Jan-13th. The Garrison Commissioner of! Tientsia, in an official despatch to the so-called Opium Prohibition Bureau states that since the estab- lishment of the "aplum prohibition bureau," opium-smoking deas have sprung up in every street of the native city of Tientsin after the payment of the necessary licence fees to the authorities.
Under the pretext of smoking opit says the despatch, bad characters conceal themselves in there opium, dere for mischievous purposes, though officially these opium houses are intended for the gradual suppression of the danger ous habit among the smokers.
PEKING ROUND UP WILFUL MURDER.
OF REDS.
EXECUTION. OF HSIN SHAO CHING.
1!
MANY OTHERS IMPRISONED,
PERING, January 20th According to the Chinese Press, Hsin Shao Ching, who was executed at Tien Chian' on Thursday morning for conducting communist pro paganda nimed at the overthrow. of the existing order, went to his death smiling and joking with the exccutioner.
WOMAN'S CONTRADICTORY
STATEMENTS.
MYSTERY OF A CÜRD MAKERS DEATH.
The inquest into the death of a Chinese bean eurd maker was cou. cliided yesterday at the Kowloon Magistracy befors Mr. W. Schofield sitting as Coroner with a jury. The verdict was wilful murder against some person or persons unknown
It will be recalled that the
deceased was killed on the night of November 27th, and according to the evidence of a Chinese woman living with the deceased at the time three armed robbers broke into the honse and murdered him
DEATH DUTIES LITIGATION,
'CROWN'S DOUBLE CLAIM
CONTESTED.
THE ESTATE OF THE LÄTE MRDELL IRVING:
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
At the Supreme Court yester day, before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, an appeal was heard on behalf of the administrator of the will of the late Mr. John Bell-
Irving against a decision of the Hong Kong Estate Duty Commis- sioner with regard to the amount of duty to be paid following the death of Mrs. Bell-Irving, a mem ter of the Jardine family whose husband had shortly predeceased her.
י,
Mr. F. C. Jenkin was for appel-
He left the jail of the Military Court of the Ministry of Military Affairs at ten o'clock and was placed in a native cart with his hands hound behind his back. With mounted troops and armed police
Inspector Lane, in his evidence, as guides the death cart slowly took its way through the principle streets criticised the various statements of the city to Tien Chiao. The scent given by the woman, pointing out! attracted an immense crowd of that they were most contradictory.lant and Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., Hence, in view of the war situa spectators, but this appeared to In ond statement she said that the instructed by Mir, II. K. Holmes,
Crown Solicitor, for respondents. tion and the existence of martial have little effect on the condemned was attacked by a man who seized
. Mr. Jeakin said that in 1884 Mr. law in Tientsin, the Commissioner prisoner. He sat erect and as he her by the threat to prevent ber
John Beil-Irving, in contemplation cf his marriage with Miss Ianbelia orders every opium den to send in saw the surging mass of humanity from calling for help. Later two art of its employees to him for that lined both sides of the streets, men joined the assailant and went
Thornton (later Isabella Bell- reference, so that detectives may ho began to shout "Long live the to the deceased's cubicle. The first
Irving) executed a deed of scotle- examine them whenever they visit proletariat." He said that ho was assailant then left her to join the
ment whereby he settled "Hong these dens for inspection once or
other two men. She took the on-
Kong shares then valued at $30,000 | twice a day with a view to pre
portunity to short for help. venting the Communista and other
Inspector Lane added that at first she stated that she would not dangerous radicals from hiding therein to plot anti-Government
be able to recogndæ any of the
disturbances.
rollers, but later she admitted that one of the assailants was the step- son of a neighbour,
Revenue From Licences.
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dying na a martyr and that he felt honoured in seeing so many people turn out to say farewell to him.
Activities Al ́Canton. According to i proclamation issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs "setting forth the crime for which he was condemned to death, Hsin confessed that after he had
In this connection, the Fish pau states that the opium pro- bitition bureau is deriving a handsome income every month from been initiated into the Chinese licence fees as there are
POW Communist party he was sent to numerous opium dens in the native city where smokers can freely enjoy Canton to serve in the political the drug after paying a fee of one training department of the 8th
opum (equals ten dollars for one
dollar for one mace of prepared Nationalist Army. He accompanied ounce) without the elightest restricthe anti-North expedition of Nan. tion while new opium prohibition chang, and when that city fell into dens are springing up like bush the hands of the South he was a rooms in all directions. Raw opium from outside districts is also heavily pointed secretary of the Communist taxed when it is produced by the Party. farmers, otherwise, the drug is able to seizure by the authorities. One mou of opium field is being
taxed 6 or 8 dollers..N.A.
After the woman was released from Palice custody, she remained Kowloon City for a week and then suddenly disappeared, ./
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to the amount of $20,000 to certain named trustees for the benefit of the parties as set out in the settle ment.
The husband was to get the life income of this fund and the wife for life, and after that it was to go to such of the children appoint. ed either jointly or by the survivor. In fact, no such appointment was thede. In default of such appoint- ment it was provided, that, the property would pass, on the death of the survivor, to be held in trust for the children in equal shares.
In reviewing the evidence, Coroner said that a certain amount of suspicion was apparent, and that if the jury thought that any for the crime, it would be their particular person was responsible
duty to return a verdict of wilful
persons unknown. murder against some person or
...
He further admitted that he came to Peking at the order. of Tuan
Jen, who had already been that they had come to the decision The jury without retiring said
executed, for the purpose of propetrated by some person or, persons
that it was wilful murder per ceeding to Saiyuan and other An unknown... 10 YEARS' SENTENCE FOR kaochun, military areas to gather
WOMAN OF 60.
military information for the South-
IN HER OWN INTEREST.
DAUGHTER KILLED BY
ern army.
Eight Others Imprisoned.
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· Double Claim On Estate. The husband and wife lived to- gether until July 30th, 1923, when
lowing him within ten days. On the husband died, his widow fol-
The Compagnie de Commerce & the death of the hushand, the local de Navigation d'Extrême-Orient in estate duty commissioner claimed their raport dated Saigon, Janu- estate duty on the principle value ary 28th, state-In spite of a very of the whole of the eettlement funds moderate demand from abroad, our and 'that was paid; Estate duty market is very firm with an upward was also paid on the whole of the tendency.
The paddy holders are holding In addition to the death sentence
ocal estate in the sum of $125,000 off in anticipation of higher prices. on Hsin, the court-martial of the
The Crown on the death of the so that the supply is very small Ministry of Military Affairs imposed
wife ten days later again claimed ¦ and insufficient for the present A woman of 60 who was stated jail terms of twelve years on seven.
Six Transatlantic flights and the full cetate duty upon these funds needs
The tendency is much easier for by the prison doctor to have the other communists and sent the lowering of nine of the twenty-four which, Counsel submitted, was on brokers. mentality of a child of six years eighth to prison for eighteen nionths.hievements in aviation durit not clothed with some inpro ed from January 1st to January
principal world records: such were the face of it extraordinarily hard, and a half was at the Old Bailey All seven admitted they were meming 1097.
The total amount of rice.export- sentenced by Justice Talbot to ten -years' penal servitude for the man-bers of the Communist Party, but British ainen, who a year ago priety even if the law empowered 18th, 108, is 50,937 tons against slaughter by neglect of her daugh- denied that they had taken anheld net a single record, came to the duty to be taken, which Coun. 3,456 tons in 19.7. ter, aged 40.
the fore once again. Captainset would submit it did not. active interest in its affairs. The Hubert Brond, the famous test
A man who received 18 months said pilot, captured the speed record for His Lordship remarked that that he repeatedly asked permission Light airplanes in a Tiger Moth at there had been similar cases in the to resign but this was never grant-180.4 miles an hour-an astounding
NEGLECT.
Before the case was opened a jury was empanelled to decide whether the woman, Susan Elize Tuner, a charwoman, of Elated-street, Walworth, S.E., was fit to take her trial.
Dr. J. 3. Morton, governor and medten) officer of Holloway Prison, said that Turner was unable to swer simple questions. She had to count heu fingers before she could say how and not read or write she had on her. hand Sho and she did not know the date or the year.
She knew there were twelve pennies in a shilling, but. she did not know half a crown, or how many shillings went to the pound
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He considered she was an in- becile and unfit to take an intel- ligent interest in her trial."
ed-Kuo Wen
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FENG BANS CHINESE
CALENDAR.
14
ORDER TO GOVERNORS OF
THREE PROVINCES.
CHINESE NEW YEAR ABOLISHED.
PEKING, January 18th. A message from Kaifeng reports that the Chinese calendar has been abolished by the order of Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang. The order was cirelated to the Governors of three provinces that are under the com- plcte jurisdiction of the Marshal, Kanse, Shensi and Honan and in
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NEW RECORDS.
leat for a machine fitted with an engine rated at only 32130 borse power.
Lady Bailey, Britain's premier woman air pilot, also lowered an official height record by piloting a two-seater light airplane to C height of some 17,000 feet.
The greatest triumph of the yea was won by Flight-Lieutenant S. N. Webster, R.A.F., who brought back the Schneider Trophy to Bri- tain after covering the triangular course of 218 miles at an average speed of nearly 232 miles an hour.
We quote to-day white Salgon rice No. 1 25 per cent. brokens round grain: Hong Kong $7.10 per picul of 134 s. fo.b. Saigon :" 12s 1d. per cwt. fo.b. Saigon.. a 7.00 per picul of 134 lbs. f.o.b, Saigon.
War when, at first, the Crown wa strictly entitled to claim on death in action but later the Honze law was amended in order to provide for an-interval, of, he thought, six months between, say, the death of father and son, boforo estate duty | Saigon. could be taken on the estate.
Referring to the annuity of £3,000, Counsel stated that it was, provided by the husband for the wife in a will and he would argue Prize Missed.
that it was charged on property Britain has forged ahead, parti- | situated outside the Colony and cularly in the design and construe that no estate duty was payable in tion of giant flying boats, four of which are now on an Empire tour respect of it.
Monoplanes have once more..come Counsel also stated that all pro into the limelight, largely in con-perty hero and in Shanghai, was Schneider Trophy machines and of bequeathed in the will to what the the Fokker uir liners. The manente Mr. John Bell-Irving termed plane of to-day has lived down the bis" foreign" trusices who wore to early days of the war, and is now evil reputation it acquired in the convert it and transfer it to the
of the achievements the
Mr. F. Sharp, defending, said He had been instructed by Turner to context Dr. Morton's opinion,
Dr. Marton agreed that a state- ment made by the woman showed nothing inconsistent with a normal The jury found that Turner was fit to plead, and when she was placed on her trial the pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Ten Months In A Bocm cluded the following regulations: the equal in enced and stability of general trustees. That trust had
of mind,
Mr. Gerald Dodson,
prosecuting.
(1) All records, letters, accounts, contracts and other legal writings shall be dated according the foreign calendar,į
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CHINESE IN LONDON,
HOW THEY SPENT BOXING DAY.
A correspondent of the Manches ter Guardian, with a laudable but unusual curiosity spent a good part of Boxing Diy finding out how population of Limehouse took the Christim festi val Boxing Day st leant ought to have appealed to them if properly translated, but no!
The Chinese (she writes) seemed the hiplane, while it is undoubted not yet been exhausted, there still
the more economical type to considerable property here to be taking a complete rest aver and in Shanghai which had not Christmas, and there were absolute maintain.
been transferred...
ly no signs of festivities. Most of His submission was that the an- the little Chinese, restaurants ware
Captain Webster's feat, unfor- tunately, did not count as a speed
shut until Tuesday, although, curiously enough, the Chinese shops
said Turner and her daughter lived iri one room. About ten months ago the daughter, who went out charing, disappeared, and there
(2) All the festivals, traditional record because he was not timedy to the wife was charged upon was do doubt she had been con- ceremonies and other occasions over the straight distances, and the general estate as being the frned to the room
which hari been clebrated accordiux-Italy-has-since taken the prize- estate contact to the general meatly remained open. Still none Through neglect and the absence to the old Chinese calendar shall with a machine that was defeated trustees by the document quoted of them did much fundices, and as of medical attention the daughter he shotished or obrerved henceforth hy Captain. Webster at a speed of Between the death of her husband a rule the proprietor had to be became utterly helpless, and on at the date of the foreign calendar, approximately five miles a minute. and her own death, no proceeds of disturbed from an absorbing game November 6th, when Turner called if necessary.
Captain Coow Colonel)'. Lind the local cetate were transferred to of Mah Jong with friends in, the. in her landlady, Mrs. Walker, the (a) Schools and other organiza-bergh was the first man to equal the general trustees by the foreign back part of the shop. Even the daughter was unconsciour.. Ste tions are not allowed to grant the feat of Alcock and Brown by a trustees and therefore, whatscover new restaurant that has just been died four days later in Southwark vacations on the occasion of the direct flight across the Atlantic thint ten days would be derived away from the real Chinese streets was due to be paid to that lady in opened in Limehouse Causeway, infirmary.
Chinese New Year, or any other | Ocean, and he was followed by Turner was found guilty, and in holidays-sanctioned by the old Chi- Lieutenant Chamberlin Comman solely from the estate them in the and which exists largely upon passing sentence Mr. Justice Talbot nese calendar mon
der Byrd, and Mr. William Brock: hands of the general trustees. touriste who come down East to said it was necessary in her own
The lure (4) December 28this fixed for
of being the first
There was considerable legal got a thrill and mostly never dis interest to sentence her, to a long House-cleaning. Phon
avintors to cross the Atlantic from argument; and Mr. Eldon Potter Cover, the real. China-town, was term. Her health, mentally and (5) New Year daya shall be cele east to west' and at unsuitable sea occupied most of the afternoon in shut.. bodily, would be well looked after, brated, according to the programma sans cost many valuable lives, in dealing with various ecctions of the
The Chinese population did not and any special treatment she need- announced by the provincial autho- cluding those of two women and Ordinance and quoting authoritics seem to have gone to join in esta ed would be given
After Mr Potter and concluded tics in other neighbouring quar- ritics.- The jury's action, he added, had (6) 'Beginning from January 1st. The loss of life has been so heavy the address, Mr. Jenkin briefly bers. Indeed the general opinion made it impossible to send her to old calendars are not allowed to be that the question of laying down replied, and His Lordship an in the neighbourhood someon a criminal lunatic asylum, but that either published by themselves in conditions under which such fights nouneed that he would take the that the Chinese, glad of a well- we probably where she would pamphlets or printed along with the might be permitted is being conter into consideration, and re- earned rest, simply zlepidly. "ultimately be sent.
aidered new calendar.-Kue Wen.
throughout the Christmas holidays.
thirteen men............
served his judgment