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FENG YU HSIANG LEAVES REVENUE LOSS OF ROUND THE POLICE
NANKING.
TROUBLE WITH HIS SUB- ORDINATE.
HONAN THREATENED,
SHANGHAI, August 7th. The sudden return of Marshal Feng Yu. Hsiang to Honan was due to a number of conflicting circum stances. In the first place, several generals of Feng Yu Hsiang armies situated in Sheast and
Kanzu
$35,000?
CHARGES AGAINST ABER-
DEEN DISTILLERY.
VISIT IN DUSK AND STORM,
RAIDERS TREK THROUGH
JUNGLE.
Four employees of the Tai Tung Distillery at Aberdeen were before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday after. noon charged with a number of offences against the Wines Ordi:
have undoubtedly been conspiring with Anfu Club politi clans for the purpose of disturb ing Marshal Feng's rear while benance. was in Napking. Among the troops who have rebelled were some of the Moslem divisions in Kansu and Shengi.
tia;
Mr. J. D. Lloyd of the Imports & Exports Office who prosecuted remarked at the outset of the pro ceedings that he had consulted with the Crown and had decided to ast his Worship to deal with the cage summarily although investigations had shown that up to March this year the Revenue Department had been defrauded of some $35,000.`·
Proceeding, Mr. Lloyd went on to say that the four defendant vera in charge of the spirits from
COURTS.
A GOOD OLD EXCUSE.
AT THE KOWLOON MAGIS.. TRACY.
Lo Tung and Lo Sui Hus, the two men arrested in connection with the alleged murder of two fobis in Woosung Stress recently, were before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday morning for the third time.
Detective Inspector Fallon ap- plied for a further remand of one week in order that certain enquiries might be completed. The case was adjourned until the 7th September.
A MAN IN A SUN HAT.
Another
The rebellious troops were mak
confidence trick" vas ing for the mountainous Tungkuan Pass between Honan and Shenai
explained to Mr. Schofield by If Marshal Feng lost that, he
Chinese coolie who was charged would lose control of pil territory
with unlawful possession of bag of rice. The defendant said that west of Hosan. The information arriving in Shanghai does not
Mr. M. E.-Lo who appeared da while loitering on the water front state with certainty whether his behalf of the defendants said that he was ordered by a man wearing troops or the rebellious troops hold he was very much surprised at Hr.& sun hat to carry the bag of rice, the Pass pow. Th
Lloyd's opening and that such a and this man employed a second The loss of the Tangkuan Pass statement should come from a re- cookie to carry another bag. When would not only end Marshal Feng's sponsible officer. Mr. Lo remark they were in Argyle Street the em hegemony oyer Ehensi and Kansued that Mr. Lloyd should have ployer and the second coolie ran but it would endanger bis control withhe'd such statements until the away, and at this most inopportune moment a Chinese constable ap- over the Kin-Han and Lung-Hai conclusion of the case. Railways
His Worship upheld Mr. Lo's peared and arrested him. Simultaneously with this move objection. meat in his own army, in the re- turn of General Pei Chung Hai's troops, 40,000 of them, from Peking to Hankow along the Kin-Han which the wash had been removed Railway.
It will be remembered by some means or other which the that General Pei absorbed a num-Office was unable to describe. The ber of Hunan troops formerly sub- defendants bad appeared before his ordinate to General Tang Seng Worship on similar charges but the Chi. Some of these troops are present offences were slightly differ still loyal to General Tang, who eat and the prosecution was ander is opposed to the Kuangsi domina the Wines Regulations issued on tion of Hunan. Among these loyal July 20th.. divisions is one situated along the The new regulation concerned Kin-Han Railway and General the length of time which the Dis Pei seems to have plans for stillerics should take to distil their extermination. It is understood wipes. Formerly they were allowed that Marshal Feng plans to be special brivileges but the new re neutral in any intra-Kuomintang gulations insisted that they must differences and that he objects to CT out the fermentation process fighting in Honan.
Mistreatment Of Older Oficials.
•Although given an opportunity to do se by the police the defendant had not found his employer."" His Worship: 810 or even days No claim has been made by the owner of the rice; the Magis trate ordered that it shall be kept for seven days if no claim has been received by then it is to be sold by the Police."
ROBBED HIS MASTER.
A Chinese was sentenced to six months hard labour, having plead. ed guilty to burglary.
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BRIGANDS, BEGGARS AND COMMUNISTS.
AMMUNITION DUMP IN A CAVE.
UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF ARMS.
TWO CASES AT KOWLOON COURT.
THEIR MASTERS' WEAPONS.
Two charges for unlawful posses sion of arms were heard before Mr. W. Schofield and Major O. Willson at the Kowloon Magistracy yester
HANXOW, August 22nd. The military authorities have been trying to round up the brigands in the Hwangan District of Hupeh. The task is not an easy one, as the brigandi are not operat- day morning. ing in one large band and have not Lai Sin Chi, steward on the made their head-quarters in anys. Hirundo was charged by Sub- one place. The soldiers learnt, for instance, that a house at the foot Inspector Dorling with the postcs- of the Chingan precipice wasion of 3 optomatic pistols, 81 centre from which literature was magazines and 8,300 rounds of am- distributed, so they surrounded the house and on entering found that munition, on board ship:
true. They also
The defendant was represented found that there was communica Mr. L & Andrewes, who pleaded tion through the yard at the back guilty on hie behalf and asked that he might be dealt with lenient- ly as he had a mother, a wife aug. to children to support.
the report was
with a cave in the cliff. As they It appears that he had been emerged into the yard, the soldiers were fired upon by wipers on the employed at a shop in Wuhu cliffs and these, and to be dislodged Strect, Kowloon. He left and after before the caffe could be approach
ed. The soldiers then inserted Sub-Inspector Dorling described a few days he managed to enter brustwood in the entrance and set how the print, etc., were found in within 28.houre
the back door of the premises at it alight. The dimes" caused a
the steward's store" room on the The method which defendants night and took the day's takinge. heavy explosion in the cave, which
Disbanded soldicts are causing a the Hirundo was at anchor at buoy There were many reports current were alleged to use was to take He was arrested at 3.15 am and was used for storing ammunition. morning of the 28th of August when
molnenes mash from one kang and a gold watch and notes to the good deal of the annoyance in the No. 35. over the week-end as to who is be
save it for another. The Revenue value of 835 were found
They were discovered hind the anti-Feng Yu Hsiang Officers made a surprise visit to the
him. On
Concession area, by following ladies |
basket military activities. That the Anfu defendant's Distillery and found
Defendant stated that he had and begging. When the indies do hidden in a four bag and a
not respond, these men still follow, of potatoes, "and the defendant Club is immediately responsible no less than a buckets which had been dismissed by the complainant using phrases about the ladies stated he had been paid 89 for contained molassce mash. Hence and found himse I etranded. At which are the reverse of com seems to be the consensus of the percentage of alcohol was tempte to borrow money from plimentary and are, of course each revolver by man who had found to be less than normal, friends proved fruitless and sea understood and enjoyed by the asked him to hide them for him.
last resort ho master.
said Mr. Lloyd Instead of 31 to 32 per cent alcohol only 25 per cont. was registered."
The tongs were fermented by rotation, and half of the masb! would be taken from one kong and sed to refill the next." The last kong was found fully charged with
It is possible to judge the actual state of the fermentation by looking into the kong and the scum which would show if it had been tampered with."**
stole from his coolies.
AT THE CENTRAL MAGIS. TRACY
ANCIENT WEAPONS FOUND
UNDER STAIRCASE.
民
The local authorities are dis-Although given an opportunity to tinctly anxious as they have up-do so he had not been able to and earthed a plan for Communist this man. uprising in Hankow. Over a week The defendant was sentenced to ago those on friendly terms with military men learnt of the special five years' hard labour, their Wor- precautions which were being taked ships remarking that he was respon- to watch the arrivals by steamer sible for the store room, and that and rail, and this vigilance was re- warded on the 16th instant by, the the man whom he alleged to have Detective Sergeant Whelen op: arrest of two leading Communists, employed him would have to take plied to Major C. Willson at the They were executed the next day care of his dependants. Central Magistracy for an order to but not before the authorities bad Mr. Lloyd then described Reconfiscate two rifles found under secured important information as venue passes which he alleged the the staircase of No. 227, Warshai to the methods which Com- defendants had wred over again to Road.
munists had proposed to follow carry the 'winės away.
So active are these men and so little difference does the loss of one or more of their leaders seem to make; that is is still more than possible that an uprising will take place W.-C. Daily New
opinion. But Nanking's treatment of old and experienced Northern officials has been deplorable. Men who have served for decades in non-political, administrative poi- tions, where nothing more than the salary could be made, have been thrown out to make room for mam-molasses mash bers of certain Kuomintang fami- lies, one of which is reported to hold as many as 100 jobs. That Peking officialdom should" band to gether under
the Anfu Club's direction for self-protection would not be at all surprising.
The story of the find is that ten. Another problem that has been
Visit In Drenching Rain.
ants moving into the ground Boor Mr. Lloyd told his Worship that of the house, which had been ur puzzling politicians is what rela- MH. A Taylor and Revenue occupied for some time, dropped a tionship the Northern military Oficer paid a surprise visit to the ten-cent picce which slipped be movement has to the Kuangai dis-Distillery, The Distillery on the tween the foor boards. When the the boards were taken up the coin was outskirts of Aberdeen and agreement which is undoubtedly deep. It is clear to political ob- party descended upon the distillery found alongside two ancient rifles Beryers that Nanking-Kuangai's
from the Peak The surprise visit which had probably been hidden position, is considerably strengthen was made on the morning of the there in the early days of the Cantonese ed if Marshal Feng is kept busy 22nd July and it was raining yery Colony's history by
in the Northwest and is unable to hard at the time. The party made revolutionaries.
assist Nanking or even to be pre-
ROYAL SANITARY INSTITUTE.
HONG KONG CENTRE.
Another Arms Cake,
Ho Mun, a house coolie, was charged by Sergeant Mottrano with the possession of one revolver and two rounds of ammunition without
pe
permit from the Captain Superin-
tendent of Police. The Sergeant: said that the defendant was arrest- ed after a severe struggle, during which he attempted to draw his zevolver, on the 18th of August in Temple Street," by two detectives. He was wounded in the struggle, and was sent to hospital in an
The defendant, who said he wai house coolie in the employ of Dr.
their way through streams and The necessary order was made. sent in Nanking But that is not eventually climbed over the back meant to suggest that Kaangsi haa wall of the Distillery, They found one of the defendante beside one
A cable has been received from found spare poldesen mash in 33 ference to bis evidence, Police tary Institute, London, intimating Inspectors who come to Court to that the recommendations made by buckets
Mr. Lo then asked his Worship size evidence are not asked to the Hong Kong Board of Examie Mellon, with whom he had been for if formal evidence of the arrests stand outside said Mr. Lloyd ers in the recent Examinations for
any complicity in the Northern of the kongs, and miter a search presence would not make any dif- the Secretary of the Royal Sam ambulance...
trouble... Daily News...
CHINA AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
of the defendants was to be given.The Magistrate: He must go. Mr. Lp epid that he was represent That's all
Mr. Lloyd I must object your ing one of the defendants to whom ball had been refused. "In fact Worship, Mr. Taylor is my tech- they are not formally before you nical adviser. intl such evidence has been
Sanitary Inspectors and in Sanitary 21 months, nleaded that the revol-, Science, held at King's College an ver belonged to his master who was July 8th, have been approved.
The Pass list includes:
then absent in Shanghai. After The League of Nations has re-
A SANITARY BCIENCE:James being discharged from hospital he cognised the Nanking Government
Mr. Lo I do not wish to offend Reid and Thomas Armstrong. Both took the detective to Dr. Mellon's as the accredited representative of China, Formal acceptance has given"
Mr. Taylor but if Mr. Lloyd will of the Hong Kong Government house and showed him the trunk which contained his master's winter been made by the League Secre- The Magistrate replied that the say that be is only giving technical Sanitary Department. tariat of the delegation to the defondants were before him and he pridence in the case I will not B. SANITARY INSPECTOR-Henry clothing from which he had abstract- George Stevens, George Frost, ed weapon, The key to the trunk League Assembly nominated by was not concerned as to how they press my objection.
Charles Lamprill and Mr. Taylor was permitted to William
was found by the detective in a Mr. C. T. Wang, Foreign Minister came there: However, he would tay.
Arthur Foster, also of the Sanitary chest of drawers.
The defendant said that at some of the Nanking Government, says note Mr. Lo's point,
Department Home paper. Mr. Alfred Sze, Revenue Officer Ward gave evi- The Chinese Interpreter. Chinese Minister in Washington, dence of the visit to the Distillery
All written examination papers previous date he had been forced The Chinese interpreter of the will be the head of the delegation. and the finding of the empty buc-Office gave evidence as to the together with the local Board of to join a Triad Society, he had been "It is expected that Mr. Sze will kits with traces of mask before statements made by the detrodants Examiners remarks are forwarded assaulted and ordered to pay $30 also represent the Nanking Gov- the kongs.
at the Distillers on the morning of to London for revision, comment if he wished to avoid further. He had consulted his assault. and approval. .. ernment on the Council of the Mr. Lloyd then called the Chi- the "surprise visit.
The Examining Board is com friends who advised him to take a Lengue. The question of appoint nese Revenue Officer to give evi. Mr. Lo again objected and ro ing Mr. C. C. Wu to replace him dence. Mr. Lo objected," saying marked that this was not fair to posed of: The Hon. Director of revolver with him when he went at Washington is under considera that Mr. Lloyd should let him know the defendants. The prosecution Public Works, the Director of to meet the members of his society, tion. The Chinese Nationalist the order in which he was calling has already said they had the de Medical and Sanitary Service, the and he had accordingly."borrow- Council has also approved a re hie witnesses, autent fendant's Distillery under suspicion, Medical Officer of Health, the ed his master's weapon for self-
Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, Sir protection. quest by Dr. Wang that the Mr. Taylor, is merely a witness and that they made a surprise visit Finance Minister shall asked im in the case and in the ordinary to confirm their suspicions My Erie Stuart Taylor, M.D., and the The defendant was sentenced to
Local Secretarys
five years hard labour and the mediately to raise a fund-for-thecourse he should be asked to clients should baye heen warned payment of China's less as a mom outside, said Mr. Lo
before they made their statement Applications for Framination détentive complimented: fat.. their ber of the League of Nations, nis Mr. Llord aid that he must that they might be used as evin October for Sanitary Insper bravery at the time of the arrest. tore "have been received from The revolver and ammunition were well as for the maintenance of the object as Mr. Tavlor was his tech-dence.
Shanghai.
confiscated, Chinese delegation at Genera nical adviser and in any case his The case was adjourned.