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CORRUPTING CAN-
TON'S POLICE. ·
YOUNG COMMUNISTS ACTIVITY.
FOILED BY VIGILANT SERGEANT.
THIRTY POLICE UNDER ARREST,
[FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.]
THE IRON HAND.
...
CANTON BOYCOTT COM- MITTEE'S ORDINANCES.
POWER AND ACTIVITIES GROWING.
MINOR CONCESSIONS TO MERCHANTS,
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }
chants
F are
THE HONG KONG
TWO OF CANTON'S
TEMPLE.
PLANS FOR THEIR FRE BERVATION.
́DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th, 1928.
The Kwong Hou Temple in Can- ton, and the Hoi Tung Temple in Honam across the river, are class ed among the five most ancient and most famous temples in the pro- vince of Kwangtung. They are both beautiful specimens of the ancient style of architecture.
make
But Canton's
past, age throughout the country are gradually vanishing to way for things new. officials are making an attempt to save and preserve as many as pos sible of these relics of the past.
In the irresistible march of mos dern progress and civilisation, the CANTON, October 24th. old landmark of the City of Rams The anti-Japanese boycott is being are disappearing one by one, and 'z CANTON, Oct. 23th. carried on in Canton with uh-
the last few years, this city has diminished energy. The pickets of taken on a wonderfully new and Another Communist scheme to
the Committee for the Severance. of changed aspect, such as to make it overthrow the Cantor régime and
Economic Relations with Japan are dificult for old timers who have inaugurate a reign of terror was
As active na ever in watching, day not been here for some time to be- frustrated in its early stages and night, the principal thorough-lieve that this is the old city of the city Police yesterday, when a
fares of the city to prevent smug; mysteries. group of young Communists were gling of the boycotted goods." It has been the sorrowful lament arrested for trying to enlist the sup-Seizures of Japanese goods are still of many foreigners who entertain part of the Police to their cause. The public is again greatly alerin- of daily occurrence, although not so the most, profound respect for ed to learn that these desperadoes numerous as formerly. The mer China's ancient civilisation that more cautious, the innumerable monuments to this after all the recent raids and executions, still had the temerity realizing that they have got to obey to attempt to undermine the Police, the orders of this Committee. The Government is still taking a nega. the very people who carried out tive attitude, and declares that the suppressive measures.
boycott is an act of the people." The initial detection of this con. This allows the Committee to do spiracy was made by the seniorjust what it pleases and naturally sergeant of the second sub-station of the 11th Police district which is, in Horan. He wanted to engage a cook to prepare the meals for his subordinates at the second sub- station. A young agent of the Communist Party heard of this and saw in it an excellent opportunity for doing propaganda work in Police circles. Chang Hung Yuet, got the job. He was shalbily dress-and Americans. Marine products ed and is said to be a student of are scarcely replaceable, and the certain middle school in Fati, prices of these, commodities are opposite Shameen. He worked for soaring. Prior to the boventt the quite a while and was apparently American and Europeat tradesmen in Canton had not been able to well pleased with his job.
compete with the Japanese and Japan's loss has been America's and Europe's gain.
if not losing any chances.
JAPANESE GOODS DIS- APPEARING. Japanese goods, in the city are Particularly fast disappearing. electrical supplies, picce goods and marine products. The first two are now largely supplied by German
Preserving Relics. Although many modern malcos have been opened up in Canton, there are still extensive areas of the old city practically untouched by modern development. In laying out plans for the new wide acets of the future," Mr. Pang Hui, head of the Bureau of Public Works, is endeavouring as far as possible to
INDIAN MONEY- LENDERS.
ANOTHER SUMMARY
COURT CASE.
MR. THATCHER AND HIS WIFE'S MAINTENANCE.
ENFORCEMENT OF HOME COURT DECISION.
CAN BUSINESS BE CONDUCT. LOCAL COURT ORDER MADE.
ED OUTSIDE REGISTERED
PREMISES!
JUDGMENT RESERVED.
Much has been written about the Indian money-lenders of Hang Kong. It has been said that their interest is exorbitant, and although they are not supposed to charge more than two per cent. per month by law, they had been in the cus- tom of charging, as much as ten. per cent, per month. It is also a common custom to make i nevLOV sign for noubia the amount of the aut actualy borrowed.
A case was heard at the Sum mury Court yesterdayphernoon before Jury Justice P. Jacks, when Karnail Singh, a watchnian at the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, sued Ag Wai lot the recovery of $500, being money lent on November 11, 1927, prus $40 interest being interest computed at 2 per cent, per month. Mr. U. A. S. Huss appeared for the defendant, and air. A DIT LA Strellett was for the paintif
lent the money to the defendant The plaintiff's case was that he
the day mentioned, at o Palace Hotel, his registered ad dress, and that the whole transac
the
An order made in an English Court in a maintenance claim by s European lady was mentioned be- fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday after- noon when Walter Albert Thatcher, residing in the Colony, appeared
as the defendant.
Under the terms of the order, the
defendant's wile, Mrs. Dorothy
Olive Thatcher, was to receive a minteasage Allowance of two pounds sterling weekly for herself, ten shillings for their five-year-old child until the age of sixteen, and he was further to pay the costs amounting to 8. Bd.
Defendant expressed his, willing- ness to carry out the terms of the order so long as he had a job. He said that he had previously sent, money to his wife under registered" cover, but she had apparently not received it. However, he was glad to bave the opportunity of paying the money into Court here for transmission to his wife.
His Worship said that the money could be drawn by Mrs. Thatcher from the Court in Bristol.
An order was accordingly made for the sum of £9 10s, to be paid into Court weekly commencing. November 1st, the Ss. 6d. costs to
who has many aliases, applied and arms, and to some extent by British have the old landmarks preserved tion took place there. The actual included in the first payment.
more young lecture-propagandists who are to travel all over "Kwang- tung telling people the reasons for the boycott moveinent and why their commodities cost them more. young scump orators are paid by the Committee and are under their
The
MORE THAN A COOK. But the suspicion of the chief Judging from the pertinacity and sergeant was soon aroused by his increasing enthusiasm "with which habitual invitations to the Police the officers of the Committee are men for whom he was cooking to working, it looks na if the boycott tea parties and theatricals. The is going to continue unabated for
The Com chief could not understand how the, a long time to come.
"ca poorly clad cook had so much money mittee has just selected by to throw away. He watched close-petitive examination held in its ly the actions of the cook and soon Headquarter on the South Bund discerned that he was raore than a mere cook. His manners were charming, his speech was cultured and he was able to write Buently. The officer questioned the suspicious Chang Hang Yuet as to how he caine to have to much money to spend. The reply was that he had won a big sum of money in a lottery The large quantities of confiscated and was therefore able to afford it. goods at the Headquarters of the The chief sergeant then made a Committee are now being auction thorough search of his belongingsd off, the articles going to the and was surprised to find that his Mighest tenderers. The auction is baggage included good and rather guverned by rules and regula expensive clothes, some of which tions, an account of which has were foreign in style. But no
already appeared in the Daily seditious documents of any sort. however, were unearthed and the young fellow could not be placed under arrest. Nevertheless he was classed as a dangerous person and was discharged the next morning.
COMMUNIST BRIBERY.
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control.
за очінн
atick
RESISTANCE.
but yet be easily accessible when cunt lent" was 950 but, in Com. the new roads are laid out. With won with the ususr practice, double the amount was signed for. The this end in view, and also to en- tourage, posterity to take an in interest agreed upon was 2 per For the defence, Mr. Russ terest in China's old civilisation, seat. Mr. Pang proposes that the two temples mentioned above be placed said that. he would, produce evi under the control of his Bureau, deace to show that the loan was and also that the premises be open-made outside the plaintiff's regis ed to the public. The many relicstered address, and that being so, within will not be touched or plaintiff, should be penalised be changed in any way, and future generations will be enabled to view these things exactly as they were it the past-Canton Gazette.
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SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL,
ANNUAL BAZAAR ON DECEMBER 9TH.
The first meeting. of the 1099 Bazaar Committee of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was held on Wednesday. It was decided to hold the 1995 bazaar on the 8th December, and the preliminary ar rangements are already well in band. "Rose Day" (street sale of roses in aid of the Society's funds) will be on Saturday, Decem- ber 1st.
to
cause he had contravened the Mosey-Leaders' Ordinance. It was further aleged that the money was not lent to the defendant, Ng Wai. It was lent to one Mok Tung, pro- prietor of the Cheong Tai Timber Yard. Ng Wai ony signed as a witness or guarantor. The actual debtor was Mok Tung, whose inan- ager bad affixed the chop of the Cheong Tai Timber Yard on the promissory note.
Russ'
I have never again approached any of with the money-lenders.
them."
Mr. Russ (re-examining): You have had a lot of experience about money lending, but do you know that for the benefit of the Court, they always put their regis tered address on the promissory notea, wherever the transaction might take place Yes, they do..
Mr. Russ: You are heavily in volved with money-lenders; is this your reason for not daring to antagonise them Yes.
Mr. Rusa: This is why you are giving your evidence unwillingly? His Lordship: This is obvious.
The Rate Of Interest. The manager of the Cheong Tai Timber Yard then gave corrobora- tive evidence and said that the rate of interest agreed upon was 8 per cent. per month, in words, they had pay $20 a month for the loan of $250. This rate of interest had been paid two months.
to
other
Afraid Of Money-Lenders. After the defendant Ng Wai had given evidence in corroboration of statement an Indian kr. uamed Kartar Singh was called to the witness-box. He said that he had been asked by s Wai to negotiate a loan for the Cheong
In the course of his cross- Tai Timber Yard. He went to see the plaintiff about the matter be-examination, Mr. Strellett drew cause the latter had asked him to witness's attention to the fact introduce business to him,
that on the promissory note the Witness at this stage hesitated rate of interest mentioned was only "aad said that he was afraid to tek per cent. per month.
the truth and that if he did so, the Indian money-lenders would go against him..
Mr. Justice Jacks: You must tell the truth.
Mr. Russ Raid, that it was com. mon knowledge that Indian money- lenders always put two per cent. down, but there had been cases heard before the Court in which six, and eight per cent. had been charged:
Not The Palace Hotel Financial Corporation."
Tickets (83 each) for the annual Motor Car Draw are already on sale. The first prize is a 5-seater 4-door Pontiac Six Sedan de luxe.
The Committee have big respon- nibilities. The expenditure of the Society on relief to the poor and
Witness said that the promissory on the education of the children of
about note was written by him at the the poor now amounta
A report will request of the plaintiff. The note 81,500 a month. shortly be issued on the work of was signed at the Cheong Tai the Society during the past year, Timber Yard. A chop was put to
Mr. Russ at this stage said that and it is hoped that, with this it by the manager of the yard. account of the year's valuable but Plaintiff then requested the defen-he did not intend to cal more unostentatious work of the Society dant, Ng Wai to sign the note also witnesses. He thought that he had A good many stores in Canton, before them, the generous public saying that he trusted him because shown the Court that the transac
and on had taken place outside of including the Sincere and the Sun of Hong Kong will again extend to witness had introduced him Companies, have complied with the the 1928 bazaar that whole-hearted not, the manager. This was done the plaintiff's registered address. demands of the Committee and re-support, which has resulted in the and the sum of $250 was handed He asked his Lordship: Do you suppose for a moment that the gistered their goods of Japanese success of the Society's annual over to the manager of the yard. Palace Hotel, wil turn thei: place origin. But the majority still re- Bazaar in recent years, and. has The whole transaction, gard the Committee's orders with enabled the Society considerably to added, took place at the yard and into a money-leading office for the plaintiff, and allow a string of extend the scope of its activities not at plaintiff's premises. among Hong Kong's poor.
Mr. Russ: It had been suggest people to go to and fro. ed that you had a quarrel with plaintiff because he refused to lend you $100 and that you have come here to commit perjury against him-No, I never tried to borrow money from him. As a matter of fact he offered me $50 not to give evidence in this case.
Cross-examined by Mr. Strellett, witness said that he was dealing in motor-cars.
Because of the stubborn opposition of the merchants, the proposed stamp tax equal to 80 per cent of the cost price of each article had to be rescinded after all. It will be remembered that the Committee had imposed this tax on the mer A few days later one of the chants dealing in Japanese goods,
ordering them to
stamps Policesmen of the station in ques-bought from the Committee on each tion wanted to go on leave for a Japanese article as it is sold. So few days. Chang Hung Yuet learn- far this has not been carried out. ed about this and at once "upplied in disguise for the job of Police substitute. When he was inadver- tently given the job, his eyes beam- ed with joy, for he saw again an opportunity for undermining the Police. But he was soon recognized by the smart senior who at once order ed his arrest, ngeusing him of being a Communist. He was taken to the Central Police Station in Canton in chains and at his trial he ad mitted with the greatest reluctance and after inducement" had been applied that he was a paid agent of the Chinese Communist Party and that he was trying to get the Police to join him. He said that he told the Police officers that who- ever would join the Communist Party would receive a subsidy of 830 a month in addition to the regular salary that he was getting from the Government. He declared that he hoped to get the Police to join him in stirring up another rising in Canton. If it was successful, they were to be given high and lucrative Government positions. Many Police had promised him aid when the ap pointed time came, he finally con fensed.
EXECUTED.
indifference...
With a few exceptions, the mer chants are "stubbornly refusing to pay the 30 per cent, ad valorem n's demanded by the Committee. They claim that this would drive them into bankruptes.
FIVE NEW RULES.
In view of these complaints the Committee, however, has been pleas ed to modify ita former demanda.
JAPAN'S FEAR OF BOYCOTT.
THE REAL SINO-JAPANESE
DIFFICULTY.
Private advices from Japan have been received in that while
it has to-day issued for the benefit which
4:
Heavily Indebted.
witness
of the merchants five new rulings Hong Kong state respecting registration of goods of the negotiations between Mr. S. Japanese origin and the payment of Yada, the Japanese Consul-General was in that business before but the 30 per cent, which it calls aat Shanghai, and Dr. C. T. Wang, not now.
Mr. Russ then went on to review the evidence given by the plaintiff. He criticised it as being absurd and unbelievable. He thought that his evidence was very strong. The Chinese witness had given a very satisfactory account of the transac tion and was not shaken, in cross- examination,
"His One Object In Life.”
As to the witness Kartar Singh, M-Russ said, that his one object Mr. Strcllett: Whose cars-In life aws to conciliate the money- lenders, and he had come to Court, under subpoena, "to give evidence as to what had happened. By doing so, Mr. Ruse added, Kartar Singh, would have earned for him self the enmity of the money. leaders.
Mr. Strelett: I put it to you that you have not been dealing in
big concession to the merchants after the Nationalist Foreign Minister, reconsideration." A free transla are proceeding satisfactorily, the tion of these rulings follows: real issue is not the Tainan incident motor cars for years and years! 1.-The anti-Japanese Boycott but the matter of suppressing the Yes, I am now looking for a job.
Mr. Strelett: At the present Committee was organized on June activities of boycott agitators when"
Mr. Russ concluded that if his 19th. All Japanese goods imported ever Sino-Japanese differences crop moment you are heavily involved Lordship was satisfied as to the with money-lenders in Hong Kong facts of the case, he would then Police Commissioner Tang, who prior to this date may be exempted up.
The attitude of the Japanese I am, but not with the plaintiff. did the questioning, most from paying the 30 per cent. ad
W48 shocked at hearing of the corrup
valorent.
Government is that differences are Mr. Strellett: But you have tried dead with the law to show that i tion among his men. He gathered 2.Goods of Japanese origin im-bound to occur from time to time to get involved with the plaintiff registered money lender could not transact business dutside of his together all his loyal detectives and ported between June 19th and July between even the most friendlyNo, but he has often asked me registered address. explained to them the seriousness 20th must pay the 30 per cent. ad Governments, but that negotiations to introduce him to come good men
His Lordship: I believe the of the situation. All the senior valorem to the Committee to be used for settlement are always rendered who wanted to borrow money.
as Funds for the Promotion of much more difficult by the activities sergeants throughout Canton were
Mr. Strellett: You spend a good facts are against you, Mr. Russ.
Mr. Ruse: Then it is no use for secretly notified, and a thorough National Industrica.
of agitators. In future, whenever deal of your time standing in search was instituted in edch
some matter arises urgently needing Chater Road.
There is nothing me to deal with the law.
Mr. Strelett, If your Lordship Police, circle. Over 80 auspected
solution, both Governments should wrong in it, you know, but you do, thinks that the facts are against Policemen were arrested and
take prompt steps to suppress agita,
say brought to the Central Station,
tion, Mr. Yads is declared to have don't you?No.
Mr. Strellett: Do you deny that my friend, I need not
more, but I would like to point but over half of them were released Japanese goods before September suggested to Dr. Wang,
you have been to the plaintiff at
out, as a matter of principle, that as they were able to establish their 30th but have not yet paid the first On the other hand, the Nation the Palace Hotel-I did on several
the law says that & registered innocence. The rest, are in cus-instalment of the 30 per cent, mayalist Government does not seem in-
occasions, but not on that day money-lender can transnet business tody awaiting trial. Four of the have the period of payment extended clined to interfere with what are when the note was signed.
including the ring leaders,
to twice, the period previously speci- termed "popular movements," Dr.
Replying to further questions, anywhere be likes. He has only to notorious Chang Hung Yuet were fed. Those who have already paid Wang maintaining that boycotts witness said that on two previous keep his proper address before the Executed carly this morning on the their first instalment of the 30 per are the economie weapons. of the occasions he had introduced busi. Public and not to mislead them; There is nothing which says that cent, ani valorem levy need not pay people, and while the Nationalistness to the plaintiff.
he cannot transact business wher Government would in no circum-
ever he likes.
Red... Flower Hill in the north eastern suburb of Canton.
The Canton authorities are elated at their success in nipping another Communist conspiracy in the bud. They are now more careful then ever before in their measures for the protection of the city.
A
3. All the boycotted goods seized from July 20th on, will be confiscat 4-Merchants who registered their
cd.
any more.
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-All merebants must register | stances encourage such popular their goods of Japanese origin be movements, nothing could be done fore October 31st. Failure to do to suppress them. Thus, the stum this will result in the final seizure bling-block appears to be this ques
agitators.
of all such goods still in stock, tion of State suppression of popular
(Continued on nezi Column).
"His Lordship Knows" Witates again reiterated that he had never asked plaintiff for a loan for himself, adding "His Lordship knows that I have had trouble (Continued on next Volumn).
Mr. Rusa disagreed and quoted several authorities in support of his contention. His Lordship said that he would reserve judgment to consider the legal points..
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