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LI TSAI HSIN'S TASK.
SUMMONING MILITARY
CONFERENCE.
TO PROPOSE DRASTIC DEMOBILISATION.
FRO OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Cirros November 19th. Marshal Li Tai Hsin who is expected in Hong Kong late this afternoon is accompanied by Dr. Chao Hsin Chu, Commissioner
for Foreign Affairs of Kwangtung Mrs. Li Tazi Hath, General and
Mfrs Chen Ming Shu, Mr. Tang
Chin Yin, chief secretary, of Mir shal Li, Mr. Au Yang Yu Tsing and four or five other Canton notables.
The Marshal and his party will not stay in Hong Kong but will come straight back to Canton where important business is awaiting him."
PROGRESS IN
KWANGSI.
THE WUCHOW UNIVERSITY.
ROADS AND MOTORING..
UNSATISFACTORY FOREIGN
**EXPERTS,
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }-
Wechow, Kwangsi. On returning to Wuchow after oven, a brief absence one sees im West River port. mense improvements in the big
Since October 10th, Wachow
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 1928.
"A MEDICAL PROBLEM.
CHINESE DOCTOR AND FOREIGN MEDICINE.
MAGISTRACY CASE..
A Chinese named Wong Siu Poon appeared before Mr. RE Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon on a charge of unlawfully Practising or professing to practice medicine or surgery for gain: Au- other charge of unlawful possession of poisons and hypodermic syringes was withdrawi
who defended, commented, on the At the outset Mr. F. H. Loseby,
University has been opened and to-day one may find on. Butterfly Hill, or in-teh-shan, more than 300mbiguity of the charge. It was not denied that his client was practising young men and women studying to become scientific agriculturalists, engineers lawyers and teachers.
Dr. Ma Chan-Wu, a Chinese gradu
ate of German university and a
AN
WEI-HAI-WEI MURDER TRIAL.
HUSBAND POISONED WITH ARSENIC.
WIFE AND LOVER FOUND GUILTY.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
WATHAIWEI, November 9th. She, however, admitted stealing a On the 31st ultimo, balore Sir small quantity from the pile expos Peter Grain and the High Court,ed for sale on the "pavement out- Liang Mao Lin and Chang Lap Shibside. Some days passed before the were brought to trial for the arrest of Lao Chang, the third ne murder of Chang Wen Ch'ing, hus-cused, and he, too, was taken to band of the second aceased. Chang: deceased's village home in charge Wen Lu, Lao Chang," was of a Chinese constable, for identi- after the fact: All three were found also accused of belhg an accessory
fention by the relatives.
guilty after a wial that becupied the attention of the Court lor several days. Mr. A. G. Mossop
ar, A. Covey. Mr. R. G. L. Ford, represented the Crown, and the two principal accused were defended by
Yesterday a number of the" high former Civil Governor of Kwangsi, who gave evidence of finding these Junior District Officer, äeted na
Canton officials went to Hong Kong
to welcome the Marshal and his party. Several went by the or
the head of this new institution. Another sign of progress in Wuchow is the formation of the
Chinese doctor.
and other articles were brought to Medicine in various forms, measur, ing glasses, test tubes, a steriliser Court by Detective Inspector Lane,. Then he visited No. 231, Queen's Road West, frst floor, amed with search warrant. Medical treatises and four hypodermit syringes were
used as an office and a consulting which had the appearance of being room. There were also four men seated there, one with his arm in a sling..
dinary steamer and other by the Wachow Chinese Amateur Athletic other articles found on the floor Clark, D. Clark, W. Raeto and H.
River which branches frea: the West, River at Wachow.
gunboat fini Fu, commanded by Federation, and at present, there Admiral Chen Chnk. Those who
are football, tennis and basketball mude the trip ineluie, General Wong Shiu Hung, Chairman of the last summer, the Ching Woo Athle Since the beginning of eagues, Kwangsi Provincial Government Association has put up bathing and Commander of the 13th Arms; Mr. Fung Cho Man. Commissioner of Finance General Tang Shib Tang. Police Commissioner of Can- ton; Mr. Ma Chin Tsoon. Commis- sioner of Freonstruction: George Bow: General, Hsu King Tong and Chen Tani Tong, Mesars." Li Man Yan and Chang Man.
THE CONFERENCE... Several railitary leaders inelad- ing. General Fan Shek Shang. Commander of the 18th Army in Northern Kwangtung, which is combatting the Communists and outlaws in that district. General
Suicide? ".. The two accused of murder son realised that their only line of de- fence lay in the theory of suicide:
nison was self-administered. Chrag Liu Shih withdrew her con- fession and both declared that the
The Casa For The Crown.
Registrar of the Court, and the
Mr. Mossop wished to put in as following residents were empanelled evidence the woman's admission of as a jury:-Messrs. H. L. Beer, Ailt in her statement of the police. To this Mr. Covey objected on Wyatt.
the grounds that the flogging at the village had been too recent and that, in consequence, she was not in a fit condition to appreciate the seriousness of her admissions. The| learned Judge overruled the objec
The Story Of The Grime, The household, situated near the
cake
fendant was seated ir. the office must hope, an unusual one, con The Inspector said that the de- Enst Gate of the "City, was, We and swimming sheds on the Fuwwnership of the articles. Mr. Esisting of several people ostensibly when he entered and admitted R. Dovey (Government Analyst) concerned in conducting. was also present and pointed out shop, but in reality living on the certain articles which witness took proceeds of prostitution. The 20th of possession of under the warrant,
Questioned by Mr. Loseby. wit
the 7th Moon was sufficiently warm objection to certain articles found ncas agreed that there would be no there being in the hands of a Chi witness, preferred not to give an nese doctor. On other questions
A number of graduates of Nan- now in the service of the Wuchow yang University, Shanghai, are Municipality and, several of the clogs of the Chinese Maritime Chinese schools in Canton and Customs have" attended Anglo Hong Kong, and the members of
the courtyard and there sat down for the evening meal to be taken in
victim-the latter. that vilest of at the table a murderer and his
tian and stated that, in his opinion, faculties, and fully realized what she was in full possession of her she was saying, a decision that
rendered the task set Counsel for
simple one. If anything, the case the prosecution a comparatively
judiced E Liang Mao Lin's electing against the accused was further pre-
giving evidence on his own behalf.
Mossop drew the attention of the In is concluding speech Mr.
jury to the expert evidence given
the Faculty of Kwangsi University opinion as they could best be an human parasites, the man who lives to go into the witness box ana are all keen supporters of Westernered by a medical man. sports.
THE UBIQUITOUS MOTOR- CAR.
To illustrate his point that Chinese doctors often used foreign preparations, Mr. Loseby said that sulphate of ammonia was a foreign product, but the use of this fertilizer by Chinese farmers did not neces- sarily mean that the farmer was altering his methods. The defence also put in a copy of Leb's Directory
on the immoral earnings of his wife. Deceased, Chang, had prepared the food: Liang, now under sentence of death, served it and inserted sut ficient arsenic in one bowl of rice to poison half a dozen people Presently two more men joined in
Provision is made by a local garage of cars to conduct visitors round the newly constructed roads, ur minion, the charge being only 20 cents for each trip of aucus half an hour. A cur starts from the Tai in which the defendant's name ap- the fateful meal and they were the they, no doubt, could not help feel-
peared as a herbalist.
"Patient As Police Decoy, A Chinese who described, himself"
principal witnesses for the Crown. One of them, Ts'ung, a sailor, and as an employee of a compradore on duced by Liang to to invest has a simple-minded mag, had been in a local vessel give evidence of con- sulting the defendant on October savings-100-n the cake shop. 23th for a certain disease when he As might have been expected; it was provided with pills and other was a total loss. He had recently maintained did him no good.
crime to shield
a lover, but
by the Senior afedical Oficer, Dr. Fraucis Clark, and by Mr. F. G. C. Walker, Chief Analyst of the Shang- hai kuunicipality, which showed that death was undoubtedly caused by a heavy dose of arsenic. He and
ing admiration, if not respect. to- wards a woman who was willing
he felt to take full responsibility for a
sure that when they reviewed-in conjunction with her dence built up with the help of his twenty-five witnesses, they could confession--the long chain of evi
Questioned by Mr. Loseby, wit-portant "witness, and the wedding that Liang Mao Lin and Chang Lau ness denied that on his visit to the seems to have been of the simplest hih conspired together to procure defendant he asked for an injec description. Said the woman, in the death of Chang Wen Ching and tion. that a constable named Tam Chiu have no wife. What about it "they attained their object.
He subsequently admitted effect, I have no husband: you that on the 9th of the 7th Moon accompanied him, but he was not They set about it. Prior to the
The Defence, being used to make a case against
exclude from consideration his con- aware until yesterday that he was
violect Mr. Covey begged the jury not to the defendant,
teation that deceased, had taken his own tr. There was the so- called confession, made within a few hours, of the thrashing in village, put in as evidence. He sub- matted that evidence gaven under. such circumstances should be re- garded with the gravest suspicion. was it not reasonable to suppose that, Chang had taken his own life? He was or bad terms with his wife: he was at variance with his family: tuut very afternoon there had oc-
Wang Yin-Yi Rehabilitation Com: missioner of the North River re- gions. Brigadier-General Yi Hon gives farmers and other country Naam Leo every hour, and this Mow of the 4th Army, and a score folks. visiting Wüchow a chance of a or more others from outlying dis motor ride at a price within their trict are streaming in to Canton toeans. A few months ago, an to confer with Marshal Li.
automobile was a novelty but to The first thing that the Marshal day several hundred motor-cars will attend to when he gets back have now found their way to the to Canton will be the military con-interior of Kwangsi, where there medicine, which, however, witas married a Korban wife, another im- come to no. other conclusion than| ference which is to discuss a further are nearly 2,000 miles of modern disbandment of the troops in highway already completed or Kwangtung.
under construction, More than There are at present three full score of 'bus companies are placing cars on these roads, and the writer Armies in the Province in additions, during the last few weeks, gone to numerous independent units. by bus from Nanning to Chuan The cost for the upkeep and main- tenance of these armies is well over boundary, by way of Liuchow, the the Kwangsi-Hunan two and a half million dollars a future provincial capital, month,
It is reported that the Kweilin, the ancient capital of and Marshal intends to reduce these Kwangai. Some of the rivers have armies to 3 or shih or divisions to be crossed by ferry boats which These, it is thought, are sufficient take one car at a time but this is to, maintain public arder and keep the only way in which the roads down pirates, brigands and Care behind those of Europe. On coming down the West River from the interior of Kwangsi to Wa chow, one may often ser new cars ΟΠ tow-boats or motor-launches delivery. being taken up the country for
munists.
CANTON'S NEW MUSEUM.
TO BE HOUSED IN A PAGODA.
Since a Preparatory Committee was formed some days ago to ar range the Municipal Museum to be established in the Five Storied Pagoda now being reconstructed on the Yuet Shou Hill (H of the Goddess of Mercy), all the pre- liminary work in connection with the formation of this institution is being pressed forward as rapidly 19 possible.
.
chow near
AGENTS BUSY. Siage September 12th, a British has been visiting the principal ngent for a popular American car
consisting of a touring car, a truck, cities of Ewangai, his equipment
drivers. He has taken most of the a tractor, an interpreter and threa roads, and incidentally received orders for a dozen or more cars, sale of a hundred tractors to the and now he is negotiating for the Kwangsi 'Government, while other agent, indirectly working for an American car, is offering the delivery of 130 passenger cars to meet the demands for this form of traffic in the Kweilin districts. Kweilin is going to be a busy cen- tral station for cars running from there to Chuanchow, Laipo, thence to the Fu, Hob, Chung districts, and Liuchow.
2-17-
The new museum will consist of three main sections, the Fine Arts, the Natural Science, and the Na- tural History These three sectious will be sub-divided into smaller sec tions Every effort is being made to make the museum the best of its kind, and the meo behind the scheme are in touch with author ties both for and near aceking con- tributions of all articles of suitable nature for display in a museum.
Mr. Luk Yao Kong, the head of
From Liuchow, there are now motor roads to Nan the Bureau of Education, and the ning, by way of Chinking, and to noving spirit of this scheme, has Sheklung, where boats may be requested that the mayors sad magistrates of the various towns be the open door to a rich mining taken for Wuchow, and to Hochib, asked to gather collections of specimens and curiosities of in- Area in Kwangsi. terest in their respective territories for the museum. To meet they initial expenses of this institution Mr. Luk applied to the Municipal Council some days ago for a gra of 93,000, and this has now been sanctioned.Canton Gazette.
UNSATISFACTORY "EXPERTS."
until Friday afternoon.**
Further hearing was adjourned
SPURIOUS BANKNOTES
GALORE.
POLICE MAKE SERIES OF RAIDS.
quarrel-not by any means a first quarrel-between deceased and his wife. The latter remained in her room and took no part in preparing or serving the food. Following the meal, the victim of the plot behayed in a normal manner, fetched water from a well in the neighbourhood, washed up the dishes and went out to a place of, entertainment from which he returned complaining be felt ill. Before dawn he was dead. Chang Liu Shih and her paramour, Liang, spent the evening in charac-
meal there bad been
the
Spurious banknotes made to re- present the 850 note issued by theteristic fashion, mostly in pleasure curred a violent quarrel between Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking resorts, till past midnight. The husband and wife. Bankrupt in Corporation are being circulated crime necomplished, it was import friends, is reputation, in money, of a series of raids carried out by posed of as soon as possible. The should decide to put an end to freely in the Colony, and as a result ant that the body should be dis-what more natural, than that he
have been arrested. Bad paper E. H. B. Hodge at Police Head- the Police, two women and ten men young widow reported to Inspector himself and his troubles by taking
seized. money amounting to 82,000 was quarters that her husband had died jury that if there was any doubt,
a dose of poison? He reminded the after an illness of some months: the in their minds, the prisoners were sudden death was due to cholera!. neighbours were informed that the entitled to benent from it.
same evening a cart bearing the Liang-ordered the coffin and the.
accompanied by Liang on a borrow. widow and her dead husband and
ed bicycle, was on its way to de- ceased a home some twelere miles away. Ahead went Lao Chang who shrines and water-courses passed on burnt jos paper at the various
the journey. :
very energetically to break up the The Police have been working
aid of intermediaries, they have gang of counterfieters and with the been partially successful. notes were said to bave been offered These for sale at half their face value. formally brought before Mr. H. E. The two women and ten men were Lindsell yesterday and manded in police custody for five days
were
re-
Yesterday our Chinese correspon- dent described the activities of the same gang or their confederates in Canton, where spurious notes are giving inerchants and bankers an anxious time.
The Summing-up. Briefly reviewing the evidence,
pinion, deceased bad conducted Sir Peter Grain stated that, in his
buself in an ordinary and_normal fashion after the meal. He had fetched water; discharged certain housheold duties; gone out to amuse himself. These were not the actions of a man contemplating self- destruction. As regards motive, there was the over-beard conversa- tion between the two principal ac- cused planning a move to Korea.. If this evidence was to be regarded
The Ancestral Home.. The suddeeness of death and the appearance of the body, aroused suspicions and on the following day the relatives Blogged the widow till
as reliable, it would obviously be to she admitted her guilt. This "con-
their advantage to have the hus- fession" was not put in as evidence band out of the way. Taking all before the High Court, but within the evidence into consideration, the Kwangsi are not available and 24 hours, though the usual caution jury should have little difficulty in that, the market for the finished had been given, she was admitting arriving at a decision. However un- product is not what they expected. her guilt to Inspector G. Jen pleasant it might be, it was their The Kwangsi officials thought that ings. Lao Chang also entered the business to bring a verdict in ac It is sad to relate, that certain all they had to do was to furnish village home. He represented bi-cordance with the evidence and the foreigners dealing with the Kwang perts" and engineere would be who supplied the cofin But, as a
the capital and the foreign ex self as the agent of the carpenter facts put before them. si Government have given cause for complaint, and several "expert ·
able to get a good return.
matter of fact, was acting as advisers! Erom a Western country Now several foreign.
experts "
or scout, for Liang, who was stop After an absence of about three- have turned out very unsatisfacare drawing a anlay from 8400, ping at a near-by inn. Duly in quarters of an hour the jury return- CARVALHO YEO ON TRIAL torily. The Kwangsi Government, Hong Kong currency, upwards, formed of developments at the ed to the Court with a verdict of
having appointed them under an TO-DAY.
and doing practically nothing. village. Liang hurriedly left for guilty against all three accused, agreement, does not know how to wanga is badly in need of cut Port Edward and took refuge at the but with E "recommendation tó get rid of them. These experts "side, capital, technical advice, and carpenter's shop which had supplied mercy in the case of the woman, have furnished estimates and e- other assistaner, and the Govern the coffin Here he was arrested. Chang Liu Shih. The Judge ex- ceived orders to purchase machinment does not want to give a bad Following her statement to the pressed his agreement with the ery from foreign countries for in-impression to the outside world police, in which she made a pathetic verdict and sentenced Liang Mao dustrica which appeared to be even by dismissing unsatisfactory effort to shield her lover by assert. Lin and Chang Liu Shih to death: sound and profitable, but after employees. Several foreign arms ing that she alone was responsible Lao Chang to two years' imprison- | factories had been built and are just now showing great anxiety for this crime, Chang Liu Shih was ment. machineright at far higher cost to trade with Kwangai and as the taken to a shop outside the City | than the original estimates, these Government has no foreign debts and there identified by a youthful
spy',
The Verdict:
Carvalho Yeo, formerly a clerk in the employ of the Hong Kong Treasury, and who is alleged to have defrauded the Government of over 8260,000 is to stand his trial this morning before the Puise Judge, Mr. Justics P. Jacks. The
Commutation of Sentaice case is expected to last two days.
H.E. the Commissioner has come Eldon Ration: Chypre despartanem sagthat the rainy tin ofiziala belieya that they should be the willen who tried muted the death of force od Chung. cutor and Me F. C. Jenkin is materials they expected to obtain in have a difficulty in getting credit to purchase arsenic on the morning Liu Shih to ten years' penal ser- defending.
(Continued at foot of next column.) on reasonable terins.
of the 29th but had been refused. Vitude. Liang awaits execution.
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