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GREAT FUTURE FOR MILITARY CONFERENCE
CHINA.
DR. CHU'S PROPHECY.
MODERN IMPROVEMENTS AT NANKING,
(FROM OUR CHINKOT CORRESPONDENT. ]
Carros, December 4th.'
POSTPONED.
CHEN MING SHU UNWELL
MARSHAL LI'S AIMS,
(FROM OCR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. I
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 1928.
HONG KONG TREASURY AND PUBLIC
MONEY.
ROUTINE SEVERELY CRITICISED.
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Black had said that they never signed a cheque without compar ing with the vouchers, etc. "Well, wo have had a very prominent mau in the box and you have been
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN PRINCE EDWARD ROAD.
"The Chinese who was arrested and charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis-. tracy on Tuesday afternoon with taking part in a armed highway Edward Road, near Kowloon Tong, robbery on a Chinese in Prince
at 1.33 a.m. on November 19th was committed to stand his trial at the criminal sessions.
The defendant
CANTON, December 5th. The Military Conference was to have been held to-day in the Head- quarters of the 8th Military Boute under the leadership of Marsha Li ter of Foreign Affairs of the the Conference will be to discuss
Dr. Chao Hain Cha, Vice-Mini-Tsai Hsin. The sale purpose of bank accounts and because he had asked to believed all that he said with three other men, not in cus Nationalist Government and con- plane for the reduction of the currently Commissioner for Foreign vinces. At present there are no armies in the Liang Kwang Pro- Altairs, of Kwangtung, delivered less than five full armies with a few yesterday morning a such on the these two provinces. All of these. independent divisions stationed in latest features of China's diploit is reported, will be reduced to matic situation and the improve- three or four shihs or divisions.
Marshal Li is anxious to recon-
Yeo Confounds Handwriting -
Experts. It now remained for the jury to sce what the Crown's case was. Because Yeo had operated three done so ir three different hand--otherwise you would be condemn resident of Kowloon Tong who was tody, is said to have attacked a writings, they said that he must ing a very eminent man who might
returning that night in a ricksha : forgery. They put forward Yeo had been guilty of the crime of possibly be your friend. as a man who would and could can fute the bona fides of any man.
•Be that as it may, I feel great and in the struggle which took diffidence myself in having to replace the complainant was stabbed in the thigh. The wound, however, Osborn and Dr. Shellakear. But fr. Black told us that he never found the scientific experience of
was not serious. The defendant what evidence had been brought signed a cheque without looking at
was arrested the next day in Pakhoi before
Yaumati, and several you, gentlemen ?
the vouchers and because he is Street, Nope whatsoever. Commenting on this,
Mr. Black you are asked to accept articles belonging to the complain.
to raise a query,
enough. You have got to take the when he was arrested.
Counsel said that in
tairness both to Mr. Black and the prisoner the jury would have to pay the matter the utmost attention. In the first place Mr. Black said he
ments that are being made in Nan struct a new Kwangtung worthy of Counsel said that it was sufficient his evidence. But that is not good ant were found, in his possession
king, declaring that everything is proceeding very smoothly. The speech of Vice-Minister Chu throws a considerable light on the develop ments, diplomatic and otherwise,
being the centre of Chinese poli- tical thought and the birth-place of the Nationalist Revolution. In said:- conversation to a high official ha
Continuing, Mr. Jenkin aid I put it before you gentlemen not only with earnestness but with con. viction that you will at least agree with me when I say that the Crown has fallen very short in the prosecution
case as a whole.
the
that are going on at the capital of the people. As prare and order performance of, their duty. The fore he went to the bank on Janu. Messer in the case of Tsang On
sad was in part, as follows:-
NANKING MUNICIPAL
GOVERNMENT.
ary
in
about the missing cheques. Chung had also remained quiet on It has always been my aim to
subject. Was that also because of. fabour. For the welfare of the masses
his mentality as suggested by Mr.
Wing. Or could it be that Tsang are now restored to the birth
15th and before he had seen in Was
fact in place of the Nationalist Revolu. extremis, they were even driven to
the cheques, he knew they were had never told him.
Commenting forgeries. Looking at the cheques
that the entire bion, I returned to Canton from pus before you trifling points such in the Bank had confirmed that system was wrong. Mr. Jenkin said Nanking to 'consider plans for
as a tick here and a tick there,"
Counsel said that it was astound the Treasury, what did he do,of a million of public money was
view: making a new Kwangtung within
that unless in Hong Kong a quarter "Being a responsible ofcer The present Nanking Mual- the shortest time possible. The first have even been thought, of at first. ing that those points could not
did he speak to Mr. Martin ord not consider it a thing of im of no importance or the Treasury thing to do in this connection is, cipal Government is doing great should be, the completion of the There were so many experienced Mr. Barton, and he said "No." work in the way of modernising tanton-Hankow Railway and the move in the Treasury use Mr. Messer, and he also replied taken the simple precaution when I asked him if he had spoken to portance--they would at least have the city, the most noticeable feature establishment of industrial enter Government departments who of which is the maloo construction, prises. This will give employment could have suggested those points, Nu." I said very well, you went the book was received from the to the poor and the unemployed and and yet they were raised for the to the bank and you came back bank, of comparing the numbers of Three months ago the people were at the same time will provide an
first time yesterday. The Crown
from the bank, did you speak to the cheques with those of the stubs, bitterly opposed to the construction outlet for the talents of the for- time yesterday that shakiness was
had also suggested for the first Mr Messer then. His reply was instead of referring to the Cheque
a definite. No.
register with the Treasury Serial of modern thoroughfares. For a sig returned students. The power to be found in the writing in one
number. Had they done so they of production will thus be enhanced. time the whole city was filled with and wealth will be prevented from cheque. After a protracted hear-
would have seen at once that thirty ing of eleven days, the jury was
cheques had been extracted, and hue and cry of the people, for the going abroad. If the livelihood of now called to consider an intricate
they would then probably have Construction of wide roads could the people is increased. bandity problem. "You are now asked to
noticed that the numbers on the never be realized unless many piracy and other signs of disorder favoar the theory that the cheques will of course, gradually disap-were forgeries because of the shaki-
cover had been tampered with. With all due respect, he would say dwellings were demolished and the pear. In this state of affairs, evenness. No Counsel of any standing
that there had been gross slackness people residing therein removed. the Communists will find it impos or experience could possibly have
- nowbus from 1997 to "the But, Mr. Liu Gih Was. Mayor Bible to stir up any sort of trouble. failed to put that point before you
early part of 1998, in the Treasury. A POSTPONEMENT. -
Later this afternoon our corres- pondent went to the Catton Mili- tary Headquarters Lo inquire about the Military Conference, when he was told that the Con ference had been postponed at the last minute to some later date on account of the fact that General
of Nanking, went ahead with the project in spite of all the opposi- tions, declaring that the moderniza. tion of the Municipal Covernment necessarily called for maloo con- struction for the convenience of traffe. He was very resolute in his attitude and surpassing the most sanguine expectations, he was finally successful, and Nanking has to-day many wide and beautiful
Modern FoAUS
FOREIGN MINISTERS. Although" Nanking was formerly the capital of Kiangsu, yet modern improvementS were "very
much lacking.
Considerable inconveni ence is even felt in getting such a thing as drinking water: The old abodes are simple, vulgar and untidy in appearance.
it is be-
Chen, Ming Shu is still in hospital. General Chen, the newly appoint ed Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government and Com mander of the 11th Army, has undergone an operation for appen digitis in the Canton Sanitorium and is still in a convalescent state.
· MEDITATION FOR FIVE -MINUTES.
it
Counsel went on to say that at later stage Mr. Black had said that his duty was to get the cheques. I asked him who had instructed him to 'get the cheques, and he said Mr. Messer had in- structed him. I at once queried as to why he had said that he had naver spoken to Mr. Messer and now said that he had been instruct- unless he was satisfied that the ed by Mr. Messer 30 get.. the point was.. a good one." B cheques. His reply was that I had that as it may, the paint was of asked him whether he had report no value. The fact was that ined to Mr. Messer. He said he common fairness a man on his had seen Mr. Messer but not trial, all points of substance reported" to Mr. Messer. should be brought out at the Counsel said that these questions earliest possible stage of the case, were very important as they show The Crown's case has been oscillated the attitude of the persous conf affairs in the Treasury, the gen ing from start to finish,
vause of all this that the foreign ANNIVERSARY OF COMMUNIST for the Crown to take. Is it
RISING.
Legations in China claim that un- less new buildings are erected, they will have no proper quarters in Hoм OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
which to live and to transact busi- nesa. In view of the fact that
we have no suitable quarters in Naoking to "house
the fareiga pinisters in China and also in view of the fact that it would take such a long time for them to build their own Legation Quarters, the best thing to do now would be to thema to make their suggest to headquarters in Shanghai for the time being.
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TREATY PROBLEMS.
All foreign ministers in China are at present looking upon our country with friendly eyes. There- fore the most important con-
CANTON, Dec. 3th.
The 11th of this month being the first anniversary of the Communist holocaust in Canton, the people will hold a memorial meeting on that day at noon. All the restau rants, tea shops. cinema houses, operas and the like have been or dered to suspend business on that day so as to make the people re: Bect upon that ghastly, and thrill ing episode.
Another Type Of Mentality. Proceeding, Counsel said that
Fancy man-Mr. Moosa-who was the fourth man in the Treasury going into the box and admitting that during his thirty odd years with the Government he had never checked up the contents in the safe of which he was
one of the custodians. If that was the state
tlemen of the jury might expect anything.
cerned in the Treasury. They the Crown was in fact asking the On Wing was doing, what Mr.. Counsel, proceeding, said that would have to find out what Tsang jury to ride on the crest of a wave, ser. was doing and what we could honestly say that Tsang's Counsel asked the jury if they and to avoid difficult water. The Mr. Black doing at the office when attitude was that of an honest man, jury was asked to jumped over al! obstacles and to say that the man
the discovery was made. The jury He must have known that those could see from M. Black's answer debits which he found-in-the-pass was guilty. The Crown had also these questions what This put it to Dr. Shellsbear that if mental attitude was at the time. book hand had something to do with the missing cheques. And yet he his
views were correct, both Mr. He knew the three cheques were
said not a word to Mr. Black. He Messer and Mr. Black had perjur- frauds and yet he never spoke a ed themselves, and that Tsang On word about it to Mr. Messer.
even gave Mr. Black no assistance after the latter had come back from Wing was guilty of the "grossest
the bank. All he said was that criminality. This, Mr. Jenkia.
there were other cheques missing contended, was not the right line
the incident should strike the jury from another book. He did not even to be said that in proving my case forcibly. Here was an important say that the corera had been tamper- I accuse Mr. Messer and Mr. happening: $250,000 had been goted with. Taking everything to
from Government funds by means gether the jury had to rememb Black of perjury?"
of the three entries, and yet not a that they were sitting in a criminal ward to Mr. Messer. The latter
Court and they could not fail to had spoken about the mentality of see the hypothesis that Tsang On a clerk, and here was another Wing was not a man to be trusted. type of mentality. men of the jury will have to assess
You gentle The whole affair was remarkable, Counsel said. Mr. T. E. King, the value of this evidence.
|C.I.D., had said that be suspected Tsang hecause of the handwriting and yet throughout the enquiry at never asked Taang any question, but the Treasury on that day, he hal only arrested him. Apart from the slackness in the Treasury could any member of the jury say that Tsang Oz Wing's evidence was satisfac
Holding On Wrong Bellai. He thought Mr. Messer and Mr. Black still held the belief that they had never signed those cheques. "But my opinion is that they are wrong in their belief.". Counsel reminded the jury that the hypo- thesis
war entertained by Mr. Messer and the "Officialdom that those cheques were obtained by a trick. The prosecution there fore in saying that if the defence was right, both these gentlemen Upon the report of the noon had perjured themselves was sim- cannon on Kuan Yin Hi a trafply to bluff the jury out of what fic must come to a halt and every ever opinion they might have form one in the street must bow his headed on the evidence,
and meditate for five minutes. The With regard to Tsang being Police have been instructed to see charged with criminality if the defence was right, that 'would not be the first time.
that all this is observed.
tory.
Not Terrified By Grown. Counsel then referred to the charge preferred against Teang. It was stated at the end "Che
As to Tsang On Wing. Mr. Jenkin said that it had been estal had known that the cheque book lished beyond a doubt that Taang had been tampered with after it had come from the bank. Also that the book was not tampered with on December 20th and 21st. He was me from the bank because he had also certain that 800 cheques had
checked them. "I put it to hir if he was definite about it and he cern of the foreign ministers at
Counsel said that had said. Yes."
have known of the present time is to negotiate A stone tablet bearing an epitaph with us for new treaties for the in memory of the widespread death it the first time TaBeg has been and Mr. Messer had on several
Gentlemen, Is Tsang must
the tampering with the book ques never intended to be presented or cashed." Commenting upon this protection of the commercial in and destruction will be erected on charged? Was he not in the Vic
Occasions stond nenr his desk. Counsel said that if a document terests of their nationals bere. If that day on the corner of Wing Hon torin. Gaol for 21 days! The fact with the cheque book under his was forged then it was obvious auch Few treaties are to be con- Malco and Tai Hong Maloo. The of his discharge was pressed upon
that it was never intended to u cluded on the basis of equality and stone tablet will be six feet high you. Let us now examine this nose, and yet Tsang On Wing had
presented or cashed. There was, mutual respect, China will of with six protruding angles at the aspect of the case. His bandwriterer mentioned a word about it.
therefore, no necessity for adding course be willing. As we are now top. The four large Chinese charing was thought to be on the body Could be not have said that some-
these words to the charge if the entering upon the Period of Poli-acters, Hung Teing Ho Kiep, of the cheques. He was arrested, Did it not give grounds for the prosecution was satisfied that the
thing had happened to the book. tical Tutelage, reconstruction on a meaning Unprecedented Great but no evidence had been given pation-wide scale is of the utmost Calamity," will be engraved cross before the Magistrate. If it had to question his honesty." Why, cheques were forged. The fact that importance. Therefore not only wise on the upper part of the been I could curament on it. Ali Tsang is as honest as a new born they had put those words showed would we give promise of adequate tablet, and on the lower portion that happened was this: as a babe, could he not speak to those that they were working on the protection of trade with foreign will be written a brief history of Treasury clerk he was detained people who had trusted him 1-Why hypothesis of the cheques having. nations, but we would also invite the Communist upheaval in Canton. and before any evidence was ten- allow Mr. Black to walk across the been obtained by a trick. Counsel foreign capital in aid in the de- The corner at the crossing of the dered, the Treasury staff applied street with stubs in hand to the ventured to say that that course velopment of car" country.
Wing Hen Maloo and the Tai for his discharge. That, was what bank to find out the thirty missing taken was a well grounded one and that it should have been pursuel, Hong Maloo has been chosen as we might call, a departmental dis- cheques! FAITH IN THE FUTURE.
the site for the erection of the tablet | charge.
All these facts. Mr. Jenkia con- although the departmental views Government officials had because that portion of Canton detained him, Government officials tended, would show the jury that had changed. suffered the most, several blocks of enquired into the case and Govern they could not believe all they had buildings and shops around here ment officials applied for his dis heard about the splendid routine being razed to the ground by fire.
charge. There was nothing legal of the Treasury if things were rua about it. Are we therefore to say just because the Head of the De- As to Moosa," look at him. partment had reinstated him, you What can you think about that?! are not to exercise your right as He tells us that he saw a man with a jury to consider whether he was a cheque book on his desk, a book guilty or not?"
which should be in the safe, and be, Proceeding, Counsel said that they being one of the custodians of the
In conclusion. I wish to make clear that our country should by all means trade with foreign nations. The only condition is that foreign investments must be subject to. Chinese Laws. This is of the ut most importance from the stand- point of diplomacy.
SUNDAY'S OPEN "AIR CONCERT.
BAND OF K.O.S.B.
that way..
In conclusion Counsel apologized to the jury for having had to
bore them." He had travelled over much ground and he would that in not putting Yeo into the like in conclusion to assure the jury
box, he was not afraid of the case. He was not terrified by the Crown. As regards our diplomatic
the moral responsibility in hot put- afairs with Japan, I do not think
ting Yeo in the witness box was on him. that there will be difficulty in The next Public Band Concert is were there to hold, an enquiry into safe, made no report to Mr. Black. effecting an amicable settlement.
Counsel again submitted to the to be given by the band of the the circumstances of the case and Then he suddenly remembers it jury that no satisiactory proof of The present condition, in our coun-King's Own Scottish Borderers, in therefore the fact that Tsang was
two ΟΙ more days after the try are far different from those of the Botanic Gardens, on Sunday, discharged had nothing to do with fraud was found out and makes forgery had been put before them the past. If there are no more December 18th, from 4 to 5.30 p.m.
"What possible 2 report to Mr. Black in writing been extracted from the witness for the case at issue.
by the Crown and that nothing had political upheavals, and if the So, popular did the previous Sun- value can you baze upon
dis Mr. Black puts it in his desk and the defence. In a Criminal Court country continues to be united every day afternoon concert prove to be charge under circumstances of that forgets itha important document there was sort of fence put round- "thing will proceed smoothly where that the organisers are providing
like that which could throw a light | diplomacy is concerned. As I said extra seating accommodation,
on the loss of a quarter of a million an socused person, and it was up ut one of the international meetinga few specially comfortable and well-
to the Crown to break through that of dollars. If these vital matters in Geneva three years ago, I have placed chairs being made available
could go on being forgotten, what are we to think of the routine." every faith that Chins will soon at an extra charge of 50 cents. Upcome one of the great Powers of
As previously, entrance into the world. Day by day she is pro- Gardens will be free, and there w gressing. Our voice will be listen be a 50-cent enclosure with seating and also by the Police. It there ed to at the assemblies of the accommodation. League of Nations and the privi We learn that Mr. W. H. Fitz lages to which we are entitled will Earle is arranging another splendid be fully recognized by that interprogramme, and there should again nationa! body."
be a large attendance.
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Could Have Been ́Obtained By A
Trick
a
Coming to the hypothesis of the cheques having been obtained by trick, Mr. Jenkin said that it was first entertained by the Treasury,
fore was clear that the cheques could have been obtained by trick. The jury would therefore have to consider the route of the Treasury. Mr. Messer and Mr.
fence before the Court could con denim that man. Unless the Crown' had done that to the satisfaction of the jury, the prisoner was guilty,
not
Public Money No Importance." Counsel then referred to Chung Man Kun, the official who was never
To Finish To-day. called. He said that Chung's desk The case is likely to finish to- was only a foot or so away from day. This morning at 10.30 Mr. Tsang On Wing's and the latter Potter will reply for the proscen- had said that he had told Chung, tion: His Lordship will probably
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