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* THE 8th ARMY HEAD-
QUARTERS.
TO BE DISSOLVED.
MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN'S DECISION,
TYROM OUR CHINE COKXESPONDÝNT.]
CANTON, Feb. 4th. The Headquarters organisation of the 8th Army, of which Marshal Li Tsai Hsin is commander-in-chief, is to be dissolved. This decision Was arrived at by a military con. forence summoned by Marshal Li and held at his headquarters to- day, Generals Chen Ming Shu, Chen Teal Tang and Hs King Tong, Garrison Commandant Tang Shih Tang and Messrs. Fung Chủ Man and Li Chi Chung being among those present:
The agenda before the conference dealt entirely with the question of and, at the outset it was agreed that the work must proceed in accordance with the edicts of Nan
demobilisation in the two Kwangs.
king.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 1929.
FORGED BANKNOTES NANYANG FACTORY
H.E. THE GOVERNOR IN HOSPITAL.
AT THE OPENING OF THE, ALICE. MEMORIAL
EXTENSION...
A MUCH-NEEDED DEVELOPMENT.
Considerable interest was shown in the official opening of the new Alice Memorial Hospital, Bonham Road, yesterday afternoon by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G, LL.D., M. A..
Passing between a guard of honour provided by smiling sisters nhd nurses of the hospital, His Excellency declared the building open and the company then proceeded to the Outpatient Waiting room where Sir Cecil, the Hon, Sir Henry E. Pollock, EC., the Hon. Dr. 8. W. Tso, O.B.E., addressed the gathering.
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PRISONER MAKES STATE- MENT IN HIS OWN WAY."
· EMPLOYEE IN - COURT.
POSSESSION OF THE FIRM'S
CIGARETTES.-
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A REVENUE `seizure.
CASE CONCLUDED TO-DAY.. A Chinese fitter employed by the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Factory The trial of the four Chinese, one in Wancha? was charged before Mr. of whom is a woman, on a charge EI. Wynne-Jones at the Central of attering, and possession of Magistracy yesterday afternoon on forged $50 banknotes, purporting to three counts in connection with have been issued by the Hong Kong 1,121 cigarettes of various brands and Shanghai Banking Corporation, manufactured by his employers. and also the possession of copper Two charges were based on plates and other materials for tions in the Ordinance dealing with making the notes, was continued illegally moving for export such yesterday as the Criminal Sessions dutiable cigarettes without a per- In reply, His Excellency sadd be before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry mit, and possession of such illegal had known the old Alice Memoria: Gollan. The case will probably canly moved cigarettes The third Hospital for many years, and clude to-morrow.
charge of larceny of the cigarettes greatly admired the work it did.
Mr. E Somerset' Fitzroy is con was preferred by Mr. D. L. Strel- This Institution was noteworthy ducting the case for the Crown, and lett (of Messrs. Geo K. Hall embodiment of the success which the fourth prisoner is defended by Brutton and Company) on behalf habitually attended in this Colony Mr. Leo d'Almada, jar., instructed of the Nanyang Brothers". Tobacco on co-operation between Chinese by Mr. Leo d'Almada, snr. and Britishers.
The name of the hospital com- The defence was opened yester- cmorated the wife of Sir Kai Bday morning, when the first pris- Kai, who for many years represent oner, Wu Wang Ngai, gave evidence ed the Chinese community of Hong Kong in the Legislative Council, on ath. He said that he had had and who was himself a doctor of nothing to do with the forged notes. unusual attainments, in that he They belonged to Chan Wing. They had studied not only western. medical science, but also the Chi-were not found in his possession and where he saw a woman in the front he had never had custody on them.room. During the search he found pharmacopoeia.
he was not charged with possession other makers.
His Lordship told prisoner that the cigarettes produced in Court in biscuit tins and cigarette tins of of the notes, but conspiracy to utter them.
"The Hon. Sir Henry E. Pollock, K.C. (Chairman of the Hospital), addressing His Excellency said in the course of his address that the building represented a feature of life in the Colony in which we were assured that His Excellency took The Headquarters of the 8th the greatest interest. Apart from Army, which now controls the mili the fact of its being a Hospital tary affairs of the province, is to be intended to help and to heal the replaced by one authority, for the two provinces, also under the pre-sick, it stood as a monument of sidency of Marsha Li, which will goodwill between the Chinese and be known as the Headquarters of the First Region for the Disband non-Chinese, bearing witness to ment of Troops. Na statement has united service rendered by the two been made as to the practical sections of the community. alterations that will follow the change of name, init Marshal Li la this service many honourednete has ordered that all outstanding names could be recalled, but per- accounts and other business at thehaps few had given greater assist present Headquarters are to be
ance to this Hospital than the late cleared up without delar.
Dr. Chau Siu Ki and the late Mr. P. H. Holyoak.
The Marshal, as he has already publicly stated, is determined upon drastic reduction of military power, but he is not going, to rush at it before the Communist and brigand menace has been finally crushed,
The work was begun forty-eight years ago by Dr. W. Young, a local
By the collaboration of Dr. He Kai, as he then was, with the Lon don Missionary Society, the bes pital came into being; and it work ed for all poor, sick people in this Colony, irrespective of races or creed.
Prisoner replied that if he could make his statement in his own way, he would better make the Court understand his position. His Lord
Company.
Employee's House Searched.. Prosecuting on the first two charges, Revenue Officer H. Y Pearse stated that he was attached for duty at the Nanyang Brothers' factory with a Chinese revenue Street, second floor, on Friday last, officer. He visited No. 3, Percival
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On questioning the woman garding the whereabouts of her husband witness was told that be had gone to the country. A photo- graph was found on the wall and one of the Chinese revenue officers accompanying him recognised a man in the group as being very
at the factory. The Chinese officer
that when he questioned the defen visited the factory and found the defendant at work. Witness said
dant regarding the cigarettes found in the house he claimed to be the
wer
and the men will not be discharged medical practitioner, as a Dispen Colony the scheme for renewal of ship said that he was only trying to similar in appearance to a worker i
until they bare jobs to go to.
EXTREMISTS IN DIS- FAVOUR.
Another important body due for dissolution in March, under a re- solution of the 3a Plenary Session
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of the Kuomintang, is the Canton
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sary held in buildings.lent by the London Missionary Society, and he devoted much time and attention to the relief of sickness among the Chinese.
A Growing Work,
Dr. Ho Kai (fterwards Sir Kai
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Ealarging upon the history of the hospital, His Excellency said he would like to commend to the the Nethersole Hospital also. The Nethersole Hospital, like the Alice Memorial Hospital, served its par pose in the past, but the present condition of the building demanded that it should be rebuilt and that much better use should be made of the valuable site on which it stood. Alleviation Of Suffering,
el
complished. that day, and in this
help the prisoner...
less strongly represented and this Society for their co-operation in connection he recalled with very these were handed to him by a man belonged to brands made specially :
now
Lise.
Police knew very well to who the Continuing, prisoner said that the
notes belonged to and where they were found. He had only known
The defendant told him Chan Wing for about two weeks prior to his arrest. The fourth pris that he bought the cigarettes in Political Council, it is thought, Ho Kai) was impressed with the Inted all those who had participated the sale of the notes and he had got When it was pointed out to the de- oner had introduced him to Chan packets and gave the wrappers to Meanwhile," he heartily congrata wing. He had never taken part in the children, which accounted for however, that at the forthcoming nature of this service, and ap-in the work which was happily ac- nothing out of the transactions
their presence in foreign tina. Kuomintang Conference at Nanproached the London Missionary king the extremist element will be
As for the plates for printing, cows" small and 775" Sze Hee" fendant that 148 "Hundred Spar-
great pleasure the services rendered decision may be reversed.
the erection of a Hospital building, by the late Mr. Cháu Siu Ki and called George Sunico. With regard to these extremists for which he secured funds. The the late Mr. Holyoak to the old newspaper, and when Sunice banded bought them on board a ship. Wit The plates were wrapped in for export, he then stated that he the Kwangtung Provincial Koo.. pintang Conference,
building was named after his late hospital and the generous donation them to bim, Sunice said that he ess further said that twelve "Mo lution wife, The Alice Memorial Hce Madame Wu Ting Fang to the was leaving the Colony on urgent defendant's pocket, the explanation Sheung cigarettes were found in session, has passed a
new hospital. bitterly denouncing the extremista, pital." Such a lasting memorial Each improvement of the hospital business and would be back in about being that he took them for his own and has cabled to Nanking de manding that they be expelled built for the service of humanity accommodation in Hong Kong two or three months' time.
Under cross-examination, prisoner from the party. Wang Ching Wei was a form of philanthropy which brought with it some alleviation of said that he occupied the front Found: Guilty On Two Counts.
hamza suffering. It was a matter is alicng those whose arrest and might be emulated with advantage. wherein private and public enter cubicle in No. 18, Queen's Road
At the close of evidence, Mr. F. punishment is demanded for collu-
East. prise vied with each other in searched his premises after he had nions on the wording of the revenue The police arrived and , d'Almada, Sen., made submis- sion with the perpetrators of the The work grew, Sir Henry con- great Communist uprising of cinued, and the London Missionary trusted, never rest content until the or the key of the chest of drawers, larceny had not been proved by the laudable emulation which would, he been in half an hour. They asked charges and also pointed out that December 11th, 1927.
Society provided a Superintendent provision for the sick and suffering which was produced by his wife. prosecution. Mr. Strellett suggest and Matron, and gave the sito nd-in this Colony was as good as, if The Police found the plates in the ed that the 1,291 cigarettes bud
not better than, such provided any- joining the building for the erection where else in the world. (Applause, bottom drawer. He had never been removed from the factory in of the Nethersole Hospital. The The Roy. U Dixon Cousins, of opened the package to see what small lots such as were found in they were, because he was told that the defendant's pocket. Further the London Missionary Society, it contained nothing but copper. that the defendant had served ing which the Hon. Dr. S. W. To, O.B.E. (Deputy Chairman of the plates to keep, had also given him Hospitals), addressed the gather-a revolver and fifty rounds of am ing.
munition. Prisoner also corrected He said that forty years ago few himself by saying that when he was Chinese when sick would care to speaking about the fourth prisoner, His Worship held that there was entrust themselves to any Western third prisoner. He had never know and the first charge therefore fail- he was referring all the time to the no evidence of removal for export, method of medical treatment. But
ed. A fine of $25 was imposed on was carried on for many years, un-now, besides the Alice Memorial & the fourth prisoner, tit ita incorporation with the Uni- Afiliated Hospitals, there were
Prisoner said that the printing the second charge. In dealing with versity. It may therefore be said many Chinese Hospitals using machine and various chemical were the third charge his Worship re
his, and that he himself was a marked on the Western methods of treatment and. to have been the basis of one, of in the Alice Memorial & aliate licenced printer. He sold out his cigarettes made for export only the Faculties of the University. Hospitals alone, thousands of cases He kept the chemicals thinking that conviet on this charge with the business shortly before his arrest and not sold locally. He would Another branch of service render- were treated every year.
thing... they might be realised for some option- fine of 30 or fifteen
days. ed by these Hospitals was the train- ing of nurses.
MÅRSHAL LI VISITING KWANGSI.
Marshal Li Taai Hain will leave Ho Miu Ling and Alice Memorial offered a dedicatory prayer, follow The same man who gave him the nine years in the factory and his
were built
Canton either to-day or to-morrow
Tuesday) with his brother, Mr. L Maternity Hospitals Tai Man, to complete the cbse- later, and these Hospitals collec- quies of their mother. Several tively were now known as the Alice leading officials in Canton, includ- ing Mr. Fang Cho Man, Commis Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals. sioner of Finance, will go with i In connection with this Hospital, them and they will make the jothe Hong Kong College of Medicine neg aboard the gunboats Nan Keung and Chung Yuen.
SHAMSHUIPO LAND SOLD BY AUCTION.
FOUR CROWN LOTS FIND BUYERS.
Four lots of Crown land in Shamshuipe were sold by public auction at the Land Office yester day. No bids were forthcoming in the case of one lot which went at the upset price; the others sold at above the, reserve figures.
History Of The Hospital.
Portraits From England
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clients had to a certain extent to depend on the bonesty of their em Floyees, for which reason they were not searched.
.presence
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Dr. W. Young and many other The woman prisoner also made a local practitioners whom he never statement, in which she denied that had the honour of meeting, and Bir the notes belonged to her. They Prisoner emptied out his pockets Kai Ho Kai and Dr. Jordan, with were the property of her husband, which contained the $50 note and
were the pioneers of this noble whom he was intimately associated, she added.
The original Alice Memorial Hospital was situated in Hollywood
The third prisoner called two wit-300 in other banknotes. In handing Road, he went on, some years ago work, and their names should be nesses to testify to his chaacter. the money to the detective, prisoner the site was sold, and with the written in letters of gold in the The first said that he had known the dropped, the $50 bill on the floor. The conditions in all esses pro proceeds of that sale the present and he hoped that same day por always found him to be an honest arrested, but Chau Tin was later annals of Hong Kong History, prisoner for over ten years, and had Both prisoner and Chau Tin were building was erected. A special ap- traits of these pioneers would be man. Prisoner, was foreman Atter discharged for lack of evidence. peal was necessary for furnishing and hung up in a room of the Medical in the China Sugar Refinery The equipment. A sum of nearly $10,000 sity to serve as a reminder to recommended him to an apprentice Facuity of The Hong Kong Universecond man, said that prisoner had was subscribed, including a gener- medical students of the noble ex-job at the Refinery, and both bo ous donation of $3,000 from Madam ample they had set for them" to and prisoner were working up to
follow. Wu. Ting Fang. The new building
the time when the Refinery closed down. Alter that he saw the pris was part of a larger scheme for the
oner quite often and knew that he rebuilding of the Nethersole Hos-
was soliciting business for soms printing shops. pital.
vide for a tenure of 75 years, with the option of renewal for one fur ther term of 24 years less three days. New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1202 is situated at the junction of Appliu and Kweilin Streete and has an area of about 4,320 square feet with an annual rental of 850. This lot was purchased at the upset price of $4,320 by Li Yee, of Na 151, Woosung Street Yaumati
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KIU YAT PO" SUED credit and reputation, and that he had suffered loss by way of special FOR LIBEL,
damage through the loss of a con- tract with the Yuen Cheong Tai PLAINTIFF FAILS TO firma, to the extent of $4,880.
SAPPEAR.
In the absence of the plaintiff, Counsel asked his Lordship to exércise his discretion under a soc- tion of the Code, and to strike out the action with costs
Prisoner corroborated his Coun- tion by Mr. Fitzroy, said that the sel's opening and in cross-examina- 800 were obtained by selling Chinese subsidiary coins at Kongmoon. The coins were the proceeds of hiring. For the remembrance of the late
cut camp beds to passengers..
Asked by his Lordship why did "WAH Sir Kai Ho Kai and Lady Ho Kai their portraits-which were now
he not return the 890 to his father. New Kowloon Inland Lot No.
being done by a London Artist
instead of taking if to an opium will be hung up on these walls when 1203, adjoining New Kowloon In-
Outlining his defence on behalf shop, prisoner said that another The special features of the new they arrive from England. (Ap- of the fourth prisoner, Mr. d'Almada man had borrowed $35 from him, land Lot No. 1154 in Cheung Sha
said that he would call evidence to and since he could not pay his Wan Road, having an area of 3,210-block-were-an-Outpatient Waiting ulause). square feet and annual rental of
They were greatly indebted to show that his client was the son of father in full, he kept the money Boom, an Operation Room, Dr. Gibson, he went on, for plan- & respectable man, who heida until the other man should repay 822, fetched $5,500 against the upset
Arses' Lecture Boom, and Private ning the hospital over which he licence for hiring out camp beds on him the $35, The loan was repaid,
CASE STRUCK OUT. figure of $1,880. The buyer was Fan Sung, of No. 23, Nam Chaung Warda. Originally, it was intend- bad spent a good deal of time and board steamers Prisoner was as but his father was not on board, Street, Shamshuipo.
taken a vast amount of trouble isting his father, and a man named and therefore he kept the money. At the Supreme Court yesterday Counsel was asked if plaintiff ed to have only Private Warda in
Questioned by the jury as to when morning before the Chief Justice, was duly served and whether he New Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1204 war bought by Tok Ping Fung, this block but it has been decided they were sorry he was not here Chau Tin. Prisoner and Chau Tin
to take part in the Opening also did some business in selling and where he had changed the sub Sir Henry Gollan, an action for knew when the action was fixed for. of No. 48, Nam Cheung Street, as a temporary measure to run Ceremony.
passengers. On sidiary coine into Hong Kong car libel against the Wah Kit Tat Po hearing. Mr. Potter replied that They also thanked the supporters November 18th, they were carrying rency, prisoner said that the change newspaper Was Shawshuipo for 84,050 as against three of the private wards into one
mentioned, the Messrs. Hastings, Denays and Bow-
plaintiff of the hospitals, both European and on their usual business on board was made in Hong Kong two days plaintiff being Chan Chak, aliae ley,
solicitors, were the upset price of 83,340. This pro larger ward until such time as it is Chinese alike, for the strong sup the sin Tai Lee, on the Kongmoon before they sailed for Kong ason Chan Fat Tong, building contrac parties to the fixing of the day. perty comprising 2,239 square foot and, annual crown rental, of 818, possible to build the next block.
port they had given from year to run. Prisoner sold an overcoat for The jury then asked why if he had tor, at No. 1, Wing Wo Street, He thought it was not necessary to is in Cheung Sha Wan Rond ad- The next step involved replacing year. The hospitals were adminis $10 to a passenger, who paid for it 365 with him, after lending out 835 under the firm name of Chan Tai apprise plaintiff that the case had
been fixed for hearing yesterday, joining New Kowloon Inland Lot the present Nethersole Hospital by tering to the poor and needed a in a 360 note. Prisoner had not to a friend, he could not tender 840 Kee.
"said that he Plaintiff, was absent when the His Lordship good deal of money
to carry on the enough change, and borrowed $20 change to the passenger who had
would have been better New Kowloon Inland Lot Np building two blocks at an appro work.
from his father. On November 17th, bought the overcoat, instead of case was called, and the defendant thought 1205, also in Cheung Sha Wan ximate cost of $125,000 each. The On behalf of the Hospital Comprisoner and Chau Tin went to a having to borrow 820 from his firm was represented by Mr. Eldan to have sent a notice of trial. Read, adjoining Kowloon Inland sale of the out-patient Dispensary mic for his kindness in person coded to No. 114, Des Yeux Bond,,860 was locked up in his bag and at on October 8th, 1927, the Overseas solicitor, was then called, and
Mr W. D. Owen, plaintiffs: mittee, he thanked His Excellency restaurant, and after that they pro- father. Prisoner, replied that the Potter, K.C. It was alleged that Lot No. 1187, has an area of about
feet, the annual rent in Hollywood Road would give a ing the Opening Confusion quitting there the time he forgot that he had 856 Chiness Daily News, Limited, pro-stated that plaintif had been
Lanse being the price as nucleus of about 350,000 towards is Excellency them inspected the got to the remadeby a Chinese de-the-case was then adjourned until nublished certain words as a con- fixed for yesterday
they found no mo in but as they Chau Tin also gave evidence, and prietors of the Wake Kin Fat Po served and knew that the trial was His Lordship then struck the case of No. 11 Hay Wong Terrace, paid the erection of the first block, he Hospital, after which the building tective came out and searched them. this morning, when the undefended sequence of which, he had been and
prisoners would address the jury.* still was greatly injured in his feat with costs to the defendants.
No. 1170.
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81,740. The purchaser, Boon - Joe,
$2,500 for this lot.
concluded.
liwas opened to visitors.
to overcoats.
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