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CANTON'S NAVAL REVOLT.
THE REAL FACTS.
LONG-DRAWN-OUT DISCUSSIONS,
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ]
11 INTEN
FALSE REPORTSTM FROM CANTON,
MORE ABOUT THE NAVAL
COMEDY.
A GILBERTIAN SITUATION.
[FROM CORRESPONDENT.]
No internecine war in South China has been so full of doubt the present Kwangtung-Kwangsi strife,
Incer information concerning the recent naval comedy indicates that Captain Cheo Chak, commandan of the Canton Naval Station, bad
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.
PROF. SHELLSHEAR'S CROSS-EXAMINA- TION.
COUNSEL AND WITNESS
"WEARY."
*GRAVITY ** OF TREASURY OFFICIALS POSITIONS.
THE COLONY'S RIVIERA.
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GOLF COURSE, RECREATION PARK, AND PLEASURE RESORT.
From an official source, we learn Professor Shellsbear spent his of a scheme to build a 23-mile motor fourth day in the witness-box yes road from Kai Tack to Shatin. terday when the case in which the Incidentally, the scheme will in- Government is suing the Hong Kongclude the laying out of a public and Shanghai Bank for the recredit ing of $260,000 involved in the Carvalho Teo frauds was resumed.
Professor Shellshear, the Bank's writing expert, was examined by Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C.
CANTON, May 13. The Canton naval revolt has been settled, as all the gunbents have been turned over to the Canton Naval Department to be re-organis. ed und remanned. Admiral Chen Chak is now busily engaged in re- organising the Navy on ethicient basis, and all the revolting naval officers, irrespective of rank, have been discharged from service.
On resuming his cross-examina tion Mr. Potter, remarked I am No further trouble. is expected. "SA Daily Prats, representatire
been in rivalry with him for supre-going" to try to get through my cross-examination quickly as who asked for an exact account ofmacy in Kuomintang politics and the negotiations · was told that power.
possible, as I am sure you (the "Squeeze."
jury) and I are both rather tired of after the defent of the haval
Some naval efcers were indig revolt on May 8, the gunboats, with- | drew to White Goose Bay and over the alleged greed of
sought refuge alongside the foreign gunboats there. General Chen Tsai Tong then appointed Mayer Lin Wan Koi and Dr. C.-H. Chang to
received a bribe of $300,000 from General Chiang Kai Shek to sup- port his personal war against cer- tain Kwangsi militarists who are
Optain Chea Chak who had not, they charged, divided the sum justly among his subordinates, änd they decided to be "neutral." Captain Chen Chak, in turn, ac-
it."
Mr. Potter:
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I hand to you two cheques drawn by Carvalho Yeo, and a paying-in slip. You will find
golf course near Hebe Bay and a magnificent recreation pack.
CHILD SLAVERY.
ANTI-MUI TSAI SOCIETY. URGES REGISTRATION.
• AN UPLIFTING MEASURE.”
[BY J. D. BUSH.)
Mr. J. D. Bush, the honorary English secretary to the Anti-Mui views given below on the Mui Tsai Tsai Society, has expressed the question in Bong Kong-
An Old Custom
The domestic servitude in the Chinese family, known as the hui Taxi system, which has once agaia been the subject of questions in the House of Commons recently, is an indefensible old custom that should not be tolerated in a British Colony like Hong Kong. The beat instincts of Chinese and foreigners are against this practice ot child slavery, in which most are sold as Re-food and accommodation, let alone menial drudges without adequate
It is probably not well-known that Hebe Bay is one of the finest beauty spots in the Colony and the opinion is expressed that when the new-developments are completed, this spot will actually eclipse pulse Bay.
...The Proposed Routs. As far as we understand the new road will start from Kai Tack, run- ning some distance on the harbour side, past the glass works, and thence going through Ma Lau Tong Gap, which rises 450 feet above sea level. It will then pass the water fall and the small reservoir and
wages of any kind, while others are sold into prestitution.
approach the Shameen Consular used his lieutenant, Sze Chung said, in reply to another question. Proceed to Ho Ch'ung, which is 500 The Society does not claim that
THE TERMS...
Lau, of having accepted 82.000.000 from the Kwangsi militariats for the alleged mutiny.
in the thousands that the letter "O" are open in each case!
Witness agreed that was so and
that he did not think the crossing on the disputed cheques was in Tsang On Wing's writing.
Mr. Messer's Signature. Mr. Potter went on to deal with what has been termed an "eh
It is an evil that persists in many forms. The pity of it is that the Female Domestic Service Ordinance of 1923 remains nothing more than a dead letter to-day. Notwith standing various efforts made to urge enforcement of registration of slave girls and adopted daughters, no action has ever been taken to effect a real improvement in the conditions in which" they live.
registration is the only possible Hebe Haven, Sai Kung, Kai Ling-an immense amount of good could be feet above sea level, and thence to
measure for checking the evil. but ha, White Head, and round the done if the Government established peninsula to White Cove; and finish & special agency or official (5.C.A. is already overburdened with work) to co-ordinate, organize and encour- up at Shatin station.
Nowhere will the road exceed a age in this work of reform.
"Those entrusted with the task of
will be possible without constant official, should be entirely free from any bias and should be in- changing of gears.
the standpoint of getting rid of a terested in the issue purely from
social svil
Body to effect the surrender through peaceful means, if possible. The party arrived in the French Can
On the morning of May 8. the sulate at 12.30 and had a confer-ariation corps of the Canton Army ence with the Consular Body there. was ordered to bomb the navy ships anchored near the Macao Forts at the entrance of Canton Harbour, but throughout the day's "action" no
cided that: (1) The Consular Body bataats farming on the rice patches" formation of those letters. Casualties among some non-com- and another form described as the sbould advise the revolting gun nearby were reported.
Witness agreed that the former bonts to surrender or alternatively Captain Chen Chak had to leave
for Hong Kong. He was followed was a great rarity, so great that in leave the Bay; and (2), if the re-by Captain Sze, both emphatically the Yeo trial he could only produce volting gunboats refused to comply denying the alleged charge of
one example comparable with the the Consular Body should under-"squeeze."
During the "war" between the "e" formation, on the disputed take to remove their respective gun- .boats out a little so as to enable aircraft and the ships, a Swatow cheques.
the Government bombing planes to bolt with 2,000 men from General finish the battle without effecting Tang Yin Wah entered the harbour, and it was thought that they were harm to foreign lives and property.
Later, Mr. Douglas Jenkins, the coming to reinforce the suspects of American Consul-General, informed the navy. The combatants desisted "the party that he had sent and each demanded whether this
American naval officer to the revolt Bupposition was correct. ing gunboat Fai Ying to make in vestigations.
After some, discussion it was de- serious damage was done to them, Hormation of Mr. Messer'a gradient of 1-20; so that motoring tackling the problem, official or un-
an
eun-
The Colonel in charge of the regiment protested that bis men was held aboard the Fai Ying Canton authorities who admitted The same afternoon, a parley were coming on order from the between Dr. Chang, Vice-Admiral that this was correct, but, for the Shu and his subordinates and sake of safety first." and in case other bribery followed, ordered the No foreign naval officers. clusion
whole regiment to be disarmed and Was reached and the rebels were not ready to submit. the officers put under open arrest.
On May 10 it was known that the Dr. Chang then urged Vice-Admiral, Shu to go up to the American Canton Navy was to be loyal Consulate and discuss the matter in to Chiang Kai Shek while not the presence of the Consular Bady necessarily "unfriendly to Kwang- si, and the small craft went so far with Admiral Chen Chak and Mayor Lin. After much discussion as to fly a white flag as a sign of Vice Admiral Shu accompanied the party to the American Consulate, in spite of the stubborn opposition of his subordinates. The party promised that he should be taken back to the Fai Ying unmolested.
At the American Consulate Vice Admiral Shu was met by Admiral Chen Chak. Later the Consular Body, and foreign naval officers on Shameen joined the discussion, but "no satisfactory settlement could be effected. It was then finally agreed to postpone the negotiation until the next morning at 10 o'clock, in the same place,
submission. Up to present, the larger ships are still doubtful."
There was a talk in Canton for a while that the air force had not done its best in bombing the naval craft in the harbour. One airman was slightly wounded.
While the actors and stage man. agers may have all the play to themselves, the audience however, have had to pay heavily for it.
So
caused
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jar, no. real Kwangtung- Kwangsi batties have been fought. Cantonese troops, like the air and sea forces, have come to misunder standing among themselves and the loss of ammunition The next morning, May 10, at the by selling cartridges to the other American Consulate, Shu submitted three demands the basis for a The present stoppage of trade in settlement, one of which was that Canton has been brought about by all the officers of the different gun- the lack of confidence of the off boats should be given 81,000 cach with guaranteed protection of their cials in each other. They disarm lives if they were to leave the city.
left quarters,
A SETTLEMENT. - When Mayor Lin and Dr. Chang for the Military Head Vice-Admiral Shu had long talk with Palice Com missioner Au Yang Eni in which the, latter promised, that the Gov erament would give all the revoit ing naval officers an extra month's pay. When the others returned to the American Consulate, an order was finally signed by both Admiral Chea Chak and Vice-Admiral Shu
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side..
one another upon mere rumour of possible bribes heing offered by commanders on either eide,
The Canton Treasury and the Central Bank of Canton are said to be practically depleted. All loose cash has been removed from the Bank to Shameen for safe keeping.
Yesterday banknotes in Canton returned to nearly 60 per cent. of their face value.
HEAVY FIGHTING. Heavy fighting is reported to be to the effect that all the ammuni in progress in the East River dis- tions and batteries of the different triets, as a result of several sub- gunboats were to be returned to the commanders of the 2nd Kwangtung Government. All this was done in Division going over to the side of the presence of the Shameen Con- Kwangsi. General Tang Yin Wah, sular Body and foreign naval Commander of the Division, has been officers.
captured and detained by his sub This having been done, Shu tookordinates in Swatow. Swatow, Shek- the order back to the Fai Ying and lung, Waichow and other places in promised to give a reply within an the East districts are now in the hour and a half. By 3 o'clock four hands of the revolting armies under men came up from the different Colonels Li Mo Tze and Wan Yin gunboats carrying a letter of Vice- Kiu. Large numbers of troops are Admiral Shu stating that he was being despatched to these arena. detained in the Fai Ying by his The enemy troops are now in oc- subordinates and requesting the cupation of Sheklung and are pre- Government to give his men three paring to march on Canton when months extra pay, instead of one the time is opportune, as promised by Au Yang Kui. The request was catagorically rejected, and finally they agreed to.. sur render on the conditions as laid down by the Government. At 6
SHEKLUNG CAPTURED? p.m...Admiral Chen Chak went aboard the Chung Shan with a
(Wah Tat Yat Pao.) strong bodyguard and took over the
CANTON, May 13. control of the man-of-war. Vice- Admiral Shu left the Fai Ying at "Cantonese troops captured Shok almost the same time, and the sur-lung on Monday morning and the render was completed..
mutineers under Li Mo Tze have (Continued on next Column). retreated to Waichow.
Fighting is also reported on the North River. The Kwangtung troops are advancing in this sector.
Do you realise how very general you have been in your criticisms of Mr. Messer's signature ?
Professor Shellshear replied that he did not realise that...
To the east of Hebe Heaven is a peninsula, and it is here that the would be laid eat. The idea is that proposed full-sized public golf links
the course would be open for every
body desiring to play. The spot is an ideal one for the purpose, being most pleasantly situated.
Ideal Bathing, Hebe Bay, named after a British survey ship that was out here very many years ago, possesses an ideal Mr. Patter: With regard to the
bashing beach. Being land-locked, there are never any waves to em- characteristic of Mr. Messer's writ-barrass bathers and the Bay, even angularity of the "C" if that is a
ing, it is a characteristic which a forger would attempt to reproduce? -Yes, certainly. -
Further, I suggest it is a common characteristic with people who write of that type of a capital
formation 1-It may be.
"Have you noticed similarity of type between Yeo's signature and that of Mr. Messer -No.
Replying to other questions, ness agreed
that Mr. Messer's alleged signatures on the disputed cheques were very neat.
in present circumstances, is said to be better than Repulse Bay.
It is proposed to build a cause- way across the mud flats at Shatin, and the area inside will then be reclaimed, so as to make provision for the largest recreation ground, in the Colony.
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in. Others may be in" sympathy Many people object to registra
with the reform, but think the time. is not ripe for emancipating the
basis of tres labour."
slave girls and putting them on the
It would not be too much to hope at any rate, that the Government bo persuaded to appoint at once a Board of Eaquiry to look into the problem and adopt. the most effec tive measure for uplifting the slave girl
The following is a copy of a recent letter written by the Anti-Mui Tsai Society to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and it emphasizes the ob- stacles which the Society has to surmount furnishing the Govern ment with irrefutable instances of cruelty and malpractices.
Continued Trafficking,
8th May, 1999. Hon. Mr. R. A. C. NORTE,
Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
Hong Kong.
SIR-Since our verbal exchange
It is anticipated that, in course of time, the importance of the of views on the subject of enforcing Peninsula as a business and re- registration of Mui Tsai, I have sidential area will increase and, i duly transmitted to you a somewhat wit-with this fact in view sites will be exhaustive report on the question
sold by auction for the purpose of at issue. erecting residences in the hills Considerable time has elapsed, above Kowloon below the mist level. enabling you to examine the details The question of water supply of the report and the suggested re- not expected to present any dif- gulations for registration, and the ficulties although the authorities Society would be grateful for a ure already thoroughly exploring the reply, indicating whether or not the Government is in a position to assent to the proposed measure for checking slavery in Hong Kong.
Three other cheques were pró- duced, which witness agreed also bore neat signatures but were en- tirely different in formation.
Dealing with Mr. Biack's writ-matter. ing, Mr. Potter painted out that the signatures on cheques contained three rarities, the position of the "B," the slope of the "T" and the down stroke of the cross stroke of the "T." Witness agreed he could not pro- duce a cheque incorporating all those three features.
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Mr. Black's Bignature.-- Mr. Potter (to witness): I aug- gest that the opening in the "" is not a rarity It occurs at certain
times.
There is no doubt that the Colony the disputed is growing rapidly and the con-
Judging by concrete complaints of tianal influx of Chinese to Kowloon has also been largely responsible for ill-treatment, my Committee and, I the development of the mainland have every reason to believe that The scheme for the motor road, cruelty to, and purchase of, Mai continue unabated End therefore, may be regarded as a Tsai, decided step in the right direction. stronger measures should be adopt When business becomes more settled ed to put an end to the evil.
The heart of the whole matter, and expands, the way will then be open for the erection of blocks of you will tell me, is to convince the Kowloon side of the Harbour to re reasonable doubt. I need scarcely offices and business premises on the Government of cruelty beyond any lieve the present congestion in Hong reiterate what is already set forth in my report on that score, except to remind you again that. Society is at once confronted with a twofold difficulty. First, to ob- tain the real co-ordination of effort between the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Society to ferret out cases of cruelty. True enough, your assistants have spared no pains to investigate all cases brought before them.
Counsel asked whether witness realised the gravity of the situation as regards Mr. Messer, Mr. Black and Tsang On Wing. Witness re- plied that he did.
Position may be of vital import ance when you come to consider whether a signature is forged or not Yes.
Professor Shellshear was examined by 'Mr. Jenkin.
re-
'Kong.
Further, the pew road will make possible the linking-up of other places in and around Kowloon which are at present almost inaccessible.
Financial details of the scheme are not yet available but it is under stood that provision is likely to be made in next year's Budget for the work to be put in hand
our
The trouble lies, however, The construction of the road and other proposed innovations is estimin getting hold of the right Mui He said he was approached by ated to take about three years, Tsai upon information supplied by Mr. King either on the same day although, were sufficient funds avail anonymous letters. More often than that he was retained by the Bank abie, it could be completed in one not, the mistress resorts to sub- or the next day. His first confer year. Work will commence at both stituting a normal girl for one, who ence with Mr. Jenkin was late in cads simultaneously.
bears the actual marks of cruelty. Second, the extreme difficulty of the year 1998, as he went to Aus
establishing convictions in court for tralia in the Spring and did not return until September.
cruelty, as cases are not usually And having made an exhaustive brought to our notice until some few examination for pen pressure in the days after the cruel birching and genuine and disputed cheques do inhuman chastisement of the Mui you repest that the pressure is Teai.
So far as regards the buying and identical in both cases 1-I do.
Witness further said that in his selling of Mui Taxi, there is not the opinion it was not possible for the shadow of a doubt in our mind that brain and hand to work together the trafficking goes on all the time. in copying pen pressure and other This leads me to bring to your features with one movement of the notice a complaint lodged at our hand.
Form and pressure were Society rerently. The alleged facts closely connected.
of the case are as embodied in the Counsel: Can a man combine statement attached. It is earnestly form, speed and pen pressure to hoped that you will be good enough gether I do not believe it to be to examine further into the case,. so that the girl may be restored to. possible.
the curtody of the mother
His Lordship's Question. In order to simplify a question pat to Dr. Shellshear by the jury, his Lordship asked if an expert examined two signatures, in one of which the pen pressure was firm and in the other wavering or certain, whether he would say it, is not by the same man.
Witness: I think he will fall into the error.
Witness agreed with Mr. Jenkin that pen pressure would vary under normal conditions and at a time when a man was suffering from great mental strain or fatigue..
Counsel: Do the signatures in the disputed cheques show any signs of hesitation, weakness distress -Nothing whatever.
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Just as vigorous as they are in the genuine signature 1-Yes.
(Continued on next Column).
His Lordship observed that the proceedings were getting near the end and he asked for the co-opera- tion of counsel on both sides in the questions which will have to be put before the jury.
The case will be continued this morning:
I would appreciate a reply at your convenience, as I am desired to render a report at the next general committee meeting Yours faith- fully,
Signed: J. D. BUSH, Hoa. English Secretary.
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