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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1929.
14
AN ANTI-SOVIET “REVOLT."
CRY OF "KOLCHAK IS COMING!"
"CLEVER" COMMISSIONERS IN A DILEMMA,
HINT OF A REAL CIVIL CONFLICT.
At this writing the clever com- missioners are still struggling with such questions. What is more, the local population is sore, as it has ample cause to be, about its dis- turbed sleep.
Village Disorders,
[United Fresa.]
Moscow-At least one localized revolt against the Soviets has been admitted, and admitted with some pride, by the loyal prean here.
It happened in the village Mon- A real civil conflict, bitter and henskaya, in the Kansky distrit of enduring, runs like a thread of fire Siberia, a district that remembers through the life of the vast agricul all too vividly the horrors of riviltural atretches of the Soviet land. strife that drenched Siberia in blood It is not always visible on the sur- in the first years of the Revolution. face to the casual observer, but it Like a thousand other places which is there none the less, and breaks earry the wounds of these years, through the surface often enough in Noshenskaya has jumpy nerves un acts of violence and terror. the subject of revolt and counter- revolis.
It jumped with all alacrity one night recently when a group of Whites," in the uniforms of the dreaded Kolchak officers and heavily armed, swooped down on the village while it slumbered peacefully.
Leaders Awakened.
The invadera went about their job quictly and efficiently. They Awakened a leading Communist, in- formed him that the Soviet regime had been overthrown and that he was under arrest. They made the, same announcement in turn to one after another of the important Com- munists and social workers, grad- ually gathering & considerable num- ber. mostly in nightshirts."
SHARE OWNERSHIP. DISPUTE.
FOREIGN LADY SEEKS COURT ORDER.
AN ALIAS "
DIFFICULTY.
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD.
MUI TSAI.
KICKED AND BEATEN?
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST
OWNERS.
Two Chinese women and a young man were summoned before. Mr. T
Hazlerigg at Central Magistracy
A declaration as to the rightful ownership of 40,000 shares of $1 each in the Man Sang Knitting Factory was sought by the plaintiff in an yesterday for unlawful employment action before the Chief Justice (Sir | of a Chinese girl of seven years as Henry Gollan) in the Supremes mui taai and for cruelty. Court yesterday. ·
SANITARY BOARD BUSINESS.
REFUSE AT NORTH POINT
BATHING BEACH.
At to-day's meeting of the Sani- tary Board Mr. Wong Kwong Tin and Mr. M. K. Lo will ask a series of questions regarding the pollution of the North Point bathing beach by floating refuse.
Mr. Wong Kwong Tin will ask :---- "Has the attention of the Hend of Sanitary Department been drawn to the comments in a Chinese news- Mr. R. H. Butters, of the Secre¦ paper on the subject of refuse wash- The plaintiff, Mrs. Edith Weight tariat for Chinese Affairs, pro-ed up on the North Point Bathing man Bing, of 9, Hart Avenue, secuted. Mr. A. E. Hall appeared Beach in which it is suggested that this may be refuse removed by the Kowloon, as administratrix of the for the first defendant. and Mr. Sanitary Department: and will he estate of her late husband (Mr. Hin Shing Lo for the second and say if in his opinion there is any
truth in such a suggestion. " Mr. M. K. Lo will nsk- Chan Kwong Hing) claimed the third defendants. shares standing in the name of Pui Dr. T. W. Ware, of the Govern-
1.Is the Bend of the Sanitary part of her husband's "ment Civil Hospital, said that he Department aware that refuse is Leung as estate, the name being an alias. Ac-examined the girl and found in now being carried with the incom
ing tide to the bathing beach by cording to the statement of claim, juries to her right eye and shoulder. the South China Athletic Ansocia the liquidators of the, factory re- There was a bruise on the eye and tion Bathing Shed, Quarry Bay 1
2-Have any, and if so, what," fused to recognise the ownership hemorrhage of that organ,
steps have been taken to provent without an order of the Court. She
Questioned, witness said that it refuse, which is removed for dis- might have been caused by a blowposal in the open seas, from being with the fat. There was an injury carried back to Hong Kong by
tides ! on the elbow which was consistent with a slight kick.
It is the conflict in tens of thou. sands of villages between those ac- tively supporting the Government's policies and those who attempt in every possible way to tear it down. The reports of village Communists beaten or killed by kulaks" or rich peanuts are so frequent that asked for a declaration of owner- they no longer constitute news.
"By the same token the reports of ship of the shares, an account of the kulaks condemned death for partnership dealings of the firm, terrorizing active poor peasants, for burning their houses, and the like and an order, that the liquidators are so frequent that no one here pay to plaintiff the amount due in pays much attention to them. respect of the shares.
to
It is not without good cause that the Communist Party and its mi- tienfold supporters insist that the Revolution is still going on, that the country is still in a period of
War.
An Official Orgas.
The triumphant Whites were especially interested in watching
As a case in point we may cite the the behaviour of these Reds who went to bed as rulers and awoke as contents of a single issue of the prisoners of war out of their un-newspaper Nachrichten, published troubled sleep. One of the eminent in Pokrovsk. It is the official organ figures in village politics, was so of the Party in the Volga Germann scared that he jumped out of a Republic, one of the most literate window and ran madly through the and most advanced sections of the streets. Some pleaded for mercy. Soviet Union. The issue (July 13) Others were stoic. A few were de is spread before the correspondent. Only four small tabloid papes, yet fant and ready to fight for their
cause.
The defence denied that the name Pui Leung was an alias and they did not admit that the shares were the property of Chan Kwong Ring. Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. D. H. Blake, of Messrs. Witkin- son and Grist, was for the plain. tiff, and Mr. H. G. Sheiden, in- structed by Mr. T. G. Bennett, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, was for the defendants.
BON.
found in deceased's safe.
The
A dividend book was issued with the shares for the purpose of record
Sold When a Baby. The little girl in evidence said that she was sold to the first de fendant about six years ago by her mother. She was brought to Hong Kong from a village in Sun Wui
2
3. If, in connection with such steps, floats have been used to de- termine the current and direction of the tide carriage. and such floats negative the theory that refuse is carried back by incoming tides, bas the possibility of such wooden flents being picked up by fishermen for use as firewood, etc., been taken will the Head, of the Sanitary De- into ransitleration, and in any case partment investigate into the exist She left the first defenence of rubbish in the bathing beach Other business will include a dant's house last year and weat to have indicted 3 live with the Weng family (the minute by the President on the re- second and third defendants). On cent case. of plague in the Colony sent to and the proposed closing of "wells August 18 last she tr 8, Tung Street, on a message and will also be mentioned. found, $6.50 lying on a table at the house. As nobody was there she
She did domestic work at the house.
. .
8. UNSHINE IN THE
MAGISTRACY.
took the money and spent cente THE SMILING SPEEDSTER. on food because she was hungry.
Later an amah from this house came to where she lived and ac cused her of stealing the money, She admitted it and on being
She "Are you Mr. Gario 1" queried arched they found the 88. was not beaten for stealing the Mr. T 6. Whyte Smith at Kowloon money. Later there was a knock Magistracy,
The defendant, who might have. on the door and she went to open it. The third defendant was angry been Freach or Italian, smiled a ир at the because she did not open it wide pleasant affirmative enough for him. He beat her with Magistrate. It was an infectuous a cane and later kicked her in the smile and as disarming as it was eye and on the elbow when she was catching. At any rate, the Magis- sitting down. She decided to run trate smiled as cheerfully at the de- away and crossed the harbour to fendant Youmati where she met a woman at a store who took her to the police station.
You are summoned for driving: a motor-car at a dangerous speed, for failing to reduce speed when turning a corner, and for failing to sound your hom when making, the
Pui Leung, a Fancled Name. Plaintiff's counsel explained that it records the following acts of vio-Chan Kwong Hing, who died in November, 1923, had five children Despite the quietness of the pro-lence in villages
1-Village Potiomkino: a woman, and a foreign wife, European names ceedings, the news of the coup d'etat spread through Noshenskaya Belooserova, was elected head of in addition to Chinese being given te the children. He was the manag like wildfire. There was a measure the local Soviet and conducted a of panic.
The cry "Kolchak is spirited fight against the kulaks. ing partner of the factory and held eaming! Kolchak is
"One day she was presented with a large proportion of the capital, coming! some cakes by Mrs. Schworostow, including shares in his own name passed from house to house, and some of the frightened villagers wife of an important Communist and those of his children. rushed to the thick foresta nearby worker. After she ate the cakes ahe 40,000 shares were in the name of turned violently ill. They had been Pai Leang, that being a name for protection.
poisoned by Mrs. Schworostow, it which he fancied, and which he in- The Plot Exposed.
appeared on investigation, after she tended should be given to his next By morning, however, the revolt" had been told by kuinks that the
These shares, including others was ended. The alleged "Whites" Soviet chairman was carrying on a in the name of the children, were removed their uniforms and reveal-love affair with the husband.
2.-Village Gussevo: Comrade ed themselves as members of a com- mission which was investigating the Dmitri Kirjev, head of the Soviet calibre of loen! Communists and of Gussevo and two neighbouring social workers with a view to deter-villages, was lured to the house of ing dividends. In this regard, the mining their fitness for their various the prosperous peasants Kubas, the date were identical with the
Mr. Hin Shing Lo (defending) brutally beaten and stabbed twice. jobs.
The whole business was a naive He survived and six of his assailants 40,000 shares. Shortly after Chan produced a large quantity of cloth- Several will prob-wong Hing's death the factory ing which he put to her had been make-believe to test the stamina of are under arrest.
went into liquidation, one of the given her by her first mistrces. defendants being appointed liquida-She agreed that it was on account the Communists under fire, so to ably receive the death penalty as speak. It was all part of the counter-revolutionists,
3.-Village Chutor Freidorf: the tory and this liquidation had been of some trouble with a sister-in-law #tchistka" or cleansing now under
going on for three years. The of her mistress that she was sent the Soviet kulak Omirtri Roman arrested for a liquidators were not aware of any to the Wong family. All members to the car, Sergeant 1" queried the way everywhere in
brutal assault on working peasant adverse claim, the only claimant of that family had been kind to Union.
Unfortunately for the scheme, it women in his employ, Political mo-known to them being the plaintiff. raised n. great many philosophical tives are ascribed for the attack. questions for the commission to an- swer, and practical jokers are not necessarily glib philosophers. When a Communist, faced by hopelessly superior enemy forces. runs for cover-is his behaviour cowardly, unworthy of a Communist, or mere ly decently discreet 1 When a de- feated Communist gives himself up proudly to the conqueror, is he a hero or merely a fool?
A YOUNG VIOLIN PRODIGY.
MR. SITSON MA. "
numbers of the shares recorded and
Evidence From the Family,
natges
4.-Village Gnadenflur: Frau Fink, wife of a kulak, beat the mother
"Giving evidence, Mrs. Edith of a young Communiat. This young Communist had been responsible for Hing said that she was the widow depriving the Finks of their voting of Chan Kwong Hing and had five rights; the heating in traced there children, their European
being, Edna, Sarah, Alice, Gertrude fore to political grounds.
Multiply such incidents a thou-and Ivan. Witness said that she sandfold, day after day, week after went to Europe for the benefit of week, and you get some notion of her health and returned to Hong the harsh struggle under way.
Kong in 1928. Her late husband told her that he had shares in the factory in his name and also in the name of Pui Leung.
KIDNAPPERS CHARGED. HAWKER AND TWO WOMEN FROM SHANGHAI STREET.
7018
The Son of the Hours.
her except the son who beat her.
Mr. Lo neked the girl if the only reason why she was beaten, was that she did not open the door wide enough. Witness replied: "No."
Mr. Lo: Then let us have the reasons.
sive.
turn," observed the Bench cheerily.
Mr. Gario's smile became expan-
"Myself it is I cannot remember ze 'orn," he said guilelessly.
The Sergeant's Gasé, "What first drow your attention. Magistrate.
For a moment, shadows darkened' the Court.
"I saw him swing round Water- loo Road at a fast pace, Your Wor- "He ship.", declared Sergt. Scrim. passed Public Square Street at about 40 m.p.h. I followed on my inotor-cycle, keeping about 50 yards His Worship asked if it was behind him. He slackened down to 35 m.p.h, near the Majestic Theatre Mr. Lo replied that he admitted but gathered speed again and pass denied that she was ever beaten. that the girl was beaten on several ed Austin Road at 40 m.p.h. I stop- occasions but he made a complete ped him in Middle Road, Your Wor- denial of any kicking
The hearing was adjourned,
SEGOVIA.
UNIQUE MUSICAL ATTRAC- TION NEXT SATURDAY.
ship.""
Even with the weight of all that
evidence against him, the happy Mr. (or Monsieur) Gario's good spirits did not fail him.. Rather, he smiled even more kindly and expan sively at the sombre,faces around" him until even the Sergeant smiled and the atmosphero of the Court was sunny again.
Mrs, Chan Ng Sze said she be came concubine to the late Chan Kwong Hing on September 26, 1916, and lived with him at No. 270, Portland Street, a house next door A recent arrival in Hong Kong A Chinese hawker and two Chi to, and communicating with, the is a young Chinese lad still in his uese women were arraigned before knitting factory. The late Mr. teens who is a graduste of several M. T. 8. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Chan was the managing partner Conservatoire, of Music in France Magistracy yesterday to
auswer and his five children had the fol- It is to be hoped that the public.
In a Hurry, Sitson Ma was born in Kwantung, four kidnapping charges.
lowing Chinese names; Chan Kap of Hong Kong, on, reading of the
"Yes," gurgled the happy de- Chan and after a few years' schooling,
Lan Shau It was alleged that defendants Lan (Edna),
forthcoming convert by Segovia, the fendant, l'ave ze speedometer but (at which time he had only a super- had taken a boy by fraud from R (Sarah), Chan Pun Lan (Alice).guitarist, will not imagine that this at it I never look. Perhaps I did ficial knowledge of Western music). village in the Shun Tak District Chan Pui Lan (Gertrude) and Chan
a similar attraction to troupes who ze 30 but nevaire, surely, ze 40 miles left for France in 1020, his sole and brought him to Hong Kong Kin Wing (Ivan). ambition being to join a French where he was hidden in a house. in
come here from time to time, ad. to the hour?" Witness further said that the late vertising themselves as "Kreislers
What about that corner i " Conserentaire. Owing to his lack of Shanghai Street. Two women were knowledge of the French language, also alleged to have been harbour-r: Chan himself had told her that of the Guitar or in similar terms suggested the Magistrate gently...
Yes," assented. Mr. (or Mon- Five years. he had to spend two years at ited in the same house.
Pui Leung was his alias.
Segovine unique. Chinese newspapers containing age he was unknown outside Spain. sicur) Gario, Myscif I turned like after which he was able to enter
Upon the application of Sub-
advertisements calling for. Any Then he performed in other parts the streak, but an expres the Conservatoire National de
other claimants to the shares were of Europe and in America; in sive shrug and a brighter smile Nancy, where he took up study of Inspector James, defendants were
remanded, until Friday. It. the violin. so great that hinted that the prosecution would produced by a clerk and interpreter short time these two Continents "It was that nothing else to come
Wilkinson and Grist. His ability was
were enraptured with him. Ne or go tried."
"And the horn?" chided the within a year he graduated with be conducted by the Secretary for Mr. D. H. Blake, partner of the artist has had more enthusiastic
same firm, said that as a result of
comments from the Press. At con- Magistrate. honours, and was acclaimed by the Chinese Affaiza.
the advertisement, no other claim "China's
certe given by himself alone, with- Mr. (or Monsieur) Gario almost, Professors in Paris as
had come to his notice: The se
out an accompanist he has held gurgled with joy.
"It is that I cannot remember applied to the advertisement in the audiences spellbound for a couple Government Gazette,
of hours and has even then been if I the horn did toot or forget," he repeatedly recalled for encores. A declared.
"I am afraid, Sergeant Serim,' musician to his finger-tips, he has drawn the same public that flocks decided the Magistrate, returning to hear Kreisler and Cortot and it the happy smile of Mr. (or Mon; dusted by eminent French Profes
is significant that his second recital sicur) Gario, the evidence as to in a new place is almost invariably the corner-turning is a little vague" Mr. (or Monsieur) Gario. beamed sors. Only the first nine candidates
His Lordship remarked that the better attended than his first. qualified for admission, eight of
In Hong Kong, he will give only and gave the tiniest of delighted whom were Frenchmen, Ma being Mr. Ma will shortly return to reporting of the case in the news.
recital on Saturday next. bows.
"But," said the Magistrate gráve.“ the ninth the only Chinese who Europe to take up further studies papers might be more effective than one has ever gained such a distinction in other large Conservatories, but advertisements which were liable to Music-lovers could not serve the
You: plënd since the foundation of the Con- will be able to give one recital in be overlooked. He would therefore cause of music better than by ly, we must do something about
the Hong Kong at servatoire.
Chinese adjourn the case until September 13 making known the unique attraction this speed business. Three years later he graduated Y.M.C.A., 71 Bridges Strect, on at 2.30 p.m., and give judgment for in store, and thus obviating the guilty, Mr. Gario, and say you were ́THE GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CORP., LTD. with honours, and about year September 7 at 8 p.m. The entire the plaintiff if no other claims were danger of this artist appearing in in a hurry. I must caution you with our midst before a half-empty ball regard to the corner-turning and im For information apply
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Mr. Jenkin informed his Lordship through the nature of his perform pose a fine of $15 for spoeding." promising studenta throughout North China Femine Relief Funda.
Mr. (or Monsieur) Gario's teeth France to give a violin recital at Admission will be one dollar, and that only judgment on the declara-ance being misunderstood,
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many of his ability. Professor 1928, at a competitive entrance ex- Boucherit, who undertook the task amination, held by the Paris Con- of preparing him for his debut. servatoire, Ma was one of 400 can- remarked how exceedingly pleased he was to have such a brilliant didates who sat for the test con-
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More Publicity Before Order. The witnesses were not questioned by counsel for the defence, and Mr. Mr. Jenkin said that that was all the evidence he proposed to call