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Most of Fat Joe's customers un bail came under this category, and they did not see any reason why they should suffer imprisonment for life.,.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.
SATURDAY,
AUGUST 2, 1930.
SINGAPORE GANG
BROKEN UP. ·
FLOUTING THE MORAL LAW.
EASTERN
NEWS IN BRIEF.
REVIVAL OF ACTIVITIES. BOLD AND BRAZEN YOUNG PARS FROM EVERYWHERE.
OFFICE BEARERS CAÜGHT BY DETECTIVES.
آمدید
PEOPLE OF TODAY,.
FAMOUS PREACHER'S
INDICTMENT.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed Mr. P. A. McElwaine, Deputy Public Prosecu- tor for Singapore. It is expected With the arrest and conviction
that Mr. McElwaine will prrive in of five Chinese, an unlawful society. A striking, and outspoken cen.
Singapore about November. He is described as one of the most dan- sure of young people of to-day who
en leave at present from the Fiji gerous Cantonese organisations in Hout the moral law was the fea-Islands, where he has held the post Singapore is now believed to have tyre of the opening.address of Dr.
of Attorney-General, been broken up. The principal ac-J. D. Jones, Moderator of the In- tivities of the society were gang ternational Congregational Coun-
cil. robbery and extortion.
The news is reported of the death
The story of the raid which re-
Dr. Jones was addressing a meet-in a London nursing home, of Mr. John I. Philips, formerly of Ipoh, sulted in the arrest of the five Can-ing of the Council at Bournemouth. tonese and the discovery of a num- Neglect of the church and reli- who was a director of a number of tin and rubber companies. Mr. ber of incriminating documents was gion, he said, was a symptom of told in Singapore last week to Mr. something deeper. The very ex Philips was a director of the Am PS. Williams, the Second Police istence of God was being challeng pang (Perak), Chenderiang, East." Magistrate, by Mr. E. Tongue, ed and denied, and God had cessern Siam, Kamunting, Ranga and Selayan in companies and Ratadui head of the Singapore Detective ed to exist for multitudes of peo
Rubber Estate. *... Branch, who was responsible for ple. the arrests.".
Three of the accused were charg. ed with being members of an un- lawful society and the other two were asked to show cause why they should not be bound over to be of good behaviour. All of them claim- ed to be tried.
With this dissolving of the belief in God, had come a challenge of the whole Christian ethic, and we were being faced by a root and brunch repudiation of Christian morality.
The Moral Revolt."
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It was against the Christian con- ception of sexual morality that the modern attack was principally directed.
th
The engagement is announced between Anthony Hyde, Malayan Civil Service, son of the Rev. Pre- bendary H. B. Hyde and Mrs. Hyde of 41, St. David's Hill, Exeter, and Kathleen Fay Mostyn, daughter of the Hon. Dr.. A. L. Hoops, Principal Civil Medical Officer, Straits Settlements, and Mrs. Hoops of 10, Goodwood Hill, Singapore.
In his evidence Mr. Tongue said that he headed-party of detec- tives on a raid on 151, New Bridge, Road on July 15, and made his way into the front room on the first floor. Here he saw six Can-years ago, the moral revolt still con! has been appointed a judge of the
tonese, including the first four ac "eused, and two others. He took the two other men to the Detective Stn-
tion, leaving the first and third necused behind in the room which was guarded by his detectives,
He returned to the room later and carried out a search which brought to light several documents.
Looking under the bed be found
cardboard box in which were a number of documents, including a note book and sheets of paper with Chinese characters on them. A Chinese detective who examined the documents at the time told him Triad that they related to society."
The four accused were then taken to the Detective Station and detain.
ed. there until they were taken to the Chinese Protectorate the fol lowing day. The documents were examined here and a sanction to prosecute the first four accused was obtained from the Protectorate.
Continuing his evidence, Mr. Tongue said that on the following day he caused the ifth accused to be brought to the Detective Sta- tion, where he wag searched and found to be in possession of a note book, and he was also charged.
.
Always Dangerous,
This society has always been a dangerous society with its many ramificatione," said Mr. C. H. Dak erg of the Chinese Protectorate, in the course of his evidence.
Mr. Dakers said that the books and documents seized at 151, New Bridge Road, by Mr. Tongue were handed to him and he caused trans lations of them to be made. One
Although the war ceased twelve
tinued. There was nothing shy or tipid about it".
"It is bold, brazen and unesham ed," declared Dr. Jones. "It just fies itself, it scoffs at the reticences and decencies.
"
old
"It repudiates all the old con- ventions and taboos them, and al- lows itself a freedom both in speech and conduct that shocks all who have been brought up in the older
traditions."
Secret Immorality.
Mr. A. K. 'Beckett Terrell, who
Straits Settlements, has been prat tising in Perang as a member of the firm of Messrs. Presgrave and Matthews for a number of years.
He was called to the Bar at Lin- coln's Inn in 1906. His appoint-
ment to the Bench follows" that of several other members of the Bar of the Colony in recent years.
:
The death of Mr. George Simp- son. Chief Police Officer, Negri Sembilan, occurred at the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, on July 22. Mr. Simpson, who was 5 years of age, had been in poor Eealth since The new sort of young people re-his return from leave and had to pean Hospital. His condition did fused to consider themselves bound be admitted to the Seremban Euro- not, however, improve and he was by old laws.
the Kuala Lumpur removed to Hospital where be passed away.
The fact that sexual indulgence had been freed from certain eccial consequences had, it report were. true, led to an alarming increase of secret immorality,
The death occurred in Kuala Lumpur European hospital on July Delivered from the fear of soci ul consequences and stigma of of Major Charles Owen James public shame young people gaily and cheerfully flouted the moral laws without any thought that they stood for eternal truth.
"What would become of human society if the sanctities of the home were destroyed, if purity and chascity were no longer counted to be virtues, and boly married love was banished from the world?" asked Dr. Jones.
"It would be a vile, a beastly world, and yet into such a state of moral anarchy and dissolution the world may fall if it ceases to be- lieve in God."
Young, M.B.. R.AM.C., M.C., stationed at Tanglin Barracks, Sin- sapore. Major Young, who was 36 years of age, was spending a holi- day at Frasers' Hill. He became ill with what was thought to be dengue fever. He collapsed and was taken to hospital, where he died shortly after admission, from cerc- bral malaria.
HEALTH OF EASTERN PORTS.
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The following statement of dis- But the new moralista, he declar-eases occurring in Eastern ports ed, deluded themselves. The acids during the week ended July 26 is of modernity had not dissolved God issued by the Director of Medical
and Sanitary Services:- into an outgrown, credulity.
Plague.
weat to the room in New Bridge Road- to "see"a man with a view to securing orders for some clothes. He was not a bad character and he was not one of the tenants of the room.
...
The third accused, Sin Soon, stat. of the exhibits, a note book, 'con-ed that he was a dre factory hand tained a full list of office bearers, and lived in the room where he was rituals and a list of subscribers to arrested by Mr. Tongue. He was ill at the time. "I am not a bad the society.
character and I am lame and harm- less," he added.
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The society was a notorious. Can tonese organisation known as the
Caa Lan, the fourth accused, said Wei Khwao, and Mr. Dakers said that he had himself known of the that he was employed as Stter at society for several years. Until the Singapore Harbour Board and recently it was moribund, but with lived at Outram Road. His grand- the appointment of new office-be- mother lived in a room at the house arers it had revived. The Wai in New Bridge Road and on the Khwan was always a most danger- day of his arrest he went there to ous organisation with its many take her some clothes. He had ramifications, which included, nothing to do with the society. among others, gang robbery and joined the Wai Khwan about extortion from sly Chinese brothels.& year ago and being a fitter I was. The organisation depended for compelled to do so," said Ho Kan Han, the fifth accused, who stated its support chiefly on the two lat that he lived at Geylang. On the ter activities. According to the documents seized the first accused day of his arrest he went to the room in New. Bridge Road to get was shown to be the chief officer letter which had been written to for social affairs and the second him by his mother who was in a the "headman." The third ac Kuala Lumpur. It was not true. cused who was slightly lame, was that he was the president of the
This is a story which proves that honour and loyalty do not always exist among thieves.
Fat Joe Bintel was a popular ex- convict who lived "on" Lower East So they jumped their bail and described in the books as "pai tai" wai Khwan,, and he only paid filty
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or the lame man, and the fifth, ac- eents towards the society. cording to his designation in the The second accused said that be exhibit, was the president." One had nothing to add to what had Fat Joe was faced with ruin, but of the books showed that the society been said by the others. he saved himself by secretly betray had collected a sum of 8400, and, wing the fugitives to the police the name of the fifth accused was whereupon the penitentiaries sudo o gbe Of The He was loved by all the crooks.denly became turret Far Tede cartos imprisonment on the first Aghast I looked down at the To say anything against Fat "Joe tomers... Bintel was inviting trouble.
Inviting Trouble...
Fat Joe had a little office next door to the magistrate's court, and he knew all the crock lawyers. He boasted he could "fix cases," and he made a great deal of money in this way.
The crooks' fraternity was puzzled at first, and it was some time he fore Fat Joe was suspected as the traitor.
Then one day two men entered his shabby little office and shot him dead as he was in his swivel chair.
Statements of Accused. When called upon for their de fence the first accused said that his name was Ho Kan Chi and he was a tailor doing business at Bélestier Road. On the day of the arrest he (Continued on next Column.)
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