TO PROPITIATE THE FREEDOM OF THE
GODS.
CURIOUS CASE IN HONG KONG.
PRESS.
ALLEGED EVASION OF CEN- SOR BY CHINESE PAPER,
ALLEGED TRICK ON WIDOW FOUR JOURNALS SUMMONED,
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The hearing war rosumed yes tarday before. Mr. Butters at tho Kowloon Police Court of the case in which Young Chi Chu and Li Fung Leung are charged with hav ing obtained 83,500 from a widow named Choi Ngan by means of a 'trick in September, 1938.
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The editors, printers, and publish ors of four Chinese newspapers in. It conditions along the. Yung Hong Kong were summoned before Mr. R. E. Lindsell yesterday with publishing matter, other than a bona fide trade advertisement, which had not been previously sub mitted to the Secretary for Chinese Affaira.
It is stated by the prosecution that the two defendants affered to cure defondant's son of a discoso, if she would withdraw 23,500 from the bank, in order that they might | Keung and Chung, llwɑ. propitiate the gods. The complain. ant did so and handed the money to the mda,'
The newspappers concerned were the Wah Kin, Xani Chung, Nam
were
A packet was handed back to her, which was said to contain the monoy, but the contents eventually found to be only paper.
Det.-Borg, Fitches is conducting the case for the prosecution, and Mr. Hin Shing Lo is appearing for the second defendant.
Wong Hong Chui, a merchant of Vancouver, and nephow of the com- plainant, stated that ho paid a visit to his aunt on December 10, 1830. About 9 p.m. on the same day the first defendant' called on witness' aunt and they had a conversation,
Both of them then went out, his aunt carrying a brown paper parcel. Witness asked her what the parcel contained, and she replied that it was menoy. He got the parcel from her and found it contained only
paper.
Shared $8,500.
He asked the first defendant where the money was, and the reply way that he and the second.de.
fendant had shared it. At witness' investigation the first defendant wrote a letter to the second de fendant asking him to come over, but the reply was that be could not come over as it was too lata.
Witness then made e report to the Mongkok Police Station and
had first defendant arrested.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lo,
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Mr. T. S. Whyte-Sraith appeared for the Crown, Mr. F. H. Loseby, of Mossra. Russ & Co., for the editor of the Woh Kin, and Mr. & Grist, for the other remaining T. J. Prior, of 3fessra Wilkinson
defendants. The Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, was present.
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turned by both solicitors.
Aplen of "Not Guilty " was re-
Point of Law..
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Mr. Whete-Smith: I understand going to defend on a point of law, that my friend, Mr. Losoby, is
the Section of the Ordinance and the Regulations under which thicas summonses are brought. I have no doubt your Worship is very familiar with them, also. It is Section Sub-Section of Ordinanco 5 of 1022. This merely is an enabling Ordinance without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of Sab-Section 1.
and so perhaps I may mention
Mr. Whyte-Smith referred to the general wording contained in the Ordinance providing for the con- sorship, and the control and sup. pression of publications," and to the direct application of this Seo tion to newspapers as 'elaborated in tions (Section 2, Sub-Section 1) as the subsequent Emergency Regula follows:-
"No persons shall print, publish or distribute any newspaper, con. taining any matter in the Chinese language (other than a band fide trade advertisement) which has not been previously submitted to and passed by the Scorotary for Chinese Affairs"
Gaol Strike Articles.
Mr. Whyto-Smith: I need not enlarge on the facts; the position is simply this: These newspapers, on the 18th and the others on the wit 19th, published articles which had denied that be and his not been submitted for censorship friends had got hold of first to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs I may say that it is not alleged defendant and accused him of
that there is anything particularly having squandered complainant's objectionable about these articles. money. Witness admitted having Similar articles were published in other newspapers after they had struck first defendant because
been consored. What is really an ho had cheated his aunt, but objectionable feature about ignor witness stated that the first defending those regulations and publish aat bad mentioned second defend. ing thean articles without having them censored is that these news ant as a party to the fraud before papers are able to steal a march he struck him. His aunt had never on other newspapers by getting their information to the public mentioned second defendant to him
sooner.. before.
In reply to Det.-Sorgt. Fitches, witness.said that when he found out the trick played on his aunt, the first defendant said:" I deserve to die," and implicated sooond defend
was adjourned until
ant.
The case February 9.
INTERESTING EXHIBIT.
In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. Whyte-Smith said:-The articles were with regard to the so-called strike at tho Prison. Quite Jong articles appeared on the subject, and they were very similar.
River come up to expectations of engineers, certain, lunds, now in the hobulous stage, may soon tangible form, the ultimate realian tinn of which will тод the development of a huge hydro-ales- trie power station of a capacity sufficient to supply the needs of the whole of Kwangiang Provine? for some time to come. The Yung River scheme, if plans now in process prove practicable, will mean to Kwangtung what Muscle
the American-electric power gen Shoals and Niagara Falls mean to
eration at very low cost,
Recently there were present in Canton Mr. Paul Sykes, Canadian Government Trade Commissioner, stationed ut Hong Kong, Mr. W. J. Riddiford, Assistant Trade Com
tary to Mr. Sykes, Mr. J. N. missioner, Mr. W. G. Poy, Secre
Jensen, representing the Framor Brace Engineering Corporation of Montreal, and Mr. Lam Wing Yan, all komly interested in discussing this vast scheme with the Provin cial Government." Soveral con ferences were held with Genern. Tong Yin Wah, the Commissioner of Reconstruction, while an inter- view was also had with Chairman Chan Ming Shu, these two officials ovincing the greatest interest in plans that bold
promise of
tung's diversified industries. tremendous advantage to Kwant
mont
The acheine ondles for the develop
of hydro-electric power plant on the Yung River, just above Yingtak The scheme is similar to the working of the numerous hydro-electric plants now working all over America, which convert water power into electrical energy. The cost of harnessing the water power in this fashion is so that it is cheaper to conduct the resultant doctric power over hun dreds of miles to distant contres than to operate the usual tyne of power stations at the points of demand.
Mr. Jonsson loft for Yingtak some days ago with a
party of Chinese engineers and a special guard of is hundred men provide by the Canton gendarmerie. He expects to be away for a few weeks making his investigation, and the hope is held that he will be able to gather sufficient data for definite formulation of the scheme when he returna
const
Apart from the principal treaty porta and aition along the and some of the larger rivers, China as a whole is but ill served in the way of electrical power She possesses vast resources in the After handing these articles to the water power of her rivera, and if Magistrate to peruse, Mr. Whyte the Vingtak schemo comes to frui. Smith said: Of course, there is tion, it may well be that Evang. the other point, that these patung might load the way to the lishers and printers were not to general development of hydro otec know that such articles would be trio stations all over the country. passed if they had been submitted
to the Censor. Those publishers who keep to the law and regula- tions and have all their articles into the case. He went on to say: censored may feel that it is not As to the facts, the only thing I fair that others are publishing object to is that Mr. Whyte-Smit MODEL OF DISTILLERY IN articles without being consored and has admitted that similar articles that they themselves are losing by had been published after they had WATSONS' WINDÓW.
being law-abiding.
been scnsored. They were publish ed before the articles concerned in Lių present caso.
There are many consumere of Sootch Whisky who have not had the good fortune to visit or to pass by a real old Scottish whisky dis tillery where the "real Stuff" is produced. Messrs. John Dewar Sona, Ltd., the most famous of alt whisky distillers, bare had a very fine model made of one of their many distilleries in Scotland. It is a fine work of art, faithfully reproducing the grand Scottish Mountain scenery, with the dis tillery netling" in the valley near by fields of ripe barley which is being gathered in.
...
This model has been exhibited at several great exhibitions at home and on the continent, Mesara, A. 8. Watson & Co., Ltd., agents in
whisky, have Booured the loan at this very fine model and it is now on exhibition in their wing depart ment show window and has already attracted crowds of admirers and devotees.
that.
Both Editor and Printer, Mr. Lindsoll: There is one point.
Mr. Whyte-Smith: I did not say In the case of the Fab Kit, I see you are summoning both the editor
Mr. Prior: No, but in fact they and the printer, similarly in the were. They were published on the case of the Nam Keung, but in the day before, which makes, a great other two cases, in one you have deal of difference. summoned the printer and in the The Magistrate: I see what you the editor only.
Mr. Whyte Smith: In one case, the case of the Chung Hwa, Mr. Cheng sooms to be both editor and printer.
Mr. Lindsoll: What is the case of the Nam Chung
Mr. Whyte-Smith: Ho is the printer of the Wah Kit and he is falso editor of the Vem Chưng.
Mr. Lindsell. He is summoned as printor of the Nam Chung↑ .
The Magistrato: Are the facta admitted, fr. Losby ↑
Mr. Loeby: Your Worship, I have mot had time to go into that. I was instructed only last night.
The Magistrato Assuming that the facts are admitted, what is the Elegal defencel
CORRESPONDENCE.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
JANUARY 24, 1931.
· PUBLIC EXAMINATION IN BANKRUPTCY.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A
DEBTOR.
Allegations that a debtor, who had applied to be adjudged a bankrupt, was possessed of pro- perty and was seeking this means
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE." HONG KONG of avoiding his eroditors, wore
DAILY PRESS."]
618-In an editorial in your ssue of yesterday's date, you drew attention to the lectures of Dr. P. Fennelly nad Judge Samuel W. Greene na laving again aroused the question of the power of mind ovor matter, also. to the fact that Christian Science claims that this
power is absolute.
In requesting the privilegs of space in your columns to reply to your criticism of Christian Science, (Dr. Fennelly Being, no doubt, quite capable of upholding his asm-the psychological point of view to his and your satisfaction,)
published in the local papers re- the writer wishes to point out that there have boun several articles contly and, indood, during the last two or three years, showing that the general trand of physical science to-dayis towards the establishment of the absoluts power of mind over matter and towards the realization that all existence is the product of mind.
Some fifty-six years ago the textbook of Christian, Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Sriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, was published. In this toxtbook it will be found that Christian Science is entirely based including the facts that God is upon the teachings of the Bible, good, is Love, is Spirit; that He created all things good, and "with. out Him was not any thing made that was made." On page 408 of this book, defining the soienttle statement of being, are the follow ing words, using the synonym Mind for God, "All is infinite Mind- and its infinite manifestation, for
con.
stian-
mado when Lau Han Man, an em- ployee of a compradora's shop in Pottinger Etrect, again uppenrod at the Bankruptcy Court yesterday before the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justico Wond).
Lau Hau Man was publicly oxamined at the last sitting of the Court when he stated that his bor- rowed 81,000 from the Tai. Tak pawnshop and was in consequence dismissed by his employers. He explained that be used the money to aasist his father with funds
ich he had no hope of paying back to his employers..
Tong Poqn Ti, a creditor repre- stating the pawnshop which held two promissory notes froin the
the money he gave the pawnshop debtor for money lent. told the Court that when debtor borrowed
understand that he had some proparty. Witness went on to say that in fact debtor had shares in
distillery and another arm, also in a paper shop and wine shop in Canton. Further, that the debtor still holds a share in ancestral property.
Dabtor denied the truth of these statements. Tong Poon T then stated that the people responsible for bringing these bankruptcy pro ceedings were debtor's uncle and hie friends who were soeking thereby to avoid thier debts. The creditor not be released so he had a lot of further mid that the debtor skuld property under Tong names, but it was difficult to ascertain
this.
His Lordship: I will now close the public examination unless you have more information.
Creditor: I leave the matter entirely in your Lordship's hands. The public examination was then
ed out under this treatment, tho demonstration being far from clear and unequivocal in their cases.
If it is not trespassing, too much apon your generosity in giving submit the following extract from space for this letter, I respectfully the Christian Science Monitor for publication.
Better Than Pilis.
The Boston Globe recently called attention in an editorial entitled "Bitter Pilla," to the celebration tercentenary of quining.
with appropriate exercises" of the After
God is al' in-all.” This statement predated physically scientific closed. thought concerning the supremacy of mind over matter by some forty or fifty years, and it goes far be yand this thought in ita docioration that Mind, God, good, is supreme over all conditions, even including the material Christian Scientista are proving, in daily ingrossing in- tensity, that the realization of this latter fact, vow when only under lood, in a comparatively small degreo, (which it undoubtedly is at the present time, for the subject is infinites in its capacity and capabilities,) does heal sickness, sin, lack, and all the diseases of diseases to be mental, and is die matoriality. It is proving these
a brief discussion of the important placing them from human solousness by infusing into that place this drug for many yours consciousness the truths con- following its discovery occupied in cerning the goodness and spiritul the household, the article stated ity of real existence,
that to-day there are large mum- Regarding your statement that here of people who have never oven the testimonies published in the tasted it. The reason for this Christian Science periodicals lack change is that" the whole conce. tion of treating ills by drugs has evidence of proof of the kind that
berm modified." The editorial con- would satisfy a lawyer or tist; the editors of these periodi tinued: "As people become en cala are very eareful to satisfy lightened concerning the human themselves that the published testi-body, they do not expect to cure monics ar uuthentic A state their indiapositions by recourse to inent to f' effect is made in all the pill box ar to a vial mysteri the period sis, just prior to the ausly compounded according to published testimonies and a notice cabulistic symbols, is included, showing how they are to be allested. It is the writer's be called for by anyone interested belief that, should such evidence in any particular case of healing thus published, the proofs will be furnished by the editors, though possibly not for publication. Judge Greene, formerly a lawyer It is an interesting fact that and judge in the probate court in
It is true that the article evid. Kentucky, U.S.A., was so convinced of the bruth of Christian Science ently looked in the direction of and of the proofs of its efficacy, in sanitation and hygiene for the im
provements that have come the healing of disease and sin,
recent years; just the same, the that he gave up his work in the law.courts and entirely devoted his ints recorded challenge thought. life to the teaching and practice of Indeed, any explanation that may this science. As you my in your be given for the changed outlook editorial Agrost Church has must be acknowledged to be largely been founded on this creed, thous matter of hy opinion, The ands if not millions of people be- truth is outstanding, that the pre- lieve in it." Evidently Christiansent generation is rapidly losing Aciones has convinced theas millions faith in drugs, as such. Explain of its scientific, Healing truth the fact as cup may, few will deny They are satisfied with the evidence that the world is recognizing that presented, or they would not have there are indeed bettor ways than
mills. given up their former beliefs.
During the years following the has been subjected to the greatest inception of Christian Science, it
possible investigation, both larpar Tial and biassed and, to the writer, it would appear that its survival
moan. You say that reports of Chinese Press as carly as the 17th this kind were published in the or the morning of the 18th fres
Therefore, your clients wore led to believe that there can be no harm in publishing these articles of the criticism and parsecution Ye, and the question of it boing that have been levelled at it, and unfair to other papers is disposed its rapid growth to day, are very definito indications that it does live up to, and prove, its teachings. One annet quite understand your remark; To say that it is only necessary to convert the faithful, and that the sceptic will never be convinced is not good enough." The
of in the same way,
The Magistrate: I understand, Mr. Losby, you are going to attempt to maintain that the Ordi- nance is ultra vires according to the Constitution of the Colony f
Mr. Losby: I am going to main
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"Some day it will be celebrata the anniversary of the first man tradition, provided it is possible of healing to break with the old to settle upon who he was. In the mattimo propio may take solid satisfaction in the thought that bet ter ways have been found of pro- by taking pills." serving and restering health than
ín
A BREARLEY... Committee on Publication for Hong Kong and Canton. January 14, 190).
There is no question that the published testimonies to Christian. Saience are authentic and made in good faith. But is there proof that in these aqam the disease was pro- perly disgnawed, and the cure foally" Science, elected by Christian Honest belief is not proof. Many people have ad honest belief in the efficacy of amulets, and in fortune telling by cards If Christian Science has, for example, cured a tain that. That would be my sub-so-called faithful are already son broken spine, it has a duty to mission, but I haven't gone into it verted and thousands, if not mil- demonstrate the fact of that cure fully. I say, that it goes further ons" of the previously sceptical to the world. It is a duty as great than the Ordinance would permit. aro joining or have joined, then that of a scientist to make his Montien kort the world wad, the Head Censor, and Mr. Tung The statement that quinue ad fuot to keep them corested uong translator, would be the only wit ministerod to a malarial patient his own friends. Regarding qui- ness called by the Secretariat. affords clear and unequivocal do nine, there is no question "that it Mr. Prior. on its part, said to chip decided to hear the legal argi- opinion, not quite true, for many of sufferers. That it is alway
After further discussion, his Wor-monstration is in the writer's has proved beneficial to thousands would plead Mr. Lonely's defencement before the facts, and his fixed patients, as residents in the Fer offencious is never suggested.
The until both of them had time to go Wednesday afternoon for the par- East particularly know, have pass-claims for quinine do not outrun (Continued at foot of next column.) pose.
(Continued at foot of next column.) demonstrable fact.-ED; H.K.D.P.]
"The Defence.,
Mr. Losoby: I would submit that the Ordinance is ultra vires,
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