KULIANG SEASON IN FULL SWING.
*FOOCHOW'S HILL STATION MORE POPULAR
THAN EVER.
BANDIT CONVERT RESCUES MISSIONARY FROM RIVAL GANG:
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
FoocHow, Aug. 1. There is not much of which to write this month se things have been fairly quiet both socially and" politically, though there are's faw itome of interest. Ecochow in the summer months is quiet and un- eventful, the dianers" given are small and informal, followed by a game of bridge, and as a lot of the ladies of the Port dre up at Ku- liaug or even farther away, there are not many of these, people spond their time down at the Recreation Breund where there is breeze, watching the tennis and consuming cool drinks till it is time to go home to dinner and bed. From 3 1.00: cnwards, the Recreation ground is a pleasant and cool spot. The trees and grass are pleasing to the eye and there is a soothing absence of street nicises.
in peace. Possibly they went
of a few of the local Communist loaders, has had and will have a good effect.
It is reported that a mau chilled Lin, responsible for a great deal of unrest and trouble" here, who went to Shanghai, has been arrest- ed in the French Concession and is being sent here to stand his trial. Without doubt he will be shot.
The present indifference of the Chinese Government to the Powers is gradually being transmitted to the man in the street and unless the Powers take action concerning the present incidents now before them, there is every probability that this attitude may become so agressive ns to cause serious consequences in the near future.
Pleasures of Kullang,
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS; THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1931.
“TASTING.” WOOD
IN COURT.
CURIOUS CASE BEFORE PUISNÉ JUDGE,
AN EXPENSIVE COFFIN.
EUROPEAN GETS THREE MONTHS.
THEFT OF VALUABLE DIAMOND RING.
ARRESTED ON THE TRAIN.
The case against Vasali Paleck, A decision was given by Mr. Bulgarian, who was charged with Justice Lindsell at the Summar
the theft by trick of n diamond. Court yesterday in an unusual ring valued at $2,250 from the Wai action. The claim was for the reKeo jewellery shop, 20 Queen's turn of certain pieces of wood Road Central, was heard by Mr. pak htung" (fragrant Fraser at the Kowloon Magistracy codar), which had been made up yesterday. The defendant was con- into a coffin. The evidence showed victed and sentenced to three that the wood, which is supposed months hard labour.
known as
HONG KONG STOCK MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S TRANSAC-
TIONS.
The Stock Market yesterday morning opened with most stocks "în demand and buyers predominating.
Banks were done at $2,076, - Insurance shares were in much better demand, Cantons inding buyers at 81,160, and there were small sales of Unions at 8570 and 8565. China Fires advanced to a buying rate at $750, and Hong Kong Tires were done at $1,400. China Underwriters were also dealt in st
5.70.
Steamboats changed hands at $97.80.
Wharves remained at Tuesday's rato-8183 buyers.
to possess great medicinal value, Mr. G. B. Hugh-Jones, who ap- changed hands in the first instance pearod for the complainants, asked at $28. It was then sold for 8000, for an adjournment because he was and the buyer refused an offer of hot familiar with the nse He 82,000. The Fuine Judge held stated that his clients were not so that, as the value of the wood was interested in obtaining a convic proved to be more than 81,000, the tion as they were in recovering Providents (old) were in demand action was not within the jurisdic-their property.. His, request being | at 80.10, after sales at 38.10/$8.15. tion of the Court and decided refused, Mr. Hugh-Jones withdrew,' Hotels (old) were dealt in at against the plaintifi
leaving the case in the hands of the police.
The plaintiff was Chan Sam, of 380, Hennessey Road, miner “and The defendant was not legally dealer in ore. „Defendant was Wong represented and an interpreter Lam Sang, manager of the Hong was called in to translate int 89, Wellington Street. Kong Confectionery Company, of German.
Mr. D. B. Evans, of Messrs.
It was stated that the defendant Johnson, Stokes & Master, appearogistered at the Peninsula Hotel ed for the plaintiff, and Mr. H. as D. Koller and stated that he L Dennys, of Messrs. Hastings, was a member of the German Con Dennys & Bowley, was for the de-sulate and was going to stay at fendant.
the hotel for about a week.
An Old Trick,
Litigants' Statements.
-
$17.15, the quotations for the now shares showing an advance of 20 cents on the previous day's rate of 810.30.
Lands changed hands at 801.50, Bullers holding out for $99.
Eaalties were done at 818,40, Ewos found buyers at $14.10. sales at this rate resulting.
Trams remain much the same as Tuesday.
There were sales of Terries at
03,
China Lights were in request at €20.10.
There were buyers of Okina Sugars at 60 cents.
quotation $6.60 buyers, and Ce
Canton Icès remain at Tuesday's ments (combined) are unchanged at 819.50).
#21.85.
Ropes showed a slight advance to "Dairy Farms were quoted at 832.60 buyers.
Watsons were done at $16.50 sellers asking 816.76.
firmer at 85, buyers proving ne this rate, the new shares being done at $7.75.
Constructions were in request at
Lane, Crawfords (old) were
It is good to get away from the Since my last letter, wo have been heat of Foochow and go up to All pieces of timber which had beoni
In claiming the returning of the treated to another "Rod" scare,
Jiang. In three hours by cheer you made into a coffin, plaintiff stated went to the Wai Kee jewellery shop It was alleged that the defendant worse than tho first,
as several are feeling cool and even chilly in his affirmation that he was the and after looking at some diamond hundreds of the richer Chinese after being down in the plains, administrator of the estate of his rings, inquired the price of a, cer- late father, Chan Foo, alies Chan tain ring. He then asked the mis- made preparations for their depar.though those who have been up
Chuk San, who died in April, 1993, ter of the shop to bring the ring ture from Fooohcw. However, onco
thero. all the time laugh when you At the time of his death, plaintiff's to his rooms at the, hotel and this again for some unknown reason;
put on a sweater but then they father was the owner of certain was done the same afternoon. are used to a temperature of 79 and tended to be used for his coffin, but dant in the room and again show. pieces of timber which he had in- the "Reds" went east and left us
The messengor found the defen- 174 in the evenings, while in Foc- this was not done.
The plaintiff's knowledge or con- ing in to the adjoining room where ed him the ring, stating the price. The said timber was disposed of Defendant loft the room twice, go- sont to one Wong Fo, a boatman, he stayed only a short time in each and were now in the possession of case. He then stated that he would the defendant, having in the mean like to show the ring to a friend Pinintiff further stated that he had After waiting for about fifteen time being made up into a coffin. and went into the next room. applied to the defendant for the minutes the jeweller became suspici return of the timber, but that the ous and tried latter had refused to deliver it. supposedly good customer, but he
Defendant stated in his afirma had disappeared. tian that he purchased the timber It was stated that the man was from Wong Fo and Wong Fo Fat discovered and arrested on the train for $300. He admitted that he had at Sheungshui, taken to the police ton must be accompanied by the Tall letters intended for publica- refused plaintiff's request to de- station and searched but the ring name and address of the writer, liver the timber to him.
was not found or his persoIL
hot for publication, unleu as desir : A Costly Panacea.
Mr. W. S. Cuff, a travelling insed, but as evidence of good faith- A doctor of Chinese medicine, Railway, recognized the man when
pector for the Kowlcon-Canton ED.] practising in Hong Kong for about he boarded the train at Thine and formerly a doctor in the army of arrest. General Wa Pei Fa, was called by. The master of the shop identified
chow it in usually 10 degrees higher. cause they thought there was not
On the journey nerce the plain sufficient loot to pay them for their
I saw the first rice crop had been journey here and back and perhaps gathered and I am told the for- the thought of the three divisions,. which were supposed to be coming mors are very pleased with it, and from the North, made them decide have already planted the second to go elsewhere,
crop. One or two people have had a touch of hay-fever as the result of Mission Premises Occupied. passing the women threshing the The Fathers and the Nuns have rice by hitting it against a wooden now all arrived from inland points board. It is rather picturesque to owing to the military informing these women with their white them they eculd not be responsible booded heads to protect their hair for their safety, but the military from the dust, but it is also ra
to find hia
$19.50.
CORRESPONDENCE.
wero cortainly responsible for re.ther anneying to spond the journey six years, who stated that he was informed the police, who made the A WORD FOR OUR POLICE.
across
lieving them of several thousand
the plains sneezing, and dollars before they could get back blowing your nose to remove the to Fooshow. In the ordinary way dust, arising from the threshing. I wonder what labourora at homo the means of transport may near- ly be reckoned in cents. "As soon.
would think of the absence of all as the Fathers and Nuns had left, machinery, all the work being done the military took possession of the by hand. mission premises.
Kuliang Popular.
One missionary and his wife, a
I believe most of the houses at fow weeke ago, went up-country Kulinng have been taken and that against the wishes of their Con- there is great social activity among sul. After being up there for the 300 odd people there. I am told, while they were taken by bandits, there are more people than there who took the man with them leav-have boon for a long time, though ing his wife behind. During the short time he was proaching before cond rumours of the Reds and went one or two were deterred by the se- he was captured, ho sumbered elsewhere, I do not yet know if among his audience a local bandit there will be the usual Kuliang ". lender, who, as after events proved, Foochow tennis matches, One
the defence to give his opinion on the man as also did his foki who (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "BONG KONG
was in the shop when the defen was also identified by the manager dant made his original visit. He of the hotel as the man who o gistered there as Keller.
Defendant's Btory:
DAILY PRESS."]
contains an account of the action SIE, Your issue of this morning
of a New York Agent of the Do- partment of Justice in arresting a "broken-down man, whose white hair and bent shoulders bolied his 56 years."
the medicinal properties and value of the wood in question
Wong Hong. Lo, the witness, said that he had seen the wood of the coffin and considered that it was from a tree over 1,000 years old.. This wood was a curative agent in stomach acho, bad appetite, beart- The defendant, in the witness burn, in cases of blood diseases box, claimed to have been an officer such as dysentery, also for colds in the Turkish Army during the This unfortunate human had ap value of the wood at 812 and weakness. Estiruating the war and gave his occupation as an pareatly killed a fellow-seaman in had offered 85,000 for the lot, but large sum of money but this man misdeed, and was released on end $13 a architect. He told the court a long a brawl some thirty years ago, was catty, witness mentioned that he, story of having lent a friend a sentenced to imprisonment for his the offer had been refused, disappeared. The defendaut claim-In 1913. Because, however, he had
A bottle containing shavings of ed to have followed the absconding falled to report to the parole off-
ness if a person suffering from a pany. the wood was handed up to the friend and later found him and cer, the Department of Justice Bench and his Lordship asked wit came to Hong Kong in his com-Agents have been "trailing" him cold would be cured by smelling it back
The man promised to pay, ever since, and have now, at long the money and on the last, effected a successful and no Witness: No, my Lord; it must be strength of this promise he engaged doubt highly satisfactory arrest, taken into the stomach,
Tooms at the Peninsula Hotol. He How the Agent concerned must Cain Costing 10,000 Tasis. denied having taken the ring when puff himself with pride at this fina Witness cut a chip from a slab as he was supposed to have met his teach those criminals; we aint go- The left the hotel and stated that, piece of work of his "That'll
had been interested in his words, match will be played at Kuliang of wood in Court and, after testing friend to get the money, he trieding to have no crime in lil' ol' New
though of course it may only have if we can get a team to go up and been bandit rivalry and pride." the return will be played in Foo
This man, when he heard the chow.
J
ל
As we are not used to hard
it, said that it was genuine "pak to trace him and for this reason York!" heung." He said that the retail went to Taipo. The defendant sug- When some of the "softies" of price would be about $1.00 a mace, gested to his Worship that the com- this town are busy slamming our. or $30 per tael, in the drug stores, plainant was mentally defective crown Police, let them reflect on the but that this wood was not obtain-
missionary had been captured, ga-courts, we generally got beaten in able in Hong Kong.. Witness added else was an oplum-smoker to have moral of this episode, and think
the first match, but avenge our de- feat when we meet the Kuliang players on the Foccho grass courts."
His
Hong Kong, August 6.
that this kind of wood is used for
made such a charge against him. themselves lucky they are in a coffing in North China by rich believe his story. He further stat-its palice, and not in one of the His Worship said that he did not place that should and can boast of people or those high official rank, ed that there was enough evidence more highly-cultured Lands of the over 10,000 Shanghai tela. and a coffin of that kind would cost, to convict on both charges and there-Free-Yours, Etc.
Another Chinese doctor called by Worship gave the defendant an
fore found defendant guilty. the defence stated that about 35 cpportunity either to return the kinds of fragrant woods were used ring or compensate complainant by the Chinese for medicins! pur- but this offer was rofused, poses and that "pak beung" was The defendant was sentenced to the most valuable, because i could three months' hard labour and or cure a hundred kinds of diseases,dered to be deported at the end of druggist shops stocked it, at any It was a rare wood and very few his sentenced. rate in Hong Kong
Questioned by Mr. Evans, wit
CANTON, MERCHANTS ACCEPT-PREMIUM BONDS.-
[PARTY BULLETIN.]
CANTON, Aug: 4.
thered together his band and went 6 in pursuit of the other and succeeded in rescuing him and out- ting him into a chair, had him carried back to his wife with great pride at the success of his expedi-
Tennis Competitions. tion. We have not heard if the For some reason there are fewer rescuer has been completely con- really keen pinyers in Foochew. verted, and we do not know if he than there used to be in past years, had been before the incident, and whilo at Kuliang it is hard to get I have told the story as it was told
a game. All srem most enthusi nose said that it might be possible directed that a plate and match box to me, I may say there are many astic
to obtain this wood from the coffin be handed, to the witness. The and there are only six courts shops in Canton. The last time he test, however, did not take place, tween officials of the Ministry of As a result of the conference be-: different versions of the episode. as the seventh is reserved for the has "tasted" this wood was in 1917, as the witness explained that he Finance and leading merchants, the Witness added that in the early would have to be given "pak heung" latter have expressed willingness use of children. As the first of the years of the Chinese revolution it which had been proved to be to accept the premium bonds to be Admiral Yang has returned to Kuliang v. Foochow matches is in the form of coffins owing to the with another sample, the genuine-
became difficult to sell this wood genuine. By burning this together issued by the Ministry.
The bonds will be distributed Foochow from Nanking with more played during the August boliday were then broken up and the wood give an opinion by comparison!**
extremely high cont The coffins ness of which was in doubt, he could before August 15 It is under- stood that there will be a drawing funds for the over-empty coffers of week-end, I shall have to wait till was sold for medicinal purposes. In deciding the case, his Lord-on the 15th of every month and the Government and the old Pre-my next letter to my if it was
Doctor's Ourious Test, . ship held that as the wood was worth that the frat drawing will begin in A Chinese doctor was also called out of the Summary Court jurisdic
more than $1,000, the nation was Dctober........ vincial Government is still in played, and also to tell you more by the plaintiff to give his opinion. tion. Judgment would be for the Kuomintang C.E.O. met yesterday The extraordinary, sassion, of the power. The other day they sont of the life in Kuliang.
Witness stated at first that he could lefendant; with costs on the 8500 and decided to send roliet to the orators around the streete warningThe U-8.8. Smith Thomsoning the shavinge, and indicated that in answer to his Lordship. Mr. people of Kiangsi Messrs Wedg
not give an opinion by merely tastto $1,000 seal
Communist ravaged ard warstuga people against. the Communist loft yesterday after spending some fire. Accordingly his Lordship was not asking for the case to be were requested to draft a his test would involve the use of Evans, lot the plaintiff, said that he Ching Wei, Li Wen Fan, Kin Heng menses and this, with the shooting days at this Port:
(Continued at foot of next column.) transferred to Original jurladietion, declaration to this effect.
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