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THE LAST TIME I WAS IN A PAWNSHOP."
MAGISTRATE RECALLS UNIVERSITY DAYS: PUTS
HYPOTHETICAL CASE TO SOLICITOR.
UNUSUAL CASE
IN POLICE COURT.
HONG KONG DAILY. PRESS. SATURDAY,
CHOLERA IN SHANGHAI.
NO CAUSE FOR ANXIETY.
COMPARISONS WITH THE PAST, AND WITH CALCUTTA.
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MR. PEPYS IN HONG
KONG.
18th-This day early at the offices and while walking upon my veran- Jah I do marvel to see with whns' speed they do push forward the mole leading to the piers where the new couch-ferry shall be. For when I did remore to this office these two months gone it was but small, yet now spreads right for ward. Bat it iks me that it smell This year cholera was firs Te no AWOOCOT, and moreover they ported in neighbouring territories during April, and first appeared in the Settlement on May 9, states the Commissioner of Public Health, S.M.C., in his monthly report. The appearance of cholera na enrty as April had not been noted since the year 1902, nor had there been
May is usually a healthy mouth An unusual pase caine up before, and it she knows it, she must be in Shanghai, and this fact is to Mr. Wynne Jones at Central Magis guilty," said Mr. Lo.
some extent relected in the current a Chinese Mr. Wynno Jones: That's just death rates, tracy yesterday when
was charged with four it. If she knows it!" counts, arising out of pawaing na gold articles, two bangles and a ring at various pawnabope, knowing
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them to be spurious.
There ware also three charges of supplying fals particulars of her nude to the pawnbrokers" con-
Pried.
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Mr. Lo: The prosecution's sub- mission, to you is that she is not working by herself but is a member jof a gang. She was no doubt mada a tool of by the gang but we submit she was working as a member of the gang because she said she |told to "go" to the pawnshops "and
pawn those articles, and that she cases other than scensional spora. was instructed to give false addie and doubtful oues during May dresses and from these facts you since that year.. can infer she has guilty knowledgs. Mr. Wynn Jonor: You cannot produce further, evidence of guilty knowledge other than what she had admitted.
have placed a most pestilent engine upon the pier-hend which chuggeth most damnably. After I had beca- sion to speak with Mrs, Betty, who has looked but sadly this last week and by and by come the tours and she tells me the boyfriend is much taken with a pretty black wonch who swims most admirably, and she fears her sore is quite cat of joynt. So I fall to comforting her decorously, and it doth come into my mind that there be other worthy proficiencies beside that is the art of natation, Then to the Clubbe where I eat my nancheon and order present outbrenk, it is of course As regards the severity of the
my garments before I repair to impossible to draw any deductions,the Queen's, Wharf where with a but it may be of inferent to call marry party to bathe and so home attention to certain incta in TE gard to cholera in Shanghai. Ia very pleasantly in the cool of the 1502, 160 deaths were recorded from evening. After played at eards
source, one
While it is difficulty in any epidemic to detect the original may perhaps pormiani- bly suspect that in this cne it is connected in some way with traffic from already infected areas,
Ta respect of the first set of charges the woman, while aduftting. having pawned the articles, stated that she did not know they were not made of gull. She added that san had been told by aużnione else ta pawn the articles and that the party concerned a actually ne companied her to the pawoshops
Mr. Lo: We can prove her state, and had instructed her as to what, ments in answer to the charges.
i addresses she should give the pawn. } Mr. Wynne Jones: Her our ad shops if "questioned. As, to the mission to the Police led to be vround set of three chaturs, she | other charges. It is difficult for me pleaded guilty.
; la decide how far she is expected a population of 350,000 only: thebut with neither good fortune nor
to know to what extent the banglases which have occurred this year in the whole ares of Shánghai are
ill and so, very late to bed. only slightly more than the above gure for the deaths, while the death rate is infinitely below this figure. Hence, it will be seen that Faker that Would Deceive
something has been accomplished in M. Lo: The ease must fail the way of prevention, sines the present figure relates to a popula- your Worship feels that you arstion of 3,000,000 or thereabouts i... non satisfied that she did not know about eight times the population of re-positively that it was not pure gold. number of factors of statistical in- 1902 While there are a certain
· If Your Worship can intimate that
which might modily the after hearing me then I shall not above' statement slightly, it call evidencs because that will not roughly correct. go way further than what i have said. The evidence I bave is that he had stated that these articles had sent to her by her father
My. M. K. La. wha proseḥted on helf of the pawnshops, stid he wond Feeb auch safer if his War ship were to consider the viras in! respect of the first four charges as tonien pleas of now guilty." He added that that would be t fairer course in view of the fact that the woma? was not legally
presented
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wone false. They are not entirely Fab
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JUNE 25, 1932.
FREE CITY OF SHANGHAI
MANIFESTO BY CHINESE MERCHANTS.
Alleging that local foreign mer chants, particularly the Japanese, in making the free city plan for Shanghai, aim at destroying Chinese authority so as to "secure foreign domination a lengthy de- claration was issued by a general meeting of the Greater Shanghai Chinese Chamber of Commercs urging the Chinese to oppose the plan,
The general meeting of the Chamber, which
the Wis
third held this year, was prosided over by Mr. Wang. Shao-lan, chair- man of the Chamber, and attended soating the 156 trade guilds which are members of the Chamber,
Another declaration issued by the Chinese merchants was to the effect that they would set them- selves two tasks for the ensuing year, namely, the prevention of further civil war and the. promos tich of native products. The state of chace now prevailing in the country, the declaration: states. has been brought about largely by recurrent civil war, go it is of urgent necessity that the nation, capcaially the commercial commi
should be united in a movement tc put, a permanent end to civil
WELT.
Compensation for Was Less,
19th, Lord's Day. On waking I found the weather very foule and rain falling heavily, and, my aching with lack of sleep or so I do suppose, I turn again to slum-
The declaration emphasises the ber and wake not 'till it be time to upon & suddaine and I do walk to native products, saying that ar out my muncheon. Later it clears importance of promoting the use of
the Happy Valley, but so hot it is cording to statistics compiled by I am all in a muck sweat when the Customs authorities, China's. reach home and so lng long in my imports exceeded her exports last | bath. To bed early and there readyear by the amount of $800,000,000. in Mr. Altham his history of The majority of Chinese merchants Cricket which I perceive to be a strictly speaking, are most erudite work but enay to ants, they being only brokers for read. This night it blows very hard the sale of foreigh goods," the and I am put in sera case, for the declaration states building next to my chamber hold Many resolutions were passed by In view of the great interest but offices and at night is well-nigh the meeting. One of them calls taken in cholera at the present time, it is desirable to draw atten-empty So all night long the ill-for the despatch, by local Chinese- comotion to the fact that, during the last ten years, as far as the Inter- national Settlement is ecncerned,
The cholera inoculation cam- paign opened for the search on May. Work was concentrated in the Eastern and Western Districts (industrial sectors) with three squads each under a Chiness medi enl officer. Altogether $7,838 per sons were inoculated, mostly of the labouring cinasen.
Shanghai's Death Rata.
Outlining the facts of the che, Afro said that on May si defen dant went Jo a pawnshop and pro duced a bangle which she said was of gold and wanted to pawn for $20. The pawnbroker examined it
Mr. Lo then went on to submit and found it was worth much more than $20 and advanced the money, that the fact that she was asked to Twenty days later, the woman ap-give false particulars showed that peared again it the pawnshop, re she either knew there was deemed her bangle by payide 820thing wrong with the articles or and interest and then asked that that they had been illegally come the same bangle be pledged for $120.
by. "However," added Mr The pawnbroker agreed to advance if I were sitting where you are $100 on the bangle and when this sam was agreed upon, he examined sitting, I should hesitato very much before deciding that she knew they the bangle and found that it was
were not of pure gold.” not of pure gold but was merely plated with gold. The woman was detained and handed over to the Police, to whom she revealed the fact that she had pawned, other i whether from thein.outward appear; true of cholern than any other in-
articles of a similar kind to other pawnbrokers. The pawnbrokers, said Mr. Lo, did not knew, until after the arrest of the woman, that the articles which they carried in pawn were at of gold but were only gold-skinned."
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Interesting Case Oltad.
Continuing Mr. Lo said:
some
His Worship agreed with Mr. Lo and at this stage called an expert to examine the jewellery and to say
ace and weight, they could pass s gold to the initiated. The expert declared that the articles would pass as such.
Judicial Innocence!
the average annual death rate for tuberculosis has been 11.7 per 1,000, for smallpox 1.35 for scarlat
fever 1.55, and for cholera 1.12
while it is admitted that passibly
oncealed cases occur; this is less
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fastened shutters do beng and crash until I am fair mad at the noise. But I doubt that later they will come to a mischance if they pay not more heed. At last I fall asleep at four o'clock.
not merch
merchants, of a joint telegram to the Central Government, requesting ful: compensation from the Japan- ese Government for the damage done to the Chinese during the recent fighting near Shanghai, it being stated that the Japanese navy and army are solely responsible for the outbreak of recent hostili- ties in Shanghai.
20th-Thig day rise very cross fectious disease, hence the above and much bitten of muskeetoes. To abulation can be regarded as renthe Train Band Headquarters sonably accurate for purposes of
where I do practice in the Augue- comparison.
Another resolution is to the effect Acque Gun business and so not it
that the Central Government together myself, save for one should be petitioned for the imme- pawl spring. Yet maybe I did dine abolition of the "vexatious" business tax, the collection of which have some advice from Sergeant has been enforced in a number of Sucker. After all, very, merry in provinces. The National Associa the Canteen and many jests thoughed Chambers of Commerce have similar not all seemly, for we learn that heen asked to present a
demand to Nanking in Alis ret gard N.CD.N.
Small-pox on Decline. Mr. Wynne Jones then said that Smallpox continued steadily to he had to take into consideration decline in May, and, on the whole, the fact that the woman had taken the incidence was roughly a quar- the bangle to the pawnshop once "Ax
ter of that recorded in April. there is no one representing her, and then had returned to asked for There were, however, nine formiga Fle case notified, of which six were want to tell your Worship Trankly further advance against R. that there is one case reputed innid that it was a very long time non-resident. Among the Chinese a pawn-community there were tem cases re- the Empire Digest (Rex, .. Lee) in since he himself had heer her favour. The effect of the case shop; the last time had been in his ported with five denths.-N. C.. D. was this: that a man went along to University days. He therefore did N. the pawnshop and offered a ring now the practice. He asked Mr. Lo which he wanted to pay for 33at would his (the Magistrate's) shillings and said it was a gold position be if he took a watch to ring. The pawnshop gave the a pawnshop and pawned it as gold money, and' tien "tested the ring and later it was discovered that when it was found that the ring the watch was not a gold watch at the Person who was made of brass and some other all and that
of such and such an address.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES
IN CANTON.
HEALTH PROPAGANDA.
of the schools in Canton,
Lectures on Cholera,
our Commander hath been bidden
to
a place upon the Sanitation Bourd, which is won't to be the
CASE WITHDRAWN.
AFTER DEFENDANT HAD PLEADED GUILTY,
After a woman named Chan Ah Mui had pleaded guilty at the to the Marine Court yesterday tharge of dumping a box of dyna mite and fuses into the sea, for the
prosecution
intimated that they wished to withdraw the charge, and this was granted.
first step to civil honours. To the Clubbe where I do play a game or two of Billiards with Mr. H, a thing I bave not done these five years. So to dinner and bed, alloy, with a small percentage of originally old the watch had been
a scoundrel. gold. It was held that this was
Canton, June 24.-The Bureau of
21st-This day after I have Mr. Lo said that his Worship Health yesterday sent some 5,000 not falke pretence within the Statute as the defendant had been would be exonerated if he could leaflets describing simple but effec-closed my office, by motor couch to doing no more than, paffag" up prove that the watch was purchased five precautionary measures to be Wong Nei Chong Gay with Mr. J. the goods. In England gold is mix.s a gold watch from John Smith taken against the contraction of Heard, whence we walk very plea ed with various alloya. The curious part of that case is that I cannoted to my father. Laughter.)
His Worship. Suppose it belong-cholern, to the Bureau of Educa santly by the horse track to Deep purpose of preventing seizure, the
tion distribution among students Water Bay. And we pass Lady nd it commented upon or dealt
Clementi's Ride which has even with by any other authority."
Continuing. Mr. Wynne Jones snid that in the present case it
now fallen into disrepair and I Mr. Lo went on to say, however, would appear that the defendant, To acquaint the public in the sadly fear much money be wasted
It is understood, however, that that there have been many recent as soon as she found that she had city with the causes of chaturn and upon it. At the Golfe Clubbe we another charge will probably be enses when a man has said That made a mistake, she promptly suit effective precautionary measures,
do take shower and mighty
rought against the woman.. is 10-carat geld" and it proved to
It was stated that a boat-man he only cart and it was held that these others ton!"
Good Heavens, I have pawned the local government medical autho pleasant it be and so by car to the Therico to Gloucester rities have arranged a series of lee- Stables.
went to Shamshuipo Police Station there was a false pretence in such
Mr. Le pointed out that she had tures on cholera to be given on the House where I dine with Mr. and reported that
a dynamite casca within the meaning of the to be questioned by the Police, "I various publie pinces in the city Gerald and after at musique, and charge had been thrown at him Statute. Mr. Lo said that if one can't go so far as to say that the next week. A large number of I was much taken when a strange from another boat. made a representation ne a fact, giving of that information was ovi-local doctors have consented to and andde song upon the pleasurea When the injured man's boat was and it was false, and one knew idence of her entivo.inpocener."
give voluntary service to the gay-of being dead. 1.
visited the Police maw, is in alleged, was false, then it was an clience,
ernment in this matter.
the defendant thrown box con- The Bureau of Eealth has,, pub- 22ad. A dull day, and much containing dynamite and fases into the lished a notification warning the versation upon the Clubbe verun- sea from the same boat. In Hong Kong, and Mr. Lois dangerous for me to try and various benches in the city during
Mr. Wynne Janes: 1 think it public against swimming in the dah. Early to bed. among the Chinese, when sa article deduce from her acts that she knew the present cholera epidemic. was produerch and described us thuas bangles were as false 4s they *guld" there was only one more..
Chinese Gold,
Benent of the Doubt,
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ing to that and that meant it was Mr. Lo: You are quite right. T a pawnshop" said Mr. Lo, I 100 per cent, gold and did not in-felt it my duty to place the frets certainly would give a false address,
lude any suggestion of alloy of before you.
as I don't want people to know the aluminum or any other metal. If
Mr. Wynne. Jones: "I ara very nawner as Mr. Lo of 107 Robinson rold was brought to a pawnshop, grateful to you for having done Bond." the advance would be given on the that.
His Worship decided that the girl weight of the gold, and the pawn-
Mr. Lo I am very glad your had been “bluffed into the com- broker would not worry about work. Worship has come to that decision, mitsing of the offences and said manship. However good that might
Continuing Mr. Lo said that in she was only a tool. Ho imposed 13.
respect of the charges of giving a fine of $25 or three weeks on each Mr. Lo went on to my that in false addresses, ho asked his Wor of the last three charges, bus added the case of the articles involved ship to take a mora anrion view that if the fines ware not paid, the there was no suggestion of their than he otherwise would nť nich prison sentences would be con- being a gold alley, The articlen Kebarges. In this case the furnish-current.
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were made of some "metal or other ing of false address was part and Before rising, his Worship thank and were covered with gold "I parcel of a fraud. "If I want to ad Mr. Le for putting the case so submit that this gold is apurious (Continued of jost of next solumn.) * fairly before him.
23rd. This evening to the Club
whers with Mr. Povy, Creed, and Hence, says he, it is but fir the Sir R. Harpenden wo do discuss a pipe line should function else must mighty strange letter from the every Kowloonite bring his water) K.RA. which has been made pub with him daily in a tin, and use lique' in the News Shetes. It seems none of the island's upon his peril. they do take mush amiss the using So all Inugh, but I cannot but ap. of Kowloon water in the Island
prehend this soparatist spirit of when brought by the Pipe Line. Kowloon makes not for the best- And this says Creed is as strange 24th.--A busy day and later at a thing as he has heard, and the Clubbe I do search my brains smneks of a parochial selfishness, who shall win at Macno whither But Sir R. Harpenden, holds other.I do purpose to go to the Races wiss. But in the end Creed points And gave that the Partridge duth ou that a many thousand of the seem to have the first race won dwellers in Kowloon to come all already I now not how I may day upon the Island working and profit of the others for upon a it were a mighty strange thing if strange course it be perilous to pick! they did use no water this side too certain. So to dinnor and after (Qontinued at foot of next columns.) playing at cards to bed.
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