CHENG COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
FUNG MURDER CASE ENDS AFTER THIRTY-THREE SITTINGS.
MAGISTRATE ON CONNECTING THREAD IN CROWN'S EVIDENCE.
After thirty-three sittings, eight of which wore formal re mands and twenty five others occupied the Magistrate's time for the whole of the afternoon, Cheng Kwok Yau, who is charged with procuring the murder of Geo. Fung, was committed to stand' trial at the next Criminal Sessions at the Supreme Court. For- ty eight witnesses were called for the prosecution,
Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Assistant Attorney General, prosecuted, while Mr. Geo, K. Hall Brutton defended
At the close of yesterday's sitting, after the Magistrate had decide that the prosecution dil made but a prima facie case, Cheng Kwok Yau was cautioned and was then asked if he wished to say anything. For the first time during the preceedings Cheng spoke. He said: "I do not wish to say anything."
Mr. Hall Brutton informed his Worship that he proposed to reserve the defence,
ACCUSED SPEAKS FOR THE FIRST TIME.
Evidence was given yesterday, minutes to consider whether he was afternoon by Traffic, Sergeant Brit- satisfied that there was sufficient tain that the man Lau Hing menj evidence before him to show that tioned in the casa was the registered Lau was Cheng's chauffeur He an- chauffeur of Cheng Kwok Yau, Henounced when the Court resumed was shown a picture of Laut and he that he was satisfied. said that the man whom he knew
as Lau was the man in that pic
ture.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932.
MME. RENEE CHEMET.
TRIUMPH AT THE KING'S THEATRE.
ENTHUSIASM OF A LARGE AUDIENCE
THE MILITARY SITUATION IN HAINAN.
HOW THE CHEN TSAI TONG-CHEN CHAK DISPUTE EFFECTS THE ISLAND.
CITIES PREPARING FOR COMMUNIST ATTACKS.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
Kachek, Juno 25.
Doa-lou market, twelve miles It needed only the opening bars of Vivaldi's Concerto in A. Minor
The market has been rather tenso above Kuchek, is also fearful' on to convince the large audience at
attacks. When the the King's Theatro last night of the for the last two weeks or so. There Communist truth of all that has bear claimed have been, persistent rumours of walls were built around the market on behalf of Mmo, Renée Chemiet. This movement was played with a fighting to be expected between the last winter, one gate was allowed vigour and a fierceness that gripped forces of Admiral Chen Chak and for every two or three houses. Now the imagination. But there was Chen Tani Tong, as soon as the these gates have practically all been also an unsurpassed perfection of technique. There are musicians who latter's men arrive from Canton. walled in. Nails have been driven reach up to their music there are For ten days or so practically all this into pieces of board, and the those who dominate their subject cars on the island were comman boards are scattered, with the nail Mme Chemet is of the latter order. deered by the military and held points up, all along the outside of There is also a curiously national quality about her playing the in headquarters ready for the the wall. Sharp pointed bomboo strength and the fan of a Franch. transportation of troops. During stakes are also planted everywhere. army in action. All too quickly the the past three days trafic has been I The top of the wall is piled high movement finished. Mme. Chemet
waited till the late comers were more normal, the military releasing with loose stones, so that the settled-she was now on good terms all but forty cars, and now the slightest attempt to climb over the with her audience and perfectly
a shower of wall would rolease stones are arouse the market.
at her case and then, on muted rumour is that the "enemy have a strings, with quietness and strengthrived," and all is panic again.
The came the beautiful Largo. Presto was in the opening vein. Mme. Chemet had shown herself in
that brief ten minutes an artist standing second to none ever heard in Hong Kong.
Lalo's Concerto.
The Lalo Concerto was new to
Mobilisation of Troops.
Ingenious Pontoon Bridge. Any movement of troops in Hainan is more or less conditioned by ability to get across the Golden
Kachek market, important as it is as a central distributing point for the eastern and southern parts of River. A pontoon bridge has been the island, is rarely without soldiers.constructed at Ham-khau, the usual Hong Kong audiences. It is of a For a few months this spring it ferry place. It is quite an interest- a division headquarters bubling sight. Ordinary cargo boats Mr. Lindsell then requested his leas picturesque and more intel was Worship to make a note that he lectual ofder than the familiar with the rumours so rife recently plying the river have been com
Symphonic Espagnole of the same would call the evidence in the composer and more difficult to graap all soldiers except about a hundred mandoered and anchored side by We heard that side most of the way across the and appreciate fully at a single were removed. After, Sergeant Brittain's evidence Supreme Court.
Mr. Hall Brutton: Your Wor hearing. Mme. Chemet played it the headquarters had been trans- river. They are about five feet
triumphantly from the brilliantly Mr. Lindsell said that he had in tended to call Lai Ming Fai to say ship, you have undoubtedly care clear strength of the opening ferred to Hun-long market, near the apart, held in place by ropes at- that the photo was that of Chong's fully considered all the evidence in Andante and Allegro through the ferry at Ham-khau. Later that re-tached to bamboo pig baskete filled Romance, played with a finely sensi- chauffour. Unfortunately Miss Lail this case; is your Worship really tive feeling that never came within port was denied and apparently all with stones. Crossing the ferry on was unwell and was unable to attend of the opinion that there is any danger of sentimentality to the troops are centralized in Hoihow, June 93 we counted thirty-three Court. Mr. Lindell pointed out case for the defendant to answer? brilliant dash and fire of the final or at least all authority is centred boats so fastened, beginning from there. The military impressed the landing on the west or city sido that of course there were curtain I submit, your Worship, there is Allegro con Funco. The tremen- dous applause at the conclusion was
several hundred men in Kachek and of the river, and the roadway in bits of indirect evidence, both of no case and think it would be a just tribute to the artiste.
Anca Seidlova was the accom-earried them off to Kimkiang and place upon them. Then there was Mr. Gooke's chauffeur and the Hong for the Crown to satisfy your Wor-
panist and tribute must be paid to other places nearer the coast to a gap, needing perhaps six or eight Kong Hotel bus driver, that Ah Lou ship before you do commit
the quiet eficiency of that artists build earthworks, dig trenches, etc. more boats, and four more boats was Cheng's chauffeur. If his Wor- defendant. They must satisfy you work.
The full case to go before
aa They were promised a wage of $15 were anchored on the east side. ahip did not consider that sufficient, that there is a
per month but ordered to take The roadway is made by laying two he (Mr. Lindell) would have to the jury. Unless your Worship has follows:- ask for an adjournment to prove made up your mind now, having 1-Concerto in A Minor Vivaldi. money with them to buy food. For parallel rows of stringers across the several market days nó able-bodied boats, and on top of these stringers it." In any, ease," enid Mr. Lind regard to all the evidence there is
men came to Kachek. Women or bamboo poles. The gap is left for sell, "if you consider that there before you, the Crown should show is sufficient prima facie evidence that there is a case to answer, other
duced amount of supplies offered is all prepared ready to be pulled into place and anchored if troops on that point, then I should likewise I would ask your Worship to 2-Concerto in F Minor...Ed. Lalo. old men brought in the greatly re-boats to pass, and a section of road.
for sale.
the
to give evidence that I propose to say that there is no case to answer. call this evidence if this case goes .to trial."
July Sessions in August. Mr. Wynne Jones: You tell me that the July Sessions will not be hold until August.
A Connecting Thread,
Mr. Wynne Jones: I don't think I need to call upon the Crown to submit any further arguments. It is quite obvious that I have, as you any, studied all the evidence quite closely. I must necessarily point out that my basiness here is merely
Mr. Lindsell: I have it direct from the Chief Justice that he dora not propose to take this murder to satisfy myself that there is a case until the end of August.
prima facie case and that whatever
W49 programme
Part L
Allegro 1
Largo
Presto.
Andante-Recit,
Allegro,
Romance,
Allegro con fuoco.
Part II.
3.-Poem................. 4.(a) Slavonie Danco
E. Chausson.
Dvorak-Kreisler.
are to cross. Cars could probably
:
"Red". Attack Feared,
cross also, as. the roadway is wide Kachek, of course, is fearful of enough, but it would be rather pre- an attack by Communists if soldiers various. Men operating the ferry are all withdrawn Within the last said the boats in used in making
(b) Pale Moon
Knight-Logan-Kreisler. ten years. Kachek streets have been the pontoon had been commandeer-
(c) Dancing Doll
widened and the old gates torned, and were being allowed fifteen Poldini-Kreisler. down. Now an old guild-hall has cents a day compensation, (d) Miramar .... Turina-Chemet.bean wrocked, and the big thick
The Rice Orop. bricks of bygone days utilized to
This is the driest spring known build heavy walls fifteen or twenty in Kuchek, apparently. Wella are
Mr. Wynne Jones: I take it that the defence may be, there is suff LORD TRENCHARD; feet high across the three main en-dry everywhere, and the rise in the
the July Sessions will mot start until August 3, and the August Sessions will follow right on.
"A FREE HAND, OR RESIGNATION."
CONFERENCES WITH SIR H. SAMUEL,
A Series of important conferences
the Metropolitan Police have re
cient evidence to go bofore a jury, . Now, the evidence which has been produced before me has been what Mr. Lindsell: It was assumed at I might call scattered-a bit here the time when the Chief Justice told and a bit there and a bit some- the Attorney General that he would where else-as very often happene not be taking the case until August, in these cases, and all I have to that the Full Court, will still be be satisfied with is that there is a likely to be on. Now it is likely connecting thread which joins this on the discipline and organisation that the Full Court will be complet-ovidence in such a manner as to od by the end of the month. That form a prima facie case. It is pot direction of the Chief Justice may my business to discuss the strength therefore Inpse, but I am not in a of that thread. That is for the position to give you anything de jury. I think I know this evidence very well by now and I and there Mr. Wynne Jones: If I commit is such a thread. Having found this case in Frder to get into the that thread, therefore, it is my July Sessions, it will have to be duty to commit. committed to-morrow in spite of
finite.
next Criminal Sessions.
trances to the market. An open-seedbeds has nearly all been killed. ing is left just wide enough for cars, Farmers are unable to plow their and sliding gates of iron rods are helds in preparation for transplant- in place. Barbed wire, etc., is being ing the young rice. Fortunately used to close all other gaps or small only a small section of the country alleyways leading into the market.
has been so affected, so when rhins do como seedling rice can doubt- Old Land-mark Demolished.
loss bo purchased from more fortu- The guild-holl mentioned above
nate places. In an unofficial "Log oftly taken place between Bir has been a land-mark in Kacbek for Book" kept by members of the Herbort Samuel, the Home Secre three centuries having been erected American Presbyterian Mission, au tary, and Lord Trenchard, the probably about 1800 A.D. entry in 1920 says "It was June 1 Commissioner.
Lord Trenchard was at one period memorial tablet in front of the before the walls were finally filled," prepared to offer his resignation. building did not give the date when and that was a record drouth to He said he would not carry on unit was erected, but says the first dato. less he had the full confidence of the Minister and of the Govern-repairs were made in the ninth year ment
of the Emperor Ch'ing Te, which The result of this declaration was would be shout.1035 or 1630, Fur-
Lord Trenchard.
The
Echo of 1927 Outragé, In 1922 or about that time, Khengt dong had a most enterprising magis.
the fact that the July Sessions does thread run right through i not come off until August.
Mr. Lindsell; That does not of Mr. Wynne Jones: If I do find course, concern you, because you a thread comecting the principal merely commit him for trial at the points of the evidence I should commissioner.
Mr. Wynne Jones: The defendant mit. This caso is really-in-two |—
He explained his reorganisation of Nam-hai and Tun-dek, and known places in Kachek and other towns, has been before me since April o parte and it gave me a certain and I think he has altogether cone amount of difficulty at first, as 1 scheme, and stated definitely that as the Nam-tun Guild Hall. It was began motor ronds, opened an
If he was left in charge of the erected in honour of the Hin-hou before me thirty three times. 1
force other drastic alterations would
Mr. Hall Brutton: Does that in effect, a vote of confidence ther repairs were made in the fifty-trato, Oang Dai Fong by name.
In his interviews with the Home eighth year of Kang Hsi (1720) Educated abroad, he sincerely de- Secretary he pointed out that a great deal of the discontent in the and the eleventh year of Chis Ching sired to improve the condition of police arose before he was com- (1817). It was put up by Cantonese his people. He ordered and super merchants from the two districts vised the erection of several market Reorganisation Plas...
don't want to drag the case out think it gave you, Mr. Brutton, but unnecessarily. At the same time 11 find a thread right through. 1 don't want you to miss anything. Mr. Brutton An unbroken Unless the defence will agree that avidence will be called later. thread, your WorshipT
Mr-Brutton: Yos call it at thei
sessions.
la a Quardary,"
maria Mr. Wynne Jones: The absence of this evidence leaves me in a quand- ary.
Mr. Wyn Jones: The thread;
in my opinion is unbroken, but won't discuss the strength.
I
dofence.
result,
or.
Agricultural and Industrial Fo" "Goddess of Heavenly School," ote. He built a shop in The effect of Lord Trenchard's Rain," who was supposed to
guard
the market, which was really s atatement was:Unless I am given boatmen on the seat, and these mer modern book store. Unfortunately a free hand I cannot carry on, and
chants must make their journeys to ho chose as helpers and advisors am ready to resign."
It was explained to the Commis and from by water The birthday signer that the Prime Minister and of the goddess was clebrated ou the other members of the Cabinet
men who, as it later appeared, were
undoubtedly Communist propagan disty, and in the bloody days of
Mr. Brutton: Then I reserve my would support his methods iu bring the third of the third months, lunar
ing the Metropolitan Police up to calendar, formerly a great fastival 1027-1528 he was killed and his kend the requirements of modern crime day at the guild-hall Of late years exhibited outside Kachek. His pro prevention and detection.
Defendant's Statement,
::
Mr. Lindsell: I would point out that this particulan part of the avidence has been totally unchal
The defendant was then caution- lenged; that Ah Lau was the driver. of the accused and was seen by one ed, after which the Magistrate, ad of the witnesses at 50, Village Road. dressing him, said: Having heard statement with regard to the ing to have it taken down on that ganization, headquarters. The pro-
Wynne Jaues: White in your that caution, do you wish to make Metropolitan Police is likely to be account. They have only loaned
perty is now being remodelled, and position. Mr. Brution to any statement 1
made by the Home Secretary in the the brick for use in the gates, and inquiry revealed that the family of Mr. Brutton We want this case Cheng: I don't wish to say any House of Commons....
A stew scheme for dealing with there is talk of erecting a shop on the magistrate are now in posses thing
Fig Worship: You are committed the increase in crime, particularly the site, which is a fairly good one, on, as provincial authorities havo given by to stand your trial at the next in relation to burglary and smash but there is lack of unanimity recognized their claim and returned Chief Detective Inspector Reynolds, Criminal Bessions at the Supreme and grab raids, hog received the ap
proval of the Home Secretary:- among the owners on that point. the place to them, his Worship adjourned for a fow Court,
The result of these conferences the place has been used to quarter party was confiscated, and the hook- will be seen in the number of soldiers, and the descendants of the store used first for military. bead changes in the organisation of the original owners were the more will-
quartors, and later for the party or force.
to come into the July Bessions, if your Worship commita.
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