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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934.
ECHOES OF 1861
43-Faction Fights In
Hong Kong
MURDER IN A
TEMPLE
Man And Woman
• In Book
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CRIMINAL SESSIONS
PROCEEDINGS
The case was taken by His Hon- our Mr. ADA MacGregor. Mr.
There have been lately some oc, dlately" ordered to accompany the
Sam Sang, a former market gar- currences which the Press of the complainants to the scene of the Colony has neglected its duty in strife. On the way, stragglers from dener af Kowloon Tong and Wong not reporting. For instance there the complainants' party, joined the Ying pleaded not guilty at the Cri- have been several raids or fued Police; until by the time the latterminal Sessions yesterday when fights accompanied by the loss of reached their destination, several charged with the murder of one
Chu Kwai, life-there has been a murder or hundre. hod sccumulated. Whilst two besides-and at least one the police were considering a mo- house has fallen down owing to ment, what to do, these Chinese the late rains, killing all, we be- who had joined them fell upon lieve. ita irmates.
the Bunch men, who of course had Regarding the riots we cannot subsided into a state of apathy obtain sufficient information to i upon the approach of the Police, enable us to furnish our readers and who naturally were taken by with a succinct intelligible ac-surprise at this audden onslaught. court. The native reports wel under the very eyes of the Police gave a few days back were extre- The latter however were, not such mely lobsided affairs, although fools as the Tongtoonites thought. they Iridicated the corners in for several or the assallants were which a little truth might be ga- arrested. prosecuted and ultimate- thered. The trick of enlisting the Ly punished. police was successfully practised by both-aldes of the faction so that neither deserves the smallest sympathy. This clever trick
men.
way
We do not know how the Sunon- the tables. ers managed to turn but from the information in the hands of the police,
thas managed by the Tongkoon koonites appear to have been the Several of the most reput-aggressors throughout. for with able looking of their number went every pains to arrive at the bot- to lodge a complaint at the police tom of the diffëulty, we belleve no statign against the Sunon men. Aarrests have been made of Sunon strong party of police were imme-men.
H.K. POLICE RESERVE
(ORDERS BY THE HON, MR. E. D. C.. WOLFE, C.M.G., L.G. OF POLICE)
If
have
Chinese Company
Strength-The following been taken on the strength of the Chinese Company, as from | 11th July 1934.-Constables R37 Hon Pak Chung. R83 Young, Shou Te and R13 James Ko.
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H. C. Macnamara, instructed by Mr. F. E. Nash of Messrs. Woo and Nash appeared to defend Lam Sang and Mr. Leo D'Almada Cas tro, junior, instructed by Mr. J. B. Prentis, of Hastings & Co, appeared for the woman defendant, Mr. J. A. Fraser, Assistant Attorney General, instructed by Mr. W. I. Lockhart Smith appeared for the Crown.
⚫ Mr. Fraser opening the case said Wong Ying was the widow of the murdeder man who was an earth coolie at Kowloon Tong at the same time that the male accused the Ting-was a market gardener. there. About February the two accused disappeared from Kowlcon Tong and sometime at the end of March they were found living to- gether in the New Territories near the village" of Sap Pat Heung. There was a temple there called the Nam Hang Temple a lttle- used place since the happening of some tragic event which had made the villagers dislike worshipping there. The scene of the crime was about an hour from Un Long, the market place on the Castle Feak Road.
LAND SLIDES
But No Casualties
As the result of the heavy rain during the week-end, several minor landslides were reported to have occurred in the Colony.
A large landslide, completely blocking May Road, occurred at 5 m. on Sunday, near the Junction of May Road and Magazine Gap. Road.
Public Works Department coolies were put to work immediately and the debris was cleared in a com- paratively short time.
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Other minor sides are reported
Leave-Sub Inspector (R) Tsui Kwing Kong has resumed duty in charge of No. 1 Platoon, as from on the Island. As the result of a 11th July. 1934.
slide Links Road,, above St. Mar "Sub-Inspector (R) David Lale garet's Church, was partially block. and Crown Sergeant R87 Wonged, although there was no serious Chung have been granted 10 days' | Lindrance to traffic.
leave, as froin 24th July, 1934.- A retaining wall' at the rear of
During the absence on leave of No. 41. Kennedy Road collapsed Lance Sergeant R30 Thang Po but no serious damage has been Hing, Lance Sergeant P39 Talo reported. Huk On has been appointed to take charge of No. 8 Squad in ad- dition to his ordinary" duties, as from 17th July, 1934 until further notice.
Training Course-Part II-The [ following members have been passed out as efficient in Part II or Training Course (knowledge of Police Duty and Regulation):
Constables Ri Harry Lau, R2 Luke Ho, R3 Luke. Ying Chol and. | R19 Joseph C.-K. Wong.
All recruits of the Chinese Com- pany will attend at the Chinese Company Headquarters on Tuesday, July 31st, et 17.38 hours for in- struction.
Indian Company.
Strength, Constable E240 Ghulam Hussian has been taken on the strength of the Indian Company, as from 18th July, 1934. Constable R240 K. Sohan Singh has been permitted to resign from the Indian Company, as from 13th July, 1934."
Salahu
NOTICE TO MARINERS
Buoys To Be Moved
Notice is hereby given that "on or about the... 1st August," 1934, and without further notice, the follow- Ing changes will be made in the buoyage of Centaur Crossing:---
(1) Actaeon Buoy will be moved
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to mark the starboard" side of the channel for "vessels bound up river, and Its colour will be changed from black to red: its other char- acteristics. remaining, un- changed.
On April 5, Chu Kwai was seen at Un Loong in poor circumstances and he borrowed some money from a friend on the plea that he was looking for his wife. On May 18 he was at Cheung To Po Village, a short distance from accused's residence and field.
Early that morning a Chinese doctor saw Chu Kwai and the two accused meet on the road and heard the former exclaim: "On. I have been looking for you for several months!" Lam Sang con- tinued on his way but the woman stopped to wash her sandals and listened to Chu Kwai" Then she' got up and walked away into field, followed by her upbraiding hus- band.
The next Hak in the chain of evidence was supplied by a man employed by the same doctor as a collector of herbs. He saw the husband and wife enter the temple where they were soon joined by Lam sang. After about a half hour, Lam Sarg and the woman came out and looked about them atter which Lam Sang went off in the direction of his home, re- turning later with some clot1
He took these in to the woman and soon both re-appeared from the temple, the woman washed some colthes in a stream and the man went back to his field.
Body Found
About 5 o'clock the same day, continued Mr. Fraser, two boys who were attending cows nearby, wandered into the temple and saw From the new position of the dead body of Chu Kwal. His the buoy, Green Point Bea-heag had been, split open by a con will bear 275 degrees, heavy instrument and his Jacket distant 22 miles
hung from the door.
(2) Centaur Lower Buoy will be moved to a position from which Centaur Beacon will bear 281 degrees, distant 6.82 miles, its characteristics re- maining unchanged.
Constable R293 8.L.M. Din is dismissed from the Indian All bearings are true and mea- Company, as from 13th July 1834 sured clockwise in degrees trom
Training Course-Part II-All 000 deg. (north) to 350 deg. recruits of the Indian Company. Chart affeced. Chinese Admir- residing at Kowloon will attend alty Chart No. 141. 4 Chi Woo Street, Kowloon on Wednesday, August 1st at 17.30 hours for instruction.
All recruits of the Indian Com- pany residing at Hong Kong will attend Chinese Company Head- quarters, 17, Queens Road Central on Thursday, August 2nd at 17.30 l'hourg" for "instTUCTION,"
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Around the Courts
CYCLIST CAUTIONED
Harry Ho, 21 was charged before Mr. Lee at- Kowloon · Magistracy yesterday with failing to drive his bicycle with due care and caution.
Sergeant Kennedy sald defen dant was riding his bicycle along Sal Yeung Cho Street at 830 pm. on Saturday when the complainant. a 51-year old woman, ran out from a verandah and collided with the was raining hard at bicycle. It the time and a number of people were rushing about, and it was impossible for defendant to have avolded her. He was going at five or six miles an hour, which the police thought was a reasonable speed.
The woman was sent to hospital, but was discharged after treat- ment. She was not seriously hurt. His Worship:-It was not 'de- fendant's fault, then?
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Sergeant Kennedy: No, your Worship. It is had been a motor car complainant would have walked into it just the same: Defendant was discharged.
PRIVATE BOOTH ILŽ
a taxi
Private Robert Booth, one of the three South Wales Borderers who have been indicated for robbery and common assault on driver at Repulse Bay, failed to appear at the Criminal Sessions yesterday. It stated
was
that
Booth would be unable to attend court for a fortnight owing to ill-
ness, and his Lordship, the Chief case to the next Sessions. Justice, accordingly adjourned the
It will be recalled that the other Lwe defendanta pleaded guilty and were sentenced last week.
THEFT OF LEATHER ·
-EUROPEAN FINED
pre-
Before Mr. Lee at Kowloon Ma- gistracy yesterday, H. H. Muller, of No. 2 Lock Road, was charged with (1) assaulting Mr. M. Wong, of the Kowloon Service Co., of Ashley Road, and (2) assaulting Chan Hot, a police sergeant. Inspector Stimson. who secuted, said that at 7.30 pm" on Saturday defendant went to the service garage in Ashley Road and
out to take
А cycle wanted belonging to his friends. Mr: Wong refused to let him take it, and is Mr. a result, a quarrel ensued. Wong alleged that defendant hit him on the throat. A Chinese, gergeant came on the scene and. attempted to separate the two men. It was alleged that defen- dant gave the sergeant a couple of blows and nearly knocked him but.
Defendant pleaded guilty to and said he was both charges sorry for what happened.
On the first charge, defendant was bound over in $50 for six months and on the second count he was fined 850,
IMPORTING SILVER INGOTS
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A fine of $100 or, in default, two months' hard labour was imposed by Mr. W. M. Thomson at Central: Magistracy yesterday on 8ze Wai- min. a seaman, for having im- ported 97 silver ingots on the ss. Haishang from Tangtao without having placed them on the ship's manifest. It was stated that the ingots were found under defen dant's bedding.
OBSTRUCTION AT FERRY"
WHARF
The defendants were arrested as the result of special instruction" to clear the crowds obstructing the For the theft of a quantity of Yahmati Ferry wharf," remarked leather trom & Arm at No. 17 Sub-Inspector Dredge before Mi. Lower Lascar Row, which is in Macfadyen at Central Magistracy bankruptcy, Li Sun was fined $50. yesterday when four street coolies or one month's hard labour, by were charged with gambling. The Mr. Macfadyen at Central Magis defendants were fined $1 or one Seigt, Moran was first called for tracy yesterday, Mr. H. J. Milling-day's gaol cach, and 82 cents pick- the Crown. Be deposed as to ton, Chier Bajuft of the Supreme police photographs taken of the Court, said he went to the pre- scene and said the dead man was mises on Friday with some pro- lying in a large pool of blood. apective buyers, and the leather Ping Yau, & 70-years-old Chin-was. then intact. Lau Ka-cheung, ese, blind and partially deaf, said
a former foki of the shop, stated the two accused had lodged with that at 1:30 am on Saturday he him. They were in and out of the saw the defendant emerge from day of the killing,
the premises carrying the leather on his shoulders.
Evidence carmborative of Coun- sel's opening statement was given by Cheung Kwai Cheung Sang- mau the Chinese doctor, and Kan Koon-mui, the herb collector..
terpreter stated that when the male accused was charged with Crown Objection.
murder he replied: 21 did not Mr. D'Almada applied for a copy murder Chu Kwal I don't know Flans to build Shanghai a of the statements previously made him." The woman in reply to the Central Railway station and the by witnesses the production of same charge stated "I don't know. headquarters Administration Office which was objected to by the I did not kill him." Flying Squad
of the Shanghai-Nanking and the
Crown. Shanghai Hengchow Nanking Training Course-Part II-Con- Rallways, at a cost of $800,000 are atable R325 Cheung King Chor has reported to have been drawn up been passed out as efficient in by the Ministry of Railways.--- Part II of Treining Course Reuter. (knowledge of Police, Duty and Regulation).
Emergency Unit Reserve
General Meeting.-A
General
Meeting for members of the Emer--|
TWO GREAT BRIDGES IN CREKIANG
Shanghai, July 30.
Mr. Fraser said he wished. to relative to the finding of the body Sergeant Estelle gave evidence help the defence in cases where and the position of the temple as such statements were later found regards the stream.
to be contradictory, but he should His Lordship inquired froh the be allowed to use his own discre-witness whether he saw any indi- tion. He objected to the general cation of bloodstained feet in the principle that the defence should temple of people who might he always demand these statements.
walked out. Witness replied in the Els Lordship said if the objec- negative. tion was on the doctrine of privi- lege, he felt that it could not be
ing on the point.
Mr. Fraser agreed to prepare cop
of the statement for the de-
gency init Reserve will be held at It is understood that the Che-sustained in view of a recent sul- No. 2 Police Station on Friday, Klang Provincial authorities are August "Bid at 17.30 hours. All arranging with local bankers for a members will attend. DSP. (R) loan of $20,000,000 for the con- will be present.
struction of to great dges to nan the Chatentang and the Trago
C. CHAMPKIN,
Acting, D.B.P. (R) } rip- Hongkong, July 30, 1934,
Reader,
ed up was placed in the Foor Box.
On a charge of sealing cloth- ing from the Sanitary Depart- ment coolies' quarters, Hospital Road, where he was formerly em- ployed, Yeung Kam, 27, was fined 810, or, in default fourteen days' hard labour by Mr, Macfadyen at. Central Magistracy yesterday.
SIAMESE ROYALTY AT PRAGUE
Welcomed By Ministers
[Special to the "Hong Kong Daliy Press" (Copyright),]
Prague, July 29. The Blamese Royal couple .com- ing from Nüremberg arrived here
at
o'clock in the afternoon and were welcomed at the station by Premier Malypetr, Foreign Minis«. ter Benes and numerous others. The guard of honour had lined up In answer to s. queation by His and when the train with the Ro- Lordship before the Court rose yal couple slowly pulled in, the Mr. Fraser said that the Crown band played the national anthems. theory was that the murder was The Royal couple drove to the done by the second accused and hotel, Alcron, enthusiastically
it came to the knowledge of the cheated en route by crowds. Henes fest accused after it was committ-gave a reception in the evening. on the occasion of the Royal
Transoceara Xud Min..
fence.
m the course of the ef16-nce during
The case will be continued to