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The Repulse Bay Stabbing Affair.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY: JANUARY 1922.
. CHINA'S REVENUES.
Salvation by Tarik
In an interview with's pro- minent Cabinet Minister Renter's representativs at Peking learned, that after A meeting of the Cabinet last month the Finance. Minister telegraphed to tha
· Chinese delegation at Washington, outlining the Government's viewa regarding China's financial re- organisation.-
The Minister said the British | delegation had suggested the ap- lication of an effective 711 per cent. Customs duty; but owing to the fact that the proposal includes the abolition of the likin tax, it met with a somawhat cold recep- tion, on the ground that it was unfeasible until unification had bean secured, the idea being to: leave the abolition for a future] arrangement.
With regard to the abolition of the likin tax, the Minister ex- | plained that while the merchants were mostly in favour of its abolition, the provinces pointed out that the substitution of Customs revenues for this tax would necessarily deprive them of immediate revenue, BA it would take time for the Customa collection to reach the provincoa
In the respect, the Government proposed when the time came to reise a loan secured by the sub- stituted revenue, with which the provinces will be paid their share in advance; but this, however, is looking to the futors.
The Government is pleased; with the proposal to raise the Customs duty to 74 per cant, na this will enable the consolidation of the service at all unsecured losn", including the Anfu Club loans amounting to $175,000,000, and also various domestic obliga.“ tions thus the whole of China's obligations, totalling $500,000,000 -the smallest liabilities compared (with her resources and indebted- ness than most of the Powers— I will be placed on a sound footing. also by this means the salt re- venues will be released to the Government, whereas it is now pledged for the next two years.
mission formed to deal with these reforms if the Powers concerned agree to forego the unpaid Boxer indemnities for educational
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A VIRILE DRAMA of the WHIRLPOOL of WALL STREET, A MAN'S FAITH A WOMAN'S TRUST, and A REVELATION,
and HEART-STIRRING
STARTLI
"A BEGGAR IN
PURPLE."
AN EDUAR LEWIS PRODUCTION from THE NOVEL by ANDREW SOUTAR,
ATTACK ON MIXED COURT.
Chinese Petition to Peking.
organ
there: The municipal police holds all preliminary trials. When a Cbinsso is taken into the police court, ha is sure to receive kicks and slaps, no mate ser whether he is guilty of cot, before any trial are held. Whip- ping and other means are em- extort confessions, ployed to bence people are pumpelled to cofess crimes which they never committed at all.
Mr. Kao Ling-wei, Minister of Finance, had outlined a scheme for the proper financing of education. and sundry com.
In the Peking Daily Neus of mercial and industrial reforms, December 24 there appears the which op to the present it has following--- been impossible to carry out.
There might be a Mixed Com-ad a petition to the Delegates of Shanghai people have address-
**£----Tortures, which are coa- the various Powers in the sidered obsolete by the Chinese Government, are being employed Washington Conference, request-
that besides passing unsparingly. In the prison of ing
the Mixed Court, the old and the
Dr. proposal of
WADZ purposes.
Chang buei for the abolition of primitive system of "bamboo The consolidation of the loans
an im. whippings," cangues, and dark the extraterritoriality, and their service might be carried mediate resolution be adopted dungeons are being used: When out by the Inspector-general of for the abolishment of the Shang- the offence is slight, a man is the Maritime Customs, and when bei Mixed Court without delay. forced to run bare-footed over} the time arrived that the Customs The petition 8878: The Mixed pebbles and sharp stones revenues were equivalent to the Court established by the Fazer not allowed to read, write or take) likin tax, it might sho remain in the bands of the Customs for the in the Shanghai Settlements is Proper food and clothing. service of the loan destined for indeed a dark spot in the western civilization, and has been the províncial compensation. '
As far as the Central Adminis cause of misery to many Chinese
Itration was concerned, it is ex-
for. there will be &
balance:
residing in these settlements. It
o is
A SERIES OF CXTRUTHS The facts are that the Mixed: Court when it was taken over in pected that after security had is requested that the Chinese 1911 was in an appalling con- been given for the loan service, may be allowed to organize From the very runners whose dition, states the N.C. Daily Nmcs.
and industrial reforms provided Court, so that life and property of the Court to
court to supersede the Mixed
daty it was to serve the processes the highest Sergeant Cotton, the Prosecut sufficient to meet the needs of of both foreigners and Chinese Chinese, officials were corrupt to
In may be better protected in the
the back-bone: tortures and ing Police Officer, taking up the the Central Government.
Settlements. The following
beatings were the rule rather threads of the story where the this respect, it was proposed to
than tbe exception and the witness left it, said that the cries revert to the former system of points may serve to show the
mismanagement of this Court.
justice administered within its uttered by complainant were supervision prior to the
"L-The establishment is a confines was held in the lowest heard by another Chinese who penditure, and an audit after the arrived on the scene in time to expenditure by the audit depart violation of the Yangkingpang esteem by foreigner and Chinese Agreement regarding the intro-alike. The prisoners were a re- witness the complainant falling ment, which is "Mixed Office. insensibly from the wounds be The measure for tariff autonomy duction of the Mixed Court. It proach even to China.
appearing in sight was the should have been organized con- It is untrue that no Chinese is had sustained.
brightest spot on the horizon. I jointly by foreigners and Chingë,
Ax-
"As a man I stood up to him and, La Tan, I waited in the
One of the knives produced in Other questions are being thrash.) bat whon the Court was introduc. allowed to employ Chinese law-} Hotel for over a quarter of an hour for the police to whom I the Court was broken in two, and ed out at Washington: but barsed the Chinese Government was yer; it is untrue that the muni. then admitted. I had stabbed stated by the complainant not yet reached the stage where not consulted at all and the cipal police hold all prelimin that this came about during the the Central Government can ex- Chinese officers there were not a trials-thes. in fact, hold It is untrue that him.
struggle for its possession.
press decided view on them, appointed by the Chinese Gov-one.
confessions. ATO extorted by Chinese officers in This dignified speech was de-
A counter allegation of spite. though the Shantung question aperument.
whippings.
cuffings or livered from the dock in Mr. J. Pfatness was brought by the defen-peared to be progressing favour-this Court are private employes slappings. or that tortures are Wood's Court this morning, by dant, who said that he made the ably.
and have no voice in the decision used unsparingly. While as for tall Northerner, in defence of the complainant a loan, and was
In conclusion, the Minister of the cases. Therefore, it is conditions in the gaols the pres charge preferred against him of endeavouring to recover it. said that the financial situation nominally a “mixed court.” eut accommodation is palatial stabbing a Cantonese with intent
ia China was doubtless one of "2.-There is a great deal of compared with the unsanitary *to inflict grievous bodily harm. The complainant: Being such the most important to the Chinese, injustice. No Chinese is allowed styes which were used before1911. & scoundrel how can it be imagin- and the weakness of the Central į to make an appeal, or to employ The complainant, a suspended ed that you would have the Government was largely due to Chinese lawyers to represent his
In short, the gentlemen who motor car driver, said that failing quality of lending money to any the want of funds, and although cause. The evidence of or ac- who signed it, are simply speak- prepared this petition, and those ben better job, be was acting as a one?
a thorough financial reorganisa-cusation by foreign and Chinese cook for the No. 1 boy at the Repulse Bay Hotel. The assault The defendant (ignoring this tion could not be carried out until detectives employed by this Mixing ustruths. We rerrain from arose from his refusal to lend the remark): I asked you several there was unification, anything ad Court is sufficient to convicting the uglier word.
Chinese. Consequently, defendant money. On the 12th. times for the return of the money, leading in the direction of a07 December, following his failure and not content with having done financial stability would material- these detectives have been dread- to secure a loan from witness,me out of it, you came one night ly hasten unification. defendant came to Repulse Bay to the garage at Wanchai where
RAILWAY AMALGAMATION, I was working and struck me and in
unguarded'.mo- an mant stabbed him in the with an icon bar. In order to
STM3
ed by the Chinese inhabitants of the Settlements, whose cases have always been misrepresented. Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail- "3.-Inhuman treatments are and legs. Previous to avoid all possible causes for further way shareholders have approved rife. There is no higher court ju this the defendant gave no friction I went to Kowloon to get of amalgamation with the Lan- the Settlement for people to ap indication that he was thiring out of youy. Even then you don and North-Western Railway peal to, as the so-called "Mixed for revenge. He had wished would not alone. I was Company. -witness "a good morning." in a told that you were still looking very polite way, had responded for me, so I visited you at Repulas with thanks to the enquiry as to Bay. You met me with a chopper his digestion after the morning and in defence I had to use my
chow," and had seated himself knives.'
with, all dua decorum op the seat After reiterating his manliness
sfered him. When witness born of a belief in the righteods.| stooped over a basin to wash hisness of the law, defendant wa face, the defendant attacked him remanded until the afternoon to from behind, in the ensuing anable medical evidence to be struggle, lasting for ten minuter, taken as to the extent of the witness was stabbed in several injuries sustained by the plane places and lost consciou
plainant,
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