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The case in which Chau Sul-hin
Ananonymous lottor to the made on an office boy on Sunday is charged on various counts with Secretary for Chinese Affairs haa night, or in the early hours of given, prominence to the question of yesterday morning, in his room in making false statements in connec the employment of waitresses in the offices of the China Commer- tion with Bankruptcy proceedings, cial Company," at the Central was continued before Mr. Justico Chinese Tenhouses, sena
In the letter, the unknown writer Praya, was of a most brutal purports to give information res nature, the victim being badly Wood, at the criminal Sessions this garding the activities of a gang of hacked about by what, in the morning.
It will be recalled that yesterday, blackmailers who for some tine absence of the discovery of the past are reported to have exploited weapon, is assumed to be the position of the girls in the chopper. Multiple injuries were Mr. T. S: Whyte-Smith, who la pro caused, the unfortunate man secuting for the Crown, said, his employ of these houses.
Acting on the information agents from the Secretariat were sent out to all these establishments with ordera to instruct the girls as to the legal procedure to be taken whenever mon approach them with overtures of this nature
As a result, a charge of demand ing money by menances and enden vouring to compel a waitress, a young girl of fifteen years of age, to join an unlawful society, Was brought against a Chinese at the Central Police Court this morning.
"TROTECTION" URGED. Giving evidence before Mr. r. E. Lindsell, the girl said that the defendant first came as a customer to the teashop at West Point where she was employ.. ed, and later sought to learn from her whether she was under any special protection from unwelcome attentions by a certain class of customers.
evidently having very little most important witness was miss- facility, in the confined space of
ton. He asked for his evidence, the small cubicle, to evade the ing and was believed to be in Can- blows,
He must have been lying on a given at the Magistracy, to be read. At the outset of to-day's hearing small canvas folding camp-bed when his assallant entered and Mr. F. O. Jenkin, who is appearing the first few blows, not essentially for the defence, suggested that the of such a nature as to have imme-Jury be informed that the witness on the 19th inst, and the Sessions diately caused death, were as a was in the Crown Solicitor's office. consequence unprepared for.
were to be held two days later. He was then told that he would have to attend the Sessions, so that his absence was not through any lack of knowledge of the fact that ha was required to be present to give
Mr. Whyte-Smith:-That is 20, his evidence
my Lord.
There were, in fact, indications col that before the victim lapsed from the rain of blows directed at him, he entered depairingly into a grim struggle. The state of the body showed that death had occurred for some hours before discovery of the crime.
No arrests have been made but meanwhile two office-boys, who also slept on the premises and who first reported the discovery to the manager of the firm, are being held for examination, wille efforts are She replied that she did not being made to locate a fourth boy, know that any special protection who is missing from his post. ⠀
Police officials, seen to-day, said was needed, and he then asked nothing was known as to the mo- her to join his own "ui Mem-tive, since there had been no thefts bership in this Society would be in either from the person of the mur itself ar insurance against moles-dered min or from the offics of tution, he said.
the firm.
Witness spoke of subsequent The murdered man, who had visits from two alleged underlings been employed for some time past of the defendant,. to whom she as an office boy in the China Com paid $6.10, on the understanding mercial. Arm, was not more than that this was by way of the "in-22 years of age.
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After explaining that to the jury, his Lordship proceeded to read the witness's evidence given at the Cen- effcet that the witness used to be tral Magistracy. This was to the the accountant of the Wing Shing Shun firm, but he left and returned to the country at the beginning of last year. Up to that time he had kept the books of the firm. These included the rough cash 'book, sales book, ledger, and purchases book, and he had also been in charge of the generale cash book, deposita book, and the wages book. first moon of last year, however, ho no longer kept the three last-men- tioned books. The usual custom was for the entries in the rough book to be posted in the general cash book. Exhibit "J" was pro- duced, and, according to the evid- ence, it was not the book that wit- BANDIT SUPPRESSION.
ness kept for the first four months Marshal Sun has held a confer- of the year. Exhibit "F" purport- ence with a number of his military ed to be the general cash book, bat Defending her daughter agairat leaders, including Gen. Bei Pao- in fact was not that book. When this accusation, the mother appeal-
shan, Commissioner of Defence for he left the firm, it was blank and ed to the Court to take an indulgent Haichow, and Gen. Cheng Chun- no entries had been made in it view in consideration of the fact yen, commander of the 10th Divi- Exhibit "L" was the genuine, de- that she was only a child and unsion of the Cheklang Army, for posite book of the firm for last used to her surroundings.
the purpose of considering mea-year, but when he left it had no en- The Magistrate questioned whe ther a serious view was taken of the sures to end the banditry in the tries in it of any sort. The various districts between Shantung and entries in this book were then read defendant's representations at the Klangsu, where the peasantry has out, and, according to the evidence, time when these were made and suffered terribly and where an end most of the deposits recorded were whether the girl had not appeared has practically been put to all false. amused when two words which pur-agricultural activity, it was de- His Lordship remarked to the ported to be passwords of the cided that Marshal Sun's troops, jury that so far they would note Society referred to, were used by known as the "Allied Armies of that the witness had gone through the defendant..
the South-East," should observe all the items in the statement of Finally, in intimating his decision to Mr. L. D. Turner, de- strict neutrality in all civil war affairs which were included in the fending, the Magistrate said that activities, but should use every first count of the indictment, and he could not convict on the measure toward the suppression had stated as facts that the de-
of banditry. Marshal Sun deposits were not made. evidence, which was disconnected
clares that he is determined 'to de- and unsatisfactory. The meanour of the girl in the Court restore order in the Five Pro- vinces and that he will use all the was also suggestive of an amusing view being taken of the incident, as it appeared to be treated by her as a joke.
A FRESH CHARGE-
The defendant was discharged, but he was retained for a second
and similar charge in which a hawker appeared as the com plainant.
After evidence had been given
forces at his disposal for that pur- pose, regardless of what the future may bring about in the matter of his relations with Peking or with Chang Teo-lin."
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Life in Shanghai is now as tranquil as if there had never been any trouble here or anywhere. The weather is excellent, the bot
OY FURTHER DENIALS. Continuing with the evidence, his Lordship read that witness did not know the names of any of the alleged depositors. It was not: correct that he resigned from the firm on January 24th, 1925, ns he continued making entries in the rough cash book up to the end of May 1925. If the defendant said that he (witness) made no entries in any of the books after January, 1925, that was not true. With There is much sporting and social regard to the wages book, there were three entries relating to activity and the hotels are full.
Business in general is not as sums paid to witness as salary. good among the European shops Two of the entries were correct. as it might be, but foreign trade but the third, for $100, on January is looking up and there is brisk 1st, 1926, bad never been received movement in both imports and ex- and the entry was incorrect, He ports. The recent report of the knew a foki in the firm who never American Chamber of Commerce had anything to do with the firm's shows a very large Importation of books, with the exception of the American motors and of those shipments book, in which he oc made in American shops in Cana-casionally made entries. da. Many of the cars are of the Firm, 129, Des Voeux Road Cen- An accountant in the Yee Fat, Higher-priced vaflety, which seems
of a demand made by the deseason not having set in thus far. fendunt, and of, an assault which occurred later when the hawker was attacked by a gang in con- sequence of his refural, his Wor- ship registered a conviction and passed sentence of three month's. hard labour.
RUMANIAN OIL QUESTION.
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Rugby, June 28.
to suggest that there is a reason-tral In the witness, box, was asked able dogrog of prosperity in by Mr. Whyte-Smith whether he knew the names of two men. ~ He Shanghai.
replied he had not heard of one," but he had known a man with" nearly the same name as the other. This man was living at the Yoo Fat firm, but he left for Canton early in the year.
AMUNDSEN'S LAST FLIGHT:
FINISHED WITH ARCTIC EXPLORATION.
In the House of Commons, Sir Austen Chamberlain, replying to a question, sald the Rumanian Government last November gave an undertaking that they would settle the question of componga- tion direct with the British oil companies whose wells, plant and other effects were destroyed in November and December, 1916. He understood that negotiations between the Rumanian Minister and companies had been proceed ing, but the Government much Amundson declares that he has CHINESE CONSUL'S DEATH.
regrotted that, although seven
Seattle, June 28... Amundsen and the sixteen com panions of his historic flight have. beon, entertained here.
finished with Arctic exploration,
The case is proceeding.
OBITUARY.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
months had elapsed since the but several members of the crew undertaking was given, no acttle of the Norge:declare that they con- ment had yet been reached. It
template another flight to nacer- was obviously in the Rumanian tain whether any land exdate bo-
Singapore, June 29, Government's interest that a tween Alaska and the Pole.
Tho death has occurred here to settlement should be reached,
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