THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1926.
TALAMBA TRIAL. THE RECENT CANTON HORRORS OF WAR.
RESUMED WITH NEW
JURY.
DANGEROUS SOCIETY.
Ruferences were made to what
FIRE.
CASUALTIES SAID TO NUMBER FIFTY.
DOCUMENTS SAVED.
Latest Canton roports regari was described as a "blackmailinging the big fire which destroyed nd dangerous Trind Society" at the Strike. and Boycott Head Singapore, during the bearing of quarters!! in Canton state that the the Talamba murder case, which casualties were at least fifty, and
Chief was recommened before the 2 possibly more. - Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, and a fresh jury at the Criminal Sessions
this morning.
The case is one in which a
Chinese deportes is charged with
The Canton Gazette states that all the documents in the archives
THOROUGH LOOTING IN NANCHANG.
EXECUTIONS IN STREET.
War clouds burst violently upon us again on Saturday the 9th. Oct." says the Nanchang correspondent of the Shanghai Times, writing under date of October 28th. l on sudday round us could be heard à
elle of bullets, the rattle of quick-ring guns and the booming of cannon. Suddenly there was h
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dollars kept by the Committee led by bandits
the murder of another deported on
According to a report piade by This second battle was more tor- board the British steamer Talumba the Fire Brigade, the outbreak rific and of longer duration than on the high seas while on the way was caused by carelessness. on the first one, the firing did not cease. from Singapore "to Hongkong the part of men working in the for five days and five nights--that was from Saturday till Thursday
The trial commenced yesterday morning, and at the beginning of the afternoon sitting his Lordship announced that one of the jurors had answered to someone else's name, and it was therefore decided that the proper course to follow was to discharge the jury and empanel another. This was done and the trial commenced again this morning. The Attorney General, Mr. J. H. Kemp appears for the Crown and Mr. H. G. Sheldon is defending.
One of the Chinese witnesses who was wounded during the Tray, giving evidence said he did not see a knife, in the hand of the deceased, and he had bad ro quarrel with the prisoner, He did, however, see a knife in the prisoner's hand, but they had not been able to find it.
DANGEROUS 3OCIETY.
kitchen of the Canton-Hongkong Strike Committee.
On the evening of the fire, a meeting was held by the Striko Committee for the purpose of ar- ganising un investigation com mittee to ascertain the cause of the outbreak and also to discuss the question of securing new Head.
quarters.
LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.
PREMIER'S CHEEKFUL
SPEECH.
London, Nov. 9. With traditional ceremony and splendour the Lord Mayor" Banquet took place at the Guild hall and was attended by the de- legates to the Imperial Conference and the cream of English publle
fe
Responding to
LOOTERS BREAK-IN. -
·Gangs of looters (mostly bandits:- we understand, from Honan) did their dastardly work simultaneous- ly with the firing.
People having safely barricaded their doors, the villainous looking men, armed to the teeth, pulled down bricks aid mortar from the wall and crept in demanding · money at the point of the bayonet and threatening with death all whe did not satisfy their, demands, ins ficting wounds" even upon, poor, helpless women.
The. G. R. M. School was marvel. lously protected, for, being situated wall near a gateway where the most at the base of a portion of the city
exceedingly dangerous, but its low ferocious fighting took place, it was
level was its saviour... One of the big guns was placed at a point just above the compound,, so the vibra
Mr. Sheldon asked the witness what he meant when he said to the Police "Magistrate that he had
tion was tremendous each time a heard of the Yec Hing Tong, which
toast, Mr.hell was fred. However in Cod's was a gang at Singapore that cani: Stanley Baldwin referred to the mercy only one scholar was in-
for money with Imperial Conference and every month
said jurod, and that but slightly by a threats; otherwise he would be there had never been a conferener bullet. beaten. Witness admitted saying wherein a better or more harmon-
Soldiers
entered the Misses that, and, in reply question, said the Tong had branches in Singapore, and people living there were afraid of the
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a door,
to another lous spirit had been manifested Bergin and Dawson's home, forė-
and wherein there was n 71013 genuine desire to pave the waying an entrance by smashing open for further and more rapid pro and cupboards, scattering the con They broke open boxes gress in the future than they were tents all around, and taking away Tong,"
able to achieve hitherto. He what they required. The ladies, Mr. Sheldon:Would you a described the situation regarding with me if I say the Yee 1ling foreign affairs as essentially more fortunately, were away at the time. Tong is a violent and dangerous Patisfactory than at any tim Triad Society, and it has its head-ince the end of the war. Thes
CLM. HOUSE A WREÓK, quarters in Singaporò?-Yes.
was evidence on all sides in Europe
The CIM House was unfor- Did you say, in reply to of a clearer understanding that tunately, just outside the south Kemp, "the Yee Hing Tong is a Guild belonging to the deceased'eact and stability were only city gate in the direct line of fire, party; I don't belong to that Tong realisable by co-operation, and and is a complete wreek. The
a tax of $1 a but they collect month?"Yes, I said so
goodwill.
place was also looted after our The Premier emphasised that friends were forced to leave and the reconstruction of Europe had take refuge in their street chapel Then I asked you what more you been the keystone of yur foreign and later in the R. C. Hospital. could tell us about it, and you policy and he believed that British Nothing remained to them, but the anid it was a name given to statemanship, including the clothes they stood in, when they boarding house for coolies. Peo-Labour Government, had played returned to search a few days ple went there when they were
a not inconsiderabit part therein later..
out of a job, and stayed until they in the past three years. He was could find work. They also enable to speak more, hopefully of American Girls' Schoo! foreign Outside the Northgate', the there when they wore -Yes India than for many years past teachers' house also suffered bud- Well that was untrue, was and wished he was equally happy ly but they hope to be able to not? What I meant to say was about our relations further afield, repair and use that again.- that the members of the Yee Hing-Renter Tong told me I could go and star there when I was out of a job when they demanded money from
me.
MEMBERS CHEATED.
So that ninety out of every hun- dred, who have paid this tribule can go and stay there when they are out of a job? I believe the members of the Yee Hing Tang only told us that when they came for money. They might be cheat- ing us.
When they are a blackmailing
Yes.
Chinese altuation appears in an- [M. Baldwin's reference to the other column]
MURDER TRIAL THRILLS.
COURT LIKE SCIENTIFIC EXHIBITION.
New York, Nov. 9. The Court Room at Somerville in
Or Thursday early a.m. the ceased, but, alas, the reign of Southerners retreated, and fring
terror continued for all the poor people in our district, for the ban dits openly perpetrated their astardly work even in our main street, and neighbours came rush- ing in as armed men entered their dwellings threatening their lives' and carrying off their goods.
BEHEADED IN STREET. About 11a.m. a band of armed holding aloft the symbol of Life- men slowly advanced up the street
pang, obtaining money by threats, the Hall Mills murder trial, was and Death. The robbers were and also cheating their members?to-day transformed into a scientific terrified and sought to hide, but exhibition, firstly by enlarged reright at our doors, some were. You are a member of the Yee productions of finger prints, and caught with loot in their hands, Hing Tang? um, but I don't afterwards. when Dr. Schultz, one was summarily beheaded, demand money, from people. aided by wax models including a whilst others were bound and Was the deceased member of replica of Mrs. Mill's head, ex- taken away. This happened in the Tong- have heard him tell- plained in lecture room manner
many districts, even women being
ing me that he was a member. - how the various wounds were decapitated in the streets when
caused. A thrill ran through the found in the act of plundering. room when be asserted that, tho
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Was he a member like yourself, or did he help to obtain monoy by threats don't know.
larynx, tongue and upper part of Mr. Sheldon referred to a pre- the wind pipe were missing from and began to walk on the streets.
They knew, however, all too well INDO-CHINA OFFICIALS. A spvent and a man of letters,
vious statement of the witness in the corpse hen he performed an that the semblance of law execut which-ho-anid-he-did-not-belong autopsy. He was of opinion that one day could not be relied to the Tong, but he had to pay those organs had been cut out and money. The deceased was a mem- not torn out-Renter's American ber, as he told witness so in Singa- | Service.
pore gaol. Witness replied that
he only paid $1 per month and
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upon 'on the next.
Practically every shop and home had been broken into and looted, 20 there was no food.
Pitiful indeed was the cry to be did not demand money with lected money from people. Ile, as heard on every side: "we are threats. Other members, perhaps, serted that he only told the Magis-starving, starving to death," dia.
trate that the deceased was a After many efforts we managed member..
to secure some baga of rice, and Mr. Sheldon suggest that are now doling out to our poor you yourself are and have been folks who would otherwise be an active member of the Tong starving.. helping to collect money by threats?--I deny it
NEW LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR
whose connection with the French Colonial Service has been chiefly in the Department of Public In- |struction. "In Indo-China. Amongst OF COCHIN-CHINA.
other important posts of "an ad- ministrative character M. Blafi- Paris, Nov. 9.
chard de la Brosto hag héld' is M. Rivet the Governor of the that of Realdent Superieur in the French Settlements in Oceania, protectorate of Annam and Ton- has been charged with the adkin. In the Lieutenant-Governor- ministration of the territory of ship of Cochin-Ching, which is a Kwang Chou Wan, in replacement French Colony included for ad- of M. De la Erosse, who has been appointed Lieutenant Governor of
purposes in the Cochin China Reutor.
French Indo-China Union, M. de la Brosse, Is succeeding.M. Cognacq.
ministrative from
Mr. Sheldon asked whether wit ness meant by that that the de- ceased obtained money others, but he himself did not..
Witness replied that he did not know, as the deceased had never told him,
NOT ACTIVE MEMBER.
Witness could not say, whether the other Chinese, who was wound cd was a member of the Tong or
Whole districts outside the city: wall have been burut out; hun- reds must have perished in the flames. Ma
FM. Rivet was at one timo Re aident Superieur of Tonquin, in the French Protectorate of Indo-
It is understood that no change
All the shops have now been China. M. Blanchard de la Brossa in French Colonial policy in the closed for over five weeks, and a whom he succeeds in the adminis-
In reply to further questions not. witness denied that he told the|
The trial was adjourned until further atenek Magistrate that the deceased col- this afternoon.
fonrod.
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