APBIL 19, 1927
TUESDAY. THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY. HOSPITAL CLOSED. ST. ANDREW'S SCOUTS
WOMEN THREATENED WITH TYPICAL STORY FROM
REVOLVER,
The story of how three- Chinese gained admittance to a house in Bridges Street in which were three women, and how at the point of the revolver they stole bangles and rings, was told at the Supreme Court this morning, when the Criminal Sessions commenced be fore Mr. J. R. Wood, acting Chlef Justice.
HANGCHOW.
OPEN APPROPRIATION.
The following article by Dr. H. Gordon Thompson, the Medical the CMLS. Superintendent, of Hospital at Hängchow, is taken from the N. C. Daily News:-
It will be recalled that this large Institution belonging to the Church Missionary Society Was
erected almost entirely through the efforts of Dr. D. Duncan Main, who spent 15 years in Hangchow, and who left in November Inst to
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ENJOYABLE ITEMS ON
EASTER MONDAY,
St. Andrew's Troop of Boy Scouts gave their annual displaż at the Church Hall last evening. There was a good audience who risked the chance of rain, and they were well repaid, for the Troop gave an excellent display of their scouting work and play.
The first half of the programmė was given outside in the gally- illuminated church grounds, and included a very pleasing show by the cubs, who showed various for mations and ended by signalling in Morse the cub molly,
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from tive of the women oc-njoy a well earned retirement in Scouts looked very well when they CAPONS & CHICKENS.
Two Chinese were charged that on March 12, together with an- other man, unknown, they commit. ted a robbery at 21 Bridges Street firat floor, and stole barglos and ringa cupants. Mr. H. K. Holmes pro- Scotland.
Both secuted for the Crown. prisoners denied the charge.
In outlining the circumstances,
The palies which I adopted soon Mr. Holmes said. the affair occur
of an hour after taking charge, was to have red about a quarter After midday. The husband left a governing body, half Chinese the hause at midday to buy medie-and half European, so that our cine for his wife who was sick, Chinese colleagues could have a and about ten minutes after he larger share in the administration of the Hospital and Medical had left the three women who re- mained in the house heard a knock School, " at the door.
"
Revolver Threat.
The daughter asked who was there, and a man replied he had been sent to see someone who was sick. The daughter then opened the door, and the first prisoner entered, holding a revolver, with which he first threatened the He was followed by daughter. two other men, who dragged the women into a cubicie and proceed ed to rob them of bangles and rings. The sick woman was not wearing any jewellery, and noth ing was taken from her. The robbers left after about ten minutes, and à report was made La the polier.
Mr. Holmes emphasised that the case for the Crown rested largely on identification.
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formed their pyramids and were Twenty-five At the end of November 1 lolly applauded.
time taken to arrived to take over from Dr. Main minutes was the
erret a very substantial observa- as Medical Superintendent.
ilon post, all complete with rope It towered to A ladder, etc. height of about 20 feet, and the ease with which the boys did their work denoted skill which is to be commended,
About the beginning of February, the Southern Army began to threaten Hangehow and during the following three weeks, acting on Consular advice, the as the foreigners withdrew Southerners approached and the Chinese members of the governing body assumed, more and more responsibility.
During the interval a move was made into the Church Hall and the Mannequins paraded before the audience, who were delighted to see such a well-dressed set of benuties. There were Miss Sum- iner (H. Brown), Miss Winter (T.. Ingram). Misa Kowloon (D. Davidson). Miss Hongkong (R. Woolley) and the Cross-word Bog with his bleyele (W. Chan). The fairer sex must be all agog about the new styles shown to such ad- vantage.
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On Sunday, February 20, three days after the Nationalist army
Next came a screaming farce entered Hangchow, I asked the senior Chinese Doctor to act as which convulsed the audience, for Medical Superintendent during my Dr. Cutemup was nothing if not absence, and on February 25 thoroughly in his work on the pa- ceeded by way of Ningpo to Shang-tient who had his arm, leg, ribs, hai reporting to H.S.M. Consul,
moved with great skill. All were the arrangements which I had lungs, heart, intestines, etc., re- made.
The day after I left delugates thoroughly restored to health and Frem a "Union to take back the replaced somehow or other in a Kwang Tsi Heapital" entered the way which was most surprising, compound, put up notiees, and an- and the only reason why nobody nounced their determination on the crowd fainted was because shadows on the pot the Hospital inder Chinese they only saw control.
screen.
Dealing with the arrests, Mr. Ilones said the first prisoner was
The cling was very good, and the Kinshan arrested on board
the success of this novelty was Mob Violence Displayed. from information received: When
due to the boys who took their (G. 80 well.-Patient. The members of our staff statyarts he was being taken to the Police Station he pulled out three $10 bills from his pocket and threw at this was already the case, White), Dr. Cutemup (J. Lyon). them away, but the constable who for the management of the H08- Attendant (It Tobin), Assistants effected the arrest recovered the pital had been left in the hands (9. MacNider and C. Spradberry), Friend (F. Wong), He commented that the of the Chinese members of the Patient's
Gaverning Body. The following Noises (R. Woolley). jury might attach some importance morning. February 25, at 936 A Camp Fire Seene came next. to that or they might not.
Jo'clock a mob composed of numerand it was
notes.
announced that the
The second prisoner was arus different unions, such as the scene showing a number of tents Unlon, anti-Christian pitched in a very pretty meadow rested at the Tang Yan Club, 8, Students' Queen's Road Central, second Untun. Werkers' Union, etc., and was painted by one of the Scouts floor. Mr. Halmes commented it instigated by the "Union to take (D. Davidson), and it was a fine was a strange circumstance that back Kwang Tsi Hospital" rushed piece of work. The realistic fire the Hospital compound: and rollicking songs were enjoyed at the identification parades, the into two prisoners, who were picked they were armed with batons and by listeners and singers too, and oui, both came from the same club. carried banners. They tied up the fact of Old John Brown hay- one of the doctors of the Hospital ing a "Ford" on his farm was Prisoners' Denials.
Governing Body, ill-treated one, of made known by a fearful clatter at the Police the other members, and one of the of tins. charged When
The Scoutmaster. Mr. T. E. Station both prisoners denied that medical students, and. after put-
Bng a guard at the various exits Jackson, has every reason to be they took part in the robbery.
so that there was no communica-proud of the boys of his Troop. Giving evidence, the daughter
tion with outside, sealed up of the house positively identified various rooms and compelled the the first prisoner, but said she Patire staff to attend a mass meer could not recognise the
ing in the Hospital Chapel.
At last communication Ansther woman identified both conveyed to one of the new official men, stating that the second manho sent a delegate to address the took bangles from her wrist and meeting. He ordered the men a ring from her finger.
be She also who were fastened up to added she recognised no. heliberated. after telling the crowd cause of a mark on his upper lip.that while he agreed that the The mark was examined by the Hospital, must be taken over by the Chinese, it should be done The Chinese constable who ar-through the Government and not rested no. 1. also gave evidence by mob violence. and asserted the prisoner threw away $20 on the way to the Police Station which he, (witness), rez covered,
court.
second
The prisoner denied that he threw away any money away.
The case is proceeding.
TRIED TO ESCAPE.
WHY HE STOLE MASTER'S GOLD.
WAS
Missionary Society, and was tokl that the ownership of the pro- perty would be decided later on.
Intimidation.
the
to requested an answer British Consul's letter, and this was No reply. promised for March 29. however, came to hand, and I there- fore returned to Shanghai. Up to date no answer has been received. Since my return I have learned that several of the Chinese staff have been intimated and obliged
Sun
Official Orders Disregarded. to give up their work by various As soon as he had left, the cap-Unions, sd that now there is only tives, liberated by his order, were one of the original staff of Chinese A Committee of six again seized and tied up. They doctors left. were later on released when the has been appointed by the Nationa- mob dispersed, and a guard of list Government to manage the Hós- police placed at the main entrance pital affairs and they have definite-
ly assumed control from April 1. gate.
News of what had happened All religious services in the Hos- reached
on pital Chapel have been stopped by in Shanghai mc Wednesday, March 2, and I left order of the body in control. The the ten commandments and the creed at once for Ningpo to see British Consul. He took the mat have been removed from the Chapel, Yat-sen ser up and wrote requesting the and portrait of
officials to assist by placed over the Communion table.
The name of the Hospital has blosing and sealing the Hospital, was A Chinese youth, who charged with stealing seven pieces after making an inventory. At been changed from "The Chinese of gold odds and ends from his the same time I sent sufficient Church Universal Charity Hos- master's shop, told a story of money to the Hospital treasurer to pital" to "The Chekiang Provincial treatment at the hands of his pay off the entire staff, and close Government Direct Control Uni
Later news time through versal Charity Hospital." master. He stated that he was an down. apprentice, in the shop and was by letters and messengers show- very harshly treated. He there-ing that the Chinese staff fore tried to escape but, having no unable to carry out my instrue- money, he found it very diffecit.
It occurred to him that if he could steal a few little oddments
Chinese
were
In brief the Hospital together with the Branch Hospitals, resi- was established by the Church dences and Medical School which On March 16 I decided to visit Missionary Society has been appro- ment. The buildings are being Hangchow personally. I travelled Briated by the Nationalist Govern-
ilons to close.
ment.
persons.
of gold from the shop and pawn via Ningpo and arrived at Hang-tilized, and the equipment much of them he may be able to raise chow on March 20, bearing a letter which has already disappeared, is enough money for a passage back from the British Consul to the being handled by inexperienced The valuable stock of to his native village. He tried it Hangshow Administration Com- and hence his appearance before mittee of the Southern Govern-drugs is being used up, and all this the Magistrate.
without any sanction from those I found on arrival that some of the property had been scaled wirile who are the trustees of the pro- part of the main Hospital and There is one bright spot in this the branch Hospitals were being dark picture, and that is the loyalty kept open, und the men whom we of so many of our Chinesó staff. had left in charge were being comWhile we are now declining to take pelled to carry on.
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Major C. Willson imposed a ser- tence" of one month's hard labour.
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