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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1927.
SHANGHAI MILL
ATTACK
· INADEQUACY OF SENTENCES.
The Chinese Summer Diseases Hospital, conducted annually under the auspices
the
The following is the judgement. of
Chinese Red Cross Society and supported handed down by Judge Lang (Mi. by leading Chinese medical mon, Meluhardt, the Senior Consul'a his coramenced functioning none Deputy also on the bench) at the Court, on Friday too soon, judging by the returne Provisional for the past few days, comments morning, in the case where Chin- the Shanghai Timca. Cholera, exo assaulted, Detective Inspector chief of all summer discases in Prince while attending to his duty Shanghai, particularly in the na-u the mill in Wayside district on tive arens, has already commenced June 1.
to take toll of the population. On On June 1 a complaint was re- Sunday 16 cases were admitted to ceived at the Wayside Police the hospital, 25 of which originated Station that some trouble was in Chapel and other native dis-about to take place in the mill, and tricts.
the Det. Inspector accompanied by a Chinese detective visit- ed the place, where he was asked to wait for the manager who was in the factory and who, while waiting, was assaulted by a crowd
The wards of both the Thibet Rond Hospital and the Tientsin Road hospital, both recently open- ed for the summer season, are ra- pidly filling with patients, the majority of whom are suffering froni cholera.
sit the Inspector, and were charged at the Provisional Court- with assault.
mill hands. Det. Inspector Prince received a wound on the The Chinese doctors believe, head, his hand was bitten, etc. however, that there will not be a Three of the assailints were ar- serious epidemic this year, therested by the police who came to chief reason for this being due to the attention recently given to the Chapel water supply. This water supply, always a source of danger in the past owing to the impurities which are allowed to creep into the system, has lately been given strict hygienic attention und under ex- per supervision is not expected to be responsible for any of the distence, algo, I may add, not proven guilty under the charge ease which sprends this suminer.
"Forty days each ruled the Judge, and the sentence to be served concurrently, and. two days of detention to
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one day of the sen
Protest Lodged.
On the other hand, the good re-of larceny (this charge was pre- suits, of this protective measure accused who, it is alleged, had Terred against one of the three may be counteracted by the presencentolen Insector Prince's wallet con- of so large numbers of soldiers in Chapei, Nantao and other tairing a sum of over $200)." native districts. Experience has shown in the past that where Chinese soldiers congregate during A protest was lodged against warm weather, outbreaks of a seri- the sentence by the Deputy of the ons nature result and the authort- Senior Consul, which is as fel- ties are making plans to meet any lows: protest against the in- such outbreak among the Chinese adequacy of these sentences, as forces stationed in and around being unnecessarily and unrea- Shanghai as a preliminary step to,sonably reduced to practically warda preventing any plaguenone at all. In spite of the fact aprending towards the Settlement. that the accused were proven So far none of the cases receiv- guilty of serious crimes. Fur- ing the attention of the Chinese medicos at the Suramer Dieases Hospitals have proved of a dan- Kerans nature. Where any cases have proved serious it has been que solely to the delay on the part of the patients in applying for treatment.
SMUGGLER HEAVILY
FINED..
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CAUGHT BY JAVA CUSTOMS.
Batavia, June 28.
hun-
A fine of one million six dred thousand guilders has been
toms.
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thermore sitting jointly as a ro presentative of the Senior Consul and of the British Consul-General, I disagree with the sentences pr decisione as to the second and third charges, so that a retrial be- fore another Judge and another Consul „r representative will be necessary."
THROWN FROM WINDOW..
EXCITING AFFAIR IN
MANILA.
Ang Guan Tian, Chinese mer-
imposed on a Chinese merchant chant at 366 T. Pinpin was the vic- Who made an attempt to smuggitim of two cases of assault and cigar lighters, cigarette paper and battery on Friday last. He was small flintlocks. through the cus.badly beaten and mauled in the" It seems extremely doubtful morning by Ong Hock, Chinese, the eastonis' are ever going to be and thrown out of a second storey living at 619 Ylaya, San Nicolas, able to collect the amount, as the window in the evening. When last culprit saw his way clear to dis- appear before his arrest could be seen, he was on his way home from the Philippine General Hos- effected.
pital swathed in bunduges.
The matter is as follows:A
On Friday morning; the victim Chinese received at Priok 16 sa89 and his aggressor, Ong Hock, en- containing according to the bill of
gaged in an argument that became lading vaseline, handkerchiefs, heated. A fight followed in which harmoniums and, "onat njamuk.” Ang Guan Tian was on the receiv-' On inspection by the customsing end. He brought charges in It became evident however that municipal court, and at 8 pm... he only the top layer contained the
went to Ong Heck's home in com- said articles, but those underneath
ints and cigarette paper. Opatrolman.
pany with F. Perez, municipal court The latter carried a this there was Glds, 18,000 extra
wntrant for Ong. duty and in addition a fine had to be imposed of one million six hun- dred thousand guilders. *
The Chinese, who pretended to know nothing about the matter, took advantage of the confusion which usually reigns in a custom house shed, and disappeared.
On lives on the second floor of a house at 619 Ylaya and the pa trolmen and Ang Guan Tian, after climbing à flight of stairs, were greeted by a group of belligerent! Chinese who barricaded the place.
fierce fight followed. Knives flashed and a ivooden club or two It has become evident that he played an important part in the went by a false name,
and his male.
The affair wound up with. whereabouts are yet unknown. It the Chinese on guard throwing Ang is believed that he has been able Guan, Tian out of a second storey to make his way to Singapore.
window. The patrolman managed Anyhow, it seems highly im to arrest four of the assallants but probable that the customs will the man for whom he had a war- ever get their million and a halfraht disappeared. guilders."
ROSS DIVORCE SUIT.
Sio Go, one of the assailants was wounded and taken to the Philip pine General Hospital. His wounds were slight and he was taken to the Meisie police station after treatment. Ang Guan Tian, the victim, was also taken to the hos pital but his condition is.net con- Lord Morison, in the Court ofsidered serious. He was sent home Session, Edinburgh, refused a Faustino Ong, Mariano Son Cruz divorce in the action, brought by and Ki Wan were the three other Lady Patricia Ellison or Roos, of
The last is 33, Warwick-square, London,
PETITION DISMISSED.
after treatment.
dasailants arrosted.
A woman. All were placed under
against Sir Charles Henry August Pesos 100 bonds.
us Frederick Lockhart Ross of
Bainagown, Ross-shire, and Mrs. Emily Hoffman or Dalziel, residing
It is reported from Zagrob, the
in New York, the co-respondent.
Lord Morison said that the case enpital of Croatia, that experi- for the petitioner was that adul-ments have been made at the In- tery took place during a hunting stitute of the Deaf and Blind there expedition in Africa Mrs, Dalziel in getting the inmates to listen to was apparently a lady of courage broadensting-even such as suffer and determination, and had been from diseases of the car and are happily married for twenty years. perfectly deaf. The results were Sir Charlca Rosu denied all the in- amazing, most of them being able eidents of falleged improprieties, to hear the music and the sound. and his account of camp life at of the voice, while only four re- Ngora was supported by his man-mained as deaf as usual. There survant
were boys and girls amongst them
His Lordship held that the evid- who had never been ablo to hear
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