THE SHOOTING OF A POLICEMAN.
A HOUSE TENANCY
PROBLEM.
CHINESE SENTENCED AT SINGAPORE.
PLUCKY JAVANESE.
A
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY,
CHINESE "RAID" ON POST OFFICE.
SOOCHOW, TROUBLE
KOWLOON BOARDING HOUSE ALLEGED DESIGN TO TAKE
EXTENSION,
ALLEGED POLICE RAID.
The tenaney of a house at No. The aixth Assizes opened at Singapore last week, before Mr. 42. Nathan Road. Kowloon, which Justice Denno In the Supreme was stated to have been raided Court, when Chew Keh Chwee was while unoccupied and broken open charged with attenfpting to mur by the police in order to recover der Police Constable No. 745 by stolen property which had been firing at him with a pistol on Sep-hidden there, was the subject of a tember 26, In the neighbourhood claim in the Summary Court this of Jalan Besar and Victoria morning, before the Buisne Judge, Street.
Mr. J. R. Wood... Detective No. 51 said that about
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8 September 20 he was
The plaintiff Was Lau
CONTROL.
NANKING APPOINTMENT.
* GROWS.
COMMUNISTS BEHIND THE
MOVEMENT.
where
MERCHANTS COMPLAIN. Peking, Oct. 27. Communist Inspiration Is stated The Peting and Tientsin Times to be the source of the unusual
editorial entitled, "Postal disturbances at Soochow in an Disintegration points out the im-strikers from the silk filatures possibility of Mr. H. Picard-Des- have defied the police for days, of according to the Chinese news telan, Co-Director-General Posts, functioning as a servant papers. of rival Governments,
NOVEMBER'. 1927.
HALLOWE'EN NIGHT ÁT HEADQUARTERS.
SCOTTISH COMPANY MAKE MERRY.
A SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION.
The annual celebration of Hal- lowe'en by members of the Scottish Company of the Hongkong Volun- teer Defence Corps is now looked
great events in the year, arid so upon as one of the Company's last night's function, which took place at Volunteer Headquarters, proved to be. Although some past celebrations set a high mark in the matter of success, it is only true to any that no Hallowe'en night has been more of a success than was
Further reports from the city on Thursday stated that in addition to capturing the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and the head of the Peace Maintenance Corps, the strikers, also raided a lust night.
The paner says that probably other factions, such as Shanai, Yick-Yunnan, and Szechuan, will follow chouk, Bank of Canton Building, the example of the Nationalist walking near Kallang Road when third floor, Des Voeux Road' Cen-Government with consequent dis-meeting called by the chairman of It was a typically Scottish gath
tral, and he claimed $360, being integration of the postal service three months' rent from April 1 throughout China.
to June 30 this year in respect
of No. 42, Nathan Road, from Mrs.
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songs,
rollicking with their choruses. The proceedings last
tion. night were of the happiest descrip-
About 130 members of the Com- pany and their friends, including officers of the Secta Guards and the King's Own Scottish Border- era, sat down to dinner, being pined in to the tune of "Brose an Butter" by Pipers Brown and
walking near histic being blown.
the Chamber. Newspaper reportering. There were the kilts and He went in the direction of the
state that the chairman invited all the pipes, the Haggis and the Round and saw three men running
At present all postage stamps the silk filature owners who fled Harley Bree and, of course, some away, being pursued by a erowd Ile. joined in the chase, as did M. J. Rowe, the proprietress of are printed by the Bureau of En-to return and attend a meeting to of the old and popular Scottish
While the meeting was in pro P.C. 745. Turning a corner, they Nathan House. 46 and 48, Nathan graving at Peking, the paper con- settle the strike. lost sight of two of the men but Road, Kowloon. Mr. F. G. Vauxtinues, and though the stamps are
that millions of dollars worth of strikers raided the building and kept the accused in view all the was for the plaintiff and Mr. J. M. of no intrinsic value it is obvious gress, a band of several hundred time, Ile turned into a field, and'Almada Remedios defended.
"Mr. Vaux explained that the rent stamps, cannot be distributed in-seized the leaders, whom they not bound with ropes and dragged they followed him, and the ac
through the cused, turned round and fired. was $120 per month, making discriminately to post offices
streets of Spochow. The chair- The witness drew his revolver and total of $360 for the three months recognizing the authority of the themexultantly returned the fire, hitting, the ne-claimed from April when the Directorate-General of Posts.
The P&T. Times raises the man of the Chamber was, not re- cused in the thigh. The accused tenancy commenced.
The arrangements for this tea-question of responsibility for for leased until he had signed a bond ran into a house, and when the two police followed him, they were ney, he said, were made on or ein mails and money orders, promising to pay to the strikers Recent dramatic developments assaulted, by the occupants, and about March 20, and the terms, as "Money-orders to the value of a large sum of money.
that Mrs. $100,000,000," were the accused got away again. The witness and the constable shouted owe should undertake to white-issued in 1925. After the pur- have severed all peace relations to the passers-by to atop the ac-wash the place and also do repairs, chase of each order the Post Office and merchants are demanding the becomes the custodian of the strictest of measures being adopt cused and two Javanese followed except structural repairs.
funds until they reach the ed in order to bring the culprits him into another house and ar-
mittee. As this constitutes the to justice. More police are being rested him.
hole means of remitting money drafted into the city, and as Com between many parts of China the munist agents are reported to be
then arranged
Keys Handed Over,
The keys were handed to the
it says,
"were
re-
Nesbit.
A Solema Moment
A very sclemn and impressive occurred right at the moment commencement of the proceedings, when Captain K. S. Morrison, who commands the Scottish Company, asked all present to stand in si- Captain Donald Logan, his pre- decesser.
tenant on or about March 20, the suffering and inconvenience will behind the disturbances, a demandlence nwhile in memory of the late
The
Bullet Overhead.
P.C. 745
corroborative Premises then being vacant. gave evidence, and said that when the keys were handed over before the decused turned to fire, be dropped commencement of the tenaney in on his stomach, and heard the bul-order to allow the tenant to do
the nonstay whitewashing, let pass above him.
that the premises could be entered into on April 1.'
open.
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be incalculable if the money-order system is disrupted,"
A First Step.
has been made that they be round- ed up.
Chinese newspaper reports state that at Wusih, the Industrial tity not far from Souchow, the Chinese police have arrested seven Chinese on suspicion of being Communists aiming to start trouble in that city. The men have been handed
Peking, Det. 27. 11 has been reported here that the Nanking Government, in order to eat of all the administrative connections of Post Offices which are in the provinces under the in-over to the proper authorities for fuence of that government, has trial, |issued an' ordinance appointing
Co-Director-General of Chinese
A Javanese named Kemat said he saw the accused chased by the It was then agreed verbally has constable, and the detective, who the rent, for Apri: should be paid khouted to him to stop the accused, on the 15th of that month... The accused ran into a house and In reply to His Lordship, Mr. the witness had to kick the door Vaux said he was taking it that
Inside he found the accus- the handing over of the key was Mr. B. Picard-Destelan, present man, were found documents show- According to reports, on one
ed. and, seeing he
armed, sufficient proof of the entry of the WAN Struggled with him, and with the defendant." However, although Post Office (Peking appointment), ing that the plan of the seven was help of Che bin Sapan arrested any applications had been made in be Director-General of the Gen Lo find out all sorts of military in formation particularly the number him, and brought him back to the reus had been paid,
His Lordship: Has the defeneral Post Office Nanking,
of rifles possessed by the peace police.
dant in fact occupied these pre-
Maintenance Corps, and the pos- mises don't know whether the
sibilities of seizing these arms in defendant has actually occupied
case of the signal being given for then fully, but the plaintiff will
a general uprising of labour say that the defendant employed a
agents. Contractor and that he saw that the house was being whitewasheil,
Che bin Sapon, a Javanese drummer in a dance band, gave corroborative evidence.
The Accused's Version. The accused, giving evidence on nath, aäid he was walking along the road when three men, pursued by a erowd, overtuok him passed him.
and
"
This act of the Nanking Govern- ment seems to be intended to be the first step to taking the postal revenue for the use of the Nanking Government, but the result will be detrimental to the postal money order system, postal savings bank, and general postal administration.
The attitude of the Department
What happened during April.
As for Mr. Destelan, he said May and June-1 understand that the defendant has never into have the intention to reject the Later the crowd fart sell these premises. The appointment. came towards him, from the oppo-only thing that the plaintiff will site direction and chased him. go into the box and attempt of Communications, here, and fu The police chased him into a house prove in that the keys were hand-ture progress of this affair
and that whitewashing being watched by the general pub- was done at the instance of the lie with interest.
are
INDIAN RAILWAY WORKERS.
THREATEN A BIG STRIKE,
Kharaghpur, Oct. 31.
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The
After grace by the Rev. J. Kirk sut Maconachie,. the company down to an appetising, and sub- stantial spread, provided by the Hongkong Hotel Company. appearance of the Haggis, borne aloft by Acting Company Quarter Master Sergeant Blackley, and the Wylie following Piper Brown Barley Brae, carried by Mr. B. rendering "Hail to the Chief," was enthusiasm. the occasion for an outburst "of
The after-dinner speeches were brief and to the point, and there followed a most enjoyable.musical programme in which the gather- ing joined in the choruses of some well-known Scottish songs with great gusto.
Capt. Morrison proved himself to be a very capable Chairman. Amongst those supporting him at the top table were Mr. D. Temple- ton (the President of St. Andrew's Society), Lieut.-Colonel L. G. Bird; D.S.O., the Commandant of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps, Major Ogilvie, of the King's Own Scottish Borderers,, Mr. R. Sutherland, Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar, Mr. K. E. Greig, Mr. G. M. Shaw, and shot him. He had not fredet avgr
Lieut. R. L. Moncrieff, Capt. H. B. at the police.
Later. A special session of the All-L. Dowbiggin (commanding the The jury returned a unanimous Mr. Vaux contínued that, the As regards the reported Nan-India Railwaymen's Federation, Mounted Section of the Volun verdict of guilty, and the accused tenancy was terminated by taking Government's appointment which has been considering the teers), Mr. W. Logan, Rev. J. was sentenced, to seven years' im-landlord by a notice to it on of Mr. H. Picard-Destefan to be situation created by the retrench Kirk Maconachie, Major Wolfe- May 8, terminating the tenaney Director-General of Pasts under ment scheme of the Bengal Murray Adjutant of the Hong Government, the Nagpur Railway, under which 300 kong Volunteer Defence Corps). at the end of June. After that the Nanking The Deputy Public Paventor the plaintif had to bures into the spokesman of the Department of employees were discharged con-Mr. A. K. Henderson. Mr. would like to draw his Lordship's the hogs. As far as they how the Department is of course workshops, and also the comtem-number of others, including off- (Mr. H. P. Whitley) said he place as the defendant still had Communications to-day said that sequent upon the closing of the "Stevenson, Mr. B. Wylie and attention to the behaviour of the the keys were still in her boises.against, such an appointment and.picil. retrenchment of other rail.cers of the Guards and Borderere.
prisonment.
two Javanese in the case. Sec- tion 412 of the Criminal Prace- dure Code stated that the Court, when it appeared to them that any private person had shown unusual courage, diligence or exertion in the apprehension of any person
committed proved to have
fun
offence, might order the payment to such person of any sum not ex- ceeding $100.
detondant.
sinn.
Whitewashing, done.
A.
A Successful Senson, · as the first measure, the Depart ways in India, passed a reanlution ment has notified the Nanking urging the Bengal-Nagpur Railway
"The King" "having been loyally Government, through Mr. Des-Union to consider the possibility honoured, Capt. Morrison toasted tela, of the invalidity of such an of a strike, and if it fails to bring the Visitors. He expressed the appointment.
about a satisfactory settlement pleasure the Scottish Company within a week, the general council felt in being honoured with the should declare a general strike of presence of officers of the Guards the railways in India within a
and the Borderers, and' regretted fortnight, with a view to averting that the Cameronians were not re- proposed retrenchment predented owing to their having left the Colony. It would have been a unique occasion in the history of the Scottish Company to have entertained representa- tives, of three Scottish battalions at their Hallowe'en dinner.
The plaintiff gave evidence in
I is apparent that this act by port of 'Mr. Vaux's opening re-
He said the defendant, the Nanking Government is solely marks.
him due to their desire to appropriate with a "boy," interviewed
all the postal revenues in the pro- vinees which are under their in-the fluence, but the result, if so done. will merely, lead the postal system into destruction, said the spokes- man..
with regard to the letting of the house, the "boy" acting as inter preter. The whitewashing was done three days after the keys His Lordship recalled the two | were handed over. Javanese, complimented them, and In reply to Mr. Remedios plain- informed them that they would be tiff denied that the defendant awarded $40 each.
negotiated with his wife, Mrs. Lau.
MR. COOLIDGE IS FAVOURED.
REPUBLICANS DESIRE
RE-NOMINATION,
Therefore, the spokesman con- cluded, the Department of Com- munications, Peking Government. Mr. Remedios I put it, to you will never approved such an ap- that you did not see Mrs. Rowe orpointment.-Toko the "boy" at all-1f she tells a lie she will say "No," but I ac- tually spoke to her boy.
I put it to you that sometime in April, the boy," to whom you have referred, called several times to see Mrs. Las before they came to a final arrangement, and that New York, Oct. 31.
the rent was to be from May 17-- According to the New Yuris World, after a canvass of members It is true that her "boy" came to the Republican National Committee, see my wife sometime after April the governing body of the Repub It was to talk about the rent lican party, it is disclosed that on April 15, strong sentiment favours the re- nomination of Mr. Coolidge, for a third term of the Presidency Reuter's American Service.
THE SOUTH AFRICAN
SETTLEMENT.
THE FOOLISHNESS OF CHICAGO'S MAYOR.
+
ANTI-BRITISHI MOVEMENT
RIDICULED.
Reuter
EFFECT OF ATHENS OUTRAGE.
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GREECE TO FIGHT COMMUNISM.
Capt. Morrison said they had had a most successful season in every respect. The sports last Saturday were thoroughly enjoyed by everybody and he tock the op- portunity of thanking Company Athene, Oct. 31.
Sergt. Major Purves and all these After the attempt by Gousaios, associated with him for the hard who is a Communist, on the life work they had put in, which sub- cf President Condourlotis, the stantially contributed towards the Government is determined to fight great success of the meeting. He with all its forces against Com- also thanked Messrs. B. Wylie McCubbin for their manism, so as to ensure the secur- and J.
Reuter.
The toast of the Visitors WAS then submitted, and was received with musical honours.
ity of ne State against subver-valuable services. The Chairman New York, Oct. 31.
expressed regret that Lieut.- The reception of "Big Bill"sive elements.
Colonel Comyn, commanding the "America first" Thompson's
It is understood that the Gov. King's Own Scottish Borderers, I put it to you, that after the foundation, has been hardly ernment is asking to be supplied was unable to be with them owing negotiations with the "boy," your enthusiastic.
with the text of the American law, to another engagement, but glad wife agreed that the rent should Speaking at Chattanooga, Dr. which has been operating for some to say they had a worthy substitute he $110 per month?-No.
John Neal, the principal counsel time, and thanks to the applica-in Major Ogilvie. He desired to It was agreed that the roof, for the defence in the famous tion of which, Communism is said thank the Borderers for all they doors, and windows were to be "monkey" trial at Dayton, said. repaired by your, wife? When that if the Tennessee legislatora to be practically non-existent in had so willingly done in helping- they came on the 15th. to examine and the organisation of the Mayor the United States at present the Scottish Company. the house' it" was in good repair of Chicago were to amalgamate, and perfectly clean, and I said I they would attract to their banner
all the forces of ignorance and is would not do any impaira""
Cases of pricldy heat have been
The Successful Platoons. In reply to other questions bigotry in the country."
and. À MESSAGE FROM THE KING. plaintiff denied that the tenancy
The poet and author, Mr. known to appear. annually
Mr. D. Templeton was called up- was to commence from May 1, ir Vachell Lindsay, declared that Mr. should be placed in the category of London. Oct. 31. that such an arrangement ·
was William Thompson does not talk a mycotic dermatitis. A fungus on to present trophies to repreben- but talks "a with branching mycelium and tatives of the successful platoons. In the South African Union Par-made between Mrs. Lau and the "United States," Hament, this afternoon, a mesa ge defendant's "boy."
utter jargon of the steerage pas-yeast-like budding form has been These were:
Quarry Bay Cup (presented by from the King was read, expressing Plaintiff said that when he tele.senger."-Renter's American Ser- found in the epidermal scales of
affected persons. When it is Mr. G. M. Young. for general heartfelt satisfaction at the settle phoned for the rent on April 15vice.
The above refers to threats by inoculated on human skin it gives platoon efficiency, including atten ment of the flag controversy, and he told the "boy" that they pr›- trusting that the spirit of concllla-mised to pay it on the 16th, and Mayor Thompson, of Chicago, to rise to a lesion which is compar dances on parade, guard mounting, tion and goot-will" might continue asked why they had not done so burn all pro-British books, as well able to the disease in an aggravated to animate all parties, and unitete did not agree that the "boy" as other activities in his cam-form. It is believed that the fire drill, steadiness, on parade
them for the common weal- British Wirclcas.
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