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SIX AMERICANS ASSAULTED
AT NANKING.
ALLEGED INTIMIDATION OF PARENTS REQUEST HOLDING
CHINESE WORKMEN.
OE AN INQUIRY.
The case in which a contractor)
An Inquiry was held by Mr. W. Nanking, Aug, 13. About 400 people crowded into is stated to have been forced to Schofield at the Kowloon Magia- the city (Nanking) to-day in engage armed police guards to tracy yesterday afternoon Into the prevent interference with the circumstances of the death of a position to the licerenso of the
Six Americans who work of building houses was again young Chinese woman described as Salt Tax. were out to photograph the scene before Mr. Justice Jacks, in the the wife of Sergeant Hayward of incurred the displeasure of the Summary Court yesterday after the Hongkong Police. The de-
wordy wrangle crowd and had a with them. Soon they were suron, when further evidence was ceased is said to have jumped from rounded by a mob and beaten, and given. three of them were seriously in- jured.
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the roof of No..17, Waterloo Road. A claim for $801,30 is made by The jury was composed of Teang Shing, trading as Tuang Shing Kee, 14 Fook Sau Lane, Messrs. E. Cock (foreman), R. J. against the Wing On Lung, 29 Carter and Chang Sam cheong. D'Aguilar Street, as being the balance due for work done in res pect of six houses on Inland Lot No. 094. Mr. A. el Arculli in for the plaintiff while the case for the defence is in the hands of Mr. M. K. Lo.
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FOR THAT
OLD Another message says: Police Magistrate, Gold Coast;
Refusing to have their pictures
The Coroner called the girl's
MAN TRY PURVETTES" Captain R. Nixon, Medical Officer,
Are you a wet blanket"? Is Tanganyika, to be Senjor Sanita- taken the Anhui demonstratore tion Officer, Tanganyika; Mr. H. H. slightly wounded six of the Upton
parents Into Court and addressing B. Follit, Medical Officer, Nyasa-Close party, a group of American
them said: This inquiry is being land, to be Senior Sanitation Om-touring students to-day near the
held at your request. Will you your liver torpid? Are you f kindly inform me and the jury of tempered, gloomy, billous, dull, the particular points you wish me depressed?. If so your need is cer, Tanganyika; Lidut.-Comman- Drum tower here.
Pinkettes, the dainty little laxative " Anhui Guild Procession.
to inquire into? Idor F. C. Greenwood, R.N.R., A6-
Court Interpreter: She (the regulators. Just a couple tonleht, sistant Port Captain, Kenya and
Representativas of the local An-
The dispute has arisen over cer- Uganda Railways and Harbours, to be Harbour Master, Perak, huf Guild were going to the Cen-
The Upton contracted to the plaintiff by the at Tant Koo's place. She is the fool over so much better, brighter
more companionable Foderator Malay States. Mr J.tral Executive building to present tain masonry work which was sub-mother) says that deceased died and you'll enjoy your break.ast,
certain demands. W. Wakeford, Postmaster, Tan- Close party mot them on their way, defendant, it being alleged by the go-between who introduced ganyika Territory, to be Assistant and some of the students attempt latter that the former stopped girl to Sergeant Hayward. It was morrow morning. Of chemists Postmaster-General, Trinidad; Mr. ed to take anapshots of the do-work, refused to finish it, and in- she who said to the deceased that everywhere..
was found out that the girl had a E A. Boyce, Assistant Engineer; monstrators. The tourists' motors timidated other workmen who were Hayward would lose his job if he Public Works Department, Uganda, were attacked and some of the brought, in to complete the job.
Mr. W. Hall, of Messrs. Hall and child. It was Taat Koo who to be Deputy Director of Public panes in the party's care
Hall, architects, said that he was said that deceased should take Works, Bahamas; and Mr. F. B. smashed.
the architect for the building medicine and cause an abortion. Sharp, M.B.E., Inspector of Police,
and separated the units per owner of six houses in question. It was to Lies. The American students were He-produced plans and specifica- said that deceased should take her escorted by the police to the rail- tions and said that the contract own life if ever she had a quarrel way station. Finding that the train for Shanghai had already dework for completing the houses with Hayward. She had told de- lowance in the event of anavold- American party to the private re- there being provision for due al Jump into the harbour. NEW YORK INTRIGUED.parted the police conducted the was limited with regard to time, ceased to take a motorboat de
sidence of Dr. C. T. Wang, on
was a penalty of $20 which could FAMOUS VIOLÍNIST MARRIES orders from the Nationalist Minisable delays, Witness said there
ter for Foreign Affairs.
The Americans were warmly .rebe Imposed on the contractor for ceived by Dr. Wang who apologize every day on which the work was ed to the wounded. Dr. Wang pro- not completed after allowance had at length about her daughter,
Look hore, this is all evidence. PLAYING AND These are not points you wish mised to instruct the garrison for- been, made. Altogether the con-leading the Coroner to remark: FOR PLEASURE cea to stop such occurrences in the tractor was fined $1,000.
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Policemen rushed to the scene
The Upton Close party was given special train in the evening for
Shanghai.
Six members of the Upton Close students party were injured in a clash with an Anhui delegation on Monday morning, according to telegraphic advices from Nanking, said the N.-C. Standard on August 15.
Witness continued that on about In conséquence of what he had March 8 or 9 he visited the site, been told by the contractor, when he found no masonry wark going on. He again went there on or about March 16-17 and found the same condition of things. There was then masonry work that had not been completed.
Witness was. then shown a bill The Anhui delegates were pro- ceeding to the conference hall of tendered by another sub-contractor the fifth plenary sesion of the for completing the masonry work Kuomintang for the purpose of and he said that with the exception potitioning the conference to re of the roof, the charges were rea- move General Chen Tiao-yuan, sonable. He could not speak with The American students, who were regard to the roof as he did not apparently on their way to the know the area. The bill totalled railway station. at Iislakuan, en $830 and it was not true that the countered the Chinese delegates at work could have been finished for the Drum Tower, Out of curiosity an expenditure of about $7, as al- several members of the party pro-leged by the plaintiff. Witness dured their cameras and began to "ahoot" the Chinese, especially as many of them carried bannera full of anti-Chen Tiao-yuan inscrip-
tions.
This roused the wrath of the Chinese, who tried to prevent the Americans from taking pictures. The visitors demurred, and as a result a fracas ensued. Members of the bureau of public peace promptly arrived on the scene and succeeded in restoring order.
Injuries Not Serious,
The Coroner: That is the only
Mother: Yes,
point you want elucidated then?
The
MORRISON PIANO.
The mother then began to talk¦ STANDS ALONE
The Mother: Decensed would not have died if she had not been sent to Tsat Koo's place to re- cover the gold ornament. It was
this ornament..
ayward who sent her to recover
The Coroner: It was at this place that she was induced to com- mit suicide? Is that 807
Mother: Yes.
Dr. Dovey was then called and he stated that the cause of death was multiple fractures, of the skull and laceration of the brain,"
The deceased's mother when asked if she desired to put any questions to the doctor, said that she did not know if there had been was sure that the whole of the a conspiracy against her daughter work specified was not done from or if she had voluntarily com March 8-9 to April 23, when armed mitted suicide. guards were on the site.
Defendant's Story.
The mother herself was next called and she anid that her daughter was married to Hayward in November last year.
The defendant gave evidence of having sub-contracted the masonry
The deceased had gone to Tsat work to the defendant, saying that Koo's a few days prior to the the latter came to his office and marriage and the latter had acted asked to be allowed to tender. De as go-between. Before consenting fendant agreed and the tender to her daughter living with Taat ascertained price was $3,400. Defendant told Koo, witness first As the injurica which the six plaintiff that the work must be who were living with, her and dis- students, sustained were not ser completed by November 30, 1927, covered that Test Koo was stay- love, they were able to go with and it was agreed that he shoulding with her husband, a Sanitary the rest of their friends to the be paid on the same conditione as Inspector. bureau of public peace without he (defendant) was being paid. difficulty. They were afterwards That was that of every $100 worth escorted to the station by police, of work done $70 was to be paid.
but when they arrived there, the Continuing, defendant sald that train had already departed for on March 8 the plaintiff naked for Shanghai.
Witness alleged that the do ccared was slapped by Hayward and that she went to hospital affer having taken some medicine directed by Tsat Kon when sho became pregnant.
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The deceased's mother repented her accusations against Tant Koe.
The Inquiry was adjourned.
In the afternoon a representa-payment in full for the work al tive of the Anhui delegation and ready done, but this he refused as a member of the Nanking Wal-it was not in accordance with the contract. Between March 15 and chinopu called on the students and tendered apologies for the affair. April 13 defendant sald that he A special train conveyed the Am-paid aume amounting to $480 to ericans to Shanghai in the ever- the plaintiff as an inducement to
re-start the work, but this was not was written on April 7, while the plaintiff's case was that work did ing.-N. C. D. News.
done.
not stop until April 17. Defendant, on April 7, wrote a
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