ALLEGED SECRET
DISTILLING.
·REVENUE OFFICERS DISCOVER ''A "MIRACLE."
PIG CRUELTY CASE AT CASH DEPOSITS IN
KOWLOON.
· THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1928.
STAR FERRY WHARF INCIDENT.
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ANIMALS LEGS CUT BY CRATE.
Li Liu, Chinese pig dealer, was fined $10 this morning at the Row- NEW TERRITORY CASE. Loon Magistracy for cruelty to a
Revenue officers who made a surprise visit to the Wo Fung native distillery at Chinwan at the beginning of this month, to-day gave evidence before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Police Court, to the effect that they found spirits being secretly distilled and that certain details wore withheld from the record books to which representatives of the Revenue Office have RCCERS,
The enne la one in which two oficials of the Distillery are sum- moned for offences allegedly amounting to secret distilling of dutinble spirits and the suppress alon of the necessary details as
to the quantity of raw materials used in the process.
"Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the
defence.
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He
The Superintendent of Imports and Exports (Mr. J. 1. Lloyd) prosecuting, said the first defen dant, Ling Yun-tin, was licenaue of the Distillery. stayed in Hongkong most of his time and visited the Distillery at Chinwan only once a week, as he was responsible for the due carry Ing out of the regulations.
Was
The Recond defendant the active managing partner of the firm.
Surprise Visit.
pig.
FOUND SUCCESSFUL IN SINGAPORE.
CHITS GIVE A FEELING OF OPULENCE.
MYTHS OF TRADITION.
London, Aug. 29..
GUNNER CHARGED WITH. RESISTING ESCORT.
G. Geary, the Leicester all COURT MARTIAL SITS. frounder, has been chosen to com-) Iplete England's Test Team which
Is to tour Australia.
V. W. C. Jupp (Northampton- ahire) will accompany the team should a vacancy occur prior to the players' departure-Reuter,
The following sixteen players were selected last month:
Mr. A. P. F. Chapman (Kent) Mr. J. C. White (Somerset) vice-
Mr. D. R. Jardine (Surrey) J. B. Hobbs (Surrey) II. Sutcliffe (Yorkshire) E. Tyldesley (Lancashiro) W. R. Hammond (Gloucester) M. W. Tate (Sussex) M. Leyland (Yorkshire) II. Larwood (Notts), L. Ames (Kent)
Inspector O'Brien, of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, informed Mr. W. Schofield that when the train from Canton reached Yaumati at 11.30 a.m. yes- terday he noticed that, the defen- dant had custody of five pigs. They were being carried in "evates
The report of the Singapore which had no matting underneath and this was causing unnecessary Cricket Club, says the Straits captain. pain to the animals. One of them Times, contains the significant had all four legs cut by the hum-statement that since the cash de-captain.. hoo strips which formed the crate,posit system has been brought into Defenstant pleaded guilty, when existence bad debts have ceased the charge was read to him, but to be. Those who advocated the added that he was ignorant of the change can now say that the end
has justified the means, and that; laws of the Colony.
the old system of a month's cre- dit, convenient though it might be was not practicable in a large elub with a big proportion of junior members if bad debts wero to be avoided altogether.
Inspector O'Brient told his Wor, ship that some time ago a member of the Wing Shing Loong Arm hand been fined for a similar offence. In that instance the pigs' legs were tied to the crates. The defendant, belonged to the Wing Shing Loong and therefore the Inspector felt he must know the regulations The pigs were brought into the Colony from the New Territories.
In imposing the fine, his War- ship remarked that defendant ought to know better than to treat the pins so cruelly, as it appeared that one of the animals had all four legs cut.
Other Cases.
It is to be remembered that the
Selangor Club led the way quite a number of years ago by intro- duelag the system of cash pay- ments for drinks.
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1. Mead (Hants)
G. Duckworth (Lancashire). .S. Staples (Notis)
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A recent invidout at the en- trance of the Hongkong Star Ferry Wharf had a sequel at a District Court Martial at Victoria Barracks this morning when Gun- ner William Edward Shipley wan charged with absenting himself without leave on August 15 and absenting himself from Tattoo Roll Call at Stonecutters Island. He was further charged with re- sisting an escort which sought to arrest him for being drunk.
wan
The composition of the Court as follows:-Major G. R. Pendergast, Queen's Regiment President), Capt. P. Perfect, K.O.S.B., and Lieut. K. W. Morris Jones, R.A.
· Capt.-W. `J."Stopford, N.A., pro- sectued and Capt. H. B. Legros, H.K.S.R.A., acted as prisoner's "friend."
At the request of the defending officer, the two charges were taken separately.
Evidence was given by Lance ellect Bombardier Neres to the that the accused was absent from Stonecutters on August 15.
Lance Corporals Dowse and Scarborough, K.O.S.B., testified to having arrested the accused out- side the Star Ferry Wharf, Hong- kong. He was apprehended for being drunk and was with Lance Bombardier Cotton and a civilian,
Pay Before Purchase. The S.C.C. system-while in ita way ever more drastic, as it mo746 artually purchased-has the merit paying for goods before they are of being more convenient, and the result of six months' working is that the experiment has proved a
It is also argued, in reply to August 1st, was in the nature of rate which had no matling at the those who were reluctant to see ship, the Brunswick, of 9,000 tons, who was later discovered to he their credit privileges taken away for the Atlantic Oil Shipping Com-Warder Hodge of the Victoria To this ease the Mastrate re-from them in order to guard pany of Philadelphia, ran her Caol. marked that he was imposing against a few defaulters, that the trials on the Clyde to-day, smaller fine as it appeared to him that the animal was not injured.
The visit which Mr. H. A. Taylor and Revenue Oficer Brown mude to this Distillery at 1.90 p.m. on
a surprise, for it was 'n day op which the usual routine visit from the Rovense Officer would not be 'expected.
the production books in respect of auch output.
When the book. In which the molasses mash, was entered from day to day, was inspected, it was that the entry for the previous day's process, August 1st.
Fresh Entry. During the time that Mr. Tay- lor and Revenue Olleer Brown were
found
Finca of $2 each were imposed on two other Chinese who were charged with carrying a pig in a
bottom.
FAILED TO REPORT ́ TO POLICE.
CHINESE EXCUSES AT KOWLOON. Convicted on a charge of failing
Биссека
ICRDS.
At the close of the case for the
cash deposit system has the merit She is the largest of her type prosecution, the defending officer of guarding junior members from yet built, The Captain's bridge is submitted that he had no case to the perils of too much credit, and as amazing place from which the answer as it had not been given in that nowadays they are much more ship can be operated by one per-evidence that the accused had no certain to spend within their son at a switchboard. The ship right to be absent from Stone-
steers automatically and does not cutters' island. Members who are no longer require engineers either to start junior may
or stop. The Beisel engines, once their young daya they had the course is set, do not require no protection but were left to further attention.-Reuter, finil Qu1 for themselves that the system of "order now and
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reflect
that
in
It was subsequently decided by the Court that Lance Bombardier Nares should be recalled,
L/B Neres then stated that the accused had had no permission to be absent.
The Court adjourned at this stage till 2 p.m;
tion, and that the now middle-aged generation was never as wild us it Thinks it was. Perhaps the victims of too much credit were al- ways a vely small minority whose falling by the wayside made them CARGO BOAT NUISANCE the more conspicuous.
Hotels Next?.
MAKING FAST TO STEAMER UNDER WAY.
Four mistresses of cargo bonts charged before Commdr.
The result of the sudden visit was that everything was found to be wrong with the order of work In the distillery. For one thing, the spirits were found to be extra- ordinarily weak, and then the pro- quetion bank had not been entered up for that day, as required by regulations. The Distillery had distilled 16 jars of molasses spirits and five jars of rice spirits, bat had made absolutely no entry into report himself to the police, pay later had disadvantages us
after being placed under police well as obvious merits, supervision for one year, a Chinese
Chits Die Hard, was fined $75, or in default two
The complaint of the "chit" 838- months' hard labour, 'by Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis-tem of the East is an ancient ene, but the chit dies hard, in this part tracy this morning.
the
ht world
least, The police told the Magistrate of that the defendant wae placed on and although it is a never-failing twelve months' supervision from source of amazement to the new-
Be this as it may be, the way of January 3 this year, but since comer to find how easily people can then he had never reported himself obtain goods on credit, store and the extravagant is certainly being to any Police Station in the Coloby. hotel proprietors are apparently re-made less easy. Club are becoming He was arrested in Canton Road at luctant to make a change which prosaic institutions where one must were 330 aan. in the morning and the force of circumstances has come in credit before, one can sign Newill, D.S.O., R.N., at the Marine detective making the arrest hadpelled in other places. The cynical chits; possibly in course of time Court this morning, with making reason to believe that the defen-may comment that those who do hotels will follow to the extent of fast alongside the 8.8. Van Heutz ant was out at that hour for repay more than compensate for the demanding payment at the time of while that vessel was under way,
and debts of those who do not and ordering. No doubt this is a very without the permission good purpose.
Asked what he had to say, the it is certainly true that plentiful desirable reform, yet there are ofleer commanding. Two of the defendant pleaded for leniency on credit and high cost of living, go those who will regret to see the old accused pleaded guilty and
order change entirely. together.
not guilty. the ground that he had been away
The trustfulness of hotel pro- Evidence by a police sergeant It was discovered that there were
Post-War Youth.
prietors certainly gives a pleasant was to the effect that the Van thred kongs of molasses mush, num.to Canton for five months since
There are those who argue, how-though tranalent feeling of Heutz entered from the eastward. bered as 50, 51 and 62 which by damury. In July he was back in their appearance had been filled the Colony, but failed to report
ever; that the post-war young man jopulence. Ability to postpone the nt 10.30 am. yesterday and a num only that day. According to the because he was ill.
is a careful and self-reliant person day of reckoning may be altogether ber of craft were observed to be cycle in which these kongs were fill- od in the Distillery, they should the month of August, defendant who does not need protection from a bad thing from the point of view secured alongside not have been filled at all, for the said he was too deeply immersed the pitfalls of tou easy ered; that of the stern moralist, and in these reached her buoy. The vessel was or fermentation would in his work and forgot to do so. he is perfectly well able to look hard, practical days perhaps it is hoarded and the Chief Officer atai- have carried them to Sunday when le had every intention of report-after himself and shows no dispusi- one of the things which should be ed that these juks and lunches tion 10 preserve the old Eastern done without. But even those who were a great nuisance. They had the distillation of wines was ex-g when September-came round.
In imposing the qenalty stated tradition of an extravagant and irare by no means of the younger no permission to be alongside. There would generation find that the necessity While they were mado fast, the pressly forbidden by the rogula- tions. The inference, therefore, above, his Worship remarked that responible youth. was that those kongs were it seemed that the defendant had appear to be good grounds for arof paying on demand has demeritsahip went astern and the junke ruing that this is true; or it may which occasionally outweigh Its swang out, fouling the buoy and even be that the old tradition was economic advantages. In a word, creating a situation of great dan never really any more than a tradi-it is cramping to. the style,
at the Distillery, somebody made an entry in the book for the day be fore, which was not there when they first inspected it. In his hurry that person, in entering the dale, had made it the 8th month instead of the 7th month. That entry freshly made, was blurred when the Revenue Officer ran his finger over it,
process
1
Asked why he did not report for
ed for secret distillation on the fol- no intention of reporting af all.
low Sunday.
NO CYCLE LIGHT.
CHINESE GETS OFF WITH CAUTION,
The visiting Revenue Officers also found tinee other kings half full No. 44, 50 and 66, which were not due (according to the official rules regulating the output in thin cs- tablishment) for distillation that day, August 3, three days after-
In prosecuting a Chinese for wards, would have been the oflicia! riding a bicycle without a lamp date when the contents of those last night, an Indian constable told particular three kaugs would be Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon drawn off for distillation. The Magistracy this morning, that the explanation given by the defen- defendant appeared to be a learner dants, for this break in the cycle who was experimenting in Laichi- of production, was that No. 44kok Road. Ife fell in front of a loaked, and it was found necessary motor bus and, when he noticed to transfer its contents to the the constable approaching, tried other two konga. How they could to escape arrest by riding away on All from one long to make one his bicycle. As he was a begin- kong and a half was not clear, ner, the constable had no difficulty commented, Mr. Lloyd. Revenue in overtaking him,
the
Officer Brown, doubling back, on Defendant explained to his own tracks that night, found Magistrate that he had a lamp, but that No. 44 was now quite empty, whilst he was on the Laichikok and that the bottom had been Read he noticed that the lamp knocked out of it, apparently to went out and he had just dis- manufacture evidence, said Mr. mounted to re-light it when the Lloyd.
Indian 'arrested him.
His Worship enquired whether Then, again, the surprising dis- the defendant had a box of covery was made that Nos. 15 and matches on him when arrested, and 46 of the anme series were now was told that the defendant, being full. It then came to this, that in a position to bail himself eat, from one long which they Bald had was not searched at the Police been cracked, they were able at Station.
A "Miracle,"
first to fill one-and-a-half kongs, The Magistrate remarked that it and then to two kongs. Mr. Lloyd, would be well in such cases to commenting on this, said he re-ascertain if the defendants carried garded it as a miracle.
matches. He would, caution the
The molasses removed from defendant as it appeared to him these three formentation kong that the light went out when he would be equivalent to eight jars fell in front of a lua
f spirita. As a matter of fact,
certain jare standing near the
pot, were found to
contain the regulations had not been con-
molasses identical with those in formed with, in the alleged incor-
the three konga.
Mr. Lloyd proceeded to explain the charges, pointing out where
rect recording of molasses and
recording spirits.
The cas is proceeding.
ZZANT
GIVE BY HEA SLAVICE, ING
AEG.U. B. PAT, OFF.
"Let's preten. I we're castaways on a desert Island.”
gger.
of the
two.
before she
A steam launch, the Pyeris, was also involved and a summons was being served for the offence.
In reply to questions, the pollee sergeant stated that at the time of his bourding, a slip rope was on the buoy, but the junka were made fast long before the Van Jeutz came up to her mooring.
This evidence was corroborated by another police officer, who stat- ed that the master of the Pyerlä admitted the fault and asked to be excused. Three of the funks were made fast outside of hér and the other ono astern, abreast of No. 1 hold,
The two defendania pleading not guilty, stated that they did not make fast until the vessel was secured to her busy, but neither was sure if the steam launch bad made fast while the vessel was un- der way.
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The case was considered proved and fines of $10, with the usual alternative, were inflicted in each
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