THE MONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
AFFAIRS OF MING END OF NORTHERN
YUEN GARDEN.
LOCAL SOLICITOR IN A
WITTY MOOD.
"NAPOLEONS OF FINANCE" IN BAD POSITION.
"WAR" IN SIGHT.
RAPID ADVANCE BY THE NATIONALISTS:
MARINE COURT CASES.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923.
PETTY THEFT FROM TWO MILLION ACRE
GOVERNMENT.
CONCESSION.
BOARDING AND MAKING FAST, STEAM ROLLER EMPLOYEES
TO STEAMER.
IN TROUBLE,
MUKDEN PRECAUTIONS complaint in cases of boarding DETECTIVE ON WATCH.
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At the Morino Court, this morn- ing, Capt. Hardinge was again the without permission and making fast alongside the as. Fook On
Petty offences brought to the Shanghai, Sept. 13, while the vessel was under way.
morning, included the theft of After some heavy fighting at The cases were heard by Gomdr. notice of the First Magistrate this Wali, where the so-called Shan-J. B. Newlll, D.S.O., R.N.
The cases of boarding without wood from a timber yard on the tung Chihli remnants offered a spirited resistance, the Nationalist permission were taken first, and Lal Wanchal, reclamation and of a troops under General Poi, Chung-Hug-wahi and Leung Chi-ngan tin of kerosens from a P.W.D. When informed that the timber hai continued their advance and pleaded guilty, stating that they motor-roller in the same locality. had boarded to take delivery of live occupied Kuyeh yesterday after stock. Both were fined $10, with yard had no proper enclosure, Mr. R., E. Lindsoll asked the timbor the usual alternative. noon.
Making Fast, *) yard manager if that was not nek- The cases of making fast whilst ing for thefts, such as tho
under way, before the Court.
The reply given was that the the vessel was still brought a plea of not guilty from Fung Sap-yee and Kung Sapng yard at one time had employed a Inspector Moss pointed out that private watchman, but his services the first defendant was a woman, had now been dispensed with. whilst the original accused was a The charge concerned the theft of two small blocks of wood. The Changman.
The woman stated that she was defendant, an unemployed coolie, the wife of the boat master and was given the option of paying a appeared because her husband was $6 fine, or of going to prison for sick. Her appearance was accepted. ten days.
Captain Hardinge handed up his
WRONG PERSONS SUED A terse summary of the affairs of a Chinese Company was given Mr. C. A. S. Russ in the Summary
The Nationalists are now mak- Court this morning, when he said that certain disgruntled share-ing towards Lwanchow, in three holders, who considered them columne preceded by two armour- aclves to be "Napoleons of fined trains. The troops are excep- ance," had establislied a sort of tionally well controlled. "Soviet committes," secured the retirement of the directors, and run the company so "efficiently" that they had no money.
Marshal Chang Chung-chang is at present at Llushowylag to the west of Peltaho.
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HUGE PAHANG DEAL NOW DISCLOSED.
LEGAL DIFFICULTY.
The Straits: Times throws con-i
European syndicate to a conces siderable light on the claim of a sion covering two million acres of land in Pahang and Including Fraser's Hill and Cameron's High-
peared in various newspapers on lands. Reports which have the subject have contained many Inaccuracies,
In the first place, it is wrong to describe the concession which is claimed as a mining concession. It is a full grant of approximately two million acres of land, all of which is situated in Pahang and not in "Pahang, Porak and Kelan- tan,"to be used for any purpose→→→ Meanwhile, General
what would be described in Eng The remarks were passed dur Hauch-liang continues to withdraw
To trace the history of the syndi. ing the hearing of a ease before all Fengtlen troops to Manchuria.
liah law as a grant in fee simple. cate's claim it is necessary to ge Mr. Justice Jacks, in which the The tenth Fengtien Army which Hung Fook Firm, No. 38 Cochrane was at Shanhaikwan is now on its
The other charge had to do with back to 1884 when the then Sultan Street, ground floor, professional way to Mukden, while fifty-seven
log-book as evidence, and the entry kerosene "stealing kerosene from of Pahang granted the watershed decorators, sued. Leung Sik-un troops trains had passed beyond detailed the making fast alongside the Hongkong Government," It of the River Jelat to the Mahara No. 137 Connaught Road Weat; the Great Wall, carrying Fengtien of two sampans before the ship was was explained to the two defen- Jah Perba Jelai and his heire and
and Wan Man-tuen
Cheung troops, up to Tuesday evening, berthed, during which one sampan
successors. The Maharajah Per- Idants. the Ming Yuen which Tang-ip, of
suggests that General was overturned by the swirl of the, One of them is, or rather had ba Jelai is a personage of high Buy: and Garden, Quarry
Chang Hauch-liang is withdrawing propellor. So Mun-ting. No. 203 Queen's all rolling-stock from the clutches Further evidence was given by been until the present proceedings, rank and the holder of the title to Road West for $112 s from the Ming Yuen Wing Fat Marshal Chang Chung-chang-Indian guards who affected the ar- the driver of motor-roller No. 9, whom the grant of 1884 was made, rest of the accused in the previous and he is said to have given a la referred to frequently in Sir case, they stating that the boarders surplus tin of kerosene to the first Hugh Clifford's works. In his own Company Limited, for decorations
Chang Chung-Chang's Exit?
had reached the ship after the sam-man, employed as a cleaner to district he lo treated with royal supplied on the occasion of the
another roller, who was charged or semi-royal respect and is a pan had overturned. opening ceremony of the gardens.
Shanghai, Sept. 12,
member of the State Council of It was alleged that they had under-
His Worship questioned the sam-with receiving. It is reported that before leaving
Mr. F. Baker, an overseer of the Pahang. In November, 1927, the taken to pay personally by
in the previous case had been mem-P.W.D. explained, to the Court the present Maharajah Perba Jelal agreement dated June 12, this Tongshan and Kaiping, Marshal pan women as to whether the men Chang Chung-chang demanded
bers of the crew, when a voice from system by which kerosene supplies granted a lease of the area covered The case for the plaintiffs was large sums of money from the re- the back of the Court gave the ad-were issued to each roller. He by the 1884 grant to Mr. John said that No. 9, employed on heavy Harold Irving, of Kuala Kangsar, conducted by Mr. C. A. S. Russ, spective Chambers of Commerce,
The previous accused then admit work on the reclamation, had been on conditions and for a term of while Mr. J. M. D'Almada Reme-and succeeded in obtaining the vice, "Say Yes!"
ted that they were folls of the using more ofl than the other years appearing in the lease. dios was for the first and fourth money.
It is believed that he is now pre-
boats figuring in the charge, rollers.
Two Sub-Leases. defendants. The second and third
paring to make his exit, from the
while the defendants themselves A Chinese plain-clothes dotec- defendants were not prosent,
war zone and to leave for Dairen, ncknowledged that when they tive said he stopped one of the
Since the arriva) of the Nation"
turning.
Considering the case proved, ilis Worship inflicted a fine of $10 in
year.
Directors Dismissed.
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Reuter.
Mr. Russ said that trouble had list troops the situation at Tony-made fast, the propellor was still defondants as he was taking the Sultan of Pahang, who himself, in |
arisen by reason of changes in the shan has been quiet-Nam Chung -management of the defendant com-Pac,
pany. At the time the order was i given it was conducted by a general manager, Tsang Yuk-ting. and an assistant nmnager,
Japanese Precautions.
each 'cnse.
Diler Cases,
kerosene away from the reclama- ition.
This lease was sealed by the
December, 1927, leased to Mr. İry-- ing a thousand, aeros in the area which belongs to the present Sul- tan and which was left out of the original grant by the then Sultan of Pahang. Mr. Irving has sub- lensed to Burma Malay Tin, Ltd., and prior to this sub-lease he had
The first defendant, charged with receiving, was fined $25, or two weeks. The other man, the driver Shanghal, Sept. 12.
of the roller from which the tin Chan On Monday evening Japanese
Four boat people were charged of kerosene was taken, was convict Yue-mun, who looked after the busi-troops in Tainanfu, took special with mooring in the Causeway Bayed of larceny, and ordered to pay ness extremely efficiently.
precautions in connexion with ex- "It very often happens in a comnected events which, however, did Typhoon Shelter without the writ-la fine of $50, or four weeks' hard leased a portion of the area to pany like this however, that there not occur. All telegrams were ten permission of the Harbour labour. are many shareholders who believe themselves to be Napoleons of censored and pedestrians were Muster. They pleaded not guilty,
bottoms of their goals. finance. Three or four geople subjected to search, according to stating that they were cleaning the
Chinese advices. of this type went among the various abareholders and induced them to become dissatisfied with the direc tors. A meating of creditors was
Manchuria's Intention.
Shanghai, Sept. 12.
Police evidence was to the effect! that the boats were drawn up well! Inside the shelter and, when board-:
MR. BRUCE ON DEAN
INGE..
Rajah Perak Tin, Ltxi., who are in possession of the portion leased to 'them..
It is not known whether, any litigation will arise in respect of these transaction since up to now Government has not disputed any of the negotiations and in view of the fact that the Sultan of Pahang le interested it is difficult Melbourne, Aug. 17. to foresee the Government of Commenting on the cabled ro-Pahang disputing the grant.
ad, they were proved to be without REPORTED PUNGENT PETORT held and these managers were In- Chinese reports from Mukden permits.
'TO AUSTRALIA'S CRITIC. formed that their services were dis-state that General Chang Hsueh- Questions as to the process of pensed with."
lang intends announcing his In-cleaning the bont's bottoms were Mr. Remedios, interrupting, hop- tention to join the Nationalists far from satisfying, and his Wor- ed Mr. Russ was going to prove and to hoist the Nationalist ship told the accused that their all his statements because he under flag in the Three Eastern Pro- tales were not convincing. He in-ports of Dean Inge's recent cri- stood that the men referred to as vinces shortly. Moreover, he in- Aicted fines of 36 in each case, with manager and assistant manager tends to designate his troops as the usual alternative. were really directora of the com- the 6th. Nationalist Army Group. pany. There were no others and consequently no shareholders could kick them out.
"Soviet Committee."
the shareholders an agreement was entered into which was the critx
sovere
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Shanghai, Sept. 12. The Chihli-Shantung troops continue to retreat toward Lwan-
ticism of Australia's immigration policy, migration officials to-day pointed out that no barrier.was raised against British immigrants: they were not only wanted, but
were welcome.
Complication Threateno", There is, however, a threat of complication in the form of a claim To Attack North,
to prior right which has been put forward by Mr. Powell Robinson Shanghai, Sept. 12.
Dean Inge's letters and press as managing director of the Pelat had Concession (Pahang) Ltd. Mr. Yesterday General Pei Chung- Mr. Russ replied that he would hs held a military conference at show and are fighting, a delaying cuttings, they pointed out, call them directors or anything Tongshan with his chief subordin rearguard action in the vicinity of apparently been sent to him by Robinson has advertised the inten Kuyeh, while Pei Chung-hai's immigrants In Australia with ation of his company to dispute the else Thay could be called general ates. It was decided
attack on the Northern forces are reported to be advan-"grouch," The Development and claim of Mr. Irving and his as- managing directors.
Continuing, he said that in con- remnants within the next three cing along the Tientsin-Shanhai- Migration Commission had been sociates, but we understand that kwan road and the North Railway. working hard for two years study the latter rely on the statement of ing the position in the primary the Maharajah Perba Jelai that ke sequence of the attitude taken by days.
-Reuter.'
industries.
concluded any rights over the Jolai Peking, Sept. 12.
The Herald states that Mr. area possessed by Jelai Concession The Nationalist forces have cap- of the whole action.
Chang Chung-Bruce, the Prime Minister, when (Pahang) Ltd., which is a private By but they did not have the money tured Kalping that agreement the trouble with to pay.
chang has left Kuych and the asked to comment upon Dean company registered in Singapore, the shareholders was brought to an Replying to Mr. Russ, plaintiff Chihll-Shantung troops are retreat Inge's statements, tersely remark- in a letter addressed by him to end by the two managing directors said he was present at the meeting to Luanchow which the Nation-ed, "how can any man who has the secretaries of the company and retiring and a sort of "Soviet Coming when the four defendants were alists are reported to he approach-never been in Australia know any dated October 25, 1927, a short
thing about it?
time, before the conclusion of nego mitles" of four shareholders, (theelected and, as a result he looked ing.—Reuter.
tiations between the Maharajah defendants), taking charge,
and Mr. Irving. At the time of the change in the to those men for payment. government of the company the re- firing managing directors insisted that the members of the committee should deal with all debts owing by the company, and that they should check and personally pay all debta. That was definitely stated in the agreement which was signed by the four defendants as representatives of the shareholders.
Mr. Remedios said he did not think they would find anything in the agreement about personal pay- ment and added that the question was not a fair one.
The plaintiff said that he look- ed to the company for payment, whether it was old or new.
The former general manager of defendant company said he Buw the first defendant sign the draft of the agreement and that his at- torney signed the completed docu.
"As frequently happens In cases of this kind, when untried people take official posts, the company proved a hopeless failure, and as ment. these representatives have taken over and induced the managers tó retire by personally undertaking Mr. Russ-And I suppose to pay the debts, we are bound to Leung Sik-pun did more talking suo these four representatives."
than anybody else?
Change Advertised..
"In the Soup."
Witness agreed, saying that he was the chief representative of the shareholders.
Although the completed agree ment was not signed by the first
Mr, Russ:-And now he wants defendant, Mr. Russ claimed that it was signed by another man as his to leave the others in the soup. A attorney. He produced the draft very typical sort of procedure.
His Lordship pointed out that if a company changed its officers and
of the agreement which boro the
first defondant's signature and those officers agreed to carry on argued that that showed that he the business it did not mean that approved of the agreement. Mr. they had to pay debts out of their Russ added that the change of
own pockets. management was advertised. The
Mr. Russ argued that the defen- plaintiff sent in a bill which was dants undertook personally to pay signed and entered in the hooks, debts by the agreement, whilo, Mr. In producing the bill, in Chin- Remedios contended that they un- ese Mr. Russ said they took it to dertook to do so as representatives the court Interpreter but it was of the company.. The company full of technicalities.
was liable and not the defendants. Mr. Russ understand that the managemont has been so effec-
"Something like a lawyer's bill
to the layman," he added,
Giving evidence, the manager of tive that the company hasn't any plaintiff firm said that the decora money. tions were supplied on the occa His Lordship held that the cam- sion of the opening ceremony of pany should have been sued, and Ming Yuen gardens. He applied gave judgment for the defendanta for the money on many occasions with costs.
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TAZELLE & PATY, OFF.
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am, it's me last match,"
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Paris, Aug, 17.
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