THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SIKHS ACCUSED OF FORMER HONGKONG "SCENE" OUTSIDE
SEDITION.
FIVE ON TRIAL IN SHANGHAI.
EVIDENCE GIVEN REGARDING PRAYER MEETINGS.
QUESTION RULED OUT.
RESIDENT,
COURT.
SEEKS INFORMATION ON ETHNOLOGY.
SAMPAN FOLK JEER AND SPIT AT PRISONER:
POLICE INTERVENE.
OLD DAYS' RECALLED.
Mr. Christian spent several Shanghai, May 14. years in the Colony, a considerable Prayer meetings in the Gurd-| time ago and. In 1807 he re-visited warn or Sikh temple and addresses | Hongkong after spending a couple delivered at the Balsakhi Feqtival of years in enthnological research featured at the hearing of the work in the Caroline Islands, charge of acting prejudiciously to which were then in the possession public safety brought against five of Spain. Some of the results of Sikh watchmen, who appeared his expediention are chronicled in before the Registrar, Mr. A. J. the recorda of the Hongkong Odd Martin, in . M. Police Court Volumes Society, before which yesterday.
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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929.
BEQUEST FOR THE ENTERING RAILWAY
C. M. S.
TUNNEL.
TOMA
THE REV. C. N. R. MACKENZIE’'S] CHINESE WHO WAS WALKING
WILL PROVISIONS.
TO CANTON.
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had no money to pay his fare by One of the defendants, said he
'boat and was endeavouring Lo track. reach Canton by following the
TWO OTHER ESTATES TRESPASSING CHARGE.
Old residents of the Colony will An unusual Incident
A bequest to the Church Mis- That bo would have to do some- be interested to hear news of Mr.eurred outside the Supreme Court sionary Society for Africa and thing to make people realise they F. W. Christian, B.A., who is now this morning when one of the pri-the East is contained in the will were not permitted to trespass on Borough Librarian of the Public soners to be tried at the Criminal of the Rev. Charles Norman Ross the railway track, was the com- Library at Palmerston North, New Sessions was mobbed by a highly- Mackenzie who died at Welling ment of Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at Zealund.
excited crowd of sampan people, ton, New Zealand, on June 15, the Kowloon Magistracy this when he was being taken from the 1928. Testator, after having made morning, when two Chinese were Court building to the waiting pri-la number of family bequests, charged with trespassing on the sonera motor van which was directs that, subject to those be permanent way. standing outside.
quests and other provisions, his The prisoner was Chau Kau who residuary estate shall be placed is charged with the murder of two upon trust for the Society. sampan girls on March 18.
As soon as the man left the granted to Mr. G. D. Melbourne, Rescaling of probate has been Court, he was feered at and spat Ofelul Administrator and Regis non, but two police oflcers, one trar, who is the attorney of the Chinese and one European, nuc- Public Trusteo of New Zealand, ceeded in keeping the crowd: buck the executor and trustee appointed body Mr. Christian some years while the prisoner was quickly in the will,"
rend
Janes dragged into the van by warders. 4 paper, Sir age
When the prisoner appeared
Mr. F. Winyard pointed out the Miss Marian Dods, of No. 1, danger of persons entering the Stewart Lockhurt being chair.
before the Puiano Judge (Mr. Coniston Drive, Edinburgh, Scot-tunnels, remarking that, unless Justice Wood), Mr. Leo D'Almada, land, who died on September 10, they knew of the, shelters, they Amengat Mr. Christian's senior, who 'defended, asked for 1928, at North Berwick, Scotland, would be run over in the event of friends in those days were Dr.the case to be adjourned until next left Hongkong estate to the value a train passing through. Lowson, Mr. D. Sussoon and Dr. month because the prisoner was of $21,000, while estate in the
a letter now to under the medical observation of United Atkinson. In
Kingdom. amounts to The other defendant, who ap- aand, Mr. Christian says: "In Dr. Cannon, medical officer in £8,186.
peared on bail, informed his Wor- those days, I had quite a lot of charge of the gaol, who was not cricketing and other friends in at present able to give a definite granted to the Hon. Mr. WE, L. the lines.
Rescaling of probate has been ship that he was merely crossing He did not know that Hongkong, who will be interested opinion on the man's mental con- Shenton, of Deacons, who is the the authorities had passed a ro to know that I am still alive after dition. Further it was desired to attorney of Mr. W. Dods, brother gulation prohibiting people from
make enquiries with regard to his all these years.
relations and antecedents who and executor.
walking over the track,
Mr. V. Priestwood, Jr. appeared for the prosecution under instruc- tions from the Grown Advocate, and Mr. Tycho Wing conducted the defence.
Reference was made by wil nesses to a mysterious expedition into Thibet and chants by woman in the temple,
"Monstrous Question," During the proceedings, Mr. Priestwood asked a police witness what his experiences were regard- ing the law-abiding qualities of Sikhs in Shanghai which Mr. Wing objected to after clinracterizing it as a monstrous question reflecting on the whole of the loeui Sikh com- munity.
The question was not allowed. The Gurdwara in Paoshan Road, it was stated, was closed in 1926 and re-opened with great rejoleing In the Spring of 1928. Prayer meetings were held on various
birth of the Sikh caste.
in the
Language Classification.
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rested by the guard just about lo enter one of the tunnels.
He was stated to have been ur
were in Kwangsi, and who would Ho Ping-woon, alias Ho King- In the case of the first defen- "I have been out in New Zea-present trouble.
be difficult to get at owing to the man, merchant, who died intestato dant, his Worship unid accused Mr. Christian, for Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, who pre-Mi To, Honam, Canton, on
fat No. 1, Lung Sing Lane, Lung had already spent land," says
one night In many years now, still engaged in secuted for the Crown, offered no about September 6, 1928, left The other accused was fined $1 orgnol, and registered a. caution. my spare timo in studying objection and his Lordship accord-Honghong estate worth $24,000. his Worship remarking that he had ethnological problems connected ingly adjourned the case.
Letters of administration have to do something to make them with the Malay Archipelago, There is only one other case been granted to Ho Sui-wing, realise they could not, trespass Micronesia and the Eastern down for hearing at the Sessions, living at. Lan Kwai Fong. Pacifle. The results of my re-this being one in which Lam Chun search work in the Carolines is charged on three counts. On aroused grent scientific interest in March 21, last year, with others London at the headquarters of unknown, he is alleged to have
the Royal Geographical Society, been on board bont near Tai
occasions including the Baisakhi and my classifying of the Lam Ching and to have robbed Festival or the anniversary of the languages of Micronesia simpli- Wong Chau-wan of five suits of fied the further study of the clothing, a watch, a pair of glioca, At several of the meetings, it great merics of mingled Indo-a quilt and $65.80 in money. Two was said, Ishar Singh, one of the Chinese and Indo-Malay migra- accused, who was then the secret-tions outward across the Northern ary or spokesman of the temple Equatorial Tropic, some of which Introduced the various speakers actually appear to have reached to the congregation.
Speeches About Deperices. Sub-Inspector D B. Ross, of the CL.D., stated that at a meeting one of the police informers saw one of the prisoners, delivering an address to the assembly at the east wall of the temple. Among the references made by the speak era was one about Gajan Singh former teacher at the Thomas
the shores of the New World."
Hanbury School, who was made a Professor J. MacMillan Brown, secretary of the temple in Pao-Christchurch, New Zealand, and ahan Road and was subsequently Mr. Christian have worked to arrested with two others on a gether on parallel but Indepen- acdition charge. The trio were dent lines in Investigating the deported.
aubject still further.
Information Wanted.
further counts are of being in possession of a revolver without a licence and with kidnapping three people to hold them for ransom,
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MARINE COURT.
THE CASES..
LEGAL ARGUMENT IN
·BANK CASE.
(Continued from Pugo 1.)
there.
CANTON STILL NOT CAPTURED.
(Continued from Page 1.)
14 Transportas Coming.
cheques should be permitted to get into the possession of strangers or unauthorised persons, () That
A private telegram from Shang- when not in regular use chequeat rocaived in Hongkong_to-day books should be kept in a place of states that the Nanking Govern- security.
of
ment has commandeered 14 mer-
troops of Kwangtung for the pur- forces against Kwangel. pose of reinforcing the Cantonese
The troops assigned to this, ex- pedition are probably those of General Hung Sek-fci's division. They have been on their way since May 18th. and are expected to or Canton arrived at Swatow shortly.-Nan Chung Kun News Servico.
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Since Mr. Christian tentatively put forward the theory, soon after
The Government negligently chantmen for the transportation of his arrival in England in 1899,
permitted at least 60 choques to Professor Elliot Smith and W. J.
POLICE WITHDRAW ONE OF strangers and the books were not
come into the pancasion Perry, of the Manchester Univer- ally, and, after them, Professor
kept in a place of security. 7. Imballini, of the Parana Uni- versity, Argentine, with other
At the Marine Court this morn- Government "Adopts" Cheques. Latin-American scholars, haveing, before the Hon. Commdr, G. F.- started on the same trail,
The last paragraph of the Hole, R.N., the masters of two fishing boats were charged by Sgt. stalement of defence, says that the Goldsmith with using grapplings Government know, or had reason for the purpose of lifting articles able grounds for knowing, or but from the harbour bed in the for the negligence of their officers Central Fairway, Both defen- and servants should have known,
North River Change. three cheques were dants pleaded guilty and were before the fined $10 each.
presented for payment and paid,
Canton, May 20. In applying for the withdrawal that the cheques had been, or The situation in the North River of a case in which the steersman probably or possibly had been districts has again undergone a In a letter which the Telegraph of a junk was charged with made the instrumenta of forgery, sudden change, according to latest Government, nevertheless, reports to the Kwang-tung Army from Mr. anchoring within the forbidden The received Christian, he says: "I should be limits of the telegraph cable area abstained from warning the Bank. Headquarters most grateful to any Chinese or of Taing Ling Tau, Inspector By auch negligence the Govern- The Kwarigsi troops have been Indo-Chinese scholars who would Andrews was understood to any went adopted the cheques and the forced to evacuate Tsingyun, upon be so kind as to send me a list of that the Ordinance under which Bank, to their prejudice, were the arrival of reinforcements from: The meetings, witness agreed, Southern Chinese or Cambodian defendant was charged had not thereby precluded from protecting Canton yesterday. The reinforce- were quite orderly to outward ap- Houns of class or number used as yet come into force. In view of themseven and were induced to ments consisted of a regiment Cheh.-Nan aflixes in country, persons, and this fact, his Worship allowed the jhonour and pay them. "Whereby, under Colonel Ta pearances but there had been a
a certain Sikh of things. They would be of great case to be withdrawn.
the said Government are, stopped Chung Kuo News Servico. reference to
For hawking cooked food on from setting up the alleged forgery
Omelals' Familles Leave. having been "despicably treated" value to me in further working out
my theory. That fact, which I care board the a.. Seistan without a thereof, or want of authority in the by the Government, "The cop-
fully note that we have a large permit, Sin Po, described as an defendants to pay the same and to
Canton, May 20, gregation," witness emphasizéd
account of the
General Chan Chai-tong's family was also listening very attentive class of these peculiar number- unlicensed hawker, was fined $10 dehit the
classifers in Mayn (and they are this morning.
left Canton for Hongkong together very evidently akin to Malay) sure-
with other high officials' families by the sa. Sai-On, yesterday after- noon-Nan Chung Kuo Neios. Ser- vice.
At another meeting on April 13, chants were rendered by an Indian woman. That was on the occasion
of the Buisaki Festival what Asa Singh, another of the prisoners, addressed a gathering of more than 250 Sikhs.
ly."
Police Informers.
Under further cross-examination by Mr. Wing, witness agreed that even the police informers had dis- played a great deal of zest at the meetings. This in answer to Mr. Wing's questions regarding the qualifications of the informera and as to whether they could 'down shorthand. "Just as these
take
has now
ly should interest | sinologues, for they seem to link up this Central American language with Indo China,"
MOTOR HORN NUISANCE.
gentlemen are doing" Mr. Wing TOOTING AT NIGHT BECOMES
added, pointing to the Press bench.
It was then stated that there was no Sikh, shorthand and that not a single member of the Sikh community here could take short- hand in English.
"INTOLERABLE."
"It is an Intolerable nuisance nowadays, this tooting at night," said the Deputy Superintendent! of Police (Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Sub-Inspector Ross informed the C.LE.), this morning in pressing court that the informers had also ammons against a public car been selected for their retentive driver for creating a nuisance memory. A knowledge of short through the unnecessary use of hand would be of no avail as any his motor horn.
scribbler would be promptly eject- The summens was heard be- cd from the temple. He had not fore Mr. N. L. Smith at the Con- heard of a depulation which wastral Police Court. The defendant sent to Captain Kennedy asking admitted the offence. his permission to allow all Sikh
members in the police force to Mr. Wodehouse said that the participate in the ceremonies. Ife Incident occurred at two o'clock also did not know whether the on a recent morning, in Des Voeux Gurdwara objected to the two Road Central. There were dozens. boing present of ears tooting all over the place, police informers who according to Mr. Wing, had and defendant's was the only one misrepresented the proceedings.,
Questioned regarding the exped he could get. tion into Thibet by Gujan Singh
On the stretch of the rond the former school-master and tem-between the Hongkong and Shang- ple secretary, witness stated that he had Bank and Lane Crawford's, was not prepared to disclose what defendant sounded his horn twice, he knew about it. He did not know although there were no whether they fell foul of the law because of that expedition.
After a whole day's hearing the five accused, Isher, Singh, Hakim
trians on the roadway.
pedes-
His Worship agreed with the D.S.P's remarks regarding the increasing nutsance caused by
Singh, Narain Singh, Asa Singh auch unnecessary tooling of motor- and Inda Singh, were remanded car horns. He inflicted a fine of In custody,
$5,
Government.'
ESŤÁIS, BY HEA SERVICE, INC.
1900, U, B. PAT, OPP,
"That reminds me, I must get soms shock absorbers put
on the 6 car."
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Specie Brought to. Hongkong.
Last night, a large consignment of silver in bars and subsidiary coin WBB brought down from Canton by the s.. Taishan. This was the consignment which the Canton officials had endeavoured to send down on the previous day by the 8.8. Fatshan, but which could not be shipped owing to late delivery.
In all, there were some hundreds. of cases, the total value of the bullion being put at several million dollars. All are said to be from the Central Bank of China. This morning, the silver was delivered in lorries to the Banque de l'Indo Chine for storage.
Hunan Move on Wuchow.
Shanghai, May 20..
A message from Changsha saya the Hunan troops under Ho Chien are not pursuing the Kwangsi forces, but are attempting to march swiftly southwards with the object of capturing Wuchow, where the rebel headquarters are established, and thereby effecting. a junction with the Kwangtung forces-Reuter.
Sentence of four years' penal servitude was passed at the Old Bailey on Philip Phillipa, 54, of Humbertson-street, Aldgate, whe pleaded guilty to wounding his wife, with intent to murder her, commit and also attempting to sulefde.
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