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THE HONGKONG : TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, OCTOBER 1929.
MAKING HERSELF A SWATOW LABOUR
NUISANCE.
OLD WOMAN MAKES ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.
"POLICE SOLICITUDE..
PARLEY.
CANTON PRESIDENT MEETS UNITED UNIONS.
INTO SEA..
DANGEROUS GOODS COMPLAINANT NOT LEGIONARIES LEAP
PROSECUTION.."
NITRIC ACID IN BOTTLES WITHOUT LABELS.
BACK YET.
WOMAN WHO WENT TO-LOOK FOR WITNESSES"
EXCITING OCCURRENCE ÎN THE BITTER LÄKES.
SPEEDY RECAPTURE.
OFFICIAL ATTACKED. A KOWLOON SEIZURE. A KIDNAPPING CASE.
of an-
Swatow, Oct. 4. A Chinese man and a boy ware Stated to be a source
Remarking that It was a serious
Penang, Sept. 28. Recently the United Labour charged before Mr. T., S. Whyte offence, Mr. T. S. 'Whyte Smith, at A remarkable story of how noyance to the police, an elderly Chinese woman -Was charged Unions of Swatow and the su:- Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy the Kowloon Magistracy shis number of soldiers of the French before Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith, at rounding districts met in general this morning, with carrying by morning, remanded a kidnapping Foreign Legion jumped overboard the Kowloon Magistracy this conference at Swatow, and receiv-hand two bottles of nitric acid case for a further period pending from a French transport. "In the -morning, With causing aned with much ceremony and en- without having a label marked in the return of the complainant Bitter Lakes and were recaptured obstruction by depositing her thusiasm the President of the English and Chinese characters who, at the conclusion of a shortly afterwards was told when stalis on
the footpath In Labour Unions of Canton as the "dangerous" attached thof provious hearing, went to Kong the Blue Funnel liner Persons ar-
rived at Penang yesterday. Shamshuipo.
chief speaker. This
moon to obtain witnesses to provat was. Mr. bottles. Sub-Inspector Hoare mentioned Ch'en Sen-tou. He made vigorous
that her husband was dead, that the defendant, who was speeches urging the unions to re arrested on Saturday, WAB a claim their rights, and assert their nuisance and had been arrested | strength.-.- on several occasions. Her licence
had been paid for by members of the Shamshulpo Police Station, who had subscribed towards the fee.
the
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The passengers stated that after the Perseus left Port Said a French transport passed it in the Bitter Lakes. Shortly afterwards they heard shouts from the water and saw a number of people shouting and struggling for their lives in the sea. The captain of the Perseus immediately ordered the ship to be stopped and a boat lowered.
The defendant pleaded gulity, but mentioned that there was
The case was one in which originally a label attached, but it Chinese, who claimed to have had was blown off by the wind:
the consent of the boy's father, The speaker made a bitter at- His Worship remarked that he was charged with kidnapping the tack on Mr. Ma Chauchan, of had been looking up the Ordinad to Macao where the pair were Canton, on the ground that he had ance, but had failed to find nitrisubsequently found by the mother. bron
He intimated protagonist of the acid mentioned. rapprochement between Labour that there had been several amend. The defendant maintained that the On Saturday when the defen- and Capital which had resulted in ments to the Ordinance and woman's husband was alive, while dant was arrested she created a
the formation of Arbitration thought that perhaps nitric acid the woman insisted that he was
dead. disturbance in the charge room Boards. These had been adverse was subsequently included. The and was later bailed out by a
His Worship granted a remand to labour, and had been accom- ofee copy of the Ordinance had friend. She immediately ny in panied by Government regulations not been brought up to date. for the woman to procure her son the gutter outside the Station and
which had deprived the Unions of Referring to the small boy, his to prove her statement. Inter went to the seafront, where much of their power. In particu. Worship remarked that he was defendant was also given an opporly mixed crowd of Germans and were treated kindly she attempted to commit suicide.lar he denounced the employment probably doing what he had been tunity of despatching a letter to others.
and given clothes She was taken back to the Station of men by firms without, the cou- told and was not probably expect the husband asking him to give on board
and food. On arrival of and placed in a cell 45 11 Sont of the Unions,
el to know that a label was precautionary measure.
required.
His Worship asked the defen- dant what she meant by behaving In that absurd way.
The defendant replied that she would rather die, as she, hat several children to look after.
His Worship pointed out that the police had been very good to her by purchasing a licence to Allow her to hawk and she had been arrested on several occasions without having been taken before the Court.
Seeing the defendant had already apeut two days in the cells, his Worship said that he would caution her, but the next time she would be heavily fined.
·BOTNIA OFFICER'S GRIM TALE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
as I could and brought it under my stool. Then I waited for him to move. I thought it was hours be fore he stirred, and when he did my neart leaped, for he moved his stool around as though he was turning his back on me. The moment he did, I knew my time had come.
"I seized the rock and hurled it at him. Catching him in the back It knocked him completely over and I grabbed that rille as quick as I ever moved in my life. I got it too, He was a big Chinese, this guard, and he was in fine condition. He was fully my height and he had 'been living on food to which he was used, also he had had plenty of sleep and I knew that in a good fight with him I was no natch in my condition. I got that rifle and shot the bolt, then I put it against him and fifed, but there was report. He knew it waз useless, for he paid no attention to it, but throw his arms around in aath we grappled,
A Fight for Life.
The conference passed a large number of resolutions, most of them dealing with specific enses of what delegates considered ill- treatment of the workers by the authorities.. A number of officials and companies were arraigned, Not much of a general nature appears to have been done except that self-sooking and rapacious officials were in general terms denounced.
res
It may possibly be taken to be significant that after some time of quiescence the Unions are becbm ing Vocal again. There has how ever. not been any sperinl crudescence of labour activity of the nature of that before the pro- vincial government was establish- ed under Li Chai-sum's moderate regime. Our On Correspondent,
We
At Sea Again.
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Sub-Inspector Hoare, who pro- secuted, later produced a copy of the Regulations which included nitric acid as dangerous goods, His Worship said that made it quite clear. He knew there had been amendments.
evidence.
The
Sub-Inspector James mentioned this morning that the complainant had not yet returned, while the defendant's witnesses had also failed to appear.
His Worship suggested a further remand, remarking, that the case
was a serious one.
Sub-Inspector James replied that the complainant had had sufficient time in which to return
In reply to his Worship, the defendant said he had wanted to take the nitric acid to Canton for the purpose of polishing metal. to the Colony.
Sub-Inspector Hoare informed his Worship that he did not think the nitric acid was to have been used for any unlawful purpose.
The first defendant way. fined $10, while the second was caution. ed.
His Worship intimated that the of the bettles, but later, said that defendant could have the return the Ordinance laid down that such goods "shall be confiscated,"
The nitric acid was accordingly ordered to be confiscated..
TOUR.
"The next day we walked in the daylight and just before evening
came to a beach where they M&C. NEW ZEALAND forced me aboard a junk. They put me below and I heard the anchor come rattling up. Where we sailed don't know, for I was below all the time, but we came to a place where they anchored
And
gut a little sleep. I was awakeneil by firing and I heard shouts and running above me, then they fired back and there was a lot of noise. Evidently the ship firing at them was one of deep draught, for they pulled up unchor again. we went into, three feet of and Water, where we anchored and there was no more firing.
"That night they took me ashore and I saw a lot of fishermen's houses and junks. They took me we Away
walked, all that night. How I did it I don't know, for my feet werd terrible and my head was pound. ing until I thought it would burst. We walked all that night and just before daylight, there
aeroas a sandbar and
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The party sails on September 28 by the R.M.S. Oxford.
His Worship sald it looked very
much as if the defendant had at one time been in league with the complainant in similar dealings. The boy's mother had apparently some information about the child which she had not divulged to the Court.
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Eleven men were picked up. It is believed that twelve men jumped overboard, but no tracé could be found of the twelfth man."
The rescued men, who were most-
the Perseus at Suez arrange- iments were made for the men to
be handed over to the French au- thorities and a launch from the transport came alongside, but as
soon as the men saw the launch three jumped overboard again and began to swim to the shore.
Their freedom, however, was short-lived, as they were stopped by the Egyptian pollee and handed over to the captain of the transport.
ACTRESS ARRESTED IN
HYDE PARK.
CHAUFEUR CALLED TO DENY POLICE CHARGE. possibly never see the complainant Remarking that they would
Marjorie Burton, aged 23, an again, his Worship remanded the actress, of Panton-street, Hay- defendant until Saturday morning.market, was bound over at Mari- Court un-
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der the Probation Act recently, on a charge, to which she pleaded not guilty, of obstructing the police...
Four police officers stated that! Miss Burton obstructed them when arresting a violent prisoner who had just been convicted of being drunk and disorderly.
They declared that she pushed into the crowd shouting "Let the man get up, you brutes. There are three of you cowards to one," and knelt down beside the man, stroked his head, and tried to get between a police constable and ther man. After four warnings she was. arrested.
Miss Burton denfed. that she ad He studied intermittently atdressed any remarks to the police, Cambridge College and won an and said she had her chauffeur early reputation as a poet, philo-outside to prove it.
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sudden burst of firing from right team in Australia, but his now tion of Coleridge's poem was made why don't you be "quiet? They ECHOES
"We fell to the floor and Wahead of us. 1 heard the bullets both know we were fighting for whistle over our heads and the our lives. During the struggling, gang all fell down and fired back. he picked up a stone from the side of the cave and brought it down on my head and I felt the blood run down over my faen
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sopher and literary critic. She stated to the magistrate Coleridge's first volume of poems that when she saw constables run was published in 1769, and thening and a crowd collecting she publication of the immortal alighted from her car and went "Mariner" followed in 1798. to the crowd. "I saw a woman Other noteworthy works of getting excited," she continued. Coleridge are
and I said 'Hush," and I saw a Mr. A. E. R. Gilligan accepted
poor man on the ground. I bent dawn and said to him, Poor man, came an invitation to eaptain the M.C.C.
notified the M.C.C. Committee that, under the direction of Henry, Otto. won't hurt you." owing to ill-health during the Chester Bennett supervised the Albert Edward Miller the chau- greater part of the summer, he making of the modern story which treur, stated that Miss Burton waa. is compelled to resign. The Cora coincides with the allegory. Paul on the spot only two minutes. The Rescue.
"You mittee have accepted the resigna- Panzer, Earle Williams, and Clara
were properly arrested," have the leading roles. Janid the magistrate, "and I hope "Two men were,, with me and tion with great regret, but they Bow
are pleased to announce that his Others in the cast areLeslie Fenton, it will be a lesson to you to mind know. I had received a nasty blow they made me get up in front of brother. Mr. A. H. H. Gilligan, Gladys Brockwell, and Vivian your own business in the future." and fought with every ounce of them, so that I acted as a shield. I will captain the side instead. strength I had. Then something I thought the others firing at us went wrong; I must have kicked were pirates of another gang; I didn't know who they were. The him, but I don't know what it was firing continued and it was like the for I found myself with the same rock I had first hit him with and night on the hill whon I last saw crashed it over his-head with all the captain.. Bursts of flame all. my power. He was in a bad way, around us and I couldn't tell who but he was a game Chinese. We were friends and enemies, were both reeling all over that by one the pirates drifted away the darkness and the firing cave, a dinky light was from in front was swinging from up above, but bullets were coming closer and 1 nearor, The could not smash it, and we were determined to stay where I was, thoroughly tired.
"Then I heard voices at 'the' for I suddenly noticed I was alone. "Meanwhile, the sun was break- entrance and several of the other pirates came rushing in and I ing across the horizon and in the thought it was all over for me half-dark I saw that the people They kicked mo and knocked me coming up were in uniform.. I all about and I was completely jumped up and waved my hands done up.
My head was still above my head and they ceased bleeding and I could feel a huge living. Then they crowded around me and knew they were soldiers. swelling.
That is how I got away from "the gang The pirates had run up the beach and the soldiers were order. young
small
Thought Everything Over.
in
One
"I thought everything wased after them, while a over. They took me away from lieutenant took me in hand and there as soon as I could walk and was very good to me. He took me we went to a house on another to a small salt station, where I got hill, where they kept me threesome.clothing and food and I felt days. I found an old dirty shirt better. and bound my head with It and though it was a messy thing it was the beat I could get.
"That afternoon he put me in a sampan and took me along the river a little to a Chinese gunboat Then they brought me some called the Chu Yd, whose Cam- food of the same dirty kind and mander, T. B. Chen, got his doctor they were very hostile to .me to dreas my head. He was very because I had nearly killed the nice to me and I want to mentioni guard. That third day the rest his name. While my head of the gang came back and they being. bathed and cleared some had a long talk. Then they startadera came up with two of the ed out again and I noticed that pirates who had captured me. I one of them was in the full identifled them without any uniform of a soldier. I don't know trouble and they took them down where we work, but I could only on the shore and shot them right neo land all around.
there. I saw the whole thing."
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NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER IN COURT TO-DAY.
Charges of publishing indecent matter and, incidentally of matter not previously submitted to the Secretary of Chinese Affairs, were preferred against Yeung Kau- kung, described as publisher of the Hoi Sam Morning Post, a local vernacular paper, before Mr. A.W. G. H. Grantham at the Central Police "Court this morning.
Mr. W. D. Owen, appearing for the defendant, applied for a re- mand. This was granted, the case being adjourned until Friday. Bail was fixed at $300.
It was stated by Sub-Inspector Cary that there will be a summonя also against the printer of the paper.
MUTINY AT ICHANG.
REBEL TROOPS REPORTED JOINING BANDITS.
A mutiny of troops bas taken place at Ichang. A battalion com- mander has been wounded and is at, present at the Scottish Mission Hos- pital
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