TRIED TO ESCAPE FROM PRISON.
YOUNG CHINESE DAMAGES TWO CELLS.
THRIFTY INDIVIDUAL.
A young Chinese, the son of a Asherwoman at Aberdeen, was ur- of rested yesterday on a charge atealing a rattan bangle from the wrist of a baby. He made two at tempts to break out of custoday when taken to the local Station."
It was stated that on the first occasion, while being lodged in a call, he all but succeeded in wren- ching the wire grating from the upper part of a window.
Upon being discovered at the at tempt, he was removed into an ad- joining cell, where he prepared for another attempt.
ABSENT WITHOUT
PERMISSION.
SULLIVAN AGAIN LEAVES
THE "HOUSE.”
TO PRISON AGAIN.
Vincent Sullivan, ↑ familar figure at the House of Detention, came before Mr. Grantham at the Central Police Court this morning on a charge, the third one within
self from the House without the
Captain Bloxham, Assistant
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1930..
LADY DOUGLAS.
SECOND HUSBAND KILLED
AT. POLO.
PREFERS PRISON | GUARANTEE POINT
TO HOME.
YOUNG GIRL STILL-REMAINS ADAMANT.
Captain G. F. V. Scott Douglas, the famous polo player and husband of Lady Blanche Douglas, "died in London as the result of an accident; during a pole match at Temple-SENTENCE SUSPENDED ton, Richmond Park, Surrey,
It was a riding accident which No satisfactory arrangements robbed Lady Blanche Douglas of her were forthcoming as a result of a first husband, the sixth Earl of St. visit to the Secretariat for Germans, who died in 1922 after Chinese Affairs with regard to an illness arising from injuries re- the future of a young Chinese a few months, of absenting him-ceived while steeplechasing...... girl who, having been arrested on Lady Blanche, who is the elder a charge of theft, refused, on her permission of the Superintendent sister of the Duke of Beaufort, was previous appearance before Mr. married to Capt. Dougias in 1924. Whyte Smith at. the Kowloon of Prisons.
Capt. Douglas received his fatal Magistracy, to be taken into the Superintendent of Prisons, stated injuries' while playing for the Dol-Salvation Army Home
phins' team in the Young Cup com. When the case, was mentioned that Sullivan first went into the ptition against a Life Guards team, before Mr. Whyte Smith at the House on April 9th. Two days His pony came into collision with Kowloon Magistracy this morning. later he absconded, and on being another and fell on him. A friend Sub-Inspector C. Evans informed arrested and charged before the
his Worship that the S.CA, could Court, received ten days' hard "His pony was moving quite slow-not make any impression on the labour on April 19th.
Hy. Had it been travelling fast girl or on her grandmother. She he would very probably have been had been taken to see the female thrown clear of the saddle and have prison at Victoria Gaol and also escaped."
to the Salvation Army Home for Capt. Douglas, who lived at Luck-her to compare the two places, but ington, Chippenham, Wiltshire, was she still insisted on going to the only son of Mr. Francis John prison. The grandmother was Douglas, heir presumptive of Sir actually the stumbling-block as George Douglas, Bt., of Springwood the girl had, at first, expressed her After again being detained in Park, Kelso, Roxburghshire.
willingness to go to the Salvation Addressing the grandmother;
Re-admitted into the House on April 28th, he was taken ill and went into hospital for a month. Immediately after his discharge, he again absented himself, and, on June 4th, he was taken before the Magistrate and received another month's imprisonment,
said:
RAISED.
FIRM BRINGS ACTION ON FIVE ACCOUNTS.
AGENCY DEFENCE.
Alleging that defendant had held himself responsible for payment of goods sent to people, in Tol Shan District, the Yue Hing Shing Kee. No. 174, Wing Lok Street, brought an action against Chan Ching- kwok, No. 160, Wing Lok Street, In the Summary Court this morning. before Mr. Justice Wood. Plaintiff claimed the sum of $362.51, being the balance due under five accounts stated, and agreed between the parties, and the money was alter- natively claimed as balance due under guarantees in writing,
Mr. E.S.C. Brooks was for plain- tiff and Mr. F. X. D'Almada," junior, defended.
asked for leave to amend the In opening his case, Mr. Brooks amount claimed in the writ by re-. ducing it to $355.55.
A cell guard whose suspicions had been aroused, came upon him; in the act of climbing up the win- dow with the view, apparently of making a similar attack on the wire grating. He was warned, and the hout being a late one, was advised by the guard "to go to sleep".
The only witness whom defen- dant could produce on being charg- ed before Mr. Grantham to-day, was his mother, who gave a ster ling character for her son. "He is industrious and so thrifty that he warned that if he failed to return, member of the Roehampton Hur-his Worship said that if he had agreed to supply. the goods on the was reluctant even to have a hair cut", she declared.
His Worship found he could not rely on the only direct evidence of
the House on July 6th, he asked He served throughout the war Army Home. for permission to go out. He was with the 15th Hussars, and was a
he would be again taken before lingham, and Ranelagh Clubs.
the Court and an application would then be made for a heavy penalty.
He had then said he fully under- one of those who contest those
never returned.
to send the girl to prison, he would have to send her for the maximum term.
After his Lordship had granted leave, Mr. Brooks explained that in 1926 defendant asked to mat to supply goods to certain of his (defendant's) friends in the Toi no business in Hongkong, plaintiff Shan District. As those people had
understanding. should be primarily liable for pay- that defendant
ment.
theft given by that of an eight stood that. He went away and rights, but I feel that we have not she did not mind so long as the they had been put on board a ship
year old boy. He discharged de- fendant on the count of stealing the bangle, but fined him $50 for damaging the wire grating of his cell.
THE TROUBLES IN INDO-CHINA.
Sullivan, replying to the charge, said it was all due to worry over his not being able to get a ship to
completely accomplished those duties."
Woman Doesn't Mind. The grandmother replied that girl eventually returned to her.
In reply to the Magistrate, the woman said that she would rather
On those conditions, the goods were shipped to Toi Shan. After
fendant chopped a book thus ack- and the ship's receipt obtained, de- owledging that the price of the goods was the amount owed. Mr.
go back Home to the States. Also. countrymen against the delusionPrison for six months. than seo Brooks stated that there were five
it
Case.
(Continued from Page 1.)
poverty and sickness. Born in the beautiful modern country that is the Indo-China of to-day, he cannot judge by comparison the servic I have rendere him. He sees only that he is our equal, and that his country is governed plantation, and -administered if you like by complain-sometimes foreigners.
brutalities of their taskmasters,
forest.
They
justly of
Party Distinctions. Finally, M. Roubaud warns his that the defendant was sent to that the present countrywide her taken to the Salvation Army political upheaval is merely a Home even though she could Communist movement engineered receive proper training at the by the Third Internationale. Home.
grandmother,
such accounts.
Mr. D'Almada admitted the docu- ments, and; in explaining, his de- fence, said that defendant was only an agent for the. Toi Shan custom- ers and the principals were known. Defendant had never guaranteed payment or made any payments to Plaintiff at all.
was due to ill-health and a weakness for alcohol.
He asked the Magistrate to deal as leniently as possible with his
They should not look, he says, on Miss Raines, of the Salvation Detective Sergeant Whant stated the situation in an artificial red Army, intimated that the defen that the American Consul was light but under the natural lightdant could go to the Home for six endeavouring to send Sullivan of the sun that shines on Indo-months and then return to her away as soon as a job could be China. found for him on a ship returning
Their traditions, their natural His Worship remarked that he to the States.
circumstances, and their family had great reluctance to send the
month's imprisonment.
Sullivan was sentenced to one structure preclude such doctrines girl to prison but she would be as are preached by Moscow from better in prison for six months being the convictions of the than to remain under hor grand-menced business dealings with him people, and he does not believe mother's influence.
Miss Raines-Could the girl that in Indo-China to-day there
decide? are more than 20 disciples, of
His Worship:-I have not gone their insufficient wage and of the Lenin. The fusion now in process1 into the question, but I suppose were entries of defer.dant having
of being consolidated,' between the "On the other hand, the young the Annamite Communist Party whether she is the grandmother,
Annamite Nationalist Party and this woman is her guardian.
Miss Raines-I am doubting peasants who remain on the soil representing Nationalism on one have themselves also not known the hand and Communism on the other, as I don't think any grandmother, epoch periodical famines. is an inevitable development, forced who loved her child, would do this. Despite our labours, we have not by circumstances.
His Worship (to the grand- to be directed yet been able to ward off all the against a common "enemy."
mother):Your husband has been consequences of inudations or The Nationalists believe that all sent to prison for two months and typhoon visitations. Since we allies are good enough for attain- suppose after that he will be are the masters, it is natural that ing their dream of independence.
banished. Will that make any they should hold us responsible The Communists calculate that the
difference? for that scarcity of material time is opportune by working on things"
ness. the most retrograde passions of the M. Louis Roubaud goes on to people, to extinguish in its Oriental speak of the system of dual Gov-domain the imperialism of the Oc- ernment, exercised jointly by cident. Both parties, he says, as-
that he had never ordered goods Annamite and French officials in seas in a highly accurate degree just band-have been living on the for Wong Sze-fong, but that Wong He has a retentive memory-a | those provinces clothed with the what benefits could be conferred by Proceeds from the thefts of this had himself ordered the goods on gift for assimilation that is aston- status of a "Protectorate", point-union with the other; and the girl; that you have, encouraged behalf of the principals. He did
The Student in Paris.
"Let us take the case of Young Ngyuen, a rich and prepossessing Aunamite youth attending the University at Paris, venturing forth into our Quartier Latin, with a good paternal allowance of six to eight hundred piastres, that is to say, six or eight thousand francs per month. See him sur- rounded by an entourage of pretty fumale acquaintances of a transitionary type, who enjoy the rides he is able to offer in his luxurious car, his tete-a-tete car baret parties and his comfortable bachelor diggings,
ishing. Pleasures do not hinder his studies. He conquers his diplomas. Ngyuen is doctor in medialne or in law, engineer, architect, bachelor in letters.
of
understanding is tacit.
Mui Man-kee, manager of plain- tiff firm, said he had known defen- dant for over ten years and com-
six or seven years ago. Plaintiff stated that defendant agreed to hold himself responsible for the debts, and produced books in which
examining, witness snid that de paid money on account of the goods. In reply to Mr d'Almada, cross- fendant had guaranteed payment, otherwise he would not have put bis chop on the bill. When any one put their chop on a bill they were liable for payment. The de fendant came personally and paid him on five occasions on behalf of the various people. He denied Grandmother:-That's his busi-that all payments were made direct to the plaintiffs by the Guardianship Issue, His Worship:-I believe you
príncipals.
on oath, said banane you and your hus:
Court
The defendant,
.
ing out where the system is open.
her to steal?—No. to glaring 'abuses. He says that a
The little girl, when questioned, not guarantee payments on behalf Union of Convenience. refused to go to the Home.
of Wong. He never ordered any French gendarme in a certin village, with whom he came into "as soon
"Take the case of China," he says.
His Worship sentenced the girlgoods from the plaintiffs on be as it had ascended to to six months imprisonment and half of Kum Leung. is the equal of any good European administration on the score that mintang rid itself of its Callents hefore the
In Pat this Asiatic contact, complained against the power, or very nearly-the Kuo ordered that she be brought Cross-examined, he admitted student, the superior of a dance.
again on that the chop on the bill, exhibit "At Saigon or at Hanoi, when he not having allowed him travelling and its Borodins, and other Mos-Wednesday next when she would "A," was his, and he had put it returns home, all this is no more.
expenses, it had required him to cow technicians. On the other get an opportunity of re-consider there because he had received He cannot participate in the ad-
use his own private car in its hand if Communism is in effect, the ing her decision. His Worship goods on behalf of Wong and had minstration of his country, except
service. "It is not with his pay essence of the present Annamite re-intimated that he would like an also received an account. in subordinate positions. He is not that he could allow himself such a volutionary fever, where and what official of the S.C.A. to be present Mr.-Brooks put it to defendant that that was utter nonsense, and Aluxury," comments M. Roubaud, are the causes?**
that according to Chinese busi- ness, when a chop was put on ac son liable for that debt. knowledging debt, it made the per-
received in French society. French exciseman, greatly Waring, ironically. "thee thou" him in terms with which it is usual to address a house-, servant. Ngyuen begins to feel dis. satisfied!
Acts of Injustice. Speaking of acts of injustice which he himself witnessed dur ing his stay, M. Roubaud con- tinues:"On the same day, I have) seen the Court at Hanoi condemn an Annamite student, convicted of writing a patriotic song, to three years' imprisonment, and a French overseer, who had for a trivial matter, killed one of his workmen by kicking him, to three months' imprisonment but with the sen- tence suspended.
Educating an Enemy. "For on the Saint-Michel and Montparnasse Boulevards in Paris, Ngyuen has not only studied law and enjoyed his dancing, he has also come into close contact with Intellectual people and politicians. He has read journals and read books Freflecting the outstanding opinion's of the day. He has taken part in meetings, conferences and public reunions, He knows that in Paris, "I advance nothing that I cannot "Naturally," M. Roubaud says, one can freely criticise, defame or even calumniate the Government Prove. I give the details and I
and the highest personages. It is
indicate to-day that the suffering" cite the facts. I wish simply to not long before he gives a doctrin- of the people has not disappeared
al form to his discontentment.
"He does no more than to return
our arrival. It is that
since to his home to become one of the suffering which is to-day furnish- directors of the revolutionary ing troops to the leaders of the society. With our own hands we revolutionary society, who in their have fashioned our enemy! Here-turn become the discontented in, very succinctly stated, lies the
bourgeoisie.
origin of discontent amongst the (M. Roubaud here refers to a "Verily my wise questioner upper classes. This discontent- ment amongst the upper classes high Government official with 20 would have been less dangerous if years' experience in
administration) had
Colonial reason
it were not able to come into when he affirmed that the bad dis contact with sufferings of the position of the conquered could lower masses. With the progress come to an end only "with the that we have contributed, we have departure of the conquerors. We not yet been able yet to eliminate shall never extirpate completely. either all the miseries or all the the herb of sedition from the soil injustices.
...of Annam. Taking 'everything into. consideration, we have brought here much that is, good,
Natural Reactions,
..
"First of all, in creating indus-but we have not destroyed all that try, we have formed a proletariat is bad.
of workmen. The peasants, and-
"But the herb of sedition would
ing insuficient sustenance from spread less thickly if we had not the productivity of the Tonkinese given it so much manure.
It is rice fields, have become coal banal to repeat that, in our minere at Hongay, matchmakers it empire, we have certain rights as Benthuy and workers on field and well as certain duties. I am not
M. Roubaud enjoins his country men to take a balanced view when they proceed to examine the causes of the unrest in Indo-China,
next week to consider the question of whether the woman was the lawful guardian of the girl and the girl agreed to go, but the also what the effect would be if (Continued on Next Column)
"Don't tell me we have to set dur watches back again, conductor This is playing havoc with my
►
Defendant agreed that that was the Chinese custom in business, but on this occasion he was ne- knowledging debt on behalf of the principal,
Mr. d'Almada, in addressing His Lordship, said that it was ob vious from the evidence of the books that the defendant was act- Ing as an agent for the principals.. and that the plaintiffs and the principals dealt directly and made payments directly. There was no! evidence as to any guarantee made by the defendant.
His Lordship said he accepted the books of the plaintiffs, and gave judgement in their favour! for the amount stated.
NICOLA STUNT: OUTDOOR DEMONSTRATION
TO-MORROW.
Nicola, the master magician, will give a tree outdoor demonstration to-morrow (Friday) at.1 p.m. on the waterfront at Blake Pier. He will be locked, strapped and buckled sec urely in a straight jacket such as is used on insane criminals. His feet will then be tied with ropes and he will be holsted to the top of the extension of a fire escape lad
der.
From this perilous position he will attempt to escape in full view of the spectators. The feat pro- mises to be both difficult and dan-) gerous, and no doubt large crowds will be attracted to the spot.
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