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THE FOUR FEATHERS
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1930.
MILITARY POLICE STONED.
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YOUNG CHINESE CHASED IN CROSS STREET.
FIFTY DOLLAR FINE.
Trial Love and True Love
A wild night.
A wedding.
A wakening ! Will compa- sionate Mar- riage. Stand
the test. Come and see. See the man she loathea became her idol en a desert isle.
ADOLAH ZUKOR JEASE 1 LASKY PREGENT
ESTHER RALSTON Half a Bride"
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MAJESTIC
NATHAN ROAD KOWLOON
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A fiue of $50 with alternative of four weeks' hard labour was the sentence imposed by Mr. Lind- sell at the Central Magistracy this morning on a young Chinese who was charged with throwing stones at military police in Cross Street last night.
COMMUNIST PLOT UNEARTHED.
SCHEME TO CAPTURE SETTLEMENTS.
SOVIET STATE FOR CHINA
AIMED AT.
CONFERENCE TO MEET.
SALVATION ARMY SCORNED.
ANOTHER GIRL PREFERS TO GO TO PRISON.
MOTHER BARGAINS.
The case of a Chinese girl who preferred to go to prison again rather than be sent to the Salva- tion Army, came up for considera.
morning. tion before Mr. Whyte Smith this
The girl was charged with haw- The success of Communist king without a licence last week. The defendant denied the forces in many parts of the She had previous convictions for charge and intimated that he was country, the capture of Chang-the same offence and had served merely walking along Cross Street sha and other cities in the term of inprisonment for her when he was arrested.
Giving evidence, Lance Corporal interior, and the tendency of The Magistrate, was, however, un-
last breach of the regulation.
prison again, because it would have a bad influence on the girl's' future. He therefore remanded the case 30 that the girl's mother
J. McPhillips of the Argyll and troops in Central China to join willing to impose a sentence of Sutherland Highlanders stated with the gradually increasing that he was on military police duty
Communist armies, have in Cross Street with Lance Cor poral C. Woodhouse of the Somer prompted the local Communist set Infantry at 10.45 pm. yester-party, says the Shanghai Times, ay when he saw a European drop to come into the open with a twenty or thirty cents. The de- fendant was seen to pick up the declaration regarding its inten- money and was chased by the two tions. soldiers.
Witness said that there was a crowd of people in the street and the defendant gained slightly on his pursuers. When he was about twenty five yards ahead he turned around and threw a stone which grazed witness's leg. After a short chase the defendant was caught, and when searched no money was found on him, but in his pocket was another stone.
In reply to his Worship witness stated that he did not see where the defendant had obtained
the stones.
one else throw it.
These have been announced in the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, the Red Flag Republican Daily News, a number of copies of which have been seized by the Municipal Police.
Beginning with a denunciation of the Kuomintang, tho "Reorganization
Clique," the the "Elimination Clique" and "Social Democrats," the manifesto, urges the Chinese' people to pre- pare for
struggle an armed throughout the country in order to establish a Soviet Government in China.
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could be asked whether she was willing to allow her daughter to be taken in charge of
the Salvation Army..
The mother accordingly ap peared in court to-day and object- ed to the girl being taken by the Salvation Army, all the while sob- bing hysterically and beating her breast with her hands. She said she would rather have the girl go to prison again than see her in the Salvation"Army,
The Magistrate suggested to Sergeant Barnicle that the girl should be taken before the S. C. A.
Addressing the mother, the Magistrate asked her if she would rather see her daughter in prison than getting a chance of learning some honest work.
The mother, thereupon, replied that she would take her daughter's place in prison.
The Magistrate: It is not a
Lance Corporal Woodhouse in-
Special Groups. timated that although he saw the It is pointed out that the young stone after it had been thrown hemen of China are the most im did not see the defendant or any-portant group to be considered in
the revolution, and these are being question of you going to prison, The defendant said that he was gradually formed into groups walking along Cross Street on his which will have specific duties but it is the girl being sent to way home from Yaumati to Tai when the signal comes for an prison. Hang where he lived.
His Worship pointed out that if he were returning to Tai Hang from Yaumati the defendant would not have been passing Cross Street as he would have taken a tram, The defendant was convicted and fined $50.
WOMEN AS OPIUM CARRIERS.
THREE BEFORE THE COURT
THIS MORNING.
armed uprising. In this con- The Mother:-How much nexion it is stated that the General your Worship going to fine her? Union of Shop Employees is The Magistrate:-I am not go- making strenuous efforis toing to bargain with you, I asked enlarge their number and widen you a question. You will be sure their activities, and additional that if I impose a fine at all, it groups of several hundred persons will be one which you cannot pay. have been formed.
Conference Arranged.
The case was adjourned until September 3 for the mother and the girl to be taken before the S. C. A.
The manifesto further states) that large numbers of red fags, badges, banners and literature have! been prepared and are ready to be handed to the various groups when GOOD WORKMAN WHO the moment arrives for the re- volution.
Owing to the rapidly approach- Appearing before Mr. Lindselling date for the uprising, a con- at the Central Police Court this ference is to be held early in Sep- morning, two Chinese women; who tember at which plans will be com- wore arrested at the Tung On pleted for precipitating a general What each in possession of 64 strike, to be followed by an armed taels of prepared opium, were fined struggle... $5,000 with the alternative of six months' imprisonment in default.
The women intimated that they had arrived from the country and had been given the opium to carry, They were to receive a small fee for the trouble.
Five Canton Delegates.
STOLE.
THEFTS FROM D'AGUILAR WIRELESS STATION.
A quantity of wire and metal, believed to have been stolen from Wireless
the
Cape D'Aguilar Station, was the subject of charge of larceny preferred against a Chinese workman before Mr. Butters at the Central Police Court, this morning.
The conference will be attended by 11 persons from the National Railway Employees' Union, 13 per-
A Chinese detective stated that sons from the National Seamen's
representatives from he arrested the defendant at a Union, five
the the mining group, 10 representa- marine dealer's store where When a young married woman tives from Shanghai, six from man was endeavouring to dispose appeared before his Worship in Wuhan, five from Canton, five from of the material. another case, charged with posses Chihli, five from Manchuria, two Mr. James Key, officer in charge sion of 26 taels of raw opium, the from Fukien, one from Chin Tuh of the Wireless Station, identified defendant pleaded that she had Teung, Kiangsi, one from Nanking, the wire as being Station property. been given 30 cents to carry the two from the Canton mill workers As regards a pound of lead, he opium for a man.
at Wusih; one from the cotton told the Court that it might be His Worship asked why
the she miles at Hangchow, two from melted in that form from should have taken the risk and Tsingtao, and 10 from the Soviet material used there. remanded her for enquiries.
is, The meeting place naturally, not announced.
The chief objects of the revolu- tion are the overthrow of the Kuomintang and all, imperialists, and the establishments of a government of labourers, peasants and soldiers...
LATEST PESHAWAR
DEVELOPMENT.
BRITISH TROOPS WITHDRAWN FROM CITY.
Peshawar, Aug. 24.
area.
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Defendant was given a good character, Mr. Key stating that he had been employed at the Station for six years. They would very sorry to lose him.
Inspector Dick, prosecuting, sald the man would, of course, be dismissed from his employment:
His Worship decided to deal with the defendant leniently, All banks, companies and other directing him to sign a bond to enterprises of imperialists are to come up for judgment whenever
required.
Wholesale Confiscation,
British troops have been totally be confiscated and all foreign withdrawn from the city.--Reuter, jonns are to be repudiated. AD The last report on the Peshawar unequal treaties are to be automa
situation, dated August 20th, stat-tically abolished, and foreign POSED AS POLICE.
ed that conditions had greatly Im armies and navies are to be dri- proved. The Afridia were beliey- ven out of the country. ed to have dispersed and the district clear of hostile tribesmen.
SHANTUNG FINANCES.
REORGANISATION BY MR. T. V. SOONG.
Nanking, Aug. 25. Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, is shortly leaving Han- kow for Tsinan, where he will commence the reorganisation of
Opening the sixth annual ex- A large crowd of visitors saw the finances of Shantung Pro- hibition of the Civil Service Arts Ernest Eves, a chair attendant, of vinca.-Reuter. Council at the Imperial Institute, Fleetwood-avenue, Westcliff, daeh South Kensington, Prince George fully clothed into the sea
and.
In addition, all foreign settle. ments and concessions are to be seized without payment of any compensation to foreigners. Chi- nese are to have the right of racial determination under the Union of the World proletariat of Soviet Russia. The abolition of all forms of loana and complete 'abolition of taxation are also included in the programme which calls for the confiscation "of all churches and temples, loan and houses, and the handing of all factories over to the workers.
MAN AND WOMAN STEAL
PAIR OF BANGLES.
Assuming the character and de- signation of members of the Police! Force, a man and woman, who ac- costed Li Ng, a married woman of 26, Wing Shing Street, whilst she was walking in Cleverly Street on Saturday afternoon, relieved their victim of a pair of gold bangles, to the value of $86, before decamping. In her report to the police, Li Ng mentioned that she was walking along Cleverly Street at 2 pm, on Saturday, when a man accosted herand, intimating that he was a police officer, requested her to ac- re-company him to Circular Path,
All manner of relief measures for workers are included in the general scheme, and the Institu- tion of an eight-hour-day fa ciples of the movement.
said that Civil servants were too bring ashore Miss Elsie Taylor SIR MILES LAMPSON.garded as one of the basic prin-
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́often regarded as soulless bureau- aged 21, of Cheshunt-road, Forest crats. "People think," he said, Gate. Miss Taylor, who is a that their only pleasure in life strong swimmer, suddenly became consists in devising harassing dizzy and disappeared when regulations to curtail per yards out. She revived, when sonal liberty. My own experience brought ashore and declined to go as a Civil servant has taught me to hospital when an ambulance otherwise."
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where they met a woman, who was
introduced as a female searcher attached to the Police Force.
Li Ng stated that she was accor Mr. T. H. G. Brayfield, of 8, dingly searched by the other Queen's Building, has been ap woman, who relieved her of a pair a pawn ticket. pointed Non-Exclusive Surveyor to of bangles and the British Corporation Register Both then departed, leaving their H.MS. Cumberland arrived here of Shipping and Aircraft for victim dumbfounded, on Sunday morning with Sir Miles Hongkong, and Surveyor to the Lampson, the British Minister to Burean Veritas International China, on board. H.M.S. Peters- [Register for the Classification of field sailed from here on Sunday Shipping for Hongkong, Canton
and Macao. evening for Peitaiho-Renter,
The P. & O. s.s. Morea,, from Hongkong, arrived at London on the 22nd August at 9 a.m.
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