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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931.
PRISONER'S DEATH.
ALLEGATIONS MADE BY FELLOW PRISONERS.
towards
gontrol south-western
of
PLAN TO DECENTRALISE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
The death of a prisoner. Taang
Canton, June 16. Puf, following a disturbance in While official circles are re- the Latchkok prison on the morn-tleent over the peace negotiations ing of May 30, was the subject of with Mr. Chang Chi, the Nanking an inquest held by Mr. Hamilton, emissury, one of the leaders here sitting with a jury, nt Kowloon in understood to have proposed yesterday afternoon.
the establishment of four govern. Medical evidence disclosed that ments in Chinn. Marshal Chiang the deceased and a fractured Kai-shek to control south-eastorn
kull.
China administering the Central Warder D. Daniels said that he Government at Nanking, Mr. went to the scene of the disturb Wang Ching-wel administer ance and took charge. Ho search-north-western Chinn, Mr. Hu Han ed the prisoners, mustered them, min to and took them down to the parade China and General Chang Hsuch ground. With regard to the disiang to govern Manchuria and turbance Itself, he said that there certain provinces in north-eastern was a sudden yell, and all tho China
The above proposal was prisoners rushed
the originally made by Mr. LI Shih- mee of the Principal Warder, tseng, a prominent Nanking man, There were 23 prison officials and who, however, has
has made no sug- about 180 prisoners. He did not gestion concerning the election see any prison officer using any the leaders for the four govern kind of weapon. The prisoners ments. The suggestion seeks the were using weapons, and spittoons retention of central government and water buckets were, being to deal with foreign powers. thrown through the air. Not one person was injured. It came as a surprise to him when he heard that one man and died. Deceased was one of the best prisoners, and was a hardworking man with i
Merchants Denounce War. smile always ou his Ince. De
Betermined to have a say in the reased told him that he was sick. settlement of the present political It never decurred to him that the situation, and, if necessary. decoured had been injured.
exert every possible influence to Prisoner 7:04. Lag Kee, sald vort hostilities between Nanking that he was hit on the head dur and Canton, about 200 lending ing the commotion. No. 6164, the merchants, representatives of the deceased, was struck by an Indian various industrial, mercantile and warder on the head with a bam-unnein concerns in Shanghal,
Warder assembled last week in the audi Witness informed Johnstone on the same day that torium of the local Chinese Chan- deceased was hit by the Indian.ber of Commerce, when the ques. He never informed Mr. Franks ortion of the peaceful solution of Principal Warder West about it the present politient imbroglis until the following day.
intensive dis was brought up Another prisoner, Wong Choi,
cussion. The meeting was presid corrobornind this evidence,
ed over by Mr. War President of the
31.
The Canton leaders also de- mund the dismissal of Mr. T. V. Soung, Shao Lib-tau and Yang Yun-tal who occupy important posts in Nanking,
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The Indian warder, No. 130. said that he did not strike anyong, Addressing the gathering, Mr. but he pushed some of the pri Wang declared, that China could soners with his hands. The prinot afford to finance anather civil soners were in possession of the war in view of the serious im- bamboos. He did not know the poverishment of the entire coun theispine, did he have
nor
And try grudge against him. ile never monace.
It was emphasized that, struck the deceased.
in such circumstances, it was the Principal Wardler's Evidence. paramount duty of the people to Principal Warder J. C. West uphold national peace and unifien- said that he arrived on the serion, in order that the Govern- when the disturbance was at its ment could devote its entire time
a
נן
construction.
also the
communist
Resolutions Passed.
height, and immediately the prind
and energiest to the anti-com- suners saw him they eased. He munist campaign and national re-
turban warder's saw an Indian
ld not Jeing knocked off. He
een simple prison officer with any As a result of intensive discus kind of a weapon. He disarmed the prisoners,
mers. The deceased haion, the following, resolutions were pusseih by a unanimous vote: 1.That the Canton, situation should be. settled by political
a bamboo pole in his hand. 2211 was walling to strike, but, did not attempt to strike him.
measures.
He mastered them and called
That unstinted support be for complaints. About six men
to the Government's stepped forward, but not the de- extended
campaign, under the personal reased. The two last wilneaspa
direction of Commander-in-Chief were the leading lights. State-
Chiang Kai-shek. against the nents were taken, but not a single
communist-marauders now opera- allegation was made that a peting in the three provinces youth suner had been struck. Woof the Yangtze Valley. Chol novor told him that the de- 3.-That a telegram be dis- reased had been struck by the patched to Mr. Ha Han-min; ex- Indian.
President of the Legislative Yuan, i About 8.15 8.m. he saw the de- urging him to prevail on the Can- ceased sitting down, and was tokton leaders to bury the hatchet that he was sick. It Never
and sink personal grudges for the curred to him to connect it with sake of the country. the trouble. The first intimation he had that the deceased had been struck, was when Dr. Smalley rang him up and said that the detong at Canton, urging him to re- train from offensive attacks ceased had a fractured skull. The first time that he heard that the against the Government. deceased had been struck was on the following day. from the last
two witnesses.
Warder Johnstone said that immediately after the disturbance he took statements from the last two witnesses, among others, bat neither of them had said that the deceased bad been struck.
be
4-Thai another telegramı dispatched to General Chan Chai-
5.- That third telegram be dispatched to Mr. Sun Fo, urging him to carry on peace mediation."
6. That a circular telegram be Issued to the various chambers of commerce throughout the country, urging them to adopt a similar attitude towards the matter.
It was also unanimously decid- Mr. J. Franks, Superintendented that if the appeals to the vari
concerned ous parties
should of Prisons, said that he saw bathprove of no avail, a more decisive the last witnesses on Saturday, manifesto, setting forth the deter- but neither said that he saw the mination of the entire body of deceased struck. They did not merchants throughout the country
so until the following day, to stop any possible civil when they heard that the deceased should be issued. had died. The Indinn warder
No. 130 was a good officer. The
War,
disturbance was the result of from one of the buckets or spit- some resentment against artoons thrown about by a section ticular junior warder, but it was of the prisoners. Everything not against the senior officers. passible under the circumstance The jury then retired and re- had been done for the deceased, turned about ten minutes Inter and no blame of any description with verdict of death due to a was attached to the prison autho- Tractared skull, caused by a blow rities.
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