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THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931.
ALLEGED ASSAULT
ON CHINESE.
REVENUÉ officer appeaRS
AS DEFENDANT.
An alleged assault by n Chinese Revenue Officer on a member of the compradore department of the .. Yuet On was before Mr. Williams at the Central Police Court yester- day when a summons was brought against the officer.
HUGE AREA UNDER
FLOOD WATER.
NEARLY 300,000 CHINESE NELIEVED DROWNED,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
N. Y. K. LINE (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.)
From EUROPE and STRAITS.
The Steamship,
Goods not cleared by the 7th September, 1031, will be rubfect to rent.
Shanghai, Aug. 31,
"TSURUGA MARU," A Government aerial survey having arrived from the above ports, ahows, that practically the whole Consignees of Cargo are hereby In- area eastward of Yangchow and formed that their Goods are being Tsingkinngpu, on the Grand Canal, Innded and placed at their rink in the Wharf and Hongkong and Kowloon to the const, is submerged, with the on Company's Godowns at exception of the walled eltien. The Kowloon, whence delivery may be Mr. MT. K. Lo appeared for the flood urea approximates to 8,600 obtained. complainant, Sze To-kwan, while square miles, covering the most fer- Mr.
G. Clker.
Hall Bratton represented tile alluvial plain and the greatest the Revenue
cotton-growing area in China, with Mr. R.
n population averaging over 400 to (Assistant n Superintendent of Imports and the square mile. When it is re- Exporis, watched the proceedings membered that they are living must-tives in any Tuesdays and Fridays, on behalf of his Department.
ly in mud and reed huts, which the Detailing the facts of the case to floods cause to collapse wholesale, the Court,
that is not even after
the arrival of the co. Kuet in the whole area on which the ark On from Kongmoon on the night of habitanta can take refuge, the loss August 6, whilst the complainant of life it is realised must obviously near a staircase in be enormous. Chinese officiala
was
Todd
+4
thedore's department. tho estimate that between 200,000 and
defendant, after washing his hands 300,000 lives have been lost in a tub, wiped them on the com-ready. plainant's chest. The complainant
al-
No crops can be gathered this
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Co.'s representa- at 2.30 pm. within the free storage Period.
All claims must be presented within tot day or the steampre arrival here after which date they cannot be recognized.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No Are insurance has been effected.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Hongkong. 31st August, 1931.
told him not play and the de-year, anil it is very doubtful whe- fendant seemed to uct annoyed.ther any can be sown next year-THE DEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD. He seized the complainant's purse Bruter. attached to his belt and he wanted to search the man's person.
Further Blows.
Sir Robert's Gift.
Sir Robert Ho Tang has contri- buted $10,000 towards the Hankow flood relief.
Manchurian Contribution.
Peking, Aug. 31.
From ANTWERP, LONDON and STRAITS.
The Steamship.
www.
"DENMOHR"
The complainant requested that the search be made in a brighter
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- place as he had some money in hia
formed that all Goods aro being On the recommendation of Gen-landed at their risk into the hazardous purse. He was then led down the staircase to the steerage, through craf Chiang such-liang each of and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Wharf another entrance and then up to the the three provinces in Manchuria The Hongkong and Kowloon wharf. Whilst on the wharf the has contributed $50,000 towards the and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or defendant
Ilunkow. Relief Fund, while the from the wharvos delivery may be the complainant a blow with the end of an electric
Manchurian Government is span- obtained. torch which he was carrying. The Horing a big scale campaign to en- complainant told him not to strike it more fuls from among firms
Rave
as it hurt, to which the de-and individuals, fendant replied that the
com
No claims will be admitted after Godowns, the Goods have left tho and all Goods remaining undellver- ed after the 4th September, 1931, wil be subject to rent
All claims
steamer against the
fed on or before the 18th September,
1931, or they will not be recognized.
plainant was big enough and could think I care to be a Revenue Om-must be presented to the Undersign- stand eight or ten blows. The com-rer?
་་་
plainant was again struck.
dant
mors,
All bruken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be loft in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 3rd September, 1931, at 10 am, by Messrs. Goddard and Dougian.
You can spend your money lo prosecute, me, On leaving the wharf the defen-
Later the European Revenue struck the complainant once Officer arrived and the complainant
Sze To-kwan then blowing
was allowed to go, Together with police whistle. He WILS again party of others, including two struck two or three times, after inen who had witnessed the assault, which the defendant
Somaed to the complainant went to see atrike him. The complainant was doctor. A report of the assaulted by taken to the Tung On Wharf to see made to Mr. Sum Pak-ming a the European Reyraue Oker but director of the company to which when they arrived the officer was the Yuct On belongs and he wrote not there. After waiting for about a letter to the Secretariat for Chi five minutes he arrived and the de-nese Affairs, setting forth the alleg fendant and the officer spoke to ed facts of the each other in English. the com-
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs plainant not understanding what sent the complainant to Mr. J. D. was Mail.
Lloyd (Superintensient" of Imports
to be struck.
case,
No Fire Insurance has been efected. 41 Billa of Lading will be countersign-
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents. Hongkong, 28th August, 1931.
and Exports) who directed him to
WAS
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. And
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Begging for Mercy. The defendant then took the cam-see on Assistant, when Mr. Lo took Consignees per Company's Vessel, plainant to the Imports and Ex-to be Mr. Todd.
“TEIRESIAS”
PORTHOS.....
porta Ofee. While on the way to. 1st Sept.
After
From UNITED KINGDOM via relating his story from the the office the prosecution alleged witness-box, the complainant
SINGAPORE. CHENONCEAUX... 15th Bopt.
that, near the Hongkong. 29th Sept.
Clinton cross-examined by Mr. ATHOS II..................
Hall are hereby, notified that their cargo and Macao Steamboat Company Bratton, who asked what mutive he Kowloon, where it will lie at Con- I will be discharged into Holt's Whorf D'ARTAGNAN 13th Oct.
wharf, the defendant struck the could ascribe for the alleged ANDRE LEBON... 28th Oct.
complainant, who again asked not Hault. Witness replied that the sigmees' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. FELIX ROUSEL... 11th Nov.
Chinese Revenue officer might have The Cargo will be ready for delivery G. METZINGEN... 25th Nov, On arrival at the offlee the com-rezented being "ticked off" regard from Godown And
on
after 31st SPHINX.............. 9th Doc. plainant was not allowed to Bit ing this “playfulness”. "He might August.
down but was made to aquat: While also have been bribed to attack me." Optional enrgo, will not be landed We can lasuo through tickets to Egypt, Syrian ports, alone in the office the defendant added witness, giving another pos here, unless notice has been given
took down a truncheon from the sibio motive. East Afrios, Madagascar by transhipment on our mail
prior to steamer's arrival bat carried wall and sald. he would beat the steamers at Port-Baid or Djibouti,
In a series
of questions. Mr.on from port to port to the final port complainant to death. The com- Brutton disclosed his defence,
of call to which the option extends. plainant begged the defendant for which was that upon being told to
All broken, chafed, and damaged morcy and was struck twice. Be-stand aside for the purposes of a whore they will be examined on any goods are to be left in the Godowns, tween the first and second blows a search the complainant disregarded Tuesdays and Fridays between the man called Chou Siu-ki, a ticket the injunction and there was hours of 16.45. a.m. and noon within seller on board the .8. Tuet On, struggle in which the complainant the free storage period. was seen by the complainant stand broke his belt.
No claims will be admitted after ing outside the Imports and Ex- Mr. Brutton-You called him the Goods have left the steamer's ports Office, but after the com- "Sze yan molokwai" (Indian devil's Godown, and all Goods plainant had received the two blows corpse) did
you not?
undelivered after the 7th September, the defendant closed the door and Witness repudiated this sugges-will be subject to rent. replaced the truncheon on the wall. tion. He denied having fallen on All Claims against the Steamer He would not allow Chau Siu-ki to the gangway while being taken as- must be presented to the undersigned hore and that it was the Chinese on or before the 12th Sept. 1931, or Mr. Lo mentioned that whilst the R. O. who had had recourse to a
they will not be recognised.
No. Fire Intrance will be affected. complainant was asking the defen-police whistle.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, dant for mercy the Revenue Officer The case was adjourned until | ·
Agents. IA alleged to have said. "Do you Monday.
Hongkong, 91st August, 1031.
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