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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932,
CRIME IN CHINA.
MAN ANSWERS MULTIPLE
INDICTMENTS.
was found in the foreward part of the boat with a wound in her chest. From that the son was convinced that she had been killed either through the explosion or drowned but in the absence any medical Multiple charges, including in evidence it was impossible to show
committed. dictments of murder, piracy, rob that murder had been
Whether Or not that was bery, kidnapping and attempting to destroy a
established mattered not. There boat were brought against Leung Chung-ting before was ample evidence for his Worship the other charges. A man Mr. Schofield at the Central Police on Court yesterday afternoon when named Hon Yau whom the gang the Crown applied for the extradi- Waa alleged to have kidnapped was tion of the fugitive on a requisi-presant and would give evidence.
Accountant'a Evidence. tion from the Canton Government.
Mr. R. Lindsell (Assistant
E.
Ho Shek, who was employed as Attorney General) appeared for shroff and accountant on the Tung the Crown and Mr. Hin-shing Ling tow-bont, testified that in represented the fugitive.
1929, he received four letters, de- In explanation of the charges, manding a tribute of $5,000 and Mr. Lindsell said that the first was
The first of
AUSTRALIAN TRADE
WITH EAST.
MORE STRENUOUS EFFORT BEING MADE.
Among the visitors to Hongkong at present is Mr.. A. C. Spence, Divisional Manager of the Australian firm of
P. E. Scrivener, who have made the
the East P. E. Scrivener and Co., best effort to date to win trade in whoso headquarters are in Sydney, have created an organisation which now representa nearly thirty promin ent and non-competitive industries.
Australia Im Just beginning to realine the potentialities of the Enstern market, and this year much more strenuous efforts are being made by exporters to capture the Eastern markets from the foreign
one of robbery of $300 on, August Pi porting to come from the Chung xporters, Australia has a decided
Hing
Tues.
com communications was sent through the post, the others delivered by and at a stopping pinco called Ang Ko Taul, between Shekk! and Canton
advantage in this respect, as the sen mileage from Australia to the East is far less than that from America or Europe. The depreciation of the Australian sterling, which is at present twenty-five per cent below the English & sterling is also a decided advantage.
Where Australia Fatia,
16, 1920, on the Tung ing pas senger boat at Ang Ko Taul, be tween Chungshan and Canton. The dictails were that the Tung Hing passenger
boat, owned by the Po On
of Canton, Shipping Company
He recalled that night of August plied between Shekk in the Chung-18. The boat, leaving Shekki at shan District and Canton. During I nm. had reached Ang Ko Trui, and some ten passengers had como acon board. Four of these made
their
into his room. They Way were armed, and one of them-he identified him as the fugitive
advertise Australian manu- pointing an automatic at his head,
factures, and, with the exception of reminded him of the demand for a
Scrivener and Co., there are practical. $3.000 tribute and of the fact that
ly no personal representatives. If ne reply had been hitherto forth-Eastern importers are not informed coming. "Let us are how much through the medium of the press, ur of advertising, of there is in there," the man added. by other med
the existence of Austrnilan goods anil firms, they cannot be expected to pointing to the safe.
the summer of 1929 certain threa tening letters were delivered to a man named Ho Shek, the countant and compradore of the passenger boat, who travels to and fro en banrıl
First Episode.
On
From the safe, witness took $310
But although much more activity is being shown by Australian ex- porters, their efforts still fall short Not of those of foreign competitors. one Australian firm has made any
efforts
British and Deminian manufacturers, and if Australing firms would only follow the example set by P. E. Serivener and Co. and send re- presentatives to the various Eastern centres, a lucrative trade would un. doubtedly accrue.
Trade Journal;
The letters were disregarded and u the night of Anguat 15-16, 1920 when the boat was vaynge from Shekki to Canton at 3:40 am, and was off Ang Ko Taut a buat came alongside with eight
in Chinese subsidiary coins, all of People in the East are, on the IL WHA
whole. most sympathetic towards or en persons on board. W which he handed to the fugitive,
the quite a usual occurrence in
with the exception of $10, after Delta for smaller boats 10 take
baving asked leave to retain this passengers from the shore to pas-mall sum, on account of "neces-
would Blow nenger boats, which down whilst the passengers on the "ary expenses."
The four men then marched him smaller boats climbed on board.
The compradore would say that
at the point of the revolver up to the boat's side, and, before leaving when
those eight or ten people got
him to on board four of them
go ashore, the fugitive anid disclosed
"You had better get the balancetion. The Eastern Trade Journal, the An excellent monthly trade publica- themselves as robbers. They pro-ready or we might use guns." duced pistols, threatened the com-
Arst number of which is just to hand, should do much to overcome ignorancé pradore and asked for $3,000 which
in the East regarding Australia, pro- had been previously demanded by
viding adequate arrangements have letter. They compelled him to
Ол shore some eight or ten heen made for its distribution. It open the safe and they extracted other men could be observed, carry- would benent Australin greatly if $300. The compradore would saying rifies. that one of the four was the fugl- Replying to Mr. Lindsell, witness subsidise some such publication, and tive who had seized him by the said he was able to identify the arrange for its free distribution in front of the jacket and threatened fugitive by reason of his being the the East. Advertising and personal him with his pistol. He (the com- one amongst the four individuals contact are the keys to pratore) would say the fugitive was the obvious leader of the four concerned who had seized him by trading with the East, and unless the chest. The same man had then Australian manufacturers realise this, they can never hope to compete ned, on leaving, the fugitive said also told him that his name was successfully with their American and that if the compradore did not pay Loung Cheung and that he belong-German competitors. the $3,000 he would hear furthored to the Chung Hing Tuca. from them.
WA5
Second Episode.
on 1
Bo
Continuing Mr. Lindsell said that the remaining four charges related to an episode of seven or On the night eight months' Inter.
bont of April 24, 1930. the same
from a similar voyage Shekki Canton at about the same
to time, somewhere between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock in the morning, at a place four or five miles from where the previons incident had occurred. the name of the place being Pak Fa
Some of the passengers also left the boat, going ashore in the same sampan as the pirates.
On arrival at Canton, witness re- ported the affair to the manager of the Company. Thereafter, he received no other letters from the Chung Hing Tuen.
the Commonwealth Government would
successful
LESSON-SERMON.
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST. SCIENTIST, HONGKONG.
"Substance" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scicntiat, on Sunday
Another Incident. One night in the following April, aimilar the boat, engaged on a voyage, had reached Pak Fa Tag taome ten miles from Ang Ko Tsui on this side of Shekki), when a The Golden text was.-"Faith is mine exploded against its bows. the substance of things hoped for. The bout was holed and began to the evidence of things not seen."
II; 1.) sink until its bows were submerg (Hebrewn Tal.
Among the citations which com- ed, in some eight or nine feet of
A volley of shola the pas-water. The people on board
next prised the Lesson-Sermon was the Bible, "In senger Lont were suddenly alarm-came from the bank, but witness fallowing from the
hit thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: ed by a tremendous explosion in did not know if anyone was the bow. The boat began to gottle Many people were killed either by let me never be nut to confusion. by the head but fortunately the
Be thou my the explosion ur by being drowned
strong habitation, waiter was not very deep and the through being trapped in the bows whereunto I may continually re-. aort: thou hast given command- boat was not entirely submerged. where there was a passenger com-
ment to save me; for thou art my As she started to sink a number of partment. bandits appeared on the creek Shortly afterwards nine or ten rock and my fortress." (Psalm 71;
came 1,3.) bank, the creek being about 100 sampans from the shore
The Leason-Sermon also includ- yards wide at that particular alongside with between 30 or 40 point, and fired a velley at the men a number of whom boarded the ed the fallowing passage from towboat. Witness re the Christian Science textbook, heat, apparently without causing wrecked
cognized one of them as the fugi- "Science and Health, with Key to any easualtiqa.
A party of 30 or 40 boarded the tive, the same man who had board- the Scriptures", by Mary Baker bont from sampana and ransackeded the craft on the provious occa-Eddy, "Substance is that which on this occasion is eternal and incapable of discord the passenger boat. The managersion. He was
and decay, Truth, Life, and Love was on board and together with armed with what appeared to be the compradore would identify the Thompson gun und was directing are substance as the Scriptures
This RADK
of
armed
use this word in Hebrews: "The fugitive as the man who was the operations, leader of the gang who had made men went through the passengers' substance of things hoped for, the the attack.
and also pilfered the ovidence of things not seen." belongings cargo, some $15,000 worth of which Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or Cod, is the only real substance. they took away, in addition to about 30 passengers whe ware The spiritual universe, including being kidnapped for ransom.
Individual man, is a compound iden, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit." (p. 408.)
Charge "p" (attempting to destroy a boat) was based on the explosion which must have been the work of the gang. The third charge (piracy) arose out of the same circumstances.
Mr. Lindsell mentioned that on the fourth charge, that of murder of a woman named Ng Shi, the Crown's evidence was particularly weak. It could merely be proved that a female passenger was travel- She was in ling with her son.
The launch, which was towing the bont, eut the latter adrift as soon as trouble occurred, and went ahead. It inter came back with a rescue party of soldiers, but by that time the pirates had left.
Replying to Mr. Lindsell, wit- declared that the fugitive was the leader of this gang, from the fact that he was armed with the Thompson gun, and also that he was issuing instructions and point- woman
the female compartment foreward whilst the son was aft. After the robbers had left, the
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ing out what article was to be taken away or what to leave be- hind. The same applied also to the ease of the captives, whose melee- tlon appeared to have been solely left to the fugitive.
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