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TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1932,
A JUDICIAL SCANDAL
Humanitarian instincts will be aroused, if not, indeed, shocked by nows item from Canton to the effect that a well-known Chinese merebant. named Pang Cho-lap, has been executed because he had been found guilty of smuggling
Japanese goods into Kwangtung,
The necused man had been sen-
Canton, is nothing short of scan- dalous.
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SINCE THE EXODUA FREEDOM HAR ALWAYS SPOKEN WITH A HEBREW ACCENT.-Israel Zangwill.
A bridge, mah Jong and whist drive Is being held this evening in St. John's Cathedral at 8.16 p.m.
The ease is important for two retions. In the first place, it will provide Japanese propagandista with support for their argoment that the boycott movement la con- doned by Chineso authorities. Indeed, the very fact that the charge ever came into Court serven to show the influence which enn be brought to bear on the judicial
A Manila warning reports a authorities by outside organisa- typhoon in about 125 Long. E. and 13
Lt. N., moving north-west. tions. There is even i more serious aspect of the matter," namely, that in spite of all talk of judicial reform, in preparation for the abolition of extraterri- toriality, it is made manifest that even the so-called modern Courts.
The annual meeting of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals is advertised to take place on Thursday. June 2, at noon in the board room of the Chamber of Commerce.
The manager of Holt's Wharf has in China can and do exceed their notified the police that sometime between 0 p.m. on Saturday and 8 powers under the Criminal Code.n.m. yesterday morning someone broke This fact is distinetly disturbing into one of the godowns and stole
cloth valued at $3,468. in the face of the possibility of extrality rights being
cancelled
some time in the near future. The whole case, so far we are able to judge Ու the facts published, is a disgrace to Chinese judicial procedure. Unhappily, the AC- cused mun's life cannot be brought back, but we shall be surprised if the case does not attract wide- sprend attention.
tion
year
Whilst working on an electric light at the Hongkong Tramway Company's in Russell Street, nn premises electrician named Li Lam nged 33 years of 208, Queen's Road Weat, fell from a ladder and received injuries to his forehead and both legs, He the wan subsequently removed to
Government Civil Hospital.
The
Hongkong Indian Money- | lenders' Association, Ltd., with itn premises at No. 8 Morrison Hill Rond. was opened on Saturday afternoon, the ceremony being attended by a gather- ing of about 200. Among those pre- sent were Mr. F. II. Loseby, Mr. M. Ackler, Mr. Badan Singh, S. S. Mohinder Singh, Mr. Sirdar Khan and Mr. S. D. Mehal.
POLITICAL FEUDS IN GERMANY
BY MILTON BRONNER
Above are three political lenders who have been murdered in Germany. Left to right-Walter Rathenau, Kurt Eliner and "Red Rosa" Luxemburg. The sketch shows the murder of Rathenau, into whose car slayers tossed hand grenade after they had riddled him with bullets. ~HICAGO and other American | Reichstag--a member of the Nazi
CHICAGO and other American Both
ing gong murders, but post-
war Germany has experienced for The political murders atarted 13 years a kind of political gang just as soon as the revolution war which makes the record of made a clenu aweep of the mon-
WHA
Ger-
Coal Dispute Fears. Britain's mine-nw pers and the men having failed to reach 2423 agreement on the question of hours
An earth coolie named Wu Kan the United States Insignificant inarchy and the petty rulers. And wages, the Government had no
was charged before Mr. Fraser, at the
comparison.
Dr. On Jan. 15, 1919, alternative but to introduce im Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
Karl In Germany, ~ where political-Liebknecht-and-Rosu Luxemburg. mediate legislation for the coal with the theft of two Goodyear tyres
with lenders of the Communists, were industry. It is designed to take from a motor-lorry left in a garage battles have been fought
at No. 398
ever arrested in Berlin. the place of the measure, expiring poning of ortland Street, on the ballets as well as ballota
Detective Ser since the ex-Kaiser Wis over- On Jan. 16 Liebknecht in July, introduced by the Labour
of May 24 Lamont,
who
prosecuted, and thrown, more than 500 persons shot arid killed "while trying Government at the Pleventh hour the defendant broke open the garage have been slain in political feuds. to escape." Luxemburg was
in the lynched." Everybody door, and took away two new tyres, Victims have ranged from last year, and follows much the which were valued at $172. The de- small fry to high public officials. many knows they were murdered. same lines. The Labour Govern fendant was understood to have sold The recent attempt on the life Nobody was ever arrested for the ment had contemplated a reduc- them for $1.50 each! Sentence of
this
balf
three months' hard labour was passed, of Dr. Hans Luther, head of the crime." by
Gorman Reichbank, has directel Kurt Eisner was the Commu- attention to the long list of crimesnist president of the repub hour to a seven hours day, but the Government's Bill preserves
Reports made to the pollee during resulting from political fouds. Drie in Bavaria. On Feb. 21, 1919. The last two weeks of missing drain-Luther luckily escaped death, the when he was on his way to the the 7-hour day inslefinitely, or until such time at the Geneva pipes from houses in Mongkok led to would-be killer's bullet merely Landtag (the upper house of the the arrest of three Chinese, two of wounding him in the hand. The Bavarian Parliament) he was shot Hours Convention is ratified by whom were charged at the Kowloon assailant was a well-known Ger- and killed. The assassin Was the conl-producing countries. The Fraser with theft and the other with an economist who opposed Dr. condemned to death, but this was
Magistracy this morning before Mr. | present arrangements in regard to receiving. Prosecuting, Detective Luther's fron fiscal decrees.
to quickly commuted wages
The political murders tu Ger-prisonment. I guaranteed for one Sergeant Lamont said he made in
ious and as
n result raided many are not the work of isolated Ilow strenuous this Bentence year, after which the parties are
houses in Mongkok where a cranks. They are carefully was enn be seen from the fact that free to negotiate.
It is also pro-number of the drain-pipes were re-planned crimes by various secret he was allowed to go to his es posed to take advantage of the covered. The defendants who pleaded organizations. In come cases, the tate to
the superintend Bill to renew the marketing and guilty to the theft charge, were each "engeance courts" of the secret there. Later he was released and price-fixing machinery, the provi-sentenced to two months' hard labour, organizations first "try" and "con- is to-day prominent in the politice sins for which do not expire un-fendant, who was understood to be nation and then send a represent-
The case against the remaining de- viet" a man selected for assassi-of the extreme Right. til the end of the year. As was, seeking legal advice, was remanded perhaps, to he expected in view until Monday afternoon. of the failure of the owners and
tenced same weeks prior to his execution, which took place on Saturday morning, but the carry Ing out of the sentence was de- ferred in consequence of appeals made for leniency by the man's relatives. Student Associations, 1941 the other hand, appear to have been active in pressing for the man's execution, whilst various publie organisations have also earried but demonstrations urging the infliction of the capital penalty. Ultimately, it seems, and miners to agree, the Bill is likely to meet with resistance by Labour mayhe wlih some degree of relue-members of the Commons and in tance, the authorities ordered the minefields should Parliament- The that the sun's life be forfeit.
ary protests prove useless. The facts of the ease, so far as dispute hanga upon an exceedingly they have been disclosed, are that important point. Both 'owners and the accused man was an exceu. miners are virtually agreed that tive official of the anti-Japanese the mines cannot, in present cir- cumstances, revert to the 7-hour Boycott Society, representing the
day, as they will, automatically, interests of the Municipal Cham-
on July 8, if the present Bili ̧is not ber of Commerce thereon. As passed. The miners, however, anch, be enme into contact with while agreeing, maintain that as a many importers of foreign goods, 7-hour day is the normal mining and he is said to have aided and day, and that if for special rea- sons half an hour is added, the abetted dealers in Japanèse.com-legistation enacting that half-hour modities and to have stored in extra should secure their wages secret godowns considerable quan- | for the period for which the spe- titles of such goods. When the cial legislation lasts. They are case came before the Court, the seeking for the fixing of a definite Magistrate is said to have stated period, instead of the unlimited period contemplated by the Go- that inasmuch as a former Police verment, and demand that during Commissioner had imposed the that fixed period, present death sentence on two officials of should be guaranteed. They are the Boycott Society, two years | prepared to pecept the Govern
guarantee for twelve previously, for à like offence, hement's
its we
wagen
considered it necessary that the months if the Government, in re- turn, will give them a National same sentence should be meted
Wagen
Board, but this the Go- onl in the present case. The vernment have refused, taking the polat
which needs clearing up, viewpoint of the owners that however, is under what possible wages aro a district and not a law the accused could have been national matter. There are clear- indicted. So for
underly wital matters of principle at stand the position, importation stake-including whether and to what extent wages should be re- of Japanese goods is in no way gulated by Act of Parliament- contrary to law. It may be objec-and the situation is critical, the tionable to the Boycott Society, gravity of a stoppage being em- but that does not make it an phasised by the growing signs of offence. But even if it were pos-
an industrial recovery in Britain. now would be
aible to regard the charge: An Interruption
having been properly brought,
A
what justification can be forth- coming for sentencing the necused
disastrous.
The recovary in reported of the to death? The enormity of the body of another coolle who was drown- sentence, taken in conjunctioned when a fifoboat capsized alongside with the nature of the offence (if the .. Benlomond in Kowloon Bay on Friday afternoon. The body was any) is all too apparent. Indeed.recovered floating off Talkoo Docke that it should be possible for such on Sunday but it was not until later a sentence to be passed and carried that it was Identified as that of ond into effect in these enlightened Named Ito Wa, the man was aged 20
of the occupants of the
daya, in a modern centre lika
years.
lifeboat.
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QUOTATIONS.
life
imi-
work
ative to kill him. Usually, the their shoulders over these kill- The mass of Germans shrugged victim political enemy or some ings because, after all, the victims former member of their own or-| ganisation who has been de- nounced as a "traitor."
were Communists. But the mur derers of the Right soon sought higher game,
Dr. Karl Gareis, # Socialist
The blot on Germany is that In all the 13 years one of the murders committed has been punished by the death or even the leader in the Bavarian Landtag. Way in the black books of the life imprisonment of any of the Becrot organizations. He had The following cable at the close assassina.
the secret of the sugar market yesterday!
tried to probe into In many cases it has been re- has been received by Messra. Pen-ported no clue could be found places where the organizationa had guns and ammunition hidden. treath and Co.
to the killers. In many more cases. On June 10, 1921, as he was on where men have been arrested for his way home, he was the crime, they have bean ac-
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up.
One of these assassins present an elected deputy to
im-
at
shot
to
done
never
quitted. In a few cases, they have death. Nothing was over
about it. been given nominal sentences of from one to three years'
The Erzberger case is notorious, Prisonment and usually have been Matthias Erzberger wan the lend- freed long before their time was er of the Catholic Centre Party. During the World War he worked of us secretary İN for peace and,
the state, conducted the armistice ne- gotiations on Germany's behalf and signed its terms. In 1919 he became finance minister of the republic. The monarchists forgave him for signing the armi- stice. He became a marked man. On Jan. 26, 1920, as Erzberger in was leaving the court house Berlin where he was plaintiff in a libel action, he was shot twice. The man who did the only 18 months prison. Erzberger recovered complete his cure, went to a 're- Hort in the Black Forest. Here on Aug. 26, 1921, while out walking.. he was set upon by him two young ruflians, who shot him twice. As he lay on the ground fatally wounded, they pumped two more shots into him to make sure of the Job.
"Are you sure a dollar will put you out of your misery ?"
deed got
and.
to
po-
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Equally notorious ls the Iitical assassinations of other of Germany's leading states- men-Walter Rathenau. Before
the war he was one of the greatest industrialists in Germany. Dur ing the war he was called to high service by the Kaiser.
Rathenau had pointed out that the war promised to be a long one and it would be necessary to conserve all materials like copper, rabher and cotton, for the army. Thereupon, the Kaiser and his Konorals made him controllor such supplics.
of
In 1922 the chancellor mado him minister of foreign affairs... As such ho came into conflict with the extremists of the Right, bo- cause ho enunciated the polley of reconciliation with Franco. (Continued on Poga 9),
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