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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER
21,
Narcotic Factory Unmasked LETTERS TO THE
By Lone Chinese Detective
FIVE MEN GET STIFF SENTENCES: BIG HEROIN
HEROIN HAUL
country and had been realding with relation, Chan Wing, at No. 13, Fleming Road, first floor. To work- ed as an assistant for Chan, who was n furniture maker. On August 11, he left to join a drug manufacturing company where he would be paid $12 a month. He was taken to the hut in
introduced to Stanley and
who requested
him to
Isecond accu 15s in his hands.
nature of
knead the He did so, but, on discovering the the work, refused to con- inue. Second accused promised him 350 more a month if he would help in the manufacture of the red pills. lio refused, demanding to be set free. However, bo was made to remain in the hut and, on awaken- Ing early the next morning, saw the police
EDITOR
Hongkong Telegraph. To the Editor,
SirThe following paragraph from the very interesting article you publish to-day increases my per- plexity:
"When this work is completed there will be a catchment, six miles loan, taking water from 3,050 neres of the Talmoshan hillside, and will, It is confidently estimated, solve Hongkong's water problem, TIG matter how small the rainfall dur- ing the year.”
It is credibly estimated that the new catchwaters referred to will double the catchment grea serving the Jubilee Dam and that when these works are completed, ten inches of effective rainfall will provide the During cross-examination, witness equivalent of a year's supply of water said the pink sugar crystals found on j for domestic purposen, in 1936. bla hands had been there for about
"It is surprising that you five defendants can stand up and face the world, engaged as you are in one of the wickedest trades In which man can engage, a trade which will result in the physical and moral deterioration of your own race," said Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell at the Criminal Sessions yesterday when passing sentence on five Chinese, including a woman, charged with the possession of 95,000 heroin pills and 37 pounds of a plnk moss containing diacetylmorphine, suficient for a further 50,000 pills. Defendants were arrested at Stanley Peninsula on August 12. Mr. D. J. N. Anderson appeared exception of the woman, had some
At present it takes 20 inches of on behalf of all accused, on the pink stains. Accused were arrested 17 hours because he had not washed.
the Chan Wing, building contractor effective rainfall in the Jubilee Dami Instructions of Mr. M. A. da Silva. and taken to Hongkong, while
otta 13, furniture
A to satisfy shnilar year's maker, of No. The accused were Chan Yee, widow, paraphernalia was taken to the und
first
gave domestic needs. floor, Leung Sze, Li Man-lok, Chau Imports and Exports office by launch. Fleming Road, Cheung-lin and Ylu Kai-ming Corroborative evidence was given evidence that he was related to jast Loung and Chau admitted the by the detective, Wan Ping-kwong, witness, whom he had employed as olence.
Chief Preventive Omeer Buller, and an assistant. The boy had left on Mr. Davis,
11 as he had been offered a August Only A Cook
Job making Chinese medicinal pills. The first defendant, Chun Yee, a About five days later, he heard that 25-year-old
Under widow, said that she his relation was in
Kaol came to Honkong last year from the cross-examination, witness said he country and resided at 157, Yee had heard that the Revenue Officers his home, but denied Kwok Street, Shamshuipo. Until had raided
heroln worked in
knowledge n
certain of December 1937, she
to the paraphernalia found there. factory and then returned
Mr. Anderson then informed His country. She arrived back in the
In July Colony
of this year.
Lordship that he had received no a friend,
alic gained
Instruction concerning the employ-further Through a ment with second accused at the defence of the fifth necused.
where she was arrested. She
The Jury empanelled were Messrs, W. J. Thompson (foreman), Kai Pak-chol, L. G. Marques, Cheung Kwong-ting, R. Steap, Yeung Wing- hong and W. Greig.
Mr. J. Whyatt, Crown Counsel, prosecuted and said that defendunts place of activity was a remote spot on Stanley Peninsula. About 1 n.m. on August 12, a Chinese detective stationed at Stanley Station received information as a result of which he went to the Peninsula, accompanied
by three Informera. They walked thenced work on August 5, but along the new milllary road and then down a sleep and narrow path to the was off on sick leave between August sea. After climbing over 30 yards of rocks and boulders they came to a malahed which was very cleverly concealed. IL
practically invisible from the aca and there was
war
a large nahing net spread over
ver the roof, which served the dual purpose of hiding the shed and, if it was noticed, to alve the impression that i was an ordinary fisherman's hut.
Making Pills
Passage Money Wanted
8 and 11. She did not know the elected to enter the witness box. He nature of their business as she was stated that on his arrival from the only a cook.
If these figures are correct, approx- imately 20 inches in the Shing Mun area alone are at present required for domestic uses and the rest of the catchment areas and ali rainfall over 20 inches in the Shing Mun area are required for non-domestic purposca.
Perhaps some explanation of these Ogures will be given on the third reading of the new Water Bill-It their relation to the proposed new charges of 35c. per 1,000 gallons is also explained-so much the better.
PAR PUMP.
Fiful: accused, Yiu Kal-ming HON. MR. SHIELDS RETURNS
On her return on the country, a little over a month ago la the Colony on Monday after n The Hon. Mr. A. L. Shields arrived evening of August 11, she saw the he had worked as a boiler maker third and fifth accused, but Leung On leaving that job, he had decided short holiday in Java, Sze, second secused, was absent to return to the country to visit his When he returned, she requested mother who
Was ill,
Not having
cook
leave to go to the country, but he sufficient money to pay the return he at once threw his hand in. If asked her to stay that night and passage, he requested a loan from the Jury believed this story, Ilis
the meals.
second accused. He was to receive During cross-examination, witness the money provided he carried some Lordship said, then third defendant stated that she worked in a ginger parcels to the country. He agreed to was entitled to be acquitted but in a case of this sort, the law made it The matshed was lit by six candies, factory on arrival in Hongkong. She this. On August 10, second accused
for necessary
the Jury to satisfy denied having been
on took him to the hut at Stanley. The employed and on walking inside the detective July 31 as a cook in a house on next day, witness saw second accused themselves that thirst defendant did saw all the defendants sitting at a table. The woman
At his request, not know the nature of the material Was by some Shouson Hill. She admitted, how-making "red pil."
on which he was working. Against that she had looked after a witness joined in the work. cooking pots, apparently bolling ever,
On behalf of the first and third the theory that he gave up working water; Leung was working at a pill house in that district, for which sho
Anderson submitted when he knew the stuff was heroin machine on which was some pink received no pay. She denied know- accused, Mr. mass; Li was engaged in weighing ledge of the presence in that house that the Jury should arrive at their was the evidence that he had pink
sugar crystals on his come pink mazs on a pair of senies of four drying machines. She also verdict only on evidence given in
after he said he had stopped working. declared that she had never seen Court. He suggested that they keep The constable, in evidence, said that Chau was making pilis on a machine; | dec Chile Wis wheezing a quantity the Revenue Oflcers or knew that a the cases of first and third accused third defendant was making an active of the pink mazs in his hands. A man in that house had been arrested separate in their minds.
part in the proceedings when arrest- drying cupboard and other parapher on a charge of possession of heroin.
c. The onus was on the third de- fendant to satisfy the Jury of the truth of his story.
and
Crown Caso
the
In the hut at Stanley, she had seen nalla were also the room.
cutting envelopes and The detective told the defendants defendanta
In presenting the case for the to keep still, and while he remained had also seen red pills being put Crown, Mr. Whyatt cald that in the mataled with two of the into drying cupboards and the mak- Jury must be satisfied that the first informers, the other went back "to ing of pills. She was told that the defendant knew what business was Stanley Station to report. About 3 pills were cures for stomach pains being carried on in the hut and had a.m. Chief Preventive Omeer W. 3. and malaria.
alded the
other defendants. He Buller arrived, accompanied by Mr.
submitted that the third defendant's Davis, the Government Monopoly
story was fantastic and that all the Analyst. They examined the hands The third defendant, Li Man-lok,
defendants were members of of the accused, and all, with
Refugee Given Job
Onts on Defendant Dealing with the case of the first) defendant, His Lordship pointed out that the Jury would have to satisfy as to whether or not themselves
the 10, said he was a refugee from the each having a separato task a gang, she was a member of the staff of
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In the midst of terrar ond the raging
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the factory. The onus was on her to satisfy the Jury that she did not have knowledge of the work in the hut.
His Lordship said that the accused were charged with possession of over ninety-five thousand plile and a pink
મ mass containing heroin. Tho low at
After A retirement of seven possession in the case of a heroin factory is that once it is established at the Jury returned a verdict that the factory is making
of guilty.
then all persons on the stat, tem- In passing sentence on the defen- porary or otherwise, are working
Lordship said: "The with the full knowledge of what they dants His
bringing of a verdict of guilty on
are doing. In this case, Hin Lordship all five defendants is, to my mind, continued, there was no possible
obvious. It is surprising that factory, vous,
doubt that the hut was
you
the fifth defendant having adiniited Ave can stand up and face the world, he was working there and aiding in wickedest trades in which man can engaged as you are in one of the the manufacture of the pills. That engage, a trade which will result in was an admission of gullt,
of your own race." the physical and moral deterioration
The third defendant had admitted that, for a time, he was lending a hand In the factory. He started His Lordship passed sentence of working on this job with no idea tour year's hard labour on the what the stuff was, but as soon as he second defendant and three years' discovered the true nature of the hard labour each on the four other material on which he was working, defendants.
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