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DRAMA OF HORROR NEAR HONGKONG WATERS
September 30, 1940. By Ernie Bushmiller
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JUNK PEOPLE BURNED ALIVE, CHARGED IN PIRACY CASE
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WOMAN'S FIGHT Dispersed Armed Intruders
Evidence
AN AMAZING STORY of piracy and robbery at sea is charged by the Crown in a drama unfolding its second and final chapters in the solemn atmosphere of the Supreme Court of Hong-was armed with a revolver and an- kong.
Pre-arranged lamp signals given by a traitor member of the victim junk are said to have brought the robbers, armed with firearms, upon their victims just outside Hongkong territory.
HAVING REMOVED THÈ CARGO FROM THE JUNK, THE ROBBERS IMPRISONED THEIR VICTIMS BELOW, ACCORDING, TO THE PROSECUTING OFFICER'S STORY, AND THEN SET FIRE TO THE VESSEL WITH ITS HUMAN CARGO.
Round Up
Of To-Day's) Police Courts Hawker
Says Police Officer Struck Him
-Doctor To Decide
The allegation that he was struck without warning by the Indian constable who arrested him was made in Central Court this morning, before Mr. H. G. Shelglon, by Chun Cheong, cloth peddler, who was charged with obsfruction in Luard Road.
This was denied by Constable | wp pleaded guilty to the change B676 in evidence.
He said deal was fined $t by Coudr
Jolly, the Magistrate
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Several of the passengers and crow were burned to death aml others severely injured before one or two of the desperate men forced their way through the hatches and set about rosening their companies.
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Despite the fact that one of the robbers who had entered her School in the Kowloon City district recently other with a dagger, a school mistress named Chan Nrol successfully resist- ed thetr efforts to wubdue her, truders attempted to push a handker- chief into her mouth with the polzt
dagger.
of the Chan not only bit robber's finger but also subsequently Kickel aside the man armed with n |Levpiver. She then rushed into the the natisnacity of the prisoners, and eas part of the School where the that was one of the reasons why the alarm she raised sent the two rubbers
tent was drawn to such a way, rushing out of the house, However, he was quite prepared fol These details were given in robbery have the words "against the peace of case before Mr
E Himsworth Du Sovereign Lord King George VF Kowloon Magistracy to-day against
of both
A third LWO of counts in view taken out of the fact that there Would be no mis charged with olding and whetting the
of justice if that was done As the objection of
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Mr Pilziy Det -Sergeant Dowman prosecuted FFEIlsrreKI amendment, Mr. and rand that on the phy said he made it for the pur-August pose of showing to the prisoners the opened
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afternoon 19,
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tie Comissed as in the pracy case which
of opened before the Chief Justice, Sui
man who bad gone there Moolf Martirngor this morning
Partying but the picacy It was only the previous day to arrange about estrel There withough the clustiges against they flarity and not in any way fur- accommodation Were the SALTIR much one of them then be ting home the crime Itself This man beckoned to another person sepatate Counsel hy he was quite prepared to have the outside and when the two were in revolver amendment withdrawn it Mr Fitzroy the house, one produced a Accused were Sin Shank, 30 I thought that would be more in the and another a dagger.
when Testifying, Chan said that Fak-string 40 Ng Yau, 32, Dus Sek- uileresta of his chent.
she resisted the attempts to put the Judge's View var 27 Da Fuk, 29. and Sin Shangg
handkerchief into her mouth she vre, and they were charged with
His Lordship remiked that it did noticed that one of the robbers wha Jury jure pestium and (2) pracy
the proposed striking at that
head and her Valentines
amendment was in the interests of avoided the blow, it landed on her on the side of the road at 10 api.Dumb Man Remanded Mr B Somerset Patzrny appeared the prisoners in that it sinted in on Sunday, and, in spite of the
for the first aressed, Mr HW Lee clear and definite terms what the al-se, drawing blood. warning then given him still The inobility of the sises lal Inter-
for the second. Mr. Percy Chen foregutions against them were low-
N nes essitated the third Mr J had his goods at the spot at 2 prete: to, siled rout
an adjustment in the case in sich the fourth Mr H p.m. on the same day. When be arrested the defendant, the latter told him that he would
omplain at the station of hay-Saturday
Lath stond ing een stuck.
fendant had his baskets of cloth
Mr. *reldon remanded Chan for
hours in custody for
examination.
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The complacervant #i
Twenty persons out of 73 arrested on Saturday
a gambling raid carried out in Shatkiwani als ap-, peared before Mi Sheldon Thei
number Included a few women, and were all charged wih gamblog ex- cept Suen Sun, 25, who was charged with keeping
house.
common
Det. Sgt. J R Syke aid that al the place raided. No. 7 Mong Lung
were in progress. was picked up from the tables.
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Anderson for ever, Mr. Fitzroy had objected to it Macnamara for and his objection was one which
must prevail.
1 for the The mistracting solicitors were Messir IV ( Hobbs, C D'Almada, T M.tolium F 1 Luseby, BN Chou Zumper respectively.
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Details Of Charges luc perticulors against the accused.
cefalion to the Urst count were that they on May 4 and 7, upori the Char Opel seas, against the peace
crew
of
{ It was alleges that the two, defen-
dant piked an envelope contan Sverig Land King George VI documents ไร เพร
Ji ket while the tatter was buying sh
assulted and put in fear of the
mnd lives, The passengers Junk N.. T40801 and stole the ap parel and tackle of the said junk undi 1.250 tris of kerosene and 150 pieuls
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The case was adjourned.
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JAPANESE TRADE DELEGATE DIES
Mr. Fitzroy's other point, went on His Lordship, was a good one because there could not be any peace of King
involved unless all thel
(Reuter) -- George VI
BATAVIA, Sept. 30 prisoners, and possibly the victims, Colonel itsuo Ishimoto, a member of The Japanese trade delegation which ************************** (recently arrived in the Netherlands Fast Indies, has died suddenly at influenza following allack.
OFFERED BRIBE
Pleading gulity to offering a bribe of $1 to Mrs. Mohamed Yousif Khan, Parcel Department, General Post Office, So Wing-hi.
The conference cancelled.
WPN immediately
20, office boy, was cautioned by CIANO FOR ROME
Mr, K. M. A. Barnett at the Cen- tral Magistracy this morning. The boy was seen taking a stamp from somebody else's parcel.
Sept. 20 (Reuter).r LONDON, Count Clano, the Italian Foreign Alister, ended his two-day visit to Berlin to-day and has left for Romne. Another traveller from Berlin, Senor Serrano Suner, the Spanish
of the Interior, who is
The serond Chenil alleged that faecused, "against the pace of Cher | Sovereign Lord King George VI
nsspulled and put in fear of their, ************* Hrves, Leung Yau and other mariners
BUID were subjects of His Majesty's Gov- Minister Street, Arai floor, there were Two ST JOHNS, New Foundland, Sept. Junk T408014 and stole 1.250 ting
wernment. Accordingly. hc large tables at whch games of thee i 20
kerumene and 150 pleuls of salt, survivors, R A sum of $120.50 landed here to-day by a rescue ship and ut the time of the piracy or im- direct that the sentence in question Munich en route. declared that a submarine torpedoed mediately after such piracy, by bind lie deleted from both counts and that
steamers Bouvetankun
ing the hands and legs of one Leung the proposed amendment be dropped the Elibank in mud-Atlantic
Pun-kan and others with cord and in view of Mr. Murphy having ex werk ugo paraphernalia used bore certain for- The survivors believed that it was setting fire to the junk caused the Pressed his willingness to have this called Lin Ting Istand, south of
death of the same U-boat which sunk the City
of Leung and others."
The following Jury was then Yuen, who pleaded guilty, was of Beaures with at loss of 200 lives Assistant Crown Solicitor, who pro- (Foreman), W. M. Groves, An Koong, afterwards, shots were fired and
outset, Mr. J. P. Murphy, empanelled: Messrs. H. S. Dinsdale At the fined $100. The other 10 were fined early in September.
The particular game seemed to be the
an importation from Macao as
tugueno words.
-Si ench, whilst bail of $3 per person was estreated in the case of those that did not appear.
The money picked up during the raid was ordered to be put into the Poor Box
Fell Off Ship
Chased by
Police vilketr
A sampan. He miss his step, and fell into the water before
tress.
This
wns revealed by Sergeant
Michio at the morning, when Yip Ho, 29, sampan mistress, www.d charged with
ap-
Marine Court this
proaching within 30 yards of a ship fying the "S" flag over code pen- nant. The inefdent was given to
the ship.
Max Schmelling,
Boxer, Hurt
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with
words "and at the time tuned in the second charge.
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Counsel's Objections
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a place that time they were near Luntao, and he saw the first accused towards the stern and flash a torch seaward direction. Shortly
A
secuted applied for un amendment to the first count by the addition of the Chan Ah-youn, Wong Man-keung boat came alongside. Six or seven Klang flin-cheong and H. C. Higgs men boorded the junk and herded the
M Murphy sald the two counts crew and passengers into holds, referred to only one act of piracy. | The first accused was seen helping The indictment was split into two, in the transfer of the cargo to the because the first count dealt with the rubber junk while the third, fourth Mr. Fitzroy said the indictment, as crime against the law of nations, and and sixth were also identified as be- STOCKHOLM, Sept. 28 (UP)-Ajfor us the first count was concerned, the second alleged violence which ing part of the gang, report from Berlin to the "Afton was had because it could not be caused the death of a man named About 3 a.m. the junk was sailed board a ship in the harbour yester the German boxer, has been seriously against the pence of the
Bladet" states that Max Schmelling stuterl
that there Wis anything Leung Pun-kan, a statutory effience. by about five of the gang to a point
Realm as day, a hotel runner ran down the.
The Definition of Piracy
some very short distance away. side gangway,
and tried to jump Injured while training
para- there was no mention that the offence
passengers and crew were then all Although the crime was an ancient forced Into the front hold, the hatch ori to
took place within the jurisdiction of
Hay He is now in hospital, and his wife the Admiralty and that accused were one and the word piracy was familiar of, which was fastened down. being rescued by the sampan mis- Anny Ondra is nurang him.
British subjects. These essentials, to all, there was no authoritative was put on the top of the masthole, definition of piracy. As long ago ca kerosene was poured, and the junk, ********** 1698 a famous judge said that piracy with its human cargo, was set on fire.
was only a sea term for robber, but Some of Crew Escape perhaps it could be better defined us Some of the crew managed to any armed violence at sea which escape through another hold and put was not a lawful act of war.
out the fire. They then helped out Continuing. Mr. Murphy said that the people who had been in the after hearing the evidence the Jury burning hold but by that time some show how close the sampon was to Chater Road, a thief unfolded a sack and helped himself to a
Walking audaciously into the Office Appliance Company, would be satisfied beyond all doubt of them had already been burnt to on May 6 a most brutal piracy death and great many severely Defendant was warned to keep new Royal typewriter. As he was placing it into the sack, he several people lost their lives.
was committed as a result of which injured.
The tackle of the junk had been away, but refused to do so, said Sgi. was seen by Mr. R. E. Lee, of the Company, who had him At about 4.30 p.m. on that day a taken away but the survivors manag-
arrested.
Junk, owned by Loung Pun-kan, left ed to sail it back to Cheung Chau the Before Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at the Central MagistracyCheung Chau with the intention of where a report was mado this morning, Li Lam, 23, unemployed, was sentenced to three
sailling to Kwong Hoi, Chinese terri-Police. months' hard labour and expelled from the Colony for five years addition to them there were 16 pas-on Mr. Murphy, third and targe Some time after the piracy, went crew numbered 18 und in for the attempt.
sengers and a cargo of among other accused were seen to things, over
100g tins of kerosene.
quantities of kerosene for sale. The The first accused was one of the fourth accused wo identified by only crow and it would be proved that for one, witness and it was noteworthy some days prior to the piracy. he had that when he gave evidence in the WAS not cross- met the third and sixth accused on Court below, he As regards the amendment pro-different occasions to plan the rob examined on this point. posed by Mr. Murphy, Mr. Fitzrey bory. First accused's job was to tell With regard to the fifth, the only The Australian league finals and said it was not essential as anything the pirates what time the junk was to evidence that he took any part in the which happened before or after had sail and to give the signal for them pracy would be given by one Sin Chuen who was an accomplice be- to come by fashing a torch when the cause he had taken part in the nothing to do with the crime itself.
boat was at In answer to His Lordship. Mr.
conspiracy and in fact was originally Torch Signale
charged with the others. pend Fitzroy agreed that once it had been. When the junk, left Chung Chau, de-established that accused were British the first accused was at the Uller: accused admitted having taken part, When formally charged, the first subjects, his arguments failed com- About T p.m., having sailed away the second remarked that the crime pletely...
towards the south, another member was not originated by him, while the Mr. Murphy palated out that the of the crew took over früm, him, others denied any knowledge. Crown did not know with exactness This man would say that at about Hearing is proceeding, - an
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