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August 9, 1934
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT
NULLAH OUTRAGE SEQUEL
ng actually saw him first. I really the first to attend to
Dr. Wong give him any treat- at all before you attended to #Not to my knowledge.
the accused taken directly eward on admission?—Yes. au told us his breath smelled ol, what was this general con- , for instance, what was the e of his eyes?—I made no note his eyes at all.
What was the little girl doing when the boy was being thrown in? The girl seemed to be looking
over.
Did the girl make an attempt to run away? If she did, they were so near together I could hardly
see.
Do you know Michael Pine's par- ents personally?—No.
Do you know any of the parents of the children who were unfor- tunately thrown over?—No. None | of them.
hid you take his temperature? es, but I did not do it myself.
Did you, after this incident, That is the internal tempera-speak to any of them?-No. re, I presume?—Yes, taken in
? mouth.
was
hib did you notice his surface tem- perature, the colour of his skin?- When he first came in he suffering from immersion. His surface temperature would be cold- er. He looked cold and blue.
Did you actually feel his surface temperature?—Yes.
Did you notice and hiccough pre-
c-No.
d you take any blood test?-- I did not take that. Re-examined by Mr. Fraser, wit- ss said that he did not notice | ything peculiar about accused's Tres.
Did you tell anyone of what you saw of this incident? Yes. The first time was to a newspaper re- porter, and then the police and my husband and personal friends.
Did you visit the hospital at all to see any of these children?—No. After Fung Siu Ki, a translator of the S.C.A. had given evidence to the effect that he translated ac- cused's letters, the hearing was adjourned until Friday afternoon.
P.T.O
China. The far-reaching results cannot be adequately expressed.
China's Customs, after securing P.W.D. and Sergeant Moran had independence since 1928, had been produced plans and photographs revised thrice, firstly in February respectively of the scene of the 1929, secondly in January 1932, and tragedy, Mrs. Kathleen Charlotte thirdly in May 1933. "Formerly" Fairburn was called into the wit- I continued Mr. Hu, "all revisions in ness-box.
a
custom regulations had their rea- Mrs. Fairburn's Evidence
sons, and were forwarded to the She told the court that at the Legislative Yuan for approval, but, time of the tragedy she was just
this time, it was not So, as the walking into No. 2 bridge when she
new tariff regulations drafted by saw a Chinese who was standing the financial Ministry, passed by in the No. 1 bridge, throwing
the Executive Yuan and was ap- boy and then a girl into the nul- proved by the Government for exe- lah. The man later jumped in cution. They were not approved himself. He was dressed in a according to the regular procedure, white shirt, dark trousers and 2wearing a straw hat. No one was
on the bridge at all.
She imme- diately called out several chair coolies who were nearby, and two of them rescued the children. She had a side view of the accused.
On July 9, she attended an iden- tification parade and picked out
and the Legislative Yuan again ignored its responsibility in the matter. There must be some ob- jectionable points in the new tariff regulations as they were approved without much consideration. They include the following defects: (1) by increasing the tariffs of all mineral products and machinery, a
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HU HAN MIN INTERVIEWED
The Tangku Agree-
ment Criticised
Mr. Hu Han-min recently grant- ed an interview to Press represen- tatives in the course of which he discussed (1) the negotiations for the abolition of the Tangku Agree- ment at Dairen, and (2) the recent revision of the import and export tariffs.
Mr. Hu at the outset contradict- ed the report that he had cleared up all misunderstandings with Nanking and was about to make a trip to Europe.
Referring to the Tangku Agree- ment, which was signed on May 31st 1933, Mr. Hu said that since the signing of the Agreement, Man- churia was no longer regarded as an integral part of China as the agreement had provided that Luan- tung was a neutral zone and that the area beyond the Great Wall was the 'Manchukuo' territory. Mr. Wang Ching Wai, President of the Executive Yuan, in his declaration, said that the Tangku Agreement included only military and not political matters. Since then, the Japanese made use of this Agree- ment and forced Nanking to carry out the "through traffic and through mail" provisions, while Gen. Huang Fu and Mr. Wang Ching Wei, during that time, still stated that there was no secret stipulation included in the Tangku Agreement, so no outsider could apprehend the mystery of the Agreement. Mr. Hu was of the opinion that the agreement tained more than has been divul- ged to the public.
con-
"A certain diplomatist who had recently returned from Europe, has said: 'Since the Japanese Foreign Office had issued the "Hands-off China Policy" on April 17th, all the Chinese ministers in Europe had received special instructions from Mr. Wang Ching Wei, pro- hibiting them to make any state-
the accused. Her reasons for pick-blockade is laid to the development against Japan. Besides, there
ing him up were that he was very thin and his hair was inclined, to be long and shaggy. He has high cheek bones and sunken cheeks.
Mr. Lim: When you first saw this man standing in the middle of the bridge, were you actually on the bridge or just going down?--I was just on the very beginning of No. 2 bridge.
ment of home industries thus en- dangering the expansion of local labour works: (2) local industries are ruined by the general decrease of textile tariff ratios, whereby en- couraging the influx of foreign goods.
of
were other cables stating that the wishes of Marshal Shek, Chairman of
Chiang Kai-
Military Committee, should not be the National
obstructed, thus the Executive Yuan and the Foreign Office Local textiles are already Nanking are both evading respon- on the verge of collapse, and with sibility for the concluding of the the introduction of the new Tariff, | Tangku Agreement.” they are worse than before. On You said he picked up the boy the other hand, the increase threw him into the nullah, then | luxury tariff ratios is quite reason- the girl and then jumped in him- self. How long did he take to do this All in about a minute.
When he picked up the boy, did the boy struggle at all?It is diffi- cult to see. He seemed to just pick him up and threw him over.
of
able, but awabi, sea weeds, etc., which are not daily necessities, have had their tariffs reduced. If we look through the whole of the revised tariff regulations we can find that they appear to be revised purposely in favour of Japan.
The Customs
Mr. Hu mentioned that the e- cent enforcement of the new Cus- toms' Regulations was a ruin to the industry of the country and as a means of facilitating Japan's continual economic invasion
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