1924-03-17 — Page 5

MONDAY MARCH 17, 1934 PIRACY. REGULATIONS

Government Replies To Guilds.

ANOTHER MEETING NEXT SUNDAY.

GUARDS FURTHER CRITICISED.

THE CHINA MAIL.

SHOOTING MYSTERY, "

WHO WAS THE DEAD MAN?.

SUSPECTED CRIMINAL

When the body of a Chinese was picked up in the Yaumati refuge last Sunday and subsequent- ly found, at post-mortem, to have a bullet hole in the breast, it was at

be one of the Kwong Shun victims, but the return of the released coulies dispelled this theory.

SPORTING PRINCE.

ANOTHER RACING

'ACCIDENT.

MUCH BETTER AFTER GOOD NIGHT..

LONDON, March 16, The Prince of Wales had a good

The Government has now sent a detailed reply to the representa-first surmised that the man might night and is much better.-Reuler. tions made by the China Coast Officers' Guild and the Marine Engineers' Guild of South China on the subject of the piracy regulations and the document is to be placed before a further combined meeting of the Guilds next Sunday.

Investigations made by the Criminal Intelligence Department: give rise to a suspicion that the in company with one or two deceased was a bad character who others may have attempted to felony at night on commit a

This announcement was made to a "China Mail" reporter this morning by Mr. T. T. Laurenson, assistant secretary of the China Const Officers' Guild, who also took the opportunity of making some comments on the statement by the Captain Superintendent of Police (Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe) defending the Indian piracy guards and the police administra-some small craft in the har tion of them which was published in Saturday's "China. Mail."

C.S.P.'s STATEMENT,

Guild Secretary Replics.

In the course of his statement on Saturday the C.SP. alleged that ships officers often took little or no interest in the training of the guards and that in a large number of cases they neglected to carry but the weekly test of arms and ammunition. Referring to it this morning Mr. Laurenson pointed out that ship's officers were civilians and that it was the duty of the police, and not of the officers, to train the guards. He said that it had always been the duty of either the Second Officer or the Chief Officer to examine the arms once a week and for the Master to inspect them when they were reported clean. As far as his experience went, this was always done.

By way of refuting what he characterised as gross libel" on the guards, Mr. Wolfe on Satur: day quoted the report of the "Sul An" Commission to the effect that the behaviour of the ship's guards on that occasion "appears to have been excellent."

per cent, or two per cent. of the guards who have served in the line. I would go further and say that the great majority of them are useless."

SHANGHAI COMMENT.

bour, possibly a launch, junk or sampan. A rumour is current that another man was wounded.

Visits have been made to hospitals and medical offices but this, nan has not been traced. Yet another view is that this man may have been a member of a gang of Or he may have smugglers. obtained information and have been spying on them when he

Commenting on the correspon-met with his fate. dence published by the Guilds, the "Shanghai Times" observes

Efforts are now being made to find a vessel which is believed to have been visited by burglars or robbers who were not successful. A comb-out of the underworld supports this supposition but until the craft is found definite details

the will be lacking,

"While it is true that we have not a statement of the other side of the case, except what appears in the correspondence, yet the arguments advanced by

A similar mystery which occupi- Guilds must be held to be con- vincing that the new Piracy Reed the attention of the police for gulations leave much to be desired. some time last year is recalled. To require the Master of a mer- One night a constable heard a the direction of chant vessel to resist the attempt shot from

On running up

of pirates already on board his Monmouth Path. ship to obtain complete.control of he saw the body of a Chinese whe

her, can hardly be held to be a reasonable order, unless he is pro vided every facility to combat such an attack with a fair chance of his efforts being successful. Admittedly the guards placed on board merchant ships trading in South China have proved utterly efficient: the officers go so far as to suggest that they are worse that the police supervision of "Did they," asked Mr. Lauren- than useless. It is equally clear Bon this morning, "shoot a pirate. or make any attempt to do so? passengers embarking at Hong- Did the guard in the "Hydrangea" kong is not effective, and, even if piracy make any attempt? No-it were, what of the pirates who all he did was to pass. his arms over to the pirates." "Of course," be added, the guards suffered more casualties than the officers because they were armed and the pirates made it their objective to get hold of these, arms.'

+

engage

passages

At first in had been wounded. was thought that the crime might have been the result of a political vendetta but afterwards it was ascertained that the son of a shop- keeper had been held up by foct pads and had fired in self-defence. He took fright and did not report the matter to the police. Eventually he appeared before Coroner who accepted his explanation..

CANTON INCUBUS..

2

MONEYLENDING MUDDLE.

CLERK'S COMPLICATED

AFFAIRS.

потворенето

THREE INDIANS CLAIM OVER

$1,300.

wwwwww.

The financial complications of a clerk employed in a local bank seemed to puzzle Mr. Justice. Gompertz at the Summary Court

this moming when three Sikh moneylenders-claimed between them over $1.300, due they stated, on promissory notes and 10.U.% signed by the defendant.

11

After hearing most of the evi- dence during which the clerk had admitted signing in several in- stances, for twice the amount he: had actually received, His Lordship said that he would net accuse the defendant of not telling the truth, but he certainly was a bitmuddled.

Mr. A. E. Hall appearing for the clerk said that obviously his client had been muddled and foolish.. He had been harassed and evi- dently did not know exactly what he had signed for.

Singh to Diya According

a moneyleader of Prince's Build- ing, the defendant received $350 in cash and signea, notes and 1. O. U's for $700, on top of which $112 interest, was due, making his total claim of $812.

Mr. Hall submitted that his client had actually received only. $300, and had paid $10 cash as interest.

The clerk said he only received $300, "and amongst other docu- ments, signed an 1. O. U. for $160, interest.

out

Juggling with various figures representing the claim and from statements given by defendant, his Lordship pointed defendant admitted receiving $300 in cash, but his own figures work- ed out at something under $200. Defendant, indeed; was muddied.

His Lordship said that it was usually his practice in moneylend- ing cases to allow the moneylender. not more than two per cent. per month and if he were satisfled, that too much interest had been paid, he gave defendant credit for that.

Basant Singh, an employee of the Dragon Motor Car Co., claimed $216, and Santa Singh $324.

[His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales rode in the Army point-to-point steeplechase,. near

The defendant, in reply to his Wokingham on Saturday, when he made his first public appearance Lordship said he was a married since he broke his collar-bone in man, with four children and was February. His Royal Highness carning less than $200 a month. at Canton,

At the conclusion, his Lordship Swatow or any other port along GENERALS COME AND GO ad a narrow escape in the first

event, just steering clear of three said to Mr. Hall that he thought it (From Our Own Correspondent,) horses that fell at a jump. Hea pity that he had brought the the coast? We in Shanghai know

was thrown at the first fence cases into. Court. He was sure how extremely difficult it is to prevent, armed robbers entering

in the last event, falling some. they could have fixed the matter! this Settlement, so that we can

CANTON, March 16.

what heavily on his head and in Chambers. given to

Mr. Justice Gompertz said he! Prominence is appreciate the difficulties of the

hands. He was removed of a Hongkong wharf police; but if it number of proposals for uniting stretcher to a farm house with his would give judgment in Cham-

He is true that in some cases they all the troops in Kwangtung face bleeding. pretested bers on Saturday. "Sick Of Complaining." Producing a bulky file contain- perform their duties in a desul for a combined attack on the against his removal on a stretcher, ing complaints made by the Mastery manner a full inquiry is call-outlying districts now in the bands saying, "I am quite able to walk." of anti-Sun Generals, and Later, he recovered sufficiently expedition to the North, but it is to return to London in a motor-car. ters and officers of various ships ed for."

Prince Henry was thrown in concerning the conduct of Indian

Dealing with the section of the felt that little will be done.

It is reported that Yeung Hanother race at the same mecting, The Tai Kwong Fo says that guards, Mr. Laurenson said that if he had the time to go around regulations which emphasises the

has sent in his resignation as to every ship in the harbour he obligation of the officers to "resist mas, the No. 1 Yunnanese general, but he was not hurt. H.R.H. the several law offices in Hongkong

Duke of York was a spectator.. have The to the uttermost" the "Shanghat Director-in-chief of Operations Later cables stated that the branch offices to be opened in would get lots more.

but two of his colleagues are said accident to the Prince of Yaumati when the new Magistracy officers." he said, "have made so Mercury" says:

about the "In our opinion this section is to have persuaded him to recos-Wales is not serious. He received commences work there. many complaints

a kick in the face from his horse, guards that they are absolutely ill-advised and the wording of it sider his decision.

General Chan Kwing-ming is and bled freely from the pose. Pitman's certificates in ele- sick of it and they do not report not quite happily chosen. Ships'

tackled by Chinese reported as having held a con- He also suffered a slight concus-mentary shorthand have been. any more. In one of these cases officers,

sion. The Prince was conveyed awarded to Catherine Richardson a guard who had his arms taken pirates, need no regulation to spur ference at Waichow at from him while he was asleep at them on to their duty; but they were present all his allied and by motor to Aldershot but did not and Agnes Dorothy Brown of the his post was merely fined five certainly require to exercise a subordinate commanders. What return to London. Prince Henry's Diocesan Girls' School, Kowloon. fall was due to a collision with a A shorthand class of three was dollars. In wartime men are shot good deal of discretion, in the was decided is not known.

Li Fook-lum. who controls the for that and 1.submit that the interests of all concerned in cop Cantonese troops in Honam island, cyclist who got on the course.]

which

least penalty inflicted should have ing with such dastardly attacks

the south and assume command been instant dismissal. I do not invariably led by bodies of has been ordered to send troops to

have any Chinese desperadoes numerically

there. believe that fines salutary effect upon them at all. far stronger, and 'not infrequently They simply get the money back far better armed than the ships' officers. "Discretion is the better in other ways."

part of valour" in such occasions

OBITUARY.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

made

arrangements

for

begun in March 1923 the mem- bera of which sat for their ex- amination in January last. In view of the short period of study and the fact that the girls are only in class 4in their ordinary studies, this result must be considered

In connection with the case of

Washington, March 15-Mr. MR. BEN JAMES SPITILES. excellent and a tribute to the

teaching given. the late Mr. Spafford, formerly as on others, and therefore to Coolidge received Anton Lang Chief Officer of the "Fatshan," deprive intelligent officers of such and other well known Oberam- Passion players, and who was shot by an Indian guarda right seems indeed, as the mergau

representatives state, welcomed them on behalf of the Mr. Laurenson wanted to know Guilds

It is American nation.-Reuter. why the thing was hushed up and "ludicrous and absurd.""

even more, it is an unflattering reflection both upon their past

no public inquiry held.

Ready To Co-operate.

It is with much regret that we

In the small hours of Sunday have to record the death of Mr morning, robbers entered a house Ben J. Spittles, manager of Messrs in Kowloon Tong where one of A. S. Watson & Co's Wine Depart them held a market gardener by ment, who passed away at his the throat while another sat Warsaw, March 14-A num- residence at 3CB. Nathan Road, on his chest. Meanwhile, the woman occupant of the ground "It is not," declared Mr. Lau- conduct and upon how they might ber of International Instruments Kowloon, this morning.

The death of Mr. Spittlas is floor had called out and those renson in discussing the piracy comport themselves in future ratified by the Chamber includes

of upstairs had decamped. On going "that the piratical attacks. The section in a treaty of Commerce and Naviga particularly sad in view problem generally, officers want to hand their ships question had much better betion with Japan and the Hague the fact that he was about downstairs, the gardener was told over to the pirates. Officers who dropped." The article concludes: Convention regarding the conduct to retire and settle down in by the woman that she had been

of land warfare.-Reuter.

New Zealand, He was almost stabbed in the leg and he arranged went out during the war to fight "Space forbids us dwelling upon

New York, March 15.-The upon his fiftieth year and though for her to be taken to hospital Germans with wooden guns are these matters, and we must there-

three months, it was hoped that he be not serious. not going to hang back now. If the fore content ourselves with stat- Mitsui Company bas issued he had been ailing for the past where the wounds were found to

of Mr. Gaston authorities would only come and ing that the Guilds appear to us formal denial say"well, you are the people to be animated in the interests of Means' statement to the Teapot would be well enough to travel to

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL. · retirement. His condition un- who know some thing about it all concerned, and they certainly Dome Commilles, cabled yester New Zealand to recuperate in his come along and let us have a con- have every right to expect to be day. Mr Daugherty publicly and fortunately, gradually got worse!

catégorically denies the insinuation

Mrs. C. A. Hooper, Mrs. C. W. ference about it," the whole fully considered in the matter."

in Mr. Means, testimony-Reuter's and he weakened and passed

away this morning,

Tinson, Mrs. Tom Gunn, and Mrs. thing could be settled, I am sure.

The late Mr. Spittles came out to violet Chan are passengers on the The North China Dolly News American Service.

Hongkong twenty five years ago as outgoing President Madison." New York, March 15-The assistant manager in ·A· S side as much as to say that weThe two Guilds concerned my "Orduna sailed to day on a million Watson and Co's Wing, depart. According to a Reuter cable have nothing to do with it. It is be taken ne representing the great dollar bond. The hearing of the ment. During his life in the only natural that the officers are majority of ships officers on a Government suit for confiscation Colony he has been chiefly iden- from Paris the report that "M going to resent that kind of think. Obina Const, and as these officers, has been postponed until the fed as one of the most popular Sarraut, the Minister for the It savours very much of Frus- followers of a profession which nor vessel's return. Federal agents members of the Kowloon Cricket Colonies, hts booz appointed sianism. If these people would mally is and nona nnd responsible, only ask our advice and opinion constitute one of the most import-e morning seized twelve quarts Club, Mr. Spittles and his French Ambassador at Washing

throughout is denied in political circles. they would willingly and gladly ant links in the chain of commercial of whisky aboard the "Orduma" bulldog being an inseparable pair ton in succession to M. Jusserand

intercourse in red from the Far over and above the 422 gallons who were known be given hearty co-operation. Et, ir opinions and their sug- allowed for medicinal use under Kowloon and to every member of Instead of that they do the gostions, their requests and their Customs regulation-Renter's the Cricket Club. He was a Life opposite all the time why that demands, should be accorded that American Service.

in a couple of hours. Instead of

that they absolutely put us on one says

- careful consideration their immort

to theance vaurante. The N. 0 Daily

is I do not know."

Reverting again Guilds' attitude in connection News zoce on to ay that this

Member of the K.C.C. and a meme ber of the Phoenix Club,

In Kowloon sporting circles, Mr. Spittles loss will be keenly felt

As a young man, the late Mr.

Reuter reports the death of Mr. Richard Simpson Gundry, a well- known newspaperman who spent many years in China. He came East in 1865 and was editor of the North China Herald, and Times

with the guards Mr. Laurenson resist to the uttermost policy They suggest that with the money. said: "The Asiatic mind only appears to be a mistaken on the saved by the abolition of the Indian Spittles was an earnest yachtsman, correspondent in China, up to lopks to the man from whom he possibilities must be considered, be ponds wets his pay, and that man is the aides the probabilities.The Off such ins we could amply be John's Lodge. He was geneious one of the founders of the China maater. As long as every guard cars tend that as they have to covered is paid by the C.SP. It goes with ddopt the dunk role of sailor and

200 a year per ship). He was a Mason, member of St 1878. Returning home, he was

fighter some sucs of provision unde

That of course, is à con hearted, a genial and good natured Association and was its London dépending in whether the character who will be greatly Secretary from the time of its and de not, but in missed.. Much sympathy is felt formation in 1889 to 1991. In 1905 Meera havo's very for his widow who is in Hongkong, he was President of the Associa that cannot The funeral will pass the Monu tion, and remained in that Office

until 1908. ment at 5 pm, to-day

out further saying that any should be made for their dependants any case orders given by the master of the they get laited and for them stron ship can be Landdenly, dgnored. felven if they become wounded. In lightly be dispored With all due respect to the one stranice is the obvious remedy,

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO' THE DISCRIMINATING MAN.

PURE WOOL FANCY SOCKS IN ALL COLOURS.

2.00 to 8.50 pair.

PURE WOOL GOLF HOSE IN CHECKS, HEATHERS AND PLAIN. 6.50 to 18,50.

SMART STRIPED DAY "SHIRTS WITH 2 COLLARS TO MATCH. ALL SIZES.

6.50.

PYJAMA SUMMER SUITS IN SMART BLOCK STRIPES OR PLAIN COLOURS 8.50 13.50 and 19.50

INTERWOVEN COTTON SOCKS IN VARIOUS SHADES

1.00 pair.

SILK

OR

INTERWOVEN SOCKS RIBBED PLAIN. VARIOUS COLOURS,

2:00 pair.

TENNIS SHIRTS, WITH ORDINARY POLO COLLAR

OR GLAD-NECK. 4.60 5.50 and 10.50.

VERY SMART SUMMER DRESSING GOWNS, IN EVERY CONCEIVABLE SHADE. 20.00 and 22.00.

LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.

ENGLISH RECORDS

ALLIN-BASS

J

THE BELL RINGER

658

OUT ON THE DEEP...

(O LOVELY NIGHT

691

GRAVEURÉ-TENOR

AN OLD GARDEN

MY DREAMS MARY

571

652

DODDS. BARITONE

TOMMY LAD

ILOVE, COULD I ONLY TELL THE.

AT

ANDERSON'S.

Eve thing that your BABY needs that a good Drug bore ought to have you will find in our store.

QUALITY GUARANTEED-TRY US.

THE CHINA DISPENSARY.

Bole Agents:-

82, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Suzuki & Co., Ltd.

SAKURA BEER

DYE KEN

JOHN

China Buildings. rld Post Office Site).

Tel Central 464 & 468,

THE ORIGINAL

HAIG?

Dialflora Markine

JOHN HAIG & CO., LTD MU

Tel. C. No. 135,

Solo Acuts GANDE. PRICE &.00,

No. 5 Quenia Rd, Cal

*