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MONDAY MAROH

POISON IN POT."

STRANGE MURDER TRIAL.

GOVERNMENT ANALYST'S

"HEROISM.”

THE CHINA MAIL.

RUSSIA AND CHINA. SOVIET ENVOY'S REBUTE TELEGRAM TO DR SUN YAT SEN Canton and China's Foreign Relations.

According to a Canton Government communique, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has received a telegram, dated March 23, from Mr. Borodin, the Russian representative at Canton who is at present on a visit to Peking. It may now be stated that, besides discussing with Mr. Borodin matters directly connected with his mission, Dr. Sun has had occasion to communicate to him his views on the group of major questions awaiting settlement between China and Russia. These views have since been elaborated into a body of doctrine relating to China's foreign relations and incorporated into the official programme of the Kuomintang as defined and settled at the Party Congress which was recently held at

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Court this mode Chanone client phu The forty-sixth annual general possession of Lo Più lottery - "meeting of the China Sugar Refin-tho Magistrato (Mr E. WI ing Co., Ltd, was held at the offices on suggested that Mr. Russ of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Coretum in the afternoon. Lid this morning Mr. D. G. Mwould be a family-tee Bernard presided and supporting beung His Worship a description, o bim were Sir Paul Chater, Mestra, în nesembly of about eight FP/White and C. Gordon Mackie tusen preverly romanded (Members of the Consulting Come down for decision, mitee and Mr. E. B. C. Hornell Mr. Hamilton mid thất bề. Secretary) ve dec

Shareholders present were ed a lottery, toket and what Meters WEL. Shenton, C. C. Mr. Russ expressed an opinion that M. SUle, Ec Abraham, Ho Leung, view in revealed to the Bench vine Boyd, A. V. Apcar, P. Tester,Felix the papers were only reco Ho Kwong, G. H: Potts, H Rum that it showed how law-abiding the Jahn, G. Basto, the Hon Mr. Chow Chiness were becoming in that they Siu-ki, Choa Po-sien, Choa Po-min, chose a way which did not infrangé T. N. Chau, E E Ellis, F.-M. P. the law. de Graca, Ho Ki, Ho Shai-kit, H. E. Ultimately it was decided that the Hollands, Lo Man-hin, S. E. da case should be heard with the others Luz A. A Lopes, RE this after

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That she 'poisoned her husband by putting poison leaves in the family cooking pot was alleged against a Chinese woman who was tried for murder before Mr. Jua- tice Gomperts at the Criminal Sessions to-day.. The Crown case was conducted by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., acting Attor ney-General, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Campbell Prosser Outlining the main facts of the case, Mr. Pollock explained to the The telegram reads as follows: in danger of being thwarted by Jury that on January 25 last the

"Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Canton; considerations alien to the inter- prisoner was living with her hus- Prior to the recognition of Russia rest of the Nation. I hope that band in a small village on the by Great Britain and Italy, the your great party will take notice south side of Lantao Island and Russian Mission in Peking insiat of the seriousness of the situation. the evidence for the prosecution ed upon the resumption of...

BORODIN." would show that at all events ever since the death of their child last year they were on very bad terms with one another. Quarrels be- tween them were of almost daily occurrence and the prisoner, who was in the habit of jeering at the deceased regarding his looks, had been heard make threats to poison him. On the day of the murder the prisoner went out at 8 am to drive the cows to pasture. She returned about an hour later and was seen going out again from 'the house shortly after noon.

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diplomatic relations first and con- ference to be held afterwards for the purpose of settling all out- atanding questions Russia and China. Following the recognition of Russia by those two Great Powers, it might be expected that the Russian Mission would take advantage of our atrengthened position to refuse any concessions to the Peking Government.

LATEST FROM PEKING.

Negotiations Proceeding.

Peking, March 30.

Koo's invitation to a personal talk In response to Dr. Wellington with M. Karakhan on Friday evening, the latter pleaded illness Dr. Wellington Koo. and sent, his secretary to call on

Two exchanges of messages occurred on Friday and one on Saturday morning.

pedite the settlement.

Dr. Wellington Koo proposed a modification of the two articles in the original draft concerning Mongolia, contending that Article V. was not conformable with the principle of reciprocity, for whereas China was asked to' re- nounce all treaties and agreements made with a third orty affecting Russian interests, Russia was only to renounce Tsarist treatles and agreements with a third country affecting Chinese interests. The agreement should provide for reciprocal renunciations.

"But this was not the case. On the contrary our Mission not only did not take advantage. of the "Mother, Save Me!" favourable situation, but it made About one o'clock the deceased's a concession of the utmost im- mother and aunt, who were in a portance in that it agreed to nearby house, heard the deceased settling the principles which are impressed by two points in M. Dr. Wellington Koo said he felt cry out "Mother, come and save, to govern the future conference Karakhan's Memorandum of me! I cannot endure it!" The and then resume normal diploma- March 24-(1) That M: Karak women went out at once to the tic relations. Accordingly Mr. deceased's house and there they Karakhan entered upon long agreements, one covering general han admitted that the initialled found him trying unsuccessfully deliberations ending in an agree- to vomit and evidently suffering ment which was duly signed by matters and the other relating to considerable pain. The man made himself and the Chinese pleni- the Chinese Eastern Railway a certain statement to his mother potentiary on the 14th inst.

were preliminary texts subject to and she went and looked into the

"The Peking Cabinet, however, approval or rejection by the cooking pot, anding there two has refused to accept the agree Chinese Government; and (2) that small leaves. Recognising these ment. It has, moreover, repudiat- the two days' time-limit was not as leaves of a poisonous planted the signature of its own pleni- intended to obstruct but to ex- known to the Chiness as "Wu Man potentiary. Keung" or "Ho Min Tang" she "What is this agreement which became alarmed and went away to the Peking Cabinet has refused to the neighbouring village to get accept? The agreement embodies some goat's blood which is be- the foreign policy of the Kuomin- Heved by the Chinese to be an tang, namely: it repudiates all antidote for poison. About 3 p.m. treaties between Czarist Russia the man died and when the and China, treaties which prisoner returned about a quarter deprived China of her sover of an hour later she was at once eignty: "over Mangolia: it estab- seized upon by the deceased's lishes signal rights to the manage mother and aunt, and searched. ment and operation of the Chinese Some leaves of the same poisonous Eastern Railway until China will plant were found in a purse she be financially in a position to re- carried on a girdle around her deem it completely: it turns over waist and later on these were the Russian share of the Boxer As regards the withdrawal of taken over, with the bits found Indemnities to education in the Russian troops from Mongolia, in the pot, to Inspector Dorrington China: it calls for new treaties Dr. Wellington Koo proposed that at Cheung-chau At 8 p.m. the based upon absolute equality, the principle of inviolability of prisoner was arrested..

"How much blood and treasure territorial sovereignty should be Scientific Testimony.

would the Chinese people have to recognised. There would, Mr. Pollock spend before they would be able Russian church property, which

Concerning the settlement of. thought, be ample evidence to to get a similar agreement from was to be arranged by an exchange, show that the leaves of this plant, the Imperialist Powers? What of Notes, Dr. Wellington Koo acientifically known, as gelsemium tremendous effort the Nationalist proposed that it remain in abeyance elegans, were poisonous. Mr.Dovey, movement, hended by the Kuo-dll after the establishment of the Government Analyst, found in mintang, would have to use before normal relations, because the the stomach of the deceased the it could place China on such a Chinese Government was not yet same alkaloid as he later extract-footing with other Nations as is in possession of all the facts-con- ed from leaves of the plant. Mr. cffered in the agreement? Crook, who had made a close "Yet the Peking Cabinet has study of plants for many years, refused to accept it. Why? It M. Karakhan would see the reason would give evidence that in his cannot be because it is contrary ableness of these proposals, adding opinion that the leaves found in to the interest of the Chinese that it was quite in conformity the purse belonged to the nation. In whose interest, then, with international practice for one "gelsemium elegans' and similar was the agreement rejected? It of the contracting parties to pro- pose changes. He was not opposed evidence would be given by the is quite clear. The agreement is to the immediate restoration - Chinese head gardener of the based on the foreign policy of the of relations with Russie, but Botanical and Forestry Depart-Kuomintang sa accepted by the he thought that such a stop ment. Medical testimony would Congress of the Party on the 23rd could not be considered an end in also be given.

January last-it is a victory of itself, and that there must be some Mr Pollock mentioned that in Nationalism for China.

basis to regulate such relation. A making the experiments which Revolutionary Russia has ex Dr, Wellington Koo pointed out. showed this plant to be poisonous tended a brotherly hand to her that the negotiations between the himself adopted what the acting great neighbour struggling for Chinese and Russian delegates Attorney-General described as "nindependence. It has offered a were brought to a sudden stop on somewhat heroic expedient in treaty of peace and amity which March, 14 without any previous that he chewed the stem of the is bound to be the first important knowledge of the Chinese plant himself with the result that, step-on the way to China's Government He argued, there although he had previously been endeavour to extricate herself fore, that to party should take

advantage of that mishap, ..., in perfect health, in about three from the position of a semi-colony. quarters of an hour he began to Yet the Peking Cabinet has re- Buffet from headache, colic and jected it. by stiffness of the limbs and muscles."I am sending to you a copy of *** Wanted Him To Die the agreement to judge for your

Two statements, counsel pro-self whether any Cabinet, aspir- ceeded, were made by the prisonering to represent the Nation, ls of peaceful relations between the both of them she claimed Justified in rejecting it. Your two comiries-Courtesy - Daily

had been falsely accused great principle, of Nationalism is Bulletin.

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Macdougal M. da Rocha,

G. F... V. Ribeiro, C. Savord- Remedios, G. M. Shaw, A. M da Silva, Wang Cheuk-ming, Yuen Hang-kiu

1. As Gratifying Report

Presenting the annual report, the Chairman said

It is very gratifying to the General Agents, and Consulting Committee to be able to present to

EXPERT GUNNERS.

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PROTECTING RESPECTED

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Blightly amusing is an announce you a statement of accounts show ment in the Tai Kwong Po by a ing a profit of $1,615:925:66 for company operating the junk-fowed. the year, enabling them to recom-by-launch service between. Hong mend to you the payment, of a kong and Shek-ki (the capital of the dividend of $40 per share, which Heysham distict which adjoque has only once before been exceed- Macao).

ed in the history of the Company,"An abundant supply - of arros and also to increase substantially and ammunition, says the an- our reserves.

nouncement, is carried to ensure This result has been obtained the peace of mind of patrons, Quick- owing to fortunate purchases of firing cannon and expert gennem raw sugar towards the end of 1922 have been added to accord protection and early in 1923 at a low figure, and that is why all respected per and also to the steady demand cons are respectfully requested to from China during the last few take note, month of the year at prices which Evidence of the expansion of the showed a satisfactory margin of junk-traffic between Hongkong and profit. AMANANC up-country poris is forthcoming The raw market is on a high from a similar advertisement in the level, and although the statistical same paper. Hitherto passengers position now is sound, it must be from Hongkong to the Shuntak silk remembered that high prices distract have had to travel via Can- usually result in a reduced con- ton. Henceforth a launch towing sumption, which alters materially jank will travel to Yong hay, one the outlook. However, we have a of the biggest silk ports in the delia, supply of raw, sugar purchased at less than current prices, and unless the situation: changes; as it may. do very suddenly in our business, there should be a fair profit for the current year, A

may mention that a letter was recently received by the General Agents signed by a number of shareholders asking for the exist ing shares of the Company which are of a nominal value of $100 each to be subdivided into to shares of $10 each. This is now being considered and I hope to be able to advise you the decision shortly.

STOWED AWAY.

Inspector Spear as a British subject. Veko Selgen, described by Acting of British and German parentage who had spent most of his time Russia but spoke English best, was charged before Mr R E, Lindsell with stowing away on the President Lincoln' from Shanghai to Hong- kong

This elicited from His Worship u remark that he did not suppose do fendant was wanted theng particu-

Defendant's excuse was that there was to work to be found in Shang- hai and he had come to Hongkong The Company's Property, to get to Germany Turning now to the accounts, you will note that some of our the proceeds have been written off larly land at Swatow has been sold, and the remainder of that property. After painting out that defendant Depreciation has been provided bad cheated the company of the

on the usual scafe, pesenge. His Worship passed en Some of our bulldings are tence of fourteen daya hard labour. old, and although they may

for

be serviceable for many years

Dr. Wellington Koo hoped that longer, we think it desirable to take TEA COSY SECRET

It seems to be the view of the Chinese". Government that M. Karakhan does not appreciate the sincerity of the Chinese in trying to meet him halfway and to find a satisfactory basis for the conduct

Cross-examined by Mr. Prasser,

on a guinea pig and

a solution of the alle from the stomach ot The guinealy was ill but

eased.

ted him to die, deceased's body, said, in reply to the witness said he experimented improbability, however, Mr. Prosser, that he could not lockargued, that the Lay what was the cause of death ents would have wished He would not swear that death about his death and the was not due to natural causes. prosecution's evidence would go to Mr R. Dover, Gov show that the prisoner's statement Analyst, sald "That she was away from the house stomach of

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advantage of the large balance available this year to write them

down by $75,000. We also recom- Executing a pearch under the mend writing machinery down by Piracy Prevention regulations. On $125,000, which will also cover the Friday, Lance-Sergeant Kirby book value of the old bollers, which | found a fully loaded automatio ris- I announced last year were being tol on board, the " e t

Haiphong

replaced, and must now be written on to the vessel a departure for The difficulty of providing our This morning he made an appli Chinese employees with suitable cation in the Police Court for the accommodation at a reasonable pistol together with a magazine and|||| rent decided us to erect houses 99 rounds of ammunition to be com for them. This is being fiscated. In the witness box be done on the old distillery pro testified to finding on the upper deck perty at East Point, and you will of the ship, among some see we propose to put aside a Chinese fear cosy in the lining of $50,000 towards the cost of then, which the armis, were hereted. which will be something over & His Worship (Mr. R. E. Lind lakh

WPRVE sell) made the necessar

order The need for steel, lighters has been apparent for some time, za it has been inconvenient to depend

un open native lighters, in which h← HARBOUR COLLISION. the sugar was in a way at the mercy of the elements. We have therefore ordered six which will

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be adequate for our needs, and we BLUE FUNNEL VESSEL- suggest appropriating $50,000 out of this year's profits to assist fa paying for them. The total cost will be about a lakh.

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