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CHINESE RESTAURANT DEFRAUDED.

ACCOUNTANT PLEADS GUILTY. VARIED CAREER ABROAD.

TRADE UNIONS,

| HAVE THEY EXCEEDED THEIR

PURPOSET

LOCALAÝ.M.C.A, DEBATE,

Various aspects of Trade Union:

Last week the police reports con- Many people in Hong Kong will tained a paragraph to the effect learn with regret of the death in tam were discussed at the Euro- that the Chinese accountant of the Vancouver General Hospital on peau Y.M.C.A. last night when the Man Kwok restaurant, No. 8 Hill October 11 of Mr. Charles Stuart motion was debated "That the Road, had absconded with a sum of for some years resident in the Trade Union movement has exceed- money belonging to the restaurant Colony and identified with

The man bas aizco been arrested

extent

of

Mr. A. C. Howell led for the

by the police on a warrant, and this Messrs. William Powell, Limited.ed its purpose." morning Sergeant Whant of No. 7 As a man of refined taste, good Police Station charged him before education, and wide business ex-affirmative, seconded by Mr. W. L Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central perience many people had learned Walker; Mr. A. Dand led for the Magistracy.

to trust to his unerring judg-negative, seconded by Mr. E. R. The accused was charged on two ment in his business dealings. Price. counts as follow:-

He was born in Rothes and For the affirmative it was claimed (1) Falsifying the books of the obtained his education first in that the object for which Trado restaurant to the

Elgin and later in Aberdeen; he Unionism had been founded was for $5,253,30, and

(2) Embezzlement of $8,658.69 spoke Gaelic and German fluently. benefit purposes and the improve- His career began in Elgin, ment of living conditions and wages belonging to the restaurant.

The accused pleaded "guilty" to where his family have business by arbitration. The economic wea- interests and later he went to pon of the strike had not been in- Edinburgh, where he joined a cluded in the objects of the found- in Leith, era, and even more did this apply Replying to the Magistrate, Ser- then leading firm geant Whant said that the charges lessrs. Taylor and Mairn, and in the case of "sympathetic, strikes represented two separate, suma of gained his shipping experience. in which the workers of an industry money. The sum relating to the On this firm being dissolved he not concerned in any issue withdrew falsification charge was alleged to joined Mesars. J. & R. Allen and their labour although they were not have been taken by the accused later Messrs. Robert Maule & Son, affected. The Trade Unionism of from time to time, and he had spent from which he resigned prior to its founders was not concerned with the money as he went along. The proceeding to Canada in 1906. He political issues and the institution money the accused was alleged to had many friends in Edinburgh. of a compulsory political levy by have embezzled, he took from the manager'a safe, the key of which who regretted his departure as which members were obliged to con- he had been an enthusiastic tribute to a political party had gone

both charges.

Kept Collections of Cash.

was in the accused's possession, be-

fore he absconded. The faisifica-worker in connection with the far beyond the original purpose of Association of the movement. As a result of the tions were made to cover the first Shopkeepers' lot of money taken by the accused, which he was Shorthand Reporter activities of agitators and extrem- who had collected at various times and Secretary for many years.. ists and also of the association of in different quantities from the cus- On his arrival in Canada he the movement with that of Soviet tomers of the restaurant and con- joined the Robert Simpson Com Russia, feelings had been engender- verted to his own use.

pany, of Toronto, where he fur-ed which had resulted in "class The Magisrate pointed out that Ifther extended his business ex war" and great bitterness. the second lot of money was taken

The Opposition.

For the negative it was pointed

from the manager's safe, then the perience in catering for mining, offence was not embezzlement but prospecting, and camp equipment larceny. His Worship explained with marked success, giving per- that if the accused had collected fect satisfaction to his customers, out that at the Trade Union Con- $10 for the firm and put it straight thereby gaining the respect of his gress at Edinburgh In September, old, old story. No sooner does into hia pocket, it would employers and their regret when relations had been broken off with

once he resigned in 1915 to come East, Russia and Communists expelled'

but

one man appear in the role be embezzlement,

the money hns passed to He joined William Powell & from membership of the movement.

of Commander-in-Chief of the the custody of the manager's safe Co. on his arrival and continued The "class war which was attri- Canton, Garrison, with the full and was subsequently taken out by in their employment for over nine buted to the effect of Trade Union-

the accused, the accused's action power of controlling the whole was larceny. This was in spite of years. He also served during the ism was an outcome of the condi- War in the Canadian and Hong|tions of labour imposed on the work- city and province in his hands, the fact that the accused had po Kong Defence Corps. In all his era in the past; also of the arbitrary

session of the safe key. However, than another Richmond appears his. Worship decided to proceed stay East he followed his busi-and unfair action of the owners in on the scene with designs on the with the case as the charge could ness without a holiday, although such disputes as had resulted in the it was evident from the earliest last coal stoppage when the find- man at the helm. Obviously Can-be altered later.

days of his residence that the ings of the Government Commission Refund of a Draft. ton cannot stand to benefit. It

climate did not agree with him, were ignored and the voluntary of- must inevitably lead to a state of from his Worship, Sergeant Whant He was one of the "Scots" not fer of the miners for a reduction of

Replying to another question

built for the Orient.

wages if the report was put into unrest and disquietude that must said that there was a chance of re- He returned to Canada in 1926 opération was turned down. retard the economic progress of covering a part of the money form

The growth of Trade Unionism ing the subject of the second where he was for some time con- the city. This, in turn, must be charge. He said that there was a nected with lumber camps and was traced and its work in estab reflected in the relations of Hong sight draft for $7,000 Shanghai later was Accountant and Store-lishing decent standards of life, Kong and Canton, commercial and money, worth $6,616 Hong Kong keeper of the Bella Bella Hospital, training work folk in the arts of currency issued by the bank Vancouver Island. In all he was loyalty, establishing a partnership otherwise. That is the most.reing department of Wing On Com 21 years abroad without return for the workers in the regulation grettable part of the whole mat-second of this draft was handed to drawing to a close while he was benefits and its partnership with the pany on their Shanghai office. The ing to his native land, his life of industry, the carrying out of ter from the viewpoint of this the accused, whilst the first was yet in his prime.

Government in the administration Colony. It appears that no soon-sent to Shanghai by Wing On's, who

Although his parents are dead with had already communicated er is some semblance of order their Shanghai office to stop pay he leaves many relatives in Scot of achemes of social insurance. So established in Canton, with the ment on the draft.

land to mourn his loss. We under-far from exceeding its purpose, The second of the draft the ac-stand that he leaves a wife and there was much yet to be done in the establishing of yet more satis- prospects of a period of compara- cused had sent to a boarding house daughter in the Colony, also 蟲

factory standards of living and tive prosperity. for the trade of in Shanghai to be kept until his sister and brother-in-law.

wages in order that the economio both centres, than a development already written to Shanghai to arrival there, but the accused had

ideal of Trade Unionism might be of the kind that occurred yes have it returned to Hong Kong.

atil further pressed on with to a aatisfactory outcome-the creation terday upsets everything and However, even without the second,

of the maximum amount of wealth the Sergeant did not think that leaves traders and shippers won- there would be difficulty in secur-

consistent with the well-being of the dering exactly where they are.ing the refund by Wing On's of the

producers, and the just distribution of the wealth. so created. There were some sight signs value of the draft to the complain-

anta. not long ago of Canton learning The accused, the Sergeant added, SCOTT FON-DER-ROPP. On cense--in its own interests and had been 15 months in the em ploy of the restaurant and was a November 10, 1927, at the Bri-co-operating with Kwangsi in an distant relative of the manager, who tish Consulate-General, Shang- hal, by Mr. E. G. Jamieson, effort to consolidate the interests was present in Court as complain- C.B.E., and at the Union of the "Two Kwangs" indepen- The complainant admitted to the

A full house greeted Mr. Charles Church by the Rev. John Dardently of any warring or strife in Magistrate that the accused was his Chamier's third revue last night sidy, Chairman of the Literary and roch, Irwin Joseph Villington

relative. Scott, eldest son of Major and the North. Only a couple of days Mr. Lindsell: Why should he do and, judging by the sustained and Debating Committee. Mrs. H. W. V. Scott, Richmond, ago--on the departure of General this? I think your Worship had hearty laughter and applause, Mr. Chamier is to be congratulated on to Natalla Fon-der-Ropp, only

having picked another.. "winner." daughter of the late W. W. Li Chai-sum, it was made evid- better ask him.

Why He Did It! Fon-der-Ropp, Shanghai.

The opening item, "Babbly," was a ent that in the supposed inter- Mr. Lindsell (to accused): Can most novel and intriguing prelude ests of Nationalist reconciliation, you give any reason for robbing to an evening replete with good

your employers like this of nearly things. Hong Kong, Friday, Nov. 18, 1927. Canton was still bent on having $14,0007

a finger in the pie as regards Nanking and determined to be re- presented at a convention that might prove nugatory. The policy of such a step, of course, is beyond our jurisdiction. All

KATEM-On November 10, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shang- hal, to Mr. and Mrs. N. Katem, a daughter.

MARRIAGE,

CANTON SUPREMACY,

Until reliable and fuller in formation is forthcoming from

ant.

to meet.

"OUR CABARET.”

"HONI SOIT" AT THE STAR THEATRE.

ANOTHER SUCCESS.

After several speeches had been delivered from the hall, the motion that the Trade Union Movement has exceeded its Purpose was put to the mecting and defeated by a majority of two.

The Chairman was Mr. P. S. Cas

DAMAGE TO LIFE.

KEROSINE INSIDE TYPHOON SHELTER.

Accused: I had heavy expenses plauded for her rendition of the Malle. Henkina was warmly ap-

Aria from La Boheme. The 'Dis- What kind of expenses, gambling, orderly Room was retained in the HEAVY MARINE COURT FINE. I suppose?-I never gambled in

to ap- Hong Kong, but did so in the coun-propriate accompanying roars of

programme, and marched

"I regard this as a most serious try.

At the conclusion Mr. Lindsell: In the country? this most originally funny sketch anchorage with 200 tins of kerosene

laughter.

of offence. By going into the typhoon Macao la more probable I suppose. the curtain was repeatedly raised.

.

Canton it would be premature to that we in this Colony desire to Whant, who said that there was fed for having written one of the lives and property of many other On the application of Sergeant! Mt. Billy Bray is to be commend aboard you were endangering the possibility of obtaining a further funniest Military burlesques os-people in the event of fire breaking relatives if the Magistrate would sum of money from the accused's tant..

out," said Lt.-Comdr. G. F. Hole, grant time, sentence was suspended facile pen is "Local Colour. This Marine Court this morning in aning Another aketch from Mr. Bray's R.N., Harbour Master, at the and the accused remanded in police item ranges from stark tragedy the master of a trading funk with custody until November 26.

to roaring farce, and has an extra dangerous goods aboard, $100 or ordinarily funny and uexpected three months' imprisonment for ending.

dwell too much on the coup of the

see is a settled Kwangtung with Ironsides so soon after General Lii

civil war and internal friction a Chai-sum had left for Shanghai. thing of the past, for, as has so Messages to hand speak of a Com often been reiterated, on the munist coup and of the city now being in the hands of the Reds. the commercial progress of Hong prosperity of that province hinges This does not altogether coincide Kong. If they will fight among with the facts preceding the coup, themselves in Canton, however,

ALLEGED MURDER.

as reported day by day in the we can do no more than express CHINESE COOLIE BEFORE THE

"China Mail." Differences of

B note of regret the while we

tic strain of mind amid so much. that makes for pessimism.

LADY HELD UP.

ROBBERY NEAR ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

COURT.

A WEEK'S REMAND.

The Sisters Vivienne offered one anchoring in Yaumati typhoon shel- of their popular pas de deux ter yesterday.ja and won well merited applause.

Another case before His Worship The genial Charles Chamler, was that of a junk employee charg

Charles Mason, and Billy Bray; ined with not having taken out a

Evidence. was given that the boat

opinion between General Chang endeavour to preserve an optimis-

their respective and divers roles, licence for a junk of which he was kept the flag of fun fluttering in charge, entidade Fah-hut; the Ironsides' "chief,"

bravely, and Mins Muriel Varna'a and General Li Chai-sum were

contribution was received, with a fully discussed, but it was

fervour that placed her right in the was boarded at 4 a.m. the previous In connection with the fight on

foreground as an extremely funny day when the accused falled to pro-

*** duce his 'ifcence on request. comedienne.

On thought that these had been

the waterfront near the Shek-ki satisfactorily composed, other-

Billy Bray and Jo Wrenn's duet being taken to the station he stat whart in Connaught Road Central convulsed their listeners, who in- ed that he had a licence at Taikok- wise it is scarcely likely that

in the early morning of Monday, sisted upon an encore.

teuf and, on being taken there by a General Li Chai-sum would have

when three men were alleged to A special show is being staged detective he walked about the street have murdered another by render to-night, and the Company are as calling out "I want L Fuk's left the city at this particular

ing him unconscious and then roll-sured of another full house. juncture. Whatever has hap- |- · Whilst Miss Andrews, a nurse of ing him over, into the harbour, NEW SEASON GINGER.pened in Canton and even as the Government Civil Hospital, was where he was drowned: A Dairy suming from the latest accounts walking with another lady pust St. Farin coolle named Chan Tim chí, John's Cathedral at 6.15 p.m. yes aged 22, was this morning charged to hand that the Ironsides are terday, a aneal thief came up be before Major C. Willson with the now in absolute control cannot kind the ladies and anatched Miss murder, with others not in custody, but elicit considerable regret that Andrew's handbag, watch: contained of the deceased, Chan Kwok-rhiu. the capital of Kwangtung should English and local money to the value Mr. H. L. Dennys appeared for Balm is rubbed on the aching spot. His Worship, la fining, accused

of £18. / engine

the defence, whilet the prosecution It feels good to the skin, penetrates $15 or two weeks Imprisonnent, again been in the throes of un-The thief bolted past the P.W.D. was conducted by Detective Sub-In- quickly to the very seat of pain, scat told him that licences rest due to the clashing of the in-offices and disappeared. In the alrec spector, Lane, on whose application tering the congestion, relieving the terests of rival Generals. It is the tion of Lower Albert Bond,"

Preserved,

Cesa

Niort War Pere

Milosness. Gaaranteerd,

Paver Man of webankno

licence." A little girl, eventually arrived and gave him a licence which was in the name of Li Fuk The accused stated that this was EASES RHEUMATIC PAINS.

the name of the real licensee of the junk who had gone into the coun- Aati neck la soon' eased and try and accused was temporarily rheumatic pains in-arms and shoulders aging the junk disappear when Chamberlain's Pain

pressure, and the path is gone. Bold tranferable and it was

s week's formal remand was given, and recommended everywhere for him to take out his own licences