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A GREAT WRONG.

an affair which both sides deeply

regret." His remarks have to do with the Nanking rape of

working of time, aptly described

we

MACAO OPIUM.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28. 1928. STOKER'S FUNERAL. MUCH APPRECIATED.

SIQUEL TO NAVAL YARD FALL

FULL NAVAL HONOURS,

(Continued from Page 1.). two months, and we are now re- ceiving amall orders from sources where for nearly three years we have received none, and I trust and believe that these orders will increase in volume during the next

Beagon.

(Continued from Page 1.) that $120,000 had been paid by the Company and the Company was announcing to their share- holders that they had acquired a good thing for a cheap price. The

The funeral took place yesterday brackets did not make the alleged afternoon of Staker Whitfield of six months, which is our busy libel a bit better or a bit worse. H.M.S. "Sirdar," whose death fol- Counsel dealt with the part de lawed a fall from H.M.S: "Bruce" fendant had played in the public

Canton Properly. Our Pak Hin Hok factory on

life of Macao and his benefactions, to the bottom of the Naval Yard also the length of period during dry dock yesterday morning. It Honam Island is now completed, which the Macao Opium Monopoly believed that Whitfield, who had and turning out waters. It has was directed by his firm and stated been temporarily "lent to H.M.S. cost a lot of money and has given that when the decision to adminis-"Bruce," which was in dry dock at us some anxious moments, owing ter Opium as a Government con- the time, was leaning against the to the boycott, but I feel sure cern was minde, defendant was call-side of the ship when he over- that in erecting it, we did the right thing. We have a big water-front ed upon by the Government to balanced.

Whitfield was twenty-four years on the Pearl River capable of deal- supply to the new department a list

He 'ing with coasting steame 8, and of furniture and utensils and at age and was unmarried. valuation of them so that the Gov-had been in Hong Kong a year with enough land to fill our require ernment might take over the con- the 8th Destroyer "Flotilla." De.ments, for very many years to ceased belonged to the Oriental come, and still leave a bit over trol of opium.

Lodge of the Royal and Ancient for sale if it were deemed profit-

In this con

..

Persian and Indian Opium. in reply to His Lordship, counsel) Order of Buffaloes which accorded able or expedient. (after consulting defendant) said him the full honours of the Order 'nection, I would mention that the Pak Hin Kok factory releases two that the oplum was not produced in at the funeral,

properties of ours on the Sha- Macno but came from India and The Coffa, resting on a gun- Persia.

carriage, was drawn by men from meen, which, if the friendly rela

tions now existing with Canton Continuing, counsel said that for H.M.S. "Bruce" and was preceded continue, can be sold at a profit. the last period of three years dur by the Band of H.M.S. "Cumbèr-[

Capital Expenditure. ing which defendant's firm, the Yue land" and a firing party from Capital expenditure during the Sing, had been Oplum Monopolista, H.M.S. "Serapie." The burial ser-year on buildings amounted to one of the Managers had been La vice was performed by the Rev. $140,334.41 of which $188,880.23 Kin Butt. This man was employed, G. H. Hewitt, naval chaplain. was expended on Pak Hin Hok by the new opium administration as Representatives of the 8th Des-factory, dwelling house, and out- an officer of the Government for the troyer Squadron were present in houses; and capital expenditure purpose of carrying on the new Gov- the persons of several officers and on aerated water plant and mo ernment scheme. About this same Naval ratings. Numerous wreaths chinery, furniture, fittings, motor

formed in Hong time a firm was Kong named the Yau Seng Co. which from Information received-- it was rumoured all over Hong THE SKIPPER'S DOG. sponsible for our increased bank Kong-purported to have obtained the grant of the oplum monopoly from the Macao Government, that the firm was in fact issuing share scrip antl representing to the share- holders that they were the oplum monopolists and that it actually had

tion Bureau at Macao.

Defendant Justified?

were sent.

BOARDING OFFICER

BITTEN.

Mr. Eldridge, a Boarding Officer of the Harbour Department, was

lorries, etc., amount to $41,613.02, totalling altogether $181,847.43. This has been re-

overdraft, but when it is borne in mind the increased overdraft only represents $52,400 of this sum, there is no cause for appre- hension.

Increased Dividend.

The increase of one per cent.

receding into the background. That is on account of the ordinaryun office in the Opium Administra- bitten by a brown and white in the dividend will, I am sure, be. mongrel dog belonging to Captain appreciated, and I trust you will Lemos of the s.s. "Wing Wo" yes approve of the apropriations of as "the great healer." The Nan-

$5,000 for the European staff pro- If this was not sufficient to terday morning.

Mr. Eldridge boarded the ekip vident Fund, $5,000 for the Chin- king outrage should not, however, justify defendant in making en- be allowed to slip absolutely from quiries and sending them to the alongside the wharf in Connaught ese staff superannuation fund memory, and this is evidently the powers that be, he did not know road at 11 o'clock to interview the and $25,000 to reserve fund.

what was, stated counsel. The Yau Captain. As he approached the lat The other changes in the ac- view of our Minister at Peking. Seng firm was in fact being con- ter's quarter on the upper deck, the counts do not require any special Sir Miles Lampson, who the other fused with defendant's own firm.dog made a sudden attack on him, comment from me, but after the

Unless these facts were an entire biting him on the leg.

accounts have been duly seconded day expressed his refusal,

fabrication and there would not be Mr. Eldridge immediately went if any shareholder has any ques- understand, to proceed from

much purpose in a sane man to the Government Civil Hospital tions to ask, I shall be pleased to Shanghai to Nanking until there fabricating facts for the purpose of for treatment. The police who were answer them to the best of my had been a settlement in connect-, sending in a petition to the authori-communicated with captured the ability."

it to Kennedy. The chairman then formally ion with the matter. Of late there ties concerned the facts of the dog and removed

to shew the Town for observation.

proposed the adoption of the re- but they in

port and accounts. has been much glib talk about came not only failed beginning of malice irresponsible bandits being the fact negatived it. Defendant had culprits as there has been about the strongest grounds for taking the number of executions sup the action he did. posed to have taken place as a re-

Was There Publication? sult of the British demands for

At yesterday afternoon's hearing the just punishment of the wrong- there was considerable argument doers. This is all eyewash, What as to whether the receiving of the year. is wanted from the Nationalist documents was proof that they had

been read. Government is a straightforward Mr. Alabaster contended that)

who suffered.

The case is proceeding..

Seconder's Speech.

Mr. W. S. Bailey Bald:-

..

our

very.

S. T.

The duty obtained in respect of licences for motor vehicles issued I think, Sir, we may congratulato by the London County Council from ourselves on our increased profits December 17 to January 20 was notwithstanding the adverse con- £2,291,178, or £129,800 more than ditions in Canton during the period in the same period the previous under review, also on the increase

in dividend and upon sound and improved position as so · clearly set before us; I have much

of report and accounts BB, pre- sented. Hong Kong, Wednesday, Mar. 28, 1928. promise (and the fulfilment of once it was proved they were re-guages. Mr. Potter continued that pleasure in seconding the adoption

asked. No question was

The the promise) that those who were ceived that was sufficient proof if a libel was published and sent that they had been read or trans.to anyone who could not read the was written,

chairman's proposition was са responsible for the rape should belated to the receiver. He submit-language in which brought to account. We also ted that there was ample evidence then the onus lay on the prosecu-

tion to prove that the innuendo ried unanimously.

Other Business. Referring to the question of pai-jwas understood. The fact that an

Other business transacted by the A correspondent whose views want, through the ordinary dípto-of publication, upon things in general and China matic channels, a complete apo-vilege his Lordship said that a enquiry was held by the Macao

Re-election of the board of direc- Scott in particular we value-he has logy, and we want reparations for point put by Mr. Potter was that Government did not necessarily la-meeting comprised lived in the country many years those and the relatives of those the sending of the petition to the dicate that the letter in which the

Governor and the enquiry were alleged libel, was contained had tors, comprising Mr. practically one transaction and the been read, or that the alleged libel Haraton, Mr. H. P. White, the Hon Sir Shou-son Chow and Mr. A. B. longer than has been our kt-

To-day, the matter of the Nan-privilege claimed by the defendant had been understood.

Mr. Potter referred to the send- Stewart-proposed by the chair- severely takes us to task for what

Re-election of Mr. C. Bernard he terms "reviving old troubles king outrage settlement is, so far covered both. So that, so far as and perhaps assisting in prevent-as we are able to ascertain, at a the report of the enquiry was con- ing of the alleged like! to two per man, seconded by Mr. F. A. Perry.

use that in showing malice, he C. de Albuquerque, Consul-General | Brown, A.C.A. and Mr. ing the immediate patching-up of standstill. A Shanghai vernacu-cerned, if Mr. Alabaster wanted to sons in Hong Kong, viz. Mr. A. L

and claimed that in both cases it ensuing year at a fee of $750 per lar journal the other day publish- must first of all destroy the privi- for Fortugal and Mr. Chan Choy Butlin, A.C.A., as auditors for the ed what purported to e the terms ilege of the occasion.

Mr. Alabaster replied that the had been sent after the service of; annum each-proposed by Mr. J. M. Alves, seconded by Mr. F. W. of settlement as reached between

short answer to that was that if the writ.

His Lordship commented that he Stapleton. March 23, 24 and 25, 1927, with Sir Miles and General Huang Fu, the petition itself revealed malice

was privileged and tained at the office, special regard to what appeared Nationalist Minister of Foreign it destroyed itself and if the in-agreed with Mr. Potter that the Dividend warrants can be ob suggested that counsel should ad- A series of photos of the com- itself. in our columns yesterday in am- Affairs. According to this there quiry revealed malice it destroyed publication

Evidence of Malice? dress the court on the question of pany's new property at Canton. was shown to shareholders and plification of the cable announc-was to be a joint committee of in-

Dealing with the translation Mr. malice.

Inquiry Wanted.

highly appreciated." ing the death of Mr. Bertram Vestigation consisting of Chinese,

Mr. Potter dealt with the mat- con- Giles, C.M.G., formerly. H.M. British and other foreign nation- Alabaster continued that in it had

As als (Japanese and American, pre-been incorporated brackets

taining words which gave a ainis ter at length and analysed the evi- Consul-General at Nanking. the late Mr. Giles was at Nan-sumably); the term "compensa-ter meaning and such brackets were dence which has been given for Speaking with re- The adding, the plaintiff. king in his official capacity at the ton" was to be substituted for not in the original.

said that was what Mr. Lee Hy time of the outrage, his name is "indemnity," and the demand for of those brackets was evidence of gard to the enquiry at Macao, he His Lordship said that surely a 'san wanted done. There was am- naturally associated with the an apology was to be withdrawn, malice. affair, and what we did was to Nothing, of course, has occurred member of the community was en ple material in the petition to have

Last week's return of notillable in regard to these "terrns of set-titled to bring to the notice of the caused the Governor to call for an from the

Mr. disease in the Colony, according to publish an extract

in which they took a common in- 'contained the alleged libel.: affidavit sworn by his wife as to tlement," which, in all details, fur-Legislature or Government matters enquiry apart from the letter which

∙nish an

excellent illustration of terest. The suggestion was, that Potter added that Mr. Lee Hyann reports to the Medical Officer of what occurred in the Consulate compound at the time Mr. Giles the wish being father to the the Government, deciding to act acted in a very straightforward Health, is given below with the thought. So, as we have indicat-under the Geneva Conference, de- manner by putting the letter as an number of deaths during the week was shot through the leg by a

went back on that and followed the translation ecat to him. Small-pox: 2 from the city, Chinese soldier. Merely to have ed, the question of a settlement is Clared a certain policy. Then they appendix, saying that it was a mentioned in brackets:~~~

at a standstill, and is likely to re-old policy. Certain facts had come Speaking with regard to the from Kowloon, 1 from Shaukiwan issued the bare announcement as main at a standstill until our to the attention of persons who had sounde Tuk Po" and "Chok Po-total 7. (2 deaths during the received by cable would, in our

misrepresented defending opinion, have denoted slackness Chinese friends at Nanking are been interested in that trade. If Mr. Potter said "Tuk Po" had been week), all Chinese. opinion, have denied lacervice able to get down to earth and such a person made a representar counsel in order to give a sense of British, 1 Chinese), 1 being from tackle the problem in a real spirit the proper authority, would not libel and suggest that it was the the city, the other from Kowloom. name of a person. They had it Enteric fever (typhoid): 3 cases to our subscribers.

All the above, we would now of conciliation and recognition of that cause some privilege?

Prior to Mr. Potter opening for from the evidence of the Court from the city. (2 Chinese, 1 Italian, the great wrong that has been

the defence, His Lordship intimat-interpreter that it was extremely non-resident), (2 deaths during the point out, is by way of explana-

done.

ed that as far as his case con- difficulty to get the right sound in week).

Chinese sound, so Paratyphoid fever; I Indian fremm tion and not justification. We

cerned the question of publication English for a have nothing to justify because

His Lordship was with Mr. Potter that the sounds "Chok Po" could we are in utter disagreement with the views expressed by our respected correspondent. Not

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·RGEBED AT SEA.

point of view, but we also consider. Cleveland" that whilst at no good purpose will be served was on the high seas

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COLONY'S HEALTH.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST WEEK.

Shankiwan.

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2 cases all2

but he would have to disprove the not have been a deliberate mistake. Influenza (not notifiable): ellegation of malice. If they had wanted to libel Mr. deaths during the week.

Mr. Potter said that they did ad-Lobo they could very well have

The police have received a remit publication of the libel and misrepresented Tsol Teng" which only do we consider our action en- port from a Chiness passenger who also sending it out, but their con- meant "Treasurer"" or tirely justified from an editorial arrived on the "realdent tention was that the interpretation Instead of misrepresenting the Firemen, and police battered

bell the ship was not done in the sense in which words "Chok Po which meant down the door of a smoke-filled room was robthe defendant intended it to be "security" It would, added Mr. on the second floor of a house. I'm

Potter, have been much more to the Peter street, Soho, W and other Cone.VARANK

Orian on Plaintifs? point to have connected Mr. Lobo that an aged couple named Bra

was found to be empty. After quoting authorities dealing with the Treasurer or Treasury had enstein were inside, but the with translations from foreign lan- Thel been intended..

in attempting to shelve the mat

ter of the Nunking rape.

bed of men

The no tkie a

kas

ntity of the