1928-08-13 — Page 8

TOTAL

DRY AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISHER.

NO PERIÓDIC REFILLING

APPARATUS and CONTENTS will,

LAST a LIFETIME.

APPROVED BY BRITISH BOARD OF TRADE→→ -FIRE OFFICES COMMITTER- -PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISHE REICHISANSTALT-GERMANY- LABORATOIRE CENTRAL. D'ELECTRICITE—FARIS.............

The Extinguisher with an International Reputation,

Contents will not Deteriorate nor

Evaporate.

Non Conductor of Electricity.

SIMPLE

то OPERATE.

EFFICIENT-RELIABLE-EFFECTIVE.

For Full Particulars, Apply to-

· KELLER, KERN & CO., LTD., 16/1%, Connaught Road C.

G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD. WATCHMAKERS & JEWELLERS DIAMOND MERCHANTS. Union Building (Opposite G.P.O.)

Agents for:--ADMIRALTY CHARTS, ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES, KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufactwars. High Class English Jewellery.

Prickly Heat Powder

A Certain Cure for

PRICKLY HEAT & SUNBURN.

A little dusted on the skin and gently massaged in will speedily cure Prickly Heat, remove Sunburn and the offensive ·

odour due to excessive perspiration.

Prepared by

Queen's Dispensary

Pharmaceutical Chemists

22, Des Voeux Road Central,

LEE FONG.

ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHERS.

Tel No. C. 4028.

No. 7, Wyndham Street: HONG KONG,

ASSORTED SCENERY OF HONG KONG & NATIVE LIFE.

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN. To Developing Amateurs' Negatives. Printing, Enlarging & Framing.

No More CORNS

No matter how sore your corn in, new way deadens pain in 3 seconda. One touch of amazing scientific liquid

and corn shrivels up. You peel it

off early. Doctors use and prescribe

it. For sale everywhere.

Beware of imitations.

-GETS-I

Chiongs, 17. I.A

SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks

Highest. tests and uniform qualities. For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and Satisfaction unsurpassed.

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,

CHING TỪ NĂM.

Manager.

Factory Canton. Hong Kong Ofice,

148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C. 5882.

CHOY-HEONG.

MANUFACTURER OF PERSERVED GINGER AND FRUTT. Established For More Than Forty Years, Once--No. 80, Bonham Strand, Hong Kong, TEL C. MIA.

A. Sham Chan Street, Mengkok. Tél. E 400.

THE "DECOY."

WOMEN HELD ON GRAVE CHARGES.

UNCLE'S INTEREST,

The "decoy" method was criti- cised by Mr. Hin-shing Lo at the Central Magistracy on Saturday when he appeared before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., at the Central Magistracy, to defend a Chinese woman named Lam Lok, living on the second floor of No. 12, Peel-I street, who was charged on re- mand with harbouring a girl

THE CHINA MAIL,

Mr. Lo (to witness): Do you police had employed decoys, charge the defendant for procur- Counsel argued that if the police ing your daughter for an im- were not allowed to employ de moral purpose, although she is coys, it was much less permis not virgo intacta?

alble in the case of a private in- 'Major Willson: She does not dividual, know that.

Mr. Lo (to witness): Do you say your daughter is a good girl?

I can't say so now.

"NO EVIDENCE.” Arguing further; Mr. Lo said no evidence that there was against his client except the girl's

THE MOTHER'S CLAIM. Do you accuse the defendant story which was not admissible of leading your girl into an im-without corroboration because fendant. Counsel reminded the moral life? Blame or no blame, she was an accomplice of the de

want my girl buck.

arrest.

Mr. Williams pointed out that Magistrate that the girl was also the witness did not attend at the arrested and since that time had Secretariat for Chinese Affairs been under the control of the under the age

of 21, procuring until she was sent for after the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, the girl for an immoral purpose,

so that without wishing to cast reflection on anyone, he would and allowing her flat to be used

Mr. Lo (to witness): Do you for an immoral purpose.

The main evidence against the say that because of the defen-submit that if the law was strict- dant's influence your good daughly interpreted on that point, the defendant was given (on

ter became bad-The girl could girl's evidence, under the circum- August 4) by the girl

unbiased and untainted. herself. She alleged that during not enter her house if defendant stances, would not be said to be the time she stayed at the defen-did not harbour her. dant's flat, she had to stay with two men practically against her will. The most damaging allega tion of the girl was that the de- fendant shared the proceeds of ker immorality.

THE GIRL'S STORY.

Questioned by Mr. Lo, the girl admitted that she was not virgo intacta when she went to defendant's place, she having previously stayed at the Asia

Counsel went so far as to say

Pressed on the point, the wit- ness replied: "I can't say that, that even assuming that all the down by law that in a case of but anyway, I did not hand the girl had said was true, it was laid girl over to defendant's charge.

Replying to Mr. Williams, the Such a nature, her evidence could witness said that she had not not be accepted unless indepen- They had seen the defendant before. The dently corroborated. girl was born in Hong Kong, but not had any independent cor- was not registered. She was now roboration of the girl's story. 15 years of age.

A FEW QUESTIONS. Mr. Lo pointed out to Magistrate that that was the examination in chief.

PROCURING.

With regard to the charge of the keeping a "sly brothel," Counsel also submitted that there was no

not

Hotel with a man named Cheuk, brought out by Mr. Williams in evidence. All that the girl had

said was that men went to the house to play mah jongg. Coun sel argued that a woman could

an interpreter at the Shamshuipo Police Station. She also alleged

Mr. Lo then expressed to the that she ran away from home be- Magistrate a wish to put a few

throw her house open to cause her mother severely chas-

sed her for sleeping away from questions to the girl's father.

Mr. Williams said that the men and even misconduct with aome. She had also been with father was not in the case, not them herself and still she could another Chinese youth who had talked of marrying her, but no having lived with his wife and not be charged with keeping a thing came of it because he want-daughter for some time. Ile did "sly brothel." To prove this, it ed her to pay two months' rent of not propose to call the father was necessary to show that she the house in which they were unless the Magistrate wished to bad procured another female to

hear him, going to live together.

Major Willson said that it would be better to call the father to clear one or two points.

THE FATHER'S EVIDENCE.

was

commit misconduct in the house. There was no independent evid-

ence of this before the Court.

On the matter of al-

leged

Evidence as to how the girl was caught was given by her uncle, Chan Chung-lin. Since the girl's disappearance from home on Junc 1, he had been on the look out for her, and had made in- father, said that he quiries as to her whereabouts. broker. The girl in Court was his On July 27, he received informa- daughter. She was born in Hong tion that the girl was seen going Kong and was now 15 years of into the second floor of No. 12, age. Her birth was not register-own evidence, she was a common Peel-street, and accordingly heed. In the witness' opinion she prostitute and of known immoral laid a trap for the girl. On the was a good girl.

character prior to going to the Mr. Lo asked if the witness house. Counsel referred to the following night, he sent a woman decoy to the house to entice the would be surprised a teacher girl's own confession of the visit girl to come into the street. The of the Yan Ng School came to to the Asia Hotel with Cheuk in witness hid behind a hawker's Court and state that the girl was support of his contention. stall and saw the girl come out now 17 years of age.

Witness: You accompanied by another woman whom the witness did not know. mother. Witness seized the girl and the woman disappeared.

procuring of the girl for or immoral purpose, Tso Leung-wai, the girl's Counsel said that unless the prosecution proved that the girl was of no immoral character prior to entering the house, there On the girl's could be no case.

THE MOTHER'S EVIDENCE.

The girl's parents gave evid- ence on Saturday.

can ask her

The law was dear on that point with regard to procuring, Coun- sel said, and he quoted cases in His Worship said that a school support of his contention. Argu- mistress could know the girl's ing further, Counsel said that age better than her parents, there was no procuring where Mr. Lo replied that the girl they had evidence, as in this had been to the school for two case, that the girl had acted of years. Her age was registered her own free will in going to the Counselhouse, : on entering the school.

means of

The mother raid that until June 11 the daughter lived with her at No. 37, Kweilin-street, submitted that in the absence of Shamshuipo. The girl left on a birth certificate to prove the June 11 without saying where girl's age, the only she was going, and did not return finding that out was to go to the to the house again. The girl had last school the girl attended and been away from home before but get it from the register.

Replying to another question with the witness' permission, the girl saying that she was going to by Mr. Lo, the witness said his stay with relatives or friends. daughter had never told him that

"HE WHO ASKS." Arguing on the charge of har- the girl had left home on account pouring the girl, Mr. Lo said that of the utter failure of her parents in caring for her. Both parents, Counsel suggested. knew more about the girl's behaviour. than they chose to re- in Court, and did not seem to care. Counsel quot- ed. "He who asks for justice must come to Court with a clear conscience."

Sometimes the girl had been dis-she had been violated by any a

man. As the witness seldom

obedient, and, on such occasions

went home to Shamshulpo, he the witness remonstrated with her, and sometimas chastised her could not say what was the girl's ан a last resort. Witness had general behaviour. His wife had never beaten the girl henvily, never complained to him about

Asked by Mr. E. H. Williams the girl..

of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs if she remembered beat-

The Magistrate pointed out that harbouring under the Ordin- APPROACHED BY UNCLE. Evidence of the defendant's ance was very wide and covered ing the girl two days before she arrest was given by Chinese con- every girl under the age of 21. stable C156. He said that he However, as he wished to hear left home, the witness replied was on duty in Wellington-street Mr. Williams on the other points that..on that occasion the girl when

the girl's uncle (Chan raised by Mr. Lo, his Worship was beaten because she had stay- Ching-lin) approached him at decided to further adjourn the ed out until after midnight. On 1.10 a.m., on July 28 and told him case until next Saturday. this occasion the girl had been to accompany him as he wanted out without witucas's permission to arrest his niece a house in necessary to subpoena, for the de-!

and she (witness) did not know Peel-street.

Mr. Lo then asked if it was.

fence, the two men who the

where the girl had gone.to, On When they got to Peel-street, girl alleged had stayed with her other previous ceco the they watched house No. 12. (Cheuk and Cheung). witness had chastised the girl for After a while the girl and defen-¡ The Magistrate suggested that similar behaviour. After the girl dant came downstairs together. the matter be discussed in cham- disappeared, the witness became The uncle seized the girl, whilst bers.

ill and did not herself take any the defendant bolted down hill Mr. Williams said the girl's steps to discover the girl's where- towards Queen's-road. Suspect allegation was admitted.

Mr. Lo: It looks as if they had abouts.

ing that she was the keeper of a

"WITH ANOTHER WIFE." sly brothel, the witness chased raped the girl against her will. Replying to Mr. Lo, the wither and caught her as she got Besides Cheung had said to the girl, "If you will pay two months' ness said that her husband lived into a ricsha...

L

SCOTS GUARDS.

DUE, TO LEAVE IN

JANUARY..

in Hong Kong with another wife Replying to Mr. Lo, the witness rent in advance, I will live with and occasionally came home to denied that he had been given in-you." That is a serious matter. Shamshuipo. He paid witness" "struction by a superior officer to house rent, supplied food and watch that particular part of fuel, and in addition gave witness Pecl-street on the night of the $16 ns

expenses each month. arrest. . He did not know the The girl did not tell witness that girl's uncle and had not been she had stayed at the Asia Hotel with him to a teahouse to discuss with a man named Cheuk, and the method of securing the girl. witness' husband, also, had never This closed the case for the According to a Reuter cable given her that information. prosecution.

from London, the date of depar Witness was unable to say whe- Addressing the Magistrate,ture of the 2nd Batt. Scots ther or not the girl was Mr. Lo submitted that he had no Guards the only Guards batta virgo intacta. Witness agreed case to answer, and asked for lion now in China-has been that she had once quarrelled with the defendant's discharge.. given. This is stated to be Jan. 29, 1929, but it has been known

her husband because he object-

"A DECOY."

2.

ed to the way in which the wit- The first point raised by Mr. for some time that the battalion, ness had scolded the girl.

Lo in support of his contention which spent a considerable time Mr. Lo suggested that both was the fact that the uncle had in Hong Kong before being trans- the witness and her husband did employed a decoy to get the girl ferred to Shanghai a month or not take any interest in their out of the house. Counsel said two ago, is due to return to Bri Įdaughter,

that that method struck at the tain. not be natural for parents not to root of criminal procedure in The vacancy in the South China Witness replied: "It would Hong Kong and was persecution Command is to be filled in the take an interest in their own and not prosecution of his client. second week of January, 1929, child."

The Magistrate replied that the when the 1st Batt. Somerset The Magistrate pointed out method employed by the uncle did Light Infantry is to arrive here that the fact the mother had not affect the charge against the from Egypt to take the place in chastised the girl, and the fact defendant.

Hong Kong of the Scots Guards,

Asuncion Paraguay Saturday. A revolutionary outbreak is ro

that the father had objected to Mr. Lo submitted that on that the mother scolding the girl point alone his client was en showed that they had both taken titled to her discharge. He re an interest in the girl.

minded his Worship that recently Mr. Lo: Yea, but in a wrong both the First Magistrate and ported at Matto Grow In Brazil. way. However, I will not press the Magistrate at Kowloon had Phere are no detailn Beuter's

American Servlet. that polut

thrown out cases in which the

MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1928.

USE GAS AND COOK

IN COMFORT.

A GAS COOKER ENTAILS A MINIMUM OF LABOUR AND EXPENSES CEASE THE MOMENT THE DINNER IS READY.

:

CALL AT OUR SHOWROOMS" 16A, DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL AND INSPECT THE NEW MODELS

IN GAS COOKERS..

HONG KONG & CHINA GAS CO.,

LTD.

A Refreshing Summer Necessity,

Cooling, Invigorating and a Wholesome Food.

All for

CA ・By Cup

10 cts.

Ice Cream

Cake:

Eskimo Pie

ON LOK YUEN

Tel. C. 1022..

27, Des Voeux Road C.

Poisoned Sores

Heat Rash, Insect Bites, Skin Irritation and Inflammation, Blistered Feet, etc.

UNLESS treated with swelling, relieves pain and cheder

the

Zam-Buk, even least scratch or break in the skin opens the way for dangerous germs to start painful swelling, blood-polson and suppuration.

Prompt application of Zum-Buk to any cut. Insect bito, scratch or abrasio', will prevent this dreaded skin infection.

Zam-Buk is the tpfest and best healer to use for many reasons. First, being a pure herbu baim, Zam-Buk ta remarkably soothing -it allays inflammation, and

bleeding almost.Immediately.

Another important advantage of Zam-Buk is its valuable anti- Reptic property, which kills and' excludes disease germs, Finally, when Zant-Buk has clạired all trace of poison and estruption cut off the tissues it quickly heals with healthy new skin.

Krep a box of this over-ready Brst-uld always handy 1

"I WAS BABLY SITTEN DOMY arts and lega by and ties and

'way Sergs. T. ?

Duke: R.AS.Pines," Pedic

beatment falled to live, be the Best few

-Thabal al Indammekin and enabled me in word seep and mat. I persisted with Zaes-Buk until my poisoned skin wan coughly pursted and completely bestod," All mediciis vendors. “

patios of Zalak olien wonderfulty

1.2. 10zt

Zam Buk

FARMER

DE STRHL.!

THE BREAT ANTISEPTIO HEALER,

NAM WAH

BRAND.

NEW SEASON GINGER.

Well Preserved.

Couur and Mellowans Guaranteed.

Teruo Wa Pererved hangts Manufacturers