1930-07-07 — Page 11

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MONDAY, JULY 7, 1930.

THE

BELIEF IN WITCHES YOUTH AND CRIME. OPIUM GROWING IN

IN FRANCE.

Two French Peasant Women Boycotted.

NEIGHBOURS' FEARS.

AT WHAT AGE IS A BOY A CRIMINAL.

MAGISTRATE DECIDES.

Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, altting as Coroner, with a jury, comprising Mr. E. Grant Smith (foreman) Mr. D. C. Walmsley and Mr. Garch

SHANTUNG.

Lovely Poppies in Full Bloom.

INCONGRUOUS SPECTACLE.

CHINA, 'MAIL.

LETTERS & RADIO

ADDRESSES WHICH CANNOT BE TRĄCED.

POST OFFICE LIST

A General Post Office notifica. tion gives the following unclaim-

at the Post Office, and also un- ed correspondence, etc., waiting claimed radio telegrama at the

FOREIGN FIRMS IN CHINA.

Alleged "Position" in Law.

INTERESTING POINTS.

Paris, May 8,

At this particular season of the According to the Potit Parisien, Cheung, at the Kowloon Magistracy year the lovely popples from which

eign firm to sue in Chinese courts The right of an unregistered for- the belief in witchcraft still sur-on Saturday, held A special opium is extracted are in full bloom, Radio Telegraph Office, Govern- in the capacity of plaintiffs was vives at least, in one place in inquiry into the circumstances and it is only now that the averagement Building:- France. The St. Omar correspon- which surrounded the death of a traveller who is not a botanist or

questioned by Mr. Chang Yung-hsl, dent of that papar tells an extra- Chinese, named Chung Sau-nam horticulturist, has

Ponte Restante.

A well-known Shanghal legal practi- his attention ordinary story to-day, About three (12) at To Kwa Wan Road, outside drawn to the large amount of land Amrice, A. Beilin, Miss L. Barbat, in which Ho Ken-shing is being Mademoiselle May Allegrini, F. N. tloner, in connection with the case weeks ago the wife of a peasant house No. 241, on the evening of under cultivation for the growing of C. S. Dang, W. G. Dudfield, J. sued by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. farmer living at Cornet, a hamlet July 1.

opium poppies. From reports to Drewry, Eastern Trading Co., Ltd., Mr. Chang contended that, in ae- in the Commune of Wittes (Pas de Prior to taking formal evidence hand from various sources, Calais), about two and a half miles the Coroner said: "Gentlemen of evident that, although there has Figueras,

it is A.. Evans (3.5. Golden Sea), L. cordance with Chinese law, the from the town of Aire-sur-le-Lys, the jury, this is a coroner's in-doubtless been a commendable effort Fraser (c/o Miniator of Com- capacity to sue as plaintiff.

D. J. Fraser Donald Japanese company has not the had an

accident and sent for aquiry into the death of a Chinese made to reduce the cultivation of munications), L. C. Grover, Mrs. qunek doctor and bonosetter, who is boy, who is alleged to have died as the poppy in many parts of China F. E. Hansen, F. Kulka, J. B. Kemp the matter by members of the Chi- Interviewed in connection with also a postman. The latter inform-the result of being kicked by an-during the past few years since the (Hodder & Stoughton), Mr. and nese Press, the lawyer mentioned ed his patient that she had been be- other boy. I think there will be Kuomintang authorities made its Mrs. L. E. Lamorie, Dr. A. D. Max-based his contentions on the follow- witched, and that the first woman evidence to say that there who came into her house the next something in the nature of a quar programme of reform, yet in Shan- Miss A. D. Sikes, C. K. Stott, M.

was suppression a part of the national well, Pritchard & Co., E. Ravera, ing grounds: day would be the person who had rel."

The Mitsul Bussan Kalsha has tung at least-and very probably in Simon, F. Y. Tong, M. Thistle, J.no legal standing according to the cast a spell on her..

Dr. K. Harrison Uttley, M.B., many other Provinces as well-there Turton, Miss J. Wu (3.4. Fulda), Chinese law because it is a Japan- A widow of about sixty called M.A. medical officer in charge of has been. a Wallard, who lives at Cornet with Kowloon Mortuary stated that on crudescence in poppy cultivation.

pronounced re-Mrs. H. J. Williamson.

ese limited company which has not i her daughter, was employed on the July 2 the body of Chung Sau-nam

Registered Articles,

been registered with a Government farm two days a week, and, as the (12) was identified in his presence tion is specially observable in the Bradbey, Gulam Mohayed Din (c/o gaged in business, as required by Shantung poppy cultiva- M. Beraha, S. R. Bowdler, Dr. N. organ in the place where it is en- day after this atrange diagnosis by the father, cousin, an Indian regions bordering the happened to be one of them, ahe policeman and Inspector Stimson. Halens or districts. Perhaps the Daverdier, Donald

different Gulam Mustafa Najput), Mme. Larticle 30 of the Chinese Civil came to work very early in the He examined him, and found he cultivators feel that in those situa-Minister of Communications), E.

Fraser (c/a Code: morning, and was thus the first had died of shock following a blow tions there is less liability of ques- Graety, Lee Sak-kow (c/o Wang legal standing. it does not have, As the Japanese company has ho person to enter the house. The in the lower region of his body. tion being raised, as Carmer and his wife at once dis-The spot was congested and show-trates must be in doubt as to the Wang Ching-wei.

the Magis Ching-wei), Roberts Portraits Co., in accordance with Chinese law, the charged her without giving any ed no external injury. The lad ancient boundaries of their Hsiens reason, but they gave the reason probably died within the hour. He at least it is a good loophole as to other people, and the report that also saw Kan Chai who had two Mime. Wallard was a witch went black eyes. round and seems to have been be--

lieved by all, or nearly all, the in-

habitants of Cornet,

Next witness, Chung Sau-yau (11), a cousin of the deceased, re- lated that he was sitting down with him on the pavement on the A few days later a cow fell in day in question. They played.

Daughter Suspected.

on another farm, aud the post-au Chaj sat near by, and there

In

Chen Wan-tai, from Swatow,

Unclaimed Radio. Seniority, from Canton.

Kwong Fee-chong, trom Weltvere

den.

Calif.

.

right to sue as plaintiff and its only. remedy lles in its registration with a Chinese Government organ; and In the past, foreigners in China had done their utmost to uphold Los always attempted in every possible their special privileges but they had

way to shirk the responsibilities and the obligations imposed on them from eign companies

by law: failure on the part of for

to register them- selves with a Government organ was but one of the many examples In this respect.

Angeles,

official reason for non-interference. are not only useless but absolutely Statements of the above nature pernicious unless they can be borne slith Fishback, Amexco, from becomes a out by definite instances. Then it

Angeles, Calif. constructive criticism 2719, from Swatow. likely to be valuable to the Chinese 10345, from Shanghai. authorities who wish to take action Dierks Fields, Peninsula, man, who is alleged to combines also Chung Chung-kwal within actually suppressing opium eulti- with his other functions an "illegal them. Kau spoke to witness and vation within their administration Yik Tai, from Hoihow.

Shanghai. practice of medicine, was again aid "you are blind." whereupon

areas. sent for, and gave

In this case we are able to 1627, from Canton the same Chung replied, "you, are blind." diagnosis as before, repeating that Kau then swore at Chung, who

furnish direct evidence. The evid-Himman, from Quinon. the cow had been bewitched by the awore back. Kau then hit Chungce goes to show that any former Otto Praeger, from Los first person who would go to the with his fist, on seeing the latter gulations has passed from the culti Cheong Fat, from Namdinh.

fear of transgressing existing re farm next day. By an unfortunate raise his foot. Witness' cousin coincidence that person was Mme. (deceased) gave Kau Chai a blackvators' minds, for fields of poppies 6068, Masets!, from Shanghai. Wallard's daughter Marie, who eye, and the latter returned several are to be seen close to the railway 4428, from Canton. went to the farm in question twice blows. He then kicked Chung, not more than 40 miles dlatant from 3018, from Shanghali. a day for water. The cow died, and the latter fell to the ground Tsingtao between the little towns of

Yao Ko Chuang" and and Mlle. Wallard, like her mother, and lay motionless. Kau Kicked

Chih Lan FACTORY EXPLOSION| was accused of being a sorceress.

with bare feet,

Chuang; that is to say on the . Thenceforth every misfortune Chung Chung-kwal (12) said that bordera between the Klaochow and that happened in the hamlet was he did see the actual fight and cor. Kaomi districts. Information is to the evidence given by hand from the Wethalen district to them. Another cow died on a third farm, and then two Chung Sau-yau, while Yau Che (14), that there is a surprising amount on a fourth, and Mme. elder brother of Kau Chai, stated of poppy cultivation in that region,

he did not witness any fighting.

the informant regarding the The deceased's father, Chung two above-named chuang townships explosion To make matters

Chuen, a foreman in P.W.D., gave was particularly unfavourably im- Three hundred houses were wreck- gipsies visited Cornet, and,

evidence of identification of Chung Pressed by the very large area bril-ed. rendering 500 people homeless. course, all the inhabitants went to

liant with the bright blooms of the Sau-nam as being his son.

The explosion occurred, in one The Coroner, through the Inter-poppies

this season...

of the have their fortunes told. The for-

most congested areas In One thing struck the informant of Messrs. Hickson and Partners Castleford, in the chemical works tune-teller informed them, one after preter told the witness that the another, that a woman called Maria, Court was very sorry for him losing as extremely incongruous. A wall Limited, whose plants, extending to

grudge a

against

in front of a field of poppies had a Summing up, the Coroner said poster pasted upon it bearing the wreckage scattered over an area of Naturally, Maria could be only that the jury could take it that the characters San Min Chu Thef

were destroyed; the' Mlle. Marie Wallard, although there boy (Kau Chal), who was alleged Three People's Principles." That hardly a window was

a mile. Outside of the works were probably other women called Marie in Cornet, and there could to have kicked the deceased, wasis: "All for the Welfare of the the town-Reuter.

Intact in

attributed

chickens Wellard and her daughter were held responsible for their deaths.

had

matter.

worse. some

of

them.

roborated

his son.

und

no longer be any doubt about the was of great importance. There responsible for the erection of post- 8 years old. The age of the boy People." It is clear that those

The unfortunate Mma Wallard was something in the nature of aers of this nature in that district and her daughter are now, accord was the question of who struck first, or they would destroy the fields fight between two boys. There are thinking of their "Meal Tickets" ing to the correspondent, boycotted the first blow, and so on. The im- of poppies that grow as a blight to by everybody, and their life Is being made a misery. Every door sider was the age of the boy, Kau intellect of the people of China.

portant point for the jury to con- ruin the constitution and sap the is shut against them, and children Chai. The Coroner said he thought

A Chinese resident of London

be

criminally

to defend the

DEATH. ROLL MOUNTING UP,

London. Saturday. The death roll in the Yorkshire now totalled twelve.

eight acres,

His Rheumatism Got Worse.

matism,

To make

BAYS

In The Warm. Weather.

Until Dr. Williams' Pink Pills flee at their approach. In despair they could assume that the deceas-writing to the London Times wrote:

Drove It Out By Purifying they are talking of bringing an ed died from a kick which Kau "Show me one instance where a man

and Enriching His Blood. action for slander against the post-Chai undoubtedly gave him. map, whose proceedings seem to ferring the jury to Russell's book ance of opium with which he had building up the blood.

Re- had been adhering to a fixed allow-pains that could be avoided by Many people suffer rheumatic deserve the attention of his official on crime, the Coroner said that it commenced years ago, and I will rich blood no medicine equals Dr. superiors.

is the law of England that no child show you a hundred cases where Williams' Pink Pills. Superstition and Death Rate. under the age It is improbable that Cornet is guilty of a criminal act and fur-

of seven can be men were ruined within ten years." out poisonous secretions, these By driving unique in France, where supersti-thermore, that, ho child over the Hong Kong Solicitor's Views. Pills banish the causes of rheu- tion is still rife in many rural age of seven or under the age of districts. The prevalence of super-fourteen is capable of criminal Solicitor, who for many years prior sufferers cured in this way is a thus restoring robust Mr. Brereton, a Hong Kong health. stition may well be one cause of responsibility. The Coroner reto 1882 acted as legal adviser to Canadian woodsman, Mr. Joseph Among thousands of the high death-rate among children, minded the jury that the point to the opium farmers in that Colony A. Tully, of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. which is higher in the rural dis- consider was "can a boy of that drew out in order tricts than in the towns. Too many age be held to

"As a worker in the woods for French peasants prefer a quack responsible. They regarded Kauportation of opium into China, a years I was exposed to all kinds doctor to a regular medical practi- Chal's age tioner, and if a child falla, ill it is border line, and

aa being just on the he called "Fallacies." In his Item Mr. Tully. "The resuit was that I

very powerful itemised list of what of rough wintry weather," the Coroner the common practice in many parts thought that the gentlemen of the No. 6 he stated: "It is a fallacy that was finally laid up with rheumat- of France to tie that part of the Image of a saint the boy as being seven,

a ribbon round jury would be justified in treating the Chinese Government is, or ever ism. I could hardly stir, and corresponding to the part of the one year of age

because as, anxious to put a stop to its was confined to bed... could not make use, or even to check its use among cine seemed to have little or no child's body that is affected. very much difference. The ques the people of China-the sole object effect, and the best encouragement This is, of course, the practice of tan was whether a boy of that age is to protect the native drug, to the doctor gave me was that with sympathetic magle, about which Sir was capable of committing a prevent bullion leaving the country the coming of warm weather I James Frazer has so much to say. crime. The Coroner thought that and generally to exclude foreign would be better. But instead of In other cases the Image of saint the jury had no dificulty in say goods. They do not want to sup getting better. I grew worse. My is touched with the clothes of the ing that he was not. Then if they press it because they derive a large joints were badly swollen, and my sick person, and in yet others it is were of that opinion he would ask revenue from the drug." accessary that the sick person them to return a verdict

legs so stiff they would hardly should touch the Image. Peasants "death by misadventure."

Now the above was written 48 support my body. have been known to take a child

years ago, and here we have the old "Then: I decided to try Dr. Wil- The jury agreed, but the fore business going marrily on. Is there liams Pink Pills suffering from pneumonia two miles man in reply to the Coroner, re- not something to be said for the old were beyond my expectations. The results in the pouring rain to touch an quested that nothing should be Hong Kong Solicitor's argument? After a few weeks the swelling had image with it....

said to the lad, Kau Chal

Foreign Powers are acting in good disappeared, the stiffness gradual- The Coroner concluded by say faith with the Chinese Governmently wore away, and all traces of MADAME LUPESCU.ing that if Kau Chal was a bigger and preventing the Importation of rheumatism had vanished. "The fellow be would be kept in custody opium from abroad-especially is next winter when I went into the GRIEF-STRICKEN OVER BROKEN and the Police would have pro- this so with regard to the Indian woods I took a supply of Dr. WIL-

ROMANCE.

bably proceeded against him. ? trade. But what are the Chinese liams' Pink Pills with me, and A verdict of death by misad authorities doing?-Chefoo Dally they kept me in the best of condi venture was returned.

News.

of

BRITAIN AND BRAZIL.

Medi-

tion. My experience should give encouragement to other rheumatic sufferersker

New good red blood is a wonder ful thing: it drives out aches and pains, gives ronowed strength to enfeebled stomache revivifies the The Prince of Wales was among you can get it in rich abundance nerves and the whole sygter, and

London, Saturday.

Paris, June 9. Madame Lupescu, grief-stricken foodlesa, and dash to Paris, whence over her broken romance, was con- he began the afr journey which led fined to her bed the whole of him back to the throne. Thursday at the chateau at Belleme Madame Lupescu has now gone to St. Martin, where she has lived with Switzerland. Carol won popularity King Carol during the past five at Belleme. The inhabitants were years since he reliquished his right particularly touched by Carol's visit to the throne to the siekbed of Michael, the son the distinguished company present through Dr. Williams Plax Pills. It is now revealed that the Prince of the local tobacconist at a dinner given last night by the of chemists everywhere at $1.70 and Madame Lupescu had hardly Before his departure Carol order Brazilian Ambassadorin honour sat down to a late meal on Wednesed His vart to keep a small lamy of Doctor Prestes, President elect per bottle, 6 bottles/$9.00. But day night when a coded telegram burning before the portrait of his of Brazil British Wireless Sor Pink Pille Imitations and substi Insist on having! Dr. Williams" caused Carol to rise imediately, rather, the late King Ferdinand vice

Cutes never cured anybody..

In conclusion, Mr. Chang express- ed the hope that the Chinese people would uphold China's prestige by seeing that foreigners observed the laws of China. N. C. D. News.

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