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The

China Mail

ESTABLISHED 1845..

No. 27,961

HONG KONG, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23,

VICAR DENOUNCES EVILS TSANG FOO VILLA

OF GAMBLING

'A DEADLY AND GROWING MENACE.”

Surprise Attack on the Irish Sweepstake.

IS CHARITY A SMOKESCREEN ?

MURDER.

Case for the Defence Heard.

CHARACTER OF ACCUSED.

NEWS TABLOIDS.

A graphic story of the Hanyang piracy is related

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The verdict has been given in The defence in the Tsang Foo the Tsang Foo Villas murder trial. Villa murder trial opened before

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the Chief Justice and jury at the The Irish Hospital Sweepstake Assizes this morning, when Mr. was denounced yesterday by the W. N. Thomas Tam, Counsel for Vicar in St. Andrew's Church, A bold and outspoken attack on gambling was made in St. An- the defence, called evidence as to Kowloon, 'drew's Church, Kowloon, yesterday morning, by the Vicar (the the character of the five accused.

A butcher at the Mongkok Mar-

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1931.

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. closing rate of the dollar on demand,-to-day was 1/4 1/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

Wilson

1888- DUNLOP the Pioneer

NEWS FROM THE HANYANG

NORTH.

Puyi Out of Political Picture.

NEW GOVERNMENT'S PLANS.

Mukden, Today. Puyl, the young Emperor, has definitely passed out of the political picture at the present juncture.

Tokyo, To-day.

PIRACY

GRAPHIC STORY

TOLD.

SOME THRILLS

OFFICERS HELD

AT BAY.

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1931 DUNLOP still the Leader

FLIGHT TO CHINA

$500 Gift for Home Airman.

TO REALISE AMBITION.

London, Yesterday. An anonymous gift of £500 has come from a local industrialist enabling Mr. T. H. Chamberlain, of West Hartlepool, a former member of Imperial Airway's staff, but who is now unemploy- ed, to realise his ambition to fly to China.

Mr. Chamberlain is now in

Lawson.

Mr. Chamberlain has been

It is learned that he has returned to Kwantung from Tangkangtae, (and, it is believed is now living ba- A fracas at Aberdeen over altween Dairin and Port Arthur.

Control of Railways.

The China Navigation Co.'s Rev. W. Walton Rogers, M.A.) in the presence of a large congrezaket deposed that the first accus-man's request to join a Society in ed was his nephew, and in reply which sanitary coolles are mem-

ship 88. Hanyang on which tion.

From Mukden it is learned on daring piracy was perpetrated on London buying a 'plane, and will The preacher put forward forceful arguments condemning to Mr. Tam said: "He has a good bers, had a sequel at the Central

character, and I know nothing Magistracy to-day.

good authority that the now Muk- November 18, while proceeding start the flight shortly accom den Government will shortly de- from Sitanghai to Amoy, arrived panied by an R.A.F. officer, H. gambling, which, he said, was the evil that brought about innumer- against him. He is hard work-

Puyi has passed out of the poll- clare control of the three Eastern here at about 10 last night. A able suicides, embezzlements, bankruptcies, and the like. At one ing, honest, and upright. I can

vouch for that."

tical picture in Manchuria, Provinces-Fengtien, Kirin, and graphic story of the whole affair social evil. but time, drunkenness

Heilungkiang-and with a Repub-was related by Mr. M. Scott, trying to raise funds for the. was the greatest national

Another witness who spoke for the first accused was a coolie liv- The new Mukden Government is lican form of Government-Router. Second Engineer, to a Chine Mail fight by a series of dances, ing on the ground floor of 266, to declare control of the three

reporter, shortly after the ship's Reuter. Shanghai Street. He said: "He Eastern Provinces.

The first intimation of a pir-' has been a farmer and vegetable gardener all his life, and is hon- Share operators are busy with est and industrious."

the settlement and the market to- A vegetable gardener at Kow-day is quiet. leon City, about two minutes' Neither

walk from Tsang Foo Villa, in A gift of £600 has enabled, a Ho Kong village, gave evidence West Hartlepool man to reallee his as to the second accused's chur-ambition to fly to China. acter, saying: "He is my

it had been fought against and had largely disappeared.

AOME

SWEEPSTAKE VIGIL.

sermon on

Basing hie

a liberal share of the 1; and taking Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 7-money for "expensea," "Neither be ye idolatera us wore are they allowed to run gaming of them; as it is written. houses, against which continual and war is waged by the authorities The people sat down to eat drink and

arc to play"--the These things Vicar said:

without reason." There appeared in Punch, a few

goddess, standing

rose

קגן

not forbidden

2. But it is urged that the fact

Bon

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and has lived with me all his Conservative M.P. are uneasy life. He is 19 years old. On the over Mr. Ramsay MacDonald's re-

FRACAS OVER A arrival

SOCIETY.

Result of Refusal to Join.

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weeks ago, this striking cartoon,that the charity benefits justifies it. evening of September 26 he was ported intention to arbitrate be. night on Saturday according to a when he had approached them ing. He seized his revolver and

A blind-fold.

The Goddess of Chance.

"A LITTLE FORCE." Police at Aberdeen had a busy

by Aeting Sub- with me. Up to that date he had tween Hindus and Moslems in re-story related

Cunningham in It is true that the hospitals bene-not been a vagrant. He is very gard to the India problem. Central Polico-Court this morning, fited by some $760,000 in the case industrious. I have more than of the Irish Hospital Sweepstake.ten men working under me and M. Lourheur, a French states/when soven Hokios appeared before{

Mr. W. Schofield charged with hay ing behaved in a disorderly manner by fighting.

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poised on a wheel, which in turn rests on a pedestal on the base of

and it is no doubt also true that he is one of the best. which is engraved.

He has man, has died. many of these people would not been honest and hard working A tripod incense-burner stands have given without the bait of even as a boy." in front, and kneeling before it, a prize. with hands outstretched in the at- titude of prayer, is a somewhat dis- not stand reputable figure of John Bull, Underneath the Cartoon is written The New Religion

or The Vigil of Sweepstake Eve.

That le Punch's biting comment on the main for gambling, which is at present time sweeping over the country.

Il

A Good Son.

None the less the argument will Another vegetable gardener of

moment's careful Kowloon Tong spoke for the! examination. If a sweepstake is third accused. He said: "He is wrong in itself, it no more justifies my younger brother. I know he It to hold it on behalf of charity is a good man." This accused's than it would justify theft or any mother also spoke for him, say- ing: "He is a very good son to and other crime.

Attitude of Hosp'tals. Further there is abundant evi-

¡me."

The Rev. A. K. Reiton of the dence that the British hospitals are American Penial Mission, Port- There is abundant reason for such not willing that funds should be land Street, Yaumati, who livesj

at 562, Nathan Road, was called comment, for never, we are told, raised for them in this way. was there more gambling in every

At a joint conference of the Bri-jas a witness for the fourth ac- shape and form than there is to-day. tiah Hospitals Association and the cused, who, he said, was a stud- It has taken the place formerly held Incorporated Association by drink as our greatest Social Evil.pital

Commissioner Lamb of the Salva-bourne tion Army is reported as saying in the

his recent evidence before a Royal passed Commission,

Officials held at

a few.

weeks following resolution

of Hos ent at the mission school. He East-had been at the school for seven ago. months during which time wit wasness had come into daily contact) "That the Association with him. The accused had a

is not in favour of any amendment very good reputation at the "We have come to the conclusion to the law affecting public sweep-school. He kept every rule at that hard drinking or drunkenness stakes which purports to be for the school and was industrious, Witness in not now the greatest social evil. the benefit of voluntary hospitals." honest and upright. Gambling and betting, on the other Sir Arthur Stanley, who presid-Indded that the accused's grand- hand, are on the increase in alljed, aald that at present there was father was an ordained minister walks of life. There is increased great danger of the hospitals being and his father and uncle were gambling among women."

made a amoke screen for legalising preachers, and the accused wan of sweepstakes. The immediate provocation

training for the ministry. Punch's cartoon was the notorious Here is another worth while Replying to the Attorney-Gen-¦

the 1931 opinion, that of the House Governor eral, witness said that the ac- Irish Sweepstake on Derby ruce, a record gamble. of Charing Cross Hospital-Mr.cused lived at the mission at million tickets Philip Inman, who next to Lord Kowloon City, and did not belong Five and a half

The estimated sum of Knutsford has raised 18 much to the village. He was born in were sold. £3,850,000 was received, of which money as any one for hospitals. Chinese territory, about 140! £1,900,000 want in prizes, about These are Mr. Inman's words, 28 miles south-west of here. £750,000 was swallowed up by ex-reported in a reputable Home

Slept at Chapel. penses, and the balance of about journal-"Speaking for myself and

The fourth accused's uncle also £700,000 reached the Hospitals, for this Hospital, we will neither have

He became gave evidence. which charitable purpose the sweep part nor lot in any such schemes Christian at the age of 20 and and our reason are not simply moral was now a preacher living at 48, stake was alleged to be promoted.

That is out of every 10/-, 5/7 ones, though they weigh very con-Ngachinwn: Road, Kowloon City. went in prizes, 2/5 went to the pro-siderably. Looking from simply His nephew had all his mesls business standpoint, we believe that with witness and slept at the No doubt the fact that it was for the gains would be outweighed by Chapel. On September 26 accue so-called "charitable" purposes in the losses."

ed had his evening meal with duced many to take part in it who A British M.P. (Mr. Isnac Foot) witness's family at 5.80 p.m., and would not otherwise have done so. summarises the position accurately left at 5.45 to return to the

Chapel. But was it really love for the hos- as follows:-

motera and 2/- to the hospitals.

joct.

Principles Involved.

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MURDER VERDICT.

Four Of Five Accused Discharged.

Inspector

one

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acy came when the ship was off with the firemen or passengers Turnabout Island The Chief [the Second Engineer shouted: Officer went to the Chart Room ["Who is there, what is the mat- at about 11.80 on the night of ter."

Immediately the 18th, and he noticed several

# shot came Chinese going up the ladder on through the door and entered to the bridge, having come along the floor of the cabin. The off- the deck. He went out to seize cer stepped aside, and two more them, thinking there had been shots followed, one passing the trouble among the passengers. place where he had been stand-

one held an automatic pistol to started to load, but before he the his head and called upon him to could do so, the pirates got the

surrender.

door open and he was forced to The Captain, Mr. C. Harris surrender, He was taken to Walker, hearing the noise came the taloon where he found the out from his cabin below the Chief and Third Engineer and bridge and was also called upon the Second Officer under guard. A-S-1 Cunningham sold, that

to surrender.

The Chief Officer returned later originally there were ten accused,

At 'about the same time the und informed them that the Gap- in whom

now of

Was

wireless operator

also tain and the Quartermaster had on cut

the hospital with

brought along, also a quarter.een taken back to the bridge. A оп another right

.arm

master. The wireless operator] ittle time elapsed and the pirates the left side of the head, neither was taken away to act as an in- again moved the men, this time with accused in custody, one of whom terpreter, while the other three ocking the Second Engineer in The jury In the Tsang Foo

of which was very serious. the trisi at

to a "boy's" the stewards'. room, and the re- Villa murder

men taken down Saturday night information was recabin in the port alleyway. mainder in the Second Officer's Assizes retired at 12.55 p.m. to consider their verdict and

ceived at Aberdeen Police Station

Simultaneously with this scene, room. that a man had been killed at 23 the Chief Engineer on coming out Threat to Captain.' returned at 1.20:

Main Street. On his way there, of the Engine Room, saw several The Captain was told to steer for They were not able to arrive

Police he met # party of verdict with ut a unanimous

men in the alleyway. He start- Swatow and if he failed to do so returning with accused in

cused to chase them away, when he would be shot, as would the regard to the first accused, but

tody, one of

was whom

one produced an automatic and European officers. The Third En- were unanimous in the case of

On enquiries being held him up. was injured.

gineer was made to do engine room the other four, whom they

made, he was led to the belief that

A Ruse..

watch from midnight until 7 a.m. found "not guilty."

first accused, who is's foreman on

The Second Officer and the où the 19th,, the Chief Omder from the Aberdeen Upper Dam, had visited the second man on several Second and Third Engineers were 7 am until noon, and the Second

at

their Officer from noon until they an- this time asleep in occasions, and tried to induce him.

Two of the men were chored at Namoa Island at 7 in the to join a Society of which Sanitary cabins. coolies at Saiyingpun are members. awakened and taken down below evening. The men were served to join the rest of the prisoners, with breakfast in the saloon, but He had apparently refused.

but on coming to the door of the the pirates feared that they might On Saturday night, the first man, with his friends, went to the second Second Engineer's cabin, the pir- make an attempt at liberty and took man's house, and there again ask-ates were unable to open it, be-them to separate cabins before the ed him to join the Society, this ing a different kind of door, of meal was. Onished. After that all time using a little force. He re- the siding type. Unable to gain meals were served in the cabine. on, the The Chief Officer was forced to get entrance they knocked fused, and a general meelee ensued, door, and awoke the occupant

In reply to the Chief Justice, the Foreman of the jury said that there was no possibility of their arriving at a verdict in the case of No. 1 if they retir- ed again to re-consider,

After some discussion with the Attorney-General, his Lord. ship adjourned the case against No. 1

December until the Assizes, and discharged the other four.

سنے

FINE TO CLOUDY.

The Royal Observatory's weather report to-day atates:

The typhoon is about 100 miles S.E. of Naha, moving North.

The anticyclone is central to the North-East of Tokyo, mov- ing E.S.E.

Forecast:--N.E or variable winds, moderate; ane to cloudy, From American Consulate General:

Manila, To-day, 9.80 a.m.- Cyclone or typhoon 8.E. of Naha, Moving N. or N.N.E.

Rainfall.

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Rainfall for 24 hours end. ed at 10 am. to-day zil. Total since January 1, 75.88 inches against an average of 81.69 inches deficit 5.86 inches.

Temperature.

pitals or greed of gain which in- "Even if successful, the success That day there was an acci-j duced men to give 10/- for a ticket would be at too great. a price.dent at witness's house. After of which only some 20 per cent. These methods would polson the the evening meal all the wit- went to benefit the hospitals? walla of charity. You cover cupidity nesa's children went out and he Many people who would not think with a thin smear of charity. You (witness) proceeded to put up of betting on a horse, have no ob- cannot reconelle an appeal to self some clothes lines on the veran- fection to taking a ticket in a sacrifice and persona) gain. The dah with the aid of a ladder on sweepstake for some charitable ob Good Samaritan would have taken the dining table. Witnest's eld- a very different place in history if est son returned home at about he had sought to discharge his res-9 p.m. and told him that there My purpose this morning is toponsibilities to his distressed neigh-was a commotion in the street, ask you to consider the principles bours by spending his two pence on so witness advised the boy to; involved, and see if this attitude is the purchase of a ticket in the stay indoors. justifiable,

Jericho Hospital Sweepstake."

···Fell'Irom' Roof. · 1-In the first place, in Britain Losses Outweigh Gains.

As that night was the moon. Foochow sweepstakes are as illegal as aný In these quotations, from an

Amoy other form of gambling.

article in the Quiver for October, festival night, the boy climbed

the ladder

Chefoo on to the roof to Astute knaves are not allowed I have sought to show not only that watch the neighbours worship. --Shanghai to enrich themselves at the expense the best opinions in the Home Hos-Witness went up with the boy of the guils who hope to get rich pitals strongly, disapprove of this quickly, by promoting sweepstakes

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The temperature at certain specified centres this morning at 6, o'clock wasi--

Hong Kong

On

Two

In which bamboo poles were used, beda broken, farms upset, and the Thinking there was some trouble whole premises wrecked. men, however, escaped, by jumping out of window and sliding downl¿ a tin shade to the street.

A-S-1 Cunningham added that it was unusual for the first man to be a foreman, because he was only 24 years of age.

Firat accused, being the aggres- SOF, was fined $20 and bound over In a personal bond of $100, whilst the remainder, who did not have a. cent between them, were bound over in personal bonds of $50 each: to keep the peace for a year.

ALLEGED FOOD POISONING.

Resulting from food poisoning, four of the occupants of 91, Fuk Wah Street, first floor- Kwan Siu, married woman, Chlu Fat, aged seven years, her son, Lo Pak (68), a widow, and boy, Chul Yan (4) --were removed to the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday.

Chiu Fat died at 3. p.m. The other three patients are reported to be in a serious con- dition.

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Manila

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dled

LOSS TO FRANCE.

• Paris, Yesterday. The statesman, M. Louchour,

at 2.80 p.m. to-day Reuter.

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