HONGKONG MAGISTRACY. UNLICENSED COOLIE HOUSES.
A Chinese was summoned for keeping Lwo croliu houses in Connaught Rond withsut a permit.
Inspector Roylance, of the Sanitary
Department, stated that defendant's liceare, expired lass Jannaty, and in wrote in to the Sanitary Department for a genewal. Owing, however, to the posi tion in which the houses are "situsted. and the difficulty of lighting them, the Department withhold the licency, pro- mising to retesse if as soon as defendant rented out other houses. Defendant had not done so.
Dir. Wood fined defendant $93.
POCKET PICKING.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH, 1918.
OPIUM PROSECUTIONS.
CHINESE ENGINEER SENTENCED TO A YEAR'S HARD' LABOUR.
• At the Hongkong. Magistracy, rester- day, Mr. E. D, ̊C. Wolfe sentenced Kong Hon, the assistant engineer of the launch Yew On, to a year's hard labour, on the charge of being in unlawful possession of 3000 mels of prepared opium.
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THEWORLD'S INDEPENDENCE CITY HALL WORK PARTY.
ACTIVITIES IN AUGUST
DAY.
and sect one
[BY HALL CAINK"]
During the month of August the City Seven score years ago the American Hall Work Party packed the following. people brought forth on their great con
case to Mrs. Barton, tinent a nation consecrated to liberty Secretary, Red Cross Fund, Bawalpindi, and dedicated to the principle that all India, and one case to The Red Cross
Depot St. Mark's Buildings, Alexan men wore greatest equal. Then they had dra: 11 pillow cases, un design, many tenies and only one friend. Now shirts, 53 vests, 10 suits pyjamas, 27 Chan Sun, the owner of the launch they have many friends nad only or scrubbera; 91 doz, handkerchiefs,
Then they were a little handful reversible bed-jackets, 1 bed-jackets, among the peoples of the earth. they are a hundred millions, and their pairs slippers, pairs bed-bouts, 24 milk mighty country is the half-brother of the covers, eye-bandages, bend bandages, world. And today their kinilted, as re-engito nets, shrouds, and :1 presented by the sovereigns and statesmen, tops. the soldiers and sailors, the speakers and, The Wool Department packed 60 pairs. Leuchers and writers of many lands, are of socks, 15 pairs knee-caps, 9 pairs stretching hands to them from across the operation socks, 2 white caps, 23 caps aud
was fined $4000. with the alternative of 5 months, hard labour, for allowing his launch to be used for the conveyance of the epium,
The case has occupied several hearings. änd necessitated a visit by the Magistrate to the launch.
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The evidence for the prosecution show, ed that the opium was found hidden
enemy.
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Why are they doing so? Because the principle on which the American antion was founded has been found to be true and ba
80 muters.
The Mother's Caion Work Party con- tributed 16 vests, shirts, 13 suits pyjamas, bed-jackets. G handkerchiefs,
was charged with picking under the boards of the shaft-chamber, founded Vailed: because the nation so io pairs socks, helmets, pairs knee
A Chinese the pockets of another Chinese in Aber- dern Street and stealing a purse contain ing *18.05.
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Defendant denied the charge. stated that he commenced running because complainant had assaulted him,
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has passed through
testing and has endured. Fira herce caps, and 10 scrubbers,
anity on ours.
her time
(Signed) LILIAN BARTON. -
The following letters of acknowledg while the defence asserted that the parcel of separation from the motherland from had been thrown into the hold by which she sprang, when ties had to be ent has been received:
broken which might never be renewed.
Rawalpindi, July 3rd. 1918. passenger as soon as the Revenue Officers Then her time of civil war, with its Dear Mrs. Gu4,-How very kind of million of dend (all her own dead), when you to have again managed to have boxes Inspector O'Sullivan stated that de boarded the launch, which was about to
friend was against friend, brother against went us.. We are indeed most grateful, fendant and another man knocked against start for Yaumati
brother, and father against son, And and are greatly looking forward to the complainant near the Sin Hiu Yuen When Mr. Wolfe indicated, Fester now her time of tragic choice between cases your things are sc lovely.
peaceful security on her own continent What we should be most grateful for Theatre, and stoir the purse, which, day, that he found the charges against and the perilous cull of justice and hum-re Banael dressing gown, and flannel however, was cot found on defendant, the assistant engineer and the owner
Pyjama. We want those erry much but America came into the war two years everything you Sent was 90 usoful. Complainant did not know whether | proved. Mr. D. W. Featman, Superin-after it had begun. The first intoxica- Idefendant handed it over to the other tendent of Exports and Emports, who ting of the war lever had not touched her. Thank you again so much. Tours sin-
cerely, The delirious exaltation of the early dara zpùm or not. · & Tukong and another man prosented, said he supposed that, in had left her cold. She had watched the who" noticed defendant running away, regard to the cagineer, the Court would struggle in the old world and seen the
3rd Scottish General Hospital, follow the usual procedure of punishing nations of Europe had suffered, and how bitter fruits of it. She knew bow the gave chase nad arrested him,
Glasgow. Dear Madam.-1 an enclosing two the man in proportion to the quantity of the iron had entered into our souls. She opium found. As regards the owner of had no illusion about the bloody business picture post cards, and please note the upon which she was embarking, no mis. Hongkong dressing-gowns are in use. the launch, he said that the limit of the taken estimate of the price she would have They are so useful, and also pretty with And yet she came in, calmly, the touch of scarlet-I wish the photo fine was 23.000. It was not often that to, PP.
deliberately, without qualm or fear. graphs were coloured. The boys are he was able to bring owners into Court. Why did she come in? She had no old always so surprised to hear of the gar In this cure the owner had not only not score to settle; no bad pence to readjustments coming from Hongkong
no territorial or economic advantage to With very kind regards and grateful proved that his crew were not implicated, gain Autocracies may go to war for a thanks to all the workers-Yours but the prosecution had proved that one
little earth, but democracies have only the sincerely. lives, the honour, and the welfare of their of the crew was guilty of an offence under subjects to fight for, and American sub- the Ordinance. Chan Sumi bought the jects on their far-off shores were secure. faunch about a year ago, and on a pre-had been cutraged: the right had been But liberty had been violated; civilisation A lukony stated that on Tuesday night vious occasion it had been fined for not wronged: the weak had been oppressed; SERVICES ENTERTAINMENT he noticed the two defendants raving stopping when called upon to do so by the iron arm of a merciless tyranny, jus the helpless had been injured, and before about suspiciously near some trucks. Hea Conrnment" lauzch. He submitted tice and mercy and charity were being went up to them and noticed the elder
wiped out of the world. If America was to be true to the principle to which she bay removing the pins and handing them
had consecrated her State she had to resist these crimes. Not to resist them was to to the younger.
At first witness, was
become
against the criminal was to under the impression that the boys owned
Not to becary before the fact of them. the trucks, but when they left the place
his accomplice. Neutrality itself had be come a crune. Therefore America had to fight or tha spirit on which she tad and commenced walking away rapidly, he
founded her own nation had to die. gres suspicious and arrested them.
Mr. Wood discharged, defendant, Ha there was no corroborative evidence.
THEFT BY SMALL BOYS. Two Chinew youths were charged with stealing a quantity of linchpins and washers from 94012 trucks in Burd Storet.
Defendants stated that the articles were.
that it was a case for a beávy penalty, That the owner of the launch should have been found guilty of offences against the Ordinance within the space of 10 months showed that he was not the victim of misfortune only.
Mr. E. J. Grist. who defended the accused, pointed out that though it was
¿given themi bɔ a man to be taken to his quite true that the launch had been fined
house.
Two truzz-owners identified the pins and washers as belonging to thein.
air. Wood sentenced each defendant to six weeks' hard labour and four hours" stucks.
A LITTLE CHILD'S EVIDENCE.
A Chinese was charged with stealing several pieces of clothing from a house in Wellington, Street,
Inspector Salliyan stated that a little girl who was playing in the cubicle noticed defendant removing the articles from some pegs. She informed her elder brather, who immediately arrested de- feadant.
A little girl, 3 years of age, said ahe was quite certain that defendant was the man who stole the jackets.
Defendant informed the Magistrate that he went to the house to see a friend, who had pawned' his jacket. When he entered a cubicle he was saulted and charged with stealing.
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on a previous occasion, it was similarly true that the owner, Cban Sum, did not. pay the fine on that occasion. The cox- swrin had paid that fine out of his own pocket, and the owner had no knowledge whatever of the incident. He submitted that there was no evideneg whatever that the owner was negligent, or that he aware that opium was being carried on the launch. The owner was technically guilty under the Ordinance, because he was responsible for the behaviour of his employés.
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Mr. Wolfe having given judgment, as stated above, Mr. Grist gave.notice of appeal.
A SCAPEGOAT!
Inspector O'Sullivan said that the defendant had two previous convictions against him, and had been banished for five years.
to be discharged.
The case was remanded. Chief Revenue Officer Wildin said that portunity, in Police custody, of finding Lis friend.
Mr. Wood sentenced defendant to three months hard labour and four hours' stock.
A STOWAWAY:
A Chinese lad pleaded guilty to being stowaway on board a steamer from Singapore to Hongkong. He said he wan playing on the boat and fell asleep; there. fore he did not know that the steamer had started.
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Only for a little while did she hesitate about her duty to step beyond the limits The moral law of her own continent. knows nothing about frontiers. The boundaries of the buman heast are wider Calvary there is only one country. than the widest empire. At the foot of The cause of liberty, of justice, and of mercy is the cause of humanity. A wrong done to all. So America could not shrink in to the least of the nations is a wrong done
the face of her right and her duty. From the security of her own shores she had to the helpless and to defend the weak. That cross the ocean in her strength to protect was what her strength was given her for- the first and last and only reason why God had made her great.
"A friend loveth at all time, and a brother is born for adversity." On the common ground of adversity America is now standing by the side of all that is highest and best among the free nations of Europe. In that fact, and its sequel, lies the supreme spiritual compensation of this awful war. Again and in
again the agony of Four sorrow and loss, and the deep unfathomable mystery of it, we have. cried out of our bruised and wounded
(Signed) 'N HARRIS
(Sister-in-Charge):
FUND.
The Treasurer of the above fund (the Rev. F. G. B. Hastings, RN.) gratefully acknowledges the following contributions for the period ended 2nd September:
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Li Chun was charged with being: in possession of 23 tacs of Government opium in excess of the quantity allowed.
Mr. Hind, who appeared for the de-hearts, What is God doing in this world fence, explained that the accused was at
of His children?" Bus row we sec. the Ming Har Club on Tuesday when old wounds of the nations: He is drawing His incrutable way He is healing all the he met two friends who asked him to ac
together the races of men who have been company them on a walk. When they were too long asunder; out of the storm of passing Messrs. Wing On & Co.'s premises battle He is bringing forth a great bro- one of his friends, Chan Lo Fath gave therhood of His scattered peoples such as bima parcel and asked him to hold it the world has never seen before. *
A new lodge was consecrated recently, while he went inside the shop. for, a
"The friends thou hast and their adopt Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen-street, minute. When he was waiting for the ticn tried, grapple them to thy soul with bearing the title Motherland, and hum return of his friend be was arrested. He books of steel. Just as war, notwith-bered 3,861 on the register of the Grand The lodge, as its asked to be given an opportunity of standing all its brutalitics, is creating a Lodge of England.
name implies, is to form a home for Free- ought to be charged together with the Aghting at the front, so tint, coming from the Colonies and Dependencies of Ending Chan Lo Fatt, who, if arrested, new comradeship among the men who are masons of the United Kingdom and these present defendant. If Chan Lo Fart were out of
every class condition, all dis-
the British Crown and others of the Eng- found guilty, then Li Chun would have tinctions bave disappeared with the lish-speaking race. The ceremony of con- civilian clothes they have taken off and the soldier's uniform they have put on, seuration was performed by the Grand and nothing remains to the well to do man decretary of England (47. and the workman, the highly-born and the
Smith), aasiated by Sir Alfred Robbins.
ute, perhaps the ex-convict and the and T. W. Chant. Mr. William Perkins ter Mesars. Granville Grenfell, W. R. Collett, clergyman, except the brotherhood- -in' which they daily face sudden and untime and Sir William Raynor (Dep. Pror.. Bull, K.C., was installed frst Master, ly death, standing shoulder to shoulder in the same trenches, sleeping side by side. Fell, Clark, of Glen Caladh (Prov Grand Master, West Yorks), and Mr. F. in the same dug-outs, and thus sharing Grand Master of Argyll and the Isles) together the biggest things they can do were invested as wardens, Mr. Richard and give, their duty and their lives, even Gill, West Yorks, was elected Treasurer; so the organised barbarity, we call war is and Mr. G. W. Jones, Secretary. There binding together the civilised nations into a great now spiritual fellowship.
At attendance of visitors, includ."! The friendships that are born in mis- of British Columbia; Lord George Hamil ing E. D. McLaren, Grand Master fortune last longer than those that are ton, Prov. Grand Master of Middlesex born in happiness, "Let us pray that the fellowship of the free peoples which the and a deputation of ten office-bearers of war has brought to pass may not end the Grand Lodge of Scotland, including until it has laid the foundations of a last stitute: Grand Master), the Earl of Stair Bir Henry Dundas, of Arniston (Sub- ing peace. With no lower hope than that could we keep our souls alive in the midst Junior Grand Warden), and Mr. David of all this suffering. If we had to believe Reid (Grand Secretary)... would have to be gone-through again by when America founded on her, far-off con- that what we ourselves are going through our children and our grandchildren, who tinent a nation that was consecrated to in the fulness of their liberty and dedicated to the equal rights living childish joy, the whole world would be of all. It will be the day of freedom from broken-hearted. But our hope is sure the shadow of the sword which haz and our expectation will not fail. The darkened the sleep of man for more than and hard to our bleeding feet, but, God liberation from the tyranny of the strong, way we have still to travel may be steep a thousand years. It will be the day of bop loss, and dark, and echoing with from the enslavement of the weak, from been long
the subjugation of the silent masses cries of pain; but on the forebead of the have shed their blood, age after age, at the future we think we see the light of the font of the crowned criminals who have dawn. And when the day comes we know sought for nothing but their selfish domin. what it will be. It will be a you greater ion and gained nothing but their guilty day than that of seven score years ago, glory. It will be the Independence Day
(Continued" at foot of nezl Tolumn) of the World-Daily Telegraph.
A Chinese was charged, on remand, with mantebing a purae containing Bila from another Chinese in Connaught Road on Monday aftertioon,
The Chief Officer said that the lad was Evidence was given to the effect that found between some boxes on the for'ard complainant, accompanied by a woman part of the ship. It he had been playing and a little boy, was going in the direc I could have got off at Balan Cotoh, tion of Queen's Road when defendant an island five miles away from Singaenme up from behind and picked com port, where the boat stopped for an hour. plainant's pocket. An alarm was raised, Inspector Gordon said that the lad wan and defendant run away. A woman a native of Singapore From the Police shouted out "Saatcher," and the cry was "Twint of view, his offence was not as
taken up by several others, all of whom serious as if he had stowed away from joined in the chase. Defendant was Hongkong to Japan or to America. followed by two Chinese detectives There was not much stowing away be through several alleyways in and around tween Singapore and Hongkong.
Connaught Road for nearly a quarter-of- an-hour before he was arrested.
The Magistrate observed that the point was that someone would have to pay the Lad's postage back to Singapore.
Inspector Gordon said that perhaps the Ind find work in the
The Chief Officer said that the cost of the passage was $12; third-class"
The Magistrate Ened the defendant , with the alternative of a fortnight's
7.
hard labour,
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
Defendant denied the charge and stated that he sought police protection because another Chinese wanteayen, but they did He informed the detectives, not believe his story and arrested him.
Inspector Brown said that defendant threw the purse into the harbour,
Mr. Wood, sentenced defendant to six months hard labour and four hours
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