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DICTATION. TO

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THE GOVERNMENT. HONGKONG LABOUR GUILDS DEMONSTRATE

FOR RELEASE OF CONVICTED

TRDERER,

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 16TH,

THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE.

WHO ORGANISED IT?

Six men were then chosen to interview the Secretary for Chines: Affairs and they worn clowted with that atlie al for over an

In the course of a very able review of hour Alter the interview the Hon. Mr.

the Seamen's Strika, in Hongkong," run- Hallifas announce that the delegation's

ning into many columns in consecutive [repest for the "release" of Chan had been issies of the NC., Baily News, Mr. | Matly exfusest. Mr. Halifax said that the | Rodiny. Gilbert, Who Ria semently been man had suggested, that Chen bad heengisiting South China on a journalistic wrongly convicted. That was the only mission writes:- ground, they offered, or enaid offer, for their application

WHERE KOWLOON AMAHS CONGREGATE,

tors

POLICE CAMPAIGN. AGAINST

· PUBLIC NUISANCE.”

PROTESTS IN COURT

The nuisance caused by amahs at Kow- loon, who with their children, perambula

and gearts habitually block There is little doubt in, the writer's the footpaths, obstructing

disturbing householders mind, however, that the Kunintang and

pedestrians

Hongkong. All 12 zolld their banners leclared, "demonstrated, yesterday morning, in-favour of the re

Mr. Hallifax ales said, "I told that: | delihéïntely organized the Seaman's vicinity by their constant chatter, has at togs of "Mr." Chan Puig Sang, the former President of the Chinese Neantes's be hair was a convicted murderer and that Union, encouraged the delegates to break last been brought to a head hỷ the petion of the police Sunday, when they Union, arrosteal here with a view to de- we did not propose bi allow him to re-off negotiations with the shipping" gom- portationi, after conviction in Canton for main in the tokm I told them they panes and precipitate a strike, make.it afrested two-anahs for obstracting the footpath Uussid, the Chibi de Recreio and the murder of his wife. "All the guilds" [„nést not hold vedo ssions without preger effective through intimidation and safe

the Kowloon Cinema Theatre, when a guard the transportation of the strikers. did not make a very imposing array. f,hority,"

number hadvolleets: for their usual after-. 98,the deminstrators elained, they re- A delegate stated that, having failed their housing in Canton and their sur

Roon chat, The armsta caused quite a presented 18 pulls, that would only have to get Me. Hallifax to promise Chan's veillanes while there against any inter been half-a-dozen or so from each guild. releas, they could not do any more then, forener on the part of (hơn thiung-ming conmotion amongst the amnhs, who on, From their appearance, however, quite Thox would be holding meeting of alle aux pther afficiat in Canton who mighs the appreach of the jolier scattereal in

have conceived it his duty w check these

all directions whilst the larger children half the crowd appeared to belong to the the guilds later and would perdably iło.

undertakings. That this was done by

The LWO wege very much frightened. Seamen's Union.

cuss whe advisability of a general strike

way of satling old scores with Hong arrested amnhs their charges with them in order to enforce theif request.

kong, the comment upon the strike of were marched off to the Water Police "THE DEMONSTRATORS DISPERSE

overy Cantonos ficial, betrays. Hong Station where they were later celeased on During the pervad et wasting, the crowd kong og led Sun Wen Reigkong for-bail. Ditesde grew larger and larger. A leghe aeriebration of his inauguration, The action of the police has enused 'a lege of Chinese and Indian, 'constables | last year and almost denouneed him inertain amount of indignation among was married 16 |tes Vaux Road and lined | tte (próclamation, Hongkong probibited parents in Kewloon, and this feeling waa ty under the verandah outside the offices (curibitions to his campaign funds freely expressed val the Police Court

Hongkong | Jaypared the moderate pro | of the P. & Company, n. readiness for

However, when the gemme of Chen Chungming for the y ventaalng. rigientes left Mr. Hallifax's offer, and adynistration of the affairs of Rag tung province and every British uificial "parted-to the crowd. a fey blast an whistles ered all that the crowd seeded showed an anxiety to see Sun Wen ousted as a Signal to withdraw: Tamen left than margę authority centred in Chen's] dants, while Mex, Wilson employer of the hands which greatly annoyed the K-other amah also present, and mining. The how wages paid to sediret addressed th. Magistráte! provided an excuse for the strike and the Mr. Nash förmed the Magistrate that Sedema's Union, under the insptrol of he had been engaged in the Kowloon Nuisance Cas," in which two amghs were charged with sitting in Sathan Road."

Mr. Linds to Sub-Inspector Grant, who was in charge of the prosegution: Is this a Police cupaiga ko people out of Nathan. Road?

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Those responsible for the demonstration did not wish to be thought they approv ed of launders They have decided that Chan is in band that therefor de

Seen by a portation is unfair to him. representative of the Daily Press, delegate of the Searien's Union said the eçarin are convinced that Chan ga prupes "man" incapalde of -comunitting such a crime. "Every-me Ge longkong ean prote that he is innocent," said the officia'; he would not abandon the worl pro spate of a suggestion that

everyone in Hongkong could prève just, "nothing at all. He said thay Chan was appealing hzansi ha conviction in Cauton but he had nothing to say to the content tion that thongkong Government was entitled in deposit 2 mate evavipted of murder; at inast until that man bad ea- tablished his underpen. The feil had

Fan entirely new verstosi of the crime to, relate: one that differs entirely from the murdered woman's, dying deposition and from Chan's own Statements in enurt, as reported in the Canton vernacular press

AN EARLY START.

The demonstrators arched to the

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Vacant plot va masse, and re-formed the pression, They did not peñved in the affers of the Seamen's Union, but tarbed soit at €'entral' Market and a great many

That the strike was not spytaneous

of them, carrying banners, went to a Hsieh Yu-po and Ch'en P'ing-shan, pro- trashup over a motivy, changer's shop,-- | vidět a medium for fomenting it... une Taiheung's the eastern erner of Graham Hipert, in Queen's Road. Ders entered a day a tittle further town the road. They they fastened to a verandah pillar a hamnee inseribed, in English","All the guilds of the Colony appeal to the fiqyeriment for the le (76) or "Mr." Chain Fing sang “

A European civilian who was passing

with the seamen, that its cause was not reouomit, but that it was poistically inspir. ed by the Katomiulling leaders is the general

the South, reached through induction conclusion of the foreign communities in fec" a much greater ass of facts than The weiter has cited. The average reste dent in the South, firm as he is in this equipped with evidence to believe that he

could prove it before a judge and jury; male no protest beyond punch

chattering, and one of their mumber took the banner inside the shop.

caning

yesterday morning, when the two amaha were charge before Mr. Lind- with an obstruction, Str. Nash, licitar employer or eng of the amahs, appeared on behalf of me of the defen-

Wits

Lorn these

Inspector Grant: Yes! We have res erived complaints from the Kowloon Ri dents' Association en stop this sort of

thing.

Mr. Nash: don't care a rap for the

-Central Pulier Station at about 1.80"xpressed his opinion of the demonstrarunclusion probably is not sufficiently well Kowloon Residents' Association.

They there demanded the release by pulling down the banner and -of Chan Ping Sang med bängers which wiping his boots on it. The crowd of 200

they carried ove statements to the same effect: The deputy Superintendent of Police (3 4." P. Wodehouse) parleyed with the then and told them that the action the pron had taken was not ected in any way with Build matters, but, aras Tran this fact that Chan had been convicted of killing his wife, and was therefore a dangerous character and

The Magistrate: Don's please inter- Pupt, Mr. Nash. I am asking Inspector. but highly "pficed officers in the Hong-rant for the facts of the riset" "I will Long Government say that they can prove hear you later. these contentions beyond all quibble. It is probably fairly safe to assume there fore that the assumptions are feet.

The demonstrators did not emerge in force frem the plates into which they had and the streets of the central district resumed their normal appearance. AN APOLOGIST FOR CHAN,

At the Seimen's Union, later in he

an undesirah it was not true that morsing, one of the delegates who had Chan would be deported forthwith;, the jbeen to Mr. Halifax addressed ste decision till inned with the Gover Press Representatives at great lugth o nor. There would be an opportunity for the Union's peasory for seeking Chan's the men to ask for i cugat haring if they release. He explained that they believed wished, where they could learn in detail the man to be innovant, and he gave the the legal aspects of the action which the following story of the death of Mr«, Chan, Authoring byl taken.

She had gone to Canton à fornight before her husband and, had been unfaith- ful to him. Near the White Cloud munt-. thin than met his wife walking with another mau. The woman told her lover to shunt her husband and, seeing the man draw a revolver, Chan drew one and fired. He Auld not be sure whether be kilird his wife or whether the other inun did. The woman's lover Bed the district and was x available to give evidence at the trial

Mr. Wadehouse advised the men 30-pre- sent their petition to the Secretary for Chin Affairs and on this the demon strators formei up and marched into the central district. Arriving at the Post Offer Building they crowded all the cor- zidors of the first Ecor, as well as the entrane lobby. When this state of affairs was pointed out to the lenders they instructed their followers to wait outside and the, unoccupied site in front of the P. & O. Others was soon filled with d monstrators carrying banners.

caint

OUTSIDE THE CHINESE SECRETARIAT.

Chan's explanation of shooting the policeman when arrested was that "be thought the policeman was his rival, come to murder hini. His statement shot my wife was not true and was de voluntarily whilst he was still daged after a leap from the first floor to the

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A DAGGER STORY FROM

MONGKOK....

1922.

Continuing, Inspector Grant: i have bata ay milyas thirty, mnahs and children' collected about the hall (hế, thi cinema), It is the intention of the polien, to clear | this obstruction these people are blocks ing up the whole of the footpath. I have received complaints from Watson & Com- pany and from the Dairy Farm.

The Magistrate: Quite, easily, thirty I should say

CHINESE STUDENTS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN THREATENED.

Four Chinese, of Mongkok village, were charged before Mr. Lindsell at the Magistinned to me by finspector Grant. It was tracy, yesterday afternoon, charged with near the Kowloon Cinema and there is threatening two Chinese students and with demanding a sum of $40 from one, an open space there. They were arrested

of the students.

Mr. G. G. "N.. Tinson appeared on be- half of the complainants.

Mr. Nash That is not, the part men-

there.

Inspector Grint: They are getting a proper nuisance and we are going to clear the cut from there.

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The Magistrate: There is not much obstruction there, especially at that time: of the day.

At this stage Mrs. Wilson asked if she' might be allowed to say a word.

The Magistrate: Are you instructed to appear Mrs. Wilson 7

Mrs. Wilson: No, Your Worship; but I would like to ask how can they be

The principal complainant, a youth named Wong Kooh-shing, aged 18 years, on of ane of the principal residents in the village, said that on the 1st it. he was sitting in the shade of a tree-jast outside his house when the four defend

They were gr¤rů“. ants came up him.

Inspector Grant: If they would keep bling and mattering amongst themselves. The youth turned round to a see what to the other side of the road we would was the matter, when he was ked by uot mind so much. There are geats there

Jook one of the defendants: What

you

for them.. at me for He did not reply and the next moment he received "three r four blows in the bark. He was annoyed, but was presented from defending himself by the crowd which, quickly gathered. Be fore leaving one of the defendants threatened te An him. On the 5th inst., three of the four defendants paid a The Captain Superintendent of Polier

visit to the complainant's house and or they would kill him. He noticed that road when the grate are full of coolies for on the we shortly after nine

asked him to pay over the sum of 840 expected to sit ca the other side of the o'clock" nad, marching straight through ground in trying to escape."

the turd defendant had a dagger which he the most part of the day and with tho kept producing from underneath his coat.

sun blazing down on that side all day. I the crowd, took, op a position on Post

THE WOMAN'S DYING

The complainant at once rushed into the "DEPOSITION. Office truck and addressed the crewd.

house and asked his aunt to slip out through must say that my amah has never been Mr. Wolfe reminded the men that they

It may be worth while to recall that the back door and inform his friend of allowed to go gear to the Dairy Farm cr few houses Watson's. I have never heard of such a the incident, who lived a had no permit for holding a "procession. Chan's wife, in her dying deposition, as

away and who had also been threatened thing, and I have been resident in The He was prepared to allow them to wait it was given in the vernacular press of by the defendants, His friend informed Kowloon for the last nine years. outside, until their delegates had seen

Canton, said it was her husband who had the police, After an anxious wait the Police have never warned the employera that they are causing' an obstructicu es Mr. Hallifax, but he gave them clearly heen unfaithful. As he did not support men moved away to some waste ground she would have told her amah about it,

to hold a consultation. Whilst there a

Inspector Grant pointed out that he to understand that they must disperse her she fallowed him to Curton. On the Police Sergeant arrived and, in the within half an hour of the delegation's interview. He wanted them all to under day of the murder she was persuaded by chase that followed, one of the defendant had been engaged all last week in trying

repeatedly. stand that very clearly, because if there her husband and a friend of his to make was caught. Later the same day another to stop it. He had warned the amaha Mr. Nash suggested that the amabs were was any trouble they would not be able

a trip to the White Cloud mountain. Her man was arrested at No. 16, Temple

not personally responsible for this matter. to blame him. Mr. Wolfe added: "Chan husband suddenly drew a pisic and fired Street. Shortly afterwards, in the search

for the other two men witness came across He thought that the masters and empley- was arrested and convicted in Canton several shots at her.

One of the men in Portland Street. He

ers were responsible for any act that had for being a murderer. He was sentenced

To the police Chan confessed that he to twelve your imprisonment, but now murdered his wife and said that his promptly caught hold of him and strug been committed. The action of the inspec

gled with him until the arrival of the ter was a very high handed one. ho has been released by the Canton friend had nothing to do with it. Government It in the policy of the As to the story of the arrest, the evi- police. His companion, the other cour he arrested the two amahe the two children were plainant, was also successful in catching were brought to the police station as well Hongkong Government not to allow any-dence was that two policemet

proper course was to serve a summons body convicted of murder within the wounded by shots fired by Chan, which the fourth man in a similar way.

Asked by the Mingistrats why the de- on the masters and not to have taken the limits of this Colony. That is the reason puts his story of a visit by one man in

fendants should threaten him, the com children to the Police Station. As it was, different light. why Chan is being banished. It has no

plainant said, ho could give no reason when the police appeared, the larger thing whatever to do with any Union

unless it, was that he once looked rather children were very much upset and seat. business. It has nothing to do with the

In Chinese circles all that could be hard at the second defendant's wife in tefed all over the place and they were settlement of the late strike, because Chan was in gaol in Canton before that settle gathered last night was that a strike Shanghai Street. The second defendant in grave danger of being knocked down -motor-cars. The constable did ment was made. He was arrested in might be called by the guilds. The seemed to be rather annoyed at this and by passing-me

dot ask for the names of the defendants; Canton because his was a murderer and meeting of labour organisations was not on 'that occasion shook his fist at him.

All four defendants denied the charge if he so it would have been an le will be banished from here because he held at the place and time announced

to have served insummone or is a murderer. Hnd that murder been yesterday, but a secret meeting may have and the first defendant informed Mr. easy matter committed in Hongkong, he would have occurred. The iden, no doubt, is to Lindsell that the whole thing had arisen them, Doon hanged. in that quite surprise.com at

hagistraemia point But well-informed ant lost money and had not paid it with I don't want anybody to say that he

id not understand If there is any opinion is that there is no desire, amongst the result that they had quarreled:

At this stage the case was adjourned trouble later, or if anything happens to the more intelligent workmen, to strike iz

for further hearing 50 disreputable a cause. you, don't blame me.'

RUMOURS OF A STRIKE.

decided to strike.

The

When

and added: Ar this is the first case I propose to discharge the defendants with a caution; but they will be fined th next time they are brought here.

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