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-THE DEATH OF DR. WT.

TING, FANG."',

AN EVENTFUL, CAREER.

LA STATESMAN IN ADVANCE OF HIS

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The news of the death of the aged Wu Ting Fang, at Canton, yesterday, will touch a sympathetic chord in the hearts of all who knew him, whatever may be their opinion of his polition! Apciations of the last few years, for his

personal qualities of heart and mind we him the highest respect and esterm.

Though he was eighty years of age, it is

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 245,

THE CHAIR COOLIES, FEUD, ANOTHER FRACAS - YESTERDAY

AT NOON,

DEEP BAY MURDER CHARGE. THE FOUR PRISONERS ACQUITTED.

OF WIVES.

A WORLD TOUR. EMPRESS OF, FRANCË” TO CALL

HERE WITH A TOURISTS. In the early part of next year-proby | ably about March-Hongkong is to have. a visit from 806 American tourists who The trial concluded, yesterday afternoon.

are to four the world on the 8.8. of the four members of the Tam family

chartered - from the CP.0,8, for thể charged with the murder of a man uamers Frame which has bee

The ease was heard before the Chief roar, The tour is to be completed in the remarkably short time of 120 days Justice (Sir William Rées-Davies) and, a Tang to Deep Bay on May 1st.

which is about four months. The arrange- jury consisting of: Messrs. 8. Dunn

fireman, J. Sloan, E. W. Blackmore,ents include a visit to the following Francise, Honolulu, Japan, China Ranisamy Sundran, Tsao Kai, Elis contries or parts:-Cuba, Pananie, Son

The Police operation the other day did CHIEF JUSTICE ON THE EVIDENCE not put an end to the bitter leud exist ing between two rival clans of chair copies naud the Chuns" and this Lais. Despite the fact that the police Thursday capturel, 27 of the Chan tho, Lui • chận, clan, whilst they were on the march there was a further outbreak of the trouble yesterday when the districts surrounding Aberdeen Street and Stamm

to

dis battle with

a state (of and C. Slawart. ton Street was aroused to doulthess trus that the anxieties of the

The Attorney-General (the Hon Mr.(which includes a stops at Hongkong, and aying visit to Canton) Manila, Javaj past wirk" in Chutun shortened his life, panic. Chair. coolies of the Chan clán, As a events sind Dr. Wa, used what supported by the Wong clan, were to be. H. Kemp, K.C.) conducted the case

France, England and home, the scriptures all the allotted span of sew moving about in small parties look for the Crown, and Mr. T. X. Chan, in Barna. Ceylon, India, Egypt, Italy, life he had looked forward to at leasting, for members of the rival clans of structed by Mr. A. E. Hall. defended. raaking among the centenarians of the ngi virtu. Fargely of his adherence to a regethrin diet. Al his great age only strong faith in the justice of the political principles he fought for could have indurid 'kim to forego the ease and leisure to which his wang years of labour in the service of his country long ago

entitled him.

The story of the prosecution in this Li, There were several rollisions and though the Chans were the stronger body matter was that amongst the boat people the Lais put up a strong defence. There who divide their time in smuggling and were everal broken heads, hut the ending between Hongkong and Chinese two families; the Tams injured men on the approach of the territory are

crawl away into and the Tangs. At the end of April, police matinged o hiding. The police were kept busy clear one of the Tang family's bolts lay at ing the district of the attacking party Shamshuipe, taking on board a question ek s your more elapsed before able wargo, for some of it, at least, was things quietened down. The fair tock sulphur. On May 1st the boat reached Castle Peak, where, at nightfall, it was place about tifon time,

In yesterday's fighting the police alleged, members of the Tame family at arrested seven men and during the after-tacked them, rolbed them of their con

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OUR HARBOUR HAWKERS. OVER 400 WITHOUT, LICENCES: According to Sat. Elston at the Magis trary, yesterday morning, there are over 1,000 hawkers who ply their traite, on the Hugkong harbour. Of this number 60 are in possession of liences and the remaining number; estimated at 1900, are

without Beences. The latter, the Sezi

geant said, include Europeans, Indians, Japanese and" Chinese.

He added that

noon warrants were issed for the arrest tynbad cargo and nurdered two of aring of a-chuplaint made by the of four others who are said to be lealers ther in the trouble. The total number arrest- ed since the commencement of the trouble is 34

Deputy Superintendent, of Water' Police regarding the nuisances erated by these hawkers a campaign" had been started against them.

The late Dr. Wo Ting Pong was born in 1942, a native of the province of Kwangtung. He was educated in Hong- kong, at St. Paul's School, and after leasing school entered the Servier of the Hongkong Clovernment as a clerk at the Magistracy, That is where he got his

When the moon rase, the Tams tugan introduction to Law, Later he was call.

to move away with their captures, and ed to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. We be

a woman of the Tang's party heard an

The Magistrate" (Mr. Låndsall) re Tieve he was the first Chinese to be

The quarrel is said to have arisen tercation. Then, across the waters, sho lotted to the English Bar, and the first Chinese barrister to be admitted to quite recently over a matter of preced beard the death shricks of two brothers marked that it was news to him that a practice in the Courts of the Colony.ence of picking up fares on the public Tang and saw two bodies being thrownHence was required to hawk in the One party is trying to into the well. Two days later a fisher barbour."He had always thought that That was in May, 1977., His LL.D. (kan | chair, strids.

man accidentally hauled up on of the perple were privileged to sell things on CHAC) WHY

we believe,, an American force the other into a bark place.

The chair coolies arrested by the Lodies and, meantime, "informations had the water wout a licence. In view of honour.

were yesterday been given to the police. Four men of the fact that this was the first case of police on Thursday

its kind, Mr. Lindell devideși tu im- brought before Mr. E. W. Hainilton the Tam family were arrested anil were

pose the nominal line of 81 Pacht op seven and charged with riotous behaviour:inlisted on the capital charge.

the of the men was further charged

Several witnesses were called for thekers who were found in the harbour with having assaulted a Chinese con Crown. Some of them were bound by the previous day selling goods without a as the Minister of the United States, stable. This man and another, said to the prisoners (they said) but were after licence. Spain and Peru, and after the austhave been a ring-leader, hail been allow wards released. One escaped and swam terms of service in that post be returneded out on bail of $50 each, and the othertore.

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In the service of China, the late Dr. Wa Ting Fang had filled during his long life many high offices, under the Monarchy as well as under the Republican régime. In 1476 he went to Washington

Bemarking that he considered the 'bail reasonable in view of the nature of the charge, the Magistrate fixed the hearin of the case for Tuesday afternoon sext

A woman said she saw two

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A project is in foot to introduce the bodies thrown overboard after the prishigest forius of the Chinese culinary art With thiin view the Superistenliut of oners had completed the robbery of their in the paperial Household of Japan. victims' craft.

The motive ascribed far, the crime by the Imperial Kitchens is leaving Tokio to the witnesses was greed. It was admit-ovestizate Chinese mesking, and in the fed that both parties were robbers, and course of his tour he will visit Peking, smugglers and, as one of the witnesses Tientsit Tsington. Shanghai. Hongkongj put it, the eyes of the Tams turned and. Canton.

blue with desire" when they saw what

to thina to be in fin Vice-President of 95. were, released on 'buit of $20 each. the Board of Commerce, 1903: Cornis Mr. H. L. Dentys appearing for the singer for the Revision of Trenties, 1903: defence, asked for a remand and redue Vice-President of the Board of Foreign tion of bail. Affairs, 1003; of the Board of Punish- ments, 10 Commissioner for the Revi- sion of Laws, 1905. In that year also he was appointed a Julge of time later. nutional Court of Arbitration at The Hague. In 1907 he went to Washingtoni

guin "as Minister to the U.S.A., Spam, between General Chen and Dr. Sun Yat a valuable cargo of contraband (surphy) The tenth where her husband was CON cerned. Seven gentlemen of common Pern and Cuba Be enjoyed a great Sen must have been a great grief to him the Tangs had got.

It was alleged that one of the prisoneisense would Baturally weigh with very reputation in America, as an amiable, though he managed to disguise it, well,

the evidence of considerable raariou lever gentleman with a nice turn of, wit. ¦ and rained, faithful to Sun to the end, offered the father of "the murdered man!

to, give Herong evidence

these women with regard to the where He returned from the United States When Chen Chiung-ming was dismissed 8500 ** nut

who

abouts of their husbands. At rate, kid Hurope, intending to retire into pri- from the Civil Governorship.of the pro-against him. One of the waren

of the vate life for he was then about '68 years vince; Dr. We Ting Fang was appointed gave evidence told the Court of age. But in 1011 the Revolution broke to fill that post as well as the post of dildo she was in. I she spoke out, and was inalced to associate him. Minister of Finance concurrently with against the "prisoners, she expected to

on the other side of the bay," and it was self with Sun Yat Sen in the negotiations that of Minister of Foreign Affairs. In be assassinated: if she did not, the which resulted in the abdication of the the strenuous times of the past six weeks friends of the murdered man would pre-an extremely simple thing for these men Monarchy. Dr. Wu Ting Fang was 2 these new offices must have imposed uponably murder her. Her way of expressing to call their wives to say so too..

the horns of a dilemma "-an-expres. tower of strength to the Revolutionary him heavy work and responsibilities, and

included ¡11 Party as this time and their success in the past week, which drove him first to secksion naturally the negotiations was certainly duc very asylum in the Canton Christian College, vocabulary-was to say that "the skin largely to his advocacy. When the Beand afterwards into hospital, proved trio on the front of my hand is as tender publicau régime was inaugurated, Dr. much for a Constitution which has in Mo Ting Fag again retired into pri- recent years bero: subjected to so heavy vate life. nettling down at Shanghai, and strain.

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the skin on the back of my hand.".

THE JUDGE'S SUMMING UP.. In his summing up the Chief Justice

it was a very simple matter for a man

to go into the witness-box and say”, “ “

was not there: I was cleaning my boat

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forward, and pat They had also the Chief Justice, said he confess ed it was to his in the strong

in point their favur that they rained' in British Territory instead of running way. The Attorney- General had suggested, in reply to that, be did not actively intervene in politics Whatever may be thought of the wisdom except to write a strong letter of protest of his political policies, the name of Dr. observed to the jury that the asse was that they did not suppose that news of conveyed to the police: also "that they to Yuan Shih Kai When he was making Wa Ting Fang, will arly he enshrined in some respects complicated at the the "crime" would have been so quickly

happy attempt to inaugurate in the history of his country as a patriot outset it appeared to him very com **W Jynasty. Because of

the who strove conscientiously to the atmost pliented from the number of boats, so to delayed in order to arrange the disposal Ita point in their favour that they were events took therefore, threaten; of his power and with single-minded pur-speak, “brought into the picture" each of the proceeds of their robbery. It was ing 149 they did to destroy all pose to establish in China the political boat containing so many people. hopes of that Constitutional Govern conditions which he believed could alone seemed likely to be difficult to follow the next day in the place where they were to be accustomed to be and where it would be ment to establish which he had devoted make for the betterment of the country case, hut, after all the issue

perfectly easy for the witnesses for the bia ting and energing so freely, he yiid in whose service he has devotedly inbour decided was a fairly simple one. ed to the pressure of his friends to join Led and in whose service he has died. It can The jury had to say whether they were prosecution un gat at them.

When you consider the story of the the Government at Peking. He took the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, but he found he said of the late Dr. Wo Ting Fang, satisfied with the evidence of the wit

as it can unfortunately be said of so mang nesses for the Crown; if they were, they witness, for the prosecution," continued. himself in uncongenial political sur of his countrymen who have risen za high should find all four prisoners guilty as the Chief Justice, how they definitely roundings which did not comport with office, that personal aggrandizement was being all concerned in the matter. The say they saw these four men take the hin ideas of the sound progressive Govern his aim; he was, we understand, compare defence had put forward an afibi; the cargo and hind the men in charge; when ament he sought to establish, and he tively speaking not a wealthy man, prisoners said, "We were not there; we some say they themselves were bound again came south and joined Sun Yat but we believe him to have been as high were on the other side of the Bay that anil saw the dead men bound, and then Sen, in whose integrity and political minded a gentleman as China ever pro-night. It was extremely simple to put saw the feargo deliberately transhipped;|

We have never heard a word forward that sort of statement and it when you consider all that, you aré per confidence. Since that time Dr. Wa Ting breathed against his honesty or his moral was the duty of the Jury to scan such evi fectly justified in asking what explana Fang hay lean prominently identified sectitude in any respect. His uncondence. very closely, in caser where the tion the prisoners can offer or suggest to be in mind of any other person which with the Canton movement to everthrowcious fault, and Dr. Sun Yut. Sen's fault, evidence of the prosecution was strong the Government at Peking as being un- also, lay in, their failure to realise that

These men had called their wives to would lead them to contact this story The prisoners constitutional and illegal. He was from their political theories or at all events support their wifi. Until a comparat against innocent men. the Erst a member of the Administration plans of political action, were impractitively recent, dato wives were not per can only suggest some trifling dispate in Canton, and since the organisation of cable, in a country to retrograde and

henighted as China so obviously is at the mitted to give evidence for or against present time. Bepublican Government is their lawful husbands, in criminal cases.

wisdom he always reposed the greatest duced.

a plant of very slow growth and the soil Under recent Acts of Parliament they

The Jury retired to consider theft, verdict and returned into Court seven

minutes later...

Ia reply to the usual questions, the

of China is not yet prepared to receive could do so if they so desired. No Foreman said the Jury had arrived 26

the full grown trees which the few ultra- cuuld compel a wife in this respect, but Republicans in China are endeavouring she was competent if she so desired.

the Cabinet has been Minister of Foreign Affairs. It will be remembered that he as well as Sun Yat Sen, some two year Ago, left Canton fot a time" in disgust for Shanghai, but returned to harness when through the military successes of General Chen Chiung ming, the Kwangsi men who had gradually usurped the can immediately take root and flourish, trot of the province had been ousted and Dr. Wu Ting Fang's death is a severe Constitutional Government was once Liow to any hopes which Dr. Sun Yat more cathroned in Canton. The rupture Sen may still cherish of re-establishing

himself in Canton. (Continued at foot of next column.}

animous verdict of not guilty. The Judge told the prisoners they were

to plant in the expectation that it will The reason of the former prohibition was discharged and then, turning to the Jury; that our forefathers who in some res ho said: Gentlemen, I have much pects were sometimes wher, perhaps, pleasure in discharging you, with the than we are very much doubted whether thanks of the Colony for your services, a woman could be depended upon to tell and to release you from all Jury duty

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