CORRESPONDENCE.
THE BUILDING CONTRACTORS
CASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY FRENS."]
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,
ARMED ROBBERY IN PRINCE'S | US
BUILDINGS..
HOW TWO MERCHANTS WERE
ROBBER OF 220,000)
Hongkong rarely fails to providë at least on sensation a day. Yesterday's Koht view of the very widespread thrill was an outstanding ene, An armed mpres that in the preseng building robbery was successfully carried unit in bront m the Colony Building Contractors | Princes' Building right in the Heart of are makings very large profits, this Ass the European business quarter, and pation is anxious to par some of the real daring business hours in the morning Jac before
the public through the pan the staffs of the Various offres în medium of your paper.
the building were nt work. There have A very considerable part of the works been several armed rubberies af late in now proceeding are on long contracts Chinese business premises hat this is the „and, incë, thou contracts were made, the first robbery of the kind that has occurred political troubles in the Interior have in a business house in the European raised the prices of materials, and local section of the city.
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY
F COMMERCE.
ADPRESS TO THE AMERICAN -COMMUNITY.
Persidrat Jackni
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4TH, 1992,
to tell him how the
information was 'Ueficient, and cingulars | were nat went out until these familiar, with the industry knew they were complete, accurate and useful. At the same time. realising that international nrejadegs Mr. CH. Huston, United States Assist might be created by angthods of conduct- ant Secretary of Commerce, with other ng business, the Department sought to visitors from the States, renched the improve upon the business men helping Colony early yesterday morning by the theu in this way the Government paint of They were met by the Consul-Genegal for The. U.S. "Boveminent and sun or 700 fro Manila, view with regard to for-ign wlations, the United States, Mr. W. 11. Gafe, and mapresentatives, mostly in the t'msalar afterwarde Mr. Huston was escorted by Service," and Mr. Huston reptioned that Captads Nögjile (A.D.C.) to Government the Consular Service gave the Hepartiment) flous to pay an official call upon H.E. of Commerce. three-fourths of its time. the Offer Administering the tlovernment, and did it very gracefully and efficiently. Mr. Huston is accompanied by "Mr. J. I. Teonclusion, Mr. Huston invited Ameri- Habet and the other moulers of the party, can business men (strikes have raised' wages to such an The sensational affair tank plaer about Public Health.orster). Mr. Ward Bower Department had ne its command practical are: · kiegt, t'ol. "A. M. Evans (0.8. | Department could serve them better. The extem as to be quite outside staything 11 velock. Police whistles were" sounded (1.8. Bureau of Fisherical,, and Me.men anxious to build up trade with the that à prudent, contrgetour reald be ex from Prince's Bulding and watchmen. David J. Davis (U.S. Bureau of handgest. Orient grout field for futàre develops pected to forese and otide for in his were seen by people in the streets tu, tien),
hurriedly take up positions at all the!
ment(Applause). The budding trade depends upou
The American community in Houghtog exits of the wilding, while Japanese and entertained the visitors to
The gathering then dispersed anil the farge number of classes of workturn, of Chinese were running from exit to exit tiffin at the Hongkong Howl, the party: Kraciek (kindly lent by Kowlop Dock ethered visitors 'provveded on board the Heury whom the following are a few-Carpet
na if in search of robbers. It was after numbering about so. vers, bricklayers, mass, blacksiniths wards learnt that the robbers had by this presidied. After the fiff the men feriet, and Mr. Ceck. The Consul General and Mr. W. H Gak Kowloon Docks, in charge of Mr. J. Arid Company) for a visit to" Taikoo and bamboo-workers, gjentas, pile drivers time got away safely from the building. boatzieh anal-junk terąse, fine sappliers Word was
umber of local business men accom- sens ro" the Gitral Pofice, kowyngs, exvavaiges, in fling woulies, and
Mr. W.-H. GALE, PS, Consul Getter Chamber of Commerce was represented by panied the party. The Hongkong General Station and about . quarter" of a hur; said:-ientlemen: It is a great piece of the Assistant Secretary (Mr. M. F. Key). many others, Many of thesay have badi their "sages twice larreased in the last detectives were busily investigating theive an opportunity to weep the various shops which they inspected in after the gerurience a party af European good fortune for us all that we should
At Taikro Dockyard the visitors were [few !] gears, and any moreiting double the affaly. The robbery took place the Assistant Secretary of Commerce of the same detail. They were taken to the dry much impressed by the magnitude of the
second Boog of the The profit which may ordinarily bel
building, The Chinese had called to settle an„ account"
United States to Hongkong. I think that dock, the boiler shop, the engine shop, the ented upon by the contractor is about
foundry, suithy, lipways, Ere station, for $19.568 with the Tayo Menka Kaisha: most of us out bere often foot, a link platers shed, shipbuilding yards, joinery 1 per ceni, Subriously easily (the Oriental Cotton Trading Company.
isolated, like the garrison of a distant our shop and saw mills. The machinery and evaflowed up by such enormous increases, which is incorporated in Japan). They post whose lines of communication are sure and the scene was really a remark- the huge staff were working at full pres- were indeed to go into the servans uncertain. We realize, as men engaged an quarters and it was there that they were in business at hoa cannot realize, that bir the building contractor in other ways bed of the money they had brought,very man working in his own or in his Thyr is a gear shortage of space along;
'boutract.
Previous PLION, A
and
in 'edsis as faci inken plaer recently.
Moraver, great developments have!
įwhich included a cheque op the Baik, of the birour front for urloading_building" East Asia for $18,000 and 8, as in cash. umterials, and cargos have consequently. The extragedinary simplicity with which to be discharged directly from the junk to the site. This is very slow, and often robbers was carried out, was later involves payment of junk hire for two plained to a Daly Bris representative,
addresses.
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- Crossing the harbour to Kowlche Dock,, had just gone, as it was after five o'clock, the atrast was strange. The workers
giant machines were still and the huge! alr and instead of the usual clangour, the
Cheds were silent as a church.
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"or three days. This causes considerable Chitiese member of this staff of the in the extension of American" prestige. Blake Pier at 6 p.nz.
delas (especially in the typhoon season)¦ and expense and is one of the causes of the failure of contractors to complete their works within entraet time
The auoom of building at a Katha to my the account,
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working, whether intentionally or not, to company's legitimate interest is
conscious of the responsibility thus thru-t serve the interests of his country. We are.
In the course of the interesting trin teul on us, and that gach one of is is in a United States, who either helps or hinders water brought the visitors safely back to very real sepse a representative of the the feary Kerich. Captain Ground- was served in the commodious walpon of
| Togo Mouka Kaisha. He said that about Wade our best to carry on, but we do not
am, two Chinese, employed by the Si difficulties which beset us are understood for Canten on Thursday evening
always feel certain that the peculiar be arranged for the visitors, who lynvo Today, further entertainments have Coon, dealers's firm, of No. 29,4 at hote, or that we can always count ou Jervois Street, called at the Toyo Henka effective support. We are keenly interest el to know what is being done in the The Pre United States, particularly through DISTRICT COURT MARTIAL. -going yn in dis Colony is such that there they were to call and the large amount of conditions surrounding foreign trade, the A PRIVATE WHO WAS " FED) UP" Hiinary arrangements as to what time governmental agencies to explain the are noi emagh workinen, in the Colony money to be handled must have been importance of understanding the psycho- "ro'empe-with it, and, consequently, either overheard by an office-loys a Chines logies of foreign peoples, of winning con the work is not done or unskilled work; named Li Chun-aho is believed to be fidence through the exful obertance of named G. Baker appeared before a Dis. A Private of the 2nd King's Regt. men from elsewhere have to be imported When the representatives of the Sif Yerts: we should like to know what is chnges: (1), absence without leave and the principal instigator of the rubbery, the spirit as well as the letter of agree trict Court "Martial." yesterday, on two 10 do it--a state of affairs which naturally firm stepped out of the lift they were being done to clear away artificial and (2) the theft of some clothing belonging to tends to muse both delay and had work, Jaccosted by the office boy. He politely unnecessary obstacles, to maintain high Lane-Corporal Riley at Mount Austin Ther working hours, are compara stating by way of exeuse that he had fresh enthusiasm to the men in the
asked them to follow him to his room, standards, uphold just rights and bring Barracks. tively, much sherwer than those previously a pared for them to take ack to a friend field as pioneers in a straight and clean Major C. P. F. Warton, Q.B.E.
The Court Martial was presided over by of his in Jervens Streri. Being acquainted fight to advance the trade frontiers of was absent from his quarters for two The above is the psuithof an härstiga with the boy, they complied with his their country.
The evidence, showed that prisoner It is for this reason that tion by this. Association into condition's room and told then be seated, quiet; distinguished officer of the Laited States orderly room on his return he called a quest. I politely showed theu into his we are so very fortunate in the visit of a days and that while waiting outside the of the hirffdfire trade at present, and the closing the door behind him at the same Government who is in an exceptional post. Sergeant aside and confess that he had Committee of the Association think it
Seared in the room were two on to tell us the things which couern Corporal deposed that, after finding that stolen the kit and sold it. The Lance- the duty to put it before the public in boy, drew weapons from under theirs so deeply. Gentlemen, permit me to his locked had been opened and several
other men, who, at a signal from the office the interests of the general body of conglothes. One of these was a dagger and resent the Honourable C.-H. Huston, articles stolen from it he saw his hold-all tractors who are not really responsible the other weapon was an instrument not United States-(Applause)
Assistant Secretary of Commerce" of the on the accused's bed. for everything that is wrong in the esreul)
"Mr. HUSTON in a brief address, out-
In a statement to the Court the accused tion of works aödare working under were easily over-powered and were 600 Departmens of Commeren seeks to promote charged with. He replied absence," Terrified out their livig the two Chiness lined some of the ways in which the U. declared: I asked one of the escort with great difficulting,
*me at the Peak station what I was bound and gagged, packets of pepper being used as gags held in their mouths by trade and help U.S. citizeps at home and and then mentioned something about towels, and their hands and fert were tied duction, that this was the first public On the way up in the tram I was think abroad. Hr remarked, by way of intro- Lane-Corporal Riley's kit being robbed. The affec-boy took a minent pars in the binding of the victing statement he had made on British scilling seriously. Having been in trouble The robbers then stole the money, includ and he wanted to say that, if the nations lever since we were in Egypt, and owing ing the cheque carried by their victims of the "world earned any lesson as the to bad news from home recently, 1 de and disappeared, locking the door of the result of the recent war, it was the greater cided to say that I took the kit, with room as they left. ·
and increasing dependence of one nation the possibility in view of obtaining poy The two bound men tried to make them. upon another. Frankly, he was in the discharge from the Army. Everything! selyes bened by tapping on the Boor but, Orient to study the conditions here with had made me fed up with the army as "the servants quarters are some disa view of developing a larger volume of and very depressed. Lance fruin that offices, there was no reg American trade, but he did not want to statement made there is not an atom of As regards the ponse. After about 20 minutes one of ser it developed without due considera-truth in it."
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fixed.
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Thanking you for publishing this letter -- mm, Ser. Yours faithfully.
TAM SHI HANG (Chairman, The Building Contractors Association).
58, Des Vieux Rixil, Central,
Henkous, and October, 1922
INTIMIDATORS SENT TO
GAOL.
PEMANDING MONEY WITH MENACES.
The ease in whigh two Chinese were charged with having demanded 2100 with meiners from a Chinës sing-song girl, came up for further hearing before Mr. Lindsell, at the Magistracy, yesterday.
The defendants were said to have visited the girl at a ten-house and there demand
unlike a jetamy.
with wire.
pro
War
the two men rolled over to his companiontion for other nations that were in the l The role of prisoner's friend" and managed to untie his hands. Once this field. He was very glad-as the Chair- taken by Lieut. Agar, who submitted that, was necomplished, the rest was easy, luan. had spoken of the great distance beyond the accused's statement, there They soon freed themselves and prized btween America and the Orient-to ace was no evidence at all that he took the open the lock of the door. The alarini important now steamship services nerose kit. A confession could only be received was at once raised and the police were the Pacific, That would mean something in evidence if it was established that it fees in the building assisted in the hunt in the Orient, because they appreciated, tained that the fact that Baker made the i telephoned for. Members of the various to the business then of Amerien who were was free and voluntary and he main- jfor the robbees, but no trace of them better than he did, the value of a visit statement for the reason he had men
ld be found, the twenty minutes' star: from head office officials from time to time. tioned rendered it inadmissible. which they had gained giving them Principals became acquainted with con sufficient me to get well clear of the ditions and it then required a great deal that the confession made by Baker was The Prosecutor (Lt: Thomson) argued building and the district.
es explanation when matters were pre-free and voluntary. He could not see
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ed the money, threatening to kill her if and several lengths of wire, she did not pay. A latter was also seat The feelioy, Li Chan, haien in the to the girl at her home address, telling employment of the Toyo Menka Kaisha ber to deliver the money to a man at for about a year. Up to yesterday morn Blake Pier on a certain date. A chit was ing's occurrence he was regarded as also produced in Court, containing fire very satisfactory servant. names, including the names of the two defendants. It was stated that when the chit was handed to the girl she was told to pay the modey to any of the five-men Aaned on the list. The arcond, defendant appeared to be the principal mover in the affair.
At yesterday's bearing Mr. Leo d'Almada appearing for the first defen- dant, said that no case had been made out -against-big client-and asked for his dis-
charge.
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A GREAT SIN:
found three towels, two packets of pepper, in this connection, to the very rapid that he had stolen the kit when he had In the servants quirters the police rented to them. Mr. Huston iso rei-rred, how a man could be so foolish na to say
radio telegraphy and radio telephony. strides being made in the development of not done so. Eighteen months ago one had hardly mulgated in due course.
The decision of the Court will be pro- heard the word broadcasting," but recently 10,000 people at the Civic Centre, San Francisco, had distinctly heard an address of the President of the United States, delivered at Washington. In A MAHOMMEDAN REPROVED. addition to that, 10,000 more
people stood outside in the Square and heard When Abdul Subhan was charged at the the same
spench through amplibera. Magistracy, yesterday, with having been Others sat in their homes and heard drunk and incapable, he confessed to the speech by means of an apparatue Mr. Lindzell that he was a Mabommedan. which cost less than $30. When one Mr. Lindsell: You are a Mahommedan tance of eight times round the world in ought to be ashamed of yourself. realised that radio waves travelled a dis- and yet, you were found drunk.
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M. MISHEL PIASTRO'S VIOLIN RECITAL.
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a second, it would not be necessary to A fine of 80 with the alternative of said in Washington to be repeated in lock forward many years. for what was seven days' imprisonment was ordered.*. Jengkong. The more closely relations were established the closer the friendship and mutual understanding.
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In an account of the work of the U.S. () La Capricieuse Elgar. Department of Commeren, Mr Huster yesterday for the A.D.Co-production of Booking opened briskly at Moutrie's (r) Hindus Chant...Itinoky-Korikö mentioned that the plan of leaving the "I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU" at the (d) Spanish Serenade
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Both defendants volunteered to give ovidence and in their statements to the Magistrate they denied all knowledge of the business. They denied all knowledge of each other, the one stating that he had naver seen the other before. They could not explain how their names came ter appear on the chit, unless it was, ag the.. first defendant suggested, an attempt to get them into trouble.
The Magistrate after listening to their denials convicted both defendants and sent them to prison for four months.
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