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THE RESTORATION OF EUROPEAN ENGINEER SENT

*LIAOTUNG.

TO PRISON.

WO PEI FU URGES" ABROGATION | SUNPROVOKED, AND BRUTAL "AS

OF 1913 TREATY.

SAULT" ON CHIEF ENGINEER General Wu Pei Fu's telegram to the W. O. Nicoll, a ship's enginoor, on this Poking-Government backing their stands.s. Fue Fiap Fa, was charged at the on the Twenty On Demand Note to Marine Magistracy, yesterday morning, Japan, took a whirl at international with assaulting the Chief Engineer of politics as well as going on record in the vessel, Mr. George Grant on April defiance of Japan. This telegram was 4th. seat from Loyang on the 8th instant and [in it General Wa says:-

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the Senate of the United States.

up

the Harbour

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

[prons is toRESHIN, THE CHIEF JUSTICE (SIR WILLIAM HEES-DAVIES)] MURDER TRIAL

BOUND WOMAN SHOT AT AND MURDERED.

OPENED.

SUMMARY COURT.

[UNYORE THE PVISNE JUDGE. (UR, JUSTICE COUPERIZ)}. "

WHEN COUSINS FALL OUT. Rahmit Ullah, an Talian, brought a suit against Mir Afza, in the Summary Cours yesterday morning for the rever morning at the Criminal Sessions, in September 17th, 1999. Both the plainting /

A murder trial was opened yesterday | of #100 Uned by him to the défomhut u

which two men named Wa Kwong and the defendant are eiupteyed as shipe Cheung and Lam Chuen are indicted for guards on board the %.a. the Zre, Mui, on February 9th at No. 46. The plaintiff and Mr. Corbett for the de murdering a woman, called Leung Sam Mr. C. A. S. Ross appeared for the

Praya, Kennely Town.

fendant,

The Attorney-General (Mr. J. H.

and Mr. Campbell Prosser, barrister-at- faw, represented the two prisoners.

Evidenco was given by the master of the vessel, Captain William Ross. Ho Since Japan has refased to recognise said the ship left Hongkong at noon on China's request repudiating the Twenty- One Demands and returning Port Arthar April 4th, bound for Hoihow. They and "Dalny, the people have been greatly were approaching Sulphur Channel when excited. The Twesey-Quo Demands were the chief engineer came

In the interests of justice," His Mr. Russ, in outlining the ease,- said the signed under duros; they were proclaim-bridge and reported that the second been agreed that the twe

Lordship expinined to the Jury, it had that the parties were coùsiny. On Septem ed invalid by the Chinese delegation at

mien should ber 17th the defendant asked the plainti the Paris Penes Conference and again at engineer had struck him. They agreed

Further to try and continue the voyage, but Leung Sam Mui was taken first.

be pried separately. the Washington Conference.

The ease against for loan of $195. Plaintiff was of the opinion that the defendant required the more, the highest organ of the country shortly afterwards the chief engineer Parliament, has not given its approval to

money to send Home. He had not thự - them. It is merely a matter of fact that again came on the bridge and reported Kemp, K.C.) appeared for the Crown money by him but had $160 in his lockert no treaty becomes valid until the con- that defendant WAS giving further currence of Parliament has been obtained trouble. It was decided to return to

at the Club of which he and the defendant were meinbers, He told the defendant An instance of this nature, may be found. in the repudiation of the Party of Capt. Ross anchored off Stonecutter's and by Hongkong and have the matter adjusted.

where be had the money and the latter. The Jurg empanelled for the case com

offered to go and take the $125 from the late we have heard much of the friendly reported the trouble to

prised-Messrs. J. Thayer (foreman), locker. The plaintiff, after some persus- relations between Japan and China and

C. Bentley W. W. Mackenzie, Vsion, consented to this and gave the de the maintenance of peace in the Far Master.

Harteam, II. M. Campoa, P. N. Sequeira fendant the key of the locker. On reach East. It is my opinion, however, that

and A. S. Abbott. the people of the two countries should

ing the club the defendant niet a sergeant realise the fact that no friendly relations

The Attorney General, in opening the guard who was looked upon as the head ent be established nor actual peace effect

case, said that the deceased was 1h of the Club. This man demurred that the ed if obstacles are allowed to be put in He had been in the ship since January knitting operative and she worked defendant should opan another man'ë the way. As a hole is the beginning of and witness hnd bad no trouble with knitting machine which was kept at locker but when defendant showed him a bursting dam, the Japanese cannot gain by continuing to refuse China's request, him before. They had only two Euro Praya, Kennedy Town. The third floor, It is earnestly hoped, that both the pran engineers in the ship. On April where the murder took place, was DC,

was in the lecker they both agreed te Central Government and the Chinese 4th just as thus stand by wont de cupied by the owner of the machine and open the locker cgther The people, based on justice and righs, wil present a united effort in the fight against fendant came down to the engine room he lived there with his wife and con- fondant took the $125, locked up the Japan:"

Witness was standing on the stairway cubines. At the time of the murder the locker and took the koy hack to the platform. Defendant pushed him away prisoner was employed there as a sub pinintiff. Nothing further happened until from the starting handle and then struck stitute servant boy. Plans of the build the beginning of January when the plain- him and knocked him down. He got up ing would be put in but it was proposed tiff asked for the money to be refunded. and the defendant went for him again. that the Jary should visit the premises Defendant then paid over $25 and promised Witaess Locked him down and was later on. On the afternoon of February to pay the remainder later. Sometime in successful in getting the vessel under 9th, at about 3 o'clock, the deceased January the parties had some little dif way. Defendant went up on deck and

woman, the wife of the occupant of the ference. The defeudant, who

EGGS FROM CHINA. THE MERCHANDISE MARKS BILL.

The House of Commons was in perry

mood on March 16th over the Merchandise

The complainant told the Court that defendant was under the influence of drink. He had been drinking for some days

the key and told him how much money,

was the

Marks Bill, which provides for the com-witness proceeded to the bridge and re-third floor, a maid servant and the pris.senior guard of the two, ordered the

pulsory marking of imported eggs, as well us other produce.

ported the assault to the mauster. 1

for him. They quarrelled. When asked Mr. Pretymah, who moved the second was arranged that they should continue 9ger were the only persons on the floor, plaintiff to perform some domestic duties The ficor immediately below was un- for the remainder of the money the de reading, told of an old lady of Notting the voyage if possible and witness went

About this fendant said "I won't pay you. My heart. ham who bought a sitting of eggs, from to his cabin to dress. Defendant came occupied and locked up. which the ben hatched not chicks but along and again threatened him. Wit time the prisoner sent the maid servant lizards. The eggs had come from China

Ener

is not proper." This, according to Mr. Russ, meant in the vernacular that the defendant would not pay him whilst ho was still angry with him,

No more money, had been paid up to the present,

The defence was a complete denial of the delt.

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After hearing the evidence on both sides Honour gare judgment for the plaintiff with costs,

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an, errand. The Leno, had boon alive he would, hava got and it was decided to return to Hong. murdered woman and the wife were then

Mr. J. M. Hogge declared that if Dan puss again reported this to Capt. Ross, out of the house on

Two seated near the window. this principal gag ont of this Bill, and kong,

entered the room, the first being the suggested that each shell should be stamp-

Commander Beckwith, B.N. (Marine) Led with the portrait of the mother of the

prisoner. He had a revolver in his found Magistrate)

the defendant egg. If eggs were to be given a port, then, he asserted, amidst laughter, "guilty" and he described the offence hand and apparently the other man'was sausages should be indelibly marked with es an unprovoked and brutal assault." unarmed, Prisoner pointed the revolver sourou of origin.

Defendant continued to threaten the at the decensed and he ordered the two Mr. Darbishire (Westbury, L), said he chief engineer and through his conduct wothen to go upstairs to a small room had been inundated with letters on this he impeded the voyage of the ship, mak

This room was

THE CHARTERED BANK. subject, chiefly from poultry farmers ining it necessary for the vessel to retura bore the third floor. his constituency. He did not subscribe to Hongkong. His Worship took inta occupied by the prisoner. They were to the doctrine that a member came to the consideration the fact that defendant had there tied up by the second man with A SUPPLEMENTAL ROYAL CHARTER House specially to protect the interests of been in police custody for twenty days, his constituents, but rather to seek the but as a warning to others who might be string which was lying on the prisoner's good of the community 08 a whole. inclined to follow his example and delay bed. The deceased woman objected in There must be something wrong with the a ship when on her voyage, ho would order the first instance to geing into the room. egg industry of this country when so him to be sent to prison for 40 days with The wife of the occupant was very porishable an article as an egg could be hard labour.. brought thousands of miles and sold here at a profit in competition with the home- produced article. It reminded him of the saying of Joseph Chamberlain: "Those who do well do not advertise it; those who do badly blame everyone but them

selves"

GIRL KIDNAPPED. WONDERFUL STORY OF WEALTH IN AMERICA.

An

SOUGHT.

of tho

extraordinary" meeting Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China was to be held after the genera meeting of the proprietors on April 4th to approve of an application for a supple mental Royal Charter. This proposes to authorise the bank to issue and have in circulation (subject to certain conditions therein mentioned), promissory notes to the amount of 820,000,000, and with due notice to the Treasury to the amount of $30,000,000. It is also propored to The men authorise the back to carry on as part of

frightened at the time and had not a dear recullection of what happened. She was too frightened to look up. She heard four shots fired. The murdered woman fell against a rattan chair and the wife of the occupant fell on top of her, apparently from fright.

Nobody took the debato very seriously. Sir Robert Sanders, the Minister for A Chinese named Ip Sang, an employee. Agriculture argued that if any one of the Imports and Experts Office, then left the room and locked the deer.its business all classes of trustee and exe

appeared before Mr. C. D. Melbourne at About this time the door bell began to cutor business." the Magistracy yesterday afternoon,

wanted Chinese eggs he should be allowed to have them, but he should know before ho broke the shell what he was buying, "At present," he said, "the consumer is paying for a dip in the lucky bag. The object of the Bill is that he shall pay not for a chance but for a certainty."

The Government did not take siden, and in a free division the Bill was ao corded a second reading, by 183 votes tu 100. Which is hard on the woman of Nottingham if she really wants lizards.

SAIGON RICE MARKET,

charged with kidnapping an eighteen year ring and continued to ring for some old girl, and, alternatively, with barbour- time.. This was, of course, the servant ing her. The offence was alleged to have girl returning from her errand. taken place on the 6th inst.

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The

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The net profit for 1922. after providing

Mr. Lee d'Almada appeared on behalf prisoner opened the door and let her in. of the complainant in the case, an old She went up the stairs, followed by the Chinese woman whose mistress the girl prisoner for part of the way. When she for bad and doubtful debts, and includ

ing £137,671 brought forward, amounted Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, an assistant in the got to the top of the third floor she 10 £405,103. From this sum has to bo cffice of the Secretary for Chinese Affding, looked down the well of the stairs and deducted £84,000, being the interim outlined the case, which he stated had

dividend of 8 pår cent, less Income Tax, in blac clothing going been brought to the notice of the Secretary

on the “A,“B” and “C” shares. . for Chinese Affairs by the complainant. down the stairs with a band bag in his paid in September last The directors As a result of certain information the hand. She could not see his face. This have added £50,000 to the reserve fund, polica went to a house in Graham Street

officers The Compagnie de Commerce et def and found the accused and the girl, man must have been the second prisoner, raising it to £1,200,000; £15,000 to tho pension fund, and written Navigation d'Extrême Orient, in their Defendant was alleged to have enticed and he had hidden in the second floor £50,000 off freehold banking premises. report dated Saigon, April 9th, state- her away from her, home by promising her kitchen which was inter found to have They now recommend a final dividend on

The position of our market has been agreeable employment in America. Ho strengthened by a fair amount of busines< was also alleged to have gives her an been broken oper After the discovery the A," "B" and "C" share of 8- 8 per cent, less Income Tax, making 16: closed with Cuba, for April/May hipoboxious drink, in order to weaken her the alarm was raised and a ecolie from per cant for the year, leaving £152,105

resistance, ment. On the other hand, the supplies of

the godown below out the string which to be carried forward. A year ago, when paddy received from the interior have beure at Battery Street, Faumati, went bound the murdered woman. The police £300,671, and the dividend was the same-

The girl's mistress, who lives in à

£127,038 was brought in, the profit, totalled" decreased considerably. There is no demand from Europe and from the Far into the box and said the girl had been were summoned and it was found that a as that now announced.

with her ever since she was six years of hand-bag, some clothing, a quantity of Eastern markets.

The total amount of rice exported from age. On April 6th she sent her on an against 257,923 in 1922.

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD, January 1st to March 20th is 313,564 tons are ad; and aw nothing more of her till money and a hair press were missing.

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KRYPTOK LENSES

had

met

could steal

the was by the police. Subsequently the police raided a house, At tho, Magistracy the prisoner made

In evidence the girl stated that she womna in Hongkong, to whose house ako oner and another man. They attempted that the wife of the occupant had rod the defondant on the premises of a sewing in Shaukiwan and there found the pris. the murdered when denied shooting woman and pointed out gone on an errand for her mistre He told her that there were excellent to run away but were caught. The mise identified him although she had looked She- prospects for her in America if she would ing bag was found on the premises and at him for a quarter of an hour.

identified him when asked a second only go. There, according to him, a gold all the stolen clothing: On the prisoner time. It was quite true, added the piece was to be had for the simple service was found $37 in money, and on the Attorney General, that the woman dit of banding a person a towel. He added

fail to recognise but the recognised are conceded to be one of the very best that her parenge money would coine, to other man $30. The other man would be later. He pointed out that the w

several hundreds of dollars, but form of bifocal lenses. The bifocal negirabo had not got the sum, she uggcated called as a witness and he would say had one blind eye. ment is ground and fused into the distant it from her mistress, Logisther with jewel that the prisoner gave him $00 that There were some difficulties in the case, one of which, was that four or five lens making the product practically one then suggested that she should ame away

lery. She saw him the next day, and he afternoon. “

shots had been bred but only ons ballet piece of glass. The segmenta are totally with him. At the same time, be gove

On the following day the second man, had been traced. The police had search her invisible and the lens has a beautiful ten to drink, and placed a handkerchief who was not yet before the Court, was od for them but could not find any appearance. Kryptok lenses of any pres stupefying her. He then took her away possession were found some keys. Horod outside the door. One theory, was under her nose which had the effect of arrested in Holland Street and in his trace. This was very curious, but it was just posible that they may have been cription in either regular or Torie form and he had lived with him at various took the police to a certain house and in that they intended to kill both women are manufactured by the Hongkong addresso, since wh Optical Co., Succombors to Clark & Co., sway against hor will,

Defendant denied that he took the girl a bag, which was opened by one of the and it was just possible that when they

Is alleged that

saw the second woman fall on top of keys, was found the missing hair press and the murdered woman they thought that Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, she had offered to be his wife on payment also a revolver, which contained one live ale had been killed also.

the most competent optical manufactur. that he was old for her, she said she loved 0 additional live rounds. The revolver by Mr. G. W. Auenell, (armourer of the

of $30, and even though he reminded her round and five empty rounds and about Expert evidence was afterwards given · Establishment in South China- him, and that did not matter, Shoals had been recently used and the calibre Hongkong Defence Corps),, ns to the located in 53, Queen's Road Central, told him that she had no friends and no of the bullets was the same as the bullet state of the revolver when he examined Fitting glasses and testing the light is The Magistrate did not believe the found in the neck of the murdered it. The wife of the occupant of the ficor their speciality.ADTY.

also gave evidenco after which the case £101

man's story, and sarkenord him to six woman, months' hard Jakour,

(Continged at fook of next column.)/ was adjourned.

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