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STRIKE COMMITTEE.

WILL IT BE DISSOLVED BY JULY 20TH?

THE

MILITARY "MACHINE

PROPAGANDA IN HUNAN.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

ENER

PIRACY SEQUEL.

FISHING BOAT CREW

ATTACKED.

WOMEN PUSHED OVERBOARD.

SOLE SURVIVOR'S STORY AT

MAGISTRACY,

Apparently, the sole survivor out of General Tang Seng Chi, the pro-seven people, including three children, Kuomintang commander in Hunan, has of a pirated fishing boat, a boy, whe threatened to cease further operations made his escape from the ill-fated craft and to resign unless the re-inforcements while the pirates were on board, swam promised by the two Kwang provinces for four hours against a strong current are quickly forthcoming. At any rate and in a rough sea until he reached to this is the information which has leaked fuge on an island, told a tragic story at

out in Canton and it has given rise to the Central Magistracy yesterday after considerable discussion. Despite the re-goon. ports of the movement of troops to the

He appeared to give evidence in a case North it is said-that-the-re-inforcements in which three men were charged with actually sent to Human, in men and am- munition, are so negligible as to be of httle practical use to General Tong.---

The propaganda agents are also busy These mon are chiefly from

piracy of a fishing boat ten miles from Tai O and in the vicinity of Lan Tau Island. He described how the elder mamber" and others of the crew were attacked, and how three women were pushed overboard and pushed off with bamboo poles when they tried to cling Shanghai and their object is apparently to the rudder. He has not seen any of to convince the Hunan people that their the other members of the pirated fishing. fato under the Kuomintang will be in-boat since he made his escape, and fears finitely worse than it is at. present.they are drowned or killed

in Hunan.

Posters showing the ruins in Canton nearly ago when part of the Western two years Suburb was destroyed in the fighting

with the merchant voluntcars have been cxhibited. These posters are intended to show the Hunanese what Changsha will look like under Kuomintang rule The Kuomintang has retaliated by pro- -hibiting Shanghai daily newspapers from entering Canton, and "its information bureau, is busy issuing statements in English and Chinese defending the Party's policy and action..

ANOTHER TAX.

The Kuomintang has just discovered

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7TH, 1996

A FATAL FALL.

WORKMEN'S 90 FEET DROP.

PLANE OF 1 INCHES SNAPS.

WOOD TOO THIN FOR THE

·HEIGHT..

FOREIGNERS' GRAVES.

DESECRATION OF PAKHOI

CEMETERY..

MARBLE CROSSES · HAMMERED DOWN.

been

"Considerable indignation bas On the afternoon of June 17th three aroused amongst the foreign residents of Chinese workmen employed in connection Pakhot, owing to the dosecration of Station and Government Building in Des are interred. Similar outrages have oc with the construction of the new Fire graves in the cemetery where foreigners Voux Road Central (opposite the Centralcurred, before, and it had been thought Market) and in Connaught Road Central, that representations to the Canton authe- dropped from a height of 90 feet from ities would have the effect of putting a the fifth floor to the ground level. Their stop to the iniquity. fall was caused by the snapping of a plank of 1 inches thick on which they were standing, and they received severe head injuries which resulted in their deaths at the Government Civil Hospital. It was stated by an expert witness at the enquiry bold by Major C." Willson, sitting as Coroner with-a-jury at the Central Magistracy yesterday afternoon, that a plank of this thickness was cer- tainly too thin to stand on at a height of 90 feet from the ground, and that a plank of at least 2 to 3 inches should be used in such circumstances.

AN EYE WITNESS. The only eye witness of the accident, a Chinese painter, who was working on an adjoining plank to the unfortunate The pirates made a haul of $1,000. Opening the case, Chief Detective Ins-men, said that the three men referred to pector T Murphy pointed out that the were whitewashing a portion of the build. herring Rshing season started about the ing on the fifth floor. They were standing 4 plank staging, one end of which Chinese New Year and a feet of boats on left Cheung Chow for a spot between was placed on the window, and the other Lin Tau and Macao. The flert operated throughout the season, and the boats seldom went to another part, other boats coming out to them and buying their catches and paying cash for, them.

CREW-ATTACKED.

on the scaffolding. "About 4.45 in the afternoon one of the men walked across the plank which mapped in two, the three men falling a distance of about 20 feet

to the ground.

BRITTLE-WOOD...

Divisional Inspector C. Aris (in charge of the case) pointed out to the Coroner that the plank (produced) showed that the grain in the wood ran down and not

In answer to Inspector". Aris, witness said that instructions had been given to were to be on these planks. At this time In answer to a further question, the Chinese "foreman or a European inspect witness said that he had never seen a the planks."

On two occasions last year when two head-crosses on the graves of two Euro- peans were broken, the Canton Foreign Office promised to endeavour to effect the arrest of the guilty parties. These pro- mises proved futils.

A warning posted at the Cemetery and marble actually gate was later torn crosses with inscriptio hammered down.

A CHILD'S GRAVE. The latest outrages in the Cemetery occurred a few weeks ago. A very big and substantial lock had been placed on the gate, but the vandals climbed over the iron enclosure and wrenched out one of the bars which they used in their work of destruction: Two head-crosses on the Braves of two European women were des troyed, as well as the cross on the grave of a child. Attempts were also made in

Similar outrages were perpetrated-in- two places to dig to the coffins.

the Roman Catholic Cemetery.

The

French Consul had recently-protested against the destruction of crosses in the Cemetery. The broken crosses, which were repaired on that occasion at his request have, however, been again des troyed.

Respect for the dead, is inherent in all civilized people. Chinese opinion surely cannot approve such cases of desecration. Such iniquitous outrages cannot but arouse indignation in the minds of all

is a duty which must be fulfilled by those proper protection of the Pakhoi Cemetery

absolutely intolerable. responsible. Such wanton desecration is

The boat which was pirated, continued Inspector Murphy left Cheung Chow with the other fishing boats and remained in the vincinity of Lap Sup Mui. The boats were-all-more-or-less-well-known across, which made it more brittle. to cach other. In the case of the boat pirated there were seven people on board, another taxable article. It has been the including three children." It was alleged the workmen that only two men at a time morally-minded people, and in future. custom in Canton for tenants of wel that another boat went alongside and situated properties to receive compensa-that the first defendant came on board. tran upon vacating the premises from the and attacked the eldest member of the crew. A small boy on board went to see "incoming tenant." The value of "occupa what was happening and saw two, other tion right" is often higher than the value men, one of whom was the second de- of the property itself. The Kuomintang fendant, both on the fishing boat. has now decided to tax this "right of permanent tenancy." Considerable op

WOMEN OVERBOARD.

there were three.

THE INJURIES.

Dr. W. L. Paterson said that the three- men were admitted to the Government Civil Hospital on June 17th at 3.15 p.m. They were all suffering from severe head injuries. One of the men died an hour The boy jumped overboard and while after being admitted. He had a fractured position has been aroused against the in the water he saw two men pick up skull and a lacerand wound ins of his

three women who were on the pirated these injuries being the cause of

death. The second man died at 9.35 a.m. bost. The women-were-pushed-overboard on the following-day and ha died from Jacerated and while they were hanging on to the cerebral hemorrhage and a rudder two men pocked at them with wound in the thigh. The third man died later the same day, the cause of death bamboo poles and made them release their in his case being a fractured skull and hold. He did not see the women again, cerebral hemorrhage.

-proposal...

SNAPPED IN TWO PLACES.“ The No. 1 Chinese foreman employed at the building of the new Fire Station seid that when he examined the plank he found it had snapped in two places. while it had broken in a third place through striking the ground. The height of the fifth floor from the ground level was se feat.

LINGSHAN OCCUPIED. According to reports reaching Canton during the past few days, Stun Pao Fan, a former Canton militarist who is now

SWAM FOR FOUR HOURS. opposing the Kuomintang, has occupied

The pirates then sailed the pirated boat Lingshan, a Kwangtung district, `with 4,000 men. Commander Shun is being to Rocky Island. The boy swam for assisted by Lin Chen Ting, another mili some four hours against a strong current tary official who was formerly a supporteraud in a rough sea, eventually reaching the same Island. He remained there two of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen CHIANG KAI SHER AND LABOUR. daya, until picked up by a fishing boat General Chiang Kai Shek has instruct and ultimately arrived at Cheung Chow At this stage, Mr. Lindsell remarked ed the Police to prohibit further labour agitations and demands whilst the North- that the defendants should surely be

charged with piracy and murder. ern Expedition is in progress. Condicts

Inspector Murphy thought that the. between employees and their employers: will not be allowed. The Commander-in-essential point to prove was that some Chief in this and other ways is.gradually one was dead. For although it was pre-charge of the work inspecting the planks. taking charge of the labour problem.-

THE STRIKE COMMITTEE. The Kuomintang Police have also been instructed to complete by July 20th the. collection of all contributions levied in support of unemployed workers. Will the Canton Strike Committee be disbanded by the 20th inst., is now a question being frequently

asked. in Canton. › CANTON-HANKOW BAILWAY. The Kuomintang has approved the appointment of Mr Ken Yag Po, a director of the Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., as assistent managing director of the Canton-Hankow Railway, Kwangtung section. hir. Kan was at one time

sumed the people were dead, no bodies had been found.

HONGKONG BOY SCOUTS! ASSOCIATION..

HON, DR. R. H. KOTEWALL THE NEW PRESIDENT.

At the invitation of His Excellency Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M. G., Chief Scout of Hongkong, the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, LL.D., has accepted the office of Pre- sident of the local Boy Scouts Associa tios, in succession to the late Mr. P. H Holyoak.

The members of the Association con- sider themselves extremely fortunate in having secured so keen and sympathetic a Fresident a Dr. Kotewall, who has continually given practical proof of his interest in and desire for the welfare of the Movement, which is steadily extend. ing among the boys of the Colony. Most of the already existing twenty-troops re- port increases in numbers and vigour, and three more troops are either already in being or in process of formation.

In answer to Inspector Aris, the fore

It is not yet fully realised that the man said he had never received any in- struction regarding how many men should main object of the Scout Movement, is work on the planks. The only instruc Character-Training with a view to pro- tions he had received was that it should ducing good citizenship, not of one parti be seen that the planks were the right clar State or form of Government, but thickness, and that if found to be too they should be changed. He had never seen any of his employers or officials in Referring to the broken plank, witness said this kind of wood was chiefly used for making cement moulda, and was not suitable for use as planking to be stood on at a great height from the ground

EXPERT EVIDENCE

DOORS FORCED. Continuing, Inspector. Murphy said

Mr. B. P. Shaw, engineer in the archi that the second and third defendante

the work on the building had been con were arrested in Macao; while the other tectural department of the F.W.D., said man was arrested in a new house attracted out to Messrs. Trollope & Colls Yaumati, the door of which had to be by the Government. The only duties he forced before entrance could-be affected The door leading into the room in which in was living also had to he forced. the man

open:

SOLE SURVIVOR.

The boy, who is apparently the sole survivor from the pirated Eshing boat,

'gave evidence bearing out the statement

of the World. Once this face is groped t by the many who still view the Move- ment with something akin to suspicion, there is no reason why Scouting in Hong kong should not grow by leaps and bonds, provided men can be found who will follow Dr. Kotewall's example, and from already busy lives spare just a little time for the benefit of this great World wide Brotherhood..

WORKMEN WARNED. The Chinese workmen, continued wit had in connection with it was to supervise ness, had been repeatedly verbally warn- There had never been an accident from in the capacity of an architect on bellfed not to take any risks in their work. of his department.

the scaffolding before.

Asked by Inspector Aris to give his opinion on the suitability of the plank, and whether it was safe for three men to work on it at a height of 30 feet, Mr. Shaw replied, that it certainly was not sale.

In answer to Inspector Aris, witness said an inspection of the bamboo scaffold- ing was carried out periodically, and only † for it. The sub-contractors always buy- the beat and stoutest material was used plied planks and such additional things, and they were entirely responsible for, Proceeding, Mr. Shaw said that he that part of the scaffolding. The painters selected their own planks, and it was extremely likely that they took the thinest as being the lightest to carry.

TOO MUCH RISK

OVERDICT AND RIDER.

of Inspector Murphy, and said that the would not risk his life on a plank only manager of the Nanyang Bros. Tobacco first defendant attacked the eldest mem-1 inches thick at a height of 90 feet from Co ut Hongkong.

ber of the crew with a chopper. The the ground, whether the plank was defec- tive or not. A plank used to stand on at KWANGTUNG UNIVERSITY. man fell. Two other boats were in the that height should be at least 2 to 3 inches

The Jury returned a verdict of acci The office of President of the King vicinity at the time of the attack, but thick. This sort of wood was usually used

dental death," adding that no blame Mr. Joseph Nichols, purchasing agent attached to Messrs. Troilope & Calle tung University is still going begging did not come to the assistance of the for putting in casing for concrete floors. Mr. Tai Tien Tano, a Japanese college pirated boat, and sailed away. Bince for Mesers. Trollope & Colle, said that his They added a rider recommending that graduate, to whom the position was offer going overboard and swimming to the firm were carrying out the work of in future there should be frequent in- building the new Fire Station, it having spections of all scaffolding and planke, ed has declined the honour. Now the Island, witness said he not seen anything been contracted to them by the Govern-in order that, the risk of accidents might Acting President, Dr. Tan Min Yi, has of the other people who were on board ment. They in turn had sub-contracted be minimised

There was a European suparvisor in The Coroner stated that the question refused to carry on The Enemintang is the ill-fated fishing boat.

charge of the work, but this man was of compensation to the relatives in asking Mr. Tang Chek Xu, dean of the At this stage of the proceedings, his unfortunately absent from the place on Shanghai of the dead men was being College of Agriculture of the University, Worship adjourned further hearing un-the date in question, owing to sickness. attended to by the Shanghai compradore

'til to-morrow afteracon.

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