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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 1927.

UNEMPLOYMENT IN CORRESPONDENCE. CONGRATULATIONS.

CANTON,

GROWING DAILY MORE SERIOUS.

DISPUTE WITH THE MER-

CHANTS CONTINUES,

THE "FLOWER SHOW.

SIR JOSEPH KEMP AND DR. KOTEWALL, C.M.G.

{TO THE EDITOR OF THR IDG IChi DAILY `FRESS, **

SIR,-On the eve of the closing of the entries may I, through the courtesy of your columns, appeal to all residents who have gardens to give every assistance possible in making the coming Flower Show to [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] be held on March 10th a success.

CONFLICT ANTICIPATED. "

Unemployment in Canton is bo coming more serious every day, but 20. one seems to pay much atter

The recent rain and fog has blasted the hopes of many, particu- larly residents on the Peak, includ- ing myself, but I am still sufficiently optimistic to hope that the Clerk

tion to it. Among the latest lists of of the Weather will yet be merciful unduployed the Frees report rou and give us at least one week of decent weather in which to retrieve shoomakers and 300 fokis of second-what at the moment appears to be hand clothes shops. A number of a hopeless task. silk firms, unable to transact their A point to be borne in mind business freely, are now considering is that there is no obligation, the advisability of suspending opera monetary or otherwise, attaching to tions for a year or until the situs intending exhibitors and although it means more work for myself, it is far better that intending exhibitors should enter everything that has the slightest chance of being up to standard on the day of the Flower Show than not to enter at all, as it was amply demonstrated last year that a few days of really good weather can work wonders in a

tion" changes.

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The unions consider that no busi- ness should close on account of lack of trade without first compensating the workers. The dispute between merchants and men regarding the rights of dismissal still continues and a confict is expected at any moment as a precaution the Police have been searching the Labour garden.

Entries close at 1 p.m. on Monday Union quarters for arms and all weapons found unregistered have and I trust that all those who can been reported.

The possession of spare the time will devote this week weapons is allowed only under end to shroffing up their gardens licence. Suggestions are also being and making out their entries on the now made to General Li Tsai Hsin, lines I have indicated above.-Yours the Officer Commanding the Troops faithfully, in Kwangtung, to strengthen the garrison of the City.

All the newspapers in Canton had to suspend publication on February 24th because the printers attended a meeting in honour of the "Third International Delegation and

"had no time to do their work

The attempt of the extremist sections of the workers in Canson to organise another general labour union under the name of the Kwang- Labour Union tung Provincial (Kwangtung Chan Shaan Chung

小川 E. B. C. HORNELL, Hon. Secretary

THE RECENT HONOURS.

REFERENCES AT THE LEGIS-

LATIVE COUNCIL.

benefit of the sound judgment I

have often experienced the QUARREL BETWEEN have had from him on various FATHER AND SON. matters affecting the Chinese com munity. I will not say anything mors about my honourable uncial colleague, pow becauds I under stand that Sir Show-son Chow in tends to speak with reference to Dr. Eotowall's various and many activities among the members of the PRISONER PLEADS "GUILTY," Chinese community.

BUT IS DISCHARGED,

Sir Shon-son Uhow. Sir Saot-sor Chrow: Your Ex-

cellency, it is with sincere joy!

that has fallen from Your Excel- that I beg to endorse every word

At the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon hearty congratulations were extended to Sir Joseph Kemp and to Dr. Kote wall, C.M.G.. upon the honours reeney regarding the high disting tions that have been conferred on cently conferred upon them by His Majesty the King.

the learned Attorney-General and

H. E. The Governor (Sir Cecil

LEADS TO MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AT CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

Although Chinese pleaded Quilty" at the Criminal Sessions yesterday to a charge of man slaughter, his plea was altered by order of the Judge to pas of "Not Guilty, and, after hearing the evidence, the jury returned a ver

Clementi, K. C.M.G.) presided and my Chinese coleague; the no-diet of Not Guilty, without

Gracious Majesty, the King. The The case concerned & quarrel be! there were present the General Curable Dr. Kotewall, by His Most leaving the box Other Commanding the Top Hon Senior Unafcial Member of tween father and son at a village (Major-General C. C. Luard, C. this Council has spoken at length lied Fu Tei, near Castle Poak, "C.M.G.) the Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn); the the valuable services rendered and it was alleged that the dis Attorney-General (Hon. Bi Joseph by Sir Joseph Kemp to the Colony, pute resulted in the death of the Kemp, K.C.); the Colonial Trea-and it only remains for me to on- father. The two quarrelled over a aurer (Hon. Mr. C. Met. Messer, the Chiness Community received hit his father's hand with a chop- dorse his remarks, and to add that monthly payment of $2, and the son O.BE.); the Director of Public

with pleasure the news of the high per. Although the wound turned Works (Hon. Mr. H. T. Crea? honour bestowed on him-an honour septic, the man refused to go to hos- Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe (Captain which he has earned by his ability pital and have his arm tracted. Superintendent. of Police); Hoa fair mindedness, tact and judg. Three weeks later, however, the arm Mr. E.

"was amputated, but the man died.

The case was heard yesterday before the acting Chief Justice, Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, and Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown Solicitor, appeared to prosecute.

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As regards my Chinese colleague

When charged, and asked to plead, prisoner replied "I am

guilty."

B. Hallifax, C.M.G., (Secretary for Chinese Affairs); Hou, Sir Henry Edward I consider no word of praise, is too high for him... Ever since he was Pollock, E.C., Hon. Mr. A. 0. Lang, Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird, Ho2 appointed to this honourable Cour- Sir Chou-oon Chow, Hon. Mr. Reif his one aim has been to promote H. Kötewall, LL.D., C.M.G., Boo, the interests of the Chiness com. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard and Mr.munity and the general welfare of D. W. Tratman (Clerk of Coun the Colony. It was the concensus of opinion among all classes of the cils).

His Lordship: I'll fake that as community that we mirk of disa ples of “ Not Guilty," Mr. Crown

action which he received from His Solicitor.

Prisoner (when this had been in- Majesty was thoroughly merited. Personally I owe much to Dr. terpreted to him): Is that so! but Kotwall for his whole hearted co-1 really plead guilty. operation in all matters concerning the Chinese public and I should like to take this opportunity of testifying to the esteem and re- gard in which he is held by the Chinese in, Hong Kong. I would also like to express the sincere hope that he will enjoy many,

tinue the good work he is now many years of robust health to con-

doing"

HE. The Governor. H.E. THE GOVERNOR: -Gentle- men,-Since this Council last met His Majesty the King has conferred high honour upon two of its mem- bers. The honourable the Attorney General has been knighted and the honourable the Junior Chinese FOUR THIEVES ROB ONE Member has been made a Com

Hong Kong Horticulaural Society.

MAN."

BUT MONEY AND JEWELLERY

OVERLOOKED.

An easy and successful haul was made by a gang of four robbers on

Thursday night.

On the pretext of visiting a Kang Hui) is being opposed by the friend, the four men gained admis

panion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. His Majesty's gracious act has evoked much pleasure throughout the Colony, bas especially in this Council where we who are colleagues of Sir Joseph Kemp and Dr. Kotewall appreciate most fully how well these honours have been won by distinguished

Sir Joseph Kemp. Sir Joan KEMP: I beg to thank

His Lordship decided that it was best that the case should go before a jury, which was thereupon em- panelled.

The Case Outlined.'! Opening the case, Mr. Holmes said that the father, whose name was Fa Fai cheuk, who was more

been some dispute between him and than sixty years of age. There had

his three sous with regard to money, and the matter was taken before the District Officer, who decided that

existing Canton Central Laboursion into the first floor at 266, Des merit, painstaking industry, ster Your Excellency most sincerely for each son should pay, 42 monthly to Union. The Central Labour Union Voeux Road. Central, where they ing worth of character and very the all too kind congratulations] their father.

found only a feeble and short-sight

They at once fell on him and after binding and gagging him, they

is an organisation of some years ed old man. standing and is comparatively | moderate in actions. It alleges

loyal and devoted services to Hong Kong. I feel sure that the Council will desire to take this, the earliest

Sir Joseph Kemp and Dr. Kotwall upon the honours which they have received. (Applause.)

which you have expressed. "I' also desire to thank the Senior Un- official member and Sir. Shou-son

selves with those congratulations.

The Quarrel.

On the morning of December 11th, last year, the father went to see the

that the proposed new umion-has obtained the key of a safe from opportunity of congratulating both Chow for kindly associating.them- prisoner," and asked for his 82, but

the no standing whatever among workers and that the promotera are not working wen

which they stole $308 in cash.

The robbers, however, were either amateurs, at the game, or else they were in a hurry to get away, for in the same safe, Hidden under-

A number of Chinese merchants in neath some books, was $150 in notes

Sir Henry Pollock. Sir HENEY POLLOCK: Sir, as

Sheklung, Kaukong, Fatahan and and a quantity of jewellery worth Senior Unofficial member of this

Chanchuan are endeavouring to of ganise societies and are applying to the Kuomintang for admission 'to the Party. The idea, apparently, is that they will escape persecution if they band togather and become "comrades" with other members of the Kuomintang.

The Kuomintang Army guarding the North River district reports that some followers of General Shen Hung Ying, a former. Kwangsi militarist, crossed the border line of Kwangtung on February 17th and are now interfering with the peace and order of the Yiu-yang territory

At the request of Canton ship- ping interests the Canton military authorities are assigning guards to vessels plying between Canton and inland ports in order to prevent piracy."

several hundreds of dollars.

Dr. Eotswall. Hon. Dr. Kotwal: Your Ex- cellency, I am extremely grateful to you for your kind congratulations and for your very generous remarks about myself which I do not de serve; and also to the Hon. Senior

Council, it gives me great pleasure to have the privilege of endorsing On February 25th, students of the congratulations which have offcial Member and to my Chi- Sun Yat Sen University held a falled from you upon the Attoracy

cess colleague for the equally kind demonstration again all Mission and foreign managed educational or General and the junior Chinese manner in which they have endor ganizations. The parade halted in member. After filling many posts front of the Municipal buildings, the in the Civil Service great credit, sed them. Gentlemen, I thank you Kuomintang Headquarters, and the Sir Joseph Kemp had his great op Municipal Department of Public Education, where agitators deliver-portunity when appointed Acting

ALS

all.

Standing Law Committee. Council then proculed to routine

ed long tirades asking for the im- Attorney-General only a few years business and EE. THE GOVERNG mediate seizure and control of a before the outbreak of the Great announced that he had appointed Christian and Missionary schools. War. During the war years we the following members to serve 15 Agitators were also busy beforehand earned to appreciate his very great the Standing Law Committee for denouncing Christian schools

skill in drafting. rather intricate the year-Hon. Attorney-General legislative measures for which there (Chairman); Hon. Colonial Tren- agencies for "imperialism."

was no precedent laid down. Some surer; Hon. Bir H. E. Pollock, Kt, one once said said that it was very K.C.; Hou. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, fine thing to be the draughtsman CM.G.; Hon. Mr. D. G. M; Ber of an Act of Parliament because card. one could put in almeet anything one wanted man might be made

the latter said he had no money.. The father went away and returned at about eight o'clock in the even- ing, and again asked for payment. Apparently the prisoner wanted his father to wait; but he refused to do so, and they started to quarrel. The father struck his son on the head, felling him to the ground, with iron pipe which he was carrying. The son regained his feet, however, The and the quarrel continued. prisoner then picked up a chopper, which was lying on a table nearby, and, according to the case for the Crown, struck his father on his left hand. The blow caused a wound and fractured thres bones between about three and a half inches long, the wrist and Angers

A report was made to Castle'Peak

and another man.

Police Station, both by the accused

Amputation Refused.

The father refused to go to hos pital, but on December 14th, three days later, he agreed to visit the Kowloon Hospital, where it was re- The Bill An commended that his arm be

Now Bills

Hospitals and Schools. According to Kuomintang Press agency figures, Christian and his sion educational institutions, which re-opened for the spring term last week, have nearly all reported a decrease in attendance. This is confirmed by the Christians them be made to include butter. But we de 1911, and the Bill intituled An He refused to conserit, but on Jann- selves. The Hospital Doumer with owe it to the sound and sterling Ordinance to amend the Promissory ary 4th, the operation was perform- 6th he died. Chinggis-French Medical common sense of Bir. Joseph that he Onike Ordianacé, 1580, "wers both ed; and on January stay in des- College is being affiliated will prob has at all time been conscious of read a second time and passed

Holmes added that his Lordabip, Mr. Li Sheng Yi, who has been ably continue its work, upon the the fact that the enthusiasm of the through the Committee stage when sary anxiety over the case, Mr. mainly responsible for the money application of the French Consulate legislature must be, to a certain certain minor technical amendments would direct them on the points as

at Shameen. The hospital and col extent, restrained by the practical were made.

to include woman and bread might toe ili intituled an ordinace putated, as the wound was epic

raising schemes of the Kuomintang

in Canton, is now leaving for Han-

to whether the first blow was struck

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Prisoner Questioned.

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Into the witness box, where he gravity of the offence. They were lege are under the control of the difficulties which we have to meet The third reading of both Bills by the father, whether he at first was questioned by Mr. Holmes with the position that evidence had French Government and receive in dealing with matters of public was postponed until the next mest refused to go to hospital, and the regard to his previous statements at been given for the Crown by people Government support. On the other legislation. Sir Joseph has also kow, Mr. Li Sheng Yi's manage and the Hackett Medical School been of yeoman service to the Goring of Council.

fact that it was after his arm had the Police Station and at the who were relatives and friends of The ATTORNEY-GENERAL also moved been amputated that he died. Magistracy prisoner denied that he the prisoner, and also medical wit ment of war finance" although for Women in Sane Kwan, Canton ernment and to this Colony through

When charged at the Police Sta had said be put the chopper back nesses as to the wound which his labours on the Council this the first reading of a Bill'intituled merciless to the tax-payer, has been City, the first institution of its

Character in China and which was Council and on the Executive An Ordinance to provide against tion, the prisoner made a statement where he had found it. He let fractured two bones in the back of the hand, which could only have the chopper fall where he WAS a very large factor in the Kucain founded by Dr. Mary Fulton of Council where, I am sure, his ad accidents in factories. The object to the effect that it was purely an tang success throughout China.

the American Presbyterian Mission vice is valued not only by the of the Bill, he said, is to give the accident, as he did not intend to standing. He did not look at the been caused by what 'the Crown Council power to kill his father. He made use of the chopper, and did not know there would describe as a blow. Also the prisoner had made contradictory The Society for, the Extension of more than 30 years ago, will most Governors of this Colony, but also Governor in

make regulations for the purpose chopper only to frighten him but was blood on it.

Mr. Holmes reminded the pri-statements the "Anti-British Boycott have ad-likely be closed owing to difficul- by his unofficial colleagues,

The first question they had to ties with the Huomintang. It is

soner that he had said he was lying cide was whether the injury was Turning now the junior Chiness of preventing accidenta in factories, his father tried to snatch the chap- dressed another note to the leading probable that the Gregg Hospital

wounded When charged at the the ground and his father ran trade guilds of the City, through the for Women and the Turner School member he is a man of such varied and for certain cognate mattoza per away and, in doing so, was

for, Nurses will be auspended at the paria that I am in a difficulty at The regulations which it is pro- Magistracy, the prisoner, declared out of the house. Under those cir caused by a blow by the prisoner or

the very outset. I do not know posed to make under the Ordinance General Chamber of Commerce, same time, unless the Kuomintang whether to address him as Mafter it becomes law are published that his father was drunk, and cumstances, why should be run out. not. IE they decided that there was. acquitted. If they decided that asking for support. Similar re- decide to grant "special permis- Kotowall or

Dr. Kotowall. But in the Gazette of January 14th knocked him (prisoner) down with of the house, asked Mr. Holmes no such blow, then he should be quests to the trade guilds have been students in the Harkett Medical in view of the fact that be han à They deal mostly with questions of 1♣ pipe. Seeing the chopper lying Prisoner replied that his father was here was suchá blow, then they.. disregarded, but owing to a certain College for Women, and if the very large consulting practice, I am the fencing of belta, exposed, wheel I beside him ander a table, he picked dragged out by others who were wouldd hayo to, anawer the question. inclined to call him Dr. Kotewall. abafting and other dangerous parts it up and warded off his father's

(prisoner) again. against the chopper with some force

The Bumming-up. be transferred to the Kwong Wah practice he has been the meats of admitted that they are quite simple and then ran out of the house.. Chamber of Commerce called spend the classes, they will probably In the course of that consulting of machinery. It will be generally blows. The latter struck his hand raid that he would attack him soner asserted that he did not know In summing up, his Lordship told meeting of leading trade guilds on Medical College, an institution for giving very valuable advice not and entirely reasonable.

only to the Government officials of The COLONIAL SECRETARY RACORD of the wound until be arrived at the jury they find beard that the February 24th, No steps are to be Western medicine with a China this Colony but also to many memed, and the Bill was read a first the Police Stations also called for use of death, and that the man wound was the cause, or partly the Other evidence taken and the anggestions offered Board of Directors For several

years the Kwong Wah College has bera of the Chinese Community time

had refused hospital treatment, but Council then went in camera to the prosecution." were described as impracticable.

had Christians as president of the who have sought his counsel.

that did not, in law, alter the (Continued on next column). considered the Jurors List board and dead of the faculty,

sion. There are more than 50

amount of pressure, the General American Mission decides to sus

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be as

as to whether the blow was dealt in self-preservation or not, and if they thought it was dealt in self-preser vation, then

prisoner should quitted

Without retiring, thenry brought in a unanimous verdict of Not Guilty and the prisoner was discharged.