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GENERAL LI LOOKS THE CANTON STEAMBOAT

AHEAD.

OWN GUARDS AT KWANG- TUNG ARSENAL.

EXPLOSION AT ELECTRIC POWER STATION,

SERVICE."

PASSENGER TRAFFIC

INCREASING.

NEARLY 200 ON KINSHAN,"

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12th, 1927.

FATAL VULCANISER EXPLOSION,

EXCESSIVE PRESSURE !

VERDICT OF ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

The inquest was continued yes- The normal popularity of the British steamers on the Hong Kong.terday afternoon before Mr. R. E. [FROM OUR CHINESE, CORRESPONDENT.] Canton run, has been shown since Lindsell (Coroner) and a jury on a

the lifting of the boycott imposed by the pickets of the Seamen's Union at Canton against the Hong

present boat Company,

Promoters of the anti-Japanese boycott in Cantou deny that they Kong. Canton and Macas Steam are relinquishing their

Passenger returns have daily, been aġitation, but admit that they bave been warned by the pro-Nanking increasing, and at the beginning of

this week the figures jamped from faction against lawless actions the meagre three or four which had against which drastic steps will be prevailed, since the letter part of taken by the police. In practice, June up to over 80 certain lines of trade such as coal ago they registered at the 100 mark, and yesterday figures were nearly are dependent upon Japan.

alone.

A day or ep

DUMMY GALLOWS.

ODD EXPERIMENT. AT "CASTLE PEAK”

·TRIAL.

CHINESE CHRISTIAN PASTOR ON POLY-

GAMY

The trial of Cheung for the Chinese boy who died as a result

murder of his wife Sam Koo was of vulcanizer exploding in a

carried a step further, in the dental office on July 9th. dentist of No. 76, Queen's Randing the morning bearing to de Mi. Kwong Tat Yucu, a licensed Criminal Sessions yesterday. Dar

Central, said that the vulcanizer monstrate the effect of chopper in question was kept at his branch" office at No. 159, Queen's Road blows upon a rope both hanging Central. His younger brother was hoose and under tension, a life-size in charged of the office. On the day dummy was suspended from a large of the fatality he went ta the branch office at about 7.30 pim. wooden frame and then cut down

Inspector Lane pointed out to the Judge that the ends of two ropea-

when he was informed of the accident. The vulcanizer had been

Dead Woman's Friends Testify,

During the afternoon" Chang Sam, known as Ah Loung of the Red House, gave evidence. Sha had been a friend of the dead

woman.

Mr. Jenkins, Did, the deceased say anything to you about the hap- penings in her house 1-She said she would not like to die or to ran away, but to stay with her children. Cheun Chun Hin, also a friend of Sam Koo said that on the night. of April 8th Sam Koo crime to witness's house with her three chil- dren and passed the night there.

panied Sam Koo and her children The next morning witness accom-

to their own house. In reply to Mr. Fitzroy, witness said that she met the prisoner on April 20, but usual. When she remarked upon his return to the village of Su Hui, he replied that he had come to collect money owing to him for

he did not speak of anything un-

double that on one steamer dowsin use. for the last six years. It one found around the dead woman's tome pigs

Mr. Jenkins Did Sam Koo speak

Realizing that good ranny of

was required' to hent certain neck and the other around the the soldiets and politicians now in This was on the s. Kimahan, the moulds, and the pressure would waist-did not fit into each other to you of her husband's affection

iakow and Nanking are likely afternoon boat from Canton, and have to be 300 lbs, to a square inch. in either case, but that the end of having passed from her to his cen- j sooner or later to slink back to that in addition to about a halThe deceased was his nephew and one rope Atted the end of the other i cubine ?-She did say that at times.. was in the verandah at the time of the explosion..

when she berthed it was ascertained-

dozen European saluon passengers, she brought no fewer than 198 Ch nese passengers.

Enquiries on the night boat, the Taishan, also elicited the informs tion, that figures werg, correspond-

Cargo too, is improving, and up ward bookings of passengers and freight are also good.

Canton to see what is going, General Li Tani Hsin is taking the precaution of "digging himself in " now he has the chance. He 1 seeking a close alliance with Gen- eral Huang Shao Hung, who is nowingly high. " "the dominant figure in Kwangsi. General Li's possible antagonists in the forthcoming struggle for possen- Some of the other steamers are sion of Kwangtung are the subject recording decreased numbers, but it of speculation. It is generally must be remembered that they have thought that General Chiang Kai been carrying the passengers which Shek will not be again given real have come on the British steam- control of the Provinces of Kwang- boats had it not been for the boy tung and Kwangi. To ensure that cott. the Kwangtung Arsena! will be in his hands in the coming factional dispute in Canton and vicinity, General Li has dispatched his own Other men to guard the plant. ammunition factories in the South- ern Capital are being watched by Ji's wen..

A

All Custers stations in Canton and districts have been instructed by the Provincial Authorities to watch closely, for explosives being smuggled into the province. The leading military personages in Can ton have heard quite enough of these things during the last few day's.

"A WOMAN MUST HAVE

HER WAY."

DRIVES A CAR WITHOUT

LICENCE.

WHILE OWNER LOOKS ON.

Women must have their way and nothing a man can say will disúade them. This was the саме when Mrs. Fok Yee Han, a newcomer

aftan -Not very often.

Did she not come to see you quite

Have you ever beard the name of Tool Hing-No.

The next witness was the head of

the Lan Kee farm.

Mr. Fitzroy: When did you laat see deceased 2-About, the second or third of April. She appeared quite normal then.

His Lordship asked if the sug gestion was that assuming the rope Mr. Wm. Russell, Principal Gov- on the woman and that found in èrament Marine Surveyor, in giving the house were parts of one rope expert evidence said that the boiler then a section of the rope was miss- or vulcanizer was not strong enoughing. Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, for the to stand a pressure of 300 lbs. to a Crown said that was so..

There was only a square inch. thermometer to show the pressure

In reply to Mr. Jenkin, witness as it carried no guage. According said that he was present when the to his experience and to the book body was dug up in company with of instructions the thermometer

In reply to Mr. Jenkin, witaesa should show up to 300 deg. Fahren- the Director of the C.I.D. Before said he did not know Taoi Hing, beit, which would be about 6 lbs. digging operations were commenced although he had heard the name. to the square inch. At that pressure the boiler would have been perfectly the police had in view, the possibi-Tsoi Hing was an old job earth safe.

lity of death having been violent.

coolie, who lived far away from the village of Sua Hui.

As to the cause of the explosion, witness demonstrated to the Court

that the bottom bad burst opened on one side where there had been a crack. The crack was on the inside of the cistern and would not be noticed by anyone who had had no engineering experience. The vutenniser would be good for more than six years if taken care of properly.

The safety valves were all in good order, and should have lifted if the pressure had become too high. In his opinion, witness said that the accident could not have been fore seen and no blame should be attach- ed to anyone.

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

Asked if he had made any refer ence at the Magistracy to the fact. that the woman's hair was down, witness said he believed he had done so. Mr. Jenkin referred to wit ness's statement and said no men- tion was made of it. Witness then replied that he thought he referred to it in a statement which was sent to the Crown Solicitor. He put significance on the fact that the hair was down but not special significance.

A Grim Experiment. Mr. Jenkin then said that he desir. ed to conduct an experiment in

from Canton, went out motor driv CHIEF OFFICER'S DEATH court and brought in front of the

ing with Mr. Yip Ying Kuen in the small hours of yesterday morn. ing, and drove the car although The explosion at the Kwangtung not having a licence to do so. Electricity Supply Company power She, the owner and the chauffeur station in Canton the other day appeared before Mr. R. E Lindsell. was due to the defective mainten at the Central Magistracy yesterday ance and bad repairs of the machin-morning to atawer n charge of ery and not to any political plot. driving without a licence, and the The explosion was more serious

other two for allowing her to drive. than at first believed, and since

Mr. Lindsell discharged the chauf. then, several of the injured have feur because the presence of Mr. succumbed. The frequency of bomb Yip at the time removed his respon- and other explosions in Canton is sibility as he was not in a position such that the people are becoming to decide who should and who

used to it

Mr. Taeng Yang Pao, formerly a

should not drive his master's car.

Mrs. Fox admitted driving the

SAD EVENT ON S.5. “TAI I.EE."

A tragic discovery was made yesterday morning on board the river steamer Tai Lee, which plies between Hong Kong and Kong- woon.

dock a wooden framework, over six feet high and several feet wide. The top beam of the framework, said Mr. Jenkin, was about as high 'as the beam in the hours. Counsel moved away from the table to make room for Mr. Jenkin's exhibit.

Counsel then attached a rope to Entering the cabin of the Chief the top of the beam and a Chinese Other (Mr. Ibbetson) the Second detective swung upon the rope Engineer, Mr. Handy, discovered The rope was cut by Inspector the Chief Officer dead in his bunk Lane, and it was noticed that it

The Tai Lee strived from Kong- moon about 11.30 on Wednesday Irayed for several inches. night. When the Master of the detective fell to the ground when steiner, Captain Midgeley the rope was cut, Mr. Ibbetson asleep in a deck chair on the fore deck a matter of two hours siter the arrival of the

The

The dummy was again suspended,

clerk in the Canton Police Head- car without a licence, while Mr. steamer, he appeared to be perfect Mr. Jenkin holding it up and so

quarters, will assume charge of the Yip pleaded guilty" to allowing Bureau of Reconstruction in the her to drive his car. He admitted Caston Administration, relieving that he knew the lady did not have Mr. Chen Yao Cho, a broth"-in-law a local driver's licence, but she bad

of Mr. Wang Ching Wei, now the held one in Canton. foremost Rod leader in Hankow since the departure of M. Borodin

A polize order has been issued in Canton forbidding labour unions forcibly to enlist workers as men bera.

Mrs. Fok who had arrived from Canton the previous night, told the Magistrate that she had held & driver's licence in that City for two

At the request of the Kuomintang Party, the leading siz Canton trade

guilds have formally resolved to support the China Tariff Autonomy movement and to welcome its intro-

The

months.

Asked by the Magistrate where her Canton licence was, Mrs. Fok said that she did not bring it down with her.

Mr. Lindsell imposed a Eine of $10 on both defendants.

ly normal.

The deceased officer appears to have gone to his catan at a later hour, and about 7 am yesterday Captain Midgeley held a conver sation with him and advised him to see a doctor, it being arranged that he should consult Dr. Wong,

at 11.30 am. -«.

Mr. Jeakin: Did you tell pri- soner that you knew or had beard that the deceased had given Taoi Hing a gold ring No.

You never mentioned the name to him-No.

Elt Fat Wives and Concubines. Wu Tai Pak (60), a Christian preacher of the village of Sun Hui, said he knew prisoner and his wife well. He last saw Sam Koo on April 8th. The prisoner told wit- ness that Sam Koo had gone to Hong Kong

Mr. Jenkin: The system of poly- gamy is a bad one, for the reasons that I shall give you-Yes

That system leads to frequent troubles in married life-Yes.

The kit fat wife is frequently displaced in the affections of her husband by a concubiné ?—Yes.

That leads to the unhappiness of the first wife?-Yes; that is συνίσεις.

Your experience is that many & kit fat wife secks release from un- happiness by taking her own life

I have heard of such,

Is not suicide one method of revenge, among Chinese people 1- Perhaps on account of my limited knowledge I have never heard of such a case.

*

..:

In reply to Mr. Fitzroy, witness said he supposed Sam Koo was a reducing tension on the rope at the Christian since she attended his same time cutting the rope,

In chapel. this case the rope did not fray.

For the purpose of further de- monstration, a nail was driven into the side piece of the "gallows" with the request of counsel, made a and Inspector Lane, in accordance

".

Just after 11 am, Mr. Handy entered Mr. Ibbetson's cabin and from what he noticed he informed clove hitch with a piece of rope the Maater who applied various beld by the nail. tests and then sent for the Police.

Mr. LV. H. Booth (Assistant The next witness called for the Supt. Of Police), accompanied by European detectives examined the prosecution was Sub-Inspector Wil- deceased's pincer's cabin, fading an son who said that prior to join- empty tumbler, which had containing the local, Police force he served ed some chemical mixture,, This

Mr. Fitzroy: Have you ever heard of concubines taking their own lives in such circumstances I have heard of non-Christian Chi- nese committing suicide by jump- ing into the harbour.

You teach your "congregation that it is wrong either to commit. mur- der, or suicide 1-Yes.

The hearing was adjourned.

£6,000 DRUG RAID IN CALCUTTA.

was removed for analysis. There 14 years in the Royal Navy, during OPIUM SMUGGLED IN DEAD was also found a bottle of 40 per which time he had had considerable cent. Formalia.

experience of knot tying. Asked

KITTENS...

Recent seizures of contraband duction on September ist, when im RIVAL SEAMEN S UNION.The cause of death has not been

to examine the rope found around opium and cocaine by the Calcutta port duties will be raised.

divulged, and the result of a post- What is feared may be a long martem examination held yesterday the woman's neck, witness said that Customs in boats to and from the merchants of nearly 200 trades drawn out dispute, seriously affect afternoon, will not be available listened to an address by a high ing local shipping, may be unavoid until the death enquiry in held, it would not make a good slipping Far East suggest that the port is international, smuggling organiss official last Tuesday, which was able unless the unions of Chinese probably, next week. After a curnoose, although if it was pulled a distributing centre for a past

person's neck strangulation. followed by the usual endorsement semen on vessels plying in Canton sory examination of the body in the round a

waters come to some arrangement cabin prior to removal to the Viction would easily be effected. Increased vigilance of Customs of the sentiment expressed to re-relative to their respective spheres toria Mortuary it was thought that

officials led to the, discovery last The knot around, the deceased's mouth of a cargo of cocaine and maye; all ^' unequal treaties, and of influence. There are now two death was due to heart failure.

seamen's unions, one being the the-foreign supervision of Chinese Seamen's Union, which is The deceased oficer was 68 years woman's neck, said witness, was opium from Japan, Germany, and of age, and a native of Yorkshire, Customs.

contraband opium valued at 2800 composed of all employees of small but he had resided at Liverpool known as a "slippery hitch," the America "valued at £6,000, while was found in the coal bunkers of 35. Goo Ying Fan, acting Minis-steamers and launches doing local He had been on the China Coast simplest of all knots.

a steamer from the Far East re transportation business. The other for a matter of 14 years. He serv ter of Finance in Canton, is seek is the larger one which has among ed with the Douglas Steamship Co. Cross-examined by Mr. Jenkin,.

"cently

Ingenious methods adopted by ing advice from Mr. Tong Shao Yi, its members the Chinese crews of but was without employment dur- witness agreed that the knot could a former Chinese Premier who is coastal and ocean linere. Now the king the strike. He joined the Szebe tied just as easily whether or the smugglers are illustrated in the detection of a coolie woman Inland Seamen's Union is trying to Yap Co.'s service, being appointed living in retirement at his country secure the crews of the river to the Tai Lee. It is believed that not the noose was first slipped over who was stopped-on-a-ship's gaag- home at Tong Ka Heung, near steamers of Hong Kong touching his only surviving relative is the head. Witness added that a way carrying a basket containing

Kongmoon, Tuchow, Canton, and married sister resident in York

a cat and six kittens. She was Macao Mr. Goo wants to see other ports coming under-its-juris-shire

allowed to proceed, but the lack of Mr. Tang's support of the proposed diction. The other union aisputed

News of Mr. Ibbotson's sudden

interest the cat showed for the kit tens aroused the suspicions of the steps taken to restore Chinese this claim, and attempts are now denise will be learned with regret Tariff Autonomy" on September being made by professional labour by his many local friends and ac

Castoms officer. He discovered that leaders in inland ports to interfere quaintances, and especially by sea

the kittens were dead and had been dwith opium-Singapore stalled with the working of vessel touch: bring colleagues

The funeral takes place to-day.

Free Press. ing the river ports.

(Continued on next Jokima.)

nooss made with a "slippery bitch" would not given.

A contractor then gave evidence of finding the body. He conducted a search, he stated, as he knew that

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