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RECENT DISPUTES IN CANTON,

FIFTY-ONE MEN ARRESTED

H.M.S. "VINDICTIVE **. AT CHEFO0.

-REPORT CONCERNING THE H.K. & S. BANK

SEAMEN'S UNION DEMANDS. QUESTION OF THE PROCEEDS

OF THE SALT ĢABELLE.

THREAT OF STRIKE IN RICE

TRADE.

[FROM OUR CHIERE CORRESPONDENT. )

there."

Kuomintang propaganda reports laugh at the Peking claim that the Fengtien troops of Chang Tao Lin have recaptured Kalgan and state that the red flag of their party is still flying over the public buildings Kuomintang information contradicts entirely the report that Chang Tao Lin is to assist Wu Pet Fu in his proposed campaign to get control of Husan and Eupeh by

operations. "On the contrary, an unofficial Kuomintang report says that Wu will join Chiang Kai Shek in the coming "anti-Red" war in

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19th, 1927.

CHIEF JUSTICE'S BRIBERY RATES

PRAISE.

CHINESE WHO RESISTED ROBBERS.

FEWER ROBBERIES IF MORE

PLUCK SHOWN...

GO UP.

FROM 40 TO 80 CENTS.

"CONSTABLES AND HAWKERS

CASER

PROSECUTION CLOSED.

TRAFFIC COURT.

CHINESE WHO "THOUGHT SERGEANT WAS DRUNK.

SEVERAL DISOBEYING SIGNALS CASES.

Major C. Willson held Traffic Court" yesterday morning at the Central Magistracy. One European was summonsed, Mr. D. S. Di,

It was reported in the Colony yesterday morning that H.M.S Findictive had gone to Chefso an

The case for the prosecution in of the Hong Kong Electric Com- Monday in order to prevent a pos- sible raid on the local branch of

connection with the seven Chinese pany, being fined $10 for driving his the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank shown in tackling would-be constables charged with misconduct-motor-cycle at Whitfield Road on ing themselves and accepting bribes September 27th in a dangerous

where a proportion of the Salt Gabeile funds is deposited.

Sir Henry Gollan, the Chief Justice, commended a witness at the Criminal Sessions yesterday afternoon for the courage he bad robber, and said that if more people showed equal courage in such cases there would be fewer robberies in the Colony.

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mander.

from Chinese hawkers, concluded

Sergt. Collinson charged a Chi- It was suggested that the local

yesterday before Mr. R. E. Lindalluese driver for disobeying signals at representative of General Chang Tsung Chang, the Governor of The case before the Court was an at the Central Magistracy. The de Des Voeux Road Central, Gilman Street and Praya East. Some Shantung. had been making de attempted robbery at Lai Chi Kok fence will open sa Tussday next at

ainusement was caused when the de- mands for the considerable salt Road, Kowloon, and a Chinese, wha

fendant said that he saw the ser revenue lying at Chefoo and had was stated to have been one of three

Mr. L. E. V. Booth, A.S.P., is geant in the middle of the street threatened the Foreign District men who entered the house in ques Inspector with instant dismissal tion was charged with assault, in conducting the prosecution and the and he did not know who he was and thinking that the man might be using Szechuan as his base of and arrest failing compliance with common with two others, within solicitors for the defence are Messrs.drunk, he dodged him and went on.

the demands which were backed up teat to rob, and alternatively with

E. Davidson, C. A. S. Ross and The defendant was fined $6 for dis with armed force.

obeying signals and $6 for driving A. E. Hall..

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A Red in China in those day does not necessarily imply a Bolshevik. When a person is to be custed from office his opponcats "denounce him as a "Red" Ia Cantun, for example, on April 15th, a number of officials and union

leaders were driven from the City because they were said to be

common assault.

Upon enquiry at the Hong Kong Sir Henry Gollany who tried the & Shanghai Bank Daily Press case, with the assistance of a jury, Further evidence was given by representative foun that the reappeared in Court for the first time several Chinese hawkers both at port was entirely discounted. It since his return from Hofe leave. was stated that it as not the policy

For speeding in Aberdeen, a con- trolled area, a Chinese motor-car

In reply to the charge, the pria.the morning and afternon sessions driver was fined $90. According to of the bank to keep any large oner said he was only a workman. yesterday, to the effect that they evidence, the defondant was driv. amount of the Salt Gabelle funds who happened to be in the vicinity had been paying a weekly tell to it between 2 to 30 miles wa at the Chefoo branch and nothing when the polie whistle was blown. the defendants in order to be free had been heard of "any suggested The jury empanelled were:-Mr.

"

Therefore, although H.M.S. Fin dictive may be in Chefoo it is not there for the

or possible raid on the bank's pre-J. Brook (foreman), Mr. S. Boulton. from arrest. One bawker said that mises there...

Mr. J. Lowris, Mr. Lo Kim Shan, four years ago, the weekly payment Mr. Bi Kirkwood, Mr. F. C. Now was 40 cents. It was then raised to Fung and Mr. W. H. Murdoch. 60 cents, later to 70 cents and from Mr. H. K. Holmes in opening for the beginning of this year, it went the Crown, said that the case only ap to 50 cents a week. concerned the preliminary stages Some 164 cadets hawe deserted of a robbery by three men at 173, rom the Military Academy at Lai Chi Kok Road. No robbery was Whumpon during the last few effected because an alarm was weeks, according to reports from raised and the men Red- the Academy, authorities to the General Headquarters in Canton.

They paid in their money at several depots appointed by the de- fendants, and, in return, they were given a password. These passworda were Bananas," "Yuct Pan "

"Reds." Now a number of them have came back to power and they, in their turn, are denouncing their opponents as "Reds." The name originally was used to signify an extremist but it is now bandied about so freely that, in effect, it has come to mean little or nothing. It is anticipated that the next serious, labour trouble in Canton will come through a strike of the workers in the rice trade. Inter- ference with the rice trade will cause a great deal of inconvenience and suffering but the workers have apparently determined to strike if

Fuli support to be given to necessary. They have not yet fixed

the Chinese crews of the 5 a day for the strike to commence Haining and Sun Nam Hoi (who but they announce that it may start have been discharged) with a ze at any moment if the terms prequest for their re-ifstatement and septed to the employers are not Vessels only to sign on men of the men took Shu Wah Yinside by the prosecution was sufficient to

accepted.

SEAMEN'S DEMANDS. The latest demands of the Chi- nese Seamen' Union in Canton include the following:

strike pay:

recommended by the Union.

A man called at the first foor(moon-cake). Nam Hoi" and and asked for Shu Wah Yi, the son other queer words. All a hawker of the woman occupice, who was had to do was to give the password out as the time, and he waited in when approached by a lukong, and the room until the son arrived.

this would make him immune from

arrest.

He then mentioned that two friends were below and asked if they might come up. Permission) having been obtained, the two men entered, and the Crown witnesses

Did Defendants Take On The

↑ Scheme? - After the prosecution had closed,

would tell the Court that the pris. Mr. Daviding asked his Worship if ouer was one of those men. One he thought the evidence as tendered

as if to talk to him in confidence Only two of the six commission-3. All seamen dismissed from ves- ers in the Executive Council of the sels since April 15th last without and suddenly presented a knife, Cantor Municipality have remained unchanged since the return of the adequate reason to be re-employed. while the others each tackled one

4. Wages for seamen on all ves of the two women. left wing of the Kuomintang to power in Cantor. They are Mr. sele plying between Canton, Hong

teary Axi Fanhce, Commissioner Koag, of Public Werks, and Mr. Fung! Wai, Commissioner of Public Utili

ties. Both these offices require technicalmer, as one department has the supervision of roads and buildings while the other super- vises the electric light, water, tele- phene, and other services. Mr. Praboe is a civil engineer edu- cated in America and Mr. Fung,

Macao, Kongmoon, and Occupier's Effective Resistance.

The prisoner seized Chan Chi, Swatow to be increased

5. The Chinese Seamen's Union the occupier, and threatened her in Hong Kong, prescribed several, with a knife, but meanwhile Shu months ago, to be re-opened.

hour.

A motor lorry driver was charged with disobeying signals at Happy Valley and was fined $3. Defendant pleaded that it was Race Day" and owing to the big crowd of pede strinna, he could not see the signals.

Another case of disabeying signals happened outside the Star Ferry wharf, and according to a Shantung policeman, the defendant circled his car around a lamp standard. The constable ordered him to stop, but the defendant after completing the round drove off without stopping. The driver pleaded that he did not know the new regulation had come into force and that formerly it was Permissible to go round the amp standard outside the Ferry wharf. He was fined $5.

For causing obstruction at Wong- ncichong, three motor-drivers were ench fined $3.

` ILLICIT · OPIUM CHARGE.

MOTOR DRIVER PROTESTS INNOCENCE.

convict. Mr. Lindsell replied that there was overwhelming evidence as far as the charge of misconduct was concerned. It was clear that this system had gone on for some years, but as to the charge of conspiring with others, there was a doubt that the scheme might have been started long ago by some other constables Hall.

The case in which a Chinese motor-car driver is charged with the possession of 300 taels of non Government opium and with offer- ing a bribe of $100 to three Indian constables reached another stage yesterday at the Kowloon Magie iracy. After three hearings, the defence was opened by Mr. Hiz Shing Lo, instructed by Mr. A. E.

Request to be made to the Wah Yi showing great presence and that the defendants merely took that he was made a scapegoat by

Authorities in Canton to release o mind, snatched at his assailant's alleged "Red" seamen arrested weapon and succeeded in wresting since April 18th last.

it from him.

The alarm was raised but the

3. Canton Authorities to observe all agreements and promises made

returned student from Europe. to the 1923 Canton-Hong Kong men succeeded in escaping into the

it on,

The defendant's contention was

two Chinese passengers. He is the Mr. Davidson then asked for an registered owner of the car which plied between Mongkok, and Un adjournment to go over the evidence Long. On September 22nd, when with the other solicitors engaged the car was at Mongkok two Chi- on the case intimating that they vehicle and asked to be taken to aese make passengers boarded the street, the prisoner taking one direction, while the other two made would not be calling any evidence. Un Long. They had a basket with FA female The Magistrate adjourned the case them. While on the way. off in the opposite way.

passenger joined them and took the seat next to the driver. When they The prisoner was caught hiding until next Tuesday afternoon.

came to Ua Long, one of the male ly to the present civil and military The Committee administrations in Canton City. It which is to be a permanent institu behind the kitchen door of a shop

passengers took the basket and en- tered a shop. Immediately three Indian constables gave chase but a

Altogether 81 persons have been strikers. arrested in Canton during the last

5. Heavy cotton coats to be sup. few days for crimes committed "either during union disputes or as plied to the unemployed strikers agents of political cliques unfriend still in Canton,

on. "Arbitration

In his possession were found a

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out

The Summing-up.

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In the course of his summing-up,minute later they returned to the waiting car with a basket and ordered the defendant to drive them to the Ngau Tau Police Station, According to the shop-keeper, a where he was duly charged Chinese ran into his shop with a basket. He was being chased and he dropped the basket and ran out by the back door. When the Indian constables came into the shop, they found the basket, and returned to The case at this stage was again the car and arrested the driver. adjourned until next Friday.

prisoner in the kitchen of No. 21. while prisoner claimed that he was arrested under the verandah or in the doorway."

is said that some 27 of the arrested on in the Canton General Cham about 200 yards from the scene of will be charged with having parti ber of Commerce, expects to hold cipated in the riot of last Friday its first formal meeting on October the "assault. afternoon, when four Chinese seath. All commercial disputes may men were killed.

be referred to this Committee for number of rags, which the Crown His Lordship pointed out that the who made the.. arrest General Li Taxi Hsin has station. Arbitration by voluntary agreement ed a battalion on Yueh Shau Shan, cf parties concerned. Those bring would suggest, by reason of the Indian a hill north overlooking Canton ing cases before the Committee manner in which they were knotted, stated in evidence that he arrested City proper and he has also in have to promise to accept the dees were just the type of cloth strips ereased the number of men near his sons given. The Committee has used by robbers as gags. A sharp residence on Man TakMaloo. been recognized by the Authorities.

Mr. Chan Kung Pok, who pre- The withholding of further sub- chisel was also found on him.

witnesses for the Crown, viously had the reputation of being sidies to Chinese students whom

"Red," made a very favourable the Kuomintang sent to study in Chan Chí Shu Wah Yi and Chan impression on people in Canton at the Sun Yat Sen University at his inaugurations Commissioner Moscow two years ago has mada it! Fung Yi, the other woman concern of Civil Affairs in Canton M. imperative for many of them to ed, corroborated the case as Chan pledged himself to rid the return to Canton. These students, lined by the Crown Solicitor. administration of corrupt officials, while having failed to procure the and announced that they hoped to right kind of education, Lave save $4,000,000 monthly by with brought back knowledge which is

Prisoner giving evidence, raade a holding further remittances to Nan- being utilized by the outlaws in the king in support of the civil war. Suntak and Chungshan Districts in complete and emphatic denial of his He hoped to allot $2,000,000 to the Canton Delta, according to

ver guilt, and said that he was stand local authorities for the promotion nacular Press reports. Moscow reing under a verandah at another of industries in the districts. This turned students have succeeded all sounds rather Utopian but learning how to manufacture high house furiber down the road at the everyone sincerely hopes that there explosives, and it is reported that time when he was arrested. He will soon be a genuine peace within the mines which has sunk so heard a police whistle whże he was the Province of Kwangtung. Then many junks on the West River the government will be expected, during the last few months were walking along Lai Chi Kok Road, and being afraid he shrank back at least, to do something of real the products of Soviet education. benefit to the people.

into a doorway of No. 221. He was TEN PER CENT. SURTAX. | then arrested.

Prisoner also said that he was It is reported that an attempt was made a few days ago to in painter and was returning from

Now that a Military Council has been set up it is expected that the General Headquarters of the Army

Prisoner's Denial

Speaking of the, alleged substitu- tion, His Lordship said that if the jury believed the prisoner's story, with regard to the cloth being put in his pocket in place of the cotton waste, then the story of the Crown would be seriously effected. If they believed that the story of the matter of substitution was merely fabrication, then they would con sider with doubt the rest of pris

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Among the passengers on board the President Jackson which sails today for Seattle vid ports are. Mrs. E. J. Leitao, Miss M Encar nacao, Mrs. A. A. Leitao, well- oner's evidence.

known Shanghai residents returning Without retiring, the jury reafter a pleasure trip to Hong Kong; turned a unanimous verdict of Mr. Wm. A. Burrell, a representa "guilty" on the first charge, andtive of he American Asiatic Under- His Lordship sentenced, prisoner to writers, who is on business trip to Shanghai; Mr. and Mrs. R. C. 18 months hard labour. Pardin, who are returning to Shang- - Before the Court rose, His Lord. hai after a business trip to Hong

of the 8th Route, of which General Li Trai Hsin is the head, will be pose a surtax of ten per cent. on work when he was arrested. When ship called the witness Shu Wab Kong, Mr. Bordin is the repre sentative of the Victor Talking abolished, The Military Council certain imported goods. A pro- will have supreme control over all test was astered, but the merchant he left work ho had one cent in hisi, the son of the woman occupier Taking Machine Co. Mr. N. S. troops and warships in Kwangsi concerned was referred from one pocket, together with the cotton of the house in question in the case; Gubbay, a prominent local business as well as Kwangtung.

official to another without gaining waste which he had been using in end. commended him upon the way man, who is making a short visit to Chinese newspaper. owners Canton have not only to lose two much satisfaction. Finally, it is the course of his work. He alleged in which he had behaved. Shanghai; Dr. (Miss) Ng Chi Moy,

understood, representation

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days income but also to contribute made to General Li Trai Hain, but that between the time of his arrest Lordship tommented that the man two days holiday for the reor military responsibilities, stated that 8100 each towards the printers General Li, being occupied with and the time, that he was searched ganization of their Union, by which he had no knowledge whatsoever the cotton waste was taken from it is expected that the moder at the surtax being levied.. Pre his rocket and four strips of cloth ates" will be ousted by extremista. sumably he will now make an substituted for it.

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had done very well, and added that people showed a little more courage when they were attacked, we should not have so many of these robberies in this Colony.

a well-known lady physician in Can- ton, who is going to the United over at Shanghai before continaing States, Dr. Ng Chi Moy will stop. her trip to San Francisco; Mr. G. Heintzen, who is connected with the Netherlandsche Indische Com mercial Bank, and is going to Yoko

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