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2 REVENUES WANTED. CANTON OFFICIALS
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CANTON MERCHANTS AND $10,000,000 LOAN,
BARGAINING AS TO CONDITIONS.
SUPPRESSION OF THE UNIONS DEMANDED.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
The most pressing problem before the prescht government of Canton is that of finance. An appeal is being made to the merchants for
CHARGED.
ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF $100,000.
ON REQUISITION BY CANTON GOVERNMENT.
DEFENCE CRITICISM OF PROCEDURE,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11th, 1928.
Mr. King: Information to war- rant these proceedings emanated from a representative of the Can- ton authorities who came down here! with that express object.
Mir. Lo: The man who gave the information should have signed the sworn declaration.
Vague Allegations! Mr. Lo went on to say that no opportunity was given to refute that information. Before the a cused had had a chance to reply
YAUMATI HOUSES DISPUTE.
BILLS MADE OUT IN ANGER?
DEFENDANT QUESTIONS THEIR ACCURACY.
*
The examination in chief was con- cluded yesterday morning of the to these ca-parte allegations, defendant in the house building dis. Two former officials of the Can warrant was issued by a Magispute between contractor and owner ton Government, Mr. Wang Tsung trate of this Colony, Colony which is being heard at the Supreme Cau, at une te Finance Commis which had absolutely nothing to do Court before the Chief Justice (Sir
per and Chief of the Central with the political regime of Canton Henry Gollan). Bank daring the regime of General or any other regime "which" came
Defendant was still under cross-
ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.
EUROPEAN'S. TRAFFIC
OFFENCE.
SUN
FAST COLOURS
YESTERDAY'S CASES.
Mr. J. Limage denied a charge made against him before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday of driving his motor car No. 9351 in a dangerous mar in Pokfulam Road on New Year's Day.
a loan of $10,000,000.- Last Septem. Chang Fat Fai, and Mr." Chin Pok und went and was for ever chang-examination by Mr. F. C: Jenkin took another motor car No. 390
ber, it will be remembereil, a similar Sang. General Manager of the sameng
When he last appeared before, the sum was demanded and most of tank, appeared yesterday before
Sir R. E. Lindse!! at the Central Court, he, announced that it would| the banks and merchants pro-
their dagistracy on a charge of being not be necessary to ask for ball, tested inability to pay
as he was confident that a full in quotas. Levies of between torty illegar possession of $100,000.
vince the police that there was absolutely no justification for the charges. It was expected that Mr. King would now be able to proceed with the case, bat as Mr. King was not able to do so he (Mr. Lo) would Dow" tell the Court what he knew.
week at the Metropole Hotel and they have been in pelice custody
ver since.
Yesterday bail was fixed for the
when the case was adjourned yes- terday.
The Sang Loong contractors, 14, Man Lam Street, Yaumati, are suing the owner of the houses, Lui Siu
$26,187,410-
Of this amount $3,000 is claimed as due under the build- ing contract dated January 3rd, 1924, and 819.187.40 as payment for extra work done in connection with the building of the houses.
Tea Inspector Alexander sald- that he was on motor cycle, patrol in Pokfulam Road at noon on that day when the defondant's unr over- on the 'extreme right hand side of the road, forcing witness to drive off the roadway to avoid an ac | cident. Witness estimated the speed of defendant's cur at 30 miles per hour.
Mr. Limage admitted that he than follow it all the way. He bad a clear view of the road. He sur a motor cycle ridden by a police affeer taking so the pavement, but this was unnecessary.
and sixty per cent. of register. Buth defendants were arrested last vestigation of the facts would con- Ching,' 10, Wing Lok Street, for overtock n slow moving car rather |
on mary el capital were made businesses and eventually about $4,000,000 was secured: The hostility aroused by this "loan" undoubted- y did a lot th undermine the pusi. the at 850,000 each. tton of Li Tkai Hsin's, Government and gave an impetus to the "Canton for the Cantonese movement, first "heurd of on the arrival of the
"Ironsides."
mondy
The defendants were represent ca by Mr. M. R. Lo who maintain- ed that the charges were entirely of a political nature, the accused Ang brought public money to the colony on behalf of the regime such they supported.
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The defendant counterclaims for $8,771.01 a damages for defective and unsatisfactory work and amis
Men Of High Character. The Grst accused was Commissions.
After a further statement by Mfr. Limage, his Worship said that the practice of waiting until the car in Front signalled was universal in Hong Kong and imposed a fine of 820.
BOMBS "FOR BIG FISH.
of
It is claimed by the defence that In the present instance, however,
aloner of Finance of Canton,' and a number of merchants are doing
is not extra work but work of their best to support the present |
Jir. King said that the Canton whether he was connected with this of the extra work glaimed for
When the "master of a Eshing appeal for friends. The need is Government had requisitioned their or that regime was not a matter dinarily necessary for the comple
Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by junk was charged before Mr. W. obvious having cleared out the money
argent, the "Reds" and the arrest and hinted that further for the Court. He was a man of tion of the contract,
juvolved-$1,000,000 the best of characters, known to be afr. A. E. Hall, is for the plain Schofield at the Kowloon Magia- Treasury, while the currency of the Leing mentioned.
so for the last ten to twenty years. and Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. trney yesterday, with having in his Central Bank has depreciated to half
The police are procceding by
The second accused, continued instructed by M. E. S. C. Brooks, possession without a permit four
defending is its face value. At least the
dynamite bombs, one stick Answering Mr. Jenkin, defendynamite, fourteen detonators and will not be sprat on the Northern Virtue of a warrant of requisition.
the present Governmect in Mr. Lo, uas one of the senior Expedition, though a certain pro Portion will, of course, go towards Lanton and were represented by officers of the Central Bank at dent said in vertain instances his piece of tuse, he advamed the i Castoo. The allegation againstoks did not agree with those of extraordinary plen that he kept the the Director of Criminal Intelli grnee. Mr. R. Ar Wadesou appear these men was all political. The plaintiff. He believed that ther
to watch the proceedings for the Court was proceeding on copies of were innocent error Canton Government.
charges made outside the Coinny. He had been building houses of Mr. King applied for a further Un that, he would ask his Wership his own on Government land which he had bought for between three and five years, and he had been in remand to await further informa
No Chance To Escape. to from Canton.
the building busincas for six or were well-kown and;
seven years. He himself occasional- The men their movements would be watched. Je examined the books and the
Canton Work. King:We have official tele- They could not retur $100
raphic information that a requis now go to Maran. They could only Those houses had been of a semi. go to Shanghai or Japan. He was on has been maue.
confident that they would really are up when the ease again came up for heuning. They had already been in polte custody aunce the
the campaign against the 4th Arms, behind whom is Chiang Kai Shek, busily building up a party aiming at further war and revolution in Canton.
The not very altruistic sugges Lism of the Canton merchants is that the senior magistrates of the 0 districts in Kwangtung should be ordered to raise within the next five days a maximum
.
His Worship: Can you tell me the exact position of the requis of
200,000 each, the money to be earmarked for the rehabilitation of the Central Bank of China notes. i
Mr King added that, es far as They have also remmended the knew the requisition was not Authorities to lovy additional taxes actis in the hands of the local
police. and other op wine and, tabneen
Mr. I, in applying for bail for luxuries. Since many of the dis tricts have suffered even more, proth accused, said he did not what position: was being taken up by the police. The portionately, than Canton from the Etly know
Bes this proposal is hardly application of Mr. King was rather likely to be met with enthusiasm.
extraordinary. The position was If the people of Canton want that, without asking anyone to seek stible government, a sound curreacyj and protection. from military adven tormation as to the facts outside tures they will have to put their the Colony, a Magistrate of this Colony had issued a warrant for hands in their own pockets
the arrest of these men for being possession of a hundred thou sand dollars.
The merchant are also suggest ing that the Authorities should abolish the Bureau of Agriculture and Labour, saying that if the Party expects the support of the who have money to capitalists
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hed it should not longer tolerate
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an institution which only regards THE FUTURE OF GAMBLING the interest of the "workers
pays no attention to any
and
other
HOUSES.
to grant bail.
There
explosives for seil-protection and intended to use them in the event of his boat being attacked by large fish in the open sea.
.:
In answer to his Worship defen- dim said that there were other large fish besides whales...
Remarking that it was the first time he had heard such a plea, his Worship imposed a fire of 973.
A FIGHT BETWEEN WOMEN.
There was an unusual serne at the Central Magistracy yesterday when Sybil Joseph and a Chines woman named Wong Chin Wan son with disorderly conduet by fighting in. Pedder Street on Fri
European style and were not fitted with a flush system of sanitation."
He engaged Mr. Raven to draw up the plans of the houses before
he contract was signed was to mention in the plans of wells, pump houses or tanks,
Mr. Jenlan put it to the defen could not have tended by their eontract for the wells, pump houses ant the erection of tanks.
Defendant replied te had told there were three men the plaintiff that those things must mentioned,.but the third man left included in the tender. the Colony, the same day-at-dooWood Or Cement For Window for Macao, to which Mr. Lo has
Mr. King Replica For The Polion. Mr. Lindsell: Has the money in ant that the plaintiffs did not and were charged lefore Major C. WE'
question been touched in any way
Sir. King: There is nothing to hold these quen in the Colony, with any money on bat in the original warrant,
Sills.
day night.
The Magistrate bound them both over in a surety of 850 each to be of good behaviour for six months.
A noisty sore was created by Sybil Josey both inside and out- side the Court. It was eventually
tafised to carry out the order and committed to prison far one
WAE week.
Later, Mr. Leo d'Almada, sen.. ersultation with his had a Worship and the defendant was re- leased after signing the necessary bond..
Just now said they dure not. Ro.Questioned regardlug window-reported to the Magistrate that shy. The police have ascertained that ope hundred thousand dollars was sills, defendant said it was usual. seat from Canton and deposited in to use wood for the tills and not
certain Bank in Hong Kong. eement. Part of that sum was transferred from that Bank to another Bank, with the request that it be remit Gambling houses in Honam, which ted to Shanghai. One of the ac to the second Bank for the last 16 years have been con- trolled by Li Fook Lam then with the man who made the request crowned King of Honam.
for it to be transferred to Shang- private source of income, are being hai. The second Bank refused o!
Those pressed by the new garrison carry out the transaction. commissioner of that district. If are the enquiries we have made and merchants are said to have forced ambling houses are re-introduced established since I appeared before tween himself and plaintiff, de- carpenter. of the, 3.5. President
your Worship last.
section of the people.
WAR ON THE TRADE UNIONS.
One of the conditions which the
upon the Authorities in return for' their support is that the labour movement should be suppressed and all trade unions proscribed. Tais seration and loss which these unions is only natural considering the per- have for years inflicted upon the community. They have been the play thing of agitators, politicians and militarists, and the recent up rising, in which many unions were,
they are turning.
CHIANG KAÏ SHEK WANTS MONEY.
AX 1
at all they will be kept as a state monopoly, instead of being farmed
As soon as the sale of monopolies the Authorities is completed and same funds raised, work in the Kwangtung Arsenal will be started
in under the superintendency of
General Lin Tun Ting.
supplement the Police.
ON THE FENCE.
cused went
Mr. Lo: I would like Mr. King to tell us whether the accused are robbers or thieves, or merely not acting as servants of the regime for the time being.
Mr. Jenkin suggested that it was in most European customary houses to use comment.
Mr. Potter id that it might at the Peak, but it was different For what reason be in Kowloon
id not know.
Dofendant repeated that it was the custom to use wooden alls.
Referring to the alleged quarrel fradant said it followed the refusal make good his of plaintiff to
mission to lay Coke Breeze on the roots
The day of the quarrel, he said, was when he paid $3,000. Up to that time plaintiff had never sug Mr. Lo said the limit of exoru gested that anything was owing to
for extra work, tance had been reached when bail
Mr. Jenkin suggested that de fendant meant that after the quar
Defendant: Yes that was the start of the extra work that he has done.
Mr. Jenkin pointed out that in that statement of neerunt Shanghai Plastering was included.
Mr. Jenkin asked defendant i
Mr. Jenkin: Will you agree with
CHARGE AGAINST 'A SEAMAN.
Robert Douglas Thompson, chief Jefferson, was charged before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis tracy yesterday with unlawful possession of two revolvers and 180 rounds of ammunition on board the vessel.
The defendant admitted posses. sion, remarking that the arms, and ammunition, were secured in his locker.
Inspector Aris applied for a remand for the case to be heard before two Magistrates, and the defendant was accordingly remand- ed until next Tuesday morning.
ANOTHER RETURNED
BANISHEE
was made in the sum of $100,000, There will be a great demand for which was the amount of money or were said to be implicated, has arms from semi-public erganizations in respect of which the accused rel that out of" spile, or revenge were charged, but, such it the plaintiff went back to his shop been the last straw. Nor do the like the District Watchmen's Com sions conize themselves to attacks mittes. The Authorities are court- stood, he would accept that bail and made out this account for
and ing the support of the merchants with the satisfaction that at least extra work. on so-called imperialists capitalists. They are constantly and have decided to permit re
Mr. Lindaell: I don't see why disturbing the peace of the city idents to employ private watchmen justice was given.
they should pay thu money into by fights among themselves, and
Court as bail, Mr. King. altogether they are as peetilent, in
Mr. King: Before this Charge was
Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the the eyes of the merchants, as so
Crutral Magistracy yesterday, a many gangs of brigands. The mer-!
There is no news of fighting from alleged, I saw oficial documents in
Chinese pleaded guilty to retur chants have meekly suffered them for a very long time, but at last the front, but the question of Canton, speaking of a million which he was saying that that bill was a
allegiances is paramount in the had been stolen. What the exact fraudulent claim, because plaintiff dog here after a hanishment order for ten years had been made Struggle for the control of Canton. terms of the requisition from Can-had agreed to most of the things?
Defendant: I would not go so against him in December 1823. General Fang Ting Ting is nominal-ton will be. I don't know. Whether
The police records showed that ly allied to the Kwangsi group, but they will be charged with retaining far as to say it is fraudulent, but
I am the bill is not right. is said to be also negotiating with a million, I don't know.
on two occasions, in July and September 1923, the defendant re General Li Tsai Hsin is not the General Chiang Kai Shek. He is quite satisfied that there is some-
In December of the only head of a government in need! expected to move his troops from thing, more than the question of ame that it has nothing to do with ceived ten strokes and 48 hours' of money and Chiang Kai Shok Northern Kwangtung to Fukien by hundred thousand dollars behind any quarrel, and was not prompted detention.
way of Kinngsi without coming in the actual negotiations which were by any ulterior motive at all same year he received fourteen contnet with Kwangsi troops. The taking pinec outside.
Defendast replied that at the days gaol and six strokes for Canton Military Authorities are
Mr. Lo said with regard to these time of the quarrel plaintiff press-stealing, after which he was banish- pfident that General Chu. Pei
Defendant was sentenced to six Th of Kings will attack the 4th statements by Mr. King, which ed him for full payment of the ed from the Colony, Army if the Kwangsi troops drive were of an e-parte character, he balance due. That balance was it back into his territory. All these had not hitherto thought it neces-$10,000. If that had been paid the months' hard labour and ordered
Mr. Jenkin drew defendant's at verers are probably waiting for sary to take instructions from his whole of his Hability would have that what was over and above this
too signs of a decisive engagement clients. But he knew this much, been met. before committing themselves to either Kwaugai or wangtung,
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, later plaintiff presented him with another bill for $27,000, having notwithstanding its so-called "Imarked him for only-810,000. 31 perialistic" reputation. This money Jenkru put it to defendant that he was not touched; it was not paid
Utimately the caso was adjourn to the Canton regime nor to the must have regarded these extras as
Defendant: I only consider that ed until this morning, and on His regime to which the accused would an attempt to deffaud him? have liked it to be paid,
these accounts are untrue. I can Lordship stating that he wished to Remarking that the case was not say whether they are fraudu- conclude the hearing of the ense fraught with dificulties for the leht or not.
it necessary the Court would sit When the time for adjournment day) afternoon, it was decided that arrived, His Lordship asked as to how much longer the case would until 3.30 p.m. to-day, in order that the case may be concluded (Continued at foot of next column.) I within the stipulated time..
also
has made the following demands:
each Chekiang and Kiangsu; $1,000,000) before January 15th Anhwei, 2500,000: Shanghai Opium Bureau. 31,000,000 Land Office, Kiangsu, 8100,000; Salt Inspector ates, $2,000,000; Salt Commissioner and Salt Assistant Commissioner of Kingsu, $1,000,000, Other autho
$100,000 had been paid into the tention to the fact that rities are also presented with de-
to
wards, his total needs amounting
The intest reports state that the 4th Army Corps (Kwangtung) is to 88,200,000.
Canton Authorities are taking withdrawing to Kingnauin and other szeps to intercept the payment General Chiang Kai Sheic of several towns along the Kiangsi border. hundred thousand dollars remitted į to him by supporters in Canton of Mr. Wang Ching Wei when the Jatter were in power, before the return of the Kangsi clique. The funds were to have been received by Mr. I. V. Soong, the Minister of Finance appointed by General Chiang.
(Continued on next Column:)
OFFICIAL WELCOME TO LI TSAI HSIN POSTPONED. There was no meeting yesterday,
a arranged, formally to welcome police, his Worship eaid he pro- Li Tani Hsin back to Canton. The posed to grant bail at $50,000 for affair will probably take place next each of the accused. Friday, if weather and other circum- Istances permitting.
The CASO
was adjourned till tako. Friday morning.
to receive twenty Erckes of the birch.
#1
Mr. Jenkin said that both him- self and Mr. Potter were hurrying along as fast as they could with a
case which was "dry as dust.
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