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'IRONSIDES "- BADLY BEATEN?

KWANGSI CLAIMS 16,000 KILLED OR TAKEN.

OFFICIAL WELCOME TO LI TSAI HSIN,

CANTON PUBLIC

FUNDS.

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CASE AGAINST TWO CHINESE OFFICIALS.

CASE TO BE HEARD THIS MORNING.

Yesterday when the two promin- rat Chinese officials' charged with the unlawful possession of $100,000

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

The 7th Army (Kwangs) picially announces the success of operations were brought on semand before Mr.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14th, 1928.

STREET MENDI.

CANTS IN CHINA.

A WELL ORGANISED

PROFESSION.

ALL SYMPATHY WASTED.

STORY OF SHANGHAT'S BEGGAR KING:

[BY C.L.C.)

With the approach of Chiarse

SKULL PRODUCED ROUND THE POLICE

"IN COURT.

DURING MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.

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MEDICAL EVIDENCE ON CHRISTMAS DAY TRAGEDY.

The ease in which La Chi Hing. n student, is charged with the man- Slaughter of another student, Ho Kwong Hoi, following a Christmas day quarrel at the South China Association, was con-

COURTS.

GAOL FOR STEALING A CAR.

OFFENCES AGAINST OPIUM REGULATIONS...

[BY NOTE-BOOK.]

There was little of interest in the Polier Courts yesterday, the tex cases that came before the Magis traces dealing with a stolen moter car and possession of opium. There' were several charges under the the Central Magistracy yesterday latter head and there was a small

at Lungeheu inti East River "RE. Lindsell at the Central New Year, one meets with beggars Athletic Sector, are early this week, theyagistracy, a further remand of everywhere. Yesterday I was walk tinued before. Mr. R. E Lindsell at| succeed in taking prisoner' 2,500 21 hours was granted on the aping along Des Voeux Road Central men of the 4th Army (Kwangtang), [plicatión, of Mr.

T. H. King.

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At about the same time more than Director of Criminal Intelligence. 24.300 of the Kwangtung forces were The defendanta in the case captured at Pukio. Hoyun, Hoi. Wong Chung Chi, former Finance fang? and Laktung. These prison. Commissioner of the Ironsides"

P/s are

when I was accosted by no fewer than a dozen of these rond pests.

I eat them pests because beggars

morning. dicted the post-mortem exaurina- tion of the body, said he found that the primary cause of death was the rupture of the left middle meningeal artery of the brain. The secondary

of a slow nature, and subsequent cause was intra-finial haemorrhage

shock.

Dr. Alexander Cannon, who con-

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in China are mostly shams.

During my journalistic career in the North of China, I was sent several or asiong" to investigate this inutter and I found that begging is as well organised and entive profession in China as it

The Two Youths Compared. is in a good many other countries,

In Shanghai there is a beggar

The defendant was told to stand king living in a big mansier with his six concubines. His subjects up and Dr. Cannon was asked to numbered over 10,988), men, women

en compare the two boys." He thought and chillren some of them scattered in Soochów, Chekiang and that if anything the deceased was a Sanking, in the Chinese City, he shade more, muscular but slightly had no fewer than 200 men and the shorter of the two. His general women to bully and annoy shop-1 The two defendants are represent-keepers, from each of whom a daily physical condition was very good. toll of 60 copper cents were collert. ed. by Mr. M. K. Lo,

oat Walchow, where regime at Canton, and Choy Shin there captors are awaiting instruc- genival manager of the tion from Cant as to their dis-Reneral Bank. The charge was brought against them at the in. posal.

The Kwangsi Army claims that stigation of the present Govern sineet the start of the campaign thement at Cankan, and yesterday Mr. ith Army bas host 0,000 in killed. . Sheldon, appeared in Court gal wounded, 19 000 prisoners and say that he is appearing for the 20 rites. However, there is still a good deal of sectielam as to the decisive, nature of the Kwangsi trump theagh everyone accepta| that they have done well so far.

The 3 Acay, formerly

com.

"nunded by General Li Fook Lam ili up into small detach ments and employed in the big can

Canton Government in the case.

a?¢

Of cours, he had to have a big A Requisition From Cantor.

To get capital for his business. In applying for a further ad-

men and women to do his work, Formend, Mr. King said: I ask it was necessary for him to make tour of the villages in China your Worship" to grant a further

where the inhabitants were poor. remand of 24 hours, in order to After selecting the most miserable enable me to reconsider the posi-looking lot, men and women suffer. all descriptions-he Brought them to tion to-morrow morning. Yestering from sores and deformities of received a requisition from the for them about four or five miles hagand lands operating in Kwang-ternor of Canton, and others in the suburb, grad every morn ing one of these loathesone man or woman would be posted outsid this door of every shop doing a brisk business."

Important Detalls.

boy among the offenders.

STOLEN MOTOR CAR.

The case in which a Chinese was charged with the theft of a muter car was again before the Magis-

At the previous hearing it was trate and a conviction was entered.

stated that the ear was of no value 1: WAS except for scrap iron. brought from Canton on "the .. Ting On on December 18th and placed in the Dragon Garage for repairs. A representative of the garage statel yesterday that the de- fendant brought the car for repair. ' but it was not worth it, and he told the defendant so. The car had remained in the garage since that time..

There was very slight swelling over the left temple, extending up

The defendant's story was that he wards about 4 inches from a line between the left eye and the ear. at about 5 inches long. This was was acting for a friend who entrust- the swelling which the mother likened him with the car, but this man el rather vaguely to an egg. There could not be found by the police, were no external signs of injury

His Worship held that the de- a large clot of blood pressing fondant knew that the car was 'un- to any part of the skin. He found!

these effects must have been caused to three months' hard labour. meningeal artery ruptured by the same blow.

"palen being projected. against the Gay, or rather, late last night, we shanghai H had a big hut baile against the brain and the middle lawfully obtained and sentenced him

Thing

But,

The beggar king before posting bis man would go round selecting his victins." and all shops marked down by him would be made to pay toll if they did not want a fearful looking object aquatting outside the door to frighten customers away,

Explanations.

Both

Dr. Cannon Stated that such a blood lot might take as long as 24 hours to form, as haemorringe restarted by any movement, or by was often intermittent and could het even sudden thought, which would cause blood to flow to the brain.

A kell was then produced in Court, and Dr. Cannon explained in detail the anatomy of the head.

Not-A-Fal

The men had been leaving witnesses who have arrived.

so far, we have been unable to go Canton on this duty since Thurs

into it, and it is our hope that day. This, is considered a neat thing will be done within the settlement of a difficult.proposition. next city-four hours, when it The offeral welcome to tieneral will be possible to reconsider the Li Toni Usin was duly staged this matter and decide definitely on the Eine of action to be taken. I would East Parade

The Chinese City police were un afternoon on the

hdd that the original remand of

able to chase then away as they ground by the Kwangsi section three days was requested, because, had instructions From their chief of the Kusmiatang. The tradeing in police custody, that was not to do so, It was also rumoured unionists and students who, for the the extreme limit of remand in that the chiefs of police in the

A fall on a flat surface Chinese quarters receife an Had I known that quity from the beggar king. poller enstody,

could not cause the rupture because past few years, have figured pro

Some of these beggars were also some are prominent part of the rent into the International Settle-head was bound to take the force atitently in all such demonstrations they "would be able to ând baik,

ment, but there they could not be of, the impart; and if there had placed ontside shops beenuse a were notably absent. There is no

been any contact with a projecting surface there must have been some His Worship 1 imagine you police force aut in the king's ' "welcome in tanton now-a-days for

Dr. Cannon lesion of the skin. pocket would not tolerate

thod of blackmail. The men- the Reds and their aforetine have no objection. Mr. Loi

dicants would take up a position in supporters. The affair was also à

cornes of the street and there tw. Some of them would make n -door to door call..

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would have asked your Worship to fix a longer remand

Mr. La: No. your Worship. Defendants were therefore re

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this

celebration of the victory over themanded until 10 a.m. to-day. They whine pitenusly for 6 copper or

*Soviet government,

return to

are wat on bail of 830,000.

By rest day afternoon practical- y all work was going en as nstal. Canton Hong Kong steamers were able to haul and unload under Police protection during the last

General TR "Hsin olay issel, statement admitting his ered in allowing the Cantus of the 4th Army under General Chang Fat Fui and Wong Kie Cheong 1 is on them that he Jays the blame for the Red ? up-

The Police in Canton are hard at heaval Ha proclaims that if he work in their campaign against General Li Tsai Hsing had been unions whose headquarters have move alert at the beginning and lessen used by the "Reds." In the | last fürtnight, more than 30 union trusting the catastrophe might have

quarters have been raided. Lasun averted.

GOVERNMENT SETTLES A

LABOUR DISPUTE.

The dispute between the Seamen's Union and the Lightermen's has been settled through the netion of the Commissioner of Police at Canton, General Tang Yin Hua, who hus forbidden farther interfer- ene with the loading and unload

few days.

Now

the Police have forbidden members. of suspended unions to join us ötes, and the white" unions may not take in those suspended mem- bers,

From the beggars in the Chin eity, the beggar king reaped a rich harvest, as practically all the shops there paid the daily toll at 60 copper cents to get rid of these pests. Out of these earnings, the beggars a day were paid 20 copper cents by their kink, and given a hut to live in rent free.

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Conditions In Hankow.

The nature of the blow was other than that due to a fall for two

FINES IN OPIUM CASES:

Heavy dnes, generally amounting

opium seized, were, itaposed on a ten times the value of illicit number of Chinese who were found at the wharves in possession of the drug.

A small boy who had three taeli was ordered to receive" ten strokes. with a cane.

Among six elderly

men who were all heavily fined was one man who seemed to care little

about the Court proceedings. When the interpreter told him that the line was 3,000 he pretended not to understand. The penalty for default was right months hard labour,

In the case of another man added that the effect could not be charged with possession of 18 taels caused by a slap of the open hand, of Wuchow oylum, it was stated that owever fierce, but could have been the drug was found inside defend.

s.s. Kongning on" caused by a blow with the clenched ant's bedding when revenue officers fist, in fact as a rule a blow on boarded the this part of the head would cause Thursday. On the application of this rupture. He was then asked Mr. M. K. La, who appeared for if the-injury could be caused by the the defence, the defendant was re- half closed, but he replied that he tips of the fingers, with the handmanded on bail of 81,500. did not see how it was possible to get suficient forge in that way.

In cross-examination Dr. Cannon stated that the blow must have been forceful, but not necessarily violent

the mak enough to

receiver stagger. A slap ar blow on the left angle of the jaw, the place where defendant, maintained that he bit the deceased, would not have the same effect, Vomiting was likely to be caused by cerebral coinpression following the rupture,

Another Eye-witness.

His

He

ROBBING A FISHING BOAT.

A Chinese was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday be fore Mr. W. Schofield with having participated in an armed robbery on a fishing "bont on December 31st at Dip Wan near Pingshan.

it was alleged that the defendant And another Chinese came alongside the two of them barded the junk. the fishing boat on a dinghy, and They were armed and after in- timidating the occupants of the junk, the defendant stole from the cabin 825 in Hong Kong currency.

Another boat was seen and 83 in Chinese ten-cent pieces.

coming,

The defendant was well-known, to

I tankow, during the winter months where snow lies two to three inches thick on the ground, half clad women and children are daily to be seen lying on the snow and crying piteously for a few cash. The begging fraternity there do not get much, for the Haukow Chiarse are now free with their money. Yet

So Chi Ki was present at the time thousands of women and children, most of whom are borrowed from of the squabble in the South China their cottages at Hanyang, Wuchow Athletic Association, and was sitting Rnd other adjacent villages, come on the left end of the sofa, the op- Hankow for a few months' posite end to the deceased. begging business. They disappear evidence in the main was a repeti. and the two robbers immediately re- tion of earlier accounts, but he did turned to their own craft and sailed away. Chase was given and when when the weather gets warmer.

nut see the incident very distinctly the escaping buat was about to bo I was shocked to see these women NEW APPOINTMENTS.

and little babies sleeping on the as deceased had his back to him overtaken, the robbers fired at the Mr. Chu Chno Hsin, who gave snow with a flimsy and tattered when he was standing up.

abandoned, and the fishing boat re- covering, and I must noticed the deceased more his hand pursuing craft. The chase was then ap the pest of Commissioner for Jacket for",

until I am told that these people and kick the defendant after he had was made to the police, Foreign Affairs in Canton a week confess I was taken in by them and foot as though about to hit turned to Tai O where a report.

The blow was struck on the left

the master of the fishing junk and ago took over the office again yes do not fear the cold at all. They got up,

live on a kind of maize which the

from the description he gave to the Chinese called "koliang," which is side of the lace, but he was not terday. Mr. C. L. Tu will be re- appointed to his old post as Com said to give so much heat to the sure if it was a slap or a blow with

appeared to be struck fairly straight able to make the arrest. not fear the cold.

The decensed did Kiungchow, Hainan.

I did not believe thera until one and upwards Mr. Liu Trai Po, a former newe- day I tested a child with a therme not appear to have been pained The only words he heard paperman and until recently Dis-meter and I found it registered 104 by it.

At the Kowloon Magistracy, a was able to get the information that as he pushed deceased back on to trict Magistrate of Toyshan, the deg. From a European doctor 1 were spoken by defendant, who said most progressive district in Kwang this keliang produced a sort of fever the sofa," Why do you get so angry Chinese junk-master, pleaded guilty ride and two tung, took over the post of Com- lasting for about 19 hours, and when on account of a joke like this?

In cross-examination the witness to a charge of being in possession licence from maintained that the statement of Lo of firearms-one The trouble has been going on missioner for Home Affairs in it is gone, the patient would have

no ill effect, beyond a thirst.

Chi Ming, an earlier witness, that muskets-without a In Peking And Tientsin.

ix weeks hard labour, "siace January 8th, and, on the 10th, Canton City yesterday. Mr. Liu

The begging fraternity in Tientsin he stood up to see what happened, the C.S.P. He was fined $75, or

was false. the Shanghai-Canton Importers and has been a magistrate for more than

there. years- recovil seldom and Peking gu about in long padded

Nothing That Concerns Me.

FALSE COINS. Exporters Guild and the shipping achieved in a province where gov gowns, socks and shoes. They are

Chang To Wing, an interpreter all pretty well of according to

A Chinese, who was charged at. interests asked the Police to intereruments change very frequently, Chinese standards, and they get at the Central Police Station, gave

Magistracy with vene. General Tang at once agreed, and much is expected of him in his good deal of money from the evidence that he saw the defendant

public by their perseverance. They on December 27th and explained the the Kowloon threatening to arrest and punish all new office.

do not go about showing their ugly charge to him: After being caution uttering mine tan-cent pieces of Borea, or sleeping on snow like their ed the defendant made, the state counterfeit coins at premizes in seamen trying to hold up shipping

session of 21 false coins, was and loading of cargo. Professional

sisters and brothers in Hankow, but ment "In this case there is nothing Canton Road and also with pos The hearing of this case will be discharged, there being no evidenoc agitators were behind the whole

they would doggedly follow you that concerns me." crying out for money until to get trouble.

rid of them, you would drop ten continued on Tuesday at 11.50, and tendered against him. The coins,

were ordered to be confiscated. again in the afternoon. (Continued on next Úolumn.)

cents into the bowl.

ing of cargo on Capton Harbour missioner for Foreign Affairs in body, that anyone taking it need the fist. It was a gentle one, and police, a Chinese detective was soon

The Seamen's Union has been trying to incorporate the Lighterte's Usion and thus control the working of cargo as well as the manning of vassels.

By order of the Political Council in Canton, all acts and orders of the administration of the 4th Army (Kwangtung) regime have been re- pudiated.

The case was adjourned.

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