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ALLEGED FORCED BANK

NOTES.

Before Major Willson-at-the

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CATHOLIC CHURCH AND LABOUR.

Central Magistracy yesterday moru-CHAMPION OF THE WORK-

ing a Chinese named Lau Troi ap- peared on a charged of uttering

TRACED BY POLICE OFFICER two forged 810 bank noles of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank at the Treasury, and with being in possession of same.

A Chinese named Cheung Sam pleaded guilty" when charged before Major C. Willson at the Centra Magistracy yesterday with etealing two cheques and obtaining 8100 by false pretences. Two alternate charges of receiving the stolen cheques were not proceded with.

The first cheque dated April 84th was for $571 drawn on the Bank of Caaton, Ltd., while the other was on the Bank of East Asia, Ltd., and for $1,340.

The cheques were stolen by the defendant from another Chinese who went to the Hong Kong" & Shanghai-Bank to "pay them into his account.

Ho carelessly left them on the counter, whilst talk- ing to a friend. Immediately the owner missed the cheques he com-

The police applied for a remand of the case until to-morrow which the Magistrate granted and fixed the bait at $250.

OPIUM IN BANANA CHATES.

The Chinese who was previously charged with possession of 246 tael

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PAST AND PRESENT TRIUMPHS.

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LECTURE BY MR. W. G. «

FITZ-GIBBON.

On Sunday evening before a large attendance of members of the Chinese Catholio Young Men's Society, Caine Road, Mr. W. G. Fitz-Gibbon, B.A., Secretary to the Department of Public Works, de of prepared opium appeared yester-livered an interesting address on day before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the what the Catholic Church has done Central Magistry. The defend for the improvement of the condi- ant is an issistant of the Wai Tai tion of the labourer Cheung firm of No. 20, Hing Loong Street. The drug was found con- cealed in three crates of banana shipped here from Macao aboard a junk, and the consignment was traced by the Revenue Officers to the firm at Hing Loong Street.

A cook employed at the shop was municated with the Banks, and also arrested, but the charge was when the accused went to cash the withdrawn and he gave evidence for stolen cheques they were not ac- the prosecution. The cook said that cepted. The defendant then went the arm was a piece goods firm, and to a shop and raised $100-on-the-and as far as he knew they had pretence that the Banks were never dealt in opium before. The closed

The next day he called names of the officials of the firm for the cheque, which had been were given, but were absent when left as security, and taking it on the Revenue officers raided the the pretext that he was going to premises. cash it he disappeared.

Documents relating to the con signment of banana were found in possession of the defendant, and the Magistrate imposed a fine of 85,000 with the alternative of six months' hard labour.

Among those" present was His Lordship Bishop Valtorta. Mr. Filz Gibbon, who was introduced by the President of the Society, Mr. Edward Tao Chak Wan, said in the

course of his address:-

I am glad of this opportunity of tracing briefly the story of the Church's long struggle for the betterment of the condition of the labourer; for you will doubtless have heard or read how "Red" propaganda throughout Chias, aa in Russia, has been most bitter in attacks out Christian Missions, and have proclaimed without ceasing that the Christian Church is the friend of the capitalist and the On the enemy of the workman. contrary, the Church has ever been the one steadfast friend and cham- pion of the labourer.

MILITARY CHANGES.

DEPARTURE OF LT.-COL. SIN VICTOR MACKENZIE,

NEW O.C. FOR QUEEN'S ROYAL REGIMENT.

Among the departures for Home (C

vid Canada by the na. Empren of We'll never

be satisfied

with makeshift

Russia sailing to-morrow is Lieut.- Col. Sir Victor A. F. Mackenzie, Bart., D.S.O., M.V.O., the popular officer communding 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, stationed at Sham- sbuipo. The departing officer bas taken a keen interest in the sport- ing activities of the Battalion and will be greatly missed.

Hajor E. C. T. Warner, D.S.O., | music" M.C, will take over the command of the Battalion. "He is at present second in command...

Lient. Col. R. G. Clarke, C.M.G., D.S.O., who was the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Ins Queen's Royal Regiment, the other unit occupying Shamshuipo Camp, left for Home by the as. Empress of Canada recently. The new officer commanding is Lieut. Col.-H. C. Ponsonby, D.8.0., M.C., who has already aned from Home and is expected to arrive in Hong Kong early next month.

population, there are many thou sands of Catholic workmen. Is it too much to hope for, that we may yet see some of these men sent |abroad=under the suspices of ir Catholic Social Guild of China-for courses in Social Science at the Catholic. Workmen's College at Deford and similar institutions in other countries 7

Present Evils.

to control the chief causes of all

The matter was reported to the

The Catholic Church has to-day police and Sergeant Fichas traced

set herself to combat the present the accused to lodging house where

Was arrested.

The reform of society is not the evils, while guarding against the "The cheques were recovered in a par-

primary but a secondary aim of the destruction of the complex and cel which the accused haif given

C. P. O, Clarke made an applica- Church. Social work is, however, delicate machinery of commerce. to one of the servante in the lode- tion for the opening of the safe, a natural consequence of her teach- We know that the bas the power ing house to keep for him,

The Magistrate" imposed a sta-

which was seized at the firm's pre-ing, and thus the Church has, tence of seven monthe hard labour.mises, but Mr. C. A. S. Russ, who through the centuries, been the labour troubles the greed of the appeared for the defendant, pointed sourer of countless temporal bless-capitalists and the excited paisions

ings to humanity.

of the workmen-because of her re- out that no evidence had been given with our present conception of in respect to the safe or its contents. He had not got the keys, and short personal freedon and the rights of of dynamite, he did not see how the even the humblest citizen in our safe was going to be opened.

modern democracies, it is difficult for us to realize the influence of slavery on the social life of the western world in the early years of the Christian Church.

BANISHEE WITH A BAD RECORD.

A banichee with a record of two previous convictions during the past two years, appeared before Major C. Willson at the Magistracy yea terday, for returning to the" Colony. The Magistrate imposed a sentence of twelve months' hard labour and ordered the prisoner to receive twenty strokes of the birch,

The banishee'e record showed that he had been convicted on three occasions in 1923 for larceny and in 1924 he served a term of three months and was banished. In 1923 and 1928 he served two terms of imprisonment for return- ing from banishment, and in the latter instance received ten strokes of the birch. He was banished for, 10 years last year.

ANOTHER BANISHEE.

Yet another banishee appeared before Major C. Willson for return- ing to the Colony before his term

YOUNG GAMBLER

CAUTIONED.

Before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy, a young Chi Lese was charged with stealing a quilt belonging to his brother and gambling at, "No, 804, Shanghai Street.

The defendant said that he was invited to gamble with the com plaint and lost 82.50. Having no utoney to pay he stole his brother's cotton quilt and pawned it. Later he grew afraid and asked the com- plainant for money to redeem the quilt. The latter refused and the defendant attempted to steal the money and was arrested.

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The complainant gave evidence not quite in line with defandant's story but the Magistrate said that he was inclined to believe the ac cused's story and cautioned him not of banishment had expired. "This to get into difficulties by gambling man was eentenced in 1999 to ten lle made him sign a bond of $25 year absence, but was found in the to be of good behaviour for a year. Colony last Saturday morning. He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment with twenty strokes of the birch.

FINE FOR POACHING.

F

REMOVING SAND FROM

..FORE-SHORE.

Three contractors' coolica were fined $25 each by the Mr. W. Scho- A Chinese appeared before Majos field at the Kowloon Magistracy for C. Willson yesterday morning for removing sand from the fore-shore being in possession » of three at Kowloon City. It was stated partridges which he was alleged to that the defendants were seen tak. have captured during the closing sand from the foot of the sen- season. A fine of 815 was imposed. wall.

TWENTY-FOUR ALLEGED.·

GAMBLERS:

EX-SERVANTS FINED.

Before Mr. W. Schofield_two Before Major C. Willson at the ex-servants of the Station Hotel Central Magistracy yesterday 24 Kowloon were fined $5 each for be gamblers

for ing Lound in the servants quarters were summoned gambling on the first floor of No. of the Hotel without permission. 205, Des Voeux Road; last, Batur It was stated that although the day afternoon. They were arrested Management dered to stop this result of a raid on the pre- practice of ex-servants returning to the Hotel without permission, they did not want to press the case. There had been several reports of small articles being stolen which could have only been taken by per sons having an inside knowledge of the Hotel,

DA misea.

Mr. A. E. Hali appeared for the defendants and asked his Worship to put the case over for a while. The case was accordingly remand

ed until to-morrow at noon.

Three of the two dozen gamblers were also charged with keeping common gambling house, and their 'bail was fixed at $50 each. - The others were granted bail at $5 cach

TWENTY-CENT BRIBE.

A Chinese, hawker appeared be fare Major C. Willson yesterday for offering a bribe of twenty cents Indian conetable. charged, the defendant said that

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ligious organizations, embracing him and ultimately both masters and men. From the bid bis freedom: when he was a records of the past, she has a power- craftsman she taught him how to ful claim on the confidence of the combine for a common purpose in workman. When he was a slave she guilds. Through his centuries of took him to her bosom and nursed struggle she has been his friend and him into full free manhood: when his champion, and to-day the won he was d'serf de, in the person of derful world-wide activity of her her monks, worked beside him in labour organizations shows that the the fields, cared for him and fed fight for his welfare is stil. for her

(Continued on next Column). a labour of love.

The lecturer then dealt at length with the system of slavery upon which the Roman social system rested and the semi-slavery of the Middle Ages in Europe. He show- ed how the Christian Church had

ages through the

sought 30 ameliorate these conditions.

Coming to modern times he said: The Church, Capital and Labour." The relations between capital and labour to-day are such as to cause anxiety

the to future in the minds of all students of history; but the wide ramifications of the complex system of modeln commerce render a solution of the problem extremely difficult. Throughout the world the workmen have combined in unions, or guilds, to defend their rights, and, as we have seen here in Hong Kong and Chias, at times open war is declared between capital and. labour,

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In the raidst of all the perplexity and the seemingly impotent efforts to arrive at a solution, what has the Catholic Church done to im- prove the lot of the workmen 1 You have all probably read at one time of another the celebrated encyclical, Rerum Novarum, on the condition of the working classes, which wes issued in 1991 by Pope Leo XIII. an encyclical devoted entirely to the labour question. All agree" he wrote, that some remedy must be found and quickly found for the misery and wretchedness' 'which press so heavily at this moment on ihe large majority of the very poor.

These words were addressed to the whole Church and to the whole world, and their influence has since been evident throughout Europe. The result has been to create, or loster, a general Catholic labour movement in every country, with the object of taking effective means to relieve the oppression of the modern commercial system, to improve the social position of the working classes, to unite them for their common good, and to prepare them by education for the struggle for their rights. In England the Catholic Young Men's Society and the Catholic Social Guild have done and are doing splendid work, and a Catholic Workmen's College has been founded at Orford to train young Catholic workmen to take A Chinese who stole four blankets their places as leaders in the labour

movement from No. 501, Nathan Road, Kow-un par

In China,

THIEF WHO STOLE FOUR

· BLANKETS.

loon, on April 7th, paid dearly for In China, where there is a his crime He, and another com panion were seen stealing the Catholic population of over two blankets and a hue and cry ensued. and a quarter millions, little or Chase was given by a Chinese detec-nothing appears to have been done tive, who failing to catch his men towards the formation of a purely he had previously given money to brought his revolve into play. Catholic labour organization. With A shot was fired which hit one of Chinese membership about three the constable and was not aware the thieves in the thigh, the shot times that of all the other Christian

that thing was contrary" to the regulations of the police passing trough the limb and strik bodies in China together, the The police officer in charge of ing the shoulder of a small boy who Catholic Church would appear to the case told bis Worship that the was whiching the chase from a be in a particularly advantageous position to exercise a powerful in- defendant had not mad any such parger of the street. statement when charged the pre boy were sent to hospital for treatment, guiding it on the path of

Both the thief and the unlucky Buence on the Chinese labour move- vious day,

The case was then remanded ment. The thief was well enough antit twenty-four hours o to to appear before Mr. W. Schofield enable the police to enquire into at the Kowloon Afagistrary gestor the truth of the defendant's state day, when he was sentenced to two ment.

months' hard labour?:.

prudence. The natural centres for the Chinese labour movement are Bhanghai and Canton in the former city, with its huge Catholic

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