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CANTON AND JAPAN. CANTON

TWO OFFICIAL LETTERS.

IRRECONCILABLE ATTITUDES 1

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CANTON, May 10th.

In reply to the letter of Dr. Chao Hsin Chu, Commissioner for For- eign Affairs in Kwangtung, dated April 30th, and published recently in the Daily Fres, the Japanese Consul-General at Shameen sent a letter to the Canton Foreign Com- missioner, explaining the purpose of the Japanese military expedition to

MURDER

TRIAL.

DETECTIVE AND LAWYERS.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, MAY 11th, 1928.

DISTURBANCES IN ROUND THE POLICE

CANTON.

"DOWN WITH THE

· JAPANESE,

TWO FACTIONS FOLLOWING "UP 1.IE CASE."

ROWDY ELEMENTS AGAIN EMERGE

[ROM OUR CRİYESE CORRESPONDENT THREATS AGAINST JAPANESE.

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CANTON, May 10th."

A sensational murder case has come up before the Canton City Court. Li Ping Sha, a legal prac,

found end im tioner, mediately after his house had been searched for illicit possession of opium by Shu Ching Yat, a de tective of the Narcotic Prohibition Bureau. The detective entered the

Canton, according to passengers arriving in The Colony last night by the .. Lungshan, is deeply in censed at the Japanese action in Shantung. Posters inscribed with "Down with the Japanese" have been posted in every street corner and orators have once again taken up their positions in street

Shantung. A free translation of house of the deceased and told the corners telling all and sundry, of

the letter of the Japanese Consul-

General follows:-

To the Foreign Commissioner

of Kwangtung,

Your letter dated April 30th has been received. I note that you

"said:

"The present Japanese military expedition to Shantung is a flag rant encroachment upon the sove

members of his family to move into one room, stating that Li Ping Sha was suspected of being a Com munist. The members a the family complied and the detective institut- ed his search of the house. But no document showing that Li Ping Shu was a Communist was unearth ed. The detective then said that his object was to search the house for illicit opium. But again none was found. While the members of the family were in the one roo13,

the tyrannical attitude" of the Japanese.

H

Trade unions in Canton also held ma meeting yesterday and have declared that they will enforce tha strictest pomible boycott against the Japanese No Chinese is to buy from the Japaness or to sell any Those who buy goods to them. Japanese goods would be treated as arms smugglers, the penalty of this

ROUT

COURTS.

A BATCH OF OPIUM "CHARGES.

A HORRID CONCOCTION.

A Chinese was stopped when carrying bottles labelled Hennce. Boy' Three Star Brandy, by Revenue Officer Grimmitt. The con- toats were found to be a mixture of "home brewed" wine made up of WOMAN SMUGGLER HEAVILY wine, water, syrup of brown sugar,

and colouring matter.

FINED.

A number of opium charges were heard before Mr. W. Schofield at

The carrier "said that he had brought the stuff from Macng and gavo information which led to the arrest of two other Chinese, one of

brew.

the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.

A Chinese woman who arrived by whom admitted ownership of the the Canton train on Wednesday was

He was fard 8000 with the alter- found with two parcels of con- traband opium tied around her native of six months' hard labour, while the second man, upon whom waist, two more packets being

was found note book describing Wher hidden in her stockings. charged the defendant pleaded that the preparation of the wine, receive she was not aware of the reguin labour, The carrier was fined $50 tions, and that she had been given"

with the alternative of four weeks”. 2 to bring the opium to Bong

bard labour. Kong.

The Magistrate remarked that she must have known perfectly well that she was doing wrong or she would not have concealed the opium in the way described. He imposed a fine of $1,550-exactly ten times the value of the opium.

A foki who was found in posseE- sien of 4.3 tacks of opium on the La D'Artagnan forfeited his bail of $400 when he failed to appear in Court Festerday. The defendant is alleged to have been found with opium in his pockets..

ed a sentence of four months' hard

TWO PICKPOCKETS PUNISHED.

Two Chinese were charged befors Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon.

Magistracy yesterday with picking pockets.

The first defendant was caught ja

the act of stealing a ten-cent piece from the pocket of a pedestrian by a district watchman who immediate- y arrested him. The Magistrate im- posed a sentence of three months' hard labour. The second defendant was alleged to have taken 60 cents from a man's pocket in Eau Su

reignty of China, which can never be the detective forced Li Ping, Shu ranging from two to five years' im. ward Road was charged with being Street, while the complainant was

into another room, where he was confined for a considerable length of time. The detective then called the members of the family to see

tolerated. The Nationalist Gorera ment has been especially protecting the lives and property of foreign

The Li Ping Shu, but he was found nationals resident in China.

dead. Detective Shu then left the Japanese Consul-General is there-

house amid the screaming árd fore requested to transmit this fact wailing of the members of the to the Japanese Government, re- family. A doctor was at once sum- moned but could only say that life questing it to recall forthwith all

was extinct. the Japanese troops now stationed

A post mortem

examination the deceased had in Shantung, as a sign of respect showed that for the territorial sovereignty and several wounds on his wrists and on his throat, all suggesting political independence of China."

that death was due to physical But the despatch of Japanese violence. The detective Shu Ching

reasons

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troops to Shantung has been yat was naturally suspected but he

the

having already been stated in detail in stoutly denied that he had resort-

..Decesary,

the Explanatory Note dated April Fed to violence. But the widow, of 24th last. The lives and property of the Japanese nationals resident the deceased and the other members in Shantung have been in constant of the family held to their story, danger. The present Japanese military expendition to that region and so the matter was taken to the

Ance

prisopment. Chinese who sell to Japanese would be dealt with a rebels and executed i

I

In conversation with a Chinese

merchant, a Daily Preis representa- tive was informed that not a single Japanese could be seen in Canton." They have all fled to Shameen for Balety. It was also stated that the anti-Japanese Boycott Society would carry out an inspection of all Chinese shops in Canton, within a day or two for the purpose of confiscating Japanese goods. Japanese articles found would be taken to an empty space and

burned.

All

Distrust Of Chang Tso Lin There is also a very bitter feeling against Chang Teo Lin, a certain section of the Chinese blaming the Mukden warlord for the trouble in Tsinan. They are of the belief that the Japanese were urged to go there by Chang Tao Lin in the hope that events would take some such course as the present crisis and thus pre- vent the Southerners from continu- against ing their expedition Peking. They

Lawyers' Association Take A Hand, The widow appealed to the Can-

is therefore to protect the lives City Court. of the Japanese there in accord- with the declaration of September 1st last of the Japanese Government. The Japanese troops in Shantung will be withdrawn ton Lawyers' Association for help, As soon as there is no further

As her lato late husband was a necessity for them to stay there. In order to avoid misunderstand- member of the Association and the ing you are therefore requested Canton legal practitioners at once to transmit this statement of the purpose of the Japanese Govern- responded to the appear.

News that the Japanese had ment to your officials and people, took up the case on behalf of the

widow of the deceased whole launched a further attack on the heartedly and declared that unless Southerners and had inflicted heavy the culprit is punished to the casualties reached Cantan yesterday The whole fullest extent of the law, all the shortly after 1 p.m.

Yours, etc.,

A Chinese living in Prince Ed-

in possession of 5 taels of raw opiura. The opium was alleged to have been purchased at $1.80 a tael and resold at $2 per tael.

Revenue Officer Brown who made

the arrest said that the defendant was engaged in the opium business, and regularly purchased it and sold it at a profit. He was fined $150.

watching a street performance.

The defendant's record showed

that he had been convicted on three other occasions, the last being some three years ago. A sentence of four

months' hard labour was imposed.

YOUNG “TRICK CYCLISTS

WARNED.

A coolt on the s.s. Empress of Russia was charged with being in Five lads appeared before Mr. W. possession of 1.7 tael of non-pre Schofield for disregarding traffic pared Government opium. The deregulations. One of the defendants fendant pleaded guilty and was fined was accused of "cutting a corner *** 8135.

Another Chinese, from Mongkok, also appeared on a charge of being in possession of opium. However, when the case was called Inspector Dick applied for permission to with draw the case as the quantity found on the man was very small.

According to the Analyst's report the opium seized was valued at only four cents!

The Magistrate accordingly dis missed the case.

SERIOUS KIDNAPPING

CHARGE.

A charge of kidnapping two young boys preferred against two Chinese was continued yesterday

afternoon before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy.

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at Jordan Road, and three others were riding on the wrong side of the road. A 13 year old lad was stated to have been riding with six others on the wrong side of the rond In answer to the at Laichikok. Magistrate the boy said that they were playing" follow my leader." They were all convicted and cau-

then that they had been causing tioned by the Magistrate who told

danger to other people and would be punished if they gave any more trouble.

MOTOR TOUT FINED

A Chinese was brought before Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday for touting at the Canton-Macao Whart

car.

not commit the offence; "He was a 'mechanic and not a tout.

The police officer who arrested the defendant said that he saw the One of the two defendants was accused following two ladies and (Sgd) KANZO MORITA,

lodging in the house from which the annoying them with offers of his Japanese Consul-General at

small boys disappeared on Decem-

The defendant told the Magin Shapeen.

ber 20th, 1997. The parents of thetrate that there were many young. Upon receipt of the above reply of the Japanese Consul-General, lawyers in Canton would be in of the rowdy element of the popu- missing boys reported the matter boys around at the time and he did Dr. Chao Hsin Chu despatched great danger of similar treatment. another protest. The Kwangtung They declare that the action of de Foreign Commissioner warned the tective Shu Ching Yat-was abso- Japanese Government against its action in Shantung, holding it res ponsible for all the consequences, A free translation of Dr. Chu's note follows:

To the Japanese Consul-General,

Shamoen,

Your letter to me dated. May 3rd respecting the Japanese des-

lace appeared to be much to the Police Station and immed- roused and the situation was very iately after they had enlisted the ugly for a time as some of the ex-aid of the Police, the defendant left This man was arrested last month lutely unjustifiable and illegal,tremists were shouting that they the house.

would storm Shameen to avenge

and he supplied information to the and therefore they are backing up

the death of their countrymen. the widow in her attempt to secure

Police which led to the arrest of However, the Government had the

the second mati.. redres, and obtain a conviction,

But the detective, Shu Ching Yai, situation in hand and the mob was it was learned during an interview dispersed. with a prominent legal practitioner in Canton by the representative of

In Military circles there is great activity and it is said that head

The Magistrate declined to be

of $5 with the alternative, of seven lieve his story and imposed s fine days' hard labour,

་་་

A PATIENT'S “ GRATITUDE.”

A Chinese youth was charged be fore Major C. Wilson with being Evidenco was taken yesterday in the premises of the Ho Miu Ling from a man who said he was brother. Hospital, with the intent to commit

a felony. in-law to the first accused. Witne

Bergt. Flattery said that the de said that he had been informed fendant had been a patient in the by the kidnapped boys' father of hospital for four months, and since

patch of troops to Shantung has the Daily Press, in not" without quarters are getting together as what had happened. In February his recovery the hospital had re-, been duly received and noted. equally strong backing. All the many troops as possible to send to

That the Japanese military ex-officers of the Canton Narcotic Pro- pedition to Shantung is a fiagrant encroachment upon the national hibition Bureau and certain Gov- sovereignty of China, is a fact which cannot be denied or dis erament officials are just as con- puted. Such action on the part vinced that the death of Li Ping of the Japanese Government is Shu ses not due to violence.ad justifiable neither from the point of view of international law nor ministered by Shu Ching Yat as from the point of view of the the lawyers are convinced that it concensus of the world's opinion.

If the withdrawal of the Japanese Was

troops in Shantung is further de-

layed, the Japanese Government

the aid of the Southerners. One thing we are resolved upon," one passenger said, "and that is never to surrender to the Japanese under any circumstances. China will fight

to the last man.

It has even been suggested that

this year he went to Canton and there he met the first defendant Witness spoke to the defendant casually and made no mention of the kidnapping.

Witness returned to Hong Kong and on April 5th; he ran across the first defendant in Bonham Strand East Witness then told defendant that the complainant had lost two boys and asked defendant if he has had a hand in the business,

ported a number of larcenies of The defendant kitchen utensils. was hiding behind a door at the hospital where he was discovered by an attendant.

The Magistrate imposed a nen- tence of six weeks" hard labour....

STOLEN MILK.

A Chinese was charged before Mr.

all prisoners in Canton should be Defendant was said to have answer- R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis

The judge of the Canton Munich-released on condition that they joined in the affirmative and gave an tracy with stealing four bottles of

must be strictly held responsible pal Court has had several hearings up sad fight against the Japanese

to the rowdies to adopt their old time awagger and terrorism.

General Li Chung Yu, Comman der of the Seventh Army, has been argently requested to return to Owaton to confer with Marshal Li

for any consequential misunder of the case and whenever the trial The crisis has giver an opportunity standing.

You are still requested to trans has been in progres the court has mit the wishes of the Nationalist beca packed with friends of the Government as set forth in my letter to you dated April 30th, alleged murderer and numbers of conflicting has been urging the Japanese Government lawyers. So to recall its troops in Shantung the evidence that nothing denite This will be a great step towards been decided upon by the judge. the promotion of true friendship. between the two countries. Although the sad event happened Tsai Hain. He was in the Colony Yours, et

some weeks ago, yet it is far from yesterday having arrived from (Signed) CHAO Her Chu,

being settled and the trial is still Kwangs and want to Canton last Commissioner for Foreign

night by the a. Sai On. Affairs of Kwangtung.. going on

airy Farm Com

secount of how the children were milk from the taken away first to Aplin Street pany. and then to Canton by the s Inspector Alexander told the Charles Hardown. The boys were Magistrate that there had been eventually sold in Sze Yap for $720, several reports of milk being stolen and he (defendant) and another from the University, and a private man were given #100 cacb. Defend watchman, employed by the Dairy ant also said that he was not the Farm was sent with the milkman two other men took the bulk of the seen actually to take milk left for prime moves in the Lidnapping and in the morning. The defendant was money, and customers whereupon he was arrest

When asked what he had to say, ed by the watchman frst defendant denied that the witness was his brother-in-law; or that he had ever told witness about the kidnapping

The case was adjourned until this

afternoon.

The police records showed that defendant had been convicted two years ago for stealing clothes from the servants' quarters of the Uni versity. The Magistrate imposed, s sentence of air weeks' hard labour.

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