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NO ANTI-JAPANESE JAPANESE SCHOOL

PARADES.

CANTON GOVERNMENT

ORDER.

BUT STUDENT AGITATORS ENCOURAGED.

TO-DAY'S LABOUR CONFER

ENCE.

MYSTERY.

A BOGUS TELEPHONE

MESSAGE.

TRICK TO GAIN TIME.

(IRUM QUE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] [afternoon last.

CANTON, May 14th

THE HONG KONG

AFFRAY AT -ABERDEEN.

FOKIS WHO TIED UP.

CONSTABLE.

ALL ACQUITTED.

DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 15 th, 1928.

ROUND THE COURTS. A CAT BURGLAR "STROKED."

A Chinese lad was described as A BATCH OF BRAZEN FACED cat burglar when charged before

THIEVES.

Major C. Willson with stealing a jacket. It was stated that the garment "was drying outside the verandah on the first floor of a THOUGHT HIMSELF ENTITLED house. The lad climbed up a drain

TO IT.

pipe, to reach his objective and while descending he was arrested,

of

Considerable mystery surrounds A QUESTION OF SQUEEZE?" petty offenders were dealt with yes-

An unusually large number the discovery of the decomposed

terday by the local Magistrates. body of a Chinese amah at the

Belore Mr. I. E. Lindsell at the Thieves evidently believe in impud- Japanese Public School, Kennedy Central Magistracy yesterday after-ence, and hope to bring off robberies Read, by the Police on Friday noon the six Chinese who were of such a bare faced naturs that charged with assaulting a Shantung victims and public are alike taken The body was found in a locked policeman, binding him and, taking in and only realise when too late room at the rear of the school away his revolver, were discharged. what has been going on. following a report made to the Counter allegations were made police by the headmaster whose against the Shantung policeman attention was drawn to an over and the plain clothes Contonese con- powering smell emanating from the stable, who figured in the case of reom Medical examination of the attempting to obtain bribes from an No person decomposed body showed that death old man at Po Chong. This matter is allowed to do anything which must have occurred about ten day is to be dealt with departmentally. will cause or tend to cause phy-ago.

Mr. W. Kent (AS.P.) appeared The body was in a room Jocked for the Crown, and Mr. M., K. Lo sical harm to Japanese lives and property in Canton and Kwang-from the "outside and inside there

was for the first defendant, the tung generally. This Government were three daggers, all blood stain master of the farm at Po Chong by ban is aimed at the rowdy elements ed and with hair adhering to them whom four of the other defendants were employed. Mr. CA, & Russ which thrive on trouble and dis- This suggests that more than one

appeared on behalf of the other five man.

In order to guard against any mob violence towarda Japanese nationals, the Government has for- bidden all parades or any other form of public demonstration of an sati-Japanese nature.

patriotism, do anything to bring

Other amaks employed in the

Several of these gentry found their methods notably unsatisfac tors. One cannot withhold a certain admiration for the two fellows who argued that no one suspects a man carrying a really bulky package. They tried it-a case of two great minds thinking slike-with packing cases and at oil barrel respectively, and it failed deniably.

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the

The Magistrate ordered juvonile cat burglar to be "stroked" twelve times with the birch.

STREET SNATCHERS.

with by Major O. Willson for Two Chinese were severely dealt

months hard labour and twelve snatching. One man was given six strokes of the birch for having snatched & gold necklace with n pendant from a girl in Wellington Street.

meted out to a man who snatched a purse containing 34 cents from a The victim, after the man was ar man outside, the World Theatre. rested, made himself scarce prefor ring to lose his purse and 34 cents money was ordered by his Worship rather than appear in Court. The to be deposited in the Poor Box.

Four weeks' hard labour wore

EXPENSIVE." THREE

CASTLES."

A sneak thief who had his eyes on a roll of cloth displayed outside the On Kee plece goods shop at No. 143, Queen Road Central, was subjected to a long wait and order and would, in the name of person was involved in the murder. defendants, one of whom is a fisher-vedtually his patience was reward- and in being more expensive, if one

ed with four weeks' hard labour. about incidents of the kind that same catalishment stated that they at the Aberdeen Police Station after a long vigil he walked toward On Wharf for having in his posses

Sergt. Hopkins, who was present. It was stated against him that the roll of cloth which he had been admiring, calthly walked off with the cloth to the amazement of the shopkeeper. However, they so get surprise, the thief and handed him over to the police.

everyone wants to avoid.

places no restriction, however, on

had seen the murdered amah alive when the defendants were brought The Provincial Administration on April 29th. That same evening in, told the Court that he was under the unfortunate woman had receivfendant was not with the group. the impression that the first de eetings and public speeches of aned a visit from a young man about and did not take part in the attack

years of age. The man was seen on the Shantung policeman.

Questioned by Mr. Russ, the wit leaving the premises, and about half

ness replied that he presumed that phone bell rang.

Ia

orderly and patriotic nature. fact the Government is encourag-

On answering the telephone a

voice, sufficiently well imitated to

pass for that of the murdered

い

ing such events. Thus the City an hour after he had left the tole the defendant had a legitimate Major C. Willson at the Central Kuomintang is organizing a lecture corps for the purpose of proclaim- ing "the danger and possible out- come of the Japanese military ex- pedition to Shantung." This lec ture corps consists of 6 groups each of 4 persons, mostly students. The last lecture campaign is to one month and Canton has been

woman, said that she would be away for a low days as a relative was sick in Kowloon and that she would have to attend to him. The other servants, after receiving the mes wrong and the continued absence of the murdered woman was therefore not remarked upon with the result that no report was made to the police until the locked roem gave up its secret.

Three Castle" cigarettes often

A Chinese was arrested at the Tung tries to avoid paying duty on them.

sion 480 of this brand of cigarettes, and on which duty was not paid. which he had brought from Canton He was fined $20 by Major 0.

Willson.

THE OPPORTUNIST.

Seizing his opportunity, and anything else that comes to hand is evidently the principle of "a cortain Chinese. But perhaps four weeks' sojourn in Victoria Gsol will make him use a little more dis- cretion in future.

The man was charged before

MORE MOTOR TOUTS. grievance against the constable Magistracy. He glibly told the The campaign against moter touts but denied that he knew that the Magistrate that he did not steal continues. Two of them were constable had threatened them with the roll of cloth. He was passing charged yesterday. One of them his revolver.

The first defendant told the Court and being a stranger to the Colony Magistrate only a few days ago and by" and saw the cloth on the ground, had appeared before the same that he was master of a vegetable farm at Po Chong, and that four of and not conversant with Hong Kong was fined 88. His fine was doubled the defendants were employed by entitled to take the roll of cloth,

Ordinances, he thought he was and the other, who caused annoy- to the public outside the him on his farm at Po Chong. The for" was not finding keeping!" he Canton Wharf, had to pay 35. remaining defendant was a casual naked. fisherman who was present at Po His Worship, however, held Cheng at the time. He first heard different view on the question of divided into a lecturing districts, i sage, thought that there was nothing of the trouble when he was at his finding and gave the thief. four

other farm at Süm Wan, where he received the news from one of the weeks to think out a better theory defendants. He immediately hur-of finding and keeping. ried to Po Chong, and found the constable bound and lying on the ground. He was told about the whole affair, and suggested that the constable be released, but the fokis said that the constable was very fierce and had threatened to kill them. The witness then agreed that he should be taken to the Police Station at Aberdeen. All this time the constable said nothing to him.

Yee Yau, the fisherman, said that he had just arrived from Waichow in his boat, having heard that Po Chong was a good fishing ground. He knew nothing else about the place.

These street lectures are given every evening between 6 and 9 p.m. and propaganda pamphlets and handbills

distributed. Are

The orators have to assemble at 6 p.m.

in the headquarters of the City Kuomintang for instruction as to what they are to talk about. The only remuneration is 90 cents a day **tes money."

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The number of Japanese nationals who left Canton for Shameen and Hong Kong last work is 138. On Monday last, 18 left; Tuesday, £3; Wednesday, 17; Thursday, 32; Fra- "day, 29; and Saturday, 21.

The lastest news of the boycott against Japanese goods is that the merchants in Kongmoon have join ed in and are refusing to deal, în Japanese goods may longer. They have organized a boycott committee and have cabled their cliente in Hong Kong and in Macao, and slæ- where not to send any more Japan. eso. goods..

The Canton Political Council has ordered, is notification to the Provincial Administration and to the Canton Municipal Government, the suspension of all public feasts and merry-making for a period of one month. This is in the nature of a further reminder to the people of the Tainan incident

AN ANTI-COMMUNIST LABOUR UNION.

The body was in such a state of decomposition that satisfactory identication was impossible. The paly means, and a doubtful one, of identifying the dead body was a report made to the police by the other servants that the murdered amah had gold teeth. They were, however, unable to say how many teeth or in what part of the jaw they were set." Nevertheless the dead woman was found to have two gold teeth.

The report that the Police have found and detained the young man who visited the amah has not been confirmed. The police are now en deavouring to trace the young man who visited the amah and was with her the last time she was seen alive.

PROPOSED CHINESE

FACULTY.

HOPE TO GET $300,000,

EUROPEAN COMMUNITY TO BE ASKED TO ASSIST..

11.

"

TOO BULKY TO GET AWAY

WITH

Another two men were brought before the same Magistrate for trying to steal bulky goods. What ever made them intre their atten tion on packing cases and oil barrels was not disclosed. Prob- ably they thought that to be seen with big things in the streets would bo to pull wool over the eyes of the law.

"ONLY THREW IT OUT OF

1. THE WAY."

According to the Police, the man. was passing the Tai Sing Gold- smiths when he saw four packages of cloth on the counter which had been placed there by a woman cus tomer.

REVOLVERS AND AMMUNI- TION.

As a result of a police raid, four Chinese were arrested at No. 517 Shanghai Street for having in their possession two revolvers and 12 rounds of ammunition. They were brought before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy who 10- manded the case until to-day when it will be heard by two magistrates

ANTIPATHY TO MOTOR

"VEHICLES.

There is everywhere a certain amount of antipathy to motor vehicles by pedestrians of

This resentment is felt more by country yakale than by mas about town. In a certain section of Canton Road there is quite & small com- unity of Chiu Chau men and they banded themselves together to en- force their right of way and also to make drivers of motor vehicles realise that they had just as much right on the streets as a car or s

The woman was busily looking at some gold ornaments, when the man sauntered up and took possession of the packages. He was arrested and charged be No matter what they thought, a fore Major C. Willson and sanzeno man who saw two large empty packed to four weeks in gaol. ing cases outside a shop in Wing Lim Sum, one of the fokir of the Fat Street at once conceived the frst defendant, and the oldest man idea of taking them. He approach of the group, said that he was in ed the cases and succeeded in a but cooking at the time, and was getting away with them. He jogged approached by two constables. One along merrily with the cases on his of them was not in uniform. He shoulder but after going some dis- was seized by the plain clothes con- tance, he found that several of the stable and told to come out. He shop's fukis were after him. He refused saying that he had to cook was so taken aback that he did not the evening meal. The constable in know whether to drop the cases uniform then helped to pull him out, and make a dash for liberty or to and they dragged him up the hillstand still and allow himself to be side. They told him to carry a taken. He chose the latter course stamp of pine tree, which was lying and was brought before the Magis some way up the hillside. Again trate yesterday. He pleaded guilty witness refused, and he was told and was sentenced to ten days hard that he would be "kicked to labour, death." Witness was afraid and The other man tried a similar agreed to carry it. They then asked trick with an empty oil barrel. He At a meeting of the committee for money, but were told them that was fined 85. soliciting funds for the proposed he had none to give. The con stable drew his revolver and Chinese Faculty of the Hong Kong University, held yesterday at the threatened me, the old man Chinese General Chamber of Com alleged, and said that he shouted

for help. His fellow fokir heard "We only threw it out of the merce, the hope was expressed that him and came to his rescue. They way as it obstructed us in our $300,000 will soon be raised. It was

was the ples of two coal also stated that over $150,000 had snatched the revolver from the con- work," been promised. It was decided that stable and bound him with rope. coolies charged with stealing the Hon. Dr. B. H. Kotowall, The plain clothes constable took to pulley block from the ss. Daviken They were brought before the C.M.G., should approach all Euro-his heels, and from a distance threw pean and foreign firms in the Colony stones at them. They did not re- Kowloon Magistrate and according

lease the Shantung man as they to the evidence of Mr. S. Solberg. With this idea and the com

bus, by letter within these few days, and CANTON, May 14th..

were afraid to chief officer of the Daviken, the after the letters had been sent, the The Kwanglung General Labour soliciting committes will make

The witness in answer to the two defendante with a gang drivers were constantly at logger-

munity that upheld it Union, one of the most powerful house to house csil fyr funds.

Magistrate said that the two-police ocolies boarded the vessel at 6 .m. labour organizations in Canton, is It is believed that the Europeans officers refused to give any reason on Sunday for the purpose of trim-heads. Matters were brought to u to hold its Second Bepresentative and foreign merchants will respond why they wanted him to accompany ming the banker. At 8 a.m. the pitch on Saturday when a small Conference to-morrow (Tuesday) generously.

them up the hillside. He merely pulley block was missing. Witness Chin Chan boy was run over by a morning at its headquarters in

had to obey them.?

told the coolie foreman and warned motor bus Ar gang of Chiu Wong Yoe, another of the defend him that if the pulley block was Chausse were said to have set upon i ante, also said that the first defend not returned within five minutes he the conductor and driver of the bus

and a fight ensued.. A large detac ing the past few days delegates to In front of the headquarters of ant, his master, was not present would call the Police, the Conference have been pouring the Union two big paraus have at the time of the assault. It was

ment of Police had to be sent down in to Canton from all parts of been erected. At night these pai- he (witness) who went to tell his

to quell the trouble when it was Kwangtung Over 400 delegates as are illuminated with a blaze matter of the affair. He said that

found that the conductor and

evar 40 branches of the Urion there is a picture of the late Dr. near the huta, and heard the old ing article which he said he hau and had to be rushed to the has The former had his ribs fractured have already arrived representing of electric lights. In the middle all the defendants were at work the foreman brought back the miss driver had been rather, badly hurt throughout the Province.

Sun Yat Sen festooned with elec-man call for help. He also corro recovered from a sampan, mat trio lights. In addition to these horated the evidence already given When the Police boarded the pital for attention, while the latter An officer of the Union, in an interview with the Daily Prest two temporary arches, a large mum regarding the capture of the revel-Daviken they made enquiries and was also badly bruised. The police representative, said that the Union ber of flags and banners are hang- yet, and the subsequent binding of from the information supplied by was able to arrest two alleged has been strongly anti-Communistic ng over the maloo in front of the the constable.

the sampan mistress, the two de bers of the Chiu Chau clique and Union Headquarters, evar zincé, its formation some years

The Magistrate, reviewing the fendants were arrested as the per- they were brought before Mr. W Echofield at the Kowloon Magis Slogans announcing the aims and evidence, said that he was satisfied sons who threw the block into the tracy yesterday. The cise will be ago. During the time when Sorist influence in Canton was at its attitude of the Labour Conference that the first defendant was not Boat.

They admitted throwing the heard on Thursday. in respect to labour welfare and to there at the time, and ordered him height the Union was company the present political events now to be discharged fired article into the hempany buy and harrassed and repressed. During taking place in Chins/are posted the Communist holocaust of Decem- everywhere on the streets

Regarding the remaining defend that as it was in their way they had and ants, the Magistrate remarked that to remove it. The frat man was ber 11th the offices of the Union maloos of Canton. Some of these he could not see why the Shantang fined 80 and the second, in view were captured by the Communists who aed them as a meeting plats. slogans run as follows: Down with policeman should go off his beat, of a presious conviction, was seg Much of the furniture was de-Japanese Imperialism" Bestore rids a mile in a boat to Po Chong, tenced to two months hard labour,

all the Anti-Communist Labour on the chance of finding a wood-g molished and many of the members Unions Support the Labour cutter. There must have been some were killed. It is one of the few Movement which is an Integral intention of making a little squeeze, remaining labour ankons approved Part of the Nationalist Party All the defendants were then by the Government. When Bozor Down, with all the Reactionary ordered to be discharged, and Mr fore Mr. W. Schofield at the Kow be remembered, was a tenant at the din was at the height of this power Powers and Influence which tend to Kent, agreed with the Magistrate loon Magistracy for the alleged house of the parents of the missing in Canton, there were 410 labour oppreis Labour Support the and remarked that the Shantung theft of two cr of coal from anone in Cauton. That large numa Northern Punitiva Military Expedi- policeman and the, plainclothes Can-Taipo Road where a portion of the fit was also alleged that, be confessed to a friend that he tion Eradicate Every Vestige tone de constable would be dealt road is under repair. The case was End sold the two boys for #720 to of the Chiness Communist Party.! with by the Police Authorities. fixed for hoaring to-day,

Sai Kwa Yuan, Canton." The Con.

ference will last three days. Dur-

ber is now reduced to 41. de

(Continued on next Column).

of

The time expired and witness signalled for the police, but before the intter could come on the scene,

ALL

motor

ALLEGED KIDNAPPERS.

The two Chinese charged with kidnapping two boys were yester day committed for trial at the Juna Crimaal Bession by Mr W. STEALING COAL ALLEGED. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis

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