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RAPID PROGRESS IN BOYCOTT MOVE.

NANNING.

CITY BEING MODERNISED.

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE,

11

READING ROOMS AND PUBLIC

· PLAYGROUND,

• IN THE ** DAILY PRESE " YESTERDAY "OUR CHINESE CORRISPONDENT GAVE A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE DEVELOP AND IMPROVEMENTS KEING CARRIED OUT

£27 THE PROVINCE.

or KWANGUI TO-DAY HE DEALS PARTICULA XLY WITH NANNING, TEM CAPITAL It Willi PROBABLY COME

AS À SURPRISE TO MANY HONG KONG RESIDENTS TO LEARN THAT NANNING HAS REGULAR MOTOR-CUS SERVICES AND

LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONES. THE IN

·FORMATION GIVEN IN THIS INTERESTING

SERIES OF ARTICLES, HAS BEEN OBTAINED DURING A MONTH'S TOUR OF THE PRO-

VITATION OF A NUMBER OF PROMINENT

·XWANDSI OFFICIALS.

MENT SPREADS.

UNOFFICIAL ACTION.

STUDENT PROPAGANDA IN PROGRESS.

ACTION IN OUTLYING PLACES.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. }

CANTON, May 91st,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 22nd, 1928.

BOCCA. TIGRIS FORTS.

SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS.

·PASSING VESSELS SEARCHED,

[rom con curNÈSE CORRESPONDENT, ]

MISGUIDED POLITICAL

VIEWS,

CANTON PLACE OF CORRECTION/

A JUDGE'S PROPOSAL.

"NO GUILTY «KNOW- LEDGE."

ALLEGED COUNTERFEITER

DISCHARGED.

CHIEF JUSTICE ON THE LAW OF COINING.

A

CANTON, May 1st. Mr. Lo Man Cheung, Chief Judge In view of the piracy menace, the the Special Court of Justice, has

That moulds and other articles' submitted, says the Canton Gazette, garrison at Boces. Tigris Forts has

a proposal to the Branch Political for coining money found in been greatly increased. Martial Council, requesting that the Com-welling house do not incriminste w has been declared at the Forta mittee of Reconstruction be in the possessor unless evidence could and all vessels passing the Forts structed to draw plans for the be produced, to show that he had are subject to search. The Provin-organisation and formation of guilty knowledge, and that guilty Reforthalofy for converting pol-[knowledge could only be deduced cial Administration has just adopt-tical offenders who are in bustody from the fact that the man had been for pulleat offences of a less serious naturis (9) M

Ssich offender, if permitted to go free will certainly resume their machinations against the govern mens while to sentence them to death would be lauma. Article

A rigid boycott of Japaneso goods is being carried out not only in Canton but throughout the Lianged a set of defensive measures to Kwang Provinces. In Cantor the insure the safety of Fumien and students are taking the leading role all the river districts above the in this action. In an interview with Forts. In addition to the increased

local Presamen an official of the number of soldiers several gun boats Canton Students Association-stated have been sent to patrol the waters

known to have passed spurious money, was the ruling of the Chiäf Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, at the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon, when a Chinese named Li Hong was charged with knowingly and wilfully having in his possession

the purpose of coining ten and five cents pièces.

The prisoner was said to have three moulds, two of which bore the impressions of both sides of a ten-cent piece, and the third was capable of turning out five and ten- cent pieces, currency of the Colony.

VINCE, UNDERTAKEN BY OUR CHINESE that the boycott against Japan is atound Bocca Tigris. Among the No. 33 of the focal iswa, provides three moulds, and other articles for CORRESPONDENT AT THE SPECIAL IN- "a spontaneous, expression of true patriotism." The polies of the Pro- [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]vincial Administration is to avoid

NANNINO, KWANGST. The City of Nanning, capital of Kwangai, is being modernised and is making progress more rapidly, comparatively speaking, than Can- ten. For nearly two years Nanning has been fres from strife, and this

has encouraged the people, under wise leadership, to work hard in developing the place...

I watch

that in certain ciròùhistábões it is permissible to attempt to convart offenders to the correct political viewpoint, and it would appear that the establishment of a reform tory, would best mjet stich besda.

Most of the people arrested last year in confection with the com-

Prisoner was araigned before the Chief Justice and a jury. He plead- munists trouble, were of the un- educated class. They were ignoranted "Not guilty," and said that the of the right principles, and conse moulds were left in his house" by quently were mislead into espousing the wrongful cause of the com-hey were. munista.

friend. He did not know what

latger mm-of-wan on duty there are the Xuang On, King Koo, and Tai Looi. These vessels, in cb further international friction with operation with the soldiers on shore the Japanese Government, but the are now patroling the waters in people themselves have been deeply the vicinity of Fuzion day and moved by what took place in Tainan, night. At night search lights from Their boycott of Japanese goods is the Forts constantly swoop the wholly voluntary, the Government waters with a view to keeping

or all craft passing the having nothing to do with it. The Canton Students Association has narrow water catrance to Kwang

Moulds And Chemicals. The establishment of a reforma. Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, Assist Nanning is a city of about 80,000 seat a circular letter to all the

Poon Man Chi, Garrison Com-tory is în conformity with the pre-ant Crown Attornes, conducted the inhabitants, and within a Low

commercial guilds throughout the mander of Bocca Tigris, has issued wat world trend to educate and case for the prosecution. In out- months, probably before next Christ-

ilniig the case, he said that the mas, the highway system which the Province, requesting them to form an order that alt vessels passing convert offendera The curriculum facts were very simple. The prisoner Provincial Administration under boycott committees. The circular through the strait will be searched. to be adopted in this proposed re-resided at No. 338, Portland Street. the Bureau of Reconstruction is gives a resume of the Tainan in may result in firing from the Forts the standards of education of the there were four cubicles in the were raided by the Refusal to comply with the order formatory will be elastic, to suit thich premises

Police headed by Inspector Fallon. planning will make it possible to cident and denounces the Japanese and seizure of the ship. Why such individual offenders

house. In the verandah the police reach Posch and Lungchow from

stringent defensive measures were

found a basket containing the Nanning in a few hours by motor-

moulds, a boiling pot and & chatty. The verandah, it must be said, as also used by the other tenants of the house. The Police, however, were satisfied with the explanation and, therefore, did not prefer a charge against them.

Government,

so suddenly adopted at Bocca Tigris

It is confidently hoped that this departare from the old method of

Once the Nanning-Lungchow The merchant guilds in Kong. road is completed, Kwangs will moon, Sun Wai, Toy Shan, Haiy the Government has not been punishment will result in convert

car.

keep in touch with the Straits Ping, Yan Ping and other commer- through Tongkin, Indo-China. Now it takes several days to go from cial centres of the Sze Yap districts, Nanning to Lungchow by land. As have been holding meetings in their I wrote yesterday Kwangsi has now more than 1,000 miles of compicted Tublic highways passable for auto- mobiles, and several bus lines are operating, mostly under the super vision of returned students from

America who have found it more pleasant to undertake pioneer work in the wilderness of Kwangsi than to sit idly doing nothing in Can-

top:

I should judge Nanning to be less disorderly than Canton. Reds and

a few professional agitators are

divulged, apart from the statementing evil doers into law abiding in an official announcement that people. these measures are solely to guard against piracy.

Garrison Commander Poen Man

respective localities for the pur-Chi came to Canton last week to pose of organising the boycott of confer with Admiral Chen Chak on Japanese goods.

coast defense. The conference last- chant," according to a resolution

"Every mer

passed in one of these meetings

must refrain from ordering any more goods from Japanese." The piece goods and marine products dealers have taken the leading role

in the boycott against Japanese goods in these outlying districts.

ed several hours and, it is reported adequate protection of Bocce Tigris that plans have been drawn for the

Forts and vicinity.

SEAMEN'S UNION RAIDED.

CLOSED AND SEALED..

CANTON CONVICTS.

ON PRODUCTIVE WORK:

By the side of the 8th Police Station, says the Canton Gazette, can be found on sale articles made has been established a ställ where:

by the prisoners in the jail

The "guests of the Government" are now placed on productive work and the articles displayed for sale include writing paper and pads attractively got up, towels, socks, and even handbags for the fair sex.

still active in secret, but they cannot The Size Faa or the Four Dis- [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] All the articles are of high quality

trists, are close together as regards geographical position and their

show themselves with any degree

and possess & certain fascination of safety in public. Nanting his

in that such things made by CANTON, May ist. an electric, light plant, and also a workable, long distance telephone peoples speak the same dialects. Seamen's Union, once a most tur-

The Headquarters of the Chinese prisoners have not hitherto been available. The ladies' handbags system which Canton still lacks. It has no modera water-works yet. Whatever course one district takes, bulent and communistic organizare stceptionally well made and Most of the city streets are possible the other three usually follow. The tion was raided, closed and sealed designed, while the prices of all for motor traffic.

Nanning, like Canton, has A merchant guilds of these Four Dis-by the Canton Police last Saturday. goods are very reasonable. number of primary, middle, and normal schools, in some of which tricts are now contemplating of tak-

boys and girls study together. Ising a joint action against Japanese has recently built two new schools, one middle school for more than goods. They will hold a representa 400 students, and a normal school tive conference in the near future for girls Mr HP Huang, probably at Kongmoon- Chinese graduate of Stanford and University of California, in Commis- missioner of Education with his office at Nanning.

KUOMINTANG SUPPORT.

The City Kuomintang has been Apart from schools of the modern type, education among the people closely co-operating with

every is being advanced on the "exten- organization in Canton and through sion" lecture "

Lecture

out the Kwangtung that is fostering groups visit nearby villages and towns to demonstrate in modern the boycott. It has just sent out farming. More than 90 per cent, of a circular letter to each organiza-|

system.

The Headquarters are located an

Tai Ping Road South, near Ba DR. GILBERT REID'S WILL. He How. No reason for the faid

HIS WIFE.

was divulged Some ten patrols BEQUEATES EVERYTHING and two. police inspectors entered the place and thoroughly searched it. No resistance was shown as members of the Union knew of the

raid beforehand and had conse quently fed long before the arrival of the Police.

YUEN ON TOWBOAT

DISASTER.

the people of Kwangai are farmers. tions requesting it to send one delc- The merchants in the large cities of the Province are mostly Cantonese. gate to the conference to be held There is a public swimming pool on Wednesday afternoon at 1 pm in a public playground, and small at the Headquarters of the Muni- reading rooms have been establish- ed in different parts of the city, cipal Branch of the Nationalist The Nanning public playground has Party to organize economic action facilities for basket ball, tennis, against the Japancae Government. football, volley ball, in addition to the swimming pool, and other The boycott against Japanese Gazette. facilities for younger children.

LOCAL CHINESE ESTATE.

TO

In the cubicle occupied by the prisoner and his wife, the police found a bottle of potassium cyanide. and a bottle of nitrate of silver under the prisoner's bed. The Gov- ernment Analyst would say that the chemicals could be used for plating and polishing.

Mr. Fitzroy what evidence he could

No Guilty Knowledge." His Lordship at this stage asked produce to show that the prisoner had guilty knowledge.

evidence he could bring forward to Mr. Fitzroy replied that the only say that the prisoner had guilty knowledge was the fact that the bottles of chemicals were found under his bed.

His Lordship pointed out that the charge read knowingly and wil fully and that as a general rule could only be established by the fact that "the

guilty knowledge prisoner had been known to have passed bad money, Under the cir cumstances, his Lordship thought that Mr. Fitzroy could not say that the prisoner had guilty knowledge.

Mr. Fitzroy said that that was all the evidence he could call. He would also in fairness to the prison- er say that the moulds were all left open in a basket so that anyone could see them. "It is a case in

which we are devoid of any evidence of guilty knowledge," added Mr. Fitzros

Whore An Innocèní Man Might Be

rado Convicted. Addressing the jury, his Lordship Dr. Gilbert Beid who died in said that the offence was & very Shanghai in September 30th, 1998, serious one and one of which su

innocent "man"could casily be con- || lelt everything to his wife, Mr. victed. The law laid down that

it Ballie Beynolds Beid. The de- moulds or any articles used for the ceased mentioned in his will that purpose of coining money were found on a person; evidence of bis catata in Hong Kong amounted guilty knowledge would not be re- to $2,300. He also had money, quired. But where moulds and

dwelling, house, then the Crown stocks and shares deposited with other articles for the purpose of coining money were found in a

would not have only to prove posses sion but also how the man had got have to be proved sad to do that them. Gulity knowledge would also it would be necessary to show that the prisoner had been in the habit of passing spurious money. This would then abow that he knew the use of the articles, added his Lord ship

BODIES BEING RECOVERED. Mem. Brown Brothers & Co., 69, Wall Street, New York, money in Dragging operations are under the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank way in connection with the recent ing Corporation, London, and also towboat disaster, says the Canton in the International Banking Cor. poration, Shanghai, in addition to

Mr. D. H. Blake, of Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist, is the attorney of the executrix.

Part of the city wall his bean goods is now just as fervid in Wu- The Fong Pien Hospital authori- other property. demolished, and it is the intention chow, Kwangai, as it is in Canton. ties have sent a party to the scene of the Authorities to construct a A big mass meeting was held during of the accident to recover the bodies wide rond in its place.

the week-end in Washow in which of the victims. Up to the evening Within the past ten years, both the militarists of Kwangtung and all the classes farticipated. The of the 16th inst. 53 bodies of males. Yunnan, bave invaded Nanning, and organization of a lecture corp was 32 of females, and 14 of children Probate of the will of the late signs of the destruction then decided upon and it will consist of have been recovered. wrought are still in evidence. How ever, dear what were once the head. 20 groups of persons to work in

Local Probate.

Concluding, his Lordship said that the prisoner in this case did not show guilty knowledge by hiding the articles, He left them open in Leung Yan Chak, alias Leung Chi

basket and he naked the jury to The bodies have been removed to On, of No. 33, Chu Fu Street, Wai

return a verdict of not guilty. quarters of General Lau Yung Ting, Kwangsi. A large amount of pro-the northern end of Poon Fook Ngoi Sai Road, Canton, who died Very Lucky Mab.. the foremost militarist of Kwang-paganda is now being distributing Road, whence arrangements for in at the saine address in January In accordance with his Lordship's tung and Kwangai during the first five years of the first formal Chi-to the people. The official attitude terment will be made Bome of 16th, 1928, was granted to his two direction, the jury returned a ver concubines, Leung Li Bhi and dict of not guilty, and in dis nese Republic, there is now a motor of Kwangsi is the same as that of the bodies have been identified and Leung Cheung Shif of No. 1, Mer charging the prisoner the Chief car station, not unlike the small Kwangtung. The merchants of removed by relatives, but it is fear-cer Street, Hong Kong Justice said that there was not Deceased leaves,& home in Mer- sufficient evidence, to convict, He. "city" railway stations in Ambrich. From this station motor-buses in Wuchow are also, refraining fromed that the majority are of country cer Street and one in Wah; In warned the prisoner to be more several times daily to the larger dealing with Japanese and the folk whose relatives will neither Fong, West in trust with his two careful in future and not to as- towns within the radius of the high labourers of Wachow hava sam- hear of the disaster for some time, concubines until his son, Chork sociate with people who went about way system now open to motor traffe. More than 4,000 miles of marily stopped loading and unload nor be able to reach Canton in Kwo, should attain the age of 24. coining money? You have rün a Deceased's local estate in valued at great risk, and you are a very lucky ing their goods.

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