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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1928.

SHANGHAI PROVISIONAL COURT.

PARTY LOYALTY TO COME FIRST.

NEW PRESIDENT INSTALLED AND OLD ONE ABUSED.

COURT TO BE A MODEL!

SHANGRAI, August 7th.

"What had been expected to be a very formal ceremony at the Provisional Court, yesterday morning-the installation of Dr. Ho Shih Tun as President of the Provisional Court-proved to be somewhat of a sensation, when some of the speakers chose the occasion to make the judicial bench a propaganda platform.

GENERAL FENG URGES YOUNG MARRIED WOMAN'S

THRIFT.

COMPLAINT.

EXEMPLARY SENTIMENTS AT ACCUSES LODGER

NANKING BANQUET.

OFFICIAL LUXURY AND PUBLIC WANT,

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INDECENT ASSAULT.

AN OVERCROWDED FLAT,

Bring

them up

In

an atmosphere

music

We publish an article elsewhere Naskisa, August 5th.

in this issue giving a description In a speech delivered at the re- of the crowded condition of the ception and dinner given by the average poorer class Chinese fat, Government Council and the Cen-where families are herded together tral Party Headquarters in honour like cattle. An interesting story of Generals Feng Yu Hsiang, Li from such a dwelling was told in Tsai Hsin and Li Chung Jen last Court yesterday, by a Chinese mar evening, General Feng laid stress ried woman, aged 28, when sho on the importance of thrift and con- charged a fellow lodger with having servation as an immediate step in indecently assaulted her, dealing with the country's

The case was heard by Mr. R. E generally impoverished situation,

Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy. their orders. Instead, Judge Lotion scheme now being promulgated in question, said that she had eight He said that the various construc- Pong Ng Mai, the married woman had allied himself with the foreign- ers. That was the reason why he was not there that day in his pasi- tion.

The abolition of foreign influence and the handing over, in its complete entirety, of the Provisional Court to the Chinese au 'thorities was the main topic of some of the speakers, while ap- other alleged that the retiring president was a follower of the foreigners.

Gen. Chang Ting Fan, Mayor of Greater Shanghai, also spoke and said that in Dr. Ho they had a man who was loyal to the party and whom he thought would im prove conditions at the Provisional Court to make it the best court in China.

Beading Of Dr. Sun's Will, the wishes of the party and to obey After the usual Kuomintang opening ceremony, the three bows to the Nationalist flag and the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and the recital of the late leader's will by Gen. Chien Ta Chun, Gendar merie Commissioner of Shanghai and Woosung, the new President, Dr. Ho, took the oath of office.

Gen: "Chien Ta Chun was the first speaker, and he said that the Pro- visional Cut had been in exist ence for abotonths and still had another 18 taking to go At the present time it eyed upon a model Court W uld serve to show the foreig the opportunity had arise them to abolish the foreign judint rights which they held under the Rendition Agreement. He was sure that in Dr. Ho they had a man who would assist in bringing

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Dr. Ho's Loyalty To Party. Dr. Ho said that he desired to thank all those who bad spoken and who had offered their con- Feratulations upon his appointment. ad pledged himself to see that in the Court would be in proveThere were many things which Judge Loo had done which would have to be altered, so that eventually it would be the model court of China. As a member of Mr. Chu z representing the the Kuomintang, he would always Kuomintang, said that extraterri- abide by its decisions. If at any toriality was a yoke on the neck of time they desired that he should the Chinese people, and that all go, he would do so. He would give

about such a state of affaire,

The Yoke Of Extraterritorialitý.

should work for its abolition.

Mr. Wuntss King, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs, said that the Provisional Court should serve as

of his best to carry out the party principles.

The Consuls Not Present, The No. 1 Court, where the

by the Government would require cubicles in her flat. Her husban

money and it is the duty very often slept out, and next to of the Government officials to her cubicle was a young Chinese

much

economize.

Continuing, General Feng said that Party members must do all they can to help put the country on its feet without expecting-re

ward.

We Feast. They Eat Grass. "The idea of a Party Govern ment," said General Feng, "is to bring benefits to the people and not to work for one's own interests. if we all work for our own interests, who will work for the people, who

named Mak Yat. There was 10 partition between her cubicle and the one occupied by the young_man_it_| being only separated by a curtain. Their beds were in line with one

Another.

On July 31st, Mak went into her cubicle at 1 am and blew out ber inmp. "Soon after she realised therr was an intruder. She sat up in bed and the defendant left hurriedly. She did not raise an alarm, but next morning, she told other inmates of what had happened. On the night of August 1st, witness sat up the whole

AS THEY play around the house, let thêm absorb the in fluence of good" music. It's surprising how much they pick up. And you never can tell how much it will mean to them later in life.

That's only one of the ad- vantages an Orthophonie Vic trola will bring your home. It will brighten the house with song and melody, and furnish constant entertainment to your guests and yourself. And our plan of deferred payments makes it so easy to own one of these Instruments. Come in, Hear the special records for children and the latest releases for grown-ups.

are still suffering from the effects night watching for further develop S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd.

of former selfish officialdom? I rements. Nothing happened that member seeing, in the North-west, night. She sat up the next night,

and at about 3 m. defendant'

people cat grass to satisfy thrust his hand across her bed har their hunger, and here we are having lifted the curtain. She slapped ing such a sumptuous meal."

Moreover," continued General Feng, as leaders we must not be afraid of criticism and hardships, Most of us do not mind hardships

because wa

want

the hand and it was withdrawn at ance.

The defendant got up and a- vaded her cubicle soon after and before she could realise what on the edge of her bed and the was happening, the man was sitting

She screamed and called out Afraid of criticism. We must be Life" which awakened the other Defendant then rushed mare frank with each other and out of the house. place responsibility and blame.

to satisfy the act complained of was committed. Save

acople; but only a few are not

a wedge to force the foreignere to ceremony, took place, was well-fill-where it properly belongs without

fearing the consequences. relinquish their extraterritorial ed with spectators, including

We must also be fair in making privileges, and spoke on the necesjudges of the Court, Court officials, rewards and meting out punish sity of officials adhering to the members of the Chinese Bar Assments. Our tendency is to reward principles of the Kuomintang ciation, and prominent leaders of Party

the Kuomintang and various or the worthy and let the guilty go ganizations. Although it is under- unpunished. Lately I have only stood that invitations had been heard of rewards being made by issued to all the Consuls in the the Government but no punish- Settlement, only Mr. Franz Winkments. Does it mean that every one

of us is so perfect ler., Austrian Consal-General, was noticed. in Court.

Kuomintang Attack On Loo. That Judge Loo Hring Yuan, Dr. Ho's predecessor, had carried out his duties very improperly was al leged by Mr. Chen Teh Ching, chairman of the local Kuomintang. He had stood on that same plat form on a previous occasion when he beard Judge Loo take the oath of office, but he could only say that the Judge had failed to carry out his duty. It was his duty to obey

FARMERS LOSE £11,641,040%

COST OF DROUGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA,

EQUAL TO A THIRD OF REVENUE.

At the conclusion of the cere mony, a group photo was taken on the steps of the Provisiqnal Court and refreshments were served. The business of the Court was then sus pended for the day-North China Daily News,

SOARING VALUES AT SYDNEY.

--

£4,000 A FOOT FOR LAND.

Any doubts concerning Sydney's prosperity are quickly dispelled | when one has regard to the soaring values of city property, says the Sydney Morning Herald.

JOHANNESBURG. During the period September, Ten years ago £1,000 a foot would 1926, to August, 1927, South Africa have been regarded as an exaggerat lost through drought 4,208.267 headed valuation. Three or four years of sheep, of which 203,614 were in ago, even, land in Phillip or Mac- the Cape, and 688,771 head of quaris'streets would bave been sold cattle, of which 270,265 were in the readily for £250 a foot. Early last Cape; while 350,388 sheep in the rear & Market-street frontage, sold Cape were killed by vermin or dis at £2,300 h foot. Now a site in Pitt- appeared. R

street, occupied by Hordern Bro thera, changed hands at something over £3,000 a foot.

Losses in the Transvaal compris ed 219,837' head of cattle and 362,714 sheep, plus 41,176 sheep killed by verin or disappeared. Drought and disease in the Free State at counted for the death of 518,009 sheep, while vermin destroyed 9 sheep.1

Calculated at the rate of £10 per head for cattle and £1 per bead for sheep, the toll of drought, vermin, and disease represents a cash loss to the farmers of South Africa in a single year of £11,841,040, ap proximately equal to one-third of the total annual revenue of the Union,

J

40,000,000-sheep

The agricultural census figures issued by the Department of Census and Statistics, Pretoria, show that the numbers of livestock in the Union at Angust 31st, 1927 (excluding horses), "were:=""

Cattle

10,412.408 Pigs 8,488,279.- Woolled sheep.... 38.005,699 Other sheep. 4,104,204 Angora goata ............ · 1,407,582 ~~~Other gonts 4,158,031 The wool production from, the sheep and lambs totalled 194,110,025 1b," and mohair 6,653,328 lb. for the Vear. In the same period 19,215,08 lb of butter and 233,301 1 of checer were made. In addition. factories made 14,132,166 lb. of butter and 8,000,828 th of cheese.

Concluding, General Feng pointed out that the Kuomintang was the Party of the people and it was the duty of Party leaders to arouse the people's interest and inspire con- fidence in the Party.-Kuo Min,"

COOLIES DROWNED BY HUNDREDS.

APPALLING CATASTROPHE AT

HANKOW.

RESULT OF HIGH-HANDED METHODS OF MILITARY.

HANKOW, August 3rd. assisted by the police in the Chinese For some days now the military, city of Hankow, have been im pressing men to act as carriers for troops that have been ordered to proceed to Ichang and other places to meet the threatened Szechuanese advance into Hnpeh.

No discrimination has been shown; and any strong looking man has been in danger of being pressed into service, because those who are in a position to do so will naturally pay a fine to secure release. It is saidį that the military have also com- mandeered a number of women to

act as washerwomen and needle- women in the camps before the troops leave.

inmates.

The woman's father-in-law said that when he heard the ery, he put

on bis atves and it was about five minutes after that he got out into

to her mother-in-law. The fatter.

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ROBBERS' ILL LUCK AT HANKOW.

WHAT A. HARDWORKING THIEF MUST ENDURE. NOW-A-DAYS.

SION

the street. His wife had in the LADY CRIMINAL'S CONFES- meantime caught the defendant. that particular night, he could not The defendant's story was that on

HANKOW, August 2nd. sleep on account of the heat. He

Following upon the round up of then got out of bed and went to the verandah, but in passing, he knocked against the woman's bed, a gang of robbers in the Wu Fu Li She then went upstairs to complain in the ex-German Concession at went to a shop nearby and enlisted Hankow, in the course of which a the assistance of a few fakis to Chinese policeman sustained in- assault him. The mother-in-law juries from which he has since died, then tried to make him admit that the detectives have done some he had acted improperly. Delet

smart work. One of the men-ar- dart managed to free himself and rushed out into the street. He en tered a complete denial to the charge.

His Worship adjourned the cuse until to-day for the mother-in-law to give evidence,

·HEALTH BULLETIN OF

EASTERN PORTS.

The Health Bulletin of Eastern Ports for the week ending August

Plague,

4th states:-

Port Said: 1 case. Aden: 1 enze." Bombay: 2 deaths. Rangoon: 7 deaths.

Cholera.

Calcutta: 5 desthe." Madras: 56 deaths. Rangoon deaths. Vizagapatan: 0 deaths. Port Darwin: 2 cases, 2 deathe. Manila: 1 case. Bangkok: 1 case. Shanghai: 2 cases.

Small-pox, Bombay: 10 enees, 9 deaths. Calcutts 10 cases, 9 deatha.. Madrah cases, 2 deaths. Negspatam: 4 cases."

Bangoon : case, 1 death. Port Darwin 4 cases, 4 deaths. Belawan Deli: 5 cases, 2 deaths. Pontianak: 3 cases. Pnom Penh 1 case, 1 death Shanghai 1 death. Dairen: 1 case, 1 death': Port Arthur: I case, I death.

rested during that raid offered to help the detectives, and with consent

of the French' Concession police be led a party to a house in that ares. Here three men were arrested and

a search of the baskets of melons and plums in the shop disclosed two automatics and a supply of am- munition.

"Old Four."

From these newly captured men the police.secured information which led them to a house near the.. Water Tower in the Chinese city in search of a lady who goes by the name of ** Old Four. The house proved to be an opium den, and after arresting "Old Four" and another lady, who were wearing a number of gold ringa and gold hair orna- ments, the police discovered quite a lot of loot recently taken from a shop in the Chinese city

Heartrending Tale Of III-Luck.

The ladies were talkative, and gave the police an account of the many woes which the band they were helping had had to endure. They, thought that they had pulled off a robbery in the SA.D. 3, last, November, when they tried to hold up a cash shop, but an automatic alarm spoiled that game and the police search was so vigorous that they had to lie low. They next tried to rob a silversmith's shop in the Chinese city but had to bolt without their loot. They made' all arrangements to rob a cash shop in the Pan Pien Street, but found just in time that the police knew their plans. They broke into a rice shop. near the Hwei Lung fou and edforts dollars secur Their luck seemed to be turning when they held up a silversmith's

Two sales, one contingent on the other were completed by Mr. GA. McGladery of Martin- pince. About three years ago Nicholson & Co., Ltd., musical ware housemen purchased a portion of the premises in Pitt-street now oc- cupied by Hordern Brothers, for about £115,000. The land has a frontage to Pitt-street of 43 feet

Unfortunates Bound Together. by a depth of 142 feet, running back Yesterday about 40 steam launches to the rear of Dymnock's Arcade,

Nicholson & Co., Ltd. sold this were ordered to tow junks and property to Fay's Ltd, boot ware. lighters full of these coolies up housemen, for £170,000, which works river The Chinese craft were pack- ed to the limit of their capacity and out at a little over £4,000 a foot.

At the same time Nicholson & to prevent possible deserters the Co, Ltd., signed a contract for the men were tied together in batches HONG KONG MALE VOICE shop in the Wei Tza Street sad got purchase of the property in George street occupied by Aeolian Company (Australasia), Ltd., for £110,000. Mr MeGladery dealt with both-con-

tracts, that an e

during the embarkation and had not been untied when the journey commenced.

CHOIR.

off with a lot of loot, which they now say was posted to accomplices The Hong Kong Male Voice Choir in Sinyang, Honan. The accomplices The Han River has been in spate has had a very severe attack of ceeds the band rented a house near disposed of it, and with the pro- for the past few days, and the curapathy and indifference, and the The same phenomenal rise in rent of the Yangtaze is swift One Committee recently met and con- the Tan Shui Tan and installed a values is apparent all over the city of the launches was towing several eidered the situation, the result telephone to allow of communication During the war the warehouse pre- lighters full of men up stream when being that it was decided that it with agents in the Chinese city. mises of Alcock Bron., Ltd., at the the tow-rope snapped. The lighters was hopeless, to attempt to keep They were planning a coup near the corner of York and Barrack streets, were caught in the swirl of water, the choir going.

"Japanese Concession when they re- were purchased by that firm for leas and upset and sank

The balance in hand 831.50 bar ceived a message cutlining plans. than 40,000. At the end of 1928

Chinese estimate that 800 coolies been given to the Institution for for a robbery in the ex-German they were sold for £70,000, having. were drowned, as well as all the the Blind at Kowloon sad duly Concession. And it was when res- nearly doubled in value in ten years boatmen Being tied together, the acknowledged by Mira Morits, the ponding to these suggesticis that in October, 1996, Enhet Hotel.rence cooles had of course, Superintendente musle base phethan bakes trag Wynyard-square, changed hands for chance to swim, and the bodies will been presented to the Hon Com which has placed the leaders of the £60,000. Last January the same no doubt be carried a long way ductor Mr E. White, as a small band in the hands of the Garrison property was bought by the British down river before they are cast recognition of his services during Commander. A robber's life Imperial Oil Company for £103,500,- ashore-North China Daily News, the time the chair was in being, evidently not worth living –