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DR. WANG CHUNG CANTON STREET

HUI IN CANTON.

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SPEAKS ON EXTRA-TERRI.

TORIALITY.

ASSASSINATION.

GANG KILLS POLICE OFFICIAL.

ADVICE TO LAW STUDENTS MAN WHO MADE HIS MONEY

[TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

IN F.M.S.

FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21st, 1928.

FISHING BOAT PIRACY.

TWO-YEAR-OLD INCIDENT

RECALLED.

PRISONER ACQUITTED ON, CAPITAL CHARGE,

CANTON, August 20th. The assassination Last Friday Dr. Wang Chung Hui, Minister evening, in. Honam, the southern of Justice of the Nationalist Gov-section of Canton, of a superinten. erament who is in Canton for dent of Police, has caused much short visit, is being lavishly enter-excitement in the city. tained by prominent citizens of Recently the authorities in Ho- | violence and on Canton, especially the legal practi nam organised a special Police Bureau for the Fung Wong. Kong tioners and law students..

euburb, Hoaim, which has always Banquets in his honour were suc-

been considered a centre for gam- cessively given by the Canton blers and thieves. It is in the Lawyers' Association, The Canton far corner of Hocam, and is not Political Council, the Provincia: very carefully watched by the Kuomintang, the City Kuomin

tang, and other public bodies. Yes terday the Minister of Justice made 4 protracted tour throughout the city, visiting every place of historic interest. At noon he had luncheon with Mayor Lin Wen Koi, and other Municipal oficials. The dis tinguished visitor praised the con. structive work of the Canton Muni- sipality and said that the city is rapidly transforming itself into a new and progressive" commercial" centre. He was particularly pleas ed with the beautiful parks, wide roads, asphalt maleos and modern buildings.

police.

The staff of the new Police

DAIRY FARM LABELS,

COMPLAINT AGAINST CHINESE MILK DEALER.

FIRM THAT SUPPLIES THE POLICE FORCE.

DECISION RESERVED.

The proprietor of the Sun Hung Lee Dairy Chinese dairy at moned by the Dairy Farm Com No. 41, Hollywood Road-was sum- pany, Ltd., for possession of their bottles and using them for the sale of milk.

Mr. Lo remarked that in his opinion the label was the more etriking mark of the two and asked witness if he knew that the defen dant's dairy had carried on busi- nese for some years.

Witness: Not under the present management... I have been given to understand that the former pro- prietar known as the Hang Lee Co. west bankrupt.

Mr. Lo: Anyhow do you know the dairy's present standing No. nothing whatever.

Mr. Lo: What do you estimate as their daily supply-About 100

bottles.

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to casual customers daily exceeds Mr. Lo: And that our retail sales 200 bottles-I am very much eur. prised

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surprised if I told you that a lot Mr. Lo: And would you still be of people come to our dairy with your bottles and ask for them a be filled with our milk It is cer-

How a fishing boat was captured some two years ago by pirates off Lan Tau Island, and how a fuki of the attacked host was shot and thrown overboard was told at the Fang Hing Yuen was arraigned on

learn that the defendant's dairy Supreme Court yesterday when

Mr. Lo: Would be surprised to a count of committing piracy with

supplies over 1,000 bottles of mik the alternative

daily to customers of which 70 per count of pirating a fishing boat without resorting to violence. Mr. R. A. Wadeson, of Messrs.cludes a

cent are Europeans; and "which in. The case was heard by the Chief Deacone, prosecuted on behalf of whole of the Police Force?

fair percentage of the Justice, Sir Henry Gollan Mr. He complainants, and Mr. M. K. Somerset Fitzroy, Assistant Crown Lo represented the defendants.

Witness: I am very much aur prised; but I may add that I can- Attorney, prosecuted; and Mr.

Mira. N. Castro, an employee of not agree with your last statement C. G. Alabaster, R.C., instructed the Dairy Farm Company, told the by Mr. P. M. Hodgson, defended

Court that she stopped at the as W✰ have a large number of Outlining the case for the pro- Road and asked for a bottle of And the idea of 1,000 bottles of defendant's shop in Hollywood police customers on our Books. Bureau included three superinten-secution, Mr. Fitzroy said that the milk. The man who served her milk being supplied daily and with dents including a Mr. Chu Man piracy took place on February 8th, asked if she had an empty bottle Pak, the Chairman of the Commit. 1926, off Fan Laur Point, Lan Tau with her and said that if not the only two small ice chests is some"

Island. The complainant Ng Loi, would have to pay 18 cents deposit what strange. ter, who was killed on Friday.

with his wife, child and a foki in addition to the twelve cents for The superintendent, accompanied were on board their own fishing the milk. She replied that she boat at Lan Tau Island on that could not be bothered to return by his wife and soú, went over to

day. At about two o'clock in the the bottle, and the salesman then Canton City and returned to Ho-afternoon, another boat came up called out to his fuki who brought

sm shortly before night-fall. behind them, and two men in the four or five bottles from the back Mr. Lo: Did your Company ever Whit the party was walking home latter craft, suddenly stood up in room and placed them on the try to find out how many bottles the bowy and opened fire at the counter. One of these bottles war of milk we Supplied daily in our on the Man Sun Road, Fung Wong complainant's boat The fati was filled with milk and the salesman own bottles to investigations in Kong, three desperadoes, in black bit in the arm, and the complainant put his own stopper on it.

that connection have been made, jackets, set upon them. The attack was forced to drop anebor Three

but we are well aware of the fact Mr. Lo neked the witness if that most Chinese dairies use our pirates then boarded. the fishing realised that the milk came from bottles. was simultaneous and concentrated, vessel, two of whom were armed the Shun Hung Lee Dairy, or if she all the assassin aiming at Chu

with revolvers and the other man believed it to be from the Dairy According to eye-witnesses, they had a dagger:

The prisoner was Farm, and she replied that the fired no fewer than ten shots at

one of the three.

did not suppose it to be Dairy the official at point blank range.

Wounded For Thrown Overboard Farm milk.

Mr. Chu, who was unarmed, had

The pirates tied up the complain- Over 35 Alien Bottles In The Shop.ainly news to rel ant and his wife, and when they

Mr. J. D. Thomson, assistant no chance of putting up any resiet discovered the wounded juhi in the Secretary of the Dairy Farm, said against us that, we

Mr. Lo: Is it your objection that be and Sergeant Rozeewki our milk in your battles, and that pan of " ance and fell mortally wounded. hold, they threw him overboard.

the complainant, and when this was in Hollywood. Road with a search that they are receiving Dairy Farm not forthcoming they took the hout warrant. The defendant. could ap milk-To a certain extent that a and their captives to a place called parently read English and under so.

Take for instance, when a Sam Toi in Chinese waters. to stood the nature of the visit. In boy is sent for a bottle of milk. the south-west of Macao. There searching the shop they found two Instead of buying it from us he the captives were taken ashore and baskets in the passage way. One goes to your shop where he gets it imprisoned in a matabed, guarded of the baskets contained 20 bottles 3 cents cheaper, and in the same byten armed men. During the doors of the Law School where The first policemen who arrived..in daytime, Ng Loi was kept at work of which 11 were found to belong bottle. The bottle stopper is not and at night was placed under pursuit of the desperadoes, but the guard. trio fired several shots at the pur

Recognised Prisoner After Two.. suers and all got clear away.

Years.

When the newe reached the

Continuing, Mr. Fitzroy said that keeping the good of China in mind. Fung Wong Kong Police Head in the early part of March that year; the complainant wrote a letter to The Judiciary, he said, is one quarters that their chief had been his relations asking for money to the five branches of government murdered in the district under his pay ransom. No reply was received last order was for filty on August whether the defendant had not and in the early part of April, the 2nd. The defendant also explained told him on the day of the search wife was allowed to go to get the that owing to the heat he was necessary money for ransom. She unable to meet with the increasing that the bottles were got from his went to her own native village and demands for milk and was obliged sub-agent and if he did not show returned in May with 8980 to pay to give further orders for bottles him (witness) the bill of receipt. the pirates. The amount was AP from Ah Shuen, He produced a Complaints From Oustomers. The wounded man was conveyedparently insufficient, and the pirates receipt for these bottles.

Mr. Wadeson then questioned tion to these three Dr. Sun would by a sedan chair to the Yan Chai sold the daughter of the complain-

The Bottle Or The Label,

witnees and asked if he could quote add two more, namely, the Board Hospital, where he died 3 minutes

ant. Husband and wife were then

Mr. Lo then cross-examined wit a case when a European was given put on boat and allowed to of State. Control and the Depart after admittance..

depart. They made their way to with regard to the label and the defendant's mik under ment of Civil Examination. He The motive for the crime was not Macao and at once went to the the moulded trade mark of the impression that it was from the on the Dairy Farm.-There are pae or two urged the students to prepare them-robbery as is evidenced by the fact wife's native village so the husband Dairy Farm Company

could work off the money which was

Witness agreed that the cases on record of complaints being selves for the abolition of extra- that the three gunmen "did

owing to his wife's people.

label on the bottle showed clearly made by customers who have re- territorialityBut if we wish to molest the deceased's wife or his He returned to British territory the name of the supplying dairy. turned the bottle and after investi- M Lo: Presuming that yon gation the thilk was found not to do this," he said, "we must first eon.

on June 30th or July 1st and at make up our minds to improve our A similar attack

Cheung Chau be met the prisoner were not connected with the Dairy be from the Dairy Farm

In answer to his Worship, witness And recognised him at once. He Farm and knew nothing about judiciary system.

informed the police and the prisoner the contents as being milk from record where both the battle and

other dairies, would you not take said that there

the defendant's dairy and not be the Dairy Farm's label had been deceived into imagining it was returned and after examination it Dairy Farm milk?

was found that the milk was not from the Dairy Farmo.

· EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY. In the afternoon he was invited by the Canton Law School on Kwong Hau Street to address the stüdents. He was accorded an arousing welcome as be entered the

His wife and son were too terrised The robbers demanded money from went to the defendant's dairy shop customers are deceived in thinking

to raise an alarm.

It was later found that Chu had received three wounds on his chest and he was lying in a poct of blood, when the police arrived.

decorations of flowers and electric response to the alarm started in lights had been arranged..

In his speech Minister Wang urged the students to do their best to become good, clean. barristers,

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control there was the greatest in- dignation and practically the whole force started a general comb out

which Dr. Sun would create for China. In foreign lands there are only three branches of government, namaly, the Legislative, Judiciary of Honam. and the Executive. But in addi-

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When this is police officers occurred a dore, we realize our aim months ago, when Mr. Wong Hon Then we shall not have to Sang was occupying the position beg the foreigners to relinquish of the deceased. Though the at- extra-territorial rights.'|

tack was successful, the Police Commissioner on that occasion re- covered from his wounds, but des- pite strenuous efforts no arrest was effected.

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TWO KINDS OF LAW. Continuing, the speaker said that there are two kinds of law in the universe, viz., human law and

The deceased "was a wealthy re natural law. The former are vari-tired merchant, who acquired a big able and are the works of the fortune in the Straits Settlements, human mind to meet certain cir- but returned to Canton and settled cumstances. They may be altered in Honam some eight years ago. at any time to fit the needs of a It was in consequence of the great newly created situation. They may interest which he took in the public not be the same in different coun-affaire and the welfare of the Fung tries. Thas the age of maturity Wong Kong suburbs that he was has boon fixed by law in many coun- elected to his post in the Police tries as 21, but in China it has long Bureau. Since his appointment been 16 And in certain parts of India a person eight years old is topsidered mature. But the natural laws are fixed and invariable. They are the same the world over. Thus 3 and 4 are six, no matter whether the two figures are added in Europe or in China, they are un-

alterable. The speaker then paint

*** crented conditions.

Mr. Chu adopted the most drastie measures to run down undesirable elements in his district."

ROBBER'S BID FOR FREEDOM.

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was arrested.

The Case For. The Defence.. said that the

For the defence, Mr. Alabaster prisoner took no active part in the piracy because he himself was a prisoner. The man was captured by the pirates attacked, and his children were tied before the complainant's boat was

to a tree that he had to return to the pirates' haunt at night, after going out with them during the Mr. Alabaster emphasised that when the prisoner was arrested he, could very well have said that he at once made this statement. He

was never at the scene of the crime and account for his movement in choose to do so. He told a straight. another way. The prisoner did not forward story, and even gave dates which the prosecution adopted.

day.

Kuman Nature.

Mr. Alabaster further drew the jury's attention to the fact that the prisoner was an old man and quite infirm and yet he had given his story in the witness-box up falteringly.

His statement in the big Court was substantially the same a the story. given at the Magistracy. You have here a man, unquestionably feeling happy in the boat with the pirates, and yet the Crown witnesses said he left the other boat and came over to leading part in the attack. They re-hasband and wife, they have suffered, lost their child, their fakt means of making a living. There fore, would it not be human nature of their part to incline to exaggerate in order to bring home the crime to. someone else," added Mz

to the Dairy Farm. The other produced at table, but is taken off backets contained about twelve and no suspicion is raised by the bottles belonging to various other bottle. dairies. Altogether some 35 bottles, Mr. Lo: Wouldn't it have beep chiefly belonging to the Dairy Farm the best thing to have caught were found in the shop.

the coolie when delivering these The defendant said that the bottles-Wo did not consider ans bottles had been bought from his special time necessary. Our ea- sub-agent Ah Shuen and that the ployee was sent and got the bottle. Mr. then asked witnees

ness

bottle.

Witness: Oh, no. III were to receive the bottles at table I would certainly take it for Dairy Farm's milk. The bottle would come to me without the cap."

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Every Assistance To Police. Assistant Sub-Inspector Roteswki told his Worship that the defea dant had given them every assist. ance in their earch of the premises. The defendant had been perfectly frank and told us that he had got the bottles from his sub-agent Bamed Ah Shues.'

did not have the chance to look the Features of three armed men

In answer to Mr. Lo, witness when they themselves were

not said that he himself had visited ing after their own features to think intervals and had partaken of the armed.

the defendant's shop at various of looking at the features of dairy's milk and was always satis ethers.'

fied with the milk given to him,

Mr. Lo: Did you ever have any cause to complain —No, never.

An Important Point,

No Case To Answer.

the prosecution, and Mr. Lo replied that he had no case to

answer.

is not aleged that there is any "Magistrate (to Mr. Wadeson): immediate intention of deceiving anybody!

told the jury that he had always In his summing up, his Lordship

stressed the importance of the

Mr. Wadeson then intimated to defence giving their story at the his Worship that such was the case first opportunity. In this case the for prisoner told his story when charg ed, and repeated it again when brought before the Magistrate. In the Court yesterday he told a story substantially the same as what he had said before and this' was indeed a point in his favour. His Lordship

Mr. Wadeson: It is for Mr. Lo then directed the the jury to go to prove that there was no inten- into the case carefully, and if there tion to defraud. To defraud, the was any reasonable doubt the pris oner should be given the benefit of owners of the trade mark and the it. He also reminded the jury that

purchasers,

Mr. Lo replied that the bottle.

-receptacle and not to deceive the buyer into thinking that it was another dairy's: milk. The bottles

prosecution by a competitor. The Mr. Lo argued that it was a flimsy

man in the shop merely gave the lady the bottle to oblige her...

of death, and the second count meant imprisonment.

The jury retired for eight minutes, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty prisoner Guilty on the second on the first count and found the

Another shooting affray occurred on Wing Hon Road South, Canton, on Saturday afternoon, and caused it ed that the time has come when panic among pedestrians. A notori the extra-territorial rights 80 108 ous robber, who was caught come. the complainant's boat to take a the first count involved-a sentence was merely given to the lady as u onjoyed by foreigners are no longer time-ago-in-Hokthan-District, was applicable, in view of the newly being escorted to Canton for trial. Dr. Wang will lecture this after Read, under escort, the culprit noon at 3.30 in the auditorium of foolted. The soldiers immediately Sun Yat Sen University. The took up the chase and fired a volley public, students and faculty of the at the convict The mi University have been urged to at captured only after he had col- tend Minister Wang will go back laped from number of wounds to Nanking in the course of a day Fortunately, no pedestrian Was

While paesing along Wing" Hon and their boat which was their and when they re-assembled, they were not kept for that purpose.

or two,

hurt.

was re-

Alabaster.

Mr. Alabaster then went on to criticise the evidence given by the that it was quite obvious, that they complainant and his wife krying (Continued on nest Columin).

éount.

His Lordship asked Mr. Fitzroy if there was anything known against the prisoner and on being told that nothing was known against the man, have to consider his sentence and his Lordship said that he would

deliver it this morning at 10.30.

Mr. Lindsell said that the coq tentions raised by both parties wore novel and that he should hike to have time to consider his decisión.”

The bearing was then adjourned

until next Monday.

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