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MORE REDS ARRESTED.

CANTON POLICE ACTIVITY.

ANNAM COMMUNIST. DEN RAIDED.

FIRING SQUAD AGAIN BUSY.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ¦

CANTON, January 3rd. Several Communist have been ar

rested by the detectives. A man named Lok You, believed to be a Communist, was captured yesterday afternoon while taking his tiffin as a restaurant în Sai Kwan. When brought to the Central Police

· Station, the dan stoutly denied that he was a Communist and said

that he was working in Hong Kong

but came to Canton a few days ago to visit relatives. But the chief de tective who effected the arrest, anid that he was

a member of the

Canton-Hong Kong General Strike Committee in 1925' and the man has been detained.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1929.

A LAD'S SAD EXPERI- THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW. 'VULCANISER'S BAD

ENCE.

BEFOOLED BY MEN HE TRUSTED..

CASE REFERRED TO PUBLIC PROSECUTOR.

YESTERDAY'SÄ BANKRUPTCY

PROCEEDINGS.

Remarking that it was a very bad case and that the papers should be sent to the Public Prosecutor, the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, brought the public examination of a Chinese youth to a close at the Bankruptcy Court yesterday 'after- noon.

The examination of the youthful debtor by Mr. E, L. Agassiz, "Official

Receiver, revealed facts very similar

to those of the South China Trade Protection case of which Mr. L. Haynes was director.

The debtor, Chung Kam Ching, alias Chunk Yuen On Tong," stated that he was 24 years of age. His father was dead and his mother was. still alive. In his boyhood he was adopted by another. Chinese lady gamed Chan Wai Shi,

STORY OF THE 'FIRST POUL, TRY SHOW IN U.S.

ATTRACTIVE SCHEDULE

ISSUED.

We have received a very attrac› tive schedule of the entries for the New Territories Agricultural Show. which is to be held to-morrow at Tang Ying Hok Po, Sheung Shui The story is also given of the first poultry show held in America.

The schedule is neatly arranged and printed and affords a good

guide to the visitors.

A Dip Into History, The story of the first poultry show is appended ; —

WORKMANSHIP.

CAUSES FACTORY EXPLO- SION AT SHAUKIWAN?

INQUEST ON WOMAN EMPLOYEE ADJOURNED.

An enquiry into the death of a Chinese woman as the result of an explosion in a vulcanizing appara- tus at the Fung Keung rubber shoe factory in Shauriwan on De

cember 17th was held by Mr. R. E. a jury, at the Central Magistracy Lindsell, sitting as Coroner, with yesterday afternoon.

As stated in a report made at the time, the cover of a vulcanizer was blown off and a part of the factory walls and roof collapsed. One woman was buried by falling In 1948 the first poultry show ory and killed, while the was held in America, at Boston,

other workers escaped with slight injuries. þand about the same time the first Dr. A. Cannon stated in evidence poultry show was held in England. that the deceased woman, who was These exhibitions gave impetus identified as Cheung Tai by bar to the growing interest in the then brother Cheung Yau, appeared to known breeds and varieties of be about 41 years of age. The post fowl: for by that time several mortem examination revented the Countries had each developed breeds possessing

tanse of death to be multiple in- characteristics juries, shock and haemorrhage. differentiating them from breeds There were no signs of organie produced elsewhere.

disease. The injuries could have Early poultry, exhibitions tended heen eaused by flying missiles huri- to encourage the evelopment ofed with great force from behind - Another alleged. Communist,

New hreeds and varieties. This as the result of an explosion. Cheung Kok Min, was arrested a

was especially true with what are P.W.D. Engineer's Evidence. often" called. "fancy" characteris- couple days ago on the whart of

ties. Consider for instance, the. the Hong Kong-Canton Steam- The Official Receiver: Is she your miniature Bantams, where small boat Company on arriving from adopted mother-No, my godness of size is one of the outstand

ing features: the vulture hocks on Hong Kong. He denied that he mother.

the Sultan breed and the highly was a Communist and wanted to When asked to explain the differ-developed crest

on the Polish. know why he was arrested. "Tellence between a god-son and antreed. that to the Judge," the detectives adopted son, debtor said that it replied; and they marched him to was a common practice in China the Central Police Station,

for women to have a god-sën. Another man, Yee Kwok Dat, was

His Lordship remarked that it arrested yesterday in Cheung Hing was very peculiar because the name Street. At first he stoutly denied given in Chinese by debtor did not that he was a Communist, but in mean a god-son. The Chinese word face of the evidence against him was Kai Chai. he admitted that he was a member of the Masons Union and of the pickets of the Canton-Hong Kong Gneral Strikers Committee. More serious still he had to admit that he took an notive part in the Com. munist holocaust in Canton on De cember 11th, 1027. He fled to Hong Kong and did not come ack to Canton until a few days age. He was sentenced to face the firing squad the same evening.

NINE ANNAMITES CAUGHT,

CASE AGAINST A PEAK GARDENER.

ALLEGED CUTTING OF PINE TREES.

MRS, L. G. BIRD'S COMPLAINT.

beca

A Chinees gardener in the employ of Lieut. Col. L. G. Bird, D:8.0. of No. 28, The Peak, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindell at the Central Magistracy yesterday with the unlawful possession of 150 catties of pine wood alleged to have oup from the Government plaatation at the back of the house. to the effect that he had cut down The defendant made a statement only such branches as overhung his master's garden. He denied that he had gone into the plantation and cut the trees there.

Mr. R. Andrewes, Assistant Crown Solicitor, for the prosecu tion, said that within the last fort night about hundred trees had Bird's house. Guards were posted been cut from land above Lieut-Col. on the hillside and they saw mod stacked on the roof of the servants" quarters. A march warrant was issued and defendant was arrested.

Guards On The Hill.

Carr, of the Forestry Department. Evidenco was given by Mr. J. R.

Witness said that from certain in- formation received he climbed the bank near the house and saw a quantity of wood laid out to dry on the roof of the servants' quar- ters.

He further noticed about forty-three stumps about 150 feet way from the house. Witness post- cd guards on the hillside while he went to obtain a warrant.

On visiting the house with the warrant, witness said that he told Mrs. Bird why he had come when

Another witness was Mr. T Logan, an engineer of the Public stated Works Department, who that he visited the factory where he saw three vulcanizing sets, the cover of one of which was blown off. Witness was of the opinion that the workmanship on the cover The exhibitions also stimulated of the particular apparatus, which she asked him whether he was a improvement of the econonic was locally made, was faulty. Un-police officer. On explaining that qualities of many breeds. This has leas the twelve bolte which held the he belonged to the Forestry Depart been true particularly in England, cover in place were tightened up, ment, Mrs. Bird was alleged to have where the Sussex and Dorking there was danger of an explosion said: "Oh are you? You can reached a high state of perfection even under ordinary working pres- wait bere. I have arrested two of ng ment producers, and in America, sure. Witness was unable to say your men for looking into my bed- where the general excellence of whether the explosion, was due to room and I have rung up the Police sach breeds as the Plymouth Rock, exressive air pressure in the cham Station to send officers up here. Rhode Island Red and Wyandotte her or faulty tightening of the

Continuing withness told his is recognized by all, and the bolts. He Was further of the Worship, that he was refused en- The Court Interpreter then told Italian Leghorn, as a laying fowl. opinion that apparatus of this trance and eventually succeeded in the Court that Kai Chal properly has been greatly improved in type sort should not be allowed to be carrying out a search after the

The Asiatic races of domestic installed at a "ceremonial son" because fowl were the first to assume any supervision and sanction, as in root of the servants' quarters 150 without Government arrival of Inspector Logan. On the a certain ceremony had to be per prominence and were bred primari England.

catties of wood were found. formed before a boy was called Kaily for their economic qualities.

Evidence was also given by an- 'defendant admitted ownership and They were large-bodied, benyother woman worker to the effect he was taken into custody. Chai by another lady.

tioned birds with excellent fleshing that she was standing on the op- properties, and several of the races posite side of the table facing the characterized by heavily deceased woman. She was herself rendered unconscious and was in hospital for six days.

feathered shanks.

Mr. Agassiz (to debtor): When you perform your ancestral wormere ship, to which tombe do you go. To those of your own family tombs or the family of the lady whom you called your god-mother -My own family's tombs.

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The enquiry was adjourned for the Coroner and jury to visit the factory this afternoon.

TRAMWAY FATALITY..

VERDICT, ACCIDENTAL

Later he requested friend to cable to Shanghai to make enquiries about this koitting factory. He re eived a reply that no such firm was in existence and that the address given was that of a tea house for coolies. He became a partner be-

DEATH. cause he had faith in Hui Hin Tat and on the, statement shown him

Addressing his Lordship, Mr. in the small Court by Major C. Another enquiry was conducted Agassiz said that if the facts were Willson and a jury into the death correct, it would appear that the

about 30

and Export Company must haveed when she was knocked down by swindled the debtor of his 81,500. trament No. 30 in Praya West, Under the circumstances, be thought

people in the South China Import of a Chinese woman,

years of age, from injuries receiv.

The

In answer to Mr. Andrewes, wit- aess said that the area round Lieut.- Col. Bird's house was fifty feet. He had not seen the plan of the house, but most of the property. owners on the Peak had afty feet around the house..

Mrs. Bird And Court Procedure." On his Worship asking the, de fendant if he had any questions to put to witness, Mrs. Bird wished' to ask questions, but was told that she could not do so. If she had any questions to siggest she could put them through Mr. Andrewer. Mrs. Bird replied that she did not know very much about Court procedure and had no questions to ask.

Continuing, debtor said that he A Communist rendezvous in Yan! was educated at Queen's College. Hing Street was raided by detec I left school in 1922 and lived tives with such effectiveness that with his "ceremonial mother no one was able to escape. Nine til 1926, when he obtained employ- men were arrested and taken to the eat in John Manners & Co. at a He left Central Police Station. Large quan salary of 823 a month. tities. of seditious propaganda and that employment in March 1827, and other documents were unearthed after being in Cantour for three Investigation revealed that the

months, he returned to the Colony that it would be advimble to send ear Holland Street, on December the defendant admitted that he had and was given a job by Messrs. Don- place was the Canton headquarters relly and Whyte at a salary of 868 of the Annam Communists. Whea month. He also left this employ ther or not the Annam Communists ment in July last year and became were in league with the Chinese partner in the South China In

port and Export Co., by investing Communists is not certain but the 81,500. police think that they are, and that the whole affair was financed by Russia.

The Police have been unusually active the last few days and hun- dreds of plain clothes men are watching day and night for the dangerous elements. Search for illicit firearms goes on unceasingly.

FOR KWANGTUNG' CIVIL SERVICE.

Mr. Agassiz: Where did you get to me by my "ceremonial mother" this money from 3-81,000 was given and the other 8500 was out of my own sayings.

tor because he had himself no all the papers to the PublicProsecu- machinery to take the case further

His Lordship: Yes, you might send the papers to the Attorney General

it was a very bad case.

Mr. Agassiz: T felt myself, that

His Lordship: Yes, I think this tunate witness has been completely is a very bad case and this unfor befooled and robbed, on his own

statement."

"

Import and Export Co. there were When he joined the South China already other partners in the busi-school-boy and has had no experi Mr. Agassiz: The debtor is only a ness

They were Choy Mun Hung ence of business Tong Kwok Choy, Chang Chak Fun and Hui Hin Tut. The last named could do no more in that Court and His Lordship remarked that they joined at the same time as debtor. All that Mr. Agassiz had better forward the other partners were now out of the Colony; and the business of the the papers to the Public Prosecutor. company was in the hands of the .The examination was then closed. Official Receiver. As a partner debtor was now indebted to the ex- tent of $3,800, of which he incurred

his motorcycle repaired.

Mr. Agassiz: Why did you want tu jain the South China Import and [FROM OUR CHINERE CORRESPONDENT. Export Co.-I was told by Hui Hin Tat that the business was going splendidly.

Mr. Agnesiz: Did you make other Gov-enquiries -No, I trusted Hui Hin Tat because his nephew was a very

30 STUDENTS TO BE TRAINED only on debt of 838 when he had

ABROAD.

CANTON, January 3rd. The Kwangtung Provincial ernment decided some time ago to

great friend of mine.

·A BANKRUPT MOTOR CAR

OWNER.

PROMISSORÝ NOTE TO INDIAN

MONEY LENDER.

12th

Dr. A. Cannon stated that death and shock. There were no signs of was caused by fracture of the skull any organic disease.

At the conclusion of the evidence which showed that the woman re- ceived the injuries when she was dragged for some distance by the tramcar, the jury returned a ver tached no blame to any person. diet of accidental death and at

KOWLOON DOG-OWNER

SUMMONED.

Mr. J. C. Ferguson, of No. 113, Kowloon Tong was summoned be fore Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy for allowing his dog to be abroad without a mazzle. He successfully pleaded that it was not in the road but only in the garden.

An Indian constable gave evi- dence of finding the dog in the road, hurt this was denied by an amah in the employ of Mr. Ferguson who said that the dog did not leave the grounds.

'Defendant denied the evidence of the bead forestman who stated that

cut the wood from a pine planta- Lion outside the garden. He wished and his assistant. to call two witnesses, the houseboy

The case was adjourned until this morning.

SNATCHER ARRESTED BY

SCHOOLBOYS..

MAGISTRATE PRAISES THEIR CONDUCT.

A Chinese who snatched a hand- bag containing 8200 and a cheque, from Mrs. E. M. Hazeland was sentenced to aix months' hard labour and twelve strokes of the birch by Major C. Willson at the Central Magistracy yesterday.

According to the evidence, Mrs. Hazeland Was. walking down Glenealy on Wednesday afternoon in the company of Mrs. Millet when the thief came from behind snatched the bag and darted off. The lady gave chase and at the same time shouted for assistance to a number of schoolboys in the play ground of St. Paul's College. The Another Chinese debtor named

boys promptly took up the chase Hau Pak Yan was also examined. In reply to the Magistrate, Mr. and caught the thief with the He said he had got into difficulties Ferguson said that there ware stolen article still in his possession. over a motor-car business. He was always quite

His Worship remarked that the number of dog employed by the Dragon Garage at roaming the roads in Kowloon boys were to be highly commended sead 100 students abroad for study.

Mr. Agassiz: Was there anything a salary of 8150 a month since 1911. Tong, but they were mostly owned for their prompt and courageous They are to receive 8300 a month said about the firm's assets?-Yes 1 He first of all bought a Hudson by Chinese, or had drifted in from action, and they had set an exam.

was shown a statement in which it

An Indian ple which he hoped will always be. Canton currency, which

car from the Company on a kire neighbouring village.

should occasion arise. means an annual expenditure of assets mounting to 830,000 and.

was declared that the firm had purchase system in 1927. He made watchman had called at the house followed

an initial payment of 8600 and was while he and his wife were out and They were a credit to their school. 8260,000, Owing to shortness of liabilities only to the amount. på to pay 8200 monthly. The car was tried to get some money from the

taken back from him when he failed servants. The money was refused said that she had the dog on a leash funds & start will be made with 50 84,000. That statement was made out in my presence by Hui Hin Tat

to pay the balance of 8350. When and the man left the gate open, hut took it off while talking to a students and Mr. Hau Chang Mr. Agassiz: When you received the car was in his possession, he" If the dog had been about it could friend in a motor-car, and the dog Ching, former Commissioner of that statement, did you see that let it out for hire,

have easily got out," said Mr. escaped. Education, and Mr. Wong Tait, there was an item of $10,000 said to

Ferguson.

The defendant was cautioned. be an asset in Shanghai1-Yes,

Mrs. Hooper of No. 21 Cam the prezent Commissioner, have

Did you make any enquiries as

Roid was summoned for allo been instructed to draw up the to that?--I asked Hui Hin Tat and examinations rules for aspiring he said that that was the amount deposited with a knitting company candidates.

in Shanghai.

very

The qualifications will be rigid. Each candidate must be graduate of some university or col- lege of recognized standing at home or abroad, and have worked for at least two years in their pro fcesion

When they have completed their studies abroad they will be expect ed to return to. Kwangtung and enter Government service.

No date has yet been set for the examinations.

Debtor then added that after he became a partner, he requested Hui Hin Tat to write to the knitting factory in Shanghai fur certain goods. He did not know whether that letter was written, but he had received no goods from them. An agreement purporting to have been signed between the Shanghai factory and the South China Import and Export Co. was also shown to debtor.

(Continued on arat Column)..

He had borrowed the $600 from an Indian money-lender" to make the first payment. He had to sign a note for 81,200.

Asked why he was so foolish to sign a note for double the amount, debtor said that he was asked to do so.

debtor would spend his life in banks His Lordship then remarked that ruptcy if he were to sign everything put before him.

Debtor then gave an account of how he further went into the motor car business, and he eventually got another two cars Business was bad and he was running the cars all- the time at a loss: After debtor bad given a full statement of his; nitairs, the examination was closed.

on

The summong was dismissed. Lady's Dog Struck By Constable,

Mrs. Cole of No. 3, Miden Villas her dog to be abroad witha dog to be abroad without a muzzle. was also summoned for allowing her muzle. The defendant said

she did not know anything of She said that the dog was actually matter until she received the sum

ons on Christmas Day. The In- in the garden when the constable that her dog had been struck by the caught it. Mrs. Cole complained dian coastable stated that he had

seen the "boy" with the dog with constable. His Worship requested out ita muzzle and told him, but man took no notice. Mr. Sergeant Cordeux to make enquiries into the statement, and ined the Hooper replied that she had no defendant 25.00.

the

bay

The Magistrate said he was satis fed that the dog belonged to Mrs. Hooper, and that it was unfor- tamate that Mrs. Hooper herself was not informed. A hoe of $3.00 was

Another Lady Cautioned. Mrs. Armytage of King's Park Buildings was also summoned for a similar offence. Mrs. Armytage

(Continued on next Cóluma). imposed.

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