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REBEL ROUT IN THE NORTH.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

REDS BOMBED FROM THE AIR.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT-]{

CANTON, Fab. 1st. Reports received to-day in Canton

SHOT IN THE DARK.

POLICE CHASE AFTER FUGITIVES.

MAGISTERIAL' INQUIRY 'RESUMED.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd, 1929.

THE HSIN WAH INQUEST.

THE CHIEF STEWARD'S. STORY,

EUROPEAN OFFICERS IN THE WATER.

VERDICT ON WEDNESDAY.

Shot by Police Lance-Sergeant Williamson on the night of October 20th last, Ip Yuk Kwi died in Kow.

The concluding stages of the in- loon Hospital on January 7th.quest proceedings on the body of a

FORGED $50 NOTES,

CASE FOR CROWN CONCLUDED.

HOW BANKNOTES ARE SIGNED

The case for the Crown was concluded at the Criminal Sessions yesterday in the case in which three Chinese men and one Chinese. are under indictment for complicity in uttering allegedly

Woman

give further details of the recent His denih formed the subject of a victim of the s.8. Hsin Wah disaster forged 850 Hong Kong & Shanghai defeat of the Communists on the inquiry which was opened in Kow-on January 16th, off Waglan, were Bank notes.

Northern border of Kwangtung The Red forces, under the notorious Chu Tak and Mo Chak Tung, were reareating before the Hunan troops but by a sudden move captured the

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appears that they had suffered of fairly heavily in skirmishes with the Kinnga and Hunan fwees, but the attack on Nan An was a desperate effort to obtain food and clothing. The small garrison were surprised acd routed and a valuable prize was the neware for the hungry and hard

pressed rebels

From Nan An they advance rapidly towards Nan Hung, a still more important point. The Com. missioner of Northern Kwangtung, General Wong Ying Yi learnt of this move

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and sent Brigadier

General Lui Fun Ins, with the 3rd Division from Shiukwaa to cut of the rebels. With him was the sea- plane Kwong Chau, which was to play a very important part in the campaign.

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SEAPLANE TO THE RESCUE. By forced marches the Red "Army, about 2.000 strong, captured Nan Hung, defeating a detachment of Government troops. The latter were in full dight when the sea- plane arrived, and Aying low, dropped a number of high explosive "bombs with tremendous effect. The Reds wore themselves taken by sur- prise, and began to waver,

loon Magistracy by Mr. E. W. Hamilton a week ago and adjourned until yesterday afternoon.

At the previous hearing, the Magistrate said that police officers were entrusted with the duty of

enforcing the law but they were not, for that reason placed above the law. The rights of police officers to fire. a shot were very clearly laid down by law,

A Chinese constable, who was one of the pickat, said the scene of the occurrence was dark at the time and there were no street lights in the immediate vicinity. One of the

two men whom they had called to stop swung his right arm as to throw something into the har- bour,

Witness said the first of the two men escaped Decensed ran on to a launch and continued running

when the sergant fired from the

wharf.

Witness went en to the launch and saw the man lying on the deck with a bullet wound in the back.

At yesterday's hearing, two Indian constables gave evidence corroborat ing that of the Chiness officer.

Mr. Bennett held a watching brief on behalf of Sergt. Williamson.

Huddled Over Hatchway. Sub-Inspector Portallion said he was on duty is Mongkok Police Station when he received a tele- phone, message informing him that man had been shot. He went to Sam Yak Wharf accompanied by A detective sergeant. They met Len.-Sergt. Williamson who gave witness further details of the shoot-

ing.

Witness went aboard the launch and found deceased huddled over a hatchway. The motor ambulance arrived at that moment and deceas It Wis At this juncture thated was removed to Kowloon Hos

pital. He said nothing at all to General Li Fun Im's troops ar

witness. rived and at once attacked the rebels. Heavy losses were inflicted, the town of Nan Hung was recap- ture, and the main body of the Reds fell back on Nan An, the scene of their original success. Here they put up a stout resistance and a sharp fight raged for about three hours. Yuribers told, and before the steady pressure of the Government troops the rebels, broke and fed leaving behind some 700 killed and about 800 prisoners. A large quantity of military storek were also taken.

But the Communists hare by no means been settled. During their retreat they were still sufficiently and well aimed to inflict appalling

reached at the morning sitting yesterday. An adjournment was Chief Justice (Sir Henry Gollan)

The trial is proceeding before the made until next Wednesday after Mr. Somerset, Fitzroy is conduct noon when the Coroner (Mr. Bing the case for the prosecution, Lindeel!) will sum up the evidence and the jury will give their verdict. Leo d'Almada, Jar, de defend Some light was thrown on the fateing the fourth prisoner and the

other three are unrepresented. of the two European officers by the Chief Steward, who said that Mr. Patrick Campbell (Chief Engineer) and Mr. Harold Beveridge (Second Engineer) were seen in the water after the vessel sank.

Li Yang Po, the Chisf Steward. said that he was roused by the pounding of the ship against the rock. He ras to the main deck where the passengers were rushing about in great confusion At this moment there were two further crashes as the ship was battered gainst the rock. Witnees went to the saloon and served out lifebelts, putting on one himself.

While returning to the top deck he saw the Captain, who brought out rockets and bluelights from his sabin and fired them, assisted by the Chief and Second Eagiaters On the Captain's orders witness went with the Second Engineer and a sailor to lower the No. 1 lifeboat, but they could do nothing with the crowd of passengers inside and around it. Later witness saw. the No. 3 lifeboat, which as far as knew was the only one launched from the ship: rowing away.

As the ship foundered, witness scrambled on a raft with about fourteen others.

The raft drifted until it was cast up on a small island Witness and two others were the only persons who managed to hold on to the raft and eventual

Good ImitationK

The Chief Justice :. Whose mistake was that bas

The witness explained that tha attention of the printers in London was drawn to the matter and they accounted for it by saying that the numbering machine must hsvo missed ona turn in its automatiz operation.

In reply to Mr. D'Almada, the witness anid that as regards the forged notes which he had not been able to match by genuine note, the respective genuine notes (14) were still in circulation.

Mr. D'Almada: They could not possibly be among the forty alleged forgories1-No.

The witness: Three were sent

Meven, Forgeries åt The Bank, Mr. D'Almada: Can you tell me when the Bank first detected the

down by the Canton office on the forgeries I

14th November, 1929. We then took stops to find out whether we had any forged bank notes in

possession.

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Did you find any f-We did. How many-Eleven; they had come in, in the ordinary course of business...

They were accepted as genuine 1- Yes, they had been.

The witness: I was deceived by the first note that came into my possession: I authorised it to be paid...

The principal witness called yes terday was Mr. CH. Eldridge. an assistant in the 'Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, Will you look at exhibit 01 who said he had been in the service (the noto alleged to have been in of the Bank since 1911. The wit the possession of the fourth pri- ness was shown a bundle of forty soner): I pat it to you that were 30 notes which two of the prison- it not for the fact that you measuT- bad shown to the police, hiddened the note, you would not have under a wood pile in Jardine's been able to tell that the signature Bazaar. He said the nates were was not yours?

A bundle of good imitations." genuine notes was put in by the witness; these still lacked one signature.

The witness explained that when In re-examination the witness notes of this denomination are reproduced the cleven forgeries found cerved in Hong Kong they still in the Bank. With regard to bis require one signature, the other one passing a forgery bearing a repre- having been already lithographed. seatusion of his own signature, the had power to add the second signa- Kon office had received three for Any member of the foreign aff

witness explained that the Hong

gerica from Canton, all signed ture purporting to be thas of Mr. ing for notes bearing that mame. Mr. Fitzroy: You see the signa-Chuck," and they were only watch- Clerk on the alleged forged notes. When he looked at the note again,

he detected the difference. Are any of them his signature f

The itness: They are very good imitat: ns

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Mr. Fitzroy: Can you not give me a direct answer to the question

The witness: That is my point. They are so good, it is difficult to

well.

The witness called attention to differences between 1, genuine signature by Mr. Clerk and the signature on the alleged forged notes He also demonstrated that one of the principal panels on the forgeries was shorter, horizontally, than on the genuine note. The dif to land. Two mornings later beference amounted to 1. The depth was rescued by a fishing funk and from top to bottom appeared to landed at Cheung Chau,

be the same in each rase. The scroll work supporting the central medal

ion on the forged notes was not so delicately reproduced in the This could be best forged notes. seen under a glass."

Five Rafts

In the charge room at Mongkek Police Station witness examined Witness added that at daybreak Lee-Sergt. Williamson's revolver he saw five rafts floating about, on and found that one round had been one of which were the Chief En fired. Inspector Marks posted a gincer and the Second Engineer, man on the wharf in order to see.bat later he saw them both washed that the water surrounding the off. The. Chief Engineer was not wharf was not disturbed as a search seen again, but witness saw the was afterwards made to find what Second Engineer swim towards an had been thrown away by deceased. overturned boat to which some The Sergeant's revolver was then people were clinging. Of these locked in the safe at the Police people witness recognised the ship's earpenter, two quartermasters and Witness was present on the wharfa fireman. Then the raft on which the next morning when dredging witness was drifted away from the operations were carried out, but others. without results, by the water police.

Station.

Mr. Jacobsen Recalled. Before the adjournment, 3r. Jace'sen, Chief Officer, was recalled and stated that a wireless outfit was placed on board in Decumber, but it had not been installed and a operator was carried. Witness snid that not having beca on duty at

"The Microscopic Eye." This involved individunt exami- nation of the notes through magnifying glass by each member of the jury in turn, and Mr. Somer- set Fitzroy remarked to the Judge, while this was going on, that one was inclined to ask, with Pope, "Why has not man a microscopic eye?"

The Chief Justice: The horse was out of the stable then.

Mr. Fitzroy: The note specially 'referred to you?

WAS

SCO Signatures In 45 Minutes. The witness: Yes; it was careless- ness on my part: I should have looked at it more carefully. Per sonally, I take very little notice of signatures in regard to notes. When 600 are signed in three quar- ters of an hour a lot of differences can creep in the signatures.

Mr. Fitzroy: Did you then say that the signature was not yours, because you had examined the signature carefully and had come to that conclusion, or because you found that the note itself was a forgery

The witness: I 'discovered that the note was a forgery first, and then I found that my signature wag a forgery,

Mr. Fitzrcy: Apart from the fact that you found the note to be a forgery, would you have been con vinced that it was genuing signa- ture f

Witness: As I say, I accepted the note: I did not examine it. It was brought to me and I said," "That's all right, it is signed by me."

The Chief Justice: Perhaps be In reply to the Chief Justice, the exuse it would make it too difficult witness said that only by inspection for the honest forger.

of the signature under a glass was Mr. Somerset Fitzroy: Pope's on-be able to say that it was not his. swer was, "because man is not a iy,"

In reply to further questions, the witness produced 6 genuine notes bearing the same numbers as those on, some of the alleged forgeries. responding to the numbers on all the 40 alleged forged notes had been issued by the Bank.

Juryman's Questions.

Josses on the villages through which ed on patrol duty until they arrived the time of the grounding he was Genuine notes with numbers cor. had called attention would be found

they passed on the way to their mountain retreats.

BRITISH MISSIONARY HELD TO RANSOM.

It is stated that a British mis sionary has been captured by the Reds and carried off to the roun- taim. No details as to identity or present whereabouts are available, but it is reported that a letters been sent from the mountains de. manding a ransom of $20,000. The whole district is being coinbed by Government sroops, for the British missionary is only one of a large number of unfortunate people who are being held captive..

NAN "AN'S FAMOUS DELICACY.

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The Sergeant's Story.. Lee-Sergt. Williamson said he was detailed for special picket duty. The picket consisted of one Chinese detective, two Chinese constables and two Indian constables. On leav ing the Police Station they proceed in the vicinity of the whart at 8.40 Witness was leading the picket with the Chinese detective behind him. He looked to his left end saw three men sitting together on the edge of the sea wall. On seeing the picket, one of the men spoke to his companions. Witnces we about ten yards away at the time. He zhone his electric torch on them whereupon they commenced to walk

away.

unable to explain why the ship should have been to the north of Waglan when, he understood from the Captain the previous day that the vessel would go south of Waglan and enter by Green Island. He added that Captain Jensen was always sober and had never been known to be the worse for liquor.

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the man be armed as he suspected He called upon them to stop but was the case.

He thought the man would escape. as soon as he spoke they broke into

This aroused his suspicions It was his duty to stop him so be run. and led him to think the men had fired with the intention of bring committed some crime. They dising him to a standstill. Had he regarded his repeated calls to stop not done this, the man would have and continued to run. By this time, escaped altogether. He fired at the the remainder of the picket joined fugitive's legs. in the chase and called upon them to stop.

Ban Across Junks. The three men ran together until they reached the point of the

As the shot was fired the man fell and tried to crawl away.

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In reply to the foreman of the jury (Mr. M. F. Key) the witness said that in his opinion zone of the faults in printing to which ho in any of the genuine notes. With notes bearing the one number, the regard to the occurrence of the two The witness aloo gave evidence Bank system of checking immediate that the $30 note alleged to have ly brought that to light and the been thrown down by the fourth duplicate note never went into cir- prisoner when arrested was a for-culation.

The Foreman: Have you observed gery: it appeared to have been printed from the same plate as the that the signature in each one of other forgeries, as the differences the bundle of alleged forged notes from the genuine notes were similar bas apparently been dried off with to the differences to which reference blotting paper after signature 1

The witness said he had observed had already been made. This note purported to have his own signs this.

The Foreman: Will you tell the not his signature ture: it was

notes though a very good imitation. In Court what is the Bank, practice his opinion, the forged signature in this respect? Are the was handwritten. He produced a blotted as they are signed?

Witness: No, we never use' blot- genuine note bearing the same number as that particular forgery, ting paper.

The Chief Justice/asked whether The Prisoner's Printing Press. was any possibility of two genuine

Lator in the day evidence_was notes bearing exactly the same

given by an engineer. of the Hong number being issued..

of all. Kong Printing Press to the effect The witness explained that notes that he assembled a printing press

The sack of Nan An has tem. two darted through the wharf, and hit covered with his revolver while occasionally, 1,000. They were coming numbers and the smaller parts

porarily stopped the trade of this place with Canton." The town is famous for sum-dried duck and the Nan An variety has the reputation

"Cross-examination of the witness

Witness did not know how badly Sam Yik Whari where they separat. the man was hurt at the moment or were received by the Bank, already found in the custody of one of the 1

whether he was armed so he kept numbered, in packets of 500, or prisoners. It was capable of print ed. One ran through the coal yard,

a Chinese constable searched him. plete except for one signature, of a note but could not print the

પો the leader leapt on to a steam

which had to be put on

Hong launch, ran across some junks and Nothing was found on his payson..

Witness asked the injured man Kong. The notes were-numbered larger plates found. vanished.

The third man carried on until why he ran and received a reply consecutively and with each packet by the prisoner against whom this The cume level with the bows of thain Chinese to the effect that he had was delivered a register, in which the evidence was directed. afforded the

gambled and was corresponding would arrest him. The man started to moan and he saw a blood-stain growing larger on the man's jacket. He told him to stay still and sent constable to notify the inspector in charge of the police station and to and for an ambulance.

Witness then examined the spot from which he men had run. When

of being better in flavour and ap. to his side. Witness thought he was paarance than that of any other going to turn and produce some

weapon to defend himself. place in Kwangtung. Thousands of Then, for the first time, witness these dried ducks are sent to the drew his revolver. Instead of tarn Canton market where they are ing. the 'man flung out his right arm and something solid splashed into Always sold readily and command the water about 5 yards from the a big price. Now this brand of the side of the wharf. Witness believed commodity is practically unobtain it to be either a weapon or the pro-

able.

ceeds of some misdeed.

Fired At His Löge.

and provision was made for the The prisoner pointed out that the Bank Officer who signed the notes printing of Bank aptes was a de- to sign the corresponding register. licate operation and offered to bet Notes were signed in batches of the witness that he would not pro Bever less than 500, onos a packet duce in Court a satisfactory result

was broken the whole 500 were signed.

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The Same Number?

on the hand-press."

Evidence was also given that the Central Bank of China had not The Chief Justice: Then is it authorised the making of various

same number

a man there who claimed to be the he repuned to the launch ho saw possible for two notes to bear the injured man's father..

Inspector Portallion and other To think," said one well-known The fleeing man jumped on to the allicers then arrived upon the scene. and wealthy epicure, "that these launch which was in the dark, The case was then adjourned krepsendors, and it threats pro Witness ran forward a few more until 2.15 on Wednesday next, the foss hign own sentiments about pacosh A Boy dit he rode Coroner marking that the der

be at a total disadvantage it the gent would probably have to wealth for all and the rights of the jumped on to the launch should undergo a lengthy cross-examina

tion. (Continued on nest Column):

The witness: I have only known one instance of that to occur in the course of putting into circulation something like two million notes. Every one has passed through my hands at under my satin and there was only die instance, 1.2. twa: notes bore one number and ona number was missing.

plates giving imprints of parts of their notes found in the custody of the first prisoner.

Evidence of identification of some of the prisonata was given by the principal tenants and the state ments made by the prisoners to the police, intexDrts were cond to the

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