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CANTON BUTCHER'S

STRIKE.

FISH AND POULTRY MER- CHANTS DELIGHTED.

WHY THE BEEF BUTCHERS HELD BACK,

from our CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, July 9. The butchers strike in Cantou is seriously affecting the business of the ten houses, and restauranta.

No meat except beef can be bought

FIRM HAND WITH

STRIKERS.

CHEN MING SHU AND RAILWAY TROUBLE.

SOLDIERS TO KEEP ORDER.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

CANTON, July 2

General Chen Ming Shu. Chair man of the Provincial Council, has issued an gdict ordering the Sun ning Railway strikers to go back to work first and settle their differ

in the city to-day. The organisers ences with their employers later, It was pointed out that the con- of the strike intended to call out tinued suspension of service is the beef butchers as well as the others, but an exception was made seriously affecting trade in the Sze in their favour because Canton badp districts, is causing general

apprehension and is

interfering just imported large numbers bi

with the maintenance of peace and CONS and buffaloes! The heel

| order. Goneral Chew has further

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. JULY 3, 1929.

H.M. THE KING'S RECOVERY.

AN ILL-TREATED

MUI-TSAI

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SUNDAY'S THANKSGIVING | HOW THE LAW IS EVADED.

SERVICES:

THE GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL

TO ATTEND.

As already mentioned in the Daily Press, the official Service of Thanksgiving for the Recovery of HM. King George V. will be held at St. John's Cathedral on Sunday next at 11 am.

It will be attended by H.E. The Governor and the Executive and Legislative Council, H.M. Judges and the Consular Body, the Heads of Departments and Representa tives of the Navy, Army and Air Force.

St. Andrew's, Kowloon." A special service will also be held

same time.

TWO WOMEN CONVICTED,

A prosecution brought under Ordinance No. 1 of 1993, which re gulates certain forms of female domestic servants" in Hong Kong was brought before Mr. E. W. Hamilton

at Central Magistracy yesterday by the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs following s com- plaint made by a small girl, said to be 14 years old..

The defendants were a Chinese

widow and her daughter-in-law, the elder of whom was charged with Furchasing the girl as a mai imi and also, with ill-treating her, while the other was charged with assault- | ing the girl. The first defendant

ROUND THE POLICE COURTS.

DANGEROUS DRIVING AT

SHAUKIWAN.

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TRAFFIC COURT FEATURES,

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Among a number of traffic cases dealt with by Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at Central Magistracy yesterday was a summons against a Chinese driver of a motor lorry for dangerous driving on the Shauki- wan Road.

The offence was substantiated by q European witness, who said that the defendant's lorry nearly ran into the back of his car on

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narrow stretch of the road. Later defendant got in front of his car. Witness was travelling at 25 miles an hour, so that defendant must have gone considerably faster in

Defendant was fined $15.

dealers will join the strikers as ordered Colone! Heung Hon Pingat St. Andrew's, Kowloon, at the denied the charges, and the other order to pass him.

soon as they have glaughtered and sed all the remaining cattle in stock,

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to send suficient troops to see that his edict is carried out and to put down any trouble.

The strikers have announced their intention of holding out until their

General Chen Tsai Tong takes i demands are complied with. They serious view of the matter and in have wired to their agents in Shok, reply to a telegram from Mr. Chen Jung, Ling Yang, the West, North Kwei Wing, manager of the Rai and East River districts-the other way, he is sending an official to cattle raising centres of the Pro

make a thorough investigation and vince-cancelling all ofders for piys, į take any action be may deem cows, buffaloes, sheep and goats. necessary. ENTERPRISING VILLAGERS.

It is too early to predict the kely terms of settlement but it

An

arbitration

The strike was declared on Mon-evident that the Government will day and already some villagers are do everything in its power to main. trying to profit by other mene in the service. felly by opening pork stands just outside the city limit, and doing a, big business, especially with the restaurant keepers.

The Hon. Sir Henry admitted that she did strike the Pollock. K.C., will read the King's | girl. - message to the Empire, the Rev C. B. Shaan will be the preacher and the St. Andrew's Scouts, Guides and Cabs will attend, the service in uniform.

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St. Joseph's, Garden Road, The Roman Cathelic community

are making the 10a.m. mass at St. Joseph's, Garden Road, a service of special thanksgiving for the King's recovery. This Church has been chosen as

its congregation includes a large number of English people.

Union Charch, Kennedy Road. A special service is also being bed at the Union Church, Kennedy. cially by the St. Andrew's Society.

The collections will be for the Aliated Hospitals of the London Mission Society.

committee has been set up, cunoad, which will be attended oth sisting of representatives of the Government, the Sunning Railway Co., Ltd.. the strikers and the Mechanics Labour Union.

Another cluas, which is profiting already from the butchers' strike is the poultry and fish dealers, who' are doing a roaring budsiness. One poultry dealer said that never before in the history of Canton has there been such a big demand for chickens, ducks, eggs, and ash. His whole stock is cleared before evening and there is little didicunty in getting fresh supplies from out- Ising districts. He and his fellow merchants are jubibint and no posts. doubt hope that the strike will. continue for a long time.

THE STRIKERS' OFFER.

SOLDIER BUT NOT

POLITICIAN.

The Rev. F. C. Young. will be the preacher.

Statement by the Prosecution.

Mr. H. R. Butters, of the S.C.A. told the Court that at 4.45 p.m. on June 23 a district watchman BOW a crowd of people round a small girl near a water fountain at Lai Kwei

Fong, near Wyndham Street. The girl complained of ill-treatment by her mistress and was taken to the

Central Police Station.

The next day, continued Mr. Batters, the girl was brought to him at the S.C.A., and steps were taken to obtain warrants against the two women. An examination of the girl at the Government Civil Eos pital showed that she was suffering from multiple bruises. Subsequent ly the women were arrested, and during a search of the house two documents relating to the sale of the girl were found.

5 YEARS FOR ARMED Blow That Should Not Have Been ́

ROBBER.

General Chen Tsai" Tong has for the third time cabled to Nanking, resigning his membership of the Provincial Council. The General is quite firm in his decision not to take part in the civil affairs of the Province. Nanking has ко far SEQUEL. TO KOWLOON RAID. urged him to hold on to his present

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AND TWENTY LASHES!

Mr. H. K. Holmes appeared for PUSH AND GO!

the Crown in the case in which Tse Hung was charged at yester Dr. C. II. Chang, former secre

day's resumed Criminal Sessions before the Chief Justice, with m tary to Mayer Lin Wan Koi, assumed robbery by two or more at the The Government is trying, so, fard the presidents of the Cantonservats quarters of 1, Armend unsuccessfully, to effect settle. Municipal Bank yesterday (Mon- ment. The butchers want to post day) morning. Dr. Chang is an pone the carrying out of the American returned student, and has

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Buildings, Kowloon, and stealing a gold ring, clothing and $10.30 from One Chinese and one dohar in money from another.

represented, pleaded not guilty.

Prisoner, who WAS not legally M. Holmes said the robbery was

Struck."

YOUNG CHINESE LADY OUT OF BOUNDS, "

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Miss Jenny Lai, who holds a learner's licence limited to certain areas, was summoned for driving a private motor car in Queen's Road

Central. The driver of the car was also summoned for allowing her to take control of the car. Both pleaded guilty.

When his Worship was informed that the driver was employed by the girl's father, he remarked that the man was in an awkward posi- tion. The driver could not very well refuse to allow his master's daughter to drive the car if she wanted to do so. The summons against the driver was accordingly

dismissed.

Miss Lai was fined $15.

AT KOWLOON MAGISTRACY,

BLAME THE DETECTIVE

Dr. Bau, Chinese medical officer as the Government Civil Hospital, giving evidence, said that the girl A Chinese was convicted of posses- was brought to him on the after-

sion of 1.7 taela of raw opium before noon of June 4. On examination Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at Kowloou he found multiple bruises in the arm and over the left eye-brow, also 850

Magistracy, yesterday. A fine of was imposed with the al- abrasions on the left knee and leg.ternative of three week's hard The injuries appeared to be of labour. recent origin. They were of a

superficial nature, and in witness opinion they could have been caused

& blunt instrument. Asked by the Magistrate whether the girl appeared to be stubborn, witness said he would not any 80. She was quite normal for a girl of her age. Answering other questions witness said that he considered more force than was necessary had been used in chastising the child, and that the blow over the eye.

The Girl's Story.

about seven o'clock on May 1. The organ, should not have been struck. Road and there was a scavenging main building "fronted" Kimberley

lane, at the back, the servants' quarters being in the basement and having a window opening on to the lane.

Government decision about cattle the reputation of being "energetic, slaughtering in abattoirs. They forceful and direct." point out that the proprietors of authority on finance, banking and carried out by a gang of four men brow, which was close to a vital these abattoirs, the Lee Kwang ceonomics. Prosperity and smooth Company, have agreed to pay running at the Bank are now con tax of only $40,000 per annum to fidently expected. the Bureau of Public Health for, the monopoly they will enjoy. The butchers say that they would be willing to pay this. sum to the Government, if permitted to com tinue to slaughter their animals in their own licensed places. They are now sending delegates to ap- peal to the Government, and to the Canton Chamber of Commerce.

SUCCESSOR TO LI TSAI

HSIN,

(Wah Te Yat Poo.)

SHANOIA, July 2 It has been decided at the con- Ference held by the Central Execu tive Council to appoint Mr. Chen Sam as member of the Supervisory Committee of the Kwangtung Pro Kuomintang succeed Marshal Li Tsai Hain.

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to

SHENSI'S DYING POPULATION.

HONG KONG PROMISE OF HELP.

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On hearing the sentence, de- detective of the Hong Kong Police fendant Baid that J former

demand his money, and seeing some Force owed him 85.00. He went to

opium in a packet at the detective's take it as payment of the debt. The house, defendant said that he would

man gave it him but almost as soon as he left the house he was arrested.

A LENIENT SISTER-IN-LAW.

rettes to

Another Chinese was charged with stealing six packets of In the witness-box, the complain-

cigarettes from a stall at Hunghom.. The man was arrested while acting ant stated that she lived with her

in a suspicious manner and when mother in the Heungshau district.

questioned he took the police to the Last year her mother sold her to

stall which turned out to be owned the first defendant, and she was

sister-in-law. Defendant by his brought to Hong Kong by a travel-aid that he was taking the ciga Kailing trader.

friend who purchased Continuing her story, the girl them on credit. said that it was one of her duties. to fetch water from the street fountain. On the day in question she left the house at 1 o'clock and returned two, hours later with two. backets of water. The second de- fendant then accused her of being late and struck her with a piece of" firewood. The girl added that she was frequently hesten by this woman who hated her.

Cook-boy's Wie. At the time in question, Lau Ying, the wife of the cook-boy, was in the servante quarters with Lay Chang and another small girl. A noise was heard outside the quar ters and Lau Kai Ying called out and asked who was there. Three men entered the premises, while a fourth stood at the door.

The women were tied up and the articles enumerated in the charge were stolen. The clothing was

taken out of a box, which was prised open by the accused with the aid of a knife. The point of the knife was bent in the process.

The four men left alter being in the servanta' quarters for about fifteen minutes. When the police came on the scope, one knife was found near the stairente landing and another in the scavenging lage. Banknotes in Collar.

a mis trai.

to punish him because he was her As the complainant did not wish relative the Magistrate discharged the defendant with a caution.

CROWN LAND SALES.

TWO KOWLOON SITES SOLD,

Answering his Worship, the gir said that she had never regarded Kowloon Inland Lot No. 9199, at herself as an adopted daughter the junction of Prince Edward and When she left her home the under-Waterloo Roads was sold at the standing was that she was going to Crown Land Office yesterday to the well-known French bank, Credit Evidence was given by the dis- Foncier d'Extreme Orient for triet watchman, and Sub-Inspector 823,000. The land has an area of Carey who arrested the defendants about 34,400 sq. feet, and the an- and found the two documents of nural rental is 8238.

The upset sale referred to by Mr. Butters.price was $17,200. Translations of these were produced

Mr., Ip 8iu San of Shamshuipo was the purchaser of Kowloon In- land Lot No. 2199 at the upset price of 87,280. This lot is in Tai Nam Street, the ares being about 4,185

q, feet and sunual rental $49.

COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN CANTON.

According to the Tidustrial and Commercial Daily Press, the Can- ton authorities are taking special | precautions against the activities of a large body of Communista who are reported to have lately come to the city. On Sunday even- ing last, martial law was suddenly

On the following day, the police declared and armed police dis

raided, a house and found part, of patched by the Bureau of Public

the stolen clothing. Later, a fur-by an interpreter at the S.C.A. The appalling state of affairs ther raid was carried out at another Safety to search suspected pedes Shensi province, North Chinn, was

house and the remainder was dis-

Adopted Daughter or Mui Tsai? trians, Officers were also sent to

covered, Accused, was not found The elder woman made a state- the Telegraph Offices to censor all at the Chinese Chamber of Com in Ladder Street.

mentioned in an appeal for funds in either house, but was arrested ment to the effect that she bought

the girl as an adopted daughter. telegrams.

merce yesterday, when a document Police Station, Inspector Dorling bruises --They were caused by my When prisoner arrived at the His Worship: What about the Another report says that the was read alleging that the popula took hold of his collar to lead him daughter-in-law during my absence Communiste are attempting to cor- tion had been driven 'to cannibalism to the detectives' room. Finding & at work in the Hong Kong Hotel. I rupt the troops and have bribed by sheer desperation and hunger. lump in the collar, Inspector Dor-paid $175 for the girl in Chinese two naval officers,

ling investigated and found a ten-money. I treated her on the foot work up to

Parents exchanged their children dollar bote concealed between two ing of an adopted daughter, not as dissension in the Canton Navy with other parents and devoured thicknesses of cloth.

a mui tada, Many Bolshevist circulars sad them, this being looked upon as boy would say in evidence that on usually has her meals with me at Mr. Holmes added that the cook What is the difference 7—She leaflets have been found recently.

more humane then devouring one's the day before the robbery he saw the same table. own offspring. Millions were dying the accused and another man walk. ing along the scavenging lane and or on the verge of starvation. also noticed the accused peeping It was pointed out that there through the window. The woman should be plenty of help from would dieo say that the accused According to the

verascular Hong Kong for such a cause and took part in the robbery.

Evidence was called bearing out Press, the Hutanese troops under a suggestion to start a subscrip the case for the Crown and on He Chien baye abandoned the lion list under the maniere of the being found guilty the prisoner the 343 1636 BELLAm the documentat

to attack upon Liuchow and returned Tung Wah Hospital was carried labour and ordered to receive 20 scuteneed five years' hard

to their own province.

unanimously.

strokes of the cat..

HUNANESE TROOPS RETURN HOME.

Both Defendants Convicted.

Addressing the first defendant, his Worship said he was satisñed that the girl was a mui tani, and the defendant purchased her as such. He would convict on that

her guilt on the charge of ill charge, but he was not satisfied of

treatment. His Worship held the second defendunt to be guilty of common assault.

At this stage Mr. Butters told his Worship that he could not see the difference. The term mu trai hav- His Worship said that this was ing now come into disrepute, they apparently the first case brought were calling the girls" adopted under the Ordinance, and he wished daughter." He also said it was to consider what sentence he should odd that the Canton authorities pass. Sentence was accordingly de having made declarations against lerred until next Friday at 2.15

a police station there. of sale should have been stamped at Mr. Butters said that the girl would in the meantime be looked (Continued at foot of next column). after at the Po Leung Kuk

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