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MENACE TO SWATOW.

BIG

FIRES AT KWEILIN.

RED SUCCESSES IN FUKIEN. 4,000 PEOPLE HOMELESS.

TROOPS AND STORES SENT FROM CANTON,

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flames.

CANTON, Oct. 21,

CANTON, Oct. 21.

Reports from Kwangsi state that two very serious fires have occurred The Communist "Army"

in Kwelin, rendering over 4,000 | southern Fukien and north-eastern people homeless. The first fire he started on October 17, at 7 o'clock reported Kwangtung is

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in the morning and destroyed over marching southward in the direction, 70 houste. The re brigade, the of Swatow. They have been em. entire Police force and some sol. holdened by their capture of Shang-diers were engaged in fighting the hang and Ding Chow in southern

Calamities hever come singly" Fukica. "and Fungshi in northern (though blessings never occur twice). Kwangtung, and marching along On the very next day, at 4 o'clock another equally the Han River they captured Tai in the morning,

disastrous fire started in another Poo City on October 22, driving the sectica of the city and raged for Government garrison southward several hours. Their strength has been consider-shops and houses destroyed was again upward of 70, and a large ably increased, the bandit elemente number of fowls and cattle, were joining hands with them. Their killed. numbers are now put at 4,000.

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The reports declare that a large part of Kweilin is in ruina. No The fall of Tai Poo is locked estimate of the amount lost could upon with great alarmi in ocial be obtained, but thousands of circles and General Chen Tsai Tong outskirts of the city and the con- people are now camping on the. has wired to Colonel Chen Wai ditione in these camps are said to Yuen on the East River, to probe horrible, "as there is shortage of The oded to the affected area without food and other necessities"

delay.

1 Mio Kno Daily News, the Kwelin Chamber of Commerce, and other

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1929.

*GUILTY BUT INSANE."

DOCTOR'S EXPERIMENTS WITH "G.P.I." PRISONER.

SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS OF AN INCURABLE MALADY.

NATURE OF MENTAL AND LEGAL INSANITY.

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No more pathetic prisoner than Kung Mei, the native of Fukien, who has for the last two days been on trial for his life, has ever stood in a criminal döck. "From & adical point of view he is insane," "mid" Dr. A. Cannon, M.D., Medical Offetr of Prisons. Prisoner is suffering from general paralysis of the in- sane (G.P.I.), which must, humanly speaking, prove fatal in, at the most, four years. He is already a melancholie lunatic with mental and physical powers failing rapidly.

For two daya' British science and learned British lawyers patiently and enrefully examined whether this discuse-ridden coolie. emigrant, knew or did not know that he was committing a wrong- ful act when "be cut the throat of a fellow lodger at a Connaught Road boarding house.

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The Chief Justice (Sir Henry Golan, C.B.E.). presided, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy conducted the case for the Crown and Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro, jor. (instructed by Mr. Hendall, of Messrs. Russ & Co.), defended the prisoner.

The jury only needed a short consultation to arrive at their verdict of Guilty but Insane "and the dazed and wizened little. prisoner was led below by two Indian warders to be detained in a criminal lunatic asylum during His Majesty's pleasure."

DR. CANNON AND HIS STRANGE PATIENT.

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General Chiang Kwang Nai, Com-public organisations and benevolent mander of the 61st Division, in the societies are appealing to Wuchow, Dr. Cannon, in answer to defend, ever, worked secretly and in the East River districts, has been sent Canton and other cities for helping counsel, said that prisoner end produced G.P.I. Doctors, how a reinforcement of two regiments on behalf of the destitute popula-suffered from hallucinations that ever, found it very difficult to ex- and also large quantities of stores tion.

and ammunitions from Headquar. No one knows how the Eres start ters including 1,000 hand grenades ed, but many believe they were due and 40,000 cartridges. These sup to the work of the incendiaries, plies are being shipped to Swatow, The recent unrest and disturbances by gunhost.

in Kweilin due to the inter-Kwang war certainly give colour to that view. The authorities are investi. gating the matter and a lookout is being maintained for suspicious elements.

TO HELP NANKING.

GANTON'S AEMAL SQUADRON SETS OUT.

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CANTOS, Oct. 24. The zerin squadron comprising the planes. Canton, Namhoi, Tung. koon, and Poonyu, left the Tai Sha Tau Aviation Field for Hankow this morning" at 8 o'clock in com. pliance with orders from Nanking. A large number of officials were at the aviation ground to bid the air men farewell and an impressive ceremony was conducted just prior to their departure. Speeches were given by several officials in which the flyers were praised for taking the task of helping Nanking in its life-and-death struggle with the Kuominchun armies.

SOLDIER'S DEATH

AT SEA.

TRAGIC AFFAIR ON BOARD

THE KUMSANG.

Lance Corporal Bombardier E. Bellerby, of the 20th Battery Royal Artillery, shot himself with a re- volver on board the Kum Sang on Wednesday afternoon.

On

Bellerby was a member of the anti-piracy guard on the Kum Sang, which is Jardine vessel running. between. Calcutta and Hong Kong. The guard on this occasion consist- ed of fifteen then from the Royal. Artillers, in addition to the officer Captain Hu Kam Ya, Commander of the guard, Lieut. J. G. Wolfe. of the Aerial Squadron, said in an Barry, and a sergeant. interview with the local Pressmen,!" The guard travelled to Singapore that the entire squadron will be on the Kut Sang and were on their placed at the disposal of the Cen. way back on the Kum Sang. At tral Government.

"We shall first about 2.30 p.m. go to Hankow and place ourselves Bellerby and two companions were Wednesday under orders from Nanking. We on the main deck, looking down a shally to Manchuriu and fight the hatchway immediately aft of the Red Russians, if the Central Gov- salom. Their interest appeared to ernment wants us. Obviously, our be centred on a crowd of Chinese task is not to be confined to fight who were gambling on board: ing the Kuominchun armies alone.".

Bellerby was standing between The air plane Golden Steed be his companions when suddenly a longing to the Yunnan Government shot was heard, and he was seen to successfully returned. to Canton fall. Help was immediately forth from Changsha yesterday after coming from the ship's doctor, who noon. The Golden Steed is an

was on deck when the shot was fired. American machine and has been The wounded man, however, died very successful in all its fights. almost immediately, the bullet ap It. Inft. Changsha at in o'clock yes. parently piercing his heart. terday morning and arrived in is suggested that the deceased was Hengshow at 1 o'clock in the after- handling his revolver when he ne noon. From there it proceeded to cidentally pulled the trigger. Canton, arriving here at 4 S It is piloted by Captain Liu Poi Chun, a Yunnanese yer..

THE "IRONSIDE" CAMPAIGN.

HUNAN TROOPS TO "FINISH THE JOB."

It

is false perceptions of the senses but he did not believe in the reality of ballucinations, though their appearance worried him, especially after sunset. That was a known feature of that, form of mental deterioration.

A Diseased Brain: Asked to describe the physical signs, observed, in prisoner, which would suggest insanity, Dr. Cannon said:-The brain is deteriorating and it is a question of which part is deteriorating first. In this case it is the frontal lobes.

LORRY ACCIDENT.

COMPENSATION QUESTION

RAISED.

A Chinese was charged before Mr. F. W. Hamilton at Central Magis tracy yesterday with driving a motor lorry without license at Jardine's Wharf, and fined $25.

It was stated that defendant had shocked down a man, who had to be removed to hospital with serious (injuries.

The Magistrate pointed out that he could grant the injured man a compensation of 930," but if he accepted any money it would bar him from taking civil action. He suggested "that the police should iake a statement from the injured. man as to whether he would accept compensation,

out when it was seen that his (de. fendant's) neck, was bleeding,.

The police constablo in question corroborated this evidence, and said that when he first arrived the murdered man was still alive. The prisoner did not understand him when questioned as to whether or no he was responsible for the deed. On searching the rear cubicle ho found a razor case on the floor, and Inter a blood stained razor pro- truding about one inch from the top of a suck.

The prosecution concluded with the prisoner's own statement ad- mitting having done the deed.

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy summing- up for the Crown Raid that the prosecution had established that de- fendant did the deed. Prisoner had been under observation since that date. Dr. Cannon had given evi dence as to his mental condition, but the question was what was plore this cause because victims were secretive and mendacious. Prisoner's mental state at the time. when the act was committed? Ho Even sufferers in as low a state as

seemed to have acted generally in prisoner retained these qualities.

a reasonable manner. The prisoner had acquired G.P.I.mitted that prisoner knew

Counsel sub- through contracting syphilis. He had not inherited it, because in every koown case the discase had been fatul before the age of 40 and accused was 45. "

In no case could a sufferer live. more than four years after G.P.I. had begun to attack him.

Grim Experiments. Counsel for the defenes having waived an earlier objection Dr. Cannon described as follows a series of tests he made with prisoner:

What are the functions of that part of the brain 7-Memory, power of observation and general ability. But I would point out clearly that if these lobes are injured or dis eased, there are cases on recording, You eat man's throat, show in which other parts of the brain, gradually and to a lesser extent have been able to take up these functions.

Are other parts of this man's brain diseased-Yes, and it reacts upon the optic nerve, and his sight, especially for distant things is de fective.

always been defective 7-No. Not His Lordship: Has his sight

until about a year ago.

Mr. d'Almada Would you con- sider his mental powers only those of an idiot No. An idiot has only the mental powers of a child.

What loss of power do you attri- bute to GP.I.I-First of all the higher intellectual powers. A per- son Folding a responsible post would be unable to fill it, though he might do work of a lower stand- ard.

ponsibility would be reached -The In this case what degree of irres- and reasoning higher faculties till a low type of imbecility would power gradually get lower and lower be renched-what would be called dementia proper.

Effects of G.PI.

"I did not hypustise the man bat I made use of suggestion by say

me how you did it. He took a ruler I gave him, in his left hand; and bolding it behind his back walking in a slouching manner up to the supposed victim and went through the action of making two cuts in the neck. I said, don't you think that is wrong?' he re- plied. Why is it wrong, why should I not do it if I want to 1

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quality of his act, as he had subse quently made an attempt to cut his own throat and to hide the weapon,»

- Speech for the Defence. Mr. Leo d'Aimada, jnr., for the defence, "asked the jury to notice

that there was no evidence of mo- tive established by the Crown. The evidente was that prisoner was a taciturn man who had hardly spoken twenty words all the time he was in the boarding house. After the meal be had returned to his cubicle

and then come out again to commit the alleged crime. It was imposs ible that he should have failed to see the joki who was in the room at the time but he made no attempt to conceal what was doing, and having done it no attempt to escape, but walked back to his cubicle where he stayed while the police was blown, and until called out by the constable. Dr. Cannon was perfectly satisfied as to prisoner's insanity, but he could not say de- "The next day I asked him the finitely whether prisoner was, at the same question and he said he did time when he committed the act, not remember cutting anyone's able to tell its quality and nature, throat. I gave him the raler and or distinguish between right and he went through the same pan- wrong. When under observation he tomime an the day before, prob- had been naked many times if hef ably, under the suggestion of my had committed the crime and had mind, for he did not seem to know invariably answered in the affirma- what he was doing.

tice, once or twice adding is there anything wrong in it?"

On several successive days, wit- Aess continued, accused admitted the crime but later on he did not to remember what he had done.

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The Summing-up.

The Chief Justice, in summing-up, said that the law was not concerned

Counsel naked the jury not only to consider Dr. Cannon's" evidence As to prisoner's mental state, but, the absence of motive, the fact that He lost weight, but generally he there had been na intercourse be- ate well. It was part of the treat-tween the prisoner and deceased, and, within reason, let him have it. attempt on prisoner's part to es- ment to ask him what he wanted and the complete absence of any Sometimes the ate voraciously, at cape, cover or conceal his acts. others he refused anything. Lucia Intervals.” How does G.P.I. effect a man's Br. Fitzroy raised the question of with motive but with what a man power of telling right from wrong !—the meaning of "lucid intervalk,"

had done and how he did it. In At times he would be able to teli Dr. Cannon aid that certain parts this case there was evidence of a right from wrong, but at later of the brain dealt with certain fune certain amount of motive, for the stages he would not be able to do tions. When the non-diseased parts prisoner in his statement at the A message was sent by wireless hy

Bo. There are no really lucid in- of his brain were called into play Police Court had said that the the Captain to the Police and Mill-tervals.

prisoner could answer reasonably, people of the house took his tary authorities in Hong Kong, and

He would be unable to distinguish but directly the diseased parts

steamer ticket away and that he when the Kum-Sang berthed along- the nature and quality of his act were active he ceased to be reason- side the Kowloon Wharf yesterday, Yes, in the ordinary sense.

had been virtually a prisoner in the The able. In the medical sense there house. the body 09.

removed to the accused's reasoning faculties have were no lucid intervals. Mortuary.

With regard to the defence of very much deteriorated.

Witness agreed that homicidal insanity it must be clearly proved Bellerby was only 25 years of age, Witness agreed that the man was manin was rare in the melancholic that at the time of the act the and enme out to Hong Kong on An opium addict and had been type of insanity from which prisoner prisoner was suffering from a dis October 22, 1926, being due to re-treated in hospital."

suffered, but it was by no means. case of mind which, affected him so turn Home early next year. The

Mfr. d'Almada: The prisoner is unknown. deceased was an athlete of some dis what you would term medically in- The commonest farm of madness and nature of the act he committed. that he did not know the quality tinction, being very good at the sane 1-Oh, yes. This is a founda was megolomania in which a person Even if he did know this he was not high jump.

tion type of medical insanity. thought he "owned the world!" and guilty if he did not know at the

Is there any possibility that these were the dangerous cases.,

time the difference between right prisoner was shamming 1-Not the All insane persons were, however, and wrong. slightest. It is a thing we look out liable to homicidal outbreaks. for. I take it that every man is malingering till; I have satisfied myself to the contrary.

the

motest.

In the Boarding House.

A Military Funeral. In the course of an interview with Pressmen as to the participa Deceased WAS buried in

Dr. Cannon had said that the tion of Kwangtung troops in the Protestant Cemetery. Happy Valley,

prisoner was medically insane but) campaign against the Ironsides" yesterday, with military honours in Hutan, Mr. Au Fong Po. the The coffin, draped with the Union

A foki from the hoarding-house the medical profession carried the head of the Political Department Jack, was borne on a gun carriage,

He had no idea of the nature At 68, Connaught Road West, gave meaning of the term insane. " Dr. of the Military Headquarters, said: and there were in the procession the

of your examination ?-Not the re-day when the crime was committed.

evidence of the happenings of the further than did the law.

Cannon had said that in this case The military authorities deem Band of the King's Own Scottish it unnecessary for the Kwangtung Borderers, a firing party from the and Kwanga troops to operate Royal Artillery, officers including said that he had bad special ex-

In answer to Counsel, witness He said prisoner left the premises he could not say that at that time soon after he arrived, and was ab- prisoner was unable to realise the against the Ironsides," the Major Hewison, Major Tuke, Capt. three divisions of the Hunan Army Crouch, Lieut. Otton, Lieat, Wolfa perience of mental cases as assist sent for two days, after which he quality and nature of his act, and are quite sufficient to deal with Barry, and Licut, Sugden, and Superintendent of the West Riding the prisoner in conversation with times appreciate the difference be ant for several months to the returned and went into the rear further that by medical tests be had found that the prisoner could some. cubicle to sleep. He never saw them as they consist of only one company of men of the unit. division. The Kwangtung and The firing party and barters Mental Hospital-one of the big-deceased, but when they had a menijtween right and wrong and some- gest institutions of its kind in Eng- Kwangai troops will therefore not proceed to Human but will remain

land-and for several years in Hong on August 25, after which the crime times failed to do so. The fact that was committed, the two men sabe had tried to cut his own throat on the borders of the two pro

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opposite each other. Some time after the act suggested that he knew vinces to prevent the Ironsides'

after the conclusion of the meal het he had done wrong as did the hiding from retreating southward.

Wreaths were sent by Lieut.-Col.

In answer to Mr. Fitzroy, Dr. Leard a cry and saw the deceased of the razor. With regard to the F. Christian, BA, Officers' 31ess, Stonecutters, Lyemun, Hong Cannon said that during the last with his hand to his neck, which fact that he did not try to escape Kong, Bergeanta Mess, Stonecutten years great progress had been was bleeding. The prisoner walked the jury must remember" that he ters, Victorin Barracks, W.O made in tracing the physical die quickly back to his cubicle. Wit was a stranger in the place.

The Verdict. N.C.O.'s and men, 31stHeavy cases which caused the symptoms of Dess went downstairs blowing a 12th Heavy Battery, insanity. Syphilis was the chief police whistle, and brought back a cause of G.P.I. but signa of that Chinese constable. When they re- disease were often dificult to trace. turned deceased was lying on the Bome persona had a natural resistor. The policeman examined the ance to syphilis and the usual body, and then went to the rear symptoms did not appear or appear cubicle and, told secused to como ed in slight form. The poison, how (Continued as foot of next column.)

concluded the last part of the core- monial at the close of the service conducted by the Rev. C. Scott Little, Chaplain to the Forcea

As to the Kwangtung troops in W. Kwangai, they will not be recalled for the time being. They will ro turn when everything in Kwangsi ja settled.

The Department of Civil Affairs Battery. of Kwangtung has instructed its Junior N.C.O's, 20th Heavy Bat stall that they must wear either tery, 31st Heavy Battery, Gurers, uniform or European clothes at 20th Heavy Battery, K. & S. their offices. They are strictly for Brigade Sergeants Mess, Kowloon, bidden to wear long gowns and Married Families, R.A., Stoneout jackets.

ters, and "Mr. and Mrs. Forsyth."

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