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CASTLE PEAK ROAD TRAGEDY.

JURY RETURNS VERDICT OF DEATH BY MISHAP.

MOTHER OF DEAD GIRL GETS

$20 AS ACT OF GRACE.

Sitting as Coroner, Mr. T. S Whyte-Smith conducted an inquiry yesterday into the death of an eight year old girl, Tang Kam Tai, who died as a result of a motor

PIER DAMAGED BY LOGS OF WOOD.

LAW ON NEGLIGENCE DISCUSSED.

INACTION PRIOR TO THE

AUGUST TYPHOON;

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1930.

KOWLOON TO GREET NEW GOVERNOR.

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS TO BE PRESENTED.

CLUBS AND INSTITUTIONS

PREPARE WELCOME,

The second meeting of repre- sentatives from Kowloon clubs and

The legal aspect in the action brought, by the Attorney-General to recover $630 from the On Cheung institutions in connection with a Timber Company for damage caused suggested public reception and to a pier at Prära. Erst was' dis.address of, welcome

to the new

A BREATHING SPELL.

NAMHUNG'S POPULACE MAY

ESCAPERED" PERIL.

NEW TERRITORY EVANGELISTS.

LAST YEAR'S WORK REVIEW. ED AT ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting of the Houg Kong and New Territories Evan- gelization Society was held yeater- day at the Helena May Institute. The Rev. J. Horace Johnston was in the chair, supported by the Rev. 1. R. Wells, the Rev. Cheung Chuk Ling and Mr. Fu Sai Shir

According to a Canton report, the authorities and people of Nam hung, in Northern Kwangtung, pre breathing more freely, The Reds who were striking down. from Kinagsi in the direction of Kwang tung will most probably abandon their attack upon Namhung, in view of the drastic precautionary steps taken there. Several regi- ments of Government troops arrival: ed at Namhung recently, and the Keds retreated to Taiyu upon

cussed at the Summary Court yes- 'Governor from the people of Fow learning of their arrival.

acrident on Castle Peak Road terday before the Puisne Judge oon, for which official sanction has February 21 "in "the afternoon. The (Mr. Justice Wood). Plaintiff alleg deceased was walking with her ed negligence against the defendant been obtained, was held in St. cousin from Un Loong to Castle firm in allowing logs of wood, im Andrew's Church Hall on Monday Peake when she was knocked down Properly secured, to Bont is close last, when the provisional arrange

proximity to the pier, contributingents made at the meeting on from behind by motor eyele No. 499,to damage when the logs strack the driven by Warder J. McCutcheon. nier during the typhoon of August March 24, were confirmed and an

Executive Committee appointed.

The mother of the, girl,`giving evidence, said that she lived in a fishing boat plying in Castle Peak Bay, She'identified, the body of her daughter at the Kowloon Mortuary on February 29.

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Mr. L. R. Andrewes appeared for the Crown and air. F. C. E. Rendall was for the defence.

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Mr. Randall said that before deal ing with the legal aspect, he would submit there was no evidener to show that the pier was damaged by the logs.

His Lordship disagreed, remark ing it was common ground that "at least six logs were lying near the

caused the damage."

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Those present included the Rev. J. H. Johnston (Union Church), Rev. Father G...M. Spada (Rosary Church), the Rev. W. W. Rogers (St. Andrew's Church), Mesars, E. Cock, M.B.E. (U.S.R.C.), B. Wylie (K.B.G.C), H. Un, (Kowloon Tong Subscribers Association), F. C Mow Fung (K.R.A.), J. H. Hunt, Kowloon Golf Club), Feroz Ali (Indian Tennis Club), Ng (Chinese Y.1.C.A.), E. Abraham (K.C.C.), R. Wong (St. Andrew's Club), L

ing (Kwong Wah Hospital) and Dr. Ip Kam Wah (Chin Wu Athle

The report for 1929 states inter

The year has been' non eventful ong. The dignity of finding the funds for carrying on the work ied her five to six thousand but have Committee, and that Committee

It is reported that the Reds aum

to the appointment of a financo The Canton made certain representations and only 2,000 rifles. authorities have decided to disapportioned responsibility for ob- patch the brigade under Brigadier raining the funds. The Chinese General Mo Wai Shou and a regi church felt that the effort to obtain ment under Colonel Wu Man Hin to deal with them. The Canton Government has wired the author ties in Kiangsi to detail troops to co-operate with them.

CHINESE WILLS ·PROVED.

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PROPERTY IN THE COLONY.

The wills of two Chinese resident in Canton, but who left property in Hong Kong, have been dealt with

Yeung Kai, elias Yeung Yeuk Wan. fate of 10, Second Lane, Honum, Canton, who died as that address on November 10, 1929, left local estate of 932,000. Probate has been granted to the widow, Yeung Wong Shi, temporarily of 123,

Waterloo Road, Kowloon,

Li Kam Chuen (or Tsun), who died at 7, Chiu Op Lane Honam, Canton, on May 18. 1920, left estate ain Hong Kong worth 823,800, He was not a permanent resident of the

Tang Ho age 18, cousin of deceased, stated that she saw the accident occur. On February 21 her cousin and she were walking pier, and he must find that the logs O.B.E. (European T.31.C.A. and by the Supreme Court, from Un Loong to Castle Peak and Arguing on the question of neglig were on the left side of the roadence. Mr. Rendall agreed that de prior to the accident. She was in fendant was under the duty to pro-

tect his neighbour's property na hed Almada (Club de Recreio), Ho front and her cousin about four would his own. The logs were lying vards behind her. She looked back in close proximity to a Government

3 she progressed and just belern Pier, and it was up to the defendant tic Association).

to see that no damage was crused the accident she saw a motor cycle | by negligence on his part.

After quoting authorities with re- suddenly appear frem behind and knock her cousin down. She did card to damage done by animate and inanimate objects, he referred not hear any horn sounded. She to the evidence of the defendant, dodged to the left to avoid the who had said that he tied up the logs to a ring-bolt in the Praya eple. "The Tider stopped, and a wall. The logs were left floating Chung Mee motor 'bas at this point in the water owing to the break arrived on the scene. After un down of the pulley block, which Indian constable and the conductor necessarily stopped the work of. of the bus had alighted, she ran landing the logs. When he started the work again on the following to fetch the mother of deceased, wh morning (the day of the typhoon), later arrived and carried her daughter to the Castle Peak Police he found the wind, and waves were Station in a car. The cyclist also against him and prevented him from went to the Station. Witness was them to the typhoon shelter. The getting the logs ashore or towing present on the following day at things were then secured with steel Kowloon Mortuary and identified rope and staples, the body of her cousia."

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MURDER OR SUICIDE? CORPSE IN CONNAUGHT ROAD

The Rev. J. H. Johnston haying" been voted into the chair, an Exceative Committee composed of the following gentlemen Was pointed:-Chairman, the Rev. J. H. Johnston; Vice-Chairman, Mr. H. F. Un; Hon. Secretary and

The widow, Li Au Yeung Shi, Treasurer, Mr. C. E. Terry; Com- who resides temporarily at 402, mittee: Messrs. L. d'Almada, E. Shanghai Street, Yaumati, has re- Cock, J. H. Hunt and Ho Ming.ceived letters of administration to The Hoo. Secretary having read the estate. Testator appointed her reply from the Club de Recreio as the executrix and gave her power intimating their willingness to place to administer the estate until his the Club at the disposal of the five sons, become of age, when the Committed for the function, and to estate is to

success, it was cerate in every possible way to among them,

take place on the grounds of this animously agreed that the function

Club. Other provisional arrange- ments approved by "the meeting were that the event should take place at 5.30 p.m. on May 9, tea being provided and a military and arranged for Guards of Honour will be furnished by the Kowloon, Girl, Guides and Boy Scouts, and a suitable illuminated address presented. Opportunity will be found for representatives of the various institutions and their ladies to meet His Excellency, and arrangements will be made for a dance after the official ceremony. It was agreed that the expenses After quoting further authorities, should he met by the issue of Mr. Bendall submitted that if the tickets at $1 each, obtainable from damages were caused by one or more the various bodies or at the door, of the logs, then there was evidence and the institutions represented that the defendant or his agents agreed to bear any deficit which exercised reasonable", and proper] might result.

A Bidor and His Horse. The wind increased and it was known that the typhoon blew at more than 100 miles an hour. Then, as in the case he had quoted in which a horse ran on the pavement and killed man in spite of the rider's efforts to control the animal, where it was held that the rider was carried on to the pavement against his will, the logs were carried away by the force of the wind. In this case a man was helpless against a typhoon.

Warder J. McCutcheon, in the witness box, said that on the after- noon of February 21 he was riding fen In Loong towards Tain Wan. At about 250 m. near the P.W.D. Workshop he noticed a Chung Mee mter hos coming in the opposite "direction. Between him and the Yus he saw three persons, two girls asd a mag, walking along in single Been the left hand side. He sounded his motor horn to inform the oncoming hus of his approach; Deceased, who was in the accond nosition, suddenly ran out from the left and attempted to cross the road. She was knocked on the head by the left portion of the handle ar of his cycle and witness was unsented, He had no time to apply the brakes,' as he did not expect care in the circumstances by tring: "The drafting and preparation of deceased to cut across. The 'bu up the logs to the Praya wall., stopped about 10 yards short of witness. His speed at that time was about 23 miles per hour. He went to the Castle, Peak Police Station with the mother of the girl "and the Indian Constable, "At

about this time the girl died.

Dr. J. E. Dovey, in evidence, said that after examination, he found wound in the hack of deceased's head. He attributed the cause of death to a fracture on the base of

the address was left in the hands In reply to his Lordship's obser of the Executive Committee, who vation as to whether the defendant will meet again or Thursday, April was justified in bringing the logs, to put the necessary arrange at the time in question, Mr. Rendallments in hand. replied that typhoon signals were displayed very often, and no typhoon materialised. On this occasion the typhoon came, but there was ship ping in the harbour and the ferries were running until 11 a.m.

His Lordship said that in a case like that a man was taking great

the skull, shock and concussion. risks, and he might get away with

A MODERN ** "PRODIGAL SON."

BUT DOES NOT REPENT!

A sentence of three months hard

Yue Hung, driver of motor bualit nine time out of ten. There was labour was passed by Mr. R. E. nothing to show that the defendant Lindsell at the Central Magistracy was to blame for what happened yesterday on a Chinese youth for after nine o'clock in the morning, stealing a quantity of clothing from but the question was whether or his father's premises at No. 2, Fee not he was negligent between mid- Lung Terrace. night and the morning when nothing was done.

No, 212 of the Chung Mee 'Bus Co., said he was driving towards Un Long: Near the P.WD. Work men's Shed' he noticed motor eyele coming in the opposite diree tion about 60 feet away. One of the two girls who were between his

Accused, pleading guilty, laid the blame on is father who, he alleged, had neither given him & decent education nor placed him in a res- pectable job.

Defendant's father told the Magis- quite a trate that his son

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WEST.

POLICE INVESTIGATING,

The Police Department are in- ♫ Chinese, vestigating whether whose body was picked up in Con- naught Road West, near Centre Street, was murdered or whether he committed suicide.

On the neck of the deceased per son there was a pronounced mark of strangulation, and after a casua! examination this fits in with both theories. A fuller examination and a post-mortem report may help to determine the precise cause death.

of

It is quite possible that the man committed suicide at some addreas and his corpse had been dumped in Connaught Road so that the people at the address would be pestered with questions and also perhaps to avoid funeral expenses.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN “

KENNEDY ROAD.

A daring case of robbery occur- red at Kennedy Road yesterday when Mrs. White, employed by Rev. Hewitt of St. Paul's College as a nurse to his baby, had a gold sing, value $10, forcibly taken away from her.

Mrs. White was pushing a per- ambulator with her master's baby in it along Kennedy Road from west to east at 5.20 p.m. yesterday. When about 300 yards cast of Hos- pital Path a Chinese came up from behind and caught hold of her left arm and throat and knocked her down. The robber pulled the ring warning from the Observatory by hopeless case." The boy has been off Mrs. White's finger and escape signals on the day before the stealing things since he was 14 years along Kennedy Road in a westerly

He had been very idle at direction, typhoon, and he bad also received old.

school.. When defendant was 18 A description of the man had special warning from a PW.D. foreman. The Crown case relied years old he was sent to Canton to been given to the Police.

the learn to be an aviator but again on this disregard of botă general warning and the special he wasted his chances and had been Do warning. The defendant took ac- squandering money instead. tion, but he acted too late when fendant had been turned out of the house, but he took, several things he should have done so

is and the motor cycle ran in Defendant Received Two Warnings, front of the cycle and was knocked down when she was in the middle Mr. Andrewcs, dealing with his of the road. The driver of the own points, said that in the first motor cycle, in his opinion, could place the defendant was negligent not have been driving very fast. in that he had received a general

The Coroner, in his address to the jury, dealt with the evidence submitted by the drivers of the 'bus and cycle. It was clear, he said, that the girl bad run out from the side of the road. There was no reason to doubt their evidence and he could find no signs of negligence on the part of the driver of the motor cycle. It was, however, for them to decide whether any neg ligence had been proved.

The jury agreed with his Worship and, without retiring, returned a verdict of "Death by Misadven-inaction ture."

sooner.

With regard to the point that a away with him and had been back typhoon was an act of God, he several times to "help himself." would say the evidence excluded it. One of his points was defendant's

between midnight August 21 and 0 o'clock on the At the conclusion of the case, the morning of August 22. At this time mother of the deceased child' ap- defendant knew he kept a dangerous pealed to Mr. Whyte-Smith to see if object, and he did so at his own any financial assistance could be risk

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given her by Wärder McCutcheon. He went on to say that the logs She was a widow and had a small were improperly secured immediate- Mr. Stevenson, Second Officer of Coild dependent on her. Her ly before the typhoon. Further, de- the Jardine a., Hang Sang, who fendant's foreman had agreed in contemplates sailing round the world cross-examination that it would have in a junk, arrived here on the Hang been safer to have acted sooner, Sang from Tsingtao yesterday morn which Mr. Andrewcs submitted was ing...

daughter, she said, when, she was alive had been of much assistance to her. The Magistrate sympathie ed with the woman and replied that that was a matter between Warder McCutcheon and herself. She must, of course, understand that she was not entitled to compensation.

an admission of negligence, because The junk, which has been christen it meant that defendant chose to ed "Maskee," is still in Swatow take the risk.

at present, and we understand that Mr. Stevenson intends to set sail fometime between the 12th and 14th

The Crown Solicitor added that It is understood that after con he had intended to raiso many sultation with Mr. Whyte-Smith in points in his address, but his Lord- inst. Mr. S. C. Banks will accom chamberą, Warder McCutcheonship had anticipated a number of pany him on the trip. which will agreed to give the mother of deceas them and had put them to Mr. Ren-occupy about a year. The name of ed the sum of $20 as an act of dull. It would be therefore un the third gentleman is, up to the

necessary for him to argue further. present, unknown.

grace.

THE NEW STATISTICS OFFICE,

OPENED ON TUESDAY.

the sum apportioned to it was be- yond its power and from this grew the proposal that the Hong Kong Destrict of the Church of Christ is China should assume responsibility for the work, but that this Society representing the local Chinese and non-Chinese churches should con- tinue its efforts to spread interest in the work and raise funds for its support. To put such a proposal into effect certain changes" of" con-" stitution will have to be made, and the details of the arrangement are under discussion, but the gen- era principle is accepted by the Committee.

Another development through the

year came about through some friends in Canada seading funds to Mr. Warren, and arrangements were made to spend this money is

children in the various stations. Moving pictures were taken of children at play to enable people. see something of our work.

providing special treats for the

The Funds.

The Treasurer has had a year of anxiety, as funds did not come in as had been anticipated, and at the end of January a sum of over one thousand dollars was required to secure a clean balance sheet for the year. By dint of great efforts. on the part of Chinese and non- Chinese collectors, and through un- expected funds reaching the Trea- surer in time, the funds show a balanec of $215.40 at the end of the year as against a balance of $162.68 last year. Our hearty thanks are presented to the collec tors both in Hong Kong and Kow- leon, and also to Mr. Mackenzie in Cheung Chau, and to the Chi- nese churches for their great efforts on behalf of the work.

Tribute To Late Rov. F. O. Young.

We have to record the removal of one of our most interested and valued co-workers in the person of Had Mr. the Rev. F. C. Young.

Young not fallen ill and eventually been taken from us. we feel sure that our financial position would have been much better than it is. Mr... Young's death will be felt as a loss, in many departments of the Christian work of the Colony, but in none more perhaps than in the New Territories Evangelization Society work.

Territories should be mentioned in Various activities in the New our report. The evangelistic bands sent out by the Churches of Hoog Kong have done valuable work in mary parts of the Territories. Probably in most parts only 1 per cent. of the population in Christian and even in Taun Wan it is esti muted that scarcely 10 per cent. of the people are connected with the church.

The accounts were presented by the Rev. F. Short, and, together with the report, were unanimously adopted.

given by the Rev. Cheung Chuk Following an address in Chinese Linz, the cinematograph pictures

of Chinese children mentioned in the report were shown by Mr. D. F. Warren and preved most interest- ing.

YAUMATI JEWELLERY

THEFT.

$11,000 WORTH STOLEN.. Very mysterious were the circum- stances connected with the theft of $11,000 worth of jewellery and money from a wealthy Chinese widow residing at No, 92, Parkes Street, Yaumati.

The owner of the stolen property is Mrs. Lam Tat Chiu, who, after the death of her husband in Siam where they had been successful in business, returned to the Colony and resided in a room at No. 92, Parkes Street, Erst floor. There were also three other families on the floor.

When Mrs. Lain awoke at 6.20 yesterday morning she found that her jewel case, which contained mostly rings set with diamonds, was missing. A search was im mediately made and the case was found to have been prised open and left in the street. The jewels had already been taken away. A curious feature of the case that nothing else was stolen from the premises.

Wark started in full swing in the Rew Statistics Office on Tuesday, and since then a number of appli cations for Import and Export De- claration Forms have been received. Some of these have already been filled in and returned and one point of interest is that the forms printed in Chinese are being used up faster than those printed in English

We have been informed that there appears to be an impression that the public are not allowed to print their own forms, but if they make them exactly the same as those

There appear to be many puzzling given out by the Statistics Office,

factors in the case, and it has not there is no objection whatever.

Mr. Schofield told our representa-been exactly ascertained how the tive that they were limiting the theft was perpetrated. The Police, number of forms given out to the however, have little doubt that the thief or thieves are well acquainted. different Grms and they must con- tinue to do this until such time as with the premises. Up till late. they have an idea of how much each last night no arrest had been re-

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