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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930.

TRUNK CALLS FROM HIRED FIGHTERS IN RUIN AND TERROR

HONG KONG

TELEPHONE DEVELOP.. MENTS FORESHADOWED.

GOVT. AND WIRELESS

TELEPHONY..

At to-day's meeting of the Legis- lative Council an Ordinance, to amead the Telephone Ordinance of

1993 will be introduced by the

Attorney General.

The new Ordinance envisages the time when trunk calls can be made trom Hong Kong to outports, also the time when wireless telephony is

established in the Colony.

An interesting section relating to the position of the local Telephone Company reads as follows:-

Whenever a system of wireless telephony is established in the Colony, the company shall connect its system of telephony therewith on terms to be approved by the Gover

nor in Council."

CLAN WAR

X

YEUNGS AND LIS IN LOCAL FEUD.

"IN MIDST OF PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR."

A clan war on July 12 between a party survamed Yeung and a party surnamed Li was the cause

of the appearance before Mr. H. R. Butters yesterday of nine Chinese charged with disorderly conduct.

Mr. F. C. E. Rendall defended those who were supposed to be on the Yeung side, d'Almada e Castro, senior, defended

the Lis.

and Mr. Leo

Detective Inspector Shannon pro- secuted. In outlining the case against the defendants, he said that the Yeungs were mostly shop fokis who bought boxes and broke them

The other side were mostly hawkers who went around and collected boxes and sold them to the Yeungs.

In connection with trunk calls the following section is of interest-up.

"No subscriber shall be entitled to make trunk calls from his tele phone unless he shall have first notified the company in writing of such his desire and unless he shall have deposited and kept deposited sach sun not exceeding twenty dollars as the company may demand of him as security for charges in respect of such trunk calla'

The new Ordinance also contains a schedule of annual rates and other charges for services perform ed by the company.

The objects and reasons attached to the Ordinance read as follows:

Objects and Reasons.

1. The objects of the amending Ordinance are to make it clear that the concession given to the Hong Kong Telephone Company Limited, by the Telephone Ordinance, 1923. applies to trunk lines laid in the Colony for the purposes of communicating with pinces outside the Colony and to pro- vide a scale of charges for trunk calls and a means of obtaining security for auch charges. Also to make it clear that the Hong Kong. Tele- phone Company, Limited, is entitled to charge its sub scribers for various services

other than these mentioned in section 34 of the present Ordi- nance, such as the removal of

lines and instruments (the

provision and installation of extensions and private switch- boards), and servicea of a similar fature and to provide a. definite scale of charges in respect of such services.

g. Although it is highly pro-

bable that of the construction

About the end of June there was

quarrel between one of the Yeung's (the first defendant) and a Dus remed Li Cháu over a sn of 82. As a result Yeung, and Li (who were apparently the ring- leaders) appeared in the Central Police Station on two occasions. On the first occasion they were warned and sent away. On the second occasion they were given each other's address and were told to take out summonses, which, how. ever, they did not do.

A Peace Conference." At the beginning of July repre- sentatives of both sides held sort |

peace parley in a teahouse in Des Voeux Road Central. A Chinese detective was called into the conference at which the parties came to some agreement. The de- tective is alleged to have warned the parties not to fight,

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After the "peace conference," both sides began to prepare for war. Money was collected from supporters of both camps and paid fighters were engaged on both sides. On July 13 the Li's sprung a Bur- prise on the Yeung's and raided

IN CHANGSHA,

GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS

IN ASHES.

AS BAD AS CANTON IN 1927.

According to Chinese telegrams from Hankow, a Soviet form of government has been set up at Changsha by the Communists with

their leader Pang "Teh Huai as chairman..

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Steps are being taken by the Com- muniste. to confiscate the big com- mercial organisations and banks. Merchants who have been forced to reduce the prices of their goods hare for the most part suspended busi

ness.

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All government buildings have been reduced to ashes and the wealthy and bourgeois classes hare led for fear of torture: No for eigners remain in the city.

LOCAL ESTATES.

CONTRACTOR LEAVES OVER $1,000,000.

FAMILY TO BENEFIT,

Estate to the value of $1,318,600- was left in Hong Kong by Fok Lau,, alias Fok To Kai, retired contract tor, who died at, Kennedy Road, on September 16, IDE9. Probate has been granted to Fok Pak Wing (eldest 903) and Fok Pak Yuen (seventh son).

Testator directs that $10,000 shall be appropriated as marriage ex penses for the seventh daughter, and that each of his other five daughters shall be paid. 84,000. The income of the residue is to be divid ed into 30 parts for distribution among the family."

Colonel F. W. Bannet. Net personal estate to the value of £32,413 14s. Od, was left by Col.

A million dollars have been de-F. W. Bennet, retired R.E. officer, manded from the General Chamber inte of "Fairlea," Northam, Devon. Testator appointed the Public of Commerce under pain of death.

Trustee as the sole executor, and and torture..

his attorney has been granted re- sealing of certified copy of probate of the will in respect of property worth $2,000 in Hong Kong.

The city is now in a state of terror and ruin, and red fings are flying all over the city which is nearly half deserted. It is reported that the present situation in Chang- sha compares with that in Canton during the Communist upheaval in 1827. "

Yochow Expected to Fall.

Wuckang Changsha Railway trains run as far as Siangyin only in view of the activity of the Communists at Yochow, which city is expected to fall into their hands at any mió-

ment.

The Hunanese troops under General Ho Chien, the Hunan Governor, are concentrating at Siangtan to the south of Changsha, and are preparing to recapture the fallen city. The Hankow military authorities have dispatched addi- tional troops to their assistance.

People in the districta near Changsha are organising village volunteer corps for self-defence.

According to a Nanking report, the Central Government has in structed

military authorities to hold themselves responsible for the recapture of Changsha The Government has also dispatched troops to suppress

the

Hankow

Bequests are made to the widow and children.

Mr. Tom Haviside.

Mr. Tom Haviside, ship broker, who died at No. 27, Roath Road, Wandsworth Common, Surrey, March 14, 1930, left local estate to the value of 811,200 while net per- sonalty elsewhere amounts to £5,336 52 5d. Testator appointed his cousin, Cecil Brodrick, as the sole crecutor..

Testator left, among other thing, 100 to his housekeeper for her dutiful and affectionate service to bis late wife and to himself during 25 years."

Mr. F. M. Roza Pereira,

Letters of administration have been granted to the widow in ro- spect of the estate of Mr. Francisco Maria, Roza Paróira, who died at 1, Cambay Building, Kowloon, on May 13, 1930. The local estate amounts to 83,400.

CORRESPONDENCE.

CURRENCY AND BANKING.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG DAILY PRESS."]

SIR. May I add a word to what you have said in to-day's editorial respecting the Currency Committee Report?"

Personally, I do not quite see.

that it serves any good purpose in having the Government or the Banks issue more notes in the as trade in Hong Colony. So long. Kong, and all the world over, re- mains slack and sluggish, it matters | not how many millions of notes are circulated in the local market,

the situation cannot possibly be improved to any degree.

As an instance, let us consider Singapore, where the Government issue the bulk of the notes in circulation. Does this policy help to stimulate trade one jot ? Surely not. And obviously it is futile to fog a dead horse. There is,a dis- tinct fallacy in the line of reason. ing that salvation lies in more money and more credit. If trade is depressed, can a greater demand for commodities be created simply by circulating more paper money?

Another fallacious argument is to be noted where the Hon, Dr. R. H. Kotewall says:-"On one or two "occasions in the past the public has asked itself whether the action

or inaction of the Bank in the matter of cote-issue was to the best

interests of the Colony as a whole. The public has the right to expect that the note-issue, upon which the prosperity of the Colony depends to so "great an extent, should not be subject to the will of one single individual"

Like many others who cleave to this idea, it seems Dr. Kotewall expects the Hong Kong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation to act as

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Federal Reserve" Bank in the

Colony, when it is purely and simply an individual enterprise and, in that case, the Manager is bound to act all the more cautiously in times of crises like 1995, for he is responsible to his shareholders fore the premier Bank cannot be and the Board of Directors. There-

looked upon as a fabulously rich philanthropist rendaring aid to all- and sundry.

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of the Telephone Ordinance, their shopa in Bird and Cleverly the Communists in Kiangai. Four of 60, left estate in Hong Kong assistance. As a matter of fact, in

1925, as it stands at present the concession granted to the Hong Kong Telephone Com- pany, Limited, includes the provision of trunk lices for the purpose of communicating with places outside the Colony, it appears desirable to specifically include thia class of telephonic, comunani- cation in order to remove any douts which otherwise. might arise. As there is no mention in the existing Ordinance of trunk calls or of any scale of charges in respect thereefa scale of charges for trunk calis has been included in the Schedule and provisions as to

Streets, using axes, hammers, cargo hooks and fighting irona,

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The Casualties.

After the fight, continued Detec- tive-Inspector Shannon, a Chinese constable on duty in Jervois Street saw a number of men ruaning away. He came upon five injured persons who were resting outside the Kam Sau Teahouse in Cleverly Street. He accordingly, telephoned for the ambulance, and the injured men were taken to hospital. Only one man was detained in hospital and the making of trunk calls and the others were then taken to the for security for trunk charges Police Station, where they were

included in the Ordinance.

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3. At the present time the Hong charged. Later in the day several

Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., carry out a large number of others were arrested as a result varied services for subscribers of inquiries." in respect of which no pro vision either as to carrying them out or as to payment for them is included in the Ordi nance and for this reason pro- vision has been made in the new section 34 and the Schedule.

4. This Ordinance alzò, makes

gunboats have been detailed to Kiukiang,.. which place is also. threatened by the Communist troops,

LORRY DISASTER AT

ABERDEEN."

DRIVER NOT GUILTY OF

MANSLAUGHTER.

Fong Yee Chon, the driver of the lorry which met with an accident on June 4 at Aberdeen, was ac- quitted of the charge of man- slaughter, when he again appeared before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday. It will be remembered that in the mishap, 24 persons were injured, and two of them subsequently succumbed to their injuries.

Giving expert evidence for the defence, Mr. C. Lauritsen, managing director of the Dragon Motor Car Company, said that he did not think

After the detective and the con- stable, mentioned in the opening, had given evidence, Mr. d'Almada and Mr. Rendall both submitted that their clients were guilty of disorderly conduct. They added, provision for the future link- however, that there was no evidence that the defendant had been care- ing up on terms to be ap- that the weapons mentioned by less or negligent in his driving. proved by the Governor in Detective Inspector Shannon were The mishap occurred on account of Council, of the system cover. ed by the Company's conces employed. Under the circumstances, the driver's inexperience, the sion, which is a system of it appeared that a mere binding nature of the load the car was carry wire telephony, with any sys-over of the defendants would meet

ing, and the excessive overhang of tem of wireless telephony that"

the lorry. may be established in the the case. The defendants, it was Colony!

pointed out, were not charged with cutting and wounding,

COXSWAIN ON CAPITAL CHARGE.

SEQUEL TO HARBOUR COLLISION..

coxswain of a Choung Chau Ferry was brought before Mr. T. S, Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on a charge

boy when his Terry collideu, Wita junk in harbour on July 24.

Might Lead to Murder. Detective-Inspector Shannon dis- agreed with Messrs, d'Almada and Kendall, pointing out that fighter's were hired for the purpose of furthering the clan war. "I am naturally anxious to stop this sort of thing as if will doubtless lead to murder if allowed to continue,"

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His Worship bound all partice It will be recalled that as a re

over in a personal bond of $50 each sult of the collision, three children, two girls and the boy were drown to be of good behaviour for six d. The bodies of the two girls months. The first defendant, who. have not yet been recovered appeared to be a lender of the

HisWorship remanded the case for a week and granted bail in the Yeungs was fined $10 in addition

to being bound over. sum of $1,000,

RICKSHAW AND CHAIR FARES.

INCREASE SUGGESTED.

At to-day's meeling of the Legia- lative Council, the Hon. Mr. R. E Kotewall is to bring forward the question of permitting an increase

in chair and "ricksha fares,elefon

I believe the present incumbent of the premier Bank, to whom Dr. Silversmith's Estate.

Kotewall has paid a high tribute as a man of large vision," as well Kan Wui. Yin, alias Kan Wan as his predecessor, will probably ton on February 24, 1930, at the age posed to depend on the Bank for On, silversmith, who died in Can-

agree with this point of view that some people are far too dis-

worth $5,100. Probate has been banking or commerce, it is essential granted to Kan Wong Shi, con- realities-the client's prestige and to face squarely hard fucts and cubine, who is the executrix.

probity with the Bank depends not Kong Kam, another Canton re- Lon favouritism but on the substan- sident, who died in March last, left tial character of his nosets. That's Hong Kong estate which has been all there is to the question.-Yours, valued at $28,600. Probate has been etc. granted to his son, Kong Man Shing, newspaper reporter; to whom everything fa bequeathed.

DEATH OF MR. D., D. "OZORIO.

PASSES AWAY SUDDENLY.

The death occurred suddenly at ... yesterday, at his residence, St. Joseph's Building, Robinson Road, of Mr. Duarte Diniz Ozorio Kalati"), a well-known member

leg

HARD FACT. Hong Kong, July 30.

"A CHINESE AMAZON.

MAN'S, LEG FRACTURED BY HAMMER.

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Charged with assaulting a man, Chinese, woman was yesterday before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy when it was mentioned that the defendant threw of the Portuguese community, a hammer at a man, fracturing his years of age and had been employed The late Mr. Ozorio was only 28 for many years in Messrs. Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. He had been in indifferent health for some-time, that he had to be confined to bed but he was never sa seriously ill He was at his desk in the office as usual on Tucaday so that his demise

came as a great surprise.

The deceased was a widower and is survived by his father, Mr. L E. Ozorio of Messra. Gibb, Living stone & Co., Ltd., and a number of relatives, and to these, the deepest sympathy of a large circle of friends will be extended."

Sub-Inspector Hourihan: stated that the incident arose, over a dis- pute between two men in connec tion with rent. It was alleged that. of the men. The complainant was the woman threw a hammer, at one still in hospital on account of his fractured leg, and it was probable that he would not be discharged for six weeks

The police officer asked for A zemand, and also applied for B reduction of bail, which had been fixed at $30. His Worship agreed and reduced-bail-to-825-The case was adjourned for one week.

The funeral took place at the Roman Catholic Cemetery last oven- ing and was attended by a large SLAPPED BY CONSTABLE. gathering of relations and friends.

ALLEGED MOSQUITO

BREEDING.

MR. MONTAGUE EDE

SUMMONED. ^^

A summons for failing to abate Mr. Kotewall will ask the follow a mosquito nuisance at Kowloon ing question:=" "In view of the Tong was preferred against Mr.

cayaibing high.cnpt of lying al

CHINESE WHO REFUSED TO

BE SEARCHED

Describing to Mr. Whyte-Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday the events that led to the summons. being issued against a Chinese, who was charged with resisting. search, a Chinese constable said that when the defendant refused to be searched he slapped him.

me kit Of The KOVIDON JOUCÍ 1. The sarginea the Government review the scale and New Territory Development soon were necessary, and the t of fares prescribed in clause 24 Co., nt the Kowloon Magistracy stable replied that the defendant of the Regulations made by the yesterday. It was intimated that had resisted. Turning to the de Governor in Council under the Mr. Ede had left for America fendant, his Worship said that it Vehicles 112, in respect of public however, told his Worship that, as one is in a burry to catch a ferry: and Traffic Regulation Chief Sanitary Inspector Taylor, was annoying to be stopped when chairs and jinrickahas with the view Mr. E. D. Shank was also a dires but when challenged one should to making a reasonable increase in tor, he was also liable: The sur submit to be searched. His Wor- Buch scale t

mons was adjourned for a week.! ship registered a caution.

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