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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8 1931

HEADQUARTERS OF HONG KONG STOCK RANK INJUSTICE.

KUOMINTANG.

SEQUEL TO POLICE RAID.

DOCUMENTS SEIZED,

MARKET.

YESTERDAY'S TRANSAC“

Following a raid by, the Police on. No. 18, Bonham Road, on Octo- ber 1 two Chincas were charged be fors Mr. E. E. Williams at Central "Magistracy yesterday with being in possession of pamphlets calculat. ed to create a breach of peace.

Inspector Murphy of the B.C.Aq who prosecuted, in outlining the case, stated that on information received the police raided the ad-quotation

TIONS.

3.

ARCHITECT'S PROTEST IN

BUILDING CASE,

HOTEL LICENSEE PROSECUTED.

TALKS WITH THE DEAD

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S DISCLOSURE.

SEDITIOUS POSTERS ON

VERANDAH PILLAR Chargon of making. n. material divergence on an approved plau in

RESPONSIBILITY ARGUED. The slight improvement noted in respect of two houses now under

A TEST HE HOPES TO MAKE, Tuesday afternoon's report develop construction in Hronessey Boad by ed into substantial advances along increasing the heights of the rasponsibility of a hotel licensee for An interesting point as to the

Oxford-Bir Oliver Lodge, speak the entire list yesterday morning, ground floors, were

preferred buyers readily responding to the against Chan Chak,

noticos posted up in the publicing at the Modern Churchmon's building street outside

his promises was

Conference Lers disclosed that he advanovs established, while the de- contractor at Control Magistracy argued by Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton had made arrangements in conten

and remained still unsatisfied. | yesterday

at the Kowloon Magistracy yester tion with a spirit communication The liquidation for the Settlement

An official of the P.WD told day when he appeared to defend which he hoped to convoy after appears to have spent itself. the Court that the origin plan Yiu Tai Hong, licensee of the Woo death.

Banks changed hands at $1,700 submitted was passed on June Fing Hotel who was charged with

Spirit communications ought Haube, with salos put through leat. It showed a height of 10 being in possession, control or post-ot to be rejected because they at 34 closed in demand at this foot for the ground Boor bub, aning up notices which were calculat uppeared trival, for this, he sai

plan submitted oned to, cause a breach of the peace, as part of their merit, and with exhibiting notices without

"If I myself find an opportun to 17 feet, did not meet with offi- che permission of the S.C.Aity of communicating, cial sanction. Meanwhile the At the outset, the Magistrate conded, "I shall try to establish houses were completed and when (Mr. J. A. Fraser) intimated that my identity by detailing a perfeck he witness) examined the place on it was he himself who drew they preposterous and absurdly September 11, he found the height attention of the police to the poster. childish peculiarity which I have was approximately 16 foot 11 in-If it was thought that the defen already taken the trouble, to re ches. Witness said he went to the dant's case was likely to be pre document deposited in the cus cord with some care in a sealed place again on Tuesday and found judiced on this account, he was. that the height had been brought quite willing to have the case hoard toy of the English Society for down to about 16 feet 4 inches by another. Magistrate. Mr. Brut. Paychical Research. I hope to re- This was done by means of a thick ton, however, raised no objection to member the details of this docu-

amended

dress which was the headquarters Wharves were in demand at September 1, increasing the height of members of the Kuomintang in $151. Hong Kong vs Buy

This organisation" said Mr. Murphy, "is tolerated but is not recognised in Hong Kong."

Providents (old) were done at 51, and at the close there was a demand for shares at this rate, with sellere asking $5.00. The new shares were also in demand at 32).

Hotels (old) wers in request at

$15.

Mr. Murphy went on to describe "the premises raided. There waS ODO big" front room and a small room at the back in one of which there were several camp-beds, an iron bed and several suitesses. The two de- fendants were in the front room when the police ontered. Humphreys (old) were wanted at

His Worship: Were they alone t

Lands, after being done at $78, were in demand at the close at $88AM

granite alab being placed on top

the case being heard by Mr. Fraser

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mont and relate them in no un

A Chinase detective stated mistakable fashion.

Inspector Murphy: There were 8181, and the new shares were also of the reinforced concrete beams evidence that he was 'directed to the value of the communica

two other persons who were cooks op the promises. "In the small room we found in an unlocked suitcase some pamphlets.

His Worship: How many! There were three kinds. We also found the official stamp of the Kuo- mintang. The arst defendant claim. ed the bag as his. On the verandah | wa found another pamphlet lying on a desk among other papers. We also found some black armlets in the verandah close to the docu- ments.

Black Armlets.

His Worship: Are the armlets calculated to create a breach of the peace i Quite a number, of people who have caused a breach of the peace were seen waring them,

„Why do you charge the second defendant How does he come into the case ?—He was in the room at the time and he claimed to be a member of the Kuomintang..

After a Chinese detectivė... had given evidence, Inspdetor Murphy went into the witness-bor and was cross-examined by Mr. Rendall, who appeared for the defendants,

Mr. Rendall: By whom are the premises rented ?—I don't know.qua You told his Worship that it was

wanted at 9181.

Realties, which were put through "

at $14, closed in demand at $13.00. Zoong Sings were wanted at $139. Trams were in demand at $20 Star Ferries were in roquest at #91. -

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China Lights, which were done at 829, closed in demand at $98.

on the ground levalj;" -

An Important Building. Mr. 1. 9. Gibson, architect, whe was in Court, told the Magistrate Mr. Schofield, that the defendant had asked him (witness) to repre sent him. Witness said that the defendant, admitted that the height Electrics were wanted at 8771. was some five inches In excess but Telephones (fully paid) were inho (Mr. Gibson) was going to demand at 843, and sales of the plead mitigation on account of part paid shares were put through extenuating at $201, **

asked the Magistrate to grant hun The de

Cements (combined) were wanted at $181.

Daley Farms were in demand at $29.

Watsons were wanted at $15.

M.C.L. FUNCTION.

WHIST DRIVE AT HELENA

MAT

used as the local headquarters of A very successful whist drive was the Kuomintang We know that held at the Helena May Institute, bafore the raid.

In fact, that premises had been by the Police Branch of the M.CL. used for some time -Three or four day afternoon. The drive was for ladies only, and the excellent And all that time there had been attendance of nearly a hundred was

recorded. no trouble No.

montus.

They had been allowed to remain

there by the police Yes, and I be lieve, they will be allowed to remain there again.

The police recognise the Kuomin tang as a recognised political party in China Yes, it is recognised in Chind and tolerated in Hong Kong, And if officers of the Kuomintang are in Hong Kong it follows that some business must be transacted by them 1-Yea. winden.

With the full knowledge of the police, these people bave occupied these premises and carried on their business-Yes,

Do you know that members of the Kuomintang come from various dis- .*-tricts in China 1-There are various

There is central branch and then each district has its own com. mitter I—Yes,

And the committee, members come to Hong Kong1-Yes..

Supposing you want to go from Luk Wai village to Hong Kong, how would you go I cannot an

swer that as I have never been in

China:

Organisation Tolerated,

To augment further, the funda` of the league a blotter and runner wore

a hearing..

circuinstances, Be

Mr. Gibson went on to say that it was a very important building, adjoining the Bailors, and Soldiers' Home in Wangbai. He wrote to the Director of Public Works on October 1, informing him that on his (Mr. Gibson's) advice, his client had and the houses meed with brickwork and Shanghai plaster. This was in order that the hours might harmonise with the Sailors and Soldiers' Home and would have cost an extra cost an extra thousand dollars or so.

spot at about 10 p.m. on September

27. There were two notices in Lion will not consist in the sub Chinese posted on a verandah pillar, facing Nathan Road. The stanco of what is communicated, licensee of the hotel was upstairs but in the fact that have never when witness looked for him. mentioned it to a living soul, and

Cross-examined by Mr. Brutton, witness said the notices were, not

no one has any idea what it con visible from under the verandah, tabs People of tenso will not Road. They could only be seen out thing but helpful in contributing nor could they be seen from Saigon take its absurd triviality as any side in Nathan Ropd

to the proof of the survival ol. personal identity."

Notices Everywhere.

What Telepathy Shows,

We have to do no violence to our physical conceptions if we "ad- mitted the fact of survival. Lif): and mind never were functions. or the material, body: they only

A question put to the witness as to whether such notices were posted. up all over the Colony wag din- allowed by his Worship as not re levant to the case. Mr. Brutton. argued that it was relevant as he was trying to show that people had been going round the Colony posting_up_notices of that kind.

Mr. Brutton went on to argue displayed themselves by means of that he knew that notices had been the material organism If they posted up at the Yaumati Market"

and even the Police Stations. Inever found means of operating in such case, he "aked, could the Gov a novel or unusual manner on a ernment be charged, like the defen- dant, with being responsible for physical organism, then they might these notices He submitted that he still manifest their continued ex- had no case to answer. The police istance, and must prove that the defendant had what they did.

that was enctly knowledge of these notices, and this they had not done. The onus was Telepathy showed that the mind knowledge it was for the police to use of any bodily organs. Henco not on the defendant to disprove could act on the mind without the show that he had plan

Mr. Gibson said that it was A Mr. Brution" said there was no certain people might have a faculty had in his possession or physical direct, and, this might account for evidence to show that the defendant of apprehending a spiritual, world control, or even had any knowledge of the notices, and submitted that genius and inspiration,

His Worship, after due considera the case should be dismissed. tion, dismissed the case.

question of the cockloft. They and to give the beam across this raffed during the afternoon.

cockloft a sufficient clearance and Among those present were noticed this was increased from 5 feet Mrs. W. T. Soutborn, Mys, Hinches to 8 feet. So that while Creasy, President of the League, and Mrs. E. D. C. Wolfe, President they still had a building 40 feet of the Police Branch. above the ground floor, it was un- Lady Peel presented the prizes at fortunately 40 feet inches, above the end of the drive.

The winners were: 1st prize, the street. That meant that be Mrs. Hynos; 2nd prize, Mrs. Longing over 40 feet, it had to have, bottom; 3rd prize. Mrs. Laing under the Regulations, a fire-proof Booby prixo, Mrs. Fooki

Tallo-let prize, No. 25, Mrs. staircase at the back; Bloor; 2nd prize, No. 34, Mrs. Weatherby.

SENTENCE CONFIRMED.

REHEARING OF SCHOOL- MASTERS' CASE,

The case in which the headmaster

Student Cautioned.

Ether Density.

Sir Oliver referred to the mis- taken impression that the ether A further batch of cases, dealing

was something tenuous, which, ho with possession of seditious litora said, was a poetic illusion assocIBL ture came for hearing before Mred with the torm. ethereal" That Williams at Central Magistracy. The defendants in these cases were ether was a very substantial en- people arriving from Canton, the tity, for denser than any form of majority of whom had one document mattor, had been gradually becom each which the prosecution accepted

physicists. According as having been handed to them by as clear to distributors in Canton. Cautions to an estimate he had made in were ragistered in each instance. ++ In charging a student from

the light of the electro-magnetic Canton, Inspector Booker said that theory, every cubic milimetre con the pamphlets had been banded to tained as much substance as what, the defendant by his schoolmaster: if it were intier, we

we should cal Defendant had brought them with

bili

Its rate of vibration, which on abled us to see any ordinary ob- ject, was five hundred million mil Flích' per ercond Yet we familiar

Strong Commant. "If this case falls on a splitting of hairs," observed Mr. Gibson, "look at the expense he is going to be to put just by a fire escape at the backd-a reinforced concrete staircase in back and front him to Hong Kong, where he had a thousand tons. Da the analogy

Mr. Gibson submitted that the Two of the documents,

been spending a week's holiday of mattor, the ether was of the -W | order of a million million times Yeuk Chee School were sentenced staircase would impose a hardship Lad been punished by being on re- and an assistant master of the construction of the additional educational history, as dense as water."

Remarking that the defendant to imprisonment by Mr. J. A.

on his client, and asked for a no-mand for one week his Worship Fraser at Kowloon Magistracy last minal fine so that is client would discharged him with a caution. week, when the men were charged with possession of documents chicus not be put in the unfortunate posi lated to cause a breach of the ton of being required to

to have peace, was again before Mr. Fraser yesterday morning when, after fire escape at the back when he TAKING LETTERS OUT OFly made use of these vibrations. evidence of character had been already had one in front "It given by several responsible people would be a rank injustice on my They were conducting themselves who knew the accused, His Wor-client if he is to put up that other quite properly Yea

ship fined the headmaster 2500 or are escaps," added Mr.Gibson... Answering further questions, Inan. three months imprisonment whilst Mr. Schohald held that builders Murphy stated that he was only the sentence on the other defendant must koop to the plans they, anh charging the men in connection with one year's imprisonment) was con- milted, and when alterations werz the pamphlets and not for posses-

Armed.

It will be remembered that Mr.time. He imposed a fine of $50,

mada must give notice of them in "sion of the bläck armlets and chops.

Witzone admitted that one of the OE Rendall applied for are Mr. Cihson: I think, your Wor pamphlets was found in the front hearing a few days ago. When the ship, my client will apprat verandah which was not where the case came up again yesterday Mr. Asked by the Magistrate what defendants were when the police O Jenkin, E.C., appeared on he would be appealing against entered the premises

behalf of the two men.

Mr. Gibson said the appeal would be against the 850 fine,

All these people have been here for several months and the police never thought it worth while find ing out who was the head Thara was no necessity because they have never 'attracted our attention....

Aftor further questions Rondall asked: Do you say that the

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Bonifauió Dinna, a young Filipino, "The revolution in physionl was charged before Mr E H science which has been going on yesterday with attempting to convey the effect of directing our main Williams at Central Magistracy all through this century has had

without the permission of the Super- bodies and concentrating it on the letters out of the Victoria Gaol attention away from material intentent. It was stated that he multifarious happenings in space. was on the point of being discharged To my belief this procean will go from gaol where he had serving a further, for that is where our real sentence for, fraud. He was re-existence lies, and there is our arrested by the prison authorities epiritual home"

pieces of black crepo were that he was on his way to Nanking. criminating No, I don't say the He explained that only one docu- were, but it is what they symbolisment had been found in his suitense that rantterse

I suppose you didn't arrest the and that that had been sent to him Bank of Canton the other day for from his village and was a sort of dying its flog at half mast-No, Personal letter. The seal was in, his

possession but he was merely carry we didn't get

This closed the evidence for the ing it to Nanking lady ORI prosecution, and His, Worship, then His Worship held that the docus discharged the second defendant as ment found in the defendant's lug-win passed through the Colony, the letters might be translated Raymond, who has frequent

gage: sama -under-the-heading of last wee

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§. Akod whother ha had had corrar Chief Warder F., MoLead told the | pondence with prominent Spiritus, *Court that the, letters were found liste who had passed over, Sir

by, an officer tied round the defen- Oliver réplied "dant's leg when he (the officer) wes. "I have had a good deal of guid- searching, the man prior to lofting | saco anil help from people on the Thim out.y. Witnese saked for, a "re. other side from my wife, who died tás: King of Siam, mand until Monday, in order that two years ago, and from tag

Leon, hierotarn. The were being sent zanother givání zno-sesistance,

der Filipino who was in the

admitted:

there was no evidence against himig those which tended to sorento 2 from Amerin, where he

The Arst defendant, then went breneh of the peace. He imposed went an into the witness-box whore be "slated that he was, member of the Kusa dins of 100 on the first dalondant trouble has ver mintang of Lo Kwa village and adding that while the documenta ated from: would be alright in Chips, they of 299,000

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