1933-06-03 — Page 7

CANTON NOTES

"Speculations on the

Situation

PROMOTION OF FOREIGN

TRADE.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, June 1.

All kinds of speculations are rife as to the possible developments of the situation at Canton as a result of the recent trend of events General Feng Yu Hsiang is hailed

here as a national here for assum ing the command of what is called the People's Forces, and unqualified support of him is announced from this part of the country, which fully endorses his declaration to treat

all real resisters as friends, and all falso resisters as foes," though what exactly that implies, it is not clear. Much importance is also being attached to the statement by the 19th Route Army lenders, Tsai Ting Kai and Ching Kwang Nai, expressing their opposition, to the compromise negotiations. The state-

MURDER AT SHAUKIWAN

OLD WOMAN FOUND

STRANGLED

The body of an old woman, Po Miu, 76 who was reported missing on Thursday afternoon was found on the ground floor of 57, Kam Wah Street, Shaukiwan, yesterday afternoon. Death was caused by strangulation. The place where- the body was found was an empty house, only five doors away from where the unfortunate woman liv ed. So far details are still meagre in regard to the persons connect- for the murder was ed with the crime, but the motive robbery as 8200 in bank notes and one rattan bangle are missing.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1933

CLAIM AGAINST AN UP-COUNTRY IN HAINAN

ADOPTED SON

Chief Justice Reserves Judgment

A FORGED DEED OF"

ASSIGNMENT

ISLAND

PICTURE OF LIFE IN DRAGON TONGUE

VILLAGE

CROPS; CRAFTS AND BOAR HUNTING

Your

(From Our Own Correspondent)

correspondent

Judgment was reserved in, the ease in which a Chinese woman, Lo Tea Shi, administratrix of the state of her late husband, Li Woon Nam, apparently is seeking to recover catate known as 73, Bunham Strand from Pong Tuoi Ching, of Shatin, it being alleged that the property assign ment was a forgery perpetrated by spent a number of days in villages Long-mui and Ui-dick markets plaintiff's adopted son, Li Kai Loy.ying on the upland plains between Mr. H. G. Sheldon and Mr. Leodiak is some eighteen miles D'Almada Castro, jar, north of Kachek, on the road to structed by Messrs." Lo and Lo) are appearing for the plaintiff and Hojhow, and Longmui is about the same distance from Kachek but Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. and Mr.

noro. to the west. The country be F. C. Jenkin, K.C. instructed by tween the two markets lies high Mesars Hastings & Co., for de-and rather level, a part of the U- fendant.

hok plateau forming the main watershed in the island and the

However, the following jewellery were found on the body: 1 jade bangle, 1 English sovereign gold bangle and 1 silvor chain girdle with silver dollar buckle.

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recently lets were being stripped from the large roots and the dirt rubbed off, the dampness cause the ginger to though no water was being used test mould. The ginger root, is sent to Hoihow to be used in making native medicine, and sells for about five coppers a eatty. Some ginger root is also exported from the island, I am told.

nent is given many explanations | cation must be accompanied by the Johnson, Stakes, and Masters, boundary between the distinct types

but the general interpretation seems

[All letters intended for publi name and address of the writer, not to be that these former Nanking for publication, unless so desired, generals have now openly expressed but as evidence of good faith -En. their sympathies for the South- West.

Chiang Kai Shek Denounced. Demunciations of General Chiang

"POLITICS IN CHINA

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Kai Shek and other Nanking (to THE EDITOR OF THE Tenders are increasing in number and becoming more outspoken. Re presentatives of various powers in

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Mr. M. M. Watson, of Mesars, claimed solicitor's privilege when questioned by the defence as to instructions received from Ng Yu Hon, and his evidence was post- poned for consideration of the point.

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different parts of the country are form the House that the Sino- Mr. Potter said he wished, to make Much upland rice is also plantod, From there they go to" Hoihow by

also said to be in Canton though with the recent exposures of several sach, as pretenders, these reports cannot be too rendily believed Oficial spokesmen are generally re- tient or ambiguous, and deny that anything untoward is being con- sidered,

Mission to Russia.

Japanese armistice was signed yes terday." These few words in which Sir John Simon announced to the House of Commons that a truce bad at last been, signed between China and Japako on May 31st, were re- ceived amid general cheers and those cheers have no doubt re

echoed around the World by now. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the. cause of the fighting were, everyone is intensely ging that the actual loss of life and devastation af property have ceased, at any rate for the time being.

Yesterday Mr. Justice Wood ruled against witness. Interpreter's Evidence Challenged, Before the evidence was continued statement on the evidence given by Wai Po Cheung, interpreter of Messrs. Wilkinson, and Grist From the cross-examination of this witness, he said, the impression was gained that Pong Teo Shan was advised not to accept this pro- perty and that he had, so to speak, refused a chance of getting out of the deal. Mr. Pong did not agree to this version at all and, though not suggesting that the witness had told a deliberate Le, was in direct conflict with him on this point.

Beans and Potatoes,

This is the season of the year in that region too to feed baby ducks, I whole flocks of them, which will of vegetation so clearly discerned greedily gather in the last grain as one passes from the northern to of rice that may fall to the ground. the southern part of the island. during harvest." And our host at The Innd is a red earth, very ferone home was a frog-catcher when tile. Here many of the rice-fields farm work did not keep him too level earth fields' moroly, busy. He eatches his frogs by day. meaning that they are the same digging them out of the places level as the fields used for veget where they hide from the beat of ables, etc., and receiving enough the sun, and carrying them some water for the rice crop from the fifteen miles to Bang-kau market on Golden River. rains and perhaps from springs the Bak-siang ar and many tubers. The people river "boat or by car, and thence to around Dragon's Tongue village, Hong Kong to delight the epicures. which is at the edge of the plateau He makes good money. and near the hilly country, have to guard their crops night and day from the depredation of wiki bours.

A number of families make some Straw shacks are built on the edges of the fields, and every night about extra money by buying paddy and nine o'clock the younger men of the Polishing the rice for sale. They And as this was Recent plans of the local authori-

village take their blankets, some of course have the bran for pig and times guns if they have any, call chicken feed. ties and of the Chamber of Com

their doga. and go out to the nearing the end of the sweet potato merce for the despatch of delegates

shacks. They call wierdly back season almost any hour or the day to visit Soviet Russia to investigate

and forth for a time to frighten we could lunch or steamed sweet trade conditions had to promote

the boar away before they go to potatoes and watch the women as Mr. Watson's Evidence,

sleep, and often in the night we they sat and sliced the raw pota commercial relations between the

toes on an iron fastened to a board wo countries, have buon, it is now But a little black cloud, to mar

Mr. Watson said Mr. Ng Yu Hon would hear thera calling, as the learned, abandoned, hoth on

ac-one's hopefulness quickly appears came to his office and that on his boar will run when they hear the or a bench. The thin slices are calls. The men say this is a result spread on, screwpine leaf mats and dried in the sun for two or three count of the difficulty in raising the on the horizon and that little black arrival in Hong Kong he had been funds to finance such a mission and cloud appears in the form of that informed that the property had of the troubled times of the past days, then pounded into flour and because of the less friendly attitude wily old fox, Feng Yu Hsiang been advertised for sale by auction few years, when they did not dare now adopted by the country to coupled with the South-west Poli- that afternoon. Ng Yu Hon said So out and hunt in the hills for used for making various kinda of waris Soviet Russia as a result of tical Council's assuranco of its he had never heard of any mont-fear of the communists. The boar native cakes. It was also the end of the bean season, and the pods of the present Chinese Eastern Rail unqualified support to his anti-age, and while he was not prepar. increase rapidly, two litters a year the big bean, the red bean and the ed to say that the mortgage, if any,

and usually five or six young to a why squabble. A few Russian Japanese tampaign.

was a frand, he wanted to go to litter. The men of this one village white bean which had been left to journalists were reported to be

Feng is, we are told, organising the sale and get the auction post say they have killed over a ban-ripen instead of being used as visiting Canton a short while ago, an army of 150,000 men for the sole poned while communication was dred boar, big and little, since last string: beans were being gathered, sunned, shelled, and the beans sun- jurpose of waging war on Japan established with the owner who was Chinese New Year, the largest ned again, to be kept for seed next and he solemnly declares that he in the country. The deeds of the weighing about a hundred and sixty year or to be used as food. All

The bear fight viciously never recognise any truce reached property were in the possession of catlies hy the Nanking command, yet the the father-in-law of the owner and and the shots are not often im- this, and the harvesting of the next day he issues a declaration of he handed witness $3,000 for the ex-mediately fatal, o knives must be duck-food and dog-tail millet, must -yalty to Nanking!

penses of postponing the auction. used for the final blow. Men and be completed before ries harvest be- dogs are frequently seriously injur- gins, as that marke the grand rush

of two monthe

the Cross-examined by Mr. Sheldon,ed in the fighting.

duration, harvest itself and the re-planting of witness said he was very surprised that the auction was not postponed

the fields. Millet is harvested by going through the patches every al and he could not imagine a sale of property to which a suspicion of

ternate day and breaking off the ripe heads one at a time..

but little attention was paid to i those visitors."

Foreign Trade Commission. With the object of developing the volume of foreign trade in this part of the country, the South West authorities recently inaugurated -a Foreign Trade Commission to take charge of matters connected with the development of commercial in

The terests here.

Commission's headquarters is established in Cun- ton, and there was some time ago

But Nanking signed the truce, 80 how man ha be loyal to Nanking and fight the Japanese at the same time, when Nanking has ordained that the fighting must cease?

Mr. T. V. Soong declares in America that there is no chaos in

creating chace flow?

fraud was attached, not being post poned

Wong Tak Nan, interpreter of

Village Crafts.

In the villages of this region carpentering is done, but limited

to articles of common use. Cattle yokes sell for from seven to eight thirty cents), and plow handles for well acabour. half that much. in the mar

taken. quainted with Ng Yu Hon and re-kets to which they are called that on July 23, 1931, he came Yokes must be carefully made so to the office and wanted to engage that no rough places will be left could

a report that an office for the Coin- China except where the Japanese Messrs. Johnson, Stokes, and Mae hundred cash (about twenty-five to mission was contemplated in Hong invasion and Japanese intrigue Kong. It is now understood that have made it." Well, now theters, said he was attending court the Commission intends to proceed Japanese invasion and Japanese subpoena. He was with work in bettering the standard intrigue" have ceased, so who is of the local exports so that their demand may be enhanced. Investi.

Feng and the South-west Political gations are to be conducted of the Council obviously, because Nan- principal products exported from

king decrees that the fighting shall this. part of the country and ex-erase and Feng decrees otherwise, porters will be asked to co-operate yet Feng is loyal to Nanking, the by conforming with the Commis juelo Government of China!: sion's requirements for the bringing up of the exported commodities to

higher standard, it is said.

SALE

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An Unusual Katter.

confide to Mr. Watson the instruc- Mr. Jenkins: "Did you faithfully tion you had from Ng Yu Hop Yes,

Auto Tires for Shoe Soles.

It was interesting to note the prints of auto tire treads in the dusty paths, short length following short length. A skilled observer probably recognize his

a solicitor for a certain purpose. to rub sores on the cattle. Almost favourite tire from the pattern of all the people weave bamboo in the tread! Old tires are being eut their spare time, making baskets into rubber shoes the flat sandal

strips alout three-eighths of an tie on the foot in place of the grass of various types. One round bas- with a narrow strip up the heel and ket, rather loosely woven of bamboo, two or four strips at the sides--to inch wide, about eighteen inches in sandal. Such rubber sandals are diameter and a foot or 80 deep, sold in Long-mui market for five to with a nicely finished flat edge at seven hundred cash a' pair. the top but turning inward an inch,men who wear then say they wear seems to be peculiar to this region. a year and a half or two years;

He was an old client of the firm -Yes.

The matter was a little unusual, the stopping of a sale --It seemed to be.

The

It is used for tubers. A skilled work and are a help on slippery paths,

I have closely studied politics in China for more than twenty years su when Feng Yu Hsiang's name crops us, as it has in. the present situation, I look up my records to

er can make one such basket in two but are very hot on the soles of the brush up my memory of Feng's

Mr Sheldon: The whole atmos-khok, a khok' being one-third of a feet. Other pieces of tires about history and this is just a little bit of it, sufficient however to show the phere was one of rush and hurry working day 16:00-9:00 am an inch wide and five or six inches: South-west Political Council that to get this sale postponed was it 10:00 am-1:00 p.m., and 2:00 long, are on sale in packets of s

3:00 p.m. roughly, depending on the dozen or so, and are used for mak noti

time of year as to how early working the strap over the top of the or begins). It takes him one khok to dinary wooden clogs which every strip and prepare the bamboo and one wears, another to weave the basket, and for one such basket he will receive two or three hundred cash (seven or eight cents).

Witness: Yes, it was. And you could not go into things as fully as you would have liked to-No.

Ng Yu Hon said he had been to

Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist be fore-Yes, be said he had been trying to get some solicitors to get the sale stopped.

This concluded the case for the defence.

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A Theatrical Company.

Pawnshops' Fallure. There was a mild 'sensation in local financial circles a few days ago when news came out of the dis appearance of a highly respected and octogenarian merchant who held citralling interests in a chain of pawnshops not less than half they are backing the wrong, horse. dozen in number, which had to Indeed I will go further than that! close down na 2 result. The com- and say they are backing an ex- bined liabilities of these houses are ceedingly doubtful starter. He may estimated to be well over a million carry their money, but even if he dollars, and the creditors are offer. does, you can lay heavy odds to a ing a reward of 85,000 for the tin kettle that be won't try, even

In one village where we were pre- arrest of the absconding pawn if he does start, which I very much

parations were being made for a broker. It is stated that the extra-

doubt. So the South-west Political

theatre. The troup that had been vagance of his sons has been a Council, will certainly lose not only chief cause of the aged merchant's their money but also a good deal

In one village a group were busy engaged was made up of students, downfall.

of face." My records show that

preparing wild ginger root for some of them returned from Can- ton, Shanghai and elsewhere, and in 1924 when Wu Péi Fu drove Mr. Potter addressing the Court market, the pungent aroma. filling their performance was to be given. WHITEAWAY'S ORETONNE Chang Tso Lin's forces out of China on behalf of defendants referred to the air. It was a variety of wild without accessories of costume, be proper beyond the Great Wall back Ng Yu Hen's interviews with ginger brought in from the moun- into Mancharia, Feng who was left solicitors and said: "Nobody goes tains or forests, and the small rooting largely a patriotic affair. The price was 81935.00 per night, and originally this village had agreed SOME DELIGHTFUL BARGAINS in Peking to look after things there into a solicitor's office and asks for

to two nights, afterwards adding a in Wu Pol Fu's absence, turned an auction to be stopped without At Whiteaway's yesterday I found traitor and smote Wu Fei Fu, his stating for whom he is acting.

Dealing with the motive for trans- there had been, an assignment to night. Villages in the immediate vicinity were assessed so much, a myself in the midst of a sale of creown ally, in the back, so that Wu ferring the property into the name Li Kai Loy. tonnes and saw at least fifty rolls Pei Fu, caught between Chang Tso of Lee Kai Loy counsel said that Mr. Sheldon in his address to household to pay the company, any of every possible design and co-lan forces and Feng's, had to flee he could only think of three possible the Court asked what possible ob- excess of assessment or funds re- per yard. There were all the love by sea to the Yangtze, and that alternatives and these were, (1) ject the plaintiff could have had maining from gambling concessions, ly lower and harlequin designs was mora or less the end of Wu swindling the old lady, (2) to avoid in suppressing the assignment? stalls, etc, to be applied to the ex- which have been two and

payment of estate duty and (3) an She must have beag a very good penses of the very fair new school three Pei Fu politically. dollars a yard all year, at this new And Peng is the man the South-entirely innocent action. He said actor on the one hand, and must plant that is being put up. Neigh bargain price, and I should think west Political Council are backing. those people thought it was right other if she did what Mr. Potter taxed radius were busy.

it might be quite conceivable that possess a very strange brain on the boring villages even outside the it would be easy to find a colour My advice to them, and it is given and proper that this house should had alleged, she had done in this several families had gone in to- gather to roast a big porker over. to suit any and every room.

unasked but in the friendliest spirit stand in the name of the son of Li

arepit, to sell the ment at the My eye was alep caught by is a near neighbour, is to keep out Woon Nam, who in the ordinary

were Other families Mr. Potter in his final submission theatre. quaint and fascinating Nursery cretonnes (also at a dollar a yard). of complications with Mr. Feng Yu coure of events would have suc..

stated, that if a person registered pounding rice and preparing cakes It would be ahser delight for the Heiang and concentrate their entire ceeded to the property. children to see their favourite efforts on eliminating Bolshevism in

his property in another man's of various sorts, and all sorts of name, the law was that that person dainties, and altogether there was Mickie Mouse, Jumbo, Ti-China, like Chiang Kai Shok is so

ran the risk of the other men dent-considerable excitement: Older men ger Tim" and other favourite ani- wisely doing in Central Chins......

ing with it. One could not say and women shaks their heads toá male and Gollywogs figuring" on

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afterwards that the unfortunate much gambling-but otherwise it the covers and curtains in the

mod a gala time for everybody. purchaser should take the risk.

lour marked down at one dollar

Nursery this summer.

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Major.

Mr. Potter submitted that the plaintiff's explanation of the loss of custody of the deeds were in credible. He submitted Anally that the plaintiff did in fact know that (Continued at foot of next Column)

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