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TRAGEDY OF

CHINA'S WAR

REFUGEES

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YOUNG CHINESE

IN COURT

Serious Allegations

Preliminary proceedings in the I found that the work of refugee committal case against Kwan Tous, allas Kwan Po, aged 20, accused of relief was under the direction of

seriously wounding a young hawker the Central Government Rellef

named Lo Kam-yuen, were begun Commission. First there was the

before Mr. R. Edwards at the Cen- provincial organization in the city

trai - Magistracy yesterday, under the auspices of which there were careful direction and audit of many sub-branches of various districts In Cheklang.'

Its headquarters were in the memorial hall of Prince Chien, the founder of modern Hangchow. There was a large clerical start under the supervision of a very able

General Secretary:

WELL CLASSIFIED

Outlining the facts. Detective-

Inspector Rozeskwy said complain- ant was an assistant hawker ro aiding in Stanley Street. At about 9.30 p.m., on November 27, he was squatting in Graham Street Dear the junction with "Queen's Road, Central It was alleged that de- fendant came from behind him and

struck him over the head with a

DEATH

SENTENCE AT THE

SESSIONS

Found guilty of the murder of, boiling water. Mr. V. C. Branson, Tang Kam, alias Tang Yee-kam, Government Analyst, told of the married woman, Li Fuk-yue, un- analysis he had made of the employed villager of Telshan, was stomach wash-out intestines and sentenced to death by the Chief other internal organs of Tang Justice, sir. Atholl MacGregor, at Kam. adding that the the Criminal Sessions yesterday.

total amount of arsenic found was 34

It was alleged that three per- | grain. I similar examinationi sons died as a result of arsenic be- made on the organe of La Lung- ing put in a family rice bowl on kwan, 43 grains of argente were October 5, by prisoner.

found, and in Chan Kwal, there was 1.7 grains.

Accused pleaded not guilty and the jury empanelled for the case were Messrs, R. Pestonji (Fore man), Chan Tak-chlų, S. M. All, G. A. Vas, Fung Sul-leung, Go Shing kaim, Lam Kwok-tsol.

grat?.. in some bean

Witness also, analysed a pot of cooked Mice, and found 52 grains of arsenic in it. There WES 11.7 grains in a bowl of cooked rice, one-tenth grain in some beef, and 1/130th sprouts. There was a total of 291 grains of arsenic found in the con- tents of three spittoons.

Insp. AE. Carey, whilst Mr. H. C. two or three white crystals of Macnamara, tnstructed by Mr. E. ausente amounting to one-third of N. Chau. of Messrs. Johnson, a grain, while scrapings from ac- Stokes and Master, represented cused's anger nails contained the accused.

very slight amount of arsenic as did a scrubbing brush.

An

The prosecution was conducted by Mr. E H. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, assisted by Mr. paper parcel. He ran into Des. Shaftain, Assistant Director of The work for war refugees Wa Voeux Road and attempted to Criminal Investigation, and Det- | aluminium cooking pot contained well classified. There was are-throw the parcel over an awning ceiving - agency to meet the irre-into the Central Market site. The gular incoming trains, to carry parcel tell back into the road and away the wounded, to provide for

a hammer dropped out, Defen- the further free transportation of dant was caught as he was getting those who had homes further South into a westbound tram. and West in the country, to ar- In hospital complainant Was range passage by train, bus or boat | found to have a depressed fracture and to give them enough money of the skull and at the time his to buy food for their journey,

condition was very serious. Those who had no relatives in the country were received into the city. The wounded refugees were sent to an adjunct of the Wang Villa on the Southern shores of the West Lake. Many women and children were sent to the YMCA where hundreds could sleep on the Door of the gymnasium. In the Monastery of Manifest Congratula. tions I saw hundreds more of male refugees.

Among these were carpenters masons. painters, smithi, in all representing about twenty-seven skilled trades. These men. were given a chance to go out dally to secure a fair wage and bring their earnings to a local savings back.

also

When charged defendant said; "I had been chased by a number of people and I assaulted the com- plainant." On his person when ne

Evidence regarding the state- ment made by, accused in answer Witness experimented with 1 to the charge was given by a Po- plece, of white arsenic. dissolving lice interpreter who was followed it in boiling water. In one Build by Lam Fan, who identified the ounce of the solution, just over body of Chan Kwal, one of the nine grains of arsenic were found. victims, as a fellow tenant."

The solution was colourless and Leung Lam, of No. 20 Apllu | odourless. In cold water, arsenic Street, ground floor, stated that might take days to dissolve. Red s searched was found a receipt accused resided with him during arsenic was not soluble in water." for a hammer and two pieces of

the end of August, and said the In his opinion, the pictims had on. Defendant was later partial-last time he saw accused w34 on taken the poison in liquid, farm, ly identified by a woman keeper as the person who had bought a hammer and two pieces of iron from her.

stall-

Medical evidence was given by Dr. P.F. S. Court, Medical Officer at Queen Mary Hospital, who said that the, injury could have been caused by the hammer produced in Court. Complainant's life, when he was admitted to hospital, was, in danger.

COMPLAINANT'S STORY

the day of his arrest. He saw ac-

used in Apliu Street, but accused was not living with him then.

Formal, evidence of the convey Ing of several sealed jars from the Kowloon Mortuary and the Kwong Wah Hospital to the Government Analyst was given by three mes-

sengers.

FOOD POISONING

Mortuary, declared that he per-

Poon Wal, drug dealer. stated that his firm bought arsenic from the medicine, dealers at Bonham Strand. They were bought m two forms, red and white, rock. and were sold at 40 cents a catty, He only sold to doctors.

Dr. G. H. Henry, of the Kowloon

formed a post mortem on the body of Tang Tam, and found the in- testines inflamed, the spleen en larged and the liver yellowish in colour. The only abnormal sign was gastrol enteritis. All this was consistent with acute arsenic poisoning, and the cause of death, Dr. Fung, a medical practitioner, in his opinion, was heart failure IN THE CAMP

stated that he was called to No. following acute arsenic poisoning. Unskilled workers were trained

Lo Kam-yuen, complainant, said

163 Tung Choi Street, first floor. He also examined the bodies of in various sorts of manual labout, he was an assistant hawker at his

about 11 a.m. on October 5: He Chan Kwai and Li. Lung-kwan, and beginning with simple occupations father's stall, No. 10, in St Jey

saw there an old man named L found similar conditions. A fatal suitable in war time such as mak- Street. About a month or two ago

Leung-kwan, who complained of dose of arsenic was from two to ing straw shoes, cottan vests, mats, he was reading some

pains in the stomach and much three grains, and deceased must books in

fata) towels, heavy straw mats for Pottinger Street with 1 friend vomiting. Witness had the "Im- have taken more than a padding. Sewing of garments was named Leung Sam. Defendant was pression the man was suffering dose.

to taught.Attached the nearby and when Leung took out from food poisoning." The old monastery were 11 mow of land a packet of cigarettes and offered man's heart was very weak and in which the refugees cultivated witness one; he asked for one. As

witness gave him an injection, vegetables. Not far from this he was a stranger Leung refused About a year ago, witness had at- place was another monastery en-him and the defendant abused him, tended Ld for kidney trouble, and tirely run by priests who carried Witness intervened and said there after the treatment Ld was much stretchers to the wounded and did was, no reason why Leung should improved. all relief work.

give him a cigarette as he did not

Dr. T. Z. Bau, medical super- In these places educational now. him. Words led to blows intendent of the Kwong Wah Hos classes were held for the children The night was broken up by the arpital. testified that Tang Kam and *al of a Chinese detective. wit-Chan Kwai were admitted to the ness and his friend remained on

hospital about 11.05 am. on Octo- the spot and about ten minutes per Tang complained of ab- later the story-book hawker shoutdominal pairs and vomiting and ed to witness to run away as de- her pulse was weak. Witness sus- fendant was coming with a ham-

pected food poisoning and gave the

severity of the symptoms led wit- ness, to suspect arsenic pelsching. She became almost moribund and died at 11.30 p.m. on October 8. Chan Kwal and Li Lung-iwan also had the same symptoms and they died at 6.15 p.m. and 1.40 p.m. on October 5 respectively. The cause of death in all cases was gasterol enteritis and heart failure, which were. consistent with

in the afternoons. In all there were six stations and up to the time of my visit fifteen-thousand refugees had been passed on or cared for in the refugee station of Hangchow. These statioris were

all under the Government Relief mer: Witness ran, and turning, appropriate treatment for it. The

Commission, getting government | saw

defendant standing with a and pubile aid and meeting gov- hammer in his hand. ernment requirements.

GENEROUS FELP

SUDDENLY ATTACKED . Continuing, to described the, sub- For this work by November 8. sequent fracas and, another occa- thirty-thousand dollars and thirty-sion when defendant with six or thousand piculs of rice, had seven others had set upon him and been given by the provincial gov two friends in Yaumati. Coming ernment. Locally, two-thousand to the day of the alleged wounding, dollara had been raised in cash witness said he was squatting in and 8,709 suits of clothing had Graham Street outside the been-contributed. In all these Barber Shop arranging some vege places there was an abundant sup- tables for a woman hawker. As he ply of voluntary workers.

was squatting there he was zud- Under the direction of the milli-denly struck over the head by

there WCTC

Asia

After accused's statement, made at the Kowloon Magistracy during the preliminary hearing of the case, was read to the jury, the case for the Crown concluded.

After His Lordship had summed up, the jury retired for about hair an hour. following, which they re- turned a manimous verdict of guilty.

HE WANTED

PROTECTION

After hitting a person to, whom he owed money on board his junk on Monday, Li Kan, 51-year-old fisherman rushed off to Shaukiwan Police Station and asked for pro- This arsenic tection from his creditor.

ruse did not save him from being Cross-examined by Mr. Mac-charged before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest namera, witness said that the at the Central Magistracy yester- oxide of arsenic was white in co-day, when he was fined $10 and --

Poisoning.

was soluble in water, particularly complainant..

tary were numbers of hospitals, five someone with something heavy. four and gritty in substance. It ordered to pay $5 compensation to of which I visited. At that time He fainted away and knew nothing twenty-thousand further till he came to in hospital, wounded soldiers in Cheklang and

After further evidence had been thirty thousand in Klangsi. Hang- taken, His Worship adjourned the chow, then had ten-thousand case 1 to-morrow, wounded soldiers, half of, the pro- vincial queta. In the monastery of Lin-yin (The Spirits Retreat) were two-thousand soldiers cared for as well as could be expected with medical supplies and. ad operating room.

INCEST CHARGE

medios, aged aged 38, chief ac- Alvaro Antonio de Souza Re-

countant of the Ye Olde Printerie, PROBING WOUND WITH

Ltd., residing at No. 41. Waterloo TWEEZERS

Road, first floor, appeared on re- Nevertheless, speaking of opera mand before Mr. K. Keen at the tions, I saw a lad of about sixteen Kowloon Police Court yesterday with ordinary tweezers probing on a charge of attempted incest. into a wounded leg of a soldier for Defendant

was alleged to have a bullet, which he anally found attempted carnal knowledge of his and showed me. It was a good daughter, Emilia, Maria Remedios case for death by gangrene. Out-between November 28 and Decem- side of Lin-yin simply because of ber 5,

an inadequate supply of cheap Mr. Botelho who appeared for board beds balanced on struts, many of these wounded soldiers were sleepity on thin mats on earth floors.

to specify the date to which De- the defence, requested the police

tective Sub-Inspector Robert Cun- aingham replied that he would NO RED CROSS One of the best Institutions General and would act according- convey the request to the Attorney visited was the Red Cross Hospital. He also asked for a further which had no Red Cross sign. My week's remand which was granted enquiry as to the reason elicited Bail was fixed at 31,000. the reply that to have a Red Cross, sign would invite bombing from aeroplanes. It is difficult to see the solution of this problem be cause the Japanese complaint that the Red Cross flag has been mis- used on a number of occasions by the Chinese can also be verined, months" hard labour, by Mr. R. Ed- In this Red Cross, hospital therewards at the Central Magistracy were 60 soldiers to each section. yesterday, on a charge of stealing Each section had a doctor. head four bottles of milk from the Com-

on Back PRZO).

(Contin

THEFT OF MILK

Ho Sami, aged, 22, delivery coolle employed by the Dairy Farm, Com- pany was sentenced to

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