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APPEAL FAILS.

SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN STRAITS

BRIBES ALLEGED.

SANITARY INTERPRETERS

CHARGED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

KUOMINTANG BLAMES

COMMUNISTS.

"CHANGE KAI-SHEK'S IDEAS APPROVED.

TRIUMPH FOR MODERATES. obtaining. The intest news from Canton In

regard to Kuomintang in, relation th Com

the position of the

muniste is that the Committee ap Kai-shek's night proposals has ap- pointed to consider General Cháng proved all the suggestions.

Two Chinese Interpreters · en ployed in the Sanitary Department DANGEROUS SOCIETY.

were charged before Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy "It is clearly shown by all the this morning, with

money by false pretences and de documents in the case that owing manding bribes from a pork seller to the subversive Soviet propt-of Kowloon City Road, Hunghom, ganda coming through to Singn- "pore from Canton, which it has been almost impossible to stop, they have becqne infected with these most mischievous tendencies and the result is the spread of unrest," declared the Deputy

of the defendants, the other being Mr. W. B. Hind appeared for one änrepresented, and applied for a date to be fixed for hearing.

The case was adjourned till Thursday week, ball being allowed In the sum of $250 each...

Those resolutions included de- clarations that only non-Com-. munist members are eligible to hold office as chiefs of the con tral departments of the Kupmin- de Silva's commont tang, that Kuomintang members Public Prosecutor, Mr. N. H. F. on that extract was that the meet-are. forbidden to start other goli- Whitley," in regard to the Hylaming appeared merely to have met tical organisations or to engage community during the hearing at to protest against what they con- in political activity without the

sidered Japanese agression. Au- permission of the Party, and that' Singapore on May 8th of the other document which was read members who have resigned from appeel by 37 Hylams against their contained an exhortation "to sever the Kuomintang Party and joined.. conviction in the Police Court for attending a meeting of an unlaw-all financial relations and with the Communist Party are not to draw money in Japanese banks, be permitted to rejoin the former. boycott Japanese gooda, do not A statement has now been is

ful society.. One of the objects

of the society, it was disclosed by board Japanese steamers, do not sued by the Executive Committee

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CROWN LAND TRESPASS.

REFUSAL TO LEAVE SHEDS.

boycott, and in dismissing the there again, remarked Mr. de these "decisions, stating that the appeals Mr: Justice Deane Silva the feeling, was against what declared that a British Govern- they considered to be Japanese ag- ment would not tolerate anything gression. They complained that being done under the British flag the intervention of the Japanese in which la a direct attack on a their national affairs was undesir foreign and friendly country. able from their point of view. Mr. de Silva said he merely read these extracts to show that there was Forty-one Hylams were originalno intention towards violence: ly charged in the Police Court, one

When M. de Silva quoted from of whom was discharged. They a document found on one of the were discovered by officers of the accused a reference to two em- police and the Chinese Protecployees in a pineapple factory hav- torate at a school' in Blair, Ronding been recommended to join a

Six Chinese women and two on February 28. With the excep- labour association Mr. Whitely men were summoned before Major tion of the one discharged they interposed with the comment that

Willson this morning for tres- were all sentenced by Mr. Davil to four months rigorous imprison that shewed that the society was passing on Crown Land by having ment for attending a meeting of obviously stirring up labour trou- sheds thereon. an anlawful society; and eight of them were charged with assisting in the management of ar anlawful society, sentence of ten ment and eighteen months rigorous imesirable. prisonment being parsed variously

bleg and "endeavouring to create Mr. Tillon, land baillif, said the a form of Soviet organisation in- defendants wern shifted off the this country which in the opinion the land on November 17th. last of the authorities was highly un-year after which they sent in, a petition asking leave to stay there.

Mr. de Silva said that was mere- The petition was refused on April on the eight accused on thisy a report that someone was talk-30th, and they sent in another peti- charge.

THE APPEAL

In the appeal the thirty-seven apagllants were represented by Mr. Claude, de Silva. At the out- set he painted out that the name of the society was the South Sea Singapore

Chinese Residents

ing about labour organisations outside..

ENDANGERING INTERNATIONAL

RELATIONS.

tion which was also refused.. He asked for a fine and a removal. order within seven days. Alto- gether there were ten sheds on the land.

Ifis lordship remarked that Major Willson said defendants опе .of the

chief objects must clearly understand that they of the society was the organi- could not remain on Crown land. sation of an anti-Japanese boycott. They had already been told that. In a British colony to do a thing of and they would each be fined $10. that sort was to endanger the rela-He made the order for removal. tions of Great Britain with Japan.

timidate the Chinese Consul Gene- ral and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, who fortunately re. fused to be intimidated; fortunate- these people a laudable object. ly, also, the authorities got to The mere talk of labour troubles know of the activities of the so- outside. was not sufficient, the city in time to prevent what urged, to send men to prison for might possibly have been a seri ten and eighteen months, and be ous matter." cause Lenin was written on a docu-

ment found; in the possession of one of them.

Various Public Bodies Union, a name which he suggested shewed that the object of the society was to support communications with Mr. de Silva pointed out that foreign nations. It was an assethey, first went to the Chinese Con- ciation which he admitted was un-sul aid the Chamber of Com- lawful, since it had not been merce about it. The boycott of registered, but the object of which the Japanese was in the eyes of of itself seemed laudable from the Chinose point of view. Refer- ring to a document, apparently the minutes of various meetings of the society, Mr. de Silva said there seemed to be an intention of following affairs in China to the extent even of boycotting the Japanese. Apparently, he said.

Most strongly supporting the every meeting began with ringing convictions Mr. Whitley said the a bell and the reading of death documents discovered by the bed injunctions. Referring

thorities shewed that the society another document. relating to the

was being run as an anti-capitalist change of name of the society Mfr. society. He submitted that it was de Silva said the Magistrate clear that Tabour organisations appeared to have been much im- pressed by the word "Lenin" were being set up and which was written on it. Another probably being brought to bear on document, he said, appeared to be all sections of the Chinese com- a dissertation on the evils of mili-munity to join... Dat he submitted tarism and capitalism.

was one of the primary objects of When reference was made to a the society. It appeared also list of subscriptions found on one from the documents that the of the appellants his lordship ciety was run as a branch of the pointed out that a large number of Kuo Ming Tang of Canton, which schools figured in the list, which had a Soviet commissioner and had appeared to be a levy from the been the cause of probably a great fact that none of the subscribers part of the present trouble in

China, paid more than two dollars.

It was stated by Mr. Whitley that five of those schools, had since been closed.

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After stating that there had been two previous prosecutions.. an endeavour to stop the political activities of what was otherwise a most useful section of the munity here, the Hylams, Mr. Whitley said that so long as the Hylams stuck to their real work, of being "boys" and that type of employment, they had been a most valuable section of the community. But, owing to the subversive Soviet propaganda coming through from Canton, which it had been almost impossible to stop, they had been infected with these most mischiev ous tendencies and the result was the spread of unrest. Unless they "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS! were given a severe warning he most seriously submitted, that seri- ons results might ensue.

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Shown for the first time" in Hongkong yesterday, Cecil del ANTI-JAPAPANESE "RIOTS RECALLED,

In dismissing the appeals Mr. Mille's great film, "The Ten Com Justice Deane said the documents mandents" drew crowded houses Another avowed object of the showed the society to be a revolu- to the Queen's Theatre, where society was to stir up an anti- tionary society, the objects of is to run up to and including SUN YAT SEN 'ANNIVERSARY,

Japanese boycott. In 1919 there which were to stir up and spread Saturday. There will be four Mr. de Silva read the evidence were anti-Japanese riots in Singa- abroad. anti-capitalist propaganda. screenings daily, at 2.30 pm, given by various of the accused, pore and bombs were thrown and It was connected with the Kuop.m. 7.15 p.m. and 9.30 pm that they were diseased, one of whom admitted that he was troops had to be called out. Those Ming Tang, which was in turn con The picture, which takes some Heer Kan, Minister of Agricul- the founder of the society, one of riots were led up to in exactly the nected with the Soviet. It was two hours to show, is divided into turé, said ho agrend, with Heer the objects of which was an anti- same way. Referring to a state- quite clear that. its object was to two parts. The first deals ex-Lovink that the method followed Japanese boycott. Another acment in one of the documents that stir up class war between various clusively with the Bible story of by the United States was unjusti- cused, who, like several of the the Consul and the Chamber of classes in Singapore, especially the Isrealites in bondage, their fad. Dutch plants were not others, was a teacher, stated that Commerce would be asked "before working among the lowest cinages liberation therefrom, their pur diseased but America was follow- the meeting which was interrupted we resort to riot," Mr. Whitley of the population. That wassult by the Egyptians, culminating lag the Monroe doctrine and ex- by the police was merely discus urged that no other conclusion was frankly a revolutionary society. In the latter being swallowed up cluding plants and bulbs at pre- sing arrangements for the cele possible than that this anti-. Apart from that it had certain po- in the Red Sea, the receiving of sent cultivated in America. The bration of the anniversary of the Japanese boycott was to go to the litical objects, one of which was to the Ten Commandments by Moses, Government was going to re-open death of Sun Yat Sen. Another extreme if necessary.

work against the Japanese and and the backsliding of the Isreali negotiations with the American accused stated that he had baked "Find out if Colonial Govern cause an anti-Japanese boycott. ties into idolatry. The story is Government with a view to having the Chinese Consul to send a ment is aware of the activities of A British Government would not most vividly told, and for sheer this unsporting treatment stopped. anti-Japanese telegram.

this association," and "The object tolerato anything being done under realism it would be hard to beat-Reuter. Mr. de Silva rend an extract of this association is to start a the British flag which was a direct this part of the film, which is from the minutes of one of the movement for awakening the peo-attack on a foreign and. friendly stupendous in conception and re- society's meetings at which the ple so that they may work for country. Apart from the interna markable in execution. Some of Ten Commandments. It is in chairman stated that the reason racial emancipation" were other tional aspect it was a fact that that the incidents are beautifully col- strange contrast to the preceding for calling the meeting was to extracts read by the Deputy Public sort of thing led to riots in the oured. It is doubted if Hong part of the film, but lacke nothing raise objections against the Japan- Prosecutor, who remarked that the particular Colony where it was car-kong has ever seen a more specta in way of dramatic force. asd who sent troops to Man-

was exactly the Soviet ried on. There was no doubt that cular display than this story of Wo can commend the film as churia, because the Japanese formula. "I submit that an all of the appellants were active Biblical days. *. encroached upon us in an extreme Court is bound to take the mont members and he was not prepared degree overseas Chinese should do Possible serious view of the acti-to say that the sentences that hd their utmost to form unions to vities of this unlawful society," been passed were excessive in all protest against the former Mr. Whitley urged.. "It is obvi- the circumstances.

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