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CASES FOR THE DISOBEDIENT.

TUESDAY.

JULY 5.

HONAN REFUGEES IN

-PIRATES' HANDS.

•

RESCUED BY NORTHERN MAN-OF-WAR.

The first executive meeting of

Tsingtao, June 80. the Anti-Japanese Boycott League Twenty-five foreigners, refugees was held in the Chinese General from Chengchow, Kaifeng and Ko- Chamber of Commerce building. nan, reached Tsingtao to-day, hay- North Honan Road, Shanghai, on ing been taken yesterday, from a Tuesday under the chairmanshipjunk by the Northern man-of-war of Feng Sbno-shan, acting chair Chuyu, an hour after she had been man of the Chamber, there being pirated. The Chengchow foreign- an attendance of 32 persons pre- Northern retreat. at the end of ers.. Buffered much, after the

Lungha! Rallway

sent.

It was decided that all outstand- May. The ing questions should be referred foreign employees were forced to to the various committees and attend twice weekly Sun Yat-sen that, beginning from Tuesday memorial services under pain of next, no Japanese goods should be dismissal. sold. A resolution in this conne- xion was passed that offenders wil be punished according to the rules promulgated especially for the purpose of eliminating corrupt citizens.

Finally, they started for Hai- chow in a freight car on June 23, which was twice uncoupled and left in a bandit-infested country, They reached Tapo, on the const on June 27, there they met the pilot Mr. Matheson, who chartered a junk to take all the party to They salled the day Teingtao.

Residents of Woosung on Friday last held

MRSS mecting in the afternoon under the auspices of the district Kuo-after, but the captain probably ar- mintang. Factories, shops, and ranged with accomplices, for she other institutions were order was pirated on June 29, by un- ed to close for the afternoon under ther junk. All their money and the threat that those who did not jewellery were taken. The North- obey the order would be treated as ern man-of-war appeared an hour counter-revolutionaries. Numerous afterwards and took the party to

Tsingtao. anti-Japanese leaflets were dis- tributed.

in

These rescued include the Postal Commissioner, Mr. Mullen, of Kal- The Anti-Japanese Boycott fing, and Mr. Matheson, of Tapo, League has beguh to inspect bath British, two Danes from Japanese goods imported by Chin-Chengehow, 15 Belgians, two Rus- ese merchants of Shanghai. Two sians, one Pole, one Italian and big cages have been placed one Bulgarian.. front of the Chinese General Chamber of Commered and they will be used to imprison those who attempt to take advantage of the aluation by smuggling Japanese merchandise into Shanghai,

CAPT. E. MONKMAN.

CHINA COAST.

Capt. E. Monkman, one of the best-known of China Coast ship captains is retiring and leaving Shanghai for Home to-day on the Khiva.

Owing to the anti-Japanese TWENTY-NINE YEARS ON THE agitation, the Cotton Goods Stock Exchange temporarily Bus- pended business on Tuesday and the Hardware Dealers Union has circulated an order to its members instructing them to report at once on the amount of their Japanese stocks as well as to give a state- ment, of goods which have been ordered but which have not yet aron the Shanghai-Hongkong run, rived.

TRIAD SOCIETY METHODS.

ALLEGED ASSAULT BY GANG.

Capt. Monkman, who has had command of the C. N. S. Soochow,

since soon after she was built in 1021, has been in the gor- Vice of the Company for no less than 29 years. He left Glas- gow in July, 1898, as super- numerary officer of the then new str. Kwargse, cn her maiden voyage to join the company's fleet, and terminated his active service when he handed over command of

At the Central Felice Court the Soochow to Captain Fraser a yesterday, before Major C. Will-couple of weeks ago. It was an son, a Chinese furniture dealer interesting fact that as Captain Monkman stepped down the gang- living in Square Street, alleged way of the Soochow for the last that he had been assaulted, after time, the vessel lying right ahead

he had refused a demand by a of her should be the old Kwangse, gang to join a triad society, the in which he first commenced his "Woo Kay Wui."

service with the C. N. Co.

F. E. Loseby defended a man who appeared on two summonses, the first being of inducing the complainant to join the society with threats of violence, and with

assault.

On arrival on the China Coast in the summer of 1898, Captain Monkman served in various units of the C. N. Co's feet, his first command being the old Chefoo, Sub-Inspector Shaftain explain of which he took charge in 1903. ed that five or six men accosted the fe is unable to say from memory complainant on April 19th and exactly what shs he has com- asked him to pay $10 to join themanded since then, but is of society, threatening" him with opinion that at one time or other bodily harto if he refused. The he has had charge of a large por complainant excused himself by tion of the China Navigation Com- saying that he had no money and pany's Reet. arranged to meet the men on the following evening.

With the exception of a period in command of the Shantung when The matter was reported to the that vessel was a "trooper" in Police and a marked $10 note was the Persian Gulf service, his ser- given to the complainant to be vice has been entirely on the handed to the men when they ap- China Coast, with all but three peared. As the complainant was years (when he ran mostly south- returning at about half past elevenward out of Hongkong) on various at night from a late supper, with runs out of Shanghai. What is his sub-tenant the same gang ap-probably the most remarkable fact proached him and as there were about his association with the no police about, he refused to hand China Navigation Company is that over the marked $10 bill.

his 29 years' service has been a Struck with Hammer?

practically unbroken "period in The two were then assaulted the harness, the longest time he has defendant striking the complain-been away from active service ant with a hammer. A foki rugh being a few weeks when he had to ed on the scene and he was also go to hospital last year,

beaten.

He was the Commodore of the

not

Giving evidence the complainant said he was assaulted with a tres-Company's northern fleet, and sel and the foki was hit with a owing to his marked resembiance: to n'character immortalized by hammer. He could not see what happened to the sub-tenant. The Mr. Cutcliffe Hync is referred to Hatter's wife appeared on the by many of his shipmates (though

scene and blew a police whistle, whether in his hearing is after which all the men ran away, clear) as "Cap'n Kettle." He but the defendant was caught. considers his 29 years on the Complainant added that he did China Coast to have been com- not know the nature of the society,paratively peaceful. "Of course,

The sub-tenant said he

I have been in several typhoons struck with a hammer ou the and

so on, but nothing really exciting."

back.

was

Mr. Loseby contended that Capt. Monkman, who is a uative of London, is going home after all these years to see how he likes

there was no case to answer with regard to the first charge, na

there was no evidence that the it, and whether he settles down society was a triad.

With regard to the charge of assault, he stressed the difference in the evidence with regard to the hammer and the trossel, and the fact that the sub-tenant had said

said so.

in. England or comes back to China will depend on how he does like it.

The President Jefferson sailing

he was present when the gang at midnight last night for the first accosted the complainant, al- though the complainant had not, north was booked to capacity..

Among the departures were Mr. J. S. Gubbay, Lieut. Commdr. J. B. Farrier, accompanied by Mrs. Far- rior and two daughters, Lieut. Col. Huge C. Smith, Captain Boyd L. Smith and family, Dr. Constan- tino J, D. Santos, Mr. L.H.B, Frost,

Also, he added, the hammer was seen in the defendant's hand by the sub-tenant, although ho, said he was struck on the back, so that he could apparently see from the back of his neck.

His Worship decided that the Father Crossley, Mr. P. M. evidence W39 not sufficiently Pinguet, Mr. and Mrs. T. K. Liang, strong to convict, and he dis- Dr. C. P. G..Scott, Captain D. A.H. charged the defendant

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