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ALLEGED FALSE KWANGSI CLIQUE'S

DETENTION.

TWO EUROPEANS AMONG DEFENDANTS:

CLAIM FOR DAMAGES.

SCHEMES.

HUNAN SITUÀTION INTERESTING.

CHIANG BEHIND CHANG FAT-KWAI?

INTRIGUE GENERAL.

Leslie Haynes, C. M. Houghton and Suen Kam-suen, ating Suon Sho-funk, were the defendants named on a writ which was men- tioned in the Summary Court this

The big combine of provinces morning, at the usual. Friday: morning sitting of the Pulane Judge when cases are fixed for designed to eliminato Marshal hearing.

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Chiang Kai-shek from the politi

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MISSING LETTER CASE.

FAMILY TROUBLES AIRED IN.COURT.

FINE FOR OPENING.

Before. Mr. R. E. Lindsoll, this morning, Mr. Hin Shing-lo, repre- senting a Chinese lady doctor from Canton, prosecuted a small, boy for the theft, unlawful detention, and unlawful opening of letters.

Mr. A. E. Hall defonded. At the commencement of the hearing. Mr. Lo, in it brief address to his Worship, explained that the

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3,

HORRORS OF RED TERRORISM.

TRAGIC TALES FROM· HOI FUNG.

WORSE MASSACRES THAN AT CANTON.

ROOT OF THE EVIL.

Torrible facts regarding Com- munist rule in the Hol Fung and

on the necessity for dealing with the evil at its source,

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1928.

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The plaintiff in the action is cal arena, which is being engineer parties were children of the same/Luk Fung districts are given in the largely with the procedure of the A large number of witnesses will. as the tribunal is not a Pan Chan, who claims $1,000ed by the Kwangai Clique, had father, the complainant being the current fasue of The Rock, a Hong-Board. damages for alleged false impri- been contemplated. long before daughter of one wife, and the de- kong Catholic magazine, which sonment. The address of all the Chiang's resignation last year, it fendant, the son of another. The prints some outspoken comments be required to give evidence on

oath defendants was given as 6, Queen's is now disclosed by Chinese complainant was a lady doctor of

judicial body.

The proceedings, it is announced, Road Central.

sources. The matter had been Chnton, now living temporarily at

Three times, says the journal, will be held in private.-

Reuter. "Mr. A. el Arcull appeared for allowed to drop for some time but Kung Wo Terrace. The complain- have the "Reds" occupied Hol the plaintiffs, defendants

The case, which was reported not has been brought forward serious ant had given her relatives the Fung, and each occupation has

sum of boing legally represented. ly once more following Chinng's address of the Tin Sang firm as been marked by a terrible crescen-

called, recent declaration that he washer address in. Hongkong..

do of misfortune to the inhabitants. yesterday, involved a "When the

The father of the complainant a The first occupation, in May, lasted £39,000 claimed by Messrs. Iron- monger and Company, bankers, Haynes said he was the third de-assuming the role of Commande -

in-Chief of all the Kuomintang managing partner of the Tin Sang only ten

against Mrs. Dyne in respect of fendant named on the writ.

armies.

surname 1 victims, but not many. In Septem-losses during currency transaç firm, of which a mun The Kwangs generals, who are Chow was also a partner. Chow ber, they returned and started to tions. In the course of the cross- in say the least, ambitions, cannot was authorised by the complainant wreak vengeance on those who examination of Mr. De Wael, a see quite eye to eye with Marshal to collect hil letters and parcels were known to be opposed to them.principal in the firm, Mrs. Dyne's Chiang in this respect.

for the complainant. During the in one village, Mue Leong, they de counsel, seeking to show that his It does uppear, however, that New Year, several letters were restroyed 100 houses and put many client was so much a woman of had to seek n at Waring's, draw while the Chekiang and Kwani reived by Chew on behalf of the to death, both men and women. straw that she factions are both working at heart complainant and two of these had After three weeks, they were again situation" for the destruction each of the been missing. One of the letters driven out. So far, they suffer from the witness a statement that They have le relied in his dealings with Mrs, other, a pretence is being main-was later recovered, but, as to the very little in defeat. taled at the present of friendly other letter, although complainant strongholds in the hills, to which Dyne on the strength of her "in-

made every possible effort to re- they beat a timely retreat before traduction." relationships.

Pressed, he stated that Mrs. cover it, she had failed and con- the advance of a superior force. sequently notified the No. 2 Police Here they are actually provision- Dyne was introduced by Mr. J. C. At the moment, both sides are Station. In consequence of the ed from the villages, which they Gregory, a gentleman with an in-

DOUBLE gave villager who ventures to refuse Ofice. Mr. Justice Horridge, sum too closely tied up with serious report, a Chinese detective visited have evacuated. Woe to the fluential position in the Foreign mtiers which have to be put right the boy's mother and she in their own immediate sphere, to some information which led to her their levy! They even send down ming up, pointed out that former spare the time, if the inclination arrest. At the Palice Station, sh emissaries to carry on propaganda. y Mr. Gregory's name had set

to the boy's detention. is present, to resort to armed per-made some explanation which lea suasion.

Claim Disputed. Mr. Justice Wood:-You want to dispute the claim, don't you Mr. Haynes?

Haynes Undoubtedly. He add- ed that he would like to make an application for an order for plead ing He thought it was for.

ailed

Mr. Arculli said it was not the

usual practice in that Court for pleadings to be asked for. He would also like to know whether Haynes "was representing just.

himself or the other two defen-

dants as well.

The other two defendants said they wished to dispate the claim, one being understood to say that he was not there at the time.

own cusé.

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Haynes Auld be adhered to his application for pleadings, and his Lordship replied that he did not are why the application should not be granted.

An order was made for a state ment of claim in one week,

His Lordship-Mr. Haynes, you will file a statement of defence,

How long will you want, to prepare ) It?

fourteen days, my Lord,

His Lordship grunted ten days for the delivery of the claim and fixed March 2nd for the hearing

of the case.

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Judgment was given for the "Now, whilst we write, they are back in Hol Fung," says the Rock, plaintiffs, Mr. Justice Horridge Application Grantéd.

"They have been there sinco No-declining to grant a stay of ex- Haynes said he was also speak- ing for the other two defendants.

vember! And it is because of this ecution, pointing out that Mrs. is re- cumstanee connected with the third occupation that the sorrows Dyne hud testified that she practi- His Lordship pointed out that he could not do that. The defenent big successes against the domestic nature of the case point-of Hoi Fung far outweigh those cally hadn't a penny in the world. dant could only be heard on his unanese have increased his pop-ing out that mothers of the two of Canton. A man may rebuild larity immensely, but there is stil parties in the case were on bad his house, but who can give back to the orphans the father and The complainant, Leung Wal-mother, whom they have seen much more for him to do before terms. he can give his undivided atten. tion to the alliance against kwan, in evidence, stated that brutally massacred before them, or Chlang.

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THIS 'WEEK. children? It is estimated that

MONDAY, 6th Feb, receive letters on her behalf at the reign of terror, to weep for her fra's address at No. in Kennedy some 3,000 perished in Canton, but

Three away wing and three TUESDAY, 7th Feb. When in accordance with this the figures given for Hoi Fung Street, Wanchai.

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The wholesale masseres have being that relatively few claims their position and had to the ct letters were received. One was been, in many cases, accompanied tablishment of an anti-Li Chai-summasing, and the other had been by a refinement of cruelty or an Some have been Government at Swatow, which is tampered with, though as far as exesss of Srutality too harrowing the present object of the "Ironsides" she knew the contents were intact. to narrate.

Efforts made to Recure the saturated with petrol and set on resistance to the Canton armies

other letter which they suspect-fire, others have been hacked to in eastern Kwangtung.

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of pieces, women have had their The "Kwangui Clique" is stated her step-mother, were unsuccess-breasts torn out. A perfect to be perturbed in the thought thatful. Eventually witness went to aystem of espionage enabled the the "Ironsides" may retire into the Police Station at Wanchal, Reds to pick out their opponents. Hunan, and join the armies of Gen- where she laid a complaint. A de- Their reprisals are of a character erals Ho Chien and Liu isin.tective who accompanied her to to kill opposition through fear of

These competitors therefore Apparently the object now in view the shop, took the step-mother to the consequences. is the administering of a fint blow the Station. She was later re-

share the prize of $25, and if they to the "Ironsides" while in Kwang- Lung, and the senttering of the lensed, but her young son, who Fung is not only in the hands of the will call at this office we shall be Madrid, Feb. 2.

force beyond hope of the reorganisa-was now the defendant in the case, 'Reds,' it is a training ground for pleased to hand them their respec

was detained.

exlieme Communist ideas in the tive shares. There were a num- As regards the petroleum mono- tion.

Speaking of the two letters, South of China. Five years ago her of claims for eight correct re- poly; which has been in force since

Hunun Intrigues..

witness said she was not certain Peng Pai, after an education in January 1st, the Government has

whether the missing letter was Bolshevik principles abroad, re- -issued a statement to the effect Meanwhile, military intrigue is

in Hol, Furg. He had every op- that, in order to safeguard the in-said to be going on in Iluna The registered, but she never saw it turned to start as a school-teacher

again. terests of the Spanish Treasury armies of Pel Chung-hai, a strong

portunity of filling the young.

The contents of the Tavistock and consurITS, The Governmentally of Li Chal-uum, have captured the missing letter was the root of minds with the most advanced re-

volutionary ideas and successfully Hotel, known In the last century has nationalised and monopolised | Changsha, and recent developments the trade, which has been bring point to the certainty that the whole

Chau Sze-sau, the man who was availed himself of it. From his ns the Bachelor's Paradise, are to ging in, for foreigners engaged in province will soon be in the hands instructed to receive the complain- sprent to other schools. Students and Ratley. The hotel faces school tho principles rapidly be sold by Messrs. Knight, Frank it in Spain, fabulous profits with of the "Kwangsi Clique."

ant's correspondence, recalled out risk' ar labour.

Chiang Kai-shelt is said to have having left two letters one being who had returned to the district, Covent Garden Market. No wo Petral supplies have previously representatives in Hunan who are put into the letter-box, and the imbued with the same doctrine, man was allowed within its doors, were not behindhand in pro and it was practically a man'á heen am by the Shell, Standard exerting pressure on 110 Chien other left on a table. Both were maganda work. Peng Pai Was club. The long dining room is Oil and a Russian oil company, and Lin Hsin in the hope of miasing when his attention was arrested but his prison term was said to have been a favourite Now, a new National Company has bringing them into the fold of called to the matter.

short. On regaining hia liberty; haunt of Dickens, Thackeray and been formed, in which none of Ching. There is another side ta

he went to Canton, where he served other notable men, and for 160 these three is represented, but the intrigue however, since the

Fine For OpenIng. ?

under Chiang Kai-shek at a time years tea was always drunk from sum has been ear-marked to com-right-hand man of Chiang Kai

The father, in the witness box, when Russian Bolshevik and Na-basing. pensate the dispossessoit.—Reuter, shek, General Ho Ying-ching, the

Commander of Nationalist 1st said he was intoxicated after a big tionalist were still making comman The petroleum monopoly is an Army Corps, is trying to persuade dinner when the letters arrived, cause.

No Half Measures. HOW MUCH DO YOU other instance of the Government's Pel Chung-hsi from the Kwanusi and he told his son to put them Clique" to the side of Chiang Kai-away. When his daughter called determination not only to develop shek. Of course, says a Chinese next morning, he returned home "Peng Pal's heart was evidently the trade of Spain, but to ensure commentator, the whole thing may and found twa letters, one for him-in Hoi Fung. We find him back Its development and management be vice versa for it may be the self and one for his daughter. One again with greater power and a by Spaniards.

"Kwangsi_Clique" is working to latter had been opened and the resolute will to reap the fruit of

previous teaching. Since the advent of the Dicta-bring Ho Ying-ching to their side. defendant's mother said that the majority of the people,in fiel Fung torship, all the railways have been

boy opened it. brought virtually under State con-

Nanking Finance.

Mr. Lindsell Indicated that there are very poor. They are labourers.

The following general know- It must be admitted that their mas- trol. The Cabinet has approved What is hindering Chiang Kai-was hardly any doubt that there ters, in many cases, were harsh and ledge paper has been taken from of a £10,000 electrification scheme,

was no case a far as the charge

'Answers, for those who need whilst the telephones have also be shek la finnnee. It is reliably re-

stand that the proclamation of come the monopoly of a National ported that the Finance Minister of theft was concerned but on thexacting. So it is easy to under the Daily Express. Company.

to the Nanking Government, Mr. charge of unlawfully, opening the community of goods, the cancella-them, will be found on Page 12

of this issue. tion of all debts and the tearing National air lines have been. V. Seong, is not in a position letter he imposed a fine of $25,

In the course of the evidence of up of all property deeds were. similarly dealt with. The provi-Lo satisfy the demands of all the

Тоявится with the sion of staff, material and capital militarials who look upon the Nan the father, Mr. Hin Shing-lo ask-popular

king Treasury for support. The ed certain questions relating to numerous shiftlegs villagers. There must be entirely Spanish.

110 half measures at All the coal mines are compul- failure of the anti-Pel Chung-hai family matters, which Mr. Lind-were

Hot Fung. Even some littles sorily grouped and controlled by armies. in Hunan is an instance Bell ruled out at irrelevant.

children, who had been attending a Federation decree. providing

a school of anti-red tendency, were penalties for Arms purchasing excessive quantities of foreign coal-Reuter.

Later.

of this.

Feng and Chlang.

"

Mr. Hin Shing-lo explained that

the whole trouble.

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his

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In dealing with complaints dur- put to death as a warning to The position of Marshal Feng ing recent floods the Egham parents, Amongst the proscribed Yu-halang is also an example of Counell said that it declined to were the owners of houses of ill of the poorness of the Nanking provide punts for conveying pas- fame, not to mark any dissaproval Treasury. Feng Yu-halang once songers and provisions, to the of their immorality, but to stress

This week's coupon; will be found on another page of this

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KNOW?

TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.

1

I What depth of rain is represent

ed, approximately; by a foot of anow? What and where are the Goodwin Sande?

Who wore the. Girondists? To what was Milton referring when he wrote, "Wisdom at one entrance quite what outs Give the meaning of "at par." In which county is Sandringham, and what is the county town? Who was the first Tudor king!.

Hearing a crush in High-stress decided to join with Chiang Kai-flooded arun, because, on the occa- the fact that the very existence of 8 What esamination at Oxford is

Ringwood (Hants), a police officer hek in the Northern Expedition afen of the previous flood, the such houses was opposed to com discovered a motor-cyclist and three companions, who had been against Chang Teo-lin, but recent District Auditor said that such ex-munity of love which was as in- riding pillion, lying in the road.ly the attitude of Feng Yu-halang penditure was not justified under tegral a part of the programme as They were not hurt, but the towards Chiang Kai-shek has been the Public Health Acts and would community of property,

"Besides his own followers and driver, William Kendall, of Crow, very uncertain. The absence of probably be aurcharged in future.

cordiality on the part of Feng Yu. On the other hand, the Maldor- the irresponsibles, who profit by a halang, Chinese reports also attri- head Corporation provided horse-revolution, Feng Pal may count on bute to Nanking's not being able drawn vehicles and punts for 1,000 of the Red soldiers who to supply the required war funds. marooned residents,

(Continued on Page 8.)

Ringwood, was fined £1, and had

his license endorsed. The mingis trates thought that four on c motor-cycle was too many.

lenown as "Greals"?

9

What is the rank immediately

above that of Wing Commander

in the R.A.FI

10

When did Martin Luther Kus?

What is prosodyt

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To what steamship fines do the

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