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TWO YEARS FOR A ROBBER.

STRUGGLE IN MISSIONARY'S RESIDENCE.

with violence.

for the Crown.

..

AMERICANS' LATE HOTEL VISIT.

CHINESE PROPRIETORS

SUMMONED.

Summoned for selling, or allow- Ing liquor to be consumed'in their

promises at other than the times

allowed in their adjunct license,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SOME SHANGHAI TOPICS

OFFSETTING" LABOUR.

MISCONCEPTIONS.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1928.

SWATOW IS STILL NERVY.”

› WALGAN PIRACY

SEQUEL.

́`SEVEN-YEAR SENTENCE FOR

TRIVIAL AFFAIR CAUSES A SCARE,

***ROBBERS.

The case in which four Chinese

were charged in connexion with RED TROUBLE FEARED.

robbery on board a Hongkong

the management of the Tungshan SOME TOURIST IMPRESSIONS junk on January 26th was conclud-

lle

(Our Own Correspondent,)

AN AMAH ATTACKED.

Swatow, Feb. 20. The story of a struggle between

Hotel, Queen's Road Central,

ad before the Chief Justice, Sir

The "jumpy" state of Swatow an amah and a Chinese robber in pleaded guilty to a technical

Honry Gollan, at the Criminal nerves was illustrated on Friday the house of Mr. M. A. Grant, offence. The case was heard be-

Sessions this morning.

evening. A temporary failure of missionary, at Saikung Road, Kow-fore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Cen-

Without retiring, the jury re- the electric light happened to loon City, on Christmas Eve, was tral Police Court this morning.

Shanghai, Feb. 17.

turned a verdict of "Guilty" coincide with the escape of a related before Mr. Justice Wood

Appearing for the defendants,

At first blush, the issuance of against the first three prisoners minor criminal from the Police when the Criminal Sessions were Mr. E. Davidson referred to the such a seemingly prosale and dry and "Not Guilty" against the Station, and a scare started as continued this morning.

The prisoner, Leunk Fong-pak, section under which the summons as-dust publication as the annual fourth man. The first three pri- the man dashed down the road with

was taken, and afgued that it report of the Shanghai Mission to soners were each sentenced to the police after him. was charged with the simple lar created two separate offences and Ricksha. Men may not appear to bo seven years imprisonment and The ery arose that the "Reds". Grant, and, secondly, with robberying liquor to be consumed were ceny of 310, the property of Mr. did not say that selling and allow Invested with any burning interest the fourth prisoner was dischargwere up, the police went in to

to the man-in-the-street, but oned.

hiding, discarding their uniforms, closer examination, it will be found

"The junk was captured off Wag-while soldiers came out from The prisoner admitted the first to be alternative offences. count, but denied the violence, drew this distinction because that this year's report, the folan by robbers and taken to Joss barracks ready for a scrup. Stop while prepared to admit that teenth of its kind, has more than House Bay in the New Territories, shutters were hastily put up, and Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith prosecuted liquor was being consumed on the passing interest because arrange where the cargo, consisting of folk on the streets made for the ments have been made for the re- Mr. Whyte Smith explained that premises, he would plead not port to be placed in the hands of Pigs, chickens, and vegetables was nearest cover.

taken ashore. The passengers It was soon known that there on Christmas Eve, Mr. Grant, with guilty to selling. his wife and family, left their his point, said that the Hotel did

Mr. Davidson in explanation of every member of the House of Com were also robbed of money and was no ground for the fright, but

clothing. The first prisoner was honse at about 5.20, - paní. The anh was left in the house to mind very little business with European

Front this specifle atandpoint, armed and acted as a guard while a baby. Later, the amah heard atomers and that the bartender foreign business-men in Shanghai, the second and third took part in knock on the door and, on asking duty that particular evening more especially British trade inter- the removal of the cargo. The who was there, a voice replied:- was not accuatorned to serving ests, feel not a little indebted to Mr. fourth man was charged with George Matheson, founder and alding and abelting the robbers. "I am Mr. Wong from the Mission. Europeans..

When two American tourists honorary director of the Mission for but he pleaded that he was forced Mrs. Grant has sent me to get ber Bible." As she had been instruct came in, he was too frighten-Riksha Men, for his enterprise in to do so..

When the evidence was

con ed not to lot, anyone in, the amah ed to refuse, although knew-having the latest report eirculated

the regulation searched for the Bible, leaving the ing

was in quarters in the Ilomeland where tinued this morning, Mr. Somerset prisoner outside, but could not find being contravened. He served it is calculated to do most good in Fitzroy, prosecuting for the

al midnight, the way of enlighténnunt.

Crown, read statements made by vainly hoping that they would. It is not easy to compute the pre- the prisoners, Anish their drinks and go away cise extent of the damage done to Itis Lordship commented that the immediately. The Americans, British commercial interests in this fourth prisoner had been extra- however, stayed on for a consider-region of the world by the wild as-ordinarily consistent in his story

sertions of Labour Members of Par-right from the beginning and In situation will be adopted. At able length of time.

Evidence would be called to llament regarding the alleged ill-thia connexion he reminded the present, although soldiers have in a room, the prisoner attack.lourists was to change American labourers; therefore the report of mediately after arrest carried more not on orders from above, but on searched for the Bible. Suddenly show that the real object of the usage by foreigners of Chinese jury that a statement made im-been sent to some parts, they go |

it.

Attack in Bedroom,

The prisoner then said:-"Let me come in and help you to find it." She then opened the door for the prisoner to enter and together they

ed the amah and tried to bind her with towels, but a severe struggle Look place in which the prisoner bit the amab on the check and she bit him on the thumb.

Eventually, when the prisoner was getting the better of the fight, he said that he only wanted $5, so the amab took $10 from a bag and handed to the prisoner, The $10 note was the only one there. He then went away and the amah raised the alarm.

them with beer

money, and that when they had been refused by the shroff of the Hotel, they resorted to ordering drinks to get. Hongkong money,

Inspector Bloor, who prosecuted, in reply to His Worship, said he was not prepared to dispute the statement. He viewed it as technical offence, and was not pressing for a heavy penalty."

His Worship indicled a fine of $25.

FATAL ACCIDENTS YESTERDAY.

A

mons for his informatiam OT instruction.

the Shanghai Mission to Rickshu Men is certain to prove a wholesonic corrective in this respect and reveal the truth to stay-at-home Britons, with but a hazy concept of condi-

view or

weight than one made afterwards.

while it is known that the "Reda" up-country are still unimpeded in their activity, and that there are "Red" organisations at work, the police will remain nervous.

Preparations are being made in Chaochowfu for the arrival from the north-east frontier of the province of General, Wong Shao-i hung. If this indicates his in- tention to take effective command in the Chaochow-Swatow district, It may be hoped that the inter- regnum is approaching an end,

as regards the Hal-Fuk Fung and that a more vigorous policy

Prisoners then made statements "invitation" of the local people, in which they denied the charges. which means that for oach body, A further charge of returning separate money arrangements have from deportation was preferred to be made, and that there is no against the third prisoner. for "Red" advance. Our Own Corres- which he was sentenced to impri- poudent... sopment, for one year, the sentence to run concurrently.

SKELETON KEY: THIEF.

HOUSEBOY'S INTELLIGENT

ACTION.

Lious in China.

As for the work of the Mission itself, it is a form

of practical Christianity which is a credit to foreigners. Its work has proved a bulwark against Bolshevism in the robberies, there has been a percep lower ranks of Chinese labour, the tible diminution in the number of ricksha coulfes alone consistently such outrages, and it is feared that staying out of the labour disordersa slackening in the imposition of At 8.30 p.m. on the same even

of recent years, which surely must the death penalty will have the in- ing, the police arrested the pri

be accounted a remarkable thing in evitable result of encouraging law- soner ba Shanghai Street when he

the temper of lossness of the dangerous order. was found to be wearing shoed

Chinese inbour for some time The principal stumbling block that bore stains similar fotblood-

past. And, in conclusion,

the against the imposition of the death house "boy" employed by Mrs. E. Mackay, Jordan House, atains. He was also found in CHINESE GIRL CRUSHED TO most effective tribute that could be penalty is the objection advanced Nathan Road, was commended by

fendered to, the Micston is that men by sentimentalists, who maintain possessing of torn, clothing and the amal would say that she ripe

from hundreds of cities and towns that capital punishment is passing Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon pd her attacker's clothing. The Two fatul accidents were report-ne every year to this beneficent and will soon be a thing of the past. Magistracy this morning, for his prisoner had ben identified by Mr.ed to the police yesterday.

It has been suggested in certain smart and intelligent work in Grant as having attended his Mis

quarters that juries hesitate to con- effecting the arrest of a would-be viet-this does not apply in the thief who opened the hack-door of sion.

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case of the Provisional Court, where Jordan House with a skeleton key. The man was charged with judges take the place of juries-of murder because they are unwilling breaking and entering, and with be parties to an exceu- POHRCssion of eleven 'keys and a and that the judges packet of pepper for an unlawful

Provisional Court purpose.

Concluding, M. Whyte Smith said that when he was charged, the prisoner made a statement to the effect that he asked the amah for $5 and she gave him $19. Be then walked away and did not take

any other articles.. Before the Magistrale, he said to rubs he must have a weapon of some kind, and he did not even have a small knife,

He went there because he wanted a few dollars so that he could re turn to the country. He had no intention of committing a robbery. He later said: "I only wanted to get the woman out of my way to return to the country."

Forgotten Evidence. Evidence was given by the amah who said that the prisoner haf small firearm. She was treated in hospital for a wound on heri face,

In reply to the prisoner, witness said she did not mention the fire arm before the Magistrate, be- cause she forgot,

Witness identified bloodstained elothes as those she was wearing at the time.

Mr. Brant gave evidence that when he returned to the house he found the amah with a wound on her face and the house in a state of disorder. The amah's clothes were stained with blood, towels were similarly stained, and there was broken glass on the door. He kuch the prisoner and had spoken to him, at the Mission.

The prisoner asserted that the amah had given False evidence against him.

The jury retired and, on return ing, brought in a verdict of Guilty" by a six to one verdict.

On the admitted charge, prisoner was sentenced to months hard Inmar, and on the violence charge two years hard labour, the senten; ces to run concurrently.

MUSSOLINIS DUEL.

OFFICIAL ITALIAN DENIAL. Signor S. Carrara, the Italian Consul General in Hongkong writes us doubting the accuracy of the report from Crotian news- paper regarding an alleged Secret duel between Signor Mussolini and Count Calvi, son-in-law of the King of Italy, which we reproduced in our Issue of Monday last,

Home papers now to hand show that the report created consider-

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to death.

DEATHL

The second

Mission.

the

The Arst came from Stanley and

An Earl's Impressions. concerned Chinese girl, twelve years old, who was crushed to The present time would seem to death. She was asleep on the the open soon for tourists, for deck of a small sampan, anchored close on the heels of the Belgenland, nçar Uo. Tai Island, off Stanley, the stately Empress of Australia when a fishing junk collided with has just passed through Shanghai, tion

bearing her 350 round-the-world of the sampan and crushed the girl pissenters, including several titled are neither more less human than

Defendant admitted opening the door and that he went there to report was from personages who have derived inter- the average jury in such matters,

esting impressions of the most

It is sometimes suid that life im steal. The koy's he used for open- Shamshiupo, where a coal coolie talked of city in the world to-day prisonment is as much dreaded as ing his own doors and drawers fell into the bold of the sand who have, in turn, told us a few capital punishment. The answer to while he had purchased the pepper Tanger and was killed. The things of a suggestive and infornia that, that there may be some for cooking purposes. Tonger was alongside the Railintive nature.

people to whom the former seems Sergeant Nottrem' said,defend- Mining Administration's Wharf at The Earl of Rosslyn, when ques- the more terrible of the two, but ant was seen by the house boy who' Laichikok and the deceased was a

tioned by a prominent property they are in a minority of those who sent for the police. When searched coal coolis working on the boat owner in Shanghal, on the qui vive face execution. There is a shrink-by a detective a number of keya In the act of throwing an empty for the latest reactions from the ing from death at the hands of the were found in his possession, one basket into the hold of the steamer Homeland, as to whether there was lay that is not seen in the attitude of which fitted the lock of a room the coolie's foot got entangled a possibility of the remnant of the of criminals towards the life sen-under the front stairs from where with the strappings of the basket Shanghai Defence Force being with tence. That is the powerful argu- and he was enrried into the hold. drawn in the near future, in resment now being advanced for the Death occurred instantaneously. ponse to the pressure from Socialist death penalty.

and Labour groups, said emphatic- ally there was no such prospect, be- cause the situation was well under slood at Home and no responsible British Government would think of removing a vital safeguard like the Shanghai Defence Force so long as the situation in China was in state of flux, although the Earl some of the harvest yielded being 27. readily admitted that the Sino-for-better feeling among the different ein situation was visibly improved, nationalities represented in the though far from being settled in an Shanghai community. abiding sense.

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SWEARING WOMEN.

FINED FOR ABUSING POLICEMAN.

In bringing a charge of using obscene and abusive language against a Chinese woman coolie before Major C. Willson, at, the Central Magistracy this morning, Police Sergeant Jessop stated that this occurred yesterday afternoon 21 Robinson Road.

He stopped que of a number, of

a bleycle was stolen recently.

After, commenting on the house boy's smart work, his Worship sen- The Feminine Factor. tenced defendant to three months' That the "woman in the erse' is hard labour ou the first count and not always associated with matri-a further six weeks' on the second. moniul complications is attested by the activities of the Joint Commit- tee of Shanghai Women's Organisa-sored by the Islam Temple A. A. 0. tions, who have been doing excellent Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, is due work in an unobtrusive manner, to arrive in Hongkong on August

A ceremonial pilgrimage, spon-

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It is not uninteresting to note the HOW MUCH DO YOU The Earl of Pembroke and Montgenesis of this constructively use gomery, a companion of the Earl of ful body. During the years 1921- Rosslyn aboard the Empress finer, 1925, there existed a "Joint Com- threw a bouquet to foreign enter-mittee of Women's Clubs" in which

KNOW?

TO:DAY'S QUÈSTIONS.

The following general know-

carth-carriers, all women, who prise in Shanghai and said he was were associated five organisations were returning from work, to agreeably surprised to see the state- American Women's Club, British examine # suspicious-lookingly pites of modern buildings on the Women's Association, Japanese Wo-ledge paper has been taken from parcel neatly done an in cloth, Bond and the signs seen everywhere men's Bacieties, Shanghai Women's the Daily Express. which the woman was carrying of industrial activity. We had Club and the Shanghai Chinese under her arm, whereupon he was something to say on the beauty and Young Women's Christian Associathem, will be found on Page 14 Answers, for those who need treated to a flow of obscene words, utility of Bubbling Well Road, al-tion. which he interpreted to the Court, though he facetiously added that he were

Subsequently. affiliations of this issue. made with the German The obscene expression to which did not find any water bubbling in Women's Club, the Portugizeso he took particular objection, was the well, as some had expected! Women's Club and other national

Other observant passengers from taken up as a chorus by the eight or nine other women until witness the round-the-world liner were im was compelled to chuse and arrest Pressed by the financial, social, club the defendant as being the respon- and cabaret life of the city and have sible ringlender.

now no doubt that Shanghai is "on the map,"

Then there ensued a rather amusing scene, as all the women ceased their abusive talk, to plend with and cajole the witness from putting their friend in gaol, as they feared he would do.

Worship imposed a fine of $5. After hearing the case,

his

The Death Penalty.

women's bodies, so that the Joint Commitice may be said to be truly representative of the best feminine brains of every nationality in this polyglot population

1 How much capital expenditura has been incirred by 'the L.C.C. pn housing since the war, and what further expenditura" will. their present housing schemea re- quire!

What now light has been thrown an the study of cancer? What positions are held by the following persons: General Car. moria, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Samuel, Baran Taraka, Rt. Hon. D. S. Amery.', 4 In what city is (a) the Vonus de

Milo, (b) the Venus de Medici What is (a) a trek; (b) a kapjo; fo) a sleep!

o Which nation controls the basin of the Congo River in Africa?

During the brief period it has been in existence, the Joint Commit tee have been instrumental in effect- Quite a furore has been created ang child labour reform, discourag- in legal, police and community ciring the use of scare newspaper eles over the fact that the hawker headlines which, at one time, con- accomplice in the Forestier murder tributed to an unfortunate pay- case has been given only an inipri-chology during a period of interna sonment term instead of the capital tional complications so trying to The Gold Medal of the Royal penalty, which hitherto had been everyone's nerves. Astronomical Society has been enforced by the Provisional/Court This collaboration of the women awarded Professor R. A. Sampson, in cases of crimes of violence, fol- of many nations is one of the heal- F.R.S., Astronomer Royal for lowing the promulgation of the Ban-thiest. symptoms in a steadily im- Scotland, for his theory of the ditry Law by the Nanking Govern proving situation, and as time goes on, the Joint Committeo is our great satellities of Jupiter, ment.

Acute agitation is in progress for certain to prove, an increasingly A bronze (Jackson-Gwlit) medal has been awarded to Dr. W. H. the restoration of the capital penal- steadying influence in civic and in- result that an ellicial statement variable stars and the Iferschel pressure is being brought to bear in that women to-day are not solely 11 Steavenson, for his work on fatty in cases of this kind, and ternational matters, thus proving 10 was issued to the effect that the instruments; and to Mr. W. Bold, the proper quarters to this end. engrossed in the pursuit of fashion story was a most stupid fable, of Cape Town, for his discovery of Since the introduction of the death and suchlike inanities, One wishes ze Which metal melts at the lower created by a Jugo-Slav newspaper.” alx new-comets.

sentence for kidnappings and armed more power to their fair elbows.

able indignation in Rome, with the

2 Where are there islandss The

Hebrides, Capri, Tasmania, Cata lia, Madagascar?

8 Give the family name of the last dymasty of (a) Prussian kings; (b) Russian emperors. What is (a) an ibis: (b) an iber?

What fortress-prison was torn Who is the present Duke of Corn walif

down in the French Revolution?

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