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SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928.

PROSECUTION FAILS.

CHINESE FREED FROM COUNTS OF FRAUDS.

ZEEBRUGGE RAID.

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Why make yourself slave to the daily use of salts or gassy CHINESE DISCHARGED ONliquid aperients when a couple of LACK OF EVIDENCE. Pinkettes, taken say once a week, will keep your system clear and The evidence of the prosecution The story of the Zeebrugge.

Mr. P. E. Lindsell yesterday die-healthy, and promote dally re- having closed yesterday, Major Crald on St. George's morning charged a Chinese, who appeared Willson discharged Mau al-chun, (April 1928), as told by one who before him on Charges arising out gularity. Of chemists everywhere. who appeared before him as de- took part in the exploit, is a sub- of the alleged procuring of two fendant in connexion with several ject which will always command women for the purposes of prosti- serious charges of fraud from the a large audience. When Lt. tution. Lee Kee Company, alleged to have Comdr. E L. Berthon, R, NË The prosecution called into the been committed in 1928,"

D. S. O., who was present at the witness box the two girls concerned in the case, and in each case the Mr. HG. Sheldon, instructed by raid, serving as a Lieutenant on witnesses stated that they left their Messrs. Russ & Co., who appeared one of the attacking ships, re-villages with the intention to go for the defendant, in a brief ad counted this classical piece of seabroad to work on farms. dress submitted to the Magistrate warfare, at the Cathedral Hall Neither of the girls would admit that the evidence for the prosecu- last evening, he kept a large au- that they had made any previous tion did not mount to a prima facio|dience" spell-bound."

statements to the effect that their PIANOS. case agiinst the defendant.

A large number of lantern purpose in leaving their villages" In making his submissions, Mr.slides, prepared from actual was to become prostitutes abroad. Sheldon pointed out that in re-photographs of some phases of the In view of this attitude of the

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his client, which was that he had assistance to the lecture, and it the defendant and remarked to made an entry in the Log Kee books only needed the straightforward Sergeant Carey, who was prosecut- to show that the sum of $1,198.10 and simple way in which Lt.ing, that the witnesses knew per- | was paid to the Hang Lee firm, Comdr. Borthon explained the fectly well they were lying..

there was no evidence to show that chief features to give the audi- One of the girls anid in the wit- that entry was not correct and enco a very lucid iden of the ness box that she was eighteen. that the sum in question was in significance and importance of the Married at the age of cleven, sho fact paid. The books of the Hang whole operation.

lost her husband two years later. Lee Company were not evidenco against the defendant.

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The lecturer was introduced by On June 23, she came to Hongkong RECORDS.

the Very Rev. Dean Swann. In his with the defendant and another Mr. Sheldon referred to the opening remarks, he dealt with the girl. The defendant paid their evidence given by the last witness havoc created to Allied and Bri- passage, but she could not tell the for the prosecution, and said that tish shipping by the German UMagistrate the name of the ship although the man was the chief Boats, explaining that the Ger- which brought her here. Asked accountant of the Hang Leo, firm, mans were sinking, in 1917, more where she intended to go, the wit- his only statement in the witness mercantile vessels than we could ness replied that she wanted to go box was that if the sum had been build, and at that rate, it was but to either California or Australia,

His Worship: Who told you of paid he would have expected to a simple mathematical process to find it in the Hang Lee's books.

theso places? calculate when the war would be In regard to the second and over. third charges, 'which related to Hence the necessity became smaller amounts, Mr. Sheldon sub-more and more apparent of de mitted that such books na had stroying Oatend, Zeebrugge and been produced in Court, wore other rear ports which were bo- not evidence against the defending used as the bases for these 6, Wyndham Street, 1st floor, ant, as they were not kept by him, depredations.

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At this stage witness asked whe- ther she could leave the court. On being told that she could not, she asked how long she was going to be kept?·

His Worship: For weeks and May be for months. weeks unless you tell the truth,

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A nondescript fleet was collect there was a case for the defence to and sailed from Dover for an ed together by Sir Roger Keyes answer. He referred to two let- ters written by the defendant to attack on Ostend and Zeebrugge.

Witness was then asked if she the complainant and read then in On the early morning of April 23, told the Committee of the Po Court. The first letter the de 1918, which coincided with St Leung, Kuk that she intended to go fendant stated that he sincerely George's Day, the attack on the abroad for the purpose of prosti- 8, felt that he had wronged the com- Mole at Zeebrugge was launched tution and denied that she said so. plainant, but what was already which however blew aside and ex-be allowed to go?. done was done and he (defendant) posed the attacking vessels to a hoped that the complainant's gen-heavy fire from the Mole and was not a fact that at the S.C.A. erosity would be as "wide as the harbour. It was planned to block she said that her husband was seas." He said that he would be the shipping canal inside the abroad and that she had told un responsible for what he had done

Mole with three blockships filled entirely different atory in court. but not for what another man, with cement, and this operation named in the letter, was supposed was successful, although one

Witness replied that she had told of the truth in court," to have done, and the letter closed the three obsolete cruisers cm- The second witnesa also main- with the hope that the complainant ployed for the purpose, the Thetis, tained that she intended to go would not lay the blame on the foundered in the outer harbour, abroad to work as a farm hand and defendant alone.

Mr. Bennett, before reading the being caught by a protecting net. that she requested defendant to accond letter, said that the first and the Intrepid, were sunk in

The other two ships, the Iphigenia take her abroad.

His Worship: Is defendant your letter was not that of a man pro-V-shaped position ЛОГОВЯ the relation? testing his innocence.

Witness did not reply. The second letter, which was a channel for all practical pur She knows perfectly well she is

canal and completely, blocked the

His Worship: It is no good. reply to a lotter written by the poses. Another part of the opera. complainant, was in the followington was the blowing up of the ying. Defendant is discharged. terms. That the defendant, hav-railway viaduct connecting the ing been given fourteen days to main Mole with the shore, in pay the amount due by him, begs which

"ቦ obsolete submarine for thirty days in which to pay (CS) was successfully used. in order to be able to get rid of some shares. He maintains his daring attack on the German bat- responsibility, but reminds the terles on the Molo by storming complainant not to attribute to and demolition parties landed from P. W. D. to the Bishop, dated May him any wrong committed by the cruiser Vindictive and two 26, 1928, stating that this Depart others.

launches which had fastened on ment was prepared to recommend Mr. Bennett stated that the to the edge of the Mole. He re-to the Government the reservation letter showed that the writer hadlated many an individual exploit of a site in Happy Valley for s in mind that he had done some which bore out in a heroic light Church to replace the present St. thing wrong. He also added that the fine traditions of the men of Peter's Church at West Point in a warrant was issued in respect the Senior Service,

the event of this Church being. of the falsification of the books, but the defendant did not meet the charges like an innocent man. He stayed away for two years..

Defence's Reply.

The lecturer also told of the

ST. PETER'S CHURCH.

MOVE TO HAPPY VALLEY NOT APPROVED.

Referring to a letter from the

re-

Lastly, a number of slides were demolished, the Dean at a recent shown of the condition of the meeting of the Cathedral Church Vindictive when it returned to Body, said that the St. Peter's port the following day after her gister their opinion with regard to

Church Council had met to nocturnal exploit. The lecture the future of St. Peter's Church. concluded with a photograph of This Council stated Mr. Sheldon in a brief reply re- Sir Roger Keyes who commanded realised the great need of a Church while they ferred to the twisting of the the expedition and who, the lec-in the Eastern District it wAD letters by the prosecution and turer said, ensured its success. their opinion that the primary argued that when the defendant (Applause).

need was for a Church on or near stated in his letters that he ac At the conclusion, Dean Swann Lyttleton Road. The Church had cepted responsibility, he did not moved for a vote of thanks viewed a site near to St. Stephen's mean criminal responsibility. If which was heartily accorded.

Girls' College, at present rented by his 'Worship drew that inference,

them as a playground. A plan of then it would be a monstrous in- (complainant) and he would like this site and its surroundings, ference. The letters might prove the defendant to come down and supplied by the P. W. D. was ex- that the defendant was a bad man, find out what was wrong. The amined by the Church Body and but how was the Court to prove letters quoted by, Mr. Bonnett were after consideration of the whole that he admitted anything in re-replies to that letter,

question it was decided that the spect of the particular charges After a little deliberation, his Dean should get the Cathedral before the Court. He referred his Worship decided that the ovidence Architect's opinion of the site and Worship to the evidence of the was not sufficient for him to rule the agreement of the Associated complainant who said that he that a prima facie caso had been Schools to the use of their land for wrote to the defendant saying made out and the defendant was building a Church, and report to that people were blaming him accordingly discharged,

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