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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1928.

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A COOLIE CHANGED. The theft of rice from ships' holds was stated in à case before Major C. Willson yesterday, to have been perfected into a system! on the boats running between Hongkong and Kongmoon.

AR. CHỦ CHAO.HISIN'S SPEECH ON ASSUMING OFFICE, The Canton Foreign Office is in receipt of a despatch from the private secretary of Dr. Chu Chao. sin, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Govern-

A coolie was charged with steal- ment and concurrently Commis- sioner for Foreign Affairs of ing a quantity of rice from the Kwangtung, stating that the Vice-3.8. On Lee, owned and operated by the Yu Lee Steamship Company, Minister has formally assumed it being alleged that this was ex- office on the third of the present tracted from a cargo of 382 bage month. The inaugural ceremonies shipped to Koigmoon on the 13th

Many instant. were brief. but imposing. high Government officials were present Including Dr. C. T. Wang the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. T. V. Soong, the Minister of, Finance. After the cath taken and the usual recitation of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen's politi- eal will and testament and the obalsance before his picture. Vice- Minister Cho gave a speech which was, in part, as follows:

The Great Principle.

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"I am glad to be able to be here and join hand in hand with you in the work for the salvation of our country, in spite of the great dialance which had to be traversed

Mr. Horace Lo prosecuted on be- half of the shipping company, while the dufondant was represent. ed by Mr. C.A.B. Russ,

At the outset of his remarks, Mr. Lo said that consignees of rice- cargoes at Kongmoon had repealed- ly made complaints to the ship- owners about shortage in weight, and it had been an extremely dif feult matter to discover the cul- prits who were responsible for that shortage. Riding appeared to have been perfected Into a system, but it was possible to discover the method by which this rico was drawn from the bags,

Holding up a piece of bamboo piping, Mr. Lo demonstrated how

then be

In getting here. The greatest] by inserting the sharp end into piece of work before us now is, a sack of rice, the grain was drain- as has been eloquently pointed out ed through the hollow interior into by Minister C. T. Wang in repeti- any handy receptacle. The fabric tion of what our trungli had said of the sack would time and again, "the abrogation straightened out, and the bag, now of all the obsolete and unilateral considerably depleted, would be treaties." I have always cham-padded back into the normal shape. pioned this sort of principle. The result was that the consignee When I was China's chief delegate when he took delivery, would not have noticed anything wrong with to the League of Nations at the rice until he weighed it. Geneva three years ago, I often

Easily Identifiable. argued with the delegates of other On the 18th Instant, the s.8. On landa over the necessity of abrogat-Lee sailed from Hongkong with 352 ing all such unequal Instruments bags of rice, which was unpolished and the conclusion of new ones and of mixed character, and which based on justice and reciprocity Mr. Lo and he understood was to In their stead. As a diplomat he used for the manufacture of was duty-bound to fight for Chinese wino. It was, therefore, China's rights. I didn't give a of a distinctive character and ousi- sap about the dying Pekingly identifiable with the rice found Government and ita orders; I in the possession of the defendant. On the following day, the On Lee went about and did things accord- Ing to the dictates of my con-arrived at Kongmoon, when it was selence guided of course by public seen that a hurried attempt was opinion. When Chang Tso-lin being made to land two bags of was making himself Generallesimo rice. Two coolles were taking it a year ago at Peking, I was ad- onto the wharf, accompanied by: vised to send him a congratulatory message, but I would not do it, for to do so would be contrary to |the principles for which I had been

vindicating.

A Natural Leader.

man named Ho Kong, a runner who had been three months on the! ship.

When questioned by the asais- tant compradore of the ship, Ho Kony at first sald the rice was his, but pressed, later went back on his statement and admitted that it belonged to another man, that being the defendant.

I have the greatest confidence in Dr. C. T. Wang as Foreign Ministar

the

The position of the defondant on of

Nationalist Government; he is a natural lea- the ship was defined as that of a der. When he and were study- caterer, but his presence on board ing together in the United States, was principally due to a practicó which allowed n head-coolle to he was a leader among the stud- ents. When he returned to China, place aboard with each batch of cargo-hands, an individual who he became the speaker of the was to look after those coolies. Parliament and was a lender in The practico was one which did parliamentary affairs. He is now not meet with the approval of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and shipowners and the presence of is unquestionably the leader of this man on board was certainly China's, diplomacy. 1 should be not welcomed by them." glad to co-operate with him and help him in every way in the reali- zation of the established policy of: the Nationalist Government. Dr. Wang is the man of the hour.

"I have been in charge of the foreign affairs of Kwangtung for

about

Unsbilsfactory Replies.

Be that as it may, defendant was the man put aboard by the head coolie in the present instance, and when he came to the nasielant com. pradore to claim the two baga of rice, which had been taken back on a year now. The thing board, he was in turn questioned which I did which gave me the as to the origin of the rice. He Kreatest pleasure was the uncondi- then claimed to have bought it tional way in which Great Britain from Chang To, a name which Mr. returned its old Canton Consulate Lo commented, was rather dreaded to us in February of this year. by shipowners. Chang To was a The French Government is aimi-head-coolie, and in that position larly returning to us its old Con- was known to have caused a con- siderable lot of trouble and was sulate in Canton. The two Con- capable of creating more of it. sulate premises are very spacious Particulara given by the defen- and situated in the centre of dant as to his purchase of the rice i Canton. These things gave me were unsatisfactory, and he was considerable pleasure and encour-arrosted and charged when the agement in my manageinent of the ship returned to Hongkong. The foreign affairs of the province.of man Ho Kong, who was also charg- Kwangtung.

ed, was eventually released on hia "I am a native of Kwangtung giving certain information against

the defendant. and love to serve my province, In regard to the question of the Though situated in a far distant jurisdiction of the Court over the corner of China, yet the 'foreign case. Mr. Horace Lo quoted an |-affairs-of-my-provinco-are-by-no-authority and said that his Wor- means unimportant. They are ship had jurisdiction to try any among the most important of any case of larceny which was com province throughout the length mitted on à British ship in any and breadth of China, - J

·waters,

"In conclusion I wish to stress Evidence was taken from a tally- the importance of breaking down man of the ship, after which tho und rectifying the past diplomatic case was adjourned. errons and bad habits and follow' Minister Wang In his work for the welfare and enlightenment of the people of China."

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