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PLIGHT OF PEOPLE' IN KWANGTUNG.

THURSDAY, MAY 1,

KOWLOON - WEDDING.

UNION CHURCH FILLED TO

OVERFLOWING.

1930.

TRAFFICKING IN GIRLS.

MAN AND TWO WOMEN SENTENCED.

The Union Church, Kowloon. Canton, Apr. 30. was the scene yesterday afternoon.

The case in which Ng Pul-chl of an extremely popular and pretty and Tong Siu-lan, a married couple, Poor crops in the North. River wedding, when Mr. Andrew Dua- and two other women, Lau Sze-koo districts during the spring har-can, the eldest son of Mr. George and Kwan Chai were charged with vest, the sudden enforcement of a Duncan, M.B.E, and Mrs. Duncan, being concerned in the sale of ban on the exportation of rice at of Kowloon Docks, was married to girls, in one instance, for the pur Wuhu and other Yangtze River Miss Agnes Robin, daughter of Mr. poses of prostitution, entered upon districts, the law exchange value and Mrs. James Robin, of Fulham, its closing stages before Mr. Gran- of silver, and continued warfare London."

tham at the Central Magistracy, in Kwangsi where the presence of

The church was filled to over-yosterday afternoon. over forty thousand soldiers endowing when the bridal party was Mr.. Rendall, for the married tails the consumption of large piped in by Piper Mackle. The couple, submitted that corrobora- quantities of rice, are some of the bride, who was given away by Mr. tion was lacking in respect of the factors responsible for the pre-A. M. Simpson, looked extremely complaint. sent rice crisis facing the whole pretty in a dress of silver tissue, Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for Lau Szé- of Kwangtung province. Rice is with tulle vell and orange blossomkoo, quoted authorities in amplifica- the staple article of food among She carried a sheaf of pink flowers. tion of Mr. Rendall's views, and the Chinese and from seventy to She was attended by Miss Beatrice submitted that Kwok Siu-lan, the eighty per cent of the earnings of Bliss and Miss Molly Groundwatergirl concerned, had been taken to the poorer class are spent on rice. as bridesmaids, who wore dresses another household for the purpose from of yellow georgette and heliotrope of learning needlework. It was a The sudden increase twenty to thirty per cent in the georgette respectively, both being case of an adopted daughter being cost is considerably affecting the made by Madame D'Obrey. Little transferred from one woman to an- living of the poor. The Waiyang. Miss Chrisale Lindsay and Mias other, who stood in the relationship Pok Lo, and Ying Tak Magistrates Olwyn Greig were flower girls, both of sworn sisters.

being charmingly attired in white

Mr. Grantham held that while have enforced a rigid ban upon satin dresses of the Tudor period. corroboration was not legally neces the exportation of rice from their

The bride's mother wore a dress sary under two of the charges. districts, while the Kwangtung of pale grey lace, and Mrs. Duncan it was certainly necessary to

The the Provincial Government has also

Of complaint

the small a fawn lace dress and hat. announced an embargo upon ex-

service was conducted by the Revd, girl. It was necessary, therefore, portation from any part of Kwang J. Horace Johnston, the wedding to look into the evidence of the girl march being played at the conclu-witnesses in the case, and he found A the result that, taking the According to Chinese statistics, alon of the ceremony. one-fourth of the rice consumed

An adjournment was later made evidence as a whole, there had been in Kwangtung Is imported from to the Rose Room at the Peninsula that corroboration such as to give either North China or foreign rice Hotel, where the newly-married him the impression particularly had told the producing centres such as Tonkin, pair were the recipients of many that Kwok Siu-lan Annam and Bangkok. It is cy-felicitations. In the course of a truth. Kwok Siu-lan said that in timated that in 1927 70,000,000 happy speech, Mr. B. Wylie pro-fact she was told by Mak Oi, the piculs of foreign rice were import posed the health of the bride andmui-tsal who first made the report ed into Kwangtung, while only bridegroom, Mr. Andrew Duncan to the Police, to find the way, and Dancing was having come into the case, she was 100,000 piculs were imported from suitably replying.

not interested, except that she was North China and in 1928 importa-later Indulged in.

just going to say what she knew tion of foreign rice increased to

and saw. That was the impression 80,000,000, with a slight decrease

she gave, and his Worship was from North China. More or less

satisfied that there was a transac- the same canditions prevailed last

tion with a sum of $350 involved year. The imported rice from

therein. His Worship was also satisfied that Kwok Siu-lan Tonkin. Bangkok and Annam dominates the market.

sold by the married couple to Lau

tung.

Mr. and Mrs. Duncan left by boat later in the afternoon for Indo-China where the honeymoon is being spent.

WHA

It will be remembered that Mr. Andrew Duncan, who is an en- gineer in the China Navigation Following the sensational drop Company's fleet, was Third En-Sze-koo, the third defendant, for in the exchange value of silver,gireer on board the s.s. Sunning the Ifongkong rice firms ordering when it was pirated in November, goods from Tonkin were hard hit 1926, and when a gallant recovery made by the on account of the fact that the of the ship was money standard is gold in the officers on board after the pirates rice-producing centres. The sud-had gained possession. He has den increase all round in the price been a member of the Kowloon on the Football Club, and yesterday's fluctuation of the exchange value large attendance at his wedding

testified to his popularity.

His bride, accompanied by her mother, only recently arrived here from England.

of rice is consequent

of silver.

The Kwangsi Market. Annually, large consignments of rice are exported from Wuchow into Kwangtung, Kwangsi is a farming country where ninety per AN cent of the populace engage in the cultivation of rice. The re- cent Communist disturbances in Kwangsi and the prevailing war there, when the military authori- ties forced the farmers to aban don their fields and enlist in the army, have affected the Kwangsi production with the result that Kwangsl was unable to yield one half of its usual amount during

the last harvest.

ALLEGED

ROBBERY.

ARMED

THREE MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL

the express purpose of prostitu- tion. On these two counts, of transferring the custody of the girl for a consideration and of sel- ling her for the purposes of pro- stitution, the man and two women Sentence on Ng Pui-chi, his wife concerned would be convicted. Tong Sis-lan and the second woman Lau Sze-koo, was deferred while the Court proceeded with other charges, concerning the attempted sale of the other girl Mak O, against Tong Siu-lan and the re- maining woman defendant, Kwan Chai.

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was

Mak Oi testified that she present when a woman whom she was informed was procuress, came from Singapore to the house at D'Aguilar Street, for the alleged nurpose of selling her into prostitu. tion.

Ng Ho, a 16-year-old girl, who, The committal for trial of three like Mak Oi, was a mui-tsai in the men in connexion with an armed married couple's household. gave robbery at an annumbered mat- evidence to the effect that in her shed in the Ngau Chin Wai Vil-case, it was made known to her by lage, Kowloon City, on April 12, her mistress that she was to be was ordered by Mr. Whyte Smith, re-sold as a mui tsai.

At the close of the evidence, his Consequent on the present shor-at the Kowloon Magistracy, yes-

the charge, tage in Kwangtung. rice firms terday afternoon, when they were Worship dismissed

on this acquitting Tong Siu-lan bere have placed many orders again before the Court. with Kwangsi farmers, and in or After further evidence had been count and discharging Kwan Chai. der to relieve suffering of the riven on behalf of the Crown. DePui-chi, Tong Siu-lan and Ng Sze- On the first charge against Ng people the Cantonese authorities tective Inspector Fallon, who prono, of being concerned in the sale at Wuchow have abolished all secuted, produced, in fairness to

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taxation ол exported rice to the defence, a man who occupied of the girl Kwok Slu-lan, his Wor- Kwangtung. Following the un- the same matshed as the third de ship sentenced the three defendants precedented drought in 1929, the fendant. This witness, however, to a year's hard labour each. Hunan Government enforced a ban was unable to throw much light on the exportation of rice to the defendant's movements on the Kwangtung sometime last year. night of the robbery, except that The Hunan crop is said to be he and the accused had retired satisfactory this year. Acting on at the same time. Witness knew

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robbery. ernment the Hunan Provincial au-

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Macao, Apr. 30. order to permit more rice to reach mother with a view to establish- Kwangtung. As Hunan is within ing an alibi, but the witness said

At an early hour this morning easy reach of Northern Kwang- that she retired early and did not a Portuguese sergeant of tung. it is expected that the lift- awaken again until 3 a.m. by Artillery Company is stated to ing of the ban will benefit the which time the robbery had been have taken his life in the Camoens committed. She said that both Gardens. The unfortunate man. districts in the North River.

her son and the second defendant whose name is Fernando Vasques had gone to bed at her place Pereira, apparently shot himself rather early on the night of the with a revolver, the bullet pene- robbery.

trating the heart.

No reason is known as to why. have seemingly the man should

He leaves a committed suicide. widow and three little children.

Osaka, Apr. 30.

A strike at the Hyogo mill of the Kanegafuchi Company has been All three defendants were com called off, and the workers are ex-mitted for trial, his Worship hold- pected to resume to-morrow.-Ren- ing that a prima facie case had been

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