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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1930.

STRANGE CONDUCT OF A SOLDIER.

THE LATE MR. K. K. LEE.

LARGE ATTENDANCE` AT THE FUNERAL.

The funeral of the late Mr. K. K. Lee, of the Canton Gazette, who passed away after a short illness at the French Hospital, took place yesterday afternoon. The burial service at the Chinese Protestant Cemetery was performed by the Rev. Mr. Kwan. Kan-yew of the Wesleyan Church.

KICKS BUS INSPECTOR INTO ROADWAY.

"Perhaps you imagine that you are entitled to a certain amount of liberty a certain amount of licence when you go to a foreign land, or rather when you go abroad. I don't think you would behave like that on a Glasgow tram. I won't say anything about the fact that you were in uniform, and that you should have been

A large number of relatives and more careful how you should have friends of the deceased were pre- behaved, but that's a matter that sent, the attendance including your company your officers-Messrs. T. Bolt, Harry Hong Sllug, will attend to without ray inter- Alfred Lee, Wu Wal-man, Lul ference."

Fook-yuan, Dr. Arthur Woo, A. Chan, Fung Yiu-cheung, Dr. C. E Wan, A. G. Suflad, and many others, the chief mourners being the deceased's father, his two sisters and uncle.

Thus Mr. Whyte Smith, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday afternoon, commented upon the conduct of a British soldier who was convicted of a summons of assaulting a China Motor Bus

Among the many beautiful floral Company's Inspector on May 30. tributes were those from.-Father The defendant Pte. J. McKean, and Mother, sorrowing wife Dot appeared together with Ptes. P.sister Irene, sister Mary, loving Weir and D. Kirk, all of the Argyll | children Lucille and John, and Sutherland Highlanders.

Teachers and pupils of the French

Giving evidence, Police Sergeant Convent School, Colonel Wong Baker intimated that a report was Keung, A. Chan, K. C. Lau, Ho made by a bus driver of an ins-Wing, Ho Iu, Staff of the Carton pector having been assaulted. Gazette, Tong Man-kai, Wu Wai- About half an hour later witness man, Emily Poon, Mrs. and Dr. heard police whistles, and on go-Coxon To. Mr. and Mrs. Harry ing into Laichikok Road saw Hong Sling, J. D. Bush, Leurg crowd chasing three soldiers Shiu-yu, Dr. H. C. Szeto. and whom witness took into custody. several others. The bus inspector, who was also there, appeared to be suffering from exhaustion and had part of NEW MOTOR VESSEL. his clothing covered with mud.

Kicked off Bus.

The complainant said that about 8.15 p.m. on May 30 he boarded a bus in Nathan Road at Mongkok. in the course of his duties. In consequence of a report made by the conductor witness asked four British soldiers who were in the first class to show their tickets. They abused him, and continued to torment two Chinese ladies who were on the bus. Wittiess. was asked by the ladies to stop the soldiers from annoying them.

Addressing the soldiers, witness told them "Don't be rough." and McKean stood up but witness told him to sit down again. McKean then kicked the inspector.

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Among the vessels which figured in yesterday's Harbour Office Reports. was the new motor vessel Lusteveen, which has just been completed by the for the Luzon Stevedoring Co. Inc. of Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Manila, P.L

A single screw motor vessel, the Lusteveco was launched sometime ago and had been lying at Kowloon Dock for quite while before her departure for Manila at noon Tresday. She left this port flying the American flag and was under the command of Capt. J. H. Tipp, with a crew of nine:

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The Lasteveco belongs to Lloyd's as he was standing on the steps Al class, having a gross tonnage of of the bus. After he had fallen | 164.40 and a nett tonnage of 107.95. into the roadway, the soldiers She has a length of 95.7 feet, a alighted and chased him. Witness beam of 24.2 feet and a depth of 9.33 mentioned that at that, time the feet. bus was travelling very slowly.

The soldiers chased witness, who ran away but was overtaken and atruck by one of the men. He fell to the ground unconscious, and on regaining consciousness found himself in the nullah near the Theatre opposite the Ford Motor Company. He intimated that he had apparently been thrown into the nullah by the soldiers,

believed that they had run away from the Sergeant Major and not because they were afraid of the bus officials.

Comments from Bench,

The defendants made no state- ments nor called any witnesses, and his Worship convicted McKean but acquitted Weir and. Kirk. He said that there was a good deal of Defendants Arrested.

vagueness about the case, He After being rescued, he board- thought that it had been proved ed another of the company's that McKean had kicked the ins- buses and was proceeding to the pector off the bus, but what had Shamshuipo Police Station when happened afterwards

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he saw the four soldiers approach-known. He remarked that it ing his bus. Witness together might have been the fourth man with the driver alighted to catch who had pushed the complainant the men and they ran away. Wit into the nullah as well as assault- ness gave chase and blew a police ed him after the soldiers alighted whistle, the men later being from the bus.

ed by Sergeant Baker of the RITCOLY Police.. The

Addressing McKean, his Wor- ship said that he did not seem to the have been drunk but he had acted defendants denied Assault, and McKean intimated very strangely, and his Worship that they were about board the thought that perhaps he was just second bus on which the Inspec- little bit under a delusion, that tor was travelling in Laichikok he perhaps imagined he was Road but they saw the Company entitled to a certain amount of certain amount of Sergeant Major on board, and not liberty-a being properly dressed they ran licence-when he went abroad. away to escape his notice. They He (his Worship) did not think did not run away from the ins that McKean would have behaved

like that on a Glasgow tram. pector and the bus driver.!

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Witness, when questioned, ad- mitted that there was a Sergeant Major on the bus.

The inspector, continued Worship, seemed to have been trying to do his duty in remons trating with the soldiers, and Corroborative evidence was given by other witnesses, includ-McKean seemed to have dealt out pretty rough treatment. He would ing one of the ladies, who соц-

not say anything about the fact ficted slightly with the inspector that he was in uniform and that as to what happened before the he should have been more complainant was kicked.

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His Worship added that he had their part. He said that their The defendants questioned the but that was a matter that his inspector.

travelled on buses every day, and conduct was not only correct but courteous. He various witnesses as to the in-officers would attend to without McKean was fined $15, and saw soldiers of the defendant's they were very cident in Laichikok Road, but his interference by his Worship, who ordered to pay the complainant regiment on board, but he had had to regard the present case as Worship intimated that he quite simply had to fine the defendant $5 compensation.

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