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IMPROPER USE OF DYNAMITE STORE

SAMPAN.

USED TO CONVEY GIRLS TO SHIPS IN HARBOUR.

POLICE CAPTURES.

The master and mistress of two passenger boats appeared at the Marine Court, this morning before the Hon. Commdr. G. F. Hole, on the charge of using their boats for the conveyance of women in the harbour for the purpose of prostitu. Both defendants denied the charge.

tion.

WATCHMEN.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 14, 1930.

SEVEN YEARS AND COMMUNAL RIOTS

A BIRCHING..

IN INDIA.

LOCAL COMPANY FINED FOR MAN'S SENTENCE FOR ATTACK]· EXTENSIVE LOOTING AND

NOT PROVIDING.

CHANGE OF PLEA.

Before Mr. Lindell, at the Central Magistracy, this morning, Sub-Inspector Shaftain summoned the Hongkong Excavation. Pile Delving and Construction Com- pany for breach of a regulation of their dynamite storing licence, by failing to have a guard at their No. II magazine at Aberdeen,

Explaining the facts, the Sub Inspector stated that Mr. Shanks, who was appearing for the Com-

ON A WOMAN.

WOUNDING CHARGE.

INCENDIARISM.

TROOPS BROUGHT IN,

Mymensingh, July 13.

ALLEGED FORGED

BANKNOTE.

CHARGE OF UTTERING AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS

CHANGED AT HOTEL.

The first count is that with

That it might be a lesson to the

An alleged forged $100 bank; accused and to other men of the

Nino Hindus were killed in note, which Mr. Fitzroy said was: seriousness of the consequences of communal rioting with Moham- a very good imitation of the committing such a serious crime, medans yesterday when a number genuine article, figured in à case. said Mr. Justice Wood at the Crim-of houses were looted in the at the Criminal Sessions this inal Sessions this morning, he sen- Kishoregan Division. Extensive morning before Mr. Justice Wood, tenced Ho Yung, charged with looting and Incendiarism continue when Wong Kam appeared in the wounding and causing, grievous despite firing by the police. One dock to answer two counts. bodily harm to Yim Chl, to seven police officer was Injured. years' hard labour and 24 strokes Twenty-Five Frontier Rifles arriv intent to defraud he uttered the of the birch.

ed last night and another body is note, purporting to be a banknote coming on later-Reuter.

of the Chartered, Bank of India,] Australia and China, at the Kum) Simla, July 12.

Tot Hotel, Nathan Road, on May been 17, knowing the note to be forged. ing the sum of $70 from Tam Kwai, accountant at the hotel, by means of the note.

he was on patrol in the Northern pany, wished to withdraw his plea cused went to where the womanj of Not Guilty" which he had

up and to plead guilty.

sampan, on board which he found tendered last time the case came 12, at a time when she was alonu. defeated in the Legislative As-There is a second count of obtain-

Sgt. Oliver, who prosecuted, testi- fed that at about 8 p.m. on July 12, Fairway when he stopped the man's seven girls, who appeared to him to be prostitutes.

In answer to his enquiries, they informed him that they were going to visit the compradore of the 3.8.

The facts were that, as far as the dynamite licence was con- cerned, the applicant, after he had satisfied the authorities that of dynamite, had to submit the

Mr. Somerset Fitzroy said ac- lived at 116, Tainan Street on May Other people were living in the house, but except for two women, they were all out. These he sent money from people, and then pro- out on a wild goose chase to collect

chopper, cutting her about the body fect of robbery.

Hoi Ping. Witness then took the f the magazine was for the storage ceeded to assault the woman with a ference.

girls and the master of the sam-

pan on board his police launch and names of two watchmen whom the and head, apparently with the ob- was a member of the Central satisfied that accused knew the went to several ships lying in the Northern Anchorage, but found no ship of that name.

lice had to approve of. The watchmen's photographs were taken and kept in a register, and if these two watchmen were dis- the authorities so that they might be replaced.

The Government have

sembly by a vote of 60 to 48 on a Nationalist amendment reducing. by a hundred rupees, the supple penses of the Round Table Con- mentary grant to cover the ex-

The mover of the amendment

Muslim party, who declared that the recommendations of the Simon report were inadequate and were in the trunks and whilst she

The rest of the Round Table was obtaining the keys to open the box, he struck her with the chopant was voted without division.

-Reuter, per, and said that he not only in- tended to have her money (between $300 and $400), but that he was going to kill her.

The woman was ill at the time, and he asked her to hand over her

After further questioning, the girls tien admitted they were ham mised, the licensee must notify rattan bangles. She replied they unsatisfactory.

aui d's, which, witness said, meant prostitutes" in Chinese.

Found in Hold.

With regard to the other delen- dant, witness said he stopped her sampan at about 8.15 pm. on the same day when she was raving a Dutch steamer, which was lying at the Northern Anchorage. He boarded Le and faut two girls hiding in the hold, covered with a blanket. They were not visiule to him at first, but

he t off the hatch and found them in the bold. These, continued witness, admitted hat they were prostitutes when questioned, and stated that they were told to hide in the hold by the mistress of the boat when

On this particular occasion, Mr. Shanks had some trouble with the contractor and dismissed him and eighty men, including the two watchmen. That was on. May 23rd. On June 8th, Mr. Shanks reported that the whole of the stock, which included 795 sticks of dynamite, had been stolen, Enquiries were made and it was found that there had been no watchmen on duty. The loss ce- curred between June 7th and June 8th.

The Magistrate-Was magazine locked up?

the

Witness:-Yes. The door was found to have been forced open.

Mr. Shanks said that in making which he now. withdrew, he was

Accused denied both counts. In setting forward the case for the Crown, Mr. Fitzroy, pointed) out to the jury that they had to be

note was a forgery before they could convict. It appeared that the note came into accused's pos- session on about May 13, 1930, and he took it to the hotel where Apparently he engaged a room. the accountant had not enough change so he gave $70 to accused. Idea Abandoned.

who did not sleep in the room that Bombay, July 12. night. He went to Hongkong and The National Congress "Mili- took a room at the Tung Fung He struck her a glancing blow tia" have abandoned the idea of boarding house where he stayed on the skull, which although not demonstrating and withdrew after the night, causing a fracture, tore away some lathi charges by the Police, in On the following day he return- flesh. He then became alarmed and which 300 ran away. The woman had to re seriously. A hundred volunteers He went away but again returned were injured, tened to the botol where he received the balance of his change, $20.40. ceive attention at the hospital. he had nothing to say. She owed withdrew later from the Maidan. bank and found to be forged sa

Accused, in. pleading guilty, said were taken to the Congress hos- the next day.

pital. The military and Police the note had been taken to the In the meantime him money and he went there to ask her for it. She refused to pay him and whilst he was trying to take her to the police station she struck him.

before him the evidence

His Lordship said that he had of Dr.

-Router.

The Simon Report.

that when accused went to the hotel he was approached by the accountant London, July 12.

When asked about the note, he Viscount Burnham, who was a said he had been given the note member of the Indian Statutory by a friend and told to engage a Commission, has given notice that

Hotel. Accused was unable to

"the Police launch went angide his original plea of "Not Guilty."Smalley, given before the Police he will ask the Government in the 500m for him at the. Kum Toi

the sampan.

Sgt. Headridge, who was on duty together with Sgt. Olivier at the time, corroborated the evidence al ready given. He differed from Sgt. Olivier in saying that the name of the ship given by the girls in the

first case was Hoi On.

His WorshipIt was Hoi Ping, according to the last witness.

under the impression that, as the Government had asked for the dismissal of the contractor which resulted in the stoppage of work, two Indian watchmen, who were employed in another capacity, would suficient, but now that he had een the Ordinance, which

Magistrate, in which he said the He also stated that it was very for- accused was therefore, added His tunnte that she was not killed. The Lordship, very fortunate in that he was not standing before the Court on a capital charge.

woman suffered from five wounds.

House of Lords next Wednesday, find his friend, however, with the whether, having regard to Lord result that he was arrested. July 9, the report of the Indian that he did not know the note was Irwin's statement at Simla on When charged, accused said Statutory Commission

will form forged, and asked "if I had known the main subject of consideration would I have gone back to the and discussion at the Round Table hotel? When charged with In reply to His Lordship, ac-Conference, which is to assemble uttering the note, accused stated

in the here in November `n `xt,

"the note was given to me by An Colony eleven years. He was 26)

Lung to pay the rent for the room.. years of age and a rattan chair

I did not know it was forged." maker.

The case is proceeding.

Sgt. Olivier.-It was either the requiren two special watchmen, hecused said he had been

Hai Ping or the Hoi On, your Wor- ship. It was apparently a fictitious

name.

1

Defendant's Story,

The first defendant the man? atuted

that the girls hired his sampan at Yaumati to take them out to a steamer at 10 cents per head. He was told that they were on a visit to the ccmpradore of the 3.8. On Hai, which, he said, had been lying at Stonecutters for a long time. Ile denied that he know they were prostitutes but admitted that he did not make any enquiries.

His Worship:-Did it not seem queer to you when they said they were visiting the compradore of a ship that seven girls should visit one man?

one of

Defendant:-- thought them was visiting the compradore and the other six were her friends, Ha Worship:-1 don't believe it is quite as simple as that.

The second defendant informed his Worship that she took a pas senger to a British steamer and whilst returning she was hailed by somebody on a Dutch steamer. She accordingly went alongside and two girls then boarded her baut. She had no idea that they were prostitutes and denied that she instructed them to hide in the hold, averring that they did so on their own initiative.

One Discharged. His Worship remarked that ac- cording to the Ordinance, no ves

sel shall be used for the conveyance of women within the limits of the

changed his plea.

appears

The Magistrate:It that your two Indian watchmen failed in their duty?

Witness:--Yes. I thought that' they were sufficient entil. another contractor had been engaged and work resumed.

Sub-Inspector Shaftain:Mr. may be

This will be the first debate to be held in Parliament since the Viceroy's recent declaration. The The woman, who was in the Prime Minister, In the House of court holding a newly born baby Commons on Monday, will be ask in her arms, said she had knowned whether he proposes to give the accused for ten years.

Commons an opportunity of dis-

The man was convicted on the first cussion of the political situation in count, which his Lordship describ-India before House rises at the Shanks' explanation logical, but as far as we are con- would be sentenced to seven years --British Wireless,

ed as a most serious crime. He end of July for the summer recess. verned, there must be two separate hard labour and 24 strokes of the watchmen, and one of them must birch, that it might be a lesson to be on duty at all times. They him and to other men, of the seri- must prevent the dynamite fror; ousness of the consequences of such being stolen.

a crime.

The Magistrate:--In view of the exceptional circumstances of the case, I impose a fine of $25.

SENATE FIGHT ON NAVY TREATY.

Continued from Page 2.) Pacific ocean except to defend Manila. Senator Swanson asserted. According to Senator Swanson, the London Naval Treaty of 1930 cost $1,000,000,000. But, he said

FAIR TO SHOWERY,

The Royal Observatory reports that the western typhoon appears to be entering the coast to the east

Mr. George Ernest Villiers was of Haiphong and moving north killed and Mr. Henry Winch, of ward. The eastern typhoon is the Scots Guards, suffered a broken now about 100 miles W.N.W. of leg when their aeroplane crashed Wenchow, moving N.W. or N.N.W. in a field near Hendon aerodrome. The local forecast is:S.W. winds, It narrowly missed a girl who was moderate; fair to showery.. sitting in the field doing needle- work. An eye-witness said that the 'plane was about 200ft up, coming from the direction of the Mr. Alfred Crook, headmaster of aerodrome, when it stalled, nose-one of many who attended an in- Queen's College, Hongkong, was dived and crashed. man was a son of the Hon. Mrs. June 13, when the King invested The dead air-vestiture at Buckingham Palace on it would have cost $2,000,000,000 Ernest Villiers of Homington to maintain the naval ratios con- House, Salisbury, while Mr. Winch him with the Insignia of Officer templated by the powers without is a son of Lady Newborough.

(Civil Division) of the Order of the treay.

the British Empire,

Stimson Criticised,

Washington, July 9. With barely a quorum present on the senate loor but with the galleries well filled Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson to-day was subjected to hot fire as, for the third day in extraordinary session, Naval Treaty of 1930. the senate debated the London

Senator Hugo 1. Black, Demo-

harbour for the purpose of procrat of Alabama, likened the stitution," which, he took it, meant attitude of Secretary Stimson to conveying women from shore to

the policies of Alexander Hamil- steamer, or from steamer to steam-

ton. 'er.

In the second case, it was admit ted by the prosecution that the girls were taken from steamer to shore but there was no evideneg what- ever that they were conveyed from steamer to steamer,

Under the circumstances, his Worship thought he could not con 'vict the second defendant, who was

accordingly discharged.

bour..

is attempting to set himself up as "Secretary Stimson apparently

Senator Black,

1.

onc man government,"

said

Mrs. Stimson sat in the senate For the third successive day galleries and, unruffled, listened her husband. to the senators scathingly attack

Trenty Defended. Sonator Joseph T. Robinson, The first defendant was found Democrat, of Arkansas, minority guilty and fined $50, with the al-floor leader and a member of the ternative of six weeks hard la- American delegation to the Lon- don conference, defended the raval treaty. He minimized the importance of the secret docu- A resolution was carried at Ox- ments connected with the London ford Diocesan Conference that negotiation which Secretary when a census is next taken in Eng- Stimson, acting under instructions Land, there should be a column on) from President Hoover, has the form wherein people might refused to deliver to the Senate. state their religious views, if any, Senator Robinson intimated The Rev. C. E. M. Fry, the pro- that most of the correspondence poser, suggested that the Bishop of was between the American Oxford be requested to bring the Embassy in London and matter before the proper authori tiea." The information, he said, would make it easier to bring do finite religious teaching into secon dary schools as well as elementary schools.

the

Department of State in Washing- ton. He further intimated that some of the secret documents were concerned with political con- ditions in some of the world capi.. tals during the conference,

The younger generation displays a growing respect for the law,

SWEEP LEGALITY QUESTIONED.

(Continued from Page 1-) self-evident, and that was that the line must be drawn some- where. So far as he was aware from legal decisions the line had not been drawn clearly and de- finitely, and that was one of the difficulties from the prosecution's point of view.

It was self-evident that the line: must be drawn somewhere. The whole legislation of the colony on the question of lotteries became mere nonsense and perfectly use- less if non-members of the Turf Club or

club got any Chinese tickets as freely as they liked to apply for them, if it was sufficient to say afterwards, when a pro- them as friends," secution was brought, "We got

Magistrate's Finding. Giving judgment, Mr. Williams said: This seems to me to be a simple matter. It is entirely a question whether it is a public lottery or a private one. You know quite well that a public lottery is a lottery to which the public or any section of the public are admitted. The only witness who has given the slightest sag- gestion of this is the Jewish wit- ness. He cannot be called 1 member of the public because his relations with the accused, un- fortunately from the point of view of the police, are shown to have run for some time, he had some dealing with him, was to some extent indebted to him, and it was also shown that to get his ticket he had to go on his knees. That is a picturesque' detail, but

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