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JURY'S DECISION IN PIRACY TRIAL.

CABE TO GO BEFORE FULL COURT.

The twelyn alleged pirates were all found guilty by the unanimous verdict of the jury, after a retire ment of 19 minutes, at the Gri- minal Sessions yesterday, beforn Mr. Justice Wood, who expressed agroomant with the verdict, His Lordship committed accused

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to prison and postponed sentence. pending the decision of the Full Court as to the legal point corved, 1.c. whether an accused person may be convicted of piracy În circumstances whore no rob bery has occurred.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931.

FIRST HOUSE AT KOWLOON.

ROSE TERRACE TO BE

DEMOLISHED.

A link with the early history of Kowloon is being severed with the demolition of Rose Terrace, the ancient yellow two-storied block that has weathered typhoons and monsoons, at the authern end of Nathan Road, for more than 40 years.

The old building knows more of Kowloon than the present arst generation, for it was the brlek structure that was erected on the Kowloon side of the

bour.

does now. Behind it rose the hills on which are Now constructed Knutsford Terrace and other residential apartments, Thase hills ware used as a ground for military exerolaos, Nathan Road wna only a narrow pathway, but later made a 100 foot thorough- fare by Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor, who planned it to be the main trunk road connecting the Colony with Canton. was no Yaumati or Mongkok then. and the border ran through where Shamshulpo now is. Homuntin was known as a name to only a whole few foreigners, and the locality was visited only by sports- men in search of anips and pigeons,

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Mr. Azevedo continued to live in har-Rose Terrace for many years, let- ling vacant space to other Por- tuguess. There was no idea in those days of giving the ground door over to shops; that altera- tion was made several years later. de-

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No evidence was called for the

Intoreating tafon and defence, and in summing up, his Lordship remarked it was the miniscences surround the build- first enso of its kind that had lag of Rose Terrace, To-day it is come before

British Court ne-a couple of hundred yards from cording to the authorities, as in the sea-wall, but in the late all other canes there had been robbery, whereas in the present eighties, when it was bulit, the harbour lapped up against its foundations. Extensive reclama- tion has altered the sea shore in that vicinity and provided the soll on which the palatial Peninsula Hotel, Y. M. C. A., Alfred Holt's Godowns, the Post Office and other buildings now stand.

case, nothing had been stolen.

Questions for Jurors,

For the guidance of the jurors, his Lordship provided them with copies of the following NEVOL questions, explaining that he did not wish them to answer the ques tions in Court, but to consider them in arriving at their verdict.

The questions were as follow. 1. Wern any of the accused

voluntarily engaged

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common enterprise on thu occasion in quention?

2. If so, which were they?

3. Were any of the accused

carrying firearms?

4. Was a shot fired by any of

the accused?

5. If any shot was fred, was ·

it possible for a bullet to have struck the master or crew of the junk 206V ?

G. Did those of the accused who may have been found to have been engaged in a common enterprise, con- tinue in the enterprise after a shot was fred?

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7. Was the main enterprise

an intended robbery 7

footnote There was 14

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questions 34 follows. Any accused persons indicated in an- awer to question No. 2 should be convicted if the answers to questions 1, 3. 4, 5, 6, and 7, are "yes." If the answer to any of these questions is "no," ail the accused persons should be acquitted.

Evidence as to Arms.

His Lordship reminded the jury that although nothing of an in- criminating nature was found on the pirate junks, they had to con- sider the evidence of com- plainants, who had stated that they heard shots fired and bullets whistle overhead, while the officers of the s.a. flangsang had said they aaw articles thrown from the junk. In that connexion the accused had not been called to give evidence.

After the jury's verdict. had been delivered, his Lordship tula accused that the Full Court would decide whether to confirm the nding of the jury or whether to set it aside. They would be com- mitted to prison, and sentence and judgment would be postpaned until the decision of the Full Court was known.

Defence Submission.

When he died Mr. Azevedo queathed the property to his

family, and eventually it wna secured by Chinese interests.

Modern Flate Planned. Now Rose Terrace is to be re- placed by a modern up-to-dato block of flats that will be in koop- ing with the other buildings in the locality. Of four stories, the kround level of the new structure will be comprised of three shops, and there will be four apartments on each of the other three floors. The flats will be modelled on the usual style of European house- two big rooma joined by a wide door, a amaller roum,pantry, kitchen, servant's quarters, and bathroom. It will be finished with Shanghai plaster, and grey verandahs on the three flours will face Nathon Road.

To Mr. Mathias Azevedo, one of the earliest Portuguese settlere, Roes the credit of having been responsible for the construction of Rose Terrace. Mr. Azevedo did for Kowloon what Mr. Delfino Noronha did for Yaumati several In those days, the re- years Inter. clamation of Tsimshatsui Bay had not been considered, and the whole of British Kowloon Peninsula was practically given over to Chinese

Plans have not yet been passed farmers and was all paddy fields-by the Government, and although Tsimshatsui Bay was a rrencent- shaped inlet between the bamboo the demolition of old Rose Terrace will be completed within a week, palice pier, where the Star Ferry construction of the new building wharf now 10, and Blackhead's Point, at the site of the present will not be started for some weeks. Holt's wharfs.

$25 an Acre.

The anndy shores of the bay were fringed with matshed bun- galows, which were used na week- end residences In the same way as imilar sheds are employed at Castle Peak and other localities to-day. These matshed bungalows were built on single-acre lots, which the Government had Bold for $25 each. Among those who acquired these matshos were Mr. Azevedo, Mr. Jono M. A. da Silva, Mr. Chagas and Mr. Ribeiro, all of whom, with the exception of Mr. Azevedo, were employed in the Government service. Mr. da Silva was audit clerk and the first Government electrician in the Colony.

Mr. Azevedo was chief clerk to Brereton and Wootton, the firm of legal practitioners, which years inter was joined by Vietor H. Deacon and is now the well-known Deacon's.

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Mr. Azevedo soon perceived the possibilities ahead of Kowloon, and it was due to his courage in remaining there in spite of the which neither he nor his family prolonged malarial attacks escaped, that he succeeded in erecting Rose Terrace. He named it after his wife's Christian, name Rosa, and his family took up their

there, residence

while he cultivated a small flower and vege. table garden nearby. .:

Tsimshatsul Reclamation.

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The black is expected to be com- pleted by the end of the year.

The architect for the new block is Me, M. A. Xavier.

About this time, 'application was BISQUIT DUBOUCHE

made for the ante by public nue-| tion of Tsimshataol Bay, which was then a shallow crescent of In conducting Lis defence practically no commercial value. carlier in the day, Mr. Hin-Shing There wa keen competition for Lo said that he would not the site, which was secured by a call any evidence, but submitted private syndicate, and the bay that there was no case to answer was reclaimed, and Mr. Azevedo' as there was no evidence of as-original "farm lot" became дл than sault, no evidence of the posses-

"Inland lat." It is more slon of arms, and that it was possible that Mr. Azevedo could essential to prove that a robbery see this in the future. From this had been completed.

reclamation dates the beginning of Kowloon's Intensivo develop.

His Honour disagreed, and considered that there was enough evidence on the first two points for the case to go to the jury. He roserved his ruling on the third point.

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