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CRIME IN CHINA.

MAN ANSWERS MULTIPLE

INDICTMENTS..

AUSTRALIAN TRADE

WITH EAST.

· MORE STRENUOUS EFFORT BEING MADE.

was found in the foreward part of the boat with a wound in her chest. From that the son wan convinced that she had been killed either through the explosion or drowned but in the absence of any medical evidence it was impossible to show that murder had been committed..

Whethor or not that

Among the visitors to Hongkong at established mattered not. There presont is Mr. A. C. Spence, Divisional of Manager of the Australian firm forg was ample evidence for his Worship P. E. Scrivener, who have made the

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Multiple charges, Including in dictments of murder, piracy, rob- bery, kidnapping and attempting to destroy a boat were against Leung Chung-ting

on the other charges. A man Mr. Schofield at the Central Pollee

named Hon Yas whom the gang when Court yesterday afternoon

was alleged to have kidnapped was the Crown applied for the extradi- tion of the fugitive on a requisi-present and would give evidence.

Accountant's Evidence. tion from the Canton Government.

beat effort to date to win trade in the Eant. P. E. Scrivener and Co., whone headquarters are in Sydney, have created an organisation which now represents nearly thirty promin- ent and non-competitivo industries.

Australia just beginning to the potentialltion of the Eastern market, and this year much being more strenuous efforts are

Mr. R. E. Lindacli (Assistant Ho Shck, who was employed as Attorney the Crown and Menred for shroff and accountant on the Tung realise

General)

Hing tow-bont, testified that in 1929, he received four letters, de-

Ilin-shing Lo

replanation of the charges, manding a tribute of $3,000 and made by exporters to capture the

the fugitive. In Mr. Lindsell sold that the first was

of

robbery

une

actiger

of 3800 on August 16, 1929, on the Tung Hing pas ger boat at Ang Ko Taui, be tween Chungshan and Canton. The details were that the Tung Hing passenger boat, owned by the Pa On Shipping Company of Canton, ntled between Shekk! in the Chung- shan District and Canton. During the summer of 1920 certain thres- tening letters were delivered to a man named Ho Shek. the ac- countant and compradore of the passenger boat, why travels to and

fro on board.

First Episode.

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put porting to come from the Chung Hing Tuen. The first of these communications was sent through the post, the others delivered by hand at a stopping place called Ang Ko Taui, between Shekki and Canton

Ile recalled that night of August 18. The hont, leaving Shekki at iam. had reached Ang Ko Tal. and some ten passengers had come

on

board. Four of these made their way Into his room. They were armed, and one of them-he identified him as the fugitive painting an automatic at his head, reminded him of the demand for a

The letters were disregarded and $2,000 tribute and of the fact that frame reply had been hitherto forth 13s the night of August

coming. "Let us see how much DURH when the boat was

there is in there," the man added. voyage From Shekki to Canton

pointing to the safe. #10 an, and was off Ang Ko Taui, a boat came alongside with vigcht I WAS or ten perous on board. quite a

The usual occurrence in heita for smaller boats Iv

Lake

From the safe, witness took $10 in Chinese subsidiary coins, all of which he handed to the fugitive. with the exception of $10, after

The four men then marched him at the point of the revolver up to the boat's alde, and, before leaving im to go ashore, the fugitive said "You had better get the balance

Eastern markets from the foreign exporters. Australia has a decided advantage.in this respect, as the men

to the East in far less than that from Amerlen or Europe. The depreciation of the Australian sterling, which In t present twenty-five per çent below the decided English & sterling is also a Advantage.

ex-

Where Australia Falls. But although much more activity in being shown by Australian portern, their efforts still fall short of those of foreign competitors. Not one Australian firm has made any Horts to advertise Australian manti- factures, and, with the exception of Scrivener and Co., there are practical- an personal representalives. If Eastern importers are not informed through the medium of the press, Br by other menar of advertising, of. the existener of Australin goods and firms, they cannot be expected to y People in the East are, on the heitish and Dominen manufacturers. whole,

nympathetic towarde and if Australing Arms would only fallow the

Trade Journal.

TP.

example set by P. F. passengers from the shore to pas-ring, asked leave to retain this

sum, on account of "neces-Serivener und Co., and send senger boats, which would alow

sary expensca."

presentatives to the various Eastern down whilst the passengers on the

centres, a lucrative trade would un- smaller boats climbed on board.

doubtly necrue. The

compradore would say that when those eight

people got on board four of them disclosed themselves as robbers. They pro-ready or we might use guns." duced pistols, threatened the com-

Some of the passengers also left 'sampan as the pirates.

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An excellent monthly trade publica. Han, The Easters Trade Journal, the

pradore and asked for $3,000 which 1 the boat, going ashore in the same should do much to overcome ignorance

to

On shore some eight or ten other men could be observed, carry

Replying to Mr. Lindsell, witness said he was able to identify the fugitive by reason of his being the one amongst the four individuals concerned who had seized him by

had been previously demanded by letter. They compelled him open the safe and they extracted $300. The compradore would saying rifles. that one of the four was the fuxi- Live who had seized him by the front of the jacket and threatened him with his pistol. He (the com- pradore) would say the fugitive Was the obvious leader of the four And, on leaving, the fugitive said that if the compradore did not pay the $3,000 he would hear further from them.

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Second Episode. Continuing Mr. Lindsell said that the remaining four charges related to an episode of seven eight months' later. On the night of April 24, 1930 the same bont a similar voyage from Shekki to Canton at about the same ilme, somewhere between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock in the morning, at a place four or five miles from where the previous incident had occurreal. the name of the place being Pak Fa Tau.

was on

the chest. The same man had then also told him that his name was Leung Cheung and that he belong ed to the Chung Hing Tuen.

On arrival at Canton, witness re- ported the affair to the manager of the Company. Thereafter. he received no other letters from the Chung Hing Tues.

camu

if

first number of which is just to hand, in the Ennt-regarding Austrália, pro- viding adequate arrangements have i been made for its distribution. I

would benefit Australia greatly the Commonwealth Government would subsidise some such publication, and arrange for its free distribution in the East. Advertising and personal the keys to successful contact are

unless Australian manufacturers realise thin, they cnn never hope to compete successfully with their American and German competitors.

trading with the East, an

....

LESSON-SERMON.

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FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST. HONGKONG,

"Substanco" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday,

The Golden text was,-"Faith is the substance of things hoped for. the evidence of things not seen." (Hebrews II; 1.)

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Another Incident. One night in the following April, on a similar the bout, engaged voyage, had reached Pak Fa Ta

(some ten miles from Ang Ko Tsui on this side of Shekki), when A mine exploded against its bows. The bout was holed and began to Rink until its bows were submerg-

Among the citations which com- ed, in sume eight or nine feet of

of shots the pas-water. A volley

next prised the Lesson-Sermon was the The people on board

came from the bank, but witness following from the Bible,-"In senger boat were suddenly alarm- ed by a tremendous explosion in did not know if anyone was hit.

let me never be put to confusion. the bow. The boat began in settle Many people were killed either by thee. Lord, do I put my trust: by the head but fortunately the the explosion or by being drowned thou my strong habitation, water was not very deep and the through being trapped in the bows whereunto I may continually

command- boat was nut-entirely submerged, where there was a passenger com-

sort: thou hast given As she started to sink a number of partment.

ment to save me: for thou art my bandits appeared on the creek Shortly afterwards nine or ten rock and my fortress." (Psalm 71; bank, the creek being about 100 sambans from the shore

1.3.)

The Lesson-Serman also includ. yards wide at that particular alongside with between 30 or 40 point, and fired a volley at the men a mumber of whom boarded the ed the following passage from

towboat. Witness ru- wrecked

the Christian Science textbook, hoat, apparently without causing

cognized one of them as the fugi- "Science and Health, with Key to any casualties.

A party of 30 or 40 boarded the tive, the same man who had board the Scriptures", by Mary Baker boat from sampans and ransackeded the craft on the previous occa- Eddy."Substance is that

is eternal and incapable of discord the passenger boat. The managersion. He was was on board and together with armed with what appeared to be a and decay. Truth, Life, and Love the Scriptures the compradore would identify the Thompson gun and was directing are substance as fugitive as the man who was the operations. This gang of urmed use this word in Hebrews: "The lender of the gang who had made men went through the passengers substance of things hoped for, the the attack.

belongings and also pilfered the evidence of things not acen." cargo, sme $16,000 worth of which Spirit, the synonym of Mind, Soul, or God, is the only real substance. they took away, in addition

30 passengers who were The spiritual universe, including about

individual man, is compound idea, being kidnapped for ransom.

The launch, which was towing reflecting the divine substance of the boat, cut the latter adrift as Spirit." (p. 408.) Mr. Landsell mentioned that on Hout as trouble occurred, and went the fourth charge, that of murder ahead. It later came back with ៥៥។

a woman named Ng Sht. the rescue party of soldiers, but by Crown's evidence was particularly that time the pirates had left. wenk. It could merely be proved Replying to Mr. Lindsell, wit- that a female passenger was travel ness declared that the fugitive was ling with her son. Sho was in the leader of this gang. from the fact that he was armed with the whilst the son was aft. After the Thompson gen, and also that he robbers had left,

was issuing instructions and point.

(attempting to Charge "" destroy a bont) was based on the explosion which must have been the work of the gang. The third charge (piracy) arose out of the same circumstances.

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