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CHILD SLAVERY | BARRÁCK STORE

TERRIBLE LIFE OF

MUI TSAI

ILL IN HOSPITAL

BURGLED

A.D.C.'S NEXT SHOW

THE HỌNGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932.

WALLER TRIAL RESUMED

RADIO BROADCAST

TWO S.W.B. PRIVATES

SENT TO GAOL

owner

PLAY WITH HUMAN

INTEREST

DETECTIVE ENDS HIS

EVIDENCE

enge was re-

BAND

From Z.B.W. on wave-length of 355

metres (846 k/c).

5-7 p.. Chinese programme.

6-6.20 p.m. Children's Concert. 7.10.30 p.m. Europenn programme,

Preparations for the Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club's forth-

The cross-examination of Ling SELECTIONS BY THE CHEERO An Indian tailor's valuation of coming production of Jeffery Della'

Sam, the Chinese detective, was are proceeding upaco and the concluded at the Supreme Court A P.W.D. coolie, Ilo Cheung-ting, articles stolen by two British famous play "Payment Deferred" was charged to-day before Mr. Boldiers in Wellington Barracks Producer, Mrs, E. Grossman, ex-thia morning, before the Chief Schoflold at the Central Court with was set aside by the Police when presses herself well satisfied with Justico (Sir Joseph Kemp) when keeping an unregistered mui-taai. the case eame before Mr. Schofield the progress made at rehearsals. the Waller bribery

will un-sumed. Inspector Fraser, of the S.C.A.

The detective, it will be remem. Bald that on Monday morning, then the Central Court to-day, and The play is one which

doubtedly make henvy demands on the dramatic powers of our bered, accompanied Acting Sub- girl, who is aged 14, was seen certain ties which the

are Inspector Waller, who is appearing crying in Shing We Road. From represented were worth 50 cents

amateurs, and although we

on à charge of receiving a bribe of Inquiries made it was discovered ench were declared by Det. Sergeant not yet in n position to give details

$50 for the omission of a prosecu- that the girl had been with defen- Kennedy to be obtainable outside of the easte, a few of the names

mentioned to u dant for six years, having been at 25 cents.

are suficient tion in respect of possession of ABRUrance that the cream of the plum at Taipo on October 2nd." presented by her natural father on

The Crown case is being con-- a payment of $177. Ever since Pte. Alfred Cooke and te. local talent has been secured, and ducted by Mr. J.A. Fraser, and Mr.

we have but little doubt that the Dunenn McNeill, Edwards, both of the

instructed by he, had been employed by the de- Horace fendant and his wife, and

high Blandard of acting set for expected to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning, go to the hillside and

many years by the A.D.C. will be cut grass, and on her return, to do the whole of the house work, and osslat in cleaning out the pig-| slics, She had very little sleep, received no wages, and took her meals by herself, eating what was

South Wales Borderers, were charged with breaking Into Feroz Din's talloring store In Wellington Barracks and stealing goods valu- ed by the owner at $215.

Sergt. Kennedy stated that the store was behind the main building. On Saturday night, It was entered, a window pane having been smash- inga removed.

fully maintained.

G.K. Hall Brutton appears for the

defence,

Answering Mr. McNelli, Ling The experiment of departure Sam said he did not talk to Ho from farce and light comedy will Hong-sang about the price of be watched with much interest by opium and did not know that $12 Hongkong students of the drama, was the price mentioned as the and speculation is rife regarding value of the oplum by Ho Hong- the reaction of the theatre-going sang's acquaintance. The public to the comparatively seri-who purchased the opfam from he could offer. . He received $12 he offered.

And that was the price handed over.

man

carry pig-wash, but being ill, wasted with an iron lar and the fasten-us, but intensely human, play.to him said that was the best price

left over.

On Monday, the girl was told to

unable to do so, and received n kick, it was alleged, from defendant. She was now severely ill in Hos- pital and would not be discharged for a week.

His Worship: And now she has a breakdown.

On Monday morning. after Police investigations, Ple. Cooke ronfessed he was responsible and implicated Edwards.

ESCAPED HIS MEMORY. Mr. McNeill:-You did not say anything in the Magistrates Court about defendant giving you $12 for "tea money".

Inspector Fraser said the girl was suffering from high fever and was asleep practically the whole time she was in his office. She alleged that she bad about 8 hours sleep in about 16 dayn. Her parents who could be located, had had two sons and two other daughters, all of whom were sold because of their hellef that Cooke and his con- study in the disintegration of the lle called from the fool of

poverty.

Defendant was fined $75.

QUARREL ÖVER

RENT

WOMEN

FIGHTERS

FINED

The story of two women of Aberdeen village who shared, a teor and later fell out over the rent, was told to Mr. Schofield at the Central Court to-day, when Lai Kam, 30, a widow, and Cheung Kwai-kam, 20, a married woman. were charged with disorderly con duct.

Sub-Inspector Cunningham stat

the ક્ર that after moving into promises and agreeing to pay the rent between them, the younger woman failed to live up to her their commitments. They took quarrel to the Station when it was adjudicated that the younger woman, who pleaded straightened financial circumstances, should be permitted to refund an amount of over $10 by instalments.

"Payment Deferred" is a murder story dramatized on somewhat novel lines; inasmuch as there is a complete absence of mystery about it. The murderer is reveal In the naval camber, Cooke's kit-ed to the audience the moment the

Witness:-I did not mention it bag was found dumped in the curtain rises and we are left in water, with all the stolen property doubt only as to when and how he because it may have escaped my Witness, in answer to further in It with the exception of certain will be caught. The rarity of the memory at that moment, articles which it was believed author's treatment is a reminder

of how often a play's essentials questions, denied walking through were stolen by people who may

are bound up in characterization, the Cheung Chun shop, calling to have seen Cooke dump it.

und this offers to the players a defendant to come down stairs. ith Answering Mr. Fraser, witness murderer. The methods by which stairs. the average "thriller" Becks effect

are replaced by another stated that the third and fourth harrowing statements he made to the Police scheme, at once more

were quite voluntary. He made these statements because he and more profound because it enn

thought no harm would come to be taken seriously.

him if the truth was told.

The Police Officer expressed his panion had had no intention of rofiting by the theft, as shown by the method selected to dispose of the property. Although valued at $216 by the owner, the property, in the opinion of the Police, was worth only half that.

UNREGISTERED MUI-TSAI

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7.9.30 p.m. A programme of Victor and I.M.V. records.

7-7.20 p.m. Orchestral. Tales From the Vienna Woods

(Strausa). Philadelphia Symphony Orch. D1218, Marches Joyeuse (Chabrier-Hinricha). Danne Slavo (Chabrier).

Victor Symphony Orchestra 30037. Invitation to the Waltz (Weber); Philadelphia Symphony Orch. D1286.

7.20-8 p.m. A Concert. Tambourin (Leclair-Sarasate). Violin Solo Sarabando and Violin Sale-Adagio (Mozart).

Master Yehudi Menuhin 7182.

Strickland). Song-Dreamin' Time (De Longpre- Song-Sometime (Kahn-Florito).

Madam Amelita Galli-Cure! (Soprano) 1144. Taught Me (Dvorak) (b) Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky- Cello Solos-(a) Songs my Mother

Korakow).

Cello Solo Song Without Words, in

D (Mendelssohn).

Pablo Casals 7103. Song-Rolling In Foaming Billows

("Creation"-Haydn). SongThrough the Darkness

("Stabat Mater"-Rossini), Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) C2699. Piano Solo--Scarf Dance

(Chaminade).

Plano Solo The Flatterer (Cham-

20346. Ilona Barth, inado). 8 p.m. Local Time and Weather Re port.

8.3-8.48 p.m. Variety. Voen Gems-Follow Thru.

Victor Light Opera Group 35970. Plano Solo-Southology.

Joe Sanders 24033. Vocal Duet Ohl Baby What a Night. Billy Murray and Walter Scanlon 22040. Song By the Fireside.

Donald Novis (Tenor) 24020. Fox Trot Song of the Moonbeams.

George Olsen and His Music 22065.. Chorus--Valencia.

The Revelers 20082. Vocal Duet-Congratulations, Jim Miller and Charlle Farrell 22277. Vocal Gems-Hold Everything.

Victor Light Opera Group 36070. Plano Sole-Intangibility.

Joo Sanders 24033. Vocal Duet-Katie, Keep Your Feet

on the Ground.

Alleen Stanley and Billy Murray 22040. be-Song-Goodnight, My Love,

Donald Novis (Tenor) 24020. Fox Trot-If You Believed in Me.

George Olsen and His Music 22066. Chorus The Blue Room.

20092. The Revelers. HoVocal Duet-That's Why I'm Jealous Jin Miller and Charlie Farrell 22277.

KNEW IT WAS OPIUM. You say as soon as you saw the pneket you knew it apsum. Will you explain how you knew it was opium if it was wrapped in paper?I could swear it was opium. It smells ke fish and as I was a detective I know what is oplum and what is not.

A bank clerk, on the edge of The C. O. of accused, who was ruin, is suddenly visited by an who in Court, produced a previous con-apparently wealthy nephew

Australia. virtion against Cooke for a theft has come alone from

onThe boy is robbed, murdered, and committed at Southampton

was buried in the garden; and then January 19, 1930, when he

"think I may the ploy properly speaking begins. bound over. mention", the officer said, "that Superficially, a certain amount of Cooke is the ringlender and Ed-suspense exists in the audience's awareness that the corpse lies not

Can I take it you knew it was wards is weak and easily led."

too safely buried just outside the Sentence of six weeks' im- window. But the greater effect opium by the smell?--I knew prisonment was passed on lies in observing the murderer's cause when Ho Hong-sang'a han defendants, who were also ordered reaction' to the fact itself, and on was being held by the Sub-Inspec- to pay $25 each to complainant for this Jellery Dell (the author) hastor the paper was opened out and

built his foundations slowly: GratI could see it was oplum.

FURTHER EVIDENCE. the property unrecovered.

on IL Bubdued and then on

The The next witness called was gradually mounting scale. idea of murder is born without Wa, master of the Po Wah-tong words as the murderer turns his shop, who said on October 2nd, back on his victim-to-be and pours while he was in the front of the

theshop Ho Hong-sang made a com the drink that will lead to poisoning. When the murder is munication to him, as the result of done, fear grows on him and which he went to the cubicle where breaks through in the points of his he saw the detective, the accused and two other people. On the progressive downfall,

table was some raw opium without The play was frst produced at wrappings. He did not enter the The matter then appeared la Further prosecutions brought have been adjusted to the satis against mistresses employing mai-the St. James Theatre, London, cubicle but returned to the front of the abop. Later, Ho Hong-sang of both parties, but faction

tanja, for failure to register came in 1931, where it ran for many

came to him and asked him for Witness told Ho Constable again found the women before Mr. Schofield at the Central months. Charles Laughton gave a

Aоme money. fighting in the main street, and for Police Court this morning when masterly study of the criminal

famous Hong-sang he had no money and each bank clerk and such the second time took them to the two married women were

pinyers as Louise Hampden. Elsa told him to try and borrow money Station. There it. was learned fined $50.

Ho Hong-sang went elsewhere. that the youth

minutes had woman

for their out but returned a few In the first case Inspector H. W. Lanchester, Jean de Chesallis etc.

scope moved mul of the premises and

Fraser informed his Worship that found ample

later, stating he had been unable gone to live with a friend, but a

A.D.C. will to get any money, and again asked out misgiving bad fed to her former the girl's own mother reported at talents in the supporting roles.

the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs

The Hongkong

the Star witness for monoy. He was present the play at

MARRIED WOMEN

FINED

fellow-lotiger retaining part of that she desired the return of her

:

You.

6.48-9.30 pm. Operatic. Orchestral-Jewels of the Madannu-

Intermezzo (Wolf-Ferrari). Victor Symphony Orchestra 15976. Song Traviata-The One of Whom

I Dreamed (Verdi).

Lucrezia Bori (Soprano) 7134, Song-Aidin-Return Victorious

(Verdi).

Rosa Ponsalle (Soprano) 4738.

Overture (Rossini). Orchestral-The Barber of Seville-

State Orchestra, Berlin D1204, Song-Don Pasquale-Fond Dream

of Love (Donizetti). Song-Rigoletto-31 Throng (Verdi).

Tito Schips (Tenor) 1282. Orchestral--Lohengrin-Prelude

the Fair

(Wagner): Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Leopold Stokowskl 6791. 9.30-19.30 p.m. From the Studio. The Cheero Band will play Selec

her personal effects, apparently daughter from Kwan Chol-lan, of Theatre, Kowloon, on the nights of for about five minutes. As a re- against the payment of the money 5. Wat Lan Lane, where the girl Saturday, December 3rd., Tuesday,ault of the second request, witness tlons from the following:

ngo,

her

"And so they fought for the

6th., Wednesday, 7th., Friday, 9th., lent Ho Hong-sang $50, of which second time." remarked Inspector was a mai-tsai.

and $30 from a man named "Sum Cunningham.

Enquiries revealed that she had and Saturday 10th.. at 9.15 p.m. $20 was borrowed from Wong Fat Chun-yueng The money Was Both women were fined $4 and been presented to the defendantsharp. bound over.

by her mother for $85 (Canton Booking is ut the Anderson wrapped in brown paper before he currency) five years

money was for because Ho Hong- parent then being in poor circum. Music Co, up to 5 pm, and at the handed it over. He knew what the sang had told him. He Hang-sang stances. The girl had alleged Star Theatre after that hour.

then went into the cubicle to the that she had heen benten but her

detective and they went out to- actual employer had returned to the country and had left her in

Kether. Ho Hong-aanse returned; charge of the defendant, who was

after about ten minutes. a concubine and by whom the wiri had been well treated. She had been with the concubine for one month.

The

TWO-YEAR-OLD WARRANT

EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE

BODY DUMPING INCIDENT

POLICE DROP CHARGE AGAINST COOLIE.

"Now facts" caused

charge of

this

The trial is proceeding.

THE KINGDOM OF CANADA

MOTION TO CHANGE the dumping of the body, brought against a Taikoo Dock coolie to be

NAME withdrawn before Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court

Ottawa. A proposal that the morning.

Cheung Lok-bing was on Mon- name of Canada should be changed day fined $25 with the alternative from the "Dominion, of Canada" of one month's hard Inbour for to the "Kingdom of Canada"

Dispensary

at which has

Fox Trot-How'm I Doin'? Fox Trot-Gosh Darnl Fox Trot Crazy People, Fox Trot Call It a Day. Fox TrotNight Shall be Filled

With Music. Fox Trot-Goopy Geer, Fox Trot Goodalght, Vienna. Fox Trot With a Song in my

Heart.

Fox Tret-Cabin in the Cotton. Fox Trot The Clouds Will Soon Roll By. Fox Trot-Georgia on My Mind. Fox Trot-Rain on the Roof. Waltz Only My Song. Waltz-Bird Songs at Eventide.. 10.30 p.m. Rugby Mid-day Press News.

10.35 p.m. (approx:) Close Down, All records in the above European programmes aro kindly supplied by Messra, S. Moutrie and Co,

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Paris

Genova Berlin

Chan Mang-po made another up-

Anti-Muitsai Society pearanes on remand before Mr.

case to the Schofield at the Central Magistracy brought the second to-day, charged with embezzling notice of the authorities and as a $7,000 two years ago at a period result of enquiries Tang Leung- when he was manager of the Kingshi of 29, Hi Wong Terrace, was Fook Wo firm of 66, Bonham Strand summoned for keeping an unregis-

tered mui-tsai, Enst.

Mr. Prentis, for the complaimint, The girl was. presented to the asked for another adjournment to defendant for, $160 (Canton cur- enable the books to be got together,rency) and subsequently accom

been given by Mr. Helsingfors Mr. Poter Sin, for the defendant, panied her mistress to Bangkok, Jumping the corpse at the' rear contained in a motion, notics of opposed, commenting that the books the two returning at different of the Public were all in the possession of the periods and living in Hongkong. Shaukisan, and although this Armand Lavergne, Deputy Speaker Oslo,

Milan complainant who should be in n The girl was required to do position to continue right away almost all the household work but conformed with practice. it was of the Dominion House of Com Athens

claimed that an offence lay in the mone.

A debate on a similar motion last Buenos Aires with the hearing. He again

She was, how fact that the man, claimed that he re-received no wages.

scaston falled to reach the order Shanghal minded the Bench that his client ever, very well treated.

found the body dumped on the

Mr. Lavergne's resolution New York

Amsterdam and voluntarily given himself ap.

threshold of his own house, did not paper.

Viennu and desired a speedy trial.

make a report to the authorities. reads:

"The name should be changed Prague This morning. Inspector G. A. Stimson who presccuted, address-In view of the Statute of West-Madrid ing his Worship said: In view of minster, the traditions of the Cann Bucharest dian people and the constitution Hongkong

Brussala now facts brought to light in this

Stockholm ense, the Police are prepared to of this country."-Router. withdraw against this defendant.

Now York-Sixteen boys in Copenhagen His Worship (to defondant):

scrum on the playing The police have had certain facts football brought to their netice and are field of Woodmere Academy wore Bombay

the felled by n finsh of lightning. One Yokohansa Montevideo Shanghai, Nov. 23. now prepared to withdraw

242% Somo of the bays had their bucks Montral Reuter's correspondent at Har-Case against you. Before you go 1 died a few hours later.

should like to say one thing. that Mr. Prontis replied that he would

War Loan and

.004 Assented like to be in a position to call all bin is without confirmation of the you ontirely failed to make your against a wire screon. Thoy all Belgrade

Rengo (Japanaso) report that the own cass clear either to the police had their head together the witnesses at one hoaring,

their arms round each other, form-

Sliver (spot) ...18.1/16 (forward) 18 After further discusalon, De-Administrator of Barga; Fu Halu, or to me..

The defendant was accordingly ing a perfect circuit for an

electric shock.-Router.

--British Wireless. cember 2 was set aside for the has been executed by General Su

Ping-won.-Reuter.

discharged. hoaring.

Mr. Prentis pointed out that al-

though they had the books, they BARGA GOVERNOR

also had to get the witnesses, "The warrant," he said, "was taken out in 1929, and defendant has taken a rather long time in surremiering himself."

Mr. Sin thought the evidence could be proceeded with, and enquired

if a start could not be made with

the complainant.

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