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OPIUM CASE FAILS

NO EVIDENCE OFFERED

MR. STRELLETT'S PROTEST

Appearing on remand before Mr. Schofield, at' thú Central Magis- tracy this morning, Oka Yone Kicht, Japancae conl agent, charged with having conspired with others in illicit opium traffe king was discharged.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933.

EX-POLICE SHROFF

CAMPBELL & THE H.K.L.A.S.A.

FOUR CHARGES LODGED

REMANDED TILL TO-MORROW

NO ACTION TO BE

TAKEN

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT

Ng Wing-taol, former shroff of The following has been issued the Accounts Departmont, Central this afternoon by the committee Police Station who was arrested of the Hongkong International in Canton a few days ago, appear-Amateur Swimming Association: ed before Mr. Balfour In the Cen-f tral Police Court this morning. when he was formally charged

Mr. F. H. Loseby appeared for with:- the defendant.

Revenue Officer Grimmitt said that he had been instructed by the S.LE. to offer no evidenco against the accused and the case was ac cordingly dismissed.

Li Tat-sang, a shop keeper, also charged in connexion with the samo caso with having aided and abetted, was remanded again until October 12 at 11 a.m.

The accused was also charged will pussession of 6.4 taels of pre- pared opium at No. 61, Hennessy Road, and possession of more than one tnel of opium dross at No. 30, Queon's Road, West.

did convert the same to lis

(n) "Being the knifee of $18,. use on January 28, 1933.

awn.

(b) embezzling $200 received by) him on behalf of Police Depart- ment from To Kow and applying the same to his own use on August 8, 1932.

(c) embezzling $200 received by him on behalf of the Police De- applying the same to his own use. partment from Kung Man-po 'and

RICE TAX STAND

LOCAL DEALERS' -

DECISION

NO EXPORTS TO

CANTON !

Joint action is being taken by Hongkong rice merchants to stop all further shipments to Canton pending reconsideration, for which they have applied, by the Chinese authorities of the now tax of a dollar-per-picul on foreign rice imports into Province.

the

At a special meeting called for the purpone of dealing with the question of 1/Cpl. Campbell, en Army representative, also a gistered Y.M.C.A. swimming mem ber taking part in the Open Colony Championships under the ausplees of the Y.R.C., it was decided, on the

The decision, which may be re- strength of the radiogram from the garded as an ultimatum, although Army Sporting Union to the Army It has not been officially conveyed Area Sports Board in Hongkong, as such, was reached at a combined granting permission for their swim meeting of the Rico Guilds, repre mers to compete in the above consentative of the lending importora petitions, that no netion be taken. of Hongkong,

WISE DECISION. The Association have acted wise The position was a delicate one ly in this matter, write, "Veritas," (d) received $170 on behalf of from the very start, and as more the Police Department from Lance- and more co-operation in local (Sergeant: Clarke. Shatin Police swimming circles fo the present Station, and converting the same need, the Association can be con R. O. Grimmitt said that he hadto his own use on January 23, gratulated on their attitude. been instructed to ask for a week's

1933.

formal remand, as the papers were Defendant stood outside the still being looked into and there dock. The charges were explain- was no information from Singa-ed but no plea was taken. pore. The places at the moment concerned wero Macao and Singa- } Chief Detective Inspector W. pore and possibly America.

Shannon, for the prosecution, applied for twenty four hours remand in Police custody,

Magistrate: Is he 'on bail? C.DL.:-No, your Worship. Magistrate: Do you want fix bnil?

}

LOOKING FOR A CHARGE.

Mr. Strellett, appearing for the defendant, said that they had ar rived at such a stage that the places shouki be incorporated in the charge.

Prior to this decision, the Tele- Graph learns over 300,000 age, representing the whole of the rushed up to Canton, in an attempt available stocks In the Colony, are

to defeat time and escape the duty when it became operative on September 16.

This supply it is stated, should meet the balance of Kwangtung's domestic needs until the middle of There is no doubt that the As next month (November), by wheth sociation, under the rules of the time, if no settlement has been A.S.A., were perfectly correct in reached of the dispute, an interest making an investigation, and Laming-situation-should-arise. sure that the Army authorities, had, they pondered over the matter, would have taken a very different course originally,

Thanks to the tactful attitude of th" Association the matter drops without any recriminations on to either side and Campbell- quite rightly retains his status in the Association,

C.D.L.:-No, your Worship. I object to bail at this stage.

Magistrates he in Police

R. O. Grimmitt-The offence will be on divara dates, which we cannot give now until we henr from Singapore: One, date will be | custody?—Yes. September 9, but I cannot any so definitely,

How long is it since he

was

Mr. Strellettit really amounts arrested?-He was arrested at to this, that the prosecution is 11.15 on Tuesday night. I shall

ADJUDICATION ORDER

looking for a charge, and I wish be asking for a week's remand to- KOHINOOR SILK STORE

to entirely support the protest morrow.

made by Mr. Loseby at the. Inst

Defendant WAS remanded in

hearing, and would like to point Police custody !!! to-morrow,

out that the proceedings are en-

tirely premature. We are still in

the dark with regard to the charge. R. O. Grimmitt.—It was on in-

formation received that the arrest

was made in the first place.

CANTON BLAZE

INVOLVED

Mr. Schofield. It is almost im-TWO BUND BUILDINGS possible to frame a charge unless the documents are gone through.

Mr. Strollett-With regard to the second and third charges, I understand that they have no con-

AFFAIRS

RISING COST.

A leading rice dealer to-day told a Telegraph representative: The Kwangtang Government has de- clared that the object behind the impost is to stimulate domestic culture, in turn benefitting the people by the comparative cheap- ness of home grown rice. That would be very desirable if attain able, but it is to be feared that at the present stage, at any rate, Kwangtung cannot be independent of outside supplies, which make up for more than 70 per cent. of her needs.

It will only result in the dearer cost with the tax, being passed on

to the consumer in a matter con- cerning his very existence."

OFFICIAL INACTION.

An application for adjudication was made at the public examin tion this morning of Verhomal Rup Canton Government have called for It is also learned that while the chand. trading as the Kohinoora report from the Maritime Cus- Silk Store and as the Royal Silktoms, and have been put in posses Store.

sion of the exact figures relating to stocks lying in the local go- downs, imported since the date of promulgation, they have not, so far, enforced the tax or taken any other step.

Mr. F. X. D'Almada, snr., who represented creditors said he would apply for the annulment of the adjudication order, when mado at a later hearing, as he and understood debtor would not be Chinese on Shameen witnessed a able to pay more than six or seven I suggest that proceedings on big couflagration opposite the ia per cent.

land when two buildings on the

nexion with the first charge, and

them be commenced at the next hearing. With regard to the fist

charge, I submit that it cannot stand unless reference is made to the foreign places, the laws of which have been infringed. It is not merely a protest with regard to more particulars, but I want to know what foreign laws we are supposed to have transgressed.

LAWS STATED.

R. O. Grimmitt.-Will your Wor ship put down the Straits ments opium ordinance?

Crowds

afternoon.

Canton, Oct. 1. of Europeans

His Lordship made an Adjudica-|

Shakee Bund, caught fire yesterday tion Order and adjourned the

The fire broke out in the Foo hearing to October 11. Kwok Mining Co's premises, which contained many gallons of gasoline, which must have ignited thus caus- ing the fire, which took over two hours to suppress in spite of the

DR. DOLLFUSS

Except for that which is required by Hongkong consumers, the rice trade between Indo-China and this

port is at a standstill.

CORRESPONDENCE

very efficient work done by the CONDITION REPORTED Japanese competition as fair com-

Fire Brigade.

No lives were lost, but it is understood that the buildings. in question were

for only insured

Settle-about one tenth of their value,

The works of the Canton Daily

Mr. Schofield.-Can you state Sun which are situated quite near what eplum ordinance in Macao to the scene were luckily untouched.

-Our Own Correspondent,

has been broken?

R. 0. Grimmitt-Yes. They have the Government monopoly in Масло, аnd

anyone exporting

opium, without permission muat

break the law.

Mr. Strellett. My protest is that

a person has been arrested and

detained without a charge boing

properly formulated.

SHAUKIWAN FIGHT

Mr. Schofield decided to proceed ALLEGED. ASSAULT BY.

on the other two charges at the next hearing.

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"THE FLOWER THAT KILLS"

Alpine Deaths Through Seeking Blossom

Another fatal accident has been reported from Chamonix.

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an avalanche of stones.

The Japanese methods being used! The frequency of Alpine ac- daily are the copying of our trade fcidents has prompted an article in marks, stealing our registered de-Paris-Midi entitled "The Sthpid signs, selling their goods under our Edelweiss, or The Flower That Reports from Vienna atute that well known branded names, anti-Kilts.". the Austrian Chancellor's condi- British propaganda on their Piece tion is satisfactory.-British Wire-Goods patterns, a recent one sent holiday in Switzerland, apparently The writer, a Frenchman on ilcas.

home from Java reads "It is time in the neighbourhood of something was done to liberate the Diablerets, states that, on one day the three hundred millions in India alone, two men were killed and n from the shackles which are hold-third seriously injured in that ing them" other articles on the district, seeking edelweiss on the same patterns gave the Impression treacherous grass slope where it that the Simla Conference was

growa not from Simla, this is not the edelweiss does not grew amidat For, as the writer points out, truth. chief engineer, and Ho Tong..

The mothod they have got away the rocks, where there is generally stoker, were charged before Mr. The following have been selected with in India now is the following foothold, but on precipitous Schofield, this morning, with to represent the Central British unfair trading which I write about, slopes where the crumbling earth having assaulted Trang Fuk Association against the Central they dump their way into India for and dry grass render nailed boots cheung, accountant of the Hong-British School in a friendly cricket four years, and whon a conference necessity. kong and. Shaukiwan Steam match on the home ground, King's is called, sit at a round table and Those who go to pick edelweiss

A fight between three Heamen

and another man at Shaukiwan

brought about from Manchester, COURT

Hearing Petition

Dismissed

had a Court sequel when Leung C.B.A. TEAM AGAINST Shing, Coxswain of the steam

C.B. SCHOOL

launch King Fai, Wong Kau,

At the Bankruptcy Court this Launch Company on board the Park, on Saturday, at 2:30 pm.divide up the trade. Is it fair to in ordinary walking shoes or morning the hearing of the poti-steam launch King Fat at Shauk!- F. D. Angus, S. MacNider, T. Scompletely disorganise the trade of sandals are lost. tion of the Man. Sang Coaling (wan,

D. Whitler, N. B. Whitley, R. B. any country for four years? They The edelweiss, moreover, has Company was dismissed, it being All defendants pleaded not Blyth, J. E. Wilson, E. MacNider now know that in future all they not even the merit of rarity. be served at the partner, who had guilty, and Mr. Schofield remanded (Capt.) Smith, G. W. Carr, bave to do to get part of the trade Natives who pick edelweiss to seli

them until Saturday morning.

stated that petition could not

gono into the country.

DAY BY DAY

The adjourned application of Chuwa Yoko for the rescinding of Receiving Order was dismissed. Rocalving Orders were made against the Yan Hing Firm and the Wing Fung Wo Firm, one henr- DOGMATIC ing petition against the former Heywood Broun...

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"IT IS

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NEWS IN BRIEF

ALWAYS SAFE TO BE ABOUT TO-MORROW."

of any of our Empire Markets is know of relatively safe spots to dump in until we call a confer- where it can literally be mown ence.to divide up the trade with down with a sickle. But thes0 them, is it fair?

unique spots are not revealed to. In March this year I was con- the lourist.

the

Chun Lik-aht, widow, of 30, Po Wah pelled to stay three weeks in Bang "Don't pick edelweiss":

kok before I could effectually stop paper concludes. "Send a picture. Ching Chung Yebk, Canton, who died the Japanese bringing in imitationpostenrd to your friends instend." on December 10, 1932, left local estate qualities under our own rogiser-Reuter. xworn under $24,000 (Trust Properly tickets which have been respected of Probate of the will has been granted

for many years In. that market. valent that it means no longer a

were made by the Siu Fung Pawa-typhoid was reported to, the local to Chin Yu-aham, foreign goods They have now ruled our trade in law caso; the police make a chargs

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Applications for adjudication

сиво During Tuesday, one

health authorities.

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morchant.

The forthcoming marriage between

Chan Chun, 19, who had

shop and the Tak Wo Pawnshop,

and was granted in the case of the

these goods through putting our of "cheating" and it is dealt with mark on their Inferior goods, do in the Police Court,

you call this fair trading? In As regards, prices, in Singapore

morringe hotween Jamon Courtney by a constable. He was brought be inch letters

TOBRALCO. Even the hanging In every instance. I do not bellove

former. Both public examinations Arnold Graham, Secretary, of 4 were adjourned to October 11. Route Pottier, Shanghai, and Freda

no Samarang less than two months ago a firm imports Russian printed cot Li Wai Tong was granted his Forrester, now on route to the Colony money to purchase cigarettes sols I saw a piece of Japanese low tons on consignment, to be sold at lischargo from bankruptcy, sub- by the Blue Funnel liner s.s. Monclaus, six packets from a hors caught printed haircord marked in six the best possible price (no limit) Jeet to 12 months' suspension, and is announced; also the forthcoming Voeux Road Central and was caught

nerosa the picco and yet the Jups undersell thom Isu Sun Pak, trading as. the Wal Lum Firm, was

Jacobs, of the Methodist Mission,fore Mr. Balfour this morning and also di Fattbar, and May Farmor, now on bound over. His Worship remarked yardage ticket was imitated, is this they work to costs, It's just dump, charged, subject to nine months' route to the Colony on the F. and O. that as it was his first offonca

he fair2 In Singapore, Japanese dump, dump. suspension.

liner s.s. Chitral,

would give him a chance.

copying of trade marks is so pre-

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