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Shum Chon Gambling Evil

To the Editor.

Atongkong Telegraph.

BEGGAR'S VOICE

TEST!

MADE CHARGE OF

ONE CENT Lam Sum, 30, a partially' blind fortune-teller, was the central figure of comedy in the Central Police Court this morning when he

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THE BUDGET

(Contínued from Pago 1.)

debts or reparations by Britain, and in the absence of any further:

velorment he proposed to follow the same line this year..

e sad the fixed debt chargo would stand at £224,000,000.

Among items of expenditure, he mentioned that the continued

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934.

ROBBERY NOT A

TEA PARTY

THREE YEARS FOR PARTICIPANT

Wong Yung, alleged participant in an armed robbary nt 67, Luck- hart Road for which three other men have been sentenced this year,

land." was enarged before Mr. Macfadyen decline in unemployment had en-pleaded not guilty at the criminal

Sir, The Orst otation at which the Kowloon-Canton kallway's express train makes its stop is Shum Chun-"no man's The run tukes about one hour 1 rom Hongkong and about a little over two hours from Canton on tho Chinese suction.

ne station Shum Chur is in Chinese territory and about a hundred yards away is the den of "thred

VICOR" Gambling in- eludes roulotte, dice and tantan. Signs of prosperity are seen in this neighbourhood, There nie Keverai substantial buildings with beautifully decorated interiors

Nula pende www... all both male and females, are com- fortably accommoduted. Incre are Also numerous Humptuous Rower boats specially built for the fas- tia.uus persona who profer exclusiveness.

to

for its dafly expenditure.

CA-

with begging in Calno Road..

Dufendant:- I

no

received money In the Cafe, and while I was in the next house, the woman saldi he wanted me to sing. I said I would do so for thirty cents. She said she did not know if I had a good voice or not, so I charged ona cent for a tent.

abled a saving as compared with last year of £10,088,000.

SLUMS.

Sessions this morning to being concerned in robbery by two or more, In that he rubbed So Ko-hin of a watch,

Police Constablo Sykes deposed to noelng the defendant enter the

The acting Attorney General, Mr. Rabluson Cafe and then leave.

Provision had to be made for R. E, Lindsell, said that on January The manager of the Ca'e informed witness that defendant had naked such measures as the slum clear 2, this year, the master and fokla Defendant then wentance campaign, better marketing of a shop at the address named for money. into the entrance of the adjacent for agricultural products, and im- were inside the premises, find dur house and was seen to receive a provements in rural water supplies, ing the evening there was a knock copper cent from a woman.

But taking a reasonably optimistic on the door. The door was opened view of the course of traile he was and two men came in, armed with justified in expecting a larger yield large scissor blades with which they the inmates. Thro forni all the most important threatened

other men then entered the shop, sources of revenue.

one of them being accused, and the Dealing with the preference on four proceeded to bind and gag colonial sugar he said that, in the fokia and master and rob them. agreement with the Colonial Secre. Three of the men were later ur- tary, he proposed a new scheme rested and dealt with, but accused which would be a benefit to was not caught until March, when P. C. Sykes never heard him Colonies of about the same value he was found at Kowloon City. He 'aging. He also hind

as the facilities they had been re-was charged, but made no reply which he was not playing.

calving but which would permit the on that occasion. and traffic in sugar to flow freely either Kum Yung-yuen, one of the to Canada or Britain, in accord-folds, deposed that he was bound, ance with the normal demands of gagged and blindfolded, but he saw trade.

enough of accused to identify him as one of the men who took part In the robbery.

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Defendant was convicted fined $3 or three days.

violin

were situated a few miles away from the station, its life would

SUGAR QUOTA.

This they expected to accomplish

So Ko-huin also identified prison

be considerably shortened and it by a reduction in the general pre-ler, though he could not state that would eventually die

a natural

Shum Chun, which has beautiful artificial lakes and ponds that Are the pride of the gambling aynd.cate, is rightly called the Monte Carlo of the Far East. The daily estimate of attendance is stop, and thousand persons, Including many young ladies troni well-to-do families reading in tablishment is understood to be Hongkong. The gambling. in a very flourishing condition and ita dally takings nra reported death. It is undoubtedly an ovi forence on all colonial sugar to the he has the man who actually took : and repinelag the quota preference In a statement, prisoner said he be in the neighbourhood of which both Hongkong and Canton old rate of 3/9d. per hundredweight the watch.

co-operate to cradicate. which was given on a limited but was asked to go to the address at I.K. $60,000, loss about $10,000 mat

Both 'Chinese and British

"tea-party" In recent months, namorous officials have strong views about varied amount by a new quota pro- Lockhart Road for

have Shum Chun, and are waiting for ference of 3/- per hundredweight and when he got there he was complaints, it is learnt, reached the Hongkong Government someone in authority to launch fixed amount of 300,000 tons horrified" to discover that it was

three years.

had been planned. He took no about the demoralising effects of a campaign to put the gamblingram for a trial period of a robbery and not a ten-party that Shum Chun, as it is so near the facilities out of existence.

reduction Regarding No one wants pleasure at the British Colony. It is known that

also patronising expense of the wrecking of happy horsepower tax, the Chancelloranide. Europeans are Shum Chun. The fact that the homes, whether they be Chinese said the motorcar industry had, in Kowloon-Canton or Canton-Kow-

via Shum Chun Is

to be not construed as that meaning that the Idilway Administration en- courages any form of vice. There la no doubt that If the Shuni Chun

gambling establishment

In

the part in the robbery but just stood

The jury, after a brief consulta- tion, brought in a verdict of or foreign. It is urged that the recent years, increased its produc-Gality," and in endorsing their

Chun

laon Railway runs express trains League of Nations should be 'in-tion phenomenally, but British Lecision, his Lordship said he did formed of the existence of the manufacturers were finding some not bellevo accused's story and gambling centre dimculty in meeting competition thought that he was as much to shum and stops should be taken in the oversens because foreign hors-blame as the other three men. He power taxes, with relation to size! meantime to curb its activities,

ANTI-GAMBLING. Canton, Apr. 17, 1934,

PKINGS

TO-MORROW

THE BOY A MAN THE MAN A BOY

Swipes, the newsboy, wise in the wily ways of men before his time. "Chuck Connors, Bowery big shot, a grinning boy at heart. Pals thru thick and thin.

EPH MY

DARRYLE

WALLACE BEERY GEORGE RAFT JACKIE COOPER FAY WRAY, & PERT KELTON

THE

in

BOWERY

Dignetura isy RAOUL WALSH

Released thru UNITED ARTISTS'

Book Early 1. Tol. 25313. 25332.

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CENTURY

PICTURES F

DISTRIBUTION OF SURPLUS.

and weight of cars, wore less than therefore proposed to impose u similar sentence on accused and those in Britain.

committed him to three years' im- prisonment with hard labour.

The Jury comprised Messrs. G. The Chancellor referred jocular D. Sykes (forcmun), J M. ly to the distribution of the aur-D'Almada Castro, D. M. Cameron, plus, saying that he had given A. M. da $Uva, A. Bolton, F. much anxious thought to the quos-Wandres, and N. V. A. Croucher. tion and he believed many peoplo had also been devoting attention to the same subject.

other

ARMS. BROUGHT

FROM - U.S.

He based his action upon two general principles; firstly, he did not think he could do better than quote the words used by Lord' Snowden last December, namely, the surplus must in justice be divided as far as

in it will go relleving those classen who suf- fered when the crisis was acute. A shot

HUNDRED DOLLAR BAIL ESTREATED

of

gun, ten boxes The fact was that the cuta in percussion caps, 25' cartridges and anemployment pay and galaries 50 cartridge enges, жете dis- and the additional taxation im-covered by Detective. posed-era considered by the then-Allen-in-the-luggage of Li Pun, government LA д temporary., 61 as he was soon to a expedient to meet temporary steamer Ynet On, at the Tung On emergency and wore accepted by wharf last night H the people in that spirit.

to the Central Poilee Station and charged with Le possession of the arms without n licence from the Hon. I. G. P. and was allowed out on bail of $100.

The resources at his disposal were insufficient to enable him to effect a complete restoration.

The man falled to appear be fore Mr. Hamilton In the Central Magistracy this morning, when his ball was estreated.

for

FAIR AS POSSIBLE. Its second principle was that since he had insuficient for com- plete restoration, what he had should be distributed as fairly us Inspector G. A. Stimson, possible between the two cate the prosecution, said defendant had Americans a orien represented by tax-payers been working in and those who had suffered cuts, furniture maker for ten years. proportionately to the contribue arrived recently aboard the tion each lind made.

liner President Hoover and was on

The Chancellor concluded amid his way to Kengmoon. It was not cheers from all paris of the a case of Intentional smuggling. House.

The speech was marked for its strictly business-like tone, while the remissions of taxation are considered to be nicely calculated to grant a «measure of satisfac- tion to all who were hardly hit in 1931.

The Budget announcement that all the unemployment cuts were to be restored was greeted with rousing cheers-Retler and British Wireless.

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