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THURSDAY,

May 2, 1935.

FOR THE CHILDREN

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LATEST DONATIONS TO THE SIR WM. PEEL FUND Pelping, May 1.

The Hongkong Society for the It is reported from Yunnanfu Protection of Children that the majority of toriga ledges the following further donn- women and children evacuated the tions to the Sir William Peel Fundi city by train to Haiphong yoster Previously acknowledged $15,510

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YOUNG GIRL'S ALLEGATIONS AGAINST WIDOW Allorations that she was compelled to practiae as a prostitute for fouri years, and that the money she had darned, amounting to about $4,800, had been taken from her by the de- fendant, were made by Kwok Wal- chi, a 22-years-old girl, when day morning. gave evidence before Mr. Macfadyen at the Central Magistracy yesterday

afternoon.

The defendant, Chau Lim, aged 48, a widow, was charged with (a) alding and abetting the prostitution of the complainant, and (b) keeping an unregistered muf-tral, Wong Ho alias Chún No.

The rest of the foreign residents are following as soon as possible.

The Red vanguard is now re- ported to be fifteen miles north- west of Yunnanfu, with the Nan- king troops close in purauit.

of The Union Insurance Society of Canton Ltd. Hon. Mr. J. Owon Hughes

.50

616,631

The wife of one of the Amerl-' Donations will be gratefully by the Hon. can Consular officials has evacuat-acknowledged

Inspector K. W. Andrew, of the ed, while the Consular officials Treasurers-Mr. A. McKeliar, c/o Secretariat for Chinese Affaire, are reported to be ready to leave Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. & prosecuting on the first charge, while with their archives in the event O. Building; and Mr. Kwok Chan. Inspector II. W. Fraser is prosecut- of more

serious emergency. c/o The Banque de L'Indo-Chine. Ing on the Rocond.

Queen's Road Central. Reinforcements Arrive

The 'S. C. M. Post has received a donation of $20 to the Sir William Peel Fund for the Protection of Children, from G. C. M.

Mr. M. A. da Silva is appearing Reuter,

for the defence.

The S. and S. Home

In outlining the caso, Inspector

Canton, May 1, Andrew stated that about March Nows from Kwelyang states 1981-the-girl-was-old-by-her-father that the Yunnan-aituation has to defendant, and she was taken to shown some improvement with the No. 44 Sai Street, where she did arrival of the Nanking and Kwei- domestic work for about six weeks.

chow reinforcements on the east- The Rov. Erris C. H. Tribbeck ern Yunnan frontier.

gratefully acknowledges, on behalf The regiments under General of the Committee of the Sailors' Sun Tan, part of the Yunnanese and Soldiers' Home, the following recalled from southern Kwelchow, special donation and unnual sub- Funds of the

Received no Monry

Then, the girl alleged, in April

103 she was forced to stay with a man at the Arts Ifotel who pakl the sum of $40. Since that night until have arrived at Pingyi In close scription to the the night of April 21, 1916, the girl pursuit of the bandits, while Gea- Home: alleges she was forced to be a pre-eral Wang Chia-lich's detachment Special Donation. stitute in defendant's custody and from Kweichuw has also reached. Volunteer Defense control, and lived at No. 227 Holly Suanwal, north of Pingyi.

wood Road, third Hoor..

It was alleged that the girl earned)

Regarding the defence of Yus-.

an average of about $100 a month as nanfu, it is reported that General, a prostitute and she had never re- Lang Yun hne placed strong ceived any of this money, from de- forces between Shihtsung and fondant. According to the girl'a

Corps, for re-furnishing of lounge

Anaval Subscription. Miss E. Riley .....

In Memoriam

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The Hor Treasurer of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul

rockoning she earned, during the fourlang, a railway town some thirty years she has been with defendant, miles south-east of Yunnanfu. the sum of about $4,800. When she The Yunnan Provincial Chair- acknowledges with gratitude cam into the units of the Police, man has nise ordered special thanks, the receipt of the following the girl only had $1,35.

trains to stand by for emergency donations to the Society's Funds: When the Police visited the house and to carry troops to south- in Hollywood Road, Bittle girl eastern Yunnan.

Wong Ho, was found chopping wood. The elder girl Kwok Wal-eki in evidenen stated that about five years ngo she was sold to defendant as an adopted daughter by her father for the sum of $170 in Chiness money The sale took place in Chan Chuen, Shun Tak district. Witness and the

For fifty miles on the south- (eastern boundary of Yuananfu the

Government troops are digging. trenches to meet the anticipated bandit attack.

per-

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has go-betweens were present at the time offered a reward of $50,000 for the the money was paxard. Two months Yunnanese regiment which after. witness was brought to Hong-forms the most meritorious service kong she vas forced to prostitute in resisting the bandits' advance herself, and when she refused sho on the Yunnin provincial capital.

Nearing Yunnanfu

wn henten.

During the daytime witness work-

Canton, May 1 ed as a waitress at the Koon Sing restaurant und received $1 a day. Flere fighting in the nolgh- Witness admitted that she had gone bourhood of Yunnanfu is inevit- out to supper with four customers, able as the Reds are steadily,nd- who came to the restaurant regular-vancing towards the city, accord- ly. She stated that she was,,decoms;

panied by another waitress, el deing to official despatches received nied having misbehaved. Witness here to-night.

admitted that before she had made It is stated that the Communists A report to the pollen she had lived have already reached the town with a man named Wang Kwan for of Yilung and captured Hsuanwei, three days.

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It was alleged by the defence that defendant never had control of the girl, or forced her to be prostitute, that the girl had been working at the Koon Sing teahouse as a waitress and had been free rind easy in her na sociation with men, and, that her story was fabricatul because she

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was afraid of the consequences of her; absence from defendant's house for three days, during which time she stayed with a man.

After further evidenes hearing was adjourned until this afternooṛt.

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Sergeant J. C. Whitcroft appeared for the prosecution while ME P. H. Sin was for the defence.

Mr. John Mugford, clork and ticket. PO HING THEATRE, Inspector of the Treasury, testified to

the return recolved by tho Trasnury. The hearing of the summons and the solture of the counterfoils against Chan Wai, Manager of the of tickets found on the floor of the To Hing Theatre, Nathan Read, allegatore rooms of the Po Hing Theatre,

Cross-examined by Mr. Bla, the fog a false statement regarding pay- ments for admission to the night per- witness agreed that there were five formances on March 18, Wes com- classes of sonta in the theatro, and menced before Mr. E. 1. Wynne- that the three hooks of counterfolis Jones at the Kowloon Magistracy solzed were not shown in the return, yesterday.

The hearing was then adjourned to

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