THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,
-MAY
1936-
PLAN TO END "BLACK CAP" RITUAL
STALWART BOARDING HOUSE IF REPRIEVE
DEFENCE OF FRANC
NO GOLD EMBARCO ANTICIPATED
RESOURCES ADEQUATE
Paris, May 5. The French Minister of Finance, M. Marcel Regnier, at the conclusion of a two hours' discussion with the Cabinet on the financial crisis, told the United Preas that France has sufficient resources to control ex change
nge without the necessity of an embargo on gold or other similar
SUMMONED
PROSTITUTES ON THE
PREMISES
Tam Kwal, liconsee of the Kam Tol Bonning House, No. 357 Nathan
Rond, appeared before Mr. Macfadyen nt the Kowloon Magistracy this morning on three summonses of (a) falling to keep the boarding house register in a proper manner approved by the Hon. S. C. A. on April 00; (b) unlawfully allowing persons of bad character, namely, two pro- stitutes, to be in rooms 300, and 207 of the boarding house, and (c) un- lawfully allowing persons to occupy reoms 306 and 307. The third charge was alternative to the second
Replying to the summonp, delen- dant stated that when three persons came to his hole, they told his foki that only one would be staying, and only one name was therefore regis tered. Defendant also said that the guest asked his foki to fetch two "I am preparing no gold embargo Indy friends, but defendant did, not or other Regnier,
leasures.
measures,"
IS LIKELY
M.P.'s Question To
Home Secretary
MUST the ritual of pronouncing
the death sentence always take place, even where the cir cumstances make it certain that: the murderer or murderess will be reprieved?
Public opinion has been deep- ly moved by the bilter drama at the
when Old Balley Mrs. Carmen Swann, a woman already facing certain death from a dread disease, was ach- tenced to death for the murder of her eight-years-old daughter.
decinred M. know they were prostitute Andrew Linement longer than is necessary."
"I am preparing no gold embargo, firstly, because it would require the reconvening of Parliament to pass
culilenga de ficient to, hold the room on the day previous, and that of
" he explained.
the
"No one," said Mr. Justice Hawke, as the black enp was placed on his head, "could fall to be moved by the recital of your misfortunes.... I do not wish to detain you, for one Detective-Inspector
Her reprieve was granted, in record said: "At 8.30 pm, on April 30 I visited boarding house. On the time, later.
the second floor in room 306 1 found USE OF DISCRETION
Jolin The Home Secretary, Sir women and in the presence of the law enabling gold to be embargo-defendant, one admitted engaging the Simon, was to be asked in the House
because the margin at
Commons on a Monday last three had come together from month by Mr. E. Thurtle, Socialist Canton. Another admitted paying M.P. for Shoreditch, if his at- gimilarly I am considering no
the money for the room. They tention had been called to the mensures for the control of exchange shared the bed, and admitted to mo case of Mrs. Swann and to Mr. Justice or means to prevent the export of in the presence of defendant that the Hawke's remarks, "and if he will give capital. For the time being, nothing
room boy had said “Never mind book consideration to the possibility of in- has changed. As long as I am here ing three names; one will do. I have troducing a modification of the exist there will be no gold embargo,"
It has also been learned here to-day here the register in which only one ing law which will absolve a judge
name appeara, Leung Sze.
from the necessity of pronouncing the that the French Cabinet's principal "In an adjoining room, No. 300, I death sentence, and of going through tople of discussion was the method to halt the pressure on the franc. It is found another girl who admitted in the ritual connected therewith, in cases where such a sentence is re- prostitute. She was with a male pugnant to general public feeling." reliably stated that thy Cabinet id front of defendant that she was a study drastic exchange restrictions, guest. Another girl was found in but feared a psychological reaction. the opposite room, No. 807: she was -United Preta.
also with a malo guest. Both were partially clothed. Both admitted being prostitutes and said they had been sent for and brought to the hotel by a foki from their privato address. Neither of those women know the of their respective male frienia: neither did the gentlemen know the names of either of these
STRONG MEASURES
Paris, May 6. Members of the Cabinet sald to-day they intended to use "strong, police methods" against persons involved in concerted manoeuvres against the names franc-United Press.
BULGARIAN AS STOWAWAY EXPULSION ORDER
BY COURT
women.
ROOM BOY PAID
The view was taken that the Judge should be allowed to use his discretion in such cases and to defer passing sentence while the Home Secretary considered a reprlove. It was possible that Mrs. Swann might be granted her freedom if a petion which was being presented peuter wall wescing presented
POSTAL CLERK
ABSCONDS
.
WARRANT FOR ARREST ISSUED
Falling to
appear before Mr.
Macfadyen at the Kowloon angis tracy this morning on a charge of impeding mail, Ng Ping-hi, eget 29, a clerk employed by the General Post Hill Road, first floor, had his ball of Office, residing at No. 75 Leighton $500 estreated, and a warrant was
his arrest. issued for
"In the presence of defendant, both inen admitted having paid $3 to the room boy on duty at these rooms for these girls as prostitutes. I naked defendant the name of the fall, but ho could not tell me who the' fokl wus, saying the man had finished An unemployed Bulgarian, named duty at 8 pm. He was given every Tavetan Kortehen, aged 32, plended opportunity to find the foki, but did guilty before Mr. Balfour at the not do so. He gave the excuse that Central Magistracy this morning to the foki, Li Yik, was only, a tom charges of stowing away from Hong-porary fokl, having been there one kong to Manila on board the Pre-week. I examined the wages book skleit Cleveland and entering the and found that Li Yik was engaged Colony without a valid passport on the second day of the frat moon Defendant spoke la English.
this year, at A
salary of $2 a month, Det. Sergt. F. E. Russell remarked I examined another book and found that defendant arrived from Canton that Li Yik was also engaged from April 28 or 20 and on the later date last year as a room boy. he stowed away to Manila. The "We would very much have like to captain was instructed by wire to get this man Li Yik, who would have being the defendant back, as he would, bean charged with living on the im- not be allowed to land in Manila. moral earnings of prostitutes, but ro
General, prosecuted this morning. The defendant had a Bulgarian pase- trace of him has been found.” port but had no visa. On April 30, His Worship Informed defendant He said that there was a small error the British Consul at Canton received that a clause in the Ordinance atated in the charge, the date, February 10, an application from the defendant that the licensee of the floor was held being really the tenth day of the who had applied on April 23 for work responsible for any act for which his scent moon. The correct date was He added that if defendant be directly responsible. March 2. on a ship. Sergi Russell pointed servants
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I. C. I. GODOWN THEFT
TWO EMPLOYEES
CHARGED
Tam Fook, 41 years, storekeeper at the godown of Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Great George W. Street, was charged before Mr. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy this morning, with larceny by servant
valued $600, on May 2, and Lee Ilau, of fifty bags of sulphate of ammonia, 49 years, accountant, was charged with Riding and abetting.
The complainant was Mr. R. D. Gillespie, managing director of the Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd..
Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared for the complainant firm, while Mr. F. E. Nash appeared for first defendant and Mr. J. T. Prior for accond defendant. Mr. Prior asked for ball, but Mr. Armstrong opposed it, saying the police wanted to have defendants in custody in order to
Mr. Schofield granted enquiries and trace, the stolen goods. remand in police custody,
make further
48 bours'
The charge against defendant alleged that on or about February 10. BRITISH FINANCES 1936, he failed to forward a letter addressed to Manila, which was
MH. R. Bu posted at the Yaumati Post Office.
Butters, Postmaster
oat he had been instructal to say it was therefore no use for him to had appeared this morning, two ad- fle would
SLIGHT DROP IN EXPENDITURE
to
London, May 5. Exchequer returns show that the total ordinary revenue, excluding of self-balancing items, amounte £50,807,314, compared with £68,613,-
year.
Surtax alone among the prin cipal revenue heads shows a small increase compared with the same time last year.
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MUI-TSAI PROBLEM
WRITER POINTS
ALTERNATIVE
The following letter appeared in the Church Times of April 0;"
Sir, The Information on Mui Tuni
that the application would have been put the blame on his foki. fe conditional-charges-would-have been 78 at the enrresponding-date-lait in the "Summary" of your issue of
preferred against him.
refused even the defendant had victed defendant,
Inspector Andrew added: This is a ant's arrest.
now apply for a warrant for defen- waited there for a reply. There was a Bulgarian Consul in Shanghal, very bad case. We know this has
Mr. R.II. Cole, substituting for The defendant had $12 in his posses- bron going on in boarding houses, bat sion.
this is the frst time guests admitted Mr. S. Ng Quinn, for the defence, having paid the room boy to get pro- asked leave to withdraw from the
oving
to defendant's non- stitutes for them. If defendant had case. any wish or will, to get that man (Li appearance.
The request was Yik) he could have done so.
The Magistrate fined defendant Worship. $100..
The defendant was fined a total of $00, with the alternative of one month plus ten days' imprisonment. An expulsion order was also made.
LOCAL COMPANY
FINED
FAILED TO DECLARE CARGO
Total ordinary expenditure, exclus of self-balancing Items, Bivo
is £82,608,080, compared with £82,773,- granted by his 206 at the corresponding date of 1936. -British Wireless..
DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF
CHARITY IS THE
MOTHER OF GOOD
Li Shing 52, stone-breaker, was admitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from
breaking injurles received while
allence had come to light as the re- sult of a seizure made in a foreign country of opium concealed in cargo. That cargo, it was found, had not been declared, and had been sent by DEEDS.-St, Chrysostom. a firm which existed not very far | · from the defendant Arm.
A 15-year-old gle), Tong Kiu, was The Chuen Yuen Wing Company,
was not knocked down by bus No, 158 at Kamstones at King's Roul No. 118 Jervals Street, ground floor, suggesting for a moment that the de- Ting Road yesterday, receiving in- summoned before Mr. W. Schofield, fendant firm were involved in it, but juries. She was admitted to the at the Central Magistracy this morn- they had sold the goods to the other Kowloon Hospital.
had absconded. The having failed to furnish the firm which
of the defendant Superintendent of Imports and Ex-books
fact they had ports with an export declaration cliccked up and the
ing,
for
Mr. Hamilton said he
firm
were
An 18-year-old youth, Chan Hon- sting, was admitted to the Kowloon Hospital yesterday with Injuries | received when he jumped off
There are unclaimed telegrams ly regarding 14 cases of medicines ex- not declared these exports had come/ing at the offices of the Great while in motion in Nathan Road.
Northern Telegraph Co., Ltd., nd
and ported by sea on or about March 24, to light. It was very important that dressed to Welss, Gloucester; within the period of seven days, these people should make declara-Dewbaker. Both are from Osaka.
were fined $25.
Mr. E. W. Hamilton, Superintendent
of imports and Exports, said the
tions within the proper time, and he Д reasonable penalty to asked for
could not remind them that they break the law with impunity.
BITTER CONDEMNATION
OF LEAGUE POWERS
(SPECIAL TO "TELEGRAPH")
Paris, May 5.
The Hongkong Telegraph has re- ceived from an anonymous donor a sum of $20 with a request that it be divided equally between the Salvation Army and the Society for the Protec- tion of Children.
bus
Ng Fan, boiler maker, was ad- mitted to the Kwong Wali Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries received when he fell of a plank while at work in Kowloon Docks,
Arrested in Connaught Road Cen- tral in possession of 132 tacls of raw oplum, Slu Kee, 30, unemployed, was fined $1,000, with the alternative of one year's hard labour, by Balfour at the Central Police Court this morning. Revenue Omeer A. W. man was "literal- Grimmitt stated the
A woman, Choi You, 65, was ad- mitted to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from injuries caused when a bamboo pole fell on her head from the first floor of 6 Amoy Stroet. She was walkingly smothered with opium." in the Street when the accident oc- curred.
►
Mr.
March 27 differs considerably from that which can be picked up in or
tinary conversation with Hongkong people.
A clause in the treaty ceding Hong-
the British would- kong was that respect and not interfere with Chinesa customs. One such custom being the keeping of Mui Tsal.
Hengkong
The secretary of the Child Welfare and Protection Society has said that cruelty to children is very rare among the Chinese, and that when cruelty does occur it is the result of dire poverty,
A Mui Trinh 3 n girl chi}ư who has been sold by her parents because they are suffering from a degree of poverty unimaginable in England. The woman who buys ruch a child undertakes to feed and clothe her, and-when the child is of marriage- ablo age to find her a husband and give her a dowry.
The alternatives to becoming a Mui Teal are said to be dying of starva- tion, or being sold to brothel in some treaty port
MARY NEEDHAM.
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· Lubs Cruz, olías Leung Fun-yue,. was summoned before Mr. E. Hima "The Emperor left his country as a last resort. It was
A returned banisher, Leung Tin-worth at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning for having neglected to pro- useless to fight against hopeless odds, while fifty-one nutions, yau, 27, was sentenced to 12 months which applied penalties against Italy, stood by and saw our hard labour by Mr. E. Himaworth vide maintenance for his wife and soldiers and civilians slaughtered by bombs and their bodies at the Kowloon Magistracy this children since January 1. Mr. W. C. burned by gas," declared M. Wolde Mariam, Ethiopia's dele-morning for having stolen a 50 lb. llung temporarily appearing for
of scrap iron from Kowloon Docks on Monday, and committing a broach plaintiff requested an adjournment as Mr. W. A. Mackinlay, actually re- gate to the League of Nations, to-night....
May of the deportation Ordinance. Ho presoning plaintiff, was ill. The case "There is one thin ray of light on,fied that sanctions were schleving the had been sont away on September 4, was adjourned until Monday at 11.30 the dark horizon-Mr. Cordell Hull purpose for which they were imposed, 1935, for ten years.
United States is the first and, not, whether it would urgo at of the minister to say that conquests of Geneva aggression won't be recognised,
reconsideration of the ex.
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a.m.
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With previous convictions against at the him, Chan Wa-chal, 24, was sentenced for fined $15 by Mr. Balfour.. hope the great moral influence of perience,
to three months hard labour when America yet may have effect upon Foreign Affairs, Lord Cranborne, Central Magistracy this morning for
his wire-haired terrier he pleaded guilty before Mr. Balfour countries that have not lost all sense replied that the situation that had allowing
Road unmuzzled at the Central Police Court this of moral values, and so provant the arlson as a result of recent events in abroad in Severn handing of my nation to a white Abyssinia would force the subject of and unleashed Sergt. Hill, of Gough morning to the theft of an iron most joint consideration by the States con Hill Police Station, stated there was railing from Bonham Road opposite which used the
the Nethereala Council on May 11.
Aggressor
means of warfare" cerned at the meeting of the League only a piece of wire hanging round
the dogs. Beck. A similar fine war or the rule ospital, the property.
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LEAGUE'S PROBLEM
London, May 5. In reply to a Commons question sa to whether the Goverment was satis
The Prime Minister replied in imposed on C. C. Wilson, of 409, The Mr. T. Bolt, of the P.W.Dy was the Identical terms to a question on the Peak, on summons for allowing his complainant. Sub-Inspector A., Kirby, Government's attitude to the recent dog in Craigmin Road without a stated that defendant was arrested on Information with the pipo in his developments in the Italo-Abyssinian muzzle and not on the lead. Sub-
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