Chang Ye Hop.

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On resuming, Mr. Jellicoe took up THE CELESTIAL CUDGELS and tried to elicit from the bland "flooterer" the > name of the person of whom he had been speaking-, when under examination by the Crown on Tuesday. No satisfaction was gained by this, as Chan Bang didn't seem to know himself. Pook Too. an "olangee" man from Palmerston North, known to the Chow trading world as Hop Fook Chong.was about as vague as any other ''Chow." He had knowji the defendant, who was sitting- m court with his khaki colored bit of shirt, Van Chan Lung, looking as full of expression as an automatic goUy-wog, and the man's name was Chang Ye Hop. Then came the star witness of the bunch. She was a bright and very intelligent young lady named Mabel Rayner Johnston, and was a clerk m the Customs Department. Mr. Macossey, handing the young lady a photo and indicating the expressionless son of Confucius beside the go)y-vrogi Is that tho man whose photo you have and whoso fingerprints you took? — Yes. What is his name? — Wong Ye Hop, dated 5/10/12 and attached to the Identification papers. Did you get. his finger-prints whan he returned m 1915, on August 2? — Yes. The young: lady then gave a detailed account of the practice as adopted by the Customs m DEALING WITH "CHOWS" who were hiking tbeir hard-earned savings to the land of shark-flns and returning afiptiin to the Dominion of the foreign devil. She proved to be quito an adept at answering questions apd was never at fault. . In answer to Mr. Jellicoe, she admitted that sho neither understood nor spoke Chinese. NZ Truth , Issue 548, 18 December 1915, Page 2