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THE CHINA MAIL.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
For the first time a big Empress Ener is to be sean to-day alongsida a wharf sa Kowloon Flags were flown to mark the opening of the new wharf.
Ladies will notica that two golf competitions for ladies are announced. One is for a Ladies' Foursome, 18 holes, * Fanling, for a cup presented by Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, and the other is for the Ladies' Championship for which
cup has been presented..
H.E. Mr. Claud Severn is to read a paper on The National Mission' at a meeting of the Cathedral Branch of the Church of England Man's Society; on
THE MAGISTRACY.
TIGER'S BONES GRUEL.
CURIOUS MIXTURE IN
TRIAD CASE.
the projection was already taken down. Mr. Wood, in view of this, adjourned | the summonë fourteen days to see what progress had been made to remedy the other defects
VISITOR'S LIGHT FINGERS.
The defendants in the alleged ' youth who went' into a shop at unlawful Society case gave evidence Wanobar, stating that he wanted some clothes, put his hand over the counter and stole a part of a sewing machine while the master's back' was turned.
this afternoon.
Ho Fut, the first defendant, described himself as a seaman living at Tung Kwong Hing. 58, Portland Street, Tuumati. He stoutly denied he was the keeper of the Lodge. He only came back from abroad last, Fear. The sacred" tub alleged to have been used at an initiation of a candidate to a Triad brotherhood, was "left about "with other things on the floor. They had not been
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1916.
LATEST EDITION.
CHINESE AFFAIRS.
(Woh Tri Yat Po'r Service])
CHINESE POLITICS.
PERING, NOV. 28.
STOP
PRESS NEWS.
The President contemplates hold- |(Rauter's Service to the Okina Maft. I inga special conference to discuss important questions. Chú Sai THE STRUGGLE IN Chang will be invited to attend.
RUMANIA.
Sun Hung Yee, after being dis- However the coupier saw him and missed from the Ministry of the rated him. Defendant-told Mr. Interior, has declared that he will Hazeland he had only come down' from'; Canton the day previous. He wu not enter the Ministry again, but
sentenced to a month's hard labour.
LEAD AND BRASS. "
· A remand until Thursday was granted a charge against a Chinese of stealing quantity of lead and brass, the pre-
will organise an induential party
to superviso the Government.
AN AMERICAN LÓAN, -
Lantos, Nov. 28
A Rumanian communiqué, ž dated, throws to light on
the position at Craiova.
It reports violent enémý ottačka at Cema, near Orsova and adds : We fortifed ourselves and captured positions at Dragoslavele, while in The American Loan of fira mil-actions in the centre and bombard
the Alt Valley there were infantry
PESING, Nov. 23.
A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd., Monday next at St. Paul's College at 6 used since he had been there. He
p.m. Dr. Earle will preside and a large did not know and had never heard of/ Party of the Kawloon Dock Co. The man lions gold dollars has been approved menta on our left wing.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
TELEPHONE NO. $16.
To-day's Advertisements The China Mail.
PUBLIC AUCTION."
H Undersigned have received in-
Ttructions to sell by Public Auction,
[FOX ACCOUNT OF THI' CONCERNED),
MONDAY,
the 7th November, 1916, at 11. at the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Premises,
375 BALES, CUNNY BAGS HEAVY CEES 9 LBS. Unless previously disposed of T-sual.
HONOKONG, FRIDAY, Nov. 24, 1916.
“AFFAIRS IN KWANGTUNG,
attendance of members and friends in anticipated
1:"
Lam Shek Shai, a passenger from, the Federated Malay' States, has reported to the Police on behalf of himself and six others that he sent out.o man named Ah Ying from 6, Wing Shing Street, to change $1.266 of Singapore money iato Hongkong currency and the messenger has not resurned.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.'
The conditions prevailing in the province of Canton continue to be much discussed in the north in a manner which gives the impression
Mr. J. W. Bolles, Mr. A. G. Coppin that there is still much cause for and Mr. D: Burlingham were among uneasiness notwithstanding that to all the passengers of the Empress of Asiä appearances peace bas been restored which arrived this morning. throughout the province. During the past month or six weeks we have
whs is belog defended by Mr. R. C. a. Triad Brotherhood. His cou-Faithful, and he was given the material panions in the dock who were found to take to the sa. Fun Sang and did by the Police on the premises were not taxi them. He could produce occupauts of cubicles and their evidence to support the statement and friends,
on that account a remand was ordered.
TATTERED AND TORN.
Interrogated by Mr. King defen- dant said a man named Pun Fat used" the name. Tung Kwong Hing!
Mr. Hazeland imposed a sentence of three months' hard labour.
A Chinese who appeared in the dock as a contractor. He had gone back in a forlorn condition, his jacket being to Weichow and witness did. not] torn into shreda, was charged with know if he was killed in the fight stealing a bag of small money totalling: around Weichow. He repudiated $20. The complainant stated that the suggestion that it was part of defendant entered his room on the first his duty to get recruits to go and door at 4 Kew Street, and grabbed the fight. The Tung Kwong Hing was bag of money off the table. He ran after about to go bankrupt and the rules defendant, who struggled to get away found hanging on the wall had been and thus had his coat tora there all the time. He admitted he was the agent of Pun Fat but his only work was to collect the rent of the cubicles. The sixth defendant was there to collect money for the sale of tigers bones which had been in Kwangtung welcomed in the warded to Lady May two cil paintings, made into gruel and which he gave THE Undersigned have received in provincial capital by the officials and the work of his sixteen year-old daugh- to the second defendant. (Laughter.) stractions from Madame people a national heros, and to alter be sold in aid of way funds. TheIs that the boife he killed the appearances everybody has been paintings consist of a landscape, and tiger with?" humorously asked. Mr. happy. But that this show of satis- deer on the hillside. In acknowledging. faction is superficial is shown in the ing the gifts, Larly May wrote a
„Defendant replied the weapon was follows:-Thank you very much for used for cutting wood. 10.45 m, at their Bales Rooms, No. 8.fact that both the Civil Governor and the lovely pictures painted by your
HUGHES & HOUGE,
Luctioneers. Hongkong Nov. 24, 1918.
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Mr. Fung Hon, an interpreter at the seen the leaders of the late revolution Hongkong Supreme Court, recently for
PUBLIC ACOTION, 4
to sell by Public Auction,
OD
SATURDAY,
the 2nd December, 1918, as
Dee Toux Road, Corner of
Te Hote Sumrr,
"A NUMER Or
LADIES EVENING GOWNS"
and of the latest fashions.
Taring -Cash.
daughter in aid of the war fand. It is
for sale. thanka".
The second defendant declared be was a doctor who only went to the
the Military Governor are anxious to be relieved of the posts which they have only so recently accepted. The most kind of you to give them and, Tung Kwong Hing to sleep.. Military Governor was a candidate after having them on exhibition at the The Gowos are recently imported for the Vice-Presidency of the Helena May Institute, we thought of putting them in Kelly and Walsh's shop Republic" but failed to secure election. Mr CEU
With many and grateful HING LAN has succeeded in obtaining a 1963 | transfer, and will shortly leave the problems of the province for some- body else to solve. The main problem is a two-fold one-the disbandment or the continued main-
HUGHES & HOUCH,
Auctioneers. Hongkong, Nov. 4, 1918.
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THE DIARY.
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW.
10.30.-Auction of Household Furniture etc. at Mesars. Hughes
and Bough'
H.K. Cricket Club v. R.Ex. (Home)„
General Memoranda.
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SUNDAY, NOV. 25
Queen of Norway's birthday (186)
(Princess Maud Charlotte)
am-Excursion
*Heungshan",
Macso. by
TUMDAY, NOT. 28;---
Hongkong Stock Exchange Settlement
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OIL PAINTINGS IN AID OF WAR CHARITIES.
Mr. Belsito, an Italian painter who tenance of the great aggregation of has been living in the Far East,
The doctor said he could not write. He said he acted when he had a patient and did not write prescriptions.
The third defendant told the Court he was a student in the country and he was arrested on his first day in the Colony,
fame said he had only been here since Oct. 24th He had never done
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A NIGHT COLLISION,
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by the Lower House and the Minis. ter in Washington has been instruct ed to sign the contracts. "The Loan is secured by the wine and tobacco taxes. The money is to be used for relieving the Bank of China's dit- culties in making specio payment.
THE SCARCITY OF BILVER.
PEKINO, Nov. 28..
The scarcity of silver in the pro vinces of the Yangtze Valley has seriously affected the money market, in North China. Even foreign banks are unable to handle large sums in exchange business.
We have withdrawn, in the "Jul" Valley and now occupy our old positions.
A GERMAN CLAIM. A German communiqué states that the booty at Craiova included 300 railway carriages.
ITALIAN SUCCESS IN MACEDONIA REGION.
LONDON, Nov. 38.
An Italian official report froze Macedonia stutes:
The Italians in the mountains westward of Monastir repulseda
Owing to foreigners having ex-violent attack from Mount Muza and then advancing northwards captured ported large amounts of silver to
the heights southward of Bradindol, Russia and India, the Chinese Government contemplates prohibit- AUSTRIANS SHELL ́A RED CROSS
HOSPITAL.
THE ATTITUDE OF GREECE.
Mr. Carr, who was riding a cycling the exportation of silver. along the Fraya East a few nights ago collided with a projecting plank that led on to the No. 2 Sanitary Board refuse disposal junk. The machine wa Sir Edwin Pears who contributes to buckled and Mr. Carr was badly data the Contemporary Review a very inform aged about the face, and bands. Thising article on the Balkan States, and
Greece morning Inspector Sim charged the No Turkey, has this to say with regard to 1 of the junk with causing an obstruc The conduct of Greece has occupied tion. Mr. Shenton prosecuted and Mr. all Europe during the last three months Kong Sing defended.
I predicted in your January number that Venizelos would return to power. The hearing was set down for The struggle between him and the Ger Tuesday at 11.30 am.
man party is not yet concluded. The position, as all the world knows, is that King Constantine has been, and probably is still; desirous that Grecce should all
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A PALTRY CLAIM.
SOLICITOR AGITATING FOR COSTS.
Mr. R. C. Faithful was very per
herself with the Central Powers.
Losnos, Nov. 28.
An Italian official report states that the enemy shelled a field hos pital in the Gorizia area, despite the fact that it displayed a conspicu. ous Red Cross flag.
Seven patients were killed and cleven wounded.
TRADES UNIONS AND THE PRINCIPLE OF DILUMON.
A conference of representatives of
LONDON, NOV, 29.
number of Greek officers were sent by the Engineering and Shipbuilding
the
last. King to Germany, and naturally
returned with German sympathies. Most Trades Unions after an address by of them have been the unwesried
mip the Government Labour Adviser, of the King in his pro-German porters Policy German
the chief was
agents, among whom agreed to recommend members to
notorious Baron
the
Schenck, have been working in Greece accept att extension of the principle The defendant of tiger's bones turbed in the Summary Court this and especially in Athens, with the char of dilution to private commercial acteristic energy and method which has work, subject to safeguards for the morning. He represented e plain-so often been crowned with success.
The cupidity of many Greeks led them restitution of trade, union conditions
them down from the country and in Faithful's grievance was that he had
claimed carried no costs of adjourn gain. Two months ago the Allied Fleets bozes round the streets. He broughtment as it was under $10. Mr. Hongkong he prepared them into asked for particulars and had not got kind of gruel which he sold to his them and he applied for the case All the defendants said they had going on week after week and was
The case had been
so-called troops now in the province. principally in Macao and Hongkong, any other work and did not take the/tiff who claimed $5 but the amount to sacrisce naopal interest to personas after the war.
a
to
supplied with petrol and ships with coor oed out at least a dozen island and depots where submarines were what they were doing was not known to It may reasonably be doubted whether the Royalist Farty. The further stop of
was in many ways assisting supervising the post and telegraph ser vices became necessary, because Greece the enemy.
"FIRE ON THE "SADO
MARU."
They number in the aggregate, we for the past nine or ten years, opened are told, about a hundred thousand, at the City Hall to-day his exhibi which is four times as many as the tions of oil paintings in aid of war province was required to support in charities. Upwards of 160 pictures pre-Revolution days. No funds are are on view, the great majority of at present available to enable the them being Chinese types or local Government to do either the one scenes. Although sizce the begin. been in the Colony a short time and force. Particulars not having been September 7th, he boasted that he had that they have received a telegram from...
thing or the other. Mr. LIANG CH aing of the war M. Balsito has CHAO, the intellectual reformer, has produced upwards of 200 pictures been at Canton recently acting the with the object of benefitting war part of a pacificator, and all the charities; he has succeeded in avoid. late revolutionary leaders are reported ing repetition in his subjects, which to have joined with him in the effort is a tribute alike to his versatility to reconcile the differences between and his genius. Among his Chinese the various factions. They have types are some perfect pictures, and agreed upon plans for the disband-the-whole of the work in the Exhibi- ment of surplus "troops," which in tion shows bur, Balsite to be an reality are but robber bands, but artist and a painter of remarkable. the eternal question is: Where is ability St. Andrew's Day! "Heather Day" for Bootch War the money for the purpose to come
Day.'
1.30pm-Auction of Furniture, Pianos, Bicycles etc. at Messrs. Hughes and Kough's
THURSDAY, NOT. 30.-
Charities.
Thanksgiving Day in USA.
The pictures generally measure from? Moreover, there is a group roughly about sixteen inches by eight in the National Assembly at Peking inches inside their frames, and are Bootch Concert in Theatre Royal, City which seems bent on opposing the being sold at $80 and $40 each.
HAIL
disbandment But money is needed They will be on. exhibition at the FDAY, Dec. 1
whether they are disbanded or City Hall for a few more days, and "organised and absorbed into lovers of art will find the Exhibition the regular Army," · And upon well worth a visit.
the question to how that money is to be obtained important
Queen-Alexandra's birthday (1844)..' Barunday, Dec. 8 -
10.45 am.-Auction of Household Linens and Blankets at Mecara "Hughes and Hough'i. MONDAY, Dec. 4
12
sm-General Booking Opens for possibilities seem to hang. If the
Kismet".
SATURDAY, Dec. ir..
money is not provided by the Centrij Government, the view taken by the
·CLOSING SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Eatrise close for Wodehouse Cup Provincial Assembly seems to be this...
(Ladies Foursomes, Fanling),
FRIDAY, Dec. 16 p
Entries close for Ladies' Championship,
R. H.K. Golf Club.
BRIDGE SCORERS
In Books of 100 SHEETS, 30 cents each Four for One Dolla
CHINA MALT.
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a revival of the old gambling mono. polics in the province is the only mees of raising the necessary funds without creating new disorders throughout the Province. Only the other day the Peking Government expressed ita inlexible opposition to a restoration of gambling facilities in the province. Thas the immediatë problem is how the accessary money is to be obtained. The fear is not uncommon that the problem supplies the seed of another revolation. There
Union ...... Donglases Indos Def China Sugars Malabona Wharves Docks..... Cements.
3.20 p.m. #967 Bellers 122" selleri 1874 sellers sellers
132
374 buyers 64 buyer 1331 sellers 10.70 soller
CHAMBERLAIN'S COUGH
REMEDY.
Iriends.
some said, they had only arrived the day they were caught.
The thirteenth defendant said he
friend. He admitted climbing on to
be struck.out.
a
supplied the Court had been placed
at defiance.'
no
Mr. Haywood said the writ had was a stone junk man and slept at been handed to him by Mr. Leo the house on the invitation of a D'Almada and he himself knew the roof when the Police arrived, but that was because the Police came at midnight and he did not know what was going to happen to them..
Wednesday next..
Mr. Faithful: That makes
same
about it. (Laughter.) Why should
When Schenck left Athens on Thursday
The Nippon Yusen Kaishs inform ta
succeeded by German organisation and the Head Office, Tokto, dated 22nd systems (and, he should have added, instant, advising that the ca "Sado by a great expenditure of hard cash) in overcoming an unsympathetic feeling Mary, which cleared from Seattle on his further boost that the Allies by their break of fire on board, and that towards his country. We may dismiss the 1st November, has had an out conduct had greatly aided him blague with a suspicion of truth.
nothing about it.
the Hongkong cargo is not damaged, Whatever 6cbonek may say, the great but the matter is to come under General majority of the Greek people y ympathise difference. He should scat with the Allies. King Constantine is Average with a deposit of one and helf playing a dangerous game, and this both
per cent. required from the consigneet. body here who knows something in reference to the Allies and to his own of cargo.
The disastrous Greco-Turkish people. The Mr. Hazeland reserved judgment unui | I come here week after week wast order to save the Brought to an end in
War in 1807 wad
and its dynasty, ing my time for a paltry five dollars. should be a warning. The Greeks,
many good qualities, possess an in- There are no costar"
ordinante belief in the ability of their race. They cannot be reproached for constantly speaking of the glorious deeds of their ancestors at Marathon, Plates, and at a score of other,
CONTRACTOR ́CHARGED.
FAULTY JOIST AND INFERIOR CEMENT,
A'Chinese contractor who is engaged
His Lordship said if Mr. Faithful did not get particulars within a week he would dismiss the case.
Mr. Faithful: With costs?- His Lordship Such as they-are.
in building houses on the Wei-neishong | (Laughter.). road was before Mr. J. R. Wood on three · Summones2; this morning. The first way that he did not use s triangular wire meth in a reinforced concrete verandah na required by the
3/16 inch from bars placed 15 inches apart
Mr. Vergette, of the Public Works Department, sait if iron bars had been sanctioned they should have been inch metal placed at 6 inches apart.
PHILIPPINE KAPOK.
There is a great future before the
SPORTING.
US. LEAGUE
LEF.C. RE
where their ancestors fought in Railton, Stewart, Rodger, Robinson,
B. R. F. O. Goldenberg, Black, McCub- Walker, Chassels, McTavish, Stalker. Kick off 4.15 p.m. Saturday 15th.
CRICKET
on behalf of their country; for Į tradition has been s useful and glorious racial asset. But in 1890 and 1897 they spoke with equal confidence of the conduct of their grandfathers between 1820 and 1830. Now the story of the Greek Revolution is a very mixed one; trockery, double-dealing to-morrow at King's Park, 2 pu
C. C. 2nd XI v. Craigengower Com and cowardice are found side by side Sharp-W. L. Weiser, H. Ovary, F. W with heroic deeda Noble self sacrifice Wood, B. D. Evans, CJ, Stapleton, approved plans, he having used instead cotton industry in the Philippines, says combined with a determination to obtain H. 8. Rouse A. Ex Silkstone, A. E
a Manila paper in order to assist the freedom, won them the people to avail themselves of a wonder Englishmen like Byron and Gordon Schulz, E. F. Kaven, C. Mycock, F.
and Travers. lal opportunity to make cotton culture of French and Russian sympathisera 1996-7 became intoxicated
THE QUEST FOR-A LITING of the burcan of agriculture with the stories of their ancestors. Hemandez Dirator Adriano The Greeks in
persuaded each other that
BUDDHA, has brought about the installation in Great crowds per Cavito a kapok cleaning machine of one Crack was equal to many Tarke modern improved type
The Gronk statesmen of both sides, thorough test is to be nude of and notably M Scoulandis, Hutukhtu, one of the mang Living Apparently, the old Kanchurwa Thilippine cotton and if it can be aliown recently refires recognised that in The second offence was that that fake with the Jays product and fighting against the Turks in 1897 Buddha of Mongolia, is dend ur passed, defendant used a faulty joist for the can be produced at no greater cost. the already under German leaders, they into the perfection of repose His senior
Would stand Do chance of succERS, Position verandah support. He should inve United States, navy is in tition to
disciple, Lama Akewangyenlinpuleh, make use of over a hundred tons a year and after careful consultation
DOV on provided a length of iron running the Kapok is used extensively in the tween Dalyarmi with his Minister the pilgrimage to Tibet in quest off
the re-imbodiment or incarnation of whole width of the dah but, instead manufacture of life belts, cushions, life and the leaders of the Opposition make enquires in the land of Buddhs for.. tion, the Hatakht. The seal method is to buoys and for other articles that are it was decided that the ery for war Ead scpected to float for a considerable time become so general that to stop it would boys born in a miraculous way or with after immersionR
bring about a revolution the first elect divine signs such as red light, sweet scent The bureau of agriculture is confident of which would be to send
festations on the day or there about of cared for and cleaned, cari easily compste resolved to make a show of war by land the death of the olf Hotukhta. The with the Jam kapok
and new, and of the Arst convenient boys thas secured are then carried to occasios, to invite the intervention of of wood and placed in
where their TIATION ATD Written
of that, he had it divided into two parts and these were held together by a piece
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of rivetted metal The third offence that the Filipino produsta, if properly and Royal Family. Theräte or other form of supposed diving mani-
was that in an ornamental projection all 17HEN you have a bad cold you wan round the house, for the support of can be little doubt that the Kwok remedy that will not only gay Min Tong are working for the relief, but effect a prompt and permanent the Boor inside, he used inferior materiald separation of the Southern provinces care, a remedy that pleasant to take and should have used mortar composed from the North, and it is quite within Chamberlain's Cough Remedy meets all of three packs of sand and one
a remedy that contains nothing injuzīvus. the bounds of possibility that this these requirement. It acts on naturer An atter of fact he
VISITING CARDS she will come into greater plan, relieve the lungs, ada expectorand sand and a sprint
prominence ~ unless the questions tion, opens the secretions and restored which are perplexing the authorities the systent to a healthy condition Tab
China Mail
Ofice
at Canton find a speedy and permanent remedy had a worldwide sale and use, solution
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Tas Lands by áll (2Lansdale And Blarekiépers..
EARLY COLD Bare of the year The
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*mena in winter long
one drawn out
the Fowers in orcier, to fix the terms of oss the rem
This programme was carried out
Bracks were dedesvel; two small
ceremony in
Dearestigny of the dead Buddha.
strips of territory were given over to the order to facilitate the search for
Turks and a mail indem
and the war fished,
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