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Away in the country the advertise- ment caught the eye of the owner of the junk. He had let is out on charter at $50 a month. It was part of his ancestral estate, and a source of income. Ka put on his best coat, grabbed his umbrella, told the family
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
To-day's dollar is worth 3s., 10 7/168.
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LOCAL AND GENERAL,
MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919
MAN HUNT.
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The .. "Katsura Maru” (Capt. (ARMED LUKONG IS AT LARGE, M... Yamamoto) arrived from AFTER SHOOTING INDIAN Keelung on Saturday with 2,000 coal.
SERGEANT
POČ
ARMED MEN ATTACK KOWLOON VILLAGE.
SERGEANT LANNAN SHOT IN THE LEG.
The 3. "Kenkou Maru" (Capt. Okuvo) which arrived from Shanghaithe heart of the town at about 11.50 ed with revolvers, attacked a small Much excitement was caused in Ten men, five of whom were arm- Reuter tells us that Carnegie left on Saturday brought 3,290 tons of a.m. to-day when lakong No. 165 village in Kowloon last night, with
To-day's return of communicable to be sure to lock up carefully at bed-disease is Hank. time, and hurried to what Cobbett would call the Wen. He came, to Hongkong and in all Innocence went "less than $50,000,000." We expect to the police and claimed the junk.
to do that ourselves.
The police laughed. Their wily plan had succeeded. "Gotcher," they murmured and scooped the astonished man in. They took him before the magistrate, and accused him of allowing" his junk to be used for, opium smuggling.
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Use of the China Mail staff has little cortage in the Duchy of Normandy, with caretakers in and a few Bolshevistic books. Heaven knows what the caretakers may be doing. Is he "allowing" them to break the law, in case they are? See the parallel?]
The Magistrate was very busy. Possibly he was tired. He ined the junk owner $200.
We are of cpinion that this was | unjust... Elsewhere we publish qualified opinions to the same effect Will somebody kindly tell us what is happening?
Is any appeal being arranged for? Is any body taking any steps? We are imprisoned in a newspaper office, and (like Sterne's starling) we can't get out. We can only cry out.
AGGRAVATIONS..
The ss. "Itola" (Capt. Watson) cleared for Shanghai at 4 pm, yes terday with general cargo.
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seed.
The s.s. "Shinno Maru" (Capt. yesterday brought 2,607 tons of coal Taniyama) which arrived from Moj for Hongkong.
The
who was on duty in uniform at the the intention of committing a rob- Queen's Road, suddenly pulled out ed a small grocery store an alarmt junction of D'Aguilar Street and bery. As soon as the robbers enter- Sergeant No. B91, Karim Singh, in blown Sergeant Lennan and a Chi- his service revolver and shot indian was raised, and Folice whistles were the abdomen., The Indian fell and nese detective, who were patrolling the his assailant ran up D'Aguilar Street district, being attracted by the screams. "Eldridge" (Capt. 8.9. Thess. "Mogami Maru" (Capt. Froberg) cleared for Seattle, viawards the the Dairy Farm. Chase seized a man who was armed with and through Wellington Street to rushed into the village. Sergt. Lannan Gotol which arrived from Karatsu Manila at noon yesterday with 3,000 was given by some Europeans a revolver and a desperate struggle yesterday brought 2,650 tons of coal. tons of general cargo.
and Chinese who had seen ensued. The rabber managed to fire him The sa "Fooksang
commit the act The ss. "Koyo Maru" (Capt.kong pointed his revolver at Lannan's right thigh. By this time
but the Mitchell) which arrived from Kobe Nishinomija) arrived from Keeling them and threatened to shoot if other constables arrived on the scene,
(Capt.
a shot and the bullet entered Sergeant and Moji at 7.15 am, to-day, brought at noon on Saturday with 1,420 tons anyone attempted to arrest him, and after an interchange of revolver 2,753 tons of general cargo..
of coal for Hongkong.
This kept them off. As the shots, three man were arrested, the the kong ran into Wyndham Street past other robber escaping in different whistles were blown and several removed to the Government Civil China Mail office, police directions. Sergeant Lannan was Chinese detectives in plain clothes Hospital. Two revolvers were found and one or two constables turned up in the possession of the arrested men. but not one of them suspected that that the pursuers were after and Kowloon City Sunday night sh
Further particulusça hand of the it was one of their own colleagues shooting of Sergent Lannon af
to check the dangerous roan's pro with revolvers committed an armed consequently по ове attempted foot ten robber five of the armed gress. A crowd had gathered in robbery at the Rowton Dairy Farm and taking advantage of it, the Mr. Ab Wee, who let his life in the Wyndham Street by this time owned by the chilihen of the late
into the thickest of racecourse fire. the crowd and thus managed to the time were Miss A Wee. Mi
In the bouse a give his. pursners the slip Mary Al Wee. Mr. Hong Ah Wed The newly arrived detectives were and some servants. at a loss until the original pursuers,p. Mes Ab Wee was giving vane those who had followed from the orders to the servants in the dining
The as. "Soshu Maru" (Capt. Inout arrived from Takao and Swatow yesterday with 40 tons of sundry cargo and 25 bags of mails.
The 3.5.
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The as. "Siam Mary" (Capt. madumi) which arrived from Bom bay yesterday brought 690 tons of cotton for Hongkong.
Shane) arrived here from Tientsin sailed for Vancouver via Yokohama Huichow" (Captain The sa. "Empress of Japan " and Amoy at 830 a.m., on Saturday at 3 pm, on Saturday with 44 with 1210 tons of general cargo and European passengers and 960 toris 5 bags of mails.
of general cargo.
い
kong ran and
About 6.30
The s.s. Loongsang" (Capt The s.s." West Conob" (Capt.
Angeles. Rankin) which arrived from Los Booker) which cleared for Manila at
Manila
yesterday 4 pm, on Saturday carried 620 tons brought 286 casks of oil and 110 of general cargo. She bad on board tons of general for Hongkong.
16 European passengers.
The ss." Nanking Mail (Capt. When the wonderful mind of Mining Administration's mines for Mori) which arrive from Melbourne start, in Queen's Road came up room when suddenly the ther mala
The total output of the Kailan Gautama Bid tha occupied itself with the ending 9th August amount and Manila yesterday brought 693 Then they scattered and the hunt the appearates, and after threatens the phenomena of life, the salient ited to 80.034 tons and the Sales during tons of flour and ruerchandise. She began. In the meantime,
also brought 28 bags of mails. Indian Sergeant who was bleeding with death attempted to sack the
ing Miss A Wes and the servants » The following ships cleared this abdomen was removed in a chair to profusely from a wound in the
phic. Mr. Henry Ab Wee. Who morning Koyo
Maru" (Capt. the Central Station where a report looked down into the dining roomy was upstairs, bearing commotion:
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we may not bar. Thus we may be straining at a gnat while swallowing said with this promised Bill to be a camel-
Get that? It's true. That is one point on which we are sure we are not wrongheaded.
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Thirdly and here, we may be wrongheaded, but we feel it strongly -we do hate and loathe and condemn the policy of cutting off our nose to MAUNDER-At Swatow, by ac spite our face. By passing a Bill to cidental drowning. Vincent keep out our late enemies (with Arthur Maunder, aged twenty-whom His Majesty the King lately five years, broches of A. Yordered us to be at peace) we shall "Maunder, Stangmai.
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Shang, John McIntyre, late 2nd officer, K., "Chinking." aged 38 years.
The China Mail.
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saw was sorrow. We know how it the period, to 43,290 tons. searched for the cause of sorrow, and las some of us think) wrongly traced-
The s.s. "Dunera" (Capt. Fysh)
The s.5. "Taiyuan" (Capt. Hamilton) which arrived from Mel bourne yesterday brought 1,147 tons of general cargo for Hongkong. She reports two deaths on board from natural causes.."
cause, and the conduct be recom-cargo and mails, She carried 40 mended to that end. Diligently and European cabin passengers. sincerely copied, he is a good quide but hard to follow. So with Jesus. In one thing his mind moved on the same lines as that of Jesus. Both were teachers of compassion. Compassion is just as instinctive and natural as hate. By cultivation a man may increase the one and diminish the other. Without attempting any counsel of perfection, it is surely possible for any man to acquire a strong sense of the sum of sorrow in the world, and to resolve (with success) that by no act of his will he willingly aggravate it or add to it. So,easy, so easy, and so simple. Here are fellow creatures, and here is sorrow like a food overwhelming. Not mine, he may say, to abate the flood. True, it may be. What is one amongst so many? But only that one easy little resolution, costing nothing, not to aggravate it. An
The s.5. "Itola" (Capt. McNair) arrived from Bombay and Singapore. yesterday with a cargo of tea and dried coconut for Hongkong. She also brought one bag of mail and 6 European passengers.
!mails. She had on
European passengers.
The s.s. "Sinklang" Capt. Eedy) which arrived here from Shanghai at
Any Perth men here? The China 11.15 am, on Saturday, brought Mail has received an appeal from Mr. 300 tons of general cargo and 135 Robert Keay, City Chamberlain, Perth, bags of mails. She carried 4 Ewho is honorary treasurer of a fund to ropean cabin passengers.
restore the church of St. John there as a war memorial. He is willing to
from Perth men here. accept contributions by instalments
turned
the
his telephone was placed in the
Where the abbors were.
how he proposed to abolish the yesterday with 3,350 tons of general metani) for Keelung: "Bombay was made and all the available from the staircase and noticed a mon it all to excessive desire. We know arrived from Bombay and Singapore
Mary" (Capt. Kinoshita) for Yoko-men hama and
out armed with Tamon Maru" (Capt. rifles and revolvers to hunt for pushing the epok into the dining- S. Itoh) for Saigon.
the murderer. Forces were divided. Becoming suspicions he went to the back of the billing and realis- and soon every street and by-lane. The s.s, Tango Maru" (Capt was beaten for the hunted man. the danger he descended by the Nishimura) arrived from Melbourne Within ten minutes of the time back staircase with Aliss Mary A and Manila on Saturday with 1,377 the alarm was received at the Wee and a servant and went to a tons of general cargo and 30 bags of Central Station, the area for a mile neighbour's house to use a telephone
board 63 around the Dairy Farm office was guarded by. armed policemen. Motor waggons The s.s. "Van Waerwijck" (Capt.the roads
coming along
In the meanwhile Misa Ab Wèo Claasen) with arrived 7 a.m., yester drivers questioned, and the interior by running out of a buck verandah. were stopped, the and a serviut wonen tried in escape day from Belawan Deli and Singa- of the vans searched. The whole of They run to the dairy meh's quisers pore, brought 2,380 tons of general the grounds surrounding Government to seek assistance when thebbers cargo and I package of mails. She House and the Public Garders were give chuse and imprisoned the lady carried 39 European passengers. alive with searchers. The mouth of in one of the sheds. The servant
so as to prevent the hunted man, treated in a similar fashion. Kennedy Road was strongly guarded waar was roughly hadde and whom the searchers believed to be within the guarded, boundary, from to obtain a police whistle and blew By the time Mr. Ah Wee managed escaping to Wanchai. Telephone event blists on it. Two Imulat messages were quickly despatched Pienen, who were on duty on the to all the stations round about and all the the house. The Indians were left police in aid, hearing the note ran 10
this job was tackled wharfs were guarded. In fact, those on gun at the entrance to the who like to grumble about the local house and Mr. A Wee, who mus police system, should have seen how dressed in bis pyjamas, rushed to the Fowloon City Police Station ord The hunted man's uniform was gave the alarm. found lying in the drain outside St. rived and surrounded the house but
Other police or Paul's Church in Garden Road. left everything behind except his became alarmed and did a humed He the gang hearing the Police whistha service revolver and ammunition, exit with a quantity of jewellery. and presumbly his underclothing. The Police followed been on the scent It was quickly surmised that the of the robbers and Sergeant Lamban man must be somewhere in the upper ran a suspect to earth in Mongkok- level of Caine Road or even higher A struggle ensued and ring the and a party was sent up Garden course of it Sergeant Laomen wha Road in the wake of the man.hot in the thigh. The robber tried The Indian constable has been re another shot at the Sergeant but it moved to the hospital where he is miseed fire and when blac Sergeant now lying in a very critical condi- colapsed the man ran away. tion. In fact, it is doubtful if he will survive.
It is alleged that he was shot because he had reported the lukang for reporting late for duty.
act, a deed, is contemplated. Will Nemoto) arrived from Tacoma and The s.s. "Canada Maru" (Capt.
Wil it add to the horrid sum total 454 tons of paper, porcelain, match it aggravate the sorrow of the world? Shanghai at 6.45 am. to-day with of pain? So? Then not to do. How easy! How sim-also brought 75 bags of mails.
Then to refrain, and machinery for Hongkong. ple! And how regrettably ignored.
ALLEGED HIGHWAY
ROBBERY.
CHINESE MERCHANT
VICTIMISED.
Magistracy, on Saturday, to three A Chinese was sentenced, at the months' hard labour for larceny. He was alleged to have forged a delivery The ss. "Tean" (Capt. Scott) order form and to have taken charge which arrived here from Shanghai f 4 cases of towels, valued at $1.240, at 8.30 am. on Saturday brought lying in the Kowloon godowns, which 350 tons of general cargo and 92 had been consigned to a Chinese firm bags of mails. She had on board 36 who had a monopoly of this par European cabin passengers.
ticular brand.
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(Capt.
CHINESE AMAT DIPRISONED
(low, pettifogging, foreign things) we He was produced at the Magistracy, HONGKONG, MONDAY, Avatar 23, 1913. moved about the world with delight on Saturday, and the case was miles from Gap Rock blowing N. to time ago and had not been found.
KEEPING OUT ALIENS.
ful treedom. We insisted (it is one remanded for a week. of President Wilson's 14 points) on our right to go anywhere, and it Hermit Kingdoms" tried to be unpleasant, we taught 'em a lesson.
Get that. The short title of the promised Bill is the. Hermit Colony Ordinance. Joke.)
UNSUCCESSFUL ALIBL`
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other
Three men, identified by the A Wee family as having been employed other, have been arrested. at obe Dairy Parn at some time of
The 9.8. 'Benavon" Hastie) arrived here from London GIRL'S MYSTERIOUS perpetuate that ondamnable machinery of Bumbledom
and Singapore at 9.30 am. yesterday which takes all the pleasure out of Mr. Ho Wing, a Chinese merchant, mails. She carried 2 European Early on Saturday morning, while with 1,000 tons of general cargo and
DISAPPEARANCE. being an Englishman. It means pass was proceeding in a richa towards passengers for Hongkong.. ports, impudent inquisitions, irritating Des Voeux Road West, he was stop. delays, and more power in the hands ped by a gang of rowdies. One of Grant) which arrived here from
certain people than is good for the men assaulted him, another
The s.s. "Kwongsang" (Capt.
Get that. Think it over. Before while a third took $23-from his yesterday brought 984 tons of gene with stealing two pairs of silk snatched his gold watch and chain, Calcutta and Singapore at 7 am, A Chinese amah who was charged you agree to this belated spasm of
The latest report at 2.30 p.m. is
The Police report of the incident pockets. chauvinistic enterprise, count the Mr. Ho Wing biew his police-whistle had 6 European passengers on board. tracy, en Saturday.
When the men ran off, ral cargo and 84 bags of mails. She trousers was fined $50 at the Magis-that the lukong's revolver and is as allows-Sent to the Govern cost. Think what it is going to and gave chase. The men fled in
tel: have been recovered in ment Civil Hospital, No. 105, Lance. mean to you.
Inspector Grant stated that defen- Kennedy ·Road. Altogether Sergeant Lanzan, suffering from a different directions, but Mr. Ho Wing
The as. Providence" (Capt. dant was employed at No. 18, Cook's three
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shots ware fired with wou in the fleshy part of for the good old easygoing days managed to keep up with one Who Hansen) arrived from Saigonton Street as an amah to a Chinese lady. the pistol, all of which found a mark the right thigh inflicted by a man before we got the wind up, when we in attempting to escape by a side Saturday with 1,100 tons of rice and it appeared that a little Chinese in the Indian's body. The latter who was stopped by the Sergeant und boasted that we were above passports lane, ran into the arms of a constable-typhoon at 5 p.m., on the 21st 50 the same house, disappeared some in the abdomen and once in the bast. Fuipo-Taipo Rouds at 9.15 p.. on mails. She reports encountering a servant girl, who was employed at was wounded once in the groin, once searched at the junction of the Satu- After receiving his first wound Sunday. Sergeant Lampan and The mistress suspected the amah of which was fired at close range, other constables went to be the either assisting the child in escaping the Indian ran into a shop and roads on receipt of a message that Misses. W. 1. Wilson and Woot-pr of kidnapping her for some the lukong fired two other shots at robbers bad attacked the Dairy ten have just joined the Nursing improper purpose. Her suspicions him, causing the other two wounds. Farm. While the Sergeant was pu Sisters Staff of the Government Ser were strengthened by the subse The job of tracing an unarmedceeding In a riesku he noticed a vice from Home. The latter was quent queer behaviour of the Chinese, ciad now probably in under-man walling in his direction und he Before Captain Basil Taylour, R.N., Nursing Service (Q.AJMNS.).
previously a member of the Military amah. When asked about the shirt and ordinary pants, will not be jumped out of the 's to inter- A. W. Daily, First Boarding Officer, in the Marine Court this morning Mr.
child she denied that she knew an easy one.. anything of her whereabouts, and charged the Chinese master of steam Lewis, and not Mr. E. Davidson, who who questioned her. The woman We are informed that it was Mr. the mistress sent for a detective, launch "Tai Loi," under Section 25, appeared in the case of the junk attempted to bide a purse underneath with unlawfully failing to observe the junk to be used by the charterer for and found it contained three pawn 11.30 am, on the 23rd inst. rule of the road in the harbour at opium smuggling. The reporter pro- tickets two in the little girl's name
volver shot, the bullet entering the fesses that he never can tell these and one in the amah's for some from a ship and this morning. He released his hold of the Sergeant whe A Chinese stole some iron bolts continued when suddenly the mazz Sergeunt's right thigh. The struggle The defendant pleaded mistaken gentlemen apart. identity, and said that his launch was
clothing. A. visit to the pawnshop not there at the time. It was towing
resulted in the discovery of two was fined $25.
overbalanced bimself and fell down two junks from Hongkong.
The Wanchai Police arrested a pairs of silk trousers, which the
to the ground. The Sergeant, how- Mr. Daily said that at 11.30a.m., without a licence. The boy pointed
little boy on Friday for hawking mistress had given to the girl.
A Sanitary Board coolie who ever, did not lose his presence i Defendant denied on the 23rd Inst., bls launch was out a man, who, he said, engaged trousers. She added she had found complained against him was sen missed aim. The man then escaped stealing the wounded another coolie because he mind and shot at the robber and going through the Yaumati Shelter him to hawk. This man was the pawatickets underneath a bed tenced to six months' hard labour in the direction of the hill. and on nearing the Northern en- arrested for aiding and abetting the and had intended handing them over in through the same entrance keeping on ball of $35 and ordered to attend did not expect a person who stole trance, the defendant's launch came boy. The couple were allowed out to her mistress. Surely, the Police on the port side of the chancel Court on Saturday. They failed to clothing to pawn it in her own namel contrary to the rule laid down by obey the order and the ball was Act 25.
The whereabouts of the girl is still After the coxswain of steam launch
a mystery. What has the amah H.D. 4. had given evidence that the
done with her 7 name of the launch in question was Chilean nitre has increased so much
The Japanese demand Tai Loi, his Honour fined the that one T.K.K. steamer,, which has defendant $10.
been plying between Japan and Chile for the import of nitre, is inadequate
It is possible that our view of this matter is wrongheaded. We are just as liable to be wrong as you are. But right or wrong, this is how we regard the promised local legislation aimed at keeping out of this Colony
cept the mud. He stopped the nan and searched him when, the latter produced a revolver which the Ser- A man stole a fan, the Police desperate struggle ensued, in tho geant immediately seized hold of 4
aliens from central Europe. "We are indignity to our loyal selves for the sub-section 4 of Ordinance 10 of 1899, owner charged with "allowing his her coat, but the detective seized caught him and Mr. Smith gave him course of which the man fred & re-
that jibe. It is a reactionary move. Seriously, there is something in at does mean real inconvenience and "agin it."
First, because we do not realize unlikely danger.
sake of an unproved and indeed any apparent danger. Public senti- ment alone is strong enough to Mail invites the support of all We are agin it." The China .discourage any considerable im- thoughtful and intelligent citizens to migration of these gentry for a long discourage such fussy legislation. time to come. They know that we We beg for such an expression of don't love them, and that their public opinion as will show our chance of doing business or living legislators on which side to vote. comfortably, in the midst of people feeling as we do towards them would be very small,
MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.
As for their "activity, intrigue, and propaganda," we On Friday, the China Mail asked refuse to be stampeded into panic for subscriptions towards the cost of with mere bugaboo words. What an appeal against what it regarded earthly propaganda bave they as an unjust sentence by a magis possibly got now? If Bolshevism trate. were meant, why not say so?
The facts as we had them were as Incidentally, if we fear Bolshevism follows. out here (which is for to laugh) the best thing we could do to fight it would be to drop this Bill and import a hundred Hungarians to talk about it. They've had some.
On a junk the police found' a quantity of illicit, opium. waited and watched, to catch, the They smugglers. Probably the smugglers were watching too. "No one came.
FOR A WEAK STOMACH
Secondly, the aliens who are really The police advertised that If not Agers zule all you need to de, hurting us, and whose exclusion from claimed by a certain date, the lankage and occupation and to keep your is to adopt a diet enited to your the Colony would be to our immediate, would be sold. The smugglers, if they bowels regular. When you feel that you direct, and visible advantage, are peo saw that, must have laughed. The have eaten too much and when not ple against whom such legislation junk wasn't theirs. Why should they for sale, By All Chemists and store pated, take one of Chamberlain's Tablets. would not be allowed, friends whom worry?
kocpers:
estreated.
for
SOUVENIR OF TYPHOON,”
three months.
tacked by highway robbers in Des
A Chinese gentleman was at
Voux Road on Saturday night and jewellery amounting to $140 waS stolen. A man has been arrested in connection with the theft
SHIPPING MÅN FEAD,
FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED
Mr JH-Wntice) General Agent of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Ser- vices, Hougkong, Jus rece ́ved tela- -A Chinaman bought a rallway graphic imimation from Shanghai ticket from Kowloon to Taipo. He that Mr. Frederick. We on, the slept in the train and was carried to General Agent of the C.P.O.S., to cope with the situation. The A pathetic souvenir of the typhoon near the 173 mile post-Farlin. Sangat, was found dead in the deficiency for the first half of this was gazed at by a knot of people awoke, found out the pool Yangtzepy district og Friday night. received from Vladivostock. But stone steps lay the body of a child. jumped off the moving train. His two days Foil play is inspected. year has been made good with nitre this morning on the Praya. On the ton he was in and fearing trouble since the recent trouble, with the Somebody had covered the trunk bead struck a post and was in The inquist is proceeding.
Mr. Wess had been assing for Russian exporters, Japanese importers decently with matting, but the little jured, while his body was bruised. Mr. Wein had been in Shanghar dave been unable to get satisfactory limbs protruded, mutely asking the He was removed to the Government about four years. He was unmar
eternal conundrum, Why? Why?. Civil Hospital.
helivery.
ried.