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DR. WU÷AND THE FUNDS.
SHANGHAI, April 20. The Supreme Court has continued the injunction, pending judgment by the Mixed Court relative to the funds. deposited in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bark by Dr. Wo Fing Fang..
LOCAL AND GENERÁL.
TUESDAY, APRIE
1920,
AVIATION.
A TOO NOISY INDIAN.
Since the inauguration, of civilian Inspector Davitt this morning aviation in Great Britain on May 1 charred an Indian named Noor 1919, -umit January 29, 1920, the Allam, before Mr. N. L. Smith at the record at the Handley Page.commer-Magistracy, with disorderly conduct cial aeroplanes is as follows-
Total number of passengers carried,la the Contral Police Station yester 4,081.
day. The defendant pleaded not
Toral amount of freight carried, guilty. 44,805 bs..
Total mileage covered, 74,743
miles
LONDON, PARIS AND BRUSSELS AIR
́SERVICES. "
Inspecter Davitt said the defendant came to the Central Station yesterday to interview the DS.P., and would not leave the office when told to do On the London-Paris and Brussels
so. "When he was forcibly turn- Air Services between September 2ed out, he shouted, and made a lot 1919, and January 29, 1920, - 924 passengers and 43,412 lbs. of height of trouble. He was removed to the have been carried over a distance of Charge Room, where
be also misbehaved himself by shouting and .8. FLIES FROM PARIS: On January 22, the new
making himself a nuisance generally, Mr Smith enquired if the defen- Handley Page, vpe W.8. few from Paris to London on the conclusion of dant wanted a job, and the Inspector the Aviation Exhibition held recently said he interviewed the D.S.P., for a in the French Capital
passport to go to a place where a
To-day's dollar is worth 45.914.65.293 miles.
The death took place on Feb. 15th, at North Grange. Headingley, Leeds, of Charlotte Ada, widow of John Lawson Welch, M.A-M.B., of Kuala Lumpur.
model
The machice thus accomplished wi unique performance by flying to and passport was not issuable. When from the Exhibition, although it had he was told he could not get a only carried out one short test fight passport, he began to shout and was of twenty minutes before it made its forcibly removed to the Charge Room, first cross country flight to Paris in where, as he continued to shout, he 2 hours 10 minutes.
· ATHENIANS IN A HANDLEY PAGE,
was locked up. He was undeterred by
to
to the
see the
Jews wanted Jesus killed, but could hands on a Shakespearian Concord SPECIAL CABLE. not themselves lawfully alay any once you'll find that while Shakes- man. They passed the buck peare says can usurer, be to Pilate, who re-interrogated saya susurer fier times."· Is Jesus, and got teasing replies. five to one good enough for you? See John XVII). But he could Milton, Cowper, and the Revised and no fault in Jesus, and bis com Version of the New Testament pre-A SHANGHAL INJUNCTION. promise scheme proved w ̈faiture, Fon our sile**IF Yóu think Pollock, releasing Barabbas, who was a tai- Hutchison, and Ho Fook are better pan. The report, of Messrs. Fung guides than the Chino Mail, alt Ts: Ting and Wang Kin Tain, re-right carry on. We shan't worry. presenting the Hongkong strikers. But an European" will stamp of Saturdayis conference, is quite you at once nad Baution. It is different trote that issued by the worse than the over aspirated b Secretary for Chinese Affairs, of the parveni. Now perhaps you The version of the can help us in return, on a point. THE TWO Secretary for Chi- we cannot trace with our available VERSIONS. nese Affairs makes it booka. Should it be "while the
apparent that the time away be!" wile it away." Chinese refused what ruight look Writers differ, and we would like like a sporting offer by the taipans, some of the oldest exauiples. Roget The Chinese, in a statement to the seems to prefer while away Cautor Times, make it appear that time, but as that is like saying,
Laminert Bros., Auctioneers, are. wile the taipans refused an abated de time away time and to mand by the mers, Both may be, the hours away seems a clearer selling a number of bags of castor snd probably are tris hat the thought, we are not disposed to be seeds at their sales rooms at 11 am. effect of publishing a half truth of led by the pose by the learned to morrow. that sort is to put the onus on the tor, whogy never have really refusing party, so far as public considerati sympathy is involved. Was it a
Having
proved mistaken attempt ss brevity and PEAK TRAMS sufficiently by our Condensation in either case, or u
fine on the strike conscions trick to make the case that we are to respecters of per- Flock as it ought to look? The pubs ulmes, we now want to lic wants, and is entitled to, the subtanggestion regarding the
There is said to be under cont whole truth. Please let us have it. Peak TransThis is a public sideration the question of an air mail
The firm of Handley Page inaugur this, and continued to shout, com- In the local report. utility on a different footing to service from Egypt to India, including sted passenger, Bying in Athens by plaining that he had been assaulted the Flen, Mr. Johnny of the others. The number of Mesopotamia on the way, and in-carrying a number of Press repre pain in the stomach. He (the In
by a constable, and was suffering employees is comparatively small, cidentally speeding up the Far East. Johnstone presided
sentatives over the Greek capital spector) sert the defendant to the over the conference in Jantine by our propuse-should not cripple so that the higher wages involve t
Greek Press, men described his flight hospital, where after examination. rooms. In the Canton statement the company. We want it to em
Announcement is made of the as lollows:-"The British airman, the doctor reported that there was Chief Justice Gompertz presided, ploy white hubner exclusively, Mr. P. Jones, Principal of the us ta. the giant Handley Page resting defendant was a watchman.
following approaching weddings: Capt. Shakespeare, M.C., introduced nothing the matter with him. The also in Jardine's roots, assisted by exrries over a route highly suHongkong Tutorial and Educational on the aerodrome. Near by lies a Mr. Hallifax and the Commodore gestive of danger lives of peculiar Institute to Miss G. L. J. Luchung, machine which was the victim of asked what he had to say, the
Were there perhaps two con value to the Colony, and though Dr. B. Jameson, Shameen, to Miss gate and had been overturned and Central Station
defendant said he went ferences? Towards the end of
O. K. Hindmarsh.
Smashed Collossus ripped open so CSP, about a pa sport, and the meeting. says the Canton they have been and might still be safe in the hands of the Chinese statement (not included in the local operators, it would be a concession
shat its complicated mechanism was asked the Indian constable outside official's report) ** the employees to a naturaf sentiment to have this
The Hongkong Schools' Athletic revealed. This incident aroused the the CS.P's office to take his name representatives made a final offer particular service operated entirely Sports take place at Happy Valley on wit of a spectator who remarked in. The latter refused to do so Has Shakespeare come to Athens to unless he was given $1. He (the cent all round. As the employ can do with a few more jobs for sports commence at 1:15 pm The immense engines of the acro- and gave the constable a severe talk-
patronage of H. E. the Governor. write another tragedy ?** N
defendant) was indignant about it, ets, it is agreed, came at last to our own sort, and this would pro-His Excellency will distribute the plane were put in action. offer 32 per cent. alt round, it isvide them The company would
We are ing to, and he was taken to the clear the parties got pear enough find it. apipular move.
prizes at 5.30 pm And whe
asked if we are ready to fly and an-Charge Roam and locked up. The swer in the affirmative; we take out constable assaulted him severely tickets to heaven The Kowloon-Carton Railway-sitting room of the biplane, Capt. Room. -
and enter the before removing him to the Charge notify that the following trains are Shakespeare takes his seat and we Mr. Smith told the defendant he The Adversarian, cancelled from to-day-Up Trains
had no right to make a row. He did TER STRIKE DO to be behind from Kowloon, 10.30 a.m., 1.18 p.m...
2.20 p.m., 6.25 p.m. Down Trains
The magnificent mass vibrates with not believe the defendant's story, and ISOVE hand. strikes an A Peking (Chinese)
Attitude, right band from Shum Chun, 7.27 a.m., 3:00 a terrific noise, runs across the aero-was convinced that there was no drome and climbs high in the air. attempt on the part of the constable CHINA AND paper, very reason thrust in the top of bis weskit, leit P.m., 5.04 p.m., 9.04 p.m.
RUSSIA. abty argues that
We are in the blue skies before we to obtain a bribe. Neither did be when the foreign and makes announcement to the grasping firmly the lapel of his coat.
realise it.
think there was any truth Powers finally recognise the Soviet public as follows: On behalf
Having been acquitted on two
How strange the world appears alleged assault. He would fine the the charges, probationary Police In beneath and how insignificant. From defendant $2 or five days' hard government of Russia (as they are public, I have settled the strike. spector Matthews, of Singapore, has a height of 3,000. Athens appears labour. sure to do) and begin bargaining Roars of applause, and the sing-again been arraigned on two other like a landscape sketch, people re- with it. they will negotiate with-in of For he's a jully smart fel- charges respecting autus of $105 sembling ants, and the trains are like out considering Chinese interests A voice: What a long and $25. The case has been thread imperceptibly moving. Amongst That is true enough. Therefore tail oar casa got. Between what adjourned till May 12th-Malay the Flora of the Zappeion the ancient The China Mil. ing by (. K Chesterton on similar porary China should now accept eruployers offered, there is a half-
struck lately by a subsequent writ argues our logical Chinese contam the men demanded, and what the Mail
Stadium looks like s little dish. We PITT. Our eyes towards the sea-ol Somehow drink again, the lines. With the brazen or Daive out waiting to follow the foreign wore than that. Still being with advertised to appear at Repulse Bay float before a background of rocks and derived from Mr. Steve Laurie's letter American Cabaret Dancers are Phalerum in which big heavy clouds editor suggest paragraphist way figure. The non have got! cheek of all inherently modest Pusers. It also makes the, unkind. minds, the Adversarian will be sure but not unreasonable suggestion out the evidence that is vitaliv Hotel to-morrow. They will give islets, which are hidden in the twilight the erroneous impression that the " to say, when he hears of it, that that the terms of the ultimately such matters, cost, of living and the dinner dances. Table bookings cantion we can admire the earth beneath Monday, instead of next. It is next necessary for just jndgroents in all exhibition dances during the tea and of the evening. From our lofty posi-Denniston Players were to open this Chesterton has been reading the recognizal Sovict might be less
Tiving wage, etc., we venture never be made either at the Hongkong in perfect conifert and security with Monday, reaily, as everybody seems Chime Mail and taking his cut favourable than the terms of the attheless, upon the remark that the Hotel or the Repulse Bay Hotel.
to know except our paragraphist. out a feeling of danger or any anxiety.. All's well that ends well. men deserve what they've got.
One gets accustomed to the noise let's all get back to work and start the death of Mr. E. D. Hogan, which in the interest of the moments. We secured berveen Brazil and the Argen-
Now The Singapore Free Fress records of the engine,, and we forget the cold the wheels again.
took place suddenly, from heart turn over Athens and the machine tine Handley Page machines were How 'you like failure, on April 11. He had not makes a dive over Moun: Hymetta, already flying in South Africa, and he my leader to-day?" been in good health for some time, which appears like an inverted basket. would remind them that during the said the old leader.but was working on the day prior
We land suddenly. "How short a War a Handley Page machine was wrifer to the Adver- to his death. He joined the Gov- while happiness lasts," remarks a the first to fly to India. Their I mention you in it, in crament in 1885 and was a valued colleague sadly. I think that it is machines were already flying in Chips
more safe in an aeroplane than and one of them had taken 14 Chinese a way that should please you. servant of the Public Works Depart British Industries Thank you for nothing." snarled
Stadium Street in a motor car," said gentlemen over Peking, one of whom of 39, St. James's our tame wild man I see you
Brother
unfortunately was obliged, by a rapid spiral descent, to discard his lunch The Handley Page representative while over the President's Palace.
"The directors of the firm hoped
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"TRUTO, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1820.
OF ADVENTURES AMONG TYPE.
Adventures" among type are to those who adventure on omnivorous reading. Or the making of books thers is no end, and the jungle goes on growing, as Kipling, a sort of Cook's guide to the vicariously ad venturous, vividly reminded us in one of his Indian stories. One must love it. and be prepared for lephants, and centipedes. tigers and leeches, and poetings-really quite frequently for nothing at
To get through a jungle with
out an adventure is in itself an
to accept an increase of 35 per by white mer. Incidentally, we Friday, under the distinguished
strikes.
to settlement to make it quite might hidt perhaps, that it wonk practicable. Why not 33, one be less likely to be interrupted by naturally enquires? Not that splitting the difference is al ways fairs but it is sometimes. expedient.
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therefrom: Without going so far as that (for we lack the adversarian of which is very sound, but ignores present unrecognized Soviet. ́All hpmility of soul that shuns nack the fatal truth we were obliged to modesty and preters the over disclose before, that the foreign boastfulness that is by virtue
Powers will not allow China to do of its openness deprecatory) we bail the coincidence as an adven- anything they do not wish her to čo. Force and tight still role, ture, especially as it gives us in
The Federation of
literary paper an exceptionally even in Christendom. It should, clever image. Art forms are liken-not. but it does. eil (ant by Chesterton. but by the commentator) to the pot or vase in which the genie in the Arabían Nights was confined. That is
BRITISH INDUSTRIES,
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AMENITIES.
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TENNIS.
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ment
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HANDLEY PAGE IN INDIA
DRINK, PERHAPS,
J
the
Street, S.W.1, has call it Adventures Among Type." Mr. W. Smidt, börn. in Germany splendid, shining, and shrewd. We issued a little pumpbiet entitled Don't you really mean Adventures but a naturalised British subject, all know, of course, the Greek jar- How to place orders in the United mong Tripe? Then the chief who was general manager of Messrs. gan of art which referred to bad Kingdom. This Association will ith, assisted by three or four of Mohr Brothers and Company's in India discussing the inauguration of adventure, and as E. V. Lucas (in art forms as a limited or in-send free literature to enquirers the reporters, had to pry them business in Rangoon at the outbreak aerial mail stated" Air Mail service to receive inspiratic for further an essay entitled On getting off tinite," and made finity the crit- interested in various British pro-
of the war, and who was also contal will be Eown almost entirely by night activities from all present that even- for Austria in Rangoon at the same in order to economise, and when it ing. They wished to make Crickle one's beat" has reminded us, the erion of good form. The poet ducts. It started in 1916, and now least likely parts of the jungle of who woulds that he could utter represents the majority of manu
a sufficientwood a sort of Jerusalem from which time, has arrived there from Belgium. is proved that there is He was interced in India during the demand for through passenger accom- would proceed the Gospel of Aviation. print cun produce astonishing ex- the thoughts that arise" is strug-facturers in the United Kingdom. periences. A spiritual shock may gling with infinity for pretends or specifically, 10,000 5rms. It bas
war and has now been permitted bymodation on the mail services it will It was up to the staff to maintain the the Government of India to return be a perfectly simple manar to.fit up reputation of the firm. There was be got from a picked up copy of the persuades himself that he is but appointed representatives to assisti
to Burma and reside there.
machines with through sleeping berths bound to be a lapse of time belove Tailor and Cutter, and a romance he is no poet or true artist until and advise buyers how to get in
in which the passenger can retire to they could reach the full production with a gandy cover may have only he is ready to admit that he has touch. They are thus able with
soporific effect.
rest estly in the evening, to wake too peace time aircraft. One of those achieved utterance. Even then he the least effort to get the largest
MW. H. Drummond, was find himself several hundred miles ATTAN AERIAL 'BUSES. clever Frenchmen told us that all isn't, of course, for now we have number of quotations, and to com-
yesterday admitted to practice as aom his starting point. The business He did not believe in universal :. literary criticism consists of adven- the poem to read and measure; and pare prices. There are no charges Yesterday afternoon, the pre-barrister in the Hongkong Courts nan flying in these machines during peace, and said that the League of tures among masterpieces, but alas, under analysis those unutter or commissions. At present the sence of a large number of spectators, by the Chief Justice. Mr. H Gom the day need not waste his time, for Nations would for really cut out war though the jungle as a whole may able thoughts turn out like, the nearest commissioner to Hongkong Ng Sze Kwong and AH. Ramjain pertz The motion for his admission be regarded as a masterpiece, its ridiculus mus" from the volcano. is Mr. G.O. Blacker at Singapore, played E. de Sousa and F. Prata for was made by the Attorney General, they will be equipped with wireless until ordinary Police Courts were no components are not all such. H. Hamlet's immortal soliloquy could whose telegraphic
is place in the semifinal of the open Hon. Mr. F H. Kemp, who mentioned telephones and telegraph, and, if there longer necessary. In war machines G. Wells recommends, or appears be compressed into a municipal by- Fobi, Singapore. He is cover- doubles competition of the Hongkong that Mr. Drummond was called to is a demand for it, a stenographer will they had to have performance. In peace the machines had to be efficient to recommend, adventures among law, and the pregnant Browning ing the East Indies, Straits Settle-C Tournament, defeating their the bar in 1905, and during the war be carried on board. abstractione, and to a certain type thought,"
mente, Siam, etc., and would opponents in three straight sets, 8-6, was attached to the War Office and The Handley Page machines are and to give results at a price. It was of mind, for a certain time, this can
doubtless answer enquiries from 6-2, 6-3, though out without having later to the Ministry of Munitions. especially suitable for Rying in India, thanks to our war pikets that we were:
to make marked Improvement in China. be sufficiently exciting. There is
owing to the fact that the windows in able to sleep in our beds during the their opening form. 11
the cabin are made to open so that war. Some of those pilots were witin danger, however, of becoming one
The reason- certain The contest between O. and S.
We heard this week of a little the cabin temperature can be re them that evening, and they had done. idend, a specialist and a bore, and
NATURALLY, songs and tones Rumjahn and Captain Murray and deal fr land in Kuala Lumpur by guiated. This will prove to be a splendid work during the first year of of committing what may be called
are haunting A. 3. Raworth, which was postponed which a tidy profit of $153,000 was tremendous comfort. in Indis, where pesse one of the Sins of Satiety, Your Duchess. Apples shrink and lose has been discovered by London from last week owing to the rain, made on the purchase price before the variation in temperature, due to In future the transport our pany true literary adventurer is a jungle gustatory values in fold storage, Opinion. People murder them, resulted in a win for the former the war 160,000 for $6,000, and
Source immaterial of material
nacght
Focus of light infinitesimal, could be boiled down into an apotherm by the army's profane
OFF.
address
only some few years ago, they would
be able to realise what aeroplanes wil
ranger with a catholic taste, lock-and the most self-satisfied man
"Grammar You pair, 7-5, 2-6. 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, the are not surprised to learn that the change in elevation, is so great and would indicate to the works the type
repid.
of machine. they wanted. If they ing to meet nothing in particular amongst you should be ready at all:
PEDANTE have no right to that indians owing their victory largely seller is going Home" for "good"
HANDLEY PAGE STAFF DINNER. thought of what motor buses were unless it be meetings. For such times to call the worm brother, WARNED pseudonym, since you to the success of a process of ex within a year. The people who are Presiding at the Handley Page Staff 616 Adversaris" designed, though He that goes book borrowing
imagine the reporter hanstion The Rumjans next meet left in the country will have the Dinner at the Connaught Rooms on the execution falls short of the de- causeth sorrowing, though beer and
was wrong to write Redmund and Bowen, and the privilege of paying up indirectly, and, eign, and the unexpected encount-stout deftly mixed in a large jag
a number of people were pre- wimmers of this match will play Ng locking as pleasant as possible January 24, Mr Handley Page, in be in the future. In a few years a
his speech, said
man will be able to keep a small ers may be rarer than you expect. can alleviate injured pride, especi-sent. Buch collective nouns must See Kwong and A. H. Romjahn in Penang Gazette
The activides of the Firm in Eng machine for himself or a larger one The most pleasurable expectation, ally with oysters. These great have the plural verb, in such con- the semi-final.
land were but a small part of what for his family or will be able to obviously, is to expect the unex thoughts and set down upon the eve text. The number of people After a hard game, which visibly His Excellency Sir Laurence they hoped would be their world-wide travel in an serial bus, pected. Let it be a s'prise" of embarking on Harold Begbie's present was large is different affected both players, R. Townsend Guillemard has appointed a Commissivlies in future Great Britain had The country would have to look for- says the intelligent child, uncon-two volume biography of William Compare Faalima XXII. 18 the secured the match from Greenaway, slon with the Hon. Mr. W. F.Nuit been described as an island with the ward to organising a big Air Forte. sciously psychological expert, in Booth, of which more anon.
assembly; of the wicked have en- who neverthelessplayed a very steady as President, and Dr. Galloway, Dr. closed me. The mob of know-it-game. In consequence of this victory Lim Boon Keng Mr.W.H.Macgregor, rest of the world tied round it, and As the Fleet had been to the safety Major Greenaway will play in the Mr. E. T. Mannasseh, Mr. A. P. Rohe hoped that similarly the works at of this country in the pass, the Air alls hade sometimes irritated us.
binson, Mr. AW. Still and Mr. H,Cricklewood would be the centre of Force would be in the future. It be- We are aware, thank you, that the semi-final.
Major and Mrs. Greenaway are to B Ward as members, and Mr. Wymany organisations which would be hoved every politician to see that committee on the jail outbreak replay Redmond and Mre Winslow Bartley, as secretary, to enquire whe tied round them
adequate Military Forces were main- What is truth?" ferred to hard labour of an useful today, Forster to play G. Rumjahe ther profiteering exists in the Straits The firm's representatives had failed to carry war into the enemy's asked Pilate; not jest character, but we could not see to-morrow and Penman, to play Colony and, if so, the methods car achieved much during the past year country and to keep it up of our MBEL ing as the common an useful purpose in making an MW. Lo on Thursday
red on by profiteers, and to suggest Major Brackley, in America, had made on. He thanked the staff for their WOULD supposition is, but usual remark about it. But since
steps to abate it and reduce the high light of twelve hours with eleven good work during the war, and said. WONDER DECAPSE be was a you are interested, we may say that
cost of living, reports the Malay Mail, passengers on hoard; which was cere that the best tharks all present could thoughtful brainy Four earlier jibe was based on our 4
which reminds us that a committee miniy (a "world's record. A Handley have was the feeling that they had man, impressed by the sinceri
to control the price of foods once Page Company, had been lensed-in all helped in some way or another to both sides in that controversy.
con day your
Cuba. | ́exhted in Floryking.
Amal contract had beer
trospectively wise. The gourmand himself demands, that of his ideal dinner, and the correct answer for Mr. Taggart to give the newcomer to the grill who asks. What is an omelette en surprise?', would. be, ** If I told you it wouldn't be ope Some considerable while
ego our gifted Adyehairman was dis- sing learnedly as well as amus peoteric values and poetry, and we were
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