MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1820
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
(Reader's Service to the China Mek)
BRITISH SUGAR PRICES.
AMERICAN CONSUMPTION EXCEEDS PRODUCTION.
LONDON, Juan 24.
In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. Seddon, Mr. McCurdy stated that the financial reserves of the sugar supply commission had been reduced in 1918 to approximately £4,000,000, owing to Britla's mainten- ance of the retail price of sugar below the level of the world's sugar prices. The total production of America, including Porto Rico, the Philippines, and the Sandwich Islands, was estimated not to exceed 1,900,000 tons, whereas the American consumption is over 4,000,000 tons. There is no Indication of a sugar corner..
OFFICIAL MILITARY KEVIEW.
LONDON, June 24,
The official weekly military review states that the Nationalist forces reached Lapsaki on the Dardanelles. On the upper Easkates we have withdrawn to Anab, which is now our most advanced post.
WIRELESS STRIKE ENDS PENDING NEGOTIATIONS.
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LONDON, June 24. The srike of the wireless operators has ended pending negotiations on the basis of the men's original demands.
AUCCESSFUL GREEK OPERATION.
ENEMY RETREATING IN DISORDER.
LONDON, June 25.
The Greek Legation has received an official communication from the Greek headquarters in Smyrna stating that a Greek division occupied At Salikli the Salikli and cleared cut the enemy in the region of Marmara. Greeks have a number of guns and prisoners. The enemy at Akhisser met with heavy losses and is retreating in disorder.
SIGNIFICANT APPOINTMENTS.
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LONDON, June 24.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BIG JEWEL ROBBERY.
ULLMANNS' PREMISES
ENTERED.
LOSS OF $200,000.
CORRESPONDENCE.
HAWKERS, POLICEMEN, KESTRELS AND BANANAS.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE.
THE Management of the * Chart Man.” desires to inform the public that its tariff for advertisements received on (To the Editor of the " China Mall."] and after this date will be increased by
20 per cent.
This increase is rendered imperative by the constantly growing cost of pro- duction, the price of paper alone having advanced by 100 per cent during the
five
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One of the biggest burglary hands for some time has to be recorded. Some time Saturday night or Sunday
Hongkong, June 28, 1920. morning the premises of Messrs. J.
Sir, I do not think that any Ullmann & Co., the well known useful purpose will be served in jewellers, of Queen's Road Central, prolonging this "hawker" argument, In order to meet these conditions situated at the foot of Wyndham so you may consider this my last
цетереретв and magazines all over the world have been obliged to raise their Street, were broken into by a gang letter on the subject..
It is impossible for me to reason abscription and advertising rates-in valuables stolen. of burglars and a large quantity of
or argue with people like "Adver- some cases by sa much sa. 100 per cent Inspector O'Sullivan, Detective Ser-sarian" and "John Kestrel " because-and, at the same time, to cortail the geant Dorling and some Chinese of their habitual and cussed perverse size and number of pages. For the detectives, followed shortly after-ness in trying to distort my view present, however, it has been decided, in the interests of the public generally wards by Mr. Burlingham, &S.P. point.
In writing a letter one usually and of advertisers in particular, to leare
CarsA MAIL" Inspector Grant and Sub-Inspector T. Murphy, began an investigation on allows for some deductive intelligence the prics of the Sunday evening, when a phone on the part of the reader, but changed. alarm was sent in.
Spparently this quality is lacking in Hongkong, May 17, 1990. At first it was thought, from both my opponentą. the appearence of the show-cases, For instance bath of them assume TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS that the burglary bad not resulted that because I asked them to remem
AND OTHER INSTITUTIONE in much sericus loss but a brief ber that both Indian and Chinese examination revealed the fact that police are. Aslatics dealing with from today, all preliminary
A'S two safe situated at the back of the Asiatics it follows that European A notices of forthcoming meetings,
for premises, in which were kept a large police officers acquiesce in whatever lectures and entertainments, ment quantity of diamonds, gold and silver they do.
insertion in the news columns of the watches etc, had been broken open
I submit that this assumption is "CHA MAI," will be charged for at and the major part of their contents nothing but pure devilishness on the rate of $1 each, providing they do removed. Mr. S. Goldschmidt, the their part. It is a mere subterfuge pot occupy more than four lines. If manager of the firm, estimated the the sort of thing employed by all this space is exceeded they will be persons getting the worst of an placed in the advertising columnes at the loss roughly at $200,000.
argument and whose last hope is to prevailing rates. annoy and disconcert their opponent.
According to Mr. Goldschmidt, when he closed the shop as usual on Saturday afternoon everything was intact It is surmised that the robbers set to work after mid-night on Saturday. An Indian watchman was on duty all night outside the shop.
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My obvious meaning was, of course, the conduct of the Asiatic police working on their own initiative. It is impossible for European officers to see or know,
Again I am misconstrued by: "John Kestrel" where he alleges 1, write disparagingly of China born boys. I did nothing of the sort." What I really said was that if a European were born and reared amongst Chi nese he would lose the mental out- look and balance of his race. In other words he would be a China man. That is altogether a different thing to saying that Europeans born
Hongkong, May 17, 1920
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GENERAL HOLIDAY.
THIS Office will be open for all par poses from 9 to 12 Noosa THURSDAY, the 1st July, 1920. Licensed Warehouses will entirely CLOSED on that day.
C. W. BECKWITH.
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of every harsh action on the part IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OFFICE The burglary was discovered at of their native subordinates; but all p.m., yesterday by Mr. Goldschmidt complaints on that score are care- who went to the shop to attend to fully enquired into, and, if proved, Mr. Gold-there awaits serious punishment for some, urgent business. schmidt's suspicion was aroused the defaulter. T when he tried to open the door and the lock resisted his efforts. He immediately enlisted the assistance of a locksmith and the lock was picked A steel catch was found to have been inserted into the lock. Convinced that something was amiss, Mr. Golds exchmidt, went straight to the nearest safe and found it open. Some dia monds were missing. He at once communicated with the Police by telephone. On the arrival of the in China are mentally different toNDER Ordinan Nas been Police two other safes were, in the their parents.
THURSDAY, 1st JULY has been course of investigation, found to have
But if "John Kestrel will have it proclaimed a GENERAL HOLIDAY The Evening Post publishes a statement made by Mr. Hoover urging been rifled. It was then that the the other way then I am prepared to and the EXCHANGE BANKS will be the Republicans to demand the earliest ratification of the Peace Treaty extent of the loss was realized by state that, speaking generally, China CLOSED for business on that day.
bern boys and giris, not educated at
Bongkong June 28, 1990. without Article X. Mr. Hoover contends that economic and moral
A careful examination of the pre-Home, cre a good deal "Sloppier pressure are sufficient to accomplisti international peace and disarmament.mises by the Police revealed the fact than their brothers and sisters reared
"It is noteworthy that D'abernon and Laurent are both financial perts. The German Press regards the appointments as foreshadowing vigorous tutelage of Germany's finances.
HOOVER DEMANDS TREATY KATIFICATION.
THE TURF
AUTEUIL, June 25, Running in the Prix des Drags. Troytown, the winner of the Grand National broke a leg and has been-destroyed."
PRINTING TRADES DISPUTE SETTLED.
LONDON, June 25.
Mr. Goldschmidt.
that the premises were entered in Europe, or in European, com- through Flower Street. Having munities. Now then! gaited the top of the staircase, the But to revertita, the hawker que robbers bored a hole, through a three- tion my unalterable opinion on that inch partition wall. Access to the shop subject is that both the Police and through this hole, which led to the Magistrates are doing the best they watch-makers' work-room, was easy-can under circumstances which are Once in the work-room, the robbers fraught with extreme difficulties. tried a door between this room and Both my opponents are writing the front part of the shop. The without experience and see only the stout lock resisted their efforts, surface of things. and after leaving marks on it,
WWE
BANK HOLIDAY.
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NOTICE.
WE bare THIS DAY remored our Offices to No. 2, Queen's Road Central, (2nd Floor, above the Bass of ET AFA, LID).-DE SOUZA & Co.
Hongkong, June 18; 1920.
WANTED.
they gave up the attempt and eith ar brother onere, that it is an WVANT MANAGER for Export I have long recognised, in common
JANTED:-EUROPEAN ASSIS-
with old established
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Qae with
The printing trades dispute has been settled.
set to work to bore another hole in impossible task to please all sections of Department SALT FISH STREET SUIT. advanced Taels 8,735.374 only and the wall dividing the two rooms. the public, but we cannot see how we British firm. Experience in South
of that Taels 1.987.92 (plus Txels This done, they crawled through and are to enhance our popularity by China Exports essential. 156.6 interest) was used to repay de-turned their attention to the safes allowing unrestrained hawking, or to knowledge of French given preference. The statement of claim says that the posits and advances made by the de-They apparently met with little combine justice with uncontrolled Good salary to right man. Give refer ences and wages required Box No. 1211, plaintiff, Wong Say San, is the trusted fendant and a further sum of about resistance in the case of the first two foolishness of the Hing Loong Hip Kee Lan firm $1,000 was used to repay deposits safes. After ransacking these, they Laws are made for the benefit of c/o "CA SATTE
a whole, and made by or through the said Chan attempted a third, which, from the community, as
marks on it, offered stubborn rests obedience to them is a normal now bankrupts, and the defendant, King Wan None of it was used to tence. After going through several condition. Yuen Ying Fo, is a merchant, of No. repay deposits made by or through any drawers, they found a bunch of keys
So, then, "John Kestrel" if you 2, Salt Fish St., Hongkong.
other partners."
which opened the safe, Several do not care a fig for the law well Subsequently, the defendant advised other sales also were subsequently then-have a banana. On or about February 20, 1918, an- indenture of mortgage was executed the firm to go bankrupt and on June opered with these keys.
Yours, efc.,
.:- POLICEMAN. purporting to be made between the 1. 1916. an interim receiving order, seid Hing Loong Hip Kee Lan as and, on June 22, 1918, a receiving
To prevent their being taken by surprise, the robbers took the pre-
NATIONAL LOAN OF THE THIRD YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC (1914).
QUBSCRIBERS to the above Loan are
SUBSC posfied that Eedemption of the binds drawn at Peking on the 9th Jane, 1920, will begin on the 30th
OF
mortgagors and the defendant as order was made on the petition of one caution of putting a catch into the [Here is a good place to stop. Jene, 1920.
Chan Chik Kim Tong, a creditor, and front lock. They managed to do This discussion, like many others, is morgagee. whereby the mortagors covenanted. inter alia, co pay on de/the firm was adjudged bankrupt on this without attracting the attention leading nowhere, and before it will be made at the Bank of China and
outside. The becomes a merely personal wrangling. mongagee the sum of July 12. 1918, when the plaintiff was of the watchman mand to the
watchman states that although he let us write our fiat ~énis-Ed. C.M.] -$15,000 with interest at 1 per cent.appointed trustee.
was sitting immediately outside the door, he heard nothing to arouse his suspicion.
No notice in writing of the assign ment of book debts of the indenture
of morgage was given to the debtors That the robbers escaped by the
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Fayment in cash on its equivalent
Back of Communications or any of the branches of the shove hanks and also at the Shanghai Office of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Bonds having as their two terminal: numbers any of the following groups, viz. 08, 17, 29, 37, 50, 52, 59, 68, 76, 90, 95, are drawn bands,
CECIL A. Y. BOWRA, Officiating Inspector General of
Customs. at interim Inspectorate-General of Customs,
Peking, 18th June, 1920.
- NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES From EUROPE and STRAITS.
* TOYAMA - MARU,"
After the bankruptcy and during the per month, and assigned to the mort-
currency of the interim receiving order gagee, firstly, their book debts:; secondly, all their share and interest the defendant wrongfully and without
Judging from the systematic way in in the proceedings. Observing the in the funds of the Luen Yick Sha: authority took from the firm Taels 360
which the robbers ransacked the pre- Inspector looking at him, the Chinese and, thirdly, their signboard, goodwill and Taels 1,080 (in all $2,000.00).
The execution of the indenture of mises, leaving nothing untouched attempted to sneak away, but was and right to the exclusive use of the name Hing Loong Hip Kec Lan and mortgage was not authorised by the excepting the show cases, they must immediately taken into custody and all, their estate right, title and interest Ling Loore Hip Kee Lan or by any have spent a considerable time in removed to the Station along with
of the parmers therein others than the the shop. In view of the fact the Indian, in the premises assigned.
There are no clues excepting a said Chan King Wan. The plaintiff that bright lights were burning
inside the shop and that the chisel and a key and it is unlikely The said indenture was signed by further says the defendant was well
watchman could Fave looked that these will yield much that will Chan King Wan and Wong Yee Sang, aware that the excultion was through the peep holes in the assist in tracing the robbers. who purported to execute to as authorised as aforesaid.
wooden shutters over the glass door The property is understood to be managing partners of the Hing Loong
and show windows, it looks as if he covered by insurance. Hip Kee Lan for themselves and all!
didn't look.
-Note by China Mail sleuth : others of the partners in the said Hing
All the reports we have seen way Loong Hip Kee Lan."
and the said debts vere at the comsame way they entered was evident that the burglars got over the wall in The indenture purported to-recke, mencement of the bankruptcy in the from the presence of the catch in the Flower Street, first-removing the witness and acknowledge that the sum possession; order or disposition of the front door lock. It is probable that broken glass from the top of it. A
THE Company's Steamship of $15,000 had been advanced by the bankrupt firm in their trade or bus-they got away, early on Sunday glance at this wall shows that no mortgagee on the 10th day of Febru-ness with the consent and permission morning, either to Macao or to Can- glass has been removed. To the right baring arrived from the above Paris, of the defendant, their manager, under ton. With a start of many hours of this wall, behind the flower ary, 1918.
Consigness of Clargo are hersby informed "In fact, the defendant had been a such circumstances that they were the the robbery was not discovered until stalls, is a big cage of wire netting that their Goode en being landed and member of the Hing Loong Cheung reputed owners thereof.
|6 pun; on Sunday the mobbers-bave | Look at it. Where it meets the wall Kee firm whose business was bought The indenture of mortgage was a every chance of evading arrest.
it offers a comfortable ladder to any placed at their rink in the BosexORS by the Hing Loong Hip Kee Lan in fraudulent to ausper of the property of This burglary is the biggest com-ordinarily agile man. That's where AD KOWLOON WWAY AND GODORE CO. 1911. At the time of the purchase, the bankrupt. fm, or, in the alterna-mitted in Hongkong for some years, they went up. By resting a coat on Godown at Kowloony whers each consign: the defendant had left on deposit with tive, is void as a fraudulent prefer-and the method employed, makes it the glass, they could stand on it and went will be sorted out mack by mark and the purchasers about Teels 8,942.40. ence, or, in the further alternative, is probable that the gang responsible reach the upstairs windows open, delivery can be obtained as soon as the Therefore from time to time he drew void wholly or in part by reason of the for it was the same which entered No need to remove the broken glass Goods are landed,
the premises of Sheriff Bros, noisy proceeding. This much Optional Goods will be carried on money from the Hing. Loong Hip Kee facts hereinbefore state.
Mohideen & Co., Sennet Freres, is visible by any passer-by, with aunloes instructions are given to the Lan, Subsequently, the defendant The plaintiff claims :-*
Falconer, other stores, and the Postpair of working eyes in his head. contrary before NOON, TO-DAY made certain advances not exceeding (1) That the indenture of netgage Office. in ell $6,500 to the Hing Loong Hip be set aside and declared void or Office Indian watchman, questioned. As the result of stock taking since Goods not cleared by July 6, 1990,
watchman, questioned the burglary, property to the value will be subject to seat alternatively, inoperative in so far by the Police, was unable to give in of some $100,000 has been accounted Damaged packages menus be left in the as it purported to assign the book formation, beyond that he was at his for as lost. There is every possibility | Godoma for axamination by the Corsegomir'i debts. S
post all night and did not hear any that the total loss will not be far and the Co.'s representatives at an appoint That an account be taken of all thing unusual. He has been remov short of ther $200,000 mark, the a boat on TUESDAY and FRIDAY sums due to the plaintiff as ed to the Central Police Station and original rough estimate given by Mr., Ale siklow model be presented within trustee in bankruptcy, including detained pending further investiga Goldacimot at the time the burglary test days of the teamer'a aziyal the sum of $2,000 mentioned in tional
(d) was discoveredé *ADIO
Kee Lan and in 1917 he was engaged
by the Hing Leong Hip Kee Lan as their manager.
At the date the indenture of more Eage was entered into there was due to the defendant in respect; ĐỀ” ̃hús sriginal leposit and the advances the
saim of $7.130.55.
By the indentare of mortgage, the defendant, agreed to advance to the mortgagors the further sum
$20,000
(2)
ہوئے بونه
proognised
pars 10 and that the defendant. While Inspector Grant was engar make repayment of the sumed in examining the from door lock, found due.
his attention was attracted bay Two new Launches are being built
WALLA WALLA The cise was pro eding when we strange looking Northern Chinese
I who was standing by much intérested feet. Phoor No. 3510.
Of the said eam he has went to press
No claims will on Fadzilbed after the gools have lack the Godonna,
HIPPON TUSEN KAISHA.
June 26, 19zu
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