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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920.
SPECIAL CABLE.
SINGAPORE WRECK.
"ALTENBURG " ABANDONED,
SALE BY AUCTION,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
* BOBIN” ATTACKED.
WEST RIVER INCIDENT,
BRITISH GUNBOAT FIRED ON.
Shots were fired from the shore at H.M.S. "Robin" while the gunboat. was cruising up the West River on" Tuesday last.
For the previous seven days the Robin" had been stationed at Samshui In order to protect the Hyes and property of foreigners resident
o'clock, the
on
there
morning, about 9 Robin departed
a cruise. When abreast of Kwong-li, 16 Miles from Sanshui, the gunboat was fired on by troops on the shore. Fortun- ately no one was killed or wound-
Licensing Board meets on Nov. 5.ed, but several explosive bullets | passed through the captain's cabin. Shots also penetrated. the hull of the vessel and passed through awnings and ventilators. The **Rebin "returned the fire with maxims and six-pounders "knocking a few houses down."
"Get afford the increase? Hang it all. He can starve, and if he does, it "em divided and be as imperious as you ought to be ashamed to enter serves dim right. There is no poli- you like."
tain any but the right opinion intical principle that can possibly The public has this matter. And mind you, they warrant prolonged disrespect to- one fixed idea. I haven't held a pistol at anybody's wards 3 good
square meal. They haven't started Alte workers head.
two OF three days I AND régards
strike as frivelons strike. They have asked would sell the Constitution for naughty. aad for arbitration, and had it refused.a. Porterhouse steak. and long be blames then: when they won't con-In addition an attempt has been fore I had fasted as long as the im- sent to arbitration. The public has made, which they resent, to underaginary Cork mayor has, I'd have now been appealed to, by what the mine their loyalty to their Guild. sold my chance in the Shanghai toady papers have called a full for engnition of which in the past sweep for a pair of bananas.
{China Mail Special] " and frank statement. How will they had to struggle.
That's all right, they judge? For it was the Com-
If you hear a PROVIDENCE no doubt," about|
SINGAPORE, Oct. 8, pany, and rit the Guild, that re- SHAREHOLDERS man outside ar-
the interest The Altenburg," which was fused arbitration in this case.
guing the mer-which Providence is supposed to wrecked on Fallodon Shoal, has been company published only part of the hits of this dispute, and arguing intake in us all, even in the humble abandoned, and is being sold by on Tuesday correspondeve, presumably the favour of the company as against¦ sparrows. But Reuter yesterday auction. part that suited its purpose. The the Guilde, ascertain if he is a made Providener look so very, acu-[“ Public was not told on Janlines shareholder. There are A lo tral 25 to make me suspect indifer- letter of Sept. 6th, definitely refus- about. The same applies to news chee. First he reported the death ing to call the Adiustrent Boanlpaper articles and letters. BS of a publisher, and I believed in into being.
dividends create a natural bias. In Providence. Then immediately he I have no head oorview of what I said in the preced-reported the death of a novelist. POPRES Agures, and certainly ing paragraph, try to get a squint and my doubts were reborn.
for an examination i not for such figures as az a book were typed out and circulated to papers showing whas an engineer' bamboozle the skippers and engi-has to know in order to get his neers at that private meeting, to ticket. It's amazing the amount which Mr. Stokes, the resident joi study ship officers and engineers! secretary of the Engines' Guild.ust put in. When I recall some!
Which of the two factions fired ought to have been invited it was of their studies, and some of their playing figures so largely in Hong-
the "Robin" the Kwang- not. How do you explain items jobs. I conclude that a ship's engi kong-life that it is bound to interest
tung or the Kwangsi troops like these? Net eamings, plusher must have the intellect of a some of you. The mercenary and
The trains advertised to leave is not certain, but when troops do not wages. Tur 1918 £72138. "Set University professor; the endurance, rapacious scoundrel, who introduced
to us said it was called Canton at 7.30 am. and Kowloon at besitate to attack a gunboat, iner- result to company, plus wages and perseverance of a hero, and the it | £429,874. Why plis wages? Are physique of an athlete. They do "Thrums." We called it several 2.15 p.m. are cancelled until further chant ships, it would seem, coold expect little mercy. As it is at not net earnings the net result?not get the professor's pay, or the other names before the night was notice.
present, however, no steamers are That is only a sample of the stat juthlete's. They get the hero's, over, but these were unofficial. It
The King has signed an exrunning on the usual service from handed to the men, who gory pro which is mostly glory, and buys no is played with the usual pack, no Ltd. edy stopped the proceedings by slows for the hairns nor ribbons for joker. The hands are drait out as equator recognizing Mr. A. L. C. de Hongkong to Samshui and Waichow.
saying that they were not there to the lassie. And now you have been in poker, but with one extra hand, A. e Castro as Corsul General for argue points that were ing hand-jasked by a comfortable, wealthy one more than the number of play- Portugal here. led by their Guilds,
Igentleman to regard these, men as ers. A pool is contributed, the the either one of two things, namely, amount being such as is equally promoted to the rank of Consul, is
Mr. Leighton Hope, having been HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB. Wissing of
The hands are eve. Corinthian Yacht Chedy and ungrateful rogues, or divisible by Ave.
now acting Consul General for the which cests to exist this dish gulls of wicked Guild played as in the game of Nap, an
U.S. A. here. mouth after waris 20 years, give officials. These were the plain im- exposed cand indicating the trump It was at on tim plications. The idea that they may suit. The player on the dealer's easily the stranger of the two yacht be plain, practical men who know left leads, or the player who has Helena May Institute clubs, and to pretend that there what they are, worth, taking lawful exchanged his hand for the spare her 28 and November 9 from was never need for twa is to cans to get their dues, is the idee hand, which is offered to each in 5.30 to 7.30 p.m.
I want son, the pubilie, to absorb. I turn until accepted. For each trick ignore the history of its origin: Don't he prejudiced against them taken, the taker abstracts one fifth
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VON SOPP.-On October 1, 1920, it. at Shanghai, to Dr. and Mrs. 3. A. voa Sopp, 2 son..
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Thi
A rain.
The Corimbun Yacht Club started
Is is new only so far as A NEW Hongkong is concerned
ciao At least I never met it GAME before, and I play most of their games. Card
Mr. William Paterson of Watson's is registered as a chemist and druggist.
The sun is scheduled to set this evening, weather permitting, at four minutes past six.
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LARSEN GRIFFIN DRAW..
There will be tea idances at the ONE PONY ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED.
On Octo
Average bank notes cut last
Thirty Larsen Grifins ordered for the next annual race meeting, arrived in the Colony from Tientsin by the S.S *Chipsing" yesterday. While
Lion exclusive. Most of the Royal which evoked the applas of Inde- Lenough, and some of them, fiad- & S. $22,572,000; Merc $1,026,695. Douglas wharf, obe of them, by a because the Royal Hongkong was by such special pleading as that of the kitty. So far that is tan month were C. B. $10,270.397; the ponies were being larded at the
ing that the initial contribution to Specie in reserve as usual.
members jainst it later on, when China shareholders.
¡it právided its own sin, the Royelj
state.
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They tell me that - the-
STORY OF A
P.W.P.
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TRICHTES
One
will stay.
The total output of the Kailan Ming Administration's mines for the week ending September, 25, 1920, amounted to 73,277 tons, and the sale during the period, to 68,377 tons.
It is reported that the Russian
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2 Bay G. Maton. 3.--Black- 4.---Black
R. J. Paterson. -Adams,
5.-Grey...Lady Cater. .6-White............... Towers/
7-Chestnut......L. N. Leefe. 8-Chestnut...J. Johrstone, 9.-B. Dr. Jordan. 10-Grey F. H. Holyoak. 11-Chestout - Seth.
23. -Chestnut......Wobble.
false step when walking down the I notice an culvertise Key was only five cents. were in-
plank, slipped and fell into the water we yet hating one. Buy the war! CHEM
rent that says rited tamprad for higher stakes.
The Canton Government Hospit-between the ship and the wharf, and. seems to have par an und te vach-
That The ion of the game is that any al will probably not admit any more was drowned. The others were safely Edmation
take * trick ing long rough an nak !
ent wants tempor-player failing to
patients, as the government has no landed and conveyed to the Jockey 1.3.4. Mail inte if poverty stricken ay, teach ys. man and we must replace the whole amount funds for the expenses of the hospital. Club Stables at Causeway Bay, where,
Five players start Its big crowd of proliga) Firaly, this firm the China the Kitty.
in the evening, they were drawn for abitues dwindled and diappear-Mails announcement that we with o Kitty of 25 cents.
Capt H. B. Rose, M.C, Capt. with the following results:--- ed. Wint great time we used to short of rechers Secondly, if it takes two tricks and another takes H, W. C. Lloyd, D.S.O., and Lieut.
Colur.
Drawn by. 1Bay..... A. R. Lowe. hub b fore the present club luäse neans that the fovernment three. That means that the other W. B. Vincent. have been posted to was put up. Widely scatter now made up its mind to get, and three players contribute 25 cents the 2nd Batt, of the Wiltshire Regt. are the Pirate and his roaring a sa convinced of the need that it ach, a total of 75 cents, for which in Hongkong. crew of turtlers. By the way, if proposes" to "use temporary stop-
all are eligible to play. This time the Government takes over the club gaps while doing its utmost to get man takes all the five tricks. house as an office for the clerk offâ perpanent staff enough for the h of the remaining four must that the reclamation" works. I shall want schools. Iraust cry. Well done. in 75 cents each. notes suggled into the Cur ad that turtle head back. It has a But if there is any danger of the Kitty now contains $3. And so
tion. And the best of it all is that story, several stories in fact, and Government being content to rows. The man next the dealer I've done nothing wrong. 1 all of them true... It is a sort of to carry on, and save money, by ay not hold a single trump. In- solutely nothing. I may have hit heirloom, and another asylum mist employing married ladies who can tead of declaring that him hard than meant to, but he found for it. Lest any dishonest afford to work for pin money, out, which he could do, he hopes Post Offices in China will shortly be 12-White........J. Bell Irving. that's not enough to warrant a person should think of purloining must sound the note of warning that the extra hand may be good closed, owing to the Chinese Govern 13-Chestnut C. L. Roza. share of murder. It seems that it. I may mention that he had bez-Don't The Thing Mail will be enough to win him a trick. and ment's decision not to handle letters 14 Chestnut Sir Paul Chater. Roderick Randour has been dead ter not. It is a hoodies. Se after you.
chances it... Very often it doesn't, posted in China with Russian stamps. 15-Grey Dr. Forsyth. That's all at present
16-Grey .....Towers. for about three weeks now, and think it is responsible for the de- about that.
end he puts in another $3. It is an exciting little gamble, requiring shartly issue a loan of Yen 80.000,- 13.-Chestant......Lay.
The Japanese Government will 17.—Bay.............................]. Bell-Irving. fun the police are blaming me for, cline and fall of the C.Y.(".
See that Renter is no brain work, and is likely to 000. The loan bears five per cent 19-Dun P. C. Potts. Professional
WHAT'S sige yesterday about catch on. Its name is "Thrunsinterest. mien
The subscription list will | 20—Skewbald J. M. Almada. THIS? are entitled to high.
the Germans stopping but after you have played it once be opened on October 8 and close on 21-Bay Hall and Shaw. P.W.D. took notice od
SKIPPER fees for knowing i
a Daich steamer in the you probably have your own pet October 11. that China Mzil (foot-||-
how. No one dis- Kiel canal? The first part said the name for it. Let us know how Fou
22-Cream...P. A. Cox. note about the open trench in putes the right of a Lighly qualified stemmer carried two American aero-get- Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs: Wil- Wongrichong Hond and that man to big pay. That is why Jur-planes, equipped with machine-
The approaching wedding is an-24-Chestnut...E. Des Vœux. liam A. Dow, a daughter.
pounced of Mr Temple Percy Males- 25.--Grey J. Johnstone. them have been no further con dine taipans get so much money. guns meant for the Poles The
Spiteful people, those re
Chestnut-Saints. MARTIN. On October 2. 1920, ar plaints from residents. Mercy by Responsibility has to be compen second said the cargo was American spectable journalists. In Worth Bevan, assistant in the APC, 26
to Miss Amy Florence Briscoe, of 27-Dua. Nemazte Shanghai, to Capt. and Mrs. Ha eng, as Tomuy said in France. suted. Every reporter unless he canned beef with two British aero SLOK his leader this moming Longstows Hall, Cambridgeshire, 28-Black Noronha,"
The milk-rate war seems is a slacker) does more actual workplaned. The third part said the
Tum Petrie says it is have reached the than any editor: but he has very Conference of Aubassadors had re-doubtful whether men of genius route to Hongkong. by the ss. 29-Chestnut......Sir Ellis Kadoorie.
**Devanha." artistic stage, and the little responsibility, and the editor ninded Germany that navigationhake happy companions or not. I pener "terus are fifteen, has so much that he takes his job through the Kiel canal is now free. leave it to my usual companions to A number of cabaret dances are per bottle, dictated by the victors with him wherever he goes. eyen We ought to be told definitely who say whether I make them happy or to be given at the Repulse Bay Hotel, in one of the irreconcilable on to bed. where it often murders is sending war, material to the not. When I'm dush enough to at which Mme. S. Belikovitch, a to Berlin bunch, and I still want sleep. That is why editors get Poles. That is more important stand my whack, they seen happy ballerina of the Warsaw Opera House to know what were those special such enormous salaries, compared than the German action. If they enough. October
conressions of farm land tenure with what we smaller fry get. were British acroplanes,
The Have you ever thought of the re-machine guns, we should know that the D.. talked about.
uiry Farm people say there were sponsibility of a shipmaster? He who sent them, and why they were
lise that even a League It is reported that the same Government officials say is responsible for a costly ship, for sent. Is Winston still at his un-i
Only the D.P. valumable cargo, and for human derhanded games? If he is, tichting, which is more or less a has made the arrangements for the there were wone.
Nations cannot control land scholastic association in China that remains un, neither withdrawing lives. Read Conrad; it will help time he was broken. This contra- the allegation nor confirming it. you to a juster judgment in the predictory message had a companion ways taking place in some part of engagement of the Hon. Bertrand
the world." Once, long if the one about the Sirn, Fein cal that, before the L... has been yesterday en route to Shangha, is yesterday
How do we realize Russell who arrived in Hongkong Chinese youth, aged 15 years, was I've got no partisent shipping crisis," A enlar reason to love ago, there was a marine enquiry tura of a police barracks. One part given a trial? At present. it is only now asking Dr. Eucken to visit China lying ín Des Vœux Road
shipmasters
and about arship that was put ashore. said they took the 15 police com-
an advisory committee whose ad- for a similar purpose. In view of near The verdict was postponed for six pletely by surprise, and compelled vice is ignored, and things are his advanced age (85 years) it is con- The lad who was stunned and ideek Grannis generally.
bob with the first-class seen weeks. The skipper was penaliz-them to Surrender without firing being based by the casus of Pre sidered doubtful whether the German apparently suffering from internal The China Wail.
tgers, and never came to visit tu infor an error of judgment. single shot. The other bit, said
The L.0. X. needs the scholar will meet the Chinese over- injuries, was unable to speak. It was. ith storage when I travel on their" Gentlemen," he said. You are they fought for four hours. As you power to be tonferred upon it bytures. If he accepts the invitation learned from people in the vicinity TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE?ships. Consequently, whether they experts, and I must accept your are liable to get further variations,
get more or less money isn't guidecision. But I should like to call it is well reflect how little use throwing in the strength of its enn his visit to China will be early next HONGKONG, HATERDAY, or, 9, 1956 79 worry me the least bit. My in our attention to just one point.it is to buse conclusions on such tent members, before it can be year.
terest in that meeting, apart from?
as experts, have had six loose reporting. You can never be judged by results. whether I could persuade one of our weeks in which to arrive at your sure of your facts nowadays. trasting brukers.o sell ran a thon decision as to what I ought to have
done. I had to make up my mint, isand Indo-Chinas forward and on
the mod, was in its extraordinary siz seconds.
M. J. Martin, a son.
DOVEY:—On October 3, 1920, al
Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. G.
S. Dovey, a son,
MARRIAGES.
JONES TOD.--Un
1920, at Shanghai, Mary Wini-" fred eider daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ted of Shangfal, 10 J.
Frank Jones, S.M.C. Electri. city Department. ANDERSEN - MASCARELLO.
On October 2, 1929. at Shang- hai, John Andersen, to Acais! Virginie Louise Mascarelle,
ADVERSARJA.
HAIRY
Fan
none.
!
CHEERIO
One way and analer and utterly belated character as a the week has been full aid on Trades Unionism. The
of encouragement for bird who did the China Mail dj-
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I wonder how much anionth that brave man drew.
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POLICE REPORTS.
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CRIME AND ACCIDENTS.
SUPPOSED SUICIDE.
Fall from Moving Tram.—-A".
found by the police
the Taiping Theatre.
that he had fallen from a moving tram
car while attempting to slight. He was immediately removed to the Government Civil Hospital where, be now lies in a semi-conscious condition. He is expected to recover.
A case that may disclose Belshe vik operations in Shanghai, according to the Police, was heard by the Italian Assessor and Magistrate Li at the
Small Fire Promptly Checked-A Mized Court when Quang Yong Zien small fire broke out in the Wo Tai photographer, was placed in the dock Pawnshop. No. 151, Femo Street, The out- on the charge of storing a large Samshtipo, yesterday.
discovered amount of high explosives in his break
of the inmates
A meeting of the Sanitary shop in the foreign settlement. Acone
K2S
by
of
Also we were tuld. THE FASTING that the doctors
A clean bill of health was re- MAYOU
aft "confounded" by the mystery of turned for the Colony yesterday... the hunger-striking Cork mayor. You people ought to First we were told that his my China ait colleagues, and of torials un . though longwinded | AND THE LOOK a bit about ships friends were course for myself, who drop in on and g
smuggling fond of long-nebled
and ship folk. them occasionally ginger theng; words, hit - nail more or less op
Most tabloids to him, and the laugh Board will be held on Tuesday after used pleaded not guilty, and was the house before the flames had time released on $100, shop security to spread, and be at once gave the ol you spend long went round. The Morning Post, noon- fup. I hear of things done, as are the mapper. I think. The real issue
pending a further investigation by alarm. The police turned out with spells at sea, as pas- which is not the best judge of such sult of notes in The Paper That is no longer pay and conditions of seripers. Have you ever realized things, says flatly that he is a hura-
the Police and a chemical analysis of small engines, and subdued the flames Gets Things Done.
-Over 17 inches of rain fell at the explosives.
without mach difficulty. No damage I bar of a work, but the exclusive right of the the work and responsibilities of bug. But the Home Office "ex- the Botanical Gardens during 16 days
was caused.. continued growth of circulation. Gojida ta monopolise all such negarine engineers, and thought of plicitly states" that it does
Propaganda has been inaugurat- Woman's Death-The remains and of the Boss going round beam- tiations between members and em- the ludicrous pay they get in view not believe the smuggled food of last month. The mess tempered in Japan with the object of na- of a Chinese woman, aged 28 years, ing and promising bonuses and plovers. Unless they fight on that. of that? When submarines and story, There is no reason to Bus. ture was 812 deg., and the humidity rionalising the country's mercantile employed at No. 81 Hollywood things. so that even the youngest and get an admission that such floating mines were at work, how pect that he is receiving food from 81 p. c. rel. There were over 208 marine. The Director of the Mer-oad, who was found hanging from Teporter thinks of getting a wife private meetings of bosses and would you have liked to stand relatives." A son of the Church hours of sunshine. a motor-bicycle, be is not quite et, without the presence of aby," like ns in a trap, unable to would be justified in calling it a isure which Let the good work go' Guild representative, are ultra see the danger, but conscious of it miracle, and in concluding that
cantile Marine who is opposed to a piece of rope on the staircase of nationalisation, is, however urging the house, were yesterday removed
can, I tell 'em. Be alert. Be liver; whatsaname and indefensible, they all the time, and bound to carry on God is sustaining him as by the of much social interest, took place/panies with a view to strengthening | is thought to be one of suicide.
A very pretty wedding, and one the amalgamation of shipping co to the public mortuary. The case ty. Be square; and if you don't may as well shut up shop. With down there? Danger does not ravens of Eliah. But as for me,
the position of the country in "the Unknown Thief-A Chinese come a cropper you are sure to sue out unity "the employees are help cease when war does, for marine & have now definitely made up my at the Union Church, Shanghai, on carrying trade. It is reported that a wordan living at No. 20. Henghon ceed. They are a promising bunch lees, and without organization engineers. Its a bot and unhealthy mind that there is not and never October 2; the contracting parties scheme is under consideration where Street, West Point, reports to the of lads, and I sometimes wish I unity is unlikely The Guild is the job. The cost of living bits them was such a person as MacSweeney, being Miss Mary Winifred Tod, the by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha shali Police that during her absences from had more time to spend with them. organization for unity. That pri- just as it hits you and me. Have The whole thing is a hoax, got up elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ken Keisha and the Kokusai Kisen person stole from a box under her. take over the interests of the Toyo The house yesterday, an unknown Lately, however, I've been so busy, vate meeting at Jardine's was you the heart to blame them for by Winston Churchill, Lenin, Reu-Tod, and Mr. J. Frank Jones, of the Kaisha and then to absorb the Caka bed. 16 pieces of clothing and $3 in dodging the interfering police that clear attempt to practise the policy asking for better rewards, from ter, Carson, Trotski, and the Sinn
sras all I could do to get these of ditide et impera, which my wealthy companies that can well Fein leaders. If he doesn't exist, S. M. C. Electricity Department.
money, valued together at $15L
Shosen Kaisha.