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so lose its identity, or ratrest to its rural fastness of quiet and of ease. Ehea! the roar of it, the
Three cases of smallpox, (two confused, the rhythmless, the be- narabing noise of it. What can its fatal), four cases of cerebrospinal meaning be? What its spirit, fever (one fatal), two cases of enteric esoteric character, its ultimate cate-fever (both fatal), and one case of gory and definition? Is it possible diphtheria, all Chinese, were reported that there isn't any-that all these yesterday. separate naises, making one hig
As the result of being knocked noise, are in the ultimate analysis down by motor car No. 212 in Tialak merely noise? Thus the yearning Lane, Wanchai, yesterday afternoon, inquisitive of the amazed interest,a 10-year old Indian boy named that would linger and probe and Mohamed Hussias, received injuries understand, if so it may but to it to his face which necessitated his comes the shock of P.C. Neces removal to the Government Civil sity's Pass along, please." and it
Hospital too passes. The traffic of the world is endless and clamant and too strong for it, and the mystery groped for
Evanishing escapeth, and that
man
Forgets the life and struggle of
the soul,
Fall from his hope, and dreams
it was a dream.
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
While travelling by boat above. Chungking, two members of the Friends' Mission were twice stopped by brigands with rifles and knives and were robbed of their money- fortunately less than $20, Travell- ing is no joke In Szechuän,” adds the informant of the N.C.D. Ness.
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PROFITEERING TENÄNTS.
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
SHANGHAI, Mar, 17. At the meeting of the Shanghai Land Investment Company the chair man dwelt on the acute house short age, declaring that the tenants them- selves were the greatest profiteers and citing glaring cases.
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General
MURDERED.
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THURSDAY,
ALLEGED FORGERY.
KOWLOON STÖREKEEPER «CEZARO D.
INTERESTING EVIDENCE.
MARCH 17, 1921.
THE NANCY MOLLER” -IN PORT.
CREW GET PROPER WAQFS
The Nancy Moller" has silved, and examination of her articles shows At the Magistracy yesterday after that her crew are signed on at noon, Magistrate Lindsell continued | arbitration rates. This, in view of the hearing of the case in which recent comments, indicating that this Sham Lal-sang, managing partner of company were engaged in an attempt the Kowloog Stores, Nathan Road, to lower wages, is a pleasant surprise. is charged with forgery and false pre- tences.
"
Mr. D. H. Blake appeared for the SWEDISH CROWN PRINCE. complainant, Mr. Jan Hendrik van Gennep Luhrs (managing director of the Holland Pacific Trading. Co.): Mr. A. H. Crew conducted the de- fence.
The prosecution alleges that the defendant cut down a contract form, which had been signed but only
RESCUT OF A SAILOR.
KINDNESS TO BRITISH SEASIAN.
RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
The Swedish Crown Prince, taking partially filled, for the purpose of a stroll through the harbour, noticed [China Mail SPECIAL-] forging a document purporting be ja man in the water who was evidently a receipt entitling the defendant to in danger of drowning. The Princa It is announced by Miss Mary
SHANGHAI, March 17. collect from the complainant the sum at once hastened to the rescue, and Garden, now executive director of
with the help of his aide-de-camp Wang-ring-we.
cam of $5,000
The defence urges that the does succeeded in bringing him safely the Chicago Opera, that her business mander-in-chief of the Kweichow
The rescued man, wbo manager has decided to "remove the army, was assassinated on Wednesday ment is genuine, and is a receipt for ashore. dress suit fetish and popularise opera night at the Yi-ping-siang Hotel deposit of $5,000, made by turned out to be an English sallor defendant.. ZS security from a vessel in the port, was taken Mr G. M. Bosworth, chairman with men." She adds that henceforth The body was riddied with bullets.the of the C.P.OS, accompanied by Mrs. men will be just as welcome wear-Political motives are attributed to the for the delivery of goods he into a neighbouring cafe by the Prince, had undertaken to sell for the coin- | who treated him to hot coffee, and Bosworth, left by the "Korea Maru." ing workmen's overalls as the boiled murderer, who escaped.
plainant's form.
afterwards went in person to 'thë - shirts of fashion.”.
Practically the whole of the after police station to order dry clothes to noon was occupied in the completion be sent to him. Rester. of the cross-examination of Mr. Luhrs by Mr. Crew,
The attention of past pupils of Queen's College is directed to an advertisement appearing elsewhere in this issue.
The Lord Bishop of Victoria will hold a Confirmation Service at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, on Sunday rext at 6 pm.
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A Chinese was yesterday re moved to the Government Civil Hospital suffering from stab wounds in his hands, alleged to have been received while attempting to stop a fight between two other men." The fighters have been arrested, and are being detained by the police. The wounded man's injuries are not
A memorial tablet to the mem-serious. bers of the Hongkong Cricket Club who fell in the War is to be unveiled by HE the Governor in the Pavilion, on Tuesday, March 22 at 5.45 p.m.
A Shanghai lady who has always had a liking for imported Butterscotch and has been a regular customer for the same at a western The damage caused by the district compradere's shop found recent fire on the "Korea-maru" recently a considerable advance in Hongkong barbour, was placed in a the price of the delicacy. Remons telegram to the head office of the trance with the shopkeeper only Toyo Kisen Kaisha at approximately brought forth the explanation: 30,000 yen.
"Well, you see Mississee, butter have got more dear,"
A SHANGHAI PRACTICE.
A
JUDGE'S CRITICISM. -
[China Mail SPECIAL.]
SHANGHAL, March 17. Delivering judgment in a land litigation case, Jadge Skinner Turner dwelt on the Shanghai practice of registering Chinese owned land in the name of foreigners at local con- sulates and said it was a practice that had invited criticism in past years and created an anomalous position.
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NORTH CHINA FAMINE.
A SHANGHAI " DRIVE".
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In the course of his examination. the witness denied that the defendant | had any dealings with the Holland- Pacific Trading Co. in a personal capacity apart from the Kowloon Stores. The reason items in accounts rendered were differentiated was that some of the items represented sales
TRAVEL TO FAR EAST.
WESTWARD ROUTE.
AN INTERESTING TRIP,
Many of our readers have not yet
Ever
consignment, and others ssies outright. The witness denied that he realised how interesting and educa had asked the defendant for a deposit tional it is to travel to the Far East before letting him have goods for by the way of San Francisco and Macao. He also denied that on the Honolulu to Japan, China and defendant producing the notes, heMania, says the Journal of Commerce. had the receipt in question typed in In the commencement the passen- his office, saying that there was no ger has the pleasure of travelling to typewriter in his office which made a United States or Canadian port by the types on the document Ee some of the finest steamers the suggested that the receipt was cut world has
produced, and down from one of the blank con- after arriving has the delight tract forms which he had handed to ful
while passing the defendant. He admitted that through the American continent. handing of the blank forms to the Seven days after sailing from San defendant was carelessness on his Francisco the passenger has a day's part, but he held that that was what visit at the wonderful Hawaiian had happened. The question of price Island of Honolulu, again continuing and time of delivery of goods, said his journey by steamer to Yokohams, witness, was left open in the farms. | arriving ‘about 13 days later, where Answering another question, the again the passenger can visit the witness said that an agent could town and leave from Kobe two days easily get a customer without parti- later for Shanghai, going from there "AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.lars as to price and time of delivery to either Hongkong or Manila.
One death and the destruction of eight shops resulted from a great Chinese and Japanese business
SHANGHAL, March 17. confiagration in Honam yesterday | interests in Manila are protesting in
The famine drive" is making morning which started from a rice a petition to Washington and asking shop near a canal and spread to the the repeal of the law which stipulates headway with an intensive effort to surrounding buildings. Many per- that business firms in the Philippines secure overseas assistance. Sufferers sons were injured during the fire. must keep the recorde of their affairs are looking eagerly for help from either in English, Spanish or in one Shanghai to enable them to tide over of the native dialects. The law was the text harvest. passed by the legislature at the last session and signed by the Governor General
scenery
being entered in the forms, as by the Forthermore, it is possible to travel
The only nomination of a Justice of the Peace as a temporary sub stitute for Mr. T, A. Hough to serve on the Licensing Board, submitted to Mr Orte, the returning officer at the Magistracy, was that of Mr C, G. One of the worst motor car ac Alabaster, who was proposed by Mr.cidents which has taken place in LATEST OFFICIAL RETURKA, business done by the French firms the same manner to Colombo and A. R. Lowe and seconded by Mr Singapore occurred the other evening. Andrew Forbes. Nominations closed | While a Chinese woman was in the at 4 p.m. yesterday. Mr Hough has act of entering a motor bus at the lef the Colony and Mr Alabaster will third mile Gaylang Road another therefore succeed him.
bus dashed into it, killing the wo man between the two buses, one of which had to be taken practically to pieces before the buses could have been separated. Both the driver and condactor of one bus fed.
It is understood that an agree ment has been entered into between the Hongkong Land Investment Com- pany and Wiseman's Ltd. for the purchase by the latter of the property
is
· RUINED MILLIONAIRE'S CLUB.
The
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Other features of the Pacific Mall services are their several other runtes On Mr. Crew suggesting that the such as to the Central and South. witness was taking a risk in handing American Republics-Mexico, Guate the forms to a penniless, man, the mala, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and
and from San Francisco. witness said that the Kowloon Stores Chile. from Baltimore, via Panama were certainly not penniless.
What motive can you suggest for: this extraordinarily gross blackmail.
Barity.
between transactions with the: com- Witness: How he did it, I can't
and most American firms bere, (on Calcutta....... the commission basis) the Importer:
Messrs. J. Jackson and Sons, of 7 produced to the customer the original and 8. Charing-cross, who have re invoices and a debit-note for commisceatly been appoined offical passenger agents for the British Isles for the According to oficial returns, there sion.
Pacific Mall Steamship Company, are was one income in America in 1918
Mr Crew: Defendant could bave always willing to give intending of upwards of a million pounds, an had you for millions by that system? passengers the fullest information other of nearly a million pounds,He has tried to have me for $5,000 regarding fares, and salgs, which four between £600,000 and £900,000 any way. We were dealing with a are at regular intervals. sixteen between £300,000 and
man whom we trusted. He was in £400,000, and thirty-three incomes the office every day. at 14 Des Voeux Road. Central, in A thousand tons of of-drilling between £200,000 to £300,000.
with Simultaneously
the 20+ which they and many others at machinery and supplies were landed
of big incomes present carry on business," It is on the Bondoo prainsula in the Phi-nouncement
Chicago philan- stated that the Company was in-lippines late in January, by a sub we hear of a fiuenced in the purchase as the big sidiary company of the Standard Oil thropist founding a million vires club demand for shop property, which has Co. and it is expected that drilling in the Windy City for the benefit of incidentally advanced the value of operations will begin shortly. The his kind who have lost their fortunes. the building in question, threatened to big shipment of supplies was taken Membership is free, and there is leave the cafe without suitable pre-ashore without docking facilities, and every comfort, including bed-rooms, in attempting to obtain this $5,000?
It is an extremely barefaced attempt Witness:. We zoticed that peco- mises at the expiry of its lease. a special road is being constructed to with bath, and restaurant
at blackmail-It certainly is. for intending with what he wishes, the perspecs-
transfer the machinery to a point chief stipulation
Can you suggest any motive?--To Mr. Crew: This is the most tive determined by the point of A very attractive programme three and one-half miles inland, beneficiaries is that their wealth must
wonderful forgery that bas ever been Hard in the getting. I should produced. The British army officers has been arranged by Mrs. Harry where the petroleum deposits have have been honestly acquired and not set some hard cash, I suppose.
lost by “dissipation.” In outlining view.
The Magistrate: If the sheet had who, according to a telegram yes. Woods for the cabaret dance to be been located.
his plan, the founder says: "There say," was Mr. Crew's comment. He terday, object to any reduction of given in the City Hall to-night in aid
March 1, was celebrated by plenty of provision for the industrial produced a book, kept by the de- been cut with a knife, how do you the cavalry arm, claiming that" ite of Earl Haig's Fund for Ex-Service importance was demonstrated in men, The proceedings, which pro Koreans in Hankow in memory of poor, but the world takes small count fendant, which he said, differentiated account for the gum? the Great War the nest American mise to be unusally enjoyable, will the third year of the declaration, of of the rich who, through no fault of plainant on behalf of the Kowloon say I'did not see him doing it.
Stores and on defendant's own be President. declaiming gracious be enlivened by some pretty songs independence. Motor cars, decorate their own, become impoverished."
The Magistrate: You suggest the half. Mr. Crew asked the complainant gum is all part of the forgery?---Yes. words and formulating nuble pali- by the Misses Woods. Dancing is to ed with Korean and Chinese flags,
where goods to the amount of $2,000, Mr. Blake intimated that the cam- cies the miitual compliments of begin at 9.15 and dance programmes toured through the concessions- some reason the
shown in this book, 'were derived | plainant's printer would give evidence, the British and French premiers-will be sold before that hour for any avoiding for
from
but he would rather postpone calling HARDY-MCCARTHY On Febru- the protests of the German states- sam from 10 cents. Paul Rubens' Japanese Concession-end pamphlets
him until he had an opportunity of ary 2, 1921. at London, Chas. menthe Navy League the ex-great song "England" will be sung, were scattered to the natives. The the audience being requested to join | agitators were welcomed by
discussing with him this question of H. Hardy of the Chinese Cuscuses of the profiteers and the ac-
the gumi, toms Service to Emily Louise.cusations of the proletariat- the the chorus, the words of which thousands of people in the Hon. Ti youngest daughter of the late noisy newspaper and the silent are printed on the back of the pro- Maloo, according to the report, and Late. trams and ferry the clapping of hands in applause Mr. and Mrs. McCarthy of Co. bureaucrat all these and more have been arranged,
was just like the roll of thunder- Cork and London."
mingle in a kaleidoscope and med-
This is from a Chinese press report lev ånd ensemble which must pro-
An elderly Chinese was this vide any sense of the world's traffic
morning charged before Magistrate Lindsell with the unlawful possession OPIUM IN FLOWER FOTS. Ernest Lyon de Rhodes, late of the Crew (to who is able report that Paris of"an unlicensed revolver and 12 differs from Sydney, and, to state rounds of ammunition. The defend. Convincingly the nature of the dif- ant said that he only recently arrived ferences, analyse the porridge of in the Colony by the s.s. "Waping" Quman activities he thus tastes, from Sydney, where he had lived a and come at a fair-notion of the good number of years as a law- | salients that should represent the abiding citizen, and was not aware difference between the world that that a licence was necessary here. is and the world that ought to be? The Magistrate imposed a fine of It is plain that some think they $50, remarking that notices were The right way to see a strange can. The publicist, the journalist, posted both in English and Chinese city and to know it is not to visit the doctrinaire, each from his own on all the steamers and wharves traffic. There will its spirit and pretends to tell us exactly what is confiscated. its character be revealed.
MARRIAGE.
The China Mail.
SERVICE"
Hongkong, ThursdaY, MARCH 17, 1981.
**TRUTH, JUSTIČE, ` PURLIO
"WATCHING THE TRAFFIC.
we can achieve. Can the traveller.
gramrnes.
A BIG HAUL...
CLEVER DECEPTION DETECTED.
LOCAL WEDDING.
DE RHODES CLARK.
PRETTY CATHEDRAL CEREMONY,
St. John's Cathedral was the scene of a very pretty wedding this morning when the Rev. H. Copley Moyle officiated at the marriage of Mr.
Mr Blake! That is what we want to know..
The Magistrate: This is the first time this particular sum has been mentioned.
Mr Crew: I quite agree. Mr Blake: We can find out by checking the defendant's book with
Mr. Crew: And I had much rather he were called now, without any discussion.
The witness, who is connected with the Wing Fat Printing Co., Ltd., of |149, Wing Lok Street, said his firm.
Mr Crew (to the witness): Do you printed the contract forms for the Royal Artillery, second son of Mr. S. M. de Rhodes, of the Inner Tem- think this was a clever attempt to complainant; they had never printed- ple. London, barrister-at-law, and get money on the part of the defen-for him sheets of the size of the
receipt form. Mrs. Rhodes of 61, Harcourt Terrace dant?
Witness: I think it was very There are defects in the type on the Mr. Blake (to the Mzgistrate): S.W.. to Miss Hilda Frances Clark, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. cunning indeed.
Where do you think he ought to two sheets that are identical. Shall Alexander Clark, of Woking, Surrey be in the dock, or in the fanatic examice him as to those? Acting on information received,
The bride, who was given away by asylum?-It is a matter to be decided
The Magistrate: As you wish, revenue officers last night raided the Mr. W. H. Bell, was attended by by the Court, not by me,
Mr. Blake. second floor of No. 30, Hauwah Miss Edkins as bridesmaid, Masters. Does it seem to you clever to bring It was elicited that the "A" in the Street, West Point. After a lous john and Cyril Bell as pages, and to you a receipt which you would word "Trading," and other letters, search, they discovered 1,295 taels of Mrs. W! H. Belt, who wore sax bhut know to be a forgery? It is an showed "white" at corners in exactly. the same places on the contract pots enclosed in bamboo mesh carried a pretty bouquet of pink roses. certainly. baskets ready for export to Manila. The bridegroom had for best man
Mr Crew: Isuggest "foolishness." that when the receipt form aight way to see the world should observe that they fou are in the The third concert organised by The drug was concealed at the bot be the same, but, we do not get procession, that they are merely the enterprising St. Andrew'ä Church tom of the pots and nearly covered Major H. L. Harding, R.A.M.C..as there are criminal laws in this placed one above the other, with the
Colony. 1 the same chance. We are forced individual additions to the sum of Men's Association took place last with black earth in which plants to look at its trafic through the the noises of it. We stand, like might. A thoroughly enjoyable pro were placed to complete the decep dirty windows of journalism. Its visitors from the country, hesitant gramme was rendered by Mrs. G. W. tion. A man found in the house was street cries coine to us, not upon the kerb. and wonder what Salter, Mr. H. A. Jones, Miss arrested and this morning formally immediately like the sincere and it all means. We assume that Crickett and Mr. W. R. Crowe, whose charged before Magistrate Ore. He
utterances of men must mean something. We.. ad- vocal entributions
loudly was remanded until Monday."
its show places but to watch the corner surveying the hurlyburly, The revolver.. and ammunition were opium cleverly hidden in ten-flower silk poplin with black picture hat and extraordinary case of impucence form and on the receipt form; also
unconscious
The what, and why. We.. however,
were
D.S.O.
were
and the contract form
right hand bottom corner of each The bride looked charming in ivory The Magistrate: It is rather ask sheet in juxtaposition, the printed:
%% words were exactly super-imposed. satin with train trimmed, with orangeing for trouble, any way.
Mr Crew: A desperate attempt to The witness expressed the view that blossom and white embroidered veil trimmed with orange, blossom and get $5,000 out of someone who would the upper edge of the receipt form had white heather. She carried a beauti-immediately recognise the document been cut with a pen-knife, bút he fulsheal of madonna lilies. The as a forgery. (To the withe): could not account for the presence going about their real business, but mire the stalwart on point duty, applauded. Professor Gonzales de
bridesmaid wore a pretty dress of put it to you that in January and of particles of gum along the upper in the form of proclamations by and tell ourselves that this sema-lighted the audience with some
yellow orgundy with yellow tulle hat February the defendant applied to edge. His firm had never printed men posing consciously in the lime-phoring sphinx must surely know excellent violin solos and Mr. Cyril
and carried a bouquet of yellow roses. you for the return of the $5.000 de tear-off pads of this ize for com light, often concerned less with the essence. Our timid and tenta. Alan repeated some of his imperson
The two pages wore white silk jersey posit??
plainant's firm. He expressed the truth than with the effects they tive enquiries, however, help us to ations of famous comedians. Some
suits.
Witness: It is a le mile the other. This makes discover that he too is part of it, excellent comedy duos were submitt- Aan Chamberlain Cough Remo
opinion that the quality of paper of After the ceremony a reception wAS In further, cross-examination, Mr the two forms in question was harder what was, bard already, and that instead of being informed by, that popular couple, Lena apddy. It relieves the Inves, opens the owing to the subjective colouring tive, he also is a noise maker, with Tedo." The success of the concert secretions, aids expectoration and saists held in the Hongkong Hotel at which Crew directed the witness attention identical.apt
along, reflects great credit on Captain Ogg, Nature in returing the system to a the happy couple, who spend their to particles of gum adhering to the At this stage the hearing was which every man's-eyes must give his stentorian. "Pass
healthy condition.. "Besides, it contains to any scene. For ever and for please. The roar of traffic, how who arranged it, and the artists who no opiates and is perfectly safe to take boneymoon at Repulse Bay and Can upper edge of the receipt form, and adjourned for a week, the Magis ever, it would seem, whatsoever it hates the shrinking sort that took part. An open air concert it For sale by all Chemists and Store-tou, received the engratulations and suggested that the sheet had been trate having no free day in the
keepers,
interval. good wishes of their many friends, torn out of w pud." han shall see must be coloured may be drawn into the vortex, and being arranged for June.
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