MONDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1922
SEAMEN'S STRIKE.
NOTHING FRESH.
BUT DISCUSSIONS GOING ON.
BARRIE PLAY FILMED.
CORONET THEATRE'S RARE
TREAT.
Possibly no contemporary play wright posseses to the same amazing degree that power of sympathetic insight into the soul of things, of reaching to depths hidden from ordinary vision, as Sir James Barrie, whose Admirable Crichton" comes to the Coronet Theatre this evening in film form as "Male and Female," picture as exulted as the drams for vivid
FAMILIES' ARREST.
BOY AND GIRL WHO MAY END 6-YEARS FEUD.
As the only way to end a vendetta which in the last six years has been a constant cause of murders, the Naples police have arrested two tamilica numbering 40 persons,
THE CHINA MAIL.
CONVICT ESCAPES.
SLIDE DOWN 70 FEET 'PHONE WIRE.
A young convict named Borate ban escaped from Sing-Sing Prison by Bawing through the bars of his call and sliding down 70 fest of telephone wire from the roof, by which no one
In 1915 a de Lucia boxed the ears of a Florillo. The latter family dead escaped for 40 years. cided that the insult must be washed out is blood, and since then the de Lucias and the Florilios have shot and stabbed each other at sight.
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"TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
RACE HOLIDAYS.
HE EXCHANGE BANKS will open Business at 9:30 am on MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 20th, 21st and 22nd February, and else at 12 com.
for the transaction of Publio
Hongkong, February 11, 1922.
It was hoped that the week-end would produce some definite move towards a settlement of the seamen's strike buc Do change has taken place in the situation yat. Four representatives of the Beamen are down here from Canton and they have been discussing the position with the Tung Wah hospital authorities, who were responsible for touch in a word-blend to make sis stated that sa they are proving warders came on a roof, where theyOUND in OTTY HALL on 10th Feb.
inviting them. Up to midday the shipowners' had not been advised of any move but were expecting to hear that a conference of some sort had been arranged.
human interest. Frignant humanity, delicate wistfulness, and delightful humour--the famous Barrie
The only members of the two families who remain at liberty are two small children, a boy and a girl. It
play that shines with genius, the affectionate playmates the police hope genius of a man, a wizard, whose that a romantic solution of the feud wondrous appeal lies in the extreme may ultimately be found. gentleness with which he makes as [feel, in an
age overwhelmed by economics, that life is beautiful and
the universe is wonderful.
Like
A meeting is to be held at the Tang Wah hospital this afternoon and it seems reasonable to hope that a Dickens Barrie finds his way to the resumption of negetations may be heart of the people without effort. the outcome of it. The secretary for The producers of Male and Female" Chinese Affairs (the Hon. Mr E. have risen nobly to the occasion. Halifax), when interviewed this afternoon seemed to think that a definite stop in advance had been
made.
Meanwhile there are plenty of cargo coolies offering and work is going ahead on ships that have recently arrived in the harbour. To day there were 169 ships in port, representing a tonnage of 266,779.
INTIMIDATION CHARGE.
UNION MAN ▲ "PEACEFUL PICKET."
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Taking a great play, they have made a great moturo. Acting, setting, photography-each is superb. Appro- priate music by the capable Coronet Orchestra adde artistio finish to a
picture that is a triumph of the
screen.
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The Seamen's Union man who was remanded on Saturday, by MagistrateLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS Lindsell was before the Court again will be held at the Registered "ffice this
of the Company, No. 10, Des Voeur morning
the charge
Road Contal, at 3.30 p.m. BATUR. of intimidating
Chinese %
DAY, March the 4b 1923, for the detective from
board
игрова of receiving the Report of the Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31et Deerber, 1921.
Ko g
on
a steamer in the barbour, and, in the alternative, using language calculated to cause a breach of the peace.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
KAN TUNG PO,
Chief Manager.
& ngkong, February 13, 1922.
The Magistrate said that be WAS
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the satisfied the defendant's not did not | Company will be CLOSED from bring him within the law of intimida- ] MONDAY, 20th February, to SATUR tion, and he would therefore dis DAY, 4th March 1922, (both days charge him on that count. He would, suclusive) during which period no trans- bowever, convict the defendant on the fer of shares can be registered, alternative charge. The words the defendant had used, said the Magistrate, were milder than those used in previous cases he had tried and he was convinced that the defen- dant was little more than a peaceful picket. In the circumstances would give him the option of a fine of $25 or in default 14 days' hard labour, and bind him over On B Consignees of cargo landed into this personal boad of $250 to keep the Company's godowns during the present onsettled state of affairs are boreby peace for six months.
From all accounts Canton is now godown after expiry of the free storage notified that alt cargo remaining in feeling the effect of the strike in period will be subject to all extra regard to ite food supplies ordinary expenses incurred in connec* just
much Bo
and possibly tion herewith. even more than Hoogkung has. Big increases in the price of flour aid rice indicated a serious sho tage in those commodities which, in view of the Hongkong Government's recently imposed emburgo, will not be easily relieved. The seamen themselves are not taking the rosy view of things that they were and are it is said, beFrom ginning to feel that they have not been well led,
he THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON
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THIEVES CAPTURED AFTER
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
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Are hereby notified that owing to the strike of cargo and wharf coolies, cargo for Hongkong will be carried on
The arrest and trial of various span and possibly landed at Kobe. Connighces are therefors recommended gangs of bandits is engrossing public to make the neconserv arrangements attention in Paris. The pride of place respecting insurance etc. accordingly. is occupied by the Robbers of The cargo will be returned to Hong Bureness, ten of whom were sentenced kong immediately conditions at this to six years' imprisonment at the port become normal.
Seine Assize Court and four & penal
servitude for life.
The gang moved about in moter
cars and committed several burglaries
at jewellers' shops. They were held
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Agents. Hongkong, February 13, 1922.
up by the police in the Paria suburbDCHARLES 8. DOUGALL, M.A.,
of Manilly and captured after B
ACADEMY, SCOTLAN»,—
(formerly Eglinton Fellow, Glasgow
desperate fight in which a young University.) Headmaster, which reopens woman bandit, known as Yeyette, on lat Beptember next, provides at fired at the police from bebind a tree moderate cost complote HIGH in an attempt to prevent the arrest of mente from 10 years of age upwards. SCHOOL EDUCATION in all Depart Illustrated Prospectus may be had application to the HEAD MASTER, to THOS. J. YOUNG, F. C. 1.5, Secretary.
her lover.
One of the gang gave evidence for the prosecution, securing several con- victions, including that of Yeyette who was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labour. His treachery, how- ever, cost him dear, for during od journment of the court he WAB ferociously attacked in a room to which the prisoners were conducted and ho to entered the court streaming with blood.
Another gang has been arrested, consisting of six men and two women. It was discovered that the fruits of paveral Paris jewel robberies had been disposed of by them in Americh. A gang of nine men and their leador, a woman, who had specialized) | in thefts of moter care; have also been arrested.
The police found that all the garge wate wonderfully organised and were equipped with an efficient seorat
.
MAN-
WOMAN-
MARRIAGE
or
The latest wedding ring comes from Paris, where they have a long time been regarding the plain gold band as commonplace. The new affairs are of ambor or jade, with an Eastern marriage metto cut on the inside.
The night warder states that he saw, as he thought, Sorate asleep on les cot, but noticed something strange about the door and then found that the sleeping figura was a dummy,
sawn bars and an open trapdoor, Following the trial indicated by the
INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS & -HIPBUILDERS.
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a sum of money also one key.
saw that Sorate had got down by the Apply to Honorary Secretary. wire, climbed over a high wall facing the River Hudson, and dived to free- dom.
While working on the road at Har- row, Middlesex. a labourer drove a pickaxe through his foot, pinning him to the ground.
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