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Samuel, the High Commisioner in NO VISIBLE MEANS.
Palestine, adm tied to a meet-
ing of Members of Parlament that he r
the CONCESSION
as reported, and he defended the monopoly on the ground that without! such monopoly it would be impossible | to raise the capital necessary to carry out the work satisfactorily.
It is certain that whoever holds the monopoly of electric light and power in this country about to be developed
SHIP'S OFFICER CHARGED
WITH VAGRANCY.
a
R. B. Austin, an employed ship's officer, was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning, at the instance af Inspector Blackman, with being will have an enormous "pall" with vagrant-having been found in the government. By way of consola Arsenal Street, Wanch, without tion to disappointed concessionaires (hanked by car tame and couponized Parliament) someone should call their attention to the question asked by an old-time leper who got a different concession on the River Jordan once.
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" They, lik Kaama may turn and go away in a rage: but after all there may be s practical "up" is it.
PEDDER'S WHARF SCENE
OBJECTING TO PAY FOR
PIER SEAT.
J. P. Ritting, a Chinese American was charged before Mr. E. W Hamit ton at the Magistracy this morning with having behaved in a disorderly Ltduer on Blake Fier last night.
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Petry, a daughter. HAGEN. O 6th July, at 3 Tre- gunter Mansions, to Phyllis, vile of E..C. Hagen, a daughter.
The China Mailcession which gives him two years'
**TROTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC, SFRVIO"
Scaccare, TheRSDAY, JULY 6, 1949.
OUR DOINGS IN PALESTINE.
Mr. G. R. Hayward, who appeared for the defendant ið that
he understood that the police intend-
ed withdrawing the charge as the offence was not a serious one.
Inspector Caygill said that that was so. He thought that a cantion would meet the case.
Outlining the facts, the In- spector said the defendant went on the pier last night and occupied one of the front seats. When the constable on duty on the pier asked the defendant to pay for his Beaty
refused and when ordere! to vacate the seat. he created a scene. The defendant was detained at the station for one hour after his arrest before his bail of $25 was forthcoming. In view of that, the Inspector asked for leave to with draw the charge.
Addressing the defendant, the Ms gistrate said that he could count him self fortunate that the police were withdrawing. Disorderly conduct was becoming more and more frequent of the pier, and had the case pro- corded and the charge been proved against him, he (the Magistrate) wald have thought it his duty to fire him heavily as an example
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Rev. J Kink Maconachie, Minister of the Union Church, expects to take his vacation during Angust and September.
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THURSDAY, JULY
CANTON SITUATION,
ALLEGED INTIMIDATION.
SIEGE OF CHRUNGCHAU.
As the result of several commanders of warships under his command hay- ing gone ashore at. Whampoa against orders, Dr Sun Yat-sen is reported to have issued a new order prohibiting death, from leaving their ships with all officers and men, ander peralty of out permission.
The third nege on the Cheungchan fort at the mouth of the Whampoa moner of any visible means of expport.river has commenced. Chaa's troops! Defendant: I admit saking a man are reported to have surrounded the whan I thought I knew, if he could fort, and heavy fighting is expected spars the price of a drink. with begging, only with vagrancy and Magistrate: You are not charged
no occupation.
Defendant: I have a profession. I am a ship's officer.
at any moment as the attackers have!
ECHO OF CARPENTER'S -STRIKE.
ASHES FOR CADETESER
REXTRAORDINARY VILLA
An ex-schoolmaster" and "co Detective Inspector Grant charged teacher of Glasgow James Campb four Chiness before Hr. F. E. Lindsell Castle,who died some time this maming with having intimidated at will which contains some Hollywood Road. the mistress of a carpenter's stop in ordinary protons. The value
Margow
of bis ostate was returned In the will twelve petions,
*ex magistrate were - named ⠀um, trust
and
Magistrate: Has it got anything an to do with the carpenters" strike ! executors, and the
Inspector: Yes, something. It is expressed the hope that he would guild matter really. The defendants secure their generous sympathy and who are members of the guild went assistance in carrying out his efforts
capture the fort at all cost. striot orders from General Ip Kui to to the complainant's shop on the ith to help his fellow-men. Had he and asked her to join their guild, and allowed the selfish element of his nature how selfisk no one realised The unsuccessful attempt made to to sign an agreement to employ more regretfully than himself) to capture the fart on the 2nd aty members of the guild only inflame him he would many years resulted in Chan's forces suffering The complainant refused to enters have purchased an anunty, and heavy cascalties numbering 300 dend
Magistrate: Then you have work: ?
and many wounded, and the re into any such agreement, so the de thus have secured comforts and Defendant: Not now. I have been mainder retreated in disorder. Refendants andered all her falis to
suries that he, denied himmelf oat of a job for some time owing to
especially, in regard to the style in the present state of the shipping in ports from Cantou state that the fort stop working on the following day, which he had travelled.
is impregnable, being mounted with
The testator made the following this Colony. There are over Sanem-12-inch guns. Mites have been laid threatening to assault them if they ployed shipping man bere at present. Magistrate: Where do you live Defendant: At the Seamen's Insitate until two days ago. I had to leave because I was owning a lot of money and have no means of paying、
Magistrate: I will send you to the House of Detention, and I hope you |will get work to00..
Defendant: Thank you, siz
on the land side while the front of the disobeyed. The palice were inform provision with regard to the dispossi fort facing Whampoa river is being ed. Detectives were sent out, sed of his body I specially and when the defendants came to the shop particularly desire that my body shall guarde i by the cruisers.
Maryhill. I paid the fee in advaDOS-
The Kowloon and Canton Railway on the 5th to see if the folis were still be cremated at the Crematoriuze
The Magistrate fixed the hearing of ca February 2, 1902. Continuing, ber- bridge at Wachung which was blown working, they were arreated. up en Sunday last, has beati repaired, and traffic resumed to-day as usual the case for this afternoon. The down train from Canton arrived at the Tsimshatsui Station this morn- ing in scheduled time.
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Commander Yeung Sik-leung,! station commander at Stikwan Eas→→ cabled to Canton that the 1st Division
A PRINTING PROSECUTION. of the Northern Expedition Army at
DEFENDANT DISCHARGED.
present on the Kwangtung Kwangsi border, Las severed its' connection with Dr. Sam Yat-sen and is returning south to Wsichow immediately.
The railway station at Wockung is now being heavily guarded by Chan's troops to prevent further interference with the bridge.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION.
stated : “I wish the utmost simpli city to be observed; no hearse is to be used only a plain carriage, or any simpler or less expensive way of co Teying my body to Maryhill. I do not wish anyone to waste time attending my funeral. It will do no good to anyone, sad the shsense of the usual formalities will give poor Mr. and Mrs. Grundy something to talk about: I desire that the ashes of my body shall not be preserved. They may be The third annual meeting of the disposed of by the Crematorium, or general council of the League of sued by any of my trustees or others Nations Union was held at the Central to fertilise their potatoes."
VIEW OF THE GENOA
„CONFERENCE.
Hall, Westminster in mail week, when delegates from all parts of the country were present.
HOW TO LOCK PRETTY THOUGH HOT
Before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon, a well-dressed Chinese was charged with having a printing press at No. 229, Queen's Road West, which had not been registered; and with using the machine for printing rusaits of lottery ticket drawing announcements.
Mr. C. A. B. Bass appeared for the defence and pleaded not guilty.
Detective Inspector Grant with a number of Chinees police mided the house one evening earlier in the week and seized a number of lottery Army) by means of: empting pay a announcements. The printing ma-offers. Chan's troops are attempting chine and some type were also to prevent the recruits from leaving fourri on the premises and taken the districts, and trouble is expected possession of by the police. One of on the result. the men found on the premises point- ed out the defendant as the master of the house, and he was arrested..
Dx. Sun Yat-sen is reported to have sppointed several of his cam-
Lord Robert Cecil, who presided, manders recruiting commissioners in
said the union's work had been mut- the various southern districts, and tifarious and effective. Their present thousands of bandits, vagrants and rascale from the Heungshan, Shantak, and there were 806 branches through
members- were approaching 200,000 -
(By Emms M. Wise.) Sanyui and Hokshan districts, and out the island. There were only Many a girl who desires to enter her the various villages in. Whampoa 878 nineteen constituencies without brau social kingdom at a mammer resort is reported to have been drafted into thes. During the part year memben now busily planning her campsigi his Mankwan (the so-called Citizens had been enrolled at the rate of 2,000 Perhaps she would welcome mgg
week, and rather more than one new tions i branch every day had been formed.
adinding people under 16, one person one should observe these fundamental To be popular at a rummer resort in every 179 was a member of the un-rules
A witness whom both the prosecu tion and the defence disówzed when
the
man named Chan
BAD JUDGMENT.
BANISHEE WHO FICKED A
"DETECTIVE'S POCKET,
·HAKOZAKI MARU."
NEW NY. VESSEL HERE
Yasen Kaisha have sent out invita.
of
now
at
fact.
turbines actuating twin acrews. Shs who were not very keen on the ques
The art of looking beautiful in a has splendid accommodation for 116 in. He did not understand that bathing costume is a gift of the gods Grst class and 55 second cines Nonconformists showed themselves to some women; it is acquired by
passengers.
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WORLD THEATRE
ion. He urged that while taking no Keep your temper. Be ready for part in party politics,
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the anything Wear white whenever union should in view of the possible. Let your bathing costume approaching General Election, be attractive, but modist, Best Atja Basin (20 miles north of the
indulge in vigorous house to-hours yourself scientifically, 'Don't talk Dead Sea); and the second with the
propaganda. He could not pretend too much. Use your powder-paff 159A whole of Palestine and Trans-Jor- others it was, the police did not called, told the Court that the prin-
to think that the international situs affectively. * ~ Peak.to Mr. and Mr. F. dania, These two documents com-gard the case as serious and there ting machine was placed ca
fare the defendant would be die premises by a
Aion was very encouraging at the Any girl who follows these recipes bined make Rutenberg absolute dic-
moment. Whoever one looked there faithfully stands an excellent chance- tator cf Palestine's fortunes. Mark charged. But I want you to under- Cheang who had rented the place to The local office of the Nippon sppeared to be a revival during the of coming home just in time to pre- his methods. He was sufficiently stand." the Magistrate added, "that the defendant astute to realise that Palestine's you must in future obey the lawful Deciding that there was insufficient tions to a reception this afternoon last few months of the miliaristi pare her trousseau for an October
spirit of apparent forgetfulness of the wedding. evidence to prove that the defendant aboard their new passenger steamer, lessons of the war. He took the view fotare depended on the development
orders of a police constable."
Though practically living in the was the guilty party, the Magistrate the Hakozaki Maru." which for that the Russo-German agreement open, the hot weather girl is required of electrical power. He obtained
discharged him on both counts but are the Big Eleven ” from the British Government a con-
made an order for the confiscation of maintaining the Company's European slight importance. It was an omincs keeping her hair, hands, and com
was not a matter of comparatively to perform the incompatible fest of the printing prese.
service. The new steamer grace from September, 1921, wherein
launched in March this year
plexion in good condition for while to form a company with a capital of
Replying to a question Lord Robert men fall in love with sun-kissed maids £1,000,000 to generate; supply, and
Nagamki, and has a groes tonnage of aid that although generally speaking there is no record of one falling in love. distribute electrical power. The con-
10,418.31 tons. Her length is 495 feet, the league was supported by clergy of with a girl whose nose has peeled, breadth 60 feet and a depth of 37 teet. all denominations, there were certain cheeks cracked and whose hands are cession does not, however, regnite him
Built of steel she is driven by two of the clergy of the Church of England unsightly to find £1,000,000 in cash. If he can product £200,000 in cash that will suffice for the two years. Meanwhile Included in the s.*.**President The telegraphic news by Reuter the development of Palestine is McKinley's" parenger list yesterday
more unanimously keen: -
Low: yesterday, that a reduction of Winston blocked for two years, during which were Mr. F. M. L. Scares, Mr. and
Banished two year ago for a term
Vischant Grey of Parlodon was re- Churchill'e salary hid been proposed time it has been agreed that the Mrs W, WeMurray and Mr. D. K
Those who have been neither of tea yeam, after undergoing
elected as president, and the Premier, favoured by nature nor improved by because of certain doings in Palestine, Palestine Administration will not Brown would be largely unintelligible to the grant any concession of issue any
the Earl of Balfour, Mr. Asquith, and physical cultum are advised to refrain imprisonment for larceny, a Chiness The body of the quarryman who who returned to the Colony before the
Hz. J. R. Clynes as honorary presi from donning a bathing enit in public. who do not read the Home newspapers licence to anyone else. At the end of
galan,. ll. Eenter ever told as the two years Rutenberg secures & was reported yesterday to have been embargo had been lifted was charged THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN dents. The Duke of Devonshire and Thors who do wear one must not Before about the Rutenberg Contes- sevraty years' monopoly of the waters drowned while bathing in Mawan before Mt. E. W. Hamilton this
Lard Shuttleworth were added to the purchase their costame recklessly, but mobe so casually alludes to, we of the Jordan, the River Yarmuk, Bay, Shatkiwan, has been recovered moming with having disobeyed the
list of vice-presidents,
plan it so to hide blemaker and have forgotten it.
which enters it near the Ses of Galilee, from the harbour by the police.
Justine Johnstone (ás Lola) in the This was DoI
ordes; and with having picked the
Besolutions were adopted condem- make the most of good points. the first protest by Sir William and ite tributaries. The concession
pocket of a Chinese detective in Des "Playing of Broadway," a drama to ning military pacts between tro Walking along the beach is upther The Eastern Extension Cable Yeax Road yesterday..
be screened at the World Theatre nations and in favour of action by i acomplishment that is sequired only Joynson-Hicks. He had previcody adds that all waters are his which art
old the Daily Mail all about it, and now er shall be hereafter brought Coy. notifies that owing to defects in The detective said that the defen-from Friday to Monday next, has the voluntary societies for the League through pract
were therein enabled to zend that within the control of the High Com- the Hongkong-Shanghai cable all dant picked his pocket as he been selected as the most beautiful in different scuntries to get their pig over the sands the astonishing nature of the Palismissioner."
telegrams to Shanghai and beyond was alighting from a tram-car and woman in New York, and her debut Governments to sign the Compulsary but the The Morning Post Was the monopoly granted by the Pale-
quite will be subject to considerable delay. stole four $1 notes from his breast has brought her a great number of Jurisdiction Protocol of the Statute mode tine Government and the Carril peevish about it all, remarking
pocket The, defendant pressed a adquirers. Her loveliness lends itself for the Permanent Court. Office to a Russian ex-reveliocary among other things:-The Eritish The total output of the Kalan newspaper against the witness' chest exceptionally to the gorgeous scenes Professor Mutty, referring to the How to look pretty at
vil engineer, M Finhas Rurnberg, Empire conquers Falsetine at great Mining Administration's mines for and aimaitaneously extracted the of The Thirty Cimb and the exotic attitude of the Executive Committee a difficult proble
the League of Nations Union is in the mom who was. Kerensky' Chit of expense of blood and moury. As a the week ending June, 24 1922, money from his pocket with his free boudoir of a Broadway favourite. A Police, is revealed by the terms of the result of the war, terribly high taxes amounted to 81,887 tons and the hand. The witness seized him on the picture with such an actress should regard to the Genoa Conference, said fresh, and Concession." He also wrote a letter to almost break the hack of the British sales during the period to 29,787 tom. spot.
certainly not to be missed, and it that the policy of the Union must be can look charting, "Defendant was sentenced to 12 should attract a bumper hanze during to promote the reunion of the nations tanga a lagge The Times about it, in which he nation. The only way to relieve this
orshadowed this divis nou which burden is to get our industries going Formerly travel representative of months for returning from banish the week end at the World Theatra separated by the late war witho
was delested. In part he wrote: at fall speed in se short time as the American Express Cop. in Manila, ment, aud & months for pocket pick- ***Now we see what we conquered Possible. An electrical exheme in Mr. J. W. Shannon, arrived in Hanging, the terms to run consecutively. Palestine for; now we know what our the hands of British contractor, berg on the President Cleveland" diers died for, and what our would provide work for British Mr. Shannon has joined the Hongkong taxpayers are now spending £500,000 engineer and British mechanics. Bat branch of the Standard Oil Company
Fear for; and a suggestion that any we find that the concession has been of New York. ant exploiting. Palestine should gives to a Russian Jewisir civil rchase his gooda in Britain is a engineer, without any provision that
of the whole he shall use British machinery and Conference of the British Legion come If proposals before the National grant raladon inciple of mandates. If this is so employ British workmen.”
¿Pooper we got rid of mandates the We hope it will not be admitted into force there is a possibility of the
Hanghong branch having to close News was received bere yesterday fer. The matter cannot stand cleewhere that our great expense of down, according to the local Secretary of the death at Margate, England, as the report was made that a passenger mittee saw no re it is No wonder the Abe blood and money in Palestine was. H.K. Holmes. Two of the pro te result of a motor accident, of Mr. Chinese female was missing. The original view that
all to the verge of revolt. If embarked upon with the cojed of peo
been held? viding work for Britel enginetis and Pals aim at the elemination of all Artar Chapman, wife of Tint-Col ship was turned round and a seamh better for the Con
Nations Beitiak mechanica.. If mach business foreign branches of the Legion and Chapman, D., retired Administas made without result, has to go to somebody, we would have been sent home. Another pro omnteer Defence Corps Mm. acrong repro enfations sgadhat the tre Commandant of the Hongkong
& delegate To the Daily Mail he put poopers it go to Batik than to posal requises that all donations and Chapman was fatally injured and died
other; but we prefer not to dwell on ntributions received shall be for in hospital.
Professor Butanberg has obtained can- the blood and money" comiders warded direct the General Tres ons from he British Armission in such connection
Hobse of Commons has any spirit
ali, it must iceist on a full discussion the wholi matter."
...
es also sounded a note of alarm
tion in Palestine of so comprehen
but belutly Chronicie was apologe
ing that Buzenberg's
s a natus that they de facto cope.
anta bum the complete mon poist
Palestine's Intits derulopa Cafras document deal with the
OBITURAY.
MES. ARTHUR CHAPMAN.
1.
PASSENGER MISSING.
estranging any of our Allies. estrangement between England would be as great ance to European recon
On arrival in Hongkong yesterday, the permanent ostracista of the master of the Japanese steamer and Buses from "Kaijo Maru" reported to the harbour Europe. No adherent authorities that a passenger was of the League of Ha missing. It appears that the Kajo could fad ardently Haru” was on a voyage from Keeling stiaintent of the ob to this port and when off Swstow, At the same huse,
PROSPECTIVE VISITOR.
a member of
presided after
left for the
phed, and max
The deepest sympathy will be felt „Sie Curtis G. Ashdown of London wareer: Whale this would not, affect bere, by a large circle of friends, for and his son are due to serve hers: By Bu Faul Chater a Gift which is in the Lient-Col. Chapman, and his the "Prendent Kekinlay hands of trustees, it would seriously hier, the wife of Mr. A. E. through the t
hamper the work Alie Legion kna bono.
Wezxcutive engineer of the love again b |P.WD., in their sad, and, tengia which – beribad - 1
varies from happy
wiso
long strides