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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1922.
PFKING REPORTS.
CHINA, RUSSIA, AND JAPAN.
SHANGHAI, August 20.
POLISH ORPHANS.
SAIL BY THE N.Y.K. STEAMERS.
Wandering in the wilderness of Siberisaway from their native land, without parents, without friends and even without supplies, so many Polish orphans have had to endure hardship and privation for such a long time as a result of the Great European Wor that the Japan Red Cross Society has. again stretched out its bands to alleviate their suffering. In fact, the Jagan Red Cross had to take three hundred and seventy Polich childrer
HONGKONG INDEMNITY
ORDINANCE.
•AN INTERESTING EXAMPLE
OF CORPORATE IMMORALITY."
JAPAN PAPER'S COMMENT.
In Peking it is reported semi oficially that the Russo-Japanese conference at Changchun will be on cerned mainly with the reaching of an understanding regarding fiabery rights which the Japanese acquired, along the Siberian coast, the disposal of vast quantities of Japanese Amtuanition stored at Vladivostok, and the Nikolaievsk massacre. The first question is important through into its détached Institute in Tokyo. From some correspondence in the the possibility of the Reds tak ng over for more than a year and to send them control of Vladivost k after the to America in 1918, tu bo irgusierted Hongkong Daily Press it appears that Jepunere evacuation and not ralizing to the Polish Relief Society establi- the Hon kong Government made the
Commenting on the Indemnity or dinonce recently before the long kong Legislative Council, the Japan Chronicle says:-
THE CHINA MAIL.
SPORT.
WATER P ›LO.
The R.G.A. defeated the Kings by four goals to sit in their league match at the V.R.C. bath yesterday evening The infantrymen played a strenuous losing game and did not lose heart to the end. They tried persistently to get through the gunners' defence but the latter packed their goal so "fectively that it was never in enrious advantage of better combination and danger. The gunners also bad the sperd, and breaking away in sudden chance of catching them up. The surprise attacks gave the Kings no goalie did his bost, but he was so overwhelmed by the attackers, that it
that these fishery rights were officially ehed in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.nico little cumshaw of $2,291,204 11 was really to his credit that he al-
lowed the ball past him only-four times throughout the match, The scorere were: Reddiek two; and Davis and Wood one each.
A MENTAL CASE.
A FREUDIAN EXPLANATION I
Some sensation was experienced in the chargeroom at the Central Police Station yesterday when a young European entered and gavabimedi ap to the Inspector saying that he had been guilty of sending indecent letters to various people in the Colony. As deranged, he was removed to the the man appeared to be mentally hospital for medical observation.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
REMOVAL NOTICE.
Finally them at Osaka, when they arrive in Colony of its intention to exercis the backboar of the V.R.C. forward ANDERSEN, MEYER &
од
their
To morrow's fixtures are:- U.A.C. v. Kings: L.R.C. v. R.G.A.
BILLIARDA.
AN INTERESTING MATCH'
Mr. F. H. Dillos. the energetic
CO., LTD., beg to an- nounce the removal on September
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE,
From NEW YORK,
alienated. As regar is the ammuni
But unfortunately thie Bociety has fom the smaller shipowners durin tion, it appears that both Chita and by this time declined to lock n'ter the war and has refused to make them Vladivostok are auxious to secure it, another group of the Polish children y compensation.
The story is at while the Japanese do not desire to numbering four hundred and forty at interesting example of corporate in raise any possible friction by selling to tendants now on the way to Japan morality.
The V.R.C. Ecored 5 decisive In March 1918 the aither party,
On this soune of the from Siberia. The Japau Red Cross Hongkong
victory over the Unite by eight Government notified Japoteau papers advocate the dumbas so arranged, therefore, asto receive the smaller shipownes of
pools to ni. Busschaert was again the ping of the lot in the zen. the Nikolaievek question has been Taarugs from Vladiv stock; and to control of those of their ships which line and scored five times in very pending so long that delay beyond gend hem back directly tar Dantig on were not at that do'e ander ro,uisionls were contributed by Rasmussen, convincing fashion, The other 3 the evacuation might consign the board the ship, "Katori Maru" and tion. The shipowners protested, matter to perpetui y. Another ques
Atsata Mara" of N.Y.K. sailing more particularly against the ratus of Sewell and Watson. The V.R.O. have 1st, 1922, of their offices from tion likely to come up.is the naviga- from Kobe on the 22nd August and remuneration offered by the Governo completed their fixtures and are tion of the Amur. As the Chinese the Sith, September respectively. The mant, but took no stops, as they did well in the lead, having win every No 2 Queen's Road Central to are vitally interested therein it ja
match played thought probable that China will be and
steamship Company, in support of not want to bind r the interests of the
in full sympathy with the country during the war As a on
No. 67, 69 Des Voeux Road' invited to participate in the discus-humane project of the Red Cruse sequence of the control they were sions of it, while other questions may Society, had maile Brise which cannot be settled without allowances
considerable forced to run their ships at a financin!
loss at a time when foreign competi
(Site of the Old Victoria Theatre) passages, Chinese participation. No mention is beside making special provision tore-notably the Japanese-were made of Vladivostok participating but of cabins for their accommodation. able to build up huge retrvca. that centre may yet ask permission to
It is said that H. M. the Empras The requisition achonze Wu9 sand delegates aa Chita is to be re-
bearing o. these pitiful, helpless Polish wound up in March 1919, and presented.
children, has been so deeply moved showed a profit of $2,231,204.11, that the bas graciously given them and in December 1919, in contoretury of the Catholic Men's Club supplies; and that many Japaaran Bequence of the smaller shipowners han arranged a very interesting have followed her footstep offering not getting a reasonable rate of re billiarda match to take place in the helps to the Japan Red Cross and ex muneration for the use of their ships, Club's premises on Saturday, Septem- THE Steamship "TELEPHONE QUESTION,"
tending their sympathy and kinds a test action was commenced, but was bur 2, commencing at 8.p.m., sharp. to those orphans in various, practical supended for some reason. Subsu. The game which will be 500 up will (To the Editor of the China Mall.] ways.
quently a tentative offer was made by be between two well-known and tried It is one of the chief objects of the the Government, which the ship eneists of the Colony, namely, Sergt. Dear Sir,-May I use your valuable League of Red Cross Societies o
prepared to accept, J. Barchard, R.G.A., the military columns to make a suggestion regard-allavista suffering of mankind. The when the Government suddenly with champion, and Mr. A. J. O munding landed ing the so much discussedTelephone Japan Red Cross adhering to the drew it after consulting the uncficial ex-champion of the Colony, and question"?
principles and spirit of the League has members of the Council. The first champion of the Catholic Un'on. The I really think that protests will be discharged on every occasion its duty statement of the Hongkong Govarn-game is already arousing much inter of no value unlear something of a ever since the Society was inaugurat-nent was that it was acting on the est omong billiard enthusiasts in the strong argument is put before the led.
instructions of the Imperial Govern- Colony particularly the servicemen Telephone Company.
ment and that any money that and the young blood of the Union, as accrued would go to the Imperiat it promises to be the best exhibition Government for the prosecution of sen ever since P. A. Yvanovich the war, but in March 1919, when the regained his title from his conqueror scheme was wound up, the Hongkong at the V.R.C.. whom there was no Government obtained the permission question that Osmund was properly of the Imperial Government to retain beaten after opening well in the first Is it not the only way to avoid this Mr. E. W. Hamilton this morning and decided to use them in the con will be welcome to attend Saturday's A truck coolie was charged before the profits derived from the scheme innings of the game. The public arbitrary increase?
with careless driving of the vehicle, struction of a hotel and flats at Kow-match. and causing injury to a P.W.D., work-lcon and the extension of the
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In a case like that I think that all i the subscribers should stick together and make it clear to the Telephono Company that they would discontinue the use of the telephons should the increase be imposed.
I am,
Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, "ERRMU."
"TRAVELLING TRADES-
MAN"
ROBBED OF GOODS.
The loss by a Chinese "Travelling Tradesman" of a quantity of
jewellery formed the subject of charge of gang rubbery ferred against A
pre-
P.W.D. MAN HURT.
TRUCK COOLIE CHARGED.
10.
Owners were
educational facilities. After the teat TAILOR'S SHOP ROBB D. ILspector Caygill produced a medi- action was stated, bowever; the cul certificate, and said that the com: plainant was suffering from crushed toes, and was still in bospital. He
asked for a week's remand.
Hongkong Government expressed its willingness to negotiate the matter and made a tentative proposal which was acceptable but which was with
Then in 1920 the
now Indomn.
The master of a tailor's shop at No. 14, Irving Street reports that about 10.15 last night, a man entered his ebop and said that he had been sent
The Magistrate paid that a remard drawn later. would entail great hardship on the Indemnity Act was passed by the by a man named Ab Kwong to take defendant who was earning his living Imperial Government Aud tte
delivery of some clothing which had day by day and not on fixed wages, Hongkong Government ig
been ordered. The man was followed and asked if the case could not be seeking to
into the shop a couple of minutes beard earlier.
later by three other men. They all war measures, but practically to pre- and driving the master, his wile and ity Ordinance, ostensibly to legalise four produced revolvers and daggers, ent the shipowners seeking a judge-fokis into a cubicle, bound and gagged ment in the Courts which would en.
them with pieces of firewood and bita
The Inspector said that the facts of the case were that the complainant was at wark in Des Voeux Road, lying
pass
" TYMERIC," having arrived, from the ab va Fort, Consignoos of cargo by her pra hereby informed that all goods are be
at their Tink into the hazardous und/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited,
wbence delivery may be obtained.
Goods not cleared by the 4th Sep- tember, will be subject to rent
All brokan, chafer and lamaged packages are to be left in the (lodowns where they will be examined at 10 am, on the 4th September.
Claims against the steamer must be otherwise they will not be rec gnized. presented within ten days of arrival,
as in any caro whatever.
by
No Fire Insuranco will be effected by
Bills of Lading will be countersigned
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Lamed Ho So at the Criminal when the defendant came along with kong Government of the pri.fits made the place and stole some ready made
Chinese fat on the ground shovelling carib danger the retention by the Hong of rsg. The intraders then ransacked occupy more than four lines. Sessions this morning before the Chief his truck. Defendant took no notice under the scheme. There appears to clothes, a quantity of jewellery and a Justice (Sir William Rees Davies), of the workman's presence on the have been some very sharp practice few lengths of cloth worth $294 The Crown Solicitor (Mr. FI K. road and did not make any attempt on the part of the Hongkong Govern Holmes) conducted the prosecution to swerve his vehicle, with the result mest in frst shifting the responsibi and Mr. Eleley Zeitlyn appeared for that one of the wheels ran over the lity on to the Imperial Government the defence.
Evidence was given that the com plainant, passing through Hongkong on his way to Japaa, put up at a bouse
workran's toes,
and then, when it was allowed to re-
The Magistrate eaid that in say custain the profit made, in refusing to the complanant could not give much come under the Imperial Indemnity evidence as to what actually happen Act but in introducing a special In- in Des Voeux Road and, while asleeped, as he would not know anything demnity Ordinance itselt, specially on the verandah, was awakened by until after the wheel had passed over to bar the shipowners from taking man who had a revolver in each his foot. In any case, he would re-any action in the Court.
hand. This man said he had come mund the cast until Saturday next to aearch for orma and told when he would take the evidence of
the compla rent to "keep quiet or I one witness and then decide whether
will kill you." Six other intruders to prolong the case or to throw it out. then appeared and the prisoner ap peared to be the leader of them. They rarsacked the place, after securing the complainant.
(Proceeding.)
H.M.S. "DESPATCH ' ARRIVES,
The new cruiser H.M.S. "Despatch" arrived in port from Chatham, Eng. land, early this morning to take over duty on the Cuing Station. She is now lying alongside the Dockyard camber.
"TRYING HIS LUCK
NOT ALTOGETHER BUCCESSFUL.
NOT SO BAD.
G
"THE REVENGE OF TARZAN."
k
Mr. Ray, who controls the destinies
A Chine's was charged before Mr. of the Coronet, confessed in one of his R. E. Lindell this morning recant advertisements that although with being a suspicious character the trade papers praised "The Revenge and with having in session instruments that could be theatre to-day and to morrow, the his pos. of Tarzan" which he is showing at his used for an unlawful purpose. The picture offended his own aesthetic instruments" produced in Court were taste. He went so far as to offer a a hollow bamboo pole, two sticks free pass to the Coronet for a month and a piece of wire. The police said to the person who sent in the beat One (fatal) case of plague was re- that when the sticka were fastened to criticism of the film. That is very ported yesterday, also a case of small- the pele, they could be used for hook candid of Mr. Ray but, judging by the pox, a case of enteric fever and a caseing down clothing from the verandais reception which the pisture is getting of rabes. The autjost of the report of bouees. When the defo idant was Le is not likely to find himself buried in the last mentioned care was, of searched at the etation, a small in beneath an avalanche of critiques, course, a dog.
atrument resembling a chirel was also Indeed it is safe to say that anybody found on his person.
who liked the other "Tarzan" Chamber of Commerce's The defendant frankly admitted to pictures will like this one too. What Swatow Subscription, list now totala the Magistrate that the pole belonged over may be charged against it, it $81,465 The Club Lusitano gave to a friend who was now in jail for certainly canast be said that it lacks $550 and a sum of $50 has also been larceny of clothing. Birce he (defen excitement. Whenever the great received through the Ruv. M. W. dant) could oot and any work for the spa man moves in civilised circles Le Showell as a result of the collection past few days owing to the rain, and continually finds it necessary to play. made at the Church of Englanin view of his friend's succeas and the a sort of "stacks on the mill" game Military Services last Sunday.
The
eato with w ich he had managed to with a dozen or so assailante and when hook down clothing, ho (d-lendant) he gets back to the jungle he puta KEEP IT HANDY
devided to “try his luck" last night, huge lions out of action wi h's twist Immediate rolit is necessary in but was arrested before he had of his muscular bands, just as Samson at seks of diarrho13, Olamberlain's Cello and Diarrhoes Remedy should actually started.
did in the scriptures. The very clover Sentence of six weeks' hard labour animal photography alone makes the alwaja be on hand For sale by all Chemists and Starekeepers..
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