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NEWS FROM WUCHOW.
/ FIGHTING AT SHIU HING.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
The steamer Tei Ming" retorns to Hongkong this moming, it being considerd dangerous for her to proceed to Samehui.
Six shote, ware dropped, in the water yesterday alongside EMS "Moorhen" but whether or not they were fired at her it is impossible
Ltd Bay
It is believed that the fighting now taking plac is occurring between the Kwangtung and the Yunnanese troops. If this is so it is reasonable to suppose that the former have gone back to Sun Yat Ben.
SPECIAL CLEARANCE
OF WELL FILLED
DOWN
QUILTS
30%
BIRTH.
#ETTERLY. Qo February 13th. at French Convent Hospital, to Mr. and Mre, K. M. Fetterly, a son.
-MARRIAGE.
NORTON-DEE-On February 9, 1923, at Shanghai, William John, son of it, and Mes, G. P. Norton, of High Royd, Honley, -Yorks, to Joanna, daughter of the late David, and of Mr. Dee, of Bansha, Tipperary.
ARTISTIC
DESIGNS
DISCOUNT.
has got nothing from the Ruht and has epeut much therein, while by cutting the jugular vein of German industry she has done greater harm to Germany then she was suffering bemelf." Mr. Bonar Law apparently forgeta that M. Poincare himself wamed France when the coveted Rahr was first invaded that the costs would be heavy and the returns "comparatively smail M. Poincare did not trouble to explain the rest object of the move. That was obvious,
HONGKONG BUNGALOWS.
COM WRIGHT, STUFF.) |
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14 1928.
FORGERY LAW
AN INTERESTING" APPEAL.
CHINA NEW YEAR.
HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS THIS YEAR," There was a "comic song a few years egy nine or ten i The advent of the labour guilds has which the gentleman offered to build for his beloved a wooden been responsible for several traden bungalow in Bond Street. Some losing earlier than usual for the folk would classify the song as a
sentimental" but I think the bins New Year holidays Restaur incongruity of a wooden bungalow sats and tea houses, tailors &c. are in that expensive thiomughfare is already closed. Chinese newspapers, Criminal Sessions for. forgery of $1 sufficiently comic to warrant my have for a, number of years stopped banknotes of the Kwangri Bank; the classification. Officially, the idea
about A week Attorney General (Hon. Mr., J. EE.
of wooden bungalows in Hongkong publication
PEAK TRAMS.
STOPPAGE FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY
نم
THE CROWN'S REPLY,
After Mr. Elsley Zaitlyn had in the rear fatore the Peak Trama The China Mail understands thas occupied the whole morning yesterday will again stop running-this time for opening hirappal at the Full Court seven or eight days-in order that on behalf of the two prisetere who machinery may be overhauled. were convicted by a jury at the
work, till late | the alternaón,
..
"ULBANK" SOLD.
PORTUGUESE BUYER PAYS $77,000.
“Ulbank," No. 2 May Road, the
Woonow, February 12, At 0 p.m. on. Monday while the {““Kochow,” bound from Wuchow to Hongkong, was passing Spike Hill two skate was fired over her. It was afterwards discovered that there were by way of a warning. On approach ing the town of Shiu Hing heavy ride fire was heard and two large conflags tions wors seen in the West end of is regarded much as I see the Bond before New Year. The barbers, Kemp, z..) commenced his reply in
Street suggestion. Yet during the who used to the town. The ship was hailed by housing shortage, you thay remem on Now Year's eve will not The points raised by Mr. Zeitlyn launches and stopped. A military ber, some of us fancied the idea. be working on Thursday and Friday, ware that the making of documents officer who came on board for I did for one. They would answer This year's bazaar does not lose by purporting to be $1 notes of the passage to Bamahui informed the the purpose (I thought); they would comparison with other years se re Kwangsi Bank was not forgety in law, Captain that if he proceeded at look as pretty as I had seen them garde quantity but with the closing of that on the evidence the document residence of the late Mr. R. A. Gabbay, once down the river all would he look in Hunolulu, in Auckland, Queen's Road to stalls, the bazaar were not, valpábla escurítim, and that washange broker. of Hongkong, was well but that it would be dangerous N.I., in Penang, Malaya, in Cali-appear scattered, one result being the documents were not valuable put up for sale by anction by Messra, to delay as a field battery was being formin, and elsewhere; and finally, that the side-streets in the righbour securities within the meaning of the Tammart Bros at their sales rooms. placed on the hills opposite the I thought they would be much less hood are more congested. The Forgery Ordinance, 1922, Section 4, A large crowd inslading ■ number of town. After screens of firewood costly than the home building jobatique" brass dralers have rented Sub-section 34. had been built around the wheelhouse in Hongkong has usually been the ground floor of the old Fire At the cutest of his reply, Mr. Bliding started at $80,000 and soon Chinese gentlemen was present. the Hoohow" tamed down the But the officials, we understood, Station which presents a curious Kemp pointed out that the definition reached $77,000, when the property river and proceeded.
were against it. I talked with your D.P.W. about it once. He denied sight, stooked fall of brassware. From of a valuable security includes, any was knocked down to fr, Carlos, de that there was any official objec to night the bazaar will be open con-writing" of any of the classes of Carvalho of the Hongkong and Shang-
securities specified in the body of the hai Bank- tion; but he said the cost of tinually till midnight on Thursday.
The usual stalls offering curion definition. It was not suggested that material was against it. That, for
from "Paddy's Market," goldfish, the Kwangi note was a banknote the time being, ahut me up.
certained that lumber was at that flowers, cheap manufactures, sweet within the masning of the Bank time very dear.
mests, and calendars are all present Charter Act or the Bills of Exchange A fancy dress ball in sid of the tive w brief while for an egotistic
Here let me interrupt my narrain strong numbers.
Act. Ho mandy described it in the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Occasional strings of crackers that indictment a a document which Animale, will be held in the City Hall explanation. I confess that Ivam could be heard in the Chiness section purported to be a note of the Kwangs on Tuesday (March 6, at 9.30 p.m. For very pig-headed, very hard to con- yesterday and to day are part of the Bank. Any arguments directed to further particulars see advertisement. vince. Being stubbor like that, I "eing the old year out" celebra-proving that it was not a banknote suspect other men of the same. Ition that follow the thanksoffering wire, therefore, entirely beside the suspected that there really was an te the "god of the kitoben."From point. official objection to cheap wooden bont three o'clock to-morrow after-
Even supposing the Kwang Back cottages, and I believed that official aon, there will be a continas! fusilade had ceased to exist, the Attorney obstinacy was merely discovering of crackers, to celebrate Now Year's General said, it could not place the excuses for itself. I are hard to Eve. Business houses will change the prisoners in a better position than convince; but let me plead this in red cloth draping their signboards they would han if the Back exist self-defence as soon as I am eón- vinced -I never hesitate to admit the lanterns in the shoped. In fact it made the forgery the Mr. James Fleming, formerly chief – that I was wrong.
I hasten to front, after the crackers have been more dangerous. If it was a forgery registrar of shipping and collector of confess. it, and feel no false shame, let of This should not be necessarily to forge a note of a Bank which was customs in London, has died at At to-morrow's meeting of the Legis either.
construed as is sometimes dene, as in existence, is surely must be equally Radall Crescenty Hampstead Heath, Irtive Council will be introduced a Well now. Whether there is or an indication that a firm has paid all a forgery to forge a note in the name N.W. Aged 82.. Bill intituled an ordinance to provide is not such an official objection, I its debts, although this is generally of a Bank which did not nɔw exist, for the carrying on of the work former at here making haste to admit that the case.
although it once did. He would even ly carried or by certain German is would be justified. Lumber in Indications of the tendency to argue he thought quite soundly~- societies and persons in the Colony much cheaper now than it was two adopt Westen ideas can be seen in that if a note was forged in the name of Hongkong, and to deal with certain years ago; but I have just been con- Wellington Street which is studded of a Bank which had ceased to exist, property formerly held or administer. vinced that wooden cottages are not with stalls printing New Year cards then for the purposes of the forgery ed by, or used in connection with the the solution of your housing pro- similar to visiting cards. In recent the bank was a fictitions banicit work of such societies and persona blem. To my tale. in the Colony of Hongkong, and to wind--freshened. On the 19th Another feature is the usa by the cise an invente".
On January 12 here the trade year, the custom was to have the was imaginary, a counterfeit. The came hrneked on to slips of red paper, word fictitions did not assessarily
Mr. Justice Gompertz: The fading provide for the control of the person was a gals. All day on the 14th a
of the Jury impler that they have by whom the said work is to be tornado blew. Had I been in
word "document," the Attomey Gen-Me Komp submitted that that
Referring to the meaning of the value. Honkong I would have called it The second readings of the Bills to typhoon. I am no judge of wind
enal quoted from the Ordinance as finding was good as three people amend the Medical Registration force, but recalling my experience On the last three nights of the folows: A document is false with. could be defrauded by the documents Ordinance and
the maintenance of several typhoons, I declare this Ubinese year, the old enstom is to the whole or any material part there.
in the meaning of this Ordinance Order Ordinance will also bewind was a strong. It did the bave a fair in the streets round about of purports to be made by or on be proceeded with and the Council will same kind of tricks that typhoons the Western Herket. resume, in committes, the discussion do, For two nights we have had used to be that on these nights fine not make it or authorise its making." The tradition half or on account of a person who did of the Mui Tas Bill:
no electric light. Lots of trees and bargains, remarkably cheap to the In other words & document was cap wires down. (Here they bring bayer, can be made, owing to the able of forgery, however wide, the electric lights out to suburbs a Chinese desire to settle all their ac- Shaukivan or Pokfulam, and five counts and start the new your square, terms or in its purport hald fell out be defrauded when it inadvertently term might be, if it either in express at the Bank. And the Bank might points in we every night cost about Twenty years ago very good articles, to be made by some person who did accepted the documents. $2 per month, say $4 of your especially second-hand, ared to be money.)
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
TOMORROW'S NEW BILL.'
carried on.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
*
Lady Leveson and the Misses on the H. M. 9.8. ** Angkor," Leveson came down from Shanghai
One Chinese case of anall-pox and one British and two Chinese cases of diphtheria were reported yesterday.
The hours at which the Dairy Farm Company will be open during the Chinese New Year holidays are advertised to-day.
Whatever happens now, Mr. Benar Law cannot see any bope. "Com The China Mail.mitted to this policy, France is bound to go through with it.”. At the best that means the present political and The ladies' section of the Gall economic chaos Mr. Ramsay Macdon-Club is holding the "Panch Bowl ald deplored in the House of Commons Competition" March 6. The crippling Europe indefinitely; at the wont Germany's sullen resistance
MTRUKI, - JUSTION, PUBLIC SKIVICE "
„Hoxaxong, Widnesday, Feb. 14, 1923.
·HOW 800N NOWI
ditions are advertised.
Ben
Major S. B. Coster, 3/4th hay Grenadiers (EL E.0.1, has bets granted 60 days privilege leave, matting. March 20, for the Purpose of proceeding to ladia.
Jot.
-4
of Chinese sweeta on, the octagonal of foreign-style confectionery instead
lacquer tray or visitors.
not make it.
Foreign traders or bankers have Exchange, the object being to prevent been forbidden the Amsterdam Stock Germans from dominating Datch fionaces.
The Chief Justice: They are stiainly not noter, bille, warments or orders in law, and speaking for my. sif. I am not prepared to say they are valuable sonrities
Kwangel Government. The taker maly, the taker, the Bank and the might be defrauded when he found les piece of paper. The Govern himself in possesion of a wortl mert might be defrauded when it accepted what it could not redeem -
Mr. Ja-tion Gompertz: The point,
bo
not it is a valuable security. I would
He. Kemp: If that is hold, then the making of a cheque in a fotituous name would not be a forgery, but wo know that it is 20 S
The eyelone lifted half our roof posed for sale in this way, and no
Mr. Kempsubmitted that the docu-as raised by the Assistant Attorney ab off. It elewed a neighbour's cot doubt there is some fonadation for tage round on its bass, and it looks, the belief that their owners some mente in question were intended to be the trial, is if they are not valuable though still standing, as if it will times old them for less than passed as curry, as it was stated on securities, why are they madei Mr. Zeitlyn: This shows prejudice have to be rebuilt. It picked up they were worth. The tradition the back to be for current use for our chicken-house and carried it a lingers on. Still crowds of people payment of taxe." Carrancy implied, on the matter.
sooner or later, convertibility,
The Judge: The jury decided on distance upside down, dumping it perambulate those streets, hoping to eventually, in pancake form. profit, by the suppose), necmaity of
Proaneding to comment on the that point. Casualties one. I am still (15th) the Chinese vendors. But the fair evidence at the trial, the Attorney Mr. Kemp, proceeding, said that to weather bound, and have not been has almost completely changed its General said that Mr. Banker's 80 a little further, he would submit able to get out to inspect damage character. The second hand treasures Bank had ceased to exist but that the even made in the name of a
evidence showed not that the Kwangsi that supposing the documents were in other parts. The street cars are no more in each evidence. Instead have not been running, so I expect the streets are lined with stalle laden Bank did exist in another place, existent bank, my the Bank of to see worse things when I leave with new stuff manufactured-it the evidence certainly showed that the securities for the payment of money
Mr. Zeitlyn disagreed. Ille note of Timbuctoo, if they purported to coated, still end, though would seem specially for such ocuk had cested to exist altogether they were forgeries,
it has comes in vicious casions. The foreigner who goes to try squalls. I am huddled in a corner to get some genuine Chinese curio, the Bank had nosed its doom that did back to the question of whether or The Attorney-Gansrät said that it The Chief Justice: That bring in to windward, while the cottage is some treasure of Chinese manual art, not mean to say that it had ossed to inciting the French to further oppees
that when's wind of typhoon force will be cffered factory stuff, certain erist, Even it the Bank had ceased to not go so far as to say if it purports rapidly disintegrating. I perceive Europe's cutlook grows blacker signs until open conflict results. And
manages to bite off one piece of a ly no cheaper than it is worth.est he still thought the conviction to be a security for payment of
The striking feature of the fair must be confirmed.
A every day. Confirming the warst this second alternative is the danger
wooden bungalow, it easily cate the
money it is a valuable recurity. I' is truly wonderful show of At this stage the bearing was adam with Mr. Zoitlyn on that point. predictions, latest news from the Mr. Ronar Law sees coming later. But
So, whatever it costs you, I now plants. There are streets and avenues journed until this morning when Mz Rohr is weighted with evil forebod, not so very much later, one fears with
The total outpat of the Kailas admit that you had better stick to of planta in pots. There are ings. English correspondente describe pasions already running high, the Mining Administration's minss for the ferro-contrate, brick, or stone; and chrysanthemums in bloom. There Kemp resumed his address. the atmosphers as electrical, with, French nervous and the German arenanted to 35,510 tons and build to land a blow are 3 orange trees in fruit, including
the Salu :
18th, Later. both sides feeling the strain, the bitter." When the moment arrives it daring the period to 74,787 tous.
some curious malformations due to
Mr. Justion Gomperts: The point My neighbour's cottage is down the misguided ignannity of the French nervous and the Germans will find France faced with a fòr-
nowa twisted heap of firewood gardeners. There is a fits show of
isific, isvinot a valuable The remains of a Chinese boy, 18 and, furniture. I am under the fee those characteristic examples of this morning, Mr. Justice Gompertz Yes, my Lord
security the first count must fill- bittor. Already "incidenta" bave many seething with anger, burning for
revenge, and eager to enter a war of years of age, ware removed to the of a wall built of blocks of Lavn, artificially stunted trees and shrubs, said that he had been considering the Dealing with the second count, Mr. cconized, and any moment might see liberation." That is the danger mortuary yesterday. He was knock with my ruin coat anchored down To be particularly admired are the analogy of the document in question, Kemp said that the forging of s'doct rams bigger clash which will fan Face provoked when she placed from Sheungahui at the 189 milestone, when I can get an express-man known as the Chinese "lucky flower" and not a banknote according to the writing anticling the holder to some ed down and killed by the 8.13 train as a tent. I shall move to a hotel peonies. The flowering shrub that leand bad concluded it was a state note ment might include any specific -Germany's smouldering sullenness ander her yoko milions - cordially
to collect my gear. The telephone
present in good supply
proclamation printed on the back of thing, big or small. Then again, the detesting her role. That, moreover, in | Last night's game at the V.RO isn't working. I am dying for a become so critical that the British the danger which is fast coming in the Billiards Championship of the ought long enough to light up of millions of Boston garters, teil- Bink. He had poured a number of would constitute forgery of
For the reat the main impression is it although inued by the Kwange forging of a wolper or Colony, reulted in a comfortable light long enough to up. If lions of factory socks, and thousands notes from the Banks. On the Binge document Premier finds himself unable to ty nearer. Truly, Europe's outlook grow for Mr. B. F. Luz. His opponent nobis. Apples and bananas for of cloth cape out on the modal knowa | pere and the Japanes
the wind continues. Ora pro whether it will be possible for thẻ l
Dios Tikes Hongkong Club chis for long British troops to remain at Cologne,
se Whitechapel $8. - There is also a ❘ thưre - was players made a break of 38,999 S breakfast.
Pay roast beef, for example, to which a Mr. Boner Law appears to think that
16th big show of the usual fair trumpery, on demand. Taking
Wall member signs his name and it goes the entente has not yet been
Still alive. Storm over. Very paper math dolls for the little-Chin | comm called Mes Shewan Tomes and Cobusy rebuilding or mither collect se, peacock feather ornaments and however, there was no
through to the accounts. It would be rotocably ended, but this does not
the general managers, notify that the ing the material with which to re-so on. Captain R, B. Khare, I: MLS. China Light and Power Coy, will du build. This time we will fix wire
impossible to fogo it, because a as official blaar chit does not entitle anyone pravdnt him saying what France's is appointed to perform the duties of continus the supply of clentricity be stays to the roof, ship lashma, in classic ways, by the shooting of the How The "fun of the fair", is maintained. | corre
arlament. to any spreifio artide, but supposing aggressive policy has long madeclear" Ophthalmological Specialist to thetween the hours of 9.50a.m. and
ha, was doubtful if gold chits are issued in books to members, ranquest, not reparations, inspired the troops in Hongkong, in addition to
abury his own duties.
pm on Friday, February 16, owing
entiling them, “. on<<* Rubr invasion. In Mr. Bonat Law's
to alterations at the generating news cautious words, "car of insecurity The following is an extract form
ato fame. Indeed, matters have
blacker avery day. P
LOGAL AND GENERAL.
Mr. Ho Bou Ching, scored 453. Both
station.
lay behind the measures-fear which London Gazelle, dated, 9th Janusty The "Samaria," which will seemingly never be satitied until The King's Regiment Major N, E. Fration secures the Rhine, her "only B. Grounds retires on retired pay, 9th
natural Frontier.”
January, 1929, and is granted the rank of Lient. Colonel, da
Водат Mr
··Law's state- ment Implies that France
Sir John Pater, who has just lahi under the down the reins as agent in Singapore have been labouring defusion that the Ruhr invasion
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, would yield the overdue reparations
after directing its local) 1911, left laat work for "Evants have turned out u
companied by L setly de I feared, namely that Frapos thence proceeding Home
merica.
and le Hongkong estly in through the Buen Canal, the large радиоди has been to arranged that will be visiting for tries, namely Japan as the beat
Damage
One.
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Cook toutreach
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done. (according mens) over $100,000,000!
heee lady killed by foll:
the car
TO-DAY'S ARGUMENT.
Immediately after the Court sat
Bredbury
prop
sellers, and mixtnie of metallic could be obtained for a noises. It will be notaler, to night | and |« Mr. Zeitlyn mid-he could char. |the ren earnest bargain hunters point if he were allowe
Fang huck for to mo night cars at homedaring the Wa when, in the last hour of the old year, ha'regretten ta say he the despa
vendor is sup: whom he (Cosme) sing you offer for - obtained gold (which
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posed to açoe
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for talling the gold
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DAYIZ
label
the chits, to that particular plate of food, then any imitation of the chib tea forgy
By Mrg Zeitlyn, in bia reply to this
took forhiseramp
currency Bot:
that
tha
It would
both puinte