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ARMED ROBBERIES PRE- VALENT.
ARRIVALS.
Hongkong does not scam to have Hydrangea. (Chin On) form- With little more than two weeks a monopoly of armed robberies. In Swatow,-Co's Wharf, before the Hongkong Interport Canton, where this class of offence Tands, (B.I.S.N.) from Calcutta, Regatta (on March 17), the Bhang- usually meets with capital punish-Singapore. Co's Wharf.
Haihong, (Douglas & Co.) from hai four have much hard work be. ment, occasions are mro of armed.
desperadoes catering houson and Feechow, Swatow.-Co's Wharf. fore them. With crews from Can holding up inuntes, but within the Anjos, (Wing Tan) from. Kiukiang. tan, Singapore and the Clown Colony against them, the main last week, thres med robberies Co's Wharf.
have been reported, two in the old, event-the Interport l'oun-16. city and one in the western suburb,
bound to prove a still one.
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Korea Maru, (T.K.K.) from · San Francisco, Shangbai.-Al.
rowing standard' undoubtedly will in each case the robbers got away, Chili, (B. & S.) from Saigon.
be of a high order.
with booly to the value of over $1,000.
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Hang Sang. (J. M. & Co.) for Bang- kok, Swatow-March 7.
New Marthilde, (Yik Tai) for Hai- ploug.-March 7.
Mores, (P. & 0.) for London, Bing apore.-March 7.
Younna, (B. & 8.) for Hsipbong. Hoihow-March 7,
Amherst, (On Fat) for Hoiboy.- March 7.
Toba Marn, (N," Y. K.) for Naw York, Shanghai-March 7.
Ginyo Maru, (T. K. K.) for Vol- paraien, Moji.—March 7,
Persia Maru, (T. K. K.) for Osaka, Keelang-March 7.
Anjou, (Wing Tai) for Kongmon.- Murah 7..
Choong Shing, (J. M. & Co.) for Tientain.-March 7.
Hwah Hsin (Kin Tye Lung), for Bangkok.-March 7.
Tjimanoek. (J. C. J. L.) for Dairen, Shanghai-March 7.
O. P. Lecog, (M. M. Cie.) for Sai gon.-March
It is unfortunate for Shanghat (euyn Llo, N.-C., Daily News) that the invitation was not sent carlier. The local four will scarcely have bad fivo weeks in which to got together, which is not nearly long enough for ARMS IMPORTATION.
them to do justice to themselves as
Honolala Mara, (0.8.K.) from a crew. They have not rowed toge. Mr. W. J. E. Mackenzio, the Yokohama, Shanghai.-Wharf. NEED FOR SEVERITY..
thar as a crow prior to the present.
Amakura Maru,(0.8.K.) from training, yet it is surprising to fut Colonial Veterinary Surgeon giving HONGKONG'S "ADHIRABLE LEAD,"
then adapting themselves one to evidence in the cruelty to pigs care "Keclang, Bwatow. What another in the short time they have this morning said that he would not Meidoa Maro, (M.B.K.) from
have allowed the pigs to be carried Natuna.-Kowloon Bay, Whatever measures are adopted
They to suppress piracy, their already bad for practice.
To do full justice to an event so in the manner described. When Western flapper decided to success will be only partial until important as an interport race in aliould have been placed in crates "bob" their hair and look smart, public order is firmly established in fours, at least three months' rigor. and stacked two high and 'not made they could not have devised a better the neighbouring Chinese terrious training is required to attain to lie on their backs.
His Worship, Mr. J. R. Wool, This statement is from anything like a high standard of means to affect the hairnet industry torios. in China but this is, of course, a fact, thus concluding remark of the Com- asmanship, especially when it is imposed a fine of $10 on the junk so native manufacturom bave learnt which equired into and ralized that in this time fully a master who had brought them from
Sonmei. to their sorrow. And in the United recently reported on the "Sui-An" month should be devoted to pair-our Owing to States, dealors in hairnets bava spentacy in South China waters lust tubbing on fixed seats.
November. I conveys a truth, the very limited time for practice, thousands of dollars in conducting ays Shipping and Engineering the crew have had to do work in propaganda, either by means of anghai), that none with say pairs during the early morning or special articles, or by advertising, for knowledge of conditions in China at tiffin time, as well as going out the abolition of such unwomanly a question, though it might have in their four at 5 p.. to battle things as bobbing" the bair,
been amplified by the statement with the choppy, broken waters of Very little was known of the hairnet that the lack of public order in the Hung. Nowadays there is industry in Chins until recent years China, while the primarily to the hardly a tolerable stretch of cal when it assumed an abnormal big various militaristic factions that in water to be found on the river on nose." The industry was first started fest the land from Mukden to Can-winch a crew can settle down to do in Shantung by the Germans, who, may also be ascribed in any serious rowing. realized the enormous possiblities of small degree to the widesprea! During the last week-end the are laying a sotion of Little St. cheap labour and the quantity of aggling of arms and ammunition crow travelled to Henli, where, Andrew-stroot, where it joins St. human hair available in this country into Hongkong und China, in which despite a fairly strong northerly Martin's-lape, with blocks of a special rubber composition. Four during the days of the Manchus. It importation, unfortunately, the for- wind, some good practice was done, hard
eigner cannot by any means be held Considerable progress was notice- hundred vehicles an hour poes through has been said that the source of supply to be guiltless. Many of the wea- able. As the crew sat in their mar the street, so that the site for the of hairnets made. in Shantung was kept a secret until a London bayer ons thus imported" find their rowest boat they were nevertheless experiment has been well choses.
way to the followers of the various inclined to hasten forward on their Some three resre ago a similar teet Bocidentally discovered in a package military parties, while many others sides independently which caused was made by the Southwark Borough of bairneta sume Chinese characters. are secured by the bands of robbers, their beginning to be irregular aud Council, who paved a portion of one Once the source of supply became brigands and pirates which, lacking in firmness.
of their streets with a rubber cora. known, competition became very keen, although operating chiefly in the The first four to go out were :-
position, and considerable knowledya German firme that had started the South, may be found in practically Schlobohm (stroke). E. S. J. Phil was gained from the experiment, businese, and had hitbarto dominated every part of China.
lips (9), R. J. Collar (2) and For a variety of reasons the early it exclusively, began to find foreign As evidence that responsible Schweizer (bow). In respect of trials were admittedly not anfficiently competiton who cant their representa-level-minded Chinese themselves their blade work they managed to successful, and in the latest type of tives out to China to engage in the realize and appreciate the fact that keep fairly well together, but were block it is hoped that the drawbacks Aama industry.
the importation of arts is a national much too slow at recovery, at timer Teingtao, and after the world-war. danger und anything that tends to much too quick forward with their then encountered bave been over- Chefoo, became the principal porte ofe of disadvantage to China must sides, and irregular in their-body come. The blocks now being used export for hairnets. In the latter port, timately react adversely on the swing. Some of the crew carry on have a surface of eight inches by. thousands of workmen were scen daily foreigner here we need only quote the swing too far, while others do four, the depth being three inches. Those Upon a vulcanite base is a five-eighth attending to their work. Chinese from a statement made by Mr. not get back far enough. female servants, who formerly could Francia Zia, on behalf of the Gen- that lean too far have the tendency inch layer of robber compound, con- be employed at from two to three Chamber of Commerce of to hang at the finish of the stroke, taining 38 per sent, of pure rubber. dollars per month, would not now donghai (Chinese) at the recent and those who sit ton erect when This, it is claimed, is neither too solt moeting of the Association of Bri- the slide is at the backstops have nor too hard, and is not affected by oil household. work, which in Chinese fish Chambers of Commerce in the common fault of bringing the from motors, aun, rain, saaw or refur. bomes Issta from early mora until late China. Mr. Zia said, in part: arm to work too Hoop into action. The blocks are laid with pitch on a at night, as they could easily earn
Our Chamber has recently in thus causing their blades to leave concrete foundation the sides being from $12 to $15 a month for making augurated an energetic movement the water before the stroke has been grooved so as to interleuk. bairnete, and work a few number for the purpose of effecting the cur- properly and evenly pulled through
In some former expericiente it wae of hours. When the industry was in tailment of the army. By reducing and the shoulders rowed back. found that with wear the surlare ita prosperous days, it is estimated the army, the wastage of national Another combination tried at that some thirty million dollars' worth expenditure will, in a large way, be Henli was the following:-Schlo tended to peel off, and so to prevent this lamination the now blacks are of hairnata were exported annually avoided. With this aim in view, bolun (stroke), J. E. Brown (3), from various points in Obina, chiody we have appealed, through the vari Collar (2), and Schweizer (bow), not made in lavers, but by an entirely The advantages from Chefoo, Tsingtao, Tientela and ous foreign Chambers of Commerce Beyond the boat being apparently different process. Shanghai.
ar Shanghai, to the friendly Powers, more lively and quicker on the claimed on behalf of a road surfaced The industry was threatened atliciting their assistance in for caleli, there was no difference in its with these blocks, are that it is notas- less, thok with it there is no slipping various times by reckless handling on bidding rigidly the importation into race through the water." the part of exporters, by bad legisin China of munitions and weapons of In the pair event at Hongkong, of horses or pedestrians or skidding of tion on the part of the Chinese War; and, on the whole, the replies Shanghal will be represented by motor vehicles, that it makes no dust, received were in the nature of ens- Schlohohia and Collar, and in the and in easily cleaned, and is therefore Government, and by careless packing, phatic assurances that our appeal half mile race in tub sculls by sanitary. The trade requires 90 per cent. of has been sympathetically consider Schweizer. perfect neta upon arrival at destinaed and will be warily supported. į tion. In 1920-1922, the demand in But in order that this movement the United States was so great that may meet with the success which it
.
The blocks have been made by the Leyland and Birmingham Rubber Co., for Rubber Roadways, Itó.. and ara being laid at the expenes of the Borough Council, who are making a further experiment in the same street,
exporters shipped over enormous eminently deserves, it is absolutely tion of the lethal weapons thus in quantities which turned out to be essential for our foreign friends in ported do come across the Pacific, defective upon arrival, with bat 40 China, to do their very utmost to there is a lot of this kind of sing but in this cass the rabber surface of to 15 per cent. of perfect nets, with prevent, se far as it lies in their gling for more than most people the block being experimposed on a the result that large eums of money power, the importation of arms and imagine-carried out on ships that
were lost and huge quantities of the weapons of war of every descrip- come from the ports of Western concrete base. In both cases the price note being thrown on the market. tion. In the past, instances have Europe; and it is these vessels that is the same, namely, £4 per square For sometime the "bobbing" of the not been wanting revealing the re- require quite as much vigilance yard, as compared with 118. to 128. Gd. hair of girls in America has helped to grettable incompleteness of this from the Customs authorities as do per square yard for wood. This high depress the business, and the trade in particular kind of co-operation. those from North America. With cost in a tremendous disadvantage, some European even taking into account that the life. America is said to have spent thous However, with the wholehearted the currency of
how
ands of dollars in propaganda work co-operation of foreign inerchants countries at a very low ebby pistols of the rubber would be far greater in order to retain the business by in Chins in stopping these imports, and ammunition can be purchased than that of the wood. The result of urging women not to indulge in such and with the Chinese merchante at ridiculously cheap prices in Far this enterprising experiment will be follishness as "Lobbing" of hair. If striving vigorously to bring their Eastern curroney, and we believe it watched with considerable interest by! army reduction movement to a is not uncommon for a gun-runner the other Borough Councils, and they succeed in arreating this bob successful issue, the object of the to get arms from Europe, making should decide the question as to bing" crase on the pars of American movement will, at no distant date. as inuch as 900 or 1,000 per cant. whether rubber is ever likely to be a women, they will help considerably in become an accomplished fact, and profit, and then call them in China reliable substitute for wood paving. maintaining the trade in hairzets. with this, will be eliminated the at a price not considered unreason-
From the very beginning, the Chi- main cause of disorder in the coun- able by the purchasers. netc Government levied little or no try,"
Chinese themselves are tax on the industry, but last year,
We have said before, and we into the country may constitute a! realizing that every gun smuggled owing to an empty treasury, a sugges meiterate with emphasis, that the nail in China's national coffin. A tion on the part of the Government to chief preventative of the smuggling country not possessing the elements lavy a heavy tax was mentioned, of armis is stern, ruthless measures.
Since the slump in New York in Every person proved to have taken of law and order can never prosper, 1921, business along this line has be part in this nefarious traffic, a traffic and so long as the promiscuous im come stagnant, and hundreds of far more harmful to China than portation of arms and ammunition dealers and manufacturers have had to even that of the smuggling of into China continues, so long will close down. During the past few opium, should without exception be China be in a condition of internal chaos and economic disorganization. months, "exports from China have sentenced to s.long term of rigor. Hongkong has set an adtnirable lead imprisonment, without regard to picked up a little, but it will take nationality or status. What cares in the manner of dealing with considerable time to revive the trade a gan-runner for twenty-nine days smugglers of arms, showing, odch in beirate-at any rate not before imprisonment, or a fine of a few rightly, no more consideration for the anti bobbing" propagande hundred dollars, when he can make the foreigner than for the Chinese; succeeds in reawakening the interest several hundred per cent, on any and if the various foreign authorities of women in the charms of a perfect money he may risk in the venture? at the big parts of China, Shanghai The fact that at Hongkong, quite especially, would adopt measures recently, there have been not a few equally stern, if not more so, and instances of detection of the im- if the Customs authorities, of all
· Enb It In
A good many people think shopmalam, noriation of pistols and ammonition grades were to become avar kenner. sunot be cared without taking nauseous by means of trans-Pacific vessels on the subject than they are at pre- wedicion. Chamberlain's Fain Bal maged thoroughly into tho skla s has given rise to the opinion in some sent, the result would be an almost cured far more thencostiam than any quarters that most of the arms inmediate betterment of a situs don Intergal remedy in existence and gives ortering China by illegal methods which, as we have already stated, là rolf quicker, Formle by all Uhamlats come by way of North Americe, not merely a Chinese acandal, but
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i Wab, (Shun Hing) for Tourane.-March 8.
Hydrangea, (Chiu On) for Swatow. -March 8.-
Pong Tong, (Yaen Seng Fat) for Saigon.-March 8.
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