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LAST YEAR'S ACTIVITIES,
UHAMBER'S ANNUAL REPORT,
THURSDAY, MAY 8–1928
“HUMAN HABITATION.
MORE ABOUT THE FULL COURT POSER.
HEAVY NAVAL GUNS.
ELEVATION QUESTION, DIS CUSSED.
BRITAIN'S GOOD FAITH.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mall.)
LONDON, May 2.
In the House of Commons,
nboard one of the Hugo Stinnes liners then in port. will possibly not be found recorded among the official minutes of the Club. But a Ger man band playing at an E.A.S.M.A. concert 1 One can imagine what
The Full Court, consisting of Sir the Secretary may have said, This
Rees Davies A review in Chinese has been William Chief Preventive Officer Sissued by Mr. Ip Lat-chuen, the Justice), President, Sir Skinner (Chief Teutonic determination to lot Clarke and Senior Revenue Officer ocrotary of the Chinese General Turner (Judge of H. B. M. Supreme bygones be bygones acome to have G. Watt, acting on information re- Chamber of Commerco, Hongkong, Court, Shanghai), and Mr. Justice extended beyond the trade in jazz ceived, executed a search on the dealing with Chinese trade last Gompertz (uise Judge) sat again Captain Viscount Curzon asked for
From the half yearly report German ship "Anna Keyser" on your
to-day, to hear the continuation of Reference is made to the the case of Nanyang Brothers information regarding the eleva just issued by the Chinese Chamber her arrival yesterday After a losses suffered through the strike Tobacco Co. Ltd., (appellants), vs. tion of and range of heavy guns in of Commerce one learns that the search lasting two hours, the last year and the internecine strife The Procureur General in Hong the British and American fleets, in reslitution of Gorman firms in oficers discovered stowed away in Kwangtung. Of Chinese busi kong of the Societé des Missions view of the recent remarks made
among other cargo 4 cases that ness firmos in Hongkong about Etrangères (respondents).
about them by the Secretary of the Hongkong and neighbouring places they were looking for. On seventy per cent, ended the year has been followed by koen competi-examination : it was found with losses and about twenty Pstructed by Messra G. K. Hall
Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C. in- United States Navy.
Commdr. Eyres-Monsell, Parlia tion regarded as being sure to under that cases had been cent. coukl show a working return Brutton & Co., is appearing with mentary Secretary of the Board of
tampered with and the majority of while about ten per cent. had a Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn for the Admiralty, gave the figures, where cut trade. In consequence, many the Contents removed. Two of the really successful year.
Bellairs asked appellants, while Mr. Eldon Potter upon Commdr. import and export firms are in cases were empty while 91⁄2 pounds The following is a translation of and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed whether, as the Japanese also in- danger of boving to close down. of morphine were in the other two the comment on the activities, of by Messrs Deacon, Harston and tended to increase the elevation of Which goes to show that there is cases. It appeared us if the cargo some of the principal trudos --- Shenton, represents the re guns in all capital-ships, we should
had been broached as cach case Rice Dealera with Annam made spondents.
Rot communicate with both govern- nothing like being a pachydorm should have contained, twenty good profits; inerchants with con- This is an appeal against the ments with a view to stopplag a long as you are sufficiently pachy pounds, making eighty pounds in nections with Tonkin had fair res judgment of the Chief Justice given further race la armaments. dermatous not to mind being called all Apound of this class of turns, while-local retailers suffered in favour of the Procureur General that we did not propose to alter the Conimdr. Eyers-Monsell replied morphine is worth over $300. badly. The export business is in in Hongkong of the Societé des. covery is that the captain maintains the fact that places which Love fast,
A curious feature of the disgrave danger of collapso owing to Missions Etrangères on August that the hatch had not been opened hitherto obtained supplies through
When the Court met this morn since sailing from Hamburg. On Hongkong have begun to deal directing, Mr. Eldon Potter replied on the manifest the cases are said to with the producing centres,
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He had sweet potatoes
stowed away in his pockets sweet potatoes were tied round his waist, sweet potatoes were tied round his leg and he shed
sweet potatoes all the way up to the Station," said Sergeant licensed hawker before Mr. C. D. Elston when prosecuting an un- Melbourne this morning. A fine of $5 or seven days was imposed.
the
SPOONS AND FORKS.
PALACE HOTEL THEFT.
first.
1
2
elevation of our guns, and although the Americans had appropriated money for this purpose they had abandoned the idea on our assur- ance that we were not going to do, sp. (Cheers.) Commdr. Eyres- Mopsell added that Mr. Bellairs
an entirely different << question...
Cutton Yarn. Due to a variety
Before dealing with general of reasons there was very little de points, Counsel asked the judges mand for the greater part of the their minds and ask themselves
to put the Rents Ordinance out of raised your. In the eleventh and twelfth how the ordinary man would moons things brightened up a little, describe the premises at Caroline when the quotations increased; bant Hill, which they had inspected. what littlo profits were made as a The ordinary visitor, Counsel con- result were not sufficient to cover tended, would describe the place
SLAVE TRAFFIC CHARGE
BRITISH LEGATION'S REPORT.
A marine hawker and the master the losses in the elack months. The as a most prosperous tobacco and of a second-hand store, both majority of local dealers suffered cigarette factory. Appellants had
LONDON, May. 2. Chinese, appeared before Mr. J. R. losses.
acknowledged that they were A white paper containing the cor- Wood this morning, on a charge of Banking. This was the only making a profit of $400,000 per respondence as regards slavery in receiving If spoons and 3 forks be-bright spot in the year's trade. annum. If the place could be Abyssinia contains a report by the longing to the Palace Hotel, Kow- Three or four banka registered termed a domestic tenement it British Legation at Adisabeba loon.
about $200,000 profits each. "Partly was а highly artificial one. dated March 30, 1922, which denies Mr.. D. McCallum defended the on account of the change in the Counsel then dwelt on the word the statement that the slave trade in master and Detective Sub-Inspec-system of making loans on security"user" as it applied with regard Abyssinia is increasing and tor Cotton was in charge of the case. instead of promissory notes, and to the use of the supervisors' points out that the slave producing dant said that he had bought the affairs in the interior, which caused that even if the Court found that populated and the frontiers of When asked to plead, first defen- partly to the tarliulout state of sleeping room. Mr. Potter argued districts are gradually being de- articles from a girl and the second the people in Canton and other the cubicle in question was a human Abyssinia now march every where said that he bought them from the places, to deposit their money with habitation, it must find that it was with those of civilised powers.
Sensational allegations regarde local banks, the year was a highly not a human habitation of the class A notice has been posted in the
Evidence was given by the din-successful one. Indeed there was contemplated by the Ordinance, ing slave traffic were made in a Harbour Office to the following ing room No. 1 Bay of the Hotel to no, stringency in the money market Under the Ordinance residential letter to the Times by Major Henry effect; H.M.S. "Iroquois" will be the effect that he saw the articles at any time.
habitation was meant. In this case Darley, ex-frontier agent in South.. surveying in the vicinity of Kiev displayed in the second defen"} Piece Goods-Largely due to the there was no question of a home, West Abyssinia. He declared that Bank, i latitude 10° 02′ N,
the supervisors slept there for an area in South Abyssinia three Longitude 110°00' E., between May A small Chinese girl, who did caused by the sermen's strike, not employers wanted them to sleep depopulated and devastated by interruption of import and export purely business purposes. Their hundred miles square. had been 5 and 10. During this period floating not know her own age and could one firm escaped loss up to the tenth there, so that they would be on the slave traders. A million peopic beacons may be moored in the only reply "I don't know" to most moon. However, with, the eleventh spot in the morning to turn the had been killed or carried into. vicinity of Kiev Bank, and H.M.S. of the questions put to her, also gave moon prices in England suddenly coolies out to work as soon as "the bondage. Each governor seized "Iroquois may also be at anchor evidence but was asked to stand increased and many firms were able whistle goes." Counsel allowed and sold the negro population of on the bank. She will display down as what she said, was to recoup themselves by disposing that the case of the godown-keeper his district: The depopulated area the marks of a telegraph, ship | irrelevant.
of acqumulated stocks et good prices, was entirely different. No one extended from Jiren in Abyssinia Gold Leaf-Comparatively speak-pretended that he lived in a to Toposa in the Sudan which is ing last year was not one third as domestic tenentent."
120 miles over the British frontier.) good as the preceding twelve With regard to "construction," months. The Straits Settlements, Mr. Potter said that "human habita-
dant's shop on April 29.
PAN-AMERICAN PLANS.
The report of a robbery at No A parade of the amahs was held Bangkok, Aanayi, and India were tion" had occasionally been right-1 REORGANIZING. THE UNION.
2t work whilst surveying. Sub-Inspector Cotton told His Mariners are requested to avoid Worship that when 'first defendant this area during the period referred was arrested he stated that the to above.
spoons and forks were sold to him by an amah employed at the hotel. 75, Ngau Bun Tan village, on the but he failed to identify any of formerly the chief consuming coun-ly construed by Counsel for trics. As a result of the low price | appellants, but when it came to the night of April 29, contains a story
His Worship discharged Mr.of the commodity, the high cost of word dwelling," Counsel for of stubborn resistance put up by McCallum's client as no case had living and the increased import duty appellants had remained strangely the tenant against three robbers who ultimately overcame him and been made out against him and the at the above places. Hongkong busi silent. got away with $65.70 in cash and second defendant was subsequent ness anffered extensively. sundries. Awakened by the noisely found not guilty.
caused by one
man
climbing
in through the roof to open the door, for his confederates, the tenant
fitless theme, since the Board is challenged the robbers and a
struggle ensued. "One of the rob now giving proof of its changed atti-bers managed to get hold of "TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE 1tude. Much more interesting is a chopper lying on a table and the thought that yesterday's re-struck the occupant on the head, criminations have led to a frank arms and legs. Before ransacking the house they bound the tenant and his family and gagged them.
Hosaxono, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1823.
YESTERDAY'S EDUCATION
MEETING,
avowal of the Board's "slackness" in the past. For in that lies the hope that, with the new blood keen for reform and the old repenting its sluggish ways, the Education Board Quite apart from the actual forms carried, yesterday's Educ. Will continue its present. active tion Board meeting was notable for policy until it has become a very pae autcome which stmugely real force for good. That, accept might well have very important re-ing its own admissions, it has not aults. Strangely, wo say, because heen in the past. One hesitates to descrediting the Board itself. apportion the blame for these former Yesterday's meeting proved conclu-shortcomings, since the. Govern-
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. C. R. Jonsson, Berthing Officer in the Canton Customs, and Mrs. Jonsson are leaving Canton on home leave, and sail on the
Empress of Australia.”
yesterday..
thern.
LATE SIR HENRY MAY.
TO-DAY'S STATUE UNVEILING.
Flour. There were more losers) than, profit makers. The import statistics showed that the supply
from America amounted
to
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, May 2. The plenary session of the Pan- American Conference has approv The real point for decision wased the compromise method of con- what is a human habitation under stituting the governing board of the Ordinance," said Mr. Potter, the Pan-American Union whereby who quoted various authorities on every American country is repre the subject.
sented in the scheme. This plan Mr. Potter's main contention was provides that any country that a dwelling used by a workman represented diplomatically
not
at
relations between
4,000,000 bags, and from Shanghai and Australia 1,000,000 bags each.
Gunny Bags.So so" was the to facilitate the carrying out of his Washington may choose one of its " general report. After the tenth duties was not a human habitation citizens to sit on the board.
under the Ordinance of 1921.
The delegates adopted the moon the price rase considerably," Counsel went on to argue that political committee's recommenda- thus he ing dealers to tide over the since 1916, profiteering set aside, tions for reorganisation of the Preparations are well in hand for difficulties of the preceding months rents and prices had gone up all Union and extension of the sphere the unveiling this evening, of the trast with the beginning of the year, num was not high rent, when you
Motal Ware. In striking con- round. Rent of $40,000 per an- of activity. statue to the late Sir Henry May dealers enjoyed unusually good busi were making an annual profit of appointed to develop economic and Permanent committees are being G.C.M.G., D.C., LL.D. Covered stands have been erected on three nese during the last few months. $400,000, was another argument commercial sides of the staine, so that the fear Most firms showed eroditable bal- put forward by Mr. Potter.. of getting wet need not prevent ance sheets.. friends of the late Governor from Poultry Business was very bad. Two new lane, or wholesale depots, attending. corner of Wardley St. and Con- was experienced. The only consola
The statue, which stands on the were opened and keen competition naught Road, is the work of the tion for the twelve months was that well-known Australian sculptor,Sir there had bean fel bad debts. Bertrafa Mackennal, K.C.V.Q., ARA. The only inscription is on the side facing the sea. It reads
Sir Francis Henry May
G.C.M.G,, D.C., LL.D.
and Governor of Hongkong
1881-1919
member nations,
Section 41E. of Ordinance 21 was the only section which entitled
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LONDON, May 2, residence, in which case the land
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha an- Sugar. The prices were very lord must supply the tenant with nounces reduced passage fares to stablo until the eleventh and twelfth equivalent accommodation, was Ceylon, the Straits, China and moona, when there was an increase what Mr. Potter termed the clinch-Japan by Etc rgs. first class, and of $4 to $5 per picul.. Not one firming argument in the case. failed to make money.
The case is proceeding.
: 'RUINED CITY,
£6, 16s. second class, beginning with the salling of the" Kashima Mard" from London on May 12,
OPIUM EVIL
sively that the public had very good inent's "olo" policy has undoubted-Elsie Coram of the J. C. Williamson Miss C, Lorimer M.B.E. and Miss
ason for losing faith in the Board. ly bestrewn the path with many Ltd. Gilbert and Sullivan Com- More, it proved that the Board had obatneles that should bave been pany, passed through Hongkong Cater
all confidence in the integrity of Ground Nute-Foreigners lost actually lost faith in itself Mr. A. swept away long ago. However on the P. and O. s.s. "Karmala
Chinese exporters as a result of ship- F. B. Silva-Netto takde both these confession is good for the soul, eyen
Erected By the Public, ments being found in a mouldy and {“. COCKPIT OF KWANGTUNG.” facts clear when he welcomed the the soul of an advisory Board, and Mr. N. Teesdale Mackintosh, re- His Excellency Sir Reginald rotting state on arrival at foreign
DEMAND FOR SUPPRESSION. Board's "clanged altitude." Last we have no doubt that yesterday's gistrar of the Hongkong University, Stubbs, KCMG, will perform the ports.
Nam Pak and Kau Pat Hougs. Lui Chau City, near Kwong Chau A Borrorrondent ➡writes from your the Board, he said, had met little breeze" will have, as we and O. 5. Karmala" Officials, of the Unofficial members of both With the exception of those corry Wan
left for Home on leave by the unveiling ceremony in the presence
SHAROHAL, May 2 on three oregsions and bad done have said, very important, results of the EA.S.M.A, of which he is Councils, members of the Civil ing on rice and sugar busïcess, “all
The Chinese General Chamber of very Fitle. It was not until last for belter education here,
President were amongst those who Service, and subscribers to the firm suffered greatly due to the fargest in this part of the Kwong graphed to the Government de This walled city is one of the Commerce at Shanghai bas tele- Amonth," he added, "that it was
went aboard to wish him bon voyage, fund which was raised for the pur- unsettled conditions at Canton, the Tung province. It used to have munding that the provincial antliori- realised this state of inertness and
pose of erecting the statue high rents and cost of living and the one hundred thousand inhabitants ties be instructed to suppress the
When the late Sir Henry May's general increase in expenditure. inactivity should be abandoned Letting Bygones Be Bygones.
with a thriving trade in connection. Departures by the P. and O. s. resignation; of the Governorship of Coal. There was, keen compet with Canton and Hongkongen opium evil in order to dispel the altogether." That WON
Plain The pachyderm, according to the "Karmala" yesterday, included the Colony owing to ill-health was tion throughout the year. Business present there are not mong public suspicion arising from the enough, but the Chairman, over old system of zoological classifica-dan, Mr. H. & Jones, Mr. H. V. State for the Colonies, in the early Leather. The popularity of foot trade is ufl. This sad state of legalise the traffic in narcotic de
Mrs. Parker Rees, Eng. Com. G.W. announced by the Secretary of was but fair.
thirty thousand people and the reports regarding the intention to anxious to exculpate the officials, tion, was a non-ruminant soimal Wilkinson D. S. O., Major C. H. part of 1919, the Unofficial members wear with rubber soles was chiefly affairs has been caused by the
The Beening Netos understands poly made the indictment stronger, distinguished for the thickness of its Edmonds O. B. E., Mr. and Mrs. of both Councils promptly decided responsible for unsatisfactory se internecine warfare so provalent that the Chamber recently received Supaply charging the Board with have skin. To this class must have Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Tratman.
WE Hollands, Rev. C. B. Price, to initiate a movement for expres torna. Not a low firms lost money for the last twelve years, and the cable from Sir John Jordam sug ing been slack" (his very word. belonged a foreign-looking indiyi-
aing, in a permanent form, the Restaurants. To the marriage large, bold bands of robbers that gesting that the Choinbar should. „community's sense of appreciation boom was attributed a successful infest the Lui Chau peninsula, call the attention of the Govern Members, he said, were entitled to duni dressed in a sort of semi-naval A Reuter cable from London to- of Sir Henry'sinibus record. The year: Cupid was particularly busy Between these two classes they ment to the matter. Courtesy. all meetings, yet it had been left uniform who called in at the day states that Mr. Chao Hain-chu, Hon! Sir Paul, Chuter, C.M.G. In the last two or three months, se have succeeded in running this Daily Bullseinsta to him to call the only three meet L.A.S.M.A. Olub the other day and the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires, Senior anfficial member of this is said to be an unlucky, your place for the time being. It has been gave a farewell luncheon to Phya' the Executive Council and
ings held last year. What; be inquired with a rather gustura Sanpkitch, the Siamese Chargé a close personal friend or nuptial ceremonies. All rental one of the cockpits of Kwong plaintively asked, could-be conclude accent for the
best business shops have both from this? Only that members was, it seemed, in charge of a band up the post of Siamese Minister la was clected Chairman of the Corn-made linge protec
Segretary. He d'Affaires in London, who is taking Sir Henry May for many years, rante catering for marriage dinnera Tung. More than two thirds of the had no business they wished to
in which he himsell blayed der Rome, The Italian Ambassador, pittee which undertook the Boarding Houses. The occasional burat to the ground and many of bring under the Board a notics,
arrangements, and he was mainly influx of refugees from Canion and the private dwellings acela ruins vlutë. HA had heard that the
ical turmoil responsible for raising the fund of other places due After that thoughtful souls will
vage Claʊ– sometimes" - hold concerts.
which Mr. H. Gedge was resulted in good takings, wonder why Mr. Irving Now in band was a very good ban
by Bhipping. Buviesa Was hould have slipyn sich; levarüə
And perhaps Yes, that's alright,
taste to repudiate any suggestion interrupted the Secretary, but
times had changed for the are you where do you doine from
we to assume from his What the Secretary's reply. That the Board
still when the flautist announced him That, however, is a pro-self as the leader of the orchestra
pas presentou pla
Good Hale for the Home
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fuard agalost, bo wa (wsy, cores promp!
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And For
shows Henry's wearing his?
granite:
Chair,
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