THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1923
STEEL
GRIP.
RUHR CORDON STILL TIGHTER
STATE OF SIEGE.
(Reuter's Service to the China Mai.)
OBITUARY.
LOCAL SOCIAL WORK
MRS. CAROLINE SCHMIDT. HONOUR TO WHOM HONOUR
IN. DUE.
OLD HONGKONG RESIDENT
La connection with the Reuter dispatch angouncing that the Daily on Miss Pitts, presumably for service to obtain, the abolition of Mui Tsai in Hongkong, Ching Mall reporter called upon Mr. J. M. Wong, Chairman of the local Anik | Mni Tsai Society,
THE CHINA MAIL.
· DISHONEST BOY.
STOLE HIS MASTER'S CUFF LINKS,
CORRESPONDENCE
OUR TREES.
Hongkong lost one of its oldest residents yesterday when Mrs. COLOGNE, July 5. Carolinc Johanne Georgine The cordon round the Ruhr oc-Schmidt died at her home in News, apropos the MB.E. conferred of cuff-links valued at $50 and authority to trim the various) cupied territories has been as close Chatham Road Kowloon. Mrs. as possible. There are stationary Schmidt, who was 81, was the patrols within sight of each other, widow of the late Mr. William while Aying patrols are engaged Schmidt and the mother of Mrs. in preventing evasion through B. R. Branch. fielda and by-paths. Severe rest- rictions on Aix-a-Chapelle include prohibition of the use of taxicabs by Germans. The only motor vehicles allowed are doctors' cars and.milk-distributing lorries.
are Measurer.
It is reliably understood that the hostages taken in connection with the Duisbarg , explosion being subjected to severest prison discipline. They are not permitted to receive any visits whatsoever and are only allowed the ordinary prison food.
The French have suspended the Duesseldof deputy Nachrichten for three months. Martial law at Duisburg has been extended to in- clude Ruhrout, Mulhelm, Oberbau- sen and Hamborn which have been
entirely cut off.
WHY MISS PITTS GOT THE M.B.EA house-servant employed by (To the Editor of the China Mail.) Mr. B. Monfolth Webb who lives at Mount Davis; near Pokfoolumn Road was charged before Mr. J. R. Wood Sir-The time lids arrived, or is this morning with the theft of a pair poor arriving, for the "proper penknife valued at $5.
Mr. Webb stated that he had bybiscus abrubs in the Colony. For missed property from time to time, sotme years this "proper authority" Including articles of clothing but has considered such trimming to had not been able to fix thể suspicion on defendant. The two copsist in cutting off the upper half articles in question were found in of the tree, apparently, with, the accused's box during search by the object of making the poor shrub police after a complaint had been | fald.
look like a table top. Now, Sir, IĮ venture to suggest the natural slispe] of this abrab as more or lem ovi form, and being a lover of trees and plants, I implore the "proper authority" to cut them into a more or less ovifor shape.
Defendant pleaded gulity and was sentenced to four months hard labour.
*L
QUEEN OF KNIVES.*.
PARIS WOMAN'S CRIME CAREER.
Born in Holstein, she was mar ried in Hongkong at the German Mr. Wong expressed the opinion chapel in 1879. A few months after that the message regarding Miss she had become a widow in 1895 Pitts was incorrect,Miss Pitts her son Hermann, aged 15, died of the Anglican Mission," he said, and her only surviving relative is
was most probably decorated for her daughter Henrietta who is the her work on the commission to en wife of Capt. Branch, the Official quire into child labour in factories in the Colony. The enquiry was the Mrs. Schmidt, who had spent 55 hold under the regime of Sir years in the East without ever Henry May. Coupled with the facts going away from it, had been in that Miss Pitts was never identified fairly good health until quite to any extent with the movement. recently. As. her age
ad-to abolish Mu? Tsai and her long
And while I am troubling you, vanced she unfortunately became and helpful career as a social. deaf and this was responsible for mission worker, and as head
Sir, may I suggest that, if possible; the amobs at the Poek be prosecut- keeping her a good deal at home, of the Eyre Refuge after For many years after the death of the
A woman variously known in ed if they allow the "ofildren in death. of Miss Eyre, criminal circles in Paris as The their charge to break or damago the her husband she and her daughter feel sure the Daily News is Tigress of La Chapelle" and "The bamboos and other trees at the carried on the the gunsmith's shop misinformed with regard to the Queen of Knives, and whose teal Pok All children, we know, have in Beaconsfield Arcade. During reasons behind the bestowal of the name is Lacoste, has been arrested
war she was one of the first M.B.E. on Miss Pitts. "If any de- for the second time for the attem-natural inclination to break to volunteer for sewing and knitt-corations are to be bestowed for sted murder of another woman, branches unless they are told that ing when Lady May called for work done to suppress Mut Tsai,
In 1919 she stabbed a rival to they must not do so, therefore I helpers and her week's output put Lieut-Commander and Mrs, Hasle death. After the crime she disap-suggest that the damage done is many a younger person to shame. wood should be the first to obtain peared and was condemned to really the fault of the amaha. Of a retiring nature, she was alway recognition. Provided the consent death in her absence. Neverthe- I bave been living here a good ready to help anybody in trouble. of the Haslewoods is obtained. I less, she returned to Faris, and for The deepest sympathy will be ram strongly in favour of a petition some time has been conducting a extended to Mrs. Branch in her being presented to His Majesty disorderly house. bereavment.
King George praying' for redress for the injustice done the prince pals in this splendid fight, to quote the Daily News."
PAYING OUR DEBTS. WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN
DONE,
AMERICAN OBLIGATIONS.
LONDON, July 4. In the House of Commons, speaking to the third reading of the Budget, Mr. Joynson Hicks Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, stated that £449,000,000 had been paid off the debt since 1920. We were now
·rid of åll' foreign debts except the American one.
The Premier, Mr. Baldwin, declared that the Government's economic policy consisted of}aim-i ing at stab lisation of prices. He expressed the opinion that the time had not yet come to restore the gold standard.
The Budget passed the third reading by 249 to 445 votes.
HISTORIC EVENT. BRITISH TARS CELEBRATE
FOURTH
MINGLE WITH AMERICANS.
PORTLAND, July 5. Detachments of blue jackets and marines from H.M.S. "Curlew" participated in the Independence Day celebrations here. They marched past the President side by side with American naval and military detachments.
The "Curlew" fired the presi-
the
The funeral takes place to-day, passing the Monument at 5 p.m.
MR: G. A. YOUNG.
The many friends in the Far East of Mr. Jesse Ashton Young will learn with regret of his death. In England.on May 31,
The late Mr. Young joined the local office of Messrs Shewan Tomes in 1905 and remained in Hongkong until 1917. Latterly he was anthorised to sign the firm's
WHERE BETTER?
GAMING IN NEW ·A, P. C. ›
BUILDING.
EXCITING POLICE RAID.
name. In 1917 he was appointed. The new Asiatic Petroleum Co. to succeed the late Mr. H. G. Green building now being erected at the
Recently the police heard of her retura and two detectives went to the house to arrest her. Two great dogs sprang at them and were despatched with difficulty.
When the detectives attempted | to handcuff Lacoste and another woman who was with her, the "Tigress" screamed Burglars!" and a number of men working near by came to her assistance. The detectives, after a rough and tumble, explained the situation and took their captives away.
(who was transferred to Bombay corner of Queen's Road and Wy deed, she attacked the woman who where he died) as Manager of the
firm's branch in Kobe. In 1919 Mr. Young retired and has lived in the suburbs of Landon since. Mr. Young was very prominent in local Masonic circles, being a member of the Victoria Lodge, and whilst in Hongkong, was a leading member of the Cathedral Choir. He was a member of the,. Philharmonic Society Committec.
THE BLUE PETER.”
MAGAZINE.
dential salute of six guns. Her staff INTERESTING TRAVEL officers sat on the presidential stand. Mr. Harding, in a sppech, declared that the participation of the "Curlew's" men in the cele brations was an historic event without precedent,
FH.M.S." Curlew" was formerly attached to the China Station.]
سعيد
DUTCH EAST INDIES. --
FRIGHTENING FOREIGN.
CAPITAL.
THE HAGUE, July 5,
A report was read in the Second
Chamber of the States General on
ham Street, seems to be having an
exciting time.
Not long ago, Revenue Officers raided the place to find raw opium being boiled on the very top of the skeleton structure.
At the assizes Lacoste's counsel, on a legal point, secured her acquittal, and she returned to her old haunts. Last week, it is alleg- had been arrested with her and nearly killed her with a knife. The victim, it is declared, was so terrifi ed of the "Queen of Kilves" that she refused to divulge her assail The culprits ant's identity. easily made good their escape The latter visited her in hospital while the revenue men were cling- and, it is alleged, stole her furs an ing precariously to the scaffolding. jewellery from her bedside. Then Since then the building hasmade she went to their joint abode.and further progress and it is notso diff- carried off the furniture: Yester calt now to get up and down. Short-day she was arrested at her ly, afternoon yesterday, Detective mother's house. Sergeant A, L. Neal, with a batch
of Chinese detectives,carried out?' gambling raid." When they reach- ed the fifth floor, the police saw a game of fan tan going on with about fifty workmen playing. The games ters, scattered, the majority risking Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie their lives by jumping into the and Co., have been good enough to fourth floor. Some slid down the send us a copy of The. Blue poles or climbed the steel joists. Peter" which has raised our hopes Not wishing to drive the men, to on the question of good take rash risks, the police satisfied arresting the literature produced in pleasing themselves with form. The magazine is handy in banker and five others,
and is printed on
Mr. C. D. Melbourne, this morn- paper. The result is that the ing, fined the leader $25 and the photographic illustrations with others $2 each
anew
size
art
which the magazine abounds
are clear and artistic. The cover) bears a reproduction of a painting
of the s.s.Rotorina." Inside are
Among the arrivals on the 3.8.1
a bill for the continuation of the scenes from Egypt, India and "Hakene Maru" were the Rt. Hon. duty on agricultural products from Australia, all most pleasing to the Lord Addington, Major-General the Indies during 1923 and the in-eye. The literary matter is excep. Nagao, and Mr. A: R. Pinguet. troduction of a'duty on petrol, tionally good. Beginning with an Many deputies objected to both essay on "The Summer in Egypt" measures. They considered that there is reading matter for all too heavy taxation was driving tastes. The fourth of a series of articles on the growth away much needed foreign capital.
of
the Empire takes pride of. place. Richard Hakluyt NOVA SCOTIA STRIKE. is the subject of an informative essay. Suicide's Wind” by Ruth SYMPATHY MOVEMENT. Alexander is an interesting short story, very well done, whilst the SYDNEY, NOVA SCOTIA, July 4. third episode of the League of Eight thousand coal miners in Laughter is amusing. The peopling the Cape Breton district have of Australia, and Sydney Harbour struck in sympathy with the steel have their own distinctive appeal; workers.
and on top of all this there are briof [Troops were despatched to Cape } book and play reviews. 'Breton, where 4,000 striking steel workers stoned the police, knock- ed down and stunned the magistrate reading the Riot Act and subsequently raided and seriously damaged the Empire Steel Corporation Works.]
“SALVAGING AUSTRIA.
HÖLLAND'S DELEGATE.
WATER SUPPLY.
POSITION NOW DEEMED SATISFACTORY.
LAST MONTH'S FIGURES.
THE HAGUE, July 4- ̈ The total rainfall for June, ac The Government has appointed cording to the figures supplied to Dr. Patyn, former Secretary the P. W. L. by the Royal Observ General of the Foreign Ministry, atory, was 15.72 inches against, an Minister Plenipotentiary for Hol-average of 1593. An average land on the control committee in- rainfall for the first six month of stituted by virtue of the protocol the year is 39.15 inches. This year dealing with the financial and the fall has been 29.27, so that to economic reconstruction of Austria reach normal the July rainfall:||
should reach 23.66, the average for the month being.13.787
EMPIRE PREFERENCE.
NEW ZEALAND'S LEAD.
However, Hongkong's share of rain. is probably better than the Observatory figures indicate, as the -WELLINGTON, July 4. - Botanic Gardens' resord for June During the Budget statement the was-1851 or 477 inches better. -At Prunier Mr. Massey, announced the end of June, the storage on the that it was proposed to abolish the Hongkong side amounted to 671 luty on tea la bulk from British million gallous,& the Kowloon fige ajons and to reduce the duty | tres being 210 nitillon, which the ckets, also the duty on Water Authority considers -natiş”
factory
FATAL ACCIDENT.
Yesterday a Chinese irl who lives at Burrow Street, was knocked down by a motor-car owned by a Mr. Ellis. She died after removal.
many years, and buvo spent a good deal of my time in endeavouring to help the Forestry Department in their beautifying of the place by the planting of treas, etc.
I beg you, Sir, for space in your valuable paper to record this my lament and suggestion.
Yours faithfully, ··
"Hongkong,
TREE LOVER. July 6...
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