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GAUNTLETT.-On August 17 1923, at Edinburgh, the wife of Dr. E. G. Gauntlett, D.S.O., C.B.E., of a son.
British Empire. The Dominions To-day's Poem are debarred from following the
(Passing) example they set before the war. Come drink with me but one cup when Australia and New Zealand more.
and South Africa, as well as the To purga our hearts of sorrow; Federated Malay States, provided We know nut what the dawn may capital ships which proved valuable Within the end to-morrow. additions to the Two-Power Stand-
store
and Fleet supported by the Mother We live to-night where friendship Couitry, but Great Britain's rati- reigos.
With Time our silent keeper'; fication was without qualification one sing a song, with glad re- and included all her possessions. fmains.
1923..
The evil that men do lives after Before we meet the Reaper! them. We should regret if any
JOHN KYOTO, appraisement of the worth and work of the late President Iarding innitted to plus at its true worth the significance of the Washington | Conference.
Rewriting the Bible.
CON
Moreover,
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertized
In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
August 27-Coronet Theatre; Douglas Fairbanks in "The Mark Of Zorro."
August 27, Star Theatre; Bryant Washburn in "The Road to London" and Sunshine Sammy in "Saturday Morning."
Wanda Hawley in "Her Face August 27-World Theatre;
Value."
SPORT.
August 31 to September 1-. LR.C. Annual Aquatic Sports at V.R.C.
SOCIAL
ARMS EVIL.
CRIMINAL COURT CASES.
Two urns cases came before the Chief Justice (Sir William Rees Davies) at the Criminal sessions this morning.
MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928,
LUCKY WINNERS
MOTOR TRAGEDY.
DEATH OF MR. HOOPER
L
FUNERAL OF MR. BURLEIGH.
We regret to announce that Mr. HL J. Hooper, who was the first to meet with an accident during Sat-
In the first case it was proved that the prisoner was found at Tai O in possession of two revolvers, an antaunition belt and an electric urday's hill-climbing tests, died in torch case. One of the revolvers the Civil Hospital at 2.20 this morn- was loaded in five of its six cham-ing. Mr. Hooper never recovered bers and the other weapon, which consciousness from the time he was found to be unserviceable, was
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fully loaded. There were nine was picked up. A post-mortem ex- rounds in the belt, two in the torch amination was held this morning, Death was due to fracture, of the Sentencing the prisoner to base of the skull. case and two in the bag. five years' imprisonment with-
Jabour hard
The late Mr. Hooper came out to Justice said that jf here join the Police Force about 3 years had been any evidence before him ago, later being transferred to the to lead him to suppose the prisoner:
the
Chief
he should have passed a very was born in Birmingham, where was just about to commit a felony Prison Départment. Mr. Hooper severe sentence. "The fact of his mother is still residing. Much your being in possession of these sympathy will be felt with Mrs.. two revolvers and all that ammu Hooper in her loss. nition shows," observed His Honour, "that you are a dangerous character who should not be loose in this Colony."
Another Chinese was Indicted for the unlawful possession of dagger.
a
The funeral will take place this evening.
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Star Theatre programme No. 189 issued Thursday August 23 to Saturday August 25.
World Theatre programme No. 969 issued Wednesday August 22 to Saturday August 25.
Patrons of the three Theatres,
The Coronet, The Star and the World are advised to retain their
programmes.
WANCHAI MURDER.
FIGHT OVER FOOTBALL. MR. BURLEIGH'S CAREER, The late Mr. Burleigh, who succumbed on Saturday night to the. Puisne, Judge (Mr. Justice A murder trial was begun before the injuries he had received fa a Gompertz) the Second Court this Sergt. Taylor gave evidence that accident at the motor trials, wis a moring. The prisoner was Mok on the night of July 21, a typhoon native
Gorleston-on-Sea, Tai and he was accused of having night with the No. 6 Signal up, he Yarmouth, England. He served in caused the death of a man named was patrolling the Shaukiwan Road the Great War and arrived in the Lai Fung, alias Lai Fung Tsang, when he noticed the prisoner. He Colony 3 years ago to join the staff The jury wereMessrs W. saw the man put his hand behind of the Taikoo Dockyard as foreman Edwards (foreman), F. Murer, G. his back and then saw something shipwright. Mr. Burleigh was M. O'Connor, M. A. Gomes, T. M.
"The prsioner was found guilty and sentenced to three years in prisonment with hard labour.
of
The Attorney General (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp K.C.) represented the Crown and Mr. Campbell Prosser defended.
fly through the air and fall into very popular among. his fellow Pereira, H. G. Ogden and Shi Yu- the undergrowth. He seized the workers and among the sporting man. prisoner and on searching him community generally. Some two found two packets of pepper in his years ago he took part in the local clothing. A dagger was found boxing contests and proved him next day in the undergrowth near-self a useful man in the ring. Mr. by.
Burleigh, about a year ago,married Mrs. Bryson, a widow with four jury, the Attorney General said Outlining the Crown case to the young children, with whom much that the stabbing which caused the sympathy will be felt.
The funeral took place yesterday about 8 pm. on June 15 in Mac- | death of Lai Fung occurred at afternoon in the Protestant Ceme- Gregor Street, Wanchai, That tery at Happy Valley. The Rev. evening the wife of the deceased H. S. Bailey conducted the service, and two of his brothers were out. The cortège was met at the monaside the shop at No. 15 where Lai According to a Reuter cable including many of deceased's coll- when they saw him coming up the ment by a large number of friends, Fung carried on a rattan business
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
September 1-Dinner Dansant from Athens, the Greek Govern-eagues from Taikoo, where he was street from the direction of Queen's
ment has ratified the Treaty of extremely popular.. Lausanne.
August 31-Lammert Bros., at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, a quantity of valuable household furniture, II a.m..
MEETING.
of the Banque
SERVICE. Memorial Service at 5.30 p.m., in August 31.--St. John's Cathedral memory of the victims in the recent typhoon,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A
P.W.D.
Yesterday at Queen's Road Central, a sanitary department coolie, fifty-five years of age, was accidentally knocked down by motor-lorry No. 638 owned by the Kung Yick poultry depôt.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The
The chief
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Wotherspoon, J, Hansen, R. Gray, He was attacked, he said, by six or N. MacArthur, J. Ashcroft, and F. seven men and, questioned as to the possible motive of the assault, Committee 'Motor Trials was represented by Mr. A. Hicks he said that last year the prisoner (Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph), fokis. Some boys, it appeared, had a fight with his (the deceased's)' Mr. F. P. Frankin, Mr. J. Parsons, was passenger on the outgoing Mr. H. G. Hewitt and Mr. W. J. were playing football and the ball Smith, Amongst others noticed was kicked into deceased's shop. were Messrs W. Patterson, H. W. When the youngsters came in to re- cover it they were turned out. The Chaney, F. Higgins, S. Vergette, J. prisoner came along to help the H. Gelling, J. Forbes, W. Hyde, R boys Sght the fekis and the dis Basa, etc.
Mrs. J. H. Oxberry
President Jefferson."
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Admiral De Robeck was serious ly injured in a motor accident in
Lanarkshire, states a Reuter cable The coffin was carried from turbance was reported to the police. fractured skull and was taken to by members of the Dockyard King-lok demanded
from London. He sustained a
the hearse to the graveside
Afterwards a man named Shap gold
There seems to be a mania at Ltd present among authors for rewriting the Bible. It appears that this pretice is in line with that which provides "outlines" and other pre- feleil short cuts to knowledge, the modern tendency being to reduce all things to such funiliar term and small compass as "the man in the street must understand oufail ingly. We are no longer in a mood to exert ourselves, either in the: pursuit of pleasure or of instruction. Several arguments are brought for ward in support of this habit of recasting the old stories in new Tanfds, of which two are parti. September 1.-Promenade Con- cularly shallow and unconvincing, gert at Hongkong Volunteer Head- First, that a new interpretation of quarters 9.15 p.m. the Bilde is required. Second, thak | children are sei constituted as to beat Repulse Bay Hotel. jumble to appreciate the most vale
AUCTIONS.
mourners were Mrs. J. A. Mead Road East. When Lai Fung was Cable of books in the form in which August 29-Lammert Bros., at
(sister-in-law) and Mr. and Mrs. de opposite No. 9, where the prisoner lived, some men rushed out and it is most commonly read to-day. No. 51 Godown, H. K. Kowloon
motor-lorry on Courcy (brother-in-law and sister-stabbed him. Evidence would be The author of ane lengthy volume Wharf Godown Company Ltd., Saturday afternoon knocked down in-law). Amongst the large atten- given that the accused was seen to the life of Christ makes the 128 bales Indian tobacco leaf 10.45 a Chinese girl three years old, who dance were Mr. J. Reid (Manager stab the deceased. The men dis-
was left in a perambulator by the of the Taikoo Dockyard). Mr. statement in his preface that "the a.m.
an alarm appeared when August 29--Lammert Bros., at road-side. The girl's parents live K. E. Greig (Chief Engineer) raised and on the following mor- | old Gospels must be retranslated for
Mr. R. H. Cousins (Assistant the help of the lost." Why? He No. 18 Godown, H. Kowloon at No. 2, Bullock Lane." does not substantiate his clum loon, a quantity of miscellaneous Wharf Godown Co. Ltd., Kow-
Manager), Messrs. B. E. Fiel-ning the prisoner was seen enter- neither does experience bear it out. goods at II a.ni.
der, M. O'Brien, J. Laing, J. ing his house at No. 9 and was
arrested there. Peterson; D. Haig, J. J. Whyte, A. According to statistics more Bibles
In a dying deposition at the. Hamilton, D. T. Morrison, C. W. are sold to-day than ever before.
Brown, C. Dickens, A. M. Holland, hospital the deceased declared The contention is unthinkable that
P. W. Ramsay, S. C. P. Amery, W. that the prisoner had stabbed him arrived at; decisions which each of the beauty and nobility of the inter-
in the thigh. There were other D. Bell, J. Spiers, E. P. Barker, C. wounds in his abdomen and chest. the Governments who sent repre-pretation embodied in the Bible
H. Summers, R. Wallace, W. Mrs. H. S Burleigh and family, sentatives to the Conference were met the demands of the twentieth secured Creditors of the Hong have, for some reason, failed to December 12-Meeting of Un❤ of 6 Victoria View, Kowloon, de- asked to confirm. This has now century. Why must the figure of kong Branch sire to express their sincere thanks so all friends for sympathy extend been done, and the five greatest Jesus be degraded to the intellectual Industrielle de Chine, at the City ed in their sad bereavement, to Naval Powers have countersigned level of the ordinary citizen? Why Hall, 3 pm. those who attended the funeral and the undertakings given by their be described in language which sent wreaths, and especially to delegates. Great Britain's adesione ordinary citizens? The effect approximates to that used by these those who rendered kindly assis-
immediately after the like that of the United States was prodiated can be only deplorable in tance accident.
|never in doubt. It might have heen the extreme, as though the stark pleated that Great Britain's navn simplicity of the parables' were te power is her min defence against be elaborated for production on the
moition pieture screen. invasion in force, and that liita-hauth the young and the unlettered tion in the two spheres, naval and have for generations been fed by
the hospital unconscious.
ball in compensation for the one staff. Wreaths were sent by military, as well as in the air, must this accepted version; and, although To-morrow afternoon's meet-
relatives and friends as fol- which had been lost and also urged proceed-concurrently. No hesitation some of the modern re-writers may ing of the Sanitary, Board_wili
Mr. C. A. S. Russ and Mr. R. E. lows: the widow, the deceased's the deceased to join the painting ROWE. On August 18, 1923, at has been shown in facing the risk not realise it, perhaps their only authorise the appointment of the A. Webster, solicitors practising mother, "Granny Gerty, Billy employees' union. Two days before
Shanghai, to Mildred, née
gennine service has been to turn Inspector in charge of Refuse in the local courts, have returned and the boys," "Edith, Howard the attack was made the prisoner, Barrow, wife of E. S. Benbow which ratification of the Treaty men back to the Bible of their Removal to the grade of Senior to the Colony after a stay in Amoy and Pamola," Mickie and May," according to the deceased, that Rowe, Esq., F.R.G.S., a daugh- involved, and which meant the fathers and to its spiritual inter- Inspector.
where they repesented the con- 'Annie and Edio,”” Mick,”." Jack, tened to "wring his neck." abandoning definitely of the tradi-pretation. Such a contrast has been
testants of a charter-party action Mimi Charlie and Jean," the Com-Fung died on June 19 and the tional two Power Standard at Sea provided as shows up most effec: Japanese merchants have sustained
According to the Shunpao, local before H. B. M. Consul.
mittee for the Motor Trials, the Prisoner when charged with mur Hongkong Telegraph, Messrs. Butter He contended that Lai Fung ac der denied assaulting the deceased and agreeing that the battle fleet ofely the qualities of the sham and losses, as a result of the boycott, of the real. It is just well for
It is stated in legal circles that field and Swire, The Staff of the all the widely senttered peoples. of us to reflect that modern phrase represents the losses sustained by who was with the late Mr. J. H. Gar- koo Club, Institution of Engineers/he (Lai Fung) had a grievance amounting to $250,000. This figure Mr. Thomas Rowan, a solicitor Taikoo Sugar Refinery. The Tai- cused him of the assault because the British Empire, numbering ology is necessarily ephemeral at small merchants only, no report diner before going to Singapore, is and Shipbuilders of Hongkong. upwards of 450,000,000 shouht be best; it must pass, while not only being made regarding the larger returning to practise in the Colony. no stronger than that of the United as the magnificent English of the firms, States. That was a notable gesture and beauty, but it has stood con- Bible proved of permanent worth
An attempt was made on the in favour of the reduction of navies, sistently as the ideal before the gaze life of 'Marshal Wu Pei-fu on the
Mr. J. Ashcroft, two East Anglian friends Messrs. W. R. Andrews Japan speedily came into line with of all literary stylists.
morning of August 18, states the
A Reuter cable from London an- and H. W. Chaney. Mr. and Mrs. the two English-speaking peoples
Eastern Times, as the famous Chibli general was inspecting his Bounces the death of the American E. Bunje, Mr. and Mrs. E. Barker, though the Treaty involved the
authoress, Kate Douglas Wiggin Mr. C.W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A MINISTER SECURED. troops. The would-be assassin (Mrs. George Christopher Riggs). Bell, Mrs. J. S. Brown, Mr. F. Clark, abandonment of ลบก ambitious Saturday's Tragedies.
threw a bomb at Marshaff W, but Mrs. George Christopher Riggs or Mr. R. Clark, Mr. R. H. Cousins, Mr. scheme of shipbuilding. Italy rati-
this failed to hit him. Nobody else ganised the first free kindergartens and Mrs. Chas Dickens, and family,
Mr. E. B. Cubey, the hon. fied in February last, and now hill-climbing contests at the Hong-bomb-thrower was caught.
As a result of recidents during the appears to have been hurt. The for the poor on the Pacific coast. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Duncan, Mr. R. secretary of the Union Church, an interesting announce- France who regarded it with doubt kong Motor Trials, held at Tsin
Among her numerous publications Earnshaw, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.Eld-made has taken the same step. Thus the Wan Hill on Saturday, two local By making a hole in the back are Timothy's Quest; Polly Oliver's ridge and boys, Mr. Claude Earn ment at the services yesterday Problem; A Summer in a Canon; shaw, Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Fraser, Mr regarding the proposed Union The suggestion made by the late "Naval Holiday has begun and until residents have lost their lives. The of No. 310, Shanghai Street, which The Story of Patsy: The Republic P. T, and Miss Farrell, Mr. R. B. Church for Kowloon. Mr. Cuber President Harding resulting in what 1991 the peoples of the world may teste took place contained a manber robbers secured admittance early
course over which the hill-climbing used as a piecegoods shop, three of Childhood and Mother Carey, Flower, Mr. Henry B. Flower, Mr. said: "Some three months ago the is known as the Washington Con-expect to be free from the nerve-of twists and turns, which would on Saturday morning and held up
A. Gourdin, Mr. and Mrs. K. E. seatholders authorised the Com- the inmates with a dagger and Mr. Stewart Ogilvie of Messrs. Greig, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gray,mittee to try and secure a Minister most far-reaching and beneficent wild race for naval power which has enced at the game. The object act of statesmanship of his period been such a regrettable feature of of nhill-climbing competi- valued at $60. At Whitfeld Road Mrs Ogilvie, No. 2, Victoria View, Heywood Gelling, Mr. W. Hyde, good offices of the Rev. W. Nelson
tion, we of office. The **naval holiday," an world politics.
presume, is to test at about the same time, a Chinese Kowloon, was injured whilst riding Mr. S. Hoyle, Mr. S. G. W. Horni- Bitton, the Home Secretary of the Henderson de Luxe' blow, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Hewitt, London Missionary Society, the The "Holiday" the climbing powers of a machine woman was stopped in a ricsha, a new ideal recommended by Great Britain constitutes a great act of faith, and not the ability of a skilfully steered After the coolie had taken to his Motor-cycle on Friday night. Near Mr. D. Haig, Mr. and Mrs. A. offer was placed before the Rev. to the Germans more than ten years in terane of money will represent the machine to negotiate S. curves and heels, the footpads relleved the the Fo Hing theatre at Yaumati, his Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Horace Johnston, B.A., who has Mr. Johnston is a Minister of the aro and rejected by them was re-largest economy ever effected by other intricate bends In Europe victim of $5 and a pair of ear-rings. machine collided with motor-car Holland, Mr. L. B. Jefford, Mr. and accepted the Invitation.
No. 792 and Mr. Ogilvie was thrown-Mrs. W. W. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. and America, we are informed, such viewed in cleaner and clearer international agreement, for events, tests take place on a practically
to the ground. He is at the Gov. W. Kerr, Mr. and Mrs. J. Laing, Presbyterian Church of England The typhoon that recently erament Civil Hospital and his Mr. A. H. Mason, Mr. E. Moore, who has had six years' experience swept the Shanghai district atmosphere by the Inte President prior to the holding of the Confer-straight gradient. On Saturday last eventually arrived in northern condition has improved. His leg Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Maclachlan, in the East End of London, and a Harding with results that are once, proved that all the. Powera we were informed that the course Koren, where according to the the ent arits at the motor trials held Mr. J. W. Paton, Mr. and Mrs, and two years' war service in the is broken, Mr. Ogilvie was one of Mr and Mrs. G. Morrison, similar period in West London, folerably well known.
By the were committed to big programmes bad beer covered at the rate of 51 Nagasaki Press it did great damage. last Saturday bút, of course, could Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Way. Johnston stayed for a short time
miles an hour. "Our sporting corres A valuable salt-bed was flooded by
Neillie, Mr. and Mrs. G. McLeod, Y.M.C.A. A few years ago Mr. decisions of the Conference, not of building. It may be argued that pondent wrote one comment on sea-water and destroyed with fifty only are numerous capital ships to "Holiday" of eight years in such the risk entailed of negotiating hair-million kin of salt, the financial loss
Paterson, Mr. and Mra. James Parin Hongkong on his way to take up stupendous matter and which pin bends at such a pace. We sup-being estimated at four million yen
sons, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ramsay, temporary duty at Kuala Lumpur, he broken up, but it is provided that
Mr. P. W. Ramsay, Mr. and Mrs. J. and those who heard him preach "no new capital ships shall be takes is a long way on the road to Pressed his remarks as we did not Some loss of life is feared. An Mr. U Poi-on, a member of the Russell, Mr. W. Gorvin and Miss here, speak highly of him. Mr. constructed or acquired by any of universal pence, is all too short: wish to throw cold water on the extensive tract of farmland and consulting committee of the China Russell, Mr. W. Robertson, Mr. Maconachie counts us fortunate scheme, fully believing that the hundreds of houses were flooded in Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., and Mrs. James Reid, Mr. and in securing his services, We the contracting Powers, except Also that such an undertaking in organisers would not as they pub- the same district. The River Valu Ltd., died during the week-end and Mrs. J. Saunderson Smith, Mr. arid expect he will arrive in the Colony replacement founaga."* No such perilous times as these, whon jutri-, licly insisted countenance any undue overflowed its banks and many his funeral took place un Saturday, Mrs H Stainfield Mr and Mrs C early in November. Up to the keel can therefore be laid in either gues abound and Europe is the risks being run. To our mind such houses were fundated. It is feared the remains being interred at the H. Summers, Mr. and Mrs. R. Wal-present we are still without a site a British, American, and Japanese storm centre she is, with America contents should only be held on that 300 Chinese were drowned or Chinese Cemetery near Aberdeen lace, Mr. Ernest Wilson, Mr, and (temporary or permanent) for the roads devoid of all dangerous bends injured, Traffic on the South The late Mr. U was the fifth of a Mrs. W. Weir, Mr. and Mr. H. W. new Church, but we hope that soon shipbuilding yard until 1931. holding aloof, is fraught with grave and each competitor, should be an Manchurian Railway was In-family of brothers who are well- Weyler, Mr. and Mrs. T. Young something may eventuate in this These, roughly were the decisions national and international perils-experienced river and be medically tesrupted by flood.
J-known in local business circles., and others.
ter.
DEATH.
QUINCEY-On August 17, 1923, at Shanghai, William Quincey, aged 76.
The China Mail.
Boroxena, Monday, Aug. 27, 1923.
THE NAVAL HOLIDAY.
The Ex-Active Service Men's As Mr. Rowan was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School and is an
sociation (1914-1918), the Victoria View Mess, Mr. and Mrs. D. Austin,
LL.B.
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against him.
(Proceeding).
KOWLOON'S UNION CHURCH.
ference will be looked upon as the racking and faxing suspense of the try the nerves of riders exp choppers. They escaped with loot Loxley and Co., son of Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. J. Gardner, Mr. for the work, and, thanks to the
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