TRUESDAY, JANUARY 24 1924.
CORRESPONDENCE.
HELPING PIRATES.
BEFORE THE PUBLIC.
To the Editor of the China Mail.)
Sir, notice in the various Letters of advice to the newspapers oriticising the Piracy Regulations, etc. "no mextion has been runde na to how those Regulations have been observed by those on bird. I maintain that the Timey Regist tions of 1914 are well thought out and cover practically.all the genusl necessary to obviate the pintos hav- ing such an easy job as icy seni to have had lately. We of cou THO recognize it is she surprise element that is the point."*.
Bule 64 of the Piracy Regulations reads "Ships proceeding up way part of the Canton River or Estuary or its tributaries or mouths shall nj night-time urcompany cheh other s much as possible between long- kong and Wangoon or Borch Tigris and romain within ay signalling distance of one another. The hours of departure from Hongkong of way ships so proceeding start be subject to the approval of the Capt. Sups. of the Police.
This rule is not observed, the Castor steamers Kongmont stewin- ers leave Hongkong at 7 pan./
Hon Arthur Ponsonby
Appointed Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the New Labour Ministry,
NEW YEAR LENIENCY. LENIENCY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
delivery of a cut of beef without waiting for it to be weighed out to him. This began the trouble
FARMERS WHO WERE NOT which culminated in complainant
PROFESSORS.
"You are not professors, in your work. I find you gulity but as the Chinese New Year is approaching I will not send you to jail, so don't do it again, remarked Mr. G. N.† Orme to a Chinese man and boy this morning. They appeared be fore His Worship, charged by De tective Sub-Inspector Cotton with false pretences in that they at tempted to palm off a roll of, cash for a roll of Canion twenty-cent pieces.
receiving a letter demanding | $2,000 to be paid to a man with an ivory cigarette holder and a white silk handkerchief at the Sung Emperor's Pavilion, Kow- loon city.
Mr. R.E..A. Webster appeared to support the charge before Mr. G. N. Orme yesterday, and Mr. D. McCallum defended.
After evidence had been taken the case was remanded.
MINUS THE EARS,
:
DEAD CHINESE CHILD
FOUND
APPEASING AN ANGRY GOD.
According to the prosecution, defendants had gone into a money changer's shop and asked that $22 in Hongkong notes be changed into Chinese silver coins. They were given something over $27. After walking a
With a cut on the head and few paces
from the counter, the minus its cars, the dead body of a is alleged man
10 have Chinese child was found by the returned and handed back one roll police on the Chin Wan Road on purporting to contain $10, for it to the mainland yesterday. On be exchanged back into Hongkong examination it was found that the notes. Smelling a rat, the master infant was about six months old opened the roll, which looked and the mutilation had been exactly like his own, but found.wrought after death. The body that it contained cash.
was removed to the Kowloon Defendants claimed that they Mortuary. were farmers who had just sold their produce in the Colony and as Hongkong currency was of no use to them they got it changed. Their claim was that the role of
and they knew nothing about it.
His Worship made the remarks as stated, and ordered the defend- ants to sign a personal bond of $100 each to be of good behaviour for a month. The silver coins and cash will be returned them.
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racing ahead, and for what? LIQUOR TREATY SIGNED. cash was given to them at the shop
cannot enter Konguassa before 6.30 a.m. in the winter months and 6 am, in the sunce nths and by that time it is daylight. If there was a busines-object in thus rushi- ing ahead one could understand it but the slower steamers can make the port at the hour mentioned at they even having of the month. Cecording to the tides to slow down to kill time" so as not to be'ut idig port lexesarię.
If the inster stemmers kept near the slower ones they would ho deterrent to the pirates as th would be able to send up distress signats also being able to run the bouts down that were getting away with the kat.
I think if the pirates were on board and they say another steuner in company t they woukt "put off the job and wait in their opitioner favourile opportunity.
Leaving the wharf earli Euro- pean and guards should have their arms on their jersem al until the end of the voyage.
Why not! A false shame of "Heening seted" combined with a
curelessness.
The grills, losed and a personi. interest taken in seeing all secure. Stups on this run, make three wvoyages & week. Week after week goes on and nothing happens tends to a carelessness which the pirates: spies are quick to note. As In been shown a regular system is Beesstry and the Piracy Re- gulations to blame.
SEVERE BLOW TO RUM, SMUGGLERS
3-MILE LINIT "EXTENDED.
(Renter's American Service.).
WASHINGTON, January 23. The Anglo-American- Hiqquor treaty was signed at the State Department ic-day.
WASHINGTON, January 23. Sir Auckland Geddes, the British Ambassador, and Mr. Hughes, the Secretary of State, signed the liquor treaty, which, however, re- quires the ratification of the Senate. The Treaty is terminable at three after twelve months' nouce months. One clause provides that if owing to a judicial decision or legistative action the terms are modified the whole treaty shall be abrogated.
Provision is also made for a joint commission to settle claims of compensation where a British vessel suffers loss or injury through any unreasonable or improper exercise of the rights conferred
by the treaty,
TAMPICO BLOCKADE.
ENTIRE REBEL LINE COLLAPSES.
WASHINGTON, January 23. The Mexican revolutionary leaders have informed the United In your-issue of the 23rd I rend-States Consul at Vera Cruz that That Mr. Fletcher (When chief they have decided to raise the ollicer) when in the wheelhouse blockade at Tampico. was requested for the key of his drawer where he had his revolver. Why hadn't he it on t person he boing the officer of the watch?
One cannot blame the Piracy Re- gulations for a neglect like that. I
tain that a system of being armed from the time of leaving the wharf, a personal interest in seeing the grills properly seaned and the faster 'algunera "keeping together with the slower ones would t the pirates of as regards the Kong- moon steuners as they would be in receipt of the news from the spies they place out weeks before on the Steamer they intend to pirate.
I am, Sir,
ONE WHO TRADES TO KONGMOUS, Hongkong, January 24.
PAWNED, BANGLES,
TALSE PRETENCES CHARGE.
WASHINGTON, January 23. The Mexican Embassy has been officially advised that the entire rebel line on the Jalisco.front has collapsed.
ARCTIC REGIONS. ́ ́
CANADA CLAIMS VAST AREAS.
WATCHING AMERICA,
WASHINGTON, January 23" A message from Ottawa states that the Government has requested the British Embassy at Washington: to keep it fully posted regarding the United States' plans for the airship trip to the Arctic where Canada claims vast areas by reason of adjacency and exploration.
KILLED IN STORM.
WASHINGTON, January 23. The United States' Consul at Vera Cruz reports that Captain Sparlow and two wireless opera tors on the cruiser "Tacoma" were accidentally killed while perform-
A very fashionably dressed Chinese young lady was represented by Mr.ing their duties during the storm.
F. E. Nash in a casio before Mr. G. N. Orme this morning in which four othes were charged with fales pretences: Mr. Nash's client with nother woman and a can were defendants in and charge and the offer two were accused in a separate
CANO.
The police allege that the first Bofendant tie young lady-bad plodged a pair of bangles consisting of English sovereigns linked up with chaids for $80; at one pawnshop. She was arrested while attempting
HIGHER WAGES.
NEW YORK, January 23. The Central Railway Lines have agreed to raise the wages of 15,000: engineers and firemen approximately five per cent.
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pawnbroker's. “It is claimed that the sovereigns were of the required finences but that the chains wore! made of lead with a covering of thả, Procious motal,
"On the application of Mr. Cor bet, for the parsection, the ense was remanded till fuceday after-
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[A similar instance was recorded a month or two ago in the same locality. It appears that some of the people who live on the outskirts, Hatkas, i.c., Nomads, have a of the Kowloon peninsula, mostly
superstition that such an act would appease the offended deity who
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. saw fit to deprive them of one of
A touch of rheumatism or a twinge of their offspring The mutilation is neuritis, whatevm the trouble is, Cham- a sort of intelligent anticipation herlein's Pain Bain relieves the pain, that any future visitation following hurns and raids are promptly relieved, the wrath of the same deity' would tits and bruisen quickly bealed and have been satisfied by the punish-wellings pre motly reduced. In fact no houselinid should be without it. Forsale ment beforehand.-Ed. China Mail.]
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