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WEDNESDAY APRIL 2 · 1924
WEATHER CALENDAR
LOCAL AND GENERALA
APRIL 2.
POISON TRIAL
On Monday night, five robbery THIS MORNING'S EVIDENCE. entered No. 39. Ta Tin Yan, Talpo 1711. We have such windy wea where they stole $56.00 in money
ther, 'tis troublesome walk-and clothing from the occupants. ing, yet all the rabble have got into our Park these Easter holldaya-Swift.
+
WHAT HAPPENED.
A TIGER ON LANTAO.
The mother of the dead man Al the Shamsulpo ferry wharf yesterday a Chinese middle-aged continued her story when the trial man jumped into the harbour, of the Lantao woman who is apparently, to commit suicide. He charged with having murdered hor was rescued by some boat-people husband was resumed before Mr.
Justice Gompertz to-day. and later sent to hospital.
Replying to questions put to her
recognised arbitration machinery on the 19th to play for possession. of the coveted trophy. Of the is not feasible in this Colony, but two teams the Villa have the best prevent headstrong action cup fighting name. Indeed they surely the Government could pass hold the record, having won it on a law making lightning strikes no less than six previous occasions. Next are Blackburn Rovers and the illegal. This would menu no real Wanderers with five each. The dianbility for the employees, look-fast time the Villa won was in ing to the way strikes are 1920 when they beat Hudders- organized here, and it might field Town 10 at Stamford
Bridge after extra time. New undoubtedly result in many other castle have figured in the final on wisc inevitable stoppages being' five occasions, and In that time averted, thus saving much good, they have only won it once-in 1910-when they beat Barnsley on
A comparison made by the by the acting Attorney General money and temper.
a replay. It is interesting to note The war did not change men's Ministry of War shows that China the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock K.C.), that their first appearance in the minds in any such impossible way, had 900,000 soldiers in 1917, while the witness denied the allegation final was against their present What really happened was that this year she has, according to made by the prisoner that she opponents in 1905 when the the impact of physical death and official reports," 1,200,000, states and her husband were always Villians defeated them by two destruction, the only reality that the Eastern Times. The latter scolding the deceased and wanted goals to love. On form it looks every fool can understand, tore number does not include the him to die.
Questioned by His Honour she' Rood for the Midland team, as it off the masks of education, art, troops independent of Peking or Is thoir 50th Anniversary, they
grew on the hillsides in Lantao will go all out to crown it by again science, and religion from our those that have been recruited by said that the plant Ho Max Tung and was the only one which would landing the Cup, but Cuptic foot ignorance and barbarism, and left the warlords without permission. ball is not League football and us glorying grotesquely in the licence suddenly accorded to our
not polson goats and therefore poison human befogs. It would anything may happen.
vilest "passións and most abject
goat's blood must be used to cure terrors.
anyone who had taken the leaves. --Bernard Shaw,
Mr. Campbell Frosser, for the
cross-examined Preface to "Heartbreak House."
defence,
A Suggestion.
Robbery, armed and otherwise, must be counted with Piracy, one of the problems which so far has defied solution to the extent of the authorities being able to suppress it. That is perhaps too much to expect for the age of
at forty" seems miracles is not yet. We shall
"TOO OLD to be dead. The our criminal always have
mag who invented odd elass and
80' at times,
and until the Police it we belleve died years ago. A noble Lord is now asking us to be given solution they can
look around at the great businesses apply in the shape of some pass-throughout the country assuring us port scheme. Until that happens that for the most part they are they are compelled to exert more being controlled and administered diligent supervision or vigilance, by men of fifty, "who are just It is therefore interesting to read entering their prime." "Yes! but that certain sections of the Force how are they being controlled visit restaurants and interrogate and administered?" we can hear
looking customers. the "Young Ying" asking. suspicious
more
SHADOWS BEFORE. Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
Theatre;
i.
the
Bank note for $100 which has just On a Hongkong and Shanghal been shown to the N. C. D. News a somewhat pathetic piece of write ing occurs. On the top of the reverse side appears the following:
"I want saving this bill in your witness at some length about her bank but now have not money, family affairs and her own move- Good hope at future time. Please ments on the day in question. you wait me." At the foot appears She said the following:-"The bearer is stayed in Mr. and he stay at the Hotel. of Please you pay owner." This re-midday meal because there was a
quest has certainly been duly hon oured, for the note is now in ather hands.
Ministry
that'
the
coming
people often fields instead home. 'for the
tiger in the hills.
His Honour: Hardly an attrac- tion to stay.
April 2-Coronet
The woman went on to explain "Rags to Riches."
The Shanghai Bureau of that on account of the tiger the This seems a simple method and
April Mr. Pollock having
2.-Star Theatre Foreign Affairs has received in- people liked to keep near their will do good if only to the extent
QUESTIONS for the time being Peter the Great and "The Call of structions. from the Peking cows, of making certain Chinese brush
accepted a Govern-Youth"
with reference to
Proceeding, she disagreed with themselves up a bit; it may of ment position, his voice will not be
April 2.-World Theatre; foreigners in the interior (places Mr. Prosser's suggestion that the course help in catching a tartar, heard in the land asking those "Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last.”
other than the treaty ports) of deceased and the prisoner were on but the odds seem against this pertincat questions which give April 3-Star Theatre, Kowloon; China. These are (1) that no the ordinary terms to be expected ever taking place. It is pleasing Governors and Colonial Secretaries Grand Concert by the Hongkong foreigners are to be permitted to between man, wife. She said that also again to notice the firmness seriously to think. Some officials Philharmonic Society's Chonis and establish factories in places other whenever the prisoner met him sho with which the Chief Justice deals will probably say "for this relief Orchestra, 9.15 p.m..
than those named in the treaties; "turned up her eyes" and treated 'She never, with desperate doers of evil. much thanks." The system of
(3) that no foreigners are to be him, with contempt. Administering the cat should answering questions and publish-
permitted to import or to sell she declared, kept any leaves of. make for woe-and not a few ing them before a meeting of the
livestock in the interior; (3) that no the ho man tung plant in her house foreigners are to be permitted to and she did not know of anyone weals!-in criminal circles, and Legislative Council, commends
buy land in the interior; and (4) who did. Women working in the we hope our Criminal Investiga- itself as a piece of time saving
that no foreigners without huchao Selds were careful not to go near tion Department will see to it that public business.
(permits) are to be allowed to the plant because anyone who word of this good work goes
amelled it at once began to feel hot. round. If public stocks and public
travel in the interior.
↑ She admitted that she did not ac- lashings are now not to be thought
tually see the prisoner cooking her of, is there any reason why
husband's midday ment but the deceased told her that this was so.
་ ་
SOCIAL April 12.-Public Dinner to Bir William Rees Davies at Hongkong Hotel, 8 p.m.
"SPORT. April 2.--Annual Atletic Sports of the University of Hongkong. Here
April 5-7-Royal Hongkong Golf Club, Captain's Cup.
April 19 and 21.-H.K. Jockey Club extra race meetings.
aro
A PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
usually suffer. THE IN- is a man who put his NOCENT head out of the tram window, only to have posters should not be used giving it knocked by a car passing in the the photograph of the convicted opposite direction. Here prisoner; a list of his misdeeds, Chinese youngsters jumping on April 4-Lammert Bros., at No. and the punishment accorded and off cars in motion, near the 18 Godown of the H.K and Kow. him? These posters are read. It World Theatre, endangering their loon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., may be argued that criminals lives and limbs, and, what may be Kowloon, miscellaneous goods, reading them would only take worse-not paying fares. Yet 10.30a.m.
April 5.-Lammert Bros., at no-one bashes their young heads
rebuff of 6 Catobick St., Kennedy Town, hand they might induce them to or administers the live a righteous and. sober life, chatisement which they so well rice mills with huller and pollshers,
deserve. Certainly, it is the machines, motora, etc., 11 a.m. becoming ornaments of the com-innocent who suffer.
April 0-Lammert Bros.. at munity. You never can tell.
Salos Rooms, the s.s. "Kwai Wa," now lying at Bhamahaipo, 8 p.m.
April 16.-Tammer Bros., at 6 Catchick St., Kennedy Town, two complete sete rattan and cans splitting machinery, etc., 3 p.m.
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MARRIAGE.
· MITCHELL-HIGH-On March 27, 1924, at Shanghai, Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. High, Arbroath, to Charles, Bon of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Arbroath, Scotland.
Hongkong's Only EuropeaN Optician.
Two Sights.
THE WAY
people have of looking at things is peculiar. Here is a man who was charged in a police court recently saying:"I hope to go back into the Air Force again as a pilot. My nerves are too shaky for a dental Surgeon."
humour is POLICE COURT probably the best of its kind
Two of the most interesting sights on the rail journey say to Fanling, are the Homuntin Garden City, and what is known as the Kowloon Tong Scheme. The one is an accomplished fact; the other is a fact soon to be accomplished, The two schemes are visions to be had. We can be thankful to brought to business. No one who the magistrate who can find a at one time saw the hills that are moment to illumine the dullness now Homuntin dreamt they they of his court with a bon mot of would be razed; that houses and wisdom, or the just word that bungalows would be seen there raises a smile. Prisoners also help, but their's Is perhaps the with a large proportion of happy and contented residents, finding a which is all the better for being so. unpremeditated, unconscious style, home away from the crowded
Here are a few samples of the places of Hongkong and Kowloon genuine thing, taken from Home solving their own housing pró-papers: blem, and assisting the Colony generally in the larger aspect of this question. In the beginning we have no doubt the visionaries- the pioneers of this scheme, were laughed at; but to-day the laugh, if there is any, is on their side, and they stand apart from their fellows as benefactors. The Kow- loon Tong Scheme is a fact almost
boycott and strike, which if we are to judge the, one-day strike or accomplished. This appears to be abstention from work at the Kow-an amazing adventure the raz ing of hills to the firm level that loon Docks they are still ever will take solid foundations of ready to use on the shortest notice houses and the like that will cre and without one thought of the long house many contented people. hardship they are bringing upon house here, and a house there;. Already there is springing up a
themselves and the possible around are piled bricks countless injury to hundreds of innocent as the sands upon the sea, the
The China Mail.people. We hope we shall never while the ubiquitous Chinese with
Horakova WROXIDAT, "APRIL: 2, 1924
UGLY
be found on the side belittling the pick and shovel, mortar and trowel, continues the labour which
Woman, at Tottenham: I have been a handy-man for years.
"My father always told me never to argue with a policeman, if you know he is one," sald á prisoner at Kingston.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Mr. E. R. Dovey the Bishop of Victoria, Mr. and Mrs. Ferrier, are passengers on the "Arafura" which left for Australia this morning.
the
at the
Allen
Country
Asked whether she had broken an earthenware 'pot belonging to the prisoner the witness replied: "There are many disputes and many quarrels but a mother-in-law does not break earthenware pots." Dr. Minnett Again. Recalled at the request of his. The wedding of Rose, youngest Honour, Dr. E. P. Minnett said daughter of Mrs. Ng Qulun, of 5that as result of his post mortem Arbuthnot Road, Hongkong, to examination of the deceased he Mr. Bang How, secretary of could give no cause of death.
Commercial Press. Ld., The assistant Attorney General:
Memorial I believe that in this Church, Quiasan Road, was to bodies decompose very rapidly? take place on March 29, state Dr. Minnett: Yes. A post mortem Shanghai papers just to hand. has to be conducted the same day. COMPANY MEETING,
The bridegroom is a son of the The assistant Attorney General: April 10-Second yearly meet late Mr. Z. F. How, one of the How many post mortems did you ing of shareholders of the Hong-founders of the Commercial Press. conduct on this particular day? kong Engineering & Construction
Dr. Minnett: Fourteen. Co., Ltd., at St. George's Building,
Singapore papers record the What Post Mortems Are For. Chater Road, noon.
death, which took place at Edin- Mr. Prosser: I don't know burgh from pneumonia, of Mrs. what the object of that question Campbell, the wife of Mr. J. G. was. If it was intended to show Campbell, the well-known advo- that you are grossly over worked. cate and solicitor of Singapore. I sympathise- Mrs. Campbell, who was only 34 Dr. Minnett smiled. If; he said, years of age, enjoyed poor health a more careful investigation was while she was in Singapore and required that had been made in this it was for this reason that she case no living man could do mora left there for Scotland at the end, than four in one day. Asked by of last August.
Mr. Prosser whether the object of
'. OTHER MEETING. April 11-All interested in proposal to form & Hongkong Forfarshire Assen, to meet at No. 2 Queen's Buildings, Ground Floor, opposite Star Ferry at & p.m.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
An interesting report appears
a post mortem was not to establish in the Simwanpas, to the effect Mr. E. C. Mears Kemp. accom-that death was not due to natural that President Tsao Kun has panied by Mrs. Kemp and daugh causes the witness replied: "The ordered all his subordinates to ter, of New York, are staying at the real object of a post mortem is to wear foreign apparel. The order Astor House Hotel, Shanghai.give a true account of what you appears to be unpopular, for in Mr. Kemp is head of the well-see,
spite of a threat by the President known firm of Messrs. Lamman Mr. Prosser: In this case you to dismiss those who refuse to and Kemp, Inc., New York, establl-did not open the stomach? obey, the minor officials have shed in 1808. Their Florid Dr. Minnett: No That would
A dock labourer, fined 56, at declined. Their plea is that they Water is one of the oldest and not have been fair to the analyst the learned barrister West Ham for drunkenness, are too poor, which is not unlikely best known imported commodities because. pleaded, "Lizzie knocked me as they have received no salary for on this market, and we believe the night suggest that we pat it (the over, first round. Clerk: You several months.
fact that Mustard and Company alkaloid) there. having acted as distributing agents' mean Lisbon wine, I suppose ?- Docker: Yes, sir.
for this firm for the past 54 years, must constitute a record in this respect
►
(Prosseding.)
MISSIONS TO SEAMEN.
Little
Wesley Birry, the famous "Freckles" of the screen, A wife at Tottenham said continues to delight Hongkong her husband expected her to children--and their elders, too-- work to keep him.
in his latest picture, "Rags to "He had better go wherever it Riches," now showing at the this morning, expects to be absent The Bishop of Victoria, who left is that women must work and Coronet Theatre. Never was he from the Diocese till fanuary next men must weep," she added. "1more lovable than as the young The Venerable Ernest Judd don't want to weep, but I want scapegrace who throws in his lot Barnett, M.A.. Archdeacon of him to work.
with a friendly burglar and
Hongkong- and - the Reverend
SHANGHAI, April,200. deserts his comfortable, home for Vyvan Henry Copley Moyls M.A.,
The annual meeting of the the perils and the adventures of Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral. Missions to Searnen yesterday the underworld. "Rags to Riches" have been appointed to act as
BIG INSTITUTE FOR SHANGHAI
claime of labour when it has just is making mountains into mole"I don't quite know," she rehas all the qualities that delight Commissarles during the Bishop's evening passed a resolution for
and reasonable grievances, but we hills, and the whole place later repeat what we have said before, on a thriving bee-hive of home- that the time of boycott and steads. The head and fount of this quickly-formed strikes has gone, now made Honourable by his scheme is Mr. Montague Ede- Some lessons are quickly taken and that so far as this Colony is inclusion amongst those who to heart; others half heartedly concerned they should not be make our lawful Ordinances an petera not at all. The fact is that allowed until every
possible honour, which we trust it is, on
which the Colony congratulates
"Are you married or single? asked the Marylebone magistrate of a woman inebriate.
plied;
that is my trouble in life." She was fined 408.
Husband, at Willesden: There'll never be peace while there are three women, and only one man in our house.
(The World's A Bubble.)
a great number of us will not heed avenue towards a settlement has him. The time has probably not the lessons of the past and are been explored. That is that. On arrived to recount the story of the To-day's Poem. willing to go od in the old sweet the part of Europeans who have genesis and end, of the Kowloon way as if, for Instance, human the onerous oversight of number Tong Scheme. That will come nature is a settled thing, going of Chinese, we can only urge a later. But for those given to The World's a bubble, and the
Life of Man long the paths of duty or the measure of sympathy and good pessimism we recommend a short
rail-journey, emphasing the two Less than a span; patha that some would set for it, feeling compatible with business sights to which we have referred. In his conception wretched, from Wthout deviating from that path discipline. The Chinese employees
Beema
the womb
So to the tomb; Curet from his cradle, with cares and fears.
brought up to years
the most exacting cinema-goer absence. After visiting Australia, for seamed. The total cost will be building an endowment Institute human interest, delightful comedy the Bishop hopes to arrive in
Tla. $20,000, and healthy excitement. The last England in time for the Annual
The institute will also be a screenings take place today and Reunion of the Victoria Diocesan to-morrow.
Association, to be held at the Min-memorial to the men of the British sion House, London, on June 17. the war, t
Mercantile Marine who fell during
-
The Chinese Government's note to Japan, on the subject of an
It was announced that H. M the ! According to à Daily Bulletin cable. indemnity for Chinese killed in from Tokyo, the nows of March. King had given his sympathy and brawls following the earthquake, 30, announcing the replacement of patronage to the proposals Has been received by the Foreign E. M. Claudel, the French. Reuter Office, reports the Japan Ad Ambassador to Japan, by M. Paul vertiser. According to officials, Sarrant created a mild furore
it is now receiving the Govers among the intelligentia in Japan, WHAT TO DO FOR A COLD. ment's consideration. Govern resulting in the faculties of the Takshathair at bal-tims and a ment spokesmen state that all principal. Japanese universities fine mall doe of Pintatton, then cover up proper steps have been taken to arts societies and intellectual clubs warmly and go to sleep. You'll feel over ensure the punishment of offenders sending an eulogising cable to La so mach bitter la tho morning... against Innocent Chinese. Several Matin saying that they were trials have been held already relieved to learn that the report
PINKETTES
or stopping for a moment to con- on their part must be made "to" sider the why and wherefore. To understand that bludgeon tacticsThe results to put it simply and plainly, it will not be tolerated. Strike they FOOTBALL hand of the semi- og as if the lessons of may, if they rust, but not with- CUP finals of the Foot
............... PROSFECTS, ball Association Cup narrow forgotten, The Chinese still mediation to be tried first. The down the issue to two Clubs,But limbs on water, or but write. Even the release of several Japan. Japan's friend. Before the report stimulate thy lírar, alate the skin, padly
Newcastle United and Aston Indust?
illa, who will meet at Wembley
the last strike ars being | out due warning for every possible
have their powerful weapons of Government has decided that
and The Chinese demand for was unfounded. H.E. M. Claudel's demalty, to be paid the relatives departure would have been resent of Chinese who were killed, is ed, for he has augmented the are laxative perfections Gently bub Who, then, to frail mortality shall Japan has been unable to obtala
almost certain to be refused. Franco-Japanese friendship and is efficiently they albecue the system, trust, 2
was discredited - many protest. ese subjects now in the hands of meetings were held.Courtesy or pasi fren: 60 amts per vial from Dr. bandhs In China, officials of the patty Bulletin. S Foreign Offico state.
Francis Bacon,
the breath, railors Piles CK chemists, Williams' Mefiolan Cops: 8-B Malnica 63. Klange Rosa, Shanghai otpa