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FRIDAY, MAY 9 1924.
POLICE SERGT. CHARGED.
ALLEGED INSUBORDINATION.
سیم
"REFUSED TO SALUTE A SUPERIOR OFFICER."
WILLIAM HEUGHAN:
TAI LEE" MASTER.
FAMOUS SINGER AT STAR THEATRE
THE CHINA MAIL.
JAPAN VISIT.
INDO-CHINA GOVERNOR'S
MISSION.
SIMPLEX PLASTER.
STATUTORY MEETING
ADDRESS.
At the meeting this afternoon Mr. Carl B. Shank, chairman of the Directors said:
'GROSS DEROGATION OF DUTY."
Tokyo, May 8 Though William Heughan has "In this case I find the defend-
M. Merlin, Governor-General of gained the basis of his reputa ant; the master of a British ship, Indo-China, who has arrived here. tion as a talented Scotch bass the s.s. Tai Lee," admitting that was welcomed by the Government, singer, he proved to an appre he does not muster or check his Municipal officials, Embassy, and "This meeting is held under the CASE ADJOURNED.
ciative 'audience at the Star crew to discover illegal changes the lenders of the French colony. provisions of the Company's --Os Theatre last night that his re- in the personnel. This I cop-To-morrow M. Merlin will be-dinance of 1911 which requires a Sergt. Roberts of the Hongkong pertoire is not entirely com sider, in view of the prevalence received in audience by the Prince report of the position of the Com- Police was charged before Mr.posed of Scotch songs for he of piracy, which has been found Regent, and will attend a luncheon pany to be laid before you within
three months from the date of in-. R. E., Lindsell at the Hongkong Irish and English melodies by proper enquiry to be due to the to be giver in his honour.
which were equally popular connivance of the crew of ships,
corporation of the Company. The Magistracy this morning, with and also The Song of the to be a gross derogation of his
report has been duly circulated being a member of the Hongkong Flea" which again was de duty as master,"
among the shareholders, and it Police is guilty of insubordination servedly applauded. Mr. Hang-
contains particulars of receipts han shouldered most of the burden
Company was authorized to com- in that he refused to salute of the evening and must have superior efficer on May .
contributed at least twenty songs to the evening's entertain ment
The Court was crowded with members of the Police amongst whom were the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Captain-Superintendent.
Sergt. Roberts pleaded not guilty to the charge and asked that the charge be amended as the original charge hadbeer, amended to bring him within the jurisdiction of the Court. It was not the same charge as was read out to him in the Superintendent's office.
Dave Kennedy caused some amusement with his hum-
This censure, was delivered by Lieut. Comdr. Hake at the Marine Court yesterday when he fined Captain J. Webster $10 for (a) unlawfully discharging two sea men without the sanction of the Harbour Master, and (b) shipping four seamen to do duty on board. A niea of not guilty was entered.
orous Scotch numbers and Miss Gladys Sayer provided a welcome diversion with her capable execu tion of pianoforte soles. As an Coysh stated that at 5 p.m., en, ist Deputy Shipping Master G. W. accompanist throughout the even..May he visited the "Tai Lee"" in ing she worked hard and well company with the Master, and
arned the applause.
mustered the crew. He found four men who were not members of the crew according to the ship's articles. He also learned that two other men had left the ship that day.
Mr. Heughan announced that to-night he will give another concert and will sing several of the songs that have been specially
Sergt. Roberts aise asked for a remand in order to give him time to secure legal advice on the mat-asked for. ter.
the
Mr. Lindsell adjourned the case, until: Wednesday noon on sergeant's application and fixed bail at $50.
The superior officer concerned in the case is Inspector Kevi
CABLES TO CANTON,
THOSE LANDLORDS.
"TAPPED.".
The ship's articles were then handed up to the bench and it was shown that the new men had not .signed on, nor had those dismissed
signed off.
ky
Many of the morning papers editorially welcome the visitor as an opportunity for cementing the friendship and economic rela- tions between France and Japan.
-Courtesy "Daily Bulletin."
CHINA AND SOVIET: REDS TO LEAVE URGA?
and disbursements since the
mence business to April 24. Geing. the date the accounts were closed for the purpose of preparing the
report.---..
This is all the business to be undertaken at this meeting; but I
contracts may, however, "take this op- portunity of informing you that have been entered for
purchase.
the."
of
Peking, May 8. Dr. Wellington Koo assuring the Wu Fei-fu, hus. telegraphed to
latter of his support in connection into with the Russo-Chinese negotia-the necessary materials for tions, which he hopes, will be the manufacture of Simplex speedily resumed on the basis of plaster. Further, your Directors the early withdrawal of the Red have been fortunate in securing troops from Urga-Courtesy the services of a leading expertin "Daily Bulletin."
the manufacture of plaster and gypsum products, Fami, therefore, in a position to state that the preliminary arrangements have. beer satisfactorily concluded.
ALLEGED; FORGERY.“
That she feloniously uttered two
HONORARY DEGREE...
New York Man Honoured,
WHY THE WALLS WERE said that these changes took place Captain Webster, in defence,
Patna, May 8. Dr. Maximillian Toch, Professor without his knowledge or consent, of Industrial Chemistry at the and that he had nothing-at-all to Cooper Institute, New York, who do with the payment of the men came to China at the invitation of or anything else. In answer to the Chinese Government in order $50 and two $10 Straits Settlements questions he stated that he never mustered or checked the crew in to deliver a course of lectures on notes and asid bank note, knowing wood-oils and the means to correct them to have been forged, was the their adulteration, to-day, received charge preferred against Lo Ching, the degree of Doctor of Science, a married womar, at the Yaumati which has been conferred for the court this morning. second time by the Government evidence
remanded for a week
University.
That the landlord had a perfect right to take the roof from over a tenant's head if he did not go out SERVICE AGAIN RESUMED.was the contention of Mr. C A. Brooks in defending the action of Wong Sao who was fed yesterday at the Summary Court by the Kam Sang firm for $1,000 damages for trespass.
After a brief interruption follow. ing military occupation of a part of the lines outside British, territory, the telegraph service between Hongkong and Canton has again been definitely resumed and cables are passing to and fro without
trouble.
Further evidence for the plaintiffs claim was given, it being stated that the front of the premises concerned (27 Lyndhurst About ten days" ago the Hong-Terrace) were blocked with poles kong office of the Chinese Tele- and a matshed, the tiles were taken graphs Administration announced off and although these were re that the service afurr being held up for months had started again but this return to previous condi- tions was only short-lived as Chan's suldiers re-invaded Sam- chun. Now that the invaders have gone no difficulty remains and it is sincerely hoped that there will be no more interruptions.
t:
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
Wang Chen-ping has applied for ten days' leave. It is under- stood that he has given up all intention of resigning, says a Peking telegram" to "the" "Daily, Bulletin.
Those who sailed on the
placed the plaster was not and daylight was visible through them. The walls were hammered and Caps-nude in them.
Part of the evidence for the defence was also heard, the land. lord stating that the house' was old and the walls were tapped to see if they were safe.
The case was adjourned sine die
MOTOR BUS DEATHS.'
DRIVERS CHARGED WITH
MANSLAUGHTER.
any way,
HONOUR FOR HONDA.
CHOSEN FOR DAVIS CUP
TEAM.
"
EDITOR'S CLAIM
NEWSPAPER ALLEGES
NEGLIGENCE.
She
was!
without
PALMISTRY SECRETS.
TYPES OF SCOTTISH HANDS.
Fer two hours, in the Goold Hall, Edinburgh, Mr. A. 'Nicol Bruce, W.S., imparted, secrets -izi the
of
Dr. Toch is proceeding to Lon- don this evening via Hanków, accompanied by Mr. J. J. Keegan, Hongkong will have the distinc-Courtesy "Daily Bulletin." tion of seeing one of its best lawn tennis players_competing, in the Davis Cup competition for Mr. T. Honda, the Japanese player who won the Singles Champion ship of the Colony recently, has been selected to play in the
Shanghai, May 9. Olympic competitions in Paris, The "China" Press," replying to in place of Mr. Ohta, wo, on his Mr. Webb's, action for $80,000, arrival in the Colony on the alleges plaintif neglected, failed "Katori Maru," was immediately and refused to carry out all the removed to the Government Civil duties and obligations on his part Hospital, where an operation was to be performed." The Company proof of inward character and performed for appendicitis.
art
what
is commonly known as "reading the hand" to a gathering of about 100 people, mostly women.
At the outset, Mr. Bruce said the and gave the most exact outward hand was, a wonderful revealer,
This is a great honour for Mr/asks that the 'case be dismisseddestiny. The reason was that in
Honda, though no one who has seen his exhibitions can doubt the choice as being unworthy of such a clever exponent.
Honda will leave for Paris by the "Atsuta Maru," or, if possible, an earlier boat. Mr. Ohta will return to Japan when he recovers
The two bus drivers of the Chun Hing Company, charged with manslaugher as a sequel to the collision hetween two buses in the New Territory on April
when foar of the passengers COMMERCE AND FINANCE. injured, re-appeared were killed and several others
at the NAM PAK HONG MARKETS, Magistracy yesterday before Mr. R. E.
This morning's Nami Pak Hong According to the evidence of quotations, basis usual guild terms. various witnesses at 11 o'clock on were as follows:-
"Empress of Asia" yesterday included Count and Countess of Cassillis, who are going to Shang hai, Major General Sir John Fow- Jer, Lady Fowler and daughters afternoon
Central who are going to North China; |
Lindsell. Mr. and Mrs. D. G. M. Bernard, Hon. Mr. C. McI. Messer, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Murray, Mr. H. A. Nutt, Rev. Father Spada, Mr. D. Templeton (going to Shanghai),
with costs. Reuter.
FAREWELL DINNER.
Shanghai, May 97 The Shanghai Race Club yester day, evening gave a farewell dinner Hill who is retiring from China, to the well-known jockey Mr. Billy
-Reuter."
the hands were hundreds of corpuscles, each containing "the end of a nerve immediately con- As the nected with the brain. face was the mirror of the soul, so was the hand, the mirror of the mind.
was
was usually thin and slim, with The philosophic hand, he said,
long, bony, knotty-jointed fingers. Abroad the type
very prominent among the Greeks, Admiral Sir Arthur Leveson, Mohammedans, and Turks. This! who is arriving at Shanghai to-hand of Ancient Athens lived morrow after an inspection tour of today, and moved and had its Swatow, Amoy and Foochow, being in Scotland within the walls will open the Union Jack Club on of modern Athens their own Monday, says the. Daily Bulletin.
and inspiring
impressionable Naples of the north. This hand the same morning, another bus of Java sugar, average quality, per the same Company met with an picu! net: Futures" No. 24
by scientific possessed Wu Pei fu telegraphed to searchers and students, great accident at Ching Lung Tau, and rough white July delivery $11.63, President Tsao Kun on May 5, readers, lovers of wisdom, lumin- Mrs. and Miss. Templeton (going overturned.
law, litterateurs, August delivery 11.53, September says a Feking cable to the aries of the home), Major Trench, the Rev..
The conductor of one of the buses delivery 11:43. "Spot" No. 24 Daily Bulletin, expressing Father H. Valtorta, and Mir: Fred concerned in the collision stated rough white $13.85, No. 24 fine view that at present it is not ad- movement. The knotted or joint- the leaders of religious thought and the bus left Pine Shan with over white 15.50, No. 18 rough brown visable to make any Cabinet ed fingers denoted carefulness and
changes. 20 passengers. The number allow-13:30, Java brown 11.80
Ellis.
M. POINCARE.
HIS SPARTAN HABITS..
+
ed by the licence was 22. Arriving Rice, average quality, per picul ar Ping Shan, Police Sergeant gross for net: No. 1 Siam long Stimson stopped the bus and white $9.70, No. 1 Saigon long turned away 7 passengers in excess white 7.85.
was
type he had also noted usually married for love."
detail, keen analysis, reflection, and order, both in work and study. The Hon. Mr. A. G Stephen, The conic or artistic. hand, with Chief Manager of the Hongkong fine fingers tapering and pointed, and Shanghai Banking Corporation, he had observed, predominated in of the number allowed. Witness Flour per sack of 50 lbs has arrived, and is leaving for four places Inverness, Perth. said he did not know at what speed Sperry's XXX $3.46, White Greens home on board the "Empress of Oban, and in certain parts of "Poincaré: A "Biographical the bus was going at when it collid-2.55. Nutmeg Orange 2.53, King-Asia tomorrow, says a Daily Edinburgh. The women of 'this Portrait," published to-day (T. ed. He was collecting fares at the fisher 2.82, Maize 2.45, Big Gun Bulletin Shanghai, cable. Fisher Unwin, 7s. 6d.), is an time.. Suddenly he was knocked 2,62, Tiger Shield 2.90, Globe excellent account of the French senseless. When he regained 244, Old Mill 2,44, Reindeer 2.50, Prime Minister and his policy by consciousness, about ten minutes Melon 248, White Rose 2-44r Mr. Sisley Huddleston, who for later, he found that his bus had C. & C. 2.58, Dayton 2.30, Banana some years has been an English been wrecked.
2.44, Kwan Tao 2.44. Press correspondent in Paris.
In reply to Traffic Inspector This is his description of M. Kent, witness said that after the
Sergeant had turned away the- Poincaré's personal appearance:
He is rather pale in complexion, excess passengers the driver scold- and his face in repose always ed him for allowing poople to wears a melancholy expression, board the bus when it was full. Behind
the white mask there Witness told the driver that it was burns a fire which now and again very difficult to stop people from in the course of conversation boarding the bus as there were fashes through his eyes.
The case was again adjourned.
At eight every morning he is at the Quai d'Orsay. He is tireless and punctual; not a moment is lost. It is often between 8 and 9 o'clock in the evening when he leaves the Quai d'Orsay to dine at home.
It is believed by a good many people that ... M. Poincaré
two entrances.
CORRESPONDENCE.'
HONGKONG GEOLOGY.
does inot really represent To the Editor of the China Muil.)
France. This, says the author, is a complete delusion: It would be hard to find-a-more-genuine ex ponent of French views than M. Poincaré.
Mr. Huddleston has the severest criticism for the methods of saccessive British Governments:
HONGKONG SHARE
MARKET.
In addition to the quotations
The psychic or idealistic hand Peking, May 8-Sun Tan-lin, ex-Minister of the Interior who was a refined cross between the leit Loyang on May 5, is officially philosophic and the conic. He re- visiting Tientsin, Tsingtao, garded this type as the highest Shanghai and Hankow. The development of the hand on the object of these visits has not been purely mental plane, but from the revealed. Courtesy Daily Bulletin, worldly standpoint it was by no means the most successful. Ità possessor's often lived in a far-away Moscowi May 8. The pro- world of dreams and ideals, sure of vincial count at Ekaterinoslav has a moderate amount of daily bread condemned to death four
ex-and margarite-aughter)-some officers of the Denikin and of them evincing great ability, Wrangel armies, who were minus application, and others HK & Shanghai Hotel shares allegedly connected with anti- marrying or being married by Old Issue are numbered to revolutionary associations abroad women with wealth. In the Uni 375,000 inclusive, and the New atter the civil war, and killed versities of the capital and of Issue (1924) $5 paid, are numbered many Soviet officials-Reuter. from 375,001 onwards.
given on page 11 as usual, the following should be noted:
Hongkong Sharebrokers'
Assen :-
YANGTSZE WATERWAYS.
PEKING, May 8
Moscow, May 8-The trial has concluded of sixteen indus trialists charged with economic
Glasgow, strange to say, such hands were bow, conspicuous by their absence, the realities of life apparently coming far before the idealities, both with teachers and
General Tien, Military Attache espionage, corruption and unfair with taught.
practices. Two were sentenced
The
at Nanking, has arrived at Loyang. to death and a number of others where he will discuss means for to long terms of imprisonment that Professor Schofield stated in Yangtze Valley. Courtesy Daily with the
Sir, I observe in your reports guarding the waterways in the All the accused were connected German measles has broken out his lecture on geology at Hongkong Bulletin has what is termed a drowned University that, though Hongkong
coast, "the water had never been higher than at present."
This eternal game of, seesaw If that be to, can the Professor,
BILLIARDS.
textile trust,
at Harrow School, over 20 cases prosecutor described the proceed-being reported from one House, ings as an effort to prevent private' capital conquering the wholesale London, May 8,- Home trade. Reuter.
Cricket: · South Africa 6 for 8. Heavy rain caused_play to be" abandoned-for-the-day-Reuter
· Sappiled By All Chemiers.
(between-France-and-Germany, or anybody else who has studied THE HO KOM-TONG CUPS. he says, so far from preventing the subject,, explain the existence another war, will make another of beds of sand in conjunction with
Lord Hugh Cecil suggested at war absolutely certain. Germany, layers of loose pebbles (mostly in the handicap compeilifon, for Colie and Diarrhoes Hemedy because if Discharged Prisoners Aid Society At the Palace, Hotel fast night Physiciana prestribs · Chamberlain's the annual meeting of the Holloway encouraged and supported by limestone) on some of our hills, the Ho Kom-tong Cups, Mr. W. relieves crampet the stomach and that, every prison cell should be England, will sooner or later even as high as 1,200 feet above Wong (-1505 beat Mr. H. P. Brooks on they can Compound. It can placarded: There le ne disgrace revolt in arms against the Treaty sea level? Yours etc., of Versailles and will seek her
| (-100), by 256-225. The "breaks be bought from any obeniat. A bottle) in being punished. Don't be ashani- | were-Wopg 28, 20, 25, 24; 23, will keep for years and no home is com- ed of going to prison. · Be ashamed | 22, 21, 17, 157 Brooks, 24, 14, 48 hr plete without it. Bold everywhere, of stealing."
sevenge.
Once more Germany:
will be on top.
INTERESTED, Hongkong, May 8, 1924.
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