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ABOARD THE AMBROSE,"
COOLIE GETS A-MONTHS. JAIL
TAITAM RESERVOIR.
ATTEMPT TO "BLOW IT UP,"
MANCEUVRES BY THE EAST
SURREYS.
LOCAL BASEBALL.
GAMES FOR TO-MORROW.
Two baseball matches are down for decision to-niorrow at Happy Valley. At 3 p.m., the Hongkong Baseball Club wil meet a team from U.S.S. "Sacramento" in an
Following Thefts
bardxhibition game. This will be followed at 4.30 by a league match H.M.S. Subri extemling between Club de Recrest and a period of a figs dias, a lie was South China Athletic. found an bord who absitted an
The teams for the exhibition hi igid fuss them wirboat per- gaine are as follows:- mission for two days, He was HONGKONG.
SACRAMENTO. charged stilo Maring Court this Heinrich
L. F.
Reynolds R..F. morning with being lourd without Hogan
Landuyt .C.. Moon the permission of the master for Bradford
centenced to officer and was
a O'Connor
MacBride Johnstone month's imprisonment with hurt Wilson Joyner labour.
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eccognition of the present Russian regime-then the demand la justi fed by international etiquette: for.
W, R. C. TOMORROW NIGHT.
|freige Territory und belongs to that territory's Government. But AFTEMPT TO LOWER RECOIN.
the situation is complicated by the fet that the leuse of Chesham Tomorrow night tha" V. R. C.
Place belonged to Count Bencken- arbs. holding another of their Wit
Mr. J. H. Thomas. Secretary of (From Our Own Correspondent) dorff personally and is now in the ming fêtes which have proved sol
State for the Colonies, "contributes!
hands of his widow. It looks as popular during the bathing scami.
if the matter would have to be An interesting programme of events The disembarkation yesterday a review of the growth of the
fought out in the Law Courts, und has been got up.
What will be of a whole battalion of the East British Commonwealth of Nations
the British Government can take generally considered the special Surreys Regiment from H. M. S. and in another the possible super- "Carlisle" occasioned" no little, ression of the League of Nations event of than evening will be in atei
in elenr. It is curious, by the way?" tempt by D. Lyon to inwar the surprise. No-one appeared to be by an English-speaking league is Youth dumbfound a circle of aunts no action unt!! the legal situation fund umekes who bid asked what how questions of great, historic aware that the battalion. had dealt with. record of the bath. Bi lus heen embarked and yet the men were Out of the many other articles his choire would have been had interest have often to wait for training Tor sur time add certainly not new to the Colony. on empire development in general the fates offered him one great the English Law Courts to unravel appears to be in very good forms. The China Mail learns from and in particular might be 'men-gift. The answer was expected to them. At present, the conduct of Of course, there is the additional Captain Bennett, who was in tioned those on the "Progress of be A Million Pounds, but the reply General Dyer in the Punjab Riota inturest of being able to see how charge of the arrangements, that British Industry during the past was 'Wonderful Memory, Such is being investigated by a presum best swimmers perform in the men had embarked the night deende. The Quickening of Eden istom must have descended upon ably impartial English jury.
Air Churchill's Future. view of the furthering interpart before." No notice was given in tion which is being felt within the an infant barn in Peebies thirty- aquatic sport with Shanghai.order that it might be the occasion Empire." "India turns over a new seven years ago and known forlayar, Winston Churchill's speeches "South Afrien's Alm," as William Graham. M.P., Finan-jat Liverpool have made a real in reported that 3. B. Johnstone for a test. The battalion was taken
l A. May, two of our stalwarts, reservoir
They constitute not to Taitam Bay and the Taita Edention System in New Zancial Secretary to the Treasury sensation
was "attacked" the have not been doing much lately object of the attack being to land." "Canada as the world's Always one of the key positions of only a very complete indictment of playground." "Australia's One Big Government, thin office tests more. Socialist, policy at a marked re- ́and their achjowożents will be {“Klow it up."
closely wither." The consensus
Union" and "keep Your Eye on perhaps, thinn any other the mettle treat from the position he took up Novia Scotia."
of its occupant. The first labour at the lust Election. Mr. Churchill opinion is that if Johnstone aad
Financial Secretary bad it the wan his spurs as a Free Trade con- May are to represent Hongkong.
good fortune to follow a fallure, troversialist, and in his fight at gained Shanghai they will love be
He succeeded a man, Sir William Leicester last December he spoke put in more mining,
Joynson-Hicks, who added to a with the authentic accents of 1906. head for figures and a fighting But now, while he still confesses instinct the most impressive of himself a Free Truder, he deplores 1 is impossible to the abolition of the McKenna frock couts. treat, the wearer of a frack coal duties and the niggardly treat- lightly, and the Lornier Parlamens ment of Imperial Preferences. It took its financial Secretary very may well be that this attitude is seriously, as indeed, his skill consistent with Free Trade merited. Contrust with this a doctrine but it must be remem-omnojnamomo@...@NO{{nomoÕE NEW YORK, June 27. Mr. McaDon's supporters, whose short figure invariably wearing a bered that Free Trade Liberals are demonstration last night lasted jacket of Eton shortness, possess Calvinistic in their devotion to the over an hour, started another deed of a quiet voice. à monotonous letter of their own gospel and have aggravating a nose for scenting out heresy like monstration on the 'resumption of delivery and the Democratic convention to-day equanimity in controversy. This a mediaeval inquisitor. Mr. Chur- when the nomination of Mr. Me is the outward equipment of Mr. chill's declaration has, therefore, Adoo was seconded.
Graham, who, in a few weeks has put him definitely outside the pale The progress of the McAdoo awed the House with his pheno-of orthodox Liberalism. What marchers was somewhat impeded menal memory. His argument is the next development will be is not by the Smith cohortslin the aisles. always definite and informative.very clear. Nothing now separates The Sunith sympathisers in the Figures that will clarify it trip him from the Conservatives except galleries also started shouting from his tongue though the des- the name, and if an umbrella word! Oil, Oll" as a sign of disappatch box before him is devoid of can be found for the party like the proval of Mr. McAdoo
When order was restored Mr. a single note. Clauses, sections, old Liberal Unionism Mr. Churchill Franklin
Roosevelt proposed and subsections of abstruse finan-will, no doubt, come under its. ff that happens, the Governor Smith as Presidentialcial reports, which in the reading shelter. candidate and his panegyric ead-wrinkle other foreheads, are pro-consequences will be interesting. of work out had surau Board; "South China will put up a strong ed with storms of cheering, shout-duced with the utmost precision for Mr. Churchill is the idol, of from the recesses of the financial those. Conservatives who are dis- with a umber of athing-bodies. line-up in which Richard Shim willing and horn blowing.
Evidonor was given as to the pitch with his partner Ed. Kwong The Smith delegates seized the Secretary's mind. He admits that satisfied with Mr. Baldwin. The man's admission that he had been the catcher. Shim, us ever body standard of New York State and it is a gift, and what better could malcontents declare that the re- cent speeches of the Conservative on bird for a moder of rape knows, can talk in the bail. carried it in procession around the one desire?
Leader re merely amateur ໂອກ as to things having been itched every gume les China and all the band contributing to the
din. The demonstration lasted an A Scottish Home Rule Bill was speculations in history and of no missed from on board.
has never lost a gate in last year's hour and a half. The demonstra-talked out in the House of Com-value at all in party controversy: league. In the first game this tors brought in a brass band which mons last Friday. The debate was Mr. Churchill, they say, gives the yeur, against the Japanese, he unceasingly played the popular dull, and the only, effective argu-country a lead against socialist THE BRANDY BOTTLE. real baseball science. song of the moment," Eastside and ment was the final row with the perils. Mr. Baldwin might reply
Lee and Chang who work together Westside." with Chan and Lee us infielders. The fire siren used by the 'fire Speaker engineered by some of the that his immediate business is to are very fast. The Club de Beereis engines to clear the streets added Clyde Socialists, which seemed to define Conservative principles and Other many Southern members a good not to attack the Government, players are also good in fly balls to the hideous noise.. From a broken case which was and as fast raners, but are a Democrats nominated less noisily reason for a Scottish Parliament since attack is of little use unless were the former Cabinet Minister which would detail these gentry you intend to turn the Government being unloaded from the ss weak in batting "Malwa Kowloon Dock Poulie The Sorah Ching line-up is as Mr. Houston, Senator Ralston and north of the Tweed. The truth is out. A strategy of marking time that no Englishmen and very few and waiting for the right moment Senator Sulsbury.
Scotsmen take the matter seri- is never popular with political hot- took out a bottle of brandy and follows placed it on a ledge.apparently to T. Chang, first base; R. F. June,
qusly. It seems to them absurd heads. Mr. Baldwin is receiving partake of its contents at the first 2nd base: Chas. Chan, short stop
that a race which contributes so much the same treatment as Mr. opportunity. His act was seen S. L. Lee, 3rd base: N. D. Seil, left
Moscow, June 26. large a proportion of Ministers to Balfour did in the closing years of from the ship's side-by-Mr. Lawrie field; P. F. Choy, centre field: Y. K
A message from Leningrad every British Government, should his premiership. Most people now of the P. & O. Co. win shouted to Chu, right field: R. Shim, pitcher; states that the supreme
court want a separate Parliament, consider that the Balfour policy the coolie to put the bottle backE. Kwong, gateher.
martial has passed the death Scotland's independence needs 20 was justified by its results and the again. The coolie in obeying the Subs. T. Leung. R. Ho. H. sentence on nine persons accused protection though England's may verdict of the future may be the injunction broke the battle, and Lee and Y. T. Leling.
of highway robbery, espionage yet it strong case on the merits same on Mr. Baldwin. and counter-revolutionary activity. the splintering glass cut his
Twenty-two others have been can be made out for Scottish Home The Closing Of A Famous Bridge. fingers.
Rule. There is the ordinary London never appears at her sentenced to varying long terms
devolution argument-it would re-best before visitors. of imprisonment.
lieve congestion of business in the months ago we were complaining Imperial Parliament. Then there that the local authorities invari- is the plea that Scottish affairs are ably conduct their road-mending at present swamped in the press operations during the London A Scottish season, and this year, when more of other matters. Parliament, too, would be able to people than ever will be here in enlist the service of much local consequence of the Exhibition, our talent which, at present, is too finest bridge across the Thames is busy to go to London-and so closed for repairs." It is, how- lessen the number of carpet-bag ever. a wise precaution. In recent Moreover there is months the bridge has shown a politicians.
A-Chinese detective who arrested Dowrick
-aid 1191
armised Lane
thes first told him that he was a cuchar employed at the Naval ekan! but afterwards boilted the Ind was at and said that he was out:
UN COOLIE VIELDS TO TEMPTATION.
When the coolie appeared at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning he pleaded not guilty to a charge! of attempted larceny.
Mr. Hamilton said that had the defendant admitted his guilt he would have sympathised with him. He would give him the option of paying a $10 faé or going to jail
for 14 days.
WHERE TIME FLIES. CLOCKS GO FASTER THAN BUSES.
Roscofield
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2nd.
Hansen
3rd.
Sukovsky
C. F..
S. S.
Holmes
Logan
Angell
Stephens Ed. Shank South China's Team.
C. Shunk Subs Werschkul
4
TAKING A REST. PORTUGUESE AVIATORS QUIET DAY.
"
. . W. ABBOTT'S NEW PLAN,
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
All the accused were alleged to be in the pay of one Savinkoff who is said to be one of the principal agents in the counter-espionage service of a certain foreign power.
WORLD REVOLT.
Fa
Home Rule For Scotland.
Twelve
The Portuguere aviators spent a quiet day in Macao yesterday. being announced that they were routing. It is not known definitely
Moscow, June' 26.. when the ball in their honour will M. Beinkop, a member of the take place, but it is believed the Dutch Communist Party, speak something to be said for the view pronouneed tendency to cave in at function will be hold during the ing at a congress of the Third that without a separate parlia-the centre, duc, it is thought, to
International, said that the British week-end.
The Hongkong aviator, Mr. II.Empire was the gravity centre of mentary life of her own Scotland the strain imposed by heavy motor W. Abbott; in now in Macao; some the world's capitalism. The United is in danger of losing her national traffic, and although experte will. States was also a 'stronghold of idiosyncracies. To these con- not admit it is in danger of In a case in which a Chinese say endeavouring to arrange an the same creed. They must considerations the unconvinced Scot collapse, they deem it advisable to was charged at the Kowloon exhibition of "unt" flying. When centrate their efforts on the British replies by asking whether Glasgow strengthen it without delay. On Magistracy this morning with approached on the point, however, Empire because there lay the or Edinburgh would be the seat Sunday, the last day on which it stealing a clock from a Chung Mr. Abbott said he was visiting shortest route to world revolution. Hing Co. bus--one, it was stated, Macao with the idea of trying to of about a dozen that had dis- establish an air mail service be appeared Mr. E. W. Hamilton tween Macao and Hongkong, remarked rather dryly that the In conversation with an officer clocks seemed to go faster than of one of the Hongkong steamers, the buses.
Mr. Abbott indicated that he was The bus was standing on the fixing up a machine belonging to ground near the Kowloon Tong Captain C. B. W. Ricou and in- The stolen clock was valued at $6. tended flying it to Hongkong on
The coolie was sent to jail for a Sunday afternoon.
month with hard labour.
CAUGHT AT LAST,
FIRST OF GANG OF ROBBERS ARRESTED.
One of a gang of armed robbers who raided a grocer's shop and kidnapped the master at Yung Lang Wan in the New Territories last year was arrested near Un Long village yesterday.
He was the first of the gang to
PARDON REFUSED. PHILIPPINE MURDERER,"
ELECTROCUTED.
༤།
GENERAL DISGRACED.
reserve.
General Navarro who faced a similar charge has been acquitted VILLAGES FLOODED. -
LONDON, June 26. MANILA, June 26.
As a result of the overflowing of the Lake of Ladoga sixty-one The electric chair was used in an execution for the first time in the villages have been flooded and Orient yesterday when Juan Baco, many inhabitants have had to be convicted of the murder of six evacuated. The water reached people, was executed yesterday in fourteen feet in some places. Bilibid Prison.
The condemned man submitted be caught. Besides looting the to an anaesthetic before the cur. shop they took away the pro-rent was turned on. prister, and held him until a ran nom of $480 was paid.
A Chinese married woman attempted to commit suicide yesterday by jumping Into the catchwater In, Bowen Road. She was rescued by two Indian police men and taken to the Government Civil Hospital..
of Government and prophesying a was open, the bridge was thronged fratricidal strife between these by crowds anxious to see the work two great and jealous cities. In a of repair already in progress, and more serious mood he points out many experienced the thrill of the MADRID, June-26. that Home Rule would make a pre-switchback produced by riding General Berenguer, former Com-Bent of the government of Scotland across in a motor-bus. A tempor- man der-in-Chief of the Spanish to the extreme Socialist party. Iary bridge is to be erected along forces and High Commissioner doubt it. Scotsmen are practical side, but meanwhile the inconveni- of Morocco, who was coart-people; they may be willing to ence will be very great. Not only martialled in connection with the indulge an occasional eccentricity, is Waterloo Bridge the main chan Melilla disaster in 1927, has been trosting to the great weight of nel of communication between sentenced to be removed from the English conservatism to redress north and south London, but, a active list and placed in the the balance; but if they stood on great railway terminus is situate their own feet they would proceed on the southern bank. No wheeled more warily. It might well be that traffic will be able to cross the Home Rule,, in Scotland would Thames between Westminster and mean a very real inclination to the Blackfriars, a distance of a mile and a half in the busiest centre of right wing..
The Russian Embassy. London, and both these bridges The old Russian Embassy in will be called upen to cope with Chesham Place used to be the more traffic than it was ever acene of some of the most brilliant intended that they should bear, parties in London. I well remem-We have here a strong argument ber the laat which Count Beneken-for the better regulation and dis- dorff gave in the summer of 1916, tribution of our over increasing when the representatives of the traffic. New bridges and bridge Duma and the Council of the widenings are being planved, but
traffic Nobility visited England. Since unicas
is, compulsorily. the Russian Revolution the house diverted at certain points these has been occupied by a former schemes will prove of little benefit. Embassy official as a hearquarters The closing of Waterloo Bridge at from which various Russian chari-a few hours notice after a period Lies are directed. Now the Soulet of nervice of over a hundred years. Government has demanded posses may warn us to keep a close eye sion of the house and its archives. on all our bridges so that measures If that Government is regarded as may be taken before their state The Senate passed a vote of the do jure successor to the old becomes so serious that they are confidence in the Goverment Imperial Government and this found to be junsafe. practically unanimously.
view deems implied in the British
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Governor-General Woods refus
street
Portion of the first floor balcony: of No 33 Wellington collapsed yesterday. A Chinese woman who was washing clothes was thrown to the street below and received severe injuries.
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