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able decrease. But nobody would be foolish enough to suggest that it is not still quite serious enough. Obviously with the chaos In China as bad as ever it is futile to hope that the arms evil here will be
limits. That would be crying for a mirade. But without relying upon miracles, it is clear that much more "can still be done. Sévera sentences are having, healthy effects as deterrents; severer sentences could have yet more salutary results. There is no need. in this connection, to enlarge upon the enormity of trading arms-everyone agrees
THE CHINA MATT
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 1924.
A THIN YARN,
to France; and, finally, if a scheme to le., not only will the percentage la adopted for the inclusion in the of standard production for the en- League, of Powers now outside itauing restriction quarter (com. then indeed would a new Europeencing August 1) be lowered to POLICE TO VERIFY COOLIE'S arise and once more would the 55 per cent.. I further reduction wheels of commerce run smoothly. of 5 per cent, will take plate qui Such a happy state of affairs try until the pivotal average of depends on many ifs but such per this secured.
The Rev R. VICAR'S Newcombe, vicar of CHURCH St. Michael's, Hull, FILM. started on the produc
tion of his own Church history film of 5,000 feet at the neighbouring village of Sutton. All the parts were taken by local people, who, wore costumes of the that the offence is little less th century. The story deals with heinous than murder. Therefore the early days of Christianity in when urging still saverer sen- country, and one of the most picturesque scenes Almed tences one does not have to justify was the race of a girl on a village warn One has only to horseback to one's action. suggest the form these severer missionary of a plot she had dis- sentences should take. That is covered to attack the Bishop of
York. not hard. They should take the form suggested in theis columns and in those of a Shanghai French
The
STATEMENT.
A SKYNGHT ENTRY,
JERRY BUILDING,
CONTRACTORS IN COURT.
MAGISTRATE'S WARNING.
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A number of Chinese contrac- tors appeared at the Kowloon moraing on
The charges against them were in respect of houses under con-
reduced to the lowest possible possibilities as they carry were Stevenson sekelue will then make! When a Chinese end coglie af Magistracy this
never nearer to accomplishment fence felt in a way that has
in yet been affected. There are at the Central Police court. than at prescht.
naturally no attempt among big this morning, to answer a charge charges which Mr. A. E. Wright, producing interests to support the of breaking into No. 27 Whitfield Building Authority, who prosecut- Commodity market at the present last night, he admitted that heed, described as extremely serious
and, which Mr. Hamilton, "the · jtuetura. Restriction on the new gained hoitance in rather Tsis, whether with or without on peculiar manner, but pleaded in Magistrate, said might lead to the the grounds that he defendants appearing on charges. operative selling, can scarcely fail norence on to bring about an important change was looking for a house to let and of manslaughter if they persisted in the situation. If we grant that had been referred to this one by in their conduct.
now set of conditions will come contractor not knowing that it was into operation on August 1. we may occupied. wall are gransidentble changes as a ho defendum stated that the struction in Portland Street and male thereof, though alterations contractor sent a boy with him to on Lot No. 1438 (Kowloon Inland) point out the house and when they in which welded bare had been
t there and found it closed the used.. boy, suggested getting through taip dar near the skylight. This defendunt did and the next. he knew was that he was confronted
The occupant of the house in Colony. It was necessary that a by the termnt..
concrete structure question. Mr. Brankot, & Russian reinforced pistry cook, in the employ of should be constructed with the Wiseman's Cafe, said that he heard greatest of care and once the bars a wise in the kitchen whilst he were covered it was absolutely was laving his bath and on-going impossible to see what had been
The bars in question had; downstairs he found the defendant. done. le also saw two other men just actually been put in the buildings. outside and these ran away when in one instance, three small steel bars had been, welded into one and saw him. The case was resided in order the result was a bar which instead that the Police should make of being able, as required, to with- devours to get into touch withstand a pressure of 50 lbs, to the the contractor and the boy, re- ferred to by the defendant...
this
OF
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mat greatly change conditions re months. Even now, as Well-known firm of rubber share brakers point out, the pition is not a bol ns might be judged from the price alo: for it is obvious that bath, the pric, of the corn
diy and the visible supply can- it inue to fall together in definitely. While it was perhaps a falt of the Stevenson scheme that "In the court of the it did not not sufficiently quickly RAFFLES Malaya pavilion at cutting off supplies when a sur
Wembley is
plus existed. the danger may prove SINGAPORE. statue of Sir Thomas he is the opposite direction, for, night syo. Persons caught
Stamford Raffles, in the event of a sudden incrense illegally "trading arnis should be the great Governor who are taking place in the trade demand shot-without mercy. They cer. Singapore to the Enipire," says the schone might not be sufficient. the Fortnightly Review. "The man
to lease supplies as ly clustic tainly deserve this fate, and one had the intelligence to grasp the is inclined to think that very few value of the key position, the quickly as they might he wanted. examples would have to be made initiative to transform his scheme into action, and the courage to go before the arms trader would-on with it against all opposition mend his ways, realising that the game, was no longer worth candle,
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and censure. Raffles was an ad- Today's Poem, venturer in the noble sense of the word. His statue is in the place of honour to remind us that the Bri-The trees stand hushed, on tip-toe
for the sigh.. tish Empire has been created by of moon-rise, that shall glorify
and not by
such adventurers politicians."
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the night.
-Japanese, translated by Curtis Hidden Page.
1666.
WEATHER CALENDAR.
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AUGUST 6..
After dinner with my wife and mercer. and Jane by water, all the afternoon as high 18 Morclacke with great pleasure and a fine
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
died from consumption while the A Chinese deck passenger
5.3.
Haiching" was on her way from Saigon to Hongkong.
The Kailan Mining Administra- tlon's output for the week ending July 19, amounted to 87,074 tons, Sales during the period were 75,324 tons.
Mr. Wright said that the use of welded bars was absolutely for- bidden and this had been made throughout the
well-known
square inch would not be able to withstand one of two lbs. Mr. Wright asked for the imposition of the full penalty, a fine of $500.
Mr. Hamilton told the defen- dants that had they got the bars in without being seen they would collapse and might have had to in all probability have had a
appear to answer charges of manslaughter. It was certainly better to impress on contractors the importance of looking after these matters by touching their " pockets before anything happened and getting the thing put tight, than to prosecute afterwards. He On the arrival of the s.s. would fine the defendants $400 and "Kwaisang" from Bangkok and all the defective material would' Swatow yesterday, the captain re have to be replaced. ported two deaths from heart failure! during the voyage.
Two hundred Siamese stud-
day, reiding over the second-ents from English universities and part of the "Siege of colleges are holding their annual Rhodes," with great delight. reunion at Cheam School, Sutton. which is an increasingly populär gathering.
Reference was made at the
The modern Supreme Court yesterday to
school child's "Canadian dried salt herring
habit of carrying which involved sum of over
ain attaché case $10,000. People unacquainted
full of "heavy with Chinese trade and tastes will books is producing cases probably have wondered what on slight spinal curvature along earth such a large quantity of Manchester elementary school herring could have been, wanted children, says Dr. G.-W. Matthews, for For their benefit we would in the annual report of the mention that every winter there Manchester Education Committee department. The is a large trade in this commodity, medical big shipments coming from the shoulder is weighed down, causing American West Coast to Hong the spine to be bent. kong. To the poorer classes of.
Mr. Robert Campbell, LATEST of Rounton. Watford, Chinese the American herring is a delicacy and it is cheap.
WILLS. Hertfordshire, chair. season and up till after China
man of the National New Year when the fish begins to Bank of India, Bishopsgate, E.C., get "high," hundreds of cases are who by a will made on one side shipped regularly to up-country of a sheet of notepaper left all his ports. There is one aspect of the property, subject to the payment trade which reminds us of the of £500 to Mr. Douglas C. Lee, to A man would have no pleasure days of the tea-clippers Chinese his sister, £240,101..
in discovering all the beauties of dealers, like our old tea-importers Mr. Arthur Henry Brandt, of 39,
in Heaven at Home, are always willing to pay Lime-street, E.C., banker, and Ivy the universe, even a premium for the first shipment House. Godstone, Surrey, £103,170. Itself, upless he had a partner to Mr. Edward Thomas Theophilus whom he might communicate his and prices decrease in ratio as the arrival comes later. This is be- Whitford-Hankey, of Bospolvans, joys.
-Cicero. St. Columb Major, Cornwall, cause the Chinese have.no saltfish which can compete with the im-solicitor, £65.791. ported herring and the latter accordingly cominantis a ready West Kensington, S.W., late pro
In
sale. Every year the sales amount to surprisingly large figures.
Inter-Allied Debts.
Mr. Charles Alfred Walter,
prietor of the Holsten Brewery, Limited, Union Brewery, Wands- worth, S. W. £49,116.
Sir Frederick William Bowater, of Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, and of W.W. Bowater and Sons, Limited, paper agents and makers, 159, Queen Victoria-street, E.C.
of Sir younger brother Vansittart Bowater, M.P. for the City). £45.557
T.
In dealing some time ago with the scope of the Allied Conference Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is report ed to have said.that he was deter Mrs. Mary Hannah North, of mined not to mix up the question 2. Marlborough place. Brighton. of Inter-Allied debts with that of £29,200.. Repamtions and according to news Mr. Stephen Gregory, of Tilney from Home papers. this was a point All Saints, Norfolk, auctioneer, of difference between him and M. left £200 to his housekeeper, Herriot at their Chequers meeting. Mabel Redhead and 5s. a week to the latter having expressed the bis old groom, Edward Baker. opinion that it was essential that £27,840,
The hall of the
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A THOUGHT, ..
Pepys.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In The Mail.
ENTERTAINMENTS.
At the Central Magistracy this
morning, before Mr R. E. Lindsell,
HOTEL GENEROFITY.
MR. TAGGART'S GIFT TO FLOOD FUND,
EMPLOYEES' SELF-DENIAD,
A sum of $2,030 which was given the management of the Ko Shing [by Mr. J. H. Tiggart, managing Theatre was fined $100.00 for director of the Hongkong and the gangway being obstructed. Sianghai Hotels. Tad to the Inspector Grant conducted the Chinese stalls of the Hongkong prosecution.
Hotel, the "Peak Hotel," the Re- pilse Bay Hotel and the Hong-. Pleading guilty to charges of kong Hofol Co.'s garages, for them lying inshore between the Harbour ja have a 'hinese banquet with. Office and Wing Lok Street during had been utilised by the stats in prohibited hours (9 last night and question in flood relief, «
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5 this morning), fifteen boat owners. With the need so great at pre- were each fined $3 by Lieut.sent, the staffs ananinomsly rame Commdr. G. S. Hole, RN, (Marine the decision that the sum would Magistrate) at the Marine Court prove extremely useful to the suf- this morning.
ferers, heuer the decision 1p forego. the "van." The money is to he Extraordinary general meet-unded over to the Ting, Wal lags of the Hongkong Jockey Club Hospital, the central arganisation are advertised to be held in the for collecting funds for flood relief. August 6. Coronet Theatre.; Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, "Forever"
Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thurs August 6-The Star Theatre:day, August 14. at 5.30 p.m. One "Robin Hood."
of them is by requisition of mem- August 6- World Theatre;bers, to discuss the entrance fees
and annual subscriptions. The Broker Wing."
August 6-Queen's Theatre: "The Bachelor Girl."
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FATE OF LAUNCH.
SOLDIERS, CHARGED WITH COMMANDEERING.
A porkstall coolie at the Yau- COMPANY MEETINGS.
nati Market was stabbed by an-
- APTKAL TO TANG" SHAO-VI. September, 16-Extraordinary other coolie yesterday. He is general meeting of The China now under treatment in hospital
Allegations have been made that Sugar Refining Co, Ltd., at the and is in a critical condition. It is Registered Office of the Company, believed that the trouble arose the stearadaunels Wai Hung
The assailant ap- which Pedder Street, noon.
over gambling.
was employed in towing the Inter-Allied debts question
Kroger and curgo, boats between October 3-Second meeting of peared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton,
the- should be cleared up. Mr. Mac
pluegs in Q. E. D. suburban church was the China Sugar Refining Co., Yaumats Court, this morning Hongkong and Donald's action in refusing to
Bengslin district and which wan well-Ltd., at Co.'s Office, Pedder Street and was remanded for one week. allow the issue before the Con-known authority on the English ference to be confused and limiting language had been engaged to
Two Chinese women, who "ported about a week ago as hav October 19. heavier weapons were not intended it. for the present at any rate, to come down and lecture to the anemi Marting of Douglas S.Stracy this morning with creating a mandeered by pro-Sun soldiers at- Extraordinary were charged at Kowloon. Magising been favibly taken away by pirates, I in reality, been com- "The Decadence
Co., Ltd., at the Registered Office disturbance in the street, were facher to the Bogen Tigris Forts. BROWN-On July 31, at Shang for Hongkong our armed robbers the vitally important question of women's club on Reparations is to be commended. of Pure English."
to find that hai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. J. have not yet reached that length But, if there are good grounds for Everything went well, and at of the Company, 20 Das Voeux greatly suprised
Mr. Hamilton, the Magistrate, the fact that ex-Premier Tang. In support of this contention, is Brown, a daughter.
—but were destined for one of the generally accepted belief at the close of the lecture a lady-she Road, Central, noon.
October 20-Third meeting of knew all about it, more in fact shao-vi, himself a native of Hanng- than one of them would, hare, China's many warring factions. Home that Britain is prepared to was a lady she wore a most This cannot unfortunately for remit the debts owed to her if the expensive fur coat anched the The China Sugar Relining Cored him to have done, Mr. Hamil-san, has heen potitioned by the HOLLIDAY.-On July 31, at Hongkong, be said of the smaller Powers who expect reparation strings of pearls approached the Ltd, at Co's Office, Pedder Street ton said that he had witnessed the tow-boat company In Hongkong
NGJEL from Germany will not press them, authority and said, gushingly..
whole affair from his window and and variou Heungshan commer- his induence November 5. Further extra had seen that one woman was [cial guilds, to use Shanghai, Cecil William Holl weapons as well. Undoubtedly in such a way as to cripple Europe, ever so much, and I agree with ordinary roesting of Douglas 8.5. particularly to blame. This woman/with the Canton military authori
BIRTH.
DEATH.
day, in his 67th year,
The China Mail, HONGKOND, WEDKESDAY, AtGost 6, 1926
HOW TO STAMP OUT THE ARMS EVIL.
Last year there was actually
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OTHER MEETINGS.
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pay $100 compensation." The launch, other would be discharged.
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
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Recent subjugation of towed- boots and their inch escorts of the type mentioned his caused a music ininterested circles as these Vessels were deemed to be impreg able to piratiest or other attack.
August, 1-Lesture on Body The Temple of the Holy Spirit," at the Hongkong Lodge Theosophical Society, 16: Queen's Rat 5:4 por
The death is announced by cable August 9-10.-Royal Hongkong of Dr. Hopkyn Rees, professor of Golf Club amouer meeting. Chinese at the London University.
August 1-Extraordinary Gen- en Meeting of the Hongkong Mr. W. H. Gale, the American of the Japanese papers of the Mets Jardino Matheson and has left the French Hospital and members of the Committee In the
An amusing story is told in one
many of these must have been surely a statement to the effect you that the English language is meant for use in the Colony that, in the event of agreement decading something awful. Hard. Co., Ltd., at 20 Des Voux Road would be find $2.00 and have to lies to Here the release of the Furthermore those which were being reached on the problema at ly no one talks proper nowadays, present before the Powers, such and goodpers only knows what ostensibly to have been sent across remission would be made would do the next generation will talk like to the mainland were quite likely much to hastena satisfactory end if something ain't dons about it." 20 have drifted back here again. to the negotiations now proceed- The soldier of to-day in China, asing. Although it would not be we are always pointing out, is the advisable to make it acondition of
such a concession that America Current Comment. bandit of to-morrow, and the fire- should do likewise in regard to
(abber Price and Output) arms he receives from his com- Allies other than ourselves, there-
We are one at the end of Lise mandant are only too often put to are not wanting indications that seized in Hongkong enough riffe evil use, either as weapons for he would follow suck a lend from second month in the three monthly fuckey Club in the Board Room Consul-General for. Hongkong, caustic remarks of one of the
Great Britain, the genuineness of periods when, under the Stevenson of
House of Peers, which discussed the Luxury Tariff B. In and revolver ammunition to have himself or for some other outlaw whose motives in making such a restricted-utput of rubber scheme, Co. 5.30 pau.
and. opposing the measure killed of the Colony's entire who has enough money to make pasture could not be questioned the pengo of standard crop
FOR THAT DROWSY
questioning the list of commodities Consequently it now that arrangements have been ay be regulated, says the "China Express and Telegraph" of June
FEELING AFTER MEALS
hrought together as luxuries, the population in one day. This bale- the purchase.
~ HAUL AT, LANTÃO.
member is said to have suggested ful fact emerges from the report needs, no saying that the smaller made for the repayment of 26. With a low average selling
America's loan. If the gesture price for May at me, the third common, this time of year try were made and acted up to by month, July, will have to cover regulators to-night and con how Pinkettes, the dainty Httle bowel and
that the Committee would be in a.. of the Captain Superintendent of weapons, like revolvers
An armed robbery was reported better position to decida ¡what Police for last year. Besides this Mausers, are the root of the arms Asherion; if he seems highly prob-siderably advance if a reduction in much better and briebter you'll feel huge quantity of ammunition evil in Hongkong. Fortunately, able complete agreement is soon exportable parentage then not fall tomorrow proning Finking diapollo the police, last night from a articles were luxuries if they there was also seized; of course, a with the heavier sentences our reached by the Alles as to the to be redited. It is duibtless well tipation, Horror, afetadaches, walling in Fak village, Lantao moved their gold spectacles. As large number of firearms, ranging magistrates and judges are now method of applying the Dawes known to our readers, but it pony bittiness clerite skin, porly we breath laiend. Fifteen men immed with all the other members of the
raport, if in a defence pact either be again pointed out that unless
Of chap, or free, so 16zgers and revolvers made good Committee except himself were G DAWIEMe their escape with a large quantity wearing these articles of luxury. from the Mauser pistol to the empowered to impose the local within or without the League of rine coure to lift the average for
Road, Bila sabzal. of measy and clothing
the shaft went home, to say the arms evil has shown an appreciNations sufficient security is given the rent three-monthly period Weal machine gun
and
is now staying at Repulse Bay.
ARMED ROBBERS.
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