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No. 19.371 # #TAC++ - HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1924.
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COMING HERE.
PRINCE GEORGE'S VISIT.
OFFICIAL MISSION?
Hongkong And Its Welcome.
"Will it be as in the picture that Hongkong will have the pleasure For seeing His Majesty's youngest, surviving son, Prince George, on
the cerasion of his visit to Hongkong in a few months""time?
This ail depends of whether his visit to the Fur Best has been undertaken with a dew" to its heiny in the nature of k mission for whether in ore „Barse of his naval duties as Nem thought "advisable that a gang for o
warship would be a good thing for the Acting Sowigemtenant.
It may be. if the Prince is bút Coming here in the course of his ival duties, but no bus hath a voice in the selection of peroute by the bou by then went dig it raust not be koelmed that he is able to dietata mis murgervinga just as he pilestate...
It was the page's express des ire that Pring Gange in the i franse of his naval 22% should be aerorded no special privileges of any kind and & has been recorifed fet him ontnätiö «lusk5s that hel
never by ward or aytion neglect of action any kind gives the slight Indication that he regards himself as any ocher | than a "middg" who will have to prove his worth for every step he
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The Hongkong doonici Segre tariat is still in the dark as to the mature of the Prizeus vixit.. They have mal even received offcial in- Naution that the tour is about to I made and Nerviore nothing can be abre in the way of pre- terations for his reception here. There are stereotyped regula-
OPIUM CONFERENCE.
LATEST CRIME.
Pirates Murder Captive.
OTHERS IN DANGER. ·
RUTHLESS DEMANDS FOR HANSOM.
(From Our Own Correspondant,)
Pakkai Kongnoon, Dee, 16. tions for the reception of heirs apparent, the "China Mail" vias, Pubs was pirutex months Taken into captivity when the informed this morning, hut whe-go, one of the passengers has been ther they would save the altered shot by the butlaws. His body was in any way. if the Prince. tradiscovered last night, close to the velled merely as an Acting Sub-wharf wberg Hongkong strainers Lieutenant it was difficult to say. berth. Nearly was a baliner with In any event it would be for the inscription purporting to wino civil community to say that inte from fugitive ex-betway of the nature of civic receptions the Tas Lee, should be held. If a mission tour is contemplated it seems to be the opinion the a visit to Pelting is almost sure to be made and Japan is likely to be included in the itinery.
!
inerption to the effect that if
This banner for ensom for the other victine was of forthcoming quickly, they would mrce & Similar Care
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"RINGING
THE CHANGES."
EUROPEAN SWINDLER.
in
Bank Notes Spirited Away.
"Several weeks ago Hongkong had in its midst a European shop- lifter. Now it has a European swindler.
Ringing the changes," prefer to call it is said to have $9. As the assistant at the coun "leight of hand" as some may this time and told the European ar candidly admits, he made it $8
been. Ruccessfully worked by a ter did not have sufficient $5 and middle-aged Duroplan Chinese Book-store on Monday the $100 note inside the office.
at a $10 notes to tender change he took night when he victimised the where the master gave him the stationer to the extent of $40. equivalent in notes of smaller day evening, a European picked the counter the accountant hande Entering the bookshop on Mon-denomination. On going back to
metic, another a reader and the notes and a $1 note. on three book-ore on arithed the eastomer $90 in $5 and $10. other on general information-for which he tendered a $100 note in I payment.
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The hapher was found about 200 | Usually the hooks were priced yards from the much-feetpented | út, $2.80 but, ak the shopkeeper
WILL FANLING COME TO THIS?
SPEED
This new golf green was put into use two months after it whe seeded by the help of artificial light The most difficult golf grass to grow was used, and twenty-four 1,000-watt lumus in reflectors were installed and burned five hours each night. found the club would save considerable money by speeding up nature, as the playing reverie It was for the six months saved easily offset the cost of the lighting.
NO SIGN. YET.
MILITARY LANDS DELAY.
GOVERNOR'S REMARK
FRICTION STILL EVIDENT. The half joking
(Reuter's Bernice.)
GENEVA, December. 16. The Second Opium Conference bas adjourned witil January 12. The British, Indian, French and Dutch delegatione still maintain reservations with regard to the competence of the Conference to deal with the American proposal.
wharf and in a busy part of this port. People were reading the ・・ characters on the flag, full of awe, for nobody knows who may be the next victim in this pirate-infested part of the delte.
Addressed to relatives and friends.. of the deceased, the warming read to the effect timt his dubti was due the delay, inaunging terms of ransom
The name of Pang Choong, described as the "Tu Test bool
wain who fled from the sip after Captain Willow had been killed and two Indidi guards shot down, C trip up from Hongkong, apprams on the banner bait it is not known if he is still in legno with the pirates.
remark made by His Excellency the Governor at the dinner held las night in celebration of Sir Hen Pollock's knighthood with raga to military lands brings the matter for a fleeting second once again before the public eye.
The removal of the military when it does take place) will be in two sections-that of the Murray Barracks soldiers to Gun Clab A brother of the dead man Hill and of the main cantonment still in the bandit stronghold. If to a site selected by themselves funda are not forthcoming im and which there is every in- medistely he will also be put to dication will be at Laichikok death so as to terrorise the relatives where preliminary investigations of the kidnapped into paying' as to the suitability of the earth quickly. and rock for building purposes is
still being made.
It might be mentioned that "ng decision has yet been made by the Government as to the manner in which the land left then available will be disposed of, but as the provision of the alternative ac comodation for the military will not be made for some years that not likely to become a vital ques- 11on just yet,
DAMAGES FOR LIBEL
HONGKONG'S GOVERNOR.
SIR EDWARD STUBBS' TERM.
"TER GETTING SHORT.”
"My Linte here is getting short, I believe," was a remark which made his hosts and fellow guests at yesterday evening's event won- der if His Excellency the Gov. ernor had received any further. intimation from the Secretary for the Colonies as to the request!! which has gone home from the Kuala Lumpur, December 8-1 of office here should be renewed. unofficial members that his term the Supreme Court, this morning,
On enquiry this morning the the acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice China Maik was informed that Sproute) gave his judgment in the this was, not so and His Excel- action in which Dr. R Dowden, Jency had in mind only the com the Principal Medical Officer...
F.M.S., sued Dr. I. H. Pooing completion of the six years Dr. Alfred Sze expressed the nampalam, a local medical practi. of service which usually marked hope that the Powers possessing zionez,for (1) $1,000 damage and the conclusion of a Governorship. |"extra-territorii privileges in China (2) an injunction to restrain the
would endeavour to harmonize defendant from repeating and that there is no definite period for It should be made quite clear them with Chinese Laws in order further publishing libels injurious to assist China in carrylog out affecting the plaintif in his the Hague provisions
The various sub-committees are His Lordship awarded plafotif capacity as P.M.O of the F.M S. endeavouring to complete their $1,000 damages and costs, and work before the weak-end.
Certified for two counsel.
which a Governor serves (refer- encce to Hongkong and other needed for proof of this) but six Colonial records are all that are years has come to be looked upon as the usual period of service,
RENTS LAW.
POWER TO EXEMPT HOUSES.
ANOTHER CHALLENGE."
ange
Then the European in th sence of the essi. ver. liberately counted his twice-urce by laying dynach note separately and the second time by turning up the forners of the batch.
After this he began to demur. a to the price and is alleged to have said that he would only pay $5. When the master joined "in" the discussion the European ropped to $4 whereupon it-was agreed that the transaction should not be put through. According ly the visitor handed Back the three books and was given, in re -turn, bis $100 'nute. He handed back his hatch of smaller notes. which, to all appearances, had been in his hand all the time, and left the shop.
Their suspicions aroured be cause the handle of notes seemed appreciably thinner." the shop- keepers at once made a recount and found that the European had only handed back $50 and the $1] a note, leaving a shortage of $40.
The bookseller is at lose to ex- plain the vanishing into thin air of his $40 and the simultaneous departure of BS dissatisfied client. He is of the opinion that the man must have been very clever at sleight-of-hand and that' the missing, notes" went up his sleeve.
. He describes the man as European of about forty years of age and with traces of a dark beard.
The shopkeeper adde it was his conjecture af first that the visitor wanted the books for a boy at school.
Government that certain aspects of the case newly brought to light should be considered and the order rescinded. It was claimed for the tenant that the landlord only wanted possession in order to be able to demand increased rent. The case was adjourned.
A reversal of an order made by the Governor in Council has already heen made in courts with regard to houses which writes to say that the new Police
the Hongko
Our Kongmoon, correspondent had been exempled from the Commissioner at that city is Cheung provisions of the Rents Ordinance Chowing. There has been much and it is possible that an applica agitation in connection with the for another to be made will shortly post. be before the court again.
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Mr. E.SC. Brooks appeared this morning to fight an application for sioner of Foreign
Mr. Wen Shih-tsen, -Commis- possession of a house which was Shanghai, has been notified that Affairs in made before Mr. Justice HH.J. the Finnish Government has de Gompertz on behalf of the landlord cided to establish a consulate in by Mr. C.A.S. Ruse. He said that Shanghai and that this will be in he had made application to the the French Concession.
POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS.
(MILIN
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of the Angera tribes between Tetuan and Tangier may cause international complications French diplomatists are con fident that French troops.are able to defend the Tangier zone from possible attack, but fear international-entanglemente owing to the dissatisfaction expressed, by several countries, especially Italy with the recent-Tangier-convention The comment of the Parle newspapers carries a most anxious: tone. They declare that Paris is in constant contact with Madrid NOTE
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