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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1925.
WHEN THIEVES FALL OUT
TWO CHINESE ARRESTED.
DRAMATO STORY OF HOLD-UP,
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Following up the clues furnished in a report of varied robbery per- patrated at the Man Hing firm of No. 10, Lower Lascur Row, hrd Chinese were arrested by the police.
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PRESIDENT BOAT'S CALL.
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AN UNLIKELY REPORT.
(Router's Service.)
Now, just as Britain is ready to pay £1,000,000,000 to America, for honour's sake, so is she also prepared to waive much of her £1,100,000,000 rights with her Allies" as she deems the object likewise worth the sacrifice, More
LONDON, February 8. than any other nation except In his report the adager of this A message from Chio, Greece, Germany, Britain needs the final firm stated that on his retira to the states that an ""S. O.S." was return to world economic security 8000 at the Bank he found the shop, after making a deposit of
received from the American So urgent is this need that we are door closed. On knocking, it was steamer, "President Harrison," ready to rernit a large part of our opened by a stranger, and he was which is bound from Shanghai for claims against the patións whose suddenly confronted with a pistol, New York. debts are a big factor in the pre-alongside
whilst unother
drew Up No advice had been received by with il dagger the Hongkong office of the Dollar- sent uncertain situation provided re complainant AVILS then Steamship Line (operators' of the only that "we receive enough to bound and gagged, und the steamer) when a "China Mall” |cover our obligations to the United robbers secured a sum of money as reporter called this morning.
Mr. E. L. Matteson, general- ... States and that our Allies' annual the safe keys. Opening the safe,
a further sum of $29 was extructed. agent for the company, expressed payments to us in this respect are Whilst the men were engaged in the opinion that the report was not put on an assured basis. Hence their operations, the brothers of true.
On January 5, the President the Note that, as reported in the complainant entered the shop,
and he was also bound and gagged. Harrison" arrived at Hongkong, to-day's cables, Britain as now!
One of the robhors is said to have from Shanghai, having previously sent to France. The improved struck up an acquaintanceship with left New York and passed through economic conditions" which will the cook of the place, and gained the Panama Canal. She sailed follow if France accepts our offer the information that the safe held from Hongkong on January 6, in the spirit in which it is made considerable sum of monoy, hut arrived at Manila January 8, hey planned the attack too late. Singapore January 14. Penang will be "ample reward for our When reseted at Tokusa, one January 17. Colombo January 21, February 2, Port Said leniency. The huge sums we shall of the alleged robbers, gave his Suez
February 3, Alexandrla "February forego can be safely written off complice away, and a search
TO-
to the necount of general prosulted in the latter also being found, perity, not only for the Empire, but in these days of economic inter-dependence, for the whole
world.
Rent Restriction.
ROBBERS SCARED.
1
TOY PISTOL.LEFT 'ERHIND.
and was due to reach Naples yesterday.
Should the report be correct, the. President Harrison" must have encountered danger prior to reach- ing Naples...
In the ordinary course of events,
A riport of an attempted armed the 'round-the-world." service bery at No. 39, Lyndhurst would have been completed by a race up 8330 pm. yesterday was call at Marseilles and out into the Frceived by the police to-day, but Atlantic back to New York.
no Hongkong pas- So far as the tenants are con- the robbers apparently took fright. There are
and bolted.
sengers on board the ship at pre-- cerned.., it may be reasonably
In her report..avinarried woman seat, the only ones who embarked expected that the discussion on states that she was seated on here booking for Manila and the Rents Ordinance will be kept hair when two med entered the Singapore. among the foremost of current, one of them carrying what: local topies." It would be passing appened to a pistol. She was strange, of course, if those most pushed off the chair; which [ell to affected passed over in compara-the ground. The men wnited“, a tive silence a question of so. vitalitle after the noise made by the importance to themselves. Yet, failing chair, but, scoring danger. the history of public affairs, is full they made a sudden bolt.
WISH WYNNE,
| CELEBRATED ARTISTE AT THE STAR TO-MORROW.
All roads will lead to the Star Theatre, Kowloon, on Tuesday night when Miss Wish Wynne and her clever company will open a
short season in the course of a
tour of the Far East.
of examples of public apathy and After the men had left, a toy indifference until it has been too pistol was found on the ground. late to take the desired. action. If the public does nothing to help "INDIAN VICTIMISED. itself, it cannot reasonably com- plair. if certain things are done Another armed robbery is re by the powers that be that would ported by Abdul Hamid Muhmin not have been done had the living at No. 6. Ashley Road, majority of the public views been Kowloon, who states that six men, That eminent essayist, E. V. known beforehand to the Govern- some with revolvers, entered his Lucas, in his "Fersons of Quality ment. In the case of the Rents house and removed property valued in Loiterer's Harvest,' says, Ordinance it is the self-protective at $55. The complainant undo the duty" of all tenants affected by its other inmates were gagged whilst operations to become articulate, the robbers carried out a seurch, to express publicly what is desired, A Japanese, occupying a room in saine house, was out at the and to influer.ce the votes of the the unofficial members of the Legisla- time, and the haut from his room tive Council accordingly. The comprised jewellery valued at $137, Government has given the lead and a telescope.
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HIGH RENTS.
TENANTS TO PREARE: BIG PETITION.
"ORDINANCE MUST REMMIN..
inter alia:
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“Many à fiuè artiste has had to forget self and impersonate another before acquiring powers, and Wish, Wynne is among them. Directly she assumes the guise of a down-trodden London girl the character is as clear and firm as an etching. These are her special forte: little London girls with a knowledge of life and a capacity- for enjoyment, whose destlay it is to be misunderstood and put upon. It is a common type,
Miss Wynne makes extraordinarily real.. You remem- ber her half-tones long after the stridencies of the evening are happily lost."
and
Each of the other members of the supporting company provide entertainment of a very high clase order.
oppressing the already sorely tried British people. The simple act of meeting our bond increased taxa tion at the rate of one pound per to the public in ample time. head every year for the next sixty has declared that an open discus
sion will take place at an early odd years, a period which most date. Sheria the vote, following: those who read these words will such discussion, be adverse to the never see completed. Still, how-wishes of the majority of tenants, ever crushing the burden, however the latter will have to bow to the protracted its duration, everyone and blame the weak points in their "decision as gracefully as possible
must agree with the Government own preliminary campaign. The of the day that when Britain pro- Tenants' Protective. Association,
Interest in the Rents Ordine mised to pay it was worth any as the outcome of last night's is still acute but the majority of sacrifice to redeem her word if the meeting, has decided to proceed people are quietly waiting the with a petition to be forwarded promised discussion in the Legisia creditor chose to exact the "pro-to His Excellency the Governor live Connell, mise, and it was worth almost any through the Secretary for Last night the Tenant's Pro- sacrifice also to maintain friendly Chinese Affairs. That petition, tective Association held an extra- relations between the two great needless to say, ought to be fully ordinary melting at which it was English-speaking peoples.
representative of the whole com-resolved that a public petition he munity to carry any weight either drawn up and, handed in to London Olßces:-Thr Far Eastura ? | Faced with the heavy extra with the Governor or the Legis-Government. Advertising Agency (London),
Mr. Wong Kar-ying, chairman, FOUND IN POSSESSION OF taxation necessary to vindicate hislative Council. There must be no Devonshire Stroet,
A. CHINESE. the
minin Association's country's honour, the British half and half measures even in the
points in the petition :-(1), taxpayer, however, naturally felt preparation of a petition,
statistics to be given to show the An unemployed Chinese · was
Mr. great difference between rentals of charged before that sauce for the goose was sauce
E. W. old and rebuilt, houses, with Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- localities and numbers of houses tracy this morning with alleged Comparisons were to be oude felonious intent and with posses- between houses of the saine streels: sion of a pair of stockings in respect'
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for the gander and began to
demand payment of the loans the| COMPRADORE'S
SILBERMAN.On February (3, other Allies owe to Britain.
CLAIM.
ve
the
SILK STOCKINGS;
1925, at Dr. Fearn's Sani- Amounting to £1,100,000,000, HENRI KREBS & CO., «(SUED | (2) if the Ordinance was repealed, of which he could not offer a tarium, Shanghai, Anne these more than offset Britain's Silberman, wife of Isidor Silberman, aged 52.
Hongkong, Monday, February 9, 1925.
MONEY TALKS.
American loun. Moreover, the income from the annual charges £70,000,000—gives", a' --some
IN SUPREME COURT.
JUDGMENT FOR PLAINTIFF,
ILLICIT OPIUM. .
NINE MONTHS JAIL FOR CHINESE.
The rents would be considerably satisfactory explanation. creased and many of the poorer accused was seized outside No. classes would be forced to join the Pakhol Street, at 3 o'clock on ranks of the homeless (3) the Saturday morning, whilst in the abrogation of the Ordinance would act of climbing a drain pipe.
the The accused was sentenced to £15,000,000 surplus every year An action ainst a Hongkong have far reaching effects on over our American interest and firm for the recovery of $20,000 by business community. If rats were four months' hard labour.
the compradore was heard before increased many shopkeepers weddi sinking fund expenses. Clearly, Sir Henry Cowper Gollan in the be forced out of business berse with Europe in its then parlous Supreme Court this morning. any change of premises, especially Hearl Krebs and Co. and Henry removal to distant places, would condition, Britain could never have
entire The wisdom of Britain's decision hoped to secure full payment of Krebs, a partner therein, the entail less of business and perhapa
defendants, were not represented. cause
suspension: Hitherto we have- to accept America's debt funding these debts.
The facts were outlined by Mr. labourers would also be seriously C, for the affected if the Ordinance was not offer has. soon become apparent. not collected one penny and it is Eldon Pouter, K. Not only has our prestige, doubtful if we shall ever receive plaintiff (Kwok Ping), who also newed. It was well known that
gave evidence..
workers, such as the coal coolies
An elderly Chinese, living at increased' enormously but our payment from some of the debtor Under a compradore agreement and earth carriers, preferred to live No. 614. Canton Road, was sen- nine months' hard credit has also gained renewed nations, though certain British he had paid $25,000 into the firm in certain localities, as near a tenced to
sald; $5,000 of this possible to the places of their labour at the Kowloon Magistracy strength. When the agreement experts claimed, when the Amerihe
had subsequently been refunded employment. Not only incon was reached two years ago, leading can agreement was signed, that it and when he left the employ of venience, but hardships, would this morning for possession of bankers hailed it as the most is absurd to auggest France, for the firm he gave notice that he rise if they had to live elsewhere, early three taels of non-Govern- The accused had two previous constructive step since the war one, could pay nothing, while the considered as his property any (5) proof of the necessity of con-
balance after claims had been tinuing the restrictions was PT convictions against bim for brea and prominent business men Bank of France remained in settled.
vided by the overcrowded condiches of the Oplum Ordinance. predicted that sterling would soon possession of some £225,000,000 of The firm had replied that they fonk in certain parts of the Colony. return to normal. That prediction gold 60 per cent. more than our had substantial claims against the During the last few years the is now on the point of being ful-own
plaintiff which they anticipated population of Hongkong had in- Bank of England and would be in the region of
reneed to mich an extent that all Alled. Moreover the hope Washing- Currency Notes reserves. What- $50,000 but neither then ton official circles expressed that ever her ability to pay, France has late did they give particulars new houses built, during that period. claim had been made would have been occupied, if the Britain's action would break the repeatedly made it clear that she and no
renta had not been so high. against the plaintiff. vicious circle of world debts is does not intend to hurry unduly, The plaintiff's claim was for also materialising,
Peking. February 7-A man- Manifestly M. Poincare, when he was in a declaration that he was entitled
Lia.all monies which on June 27 were date, issued to-day "annoints Suc these outcomes are very gratify power, passionately asserting in held by the Bank of Canton to Pas Chi Tapan of the commercial ing, but they will have been the Chamber of Deputies that it secure credits opened by the Bank ports of Shanghai and Woosung achieved only with very heavy would be "an intolerable iniquity" for the defendant firm.
Yu Ho: Teh. Is gazetted Associate Itaxation, extra burden still further for inter-Allled debts to be placed His Lordship allowed the claim.
nor
director of the ports-Reuter
ment oplum.
HEALTH OF COLONY..
The following cases of nolißableTMTM diseases were. reported to the Medical Department yesterday:- Diphtheria: one case (Chinese.) "Enteris- Fevers—swa-cases- (Chinese)
Cerebro-spiral Fever: two cases (Chfuese.)