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WHEN THE FOUR WINDS BROKE LOOSE. MAH JONG SHOP RIOT.
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Sequel to a Hongkong Strike.
Quite the most lively game of Mah Jong yet played in Hongkong was witnessed this morning-until the police arrived and stopped the fun.
"All the Mah Jeuk pieces (the who could not get hold of the Cantonese name for the game boxes of tiles, grabbed hold of the Furniture and started throwing pronounced Ma Jerk, and mean-stools and tables about.. jing. literally. Sparrow') were flying about." confessed the accountant of a.shop at No. 146. Wellington Street to the "China Mail reporter who, shortly after noon to-day, stumbled into the presises where all was topsy turvy and the floor was littered with Mah Jong, tiles
"Have they flown with the four winds 7" queried the reporter.
"No" came back the answer, "they came for my head like
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There was no need to inquire i£{ a row had taken place. Shelves and drawers had been pulled down. electric lights were shatter- ed. Iroken stools and tables wore! lying upside down on the Boor and quite, a hundred boxes of Mah Jong had their contents strewn fabout the counter and the doorg ||
One of the crowd.outside tried). to comfort the accountant, by saying "Never mind you have n good advertisement, this is a newspaper man--he can say that your tiles are made of genuine bone and not paste."
It appears that about forty Shanghai men had swooped down on the little shop. After an altercation lasting a few minutes some are alleged to have starting wreplant the place which had just
COOL THIEF. Attempt to Snatch Handbag.
CHIT BOOK' DODGE."
PEAK LADY NEARLY ROBBED.
Another attempt.to snatch the handbag of a European lady also a Peak résident, was made by a Chinese yesterday,
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GOVERNMENT DROPS BROADCASTING, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE'S CHANCE. Radio Meeting to Be Held This Week.
The Government having definitely decided that if cannot be directly responsible for any system of broadcasting in Hongkong. local radio enthusiasts can now make their arrangements accordingly.
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Some of the local radio, "fans" rangements were likely to take, Mrs. L. C. Hunt, who lives at approached by a "China Mail" the radio man replied that he had No. 10, The Peak, was walking representative this morning felt no authority to speak on behalf down Lower Albert Road when they had reason to labour under of the Local Radio Society but he In addition to the actual break-she met a Chinese with a chit a sense of injustice, as the Gov- knew that the suggestion had age, the shop will have a very book.
ernment appeared to have had been put forward that the Society job. sorting out the The man presented the book to formulated plans for broadcast- should run a small transmitting Again a tedious Various sets and combinations.. her and indicated by gestures that ing news to ships, and had turn-station themselves. Lying on the floor behind the he was looking for a certained down the proposals for enterfirm might make a commercial counter was a pile of tiles which address.
tainment broadcasting locally, proposition of it, as there were a would have made up fifty sets.
particularly as the impression had large number of people in the That police whistles blown for several minutes, before were
been given that the Government Colony with sets. was going to make itself respon-- assistance arrived is another
sible. allegation made by the foki. Two However he failed to secure the men were arrested by two Chin-bag although the strap broke in ese-detectives who rushed to the the pull shop and restored order, the The thief mady his escape by others bolting through the many running in the direction of adjoining side-streets.
Battery Path.
Whilst Mrs. Hunt was looking grabbed her handbag to make at the book, the man suddenly
away with it.
"There's no good to be gained by grumbling, however," said one radio Tun" to the "China Mail" man. "It is.up to us to make our own arrangements.now."
Asked what form these ar-
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Ampymoney, Kavaring ven oui May vola
Latest reports are that the Allied investigators have found that
The Grand Duchess Cyril, of Russin, the Krupp Works, which made munitions during the war in Germany. ure now at work, making guns and materials, in defiance to the Allies, whose husband is the cousin of the and against the signed agreements of the Versailles Treaty. All of late Czar, may be the future Czarina Her husturi us pro- the munitions have been stored in secret spots, some of which have of Russia.
claimed from London thint he is
been uncovered. Photograph shows the interior of the Krupp works. 1 Emperor of all the Russing"
CARGO OF NAILS.
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niced and painted up. According to the fobis, the employees. ut other Mah Jong shops had gone on strike for a few days. With increasing competi. tion and decreasing demand from America, the local shopkeepers hud met to discuss all-round re- ductions, including wages. Prac- tically all the twenty or so Mah Jong shops in Hongkong, Le.. those at which the sets are made) on the premises, are owned and staffed by natives of Shanghai: Resenting the strike, a number of workmen are alleged to have objected to the shop continuing! business. During the parley, the master explained to his "visitors" that his three or four employees were not, strictly speaking, black- Jegs, as they were not purely carvers and makers but were also
The responsibility of general shop assistants.
Importer in regard to the goods he Who was to blame for the riot is to hand over to the dealer was will be a matter for police inves- the subject of discussion at the tigation. The accountant says Supreme Court this morning, a firm that the alleged strikers made a which refused to take over rush for the shelves, pulled out the drawers and started bombard ing the master and his assistants with sets of Mah Jong.
Those
ARMED ROBBERS,
BOOTY WORTH OVER $2,000,
IMPORTER'S LIABILITY
CASE.
A CLAIM FOR $7,900.
the
shipment of wire nails being sued by the importers for difference in the contract price and that fetched at the auction.
Mr. F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Messrs. Hastings, Dennys and Bowley) appeared for the China Agency and Trading Co., the plaintifs; and Mr. Elden Potter K.C.. instructed by Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist) for the Sun Cheong Yai Co., the de fendants
The shipment. 'in question consisted of 1,650 kegs of wife nails, the contract price for which was $17.703.67. The amount of the claim was $7.933.13
ARMS CHARGES.
Two men arrested at a tea house in Eastern Streat were charged before Mr. R. Wood at the Central Magistracy, yesterday with unlawful possession of a dagger which was found under a table at which the men were scaled when raided by the police.
contended that in the first place Mr. C. A. S. Russ, defending, the dagger was not a dangerous' weapon, as it could be bought
where for 30 or 40 cents. Ho himself had bought a number of them. Secondly, the kalfe was not found in the possession of the
mea.
After hearing evidence the men were discharged.
Another man arrested in the
same tea shop was chatged with
four rounds
of
SHOT IN THE LEG.
At the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday a Chinese was com mitted for trial at the Criminal Sessions for possession of a loaded revolver.
With regard to this latter, sug- gestion, the "China Mall" man later enquired officially if there would be any objections to such a scheme, and was informed that the Government would have none, provided that regulations "were complied with which were in course of preparation.
With regard to the wireless situation locally, another radio fan, who has the reputation for having got the best results so far on his set, thought that the publicity given to the statements of people who said that they had "got" such and such a station on a one-valve set was likely to be misleading, unless care was taken to verify, their claims. "I hope I shall not be taken as having said that the re- cent statements cannot be taken as true, but it wouldn't be a bad idea for your paper to ask any such, when they write in, or even without writing in, if they would be prepared to let your repre- rentative listen in to what they claim they are getting."
"I have had some little experi ence now," "said this gentleman, "and">Fhave found that to get stations in Manila, the United States and Australia as people have been claiming to do, requires a very powerful set. Given ex- ceptionally good conditions one valve sets may pick up these stations once in a "blue moon,' but it is no good people buying- sets in the anticipation that they will get results anything like regularly.
The same gentleman informed the China Mail" that a ten-valve set had just been constructed locally and the lines along which would lie the future activity of local enthusiasts would be very largely determined by the results of this.
The "China Mail" understands
It transpired in evidence that the that a meeting is to be called this, man was shot in the leg for at-week to consider the whole posi- tempting to evade arrest on the tion of radio in Hongkong. Street. It was alleged that he was night of January 2, at Reclamation
seen to throw away the revolver before he was disabled.
MISSING CASHIER.
A Chinese cashier employed by the compradore department of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha is reported to
SUN YAT-SEN.
(Courtesy of the Daily Bulletin.)
Peking, March 24. Tuan Chi-jui did not carry out his announced intention of paying Sun his respecta personally to Yat-sen's coffin to-day.
It is explained that a special meeting of the Cabinet.prevented. him this morning, and he was
The Minister of Intérior, there-
the unlawful possession of a have absconded with a sum of slightly indisposed this afternoon. revolver and
It was stated by $1,325.80 handed to him for deposit ammunition.
at the Yokohama Specie. Bank. fore, was nominated Tuan Chi-! police whibnesses that the weapon
The suspicions of the compradore jui's personal delegate, and he were aroused by the man's absence, proceeded to the Central Park and it was ascertained later, states this afternoon, accompanied by report to the police, that the the members of the Cabinet, and money had not been presented at paid respects to Sun Yat-sen's the Bank.
remains,
was seen to drop down the man's trouser leg. The accused dented the statements of the witnesses, and said that another man left the weapon on a chair and that it dropped to the floor during the search. The case, was adjourned for further evidence:
A woman living on
the top floor of a Praya East house re ported to the police yesterday that five days previously she was awakened in her sleep by a knock
Mr. Jenkin said that the goods lai the door. On opening the were surveyed by a surveyor ap- door five men rushed in, one of pointed by the Hongkong Cham them carrying a lantern and the ber of Commerce who found that, others being armed with revolvers. Only on the external layers had nerobbers are alleged to have the nails in some of the kegs been removed her jewellery amounting affected by surface rust. In his THIRTEEN FINES. in value to $2,130, also some other opinion the goods were absolute- valuables belonging, to a Euro-ly merchantable and salable as
Offences on the harbour resulted pean. The report states that wire nails. Mr. Jenkin spoke in thirteen fines of $5 each on the besides the woman her younger also of the testimony of two licencees of small craft at the brother was sleeping in one of old established Chinese metal Marine Court this morning. Eight
the cubicles,
SUDDEN DEATH.
merchants who had bought a certain amount of the goods at the men owners of cargo boats auction. In their view, too, the were convicted for obstructing the goods were absolutely merchant refuge two others for lylax fus entrance to the Yaumati typhoon able, and in spite of the glut on shore during prohibited hours ar the market at the time the goods were sold (this benug due to overnight and three men for obstrac buying by people who hoped to top in the southern fairway. unload In Japan, and who a stone carrying lighter at Praya had falled to do so) They had and Bast yesterday afternoon and was them at a price higher than that drowned. The body was "recover" which they paid ed later and sent to the mortuar Mr. D.
A coolie employed at the Netherlands Harbour Works accidentally fell overboard from
Munton, the sun
Another body brought to the appoluted by mortuary was that of a cooliesent ComZACIE
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| the Sincera: Go... Lad at Kennedy,
wn.The man was insta filled whilst at work by com Finto contact with a live elect
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