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一拜禮 送六月四年五十二百九千英
HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1925,
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日四十三乙四十國民章中
TRAGEDY OF THE PRATAS.
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WHO WERE. LEFT TO STARVE. EARLIER INCIDENTS RECALLED,
Lonely Island Where Fisher Folk Buried Their Dead
Pratas Shoal, few people know that the island was once the scene of Although most people have a rough idea of the locality of the
a grim tragedy.
The 'Shoal Itself. "The Pratas Shoal, consisting of
FIVE 535" BOATS.
Information has now been Happenings centering round a happy couple who left Hongkong received regarding the destiny of on Saturday on board the s... "Franconia" prove how romance may the five "535 type of President culminate almost under our noses with no one here any the wiser Mail S.S. Co. Between Hangkong, vessels operated by the Pacific Piquancy is added to this parti- and when the bridegroom' put in, Manila, Shanghai, Japan, Hono- Frular romance in that official his appearance upon the arrival Jula and San Francisco.
The subject of typhoon warn-jest in this connection and we take [reficence, will not confirm the of the "Macedonia" he found that A special dispatch published ings and the erection of a this opportunity of quoting it in
hares of the parties or indicate his clever little wife-to-be had by the "Ching Press" of Shanghai meteorological and radio station part. the nature of the motives which arranged all the details and all he mid that the ships were awarded on the Pratas Shoal near Hong- Juctuated them in journeying thou had to do was to go with her with by the United States Shipping kong was the discussion at a sands of miles in order that they witnesses to the office of the Board to the Dollar Steamship meeting of the Hongkong Cham- might be married in Hongkong. Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Line who bid U.S.G.$5,625,000 ber of Commerce some two years
The prospective bride arrived in sign a few forms and pay the cash payment. The Pacific Mail go the Colony on Tuesday with the stipulated sum.
Company which at present oper- It is therefore with interest tourists aboard the "Franconia."
offered that we observe that the Chinese The prospective bridegroom arriv-
payment basis which would have Woosung are inviting tenders for U.S.G.$6,750.000, on a deferred Coast Guard Administration at Fenle the ss. "Macedonia" on
left the American Government in the supply of material with a view Thursday. Both are British, The young lady upon her arrival went
Retinal ownership of the boats for to the realization of this project to the local offices of Thos. Cook &
a considerable time.
An article which appeared in Son and explaining that she de
it has been stated in New York. April 7, 1928, subsequent to the According to the "China Press" the North-China Daily News of sired to be married before the
that the Pacific" Mail Co. would meeting held by the Hongkong Franconia" left on Saturday,
not be affected if their five, ships Chamber of Commerce is of inter- asked what she should do about
The only married man in the office at the time would appear to have been called into consultation and eventually the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs in which the ⚫offices relating to forms of mar- riage are situated was communi- cated with.
Anyone who knows anything about the offices of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs must have reen the notice board at the foot of the stairs on which notices of prospective marriages have to be posted for fifteen days before the wedding can in the ordinary way take place.,
Herein, of course, lay the diffi- rulty of the young lady who if she was to return with her intended en the "Franconia" would only he able to give the day's notice. However, the difficulty was found to he not insuperable and that handy book of Hongkong Ordin- unces was hurriedly consuli: and to the young lady's relief it was found that H.E. the Officer Ad- ministering the Government could give special dispensation from the proviso relating to the fifteen days' notice...
This dispensation having been.. granted. all was then plain sailing
BOMB
CRIME.
'SECOND BOBBED HAIR HAIR.
Commenting on the trial of the woman who was supposed to have passed through Hongkong and for whom the local police had kept a look-out, the "Straits Echo" says:-
offices of Thon. Cook & Son and Joyfully they returned to the thanked the married man who had 3roved so sympathetic an ally.
are past!" would have been a "They say the days of romalice most fitting remark for him to make as their retreating forms "passed over the portal.
ates the steamers,
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To-day's cables report that the Prince of Wales has arrived at Bathurst, capital of the British Seglernent an the Gambia, on the island of St. Mary, a zandbank about 8 miles long and 14 miles broad, separated from the mainland by Oyster Creek across which, however, there is now, a mutalled- raad connecting the island with British Canbo. Bathurst is situated at the mouth of the Gambia River: 1 haxa government heque, also a hospital for liberated Africans. The climate is very malarious in the rainy season, which lasts from July to September. The population numbers' about 6,000..
"CAT" THIEF.
ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY.
a sandbank covered with shrubs and other small vegetation of a poor type, an extinct volcano and a reef, lies about 185 miles S.E, of Hongkong
There is no drinking water on the island, the vegetation being nourished by brackish pools. and a lagoon and by phosphates due to
large flights of birds. the presence from time to time of
Some years ago the presence of the phosphates attracted the attention of the Japanese from Formosa," and some 400 or 500 settled in huts along the island but at the best made a poor living. Of food there is none and to add to the difficulties of the situaion drinking water had to be produced by 'a condenser.
During these.same years fishing junks from the south of China made a practice of visiting the place, where apparently from time
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immemorial they were in the MACKINTOSH
habit of burying their dead.
Between them and the Japanese settlers there was bad blood, the Japanese being to all appearances responsible therefore as in the latter years of their stay they seem to have taken it upon them- selves to forbid the fishermen using the place as a cemetery,
The reports brought back to the mainland by these fishermen soon. came to the ears of the Chinese officials, who, finding what appear ed to be un infringement of sover- eign rights, took steps to oust the Japanese.
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An arrangement was arrived at about 1910 by which the latter went out lock, stock, and barrel, but at a cost, to China of, some $14,000. paid for their condensing plant und the huts which were. taken over.
A Forgotten Existence.
"Now we come to the tragedy of Pratas. To secure themselves in the enjoyment of their sover- SENT TO MALAYA.
eign rights, the Chinese Govern ment discussed the advisability of Official confirmation has now
erecting a wireless plant on the been obtained of the report that
island, and at once placed 10 or a second bobbed-hair woman has
a dozen Chinese there to de.. been sent to Malaya in connection
were transferred to other inter of tonnage under the American monstrate their possession and to with the bomb crime which re-
ests us they had other tonnage in flag being owned by the Standard guard against fresh instrusion. A view. sulted in the sentence of a
Qil Company, while the United steamer from Canton visited them Chinese woman
Mr. R. Stanley Dollar, who is States Steel Corporation stands periodically, bringing supplies and to ten years' MANS WATER PIPE CLIMB. now in Washington, D.C., has third. rigorous imprisonment.
they obtained their drinking said that the deal would enable Since the Dollar Company water as before, by means of the the Dollar Company to give a already controls the Admiral condenser. All went well for a weekly service between San Fran- Oriental Line, operating five Pre- time but within a year or two cisco and the Orient, (the "Chinasident-type ships between Seattle south China found itself in the A Chinese with athletic attain- Press" radio reports). ments came before Mr. J. R. Wood (presumably of the Shipping the ships operated by the Pacific relief steamer was switched off Those and the Orient, the purchase of throes of revolution, and then the at the Central Magistracy this Board) who voted for acceptance Mail Company, puts this company to other work. The existence of "Now that the woman who morning on a charge of stealing a of the offer were Meyer Lissener, in control of three important pas- the men on, the island seems to attempted to murder Mr. D. safety razor and a pair of slippers. B. E. Haney and Hill. F 1.senger services, one from Seattle have been forgotten for the Richards in the Chinese Protec-. The man was seen, to gain Thompson and Wm. S. Benson op. to the Orient, one from San Fran- moment "and torate in Kuala Lumpur has access to the first floor of No. 99. posed it on the ground that the cisco to the Orient and the Dollar- months thereafter, and when the apparently for been duly tried and sentenced Connaught Road West at 3 o'clock price was only a fourth of (or Round-the-World services. to ten years' rigorous impri- on Thursday morning by climbing fifteen millions less than the
steamer made her next voyage sonment, which is certainly not the water pipe which he accom- amount it cost to build the with a gross tonnage of more unfortunate guard were found,"
The acquisition of the five boats only the whitening bones of the an excessive penalty for such a plished with the agility of a cat. vessels) also that the San Fran than 70,000 given the Dollar Com~! serious crime, it is permissable, Later, he Fan out of the cieco line was not showing a pany, a fleet of 37 passenger and to offer a little comment on the premises with one of the inmates in money loss operation and that freight vessels, with a gross ton- case. It is a matter of com- pursuit, but he had not made allow it was unngsary to sell at a nage of almost 300,000. mon knowledge that Wong anses for mecilog a district watch sacrifice, while the sale would Sang had at least one accom-man who had noticed the feat and create a monopoly in the Ameri-operated on the round-the-world In addition to the cargo ships
An elderly Chinese was knocked plice and that before going to was waiting for him. In the morn
can flag service of the Pacific and trans-Pacific services the down by a motor car at Queen's ing, on being taken from the cell Orient trade, and that it was con- company has a service of cargo Road Central yesterday, Kuala Lumpur she was looking to the guard room adjolding it, the sidered that the sale, violated the vessels between Boston and New examination at the Government Op for somewhat higher game, man evaded his guard and escaped spirit and intent of the Merchant York and San Francisce, Seattle Civil Hospital, the man was found and, without asking for any Two days later he was re-arrested Marine Acts sensational disclosures, we at a coolie house, think it would be well if the
and Vancouver, BC, and also to have a broken leggen? Mr. J. Harold Dollar, Far East- carga and passenger ships on the coolie carigin, a plank ran Government were to let it be Worship regarding his escape.
On being, questioned by His ern manager of the Dollar inter- Upper Yangtsie..
in the path of a motor cycle driven known that the other miscreant from police custody, the accused ests, confirmed the scceptance of With the exception of a brief by Mr. A. J. Wadmore, of the or miscreants concerned in the admitted it with a self-satisfied the bid. outrage have been brought to expression.
When a China Mall" reporter shipping laws were passed, the The man was injured, and had to interval after the La Folletta Public Works Department at
Jordan Road, Kowloon, yesterday.. book and that the source: from The sentence was three months' called on M. E. L. Matteson Pacific Mall Co. has been in the be taken to the Kwong. Wah. which the ingredients for hard labour.
general agent for the Robert trans-Pacific service for more Hospital. manufacturing, their internal
Dollar Co. in Hongkong, he was than fifty yeará. Before these machine were obtained has
Informed that the reports in the laws were passed, their fleet in- Shanghal papers that were shown cluded auch well-known ships of him, were the first he had heard those days, as the Mongolia, about the award but since Mr. Korea, China and others. In 1918 Harold Dollar had confirmed it, the Company re-started with the
been discovered."
Some time back, the "China Mail" reported that a second fashionably attired
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woman was taken off the as│-4 meeting of the Sanitary Board Kwanglee by the Hongkong Police will be held tomorrow at 4.15 pm. and sent back to the F.NUS La DC Macgown, pursuant to vestigations to her identity oties will move - may satisfy the curiosity of those nearer. Kuala Lumpur, ODD for playing in Kowloon, the
It will be recalled that at the
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accused women had some ****
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brotherhood of man.
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The purchase of the five Pre-zuela, which were transferred to Thursday, spys ---- sident type, hosts, theyilson, the San Francisco New York (via Hawall among the changes in the During the . fleol's visit / to Thurphys bleyland Pierce, and Panama Canal trade when thersonnel will be the transfer of
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