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the Moslem and Hindu communi- ties to co-operate with the Police in counselling their compatriots to abstain from open violence.
Whether or not Calcutta has learned a lesson from Hongkong matters not. The fact remains
that by the adoption of similar methods that were so successful
whol in the
of their
think of orphans, needing medicine, and those at odd times, are afflicted by: typhoons, floods and famines
THURSDAY APRIE
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
“STRANGE_MEDLEY." When Rochdale, Town Counell
(Continued from Pace 1)
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Mr. Zeitlyn also indicated that he was calling an expert witness to prove that the writing, on the labels of exhibits was the same..
How do they know dress. There is also the making of The 19th Hole, gold who only Fan-the material and the dyeing of it
Hing know.
kand those can best be carried out between manufacturer, dyer and when there Is close co-operation
[[decided to form a municipal golfarifat-drausmaker. There are none course in Councillor asked whether who can make woollen materiale as the English can one who can there would be a 19th hole,
touch them in the fine mixturos: of The question was met with cries wool and artificial silk, or in arts of "They only have 18 holes." ficial silk alone. We should like ta Councilor: Well, I want to knew be sure that, our Bradford manu- if we are to have a 19th.
facturers work as Harmoniously with the Dyers Association as the French manufacturers work with the French dyors. Even as it is. tastefully made British dresses French critics have said that if the which were displayed in the British section of the Paris Exhibition had been made of the incomparable. materials which were displayed at Wombley Parisiah women would! have gone mad to get them. But Has Lord Dewar for some reason this happy com attorney for the first defendant Whose Dog? any serious rival in bination of effort never took place,.. the manufacture of and another fine opportunity to whilst the latter was away in
motoring epigrama except Mr.show what British manufacturers' Peking but the first defendant.
Henry Ford? eventually decided that if anything developed in regard to the civil case he and the second defendant were bringing against the Wing On Bank for the recovery of $60,000, he would return from Peking.
"Told It. Wau A Forgery."
Councillor cannot answer that At yesterday afternoon's hearing, question, as I have never heard of His. Lordship and counsel for the 19th hole on a golf course. defence made streng comment on When Rochdale Council have the part which had been played in studied gait a little more closely the initial proceedings of the they will all be aware that the "19th allegad forgery on the Wing On hole" is the clubhouse bar, to Bank by Chan Sam, who communiwhich players, adjourn when the cated to the police information with game has finished at the 18th. regard to what he alleges he was told by the two defendants:
Witness was to have "acted "as
Witness admitted having endea-. voured to raise certain large sums.
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7
A competition between the two, like the story-telling competition between the mayor and the Marquis of Aberdeen, ought certainly to add to the gaiety of nations
...
can do was lust...
Those who are be
Demosthenes. Ing urged to cult
Vate the art of But Lord Dewar's best contribu- public speaking, and feel their own tion to motoring literature was not limitations may be interested in the in Hongkong-raids on roughs of money for the carrying on of his epigram-though he told a early trials of the grent Greek. the forces of law and order are the case during the period in which very good one the other night. Orator. Demosthenes, we are told, when he said that nowadays men conquered stammering by putting it was thought that he might act as gaining the upper hand in Cal attorney for the first defendant will have their motors if they have little pebble stones in his mouth, and 80 pronounced with open Before this, witness, alleges that he money enough to keep body and car mouth. He had a amail and soft
together but his dog story.
eutta.
was genuine..
4.
What Calcutta is doing now, was told by the second defendant and what Hongkong has previous-that the money actually deposited ly accomplished in the matter of with the Wing On Bank had been got back on a forged document. and weeding out undesirables, can that the one on which they were surely be essayed once more basing their claim against the Bank here. In suggesting this, we are not for a moment, blaming or criticising the Police in the alightest degree. We desire to co-operate with them to the full est extent in their most difficult
Hongkong, Thursday, Aptil 29, 1926. work. If our suggestion for a re- vival of raids on undesirables" in the Colony is worth anything at all at this juncture we feel con-
ROUNDING UP ROUGHS,
Witness admitted having had w legul training and he was cross- examined as to why with his lêgali knowledge he had anything more to do with the case when he knew it that he did not intend to go on was a "forgery. Witness replied
with the case but his endeavours to raise the sums of money mention-
th
He used to tell of a tramp who voice which he made louder by
with fuill breath some RB plodding along the Bath Roadrunning up steep hills "uttering when a motor-car passing him ran ever over a lurcher dog. The motoristorations or verses that he had without book:" The ouply writer stopped and hailed the tramp...
"My poor fellow," he said, "Tm quoted tells us that Demosthenesi very sorry. Would ten shillings be had a great looking glass. Stand- ing before it he would learn and any consolation?!!!
The tramp took the money, and exercise himself to pronounce his as the motorist drove away he look- orations." He found that Satyrfus. ed down at the unfortunate immo-in repeating verses by Euripides lated dog. "I wonder," he said, "whose dog it was?"
Fashion?
gave them quite another grace "with such a pronounciation and comely gesture. that Demos- thenes thought them clean "Do the English changed" He thereupon built a ed were in connection with taking Who Creates the shops create ceilar nderground and would dally evidence. In the interests of the
or follow the go down into it to fashion his defendant he had to attend court.
fashions?" ask-gesture and pronounciation and to Mr. Alabaster: Was it a desireed Mr. Justice: McCardie, speaking exercise: his voice.
of women's dresses; and he seemed
lf the W.D. becomes surprised to hear that the fashions inundated with applications to are created by the Paris model bulld underground cellars, we shall houses, and that all the world know the reason. follows,
to get 15 per cent. of the proceeds which made you endeavour to get the money?'
Witness: No.. Mr. Alabaster:
Why do women everywhere, sub-
the
It is still recalled with antis-fident that it will be duly con- faction that during the period sidered in the same spirit, that following the adoption of drastic prompts it. Moreover, the com- measures against agitators munity generally, which is natur- and intimidators in the Colony ally not "behind the scenes" in and the accompanying raids on Police work, yould certainly be Were you to get judgment, for
Which is
dramatic: quarters likely ..bo: harbour none the worse for some fresh him in the court while he was abmit thus to the dictates of the To Immortality most.
Parisian designer? It is a conven-
figure of speech undesirables, crime was. at assurance that all that can sent-Witness did not reply...
Your story a fncredible. Wastion to which they have submitted, in modern English poetry? a remarkably low ebb The humanly be done to minimise it part of Au's claim that he was or is it because the Franch, really A discussion on this point in a Police, with the
"Theywell-known Hterary club gave the co-opera-crime is being done. And, final proceeding on a forged book? It have exceptional aki?
have the creative brains" said the pulm to Sir William Watson, for his tion of the East Surrey. Regi-ly, these raids have undoubtedly was a genuine book..
His Lordship: Why should Lam witness in this case; and we believe poem on Hood's "Song of the ment, did splendid work, and a splendid moral effect that have made this confession about that there is an overwhelming Shirt." the criminal classes soon. found should not be lost sight of in eon-forged book to you? It was not weight of evidence on his side. In Sir William said of the poet Hood that the place was too hot forsidering measures for the preven- necessary to the action. Why skill of hand, eye for colour, the that with this theme "he stitched them and that there was at least tion of crime.
should he tell you that he bad al- sense of design-in these the him such a royal robe, that Eastern ready got the money don't French craftsmen have proved kings are poorer habited," But discretion, if not valour, in the
an equal tribute might, have been. know. I was to get 15 per cent. themselves pre-eminent. adoption by them of" "Safety
for my trouble...
But this process of making up is paid to his "Bridge of Sighs," on First' as a metto.
only part of the skilled work which, as Sir William sald, Hood which goes to the production of a passed to immortality.
CHINESE CHARITY,
་་
His Lordship: Was it to be for the trouble to your conscience for acting in connection with a forged document?
Counsel: Were you to supply. evidence and act as plaintiff dur- ing his absence-No, I was to take all the witnesses..
QUEER CASE.
UP-COUNTRY MAGISTRATE 'ON BAIL.
From Our Own Correspondent.)
With the gradual influx of Chinese from Canton since then it The practical nature of the cannot be denied that crime bas Chinese is evident. It is found in been increasing. There has been all walks of life and the conditions a series of city burglaries; armed which life brings in its train. The robberies are more frequent than poor and the rich are the same What witnesses? They said during the period of the raids on almost in their manner of doing they had witnesses. undesirables; and there is almost things. Yet with this prac- Mr. F C Jenkin, appears with an epidemic of petty larceny,tical outlook there goes feel- Mr. H. G. Sheldon for the prosecu- tion (both instructed by Mr. particularly in Kowloon Scarce-ing and friendliness a spirit or Bulmer Johnson, Hastings,, Dennys ly a day passes without a case of desire to help-on practical lines, and Bowley). Mr. C. G. Alabaster petty theft-actual or attempted? Hongkong recently has had two and Mr. Elsley Zeitlyn (instructed Householders are uneasy, and notable examples of Chinese bene-by-Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton and Mr. with all due deference to the volence on practical lines, made Leo d'Almada) appear for the re-
spective prisoners. Police, whose valuable work in all the more interesting by reason Colony like Hongkong "can never of the fact that Chinese ladies be under-rated, it has been sugare the originators of them. Only gested that the authorities ought recently these columns recorded once again to have recourse to the fact that a large procession of Chinese tenants paid just tribute A repetition. drastic measures. of the raids on the known or sus.to their landladya Chinese pected habitats of undesirables by widow-who for forty years had the Police in conjunction with the made no attempt to increase the Regiment, could not fail to be pro-rents of her property. ductive of some weeding out of others have made moat of the bad characters, besides exercising boom, this lady has not "bought a deterrent effect generally on up the opportunity. Here then those 'criminally Inclined.
is a model example; an example "Raids of this nature, as may be of citizenship in its highest form, seen from to-day's cables, have and an act of charity or bene had an equally gratifying result volence which gives hope for the of bribes in Calcutta, which has been in the world, Another Chinese lady—| Mr. Yim Pok-kau, magistráte of throes of rioting between deceased leaving a considerable Tak Hing, has arrived on the gun Moslems and Hindus, accom sum of money, has decreed that a boatKong Hon to relieve Mr.
AU. panied by other crimes of large proportion of it shall go to violence, for over a week. The objects of a distinctly charitable. authorities there have now nature that it shall be used in strengthened the Folice by the in- ameliorative work amongst Chin, P & 0. DIVIDEND. clusion of one hundred sergeantsess Mencius has said that drawn from two regiments, and "Charity of heart is the noblest they have declared war on the gift of God." It may be easy to roughs. Moreover, the Police give when the purse is full to have been instructed to arrest all overflowing. It is not easy to let persons whose criminal records the bring them within the Act
with rouge, many
been captured..
is now qule
only remains for the
oite
Whilst
Pakkai, Konginoon, April 21. Under bail of $150,000, Mr. Au Ling-hap (district magistrate of San Wul) has been released. Ho was detained by order of the Canton. Government and to all intents and purposes, detectives still fallow him about. It is stated that he will face trial on charges of alleged receipt
INTERIM OF TEN PER CENT.
DECLAREDZ
(Reuter's Service.)
Possession
The Direc
those Sto
Det
for the ha
SIR R. STUBBS."
CORDIAL RECEPTION IN JAMAICA.
WORK IN HARMONY,
(Reuter's Service.)
Kingston (Jamaica), April 28. Sir Reginald Stubbs has arrived here and met with an enthusiastic reception.
PARIS FLIGHT.
NON STOP JOURNEY FROM: NEW YORK,
FRENCH "ACE'S" HOPES.
(Reuter's American Service.)
New York, April 28, Captain Fonck, the French "Ace," has arrived here and in- His Excellency stated, that he spected the biplane that is being wished to work in harmony with constructed for his proposed rion- all classes, and would do his best stop fight from New York to to promote the welfare of the
Paris island
"FOUL" MURDER.
TWO AMERICAN SURVEYORS KILLED.
ROBBERY THE MOTIVE.
(Router's American Service.)
Buenos Aires, April 28. Two American citizens engaged in oil survey work have been found tiered murdered near the Bolivian fron-
Robbery is believed to have been the motive for the crime.
EFFIGY BURNED.
MUSSOLINI IN BAD ODOUR IN BELGIUM
DENOUNCED IN SENATE.
(Reuter's Bervice.) D
He hopes to start at the end of June and cover the course of 8,600. miles in 35 hours.
The aeroplane will have three engines each of 425 horse-power, and carry fuel sufficient for a 4,600- mile flight.
DANISH FLIGHT:
BOTVED TO MEET COMRADE IN BANGKOK
The Bangkok Daily Mall of April 10 stated-Lieutenant- Bolved and his mechanic, Mr. Olean, left the Don Muang Aero drome-to-day at 7.46 uma for Hunol. On their way Tokyo? they will stop at Can Shanghai... Yesterday afternOON plane circled over f
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