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EDWARDS.-On December 30, 1926, at Shanghai, Andrew John, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Edwards, aged four years. ETTERLEY.-On December
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not
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Hong Kong. Jan 8, 1927,
TRAFFIC CHARGE.
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A CONTEMPT OF COURT FINE.
STERN JUSTICE.
Execution of Armed Robbers.
LATEST SHANGHAI TOPICS,
JAN
A TRUE FRIEND.”
LATE MRMATTINGLY'S FINE QUALITIES.
FULL COURT TRIBUTES,
There was a special Full Court. sitting at the Supreme Court this: morning, local barristers and soli- citors attending in large num bera
[From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai Dec 24, The utmost satisfaction is felt throughout the settlement in re-
Addressing Sir H. C. Gollan gard to the treatment meted out to (Chief Justice) and Mr. Justice
nine Chinese by Magistrate Li and J. R. Wood (Puisne Judge), Sir Mr. Tajima (Japanuse. Assessor) at Joseph Kemp, K.C. (Attorney. the Mixed Court yesterday. The General) said:- nine accused, who
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were found: "It is my sad duty, speaking on (To the Editor of the "Chins Mall."
were guilty of being implicated in a num- behalf of both branches of the Sir,--Those of us who privileged to see the Bishop of ber of armed robberies that have legal profession to express our London in Cope and Mitre must occurred in Shanghai during re-regret at the death of Mr. R. F wonder why our Bishop is not cent months, took their sentences Mattingly. He had many claims similarly attired. Surely such a calmly. Six of the gang were order both on our affection and on our high dignity in the Church as ed to be sent to the Chinese author-esteem. In the course of his legal the Bishop of London must be titles for execution, whilst the re-education Mr. Mattingly showed dressed in full accordance with maining three were sent to jail for brilliance which has never been of the ten years auch with expulsion from surpassed. In the conduct of his the rites and custom Church. This being the case the Settlement at the conclusion of profession he very soon attained
to a reputation anyone anywhere » suggest that a fund be started in their sentences.
might have envied order to provide the Bishop of
Tramway Strike. ・・
"In private life, Mr. Mattingly Victoria, Hong Kong with a Cope
The triks of employees of the always proved sympathetic and and Mitre.,,
French Tramway Company, which unselfish.. For many years he was started on Tuesday morning fought against health with a when between 300 and 400 conduc-courage and cheerfulness that Eors and motor-men walked out in won the admiration of all of us... jan endeavour to secure an increase We have lost a wise counsellor churches has been set on firb; a
of waxes, came to an end last night, and a true friend and I only wish seminary has been looted; and
cars running again shortly after to add that we all desire respect- priests' clothing even has been
6,80: stolen. Then an anti-foreign
fully to offer our sympathies to The Shanghai General Labour his relatives in their bereave strike has been declared at Kiu-
Union, which is comprised chiefy of ment.".. kiang, where efforts are being
students belonging to the notorious Addressing the Attorney-Gen- ¡made to starve out the foreigners-
in the Concession. The respon MILITARY OFFICER REBUKED. Bolshevic University in Seymour eral and the assembly, the Chief sible. Chinese authorities in the
Road, was mainly "responsible for Justice said:-. various centres of anti-foreign
traffic summons against the men walking out, but a day's "Mr. Mattingly very seldom ap- unrest will greatly Jeopardise Lieut. G. H. S. Stanley, adjourn reat led the strikers to realise that poared in this court but on the China's cause if they remained on December 10 on account of their cause would be far better serv- few occasions that he came be passive and indifferent to such the absence of the defendant,ed by continuing their work as a fore me I realised that he was a demonstrations. One such out occupied the attention of Mr. public utility company. The cond man with personality and sound. break may be sufficient to upset T. W. Ainsworth at the Kowloon ions of the resumption of work legal judgment. What has been dozen Magistracy yesterday afternoon. have not, yet been disclosed, it be- said of his career and of the memoranda expressing a genuine Before proceeding with the ing merely stated that negotiations esteem in which he was held by desire to restore friendly rela-case, the Magistrate intimated are proceeding between the French all those with whom he came into tions between China. and the that he would require some ex-Municipal Council' and the Commis-contact in this Golony only serves Powers in the spirit of the Wash-planation of the defendant's ab-sioner for Foreign Affairs.
to confirm the impression that ington Convention. The duty of sence at the last hearing.
The "Lianshing" Disaster. ·
the alight acquaintance I had the Chinese authorities is clear." Lieut. Stanley informed his
with him had left in, my mind. The Marine Court of Jaquiry into i
behalf of "Speaking on Anti-foreign demonstrations must Worship that he had understood
my learn- Anti-foreign symptoms that the charges against him hall the wreck of the "Lienshing" hae myself and of must disappear. In demanding been withdrawn. He had, in resulted in the complete exonera ed brother, I say that we de- the fulfilment of this simple re- fact, called at the Water Police tion of Captain J. V. Simpson, the plore the closing of a career quirement the Treaty Powers are Station where he was advised master of the ill-fated vessel. The which had shown itself of such unanimous. China must give to that if the case had been with- Court's decision, which placed the great value; we deplore it all the foreigners in China the same.de-drawn there was no necessity for responsibility upon the ahoulders more because that value increased of the 2nd. Officer...was announced as time went on. We desire to gree of protection that she ex-him to attend the Magistracy. pects to be given to Chinese in Mr. Ainsworth ruled that the yesterday, the President of the associate ourselves with the ex- foreign countries.
summons having been issued by Court, in a lengthy 'document, deal-pression of sympathy which you the Magistrate it was to the ing with every detail of the tragedy. I have, made on behalf of the pro- Magistrate himself that the de-
The Court did not hesitate in fession." We propose to direct fendant should have lodged his stating that the majority of the that a record be entered in the inquiry
Chinese, passengers who lost their minutes of the Court of what you The defendant pleaded "not lives through the capsizing of one have said, Mr. Attorney-General, According to a Reuter despatch published in our yesterday's issue, guilty" to the charge of driving of the boats were themselves to and also to direct the Registrar to the danger of the public in blame for having refused to carry to communicate the expression of the keynote of all newspaper Salisbury Road on December 4.
out the orders of the ship's officers. our sympathy to his relatives." articles at Home in connection
After hearing evidence, his The Court also recommended that with the dawn of the new year is Worship held that the case for light-houses should be built on the the hope that it will see trade and the prosecution had not been suf- industry recover rapidly from ficiently corroborated to justify
andi counteract.
cease.
Brighter Days.
a
Amherst Rocks because of the
the injury which they suffered the conviction of the defendant great danger to all vessels passing from the long industrial dispute The summons would therefore through the Channel in approach-
ing or leaving the Yangtae. of 1926. This sentiment was re-be dismissed.
More Pay,
iterated by his Majesty in reply. Referring to the defendant's
CHINA THEATRES. EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING.
At an extraordinary general ing to the annual New Year's absence on December 10, his Employees of the scores of small meeting of the China Theatres, message of greeting from the worship said that he must re- Chinese banka-exchange shops as Ltd., held on December 30 at the KRAUSCH-On December 28, 1926, Lord Mayor of London, and it will gard it as gross contempt of foreigners usually call them are Carlton Theatre, Shanghai, after at Shanghai, Nina Krausen, be shared by, Britons in all parts Court for which the defendant to receive an increase in pay, fol- the formal business of the meet-
of the world. It is satisfactory to would be fined $10. aged: 32 years:
Hong Kong, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1926.
AMERICA AND MOSCOW.
note from the same despatch that' there is, indeed, reason to believe that brighter days are coming and that ere long British trade
and industry will show a marked improvement.
LATEST PIRACY. CHINESE STEAMER NEAR BIAS BAY..
LOOT EXCEEDS $10,000.
lowing an agitation which did not ing had been dispensed with, Mr. Lokan was chosen as managing fculminate. In a strike..
"According to reports in the Chin-director of the China Theatres, ese press, the Native Bankers Guild, Ltd. Mr. L. R. Andrews pre- to which most of the small banks sided and was supported by Mr. belong, have decided, after some Lokan and Mr. A. H. Haslund discussion, to grant an increase of (directors) and shareholders re- 20 per cent. in the pay of all em- presenting 2,234 shares. ployees of the local banks."
The following resolutions, were
It is also reported that substan-
The Resolutions.
A delayed report of a piracy Tyneside's £10,000,000.
According to Home papers to near Bias Bay is to hand, the tial increases of pay have been then adopted hand by the last mail, shipping in prize being a Chinese steamer granted to the 3,000 shop assistanta general has shown a marked im- from Swatow to Canton. provement during recent weeks. the report
A case of robbery on the s.s.who recently walked out in a body already signed by the directors New orders for ships, particularly
to enforce better working condi- regarding a loan to the company. be and is hereby ratified by this tramp tonnage, are being placed "Hang On" of the Yuan
meeting-proposed by Mr. H. in greater volume than at any Shipping Co., plying between
The Holidays.
Burkhardt, seconded by Mr. time during the past five years, Shanghai, Swatow and Canton, or
Fired by the spirit of Christmas, ES.. Bull. whilst Tyneside has orders worth the afternoon of Dec. 22; while £10,000,000, including work in the ship was sailing near Sang-which, perhaps, has a greater ap peal here than in many cities in connection with the Singapore chow is reported.
That an agreement between Says employed in the numerous second- the Company of the one part and hand clothes shops in Shanghai, Mr. Lokan of the other part and
An
tions.
dock and ten tankers for the The vessel was fully loaded the Orient, local residents will join Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The with cargo, and had 46 passen in the celebrations to-night, with a large stocks of steel which gera on board, among whom were joyousness which not even trade existed in Europe six months ago fourteen men who had only paid depression or political gloom will have, like the coal stocks, been half fare on the pretence of being dim." And" - local wiped out, and an immense ac in military service. cumulation of orders awaits." Junk Meets the Ship. execution. In the demand for
amusement
That the articles of Associa- tion be altered in manner follow- ing?
Whilst the British Foreign Office seems to the man in the atreet to be toying with Moscow's breaches of the Russo-British Trade Agreement, America has définitely reiterated her policy to ward the Soviet. The time for American recognition of the Soviet has not come indeed, it seems as far off as ever., America does not intend to barter away her principles. The Soviet author ities must restore the confiscated property of American citizens or
caterers have not spared money or make effective compensation
effort to help Shanghai in making therefor. That requires no con-
When the ship was near Sang-this the happiest of Christmases. ference. It calls for no negotia-
raw materials and manufactures chow, at about 6 pm, of the day tions. It is a step that can only there is a marked upward move of her departure from Swatow, be taken by the Soviet authorities ment, so that whilst the ship the robbers on board rose at a themselves. Most serious of all yards are the first to feal the im-signal, and began to loot the FURTHER 'QUAKES.
Calexico, Jan. 8. Russian activities Is the con-petus of happier conditions, there vessel, transhipping their booty to is good reason to hope that all a jink which sailed near, the ship
The recurrence of earthquake tinued propaganda for the over the great industries of the Motor from the shore. A loss of over throw of institutions in America. Country will bezent. All that is $10,000 is reported. shocks disturbed Calexico and Until these efforts from Moscow wanted to ensure that the first On the arrival of the ship at Mexicali. Loose bricks were pre- welcome signs of an industrial Canton, on Dec 28, the matter cipitated into the streets, and are abandoned, America cannot revival shall develop into a trade was reported to the 12th Police cracks in buildings widened." enter into any negotiations. Thus, boom are cheaper coal, cheaper Station of the Bureau of Public Two buildings were destroyed SPECIAL POLICE GUARD FOR the whole onus is placed on steel and industrial peace. Moscow. Until remedial action is
taken by Moscow all the over- tures for recognition, by English. America will fall on deaf ears. Which is as it should be!
Anti-Foreign Demonstrations
At a moment when a genuine
Even good English scholars sometimes fall into error. Hence,
Safety, and the Military Head by fire in Mexicali quarters, the Provincial Govern Simultaneously the Blackbutte
ment, the Naval Department, as volcano, forty miles south of the well as to the Headquarters of the borders, is erupting, similarlynte Precautionary Commissioner.
the writer who recently told of Charged with attempting to an imposes being ended, need pawn a wedding ring, the in- not necessarily suffer thereby terior of which was filled with Chinese, arraigned before Wholesale condemnation. Accord
That the following words be added to Article 27 and the company may in general meet- ing from time to time increase the capital by the creation of new shares of an amount not exceeding Tlä 200,000 and That the capital of the com- pany be increased to Tls. 400,- 000 by the creation of 4,000 new shares of Shanghai Tis, 60 each-proposed by Mr. H. Burkhardt, seconded by Mr. E. S. Bull
WAS IT A HOAX?
W
ABBEY.
London Dec. 27.
A mystery massage containing 1915, when earthquakes devas- an apparent threat to the safety tated Mexicall and other cities in of Westminster Abbey, but be the Imperial Valley: Reuter's leved by the police to be a hoax, led to the posting of a special American Service.
police guard last night.
LINGERING COUGHS,
The threat contained the fol lowing words: Dynamite re. ceived safely. Beware of spies Jeaves a bad cough and smugglers North entrance, ho escape." remanded until Friday after-
noon. Mr. Duncan McCallum but these hard, Hingering coughs yiekthe message was picked up in Intimated that he would be really to the healing and curative an East End of London Post qualities of Chamberlain's Cough out of presenting the complainant at Lomedy. Good for troublesome night Office a few days ago and had a
German signature. the adjourned hearing
ing to Webster, however, an Mr. W. Schofield at the Central effort is being made to compose imposse represents a position or Magistracy this morning, was BRONCHITIS Aloe Westminster Abbey Xmas night, differences between China and the predicament afford Powers it is distinctly unfortunIt la technically ate that a series of anti-foreign fore, to reach an demonstrations should have oo avoid one, but curred. A number of foreign one already reache
coughs too For sale averywhere.