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BETINES-On February 16, 1927, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Betines, 11 son." THOMPSON At the French Hos
pital on February 21, to Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Thompson, "& daughter,
MARRIAGE.
foreign shore, asked if there was a, Government there, for if there was, he was "again" it! The K.R.A does not exist merely to harass the Government with vexatious demands or complaints, but to Indicate fairly and reason.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1927.
DISARMAMENT.
Italy Declines With Regret.
ably wherein and whereby It PARTIAL MEASURES IMPOSSIBLE,
the
As MD-
Rome, Feb. 21. a)
NICK OF TIME.
Returned As Safe Was Opened.
FOKI'S PLUCKY ACT:
might, in the judgment of Ascociation,. more effectively serve the public interest.
How an attempt to rifle the An Italian note to the United safe of the Yeo On Company, of other member put it, it is not states regretfully dec:inas Presi Des Voeux Road West, was frus- aufficient just to criticise the ident Coolidge's invitation to a die- trated in the nick of time P.W.D. and the Government; armament conferance and em-
ought to stand up for them and phasiaes as regards the European by the return of a foki whose help them and advise them be-continent there exists an undeniable suspicions had been aroused at a cause sometimes they saw things Interdependence between every kind trick to get him away from the from a different angle. A of armament of avery singo Power. premises was detailed before Mr. Chief moderate policy of this nature wherefore it is impossible to adopt Justice Wood (acting cannot but be welcomed by the measures of a partial nature be-Justice) at the Criminal Sessions
The Note expresses the opinion Government; it is a policy that een only five great naval Powers this morning. invites co-operation and" co that limitation of armaments to be
A Chinese was charged with ordination in everything pertain-effective must be universal and robbery of a bunch of keys and ing to the betterment of Kow-points out that the example shown with assault with intent to rob. loon. And both the Government at Washington was not followed by On January 28 the accountant and the various utility companies the minor naval Powers. Finally and a foki were in charge of the have never been slow in availing Italy cannot without grave risks firm's premises when the accused, themselves of such an opportuni- expose herself to a limitation of it was stated, came in with a tale ty for consultation with the insufficient for hen defensive needs. Fing received injuries in a squab-
naval armaments which are already of a clansman of the foki's hav KRA The net result is reflected in the
that provements
great im- have been
Router.
ACCIDENTS IN FACTORIES: NEW BILL..
affected' in Kowloon in the COUNCIL MEETING. past and in the promise of still more improvements in the future. That is distinct encouragement for the K.RA. to go on in the way it is going and it is an incen- tive for many more residents of!
the Peninsula becoming mem- bers of a body that has done and is doing so much
in their interests.
ROBBERS SENTENCED
GIN DRINKERS BAY 'BATTLE' SEQUEL.
SUB-INSP. ANDREWS PRAISEE
The four men charged at the
gullible, unfortunately, on perus- ing articles in the vernacular Criminal Sessions with complicity
Press..
"
in "the battle of Gin Drinkers" Bay" as it has come to be known
ble at a tea-house..
The fok! having left to investi- gate, the prisoner also left but. returned later with a note to the accountant. This was illegible. and the suspicions of the account=" ant had just been aroused when two other men entered the shop ITEMS ON THE AGENDA,
and the prisoner produced a file Included in "Orders of the Day or something like it from his on the agenda of the Legislative pocket, threatening the account Council Meeting at 2.30 pm this ant with it. The three men, all Friday are the following bilis toof whom were armed be moved by the Attorney knives, then proceeded to gag the General-
accountant and closed the Second reading of the Bill in-premises. tituled An. Ordinance to amend They had just produced the Interpretation Ordinance bunch of keys from his person and had begun to open the safe Second reading of the Bill in-when the foki, whose suspicions tituled, An Ordinance to amend had been aroused at the message the Promissory Oaths Ordinance which he had found to be fake, 1:869:
1911.
First reading of a Bill intituled an Ordinance to provide against accidents in factories..
Interpretation Bilt
It is proposed to add the follow
pection to the Interpretation Bill In Committee:-
with
B
returned to the shop and began to bang on the closed door.
The robbers were startled and immediately made a bolt for it, threatening the foki as they ran. The fok! blew a whistle, a watch- man and others took up the chase
5. Section 40 of the Interpre and the prisoner was eventually Ention Ordinance, 1911, is amend-arrested in Water street. In his ed by the deletion of the word coat was found the bunch of "orders" in the third line of sub- keyst section (2) and by the repeal of j Prisoner made sub-section (4).
a rambling statement saying that he was told tion 10 of the Interpretation in the shape of a file, he found to go to the shop and the knife,
Note.-Sub-section (4) of sec-
Ordinance, 1911, reads a fol- lows.-
outside.
The case was tried before
£
(4) The same rule shall apply | to any 'order mad by the jury, Mr. H. K. Holmes prosecut- Guvernor or the Governor in ing for the Crown..
E In the House of Commons yes-(when a party of police ambusheding
terday Sir Austen Chamberlain, a band of robbers who had land- led, at the Wah Loon distillery for Secretary of State for Foreign the purpose of kidnapping the Affairs, stated that Chinese proprietor) were found guilty by translations of the British Mem-the jury yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Justice Wood (acting orandum which had been handed
Chief Justice) sentenced each to p" the representatives of the three years' hard labour on the Powers in Peking in December, various counts, the sentences to end also of the Treaty revision run concurrently.
The man in whose possession proposals, had been made for the was found a dagger was sentenced purpose of circulating them right to an additional two years' hard throughout China. That is an labour, making five in all, eminently sensible step to take. Justice Wood called Sub-Inspector After passing sentence, Mr. The best form of propaganda 13 Andrews to the witness box and surely that which appeals to the said "I know full well that all reader in his own language. A the members of the Hong Kong Police Force are accustomed to hundred reports in English may accepting work such as in this The sub-section has frequently fail in the purpose of convincing case. as part of the ordinary caused dificulty and embarrasa- a single Chinese. One statement routine but you will allow me to ment, as It throws doubt upon the congratulate you and all the operation of orders, made under
marks.
ROBBERIES.
Council, and to Any order, warrant, scheme, letters patent, or under, the provisions of any ORIENTAL STUDENT. other instrument, made or issued Ordinance: Provided that they shall not apply to banishment or deportation orders.
To Avoid Doubt,
11
AMERICAN PROFESSOR VISITS CANTON,
LEAVES FOR AMOY.
tour.
in the vernacular may bring officers with you who took part in Ordinances, which are not in fact A recent visitor to the Colony, home to him the bona fides of the this matter for the way you faced gazetted. Some orders.made under studying Oriental problems from Ordinances are obviously not of the the educational point of view, was ease presented. Let the average up to great personal risk with kind that call for gazetting, Many Professor W. H. Kilpatrick, of Chinese be given the opportunity credit to yourselves and to the of them are essentially particular, Columbia University, who after a of seeing in Chinese characters
Police Force of the Colony.. e.g. un order under section 5 of tour of India, made a brief stay
The jury also associated them-Ordinance No. 6 of 1370, ifor re- that British policy comprises selves with His Lordship's re- funding a particular fee, or an ar here, visited Canton and left this nothing more or less than peace-
der for compensation, under section morning for Amoy 54 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1908, in Dr. Kilpatrick, who specialises. fal trading and protection for British subjects, and the battle "ALL TOO COMMON" respect of particular slaughtered in the philosophy of education, is cattle. The sub-section, also, if engaged in what is known in the read literally, appears to make the States as a "Sabbatical" for the British case will be more JUDGE AND LOCAL HIGHWAY operation of a magistrate's warrant Every seventh year, Professors İLEFEBVRE-PAPE--On February than half wor so far as the in-
depend on it being gazetter, which and Ministers in the States are 12, 1927, at. Shanghai, Hugh,dividual is concerned. And it is
would be absurd. Further, it tends given a year's holiday and Dr. youngest son of the late Rev.
"MAN WITH A MASK.” to throw doubt on the power to Kilpatrick devoted his to the P. Horton Lefebvre, Senior the individual that makes up the
¡rescind à deportation order. For study of things Oriental. Chaplain, Bombay Residency,
The "man with a mask, a hair-these reasons. It is proposed to re-
Whilst in Canton.(last week- and Mrs, Lefebvre, of Jersey, "Channel Istanda,. Elsia It is apparent, however, that ed lip and a gold tooth was con-peal the sub-section. For similar end) Dr. Kilpatrick was given a
Katherine, youngest daughter British propaganda should
not victed at the Criminal Sessions reasons it is proposed to delete the uncheon by the Committee of
word "orders" in sub-section (2). of Mr. and Mrs. John Pape, of Kinga Lynn, Norfolk, England, be confined to the Chinese. LikeYesterday before Mr. J. H. B. It need hardly be said that all or Chungshan University and a tele-
Nihill with having robbed a pork ders, made under Ordinances, charity, propaganda should be butcher on the highway between which are in the nature of general gin at home. This is illustrated Tsun Wan and Taipo and robbed legislation will continue to be
him of $18 after a chase.
gazetted as heretofore. BREMNER-On February 16, 1927, by the question in the House of In sentencing prisoner, the at Cheyne Walk, Chelsen, Lon- Commons by a Labour member Judge said that he had been con- don, Elizebeth Martha, wife bf the Bremner.
DEATHS.
to
}}
Hong Kong, Taesday, Feb. 22, 1927..
masë.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE LAST. WEEK.
ram was sent from Canton by the Provincial Government to the Central Government of Wulan ap- prising the educational authorities there of the approach of this American visitor.
A welcome has been planned for him by the educational auth- Crities at Amoy. "
TWO COTTON MILLS.
FORTHCOMING SHANGHAI
DIVIDENDS,
Jate Allan Seton who desired to know whether the victed of a crime which was be- COLONY'S HEALTH. MRS. HU-On January 14, 1927, procedure adopted in respect of coming all too common in the Colony, that of waylaying peace- But for the fact that at Shanghai, Mrs. Y. F. Hu, Hankow would be followed in ful men. mother of T. L. and Wm. Hu, Shanghai. The motive in asking the defendant had been certified aged' 61. ROBERTSON On February 15, such a question may have been unfit he would have been inclined
Notifiable disease in the Colony to have him flogged, .1927, at Shanghai, Robert perfectly innocent, but, if so, that
last week, as reported to the Medi- Gardner Robertson, (Morning only serves to show the ignor-
cal Ofleer of Healthy were as side, Kilmarnock, Scotland)
CHAUFFEUR ACQUITTED.
follow:- aged 80 years,
ance at Home regarding Chinese
11 amull-pex: from elty, 6. Kow- The case against a Chinese chauf-loon (all Chinese, I imported)- Meisra: Jardine. Matheson & affairs even among members of
feur, charged before Mr. W. 7 deaths.
Co., Ltd., general managers of the Parliament who have infinite Schofield with manslaughter, was 4 diphtheria: 1 from city, 3 Kow- Ewo Cotton Mills, Ltd., inform sources of information not avail concluded at the Central Magteloon (2 British imported, 2 Chinese) us that at a meeting of the con-
tracy yesterday afternoon, when —1 death. able to their constituents. Un his Worship found that there was 7 enteric fever (typhoid) 5. from sulting committee of the com- fortunately questions asked pub-insufficient evidence upon which to city, 2 Kowloon (1 British, 1 British pany held yesterday, it was decid-
register a conviction.
imported, 2 Indian imported, 2 Chted to recommend shareholders to From the outset of the presentlicly, whether through innocence
Inspector Alexander appeared for nese Imported 1 Japanese)-2 declare a dividend on preference trouble in China there has been or ignorance, are liable to create the Police, and Mr. C. A. S. Russ deatha nothing to hide in regard to fales impressions both at Homo defended the accused. British poliny. Its vary" simplici and abroad. Therefore, to sum ty makes its own appeal or there is quite as much need ought to were there no such thing for propaganda throughout Great as Moscow influence in China to Britain as there is in the heart day. In any event, the best pha-
of Ching.
sible way to Bouncer that in- flance is to circulate versions in
NỮTHING TO HIDE.
masterly presentation of the
the vernacular fight throughout KRA Activities. the country Experience hereta Hong Kong has shown that while
even educated Chinese
The
Mr. Russ submitted that his client had no cass to answer. prosecution had called no evidence] FOOTBALL GROUND INCIDENT. An altercation following the foot driving negligently on the night of
to show that the chauffeur was
shares at the rate of 8 per cent.: per annum, and a dividend of 11. 10.85 per share on ordinary shares out of the profits for the year. ended December 31.
the accident. His client had done ball match at King's Park on Satur- the best thing possible in view of day afternooff led to the app SPANISH POLITICS. the circumstances, le. he had gone ance of a young Chinese In Mr. straight to the Pollte,
His Worship accordingly charged the defendant.
Schofield's Court at the Central dis-Magistracy, yesterday afternoon, on
denied
the
a charge of atone-throwing.
Defendant, y who charge, sald that he was carrying al
WHY FOREIGN MINISTER
RESIGNED."
Madrid, Feb. 21.
knowledge of English discreditor Rev. J. Horace Johnston at the coughs, colds, croup, bronchial, coughs throwing that he was An earlier message stated
football at the time of the Incident. It is semi-officially stated that the A STANDARD REMEDY. and policy of the Kowloon
The ball was knocked out of his resignation of Sr. Yanguss was duen Esidents Association was sub HAMBERLAIN'S Cough Remedy a hands by the crowd, and while to divergence of views with regard mitted by the Chairman (the standard family made bending to retrieve the ball, he was to the methods to be followed in the Prompt, reliable and - effective for arrested and accused of stone negotiations with regard to
A Morocco. Reuter annual meeting last night. It is coughs rasulting from whooping cough,
His Worship said removed from the spirit of nervous hacking tickling three more inclined to believe the story Sr. Yanguas, Foreign Minister, has
troublesome night coughs and the the Irishman, who, on being chronis, coughs of elderly people. For of the Police, and imposed a fine resigned and General Prime" da ll as alwrecked and cast up on sale everywhere.
of $25.0
viel Rivera Las assumed the portfolio.
discount British reports of ese events they are baSA.
trainely