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$5,000 FINE IMPOSED:
Early in the morning of April 1
These revenue oficer caught a The possibilities of the future in Prays West carrying two regard to "railway electrification Bundles of Arewood in one of were dealt with by Hr, L. C. F 5 tel of raw oplum was Bellamy, A.M.I.D.B M. Inst. Tech. and The coolie pointed out a General Manager, Hong Kong
30 yards in front as the person Tramways Company) in the course who bad engaged him to carry the of a lecture at the Institute of En- firewood. This man was arrested gineers and Shipbulidera and later he took R. O. Ward to hight.
Mr. J. Ormiston presided." *
last
a man at No. 201, Shanghai Striét, j, first floor as the owner of the opium.. When this man was searched three use of such electrification in regard The lecturer foresaw the renter
Chinese" documents 'were found on him, one of which related, to some opium, He was arrested; also,
to suburban traffic particularly. So far as long distance trains on
It
This morning the two men ip- main lines were concerned, electrie peared before Mr. B. E. Lindeel traction would be more expensive charged with possession of the and was sot in such demand. Toplum The alleged master way was where constant stoppings were Eliot Hall, The University.further charged with possession of necessitated that the quick rise to speed and the case of stopping with-
Mr. E. P. Gan
Mr. C. A. Sunderra
Lugard Hall, The
Mr. A/ Bakar,
After hearing evidence,
the
Fa document of title;
Mr. Leo d'Almada defended this fout braking for a considerable dis- University-man while the other was notre tance that the advantage of electric
tractior presented by counsel.
The lecturer dwelt on the growth Magistrate pointed out that there of electrification of transport in wa's no evidence to connec. Mr. France and Spain, chiefly with over- head equipment. at 1,500 volta, whilst in Japan, the Government had commenced, a scheme which invol ved the eventual electrification of gome 9,000 miles of track.
SUMMER TIME:
China's cards, the British and the Chinese were politically, commer-
Lugard Hall, The Univerally cially and socially, as good friends as any other two nations: The $50 prize will be dividəd among the six winers, and In: having immense interests in the accordance with the rules cheques Orient. When a difference or mis-will be sent to them four daya hence, under registered cover, to- understanding, did arise it was
wether, with the congratulations of
After referring to the difficulties speedily dissipated through the the "China Mail"
to be faced by various municipal The correct solutions, art. 隐路 naual diplomatic channels. Any |
ties in the event of a general intro- follows:- idea of attacking British subjects,
duction of underground tubes for transport and suggesting solutiona invading and looting British pro-
In the way of national sanction for municipal loans, the lecturer dwelt perty, and seizing British ships
on London's particular problem and never entered the heads of the 17, SCOLD; 18, LIST; 19, CARAT d'Almada'a client with this particu- said that there was only one alter
21, DU 22 WAISTBELT, 24. TOlar lot of opium. He would have to native to unified management and The Chinese were 88 25, 10; 26. TU, 21, DIE 28, ME discharge him unless the prosecu
130, MUSTY 83 TREET 35,
Chinese:
Across
1 HURTLES; ' 7 LITHE; 112 EARTH: 18, OB 18, ASPIRIN;
DULE
Down.
London, April 6. Summer time begins at two o'clock on the morning of April 10.-Heater:
fness...
Cable Address:-Mail, Hongkonging the Brish to settle any RLES: 36. EACH 88,PAL: 40 on withdrew against the other co-ordinated control of all the Lon- don transport agencies and that point fi dispute without resort to NER 42. PEER 44, TA: 45 80: accused and usadi Kim,aje: Crown wit-
was the appointment of a London addressed to the Newspaper Enter-violence. or to threats even of 48, DAM 50 IRIS 52 OR 38
C.P.O. Clark agreed to this course transport "dictator."" CO, 54, VEIL; 56, DO 56, LAVE being taken......
Railless Vehicles: violence. Only when the Bolshe-67, SET, 58, SEB: 69,, PA 60. NO The first accused then went into
The great possibilities of the rail vist crew descended upon Canton 61, ED; 68, REAR 65, CYRE: 87% the witness box and watt he was less bus or trolley vehicle by ren and permeated the entire Na-PEDDLE; 69, END: TO, USB pantry boy on the se. "Ching On" son of the elimination of coatly con tionalist movement. were the
A friend at Wuchow asked him to, crete foundation, rails and granite deliver a letter and the two in Betta, upkeep and renewal, was also sensible and humane diplomatic 2, US: 3, TEST: 4 LAP: 5,les of firewood to Mr. d'Almada's dwelt on by the lecturer, methods of the past discarded in DRICA: 6; STRAITS 8, 15, 9cent: He delivered the letter the America was the subject of a HACKLER, 10 REDUCE; 12 same night the Ahio, arrived and fleeting reference, particularly their favour of outrage, insult, and HIRSUTE 18, OLD 14, PLATcond accused, asked him to bring "luxury" motor buses, fitted up with CARMICHAEL BARCLAY On humiliation of the British in 15. ASH 16, NAT 20, TBD 22, the firewood along on the follow all converiances and on which it March 31, 1927, at Shanghai, China. And step by step with WOMEN 23, EITHER 28, MEATH ny morning. Witness was on his was possible to travel as much as 29, ART: 31, USED, 92, YAP, 84 way to carry out this instruction a thousand miles. The co-ordinat Sheina Whyte, only daughter the Nationalist advance toward EP: 87, CEILS 39, LANIARD; when he was arrested ad traffic flow signal system" in of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Barclay,
Mr. d'Almada's ollent denied on Chicago (in the down-town, area. 41, RAVE: 43, RIDER; 45: SOL; of Shanghai, to Andrew Hall-the Yangtze there marched a 46, GRAVY 47, SCENES: 49, on any knowledge of first accuskojown as the Loop district) had day, eldest son of the late Mr systematic propaganda of hate of METED; 61, SO 69, PANE 82, ed and the colum. He had no resulted in a great saving of time A. H. Carmichael, of Edin the British, every possible incer DDS: 54 EEL: 86, GO 66, R friend at Wuchow. About the do and money in comparison of the burgh.
68, ED.
cument of title he denied that if system it superseded by which each ADAMS HUMPHREY Onitive being held out to the Nation-
was found on his person by the street intersection was controlled March 31, 1927, at Shanghafaliat soldier and the mobs within
revenue officers..
Independently by a police officer.” Ernest Harry, youngest son of
On CP.0. Clark agreeing to drop the frat charge his Worship con-one is tempted to compare trans
"In conclusion, said Mr. Bellamy.. victed on the charge of possession:
the late Mr. H. Adams and Mrs. their newly acquired territory to Adame, of Handley, Dorset, to attack British subjecta openly or Theresa.. Elizabeth, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.covertly. Previously in the Yang- Humphrey, of Grove Park, Esze region outrages against for- London, PFANNER - WEGENER. —
and far Oneigners were few
March 31, 1927, at Shanghai, between, and then they were due Jeanne Gertrude Wegener to to isolated bandit banda Pierre Max Pfanner. FIDGEN-JENSEN.-Ada Edith that infest every part of the coun- Jongen, daughter of Mr. and try, "Now, alas, the entry of the Mrs. . H Eldgen, of London,
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ITALIAN AVIATOR'S NEW PLANE DESTROYED.
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of a docilment of title and red portation facilities in America with Mr. d'Almada's cliant 85,000 raid to have only 7,000 miles of rall those that, obtain in China which is twelve months' hard labour.
The opium was confiscated.
|way and 11,000 miles of roadway, Whereas the United States has one Įmile of railway to every 380 persons China has only one mile to every 50,000 persons," In the US.A. there Istone motor car for every five or six persons but in China the figure. Is orfe for every $1,000 persons. In Great Britain there is a mile of A statement feared by a semi-railway to every 11 square miles official diplomatic agency in Berlin of territory, as against 1 to 880 ed-Reuter's American Service, on Feb. 24, protesta against the aug- square miles in China,
Narrow Escapes.
gestion that it is for Germany to Lafer..
play the part of judge between Lon: don and Moscow and emphasises The Marquis de Pinedo and his that there is no ground for this If the Nationalist Party in SPIRIT OF CONCORD. "
Chine is to be blameda un jumping overboard into the lake the aver well-disposed official state- colleagues saved their lives by suggestion, sapecially a view of At the present moment in doubtedly it is looking to all the from which the machine was pre-menta Chinese affairs It is the easiest official assurances of its intention paring to rise, Reuter's American
Roosevelt, Arizona, April 6. The Italian world flyer, the Marquis de Pinedo, was preparing to continue his journey to San Diego, when the machine caught fire Mrs. O. Jensen, of Copenhagen. for a renewal of anti-British pro-and was totally destroyed.
paganda, leading to fresh out Marquis de Pinedo escaped unharm- Hong Kong. Thursday, April 7, 1927. rages and insults on British sub-.
'jects.
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Washington, April 6. The War Department has offered the Marquis de Pinedo a Aring around the United States-Reater's corps plane to complete his fight American Service.
thing possible to fan the flames.and its ability to ensure protec-Service, of discord and distrust, to con- tion of the lives and property of demn the actions and words of British subjects-it is likewise to this or that Chinese leader, and be pitied for permitting itself to even to give expression to heated be made the mere puppet of the utterances against the Chinese Bolshevist terrorists. Likewise is people as a whole. It may well be It to be blamed for ignoring the asked whether this is really the warnings from the very outset of proper method of bringing about the true meaning of the Bolshe- vists' desire to rule the Chinese ultimately a restoration of those
But even that fact relations in which the Chinese st
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Germany
Rudyard Kipling has said :
"When a nation is lost, the underlying cause of the collapse is always that she cannot handle. her, transport. Everything in life from marriage to manslaugh tar, turns on the speed and cost With regard to the alleged cam-
at which man, things and Maalipaign of the German press against
thoughts-can be shifted from one Great Britain's difficilties in China!
place to another. If you can tie the agency cites two sucht diffère,
up a nation's transport, you can ent papers as the "Deutsche Al- legeine Zeitung, and the "Berliner take her off your booka
|--China's Roads & Railways.
If and when? China acquires recognised throughout Tageblatt to show that it is widely that German trade in China Stable Government it is to be hoped as well as Chinese trade de. that one of the first tasks to which pends to a very rest, extent on the it, will give its attention will be good functioning of the economic the provision of roads and railwayė, relations between Great Britain and Bereft of these vitahtraffic arteries BRITAIN AND SPAIN.
China
........ [China will remain like a giant German and China Trade. stricken with paralyals, Ragby, April 6. In its annual report just publish | Adam Smith in his Wealth of The supplementary conventioned, the East Asiatic Society of Ham- Nations" says: GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE LTD. were regarded as friends of the should not be permitted to screen revising the Anglo-Spanish Com-burs, in which a large proportion good roads, canals and navi-
British and in which the British from view the possibility of the mercial Treaty, which has been of German firm trading with China Chinese and the British becoming under negotiation in London, was are represented expresses the more than any other foreign race
eignol yesterday British Wire-opinion that the Germans in China must not allow themselves to be were looked upon as the best as good friends as ever before. Tess Service.
diverted from neutrality by the frnds of the Chinese. It takes This is supported by the continu-
watchword "solidarity of the white! two, it is said, to make a quarrel, ance of friendly relations between
Fishing nets worth $50 were re-race and manoeuvred into a post- although in actual practice the in- the British and the immense ported by a fisherman to have been tion of hostility towards a Chine that is friendly to them. As [dividual or nation that la bent on community in Hong Kong and in stolen from the sea off She A Chowriends of China, they may permit long before the days of motor buses themselves the hope that China, or electric traction. Were he liv of concord and co-operation can A dog belonging to Mr. Greig, No. 1lled, will herself provide evidence, to-day about the lamentable lack of when her national demands are fuling what would Adam Smith say easily be extended to Kwangtung 863, The Feak her linen taken to by effciamo administration of the transportation Zacilities in China? Kennedy Town for observation Concessions And by the Impartial and other provinces of China i after biting a coolie A local doc-administration of Justice, both the Chinese and the British tor attended to the coolle
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