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APRIL 25, 19277
SERGT. TAINT.
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Sir Percival Phillips cabled from Shanghat on March 23 the In addition to the Catholic prelates already mentioned, it is mon was delivered at St. John's "Daily Mail":
The Arat experience which the learned that Archbishop Puebla Cathedral yesterday by the Rev. H
Copley Moyle, in the course of Cantonese Array of Occupation had and Bishop Huejutta have also which the Chaplain said that the of British troops must have been a been placed on the train for sense of responsibilities which was profound surprise, for they were Laredo.
ours to-day must fill us with a new handled like a section of London It is reported that other pre-enthusiasm to live up to all that la traffic. by a matter-of-fact N.C.O., Intes remaining in the country noblest in the history of our fore-Sergeant Taint, of Brentford, Mid-
fathers.
dlesex, whose platoon of the 2nd will be deported when found.-
The Cathedral Chaplain was as- Battalion the Border Regiment con- Reuter's American Service.
Bisted by the Rev. G. E. S. Upadell fronted them beyond the begin Churchmen Blamed.
and the Cathedral Choir, with Mr.ning of the British cordon which is Mexico City, April 23.
R. A. Brown at the organ.
protecting the International Settle.. Six of the foremost leaders of There were present the
Preatment. the Mexican Cutholic Episcopate dent of the Society and Mrs. C. G. This meeting.occurred a mile have been ordered to leave the Alabaator, the two Past Presi west of the Junction of the Franco- country and are already en route dents, Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and British line, where Hunjno-read to Laredo.
Mr. W. A. Dowley, Lady Pollock, crossca the railway leading from They were taken from their re- Mr. and Mrs. H. B. L. Dowbiggin, the South to the North Station..
Rev. Mr. F. A. Wells, Mr. W. J. Here a detachment of 30 men sidences on Thursday night and Eldridge, Mr. E. Cock, Mr. P. S. from B Company of the Border placed in a train for the American Cassidy, Mr. R. A. Jardine, Mr. E. Regiment, commanded by Lieut. Frontier. The men ordered to Ralphs and others..
R. C. Cottrell-Hill, was stationed as leave include the Primate Arch-
A collection was taken for the an outpost. bishop of Mexico, Archbishop provision of Hospital comforts for!
At about 5 p.m. yesterday the Michoacan.
the troops of the Shanghai Defence post at the railway crossing, where The Government's drastic ac- Corpe.
Sergeant Taint was on duty saw an A Precedent.
advance guard across the fields in tion follows its charges that the In welcoming the officials and charge of two officers. When they Episcopate is chiefly responsible members of St. George's Society, came up to the post the senior In recommending the recission for the religious war, dividing the the Rev. H. Copley Moyle said that officer said he wanted to go to the of the whole of the Piracy Preven-nation, directing revolution, and he believed it was the first time that North Station. He was informed tion Regulations the Commission inspiring outrages like the Limon the Society had attended service as that he could go where he liked if
atrocity.
A Society and he greatly hoped that he kept beyond or on the railway." submits to the attention of own-i
German Leader,
the precedent formed that day Handshake and a Salute.
A short and quite amicable con- ers certain suggestions "sufficient The Governor of the State of would be followed in years to come.
After referring to such facts as veraation terminated in one officer Jalisco, where the Limon outrage to the life of England's patron saluting Sergt. Taint and the other. to enable a few determined men occurred, has been deposed by saint that history deposes to and shaking hands with him. The Chi to prevent a successful piracy and State legislature, while Federal "the story of the dragon which nese about-turned their men
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Hong Kong, Monday, April 25, 1927.
APPALLING FIRE.
And
so to make even the attempt at troops state that thirteen mem-18 an allegory to express the marched in the direction of Sicca-
of Christianity This schemebers of the rebel gang have been triumph
over wel village, opposite the French piracy unlikely."
killed and three captured. The Paganism, or of a Christian hero portion of the cordon. provides for protection of the leader of the gang is said to be a over Satan," the preacher said thet The main body of the Cantonese |bridge by grilles and dodgers, the German, who Was captured, among the national characteristics infantry was afterwards observed provision of subsidiary grilles, court-martialled and executed. of Englishmen was that of the converging on this area, and the
spirit of adventure. The English troops bivouacked for the night. isolating the officers and first Reuter.
man had always been ready to take At 10 o'clock this morning, they risks and venture abroad and thut began a rather. undignifled march Was one reason why the small along the railway line, which here island which was our Home had be- forms' a great loop. They moved come the centre of the greatest with no regard to military forma- Empire the world had over seen. tion. They were not even in step Another characteristic was the and as they shuffled past Sergt. Englishman's devotion to open air Taint and his men, who sat in boxes games which, although it was open beside the metals, watched them to abuse, had a very good effect with grave disapproval.
It was an amazingly miscellaneous world might well be grateful to those who had shown it the benefit procesalon, lacking the jubilant air one naturally expected in a con- of auch exercises.
No doubt the teaching of
the quering army. First came about
PANIC ON A CHINESE STEAMER.
class cabins as far as possible, and concentration on points of de- tail such as the arrangement of |lights to assist the defence, a system of alarm bells, and a plan to concentrate all Europeans on alarm. The advantages of such USUAL ANTI-FOREIGN STORY. on us bodily and morally. a scheme require no special em- phasising: they speak for them-
The
selves, and doubtless will receive yesterday afternoon just after hav Church Catechism, with its clear 8,000 infantry in ahapeless padded
and children were pushed
SPECIAL ST. ANDREW'S SERVICES.
over-
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Other Observances.
He was said to be General Ho, commanding these troops of the First Division of the First Revolu-` ` The President and Committee of tionary Army. His obvious feel- St. George's Society entertained ing of gratification at the plaudits
a luncheon in the Palm Court of been diminished afterwards If he the Hong Kong Hotel on Saturday. Had known that before he advanced Service men were entertained by more than a few hundred yards the officers and members of the past the post the British Army. Society in the afternoon to a cine-knew him as General What Ho! matograph entertainment in the
"Holt. A Minute, There” Queen's Theatre.
Nor would he have felt exhilarat-
Hankow, April 9, The str. "Pengpu," a Chinese- owned river steamer, caught fre the earnest consideration of own- ing left her wharf here bound for statement of our duty to God and grey tunics and ragged trousers, ers in due course.
Shanghai. The vessel was packed our neighbour, a teaching which carrying rifles of various kinds, with people. There were on the had been instilled into the minds and dangling, by frayed bits of The compulsory installation of ship at least 2,000 civiliana and of Englishmen for over two hun-string from their belts were Milla TO FIGHT PIRATES.
wireless telegraphy, the Commis- 1,000 armed troops.
dred years had been largely instru-bombs. A few had their umbrellas sion is of opinion, should be con-more than an hour when shoke to duty which was another char- mild sunshine.
The ship had not been under way mental in developing the devotion hoisted as a protection against the Interference and not co-opera-sidered, but in any event, the began to pour skyward from her acteristic of the Englishman. There were officers at intervals,
Stood For Elberty.
the higher ones mounted on tired' tion appears to have been the Government should encourage its after deck. In a few minutes the
after section of the ship was aflame. The British Empire stood for a little ponies, the others shambling predominant factor in the past in use and development by such The thousands on board became reasonable liberty as against the indifferently аб they pleased. regard to the campaign against means ns the reduction of charges panic-stricken and in the rush to tyranny of Bolshevism on the one Some were mere boys, a few were and Fascism on the other. elderly men, and many were of the pirates. Every step taken by the for a system of anti-piracy mess-be tied up to a wharf on the other To maintain and increase liberty epectacled atadent type.
escape, before the steamer could hand Government has been construed ages. In this connection aside of the river, many men, women was a high ideal to which we might Gold Tabs on a Donkey.
dedicate ourselves anew that day. as interference even to the pro-memorandum attached to the re-board, swept away in the swift, The great Empire which had ga among the crowd of Chinese pea- There was a distinct sensation viding of Indian guards over port gives the outlines of a scheme yellow Yangtae and drowned. The thered around our Island Home sants, spectators around the Bri- whom ships officers claim that for wireless and other alarm fire was finally subdued but the stood to-day for Peace and Liberty tish post, when the impressive
skip suffered much damage and will Never before had there been an they have no control-and there-signals on the ground that "wire-not be able to proceed, for a con- Empire bound together by external gure of an officer with gold shoul- fore do not as a rule control them. less telegraphy as now operated is siderable time, until it has under-authority, but only be the union of der straps netride a donkey hove a common purpose and a common under his arm, and as the donkey in sight. He had a bundle of maps Little credit is given to the Gov-of no value as an anti-piracy fit-
gone extensive repairs.
Typical of the attitude toward idea): ernment for providing guards in ting." .
foreigners here were the shouts In conclusion, the preacher asked strolled by he smiled and saluted the first place, as the result of the And, of course, it is inevitable which went up from the Bund front "that Almighty God, who has given like a victorious Emperor entering The Chinese clapped when the vessel was seen afire. 8 so great a heritage, may give us his capital. Tai On" piracy thirteen or four-that the Commission should refer Coolics quickly spread the word the courage and power to hand it on their hands at him like an audience teen years ago. Now the Com-to the necessity for all possible "Pengpu" in a dastardly plot to kill be, and make it more and more a
that "foreigners had set fire to the to the generations that are yet. to at a theatre. mission on the "Sunning" piracy, patrolling by the Navy on the the 3,000 Chinese on board."
blessing to the world. whose report has just been issued, rivers and on the coast, especial- would re-transfer the respon-ty in the vicinity of such spota sibility for internal precautions as Bias Bay. Whatever may be VICAR'S FAREWELL. HE the Governor and his A.D.C. to of the country folk might have against piracies to the owners. suggested for the improvement of Even so, the whole idea of "inter-internal precautions on merchant ference" or "misplaced incidence" vessels, the duty of the Navy re- as the Commission prefers to mains as clear as ever-a duty term it, should be definitely shelv-that the public must look to the ducted a farewell service at St. saturday evening at the Reof Gared by the sight of Single and all
The Rev. G. R. Lindsay con- GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE LTD. ed as alien and indeed hurtful to Admiralty to perform at all times. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, yes den of the Hong Kong Hotel and at the cross-roads treating his and all
terday afternoon, speaking with the Peak Club.
the conquering troops as the police appreciation of the confidence Over two hundred members of on duty deal with a procession of SHANGHAI OUTRAGE ARRESTS the Church and congregation had the Royal Antediluvian Order of London taxicabs in Piccadilly. placed him in during his seven Buffaloes attended a church parade Utterly unmoved by any emotion, Shanghai, April. 24.
years service. They had been at St. John's Cathedral last night, Sergt. Taint let the column go fta The French Police have arrest-
seven very happy years. The a special sermon on the charitable informal way until a moter-car, work of the Church had prosper by the Rev. G. Stopford, C.F., and Road, elther on his side of the rail- work of the Order being preached ricsha, or cart in the Hungjeo the Geddes case-Reuter.
[It is just over five weeks since able increase of members and of ing held subsequently at the Cathe- advancing army.
ed and there had been a consider- a simple and impressive service be- way or beyond, was halted by the four armed Chinese entered the the work which had been so un-dral War Memorial. house of Mr. C. E. Geddes, an old selfishly shared by all office The lodges represented were the metals. man who had retired from his bearers. He hoped to carry away Provincial Grand Lodge, the "Half a minute there," said he, ly revealed the inadequacy of position as head of a weu-known with him the very friendly and Oriental Lodge, the Sir James Ox- and obediently the column halted. searches na far south as Singa- Shanghai firm, and robbed him of united spirit they had all helped berry Lodge, the St. Ambrose whether the men nearest him hap pore. The port authorities, how. Taels 8,000. They forced their to create.
Lodge, the Durban Lodge, the pened be, coolies bowed under ever, may not be able to impose way into the house on the night Special parades were held at Lodge and the Sir Roger Keyes' signal lanterns, or furcoated com- Frobisher Lodge, the Wellesley, the weight of cooking pots and their will on the owners and servants in a cupboard, tied Mr. morning the St. Andrew's Boy. The leading members, who were Palking-sticks
of March 7 locked the Chinese St. Andrew's Church yesterday Lodge, half
pany commanders agents of steamers if the latter Geddes legs, and struck him Scouts and the 2nd Kowloon in full regalia, were Messrs. W. Insist on strict adherence to a about the face and head with a Girl Guide Company (Diocesan Saunders (P.G.P.) W. J. Bagley
The shout would go up, "Halt the tever until he signed cheques Girls' School). Opportunity was (D.PG.P.), P. H. Robbins (P.G.Ch.) procession behind!" and a foreign ques were cashed the follow Guides to have their Colours de Lonsdale (P.G.Com.), MW: Taint would then shout, not un (P.G.A.B.), J. Colthorpe (P.G.G.W cart would cut through the army
"Now then, come on," Bergt. ing morning, the marauders redicated. These consisted of the Brockway (P.G.G.AJ), B. Golden- maining all night taunting and King's Colours and the colours of burg (P.C.S.), and W. Mallett kindly, and again the ragged regi was released in an exhausted con- vice the two colours were escorted threatening their victim. He the Company. During the ser- (LP.P.G.P.).
ments would plod their way for ward along the railway embank- dition after the cheques had been to the steps of the altar and
ment. cashed.]?
dedicated by the Rev. G. R. Lind year to serve nine months' hard Sent to jail in January this
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At the conclusion of the even died at the Victoria Jail hospital The Committee. begs acknowing service, a sing-song was held at 5.10a.m., on Saturday, after ledge with many thanks receipt of at the Soldiers and Sailors' Club breakdown in his cell on April no a man at all Sir Ernest Wild, The man who has no defects is 6 cases of miscellaneous Hospital attached to St. Andrew's, Mr. 19. Major Willeon and a jury K.C. Comforts from the Joint Council of Lindsay taking the opportunity held an inquest on Saturday and The-Order St John and The to bid farewell to Service friends after medical evidence by Dr.It was British beef beer and lidge British Red Cross Society!!
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