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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927.
SAUCY URCHIN.
COOLIE FRACAS.
"A PICUL OF 1. IR AT POLICE CHOPPER IN AN ASSAULT
STA ON."
İQUEEN'S COLLEGE TRESPASS
CHARGE.
BEETHOVEN.
YESTERDAY'S ENJOYABLE. - INTERPRETATIONS,"
CENTENARY RECITAL:
Last night's audience at the Bee-
thover Centenary: Recital shewed
terpretation of the work of a great artist whilst nothing will induce them to attend the usual miscel- laneous concert.
Said to be a discharged Rani- tary coolie of the Western Mar- Two Chinese boys were charged ket, a Chinese was this morning before Major Willson this morn-charged before Major Willson ing with trespassing at Queen's with assaulting three other coolies how music lovers will attend an in- College.
at the market yesterday, wound- They said they were trying to ing two of them with a chopper. recover their ball which a stud-One had the palm of his left hand ent of the College had kicked on slashed while the other was cut to the first floor balcony,
on the right thumb. The Chinese caretaker said he
The charge against a used was saw the younger boy standing on that he went to the coolie quar-several of Beethoven's compositions the elder one's shoulder and aboutters and stole a coat. When the to climb up a rain water spout. complainants tried to catch him, When he threatened to have them accused slashed them with the arrested, the elder boy remarked, chopper.
"I have left a picul of hair from Accused's version was that he my calf at the police station." Went there to visit his former This was a piece of bravado, fokis. The foreman accused him meaning that he had been there of flirting with his daughter, and joften and was not afraid,
ten men attacked the accused. Mr. A. H. Crook, headmaster "One man cannot fight with fists of the College, said there had against such big odds, so I picked been some thefts on the first floor up the chopper in self-defence. I of the building and the caretaker did not strike them with it, they had been told to keep a sharp struck their hands against the lookout. He himself had urged chopped in attempting to hit me.", the man to hand all trespassers to A fine of $15 or 14 days was the police.
imposed. Accused was also order- ed to pay $5 compensation to one of the complainants or in default a further seven days' jail.
The elder youth was ordered to receive eight strokes, and the younger one six.
STABBED IN COURT.
DRAMATIC FINALE TO THEFT CASE.
PROSECUTOR CHARGED. ·
All parties were bound over in the sum of $50 each to keep the pence for six months.
CRUELTY TO STEP SON ALLEGED.
Suffering from injuries alleged to have been received through being beaten by his stepmother, a 10-years-old Chinese boy was London, April 8. yesterday removed from his When Edward Wilson, an ex-home, No. 6 Ngatsinwan, to the Canadian soldier who is a labour-Kowloon Hospital. The step er of no fixed abode, was fined £2 mother has been detained by the
at Southend Policé Court for police.
stealing a pair of boots, he had
a dagger plunged into his back
by his prosecutor, William Salmon, who rushed forward shouting: "I got you."
A reporter seated near pulled out the weapon.
wounded, and Salmon was charg- Wilson. was dangerously.
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Although Mr. Harry Ore Is bat- ter known · as an-exponent Chopin, his interpretation
greatly pleased the audience.
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The Second Movement from the 18th Sonata and the Polonaise in G. were particularly delightful. In the Third Movement of the Moon- light Sonata one could wish that Mr. Ore had allowed himself to be swept along in the headlong rush of the music; restraint can be over. done and mar the satisfaction given by technique however fine.
Those who like well-marked rythm were doubtless pleased to hear; the Funeral Murch at the commencement and at the end, the old favourite, the Turkish March.
Mrs. Sanger, earned the applause of the audience by her spirited ren- dering of all four songs. She is certainly one of the most pleasing of local singers.
Mr. Pasang, too, deserved his with his powerful voice and clear encores and Mr. Gardner pleased annunciation which are above those of most amateurs:"
The Kwangtung Postal Admin- istration notifies that commenc ing from May 1 the postage rates on every letter, and post-card. dispatched within or beyond the province will be increased to four cents and two cents respec- tively, by order of the Nationalist Ministry of Communications.
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