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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.
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the negotiations, the Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs said that negotiations had been suspended while certain points were being settled by the British Minister and the authorities in Peking. Whatever happens to the agreement it is obvious that
From the report of the Superin- the British representatives are tendent of Prisons for 1926, The "China Mail" has pleasure making a mistake. The agree which was presented at to-day's in announce the result of the ment, to no one's surprise, but to meeting of the Legislative Coun-sixth Cross-Word Puzzle of the new This has been won. by the almost general regret of Bri-cil, it will be seen that there has series.
errors. The winner is:- tons in China, has already re- been a gradual increase in the last only one competitor with two ceived the endorsement of the ten years in the percentage of pri-
Honers to the population of the Mr. C. M. da Silva, British Legation in Peking, and Calony. This, taken in conjunc as its terms indicate that it has tion with the growth of the been drawn up on the approved population, has resulted in the lines of the Chamberlain policy taxing of prison accommodation, cheque for $50 will be sent to the
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towards China, very soon, no particularly at Victoria Jail: winner four days hence under re- doubt, it will receive the seal of Although the number of pri- gistered cover, together with the
approval from the Home Gov soners received during the year congratulations of the "China ernment. From the outset of the was only 172 in excesss of 1925. Mail."
negotiation the British Com- the extent to which the accom- The correct solutions are да mittee, comprising Sir James medation has been taxed can ba follows:- Jamieson, H.B.M. Consul-General gauged from the fact that the
Across.
SIRDAR: 17. EHNE; 18. ARECA; 20 KID: 22, LEE: 23, ANGEL; 25, ELANUS: 92, SO; 84, AT: 35, 50; 26, OER: 27. PILOTS; 30, CLAMOR; 37. REVERE; 39, ROI; 40. RANE: 41, BUMPS: 43. OF: 44 PHASIS; 46, OR; 17, STUD; 49, ELECAMPANE: 52, MESH 53, LEST; 55; MUNGREL; 68, TODS; 59, ELECT; 60, S.W.
at. Tientsin, Col, P. C. Young, daily average number of prison- 1, SYREN; 4, SATANIST: ' 11, Chairman of the Tientsin Muniers has increased since 1917 from ORAISON: 1 AIL; 15, R.I.V.; 16, cipal Council (and head of the 600 to 1,054 and the number of Kailan Mining Administration), convits from 209 to 409. The and Mr. P. B. Kent, a Tientsin percentage of prisoners to popu- lawyer, have worked in secret fation is 184 and that of con- with representatives of various victs to population, .052. * Chinese parties, including that of
Overcrowded, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Pek-
Victoria Jail is still overcrowd- ing Government (presumably Mr. Wellington Koo's appointee) and ed, states the report, although the Chihli tupan. Nothing, until more prisoners have been trans- the other day, was divulged to ferred to Lai Chi Kok. Authority 1, SANZA; 2. RIVAGE: 3, Press or public. Now, however, has been given for the improve- NOSEL: 4 SARASIN; 6, AID: 6, we know the likely fate of Tien-ment of the Hospital, Reception TSAR: 7, AORIST; 8, N.N.; tsin. As recorded in the "China and Office accommodation and SARLYK; 10. TINE; 12 R.I.C.; 14, Mail" on Tuesday last, the British this improvement it is hoped will LEELITE; 19. REREMOUSE; 21; DOSSER; 24, NOUL; 27. PAR: 28, Concession will no longer be be partially effected this year.
More land was resumed at Lai OVANT: 34, AREED; 36. RP: LUFE: 29. OS; 31, LOIMIC; 33, called a "Concession." There will
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be a Chinese President, to be ap. Chi Kok in November, 1926, and 26, ARBALIST: 33. EN 42, pointed by the Chinese Govern- as much as possible placed under PSALMS: 48, ORA: 45. HE; 46, ment. There will be an equal number of Chinese and foreign councillors, who will elect their own chairman. The continuity of all existing enterprises will be provided for. No funds are to mitted during the year, with be raised or used outside the sentences varying from 24 hours area. The existing police ar- detention to 12 months hard In 2 cases corporal rangements will be maintained. labour.
cultivation. This land gives part OPINE; 47, S.E.; 18. URE;' 49a, NARE; 50, CHAW; 61, ALE: 52, employment to 40 prisoners.
M.L.T.; 4, TO; 66. G.L.: 57, 'E.C.
The following details regarding prisoners are given in the report:
Fifty four juveniles were ad-|
$450 CLAIM,
LOST.
final conclusion, a determination And safeguards are recommend-punishment was awarded in addi- CONTRACT DAMAGES CLAIM
ed which, in the opinion of the tion. that can only be carried into British signatories, are sufficient The percentage of convicted
of prison with previous convictions record-
SUDDEN DEATH.
A HAWKER WHO DID NOT RETURN.
SUMMARY COURT CASE.
It was alleged by the plaintiffs that they contracted with the defen- dants for certain goods, delivery of which became due on April 20. at-defendants refused to make dell- They paid for the goods, but the
At the Kowloon Magistracy
other contract, in which they alleged that the plaintiff's delay in taking delivery of that contract had caused certain other goods to arrive Inte with damages.
consequent
An Appeal. They paid the money under pro- test as they would have suffered a financial loss if they had not taken delivery.
The defendants sald that the
effect by Chiang Kai-shek's main to guarantee, if properly sup-awarded for breach forces if Chang Tso-lin is ready ported, against any tampering ed against them was 19 as com- to suspend hostilities or is too with funds. And so on.
Judgment for the defendants was But it is now fairly obvious that pared with 17.5 for 1925. weak to take the offensive against the Fengtien leaders, with whom
There were 183 prisoners ad- Fiven at the Summary Court yester
day in the case in which the Wo the Southerners. While such the British committee negotiated mitted who were convicted by the Hing firm, of 8 Kwai Herng Street, inaction on the agreement for the surrender Police Courts in the New Terri- gunny bag dealers, claimed against acquiescence or
Kntoh and Company: Chang Teo-lin's part could be of the Concession, cannot fulfill tories against 134 for the previous for. of 34. their side of it. There is already year.
Queen's Rond Central taken to indicate a gentlemen's talk in the North of arrangements
There were 516 punishments for $460 as compensation before agreement, willingly or reluctant- being made for "peacefully" awarded for breach of prison delivering goods under contract, ly concluded, we have, on the handing over Feking to the disciple as compared with 792 for because of alleged daminges Bus-
Southerners when they arrive. the preceding years. Corporal tained through another contract. other hand, the reported deter-If, however, there was no threat punishment was inflicted in five mination of the Peking party to from the South, Marshal Chang cases for prison offences.
Seventy seven prisoners were defend the capital at all costs. Tso-lin and the Wellington Koo
ites who call themselves the Cen-whipped by order of courts. Moreover the Peking party claims tral Government are not in a post-
There was no escape, or that it is powerful enough to beat tion to abide by any agreement. tempt to escape.
very until they had been paid $450 back the invaders, and with a Nor is any other party in China. tural causes and 5 executions.)
There were 18th deaths (13 na-as compensation in respect of an- fine contempt for allies, recently What, then, is going to happen to this agreement? Looking to broke off the negotiations with the fact that the Northern leaders the Tuchun of Shensi, who offer are not in a position to honour ed his assistance on condition its terms, will the British call it that Chang Tso-lin accepted the certain fate of North China gen- off, and say, considering the un-
principles of the late Dr. Sun erally, there is not going to be Yat-sen. Thus it is impossible to any rendition at least, not for say if Chiang Kai-shek's change ment carry on with the negotia- yesterday afternoon, Mr. W money was paid as a consideration
the present, or will our Govern- of plan is dictated by anything tions, and leave the British Con- Schofield and a Coroner's jury of obtaining delivery of the goods There has been, another turu but a feeling that the more cession in Tientsin-a model beld an inquiry into the circum- under the April contract, and com- of the wheel in China and to. urgent of his two self-appointed Concession in every way-to the stances attending the death of an pensation with regard to the earlier mercy of any Chinese leader and alderly Chinese woman who was contract had heen agreed upon at tasks of taking Peking and his rabble who manages to obtain found on the hillside at Kowloon $450. They said the plaintiffs were day we are presented with a
marching against Hankow is to temporary control of this area? Teal on May 22 last. new situation.
really asking for their money General Chiang Kai-shek, instead of devoting all crush the Reds first. However
Dr. J. E. Dovey spoke about back.
His Honour (Mr. P. Jacka) geve it seems fairly certain that his
holding a post mortem examina-judgment for the defendants, and his energy as before to racing for
tion. The body was badly de- Mr. Owen (for the plaintiffs) Inti- Peking, has now decided that the new move will bring matters to
composed which rendered diag mated that an application for leave capital can wait and he is a head, with a final trial of
nosis of the cause of death im- to appeal would be made. possible. There were signs, how- Mr. L. D. Turner was for the mustering his strength for anstrength between himself and
Hankow. One may deplore the MR. WARREN-MISS SULLY. ever, of chronic nephritis of the defendants. attack against Hankow first.
left kidney, which probably. Meanwhile the Reds have not further bloodshed which will re-
St. John's Cathedral was the caused death which must have been permitting the grass to suit from a decisive clash, but
scene of a pretty wedding yes- been sudden. The witness could grow under their feet, for they one cannot help feeling that a terday when the parties were find no signs of violence or have succeeded in bringing about war-ridden country's sufferings Miss Henrietta Mary Suily, elder poisoning.
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Other evidence showed that the a strong alliance, with Marshal will be smaller in the long run Henry Sully; and Mr. Charles deceased left home as usual on The boat was unloading rice along- if a decisive clash removes at Christie Warren, only son of Mr. May 18 to hawk cigarettes and side the a.s. "Apouy." When the Feng Yu-haiang in command of
least one of the combatant fac-and Mrs. Charles Clement War was not seen again. A report ship was about to sail and the the Hankow troops. Whether
was made to the police the fol- bont's crew had returned, the mann tions and puta an end the in- ren, of Blundellsands, Lancs. Chiang Kai-shek's change of
The bride, who was given away lowing day. Over a week after-in question was found to be misa- termittent warfare that has fol-
by her father, looked charming in Wards the body was discovered ing. to word of the Communist
tang. While there are a number med with silver lace and train of vicinity of the Kowloon Hospital.
The "Naval & Military Record" alliance or the Communist
of small factions intriguing and georgette over Palaise crepe. She that death was from natural as familiar with Mr. Chen Van-gen, The jury returned a verdict states:-"The British Navy is almost alliance was the outcome of the
also wore a veil and orange blos- fighting among themselves there
of Shanghai, as it formerly was soms and carried a bouquet of causes. Nanking plan becoming
is no hope of peace, temporary or white roses and maidenhair fern.
with Mr. Jelly Belly, of Welhaiwel, known to the Reds, it is of
Chen is the chief contract pilot of permanent, but some sort of The bridesmaids, Misses,
the port, and usually employed by course almost impossible to judge working arrangement, such as an Rosina Sully and Marjorie May PRISONER DISCHARGED.
warships. As he is paid a regular in Hong Kong, nor is it any armistice for an undefined period, satin dresses and carried posies, Martin, wore pretty pale blue
monthly salary, work or no work, Having been recently fined $30, there is no inducement to try and easier to guess whether the sen- might become possible if only whilst Misses Connie Sully and by Mr W. Schofield for theft, a Chi-dispense with his services. Be- sational change in the general two of the more powerful leaders Barbara Clark, flower girls, were bese was yesterday again brought sides, Shanghai is a very tricky situation is the result of any un- remained. Whether this will be and carried baskets of pink roses. discharged the accused.
attired in pale blue crepe de chine before the Magistrate who recon- place, with constantly changing sidered his previous decision and] conditions. The Chinese pilota are derstanding between Chiang Kai-
the outcome of Chiang Kai-shek's The bride's mother's dress was
a remarkable brotherhood and keep shek and Chang Tso-lin for an
The charge against the accused latest move, as with
so many of fawn georgette, trimmed with had been the alleged theft at the another wall posted, by some alliance, or even a gentlemen's events in China, it is, of course, nigger brown and hat to match. Taiwan Bathing Beach of a funtain mysterious means of communfea- agreement, on the oft-quoted quite impossible to prohesy.
Capt. Walter Allan Balch was pen belonging to Mr. G. E. Ftion, in all the latest news of shift- best man.
Thompson. The complainant falling sands and tides. A naval Following a reception at Lane, of the case and the charge was a Chen conning, la just rounding the ed to appear at the original hearing writer says: A gunboat, with Crawford's restaurant, where the cordingly amended to one of unlaw turn at Woosung, when a Jardine young couple were the recipiente ful
LOCAL WEDDING.
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
CEREMONY.
tactics was due in the first place lowed the split in the,Kuomin-a gown of white georgette trim. by a constable on duty in the
new
basis of both sides exerting every effort to wipe out the Reds. Such straws as there are to be seen in
FUTURE OF TIENTSIN.
of
According to the mistress of a cargo boat, one of her fokis has disappeared in the harbour, and apparently, has been drowned.
the wind could be taken to mean
congratulations from many conviction and the accused was Matheson ship, outward bound, is met. Chen puts up his glass, and friends, the bride and bridegroom Whe nthe case was re-opened yes. watches the other pilot intently, almost anything. The recent an- According to a cable from left for Repulse Bay where the terday, Sergeant Morton said that Presently he waves his hat, turns nouncement in Shanghai that London to-day, the question of honeymoon is being spent prior to Mr Thompson had intimated that to the navigating officer, and an- he did not wish to prosecute. Re-nounces:Silver Island Passage, Borodin is to be executed, for the British Concession at Tien- departure for England by the 6.6. marking that the charge of unlaw-twenty-one feet of water have gat, example, might be construed as tain has again been raised in bride's going away dress was of that he was reconsidering bis deci- pulling somebody's leg & little "Mantua" on June 25. The ful possession was withdrawn, and can do." Now, is not someone being the first step in a campaign the House of Commons. Ques-old rose crepe do chine with hat alon, the Magistrate discharged the strenuous)? asks the "North China that is really to be pushed to a tioned regarding the progress of to match.
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