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Hong Kong. Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1927.
ANOTHER NAVAL RAID.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1927.
Peking in 1915, history, so far CHAIWAN ‹ MURDER.
the FRESH EVIDENCE REGARDING PRAPS P'RAPS NOT!
NOTES.
CLUE IN. A SHOE BUTTON?
as the football fixture was 'con- cerned, repeated itself. On that occasion the desire to end match in a free fight was mutual. Then, two years later, at Tokyo, in the third Olympiad, the "fans," who by this time were beginning to look forward to
At the resumed henring of the
After the naval raid on the these football matches for the Chaiwan murder case before Mr. provision of some real excitement, R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis-West River the pirates must be had the treat of their lives. The tracy yesterday afternoon, a Euro-feeling a bit Shokki. expected fight commenced quite pean assistant of the Hong Kong ordinarily by a Filipino back hit and Shanghai Bank gave evidence ting a Chinese forward member to the effect that the halves of a
Sandy clutched his "saxpence"
came
"No!"
"But you were at St. Andrews? "No!'!
"Don't you come from Aber-
"No!"
deen?"?
**Thex you must have a double!"
"Aye! I don't mind."
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of the ship that took the Fil-$1 note, one of which was found on tighter when he alighted at pino delegation to the Games the first accused and the other on King's Cross. A stranger
up to him. then drew his revolver and fired the coolle track were forgeries.
Sergeant Cameron, who was in "You're John Fraser, I be- wildly until his ammunition was the charge room at the Shaukiwan love?" spent. Luckily, he was a more Police Station when the accused ardent partisan than he was a were brought in about 7.40 p.ro, on marksman, and no-one was hit. August 7 (the day after the mur The next series of Games, held in der of Mrs. Mackay), said that he Manila in 1919, passed off fairly saw Chinese constable C130 search. decovered of the the first accused and. two peaceably. True
three $1 notes folded together, with Filipinos had to be turned off the half of another $1 note in the mid- field and there were several stop-die of the wnd.
In 1021 pages, but that was all.
Chinese constable C471 deposed accused. a similar story was told more to searching second ejections and more stoppages. Three $1 notes were found in his Two years later, at Osaka, this left breast pocket of his outer fixture brightened somewhat, jacket. In the right lower pocket of the same jacket, the witness and after the game three of the found three 10-cent pieces, one Filipino team had to be taken to 20-cent piece, and five copper cents. hospital. The 1925 Games, how-These the witness wrapped up and! ever, fell below the expected stan-locked in the Arms Storeroom, and dard. There was only one fist later handed them over to Inspec fight, and the minor. brawls were tos Lanc..
Sergeant Interpreter Cheong fewer than ever before. Last! week, however, this classic en-ton said that he did not watch the doctor
Man-wal of Shaukiwan police sta counter between the sons of the accused being searched, but he
"Well, I wonder it's lasted as Islands and the Chinese assumed heard one of them say in Cantonese long as it has," replied Jones. some of its old gory glory. Our "Fish blood." Ile was, unable to "She's given me a piece of it selves, we decline to grow wrath-say which accused made that state every day for the last 20 years."
The witness did not hear ful or sneer at the seeming lack ment.
Caddie: "Which club will you have, sir?"
The Semitic Gentleman: "The theventeen and thixthpenny
one."
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"I'm afraid your wife's very bad, Jones. I find her mind is almost completely gone," said the
of sportsmanship displayed by any question put to the accused
The disgruntled fisherman at the participants. We look upon prior to the remark being made.
Chinese detective C384, stationed the club lifted his voice in loud this biennial "get-together" as a at Central Police Station, said that complaint at the base trickery of great treat for the spectators between 8.80 and 9 a.m., on August his two companiona on the fishing and are rather sorry that we 7 he went to the Chaiwan Road, and trip.
were not in Shanghai to witness after searching the stone bridge, "It was agreed," he explain-
tainly worth a trial. There can-it.
not be complete satisfaction until
the pirates have been exterminat-]
ed once and for all from South CORRESPONDENCE. China waters.
Arising out of the latest naval raid some comment, has been made on the brevity of the official] | report as furnished to the Press.
A communique of exactly 95
"PROHIBITED AREAS."
he went down into the nullah be-
low. He searched on the left or ed, "before we started, that the hill side of the bridge and there one who caught the first must Now found a pair of spectacles, a pencil stand treat to a supper. and a pocket mirror, which he later it's almost inconceivable--you'll handed over to Sergeant Meadows hardly believe it-but, when we whom he met on the way to Shau- got to fishing those two fellows.. kiwan Police Station.
Replying to the Magistrate, Mr. deliberately refused to pull in their lines when they had bites, Whyte-Smith, Assistant Crewn Solicitor, said that although he so that I'd be stuck.
"Oh, what a mean trick," ona could not at present attach any im-|
(To the Editor of the "China Mall."portance to the articles found, he of the listeners asserted sympa- "How much did the
"Well-er" said the fisher-
later.
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lack entirely the services of any descriptive writer who could fur- nish an account of the operations worth-reproducing in every ver nacular newspaper in South China and further afield?. A splendid chance for anti-piracy propaganda
Sir, a public road extents from from the last witness (C384), he of a thorough kind seems to have the City of Victoria to the beach deposed that he want to the Chai- Equity litigation is generally in- wan Road and conducted another tensely dry and serious, and been missed. On the occasion of at Island Bay. "Fairplay" may search in the nullah running under- laughter in this jurisdiction is future naval raids, either at Bias drive his car-or his hired car-neath the bridge. He was assisted little short of sacrilege..
An usher in the Court of the Bay or on the West River, it right on to the sands and use it by a gang of Chinese boys. The
as a bathing machine. I call witness saw a white shoe button Chief Judge in Equity in Sydney ought not to be impractical for upon "Fairplay" to show how the picked up in the nullah and took (Mr. Justice Harvey), was lulled. both a European and a Chinese closing of a Forestry Area, as charge of it. This and the other to sleep by the tediousness and
exhibits the witness kept in his journalist to accompany the offi- prohibited, makes Island Bay & possession until August 9 when he repetition of counsele arguments, "I submit," said counsel. It is almost needless to remark cial party and be empowered. to private beach. Does he think the handed them over to Chief Detechat the bequest of the testator
Area might include public roads? tive Inspector Reynolds. Subse- that the greatest satisfaction will supply the entire Press with Then let him quote the Section quently he (witness) kept watch on was bad for uncertainty !"
The judge laughed aloud. Le felt that another punitive ex- descriptive accounts after such of the ordinance which exempts the coolie track running down from
the motor road at Shaukiwan East. It awakened the Usher who pedition against pirate villages had received official endorsement. members of the Shek-O Club!
I also challenge him to prove on two nights (August 11 and 2) ed: "Silencel Silence in court! If He watched the track from the top staggered to his feet and exclaim- Then, too, the utility of cinemato
his statement that Big Wave Bay On both nights the witness was there is any more laughter the
a private beach. there from 10 p.m., to midnight, and plete success by the British Navy.graphy appears to have been will become The duty was entrusted to three overlooked as another means of True, the road does not reach it. did not see any one go down or up person will be removed! gunboats comprising the West excellent propaganda against the But if a prohibited area extends the track. The witness was in such
threatened to remove the judge. the beach how do the members of anyone to have seen him. River flotilla, who set fire to the pirates. Were it possible to have between the end of the Road and a position that it was impossible for adjourned for lunch that, he had
Answering the Magistrate, Mr. on the water front at cinema views of the actual naval] the Shek-O Club gain access to whyte-Smith said that this evid- ence was brought to show that the Taiping Hu (where the pirates of operations shown in all cinemas in it?
Kong, Canton, and1 In the absence of a reasonable coolie track was a solitary path the 8.8. "Ko Chow" came from)
Curther North; Chinese-owned explanation from "Fairplay" I which was hardly ever used.
you, "by freely and fired eighteen shells into the
and otherwise, they could ventilating the matter, to prevent village of Shekki (where the
not fail to make a very deep im- the public being further loot was landed). Demonstra-
shevistic lies. I would also en- pression on the Chinese mind. An victimised" by Fairplay's Bol- TRAFFIC OFFENCES. official film of this nature would quire what motive he has in writ- be worth a hundred communiques ing this type of letter? of 95 words each).
Sir-In your issue of this would like them to go in as exhibits thetically. words appears far from adequate evening you print a letter from in case something should crop up supper cost you?"* for such an important undertak- an individual named "Fairplay," Anvering another question, man, "it wasn't quite as bad as ing. True, the essential facts in which the following statement counsel said that although none of that. You see, I didn't have any were given, but does the Navy is made. "The closing of the the articles had been traced to the bait on my book."
district near Shek 0 and Big deceased lady, there was also found shoe Wave Bay would prevent anyone in about the same spot a not a member of the Country button which was "half identified" "I contend that no two people Club having access to the Bath as there was a button missing from
one of Mrs. Mackay's shoes, and ever think alike."
"Really! Have you ever looked ing Beaches of Big Wave, and the button found corresponded with
over an array of wedding pre- Island Bay, thus making private the one on the other shoe. bathing beaches of the only two Sergeant Meadows then went into sents, and counted the flat-irons, decent bathing beaches left in the the witness box. After speaking cakestands and rosebowls?"
about receiving the three articles Island."
has been carried out with com-
houses
tions of this kind may be expected
to exercise a salutary effect-for time at any rate. The piracy menace is too deep-rooted to be entirely eradicated as the result of one naval raid. But once the head men and other leaders in a village get accustomed to naval raids after each successive piracy it is only natural that in time; they will become more cautious in giving refuge to those whom they know full well earn a living by piracy. Furthermore, once they realise that the Canton authorities are equally in earnest in meting out punishment for piracies, they will find that the game of sheltering the miscreants in their own particular village is
Hong
A Free Fight.
Feelings of sportsmen upon reading in today's paper the account of the free fight which
would ask
EUROPEANS FINED AT KOWLOON.
I enclose my name, to satisfy you, Sir, that I am neither a member of the Shek Q Club nor Three Europeans figured in the owner of a car, båt zaérely the long list of traffic summonses one who hates these untruthful heard by Mr. W. Schofield at the growsers crabbing the style of Kowloon Magistracy yesterday anyone who has the insolence to afternoon. possess even a moderate income:
Thanking you for
courtesy in publishing this, I am, Sir
He didn't discover till the court
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A lady teacher in a Sydney Suburban school was teaching & class of kiddies about idols. "The idol had eyes," she said, {"but it couldn't...”
"See!" cried the children. "It had ears, but it couldn't” "Hear!" said the class. "It had lips, but it couldn't...” "Speak!" said the children. "It had a
nose, but it couldn't" "Wipe it!" shouted the little
ones.
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"A little lady had formed her own opinion of the unco guid. Mr. M. Poger was fined $5 for In her prayers certain petitions Your failing to have his rear light lit concluded with: "And please, while driving his motor car in God, make all the bad people Salisbury Road, Kowloon, at good.""" 8.50 p.m., on August 14.
Yours, etc.,
TRUTH. Hong Kong, Sept. 6, 1927.
BUENOS AIRES TREES.
Turning to her mother, she
For carrying an excess of pas- asked: "May I pray, something. sengers in his car, Mr. Andrew else?"
Harper was fined $5. He was Permission granted, she put sden diving in Salisbury Road, her hands together and said, with and hid two passengers too much fervour: "And, Lord, if you can, please make all the good Mr. W. Woolley was summon people nice."
many.
ed for disregarding the signal of
took place in the course of the football inatch between Chinese and Filipinos at the Far Eastern Games in Shanghai will be, no doubt, those akin to disgust. gith an exhibition of the loss of temper is, of course regrettable; but the incident if the affair was not too grave to be so-termed
an Indian Traffic constable at the He was a bookmaker, not lear has its amusing side. The
Buenos Aires, Aug. 27. junction of Salisbury and ned, but a man of perception con- counter described to-day was A belt of trees will within a Nathan Roads on August 8. He sequently anything he heard was not worth the candle. In discuss the seventh of its kind, and every few years surround the city of said that he was unable to recol- always fixed in his memory, ing this phase of piracy a couple one has featured a rlot provision of a recent municipal
Buenos Aires, according to the lect the incident, Happening on a party of pro- The constable admitted to the fessional men at the local club or of years ago a well-known master Strange to say, Chinese and decree. A fund of 50,000 pesos mariner, in a letter to the Press other kind of sport without com- and the planting will be started the defendant's car later the sweat from his brow and re Filipinos have met at every has been set aside for this purpose Magistrate that although he saw a warm night, he wiped the suggested that the Canton Goving to blows, but a football match within a year United Fressed same day he did not stop him marked that he was in a state of ernment ought to impose a severe has always resulted in fisticuffs, R
In discharging Mr. Woolley transpiration. fine on every village known to if nothing worse. In the first
with a caution, Mr. Scheffeld "Perspiration," " corrected one Far Eastern Games, which were
directed that all traffic constables of his friends. vehetetle house pirates or their accoms staged in Manila in 1918, the
should make it a point to stop Transpiration is what I said,” o pay the required soccer meeting between these plices, failure to
drivers guilty of traffic regula he remarked, "and it is quite to be met
met by drastic nationals as notable for more barlain's Cough Remedy every Ruter
That's one great thing about Cham- tions and explain the offence to correct.. -amount to
Bets were made freely, one them operations of the kind since boxing than football. This, in to friend, and is gied to tell her. cidentally, was the only year in neighbour all about it. - It is certainly
college bred fellow giving odds of undertaken by the British Navy
Not only does tar make the best 5 to 1. Reference to Webster River. Every suggestion is cer
roads Sir David Milne-Watson, bookmaker about $10.
EVERYBODY USES IT.
which the Philippines emerged great for coughs, and colds, for croup and any kind of cough that hit either Aat Blas Bay and on, the Weat successful. In the course of the the young.ge the elderly people. Sold roads.but, kalap makes the safest was the proof, which netted the
next series of Games, held at and recommended everywhere,