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RATES AT HOME.
THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST.
LUCKY BLACKPOOL.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1928.
AID FOR SCHOOLS.
CHANG HSUEH-LIANG'S REQUEST.
HATAMEN OCTROI FUNDS.
Peking, Jan. 12. ·
BAIL MONEY,
FALSE PRETENCES CHARGE.
TRIP TO SHANGHAI,
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"The annual statement of the
Remanded by Major C. Willson rates levied in various towns and
on Friday pending the arrival of urban districts in England and of the middle and primary schools described as a seaman living on the In view of the financial stringency witnesses from Shanghai, Ho Tin, Wales, compiled by Mr. W. Allison in the capital. General Chang second floor of No. 50, Hollywood Davies, Borough Treasurer of Pres-Hsueh-liong, commandant of the Road, again appeared before the ton, has just been lasted for the 3rd and 4th Mukden Ariny Corps Magistrate at the Central Magis. year 1927-28.
It shows that the said in his latter to Mr. Tano Shih-tracy this morning when evidence highest rated place in the countryyu, director of the educational was taken
against him on two
828. 4d. In the pound," says the to Mr. Hu Shih-yu, director of the money from two women by falas "Times."
Hatamen octroi urging him to raiso pretences. Other towns or districts with funds for the support of these The first charge was that the ac- rates of 20s, or more in the pound schools. It is understood that the cused on divers dates between De- Include Barnsley, 226. 3d.; East middle schools and primary schools cember 29, 1927, and January 25, Ham, 228. 8 1.; Gateshead, 225, 3d.; in Peking used to draw a major part arst floor, pretended to the com 1928, at No. 82, Hollywood Road, Merthyr Tydvil. 30s. 71⁄2d.; Nornf their funds from the Hatainen wich, 208. 6d. Weet Ham, 24s. 6d.; outro amounting to nearly $40,000 plainant (So Kin) that he had been Chesterfield, 208.; Hartlepool, 218 a month. But since the outbreaktives of the complainant) who are
authorised by three Chinese (rein 4d.; Jarrow, 208. 6d.; Keighley, 208, of the Mukden-Shansi war, the re-detained at Shanghai, to collect 6d. Leyton, 228. 4d.; Lianelly, 238. venue from the octroi has been $4,000 to pay for the release of the 7d. Whitehaven, 208. 4d.; Aber-divorted to military purposes leav-three detained men. carn, 285.; Aberdare, 308.; Abertiling little for the up-keep of these lory, 268. 4d.; Ashington, 218. scltools.
The second charge which was 4d.; Blaydon, 258. 8d.; Caerphilly, Cholt, Minister of Education and accused on divera dates between Owing to this, Mr. Lau similarly worded, alleges that the 288.: Eston, 228.; Felling-on-Tyne, Mr. Tsao Shih-yu have negotiated December 29, 1927, and January 248. 8d.; Hebburn, 285.; Maesteg, with Mr. Hu Shih-yu for financiul 22, 1928, at No. 17, Staunton Street, 268. 11d.; Pontypridd. 298. Bd.
this year is the urban district of bureau yesterday that he has wired charges of attempting to obtain Gellygaer, where the burden la
Rhondda, 908.; Stanley, 20s. 8d.support on the ons hand and written second floor, attempted to obtain Walthamstow, 268.; Whickham, 248 to General Chang Hsuoh-liang about $4,000 from the complainant (Chan' id.; Wombwell, 258. 9d.; Bethnal it on the other."Kuo Wen." Green, 22. 4d.; and Poplar, 258.
"The distinction of having the lowest rates rests with Blackpool,
FREEDOM LEAGUE'S PROTEST
where the call for the financial NEW YEAR HONOURS year is 78, d. in the pound. Rates in the majority of places are higher than they wore in the year 1926-27, and the only other county borough or boroughs with rates under 10s. in the pound are Bourne- mouth, Darlington, Eastbourne, Oxford, Southport, Boxhill and Tunbridge Wella.
} TO PREMIER.
FEW FOR WOMEN.
London, Jan. 7. The number of Honours awarded
Luk) on the same pretext.
Detective Sergeant Donovan, who prosecuted, said that acting on the instruction of a Chinese official in Shanghal named Mr. Tal, the Chinese police of the house in the Chinese section of Fifth Station raided 2 certain
North Stechuen Road, and arrest- ed six men as suspected commun- ista. Amongst the six arrested men was the first complainant, So Kiu's son and two friends of the family.
At First Believed. The accused discovered this, and
.
The ac
"The districts with exceptionally to women in the New Year List Ins heavy rates are for the most part not mollified the Women's Freedom in South Wales and Durham, where League, the Secretary of which has there is much unemployment in written to the Premier protesting going to So Kiu represented to the the coalfields, and in the East End against the comparatively few Hon-woman that he had been authoris- this stage that the "Christian of London. The Poplar rate at our awarded to women and coin-money to secure the release of the ed by her son to collect $4,000 ball
plaining that only the British Em- General," after joining hands 258, is unchanged.
The rates of some of the chief pire Order and the Kaiser-I-Hind cused was at first believed, and the
son and his two friends. with his friends, has carried on cities of England and Wales are as medals. had been bestowed
follows:-Birmingham, 168.; Bris-women.
on Arat complainant attempted to the war against Peking.
tol, 16s. 8d.; Cardiff, 14s. 1d.;
raise the money by ordering the Reports about financial difficul-Leeds, 178.; Leicester, 148. 11d.:"special order being created for the In this she was not successful, The Langue also objects to a sale of some land in the country. ties in the Nationalist camp Liverpool, 14s. 3d.: Manchester, inclusion of women, in order to ex however. Then the matter was have been persistent, particularly Plymouth, 148. 68.; Sheffield, 188. the other Honours normally distri the friends of Se Riu's son, and 188. 6d. Nottingham, 146. 5d. elude them from participating in discussed with the wife of one of
in the Chinese Press. Generals 8d.; and Stoke-on-Trent, 188: buted among non-Times of
Ceylon."
7%d. are at loggerheads and local com-
Westminster is the lowest rated of the Metropolitan boroughs, manders are withholding nearly and Poplar the highest.
all provincial revenue for their own war-chests. What have the Nationalists to show to balance
Gas, Electricity and Trams. "The return also gives soma de- JUSTICE TRAVESTY. from him. tails of the charges for gas and electricity, the estimated transfers
JURORS SEEK JUDGES FORGIVENESS.
Д
it was arranged that this woman should go to Shanghai to make in- quiries, as the accused's story did not appear convincing when fur- ther particulars were required
Whilst the woman was on her way to Shanghai, the accused was all these factors on the debit side? to municipal undertakinga in res-
the pect of deficiencies in municipal
put off on the pretext that At one time the glamour at- undertakings, and the estimated
money was being raised. Onar- EVIDENCE DRANK,
rival at Shanghai, So Klu'a friend tached to the three characters transfers from these undertakings
discovered that whilst it was a fact in relief of rates. Places whichi- 'Chiang Kai Shek" was enough to have the benefit of low charges for
Los Angeles, Jin. 8. that her husband, So Kiu's son and stir the populace to appreciable electricity, with the average price Nine jurors, five of whom were another friend had been arrested,
they had since been released. heights of patriotism and the 1.50d.; Leicester, 1.88d.; Sheffield, liquor law prosecution, then acquit-tween So Kiu and her son in Shang-
charged per unit, Are:-Bath, Women, drank the evidence in
Telegrams, were exchanged be- troops to a fighting sense that 2.15d.; South Shields, 1.70d.; Walted the accused, a liquor dealer. (London),
hai, and the latter in one of the The Judge promptly discharged telegrams informed his mother that provoked them to charge snow-lasey, 1.39d.; Walsall, 1.78d.; Yar-
mouth, 1.884.; York, 1.63d.; Grave-the jury, adding a fow romarka on the accused had not been author- topped hills, clad in only a singlet, send. 1.52d.; Jarrow, 1.64d.; Luton, the duties of citizenship which made ised by either himself or his shorts and sandals. Whereas it 1.76d.; and Wallsend-on-Tyne, the atmosphere tingla.
friends to raise the bail money. was heresy to breathe a word
The Judge is now considering the
Police Trap. "Liverpool's municipal under-reinstatement of the jury, as they against the name of the Com-takings yield $181,696 in relief of have humbly confessed their fault So Kiu communicated with the Upon receipt of this telegram, mander-in-Chief, there is now a the rates of the city, and many and sought forgiveness.
towns make a substantial profit on
police and a trap was prepared for considerable section of National-markets, gas, electricity and tram- that they took an unusually long called, the police were communi- What moved the Judge most was the accused. The next time he ist opinion which is, outspokenly ways. Others are less successful time to reach their decision, and eated with. So Kiu pretended to
and West Ham Corporation's tram- opposed to him.
ways require a subsidy this year of there was no apparent need to test believe the accused's story, and ad- the evidenco, as its aholis charac-vanced $100 to him first, promising ter had been admitted by the ac cused himself.--"Times of Coylon."
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the balance within a couple of days. When the accused left the house, he was arrested by detec tives who were waiting for him.
In the meantime, it appeared, the accused was trying to work a simi- second complainant, from whom, as stated in the second charge, heat- tempted to obtain $4,000.
WATCHMAN'S CLAIM. lar fraud on another woman, the
HOTEL MANAGEMENT SUED.
After several wtinesses had been heard, the case was adjourned.
IN THE HARBOUR.
WOMAN.
Within the sphere of Nation-£56,232.” Hong Kong, Monday, Jan. 30, 1928-alist territory, the Central Gov- ernment of the Nationalist Party at Nanking is becoming weaker, and weaker. Generals are show- Pessimism has been caused by ing. the old tuchun spirit again, the failure of the present Gov- acknowledging Nanking in name ernment of Nanking to con- but not in deed. South of Han- solidate the Nationalist position kow, a group of Nationalist The following is the pro-
An Indian watchman sued Mrs. in China. To-day the outlook is armies is bent in individual gramme for the organ recital Cameron, of St. Francis Hotel, in the Summary no better than a few months ago, extension, gaining in strength, by Mr. Frederick Mason, A.R.C.O, Queen's Road, in spite of the series of military and openly opposing the much- which is to be given at 5.45 p.m. services as a watchman.
L.T.C.L, at St. John's Cathedral Court this morning for $75 alleg
ed to be dua for work done and reverses sustained by the Peking vaunted peace conference" which to-morrow, a collection being taken
Plaintiff, who was represented Government. It might be argued Chiang Kai-shek has sponsored. In aid of the Cathedral Organ by Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, POLICE CALLED TO RESCUE
claimed that he was entitled to that because Peking is worse off Hong Kong is more familiar with
1.-Choral Preludes: (a) "A" wages of $25 a month in respect than at any other stage of the conditions in the two Kwang pro-rose breaks into bloom" (Brahms), of October and November and to campaign, the Nationalists are vinces where the local administra- (b) "The Old 104th" (Parry). another month's wages in lieu of Whilst Sub-Inspector Brown of going ahead. Such is not the tion is still nominally Nationalist
2. (a) Arla, from the Suite In notice. It was alleged that he had the Water Police was patrolling
been summarily dismissed,
the contral fairway in 4 policu case. True, the armies of the but is setting its own course, has D. and (b) Pasarpled (Bach)..
For the defendant (for whom launch on Saturday afternoon, his 8. Allegro Maestoso in F Sharp Mr. Armstrong appeared) it was attention was attracted to the Yau- Peking Government have retired ceased to contribute to Nanking's (Rheinberger).
alleged that the defendant had mati ferry lunch Man Yea" to within three hundred miles of exchequer, and is more or less 4(a) "The Question, and (b) been justifiably dismissed and that sounding four bluste on her whistle. the capital, but if the Government acting in defiance of Chiang Kai- "The Answer" (Wolstenholme). he was only entitled to the month's The police launch immediately ap Нуши 242.
wages during which he served as proved the ferry which was cross forces have been pressed back, shek,
5-Petite Pastorale (Ravel). the credit is due to the Kuomin-
6 Spring Song "From chun, the army under Marshal
South" (Lemare),
7-Rhapsody in D. (Rowley). Feng Yu-hsiang, who is best. known as the "Christian General."
The December number of the Feng Yu-hsiang remains a mem- "Silver Wolf," the monthly maga- ber of the Nationalist Party,zine of the Hong Kong Boy Scout The Canton Branch of the Poll- mainly because he is in the field Association, contains many fine tical Council, at its 73rd meeting,
features. The most notable is a decided to abolish all the military Capt. Millar, skipper of the reach the woman as she was about One of the semen inanaged to against a common opponent: straightforward and brief
organs and to relieve the Kuomin- "President Wilson, charged two to sink, and succeeded in keeping That the Southerners can never count of the life of a famous. tang representatives attached to Chinese with boarding the vessel succeed in crossing the Yellow Mackney scout, Roland Phillips. son given for the decision is that without permits: They were senhor afont until his foki reached the
ang
- THE SILVER WOLF.”
BC-
the
armies from their posts The rea-
watchman of the Hotel.
After hearing the evidence, Mr. from Hong Kong to Youmati, When the police launch got near, a Justice J. R. Wood gave judgment Chinese woman was found to be in for the plaintiff for 355:88 cente, difficulties in the water, having viz., wages for a month and a few fallen overboard from the "Man days which he served and &
Yes. Life buoys were thrown to month's wages in Hen of notice.
the woman; whilst two of the crew of the Man Yee" entered the water to ressus hier.
NO BOARDING PERMITS.
ment each.
UNLAWFUL MOORING,
puir. Then between the two soa- River (in a struggle against the It would do well for all Scout the departments attached to the tenced to one. mouth's imprisonmen they took the woman to the
masters, and Cubs of Hong Kong military organs are now so com North of China) is a saying that to follow his brave example, plete that this abolition will not has become traditional. When and try to do a good turn prevent the execution of the rovo- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek each day..
lutionary movement and the propa- gandising of the'. Three People's Doctrine.
was at the height of his power,
the Nationalist (or Southern)
police launch which removed her to Hong Kong, tad tieferer
The woman's nono, was given as To Kam of No., 50, Haitan Street,
Masters of a motor boat and Sustipo, and us the way she got steam launch were severely. cau- into the water gave the inspression tioned at the Marine Magistracy that she had attempted to commit Army set foot in Shantung pro- Ming Grace Toeg arrived in Hong
Ang - Ah-chye, until lately a this morning for mooring their suicide, she was referred to the vince but had to turn back on ap-ong on Saturday by the Dollar house "boy" at Government House, craft alongside the "Empress of Sucretariat for Chinese Affairs
Line President Wilson" from Singapore, was charged before, the Canada." proaching the Yellow River.
where the matter is being investi Shanghai. Other Shanghai passen Third Police Magistrate at Singa-
gated. More recently the Nationalist gera to land here Included Mr. C. pore with the theft of a cheque The ceremonial opening ceremony forces have gained ground onco M. Butt, Miss V. M. Chesworth, Mr, belonging to Government House in regard to the new organ at St.
A. D. Crabbe, Mr. A. C. Davis, Mr. He claimed trial. On a charge of Margaret's Church will take place a farewell dinner of the Bench and Lord Justice Scrutton presided at more. At the critical moment, M. Dorian, Mr. F. A. Edmondson, ment, the accused, also claimed on Thursday next, at 6:30 p.m., Bar in the Inner Templo Hall given. uning 'ng' genuine a forged docu- however, internal dissent necessi- Mr. S. 1. Hicks and Mr. H. B. trial. He was remanded in cus- when Father Riganti will play ap to Sir John Eldon Bankes on his tated a halt. And it was from Ritner.
tody.
propriate selection.
retirement from the Bench,
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