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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1928.
3.
JAPANESE MARINES IN
SERIOUS TROUBLE.
COOLIE ALLEGED KILLED.
POLICE RESERVE.
INSPECTION BY THE
GOVERNOR.
Ing such an excellent representa- HONGKEW FRACAS. tion of the Japanese Navy among us, quite an exhaustive pro gramme of events, official and un- official, has been prepared, which we feel sure will afford much pleasure to all who participate in them. One cannot but note-and Britons note with particular plea- Bure that the Japanese Navy is very largely modelled on the Bri- tish Navy, and we understand piace last week-end in the Hong-issued by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. that the regulations prevailing kew district, when one of two Wolfe, C.M.G., Captain Superinten- throughout the Navy of Dai Japanese Marines, or possibly dent of Police.
An unfortunate incident took
“COMMENDS."
The following orters have been
Governor's Inspection.
Nippon very closely resemble
both, is alleged to have stabbed a those of Great Britain. Such a fact adds to the pleasure that is ricsha coolie, who later died from
His Excellency the Governor will felt in Hong Kong in welcoming the effects of his wounds. There inspect the Hong Kong Pelica Re- the Japanese officers and blue- W28 an altercation over the serve in conjunction with the
jackets for, in such a matter as in
others, imitation is undoubtedly amount to be paid for the ride. Hong Kong Police Force and the the sincerest form of flattery: Insp. J. W. Prince hurried to the Hong Kong Fire Brigade on Tues- But we are well aware that the scene and upon the arrival of the Parade Ground. All members of day, April 17, on the 'Murray Japanese in modelling their Navy upon ours had much more serious Japanese patrol the Marines were the Police Reserve are requested to make an endeavour to be present, intentions than merely to imitate arrested by them.
or to flatter for, being the able At the Public Mortuary, and those attending will fall in on and acute people they are, they Judge Koh and Deputy the Central Police Station Com- realise that they could not do bet- Whitamore presiding, Det. Insp. pound at 3.30 p.m. prompt. Dress: ter than build their comparatively Prince said that when he began Blue uniform with Cáp and White young Navy, upon ours, which is his investigations he found one of cover, and Belt (no truncheon), ripe in experience. As we shall the Japanese in a restaurant sit-
Practice Parade. have much pleasure in having so ting on a blood-stained stool. He fine a body of sailormen with us was drinking beer. The other ap Members of the Chinese, Indian, during the next few days, woparently was trying to sleep in and Flying Squad Companies trust that the visit will be equally the corner.
The latter had a (Sharpshooters' Company -- op- agreeable to our Japanese friends. blood-stained bandage, on one tional) will attend
hand and some fresh blood on the parade on Wednesday, April 11. A practice
fiesh. One of the Chinese ser- vants in the restaurant told Mr. Fall in at Central Police Station CHINESE FACULTY. Prince that he saw a Marine wash at 3.30 pm. sharp. Dress: 28
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY NEED.
CHINESE MERCHANTS HELP.
Chinese
on more.
of
Chinese Company..
Strength. Constable R.57 Wong Han-ying has been taken on the strength of the Chinese Company
The Hon. C.S.P. has been pleased grant Commended Service
"
ing a blood-stained dagger under above. a faucet, while another had seen one of them hiding a dagger. This weapon Mr. Prince found be- hind some rice boxes, says the "N. C. Daily News."
The hearing was adjourned. as from March 12. The comment of the three Japanese
ia In order to permit of the con-
papers
Flying Squad tinuance of the Chinese Faculty of a similar nature, they intimating
There will be no instructional the Hong Kong University to cover that the coolie was killed in self-patrol on Thursday, April 12 nor a course of four years study a defence, although "it must be con- on Thursday, April 19, ly in view of the failure of Sir
considerable aum in addition to the sidered that the Marines used Miles Lampson Britain, critics $40,000 collected from
excessive means to defend them-
Commended Service Badge, have, it, would have accepted a friends in the Straits Settlements have left the Ikee Restaurant, at selves." The Japanese are said to similar settlement. This, as we by Professor Lal Che-hat has been the corner of Woosung-road and to have before inferred, we doubt; found necessary.
Yalu-road, engaged ricahas to con- Badges to the following members With a view to devising ways vey them to the No. 2 Kinozuki of the Hong Kong Police but was Britain offered a similar and means of raising this sum, a Restaurant in Yuhang-road. The serve
Re- settlement? The evidence we have meeting of Chinese merchants men are said to have paid the LS.R.18 Hwang Hong Yeh—A at hand suggests that such was was called at the Chinese Chamber coolies six coppers each, and then very hard working and zealous not the case, that, in fact, the of Commerce yesterday by Sir to have given the coolies another Reservist. Highly commended by Nationalists have accepted from Shou-son Chow and the Hon. Dr. 10 coppers, but the latter insisted the C.S.P. for assisting the Re-
R. H. Kotewall.
gular Police in arrest of pick- America less than they were pre- The meeting decided to try to Hearing the noise a crowd pocket on August. 27, 1927. Com- pared to accept from Britain, and raise a sum in the neighbourhood gathered, the papers add, which mended by the C.S.P. for prompt perhaps less than they were pre-of $1,000,000. If the effort was sue- included several apprentices from and correct action in searching and One blew a police arresting a Chinese found to be pared to accept from Japan. This cessful, about $60,000 would be as a foundry.
signed to the erection of a building whistle and is stated to have carrying seditious literature does not necessarily mean that we in the University grounds, for the handed the ricsha coolie a chisel. November 29, 1927. asked of the Nationalists more Chinese Faculty. than the United States asked.
In support of our suggestion have the cables that were issued at the time of the negotia- tions between Sir Miles Lampson and General Huang Fu, the Na- tionalist Minister of Foreign Affairs. Reuter's Agency report- ed from Shanghai on March 25 Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 11, 1828 that the points on which the nego-
"On the night of the 30th (of insufficiency of evidence. Arrested tiations broke down were the
Maroh) Japanese sailors engaged a man for larceny of cloth at public ricsha number 7890 and. Alexandra Buildings on January THE WILES OF DIPLOMACY.Chinese demands for expressions
without provoca'ion, assaulted 12, 1928, most of the stolen goods of regret for shelling Socony Hill
and murdered a Chinese ricaha recovered. Defendant sentenced coolie. It has been said, though we will and the revision of the so-called
Nominally, a quarrel to four weeks' hard, labour. Ar- arose over the amount of fare rested a pickpocket outside of not vouch for the truth of the unequal treaties. If this is true,
The life-work of Mary Linwood paid. Upon hearing of this mat- Supreme Court on February 1, assertion, that Britain's supre it is obvious that the terms of was the making of needlework ter, the Association immediately 1928, subsequently found to be a macy in India is maintained by a settlement with Britain were copies of English and Italian called a meeting to discuss it, returned banishee. Accused sen- reason of the religious and other entirely different from the terms paintings, These copies were of and it was decided to demand that i
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The paper concludes, "The There were forty-one Chinese Marines were helpless unless cer- tain measures of self-defence merchants and other prominent
whilst threat Chinese citizeps present at the were adopted
coolie with: meeting and these were formed ening the
into a Committee to superintend knife, the latter was stabbed."
Riesha Coolies' Protest.
the raising of the money.
MISS LINWOOD.
HIGH PRESTESS OF
NEEDLEWORK.
THE RAGE OF LONDON,
00
Constable R.14 Harry. Loo,--
Secured information revealing a case of murder at Castle Peak an the May 19, 1927, on this information being given to Mr. King, D.C.1., & man was arrested on a charge of was murdering his wife. This Con- The following protest issued in connection with the stable rendered great assistance in affair by the Shanghai Ricsha the enquiries and in searching for Coolies Association in a letter the body of the murdered woman. addressed to the District Kuomin- The accused was however acquit tang:-
ted at the Supreme Court owing to
were in solid embroidery, Miss to justice,
with hard-
factional differences that exist of settlement with America. 'As the same size as the originals, and the offenders should be brought tenced to 6 months
labour, among the people that go to make the Notes that passed between Linwood, who was a "gentlewoman Japanese in China have al- LS.R.16 Ow-Yeung Kin Heng- up the inhabitants of that land. Mr. Macmurray and General of some fortune," was born in 1755, ways used high-handed methods Highly commended by the C.S.P. The suggestion, not a very credit- Huang Fu show, these points were and lived at Leicester where her and now they have not even stop for zeal and skill in the investiga- able one, behind the statement is raised as a kind of after-thought; mother kept a school for young ped at murder. They want to in-tion of a case "Conspiracy to de-
ladies. Upon her mother's death sult us and never lose an fraud" in November 1927. that whilst these inter-racial dif-, and it is also shown that America Mary succeeded to the school and opportunity to do so. Their rea- Constable R.55 T. C. Woo-Com- ferences are kept at fever heat, refused, as Britain of course re conducted it in addition to many son is that they are strong and mended by the C.S.P. for prompt even encouraged, our rute in India fused, to agree to these specific other occupations. She also had a we are weak, and that we do not assistance in the arrest of a thief. will suffer no material or effec- demands. Nevertheless there has practical knowledge of music, be possess strength enough to opon November 18, 1927. Commend-
ing the composer of many publish- pose them.
med by C.S.P. for valuable assistance tive opposition. And this attitude been a Nanking Patch with the ed songs and an oratorio,
"This Association has been given to the Regular Police in the She began doing her needle formed for the protection of recovery of stolen goods on Feb- of mind which 'ls credited to Bri- United States whilst the British tain may, without any undue negotiations have broken down work pictures when she was thir- ricsha coolies and labourers gen-ruary 21, 1928-
Constable R.8 Tao Tsun Ön--- streich of the imagination, be completely. Which points to a de-teen years old, and by the time erally. Now one of our Chinese
she was twenty had large ricsha coolies has been ruthlessly Highly commended by C.S.P. for likewise credited to some of the 'gree of truth in our surmise that number standing to her credit. murdered, it devolves upon us to prompt action in securing arrest war-lords and regional comman. It is suiting the Nationalist book Every facility was given her for do something to protect his inter-of two men charged with attempted ders that flourish in China to-day. to play one foreign nation against copying the works of the greatest ests.
We, therefore, have to ask you It has often been said that the another, for that is what it artists, proof in itself that her
work was highly esteemed.
to lodge the following demands:-
Constable R.29 Teul Tong This cause of the failure of foreigners amounts to.
Royal Academy refused permission "1. That the offender should be constable was one of those who for her work to be hung, on the severely punished;
assisted the D.C.I. in raiding the ground that under their charter "2. That indemnity should be Seamen's Union in May 1927.** needlework was excluded.""
paid;
Constable R815 Fazal Mohamed, That the Japanese author-Highly commended by C.S.P. for ities shall give a definite jumping into the harbour on July. assurance that there shall be 24, 1927, and rescuing a Chinese no similar occurrences in woman from drowning. future; and That the Japanese author ities should publicly apologise so uphold............ China's
in China is the fact that, nation
and nation, they do not co-
operate, that each seems afraid Our Japaness Visitors
⠀ “Artist to the Court.
The
larceny of silk on September 27, 1927.
for. Sergt. R.802 Harry Kong and Constable R.309 Robert Young Commended by C.S.P. for assisting the Regular Police in arrest of an armed man and, it fa owing to their Initiative and example that the Flying Squad has reached its
of his neighbour, that every one The visit to Hong Kong of so In 1788 she visited the court of is self-seeking and guides its large and important a section of Russia, and was cordially received the Japanese Fleet is a matter by Catherine the Great. In 1785 policy in accordance with what that is meeting with general her pictures were shown by com- may be obtained from China, satisfaction. The battleships, mand to King George III and "4. taking no heed of the rights, re-cruiser and destroyers present a Queen Charlotte. After Royalty
and quirements or privileges of other fine spectacle even here where we had given lis sanction she opened
honour. are accustomed to a splendida public exhibition of her work in foreigners.
array of warships. And it must 1787 at the Pantheon, a large num- In this statement, as we all be a long time since our harbour ber of her pictures being shown. was visited by so many foreign at this time she was thirty-two know, there is some truth, a lot of naval officers and bipejackets as years old and besides keeping filled in her canvas, stitching in present state of efficiency... truth. But the point we are at on the present occasion for our her exhibition running she con- any direction that served her pur. Cr. Sergt. R.333 B. C. Randall tempting to make is that the for visitors from Nippon number the tinued to embroider lucessantly pose. Her stitches do not come Commended by C.SP for the eigners themselves are not entire substantial total of 6,000. They For sixty years her work was the under any standard classification prompt Assistance rendered to the are very welcome; for though the rage of fashionable London, FoxIf anything they are satin or Regular Police on October 4, 1927, ly to blame. There cannot be co- Japanese are, comparatively and Byron, Horace Walpole, the long-and-short stitches; but with operation if the Chinese will not speaking, our neighbours we sel- Berry sisters, the Gunnings, the them she was able to obtain; new allow co-operation: Take, for m-dem have an opportunity of wel. Duchess of Devonshire, the Prince shadings. In fac stance, the matter of the Nat-coming so large an influx into our Regent, Beau Brummel, were all with
midet. It is only by actual con among her patro lepovas paintings king Rare America has effect-fact with one another that vari Sixty
Show and (séverál Her method ed a settlement with the Nationous peo
working was to Ople, Stubbs, and other alist Government, and the terms
to, be hoped, an- stretch
ammy addition to large numbers pre précia
more cloth
on a of the great Italians, of the settlement, we know now readi are not so ons-sided as they were the
needle.
Bir
bject Guido, Carlo Dele
her besides many whose nam Fare:
ying to hospital in his a seriously injured work averting any delay in
on, Com
rompt.