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To-morrow being Empire Day, there will be no Court at the Central Magistracy.
Laredo, Texna, Yesterday-Four were killed and fifty 'Injured In 70-mile an
hour hall and wind storia here. - Router's American
Service.
According to the Russian papers, It is proposed to engage Russian watchmen for the Shanghai parks, beginning June 1, the date when the parks will be thrown open to the Chinese.
Gen. Chien Ta-chun, Commis- sioner of Gendarmeric, has decided to establiska school for the train- acr- ing of detectives and secret vice workers, his aim being to make his plain-clothes service more in- cient.
Paris, Yesterday. According, to "Le Journal," a number of deputies intend to introduce in the Chamber a motion declaring that the Poin- care Cabinet of National Union has
country. deserved well of the Havas.
Charged at the Kowloon Magis- tracy yesterday with landing at Stonecullers Island without permis- slon, two boatmen who, with many others, were searching for shell-fish on the foreshore, were fined $7 each by Mr. W. Schofield. The alterna- Live was ten days' hard labour.
Two cases of enterie, were not!- Rod locally on Tuesday.
The forthcoming marriage is an- nounced of Mr. E. A. de Souza, Nos. 60/71, Cooke-street, Kowloon, and Miss J. M. d'Assumpeão da Luz, No. 6, Pilkem-atreet,
Rio de Janeiro, Yesterday.-The death is announced of Dr. Alvaro- Alvin, the famous X-ray expert, who carried on his experiments despite the loss of both hands.-Reuter's American Service.
SIR BA
As the result" of D fall in attempting to alight from a motor 'bus whilst it was in mation near the China Light and Fower Com- pany's installation on the Lai- chikok-road, a Chinese sustained
New York, Yesterday. The severe injuries from which he died soon after his admission to hos-Dutch liner, "Veendam," which col- lided with the American steamer pital.
"Porto Rico" in n fog at Lower Bay on Saturday, sank alongside the pier at Hoboken. Reuter's American Service.
H. Hoover.
The Macao police have arrested four Chinese alleged to have been concerned in junk piracy in Capsulman on March 26 last. One of the suspects was arrested on land, and later the Portuguese police boarded & fishing boat in and took thres Macão harbour
athers in custody. The four sus pects will be deported to Hong Kong for trial.
A belated report was made to the police yesterday by a Wing Lok- street shop-keeper who alleged that on Sunday a swindler visited his shop and purchased a gramophone and 18 records, ordering the things to be delivered at an address in Robinson-road. The coolle, who delivered the articles, received pay- ment with a $100 Hong Kong bank- note which, when examined at the shop, was found to be counterfeit.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 1928.
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Washington, Yesterday. Preal- dent Coolidge has signed the Naval Appropriation Bill providing for an expenditure of 3862,000,000-Reu- ter's American Service..
Reports in the Chinese Presa: to the effect that the cables to Chefoo had been interrupted were denied upon inquiry at the Chinese Tele- graph Administration.
who
Eolonel' Stewart-Roddie since the Armistice has been chief of one of the sections of the Mili tary Inter-Allied Commissich of in Control, Berlin, has arrived Shanghal on a short visit and is, staying at the Majestic Hotel.
A meeting will be held at the Yih Ping Shang Hotel to discuss the matter of subscriptions from merchants in connection with the bronze statue which is to be erect- ed in front of the Shanghai North Station of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Accra, Yesterday. The eminent Japanese bacteriologist, Professor Hideyo Noguchi, of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, who nrrived here in November last to investigate yellow fever, has died of yellow fever, contracted during a laboratory experiment.-Ecuter.
As a sign of the humiliation which the Chinese people have undergane in recent years, the Na tionalist Government is consider- ing a proposal by which all Chinese must stop wearing long gowns and don, instead, costumes of the Chungshan (Sun Yat-sen) pattern.
P. Uzcudum
Marla Ivasuff, 35, a Russian woman living at 109 Seymour-road, who has been before the Provi sional Court on a number of prev ous occasions, was brought up charged with being drunk and dis- orderly and with damaging pro- perty belonging to Mra., Anti- penko, Complainant said that she
The "Eastern Times" says that was quite prepared to pay all ex-
the Fengtien authorities are now pences in connection with accused's cautioned, by Lieut. Col. F. Eaves, depending upon cultivation as their deportation. The Court ordered that D.S.O., at the Central Magistracy, main source of revenue. District accused should be detained pend-when he was charged with hawking magistrates, it is said, have been old shoes in West Point without a ing her deportation to Harbin,
instructed to encourage“ opium lleence. This morning the man was
ател growing and the total again brought before the Court charged with a similar offence.. A under cultivation is 2,000,000 mow. Chinese policeman gave evidence There are now no restrictions on that he actually saw the accused sell the opium traffic,
Yesterday
器 Chinese was
: Yesterday Mr. W. Schofield heard further evidence, at the Kow loon Magistracy, in the case in which a crowd of Chinese rowdies a pair of shoes for 30 cents. The were alleged to have assaulted a Magistrate remarked that he had 'bus driver and a conductor in cautioned the accused once, and Canton-read on May 12, following could not do so again. He imposed an accident to a small boy knocked a fine of $2. down by the bus. The defendants! claimed that they were in a tes-
now
effect
The "Eastern Times" reports that a recommendation has been made by the Political department of the War Council to the that the Board of Education should draft a complete. history of the, house when, on hearing the commo- The latest number of the "Sport- humiliations China bas auffered a tion, they went outside to investi-Ing & Dramatic News" to reach the hands of the foreign Powers gate and were arrested by the | Shanghai contains the first instal- and that these should be used as pollo. Another adjournment was ment of a series of articles by text-books in schools throughout the made.
Lieut. Col. C. H. Stockley entitled country.
With the Rife in India." A
Sir Frederick Whyte has return-photograph of the author in mufti
At Wayside Police Station, ed to Shanghai, arriving there by indicates that he is a man well Chief Inspector Crookdake and the "Empress of Asia." It may be known in Shanghai as having for Sergt. Harrison, who remembered that he was there dur- the better part of a year command-going on Home leave, ing the past year, after having at- ed a battalion of Punjable In celved, respectively, as marke of texided a meeting of the Pan-Shanghai in the Jhansi Brigade. goodwill from their comrades, a Pacific Association in Honolulu, On leaving Shanghai Col. Stockley handsome silver fable centre when he headed the delegation, arranged to go on a abosting trip piece and a gold, wrist watch; from India. He then spent a con- with Mr. R__F-C. Faster, but ac- Inspector Morgan-making the pre- siderable time travelling through cording to`latest advices, although sentation to Chief Inspector Crook Chins, and his views on the attua-they covered some 300 miles of dake and Inspector Kilob that to tion in Shanghal were afterwards territory, the big game shooting Sergt. Harrison, with appropriato embodied in a series of articles was very poor, published in "The Times" It is
not known how long hs intends; to remain in China on his present visit.
Bolla
speeches in each case. Following
the presentation, there was a sing
In HLM. Supreme Court, Shang-ong with such melody as only hai, before His Honour Judge King..
Wayside (Shanghai) can produce.
the case of Jos King and others v. Thos. Freeman was brought up, The Duke of Gloucester on his Aboard the P. & 0, 16. “Mon-- when an injunction was saked to first appearancs at a public function on the way Home, St. restrain defendant from manu- since he took his new title, attend- George's Day was celebrated, in facturing," and "selling "goods as ed the annual dinner of the British Atting style. Mr. W. H. Tren- "Thomas Freeman's Country Sgu- Olymple Gamės Association at the chard-Davis was appointed Presid- | Bage and Fork Ples." Mr. H. D. Connaught Rooms. Personally I ent of the committee in charge. Rodger appeared for plaiatura, live all sports and games,”” he said, with Major Tatlow, Vice-President, while defendant was not represent" "but I favour mostly those played and Mr. Bewley Bird, Hon, Secreed by counsel. His Lordship sald from the back of a horse. (Laugh- tary. Under their auspices, a›re that he could not grant "an"in- ter); - "What a great pity‹it is ception was held at the bar from function-in view of the form in that the events at Amsterdam 1216 to 1 p.m. when the 64 Eng- which the motion had been present not laclade an listmen on board entertained the e; there were no supporting am- hunt--foueers and pagetagers, of "other nationalities, davita. The object of an injunc- a team på-
In the afternoon children's sporta tion
were held, and following a special | ata “dipoor a grand ball took place in
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