MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1928.
Phone C. 22
FOR
NOTICES.
NOTICE.
NOTICES.
THE CHINA MAIL:
BANK HOLIDAYS.
Accordance with Ordinance
CLASSIFIED
HAVE appointed Mr. G. A. HI No. 1012, the EXCHANGE ADVERTISING POTTS as my attorney to act BANKS will be CLOSED for the
for and on my behalf under the transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS Twenty-five Words three inser-style of ELLIS HAYIM, Share & on MONDAY, the 4th June.
Hong Kong, 31st-May; 1928. tions prepaid $1. Every addi-General Broker as from 1st June, tional word four cents for .three insertions.
WANTED.
WANTED you to know that Senact Freres are selling regardless of cost their entire stock of Jewallery,
1928.
ELLIS HAYIM. Hong Kong, 28th May, 1928..
BETWEEN
TELEPHONE SERVICE
Watches, Fancy Goods, ete. No HONG KONG AND KOWLOON.
reasonable offer refused.
WANTED-Small furnished house or flat, Hong Kong side. Please
FROM
FROM 17th March, 1928, until further notice, Telephone Ser- vice between HONG KONG and KOWLOON will be restricted
TO FIGHT ON.
CHANG'S NEW DECISION.
THE RAIN-STORM.
FOR THE SESSIONS. A BIGGER BART.'S.
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE ON HOLLYWOOD-ROAD ARMED
THE KOWLOON SIDE.
FLATS COLLAPSE.
ROBBERY.
OLD WOMAN AS VICTIM:
· FAMOUS: PROPERTIES
ACQUIRED.
A-LITERARY HAUNT.
LOSES 4,000 MEN.
Saturday.
During the last four or five days,⠀ At the Central Magistracy on St. Bartholomew's Hospital. has Week-end advice from the Hong Kong has experienced heavy | Saturday, Maj. C. Willeon commit- aequired, in connection with future North showed that the harder downpours of rain, and on Thurs- ted for trial at the next Criminal|extensions, the freehold of neigh- Marshal Chang Tao-lin was push-day something in the nature of a Sessions two young Chinese on a bourhood properties having an area ed the longer would he remain in cloud-burst occurred отег the charge of armed robbery on the approximately of 21,770 superficial Peking. Severe fighting was re-peninsula, bringing about semi-third floor of No. 156, Hollywood-feet, and rich in literary and other "LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST," ported to have taken place at a darkness for half an hour from] road, at 9 a.m; on May 7. --
associations. place about thirty miles south-8.30 am. Rain continued to fall Detective Sorgeant Roxeakwy The properties in quastion com- inst. at west of the capital, and Fengtien ateadily.
conducted the case for the pro-prise: ON MONDAY, the 4th the city losses of 4,000 men was mention-The downpour took the usual secution. The accused, who were Nos. 62 to 71a, Bartholomew Hall another Lecture will be deed. In consequence, Chang Teo- toll of damage in the form of not defended, both pleaded "not livered by the renowned "Muslim in decided not to evacuate for houses collapsing, landslides, and guilty." Missionary, Maulana L. Haidari, on the time being but, with a view to other minor damage. An old red- "Islam is the Religion of Peaco." Saving his main force, ordered brick building, No. 75 Wongnel- robbery were an old woman and a
General Chang Tsung-chang to All are cordially invited.
use every effort to stay the South-chong-road, Happy Valley, which small girl, who were terrorised by
Was In
In the flat at the time of the
a dilapidated condition two robbers who exhibited dag- ern advance.
From a Chinese source it was owing to the fact that it had not gers. After binding and gagging been tenanted for some time past the two helpless females, the two then learned that Marshal
atate terms. Apply Eox No. 649, owing to harbour dredging opera- LAMMERT. BROS Chang's family has already left was the first to suffer.
c/o "China Mail."
TUITION GIVEN.
PRIVATE LESSONS in English and French; violin and plano;
stenography and typewriting. Easy
conditions. Apply to 6, Villas, Kowloon.
Almai
MME. BARONELLI, ARTISTE,- School of dancing for children and adults in character, classical, ex- hibition, fox-trot and Charleston.
Special Attention to stout Ladies who are desirous of regaining their youthful · figure. Address 81, Ashley Road, Ground Floor, Kew- loon. (Back of Star Theatre).
HOME TUITION,
117ESTOVER - STEVENAGE,
W
tions necessitating the removal of our submarine cables and result- Ing in a reduction in the number of junctions available to carry the Telephone Traffic above mentioned places.
between the
A full service will be restored
immediately dredging operations
cense,
J. P. SHERRY,
Manager. Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 17th March, 1928.
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS ALUMNI
ASSOCIATION,
(St. Joseph's College.)
AST Pupils and Friends of St. PAST PUP Gotlege, Hong Kong:
as well as past pupils of Colleges
Christian Brothers of the
elae-
Within an hour from Lon-where, are invited to attend a gen- don. In healthy neighbourhood.
eral meeting of the above Associa
SCHOOL for GIRLS and SMALL tion at the College on TUESDAY, BOYS. A few Boarders received in the House of the Principal. In- the 6th June, at 6 p.m.
dividual care and attention.
Particulars apply to:
For
MISS RUTH CULLEY
(Camb, Higher Local). (Camb. Tenchers' Diploma).
PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
MISS GERTRUDE TURNER N
(National Frodel Higher
Certificats).
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS nestly and promptly printed."China Mail" Office, No. 3a, Wyndham St.. Telephone Central 22,
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH CO., LTD., OF DENMARK.
The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany (Limited) of Denmark:-
Evictors, from Shanghai.
· Danien, Savoy Hotel, Manila.
Junrirya, from Yokohama. Mrs. R. C. Vercival, Empress of Russia," from Tsingtau.
AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.
Public Auctions
ON
Close and the Coach and Horses public-house,
་་
No. 48, Little Britain (the Queen's Head and French Hora public-house).
Nos. 49 to 87, Little Britain.
£60,628 Fald,
The treasurer's annual report, men ransacked the place and even-just issued, states that with the as- On Saturday two housos Zell Intually got away with jewellery sent of the Charity Commissioners, Peking for Mukden.
Kowloon. These Peking, Saturday.
were flats in and money to the value of $335, the freeholds of the several. pre- Kremer-street. Fortunately no Severe fighting is reported be
Early Arrest.
mises have been acquired · for tween the Northerners and the casualties are reported. The pecu- The police were informed imme- £80,628, which includes a fee of Shansi allies of the Nationalists larity of this incident Is that while diately after the robbery and, fol- £2,000 paid to the architect by in the vicinity of Liullho, result-Nos. 3 and 7 fell, No. 6 is still lowing up clues they were able to whom the properties were brought ing in the defeat of the Northern standing but is in a precarious gather, they soon took the two to the notice of the governóra for era who are believed to have suf- condition. No. 8 was empty at the defendants into custody, The Barvices in connection therewith, time of the collapse, while at No. first accused was arrested la but not including the hospital's Underlone to soil by Publie! [Note: Liuliho is on the Pek-7 the tenants were wise enough to house in Sheung Fung-lane, whilst has pr THE Undersigned have received fered 4,000 casualties.-Renter.
The amount of the
Auction -
ing-Hankow Railway, about 80 leave it before it crumbled. The the other was taken into custody purchase price and expenses is be- miles south-west of Peking. The P.W.D. found it necessary to con- in Mui Fung-land.
ing provided from funda standing WEDNESDAY, the 6th Jane, 1928, Northerners on this the western demn Nos. 9, 11, and 28, in the How preparations for the rob in the name of the Official Trustees sector have been retreating pre- same street, all being in an un-bery were made, allegedly, by the of Charitable Funda, being the pro- commencing at 11 a.m..
cipitately with the intention of safe condition.
second accused was related by the caeds of the sales of real estate. at No. 1 Prat Building
holding a new line, the north- Landalides have occurred on the old woman in evidence. According The premises acquired are on (First Floor), Kowloon.
western extremity of which would hills near Kowloon, trees rooted up to her, at the beginning of last the northeast side of the hospital, be behind (ie, north of) Liuliho, and washed down, and nullahs, month she put up a notice in the but divided from it by the ancient Britain. nearer to Peking, to protect the nearly full, are pouring their con- doorway announcing that a cubicle thoroughfare of Little railway from Peking to Tientsin tents of red mud into the harbour. was to let. On May 5, second ac north side by the churchyard of The new area is bounded on the and thence to Manchuria.)
Many roads are flooded, but not to cused, posing as a prospective St. Bartholomew the Great, on the any serious extent.
tenant, called at the place to see east side by that church's cloisters Later Detalls.
the cubicle. He was satisfied with and the offices of the City of Lon- Enquiries made late on Saturday the cubicle but stated that he don Union, and on the south by night elicited the information that, would not move in until thanks to the prompt action of the days later, as he was waiting for a Bartholomew Close.
a few the little-known street called
by friend who was coming from The street aspect of the trans- in immediately Macao, and would share the cubi- action is interesting..
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE. (Particulars from Catalogue.) On View from Tuesday, the 5th June, 1928.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.
Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928.
THE
Departure Postponed.
Peking, Saturday. Owing to the difficulty of with- drawing his main force, consist ing of Manchurian units, except at the expense of sacrificing his Auctioneers.
Building Authority, assisted allled units in the Chilli-Shan-
Fire Brigade,. tung (Northerners) army under General Chang Taung-chang, undertaking the task of shoring up cle with him. Marshal Chang Tso-lin is reported the threatened houses in Kremer- to have postponed his departure street their collapse was averted. from Peking; and has ordered! General Chang Tsung-chang to do his utmost to check the Southern advance-Reuter.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Publie Auction
ON
THURSDAY, the 7th June, 1928, commencing at 2.30 p.m.
[Note: The Manchurian army:
OBITUARY.
MR. W. M. DOWDALL.
I
Paid $3 Deposit.
When the
existing leases lapse and the hos- pital erects new buildings Elttle As proof of his intention of rent- Britain will be crossed by means ing the cubicle, second accused of a. subway, and easy communi- paid the old woman $3 as deposit cation thus established with the money, and told her she could take existing hospital buildings. There down the "to let" notice.
is every reason to believe that ar Having thus gained the old rangements can be made with the is in a better position to retreat The "N. C. Daily News" records woman's confidence, the supposed City Corporation for the purchase Into Manchuria, but the Chihli- the death of Mr. W. M. Dowdall tenant of the cubicle did not ex- and closing of the strip of land Shantung men are in more expos- which occurred on May 21, at perience any difficulty in gaining known as Bartholomew Close-court, Ted positions and a hasty with Hove, Sussex. The decessed was admission to the fat on the morn-an annexe to the Close itself, cover- drawal might expose them to the born in Dublin in 1843 and arriving of the robbery, accompanied by lag an area of, roughly, 8,000 THURSDAY, 7th June, 1928, at 12) Teak Hatatands, Glass Cabinets, danger of being cut off from the ed in Shanghai in 1882. He prac-first accused, who was alleged to square feet. Possession of the old noon for the purpose of receiving Tapestry Covered Couch and Arm- main force.] the report of the Directors together chairs, Desks, Folding Screen, Anoter Change Reported. with Statement of Accounts for the Bookcases, Oll Palatings, Pictures,
at their Sales Room, Duddell Street A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
that the ANNUAL ORDIN ARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders of the above Com-: pany will be held at the Hong Kong Hotel, Hong Kong on Comprising:-
FURNITURE.
...
Family LeavER.
Shanghai, Saturday,
tised in Shanghai as an architect
houso.
his
and engineer, and the Church of have been the prime mover in the properties, it is also believed, con- Peking, Saturday. St. Ignatiua at Siccawel was de robbery following their visit to the sisting mainly of shops, offices, and dwelling-houses, most of them four, year ended 30th April, 1928. Electric Table Fans, Carpets, Teak It is reliably reported that signed by him and will stand as a
Both accused made statements storeys in height disposes of any.
In the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Typewriter Desks, Rugs, Orna- Chang Tao-lin's departure is fixed reminder of this true son of
question of compensation Company will be CLOSED from ments, Curios, etc.
for midnight to-niert. A large much-loved. Church, whose life was from the deck in reply to the al- event of the hospital authorities SATURDAY, 2nd June to FRIDAY, Teak Dining Tables, Dining body of police has been ordered to one of rigid integrity and upright legation against them.
erecting buildings on the new block Denials By Accused. 8th June, 1928, both days inclusive. Chairs, Sideboards with Mirrors, assemble at the station at elevenness,
to a greater height than those at The late Mr. Dowdall had a fine
First accused said that on May present existing JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Dinner Waggons, Ice Chests, Din- o'clock. Reuter.
ner Crockery, Glass Ware, Cutlery,
tenor voice and was heard on many 7, at a little before 9 o'clock, he's General Managers.
- Where Milton Lived. Kitchen Gear, etc., etc.,
occasions in Shanghai. He was met the second accused and two
Bartholomew, Close figures in Hong Kong, 28th May, 1928.
Iron, Brass and Teak Bedsteads The family of Marshal Chang particularly fond of Italian opera. other men surnamed Lam and Defoe's well-known'' romance of with Mattresses, Single and Double Tao-lin left Peking on the morn-He was always deeply Interested in Lau, whom he understood had just well Flanders," and
among its Wardrobes with and without miring of the 1st. During the ava the Shanghai Volunteers and was arrived from Macao. On their in-one-time tenants were Milton and rors, Washstands, Teak and Cam-cuation, political work will be in command of the Engineer Co. invitation he went with them to Dr. Caius, the physician and found- phorwood Chests of Drawers, carried out by the Cabinet. In its very early days, retiring from Hollywood-road to see their cubi-er of Caius College, Cambridge. Chamber Stands, Household Linen, the evening of the 81st Marshal the S.V.C. with the rank of major, cle.
Another tenant in Stuart timen was Toilet Crockery, etc., etc.,
Chang requested Mr. Wang Shih-During the 37 years lived in Shang- On arrival at the house, Lam Hubert Le Soeur, the sculptor who chen, a fellow school mate of Dr. hai, he only went to England once and Lan produced daggers and modelled the status of Charles 1. Duen Chi-ju, the former Chief and retired in 1919. His widow proceeded to hold up the old woat Charing-cross, and in one of the Executive at Peking, to take mea and six children survive him, sures for the maintenance of peace and order in Peking during
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION, CO., LTD:
FORTY-SEVENTH ORDIN-
fromTARY GENERAL MEETING of
the Company will be held at the FINE Offices of the General Managers, Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on WEDNESDAY, the 20th June, 1928, at Noon for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors.
Lomers, Petrosilex, from Shang-
hal.
E. V. JESSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928.
THE EASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO., LTD.
The following Unclaimed Tele- grams are lying in the E. E. Telegraph Co. office, Hong Kong:-
Aupsari. from Calcutta.
Bond, Butterfeld & Swire, from Gleben, S.W.
Industry Co., from Remscheid. Robert Kerr, c/o Repulse Bay Hotel (2), from Bangkok.
cisco.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 18th June to 4th July, 1928, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
JARDINE, MATHESON, & CO., LTD., General Managers.
Hong Kong, 29th May, 1928.
HAIR WAVING.
MRS. BETEN (trained in Paris
also
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
(Carved and Plain),
and
1 White Frost Refrigerator
|man and the little girl, and then many printing offices formerly in ransacked the place. Ile depart this thoroughfare there worked for ed as soon as he saw this, because some time Benjamin Franklin as a he did not want to be mixed up in journeyman printer.
:
Mr. W. A. Cruickshank, other 1 Cottage Piano by "Morrison" his absence. Mr. Wang had pro wise. Mr. W. A. Carruthers Cruick-
mised to do so."Wah Keung Po."
shank, formerly of "The Retreat,"
the affair.
Little Britain, the name of which Chiang to Attack. Marshal Chiang has ordered a Brokwood, Surrey, who died
Second accused said that Lamle traced by Strype, the antiquary, He Nov. 19, 1927, left estate in Hong and Lau wrote to him from Macao to the fact that it occupies the site general attack on the 1st.
1 Royal Typewriter
1 Remington Typewriter
2 Gramophones
2 Enamelled Batha.
Catalogues will be issued.'
.On View from Wednesday, the 6th June, 1928,
Terms-Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1928.
HE Undersigned have received
4uction
Malcolme Smith, 2 May Rd., from Great Pyburgh.
Sachs Kreolin, from San Fran- and late of Hong Kong Hotel)
guarantees that her permanent at waves revives faded hair leaving it. soft and glossy. 2. Pratt's Build- For appointment ing, Kowloos. phone K, 945,
Worship; from Saigon.
E. A. LEGGATT,
Superintendent.
Hong Kong, 31st May, 1928.
A REAL BARGAIN.
THE OLD
ORIGINAL
CHEFOO STAMPS
UNUSED GENUINE SPECIMENS
$2.00 per set of 6 stamps.
Cash must be sent with ord to Box No. 519
ON FRIDAY, the 8th June, 1928, commencing at 2.30 pm, Nos. 1 and 4, Knutsford Terrace,
Kimberley Road, Kowloon.
A Large Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.
on
is proceeding in an armoured car, Kong to the value of $69,500. Net asking him to arrange a cubicle of the residence of the olden Dukes with Marshal Yen Hai-shan, the English estate amounts to 220,940. for them, against their panding of Brittany, was formerly called
and once boasted. arrival from Macao. He hunted Duck-lane, Shansi Military Governor,,to Re-scaling of probate and Pao-ting, in order to direct mili- codicil has been granted to the for suitable quarters and eventual among its residents Bir Thomas tary operations. The 3rd Army Hon. Mr. B. D. F. Beith of Messrs.ly found the cubicle on the third Badley, donor of the famous Ox- Corps of the Nationalist army Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd., floor of No. 156, Hollywood-read. ford library. It became a noted has passed through Paoting who is the attorney of Mr. Mary
"Knew Nothing About It" resort of publishers and booksell
saw the publication of "Wah Keung Po."
He liked the place and paid $8,ere, and Cruickshank, the widow, and Mr. A. D. Murray, London, the execu- as deposit on May 5.
"Paradise Lost," Addison gives Lam and tors. The will contains a number Lau arrived from Macao on the address for letters to be sent to the Dolphin in Little Britain, as an of family bequests, providing Zer night of May 6, and the next morn-r. Spectator," and it was from Mrs, Cruickshank, the sisters and ing the witness took them to in- the same tavern that the "Specta
Tokyo Opinion.
Tokyo, Saturday. Opinions here differ as to the Tinstructions to sell by Public probable effects of Marshal Chang
Tao-lin's contemplated withdrawal} children.
spect the cubicle.
tor's" publisher, Samuel Buckley, from Peking.
After they had seen the cubicle, was taken to the Bar of the House Some of the newspapers believa
both Lam and Lau said that they of Commons and sent to prison as that the three allied Southern
were satisfied, and Lam paid back printer of the first daily newa- Peace Preservation.** to the witness the $ deposit money paper, the Daily Courant." leaders, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek (commander-in-chief of the Na-
Tokyo, Saturday, which he had advanced. von k Hoswell records that when tionalist armies), General Feng
A telegram from Peking, reply
Immediately he was paid by Lam Johnson was brought to Londen as, Yu-hsiang, the "Christian Gening to enquiries from the Peace be left the house as he had an-a child to be touched for the evil". eral" (commander of the Kuomin- Preservation Committee of Pek- other engagement elsewhere. When by Queen Anne, he and his mother chun) and General Yen Hal-shan ing, Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Yu- he departed, leaving the other men stayed with Nicholson, the famous (governor of Shansi province): hsiang and Yen Hai-shan have behind; nothing untoward had bookseller in Little Britain.". Hatstands, Couches and Arm- will co-operate successfully for jointly announced that they en happened. If a robbery was.com- Franklin in his "Autobiography" chairs, Carpets, Ruga. Folding the restoration of peace in North trust that Committee with the mitted in the place afterwards, he also puts it on record that he lodg Screen, Pictures, Electric Fans, China and that they will not at task of preserving peace and or did not know anything about it. ed in. Little Britain for 88. 6d. a etc. etc.,
tempt to pursue the retreating der during the transition-period
week, and prevailed on Wilcox, the. | Dining Tables, Dining Chairs, Northern armies into Manchuria and ask them not to allow troops
bookseller next door, to enjoy the Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Ice Other papers are flankly possi- to enter the capital for some time, Chests, Cooking Stoves, Crockery, mistic about probable develop except a few under the Shansi Bradford was a sunlight city run of his stock of secondhand Cutlery, Glass Ware, Kitchen Uten-ments. General Tan Ching-lin who will be when the Duke and Duchess of books on certain Bile, etc., etc, pol
Military circles, although an-appointed Provost Marshal ten-York recently, in continuance of terms. Bedsteads with Mattresses, xious to appear to share the view pararily, their Yorkshire tour visited the Wardrobes with and without Mir- that undue pessimism is uncalledAnother report states that un-Valley Wool and Worsted Mill, rors, Washstands, Chests of Draw- for, are hopeful that further mill easiness prevails owing to the Apperly Bridge, opened the new
Comprising:
reasonable:
ers, Dressing Tables, Chamber tary action on the part of Japan rumour that the Communiste plot £140,000 road and laid the founda The person most delighted at Standa, Toilet Crockery, etc, etc., will not be necessary. Reuter disturbances after the withdrawal ton stone In the new Infirmary my Associateship Is my wife," Mr.
Also
of
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and HOUSEHOLD LINEN &
And
Baths. Catalogues will be issued.
A Few Enamel and Shanghai
Queer Calmness." 1 of the Northerners. Reuter, costing £500,000. The tour of the Harold Knight, the husband
Tokyo, Saturday, Japanese Boycotted at Rangoon, Valley Mills occupied an hour and Mrs. Lanra Knight, A.R.A., told a Reports from Peking mention London, Saturday, a half. The Duke and Duchess London reporter. Mr. Kuight was the proclamation by the North- The Times Rangoon corres-watched all the processes from the discussing his election as a mem ern authorities of special martial pondent states that the Chinese moment the raw wool reaches the bar of the Royal Academy, "When law, also that an air of tenseness community is quietly and effec mill until it leaves the premises as she was elected an Associate Inst and queer calmness" prevails, tively. Loycotting Japanese mer finished cloth. They were invited year she said she would far pro- while the Foreign garrisons in the chandise and shipping and raising sach to accept an overall made fer that the honour had fallen to Legation Quarter are prepared for large sums for the relief of their of material manufactured, dyed, ma. That attitude is characteris- any emergency.
comrades in Shantung
Anished and tailored in Bradford tie of her. She bet me at the On view from Thursday, the 7th Code messages from Feking re The latest example are threats These, were
ing the" tour time that my name would soon ap- The pear in the honours list, and I am grey glad to say, that she has wen. I And the have been able now to receive back rown costume for the congratulations I tendered to
my wife six months ago.",
Terms: Cash on delivery
› LAMMERT BROS ~
AnctionearE, Hong Kong, 2nd June, 1923,
port that the censorship on out going messages is becoming in creasingly rigorous—Reuter BARNDON
(Continued at foot of next Column
uttered against persons" in the shipment of carg steamer (Seangbee, owned but mortgaged exe firm, Reuter
sting and
the Duke fancy aJapan: Duchess
3M sportswear.