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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928,
A WANCHAI MESS.
MORE ABOUT INDECENCY CHARGE.
CHINESE INTERESTED.
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"DUSTY CORNERS.”
BLAME UPON THE ARCHITECTS.
LADY DENMAN'S REMEDY.
as we have at this season pro- menade concerts are easily one of the most delightful of enter- tainments and the means of whiling away hours that might otherwise be tedious and uncom fortable. Given even the gentlest of breezes, sitting out of: doors listening to bright music pleas! ingly presented, with the glories Lindsell's Court, at the Central she would like to see carried out
Yesterday afternoon Mr. R. E.
Some domestic science reforms of the firmament above and smil Magistracy, was crowded when the were mentioned by the Hon. Lady ing company around, such con- hearing was resumed of the case in Denman in her presidential ad- certs are difficult to excel. That is which Chan, Tuk-chau is charged dress, at the conference of the why we hope the experiment that with indecent assault on a 18- Association is to be begun to-morrow night year old servant girl employed at Domestic Science at the Grocers' of Teachers. of on the ground of the Volunteer the defendant's mess in Wanchai Hall, E.C. Headquarters will meet with such'
on June 30. success that it will encourage those responsible for its inception able to secure scats, all of them Many of those in Cpurt were un to continue the concerts weekly, Surely Hong Kong has instru-being occupied as early as 2 p.m. When Mr. Lindsell took his seat mental tulent enough to
at 2.15 he gave. order to the Court ensure the provision of the neces-Sergeant to clear the Court of all sary programme items?
who were not meated. mained in the compound outside, the Court throughout the hearing. evidently expecting the CASC to conclude that afternoon, and eager to learn the verdlet.
A Chinese woman is reported to have been swindled of $200 by man, under false pretences.
The nephew of the manager of a In Hollywood-road is milk shop. reported to have absconded with $850 of the shop's money.
A gold bangle valued at $121 and $195 in bank notes are reported lost
by a woman, residing at No. 24, Tang Lung-street, Wanchai.
Swabue.
These res
The prosecution was conducted | by Mr. E: H. Williams, second as- sistant at the Secretariat for Chin- ese Affairs; whilst the defence was in the hands of Mr. Leo d'Almada, Jun., d'Almada, Sen.)...
(instructed by Mr. Leo
cousin) had not reported this mat-
Among these reforms were:-
Better cooking in schools and colleges. In many of them now the food was quite inade- quate and unscientifically pre pared and thought out. Cook- ing generally was extraordin- arily bad.
Leisure for housewives,
A term in domestle economy for architects. She would make them entirely responsible for running their college, situated not in a nice country district, but in London or a smoky Mid- land town.
"Refreshers" for architects at a later stage in their career, when they should have to look: after one of the houses they had built.
ter to me I would not Heve start- MISS LOTTIE VENNE. ed these proceedings."
ings.
Counsel's Statement.
STAGE CAREER OF FIFTY- EIGHT YEARS.
the crowds who thronged to the jubilee performance in her honour
The Evidence. After Dr. G. H. Thomas of the
If architects were given such Government, Civil Hospital had training, she declared, we should' The partner of a Chinese piece been re-called to give evidence on have far fewer dado rails and gronds hawker, residing at No. 45, several points which arose out of other unnecessary dusty corn- Elgin-street, is reported to have the girl's evidence, the latter's cr There was also much absconded with goods valued at $50.girl cousin was placed in the wit-scope for people with inventive:
household The body of a Chinese child, two-ness box, as the last witness for minds to improve
the prosecution.
tools. Men were to be congratu year-old was picked up in Kowinon
She corroborated the younger lated that, they had found easier yesterday, and an infant about
girl's statement about reporting to methods of cleaning their motor- one year old was found dead in the her the three edriler attempts by cars, and women would do well to harbour off Causeway Bay.
the defendant, and said that she take, a leaf, out of their book in A Chinese named Louie Kwok-cousin on the night of July 1, and
learned of the assault on her this respect.
Milk on a Silver Stand. has yet been received. Japan, hang is reported to have committed then she lost no time in communi
Dr. Gerald Leighton, Food however, is obviously not antis-suicide by jumping overboard the)
cating with the police.
Medical Officer of the Scottish "President Grant" when the vessel fied with, the way things are
Replying to Mr. d'Almada, this Board of Health, said: "Unfor-- was between Yokohama and Kobe.
witness admitted that she had tunately the transport of foods in {going, and feels sure that, sooner
apoken to the police about compenfar behind modern scientific re- this country is disgraceful, and jor later, a hit is to be made at The following 'forthcoming mar-
sation. She wanted compensation that treaty. This, surmise is ringe is announced, between Mr. because her cousin was betrothed quirements." He would like to Overland China Flail strengthened by the report that Felix Villan, Pokfulant, to Mist somdod against the defendant a hottle of most precious wine, Hille, merchant, No. 6, to someone. They would still have see the bottle of milk treated like- the Japanese Consul-General at Hilda Beatrix Komur, of No. 18 even if they had received compan-not to be decanted from one ves- Shanghai is proceeding to Nan- Felix Villas.
sation from him. The witness also should appear on the table in a sel to another. Bottled milk king to discuss the treaty, and
denied a suggestion by Mr. The E. E. A. & China Telegraph d'Almada that she had herself con-ottle decorated perhaps by a ail-- also, incidentally, the settlement Co. state that senders of telegrams cocted the story against the defen-ver stand. just as vinegar and of the Tsinan affair. Fra: are faformed that, owing to faulty dant, and remarked "If she (the sauce bottles were treated. Italy and Denmark have, accu.d- cable connection, telegrams to and ing to a message from Shanghai, subicet to abnormal delay.
from Shanghai and beyond will be
agreed to talk about the revision 'of treaties on a basis, of "equality,
A Chinese woman
Detective Sergeant Whelan, of who had on
No. 2 Police Station, in the witness mutual respect and
six previous occasions attempted to national
commit suicide by jumping inte the box stated that the last witness sovereignty,"
Which means, we harhour, jumped overboard from police station, but there
had suggested compensation at the
Miss Lottie Venne, whose repu- suppose, that nothing tangible a ferry launch at Shamshulpo. She suggestion that any compensation sent generation was born-her was no tation was made before the pre- will happen yet awhile. As was rescued by the crow and subse paid would be in lieu of proceed-stage career began in 1867, and Japan has already said, it is thequently taken to the police station. duty of Nanking-or any other According to a vernacular report,
Mr. d'Almada then submitted at His Majesty's Theatre caused a party with pretensions of speak-a Chinese, who is alleged to be an that the defendant had no case to traffic block in Haymarket in ing for China-to show her executive of the Communists com answer and that there was not suff-1925-was 76 last month.
mittee at Holfung and Lukfung, cient evidence for a jury to con- ability properly to conduct her in-was recently arrested at Yuen Long, viet. He reviewed the evidence of and was in a serious condition She has been ill for some time. Hong Kong. Thursday, July, 19. 1928, ternal affairs before seeking to New Territory. It is understood the girl and pointed out discrep during the week-end. She is re-
widen her sphere of influence in that the suspect will be deported to ancies arising out of her evidence ported to be a little better. directions now happily beyond her
as compared with the medical ovi- She claimed to be the oldest control.
dence .of. Dr. Thomas. Mr. British actress when she played The disappearance of one of his d'Almada drew speelal attention to in Lionel and Clarissa" at the The clash of arms has ceased
As for the Nationalist attempt fokis, together with the loss of the fact that there was no carro. Lyric, Hammersmith, at the age in the North, to give way to the to get a hold upon Manchuria, it $1,800 in bank notes on
Tuesday borative evidence. He said that of seventy-four. night, is reported by the owner of athere might have been some plau. clash of tongues and, tempers would be interesting to learn just shop at No. 45, Des Voeux-road sibility if the handkerchief alleged when Miss Venne made her first Henry Irving was unknown The Nationalist occupants of how far the allies-Feng and Yen, Central. The notes were stolen at to have been used to gag the maid stage appearance.
Ellen Terry Peking, presumably backed by say-are prepared to go to back a time when they were under the servant's mouth, or the cord with was to eat with him for the first their allies, are issuing instruc- Nanking's demands: The former,
owner's pillow.
which her hands were said to have time two months later. tions and veiled threats to the as on many previous occasions, is.
been tied were produced in court, She appeared many years ago A 12-year-old Indian boy, living but that was not done. civilised world, the time they are the "dark horse' of the combine, at No. 63 Wyndham-street, was inmitted that the charge was trump-plays in which she has appeared
He sub in London's first real
"Under the Clock." The list of haggling with the Manchurian if it may be so-termed. Whether Jured yesterday afternoon as the ed-up and declared that it was a chiefs as to what shall happen he wants Peking again nobody result of a fall from a tramcar charge "brought against the defen- occupy four columns and a quar- in the three Eastern Provinces. knows; whether he will support was still in motion in Praya East attempt to ruin his character, mere-
in attempting to alight while it
dant, a disgraceful charge and an ter in "Who's Who in the
Thoatre That the greed of Nanking will in Chiang Kai-shek to the last ditch He was not seriously hurt, however, the end prevail is a fairly safe again, nobody knows.
hospital. Many, and did not go
fendant was entitled to a discharge bet, always provided Chang however, have their doubts. Yen
The Very Rev. Dean A. Swannom the Court without a stain on que actress. She is said to have
his character..
invented a type of light comedy Haueh-liang and those around Hsi-ghan, on the other hand, has reported to the police yesterday,
acting. Magistrate's Ruling.
She became famous as him prefer not to fight. With shown fairly openly that he likes that some time between 7 and 8
His Worship ruled that the de-"the actress. of 1,000 parts." the death of his father, and the Paking and means to stay there. o'clock that morning, 12 palms were fendant had a case to answer. With increasing years she was at departure of Chang Tso-lin's According to the cables he does John's Cathedral. Seven pots were gave an account of his movements of high rank, or, in complete con- In the witness box defendant her best as a duchess or woman truly remarkable power over the not intend to return to Taiyuan broken in the process of removing on June 30. He said that he left trast, a nouvelle riche vulgarian. Fengtienese and Manchurians, for a brief political mission until the plants, which were valued at the house at 7.30 a.m. and worked no warlike, activities beyond the Chiung is out of the capital. That $50.
nt the Eastern Extension Telegraph Great Wall are to be anticipated, the Shansi leader will go to Nan-
Company until 2 p.m. After a Mr. B. Partabrai Daswani, gen- meal, he went to swim and did not unless, of course, young Chang's king for the Fifth Plenary con-eral manager of Messrs. M. Dialdas return home until 7 p.m., when fellow-leaders quarrel
among ference seems certain, having re- & Sons, of Hong Kong and Canton, there were two other persons in the is not con-gard to the fact that the Nation the P. & O. 8.8. "Rawalpindi" on at 9 p.m. and left the house again Is leaving the Colony for India on house with him. He went to sleep themselves, which sidered an unlikely eventuality. alist generalissimo has pledged Saturday. Mr. Daswani is a pro-at 1.30 am. to go on duty at 2 a.m. However the situation is review himself to be there also. Yen,minent figure' among` the Indian. The court rose' at 4 p.m. the next; ed, it seems the Nationalists are however, has signified his inten-community here and was "the Hon. hearing being fixed for Monday at
From day to day a series of half not going to meet with much option to return to Peking in a chants' Association of Hong Kong.
Secretary of the Sind Hindu Mer-2.16 p.m.
a dozen questions, not tremendously position.
The only thing that month's time; and we feel that he
difficult to answer but not always could save Manchuria from the will require an amount of placat- A Chinese woman living at No. -300 YEARS OF FURNITURE. so simply solved as may be thought, Nanking grasp at the present is a ing before he is moved either to police yesterday that about
27, Hollywood-road, reported to the
appear on this page. These, na in 2
the 300 years of English furniture the past, aro compiled by general row among the allies in clear out of the capital or assist p.m., a Chinese youth, aged about form the subject of an exhibition "China Mait" staff and Include from and around Peking. The powder in any expedition into Manchuria, 20 years, called at the house, and of antiques and reproductions at time to time questions of local for a regular outburst is there; despite his tussle with the Feng-representing that he was an office the Waring and Gillow Galleries, interest. Answers are given
boy employed at her husband's in Oxford-street. The exhibition Page seven. it only requires the match. Any tien forces less than a year ago.
office, said that he had been sent by opened up to June 23. of the warlords-Feng Yu-hsiang,
NATIONALIST AMBITION.
for instance could easily apply
it.
Turning for a moment from matters domestic and coming to
Promenade Comberts.
We are very pleased to note that a start je about to be made
with the local promenade concerts
removed from pots and stolen at St.
revuc-
Only veterans can remember
ly to extort money from him." De her triumphs as a young burles-
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2. When, was the s.a. "Sunning" pirated?
8. Who Invented the stethos cope?
the latter to take a long coat and Several rare antiques have topee. The youth disappeared | 'been ́·lent by the Duke of Marl- with the property.
borough, Viscount Rothermere, and others, add a d Alleged to have been assaulted by The Henry VIII. panelled room, and we wish thend every success. two men who were said to have the Elizabethan room, with its the latest advices to hand regard- Not so many years ago they were represented that they were police magnificent pendentive celling, ing Nanking's declarations to the held with a certain amount of men, the master of a Shaukiwan the original hall and staircase
regularity in the Botanical Garfishing Junk yesterday received, in- from the London house of the 1st 4. What was the highest starling Powers, it appears that Japan dene, which affords about as love juries, which necessitated hia re Duke of Marlborough, are good quotation of the dollar in 1027? spoke rather precipitately the ly a setting for such a purpose as moval to the Government Civil specimens of period architecture other day. Tokyo officially re-could well be imagined, particu Hospital. The police belleve that it ind furnishing ports that no notification of larly with the aid of coloured au case of attempting to obtain Mr. Avray Tipping lectured duced into England?
lights cunningly and artistically money by threat, the fisherman in the Georgian Hall on China's Intention to terminate placed in the trees, terraces and being beaten whon he refused to historic examples of Enguish 6. When Is the the Commercial Treaty of 1896, elsewhere. On such sultry nights pay.
raftsmanship, with illustrations. Holiday?
6. When were rezattās. Arst intro-
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