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Hong Kong, Saturday, Aug. 25, 1928.
A LOOK AROUND.
Courts Martial in Hong Kông this year?
"Berwick's Skipper.
Captain Ralph Stuart, Wykes-Sneyd, D.S.O., R.N., who prosecuted last week at the Court Martial on H.M.S. Berwick, is at the top of the list of Royal Naval officers promoted to his present rank in 1918. He was one of the Zeebrugge heroes of April 22-23, 1918 and was promoted Captain for hia services therein.. Captain
SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928...
King's Police Medal. ' One was Mr. Harris approximately. forty minutes T. Murphy, now Assistant Superin- to land the
The Chinese have
tendent of Police and acting Assist- hooked after it had been Origin from many festivals which
fired.
1
Mr. L. D. Harris is
er,
Legend
do not attract the notice of the foreign- The majority of the festivals are connected with seasons, while other are intended for the worship
ant Director of Criminal Intelli gence, and the other was Detective Inspector K. W. Andrew, who is in His Credentials, the Enginger in charge of the "Murder Squad" at'
charge of the Ins, Police Headquarters. Mr. Murphy tallation Plant of the Standard, Ol of ancestors. Yet others are de received his decoration for a long Company, located at Songsu, a point voted to
the remembrance of llat of honours and Mr. Andrew re. on the mainland across the har- Confucius, Buddha or deities. ceived his for directing the Kwal ber from Amoy. Being some- The most important one is the Now Chung battle with armed robbers, what isolated from the remainder Year, for on that day even the moat during which he was fired at point of the local Community, due to the diligent shop-keepers who sit, be- blank more than once but escaped location of his place of work, Mr. sides their counters morning and because the robber's weapon mis- Harris has made fishing one of his evening will enjoy themselves for a several hobbies. He is a good story few days. Next comes the Ching teller, and to verify his many "fish Ming. In remembrance of their How water-rats in stories," the table of his many forefathers, the pious will visit the Hong Kong's Hong Kong can steal friends is often provided with a tombs and offer sacrifices. Later Water-Rats, and remove to great choice selection from some particu- comes the Dragon Boat festival
distances articles of lar catch. This particular "atory" which is celebrated in memory of bulk and weight was related in yes is a claim for a world record. patriot who sacrificed his life for terday's "China Mail" in' a report To substantiate his claim, as well his country. The coming festival on the sequel to rope thefts from as his skill with hook and line, Mr. is the Mid-autumn fete, which is ship. I am reminded, however, of Harris has eye-witnesses, photo connected with seasons but, at the a feat of the underworld (literally), graphs, and an affidavit from the same time, with another interest- which most stand out as a record American Cansul to prove his truth- ing legand. for all time. About 25 years ago, fulness. He claims the world's re- godown on the West Point Praya cord for the largest Spanish was entered by a gang of thieves mackerel ever caught with hook and The H.KO.M.A.A. note upon the who removed 60 slabs of Yunnan tin, line.
subject, it ap which fe very valuable. How they
pears that there will only be two. got it away to a hiding place con-
The Chinese have two vacancies at the end of this month stituted a mystery which baffled the Chinese All festivals during this in the ranks of the Hong Kong Or- Police of those days. Subsequent-
Souls' Day, month. The first is ganisers Mutual Admiration As- ly, some of the stuff was traced to a
the "Double Seven" sociation. Although three members receiver and the marauders were which is observed by young girls had announced their Intention traced...
and the other is in memory of the of departing, one has subsequently dead, known as "Yu Lan Chit," or changed his mind, it coming to his notice that upon the return of the Mayor of Taipo a Baby Show is to --
of
unlike those adopted by pirates on
Since my last
Which means to say
There wore three "All Souls' Day" to the foreigners. Like Pirates men, who made a This other festival is of Buddhist on the Upper living by pilferage of origin. It was not introduced into be staged at the Anopheles Mator- West River.
cargo and robbery China until after the coming of nity Home. This particular mem- returned em!- Buddhists. According to legend, ber of the II.K. O.M.A.A. has iden- grants. The leader was lame. on the first day of the moon, the tified himself with all exhibi- blind in one eye and in the first gates of purgatory are opened and trons.
expositiona and stunts stages of leprosy. But he must the host of hungry ghosta come having to do with the female sex have been a powerful swimmer. forth to enjoy, for period of thirty that have been held in, the Colony The methods he followed were not days, the sacrifices provided by during the past thirty years and
the ploua.
Liberal offerings of says he does not mean to be left out: the upper reaches of the West food are set out, paper money is of this one. River, above Nanning, close to the burnt for the enrichment of the there are now only two vacancies French Indo-China frontier. I hear ghosts, which are supposed to be set for all the perspirants. Which is that photos of these pirates' dens at liberty thrice every year, that is, a pity in view of the fact that the will be published in the "China at the Ching Ming Festival in the application-list includes about Afty Mail shortly. That is by the way.
third moon, in the seventh moon names, some of which belong to There is a nullah running into the (now) and at the "Double Ninth in people who have tried so hard to harbour at West Point, the road the ninth moon. During the even get into the Association, surface of the covering providing ings of this month, on taking a Captain A. FB. Carpenter, R.N. About two years ago, another Zee- round. The thieves had removed find the burning of paper clothing the circle where the trams turn walk through the streets, one will brugge V. C. was appointed to the tin from the godown, each slab and paper money in front of doors. Hong Kong, this being. Captain weighing about 106 lbs gone into Crowds of boys and coolies are as- and Brevet Major E. Bamford, V.C the harbour by a flight of atens, and sembled, waiting for their chance D.S.O, Royal Marines, Instructor of Small Arms. Major Bamford took then awam to this nullah where they to plek up real money which is thrown to them. This latter does deposited their loot, taking out a part in the storming of the Moleslab or two at a time for disposal. more harm than good, for it often Captain Wykes-Sneyd has been 1 Fancy three men, one a cripple. onda in free fights, one of which where the mosquitoes average, b
Wykes-Sneyd was promoted together with a holder of the Victoria Cross,
Hong Kong before.
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the
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Anybody can see that A Naval the new county class Anomaly. cruiser is bigger than Hawkins which [By The Mall Men.]
has hitherto served as the flagship Standards of 80-
of the Commander-in-Chief, China Standards of briety were men-
Station. In tonnage and in other Sobriety, tioned during`last |
respects, Berwick or Kent or Saturday's Naval
any one of the three funnel ships; Court Martial on board H.M.S.exceeds the present flagship. Yet Berwick. Captain R. 9. Wykes the complement of one of the new Sneyd, D.S.O., the prosecutor, said cruisers is only 680 and that of that the standard of sobriety in the
Hawkins is about 75. True, Hong Kong Club bar might not be
Hawkins carries more than the same as that on board one of cruiser of similar type not perform His Majesty's ships. Mr. H. Cing flag duty, but this factor does Macnamara, solicitor for the de-not account for the difference
a
swimming back and forth a dis- tance of 200 yards with loads of 100- ba. (if they carried one slab at a time) and making off with 60 slabs in one night.
.
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What is believed to be
(years ago) caused a riot in this Colony,
Hong Kong is soon A Distinguished to have a distin-
Visitor.
guished visitor in the person of Sir
A/NEW BREED.
MORE FROM OUR TAIPO CORRESPONDENT.
Our Taipo correspondent notifies: us from a far off 'burg that he is big game shouting at a spot
and 6 to the Kilog. He has had his beaters making cages to take care of the wounded, but finds that: the wounded which are fed on dog's or cat's flesh fail to thrive whilst those fed human flesh "stick it" fine.
He proposes returning with a A World's the largest Spanish Basil Phillott Blackett, Finance the breed in the Talpo Anopheles few male specimens to stiffen up Record7 mackerel ever hooked. Member of the Executive Council of Maternity Home, the Inmates of with fishing tackle, the Governor-General of India. which have recently suffered some hook and line, was caught on June Sir Basil is due here in a day or severe jolts at the sight of an oc- 26, 1928, at 5.10 o'clock, pm, at two. He has held his Indian goat casional sack of cement being Sungau, Amoy, China, by Mr. Leon for six years and has experienced a by coolies taking a Spell-oh with dropped outside the Main Entrance David Harris of the Standard Oil stormy passage, many of the mea- cement consigned from Taipo to Company of New York. This prize sures which he has drawn up and the Waterworks Pipe Line across fish, writes an Amoy friend, was presented in Council being turned the Harbour... hooked off the end of the pier lead-down by an Indian majority in the Mr. Wong Tsul Ngau writes that Standard Oil Company. It was Viceroy, however, has the final say round the Jungle in the vicinity ing to the godowns and tanks of the Legislative, Council at Delhi. The this particular type wandering there really laa Pink species of
about three fourths flood tide, in in these matters,, and Sir Basil's of where he now Is, but that they clear water about forty or fifty feet financial ordinances have invariably are most disgusting looking crea- deep, and about one hundred yards found their way to the Statute tures when seen in a herd of the from the shore line.
Book. His life In the political real McKie (black ones). capital of India has been a truly ex- fixed in ratio to gun Dimensions, sions of the fish-after a period of leave at Home hea Chinese woman while performing. Here are the dimen- citing one, and It appears that
The police received a report that: requirements. Ap Hawkins is fitted in
Langth-tip to tip is going back for more. Regarded a religious pilgrimage to Castle such a way as to be able to get more
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I am informed by Naval men that the number of seamen la
fence, thereupon entered a spirited
compared with the "Washington protest, although the regulations Treaty 10,000 tons" ships......... forbid interruptions during a sum- ming-up. Mr. Macnamara said' he} -- was not concerned with the Club Going by the but that he objected because the prosecutor had made a statement of fact which had not been in the evid- ence. The President of the Court,parently, Captain J. Wolfe-Murray, D.S.O expressed the opinion that it was than Kent, although the latter is
a malter between. Captain Wykes Sneyd and the Hong Kong Club,
Number of Guns,
more seamen.
a bigger vessel. At present, it is the opinion of some that the county. class cruiser Is under-manned with Captain Wykes only 680, and that each can do with No Inference. Sney'd explained
Kent and her siz that he did not inter-ships, however, each have more tend to make any inference against engine-room hands than Hawkins, the Hong Kong Club's standard of the number in this respect being sobriety. He referred to it as if fixed in ratio to horse-power. It it had been any other place. For seems a curious way of doing things instance, he, argued, evidence may-but the Senior Service experts have
4 feet 4 inches.
Weight when caught S1 pounds (aven).
Girth-21% inches. Tall Spread-12% inches, Diameter of mouth-7 inches. Leath from tip of jaw to corner of mouth 54 inches.;
Distance from tip of Dersal Fin to tip of Anal Fin-17 inches.
Diameter of eve-1% Inches.
be given of a man leaning against years of experience to their credit Tackle and used: a bar and to all appearances sober and they know best. but that did not necessarily show he would be fit för duly when he re-
aa one of the leading financial ex- perts of the day, he is but 45 years 'of ag
the
Thursday.
Peak, on Thursday was attacked on the main-road near Tal Lan Chung by three men and robbed of a sum of $80. Three girls who were The reblers escaped. accompanying the woman ran away..
Approach of August 23, two Chin
Autumn... ese characters np Owing to Mr. Hin-shing Lo be- on the date ing engaged on a Sessions case at block. They were "Chu Su." A the Supreme Court, the case In Chinese year la divided into four which he is defending a Chinese seasong which vary according to and harbouring a 15-year-old girl,
woman charged with procuring: reckoning. These reckonings are which was to have been resumed And this is what was as important to farmers in China before Major C. Willson at the as a time-plece is to us. From Magistracy yesterday afternoon.. Line 100 yards of the fundamental reckoning of their had to be adjourned for a week. Phluger No.
calendar, the Chinese reckon the date from
A Chinese who pleaded guilty to: 4th day of the second hook pur moon to the 6th day of the fifth was yesterday fined $50 by Major C.. a charge of using indecent language: and Conmoon, as spring, from the 6th day Wilson at the Central Court. of the fifth moon to the 8th day of According to palice evidence de Shrimp about the eighth moon as summer, from fendant had said - indecant things the 8th day of the eighth moon to l over the telephone to a certain feet of bronze the 8th day of the eleventh moon as party Mr. W. C. Hung appeared
for the defendant, autumn, ond from the 8th day of the the eleventh moon' to the 4th day of
At the request of the police that second moon as winter, the case in which a house-coolie Between these sessons, reckonings shot by a detective Inst Saturday, 'sub-divided known as the following resistance to his being should be tried by two
Mr. W. Schofield re accused til to-day.
Sunday morning's thread Cuttyhunk Une. turned to shipboard. He laid stress Unique in Our murder of two on the fact, that he had no wish to Police Annals? street-sleepers in pay anything against any member
Woosung treet,
of the Club. Nor did he wish to Yaumati, has resulted in a circum indicate that there was any exces stance which is probably, unique. In sive or unusual drinking in the bar. local Police, sannie. Two remands Captain Wykes Sneyd's explanation have been ordered, on Police appli was accepted and Mr. Macnamara cation, possibly because the officers vouched that he had protested solo-engaged In the investigations have ly in the Interests of his client: But had to attend, for whole days at I am caused to wonder, if the stan- the Supreme Court during the dard of sobriety on board His Criminal Sessions. The unusual: Majesty's abips is so exemplary, element is provided by the almul why have there been these cases, taneous attendance on the same arising from drunkenness, of Naval
two officers who hold the provad
because Mr, the
it is charged wital esalon of a revolver,"