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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1928.
HEROIN PILLS.
SEVERAL CHINESE BEFORE
THE MAGISTRATE.
REMANDED. IN CUSTODY:
Yesterday Mr. R. E. Lindaeli
P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
"Mamma," said Willie, from the depths of the bath tub. "You'd'. better get me a new sponge. This ono loaks awful.”
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"Has he ever been on Government work before?" the manager asked the friend of the job-seeker.
"Very nearly," was the reply." "What do you mean by very nearly 7"
"Well, you see there wasn't quita enough evidence to convict him."
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Mr. F. X. d'Almada appeared, for the defence in a case, at the Kow- loon Magistracy yesterday, in which a Chinese woman was charged with larceny of a quantity of jewellery remanded, until Tuesday morning. from No. 19.Peking-road and with next, two Chinese arrested at West receiving part of the stolen pro- Point and charged by Detective perty. She was found "not guilty Sergeant Whant with the unlawful possession of 17,200 heroin pills; and discharged.
40,000 pills in the process of manu- For making fant alongside the facture, and four ounces of heroin. This morning three other men, 8.3. "Van Heutz," while she 1925 under, way, four mistresses of one arrested in the Central district cargo were each fined $10 by Com-and the other two in Wanchai, were mander Newill, D.S.O., R.N., at the also charged with regard to the Marine Court yesterday.. The pilla. stenm launch Pyaris" it was The first man, Liang Yug-che, was alleged, was also involved, and arrested in a house in Connaught- summons was being sarved for the road Central. The charge against offence.
him is of "alding and abetting In the manufacture of heroin pills." The Water Police yesterday re-
He pleaded "guilty."
No Bail. moved to the Kowloon Mortuary the body of Young Maut (20) *
Revenue Officer. Ward told the fisherman of faḥing junk No. 2829- Magistrate that he had been in- C, who was accidentally drowned structed by Mr.. Hawkins to inform Mrs. Suffrages had been to a while bathing In Cheung Chau the Court that this case was con- women's political moating, for she harbour at 6 pm, on August 27. nected with, the one brought by considered that she possessed all' The body was found yesterday after-Detective Sergeant Whant, and to the qualifications of a politician, wo noon floating near the spot where ask that a remand be given until when she returned home she re- the unfortunate man was seen to next Tuesday, so that the accused galed her husband, with ber party disappear by other fishermen who could come to Court at the same views.
Nitt: "Once I saved a man's life but I never get a medal for it."
Witt: "Give particulara, please." "An inebriate once came home to his apartment and turned on only the hot water to take a bath in, and he would have been scalded to death, only I happened to be janitor of the building and thoro was no hot water."
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st made a fruitless attempt to save time as Sargeant Whant's two men. "We are going to sweep the
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Replying to the Maglstarte, the country, Charles, she enthused. Revenue Officer said, that he was Her husband, who had been al Chan Young (29) a 'married wo- unable to say if the alleged prin- tending to his wants whilst she had това Ilving at No. 4 Bowrington cipal, a mán named Hung Hing, had been out, scowled darkly. Canal-road, was stated to have at-been arrested.
"Then 'you'd better start withi |tempted to commit suicide yesterday The Magistrate ordered a remand the kitchen, my dear!" he said qulie afternoon by jumping into the until next Tuesday morning. briefly from behind his newspaper. harbour from the Praya East re- Revenue Officer Ward mentioned clamation. She was rescued and bail, and said that he had been in Will: "Pa, there's a spider on the taken to the Secretariat for Chinese structed by Mr. Hawkins that he ceiling!" quite ready and willing to nego-her ducking." The woman was $5,000.
Affairs, being wone the worse for would be satisfied with bail, of Pa (busy rending): “All right; put your foot on it and don't bother Mr. Lindsell said that as the ac-me": attached to their association with following a quarrel with other cused had already pleaded "gufity", either of these places. And so Inmates of the house in which she he did not propose to grant bail.
lived.
Accused was accordingly well they might, for, in our opin-
manded in police custody. Having gained entrance to No..
Another "Pill Case," ground as to their contentions, 363, Des Veux-road West, fourth Detective Sergeant - Whelan It would, therefore, have been floor, yesterday afternoon, three No. 2, Police Station, Wanchal, then armed robbers ransacked a flat mentioned another "pill case," and unwise to have held out or even occupied by two women and a maid-asked that the two men concerned to have pretended that they were servant. One of the robbers had a be also remanded until Tuesday The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.holding out, for little if any good dagger, while the other secured a next.
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JAPAN AND CHINA'S TREATIES.
re-
of
was likely to result from the adop-knife from the kitchen. Ultimately, The defendant in this case were they made off with Jewellery and Les Sam (10) described as a cook tion of such an attitude.
clothing valued at a few hundred of No. 18 Russell-street, and Kan dollars. Vigilant search was car- Fung (34), said to be a shopkeeper
were
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Rastus: "Here's dat shilling th: borrowed from yuh last year...
Sambo; "Yuh done kept it' ao long dat Ah don't know if it's wuff whlie- for me to change mah 'pinion of yuh: just for one shilling."
The colonel was jogging home: after a day with the hounds.
"Well, Colonel," grinned a frieni, : "you are covered with mud. You seem to have had a good day. Were- you. In at the kill?"
reply. I was. In at the ditch, in at "No," grunted the Colonel, in ried out by the police, but, so far, of No. 14 Matheson-street. there has been no arrest.
Lee was charged with the unlaw- the bog, and also in at the river.. ful possession of a large quantity Why, man, you cannot expect me to
be in at everything." of heroin pills.
CORRESPONDENCE.
CIVIL SERVANTS. PAY.
Sergeant Whelan anld that this man was arrested in Russell-street carrying a box containing the pills, and he took, the police to Kan's house.
LOCAL LIST OF RS.L SUCCESSES.
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costume 1""
"What, another netr sald a husband to his wife."How on earth am I to pay for it, and" only paid six months' rent yester day?" "John, dear, how do I know? I'm your wife, not your financial adviser."
A schoolmaster, better versed in clasales than cricket, was taking a party of ladies to watch one of the school matches. Perceiving, when he arrived on the ground, that the game was already in progress, he called one of the pupils to him, and” asked how the score stood. The boy replied that they had taken seven wickets for 80 runs. "How very atrange!" said the pedagogue, "I
wickets."
Eve: "I think a man should give his wife plenty of rope."
Errest: "Yehi I did with mine and she skipped."
A cable has been received from aald a workman to his mate. "Wot's
"Hello, 'Enery; wot's. 'appened?"".
The Japanese Government doubtless is quite sincere in their contention that China's new Goy. ernment, in its claim to représent the country, should honourably regard themselves as under a binding obligation to take over those solemn promises, in the
[To the Editor of the "Chlúa Mail”) form of Treatles, which
Sir,-Exception has been taken in
Replying to the Magistrate, the the civil servant salary controversy made in the name of China by the to a comparison between too a Sergeant said that the box con- Nationalists' predecessors. Re- and the imported members of the tained many thousands of pills, moving the seat of Government staff, I think the fact is the anthe examination and counting of from Peking to Nanking does not ported fraternity don't like it-they ch had not yet been completed. remove the Nationalists' moral same breath as the hard-working against him.
Kon had the following charges object to being mentioned in the LOUGHLIN-Thomas Alexander obligations, as the representatives and underpaid local man. Why this
(1) unlawful possession of a Loughlin, suddenly, at San of China, towards those coun-should be. I don't know, for it it "antity of heroin pills at No. 14 Francisco on the 29th August tries who have placed their trust wasn't for the local man the im-Matheson-street; and
(2) unlawful ported article would be in a h----
possession and and, not infrequently, large sums of a pickle. The locals nurse
and manufacturing heroin pills at No. Hong Kong, Friday, Aug. 31, 1928. of their money, in the good faith spoon-feed the imported man and 18, Russell-street.
of the Nationalists' predecessors, make it very easy for him to earn
Both accused were remanded in However, as England, the United his sterling salary. So I think police custody until Tuesday. moralways thought there were only, six States, France Germany and to the dollar-paid staff of the Gov-
some consideration should be allown ning next. other countries were at present erument. They don't mind being SANITARY EXAMS: It will be generally agreed willing to waive the decision of paid in dollars but they don't get that the Japanese Government such a point, Japan, very wisely, enough of them to keep themselves are acting wisely in deciding to as we have said, has decided that mens has made out a good case in
decently. I don't think the Govern acquiesce in the Nationalist Gov-she will do likewise. It seems the reply to the petition forwarded ernment's demand that Japan's now to be the case that the Na-by these underpaid and conscienti- treaties with China shall be sub- tionalists are as much recog./ous 'workers and I think the news. the Secretary of the Royal Saniappened? I'll tell you wot's appen ject to revision, similarly with nised" as they can possibly be or papers ought to take up the case
for them. those of other nations, Japan need to be; and it therefore must
Yours, etc was on losing ground all the time be for them, logically, to take the.
INDIGNANT. that she opposed such a request, next step. What that step will Kowloon, Aug. 30.. and nobody realised that more be we shall not even venture to clearly than the Nationalists Eurmise In the meantime. We all shall merely venture to hope that they had to do was "to sit tight" the Nationalists will speedily "get and Tokyo would come round to their house in order" and, as their way of regarding the sub-unification is their chief aim for Those who had the pleasure of ject. Evidently the Japanese the country as a whole with, of attending Miss Cecilia Hansen's Government was equally aware course, themselves at the helm of memorable concert at the that such was the case and, hav-State, it is to be hoped that they City Hall on Wednesday and others who have yet will wisely and speedily conclude to be conquered by this ing held out for a fairly long period, they
that unity among themselves is great artiste's masterly manipu- also of the Sanitary Department. that they would hold out no long- even more essential.
lation of the bow, will be glad to All written examination papers hear that Miss Hansen has decid- together, with the local "Board" of er. If they had held out longer:
ed to cancel the programme Examiners remarks are forwarded crying because he wanted to go The Rev. E. K Quick of St. originally arranged for her con- to London for revision, comment the risk of seeming to be one of Stephen's College returned to Hong cluding performance in the Col and approval the few Powers unwilling to re-day after a short holiday-
Kong on the P. & 0. "Naiders" to ony, and Instead, she will play a The Examining Board is com- Mamma "Well, why didn't you
Mnumber of popular works promin posed of: cognise the Nationalist Govern Quick is best known to the public ent amongst which will be two ment. The only other alternative as the all round interport cricketer concertos by Vivaldi-Nachez and Mendelssohn respectively. The was one that, despite China's dis-san mga
full programme is as follows: trust of Japan, was even more un bicycle, without a lamp, was cau- A Chinese youth, who was riding
A Minor, Vivaldi thinkable to the Japanese than loned by Mr. W Schofield at probably it would be for the Kowloon Magistrac Chinese. The. alternative we Defendant "stated allude to would be for Japan to bump, but that the
Nanking. They knew top!
they could only have done so at
act in Shantung or Matchurin or perhaps in both places any regard for Chinese righ
"we
when he fell In
after
CECILIA HANSEN.
- NEW PROGRAMME FOR · TO-NIGHT,
Nacher;
tary Institute, London, Intimating
that the recommendations made by ed: I 'appened to leave my pot of the Hong Kong Board of Examin- varnish on the kitchen table, and era in the recent Examinations for the missus "appened to be making Sanitary Inspectors and in Sani-a treacla-pudding. That's wot's tary Science, held at King's Col-'appened.".. lege on July 9, have been approv-
ed.
The Pass list Includes:- A Sanitary Science- James Reid;
el
Thomas Armstrong, Mas ment Sanitary Department. both of the Hong Kong Govern
*B. Sanitory Inspectors.........
Henry Gorge Stevens George Frost William Charles Lampr|11- Artour Foster: 22:
"Crows are hardy birds," remark ed the boarder. "In cold weather I' have known them to go five days without food."!!
"That's nothing," chuckled the comedian' boarder. I've known erows to go five months without food.
"Great Scott! What kind crows were they??!?
Why
scarecrows, of course."'
Mamma "What is Willle crying
about?"
Bridget: "Shura, ma'am, and he's
thestreat
The Hon Director of Publie let him go?
Works The Director of Medical & Sani-
tary Service DPTA
The Medical Officer of Health, The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon Sir. Eric Bisart Taylor, M.DA The Local Secretary
Hendelssohn Applications for an Examination
In October for Sanitary Insya tors have been received ShanghaLa
cara
Tommy
BridgetTher
having
charades ho said wasn't sureis
and
the car dad? tha sor an absent-
naked
leman rider and