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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
much interest by cur readers gen- Mr. J. A. H. Plummer arrived in erally. Yesterday we stated that the Colony, to-day by the "Empresă
had been held at the North Point
on Sunday when a further batch Mr. D. M. Goodall has returned of aspirants for honours were to Hong Kong, arriving to-day on forward. Of the 18 candidates the "Empresa of Asia" from Shang→ 17 were members of the Hong hal, Kong Chinese Bathing Club. I
Mr. H. A. Pearson was one of
is very gratifying to note that all succeeded in passing "each part the passengers on the "Empress of of the examination," which sure Asia" when she arrived to-day from ly reflects much credit upon the the North. candidates and those who coach-
1928.
MOTOR ACCIDENT.
'DR. AND MRS. CANNON INVOLVED.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Mr. H. N. Tai, the owner-driver- of motor ear No. 383 which collid- ed with Dr. Alexander Cannon's car (No. 2006) `- In, Queens'-road! East at 7.15 p.m. on August 21, was
ed them. We learn that the total Mr. M. A. Razack, the stockbrok this morning summoned before number of local Chinese who er, and Mrs. Razack, were passen-Major C. Willson, O.B.E., for dan have thus qualified is 60, which gers on the "Empress of Asia" gerous driving. would seem to be very satis- which arrived here to-day from factory considering the compara-Shanghal.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, for the 'da- fence, in pleading "guilty" ex- plained that the road was slippery
tively short time that instruc- tion has been available. The in-
After a holiday up North, Dr. at the tihe on account of a heavy- structors are of opinion, it seems, R. E. Tottenham of the University shower of rain. Opposite Landale- that in a port such as Hong Kong, and Mrs. Tottenham, the Colony's street, the defendant had safely- which now possesses so many lady champion at lawn tennis, re- passed another car, which good swimming clubs, that the turned to Hong Kong to-day by travelling slowly. number of candidates should be the "Empress of Asin.”
was
Then, as the car approached Di- some ten times the number who
Cannon's car which was going int [have so far.come forward. This
at least points to keenness and buildings, Kowloon, has reported to trian suddenly
Miss Murray, of No. 4, Cambey- the opposite direction, a 'pades- enthusiasm on the part of Set the police that between 1 and 6 under the verandah, opposite An-
appeared from? F. J. Toms, L/Bdr. Pratt, Gnr.
road
Dr. Cannon was injured in the who was
French and those others of them, yesterday, a thief entered on-street. The defendant swerved" 12th Heavy Battery who have the house by forcing the front door to the right to avoid the pedes been acting so ably as instruc- and stole from her bedroom jewel- trian. The car skidded on the wet
and collided with Dr. tors; and it is to be hoped that lery worth $59.
Cannon's car which was badly their hopes of attaining such a result will one day be realised.
Captain R. H. Campbell, Mr. M. P.
damaged. The whole affair is excellent. Mahomed, Mr. R. K. Butler and Mr. head and Mrs. Cannon Swimming is one of the best and H. G. Eales were among the passen with him had an unpleasant ex--! healthiest of exercises and when gers on the N. Y. K., "Korea Maru," perience. The defendant was very it is. in an emergency, put to the when she sailed from Hong Kong sorry for the accident and had ask-·· noble purpose of life-saving, it is to-day bound, for Shanghal, Jápaned Counsel' openly to apologise in of course of incalculable value, and San Francisco. We trust that the good work will go on and prosper.
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Court to Dr. and Mrs. Cannon for. the unfortunate accident, for which Having gone up in connection no blame was attached to the doc-- with the identification of Carvalho tor. Yeo, whose extradition has been The doctor, Counsel said, was" Victor Hurtado, a youth of mixed sought in connection with the not feeling vindictive about it, so Peruvian and Chinese blood, was fraud of $200,000 from the Hong he suggested that the Magistrate· charged before Major C. Willson Kong Government, Mr. L. A, Barton ake a lenient view of the matter.. this morning with being found de- of the Treasury staff returned
No Pedestrian. situation was fraught with more stitute in the Colony. He was sont, from Shanghai to-day by the Inspector Alexander said that
"Empress of Aula."
the police had evidence that there now. That is by the way. We
was no pedestrian on the road at The forthcoming marringe Is Among the passengers who ar- the time of the accident. With- mention the fact to do justice to announced of Dr. E. A. J.rived at Hong Kong to-day on regard to the overtaking of car the vessel and to, the Chinese sea-Dormanns, of Sun Yat Sen Univer-the "Empress of. Asia" from No. 122, the Inspector said that
sity, Canton, and Miss E. Kirch-Vancouver, Japan and Shanghai dafendant was going very fast. berger, of Munchen, Germany, who were the Rav. and Mrs. H. C. Mar- Defendant had been driving a is coming to Hong Kong by the shall, Mr. J. Guerineau, Mr. Chu car since April, 1926, and up to "Leverkusen."
Chao-hain, Mr. S. J. Hicks, Dr. the present had a clear racord.. C. S. Liu, Mr. H. A. Poaraon, the sidered it a dangerous piece of The Magistrate said that he con-
driving for one car to pass another
purpose
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PERVERTED RADICALISM.
a correspondent who writes to us
dent's letter. They read:"You
the
For the unlawful possession of a Rav. J. A. and Mrs. Kempf, will remember the assassination.quantity of non-Government and Rev. J. C. and Mrs. Mitchell, Pro-in' that locality. He could not see
unprepared opfum, a Chinese, de- fessor and Mrs. J. W. Rowland, that the wet condition of the road?.
was any excuse, at all. ́ ́
A fine of $50 was Imposed.
CORRESPONDENCE.
TOLERANCE..
INTO THE HARBOUR
Pr
NEW ESSEX CAR TOPPLES OVER PRAYA,
ON REVERSE GEAR,
(To the Editor of the "Chine Mail"]
Sir, "Soigmundia" "* article in your Saturday's issue оп the tolerance of Hong Kong folks makes A new Essex motor car (No. 130)'
is one thing that I desire to know driver, the car was parked between also quite to the point! But there By an oversight on the part of the ather interesting reading. It was fell into the harbour last evening..
are
PA WA.
ELEPHANT WORSHIPPED BY BUDDHISTS,
'njury and were able to swin back to shore,
The car was salvaged at low tide. this morning.
CHAUFFEURS LOSE. JUDGMENT GIVEN FOR MRS. MATHESON.
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of General Hung Chao-lin a few scribed as a scaffold builder, was Miss R. Pettigrew. years ago," and "I have made a fined, $200 with the alternative of special note of the 'coincidence' 2 months' imprisonment at the by which Chinese public figures
Kowloon Court to-day,
appear to choose steamers which Izaak Abramovitch Ekman, a have a very small Chinese com- young Russian, was this morning plement and n which the stew-charged before Major C. Willson, ards are not Chinese." We do re- Colony, without visible
O.B.E., with being found in the means of call the facts attending the mur-subsistence. He was
remanded der of General Hung Shiu-lin (as until tomorrow morning. he was better known by that name) when en route from Hongried woman living in the P.W.D.
How To-chi (26) a Chinese Kong to Shanghai. He was shot workshop at Whitfeld, has been Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1938. point-blank by a "boy" on a "Pre-admitted to the Government Civil why has the author laid so lenfent a the Canton and Tung On wharves siden" boat. That, we insist, Hospital from the French Hospital talking to, there ought to be no that when the driver started the car and on the matter? If we need on reverse gear. The result was wag. only a disconnected instance suffering from the effects of prison, fear of being too severe in de- it ran backwards and toppled over and does by itself not prove wide-ed. Her condition is serious..
alleged to have been self-administer nunciation and reproach. Perhaps, the Praya wall before anything
as a journalist friend of mine could be done to stop it. Radicalism has often been spread "perverted radicalism."
The driver of a public motor car that gentle "lectures"
agrees, the author deeply belleves Both the driver and looked on askance as something There was also a personal aspect
A foki that of previous acquaintance who failed to drive his vehicle as liable to prick the conscience to entered the water. They escaped more managed to jump clear as the car to be suspicious of Whether
close to the side of the road as activity than mere, blunt attacks. suspicions are justified or not is ship between the victim and the possible when rounding, a bend at usually a matter of opinion. But assailant.
Sam Tsang, whereby he narrrowly
Yours, etc., perverted radicalism is widely It may be a coincidence, in the missed colliding with a car ap-
DAIDUTSU. September 3, 1928. abhorred. This term is used by: literal meaning of the word, that proaching from the opposite direc
tion, was fined $10. by Mr. W.. Scho- Chinese politicians have travelled field, at the Kowloon Magistracy in connection with yesterday's recently more on ships without yesterday. report, in the news columns, of a Chinese employees than on other message purporting to indicate vessels. A search
of the files, Mr. Parsram, manager of the that Marshal Li Chai-sum, the however, does not even bear out Watanal. Boolchand silk store, No. head of the Canton Government, this so-called coincidence. In 60, On Tal-street, reported to the pollee that at about 8 o'clock last is on his way back from Shang- fact we suggest that asassination night, someone stole from the hai to Hong Kong. As we stated is not the so commonly used sub-pocket of his coat, which was yesterday, we gave the informa- terfuge of political intrigue in hanging on a peg in the office, a tion-as conveyed to us for China that it was. Whereas ten packet containing 26 diamonds, the elephant, which is worshipped by motor-ear drivers, Mahomed Din
years ago a General could invite value of which is $500.
colleague to a banquet and then The police have received a report shoot him down without com from Mr. Faraita, living at "Long- the first symptoms of illness were vert to the correspondent.
punction, we have now the almost sight-villa, Victoria-road, that at noticed on Friday night, and within He pointed out that the mere men.
daily occurrence of the greatest noon on Sunday be entrusted $120 three hours the animal was dead. tion of the ship "Empress or in the land assembling fu confer to hand to the mistress of the prove that the cause of death was to recording the number of trips
to a coolle employed in the house Blood tests taken on Saturday Asia" should have put us on our ence, sometimes in a heated at-house, a Mra. Little, as payment of hemorrhagic septicamia, but an made by cars belonging to plain- guard. The "Empress of Asia" mosphere, and with only a few Mr. Faralta's board and lodging, element of mystery surrounds the tiffs when her own car was out of carried over 400 Chinese on her personal attendants present. The The coolie is alleged to have ab- occurrence.
sconded with, the money.
running; order... The white elephant, which is His Lordship remarked on the articles, some of whom, he thinks, Chinese are becoming enlighten-
regarded as a holy animal by conflict of evidence and expresseď. ed. In spite of Soviet influence, are members of the Seamen the rank and file realise that that coin is from time to time ed throughout the day by a done what was required of thom, The Post Master General observes Buddhists, was jealously guard the opinion that plaintiffs had not Union and a few of whom may there is no glory attaching to placed in letters delivered to the dozen keepers, under the namely, to prove their case be advocates of "perverted radi killing a politician (for holding post. By so doing the sender not vigilant eye of its keeper. Dr. Mr. D. L. Strellett was for plain- calism A qualification was
only runs gratuitous risk of loss; Do Min, of Burma. On Friday, tiffs and Mr. L. R. Andrewea for made by the writer to the effect
certain views) and then having but, runs the risk of prosecution for some visitors were observed too defendant. that for all he knew not one of to lose his own life. In our opin contravention of Postal Regulations, late to prevent them-giving over- the Chinese Trew on the "Asia" lon, Marshal Li Chat-sum, or any He accordingly specially warns the ripe bananas to the elephant. This may dabble in politics; but there member of the Nationalist organ-them in Court-proceedings.
other Nationalist General or public against enclosing cofn. In fruit, it is suspected, was respon-
letters, a practice, which may involve sible for Pa Wa's death.
Sixty American professional and business women who are to attend. The carcase will be stuffed in conferences In London and other isation for that matter, will take
Calcutta and conveyed by steamer European capitale, finishing, i at passage on most foreign ships Tang Yuen, s travelling trader, to Rangoon, where it will be an Rome, landed recently at Plymouth. reports to the police that some object of veneration and prayer by Miss Lens Phillips, sacrotary of time between 1 and 4 R., on Mon- Buddhist monke day whilst he was travelling from Meanwhile, Moh Tá Aung, the fessional women In America were the party, safd business and pro- Kongmoon to Hong Kong on the s.o. dead elephant's female companion, more and more coming to the fore "On Lee," some one stole from the is disconsolate at the loss of her some of them now earning as
on board, the ship ratten mate, and a losing her appetite much as $50,000 a year ket containing $200 in Chinese repic
and 70 Hong Kong cur
Wa, which was captured In The Tang states that the money 1910, arrived in Calcutta from Eng trusted to him by his father and
down to Hong Kong to buy.
what it was worth, adding that in all circumstances it should be, ac- cepted with due reserve. To re-
is nothing by which an outsider may derive assurance that such Is the ense. And, the correspon
whenever it sults his convenience
help and comfort to dona
dent hinted, a politician of Mar shal Li Chai sum's standing would be one of the last to risk the com- pany of perverted radicallista Life Saving Certificates. within the confines of a ship. The information that has been supplied to the "China Mail" of Before going further, we point late and which we have had much out for the information, of the pleasure in publishing with Treacy correspondent that when Marshat gard to the craminations that was Li went to Shanghai last year he ficiency certificates and medal-
E have recently been held for pro-to com travelled on an "Empress Inerlions of the Royal Life Saying Then If anything the political Society will have been read
to the
Sthe
Judgment,-with-costs, was giver SUDDEN DEATH.
by the Pulsne Judge (Mr. Justice P. Jacks) for Mrs. R. T. Matheson, Calcutta, Aug. 24. Pa Wa, the celebrated white in the case in which two Indian in the Summary Court yesterday,
devout Buddhists, died suddenly in and Maroj Din sued for $277, the Calcutta Zoo on Friday. alleged to be due to them in respect:
According to
from them, for use in connection the "Statesman of cars hired by Mrs. Matheson with her boarding establishments
day and was to
tons
on Stubbs-road.
Mrs. Matheson, gavo evidence as
allvers
Bife
ather