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ANTI-PIRACY PATROL GIVEN UP
CANTON TAKES OVER H.M.'S ARMED LAUNCHES' FIVE
YEARS SERVICE
The
Cewe Binmitt
China Mail
No. 27,102
HONG KONG,
1-
SPAIN'S LOSS
REQUIEM MASS HELD IN LONDON J-
KING REPRESENTED
SHBI
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1929. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.-
FAMOUS VICTORIAN
...
BEAUTY
"LILY LANGTRY "
PASSES AWAY AT HER RIVIERA RESIDENCE
VICTIM OF INFLUENZA
London, Yesterday.
EUROPE'S ARCTIC BRITISH
WEATHER
MANY TRAGEDIES
EXPRESS
DERAILED
· IN COLLISION
WHOLE BAND OF GIPSIES FROZEN BODIES OF DRIVER & FIREMEN
TO DEATH
SHIPPING AFFECTED
London, Yesterday...
IN DEBRIS
PASSENGERS UNHURT
London, Yesterday.
Your Eyes Are Base With Us."
LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only European Opticia (Established Over Forty Years) ACCURACY · SERVICE - QUALITY: Manager:
RALPH A. COOPER, Registered
Optometrist: (Canada)
F.1.0. (London).
CRISIS AT CHEFOO?
DISTURBANCES BREAK OUT IN THE CITY
་ ་
REVISED TOBACCO DUTIES
OFFICIAL ORDER
NEW SCALE GIVEN EFFECT OF LAW
GOODS IN FOREIGN GODOWNS
London, Yesterday.
Chefoo, Yesterday. The Earl of Granard represented
Disturbances occurred in Chefoo city this morning. Chinese mer His Majesty the King at a Solemn
·MANY INDEBTED TO THEM
chants are storing goods in the for ORDINANCE TO BE AMENDED Spain, held at St. James's Church,
eign godowns and there is much How British armed launches, Requiem Masa for Queen Marie of
feeling of unrest.”
In a ""Government Gazette Extra- manned by the Royal Navy, in Spain, held at St. James's Church, i The "Evening News": Monte The Arctic condition in Europe An express from London to Glas- General Liu Chen-nien, who has ordinary" issued to-day appears an Carlo correspondent reporta that are producing mint by Galea hongow was partly derailed this morn-been in charge here, la said to be order made hy His Excellency the about five years' service in the West London, this morning.
Lady Hugo de Bathe--"Lily A telogram from „Warsaw sayd Ing in a collision with a goods negotiating with the 4th division, Governor giving the full force and River and delta, performed heroic The Spanish Ambassador and Langtry," the famous Victorian that many deaths have occurred train near Alfreton, The driver but terms have not been accepted, affect of law to the provisions-of-a deeds of usefulness to all and sundry members of the Embassy staff at-beauty, has died at her villa of in- from cold in the forest. Guards and fireman are missing. No past is rumoured that his own troops Bil to amend the law relating to
fluenza.
are reported to have found a whole sengers were injured.
may turn against, him at any the taxation of tobacco,." is being revealed in part, following tended in uniform.
Among others present were
Il For Three Weeks
gipsy "band of 84 persons, men,
Later.
moment and a crisis is expected in Section 6 of the principal Ordin- Later. women and children, who were en- The bodies of the driver and the next few days. British Navalance is amended by the repeal of There were four small launches Sir Lionel Halsey, representing!
Lady de Bathe had been 1 from camped in the forest near Lublin, fireman of the express have beenWireless.
Sub-Section 1 and by the substitu- originally, but those were replaced H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and
bronchitis for three weeks.-Reu- frozen to death.
found in the debris, at Alfreton. [Note: Earlier news on page 113tion of the following:- by three larger ones, part of the Mr. Walford H.M. Selby C.B., C.V.O., cost of which was paid by the Hong representing Sir Austen Chamber- Kong Government.
n decision to withdraw the craft.
Now that the Canton Govern- ment has fitted out similar craft- in the new gungoats built in Hong! Kong-for patrol work, it is doomed that the British armed launches, after having steamed 10,000 miles) each per year on patrol, will not be required any longer.
First Four
lain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affa'ra-British Wireless Service.
REPARATIONS
COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS MEET
TECHNICAL ADVISERS
The local steam launches "Hing
London, Yesterday. Wah," "Dom Jono," "Wing Leo" and The Committee of Reparations "Kwong Lee" were first commis. Experts met this morning in Paris. It has been arranged that in future
SHIP HELPLESS
TREMENDOUS SEAS FROM DOUGLAS
PASSENGERS' EXPERIENCES
1
London, Yesterday. The steamer "Feel Castle," with nearly 100 passengers on board, wae exposed for 16 hours to a
Distress on the Baltic
Berlin, Yesterday, Ice has held up some thirty | vessels in the West Baltic. Some are without provisions while others are so damaged that they are no longer pavigable. German cruisers engaged in their rescue have į been hampered by ice. Government aeroplanes have supplied the vessels with food.
Bulgaria Suffering Badly
Sofia, Yesterday.
It is reported from Varna and blinding snowstorm and tremen- Burgas that the Bulgarian ports on dous seas on her. voyage yesterday the Black Bes are blocked with ice from Douglas, Isle of Man to and closed to navigation. The Liverpool. ›
She was due at Liverpool land-
ing stage at two o'clock yesterday
Reuter.
DUKE'S MISSION.
'II.M.S. "SUFFOLK" GOING TO JAPAN
INSIGNIA OF THE GARTER
"POPE AND KING”
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (8), the duty payable (1) upon all tobacco im- ported Into the Colony after the coming into operation of the To- becco Amendment Ordinance, 1929, and (i) upon all dutiable tobacco already in the Colony at the com ing Into operation of the said Or A wave emotion. swept the con-dinance, shall be as follows, per
pound weight:-
WAVE OF EMOTION IN ROME
HISTORIC CEREMONY ENDS
Rome, Yesterday..
H.M.S. "Suffolk," of the 5th Cruiser Squadron, China Station, is course in the Square when, after a to convey HRH. the Duke of four hours walt in the rain, His Gloucester and his staff, from Hong Holiness the Pope, escorted by Car-A, On unmanufactured tobacco:
(1) If unstripped: Kong to Yokohama, to invest H.I.M.dinals and prelates, appeared on the the Emperor of Japan with the in- Balcony and bestowed the Apostolfe
Benediction. signia of the Order of the Garter.
The misaton leaves London at the the crowd sank to
The troops presented arms and their knees, end of March and RH sale by whilst the Pope blessed them. This
the P. & O. "Mores" from Mar- was followed by a hurricane of
-Reuter.
sioned in 1994 with temporary each delegation, if they se desire, afternoon, and did not arrive til 400 TOURISTS HERE selles. HMS. "Suffolk" is to leave cheers for "The Pope and the King." crews from the China Station until will be entitled to call to their meet-shortly after one o'clock, this morn the arrival of special crews from ings any technical advisers whose ing. England on Aug. 1, 1924.
opinions they consider nec?ssary These were employed in convoy.or advantageous-British Wireless glycerine and water which cover- ing steamboats between Hong Kong Service.
and Pakkai, the port of Kongmoon,
in the prevention of commandeering
of river craft and in the rounding
up of pirate launches. They were the boats have been on anti-piracy in Hong Kong once every seven patrol in the West River delta,
Shelling Bandits ›
daya.
3
During the 1925 troubles the During the troublous period of strike and boycott began in June 1926, the "Wing Les," when pro- these four boats were employed as ceeding up-river, sighted a huddled port guardships at Wuchow, Sam-crowd of villagera on the river bank shui and Kongmom, while the five and a nehbouring village in British gunboats in the West River flames.
Drawing in to the crowd,
at Shameen, Canton, the "Wing Lee" was informed that
with crews landed for its defence.
flotilla were
In August, Jaunches
1925, the four were replaced because
bandits had attacked and were even then looting the village.
The "Wing Lee" "browned" the village with apparently good effect,
they were too small to remain up the bandits retreating inland to the river for the required period.
Next Three
shelter of a wood where the "Wing |Lee's" machine guns could not reach
An icy gale froze the mixture of
led her steering rods when she was off Far Lightship at two o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The ship was helpless, and was inmediately anchored whilst the engineers dismantled the steering gear. This was later re-assembled, weighed shortly and anchor was before midnight-British Wireless Service.
OVERLOADING
VIEWS OF SHIPOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONS
ACTIVE CO-OPERATION
London, Yesterday.
Four hundred tourists ar rived in Hong Kong this morn- ing on the Canadian Pacific S.S. Co.'s "Empress of Austra- IR," a former trans-Pacific liner calling here regularly, whose place has been taken by the "Empress of France."
Full detalls of the tourist Invasion will be found. In a SpecialChina Mail" supple- ment to this issue.
ice extends beyond sight of the shore and is so thick that skating is possible on the coast, which is unprecedented since 1849. Railway transport is very difficult and e food crisis in Bulgaria is feared.
London, Yesterday.
Hong Kong on about April 25.
The Duke will be accompanied by the Earl of Airlie (one of His Majesty's Lords-in-Waiting), Rear- Admiral, the Hon. Herbert Meade, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., Major-General Sir Hugh J. Elles, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.0., A.D.C., with Mr. Hugh Lloyd Thomas (a First Secretary in HM's Diplomatic Service) and Captain L. W. Howard Kerr, OB.E. of the 11th Hussars (an Equerry in attendance on His Royal High това).
OUT OF WORK
AN APPEAL TO SHIPPING COMPANIES
UNFORTUNATE BRITON
MURDER SEQUEL
CHINESE ARRESTED ON SUSPICION
FURTHER ENQUIRIES
In connection with the murder of the aged storekeeper of the Botani-
B. cal and Forestry Department in a lonely store-house in Kennedy-rvad on Saturday afternoon, the police are detaining a Chinese on suspicion.
The crime is being further probed into by the Criminal Investigation Department, whose officers are 'con- vinced that more than one man were concerned in the murder.
SHARE SENSATION ”
TWO CHINESE REMANDED AGAIN
P
(a) containing 10 pounds or
more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof: 50 centa.
(b) containing less than 10 pounds of moisture per 100 pounds weight there- of: 58 cents.
(2) If stripped:
(a) containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof; 60 cents.
(b) containing less than 10 pounds. of moisture per 100 pounds weight there of: 66 cents.
On manufactured tobacco; (1) Cigars: $1.50.
(2) Cigarettes: 75 cents,
(8) Other manufactured tobac
co, including snaft and elgár cuttings 75 cents."
The Main Object
It is stated, in part, under "Ob- |jects and Reasona"! comm
The main object of this Ordin- A Briton named William Wilson
ance is to adopt in the case of tobacco manufactured in Hong was produced before Major C. Will. eon, O.B.E., at the Central Magis-
Kong the principle of taxation at tracy, this morning, charged with
the source. It is on this principle vagrancy
that the duty is collected in Great HEARING TO-MORROW Sub-Inspector Elston, in asking
Britain on tobacco manufactured there. Henceforward, therefore, for Wilson's committal to the House
The two Chinese arrested in con- tobacco will no longer be manufac- of Detention, told the Magistrata that defendant was a respectable nection with the "Share, Sensation" tured in bond but there will be a
In employed. The Police were trying for 600 shares of the Hong Kong used in manufacture,
The biting cast wind which made The President of the Board of Britain a place of misery yesterday, Larger craft were obtained as them. She had unfortunately, gone Trade stated in the House of Com- brought snow from the continent follows:
aground in the excitement of the mons that the reply from the Ship-to-day, accompanied by intense moment. However, the "Dom Joao"
Associations owners'
to the frost. then arrived on the scene and, hav- ing been fitted with a 3 pounder memoranda on the overloading of districts were impassable owing to "Onslaught." gun, was able to shell the wood und them by the Board of Trade,
ships, which was addressed to snow-drifts.-Reuter. "Nessus." put the enemy in retreat.
8/1 "Po On"
"Shun Les"
6/1 "Dom Joao"
Renamed. "Falknor."
"Kwong Lee" passed under the con-
Thanks of All
The roads in some inland
Bitterly Cold at Home Bitterly cold weather continues ship's officer who was at present un case when a scrip purported to be flat rate on the imported raw lear
3
were
The same
These are described 25 "armed In spite of the prevailing antt-showed a considerable measure of steam vesscle for river service." British feeling, both launches re- agreement with the Board's aug-throughout the British Isles. The "Dom Joao" was the only one celved an ovation from the local geations, and promised active co- London last night 12 degrees of to help him to get a job, but he Tramway Co., was alleged to have rule of a flat rate is introduced in
operation and assistance.
frost were registered and the ther-thought that in the meantime the been uttered to Mr. A. A. Lopes, a
the case of all manufactured to- of the original four retained. The populace on return to harbour.
Arrangements would be made as mometer has risen little during the best that could be done for Wilson local Portuguese broker,
again before Major C. Willson,bacco imported, in place of the trol of the Imports and Exports De-
Towards the end of 1927 a motor soon as possible for discussing the day. The cold is accentuated by an was to send him to the House.
numerous classes according to partment for revenue service. lighter bound up-river reported to matter with representatives of the east wind. British Wireless Ser- The Sub-Inspector also stated that O.B.E., at the Central Magistracy, Present system of division into
if any Shipping Company had a this morning. Each of approximately 100 tona, H.M.S. "Faulknor" that the had Shipowners' Associations-British vice,
vacancy he would be glad if they
value for the purposes of taxation. It has proved, In practice, fam these additions to the Royal Navy born threatened with a piratical at- Wireless Service.
would communicate with the Police.
possible to control adequately the Ha Worship made the order, for
numerous factories, many of them Wilson's committal to the House of
working on a small scale, which Detention.
receive raw leaf and pay duty only on auch of their manufactured pro ducts as they declare for local con- sumption.
have been previously employed in tack. An armed guard of three Hong Kong harbour as ferries, etc. was put aboard the lighter with in- structions to keep out of sight.
COL. LINDBERGH
Their speed was from nine to ten Faulknor" followed up three or ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED TO knots an hour. They were, of course four miles astern, also keeping well
fitted with wireless.
What They Were Detalls of their armament Jow:-
one
out of sight. Sure enough while. rounding the bend into function
fol-Channel the lighter was attacked.
AMBASSADOR'S DAUGHTER
Mexico City, Yesterday. The United States Ambassador
U.S. NÄVY
RECOMMENDATIONS OF BUDGET BUREAU
BIG APPROPRIATIONS
Washington, Yesterday. · The Budget Bureau, to whom the
His Worship fixed the hearing of the case for to-morrow afternoon:
SAMPAN ROBBERY
Y
WOMAN TERRORISED AT YAUMATI
It has also proved extremely * A robbery with violence occurred difficult to assign to their proper on board a passenger sampan Inside classes the numerous brands of ban the Yaumati typhoon shelter early cigara and cigarettes which are. this morning, g
ROBBERY FROM GIRL
The pirates, putthig off in sampane hare, Mr. Dwight Morrow, an-
DRUNKENNESS A PLEA FOR Fitted with protective armour to capture her, were met and uncom-nounces the engagement of his Naval Construction Bill, has been
DEFENCE plating (bullet proof)
around fortably surprised by macbina-gun daughter, Anne, to the sirman, submitted for estimates and mone bridges and gun positions.
fire.
Before Major C. Willson, O.B.E., Colonel Each carried:
In June last year, the
Lindbergh. Reuter's tary appropriations, recommended at the Central Magistracy this morn
According to a report made to the now on the market here. 8.8.American Service. 3-pounder Hotchkiss gun, one .303 Maxim gun
Killing Competition "Kochow" sank
that a small amount be set aside |ing, Mr. O. A. S. Russ appeared for Water Police by Ho Kong, the mis- near Wangmun
At Havana and three Lewis machine-guns, outer light. Between midnight and
There is also the problem of the New York, Yesterday.
In the current fiscal year and that the defence of a Chinese charged treas of the sampan, she and her Personnel:
dawn 300 passengers were taken off one Lieutenant in
45 to 50 million dollars be appro with the attempted larceny of a daughter were asleep on the craft, cigarette deliberately sold at a loss Lindbergh has arrived at Havana command, nine British ratings and
the wreck and conveyed to Wang from Belsize-Reuter's American printed in the fiscal year ending gold chain from a Chinese girl. which was tied alongside the disin-in order to kill competition or mine Chinese (firemen, engineers "Onslaught."
mun by H.M.S. "Nessus" and H.M.S.Service.
June 30, 1980-Router's American Counsel pleaded that the accused fecting ship in the shelter at the establish a new brand. and 'cook).
[Mr. Dwight Morrow was Ameri-Service.
was drunk at the time, and there time of the robbery,, at 2 a.m. There are also frequent altera- There must be few, if any, steam-can Ambassador in Par ́s --when
was no criminal intent. He was so Usual routine: Six weeks in paers on the
The robber Art cut the line by tions in the quality of the goods Delta which trol in the delta, one week in Hong not indebted to the armed launches across the Atlantic.].
are Lindbergh arrived there after flying
badly "under the influence" that he which the sampan was tied to the sold, without a corresponding al- was incoherent when he was taken disinfecting ship, and then towed it teration in the price. Kong for boiler cleaning.
for assistance during the five years
to the Police Station,
toward the northern entrance of the Once the manufacturer has to The average distance, steamed they have been in commission,
Mr. Rusa was supported by Inspec-typhoon shelter. All this time Ho pay duty on his raw material as tor, Moss in the latter statement. Kong and her daughter were still soon as he importsit or draws It
His Worship gave a remand for asleep,
Kos, from bond, system of paying hearing of the case, fixing ball in the When the craft got near to the drawbacks on such of his products sum of $250.
red Hght on a wharf in the vicinity, as he exports must be concurrent Ho Kong was awakened by somely Introduced, and this will be done one climbing on board her boat by regulations made under section.
on patrol by each launch per year either summoning aid or actually was about 10,000 miles,
CARGO COOLIE HURT
towing them off the mud at some As the result of an accident on The fact that two of the com-time or other. manding officers were invalid Home,
is testimony of the strenuousness
of the duties performed.
Protecting. Trade
The Officers
PRICELESS ART
TOWN HALL OF LEYDEN DESTROYED BY FIRE
HOLLAND AGHAST
Amsterdam, Yesterday.
board the 8.6. "President Cleve land" yesterday afternoon, a cargo The commanding officers in the coolle is now in the Kwong Wah The ancient town hall of Ley den Patrol have been as follow:
Hospital suffering from serious in-has been burnt down, with its price- Commissioned in the autumn of Berry, 1924-25,
"Hing Wah": Lieut. P. A juries. He was working cargo on loss art treasures and archives, London, Yesterday Mr. Albert She then saw a man etarding amid 8 (1) (b) of the principal Ordin- 1925, after the anti-Hong Kong
board the ship when he slipped Five fire brigades were powerless Lavy, treasurer of the Royal Free ship. He had in his hand a thick snce sa amended by clause 3 of this "Dom Joao":-Lieut. J. A. Hand fell from the deck Into a cargo owing to the severe frost. strike and boycott had commenced, Hunter, 1924-25. these armed launches were employ-
bost tied up alongside.
"Wing Lep":-Lieut. M. A. 0.
ed as port guardships, for the escort | Biddulph, 1924-25
ALLEGED THEFT
of convoys and for evacuation of "Kwong Lee"-Lieut. N. L Britons in Chinese territory. They Dwane, 1924-25.
Hospital, London, has c Laber£50,000 to a fund for
buted round piece of wood, and, advanc- Ordinance. ilding Ing on the boat mistress, be struck The amount of drawback to be All Holland - is aghast at the the hospita daternity
depart her with the wood and ardered her returned on export is calculated, on destruction of the town ban of meat, and for research into causes to keep quiet, ther Leyden, whic
of in- ** He then proceeded to ransack the mat
ice living quarter of the sumpan and
pieces of female cloth transferred into
by of maternal mor ncens validity-Bi
Juliana, who is a student at Leyden
aleo had duties In connection with Faulenordeut. P. A. Berry was arrested on board the
|| Á Chinese named Cheung Shing thousands, tild
the anti-Strike Pickets patrol and as 1925-26; Lieut. Comdr. F. A. Pigou, Ixion" yesterday for the alleged Unive reinforcements. to the five British 1926-28 Ideut. S. Thomson, larceny of $100 the property of the gunboats on the West River in 1926, 1928, (Jnvalided): Lieut. R. Alexan
The boycott was officially called of der, 1928-29
ship's surgeon,
on Oct. 10, 1926, When trade, was "Onslaught: Lieut.N.L resumed, the three armed launches Dwane, 41925-28 Lieut. DW were again designed to convoring Graham, 1928-27 (invalided) Lieut. obeamboat between Hön Kongnoon, this if 192
ing whic
ha bad
amount ofer
ich has been con
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