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大英八月十七號,能拜六日, 中華民國已巳年七月十三日
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HONG KONG,
LETTING DOWN THEIR CHINA IS FIRM, SAYS
REGIMENT
REGULATIONS OF LIQUORS ORDINANCE
TWO PRIVATES
WILFUL THEFT OF WATCHES AND RINGS
DR. WANG
"UNITE OR PERISH"
ENTIRE NATION WILL RESIST RED IMPERIALISM
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. -The closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/11 8/16.
PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
IMMATURE SPIRIT LANCS. COTTON S. AFRICA'S CAPTAIN
MILLS
IN FORM
BRANDY AND WHISKY
Regulations relating to immature FINE SPINNING MILLS TO BE WHITE IN DESTRUCTIVE MOOD spirits have been made by the Gov-
AGAINST SURREY ernor-in-Council under the Liquors
AN AMALGAMATION AND SO IS HOBBS!
“NO LENIENCY” FROM BENCH TELL KELLOGG PAGT NATIONS | Consolidation Ordinance as fol-
Privates James Bull and William Vine, both of "C" Company, 1st Battalion, the Somerset Light In fantry, were this morning charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Central Magistracy, on two counts As follow:--
(1) larceny of four geld wrist watches worth $38, the property of T. Arsi, Japanese watchmaker of No. 17, Praya East: and
(2) largency
uf two gold
finger rings, worth $10, the properly of the Tsang Shing Curio shop, of No. 8, Arsonal-street,
Both aegsed pleaded guilty." His Worship asked if either of them had any statenieŋt to muke before be passed sentence.
flard Up
Vine said that he drew only $3 per week, and out of that he had to pay for the cleaning of his equipment and "tackle," with the result that he had no money left for even a cup of tea or anything else. Therefore he went ont last night with the intention of stealing to raise some spending money. Asked if he had anything to say for himself, Bull replied: "The your. Worship."
same.
Mr. Hamilton: Well, you have brought this down on your own heads, and you are letting down your regi- ment.
The Facts of the Case Asked for the facts of the casc, Divisional Inspector Macdonald, in charge of No. 2, Police Station said: that the larcency at the Japanese shop occurred at about 8.30 p.m., yesterday, and the accused "got away" with it. They stole two watches each, after examining a few, and ran out of the shop. The Japanese, being the only person in the shop at the time, could not go after the men, who get clear.
About an hour later, the accused wont to the Chinese shop and asked to
In shown some rings. They put ono each on their finger and ran out. The alurm was raised, and an Indian con- stable who was near the shop caught one of the men. The other was caught. h the Military Police.
Accused were taken to the Police Station, where the watches were dis. covered when they were searched. Ac- cused then made a statement concern- ing the watches with the result that the Japanese watchranker was brought to the station and there he identified his watches and the two soldiers.
Addressing the accused. Mr. Hamilton said that they had not com- mitted only one robbery, but two. They must have known what had hap-
Nanking, To-day. Referring to the dispute between Russia and China, Dr. C. T. Wang (Minister for Foreign Affairs) denied that there is disagreement (as previously reported) between the National authorities at Nanking and the regional authorities at Mukden. Continuing. Dr. Wang stated that General- Chang Hsuch- liang, Commander-in-Chief in Man- churia, is following the instruc- tions of the National Government in regard to affairs decided at Mukden. Dr. Wang also said:---
"China remains firm.
"The Russian associate man- agers of the Chinese Eastern Railway cannot be reinstated before the opening of negotia- tions
demanded by the
Soviet).
"China's only course is for the entire nation to unite and resist Red Imperialism or perish in the grip of Communism."
Reporta confirming the invasion; by Russians of Chinese. territory were received yesterday. In conse-
Dr. C. T. Wang
pened in that Court the other morning, quence thereof, the National Govern- and in spite of that they went and did ment has instructed Dr. C. c. wù
the same thing.
The Sentences
(the Chinese Minister at. Washing- ton) to notify the signatories of the Kellogg Pact that Russia started
The accused had pleaded guilty" to two separate charges, and they would the offensive and that China, while
be given separate sentences for the two
resisting the invasion, will abide by offences. On charge "A" they would the spirit of the Pact and continue go to jail for six months each, and on charge "B" for three months each, to hope for a settlement by peaceful with hard labour. The terras would means-Reuter.
run consecutively.
After consulting with an Officer of
the accused's regiment, who was on
Men on the Spot
Tokyo, Yesterday.
A report from Harbin saya that
the bench, Mr. Hamilton said that he Foreign Commissioner Tsai, who
understood that
the men's Colonel
would not apply for their discharge j from the regiment after they had served their sentence.
His Worship added that he knew i the men's trick perfectly well.
They bad, done this in order to go Home. As long as he (Mr. Hamilton) was on the bench, he intended to deal with such cases severely.
There are only few of you who ore spoiling the reputation of a fine regiment, and when you come here you need not expect any leniency from the bench."
ZEPP'S FLIGHT
CROSSES URALS AND IS OVER SIBERIA
"ALL WELL
Hamburg. Yesterday. The Hamburg-America line has received a report from the "Graf Zeppelin" stating that the airship's position at 4 pia was 60 degrees north, 64 east, "All Well."EAS
The Zeppelin has, therefore,. crossed the Urals and is now over Siberia about 200 kilometres from the River Ob-Reuter
Postcards Dropped
Dr. C. C. Wu..
low:
UNITED
shown
nervous
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IS THAT SO?
Thoughts Terse, Perverse and Worse
Where does the Portuguese Con- "China Firma." To-morrow it sul-General come into the scheme | may be "China Brittle."
A
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THE DISPUTE ARBITRATOR
BUT STILL ON LOSING SIDE
The definitions of brandy..and
London, Yesterday H. G. Deane, South Africa's of things? whisky set forth en pages 459 and The big amalgamation of the fine redoubtable captain, bas 430Sof the Regulations of Hong
A lady car driver's favourite Kong, 1849-1926, she apply cotton spinning mills of Lancashire excellent promise for the Fifth and these regulations.
has advanced a further step. The last Test Match in the Old Country, to see Wong Shiu-hung.
Nanking apparently would like perfume is eau de petrol. 2. In
regolations the capital of the combined Egyptian which begins to-day Lerms uncertificated brandy" and Mills Limited, registered in June, with anxiety about the Tests over at the Oval.
B. "uncertificated whisky' shans nominally £100, and has been (the rubber having been lost) and
increased to £2,600,000.
hia casualties having more or less paint removers known. The new company, which will recovered, Deane was in merry mood control
approximately 3,000,000, at Southampton, hitting the Hamp- spindles has made agreements for shire bowlers for 183 not out.
Club de Recreio lawn bowlers amalgamation with 14 existing com-
say that Luz' cannot arw lose the "Jack" Hobbs was also in form Open Singles Championship. panies.
and he went one ran better than
MR. CHENG CHEUK-HIN
Dies After 31 Years' Service in Government
The "China Mail" records. with regret the death of Mr. Cheng Cheuk-hin, LS.O., Higher Class Clerk in the Government Service.
Appointed interpreter in the Police Department on January 4. 1898. Mr. Cheng went to the Public Works Department in 1916 where he has stayed since. Shortly after he was ap- pointed, in the Birthday Honours, a Companion of the Imperial Service Order, he be came ill and vetered hospital for treatment. He succumbed to heart disease at 7.30 a... to-day, at the early age of 49. leaving a host of friends both in and out of the Civil Service. The funeral will be held to- morrow, starting at 2 p.m. from Mr. Cheng's residence in Rus- sell-street, Causeway Bay; the cortege will arrive at Yat-pit- ting, Kennedy Town, at about 3 p.m., for friends to pay their last respects; and the interment will be at the Chinese Per- manent Cemetery, Aberdeen.
clude respectively all brandy and whisker herenfter imported into the Colony exempt such brandy and whisky as shall have been proved, to the hsfaction of the Superin tendent, to have been matured in wood for not less than three years.
2. No uncertificated brandy o
whisky shall be removed from any ship except into a general bonded warehouse, or to another ship for the purpose of exportation,
4.
incertificated brandy or whisky thall be removed from any general bonded warehouse except into another general bonded ware- heuse, er to a ship for the pur- pose of exportation.
Arbitration Court
Mr. Justice Rigby Swift has been appointed chairman of the Cotton Arbitration Court-Reuter.
Kids are the best home-made
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Deane, in a county match. He has the Tests this season because of an of arranging been unavoidably absent from all Lady law bowlers are thinking a Close Shingles injury in a Test trial, but feels fit Championship.
MINISTER FOR WAR enough to accept selection this time.
"CHRISTIAN
GENERAL'S"
SUCCESSOR
LU CHUNG-LIN APPOINTED
Nanking, To-day.
At a meeting of the State Council of the National Goverment, General Cu Chang in (formerly Chief of Staff to Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General"), who has been Vice-Minister
General Tang Seng-chi
5. Notwithstanding anything in of War, has been appointed Minister these regulations it shall be law of War. ful for the Superintendent in his General Tang Seng-chi (who is in discretion to allow removal for any North Ching) and General Chu Pei- purpose of such small quantities of teh (whose aurer is in Klanesi), have uncertificated brandy or whisky as been appointed inambers of the Stands he may think it, he is satisfieding Committer for the carrying out of that such brandy or whisky hrs been imported by a person for his private consumption.
6. These regulations shall come
Disbandment.--Router.
Canton's Commander
After going to Nanking to attend into operation on January 1, 1980. the last Disbandment Conference, Gen-
EXTRALITY QUESTION
China Shortly Sending Out Another Note
Nanking, To-day. Dr. C. T. Wang (Minister of Foreign Affairs) has announced that the National Government of China is shortly sending out another Note to the Powers on the subject of extraterritorial- .ity, Reuter.
[Replies by the Powera con- cerned to China's previous Note have already been delivered to Dr. Wang but immediate abolition was not agreed to.]
MINE EXPLOSION
SIXTEEN MEN KILLED IN UPPER SILESIA
BY COLD DAMP
Berlin. Yesterday. Sixteen miners were killed in a coal damp explosion in a mine near Kattowitz, Upper Silesia.-Reuter.
eral Chan Chai-tong (Commander-in-
Chief in Kwangtung) arrived in Hong Kong early this morning on the "Pre, sident McKinley." He was accom panied by Admiral Chan Chak (Com-
Geñen Chu Pei teh
Chan
i
Changes in Table "Farmer" White, who has re- Football Opens." What kin' o' Contemporary's heading: "Scotch linquished, the leadership of the fitba is that, cuilen? England XI into the hands of A. W. Carr, was in destructive mood against Surrey. He captured 13 "American shorts wickets but, as has been the case 15 market."Nothing said times already this season, his county article about Cissy shirts! lost and remains in the bottom position in the championship.
D
in rubber
in
the
Because Notts won the day before On a passenger list on Wednes- and Gloucester had the mortification day appeared the name of Mr.
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to lose by one run yesterday, Notts Fominator Chan Cow-Bully! retrieve top place and Gloucester go down to joint second with Lanca- "Complete Burglar's shite, who were having a rest found, says a local report.--Was Yorkshire remain fourth. Kent the outfit complete, too?
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Outfit"
were not engaged and they fail below Sussex, the cong terors of Gloucester. Derby, lose two places, "Rhinelands Now to the Fore" being superseded by Middlesex and 82ys a newspaper head line.-Now Leicester who won in two days on and also since 1918. Thursday. And Surrey go up two
as the result of meeting Somerset. There is no other change.
Somerset v. Surrey
London, Yesterday.
In the county cricket champion-
A
Paper heading: "Renervoirs Still Filling Up."-Who expects them to be filling down?
"double barracks" burglary
ship, at Weston-super-Marc, Someria reported.For the soldier who setshire lost to Surrey by 161 runs. Scores:-
Surrey (1st innings) 821 runs. (Hobbs made 134; J. C. White took
8 wkts. for 113 ruvs) and 2nd innings) 140 runs (White 5 for 41).
Somerset (1st innings) 184 runs and (2nd innings). 116 runs (Peach 6 for.38).
Yorkshire v. Derby
hap
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a double, presumably.
To-day's domestic hint: How to keep Your Bath Clean: Wrap it in brown paper and don't use it."
Earlier this week the "China Mai". reported that a Chinese had been fined $5 for causing At Sheffield, Yorkshire led Derby- necessary, pain to 10 ducks by put- shire on the 1st innings, obtaining ting them in a crate without a five points to the visitors three matting.-Quack, quack! Scores:
Yorkshire 287 runs and 269 runs for 5 wickets, declared.
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We may not enjoy Summer ice or roller skating here, but a few landslides may be expected short-
Derbyshire 226 runs (Macaulay 5 for 62) and 121 runs for 2 wickets. ly,
Gloucester v. Sussex
At Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
A paper mentions "139" Hum- lost to Sussex by one run! Scores: phreys Building.-Kowloon's build- Sussex 268 runs (Goddard 6 for ings must be expending with the 85) and 116 runs (Parker 7 for 49). heat.
Gloucester 214 runs (Bowley, who
In the Colony there is a great increase in consumption of water.
With the departure of a prominent football enthusiast it. is now a case of "Never say Dai."
Dog fighting has been introduced in Canton-A set-off to the dogs of war having a tussle in Manchuria?
Advertised: "House, six rooms, large black verandah."-Suit some- body with Blackwood furniture.
EX
The Chinese papers report that a coolie had a toe bitten off by a shark whilst bathing off the Praya Evidently land sharks can swim.
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A bandit named "Long John Silver," who invariably carried. R pistol concealed in the hollow of his wooden leg, has been executed-Any relative of "Long Tom"?
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In the list of new Unofficial Justices of the Peace England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, India, and represented in the
China are nomenclature.
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"Many bathers with sheds at Castle Peak have availed them- selves of the privilege of using the road once more."-Has anyone seen those portable sheds?
"It must not be forgotten that the stud fee of a well-bred Derby winner is from three to four hundred guineas." ("John Bull-When a dark horse ronips home and wins the Hong Kong Derby at the annual race meeting the stud, fee is much less. You Bet!
¤ ¤ Noted that North Dakota is to bar undertakers from acting as county coroners-How can a man hold an inquest on bis own client's relative?
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A Hull paper says that "nights could be made pleasanter by electric gas fires."-Hull is a place of great illumination, far outshining Hong Kong.
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Russia and China are busy pre- paring for a massed attack with expletives.
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Astronomical note: The Hong Kong stars recently seen in the tennis firmament in Malaya havē returned to their former heaven of
bad substituted Hobbs as England's. In "A Lady of Chance" a film delight opening batsman with Sutcliffe, took critic tells us, charming Norma
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5 wickets for 64 runs) and 184 runs [Shearer "poses" none of her "An Improved Currency."-The
(Langridge 5 for 72).
Hampshire v. South Africa
charm-In other words the charm kind that lines your pocket quickest. of the charming is not sheared.
4.
At Southampton, Hampshire drew with the South Africans. Scores:-
South Africa 269 runs (Herman & 6 for 76) and 408 runs. for 8 husband arrived in the middle of of some ia known beforehand. · wickets, declared (H. G. Deane made her oration."-Lucky he escaped 188 not out).
Hants 279 runs and 158 runs for
Water polo players have to put their best feet foremost at these
Telling an alleged ghost story night fetes at the V.R.C. The fate
contemporary says that "her
3 wickets. Reuter.
the beginning of it.
Comment D... Narrating the case of a fisher- man knocked overboard during a Birthday hint: To strengthen quarrel one paper says: "He was Counties' Positions
your affection for a lady friend about 40, stout, and dressed in a Games
Polmts
when (especially if she's your wife) pair of black trousers. Played Obtained send her a bag of cement, suit- last seen he was dressed in a pair
of black trousers."-He ably inscribed.
fail to be identified!
cannot
The meanest Scotsman has been
"Letter-in-the-Editor Says a discovered. He refused to give man in Sydney.-"In other parts answer when asked to of the world the mosquito pests
F
have a drink at the Club the other are said to have been overcome-
The Week's
can we not gain some experience from these countries."Certainly, Great Thought: let him come to Hong Kong (in-
(3) Notts
23
(1) Gloucester. 24
131 126
(2) Lancashire
24
126
(4) Yorkshire
23
124
(6) Sussex
24
119
leven an
(5) Kent
24
116
(8) Middlesex 23
114
night.
(9) Leicester
25
114
24
110
23
.91
24
85
24
.:85:
(18) Warwick
24
tion" (local paper). 71)
(14) Northants
24
.68
(15) Worcester
23
51
29
40
28
37
mander in Chief of the National Navy in Kwang ung)VERS
General Chan and Admiral
(7) Derbyshire stayed in the Feninsula Hotel and an (12) Surrey nounced to Fressmen that they will (10) Essex leave for Canton to day on the gun (11) Hampshire boat "Changshan.
AIR NAVIGATION
or informa
arrived from Manchuli, has left for the South for the purpose of report-
The Air Navigation (Colonies, Moscow, Yesterday. ing on the attempts to open frontier for defensive purposes. Protectorates and Mandated Terri- The Graf Zeppelin passed over negotiations with the Soviet Chu Chang Teo-hsiang has ordered two tories) (Amend Order, 1929, Klzel at 6.30 and dropped & pack- Shec yang is, remaining at Harbin, brigades to prepare for mobilisation is published
Hong Kong age of six postcards from the ostensibly to await the Soviet's reply preparatory to proceeding to the "Government t Soviet aviator Karlin, to his to the proposal for a formal frontier, while one or two other tion. friends stating: "Owing to the conference, though he does not seem brigades will be moved towards wind Eckener could not fly over to anticipate that the Soviet will Manchull azıd Fogrankchnaya. smoking in aircraft Moscow, thus losing eight to ten comply. hours.Reuter.
A mesange from Mukden states that in view of the strong attitude
Mr William Webster, aged
89
of the Soviet since the breakdo
of the attempt to open tego
was injured by an explosion whil
repairing cables in
Cloak lang
the Mukden authorities have deci
Beuter
Canton Discussion
Canton, Yesterday. will be recalled that at the the Sino-Russlan ning, 01.
Provincial Kuomintang (Continued on Page 13.).
One of the
lens forbids less it is per
"Hong Kong's Fire Brigade is, of cluding Talpo Road and Taipó
course, a very small affair com "City") pared with the London organisa
The Victorian carpet baggers (16) Glamorgan
Association doctor is described (17) Somerset
in a local contemporary as "one Figures in brackets indicate or Australia's most eminent medi- positions up to and including the cal men.The Very Idea! previous match.]
BANK RATE mitted by a notice athibited by the owner of
ft in a pro RAISED IN SOUTH AFRICA minent
BAG BY FEDERAL BANK CEN Kane defi
balloon la ven as aircr:
fixed or
More competition for the can- teens! A female writer tells that she went into a hat shop, feeling washed out by the heat (ale!) and found there a most refresh
ing draught-Red label?
Pretoria, Yesterday,
| Nothing is said about an hat free, using gas lighter than air as The South African Reserve Banks trimmed with a band and a cock- means of support and having no has raised its discount rate from tail of heavy against the grain means of propulsion.
ribbon.
5% to 6 per cent Reuter.
Says a "Motoring Journal": “The ~~ is one of the few chassis in which both the amateur and the expert will find something interest- ing. In many parts it breaks away completely from accepted practice."
Amateurs and experts may like that kind, but owners in this Colony as a class prefer a chassis that does not break away, b
America actually spends less on her navy than on cosmetics and other beautifers.
America has less to spare Upon her fighting ships Than on her daughters
checks and
Nalle, eyebrows, teeth, and lipt Oh, may this long continue so, And dainty craft like these By such innocuous methods show
The Freedom of the Shes!