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CHINA AND EXTRALITY
a
radio
The following passengers are duè here by the P. and O. "Karmalı"
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1929.
WAR CLAIM
on Thursday: F/O R. Brown CARGO INSURANCE AND WAR
Ser/Lt. E. S. Bolton, Capt. J. P. Ferguson, Mr. W. J. Farrell, Dr.
R. M. Gibson, Miss C. Hayward, and Mr. D. Short.
DECLARATION
SHANGHAI CASE
1,
P'RAPS
1
PRAPS NOT!
At a sitting on July 10, of the! Father (teaching small daughter- Chan Pak-yue (also known as Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tri- to tell the time): "Those are the Chan Pa-yu, Chan, Wah-clung and banal-the Court, comprising Dr. hours and these are the minutes Chan Ki-cho), who died intestate on H Klaestad (Norwegian president), and these the seconds." Little April 9 at No. 39, Wellington-street, Mr. Heber Hart, K.C. (British Girl (stil puzzled): "But where' left $13,100 in Hong Kong. The member), and Dr. Wendriner. (Gor-ara lite jilles. Daddy?" widow, Chan So Shi, has now been man member)-there came before granted letters of administration,
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What did your wife say when you came in at four this morning?"
“Didn't have a word to say.”. "Shatter, tongue tied?"
"No, I put cement in her beauty
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the Court the adjourned hearing of a claim for the sum of £150, which Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of had haen brought by J. Dey & ex-President Woodrow Wilson, ar Co., of London, against G. Martiny rived at Nanking on Monday, where, & Co., German nationals, of Shang- she was entertained at luncheon by hai, in respect of the insurance of clay." Dr. C. T. Wang, the Foreign' goods in ships which were at sea Minister. She left with her secretary when the War broke out in August, "Your Honour," said the plain- for Feking in the evening by the 1914. A solicitor represented claim-tiff, "before that woman gets up in Tientsin-Pukow train.
ante, with Mr. Ivor McGowan, the morning she begins to talk, and counsel for the British Clearing all day long she talks and talks. A carpenter named Leung Yuen Office, and Dr. Haecking was for and-" "About what?" inquired (35), was yesterday afternoon taken the German Clearing Offies and, the wave judge. "She won't say," to the Government Civil Hospital the respondents.
esphed the bewildered witness. suffering from injuries received } Dr. Huccking esplained that they through falling from a scaffolding had been unable to get certain evi- "I had an unusual experience to- whilst working at the Yeung Woo dence in time from Shanghai, and day." Nursing Home, Happy Valley.
asked for a further adjournment.
Forwarding Agents
"That so? What happened?" "I upset an ink bottle on a clean tabiccioth."
"Nothing unusual about that!" "Yea, there was; the bottle was empty!".
Li Yung, a widow living at No. 8. The solicitor said they were pre- Gutzlaff-street, had reported to the pared to submit certain documen- Police that whilst she was walking tary evidence before the court in in Hollywood-road at about 6.80 this dicating that no premiums had been morning, a sneak thief approached returned to the claimant company her from behind and snatched a pair in respect of the insurances. The "Does the baby talk yet?" asked of gold ear-rings worth $10. He claimants had every authority to a friend of the family. escaped.
affect the insurances on the pro- No,” replied the baby's disgust- perty, which they put abbar as fored little brother, "the baby doesn't.
"Doesn't need to talk?"
Cheung Luk-chuen, salesman, of warding agents, of their own ac- ceed to talk." No. 86. Connaught-road, West, has cord, and especially because it was reported to the Police that some time impossible to get instructions at "No. All the baby has to do is to. between 7 p.m. on Monday and 12.30 that time from Shanghai by cable, yell, and it gets everything in the pm.. yesterday, some person re- They had present several witnesses. house that's worth having." moved from the Hong Won Kee
ma Dr. Huceking said he had
godown. No. 410, Des Voeux-road objection to those witnesses being Egyed on by his wife, the stern. West, 129 bales of safety matches heard in the meantime.
parent cornered the flippant lad, worth $470,
:
A Chinesa named
Mr. E. A..S. Tate, of J. H. and put the question to him bluntly: Wackerbarth & Co., ship and in- "Look here, my boy," he said, "my time as China had a stable 'na-
Cheung Sau,surance brokers, said that in 1914 wife informe me that you have been tional government, and until she (51), who is apparently insane, was his firm acted for claimants as making certain advances to our
removed to the Mental Hospital from insurance brokers.
Now, what are--" insuring the daughter. was satisfied that the state of his home, No. 66, Saikung-road, goods in question and already on/But the youthful philanderer cut in Chinese laws and the arrange-Kowloon City. His son stated that the water for shipment to Shang-at once. "Oh that's all right, old ments for their administration he had attempted to commit suicide hai.
The premiums were paid by thing," he announced cheerily, "I warranted her surrendering these at 4 pm yesterday by tying cheque on August 8. It was a rule hadn't thought of mentioning it, but strips that all war insurance risks should now you have brought up the sub- curte paid before delivery of the ject, I wish you'd get her to pay
It was not true that any Policies. just in of the premiums paid were return-
ed, with one exception which rot in the claim.
He was
a pair of socks and Courts. The Chinese affirm that
torn from 2 mosquito these conditions are now fulfilled. tain round his neck.
when found, But as yet Nanking only really unconscious rules certain provinces, and has time to save his life. the grave trouble with Russia on its bands. There is now a code of laws drawn up on Western lines, with Western trained lawyers to administer it, but the dismissal of President Loo, of the Shanghai Provisional Court, for not carry- ing out the wishes of the Gov- ernment is disquieting.
nomy.
MARINE COURT
LEAVING PORT WITHOUT A CLEARANCE
TWO HEAVY FINES
notor
Dr. Huecking:
me back."
Saw
an
A motorist speeding along à country road,
elderly villager running towards him-ao the stopped, and inquired. "What are
was
What was
premium on July 31, 1914 ?
you running so fast for?" Witness suid that so far as he re- "Ooh "** the old man gasped, membered it would have been al- there's a wild beast show in the most impossible to have covered, war village, and the lion's broken risks on July 31, in the open mar-loose!" ket; but there was one company
"Good Lord which way did it
which was underwriting war riska go?" at that time at 3 per cent.
"Well" was the yokel's reply, as Dr. Huecking: Tell us how 3 he took to his heels again. "You by stages to 10 don't suppose I'm chasing him, do
you?"
The accountants of two schonners were severely dealt with by Commdr. G. F. Hole, R.N. (retired) at per
guineas. the Marine Court this morning.
fendant $200
Then
2.
the policy, but before that, from Wife: "I think I hear burglars. the date when he initialled the Are you awake?" slip. The two dates would not Husband "No." necessarily be the same.
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The Chinese position as against
cent. rose the Powers is strong, and its
The first man, who was the account- Not Under Ten Guineas strength is not military but ant on hoard the schooner "N. 2 Tai- Witness replied that there was no
A lady of intellectual tastes found economic. No Western Power wan Maru," was charged with leaving business being tramacted during the it difficult to collect all the facts
the harbour of the Colony without August holiday week-end, so far us she has anything to gain from at- clearance.
wishest to remember.. She tacking her, and the sixteen He pleaded ignorance of the law, say-the insurance market was concern therefore secured the services of a ing that, as it was his first trip to ed. About August 5, the rate was professor of one of the best mem- countries which she is now Hong Kong, he did not know the port certainly not under ten guineas, and ory systems. addressing simultaneously on the regulations.
he was not certain it was not 20 Scarcely had the professor taken Kis Worship said that there was a guineas. question of extraterritoriality are
came knowledge hia departure after a successful time when he had accepted that excuse that the Government were going to first lesson, when a loud double- eagerly competing with each and had warned the offender. This establish a War Risks Office, and knock was heard at the front door. other for her enormous markets. time he was not prepared to back afterwards the market became more "Who was that, Mary?" she in- Great Britain is in rather a fa-on his warning. He would fine the de-stabilized. The form used in that quired of the servant, when the It is reported in
three months' hard la case was the ordinary form used latter returned from answering the vourable position. She has re-imur, and next time he would impose a by Lloyd's from the commencement knock message to
the Canton News cently concluded a trade treaty fine of $400 for a similar offence. Agency that the Chinese Foreign granting to China tariff auto-board the "Junan Maru" and he was
The next man was the accountant on of a voyage.
"Oh, if you please, ma'am," said In answer to further questions, Mary, "it was the memory man; Office is preparing a second Note
The Lancashire cotton charged with a similar offencu. The witness said the underwriter accept-] be forgot his umbrella." to be sent to Great Britain and trade is henefiting by the in-
same fine was imposed.
ed the risk, not from the date of the other Powers requesting the proved relations, and they will not abolition of extrality before the be disturbed except under great end of the year. According to provocation. British merchants earlier cables published through will not like coming under Chin-
Dr. Huccking: How could a She: "Two rights never make a Chinese semi-official sourers in ese jurisdiction. No one can fore-
foreign customer know that the risk wrong." went back to the initialling date? He: "When they are shoes they Shanghai on August 22, it was see what will happen in China
Witness: By the correspondence, do." then learned in Peking that, as within the next six months. The Mr. J. M., Remedios successfully de- I suppose.
of representations Nanking Government is evidently with a widow Treung Yee (61), was nator of the firm of Finlay and about you." the result
fende Fu Shing (89) who, together!
"There's Mr. Finlay said he was the origi from certain quarters, the Lega: following Bismarck's example in charged at the Kowloon Magistracy Hodgson, and one of the directors "You Batterer." tions concerned decided to post- attempting to unify a divided na this morning before Mr. T. &. Whyte of John Dey & Co. The former firm "Yes, you're pigeon-toed."
Smith, with the possession of 62 tacks used to do foreign business with pone publication of the replies of tion against the menace of foreiga of raw opium.
Daughter: "Did you have many their respective Governments to aggression.
A plea of guilty" was entered by Martiny & Co., and then that busi- the Chinese Government's first
Mr. Remedios on behalf of the secondness was done by Dey & Co. They love affairs, daddy?" Idefendant.
Soldier Father: "No, child; I fell Note requesting the abolition of
in the first engagement." extraterritoriality. It was also
Pusser-by (suspiciously): "Why atated in Nanking on the same
are you begging with two hats?** date that the only reply which
Beggar: Trada is so brisk that had not come to hand then was
Fve had to enlarge my premises."
from Brazil
M.P.'s Daughter: "1 hope Dennis doesn't propose to-night." Her Mother: "Why?" "My acceptance speech isn't finished fat."
It is reported that commencing from September 1, the office hours of all Government organs in Canton will be from 7 a.m. to 11a.m., and from 2 to 6 in the afternoon.
OPIUM TRAFFIC
WIDOW FINED $1,860 AT KOWLOON COURT
DOGS MINUS MUZZLES
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Husband: "Oh, that's all right.. I tell everybody I'm getting some thing for you."
always tried to do the best they Dr. Bernardo de Sousa returned
After evidence His Worship acquit-could for their clients. to the Colony by the "Hakozaki ted the first defendant. He fined the Maru," after a short holiday in second defendant $1,860 or in default get instructions by cable, but after In the ordinary way they would Japan
eight months' jail with hard labour. the outbreak of War it was impos- The opium was confiscated.
sible to get such instructions. As they had several shipments afloat for Martiny & Co., at that time, they. decided to take out war risk insur In an interview in Manila on August 20 Congressman L. C.
Mrs. Matheson, of "Huntington,"ances in their clients' own intercats. Stubbs-read, was this morning sum- Dr. Huecking: Was your method. Dyer, of Missouri, who had just
moned before Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg, at a departure from the usual agency arrived there from Shanghai, de- by planes to and from Nanking was two dogs to be abroad on Bowen-road-
The transportation of passengers the Central Magistracy, for allowing procedure at that time? clared that there is no chance for commenced yesterday at Shanghai, an Airedale without a muzzle and lead,
Witness: It was exactly the same: Wife (at dance): "This is the Dr. Huecking: Did you not think twelfth time you've been to the re- the abolition of extraterritorial with the berths fully booked up, and a magrel without collar, muzzle and it necessary to take a solicitor's ad freshment buffet."
lend. rights of American citizens in reports the Canton News Service.
Vice before doing wo? Police Sergeant Henderson said that China before 1932 at the earliest..
Witness: I did not think it was. At the Repulse Bay Hotel dinner the dogs barked at a European cuple,
It was decided to resume the bear Chita must meanwhile, he said, dance on Saturday, the dancers, who remarked that the animala should "devote herself to a demonstration Nina and Jacques; assisted by anot be allowed abroad without muzzles. ing of the case in December next.
Mrs. Matheson said that recently that it is possessed of a capable augmented orchestra will give there had been no fewer than five bur- judiciary free from prejudices."
exhibitions of the latest dances glaries at "Huntington" and nothing including the Argentine Tango, had been recovered, so they bad to let Earlier than these messages Deace to Death" and the latest the Airedale ont in the garden with- came the announcement that the "Blues" and ball room dances. ut a muzzle at night as a precaution.. Nanking Government was fram
In spite of this only the other day foot- ing regulations to abolish Con- taken to the Kowloon Hospital yes:
The Chinese, Chi Tat, who was marks were discovered leading to a
back window, gular Courts from January 1 next terday, did not attend Court, and $5 in respect of the two doga
His Worship imposed fines totalling Great Britain has affirmed always it is learned that fever has develop- that her sole interest in the red and that he will not make an
Nearly £2,000, was realised at the tencion of these Courts was to appearance in Court till Monday
morning. He is charged with the first day's sale of Lord Balfour's protect the liberties and interests theft of $4 bricks from a contruc-furniture in No. 4. Carlton-gardens, of British subjects until such tor's shed in Om Yau Street.
Pall Mall, S.W
IDLE LIST
NEARLY 6,000 LESS IN PAST WEEK
"I'm," said the theatrical pro- ducer leaning back in his chair and throwing the closely typed pages on his desk. The other man raised his eyebrows inquiringly.
"Yes," said the producer, "this last scene which you've rewritten London, Yesterday. is far better than the one before The total number of unemployed but I'd suggest that you get the on August 19 was 1,162,300 being villain to blow himself up with 5,758 less than the week before, and dynamite instead of taking poison.” 145,850 less than on the same date: The author pulled a wrx face, the year before. It was exclusive "What for?” he asked. of the persons rendered idle by the "The noise'll probably wake the cotton dispute British Wireless audience up," replied the other
coolly
Service.