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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929,
Smiles From Court Not So Stupida he looks. She knows better-Matter of Taste.
FORGED CHOP
sum of
These issues can be more con- Gdently understood and appre ciated if they are explained
CHINESE SWINDLES FIRM "within the family." Two types
'OUT OF $7,500 of internationalism offer them-
FLIGHT TO SHANGHAI selves to the Labour Parties of the world. There is the Moscow
Wong Kal did not know why, ha
A Chinese named Au Ying, alias type, representing the programme wanted 10 cattles of falls. There was Chan Young, was yesterday after- of world revolution, there is that no use for them, but being a klepto noon charged before Mr. A. W. G. H. to which Mr. MacDonald looks maniac, he simply had to take them Grantham, at the Central Magis-
when he saw them lying about on tracy, with obtaining the for the solution of such a question board the steam Jaunch "How Roi." $7,500 by means of false pretences; as the coal problem, a sane and
Wong Kai found to his cast that with the unlawful possession of a the way of a trangresar was indeed forged "chop"; and with forging a progressive international co hard.
He stood in the dock at the receipt, for the money. operation. The closer this co- Central Magistracy this morning, look,
operation is drawn the more
ing quite dejected and crestfallen.
The Magistrats asked him to plead, the Wing Foon firm of Hong Kong secure is the prosperity of La and all he said was hal, hai. The whose "chop" and receipt he had bour in each country.
Magistrate thought that Wong Kai forged. The fraud was hatched by was stupid, but the Inspector remark the accused when the Wing Foon ed that he was not no atupil as he firm received a cable from the Man looked.
Yick firm in Manila asking them to Κοιν
collect the sum of $7.500 from the Arm in payment for
the purport
NEWS IN BRIEF
For driving hand trucks without having a licence two Chinese were fired $2 each, respectively, at Kow. loon to-day.
The Chinese resident of 36, Halphong Road was Bloed $5 for unlawfully dumping house refuse (rubbish) into the street.
The accused was an assistant of
Wong might have beon good actor, but he was too self-con- Chaen Wo seious, and when he heard that he was called a stupid man, he at once showed that he was all there.
With
"Very good," said Mr. Grantham. "Pino $10 or go to jail for ten days,"
good: supplied.
Having ascertained
an Intelligent look, he told the Mingis- of the cable, the accused went to the trate that he had stolen the rails, be- Chaen Wo firm on August 6 and, cause there was no one who saw him representing that he had been au taking them.
thorised by the Wing Foon firm to receive payment, collected the money and gave a receipt, on which a chop" was affixed. Later the Wing on firm questioned the validity of the receipt and "chop" and the Pollee were informed.
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Wong Kwai-pan and So Chiu, two robust young men of about sixteen The forthcoming weiding is an-summers, fell foul with, the Police nounced of Mr. John Reginald yesterday, and this morning, they
A warrant was issued and accused Leslie Stanton, of 12. Treguntar were ushered before the Magistrate. Mansions, to Miss Astri Larssen, of
A Chinese detective said that the was traced to Shanghai where he two lads were hawking catfish with Later he went to Canton. Then the 7. Peak Mansions.
engaged in riotous living. I out a licence.
"Yes," admitted the first youth, "but Canton Police were communicated At the Kowloon Magistracy to-I had to do that to make a living" with and Au was arrested and day Chinese woman was fined
Ол hearing this, the second lad, brought to Hong Kong. $5, for currying five chickens in a bawled out that he also had to make
His Worship passed sentences of cruel manner by putting them in aja living for himself.
six months' hard labour on the first crate that was too small for them. "Well, well," said the Magistrate charge and three months on each of This is rather hard luck. Anybody the other two, the terms to run
to support you?"
A Chinese named Mak So (28), was yesterday admitted to the
The second boy said that he had an consecutively. Government Civil Hospital suffering capitalise him, and refused to support aunt, but this good lady yould only
hands, received through accidentally from injuries to his head, legs and him. falling off the upper ledge of Ying("but your records showed that you
"That's bad." said the Magistrate, NO MIXED BATHING Fai Terrace whilst engaged in had received six strokes of the birch
on two previous occasions, and for the RHINE TOWNSHIP'S LOSS FROM erecting a scaffolding.
inam offence.
PROHIBITION It was just
At Kowloon Magistracy
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"Oh, that's nothing. thi Overland Chima Mall goods. The continued prosperity morning the occupier of 1, Kowloon hard luck, that's all," he replied. of trade in Great Britain, and Tong Estate was fined $5 for allow time," the Magistrate retorted.
"All right, you try 12 strokes this There is great excitement in the with it the prosperity of the Bri-without a muzzle. A similar pen-pense of his friend. He said nothing the definition of virtue.
ing his dog to be abroad on the road)
little town of Beuel, on the opposite The first lad became wise at the exside of the Rhine from Bonn, as to tish worker, is bound up primari-alty befell the dweller of 516, more, and got away, with six strokes. ly with the development of new Shanghai-street. for markets in the Empire, and offence.. secondarily with an outward flow
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LABOUR IMPERIALISM
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1929 rainfall ..68.03 inches
Average
79.28 inches
Deficit......11.25 inches
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The municipal council, following the now universal practice, con- When a woman saya that she knows structed a large Strandbad (beach better, it is always better to leave it bathing place) along the shore of at that. So when Chang Ah Mui told the river at a cost of five thousand the Magistrate that she certainly pounds. It was immediately popu- ought to know better where her baby lar. Upwards of a thousand per came from, Mr. Hamilton very wise sons used it daily, and hundreds ly left the matter there.
She was in the dock this morning on had to be turned away. Then, at a charge of hawking without a the end of July, members of the conce. Of course, she had a baby council belonging to the Centre strapped to her back, and that made Party moved that the sexes be- it more pathetic.
strictly separated in the Strandbad, "Hawking without a licence? Oh and as the Catholic party is very yes. you sce had to do it.. I have strong in the Rhineland, the motion two mouths to feed," she said.
was carried.
but asked
of migration to relieve the con- gestion crjused by restricted trade at home. The British Labour Party realises that both these aims depend
upon the use of British resources
in, developing the British Dominions with A
Four private Indian watchmon view to incréasng their popula- employed at the Hong Kong, Wham- tion and expanding their purpoa Dock Company, Ltd., were, at chasing power.
the instance of Sub-Inspector Khan, Mr. Hamilton wanted to know if the Great Britain
summoned for failing to produce baby was her own or that it had been had again to deal with the matter, Recently, the municipal council has realised that this can only their watchman's licence book when borrowed for the occasion. be done by the aid of British demanded by
and it learned that the Zeitgeist Indignantly a police officer in
she told the Magia- trate that she knew better. capital and Dominion resources, uniform. All were fined $5 each.
Me. (spirit of the age) ia different from. Hamilton did not pursue the subject what was imagined by the majority and by stimulating British inter- The Hon. Mr. C. McI. Messer,
any further. He imposed a fine in-of Its members. It appears that on est in the purchase of Empire Colonial Treasurer, is due back
stead,
the first day of the division of the sexes the number of visitors fell products, which, of course, are in from loave about November 10,
"Fine roasted "beetles for sale, fine from a thousand to twenty-seven, the British market, primary pro- having booked by the P&O. fat roasted beetles, red hot." shouted and although weather continued ducta. We are certainly in tha steamer "Rawalpindi," which left a hawker.
ideal for bathing, it often happened London on October 4. The Hon.
The very mention of roasted beetles that not ten persons patronised the The keen outward vision of the beginning of a period of economic Mr. E. R. Hallifax, is a passenger was enough to stir up the gastronomic, Strandbad during the whole day. British Labour Party, now in Labour Imperialism.
by the same steamer, accompanied taste of the Chinese, and before long, The loss to the community is very the hawker was doing a roaring trade.serious, but the clerical members power, has made the future re-
We stand entirely to gain. It by Mrs and Miss Hallifas.
A constable was also attracted to of the council' congratulated the lations of Labour of Great Bri- is, of course, the primary pro Yesterday afternoon a Chinese the spot. He did not buy any beetles, latter on having achieved cultural tain and Labour in the Dominionsduction of the Dominions that woman named Mui Sau-fong (22), licence instead.
to inspect the hawker's progress. and announced that a a question of great historical British Lalkar is concerned to suicide by swallowing an overdose and all he could do under the circum the highest Catholic dignitaries of He found that the movement was afoot, supported by Was alleged to have attempted man was not licensed to sell beetler. moment. It is a striking fact ald in developing. That would of opium. She was found uneon- stances was to take the bestle manger Cologne, to act on Beuel's example that in the short time that Bri- mean more people on the land, scious in her room at the Tung Shan in tow to the Police Station.
at other places where there is a.' fish Labour has occupied the greater total population with Hotel, Connaught Road West, and When Mr. Hamilton was told that Strandbad. Treasury Benches, its most con- more capital behind it and
the Police removed her to the Goy. the man was hawking. beetles, he was Owing to the strength of the ernatant Civil Hospital. The woman seprised. "What, beetles for food?" clerical party; the municipal coun- fident attack and greatest success larger volume of local spending is a new arrival in the Colony.
"Yes," said Inspector Bloor, "the eil is helpless, and the matter is to „Chinose, eat them." have been in foreign policies. In power. Though the market for
be carried before the superior this second spell of power, with British goods would thereby be second floor of 9, South View, Yau- the offender.
"Certainly, there is no accounting authorities.. Mrs. Arbusoff, living on the for taste," said his Worship, and fined more sense of security, its out increased, so also to ani even, mati, reported to the Police yester look is widening to take in the greater degree would Dominion day that at about 10.30 am., dur Lured on by the fabulous Dominions. Mr. Snowden, the manufactures benefit by an in- ing her absence from the house, her that a pugilist could make, three Chin would be in clover.
wealth courted, and if she smiled, why, ha Chancellor, even when, in re- crease in the local market on amah named Ah Yee accidentally one thought that they would enrich The wish being father to the thought, sponse to the Conservative chai-which, within their tariff walls, and 11 months, fall from the back ingly, they staged a free-for-all in the thought of Po Piu lottery tickets.
ler her male child, aged 1 year themselves by that means. Accord-Kwan Yung, such was his hame, lenge, made a speech threatening they are dependent, The very window of the servants" quarters, public highway, and when a police Ho laid out $21.50 and 38 tickets in Imperial preferences, spoke force- increase of population, provided The child was seriously injured and constable took them in hands, they exchange, But he was not going to
becaille indignant. "
depend on the torn of the wheel. fully of the Government's willing-it were adequately capitalised, is now in a critical condition at the
They wanted to know why if Jack Oh, ne, he had a bettor way. He Dempsey could fight and get a million'could sell those tickets at a little pro Culminating from a raid carried gold dollars for doing so, they could fit but as luck would have it, he was
not do the same. They certainly were arrested. MacDonald's out by Revenue Officer A. L. Powell not asking for a big purse. They were He failed to court Dame Fortune, for Unemployment, has been in vigorous and idealising foreign Road, three Chinese appeared at the The constable mentioned something and the result was that he had to part on the third floor of 922, Canton quite contented with a little practice. but he certainly met. "Miss Fortune." Canada pleading urgently the policy springa not only from Kowloon Magistracy, to-day be about the law of peace and good order, with another 36 this morning by order case for British trade as against broad humanitarian sources fore Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, charged to be was not understood: The of the Court.
constable, had to take them to the that of the United States, which That is with him a passionately with the unlawful possession of four Station so that the Inspector could do Alls three-fourths of the Cana sincere motive, and it moves him opium. His Worship imposed a fine This morning they stood before Mr.
taels of non-Government prepared the explaining. dian market, and investigating to deeply impressive utterances of $920, with the alternative of Hamilton, and when they were charg the prospects of sound migration such as the one with which he three weeks hard labour on the first ed with fighting, one man said that their luck on a more lavish scheme. Mr. Ben Tillett, the newly-elect recently stirred the Assembly at man, and discharged the other two, he was not so rowdy, as all that He They bought types anil other print- was merely trying, to separate the ing paraphernalia, and were actually ed president of the Trades Union Geneva. But his foreign policy Canton, Yesterday,--Sluce assum-
other two from hugging each ether printing To Piu tickets when tho Congress,, a veteran. of many is vitally related to British: Laing office as Commander-in-Chief of other way about.
The second man said that it was the Pelica came on the scene. hard battles, in his "Inaugural bour aims. He succeeded to a the 8th Army Route on Oct. 9 at pacifier, and the other two were fighting a gaming honse and eight of them He was the true They were all charged with keep- Canton, General Chu Shao-Ilang ing. speech, urged the need for con wonderful set of opportunities has received a flood of telegrams of
with printing lottery ticketa. ferences between British and which he is developing to the congratulation from Commander-in- wrong. He was the man, who like Bie in the second count gut off on the The third man said that it was all The first man who was not included Dominion Labour.
full, Labour is concerned with Chief Chan Chai-tong, Han Fu-chu, Robert Ho-tung, was trying to make ground that it could not be said that. This realisation of the Empire no cause more vital to its in. Liu Che, General Ku Chu-tung, peace.
they were keeping commm gaming is no mere sentimental excursion terests than the promotion of Deputy Commander-in-Chief Lul All right, all of you have to pay a house boetuse no games were hing
Woon-yim, Generals LI Ynag-king, fine of $8," sald the Magistrata,, la virtually connected with the world peace and disarmament Chiang Kwong-nie, Tsol Ting-kai,
For printing the tickets, the other welfare of British Labour. If the Expire is to pursue these Colonel Chang Shlang, and other and what not, an elderiz Chinese The second and fourth defendants
In these days of trade competition eight men were convicted. There are also great possibilities aims unitedly Labour in the Chu Shao-lang has replied to if though he could not stand up against them were dach fined $150, or tires high military officers, General found himself out of the running. Als who had previous convictions against of advantage in it to Labour in Dominions must understand the these cables, thanking the shaders competition, there was no reason why months fall, and the rest are mulct the Dominions. The United difficulties that hinder and the for their good wishes-Canton he could not make a few dollars, ed in the sum of $75, or six weeks im States and the countries of the policies that further them. News Agency.
Dame Fortune, he thought, might be prisonment.
ness to aid in the development would in itself be a source of of the Dominions. Mr. J. H., wealth and economic stability. Thomas, who is virtually Minister Mr. Ramsay
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appealed to nine other Chiasse,
It appeared that this "Get-Rich- Quick Wallingford" scheme had also.
They got together and tried out
there.