TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1929.
GANG OF FORGERS
Counterfeiters Unearthed In Canton
SKILLED ENGRAVERS
Chinese And Foreign Banks Victimised
NET LAID BY POLICE
CONCERT IN CITY HALL
MR. ORE'S PUPILS EXCEL THEMSELVES
A REAL PLEASURE
THE CHINA MAIL,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
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BRIDGE and MAHJONG A DRIVE 4In aid of the Hong Kong Benevolent Society will be Mr. Harry Ore is a very remarkable hold at the Helena May Institute man, I am not going to
throw on MONDAY, December 16, 1929, bouquets at the string of accomplished from 8.30-6 p.m. A charge of 82 young people who contributed to the will be made.
Ladies who are success of yesterday afternoon's con-willing to be responsible for a cert. They, as a body, would, I know, table are asked to communicate The handiwork of Chinese banknotc counterfeiters has, gen-be the last, to wish me
single out with Mrs. H. G. Sheldon, 25, erally speaking, been notably amateurish, but the gang of forgers for special praise one or two of thei: Penk Mansions, before December PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT number from the chasm of ignorance who have recently fallen into a net laid by the Canton police, need in which the critic la bound to work 0. not off their hats to skilled professionals of any kind. Their pro-regarding their opportunities and
antecedents. Suffice it to any duct defied detection, and it was only the fact that duplicate numbers were found to be cropping up frequently that led to the initiation of the search that has culminated in the downfall of the organisation.
TELL-TALE RADIO
While the printing presses were grinding away, the leader drowned the tell-tale sound by giving a radio concert to the delight of his neigh- bours and passers-by. A loud speaker had been installed in his residence that amplified many times the music that came through the ether from the Canton Municipal Broadcasting Station. Even those
Tea will be provided free of that charge. Come one-Come all.
from a musical point of view they were a real pleasure to listen to, while, from the standpoint of paychological philosophy they raise one of the most
thrilling subjects for speculation of modern times.
SHADOWS BEFORE,
at Hong
To-day-Final practice dance of Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society at Peninsula Hotel, 5.80 p.m. Crawford's restaurant, 8 p.m.
To-morron-Police dance at Lane,
Entertainmenta To-day Queen's Theatre; "Four Devils."
Theatre;
A Gloomy Hypothesis
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED M. Maeterlinck, that most incon-
IN "CHINA - MAIL" clusive of philosophers, but prince of Journalists, has propounded a gloomy.
Social Functiona hypothesia in which he likens the
To-day-Tos Dance a surprise visit over two hours to evolution of humanity to the growth Kong Hotel 4.30 p.m. find the printing plant. They ran- of some kind of mast-mind, an antho- sacked the place from end to end,logy of the soul, in which the cultiva-Kong Hotel, 8.30 p.m.
To-day Dinner Dance at Hong and by mere chance finally found ten of those qualities we are taught the catch that opened the door into the most to respect, such as courage pulse Bay Hotel, 8:30 p.m.
To-day-Dinner Dance at Re- a small secret chamber, the work-and self-sacrifice, produce in the end the complete suppression of individual shop of the counterfelters.
Under a grilling third-degree consciousness to the ultimate evolution examination the leading forger of the Aalma Mundi. Under the broke down, and told all that he saciniism, each and every human unft spreading influence of an all-righteous whose residences were separated knew.
Others were involved, and will become nought but an instructive from the home in which the two of the accomplices were caught, phagocyte, animated by some mysteri. spurious paper money was being end confessions extorted from them. ous homones, purely for manufactured wholesale by but a Another raid took place, and this west and with no conscious connection common thin wall did not dream that anytime it was the engraving plant at with any high intelligence. The human thing out of the way was going on. which the detectives called, over race is tending to the likeness of a For those hours when no radio in another Canton suburb, Fong-vast ant-heap in which an unseen and programme was being sent from the chuen. They found as completely occult power wields a mysterious but local or distant stations, another equipped an engraving office as any completely efficient authority over ita nuvel method of killing the noise in the world, As many as seventeen crawling multitudes. made by the presses was employed. |pieces of apparatus for enlarging
Needless to say he does not cling A troupe of Buddhist priests and genuine bills formed part of the Nobody could and remain' sane.
unmercifully to his hypothesis. Ho nuns were wont to assemble at the equipment. Having get a perfect has always before him an ideal residence, and there they chanted production of the real banknote conflict with all that we see around us, weird hymns to the accompaniment many times the natural size, the with all actuality, that we have slowly of gongs and drums. The presses engravers were enabled to make aand laboriously evolved from an ap- To-day-Outward for Canada, simply could not complete with the detalled study of the intricate palling silence, chaos and barbarism"U.S.A. and Europe via Vancouver, racket made by those who went design, and thus turn out an excel-He recommends us therefore "to shape ("Empress of Russia"), 5 pan. through the Buddhist service. lent reproduction.
our action as though all that vague
Sports instinct and some kind of hereditary.
Artistic Gentleman For many a week this must have gone on, and yet suspicion was not aroused, for the leader was
an
The Central Bank
Over in the Honam home of the leader of this gang, only $42,800 in notes of the Central Bank of China
and inevitable as death."
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gilks and Saddles."
To-day -Star
Theatro;
To-day World "Harold Lloyd Comedies." (Con tinuous performance from 1.15 to 11.15 p.m.).
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A deposit of $1,000.00 must ac-: company each tender, to be re- turned after the tendera have been considered. In the case of the successful tender the deposit will be forfeited to the Crown should the Tenderer refuse or fall to complete the purchase in at- To-day Majestic Theatre; cordance with his tender. "Ports of Call" at 5.20 and 9.15
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Nov. 30-Extra Race Meeting. optimism promise us were as certain Happy Valley.
Dec. 1-K.0.5.B. Falsity of Thesis eminent citizen of Canton's suburb, were discovered. But there were hereditary optimism," that animates Now it is just this certainty, this
Kwanti. Honam, an artist par excellence of more than $2,000,000 of these notes the heart of the true artiste, and in a the old Chinese school. This well-stacked up in the engraving office. Jeancert such as this, demonstrates the known gentleman was also well Besides these, there were more than falsity of that terrible termitic thesis. thought of as a performer on native $400,000 in French banknotes, Here, in the mind of a man like Harry musical instruments, and he is also total of more than $100,000 in paper Ore, liven a spark of, real individuality, known as a connoisseur in the field currency of the Hong Kong and that no commercial commission could a.m. of rare and anelent procelain. On Shanghai Banking Corporation, and ever swallow and make its own. It top of all that, this man of refine-¦ well over $100,000 in Singapore flows
Dec. 2-At Sales Room, Duddell through mind, fingers, out ment was a substantial merchant, banknotes. This is by far the tongue and heart and calls from others Street, household furniture, 2.30 the manager of a Konam matting biggest haul that has been made a sympathetic individuality that may P manufactory.
for years, undoubtedly, and is a China conditions have become, it must be altogether different. Here in Spurious Bills
feather in the cap of the operatives be confessed, so similar to the out-hilling, 4.15 p.m.
To-day-Sanitary Board Meet fremi Canton's "Scotland. Yard."
Maeterlinck,
that they would Nov. 29-Meeting of Hong Kong net seem to justify much hope for our Development Building and Savings short-lived energy, after 10 thousands of years of unprogressive City Hall, 2.80 p.m..
many Society Ltd. (in Liquidation), "civilisation." But in the midst of it
CORRESPONDENCE
All this must have gone on for a very long time, but the best-laid plot must fall if the crook peralata too long in carrying on his nefarious practices. An amah em- ployed in the household tried to ex- change some of the spurious bills for silver coin one day at a money shop, and a watchful detective pick-To the Editor of the "China Mail"
ed up the first clue. He had learn-allow me
Learned The Truth
By working slowly and carefully
S.P.C.A. APPEAL
al I see Harry Ore, sitting at his piano, bis eager, and I think rather wistful, face gazing at an uncertain future through everlasting spectacles.
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Meetings
Miscellaneous
ORGAN RECITAL
To-morrow Tung Wah Eastern Hospital Formal Opening, 11 am
To-morrow-Annual drill display Sir-I shall be grateful if you will From a side view he might be an of the Fire Brigade in Central ed how to pick out there imitations through your paper, an expression of And through all his concert his pupils
to convey to the public, imago of Schubert in modern clothes. Police Station, 3 p.m. from the real article, and observing thanks for their generous response to troop one after the other apon the at a glance that they were all coun- the appeal for funds in aid of the platform and play, never mind what, terfeits, he followed the hired wo work of the S.P.C.A.
Á sum of, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin 'man to her abode.
$3,734.80 has been collected up to date Nocturne, "French Dancing Air," that and it is expected that some farther lovely. Etude in E Major, and go out subscriptions will come in.In view of and chat to each other, and pay little the fact that all the collection cards heed to the rest of the programme. the secret service operative WAS able to pick up an acquaintance mittee of the S.P.C.A. would be great they do not feel
have not been returned.. The Com- These are not musicians, you may say; with the head of the liouse. Some-
it in their bones. time thereafter, posing as the re- whose cards remain uncollected will foreign tongue, that they have come
obliged
if intending subscribers Remember that they are speaking in a presentative of a firm dealing in kindly send them, with their donations, voluntarily to learn, and that their machinery, he got the forger in- direct to teresed in the matter of investing in some new presses, Little by little, he learned the truth: the printing was being done In this home.
Foreign Notes Imitated
It took the band of aleuths who finally paid this ringleader's home
PRAYER BOOK
March On Bishop's Home
RESIGNATION DEMANDED
"D. BLACK,
Hon. Treasurer, S.P.C.A.,
c/o Messrs. Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming."
It may interest readers to note that the Society proposes to organise a con-
Second Of Series In St. Andrew's
A delightful ofgan recital, the learning, and the genius that is behind second of a series to bé given on them, cannot die, any more than the the last Sunday in each month, termitary considered an individual. was rendered by Mr. Rupert "The myth that applies to us is not Baldwin, A.T.C.L In St. An Prometheus, but Sisyphus or the drew's Church after evensong on Danaida."
Sunday, at which the preacher Hopeful Optimism And at the centre of the movement was the Rev. & A. Armstrong.
A fair congregation listened at-
cort and toa dance in Kowloon in the stands Harry Ore, very nearly alone.tentively. to the selections, which bear future and to hold another A hopeful optimism battles with dis Masked Bali In March, 1930. The couragement in his cheerful heart. Ha included a pretty Prelude and exact dates will be announced very will probably be something of a senza- Fugue from Bach.
tion after he is dead. But meanwhile The programme of music com. I beg to take this opportunity to he is very much alive, as the crowded prised: thank the ladies who so kindly, and audience in the City Hall yesterday Concluding Voluntary courageously, undertook to organise afternoon fully realised.
Marche Bolennelle.../T. "Adams
shortly.
and carry out the financial drive which A programme af concert-la appended has been the means of securing, anot because of anything particularly large contribution to the funds of the startling in the Items, but for the in- Society.
terest to be derived from a study of An incident unprecedented indebtedness of the S.P.C.A. to the local our hearty good wishes to this smillus I also desire to acknowledge the in- the performers' names. Let us extend modern Umes occurred yesterday Press for their valuable support and band, with the conviction, that they when over 200 people marched on assistance in the movement.
London, Nov. 18,
the home of the Bishop of Truro and demanded his resignation for using the Revised Prayer Book.
The Bishop, however, was away. and the procession dispersed quiet-
It will be remembered that a short while ago there was an ex- traordinary scene at Truro Catho- dral when four men caused a dis-
Yours etc.,
W. B. FINNIGAN,
President, S.P.C.A. Hong Kong, Nov. 28.
LABOUR VICTORY
will go ahead and, develop this seed
of a new, culture in the soll of their future generations.
Programme 20
1. Daet, French Dancing Air.Gregh Miss Daley Ho, and Mr. Peter Cheung 2. Nocturne in F Minor Chopin Mr. Peter Cheung 3. Venetienne Misitu
Miss Daley, Ho
„ka MianElvira Rosarko
Bárbar
1st Trio:
turbance by making nolsy of etfon Tory Amendment to Bill 4. Nocturne V
to the use of the New Book d_d: had
to be forcibly removed. Singapore
Free: Pread.
POLAR FLIGHT
New York; Nov; 20- "New York Times +) that Comma
Rich
Defeated
London, Yesterday.
In the House of Commons to-day,
the Conservative amendment reject
ing the Unemployment Insu
Bill was defeated by
to
213, Liberali
second read
ernment Bil,
5. Romance
6. Finala
Mr. S.XH
MY HOre bromptu in Bo
Chopin
1. Romanze (in B fist),
The Government does not bind
itself to accept the highest or any
tender.
Tenders will be received up to and including 31st December,
1929.
A Permit to view and Inspect the machinery and plant may be obtained on application to the Director of Public Works after payment of the above deposit.
HAROLD T. GREASY. Director of Public Works. 25th November, 1929,
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