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SAMPAN ROBBERY
Allegations Against Four Chinese
MISTRESS GAGGED
F
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AND SO TO BED"
Dates Fixed, for A.D.C.
Production
The dates for the A.D.C.'s per-) formances of James Bernard Fagan's' hugely successful costume! play, "And so to Bed," have now been definitely fixed as follows:-
Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday, | Friday and Saturday, March 22, 25,
27, 28, and 29 at 9.15 p.m.
He calls his
It is hoped that this will be ap- preciated by pooplo-living in out- lying districts and that there will With the object of eliminating At the Kowloon Magistracy yes-also be a good attendance of stu
to secure terday afternoon, Mr. T. S. Whyte-dents who should welcome the op- redundant expacity and more economical costs by resultant Smith heard evidence in a caso in portunity of seeing a costume play, concentration, British shipbuilders which four Chinese were charged which is such a rarity in the Far | East, particularly. one depicting have registered a company entitled with having been concerned in Wednesday, 26th March.
Hfe in the days of the. “Merry' the National Shipbuilders' Security | robbery on board a sampan. Wednesday, 23rd April.
Limited, with a nominal capital of It was alleged that under the Monarch" Charles II. BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
£10,000, but with borrowing powers pretext that they wanted to board The play depicts a day in the life SADO MARU
Monday, 11th March.
the 8.8. Changte, the four men of the great diarist, Mr. Pepys. 'SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vin Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles," to £3,000,000.
The Company's objects include engaged the sampan of Wing Lok The author has explained that the When the boat had gone day in question is not actually de- the purchase of redundant, and ob. Wharf. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, solete shipyards, the disposal of the some distance from the Praya wall, scribed in the diary and that it is
contents and the ro-sule of the sites, the man revealed to the boat mis- entirely imaginary. subject to their being 10 furtress and her daughter that they work a comedy, but there are so ther used: The Shipbuilding Cam- were robbers, and then proceeded to many amusing situations that it pany is supported by most of the relleve them of their valuables and might almost be described as a farce
-and costume farces are rare. leading shipbuilding concerns on the money.
After gagging the boat mistress, Booking will open at the Ander- north-cast coast, Including Barrow, Birkenhead and Belfast. It is the men ordered the women to row
son Music Company on Monday. We understand that stated that the scheme does not to Tsimshatsui, but, instead, they March 10. represent an amalgamation of made for the junk anchorage, be- the play will be elaborately.mounted!!
and and dressed, so that, full houses the Harbour Office The scheme has
When near the should be the order of the day. also been sup- Western Market. ported by all the leading firms on junks, the sampan mistress's daugh-. ter raised the alarm, whereupon one the Clyde-Reuter.
of the robbera pushed her over. board. Then the men also jumped) into the harbour in an attempt to get away, but they, were hauled out; by the junk people, and detained until the Police arrived and took them into custody.
Mexico & Panama, BAKUYO MARU
2nd March.
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Saturday,
8th March.
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Tuesday,
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Friday,
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Thursday,
20th March.
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Saturday,
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Saturday,
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Sunday,
'2nd March,
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Sunday,
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Tuesday
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LONDON,
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Melbourne, Yesterday. There is now no danger of severe damage to the steamship Ningchow. The fire aboard is centralised, and is being extin- gulshed.-Reuter.
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that the China Mutual Navigation Company's steamer
HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM & Colombo, Suex and Port Said. AMAZON MARU .................................................... Tuesday, 18th March. RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,
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CELEBES MARU
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8th March. Saturday, Wednesday, 19th March.
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TAKAO & KEELUNG.
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Thursday,
6th March,
Thursday, 6th March, 10 a.. Francisco & Panama.
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Sunday, 2nd March, Noon.
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The case was adjourned.
SHIPYARD THEFTS
Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Co.'s Losses
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A Chinese described as an odd until the last moment. Ningehow, job coolle was to-day at the Kowloon Although the sale of tickets in- laden with wool and a general Police Court sentenced to three dicates that there will be many but carrying no passen weeks' hard labour for the theft of small parties, several large gers, bound for England, was 44 lb. of lead piping, the property parties have been arranged, afire in the vicinity of Cape of W. S. Bailey and Co.'s ship-of which, numbering over thirty,
Australia. yard at To Ka Wan.
Naturaliste,
Western
one
has decided on a most novel' uni- !
A tug from Fremantle, equipped Mr. Joseph Fraser, as representa-formity of fancy dress. with fire-fighting apparatus, had tive of the Company, stated that the Table reservations may be made gone to assist her.]
value of the lead was only $2 at at the Hong Kong Hotel, present, but when it was lead pip-1
CHINWANGTAO
K.M.A. Maintains Wireless Station
Mesare. Dodwell & Co., local agents, write to the China Mail:-It is notified for Information that the Kailan Mining Administration now maintains a wireless station on board the steam tug Fu Ping at. Chinwangtao. The station is equipped with a Marconi 1% k.w. quench gap set.
ing it was worth double the
amount.
The only thing they
could do with the stolen pieco was to melt it. He added that the Company had ng, control over the thefts at the sea front which oc- curred practically daily.
PROF. RATEAU
Death of Well-Known
Steam Engineer
Was
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The following programme will be broadcast to-day from the Hong "Cantonese for Everyone" which Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. book will be the text book for the
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P.I. SEPARATION
Moros Join with the Christians
Manila, Yesterday.
representing 85 per cent, of the A delegation of 40 Moro lenders,
Moro population, has joined with the Christians ín the Philippines, adopting a resolution expressing a destre for a separate Government for the Filipino people.
Professor Auguste Rateau, on 355 metres:- The wave length used is the LL.D., who died a few weeks 6-5.30 p.m.- European standard 600 metres as used by ago,
Almost R& wellgramme of Victor Records. merchant vessels and a continuous known amongst steam engineers 5,30-0 p.m.-Aunty Letty, Aunty watch is kept.
in Britain as in his native Madge, and Uncle Jack will enter V.P.C.Q. is the registered call France. He was an active mom-tain the Children. sign of the Fu Plog, and the only | ber of the Institution of 6-7 pm-Chinese Programme. messages which she will handle will Mechanical Engineers and of the be in connection with the shipping Institution of Naval Architects, and and business of the port of Chin- had made valuable contributions to wangtao.
No charge will be made their transactions. As far back as Study of Cantonese for the receipt or despatch of such | 1901 ho read A paper ΟΠ
The first of a series of twelve messages,
"Regenerative Accumulators for lessons on the study of Cantonese Utilising Exhaust Steam," which will be broadcast from the Studlo, described a forerunner of the now at 7 p.m. on Tuesday next, and well-known Ruths steam accumula- thereafter on each Tuesday and tor, followed in 1904 by papers on Friday at the same time. The les difficulties, answers to which will Hitherto the Moros have been in- "Different Applications of Steam sons will be delivered by the Rev. be given in the course of the follow-clined to Turbines" and "Steam Turbine H. R. Wells, O.B.E., author of ing lesson. Propulsion for Marine Purposes." More recently he chose as his sub- Use of the ject in 1922 "The Turbo-compressor for Attaining the Highest Possible Speeds in Avia- tion."
WARSHIPS IN PORT
British warships in port this morn- ing wers:-
In Basin of RN. Tamar, Bridgewater, Sandwich,
North Arm: Bruce.
West Wall: Peterafold.
Dockyard:
In Dock: Seraph, Herald, Iroquela
No. 11 Buoy: Stormcloud.
No. 13 Buoy: Thracian. Whampoa: Suffolk.
Foreign man-o'-war in port werai U.S. Gunboat Helena Portuguese Gunboat Patria. H.M.S. Kont will sail to-day Singapore.
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This short selection, affords some indication of the trend and scope of his activities. 'He was always a for staunch advocate of maximum economy in steam power plants, land and marine; and latterly turned his attention to supercharging, Ratonu turbo-compressors being fitted in the latest motorships, of the Blue Funnel Line...
The Ratean ateam turbine is well- known in all countries 4 & thoroughly reliable machine, but never made much headway for inar- ine propulsion In British-bullt ships as against the Parsons and Brown. Curtis, types, which are, of course, home products. French and other Continental shipbuilders, however, redressed the balance. M
One of the enllestit not the very firstBateau turbine in Bri- tain was constructed 25 years ago at Birkenhaad by Laird Bros., Ltd. (as the firm was in those days). It was of about 600 Kw, and drove an electric generator, direct through an ingenious fexible coupling, which was also a Rateau invention. This combination ran in the firm's ploc- tric power station for many years. 1. It was the writer's good fortune to meet Prof, Ralosu In Paris' in connection with the designs for this particular planeer turbine, and he has always cherisheit kindly recol- lection of the personality of thie famous Bringer, whoss Works Wil certainly, live, after
Curtis as havi
Listeners are further advised that Mr. Wells wishes to have let ters from learners stating their
The resolution was adopted at the Philippine Independence Congress.
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