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Chairman's speech) in the shapo of the Peninsula Hotel, the sug- gestion appears timely for the
Directors to give heed to the real demand for "bus services in Kow- loon of the same excellent stun- dard as those on the Island.
News in Brief
At On Hing Terrace yesterday the chimney of No. 3 and 4 caught fre, but was easily extinguished.
MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1930.
KIDNAPPING RING.
Mr. Mattick was found dead with his head in a gas oven after making
Same Clothes for Boys in four previous attempts on his life.
Two Cases.
MAGISTRATE ON MEMORY
A disclosure of some Interest was made by Detectivo-Sergeant Fitches at the Kowloon Police Court on Saturday marning.
An employed Chinese man and woman wero Jointly charged with kid- sapping and harbouring a Chinese boy, six years of age, from his mother at 47, From to-day Mr. R. Ohi is taking Parkes Street, on April 2.
Both defendants sald that a man, over the local agency of the Com- whom they did not know and could not pagnie des Messagories Maritimes.fml. gave them the boy.
Pada
Over the week-end two cases of smallpox and one of diphtheria were notified to the Medical Officer of Health.
The Very Rev. Alfred Swann and Mrs. Swann are being con- gratulated by their friends on the birth of a daughter.
Charged with the theft of two candlestick holders, a Chinese plead- ed guilty at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning was fined $25 or three weeks hard labour.
A Chinese, who was produced in Mr. Whyte-Smith's Court this morning, on a charge of the theft of two bundles of iron, was given
six weeks' hard labour.
For stealing some brass castings from the Kowloon Docks, a young Chinese apprentice at the Docks, was at the Kowloon Police Court this morning ordered to eight strokes of the cane.
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The woman sold: “A man came to my place and asked me if I wanted to buy the child for $100, and I agreed to the sale. So I got hold of this man [first accused) to assist me to take the boy to Sheung Shul by car, and hen from Sheung Shui to Canton by train."
A Surprise.
Sergt. Fitchos produced from a basket In Court the clothing which the accused that he was wearing when kidnapped. put on the boy after changing the mult
His Worship, in a surprised voice: "That clothing-the cap, shoes and all is the same as was used in the last
case.
The offlerr intimated that probably the same gang were at work again. He added that there was a house, in the peninsula, whose location was not yet known to the Police, where these kid- nappers, after succeeding in stealing a child, changed the latter's clothing,
Luk Yee-mui, the mother of the boy, spoke to missing him on April 2 at 10 am.
Not a Pelmanist The Chinese driver of the car taken to Sheung Shui Intimated that he could not remember exactly what day it was -whether it was the day before Satur- Mr.day or three days ago.
His Worship expressed surprise as
On a report to the Police M. B. Kitchell, manager of the Cosmopolitan Stores, 13-15, Morri-he thought that Chinese could remember sen Road, alleges that a shroff has days and dates far better than Euro- absconded with $335, collected from various customers.
Directors has under consideration the question of an augmentation of the 'bus service to Repulse Bay beach at reduced rates during the Unable to give a satisfactory ex coming Summer reason. The new planantion as to the possession of scheme includes the establish two iron hinges, a Chinese was at ment of a bathing pavilion, dress. the Kowloon Police Court to-day sentenced to two months' hard ing rooms, and refreshments. The labour. He had a provious con- rates, we are informed, will be viction. within the scope of those of moderate means,
It has long been a vexed point that the bathing beaches have been too far from the centre of
Mr. J. J. Hirst yesterday lost, a jacket which he had left hanging on a tree in Nathan Road outside his residence, in Winglok Building, while he was repairing a punctured
motor-cycle. The coat contained the city to enable persons of 85, his motor licence and some moderate means to take full ad-private papers. vantage of them during the hot Suminer months. This complaint became more acute when the beach at Stonecutters' was closed
The members of the European Y.M.C.A., Kowloon, have formed a Photography Club. Their first exhibition opened during the week- Mr. J. C. Grenham, Secretary
end.
to the general public after the of the "Cheero" Y.M.C.A., is Hop. "Shaforce" added considerably to Secretary and Treasurer of the the population of the European Club, assisted by Mr. L. Dangerfield community. As is known, efforts and Mr. J. Jackson.
peans could.
The case was remanded to this morning when a third man stood in the dock, also charged with the kid. napping and harbouring of the boy. He pleaded not guilty.
A Mere Chance. Detective-Sergt. Fitches said that it was just an accident that this man was caught. After the hear ing on Saturday. the accused, who had previously been arrested, was in the detective office, when the driver of the motor car recognised him.
This third man
till Thursday.
was remanded
Detective-Sergt. Fitches applied for accused to be kept in custody, so that the three accused would to each other. have no opportunity of speaking
The case against the frat two accused was then proceeded with. The Magistrate convicted, and with hard labour. The male pri- sentenced each to one year's jall soner is to receive 24 strokes of
Missionary Association "At Home" to-morrow at the Cathedral Hall, the Speaker will be the Rev. John Foster of the Union Theological | · College, Canton. Mr. Foster, who That is the author of "Chinese
the birch in addition.
WIFE'S VIGIL.
Her Story of Shell- Shocked Man,
Realities," a valuable study of A wife's story of how she had not modern China, has recently made an left her husband alone for 12 interesting find, which is believed months, night or day, and how he to be an old, Chinese (Nestorian) had not slept properly for eight translation of the Te Deum. The months was told at an inquest on meeting begins at 6.16, and is open Mr. Wilfred Mattick, of Weston- to members and friends.
super-Mare, an ex-soldier.
to raise the ban on civilians At the Victoria Diocesan and at Stonecutter's after the departure of the "Shaforce " have unfortunately proved futile owing to the adamant attitude of the military authorities. being the case the general public have had to depend on motor cars and taxi-cabs to transport them to those bathing beaches acces- sible by road-and that is a cost within the reach of only a cer- tain class who, in any event, usually own their own motor With motor 'bus services now cars and their own bathing sheds. an integral part of the transport Thus will it be seen how doubly system of the Colony the public welcome is the Hotels' Chairman's generally would be gratified to announcement of a more economi- learn from the Chairman's speech | cal scheme so far as Repulse Bay at the annual meeting of share- is concerned,
BUS SERVICES.
observation
Mrs. Mattick, the mother of five children, said her husband was mobilised In 1914. In November that year, he was buried for 15 hours by a shell explosion and was treated for shell shock.
She said he was dicharged with no pension. On one occasion he was wandering in France for nine weeks, and ahe read in the news. paper that he was reported misaing.
smash everything, and once threw Every Armistice Day he used to
her and a daughter downstairs. had arranged for him to be examin The British Legion, she said,
ed by Lord Dawson of Penn.
A verdict of Suicide during Insanity due to war service was re- corded.
TAIPAN AT 17. £10 a Week Manager and Staff of 18.
A 17-years-old boy's attempt to run a business with a £10 a week
ended in a mysterious fire, was de- manager and a staff of 18, which scribed at the Old Bailey.
Alec Cohen, the boy, described as a gown manufacturer, of Goswell. road, E.C., pleaded not guilty to set- ting are to his premises with Intent to defraud an insurance company.
Mr. G. B. McClure, prosecuting, said that Cohen began business last March. The turnover was £1,000
a month, but there was a loss on trading, the bank balanco having dwindled by December to £20 when when the fire took place.
A month before the fire the in- aurance, which had been £625, was increased to £1,225. Cohen was the
last person seen on the promises, and after the Are had been put out three pieces of rubber tubing and seven accumulator cases containing spirit were found.
Replying to Mr. J. F. Eales, K.C., defending, Detective-Inspector Coles anid that Cohen loft a Jewish or- phanage at the age of 13 or 14 and worked until be began business. He was a youth of exceptional character.
The Duke of York, speaking at the Industria! Welfare Society's banquet, appealed to British Indus- try to review its methods of works organisation.
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China, Mall” April 7, 1920.1
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-To-day's dollar is worth 4/-10d.
Engineer's Institute, which waited Committee
The result of the visit of the from the Chinese
on the Secretary for Chinese Affairs yesterday afternoon, was a proposal by the Hon. Mr. E. R. Hallifax to submit an offer from the mechanics of 3 cents per hour increase on their present wages. Matters are now resting at that, awaiting reply to this proposal.
The proposal, however, does not represent the sentiments of the Institute, which claims that it stands out for a 40 per cent, raise and further for a percentage in- crease and not a flat one
The amount first offered to the strikers was 24 per cent. raise per hour.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
Flogging in the Army: The Late ex-Shah of Persia: Lord Chancellor Finds Silence Golden: Lord Parmoor's Fatherly Advice.
The "Cat" on View
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It is usual for a Lord Chancellor to act as one of the principal_Gov- ernment spokesmen in this House, and when doing so ho moves a little to one side, of the Woolaack to signify that he is taking a partisan position for the time being.
The reason for this reticence, is
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And so on July 5 the cats were | Silent So Far Shanghai Hotels, Limited, that ing season, however, there can be' the optimism he expressed a year no doubt whatever, that motor THE "eat o' nine tails," whose produced and proved fatal to the THERE is a good deal of comment
Government's resistance. On July ago in regard to the necessity for 'bus services have not only come with the grim
name is usually associated 7 Ministers announced that flog that the Socialist Lord Chancellor, -in pulitical circles on the fact business of flogging would be discontinued in all Lord Sankoy, has not yet made a the inauguration of a de luxe to stay but to expand far beyond ging, is one of the curious things cases except when death was the angle schon behalf of to- 'bus service through the central the conception of many people. that have been exhibited to mem- alternative, and in 1881 Glad though so many months have elapu- ernment in the House of Lords, al-
part of the city has been fully Rapid and comfortable means of!
stone's Government abolished it ed since his appointment. bers of the House of Commons. altogether in the army. justified. As he pointed out on transport are essential, and every During the debates on the aboll- 365 SHAVES- Saturday, evidence that such year will see a genuine demand tion of flogging in the army in The Ex-Shah
necessity existed, and that the for more—and still more-facili. 1879, an Irish member named THE late ex-Shah of Persia came expenditure involved in the fine ties in this direction.
Callan demanded that a specimen to London only once, and did not of the "cat" should be exhibited create the sensation grim predices fleet of buses. owned by this
did in Victorian times-tho In comparison with Kowloon in the library. "Yes," said famous Shah who gave rise to a probably physical rather than Company was justified can be the island is living in the lap of Parrell, taking up the suggestion music-hall song, asked the Queen, so other indisposition for the taak. obtained at any time from casual luxury as regards the standard of with his sharp eye for a good it is said, why she did not have Lord Sankey is very far from well, point, "I should like to see what Lord Salisbury beheaded, and behav. and is lately refusing all avoidable of the 'buses in motor buses, and if the Hotels sort of instrument is to be used and despotic fashion.
ed generally in an extremely Oriental public engagements. operation. Travel from the heart Company would follow the for I understand there are several The only sensation made by the of the city to the outskirts, par example of the Tramways Com kinds.". For whatever reason, the ticularly to Happy Valley with pany and secure a footing in Kow to have anything to do with the Government at this ange refused its incessant sports functions of loon they would earn a consider suggestion. various kinds, is to-day a real able measure of gratitude from But Parnell was not easily pleasure, both as regards com- the travelling public For com
1 shaken off. He returned to the French revues he was always Lord Parmoor, who leads for the fort on the journey and the sav fort there is as much distinction Ministers themselves probably have been almost entirely forgotten. debate:
adbject with the suggestion that represented in this fashion, but not Government in the Upper House, is In recent years when he seems to benign. but singularly ineffective is ing of time. It is an interesting between a motor Bak in Kowloon know very little about the cat.
He gives the peera a good deal of fatherly advice which they commentary on the popularity of and one in Hong Kong as there is "I should like to know," he said He wandered, immaculately:
ely dress do not like, and finds difficulty in motor buses that an increase it between chalk and cheese. More Government knows about these Deauville to San Sebastian, enjoying policy that go outside
iós a later opportunity, "what the ed, from Cannes to Deauville, from answering questions, with regard to his written the number of buses running on over, in some of the Kowloon cata. I have a shrewd Burplefen melancholy, way, and growing fatter
himself In apparently a rather briot.
Lord Russell, is the ablest Social- the University route, coinciding buses, cleanliness is an unknown they know, very little." Again the and more allowist debster, quick in the give and with a
a reduction of ten centa in quantity, whilst on certain routes Callan made references to the sometimes go to bed for days to handles financial subjects with the Government refused.", On July 8 Although perfect well, he would take of "discussion. Lord Arnold the fare, has been a success from in which a monopoly is held, time car which drew from Ministers gather, and to lose his throns was easy but not always friendly style of undoubtedly the most comfortable a lecturer; and Lord Thomson has its inception, resulting in almost tables are honoured only in the derials of the accuracy of his thing that could possibly have hap made one or twe double revenue being obtained. breach. Now that the CHC
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