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HONGKONG LAWN BOWLS LEAGUE,
THE deciding match of the season for
THE PERFECTION. CUP presented
INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14an, 1916.
HONGKONG AND SHANGRAI
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by Messrs. D. de J. MCCALLUM, of Edinburgh, will be played between TAIKOO and KOWNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that LOON on the Police Green, Happy Valley, on SATURDAY, 18th inst., at 3.30 PM, sharp. The Cup and trophies will be presented at the conclusion of the game by Mrs. C. BOND
Members of other Clubs and Trady friends are cordially invited.
Hoa Secretary
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TIFFIN TRAIN.
NIE PUBLIC IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
That on and from SATURDAY, 16th September, and on each succeeding SATUR DAY, until further Notice, Tiffins will bo Herved on the Train leaving KowLoox at 1.28 PM. to First Class Pasongers only The charge for Tin wil bo-$1.25,
PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATE No. 48/718, dated Hongkong, 17th February, 1908, for One Share numbered 92618 Registered in the naine of Miss SARAH DUNCAN FISKE has boon LOST of STOLEN, and should this. Certificate not be produced to the Bank before the 30th September, 1916, a new Certificate for the Share will be issued and the aforesaid Provisional Certificate No. 42/713 will be thereafter
treated by this Corporation as Null and Void
By Order of the Court of Directors
ANJA STABB
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 1st September, 1916. [1084
THE STRAITS TRADING COMPANY LIMITED
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connection with the proposed incronso of the Company's Capitel the holders of bearer share warrants desirous of claiming To assist the Management and for their an allotment of the bonus shares are votition own personal comfort, passengers are that they will be required to oxchange their requested to book their smts in advance, share warrants for registered share certiti- by telephone or letter, which may bo donecator, and the attention of shareholders is up to Friday night.
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is for one side or the other to give way, The Scamps made and in the present conditions it is hardly appearance in the Theatre Royal last surprising that this side is always China. night before a good audience, who wer Of course, if the present situation bo unstinted in traced back to its source, China is to the programu,
appreciation of which included blanco. Through failure to look after ber number of old favourites and some new own adequately, and protect borself items, whose merits were quickly recog against possible aggression, she invited nised and acknowledged. Recalls were intervention more especially by the frequent and readily responded to. "The Power which was likely to be most Scamps Picture Palace made a fitting seriously injured by such aggression. close to a very enjoyable entertainment China's continued weakness further led to measures on the part of Japan to con- which is now being given at the Yayoizs What is called a sanitary comedy, BRANDYsolidate her position that were inevitable
Osaka, is said to be drawing full houses in the circumstances, and it is these measures which have resulted in the in Chronicle, is intended as a sort of popu every day - The play, says the Japan tolerable situation now obtaining.
lar lecture to teach people the import Many criticisms have been lovelled
auce of hygiene and sanitation at a time against the Japanese Government in when the city is suffering from the in gard to its policy towards China, but vasion of an epidemic of cholera. It there is one criticism which we have not appears that very few of those who have yet seen, and that is that Japan is at
seen the sanitary play visit on their tempting half-asures where she should either havo, taken no measures at all.or for the consumption of water melons, way home ice-cream shops or fruit halls have taken such measures as would give ice cream or slayed ice, or waters her undivided control. It is not without mixed with suspicious ingredients. This justice that the Japanese Press stigma abstinence is taken as an indication of tises Japan's policy in China as weak-
the beneficial effect of the play kneed and invertebrate, but it fails to sce Thut to endeavour to establish a strong policy of a wonk foundation is THE TITAM hopeless task, lending only to recrimina tions and charges of high-handed and aggressivo "procedure The Japanes Government seems to be not entirely unaware that the building it has erected requires strengthening at the founda tions, as the recent demands ou China testify, but the difficulty of interfering with a structuro already elected was clearly shown by the result. Instead of serving to improve the relations between the two countries, the demands resulted in further embittering them, since it was conceived that they were framed purely in an aggressive spirit. No doubt thore is aggression. When one country finds itself compelled to interfere in the in ternal affairs of another that is, when S. WATSON & it takes up the duties which should prop CO., LTD.,
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HONGKONG, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1916.
JAPANESE AND CHINESE IN MANCHURIA.
BAY MURDER
TWO MEN EXECUTED
The final stage was reached yesterday in the Tylam Bay murder, when the two men found guilty were executed at Victoria Gaol soon after 6 am. The two- men executed were named, Li Kwong and Lai Yat, and they were charged, along with four others, with the murder of a boatman at Tytan Bay
The mou charged, along with others, boarded a stone junk, all being armed with knives, ete, A fight ensued, during which a young boatman was fatally stabbed, and four men were subsequently arrested. At the last Criminal Sessions, Li Kwong and Lai Yat were found guilty on the capital charge and sentenced to death.
An inquest was held yesterday after. noon by Mr Hazeland,
Chief Warder Pierpoint spoke to sen tence of death being carried out, in the Superintendent of the Gaol), Dr. Me- presence of Mr. J. W. Franks (Assistant
escort of officers, and himself at 5.20.1.m. Kenny (Gaol Medical Officer), the usual that day.
Dr. McKenny said that death, which
jury returned a verdict in secordance was due to fracture of the spinal cord, was instantaneous in both cases, and the
with the medical evidence.
ABUSIVE CHAIR COOLIE::
An abusive Hongkong chair coolie was kong Magistracy yesterday, the complain- charged before Mr. Wood at the Hong-
ant being Mrs, Hynes, wife of the Super- tntendent of Mails at the Hongkong. Post Office
undertaking any sort of responsibility in South Manchuria Should she not have Korcs and the possession of the Liastung contented herself with the control of
peninsula We are inclined to think this would have been the wisest course. It certainly would have appealed to the Japanese Government as the wisest course that on the previous morning his wife Mr Hynes, on behalf of his wife, atsted if they had been able to look into the visited the Government Civil Hospital future Retreat, however, is now in with a sick baby. possible, and the alternative of taking | hospital Mrs, Hynes went up to Hospital Upon leaving the complete control of South Manchuria Road to get a chair There was a chair thus enters within the scope of practical some distance polities as the only means of preventing want to walk with the sick baby his away, and as alie, did not Further friction. Already Japan's rights wife asked a Chinese woman to call the and privileges in South Manchuria give chair for her, giving her 10 vents for her practical control, and as they have doing so. The coolies refused to come. been recognised by the Powers as fully Mrs. Hynes then asked a boy to call the as Russin's rights in North Manchuria, chair for her and eventually the coolics it is-improbable that their establishment came. The defendant used some obscene on a logical basis would most with any expressions, and all the way down tự the Post Office be also abused Mrs. Hynes. Mr. Hynes added that his wife was not able to appear in Coart
The continnal occurrence of " incidents" between Japanese and Chinese troops Manchuria gives great cause for anxiety ns to the future, more especially as there scus little probability that the circum- stances leading to these troubles will undergo any modification for some time Nos 1, and 2, WEST END TERRACE, to come. As long as it is necessary to CANTON Apply
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the Chinese troops regard the Japanese WO ROOMED-FLATS in Nathan Rosd troops as interlopers, and, wrongly or
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eame forward to give evidence he could not deal with the case.
Butterfield & Swire and left to volunteer Mr. L. Gull has resigned from Messrs.
for active service.
withdraw the case, and the coolio was recordingly discharged.
Mr. Hynes remarked that he would
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It is announced that tifins will be served on the trains leaving Kowloon at The Press Gallery of the House of true facts of the incidents. If the blame succeeding Saturday until further notice board for many distinguished men~ could be allotted, and one side clearly shown to be in the wrong, it would be
The Hongkong Bowls League announce the young recruit fortifies himself with writers for the inest part, of course-and possible to utilise past experience to put that the deciding match of the season the knowledge that Charles Dickens once each side on its guard against a repeti-for the "Perfection" Cups will be play elded the pencil n quarters much less tion of the trouble. There is an equal Happy Valley next Saturday afternoon,
ed between Taikoo and Kowloon at spacious than those which are now allot- amount of bard swearing on either side,
ed to the Fourth Estate. Mr. Duke, who has been appointed Chief Secretary 103 BHP. HORNSBY ACKROYD
and an independent investigation ly The degree of LL.D., honoris cuued, has Gallery to attain Cabinet rank. He sat for Ireland, 18 the first member of the OIL ENGINE Complete with And third parties is considered as a measure been conferred upon Dr. Timothy there in the early eighties as repre- coupled direct to one 6 EW. Continuous which would be infra dignitate. Both Richard at a Congregation of the Univer sentative of the Western Morning News, Current Shant Wound Dyusme of 50/70 volts with shunt regulator
sides require that their statements should sity of Wales, at Aberystwith, near his bined journalism with law. Sir Edward and like many other Gallery men com- ALSO ONE SWITCHBOARD Zor be accepted without question, and, as the birthplace, in recognition of his services Clarke was in the Gallery 20 years be- ACCUMULATOES, DYNAMO, ka, complate with instruments for 100 Ampe
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