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ALLEGED OUTRAGE IN TOKYO UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY KOWLOON BOWLING GREEN
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CLUB." MANAGER OF BRITISH FILM CO
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. ROBBED.
FLYING TO TOKYO. ANOTHER AEROPLANE REACHES CANTON,
Subject to audit the Directors will re The annual general meeting &f the Kowse Another, Italian aeroplane taking part A strange ory of poisoning, robbery, and abandonment was told by Mr. Leonard commend the payment of a Final Divid-loon Bowling Green, Club ans held yester in the Rome Tokyo fight, landed in W. Hartmans to a Kokusai representative end of Sixteen shillings and a Bonus day evening in the Club premises at Row Canton o'clock on Thursday morning," in Tokyo. According to his own story Mr. Hartmans is the general manager of Dividend of Twenty shillings per share on Mr. J. B." Chapman presided and from Hanoi
The machine in charge of Lints, Forrarin the British Lion Films, Ltd. of Elstree, for account 1918, na Interim Dividend of was Supported by the following Committee; Mesars, D. Neilsen, W. Davison, W. Rus- Hertfordshire, England and was on his was to China to investigate trade condi- Twenty-four shillings per share for 1919 sell, A. Simpson, W. R. Oswald Wand Mo Cappannini, of the Ikiliars tions there. Although a British subject and u Bonus of 20 per centour Contribu- Helles (Elon-Treasurer) and Mr. Low Aviation-torps is of the same type he has lived for many years in the Unitedtory Premium. They will further recom- (acting Hon. Secretary).
The CHAIRMAN said:Gentlemen, as the the one which reached Canton on States, where be was in the cinema busi mend that £150,000 be passed to Reinsur.
Here is Mr. Hartnrans' story of his fanee Fand, £30,000 to Building Reserve report and statement of accounts for the Wednesday under Lieutenant Masiero,
Fund and £50,000 to Equalisation of year ending 1st December, 1919, has been namely, S.V.A. No. 9.
The acroplane, experience in Tokyo:--
I arrived in Yokohama on the N.Y.K. Dividend Fund, leaving about £270,000 to in your hands for some time; I ask you t
carried forward lo Underwriting accept the same as read. This year your after visiting Kwangschow-wan and spend steamer Kuburi Mura from America and be
Committee are not able, a place beforefing Wednesday night in Kongmoon immediately upon landing took the train Suspense Account 1918. for Tokyo As this is my first visit to To those Shareholders who are not ordin-yon such a satisfactory profit on the year's Japan 1 speak a Japanese, and conse-arily resident in the United Kingdom working as last year, which then happened finally landed in Fong Tuen, near Pai Kowever. | Ying School,, as it was unable to heati quently experienced some trouble in try-dividends will be paid by warrant on the to be the record for this Club. ing to find an hotel. However, I was Hongkeng and Shanghai Banking Cor- the balance shown is on the right side, Cheùng Lou Tai Chu, the selected Innding accosted by a well-dressed Japanese speak-poration, London, free of Income Tax.
Ness.
ing excellent English who very politelyt offered to guide de to an hotel, but sug- gested that we have a glass of beer before starting I went with him to a cafe neig by, the location of which, however, as I am a stranger in the city, I cannot remem ber aside from the fact that it was not far from Tokyo station, on one of the main streets having a tramway on it, and that the enfe was furnished in foreign style and had boy waiters.
TRADING JUNK WRECKED.
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610 PICUES OF SUGAR LOST. The steersman of a trading junk of 613 piculs capacity has reported to the Police that while his junk was being towed on Wednesday night by a steam launch from LOST CONSCIOrssess.
the Sun Tak district to Hongkong, it ran After une or two drinks I lost con-upon a rock near Lautar Idand. They sciousness, due to some drug, and rumem-managed to refloat the jank, but after it ber nothing more until I woke up the next had proceeded as far as Chung On it sank. morning in a suburb of Tokyo, several It was laden with 610 piculs of sugar,
valued at $100. No lives were lost. ariles from the city. I returned in a motor car and immediately reported my case to the police, for while unconscious I had been robbed of some six hundred dollars in Canadian currency, a valuable diamond ring and all my papers with the exception of my passport.
Mr. Hartman said that he could not remember what police station he visited as, he was dazed by the effects of the drug The central Metropolitan police bureau however, denied all knowledge of any such case having been, reported.
FATAL ACCIDENTS. MEN FALL FROM BUILDINGS.
and considering the expense incurred in
improving, our tennis courts, the "sitivat-Kronad.
No sooner had the Italian arroplane ing up of our Club House Eur the cele bration of Armistice Day and the later landed in Fang Tsuon than hundreds of
port tians with Shanghai, we think the Club is to be congratulated on its financial villagers she'd from "the whole esiintrys sthading the Reserve Account being side tu see it, says the Canton Times, None $7,707, 10. Our Club, which is rightly res garded as the premier Bowling Clubs of Were sooner an the ground than, the Pui the Coking, had the honour of having the Ying Boy Scouts, who quickly surrounded first Interport Bowling Match to take the machine, thus protecting it from the Plas in Hongkong played on ita preen;}
Bool acroplanes expreted to leave his, with the honour of providing the first furious crowds that gathered. outstanding points in the Interpors rink to play in Shanghai, ar
history Canton next Sunday, for Shanghai, by. We hope of this Club ((Applause.) this
will the members the round
Committee
year
rally way of Frashow. They will stop one day and give at Fochow and perimpy two or three dave them their usual enthusiastic support in Shanghai. It is probable the individual Champion-
ship of the Colony will be revived this year: Lieut. Masterò, pilot of a chasing aero- which, with the League Championship
competition, ought to keep the game of plane, who brought down many enemy bowls well to the Fruit (Applvuse.) machines, is one of the noes of the Italian
A Chinese emigrant, who was awaiting There is nothing otherwise special to re- the arrival of a ship to proceed to Singamark, abent in the Report. You Commit. Army. Like many other aviators who do pore, met with a fatal accident on Thurs-tee voted the usual honorarium of $100 not desire that their flying carrers should day evening at the Tung On boarding each to the unorary Secretary and end with the war. Masiero transferred, at house where he was staying. The man Treasurer, which we hope is in accidance the Armistice, his activities to the study Our Closing Day of commercial aviation and has accom On the same day Mr. Hartomans went fell from the verandah of the third floor with your views. to St. Luke's hospital where he was treat of the building and, when picked up, life one of the most successful ever held; the plished many noteworthy flights, amongst
The body has prizes made a very gallant show, all being which was one from Rode to Warsaw. el by Dr. Mans for chloral hydrate poi-was found to be extinct.
persented by members of the Club. I hope Lieut. Ferrarin, the bomber of Inns, soning, and then to the British Embassy been sent to the public mortuary.
the same generosity will be shown this year bruck and Friedericshafen, was one of where his passport was found to be inf
A watchman of a Chinese theatre was and that 1920 will be a prosperous and those composing the squadron order. He stated his case to the authori-
For the Club. (AP | Serenissima who, under the leadership ties there who are making an effort to found lying dead outside his house at enthusiastic, year substantiate his statement so na to take Victoria Street. The man had evidently plause) I now beg to propose she adop of D'Annunzio, made the famous raid an
fallen over the verandah of the third tion of the report and statement of Vienna. proper steps in the matter.
These two Italian airmen have been fly story of the building in which he was accounts.
Mr. J. PARKES seconded, and the motioning in company praitically all the way staging.
was carried unanimously.
from Rome.
10 YEN. FOR A COUCH. That night after pawning some of als effects, as the robbers had left him money Mr. Hartmans put up at the Seiyoken Hotel where he was charged tex yen for sleeping on a couch ia the parlour To add to the mystery, the Kokusai reporter mentions in his account, as given in the Japan Times, that Mr. Hartmans suddenly disappeared and was nowhere to be found the day after he was interviewed,
JAPANESE COLONIES IN SOUTH AMERICA,"
ENORMOUS TRACTS OF LAND ACQUIRED.
Some Argentine newspapers are calling attention to what they regard as indica tions that the Japanese are preparing the way for an extensive, colonization pro gramme in South America as well as seek- ing in Argentina a larger market for their goods The matter has attracted consider. able attention in diplomatic and commer cial circles
THE STAGED" ROBBERY.
MAGISTRATE SAYS *NO
EVIDENCE.
The bearing of the case was concluded at the Magistracy, yesterday, in which at Chinese watchman was charged with neglect of duty.
Mr. Hutchison stated that the police had failed to prove what had actually taken place It was possible that the robbery might have been committed with defendant's connivance, but the Police had not proved it. He had no doubt, however, that the man would be dismissed from -service He discharged the man.
"PRINTER'S FOREMAN IN
TROUBLE
LEAVES WITHOUT NOTICE.
A the Magistracy, yesterday, Mr. M. F. Billimoria, Manager of the Local Printing Press charged his foreman with leaving, his service without notice.
Defendant stated that he had obtained permission to go home up the understand-
The treaty with Paraguay, which the Japanese Minister to Chile crossed the continent to sign at Asuncion, gives Japan favoured-pution privileges include ing the right of colonization. Discussing this treaty Paraguay's Finance Minister Senor Eusebio Ayala, said that one of the that he would provide a substitute. objects of Japan was to provide for He managed to secure a man, and when colonization in his country. He added the found another man had been engaged that Paraguay, which is a country the size in his place, he went away.
Mr. Smith: Then you left without of California with only a million inhabit ants and a wonderful capacity for agri cultural development, would welcome tho Japanese. It is now reported that a gimilar treaty is being negotiated with Uruguay
In furtherance of this supposed coloniza tion plan in South America, Japanese capitalists, according to the newspaper, La Razon, have recently acquired enor mous tracts of agricultural lands in northern Peru and Bolivia.
notice?
Defendant: I went to Canton on urgent business and on by return found another an in my place Thinking that I was not
wanted I went away.
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In regard to the election of a President, the CHAIRMAN said that he wished to pro- poke the name of Mr. D. Gow, who had done a considerable amount, of work for the club during the past ten years. (Applause.)
Mr. W. DAVISON seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. Gow thanked the members for the honoty done him. He said that he had the welfare of the club at heart and assur them that he would de his best to krap up the traditions of the club. (Applause) He hoped that in the present year they would be able to top the Bowling League
Applan)
The following other officers were then elected:-
VICE-PRESIDENT: Mr. D. Neilson, HON. SECRETARY: Mr. J. N. Allen. HON. TREASURER: Mr. R. Lapsley. GESERAL COMMITTEE: Mestra, A. Simp son, L. Guy, J. Parker. W. Russell, W. Davison, D. Mair and G. Henderson.
The following cups were promised: "Dundee " Cup. Belfast
"La
WHAT S.V.. SIGNIFIES.. Both machines are of the S.V.A.”* type. The first two letters are the initials of its designers, Major Savoin and Ver duzio, who, as the fieads of the Technical Department of Military Aviation (Italy), conceived this plane, on the basis of moet complete scientific, theoretical and practi cal improvements, and demonstrated its The third usefulness in the late war. initial was bor owed from the name of the place where this type of aircraft was first constructed, namely: Ansilda, «
ANOTHER COMPETITOR ON WAY.
(THROUGH "BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROMs, April 21st. A mesage from Bunder-Abboɑ says that Captain Ranza, who is participating in the Rome-to-Tokyo fight, has arrived at Chaubar.
Cup MURDERED GRAND D'ES Tyneside" Cup, and "Clydeside" Cup; other cups were promised by Mrs. DA STRANGE STORY OF BURIAL AT
Gow and D. Veilsen."
The meeting then terminated.
GOLF SECTION,
A meeting of the Golf section followed.
PEKING.
Reuter's Correspondent at Puking thus
Mr. D. Gow, presiding said that he elaborates the brief message in the above thought it time more attention were paid subjecs cabled by dur own correspondent to the Golf section which was started three a week ago. years ago. He thought, it necessary to have a Captain and Go'i Committee to look after the section. He proposed the name of Mr. J. Parkes as Captain.
The motion was carried ananimously. Mr PARKES promised a cup for this section.
The Golf Committee will be appointed by the General Committee.
THE REPORT.
A strange acho of the Imperial tragedy which was enacted in Siberia in July, 1918, sounded in Peking yesterday (April 18th).
It will be remembered that after the number of the Russian Imperial family at Ekaterinburg, three Grand Dukes and a Grand Duchess were thrown down a coal mine near Perm.
Mr. Billimoria: I did not give the man leave. He never went to Canton. I have no desire whatever to get rid of him, although he has proved troublesome at
Shortly after the inauguration of the times. I nave scolded him but I have
The following was the report for the Koltchak régime, a search was made never, asked him to go away. He naked Those in Bolivia are said to be 1,800 leave to proceed to Canton to worship year ending 31st December, 1810:-The which, though it failed to discover traces I told him betrofit made in the working of the Club is of the bodies of the members of the In- miles square; those in Peru 20,000 miles at his ancestor's tomb. aquare. It is also said that Japanese would have to get a substituto. He $193.01. Twenty-one new members joined portal family, resulted in the recovery of capitalists have invested recently in the brought one. I have discovered that he the Club during the year and twenty left, the bodies from the coalmine These were exploitation of tin mines in Bolivia, and never went to Canton, but that he went making our present total 149, an increase reognized and buried at Omsk, together the projection of railways which they are to work with another firm.
of 1 over last year. The annual competi- with those of four servants who had shared preparing to construct and operate. Mr. Smith told defendant that he ought tions were again played, and completed the same fate..
There is no doubt." says La Razun, to bave given notice if he desired to leave. **that there already exists a vast plan for He must refund $50 to Mr. Billimoria Japanese colonization in Pera and for the trouble he had caused him. Bolivia, a plan which, considering the very dispersed native population and their relative incapacity for certain kinds of work, is susceptible to a very rapid THE development, and to such an extent that very soon Japan will count three large nuclei of interests in South America: Bao Paulo, in Brazil, whore enormous quanti- ties of coffee are produced and exported to the Far East: the department "of
Loreto in Peru."
Tarija, in Bolivia, and the province of
ANOTHER DANGEROUS
THINKER,
ENGLISHMAN ARRESTED, According to the Ahi an Englishma giving his name as Edward: Stephens
PLAYERS
DENNISTON
ARRIVE.
"UF IN MABEL'S ROOM" ON MONDAY,
in good time to hold a closing day and The bodies were those of the Grand Duke present the priles. An International Serge Michalovitch, (who commanded the Match, England versus Scotland, was Russian artillery in the Great War and played for prizes presented by Mr. whose niece, the Countess Nadedja Torby W. B. Hind. and spoons presented married the Earl of Medina, eldest son by Mr. C. Atkinson. The Match of the Marquess of Milford Haven): the WILS won by England. The interest Grand Duke Jean Constantinovitch, (who' ing event (Inter-port Bowlay between married the daughter of King Peter of Shanghai and Hongkong took place on the Servin); Jean's brother, the Grand Duke 3rd October on our ground, before a large Igor Constantinovitch and the Grand gathering, and after a keen and pleasant Duchess Elizabeth, widow of the Grand game the victory went to Hongkong, A Duke Serge Alexandrovitch, sister of the The Denniston Players, arrived in the Match between teams 'representing Shang. Empress Alexander Feodorovna of Russin Colony yesterday on the Suwa Mars, he and our Club resulted in a win for and daughter of the Grand Duke of after an extended successful season in Shanghai by the small margin of 4 points. Hesse, and therefore grand-daughter of Manila. They are opening in Hongkong The League Competition was played dur Queen Victoria The Archduchess. Elina- on Monday night with Up in Mabel's ing the season and games wore enjoyed by beth's husband was Governor General of Room," one of the most laughable farces all who took part. Kowloon had again Moscow and was killed by a bomb in 1905. ever staged in Hongkong. The play, to give way to Taiko. - No Competitions which had been described as the legitimate were
into owing to Jack successor to "Fair and Warmer" kept of
A (tennis) team was the evening of the 15th instant. They were New York laughing for eight months, did entared for the Hongkong "League, conveyed by train to the. Anting Mên, is now repeating its Broadway success at but
playing. Bfew
matches whence they were carried to the old Rus the Wood's Theatre, Chicago? It is the had to withdraw from the Competitions as sian' cemetery, where they were interred story of a series of complications caused it was found impossible to raise a team yesterday.
entered entries.
after
INTERRED IN PEKING,
The eight bodies arrived at Peking in
malter
of London, has been detained by the in the life of a newly-married man by a for every match. The Committee regret No one in Peking, seems to know why. Akashi Police The Englishman in q pink silk petticoat, which he had in his record the death of six of our members the bodies were brought to Peking or hy tion is alleged to have been ordered by the bachelor days made a present of to & J. Ariamson, J. Fase, D. R. Shaw, W. whose orders. The Chinese Government Chinese Government, to leave China some charming and daring young lady called Tulip, W. O. Jack and K. Mackenzie. are, not concerned while the Russian time nga for his propaganda of dangerous fabel. The petticoat and the owner turn The best thinks of the Club are due to Legation only know of the thought there in the latter part of last up at a house party where the newly the donor of the many handsome prizes after the bodies had been interred. The year, He came to Japan, the Osaka | married "hero is spending the honey! journal ways, in January last and subse moon, and the most farcical situations for Bowls and Tennis.
ently be has been attracting the atten- ensue, with, of course, everything coming tion of the police authorities at Fukuoka off right in the end. Miss Warda Howard, and other places of Kyushi. He wrist whom one of the Northern papers describ arrested by the Akashi Police on his way ed as the most talented American actress from Kyushu to Kobe the other day. He that has come out East in recent years,
will take the part of Mabel «perks Japanese fluently,
GOLE
explanation is believed to lie in the lozeign interest attaching to these close connexions This section requires stimulating con-of the Imperial family. It is hinted that aiderably and it is hoped that those mem- King Peter was the moving spirit in the bers who are golf, enthusiasts will lend transference from Omsk, and that the their support in making this section of bodies will not remain long in the Chinese keener interent to the players.
capital.