IG HAUL OF AMMUNITION.
CHINESE CHARGED WITH SHUGGLING.
A Chinese was charged at the Magis racy, yesterday, with being in un- -lawful possession of one Winchester rifle,
wo revolvers and 1,341 gounds mmunition.
of
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY,
OUTRAGE AT TIENTSIN STATION.
PISTOLS POINTED AT RAILWAY STAFF
CHINESE OFFICER'S CONDUCT. - The Piking and Tientsin-Times, gives the following account of the outrage at
SCOTTISH LETTER. SCOTLAND UNDER THE HAMMER
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
April 14th. Never has there been more "activity in the estate market than during the last few months. Leaded estates have been
PERSONALIA.
MAY 2018," 1920,
"Boyd Cable," who has been dealing with Government trading, was
during the war, as Major Ewart—his real. hanke doing strenuous propaganda work in connection with the Air Forco and the production of munitions. He had a rovina “commission-in-Franco, and was ablo on his return to this country to tell
Mr. Leo d'Almada "appeared for the Tientsin which our Peking Correspondant changing bands at an unprecedented ratin has pudiencer of war workers what was Fefence and applied for a remand, which last week sabled had formed the subject and it is estimated that since the signing being done at the front. He is known to
was granted, bail being fixed at $1,000.
Another Chiness was fined $50 for bitempting to take away 200 rounds of Ammunition without a permit. He was arrested on the steamship On Lee, s
CHINESE CONSTABLES IN TROUBLE. ALLEGED ACCEPTANCE OF BRIBES.
Two Chinese constables were charged as the Magistracy, yesterday, with accept Ing bribes amonating to 25.40 from
licensed hawkers.''
Mr: M. K. Lo appeared for the defence and applied for bail, which was granted
at $100 each.
"A number of hawkers, who had been arrested by the men, were discharged.
of a strong protest by the Minister
British
ster and amateur tramp in Australia, a farm worker in, New Zealand, a sailor on a wind-jammer, and a fireman and greaser. on steamships. He served as scout in the South African War and joined up on-the- outbreak of the Great War in 1914.
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of the Armistice the total screnge sold is have addressed five meetings a day for a oge-sixth of the area of Septland. Therefortnight on end A Chinese military party, with a Colonel Was a period during last summer when Although born in India, Boyd Cable” of high standing at its head, conducted the weekly sales of estates averaged in of Banffshire stock, and claims to be 120,000 acres, and at one time no fewer one of the loons." He has been a team- themselves in an amazing manner at the than 370 square miles were advertised for Tientsin (East) Railway Station on sale Eigh prices have been realised in Baturday afternoon Th's is the story of most instances, and a rough estimate of their conduct:--Colonel Ching, was the the total sum involved in these transac foremost of a Chinese parzy of militaristations cannot fall far short of £10,000,000. resplendent in their uniform and sur Many ressons are given for this extra rounded by a bodyguard (who proved to ordinary activity in the estate market. Lady Semphill, who, has declined be soldier rascals of the worst class), wait Chief of these are the present beavy taxa C.B.E., did a great deal of valuable work. ing at the East Station at about £10 in tion on beritable property, dread of in connection with the Red Cross in Aber the afternoon for the mail train. Five future legislation, the development of thedeen and the North of Scotland. A honours should go to the men who faced minutes later, at the scheduled time, the small-holders and tenant farmers' move updest and, assuming woman, she feels that train drew up at the platform, and these mont (including the settlement on the the perils of the battlefield rather than impatient officers began to give the staff land of ex-service men), and the prevail to those who were engaged in war work at on the platform a good deal of umores-ing ready and favourable market for land sary trouble about a special caf which and houses. they required and accommodation for their baggage. Being high Chinese army officers, they naturally would not travel in the ordinary way, but wanted a car
a
RECKLESS DRIVIVING OFA all to theme vo As a matter of fut
MEAT VAN,
special car had boen arranged for them
the staff were doing for them and lost
So far as sporting estates are concerned many people who formerly were in the habit of renting grouse moors ara nom ensuring continuation of these properties by buying them outright.
Among the many notable features of these sales, perhaps the most interesting is the large number of estates which have
home
Her husband, Lord Semphill, raised tha 8th. Black Watch, and led that battalion into action at Loos, where he was serverely wounded. In his early life he served in the Gordon Highlanders, and fought with the Lovat Scouts in South Africa.
Captain David Euan Wallace, of the 2nd Life Chards, whose engagement to Miss Barbara Lutyens e announced, ob. tained a divorce last year from his wife, Lady Idina, who married Captain Charics Gordon a few weeks later.
COLLISION NARROWLY AVERTED but they were not satisfied with what been broken up into small lote and acquir A on of Mr. John-Wallace of Glass-
A Chinese driver of 4 meat van was charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with recklessly driving his van in Des
Hans Road Wost.
ed by the tenant farmers Outstanding ingall, Dunblane, Captain Wallace is very instances of this are afforded by two from his great-uncle, Mr. William Weir, wealthy, having inherited extensivo estates Aberdeenshire estates On the Haddo a nephew of the brothers Baird, the Clyde House property no less than £250,000
is eldest worth of farms, and on Faichfet all the
of the four
tenants, with the exception of eleven, pur- chased their holdings Several oppor: tunities have been given for the purchase of complete islands, notably the Island of Shune, off Argyllshire, and the Island of
thoir tempers over trivial matters which if they had been left to the platform officials to attend to in the ordinary course of their duties would have been Inspector Garrod stated that there were satisfactorily managed. The staff and the two meat vaar which raced along the head men, all Chinese, have always been road. One driver, noticing the constable known for their efficacy in dealing with on duty, managed to turn his van into trafic on all occasions and to carry out Western Street and recape. Defendant, their duties, relative to the arrangement however, continued further down the road of luggage and the general convenience Gighs, off the Kintyre coast. The Scot and when he noticed the constable left of passengers, in a thoroughly satisfactish Board of Agriculture has purchased by-vin-and-ran-okay The van ultifory-manberr Mr. Chang, the chief mately fell into a drain from where it station master, who was recently appoint was removed to the station. These men led to this post from Peking since he continually giving the Police has been officiating at the East Station has won high respect from the travelling public, and it is incomprehensible why he should have been suddenly pounced on by the bodyguard of these Chinese militarists Land acaulted" in the manner he was. Provoked in no way whatevor, two Chinese soldiers of the body guard of the Chinese Colonel, assaulted Mr. Chang whilst he was in the act of conducting
were
trouble.
Mr. Hutchison fined defendant $10.
MAGISTRACY ITEMS. A sum of $51.90 in subsidiary coins was onfisented by the Magistrate; yesterday, from two Chinese who attempted to smuggle the same s
a number of Highland estates. Their object is to enlarge existing houdings. THE LLP. AT GLASGOW,
At Easter time the I.L.P. held the biggest conference in its history. It was distinctly unfortunate that at this crisis. of industrial after-the-war unrest should have macs at Glasgow where the Reds are all too prominent even ja the quietest seasona
It is satisfactory tup
know, however, from responsible Labour quarters that the Conference did not re present any serious political force. The
remasters. The bride-elect is the rat Lutyens, the famous architect, who has just returned from India. Hope M.C., Grenadier Guards, of Luff- ness Castle, East Lothian and Rankefileur and Craighall, Fife, the well-known dars man and sculler at Oxford and Healey, has left. £49,313 PROSPEEDUS GOLF.
The late Lieut. Col. George Everned-
Professional golfers are the princes of sportmen howadays In four of the "many tourneys arranged this year, £2,000 of prize-money is offered. I recollect the day when a 55 note would have brought together the leading exponents, and time was when the Championship was only £15:
A
FIRST-CLASS BOY.
I borrow the following from a colleague, BC. it altogether too fine an in cident to be mímedi. It will be "remem beted that, la Foliant passed through almost scatheless the hottest fire of the Battle of Julfend. The visibility was bad.
rendered by the cordito which du led the songs be quite fumes rangefinders. In order to keep the lenses rear a first-class boy named Keen sat all alone on the roof of the Faliant V-turk
These gamblers are being fannoed by Pussengers to their seats. The officers delegates were largely young men and gally exposed to the enemy's shell...
were moved in no way by the brutal
women with the crudest notions of he sat undaunted with all the bail of
inspired by the belief that the people of politica or economics, and in the main
this country and only to follow Lenin and robky to and salvation. Most of the men were conscientious objectors during
an influential syndicate" said Sergeant duct of their guards and did not Dorling, yesterday, when charging finger to stop the assault on the chief hamber of men at the Magistracy, yes station mater. The guard the mada terday, with gambling. A special place themselves objectionabis to the whole staff had been erected and watchers were employed to look out for constables. The and the Traffic Inspector, a foreigner, the war, although they were ready to wade |
men were Ened #3 odch**
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through blood to wreck the capitalist. And taken as a whole they were aa fine
possibly be imagined. They included ad vocates of such irreconcilable ideals so the Sovice, Republicanism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. State Ownership, the Guild system, and
Communist
print. He was only a boy, and was just battle about him. No one till now has ever mentioned his deed or his name in
doing his duty. But boy's tearts like young Keen's are worth more to Britain than battleships and 15-inch guns. UAERIAGES,
At Grand Hotel, Aberdeen, on the ath." April, George Mackay Dalgety, of the Hongrong and Shanghai Banking Con poration, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Dalgety, Forlar, to Isobel Catherine, second daughter of the Iste Thomas Mackintfish, and of Mrs Mackin- toch, Ashlen, Ardersier. Inverness
HEROIC- RESCUE. OF TWO AIRMEN.
had to be called on the scone. Flatter's arriva the arrest of the two soldiers who had assaulted Mr. Chang was immediately demanded but this order selection of impossible people as could SPEEDING UP THE MAILS.
was useless for the Chinese police, who are supposed to patrol the platforms and With regard to the accelerated mail maintam general order, were powerless
At St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, service to Bombay, and the connection when confronted by the military. Event between Madras and Negapatam and the car to see the Colonel, who,
younger daughter of Colonel R. G. Ward- ually, one of the police vzurod inside
Major Clive Howman, M.C.,Bursar-of- Wellington College, to Erica Violet, Penang maintained by the B.I. Com appearance, sprang up, and pointed a
any, anys the Pinang Gazette, we pistol at the police. To all appearances, There was no reverence for the old leaders law: Ramsay of Whitchill, Mid-Lothian.
her there is no reason to fear that he seemed to be in the act of bring, when of the Cause of Causes
The bride is a cousin of Lord Dudey there will be delays between -Negapatam his military friends caught-hold of his
Mr. Ramsay Gordon and Lady Pentland and Penang. The anilings will be arrang elbow and held him back Directly after Macdonald and Mr. Philip Snowdon At All Souls, Langham Place, Lon- od by the BL to fit in with the arrival this two soldiers jumped out and present found their advice either flatly tradict don, Vivian, elder daughter of Major and of the mail in India. The B.I. does ed revolvers at the staff, who were forced ed er turned to ridicule by so of the James Somerville Into R.F.A. only son of Mra-Pastore Edwards-to-William - not adhere to a time-table on this parti- to seek cover. After this the train moved young and therefore superior brains of
cular run, but always arranges, as fac as out of the station. N
the party. The curious fact about the . Sices Somerville, of Edinburgh. The possible, to meet the mails promptly. If This incident caused great excitement proceedings of the Conference was that bride is the granddaughter of Mr. John mail is late the B1. ship will wait for at the Tintain East Station and some the advocates of the different system oftan Pasamoro Edwards, who endowed many it, if there is time. The steamers should considerable time, elapsed, before the loudly applanded schemes which were publie libaries and philanthropic institu only do four trips a mouth, but they Chinese staff could he appeased. As is in, destructive of their own views. And the ions; and the Bridegroom is a well-known achieve five. It is satisfactory to know they are exoeddingly indignant at the way outstanding feature was the atter lack of Beottish Ruby footballer. that Straits people (and people further their respected chief was handled and they humour, everybody taking everything, East) may thus count on receiving the themselves were treated by this Prus themselves included of course, with the full becoñh of the speeding up to sian party. This is by no means the most perfect seriousness Bombay
Arst incident of its kinds. Not many MIRDUR BURBS CLUBS, weeks go by without something of: a Some time ago it was suggested that the simi ar character, if not, so, serious, as | two London Burns Clube the one beaded JAPAN AND VLÁDIVOSTOCK. Saturday's affair, happening. It is by Mr. W. Will, and the other by Mr. J.
The story of the heroic, rescue of two sincerely to be-hoped that some steps will D. Cormack, both Aberdeenshire men-British airmen in Rassin is told in a be taken to provide adequate protection should amalgamate, and it is hoped that frazette announcement of the award of the
· OFFICER'S VIEWS.
for the staff at the Tientsin East Station, a definite proposai may be made at the D.8.0 to Flight Lieut. Waiter F Ander- who at present seem to be at the mercy of next meeting of the respective Executives. Bon(pilot), and Observer Officer John Col. David P. Barrow President of violent and undisciplined soldiers who are The societies are among the most progres Mitabell the University of Califort and formerly really gangs of roughs.
site of the Scottish drganisations in the car Cherai Yar (Volga), on
July inteiligence officer in the U.8. Forces
Metropolis, have large memberships, and last these officers were pilot and observer. Siberia, recently addressed a group of
ample finances. "A combination would respectively on a D.H. o machine, which North-west commercial men at the Beattle
mean a membership of at least 750. The descended to an altitude of 1,000 feet to Chamber of Commerce on conditions in
London Robert Burns Club would bring take photographs of the enemy's position. Siberia The Japanese occupation of
into the union many English admirers of A second maching which followed se escort Vadivostock, ho said, has great political
the post and some Irishmen and Welsh was disabled by machine-gun fire and importance.
When Col Barrows left The question of what films should be.men. The Burns Club, on the other hand, forced to and five miles behind the Biberia approximately 2,000 Japanese passed for exhibition in Oriental countries is a pyroly Beattish body. The only other enemy's foremond troops Parties of soldiers were in that region. The import is raised by Mr. Ferdinand Tuchy in the Bures Club of any prominence in London Hostile cavalry which attempted to cap ance of Vladivostock as a submarine base Daily Mail. It will be obvious, says a
ture the pilot and observer of the craabed was discursed. There is undoubtedly a London paper; that filma which may bout of the Nations Liberal Club
machine were kept off by the observer's feeling among Japanese" he said, that shown in England, and though in them With the launch of the steamer Albania machine Anderson, notwithstanding that Lewis gun while the pilot burnt the Vladivostock should be a free port, and selves perhaps not of a very edifying they want the fortifications removed character, may point a moral; but such by Boott's Shipbuilding and Engineering hit petrol tank had heen pierced, by They are also anxions for exclusive fish a film may be wholly inappropriate to be Company at Greenock at the of this week, bilet, landed alongside the wrecked saro- ing concessions of Kibe Siberian coast, shown east of Buez. Mr. Tuohy says he 33,000 tons will have been added to the plane, picked up the pilot and observer. where they baro the balk of the coupes witnessed a show in Bagdad in 1917, Where Canard feet in less than a month The and got eafely home The risk involved sions There 18 & feeling among weil a drunken Britisher was shown knocking Allanta in the second of twelve post-war in attempting this galinnt rescue was veŻY informed men that Japan will make an out his wife, Three quartet of the audi Cunarders, the first being the Scythan great, as had any mishap occured in land- efort to hold the section-around-ladiva enco
consisted
of Arabs, and macham The Albania will curry some 600 Arst me the fate of all four offers can only seek preferential should stock, or will at least sanchuria and locality #54 Everywhere you go it the 'able oorgo space. She will burn oil fuel tances of the rescue will be fully appre not have been shown in such a clase cabin, passengers and have consider be conjectured, The difficu, bream- power in Eastern Siberia, Mongolia, and will stempt to secure some-Indians, Arabe Chinese closing geared turbines at sea-speed of 341 had to mount the port plane to stop the and be propelled by double reduction ciated when it is mentioned that Mitchell exclusive right to exploit the mines unveiling of the white woman, of the other note It is expected that ten other holes in the patrol tank with his thump". wise enthroned-Meminino, in all, her inti. Umard steamers now under ocuntruction for a period of 50 minutes, fising on their mate passion (exagger amy weakness will all be launched in the course of the return journey, Flying Officer Willam (exaggerated), and in- omary docol:"prosent year-reinforcing the feet to the Elliott pilot of the ergahel machine, is
extent of over 200,000 tons."
Zawarded a bar to his D.T.O
resources of that portion of Biberia..
he United States will insist on the open “door Japanese will be reasonable, if we do not become so dispirited as to any Let
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