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A MISCHIEF MAKING AMAH.
INCIDENT IN KOWLOON.
TALE OF A SUPPOSED MURDER
TI HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2SD, 190
MINISTERING CHADREN'S
LEAGUE
of the
A weting of the member At the Ungistracy, yesterday, Mr. Fas Government House, yesterday, Lady 'Ministering Children's League was held i E. Engelbrecht, of No. 2 Humphrey's Stubbe presiding. About 40 ladies were Building. Kewloon, summoned a Chine presets. A reporter of the Unity Peer awal or trespass and for behaving in a zinous and disorderly manner which might j
informed by Mrs. Lewis, the have resulted in a breach of the peace, Secretary, after consultation with Lady Mr. Engelbrecht told the Magistrate Stubbs, that the meeting was a privato que shit the amab was not employed by him, though it had been publicly advertised, The following Report was subsequently supplied by the Secretary:-
The general meeting of the members of the Ministering Children's League was held to-ding at Government House and was well attended. The chair was taken by Lady Stubbs.."
but lived in a house at the back, of his. proatives
She had been continually ang his trouble in connection with wer! vants, to whom she represented him as a hard task-master and one who beat them. Hasured the Magistrate that his ser -runs- were always the best paid in Ko Juon She had never been in his employ and had never entered his house before the of the Society should be carried on under It was decided that in future the work day compaiard of. The reason why she knew what was happening in his boun the name of "The Hongkong Women's
Guild
was because she was able to look into it;
PEKING NOTES.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,]
Prisa, June 19th,
DISAPPEARANCE OF JEWELLERY.
WOMAN BROKER'S TALE OF DRUGGED DRINK.
THE POLITICAL CHISTS. startling rapidity-this-week-Scarcely of burne quantity_u_jewollorys
Events have followed each other, withi
An interesting story of this disappear
have General Wu Pei-fu's troops started"; "alued at over 80,000, was reinted at the to move out of Honan when it is announced Magistracy, yesterday, when a Chinese thus the Southern forces have not treated woman was charged with conspiring to the evacuated areas as neutral zones but defraud certain persons of the same, and have actually occupied them: There were with misappropriation, reports of the Northern fores having r
M. A. E. Hall presented." occupied lost cities, which may or may not
The facts of the ease were n the effect have been true, but today we bare the that the woman, who was startling intelligence that Changsha has jewellery, visited person, when she knew a broker in
fullen, and that General Chang Ching and told them that she kad offers for a yao, the Northern commander, has fed, certain amount of jewellery, which could Peking to receive the pablishment which her to have acted in the capacity of a taking a rest en route before he comes to be profitably sold. The people, knowing |
he says, he is entitled to, bocause of his bruker before,, entrusted her with the sed Ministering Children's failure to bold the capital of his pro-jewellery and to their surprise the next vince uguiast the Southern invaders. Inday the woman informed them that while a way something like this was to havre he was walking along the street she met! been anticipated from the outset when it another woman who invited her to her was announced that General Wa Pei-fu hons for a cup of soup. She drank the bad decided to withdraw his troops from soup anri became "unconscious 'and-when Southern Hunan, against, the exprowd, she woke up she found the bag of jewellery wish of the Governmens. but with the had disappeared. authority of the superior whour h After hearing evidence the case was add- acknowledged, General Tsao Kun. The journed till Friday move was obviously directed against the ' unpopular Tuchun of Human and was no
frosa berse On June 13th, he returned Lengue." bone from bis ship and his wife coin: The Executive Committee for then plained him that an assistant of theding year was elected and byelaws for washerian and conv in his house for the internal management of, the Society
were passed. the cloth and struck her on the breast.
The Executive Committee were empower. He was very angry and sent, for the wadorman and said to him: to take the pressify steps for organiz *You quist remember to respect my wife 19 the Annual Fete to be held in October in this place. He agreed that he had x and details of the same will he spoken angrily to the man who promised to published at an early date,
go back, give his foki a thrashing and then. This concluded the business of the most diorfarge him, Wilnow tolit the washerman ing.
not to send a man like that again to his}
doubt also part of a Jarger plan to offset Moshal Tuan Chi-jui's barely restrained...
Com
bow He then went to sleep and a few: THE HUMPHREY BISHOP CO. aggresiveness against the South.
minutes later heard Police whistles being blown. He went to the verandah and, saw de mlaut and two othur. Chinese, with k detetive, trying to enter his premises, The detective wanted to arrest him. There were about 500 to 1,000 person, surround. ing his house, and witness became afraid. Die wrum to the Polier, sending the mes. eng by a buy. Whilst the by was away
WANTED A DONKEY..
The Humphrey, Bishop Co. arrived in Colony yesterday on the Vikke Mary, They are opening as the Theatre Royal to-morrow night, Among the attractions which the Company are presenting daring their season here will be the Pantomimg
MR. VANDERLIP ON THE FAR EAST,
AMERICA'S RESPONSIBILITY. plicating the issue thus raised is tho attitude of "the rival groups of the Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, in an address Southern Administration. Each one telebefore the California Civil Lengue on June 1st, declared that he felt that "the poli- graphs the Government that on no account
use the latter recognise its rival, and in il che in the Far East is much greater consequence the Government has been than the American people realize. I seriously embarrassed, though it must be out, if there is any adequate conception admitted that the Government's reply was in the United States," said Mr. Vanderlip. very clever and cogent. It stated that in- "of the disorganization which oxists in half
"an indian folierman cam, up to him and Ali Baba or the Forty Thieren. Tosmuch as it never recognised the author the world today as a result of the policy
would be very grateful.
of the United States. We have a respon-
constructive criticism. There is the vast bulk of China without Government and. held back by primitive political and com- mercial conditions. In all the territories between the Pacific Ocean and Lake Baikal
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asked him whether he hew a Police whistle, the best of our belief, this will be the first He said "No"; he did not have a whistle time'n reg old English Pantomime ha ty of any metion in the South to object wi in his house Defendam der said she hten been seen in the. Colony,
the appointement of Wasz Frangisibility that inght-to-lead to more thunn The Company' the whistles the imagined that a murder first produced this piecs last Christmas Northern delegate, it could not penais had been committed in the house, and, in fagdad, the original scene, of this any one section in the South to order being a good-hearted person, did not want tury: Being actually on the spot, the to recognise any sectional appointment of to see anyone suffer. That same night the Humphrey Bishop Co., had a unique then delegate, Anfuites wish to in erend was stil, collected around the place Spportunity of getting the correct atmos
Mist upon Wing-1-tang, who, has reached and being afraid, witness ones more wrog pliers for the scenery, dresses, etc. Owing
an understanding" with "Tang Shaoxi and, there is little evidence of effective Govern- to police-Detectives rame to the toi dificulty of overcoming
The company providing which ̈ ̈ ̈does/menz,--Manchuria and Mongolin" share” în bule and side enquiries, and it was then- quarantine" regulations it has been inpose
DONUT In alingutin unreason- the- disturbed state-of-thar part of the angitained "that the presenter of the crowd
ah'e; but on the other hand the Govern sible to living with them a very necmary-
wurlah. Americans must overcome their SH-PHILLIP'S-MIXTURE due to a rumour which had been freely member of the cast,
ment does not appreciate breaking off the dixinginsinn tà fed that the United circulated that he had murdered his amab, yuris in Hongkong has a donkey and separate
a donkey, and it
negotiations conducted with States has a national responsibility to had at the body into slices and had throw would be willing to lend him Mr. Bishop the interests with a view to peace. How lend Eurage and the rest of the world to the pices into the fire. Witness thought
for the Government, or rather the Pre better, conditions through economic re that he was in great, danger, trom the crowd, ¦
Arrangements have been mado whereby, sident, is in sympathy with the action of sovery. Two women, and a man, who was at the bottom of the trouble, were arrested for during the Company's season, Meury, the South in driving Chang Ching-yno out of Hunan it is difficult to say, and causing a disturbance. Witness was asked: Wiseman will apply iced drinks, ice to go to the Police Station and said he cream and other light refreshments during won n one condition-that some detre- the interval in the ants" room and tives were placed to guard his wife and verandah at the side of the Dres Circle, child. The reason for the supposed mur. Seasholders from any part of the hottso der was" alleged to be the fact that are allowed to avail themselves of this amab had killed his child by convenience but no refreshments will be dropping it'on' the floor. The Policewerved in the auditorium, then told him there was no necessity, to go to the station. His aah, an "Ana- mite, had been threatened by defendant that unless she came to Court and swore that she had been assaulted by him, the other abs would attack her. His wiza vants had told the Police that he was very
A Chinese youth was run over by motor. / what they were. It is true that Little! Chinese and Japanese »urces kind to them. The reason for the trouble, car No. 100 of Monday and is now in hos Hy is coming or has come to Peking from ho believed, was due to his engaging pital Annamite servants.
the
Defendant said, aho heard a noise as if some, one was being murdered and she blow the whistle. She did not break into his house circulate any rumours about murder. She considered it her duty to rescue people 120 2
danger,
QC.
Mr. Smith fined her 85 and ordered her to be bound over in $30 to keep the peace for six month
Complainant Can I not a favour from the Court? This woman is giving me a
lot of trouble.
Mir. Smith: She is bound over and if
she
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POLICE PARS.
MOTOR-CAR ACCIDENT,
FALL FROM A LAUDER While standing on a ladder, time washing a house, a Chinese slipped from it, and feil, receiving several injuries.
ROW ON A STEAMER,
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A result of a quarrel on a steamor a Chinese was stabbed in the back by a man who is now in custody.
STABBINŮ.
A Sanitary Department coolis has been
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edge, that the rival sections of the South revenues, and it is expected that the Salt Fit the belelf, nay the certain know-banks secured on the Wing and Tobacco
accounting fo the split in the Peiyang May will be released in good time, thus have their pporters in the North, and Customs surplus for the mouth of
party itself, which makes it difficult to making up the eleven or twelve millions peak with, the old time clearness of the required by Dragon Boat Festival Day. different ideis represented by the North That the national monies of the bountry and by the South. While the population of should be squandered in such a manner Peking in undoubtedly in a state of panie, is nothing short of scandalous and should fearing that a dreaded crap d'etat would rous pubic opinion to the necessity for be brought about before the Dragon Boat the Cousofuum with a system of account Festival, it must be admitted" that the ing in the national interest, prospects of such trouble--ao-longer-E FOR AFFAIR
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It is interesting to learn both from Foochow affair is on a fair way to being amicably settled: at least this is the hope sations now in progress give rise. to which the conciliatory private conver
THE SHANTUNG ISSUE.
his Mongolian stronghold, but it is no less try that General Chang Tso-lin is coming from Mukden; facts which indicate that the parties are more inclined to talk över and mooth out their differences than Shantung issue.
No such prospects are offered by the China is inclined to indulge in profitfeas warfare. Almost as leave her case with the League of Nations, the same time we hear that the Brand Japan does not see how, in view of chuanese, getting tired of their squatters ing the return of Kaiochow, the matter can China's unwillingness to negotiate regard- from Yanaan and Kwoichiw, have started be approached with any prospect of settle- to drive them out of the province, and Japan might view the retrocession of ment. It was thought at one time. that seem to have made considerable progress Tsingtao and the withdrawal of Japanme in this direction. How far the Size- troops guarding the Shantang railways chnanese have acted under the advice of Tuan Chi-fui and how far the Yunanese, in driving Chang Ching-yao out of
separate is, but this anticipation which declare that the Government is not is destroyed by the reports from Tokyo prepared to treat, the materer weparately.
sent to hospital, suffering from stab Hunan, bave acted under the advice of THE AMERICAN MINISTER.
es trouble again she will go to wounds on the idy, jufleted by "man
who is now in custody."
TRUCULENT RICKSHA.COOLIE
·FARE."
ASSAULTS A
guzi
ABANDONED BABY
A baby, one month old, was found abandoned near the Kung Wah Hospital.
the Presidential' office will perhaps His Excellency the American Minister nover be known, but it has to be born..presented his credentials to the President. this morning, the ceremony being attended
in mind that the influences suggested havu by a full muster from the U.S. Legation. been at work, not at all clearly bat with Mir. Crane in his speech commented m undoubted certainty.
the changes to saw in China-compared- with his first visit. In the afternoon he. BETTLING DAY.
attended the graduation ceremony at
It was removed to the Italian convent The Dragon Boat Festival is not the Tsinghua College, and in the afternoons be
branch at Shanghai Street where it died.
STEALING A FOUNTAIN PEN.
nightmare that it was thought to be to a dinner at the Grand Hotel des Wagons was the gut of the American Association the Government The obligations to be ita
TZEATE÷WITH_FEESIA-----
- A Chinese ricksha/coolie, was charged at the Magistracy, yesterday, with assaulting Chinese, with demanding more than the legal faro, and with damaging clothing. Inspector Kent said that the ricksha
met az this settling day can be satis was engaged 4 No. 7 Station to take A Chinese was charged at the Magi-price. Local
factorily discharged, but at a heary It is interesting that another treaty in "Inre" to Happy Retreat The legal fare was 20 cents, but the coolie was given
stracy, "yesterday, with sealing a fountain and a half million dollars for which they this week, the other contracting party banks are producing three which China does not, concede the prin- diple of extra-territoriality was concluded thirty onts. He was not satisfied. Complainant was walking along Queen's Bills and at the same time have the Rome
pen belonging to a Filipino young man. assaulted the "fare" and tore his clothing. Houd when defendant malebod the pan. Chastoms and Salt surplus; revenues hypo- czza-SLOVAKIA
receive an equivalent amount of Treasury being Persia. The treaty was signed in Complainant took the 'coolie's rain. Acrea and went to the station, but defendant He was immediately arrested and taken to thecated against the loan, which carries urried before him and reported that the the station where it was discovered_that
Negotiations have commenced for a jeron had böon stolen,
be had a second pen in his possession. He interest at no lem than 15 per cent, the glovakia and China. This, when conclud
commercial treaty Defendant aid complainant tore the
between Czecho lothing himself:
was unable to explain how he came into period being only ten months Another fod, gught to be most interesting, as it will "He was fined Bu and crdered to pay 84 posesion of the second pen and was two millions will be raised from the same be the first in which a European country Bompensation to complainant.
sentenced to three montbe" hard labour, in (Continued af 100" of next column.)
is not given extra-territorial privileges in Chinn
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