OPIUM SEIZURE. AFTER EXCITING CHASE
Chinese women and two men were charged before Mr. G. N. Orme, at the Magistracy, yesterday, with the unlawful possession on board their basi, of 1,350 thola of prepared non-Government oplum:
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The first defendant said that she was the mistress of the boot. She was ugaged by
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The railway, the construction of which man at Yaumaty to take delivery of the was hailed with such evident satisfaction Opium, which was in gunny bags. At the by the principal Shaiks and notables of sime she undertook the job, she did not almost every district through which it
SCHOOL N
of local
PIRING, September 12th,
En Garstin, of FB.. ConmÜÏ- no inaptly The Custon, Thies has the following Jate, Shanghai, gave an adderan last week Baghdad correm i telegrams;
to the students of the British Chamber of. The secret conleradice of Chin. Yun-pens, Commerce who are commencing another the Peking Premier, General Thao Kus, season's work, Inspector-Geners of Chibli Shantung, Mr. A. W. Burkill provided and read the and Honan, and General Chang Tania report of the Diretor of Chinew Study. Inspector General of the Three Fattern which showed that the former tendency to at the following conclusions.
(1.) The term previously agreed uponown to value study. Sixty per cent, of vanished and that the students were settling with Wện Chu, Vice-Minister of Fin
the students had received preliminary and ance of the Military Government, repre anting the Canton Military Government, 75 per cent fast certificates. There was a regarding the proposed prace, will be con distinct change in their ideas of studying muzicated to Tuchos Tang Chiyao Chines. At first, most of them were in- of! clined to regard the study, of Chinuse in Yunnan and Tuchun Tan Yen-kai
the nature of a passing innovation to be
know the contents of the bag. She underpassed, has been cut in several places Provinces, held in Tientsin, has arrivgard the study of Chinese as a joke bad i
took all responsibility in the matter and between Rumaitha and Bamawah and mid that the other defendants had nothing tribesmen are showing an energy in des troying it and the bridge which even the to do with it, they being ker, felia,
The Revenue Officer, Mr. Clarke, said Prospect of two rupees & day as labourers that between 7.30 and 8 p.m., a Monday, heter elicited from them when it was being the defendant's sampan wax nofced under constructed. the stern of the Hachong, which was lying slangside the Douglas whart, Several
The imprisonment of a Shaik who had raised his dag with the object of attack:
bags were lowered into the boat from the; ing the railway led to his forcible, release Hunan for agreement. If the two. Eventually discarded, but the large number
Mip Several Revents Officers hired from the Government prison, and of a motor-boat and pushed off towards the series of attack on the railway as the sampan. As soon as the defendis saw the result of which the Humaitha garrison as
erals disagree To Kus, Chang Two-lit,
Li Shun, Isen Chun-hauan, Lu Yung-ting, of students in evidence that afternoon show- and others will proclaim the union of the ed that they all realised the importance of
Liang Shi-yi as the Chief Peace Delegate to conclude the general peace with other
MEGAESTIN'S ADDRESS.
motor-boat approaching them, they madalated.Samawah garrison would also country as far as their respective sphers' knowing the language of the country in off. Tha Reveatie Officers give chase, I have been cut off but for the fact that it of infuence are concerned and appoint which they" resided." (Applause.}
is on the Euphrates and can depend upon caught the sampan and went on board, where the river as a line of communication. It they found the opium,
At this stagy, Ms. A. H. Crow appeared be suspected that the catting of the railway is not entirely unwelcome to own ery of river craft who are making has while the sun shines.
in Cours and informed the Magistrate he had been retained for the defence. He had not had time to receive instructions,
and would like a remand,
THE GARRISON,
Hamaitha garrison consists of some
Provinces.
(2)-hitwardly the present positions' the different military governors will not be ebanged, but those in Anhui, Fukien, Shenai Kaña Chekiang, and other places may be changed somewhat.
Mr. Garstin. speaking on behalf of Sir Everard Fraser. Consul General said that
he could lay no claim to being a Sinologue. He did not propose to say mich on the value of a knowledge of the Chinese lang
ng in the realm of business, as all of them, he presumed. brd made up their
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The Magistrate remanded the ore until seven phatoons of the 114th Mahratias positions of the Tuchunk in Shabtus minds on that point. There did come, how string Beans.
morrow morning.
"OPIUM DIVAN.
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Honan, and Kirin may also be effected.
(3.Relative to the demands of Tiso ever, a time when the student necessarily Kun and Chang Tso-lin for 2,000.00 asked himself whether it was worth while each as compensation for their recent contiguing his study. To those who were militare operations against the Anfu ilinched to despairs, new or in the future. tarists under Tuan Chi-jui, and Hau Shu be would say that there was a right and a tseng, it has been agreed that each shal wrong way of studying be paid 24,050,000 as first instalment, the language
and 9th Infantry and some 200 civil rail- way personnel. They have had to stand the siege of over a fortnight, and from all accounts are keeping their end up Inspector Fox then chargedi Chins remarkably well. Rations and ammua with (1) being the keeper, of an opium ion have been freely dropped into the divan in Kowloon City, nad (1) unlawful potesin of 8 trels of prepared non-at, which they have fortified, by aero- Government opium
plane, and the garrison have further The defendant admitted possesion of th. Provided themselves by occasional sorties balance to be paid within the next thre
eplum but denied that he was the keeper of the divan.
Three other Chinese were chirged with smoking opium on the premises.
They admitted smoking on the premises but said that they smoked Government opium.
into the bazaars. These sorties have been made psible by our seroplanes who have bombarded the outskirts of the town at pre-arranged, times, thus distracting the attention of the investing enemy, whb : from all accounts is now somewhat dis spirited.
months,
tite Chinese
He had before him as he spoke, some reniarks of Sir Walter Hillier on the study (4.)-The troups of the Impector Geo of Chinese. The latter had said all tho eral of Chibli, Bhantung, and Hoban speaker had intended to say, a good deal Provinces shall be trained by General Wa more and much better than he could say it. Pai-in, Fong Yu-being, and two others. Enthusiasm was required, in the study of (5.)-The Military Government in Car Chinese. There should be no undue evasion, ton shall be abolished, and M Yung no undue despair. He advised the students A bold attempt to relieve the garrison havn, recognized as the Tuchun of Kwang to tackle Mandarin fret. The Shanghai The informer gave evidence to the effect was made by that fine regiment, the 43th
tang. Aid will be given to Mu Yung and other variations would then be com that he visited the defendant's divan on the Bikhs, under Colonel McVean, but then against Chen Chiung-ming. The paratively easy. The variations were not so night of the 12th inst. He tendered, two Arabe sinceroded in cutting off the water Kiang Tuchen, Chen Kwang-yuan, #ill
great after all. marked ten cent piecos which Inspector Fox from the count on which the regiment in beenager to attack Tuchun Li Haochi enden before him would eventually go had previously given to him, and asked for pended for its water and it had perforce Fukien, and Tuchun of Hupeh, Wang into the interer in which case they would tro pots of opium. The first defeadhat took to retire not without suffering heavy Chan-ynen, to prepare for the defence and that a knowledge of Chinese was not the money and gave him the cum. The casualties, including a Subadar.Major kill- other defendants were smoking oplum at ed and Lieutenant Fox wounded, The Saint Yunnan and Keichow Province only advisable but essential. It would the time. Soon after witness had gone to trouble has spread in a modified form to one of the
the beds to smoke his opium, the the Shamiyah Division where there has been considerable effervescence during the police raided the house,
past few days,
Inspector Fox said that when he and some
"REASONS" OF THE DISTURBANCES. Jakis entered the premises, the lat witness
Your readers will doubtless" expect me pointed out the first defendant to his ar the keeper of the divan Witnes searched to explain the reasons of the present die desk which was the only other piece of turbances. The question is one to which furniture besides the heds, and in it found a satisfactory answer has not yet been six taels of
of non-Government opinm, and the given. The politicians of Baghdad will parked ten-cous pieces. Witnes also disay that it is because the country has not covered on the premises a stove and a pan yet been given a constitution under the which wore probably ed for preparing League of Nations. Townspeople outside. op am, but, of courte, witness had no evid -ence that the defendant bad actually prepared it on the premises.
the
The Magistrate convicted and fined frat defendant 850, or six weeks hard labour. The others were fined, or ten days each.
RATTAN-WORKERS IN TROUBLE.
ATTEMPT TO PREVENT COLLEAUCES
WORKING.?
Baghdad with a closer acquaintance of
tribesman-assert that it is because the
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Shi-yi
THIES TO MURDER OFFICIAL
VISITOR STABS CHIEF BROCURATOR
Recently the Tokyo Chiho Saibansho was the scene of great excitement consequent on
Doubtless some of the
smooth difficulties to a remarkable extent One could not help noting the marked change that came over Chinese tradesmen and others if foreigners spoke a few worde of Chinese His experiences as. Mixed Court Assessor had convinced him that great "deal of worry and litigation could have been avoided if the plaintiffs bad had
knowledge of Chinese. The study of Chinese was not any more difficult than French or German. If anything, the sounds of the, Chinese language were well adapted to the English tongue, more so than in the case of French or German. In con clusion the speaker expressed the hope, that if they were inclined to despair, they should reconsider their decision. (Ap- plause)
tribes are naturally bad men with black hearts to whom law and order is abomin able and who regard the towns as their legitimate prey. The tribesmen them. selves, who ought to be able to reply, seem
A hearty vote of thanks was moved by least able to do so. It is not taxation, dever were they so prosperous, It ly not dastardly attempt on the life of Mr. Chairman to Mr. Gartin and the pro- grievances regarding water for it is uni versally agreed that the area under Hilton Kanayama, acting chief Procurator weedings terminated. cultivation at any time during the past of the Court, as the result of which he was seven years. Nor does it appear to be
an unsatisfied longing for a restoration seriously injured. It appears that a man
of Turkish sovereignty, or the creation of pparently 35 years old, decently dressed, SUICIDE OF LLOYD'S an Arab Kingdom, for most careful ealed on Procurador Kanayams in his office SURVEYOR AT KOBE, enquiries have failed to elicit any up-in the Chiho Saibanaho describing himself
port for either one policy of the other as Akiji Irita of Nase-mors, Oshima-gun, Mr. J. Blellock, a member of the staff outside Baghdad and one or two large Kagoshima prefecture. The visitor of Lloyd's Surveyors in Kobo, was instantly Four Chinese were, yesterday charged towns and even there is no sort of it shown into Procurator Kanayame's roon killed early on the morning of the inst before Mr, Orme, at the Magieracy, with animity, and it is doubtful whether anywhere they were engaged in conversation for when he was struck by running express single policy wonig command a majority a few minutes when the procurator dropped train at Shioga Station, near which ha uninfully threatening to do bodily harm of votes. We are thus forced to the con his fountain-pen on the floor. As he lived. to foki of the Tung Shang Tsi rattan clusion that the origin of the trouble is stooped to pick it up the visitor drew Both the Kation master at Shaya and external, and we may shrewdly suspect award which he had been crying under the driver of the engine declare thag Mr. shop of Kowloon if he worked on vertain that Damascus, Aleppo, Dair.az Zor and his hatama and struck the official at the Biellack committed suicide by jumping, in Van (the latter the head-quarters of right shoulder inflicting an ugly wound, front of the rapidly moving train from the Mustapha Kamal Parks), are all interest Although seriously injured and profusely a side of the track. Despondency over ed in procuring disorder in Mesopotamia, bleeding Mr. Kanayama managed to go the death of his wife and child in England which is now the only part of the Middle into an adjoining room where his assailant last year is considered porrible motive Easts still Government, in fact appear to be an inside the Court premises ran to the scene
enjoying a stable Government followed hits. beveral policemen on duty for suicide. popular as such nowadays, for the of the ragedy and after a lively tunale the Mr Blalock was about 23 years old and had been a resident of Kobe, where he was digenous appears almost as little able to the injured man was removed in a moter months. About a year ago he suffered maintain its authority as that of Turkey. A E. Hall, who appeared for the At first sight it would appear that revolucar to the Hayashi Hospital at Tank13 tragic, bereavement in the low of his wifa
ratan furniture,
Inspector Spear, of Tainishatul, who pro secuted, asked for a week's formal remand He explained that he would like to make some enquiries about the case, she was of
opinion that it arose out of murder which Byrian Government, which is purely man was overpowered and disarmed. Ea member of Lloyd's staff, for about two
took place in Kowloon on Saturday last.
defence, said he had no objection to a formal remand, but he must ask for bail,
The Magistrate remanded the case for weekt, fixing bail in the
cach of the defendants.
df, 8250 for
A $5,000 FINE.
IMPOSED ON JAPANESE SHIPPER.
connection with the zaizure of 18,068 of opium valged at $250,000, cn hoard Japanese motor schoone
the
char
was fired at the Magi
85 600, with the alterunt;
bard labour.
Governments command greater
The doctors say that the patient will recover ionary respect than old fashioned ones but the ina month or so unless complication and only child, who died of influen
appear user offenders in England, Since then bis melancholy reports that reach us of the difficulties As to the motives of the would-be muy temper had been noted by all with whom be that are being experienced by Mustapha Kamal himself seem to show that this is derer they are thus far unknowa. In official had been associated. In order to give him not the case,
ciroles opinions are freely expressed that change, which it was hoped would benefit the man, who is employed or used to be im, his company sent Mr. Blelock to employed by the Miyasaki prefecturst offo, America and later to Jap
is crazy and that no definite mative can be The yai cremated and the gaherrill
BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA INgned. But there seem to be circument to England for burial. Japan
CHINA
"GREAT PROGEESS CLAIMED.
stancos that tend to contradict this explani Alverluer.
tion. It is reported, for instance, that the
man bad presented some sort of complaint
to Procurator Kanayama and in its bonnes SKETCHED THE PORT AT MOJI tion to had Panted the officia, once or twice, desording to another story the man Irius
Aman named Saburo Aiki was caught.
A semi-official despatch recurred at Tokyo reports that tho, Verkhas Udinak Cam Chinnan munists claim that Bolshevik propaganda viited Lao metropolitan police office and making a sketch of the fortress outside of
ski is making great progress in Chains and they wanted to lodge some complaing with the Moji harbour recently. He wan
mecial, Commisioners sent to Chine" from police. The latter advised him to go the gra on board the Toronta Hare and he made Trentak are working among the farmers and Law Court and lay his grievances before the the sketch while the boat was anchored near soldiers, distributing Red literature. It is public procurators, An hour or so later the fortress. He was arrested and during added that, the Commisioners “ contemplite the tragedy occurred as
the examination, he confessed to have been efracting the urganisation of a Chinese Red The perpetrator of the outrage has sincs making the sketch at the request, of an
beer #declared, insanej
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