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WHAT ARE THE CHINESE AUSTRYAN KILLED BY MURDER AND ATTEMPTED
THINKING ABOUȚi-
A REPLY. FROM PEKING TO
FAUSER BY
CHINESE BANDUSE
DANOR
KINGSCLERE ROBRERA
INCIDER T
SENSATIONAL, AFELIRAT KREMER A NOVEL HANDBAG DISAPPEARS.
A considerable amount of Mr. Lind.
{
ANOTHER BADLY HUBN
Renter's Agency at Ping says:- What are all these · hundreds of
The following reppet from Manchuria A sensational armed robbery, which 'sell's time was compied at the Magistracy. thousands with when we live in such close pomes from a thorough reliable source; resulted in the murder of a woman and yesterday morning in taking avidensa in contact doing, and what are they thinking On August 14th last Chinese soldiers at the serious wounding of her husband, a ouse of alleged theft at Kingsclere en about from day to day? Such is the Buchato station or the Chinese Eastern occurred at Kremer Street on Saturday Saturday evening when there were many question of "a Passer-by" and he has Ballway in Heilungklang' entered the night,
Christinas dinner partion, followed by my earnest sympathy, or at least he had houses of two Austrians and a Hungar
It appears that about 7 p.m. seven dance at the Hotel. Many of the guest One of the Austrians, Gustav Tobbers, four of whom were carrying brought their own domestics to assist in The answer is best given in the la. words of an old countryman in England Weber, opened his door when the soldiers volver entered a grocery hot at No. He looked so intent; as he sat in a chair knocked and informed them that he wass, Kreme Street, Chattering down theving the dinner, and the defendant in the ease yesterday was a housshoy, am- outside his catage door; so lost in con.a tailor and possessed nothing. He was door of the shop. The master and his ployed by Mrs. Backhouse. He was templation, that the visitor's curiosity shot through the heart. He left a widow wife were inside the shop at the time charged with stealing a "eilk handbag
One of the robbers fired a shot at the belonging to Mrs. Macleary."
t.
"
and two children.
was aroused. “What,” he asked, ap- proaching the old man, "do you think
The second Austrian, Rudley Fitmicr about all day as you sit there was a barber. All the money he had mator, which hit him in the back, A.
(sixty-five roubles) and all his empleoth "Maistly nowe" was the laconic reply i ments and clothing were taken away' and ball
Passer-by spuld be astonished if he his furniture destroyed. His eyes and knew how. little the Chinese think when en were badly hurt and he was deprived. they think at all. Before I learnt that the means, of Kvelihood and had no language I imagined what fun it would pay for medical attention tea be to know what these interminableThe shop of the Hungarian, conversations meant which sounded so iä. Szuje, was emptied of everything. Even
The article was quite a novelty. -1. per frede the woman, the had the appearance of a doll, with head, penetrating her left breast, arms and legs complete, and was stated apparently at the seriousness to have aroused the curiosity of the table orimehe robbers decamped boys During a dança it was deposited with waling anything. The wounded: on a table and it disappeared and could couple were removed to hospital, and
not be found by the owner.
The bag
teresting on the street, by the wayside, his tools and the leather for which he early yesterday morning the woman died contained a small sum of money and
and on passage boats; but like those long had not paid were taken. In despair be Chinese letters, which look so interesting, committed suicide on November 24th. they all boil down to nothing, or next to The local Chinese authorities sealed up nothing, in the same way that spinach the room in which the body lay and on does when you cook it
December 5th it was still closed and the body unburied.
Buying and selling and the market prices of the day and his family squabbles are the absorbing topics of the man in the street, and at every place where men congregate for business or pleasure. Now, mach against his will, the Chinese has to think of tuchuas and tufei. These unlucky subjects prove the exception to the rule. for on these he thinks more and talks less. On most subjects he talks without thinking at all.
I, too, used to grouss about my Hong! kong newspaper-until I came North. I met à journalist on the rain. He was
All that the Chinese Military Author ities have done has been to pay the füneral expenses of Gustav Weber and 350 for damage done to the three houses
TSINGTAO RAILWAY STRIKE. WHARVES, WORKSHOPS, PILOTAGE AND ALL TRAINS IN IDLENESS.
The Tsingtao correspondent of bo
as the result of her wound. The man is
many articles of a personal character. still ia hospital in a serious condition.
The boy told Mr. Lindsell, that he The master of the shop, until recently! a poor man, is said to have won a con found the bag, on the dinner table and
hid it Biderable sum in a lottery last week and away for safety.
The case was adjourned until to-day it is said that on the night of the at tempted robbery he had in his possession when evidence will be given by the No: 1 considerably amount of money, which boy at Kingsclere and other witnesses. had been paid to him the previous night.
WAS IT A JOKE?
A PROCLAMATION POSTED IN BOWEN ROAD.
"
PICK-POCKETS AT HAPPY
נו
VALLEY.
FOOTBALL SPECTATOR'S PURSE STOLEN.
14
An alert district' watchman on duty amongst the football crowds at Happy
absorbed in reading the latest book by Daily News, writing on December
The other day a sensational announce. Sun Yat Sen on how to govern. His 15th said:- grouse was that Sun was not takei A meeting was recently held at the meat appeared in Bowen Road, regard seriously enough by the Hongkong Eng-Railway Administration. Building to lishnian: and accused the editors in the protest against the rumoured dismissaling the activities of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's Valley on Saturday, noticed a Chiness Colony of getting their opinion of things of the Japanese employes without suf- troops in South China. The notice was acting in a suspicious manner. He saw bine. Chinese from the gossip in the club bar. cient compensation. A procession of over in Chiness and took the form of a pro- peering into spectators' pockets. He im- How is it that the Chinese make so 500 formed and marched through the clamation signed by the Chief Commander mediately became interested and shadow- little impression amongst us? We are streets to the accompaniment of the beat. living on the threshold of four hundred ing of drums and shouting. Afterwards, of the Revolution Army, South China. ed the pickpocket who, unaware that he millions, and yet if reading only the ata meeting at the Railway Hall, many It rommenced in the following terms:—
was being watched, drew a purse from. Daily Press you might imagine Hong infammatory speeches were made. One I. the Chief Commander of the Revolu- the lower left hand jacket pocket of a kong no nearer China than Honolula? speaker delivered himself as follows:- The Passer-by " says Something must)
oneral Yuhi is generous enough to tion Army, of the South Division, have school, boy and transferred it to his own. be happening amongst them." So, you give :500,000 to the bankrupt Stock received the order of the President of The watchman seized him" and drawing would think until you are familiar with Exchange, when the directors have been China, Dr. Sun Yat Son." I went on to out the purse, held it, aloft, crying out their empty, aimless lives. Content to frittering away the fundsson wine and
"who has lost a ̈parse?" The school
without any
The proclamation was first noticed by The consequence is, that an official of the Public Works Depart and employés of the rail-ment, who thinking it a strange place to those at the wharves and post's notice, hid, it translated and sub- ading the pilota, have gone
The Magistrate seat the man to prison. for three months with hard labour.
FIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD
WEST.
go or from day to day and year to year women, or have been madly speculating say that owing to the "distress and Diving discontent" with in worthless stock. He is also rumoured troubles prevailing in the Canton Pro- their narrow environment and happy in to have given Y.100,000 to a bank which vines they had to fight the rebels in order boy immediately, identified it as his and their lack of aspiration.
has bech closed for months. Surely, be to relieve their fellow countrywer. In the man was arrested. There is a New China springing up, will not send us home in a miserable
was added that the discipline of the army At the Magistracy, yesterday, the man which dresses in the garments of the West condition?" and speaks English but New Chinh hoa Another speaker exlaimed, "Better to was very strict and that no one was told Mr. Wood that he was a coolie and rot yet found his feet or learnt to think die here an to end our lives like beggars allowed to interfere with any person or that he had been in Hongkong for two for himself. My journalist friend mid at hor iter being welcomed by rel with animals or fowls. The people were years. He denied stealing the purse; an- (and he professed to know) that young tives que friends?” China in Hongkong was almost to a man The following day, General Yubi and to be allowed to carry on their business other man stole it, dropped it at his feet behind Sun Yat Sen, which shows a Dr. Akiyams were interviewed by a com- without interference. The order concludes and then ran away. The watchman im- lamentable want of thought or of indemitton elected by the employés, and pro- with the following words': "This immediately accused him of theft, pendent judgment. If he was right, Newmised to ma a suitable extra allowance China, like Old China, still thinks in smounting over Y-1,200,000. However, portant order, Chief Commander Revolu grooves and reacts to "crowd pressure." to-day, the employes have been informed tion Army, South Division." There is not much in those Chinese that the Minister of the War Department thenghts, I fear, to interest the readers at Tokio will not consent to the extra of the English press in the Far East. disbursement. There are papers in the North which all the officia profess to net as "Interpreters," to "fillway, as well up the abysmal gulf of ignorance which workshops, in
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT 88,000. xists in the minds of us concerning the on strike.e will, therefore, be no sequeatly it was removed for investiga Chinese and their affairs." These daily train service ed shipping will also be tion. The matter was placed in the reams of matter are, however, intermin- bela up, unti settlement is arrived at.
hands of the police and later a house- At four o'clock yesterday morning a zhly dullYou are carried-round-and-
boy, cuamed bo Po, employed at a fire broke out at No. 414, Queen's Road- round in an endless cycle of intriguës,
Japanese mess was arrested. He was West, a sugar packing shop. The Fire plots and counter plots, which leave you tired. The ordinary foreigner out East
charged before Mr. Lindsell yesterday Brigade carned out promptly and they who reads, or tries to read, the paper!
morning with posting the notice without succeeded in getting the fire under con- doesn't know who half these officials are which the editors and his professional)
The total sugar output from the six the permission of the Secretary for trol. The house was badly damaged. It Dorrespondents write about so glibly. He centrals of the Philippine Sugar Centrals Chinese Affairs,
is estimated that damage to the extent doesn't know where to learn about them Agency this season will be between 85,000 On the application of the Police the of 80,000 was done. The house was in- I once had the temerity to suggest ta according to D. M. Semple, general case was remanded until the 28th inst., sured with the Lum Tai Insurance Co. an editor (not in Hongkong) how to make manager of the agency. The Manila the police expressing the wish to consult for $4,000. his paper more readable. I thought, and Times remarka-The manufacture of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs on the suit think, it deserves a bigger circulation sugar in the islands this year has been matter. than it "obtains. Our attitude up to the greatly increased, to judge from figures
sither.
SUGAR TPUT OF THE LILIPPINES.
and 90,000 tons, valued at about P20,000,000
time of my giving advice to him was given out by Mr. Semple He said since) The proclamation is said to have been a mutually cordial; but I was not so fortu- milling was started about a month and a joke on the part of the house-boy. nate with my editor as "Passer-by" was, half ago the mills of the agency have
in Hongkong, for I have been to this turned out 18,000 tons as against 3,472 editor since that time, "as a heathen tons during the same period last year. man and a publican."
From Negros alone the agency has ex- EXCITEMENT." AT YAUMATI. ported to the United Statey about 8,200 tons of sugar.
POLICE FIRE UPON SUSPECTS.
There was some excitement" at Yaumati; **LITILE LORD FAUNTLEROY,” an Christmas night, when Inspector
The Soviet Executive has conferred upon the State Political Department the rights of execution and imprisonment without trial.
to
WEATHER. REPORT. December 28th, at 6,10-Warning Hongkong, Coast Ports, &a-Depresion or typhoon of unknown intensity within 193 miles of Lat. 3 deg. N. Long, 1ss,deg E
Moving W.
The average. man who specialises, speaks to the public in the language of a specialist-his audience is too "proud to confess, we don't understand" they simply don't listen. The English editor if he is to interpret China must talk in the language of bis-readers and
It was a happy inspiration which led Murphy, in charge of a party of deted boil his Chinese politics down." This afternoon I was invited out to tea by the Cotonet management in Bolech film tires, attempted to arrest six men whe some American ladies who live in a version of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" for had just landed from & boat. Chinesa house right among the Chinese. their Christmas week picture Of the They are keenly interested in everything various Yuletide attractions it was by no suspects were ordered to stop. They re that concerns their neighbours. They can means the leash. Fesentially & picture fused to do so and fled down Reclamation of Lau a deg. N. Lobs 190-deer- talk of world politics but apparently they which appeal to the younger generation Street, with the detectives in hot pursuit, moving
26th, at 1625 Ponen han in norer look at the local pepers--they re- it possesses at the same time a very great There was some shooting and one of the ad fuse to be bored regardless of what any interent for old folk because of the amaz
a shot has detrbaaedimoderately from Bhanghai to
srd slightly at southern stations The wounded man depremin stil Appe
The
to
ba moving
The
December 25th, a at 11:50 Warning to Bong kong, "Coast Ports, Depression or
W.
abrut Lat. B deg. N
big
Fresh monsoon may be expected
body thinks And yet the chief local ing performance of Mary Pickford in the fugitives was brought down by daily is run by an American. On taking dual role of Cedric Errol and Dearest, Ered by a detectiva. this paper up it looks as if, originally, his mother, as unbellorable but is said to be a sailor in the employ of westward. As is the moves in all the news was written on odd scraps two parts which offer such a tremendous the Water Police. The detectives also
deg. E. of paper, which after being duly contrast physically and temperamentally shuffled, are given to the Chinese type could be pourtrayed by one person and succeeded in capturing two other fugi-It may develops into & phoned along the Batter to print in any order he likes that one person should appear on the tives. Fortunately the editor helps you out of screen in the two characters at the same your muddle in reading it-if, for in- time. It demonstrates what great strides. stance, you are perusing a passage which the cinematographic art has made in re the men has not bear announced by the ends in nowhere, a footnote kindly tells cent years. you that the article is continued on page 3, column 4," and so on.
The nature of the suspicions against poest of China and over the N. Crian
Police.
LARGE RICE SHIPMENT CONTRACT
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am, 16th Dec, 0,00 incb. Total since 60.43 inches, against an average January 1st, 6 of 82.94 inches.
-The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-day is as follows; DISTRICT
FORLJAST NE Winds
some driszło [mist.”
This article is a confession that I will men, graduates from different colleges, grouse no longer about my Hongkong who were trying to interpret, to the newspaper, for though Hongkong is foreigner, the now anti-Christian move narrow, and the newspaper, being a comment which is agitating the students of mercial undertaking, must reflect local the Peking Government University. Here, opinions, yet it is written in language at any rate, was a chance to hear what that I can grasp, and I know where to young progresive China was thinking find the local and foreign news, and something at last to "interpret" to the where to look for the advertisements. English newspaper of the Far East
I left my manuscript at this Alps-it-was-only-to-listen to obvious paint to drop into a meeting, to which ochoes of Mr. Bortrand Rassel is reported to be on the basis of 30. par South coast of Chins between the I was not invited. It was a gathering of cords" of that gentleman's voice only ton for the rice and 32s. 6d. for the bran. missionarica latoning to 3 Chinees young put into a Chinese gramophone! There The leading London rice firms are under- (Continudii ai foot of nga column.) fore, not original and so very dull stood to be interested in the contracty
Arrangemente have been made for shipping next year from Burmush to the Hongkong to Gap Rock ... fresh; evercast, United Kingdom and/or Continent whet is described in the markes as the largest shipment of rios ever made to Europe,
It amounts to 54,000 tons and is to be Formosa Channel shipped in the regular liners between February and July. The freight agreed
NEwinda
strong...
Hongkong and Tamooke
NOVE Bouth coast of China, between. The same as
Hongkong and Bainan