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THE LINCHENG OUTRAGE.
CHINESE PAPER OS DIPLOMATIC CORPST RESPONSIBILITY,
JUNE 718,
SUMMARY COURT,
JONNORE THE CHIEF JUSTICE (
WILLIAM HERS DAVIES). ! The P&ing Bulg Neies of May zuh TAIKOO, DOCK COMPANY SPED. eoutains the following leading articles-
The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering - In view of the fact that it is almost chree weeks sinass the Linchong Company, Limited, were the defendants, outrage was perpetrated, and especia 15 in the Summary Court yesterday morning, of the fact that it only have the threw when an Intan watchtaan, named Sher hundred odd Chinese nall foreign eaptive
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DEATH OF CHIEF CHINESE HONGKONG AND THE WAR ANOTHER INTERESTING LETTER BY
DETECTIVE INSPECTOR.
RISE FROM CHAIR COOLIE.
AN EXCELLENT RECORD OF SERVICE WITH THE POLICE.
Mr. Hau Hang, Chief Chinese Detro
tire Inspreter of the Hongkeng Pelice Force, was found dead in his bral, yes of that l-fated express not løven released. Klan, formerly emplyed by them, sued torilay morning, at his meidhince at Nin, but that the positing of the bandit has "for 822. The plint claimed that the Hollywood Rintil. sine barn strangthered by the dela, :
was due to him as money the authorities to handle the stating with the Grinness rired by the enver, wages in lieu of notier, owing to his geney, no apology is tweeded to probe into Fring dismissed with at neties on Apr the very core of the problem and se where he public stand.
A. Sir Philip Gibbs, the famous war correspondent, inseries on the title-page Fafgene of his war books, Now it call
told."
Tel.
a cent's
Me. C. A. Russ appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, and Mr. M. M. Watson for the defendants.、
Mr. Hastated that the plaintiff was
A
Kat shock
ADMIRAL ANSTRUTHER.
The following letter by Admiral 1. H, Anstruther, who was Commlore in Hong- kong, at the outh reak of the war, apķivat- ed in the London Morning Post of April 7th:-
Son,-i have don reading Mr. Chuigh- I perhaps, natural that ill's book. The should glorify the work of the Naval 11 ms eume As
Staff. he having created it, but he and to the amber of the
they necesarily look at things through the polige fores as the devra ed appeared to big end of the tel sempe, as it were, whilst he in good health, and his death, there, the was on the spot looks through the före, was ghite unexpected. „At m'night small end. As I happened to be statione
at he of the cutposts at the Empire when he was one of a muleer of thetretiyes th war biske but, and was mainly con- Shaakiwan to investigate the red with the war over, was as it affeleri are Dominions and Pelorios, it may le sent to she ofhg incidat (reported elsewhere in
of interest'te red has things struck us this issue) which had evoured cani e ng Kait of Suez, I will ju offe n' few in-
And the result',,? our investigation -
a oben in waved unge as follows and by the luckyard Company on day evening. When he returned to his stat des Trim Tumory of things one woubi 1. If the Government troops investing September 9th, 1920, and on the date of here in the small hours Le the morning rather have seen done differently:
(D) TAKE COAL: Forty-two days lifter afa baniit strongho had applied just his disutsad he Find been with them for he was in los usual state of heal him the warmg gran i got a wire. Init Talother Inst to the tightyang serowy Dyre two years. Daring that period. had a complained. Death was appar, the, Admiralty to lure in bango put the Lingheng ostrage would never have with the exception of periods during ently due to heart fai ure. He was on all the Welsh coal in the calotty,
Greurent.
++ If de Isambt, dad not breas. hard which he could not work because of que pressed by the Gas rumeus trops, the avoidable attacks of frer, he has carried hold up if the heatsin-Pukow cabres eut his dates in a thoroughly satisfae would not have be resorted to be way tory manas. A large number of watch of diversing the Authorities' attention.
1. the Government had not bee ihsaded, the hedging troops would not be withdrawn and the bandits position would be readerval antondale,
Of course it had been put on within Aars of nge.
forty-two minutes or the ree, ipt of the The Lite Mr. Hau Hang bas had a was warning alegram, beradise it was mur of and meritorious career with the forer and the things laid down in the petmes ader his at years' servies made him the porcheme for the Culuny, draw
the agis of the Imperial Defence Con- by many years in the Pone's lows itter, and approved and isoned thu If the Government had its way, the net were cumplayed at the 15.ekyard, and
Admiralty, though the sender of thị Irle- usons would have continued their sing they were placed under the supervision arvies list,
had apparently nut read the The at Chatof Chite Beretive Ins grim and the supressi fi of the demilits would, or Inspector Bird. As many of thin Janve been speedily affected.
could not speak English, there was a pestor tud been a chan bearer before la scheure,
(2) TAKE INTELLIGENCE : At the 12 L Number, i ludban watchman? This may joined the force in February, 156, 6][v
received his first promovión in 1996 when break of war, according to informal was paid seven dollars a month by each he was made it ease ennstable. Thre from the Admiralty, le ser d on the West of his fellows, and for thit sum he smoked years later he was promoted to 2nd Claw König battleships were -If the Diplomatic Corps had not their crow and provided then with fail. Polle. Sergeant, and in 132 he was far Cons of South Ans rica. They were not ther promoter to Ist Class Police Sergeant, there really, having weturned to Germany warned the figvernment alent the im msition of heavy progressive intens Oe the 3th April plaintiff had a com- 12 1911 his ability in the detecting of months before.
(a) Takk Local. Derence: I gut tele. ities should the release of the far ign, plant te make about the food, which, la evine unongst Chim was recognised captises not be bi ught about be the mid clamed, was badiy casket and inarl by his appointment to the rank of Prigraphie crders about the Naval defence of 1920 the colony, for which I was responsible. night of the 18th inst, tis hundit. wegli
hr was made Chief China Beletive which were directly contrary to the stand. never have long bold with their de quint He went to Mr. Rival, and Mr. Pipal Chinese Detective, Räd in
Hird called in the Number 1 watchman. Inspector.
ing orders of the Defence Scheme, and mand-
The Struber 11
word, if earring ant, have neem-inted and an interpreter.
deiniling certain offers and men for two separate and disting plaers 'cf duty an nobilisation, one in harbour and one at sen. I domicil. The demur gast me my But infeguarded the enlony's eureer. o fins
(4) TAKE STRATEGY: Whatever Admiral early to do was to stop his supplies. The on Spees objetive was, the hist thing Admiralty knew, or at feast had been told, that a whole fleet of German archant ships had made straight for Matsin whet war was declared, and were lifting up with on as fast as they eld. Yet the Admirnity never mentioned watching the place, as far as I know, and there is not a word was watched, and that it was of vital about it in Mr. Charehill's hook. But it importance is evident from the German official publication, "Der Krieg zr See," which words that they (the Germans) had collected in that part 51,000 tips of moal for her bracing ships, of which 250 tons never left the pines arnin during the war owing to die Bleekndo Manifes durch Englischer Hilfe-Kreuz." So va Spre had to get his coal elsewière. ute for the Falkland
bert tivel
The late Mr. Rat Hang had been the 6--Lf the Diplomatic Corps had at in sisted ressantly on the likeation of the che angry with plaintiff, and gave him" recipient of many medals at the hand of ferega captives at whatever rust, the a push. He afterwards told Sher Khan recessive, Goverings in the loay, in hands of the terment would not kaise that he was not wanted at the Backyard cluting the h. 3rd, 2nd muud per la
polier medais, and on the 7th January, T-As it is the situation he got into any longer, and erald consider himself 1921, was esfereed on him the King Plaintiff handed in his uni medal for exceptional and valuable ser such a mess that escape the refrom can etsenissed
Do many decasions he had been. only be at the expense not only of the form. reported at the police station that, vies. Irestige of the Geversydent of the e-
the resource and energy shown in the ry but als of the future security of he had been dismissed without astice, and cammended by the Polics. Magistrates for He had the homur, general life anal property throughout the consulted his solicitors. Correspondence deletion of crim
eustiede istween the solicitors and the to be one of the Chinese constables to In explanation as well as am bheationDockyard, and it transpired that the form part of the extingent of the Hong konz Police Force to take part in the late of the above proposition, it may be stated “
two months ago the Company were under the impression that Queen Victoria's Jubilee celebrations at that as early as troops of Shantunz Province had been Sher Khan had given in ustice of his own Home. The contingent left Hongkong on trying to invest the bandts stronghold at necord. He had been paid up to the April 26th 1807, and returned to Boug Pantzuk (literally, the Valley of Young
death is n los to the Hongkong Police Tavopards "there being already less char he left. Rr. Huss centerled. how. kong on August 20th. 1897. His sudden than one hundred Chinese captive in the ever, that whether this were so or not the Force which it will be hard to repair.
The funeral of the fate Inspector takes bandits hand-that the military cordon : Company were still liable. The Number 1 hart been effectively tightened. and that
place on Friday,
country.
the starving out of the landlits, especially watchman was the plaintiff's superior the fails of the tuindit chiefs, appear officer, and he had told him he was no ed to be a matter of only a few more longer wanted. Whether he had done the i days. Luckily for the hosieged handits, some 1200 on 700 of their emrades man jaged to make good their escane and, in
u desperate effort to divert the ever-inti creasing pressare upon Papizuku, stage the train hold-up near Lincherg.
thing out of spite made no difference, the Company had to stand by his acti us.
Plaintiff then went into the box, and stated that after he had given in his uni- form he went to Ingector Bird and ask. ed for forgiveness, and to be saken on again. The Inspector told him to go He did not, but carried on his duties for a time,
away.
CORRESPONDENCE GOLF AND GOLFERS. (TO THE EDITOR OF
nn was
Islands. THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS.)
Sir, I have read your article in today's inus entitled Golf & Golfors" and hasten to tell the two-figure gentlemen not to take it to heart and throw away the balance of their clule,
There is much u what Dreamer Inspector Bird went into the box, and stated that when Sher Khan complained sys, but he si dreaming. The point. to him about his food he referred him to is that, preachy, pople who hit a ball:
are trying to play the Nuniter 1 watchman. Later in the round a gold links
**go-as-you-pleas day he discovered that the man had given golf and bet his uniform in. He sent for hint and only-get-is-the-hole as-sana possible"
Plaintiff replied: Nosart of game.
Start.
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AB of which gers to show that it is pes-ible to have "over-centralisation, and that men who are starting a new system may not have either time or inclination, read at what was done before their time in the way of preparation for war Yours. vic.,
ROBERT H. ASSTRUTHER,
Vice-Admiral (retired). Holloway Hees, Rye. April 28th.
SHANGHAI TRADE
Mers Tlbert & Co., in their Pices Goods Market Report, say:-
We have again to reord a healthy
As soon as the troops were appris def De cutrage, they pisseted the bandits, but the atter were crafty enough to toil their pursuers by employing their latest! captive particularly the foreigners. ns a seren against the soldiers. Then begin the long-drawn negotiations. But hardly had the bandit made on proms then they broke it, because they were promptly informed of the Diplomatic Corps' warn ing to the Government that "heavy pro gressive indennities for every twenty, four hours of delay in the liberation of asked why.
Witects To my mind, the person who drives with the captives beginning at midnight of the proper chow, no can on duty."
a brassic is on the wrong road from the This told him to take his uniform and go 19th May," would ho exacted.
He is paying the easiest shot in merely ached a much extra powder, to about his duty without further com-
plaint. If he could not do his duty he got with the wrong club. Now he cannot the bandits exhausted ammunition.
The main enniern of the Diplomatic, would have to leave. The next day Sher play this shot properly with any club but market with clearance continuing to b
The driver is at faced (I've satisfactory in spite of the inclemency of Dreamer's lofted the weather during the past few days. Hody was the safety and the earliest re Khau came back with the same coniplaint, a driver. fense of their unfortunate nationals, and, Witness told him that if he could not the main entern of the besieged andits do his work he must go, and thereupon vers" and a tee is given the player Greys and Whites have been particularly was the tightening of the military cordou paid him off. The other watchmen und so that the ball. when struck, will be hit strong owing to the shortage of stocks but into the nir and not along the ground. If the improvement in demand has been which cut them off from the outside world made no complaints.
the player drives with a brasie and he
reported in Golden Bell yellow edged and exhausted their supply of food and
His Lordship, giving judgment for the bugins hitting en, then he will find the Feueral and substantial busine: has been water, etc. The bandits accordingly de Dock Company, told Sher Khan that his bail quing much too high and will stand Itians for Hankow and the Norther
entirely his own fault. front of it or use, other methods to nanded the withdrawal of the Govern-laying ment troops under threat of putting their Whether the food was bad or whether it keep the ball down, anil the lust state will foreign captives" to death, and in their ragerness to obtain the captives' release was not his Lordship could not say it be worse than the first the Diplomatie Corps dissuaded the Gov. might have been, but even so, that was
no business of the Inspector's, ernment frem further forcible measures, the Diplomatie Corps In particular. advised the withdrawal of the inventing troops, and as soon as this was done the. besieged were enabled to communicate. with their cutside comrades.
In other words, the solicitude of th Diplomatic Corps over-reached itself and, ara result. not only the captives have : not been released but the bandits them-
WHY
THE RADIO STRUGGLE IN CHINA
AMERICAN COMPANY.
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porte
The Japanese boyectt movement would It is not the difference in distance to be appear to be strongly supported and it effects are now being felt throughout the obtained by a driver or a brassic, repetinterior, although we hear of sime busi- tively, that enters into the question at
all. It is the question of playing shots being done in Japanese Greys for Chefoo and Newchwang during the past with the right club from the start, and so
week. trying to be a player of golf, and not, the The auctions generally were productive
other game.
The
Anybody who knows anything about the of brisk hidding for Greys and Whites. game knows that the stance for each and with a fair amount of speculative buying DECISION IN FAVOUR OF every club is different. The longer the in evidence, which resulted in an all shot the more open the stance and the round improvement in prices with the ex- further away from the ball the payer ception of Tientsin and Korean qualities
So why must we be denied theof White Shirtings.
Telegraphic advices from Manchester selves are acw in a position to defy the The Far Eastern Timex says it understands. joy of
drive with a driver? hitting stand that the wireless controversy, suthorities.
contend that it is easier inform us of an upward tendency in the This is, in brief, the truth of the Lin-which has held up for half a year the Does Dreamer
the demand from foreign cheng situation and the responsibility of construction of the Federal Telegraph hit two shots, one off a tee and one off market in sympathy with the rise in the
Iment in the Diplomatic Corps in the delay of the Company's maximum station at Shang- the ground, with the same club the same raw material and in view of the improve- captives release. And an independent hui, has come to an end. President Li distance than it is with two clubs?
who tries to play ter shuts with a brassie confirmation of the above will be found in Yuan Hung having had the unfortunate can't agree. No-one will ever be a golfer markets.
was creating
iron. the letter sent to Premier Clang Shao impression the deadlock Tseng, enclosing a memorandum of an brought to his personal attention, referred and mashie shots with
wirth, play each shot with the proper interview with Their Excellencies the a special memorandum dealing with the My advies is for what it may be Portugues and the British Ministers. by matter to the Cabinet and insisted upon club for the distance you have to hit the Out of doors there is nothing so restful Mr. Thomas King, of the Waichinopu an open discussion. As a result of this ball. masked whether, you have any and comfortable for the eyes as the light discussion, the Prime Minister has given elstacle to carry or nas. A player who instructions to the Ministry of Comm-ean pitch his ball is a hundred times more reflected from green fields and trees, the golfer than the player who runs it up niesions to act in accordance with the decision of the Inter-Departmental Cem with an iron. Further, it is much easier absorption of the ultra-violet and orange mitte, composed of delegates from the to play a full shot with any club than it rays by the chlorophyll of the leaves; saya hence the introduction of Fieul Glass Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Navy and
to play a half shot. "Dreamer Communications. This Committee decid that all shots between 180 to 8 yards can
Secretarial,
It is no use to cry over spilled milk, but we hope that the ralutary lessons learned in these anxious weeks will not be lunt.
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Lid.. at Redfern (Sydacy) opened in and operate the Tungchow Station being advocate players having March, represent the first attempt. in built by Mitsui & Co, provided the station number of clubs. As they get to know the over-seraitive eyes where it is desirable Australasia, to weave silk. The first lines fully complied with all specifications, course they play on they will know what to tone down excessive light and glare to be produced will be taffetas, antina, T. Okura engineers who are completing clubs they want to play the various shots Fieuzal lenses of any prescription In
get them and practice necktir goods, dreng goods in plain, stripe, the Tungchow station still maintain that with. Let them
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