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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 16TH, 1924
THE MISFORTENES OF MR. YEN.
PA TRUE STORY FROM CHINA,
The Peking correspondent of the fan- chester Guardian writes:
SUPPRESSION OF
WITNESS.
THE CASE AGAINST MRS. ROWARTH "AND MRS, DAVIS AT SHANGHAL.
In Supreme Court at Shanghai, last week, a jury found Mrs Judita Rowarth and her daughter, Mrs. Mar-
As a result of the requt changes in the Government, and of the introduétion, of reformer at the head of the only tweets, guilty of having conspired
solvent--finistries=" thor of
SIMILAR TO HONGKONG.
The following note appeared last week in the NC, Daily Nowsz
MANILA DEFENCELESS PUBLIC FERRY-BOATSERVICE
AGAINST EARTHQUAKE,
NEEDED AT SHANGHAT.
WARNING BY A SCIENTIST:
Manila has been experiencing some slight earthquake shocks this mouth add the aile-Fimes grates the terves of ite renders by the following g
That Manila may at almost any, time
To those whose business carries them about Shanghai haihour by day and night, and to whom the pervate launeb services, maintained by the shipping-and- be visited by an earthquake such is desaler companies are not available, a fast tiune and Finanev, 'the Central Park of Peking has become the Trafalgar Sanet together to obstruct and defeat the course trosed. Yokohama last September is the public ferry service, operating at
-warning-sourdel by Father Roque hours has long been a necessity. The Forewas Twin-daily eager groups
of justice by persenting a witness, Wong Stanno professor of physics and engineer volume of the
University of Santo Tomas, by sampan, across and along the river one of the passenger carrying trade, there
ure and bewail their own and their Foo Mei, from attending at the trial off at the
work with. country's wrong An earnestness which
the
الله
is not outstripped by any blood-rex Com Mrs. Rowarth on a charge of attempted who recently returned to Manile after is so area; that it is sûrstisung that
1 spending several months in Japan study public service, similar to some of thoses manist in Eugland. Central Park is murders
ing the effect of the earthquake in' that at. Hongkong, has not been an accorn- paliar, historical setting for these out-The two women were sentenced by his country-
plished fact for many years The need bursts. For six hundret years at formed Honour Judge Grain respectively to 12 The Philippines lie in the samo seismic has been apparent for a very long time part of the Imperial
adjoining months ad six months imprisonment zones as does the earthquake region of and it seems more than strange that as it does the
Palace, and here i generations of Emperors and Enorm with hard labour. There was" largo. Japan, wand conditions in Manila are business enterprise has not acted on the Empresattendance of the public to hear the case analogous in many respects to those undoubted possibilities offorded by this hove sipped ten and strolled beneath th for the defence.
found in Yokohamn, according to Father field of enterprise. It is true that four superb cxpress, while the yellow roofs
years ag
when it was estimated that. of the adjoining palace have twinkled His Lordship, in passing sentence on Ruano. The same sub-soil that in fonnd 3. the Bloods of clear sunlight. To-day Mrs. Rowarth, said: You have had in Yokohama is also found here, and in of hours something like 30,000 people
modern
Chinrs ports here to vent very fair trial in this case and have been building construction is practically iden crossed and re-crossed the river, or pro- his Brieranery to hear others vent. theirs, ably defended by Mr. Lewis, who has tical. He recommends that pile founda-ceeded to and from their ships, by sam or to zake light refreshment at one of the placed before the jury everything he tians, used in Mahila almost exclusively pan, there was n serious project for the umerous restaurants The youth and possibly could in your favour. The jury in the past, be discarded for the spread formation of a terry service by means beauty of Peking are fout of congngat have found you guilty, and entirely foundation type, which was found fur of a fast feet of motor boats, but, far more resistant to the heavy earthquake some reason or other the idea was not ing here, and there are at least four age with their verdict. On the eve shocks of September than the older type, procceded with. For comes the news
the photographiet establishments where happy dence, before theta and accepting monuts may be permanently wanted. *stry of the amah, there-is-ne doubt you
that within a few weeks a public ferry WHAT HAY COME-
service, touching all parts of the Fiver It was in the elwerful surroundings were guilty of this offence. It is a wast
Although Manila is in the volcanic belt will be brought into operation, and there thatently met Mr. Yo tian, as I serious offence, and one involving the may call him. Mr. Yen isot yet thirty greatest danger, to tamper with the which surrounds the world. passing seems no reason why the enterprise, "if but he appeared stricken with care, and administration of justice, and it is an through Spain, Italy, the Himalayas properly conducted, should not be an out hi expression and demeanour showet him offence, which ought to be punished as Atlantic it will probably not be a volcanic is lasing commenced on modest lines, hut Japan, Central America and part of the standing success from the beginning. It to be the vietom of some strong traction, severely, not only as punishment to This was a surprise to me, for Mr. Yen the person concerned, but to stop other shock which will cause the most dango should the volume of traffe call for more has hitherto gone rather with the stream people from interfering or tampering in here, but a tectonic wave of the same bonts than will be put on at first, we thaik minst it Bern of well-to-do par ny way with the administration of sort which was responsible for the Japan understand they will be forthcoming. int x, with powerful friends in various justice. But there is one point in the earthquake Manila is located on the We on shory, with our motor-cars and office. Mr. Yen's career as an official case which may cause me to be more fault in Luzon, which, although rather trams and riches, cannot wholly appres ' indicated from the start. By the lenient in the sentence 1 and about to indefinitely located, is known to pass into the difficulty that confronts those time that he was twenty he had discovered his vocations, which be found to crisis pass, and it is that I do not want it through the Sierra Madre, and Panga who have come to Shanghai from vesicle to be thought in any way that I am sinan, Tarlac, Nuere Ecija. Bulacan moored or berthed a long way down the ip the twin pastimes of women and ma taking into consideration
the other Riza and Laguna, The earth want ches or they did he fog brand charges which have been brought against gunker of 1963 and 1980, which were river, and who, heat to bedurn to their
mah-jong, Addressing himself that they occupied the briter part of his you. You have been tried for attempted so severely here, as well as in the pro- ran is the only means-slow and uncou waking hours, while at the same time they murder and you were acquitted by the vinces mentioned have located this line fortable, and at times leaping the un- threatened to engulf the who's his rejury, therefore you are purged entirely fairly well Severe earthquakes have sophisticated foreign seaman as easy prey of that ofence. That is the only reason Visited Manila many times in the past to the raparity of the campanan. Bat apart from this aspect of the matter, why I now pass a sentence which I think and may do so again at any time.
Water-bevisers ord gus mains there appears little doubt that, with n In these circumstances his rose to the is somewhat fenient, viz, 2 Dous inre too near the surface of the ground high-class steam ferry service offering ocension incl undertook D campaign prisonment with hard labour.
for protection in case of an earthquake, good facilities and reasonable rates, among his official protectors, and by
Father Ruabo says. Near the surface there would be few whose business takes. never asking too much he soon found
Addressing Margaret Davis, his Lord-breaks are to be expected which might them along the harbour who would not himself, the incumbens of no less that ship: I do think that in some degree I be avoidol were the mains to be placed patronize the ferry-boats. The need of six small offices, His mainstay was a
can discriminate in the sentence I pass deep enough in the ground to avoid the them is so apparent that although the new Counsellorship in the Board of Communi etiens, from which he received sane 3200 on yourself and your mother. You are surface oscillation, Fire is almost cer- servies may be some time in inaugurating
month.
He sinultaneously held a job not the person charged with the offence tain to follow a severe quake, and unless a completely satisfactory service, oner in the directorate of a non-existere rail your mother was charged with, and the the mains are unbroken the city will be such a service is an accomplished fact way that is, a railway that was going to temptation, must have been extremely helpless, as was the case in Yokohama the enterprise of these responsible will he built when the necessary funds could great that you should assist in every and Tokyo. He recommends that a com- u well rewarded.
procured from some unsuspecting for.way you possibly could to prevent your mittee of geologists and scientists be ap eigners. Its directorate consisted of a pre mother being convicted. I think there pointed to study the earthquake regions sdent, wice-present, accountants, and fore I am justified in taking into con of the Philippines and make a report in erciaries, all of whom addressed them-sideration the fact that the temptation order to impress upon the people the selves to the task of filing some impressive was almost more than you could stand, necessity of preparing as far as possible print of the country through which because it was your mother you were for the severe quake which may occur the line might at some future date & ex attempting to save. 1 also cannot help at any time preted to run, which done they concetra-thinking, on the evidence before the
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spirit in this conspiracy and was the mean- stay in carrying it out. I agree with the verdict of the jury that you were party
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
FALLACIES OF LOGIC.
HON. EF. L. WOOD ON THE ALE
OF EDUCATION.:
Mr.. Yen has also a military side to his character. This is indicated not so much by light tendency to dissipation as by his foodies for the au-de-Nil uniform to it and no doubt knew what was going RAIDERS GET P.100,000 IN LOOT.ention, declared that education should and gold-inced cap which full-dress uniform of an
Chine army. Having e the on, but on account of the temptation.you
have had. I do think I tan mitigate the sentence. I otherwise should pass on you The sentences en pass is six months' imprisonnient with hard labour.
in the protec tion, Mr. Yen spass the Government the anessary expense of either examining or training him, and free forth immedi
Ar Rowarth accepted the result in aly captain and aidede camp. At the same time he saves himself the troubla stolid fashion, but her daughter collapsed of well as the Government was a
for any examinations, on hearing her own sentence pronounced. that he as
by his gainer by
Having the tular mode of
they
SPORT.
FORMOSA GOLF COMPETITION,
entry. with the greater
posts to supply him
of his income, ha" Belf established
modestly as i clerk in the Board of Commeres and, Agri- culture, became attached to the Peking
The cup presented to The Taiwan Golf Detroi, and as a last line entrer chel him- by Prince Fashimi was won by Mr self on the outst of the
ie Chinese navy. W A. Campbell, of Messrs. Samuel None of these jobs was tive to cause then 2) be scie by luca Samuel & Co., Ltd., Taipeh, who defent with protection mare power than his ed Mr. Kamibayashi, of Messrs Mitsui's own, and so it appears to Mr. Yes that up and one: This is the first time the provided expenses remained the same his cup has been won by a foreigner." The was presented by the Governor- position was assural for l'fe, and that he SUP had only to devote himself to the develop- General of Forinusu. tano of his great natural gifts in "the planeurs he had selected for his career.
HIS FALI to
by anyone
The Hon. E F. L. Wood, ex-President of the Board of Education, lecturing it, the Working Men's College. St. Pancras onSome Tests and Purposes of Edu-
show men and women how.... be much as Japanese sen raiders in islands"off the they came into the picture of life, to north coast of Luzon, reports, the all explain the moves of the game, and to Time have taken P.100,000 worth of law-make them familiar with the laws of the ber, shell, etc., in a recent cursion, and game-of-life
late in March a motor vessel with a crew "Some people think," he added, that of six uniformed men was sighted on the logic and reason, as commonly under- Baburanes coast, according to informa stood, constitute a final court of appen tion reaching the Times. The matter has for human beings. I think as we look over been taken up by customs authorities life and get more familiar with it, we with Consul General Sugimura of Japan, realise that they are not." When he was who has forwarded a report of the mat at Oxford, continued the lecturer, there ter to the Japanese Foreign Office:** was a brilliant young logic teacher wh
The ststeinent received by the Time used to illustrate to his class the dangers follows complete information
of falling into logical fallacies by taking More
has the example of a young man who get
Th reached Manila in regard to activities drink on three successive nights. of Japanese vessels illegally entering the first night, he got drunk on whisky and romote harbours of the Batanas and soda, the second on brandy and soda. Babuyan islands, which lie off the north and the third on gin and soda. By a ern coast of Luzon and but a short dis varied application of logic be concludeil that the soda, the only thing that, hul tance from Formosa
During the latter years of the Hurri. been consistent through the whole thing, Boa regize such visits were often paid, was responsible for his disastera, "nod, the Japanese arriving in schooners or therefore, decided to forswear soda for motor launches and usually claiming as the rest of the days of his life. (Lauga- an excuse for landing that they were ter Mr. Yen of his. Counsellorshin; while short of food or water. Sometimes they An experience of examinations.in brought ashore with them articles of which he (the lecturer), perhaps, bad not Japanese manufacture which they offered distinguished himself, had produced a to trade for native products without the deep and well-rooted suspicion of exami formality of a customs inspection and nations, as rather accidental arbitrary while barter was going on certain mem- tests.
His CONVERSION..
....
if Mr. Yea has met with the saying the same time the new finder abolished Call so min happy gatit he is deal All the directorate of non-existed call ke probably retirouble ever
it to himcif ways, which wipe away Mr. Yen's other with bitterness to-day,
means of support. 212 come singly. At a time "when there arrived in Peking almond-eyed beauty In these circumstances Mr. You cabers of the crew would indulge in sight whese attraction overpowered several laarts xmultaneously and this rudered nothing for it but to become a patriot seeing trips.
dere He has bees forced into opposition, and the financial competition for her favours unusually severe, the Ministry of the it is the fault of the Government if he to-day attends the mosting of the Radical quite definitely gave. the
up ment of the $150 he had expected from party in Central Park sad joins them their denunciations. of present-day deca them every month By a
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Among the more recent depredations committed by these illegal visitors, are the cutting of camagan hard trees and load-
CINEMA NOTES.
QUEERS THEATRE.
ing the lumber on their vessels without Commcucing to-day, The Forgotten permit A certain amount of ebony | Lawa Metro production, will be shown of the allowance he had given his wife to dence, ar. Yen is convince that was also produced in this manner but for three days. It is a drama-gripping.
army, the reorganisation of the Central to locate not so much was obtained. The peals to all intelligent man and women ner | Government;
consolidations of China's Japanese also searched the beaches for In its narrative form it aroused a heated the ambergris and collected much nkalone controversy leading finally to the repeal Ministry 45 pasigaster than the finite venues, and the consolidation of
can only be attempted. of Marine Mr. Yen was forced in dismis Radical party, of which Mr. Yen is a shell out of which buttons are manufae of a lawn which worked a terrible hard-
He had some
their takings jr lumber and shell iscrimination. As a photoplay, the drama
La emphasis is even more intense as it Late in March a Japanese motor shows how a man's death, unknown
I was able to carry on Yo hope lies in the disbandment of berging bulkier than the cumagon and hard vital and compellingly human and ap-
the Ministry of War proved to be
of
bir
the tutor who had hitherto instructed. * vocal dex-President fured. A rough estimate of the value of ship on the weaker sex by an unfair dise two children and cut down his domes Canton, but was deterred from fight.100,000
establishment to phe woman and one cooli who bud to da "the entire work of hin housA DAT
So things went on for a
and Mr. Ten way chdered by the though that the conditions could not continue indefinitely, when a severe run of bad brick.
.to
Yatsen
ing
under the Radical apostle by the fact such a crow vinoc
héurules is
the
for mouth or
or two that Mr. already
of it that the pro-island in the Babuyates heavily loaded he taken out of her hands entirely! It denuded of with lumber and shortly after her deparis interesting to note that the originat Yen therefore waits and.
and ture another vessel manned by a crew novel "A Modern Madonna,” by Caroline
at bin change in. This was in the
feel doubtful,
doubtful, however, as to Mrs Japanese in uniform was sighted Abbott Stanley, was the means of early so that his wife could not You's future. No fewer than 1,500 hold been taken up with the Japanese Consul- have been inconvenienced by the departurers of secures have hiready been disauss General of this city who has forwarded of all her furs and satin cloths to theed, and no doubt the number will soon statement of the case to his Govern: nawnshop; but soon after the election of be doubled. The Radical ranks are there ment Tsao Kun se President Mr. Yen was faced fore likely to be extremely well filled
By a financial Waterloo. He was then Judging, moreover, by the experience relying upon the Ministry, of Agriculture gained since the revolution of 1071, mnoge
and his two posts in
much faster than it did tee.
ago
in the same vicinity. The matter has repeal of this unequal Inw.
WILLIAM THE
Quite
THE COLONST.
one of the most entertaining and certainly one of the roost remarkables pictures shown in the Colony this year is Ono Arabian Night, the feature nte traction now. appearing at the Coronet
fact that
Board of Communications. of Agriculture was behind with his salary, but the Ministry:
ths sent parly will ever be able to athafo attempt to parody Mr. Salisbury's 60 picture which therefore offers sobr of Communications though irregular, its
of all Wilinm the Cook, were written on a ho could still be considered as a more, or To me it is clear that Mr. Ven will even-
will even-Refreshments Therein
ications. The Minis, and it may be doubted if he's The following lines evidently an Theatre, Apart from the bit for the
financial aspiratie Tientsin Club chit under the heading i very gorgeous scenery, “One Arabian
lowrechtsin source of supúly. Entele culptually have to abandon als political career sible explanati ya no Night is striking for the many beautiful
inating blow was the installation of a new Minister of Communications
of William the Comp
GHOST OF Ent that he will be forced to abandon-|
work for his living. Ent to brennan the CompCompradore. Whom Mr. Yen describes se * litale better that an e
an big pursuit of the twin divinities of My monthly salary. I never set, sassin. This individual's first act has Chance and Venus requires a Larder heart It goes to him, instead of to ma hep lo dichrge all those gentlemen in the ming; and it is equally, beyond me I've a debit, balance as long the Board of Communications who drew to shatter the dreams of any budding An from here to Singapore.
alari for doing nothing, which robbed chinese molitician by the introduction of For I'm dependent of William the Comp
(Mantismeil at foot of next column). the hated word honesty and work William the Compradore."
women included among the actresses, none more beautiful, vivacious and daring tha Pola Negri who takes the leading part as the dancing girl who become queen of the Sheik's harem.Onx Arabian Night" is a First National nic- ture, and it should be mentioned that it is fot being shown to children in Hong- kotig