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CUSTOMS LAUNCH
PIRATED.
CAPTURED BETWEEN MACAO AND KONGMOON.
achieving the object desired-in effect; a continuance of the boycott. It sama to us, therefore, that everything now de | pends upon the strength of this group and
The five men alleged to have been con- the means. they adopt to gain their ends,cerned in the recent piracy committed on If they are going to depend upon pro-board the steam launch Sai Kung récent- ly, when an Indian guard was fatally paganda and "peaceful persuasion" we wounded and another slightly injured, were remanded for another week by Mr. J. H. B. Nihill at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday on changes of murder and H.M.S. “MOTH" GOES IN SEARCH armed robbery in British waters. preferred against the fourth defendant. charge of possession of arms, originally
OF MISSING CRAFT." was withdrawn,
LADY PASSENGER ON BOARD.
So far as can be gathered, the Kong-
can ignore them. The merchants want to trade with the British, and arguments, evra passionate appeall, unsupported by force, will have about as much effect on them as water on a duck's back. The
A telegram was received yesterday at danger is that this group will adopt
The local Radio Society's. transmitter the Harbour Office and by the Hongkong. measures similar to those of the strike has now been thoroughly overhauled and Office of the Chinese Maritime Customs, re-assembled. A test transmission was pickets. There will, of course, be no carried out last evening, the result. of from the Commissioner of Chinese Cus interference. with river trafic, no which was regarded as satisfactory, con-toms at Konginoon, to the effect that the shooting at passengers, but it is sidering that there were still several Customs launch Fonymoon, which is used adjustments to be made. It is expected conceivable that ณ fairly
effective that a concert will be broadcasted next
as tender for lighthouses, was missing gystem of blackmail and terrorism may Friday night. Last night's transmission and believed pirated.......
consisted of gramophone records (Victor)," be devised. The crux of the problem is which were supplied by Messrs Moutrie the amount of influence that can be to the Radio Society for broadcasting left Kongmoon on Monday for wielded by this particular group and on
purposes.
Macao and up to the present it has not. Arrived at its destination, such a subject, of course, it is useless A curious case came before the Singa-
It is believed that the launch was pote Coroner, Mr. F. G. Bourne, läst even to hazard a guess. It would seem week. It appeared from the evidence pirated for obvious, however, that the group will that a Chinese who was trespassing in vessels (under pretence of being a Cus use against ocean-going have to work without any official back tackled by the kebun and eventually over toms launch).
compound in Upper Serangoon Road was
The possibility of its ing. We would go further and say that powered and tied securely to a coconut being wrecked is not considered likely,
The occupants. of the house then it would be to the interest of the tree.
weat for the police and when they came as, if this had been the case native craft official party to aweep these malcon- back they found the man was dead. Awould have reported it before now to tents out of existence for the mora post-mortem revealed the fact that during the authorities,
the struggle he had received a blow in successful their campaign the less trade the stomach which had ruptured his and, consequently, a smaller total from spleen. The Coroner reserved his ver the surtaxes for the Government treasury. The Committee appointed, therefore, "to consider ways and means of severing still more completely. the Sino-British cconomic relationship" should be a less potent force for evil then the strike
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It is not known definitely whether there were any passengers on board the Kong-`· moon in addition to European Customs
the
Believed to have been a case of attempt Officers and the crew, but it was stated twenty years, jumped into the harbour at least one lady, passenger on ed suicide, a Chinese girl, aged about in Hongkong yesterday, that there was from off the end of the Hongkong whart afternoon. Assistance was speedily forth. of the Star Ferry Company on Thursday launch..
A Canton correspondent, writing with coming from Ferry. Company employees regard to the matter, states that there and two steam launches which were in the neighbourhood, and the girl was
was" a lady passenger on board, Mia taken on board the J.C.J.L launch T17 Lenore Scarlett, a Canadian, of the in an unconscious state. She was re- Southern Baptist Mission, Kongmoos. moved to Kowloon by a Water Police launch, and was taken to the Kwong Wah It is not known in Canton whether there Hospital, where she is progressing favour. were any other passengers besides this ably.
lady.
And now with respect to this levying of sur-taxes on imports there seems to be a general feeling in Canton official circles that the British Government will protest. Mr. EUGENE CHEN and his friends take the line that the money is The Denishawn Dancers, who opened needed and that it is so particular con- their short and "farewell" season at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, last night, arrived cern of Great Britain how it is raised. in the Colony from Manila by the .. Providing there is no attempt to inter- The party comprise the following:-Miss President Madison yesterday morning. fere with the Maritime Customs we Ruth St. Dennis, Mr. Ted Shawn, Miss
Our correspondent further writes that the Kongmoon was on its way from Macao, to Kongmoon when seized by
H.M.S. Meth, has left Shameen in search pirates, and that the British gunboat,
of the missing launch and to investigats
Customs launches from Macao and Tai
:
The following notice was posted at the" Harbour Office yesterday with regard to are warned that the Chinese Maritime the matter: All shipping, junks, etc. Customs launch Kongmoon, has been captured by pirates and may pose as a hery. She is to be treated as a pirate Customs launch for the purpose of rob- launch until further notice."
agree. According to Mr. EnaeNE CHEN's Pearl Wheler, Mr. B. St. Dennis, Miss original letter it was the intention to Miss Anne Douglas, Miss Jane Shermen,
Doris Humphrey, Miss Ercestine Day, the matter. secure the co-operation of the established Miss Geordie Graham, Miss Mary Howry, Chaam are also engaged in searching for A. S. WATSON Customs organisation, but we scarcely Weidman, Mr. George Searer, Mr. Chifford the vanished boat, all the way from
Miss Pauline Lawrence, Mr. Charles- believe this could have been meant Vaughn, Mr. Stanley Frazer, Mr. and Kongmoon to Macao. seriously for it must have been known Mrs. A. Strok and Mr. Prechodka. that it would be hopelessly impossible The Stavrinaki Dancers, of whom for the Canton Commissioner to collect Daily Press, gave another very fine and
mention W&S made in yesterday' such taxes and to pass them to the Canton enjoyable performance at the Theatr Government without express authority Royal last night. The performance, if through Peking from the Treaty Powers. ing one on the previous night, the artists anything, was even better than the open- We will, therefore, not discuss that as having become more at home with their surroundings. The audience was fairly pect of the question. The Government large and very appreciative. An innova scheme of establishing their own Customs tion in the programme was the intro- House is a practical one and one which play at the piano for the Company duction of Mr. Harry Ore, who will we understand has already been at any during their season in Hongkong. rate partly carried out. It may be formance this evening at the Theatre, and The Dancers" will give another per- quite illegal but if the other Powers do will conclude their season on Monday hot protest we do not see why Great night. To-morrow afternoon they are giving a special matinee at the Star Britain should.concern herself with the Theatre, Kowloon. matter unduly.. British goods" have been seized, and taxed out of existence for more than twelve months by the strike pickets. If all that is to happen now.
The Daily Press.
Bosezone, Sz?tember 25ty, 1926.
THE TRADE SITUATION IN-
CANTON.
AFFAIRS in Canton are becoming a little clearer and we are able now, we think, to arrive at a fairly accurate estimate
of the present trade position. We will is that they are to be passed in an enumerate, the facts without attempting orderly manner, along with all other to fathom the reasons for the recent goods, through a second Customs House changes in policy. The Kuomintang have it will be a distinct improvement. officially declared that the boycott shall cease and there is no doubt that it will cease in the form in which we have known it for the past fifteen months. The pic- kets will disappear; or at any rate change 8225 & taxes their uniform, and in their place we shall
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already functioning and that merchants are willingly and gladly paying the two and a half per cent., and five per cent. surtaxes imposed. If this were all every- thing would be plain sailing for as far as we are aware the intention is to trent the goods of all nations upon the same basis. There is to be ac discrimination against British goods and that, of course,
A telegram received in Singapore from
pass the frontier.
A young Chinese girl was cautioned by the Kowloon Magistrate yesterday for "trick-riding" on her bicycle. The mitted at 3 o'clock in the morning. The offence was stated to have been com-
Magistrate remarked that she should have been asleep at that time.
The death of Mrs. Emily Clunies Clunies-Ross, widow of the late Mr. Charles Clunies Clunies Ross, of Cocos- Keeling Islands, occurred at her residence, 75, Scott's Road, Singapore, on the 15th is an immense step forward from the just. Deceased was 21 years of age. Her A husband was a brother of the late Mr. Cocos. She leaves four daughters and previous position. But we must not shut George Clunies Ross, Governor of the
nine grandchildren.
DAY, THE 1476 SEPTEMBER, 1926, when LONDON SELLING AGENTS our eyes to facts and while it is the
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NEWS FOR LONDON."
A telegram was dispatched by Reuter to London on Thursday announcing that the boycott was terminated.
PROPERTY SALE.. SHAM SHUI PO HOUSES SOLD. At the China Auction Rooms yesterday afternoon, Mr. E. V. M. R. de Bousi diaposed of two leasehold properties situated at Sham Shui Po, New Kowloon, by order of the mortgagee..
The properties concerned were (1) No... 173, Lai Chi Kok Road, and (9) No. 177, Lai Chi Kok Road. Both properties are beld from the Crown under the condi tions of sale lodged at the Land Office for the term of 75 years from July 1st, 1808, with the right of renewal for a fur ther term of 24 years.
The area of each property is 30 square feet, and the annual Crown rentals 81.30.
The upset price in each case as the same, viz., 87,000, with bids of $100 acceptable. Each upset price was ad- vanced by 8300, and Mr. Chi Wai Kong, No. 183, Lai Chi Kok Road, became the purchaser of both lots
EARTH'S WONDERFUL PLAN.
As the sky of the east to the west is, As north wind to southern breeze, As the dawn to the even ita zest ix,
As gold-gleaming sand to the seas,- So were men, and were called to be brothers,
Set high in earth's wonderful plan, Till the mist of eternity smothers
The schemes that are born of mani
Was it vain that the great Voice called us,
When the world in its cradle lay, Are the dreams that at dawn enthralled us,
Forgotten in heat of the day 1, Has the small taken place of the greater?
The foe usurped rights of the friend? Lol the hour waxes late, and yet later,-
Then must hate beget hate to the end
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To the heart of the East there is speaking" A voice, 'tis the voice of the West, "Thy people, and mine, they are seeking Alike, for Life's highest and best. Then may they not journey together?
Set out with hands clasping in trust And, with strength born of unity, weather. The heat and the brambles, and duit ??
........
Thas her voice,and ber questions surround us,-
Oh, heart of the East, give them ear, Let us tell her that Friendship has found us,
The foe of mistrust and of fear! wa And the east" and the west" they shall vanish
In the glow of the whole earth's great sun And a fellowship loyal shall banish
The night, and the Day shall be won!
Hongkong, September 23rd, 1924.
GLADYS JACKS