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PRE-CHRISTIAN AND WORLD-WIDE.
ADDRESS TO HONG KONG
THEOSOPHISTS.
MUDFORD. ELECTION.
POLLING TÄKES PLACE TO-DAY.
RIOTOUS END TO STRENUOUS CAMPAIGN PROMISED.
[FLON OUR OWN connESPONDENT," MULFORD.]
At this week's public mesting of the Hong Kong Lodge, The Thoes- phical Society, Mr. John Russell, To-day is Polling Day. The poll F.T.S., gave an address on "The is open from 8 am to 10 pm, and Symbol of the Cross"! In the it is hoped that as many members course of it he said:-The Cross as of the Y.M.C.A. or rather inhabit
FEBRUARY 12th, 1927.
**SUNNING" PIRACY.
SECOND DEFENDANT STRUCK WITH SOUNDING LEAD.
SEEMED TO HAVE CONSIDER-
ABLE INFLUENCE."
The two Chinese alleged to be im plicated in the piracy of the &s. Sun- ning and who have been in hospital since their arrest, appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindselt, at the Central Folice Court yesterday.
Mr. T E. King (Director of
a symbol of the Divine. Power inants of Mudford-on-Sea as possible Criminal Intelligence), assisted by
voter is allowed three, votes, and as there are three different sorts of candidate, it is possible to be quite impartial
the Universe, in the most ancient will sign on the dotted line. Each Sub-Inspector Lane prosecuted.
The evidence of the No. 2 com- and world wide of religious'sigus The Cross, sometimes placed within
pradoro was to the effect that he or above a circle, is found on rocks
saw three unarmed Chinese pushing the Indian guards back into the chiseled in prehistoric age, on rude
At about ten o'clock The meeting last night took the guard room. pottery of the later stone äge; and amid ruins of times far antedating form of a a Ratepayers' Association, an armed man came to the cabin the Christian era. The Cross is and was addressed by the candi. and naked witness if the ship was found in Hindu Temples, én dates and their committee men, who carrying any silver. After receiv Egyptian Pyramids, on the altars gave a resume of the policy of each inga reply in the negative, the of ancient Peru and Mexico, and party, as the cry during the week armed man made witness take him) again it occupies a conspicuous has been from friend and enemy to one of the three safes, which was position in the Churches of Chris-alike: "What is your policy" and found to have already been rifled the whole audience would bowl, Witness said he could not identify Lendom.
The either of the two prisoners. "They haven't got one?"
The Na prisoner was identifled chair was taken. by John H. Hunt, F.Z.S. and affairs ware conducted by tallyman, who said that he saw the defendant carrying a short in a more or less orderly manner.
In comparative Mythology we 'find the story of the Sun God. He is always born at the Winter Solstice, after the shortest day, December 24th, when the constella- tion Virgo is rising, (virgo is the Latin, for Virgin) and she ever remains a virgin giving birth to Her helpless child the Sun, when the days are dark.
Mr. Howell (P.), inter alia, said Grearm. The defendant went into that the Moderates' Policy was to witness' quarters and told him not shout down every one else. They to be afraid as they would not come had two speeds; darned slow and to any harm. Witness said he saw the defendant on two later occa stop
Mr. Sewall (P.), to the delight of sinn. After the officers had left the all, mentioned that the benevolent bridge, witness again saw the pris The Sun is sometimes found Gent, who had offered to defray oner, who was being lowered from sculptured within the circle of the
horizon, as a person, with the beadh expenses of the Pump House the bridge with a rope round his and feet touching North and South,and Pier had generously stated that waist,
his offer waL open for twelve.
At the afternoon bearing, Mr.
and the outstretched arms East and months. (A clever move, Mr. J. W. Burst, formerly the second West, hence the ancient sign of the Cross, and the crucifixion.
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Ä report of excavations Knossos, states that the central object in a Temple was a marble Cross, and a circle, representing a
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HAGUE ARBITRATION CASE,
GERMANY AND HER
CREDITORS."
POSSESSION OF ILLICIT OPIUM.
MAN FINED $1,000; BOY BIRCHED
Two Chinese, & man and a boy, 1 - boy, were charged "before Mr. R. E An arbitration case involving the Lindsall, at the Central Magistracy
Comrade Munn (S.) in his witty He repeated his story of the piracy £450,000,000 INVOLVED. speech got a bit of his own back, and identified the second defendant and proved that he was not so up as the man whom he struck down learned as the Opposition would on the bridge, hitting him first with suggest
the sounding lead and then with They did not wish Medford to a rifle. Witness also thought that become like the London-Brighton the second defendant was the man Hoad, neither was it proposed to who had Bred two shots as he went make it a good pull up for Carmen down on deck. The Edison Bell record gentleman Mr. T P. Beatty, the First ormous sum of shout £450,000,000, yesterday morning with being in
opium. who spoke on Wednesday night, who Officer, identified both the defend probably the largest amount of pain of 10 tasla of illicit.
money that has ever been at stake
According to Police evidence, the called The Littis ants, saying he saw the first on in any litigation, domestic or inter-younger defendant was traced from has also been Welsh Wizard talked a lot of bet the bridge at one time with a national comes before the Arbitra- the time he left the steamer Chuen air, and he assured his followers volver in his hand. Witness thought tion Tribunal at the Hague, can- chow and arrested at Sai Wo Street, that he had shamefully twisted the he was a person with some sort of stituted to settle the difficulties He pleaded that he was only a carrier and he took the Police to policy of the Socialists to serve his authority as he had an automatic arising out of the Dawes Plan.
The question to be decided: Has the steamer, where the second de own ends.
whereas other pirates were armed Germany, ne she claims, the right fendant was pointed out as being with the ship's revolvers.
under the Dawes
Plan to deduct the actual smuggler. This man, ia
the Allies the amount of comperas as the actual owner of the from her reparations payments to his than, pointed out a third party tion that she pays her own nation- but the third man was not charged.
ls to indemnify them for the loss Both of the prisoners at yester- of private property sequestrated | day's hearing pleaded "guilty" and and liquidated in the Allied coun- the older man was fined $1,000 or tries and for certain "deliveries six months hard labour.
NA
"The Leaders of the parties all spoke, declaring that at the poll it was incumbent upon each and all to vote for the right (their own)
party.
declared one shudders to contem- plate. It will certainly be a riotous
The other defendant was one of the then struck down on the bridge. Witness saw him earlier in the evening when the man went into No. 1 stateroom. Hr. Beatty could
The
The meeting this evening takes the form of a sing song, and a trace not say whether the man was armed such as the transfer of German youth was sentenced to receive 8 snake with its tail in its month, will be called to catcalls, and pat- at that time. The No. 1 stateroom Fights in the Shantung Railway, the strokes of the birch.
Bank of Morocco, etc that were About half an hour after the case liamentary procedure, informal. appeared to be used as the centre made under the Treaty of Ver- had been closed, and the defendants What will happen when the pall is entle headquarters of the pirate sailles.
J taken into the gaol, Mr. J. M. Very briefly, the Germans argue Remedios, of Messrs, Leo d'Almada gang.
they do posses this right inasmuch and Nephew, appeared in the Court At about 9.30 p.m. when the quesas under the treaty they are bound to say that he had received instruc tion of what time Chelang light to compensate their nationals and tions to appear for the defence. would be sech was discussed witness Plan speaks of the payment to be
insamuch as Article 11 of the Dawes Eventually it transpired that the man whom the second defendant got his first good view of the second made under it by Germany as in had tried to implicate was Mr. defendant. Witness got the impres tended to cover all the charges to Remedios client.
be borne by Germany at home as sinn that he was to act as pilot. well as abroad, though earlier in to members and their friends (ladies He was consulted by the pirate the same clause the totality of the
The Cross with a amali loop on top, known * the Tau, 13 evening." familiar to the Egyptians and Greeks and was to them a symbol of regeneration and immortality The priests used a cross such as this to touch the lips of the dead showing
Details of the result, and other late items of the election will ap pear in Monday's issue.
The meeting this evening is open
the belief in immortality. The most and gentlemen), and will start at chief on point of navigation and Payments to be made" to the Allied ANOTHER GAMBLING RAID.
common form used now in Christen- dom is that known as the Latin Cross
Then there is the St. An-
drew's Cross, the Celtic Cross, with
a small circle. in the centre, the Greek Cross, with four equal lines at right angles, and many other yarieties of the same fundamental ancient symbol, also the Svastīca. Cross, which was ten centuries be fore Christ a religious symbol în India and China.
HEALTH BULLETIN OF EASTERN PORTS.
The Health Bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ending February Stb, states:
1:
Plague.
1 case at Mauritius.
s cases at Sourabaya.
1 case at Colombo,
Cholera.
20 cases at Calcutta,
1 case at Hangoon.
1 case at Bangkok,
Small-pox.
41 Cason at Bombay. 77 cases at Calcutta, 2 cases at Karachi. 20 cases at Madras,
case, at Negspatam. 3.cancs at Bangoon.
cano at Vizagapatam. case at Singapore. casos at Bangkok.
cano at Shanghai.
5 cases at Vladivostock...
9 p.m.
and Associated Powers" is definite seemed to have considerable in- 15 mentioned. Germany's creditors, fluence. He also exercised a re- who, if Germany wins, will find. themselves docked of £450,000,000,
ANOTHER DANCE DISPLAY, training influence over the more argue on the contrary that the peared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell,
MISS V. CAPELL'S PUPILS TO APPEAR.
THREE PERFORMANCES AT THEATRE ROYAL.
An event which will be keenly
anticipated, in view of previous
excitable members of the gang.
The case was agnin adjourned.
“HANOI” PIRACY SUSPECTED.
ANOTHER WEEK'S REMAND GRANTED.
The Chinere who is suspected to have participated in the pirating of the Hanoi appeared on remand before Mr. R. E Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy yesterday morn
"ONLY A FRIENDLY PARTY.”
Three women and four men sp-
at the Central Magistracy yesterday, Dawes annuities were certainly in tended to cover all payments that as a result of a gambling raid made were due by Germany to the Allied by the Police on Thursday. One of and Associated Powers within the keeper of the gaining house..
the women was charged with being without the frontiers of Germany (so as to include, for instance, the Loseby, representing the defen-
The Magistrate (to Mr. F. H. ›› cost of the armies of occupation,
dants): You deny this is a common
houset gaming
etc.), but not those that she might
Mr. Loseby: Yes, I do. His Worship That it was just a friendly party 1
Mr. Loseby: Just so.
make to her own nationala.
Interpreting The Dawes Plan. The question before the tribunal, though financially important, it
His Worship: Case remandéd consequently one purely of the in- terpretation of the Dawes Plan until the 14th, at noon. Bail for The tribunal which will decide the No. 1 defendant (the allegedl whether the German or the Allied keeper) 650. The others $5 each.
is that constituted rending is correct under the London agreement of 1924, and consists of five members.
functions of the same character, will be the appearance shortly at the Theatre Boyal of the pupils of Mise Violet Capell, in their 5th annual dancing display.
They will give three performances, the first being on Wednesday, Feb ruary 23rd, at 5.15 p.m., the second
The chairman is Mr. Thoanas on Saturday, February 28th, at g 9.15 p.m., and the third on Monday, Chief Det.-Inspector T. Murphy Neton Berlins, an eminent lawyer
of United States, who stated that the ss., Hanet would recently was the
American The performances will be under arrive in Hong Kong on Sunday zen attached to t Reparations the patronage of H.E. the Governor
February 28th, at 5.15 p.m.
(Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G), morning and would leave again on Commission" The other members and part of the proceeds will be Monday at daylight, given to the London Hospitals 43 Mr. Lindsell: That doesn't help has been the custom in the past, †
me very much.
80. Pupils. The display this year will be on a much larger scale than the last one, and about 80 pupils will be taking part, their ages ranging from 4 upwards.
Advance ticket emay be booked
HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY.
LAST YEAR'S PROFITS. DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT. Herr
At the forthcoming annual meet- Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Germany), to well-known me an important Co., Ltd.; to be held on March 6th, banker, Mring of the Hong Kong Electric Wallenberg, and
the Board of Directors will recom Inspector Murphy said that he Dutch industrialist, Mr. Kroller.
Should the German Government mend that the balance available had been instructed to ask for a week's remand at the Police were succeed in winning its case the re- for distribution be disposed of as not in favour of delaying the vessel salt would be to reduce the total follows:
Mr. Lindsell: I Bee: Have no amount of the Dawes annuities To pay a dividend of papers arrived from the French that is, the Reparation payments 2.50 per share ou
to the Allies by seme nine mil-300,000 shares Government.
Inspector Murphy: Only 0 450,000,000.
some hards of gold marks, or roughly To place to reserve.
To carry forward to We cannot
next account supplementary papers.
at Messra. Anderson's ns from Feb- ruary 14th. Dress circle seats and stalis are priced at $3, and pit stalls proceed with the extradition form. and pit at 49 and 81. Children alities.
will be admitted at half price to A week's remand in custody was the matinee performances.
ordered
The proceedings were expected to last four or five days, after "which the tribunal will consider its judg
ment.
$750,000.00.
100,000.00
33,204.57
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