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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 30th, 1927.
SMALL ARSENAL
DISCOVERED, ·
ALLEGED MURDEBERS'
CONFESSION,
NATIONALIST ARMY MAJOR.
GRIM JESTS OF CHINESE PIRATES.
Commenting on the naval raid on Bias Bay Mr. G. C. Dixon, writ ing in the Daily Mail, says that that action must have come as an unpleasant shock to a community which has come to regard piracy as A miniature armoury was dis one of the staple industries or at covered by Det-Inspr, J. Hunter worst as a profitable side-line. and a squad of detectives belonging The Chinese is nothing if not an to the Shanghai Municipal Police opportunist. From the meanest and the Shanghai and Woosung colie to the Cantonese millionaire Constabulary in a Chinese house who will At you out a complete in Yangka Road, behind the Rok-pirate craft on proftalaring kusan Gardena in Paosban Road, tasis, one and all are willing to Chapel, last Sunday afternoon, take up any enterprise that looks A man who admitted having like making money, murdered a loyal worker for the Probably three-fourths of the Shanghai General Labour Union, andits and pirates of China ará and" who is now a major in tho ex-Service men. Pay the Chinese" Fationalist army, was taken into oldier, well and give him an um- custody.
brolla for the more inclement on- Acting on information received,gagements, and he is,a loyal though Det.-Insp. Heater and his men, not bigoted supporter of the cur with the assistance of the Chapei reat War. Lord But when pay is police, raided the house at 238, in arrears, as it almost invariably Hengteng Road, Chapel, and ar. is for no Chinese general dreams rested a notorious loafer named of wasting real money on the rank Wong Ts Vien, alias Sinu Wugih and file while he has a printing (Small Wusih). This man was press handy-ho first offers himself wanted by the police for murder to the opposition, and if business is ing one Wong Ah Nyu in Kwer slack, pockets arm-bands and takes chow Road on February 24th, this to the river or the highway.
year.
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If he has no alternative bat to He later gave information to the work he turns an honest penny" by police that a large quantity of helping to capture a few junks and arma and ammunition could be river steamers in the black time found in the house at Yangka between harvests. Toad, behind the Japanese garden. The conditions produced by this The place was accordingly visited attitude of mind and the absence of and, inside, the police found six
any effective system of Government Mauser pistols, two .32 calibre auto have to be seen to be believed. The matics, a automatic, and 878 Chinese, rightly reputed to be a rounds of ammunition. Each of
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·RUBBER AND MINING SHARES.
RECENT DIVIDENDS,
Messrs. Carroll Bros. have been advised of the following dividends declared on Rubber and Mining shares:-
Oh Pish: 5 per cent. int. (to
date 5 per cent). Kuala Lumpur Tin: 1/- (12th). Changkat Serdang: 13 per cent. final (to date 35 per cent.). Ulu Pandaa: 15 per cent, int,
(to date 15 per cent.). Batu Lintang: 7 per cent, int.
(to date 7 per cent.). Nellamy: 6 per cent. int. (to
date 22 per cent.).
INTERIM DIVIDEND.
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND "MINING CO.
The Hong Kong office of the Kailan Mining Administration! informs us that the Directors of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd., Eave declared an in- terim dividend of one shilling per share free of tax, 94 account of the year ending June 30th, 1997, payable on May 6th, 1927.
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the pistols was fully loaded and man of peace, is also one of the most efficient and daring despera there was a cartridge in the breach does in the world. Two mall craft of each.
lying amidst the 20,000-ton liners With reference to the murder, in Hong Kong Harbour were cut out under cover of darkness when accused, had told the police that be I was there not very long ago; and knew that Wong Ah Nyu was a the enpture of river vessels had se long been daily incidents that a "running dog," and so he report bored Press reported them in two- ed this to the General Labour line paragraphs. Piracy had de Union's president, one Koo Zung generated from Romance to some- Sung (who himself had since been bing very like a cliché, murdered). The latter gave authe tacked quite frequently, Steamers Even European vessels were at rity to shoot this running dog." travelled in convoys, and the Fat The 3 calibre pistol was the oas Shan on which I travelled up, the which accused had used to commit Sikhs who kept their fingers near Canton River, was guarded by this murder. This and all the the triggers of rifle and machine- other arms and ammunition were; gun and divided their attention be the property of the General Labour Ween the dark inlete where pirates might be lurking in the dusk and Caion.
the Chinese passengers we carried The Dominion-wide celebration of Accused admitted that he was aft.
Canada's sirtieth year of Con- This last is an essential precau federation which is being planned now a major in the ith Regiment, tian. The pirates' favourite trick for July of this year, will be the 7th Battalion, of the Nationalist is to take ship as passengers and most remarkable and extensive Army, under the command of Woo then, at a pre-arranged spot, whip ever held. The last links of a Chih. His troops were now station. out revolvers and knives and rush united Canada were placed in posi
the bridge. ed at Pe Dah Wei, a section of Chapei between North Szochuen Read-Extension and Kiangwan.
When the caso came before the Provisional Court, Judge Yu order ed a remand—N.C.D.N.
THE LAW OF BROTHER- HOOD.
ADDRESS TO THE THEOSO- PHICAL SOCIETY.
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TAESOPO
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JUBILEE.
CELEBRATIONS IN JULY.
tion forty years ago with the com- pletion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It is in furthering the bond between the peoples of the east and the west that this country will be engaged to a large extent during the celebration.
Their captives are generally treat ed according to their means. If you seem to be a man of substance you are offered every courtesy until your relatives have had a chance to
One of the most spectacular of you. Should they value you inadequately, as not infrequent plans for bringing the people of all ly happens, the usual procedure is parts of Canada together under to send
a personal reminder, it pleasant auspices and at the same being quite understood that the re-time affording them an opportunity ceipt of a familiar looking car or of gaining greater first hand know- nose is Chinese for Cheque will ledge of their country through per- oblige."
sonal contact has been arranged by the New Outlook, official organ of the United Church of Canada.
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One small boy I heard of was boiled alive and despatched to his
On June 25th, a "million dollar" parents. An old woman, having no one to ransom ber, was invited to special train will leave Toronto At this week's meeting of the den a straw cloak, saturated with with a limited number of passen- gera from the eastern provinces ail, and set on fire. Hong Kong Theosophical Society
nboard, and follow the confedera Some of the pirates have nation route. The Confederation on Thursday, Mr. H. E. Laaepat ironical sense of humour. An em Special," as it will be
Call- in the course of an address on "The ployes of the Asiatic Petroleumed will be operated on the Law of Brotherhood, mid that to Company, having been duly ran all-expense plan which will enable the Theosophist Human Brother somed, was freed, ceremoniously practically all who Lave the hood without distinction of race, escorted to the gate of the strong time to travel to do so. It will creed, sex, cante or colour is not bold, and there presented by a sauve touch all the principal cities and an ideal a hope for the future, but and bowing chieftain with a docu- resorts in the west and operate for a fact in nature, a natural law from ment whose flowery characters read: twenty-one days. The hospitality which there is no escape.
There is nothing in the differences of races to prevent Brotherhood. Some hare developed one side of human nature and some another. The Declaration of the Unity el Mankind makes an inesistible za- peal to all thoughtful persons; it sounds the note for which the world is listening in the night of half- civilized cruelty. Theosophy serent- ly sounds the note of Unity and
Brotherhood, based on the divinity of man's nature and the equal need for all men to grow and unfold towards the higher life.
SHANGHAI'S WOMAN JUDGE
RESIGNS.
It was reported that Miss Soumi Cheng, Chief Judge of the Shang- bai District Court, had refused to hand over her seal of office to an appointee of the Chief Justice of the Kiangsu Higher Provincial Court on the ground that he had not been appointed by the proper authorities.
RP CLARK&C Now it is learned that Min
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of the westerners is well known, BU it is not surprising to learn that contrain was made, organisations and when the ârst announcement of the
individuals in every city included in the itinerary offered to entertain the party and see that it was given every facility for eight seeing and enjoyment The latest invitation ia from the Prince of Wales's Banch at High River to which the mern-
HEALTH BULLETIN -OF EASTERN PORTS.
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The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ending April 23rd is as follows:-:
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Flague,
6 cases at Bassein.
I case at Bombay.
1 case at Rangoon.
2 cases at Colombo.
Cholera.
1 case at Bombay. 187 eases at Calcutta.
3 cases at Rangoon,
9 cases at Bangkok.
80 cases at Haiphong,
26-cises at Saigon.
Small-poż.
80 cases at Bombay. 191 cases at Calcutta.
e cases at Madras.
50 cases at Rangoon.
I case at Vizagaputam.
2 cases at Bangkok.
2 cases at Macao.
cases, at Canton.
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GREAT RECORD OF A.
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and fought in the Crimen with the Black Sea Fleet Mr. French left the Navy in 1868, and in the same year was appointed chief officer of the Coastguard at Palling. He became at the same time hou. secretary of the Palling lifeboat station. He continued in that posi tion until his death.
Mim Letitia was always deeply devoted to her father, and when he relinquished the helm his daughter 'determined to carry on. She has now completed nearly a quarter of
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Medallion of Honour.
Tribute has been paid to Miss Letitia French, by the Royal bers of the special train party will National Lifeboat, Institution, for motor from Calgary on July 1st.her remarkable work on their hea century's work.. Canadian Pacific Bulletin.
half. She is the only woman in the British Tales who actually adminis tere and carries
** P lifeboat In the 5 years the Palling life station.
boats have been launched 380 times "Miss Letitia," as she is known and have rescued 788 lives..
"There are few stations : any- in the district by the rugged sea. 2,000 ON A JOURNEY TO THE faring men of Falling, in Norfolk, where round our coasts with a finer
TREK OF THE SWANS.
NORTH.
has the responsibility of the station record, and of the stations on the from one year's end to another. Norfolk coast only Caister, with its She is not merely & financial record of 1,709 lives, has done.
greater service," said
Royal Two thousand swans have arrived secretary of a district
National Lifeboat Institution
'MONTEKAL.
at Kingsville, Ontario, in their an It is her job to see that the crew Oficial, nual, sprag tree to the north, and is efficient and in readiness for are being afforded ample protection every call. She has undertaken this the Palling lifeboats have been out from poachers.
responsibility for 23 years.
Father's Record.
Under Miss Letitia's direction
on service 189 times and have rescu éd 200 lives. There is no other
Five thousand geese have also reached the Jack Miner bird sa "Sixty-one years ago, her father woman
an in the British Isles who can tuary, where they, too, are finding food and protection.
Mr. Edward French took over make the same claim, m
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Jack Miner's place is the meccs charge of the lifeboat station at Miss French has been given in these days of hundreds of people Palling. He was an old seadog, special permission to wear the gold who like to see the spring swarm with an heroic and honourable remedallion presented to her father
cord He had served in the Navy, for his distinguished service" ings of the birds.
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