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peal is made to the country. On they are leaving nothing to chance.
hatter of such vital importance
Owing to lack of current the Peak Tramway was stopped from 8.40 yes- terday morning for 20 minutes.
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A radiator cap and a mascot worth $50 was stolen from the motor car of Mr. C. M. Manners, of No. 4, Armand Buildings, Kim berley Road, Kowloon, on Sunday.
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Corporal Lloyd, stationed at Belcher's Fort has reported the theft of 830 from the office of the
Master Gunner at the fort. The money was removed from a cash box which was broken open.
A 4-year old Chinese female child was taken to the Government Civit Hospital suffering from scalds on the face and body caused by a pat of boiling scup being spilled over her.
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THE C.N.C. DISPUTE.
NO CHANGE REPORTED..
OPTIMISM)
PREVAILS.
valued at $70 were stolen from the Optimism now prevails that there Eastera Maternity Hospital, at will be an early settlement of the Stone Nullah Lane, on Saturday | C.N.C. dispute. siternoon. The stolen property be longed to a nurse.
It is understood that arising out
ATTEMPT TO KILL GEN. LI TSAI HSIN.
INFERNAL MACHINE DIS- CHARGED AT LAUNCH.
PERPETRATORS ESCAPE IN
DARKNESS,
of the preliminary negotiations at [гROM OUR CHINESE CORBESPONDÈNT. }'` Saturday's meeting at Shanghai Among through passengers arriv-between the China Navigation Com ed by the A.ML, ss. President pany and the Guilds representa Madison from Manila were Captain Adam J. Beanitt and Lieut. C. F. Bond for Shanghai: Senator Hiram Bingham, Mr. Woodbridge Bing ham, Dr. J. L. and Mrs Hydrick, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Herrier and Captain Samuel W. Stephens for San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. R. A-to-day. McGrath for Los Angeles,
an attempt on the life of General tivée, another meeting" was to be Li Tsai Hain, the chief military held yesterday at the Northern officer in Canton, was made 04 port between the two parties.
Saturday night at about,8.30 p.m.
No information is' available locally
further than the above, but the The General had been to a meet- result of the meeting referred to is ing at the Cement Works at Honam expected to arrive here some time and, a little after eight o'clock set '
FOR THE SERVICES."
out on the return jpurney in an armed launch with several of his
bodyguard While on the way an aide-de-camp reminded him that he
According to the vernacular press reports the C.N.C. dispute "has adversely influenced the importation THE PROGRAMME FOR THIS had an engagement at the Yu Yan
LEMONADE-Has the real essence obtained from Lemens grown in Son- thern Italy. BASPBERRYADE-Is pre
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of firewood into the Colony, and England and Tasmania A coolic, who fell into the har atrike among the coolies at bour from the Fraya wall, at Yau-Wuchow, where a great deal of the FORMAZONE-THE (5)£1
mati, was rescued by a coxswain Colony's frewood comes from, has " NON-ALCOHOLIC
of a Yaumati ferry launch on caused a shortage of this cammodity CHAMPAGNE. I Saturday. The man was taken to to be felt here. The strike of the possesses the character- the Kwong Wah Hospital,
coolies is now stated to have been istic stimulating and
auttled and the Tai Ming and the refreshing qualities of
Chung On have brought large sup- Champagne and has a
plics during the week-end.
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Walking in Lan Kwai Fong on Sunday afternoon, a Chinese was injured by a piece of wood falling on his bead from the verandah of house No. 20 He was taken to the Government Civil Hospital.
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Members of the Chinesq together on Saturday in the Tun Enen Café discuss the formation of a Vernacular Press Club. Those present favoured the idea, and there is a likelyhood of this Club being
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MARINE OFFICER DIES. AT SHANGHAL.
CAPTAIN W. F.S. FAWCKNER.
The death took place at the Royal Hospital, Shanghai on Saturday morning of last week of Capt W.
WEEK.
THE "I-PANS " FIGURING AGAIN.
Yuan Sanitorium, on Yi Sha Tao 'n smal islet just off the Bund. The launch altered course in this direc- tion and passed a small rowing. Another attractive programme of entertainments and social functions boat in which were a number of has been, arranged under themen. auspices of the Naval and Military Suddenly there was a loud ex
for Service men
Y.M.C.A.
this
week...
The programme includes two ap- pearances by Miss V. Capell and her talented "J-Pana."
plosion in the water, half way ben tween the two craft, and à columa of spray shot up into the air, drenching acveral on the launch. &
The bodyguard, alarmed, took,
The arrangements are as under: TO-DAY: Cheer 10": Concert, 1.30 p.m.; "Better Ole" Whist aim and were about to shoot at the Drive,p.m.; Rope Factory: Con-occupants of the boat, but the vert by the "J-Pans," under direc
tion of Miss Capell, 7.15 p..
General himself intervened 'at this
Whist Drive, 7.30 p.m.; "Better
TO-MORROW :-"Cheer Ole": juncture. The boat was meanwhile Ole" Singing Competition, 7 pulling desperately for the shore, and the launch started in pursuit. TRUESDAY: Cheer 10": In- from
P..
F. 8. Fawckner of the 19th Bat- talion, Royal Marines, pneumonia after an illness of about formal Dance, p.m.; Better They were too late, however, and 'Ole: Concert arranged by En- the occupants scrambled ashore and one week.
tertainment Committee, 7 p.m
streets.
Captain Fawokner entered the
FRIDAY -- Cheer '0": Concert,-made off, soon being swallowed up Royal Marines through the Civil 7 p.m.; Shamdinipo. Camp: Con- in Canton's labyrinth or "narrow cert by the J-Pana” under direo- Service examinations in the sum tion of Miss Ospell, 7 p.m. mer of 1913, and just prior to the
SATURDAY:-Launch Picnic war he was at the Eastney Bar-Tickets; 30 cents, including tea. On Saturday morning detectives racka, Portsmouth. In October, ave Queen's Fier, 2.15 p.m.
Leave Police Pier, Kowloon, 2.20 raided house in Shiu Cheong 1914, he landed at Dunkirk into a
pm Lane, West Point, and arrested light battery and was transferred eight Chinese men and a woman, Ato the 15-inch howitzers, with which quantity of seditious documents be he remained until he was gaased longing to unlawful societies was and wounded at Festubert in May, found and taken to the Police 1915. He was sent home, and on
OFFICES FORM of the House of Lords has are quite defnitely wrong. We do Station.
STEPHENS" BUILDING,
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CENTRAL,
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erect
recovery was appointed to H.M.S. Dominion
SUNDAY-Me's Meetings Cheer Ole, 7.45 p.m.; Better "Ole," 8 p.m.
PROMINENT PASSENGERS ON "EMPRESS OF CANADAJA
Mr. H. V. Kaltenborn, associate editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York; Mr. D. E. Cappleman, |
The explosion was so loud "thas both water and street police came barrying onto the Bund. But they" were too late to effect any arrest, and up to the time of writing, despite a thorough and a diligent search, no one has been apprehend- ed. The boat itself offered no clue.
The General made light of the. whole incident and went straight home on landing.
become a question of great import not believe there is any intention
In March, 1918,-deceased was pre- A Chinese, aged about 30, jumped acce in home politics. "The subject, to constitute a Conservative majo-
from a moving tram-car in the moted to Captain and was trans- of course, is not new; it has been rity in the second Chamber, Neither vicinity of the Chiu Ping Co., Desferred from H.M.B. Dominion. brought forward again and again--would it be possible by means of Voeux Road Central, and falling Service in Dardanelles and China. and then shelved. But this time it legislation to
Several of the men aboard the bulwark Q
was seriously injured in the bead.
In January, 1923, Capt. Fawckner of the staff of the Standard Oil Co. launch are positive that just before seems certain that, as the Govern againat revolution. Lord Birken-He was taken unconscious, to the
was selected to take charge of a ment have definitely decided to head justly says no Act of Parlia Government Civil Hospital, where six-inch Naval battery at Kilid Boller, representative of the Ford
Through passengers: Mr. R the explosion one of the men in pass some measure of reform affect ment could prevent revolution if the
he died shortly after admittance.
Bakr during the Nationalist
Motor Co.; Mr. and Mrs. E. E the rowing boat put something into ing the position and status of the country had a mind to embark upon;
troubles in Turkey. He returned lawyer, en
Selph, Manila, prominent Manila
route to the United the water. It is surmised that it Upper Chamber, something will now it. But what the proposals of the ling third-class on the Yaumati was appointed to HMS.-Hamillies of that city on's four of the Oricat torpedo. It had travelled some way A Chinese woman, who was travel in September of the same year and States Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Ewing, must have been a kind of miniature happen. 'It appears that the Gov- Government will effect is to enable ferry launch Man Fee, jumped into in the Atlantic.
Findlay, Ohio, prominent banker ernment will bring forward pro- the people to decide whether or the barbour un Saturday while the
Miss Mackey, Port Arthur, Ont., on posals next year to perfect the not any given policy is acceptable launch was crossing over to Hong was transferred to M.B. Royal Manila, prominent Manila physics nately for General Li and the other During January, 1925, deceased tour of the Orient; Dr. A. J. Cortes a considerable speed," but fortu Parliament Act so that the safety to them. Under the Parliament Kong. The launch stopped for ten year he was commander of the
Ock and in August of the same. ian; Mis: Greenbaum, Iloilo, P.I., search was made of the vicinity, she was not found..
APPLY S. J. DAVID & CO. of the State shall no longer be at Act, as it stands, it would be pos minutes, and although a' minate King's Guard at Cowes Regatta, prominent resident of Iloilo, on a occupants of the launch it went off
PRINCE'S BUILDING,
UHATER ROAD.
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STAR THEATRE
CHARLES CHAMIER
presenta
THE NEW.
OUR CABARET
In
TEN LONDON ARTISTES
Sat: aur Sun., Aug. 6 & 7 “COCKTAILS.”
Bince arriving in Shanghai the trip to the United States.
the mercy of a single Chamber, sible for a majority in the House of
deceased had made very many itself the victim and the captive Commons to overturn the Constitu-
"friends, and was as popular with -of-external organisationa."
tion.
the civilian populace as with all Recent events have compelled the
His The real strength of the opposition vails in Perak, which has been
Au unprecedented drought pre-members of his battalion.
death is greatly regretted. Government to tackle the problem. Hies in the "uggestion that referm without rain for several weeks, most
WILSON..
M.
prematurely. Evidently the con- spirators knew of the General pointment and were ready with this treacherously ingenious weapon to- attempt the destruction of the whole party.
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL POLICY:"
OPPOSITION "CRITICISM.
The Rikken Minseito is highly dis Mr. William Wilson, a well-known by the Japanese Government to antisfied with the attitude adepted ex-employee of the Hong Kong and wards the adjustment of the bankst Whampoa Dock Company, has died at Glensome, Kilinocolin, Scotland closed down. At a meeting of the With regard to the man who was The Company received a cable in administrative affairs investigation arrested in Taumati, some days forming them of his death yester committee on July 21st, the party
in 1881.
LAU LUN, THE BRIGAND VALENT CHIEF?”
The provisions of the Parliament would weaken the position of the of the wells are dry and even in DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM Act passed in 1911 have become not House of Commons and unduly the towns pipe supplies have abrunk tless but a greater danger to the strengthen that of the House of dangerously. Hain is momentarily State, by reason of the emergezee Lords. For this reason there are expected day after day, but weeks of a powerful revolutionary party, many excellent Conservatives who are passing find till there is no closely in sympathy (to say the are displaying concern at the prospect. Meanwhile the smaller least) with a foreign Government Government's intentions. They are mines have stopped working, which openly avows and secretly alarmed at the conferment of practices hostility to Britain. The greater powers on
fr. F. G. Stevens, the new Puisce day a new House sympathy of the Socialist party with of Lords which would be partly com on leave in September or October superintendent engineer, and later The resolution reads:-
Judge for Malaya, proceeds home
Mr. Wilson joined the Company adopted a resolution severely de- 80 and whom some Chinese For some years he was nouncing the Government's attitude alleged to be the notorious bandit. A Series of Intimate Reviews Russian_interference in China, and pored of peers elected by peers and and returns to Malaya in April | became manager at the Kowloon
chief Lau Lan, of the Tung Koon also in respect of other questions, partly of persons chosen by the next year. He will probably sit in catablishment. At the time of his there has occurred a nation-wide
"Following the financial panic, District, the vernacular ProsS has made it imperative that some Government of the day. This was the Court of Appeal in Penang next retirement in 1900 he was acting dearth of funds and a severe strin. states that the Tung Koon District steps should be taken to recon- the original scheme, though, of month. The Malay Mail says the
Chief Manager.
gency on the money market, with stitute the House of Lords that it course, it may be modified. Accord-appointment of Mr Stevens-is-ap-
the result that there is a daily. Association in Hong Kong held a may once again stand between the ing to such views increased powers proved in legal circles both on pro
industrial
mesting on Sunday to discuss what WEATHER REPORT.
decline in agricion. Indeed, and commercial people and the rushing into exeen must imply increased responsibility, fessional and-private grounds.
the financial future of Japan in steps they should take regarding Mon. and Tues., Aug. 8. & 9 tion of a revolutionary, or, as the and if they are conferred the irres-
Yesterday's weather report, fore-extraordinary session of the Diet, last few days there have been grave anxiety. At the last the arrested man, for- within the *“SNAPPY.”
Duke of Nothumberland described ponaíble element must be either The typhoon blow of last Monday cast and remarks, issued by the
the it, à destructive policy. eliminated or reduced to negligible damaged some of the mataheds at Royal Observatory at 5.35 p.m., Bills, and paved the way for the several letters addressed to the
stated: "
relief of the banks which had closed Tung Koon District Association Considerable opposition may be proportions. The manner in which Castle Peak. Those facing the
A feeble anti-cyclone extends their doors, with a view to accelerat-requesting the latter to see that expected to the proposed reform: the Government scheme has bean beach escaped,, but other received from 8.W. China to the Boninking financial recovery. The Govern justice is done to this mLD,
the full force of the squalls One The depression over N.E. China to devise measures in this direction. ment has, however, hitherto failed The Socialist party are frankly presented has increased the feeling shed belonging to Mr. Evans, of appears to be moving eastward.
Shortly after his arrest the hostile. They see in the proposals against the scheme itself. The the Royal Observatory, was blown
In the meantime, the financial
with a design to prevent them forcing malcontents complain that the Party down; another the property of Mr. tions of a depression forming to the the people. For this state of things, been arrested. The man all The depression over B.W. China situation grows worse and worse and alleged bandit was bailed out, has deepened. There are indica-ungseiness goes on increasing among his five associates, but he has again legislation on to the Statute Book as a whole should have been con Mody was badly damaged; and the east of N-Enzori
the present Government must be that he is rot Lau Lun, but his real allegea The Liberals affect to see in the sulted before being committed to one owned by Mr. Wong Tong Ki LOCAL FORECAST:--8.W.- winds, heldrezj
Japan Ohro Government's intentions clear propossis of such vast sweep. But, was wrecked,
moderate, cloudy, occasional rain. nicle,
name is Lau Fung Shan.
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