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BRITISH LEGION..
(HONG KONG Branch),
THE 7TH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will be held at 5.15 P.M. on FRIDAY, 11 MAY, 1928, in the Board Room of JANDIN, Marazson & Co, Lra.
BOBINESS :-
To receive the Report and Accounts
for the Year 1927.
To elect Officers, etc.
A. PIEROT.
Hon. Secretary
́CHINESE ESTATES, LIMITED.
FIFTH ORDINARY, YEARLY
MEETING.
Nt the FIFTH ORDINARY TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN YEARLY MEETING OF BHARE HOLDERS will be held at the Company's
15TH
Office al CHINA BUILDINGS FLOOR)
Hong
Kong, en WEDNESDAY, THE 16TH MAY, 1928, at 12 O'CLOCK Noo*, receiving the Baport
for the purrands Statement of the Directors, Account for the
ditional
of
ending 29th
FEBRUARY, 1928; and of electing Ad
Directors, thought fit and also of electing an Auditar.
The TRANSFER BOOK of the Company will be CLOSED from the DT to 16TH MAY, 198, Beth Days
inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
HENRY LOWCOCK,
Secretary.
Hong Kong, 2nd May, 1925. 1878
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Four men, one armed with a dag- ASSAULT ON SHAN THE TIENTSIN CON- crat appreciates the necessity of ger, committed robbery at No. 186 keeping the livestock in prime cen- Hollywood Read yesterday morn-
He does not relish the ing at ten o'clock. After intimi prospecs of having to operate his dating the inmates and binding business with starveling workmen ; |
them, they ransacked, the premises and went away with jewellery and therefore he favours big wages raoney to the value of $300. No efficient public health services, edi-arrests have been made.
he ever was before.
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ALLEGED BRIBERY.
·POLICEMAN BOUND ANDTM
TAKEN TO STATION,
FRANCHISE FOR CHINESE RATEPAYERS.
HÄVEN OF REFUGE FOR "RETIRED" " CELEBRITIES.
PEKING,April thi rank with all other nationalities in Admission of Chinese to an equal
administration of the British con- ccasion in Tientsin, voted un-
cation and proper recreational facilities. The chances are that H.E. the Governor of Singapore Six Chinese of Aberdeen again under the Third, Plutocrat, Re (Sir Hugh Clifford) is to pay a appeared before Mr. R. E. Lindsell public the average American will be visit to British North Borneo, at the Central Magistracy yester better fed, clothed and housed that Labuan and Brundi next month, day on
a charge of ssaulting A leaving Singapore to-day. The Shantung policeman, whom they There appears to be only a small "Party will consist of the Governor bound with a rope and carried to animously at the spring meeting of and Lady Clifford, Lady Victoria the Aberdeen Police Station, on the the Municipal Council of tha Achilles heel to this altogether Fielding, and Capt. Macartney, 24th April. estimable régime, and that is its AD.C. They are expected back on
British Special Area, is greeted Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, C.I.E.,here as further evidence of the sin- inevitable dulces." "As regards the 17th inst.
(Deputy Superintendent of Police) their political philosophy: JACKSON
cere desire of the British in China was for the Crown, and Messrs. M. to reconcile the growing Chineas de and RooszyLLY were far apart, but
The 19th annual meeting of the K. Lo represented 1st defendant sire for a share in administering one thing they had in common-they St Joseph's College Athletis Sports and C. A. S. Rust the other de-foreign concessions, writes a United were both interesting. During the will be held on Friday commencing fendants According to the prese Press correspondent. eight years that JACKSON and the 1p.m. at the Scokunpoo football cution the Shantung policeman, ground (Causeway Bay) by kind No. C. 185 went to Po Chong with seven years that RooSEVELT resided permission of the Military Autho another Shantung policeman to ar- there, not a single dull day was rities. An event (200 yards) open rest several men who they were
at the White House: hell to all past pupils of the College informed were cutting down trees. popped continually. Is this state will be included in the programmė
They went by sampan to the plaes of affairs imaginable under a plate The race will be run at about 5.30 and on landing they went up the crat of the first,, order?" Taking pim.
hill-side where they saw several men Mr. ANDREW MILLON as an example
carrying branches of trece. They it is suggested that Mr. MELLON
pendant. As they were bringing ing also removed all discrimination would be correct,
A resolution adopted at the meet- soft spoken, reasonable and unexciting. would admired but not idolized. gathering of the members and visi- other men who seized the nearest out distinction of nationality, who their man down the hill-side they against Chinese ratepayers as re- He shed was thrown open to a large were suddenly attacked by several gards the franchise. The resolu- tion read; "Every person, with- And he might be defeated for re-tors. Speeches were made and re- election."
man (C.185), but the other managed is liable to pay 200 taels (about freshments were served. The mem
to escape. The Shantung police-in respect of land tax or rental 8130 gold) or more during the year bership roll is limited to 1,100, and
man was bound with rope and his assessment tax-shall be qualified there is a committee of 30 members. Mr. Chau Ste Lam is the new Pre-revolver taken from his belt. They as an elector provided that be is then took him to Aberdeen where subject to any legal disability or not less than 21 years old, and not Treasurer is Mr. Cheung Yung taken to the Police Station. sident and the Hon. Secretary and
they were themselves arrested and incapacity. Fook.
seen
The Chinese Bathing Club held its opening ceremony on Sunday after poon, when the newly constructed
chased and arrested the sixth de-
What would be the next phase. AWARDED
The author, & good democrat, plaintively suggests a theocracy, the 50.
carliest form of American Govern- GOLD & PRIZE, arking back to the days of the Pilgrim Fathers. Unfortunate-
The Shantung policeman after MEDALS.
lý, he does not expand upon this Among passengers leaving Hong telling the story of his capture said fascinating theory or oven clearly Kong to-day by the 5.8. President that he was carried to the sampan, and suggestions were made to drop
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Looking to the past the author divides the political history of the American nation into three epocha and Third Republics. The Erst which he calls the First, Second
upon which, GEORGE WASHINGTON set his stamp was casentially aristo cratic. It was by long odds the most polished government the coun-
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ARY GENERAL MEETING OF Almost New Becently Overhauled; sentimentalists are prone to believe SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Insured to JANUART, 1929, Ofices of the Undersigned on THURS leaving Colony. Will Accept $1,000 that it was the Golden Age of DAY, the 17TH MAY, 1998, at Noos, for Apply: For 3, c/o Hong Kong Daily America." It lasted till 1898 when the purpose of receiving the Report of
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THE CHINESE ENGINEERING &
MINING CO., LIMITED.-
PAYMENT OF Interim DividŽNE OF SHARES FOR THE YEAR ENDING 30rn June, 1828.
THE Board having declared An
INTERIM DIVIDEND
of Two Shillings Per Share, free of Income Tax, for the Year ending 30th June, 1928, Holders of Heaver Shares and Holders of Dividend Warrants received from Lon-
Hong Kong Office: 11, Ios House
Street London Office: 21, Bride Lane,
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The Daily Press.
Hose Kore, May Brṛ, 1928.
RULE. BY MILLIONAIRES.
a hard and terrible man, named,
McKinley fre: Mr. and Mrs.
"The Council raised the number of councillors from eight to ten,
five of these must be British. It is and the Regulations provide that
therefore possible for the Chinese voters, who are in an overwhelming majority, to elect Chinese concillors equal in number to the British. On the Council this year, however, one American was elected, in accord, with precedent.
Four Former Presidents. The British concession at Tin tsin has been a favourite haven of buy homes and live there luxurious refuge for wealthy Chinese who 115. Hundreds of such men, includ- four former Presidents of China
state what he means, for to him Gordon Duclos who are returning him into the water: He was land and at least a score of formerly
personally the prospect is altogether
to San Francisco on leave; Mr. and painful. He merely suggests that Mr. E. M. Raymond, who are on Prohibition and Ku Klux Klan
a pleasure trip to Europe; Lieut. are animated by a system which Jose J. Ferreira who is returning to borders upon theocracy. Rotary, Portugal, from Macao; Mr. and other forms of "uplift" and even Mra. D. M. Ballantyne and child. the heady political philosophy Mr. Ballantyne has been in charge brewed in Chicago are of the same of the Equitable Bank and is well vintage. America fike mbet-coun- known in Hong Kong banking
circles.. tries to-day is in a 'transitional stage. Everyone is bewildered by changes but perhaps the calm of a capable Plutocratic Government may set as a sedative and see the passing of what may come to be called "the excitable age."
Hong Kong has been declared
of the Dutch East Indies. plague infected by the authorities
was reported from Kowicon during the week-end. There were no other cuaca of notifiable disease during that period.
One American case of diphtheria
A Chinese married woman
WAK
admitted to the Kworg Wah Has pital after an attempt to commit suicide by jumping into the Har- bour from the Mongkok Ferry,"
The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending April 21st amount- ed to 116,715 tons, and the sales during the period to 70,948 tons.
FORTHCOMING-WEDDINGS.
cd at the pier at Aberdeen and on the way to the first defendant's shop another Chinese policeman came up and arrested the party and took them to the Police Station.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lo the witness asserted that the first de fendant was present and assisted in binding him with the rope."
prominent warlords, are living in Tientsin British concession at the present time. Here they have most teriality enjoyed by the foreigner. of the advantages of extraterri-
By the new regulations, therefore, prove to be the deciding voice in these men will have what may administration of the concession.
The British Special Area at Tientsin is the only strictly British concession of any great consequence in China today. Last year the British retroceded the concessions at Hankow and Kiukinng. Hong. Kong is a Crown Colony. The areas in which British interests are Canton are internationally ad- centred at Shanghai, Amoy, and
ministered....
Mr. Lo then told the Magistrate that actually the first defendant was in-another-place at the time but on being informed of the affair came include that of Mr. policeman. The revolver was taken Forthcoming weddings announced and told the men not to bind the Rickett, of No. 14. Chatham Path, away from the policeman as a pre- May Road, the Peak, to Miss A
The British declare that they do Beatrice Cox, of No. 100, Philbeach cautionary measure, as he might not fear the acts of the Chinese re Gardens, Kensington, London, W.; have used it against the sixth desidents of the concession, who are aise of Mr. L. J. Noronha of No. fendant, the old man, who was first the British themselves,
as anxious for good government s 488, Nathan Road to Miss M E. arrested.
American and other foreigners who McBean, of No. 9, Morrison Hill
witness, after live there. They fear only that Road, Hong Kong,
the unscrupulous warlords who rule North China may try to take a hand.
DEATH OF BARRY PAIN.
SUPREME COCKNEY
HUMOURIST.
The death is announced, after a long illness, of Mr. Barry Pain the immortal chronicler of the
Cockney and his humour.
Magistrate to landing, did the first defendant go into a shop!"
Witness: "Yes." Magistrate: "Do you know what
for 1
Witness: "No." Mr. Lo also put it to the witness that the de- fendants were not arrested after landing, but went to the Police Station on their own-accord-The- witnesa, however, denied this.
Magistrate: "Do you mesa to tell me that a policeman arrested four men alone?" the others followed."
Witness: "He arrested two and
of the
ALLEGED OBSTRUCTION OF POLICE.
CONSTABLE'S CONDUCT TO BE INVESTIGATED.
Mr. Pain was a prolific writer
DEFENDANTS DISCHARGED. from Cambridge days down to the beginning of his last illness, but, Mr. Russ: "I put it to you that
When the case in which a money though he dealt with many sub you saw the sixth defendant alone, changer and a hawker were charged- jects in his time, it is through Eliza near the beach; that you told him with obstructing the police in the and her circle that he will be re-to come up the hillside and that execution of their duty by hinder-" embered so long as the Cockney you made him carry the tree backing the arrest of a small boy for exists.
to the farm; and threatened to playing football in the street was kick him if he did not. You also resumed at the Central Magistracy said that if he paid you a certain yesterday morning, the Magistrate amount of money that you would hold back the charge." Witness denied these suggestions.
WEATHER REPORT.
Question Of Best.
Mr. Russ then questioned the wit aid that the witness went off his neas with regard to his beat. He usual beat without proper au thorisation. He should have re ported the matter to the Inspector at Aberdeen.....
(Mr. R. E. Landsell) asked Mr. P. P. J, Wodehouse, CLE, what instructions were given to the police with regard to entering houses to effect, the arrest of a petty offender. A cross-summons alleging assaul out by the money changer for whom against two constables was taken Mr. Hin Bhing Lo appeared.
ANDREW JACKSON, arose in the wilds -of-the West frontier and forced his way, through the ranks of the weakening aristocrats, into White House." Then came the demo-
The weather report, forecast and The names of the three marines remarks issued by the Royal Obser- cratio Second Republic to rule for who have deserted from H.M.Svatory Hong Kong, at 6.05 p.m.
It could pro- Benwick and whose uniforms were
yesterday state- ninety years.
The anti-cyclone is still central duce a Lincoln, who had the great picked up in Middle Road, Kowloon, to the E.S. E. of Tokyo. The typhoon ness of soul, but not the greatness are given as F.. Moxon, D. Clarks
200 to 300 miles E.8.E, of of manner of WASHINGTON," "But it and R. T. Brown. They have been
Legaspi, moving westward.
procedure at Home was followed Mr. Wodehouse replied that the has passed and the Third. Bepublic
Local forecast:-Light variable abacit since Saturday...
winds, generally fine, some mist or Mr. Wodehouse agreed with Mr. and he thought permission was fog reigns in its stead. As the gentle-
Russ, but the Magistrate, however, necessary before entering a shop man was master of the First Re Match between the Sacred Heart The gross receipts of the Charity
/ THE TYPHOON.
was inclined to think that the wit with a door, or a closed house with A message from Manila Obser- ness was entirely justified in "a policeman could enter an open railings His own opinion was that public, as the man of the people, College and the The net terday the typhoon was east of the offenders.
the Royal Navy vatory states that at 3.30 p.m. yea ing out of his way" to arrest any shop in pursuit of any person real or apparent, was master of the cipta, 8306.90, are to be divided Northern Visages, or south-énat of the Magistrate, remarked to the de for the defence and an address by
At the conclusion of the evidence,.
After hearing further evidence Mr. His Shing Lo, the Magistrate
Second,,so the Plutocrat is master of the Third,
The writer finds much to be anid
between the Kwong Wah Hospital and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
don on account of Registered herra. An article in a leading American in favour of such a rule. Though the monument to Chinese who lost
be paid their Dividends on present-
In the report of the unveiling of ing Coupon No. 12 of the Bearer Shares, periodical contends that United his camp follows are often dishonest their lives by enemy action in the and Dividend Warrants on Registered Shares, to either of the following States politics have recently entered the big plutocrat is not. He knows upon a new phase. The author terms that honesty in the best policy. it the rule of plutocracy and points Plutocracy is against war, especial
Banks
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BANKING CORPORATION.
stated that the Active Fervice THE POPE AND WOMEN'S European War, it should have been Men's Association was represented
ATHLETICS.
by the President, the Vice-President
and two members of the General
fendant received his injury falling against the call door,
Luzon, moving westward,
An earlier message from the same fending solicitors that the witness discharged the two defendants, say had spent a night at the Governing that he accepted the evidence, source (May 6th) states that the typhoon was in 120 and 139 ment Civil Hospital in consequence for the defence as to the origin of N., moving, west,
of injuries received in the fray,
Chantang constable 0.30 said that the trouble. The cross-LUMIONS. WAR the last, witness asked him to se dismissed as his Worship believed
est certain men who had cut trees
the constable's story that the do- company him to Po Chong to on the hillside. On arriving they saw several men carrying branches THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, out that all the most favoured canly big war because its members Committee,
of trees. They dropped their loads Roun, May 3rd." · AUSTRALIA & China.
sad ram. The sixth defendant who His Holiness the Pope to-day was an old man was arrested. THE BANQUE BELGN POUR L'Er didates for the Presidency are men know that in a first class struggle
made public his disapproval of of great wealth. Many presidents, all suffer. When it goes to war," yesterday, by a cook employed at approved by the Mussolini Govern
A report was made to the Police athletic contests for Fascint girls as of you to arrest an old-man 1.
Magistrate Does it take two from Washington onwards have adds the author, with perhaps unfair No. 24, Wanchai Bosd, stating that ment of Italy. been that, but it is a new phono cyniciam, it will be to gain some-
he employed two coolies to remove He deplored such contests in the menon to see politics directly con- thing definite, as, for example, the to an address in West Point. When The Pope stated that he had no a wardrobe and a bundle of clothing month of the Virgin Mary,!Akmal trolled by men who have spent most mahogany of Nicaragua, the sugar near the Supreme Court the cook, objection to athletic competitions as of their lives making huge fortuner of Haiti or to retain the rubber camped with the goods they were tifying bodies if kept within pro- lost sight of the coolies who de a means of strengthening and bean- General Manager.
(4190 ** and 'administering big business of the Philippiace" Social reform carrying.
per bounds,
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The Payment will be made in Dollars at the Buying Exte of Exchange of the day.
THE KAILAN MINING
ADMINISTRATION,
P. C. YOUNG,
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Addressing Mr. Wodehouse, his Worship said that he would like a departmental enquiry made into the conduct of the Ciracze constablo (C.441), whose story that the de Iendants went out of their way to Continuing, the witnem said that hinder him in his duty could not side, when several men, of whom he fendant was not given an oppor they were walking down the hill-be believed. Further, why the de-
denly attacked them. He managed was led through the street hand- recognised the four defendants, sad- funity of finding bait and why he to escape back to Aberdeen, cuffed were points also to be cleared evidence the case was adjourned which Mr. Lindsel, would, Like, com
After a third constable had given up at the enquiry, the resuit of till, next Monday....
municated to him.