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us who are full of gloomy fore bodings and refer to the growing tale of piracies, kidnapping and murder and to the greed, extortion and venality of the officials as justification of their pessimism. Others treat these matters lightly as a passing phase, the inevitable aftermath of a revolution, and
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province and the death of hundreda Under the auspices of the Macao PIRACY NEAR HONG authorities, a fund is being raised.. of thousands of poor people has, we in aid of the victims of the recent are informed, been bereft of all are in the Portuguesa Colony, power. Bome of his followers, how Government officials have them- aelves contributed very liberally to ever, have embraced the Nationalist this fund, and the public is now cause and one of those has just following suit Chinese merchants are also contributing to the fund, established himself in Chefoo. But and a substantial sum has been
THREE MEN MURDERED.
A TRAGIC STORY.
cognise any of the emissaries sent Cement Company at Macao bas night to the police at Aberdeen by
For To Yang, one of the two sur- viving members of the crew of a junk which was pirated on Monday " afternoon only two miles beyond Hong Kong waters.
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although operating. under the already collected, Rocording to an
announcement made yesterday. It A story of extraordinary“ bar. Nationalist Bag he would not re- was also reported that the Green barity was told late on Tuesday promised a gift of cement towards ・from the Central Government the rebuilding of the district des
authorities The members of the troyed. delegations from Nasking were brutally murdered out of hand or arrested and subsequently shot. Ob. riously the mere faunting of the Nationalist colours, therefore, does not necessarily mean strict adher ence to the Nationalist policy. Coming South. Canton has been peaceful for some months and there is no doubt that wonderful im provements have been effected by the Public Works Department. The City is being modernised and the local oficials appear to be a re- markably efficient body. At Swatow the administrators are at logger heads with the merchants and their incessant ** squeezing '' is having a very detrimental affect on the trade of the Port.
Wherever one goes the result is the same good work in one quarter is neutralised by evil activities in another. At Home, observers are inclined to be hopeful regarding the
A wedding which will be of in- tereat to Hong Kong Scottish
Story Of The Outrage. Masons took place recently in "British Columbia between the Right
The junk was a small trader of Hon. Sir John Frederick Whit-150 piculs capacity which worth, Bart. 9th Baron Aylmer, making its way to a Chinese part and Gertrude, daughter of the late with a cargo of fish' valued at $180. Captain Colin Black, J.P. and As she neared Tai O a large junk Mrs. Black, of Lismore, Argyllshire,
was seen approaching, from which Scotland, and Victoria, British when it drew alongside jumped Columbia. Lord and Lady Alymer several men armed with Hauser will reside at their summer cottage pistols. The crew who were in no Lady Aylmer is position to offer resistance were at Queen's Bay.
taken to the pirate craft and in- prisoned in the bold. Both junks then sailed to Ngaichau, where the pirates had their lair. The fire prisoners were placed in small boats and rowed ashore.
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The case which has come to be
they landed the the known as "Double Murder Case was resumed at the Kowloon pirates shot the master of the junk Magistracy yesterday afternoon be- and two fakis and threw their fore Mr. W. Schofeld. Mr. H. bodies into the sea. The other two
men managed to escape by jumping. prosecuted on Somerset Fitzroy behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Hin into the water and swimming sway, Shing Lo appeared for the defence and after many sufferings includ
barren island they Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios helding a night on a watching brief for the bereaved were taken aboard a passing junk relatives. The defendant in this and brought to Aberdeen. the two men on August 19th at Woo- case is charged with the murder of ung Street by stabbing them while they were sleeping outside their house. Further evidence was taken, and the case was again adjourned.
The Booty.
In the pirated junk were 180 picula of salted fish, worth $120, 8110 in money, clothing worth $30, all of which the pirates took with them
when they went ashore at Ngai- outcome and one writer in the
chau. The fishing junk and tackle, Round Table," we notice, des-
The cruiser Concord, Captain A. which remained in the hands of the J. Robertson, M.V.O., which is pirates, are valued at $120. cribes 1928 as “marking the end of sitting out at Portsmouth for dutySze Chau, where the piracy, took the first stage of the Chinese Re-as-signal school ship in place of place, is only two miles outside the the Yarmouth, a to make a troop limit of British territorial waters,
volution." He does get say what
ing cruise to China and back be-while Ngai Chau, where the brutal
the next stage is to be, but he con- fore taking up her new duties. She murder of three members of the siders, that we are now face to face should be out of dockyard hands crew of the ill-fated junk was ennet on October 31st. The Concord will ed, is four tiles farther out. Bath with a "pominally" united China | tako out relief crew for the groups of islands are situated to the and that de facto recognition may Herald, Captain F. E. B. Haselfoot, south of Tai O.
D.S.O.. surveying ship; a relief almost be said to be an accomplish-half-crew for the Tamar, depôt ship ed fact.
Eight brides arrived by the Blue Funnel str. Aitor at Singapore Jast week. The Rev. G. H. Douglas was called upon to perform seven marriages in four days at the Proe byterian Church,.
at Hong Kong; and a certain num- ber of casuai reliefs for, the China, East Indies, and Mediterranean Stations. The present crew of the Herald joined her at Sydney, New South Wales, on July 17th, 1998.
WATERFRONT BATTLES,
SAMPAN COOLIES VERSUS.
MOTOR DRIVERS.
"TWO ENGAGEMENTS IN Some days age it was reported, that several Chinese shipowners had
TWENTY MINUTES. approached the Portuguese autho
Shouting battle-cries at the top rities at Macao in reference to
of their voices, a gang of sampan the question of transferring their coolies armed with The manager of the Eai On Im-vessels to Pertugas registry, with launched a fierce attack on a de
bortbooks ports and Exports Hong, of a view to evading the order issued tachment of motor-drivers station- Bonham Strand West, has reported by the Hong Kong Harbour nuthoed outside the British Canton and to the police that two fokt have rities relative to the periodic sur disappeared with $3,000 while on veying and docking of ships.
Macao Steamboat Company's wharf It is at 7.30 p.m. last. evening. mission to Swatow to purchase now learned that the Maso autho- The lintile raged fiercely, both goods.
rities are determined to impose sides giving no quarter, and while similar regulations, and that re- it lasted, the road was deserted" of gistry under the Portuguese flag all but belligerents.
Pedestrians were taking no chances of getting will not permit passenger steamers or even cargo vessels to operate hart with the ugly weapons with without surveys at regular intervals which the coolies were armed. circumstances, it is unlikely that we and periodic docking In these
shall hear any more of the registry transfer question.
Two more enses of small-pox (both Chinese) are reported from Kow loon in the return of notifiable discares during the twenty-four other cases of infectious disease were hours ending October 18th. No
reported in the Colony.
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emphasise the significanet of the establishment of a government at Nanking, the ending of civil strife.
The battle lasted about tea minutes, and resulted in two men the eradication of the communists
from the Motor Driving section and the obviously improved re-
being sent to hospital. They both lationship between China and For Commissioner of Customs, with his Mr. H. Dawson-Grove, Samehui
suffered from wounds indicted by' There is an impression in certain boathooks.
Although the main engagement Leign Powers as unmistakable signe wife and son, left Hong Kong quarters that because Macao buy Ab IN THE SUPREME COURT OF solutely Perfect Condition: $300 or
ceased,
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Nearest Ofer. Any Trial.Apply: Rozprosperity is at hand.
Batavia, where they will spend some South China, the Portuguese autho-vituperative tongues went on from Who can days before joining the Christician rities are lax in the matter of con- all sides. This was carried on for 375, c/o Hong Kong Daily Press. [375
say where truth lies? the
Huygens en route for England. ralling contraband traffic between soine time until one of the more Macao and Hong Kong and Canton, aggressive coofies could not restrain Foreign "residents in China are
The organ at the Queen's Theatre The fact of the matter is that the himself any lenger. He rallied his men and launched another attack chyiously at 1 disadvantage in was used for the first time, experi bagage of all outward-bound rins VICTORIA IN THE The marriage between Dr. Jons forming a correct judgment. Their mentally, during the showing of sengers is always very strictly on the drivers. The fight went on The Garden of Allah yesterday. exninined, declared a wharf official until a detachment of police ar-
on the scene. at Macao yesterday to a representa | rived
Another KATHARINE, second daughter of opinion must necessarily be coìcured It sounded well, and will shortly be Mr. WILLIAM C. HUNTER, of by the local happenings which re-net put into full use.
tive of the Hong Kong Daily Pres. casualty found among the Aragoak, Glenfarg, and 70.
It is because of this careful sert drivers and he was also sent to hos- Great King Street, Edinburgh, favourably or unfavourably upon
Several Chinese householders aping that one so rarely hears of pital, while two of the coolies were
taken to the Police Station. will take place in the Peak their own private interests. The peared before Mr. W. Schofield at smugglers from Macao being ar
The trouble arose from the Church on Wednesday, Novem-
rested. Originally false bottomed the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday trunks were greatly favoured by domineering attitude ber 21st, at 2.30 p.m. Friends canvas is so large, and they are morning, on charges of failing to smugglers, but when the authorities drivers of public vehicles. will be welcome at the Church, pooring so closely at the pigment remove illegal partitions erected
the alongside the Prays wall is a park- on one small section of it, that they The defendants, who were prosecut#mugglers resorted to hollowed ing place, and they considered they are unable to visualise the picture ed by Mr, T. W. Carr, were each clogs, air pillows, specially made could manoeuvre their cars any walking-sticks, and other ingenu way they liked. The coolics engag i fined $10.
ities. Hollowed firewood was made ed in, loading and unloading found themselves Hong Kong Office: 11, Ice House stand farther away, the contrasts!
use of one occasion, but the Macao freight often Street
A Chinese was fined 810 or scren nathorities discovered this trick hampered in their toil, and from days' imprisonment at the Kowloon London Office: 1, Bride Lane, and contradictions in form and Magistracy yesterday morning for from the very outset. All would-be this the trouble started. It was a
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colour, in rules and principles must the theft of two pairs of trousers smugglers, when caught, are heavily long-standing feud, and yesterday's be bewildering. The formation of clothes had been left on the line in quoted.
from No. 2, Armend Euilding. The fined, according to the official above battle was the climax of prolong-
ed hostility. A government with various depart the yard all night, and the Magis
trate remarked that it was not to The safe arrival at Singapore of meats covering every section of ad- be expected that they should be the floating-dock has been reported, ministration was the first essential found there in the morning. but it will not be possible for the public to inspect the dock until step towards the re-establishment
St. Andrew's Young Men's Club January. Both portions of the dock of civil power.
A few days after will hold their first social meeting had to pass Singapore town late The London ffion of the HONG THE CHINESE PATCHWORK." the election of a central authority of the season in the St. Andrew's at night, so that the Johore Strait Church Hall to-morrow evening at could be entered at early dawn,
The anti-cyclone has weakened' a Commissioner of Customs was 8.30. A play will be presented by sad at much time as possible be slightly. The position of the members, and dancing and games available for the heavy work of typhoon remains uncertain, but is receiving Enquiries from Home Tar situation in China to-day may assaulted and half killed by will form part of the entertainment. mooring them before dark on the probably about 700 miles E. or N. Manufacturers regarding Suitable Firms to act as Agents for their be represented as more unfavour number of soldiers in the capital Considerable alterations are being came day of arrival. A few days Luzon, moving W.N,W. Fresh products in Hong Kong and
to real progress than it has itself, and although the criminals effected in the structure of the after arrival the end sections will monsoon will continue along the South China..
Mezzanine floor of Exchange Build be separated, the middle section FINT BRANCH-3, D'Aguilar Street Local Companies desirous of taking been for years past, or, with equal their inability to arret them. This far end in order to lease room for joined up and prepared for use.
were known the police confessed ing. It is being built out at the placed between them, and the dock coast and over the Northern China know the Lines in which they are truth, the prospects of acted would tend to prove that the civil the growing Oriental Department. During operations the dock will winds, moderate, fine generally. forwarded to Landon and pasted government can be depicted in the authority is an authority conferred Alleged to have absconded with be in the hands of the contrac $100 entrusted to him by his master, to Swan, Hunter, and Wigham by proclamation only, whilst the Chinese was brought before Mr. Richardson, Ltd., and by the terms This Bervice is offered to our Benders plenty of evidence, to support both real power still remains with the W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magis of their contract with the Admiralty
Typhoon Warning. without charge and, of course, points of view. The one adopted military leaders. Proclamations in evidence that defendant had a 350 any persons unauthorized by the tracy-yesterday. It was stated-in-the-contractora shall not allow
The American Consulate General no obligation is incurred on either depends largely upon the events China have been, so numerous of share in a rattan shop in Shanghai Admiralty to inspect the Deck." has received another cable from the Street. On August 21st he was The contractors' work will probably Manila Observatory, dated 10.101 The Required Information abould be selected as representing the true recent years that they may be dis given 8100 to buy rattans. He did be completed during January, and a.m. on October 17th, stating that trend of affairs, and also to some regarded General CHANG TSUNG not return and was eventually ar- it is hoped that after the dock has the typhoon previously reported was The case been accepted by the Admiralty an then in about 136 deg. Long and extent, we imagine, upon the stato CHANG, whose misrule in Shantung rested on October 8th.
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A report,, issued at 5.45 p.m. saya the typhoon is probably situated about 500 miles south-east of Naha, moving north-west.
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