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THE HONGKONG "TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 25 1919.
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TO-DAY'S "CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
(Wah Tar Fat Po Service)
Peking, March 4,
It is reported that the Japan- ese Minister bas informed the Paking Government that the M. B. K. has been instructed to cancel the Canton Tramway Loan Agreement.
·SNATCHING FROM:~~ EUROPEAN.
POLICE RESERVIST PRAISED.
TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.
8-ARLIERS; SA.—SALES; -..
R.—BUYERS; N.—NOMINAL.
OFFICIAL PRICES.
BANKS.
$750
A Police Reservist, George Lee, was highly praised by Mr. G. N. Orme this
morning, for his smartness in affecting the capture of a thief who was running away The new Parliament yesterday after matching a gold chain and M. K. 45. Banks D. passed
Bill requesting locket from the person of Mrs.
MARINE INSURANCES. the Government not to Frazer, of the Government Civil
Cantons Canton Loan Hospital. recognise the Agreement. A petition and
The story of the affair, as relat-North Chinas
Linions telegrams of protest from thed by Am. Frazer at
the
Yangisres Cantonese community, signed by Magistracy this morning a Far Easterns D. over one hundred prominant that Isst evening, she Cantonese, were forwarded was walking in Ashley Road, GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., resterday to the President, to the Kowloon when the thist came up Military Government Councillors, to her and after sustching the the Chambers of Commerce all jewellery ran off The lady gave over the country, and the chase, and when the thief got to dalegates in Paris, protesting Peking Road, he was stopped by against the agreement.
the Police Reservist, who was then off duty.
For Freight apply to
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned has received
Agents.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
timotions to sell by Pub- THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by public Auction on
lis Austion on WEDNESDAY, the 2nd April. 1919.
commencing st 2.30 pm. at No. 2 Minden Villas. Kowloon A Quantity of Valuable House-
hold Furniture
comprising:- Mahogany drawing room suite, mahogany couch, easy chairs.) desk honkoase, cherrywood table, blackw od teapoys, consol mirror, marble clock, carios. calor prints engravings, picture. curtains, carpets etc. etc.
Teak extension dining table & chairs, teak sideboard & dinner waggon, tesk silver cab nets, American refrigerator, silver, community & electro-plated) ware, cutlery, dinner & dessert services, glassware ele etc.
THURSDAY, the 27th March 1919.
commencing at 3 p.m.
at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon. (for account of the concerned)
40 Kegs Check Head Wire
Nails.
(more or less damaged by fresh
Harold Dollar")
waler ex & Yo
Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
TO BE LET.
.American made mahogany win bedsteads, double task & iron bedsteads. American made mahogany dresser, single double mahogany & teak ward- robes with bevelled mirrors, TO BE LET-A 5 roomed house in Conduit Road from
&
chifonnier with bevelled mirror, 1st May next. For particulars teak dressing tables & marble top apply to
washstands etc. etc.
Also
Pantry and Kitchen Requisites
And
1 Victrola with cabinet & records.
1 Electric ceiling fan.
On view from Tuesday, the| Ist. April.
Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
HUN TREATMENT OF BRITISH PRISONERS.
BARBARIC CRUELTY:
H. M. H. NEMAZER
1, Des Voeux Rosd.
FOR SALE.
„almost new,
OR SALE:-Mouirie PIANO
Price $10 Apply Box No. 125. c/o Hong kung Telegraph."
across the face, jaw, and ear. The
Chu
Shanghai, March 24. Kai-kim has written
Tang Shao-yee that the armistice
The Magistrate passed the maximum sentence of 12 months' has been actually carried out, hard labour, and ordered the and the troops have mutually retreated a few miles from the thef to receive 12 strokes of the front. Therefore the reason for suspending the Conference is non-existent. The people are thirsting for
birch.
PROPERTY.
pesce and GOVERNMENT PURCHASE OF the date for re-opening should be fixed. Tang replied that the Peking Government should be asked to remove the peace obstacles.
Tang Shao-yee, in reply to be difficult to re-open the Con- 52 public bodies, said it will not
ference, but it is difficult to obtain a guarantee that Peking will abide by the Conference's decisions.
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Large Assortment of
Lace Works, Embroideries, Drawn Thread Works,
comprising
Collars, Blouses, Handkerchiefs, Table & Bed Covers, etc. Filet & other Hand-made Laces,
Moderate prices.
Excellent quality,
INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED.
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t
$410
b.
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$213
£25
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ba
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Shells
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Sugars Malabons
2.3
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$36
MINING
Kail Langkats Raubs Tronoha
1.
301-
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28
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b.
37/6
LOCAL RUMOURS DENIED.Urals
the rumours
no
4
DOCKS, WHARVES. We are authorised to state that there is absolutely
GODOWNS, &C. truth in
cir-H. K. Wharves b. $118 x 417/119 b $161 sa. 67/16/2 calating in the Colony to the K. Docks effect that the Military Authorities Shai Docks b #129 93. 128/139
N. Engineerings b The Five Powers' second and the Civil Government are advice is temporarily postponed, purchasing existing house owing to the Japanese Minister!
property in Kowloon and Hong- not yet receiving instructions kong. The Civil Government from Tokyo. The Four Powers is however, now considering, and have decided to wait until Tues will later carry out, a scheme for day, when they will send the the creation of new property. advice if Tokyo still forwards no instractions.
NOT FILMS.
AN OPIUM FIND.
Centrala
H. K. Hotels
Land Invest. H'phreys Est K'loon i ands
FEED THE BABY
$241
CLEAN
LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.
BORDENS Malted
PURE
Milk
b.
b
$5 #91
b. SI 6sa. 07
b. b
$71 $34
HEALTHFUL
NOURISHING
L Reclamations vi
West Points b.
$ 175 $63
DAY BY DAY.
COTTON MILLS
Ewos
b & sa 1, 225
5.
$201 154
$17:15
$10
As a misunderstanding is pre-Kang Yike $1. It is not often that we hear of vailing among the interested Lau Kung Mows n. the Police being caught napping.public in consequence of N.Y.K. Orientals
S'hai Cottons 31 But such was the case yesterday. European Mail steamers when a respectable-looking Chin-discontinuing to call at Liverpool,
Yangiszepoos D. ese youth, 15 years of age. the local office asks to state that
arrested on charge of
Was
E
now
being in unlawful possession the Company will, in addition to a of what the Police at the time fortnightly Mail Service to Lon- thought were several reels of don, keep up a direct Service cinema films, contained in square from Japan to Liverpool, via and flat tins. The tins bore ports, including Hongkong.
well-known stamp of a firm, and having regard
the
Bway
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ON SALE AT
D.
$81
Dairy Farms
b.
$224
H. KS Electrics
b
$76
Macao Electrics n.
$32
Ropes
b. Trams Low Level b.. Trams. Peak, nfd b.
#304
A. S. WATSON & CO.
$71
$7,40 cts. 75
VICTORIA DISPENSARY
b.
$ 5,50 $13
AND
д
#6,15
$28
Wiseman's
Horgkong. March 25, 1919.
custom of making presents of rice THE-
Shipa compradores have a
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COLONIAL DISPENSARY
ALL LEADING PROVISION SHOPS. CONNELL BROS. CO.," Agents.
BREEZY GARAGE.
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to this and also to the fact that damage might inadvertently be The Fire Brigade was called done to the films, as would out, yesterday evening, at about doubtless have been the case as 4.30, in reply to an alarm given Trams, Peak.pew b the tias
bermetically at York Baildings, where a chim- Laundries were victims were carried outside, and
closed and could be opened ney in the servants' quarters of Steel Foundries, p. cold water dashed over them to only by cutting
the Messrs. Loxley and Company U. Waterboats b. revive them. He added that the covers, the Police forebore
be Russians especially were treated to investigate the contents of the had caught fire and was emitting Watsons
The Wai. Powells b. abominably being forced to tins until some time after the great volumes of smoke.
Brigade was upon the scene with kneel for horrs holding their hands boy had been released op Many more terrible tales are to behind them and lifting their own bail of $50 When the tins almost incredible promptness and fand of the treatment of prisoners feet from the hard foor while a were finally opened. the the fire was extinguished before by the Germans saya a home German sentry with his rifle Police discovered their mistake. any material damage had been
The tins contained, not dous. paper. Ons soldier captured last aslant struck them in the chest
fims, as was thought, but 120 May, declared that out of 1,500 and face with the butt if their
taels of prepared opium. men originally in his camp only feet were not held up.
value of the drug was $1,440. forty-eight ware left; the remain- In other cases Englishmen's The case was brought to the dar having died or been removed wrist were lashed to a stake, with notice of Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the to hospital in various stages of their toes just touching the Magistracy this morning and, as to boat-people at the end of every starvation." A Canadian soldier snow.covered ground and there was to be expected, the boy did said that a private in the Essex left freezing for an indefinite not appear to answer the charge. trip, so it appears from the state- Regiment had only the use of one period, while many were prodded
Inspector Boulger, who had centofs Chinees who was charged arm, and as his work did not give with bayonets. All this gros for charge of the case, remarked to before Mr. G. N. Orme at the THE FEATURE PAPER Theatre parties. Pleasure trips. satisfaction, the guard felled him such offences as refusing to be Government lost a big fine and a being in unlawful possession of Mr. R. E. Lindsell that the Magistracy this morning, with with a rifle. Among the men worked to death.
probable inmate for the170 pounder of rice. - A European ware four of the Colling- A Manchester man who worked Victoria Gaol owing to the Water Police Sergesat give evid- On MONDAYS, fer wood Battalion who were captured every day from seven in the failure of the boy to ence to the effect that he was on at Antwerp. They had worked morning to Beyon at night, pat In an appearance duty in his launch off West Point in coal mines for the greater part including Sundays, said that one They had, however, the estrested when he saw the defendant's of the four years at a daily wage day he went to the lavatory, and bail and the opium, which was sampan and another boat coming On TUESDAYS for of less than eightpence. They was away for three minutes. On something. said that they had been "treated returning he was accused of be
in his direction. His launch cut like pige" all the way through ing absent for half an hour, and, solicitous for his property, your their bows, whereupon the sam- There had been innumerable when he denied this, he was
pans turned back and proceeded towards Tsimtaatani. He gave cases of cruelty in the mines, bayoneted through the arm, back,
chase and finally overhauled they defendant's sampan and on boarding her, he found six baga On THURSDAYS for of rice. The defendant produced
Inspector Boulger:-He is not
Worship.
Mr. Lindsell:-No; quite so, The opium was confiscated and
prisonere being struck down and side, and afterwards was the bail was estreated. for no reason whatever. given eix weeks' imprison-
as in the trenches,"
then noon. The men were
There showed that
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A Clapien soldier said he was ment for insolence. Another Beveral times placed under arrest man showed his right foot on for not being able to do the work which was a large brown-black admission to the town hospital, a two chita, in support of his state because of weakness due to lack seas, where a guard had deliber mile and a half away, on the presents of rice were made on of fool. "In the first eighteen ately poured scalding coffee over ground that patients were not
admitted after 10,00, and it was o him" by pertain ships months life in a German prison him.
compradores in the month of camp was at least as dangerous
One of the prisoners told of s terrible case when a young marine accordingly all driven back again. February. He was unable to A corporal of the 1st Royal was crucified to the floor of the These German doctors were produce chits to cover: the six On Warwick, produced a strip of tent, face downwards, and flogged as guilty of murder in these cases bags of rice in respect of which he was charged, but he produced rubber ten inches long and of the because his guolars alleged that as they were when, while I was thickness of three figures, which he had shirked his work. acting as nurse, they refused to a witness who gave evidence with he had smuggled out of Ger- Colonel Hazard said he was give heart stimulants to dying reference to the gift of one of the many. With which weapon, the captured during the March push, men; declaring that they had bags. The Magistrate observed ook knocked men after man and was taken to Grandenetz, none, when, as a matter of fact that there was some doubt in the
polies of both case, and he gave the misoles LE he was suspected Out of 500 men, he said, they bad liberal
the of trying to get a second helping 100 were sick of influenza, but digitalis and
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