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BIG CHICAGO EXPLOSION.
World's Largest Grain Elevator Destroyed.
(Reuter's Servior.)
Chicago, March 20.
堂拜禮 號登廿月三英港香
EARTHQUAKE SHOCKS.
Two Felt in Hongkong,
MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921. •日式十月式
BOSTOCK'S CIRCUS. CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
A Fine Show.
Two sarthquake shocks wore During the week-end, Bostock'a
To-day's Cases.
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the Attorney-General wished to with stealing was accountant mention was the motive. Ap-of the Wing Lok Yee firm. parently the motive was robbery. Tai wanted a plece if grey silk The cloth hawker was carrying a measuring 17 yards valued $50,- certain quantity of change. It was passing the Lai Wa Company certain quantity of clothing and a The prisoner said that ho was a very small motive, but with and he heard ories about stealing. auch a class of persons as the He was standing near the door- prisoners it was an important way. He saw a man, Chen Fat, motive. The third point was that rushing downstairs. He stopped
by the ocat and
His Lordship Mr. Justice H. felt in Hongkong on Saturday- popular circus has been drawing H. J. Gompertz presided this one in the afternoon and another large crowds, which have been morning over the March Criminal in the evening. They were felt delighted with the splendid Sessions. An explosion, due to ignition of grain dust, wrecked the world's by several residents. The Direc- shows given. The huge marque l largest grain elavator, shattering the windows of neighbouring towns.tor of the Royal Observatory (Mr. accommodating this clever com
MURDER CASE. One person was killed and four are missing. Half a million bushels T. F. Claxton) issues the following bination is located in Kowloon Wong Fat and three others amber of men were present him near the doorway. He caught of grain were destroyed. The damage is estimated at $600,000. atatement in relation thereto; quite close to the ferry, and were arraigned on the charge of for taking part in the crime orbim
GREEK TROOPS CALLED UP.
Fresh Trouble in Anatolia.
Athens, March 20.
A Turkish Statement.
Paris, March 18. General Gouraud is to leave on March 24 for Constantinoplo, where he will confer with General Polle, the Allied High Commis sioner, and proceed to Beyrouth after visiting the Sultan and the Grand Vizier,
ed.
with the
earth
MUSKETRY.
RETURNED BANISHEE. Pefore Mr. Justice J. R. Wood. turning from banishment. a Chinese was charged with re-
He pleaded quilty.
the last time you
News in To-day's New Advertisements.
Two earthquake shocks were therefore conveniently-placed murdering another Chinese on present with the intention of help- the defendant struggled and his recorded at the Observatory on both for Kowloon and Hongkonth January at Sheung Sha Wan.ing, if necessary, then every one coat was tora. The prisoner got Saturday, the 19th. The first residents. There are performing The Attorney-General, the Hon. of them present was guilty of him under control, and inside his commenced at 4h.20m.48., p.m. animals which have been wonder Mr. J.H. Kemp, prosecuted, whilst murder. The Crown could not coat was found a piece of silk. He with tremors of 1⁄2 inch amplitude. fully trained, and clowns who Mr. Drummond instructed by Mr. Provo who actually killed the took him to the Police Station. These tremors lasted until 21m.0, keep the audience in roars o Brutton defended.
deceased. It was not necessary The prisoner said he asked the when the noodle made large ox-laughter with thoir funn The following jury were om- for the Crown to prove which | defendant where he got the slik, cursions backwards and forwards business. Then mention must panelled-Messrs. F. Fisher, S.Particular man killed the decess- The reply was: I did not steal The 1913, 1914 and 1915 classes have been called to the colours on the sheet, finally going out of made of the Arkos Trio, who de G. Fenton, J. H. Donnithorned. The four prisoners were ar- it." Mr. Lindsell discharged the to reinforce the Greek troops in Anatolia. Crowds gathered range to westward at 21m.3. (A thrilling acts on the trapese, aforeman) A. Leon, L. O. Barton, firat prisoner was found the purse
rested in the village. On the defendant. in the streets cheering Graece to war.
westerly movement of the needle also does Mile. Lorenzom. Maxima C. P. Archer and W. Morley.
Prisoner was found guilty of The King, in a message to the Greeks, declares that the Turkish indicates an easterly movement] as a loose-wire walker is welt Mr. W. Morley applied for
of the deceased. The second giving false evidence and was Nationalists are again attempting to overthrow the situation of the instrument pillar). By the known to the Colony, and he is exemption. He said that Mr. the house where the murder labour.
prisoner rented previously sentenced to six months' hard established by the Treaty of Sevres and are concentrating against time the needle had been adjusted better than ever. Other items arrant was away and he was took place. the Greeks, and says reinforcements are necessary to protect the to the centre of the sheet (at go to make up a most attractive doing his work.
The third pri- Greek populations and secure definitive pacification of the Orient, 23m.0) the disturbance had finish-performance."
In reply to the Chief Justice, the look of the house.
sober had a key that fitted which Greece is pursuing jointly with the Allies.
The Cireus gives nightly Mr. Morley said there was only The second shock commenced performances at 9.15, and a mat-one European in the office and that at 7h. 4m. 4., p.m., with small ideo is announced for Wednes- was himself. Mr. Tarrant would tremors which continued until day.
be away for eight or nine months. 5m, 0. At this time oscillations
The Chief Justice remarked of 0.6 inch amplitude commenced,
The issue of 10,000 Dəbənturas that he could not exempt Mr. dying away at 5m. 6.
Morley for eight or nine months.
of $100 easu and bearing interest His Lordship:-In 1919 you at the rate of 8 per cent in con- The maximum traverse of the
Mr. Morley replied that he were deported for ten years nection with the Graad Hotel de recording needlà is 4 inches Defence Corps Competition. would not need exemption for and A despatch from Constantinople announcea that Turkey is very which,
were Pekin is announced by the present
The Engineer Company H. V.such a period. He would get into deported you returned to the Banque Industrielle de Chino. eatisfied with the London agreement between the Turkish and French adjustments, represents B and Italian representatives, solving the questions of Cilicia, Syria and horizontal
D. C. fired Part 11 of the Annual the work within a month.
Colony and ware sentenced by Page 4. Anatolia. Turkey states that the last British standpoint concerning of 0.043 inch. It is by no means Range yesterday.
movement Musketry Course at King's Park Exemption was rofused.
the Police Magistrate. The Attorney-General,
This, Messrs. Lane Crawford and Constantinople, the Dardanelles, Armenia and Kurdistan is cleared certain however how much of the
intherefore, is your second con- Co, call further attention to their The Company put up three outlining the facts, said the viction. up. Consequently, every question between Turkey and the Allies movement is a horizontal thrust, cups for the beat three aggregate prisoners
The sentence of the wide stook of the celebrated wore charged tended to a satisfying solution for both parties. The only contested and how much a tilting of the scores.
with Court is that you will be im-Community Plate-Page 3. The first was won by the murder of. a point preventing Near Eastern peace is the contest between Turkey ground. Nor can we be certain Sapper Cornell with a core of hawker at u
cloth prisoned for two years with hard place between labour, and Greeco about Smyrna and the Thracian questions. Vale.
how much of the movement of the 86, the second by Lieut. R. the Sheung Chun and Tai Po needle is due to the vibration of Melville Smith (93) while roads on January 9th last at 3 pondulum itself, when
once Sappers, Richards, Brewer, and o'clock in the afternoon. In this sot in motion. It has been Woolley tied for third prize with case, as in any other case of a Tang Chu, a Chinese constable, known for many
years a score of 91 each.
tamilar nature, the evidence was was charged with committing that the duration of. the
MATCH AT TAIKOOʻ
oumstantial. In other words, Perjury on January 22nd in the preliminary tremors on
An enjoyable match took place no wiln: 58 saw the murder Police Court, before Mr. R. E. seismogram is a measure of the on Taikoo range on
it when Sunday,
place. The Lindsell. London, March 21. distance of the origin and the between teame representing Jar jury had to
infer the guilt The prisoner pleaded not guilty, A moving ceremony at-sea a hundred miles from the Sailly exact relationship is still being dine, Matheson and Company and of the prisoners from various Mr. Dyer Ball prosecuted. Isles took place yesterday afternoon, when 14,000 officers and mon investigated.
Two of the wit Talkoo, over the ranges 200, 500 circumstances.
The following jury were em- of the Atlantic. Fleet returning from the spring cruise participated in According to Omori's formula, and 600 yards, under Bisley con- nesses who would give evidence panelled-Messrs. D. M. Goodall a solomon service in momory of the comrades of the K5 (which was the origin of Saturday's earth ditions. Taikoo won by 139 points. Would tell the Court that they (foreman), F. Andrade, D. Austin, wrecked in January). An Admiralty announcement describes how a quake should be about 300 The highest score for Taikoo arrived at the place where the H. Gittens, H. Best, I. E. Elias, force of six battleships, two battle-cruisers, six light cruisers, 17 kilometres from Hongkong. Its was obtained by Mr. Swan, who murder took place, shortly after and Li Po Sang. destroyers and an aircraftcarrier, under the orders of Vice-Admiral bearing cannot be determined recorded 132 points, while for
the murder.. There Was no Mr. Dyer Ball said the case Sir Sidney Fremantle, approached the scene of the disaster in from the records of one Jardine, Matheson and Co. Mr. direct evidence of any witness was started On January an imposing formation. After the Fleet had stopped engines as far pondulum.
Shaw registered the highest total as to who the murderer was. In 19th before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, as typical seagoing westher would admit, the Colours were lowered The Captain of the s.s Nankin
-124 points.
cases where the evidence was the Magistrate, in the Police to half-mast and a memorial service was held aboard the flagship reports that he felt this earth-
circumstantial the jury had Court. The plaintiff, Chan Lum 2 p.m. Barometer:-29.80. Tom- Revenge. The rest of the Fleet held funeral services, at which well-quake when off the Lammocks in
to apply the ordinary rules Po, brought a charge of stealing perature: -79. Humidity -75. known hymns were sang, un aeroplane meantime circling round Latitudo 23 deg. 916 N. and
of inference in every day life. If a roll of silk against a man the Fleet, despite difficult flying conditions. A party of a hundred Longitude 117 deg. 13' E. at 4.20
there was any doubt as to the guilt called Tai. The man who brought seamen on the Revenge fired the three customary volleys, the Laat p.m. The ship was shaken rather
of the prisoners, the jury were the charge was Post sounded, and "Land of Hope and Glory" was played as the badly for five seconds.
bound to give them the benefit of the Lai Wa Company, and officers and men loft the quarter-deck,
the doubt. The second point that the The ceremony torminated
man who way charged ! p.m. with the hoisting of the Colours, the Fleet resumed its cruising dispositions and proceeded up Channel homewards.
'HONOURING THE CREW OF WRECKED SUBMARINE.
Atlantic Fleet at an Impressive Ceremony.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Some Important Decisions.
Barcelona, March 20.
B
Another vessel in Latitude 23 deg. 31 N., and Longitude 117 deg. 30 E., felt a shock at 4,21 p.m.
and also at 7.5 p.m.
COMPANY REPORT.
Hongkong Fire Insurance
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ST. MARY'S SCHOOL.
Shorthand Results. The shorthand results for St. Mary's School, Kowloon, have the students who presented them- just arrived from England, All
selves for the oxamination were successful. The results are es follows:
Eighty words per minute cer- tificate. Mr. Stanley H. Garrod and Miss Lily M. Collison.
Sixty words por minute corti- The Communications Conference has adopted Article VII of the
The report of the above Cam-ficate. Mrs. Irene Maxwell, Miss Draft Convention dealing with restrictions on liberty in transit and pany, for presentation to the Angela Remedios. Misa Amy providing for the maintenance of the principle of freedom in transit shareholders at the fifty-second Garth, Miss Leonar Gomes, Miss Guilhermina d' Assumpoo and without affecting measures of national security which each State ordinary meeting, to be held at may need to take in amergencies.
the offices of the General Mise Tracy Brown. Managers on Wednesday, 30th March, states:-
Working Account 1919. This Arcount shows a surplus of
Article X abrogating all previous international agreements incompatible with the proposed Convention, was referred to a b commission. Some countries favoured the preservation of existing Treaties alongside the Convention.
Article VIII, providing for the maintenance of the utmost freedom of transit in wartime compatible with the rights and duties of belligerents and neutrals, was also referred to a Committee.
GERMAN DISARMAMENT.
Berlin, March 20. The Reichstag has passed a Disarmament Bill providing that if the statutes or the conduct of an Association indicate that its will be dissolved by the Government or Federal State concerned, purpose conflicts with Articles 177 and 178 of the Peace Treaty it failing which the Imporiul Government is empowered to act.
FRENCH MILITARY SERVICE.
Paris, March 18.
The Army Committee has adopted the eighteen months' military service system, to apply after the period on which the 1992 are called up.-Vale.
LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Oorrespondent.) SHANGHAI FAMINE RELIEF DRIVE.
Shanghel, March 20.
Theory Certificate.----- Miss Idalina dos. Remedios, Мінь Paulina Lopes, Miss Lina M. Carvalbo, Miss Sabina Souza, Mias Enid M. Cornell, Miss Maud Mareli, Miss Nora Leonard and Miss Audrey Dobinson.
Mr. T. F. O'Sullivan was the instructor.
BANVARD COMPANY.
of
$332,092.06.
Reinsurance Fund-It is pro- posed to appropriate £16,000, at exchange 3/12-$102,400.00, out of profits of the year 1919 to the credit of this Fund. The Fund will then stand at £138,268.3.10.
Invertment and Exchange Account. Depreciation in the market prices of gold securities The Theatre Royal was crowd-
standing at credit of this Account Comedy Company gave a repeat and fluctions in the world's ex-ed to overflowing on Saturday changes have reduced the sum night, when the Banvard Musical to $67,788.72. It is proposed to performance of "Peaches and transfer $13.692.06 from the Cream," described as "a musical profits of the year 1919 to the something-to-laught-at.". It was credit of this Account, which a very bright revue, full will then stand at-$81,480.78. sparkling numbers, and encores gers and Consulting Committee were in top form whilst the chorus Dividend.The General Mana. wore frequent. All the artistes have pleasure in recommending kept things going with their dividend of $27 per share, singing and dancing & special absorbing $216,000.
word should be said of the Jazz! Working Account 1920.-The Orchestra, in which connection balance at credit of this Account tribute is due to the conductor, is $536,724.87.
Mr. Judge Robinson, før kis very Consulting Committee. Messrs.ympathetic accompanying. G. W. Barton and C. 8. Gubbay
The Company will be here for resigned their seats on account two nights tore. The attrsion of their departure from the Colony for to-night is "Plume for Plok- and Meadra. H. P. White and H.ing," which is one of the Com- W. Sasson were invited to fill the pany's very best pinosa, har [vacancies. The Hon. Sir Paul
Four thousand students "tagged" citizens throughout the city Chater, C.MG.. Bir Robert Ho AuditorThe sccounts have! os Baturdain the Famine Relief drive, which is to be extended Tung Messrs Compton, Maft been audited by Masura. El Peroy unfl the 31st instant..
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CONSTABLE CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Consignees of cargo per Egre- mont Castle should consult the notice on Page 5.
The se. Nanking has strived. and the usual consignass notion appears on Page 5.
one performance daily is being It abould be noted that only given by Bostock's Cireus, Kow loon, with the exception of Wed- needay, when a matines is being given.-Page 4.
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To-Day's Exchange.
demand, to-day was 28. 51gd.
The closing rate of the dollar, on
The Weather.
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Lighting-Up Time. manager of
Lighting-up time to-day is 6.35
HIGH
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GOING DOWN-BUT NOT HERE.
to hand indicate that high prices are falling
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