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NOTES & COMMENTS.
Germany's "Maximum.”
THURSDAY. APRIL 23, 1921.
DAY BY DAY.
THE FORGERY CASE.
STABBING AFFRAY.
Sequel to Card Party.
Defendant Discharged.
and was
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.
Interesting Figures for 1920.
1920
WAS
THE FOOLISH AND THE DEAD Berlin's Note to the United ALONE NEVER CHANGE THEIR
In the Supreme Court this) The stabbing affray occurring States outlining new proposals, OPINION:—Lowell,
morning his Lordship, Mr. Justice recently in Third Strest, in con-
The annual report of the Sup- -... with the statement that "these
The French cruiser Montcalm H. H. J. Gompertz, the Acting sequence of a gambling dispute, erintendent of Imports and Ex- are the maximum Germany can offer," suggests that the measures came into harbour this afternoon Chief Justice, addressed the jury had its sequel at the Police ports (Mr. N. L. Smith) was laid taken by the Allies have brought and exchanged salutes with this in the cass in which Sham Li Court this morning, when the on the table of the Legislative Sang, of the Kowloon stores, was complainant, who had recovered Council this afternoon and in it the ex-enemy country to some port.
charged with uttering a forged from the numerous wounda he is stated that the net revenue sense of her responsibilities. It
sustained in the attack, gave collected from Duties and was impossible to establish any There were four cases of small receipt for $5,000,
Mr. F. C. Jenkin with Mr. evidence against ons
of his Licensed Warehouses during 1920 parity between the offers tendered pox notified yesterday, two of the
was $779,795 as compared with by Dr. Simons in London last sufferers being Indians and two Crew defended and Mr. Dyor assailants. month and the Allies' claim of Chinese. Two Chinese died from Ball with Mr. Blake prosecuted On the 19th instant, it was $739,786 for 1919. An analysia 11,500 millions sterling. This the disease.
on behalf of the Crown.
adduced in evidence given by the shows that duties on European timo Germany offers to accept
His Lordship reminded that complainant, four men met in No. liquore produced $241,544, Chinese Hiability up
$530,928, Warehouse to two hundred Two men waylaid and attacked jury that the evidence had lasted 270 Third Street for a card-party, liquors
and Warehouse milliard gold marks (say 10,000 a Chinese at the No. 4 Railway for three days
and complainant, who had been Fees $6,729 millions sterling). At least such Bridge at Kowloon yesterday, somewhat complicated. In start losing on previous occasions, Overtime Fees $593. is tho impression that a first read. They relieved him of a sum of $3
ing this
case there was one added to the amount of his debts The revenue from the Opium jing gives.
big fact. There was no necessity in the course of the game. There Monopoly during The proposal is und made their escape. qualified by the words adapted
to consider the law. If they were demande made on him for $4,317,970 compared with to hor capacity for production " Our military readers will be thought that the prisoner filled an immediate payment of these $6,803,034 for 1919. The figure up to the sum named, the capacity pleased
exactly learn that their up personally a blank form with debts, and in exasperation be for 1918 was almos to be determined by an Inter-popular Church of England chap-the word "Receipt" they must complied, but was so uncourteous double that for 1920. The price of national Commission of Experts. Jain, the Pev. M. W. Showell, then find him guilty on all three s
money $14.50 per tael was maintained This may mean that Germany is M. A.. has been promoted Chap-counts. If on the other hand, on
of throughout the year. prepared annually to pay a sum lain to the Forces Fourth Class, they were not satisfied and the handing it in the ordinary way The number of seizures of to be settled from time to time with effect from the 1st of January Crown had not brought home the to the others. Over this incident, illicit opium showe a slight by the Commission until the last.
charge to the prisoner they must plimentary remarks made. In that of convictions obtained. The uncom increase over 1919, as does also total reaches £10,000,000,000; or
acquit him. If they thought that she will make such payments -
The service at which Mr. J. M. there was reasonable doubt they the result, the two other men total amount of prepared opium for a fixed number of years, lickson was going to give a short must acquit the prisoner. The and the defendant retired to a seized was nearly three times as provided that they do not exceed address in St. John's Cathedral burden of proof was
the back cubicle, leaving the com- great as in 1919.
plainant to enjoy a solitary smoke the total named, and presumably to-morrow afternoon has bad to Crown,
with his long pipe in the sitting the Tobacco Ordinance
The net revenue collected under The burden of proof was also roon. Meanwhile a secet confer.
$631,877.66 a compared with reached or not. The alternative son not being able to arrive bore on Mr. Voh Gounep. After the ence took place in the back room. $618,905.55 for 1919, an increase
money was paid and the writ its purport being made clear a issued, the prisoner went to his minute later when the three inen of $12,972.11. Tobacco duties solicitors and instructed them silently crept back to, the sitting remained the same.
to
AS. WATSON & CO., LTD., signifying that her liability is then be postponed until Monday after-
HONGKONG.
Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.
Western Union, Office address: 11, Ice House Street.
Telephono: No. 1. A.B.C., 5th edition,
Marriage.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921.
THE DEPRESSION PERIOD.
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whather the has been noon owing to Mr. Hick-
awaited with unusual interests.
Of the
and the money never
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to throw the the floor instead
there were a few
com-
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Trade Statistics where no Cus- toms House machinery is in existence. The figures show on the whole a slight increase over was 1919. The working of the Ordin- ance in question-in its origin purely a war measure-has been modified so as to cause the least possible inconvenience and delay to shippers and importers.
The prisoner was discharged,
wero
of gold and £12,870,841 of silvor. The net revenue collected by
in the proposals of a capitalised from Canton in time.-Adet, sum of fifty milliard gold marke (say 2,500 millions sterling) ratlier A successful whist drive was .to BUB the Holland Pacific room, and, before the complainant
The number of permits, etc., suggests that Berlin has a fixed held last evening in the Garrien Trading Company for the $5,000 could realise his danger, his arme issued during the year under the period in view if the long-term Sergeants' Mese. The fortunate paid. If the prisoner had gone were pinned to his sides, provisions of the Importation and method is adopted this being taken playors were as follows: Ladies. as an approxions basis for calcu-1gt, Mrs, Miles (175); 2nd, Mrs. on with that civil sint the burden whilst a dagger hold in the Exportation Ordinance of 1915
of proof was on him to prove hand lating the present valve. But how Wilson (173); 3rd, Miss Conroy that he gave $5,000. The minute used on him.
of the defendant, was was 422,829 and give some indica. The assailants tion of the amount of labour in- could Germany raise this amount (170); highost score in any one Mr. Van Gennep heard of this then bolted, with tho
volved in the collection of accurate at present? By an international half, Mrs. Hill (93). Gents. 1st case he went over and asked to plainant at their heels, but from loan, the Note opines. Is it a 3gt. Millor. R..A. (179); 2nd, see the paper. If the money was loss of blood, be fainted away at question whether the lenders R.Q.M.S, Miller, Wilte R. (177): would care for the investment. 3rd, S. Sgt. Smith, R.E., (174); not paid then the receipt was not a critical moment in the chase. NEWCOMB-CRAIG.-On the 27th, of April, al St. John's Germany also puts into official highest score in any one half, genuine. The prosecution said The Police subsequently arrested Cathedral, by the Revd. J. T. Holman, M. A., Dudley De Burgh, form her suggestion for settling Sgt. Ravenscroft, 1.M.L. I.. (99). that the receipt was never given the defendant, and st
paid. identified as this ringleader of the younger son of the lala Revd. H. Newcomb, to Dorothy Grace part of the reparations claim by S.Q.M.S. Pryer capabily fulfilled Shortly, the case for the prosecu-attack,
tion was that this $5,000 could Hamilton, only child of the late Cyril Hamilton Craig, of Edinburgh. taking over the Allied debis to the duties of M.C.
the United States. This proposal,
Sentence of six months hard probably acceptable to the Allies
Alleged to have boor concerned not have been paid because it if there are no prejudicial condi- with his behave in a crop of cannot be traced in any accounts labour and four hours' stocks was kept by the complainant. He inflicted by Mr. Ormo at the
The total trade (excluding tions, is open to a similar question, larceny by bailec, occurring on had rendered an account and conclusion of the ovidenco.
Treasure) for 1920 amounted to which the Washington the 22nd January last, when, as produced his bank books, and the
£212,302,539 - as compared with Administration will supply the fokis of a goldsmith's shop at jury must remember that this
£194,594,642 for 1919. Of this answer after consulting with the 284, Queen's Road Central, they case did not arise until quite story was accurate, the complain- Imports were valued at £103,932,- associated Powers. Any how, if absconded with jewellery of the recently, whereas the money was Germany is sincere in her now value of $267, entrusted by a paid over on September 21st. ant had committed perjury, and 60 (as against £90,651,708 for offer, the solution of huge custaimor to their caro for con. Therefore. if Mr. Van Gennep The jury should consider all that: (as against £103,942,934 for 1919), that should make him nervous, 1919), and Exports at £108,369,937 problem is brought nearer. A version into other kinds of was an honest business man the message to hand this morning jewellery, a Chinose, who was or jury would expect him to pay it It was put to the complainant The Imports of Treasure for the intimates that the new offer is rested on Monday, was brought in some account. If he were a that it was unbusinesslike to give year totalled £31,754,334, includ- unsatisfactory to France, and up before the Magistrate this dishonest man he would keep it prisoner blank forms signed, and ing £18,994,688 of gold and £12,- further developments, will be morning and charged. A remand and not pay it in. If he also if the prisoner were dishonest 658,538 of silver. The Exports of he must be could have obtained money £45,292,645 including £31,956,844
Treasure for the year was given in consequence of an 19 dishonest ΠΟΥ application from Mr. Farebrother
have been dishonest before. without forging the receipt, by When Reuter told us the other day. that "ships were The Retiring Speaker.
Mason, who appeared for the If the complainant did not pay selling goods to some one ja he sacrificed being given away with a pound of fea
A fine specimen of the polished prosecution. But indications are not country gentleman in the person
in the money after he received Macao who did not exist, and
the Department during the year accuracy for an apt metaphor.
it, he must be disbonest. That he could have done this with a wanting to prove that the depression which the shipping of the Right Hon. James W.
many fine pictures was as far as the bank books greater sense of safety. If the was $5,729,644.41 a decrease of concerned. The second jury were not satisfied. on the $2,434,656.33 as compared with and shipbuilding industries are now suffering is one of the Lowther bas just relinquished shown at the Coronet the Money were
duty to
1919. The decrease in opium most serious that has ever had to be faced Shippers in the Speakership of the House of Changers." screened for the first point was that when the com- evidence, they had a
zales specified above accounts for after holding that time yesterday, easily proves its plainant received the claim for discharge prisoner.
all of this reduction. Hongkong know well enough the scarcity of freight there Commons
distinguished office since 1905, claim to being one of the best. $5,000 he was not in financial After an absence of about is offering and the latest report down from Shanghai tells previously to which, as Chairman The story contres round the straits. He admitted that he twenty minutes the jury brought Department for the year was The actual expenditure of the us that a number of steamers have already been taken off of the Committee of Ways and efforts of a newspaper reporter to hed overdrafts but his in a verdict of "Not Guilty" by $502,114.66 as against $809,627.24 the Pacific run and that others will shortly have to drop Means, he had been Deputy break through a gang of drug bank
accounts were fully 6 to 7. years. The smugglers and white
for 1919 showing a decrease of slave covered by gold security. The out. Reports from the Home go to show that steamers are Speaker for ten
retiring Speaker's capacity has traffickers, whose tentacles jury must take it on the evidence
$307,512.58, working at a loss and that thousands of tons of shipping been well tested. for with the stretch from the highest pinnacle that at the time when the cam- Parliament Act (by which the in society to the most obscure plainant said he did not receive are lying idle.
It is just as well to remember that the shipping powers of the Upper Chamber corner of the criminal under-the money and would prosecute industry is scarcely to blame for this state of affairs. At were greatly reduced), the Trish world. As with the case of a play the prisoner he was not driven the conclusion of the war every shipyard was inundated question, fiscal reform, and huge of this theme, wide possibilities to it by pecuniary circum
industrial disputes, as well as were provided for many tense stances. with orders and there was a trade boom which justified the the war period, feeling often ran passages, of which the many ac-another close concentration on shipping output that marked the high during his tenure of office.complished artistes of the cast on the рарег. The com-
sympathies availed themselves in
had some plainant
Janet thinks the pictures are of a blue and white apron to early days of peace. There was not enough shipping and Combining broad the cry was for more and more. And then, unexpected the esteem of all shades of opinion. Changers "is assured of a success-Ramsay and that he never order. were more in kooping wi' the butching trade, and the full with unobtrusive diguity, he won splendid acting. "The Money got his typewriter supplies from an improvement if only they definitely identify them wi' the came the slump of last autumn. Trade depression was A few years ago a presentation fut run during the course of the ed purple ribbons, although this reading matter. That's a woman's length portrait of a Bishop wi soon common to the whole world and the present position was made to Mr. Lowther at next few days.
paper was typed a purple. He way of looking at the thing ony- his apron on, as often as no was made inevitable. One of the leading shippers at Home the House, the late Nationalist
also said that he never had any way. Of course, she's no' expected makes him look as like a Hiclan- has put the present state of affairs very truly when he said leader, Mr. Redmond, and the
THIEVING COOLIES. paper of that shape and size; to know that sometimes the read- man in mourning as makes no at his company's meeting the other day--It is no use Labour spokesman vieing with
besides there were several mising matter's only an excuse for odds. In the the representatives of the old
takes in printing. Then the picture. So long as they hang papers, just on the eve of a big pretending that, at the moment, there is not more tonnage parties in their tributes to bis Excitement on Board available than the world needs.
regards the gum, the gum made it together somehow, I don't see trial, it's a thousand to one Were it otherwise, the ability and impartiality. Mr.
Shinyo Maru. freight market would not be as it is. But the conclusion I Lowther, who is only now in his
appear as though the paper had any reason for folks to start get: chance that ye'd pick out the ting excited and begin running judge for the prisoner if ye Four coolies were churged this come out of the pad. draw is that the shipping industry has not by its own action sixty-sixth
round to the office to demand hadua' time to see the descrip- morning at the Marine Courti
The complainant explained that their 10 cents back.
tion underneath. brought the evil day upon itself. It is world trade which believe in the oceaning before Lt. Conway Hake, R.N.R., the signature was put on the
Even when the reading's in Then again lots of our book. has fallen below the normal, and shipping for the time being in the same
ahnormal
Marine Magistrate, with being paper after a discussion about order ye canna' always trust to illustrations look as if the pub- has a surplus, not because it has positively overconstructed, is he has presided over the Common board the Shingo Maru yester Macao business. He was in a the picture itself. It has been lishers had bought a job lot of but, because it is relatively in excess through the stagnation mons for a much longer period day without permission. hurry and being in a burry he known for lettering to get mixed sketches, mixed them up wi' the Sub. Inspector Spear said that gave the prisoner # certain up before now, wi' the result manuscript and told the printor of other industries. In the meantime, shipbuilding has been than any other holder during the
woman wi' a full set to carry on. It's a blessing that ble for some time. I may be wrong, but the comfort I find vote of thanks which the Co-police whistles were beard and billed in and some only signed. of store teeth holding up to most of them are in black and pulled up with a jerk, the increase, if any, will be negligi- latter history of Parliament. The on passing the Shingo Maru number of blank frome, some that
the four defendants were seen Mr. Bainbrigge stated that he public view a coupla mangy- white onyway and that as a gen from the present position, as a shipowner, is that for a to their retiring head was accom-running down the gangway. A happened to go into the office and looking pups has been recorded eral rule authors are no strong rational prosperity in our business we have only to wait panied by a request that his passenger on board had complain-saw the complainant signing as being some actress wi' her on monstrosities by way of heroes for a return to normal in other trades and that we are not Majesty would bestow a signaled that he had lost $175. The blank forms and shortly after the darling babies. When it comes and heroines. That being so most lying derelict waiting for an unnatural boom. As soon mark of favour upon Mr. Lowther. defe was found in their toes and complainant came out with a to a Court case that in itself is of the pictures fit in somehow.
$175 was found in their possession. number of forms in his hands.bad enough, though cora Presumably this connotes
in It would be a bit awkward though as world conditions become more stable, shipping, will need peerage, which would take the They had no permission to be on There was one point which was Egypt for the lawyers, but let me if we were to get the bairy blond no nursing and will be able to take care of itself."
ex-Speaker to the same Chamber
made very strongly against the tell ye it's an over-ripe banana to hero chasing butterflies on the They were each sentenced to complainant. It was a Labour troubles, the still rising costs of operation and as his kinsman, the Earl of
very salted peanut that the evidence lawn of the old manor when just important point and counsel on will show that she's never been a chapter ago he'd got his loft the insecurity of the international situation (a factor that Lonsdale, though that celebrated two months' hard labour.
either side, in bringing anything married at all. Of course, mind femur splintered in Flanders. Of is hampering trade more than most people are prone to sportsman is a more familiar realise) combine to explain the stagnation in shipping and cure at the National Sporting same time any means of transport forward, made them favourable ye, that doesna' mean to say course I know there are such Club than at Westminster, that shortens the period of com- to their own case Mr. Van that-er, that actresses-don't things as artificial limbs but this industrial circles. The world is neither overstocked with goods, nor with ships; the insecurities and distrusts of the The Trans-Siberian Route. munication with Europe is wel. Gennep pointed out that although like dogs. No, far from it and sort of thing is very apt to stake thoughtful reader mora come, and, taking a wiler view, he was plainly a prosecutor his dirty ones at that if all we read the times account for the sluggish move of things. The coal As one result of the Anglo- will be still more welcome to our accounts were unsatisfactory. He of in the Divorce Courte is thoughtful still. The lassies in Janet's novels all have regular strike at Home, the locking up of financial resources by Russian trade agreement there is friends in those parts of the Far was fairly replied to by Mr. Dyer true.
Then apart from the reading, features and shapely limbs so it's. those who have the control of them, the general spirit of prospect of again receiving East which by geographical situ-Ball that the complainant was
Home mails overland. Here ation stand to henefit more. In not speaking his own native the pictures themselves are often easy money for the artist, provid- unsettlement and all those other factors so well-known of. in the Colony
are the early days, the dislocation of language, and although he might misleading. The picture of aed, of courés, he sticks to the more than explain the depression of the day. The not affected to The same the Russian railway service is not know a language well he might prohibitionist would sometimes fashions and keeps the skirt well. essential is to get back to the days of trust and content extent aa those located in Nor likely to allow of more than a very find some difficulty in expressing lead one to think that be'd kept below the Plimpoll Une
advatitge, but the himself, He was a morchant and up his early acquaintance wit. Taking it all through, we most- enjoyed before the war. And we shall never get far unless thern China, for while the dis-limited we are prepared to give up something. In that there is a tance by sea to here is shorter authorities are stated to be ex- a menber of the Hongkong the bottle right on through ly get the pictures we deserv
than to the ports higher up the erting themselves to restore the General Chainler of Com-life, while those of vegetarians though we may not be so lucky as lesson for all of us.
land journey is longer. At the service as far as possible.
mercu and if the prisoner's at times only need the addition to get those we expect, **
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