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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY: AUGUST. 9. 1921.
NOTES & COMMENTS,
DAY BY DAY.
SINGAPORE CABLES.
MOTOR CASE.
AMONO POLITICIANS
IS
the
have
been
to
Was
Dr. Pearse: Was forced from my ordinary position on the left to swerve to the middle of the The Cession of Kowloon. COURADE IS THE HIGHEST AND Increased Customs Duties.
Dr Pearse Fined.
road in order to avoid a car which came out from the garage ? The Home journals contain re-PERHAPS THE RAREST QUALITY
At the Magistracy yesterday ferances to the decease of Mr.
Singapore, August, 9.
Sergeant Smith said defendant H. R. Parkas, formerly of Shang: OCRATIC COURTRIES-Fox customs duties
SPICIALLY NEEDED Iv DE The Federated Malay States the Hesaces of motor oyola No was obeying the traffic roulations hai. Mr Parkes was the son of
262 was summoned by Sergeant when he went to the middle of Sir Harry Parkes, who negotiated
Bryce,
increased viz-Tobacco, by 100 Smith before Mr. R. E. Lindsell the road. the cession of Kowloon peninsula
per cent, and Liquors by 50 per for driving his oycle in a reckless The motorman of tram. No. 18 to the British Crown after the A valuable steel measure has cent. Similar increases have been or negligent manner and at a aid Dr. Pearse
going imposad in
speed of Colony
Hangerous war between Britain and Francs, | been stolen from the office
the towards Causeway Bay. He pass- on the one side, and China, on the of Mr. Goldsmith at the P.W.D.
public to Fraya East at 4.10 p.m.ed the motor car of the Union Singapore.
on the 29th, ult
Garageand, witness fearing a other, in 1560. In the early days
Highway Robberies.
Dr. W. W. Pearse, Medical collision, up pulled the tram. of the outbreak Sir Harry (then
Many unemployed coolies from Officer of Health, the licencee: Examined by defendant. The only case of notifiable estates have taken to highway I was very astonished when I motorman said there was enough the Mr. Parkes) bad an escape of disease reported yesterday was robbery in the Province of Wel heard that this charge had been room for defendant to pass be tured, with other Britishers, in the sufferer was a Malay. the thrilling type. He was cap one of paratyphoid fever in which lesley and numerous crimes are brought against me. We have just received a ship the streets of Peking and taken to
Until Itween his tram and the motor. reported.
have heard what evidence is Defendant was running great risks Prince Kung, the Prime Minister.
The Shipping Judgment. being brought against me I can of being in a collision. The cycle who had been left in charge of ment of the above from
A cargo pilferer convicted of the capital, the Coun having re- the theft of 315 dozen bandker Hon. Mr. F. S. James (Colonial know the
In the Legislative Council the pot visulise the event I most was a few inches from the rails on
exact position of which his tram was travelling. treated to the provinces. A few chiefs from the Blue Funnel liner Secretary) in a lengthy apologia affairs first.
At the conclusion of the avid- days later the prisoners were set Ascanius was this morning sun-relating to the shipping judgment, Freres Ltd. of London and
t liberty. Their release was only tenced to four months hard labour declared that he acted with the walking in the middle of the tram he did not wish to impate the Sergeant Smith said that while ence Dr. Pearse said that just in time. No sooner had they by Mr. G. N. Orme.
bighest patriotic motives and hines in Praya East on foot patral good faith of the motorman and been liberated than a courier
under the advice of the Attorney-be heard the sound of a motor the Sergeant, but he believed his arrived with an order for their
General, the late Sir G. A. Good-ear horn. Shortly after,defendant's speed had been accidentally ex- man. He challenged the judge's car, with a side car attached, ggerated and that the motorman interpretation of his action. passed him at a speed, which he was unduly alarmed. He main- estimated at 25 miles an hour. tained that there was ampla At the same time s motor car room for him to pass through. came out from the Union Garage It WAS
habit and tram No. 18 was then pro-to speed as Sergeant' Smith had ceeding westward. The motor said, and his licence could prove car turned eastward. Defendant it. He could not visualise any West shot between the tram and the Sreat speed being made by him. motor car and there would have if he had caused unnecessary been collision had not the alarm to the passengers of the motor-man of the tram applied tram his regret was is great as is his emergency brake.
his astonishment.
Morny Paris.
A S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
Hongkong Dispensary.
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Birth.
Cheongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9. 1921.
WAS
immediate decapitation. This The gold ring reported by Mr. sent at the instigation of Kennett, of the Hongkong and Hsi, afterwards celebra-Shanghai Bank, as missing from Tzu ted as the Dowager Empress, who his residence at No. 115 the Peak, already exorcised a dominant has been recovered, it was stated influence in the counsels of Chins, this morning by the Police. Sir Harry Parkes, after serving as Minister to China, occupied a similar post at Tokyo.
Herr Harden's Candour.
*
Money, jewellery and clothing
NEW BUILDING SCHEME.
Mappa d
of the total value of $82.50 were Fifty-Six Houses at stolen from a cargo juok anchor-
Point.
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A Chinese syndicate,
have been
of
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his
Mr. Lindsell: You have no other evidence ?.
Dr. Pearse said he had no ather evidence. His side car
was empty. He was on his way... home from his garage near the Central Market to
take two children to a bathing picnic.
Mr. Lindsell said it was clear i that defendant was going at a speed exceeding the speed limit (15 miles) and he fined him $10.
ARTIST'S ESTATE. Mr. Wm. Strang, R.A, the late president of the International So- Gravers, left £5,219.
ing for two years past that weambulator, and was this morning clear view of the sea over the Pearse's speed. In fact he had ciety of Sculptors. Painters, and
Between
Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
ed in the Yaumati shelter, it was reported yesterday by the which Mr. Li Sing-kui That trenchant Berlin publicist mistress of the boat to the Police. the bead. is building, Maximilian Harden, who in pre-
at West Point. four
Dr. Pearse: Have you often blocks of war days had more than one tussle
seen me riding my cycle with the with the Ju kers, has delivered
The theft of a sum of 850 from six houses, or, if split up into
dwellings, containing in all fifty-side car? himself in the following candida cupboard is reported by Mr. floors, 168 flats.
Sergeant Smith: Yes. The plans, terms to a representative of the Niebols of No, the Peak to the which
Did you indentify me or the Paris journal, Excelsior: "Gør-} Police. A housebor, who is ed by Messrs.
prepar cycle?-Both you and the cycle. Raven ала many is persuaded that she was suspected of having opened the Raven, have been passed, and the I was surprised to see you going not the author of the war: that cupboard with a duplicate key work of levelling the site should at that speed because you have DAY-On August 9th. to Mr. and Mrs. I. Day, of the University she was not defeated, but stabbed and stolen the money, is missing. be commenced in about a month. always travelled at a slow speed. of Hongkong, a daughter.
in the back by a conspiracy of
The houses will be erected on a How did you calculate my Bolsheviks, Socialists, and Jews; and that she was taken in by who arrived in the Colony by the treat and Pokfulam Road. They
Ageturned Chinese emigrant site on the billside between Sandspeed-1 have been riding motor
cycles myself. Wilson's 'Fourteen Points' and T... Taiso Maru was arrested will be in four rows, one behind Sergean: Smith said that it was In reply to further questions, disarmed after being made to sub-
on the Shekki ferry in con- the other, and the bill is sufficient- mit to terrible conditions. I have sequence of the discovery of a steep here to allow those re-
impossible for bim to have been alone or nearly alone in say revolver concealed in
accidentally exaggerated Dr. per-siding in the houses at the back a must look at things from quite a fined $50 by Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
of the houses in front
under-estimated it. tcps different point of view, and that
of them. Retaining walls what France asks for is not
bare to be built before it treasures she can gloat over, but A dispute over mensy matters will be possible to begin erecting only a part of what we have led to the stabbing of a teahouse the houses and the preparation of caused her to lose. The German coolie at Winglok Street rester- the site alone will cost something Governments up to the present day. The victim sustained two in the neighbourhood of $100,000. have committed every possible] wounds, one in the left arm and Each of the fifty-six houses mistake. Hitherto the German the other in the right side. The will contain three storeys and Governments
been assailant fled and his victim has each floor will consist of four night. I'm not going to meation ing lull tendered his notice and have not straightforward, and if they have since been taken to the Govar-rooms.kitchen. servants' quarters, ony names, mind ye; now accorded you something, you ment Civil Hospital.
front bathroora, etc. In. owe it only to the fact that you
of wouldna be guilty of that for the
1 demanded his money on the spot. each will be a small garden world. Admittedly. this is the wrong time to begin discussie Reichstag and the Press are res
hava force behind you.
Did ye ever notice that back. I pointed out how wrong. That's where Igot a bite`my own The
storess the night ye shot up your desk it was to lose one's temper before upper Ireland. A truce between the forces of the Crown and ponsible for the frightful state of by a tramcar,
Injured in ao accident caused
will have verandahs.
The cost bright and early and are bome in the servants and how in ony case Chinese w35 Sinn Fein is being observed, for the purpose of giving mind in which you see
blocks is time for tea, that that's the very fat folk should never-"Fat? My better chance of success to the negotiations in progress country. Both have misguided men bruises to his head and which, with the $100,000 for the year-no' I'm not going to men- was, early torre red. And it
my yesterday taken to the Govern-
$150,000, night the house is empty and God!The typhoon recurred. for electing a permanent settlement of this old, old this poor nation to such an extent from bruises to his head and left preparation of the site, makestion names-well, oayway the before the last signal was lower- problem. While that truce is operating and while those that ther bave DOW not thigh.
It has not yet been $550,000, or a little under $10,000 house is empty and the wife's no d negotiations are in progress the less said about Ireland, merely the impression, but the ascertained by the Police whether
a house,
down at the ferry waiting on ye superstition that
the accident, which took place at everything from a controversial point of view, the better. We do not
It is expected that there will be either. aye, it's a funny custore life are comedies at least viewed Shaukiwan West, was caused by no difficulty in disposing of the in this Colony, this going out to from the standpoint of the be- Some of the real tragedies of you demand is terribly ロー propose to violate that argument, but the cable which came just." Germans, of to hand yesterday speaking of a critical position having will deny that herr Harden is the tramcar or whether it was and enquiries have been made by other folks bocses till their cook al tragedy the more comic it course, the man being knocked down by houses when they are completed afternoon tea and staring in holders. The greater the person- arisen owing to the Government's decision not to release entitled to speak for Germany, due to an attempt to alight from several people already. They will boy shoves his head in the draw- seems to those who are not direct-
probably be taken up by Chinese.ing room and announces in s
clear. loud voice Dinner have ly concerned. (Isn't that a good got, Missie."
Then there's a between the Psalms and Macau. style I am adopting? something much general scramble, I suppose, lay. You will all feel an immense
looking sized wrist-watches and general uplift by the time you bare amazement at how the time finished this screed.) passes so quickly. I know these
Such things as twins, sea-sick- gim-crack watches of old-never by
ness, old maids, being chased a boll, etc. are all very
THE IRISH DIFFICULTY.
the vehicle whilst it was in motion.
and the two
of erecting the four estimated at about
robbery with violence in the Kowloon City was the scene of
CLAIM AGAINST THE small hours of yesterday morning. U.S. SHIPPING BOARD. when five men. carrying torches, women. A thorough overhaul was of entered a house occupied by two
made of the property. Articles
wwww
Interesting Action Settled.
Aye, we had a bit of a tiff last brain and during a breath-regain-
10
at Badez-
of the total value of $156 were We understand that the action out of the jewellers and all the funny when they're no happen- secured by the robbers before recently brought in the Courts in rest of it-they're are stopping, ing to you, but, of course, they loss they made their escape. Salsa-Hongkong by Dunbar Brothers that's true, but by the Hokes Fly the full favour of their humour
gatherings. Last month A. Hill, Nab Wilson.
of lumber.
The
5.J.
them
To
et the door with a
I believe I
laughter for five minutes. But to
the Sinn Feiner. McKeown, leads one to express the bope ing
All the same bis remarks concern-
the that such will not be the end of the present negotiations. coincide pretty well with the peace negotiations There has been far too much done and hopes have been views of many Allied observers raised too high.
of high standing. Happily, there In granting freedom to all the members of the Sinn resigns that the new Chancellor Fein Parliament the Government has undoubtedly acted Versailles is no: to be trifled
realises that the Treaty wisely, because the majority of them were incarcerated for with. offences purely political in character. Whether it should extend the pardon to a man who is supposed to be guilty of murder is another matter, but inasmuch as the "murder An Epic Struggle. must have been political also there is more than a you to be acting the justification for the demands of Dail Eireann. The journals of the annuel A. A. 4 alarm raised, the Police under-United States Shipping Board outside and the cook boy starts leading part. I was once chased possibility of Sinn Feit terminating the truce should be the pionships demonstrate that four sprecis sons and shrested Emergency Fleet Corporation for to beat up the eggs in the pantry, by 58, 611
the Mile race produced an epic four suspects who were charged damage by sweat to flour con-its a poor kind o'intelligence that sufficient to persuade the Home Government to reverse its struggle. This was the nineteenth before the Court this morning. A signed to the plaintiffs and which has to depend on a comsha gold-ep the whole party in shrieks of decision, and it is more than a little unfortunate that meeting since the distance was remand was ordered by the Mag- bad been carried by the United plated watch to tell them theme that five minutes was like at Mr. Lloyd George is away at Paris at the moment covered in 4 m 1645 sec, theistrate in response to an applica-States Shipping Board vessel 3.8., time. How some of yon women- eternity.' I felt like all the early attending to other important business. His Majesty
best in the series of ebampionship tion made by Sub-Inspector Me Montague from Oregon to folks have the nerve to come Christians in the world rolled the King, to whom credit has already been given well-known London
Hongkong has been settled by home in the dark from some into one, and the boll seemed to for the great part he has played in the matter of Irish who has represented Britain in runner.
payment in fall.
yon tea and bridge seances beats be the biggest and wildest ball the peace, will possibly exercise his prerogative to prevent the the Olympic Games, brought the and
Since the capture of Wuchow the damage was caused by the I'm mentioning no names.
The plaintiffs maintained that me. Of course, as I said before
wids-world ower. breaking off of relations that have so much yield. One time down to 4 m. 1345 sec. considerable copper coins have, to the hold where the flour was it last night for all that,
other cities in Kwangsi, blocking up of ventilators leading
But I was nice enough about fat. Like the poor, it is always You can never get away from could not help feeling, when reading the recent debate in while H.B. Stallard, of Cambridge says the Canton Times, been sent stowed in order to allow a deck begin wi. I the House of Lords, that the last ditchers will be Varsities team that has lately which greatly decreases
University, & member of the to these places for circulation
with you. Waking or sleeping, it nean I met hard to placate if Britain relinquishes too wide a measure been competing in America, was supply of these coins in Canton kong on Thursday last and the a look of blank astonishment, as of life. Imagine a fat Melisande
haunts you. the Cargo of self-control to Ireland, though Lord Birkenhead was only a fraction behind.
Montague returned to Hong smile only to be met wi' Fat kills all the romantic side none too veiled in his reply to the debate. He clearly two rannars beat the 19-year-old of these
Thus Consequently, the market value avidence of the officers on board the lawyers say; on the other part, who, when adjured to "Look indicated that if Parliament refused to accept the settle-A A. A record on the same Previously,
risen. was to be taken before the Puisue "What was wrong wi' me the deep, look deep in the water, afternoon. An excited spectator silver ment that might be agreed to by Sian Fein, then the of the event was the holder of exchange about 24 or 25 of Court at the subsequent trial of was wrong odyway? Wasn't I Nobody ever really minds being Coin could .bave Judge on Friday in order that night?" says she (still no men- Melisande." couldas bend suffi- Government would possibly seek other powers. That is a that record, and another was these coins. At present only 23 the action. Just before the hear aye home for my dinner? Did too this. When you hear some ic might be before the tioning no names)."Well what ciently low to see her reflection. rather roundabout way of saying that the Government W. G. George, for many years copper coins are exchanged for ing, however, the Admiral Line, she realise what time it was?" one say "How I wish I could put would appeal to the country. If it did we fancy that the holder of the world's record of 4 one twenty cent piece.
country is so anxious to have the differences settled and 12 storecord lied to maintain the value of thess United States Shipping Board, 1 was either in the moon or in thing to have your figure," you In order who are the Local Agents for the sil of which was met wi'z sniff, ou a little weight, I'd give ony- the bloodshed stopped that it would endorse any agreement soon after George had turned authorities have instructed the citors to the plaintiffs solicitors the back of four or dinner had to cheek. It is merely a cheap form easily stood since the eighties, coins at their normal price, the communicated through their soli- the midden: I was either home at ca put your tongue in your with a very hearty readiness."
professional, until in 1915 it was Government Mint to put out more We shall all be anxious to know the sequel of the beaten by an American, N. S. of these copper coins for circula and agreed to pay the full amount be waited till I crawled in at half of self-flattery. present rift in the proceedings. There have been in-Tabor, by the hairabreadth dications before this that all was not well between the pro-second and a fifth of a second, the
past eight full of cocktails and The only thing to be said for tion both in this province and in difference between a quarter of a
second-band jokes. "Crawled ? fat is that, if you are shipwrecked, posals of the Government and the views of De Valera. but new record being 4 m. 12 3/5 sec.
Kwangsi..
That tore it. "Crawled." It you fost easily, and so there's a the hopeful sign all through has been the expressed willing. (for some
TYPHOON WARNING.
was just at this point that our chance o' ye being saved. resson professional ness to continue the truce. That at least indicates that times are taken in quarters and
opium crazed chef woke up and trembled so that he slapped some much better, thanks. There's Having said that much I feel the position was not one of impossible differences; if it had amateur times in fifths). This
The telegram quoted below was soup on the table cloth. What more ways of getting your own been, the truce would have been called off long ago. All that George's time was really rat inspectors, one at 7 guideas sulate General, Hongkong, from known in Naval Strategy as caus- standing on a cat's fail to kill it means that it is quite possible. It was proposed to appoint two received by the American Con happened afterwards, I believe, is back than one. It takes a lot of that we can do out here is to hope that the statesmen in faster than Tabor's, because while per week and the other at six, the Manila Observatory at 4.45 ing & diversion. It was a most batman, there's a wonderful lot of whose hands this problem has been left will be guided by alanything over half a second af & meeting of the Court of p.m. yesterday:-
successful diversion. Our cook satisfaction to be derived there breadth of vision and the spirit of compromise.
would be registered as three- Common Council, London, Un Since the above was written a late telegram is than quarters the time may actually less they were Pied Pipers, how-Ocean. about halfway between remains of some original dignity tioning any names fo this busi Cyclone or typhooo, Pacific at the end of ten minutes was so from. Of course, I would have ye diverted that he discovered the understand that I'm no' for men- saying that McKeown is to be released at once-Ed AT
bave been less than three-ever, the proposer did not think the Yarisua Islands and Luson, tucked away in his opiate-dulled ness,
the appointments of mach use. Imoving W. or W.N.W,
#1
fifths.
coins has
twenty
cent
WANTED, TWO PIED PIPERS.
in
of the claim.