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六拜禮 號麽十月弍英港養 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1922 日五十月正
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SOUL OF YOUTH,
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
THE STRIKE SITUATION
THE GEDDES REPORT..
DRASTIC REDUCTIONS RECOMMENDED.
ARMY, NAVY AND EDUCATION AFFECTED.
The Admiralty's Criticism..
(Reuter's Service.)
London, February 10.
Expenses at Wei-Hai-wei.
Truth Stranger Than Fiction.
"The Soul of Youth." Nothing more apt could be found than the title to indicate the essence" of this
picture, for it is
adventure,
י
the
Referring to Wei-bai-wei, the Report says that it is used at present PIANOFORTE RECITAL for the purpose of recreation and minor repairs to ships, al so annual cost of £25,450. An average of £3 was paid in wages for every £'s
a
Where are the Delegates from Canton ?
ware
TO-DAY'S
MISCELLANY.
Prince Yamagata, the Japaness Field-Marabah, whose death' Fas
A REGULAR ARSENAL
Seizure from Two Junks.
As many rifles and revolvers just occurred, was notable not and rounds of ammunition as siz merely because he was Prime men could carry were scired on not Minister more than 30 years ago, two fishing junks yesterday by It but because he was the first the polics of the Monkoktani
CHINESE NEWS.
This Month's List.
The Criminal Sessions for this month commence of the 27th. Ho
AN ELUSIVE SET. Fat will be charged with murder. Charges of obtaining money by:
The strike situation has false pretences will be preferred advanced since yesterday. very Boul of youth Regalost Fateh Mohamad and will be remembered that we foreigner to become a member of Station. counting the adventures of ■ Aboni Santra, there being tan
able yesterday to the British Order of Merit. This The two fishermen ware charged foundling-home boy who proves counts against the former, and quote a statement from Canton honour he received over 15 years befors Mr. J. R. Wood this mone bis mattle when his big chance three against the latter. Basilo that delegates from the Seamen's ago. He was one of three Japanese ing by Inspector Bond, the sub The Geddes Committee recommends the appointment of a
comes, the story offers romance, Ybos will appear in the dock on Union were actually on the way: notabilitise two soldiers and one stance of the two shanto balne Minister of Defence to administer the Navy, Army and Air Forces: charged as the worst in the home, false pretences and forging order hands we hear that they have to the Order. Curiously enough, rifles, three pistols,13,600 rounds of Bat where are they? On all sailor who have been admitted possession of eight revnitare, two and comedy. Discharges of obtaining money by reductions of 35,000 in the personnel of the Navy: £21,000,000 in the the boy makes his way in the city receipts, etc., for money (six arrived, but they are invisible. no other foreign members were ammunition, as well as ten clean- Navy Estimates, exclusive of any saving due to the Washington streets until fate calls him to take counts) Coung Hung, who who has set eyes on them in the until the war, which
We have met no Conference: 50,000 in the personnel of the Army: £20,000,000 in the an important part in affairs of three aliases, has been committed
one appointed for many years noting rods and eight; spare Array Estimates; £5,000,000 in the expenditure on the air force and moment The cast includes not for alleged disobedience of an £16,000,000 less on education.
Beab
The Hon Mr. E R. Marahal Foch and Marshal Joffre (appeared in the interests of the led to magazines. Mr. F. G. Vaux, who The Geddes Report further recommends a reduction of £2,500,- bat also several prominent lead charge will be brought against that he had heard, like other
(only a number of famous juveniles order of banishment and a similar Hallifax stated this
morning being added.
defendants, had the cass remand- 640 in the Ministry of Health and or national health insurance, theins players. As one of the most Wong Wan, also the possessor of people, of appointment of a committee of experts to simplify unemployment compelling scenes was taken from several other names. Ewok Yad but
ed, bail in the sum of $1.500 being their arrival Very handsome is the Himalay-granted to each of the prisoners. insurance and to investigate the possibility of abolishing ecaploy real life, The Soul of Youth" is and Wong Kwong will be chargen prosched.
that they bad not an deer specimens of which are A call on Mr.reported to have fallen to the ment exchanges and the Ministry of Labour; a reduction of £3,335.- picture that proves once more with armed robbery, Ma Sum-pan M. K. Lo, solicitor, who ought Prince of Wales' gun. It is some- 3 on the Ministry of Pensions: and the abolition of the Ministry the old adage that truth is will appear to answer to a charge base been expected to know of times incorrectly called the Bar of Transport and the Department of Overseas Trade. The Committee stranger than fiction.
ests allcgether a reduction of £75,000,000.
of arson, and Shin-pak has been their whereabouts, found him asinghs, but is really the Hangul, committed for trial on a chargsually in the dark. He, too, and is found both in Kashmir and Bending
letter demanding had not seen them.
had heard of their arrival but be in the Himalayan valleys. Its
However, rast spreading antlers, when Liang Shih-yeo's leave has again A Paking telegram says:-- money by mensres.
Mr. Lo made one observation it is folly grown which may, or may not have they have but five points, are inclination to return, and Yea though expired, but he has not shown any been charged with some signific-most formidable weapons. It is Wai-ching will continue to sot ance. You may have some one of the largest dear, but lacks Premier. news on Moodsy," he said. one fearsome characteristic of Again, how many delegates are the stag-its loud roar. When it The programme of Russian
there? We hear two, we hear utters its challenge to its rivals, Music to be given by Mr. H.K.C.C. Teams To-day. four, we hear eight. Most prob- the impression of the bearer is The first official criticism of the Geddes Report comes from theon Monday afternoon will be:- Harry Ore &t bis recital
ably there are two or four deleg-rather that he is listening to a pig Admiralty, and a couched in strong terms. While admitting the
The following teams will re-ates and a number of supporters. than to some imitator of the king practicability of certain economies which are actually being effect tique Russe), (b) Humosque, times and ground as below:--
1) "Doomka" (Scene Eas ed it accuses the Committee of misconceptions leading to impractic-(c) Chant d'automne
The usual crop of rumours of beasts. present the H.K.C.C. to-day at are abroad of crews arrived. able suggestions. It declares that even viewed in a most liberal Meditation, all by Tschaikovsky, round on pm. F. Pearce bers, just the same. The total in the bells of Southwark Cathedral promised at the Kowloon Theatre.
and (d)
and arriving, and so 1st XI v. Navy (A the Club ships do not leave in great nom- £60 to put their frame in repair, Coronet and two fine pictures are "The Soul of Youth" is the Silenced now for the want ofweek-end film festure at the and most unpractical light not more than £14,000,000 of the suggest- ed £21,000,000 could be saved by the Navy. It suggets that the Robinstein.
2øFalka Robeшience by remaining £7,000,000 is merely a figment of the imagination. After
Cap: Major Eds. Major the barbour to-day was a record were once stopped owing to their See Page 18 detailedly traversing the Committee's figures it stigmatises the Com-and (b) Etude G flat major by
3. (a) Elade F sharp majorWright, Lieut
ad1178 with a tonnage of 283,973. -- mittee's methods as dangerous when adequate naval strength is at
F. Mitch
vibration posting thousands of The Asiatic Petroleum Cay Canton's Food Supplies.
pounds worth of repairs to the publish a notice with reference to ~iake.
Arensky.
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thing, E. G.
fold tower. It is rather strange | Shell Skares.—Page 4. Brey. M. D. C.
Our Canton correspondent states that the most dangerous sound Teanis Tournament entries at that the Government has decided waves are those set up by “sym-the Hongkong Cricket Club close M.C. at Happy to deal with the question of the pathetic vibration, which bas nu on Wednesday-Page 4.
D. McNicoll shortage of rice by establishing a Benson, B. D. C. cereal relief bureau, by investi- sbaken. The most famous in landed at Shanghai. Will con- sympathy for the. structure Cargo per as. Agapenor will be H. Egating the stocks of rice available stance of this occurred in West signes of cargo please note - W. Mackenzie, W. J. and probibiting profiteering, by minster Abbey, when a visiting Page 4 Watson, W. Fraser, despatchi gjunka to Walchow to organist, experimenting, crsabed 5. 6. M. Derkia“.
convey rice to Canton, by import-Joat a chord ibat set the roof tim-abown at Sunday's Matinee at
"Mirsady Smiles" ing stocks from Ewangsi, and by bers quaking. with very costly the World Theatre-Page 12.
will be ordering the magistrates results. Like Sir Arthur Salli various districts to report on the van's chorts, this combination is
There will be a Pronatsra stocks of rice in the respective lost, and the chances of its redis-picture is The Puppet Crown", programme in which the big Incalities and sending supplies to covery are infinitesimal. Canton.
worth of material used, as compared with 30s similarly paid in Monday's Programme. private shipyards. Unless costs can be reduced Admiralty work must be sent elsewhere.
Admiralty's Reply.
Sale of the "Alacrity" Remmended.
London, Ferbuary 10. The Geddes report recommends that the service vessel Alacrity. which has been at the disposal of the Commander-in-Chief of the China Fleet, be sold.
AIR CONFERENCE ADVOCATES IMPERIAL MAIL.
Chinese Speaker's Forecast.
London, February 10. The special Air Conference at the Guildhall concluded with the passing of a resolution calling upon the Government immediately to consider the foundation of an air mail throughout the Empire. All the speakers previously had emphasised the failure of commercial flying, and a number urged the Government to support civil aviation.
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SOUTH
CRICKET.
S. Exell.
FUTE. LOOKING DANGEROUS.
Several Dynamite Explosions.
Johannesburg, February 9.
DD. Bat
In compliance with a telegram
News in To-day's ́ New Advertisements.
as the Hongkong Theatre during the week-end-Page 12.
Next week Powell's will have Stocktaking Sale in their Furniture Department.--Page 7.
Hongkong cargo per e.. Esther
Lord Gorell, Under Secretary to the Air Department, an.A police patrol surprised a band of strikers marching towards a /calculated to be sufficient for one Darnay? According to the novel, Dollar is being left at Shanghai.—
nounced the formation of a Civil Aviation Advisory Board to con pider the practicability of an Imperial air mail service.
from Chan King-ming. 3,000 picats "The Only Way" throws ng of rice are being despatched from light on the vexed question-How An outrage was committed and several were attempted to-day. Kwangsi to Centoo, this being did Sidney Certos drug Charles magazine by the Robinson mine early in the morning. Seven day's supply for 300.000 parsons. Darnay noticed that there w strikers were arrested, two of whom were armed with revolgers. Preventing Supplies Reaching curious vapour in the cell just Page 5. Mr. Chu (the Chinese Charge d'Affaires) contributed to the dis-Several violent dynamite explosions have occurred, three near Klein-
Macao:
before Carton rendered him an- Monday is the last day of cussions in an interesting way. He foreshadowed the extensive fontein railway station.
Our Macao correspondent re-course, suggests that chloroform
conscious. This, as a matter of Whitesway's sale. Page 3. development of air mails in China, as circumventing the lack of
Consignees of cargo being land- railways and the shifting river beds. He instanced the Pekin-Tainan
ports that numbers of Chinese in was being used, an obvious im-ed at Holt's Wharf during the service, which is shortly being extended to Shanghai, and declared
civilian dresa, but carrying arms, possibility, as it did not come into strike are given a special notice that Chins was equally interested in the extension of external)
said to be from the seamen's use till nearly half a century on Page 4. services for improving communications with the outside world.!
headquartere in. Canton, are later. Dickens was carefal io Mesure. Watson and Co. have s which generally were painfully tardy, to the detriment of the cona-|
stationed at Chinsen and are give no more suggestive clues fios brand of champagne ou salą preventing vegetables from being to the nature of the anaesthetic-Page 6. try's trade.
taken into Macan
COMBATING SEDITION IN INDIA.
Formation of Loyal Citizens' League, Mr. Chu welcomed the London-Faria service as a beginning in shortening Anglo-Chinese mail exchanges, and opined that the time
Calcutta, February 10. was bound to come when this would be extended to the greater part passed a resolution urging the Government to support loyal citizens A meeting of the Calcutta branch of the European Association of the journey to the East. He promised that by that time China's and punish rebels. & Citizens' Protection League has been formed air post would cover the whole of the country.
with the object of fighting civil disobedience and other activities of the Non-Co-operators. The committee consists of eighty-four mem- bers, including leading Europeans and Indians.
DUNLOP COMPANY.
Directors' Salaries Criticised.
London, February 10.
RE-ESTABLISHING LONDON'S GOLD MARKET.
Government's Policy.
The general meeting of the Dunlop Company was marked by pungent criticisms of the Directors' salaries. The Chairman was confident there was a prosperous future, given a revival of trade and
London, February 10. if the scope of operations was confined to legitimate limite, although of the Exchequer declares the Government's intention to re-establish In the House of Commons, in a written answer, the Chancellor there was a possibility of commodity values falling further.
The meeting unanimously passed & resolution that an account an unrestricted gold market in London at the earliest possible date. ant, assisted by a committee of thres, should engaire into the position gold ultimately depends upon the action of the community itself.
The question of the extent to which notes will then be replaced by of the Company.
TROUBLE OVER ANOTHER INDIAN TEMPLE.
Rival Claims to Succession.
Madras, February 10.
THE ITALIAN CABINET.
Resignation Not Accepted.
Rome, February 10,
STOLEN BISCUITS.
Government Messenger
employed than the, purchase of the two mysterious packets st the chemist's, and the vendor's This latter, it will be recalled, comments on them. No doubt bases his abounding faith in this reticence was due to the human nature and in the inability consciousness that he was being of any acquaintance of his to do guilty of a daring anachronism, wrong on such simple assump- remarks a scribe in a Home tions as "Impossible; I know bie "You have been in Government paper.
father!" At curtain-fall there service for 15 years, and bow you
were loud calls for a speech from have lost your job by stealing Memorial Hall at Calcutta, which incidentally that it was he who The All-India Queen Victoria the veteran actor, who mentioned these, thus spoke Mr. R. E. Lind-
Sentenced.
sell to a Chinese messenger of the the Prince of Wales opened, is had adrised Mr. Gerald du Sanitary Department offices, who one of the most beautiful of Mearer to take up acting. And was arraigned before him as a modern buildings. Its inception see how successful he has been," charge of stealing a number of dates back 21 years, when Lord said Sir Johu." But how could Curzon outlined the idea and set it have been otherwise," he tins of sardines and biscuits.
It was stated by Inspector
it on its way, Some £333,333 added, "I knew his father." Lamble that a large number of were raised, and further subscrip- compradors's shop on Thursday Foundation Stone, and it was cedent, be written entirely in Old tions doubled that amount In these tins were taken from a
Princess 1905. King
Mary's George laid the licence will, if it follows pre- marriage evening to be inspected by the medical officer, with a view to announced that nothing but English lattering and in black determining the condition of the native marble would be use. ink, relieved by lase in red ink contents. Whilst the goods were In order to get this 250,000 cubic under certain left in the offices, a scramble took feet of surface rock
words. Royal had licences are the largest marriage place amongst the sanitary coolies, to be cleared, and wells sunk licences prepared, casting about with the result that the stock was to a depth of 137 fest for water. £50 each; and they obviate the sadly depleted when the medical of English Renaissance style, the formalities connected with the officer came the next morning. Hall stands. 200 feet high, and ordinary marriage licence such The those suspected, and when taxed feet long by 300 feet wide. The personal application by one with adjoining structures is 425 as wearing of alidavits and with the offence, he eventually dome has an interior diameter of of the parties concerned, Under admitted it and brought back 72 feet. Treasured ancient and the Royal Mazrige some of the stolen tins.
modern are to be preserved here George 111 before say In reply to further questions
VM of the Royal Fami
A message from Tranjore states that a serious riot occurred at
defendant It is semi-cfficially reported that the King, bas not accepted the Tiruvudathurai, in which the districtsuperintendent of police and the resignation of the Cabinet, which will be in place when Parliament deputy magistrate were seriously injured and reserve police wounded. meets on Eebruary 16. The trouble is due to a.dispute in regard to the succession to a Hindu temple on the death of the priest. Large crowds gathered with the object of obstructing the burial of the priest and refused to break up. The police fired and three of the mob were killed and eight wounded.
CHINESE ORDER FOR BRITISH FIRM,
-London, February 10. The Newport firm of Ashworth bas secured a Chinese order to twenty-two weigh-bridges each 40ft long and recording 120
AUSTRALIAN MUNICIPAL LOAN.
Quickly Subscribed in London.
London, February 10. The city of Bydney losa of £1,000,000 at 6 per cent. Issued at 96, as completely subscribed
was amongst
by the Magistrate, Inspector An example of the late Bir live sak miery, Lambie said that the defendant John Hare's ready wit was given lioende be had a wife, who was blind, and at what was his last appearance, King and four children to support. T during the revival of "A Pair of
In consideration of the good Spectacles of Wydak character he had hitherto born, Theatre in 1917. He bad bis Worship gave, defendant the called from his retizuma option of a fine of $25 when he. Mr. Öeraki du Manan passed sentence of fourteen day