The
Hongkong Telegraph.
A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYUNG AN INSTRUMENT ON A RACE MORSE
is 30 grader anomaly than a mañ with weak syamichi a báompting la which the mom without plames.
LAZARUS
11, 1911 BAD CENTALL
The male Sheepana Oprisacon, in the Chiona
FOUNDED 1881
NO. 12,582
GERMANS APPEAR CALMER.
Demonstrate "Peacefully."
(Reuter's Service.)
Paris, January 14.
Berlin, January 14.
登拜濃
+AELIONDAY,
CANTON SITUATION.
Reported Defeat of Invaders.
JANUARY 15, 1923. 日九廿月春十
THE NAVAL MOTOR
SMASH.
Two Chauffeurs Fined.
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“BOISTEROUS CONDUCT" According to the newspapers, the German decision to resume THREE BOMB EXPLOSIONS.
OF PASSENDERS. the deliveries of coal followed ad assurance from the Allied engineers
The latest news from Canton that the deliveries would be paid for by means of a tax on coal in
Appearing 00 remand са the Rubr, which amounts to forty per cent, whilst the deliveries to regarding the situation on the the Allies will not exceed twenty per cent. of the output; thus pay-West River is that the invading charges of speeding and af reck-cently made on a creditors' pati- ment will only absorb balf the tax The Echo de Paris has a mes troops have been defeated.
less and farious driving, the twotion, was due to have been taken over
The Official Receiver [Mr. G.N.Hongkong. An official report states that public garage chauffeurs concero- sage from Duesseldorf stating that in no case will cost be paid for with
the Cantonese troops yesterdayed in the recent accident leading Orme) applied for an adjournment French money.
defeated the enemy forces at to the death of Lit-Commander of the public asamination on be
Fo sald A number of protest meetings against the French occupation of Kaisan and Chunghau, forcing Hooper, were this morning fined, half of the creditors. the Ruhr have been held, including a great demonstration on the them to retreat to Failunghi, after a statement from the Amint that Mr. C. G. Alabaster with ed Konigsplatz opposite the Reichstag, which passed off without dis-The essualties on the enemynt Crown Solicitor. turbance, not necessitating the intervention of the strong police side are sinted as being beary, forees precautionarily mobilized. Resolutions were submitted and and the prisoners included unanimously adopted. The occasion was marked by the half-mast.au:aber of officers. ing of flags on all Government buildings and the display of the Re- publican colours for the first time from several fashionable hotels Patriotic songs are repeatedly sung, and there were trequent cries
Essen, January 14.
of "Down with France!"
Co Bay. which
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for.
I pointment of Mr. Roar as trustee,
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THE "LACONIA."
RUBBER RISING.
AJ
It
Two Accidents Yesterday.
will siderable force, as death was will almost instantaneous, due to
AUSTRIAN SHIPPING
LOAN.
fractured skoll Mrs. Hyndman suffered a severe shaking, Mr. Bydman sustaining a dislocated shoulder blade and severe bruises. A passing motor car stopped, the occupants of which rendered all possible rid. A telephone message was sent from the Water Works to the Kowloon Police Station and the injured people and
into Kowloon, to the Public Dis dead baby were at once taken pensary, Nathan Road. Later. the body of the child was removad to the Public Mortuary, whilst Mr. and Mr. Hyndman were taken to their home, where they received medical attention.
Shanghai Trial Match.
(Our Own Correspondent) Two fatal motor accidente tools place on the Taipo Boad yastar- In the Bankruptcy Court thin
Shanghai, Jan. 13.
day, one involving the death of [morning, before the Chief Justion In the "SoccerTM Interport trial «- two-year-old Portuguess gith (Sir William Ross Davies) thaj match. this afternoon, the Prob- and the other the death of a case of Saminal Greenfield, against ables beat the Fomibles by 7 Chinese woman, aged 32 years, whom a receiving order was re-| goals to 1.
The first of the above is a parti- There is much enthusiasm herscolarly and tragedy. Mr. A. H. the coming context in Hyndman, of No. 15, Orient Build- ings, had taken his wife and little daughter for a ride in the side- car attached to bis Harley- Davison motor eyela. He was on his way from Shatin to his home and had reached one of the appear for some of the
abarp bends in the road, between creditors and would like a day The case cameup before Mr. R.Eto be fixed so that a whole day
the "Rifth and sixth milestones, Lindsell. The driver of car No. could be devoted to debtor's ex- Philippines Story Ridiculed.bordering the Shatin reservoir. What appears to have been a 46 (Ting Mow) pleaded guilty to amination. He (the Official Re-
Whather the cycle got out of control, or whether the corner very determined attack by the speeding, but denied the other caiver), however, wook like a
(Our Own Correspondent.)
was taken too quickly, is not, enemy was repulsed on two os-charge of driving in reckless trustee to be appointed, and the
Singapore, Jan. 15.
the casions at Matong. Here the manner. He made a statement creditors had nominated Mr. S.
(known, but
cyclo advancing Yunnanage troops that bad not previously been H. Boss, of Mesara. Percy Rubber is quoted at 1s. id. and driven to the wrong side of Following a meeting of the inter-Allied engineers yesterday it endeavoured to sat up a bamboo beard-that he was urged to go at Smith, Seth and Fleming. A shares have further substantially the road, the with the result Renter's report that it mounted the bank and is believed the Allies will declare further default by Germany rebridge across the narrow creek an excessive speed by his pas-bond of $10,000 should be asked appreciated.
of American manufacturers" then turned turile, side-car and garding coal deliveries and demand that further pressure should be separating them from the Canion-sengers.
ese, and were repulsed in the Tsui Fat, the driver of the car exorted agains: Germany.
His Lordship fixed the publicam is not seriously viewed all. Mrs. Hyndman had been approved Western Paris, January 14.
front which contained the deceased and examination date to be Monday, and the threat of cultivation in sitting in the side car with the with other navs!
the Philippines is ridiculed, baby on her lap, and they were officers, pleaded January 99th.. agreed to the apinasmuch A statement issued yesterday evening says that French troops style, that is
six both thrown violently on to the crested Imsebine-guas,
takes will probably occupy Bochum to-day.
guilty to both charges. Those Coal Payments.
great havoc on the assailants. The Assistant Crown Solicitor and also the bond of $10,000, the profitless year to bring new road. The child's head must have Essen, January 14. This Srsi attack, which was in (Mr. Hazelrigg) said he was security for the latter to be apcreage into bearing. It is an-struck the roadway with con-
to be a surprise, was
ticipated that restriction It is authoritatively learned that there was an obvious discretended
achieve its purpose and pancy between the French and Germosa viewpoints disclosed at repeated on the approach of day. Prepared to accept the pleas of prosed by the Registrar.
jeod in a year's time. yesterday's inter-Allied meeting. The Germans declare that under ligh with even more success than the defendants as they stood.
There WAS, however, odej the new arrangements France becomes a customer of the mines on the first.. This time the defenders
was that in a purely business basis, exactly corresponding with any ordinary used field gues. The routed forces point he would like to makej purchaser. The French assert that their payments to the mines are retired in confusion towards the clear, and that
instituting these proceedings the simply sufficient to cover the salaries and working costs and enable Sze Wui district.
Crown was not seeking' round- A battalion of artillery rom- the mines to continue to produce. Tais discrepancy will undoubted-
means of penalising ly be the main theme of to-day's meeting of the joint Franco-German prising twenty field guns has been about commission. It is conceivable that it might lead to a rapture at a ordered by General Chan King the defendants on account of the Due Here on Wednesday.
ming to the front. The effective fatality that happened that night. very early date,
Paris, January 14.
nature of the reinforcements as the would also like to point out
The big Canard liner Laconis. A telegram from Essen denies the report that the French experta represented by consignments of the breach in the traffic regula
the Coroner's American Express Company for have decided to pay for the coal deliveries in gold currency. The silver coins, for the payment of tions illustrated by this case. The which has been chartered by the Chinese Cabinet's Decision. Temas saya payment for reparation coal may be made by the pro- the troops was not overlooked. Proceedings at ceeds of the coal tar, which, owing to the occupation now extending and a large sum has been re-enquiries having been published world tour. is due in Hongkong in the Press, it would be quite at daylight on Wednesday. She almost all over the coalfield, will be levied by the Allies upon the mitted together with the gans impossible for the Crown to over-left Shanghai for this pors yester
jaad ammunition. entire output of the Rubr.
Essen, Saonary 14.
Another item from the "front look what appeared to be a gross day.
The Laconis has some 400 A decree has been issued relieving the French troops of the is to the effact that the Cantonese breach of the traffic regulations, obligation to pay the luxury tax: and ordering a notification of all military leaders have grounds and he would like to ask his tourists on board, who are seeing meetings to be given three days previously, logether with the names for thinking that the loading Worship to inflict such penalty as the sights of the world. She has of the organisers, time and plac, and the probable attendance; also forces having no means of pro- he would have imposed in or never been in Hongkong before. forbidding strikes or processions of uniformed person, compelling tection against gunboat fire, will diary casses of the kind and to posting up of price lists in German currency in all shops, and pro-atttempt to attack Canton from dissociate himself in his mind He would hibitir German soldiers to cross from unoccupied into occupied the north; proceeding via the from the lamentable accident of
Tsing Yun and Sze Wai distri, the night in question. territory.
Germany Refuses to Pay.
As a result, a number of detach. also like to refer in general to the for the jury to find a verdict of attitudeofthefrown with regard to manslaughter against the drivers.
A Resignation Accepted. ments have been despatched to Paris, January 14. The Reparations Commission has received a note froin the Cer-Lu Pao from Samshus for the de- the finding of the jury at the With card to the speeds of ske His Worahip defendants. Mr. Hazelrigg said motor enquiry.
Peking, Jan. 14-A Mandate man Clovernment intimating its intention to suspend the cash pay-fence of the North River and the would recollect that a verdict that at the enquiry the driver of
of manslaughter was returned car No. 115 estimated his own has announced the acceptance of ment, also the deliveries in kind, in view of the occupation of the protection of the railway.
Leading officials of Cantor me: Rubr, which it consider a violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
in the Financial Department on against the defendants, and it speed as 20 miles an hour when be the resignation of Wang Chung Essen, January 14.
Political Research Com A meeting of fifteen hundred officials and members of German the 13th. instadt, and as a resalt incumbent on the Attorney- was passing Ab King's slipway, baai from the post of Chairman of Miners' Union has passed a resolution condemning the French of an important discussion it was Geners! to come to a decision as which was in a control area. The the occupation as a violation of German freedom. A fiery speech by the decided to a General Chat to whether they would be in- driver of ear No. 46 admitted mission, which Chang Shou-tseng King-ming to grant permission for dicted. Suroming up the evidence going at a speed of 24 miles an will huid concurrently with the
as it appeared to him, Mr. Hazel- hour. With regard to the pleas post of Premier.-Reuter An incident is reported from the small town of Buer, where gambling. French soldiers on arrival were greeted with a shower of stone sions to be granted in order to rigg said that as regards car 45, by the defendants that they were Noce were injured. The French Clererst announced that the Ger-meet military expenses from the there was strong evidence in the urged to speed, there was evidence case that the driver of this car at the enquiry that the occupants man police superintendant would be punished.
revenue obtained thereby.
Three houb explosións took passed at a safe lateral distance, of car No. 118 were bebiving
THE LIKIN QUESTION. place on Friday and Saturday. and that it was ahead of the in a manner which at all events. at the time of the might be reasonably believed to One was in a lonely street on the other car
There he intended as urging bim to nonam side, where alight damage approaching of the curve. was done and one man, alleged no clear evidence that the increase his speed, and his Wor- to ship would therefore take that London January 14.
to be the thrower, was arrested, course he took was such as The seriousness of the situation in Ireland is emphasized by Mr. The second occurred in a risksha jeopardise the car. Under the into consideration in infeting a Stephen Gwynn, writing to the server from Dublin. He says the full of baggage in front of & circumstances bis passing of the penalty. With regard to the Government is relying on an army which does not exceed thirty-theatre on the east band in Canother car could not be assumed to driver of car No. 46, there was no run, representing thousand men and lacks skilled direction, to crush the rebels, but ton, the coolie and three passers be the immediate cause of the tittle of evidence before the en Chambers of Commerce, called on Fad urged him to speed at any ing the issue of a Mandate abolish. the army is not supported by the population, hence the recrudescence by being wounded. The third accident. Certainly it dis not quiry that the fares in the car the President yesterday, request of outrages like the burning of mansions, attacks on railways, and case took place near the office, of render the accident inesitable.
As regards car No. 118, which time during the night. It was nothing likin. The President referred daring hold-ups of meetings by the authorities in attempts to kidnap the Commander of Hiver De-
Parliament has postponed the public men. Mr. Gwynn hopes for better results from the appoint feaces, slight damage being doue contained the deceased officer, suggested by the driver at the en: the matter to the Cabinet.
when the driver of this car wquiry that he had had a chance of! ment of General Murphy as director of operations, but is of to the wall of the building. opinion that any reorganisation, should be accompanied by measures The guards on duty at the in a control area he was travelling doing so. The statement just made vote on the new Cabinet from by this driver to bis Worship Monday to Wednesday. Reuter. to sem trustworthy civilians in order to enable them to defend their Military Law Department have at a speed estimated own rights against the increasingly aggressive rebels.
all been disarmed. One report tween 20 and 30 miles an hour. xiving a different version, to the jays this followed the discovers It was shown by the evidencal effect that be was urged to speed by his fater, was the first made! of three powerful bombe in the that when the other car building, but another story is to almost abreast of him he increas-since the accident.
In conclusion. Mr. Hazelrigg
President was warmly applauded.
SERIOUS IRISH SITUATION.
Increasing Rebel Opposition.
THE LITHUANIAN INSURRECTION.
Berlio, January 14.
short-term conces.
AN
the effect that the guards have led his speed with the view of not; laid stress on the point that these
Apparently this speeding would proceedings were being brought
A message from Heydekrug states that the Lithuanian raiders been atealing recently-seized allowing the other car to pass. have established a new Government there with Simon Aitis as opium.. President. It is reported that Simon Aitia has requested the High Commissions: to withdraw the French troop from. Memel.
RUSSIANS QUITE SENSIBLE.
Lausanne, January 14. The Russian ucts to the conference says the Russian, Ükisinizo and Georgian delegation desire to reach a general agreement, not a roptare. They are conscious that only unanimous conclusions will lead to a stable situation in the Near East.
OBITUARY."
!
DE COLBERT CASE.
Trial Again Adjourned
resolved
Peking. Jan. 14-The Cabinet that the yesterday Ministry of Finance shall not put into effect the Austrian Shipping Loan contract, as Parliament has not agreed thereto. Heuter.
PEKING POLITICS.
Referred to the Cabinet.
Peking, Jan. 14-Chang Kuo- the haited
ANTI-MANCHU MOVE.
In the other fatal accident, a Chinese woman was killed. It appears that she was walking along the road, at the junction of the Taipo and Shamshuipo Roads, when she was knocked down and run over by motor car No. 722, owned and driven by M. . . Tregillos, of No. 16, Peace Avenue, Ho Mua Tn. The wheels of the car passed her body and sbe
terrible over
injuries. Одсе removed sustained
She was
to the Kwang Wah Hospital, but
The woman was named Cham Fook, and was a native of Yeung Yuk village, near Laichikok.
died shortly after admission.
News in To-day s New Advertisements.
Shareholders in the Oriental Navigation Co. Ltd, will be in- terested in the notice appearing On page 4.
Lane, Crawford, Ltd. draw at tention to "Marmite."-Page 6.
Consignees are notified of the
"Patban."- Page 1. arrival of the 8.8.
The annual Kowloon marathon race will be held on February the 19:b-Page 4
"Diarali is the title of a special picture commencing at the Corocot Theatre to-day.- Pages 7 and 12.
LISTEN! Empty aides are the must ex- pensite thing a store can hate.
The s.. "Benavon" baving arrived with cargo, consignees are given the usual notice.- Pag- 4.
The first screening of "Foolish Wives" will take place at the
and 12. Star Theatre to-night-Pages 2 Consignees are notified of the arrival of the s.s. "Becledi." Paze 4.
The attraction at the World Theatre is "Don't Shoot."-Page "Pay Day" and "Grandma's Boy" are the attractions at the Kowloon Theatre-Paze 12.
The Canadian. Pacific Steam- ship Company give particulars of reduced fares to Europe.-Page 10.
be the cause which led up to the as a warning to drivers that they accident. But there seemed to could not speed. This had become Drastic Proposals Mooted. be strong ground for believing more and more dangerous a
Pekinz, Jan. 13.-It is reported that it did not render it inevit motor vehicles, were increasing able. The actual and fios! cause in number in Hongkong. The that Li Enish-yang is bringing a would appear to be an error of Assistant Crown Solicitor mer-motion before the House of Re- judgment by the driver of car No.tioned that the defendants had presentatives, firstly, arging the
four days.
the ex-Emperor, Chang Chan, The trial of Dr. de Colbert was 118 as to the relative speeds been detained in police cells for Governcient, to proceed against
two cars travelling
Inspector Garrod produced the su Shih-chang and Wang Sbih- resumed in Canton on Saturday. of the
defendants' records.
chen on the ground that they In reply to questions by the st a considerableface, and prob Court. Dr. de Colbert stated that ably of the distance of the two
Ting Mow possessed a cloerbetrayed the Rapablic in 1917 by he received bis education as a cars, and also of the drivers' own
The storation toovement; secondly. doctor of medicine at a German position. He was probably dis record for six years. He was participating in the Manchu re-
Goed $20 for speeding. other count of reckless driving advocating the cancellation of 112 University, later extending this tracted by the other car passing. to include engineering, electricity, One thing which contributed to which he denied, was withdraw special treatment to the Manchu and other branches at various the error of judgment, said Mr. by the Assistant Crown Solicitor. House; birdly, suggesting the use Tani Fat, the driver of car No. of the Maochu alace as Parlis acjourus in Italy and France. Hazelrigg, was the admittedly He knew ontbing of the manu boisterous conduct of the passen-118, which contained the deceas meat House; fourthly, suggesting facture of explosives until after gers of the car, who undoubtedly fed officer and party on the night turning out the President from bis arrest, when books on the were behaving in a manner which in question, was fined $25 on the the Winter Palace, which could subject were to be sent to him to was distracting to the driver at a two counts to which be pleaded be converted into a Public Park; It is announced that President Obregon bas ordered the expulsion while away the monotony of his time when he needed the full guilty. He bad a previous con- and, fifthly, proposing & more of the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Filippi, owing to his participe- coofiaercent.
control of all his faculties. The viction in April of last year, for moderate allowance to the Man. tion in an open-air religious ceremony,
The bearing was, again ad-Crown felt that there could be reckless driving in Queen's Road chur, sufficient for their
lihood.-Beuter. journed.
reasonable anticipation West.
London, January 14.
The death has occurred of the philosophic writer, Mr. Frederic
Harrison.
Paris, January 15. The death is announced of the ex- Premier, M. Ribot.
A PECULIAR DECISION.
Mexico City, January 14,
(Other Telegrams on Pages 2 and 3.j
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