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HONGKONG. 23rd Jan., 1920.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1923.
withdrawal to Walchow with soma ten thound loyal troops may yet prove to have bean a wise strategio love.
DAY BY DAY.
OF ALL THE GREAT ASSETS WHICH ENGLAND POSSESSES, ITA The Kwangi and Yunnan COMMERCIAL HONOUR IS THE Walter troops, in spitsof Dr. Sun's re- MOST VALUABLE—Mr.
Runciman, cent boasts, annot truly be regarded as proin forces. They may have beer anti-Chan, but that is entirely nother matter. Doubtless they welcomed the opportunity of sriking a blow
Turkey's Policy.
made and
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony yesterday.
SALE OF A WHARF.
Alleged Broken Agree- ment.
A
of an
the
DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL,
Appeal for New Building.
donations.
OR
The story of an alleged broken The Appeal Committee of the agreement concerning the sale of Diocesan New School Fund is the Hai Hon Wharf, Connaught now circularising individuals and Road West, was told before Mr. firms in the hope that it will be Justice Gompertz in the Supreme enabled to raise sufficient funds Court this morning, in an action in paid and promised donations to We have received a copy of brought by Wong Poon-shi, be in a strong enough position to the prospectus of Queen's College widow, of 23, Kennedy Road, and approach the Government to from the Headmaster. It gives Wong Wai-tak, a merchant, of assist further in the establishment at Canton, remmbering past full details of the syllabus, scholar-10, Bonham Strand, against two of the proposed now school. It is Chinese ladies, named Food explained that immediate action bistory. But Sun Yat-senj ships, etc.
Tsang-shi and Poon Li-shi, bath ia necessary because of the bad evidently cannot ount on them;
The health return for last week (resident at & Yuo Lam Terrace. condition of the old buildings and and that probaby explains his
shows four fatal cases of cerebro- The claim was for the specific because the large retaining wall an Boaham Road has been con- reluctance to cole South again. spinal fever, three of enteric (one performance
sgree demned. He can only nowwatch develop fatal), three non-fatal occurrences ment, dated April 24th. last,
which the defeudents It is shown in the appeal that ments and waitfor affairs to of diphtheria and one non-fatal by straighten themaives out some case each of plague and small-por. agreed to sell to the plaintiffs the estimated cost is $115,000, and Oneofthe sufferers fromdiphtheria three-quarters of the shares of the that towards this sum the Govern- what before deciding what to do and one from enteric were Brit Hoi Hon Wharf (Permanent Pier ment bas offered a site of 23 But in tho staightening-out ish, the rest being all Chinese, No. 191. From the statement of acres at Kowloon and in money process the Kwagsi and Yun-There was also one Chinese death claim it appeared that $4,300 was for the old site a sum of $204.000
from influenza
paid as part of the purchase price and that $57,000 has been raised nan troops mag ome into con-
and that the remainder, $42,730, in subscriptions paid and promis. dict. And that may be the
The case was concluded yester was to have been paid by June ed. The sum now required is, The therefore, $184,000. The Hong- moment which Chn King-ming day afternoon at the Criminal 24th-two months later. will seize to endavour to win Sessions in which Lai Hoi chauplaintiffs alleged that the dekong and Shanghai Banking and Li Fook were charged with fondants were not willing to com- Corporation has promised $1,000 jbark Canton again. At any rate, committing a robbery at Yaumati plate the sale, and they now sued per annum from 1921 for threa matters are not gong too smooth-on January 1st. The jury found for the specific performance of years, in the first instance, and the Union Insurance Society of ly for Sun at the oment. That them guilty by five to two, and the agreement.
the Chief Justice sentenced them
In the statement of defence, it Cantos Ltd., a sum of $500 per is the main point.
to three years hard labour each, was alleged that there was annum from 1921, for five years. in the first instance. The Com- taking into consideration the fact agreement that the balance that they were unarmed.
raoney should be paid by June mittee emphasises these and other annual instalments by individuals 24th. and that as the money in stating that the time may not The many friends of Mt. Lionel was not paid by the time
be opportune for large cash deposit Turkey's policy is evidently going to lead to erious trouble Jupp will be interested to hear of required,
bis marriage at All Saints Church of 4,200 became forfeited and
Further points stressed are the sooner or later. At the nations on Sunday, January 7th. after the the agreement to sell became Mrs. Saran Carvalho Rodri-interested, who se represented evening service. His bride was null and voit. To this allegation, fact that this is the first big ques, family and relatives thank ja: Lausanne, are becoming ex-Miss Constance Howard, a former the plaintiffs filed a reply stating appeal made since the school was their friends for the many extremely restless. is there has member of the Powder Puffs Can- that they were always ready to founded in 1869; that the school
no marted pressions of sympathy in their been
progress cer: Party. The Rev. S. G. Teakle complete the purchase, that there has a very wide influence; that it to has excellent scholastic results everthing sad bereavement.
mutual agreement points performed the ceremony, and only was to a stiffening of the Turkish the two witnesses necessary were postpone the completion, and to its credit: and that the old was buildings are entirely inadequate, attitude. It is ony the repara preseas. We understand that even that the first defendant
It is explained that the scholars tions wrangle and be more recent these friends were not aware that absent from the Colony on the Trouble between Fance and Ger-r. Jopp was to be married so completion date. In rejoinder, have a fund of their own called many that has attacted attentibusoon until just before the care the defendants denied that they the Scholars' Fund for which they are collecting during the next two away from the Lausanne Can- ference.
Whils: Sere is all this mongeking and Tientsin Tyma, agreed to any postponement.
Mr. Eldon Potter and weeks; they will not call pother in Western Europe. the
Vivian Martin, the bright little Mr. E Zeitlyn (instruered by British firms. For this Scholars' clands in the Estern theatre
Hall Brutton) ap Fund each class has representa temala banked up threateningly, star, hits off a brilliant part in Mr. G. KI and no man can sell definitely the film "His Official Fiancee," peared for the plaintiffs and Mr.tives on a Scholars Appeal Com- which comes to the Star Theatre C. Alabaster, K. C., and Mr.mittee. The Scholars' Fund has whether they will ever clearaway, THE CANTON SCRAMBLE. will culminate in a deluge today. She represented as F. C. Jenkin instructed by raised the following sun-1919 $5,416. The scholars themselves of blood. If anything, the crisis posing as the fiancee of a young Mesars. Lo and Lol represented $1,000; 1920, $1,000; 1921-22, will give receipts for money over reparations las benentted man who has to please his rich the defendants.
Mr. Eldon Potter, in his open-
collected by them. When Sun Yat-sen, about a Turkey inasmuch a she has been uncle to get into the latter's good
In By February 16th., the Com- fortnight aro, predicted the early able to get a breathing pace and races. Dan Cup' has to being address, stated that the case
a simple one of fact. consolidate her preparations. A reckoned with, however, and the was entry of the Kwangsi and Yun-house divided agaist itself must scheme which the young man giving the history of the agreemittee wishes to see how much much in-meat, he said that the fire: de- can be raised, and at the end of nan troops into Canton, he was fall, and the Eatene whilst dise-has devised with so
to commit himself greeing over Gerasag become. genuity to throw dust into the fendast owned one-half of the February there will be a meating careful not
defendant of the General Appeal Committee His Official Fiancee regarding his own return to the less of a united force, with less uncle's eyes rebounds on his own wharf, the second
owned one quarter and the infant to discuss definitely the begin- inclination, or erea less power, to head.
son of the first defendant owned ning of work on the new school. South. He spoke of the advance dictate terms to the Angora Gov-will be greatly enjoyed.
the remaining quarter. Early in All donations, stc., from firms of the invading troops as being ernment. The latest news cables |
Though conditions are more or 1922, the owners of the wharf de- and individuals who receive the in conformity with his plane, and tell of menacing trong movementa
on the part of the Turks, and the less normal along the West River cided to sell it, and the agent for appeals should be sent direct to referred to the troops as though outlook is blacker than it has and boats can now freely ply the negotiation was a man named the Hongkongand Shanghai Bank they owed allegiance to him been for a long tine. When we along the waterway, the pasasge Poon Chun yuen, the son of the for the Diocesan New School The portents at present, however, recall the early days of the of the larzer river steamers is be orginal owner. The first defendant Fuad," of which Mr. A.G. Stephen seem to warrant the view that Grest War, or the sense period coming increasingly difficult on as his father's concubino and is the Hon. Treasurer.
following the Sarajevo murder ing to the shifting of the mud after his father's death Poon the wharf for "his Dr. Sun may find greater ditti-and immediately preceding the shoals and the decreasing depth managed
we filad compara- of the water. Wechow itself, as junior mother." All the parties culty in getting the Kwangsi-war,
tively peaceable outlook when a passenger left it Friday last, in the case were quite friendly Yunnan forces out of the city. or trasted with the present situa- had become quiet and there was at that time and in April the under his control, than he bad in tion in the whole of Europe. No a feeling of security such as had agents went to Mr. Brutton's
been felt
mouths office where it was agreed that. The following havebeen selected for inducing them to march into it.doubt, but for the people and not
Cantonese soldiers the whole wharf should be sold to represent the King's Regt. in a That is scarcely to be wondered rulers of all the las belligerent when the
nations being heartily sick of were in occupation and a conflict for $57,000. An agreement was hockey match versus Hongkong at. after all. because, in the last warfare, several million men would with the approaching Yunnsnese drawn up to that effect, but when Hocker Club at Sookanpoo at 5 p.m. to-morrow:-Sgt. Puttick; resort.. all these military adsen-ere this bave been flying at each troops was expected every day. [the title deeds were produced it turers aim at the securing of the other throats in the Balkan area. When the Cantonese garrison re- was discovered that one-quarter Szt. Connolly and 5g Allen: Sgt. in Asia Minor, and elsewhere. A treated before the enemy a thou-belonged to an infant and there McGowan, Pte. Stevens, and Sgt. spoils of office and all that goes time might be coming, however, sand stragglers broke off from the might be difficulty in effecting Simmonds: Lt. H. A. kedding. with them. Canton is a plum and coming rapidly, when it will main body and pirated Fongcbuen sale of his share. It was then M.C.. Col. Day, Lt. C. P. Moore, worth having, and as possession become impossible to keep out of last week. Wuchow people are, agreed that three-quarters only Sgt. Roberts. M.C., Sgt. Irvin. in these cases is ten points of the other war. Nowadays one has however. glad to see the last of should be sold, the price to to be prepared for anything, and them as there was no knowing be $46,950, and the purchase worst what mischief they might con- to be completed by June 24th. A law, we shall be surprised if the mat feel surprised if the
template on realising the neces. deposit of $1,200 was paid on the share (she is the child's guardian) militarist ao in occupation in comes to pass.
sity of retreating from the port. signing of the agreement. In and that the sale should be post- Canton relinquish their hold],
May, however, the owners receir-poned. On June 30th. a further ed a notice from the Public letter was received by the plain- without a deal of ado.
Works Department about some tiff's ageot in which the first Yesterday's news showed that
needed repairs to the wharf-io defendant asked for a little while Reuter's cables announcing
fact they were summoned at the longer to consider the matter. Mr. the Kwangsi gang is bent on
executions of Irish rebels
Police Court and fined for not Potter contended that the letters becoming "top dog." Already are becoming somewhat frequent
carrying them out. The defen- showed conclusively that it was the principal administrative posts nowadays, and the tragedy
dants requested the plaintiffs to agreed for the sale to be postpon- bave fallen into its hands, much of civil war that lies bebind
that An Association football match advance them money for the cost ed. On July 19th, however, the such
apt to to the chagrin both of the Yun-
be overlooked. We do not like has been arranged to take place of the repairs and $3,800 was defendants agent stated ano and the Cantoneye.
of the contract Es the idea of these executions, to-morrow (Wednesday) after. handed over. "It it interesting the defendants were desirous of
note," said Mr. Potter, getting oat
that
bas gerer and were willing to pay back the pecially irritated are the support, however much they might be noon between teams representing to
We are for stable Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.,
The plaintiffs ers of Sun Yat-sen, who have been necessary.
Government in Ireland, but it Ltd., and Messrs. Butterfeld & been repsid and that these ladies deposit money.
now have $8,000 of our money. [declined to give up their rights anxiously awaiting his return io geems a pity that men like Swire.
The game is to commence at and allege that we failed to under the agreement and point the hope of securing the best posts Erskine Childers, however mi-
the purchase. We blank refused to agree to can- for themselves. They are now guided, abould have to be shot 4.30 p.m. sharp, and is to be play-complete beginning to realise that the like dogs, and men of mark like led on the Hongkong Football bave been so keen on completing cellation. They bad the purchase
#નોં O'Connor
Liam Club's ground, the members of that we did mind advancing this money lying idle in the bank, all It is they who ready to pay over, and they completion. delay in their leader's arrival Mellowes be executed as a re-same having courteously placed money at all.
murders by the their ground at the disposal of the have failed." He proceeded to naturally wanted will probably prove disastrous prisal for
state that three days before the The defendants then went to of this two teams. to themselves. The situation is irregulars. Reprisals
The following is the. Ewo completion date a discussion took another firm of solicitors (Mr. nature are, at best, a poor form of
F.place between the agents regard-Brutton had previously acted for not improved from the Kuomin- bitting back at an enemy, and we team:-W. W. McKenzie: E
July 22nd.
# bolt tang standpoint by the report cannot see that the policy adopted Aucott (Capt.) and T. W. Gotching the purchase of the infant's both parties throughout) and the blue descended that General Chan King-ming is by the new Irish Government has A. Piercy. M. Railton and W. B.share, and it was agreed that a on
activities of the rebel forces. can, K. Mason, D. Lyon and N. L. to the Courts for loave to sell on on the plaintiffs when Messrs. behalf of the child and that, Johnson, Stokes, and Master still a factor to be reckoned with. proved an effective check on the Corcaby; G. Puncheon, G. Dan solicitor should make application from baving won over to his side a There is always a risk, too, of a Railton
The following will represent pending auch leave, the comple-wrote a letter on behalf of the de- considerable following of men man of the worst possible type from Sun Yat-sen's, military becoming hallowed in the eyes of Talkoo-C. C. Hickling; B. Spicer Lion of the purchase should stand fendants saying that as the plain- undiscerning compatriots, who and D. H. Banner; HL R. Forsyth, over. The first defendant had diffs had failed to complete the right-hand man, Hsu Sung-chi. look upon him as a martyr to J. D. H. Crawford and D. D. by that time gone to the country purchase by June 24th, the sale If this story be true, we may yet their cause and become more Dryden; F. N. You' g, A.L. Gace, and did not return until June was cancelled and the deposit
in 3. D. Begg. D. J. Cuthill and E. 25th, when letters passed between money_forfeited." against these
the parties in which it was Bee General Chan making things embittered
that agreed
the authority, Presuming that these G. England. awkward for the present occu-
Taikoo will play in colours and mutually frequent Irish executions pants of Canton General Chan necessary, we regret to think that Ewo in white. The referee will first defendant should have time Ito consider the sale of the child's be Mr. MacPhall. is known as a tactician, and his such is the case.
A
Irish Executions.
Rory
news
items
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FOOTBALL.
Ewo v. Taikoo,
that
sura
HOCKEY.
Mr. Potter proceeded to address the Court further, following which evidence was called.
The case will not finish to-day