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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
If you just want a pad lock, any kind of,a padlock will do.
If you want security
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
CINEMA POSTERS. CARELESS BLASTING.
THE TRUE JOY OF LIFE 13 Interesting Prosecutions.
Paristors of local cinemas
FINDING OUT BY EXPERIENCE THAT I WE ARE BETTER
At Repulse Bay.
A contractor engaged on the
In considering the probable: breakdown of the Lausanne Conference, and the possibility | of a war between the Turks on one hand and the British forces In Mesopotamia, assisted by PLACED THAN OTHERS IT IS OF this morning figured in the Police task of preparing a site at Repulss number of aum-Bay was charged on remand be Kurdish and Arabian lovica, od THE HIGHEST GOOD TO SEEK OUT Court on
Polios Court this morning, with the other, the old problem of THE UNFORTUNATE AND DO OUR menses for affixing bilis sad for Mr. R. E Lindsell, at the
BEST TO HELP THEM.
posters on Crown property. Britain's position as the greatest i Mohammedan Power arises, with| all the menaces that that problem There was one Chinese case involved. We know that Indian of carebro-spinal fever notified
yesterday. Muslim feeling even where loyalty to the Raj is predominant,
is favourable to undiminished Turkish sovereignty: but unfor
tunately there is much less loyalty than disloyalty at present;
H.E the Governor is to
"It is a pleasant assumption to at taking proper precautions any that it is Government pre-hen carrying out blasting opera- perky, but it is not always truetions, negligence which led to two observed Mr. E. Davidson to the Europeane appearing Magistrate (Mr. R. E. Lindsell) in plainants in the case.
́- Mr. A. E. Wright, of the Public Įtha oase in which he appeared on
Works Department, who pro- behalf of Massra. Liggett and
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dis-Myera, the tobacco Company, outed, in reply to a plea by the defendant said it was just possibla AD that stones of the small sizə
tribute the prizes at Queen's charged with putting up College on February 10th.
advertising poster at place claimed
to
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be owned produced in the Court might have
then look for the name Turkey being at war with the king from February 5th, to 11th. of serving the summons. In the pletely covered with timbers and
Yale on the padlock you buy.
For 40 years the name Yale oa a pacock nas meant greatest security, best design for mach purpose, most value for what you pay.
YALE
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that was
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the
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by the Crown. Mr. Davidson, been discharged all over the place Mr. J. L Macpherson is to whilst pleading guilty, had after the usual precautions bad in Indis, owing to the work of
Chinese T.M.C.. grievance to air, 'complaining of been observed. But it could be agitators, and the mere fact of attend the
Secretaries Conference at Nan- the irregularity in the procedure avoided by the charge being com- There word three first place the police had not matting. taken the trouble to find out the occurrences of the same offence, "The Mikado" having been proper name of the Manager who and he would produce evidence unrest, despite such consider banned, the Gilbert and Sullivan was the person summoned in the to these to show that the Mus R. M. B. Bishop gLTB stions as Britain's protection Opers Co. will present The case, and this error appeared in defendant's laspe was continuous.
As their opening the notice. Secondly, the Mana being given to the Mosul Mobara-Gondoliers
ker was not the proper person to evidence that on the 22nd. Instant medans. Day by day we see the offering on February 10th.
be summoned. The posting was she was seated on the beach done by a coolie. Either he or at Repulse Bay between two makings of about half a dozen
the Company must be held res matsheds when a stons fall an Mr. S. Le Boh has been ap- possible conflicts, all more or less
her head. It left ber quite un- ponsible, due to the effects of the "war pointed acting general secretary Correspondence bad been carried jured, but bad it dropped on
of the Hongkong Chinese Y.M. Were
with the CS.P. on the matter.be baby she was holding, it each of these sideshows" to J. L. Macpherson, who is to gocation of the offence, had taken 29: instant she was near the C. during the absence of Mr. The Company, ao receiving nati- would have cut its face. On the the great tragedy to be played on leave soon. Mr. Hoh has been steps to dismiss the postarman.ame spot when other stones fell
had bought
near her. She judged that the out to a conclusion, there would in Association work for ten years, still be series of minor acts to bai sad Amarics.
receiving his training in Shang-sufficient redress for the offence. charge was fired a distance of
The C.S.P., in his reply, however, 250 yards away.
Asked if he had anything to follow and be worked out to the
insisted on the charge teing WAKELAM.-On January 23,
bitter end; with all the time the
brought into the Court. Irregular in regard to this evidence, the 1923, at the Victoria Nursing
Command orders state that arities appearing in the serving defendant replied that he was not Home, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. possibility of the whole ghastly ¡H. Wakelam, & 100.
play being re-written, with the literature is wanted for use of of the summons had already beer
the troops proceeding to the pointed out, and he (Mr. David- did take place. WADE-On January 24, 1923, old actors in naw roles, and the United Kingdom on ss. Delta. It son) not wishing to wasts the at the Victoria Nursing Home.blood-wasbed stage st in &is specially requested that in time of the Court of his own time, Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs. T. 3. D. different part of the world. Per-dividuals having spare books, had pleaded guilty pointing out
could not have known." them to the Rev. M. W. Showell, penalty, that FENN. On January 25, 1923, bape only the crack of doom will periodicals or papers should send the fact, as s. plea for a light
His Worship÷Either this at the Victoria Nursing Home,ring down the final curtain on M.A., Chaplain's Room, Scandal wished Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. H this tragedy of racial and Point, or to D.A.A. &Q M.G., to the Magistrate that they were lady is telling lies or 300. Fann, Chinese Maritime Customs,
extremely sorry for the offence. know he is speaking the religious jealousy that has been Headquarters.
truth. I have got to decide this daughter.
Inspector Reynolds, whe prose RENBORG.-Oa January 26, rousing for so many hundreds of
cuted on behalf of the CS.P., in case, not you." Owing to the inability of the reply to his Worship, said that 1923, at Dr. Fear's Hospital, years, with irregular intervals Shanghai, to Mr and Mrs. B. A. between the acts, and with victims to identify him as one of the object in bringing forward the further to say. Rentorg, & daughter.
the men who participated in the summons was to aste is serve as Manager of Repulse Bay Hotel, continuous increase in the cam-Sai An piracy. the man brought a warning to others.
who was the other complainant, ber of actors taking part.
down from Shaughaiby Inspector Mr Lindsell thereupon imposed said that on the 24th, instant, as Willis bas had to be released, the nominal penalty of $1. About 5 o'clock, he was at the back it was learned this morning.
of the hotel when a stone crashed Identification parades held oc The Coronet Summoned.
linto a room. He heard other after the other were unsuccessful, Mr. H. W. Ray, of the Coronet pieces rattling oa the and an order from the C.S.P-Theatre, was
roof, next summoned sad, an going out, found another resulted in his release.
on two counts for posting stone in the tennis lawn. He biils on prohibited walls judged the blasting to have been | Lower Albert Road and carried out at a distance of 450
| Wade, a daughter.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 31st Jan, 1923.
BRITAIN AND TURKEY,
If the Turkish attitude over |the Mosul question ends in war, it will be war with Britain, for
that Os one
the Company it to bo known
aware that such an occurrence
"So this lady is telling liss, eh?”. rejined his Worship.
Defondant "I don't know, I
was not there at the time and
The defendant had nothing
Mr. A. E. W. Davis. Resident
A fine of $150 was imposed.
CRICKET.
Sun and Communism.
Some four or five months ago. when we published translations of certain documents discovered after Sun Yat-sen's flight from Canton, and alleged that an at-
For being in possession of at the flight of steps leading from yards away. tempt was being made to create stock of a rifle, a Chinese was Queen's Road Central to Battery The defendant said that since triple Bolshevik alliance, Dr. fined $350, or three months' hard Path. He also had complaint the 22nd. be had personally Sun came out with a flat denial of labour, at the Police Court this to make in regard to irregularity.attended to the blasting, a state- the surgestion. He declared that morning, by Mr. J. R. Wood. The offence was said to have ment which his Worship took to he had "rever planned, nor even after expert evidence was heard been committed on the 19th. be a complete donist of what had thought of the possibility of from Mr. Avenal, armourer of instant, but he did not receive the been stated by Mfr. Davis. "I sse; (apart from the defence of the transforming China into a Com-the E.K. Defence Corps to the summons until the 25th, by which this witness is also telling lies,
munist State," adding that he had effect that the stock belonged to date it would be difficult to recall b Straits of Danianelles) Britain is always recognised the necessitya Remington sporting rifle and the circumstances of the alleged Defendant-I don't know. practically pledged to the protec- for foreign capital and foreign was quite useless without the offence.
His Worship You can't havO techoical assistance. His in-barrel. tion of the Arabian and Kurdish
"Yes," replied Eis Worship, it both ways. Either he is telling dignant cornments recur tous claims to that district. The town now on reading of the conferences
I agree that the
summons lies or you are. should have been served earlier. Defendant:-I dare not go so of Mosul, in the vilayet of that which be has recently bad with
In the Criminal Sessions this The police, , however, are far as to say he is telling líen. name, lies about 220, miles north. M. Joffe, the Soviet envoy, in
not to blame in the Mat- His Worship:-Well then, you Shanghai. The papera there tall morning, the Kwangsi Bank-note case came to an end so far north-west of Bagdad, practically
ter. The offence was dated the are. us that the Russian represent- as the Jury are concerned. The 19th. The summons was received at the meeting place of North ative paid daily visits to Dr. Sun's jury found that the first and at the Magistracy on the 20th. Worship, said that he did not Defendant, in reply to bis Mesopotamia mod Kurdistan. residence and
second prisoners were guilty on Occasion they were in The population of the Mosul ares
con both counts, whilst the third and as to why it was not forwarded propose to call his foreman & ference for four
to you then is a matter I sball witness, but would prefer to be hours. Wa are non-Turkisb. consisting prin-suppose
fourth prisoners were not guilty
dealt with himself. He asked for bave to investigate.” Dr. Sun would have
log both counts. Sentence will cipally of Kurda Bod Arabs, and as believe that Communism, So: not be passed on the first two In the past, said the defendant, leniency. since the late war have been viet rule, or Bolshevism (cali prisoners, until the legal points it bad been the custom of the under the province of the ruter it what you will) was never once raised during the bearing by Mr. police to notify the Company of mentioned daring those conversa Zaitlyn have been argued before the offence and coolies were im- of Iraq, who has British protes- tions. How could these subjects the Fall Court, which will sit on mediately want round who would tion. King Hussein bas row possibly have been discussed Tuesday, next. The third and take down the posters straight addressed a note to the Lausanne of the possibility of China taking
when Sun had never even thought fourth prisoners were discharged. away. Mr. Ray expressed his inability to understand why such Conference vigorously protesting to Communism?
a procedure had not been adopted The following will represent against the Turkish claim. A
in the present case. On the last the Hongkong Cricket Club 2nd. In the Union Church Hall last occasion Inspector Pitt bad sent XI versus Hongkong University month ago, petitions were being Why We're Thankful.
evening, Professor R. K. M. the notification and the order was“ ▲ ' on February 3rd. at 2.15 But, unfortunately for Dr. Sun. Simpson, of the Hongkong Un immediately complied with. The p.m., on the Club ground:-R. H. seat in from the population of]
it is now clear that Communism, Iversity, delivered lecture on individual who did the posting Chaloner, F. N. Young, M. M. Mosul to remain under the King and its introduction into China, new theory put forward by for the Theatre was a very sub Watson. H. E. Hollands, J. R. of Iraq. They have never been were definitely talked about at writer, Colin Still, that Shakes-ordinate person, and he (Mr. Ray) Way, J.Wilson, W. Brackenridge, assimilated by the Turks, who, these meetings between himself peare's "The Tempest was would not have recognised him F.Syme Thomson, G. M. Dorkins,
and M. Joffe.
Can allegorical account "of during centuries of dominance.
those where be to see him. I have no I. W. Roger and E. Grimble. call the latter to witness on psychological experiences which means of getting back at him." have misgoverned the Arabs and that point, for he has issued constituted what mystics called If I has bim a doller, that would Kurds to such an extent as to statement saying that they have initiation. The theory is based mean one week of his par gous." make them welcome the removal both agreed that Communism or on the resemblance between "The the Soviet system cannot be
His Worship. But surely you Tempest and the Eleusinian] of the Turkish yoke. It is some introduced into Chins at the Mysteries. Professor Simpson could have given instructions to what amusing to note from the moment, because conditions are analysed the theory at length, have a responsible person attend mail papers that the Angora unfavourable to the succees of outlining what is known as the to this posting?
Mr. Ray - Well, I bave changed of initiation of the
The 'disastrous reculls of sea Government's delegates at Lau-either. What particular condi-
tions he has in mind we do not neophytes, and suggested that in all that. I have engaged a Eura erosion at Barmouth, sad the pro- sanne, in their attempts to prove now, but we would draw atten- some ways the new interpretation Bian to go along with the posters jected demolition of Eastbourne's their right to Mosul, have gone tion to the qualifying words "at of the play andoubtedly added and see that they are posted in Martello. Tower for the same
The movements of much to its enjoyment,
the proper places. so far as to advance an ethno-present."
TOASON, #76 A reminder that Joffe and Sua have been the
His Worship: I propose to Britain's "danger from the sea" graphic claim that Kurd is in subject of much interest of late.
impose the game fine as in the is not a wartime one alone. reality a Turk, solemnly referring The Soviet envoy wanted to come
One dollar.
The onslaught of the 438 cuneiform inscriptions South, in the interests of his trouble and the consegent dis-other case.
Other Theatres.
proceeds relentlessly all along ibe South and East coasta 'proof" of this theory. It is all health, of course, and we do not location of business. But we can hesitate to say that he would at any rate feel relieved that the
The Star Theatre, of Kowloon,with sometimes strange, and so childish and exasperating that have been here now but for the coup of Friday last has delayed one wonders whether the Turks happenings in Canton. Hongkong the coming of Bun and Joffe. Had was summoned for a similar often tragic, consequences. Dan- offence. The delay in the wich, in Spffolk, provides a seriously expected that the Allies and Macso might have denied him these two mischief-makers settled
His Worship imposed vival of this once flourishing, would admit all the claims that the right of residence but if Sun in Canton, the resuits would have summons was also mentioned in pathetic example, the only sur-
bad returned to Canton we have been disastrous, both for Canton this case.
village bring the ruined church have been put forward at Lau- not the least shadow of doubt and Hongkong. The Bolshevistic the same fine.
The World Theatre, which had on the edge of the cliff, while at sanne by the Angora Govern- that Joffe would have accompan- spirit would have spread in both ment, hardly one of which bas led him or followed soon after centres, and the troubles of both its posters affixed to the pillars Aldeburgh; close by, the Moot We may regret to see Canton in would only then begin. So, for outside the French Store, in spite Hall, which once stood in the been backed by convincing the hands of "outside" troops, present mercies we era, duly of a protest from the proprietor, middle of the town, now stands
was fined a similar rum.
Jon the ses edge.. argument,
with the prospect of endless thankful.
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