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BIRTH.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1923,
DAY BY DAY.
BANDIT OUTRAGE,
Fruitless Mission to the Hills
ROUND THE TOWN.
ity unrepentant. The demon
strations reported to-day-of an anti-British character in the maia-reflect very clearly the
THERE IS IN THE SOUL A TASTE mental attitude of the people, or IS IN THE BODY AN APPETITE FOR THE GOOD, JUST AS THERE
[By "Gadabout"] more correctly of the "Reds." FOR ENJOYMENT.-Joubert
So the motoring fraternity are No doubt their hatred of the
endeavouring to rouse their As- (Courtesy: "Daily Bulletin.")" | sociation, the Hongkong A. A *Imperial Bourgeoisie" has been
Yesterday's health return shows Tanchuang, May 15-Last out of the semi-torpor which foatared by internal propaganda, aix 交部 of small-por (all night's mission to the hills with seems to have overtaken it. a little game in which the Chinese) and two of enteric fever the bandits returned, but, unfor- They're out to pep things up a bit. Bolshevist authorities and their (one Japanese and one Chinese), tunately, with no definite result. Their grouse is that nothing's The demands of the bandits are done to create espirt de-corps agents excel It would be like
that the troops be immediately among lovers of the open road. getting a drug addict to give up o'clock this morning burnt down igner to pledge his word that held-fuel consumption tests, to A fire which broke out at one withdrawn. some responsible fore-It's suggested that testa should be his rice if one were to have the matched on a new building site the bandits will not be molested liability, trials, Soviet give up its propagandist at Conduit Road near the Univer-after the captives are released, competitions, and so on.
hill climbing And campaign. It need not be ex.sity.
and that the bandits be readmitted why not? A fallow certainly needs pected, despite
to the army.
to be an enthusiast to take up Apparently, the bandits have not molering or meter cyaling with treaty undertakings. By now, King George, His Excellency the forgotten the lesson learned a few the few miles of road this the Soviet word goes for nothing. Governor and Lady Stubbs are months ago, when they released Calony. possessKA.
You can go and its contracts are but scraps giving a reception and ball at some Chiness on the assurance and the lot in a day, if of paper when the opportunity Government House on Saturday. that they would be guaranteed you're so inolined. Something's for their breach
June 2ad.
safety. Within two months about wanted to ginger up the pastime 40 heads of bandits were hanging and get more fellows to take so in the vicinity of Lincheng.
interat in it. Towas at Home abe system of communication, motor cyclists than Hongkong The bandits possess an admir- which don't possess many more and receive ample warning of any bave 'em, and they hold 'em in persoas approaching.
our neighbour Malaya. When Mr. Henley and Mr. Roy returned after the
There are stretches of road in been released on the New Territories which should parole, they were met by bandits be suitable for bolding competi mounted on ponies.
The chief of the bandits is one, and if the Automibile Asso- ciation would get the thing start- ed I've an idea they would have Tha
any
possible
To mark the birthday of E. M.
arrives. The poisonous flood of Bolshevik
"Man in the Building Trade." literature that has left its marke do not quite follow your in nearly every part of the world, letter, but if you have any facts and which is directed mainly at in regard to building costs, we Britain's Asiatic possessions,
suggest that you communicate them to the Han. Mr. H. E Anderson will continue. Russia, in fact Pullock, Chairman of the Housing former bed feels she can defy all comers. Commision. As we recently noted, the is in an almost impregnable position. Easma's new bathing beach at However, when it comes to offen-Stonecutter's Island was opened Young man of about 24 years of
to members yesterday, and there age. He has four sub-chiefs, all no lack of competitors. sive operations, it is the pro-was much gratification expressed well-educated, and the leader is a paganda leaflet that forms her at the excellent beach and the member of a powerful political geats for the various makes of cars and cycles sold in the chief weapon. Trotsky can ramp general arrangements for the family in the province. CARTER. On May 5, at the/ much as he likes, and continue comfort of bathers. Over forty from the camp. He reports all support. It would be a rattling Dr. Mertens has also returned Colony would probably give their
launch flying the Easma flag. members made the trip across by well, and that Mr. Musso is im- of the winning machines. It's good advert for the agents proving.
Dr. Mertens, who had permis-
form of sport which- With regard to the proposed sion to visit all the camps, states imagination
would probably appeal to the new Cadet Company for British that the water supply is plentiful public, too. And perhaps the day of tha general boys, the age at which they may and pure. transfer to the Volunteers is, we
would come when our drivers understand, 18 years, and not 16 Letter from Captive. would pit their skill against the A letter from Mr. Solomon, one Eastern ports. It's a sport which champions from other Far the publication of the particulars of the captives, says that yester-seems to have possibilities. which we gave yesterday will re-day he received foreign food for salt in, many applications from the first time since his capture, boys anxious to join the new and that the doctor who has Cadets being received at the arrived bas been a great help. Volunteer Headquarters.
Victoria Nursing Home, Shang- hai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Carter, a daughter.
DEATHS.
to rave about the Soviet's "ends," and about "moving the army and Davy." Such talk will not profit Russia. Possibly it will serve to draw the other nations more closely together în defence
JONES.-On May 10, 1923, at the Isolation Hospital, Shangbai,gainst the common enemy of as stated yesterday. No doubt Thomas Jones (Reater's) aged 33 mankind. years.
CROPLEY.-A: 706 Serangoon Road, Singapore, Daphne Eddica Cropley, the beloved daughter of the late Edwin Cropley and of Mrs. C. C. Qehlers, in her 12th
year.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 16th May, 1923.
THE SOVIET POLICY.
A Tribute.
The troubles of the Hongkong- The story which we gave yester-
For the first 12 hours after not yet over. It almost seems as ites who dwell in the heights are day of the release of Mr. RowsOn
leaving the train he had no shoes if the method of one man enxag from the bandits who held him in Hongkong will have its last op Later he secured a pair of slippers to and from his office in town or socks, and only a pair of pants.ing four other men to take him captivity for some weeks has this portunity to-night of seeing "The and Chinese clothing, most gratifying point-that be Four Horsemen of the gained his freedom as a result of ocalypse" at the Coronet Theatre pected, and we are being treated The Peak Tram people have AP- **We are as well as can be ex-mists is the best way, after all. and his dulce domum in the the work of the focal Chinese This is one of the most wonder-as personal guests of the chief, started their new express system, military, and that no ransom was fully conceived and strikingly who is a fins, fellow." paid to the brigands. It la quite produced films ever screened. clear that from the start, General Especially realistic are the scenes Solomon says. Our camp was swings. The man who lives at but it's a case of what's gained Another lettor from Mr. on the roundabouts is lost on the Wong Ming-tong add the forces of the Great War, whilst the whole much stricter than the others. the top gets a quicker service, under bis command were most story is most admirably thought and till today was anything bat but his unfortunate brother who anxious to do all they could to out. No-one should miss seeing pleasant. There was too little lives at, say, May Road is woTES rescue the unfortunate Britisher, this epochmaking picture. and it is much to their credit that
food, and we, slept in a stable off than before. We cannot view the aspect they eventually carried through a
with a cow, and we were eaten stop" is the sign they put up
Next car non created by the controversy with
up by vermin. Later we were when the expresses are runding Soviet Russia without concern.
allowed to visit the others, and to during the basy hours. More like bath, although under guard.
All the news arriving is two or called locals. The much-discussed pose the middle level cars are three days late.
barrier baan't made its appearan Wa Yu Lin at Teaochuang, ce yet, though there are some Peking. May 15.-The Chiao-ground. Peskites in a cage, what supeicious-looking holds in the uagpu announces that Wa-yu-text? No, never; it's not done. in arrived at Tsaochuang on the 14th inst., and interviewed Tien Chun-yu and General Ho, who informed him of the result of the two days' negotiations.
A
surprise attack and succeeded in Burglars entered the shop of their objective. That fact, of Messrs. J. T. Shaw the right The reply to the British Note course, does not minimise the before last and stole some seventy wash our clothes and take a London every day, isn't it? Scp-
gravity of the bandits offence in rolls of cloth worth $3,500. It is be- though it is not openly defiant, is any way; and it must be counted a lieved that they effected entrance disquieting. The worst of these fortunate circumstance that, with through the back of the premises dealings with the Soviet author the conditions as they were, Mr. by way of a small adjoining shop
Rowson came out of the affair nudergoing reconstruction. The ties is that one can never trust very little the worse for bis ex watchman on duty stated that them. When they seem in aperiences, excepting, of course, the lights were turned on in the conciliatory mood it is more than the mental anxiety he must have shop all night and that he noticed likely that they are planning unknown. The matter does not
felt whilst bis fate WAS still nothing unusual happening.
Of course, I went along yester coup of some kind, and are end with his release-incidents
day for the opening of Esma's The Hon. Mr. T. L. Perkins, trying to throw their opponents like these cannot be permitted Director of Public Works, left the
new Bathing beach at Stonecut- off the scent. We can imagine to go unnoticed. The object of Colony on retirement to-day by
Another Conference.
ter's. I learnt that the launch time when Russia's rulers, to express satisfaction at the ex-after nearly 20 years' service in this brief comment, however, is by the P. and O. 6.s. Easbgar,
would be recognisable by the Peking, May 15.-The Chiao-Easma fag. I didn't know what genuinely anxious for peace and cellent services rendered by Gen- Hongkong. During his stay here bandits have been asked to send even know Easma had a flag.
tungpo announces that
the the Easma flag was. I didn't cordial friendship with other eral Wong and his men. Wo nations, will find themselves in troops had a parallel in other ance in the development of the
would that the attitude of these fisting many schemes of import for a future conference.
he has been instrumental in in- delegates and to appoint a place However, there was no need for anybody to keep a look out for the position of the boy who cried parts of the disturbed country.
The different groups of bandits any flags. All they had to do Colony and has won for himself held a meeting, which the major was to go to Blake Pier at Wolf!" in jest and was dis-
the name of being one of thelity favoured an agreement with quarter past five sad the E1- believed when in earnest. Russia Another Tramway Needed. hardest workers in the Govern- the authorities, bence the bandits' marian atmosphere was noticible is now "bedging," and, as was to
ment service. Recently he was delegates will come from the before any bits of busting have in Our contributor "Gadabout": be expected, her reply to Britain has something to say in his from the European and Chinese
the recipient of valuable presents mountains on the 15th inst sight. I think the Easma g 15 of a lengthy, argumentative ing the Peak Tramway congestion. to-day saw bim off and he carries teed by the Magistrates of Tengh on which is printed E. A. 8. M. A It has been decided that the was new to most of the party. characteristic style to-day regard stads of the P.W.D. Many friends future agreement will be guaran. It's a red flag, with a white centre character. Next to the Turks, the We are quite prepared to admit with him the best wishes of the sion and Yihsion. Russians appear to be the most that therecent arrangements have community for many yeare of expert bargainers in treaty mat-caused an improvement during happy retirement... tere, where haggling is primarily night, but the main fact still holds the busy houre of the day and intended to serve as camouflage. good-that the present service is Actually, the Soviet contentions totally inadequate to needs. An-A PEKING COLLAPSE. amount to a rejection of the said, is urgently needed, and we other tramway, as we have before British demands, for the reply are sorry that the Wanchai Gap Two-Storied Building Falls. consists of a string of denials and proposal was not put into effect
They've got a real dinky little counter-assertions. The sugges-
when it was first suggested. It
beach. It's a pretty little place, Peking, May 15.-Last evening, may be, as Mr. Fletcher has two-storied building occupied
U.S. Troops Called Out, tion that disputed matters should stated, that the terminus would by Galati's tobacco store collape-
cosy and secluded. They're Tientsin, May 15. A més the members ought to feel thank- bereferred to an international con- bave to be somewhere in Chins-ed, presumably due to adjoining the traffic manager of the Peking- good hon. sec. and committee. in lucks way in getting it, ference merely means that Bri- town, but with a service of buses building operations disturbing the Mukden Railway called up the The fixing up of the arrangements
sage from Tongshan states that
ful, too, that they've got such tain's assertions are deliberately greatly matter, as the chief com-
running into town that would not foundations. contradicated. We have seen plaint of those living in the igner, were buried in the debris, troops at midnight of the 18th. And it's been carried out well. A
Four men, including one fore Commander of the American was more than a five minutes jab......... sufficient of international con-eastern district of the Peak is one Chinese being fatally injured, inst., reporting that Chinese troops dip in the briny, a quick rub down ferences to know that they mean
the difficulty of getting commun. The French Legation guards, ware looting the city, and that he in the matabeds, and then tea prolonged discussions, controvar- would not greatly mind the run worked rigorously for three hours property.
to their homes they who were promptly on the scene,
feared the safety of the railwayor something with a bit more kick sies, and usually a waste of pre- through town to the office provid- before the last man was dug out
The American troops im the sands; what more do you in it sitting in a deck chair on cious time. The Soviet's objected they could get by tramway still alive.
Courtesy: Daily mediately manned the compound want? Unfortunately, the open-
ication
somewhere within reasonable dis- Bulletin,"
in blue letters. Why not. bave The Chiaotungpa hopes that something more distinctive? How this will satisfy the bandits, who about the colours of the General will release the captives.
Service Medal blended in some way? But perhaps an Essm & party's distinctive enough as it
LOOTING AT TONGSHAN.
15.
and sent out a small detachment to investigate, but finding the ing day, yesterday, the tide, was Chinese were merely looting in right out, and when you planked... the railway yard the detachment were rather apt to find yourself your foot down on terra firma you
is apparently a two-fold one-to tance of their residences. There involve the nations in fresh dis- are other schemes under con- putes, and to gain a respite. We sideration, we know, but some of trust that this somewhat trans these depend on the resumption of the acquisition of the military was recalled.
of the military lauda-and when lands. One fact should be borne parent attempt to confuse the that is to take place nobody in wind-that the public at the Chinese attempted to roba native with an old kerosine in. But It has transpired that about 30 standing on a business like edge of broken crockery or mixed p issues will not be allowed to knows. We suggest, therefore, recent housing meeting unanim-bank, but that the police frustrat those little worries will only be
that the Wanchai scheme be got ously endorsed the Wanchailed the attempt. on with, and then later it might scheme. Then if the public wants Firing lasted about an hour,
encountered at low tide knő, be possible to link it up with sub-it, why should, officialdom stand the police using all their ammuni a job to get things cleaned up
anyway, it shouldn't be much of sequent developments arising out in the way?
tion-Courtesy: "Daily Bulletin." bit.
materialise.
On the whole, one can safely
state that Soviet Russia is entire