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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
FOUNDED 1991
No 143.5
式拜禮
三 雙十英港香 TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 13, 1923,
DUTCH FIRM SUED.
SINGLE: COFT 10 CTX"
13 PER ANNUM
"RECONDITIONED: CARS."
·Ten, fifteen or twenty thousand miles is nothing in the life of a Dodge Brothers Motor Car. Any owner will tell you that. Meaning that it still has a long and useful life ahead of it when 'you take it from our Used Car floor.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone.......
Central 5950.
IN FAVOUR OF FREE TRADE.
PROTECTION AND THE SILK INDUSTRY.
Beater's Service
*GROTESQUE NONSENSE."
MR.BALFOUR ON SINGAPORE CRITICISMS.
EAST RIVER
FIGHTING.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Oo
LATEST REPORTS
CONTRADICTORY.
PEAK TRAMWAY.
NEW SIGNALLING SYSTEM, A DETAINED INSURANCE
POLICY.
London, November 12.
Peak residents have been in- Giving evidence on behalf of retail distributors before the Board)
terested during the past faw The Holland-China Trading of Trade committee inquiring into the lace and silk industries, Mr.
weeks in the work now being Company were the defendants in Thomas Yearsley, of Messrs. John Lewis and Compary, who des-]
carried out on the Peak Trama Summary Court action, before cribed his firm as the largest retail distributors in the country, ex-|
way track, such work consisting Mr. Justice Gompertz, this morn pressed very grave concern with regard to the proposals for a duty fighting on the East River front by the side of the track and the Yuen claimed the return of two, Reports to hand regarding the of the erection of new standards ing, in which the Man Cheung and declared that three-quarters of the goods his firm sold could not are very contradictory. be produced at home. He said his firm was a very large buyer of}
fitting of "cross-wires" under copies of policies of insurance- Japanese and Chinesa silks, for which there were no substitutes.from Dr. Sun's headquarters, upward and downward journeys. Fire Insurance Company and the According to an official report which the trams pass on their one on the Samarang Sea and Piece silk was raw material, making up a trade in which very large: Shum Chun was recaptured by A call on Mr. Henry Humphreys, other on the Batavia Sea and Fire, numbers of people were employed. Enhanced prices would curtail his troops on the 8th instant, of the Peak Tramway Company, Insurance Company-which they the sales and cause further unemployment. He expressed the with 200 rilles and 500 prisoners, this morning brought forth the alleged that defendants had de- pinion that a heavy tariff would lead to trusts, because the produc- whilst 300 further troops are said information that a new and im-tained. Plaintiffs also claimed tion of silk in England was limited to a few firms.
to have fled into British territory proved signalling system is being $50 damages and costs. and been disarmed. The report installed also states that Waichow city:
Mr. R. F. Mattingly conducted was captured on the morning of head system in place of the ex-Vaux appeared for the defence.
"We are putting in an over-the plaintiffs' case and Mr. F. G. the 10th instant.
isting system which runs by the the other hand, an side of the track," said Mr. Hum-plaintiffs on the writ were claim- Mr. Mattingly explained that London, November 12. official report from Speaking at a dinner to Mr. Massey, Mr. Balfour described as Chan King-ming's headquarters and cross wires will carry a sig-policies, under which goods cen- General phreys. These new standardsing two copies of insurance Krotesque the suggesting that we were taking mean advantage of ajet Waichow, dated the
10th nalling cable directly over the top signed to plaintiffs were insured. technical point in the Washington Treaty in fortifying Singapore. instant, states that io He said Singapore was deliberately omitted from the Pacific at-counter-attack on the 8th, Pok arranged that emergency signals
of the cars, and signals #ill be so They were making their claim rangements in order that we might do what we liked with it. People lo city was recaptured and the can be given as well as the against the agents of the com who suggest that the omission of Singapore was a mistake and that enemy forces were being followed ordinary station signals. At the
panies in Hongkong. Those neither American nor Japanese sailors know quite where the line of along the line to Sheklung. It is present moment there is nothing agents had now ceased to be tongitude passed, which put Singapore outside instead of inside the also claimed that Heungsin and to distinguish one signal from Fice lasurance Company and agents for the Batavia Sea and Suchuea were captured on the another although conductors can plaintiffs were therefore with- 10th. instant, with 1.500 rifles, always attract the four held guns and five machine-of those in the engine bouse.to that policy.
attention drawing their claim with regard guns, and that a general attack The was to be made on the 11th from threw himself under a car quite tingly said a cargo of rice and a
other day & Chinese
Outlining the facts, Mr. Mat-| four directions against Shektan, near the Bowen Road station Cheung Mok Tau and Ping Wu. In expectation of a fiovernment surplus of over three-hundred
and, although The Government at Canton has signalled at once, the men in the
cargo of flour were consigned to the conductor million dollars, Mr. Mellon has written to President Coolidge sug-
plaintiffs aboard the s.s. Bourbon gesting sweeping cuts in income tax totaling three hundred and trates of Yuen and Lok Cheong ordinary stopping signal for the companies for which defen- received a report from the magis engine house thought it was the and the policy of insurance was twenty-three million dollars, including a twenty-five per cent. re-districts stating that their cities Bowen Road station.
effected by the consignors with duction in earned income tax and the abolition of what he terms the were captured on the 3rd. instant new systems, the conductors will dants were the Hongkong agents. miscellaneous nuisance taxes and like taxation on table silver, by a detachment of Chan King- be able to send distinguishing The insurances were effected in watches, et cetera. The foreing is proposed as an alternative to ming's .orces on the way to attack calls and an emergency call will granting the soldiers bounus.
Saigon with the agents there. On Shuichow.
be recognised ght away and the voyage from Saigon to Hong acted upon. Also, by the present Paracels and part of the targe kong the Bourbon stranded on the method the signalling armr some- times gets foul of the side stand-Was jettisoned, including a part) ards, but by the new system such of the cargo insured.
Pacific, were really talking grotesque monsense-
- U.S. SURPLUS FUNDS.
INCOME-TAX REDUCTION PROPOSED.
Washington, November 12.
GERMAN COMMUNISTS PARTY BANNED.
HITLER ARRESTED IN BAVARIA.
Berlin, November 12.
Yon Kahr has ordered the dissolution of the Communist Party and forbidden the Social-Democrat newspapers to appear. The Reichswehr is thoroughly disbanding the Putsch organisation. Hitler is now in a peasant's cottage at Ruseaheima.
He is no:
RUGBY MATCH.
CLUB DEFEAT " WAYFOONG."
use."
By the
FOOTBALL COMPETITION.
A WIN OF $50.
There was some unusual scoring in the three foot- ball matches which com- petitors were last week required to forecast. In spite of this fact, however, one competitor succeeded in getting all three right. namely
MR. GEORGE LAL 18. Leighton Hill Road.
If Mr. Lai will call at this, office, we shall be pleased to hand him the prize of $50.
It is interesting to note that there were nine com- petitors who succeeded in giving the correct goal scares for two of the three matches, but none of these correctly forecasted the result of the Titania's win of 7 goals to.2 over the University. Mr. Lai was the only competitor who gave the right score in this match.
LADY'S LOSS.
VALUABLE BRACELET
STOLEN.
-wounded. Ludendorff has been allowed to choose his own residence,ard Shanghai Bank on Saturday.bility of using larger cars on the had told them to look to the that the ornament was left by"
but is strictly watched.
ance.
Hitler has been arrested in South Bavaria.
Berlin. later.
LAND-OWNING IN AMERICA.
JAPANESE HELD INELIGIBLE.
Washington: November 12.
MARRIED.
Above are Princess Maude and Lord Carnegie, news of whose wedding is contained in to-day's telegrams.
TO-DAY.
Closing Exchange 28. 3. 11/16. Barometer
2 pm 29.99
Temperature 2 p.m. Humidity
2 Pani
High Tide 2.26 pm. Low
73
37
Lighting Up-Time 5.41 pun
Water 5.52 p.m.
NEWS IN THE ADS.
Entries for the seventh race at the extra gymkhana meeting to CENOTAPH WREATHS. be held on 1st. December next
will be post entries.-Page 4.
Lost Platinum bar brooch. Finder please return G.P.O. Box
a happening will be impossible.. The agents of the company hers The men are at work on the in-had paid a certain sum of money The theft of a gold and diamond stallation now and as soon as it to the average adjustors, Mr.bracelet, of the value of $450, is finished it will be put into Mattingly proceeded. They had occurred at the residence of Mrs. The Hongkong Rugby Club
refused to pay the claim of the Dunn, at No. 14 Seymour Terrace were at home to the Hongkong Questioned regarding the possi-
insurers in respect of the loss and on the 11th instant. It is reported The match resulted in a win for tramway. Mr. Humphreys in-verage adjustor. This had been Mrs. Dann on the window sill He made no resist the Club by a goal and a try dicated that the Government now going on for four years and as far in the bathroom. On her return
15 points), to nil.
seemed averse to the use of one could see said Mr. Matting-from an outing, she missed the The Club kicked off at 4.30 larger cars if it meant that the Plaintiffs had asked the agents access to the room is suspectec.
ly, might go on for another forty.bracelet. A coolie who had pn., and the game started at a cars would weigh more. The brisk pace. Aboat five minutes matter was being considered, but here for their copy of the policy from the game start the Club, who there was nothing affinitely de-in order to get their claim paid. at this period were repeatedly cided upon yet.
The agents had refused to hand obtaining possession of the ball; The Supreme Court has sustained the alien lands of California in the scrum, got the ball back another track up to Magazine the original policy was believed to
Regarding the proposal to build over the copy.
Mr. Mattingly mentioned that and Washing on States, prohibiting aliens ineligible for American to their three-quarters. and as a Gap. Mr. Humphreys said the citizenship from owing or leasing land. The Court held that it wast result of a rather pretty move project. was only in the sugges have been lost when the manager COOLIE CAUGHT STEALING 443--Page 4. elearly within the power of these States to prohibit such Allens from ment the ball was touched down tion stage at present. He thought
of the Tsi Tuan Steamship Com- wing land, and such legislation was not opposed in the Japanese- by Logan. Forsyth took the kick, that the running of non-stop cars pany was drowned on his way to American agreement. A minority of the judges held that cases but failed to convert.
and the restriction of the military obtained and was handed over to
Saigon. The duplicate regarding the leasing of land to Japanese should have been dismissed! A few minutes later. the Club to certain cars had done much to defendants when the claim was
For stealing two ribbons off one again scored through Clelland, relieve the traffic pressure.
of the wreaths placed on the Day taking the kick and convert-
The claim had been Cenotaph, a coolie employed by ing.
refused and defendants would not the Saag Lee firm of contractors return the copy of the policy. received a sentence of three Mr. Mattingly read a quantity weeks hard star from Mr. of correspondence, from which iL N. Smith this morning. appeared that the stranding took Evidence was given by Mr. place in January, 1910. Of J. A. E. Bullock, of the Colonial Cargo of 1,720 bags of rice, 776 Secretary's Office, who witnessed bags, valued at $6,093,
were the theft jettisoned.
on the ground that no question of justice was presented.
M. POINCARE'S PROPOSAL.
Paris. November 12.
It is announced that in order to demonstrate his desire to over- come all the difficulties in the way of a solution of the reparations problem. M. Poincare is going to propose on his own reponsibility the appointment of a committee of experts.
From this point until half-time the three-quarters on either side saw but little of the ball
STOLEN WRIST WATCH.
A USELESS EXCUSE.
Опе
of two young Chinese
made.
was
Mr. Mattingly's contention was
►
RIBBONS.
Wholesale buyer or agent re- quired for inexhaustable electric pocket lamps. -Page 4.
A cordial invitation is extended to visit the opening sale of jewellery and novelties at the store of Shiu Yuen Cheung, which is to be opened at the Old Post Office Building on the 22nd. inst-Page 7.
that whether the insurers had a THE HUMAN ZOO
The Bank forwards were con-i tinually on the attack and, secur ing the ball in the frequent line Paris, November 12. nuts. kept it to themselves, gain- M. Peingure has instructed M. Barthou, chairman of the Re-jing ground and holding on to it. parations Commission, to propose the appointment of a committee of
From the kick-off in the second experts to investigate Germany's resources. however, indicates that M. Poincare adheres to the limitations of spectators who had come to see morning with being in possession got claim, or whether they had
The plan outlined, half, it became obvious that charged at the Police Court this the enquiry which he has already announced. The committee would bright three-quarter play were of a gold-wrist watch, suspected a bed claim, or whether they had include assistant delegates, from the Powers, represented on the doomed to disappointment. commission and an expert appointed by each country.
The of having been unlawfully claim at all, they were entitled gested that the investigations would take two months.
It is suz- reason for this is not hard to acquired, told the Magistrate that to the return of their policy. find. Both packs were rather he helped a drunken Japanese Plaintiffs had given their copy of heavy, but energetic
and into a ricksha at Happy Valley, the policy to the defendants— keen. The Club had a distinct and, in doing so, the watch drop who were somewhat optimistical- advantage in the back division, (ped out of the man's pocket, toy described as settling agents → Princess Maud a niece of the King, was married to-day to Lord
London November 12. and the Bank perhaps forward.
gether with a hankerchief. He and had demanded the return of Carnegie, hair of the Earl of Southesk. in the Guards Chapel at to be expected. The Bank for-return it after picking it up from
The result was what was only did not explain why he did not it, which had been refused.
The defence was that defend- Wellington Barracks. Their Majesties, the Prince of Wales and Princes Henry and George,policy, and, keeping the ball to
Great crowds outside cheered the couple. wards stuck to their original the ground.
ants were in possession of the Defendant received a sentence] policy as "of right. They had Princess Mary, Lord Lascelles, and the Duke and Duchess of York themselves, gradually forced the of fourteen days, with the option no other policy and they needed Club back to within a few feet of of payment of a fine of $10. The it in connection with the claim their own line.
other man charged with him on the general average funds.
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were present.
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PRINCESS MAUD'S WEDDING.
COMMITTEE TO DECIDE NEW DUTIES.
London, November 12.
It was unfortunate that the pleaded that he was given the Having made payments and got Bank were not able to score at watch to pawn. In his case a endorsements on the policy to It is officially announced that Mr. Baldwin has appointed the this period and vindicate them discharge order was issued by that effect, Mir. Vaux held that following committee to advise the Government in connection with selves. When the whistle blow Mr. J. E. Wood. the preparation of the proposed duties on manufactured goods. Lord for Milner (chairman), Lord Kylsant, Sir Algernon Firth, Sir Pater unchanged. Rylands, Sir William Ashley, Professor A. S. Hewins, and Mr. Artbur Pugh.
BELGIUM THREATENS SANCTIONS.
Brussels, November 12.
no-side the BCOTO was
YAUMATI FIXE.
A GODOWN DESTROYED.
defendants were entitled to keep the policy, which was a valuable document, until the general averago was settled. Plaintiffs were in no way prejudiced, Aub mitted Mr.Vaux; they were very much the raverse by so doing
His Honour reserved judg- ment.
For the Club, Forsyth played his usual stout game and it was obvious Smythe had lost none of] bis cunning. Ralston
and Adams were the outstanding for- Owing to dot receiving satisfaction from Germany with respect sound game at full back
wards, whilst King played a to the murder of the Belgian Lieutenant Graff last January, the
A fire which broke out at 6,30 Belgian Government has warned Germany that, failing prompt herculean work in the line-outs, Yaumati, destroyed a godown For the Bank, Moncrieff did last night at Newmarket Street, compensation, sanctions will be carried out in the occupied German whilst Bredin and Jones were and caused damage to miscell-
SHIPS THAT PASSI territory.
much to the fore in all forward aneous. merchandise amounting
Complaint has been made of movements.
b $5,000,0
the danger arising from the ex- Outside the scrum the Bank The godown was occupied, by cessive speed of big chips passing The Stock Exchange is weak in consequence of rumours of the Hegarty, at full back image and fusured with two Chinese
halves, Ferguson and Clerk, and the Hing Shun Loong firm, and through Cowes Roads, The question has been refer to ite
EFFECT OF ELECTION RUMOURS.
London, November 12,
The Franco-Chinese Trading Company have removed to No. 4 Queen's Buildings.-Page 4,
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