DAY BY DAY.
PUBLICITY IS FOR A POLITI- CIAN, THE LINE OF LEAST RE- BISTANCE. — Yr. Philip Ouedalia.
SIR EDWARD STUBBS.
MPOSTOR SENTENCED.
A MANILA INTERVIEW. Pretended Survivor of
H.M.S. Cressy. China's chaotic political condi tions have resulted in a verii The Croydon Magistrates had able tidal ware of crime in before then a man who had Hongkong, according to His claimed to be a survivor of Excellency Sir Reginald Ed H. H. S. Cressy, which was sunki
of in the North Sen in 1914. The that British possession, who prisoner was George Pugh, 29, with Lady Stubbs, arrived in Ma-described as a gardener, and was nila yesterday aboard the Presi- charged with obtaining £20 by dent Jackson, saga, the Manila false protances from Grace Bulletin of the 4th instant.
| Batchelor, of Dannatt-road, Croy-
Tenders are being invited for the construction of a new store at ward the Central Police Station.
The names of Mr. F. Clemes and Mr. Sik Lam-wong have been added to the list of authorised
architects.
Stubbs Governor
With the strength of the coun-don, with intent to defrand. He try being steadily sapped by the elected to be dealt with warring factions, the starving summarily and pleaded “Guity." desperate natives take to rob-
Detactive-inspector Hedges said. bery and acts of violence in that the day before he saw the
stern fight for It is proclaimed by order af His the
exist. prisoner at Mrs. Batchelor's Excellency the Officer Adminis.lence while another class of crim-house and told him he would be taring the Government in Coun-inals, gun-runners, have arisen to charged with obtaining £20 by cil that Saigon is a place at profit by the unhappy condition false pretences from her by which an infectious disease pre-of the land.
representing that he was her last To meet the crises the Governor son. The prisoner was wearing vails.
bas greatly increased the Hong-medals belonging to Mrs. kong police force and has Batchelor's son, who had been The local manager of the Mor. Staunchly backed the severe sent-missing for nine years.
ences imposed by the British Mrs. Amy Stuart said that she
cantile Bank of India has re- ceived cable advice that a branch of the Bank will be opened at Soerabaya on Monday, 18th inst... in charge of Mr. F. W. Harris.
It is notified that, at the ex- piration of three months, the Canton Steam Laundry, Limited will, unless cause is shown to the contrary, be struck off the register and the company will be disclved.
courts.
NO MERCY FOR SMUGGLERS.
Arus-smugglers, when caught. are
desit with promptly and severely.
For obvious reasons the Gover nor could not discuss freely the political situation in China.
had known Mrs. Batchelor for ai great number of years and knew, that she had a son known as Ben.' who went down in the Cressy, She saw the poisoner in the street, and as he looked very ill allowed him to come to her house
to rest.
Helen Wiggins, a daughter of Mrs. Batchelor, said that the be her
gave
the
Anything is apt to happen." prisoner claimed to he said in regard to the Canton brother Ben. She was present. situation. "It is the old question when her mother
rule* of Who shall
being prisoner £20, which she borrow- refought ΟΠ
somewhat ed. larger scale than heretofore. H.M.S. Diomede sailed for Boiled
In answer to the Chairman In- down, the situation Shanghai and Yangtse ports this is this: Dr. Sun Yat Sen refuses spector Hedges said the prisoner was one of the rankest impostors morning. Owing to trouble bete recognize the Peking govern he knew. He started his crimin tween Chinese and local Japan-ment and the Peking governmental career in 1914. In 1916 he ese elements at Amor, H.M.S. refuse to have anything to do with was sentened to five years" penal Diomede will call there on her Dr. Sun."
servitude" for false pretences. way north.
Rumuors," the distinguished He had been identified under a guest added."were rife about a number of aliases as having been big smash-up in the Canton sector several times previously Observatory returns for Janover China New Year's, but they vied.
British naval uary show that the average mean do not worry
The prisoner was sentenced to temperature for the month was authorities who have sent most six months' imprisonment with 62.4. the highest being 74.1. on of the Asiatic Flect on cruises hard labour. The Chairman said the 13th, and the lowest 17,5, on north and south, leaving only the Bench regretted that they the 1st. There were 102.3 hours small police force in Hongkongcould not give him more than of sunshine and 1.080 inch of rain.
HONGKONG GROWING. that term, which was the maxi- The average humidity was 81.
Governor Stubbs has been at mum penalty.
the helm in Hongkong for four and, a half years, taking the A new regulation under the position in 1919. During his Tramways
read regime the city has experienced Ordinance "The driver or conductor of a car shall stop or move on the same in obedience to all directions and signals which many be given by any police officer in uniform for the pupose of regulating traffic.
HORATIO'S PRISON LIFE."
con-
Two warders at Wormwood
as unequalled growth, thanks Scrubs Gaol have been dismissed to & steady flow of im-and another has been placed on migrants from the back country probation and transferred, fol- and the tide of Occidentalism|lowing an inquiry into the recent that has been bringing new and smuggling out of the prison of bigger business to the island. some Dewspaper articles by
The year just ended sees Horatio Bottomley, Hongkong with ·& popula
The Water Return shows thattion nearing the million mark, the amount stored in Hongkong reservoirs on February 1st was 1,599.73 million gallons, as com- pared with 919 million gallons on the same date last year. The respective figures for Kowloon were 231,96 and 231.38 million gallons.
Amongst those present at the funeral of the late Mr. H. E. R. Hunter, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. which took place at the Tedding- ton cemetery on January 4th. wera Sir Newton Stabb. Mr. H. Birkett, Mr. H. Looker and Mr. Gershom Stewart.
the Governor says, and cele- brating the biggest shipping year in its history. Health co- ditions have been steadily on the mend and the present small pox epidemic is now under control, thanks to an extensive campaign of vaccination and sanitation.
TRAIN OUTRAGE IN SERBIA.
Caught the Lawyer Asleep,
A wholesale train robbery of a very sensational type is reported from Southern Serbia. The Skoplje-Ohrid train, which owing| to the prevalence of outlawry in The fuceral of the late Mr. that district, runs only by day! Alex Fr. Norin, fourth Officer on and in the winter makes the the Swedish motor-ship Hemland journey in two stages owing to took place last evening at the the shorter day was delayed Protestant Cemetary, the burial and had not reached the halfway service being conducted by Rev. J. station, Gostivar, by nightfall. Kirk Maconachie. Wreaths were Between two villages the engine; sent by parents, brothers and driver noticed a barrier of stones sisters of the deceased, Captain ahead on the track, and cries of and officers of the Hemland, the "halt" were beard at the same Swedish East Asiatic Co. Ltd., instant, accompanied by rifle- and the Swedish Trading Co. Ltd. fire. A large band of outlaws, reported to be Albanians, held up the train and ordered all the The s... Yatshing, of the Indo-passengers to alight; they num China line, bas just been releasedbered about one hundred. They from the quarantine anchorage were systematically robbed, some after having bad an outbreak of even of their clothing, and those small-pox on board. The boat unfortunate ones who possessed valuables ΠΟΣ good came in from Amoy on the 6th neither and reported the outbreak, the clothes were maltreated, accord- Captain of the ship, Capt. C. E.ing to one account. After nearly Webb, and the Third Engineer, wo hours the train was allowed being later removed to hospital to proceed. It had been robbed suffering from the disease. The of the sum of over half a million ship has been detained quarantine until now.
in dinars, owing to the circum atances that a number of mer chants were returning from a sale. Gendarmerie and soldiers sent in pursuit have so far failed to track the band.
Sir Samuel Chisholm. Bart Glasgow, a former Lord Provost
The incident, serious enough of Glasgow, and chairman of the in itself, has one amusing side. Clyde Navigation Trustees, left, There Was
one traveller who
in addition to real estate, person escapod. This was a lawyer, al estate valued for probate at who was fast asleep in his 2114162. He left over £20,000 compartment. The outlaws did to various Scottish religious and not notice him when they order- obaritable institutions, hospitals, ed the travellers to leave the et the residue being left to the train, and, he did not wake Mission of the United Free during the two hours work of Church, the China Inland Mi
plunder sion, and Salvation Army,
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