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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG'S DISPLAY.
ANOTHER PIRACY,
MURRAY BARRACKS.
HONGKONG'S PROBLEM.
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ROBBERS' ATTACK...
MANY VILLAGERS KIDNAPPED.
CASTS A SPELL OVER · WEMBLEY VISITORS.
BETWEEN KONGMOON AND CANTON,
GREAT INTEREST IN NATIVE CRAFTS,
(Reuter's Service).
London, April 23.
40 PEOPLE KIDNAPPED.
STORY OF A MUDDLE
IN PLANS. -
(Our Own Correxpoinfeat.)
ĐẠI THÀ LIKIN'S A (GROSTI Another beastly pain In the Exs chequers
owing to inferior tyre equipment." From now on nothing for ME but the
deponable FIRESTONE GUM-DIPPED
CORDS & STEAM-WELDED TUBES;— Most Miles per Dollar-I get them from The Dragon.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.; Expert and Constant European Supervision.. telephoné Central 3950...... A. J. Allison.
CONTROL OF HOUSES OF ILL-FAME.
DEPUTATION TO
MR. THOMAS.
SUN'S TROOPS RETREAT
VARIOUS REASONS
QUOTED.
"Latest reports from Shoklung. stato that the Yunnarióso, and
We wonder whuther our readers have over noticed any-[SOME CAPTIVES RESCUED. thing unusual about the architoc-
· (Our Own Correspondent.)
tural features of Murea'y
The following a fullor Huranoke troops which. are Barracks? According to à Home Kongmoon, April 22nd. writer, there was, when those
account of a discussion (briefly reported to have made good The British Empire Exhibition was thronged all day long. The
Kongmoon, April 2onbled, by Router at the time) progress along the East River Another successful piracy was barracks were built, a. muddle J/nighty thousand people who attended the opening of the stadium porpetratod on the "Ping On" rogarding the plans, with the large gang of robbers, number: Commons on March 24th
On the 19th inst., at 5 am, a which took place in the House of front, have retreated at all points. fa ovorilo wed into the Dominions and Colonial pavilions, which often towhont, plying between Kong-rosult that the building was ing over 200, made an unexpected
In some quarters this is attributed. TA could not be passed through, especially the smaller buildings of the moon and Canton. The vessel erected and verandahs added appearance and swooped down States for the Colonies (Derby), Walshow city has boon defeated;" Mr. Thomas, Scoretary of to the fact that the vanguard near TC African colonies and dependencies, Palostino, and Hongkong.
had left Kongmoon with passon-aftorwards as an afterthought. upon Wong Ching village, to asked by The novelties of the Hongkong shopping centre cast a spall over
to bo 'that General many visitors, while the native workers in the walled cities of West the 19th. inst., and when she was London Observer on the subject district. Over eighty of the was aware that the official ap- Cheongchow and will soon roturn Africa were overwhelmed with the attentions of the crowd. The nouring Sam Naung Miu en route,
Chan King-ming hae captured villagors wore taken prisoners. ploturesque and roomy Malaya pavilion was thronged, main interest to Canton, she was given, a warm "In an article on Chinese re
pointed to the position No sooner had the robbers of Secretary for Chinese Affairs to operate on the East Rivor deltreins on the arts and crafts display, with indigenins talent reception by the pirates, who miniscences in the National Review retreated from the village than in Hongkong working primitive industries.
popped out in largo numbers from Mr. G. H, A Willis mentions the alarms
Was informed. cont. Yet another report says were given by tha beltind the ombankments on famous Murray barracks at Hong- relatives of the victims, and prior to his appointment, that his that the forces have retreated on either side of the river. As the kong, solid and ugly, with outside native guards
duties would include the ox-account of the fact that they were sont out amination of girls as to their bave received no payments for pirates hail the boat well under vorandahs, built un afterwords from all the surrounding villages suitability to enter brothole, and several days. cover of fire, any attempt at Verandahs and ouoi airy buildings to try to intercept and round up thats to post on into the vla, and A meeting has boon held at with the Independent Labour Party. He has received the sanction excape would have been fruitless. are a nocbesity in the tropics, the bandits in their retreat.classos.of brothols in the colony Canton, and it is reported that, military headquarters in About forty passengers were and the reason given for the style About. 40 of the captives wore whether this practice was pecu taken away for ranson, apart of these barracks and the tardy thus roscued, and, though some liar to the colony of Hongkong: following this gathering. Dr from a big-haul of goods. After addition of the veranddha was of the bandits wore killed and and, if not, in how many other Sun has declared that he will the priates-had done their busi- rather humorous, It'sooms that, wounded, they managed to make British Dependencias was it the take a large sum of money to The learness of the broadcast transmission during the stadium/ess, they sailed. triumphantly years ago, the construction of good their escape with their{practice toroquiroBritish officials the troops and personally direct
away aboard the towing launch.
barracks at Hongkong and booty and the other captivos. Gosport was authorised at the On the whole, the bandits had to issue passos for girls to become the fighting on the East River same time. The War Office to pay, a heavy price for this inmates of brothels, said :— letters to each place. contained, expedition.
gers and freight on the night of Hero is an extract from the the west of Gaomoon. Sunwui (Hackney, N., L.) whether he said
Mr. J. Harris whilst in others the reason is
Prime Minister's 'Absence.
London, April 23,
It is explained that tho Prime Minister was absent from Wembley because during Easter he has been busy in conference
of H.M. the King to tako three days' holiday in order to obtain a short rest before the House of Commons ré-assombles.
Triumph of Broadcasting.
London, April 23.
Scoremony was such that a gramaphono racord was taken of the King's spooch from a medium loud-speaker, and this was broadcast lato to-night, with His Majesty's pormission, for the benefit of those unable to hear the speech in the morning. The words were heard most distinctly.
The speech was also broadcast in Esperanto for the benefit of! Continental listonora.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(To the Editor of the “Hongkong) Te egraph,
[The following tolegram has been sent by the Chairman on be- half of the Hongkong Joint Committee là connoation with the British Empire Exhibitjon:-"Secretary of State for the Colonies, | London.-Hongkong Committee send loyal greetings to President]'.
Brokers' Quarrel. and best wishes for success of Exhibition." A further telegram has Sir. The action taken by the been wont to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, London, as follyws: Hongkong Stock Exchange and Please convey London Committee cordial wishes"success Ex-the Hongkong Sharebrokers' Ass Kibition Hongkong Committee."}
IMPERIAL CO-OPERATION.
GOVERNMENT DEFINES ITS ATTITUDE.
REFORMS ALREADY IN HAND.
London, April 29.
sociation to withdraw the dally issue of shuro quotations, is, toj my mind, totally unjustifiedl “ånd. noifish. They alloge that "out- siders" tako "advantage of the quotation list to transact business for thoir own borofit. Now why should'the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank issue their daily exchange quotations.
the oxchange brokers will take advantage of these to transact business with
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The Government. has sund a White Paper spifying its some other banke? Why should position regarding the various resolutions of the Imperial Economic | the hotele post up salling notices Conference, showing it endorses most of these and is giving effect in of stoaman simply for the benefit them by administrative measures, and the introduction of legislation. of the shipping companios? Why
I hopes at an early date to introduce fagislatínu for the re- should the Government_mako - organisation of the Imperial Instituto; and the necessary introduc: good rouda for the benefit of the tions are being prepared regarding the placing at the disposal of the public, and so forth? In other Dominion and Colonjal Governments the services of His Majesty's words, if other organisations commercial and diplomatic officers, and the Government will gladly or associations adopt the sume take advantage of the Dominions" offer, regarding the services of attitudo, it will be detrimental fol their overasa trade commissioners.
trade and a menaco to the
A rovised scheme of Imperial trada statistics is being preparoi public. or submission to the other Governments concerned
I myself do not think much The Government is preparing a schome for the mutual inter- jabout their quotations, since they -hangy of anronautical information, and will take steps to keep the do not generally oxhibit the trad ither Governments fully informed of developments regarding air-state of the share market. If they
hip services.
put"buyor" they are not really
The Government is inviting the Colonies and Protectorates to buying, and if they put seller adopt a scheme whorsby patents granted in Britain should oxtond they are not really selling. If to the Culonios.and Protectorates on registration.
you ask for an explanation, they
The Government in roserving any expression of its views on tariff) will say "Oh, they are simply proference, shipping taxation and immunity of State enterprises, carried forward,” pending the Budget discussions in Parliament.
KIDNAPPING CASE.
BOYS STOLEN FROM CANTON.
Two boys and an adult Chinese were charged. before Mr. E: W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magis- traoy this morning with kidnap plag and harbouring two smal! boys nine years of age, who had been stolen from Canton.
EXPRESS. TRAINS
COLLIDE.
COACH BURSTS INTO
· FLAMES. ·
Big List of Killed.
Berne, April 23, A disastrous collision occurred; The evidence showed that the hetween two expressos, cach police, subsequent to information drawn by two locomotives, on the zooaived, on the 13th instant wont St Gothard lino, near Bellinzona to No. 617, Shanghai Street and allegedly dues to one driver found the wo small boys in a disobeying the signat at tho room with the tire defendants. entrance to the station. The boys had been brought down)
One of the coaches burst into flames.
I should like to see the "out- siders" start snow associatiou which would isspo dally a correct share quotation list.
Yours etc.
INVESTOR.
Hongkong, April 24th., 1924, '
MACLAREN REACHES
INDIAN COAST.:
Every thing O.K.
Karachi, April 23, arrived hero, after a porfent flight Bquaviron Leader Maolaron.has
in idoal weather.
The arrival of Maclaren at
by misadventure, the plans authorised for the other so that
ADJUDGED' SANE
LOCAL BUILDING.
"I have no doubt that the
official in question know. before his appointment of those dutios,
the
front.
:
which are in this regard purely HARBJUR OFFENCES. protective. It has been found necessary to give similar pro- tection in the Malay Pocinsula, but there is no other part of the Empire containing a large num ber of Chinese women requiring protection of this nature."
MOTOR BOAT MASTERS
IN TROUBLE..
gangway. Defendant said he had eloven passengers only; the others came from a sampan which was also at the gangway. The
ass was dismissud.
at Gosport ogo can, to this day, seo light airy buildings, with large windows and open ironwork vorandahs, and at Hongkong these solid stone buildings with small windows, and võrandaha¦ NEW FIRM IN HONGKONG. added as an afterthought only,"
At the Marino Court this morn- With building activities still in full swing hero, it is interesting
Mr. J. Harris asked who hering, before Lieut. Commdr. Con- to, record that Mesars, Trollope the Government were proparad the motor boat George Bing.5,. way Hake, Ho Po, the master of and Colls (Fag East) Ltd., one of to accept the view that it was was summoned for carrying nine the best-known firms of buildingu violation of British ideas of contractors and engineers in morality to expect British Civil officer stated that he saw the boat passengers in excose. A pollos Shanghai havo just opened servants in Hongkong not going towards the Despatch with Hongkong-office situated in merely-to-osamine-3.000 girls, but liberty men. He had 24 pas- Princo's Buildinga. (next. to to direct them to the streat and sengers and was licensed to carry | Aoskrs, Leigh and Orange } the house they were to enter, and 15. Witness counted the...pas
The Company is well known in oven the very floor they wore to sengers as they went up the Lond in. where it has been occupy (Cheora) established for about 100 years.j
A DEPUTATION. and has carried out
Mr. Thomas aid there was no the construction of most of the Banks more distasteful subject to be and Insurance Companies Officos dealt with by a Minister of any Hn the City. Four years Government. As the bon. gentle. Kong Kan, master of the boat. ngo, the Far Eust soction man was aware, he was to meet Loung 1, was fined $10 for carry- of the Company was formed, deputation on the subject. It ng seven passengers in execsa. with-hond-ofloes-in-the-Glen-ald-not be dealt-with-by-ques-lo admitted the offence and sald Building, Shanghai, and since tion and answer in the House that they wore, men who had that time it has erected many The Government were alive to been working on a ship that was important buildings thero, among the difficulties and dangers of the the principal being the Hongkong subject, and they had to deal just leaving. They had to be
taken ashore. and Shanghai Bank, the Charter with it in, a common-sense way.
Cheung Hung, mastor of the In reply to Mr. Ayles (Bristol, motor boat Tak Hung 1, was od Bank, the Yokohama Spocie Bank, the Glen Line offices, ad- N., Lab, who asked if the fined $50 for failing to stop when ditions to the Race Course, the Secretary of State Hanbury Road Bridge, Messrs. Colonies, was prepared to refuse police officer said he was inform- for the called upon by the police boat. A Lever Bros. factory, and various recognition to the existence, of residential houses. Following the brothels in Hongkong and e here by the third officor of the Paul Locat that the boat was towing earthquake in Japan, the Com- parts of the British Crown a sampan which was carrying pany is now ongaged in building Colonies, as
articlus which had come off the now wharvas for the Rising Sun abolishing. Petroleum, Company, as well as traffic in women and child rouwhistle for her to stop. He gave
Paul Lecit, Ho Hounded his; temporary offices for the Charter Mr. Thomas said he was not con chase and caught her as sho ed Bank, the Hongkong and vinced that the suggested a ranched the whart. Defondant : Shanghai Bank and various sure would have. the desired said he did not hear the polios other worke.
offoot. The Governor of Hong- The object in opening in Hong kong reported last Juno that kong is to obtain and carry out there had been very fow cases orders for every description of there of international traffic in cargo boat, and Sin Kas, master engineering and building work, girle for immoral purposes, and food 65 each for being under way of the motor boat Sing Fook, ware, The Company is not concerned that very careful, propaations without having on board a cer- with the architectural side, con- taken by the Secretary- för Ohl-
Above is a "shap" of Mr. Harry Thaw, who killed Stanford White in Now, York in 1908, in an storgal triangle" case. After yours in lunatic asylume, ho has beon'adjudged nano,
Karachi constitutes the com- HOTEL BAR INCIDENT.
plotion of the first stage „of his
from Canton and the first defend Twenty-one bodies have hither. world flight, from Calshot to
unt had paid their faros.
The two boys gavo evidence to to been recovored, a number of the effect that they were walking that the majority of the victims them badly oharred. It lo statod about in Canton when they met fe the second and third defendants, are German tourists who wors
who brought them down to Hong-bound for Italy. Reuter, kong.
The boys mothers stated that
they missed their children on the
Karachi, a distance of 4,890 TWO DUTCHMEN CHARGED. milos. Henter.
TROUBLE IN INDIA.
British Troops Fired on-
Tho
.:
A
tho
towards stop
international,
whistle.
Coan Wa, master of a motor
fining itself solely to carrying out nose Affairs and the police- tend-tificated coxswain, and Au Shui, the designs of others. Moderned to check abuses of this de-Shup, was fined a similar sum for master of the stoair launch Hung methods are,, of course, adopted, jeariptiane and the Company is completaly equipped with technical staffs to carry out every department of a contract, including plumbing and other specialist trades connected wifi building and engineering,
MY WET Dye Is the manager of the Hongkong piños, which has this weak been opened as stated above.
[UMANITY'S ÷SAKE.
men
BRITISHER ASSAULTED.
ABSURD CHINESE
being under way without a cer tificated engineer. He said ho did not know that the engineer had left the boat. He rang the telegraph and someone started the engines.
A mester and three mistress08 of fishfig junka were fined $3 for dredging in the fairway without
Peking, April 23 permission, Shoot attended by 200 Yeung Tal, the master of a junk, Tar – dredging and dumping, ons was hell in the Central was fined $9.
yesterday, including some
folshevik membürdüf Parila- regarding the arroat of the soldier who stauited Mr. Camp. ball on the section of the Groat madan yang didaft Wall-under the control of the Paris, April 23. 4. Legation Police on the 13th
The French Plea to Russles
M. Poincare has replied to M. Inst., and passed eight resolu
APPROACHING NEW ZEALAND;
Two Dutchmen. Jan Nodoraf and. D. A. Klaassen, both employ ed on the J.O. J. liner Two appeared before Mr. R. E, Lind sell at the Police Court this morn Chichorin. He says the French tious, suthe of them being pure ing on charges of creating discovernment in transmitting to nonsense, while others - ravonled turbance last night in the pabllo the Soviet Government the pot, an astonishing ignorance of the has been sights bar of the Hongkong Hotel and tion of French wavants asking for circumstancesdien
morning of the 10th instant. when he came back on the morn- Relatives came down to Hong-ing of the 11th ho had the two kong to look for them and read-small boys and the other two ng something about the caso in defendants with him. The Chinese nowspapers they wort to the police.
A Chiness living in the same whilst the other two, who were Razmak on the 15th instant, kill. An application for road where the boys were arrost-more lads, wore each ordered ing two and wounding one, gihe was made
Allahabad, April 23,
of asasulting Mr.JAT. Goldsmith clemency towards their Russian The main points of the resolu Plonecca North-Wost and Mr. H. Johnstone, Bar comrades did not intend to inter ilons were that the members frontier correspondent reporta Manager and 2 Anplatant Ear fere with Bu fan internal affairs, attending the mosting should The first dofondant was senten- that Mabauda fired on a patrol of Manager of the Hotel responsive cod to six months' hard labour, the Berkebire Regiment near and pakkuda
ald the first defendant was twelve stokes, the magistrato Artillery,za oprital shallandmura (for the prosecution- beent from the place for about a saying he did not wish to send Mandeklu former Mahand the bass was held over/unti week before the 11th instant and them to prison.
ospital. –Ruler,
{morrow at nana, Lun
and adds that the Soviet Govern- telegraph to the British Govern- 31256) ment is perfectly fren to disregard ment asking for the reokil of Bir the considerations of humanity. J. W: R. Macleay British MIDIU: Hedonfentbi allegation that the tor to Peking, and urgings the condemnsacman at Kien collar: Chiness? Governmia) árk Borwa WIFA he French secret-puntsh the valdler severu
Wellington, April 23. The Special Service: Bğuldrɔn
tentar.