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security plans and general peace assumed the duties of officiating The Rov. Fathor Placzek has messures in Europe, and thoy clergyman to the Roman Catholic may aven affect the conditions troops in Hongkong.
said before, and we repeat it who is D.A.A. and Q.M.G. of the Captain J. Maorondy, D.B.O., now, that only by all the China Command, has boop countries of Europe coming to promoted to the rank of Major. gether in a closar understanding can the peace of the world be
In the Mixed Bogey Pool at assured. Such roparts as that of Fanling on Easter Monday, Mr. the Military Control Mission and Mrs. White Smith finished all inevitably breed suspicion, and Hollands wore 1 down.
squaro, whilst Mr, and Mrs. H. E. this can only be dissipated by absolute frankness on the part of Gormany. No other policy will
It has boon decided to hold the pay. And so long as factors meeting on 7th and 8th May, on Royal Artillery athletic sports exist which cast a doublon Ger- the U.S.R.C. ground, Kowloon, many's professed pacificism, for commencing at 2 p.m. both days. so long will a restoration of general harmony be delayed.
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Local boxing onthusiasts will featherweight title, when, hear with much interest New York be knocked out that Eugene Criqui, the former Johnny Kilbane in the sixth The silk forwarded from here featherweight champion of the round. His tenure of the title by the Empress cf Canada on the world, is shortly to make a tour was short-lived, however, as on 21st March arrived in New York of the Far East, where he will July 26th. of the same year he (St. John's Park) on the 10th engage in a number of contests. lost on points to Johnny Dundee, April, having been 20 days in It is hoped that he may be also in New York None the induced to fight in Hongkong. less, he is still regarded as a News of his impending visit to formidable fighter, and Hongkong the East is contained in recent enthusiasts would be delighted to Mirror. issues of Boxing and the Daily see him in action. As yet, no
information as to the exact dates. of the tour have been given
transit.
Our Rifleshots.
The Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps rifle mesting" has come and gone, and one can com- A Tientsin telegram to the ment on the more remarkable Daily Bulletin says the North- features of the competition. At China Golf Championship was Criqui won for France the world's out...
It was on April 3rd, 1923, that outstanding conclusion is that
there is considerable fresh talent won by Mr. D. B: Walker, whose
wore 2 entries.
WHAT OF GERMANY? for the Colony to draw upon for scorob were 82 and 84. There
the next Interport shoot, and it is possible, that wo might pass the rocord, now held by Singapore, of
University
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CLUB TEAM.
DUPLICATORS.
G.
PAKHOI NEWS,
BIG SEIZURE OF COINS.
A Pakhoi correspondont writes ue under date of the 9th instant as follows-
"WHITE GUARDS.”
IN CHINESE ARMY.
Peking, April 14.
The Russia Agency publishes:a Note which M. Karakhan ad-
This afternoon the town was dressed to the Waichicopu on the put into a panic, caused by the 11th inst. on the subject of police and soldiers raiding a "White Quards" in the Chinese humber of the principal'shops in
Army
the main street and seizing a
use
This Note was in reply to the
Hag Germany, under peace team. That was made a good num- sports, which were to have taken
an average of 96 per man: in the The Hongkong conditions, boen quietly preparing ber of years ago, and has several place to day, have again been herself for possible war in the times almost been equalled, postponed. They will take place, future? That is a question which not always been favourable to a day next, 22nd instant.
but weather conditions have weather permitting, on Wednes has given rise to considerable raising of that high standard. speculation and not a little con- Now, with the very big reserve of corn in Europe during the past a number of expert shots in the men to draw upon here, including few months. In this connection, Services, the next Interport shoot soma startling statements are holds out interesting possibilities. As regards the Defence Corps made by the Inter-Allied Military itself, the scoring on the whole
considerable quantity of Kwang- Chinese Noto of March. 26, which Control Mission, which has car-was excellent, all things oon-
tung 20 cent pieces; from some of stated that there was under Chang ried out a most elaborate and eidered, and exhibits anew the
the shops they took as much as Teung-chang's command o d§4 The following will represent $500. A considerable quantity tachment of between 300 and 400 bigh state of officiency that the Hongkong Football Club in of these coins have lately been White Guards who had adopted detailed survey of Germany's our Volunteers have attained their League match against the brought in by the Hongkong Chinose citizenship, but there had military resources. In a report with the rifle. Of particular A. on Thursday on the Club on the subject, the Mission points note was the outstanding success ground kick-off at 5.15-G. 5. authorities claim that they are Guards into the Chinese Army steamers and the Chinese been no enlistment of White to certain discoveries which war- both in team and individual Puncheon, J. Stewart, Watson recognized from the coins in ment, the presence of which in the
of the Engineer Company, which Rodger; Oswick, C. S. Bishop; G.
counterfait. They are readily at Shanghai, and this detach rants it in exprossing, the view prowess has established what Lyon, A. Forsyth, H that the Germans have developed, must be a record for a single unit Howard, Johnstone and Key.
circulation here, being brand new, Chinese Army is not in con- behind a commercial screen, the it is interesting to observe that
and of a much coarser mintage.tradiotion of the Russo-Chinese of the Corps. In this connection,
Nevertheless, they are in full Agreement, will be disbanded as ability to reconstruct" the the Engineers are the only section
circulation throughout the town, soon as the general situation is war supplies which they were to have a private rifle olub of
and there are very fow people settled. their own-their annual prize
that are not in possession of them. M. Karakhan insists that the forced to destroy in the early shoot being held a few weeks ago.
Proclamations have been posted detachment numbers over 1,000, days after the Armistice, and it It appears to prove again, the
in the town prohibiting the and was originally recruited in of the coins, but it is Manchuria and filled up with the is suggested that because of this adage that practice makes.
THE LATEST MACHINE, perfect:
well known that a good com White Guards at Shanghai, very destruction Germany is nOW
-This is admittedly an age of mission is offered to shops After contesting at great length... in a position to supplant. hor
progress, and there have been that put into circulation any new the claim that they are Chinese losses with newer types that re. Al Epic Voyage.
many marked improvements in brand of these coins. Analyzed citizens, the Note insists most office equipment to assist the by the silversmiths here, they say rosolutely" on the immediate present the last word in officiency. We made brief reforonce a fow up his business. The present-day silver. There has been a number and warningly declares, with modern business man in speeding the coins contain only 20 per cent. liquidation of the detachment Let us look a little closely into days ago to a party of Cornishmen necessity for rapid, inexpensive, of arrests, and it looks very much this attitude of the Chinese
who are about to make an attempt affective and direct access to the as if some of the some of the allegations made by to circumnavigate the globe in a consumer is now universally re-quicks" will be shot. Some of ligations undertaken by them get-rich authorities, towards the ob this Mission. It is asserted that abip's lifeboat. To the average cognised and so much appreciated them implicated have confessed there will become quits doubtful the Kjupp factories have re-reader, this might appear a melo- by business men, that it is not that the money was bought in the expediency and the success. tained all the mechanical devices ness to some of the "round-the-ful success of the Gestetner, Kwangtung 20 cent. pieces for ations for fresh agreements dramatic affair, equal in foolish-surprising to hear of the wonder Hongkong at $100 worth of ful outcome of the new negoti formerly used to cast heavy fold world stunts" (who will forget Rotary Cyclestyle Duplicator, an $1,000 worth of the counterfeit which it is proposed to conclude artillery, and that in many other the famous Wanderwells) that all-British machine, which has money. One of the shops hero is at the pending conference. establishments vast quantities of But
one hears of from time to time. been very largely adopted by our reported to have put into circula Daily Bulletin. materials have been discovered the intended voyage by these ment offices, colleges, schools, etc. haa beon the practice here to for local business houses, Govern- tion $10,000 of these coins. It in an unfinished state, which are daring sailors will constitute It is interesting to recall that press new money into circulation available for transformation into worthiness of the average life foal inventors, and of steam engine to accept it being punished.
a valuable test of the
Sea James Watt, the doyen of machan by the officials, angone refusing instruments of war. Further, it
it boat, and form a basis for imfame, over 145 years ago, foresee- is said that there has been portant conclusions as to safety of ing the necessity of a duplicat-
MILITARY FIGHT. crosted in Germany a scientific Commenting on the proposed ten
shipwrecked persons in the future, ing contrivance, spent some
This morning at Kotak, a small network of electric power houses journey, a Home paper says that copying press.
years in evolving his town three miles to the cast'of which can put chains of factories theso valiant men seem like ro- primitive affair, and the taking tween two military officere. One of the 5.8. President Jackson,
Pakhoi, a disputo broke out be into operation at a moment's are even more romantic than the some six minutes, as against 80 down the other. An armed soldier addition to other injuries in a surrections from the past. Thoy of one copy thereon occupied of them drew his pistol and shot sustained a fractured skull in notice; whilst new explosives early navigators, Drake and perfect copies par minute on the who accompanied the aggressor drop into the hold of the steamer are the object of indefatigable Cavendish and Magellan and present Gestetner machine, on joined in and before the other side yesterday. The unfortunate man rosearch all over the country into the great sepe in cocklesboils all classes of work including plans, of them were shot down in the he slipped and fell into the hold. Vasgo da Gama, who wont sailing which it is possible to reproduce had time to defond thorusolves five was engaged at his duties when The charge is also made that simply because there was nothing sketches, and facsimile Chinese street. The two then bolted into The drop was one of many feet, Germany has re-established her also for them to sail in. If they writing
a joss house and locked the door and the injuries inflicted on Mc comploto pre-war army organis linore at 25 knota an hour, they could have gone in,, 20,000 ton
Inside. The other party followed Manur wore of a serious nature. ation under various masks, and would have done so, and thought are the local agents; and will give in the roof through which they mont Civil Hospital. Up Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., up, and commenced to make holes He was removed to the Govern the it foolish to go any other way. demonstrations at any time, by kept up an aimless fire from their to a late hour last night he had various bureaux of the General and sixteenth couturies wore.ax
The adventurers of the fiftoonth request-
firearms. The two men eventu not regained consciousness." Staff, headquarters and war tremoly practical materialists. acadomy have been kept alive. These modern mon deliberately ahones to use the loast suitable
that under new.
namos
this is not
BO,
It
SOM.
a
ally opened the door and bolted into the street, but they only
wont a fow pages bofore they were shot down.
KIDNAPPERS SHOT.
U.S. SEAMAN'S FALL.
SERIOUSLY INJURED. Milton, MoManur, a seaman
of a man in the straat. He had the man arrested, and this ro
By slow degrees, it is further craft imaginable, yet there is a they want to show that ships' alleged, the Reichswehr has method in their madese, and it boats can be so equipped as to been transformed into what does them infinite credit. They make life tolerable and fairly safe A few days ago a small boy sulted in the arrest of two more amounts to a standing army ings of men, like the Trevesan's of the Travossa. All scafavors, rounding villages hero. His father men were found guilty of kidnap have been moved by the suffer-even after such a disaster as that was lost from one of the sur-men and a woman. The throa understudied by the Schutzpolizei, crew, subjected to oxistonse in an we think, will wish them a suc- came into Falchol to look for him, ping and wore shot. The woman comprising 130,000 men, of whom open boat for wooks on end, and cousful voyage and a happy return, and he found him in the custody was set free,