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N. LAZARUS
Ophthalmic Optician
12. Queen's Road, Central
The
Hongkong Telegraph
DECEMBER 18, 1925. A=A+KOLY CUNT 10 GENTS
"The Home of the Zeiss Glis"
FOUNDACH TOMI
No. 21,00
五蘊
张八十月二十央港香
FRIDAY,
MORRISS CASE.
TRAIN OUTRAGE. MOSCOW SENSATION. DIVORCE TANGLE
BANDITS BOARD CANTON TRAIN.
$7
MUCH LOOTING.
·REPORTED EXECUTION OF
BRITISH OFFICER.
FRENCH LADY WITH- DRAWS SUMMONS.
Paris, Dec. 17.
Le Matin, the
The Cheka is the Soviet's nereti
GUILTY ON TWENTY-TWO
COUNTS.
FRENCH CRISIS.
FRANC DECLINE MAIN PROBLEM.
میلی
LIVELY INCIDENT
Paris, Dec. 17.
PER ANNUM
Before you purchake ANY Motör Vohiole,
ace what it will
On the HILLS HIGH GEAR.
THE
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in
DRAGON MOTOR
CAR COMPANY, LIMITED.'
Tul, O. 1846 or 1247.
33, Wong Noi Chung Rd. Happy Valley
THE MOSUL AWARD. WUCHOW LIGHTS.
TURKISH DELEGATE'S
STATEMENT,
Geneva, Dec. 17. Tewik Rushdi Bey has left here for Paris en route to Angora,
Interviewed on his departure he ļsaid:—"Our relations with England
protested against the decision of
ELECTRIC WORKS MAY STOP.
OIL SHORTAGE.
News reaches us from Wuchow
M. Doumer has accepted the will continue to be friendly," He that the Electric Light Works are
London, Dec. 17, According to
Hayley Morriss was found guilty) Cheka in Moscow is reported to LAWYER EXPLAINS. on the whole of the twenty-two have executed Captain Reilly, a
counts, and his wife on ali except Further details of the robbery British Hecret service agent, The summons taken out by Mu-Bix. of a train on the Canton-Hankow (Indopariji,
Mr. Justice Avory, in sentencing) dame Leona Maurin against her
the defendants, said that nemesis, Railway, as a result of which service, whose terrifying tactics husband, M. Louis Maurin, for a had overtaken Morriss who had post of Finance Minister in suc- the Council, but added that "hence threatened with a stoppage, ow- thirty passengers were kidnapped, and tortuous ramifications have leged desertion and failure to gratified his loathsonie lust for cession to M. Loucheur. He de-forth it is for Angora to speak.ing "to the shortage of crudo
the published in
Canton within
recent years put into the vide means of sapport, was with young girls. The part played by clared the absolute necessity of We have now got to settle the ques- petroleum. Fortunately the su- Gazette. These show that the shade the old Tsarist police. It
Lion of Mosul with the Government) is considered
the supreme Comdrawn on an application by Mr Mrs. Morriss was the most disbalancing the Budget by certain
thorities have transferred 蹑 gusting any woman could have
of Iraq, and I am convinced that train was, on" the 12th instant. (munist organ of destruction and W. R. Hind, the solicitor appearing
played.
receipts rather than by a stricter the population of Mosul will not quantity to the Company, which, pro.ceding slowly after having has in the past signed the death for Madame Maurin, when the case) A police Inspector testified that control of taxes to permit the want to remain with Iraq" it is said, will last for a week, bert Wangsha station. bound for Warrants of many thousands,
again came up for hearing at the the woman prisoner was bound over lightening of the tax-payers' bur-Renter. At 7 p.m. she had
in 1922 on a charge of stealing aj Shaokwan.
Central Magistracy. before Mr. arrived in the vicinity of Tsing Fung Ting between Wu-shek and Ma Pa. On arriving at this place
four robbers who were passengers on the train, crept along the wag- gons to the kiromative and pulled out their revolvers to threaten the engine driver and force him to put the brake on and halt. The en- gine driver being forced was rom- pelled to stop the train.
dits mentioned above, there were
over ten more in the train who
2
FOR KOWLOON... Lindsell this morning.
HOSPITAL OPENS ON MONDAY.
FULL DETAILS.
IN AMOY.
M. Doumer's effort
unfavourable
choice of M. Doumer does
tion of the Cartel,
The papere L'Oeuvre and L'Erei
MITCHELL TRIAL.
AMERICAN COLONEL SUSPENDED.
FOR FIVE YEARS.
Washington, Dec. 17.
Referring to Mr. Week'a letter
Mr. Coolidge were indirectly mis- informed regarding the condition of the aviation and national de-
Nouvele advise the formation of
Technical Committee, the mem-fence.
insists
and, in the meantime, the Com- pany has sent men to Canton to secure the necessary supply. If this step proves unsuccessful, it is reported that the Government will take over the electric light- ing and water works.
commer-
cial concern they will be heavily muleted and become victims of the monopolists.
den. He hopes then to be able I note while in domestic service. She was found gagged and bound to arrive at a reduction of taxes. At the previous hearing, the di-to the bannisters but afterwards The Cabinet has decided that fence questioned the validity of the admitted that she tied up herself. Morriss, who is 36 years of age,
the new financini proposals will application for maintainance, or
described himself as a bill and constitute the entire programme the ground that the present union. bullion broker and lived for part of of the Government. All the par- which took place several months his life in Shanghai, where he is ties, including the Cartellists, de-
It is stated that the Kwangai stated to have interests in an ago in Hongkong. was not goog
Government intends to farm out extensive business.
He purchased elare that because of the point that a diin 1922 Tippingford Park of one should be received with the
the monopoly of lekin to a syndi- Kowloon now has its own hor-force which Madame Maurin ob-thousand acres, mainly pleasure greatest loyalty without regard to
cate. The merchants, on hear- grounds.--Reuter." pital, and our readers on the mal-tained in a 'Paris Churt from
party politics. However, many
ing of this, have strongly pro- land will be glad to learn that former husbandi. who Was 4!
believe that he is starting under (cabled earlier) as to his bel combining to resist it to the ut- tested against this step and are The locality is situated between will be available to the public' as Buglish art student, might not by
auspices. The unfit for a high administrative pomost, on the ground that when the river and high hilla. On top from Monday next. The Kowloo valid within the construction of
not sition, Colonel Mitchell to-day dis- | of the hill werd hidden over. Hospital, which is a Government in the British law, unless the previ hundred robbers. When the train stitution similar to
ous husband's domicile in France CONDITIONS GETTING WORSE meet with the systematic opposi-clared that both 3r. Weeks and one in the hands of a the Govern could he proved beyond all doubt. stopped, they at once blew their ment Civil Hospital in Hongkong. It was stated that her first maryj- An Amoy resident, writing us bugle as signal and rushed into will be in charge of Dr. J. T. Smal-age took place in New York, and ander date of Wednesday lust, that the divoree was obtained some states that the boycott of British the train. Besides the four ban-
hey, who is already in residence,months before the existing anion cargo still continues, but there is
Wuchow is at present quiet and The institution is up-to-date in Mr. Hind had been engaged in an na marked interference with pas-bers of which shall be chosen out-
trude is quite normal. Goods Col. Mitchell waived the sum usually destined for Hongkong every respect; and will supply effort to secure expert French legal senger trafic.
side of Parliament. In the paper also brandished their revolvers at long-felt want among the civilian advice from Shanghai, and, not At the moment, says the earves-Journal, M. Bokanowski
ming up address for the defence are accumulating and the prices the passengers and carried out a community of Kowloon.
| being able to obtain this assistance, pondent, the danger of an iwasion thorough search and requisitioned There is an adequate staf al- he applied for the withdrawal of of Tukien Province by Cauten Go-upon the Government doing its and simply read a brief statement have gone down considerably, but ready in residence, including the the summons this morning. vernment troops' has been averted, utmost in order to put a stop im. to the effect that the truth of his the prices of all imported goods the loot. All the money and Assistant Matron, Miss M. J. Wil Mr. Hind: have considered but, at the same time, it is known midiately to the decline of the
charges was amply proven, adding are rising. goods of the railway staff and pas-son, and four British nursing sis. the case in all its aspects and I that commissioned officers of the franc; otherwise; he says, all other ters. It is intended to increase believe the best thing I can do at Canton Army are active in Amtoy. sengers were taken away,
the number of sisters to eight, at the moment is to withdraw. I have The only reason why these activi- problems will run the risk of be- An iron safe is pinced on the such time as the extended use of not got sufficient evidence to con- ties are not curtailed would seem coming not being solved.
tinue with the case.
to be the differences prevailing| train to receive deposits of money the hospital might require.
The Administrative Committee. The Hon. Dr. J. B. Addison, His Worship-I understand, between the naval land authorities. collected by the different stations the Principal Civil Medical - Mr. Hind, right up to recently that Meanwhile the general situation in the Socialist Party, meeting in for transmission to the Wongsha, cer, gave a Telegraph representa. this first marriage took place in Amoy is getting worse. Small in- the presence of the Parliamentary Court, demanded that Col. Mitchell On the down-train money is kept in tive several interesting details France, and that the last marriage cidents between students and for- Political Committee, decided to be punished. Mr. Anath, the Go-
signers are increasing and wher- the safe but on the up-train there is about the Hospital in the course took place in Hongkong.
ef an interview yesterday after- Mr. Hind-That
eonvene a National Congress on vernment Counsel, followed and your ever occasion affords. an excuse 1.
A report from Nanning states Bone. Occasionally amali. quan-on. As Ur. Addison pointed oat. Worship. I would have to prove at once made for public deman is the 10th January, 1926, in order compared Col. Mitchell's conduct shut Ming Yan-che, a general of titius of had coins are sent back there is everything a patient might that the divorce was valid, and to of a kind which can only be termed to decide the attitude of the rarty so hund-hunting among the Philip-Fan Shek-sang, who was recently fur exchange. These
bandit requires the grounds are spacious prove that. I have to prove, first as ridiculous by those who knew in the present crisis.
pine's savages. He contended that defeated by Tang Chi-yao and his and the site an excellent one. I that her previous husband was the facta. It is known that Com-
forces so scattered that most of knowing nothing of this, bad forced time the immediate surroundings domiciled in France. That I car-munist meetings have been held The Executive Committee
of the possible truth of Col. Mitchell's them became roving bandits, has the collector Pang Chun to hand will be properly developed into a not prove at the moment, as I have with a view to arranging ati Radical Socialist party has charges had not been established with his forces attacked and cap: ver the key of the safe on pretty garden, with the planting of no witness available to prove the Christian demonstrations on Christ-unanimously passed a motion de by the defence for the accused un-tured Na Ma Ling hills and is
advancing on Sze Yan city. penalty of death. As the key is Shrubbery. There is ample spare question of domicile, and for that mas Day. The officials are aware, manding a new arrangement of der the provisions of the court
enid that Mong Yan-che has ro- only kept by the head office at Wong may be required, the blocks eo with the case, It may be that the that measures will be taken the assessment, of payment of martial manual.-Renter's Ameri-cently been working in conjunction
or by the different big prising the hospital buildings hav-panties will come to a settlement. avoid any untoward incidents.
taxes and a pitiless repression of can Service,
with Sum Hung-ying, who, in the stations and not in his hands, Pang!
designed hope that they will. If not 1 The Douglas steamer Haining, fraud. Prior to the vote, there
course of his wanderings, after hav- with this purpose, in view,
may have to re-open the case later. which has just arrived in Hong-
ing been driven out of Kwangtung Chun was unable to hand the keysi
The present accommodation
His Worship:-So far as this kong, called at Amoy on her way was a lively incident between M.
by Yeung Hsi-man, selzed the city These bandits then struck considered ample for immediate re-Court is concerned, the marriage on, taking on a number of ps-Herrict
Hing Yuent The Court upheld all the eight and has
fu Kwangsi, which took place in Hongkong-1 |sengers. him on the head and he imme-quirements,
Municipal Councillor of Paris, charges against Mitchell finding geadquarters ever since.
13 occupied it
his There are 44 beda altogether, 28 am bound to presume it is a legal
Con- diately lost consciousness.
who reproached M. Herriot for him guilty of conduct prejudicial sequently, Li in the Asiatic warts and 16 in the marriage.
Chung-yan order- working for the Socialists. M. to good order and military discijed Wong Shiu-hung to advance from Wu Mong and attack Mong pline, af insubordination and of Yan-cho before the forces of Sum utterances comptemptuous of the Hung-ying could effect a junction United States War and Navy with those of Mong-Yan-che. A
battle has now taken place at some · Departments-Reuter,
point near Wu Sze boundary lino, with the result, it is stated, that the latter forces were defcated with beavy losses and many prisoners of the forces retreated in great
Sha
over.
is 90,
for any fiture extensions which reason I am not able to proceed of this movement and it is hoped
ing been specially
FRENCH COLONIES.
DEBATE IN CHAMBER.
Paris. Dec. 17.
and
M. Dervaux,
Cabinet when the
that he had stated only nineteen At this Season of the year, Government aeroplanes were fit there, is always the fear of big for service, and now there was fires, occurring. but so far one small are ina matshed has been only one.
report.
Owing to the shortage of petro- leum, many motor launches have stopped running.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
The prosecution, addressed the
ALL EIGHT CHARGES UPHELD.
Later.
At the time of the robbery, the European section. The European Me. Hind:-You would be able bandita first expelled all the diffe- accommodation is divided into presume it is a legal marriage,
Herriot stated that, having obtain- three classes, There are Four until my friend, Mr. Brutton, rent street vendors on the roadside,
ed Socialists to back his radical first-class wards, with one bed in would place in front of you a therefore the cattle, fish, native each: four second-class, with twa document which is a divorce de-
doctrines, he had remained faith- cloth, pigs, sheep and other goods beds each; and one third-class, with cree from a Paris Court, between
ful to the engagements made in A Frenca The discussion of the Colonial 1924. He recalled having refused were strewed along the ground. It four beds. The Astatic section an Englishman and
has two wards, each containing 14 woman who were married in Budget commenced in the Chum- was dark and cool at the time and
America. Mr. Brutton would be ber. M. Outrey drew the attention to form the the bandits lighted a pile of wood In addition, there are foun chi- able to prove that prior to this of the Government to the possibi- Socialists demanded more than he to warm themselves in front of the dren's cats, which can be moved Hongkong marriage, there was a lities presented in the Colonies for was prepared to give.
from one ward to another as need urriage in American between an the cultivation of rubber; secondly,
The delegates of the Left Group guilty and sentenced by court Englishman and a French woman, to the negotiations, regarding the A little later there was an The charges to patients are to be and there was a divorce in France. Customs tariff with Japan; thirdly, of the Chamber decided to appoint martial to be suspended from the empty train coming downwards the same as in
His Worship: You realise that to the application of Article Seven two delegates from each group to service for five years-Renter's the Government although the onus is on Mr. Brut to officials of the Civil Service and from Shao Kwan, The bandity/Civil Hospital-namely, $8 a dayton to prove all this, you feel that the Treasury; fourthly, to the read elaborate a common programme, American Service.
firc,
beds.
ed.
"
justment
of the salaries
of
first-class, $5 second, and 50 cents it would be better to withdraw? fearing that the train was carry third. The charge in the Asiatic
but the views exchanged prove that ing soldiers, opened fire. to stop wards is to be 50 cents a day,
Mr. Hind: Yes; because Mr. Colonial officials and the principles divergences rendered an under- Bratton would put the document accepted for those of Metropolitan standing impossible at the moment, ita advance and boarded the train
in front of you, and that thut officials; and fifthly to the pensions
The National Republican League, for an examination. Seeing there
would shift the onus at once. of Colonial officials. ·
under the presidency of M. Mil- was nothing in it, they lot it pass.
His Worship:You have no ob- M. Mistral was elected Vice-lerand, has decided to make an Later on, the down train reported
jection to the summons being President of the Chamber Indo appeal to the country.—Indopacific withdrawn, Mr. Brutton? that when passing, they saw goods, piled up along the roadbed, which had not yet been taken away by the baudits. It was then over 8
p.m.
Thus the bandits had been
MOROCCAN OUTLOOK,
MORE TRIBES SUBMIT.
Mr. Brutton-None, your Wor- ship.
His Worship: The summons ja
Paris, Dec. 17. In Rabat, 2,000 familles of the then withdrawn.
engaged in laoting for over one Metsara tribe have aubmitted to
hour.
The bandits also kidnapped the French.
Yesterday the last
pacifi.
FRENCH WIRELESS.
TIME SIGNAL CHANGES.
Paris, Dec. 17.
A. "C" class buoy, No. 33, was
FOUND GUILTY, ·
Washington, Inter. Colonel Mitchell has been found
GERMAN POLITICS,
PROBLEM OF CABINET FORMING.
Borlin, Dec. 17.
of
It is
disorder in the direction of the Na Ma Lung hills.
The report further states that owing to most of their trusta troops having been despatched on active service in the south sector in Kwangtung, both Li Chung-yan and Wong Shiu-bung now realise that their own positions are being threatened by the military combination of those units who were formerly adherents of Sum Hing-ying. Luk Wing-tung ́and othera.
Kwangai province je very
adrift in the harbour this morning, Herr. Kock, the Democratic mountainous and communications her bridle chain being broken, it leader, has informed President are most difficult, owing to the is believed, by the 8. Pakhol, Hindenburg, that he is unable to absence of good roads, The pro- which was steaming under ballast form a Cabinet on the big coalition ince is infested with bandite
some of whase dens are veritable to the adjoining buoy.
| basis as was suggested.—Reuter. over thirty persons whom they of the revolting members of this
strongholds. ́· Discord and dis. marched in north-easterly direc- tribe appeared in a body before the declarations made by M. Chicharin station at Lyon-Ladone will not ascertain the extent of the damage. From 1st January, 1920, the A diver is to go down to-day to
satisfaction exist amongst nearly tion towards the hille. It is Colonel commanding the station in in Paris, states that his appeal for send out any more time alguals. The barnacles on one side of the
Paris, Dec. 17. all the military units who create laurnt that those who were kid-| Obozzan, -
According to the Havas Agency, much disorder, and it will be a industrial and commercial credits The stations at Croix d'Hips (Bor- buoy have been scraped off and the Socialists have declined to par- hard task for Generals LA Chung- napped, were all goods owners AC- All districts in the Obezian ter- is premature, as one does not give deaux) and that inthe Einal Tower it is therefor thought thist the dictate in the promo Keelden van and Yong Chinchan ito i EN VEREN fianákala, progts, and not Kilken
London, Doc. 17.
The Times, commenting on the
BOCIALISTS DECLINE