STOLEN CHEESE.
THREE CHINESE SENT TO PRISON.
How a consignment of bad
JUNK STOLEN.
MASTER'S APPOINTMENT
WITH PIRATES.
The Houng Shan district seems
cheese enabled three Chincan to to have become a popular haunt try and mike noney the exp
larceny of fourteen boxES: of
Mr. A. Motley Hörder, the manager of the Company, identified the cheese as the property of the Company, for which they were the acle agents. He said that on April
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ton.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1926.
GERM TO MAKE CTCORDITE.MM
SYNTHETIC WHISKY AND.
TOBACCO.
have had to deal this week with For the first time, the courts
uphold a patent granted to Dr. a bacteriological case and Wave Charles Weizmann, the bacteriolo gist, for the production of acetone (used for cordite manufacture) by the action of a bacillus which ho has isolated.
Dr. Weizmann's use of a bacil-
pirates, as most of the six si a firm's cuttnera was expilitined before Major D. Willson, at the piracice reported within the past Central Police Court this mothing. week have occurred in that vici The three were charged with the nily. The latest incident result- "Kraft American cheese, valueded in a junk being captured and at $45.50, the property of Menard, the crow kidnapped, and it is Connell Bros., 'Co. A fourth man stated that the master has cómpli- was charged with receiving. Sergt.ed with a letter from the pirates Carey was in charge of the case. to meet them at a place near Canus for Industrial purposes to one of few curious but effective pro- It appears that the boat, a trad-esses registered at the Patent ing junk, No. T1589, of 2,600 piculs devices by which beer is made Office. They thelude chemical capacity, left Hongkong on April clear and given i frath when 3rd for Tam Chau. She carried poured and by which lemonads 18th a shipment of the cheese arand had an urmament of six mus without the use of lemons of fruits a crew of six men and one woman, and fruit flavours are produceri rived in bad condition. That cheese was put on
kets, three rifles, and three can-anywhere in the process." one side, and evidently the defendants, who were
with ammunition, There
Many substitutes for tobacco, employees, had taken some of the was no cargo on board." On April preparad synthetically and suito best of the bad boxes for delivery 26th, at Man King Sha, a grey be us satisfactory strength. to customers and taken the good launch flying a white flag, and flavour, and aroma as the blended cheese. Witness gave the defen-containing about twenty armed leaf, have been disclose to the dants a good character up to the men, came alongside. The pirates Patent Office but have not been present, and intimated that he did slipped the anchor and towed the accepted, as their manufacture
boat' in the direction not wish to press the case.
of Tung would be contrary to the Custome of being shot, jumped over the Kuen The master, at the risk and Excise regulations. side and swam ashore,
The defendant charged with re- ceiving spoke of getting eleven boxes from the defendants on the third floor of the Bank of Canton for which he paid $2.20 per box. He sold them for $3.10 each. He went there again and bought au- other three boxes. He received the boxes from a coolie.
non
veived a letter from the pirates On May 16th, the master ré- asking him to meet his foki at Tai Sha Tau. Canton. The master returned to the Colony by a dah ing junk, and it is believed he has A Chinese detective gave evi-gone to Canton in compliance with dence of effecting the arrest of one of the defendants with three boxes in his possession. He told witness he was delivering them for a shop which he afterwards admitted did not exist.
The third defendant said threq boxes, of good cheese had been taken by mistake for bad cheese.
The first three defendants were sent to prison for three weeks, and the man charged with receiving is to be charged to-morrow with at tempted bribery.
THE ADMIRAL SHIPS,
MATTER FOR THE COURTS.
Washington, May 12.-The con- troversy over the sale of the five Admiral-Oriental Ling ships by United States Shipping Board to the Dollar interests was thrown Into the courts to-day. The Ship- ping Board and R. Stanley Dollar were ordered to show cause on Fri- day why the scale should not be enjoined.
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The action was, in the form of a petition of the, Puget Sou... whi- ental Line. Those taking excep- tion to the transfer of the ships to the Dollar interests contend that the bidding and the award were not regularly conducted, with the re- sult that other bidders were not given a fair opportunity to com- pote-Associated Press.
The Puget Sound Oriental Line, mentioned in the above dispatch,
nessmen.
the letter.
of the haul is $3,000. The crew It is estimated that the value were taken away with the junk.
LOCAL THEFTS.
LADY LOSES GOLD WATCH.
Miss Thelma May, residing at the Pumping House, Garden Road,
For the same reason an artite. clal whisky, claimed to be as liquor, was rejected. "eflective" as the distillery-made
granted is for a method to reduce One of the strangest patents obesity. The apparatus, consists of a rod fixed to the back of the patient to which is attached. triangular stays and a horizontal is supposed to be laid face down- handle. The person to be treated
and fro like a carpet sweeper wards on the floor and pushed to
until his frontal body curve is removed.
DIRECTORS' £167,000 SACRIFICE.
MEN.
has reported to the police that FIRM'S LOSS BORNE BY TWO sometime on April 11th, someone stole from her room' a gold wrist watch, valued at $80.
The manager of a toy shop at 66, First Street, who was away in the country from August 25th, 1925, until May 12th, of this year, has his accountant collected $500 in discovered that during his absence money from various shops on be half of the firm, and absconded.
chairman and vice-chairman of A sacrifice of £167,000 by the' the company in order to avert heavy loss to shareholders was announced at the annual meeting N. Philips and Co., Ltd., ware in Manchester of Messrs. J. and housemen and wholesale drapers.
The generous offer, which the accepted amid
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As the result of the theft of shareholders money and jewellery worth $404 shouts of "Bravo!" was made to from No. 4, Woo Sung Street, a meet loss of capital consequent or servant girl, living at Yaumati has the closing of the firm's London been arrested. Of this amount house. $235 in money has been recovered.
MAJOR KILLED BY
TIGER.
ATTACKED WHILE FISHING,
Major Pritchard Taylor, D.S.O. was fishing five miles from the of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Mhow military
Mr. Morton Philips stated that the profits in Manchester would have provided a dividend on all the shares had they not been call- ed upon to meet losses elsewhere
The loss at the London ware- house was due to altered trade conditions following the slump.
Chairman's £138,000.
citor, stated that the chairman, Mr. Wright, the company's soli-
station on Mr. W. M. Philips, and vice-chair-
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is the company recently formed Easter Sunday. when he was man, Mr. F. M. S. Grant, had made by Seattle capitalists and bust-altacked by a tiger, says the the offer of their own free will. The head of the new Allahabad Pioneer, quoted by the They had adopted a reduction of shipping line is William B. Keene, Central News. He died later of capital, which they would bear former vice president of the Emer-his injuries. gency Fleet Corporation.
entirely themselves. It was, he Major George Pritchard Taylor, added certainly an uncommon M.B., was born in 1886, and thing. The object was to restor obtained a commission as lieu- the dividend capacity of the com- tenant in the R.A.M.C in 1909, pany, in confidence that the board and as captain in 1912. He would be able to retrieve the pros- served through the war, and was perity of the old business. awarded the D.S.O., on January 1, 1918, and bar in November, 1919. According to the London Gazette of the latter date, the order was given for
MODIFYING PROHIBITION.
PENNSYLVANIA
REPLUBLICANS SUPPORT.
Philadelphia, May 19. The Republican Party of Pennsylvania has nominated Mr. William Vare as a candidate for the Senate on the platform of a modification of the Volstead Act.
Reuter's American Service.
NICARAGUAN REVOLT.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN CONTRACTS VIOLATED.
Managua, May 19. The American Collector General.
of Customs has protested to the
The chairman's contribution was £138,000, and the vice-chair- man's £29,000.
One shareholder stated, amid
Conspicuous gallantry, and devotion to duty in arranging for clearing the wounded in the
Mr. W. M. Philips announced forward area during an attack. that he was vacating the position He personally reconnoitred the of chairman on account of ill whole area, and arranged relay health, and it was stated that Mr. poste for the bearers, freely Grant had been appointed as his exposing himself to heavy fire auccessor. while searching for wounded. Major Taylor also held the M.C.
applause, that the generosity was worthy of the name of Philips.
The weather forecast up to noon to-morrow is:-Light, variable winds; fing to cloudy.
Wong, Fat was tried $13 at the The master of the 'stenm launch
State Department against the Marine Court this morning for
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Two white fox terrier dogs, own- ed by Mrs. Gibbison, 3, Torres Buildings, Kowloon, have been sent to Kennedy Town. One is believed to have bitten Sanitary Inspector Taylor's son three days ago.
removal by revolutionaries of the carrying 26 passengers in excess owner, a Chinese woman living at A black Chinese chow dog bit its American Collector of Customs of the number for which the boat 7, Now Street, Wanchai, and, has and his deputy at Bluefields, be-wrs, licenata. cause he refused to hand over the·
been sent to Kennedy Town. The collections. The seizure of The Colonial Secretariat notifies Civil Hospital.
woman was sent to the Government Customs Houses on the Atlantic that, the quarantine restrictions Const is a violation of the finan-imposed against Shanghai on ne cial plan of the Government which count of small-pox have now been the State Department at Washing-removed; also eat quarantine res- ton approved, and also a violation trictions have been imposed against of the contracts between Holhow on account of cholera and Nicaragun and bondholders of similar restrictions have been im the 1900 London loan-Reuter's posed against Pak-hol on account American Service.
of pluguo..
The body of an unknown Chin- ese, who was found hanging from tree on the hillside below Mount Davis Road, has been taken to the Public Mortuary. He has the ap- apearance of a street coolie.
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