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DIOCESAN REUNION.
FORMER BISHOP OF HONGKONG SPEAKS...
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1926.
SNATCHER CAUGHT.
SEQUEL TO INCIDENT AT STAR, FERRY WHARF.
PIRACY CHARGE.
MORE EVIDENCE AGAINST
THREE MEN.
Further evidence was taken at
PICKETS ACTIVE.
NORWEGIAN SHIPMASTER
'ASSAULTED.
FOREIGN CURRENCIES.
ANOTHER FRANC RECORD."
London, July 8. Foreign currencies opened tery
All these are substantially lower than yesterdayRouter.
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THE $51.
A large company responded to An incident at the Star Ferry
The. Chinese vessel Shinfoo ar the invitation of the Commis Wharf on June 30 led to the the Central Magistracy yesterday in rived from Canton in ballast ves-weak. satios and Committee of the Vic appearance at the Central Magis the case in which three men are fore leaving, the master, Captai, French francs, at 187.50 Belgian, terday and it is reported that be- High records were established in toria, Hongrong and South China tracy yesterday of a Chino charged with the piracy of a fiabing M. Elassan, a Norwegian subject. 96.50. The lire reached 147.50 to Diocesan Association for the un-charged with snatching. The nual reunion of that body held at { complainänt in the case was A boat in the vicinity of Lantau was assualted by boycott pickets the pound..... Victory House, Leicester Squaro, walter in a Macão restaurant, and Island. on June 2. The Rt. Hon. Sir Fred- erick Lagard, G,CM.G. KU.M.G. C.B., D.S.O., a former Governor of Hongkong, presided,
After prayer, offered by Rev. Dr. G. H. Lander, a former Bishop of the Diocese, and a hymn, the Chairman, rising amid applause, sald that looking back on the years he speat in Hongkong, he felt those as being the most happy and interesting of his life, and it; was a great pleasure to renew touch with friends made there (Ap-| plazzo).
Of late years his chief interest had been with the Hongkong Uni- versity, which they knew had been In some financial difficulty, bu from letters he had received from the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor there were hopeful indications for the future. (Applause.)
The Chairman then dwelt on the loyalty and discipline displayed by the students of the University of Hongkong during the serious trou bles which had beset Tlongkong and Southern China. This went far to vindicate the object for which the University was founded,
Feeling of Goodwill.
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He went on to say that the traditional feeling of goodwill and sympathy in this country towards China had recently found expres sion in the appointment of Lord Southborough's strong committee for improving their relations with that great country, (Applause). But, perhaps, some of them might not know that there has been ap-
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evidence was given that he came At a previous hoaring it was off the Hongkong ferry wharf and
stated that apparently the only walked towards the riesha stand. survivor was a small boy who left He was hustled by two men, the boat when it was attacked and and then felt a tug at his left swam four miles to safety. breast pocket. He looked round
Yesterday, evidence was given by and saw the defendant standing with his hat hold over his hand the wasters of two other fishing Complainant found that twenty-boats which were in the vicinity at
who not only used threats, but struck him with an iron bar.
The Shinfoo arrived at Canton from Shanghai, with a crow con- sisting of two other Europeans and ' 38 stokehold hands who wore en- gaged in that port. Whilst in Canton, the deck hands were in- timidated by the pickets and loft the ship, but the engine room me
one dollars in Canton currency the time of the piracy. Both said disregarded the threats and re
were missing, and seven dollars in Hongkong.notes.
It was stated that all the money was found when the defendant was arrested by a district watch- man with the exception of one $5 Hongkong note.
Defendant's arrest was carried put by a watchman who was duty at the ferry wharf. He had seen the man peeping into people's pockets as they loft the ferry and kept a close watch on little later he saw him take some- thing from the complainant's pocket.
hini.
A
fendant said he was arrested by In a statement to the police, de- the police and accused of stealing the notes. Ho alleged that the police constable took the notes from complainant's pocket and then, accused him of "stealing them.
Mr. W. B. Hind, who defended, said he would not call evidence at that stage. Defendant was com mitted for trial at the Sessions.
Criminal
Bu referred to the sad events poicted a second Committee-the that had occurred in the last few Universities of China. Committee --of which Dr. Chen and himself days for all who knew Hongkong- the death of Sir Paul Chater, so were both members.
closely identified with the life of The objects of that Committee Hongkong, and who had done so were to improve cultural relations. much for that city and for the The idea was that they should in Church of England there-and also vite at the expense of the Com-that of the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holy- mittee one or two eminent Chinese oak, who had also taken a deep to give lectures in the Universities interest in Church matters, and in of this country and elsewhere, and various phases of Hongkong life.. it was hoped that China might. respond in like manner, so that by that means the two countries would become still closer in touch. (Lou: applause),
The speaker dwelt on Church work both in Victoria and Kowloon, on the good work that had been done and was being carried on there, and he felt sure that the afternoon splendid meeting that would gladden the heart of the good Bishop of Hongkong." (Ap- plause)..
They hoped that once they start ed it might become a permanent in stitution. (Renewed applause), The news they got from China day by day was a mass of contradic tions. What people in this country were 'puzzled to know was what Dr. Chen, of the Chinese Em- was the original cause of the anti-bassy, said he thought each suc- British feeling which had been cessive change in China tended to shown in China.
Effects of Change.
and
ring closer a final, settled, arm government, Dr. Yen had been nominated as Minister to Great Britain, but he believed that
For his own part he felt very hopeful, mainly because China had at last come to realise the Laneful influences of Bolshevism, and also because the leaders and agents of socn as the two principal mili- that movement had fallen com- pletely into disrepute. He thought that gave them hope. "that their gestures of goodwill towards China active might meet with some response. (Applause).
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Sir Claud Severn.,
Sir Claud Severn, late Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, who was also given an enthusiastic reception, ex- pressed in the first place the very great pleasure it gave him to see so many old frinds of the years he had spent in Hongkong.
tary leaders had settled their dif- ferences Dr. Yen would be at the had of a Regency Cabinet to carry on the government of the country,
Dr. Yer, was a son of the first ordained Chinese Christian clergy- man in China, and a graduate of mission college, and he was sure that in his hands the government would be safe.
After the Rev. C. B. Shann, War- den of St. John's Hall, Hongkong, had spoken both on the spiritual and material side of the work in South China, the meeting closed with the singing.of a hymn and a Benediction pronounced by Bishop Lander.
He referred in eulogistic terms to the presence of Miss Pitts, O.B.E., Miss Fletcher, and the Rev. Dr. "Pearce. Sir Claude Severn then touched very interestingly on The meeting was followed by certain aspects of Chinese life in tea, at which Miss M. C. Knight, Hongkong, more especially of the Assistant Hon. Secretary, and work among the European com- other ladies were assiduous in
their attention to all present. munity.
they saw a shing boat go alongside
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A PATHETIC VIGIL.
Brooklyn, July 8. The submarine 951 has besn drydocked here, at midnight, after grounding for. eloven hours" through losing two of the support-
ng pontoonaj five miles out.
Meantime a pathetic vigil at the
the other, but as their own bonts mained in the ship.
It was apparently the attitudo cf. ware only small ones and did not carry arms, they sailed away and these men which raised the ire of dockside is being kept by the did not offer assistance.
the strike pickets and turned their bereaved familles of the 86 men whose bodies are presumably attention to the master. En aboard.--Router'a American. Ser- One man said it was a moonlight|uiries are proceeding,
|vice. night and identified all thros de- The Shinfoo is owned by the fondanta as being on the boat which San Pah 8. s. Co., of Shanghai, on two wont alongside the other. Another who are doing a considerable south for the purpose of conduct- witness was only able to identify amount of business with Canton ing negotiations with regard to
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