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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE OF REMOVÄL
From the 28th July, 1926, our address will be Prince's Build- ings.
1. Des Voeux Road, Central (formerly occupied by the Russo
Asiatic Bunk). ."
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to damage caused to, the Water-
CHINA ATICTION
ROOMS.
4. Duddell Street...
If you have anything you would like to soll, exchange or, advortiso send it to the CHINA AUCTION
o the c ROOM.
E. V. M. R. de" SOUSA,
ff
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.
PUBLIC AUCTION
of the "
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY
situnte at Victoria, Hongkong, and known as No. 6G New Praya, Ken- nedy Town, situate upon the Re- maining Portion of Section B of Marine Lot No. 245.
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TO BE SOLD BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
on FRIDAY, the 23rd day of
July, 1926, at 3 o'clock p.m..
SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926.
LAMMERT'S AUCTIONS
PUBLIC AUCTION.
The Undersigned have received Instructions to soll by Public Auc- tion,
on WEDNESDAY,
the 28th July, 1926,
commencing at 2.45 p.m.
$4,000 DAMAGES.
(Continued from Page 1)..
BRITISH REPLY TO CANTON,
(Continued from Page 1),
"SHANGHAI STRIKE.
BRIEF STOPPAGE AT POST OFFICE.
the influence of drink upon any other occasion. The words used bund facing Shameen, and this de- After a seventeen hour strike in fact suggested to him and would monstration included armed troops which partially paralyzed the ser=- suggest, He thought, to any ordining the course of this demonstra Post Office, the strikers made un from the military academy. Dur- vice of the Shanghal General ary member of the public, that the ton fire was opened at Shameen unconditional surrender half an plaintiff was a habitual drunkard from the Shakes side." or at least something very like it. On the evidenca ho had no hesita- at No., 8, Middle Road, Kowloon..tion in saying that the charge was
A Quantity of Valuable
untrue. The words under this Household Furniture,
hend were therefore, in his opinion, defamatory and had not been justified.
(Particulars as per Catalogue.)
On View froom Tuesday, the 27th July, 1926.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
SHAMEEN SHOOTING.
hour before mid-night last Satur- day night, and on Sunday the entire staff was working over-. time in order to clear the dis
arrived by train and steamers on
of the Chinese delegation, an attribution of congested mails which
We notice that, in the statement
tempt is made to pass lightly over the question of responsibility for Saturday. that it is a point of "secondary not even formally received by Mr. the first shooting." It is suggested Demands of the strikers were
Importance" and "3 not a capital. E. Tollefsen, Postal Commissioner. On the sixth charge his Lordship issue" and stress is laid instoad Mr. Tollefsen contented himself or the intensity of the fire returned with issuing a general warning to suld that the statement of plain-by the people who found them- the unruly workers, pointing out tiff's first wife was relied upon as selves thus attacked. But we can, to then that if they did not return proof that plaintiff led a fast life sider that the question of whose to work unconditionally they in Peking. She was, however, vital importance, and on this pointly, and also be subject to punish- act gave rise to the tragedy is of would lose their places permanent- clearly a prejudiced and rather we must insist that not only ment for interfering with the not the evidence of British and operation of an important Govörn- disposed to rely very much on her French witnesses attest the factment agency, evidence. In his Lordship's opinion that the shooting began on the The clerks, the letter sorters and so far as the charge concerned the Chinese aide, but there are also on the coolies ull expressed a deairé life of the plaintif before he came Danish and Swedish Consula, and men held out for some hours, ask record written statements by, the to return to work, but, the post-
that the words used were The other and more
sent at the tirnu, and assert de-demands for higher pay and for serious" al- legation was that plaintiff's fiancee finitely of their own knowledge more rice money be forwarded to ed to come to his room in the that the first shots were fred from the Directorate of Posts at Pek- CONSIGNEE NOTICES.High School and atay with him in Shakee. The shots were returned ing, Mr. Tollefsen would make no
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FAMILY HOTEL, VICTORIA GARDENS, Quint APARTMENTS
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Public Works Department,
Hongkong, 21st July, 1926.
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HONGKONG ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY. Hongkong, 19th July, 1926.
THEATRE
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ROYAL CITY HALL
By the eminent Psychologist
Prof. Maximilian LANGSNER .M.L.L.C.
(KARA-IKD
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The most convincing demonstration of OCCULT. SCIENCE
TELEPATHY
HYPNOTISM
MAGNETISM
4, Duddell Street, Victoria, Hongkong
by
✰
Mr. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
Auctioneer.
The property consists of:—;
into
GENERÁL BROKERS.
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN
LINE.
Al
“MALVERNIAN.”
true,
The deaths and casualties
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the room till late at night. There in self-defence by the British and such agreement, but offered, if the had been no allegations of mis-French forces on Shameen, who us men would return to work uncondi- conduct during any of these visits explained above, had treason to tionally, to hear their arguments nor had re in terms been asked believe that an attack on the island later for a small increase in rice From NEW YORK,
was intended, and in this one to assume it. A further point action it may be noted that the All that piece or parcel of The Steamship,
money-say $2 or $3 per month. was made under this head, namely statement of the Chinese delega ground situate at Victoria, regis-
By 11.30 o'clock Saturday night that plaintiff, while not divorced tion does not attempt to explain the postmen had given in, and all, tered in the Land Omico as the having arrivod, Consignees of Cargo from his first wife was living in sin, why the British have been made of the strikers, who Remaining Portion of Section B of by her are hereby informed that all as it was called, with his second the sole objects of resentment for 2,392, went back to work and/
numbered Marine Lot No. 245 together with Goods are being landed at their risk wife. As he had no evidence of incidents in which they were not worked all night. the Godown erected thereon and hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf,
the hazardous and/or extra-Chinese law of divorce and could the only foreigners concerned. known as No. 6G New Praya, Ken-whence Delivery may be obtained. nedy Town. The property is held
not tell whether,the paper signed No Claims will be admitted after by the parties waa good divorce caused amongst the Chinese on ance and enforcement of the anti- for the unexpired residue of the the Goods have left the Godowns, and or not in China he was unable to Jane the 23rdure term of 900 years from the 24th 30th July, 1925, will be subject tosion on this point. He could, grave responsibility for the sacr relations with Canton suggested
all Goods remaining undelivered after come to any satisfactory conclu- for
matter British boycott," and that this day of June, 1892.
sincere regret, but the Hongkong severance of economic Rent. Annual Crown Rent $87.47.
Claims against the Steamer therefore, only say that the allegance of those lives must rest with the precise must be presented to the Undersigned tion that plaintiff was living an
form in which on or before 6th August, 1920, or they immoral life in living with his attack, and with the Chinese should express itself." Aren 7809 sq. ft. or there-will not be recognized,
those who wantonly began the patriotic retaliation for June 23 abouts.
All broken, chufted and damaged present wife was not proved. In authorities, who disregarding the Goods, are to the left in the Godowns, his Lordship's opinion the evidence folly and danger of their action, a bad construction on perfectly in
This is a good example of putting where they will be examined on any did not justify the statement that allowed inflammable material to nocent actions, and Tuesdays or Fridays, between the the plaintiff freely indulged in the
hours of 19,45 am. and Noon, within
The Hongkong the Freen Storage Period of one vice of lust.
be placed ready to That the plaintiff. week.
the hands of Government did not institute any. was indiscreet was clear, and that agitators seeking for an oppor- blockade of Canton or the rest of No Fire Furance has been effect the lady was in his room later
tunity to cause a conflagration. the province, Hongkong did not Bills of Lading wil be countersigned and more often than he admitted definition of the ensuing boycott of ton. The prohibition of the ex- The Chinese delegation, in their sover economic relations with Can- might possibly be true. But most of the witnesses were obviously British trade, have implied that portation of certain foodstuffs was hostile and, apart from that, not this movement is "a voluntary a measure dletnted by very reliable and further, thereabstention from all commercial prudence for the purpose of con- was not a single suggestion of relations with the British, and serving the food supplies of the misconduct. The found, upon the they add that the boycott has been Colony. By June the 22nd the plaintiff freely indulged in the vice far more than a year. With great and no one knew how far the im whole, that the charge that the sustained by the Chinese people shipping strike had already begun,
of Just was not proved. The respect we say must emphatically seventh and last charge was only that that definition and that state
For further Particulars Conditions of inle apply:- Messrs. Johnson Stoke and Master, Mortgagee's Solicitora, or to
Mr. E. V. M. R. DE SOUSA,
The Auctioneer, Hongkong, 14th July, 1926.
THE AUCTIONEERING 8 BROKERING Co., Ltd.
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FURNITURE AUCTIONS
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MRS. SEKAI MASSAGE
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THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Ggents. Hongkong July 24, 1924.
A bride who went on strike in the middin of the marriage cere-
of the did craied mony, "downed ring, and walked
wedding. She had come from that
consternation
at સ
Devonport
MITIGATION OF DAMAGES.
one.
THE BOYCOTT.
common
portation "of foodstaffs into the
Colony might not be interfered
North of England, after an engage-
a general statement covering thement are entirely at variance with with, If this was a blockade by ment of some years. "I didn't like particular charges preceding it, the fucts.
Hongkong, it was a blockade of the the witnesses," she told a "Daily and he thought he need not give
whole world. The object of the Chronicle" representative in any finding upon it inasmuch as
prohibition was' shown by the noti- explanation of her
the findings upon the previous action, I
The abstention is not a voluntary fiction of the 11th August, which didn't know who they were going charges. covered it.
It is imposed on an unwi announced that licences would be to be till I saw them, so I refused
ling people by a small but powerful giyen freely for the exportation to to go on, and we were married
organisation of persons who main-all destinations subject to ade afterwards Elsewhere." The It was clear, the Chief Justice tain the boycott by force of armsgate reserves being maintained in bride. a pretty brunette, is a proceeded, that in consequence of and who do not hesitate to shoot the Colony, and the embargo was, miner's daughter and according to rash and untrue statements made down their own fellow countrymen ber. The prohibition of the wholly removed on the 9th Octo- one who was present at the Re-by the defendants the plaintiff's when the latter. try to continue gistry Ofice, described the care-reputation had been injured. Dam- those normal relations which ought notes a measure of ordinary fill- exportation of coin, bullion and. niony as "bally rut." All she ages, however, were assousable to exist between close and friendly ancial system of the Colony. Thus, wanted to do was to sign
the upon the whole case. In mitiga neighbours, and which will cer- purely defensive measures, impused marriage register, it was explained. tion of damages, he found that de tulaly, sooner or later, burst on Hongkong by the strike, are fendants were not actuated by through the articificial and econo- malice; that defendants had just-mically unsound barriers which In fact, the statement of the twisted into un attack on Canton, ified in some degree; and that the prevent their free action at pre- Chinese delegation on this point: plaintif who, in his position as ecat. It would be easy to test the seems to us to be a desperate at Principal, should have been meti- correctness of this assertion, and tempt to find an excuse and an ex- culously careful in his conduct, we are quite sure that if these planation for the institution and was in some matters very indis-barriers were removed the current maintenance of the boycolt against erect and went far to provoke the of trade and friendly intercourse, Hongkong, a community which had hostile comments published by would flow freely agafn, bringing not been concerned in any way with defendants; nor was any special mutual benefit to." Chinese and the incidents previously described. Hamage pleaded and it was not ap British alike. parent, that plaintiff would lose
INDIGNANT PROTEST. his position as a result of the action. These considerations must
Finally, we take this opportunity
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the
"We need scarcely say that we da not ask that any voluntary abaten-
menns
of
tion should be "suppressed by to enter an indignant protest be thought, materially diminish the force."" All that we ask is that against the attempt which has amount of damages recoverable an involuntary abstention should been madé and
by amount claimed incot be maintained by force or ar- unscrupulous propaganda through- the writ ($10,000) was, he thought, tificial means. We do not wish to out the course
of this un- a very generous estimate on
thebe misunderstood here. We fully happy trouble to throw the blame" plaintiff's part. Taking the whole realise that a year ago many on Hongkong and on the British circumstances of the case into con Chinese believed, erroneously as nation. In truth, the malady of sideration and weighing them to we think, that they had reason which the Chinese delegation
the best of his ability as a jury man he assessed the damage to the plaintiff's reputation at $4,000.
Judgement for this amount was entered against the defendants severally and jointly.
2
"A Short Treatise of Hunting," by Sir Thomas Cockaine, pripted in 1591, was sold for £2,100, a Sotheby's..
TO-DAY
Dollar on demand 2s. 2,9/16 Lighting-up
7.08 p.m.
for making a protest against the speak is an internal one and will not action of various foreign nations cured by attacking the British In connection with the incidents people, who of all others are most referred to above. If they had us and Independent China with desirous of seeing a happy, prosper." auch reason which we deny, they whom they can conduct their trade. have made that protest, in various ways, but we are convinced that We fully appreciate the fact that the great bulk of the people,al-the whole outlook, of large sections ways excepting those whose in- of the Chinese people han changed. terest it is to maintain the boycott, in recent years, and we sincerely a would now gladly resume normal sympathise with the ambition of the relations.
Chinese, nation to take that. great. place in the world to which its It is further alleged in the of Hongkong, in particular, is pro
gonius entitles it. The Government statement of "the Chinese delega-pared to assist in the development tion that "the practical blockade of those provinces which the Coloay which the Government" of Hong" is brought into immediate contact, kong instituted against Canton and in any way which may be of mutual the rest of the province was a benefit, and it is in this direction. powerful predisposing and, later that we hope a solution of the pro- continuing factor in the maintenant difficulties may be found.
BLOCKADE DENIED.