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NORTHERNA DISARMEN ... At n. town named U Ya, the Northerners, on dumantling dia- armament of the disaffected troops were overpowered and in turn
TUESDAY, JANUARY
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SUNNING PIRACY TRIAL
THE "LOOT CABIN."
1927.
The Polico Court proceedings in connection with the trial of the Sun- ning pirzey suspects this morning Sit-In your last Friday's entered upon the closing stage whon they themselves were disarmed issues, the Bishop of London, in formal evidence was given by polico and taken prisoners. Following the course of an address to a con-officers of the task which fell on this, it is said, the Chekiang men gregation of men in the Cathedral, them on the return of the ship hero. marched on to Hei Hsing, on the was reported to have said: "If This included the sorting out of opposite bank of the Chientang they wanted to see what the teach-ovidence presented by property re River to Nanaingyino, and defleding of Mahomedanisir led to, It was covered on certain of the defendants the Northerners to attempt a cross. only necessary to go to Morrocco, und also in a room selected by the Ing. Another serap took place, where they would find four women pirates for the collection of the loot, but with what result no very, rell-around one man. Your readers to which the name of "loot cabin" able news has come to hand, Peo.probably took this remark as a was given. -
Sub-Inspector Lane, in the course ple have been grantly scared, and sneering reference to the alleged almost every shop on, the water evita of polygamy, a system which, of his evidence this morning, spoke front had been closed. The North though permitted by Islam, is any-to finding Mr. Lapsley's overcoat in erners have bee, busy all day thing but prevalent in the Muslim the cabin referred to and also of discovering another waterproof in makleg. temporary defence works and, as far as outward appearance A Mussulman, is only allowed to No. 9 defendant's trunk which was goes, give the Impression that they have more than one. wife under later identified, in quito an acciden- but ittal way, by Mrs. Anderson, the cortain circumstances. mean battle.
would take too much of your val Chinese wife of a foreigner who' uable space to go into the detalls was a passenger on the steamer.
Cross-examined by Mr. M. K. Lo of the Koranic law with regard to
in. respect of certain godda Dec. 27..
found in the possession of There was a great exodus of this matter.
The writer does not intend to grave-mason (the No. 6 defendant, clylliane by the train which steamed out for Shanghai this enter, into the question of the To Sik-tuen), witness admitted morning. The din and bustle on moral and social aspect of polythat these, as well as certain cards the platform presented a scene x tgamy, but, in passing he would just and documents found on the man, easily forgotten. Many passeu-like to mention that It is not pro were consistent with his story that he was on a business trip. be- gers were left behind being un-hibited in the Bible.. able to board the train for the Nothing perhaps does greater tween Amoy and Hongkong.
At the tin interval the hear- crush. About an hour after the harm to the cause of inter-religious departure of the Shanghai train, amity than the superficial genering was again adjourned, the special conveying General allentien so often made about a re- Mang and his staff, made its ap-ligion, and it is regrettable that, o pearance The general alighted Church dignitary of such high amid a perfect fanfare of trum-standing should go so far afield as pets and voices. He rode to North Africa to pick out supposed his headquarters by motor foll weevils, when on his own doorstep, ed by his bodyguard. Excitement so to speak, moral conditions are has greatly decreased since the anything but perfect. paroxysm of yesterday-shops are again opened, and everything aeems to be going on as usual
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MORE CHEQUES.
the
A GROWING PRACTICE.
Rugby, Jan. 3. It would be equally wrong for a
The growing use of cheques for Muslim observer who has witness-financial transactions is mention- ed the scenes of disorder incident-ed in the annual review of the al to Boat Race night, or the long Bankers' Clearing House, queues waiting for admission into
This is despite the fact that a the Divorce Court to listen to many cheque has now to bear a two- a cause celebre, to say that drunk penny stamp instead of a "one- enness, morbidity of mind and inxpenny stamp as in pre-war days. ity of morals are part and parcel it is pointed out that the yield to" of Christianity.Yours, etc.,
HASSAN EL ARCULLI. Hongkong, Jan. 4th, 1927.
revenue of two-penny, duty on CANTON'S FOREIGN BRAIN,
cheques for England and Wales: has steadily increased in the last To this second question there
five financial years from £2,504,000 can only be one answer and that
to £3,182,000. This latest return, is that the Cantonese owe the whole of their success to the Bol-wen, to remove their masters. But which constitutes a record, repre- shevik. Hotblooded nationalism they they will then wake up to the sents approximately ten cheques will not run about at the behest of fact that it is easier to win a drawn per annum per head of the foreigners unless it has to. The victory than to hold a peace and population-British Wireless... Cantonese must realize that with- and that those master-minds are, The out this foreign help they are more necessary than ever.
A reprieve having been refused, powerless, their cause lost. All Russians, if they have to go even those revolutionary nuclei, all that tually, will leave China in a far Charles Houghton, a butler, was Strategy, those tactics, they are worse state than they found it, cxecuted at Gloucester goal for the the work of master-brains, "ex-without ancestors, without "tao-li," murder of his employers, the perts. So, being sensible, the und with education and religion Messrs. Elinor. Drinkwater Wood- Cantonese bow to the inevitable debauched. Bolshevik-breeds not house and Martha Gordon Wood- and run about. They may intend, in peace, but in turmail. What a house, at Burghill Court; Here-
fordshire. when the fall victory has been prospect!
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