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MORE TOURISTS.
EMPRESS FLAGSHIP
ARRIVES.
MILLIONAIRES ON BOARD.
SUNNING PIRACY.
TWO WOUNDED MEN CHARGED,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1927.
The last two suspects held in con- nection with the Sunning piracy, against whom proceedings had been deferred until their discharge from With over 400 tourists on board, the Government Civil Hospital, "ap- the s. Empress of Scotland. Nag-peared on remand before Mr. R. E, ship of the Canadian Pacific Fleet, Lindsell this morning, being arrived here to-day in a round-the-charged with acts of piracy by the world tour in which no fewer than Director of Criminal Intelligence 30 ports in 22 countries will be (Mr. T. H. King), who entlined the visited. In all, the cruise will last case against both and called, as the. 102 days.
first witnesses for the prosecution, Captain Pringle and a
telegraph operator from the Sunning.
On arrival here, the Enipress Hier went to dock at Kowloon for minor adjustment of under-water.. Mr. King said:It is unnecea- fittings, and she is expected to go sary to go over all the grounds of alongside at the Kowloon wharves this case. I only deal now with the to-morrow. For the convenience facts insofar as they"apply to the of seeing the sights of the Colony, two defendants. The first defen- the tourists have been divided | dant will be identified by Mr. Beat- Into three groups; and the party | ty, the Chief Officer, who will stute will have Hongkong for Shang- hai on Sunday night,
This is the fourth world trip of the Empress of Scotland, which has proved herself to be an ex- tremely comfortable and luxurious ship for world cruising.
that he saw this man on the bridge in the early part of the piracy. There is no further identification of him individually, and the other chier item of evidence against him' will be that when No. & boat was lowered from the poop deck, four Been to lift a Once again, there is a Round-grmed men were
into it, and that the World Golf Club on board, and wounded man the members thereof will play on wounded man was the defendant, the courses of the different coun- he being the only wounded mau in tries visited. There are about 20 the bout when it was lowered from in this club, and invitations from the drek into the water. golf clubs in The ports visited prove that there was to her
worded run in the bout. have been extended to them.
PROMINENT PASSENGERS.
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"The evidendo against the serond defendant in much the saine thing as has Leun heurd in this case. He Among the prominent passen-is the second of the two men who gers #re Prince and Princess
the bridge were knocked out on Pignatelli of Madison, Conn.; Lady (the other man being the No. 20 E. Marie Roberts, of London, Mrs. defendant). Evidence of identifica Oscar Straus, of New York: wife tion will be brought against him of the former Ambassador tobot by the Captain and Chief Turkay; Mr. and Mrs. George H.
Omeer, and also two members of
Walbridge, of New York, and Dr.the crew, who will sng that he came and Mrs. W. D. Mekim, of Wash-to the forecastle and asked who ington, D. C.. Mr. Walbridge is they were. This was just after head of several western light and the piracy had commenced and power companies and director of before he got on the bridge 11 the J. G. White Engineering Car shall first call Captain Pringle poration of New York. Dr. Me and the operator. Kim is a noted physician and au- thor, and is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine,"
A pictureaque figure on board is 73-year-old John Shea, retired tug. boat captain, who is leaving, his beloved Lake Superior for a time to survey the oceans of the world.
The Empress of Scotland is of '25,000 tons gross register; 37,500 tons displacement; Length, 699 feet: breadth, 77 feet. She has eil fuel quadruple expansion en- gines, and does a speed of 18 knots, There are eight decks for passengers, elevators and a gym nasium,
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ASSEGAI FIGHT.
97 CASUALTIES IN A FIVE- HOURS CONFLICT.
(Continued From Paye 1.) His Worship said before taking Captain Pringle's evidence, he pro-
Mr. Turner:- suppose your posed to ent out all the unnecessary
Bulawayo. A man who knocked evidence and deal with those inci-solicitors again misunderstood you deats with which the two present when they wrote again demanding over a drum ard assegaied the defendants were said to have been interest in November last year! drummer at a native holiday dance-
Plaintiff appeared to a little non-gave the signal to start a battle plussed but replied "Perhaps it is between rival tribesmen employed. the ordinary course of the sollcat a colliery at Wankic, in South
ern Rhodesia.
connected.
Evidence was then taken.
FILL UP,
Vichy, the French health resort, has just celebrated the 101st birth-
tor's work."
ONLY A BROKER.
Chan admitted he did not take day of Mr. Alexandre Gravier-up the shares himself, because he Dumousseux, whose, grandfather was only a broker. was mayor of the town in 1791,
The liner left Southampton on Having died within a few hours. November 13th, went to Canada of each other. Mr. and Mrs. and then started out from New Llewellyn, both more than 90 years York en December 2nd. The ports of age, were buried in the same of call have been Funchal, Ma-farave at Penali, Monmouthshire. deira; then Gibraltar, Algiers, Monaco, Naples, Haifa, Port Said, Suez, Bombay, Colombo, Palang, Batavia, Singapore and Manila From Hongkong, the itinerary will be Shanghai, Peking, Kobe, Yoko hama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Fran- riser, Balboa, Cristobal and In vana. The Empress will return to New York on April 12.
A feature of the cruise is that the part was enabled to spend Christmas Eve in the Holy Land,
chiefly herein.
Mr. Turner:-Was, it that you never had them to deliver at ab
No.
For five hours the rivals fought with knobkerries. pick-handles, and assegnis, three men being killed and 94 wounded. Fifty- huts were burned.
The defeated party took refuge in houses in town.
Europeans with shot-guns, u ing small snol, dispersed the vie If this agreement was entered tors. The position is now nergal, Into on August 20th, 1025, how is it The battle
that you never said anything about quarrel.
in to the defendant until somtime
In November, 1926-On August
was a
purely trikal
26th, the defendant came and] Mrs. Arnold, a widow, of Bed- offered to pay the flat Pite, but i förd Avenue, Bäries, has just cele
ngkong, and had to see the seller before sett-rated her 103rd birthday. this year, for a third time, direc-ig.
tor-fi-charge, of the world cruise, Mr. Turner repeated his ques
will direct the new South America-tion and plaintif said he had men-ny money. Ife denied the agres-
tinued the matter to the defen-ment. South Africa crunge next winter.
dant in the street.
Communding the Empress of Scotland again this year la Cap-
Chief Officer C. H. Sapsworth; |
a side tour placing them within
Chief Engineer A. E. Philp; l'ur-
easy reach of Nazareth, Tiberias,
and
SHARES PAID FOR
SHARES NOT DELIVERED.
TOWN OF QUEER TRADES.
LONDON'S SECRETS IN THE DIRECTORY.
A Het of the 5,000 trades and Profession's carried on by London. ers is one of the most interesting sections, for the reader who brow- ses through it. in all the 4,000 pages that make up Kelly's Post Office London Directory for 1927. which has just been issued.
In London you may find at once in your hour of need, such workers
as
Anatomists' osteologists. Annato manufacturers. Bactopeplane manufacturers. Brewery amalgamators. -Coal dust grinders. Dandy roll makers.
Dust, layers.
Milk gaard manufacturers.
It is comforting to knew that in Londen there are two buhl cutters and one maker of diethylbarbiturie acid.
Armourers and brasiers, bow- yers, boriferers, fletchers, girdles
I believe you were financially lain . G. Fatta. In his crow are hard hit by the fall in prices in In reply to Mr. Leask; defen.Korners, loriners, skinners, and 5-14 souls, including 48 officers, June
Jully-Everybody filant' admitted that he bought the upholders still sustain the dignity Among the latter are Staff Captain suffered a great loss, myself in-shares, at the price of $14,155, with of City companies, with secre-
brokerage and slamp.
taries though not all in offices, R. N. Stuart, V.C., D.S.O., R:N.R.; [eluded.
Have you paid for them?-No.
Kelley's is a sort of magic car- And yet you say you don't owe pet that will take you anywhere. the Sea of Galilee and Jerusalem, and New Year's Eve in Cairo. ser 1. Walker Bartlei; Surgeon D. Referring to Mr. Turner's ques-the plaintiff any money? Because if you wish to go to Bekyia or
The minimum fare for the trip. S. Jones, and Chief Stewardtion with regard to taking up the he has not delivered the shares.
Bluementhall or. Eimlipatam, da_03_Ra,,a day, but American__mi_Kirkpatriek.
shares himself, Mr. Leask asked Had he delivered the shares, lionaires who enter into these Mr. Sutherland's cruise staff plaintiff if he had paid for the Would you have paid them?-If the Constantza or Cheribon or, Cutch- world-tours so enthusiastically pay comprises F. L. Nason, San Fran- shares. He produced a receipt
mandrie, you may learn the Lon- don wharf from which to suil. If as much as £2,000 for the privilege | cisco; W. H. Deacon, Portland, dated November 1st, 1926, for of having an entire suite to them-Oro.: A. R. Buchanan, Chicago: 020 in respect of the 500 shares.
Is that your usual practice?-It your whim is go to Ashwick, to
Borrowwash, selves on their long voyage. There C. E. Blaney, Vancouver; D. 0.
or Clyst-St. Mary is my practice with other Brokers. Mr. Leask:You were asked in
Then you must owe a lot of may see at once which railway will take you there, and what hote!
told that bankers will acromio date you in Agen, the Egeun, or Aberchirder.
shares were brought to me I world
have paid for them.
are several of these millionaires on Beaton, R. H. Carter, London; F. 1, the course of cross-examination money in Hongkong-I don't owe will welcome you. You are als
board.
FINE APPOINTMENTS. '%
McCloskey, L. J. Rawley, Montreal; why you have not pressed the
W. A. Shanckelford, Boston, and defendant before. What is the any money. B. H. Stearns, Shanghai. Mrs. reason?
Mr. Turner, in addressing his The public rooms aboard the Alice M. Camp, New York, is social Plaintiff:-Because I had to
Lordship, said he must submit it Empress of Scotland are unusual hostess: Marlin, and Flora Nash settle with the seller before I could agreement had been entered into was extremely improbable that the
Information about parking your ly capacious and exquisitely ap- DeMuth, also of New York, are suc
in the way in which he had been motor-car can be obtained by pointed. The diningsaluon can the cruise artists, and Harry Pol Plaintiff agreed with Mr. Leask told. The evidence was not con- study of an abstract of the Acts seat 438 people at one sitting, and lard, Calgary, Canada is the that on Settlement Day he did not clusive enough to show that an pursuant to 32 and 33 Vie. cap.. is decorated in the Empire style | official photographer.
actually have the shares to deliver, agreement had been entered into, 115 and 7 Edward VII, ch. 55,,and in white and gold, the furniture
but he could get them from the and the claim must fail because the should you be a shoe-black there is being of mahogany upholstered in
seller as soon as he knew the price plaintiff had not succeeded in a reliable guide to your conduct would be paid by the buyer.
discharging the onus of proving In the same section. Is that the usual practice on the the agreement. Hongkong Stock Exchange? Yes." Plaintiff's son gave evidence and
FUTURE CRUISES.
PLAINTIFF SUCCEEDS.
One queer entry informs 18 that at 43, Whitcomb-street, W.C.2. lives Mr. William No. 1. Harry. Mr.
red morocco. The main lounge In addition to her cruise around is of the Louis XVI period, with the world last year, when she ar the furniture done in satinwood.rived Hongkong on the same day, The large ballroom, also is done February 10, the Empress of Scot in Empire style, the walls being land has made three Mediterran- said he was present when the of inlaid satinwood with ormolu can cruises, proving herself to be defendant visited his father's plaintiff with costs, Mr. Nihill said the late Mr. William Harris, of In giving judgment for the Harris is one of the four sons of enrichments. The smoking rooms particularly well adapted to cruis-office and offered to pay the flat, the defendant, on his own showing, Smithfield, the Sausage King," are decorated in Dutch style with ing service. Next your she will rate.
nover naked for the delivery of the who, named three of his sons Wil onk walls and ceiling beams, en- go to the Mediterranean again; the
The defendant said he bought shares or made any attempt to phyliam, and dubbed them No. 1 No. hanced by old ship lamps of the Empress of Australia, so well the shares sometime in June, but for them on Settlement Day, and 2, and No. 3, hanging type. The winter gar-known on the Pacific while on her although he often saw the plaintiff he regarded that as the most antient dens both decorated in a trellis trade run between Vancouver and in the street the shares were not fact in support of the plaintiff's schone of green and white, and Hongkong and now being re-on-mentioned until November Inst contention that a settlement was equipped with wicker furniture, gined in Glasgow, taking her place year. He afterwards admitted agreed to on the fint rate. are favourite rendezvous.
THE PERSONNEL.
The
Posted at Westcliff-on-Sea on
ou the world cruise. The Em-that, the plaintiff and asked him defendant's action or non-action September 2, 1919, a postcard was press of France, which called here about them, and told him he had was the most striking collaboration delivered to E. M. Ingram, of on the Canadian Pacifle world already made, himself liable.. for of the plaintiff's story, and he add- Faunce-street. Kennington Park, Mr. P. D. Sutherland, for 18 eruisé two years ago, will under them. The defendant replied ed, he found that the onus of prov-S.E., Just month. It was shown to years in high official posts with take a new cruise to South Ameri- then that he had not come to any ing a settlement was arrived at had the sender, who remembered writ the Canadian Pacific in the Orient,
Bettlement and did not owe him been proved to his satisfaction. ling it when staying at Westcliff,
ca and South Africa.
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