HUGE BLAZE.
MANILA BUILDINGS
DESTROYED.
2,000,000 PESOS LOSS. The business district on the Escolta between Calle. David and Canal Bridgo was wrecked by a Are of undetermined origin early this morning, says the Manila
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
HONGKONG IMPORTS.
HAND TO MOUTH POLICY,
The fortnightly Price Gurront and Market Report, published by the
Hongkong General Chamber of Com-
murco, states:
for most styles but quantities are
"HANOI" PIRACY.
EVIDENCE AGAINST. THE ACCUSED.
After a long period of delen- tion necessitated by repeated res mands, the man charged with boing Cotton Piece Goods. and Faney implicated in the recent piracy of Cotton Goods-Enquiry still continues the French steamer Hanoi, appear- small. Dealers are adopting a "Handed before Mr. B. E. Lindsell, this to mouth polley in placing their re-morning, on an application from quirements until the political atmon-the French authorites for his ro phera is clourer, consequently, the turn to Indo-China and subsequent Bulletin of Thursday, cautalne orders booked are on the meagra side. trial before a French Court.
raw material is higher. Eg. Sakol, being 13.80d, and Mid, Amor. "Spot 7.70d. on the 23d Inst.
approximate damage of million pesos.
two
The fire swept from Frank'a Stationery store to the Lyric Music Company.
taking overything
The
The proceedings were conduct- ed by Chief Detective Inspector Cotton Yarn. The demand has Murphy, who called, as the first continued small and only a few hun- witness, the compradore of the dred bales in spot and forward have ship, a Chinese, who stated that $3 to $4 per balo.
before it and destroying the been done at an impment to he indentified the defendant ns |
building.
All that was saved from the building housing these two firms was one grand plano and three phonographs.
In all 14 firms suffered heavy loases. Of this number, nine occupying the building on the Escolta were destroyed, The fire started with such suddenness that there was little time to remove anything from the flames.
Destroyed Buildings.
The names of the firms whose buildings were destroyed follow:
Lyric Film Exchange. Frank's Stationery Company, Riu Hermancs, importers and
exportera.
Manila Harness Company. Goldstein's Book Store.
Rura Furniture Store,
Agencia Education! Company,
Inc.
Balduz Music Store. Lyric Music Store.
Partial' Losses,
Firms that suffered very partial loses of their stocks and buildings
are
Henevelt and Company. Santa Fernandez Building. New Peoples Bank Building. Gibbs Building.
The Gibba building, which is under construction, was attacked by the flames shortly before the roof of the Lyrie Film Exchange collapsed. wooden parts of the framework were demolished.
aro
purely nominal: No. 10s. 3140/160.eing an active pirate. No. 128. 3145/163, No. 108. $165/170. No. 208. $176/180. Arrivals Nil Shipments Nil Sales
500 bates Unsold stock 12,500 bales. Bargains
| 13,500 bales.
Woollons. There has been business done mainly repeat orders in Garbar- dines and Serges.
Raw Cotton. No sales to report, Motnis-Market dull, nothing
doing.
Witness described the sequence of events occurring in the piracy, from the moment when shots wore heard, and passengers lay down in terror," up to the arrival of the ship at Blag Bay. He saw defendant carrying a gun, and re- moving the loot into a cabin. He also saw defendant help to work the cargo at Bins Bay, and saw him! make his departure with fourteen other pirates.
Flour Market-Stocks: About 820,- 000 sncks. Market: Quiet but steady, Quotations-American Patent $1,36- 4.40 por Back; American Straight, Witness could understand à lit- $3.20-3.63 per sack; American Cut off, tle of the Hakka dialect, which the 33.20 per sack; Shanghai Flour, pirates spoke, and, being a Chin
3.20-3.68
25 $3.33 per sack: Australian No. $3.50-3.76 per sack; Canadian Cut esc, was able to recognise the do- off, 33.20-3.25 per sack: Canadian fendant's voice from others. Straight, $1.16-3.20 per sack; Cana Closing the morning's proceed- tion Mixture, $3.05-8.24 per dockings at this stage, Inspector Mur- Canadian 2nd Clear, $3.00 per sack.phy asked for an adjournment of
Sugar-Market very weak, Saltpelre-Market opening fairly one week, to enable him to bring
promising after New Year.
AROUND AMERICA.
TWO AIRMEN KILLED,,'
Buenos Aires, Feb. 20. The four United States airmen have arrived and are being off- cially welcomed.
other witnesses from the steamer, who would be, able to testify to the actual murder of an Annamite guard and to the dumping of his body overboard.
The hearing was formally ad- journed for one week..
INGENIOUS FRAUD.
GAOL SCHEME FAILS.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1927.
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An ingenious method to defraud CANTON ARBITRATION. a stallholder of Battery Street, of the sum of $10, was used by a trades instructor in carpentry em-DEADLOCK STILL CONTINUES. ployed at the Victoria Gaol, and, but for the fact that a letter purporting
The Arbitration Conference in
The scaffolding and aerodrome which is just outside to have been written by the man's Canton to settle the dispute over)
The Gabriel Hernuinos Furniture store building at Calle David and Calle San Vicente, was burned as the flames swept from the Escolta. The Takahashi Furniture Store numbers among the buildings where the loss was large. Practically the entire building was destroyed.
building, now under.construction, sns burned and the loss, although no necurate estimates' were to be oblained early this morning, will be large.
SUNNING PIRACY.
TWO. MEN COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
The arrival of the United States airmen was accompanied by A tragedy in which two airmen were killed. Their machines after a successful landing in the harbour left for the Palomar military
the city, where the leading ma-
son was presented to the son him-
The case for the Crown agalust chine "New York" collided with self, the clever ruse might have met the right of the merchants dis- the remaining Chinese who are
Three of the four with success." the "Detroit.
miss their employees on the charged with complicity in the airmen jumped out in parachutes one of which failed to open, and Kennedy, at the Kowloon Magis- so far not been able to reach a cluded this morning, before Mr. R. It was explained by Sergeant second day of the New Year has piracy of the a.s. Sunning was con-- crashed to earth.-Reuter.
tracy this morning, that the car-settlement. The fifth meeting of E. Lindsell at the Central Magis- penter, who was charged with at- the Conference was held on Satur-tracy, when both men were com
Government mitted for trial, tempting to obtain money by false day afternoon at
These two prisoners were shot
The Casualties..
Later.
a third airman is dying-Reuter's Americon Service.
COMING EAST.
The two occupants of the aero-pretences, went to the complain-House, but instead of discussing Woodwork on the People's Bhak Plane "Detroit" were killed, and ant's stall and presented a letter the subjects on the agende, the during the affray and were sent to which bore the signature of the bour delegates asked that the hospital on their arrival in Hong- i
master's son. The letter asked the question of the workers' meula kong.
Their trial commenced on father to hand the beurer $10, for during times of unemployement be January 9th.
Mr. T. H. King, his son who was in Victoria Guol. settled" first.
They insisted that Director of Criminal Intelligence, The defendant. not knowing, had the merchants should feed the un-assisted by Sub-Inspector Lane, given the letter to the person whose employed while the Conference prosecuted for the Crown.
was in progress.
The merchants objected on the given by the Chinese wireless oper- The case concluded with evidence ground that this should not be ator of the vessel, who seld discussed at the Conference which he was taken to the Captain's catin Was to settle the question whether by four armed men, where he tried. the merchants should have any to act as interpreter. He noticed right to dismiss their employees, the spark gap of his apparatus had Then discussions broke off and been widened. He could not iden the labour delegates declared that tify any of the men.
Probable Cause.
The fire started at approximately 1 a.m. Although the origin is still unknown, an explosion is the pos- sible cause. The fire started with such suddenness that an explosion as the cause was the conclusion reached by secret service men."
PODOLSKY AND MIROVA,
News reached us, that Mr. Leo Podolsky and Miss Vera Mirova
be visiting the will
Orient is June. Their Oriental concert- tour will be on a very unusual If an explosion caused the fire,scale nd it will be a Lour round the
it could have started from one of world with a minimum of time The film vault of and a maximum number of con- two sources. the Lyric Film Exchange is one certs. source and a barrel of gasoline re- ported to have been upstairs in the Franks Company, shop.
Firemen's Hard Fight.
name it bore.
The man to whom the defendant was speaking then revealed his idenity and informed the police of the attempt made by the defendant. In answer to a charge of fraud, the defendant pleaded guilty and the Magistrate passed sentence of one month's hard labour.
ARMS SMUGGLER.
CHINESE CHRISTIAN
SENTENCED.
if no settlement could be reached
the labourers would straighten Station spoke of taking statements A sub-interpreter at the Central things out themselves.
The labour
from the prisoners which both sign- and merchanta
ed. These statements were read arbitration conference in Shek- iung has also failed to bring aboutmitted by both men.
out this morning, and were ad- any settlement, according to re-
Asked if he had anything more ports from that city, A general business strike by the merchants was not true what a witness had to say, the first prisoner, said it the entire province is
said, that he saw him (prisoner) with an automatic platil in his hand. He denied taking part in the piracy.
of
threatened.
The artists will be leaving Chicago on the 1st of May pro- ceeding via New York, London. On the application of the police Paris and Marteilles to Sumatra for a heavy penalty, Mr. W. Scho- and Java, then going to China, field, at the Kowloon Magistracy Firemen fought flames for anapan, and to San Francisc. this morning, fined a Chinese pas- hour without making any head-eventually returning to Chicago senger of the Empress of Asin,
During this tour, 51 concerts81,000. with way as far as saving, the business will be given, which means a con- twelve months' hard labour, for the alternative of
cert nearly every night,
having in his possession, nine Mauser pistols and 4,600 rounds of ammunition.
Sub Inspector Andrew inform- According to the Royal Obser- when the fire alarm was raised. cd his Worship that the contra-vatory, there is every prospect of He then rushed forward on the band was cleverly concealed in a vontinuance of the dull weather main deck but was hit by a bulleti the false bottoms of two trunks. to-morrow, which is Derby Day at and became unconscious. When searched, the defendant the Races.
houses on the Escolta was сол- cerned. They were also unable to prévent Its spreading and Hen- cock's Building was next attacked, Buildings on Calle San Vicento and the buildings under construc- tion on Calle David followed.
RADIO TELEPHONY.
A LONG DISTANCE RECORD.
London, Feb. 27,
TO-MORROW'S WEATHER.
DRIZZLE OR` MIST.
The second prisoner, said he was a passenger and stayed in the steerage until after midnight,
was found to be in possession of The local forecast ap to noon documents certifying him to be a to-morrow la:-North-east winds, Christian and a member of the moderate; overcast, some drizzle MR. WANG CHING-WAI. Kuomintang.
His Worship impased the maxi-
The fire was under control early this morning and the flames along the Escolta had been reduced to smouldering timbers and ashes. The longest distance radio The huge crowds watching the phone call since the new wireless blaze furnished another problem. service with America was opened At the first alarm, people flocked was made last evening, when telo- from every corner. Before the phone communication was estab.mum penalty. fire had been underway 15lished between San Francisco and minutes, 6,000 persons were on the scone, crowding and pushing in an effort to keep within sight of the firemen.
London.
The call was initiated by a bugi- nosa house in San Francisco to a merchant from that city now visit ing London. It was stated that
The police were called out in large numbers and ropes wore tho reception-was-perfect- stretched along the Escolta and British Wirelcea. over Canal Bridge In effort to keep the jamming crowds back. Calle
Letuan off Plaza Santa Cruz was jammed with people watching the blaze as
it spread from the Escolta business fronts to build inga in the rear.
New Buildings.
KOWLOON C.C. CONCERT.
PRESENTATION OF PRIZES ON. SATURDAY.
or mist
Tennis.
CANNOT RETURN YET.
Singles Handicap "A" Class-
Mr. Wang Ching-wei has sent a 1st prize (presented by Mr. J. C. Saunders) E. C. Fincher; 2nd letter to Mr. Chan Shiu-yau, Mr. prize (presented by Messrs. Lane, Wang's close follower, the Com Crawford, Ltd.)-L. "Jack."
miariqner of Civil Affairs in Cari- Single Handicap "B" Class-fon, explaining the reason he can- 1st prize (presented by Mr. A..J.not return immediately to resume Walters)A. E. Guest; 2nd prize his duties."
A very enjoyable smoking coa--F. Oliver. cert was held at the Kowloon Crin-
Mr. Wang states in his letter
Doubles Handicap. 1st prize that when he started his journey
ket Club pavilion on Saturday (presented by Messrs. A Hanson for Home, his doctor strongly ab between Pegos 500,000 and Pesos the year were presented by the and E. P. Fincher; 2nd prize Fjected on the ground that a long night when the prizes won during and E. Holmes). C. Fincher. 750,000 in rebuilding.
Prealdent, Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
Lawn Bowls.
The new building will extend from Calle. David to the estero along the Escolta and back to the cement structures which W. J. Odom now has under construction. A three storey; cement, fire. A fireproof structure also will re- proof building will be erected to place the frame building on Calle replace the old wooden structure David owned by the Belaso family at 137-151 Escola which was and occupied by Gabriel Brothers. destroyed by the fire. Luis Perez This building, worth approximate- Samanillo, owner of the property, ly Pesos 75,000, was a total losa says that he expects to invest in the flames...
Ezra Abraham Championship Cup. Winner, F. Goodwin; runner-up, R. Lapsley,
President's Cup.-Winner, J. Gibson; runner-up J. M. Jack
Wheeler and C. E. Millard,
Journey would do much harm to Mixed Doubles Handicap-1st his condition. Nevertheless, 'Mr.' prizo (presented by Messrs. B. D. Wang started and on his 'way hia Evans and A. S. Watson's)-Mr. condition auddenly became so and Mrs. S. E. Green; 2nd prize serious that he had to discontinua Miss M. Kacker and E. C. Fincher. his journey.
Bridge.
Mr. Wang believes that he will First Tournament at prize, W. not be able to return to his office
Purves Cup.---Winner, 8. E. Green; runner-up, W. Goldenberg. Goldenborg and Jos. T. Dobbie; Goodwin; runner-up, J. Howe.
Club Handlepp-Winner, F. 2nd prize, C. G. Harrison and A.
Podersen." Doubles Handicap-Winners, J. Gibson and II. Stenham; runners- Labrum and G. J. Gill; 2nd, C. Second Tournament.Ist, V.
up, J. Fraser and L. Jack.
Roland and L. Jack.
for the time being and asks Mr. Chan to communiente this to the
J.cently shown so much enthusiasm Kuomintang members who had re-
lin welcoming him back.
Jo
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