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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1927.
A SHANGHAI DIARY.
SHOP COLLAPSES.
SHOPPERS TRAPPED.
Chicago, May 10.
STARTLING SCENES IN
U. S. COURT.
Shanghai, May 2.
em-
STOLEN PIGS.
ALLEGED PROCEEDS OF A PIRACY.
Hearing was commonéed before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon the case wherein cight Chinese are knowing the same to have been charged with receiving 40 pigs, stolen
or unlawfully obtained, outside the waters of the Colony on April 24.
This morning the famous sixth Scores of shoppers and Regiment of the United States ployees were trapped in the col-Magistraes yesterday afternoon of Marine Corp arrived in the tran-lapse of the four-storey building of sport Henderson from San Diego. Loufs department store when This is the regiment which won number of people engaged in shop fame in France at Chateau Thierry ping had miraculous escapes from and in the Meuse-Argonne Offen-doath.
A crack suddenly appeared in sive. The regiment consists of two battalions, totalling 1,500 the shoppers, and they rushed into the wall. The proprietor warned the street. Almost immediately all four storeys collapsed. The extent
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At the close of the Great War the famous Sixth, or what remain
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prosecution, and Mr. Hin Shing Lo Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the represented the defendants.
ed cf it, wont back to America and of the casualties is not yet known the case, Mr. Hall said that three. I
practically went out of existence on demobilization. A little over three weeks ago the Sixth Was reconstructed as an active organi sation upon receiving orders to re- inforce the American troops in China. From the Atlantic to the Pacific the scattered veterans gathered at San Diego and fifteen hundred strong sailed under Col. Harold G. Snyder.
Describing the circumstances of consignments of pigs were sent by the proprietor of the Ho Hop dealers, of the Hol Fung district.
is being done to safeguard the on April 19, the consignees being troops against the diseases ende-the Kwong On Yuen frm of Hong- mic to Shanghai by means ef vac-kong.
The pigs were sent in careful system of chlorination of 33 animals, the second 25 and the cination and inoculation, and a three junks, the first containing
War has last 40. water in each billet. been declared on mosquitoes. The troops know more than a little different persons in charge of the Mr. Hall went on to mention the
about these pests, at least those three junks, intimating that that: Besides the two battalions the who have been in Indir do, and evidence when given would be im Henderson brought machine gun full precautions will be taken. portant. companies, howitzers and a squad- All huts are being double roofed ron of 12 aeroplanes. The aero- planes however are not being land-ed. ed. They will be transferred to the transport Chaumont, which brought the Marine regiment at ready here and with various de- tails will go down to Manila.
Ship Fired On.
The s.s. President Lincoln's pas- sengers yesterday got something of a fright as the ship was proceeding down river from her berth above the French Bund, She was passing down past the native city which borders the river above the French concession
when a volley of shots rang out,
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The third consignment was the and electie fans are being install-last to leave Hoi Fung and on the following morning, the crew of the second junk heard the reports of gun fire from behind. On look- ing back they saw the third junk being attacked by pirates.
Pige Landed,
On April 2, a man in the em- ploy of the complainant's fam happened to be passing the third defendant's shop in Sap Sam Hong. being landed from a junk opposite when he saw a number of pigs the shop. He counted them and found that there were 40. They were all unloaded and taken to the defendant's premises.
Lack of Uniformity. Curfew has ceased to be in the French concession but strangely enough it is enforced with no less
your in the international settle. The order was given for the ment. It might easily be abolished other two boat lunds of pigs to for so far as law and order is con- proceed with all possible speed verned Shanghai was hardly ever to their destination and on arrival nearer normal. It lenda to annoying in Hongkong, the occurrence was inconveniences, does this lack of reported to the son of the con- uniformity between the two consignee. cessions. For instance, down the Avenue Edward VII, the dividing line between the French conces sion and the International settle the bullets flattening against the
nient, there rans two lines of atcel sides of the ship. Fortunternational settlement authorities. wire barriers controlled by the in- ately no one was hurt and no damage was done.
All those building: facing the High Spots.
Avenue disgorge on to the pave ment which between the two Mumm's famous cafe is becomes of defeaces. These lines ing even more famous. Each are often closed ut 5 pm. and i The man reported his discovery Saturday night it becomes the means that although nominally one to his master and on a visit heink scene of a healthy scrap between is inside the International conges-made, the third defendant offered various hodies of troops. A littlesion it is necessary to walk a long to sell the piga to the complainants while ago it was the scene of a distance to find a barrier which for $200. When questioned he fourcornered fight in which: Bri- happens to be open. Why two said he was able to produce the tish, American, Italian and French lines are required in this fashion man frem whom he had purchased sailors took part. On Saturday is beyond the comprehension of the pigs. last 2 somewhat serious affair oc-
The matter was reported to the the great majority. The, barriers curred there between parties of
tou are often closed without warn-Shamshuipe Police Station the French sailors. Having been got ing of any kind. A little unifor-following day and several arrests into the street by the management mity between the decrees of the were made as a consequence. they seized four waiting rieshas authorities of both concession and which were quickly broken up for settlement (supposed officially to weapons. The fight waxed fast exist) would be a great help to and furious and wounded arrived foreigners.. in a stream at the sick-bay. fact the fight didn't stop
In until
Shanghai, May 5.
men
Referring to the piracy, Mr. all said that one of the who was a passenger on the third junk would tell the Court that on the morning of April 20, an- Tension is relaxed this morning other junk was encountered near the great majority were thus horsone is the lucky possessor of near-crew of the second junk fired on --the champions is over and some-the. Sam Mun customs house. The de combat. The last casualty 16 y a quarter of a million dollars. the Hoi Fung craft and four men arrive for treatment was dressed It was a brilliant scene at the race
went on board and commandeered with ruffles a la sixteenth century. course yesterday and the result the boat. They took away the He had been "crowned" with a being rather a surprize increased pigs, the man in charge of the con- ricsha wheel.. The hub of the the interest wheel had been knocked out when ginald Tyrwhitt was responsible crew.
Admiral Sir Re-signment and two members of the
he was hit and the wheel sank for drawing the lucky numbers in The steersman was not molesi- down to his shoulders the wire the big sweep. So far the first tweed but the witness would say that spokes transfixing his cheeks and prizes have not been claimed and he was tied and confined in the neck. Mumni's famous cabaret is they probably have gone to out- hold. The junk was ordered to now out of bounds.
ports. The third has been won by Shamshuipo and shortly after Recreation Facilities. a lady here. The "B" sweep this arriving the prisoner heard the Shanghai, May 4. year was very small for the reason order given to sail away again With the approach of the swel- that "A" tickets were still being after the pigs had been transfer- dering summer for which Shang-sold two days, before the
red to another boat. race,
The man hai is famous--one almost wrote whereas in other years it has been ater found himself on an island infamous, a problem exercising the impossible to get one a month be. where he was left by the pirates. minds of authority is the care of fore the race. During the last the troops during that time. Re-week before the race something creation fog the troops is looked like 25,000 tickets were sold. after very ably by the health and
Attorney on Trial. sports division of the Defence There were startling scenes in
Some of the pigs, concluded Force under Cal. P. R. Worrall, the United States Court for China Mr. Hall, had been identified by who is assisted by a staff of offi-yesterday at the trial of a former some of the witnesses.
istrict Attorney, Mr. Leonard Gtiating the story of the prosecu Soccer is the all-year-round sport Husar. He explained certain destion the case was adjourned.
After taking evidence substan- of the British army and this it posits by relating a gigantic armis seems will be the chief recreation deal which he put through for Marshal Chang Tsung-chung in
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The steersman had not been seen since the piracy and it was the opinion of the prosecution that he was one of the accomplices,
MASSAGE HALL although, remembering the
worst days of past summers, one 1025, and for which he received adjourned. One imagines its popularity will tend the
counsel moved handsome commission of that on behalf of the representa- to diminish a little. Arrange $7,000. Perhaps the most start- tives of the pross covering the ments for grounds are already in ling thing, however, was the an-case for the newspapers, and who progress, although the problem is nouncement from usar that wanted to go to the races, the not an easy one to solve. There there is little enough room for sports other district attorney in the payin
time an- court be adjourned! Imagine it for the ordinary community in of Chang in Shanghal-Mr. Ster-wasn't all. The Judge replied British court! But that Shanghai.
ling Fessenden, the present chair that he would adjourn as it was used for acquiring the use of Council. More will be heard at the
A proposal is now being dis- man of the Shanghai Municipal the first time during the case that Press representatives had
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