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THURSDAY,
JUNE 2, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
SEARCHLIGHTS IN ACTION.
THERE IS NO REVENGE 80-COM- PLETE AS FORGIVENESS.-H. W. WARSHIPS GIVE A DISPLAY.
Volunteer Defence Corps Orders published to-day instead of on Friday, as usual.
Yesterday's cases of notifiable dleease included three of typhoid fever and one of small-pox.
It is advertised that Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. will be open from 8.30 am till 1 p.m. as usual on Saturday, June 4.
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The Very Idea!
An Irish recruit was engaged for the first time in a field man-
Crowds watched a very effecöouvre on outpost duty. The sor tive rehearsal yesterday evening, geant told him to look out for the by British warships in harbour, of Colonel coming to inspect the the searchlight display which is post.
to take place to-morrow night on An hour later he returned and the occasion of the King's birth- asked the soldier, "Has the day.
Colonel been here?" Receiving. In the negative, he an answer wont away, returning. later. with the same inquiry.
Shortly before eight o'clock, the first intimation to the public of the display came in the form of piercing beams of brilliant light directed on shipping in the har bour, and later the rays wero focussed on buildings along the The loss through theft of a wrist waterfront, on both sides of the watch, valued at $60, has been re-harbour, so that they stood out ported to the police by Mrs. Ed- very clearly and in an unusual wards, living it No. 6 Tregunter guise. Mansions.
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PROTECT YOUR CAR rart of officialdom is having, it is by installing a contained in an article in the. “PYRENE" Firo organ of the China Const British Extinguisher. mercantile marino-the Shanghai "PYRENE" will paper Shipping and Engineering | Shaw. kill firo without from which we quote the follow- damage to the ing extract: A large number of engine. woodwork lives are lost, including those of or upholstery the British mate and British chief Water spreads a
cngineer of the Leung Kwong! petrol fire; sand is
It was obvious bofore the enquiry, inofficient and will put the ongino out that somebody was to blame for the collision; and it was equally obvious that something was wrong that a large number of people lost their lives "while three rescue vessels were on the scene within a few moments of the collision. "PYRENE" does It would be a not unnatural not deteriorate and assumption, therefore, that any
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when the searchlights were whirl- Keop &
"PYR-essential terms of reference such
ed about, and their beams were ENE handy on matters na the definite fixing of
directed at all parts of the sky. A low bank of clouds reflected the car and in garago, the responsibility for the collision,ceived this morning.
rays, adding to the general effect, and the investigation of how.com-
It was a demonstration of how. paratively so many lives came to Climbing a waterspout, a "ent-warships can "spot" for aircraft, be lost. But it was laid down de- burglar" entered Mr. A. L. Alves' and to the beholder appeared like
residence at 41, Granville Road, on a gigantic freworks display. finitely by the President of the Tuesday night, and escaped with Court, who undoubtedly was guid-property amounting to $132 in ed by his terms of reference, that value. the scope of the enquiry did not extend further than the actual removed to the Government Civil collision and did not include any re-Hospital yesterday suffering from ference to the loss of life involved poisoning, after a meal they ate at their home at No. 26, Bonham Strand East.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927.
THE CAPSUIMUN. COLLISION.
It is a fortnight now-since the Marine Court of Enquiry gave its
finding in the case of the Loung
satisfactory procedure would be difficult to imagine, for the known fact that when the collision occurred the griller of the Leung Kwong were Jocked, and that a large number of the unfortunate passengers were caught and drowned like rats in a trap, with no possibility of succour, seems studiously and designedly to have
been avoided. It is difficult, more
A Rudge motor-cycle, which be- longed to a police officer, was stolen yesterday from the Central Fire Station, according to a report re-
A Chinese male and female were
This morning's Harbour Office
Within a few minutes the show was over, and Hongkong and Kow- loon returned to its interrupted dinner, or whatever else it was
doing at the time."
ALLEGED FRAUD.
STUDENTS."
Later the Colonel appeared, and as the recruit did not salute, the officer naked, "Do you know who I am?"
"I do not," said the recruit. "I am the Colonel."
"Faith, thon, you'll catch It?" said the soldier. "The aergeant's asked twice for you already."
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She stood against the liner's
rall
And sald, "I feel it rock", 'Twas just Imagination
though-
The boat was at the dock.
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Barrister at Bow County Court: Is your wife argumentativo?- Man: No more than you are.
Landlady at Willesden: I have
given my lodger notice nine times,
but he is still with me. Magis- trate: He is as bad as the cat with nine lives.
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Reports gave nine arrivals and 15 TOBACCO AND BISCUITS "FOR take a summons. Wife: 1 would departures, of which two and three. respectively were British, leaving 55 vessels in harbour, of which 15 were British.
The manager of the Yee Sang picce-goods shop at No. 77, Jervois Street, has reported to the police hat a foki is missing from his post, after being sent out to pay $2,331 to a Japanese.. firmi,
Pak Hong
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Kent magistrato to a woman:
Kwang-Moonshine collision, and than difficult, to see and to under- A Chinese, married woman took more than 400 students 'would at. I was here before.
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Wife at Willesden, showing a blackened, oye: My husband gave mo this, and he has given ino" scores like it. Magistrate: Then
rather he had a warning."
Willesden wife: I try. to be Yesterday, says a report in a local vernacular paper, a young silent, but it makes no diferenco. Chinese dressed in student's attire to my husband, and he gate just went to the tobacco shop. Yung 43 cross, Chan Chai, in Nam Street, and ordered ten tins of cigarettes and some biscuits, stat-You will go to prison for fourteen ing that he was responsible for a days..Woman: Prison! I party given in his school, which only repested to pay a fine when
nothing further has happened stand why the Hongkong Govern"
tend. The goods were duly hand-
A remarkable clause regarding, since to indicate whether this is ment has apparently deliberately
ed over.
the disposition of his body is con- destined to be the last of the burked its responsibilities, in not
Later in the day, the man againtained in the will of Mr. James went to the shop, and ordered Meredith, of Ross, Herefordshire,. affair. Naturally, that is causing ordering the Court to make the
more goods.
The unsuspecting formerly in business as a draper much adverse comment in ship- | fullest inquiry into all aspects of
owner of the shop then sent a boy and milliner, who died at eighty- ping circles, and the Hongkong the ease." That may be consider himself of stomach pains, a Chinese Pui Kee, to get, the cigarettes for clause reads:
Taking opium pills to relieve to a near-by tobacco shop, Wong three, leaving £11,747. The authorities are being taken to tasked in certain quarters to be over-living at 28, Stanley Village, col- his customer, but the owner of the for scomingly shirking the respon-strong criticism, but in order to lapsed and was taken to the Gov-other shop sent a foki to go with
"My body may be disposed of as my executors think it; my per sibility involved. When the colli-avoid any misapprehension that crnment Civil Hospital yesterday the purchaser to get the money
suffering from poisoning."
apon delivering the goods. Onsonal view is that a funeral pyre or the sinn occurred, and it was reported exists, the Hongkong Government
their way to the supposed school, on the top of Penyard that a large loss of life had been should certainly, without any
the customer quickened his pace, Chase Woods, where I enjoyed the due to the locked grilles giving further delay, state definitely what
and then tack to his heels. The shooting for two fokis of the tobacco shops would be an ideal method-ny he was caught in Queen's Road and so remain in death as I have many of the passengers no time its intentions are in the matter-chu, who lived nearby at Morrison were better runners, however, and ashes cast to the winds of heaven been in life-free as God's air." West.
to reach safety, so that they were drowned "liko rais in a trap," we commented on the necessity for an enquiry into the merits versus demerits of the grille system: Our remarks were necessarily restrained, for the matter was practically sub, judice, A few days later the Marine Court was constituted, and, much to the sur prise of those who thought it was to have had wide powers, it was,
whether nothing more is to be donc, or whether some kind of enquiry is eventually to be held. The mass of public opinion is un- doubtedly in favour of a full in vestigation of the facts of the collision, and the responsibility, if any, for the deplorable logs of life involved therein.
Bandit Outrages.
an overdose of oplum following a domestic quarrel at her home at She died soon after being taken to 74, Woosung. Street, yesterday.
the Kwong Wah Hospital.
While watching blasting opera- tions at Morrison Hill at noon on Tuesday a Chinese named Au Yung- Hill Road, was struck by a piece of rock and was killed. The body was removed to the Mortuary.
Holiday excursions to Macao by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao -5. Company, are announced over
POLICE OFFICER RETIRING.
the week-end from Friday to Mon- day, at a return fare of $5. Vessels leave Hongkong at 9 a.m. and re- turn at 3.30 p.m., tickets being DIVISIONAL INSPECTOR W. F. available for the full period.
BLACKMAN,
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so many years,
A blind woman, who was the complainant in a cuse at the Marylebone Police-court, said the man in the 'defendant's box was: not her husband. "I know it," she added "although he has been away for ten years."
It was then ascertained that an- other man of the same name had answered the woman's" summons.
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Youth has always to pay the
announced at the outset that the which took place in the north of May. 22 when 9.11 inches were re-n period of 27 years will be price for war.-Mr. David Davies,
terms of reference were only insofar as concerned the respon
The horrible bandit outrage Shantung just over a week ago, the story of which was told in the Telegraph yesterday, must have stirred the indignation of all who read of it. Over 1,800 villagers, inches. who had banded themselves to- gether for protection against ban-
Rainfall at the Botanical Gardens
A connexion with the Police for the month of May was 26.88) inches, the heaviest fall being on Force of the Colony extending over Fistered. The next highest was on severed this mouth by the depar the previous day when 3.67 inches ture on retirement of Divisional
gibility
fell. Only on one other day during Inspector W. F. Blackman, who is ar otherwise of the
the month did the fall exceed three leaving with his daughter by the coxswain of the Moonshine.
s.s. Mantua on June 25. Mrs. Black- man and a son are already at There was a hint that the question
At the Marine Court this morn-Home, having left previously. of the responsibility of "a British
dits and robbers and who retired fing, the master of the steam launch During his stay in Hongkong, master of a foreign ship" might to a stockade at the top of a hill Crane was charged before Lieut. Inspector Blackman has attained be considered later. Well, the when they heard that bandite, Commdr. G. F. Hole, with towing a considerable degree of popular- Court sat, beard the evidence, and against whom they had previous-five lighters through the southernity, and he will take with him the ly defended themselves, were entrance of the Yaumati typhoon best wishes of a very large circle found that the Moonshine was not about to make a mass attacks, were shelter simulatneously and, plead of friends. to blame. That constituted a ver- brutally killed. It must have hug guilty was fined $5, the alterna- diet of the left-handed variety.beeo a massacre of appalling hor-tive being five days' imprisonment It found that a specified person or terrible slaughter of men, with hard labour.
women and children. The most
was not to blame, but nothing was
said about who was getually at
fault. With the loss of life, the
the
M.P.
East Anglians have always been
land-Lord Allenby:
the shield and bulwark of Eng
The academic mind loves any- thing it cannot understand; that fashion- is why relativity is so able-Professor A. W. Bickerton.
Edward Arthur Davidson, aged twenty, died in Lincoln Hospital from injuries received at Lincoln pleasure fair. He is atated to.. have been dancing the Charleston. in a steam yacht in motion, when he slipped, and his head came in contact with the seats.
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He originally came to
a Marine, and jair Colony as ed tho local
19 force Constable in Police
March saddening feature of incidents A Chinese sentenced to ten weeks 1900. In January, 1907, he be He has sixteen golf champion- such as this, (and there are banhard labour by Mr. R. A.D. Forrest came a Lance Sergeant, and ship cups, we swimming medals, dit outrages of lesser degree prac-this morning, was shown to have Sergeant in April, 1913. He was tically every day in some part or specialised in carpenters saws.
AN ARTFUL DODGER.
rackets, and one for tennis.
He is a pawnbroker.
DRAGON BOAT SWAMPED.
important points arising from the another of China) is that little Eight carpenters from various dis promoted to the rank of Inspector/eight cups for long-distance run- clash between Board of Trade and or nothing effective is done by the tricts came late the Court to claim in February, 1922, and he has also ning, three for boxing, one for local Anti-Piracy Regulations, and Chinese authorities. It is the re- that the eight saws found in the been acting Chief Inspector, the fact of a collision having and order and
ward of mis-government that Jaw possession of the defendant, when peace should be 1e was arrested, belonged to them." occurred within Hongkong terri-absent. Wherever there is bad Defendant was endeavouring to dis- torial waters, one would have Government-corruption, groad, pose of the Haws to marine thought that little time would have ignorance and a want of benign hawker at Taiyuen Street, when he administration-there is found a was observed by a policeman and been lost in setting a more serious want of restraint by the ne'er-do-arrested. enquiry on foot, or at least well element of the populace. enabling some official opinion to One has only to think be expressed by the holding of inquests in the case of the victims. We presume the authorities are
The telegram quoted bolow was are to be controlled. China is received from the Manila Observa alive to the need for more search-ridden with bandits and robbers tory, this morning, by the Amer) ing enquiries, for naval divers are mainly because those whose can Consulate General, Hongkong: known to have gone down to the anda lies the administration of 2nd., 1.30 am-Typhoon in about the various districts are corrupt 122 Long., E. 20° Int., N. moving scene of the wreck-which, as it opportunists who fail to apply the W.N.W. happens, is reported to have slid into deep water-but that is all
ond of two weeks since the Marine Court of Enquiry concluded. Such a state of affairs can hardly
LA
of such
countries Mexico, Albania, TYPHOON WARNING. Morocco and China to realise that ill-educated people need good gov ernment if outrages of outlawry
corrective of the law and are un-, This Te in the Balintang fitted for the duties of the posts Channel.
NAVAL MAN'S CAPTURE.
SAI ON'S EXPERIENCE. Steward Officer Spiteri, of H.M.S. Wolsey, in evidence at the
"According to the vernacular Police Court this morning against papers, the s.s. Sai On, of the Tung a young Chinese charged with at On Shipping Company, while on the tempting to steal his purse, relat voyage back to Hongkong from ed how the defendant adopted an Canton yesterday morning, passed artful trick to avoid detection some Dragon Boats which were He held a fan against witness practising
rowing races San, and the face, while with the other hand, near Sham he all but succeeded in extracting wash of the ship's progress The a purse from the breast-pocket of swamped one of the boats. the officer's. jacket.
steamer was stopped, but it was
their
The trick being evident to the seen that all those who had been into which they have schemed and The Royal Observatory, in Its re- the information available at the insinuated themselves. And until port. issued at noon to-day, states officer, the latter immediately fahrown into tho, water, about ten there does arise a governing class that the typhoon is about 460 miles caught hold of the defendant's men, were good swimmers, and fitted by ability and Integrity to E.S.E. of Hongkong, moving neck, and held him until a Chin reached safety. The Sai On then The vernacular press reports that rule for the benefit of the govW.N.W., at a rate of about ten ese Police Sergeant took him in Iroceeded. erned instead of for the benefit of miles an hour,
charge.
Immediately afterwards, some shots Major C. Willson sentenced de- were fired, and it is assumed that fendant to twelve strokes of the some of the boatmen, angered by rattan, on being informed that the the mishap, had fired in the direc boy was only 16 years of age. tion of the ship.
bo described as sutisfactory.
If any ovidence were required of the effect this silence on the
themselves, China will continue The forecast up till noon to-mor- to be the home of banditti who, row. is: "Northienst winds, periodically, will shock the world freshening; fine at first, cloudy by ghastly acts of terrorism. later."