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J.
CANTON EXTORTION,
MONDAY,
enlightened Government of Canton re-establishes its credit, and we are left wondering how long this newly-extorted money will last and when the merchants, (in other words the people) will again be held up at the point of the sword and ruthlessly robbed.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
SACRIFICE IS THE SECRET OF BEAUTY, CULTURE, AND CHARACTER.
Newell Dwight Tillis.
There was one Chinese case of typhoid fever reported over the week-end,
The P. and O. 8.3. Kashgar from Hongkong, arrived at Marseilles on Saturday afternoon.
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Mr. Gillard, of the Hongkong Company, has reported to the polico that a conductor of the Company has disappeared, taking amounting to $16.85.
OBITUARY,
LORD COLERIDGÉ.
London, Sept. 4. Lord Coleridge, former High Court Judge of the King's Bench Division, died today, at the age of 76-British Wirdess.
The Very Idea!
Baltihended men need no longer latter follows the example of a well- fear a visit to the barber, if the known London establishment. The attendants there are forbidden to invite clients to purchase hair re- Bernard John Seymour, the storers, washes or pomades. Those second Baron Coloridge (a title who have still some hair left may created in 1878), was born In hope to keep it, if they are saved 1861, succeeding his father in the from the worry of resisting the Barony in 1894. Educated at Eton | blandfshments of the knights of the and Trinity College, Oxford, and scissör and ruzor. taking up law, he became a K.C. in 1892.
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It seems we do not treat an ice
Cream cone just as we should. It always gets a licking just For being mighty good.
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Lord Coleridge recently resigned his office as a Judge of the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division. His retirement was a source of regret both to the Bar
A professional rat catcher and a and to the public. He had not had ship's captain were the central good health for some years. As figures in an amazing comedy at a Judge, appointed to the Bench Middlesbrough, in which the captufn The Chinese football team, cap-in 1907, he had a long and varied came off second best. Following tained by Mr. Lee Wai Tong, the experience of judicial work, in his custom of visiting the ships in noted "inside-left." Is returning which his law was generally sound port to catch rats, the professional
his judgments... were by the 3.5. St. Albans to-morrow and
an made a good haul and then prosent- tour in Aus-example to his colleagues ined himself at the captain's cabin to after a successful
purity of English diction. He receive his fee. tralin.
presided in 1917, with the Arch- bishop of Canterbury, in the first Court which was constituted under the Benefices Act, 1898, and after warda he tried the futile claim by a man named Tooth to the Waterford peerage.
It ja no use being mealy-mouthed about such an outrageous proceed. ing as that under discussion, and the only surprising thing about it is that the people of Canton are The local weather forecast up
their til noon to-morrow allow
is: "South- fools enough to
west winds, moderate; squally, Government (the regime that came
overcast, occasional rain." in with righteous slogans to re- move oppression) to ride so law- lessly over them. If this is the kind of benign government the Kuomintang dispenses then we say in all earnestness that China needs a revolution from the bottom- she needs a people in revolt against-extortionate rulers. There is not a Chinese in South China who can deny the fact that, although there has been no fight- ing in Kwangtung for two years, the condition of the people is in a worse state to-day than it ever was owing to recurring fighting of the days when military personages like Lung Chai-kwong, Luk Wing- ting. Chan Kwing-ming. Chinaging this morning from Seattle and Shanghai, carried a heavy mall Kai-shek and others fought among from the U.S.A., Canada, Japan themselves. Surely it is ironical and Europe via Siberia, consisting
of 849 bags. to the degree of sadness that those who came heralding themselves as the removers of oppression and who were welcomed with the joyous shouts of the populace have in turn been more oppressive than those whom they displaced.
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above
Athletics and Growth.
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The British vessel Tilawa, ar
riving from Calcutta and Sing pore with 2,198 deck passengers, reports three deaths en route, one from heart failure and two from beri-beri.
The s.s. President Grant, arriv-
A bricklayer was injured yester- day in a fall from the top storey of a house which is in course of co- struction at Tsang Tsi-Ha, New Territories. He was removed to the Kowloon Hospital.
A belated report of typhoon damage last week was made at the Harbour Office this morning, when junk mistress stated that the Fire Float, going astern to berth
The late Lord Coleridge is succeeded by his son, the Hon. Geoffrey Coleridge, who was born in 1877, and is a Captain in the 4th. (Reserve) Battalion of the Devonshire Régiment.
"Who told you to catch rats on my ship? I am not going, to pay you anything. You should have. left them alone," said the captain.
"Oh, well," replied the rat- catcher, "if you feel that about it take them back and make pets of them."
Sulting his action to the words, he opened a bag and let loose some 40 rodents, which made a dash for freedom.
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At the last meeting of the An- chorites, in their little Soho rend- ezous, members listened to one of
CHINESE HOTEL CASE. the most thrilling stories ever un-
PROPRIETOR FINED $250.
A fine of $250 was imposed by Mr. R. E. Lindaell this morning
folded in the warmth of an after- dinner atmosphere in a London restaurant. Engineer-Commander Rickinson, an active young man of of his experiences as the chief en- great modesty, gave a lantern story
gineer
Shackleton's
in
läst
sailors' language, of how the wood- en ship Endurance set out to Elephant Island and then to South Georgia, and how she was caught and crushed to death in great felds of ice, was vividly presented.
When I stepped quietly into my 'bus in Piccadilly after the lecture I marvelled at the pluck and cour- Mr. L. D. Turner, who defended, age of all those Britishers who explained to his Worship that the spent years on the ice, living on room boy who was responsible for penguin flesh and seal steaks, and the "system" in the Hotel had who sometimes had to shoot their been dismissed, and that steps cwn dogs in order to live, for the have been taken to prevent a re-glory of trying to push the British currence of the offence. "There Empire as far as the South Pole. was no evidence," said Mr. Turner ferred to, the weekly ration of these Apart from the "local dishes" re- that my ellent himself was a0-
explorers wus: Three lumps of tually aware of this matter. It was a mere presumption from the of methylated spirits, and a little augur, two biscuits, a tablespoonful evidence."
tinned beef. No wonder Comman-. der Rickinson looked so young and fresh! Obviously we all cat and drink far too much nowadays.
Mr. Lindsell remarked that the management of the hotel must have known what was going on.
Sub-Inspector Shaftain pointed
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A process of witchcraft were sent for in April, and had powerfully reminiscent been warned for allowing prosti- doinge in tutes on his premises.
This morning's Harbour Office reports gavę eight arrivals · and seven departures, of which four THEFT OF A MOTOR-CAR and one respectively were British.
MASCOT. British vessels carried the heaviest cargoes, and there
remained in
of the of
in
The Katsang arriving from on Yu To-sang, the proprietor of expedition to the South Pole. Yokohama and Amoy with 952 the Mei Chow Hotel, a large es- The wonderful relation, in plain ; deck passengers, reports une death [tablishment recently "opened in from cholera. The ship has ae. Des Voues Road Central, for al- One imagines that the story of It is interesting to observe the cordingly anchored in the quarun-lowing his premises to be used
for an immoral purpose. what has happened in Canton dur- conclusions arrived at by Pro- tine area off Stonecutters.
At a previous hearing, it was fessor Parsons, the anatomy ex- ing the past week must be un-pert at London University, that the
Efforts are being made to trace disclosed that the room boys get equalled in any part of the world, British girl has grown taller, the the whereabouts of a foki of a medi- about fifty per cent. of the earn- for it is impossible to imagine a average increase being two inches cine shop, the Wing Ning Tong.inge of girls who are introduced
in the past 20 years. No deduc of No. 72 Bonham Strand West, to tenants of the hotel. greater piece of robbery than has tions are cabled along with the re-who it la said has disappeared with been perpetrated by the Govern- port, but one may assume that this a sum of $4,500 in his possession. increase of height is directly con- ment upon the merchant and
neeted with the spread of athletics
While lying asleep yesterday, one banking class. Let us concede the among women, and the more of the crew of harbour junk No. 865 better developed was thrown into the water owing possibility that there was some healthy and
modern girl. Undoubtedly athletics to a sudden, list of the boat and thing of a scheme among the has improved the physique of all was ́drowned. The mishap enemies of the Government aiming nations who have taken it up occurred while the junk was on at the financial overthrow of the largely, and in time we may ex- her way across the harbour from
peet to And similar records of Shamshuipo. regime and there is even then growth in the East. Men are de- no change much room left to pass severe clared to have shown
5 feet the average censure on what have been nothing inches of the past two decades, more nor less than official acts of and this is probably because, twen- ty years ago, the British male was armed robbery and of extortion.already a confirmed exponent O at Yaumati shelter was in colli-out that the licences of the hotel The Central Bank is a Government sports of all kinds, particularly sion with her junk, doing consider Bank, and when it started busi-outdoor games and other exercises.
ancient days Incidentally, the average height able damage.
one Merlin has come ness it was known to have a real mentioned by the professor is
light during the hearing of "a capital of about $50,000. It im-somewhat tall, the average for
case at Allahabad. A Hindu magi- mediately issued about $10,000,000 most Britons being about an inch less. Five feet nine, and over, is
can hearing that another native worth of Notes which the 'Govern-considered distinctly tall.
was sueing someone in the law It is
court proffered his help in the cast- ment forced into currency. Since probably because the professor's
ing of a puja which, would cause a verdict in his favour. Whatever then it must have issued fully examples were nearly all drawn
from a class given to sound harbour 57 vessels, of which 26 CHINESE LAD'S BAD RECORD. the cause, the plaintiff did, in fact, $30,000,000 more at least, that is physical training, and proper care, were British.
win, whereupon Mr. Magician de- the computation of a well-known from infancy, that the average is
so good. Otherwise, there is a A Japanese, living at No. 19 Mr. E. Abraham was mentionedmanded his 10 per cent. This was Chinese merchant just down from tendency to note the gradual ro-Macdonnell Road, was bitten yester
as a complainant at the Kowloon not forthcoming, so he brought an action against the erstwhile plain- Canton. It is perfectly natural duction of the Briton's height. It day by a deg, an Airedale belonging Magistracy this morning, but it tiff, and lost. A similar fate await- that such notes, known to be with-is well known that the Guards to Mr. Parkinson, of the Married was intimated that owing to presed him in two appealy, which rather battalions find it very difficult to Military Quarters at Kennedy Road. sure of business, his Chinese chauf suggests that however successful out any solid financial backing, get men is tall as they would like, The dog was removed to the depot fear prosecuted in his stead.
his sorcery might be with others, should have fallen on exchange and certain concessions, partizuat Kennedy Town. Another Aire- The case was one in which a if was useless agaist the hard-head- and that when the Government at have had to be made in the course of Ne. 3 The Peak, also bit a chairing a metal statuette from the cum-
larly with regard to the officers, dale, the property of Mr. Griffiths, Chinese lad was charged with stealed non-sentimental High Court.
The spell must have been as inno templed to issue more, there was of the past few years. There was coolie, who has been sent to the plainant's motor car while "it was cuous as the Merlin powder which a "run" on the Central Bank by a recent controversy at Home re- Government Civil Hospital for parked in Cox's Path, on August was said to render one invisible
garding the retention of the treatment.
19. The defendant was alterna- during a duel. persons attempting to "redeem" minimum height for postmen,
tively charged with receiving stolen what they know to be almost worth-owing to the difficulty of obtaining A Shaukiwan trading junk re- property. less pieces of paper. And then the necessary qualified manpower. turning here on Thursday from It may be, that our sisters are Macao was boarded by the police the trouble started. The Govern-catching us up. There are in from the local police station and mont hatched up the story that stances to-day of husbands being subsequently detained on account of there, was 'n plat" against it.smaller than their wives, and the the discovery of 50 jars of Chinese tendency it may be is for this wines, on which duty had not been and it forced money changers to anomaly to increase. It would ap- paid. Two men, who admitted they accept notes under threat of dire pear as if
not content were the owners of the craft, were penalties. It further suggested, equal mentally, is about to chal- E. Lindsell, at the Central Police with proving herself to be man's charged on remand before Mr. B. loan from the merchants "in order lenge his hitherto unshaken Court, this morning, when, on a to strengthen publie faith" and it physical superiority,
conviction being made, each was fined $50, with the alternative of called a meeting of merchants
fourteen days' hard labour. An and heads of the Canton Chamber
order for the confiscation of the Commerce to discuss the
winds and also of the junk was also made on a police application. matter. While that discussion was in progress, the meeting wis
Paris raided by Government troops and Brussels the heads of the Chamber were Amsterdam
Berlin forcibly seized and taken away as Oslo "guarantors." The Central Bank Prague Madrid ceased to redeem Its notes, the Athens Government demanded a sum of Rio $10,000,000 in cash from the mer-Hongkong
Bombay chants, Banks were raided, money New York changers were made, prisoners in Milan
Genova
their own shops and a complete Stockholm. process of gang robbery and extor- Helsingfors
Vienna
tion was gone through. The mer-Lisbon
Bucharest chants have given in; they have
Buenos Aires promised to find the money, and Shanghal those who were seized have been Silver (apot and forward)
Kobo
of
released. Thus it is that the
woman,
EXCHANGE RATES.
London, Sept. 4.
34.91%
867
.5.59/64 ..1/5%.
The defendant stated that the statuette was stolen by two men who gave it to him to pawn.
According to the Police, the de
fendant was arrested late last night with the article in his possession.
On the lad's criminal record showing two previous convictions, twelve strokes of the cane, a convie- his Worship imposed sentence of tion being registered on the charge of receiving stolen property.
THE CHINA PIRATE EPIDEMIC.
SUSPECTS KEPT UNDER SURVEILLANCE.
It is rumoured that the master
ALLEGED MURDER
CLUES.
FRENCH RIVER-PILOT'S.
TRIAL
Reports în regard to the case of the former river-pilot Maurice Alexis now being tried by the authorities in Indo-China on a charge of murder of a fellow Colonial, a merchant of Hanoi, named Noel, are still being given a prominent place in the newspapers of French Indo-China. With that freedom accorded to French journ- alė, the
other Opinion and papers have been speculating on a new turn in the case provided by the appearance of an interesting witness, in the person of the wife of the murdered man, the lady being alleged to have conceived a great friendship for the accused.
After being accorded shulter at. .124
No. 17, Pitt Street, an ungrateful 12.131/16 friend may but for the presence 20.43% of an watchman from the Supreme 18.544 Court, have stolen a gold wrist- 164 watch from his host while the .28.78 latter
slept yesterday. The of the 8.8. Solviken, a Norwegian defendant, when charged be ship that was pirated during, the was fore Mr. W. Schofield at the latter part of last north, 1/11% Kowloon Magistracy this morn-again in danger during her last. The Surete officials are still active in completing their case against the 4.86 1432 ing with larceny of the watch, trip to the South.
Owing to his previous experi- the body of the dead man wrapped accused, and in addition to finding .25.21 pleaded guilty, and was sentenced
80.55 to six weeks' hard labour. His once, the master instituted a new in sacks and enclosed In a grilled 18.00% Worship was informed that while system of defonce, with the result frame, it is alleged they have also .34.47% the complainant was asleep, the that there was no outbreak on discovered blood stains on the car .193 defendant took his watch off his board, although it is believed that used by the accused, not visible to +24
wrist. The accused was seen by there were a number of the Bias the naked eye, but which reacted to a watchman placed on the premises Bay gang present, awaiting an chemfeal tests. .47.16/10
..2/5% by the bailif, and on becoming opportunity to seize the ship. The Meanwhile, Alexis has pleaded 1/11.6/16 aware that he was being watched precautions taken are said to not guilty," and this Indo-Chineas 25.5/16 he Immediately handed back the have prevented these suspects cause celebre has yet to be conclud British Wirelasa. watch to the complainant.. from carrying out their plan, ed before the Court;
,