CLAIM UNDER A GUARANTEE.
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST A
· WATCHMAN..
Allegations against the honesty of an Indian watchman named Mohammad All were made in the Summary Court, this morning, before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood,
a claim in respect of "when
guarantee was heard.
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The plaintiffs were Messrs. Joseph and Company, 20 Bowring Street, Yaumati, and they sued an Indian watchman, named on the writ as Shah Mohammad, for $100 In respect of a guarantee covering the good conduct of Mohammad All
The plaintiffs alleged that Mohammad Ali was engugod by them through Shah Mohammad, who signed a guarantee, but Mohammad Ali had stolen $80 and decamped.
.The signing of the guarantee by the defendant was denied. Mr. J. M. Hall was for the plaintiffs and Mr. M. J. D'Almada Remedios "defended.
In reply to Mr. Hall, the plaintiff's representative said that! the firm had suffered a loss as a of result of the employment Mohammad All because he had stolen $80,
Mr. Hall: How?-Witness: Mo- hammad Ali prised open a box and stole $80.
How do you know?-Because when the money was stolen was the only person watching the office.
he
What day was 1-August 10, last.
At what time was it--Between 9.30 and 9.45, a.m. -
How was it that he, was left in office?-Because charge of the the fekis went together for their morning meal, leaving him charge-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MOCKING COFFIN OF THE "WHITE" RUSSIANS.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1927.
In connexion with the recent attack by "White" Russians on the Soviet Consulate at Shanghai, our picture shows the black cailin marked. "Communism" which was exhibited on a flatboat on Sonchaw Creek, at the Garden Bridge. In the rear of the coffin two figures are seen, representing à Russian convict of 1917 and the same man as a "Red" diplomat in
INDIAN PROBLEM.
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of this commission might suitably. and without danger to the public in
interest he accelerated,
He be-
lieved all three parties in the
Mr. Hall remarked that that fouse were agreed that the mas was a part of the terms, chatment had arrived when we might Mohammed All should be in the usefully approach the greatest office from nine to ten o'clock in constitution problem which had
the morning.
fared statesmen of this country for many generations.
1927.
FIGHT WITH GIANT GORILLA.
COLONEL FIRES AT THREE YARDS RANGE.
MOUNTED CHASE.
A fight at thred yards range
OPIUM CASE TO BE
RE-HEARD.
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His Worship: Mr. Hall, have you spoken to the defendants yet.
Mr. Hall: No.
His Worship: I suggest that their pleus be taken again.
The charges were then put to with a gorilla nearly six feet high ach of the defendants, when the was one of the adventures of following replies were received:
The opium First defendant: Lieut.-Col. II. F. Fenn, D.S.O.. who headed a hunting expedition was in the harbour and not in the into the forests of the Belgian boat.
Second defendant: The opium Congo.
The object of the expedition was was not in the boat. It was at the there, but when he did return to Secretary For India, said the LA to obtain a specimen of a giant bottom of the sea. I am only e
bour Party fully supported the Bill. while reserving themselves gorilla for the British Museum.
In reply to further questions, witness said that the fokis return ed to the office some time between 9.45 and ten o'clock. When they returned he (witness was not
the office about ten o'clock he was. They told him that no-one was in told of the matter by the fukis. the office except the watchman.
Money Gone,
Others, Approve. Lord Olivier, the former Labour
in regard to the procedure and
constitution of the commission.
The drawer which was alleged was to have been prised open produced in court. Witness said that the accountant placed the shown money in the drawer. When he (witness) opened the drawer it was empty.
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the hill country. Then the pre-
foki.
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FASCISTI & REDS.
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pletely overlooked by the Red officials, unless it be that the latter really desired an incident and laid
a trap for the Whites, as suggested in certain quarters, for reasons best known to themselves. No respon- alble person here for one moment is disposed to condone the assault on the Consulate, but in order to on- able the man-in-the-street to get a clearer grasp of the situation, it is necessary to reconstruct the state of mind that caused the Whites indis- eriminately to smash windows and finally to try to enter the building,. which, in point of fact, they actual ly did, presumably with the object of coming to grips at closer range with 'the officials.
It is easy to understand the pent- up feelings of those hungry, shiver- ing refugee Whites as their mem- ortes surged back to those hap pier days, under happier. akies, when Bolshevism had not descended like a noxious blight on the land and reflected upon the unfortunate posi- tion into which the Red accession to Truly, power had plunged them. the eight of that Red flag, defiantly flaunted in the faces of these un- happy people, was as a red rag to a bull. The effect on them was precisely the same, and they acted no differently from the enraged animal that rushes at his tormentor in a bull-baiting arena. The miser- able wretches could not help con- trasting their pitiable plight with that of the sleek officials wining and dining their guests in the Consulate, warm, well-housed, and fed to re pletion, as against the shivering, hungry, ilclothed throng joutside.. In such an emotional atmosphere, it would be strange, indeed, not to see restraint cast to the four winds. Attempt to Embroil Fascist!..
With paymies for guides, Cel. Third defendant: I am first de-ganisation was to be actively anti- Fens marched for two days into fendant's foll. I work for him.
Mr. Hall: I take it then that sence of gorilla was reported, they have entered pleas of not and he set out with a camera, guilty, hoping to get a photograph.
I was galely in the public in- The pygmies began terest of India that the Govern-through the thickel, when sud-dants? ment had determined to curtail denly a fiercer bark was heard, the time,
The writer of these notes has been able to secure exclusive in- formation relative to another phase arising out of the incident so far undisclosed to the Shanghai public. In a letter to the local press, Cap- years has been actively identified tain A. E. N. Howard, who for some with the anti-Bolshevik movement in Shanghai, intimates that he has returned his card of membership of the Shanghai Fascisti and sent in his résignation, as he says he join- ed the movement because he was under the impression that the or Bolshevik. No other explanation of his sudden resignation was somewhat cryptic statement leav- Lord Reading, former Viceroy of
vouchsafed by Captain Howard, his India, said the Liberal party ap
The writer has been able to solve His Worship: The first defening the public not a little mystified. proved the Bill. The Government
After following a path for a dant, does your plea mean that the the mystery by going for first-hand It opium was never in your boat at information direct to Mr. H. P. had acted wisely, and had really
a desire to consult the Few minutes a gorilla barked
King, the principal promoter of the was im- Firat defendant: No. It was not Fascisti idea, and from this gentle views of indian politicians, and was close, at hand, but the forestfall?
man he was able to learn the inter- generally to give effect to the was so dense that it views of India in regard to the possible to see more than a few in my boat at all.
His Worship to Mr. Sayer: What esting fact that a determined at- When the fokis returned to the earlier date for the statutory yards ahead.
Gorilla's Scream.
view do you take of the answers tempt was made, on the eve of the to cut of the second and third defen- White outbreak, to get the Shang- office on the morning of the period.
hai Fascisti to lend the weight of alleged theft, Mohammad Ali was
Matter of Knowledge. "
their support, both moral and ma- not there and he had not returned
Air. Sayer: I, quite distinctly, terial, to the attack on the So- to duty since. Plaintiff saw Shah
changed his Col. Fenn
In other words, take the view that these pleas viet Consulate. Mohammad and told him about the
When Indians fully understand camera for a rifle. matter, after which they went to
Cantibusly he entered a gorilla should decide your Worship not to put it in plain terms, the Rus- run rome to give a re-hearing. I cannot persian Whites, through their spokes- the police station together to, make the views of the Government, and
ceive a man who knows nothing men, in the persons of Captain a report. Up to the present, the opportunities that would be tunnel, which is Mohammed Ali had not, boon gives them to make their case three to four fect high.
not heard, there would be much less Ife had not gone many yards about the opium being at the hot-Howard and the Rev. E. E. Strother, of the Christian En- arrested and plaintiffs had
His Worship: Unless they saw deavour Union, who, like the foe oí applied for a warrant for his tendency to take an adverse view when he heard a scream like thattom of the harbour, saying that.
an avoived of the appointment of the commis-of a maniac, and a huge gorilla arrest.
rushel straight down the tunnel at the opium fished up. Was that former,
the Eolsheviks, wanted the mem- They had also lost various sion.
bers of the Shanghai Fascisti to The Bill was read a second time. him, its mouth open and its left the cuse?
Mr. Sayer: Certainly. other articles, including shoes and
arm out-stretched.
Later Mr. Sayer said that march shoulder to shoulder with watches, but they were limiting-British Wireless.
Colonel Fenn fired from the hip
no reason whatever the Russian Whites in the attack their claim to the allegedly stolen
This the at three yards range, and the he
the Consulate. turned and to doubt the defendants, original na gorilla, wounded,
pleas. These later pleas were Fascisti's chief properly declined their second thoughts. Mr. Sayer to do, on the ground that the Shanghai Fascisti in no sense was definitely opposed à re-hearing..
Mr. Hall: I must protest against the remarks made by Mr. Sayer The females ran away, but the just now. He was not here at the ar-male stood up and glared de-original hearing." Your Worship to assist in maintaining law and rival, General Chiang made a call fance. Colonel Fenn shot him in gave them an opportunity to reorder in the Settlement, not to He could not have signed that on the Soong family on Seymour the chest, but not fatally, and pload. name, because all he can do is Rul, where he had a long talk the gorilla got away. to sign his own name and he only with Mr. Soong and Miss Meiling learnt to do that in Hongkong?-Soeng. don't know what he has written on this paper.
$80.
!!
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and
Mr. Remedios put it to you AN OMINOUS LULL AT bolted. that neither the defendant Mohammad Ali had not ment at all? They did.
nor
been
For the simple reason that the defendant is not Shah Mohamma but Shah Naiyaz Mohammad?-1 know.him, by the name he has given me.
HANKOW.
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Immediately following his
Interviewed by local Japanese pressmen, General Chiang stated that he was greatly impressed with Judgment for Plaintiffs.
the progress made by Japan in the In giving evidence, the defen-last ten years. No political signi- dant denied all knowledge of the ficance attends' his return to China matter, aying that he had never this time, it is said.
mad All
He is
Next day the animal was dis covered, at an altitude of 9,000 female feet, with a pumber of gerillas and their young.
He was tracked for two hours, then turned on his pursuers.
He was shot dead and proved to be aft: 8in, high, with a chest measurement of 62 Inches and biceps of 18 Inches (4%1⁄2 inches Missionaries report that free bigger than Dempsey's). quently natives have been killed by gorillas.
The only outward change in the seen the plaintiff's representative look of the General, as noticed before, and did not know Moham- those who saw him, is the little
MOTOR CASE. moustache, newly-grown. His Lordship said he had decid-also said to be in a better spirits ed to believe the story told by the than a month ago when he left]
DRIVER GETS OFF. plaintiffs. He accordingly gave Shanghat.
The driver of car No. 430 was Gossip in Chinese 'circles is to judgment for the plaintiffs, with costs.
the effect that the marriage. be charged by Sergeant Cunningham tween the General and Miss Mei-before Major C. Willson yesterday
At the Marine Court this morning Soong will take place this afternoon for recklessly driving Ing, before Commdr. G. F. Hole, month. Kwong Sze, the muster of a cargo junk, was charged with mooring his craft in the Victoria Cable
Reserve. He pleaded guilty, while
Tang Seng-chi's Movements.
Shanghai, Nov. 15.
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Road Central, along Queen's opposite the Queen's Theatre, in the early morning of the 2nd inst., and also for falling to stop when called upon to do so.
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His Worship: Their original pleas, I am sure, were pleas of guilty. Prisoners usually say hay and then qualify that plea by a statement.
It
Mr. Hall Maybe they had no chance to make a statement. depends how the charge was read to them.
His Worship: I have heard several pleas of lay and have no doubt they were pleas of guilty,
Mr. Hall: I most respectfully beg to differ.
His Worship: I think the case had better be re-heard.
The defendants were according ly remanded until next Thursday, when the case will be re-heard.
FETE DONATIONS
Comyn,
a political body but an organisa- tion whose sole aim was to defend life and property in Shanghai and
help in creating turmoil and dis- order, which they were pledged to combat. Mr. King's refusal to participate in the White adven- ture incurred the displeasure of the Captain, consequently he has left the Fascistl in high dudgeon.
The Pony Problem.
THE 44th ANNUAL
AL FRESCO FETE
OF THE
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
WILL BE HELD
IN THE COMPOUND OF THE CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
ON
SUNDAY, 4th DECEMBER 1927, from 3.30 p.m, to 11.30 p.m.
UNDER THE DISTINGUISHED PATRONAGE OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR AND LADY CLEMENTI. Admission 8.30 p.m to 11.30 p.m. $1.00 (each ticket entitled to a Souvenir)-50 cents (without Souvenir) Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform Admitted at Half Price.
In the AFTERNOON from 3 to 7
pm. several STALLS will be open and amusements specially for children will be provided. Tea may be obtained at 50 cents per head.
ADMISSION FREE.
The grounds will be brilliantly illuminated in the evening, and there will be music both in the After- noon and in the Evening.
SOME FEATURES OF THE FETE. TOY BAZAAR; XMAS TREE STALL; ART GALLERY; SURPRISE CAKE WITH DIAMOND RING-WEDDING RING-SOVER- CANDY STALL; EIGNS AND OTHER VALUABLE GIFTS; SURPRISE PACKETS; FANCY DOLLS; DOG SHOW CHINESE "STALL; AMERICAN STALL; FIVE DOLLARS STALL; ETC.
FARM YARD
Coine and win your Turkeys, Geese, Sucking Pigs and Hams for CHRISTMAS.
SEVERAL RAFFLLS WITH VALUABLE PRIZES Including an ERSKINE SIX, A FOUR SEATER SEDAN DE LUXE with all the latest equipment.
No Work of Charity is Foreign to the Society. COME AND HELP HONG KONG'S POOR.
Preserve and decorate the Woodwork of your House with
CAMBORITE
WOOD PRESERVATIVE AND STAIN COMBINED
IN
THREE SHADES OF BROWN
AND
THREE SHADES OF GREEN
STOPS Dry Rot, Decay and Destruction by White And
Tint Cards and Information from Agents:
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WILKINSON, HEYWOOD & CLARK,
Shanghai,
Hongkong.
To turn to a lighter theme, the ecribe has to chronicle the ter- mination of one of the most and to the rest of the field. This the Chinese tailor, who, one going successful Autumn Race Meetings year's Meeting has been marred by to collect an account from a Portu- in the sporting annals of Shang-a particularly distressing incident, gacee client, was offered a Cham- weather conditions resulting in the loss of that game bions ticket, from, among ten hai. The could not have been more ideal, little pony Bazique, one of the others, as a set-off against the the racing has been of a high speediest animals on the local account. This offer he was most order and the betting booths have course. This mount crossed his reluctant to accept, but on being been better patronised than ever legs when turning for the straight, pressed, selected a ticket from before, the members of the Shang-came down himself and brought among the ten which eventually hal Defence Force Indulging in a down two other mounts Happily happened to be the winning ticket. mild flutter with as equal' zest as none of the jockeys sustained History records that the gentle notwith damage, but the ill-fated pony man in question went on a hunger China's "old hande," standing the vagaries of the bet himself broke his off foreleg high strike for three days although the ting system in the Far East, which up and had to be put out of pain tailor magnanimously made him a gift of some three thousand dollars doubtless will form the subject by the humane killer.
There was a veritable chapter from sheer goodness of heart: The pony problem is no less per- matter of letters to the Homeland.
This year the story is that the which Mr. Moller was put out of been' Many experiments have made privately by the Stewards of commission with a broken callar- precious slip of paper numbered $30 the Race Club with the starting bone. In most of these cases, the 17200 was bought originally by a gate, but these have failed to be mishaps are due less to, faulty British member of Wayfoong, who 25 fruitful of any good results, for riding on the part of these parti-
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The Society of St. Vincent de The Sergeant testified that the Paul bega to acknowledge the stating that he was a stranger to It is understood that Tang Seng- the port, and was fined $10 with chi arrived hore last night aboard enr was. zig-zagging along the following donations to the funds
L. J: the alternative of 10 days impri- the Nanyang Maru from Hankow road at 20 miles per hour, that the of the Al Fresco Fete on Decem-plexing than the betting question. of lesser accidents, in one of
and that it was deut-Col. sonment. The fine was paid by It is reported that he left for Japan car failed to stop when he held ber 4th:
C.M.G., D.S.O. ... the junk owners.
aboard the Shanghai Maru incog-out his arm
Mr. Hugo Ammann nito. This, however, has not been necessary for him to blow his
whistle before the car stopped. General Sir John Asser and Lady confirmed.--Reuter.
Mr. C. A. S. Russ acted for the Mr. G. P. de Martin
20 the China pony, with the tempera-cular jockeys than to bumping and reports that he sold it to a Portu Asser arrived in the Colony on the
defendant, who said he simply Comdr. Stefano Carrara
10 ment of a prima donna, simply will boring by novices, who require guese gentleman in the same office, 5 not have it, and turf votaries, more hord training before ven- who, in turn, says he turned it over to a Chinese shroff of the President Lincoln. General Asser
awerved to avoid a coolie, and that The Maryknoll Sisters:
Mr. C. P. Marcel.... has been Governor and Comman-
This morning's Harbour Office he did not see the signal.
Mesars Graca & Co., $20 and therefore, are condemned to put turing on to the course.
Bank, who disposed of it to a syn der-in-Chief in Bermuda since
The defendant. was discharged.
postcards for Picture Gallery: up with tho, singular antics of 1922. He served with distinction reports gave 17 arrivals and 20 departures, of which three and
These notes would not be com-dicate of Chinese and that's as Fresh monsoon is still to be and Messrs. Sam Shing Wo, one some of the mounts at the starting point and witness some atrocious. in the Egyptian Army, taking part
starts, to the despair both of the, plete without passing reference to far as the writer got in endeavour- in the Nile expedition and com-eight respectively were British, manding the expedition to South leaving 49 vessels in harbour, expected over the China Sea and case preserved ginger.
Next to the pony problem is that which float around at the conclu-
One Champions race is not complete ern Kordofan in 1910. He gained British 15. Tonnage was good, the weather locally will remain many distinctions in the Great but there was a alump in inward fine, according to the Royal The quarantine restrictions im- public and the official starter. Champions Sweepstake legends ing to trace the lucky ticket, A
to prove a peril both to himself recalls, at this point, the story of without its legends. War: General Asser was for some froights, although through cargoes Observatory's forecast, which posed against arrivals from Amoy years a member of the Soudan were high, with four registries reads:--North-east winds, moder-on account of cholera have been of the novico Jockey, who is apt sion of every big Meeting.
above the 5,000 tona mark. late, fine." Government Council."
withdrawn.
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That Champions Ticket.":