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rogoros 大拜禮 號三月一十英港香
NO. 22,340.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1927. At
NEW VOLUNTEER ORDINANCE. INTIMIDATORS STILL BRITISH POLICY.
PROVISION AS TO FINES AND DISCIPLINE.
FORMATION OF AUXILIARY UNITS PROPOSED.
ACTIVE.
CORROSIVE ACID THROWN
AT WOMEN.
LOCAL FACTORY INCIDENTS.
During yesterday, three women workers at the China Foreign Knit, ting Factory, where an attempt was recently made by agitators to create a strike, were attacked by intimidators, who in every case
used corrosive acid.
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SETTING THE WORLD
AN EXAMPLE.
"WE HAVE DISARMED.”
London, Dec. 2
an
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.PIRATES ATTACK A JUNK.
OPEN FIRE ON HONGKONG CRAFT.
A FOKI KILLED.
of
a
the
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BINGLE COPY 19 OʻSTE
BUICK 1928-
Colors unrivalled by the rainbow-
Bulck for 1928-now on display.
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55, Wong Nei Chung Road,
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Yesterday's Daily Press contain- MacWhirter, he says that. in. ed an account of Ladies' Night at order to produce the correct atmos- the Y.M.C.A., under the heading phere at a Ball, the proper spirit. "Round the Police Court.” The is essential. reporter must have been thinking
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Reading these vital statistics, one concludes that many people are puting the quart before the hearse.
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'Tis better to storm the buffet than buffet the storm.
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Salmon.
An unusual story comes to hand of Potty Sessions! Speaking to the British Press
morning. telling
A judge at Home has decreed this afternoon at Geneva, Lord this
bying age. He's not much of a Chinese waters Cushendun, as British representa-Hongkong junk being attack- that a girl of 16 is past the smack
judge. would
be to appear tive to the League of Nations, salded in.
Chrysanthemum's the word "in the British policy on disarmament what
pirate junk, but after the
ជ ជ had in no way changed.
On the contrary, he declared, aring of shots by the pirates, one Hongkong gardens just now.
We now know why Auchter "We are inclined to say to other of which, killed a foki of
An Aberdeen lawyer has just THE PERIOD OF TRAINING. in the first case, it is reported countries who approach us on this Hongkong junk, the pirates sailed muchty was in half mourning the
acted as his wife's counsel when that as one of the women was Ko-subject that we have already die-
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she sued for divorce and casts According to the Daily Press,
As one Caledonian said to a The Government Gazette contains the copy of a new Bill, being aning up the staircase of her home armed. We effected our disarma-away without attempting to board night before.
on returning from work, she, was ment immediately after the war, the vessel. amendment of the Volunteer Ordinance of 1920, and introducing suddenly attacked by an unknown and now we have not much to offer. The master states that his trad-
man who had apparently followed After the war Great Britaining junk, No. 868 left Shaukiwan Mr. T. E. Pearce stated at the
unquestionable on Thursday bound for Pin Hau, Interport Cricket Dinner, "a run Sassenach this week, "Have one several changes. There is better' provision made for drills, and one or
her all the way from the factory possessed
Journalism offers a promising two obscure points of the old Ordinance are cleared up.
She was struck in the left side and supremacy of the seas, more than Chinese territory, carrying a crew saved was a run saved." On the and keep up your spirits."
field for young men. A South editor, has inherited Fortunately for her, the acid only But as soon as the war was over, and a cargo of korosene oil; joss
"Indignant:"We cannot sup- African corrosive acid was thrown on her. ever since battle of Trafalgar, of three men, including himself, other hand, a run run's a run
At eleven. o'clock yesterday burnt away a part of her clothing, we immediately scrapped, rather sticks and nut oil.
should be within 32 inches from and did not cause any personal in- too hurriedly I am inclined to jury. Before the man ran away, think, between one and three-morning, when in the vicinity of port your plea that all skirts £15,000. the woman was able to identify quarter million and two million Hop Nam, a large unknown junk the ground. That is going too far.
carrying a crew of about ten men, him as the same man who, the daytons of ships.
We did this not merely from our approached and opened fire on the
By the way, what ever became of before, had warned her to keep
the starving Armenians?. Ten shots were fired altogether,
Talpo news: The "Dangerous It is provided that the Reserve Company shall consist of men who away from a factory, or a serious desire to realise economies, but Hongkong boat with small arms.
A contemporary declared that The other two cases also con-one striking a fokl in the head and killing him instantaneously.
one of the Interporters "immodi- Crossing" box has been repainted. have reached 40 years of age, and the Supplementary Reserve Com-actident might happen to hor.
SHANGHAI SHOOTING ''
The attacking vessel then sailed ately started betting, and soon and is frequently lit at night." pany shall consist generally of men who have attained the age of 50 cerned women who still remained The at work at the factory, notwith-
away and the victimised boat, re-paid the penal-
Jasner Otherwise. crime in the. MYSTERY.
On its turned to Hongkong.
district is nor- years. There is provision for, fines and disciplinary action.
arrival here the body of the foli "objects and reasons" fully set out the reasons for the changes intro-standing a concerted attempt made
was removed to the Mortuary. duced.,
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Of chief interest are the new auxiliary units that, it is proposed to have. It may have been observed that the Corps now has a band, and only recently the signal section of the Engineers was made a special sub-unit, the Corps Signals. Under the new Ordinance it is also, in- A supplementary tended to have the following auxiliary units: Reserve Company, an Army Service Corps radre, a Lights Section cadre, and a Reserve of Officers.
ATTENDANCE AT COURTS MARTIAL.
by intimidators to induce "them to Ko on strike. One of the women was attacked yesterday morning : in Canton Road, the assailant) striking the woman and, throwing caused corrosive acid which
The damage to her clothing. ather woman, who lives at Recla mation Street, was followed, right. up to her house, and when corro- sive acid was thrown, she felt a
"In the Draft Regulations issued of the Volunteer Ordinance, 1920, in connexion with the new Or- or unill arrangements can be made dinance, it is specially set out to effect my relief. I further that members of the Supplemen-undertake to notify the Comman-burning senation on her hand. tary Reserve Company shall not dant of the said Corps in the event he required to undergo training, of my departure from the Colony (the Reserve Company" training as and of my return to the Colony." at present). The Supplementary Reserve also shall not," unless
Annual Training.
called out for actual military As regards the annual training, service, be required to attend any briefly, it is necessary to attend at parade or inspection. It is fur- least 15 instruction parades, carry ther provided, as regards the out the required range practices, auxiliary endres, that there shall attend four days' camp, and attend be no actual training. The Re the annual inspection. gulations state, inter alia, that:
Volunteers declared efficient in
usual
The man who throw the acid ran Away and was not caught..
All three cases have been report- ed to the police who are taking special measures to "protect the workers.
IMPERIAL RUBBER
EXHIBITION.
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Scots Guard Corporal Surrenders,
Shanghai, Dec. 3, The police have applied for a warrant for the arrest of Corporal Robertson, of the fatally Scots Guards, for shooting a house-boy in the Apartments. China United
He afterwards surrendered to the military authorities.
Mystery enwraps the affair. It is believed that a plea of self-defence will be made.
'An alternative theory is that it was an accident during the cleaning of a rifle.
A civil trial has been ar ranged.-Our Own Correspon- dent.
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SHANGHAI TRAM STRIKE.
THE SITUATION STILL SERIOUS.
run!
ty." He should
have known that such things are not done.
DO Debating the existence
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of fairies, the Titania remains solid evidence of their pre- sence afloat.
Many a Hong- resident
kong
Shanghai, Dec. 2. In order that loyal employees may be protected from intimida- tors, a public picket has now been placed on all trams in the Settle- ment, enabling a restricted service to be maintained,
The Labour Unions continue.
A à serious their agitation, and aituation still exists.-Naval Wire- less.
No Wage Dispute.
Shanghai, Dec, 2. There has been a partial re- sumption of the tramway service, following an all-day paralysis of the service arising from a fatal encounter between the police and Labour gunmen, the latter. attack
if
is entitled to be 11 Baron,
.were honours based on assets.
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Shanghai
seaman was
fined the other.
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"Shoots Waiter: Takes $500." says a northern contemporary. He must have had quite a good even- ing.
Wife: "Do hurry, George. We shall be very late again for the show!"
Taipan:
"Don't panic.
have just noticed the tickets are for to-morrow night."
mal,
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The engage- ment of journalist Indicates
that
newsmen
havo
the usual privi-
lege
"press,"
of
tho
Those Canton labour agitators
appear to have
decided that the
place could go
to blazon.
口口:
Some Hong-
kong women..
would like to
day for stealing a pair of scales. discover a method of transform- Maybe he only wanted to weigh ing a surplus cradle into a card
Lable. the anchor.
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Provided there is a sporting chance, we Malaya bet next year. ᄆᄆ
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The pedestrian may have" the right of way, but in some Hong- kong streets, he'd need a couple of revolvers to establish it.
"The Army Service Corps Cadre three years, shall be required or FIRST OF AN EMPIRE SERIES. and Lights Section Cadre shall dinarily to attend. 10 instruction
the undergo
London, Dec. 2. consist of specially selected in parades,
The Imperial Rubber Exhibition dividuals whose previous training musketry, attend, two days, in
was opened to-day at the Imperial has rendered them fit to perform camp, and attend the annual
Institute by Captain Hacking, the such duties as they may be re- inspection.
The burglar who stole "Froth- As regards recruits, they areParliamentary Secretary to the quired to perform if called out
also so that we might dispense
blower" links this week will now.
When a lady motorist in Hong- required to put in 40 drills, or Department of Overseas Trade..
gollop his 'Bamshu with jest. for actual military service.
Capt. Hacking said this was the with all offensive forces except ing a tramcar.
kong puts her hand out, it means The members of the said Cadres such number as, may be required
Two of the gunmen were killed," We aise abandoned two arsenals and three
and & passengers shall upon admission make and for fitness to be passed into the first of a series of exhibitions of those strictly necessary.
With their pronounced drawing that she's either. going to turn, sign in the presence of an officer ranks. Recruits for the Reserve Empire products which would be
and two paval bases. We cut Chinese policeman were wounded. ability, Capablanca and Alekhine stop, see if it's stopped raining of
wave to a friend. of the corps the declaration at Company shall be required to do held from time to time.
The passengers who received should be great artists.
ᄆᄆ Mr. Eric MacFadyen, chairman down the personnel of our navy, out in Form No. 3 in the Second 20 parades or such less number
The modern girl may be fond Schedule to the Volunteer Or- as necessary, à recruit shall be of the Rubber Growers' Associa and practically scrapped our air injuries included Mrs. J. Duncan,! with the result that the wife of a tramway traffic
Reading the heading "Walker anyone who has not served for attion, gave some striking figures service,
Suspended," one is reminded of of nice clothes, but she's not en dinance, 1920.
口口 If either of the sali Cadres is least one year in the regular showing the increase in output of few years later we had to re-inspectar.
The whole affair is attributable the urgent need to make the world tirely wrapped up in them. always
safe for pedestrians.
American Our army, which was called out for actual military Services, or in any Volunteer unit rubber in the British Empire since suscitate the air arm once more.
to intimidators, and there is no
Interviewed, ☐ ☐ service every member thereof shall in any part of the Empire, or in 1910.
"In 1910 the output was 10,000 numerically a "contemptible little question of a wages dispute.
The advertisement of a local tourist declared: "I like London." the oath or the Royal Irish Constabulary.
further thereupon take
reduced. tons. By the end of the war this army,"
Restricted Service.
store showed Santa Claus upside We understand there's now serious make the" declaration specified in
Objeels and Reasons.
That's how he makes us talk of continuing the place. Later.
down.
00 Forms Nos. 1 and 2 in the Second
So far as regards the actual had been increased to 250,000 tons, Obligatory service was abolished,
A restricted service of 18 trams feel. Schedule to the Volunteer Or-
There is likely to be a world expected the output would exceed forces to the level of an Imperial
We knew that dinance, 1920, unless he has al- amendments to the old Ordinance, while this year it was confidently and we have reduced our armed
police force, such as is necessary, of a normal 186, is running to-
shortage of tin. ready taken the said oath or made the "objects and reasons" state:
It is proposed to form a number 500,000 tons.
tram driver being! The exhibition will remain open as exemplified in the recent crisis day, each the said declaration and has not quitted the corps after the taking of auxiliary units in the Hongkong
British lives and British property There are no railless trams run- British Wireless. units will be as follows:-
throughout the world. We are ning-Reuter. declaration;
(a) A Supplementary Reserve
ready to prove we have disarmed, The members of the said Cadres shall not be required to undergo Company, to consist of men, who
should now be in a position to AFGHAN TREATY WITH and if we had not done so
offer a reduction of two million tons in the navy and a big. reduc tion of the air service.
Ji
was
1.
"Indian Money Lender Robbed" Bring the ad volatile.
of such outh or the making of such Volunteer Defence Corps. The until the end of December-in China, for the protection of guarded by two Chinese polico. was a headline this week. Boy long ago.
any training, and shall not, unless have attained the age of fifty called out for actual military years.
(5) An Army Service Corps service, be required to attend any
Cadre. parade or inspection.
No uniform will be issued to the members of the said Cadres unless they are called out for actual military service.
(e) A Lights Section Cadre.
(d) A Reserve of Officers.
The members of these auxiliary units will not be required to
A member of either of the sald undergo any training, but they
Cadres may also be a member of will be liable to be called up for
The Reserve of Officers.
PERSIA.
FRIENDSHIP AND NEUTRALITY.
Teheran, Dec., 2. Afghan and. Persia have signed the Reserve Company, in which actual military service. The Army a three years treaty of friendship case he shall be subject to all the Service Corps Cadre and the and security, and undertake to re- obligations to which members of Lights Section Cadre will consist main neutral if a third Power at
of specially selected individuals tacks either.
The treaty is to be automatical- that company are subject."
whose previous training has ren- dored them fit to perform such ly valid for a further three years duties as they may be required to unless denounced by either con- It is also stated that: "Members perform if the Cadre are called out tracting party at the end of the
service. first three years.-Router. of the Reserve of Omcers shall for not be required to undergo any Broadly speaking, the members of training, and shall not, unless the auxiliary units will be persons called up for actual military who are prepared to be called out service, be required to attend any for actual military service. In case parade or inspection."
of necessity but who will have no
actual military,
The form of declaration to be duties unless they are so called made by the special cadres, Form up. As they will have no duties, No. 8, is as follows: "I hereby it is proposed that service in the undertake that I will serve auxillary units will not count to- of the wards the Colonial Auxiliary. the..... Cadre
NEW MOTOR LAUNCH.
GOVERNMENT INVITES TENDERS.
We
But we cannot do it now. In other words, we have already are voluntarily done what we askinz other nations to do now," British Wiretras.
COMMISSIONS OF CONTROL.
POLICY OF GRADUAL WITHDRAWAL.
AN EGYPTIAN DRÜG SCANDAL.
CHEMIST'S ALLEGED
MALPRACTICE.
Cairo, Dec, 2.
Ar
The motor-car prize is the big The Westminster Gazette Bay draw of the week that Governor Hei Lung-kíang re- to be troops ports Soviet
Apparently a lost lady has been He found in the World.. assembling on the frontier.
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"Reader:" By all means allow your wife to be taught the violin. It will give her chin a rest.
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The population of Shanghai is The Chief Chemist and a clerk reported to be increasing. have been arrested for malprac would be interesting to know the tices in connexion with police sei-ratio if the revolver had never zures of drugs sent to the Prosecu tor's office for analysis.
been
invented.
. . made St. Andrew's Cross?" His head in the morning.
"What
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The week's Dewarism: "We are
all liable to make mistakes. That is why you find rubber at the end. of pencils."
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A number of inflated Astic artists will be punch-ered at the
0 0 Theatre Royal to-night,
The week's Great Thought: "It might be a great hardship to pre- vent worthy citizens from playing they could not afford a table. a friendly game simply because cloth."-Daily Press.
A heading we may yet live to No read: "Laurie Absconds: Relation to Annie."
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MacWhirter says ye canna tell
It is alleged that the chemist substituted a harmless drug for heroin which had been seized, and thus caused the acquittal of sus-
The plan to offer a prize for the pected traffickers. It is believed best finishing touches submitted London, Dec. 2." that the chemist received large
for Schubert's Unfinished Sym- In accordance with the decision bribes.
Conference, of the, Ambassadors
The clerk is charged with selling phony should be carried further. How about a nice pair of arms for the organisation set up in Vienna heroin-Reuter.
the Vonus de Milo?
a really good fish story in for the liquidation of the military
Lots of the Horticultural Show Auchtermuchty: there isn't enough. clauses of the treaty of Saint Ger- main will be withdrawn on January
THE VISA QUESTION. prizes will go to the blooming Peak room to stretch one's arms. 181.
gardeners.
The dress circle is a place Tenders are being invited, for This is the Inst of several inter-
Thursday was a very rosy day whers men often expose their ignorance and the women their for St. Vincent. Corps until I resiga there Forces Officers Decoration or the supply to the Government of allied commissions of control, es-
backs. from in writing, and that in Long Service Medal, but that Hongkong of one twin screw tablished in former enemy coun-ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSION.
Length tries.
The commission supervising this
London, Dec. 2.
During manoeuvres at Home, a the ovent of the said Cadre being membership will so count in any cruising motor launch.
Auntio Caustic says it would) called up for actual military period during which the units are about 80 feet, speed 10 knots. service while I am still a member called out for actual military Details of lay out required may be work in Germany completed its
Hanisations in Bulgaria and Han-Germany for the mutual abolition village hall. Unfortunately, there seem the ambition of a good many thereof I will serve in the said service. This particular provision obtained on application to the far- work in January, and similar or agreement has been reached with tank accidentally knocked down a Section until the period of service will have to be made by an amend bour Master.
The price is not to excoed gary have since been withdrawn of visas, is expected within the next are no tanks in the vicinity of our young men in Hongkong to make
British Wireless.
few days.-British Wireless. of the said Section is.terminated ment of the regulations under the
(Continued on Page 10.) $65,000, in accordance with the provisions
in
An official announcement that an
Theatre Royal..
week-ends meet.