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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1927.
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DAY BY DAY.
NO LAW, HOWEVER STRINGENT, CAN MAKE THE IDLE INDUSTRIES PRO VIDENT, OR THE DRUNKEN SOVER Samuel Smiles.
Mr. and Mrs H. Burgess return- to the Colony on the Empress of Russia from Manila.
Mrs. Cock is to distribute the prizes at the "Kowloon Junior School on Tuesday next.
China, but there is reason to be- by installing love that Communism in the "PYRENE" Fire country is merely a name for Extinguisher. anarchy. Whoever indulges in "PYRENE" will excesses, whoever opposes some sa- kill fire without called moderate element, fa per damago to the force a "Red" or a Communist, engine, woodwork The Soviet encourages the weared or upholstery Water spreads a
ing of red scarves, and other de- petrol fire; sand is monstrations of pseudo-Bolshevik incfficient and will leanings. But it is merely
of anarchists. put the onging out encouragement of action.
The China clay which the Moscow "PYRENE" Ex-agents hoped to mould to thei tinguisher is small own form, has proved difficult to in size, light in manipulate,, and the Soviet is pro- weight and easy to bably content to let it assume handla.
whatever shape the tendency of "PYRENE" dons the moment suggests. But It not deteriorate and means confusion worse confound- is always readyed, and chaos multiplied to a point
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The health return for Saturday and Sunday showed two Chinese cases of cerebro-spinal fover.
A LAUNCH MASTER'S
WAGES.
CLAIM AGAINST. OWNERS FAILS.
Remarking that the plaintiff had failed to establish any con- tract between himself and the de- fendants for payment of wages; Mr. Justice Wood gave judgement for the defendants in a claim for wages which was heard in the Summary Court this morning,
PEAK TRAMWAY INCIDENT."
EUROPEAN FINED FOR OBSTRUCTION..
Mr. Charles J. Hiron figured us three summonses
defendant In taken out by the Peak Tramway Company, at the Central Polico Court to-day. The case was heard before Mr. R. E. Lindsell.
Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared to prosecute for the Peak Tramway
The case was one in which Ho Company. Yuet-hing, 200 Temple Street, Mr. G. S. Hugh Jones, who repre- Youmati, sued Lau Fook-tool, 197,sented the defendant, said he under- Reclamation Street, Mongkok, Kow-stood his friend was withdrawing The Empress of Asia left Van-loon, and Au Lun-sang, 12 Mong- the second charge, WT am pleading couver on the 10th instant and is kok Road, for $229.50, being baguilty to the other two," added Mr.
lanco of wages due as master on Hugh Jones. due here on the 29th instant:
Board the,, steam launch "Man Sing" from April 2 to September 25 last year at the rate of $80 per lunar month. Mr. W., D. Owen was for the plaintiff and Mr. D. McCallum defended.
The P. and O. s. Jeypore, which left Dalny at noon on the 9th inst., is due here at noon to-morrow.
The Haiyang, arriving from the reports the death of one en routo from consumption.
Mr. Armstrong:-There is no ovidence of an actual interferenco with the machinery, so I am with- drawing that second charge.
His Worship: On what evidence of wilful obstruction? are you proceeding with this chargo
Mr. Hugh Jones:-Defendant ad Mr. Owen explained that the de-mits, going into the engine house. fendants were the owners of the launch and the plaintiff was on- gaged by the charterers as master. He worked for some months in this capacity but the launch ceased to run and became idle.
Unstamped Document.
Mr. Armstrong:The actual of- fence took place at five minutes to two, and the tram was not actually running. But the brakesman and the engine driver were standing by On a charge of larceny of a foun- In some way a debt was con- until three o'clock in case of any tain pen from the pocket of a pedestracted between the charterers and emergency call. The defendant has triun yesterday, a Chinese was this the defendants and it was agreed expressed his regret. morning sentenced to six weeks' between them that in considers-pany wish to register a conviction - hard labour by Mr. W. Schofield at tion of that debt the defendants-they do not wish to press the the Kowloon Magistracy.
should pay the wages of the maa- charge unduly, although it might ter and the crew. A document, to have had serious consequences. that effect was acknowledged at a Fortunately it did not. meeting at which all the parties were present,
The Com-
of bewilderment. Marshal Chiang Koop & "PYR-Kai-shek is stated to be deterrain-Straits with 180 deck passengers, ENE" handy on
ed to stamp out the radicals, in car and in garage.
Kwangtung and elsewhere, and
Messrs. Lane, Crawford, Ltd., then to "eliminate". Marshal
have issued their customary desk Chang Tso-lig and the North calendar, which should prove generally. It is indeed a stupend-most useful in the office. ous task, and one which might well make him despair. It means that he will have to reunite the loose strands of Nationalism. Can he, or anyone else, succeed The experiences of the past few months in China suggest that unity is further away than ever. The Nationalists came the nearest to achieving the well-nigh im- possible, but they stand to day a
Mr. Owen agreed, saying there discredited party before the whole
An insane Chinese, who lived at was no contract on the face of it. world, an example of disintegra No. 28, Tai Shek Street, first floor, The document was an acknow, tion following on failure, to sink suffered serious injuries when he the launch remained idle and was Dodgement. Continuing, he said personal differences or petty am jumped into the street from the eventually sunk in the typhoon of Mr. Armstrong:-It is obstruc- He was removed to the Governoriginal claim was $276, but it was verandah of his house yesterday. August 20th this year. The ment Civil Hospital.
admitted that $47 had been repaid, leaving the balance claimed.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, Dec. 13, 1927,
IN CANTON NOW.
This morning's Harbour Office reports gave 12 arrivals and nine | departures of which seven and British, three respectively were leaving 67 vessels carrying three of the four freights of four figures,
antered.
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Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon A Chinese wonun was fined $5 by Magistracy this morning, for caus in annecessary pain and suffering to three chickens by carrying them with their wings tied together with a piece of string.
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The latest cup at Canton bitions. The position at Canton (serves to aggravate conditions in
to-day is no better than it was the Kuomintang camp, and to
several years ago, when warring, draw attention further to the im-elements were continuously break possible situation at present ruling out into internecine strife. ing in Nationalis circles. That The present "Red" regime may be Canton has gone absolutely "Iter"non-existent in a short while, but for the present there can be not will leave the aftermath of doubt. bit the transition precess resentment, and pave the way for
Cinema-goers are, requested to has been apparent for a long time.resumption of plot and counter-note that owing to the length of I started mere definitely with the plot. The future is obscure, and the film, special starti return of General Chang Fat the outlook far from hopefu. have been arranged for The For Horsemen of the Apocalypse." kward, the head of the "Ironsides,” It is a commentary, oh the sad which will be screened at the to the city, and the subsequent state into which China hay 'fallen, Queen's Theatre to-morrow. Per- friction with the "moderate" "cpm and the great effort which will formances begin promptly at 2.50, 5.00, 7.15 and 9.30, and the pic mander, Li Chai-aum Next came be necessary if the entire country ture will be screened immediately the return of Mr. Wang Ching is not to sink into utter, chiotic after the overture. wei, an out-and-out radieul. Less misery. than a month ago, General Li and Mr. Wang passed through Hong- kong on the way to a preliminary It woull seem that Mr. Philip is beginning to take Kuomintang conference at Shajar Snowden hal the outcome of which, insomewhat fanciful Labour scheme second thoughts regarding the
The health return for last week shows that there were three cidentally, has been a 'further a two-shilling surtax on personal Portuguese cases of diphtheria. schism in the Nationalist ranks, income derived from investments,
One of the Labour M.P.'s has two of which proved fatal. There with Nanking, of the moderate evidently sought to get Mir. Suw were two Chinese cases of cerebro- (one fatal), one spinal fever faction, breaking away from "Can-den's plan more clearly defined, but fatal cases of typoid fever, and one- ton, the radical-governed unit in the Deputy Chairman of the Labour fatal case of paratyphoid fever.
Party declines to be drawn. "Only Nationalism. But the latest
Yesterday's notifications com- Chancellor can make a Budget,"
prised
Chinese one events on the mainland rather says Mr. Snowden, who now airily
talks of this Labour idea as "an diphtheria and one Chinese case suggest that General Chang Bat-
of principle" From of cerebrospinal fever, expression kwa has almost been hoist with this, it is easy to see that Mr.
Snowden has begun to realise that' his Own petard. Immediately
it is one thing to talk of surtaxes after the departure of Li and on investiments and quite another Wang, Chang carried out his coup. to work out a sound and feasible
A Labour Idea.
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Mr. Lindsell:-Was it in fact
The document was produced and his Lordship romarked that it was not a contract, and was not stamp-fact, actual obstruction.
obstruction against the Company?
ed.
plaintif said there was no contract In reply to his Lordship, the between the defendants and him-
self.
Wrong People Sued.
Mr. Armstrong:-There was, în The en- gine-driver was forced to leave the engine room for assistance in order to get defendant out of the engine-
room.
His Worship-Is that obstruc-
tion?
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there in the engine room and he tion inasmuch as defendant' was may have obstructed the engine
from moving about. room and he may have obstructed the engine man and the brakesman
Mr. Hugh Jones:-The obstruc- tion is purely technical.
Mr. Lindsell:---Actually, they had. a dutý, to stand by in case of any call.
His Lordship said it seemed to him that the wrong people were being sued.
Mr. Armstrong:-There was only sponsibility for the debt was de- were a brakesman and conductor Mr Owen:-The question of re- one man in the engine room, there liberately undertaken by the pre-who were actually outside the en- In order to obtain as- sent defendants at that meeting. gine room. "His Lordship-They have given sistance to get the defendant out no undertaking, to your
of the engine room, the engine man Questioned by Mr. Owen on this had to leave the engine room, which point, the plaintiff said that al- he had no right to do in case the though the document was between uxtra fram had to leave. The point the defendants and the charterers, is, nobaily should be allowed to ob they really promised to pay him struct, and the defendant was and that intention was stated at trespassing by going into the en-
gine room. "
THE WEEK'S HEALTH. the meeting.
LIGHT RETURN OF DISEASE.
case of
CORRESPONDENCE.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,
His Lordship held that no con- tract between the plaintiff and the defendants had been proved. He would therefor give judgment for the defendants with costs.
WHOSE WINE?
SEQUEL TO SEIZURE ON JUNK.
?
Mr. Lindsell:-Quite true, but that is in Charge 3. It looks as if. there is no evidence of obstruction.
Mr. Armstrong:There is some evidence that the defendant was chasing the engine driver out of the engine room.
His Worship said that evidence would make the case different. He proposed to impose a fine of $10 on the first charge of wilful obstruc- |tian, and ‡ã on the third charge, of
trespassing.
The second count of interfering The seizure of 23 jars of duti-with the machinery was withdrawn able wine en board a junk at us stated. Shaukiwan on December 8th re- sulted in Lam Wai, alleged to bel the master, being charged with being in possession of the wine, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy this morning. Mr. J. M. D'Almada Remedios de- funded.
SENT TO HOUSE OF DETENTION.
EUROPEAN AND INDIAN COMMITTED.
and the "Ironsides" took control.timated why there has been this scheme. The cables have not in-
Now they in turn are ousted by ex-call for a definition of the Labour
(To the Editor, Hongkong tremists of the deepest "Red" dye, plan, but possibly even somie of
Telegraph.] Labour's supporters have begun to
A foki on board the junk gave There was a reference the other fear that their own savings are Sir,-As I am one of those folk evidence of pointing out the de- day to possible Soviet "ep-opera-likely to be affected if any such who make my living afloat; you fendant to the police as the A British subject, named R., G. The last trip, he said, Baker, was charged before Major tion, by means of Russian officers proposal is seriously brought for will perhaps pardon the lateness master,
ward. We have found that with of this latter? It was only yester was to Macno where the jars of C. Willson this morning with and huge quantities of arms from the Socialists there is never any day that I was able to read the wine were put on board. The absenting himself from the House Vladivostok. This message was hesitation about taxing other account of Dr. John Tutt's lecture defendant was present when that of Detention. received with reserve, but ap-go scat free. That attitude is also
people, so long as they themselves on Christian Science.
cargo was taken..
Principal Warder Robertson said Mr. Remedios cross-examined to that Baker In passing, may I. remark that
was some time ago parently the authors of the allega at the base of the ridiculous iden I have been reading Christian show that the defendant was not sentenced to one month's hard tion, the Nanking clique, were in of an equal division of wealth Science literature off and on for the licence was Lung Sang-fat and on the expiry of this term, on in fact the master. The name on labour for a similar offence, and, the proposers have nothing to lose years past and, although I have witness said he had never heard November 26th last, automatically possession of information that a
but everything to gain. However, been educated at least to the of the man. Witness said he was went back to the House of Deten- revolutionary coup of a decidedly it is well that occasionally
Labour leaders should be brought
the point of receiving certificates of
notice.
extremist nature was about to be down to earth, na in the case under Profiéiency in my profession, I engaged by the defendant and not tion. He was allowed to go out,
attempted at Canton. Events over the week-end have borne out 'thaf' forecast,, and it remains to be seen how far Soviet intrigue may be implicated.'
EXCHANGE RATES.
Paris
Of the actual coup itself little New York
Brussels need be said at this stage. Com- Geneva
Amsterdam petent observers do not consider
Milan that its success will go long "un Berlin challenged, and assert that the Stockholm
Copenhagen rule of the ultra-"Reds" will be Oslo short-lived. The less extremist Vienna Pragao faction are better equipped, and Helsingfors
Madrid should soon oust the upstart pea-
Lisbon sant-worker-soldier combination Athens
Rio
But not without considerablo tur- Bucharest moil, and harmful consequences Buenos Aires
the population and to trade and Bombay
Shanghal Communications. Progress is thua Hongkong at: a standstill, and the future is Yokohama
Silver (spot) dark. One has got into the habit Silver (forward) lof speaking of Communism in
.24.90
by blind woman.
like other destitutes, between noon Have never yet been able to grasp what Christian Science really is A police witness said the defen- and 4 pm, every day, but failed to dant was pointed out to him on return, and that was the last and how it works. I found the board another boat belonging to a witness had seen of him until his. same difficulty after reading Dr.blind woman. The first witness appearance in the Court this Tutt's lecture.
said the defendant was the master. morning. Lordon, Dec. 12. I can only presume that Dr. but this was denied. The defen-
....124 Tutt has by this time left Hong-dant accused the woman of pro-to
Defendant was again sentenced 4.88 7/16 kong, but I understand that some viding him with capital to import Major Willson,
one month's hard labour by sort of Publicity Committee is in the wine from Macao, but she 25.2 existence here. If so, will the denied this. He understood from who was discharged from the Jetha Singh, a police recruit 12.07%
Chairman of that Committee tell the words used that the woman Force, owing to his incapacity to 20.45 me what Dr. Tutt moans (referring was the principal in the trans-receive police training, was also 18.09 to progressive medicine) he says action and also owned the junk. charged before Major Willson, .18.20 that "......healing comes to the Sergt. Meadowa stated that the with being a destitute, on giving 18.34 human mind through the con- defendant did not implicate the himself up to the police yesterday. .34.6244aciousness of the practitioner or woman until he was taken to the Defendant was committed to the
164% the patient or both, and the effect Police Station. .10314
House of Detention. 20.27% is on the body for the human body Mr. Remedios pointed out that 2 7/10 expresses human thought?"
from the evidence of the prosecu- Would any Christian Science tion it would appear that "the 790 practitioner dare to say (even to woman was in fact the owner of .6 20/32 themselves) auch, by the bedside both the junk and wine, and the 477/8 of a patient auffering agonies from defendant posession would cease .1/6 1/16 cancer?
Or, would such thought as soon as the boat arrived in the on the part of the patient have Colony... 1/10 3/16y effect on the disease?Yours,
20 5/18 etc., .28 11/10
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Mr. Lindsell suggested that an additional charge of importing should be added and adjourned the case until Thursday at noon.
The final meeting of the Enter- tainment Committee of the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A. will be held to-morrow. It is understood that owing to the movements of troopa and the consequent rearrangemont of the work of the Naval and Mi tary Y.M.C.A., it has been decided to discontinue the activities of the Datertainment Committee,