TELEPHONE BOX MONEY.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TY EXTRACT.
HOTEL COOLIE CHARGED.
Nu
Chinese Giving evidence, a telephone inspector said that at 3.45 p.m. he visited the box in the Hotel corridor and saw defendant) extract a Hongkong ten-cent plece from the box. This was done with the help of a wire three inches long, which was, in fact, a paper clip straightened out.
YAUMATI SCHOOL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION.
IMPROVEMENT IN WORK OF STUDENTS.
THIS MORNING'S, CEREMONY.
by Mrs. G. P. de Martin, the wife the former headmaster of of the school.
Annual Report.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927.
ORGY OF LOOTING. WINE AND TOBACCO
MISSION HOSPITAL:
"RANSACKED.
SEIZED.
BROUGHT-FROM MACAO TO.
'ABERDEEN.
HEAVY FINES IMPOSED.
HAYLEY MORRISS IN DIVORCE COURT.
WIFE CREATES DIVERSION -THEN FAINTS.
FOREIGNERS IN PERIL.
HUSBAND GETS DECREE.
Tsinan, Dec. 17,
'In the Divorce Court, London, A seizure of 60 jars (200 gallons)
President (Lord Letters out of Honan, written A great improvement in the A Chinese, named Li Tak, an
before them the petition for employee of the Hongkong Hotel, work of the students was report- Just over one month ago, during dutiablo, Chinese wine, and 77 lbs. recently, the was charged before Major C. Willed by the headmaster of the Yau- the days when armies were ad- of Chinese tobacco, of the ap Merrivale) and a special jury had of Pippingford the on board fishing junk No: 5018 by counter-attacking in son, this morning, with attempt- mati School at the annual distri-vancing and retreating, attacking proximate value of $293, was made divorce of Hayley Eustace Mor- Park. now In Winchester Jail. ing to extrnet money from abution of prizes this morning. and telephone box in the Hongkong The curemony of presenting the eastern part of the province, have Chief Preventive Officer S. J. riss, formerly
awards to the boys was' performed just been received.. They show Clarke at Aberdeen, Harbour laste sought a decree nis! dissolv- Hotel corridor.
that the whole series has proved a evening. As a result, Lo Shui-poing his marriage with his wife, Thurston Ward. meat, distressing epic for the mis was charged bofore Mr. R. B. Eliza Phyllis erable people of the districts Lindsell, at the Central Magistracy The co-respondent was Mr. Dud-
so long by bandit this morning, with being in posley Woods, Park Lane, London. ravaged for armies and now by the regular session of the wine, and with im Evidenco was given in support armies in their wars. The follow- Prior to asking Mrs. de Martin portion of a letter written porting and having in his posses- of the charge that Mrs. Morriss
sion the tobacco.
and Mr Woods frequently com C. P. O. Clarke said in evidence mitted adultery at the Crow's to give away the many prizes, Mr. fram. Kacitch tells its own story:
"On the 3rd of this month (the A. a. Brawn, the head master, said Mrs. de Martin,-Before we letter was written on November 15) that he received certain informa- Nest. Pippingford Park, on dates The defendant is said to have proceed, I wish to welcome you the Kuominchun again attacked tion at 6.30 yesterday afternoon between October 1925 and March pushed the coin back into, the box here to-day. We are especially, Kuoiteh. Men of Chang Ching-as a result of which he went to 1927. The particular charge re- when he was observed, and then pleased to have you take the leadi yao's Second Army, in their re- Aberdeen harbour, where at about ferred to the night of March 29. Mr. Tyndale, representing the is alleged to have explained tong part in this function, firstly be-treat from the Kueltuli station on seven o'clock, he sighted the boat 1927. the inspector that the telephone cause what is now the top class of the city occupied the hospital of proceeding from west to east was choked and that he was at the school was the bottom class the Canadian Church Mission,close to Aplichau, On boarding co-raspondent, indicated that he The only contested issue was that templing to clear it. The inspec during the last year of your hus- situated just north of the city, the boat, he found the defendant. would not put Mr. Woods into the of damages which Mr. Morriss tor then took the defendant to the band's rule here and secondly te-and defended it against the ad- Witness discovered the wine and witness-box to deny the charge. management of the Hotel with a cause you are a resident of Taipo vancing Kuominchun...
claimed against Mr. Woods. view to asking them to warn him from where a large number of our against repeating the act. The boys come. Last year the management, however, told the prefect of the schoot was a Taipo inspector to do what he liked with boy and we think it very gracious the defendant. The Telephone of you to come such a distance and Company was then communicated present the prizes. with and the defendant was taken into custody.
head
Hospital Looted,
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tobacco under the deck boards,
Witness questioned the defen- "In the early morning of Novem-dant, who said that the goods came ber 5, the Kuominchun ousted the from Macao and belonged to his The defendant, Ankaochun from the hospital, and, master. Lai Kwong-fa, who was before proceeding with their pur-in longkong. suit of their fees, and the attack on however, either would not or could Now, for the report, which will the city, they halted to most tho- not find his master. He stated be very brief, because this year roughly loot the hospital of every that he had navigated the boat has been a very unfortunate one thing of value, both in the hospital from Macao with the help of one "Caught in the Act,”
for Yaumati School. I shall de- itself, from the residences of the other coolie who had gone ashore, In reply to his Worship, witness Mr. A. M. Braude, maintenance vote more time to the staff than to foreign doctors now absent from engineer of the Telephone Com-examinations because in my opin- the scenes of their ordinary lasaid the only two places to which pany, giving evidence, said he in we are apt to attach too much bours, and from the Chinese staff, wine could be openly brought were received message yesterday importance to examinations and as well as from the very employees. Tai O and Victoria Harbour.
too little to the work of the staff, of the institution. Not even the afternoon to the effect that a Chinese was caught in the act of After all it is the staff whichpoorest escaped the rapacity of stealing coins at the No. 1 box of makes or mars a school and it is these vandals, who presumably, the Hongkong Hotel curridor, in the staff which influences the the lounge. The defendant was future careers and characters of brought to the Telephone Com the boys. Yet we are apt to leave handed the staff in the back ground, the pany's office and later over to the pollee. Mr. Braude head master being the only person
to came in the lime light. added that lately there had been a great deal of trouble over the same telephone.
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Major Willson-You think it
were
The defendant repeated, his story and added that he was instructed to go back to Macao after. delivering the goods.
Mr. Lindsell remarked that it was perfectly clear that the de- fendant was smuggling the goods into the Colony on behalf of his master.
The defendant replied that he had never been to Hongkong be
likely that the box was stoppe Hon Kau-foon left us and became to them in their wounds and pain fore and did not know the local
up?
Witness: emptied the box and two foreign coins that would not pass through the pusango were extracted. These coins could be 'casily extracted.
here
carrying out retaliatory measures against the hospital for holding them up for such a time, The very best of all the drugs, and the valuable instruments of the hospital were carried off by the medical unit of the Kuominchun. The Yaumati School has been The irony of this treatment of the very fortunate this year in ouly. mission hospital lies in the fact having one change in the staff that it had housed the soldiers of At the beginning of the year Mr. the Kuominchun, and ministered the handmaster of the Cheung all through the summer and early Chau School. We are sorry to lose autumn, and the residences had him because he was a very earnest been asylums of rest for the tuncher and took an active inter officers in charge of the earlier est in the school sports, but we operations in that district. Such, are very glad to have re-join us, is the fickleness of the god of war. "On the evening of November 5, Mr. Lam Pak-to who was
Tu Tuan-chang's men, who had de- same years ago. Mr. Lath gained a ripe experience in all termined to hold the city against matters pertaining to school life, the Kuemischun, yielded it to their Mrs. Humphrey and Mrs. Murphy enemies without a struggle. On have again done excellent work, the 18th of the month, the Kuo Continuing, witness said that Every year I hand to them minehun again hurriedly retreated on the "raw material" and they from this area, but left a strong He found a Hongkong coin
contingent to defend the city. For top of the two foreign coins, which accomplish wonders with it. Methe past two days, the thunder of meant that the telephone was out Ho Yau-tak, the second master has the heavy guns of the Ankouchun, of order when the subscriber again shown capacities as an or- which now wholly surrounds the using the Hongkong coin attempt-ganiser and has considerably re-city, shakes the earth and awakena ed to use it. The inspector pro-lieved my burden. Mr. Pan Sik-heaven's echoes. Day and night ceeded to the Hotel in consequence lin, had at the beginning of the the bombardment continues, and of the fact that à previous call year, a very backward class but at even as I write the bullets and. disclosed that the passage was the end of the year it was wonder other projectiles are falling in our fully improved. Mr. Chlu Him's class had the best results but he had the advantage of an excellent class to start with. Mr. Sung
Major Willson-So that the coins actually blocked the, pas- ange?
Witness: Yes, because they allowed no further coins to go
down.
choked.
A Good Turn?
Major Willson: For all you know, defendant might be trying to clear the phone? He might be trying to do a good turn by clear ing it?
has
compound, out here in the suburb.
Terrible Distress.
"The sufferings of the people considered without
on-wing has been an excellent sports master. Mr. Hin King-him cannot be
law.
He belonged to Macao. The owner of the boat, he said, was La Kwong-fa,"
C.P. O. Clarke said the boat had a Stanley licence which bore the name Lai Wa-chor.
Remarking that the defendant was obviously not the principal, e of Mr. Lindsell imposed a $500, or three months, on th. first charge and $200, or six weeks, on the second. He also made an or der for the confiscation of the boat.
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"RESURRECTION.”
A POWERFUL FILM. A powerful, grimly impressive film at present occupies the whole programine at the Queen's Theatre. This is "Resurrection," a remark ably fine picturisation of Tolstoi's novel. Set in Russin, it is the tale of the broken romance of a Prince and a peasant girl, and its appeal ful photographic effects and the lies in the fine acting, the wonder- fact that the story does not have the conventional happy ending but adheres to the author's conception in this regard.
Mr. Herbert Wolfe, for Mrs. Morriss, said he would not put the charges. her into the witness-box to deny
Morriss had just finished his evidence and stepped down from the witness-box, when Mrs. Har ley Morriss rose from her sent at the back of the Court. Raising her hand in the air, she exclaim- ed, "May I speak but before collapsed to the ground in she could go any further she faint
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Lord Merrivale, addressing the usher, said, "Usher, have that lady removed." She was carried, in a limp and fainting condition, into the corridor.
Case not Free From Difficulties,
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His Lordship, in summing up, said the case was not free from
dimculties, and deserved the care- ful attention of the jury: The A man who is undergoing petitioner, as you know, he said, term of imprisonment of very extreme severity as punishment in relation to young women.
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During his imprisonmért, his house wife has received in his the co-respondent and has given. herself to the co-respondent and on proof committed misconduct which is of the clearest kind, and so the petitioner has complaint, and in due course is entitled to ask that this marriage of his shall be dissolved.
cause of
But he is also entitled to come
to you and say that co-respondent ought to be made to pay money in respect of this wrong he has committed, and he suggests that co-respondent ought to pay a sub- stantial sum of money.
ac-
one of the
His Lordship said that damages which might be assessed on count of misconduct varied as widely as damages could. There might be domestic relations bro- ken up which destroyed the hap piness and the possibilities of the lives of both, or
On the other hand, there might has looked after the library and omotion, and cannot be described
parties, and the jury might have Mr. Tang, Chiu-kai has in his unas. without tears. All animals, fuel,
assessed very heavy damages.
by the soldiery.
be a case where the maritial re- Witness:No-one must touchsuming way done a lot of good provender, food and clothing have our telephones. They are main-work. The three vernacular mas-been taken tained by the Telephone Company,ters, Mesars. Ng Kau-foon, Ng Kueitch now has been invested for
lationship was such that nobody Wong-to and Man Cheung-ki have the third time within one month,
would think of assessing real Each time shells of the very
damages. The counsel for the co-respondent, proceeded Lord His Worship: I understand. also done well.
largest calibre have been used,
Merrivale, said that the jury that, but defendant might have
The average attendance of the and each time many homes have The leads are taken by Dolores should award only one farthing been genuinely clearing the tele-
school for the past year was 217,been wrecked, and many people Del Rio and Red la Rocque, who damages in that case. His Lord- phone?
Before this present seige, could scarely be bettered in the ship pointed out to the jury that one more than the previous year. killed. The health of the staff and the both within and without the city roles. The former is especially im- where damages were assessed, it boys was very good. There were the sights were unendurable. Now pressive. She interprets the part, was not at all uncommon for the His WorshipThat does not some cases of fever among the we dare not stir far from the un-with all its varying emotions, as a Court to order that the damages Shatin boys. In the autumn there derground refuges for fear of the really great artist and brings out should be applied in other ways concern this cuse.
The fighting all the pathos of the story. waa a slight epidemic of influenza. failing projectiles,
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Witness: We have lost a good deal of money recently by sub- scribers using bad money.
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Defendant's Story.
The defendant then stated that
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His Worship adjourned the case until to-morrow morning so that, evidence regarding the defendant's character could be taken.
impoverished by the depredations
"Resurrection" can be classed
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throughout, it should please those HOW MUCH DO YOU
who prefer realism to "mush," The special 'musical score provided by the orchestra under Mr. Grovini materially helps in creating the right atmosphere.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- the Daily Express. ledge paper has been taken from
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14. of this issue.
1 Who was the first English mon-
arch to introduce the crown piece,! which has now been revivedt
The medical officer" of schools is of the most intense kind. Our visited the school in March, Sep- own lives are in the very greatest
as I write, but, amongst the really big films, and al- he was a colis in the Hotel and tombor and November. Few cases jeopardy, even
man of defective vision were dealt with, even if life is left to us, we are all though rather tragic, in theme yesterday he observed
again very
of the Kuominchun. coming out of the telephone box Dr. Li Yung-yau after a fruitless attempt to call efficiently treated all minor acci-
"Since the beginning of the up. When the man saw defendant, dents and ailments.
Football and volleyball were Aghting, our letters have not been he explained to defendant how
free to go, and telegrams may not popular, Muny friendly the telephone could be cleared by very a bit of wire. Defendant found matches of football and volleyball be sent. We are shut off from the a paper clip and "straightened it have been played with other outside world, for we are as much
in the city. No one can anti-city, more than 300 chien of homes out and handed it over, to the schools and clubs of the neigh-in prison as though we were with- man who had been disappointed. bourhood, with varying results. He failed to clear the passage and Swimming was indulged in at Lai- cipate when this carnage will end. were destroyed, and fully more defendant then made an attempt. chikok instead of Stonecutters. We try to take two meals a day in than 800 were killed, with as many
more suitable and the cellars; but we cannot swallow more wounded.
the food. Our misery cannot be,
"A letter received some weeks ago While he was working at it, the Lalchikok is
very safe for beginners.
set forth." inspector arrived."
from the south-eastern portion of The annual Athletic Sports were'
This letter was started, and end-the province said that there would held in King's Park in December.
here were several walking picnics ed here, on November 16, but It be the very severest distress, all on the mainland and one over the was not sent out till the 21st, and through that part, before the win- Peak to Aberdeen. All the school a postscript was added, as folter was over, as the whole country was stripped of all-supplies, and except, Class 4 went to the Agri-lows:-
"The fighting ceased from yes that without any remuneration cultural Show The sports ground. In response to the request of the In King's Park has had extremely terday morning, and to-day the that would make possible, the pur gates are open. During the full chase of other supplies, when the Chinese community for the exten-hard went. sion of the two-hours-n-day water) Visitors commented favourably week's slege, more than one hun- troops were recalled from the supply limit; the two Chinese re-on the tone of the school. I sel- dred great shells foll on the city. country. The state of Southern thousand people Shantung at the present time per presentatives on the Legislative dom had resource to harsh men- More than one
have been killed."
haps will give some idea of what Council, Dr. R.. H. Kotewall and sures or even harsh words.
may be going on in Honan. It is Sir. Shou-gon Chow Interylowed. The library is well patronised
800 People Killed.
presumed, from the quick sum- Mr. R. A. C. North, the Secretariat especially by the studiously in-
From another correspondent far mary of reports from some: 60 for Chinese Affairs, on Wednesday. clined boys. It is under the con- They were informed by the Secretrol of the prefects and is supplied ther down along the border, be countries in Shantung, and South tariat that the restriction of the with papers and periodicals by tween. Kiangsu and Homan, it is Chibli, that close on four million 20 What are the tridications and
learned that the whole country has of the peasant class perhaps will water supply was demanded by Messrs. Everett and Son, London,
were been denuded of the things the die of starvation if relief is not the limited quantity of water The school premises stored up at present, and that thoroughly renovated by the peasantry needed for the winter, soon forthcoming. In this city of 11 should the two houra limit be ex- P.W.D. during the Summer and that death stares hosts of Tsinan, there are not less than tended, in March and April the Vacation. The playground needs them in the face. This letter 20,000 refugees now receiving te
made reference of Kueitch as fol- meagre grants from charity, aupply for the Colony might drop resurfacing.
lows In the recent siege of the N. C. Daily News. to a serious danger point,
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4.
2 What famous historical 'relic has Just been sold to a brewery! 3. Where is there a car memorial |
in the shape of a football?
4. What great general used 1200.
bottles Par day of eau de Co 6 le it possible t
to make artificat rubbers Louiso de Bettignies?
Who was
7 What new marvel has been un
earthed in Yucatani
What
i a schnauzer?
Which is the most overcrowded borough in London?
significances of those "Allanie depressions" of which we hour. 80 often in the weather reportal elore all windows during a thunderstorm? Why is it advisable
pio Games revived, and by whose When and where were the Olym
fortat
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