VILE CONCOCTION AS BRANDY.
FOUR MEN HEAVILY FINED FOR USING PRIVATE “STILL.”
THIEF TRACKED
DOWN.
CHINESE DETECTIVE'S PATIENCE REWARDED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
BRITISH AIR PLANS
FINE WEATHER FOR TOURISTS,
FOR 1928.
SUBSIDIES FOR AIR MAIL
SERVICE TO EAST.
THE LINER CALEDONIA ARRIVES IN HONGKONG.
SWATOW SAMPAN
TROUBLES.
TWO INCIDENTS INVOLVING FOREIGNERS.
about 20 years of age. He followed AUTOGYRO RESEARCH. liner, B.. Caledonia arrived in UNDUE TRUCULENCE.
In Queen's Road, yesterday, a Chinese detective became suspicious of the movements of a youth of j um about for hours and finally his patience was rewarded, for tho youth proved to be a sneak thief.
SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR. Concerned in the manufacture and sale of what, for want of betler name, can only be describ Giving evidence before Mr. R. E. ed as bootlegger's brandy of the Lindsell, this morning, when the worst type, four Chinens were youth was charged with the theft of charged, on remand, before Mr. eight packets of cigarettes from a R. E. Lindsell at the Central street stall in Queen's Road West, Magistracy this morning.
the detective stated that he first Conceive a liberal amount of accosted the youth in Queen's Road sugar and colouring matter, mixed Central. He followed him around with a "body" derived solely from for a long time, observing how he weakened spirits of wine, and a stopped at dillerent stalls at the little, if any, of genuine liquor to street corners, studying the possibi- give a flavour, and the remark-ties of "picking up something
smartly. able composition will have been
Eventually, the young man came visualised which the Court, digressing a moment from the to a cigarette stall which he to contemplate thought presented him with the cas, was nsked
After in deliberating the point whether opportunity he desired.
an hour; he even- it was dangerous to health, on Mr. Waiting for G. R. Sayer, the Superintendent of fually managed to "list" a card
board box which contained Imporis and Exports, declared it
eight packets of cigarettes: The stallholder, a Chinese woman, was completely oblivious of what had taken place, but, unfortunately for the thief, the detective was near at lund.
At the Magistracy the youth said Such as I was, the scized he picked up the cardboard box, be- "brandy" was exhibited in Court, eving it to be empty. His story stowed in 26 old bottles, some of however, carried no weight with his which retained the genuine Hen-Worship, who imposed a fine, of $10, or, alternatively, fourteen days nessey Three Star mark.
The Magistrate was understood to rule that it was not within his province to consider the question. Old Labels,
It was necessary, it was point- ed out, in order to compute the duties that might have been, col- lectable, to consider what such dulies would amount to if it had and
been genuine brandy, again if it had been spirits of wine..
Looking
the up
relevant sections of the Wine and Spirita Ordinance, his Wor ship endeavoured to discover where the Ordinance would cover
the case.
hard labour.
CANTON COUNCIL
MEETING.
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INCREASED CHARGES FOR WATER
Inter sting matters were dealt with at a meeting of the Canton Political Council which took place, on Tuesday. Commissioners pre- He queried if Mr. Sayer was re-sha L Chai-sum, Generals Wang sent at the meeting included Mar- garding it as "liquor, champagne Shao-hung and Chan Ming-shiu, or sparkling wine" or "intoxicat Mr. Lam Wan-kai, Mr. Chu Cha- ing liquor which was not sparkling wah and Admiral Chan Chat.. wine."
Mr. Sayer submitted it fell under such "spirituous liquor" as was mentioned in other sections, and the Court left it at that.
Mr. Lam Wan-kai, the Mayor, proposed. an increase of 2.5 per cent, on the charges for the water supply. The proposal was made on the ground that the Municipal Department had decided to im prove the water supply system, and to carry out Huch a scheme more funds would be needed.
London, Mar. 8.
With more than 400 passengers on board, the round-the-world Hongkong early this morning and. berthed alongside a wharf at Kow- lobu.
Sir Samuel Hoare in memoran: dum accompanying the air esti-
The tourists are fortunate in mates gives the present strength having arrived at a time when of the R. A. F. as equivalent to 65 they can enjoy a spell of fino squadrons, to which four new weather, following several days of squadrons will bo
added in rain.
1928. Developments will be Full advantage will be taken by principally overseas. Two new trips round the island and the squadrons
will ge to India, New Territories. In addition the making the total there eight trips to Canton and Macao have The cost will fall on the Indian been arranged. For this latter exchequer,
purpose it la understood that Provision is made for two new the Steamboat Company will be de afternoon sailings from Canton' of fights of flying boats, which have layed two hours both to-day and great potentialities in protecting to-morrow, specially for the bene- Imperial communications.
Onefit of the tourists. flight will be stationed overseas.
Local arrangements are being A parachute is now supplied carried out by the Hongkong Hotel with every aircraft capable of Tourist Bureau. carrying. it. The percentage The liner will leave Hongkong carrying parachutes will be 80 per far the north at three o'clock on cent. in 1928. The remainder are Sunday afternoon. mostly seagoing aircraft, and the
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Swatow, Mar, G. Although the life of foreigners in the port is in every way better than it was in boycott days, there remain elements
(among some classes which are unpleasant to deal with.
· There is a section among the sampan men who ply between Swatow and the Kakchich aide of the harbour which is quite un- restrained in its demands, and the ways of enforcing them. Two in-
notice. stances have recently come to my
crossed the harbour and paid off In one case, two foreign ladies
their sumpan with no dimeulty after a hard crossing. On the re- turn, with favourable wind and tide, they offered the same amount, and, on this not being accopted, gave more.
The sampan man, however, followed them on to the wharf, caught one of the ladies
ment of double fare, nor could
they get away without paying it.
present form of attachment invol-ganised the tour, specially char-by the arm and insisted on pay. The Clark Company, which or ves a risk of drowning. The diltered the Caledonia from the culty is expected shortly to be Cunard and Anchor fo solved.
Recently, two foreign men en- is of 17,000 tons net register sidies for civil aviation is intend-oil burners.
The increase of £19,000 in sub- and is one of the most up-to-date
countered 4 similar situation. After proffering fair" payment, ed for further development in 1928 of existing air services, with the for the tourist traffic, being cap- found the sampan refusing to moor The vessel is eminently suitable adding to it if necessary, they with, however, the intention of ultimate object of establishing an able of sustained speed, embodying to the wharf til more had been Imperial air mail route to India all safety principles, and being paid. They dealt with that by extremely steady. She is fitted mouring themselves, whereupon The Memorandum also states with the most modern Improve-they were followed and threatened that research upon
auto-gyro ments, all making for the comfort with violence, a crowd collecting. aeroplanes were still being con- of the passengers and the enjoy tinued and an experimental, ma-able nature of the trip, chine had been made which had It is interesting to note that the completed a cross-country flight Clark Company first organised a of 20 miles. This was the longest world tour in 1896 since when they distance flown up to date by a have attained great popularity. machine of the rotating wing type. --Reuter..
and the East.-Reuter.
FOOTBALL FORECAST
COMPETITION.
FOUR ENTRANTS WITH
ELEVEN RIGHT.,
Owing to the great interest taken in the semi-finals of both the English and Scottish Cup competi tiens, there was a record entry. for our Football Competition last week.
number of claims made, this being
There have also been a record
extra
The sampan man attempted to provoke a conflict such as could have been used against the for- cigners, and weat so far as to seize the hat of one man and throw it into the gutter. Eventually he The itinerary includes the usual was drawn off by the crowd, still stopping places for such vessels nominally refusing the
and Egypt. Other places of callness. such as the Panaria Canal, Japan, twenty cents which the foreigners Hongkong, Shanghai, Jaya, India, thrust on him to settle the busi-
being made this trip are at Jern-
The sampunk used to be under salem, Athens, and the volcano of the Harbour-Master, but are now. Kilauea,
I understand, under the police, Whoever is responsible for their conduct, something should be done to stabilise tariffs and to see that they are effective, and, in any case, to make impossible such scenes, which carry in themselves the seeds of violence and riot whose outcome it would be difficult to foretell-Our Own Correspondent.
TWO CONFLICTING MESSAGES.
WILAMPOA CADETS IN A QUANDARY,
Tho cadets of the Whampoa
Profits of Concern. Senior Revenue Officer George Wait told the Court of a visit he made on Wednesday to No. 391 The Counell complied with the Queen's Road West, where he suggestion of the Mayor, adding found the accused, and seized that the increase of 2.5 per cent. number of articles which were, in bu allowed to last for a year, addition to the bottles of faked
At the same meeting, the question on account of so many of the Cadet College, Canton, who board- brandy, a quantity of capsules, again came up regarding the former matches given on the coupon re-ed a steamer bound for Nanking, labels, corks and other things decision of the Connell to confiscate sulling according to form,
have not left, the vessel lying at incidental to such a business as the Canton properties of the Kuo- Five competitors sent in claims anchor at Ninfarshan, near Can- that on which the accused were mintang "Leftists", leaders.
in respect of eleven correct fore-ton. engaged,
The former decision was to order casts, but on a check being made Ho also produced several le confiscution of all Canton pro- only four of them were found to account books showing that the perties of the "Ironside" lenders, have coupons with this number. business was divided into sixut at Tuesday's meeting it was de- These four therefore share the shares, and had netted a profit cided that only the properties of prize of $26.Their names are: during one stated period, of $73 such "Ironside" leaders who had odů.
embezzled funds of the Government Ldg. Sen, W. Hayward, be seized.
HM.S. Tamar.
Used Government duty Inbela and 'unused Macao. tobacco labels were also seized, which Mr. Sayer submitted were employed to "throw dust into his Department's eyes."
List of Shareholders,
All the accused were found
guilty, after they had admitted they were on the list of share holderя.
The first man, who rented the cubicle in which the faked brandy was seized, was fined an aggregate of $1,200 or eight months hard labour, on all four charges.
The other were fined $200 each or six weeks.
There being charge against the second man of being in possession of a quantity of Illicit opium, he was also fined a further $7, or seven days.
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additional
small
CHINA EXHIBITION.
PREPARATIONS WELL IN
HAND.
The various sub-committees sp. pointed in connexion with the China Exhibition, to be held in St. Andrew's Church grounds, Kow- loon, from the 28th to the 30th instant, are now busily engaged making preparations for what promises to be a most attractive event.
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There will be some, really re- maritable exhibits, including a grain of rice with over thirty characters inscribed on it, and two small pieces of ivory with 300 and 400 characters respectively.
All manner of handicraft will be seen at the exhibition, including the carving of ivory balls.
More than 65 per cent of the passengers who cross the Atlantic
DOLLAR LINE PLANS.
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4, Railway Terrace,
Hunghom:
J. M. Luz,
4, Snifee Terrace,
Kowloon,
Pte. F. Mitchell,
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K.O.S. Borderers.
NEW BOATS FOR FAR EAST.
San Pedro, Mar. 3. Mr. A. F. Haines, vice-president, of the American Mail Line, an nounced that the steamers Mar-
If these will kindly call at our garet Dollar, Jr.; Stuart Dollar, Diana Dollar and Stanley Dollir, office, we shall be pleased to hand each of 10,000 gross tons, would them their shares of the prize
be withdrawn from the Dollar | money, Eine Inter-constul fleet and enter-
will competitors please send in
at on the Seattle-North and South all their attempts in one envelope? China-Philippine trade American Mail line.
of
the This would greatly assist.
These vessels will replace the
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ARMED ROBBERS SCARED.
FRIGHTENED WHEN WOMAN
GAVE ALARM.
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The delay is explained by a telegram from Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to the effect that the Seven robbers, some of whom Nanking Government is at present others with daggers, succeeded in were armed with revolvers and in great financial stress and sug- gaining entry to No. 6, Clarence gesting the inadvisability of the Street, occupied by a battle dealer, trip to the North at too early last night. They managed to over- a date. The telegram adds that power the dealer and his foki but lack of funds will compel the post-were frightened away when the ponement of the new Cadet College dealer's wife gave the alarm by in Nanking.
shouting at the top of her voice that Curiously enough, Marshal, Lishe was being attacked, Chai-sum has, it in stated,
According to a report made later since received a telegram to the police by the bottle dealer, he from Nanking from Mr. Liu was working in his shop when his Kwang, the director of the new assistant called him into the yard Cadet College, who said the institu- saying that there were men desir- tion would soon be open, despite fin-ous of making a purchase. When ancial difficulty. The students are the dealer entered the yard, he saw now in a quandary,
seven men, one of whom instantly produced a dagger. They bound up- The dealer and his foki, who noticed that one of the men had a revolver. The action of the robbers were
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Shipping Board vessels formerly MARINE COURT CASES. TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. operated by the American Mail but which were purchased recently by
Tacoma interests, Mr. Haines de- USING GRAPPLINGS IN NAVY ledge paper has been taken from
clared that the Puget Sound-Før Enst service would be continued, following the request of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce that the American Mail line maintain its vessels for this Oriental trade.
RAMPARTS COLLAPSE.
MANY KILLED AND INJURED
· IN MOROCCAN TOWN.
Paris, Feb. 3.
ANCHORAGE.
At the Marine Court this morn ing, before Commdr. J. B. Newill, D.S.O., R.N., Li Yee, mistress of a Ashing boat, was charged with using grapplings to lift objects from the harbour-bed, without the
written permission of the Harbour Master.
The accused pleaded guilty, but stated that she had been asked by the mistress of a washwoman sam- pan to endeavour to recover cloth- Eleven dead bodies have so faring which sank when hor boat was been recovered from beneath the overturned close to the aircraft ruins of the wall surrounding carrier Argus. The clothes be- Meknes, the Moroccan town thirty lenged to members of the crew of miles west of Fez, which collapsed the Argus.
His Worship, inflicting a yesterday morning. No warning of the disaster was given when of 86. with the usual alternative, hundred yards of the old ramparts pointed out that the wes of (dating from the time of Muley grapplings.could not be allowed in Ismail) 30ft. high and 3ft. thick, the Naval Anchorage without per suddenly fell near the Bab el Kahri. mission having first been given. Eight houses, inhabited both by Europeans and natives, were crusli-
ed benenth masses of masonry and
their occupants trapped.
Other Cases,
fine
Chan Tean and Leung Ngau
In addition to the 11 killed, eight were charged with making fast
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