TEA CLIPPER DAYS RECALLED.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN A. JENKYNS.
COMMANDED THERMOPYLAE FOR TWELVE YEARS.
THE LAST VOYAGE.
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LOCAL COMPANY'S RECORDS.
HONGKONG FIRE CO. REPORTS BIG BALANCE.
A GOLD RESERVE.
Presiding at the Afty-ninth an- nual general meeting of the Hong- kong Fire Insurance Company, Ltd.,
this morning, the Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard appealed to the share- holders to support the Company by means of their own business and by that of others that may be in a position to influence the Company. He reported a record ycor.
ary).
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928,
MOTOR TRAGEDY SEVERE STRAITS
ON PRAYA.
AMBROSE C.P.Q. HELD
BY POLICE.
PEDESTRIAN KILLED AND CAR DRIVEN INTO SEA.
SURPRISING ESCAPES.
▸
SENTENCE.
SEVEN YEARS FOR EIGHT DOLLAR ROBBERY,
נו
JUDGE'S COMMENT.
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SWATOW "RÉD” EXECUTED.
COMMUNIST EVIL 'NOT YET OVERCOME.
TWO CHAPELS BURNT.
A 19-year old Chinese youth
Swatow, Mar, 24. who was convicted of holding up another Chinese with a knife and lats were executed, the authorities Yesterday, three more Commun- robbing him of $8.4, was peus taking considerable precautions
tenced to seven years' rigorous
until the executions had been Imprisonment and ten stokes of the "cat" at the Singapore Assizes carried out.
For ten days or so there has
hension as to local Communist activity, for the railway line and water supply were again cut for twenty-four hours, and this, with other signs of activity among the
He's a Topping Little Chap full of fun, happy as a sand boy, and as mischievous as a “Waggon
load of Monkeys"
and all the more lovable be- "cause he's a real boy.
He kicks out his toes, barks his shins, and keeps the darning needle busy But his shoes, despite the strain of continual hard wear, last remarkably STARTRITE" of course, and that is perhaps the reason why he never feels tired,
well They are "* Ponsant Union bands between
here and Chaochowfu, coincided with the drive of the Hai Luk Fung Communists up the coast towards Swatow.
There seems to have been some
in
By the death in Yokohama, at the
In consequence of a fatal motor age of 74 years, of Captain Alexan
accident on Sunday morning, last week. der Jenkyns, another link with the
Chief Petty Officer W. G. Kolsie Mr. Justice Deane, the prcaid-been renewed some slight appre old tea-clipper days is severed, as
of the H.M.S. Ambrose is detained ing fudge, criticised the severity the deceased was for a period of
Supporting the Chairman were by the police with the possibility of the minimum sentence for this twelve years master of the famous Messrs. C. Bernard Brown, A. H. of a serious charge being pre-offence. "This anan has stolen Thermopylae, the craft which was Compton, L. Dunbar, A. S. Gubbay, ferred against him.
$8.40 and I cannot sentence him a contemporary of the equally. E. Pearce, H. P. White (Direc It is stated that Kelsie, who is to less than seven years," he said famous Cutty Sark. Captain Jen- kyns passed away on the 14th tors), and Mr. F. C. Hall (Secret-n unlicensed driver, was at the "Such sentences are absurd."
wheel of public ear No. 313 when Mr. Whitley-Your Lordship instant, thus aurviving Captain
Shareholders. présent were it ran into a man in Connaught does not think that robbery with Woodget, one-time commander of Messrs. J. H. Taggart, Ho Leung, Road Central near the Po Tak a weapon like that deserves a the Cutty Sark, by just one week.
The Into Captain Jenkyns, who L. Bridger, D. P. Steavenson, F. M.
J. P. Sherry, A. H. M. da Silva, R. Wharf.
large sentence? In an attempt to avoid the His Lordship-I am not in any was born at Aberdeen, spent his Ellis, J. H. Seth and W. E. L. Shen-accident, the ear was swerved way saying that it is not a serious hitch in the plan to round-up the carly seafaring life aboard sailington.
violently towards the Prayn wall offence, but, after all, there is al-Luk Fung forces, for precise- ships, but later become Marine
and continuing ita career toppled the fact that only $8.40 was stolen. 1y at the point where they con- Superintendent of the Adelaide
A Record Yenr.
over the edge.
Mr. Whitley:-With all due re- Steamship Co., in Australia. Later still, he came to the China Coast The Secretary having read the There were four persons in the spect, my Lord, I submit that verge on Chaoyang, near Swatow,
the Government troops are weak. as master, his Inst ship being the notice convening the meeting, cur but though three of them were $8.40 to a man in the position of
The result is that in the dia- ..s. Sal On, of the Tung On Com- The Chairman said:-Gentle thrown into the water
the complainant might mean they
trict from Chaoyang down the pany, and he retired some eighteen men-The report and account escaped without severe injury.much as a much larger sum to
coast to Kal-chi and beyond, and months age on pension, taking up having now been in your hands The man knocked down by the other people. his residence in Yokohama. The for some days, I propose, with ear died subsequently in the His Lordship: Here is a young inland to the district city of news of his death will be deeply de-your permission, to follow the cus- Government Civil Hospital, and it is boy of nineteen whom I must Hui-lal, the Communista are plored by all who knew him.
tomary procedure of taking them in view of this that the Police are sentence to seven years. I think considerable force. Starting us un apprentice in the as read."
taking a serious view of the affair.it is a great mistake. I have to They are again in power in the famous 'Samuel Plintsoll, and after- It is with great pleasure that It appears that on the receipt administer the law as it is, but porta of Kit-chi, and have suc- wards in command of that handy your General Manngers and Con-of a telephone message at a livery think a judge should be given ceeded in taking for a day or two little ship the Ethiopian, the late sulting Committee are able to pre-garage, at 4 o'clock on Saturday some direction in such a matter. the city of Hul-lal. The Govern Captain Jenkyns next raced the old sent to you such an excellent ac-afternoon, & car, No. 313, was held
I think if he got a year's impriment troops have expelled them, Thermopyloc to and from Australiu, count as that for the year 1926, in readiness to. pick up two bluement and a good flogging it but the city is insecurely held, and Laking command of her when he the balance of $742,214.12
would be much better.
appeals for help continue to come con-jackets, was not much over thirty years old:stitutes a record surpassing the
. Mr. Whitley:-With the utmost in. At 2 a.m. the car with the two respect, my Lord, I think as things They were great years for him,
Assistance is said to have come country is from Canton in the shape of a although they marked the end de previous best, that for 1929, by European occupants, the driver are nowadays, the which had to give way to steam bomium income was over $120,000 from Shektongisui (the restaur-from China and leading others the promise of more to eline of sailing ships--fine ships, approximately $100,000. The pre- and a fokl of the latter, proceeded flooded with people coming.down fow units of the 5th Army, with [astray, and I am rather inclined Those who have come have been higher than the previous recordant quarter at West Point) to and the loss ratio well below the certain address supposed to be in to think that severity is the better sent to Chaoyang. If this force average. Expenses, though a 1-Belchers Street, Kennedy Town.method. I admit that it does not is substantial, the original plän of Fine Last Voyage.
tle less than for 1926, have grown Here the sailors alighted and went seem to have the least deterrent trapping the Communists in the considerably during the past six to one of the houses, The effect. One of the finest performances of years; this, however, is only to be driver was not paid off: he was His Lordship: That is just it. Hul-lal, Chao-yang and the
angle of land between Kat-chi, the Thermopylae was her last voy expected in view of the fact that told to return at four o'clock to, ago under his command, before she
may still be carried out. passed into the hands of Canadian our nett premium has increased take the sailors back to Wanchai.
Meanwhile it seems a quite un- owners, who bought her for running For 1920 the ratio of expenses to by 50% over the same period.
necessary 'weakness to allow Hui- grain to Slam and rice on the re nett premium was 30.44% 48 Accordingly, the car made a
lad and other places previously turn voyage. At the request of the
taken back from the Communists new owners, Refords of Montreal, against 38.09% for the year under second trip to Kennedy Town, Paris
Brussels
to be retaken by them, and the Captain Jenkyns took her out to review.
later returning with the two blue-i The balance standing at credit jackets in the direction of the City. Berlin.
Amsterdam Singapore, in which port he handed"
misery of the countryside is great. her over, bidding farewell to a ship of the Working Account for 1927
At a point near the Po Tak Copenhagen
The Phon-leng Communists have 20.41% also renowed their activity, and he loved. She was lying in a $702,866,11; this also is a re- Wharf, a Chinese appeared on the Vienna Netherlands port at the time of her cord, being an improvement of roadway from the "directions Helsingfors salo, and first she went round to $32,078.43 on the figure for 1926, of the waterfront, and was Lisbon Cardiff. There the Barry dockers after the first twelve months' knocked down by the car. An at- Bucharest loaded coal into her, where orice working. It is early yet to hazard tempt, was made to avoid the Buenos Aires was fragrant tea from China or any opinion as to the ultimate re-collision, but after knocking down Shanghai fences from Australia.
sult of this account but, granted a the man, the car swerved and went moderate share of good fortune, we over the sea-wall. It dropped on
New York may reasonably anticipate another one of a number of sampana then
Geneva profitable "year.
lying tied up to the sen-wall, the Stockholm.
end of the car resting on the Oalo deck of the sampan while its rear Prague wheels remained resting on the Madrid Athens Rio Bombay Silver (spot) Hongkong Silver (forward)
cause of the insatiablo demands of
commerce,
Seven-Lakh Surplus.
Pedestrian Ran Down,
Once again she pointed her figure, head on the familiar route to China, She made Singapore in seventy- nine days. It was a brilliant per- formance at that time of her life with such a cargo. After passing Anjer she met very foul weather, The surplus now to be dealt with. but her skipper cracked on and she is $742,214.12 and we recommendedge of the Praya." flew through the Banka Straits in the payment of a dividend of very bad weather, and when nearing $43 per share, absorbing $344,000; } - Rthlo Struits struck a smashing the appropriation of £25,000= sumatra.
At Dead of Night. Undiemayed, Captain Jenkyns raced the gallant ship through the treacherous straits at dead of night.
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EXCHANGE RATES.
Yokohama
Milan
London, Mar. 25.
121
.35
.12.117
18.21/
come,
I
Bes
34.00 more villages have been burnt by 193 them, including, for, a second .2.1/10 time, that of Kho-leng.
778532
The Presbyterian Church hears
47.16/10 of two more chapels destroyed,
..2/69
1/11
that
that in Lok-hong city, a fairly large building, having been burnt 4.88 .26.34
before the troops entered, 92.32 in Kat-chi having been destroyed. .18.18 on the recent re-entry of the Com-
.18.28munists.
164.11/10 Swatow authorities have been. ..20.09 following the example of Canton 809 in closing down Labour Unions: .6.59/64
some thirty have been suppressed .1/6.91/32
.2/0% In the last few days. The more 36% powerful, however, remain.—Our ..26.3/18 Own Correspondent.
-British Wiraleza.
on the
He
TENSE SITUATION AT ΑΜΟΥ.
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Peculiar Feature. Three of the occupants of the $246,153.83 to the newly-formed car were catapulted into the Gold Reserve; $100,000 to Silver water, whence they were got out Reserve and the balance of with nothing worse than the im-) driver $52,060,2756,287 7. 5. to Rein-mersion. They were the
and the two sailors. They as and when the vehicle went over surance Fund.
You will notice from the report sumed that the fourth
man he was thrown on to the, sampan As he said, when narrating the that the sum of 250,000 has been (Chinese foki) who was with them, but made off while the rest of the story of the passage, "She had it transferred
was less fortunate and had been party were being rescued. from Reinsurance behind her and I daren't heave to Fund to initiate a gold reserve. drowned, but at nine o'clock appeared
I wouldn't This was considered advisable be- yesterday morning, when the car although he was injured about the scene again in such a narrow space.
cause our present day commit was being hauled back on to the legs and head,
by the Chinese." The Japanese menta in sterling are, large and roadway, it was discovered that The deceased Chinese was also stated that the decision of also because the Reinsurance Fund the fourth man was alive. This salesman connected with the He just drove her on, sure of his stood at a figure which was consi-man, had been seated with one of Kwong Wo Chung fruit stall in navigation and seamanship. He derably in excess of any probable the sailors in the rear of the car, Central Market. flashed past a steamer hove to, and demands that might be made upon In the morning the ship was riding it. comfortably at rest in Singapore Our reserves are in a healthy ronds.
condition and the correctness of The shipping world at Singapore our policy of steadily increasing could scarcely credit that she had them is shown by the fact that come through in such weather or we are now able to handle a con- that she had run out in seventy-nine siderably larger volume of busi- days, until the log-book was pro-ness than was previously the case. duced as evidence.
care to go through like that again, though there are more lights there now than in those days.'
our
During the past ten years, income, interest from investments and reserves have all increased by over one hundred per cent.
The Future,
With Cutty Sark. During the time he commanded the Thermopylae, Captain Jenkyns was in company with the Cutty Sark on three occasions. Those
I have little to say about the were the days when the Cutty Sark
future. was in the hands of her most suc-
Insurance like every cessful commander, Captain Wood- other branch of commerce has get, whom, unfortunately, Captain its ups and downs and com- Jenkyns has never met.
petition is very keen; in The Ethiopian is another ship of these days many propositions, which he loves to talk, culling her a which are attractive at first trim and handy craft. She way. Right, have 'to be turned down not a great flyer, but a fine little for the reason that rates are cut ship. You couldn't make a bad so fine that they cannot turn out passage in her," he said, "she was to be profitable. We are constant- so well behaved and comfortable; ly looking out for sources of ex- nothing upset her. She'd be about pansion that offer hope of reason- and braced up on the other tack in able profit, and while on this sub seven minutes," he proudly boasted, ject, I would again ask all shoro- "I timed her several times." Aholders to give the Company their striking characteristic of Captain full support, both by means of Jenkyan is his good nature. In their own business and by that apite of an early life of hard dla of others that they may be in a elpline, he is very human, and hav-[position to influence us, ing spent a rough time as an ap prentice himself, saw to it, when in increase that has taken place Owing to the very considerable command, that his apprentices had during the past few years in the a better one.
work of auditing the accounta of A War Incident.
the Company, it is proposed to raise the auditora fees from, $750.00 to During the days of the Great War $1,000 for each firm, and you will, when the German cruiser Emden hope, confirm this when the pro- was making the shipmasters in the posal, for the re-election Eastern scas uncomfortable, Cap-auditors comes before the meeting. tain Jenkyng was then in command You will, I trust, approve of the of the sa, Lacrtes, and one night usual bonus of 15 per cent,, on
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of
HAD
QUÂU, BY REA SEWAGE DIG F
"Lauga at everything he says, Julie; his tips are better than
his humour.
the arbitration must be unanimous
in the matter of indemnity.
Seamen's Threat.
In Chinese circles last week, it wan reported that as a result of the action of the Japanese another anti-Japanese boycott by Chinese looms in Shanghoi wag threatened. This, according to reports, may be coupled with another strike of the Chinese Seamen's Union. The union is reported to have held a general meeting to discuss the matter.
The Japanese Consul-General states that he has protested to Mr. Quo against the detention of the Atsuta Maru, and that 'the protest has been followed with a communication to Mr. Maze, Cus- toma Commissioner, announcing | that the Consulate may exercise its rights to clear the vessel with- out the authority of the Commis- sioner of Customs, unless that official gives the desired permis- sion,
Mr. Yada stated that he had not] set a time limit but declared that he was entirely within his rights in clearing the vessel, in the event he elects to do so.
RAIN THREATENED.
Covora
The Royal Observatory weather report states:-The depression has deepened and now Central and North-East Japan. The anticyclone has strengthened and is central over North China. Fresh monsoon may be expected along the South-East Coast, of China and over the North China Bea.
The local forecast till noon to sorrow is:-North-East winds, fresh; overcast, rain. ́
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