SHANGHAI VIEWS ON "FEMINA.”
BATHERS' UGLY KNEES ARE MENTIONED.
NEWSPAPER POINTS.
THE
RODE POLICEMAN'S MOTOR CYCLE.
SUMMONED FOR DRIVING WITHOUT LICENCE,
Included in the usual Hist, of traffic cases heard by Major C.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1928.
NEW GOVERNOR OF JAPANESE ABDUCTED LATEST BETTING ON
BOMBAY.
AT WANHSIEN.
SIR LESLIE WILSON LEAVES CLERK SHOT THROUGH THE
IN DECEMBER.
ABDOMEN.
Shanghai, May 20. According to a telegram reach- Wanhsten, Szechuan, tho branch office of the Mitsubishi Koshi at Wanhsien was
Willson at the Contral Magistracy WIRELESS SUCCESSOR.ing Shanghai from this morning was one in which a Chinese was summoned for riding
some
Lo
London, June 4.
DERBY.
SUNNY TRACE NOW SECOND FAVOURITE.
FAIRWAY WEAKENS.
* London, June 4. The Shanghai newspapers have
a motor cycle belonging to Sergt. Sir Frederick Sykes, M.P. for raided by scores of Chinese bandits To Derby "favourite Fairway been taking note of the "Femina" Whelan without proper driver's Hallam, has been appointed Gov-at 6 p.m. yesterday, and Mr. Fukuzo was not quite so strong in the controversy, the N. C. D. News licence. The defendant was ab-ernor of Bombay, and to take up Yasutomi, Japanese clerk, was shot betting to-day, eleven to four stating that the correspondence in sent and the enao was adjourned his appointment in December, in through the abdomen. He is in a being taken. Sunny Trace, Lord the Hongkong papers show that for a week..
succession to the Rt. Hon. Sir critical condition? Mr. Okano, a Dewar's nominee, has displaced the whole Colony is up in arms." It adds: There
Sergt. Whelan explained that he Leslie Orme Wilson, who has been shop, assistant of the Nakaki Flamingo as second favourite. Beems to have
Governor since 1923.—Reuter, tailor's shop at Hankow, who hap
The latest figures are as follows: heen nothing like such a furore had instructed the defendant to
adjustments
Major-General Sir Frederick pened to be in the office, was carried
5/2 Fairway offered. (11/4 for yours: in fact this question of make shorts has roused the community the carburettor of the machine, Sykes, G.B.E., K.C.B., C.M.G., who away by the bandits. The loss la.
6/1 Sunny Traco (t, and o.) to greater depths than did even which was required for urgent married a daughter of the late Mr. estimated at $45,000, adds the tele- taken).
100/15 Flamingo (t. and o.) ( "Lapdogs" and "Bobbed Haired duty. The adjustments completed, Bonar Law, is extremely well-ram-Tohe.
100/7 Ranjit Bingh (0) 100/6 Atrocilits" move Shanghai a few Sergt. Whelan was going out with known in the wireless world, and
Laken. years ago. It is impossible for us the defendant for testing pure a director of Marconi's as well even to summarize this spate of poses but he was called back to correspondence, but the attack on the station by an urgent telephone shorts has obviously been taken message and the defendant took with a desperate seriousness, only the machine out by himself. a few suggesting that it is a leg- pull.
The Feminine Mind.
Excessive Speed.
FINALE.
of several Tramway concerns. An MARATHON RUNNERS active politician, he has been chairman of many Government committees, including the Broad- casting Committees. He acted as GRANVILLE TAKES ANOTHER Chief of the British Air Section
PRIZE. to the Paris Peace Conference, and
Civil Aviation from 1919 to 1922.
was Controller-General of)
4.5
New York, June 4.
100/G Gang Warily (6.) 18/1
takon.
18/1 Bubbles II. (t. and o.) 18/1 Royal Ministrel (t. and o.) 28/1 Camelford (t. and o.) .33/1 Palais Royal IL (t. and o.) 33/1 Black Watch (o.) 40/1 (t)
3/1 Fernkloof (0.)
33/1 Luvaneran 6.)
40/1 Felstead (0.) 50/1 Porthole. (a.) 60/1 O'Carry, (o.) 66/1 taken. 100/1 Others.
at nine
London, June 4, Heirloom was scratched o'clock to-day-Reuter,
A fine of $15 was imposed on 'a Chinese for driving a motor cycle After
of along Upper Albert Road at about pari quoting
The retiring Governor, Sir Leslie The team race organised by Mr. "Femina's" letter, the Rame
35 m.p.h. at three o'clock on the Wilson, G.C.LE, P.C., C.M.G., C. C. Pyle at the conclusion of the
1.S.O., entered Parliament journal says:Really, we must afternoon of May. 28.
recent trans-continental 2,400 mile conclude that our legs are being
Sub-Inspector C., F. Alexander Member for Reading in 1915, and contest, has been won by the pulled as well as criticized. What told the magistrate that he was rose meteoriendly. After serving Candan, Philip Granville, and the.
Earlier in the day 100/15 was) about mixed bathing when the travelling along Upper Albert through the Gallipoli operations,|
Californian, Von Five.
The team race was begun im taken against Sunny Trace, 100/0 self-same ugly knees must obtrude Road when the defendant passed he went to France and was severe medintely after the distribution of taken against Gang Warily, while themselves to the gaze of all and him, going towards the entrance toy wounded in November, 1916, and the prize-money in the Los Angeles 20/1 was taken against Bubbles sundry, and when the ladies' cos-Government House, Sub-Inspec- became Assistant Secretary to the New York Marathon, and
at-Reuter. tumes have got no arms to them tor Alexander turned and chased War Cabinet in 1918. "Chairman (tracted 40 competitors. The race at all! But if it is serious, and the defendant eventually stopping the National Maritime Board was one of 26 hours, duration, the objection is'not against shorts him near the P.W.D. offices when in 1919, he was appointed Par- Granville, who was one of the ne kuch but merely the time and he said, on being informert that he liamentary Secretary to the winning team, took third prize in place of their wearing, we cannot would be summoned. "I am sorry Ministry of Shipping in the same the main event-Router's “Ameri- see that a tram car is a place for Mr. Alexander,"
year, later becoming Parliamentary een Service, ·· their prohibition. Yet one never
Secretary to the Treasury and "knows how the feminine or official
Chief Unlouist Whip in 1921. He mind works when considering such
hold the appointment until created subjects. It is a fact that at one
Governor of Bombay. His work period of the war soldiers situated
for in Bombay has been highly praised. in a camp near Cairo were not the city itself in shorts while on leave, yet brawny Scotsmen, whose kilts served 14 display just as good a selection of ugly knees as any other crowd of soldiers, had full liberty to appear in their nationaí dress,"
"Go" Slowly,"
allowed into
Another case in which Sub- Inspector Alexander prosecuted resulted in the Chinese driver of
en being fined $10 public negligent driving,
a
In giving the facts Sub-Inspector Alexander said he was driving a combination along Caine Road in a westerly direction but when he
reached a bad bend near the Dock sin English School, war. Ladder Street, the defendant suddenly backed the ear across the road from the wrong side to the correct side. I was raining at the time The Shanghai Timea also has and the rod was very slippery.
leaderette on the subject, in the; course of which it remarks:----
'},'
Defenstant in Prison.
PORT SWETTENHAM
FIRE.
BACK AGAIN.
OLD VESSEL RETURNS TO HONGKONG
Another old vessel returning to | Hongkong' under a new flag, is the STATION BUILDINGS ABLAZE-the A.P.C. and at present lying at |Wabasha, a tanker running for
North Point.
She was formerly the Seminole,
Port Swettenham, May 28.
A disastrous fire which broke built for British owners by the out at the railway station here Furness Withy Co., of Hartlepool, yesterday afternoon resulted in the in 1903, and engined by Richard- destruction of all the station build-on Westgarth, to 490 N.H.P. Her
I
The early attempts to subdue the
"Onre or twice in recent years When the name of a Chinese ings and only an iron safe was dimensions are:-Length, 400.0 the suggestion has been made in public car driver was called on a saved. Shanghai that in the hot weather summons for causing an obstruc-sent a mystery and railway officials feet, with a gross tonnage of 5,864 The origin of the fire is at prefect; beam. 52.2 feet; depth, 80.8 men would be more comfortable` If Lion in Chuter Road on the morn-are investigating the affair.
and nett tonnage of 3,707. they were allowed to go to bursting of May 23, Sub-Inspector
This steel screwed three-maated ness in shorts and wearing the Alexander stated that the man was dames with buckets of water were steamer was at one time owned, rolled back shirt collar. 4.scais, in prison serving a sentence of 14 obviously doomed to failure and under her present name, by the silk stockings have overcome the days.
when the brigade arrived on the Standard Transportation Company objection that shorts and gelf hose
An Indian, who said he was the scene its efforts, too, were unavail- and registered in Hongkong under are hotter than slacka--but it is owner of the car appeared, and ing. The damage cannot yet be the British flag. not every man who would wear told the court that he was repre-estimated but it is exceptionally | silk stockings. whether they be aenting the defendant but he had heavy. thin or thick. Personal taste will nothing to say about the matter. always be reflected in men's dress, whatever liberties are permitted by Laipans and women relatives and]2 friends. But those who are dis) poser to wear shorts should go alowly if what the ladies think on the matter is to be considered."
TROUSERS, CLOCK AND TORCH.
COOLIE SENT TO GAOL FOR THEFT.
Mr. R. D. Crossman, wireless operator of the ss. St. Albans, prosecuted a street coolic before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a charge of larceny of a pair of dress suit trousers, an alarm clock and an electric torch,
The defendant pleaded guilty. A detective said Sergeant Fowlie arrested the dafendant when leaving the Kowloon Godowns with the articles in his possession.
When questioned, the defendant admitted that he had stolen the things from the complainant's
cabin.
His Worship passed sentence of six week's hard labour.
TRIPLE KOWLOON
ACCIDENT.
THREE INJURED IN EFFORT TO DONGE ONE.
in
This Worship adjourned the case for two weeks,
MARINE COURT.
MOTOR SCHOONER MASTERS FINED.
heard:
She is now running under the house flag of the Atlantic Tank Rederi and registered in Hum burg, but as no Harbour Office
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Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page 14 of this issue.
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HEAD.
SCUFFLE WITH RICKSHA COOLIE.
Mr. De Valera recently led into the Dail four members of his party carrying in large bundles (1e petition containing 100,000 When a case in which a public names requesting that arrange ricksha coolie was charged with larceny of $16 from A. B. Williainments be made for the initiation At the Marine Court this morn- Millar, of II.M.S. Tamar, in Nathan the people of proposals for the ng, before Commdr. J. B. Newill, Road, was called before Mr. W. amendment of the Free State Con- 1.5.0.. R.N., a number of cases Schofield, at the Kotvloon Magis-
stitution: The Speaker stated held up by the holiday period were tracy this morning. It was stated that there were no means of veri by Sub-Inspector Collon that theying the signatures, but he would The outstanding CA909 were defendant was in hospital suffering accept the petition without re those in which Chan Shek-Lau, from an injury to his head caused judice if no objection were taken to that course. Mr. Cosgrave ob- master of the motor schooner Kai- by a fall which was the result of a
jected, whereupon Mr. De Valera to Maru, and Cheung Wü-ying, struggle with the complainant, master of the motor schooner
was accordingly ad-xave notice that he would move later that the petition be accop- Shinwa Maru, were respectively journed until to-morrow.
ted. charged with carrying kerosene in a place other than the Dangerous Goods Anchorage, namely, Sham- shuipo Pier. The former charged in respect of 600 tins and the latter in respect of 400 tins.
WAS
Both the accused pleaded guilty,
the master of the Shinwa Maru stated in his defence that. owing to the heavy weather in Causeway Bay, he moved over to Shamshuipo for shelter,
Both were fined $25, with the alternative of three weeks' impri sonment with hard labour.
Pleading guilty to attempting to leave the harbour without a pro- per elearance, Li Shui, master of ké motor schooner Hooyei Maru, was fined $10, with the usual al- ternative.
Wong Sao, master of a cargo boat, charged with navigating the also pleaded guilty and was harbour without regulation lights, amuleted in the same sum and ak
Three persons were injured Nathan Road yesterday when 'motor-lőrry driver swerved to ternative.
svold a man walking apparently aimlessly across the road.
The vehicle swerved violently in an effort to avoid the neefdent, but the pedestrian, was knocked down and-severely injured, while the audden turn precipitated two coolles riding on the lorry into the road. One of the victims was a
woman.
All three persons were taken to the Kwong Wah Hospital and de- tained.
Two mistresses and two masters of cargo boats pleaded guilty to lying inshore during dark hours, and were each fined $10, with the alternative of 10 days' imprison- ment.
"Sometimes I realise what wonderful person Job wax," saldo - Mr. Ernest Wild, at the Old Bal- ley, after falling to get direct answers to questions he put to a witness,
Mr. Santos Casani, the dancing A Soviet official has arrived at instructor, has been fined £1 at the Riga Legation to negotiate Westminster Polico Court for with foreign buyers for the sale motoring at 32 miles an hour in of Russian Imperial Jewels and -Fulham-road.
nationalised art treasures.
The case
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What do the value of the silver in Lewis, father of Dan Lewis, the collection of Worcester china, a eight new half-crowns na compar
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Who, according to Misa Megan goalkeeper, was run over by a with Watteau figures on a blue Lloyd George, was the real disiram and killed.
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