PILLS WHICH WERE NOT HEROIN.
JAPANESE DISCHARGED AT THE MAGISTRACY.
MADE OF QUININE.
The Jananese who was arrested
on Friday last, by the police, at No. Queen's Road East, for ..possession of heroin pills, was
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·WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928.
ANOTHER BUREAU BIG_REFORMS FOR
AFGHANISTAN.
RAIDED.
SHANGHAI FRENCH POLICE ACT.
NEW COUNCIL AND NEW NATIONAL FLAG.
FULL SWING,
Of late, considerable difficulty ANTI-JAPANESE, CAMPAIGN IN has been experienced by the Sanitary Department in prevent- Ing the breeding of mosquitoes on a piece of land in Hai Tan Street, whers 'several firms carry
discharged at the Central Magis-business in the molasses or other WARNING DISOBEYED. tracy this morning,
When the case was called, Chief Preventive Officer Clarke, who was prosecuting, handed Mr. B. E. Lindeell the Analyst's certificate and asked for permission to with- draw the summons on the face of that document.
Mr. H. A. Taylor, who was in Court, was asked by Mr. Lindsell whether he could say what, in fact, were theso pink pills.
MISSING BRITISH
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NEW SEARCH FOR LIEUTENANT KNOWLES.
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According Moscow, Sept. 4.
to reports from The modernisation of Afhganis- Peking the British Minister, Sir tan is proceeding apace, according Miles W. Lampeon has aucceeded to a telegram from Kabul stating in making dolinito arrangements that the Jirgn, the All-Afghan Poo- with Gen. Yen Hai-shan for the ple's Assembly, has decided to es- formation of a Bino-British..com- tablish a People's Council based on mission of two British and two the most direct elections, instead of Chinese" members to conduct similar tradeà. Prosecution has
tho existing State Council... investigation and a search for the followed prosecution
The new Council will consist of whoreabout of Lieut. Knowles, owners of those premises, but according to Sanitary Inspector activities in using their head-150 Deputies, who will hold their officer attached. to the British Legation Guard, who was lost in Sinton, who prosecuted the man-quarters for distributing political seats for three years..
All titles, ranks and decorations, the Western Hill district of Po- ager of the Tak Lee Loong firm at propaganda, the Shantung Hul
Kowloon Magistracy this kuan on Heimen Road in the except the Decoration of Indepen-king last September shortly after morning, fines of $20 do, not seam French Concession was raided on dence, are being suspended, whilst a the Shansi armies under General to serve as a deterrent to the Wednesday by the French police new national fing of black, red and Yen opened war on the Frengtien offenders.
the
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against
The manager of the Tak Leo Loong was charged with falling to nuisance by allowing Mr. Taylor:-They are, in fact, mosquitoes to breed in jars and quinine pilla.
pools and other receptacles.
The defendant pleaded guilty and remarked that the work had been done the day after the service of the summons,
The Magistrato:-Have you
ever seen quinine pliis made up like that before? No, 1 have
never.
Resemble Heroin.
Do they, in fact, resemble the ordinary heroin pills which have been asized lately They very closely resemble them.
Is it likely that the defendant was palming off these quinine pills ne heroin pills?—It is very likely on the face of the statement of Mr. Clarke of the price that was naked
Shanghai Sopt. 1. As the result of unlawful
authorities.
green will bo, substituted for the old black flag.
Universal military conscription will be introduced, beginning at the age of 17 years, and the period of training will be three years.
The Hulkuan which in DA organization of Shantung men and has a considerable amount of valuable property situated near the Port de l'Ouest with a temple, The War Minister has announced offices and a school for Bhantung children has been established for a number of yeara,
party near Poking.
Lieutenant Knowles was on a vacation and was lost in the dis- tricts behind the Shansi defence lines where he was travelling with- out a passport or official recognition of either the Chinese or British that besides 200 Afghan officers authorities. Just what had hap- studying in Soviet Russla, Italy: pened to him has not been known France and Germany, twenty will but it is generally believed that, he be sent to England.
is no longer living.
'
Recently a letter was received
The Minister of Interior has an- This, however, was denied by by the French authorities asking
The British Minister at Peking Inspector Sinton, who said that permission to hold meetings in the nounced the forthcoming prection when he visited the premises he buildings in order to arouse In-of wireless stations at Memen has, for about twelve months, been found laryne still present on the terest in Shantung, assist with the und Hanabad, and the construction trying to bring about a Sino- premises, although some effort had famine relief and in other ways of three railway lines by French and British commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the been done to abate the nuisanco. prove themselves supporters of German contractors.
The King is stated to have ar. mysterious disappearance of this Several baskets of sand had been their native province. emptied into the pools, while jars Used for Political Purposes. rifles from France.
ranged for the purchase of 50,000 British army officer, but the pollti- cal and military situation in North and barrels had been removed.
The Jirga has passed a resolution China made auch a step impossible The absence of rain prevented any Permission was given about two
general levy antil Gen. Yen notifled Sir Miles subsequent recurrence of the nui-weeks ago, and almost immediate in favour of a annce, but as the results of lastly the French police were given for the purchase of arms and, Lampson on August 7 of his hearty night's rain thero were pools of reason to suspect the purpose of amid general enthusiasm, has support in making possible súch on
Prince Rakhmatulla, investigation. His Worship then told the de- water on the premises this morn- the meetings. Warning was given declared fendant, through a Japanese intering and, given sufficient time, by the authorities that the meet the eldest son of King Amanulla preter, that the pills acized did not, these would breed mosquitoes. ing place would be closed if poli-as Heir to the Throne, Reuter In fact, cuntain morphin and there- fore he was discharged. His Wor- ship added that it looked very sus picious that defendant was trying to sell his pills as morphla pills, whereas, in fact, they were not.
for them.
Nol Chenting.
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The defendant said that the pills did not belong to him, and he was not trying to cheat anybody.
His Worship:-Quinine pills are not made up like that. These pills have been made to resemble mor- piin pills. I advise you to be more
careful.
In reply to an application of C.P.O. Clarke, his Worship said that he could not make out any or- der in regard to the pills. No of- fence had been disclosed and there fore he was not in a position to "I abould hold nuke out any order. them and soc if any application is made for them," said his Worship, who added "tlint,, of course, is n word of advice."
ADMITTED INTENTION TO STEAL.
"
Inspector Sinton asked for the tical meetings were conducted, Imposition of the maximum and failure to observe the warning| penalty, remariding that the defen-resulted in the raid on Wednesday. "VIOLENT" RUSSIAN. dant had been fined $20 for the A detective sent to the office to same offence in June Inst. Other investigate, found the "Tsinan occupiers of the same area of land | Affair" "Diplomatic Support Com- had also been before the Court for mittee" in full flower and an anti- | breeding mosquitoes and had been Japanese campaign in action. fined. Inspector Sinton said that fines of $20 did not seem to worry
the offenders.
In view of the fact that some effort had been made at abate the nuisance, his Worship imposed a fine of $25 and made an order that the nuisance be abated to the satisfactory of the Sanitary Department within 'seven days.
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MARINE COURT.
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HEAVY LIST DEALT WITH TO-DAY.
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About 300 pamphleta for use in the campaign were confiscated, along with a
TO BE DEPORTED FROM
HONGKONG. }
The commisalon will be, com- posed of Captain D. McAllen and Vice-Consul II. N. Steptoe on the British side, and Messrs. Liu Nal- fan, sentor clerk of Gen. Yen Hsi- san's headquarters in Peking and Shen Yun-po, 3rd secretary of the chief-stall's department of the office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Peking and Tientsin Gendarmeric. The commission will meet "at The Russian, Isace Abrahamovit-Mentoukou, the terminus of a short eh Ekman, who was remanded by railway leading from Peking to the number of form Major C. Willson yesterday for centre of the Western Hills district. letters to be sent out soliciting further consideration of deporta- They will be escorted by a group of subscriptions for the fund.
tion meayures, which it was
Pro Chinese troops to the mission head- office used by the Committee waposed to take against him on the quarters at Yangchinpon and then closed although other parts of the ground that he is an undesirable, to the Shiao Wu Tai and other dis- institution were nat interfered again appeared before the Magistricts on the Chilli-Shans border to trate this morning, when the order locate the remains of Lieutenant whs nude complete. The Jinkee Road Duretu.
| Knowles and the circumstances sur- Detective Sub-Inspector Elston rounding his death. Nanking, Aug. 31. stated that Ekman had strange
His body. If unearthed, will be The Kuo Min News Agency cor- political views, being, moreover, respondent learns that the Nation- very violent. The mice did not brought to Peking for formal Yen has also alist authorities here are greatly consider it advisable to keep him in burial. Gen.
comfort of the membera annoyed at the Shanghai Settle-the House of Detention, and, in any provided
with.
The
all necessities for
hent police interfering with the case, they had a deportation order the the commission during
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TAIWAN BANK TO BE
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activities of the Shanghai branch against him. The present position of ollier of the Publicity Bureau of was to ask his Worship to allow the their investigations on the borders at the various Owing to the fact that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. charge of vagrancy to be with-besides his men Marino Magistrate did not
Semi-official statements are that drawn, as the police under the Ex-localities to give them asetstance yesterday, there was a heavy the Nationalist authorities main-pulsion Ordinance, still had powers and protection. at the Harbour Office this morning lain that the Chinese Government to retain him in custody until ef- bofore Commdr. J. B. Newill, has a perfect right to establish feet could be given to the order of D.S.O., R.N. Thirteen accused on offices on its own sovereign soil. deportation,
His Worship accordingly dis- various charges all pleaded guilty. They express great surprise at the charged the defendant, who was attempt of the Settlement police to! MAN WHO WANTED A SEWING and were mulcted in fines.
Six boarding house fokis were interfere with the work of a Goy-then re-arrested and returned to the
detention cells." MACHINE.
charged with boarding the 8.8.ernment offfee. Empress of Asin without permia- The incident is regarded na an Whilst patrolling Kwong Wah on the prosecutor being Mr. affront to the Nationalist Govern- to insist on a satisfactory settle. fload during the caly hours of yes Stirling, the master-at-arms of the ment; and the Nanking authorities ment of the case. It is pointed
The Telegraph's Swatow corres- terday morning, a detective came
Vessel. In reply to questions by consider it as another, indication out that since most of the foreign upon a Chinese at the rear of the Worship it was stated that of immediate readjustment of the newspapers and press associations pondent, writing under date of Ngai Hing Knitting Factory, peer-this boarding was a matter of status of the foreign settlements maintain ne regular bureaux in Monday, states that the rival Anti- Ing into a window. The man was holding a saw, two hammers, a grave concern, as frequent com- in China so that any such filegal Nanking, the Publicity Bureau of Japanese Boycott Committee have nair of pliers and a piece of paper. plaints had been made with regard interference with the activities of the Foreign Office has established agreed that as from the 1st instant The detectier's suspicions having to the stealing of baggage. The China's Government offices will be branch offer in Shanghai to the Chamber of Commerce Com- keep the foreign presa representa-mittee shall be a sub-committee of been aroused, the lofterer was bonts had mado fast alongside, be- impossible in the future.
tives informed of the doings of that which claims to represent all was fore the ship had berthed. His Wor-
the Nationalist Government; the classes. immediately arrested. He
The activities of the office is located in the Inter- Intter are to be increased from brought before Mr. W. Schofield, ship pointed out that a further
Mr. Wunaz King, Commissioner national Settlement only for the that date, and they include a at the Kowloon Magistracy this charge of making fast alongside morning, on a charge of being in whilst the vessel was under way for Foreign Affairs, has been in-reason that the place is more con- boycott of the Taiwan Bank, possession of implements with might have been raised, at the structed to make strong represen- venient for the purpose. Kuo which is to be pleketed. intent to break and enter the same time inflicting a fine of $25 tations to the Consular Body End Min.
each, with the alternative of one factory.
The defendant admitted the month's hard labour. charge and said that he intended to steal a Singer sewing machine.
The steeramen of three trading junks were charged with attempt-
ours and were each fined $10, with the usual alternative.
On the production of the defen-ing to leave the port during dark dant's record it was shown that he had served a term of imprison ment for unlawful possession.
His Worship passed sentence of four months' hard labour.
CONTRACTORS FINED.
USING WATER FROM FIRE HYDRANT.
A boat mistress, aged 68 years, with a record of 60 years in Hong- kong harbour limita, was jointly charged, with the master of an- ether cargo boat, for lying in shore during dark hours. Both were fined $10.
The master of a trading junk, charged with obstruction by an choring in the Southern Tairway, stated that owing to bad weather his ship had dragged anchor into the prohibited arcu. The fine in this case was also $10.
That they opened and closed n yalyo attached to a pedestal fire
Summonses against the masters hydrant without permission, and that they wilfully and negligently of the s.1. Pyeris and a cargo boat The master of were also heard.
Injured a valve attached to u the launch was charged with pedetal fire hydrant and drew off making fast to 8.8. Van Heutz water without permission, were charges brought against the Foo while that vessel was under way, Loong firm, who are contractors to and the cargo boat master for securing outside five other boats
the Public Works Department, at alongside the 6.8. Nam Sang. The the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- latter accused was originally fined ing.
$10, which fine was subsequently
The defendants admitted both reduced to 85, while the coxswain charges.
of the Fyeris was fined $10.
It was stated that the defen- danta were engaged in repairing Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, of Bens the roadway and were using wa-bury Park-rond, Bournemouth, who ter from the hydrant. Damage recently attended the wedding of had been caused to the extent of their 16th child, have 53 grand- children, issue of their other 15 $15.···
On the first charge the defen- married children, and one great dants were fined $10 and $25 on grandchild, total 70 living descen- the second, being further ordered dants. Mr. Stephens in 68 and to pay $15 for the damage caused. Mrs. Stephens, 69.
Strong Representations,
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"I hope she'll know they aren't just ordinary flowers."
Last week, the Tungahan Public Park, in memory of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was opened. The' occasion was celebrated by three successive nights of entertain- ments, and it was proposed to extend these for two more nights. On August 31st, however, the arrangements were cancelled and Martial Law Wan proclaimed. However, nothing untoward has supervened, and conditions are quite normal.
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