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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928.
WHITE GLOVES AT JAPAN'S POLICY IN
SESSIONS.
NO CRIMINAL CASES" DOWN-
** FOR HEARING.
NEW RECORD SET.
CHINA.
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MANCHURIA MOTIVES
MISUNDERSTOOD.
IN LONDON.
There being no cases down for COUNT UCHIDA INTERVIEWED trial at this month's Criminal) Sessions, which were to open at the Supreme Court this morning, the time-honoured custom of present- ing the Judgo with a pair of white
FIGHT ON SOCCER.
FIELD.
CHINESE OBJECT TO ORDER TO LEAVE.
RECREIO IN TRAINING.
A fight between party of
and Portuguese footballers crowd of Chinesa on playing fields in King's Park was described at this the Kowloon Magistracy
three Chinese appeared before Mr. W. Schofield' on a charge of behaving in a dis- orderly manner.
gloves was observed, the recipient BRITISH CO-OPERATION morning when
being Sir Henry Gollan. His Lord- ship remarked, in acknowledging
London, Sept. 17. the gift, that although he had been Count Uchida, the former Jap. ndministering the law for 25 years anese Fordign Minister, interview- in five different dependencies of od by Reuter on arrival from the Crown, that was the first time Japan, travelling by the Siberian he had taken part in such a cere-route, emphasted that. Japan has mony,
This month's maiden calendar every sympathy with China in her
desire to realise her aspirations.
Japan, he said, had great hopes of a New China but nobody could tell what is likely to happen in the next few months.
makes the fourth of its kind since. Hongkong became a British poses sion and the second within a period
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He was unable to imagine the possibility of trouble between Japan and the other foreign Powera as regards China, notwith standing the fact that much pro- paganda to the contrary has been disseminated.
Misconception.
Defendants denied the charge.. Inspector Marks informed his Worship that members of the Club: de Recreio went to their football ground for practice at about 6 o'clock yesterday evening and found the field occupied by a crowd of Chinese. A watchman was engaged on the ground but the
had
the intruders
assaulted Indian when he attempted to pre- vont them from trespassing. The Portuguese players then ordered the men off the field and a fight ensued in which stones were freely thrown while some of the Chinese brought bamboo poles into action.
The first occasion when there were no prisoners was in Novem- ber, 1904, when the then Chief Justice, Sir Henry Spencer Berke- ley, was presented with a pair of white gloves. In June, 1914, the
The Police wore communicated ceremony was again performed, the
with, and a party was despatched recipient being Sir Henry
to the scene. On arrival the three Gompertz, (then Mr. II. J There was, he added, much mis- defendants were arrested with Gompertz), while the last occasion conception and untruth with re-stones in their possession, while was in March, this year, when Mr.gard to the Japanese attitude in one of them was carrying a bam Justice Wood received a pair of Manchuria, even in Manchuria it-boo pole. There was no actual self. He stressed that Japan has evidence that any of the three de- no territorial ambitions or designs fendants had taken part in the
fight. In Manchuria.
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This morning's presentation was made by Mr. C. D. Melbourne (Deputy Registrar) who remarked
Count Uchida expressed antie- His Worship Intimated that the faction at the evidences of the section more applicable to the case his Lordship's acceptance of pair of wite gloves, in accordance cordiality of Anglo-Japanese re- would be 22 of Ordinance No. 1 with the old-vstablished custom. lations and expressed the opin-of 1845, which reads that every that Anglo-Japanese Co- person who has in his possession In acknowledging the gift his an Lordship. said: "Mr. Fitzroy. Mr. operation would be immensely to
any spear, bludgeon, or other Registrar-During the last 25the advantage of the Powers con-offensive weapon, with intent to years I have been engaged in the cerned in Chinese affairs, and also administration of the law as auto China herself. Attorney General and Chief Justice
in five different dependencies of
use same for any such unlawful purpose, shall be liable to a fine.
Inspector Marke remarked that Siberian Railway.
a stone, which he produced, could Concluding, Count Uchida sald not be called a bludgeon although the Crown and this is the first Proprietress.
occasion on which I have taken he had been immensely struck by it could do a lot of damage. part
His Worship Intimated that the ST this Interesting time the wonderful way in which the honoured ceremony,
Siberian Railway is run as the re-best, course. would be to ask the "A captious critic might saysult of his observations during his defendants if they were willing to be bound over for their future that the absence of any cases for recent journey from Japan. trial in the Court presents a flatter-
good behaviour. ing appearance in view of the original Hats, because the frequency of gang robberies and the skill with which they are organised and carried out shows a certain amount of sophistication in our midst. But the fact ra nains that on two occasions within the last six months there have been no cases for trial at the Sessions, and I think it is a matter of con- gratulation, for the community, to
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He mentioned that he visited Lenin's Tomb at Moscow and was surprised to find the, fentures al- most exactly as when he last saw him alive.-Router.
Foreigners Evacuate. Reliable reports state that 30,- 90 Shantung Chihli troops, be- tween Anshan and Changli are gradually being disarmed by the Fengtien forces.
Naval wireless messages further state that the Shantung troops who have surrendered are being "One other matter to which I moved to north of Chinwantao should like to call attention is aby rail. Chinwantao is quiet. statement which I have seen in to. The civilian evacuation of Pel
18 now day's papers, that the Attorneytaho and Shanhaikwon General has met with rather a completed, the foreigners who serious accident. I am sure, speak have left now being concentrated ing on behalf of the Bar, that on the Bluff at Chinwontao. everyone will wish him a speedy recovery,"
OBITUARY.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF
"THE FIELD.”-
London, Sept, 17. The death is reported of Sir Theodore Cook--Reuter.
The defendants, agreed and were accordingly bound over in sums of $50 each to be of good behaviour for six months.
CYCLONE BRINGS
TIDAL WAVE.
(Continued from Pago 1.),
Radio messages, however, do not report any casualties. It in be- lieved that the inhabitants, remem- bering the disaster of 1926, in which there was heavy loss of life, had moved to safety on the receipt of the warning from the weather
bureau,
Latest reports last night from The Tongshan mining area con Falm Beach stated that the hurrl- wind tinues quiet, a coal train operat cane was raging with a ing between there and Tientsin. velocity of 126 miles an hour, The bridge at Lanhsien le damag-Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and ed and it is estimated that repairs a fifty mile strip of the Florida will take three days to effect. coast are isolated.
The Upper Yangleze. With regard to the Upper Yang- tsze, General Yang Sen is still at Fuchow, while Wa Hain-kwang, who left Yang Sen recently, is now apparently rejoining him.
The Bahamas Islands have been isolated since midnight on the 16th and hitherto there has been no news of the extent of the damage: done there. Reuter's American Service.
New York, Sept. 17. The Governor of Porto Rico, A Nanking message states that Sir Theodore Andrea Cook has the 31st Brigade of the 11th Divi-states that the poorer classes in- a million "Jivaros" or been editor-in-chief of The Field sion is reported to have arrived at cluding since 1910. He was born in 1867 Pukow. Considerable troop move-peasant furmers, are completely at Exmouth, Devonshire, and edu-ments are reported down the river destitute. The Porto Rican eated at Klug Alfred's Grammar from the Chungking area. School at Wantage. He took great interest in school and college sports in which he excelled. In
Au-
thorities acted quickly In order to check profiteering and guards were told off to check looting-Reuter's American Service,
China and the League,
Shanghai, Sept. 17. 1889 he rowed No. 3 in the Oxford
The rejection of China's request crew. He was captain of the Eng- lish Fencing team in Paris in for re-election to the League of 1903 and in Athens in 1906. In Nations Council, is causing great the Portuguese Minister to China 1900 he became editor of the St,dissatisfaction among the Chinese to open negotiations for Treaty James's Gazette, joining the staff of at Geneva and they have wired revision. It is understood that the represent the Na- the Daily Telegraph the following to the Central Government at Nan- Foreign-Vice Minister, Tang Yu- year. He was a great writer, his king proposing that China should liang, will
sever all relations with the League. tionalist Government in the con- publications being numerous,
Though Nanking messages show ferences with Portugal.
Shanghai, Sept. 17. among them being, Old Touraine;
It appears that on September 13 Rouen: A History of the English that the Government does not feel Tarf; Old Provence; The Curves deeply concerned whether China is of Life; Twenty-Five Great Houses given a seat on the League Council the Chihli-Shantung troops line, of France; The Mark of the Beast, or not, it is stated that at the com- based on Shihmen, midway be-
ing scasion of the C. E. C. the tween Luanchow and Changil, on|| ctc.]
question is to come up for dis-the Pelping-Mukden Railway, was opposed by the sixteenth, eighth cussion....
The discontenit is based on the and twontieth Fengtien armles, the Chihll- CHILE ANNIVERSARY; fact that with China's enormous latter overlapping the
On Sept. 14,' territory and big population it is Shantung forces. most undesirous that China's re- Chang Chung-chang's White Rus quest for a non-permanent scat sians attacked the eighth Fengtien INDEPENDENCE DAY
army and forced them back, but' should be rejected.
later had to surrender. Further CELEBRATED.
fighting on Sept. 15 resulted in To-day Chilians throughout the
the Fengtien troops advancing and The reconstruction of the Nan-enveloping their opponents, Magistrate that the case should be world celebrate the anniversary
General Pet Chung-hal continues heard in camera Mr. S. Veerasamy, of the independence of Chile, ing Central Government is to be
announced after the to maintain a, watchful attitude who appeared for the accused, The national independence of formally CHRISTIAN BROTHER ACQUIT- said he would make no application, Chile dates from the second decade leaders return to Nanking. A big along the West bank of the TED AT PORT DICKSON, na the case had already been of the nineteenth century. The conference is to be held for the Luanho, leaving the Fengtien troops of England's North adoption of the reconstruction to clean up the Chihli-Shantung reported in the Press and he revolt
troops. It is estimated that at The case in which Cyril Talbot, wished the result also to appear in American colonies, and the events scheme.
of the French revolution naturally,
a struggle It is reported as certain that prosent 40,000 Fenstien soldiers a Christian Brother, of St. John's the Press, Institution, Kuala Lumpur, was After the complainant had given grested the idea of charged with un offence against ovidence His Worship stated that for independence to the Spanish Marshals Chiang Kai-shek, Li Chal-are Inside the Groat Wall-Reuter,
colonists, and the deposition sum, General Chen Ming-shiu and a Tamil woman at Port Dickson he would not proceed further with Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, and the Messrs Teal Yuan-pel, Ll Shih- on August 28, was heard before the charge, as there no ensuing disorganization of Spain, tseng, Chang Ching-klung and Tai Mr. W. II. Wood, the District ovidence whatsoever in support of supplied the desired/ opportunity. Chi-tao will leave Shanghai thi Officer and First Magistrate, at it, The accused was accordingly
Jacquitted, Port Dickson.
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Nanking Changes.
Shanghai, Sept. 17.
eventig for Nanking.
Chang Chang-chang Hits Back,
Shanghai, Sept. 17. Reliable reports from North China atato that General Chang Chung-chang, with his back to the wall, Inflleted a sovera reverse on 10,000 Fengtienftes in the vicinity of Shih-men on the 16th. There are The Nationaliat Foreign Mini-no details of the fighting up to the of the Consular Body were present. ater, Dr. C. T. Wang has requested present-Router.
To mark the occasion, recep. tion was held at the Chilean when Consulato this morning, many local residents and members
Treaty Revision.
Shanghai, Sept. 17.
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