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The average nowapapor reader will, when his dally sheet comes in with the morning tea, turn first to that part of the journal which Interests him moat, That is, if ho played spillkina for the, Kow- loon Academicals yesterday even- ing, he, being a friend of the ro- porter assigned to the job, looks for heavy black type in the head- lines on the Sports Page. If, on the other hand, he is one of these unfortunato gentlemen who has been caught carrying cabbagen on Sunday without a permit, or the driver of a car which has had a heated argument with a lamp standard, he burns a mental joas stick and offers a prayer to
Reuter, appealing for lots and lots of news matter, that will force the record of his little peccadilloes into some spot that is usually given over to felt hats and patent roofing material,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1928.
COUNCIL MEMBER A WEEK'S TRAFFIC PLUCKY ARREST OF OFFICIAL SALARIES
ASSAULTED.
CASES.
GUNMAN.
MR. J. S. ARTER OF MALAYA INJURED.
WHEN A CORNER IS NOT DANGEROUS?
REVENUE OFFICER AND CIVILIAN SHOT.
IN F.M.S.
INCREASE VIEWED WITH "GRAVE CONCERN.”
STRUCK BY TAMILS. VACILLATING DRIVER. SİNGAPORE STRUGGLE. MEMBER'S CRITICISM.
Speaking on the Budget at a meeting of the Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur last week, the Hon. Mr. A. S. Bailey referred to
Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 7. Mr. S. C. Feltham, of the P.W.D. A Chinese revenue officer and a Mr. J. S. Arter, an Unofficial was fined $10 for dangerous driv-Chinese civilian were shot on the Member of the Federal Council,ing, by Major C. Willson at the 6th inst. when arresting a gunman and the Chairman of the Planters Central Magistracy this morning, who had just taken part in a pistol Association of Blalaya, was the The Second Magistrate was hear-gght between secret society men in victim of a brutal assault on ing the usual list of trafic sum-New Market Street, Singapore.features of the Budget. Ho re- Monday night.
Remarkablo pluck was shown by two revenue officers and the In reply to the summons, Mr. civilian in tackling the gunman, Feltham stated that he drove along who is now in custody awaiting the road every day and had no retrial. collection of any dangerous driv fog..
Mr. and Mrs. Arter attended a dinner at Government House, and were motoring back to Glenmarie Estate, Batu Tiga, when they were stopped by a lorry which was blocking the road at the fifth mile.
It appears that Mr. Arter got out of the car to find out what had happened, and a dispute is said to have occurred between Mr. Arter and two Tamile who wore in charge of the lorry.
monses, *
what he termed some unfortunate
ferred to the warning which Sir Hugh Clifford uttered in his address last year with regard to the increasing expenditure on personal emoluments, etc., and also to the remarks on the same subject; In this year's address. The Un- official members also viewed that question with grave concern.
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The facts appear to be that Chinese Revenue offleers 132 and In ovidence, Traffic Sergeant F. 47 ware on duty in the vicinity of Kelly said he was driving a motor-New Market Street at one, p.m.
they heard cycle combination along Lower which
the Bound firing. of
They ran
In the Albert Road towards the Central direction of the shots, which, if Police Station en October 29 at has since been ascertained, were One of the men struck Mr. Arter when at the bottom of Glenoal societies. Only two or three of overcame the Federation whon
about ten o'clock in the morning fired by members of rival secret and the top of Wyndham Street the six or seven men on each elde the defendant's car came round there armed, and, after firing corner in the opposite direction at several shots, the parties made off
speed of about 25 miles an hour, in opposito directions. forcing witness to pull in to the
on the head with the starting handle of the lorry, and Mr. Arter was badly injured. He was sub- ecquently removed to the European Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, where he is now lying in a serious condl- And Then What?
To-day the two Tamila, Manikam Having satisfied himself that he and Gonnevlupillat were charged has or has not achieved a due before Mr. T. S. Adams, the Kuala measure of publiefty, where' does Lumpur magistrate, the fret man ke glance next? Doe8 he causing grievous hurt and
tion.
left side of the road. As the car One of the gunmen, however, re. passed, witness looked back and mained, and Revenue officer 182 noted the number,
saw him, the officer's attention be- Commenting that it was rathering attracted by the fact that the man had his hand on a pistol a dangerous corner but as Mr. stuck in his belt. The officer Feltham drove round it
Ho did not wish it to be thought that anything he had to say was. in the nature of a vote of consure on Government. There wns doubt that a spirit of extravagance money was plentiful. In the year 1924, when they were dealing will the Budget for 1925, ho had occasion to refer to this subject and he was twitted by the then Chief Secretary, Sir George Max- well, the burden of his remarks being that if they followed his advice they would be like the old lady who hid her savings In a stocking. He (the speaker) was they
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Augaciously con the leading article the second with abetting. The he did not notice it, his Worshly drahed up to the gunman suddenly prepared to admit that when it HONGKONG REALTY & TRUST
to acquaint himself with the latest hearing was postponed till Nov. misfeasance of officialdom? Does 13.
he wish to know what Mr. Braga will Amell next? Does he show Interest in the water returns, whereby he might gain the know ledge that coolies in Lalchikok conaute or otherwise account for 16 gallons of aqua pura per day? No air! He turns to the cor- respondence column! There he And all that is bright and breezy, | with theologians going off the deep end, shareholders asking what about it, "ferry, tram, bus and motor eir travellers handing out thick ears to everybody, and the lm public getting and bothered.
hot
In this particular newsprint aren, Mr. Everymun, to borrow all-embracing description
the from
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imposed the fine stated above.
1.
A Switchback.
might be on a comparatively lavish" scale..
round him. The other revenue officer came up, in front, but their At first bail was refused for the
plan of thus casily disarming the first accused, as. Mr. Arter's condi- At the Instance of Mr. H.T. gunman was frustrated by the tion was reported to be serious, Brooks, Superintendent of the Fire fierce struggle he put up. but in the afternoon ball was al- Brigade, the driver of public motor lowed in $1,000. The second ac-car No. 263 was summoned for ing his pistol arms, and, firing at The gunman succeeded in free- cused was allowed ball in $500.
negligent driving in Des Voeux almost pointblank range, he hit Road Central. The defendant ad-revenue officer 47 in front of him twice, once in the shoulder and Mr. Brooks atated that the de- once in fendant drove from one alde of the civilian who rushed up at this the groin. A Chinese road to the other and back again, moment and tried to wreat the pincrease in pensions, gratuities, near the premiaca of Messrs, tol away was also hit twice, both Whiteaway Laidlaw.
bullets passing through one of his wrists.
.
Word has been received from Victoria, B. C. of the death In a motor car accident of Mrs. A.C.R. Portway, who was well known in north China and in the Yangtze Valley. Her husband (who until about two years ago was with the Salt Gabelle) and his daughter Ruth were in the ear at the time
light injuries. of the accident but escaped with
notable hire-purchase furniture emporium, has his brief to score, without knowing" what. appearance, whether he be ahe is shooting at.
spillkin champion, a confirmed grouser or somebody who wishes to shoot a Christian Sefentist in the rumpty tum.
His Own Work. **
Spreading Infection.
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mitted the summons.
TMAS
added that the defendant
Sub-Inspector CF. Alexander Rushing across the road and back again."
The defendant was fined $10. A Ilace,
A race between the drivers of
Finally the gunman was over- the powered, and was taken to Central Police Station by officer 132, while officer 47 went to the slation in rickeha, and thence to hospital.
two publie motor cars, Nos. 546) The gunman bore obvious signs and 434 had a sequel when both of the struggle when produced ho- drivers were summoned for dan-fore the Fourth Police Magistrate gerous driving, and his Worship (Mr. C.-S. Findlay) on charges of attempted murder and possession of recommended that the licence of
a pistol and ammunition. He was No. 646 be suspended.
remanded for a week. Traffic Sergeant George explain-
that the driver of No. 546 had an Sub-Inspector Alexander said accident only last Saturday.
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To show the enormous growth of expenditure Mr. Bailey quoted figures from 1924 to 1928. He said' these figures showed should that the large increase which viewed with very considerable misgiving. The personal emolu- ments had increased enormously during the last five years, and as a result of such Inercase there would naturally be a proportionate
etc. In this young country their pensions commitments amounted to about 33 1-3 por cent, of their revenue, whereas in Ceylon, which was one of the oldest Colonies, where stablisation might be con- sidereal to have been reached, it was 32.51 per cent. in 1926 and 34.02 An 1927. If the presont increase continued in this country in ten yeara the percent- age might well be 50 per cent. of the revenue. He suggested the appointment of a committee to in- quire into this expenditure.
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In short, "Pugnacious may be fis "Fussed Up" as he likes and the "Fussed Up" gent may develop Pugnaciousness, but they
It is possible that the man who The eplatles from the north, are seldom courageous, excepted that the cars were racing at a
the speed of 45 miles an hour between lose his arm, but reports of officer was shot through his wrist will penmanship. and south, enst, west and Peak maké | in him laugh and grow fatuons. He fireworks go off duy after Ming Yuen Gardens and Taikoo 47 are favourable. Both bullets. seizes his typewriter by the lower day, the detonation3 hurting Dock at 11.45 p.m. on November 4. have yet to be extracted, but it is band, grabs his fountain pen in nobody, except when their self During the race they were over-expected that he will make a rapid high humour and tells Water Pipe, esteem is punctured rather badly taking each other. Sergt. George Mr. X., Agnostic and Flimfòni
on occasion, and it is pointed out added that he was unable to over- recovery, where to get off. And so Mr. pp.39 of "Vagrant Thoughts and take them, Everyman is supremely happy in Sophistries of an Itinerant Hair- watching the metaphorie knock-dresser," or some other equally out being put over to correspon- vacuous volume, has been misquot dential sparrers and the laying ed on the subject of "U" being the low of garbled purists with a five- eighths spanner of split Infinitives Evnsions of fart and elabora- and a rope's end of verbal back- splices.
The dally dozens of Sandow and
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has Lisbon "enough to cover a sixpence" are
issued Sir Leonard Dunning, Govern-:
orders probibiting his Athene not ng beneficial to him as the few the germ of truth and reason in
their most effluvial of ash-cans.ment Inspector of Constabulary, officera and men from smoking Bucharest hot lines which appear in Morning But there are plenty of other in evidence before the Police Com-cigarettes, according to a Kuo Won Rio Post. Brussed in a brief but: anonymous notoriety, so to speak, germs distributed and more and mission, declared that he was in News Agency message... he overlooks the paper of his fel- more of our otherwise well-bal-favour of extending the work of low travellers on bus, tram, and anced citizena became infected as women police. He held that ferry to observe whether they are the days go by.
devouring hie pre-digested aphorisms.
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twenty-Arst letter of the alphabet. Worship strongly recommended In fining each defendant $25, his tions of fiction-this represents that the licence of No. 546 be sus- the unsubstantial mental pabulum pended. Borved up by the scribblera of screeds, and but rarely db we find
The Blue Pencil.
ferry, bue, tram. and motor car, koes up a loud wailing on the one
When he spots a winner, he
Then suddenly the Editor goce his new germicide swells with pride and it is hard in search of .for him to refrain from tapping sprayer (Blue Pencil Brand) and remains, Then on the reader on the shoulder and to nothing pointing out that the screed at the bottom of the page by "Fussed Up," dealing with cough tablets and how to prevent suspenders from wearing out, is his own montal offspring which was born without any outside aid whatso-
ever,
vidence.
Alming Blindly.
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and and rejoicings on the other. Those who knew most about the subjects that were under discus- sion and had kept quiet, as is the nature of man, are the rois- terers. They in turn immediate. ly begin to look round and round for some particularly uninterest- ing topic of which they know noth. ing, to start the controversial ball rolling again,
Of course, the possibility which dissuades him is that the said roader may be "Pugnacious" who yesterday informed a perspiring
It appeura from recent notes, world that, in spite of Nebuchud- that a Christian Scientist has been nezzar's partiality for grape fruit running round without a muzzle on a cold and frosty morning, and somebody shot him when he there was not a reliable cough was four months old, so he should drop on the market and that he have been impounded, notwith- personally knew, many decent standing that he had seen a bad members of society who kept their ploture at the Queen's Theatre, pants up with a horseshoe nail which was hard lines on the pub and a plentiful trust in Pro-He who couldn't get enough fresh It is probable, of course, that water because the trams were now "Pugnacious" would throw "Fu38-running to Shaukiwan, in spite of ed Up" into the harbour, and the advertisements on the ferries. So Water Police would have to go in search of him with drags and Debating Societies having been grapplings. This would be a far responsible over many years for more effective method of dealing much pre-natal influence in the with correspondents as between matter of the taxing of bachelors, themselves, than that adopted by I think I will now write to the those who secks the Editor's sid| Editor, enquiring of readers what as a sort of Whitley Tox Rickard. is the exact specific graving of Much, however, would 'depend on hotel soup and if the cook knows the bulld of the respective oppon-his onions, or alternatively, why ents; and that is where the cor does a guinea pig not wag his respondenco
columnist scorca. tail? The local Biatloners will Hiding In lexicographical under subsequently report a boom in the brush and shopting his own brand sale of self-filling fountain pens and of poisoned darts from the bushca notepaper ruled faint on both of balderdash, he is always hoping sides.
that's that.
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He will be the first of his race to be sent up to Washington from Illinois and will be the first to occupy a seat in the national House of Representatives in more than a quarter of a century.
Depriest will fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Martin B. Madden, chainman » of the House Appropriations Committee: He representa a district which Includes a large negro popula tion..
Five persons who lost their lives when a motor-van in which they were driving overturned and caught frost Donkend St. Maryi Wiltshire recently have been Identified. They were Herbert Bailey, aged 52, of Chapeldown Farm, Woodcutte, Salisbury; his two sons, Fred, aged 18, and James, aged eight; Robert Headen, aged 47, of Thickthorne Form, Farnham, and Albert Wort, aged 20, of Dean Woodcutte. They had been driven to Shaftesbury in Mr. Bailey's motor-van to visit the annual hospital carnival..
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