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SEVERAL FORGED BANKOTE CHARGES ON LIST.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE VOICE OF THE PEASANT.
A SOVIET EXPERIMENT IN" JOURNALISM.
journal of
A BIG RAILWAY PROJECT.
SCHEME TO COST MORE THAN $67,000,000.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929.
SOME INTERESTING RESEARCH.
GOLD CONTENTS
SEA-WATER.
It is well-known that sea-water contains a certain amount of gold WORK FOR TROOPS?Its origin is now gehtrally attri-
in order that the work may be start-
BRITISH AFRICAN
TERRITORIES.
NEW GOVERNOR-GENERALCY RECOMMENDED.
VALUABLE REPORT.
London, Jan. 17. The report of the Commission which sat to consider the desir- union of the British depondencios
ability of the federation or closer
"
and sudden change. Nevertheless,
the coordination of policy on affairs of common concorn, par ticularly the native question, la
ncoded.
The "Krastyanskaya Gazeta," or "Peusarts' Gazette," a little newa- OPENING ON MONDAY, |paper which appears twice a week, is an Interesting experiment in There are eight cases down for Soviet journalism. It serves the
Mr. Sun Fo, Minister of Raibuted to anished mountain trial at this month's Criminal Sea double purpose of providing a
ways, supports a scheme to employ ranges in coastal districts and to slona, which commence at the Sup forum for the expression of rural
some of the military troops to be fragments of rock decomposed in reme Court on Monday. Four of ideas and impressions and of being disbanded after the close of these will be taken by the Chief un important link between the the Troop Disbandment and Re-consequence of the action of rain Justice (Sir Henry Gollan) and the Government and the peasants. It other four by the Puise Judge combines the varied functions of organization: Conference, on the water, and carried down to the in Eastern and Central Africa has building of the Yuet-lan Railway sea by way of rivers. The theorymont. Sir Hilton Young presid been submitted to, the Govern- (Mr. Justice Jacks). The various a newspurveyor, a courts refer to murder, piracy, rob-practical husbandry, and a courted as early as possible. He has according to which it originates ad. bery and forged bank notes. of appeal against local abuses and drawn up a prospectus giving his from sources or springs located on The Commission considers that
injustices.
views on the subject, and has laid the bottom of the sea, has now the time is not yet ripe for drastic On Monday, before the Chief Justice, the adjourned case of Ho The circulation of the "Krestit before the conference for discus-been practically abandoned. Fu, who is charged with piracy on yanskaya Gazeta" fluctuates with Bion.
The recent expedition of the board a fishing junk, will be denit the seasons, because the Rus
was adjourned sin pensant has more
The completion of the Yuct-Ifan German research vessel "Meteor" with. This case
time Railway has been talked about for has brought to light some interest from the Sessions Last month on the for reading in winter than insome considerable time, but up to in facts in connexion with the application of Mr. C.G. Alabaster, summer, but it has been as high the present no action has been amount of gold' actually contained
The appointment of 'a High K.C., who is defending, in order to as allow time for the defence to obmost interesting fenture of the
one million. Probably the taken. Lack of funds is the cause by sea-water, which taken in co- Commissioner, whose post may tain evidence showing that Ho Fu paper is the number of letters 000,000 will be required before carried out by Professor Haber Generaley for: East Africa in of the delay as a sum of over $67,-junction with the investigations later be converted into a Governor has already been tried and dis- which it receives from readers. charged on the same charge in They pour in at the rate of fifteen the whole work can be completed.the celebrated inventor of synthes therefore, recommended. He will act as a 'personal link between the China.
tic saltpetre, and Dr. Junieke, his hundred or two thousand a day, Many plans have been devised by assistant enable us to obtain a Colonial Secretary and The written on leaves torn out of school note-books, on bita of
tions. Professor Haber has given, clear view of the existing condi-Northern Territories of Konya,
Uganda and Tanganyika. wrapping paper, often scrawled and mis-spelled, but giving con-
recent discoveries in a lecture debe the chairman, with executive The Governor-General should an illuminating' account of these vincing proof that the peasant has awakened to a point where he has
livered before the members of the powers, of a standing conference
of the three Governments. ideas and desires to express them. It is necessary that a completa Oceanographic Conference.
Other scheme be mapped out before this
territories Ngasaland, gigantic work can be taken in hand
Our present knowledge of the North Rhodesia, Zanzibar—require and the present play of Mr. Sun Fo subject is based on the research different arrangements. The ex- seems the most economical and work carried out by Dr. Kurt Isting cooperation between them feasible one as it.incuns cinployment Quasobarth, a collaborator of Pro-ahould continue and links main- for thousands of troops who would fessor Haber, on board the "Me-tained between them and the otherwise be idle.---Canton Gazette, teor." He analysed nearly 1,100 northern territories,
specimens of sea-water taken from The report recommends that |186 stations, and arrived at the consideration be given to the re- LONDON COMEDIAN. conclusion that as regards the placement of the adult franchise
uren explored by the "Meteor" ex-in Kenya by a franchise dopending | pedition-the average quantity of on civilisation qualification.— gold contained in sea-water is as Router. little as one four thousandth part of a gramme in one million kilu- grammce of water. This fraction
ly assumed. is only one fifteen hundredth part of the percentage figure previous
On an indletment of murdering Lau Mei near Kowloon City, on October 20 or 21, Lok Chol and Lau Hon will be brought before the
Chief Justice on Tuesday.
Many Charges,
Wu Wang-ngai, Li Lai-ehun, Lai Hon and Chau Hòi will be tried on counts relating to forged bank notes
A Girl Critic of Boys. These istles are on the most on Thursday. The first count diverse subjects, ranging from against them in that between Octo-politics and economies to reflec ber 1, 1928, and November 17, 1923, liona on
marriage and family with Chang Wing, by conspired life, and the future chronicler of together to utter forged nink the post-revolutionary Russian notea, purporting to be the $50 peasantry may look to them as a notes of the Hongkong and Shang valuable source of first-hand in- hal Banking Corporation, knowing formation. By running through a them to be forged, with intent to few dozen of the letters (only a
defraud.
few of which can be printed, due Li Lui-chan and Lai lon are fur.to space limitations, but all of
which ther charged with possession of 40 such bank notes, while Chan Hof is also charged with possession of a forged $50 note,
Another charge against Wu Wang- ngai ta that he was in possession of 13-pintes which could be used for forging notes while an additional charge against the same man al- leges that he was in possession of a pistol and 50 rounds of ammuni- tion without a licence,
are preserved, in the. archives of the newspaper) one the more articulate part of the may obtain a fair idea of what
peasantry is thinking.
of
the Governmental authorities Kwangtung and Hupeh for the completion of the railway, but could not materiálise for the aume reason,
APPEARING MONDAY -
AT THE STAR.
various
STREET EXPLOSION INQUIRY.
COMMISSIONERS TO HOLD PUBLIC SITTINGS.
London, Dec. 24. The Commissioners appointed by the Home Secretary to inquire into the circumstances of the Holborn street explosions are as follows:
Mr. R. G. Hotherington, deputy chief engineering inspector under the Ministry of Health. inspector of explosives and a mem- Licut-Colonel R. A. Thomas, an
ber of the Explosives in Mines Research Committee, and,
Coming to Hongkong after South Africa, India, Ceylon, Siam highly successful tour of England,
Land the Straits Settlements, Fred From a village In the wooded Coyne's London Musical Comedy Tests extending to northern province of Vologda a Company opena a season at the depths have proved that the dis girl writes that the local branch Star Theatre on Monday next attribution of the gold is not uni- of the Union of Communist Youth 9.15 p.m., confident of the same form, so that the inference is al- consist of two girls and four welcome accorded them wherever lowed that a considerable part of boys. The girls would like to read they have played.
the previous metal is not dissolved and study; but the boys prefer to
in the water, but rather forms dance and play and drink. From viously visited Hongkong as lead-resumption is borne out by the
Mr. Coyne himself has
pre-mechanical constituent of it. This Forgery and Embezzlement. another place in this province a
peasant complains that his Boning comedian in the Bandman fact vint the gold contents of sea- There are five counts against can go to school only four years, Companies and in a recent letter water showed a diminution after Lo Kung-pak, alias Las Pak-wai, and consequently will remain all to an old friend he says:-" the latter had been passed through alies Lo Cheong-lee, whose trial his life" half-dark man:" he bringing the company to Hong- centrifugal machine. Many of has been fixed for Fring. The calls for more and better schools. kong 1 am returning to ground in the amall particles of gold cling to first count is that on August 9, letters of criticism are far from which I hope I am still remember the no-called plankton, a name 1928, he uttered two impressions||infrequent. Su citizen Nazared, and the encouraging receptions applied to the numerous organisms of a forged die purporting to fe Misik, from the Slavgorod region in India make me hope for
Mr. E. H. Tabor, assistant chief the chop of the Kwong On Yuen of Siberia, offers the following kindly a welcome from new
45 of microscopic size floating or dift engineer, London County Council. acing in the ocean, Seeing that Firm, with intent to defraud. The economic computations; "Before quaintances as I think I can count these latter are chiefly found near Commissionsers on Saturday, and A meeting was held by the remaining counts are of emhez the war we got three arshines (non from old friends."
the surface, it is not surprising Mr. Hetherington made the follow- zling a total of $1,813,91, money measure equal to 2.4 feet) of cloth received by him on behalf of the Tor a pood (thirty-six pounds) of The local senson opens with to note that the upper layers of ing announcement:
2 Kwong On Yuen Firm, of which whent, and now we get only one. sparkling revue, "Keep Moving." sea-water contain relatively mor
"The Commissioners have, no- it is alleged, he was a co-partner. We also have to pay three times and will be followed by "Blerold than the lower ones.
thing to do with any question of Two of the cases in be heard he. as much for iron. A Leningrad Birds," "On The Road," "Some- fore the Paisne Judge relate to al-peasant criticises the introduction thing Doing" and "The Speed Quasebarth contain far, less gold
The regions explored by Dr.legal responsibility for what has occurred. Our business will be to legod passession of forged bank of the seven-hour, working day in Limit," in the order named. Each than the parts of the sea in the preferred industry, complaining that the piece in a distinct production and neighbourhood of Iceland and the agalist Tum Wing and Khaat peasants already work sixteen will be given on two consecutive east const Singh, the former being charged hours a day. with possession of 342 forged 314 currency notes purporting to he those of the Government of the
notes,
Counts U
Straits Settlements, whilst the late ter is alleged to have been in pos- session of 89 forged bank notes purporting to be $30 notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
down for hearing on Monday.
Robbery Cases.
J
The Village Correspondent.
..
endeavour to ascertain the actual course of events, and to see what
can be done to minimise the risk of a repetition of such occurrences and to devise safeguards for life and property.
of Greenland where Professor Haber and Dr. Janicke had carried out their investiga-
Public siltings for the hearing tions, the proportion between the quantities of gold found in the res-of evidence will be held after the pective regions being about 1.10. holidays.
£
it may therefore be assumed with
The "all clear" signal was given practical certainty that the parts in the danger zone on Saturday explored by Professor Haber and morning. -Two-way traffic was
nights.
The prices of admission will be Some of these letters come from at the popular figures of $3, $2 and casual writers; others sent in by $1, and seats may now be booked the fifteen thousand sycikors of in advance at Moutrie's and The village correspondents whom the Star Theatre. newspaper has at its disposal. These village correspondents, of whom there are several hundred
his collaborator are nearer to the resumed in New Oxford-street at At the Marine Court this morn-source of the gold than those in- 3 p.m., and shops which had thousand in the country, con- ing before Commdr. G. F. Hole, vestigated by the "Meteor," and been closed since Thursday reopen- These two cases have been solstitute a valuable intelligence R.N., four mistresses of cargo
service for the Soviet Government boats, charged with mooring their the research carried out by Dr. ed a little later, but not much in the rural districts. Their craft instore during dark hours, Quaseburth proves the the re-business was, done during the occupation is far from a safe one, pleaded guilty, but stated that ow-munerativeness of the technical evening. because the syelko, who exposes ing to high wind they were seeking extraction of gold from sen-water the embezzlements of the local shelter. They were severally fined is still less than even Professor officials or becomes unpopular | $5 with the usual alternative. with his more prosperous fellow- villagers by accusing them, in- dividually or collectively, of evading their proper share of taxation, is likely to be found in a remote spot with a bullet or Chan Tak-chus will be charged rule the village correspondents knife wound in his body. An a for having, with two others hide their identity by siguing their known, robbed Leung Kwai-ying letters with numbers, and some- of $26 in money and a cont, Leung times their communication's are Yu Kwan of 21 cents and a wrist not printed, but simply used an n watch, and Fung Háng of 60 cents. Rource of confidential information
for the higher authorities. '
On Tuesday, Ho Yan will face a charge of robbery by two or more at Rogulse Bay on May 25, 1925. He is alleged to have com- mitted the robbery with Tao Hang, alias Mai Chi, alias Ma Sau-cht, and to have stolen from Chan Cheang (now dead) two jackets
and $13.50 in money.
NOT USED IN ARMED
ROBBERIES..
CHINESE ARRESTED WITH AMMUNITION,
3.
1.
Becauso rifle ammunition was not used in armed robberies, Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon
The newspaper claims that in the course, of a year it has caused the removal of about a thousand corrupt and tyrannical local officials on the basis of letters from syelkors and peasant readers
FINE WEATHER,
"N.E. winds, fresh, fair" is the Magistracy this morning, took a local weather forecast up till noon rather lenient view of a case in to-morrow, The Observatory re- which a Chinose was charged with port alates that the anticyclone being in possession of 16 rounds of central over N.E. China has weak- such ammunition.
The defendant pleaded guilty, Sub-Inspector Stimson told his Worship that the defendant said ha had found tho ammunition which, the police thought, might have been dropped by military
ch.
His Worship fined the defendant $50, or one month's hard labour, and pointed out that if the am munition had been revolver, am- munition, he would have taken a moro serious view of the cuse,
ened slightly, Strong to fresh mon- soon may be expected along the S.E. const of China and over the N. China Sea.
Just before his death, which has Just taken place' at the age of 55. Oxford City Council decided to con for the freedom of the city on the Rev. George Bernard Cronshaw, Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, for his services as treasurer of the Radcliffe Infirmary."
· ©1995, BY NCA BEnver, Mċ HEGLU. PAT. OFF.
Haber had assumed.
"Oh, that's my great aunt; she always remembers us.
Every person in the aren Was able to return home on Saturday night to sleep. A temporary gus main has been installed, and except that the roadway is still up, the district is back to normal.... An official of the Gas Light and Coke Company told a Press re- presentative that all danger of further explosions, is over.
"No! gas is escaping now, and.. the broken mains have been sealed up,”// he added.
THIRD CONVICTION IN TEN WEEKS.
CHINESE THIEF GETS STIFF SENTENCE.
Within ten weeks, a Chinese who appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning, was convicted for the third time and was son- tenced to six months' hard labour on a charge of larceny of a basket containing clothing to the valug of $33 from No. 268, Portland Street sometime during. Wednes- day night.
The defendant was arrested, with the basket in his possession, by a Chinese detective and sub. sequent enquiries showed that it had been stolen from No, 208 Port- land Street.
•
The defendant, was first con- victed in: October last year and again in December, receiving one month's hard labour each time.
On the present charge tho de- fendant was sentenced to six months' hard labour:
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