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rouga 六拜 號九十月十英港香
NO. 22,9'4
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929. BŁAŁ
EM PER ANNUM SINGLE OGPY 10 CENTE
SERIOUS MISHAP AT FOREIGNER TAKEN
BY BANDITS.
HOTEL
PRIVATE OF K.O.S.B. FALLS
FROM BALCONY.
SEVERELY INJURED.
A social function attended by a large number of men of the Ser vices at the Savoy Hotel last night, was marred by serious mishap, when a private of the 2nd
Battalion, the King's Own Scottish Borderers, accidentally fell from a balcony of the building, and was seriously injured as a result.
FALLS INTO AMBUSH NEAR SWATOW.
BADLY BEATEN FOR PUTTING
UP RESISTANCE.
SMALL RANSOM PAID.
Swatow, Oct. 17.
SPLENDID FLIGHT BY THE R101."
AVERAGE SPEED OF SIXTY MILES AN HOUR.
| NOT EXCITING ENOUGH
London, Oct. 18.
The new British airship, the R101, made its second trial flight to-day at a higher speed than on the occasion of hor"first' flight. An average speed of sixty miles an hour was maintained.
JAPANESE REPLY TO BRITAIN.
FULL TEXT OF NOTE IS PUBLISHED.
STRESS ON IMPORTANCE OF PREPARATION.
FOLLOW PRECEDENT.
London, Oct. 18.
Leaving the mooring mast at Cardington at 8 o'clock this morn- towns in the midlands, including noon issued the text ing, she sailed over many large
The Foreign Office this after-
ham and Derby.
of the Northampton, Coventry, Birming-
Japanese Reply to the British invitation to the naval disarma- ment conference to be held in London in January.
gistration of these girls, which is trade and fell on to the floor of the perience in the vicinity of Chao-dington just before half past two. comes the conference, but inys
lounge.
It appears from a police report ance, 1923, in order to increase its this morning, that Pte. A. King, misfortune, to fall into the hands Not everybody who has had the efflelency, is indicated in the draft who belongs to "C" Company, of of a new Bill which is to come the 2nd. En. K.O.S.B., was with a
of bandits in Kwangtung has before the Legislative Council friend on the balcony of the dance managed to get off quite so lightly shortly.. Besides dealing with floor, when through some cause
39 Mr. E. Ozorio, a British subject, perfect. Everywhere crowds flock- The weather conditions were Various aspects of the mui tsai which has not been established, who is on the Swatow staff of the ed into the streets and watched problem, the amending Ordinance except that it was of an accidental Java hina-Japan-Line, and who the fight with the keenest in appears to pave the way for re-nature, he tonnled over the balus- has just returned to Swatow with terest.
the story of an unpleasant ex-
The Japanese Government wol. The airship was back at Car. chaofu.
The Air Minister, Lord Thom- great stress on the importance of Mr. Ozorio was captured by son, who was aboard as a pas- preliminary discussion of the armed. Imprisoned in a deserted dealing with official business. points at issue, in order that there seven men, three of whom were senger, -occupied his time in hut in the country for a number He expressed great enthusiasm shall be little or no possibility of of hours, and released, through the over the flight and declared that a repetition of the Geneva failure. it gave him a rare opportunity of good offices of some Chinese friends with whom he was able to dealing with arrears of business communicate, after the payment of the necessary ransom.
one of the principal demands of the Anti-Mui Tani Society.
It is explained in the Objects and Reasons that Section 2 of the 1923 Ordinance
prohibits the bringing into the Colony of any new mui tsai, but if a mui tsai is already in the Colony the sec- tion will not prevent her being taken
ard out of the Colony -brought back again, provided that she is registered under the Ordin- ance before she is taken out.
Gross Cruelty.
Section 3 of the amending Ordin- ance repeals sections 7 and 8 of the principal Ordinance, Section 7 was inserted in the principal Or- dinance in its passage through the "Legislative Council. It provides that in every prosecution for over- work or ill-treatment of a muí teai medical evidence shall be given as to the injuries received by the mui tsai, that the magistrate must find whether such ll-treatment amounted to gross cruelty, and that if the magistrate finde gross aruelty the offender must be sen- tenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine.
Two Dangers.
The object was the laudable one that cases of gross cruelty should be adequately punished. There are, however, two dangers. One is that even gross cruelty may leave no indications to which a medical witness can point, and the medical evidence right even have the effect of weakening the evid- ence of gross cruelty.
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He received injuries of a serious nature and was hurriedly removed to the Military Hospital.
Private King, is well-known in local athletic circles, being a runner of some note.
THE CHIEF SCOUT
HONOURED.
RECEIVES FREEDOM OF CITY OF LONDON...
A CIVIC MOVEMENT.
Ambush Laid,
It appears that Mr. Ozorio went tó Chaochaofu recently to pay a visit to some Chinese friends... On arrival, they suggested some sight-seeing around Pang Koi, a village near to the railway but. nearer to Swatow than Chao- chaofu.
Four in number, the party walk- ed across country to Pang Koi and anothing untoward occurred until
they were on their way back.
London, Oct. 18. More than two hundred Boy Scouts and Girl Guides gave real Scout welcome to Lord Baden- Powell, Chief Scout, to-day when be visited the Guildhall to receive the Freedom of the City of London to mark the coming-of-age of the Scout movement.
Among those present were Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the Archbishop of Canterbury, representatives of civic bodies and the religious life of the City, and leaders of the Boy. Seout movement from all parts of the country.
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At about four o'clock in afternoon, while returning across out upon them from the conceal- country, four men suddenly sprang ment of some bushes, and imme diately demanded
money by
menaces.
Robbers Ilesisted.
It was evident that they had been seen on the outward journey
LIBERALS AND LABOUR GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Lloyd George Gives an Assurance.
A REASONABLE CHANCE.
London, Oct. 18. Addressing a large meeting. at Pontyridd to-day, Mr. Lloyd George, the leader of the Li-. beral Party, said that the Liberals would have neither hand nor part in any premature attempt to eject the Labour Government from office before they have had every reason- able chance of showing what they can or cannot do.-Reuter.
undisturbed by the interruptiona which he suffered at his office.
weather did not put the airship to His only regret was that the ly put up a resistance and, while a more severe teat-British Wire- the scuffle was going on, one of less. his friends escaped the attention
London, Oct. 18.
Sir Adrian Pollock, City Cham-and that a trap had been laid. beriain, presenting the Chief Scout with a gold box containing that the men' were not armed, but Mr. Ozorio realising, however, a copy of the Freedom, talked of were merely petty robbers, natural. the good influence of the Scout movement all over the world. He said there had never been a mova ment, which had succeeded
so of the rufflans. Within a few The British R101 re-moored at A more serious danger is that in rapidly, and generations to come minutes, the ruffians were joined Cardington this afternoon after a advertent failure to call medical must decide the great Scout lead by three confederates, two pro- most successful flight occupying evidence on a charge under section | er's place in history.
ducing automatic pistola and one six hours and covering a distance In reply to the presentation, a long butcher's knife. 6 of the principal Ordinance might
of approximately 860 miles. The lead to the quashing of a convie-Lord Baden-Powell said he realis- |
weather was ideal and it could tion. It is even possible that if
not be said that the great airship the charge were one of common as
was subjected to a test at all. sault, and medical evidence was
Reuter. not called, the conviction might be attacked on the ground that sec- tlon 7 of the principal Ordinance would apply to the charge of as- sault on ʼn mui trei ns well as to a charge expressly laid under sec-
tion 6...
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Section. Repealed. Section 7 is therefore repealed.
cused must be sentenced to im prisonment without the option of
a fine. The provision that medical evidence must be called is omitted.
ed the honour was bestowed upon
con-
Mr. Ozorie then saw that further him merely as the figurehead of resistance was useless and a great brotherhood. It would en.sequently surrendered. courage and inspire Scouts to do He and his friends were blind- their best.
folded and led away, the destina- tion afterwards turning out to be somewhere around E. Kol, which is the terminus of the railway line.
"I will encourage them," said the Chief Scout, "to see not only that they do get the best out of life, but that they put their best into it. This presentation means that the Scout movement is recognised as a civic movement. and not a militaristic one." British Wireless.
HOURS OF WORK ON BOARD SHIP.
小
CONSULTATION WITH THE
GOVERNMENTS.
Geneva, Oct. 18.
-Beaten For Resisting. Towards nightfall they found themselves in the "bed-siting; room" of a little hut in a remote part of the countryside.
SIR HUGH CLIFFORD,
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RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY HIS MAJESTY.
London, Oct. 18. His Majesty the King has accepted the resignation of Sir Hugh Clifford, the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, which was" tendered earlier this week owing to the serious ill-health of Lady Clifford. Sir Hugh and Lady Clifford are leaving for Home on the Karmala to-morrow-Reuter.
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Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
A Kowloon resident complaina "Veronica:"If you can't get of the noises from adjacent flats. rid of your freckles, why not have That's the worst of living only a the patches in between them. tone's throw from your neigh- tattooed the same colour as the freckles? Then they won't be
bours:
Been.
Local footballers are beginning to realise that, in order to be suc- We understand that several cessful, they must take their cour- local cabinet-makers have tender- age in both feet.
ed for the supply of a round table
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to the order of Sir Robert Ho
Now that the cool weather is Tung. coming in, baseball fans will not bë so active.
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A boatwoman has been fined for making fast to a steamer. Yet MacWhirter says if there's one they never fine a steamer for mak.............. thing a man doesn't understand ing fast to a buoy.. in marriage, it's his wife.
The latest from a school-boy's The Week's Cynicism:-Some essay: "The camel 3p carry Others become the husbands of possesses which will last it for a men find obscurity naturally, enough water in a pouch which it
well-known women.
few weeks; trom this, by, a passage," water is passed to it is hoofs, which keeps them moist and provente them being burnt by the hot sand."
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"Sing a Song of Sixpence"
what we used to sing
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Our Higher English!" A lecture
In bygone days, when six
pence was a useful little: thing. But now, with prices going up is to be given under the auspices instead of coming down, of the newly-formed English Asso- It's difficult to sing a song of ciation, the subject of, which will
less than half-a-crown. be "J. Nauston!"
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This is the of year
The Reply says that the time Japanese Government are happy to when a man dis- signify their entire concurrence In the desirability of the pro-
covers that his posed conference and are ready vests no longer to appoint representatives to take match his suits. part in the conference.
The Japanese Government are Marriage may further gratified to know of the bea tie but willingness of the British Govern- usually one side ment to contiue the informal con-wins. versations with the Japanese Am- bassador in London as hitherto,
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What Hong- on the many points which may re-kong needs is quire elucidation.
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"May I have the next dance, please, Miss. Smithers?"""
"Sorry; I'm engaged." "What does that matter? I'm married,"
some method of They note that similar discus increasing the sione conducted in London-by-the British Prime Minister with the price of every
without American Ambassador during the thing last three months has cleared the adding to the ground for an agreement on all cost of living. essential points between the British and American Govern- Some of these girls who are menta prior to the invitation ex-dressed simply perfect are never tended to the other naval powers theleas perfectly simple. to meet in the conference.
The Japanese Government attach the highest importance to the same procedure being. followed by the Japanese and British Government in order to ensure an agreement between them on the various questions that are to be laid before the conference.
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In Hongkong a man's better half sometimes becomes
his better three-fourths,
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There seems to have been some double crossing about this tram track controversy.
What about a weekly list of
starting times
for the office?
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says ancient Britons used to play
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game something like tennis. So do some Hongkong folk.
With all these schemes for cheap electricity at Home, the political parties won't be able to say that the electorate is un- enlightened.
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Once there was a town in the United States so old-fashioned, re
"This low dollar makes things mote; slow and small that no one decidedly punk," asserted a Peak there ever held an
endurance
tram passenger the other day, flying record. What about the good old punkah- days!
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In view of the hard times ahead, old bathing costumes should be The success of the forthcoming utilised as winter undies. conference no doubt dependa in a large measure
If the dollar were in ratio, to. silverfish in this Colony, I would go lower still.
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There were hard lines at the Races last Monday-car Ilnes
We should hate to have a date: on the calendar at the Criminal Sessions..
factory issue of such preliminary sauve. That's because of the soft
upon the satis- Some of these brokers are very round the Valley. discussions and the Japanese Go-soap they use. vernment confidently trust In- formal conversations between the British
the Government and Japanese Ambassador on questions of special moment, will be carried on and completed before these questions are presented to the conference for final adjustment.
nunciation
The Four Principles.
Some of its provisions are repro-:
With regard to the four points of principle mentioned in the duced in the new section 18 of the
The captives were searched and
British note as the subject, of a principal Ordinance, which is to
deprived of all they jointly bad in
provisional agreement between the "be enacted by section 7 of this
their possession, that is about
British and American Govern. Ordinance. That section will pro-
$131.00. This done, Mr. Ozorio
ments, the Japanese Government vite that in every prosecution un-
was subjected to a severe beating
hope to be able to submit their der section 6 of the principal Or-
for the simple reason that he had
observations in course of the in- dinance the magistrate shall find
previously resisted them,
formal conversations which the whether the acts or omissions
This closed the first act, and the
Japanese Ambassador will shorly proved, if any, amounted to groas
A British Wireless message says hold with the British Government, It was announced at the Mari-second opened with the bandits cruelty, and if he so finds the ac-time Conference to-day that the bargaining for
that the following telegram " has ransom money.
They would, however, make use committee which has been con. They demanded $200 from each of been sent by the Colonial Secretary of this occasion gure the sidering the hours of work on the captives and threatened that to Sir Hugh Clifford: "I am com- board ship, has decided to exclude refusal would mean death on themanded by His Majesty the King British Government of their cor
dial support of the principle to inform you that he accepts your the fishing industry from the dis-morrow. The victims of the attack resignation and is much distressed that the treaty for the re
pleaded thai that amount was to hear the reason which has neces Paris
of war signed st A resolution has been passed by outside their means to produce; by situated it. The King appreciates
in 1928 should be Section 8 of the principal Ordin- the committee, suggesting that the twelve m'duight an agreement was the long and distinguished services taken as the starting point for all ance provides that the provisions Government should be consulted reached by which the ransom was which you have rendered to the
discussions on disarmament. of the Offences against the Person with regard to the definition of a reduced to $80 aplece.
Security Inspired, Ordinance, 1865, and of the Protec- normal hour's work and an actual tion of Women and Girls Ordin-on for overtime and the amount hour's work; overtime, compensa- ance, 1897, shall as hitherto apply of work required for safety. to mui tapi. To provide that an Reuter. enactment in force is still in force is, to any the least, un- -usual, but the insertion of this section in the ́Ordinance In committee was justifled by the desirability of drawing public attention to the fact that mui teai were within the protection of the two Ordinances referred to
Protection Assured.
It was also perhaps useful as Implodly. preserving certain rights" of guardianship, conferred on the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by section 32 of the Fro taction of Women.and Girlo Ordin ance, 1897, wh
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cussions..
SPANISH FURNACE
EXPLOSION.
WATER MIXES WITH MOLTEN METAL
Bilbao, Oct. 18.
Ransom Paid.
Empire".
One of Mr. Ozario's friends was MÓTOR FÅTALITÝ AT. then released and in the company
of two bandits went to Chaochow city to raise the ransom money.
TAIPO.
A LORRY.
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A scientist says it is not too fan- tastic to say that the time will come when the day's work can be done by pulling a lever or press- Hung On, true to her name, is still It would appear that the .8.8. inga button. But we'd hate to hanging on the rocks. play golf that way.
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"Russians On Hunger Strike.*
A dog should be treated as one says newspaper heading. For
of the family, says a fancier. tunately, they've been in training
Why he so harsh as all that? for a long time.
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Bannockburn has been reversed.
[A low dollar, we are told, is the only way to increase Hongkong's trade with China.]
According to those in the know, retire on holiday. › “ There really can, be nothing
finer
We learn that Mr. Bruce will now
Than to keep the dollar down
low
And thus give us more trade
with Chinu.
But as the old dollar drops
more,
Our living costa keep going up, Whilst China drops business for
war-
Can you guess who has pur-
chased the pup?
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America is a country where you're liable to be arrested if you park too long in front of a blind pig.
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They feel confident that the sense of national security Inspired by the provisions of that, treaty in
The worst thing about these the mutual relations of the con pram thefts is that somebody has tracting Powers will pave the way to carry the baby.
standing questions relative naval disarmament.
to
Henry Ford is to write the story of his life. Real auto-biography.
In conclusion the Japanese
Let's hope this round table will square things up.
By reason of the date, there's not the same opportunity for the aching head after the Aitkenhead Shield final: this year.
Now is about the time to shake. the silverfish out of the old kilt,
Hongkong racing men do not prefer blondes. Dark Eyes Zotch- ed the biggest price at the Jockey Club auction.
0.0 Local art has at least got some one to make a Noise about it.
It looks as if Australians think the Labour party Canberra govern thein.
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By three in the morning he had CHINESE FARMER KILLED BY for a final settlement of the out returned with the "silver bullets" and eventually the whole party
These sticklers for English un were once again free men.
A motoring fatality occurred In
defiled should not forget that it is! The bandits "graciously" led the Talpo district at 3 pm, on Government expresses the sincere For the Tramway Company, the "r" which takes the sting out them half way In the darkness Thursday, when Leung Ching, a and earnest hope that the con- double tracks mean double tax of beer! and by daylight the unfortunate fisherman aged 20, living at an un- ference will succeed in the
OO The accidental mixture of water three reached Chaochowfu, where numbered house at Tin Kok, Taipo, adoption of plaus calculated to "Rubber Poole," says a news with molten metal, in a furnace Mr. Ozorlo, after borrowing was knocked down and killed by a promote international peace and paper heading. Should give was this afternoon responsible for enough money for his train fare, motor lorry, No. 527, owned by good will and to relieve humanity divers a bouncing time, a terrific explosion of a blast entrained for Swatew Apart Hung Hing and Co. of Taipo Mar of the heavy burden of armaments, woo furnace at Baracaldo.
from a haggard face, dn empty ket, and driven by Yan On. whether existing or contemplated. We hear of a local motorist who People who have so theories At least twelve of the steel stomach and an aching body Mr. The scene of the fatality was in It is not merely, the limitation but has christened his car The Wasp whatever about bringing up chil- workers have been killed and fifty Ozorio felt little the wome for his the main road near the District also the reduction of armaments because it's always getting stuck dren usually are the parents of Injured.-—Reuter,
experience.-Telegraph Special. - - Officer's house.
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several.
The Russian raiding parties seem determined to Amur away on the Manchurian border,