STRANGE PIRACY STORY
KWANGCHI SEIZURE
REVELATIONS.
GANG RAIDS SHIHPU IN THE
COMMANDEERED SHIP.
LEAVE OFF CHEKIANG.
Shanghai, Nov. 11. Another China Merchants steamer has been pirated. This time it is the more or less obsolete vessel Kwangchi, a vessel of 1,000 tons or thereabouts, which has been for many years on various runs off the China coast. outrage took place near a port known as Haimen, a small port of the Chekiung coust and 'the vessel, at the time of pirating was on the
· Shanghai-Wenchow run.
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It appears that the pirates boarded the vessel as passengers and after carrying out their work used the hip to convey them to a small po 1 called Shibpu and where they robbed the Bread of Public Safety ot arms. and
ammunition.
They then left the ship which at present is in the bands of the port authorities at 'Shiḥpu. Orders have been given for the
ship to sail for Shanghai.
According to wireless mesangės from Haimen, all on board are safe although all valuables and clothes were taken by the pirates before they disembarked. Another repom states that one passenger was wounded at that another was carried off the marauders.
PARTNERSHIP
ISSUE.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
ACTION OVER DEBTS OF A KNITTING FACTORY.
PLAINTIFF SUCCEEDS.
A partnership issue was decided by the Puisne Judge (Mr. Justice Wood) in the Summary Cour yesterday afternoon. The action
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16,- 1929.
COLONY'S FINANCE A WAY THEY HAVE
FIGURES.
DROP IN CREDIT BALANCE IN JULY;
P.W.D. EXPENDITURE.
Financial returns for the Colony made up to the end of July show that the credit balance dropped during that month to $9,986,218, compared with 310,017,615 n; the end of June,
T
IN MEXICO..
FREE-FOR-ALL BATTLE IN MEXICO CITY.
REVOLVER SKIRMISH. -
Mexico City, Nov. 10.
The Very Idea!
Crouch End High School has been experimenting with a' variant of the Edison catechism, From a recent number of the school magazino it appears that the girls were asked: "What would you choose if you could have your choice-Beauty, Riches, Brains, a Five thousand supporters of Wonderful Voice, or a Gift for Jose Vasconcelos, the anti-re-elec- Art?" It seems a heavy choice tionist candidate, engaged in a re- with the eye of a headmistress on There is one volver battle to-day in the heart of you, but the replies showed a cre- Mexico City with followers of Fas-ditable candour. The month's revenue totalled $1,- quale Ortiz Ruble, the adminiatru-young lady who would like to be rich, "because one can do so much 878,754, as against $2,180,443 for tion-candidate.
Another aspires Fighting started when the good with it.". July of last year, the most note
round, und pink bally shoes apd worthy decline being in land sales, followers of Vasconcelos started to wear a bally frock with roses a pair of white socks and a crown which produced only $98,787 as to parade toward the of
and leaves." As of rose
fur compared with $235,649 in the same palace..
Brains:-
Dora Williams would rather,
for instance, if you went in for have, brains than anything else because they are most useful;
an examination you would not pass
you hadn't brains."
for
month of 1928.
national
followers
A group of Rubio's opened fire from the roof of his election headquarters,
Wo firm, No. 74, Jervois Street, against the Tung Fook knitting factory, and Fan Fook-yce, managing partner, both of No. 272, Portland Street, Mongkok, The claim was for the summ $744.20 being the balance due for golds sold and delivered.
Mr. F. C. E. Rendall was
Expenditure during July totalled plaintiff firm and Mr. O.E.C$1,930,151. against $1,608,704 last was year. The biggest increase Marton defended Fan Fook-vee under the heading of Public Works fire to the headquarters, throwing The paraders attempted to set who denied partnership with the factory, against which judgment Department, which accounted for Blaming torches through the win
$117,625, compared with $116,818 dows. had already been given.
A police riot squad finally quell-if
Eileen Davey would like the 'gift in July, 1928. There were also considerable increases in Juniored the disturbance. Clerical Staff, Fire Brigade, Milit Thousands watched the battle of brains because "I think it is use to you; it could not do y Contribution and Miscellaneous from the National Theatre and the most useful; beauty isn't any
Alameda Park, directly opposite. For the seven months from Janu- The interior of Rubio's head-arithmetic for you, neither could riches. A wonderful voice would ary to July inclusive, the revenue quarters was considerably was $18,373,327, compared with damaged by the fire. Stores in not be able to do algebra for $18,600,867 last year, the biggest the lower floor of the building were you shrinkage being nearly half a mil-demolished. Every window in the lion dollars in Licences and Internal building was broken. Revenue, Nat Otherwise Specified. A statement issued this evening was $11,498.742, against $11.476-the Anti-Re-electionist faction, said The syen months expenditure by Octavio Ostos, vice-president of 073 last year. The biggest increase that three had been killed and 12 was in respect of the Public Works wounded in the clash. Department.
the
Mr. Rendall said that on October 30. judgment was given against the firm and, the case against second defendant was adjourned sine dic. On the following · diy, said Mr. Rendall, his firm received from Messrs. Deacons a letter say ing they would accept service of the writ on behalf of the second defendant.
Continuing, Mr. Rendall dealt with the facts of the ease. Ha
said that Chin Kwai-hin sales man and manager of plaintiff firm, bad known second defendant for over three years, Sometime in 1927 defendant told Chin that he is "starting a family knitting factory in the name Tung Fook at Shamshuipo. At the same time he said that the capital would be Amall but as he (defendant) had had previous experience in the The Kwangchi left Wenchow same line and Chin was it sales. with a full cargo and many pasmin, the latter would be able to
Sighted by Wing Tui.
men.
Services.
YOUNG CRIMINAL PROBLEM.
(Continued from Page 1)
Most of the casualties were from the faction of Jose Vasconcelos, the Anti-Re-electionist candidate.
Valente
chief of Quintana, police, was injured when he was struck with a clubbed revolver,
KING AND QUEEN.
LEFT LONDON YESTERDAY FOR SANDRINGHAM.
sell the factory's goods and SO A further very extraordinary sengers on November 5 and after
17.5. recently report- being at sea for some 20 hours save money by employing fewer sentence
ed. A youth was given the option was seized by the pirates and the officers were forced to steer the
of a fine of $10 or so many strokes. Order Not Chopped. vessel in the direction of Shilpu.
If, that is, he was well oil, he could
London, Nov. 15. Another beamer, the Wing Tai. Subsequently, defendant told pay a fine, to which in these days
After a ten days stay, Their noticed that the Kwangehi was Chin that the factory had actually of motoring offences no stigma at- proceeding in a direction incom started. On April 20, 1928, de taches, but if he could not raise the Majesties the King and Queen left patible with her sailing pro- fendant ordered goods from plain- $10 he would be beaten, a sentence London to-day for Sandringham. gramme and reported the incident tiff firm. A contract was made out involving physical degradation and British Wireless. to the China Merchants Co. ut which was signed by defendant tending to turn the most respect- Ningpo. The Shanghai offfee of But when plaintiff asked him to able into a criminal.. the company was advised and the chop it, he said his signature was Chekiang provincial authorities good enough as he was the master and cotistul patroling police were informed of the occurence.
Accounts of the piracy show that after the ship was a day out from Wenchow, the pirates held up
the captain, qfficers, and engineers and ordered the Course it
Officers Bound. -
of the firm.
the difference between
in what seems to me this
Iris Sims would like brains, because "with brains you could gain riches, but with 'riches you could not gain brains.”
Mary Perkins would like brains, because "It would be rather duli without any."
1.
Betty Cuttell says, "People who have hardly any braina huve tôj ke to an asylum."
And the wise examiner adds a note to the effect that "we have excellent reasons for thinking that Betty is too optimistic."
"Ain't Jack done well, Mrs. J.? "What's he doin', Mrs. H."" "He's talking for the pictures."
the pictures! "Talking for What an up-to-date profession! What has he to say?"
"Sixpence, ninepence and shilling this way."
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A fahing story from America;- A new means of taking trout. from the San Jacinto Mountain streams, has been discovered.
some of the bootleg one of them happened to have brought along.
Arnold Bennett has in the earlier}
It appears that two local fisher chapters of "Clayhanger" illustrated jealous of the credit of the Colony.
men were having poor luck at a a beating am proud when I hear, na I do which is taken as part of the day's hear. Chinese praise the administra Californian creek, when one sug work, such as Clayhanger himself tion of Hongkong, and I am anxiousgested that the bait be soaked in received from the brutal miner that whom he had to precede to the mine urgent matter something should be of justice.. in the dark of the early morn, and done to show the real humanity of the judicial beating which he saw British administration inflicted in the workhouse on a peor No-one impugns the strict im- administra- little wretch who had run away partiality of British from the horrors of the life he lived ton of law: but in the matter of making the punishment fit not only the crime but also the offender there seems to be something still to be desired...
there.
After-Treatment Needed.
Is it not arxent thal offenders should be
Mr. Rendall went on to say that the goods were eventually paid for by defendant. On subsequent days other goods were ordered and an each occasion defendant signed he the contract, but on one occasion diverted to Shipu. On approach; payment was guaranteed by the ing the port, the pirates divided Hip Wa firm, defendant explaining themselves into two parties, one that that firm was a partner in the remaining on hoard and the olfer knilting factory. The first letter going on shore..
of demand was written on Septem ber 18, and on the following day ar bill of sale was executed in res The captain and officers were peel of machinery and effects in young
Of First Importance. "bound with cords as the vessel the factory. Between the letter separated from
brought under reforma- approached the port of Shihpn, of demand and the issue of the und;
When the qucation of the aboli- and the pirate landing party writ, defendant called upon plain- tive influences? Is it not urgent tim of extrality in China is before entered the Bureau of Publie til firm and asked the manager that some different form of punish-the Governments there will tend to Safety and obtained a large quan- not to press him so much and give ment
be thought out? And in be close scrutiny of those models of Uity of aras and ammunition further time for payment:
particular, is it not urgent that Western Justice which are nearest The ship then being in charge hi Chin Kwai-hin, manager
of some form of "after treatment" for to China. The practice of long the first party of
kong is of the first Importance, and pinates, the plaintiff firm, said he knew.de-he young criminal be designed? second or landing party returned Tendant as the proprietor and
Probably such reforms could only one would like to see it err on the and commenced to search the pas-salesman of defendant firm..
be worked out by some voluntary side of humanity, and be in front sengers. Meanwhile, the captain.
association working in conjunction of Home practice rather than be with the Government, and the hind it.
These considerations however, formation of some such associa-
a Chinese" was instructed to leave
port: Reaching a small port on
"Salesman, "Not Partner.
the
lags
the Cheklung coast, the pirates in outlining the defence, Mr.tion for the study of the problem are entirely secondary to the im- escaped in the ship's boats and Marton said that defendant was
in its local aspects, and the educa-mediate urgent question of the re- touk with them one of the pas merely a calesman and was not h
come within the orbit of the law, sengers whom they are holding for partner. The factory, he said, of public opinion, is greatly to claiming of these young lives which
be desired. ransom, The China Merchants was started by a man named Ho
I am writing from an outport and which so early in life incur auch Co. ia now endeavouring
Ping who appointed Len Yung-chi' to
becoming hopeless and arrange for the vessel to be could manager Acting on Hop Ping's and it may seem gratuitious for penalties as make it hard for them
one who does not live in Hongkong to avoid and for foodstuffs to be put on instructions, the manager engaged to raise these apparently demestic habitual criminals. "board so that the vessel may con as many employees
[We den with this question in our as were re- questions. But partly because I tinue the journey to Shanghai.
quired and one of the persons en- played by the manager was defendive in an outport. I am the more leading article to-day-Ed, H.K.T.]
The
CANTON GOLF.
THE TUNGSHAN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP.
Canton, Nov. 15, first two rounds of the Tungahan Recreation Club
Goit Championship, just concluded, pro duced a number of surprises.
Playing 18 holes, E. C..Sandstrom defeated Wow. Galloway in the first
defeated
then
ant. Hop Ping paid various sume
of money to the cianager and told him it was money subscribed by friends as their shares of the capital. The manager. kept two books of account, a general ac- count book and a salaries book. His Lordship would see from the latter that 'defendant received a salary of $30 a month and no com- mission. The names of partners were written in the general ac count book together with capital subscribed.
round by 4 up and 3 to play. W. F. The manager of defendant firm Gilman defeated P. T. Carey in the and gave the names of partners.. the confirmed Mr. Marton's remarka first round by 5 and 4. and
P. K
K. Batchelor in the all of whom he said. were away round by
3. F. E. W from the Colony. Defendant, he mert, after playing a splendid explained, was not a partner, but wame in the first round and defeating was a man employed by him (wit
T.
A. Lay by 3 and 2, went completely ness)
off in the second round and lost to shroff's work.
L. H. Rufin by 3 and 2. The full
results of the first two rounds are as
follows:
First Round.
to buy and sell and
Plaintiff Succeeds.
sto
His Lordship held that defend-
R. K. Batchelor, defeated G. Cant had held himself out to be a
Kitching by 3 and 2.
Wm. F. Gilman defeated P. T. “Carey by 5 and 4.
J. T. Smith defeated A. Baker Carr by 3 and 2.
E. Sandstrom defeated Wm. Galloway by 4 and 3.
partner to Chin both in conversa- tion, as in evidence, and by signing contracts indifferently in his own rinme and the firm's name. Leave would be granted to plaintiff to issue execution on the previous
Defendant would
Greenen Walk Over; G. W. judgment given against the firm an
scratched.
F. E. W. Lammert defeated A.
Lay by 3 and 2,
J. M. Walker defeated R.
Rutherford by & and 4.
B. H. Anthony defeated E. R. HU
by 2 and 1..
Second Round.
October 30,
T. have to pay the costs on the issue,
0.
Wm. F. Gilman defeated R. K. Batchelor by 4 and 3.
J. T. Smith defeated C. E. Sand- strom by 2 and 1.
L. H. Rufin defeated. F. E, W. Lammert by 8 and 2...
J. M. Walker defeated B, B. Anthony by E and 1.
The semi-finals will be played off
on Sunday next, 17th November, over Sunday, 18 holes; and the finals on
the 24th November, over 36 holes. If they play in the semi-finale up to their usual form. J. T. Smith and J. M. Walker should be the finalista "Our Own Correspondent.
LO JOSEHRA BEBACE INSC
"I was once a young and carefree lad like you-"
This was tried, and at, the first cast the rod bent nearly double, and it took the combined efforts of the
Then it was discovered that thei two-sportsmen to reel in the prize. worm had seized a big fish by the throat and was choking it.
The spectators at a horse show were particularly thrilled by the skill shown by a horseman whe, after performing various acrobatic feats on the animal's back, finished up by careering round the ring us he hung underneath the horse's neck.
"My goodness!" exclaimed a pretty girl, "but isn't he simply marvellous?"
"Pooh," Her escort replied, scorn- fully, "I don't see anything won- derful about that. That's what I did the very first time I got on
horse!"
An amazing marriage took
Mrs. F. E. Stevens, # wealthy place at Woking, Surrey, recently. widow of eighty-four, was wedded to Mr. Cyril Mills, aged twenty- three. Mrs. Stevens, who had been a widow for over forty years, is the owner of considerable property in the neighbourhood. Her twenty- three-year-old bridegroom is the son of a local garage proprietor. The wedding was the outcome of an attachment of some three years' standing. The bride's desire was to have someone to whom she might leave all her valuable property,
Woman, in an assault. case nt Penge I would not hurt a cat. 1 have a mother of my own.
North London Woman I do not mind my face being torn to pieces, but I do object to my fingers being bitten.
a re-
Woman at Glasgow-My husband kicked me into the bed. Sheriff Robertson-Ah! Evidently versal of the usual practice.
Glasgow Stipendiary Magistrate --The most effective mixture for making a man or a woman drunk appears to be red wine and beer.
Woman at Glasgow Central Police Court I have a weak leg, and it sometimes goes under me. Magist rate That is what drunk legs often
do.
ATTACK ON HARBIN?
SOVIET EXPECTED TO LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE.
Nanking, Nov. 15,
Harbin will be the objective of the next Soviet attack, which is expected to be launched shortly. according to a despatch from Chang Hauch-lang-Reuter.
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