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SHANGILAI, Feb. 19. -At the Shanghai Municipal Elec- tions seven British one American and one Japanese were elected. Mr. Brooke Smith headed the poll.
FRAWLEY COMPANY.
A COLOMBO INCIDENT.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1920.
KENNEDY TOWN FIRE
ENQUIRY.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
JAPANESE CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHTER.
As was mentioned in a small paragraph in yesterday's China Mail extra, an enquiry lito the circum- stances attending the recent disis-morning before the Puise Judge. The Criminal Sessions opened this trous fire which broke out in some Mr.
Justice Gompertz. Yoshio rice godowns at Kennedy Town, was Nakama pleaded not guilty to opened before M-J. R. Wood at the indictment of manslaughter, Magistracy yesterday afternoon. The Attorney-General, Hon. Ma. Mr. E. Davidson appeared for the J. H. Kemp. K.C., with Mr. G. H. Insurance Companies concerned, and for the Crown. The prisoner was Wakeman, Crown Solicitor, appeared.
Mr. M. H. Turner for the South undefended. China
An amah employed by the tenant of No. 27 said she went out to buy
Opening the case the "Attorney- General said the prisoner was charged with the manslaughter of a man eni- ployed on the s.s. "Teikai Maru." The prisoner was a fireman the
Straits papers have been very pro- perly attacking a new Ordinance down there, which gives an official the un- precedented power to close down any newspaper that may criticise him. The Government apologists say, of course, that this would not be done; but the guarantee is not good enough, If under section 3 of the Bill the Another big jewel robbery took Calonial Secretary
some time between the "may in his displace cretion grant to any person in the hours of 11.30 last night and 8:30 Colony a licence to keep and use a this morning on the premises of press for the printing of documents Messrs. Mohideen and Company, of and may at any time withdraw such No. 38 Queen's Road Central, the licence either permanently or for such total loss, as far as can be estimated period as he thinks fit," that gives at the moment, being about $20,000, him more power than the British no portion of which is covered-by in- Press Law ever contemplated, and asurance. The method by which the power he would certainly use if he robbers originally entered and left the
Commercial Company, in The following jury was called : has it. There is right of appeal, but premises is at present a mystery. The what use is that? The paper would robbery is similar to other recent
whose godown the fire originated-Messrs. J Evans, K. F. Lay, A. "G, da Silva, C. F. von Oford; H. M. be out of business pending appeal burglaries in that the shop itself was
Mr. M. K. Lo watched the proceed-Webb. j. C. Ribeiro and C. A. and probably go bust. Imagine where entered by the removal of a wooden
ings on behalf of the tenant of Carvalho.. the China Mail would have been if partition. Mohideen's is really a
When the Frawley Company was No. 27 Praya West, one of the they could do that sort of thing. portion of the ground floor occupied
in Singapore perhaps its least gutted houses. However, what we started to point by Messrs. Cheilaram, sik merchants,
"For Ever out is the strange lack of principle and is partitioned off from the successful production was manifested by the critics of the Billater by strong iron bars After." It was all drama and local The Straits Times, which ought to at the side, but at the back there is audiences preferred comedy. It was know better, as it has been a famous only a thin wooden partition covered the same in Colombo apparently but some cigarettes for her master at ship and the deceased, Mitsuji Kubota, (fighter of the panjandrums and their with stout wire netting. On the there the audience, less polite than 10.30 p.m. On her way back to the was a greaser. On January 24 these ramps, goes on like this "It would i other side is a passage leading to the the Singapore one, was not slow to house at about 1 pm she passed two men' had a quarrel about some
the South China Commercial Com "At first," be a simple matter to exclude from staire giving access to the upper express its feelings. the ordinance all newspapers which floors, which are used as offices and we read, "the audience laughed in the pany's godown, and saw two men work in connection with a leak in a
the genuine
standing outside. The dccr of the boiler. They quarrelled for about 20 have been duly registered as such along the passage the partition is wrong place under for a period of three years, or, if the further protected by strong iron bars. belief that they were expected to do godown (No. 26), was open, She minutes at breakfast in the mess room vernacular press is aimed at, then, At the end of the passage is an iron so, but they did not cease laughing paid no particular attention to the and eventually they came to blows. all newspapers printed in English gate which gives access to the back when they discovered their error occurrence. She went to bed socn The deceased then went into his cabin and duly registered according to part of Chellaram's shop and it is. They had come there to be amused after her returns home, and it was and came out again with a knile, with law." The vernacular Press is just au mised that by means of a dupli and they were apparently determined whilst she was asleep, that the fire which he apparently threatened "the as much entitled to the freedom of cate key this gate was opened. This to get their money's worth. The alarm was given She rushed out to file of the prisoner. The Aght began the Press, and is as much covered by theory, however, is strongly discount position was a most painful one for investigate and found No. 26 was again and the prisoner picked up a "poker" with which to defend himgelt. Ltd the principle involved, as the the ed by the fact that another sent the players, and it became in tolerate well alight-
A Chinese watchman next gave This was taken away from him by newspapers printed in English. We has to be opened, and after that when the pathetic climax-when
met in evidence and said that on the 3rd the other men and he struggled with are shocked by this willingness to there is a stout wooden door protect the hero and heroine
Base Hospital, the former inst., he patrolled Nos, 27 to 31. He the deceased. Prisoner took the concede the principle of one law for led by an iron bar on the inside
as a severely wounded soldier and noticed that both padlocks on the knife away, but instead of being saris- the rich and one for the poor, There are no signs whatever of that or one law for the Respectable papers door being tampered with. As found the latter as a nurse was heralded by door of the godown situated on the fied with having disarmed the man, he owned and contro"ed by the Interests this morning the door could only rosical cheers. At this stage Mr. ground floor of No. 26, were unlock used it against him and stabbed him and one for the Independents.
have been opened by somebody inside Frawley ordered the curtain to be ed. He did not consider this extracr to the heart, killing him. The defence Chellaram's shop. which naturally lowered and came forward, naturally dinary. Several other witnesses gave which he set up at the Police Station, Uneven distribution is the sore spot on propts the theory that one of the indignant, and, received with a sym- evidence. One of them, the former where he was charged with murder, DISTRIBUTED. civilization. Shang burglars must have secreted himself pathetic burst of applause, expressed principal tenant of the second floor of was that it was an accident. In his hai is short af colle in the shop overnight. That theory, surprise at the audience's lack of ap- No. 26, said that at 5 p.m., on the 3rd statement he admitted that he took labour, and Europe is full of unem-however, does not account for the preciation. The performance was inst., he saw two men taking four the knife away and said that it might opening of the iron gates. An em thus abruptly brought to an end about laden hemp bags into the ground have touched the deceased's body.
floor of No. 26.
The wound 'was one and a half to wo eleven o'clock.-F.
The accountant of the South inches deep. penetrating, the heart and China Commercial Company was then it seemed to him. the Attorney-Gen- called, and deposed that the last eral, that it could hardly have been an occasion on which the godown was accident. One had heard of the opened, was on the 1st inst. Witnesspeople in the old days committing sui- kept the keys of the godown in the cide by falling on their swords, but it
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ployed monarchs America has too much gold and Europe too little.ployee of Chellaram's stated that one This list can be extended by anybody about 11.30 and that was the electric peculiar thing happened last night at I who feels that way.
light in his room above the shop, "B.T.O." writes in which he sleeps, was cut off.. OUR "ESTATES." in to call the He sent for one of the servants to
Adversarian's at-
get the light put on again but this
a
AMERICAN NEWS.
The American Consulate General
the
United on the 3rd. Witness admitted that
Mr. Davidson informed the Court
tention to "a bloomer in an American could not be done and the employee has received a navy wireless message office. He had not given permission would be recollected that usually the paper", which defines the three assumed that a wire bad fused and Indicating that the Secretary of to any of his fohis to open the godown sword had to be held by an amend
estates of the realma" as the clergy. left the matter for attention this State of TARANTULLE. the lords (temporal) and the Com-morning. Whether that had any States, Mr. Robert Lansing, has re- the shop was responsible for the ant. So in order that the deceased mons. He thinks (as many have connection with the burglary is of signed his office effective Feb. 16 safety of the property in the godown. could have got the wound the knife Crown. The American paper is right, theory the police may have formed (and and the President in which President to adjourn the enquiry for a couple dene) that the first estate is the course pure speculation. Whatever after a correspondence between him At this stage, Mr. Wood decided must have been held pretty firmly.
Commenting on the question of and he is wrong. The very phrase, they are naturally very reticent) the Wilson'accused the Secretary of usurp of days.
self-defence the Attorney-General re- of the realm", shows that the China Mail man who investigateding. Presidential powers by calling
marked that it would have to be shown Crown is not one of them, since it is that matter gathered that they did a meeting of the cabinet during the that efforts were now being made to the prisone: did everything he could the realm. But nowadays all that is not favour the suggestion that a President's illness. The correspond clear the debris from the gutted to avoid continuing the fight and that dead, anyway. The people are the robber had secreted himself in the ence published indicates that on Feb. houses. to all sorts of trouble to raise the wind realm and the estates thereof,
Counsel said that after that killing was the only possible way of in other ways. We know one man
building over night. In Muhideen's 7 the Fresident addressed a letter work had been completed, a survey protecting his own life. Prisoner had There has always been a shop jewel cases and trays were to Mr. Lansing asking him if it was of the place would be made. He not suggested that he killed the mant
in self-defence. "TRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE who draws cheques but hates present-
PEACE. feeling a quite under-scattered all over the floor, the true, as he had been told, that the thought the work would occupy a
Concluding, the ing them. so he goes into a "store,
standable feeling) that contents having been removed. Secretary had called cabinet meet: week at least.
Attorney-General said there were buys something he doesn't want, and Germany ought to have been over A safe containing some valuable ings during his illness indicating Further bearing of the enquiry several degrees of manslaughter, asks the tradesman if he minds cash-run by French soldiers as France was stones was untouched. The method that such An act was
was ultimately fixed for next Tues. Some cases almost amounted to mur ing this small chequeno time to by Germans. It begins now to look of departure is as great a mystery as constitutional since the President day.
der, while others were slight: and go round to the bank myself." he ex- as if the French themselves desire the method of entry, for the above only had the right of calling such a
could be met by a short term of ime plains. This is good for trade. Posthis, and are assuming their present mentioned iron gates were still meeting. Mr. Lansing replied on the
prisonment or even a Ane. He did sibly these things, these psychological stiff attitude with that object. The locked. The proprietor of Mohi 9th that he had called an informal phenomena. explain why so many Germans, through Herz Noske, have deen's Insists that the robbery must people who have current accounts so said openly that they expect French have been committed by someone persistently borrow, petty cast from aggression. Hayas comments seem who was acquainted with the disposi- their friends and forget to repay to be leading up to something of the tion of the valuables in his shop. them. There is one man to whom sort we have learned to say: "No. 1 won't lend you a ten-spot. but I'll cash a cheque for you." He seems just as much.obliged to us.
EONGKONG, WEDSTADAY, FEB. 18, 1920,
FINANCIAL.
A lady contributor sem a servant to the China Mail office on Monday morning with a rote demanding pay- men for her contributions by re- turn" or "per bearer," or words meaning chop-chop faites. She ad dressed it to a map we never trust with money, so missed her chance of getting what she wanted that day
Next day she came herself, and was
paid. Womanlike she explained un- recessarily, that she needed the money for China New Year. and didn't want to draw any from the Bank." Deponent thinks he understands that strange reluctance. It is so hard to get money into the bank that once it is safely there! one hesitates about. letting it loose again. It is like the yellow canary, safer in its cage.
Or
Other articles on Banking and High Finance will appear in this column from time to time.Ed. C.M.)
ADVERSARIA.
The people are re HONGKONG "calling the exploits of DEFENCES. the Queen Elizabeth, and opizing that Hongkong" could be successfully had a banking "Account"until he came attacked by invisible ships, that
it may be she had had, experiences like those of the griffin who had never
top.
MISUSE OF WORDS.
It
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
www.
Today's dollar is worth 55. 10d.
A tea dance takes place at wiseman's Cafe to-morrow.
".
The only case in to-day's return of notifiable disease is one of di- phtheria..
Talking of the misuse of words, what do you think of the official report by General March, Chief of the U.S.A. General Staff, who declares that, contrary to popular belief, gas is now regarded by responsible American Army officera as one of the most
humane' weapons of war. sounds like American humour, but is seriously meant. "This conclusion was reached only after a critical study and analysis of official figures." Men who were gassed may contribute their opinions.
It was reported the.. Sister Beatrice left for Home to KOLTSHAK other day that the day on a short holiday, and hopes to
Bolsheviks had shot be back abou: October next.
Consignees of cargo ex ss. "Tisondari," are reminded that all goods remaining undelivered after to- morrow, will be subject to rent
The Mothers' Union held its Monthly Meeting at the Helena May
Institute yesterday afternoon.
conference upon inter-departmental A PRominent hongKONG not suggest this case was a very bad. matters needing immediate atte: tion but said that it never entered his mind that he was acting unconstitu
SPORTSMAN.
one, because apparently it was the deceased who picked up the knife and attacked prisoner with it.
Prisoner was discharged.
ROBBERY.
of jewellery were stolen.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty.
The Attorney-General prosecuted. Prisoner was found not guilty. He. was discharged.
QUIDNUNG QUESTIONS.
tionally er contrary to the wishes "TOM* PITT GOES ON LEAVE. of the President; that there was no intention on his part
For the next nine months Hong- Lau You Chai was charged with to assume powers exclusively cokong will be minus one of its most robbery at Mau Tso Ngam, New fined to the President. He also said prominent sportsmen in the person Territories. on December 17, when that if the President thought he had of Crown Sergeant William Pitt a clock, clothing and various articles failed in loyalty he was ready to popularly known as "Tom") of the relieve him of his embarrassment by Hongkong Police who goes Home on placing his resignation in the Pre the gs. Nagoya" to-day on a. sident's hands. The President replied well on the 11th that as no action could years continuous service. "Tom" earned leave, after eight be taken without the President Pitt's
achievements in local there was no advantage in such sports were of such an outstanding a conference. He said that he had character that a brief review of his a feeling which began at Paris that career is worthy of meation. He Mr. Lansing had accepted his direcheid the amateur billiard champion tion with increasing reluctance and ship of the Colony (now held by said that he had been struck by the Leung Kam Kwong) for eight years going to do with that 15 per cent. What is the Hongkong Jockey Club number of matters in which Mr. He was severely handicapped in the commission they deducted from the Lansing seemed to try to forestall the match he lost by a damaged thumb, cash sweeps? It amounts to a tidy. President's judgment. He there due to injuries received whilst wicket sum. fore reluctantly accepted his offer keeping for Craigengower Cricket of resignation. Mr. Lansing Club against the fast bowler Omar. replied on the 12th thanking the On the bowling green "Tom" was that Mr. Johnstone got safely to Is the Hongkong Government gläd President for accepting his offer of equally good, securing a place in the Macao and is it sorty it didn't show resignation because it relieved him of team for the open championship of responsibility for further action. He the Colony, upon two occasions also a tle more willingness while he was of his method of pacification ***in A dinner dance Is being held at said he had been contemplating his winning the Police bowls champion. here? Siberia. [Current History] "All the the Repulse Bay Hotel this evening. resignation since January 1919 since ship three years in succession. He Here is an interesting well-known institutions of the Tsarist Tea and dinner dances are also due he had been conscious that the was also in the CS.C. blows final and TOTEMS. item. "A
Do our forts really hold such fer- London regime and the political secret service to take place on Friday and Sater President was no longer 'disposed to would probably have won had the rible secrets that it was inadvisable schoolmaster has been were established." fined two guineas for using armorial Koltshak we shall need a strong
To weep for day.
accept his advice on matters match
been completed. It was to allow him to give an exhibition bearings. The offence consisted of onion.
pertaining to negotiations at abandoned owing to the war. The Bight in case he crossed over one. of allowing the boys attending his
Messrs, Campbell Moore and Paris and as to International affairs police shooting championship also them? school to wear a badge on their caps."
Raffles was a great Company have taken new premises generally; that if he bad consulted went to "Tom" Pitt for eight con- man. We don't mean on Pedder Street, next door to his personal inclinations he would secutive years. In boxing, he was one That schoolmaster was very leniently
NEW BOOK. Mr. Hornong's Messrs. J. T. Shaw, the outfitters. bave resigned but felt that such of the most ardent workers and was bite the Marathon runner? Will the treated. He ought to have been hanged. At such a time as this, with but the founder of Singapore, Sir and open for business in about a embarrassment in carrying forward Hongkong Boxing Association during private affair?
gentleman burglar, The new premises will be occupied step might cause the President appointed official time keeper by the promised whipping be a public or
to Hongkong, and who amused every- would not attempi to enter our har body by carrying his cheque-book inbour. This in connection with the Koltshak. If true, the scriptures are the breast-pocket of his tunic, abou: report that it was care for our again fulflied, which say that they three inches of it flapping over the defences that prompted the refusal to who live by the sword shall perish He never quite grasped the allow an American aviator to fly by it. For Koltshak was himself principles of banking. When he paid over Hongkong on Monday. This is some gunian. The shooting of money in. and saw the apparently only partly true. The real reason hostages was an established feature
would be Red Tape. careless way in which a bored and 100 busy clerk flung his deposit slip to one side, he always felt like calling the manager to make sure that all was in order; but he was a gentleman at heart, and didn't wish to hurt the feelings of the cashier. "The same sensitive scruple prevented him mak ing withdrawals until circumstances compelled, for he felt that the Bank people would think he mistrusted
When he paid in ten dollars Bolshevism in the air, and the Kaiser Thomas Stamford Raffies. In con-1 week.
still alive, and Churchill trembling for nection with the recent centenary
them.
they flung it to a Chinese, and days afterwards he would sneak in and fijod the receipt in the counterloil book
who looked hard at him, and then
his job, we cannot be too careful.
·
OFFER of Colonial
wages, we
sec
ANOTHER
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Wasn't it a rule dog that tried in
the great task in which he was then the existence of the Police Reserves. engaged. He said that after his He was also one of the conveners of When shall we get our dinners on of Singapore, the Rev. J. A. Bethune "Whoever has planted one tree return to the United States he still the meeting held to organise the dog Marathon Day? Motorists are asked In connection with p
Cook has written a very readable during his lifetime" the Koran says desired to resign but feared shows. In fact there was hardly a to keep clear of the course from 3 lying on the public counter, This A FIRM Hame paper's discussion little blography of the great man, has worked for Paradise." What that his resignation might be con- branch of sport in which Sergeant p.m. to 4.30 p.m. impressed him. When he wanted
service and had it published by Stockwell of about the Forestry Department plant sidered as hostility to the ratification Pit: did not take an active and pro- Eve of it back it was a longer job, numerous (anonymous) civil servants dollars, or 12 shillings). The book red trees on the Isle of Dumbbell? illness prevented him from resigning him a pleasant voyage and a recreation before they are fed up?
that 29, Ludgate Hill (Five Straits ing yesterday ten thousand five hund- of the treaty. Later the President's minent part. The China Mail wishes He had to show the cheque to a man wrote in to describe pay and pensions has over 200 pages, is well printed One hopes, when that island gets to but recently with the President's tive boliday.
as "miserably inadequate." ex Governor mentions that he was prices go just now, is well worth the launch services will allow us to take resignation which he now submitted. One and bound, and considering how look like paradise on earth, that the returning health he prepared the unable to save a penny." That'e money. The author mentions his pleasant day trips there without He could official would hand him the cheque too bad. It is more blessed to give indebtedness to the Life by Lady obliging us to stay overnight, But unchallenged the imputation that back, and with it a bronze token. than to receive, and the newspaper Raffles, but there is a great deal in perhaps, it is possible, the residents he had sought Presidental author Fie took these to the cashier, who trade is so good now that the Adver the book which only he could have will not be sharing our hope.
Is Hongkong really up-to-date? directed him by a sidewise nod to sarian has managed to save several written. He has quite evidently
believed ity, He
then and
What about a commercial and public now that the conferences were Wong Kwong, the jail breaker who wireless station? How long are we con amore, and has
for the beat interests of the was recently convicted for the nur-to wait for the Imperial policy in this President and the republic. President der of Warders Speed and Farmarn respect to be made known?
turned over the leaves of an enormous ledger. Apparently satisfied, this
acquired the uneasy conviction that
the bank watchman suspected him of being an armed robber; he would find
philanthropy...
DON'T COUGH.
not allow to pass
•
What will the competitors be fed
*
*
When are, the M.G. gang really,
going? -
HANGED TO-DAY.
*
Will dogs have to be muzzled this
the Chinese, who sent him back to pennies. He will swap jobs with any written it
After standing about Governor who is anxious to better managed to present us with a his is stenrd to allow a cough to baug Preserate on the 13th accepting Singh, was hanged in the Victoria the cashier, for twenty minutes, during which he his position, and he will throw the torical sketch of the man, his time,
pension in, at that. This is pure and his contemporaries, which is as Chamberlain's cragh Romody will cure the resignation and hoping that the Jail at 5 am-to-day.
on and sap your vitality when
An laquest on the dead body was year? convincing as it is interesting. We vou You don't know where a preis-future would bold for Mr. Lansing Sometimes the dread have enjoyed reading it, and can tent congh will lead you. You can't successes of the most gratifying surt held by Mr. J. R. Wood and a jury, PRINCIPLES ful suspicion arises recommend it confidently.
sfford to allow your throat and. funesto, of him. All this excellent system -is OF PRESSMEN. that the principles of
become diseased when it is such is simple and indicating that his best wishes later in the day, and a verdict of How are the Volunteer Corps en thing to step into a chemists shop would always follow him and that death due to strangulation as a colments coming in and are all the old got a bottle of Chamberlain's Cougd it would be a matter of gratification result of banging, in accordance with officere and non-comis. rejoining? Remedy. For tale by all Chemists anh. to always remember their delightful the requirements of law and Justice," Storekeepers.
personal relations.
Have any of them the "wind up
a torn and dirty five dollar bill thrust
good for thrift, ir develops that ose
newspaper men are ful disinclination to draw from the like the kalends of the Greeks, or like bank, and makes nervous people go Mrs. Gamp's friend Mrs. Arris. The
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