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years.

announcement?

THE CHINA MAIL.

PAY...

THE FACTS.

There have been a number of

ARMS CASES. -

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81920* -

ABERDEEN FIRE ENQUIRY.

A Chinese was this morning charged. before, Mr. Irving with the unlawful. Mr. N. L. Smith yesterday after possession of an automatic pistol and noon held an enquiry into the circum-

(21 rounds of ammunition.

Mr. E. Grist who appeared for stances attending the fire which re the defence picaded guilty, but asked cently broke out on the main street for leniency.

He said a small fine at Aberdeen, destroying thirty houses, would meet the case. His cilent waand damaging six others. servant to a Kwangsi man surnamed

Mr. E. I. Lewis appeared for the

NEW SOLICITORS.

| TWO ADMISSIONS. THIS MORNING.

In the Supreme Court this morning before the Chiel Justice, Mr. Justice Gompertz, the Attorney-General, Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp. K.C., ́moved for the enrolment and admission to

attempt made, any representations LABOUR CORPS OFFICERS sent forward? The obvious retort has now been made to the official AnDoWnKement that service in Hengkong is not to count. That which does not count is presumably valueless. "Why-enrol, therefore, în a useless body," logically asks a logician in a contemporary. It is statements made fately (most of quite well understood that the focat them incorrect) as to the pay and panjandrums hope to use as en conditions of the officers attached argument for conscription the fact to the Labour Corps who are now that the response to the volunteer in Hongkong awaiting passages Wong, and was sent by his master Yuen Shing Insurance Co. with practise in the Court of two new. invitation was so poor What use Home. It would also appear that with all his furniture and luggage to which most of the gured houses were mund Nash and Thomas Rowan, LI.B. solicitors Messrs. Frederick Ed- will they make of the no medals even those who have the ear of the Hongkong, where the master intends insured, including No. 87, the gutting (London).

House of Commons are not correctly raking up his abode. The defendant It is interesting to informed on the matter for a Reater knew nothing of the contents of the Crew watched the proceedings in the of which is a mystery. Mr. A. H.

On the first motion the Attorney- NEWSPAPERMEN, note that the telegram, yesterday, stated that a wardrobe in which the contraband wes

Hongkong police question had been asked in the House found. Counsel said the fact that the interest of the Tai Woo Tong and the General said Mr. Nash was articled in London and passed his preliminary desire to deport three newspapermen, as to the men being left "stranded" wardrobe was not locked, proved that Fur Kes rms, occupiers of Nos. examination in May 1945. The joined an editor, a manager, and In Shanghal. There is no question there was no intent to smuggle.

56 and 87, respectively. collector, as they consider them of these officers being "stranded": He submitted it was warn of know- undesirables." Why stop at three? Indeed, they appeared to be remark-ledge on the part of the master winch All newspapermen are undesirables ably fat and cheerful when seen by led him to put the pistol in the ward Deport the lat.. What have our | China Meil man yesterday, but that Chinese confreres been up to? Fre is the more to their credit for some robe. Counsel said the Inspector sumably we shall learn shortly.

of them certaloly have a grievance would agree with him that there was

no criminal intent. As we understand that should be remedied forthwith, it, these men will: The whole cause of the trouble is the not come before a high rate of exchange, the same old public tribunal bone of contention that the China he was in charge of a quantity of did the cooking the kitchen January, having given notice in Octo-

Mail picked clean with regard to

furniture. Acting on information re-of No. 54. He was playing cards ber to the Law Society and the Regis- again The Secre

regular troops stationed in Hongkong.ceived, the Police searched the fumat 3 am on February 21 when her of his intention to apply for ad- his report and the Governor in Coun- eil will decide whether there men are gets sixteen shillings per day, paid the pistol was found, fully loaded. In the blowing of Police whistles. He tain formalities required and he had went out to investigate and, seeing nor gor a certificate showing that his to be deported or not. If their

fat current rates of exchange. Some the holster of the pistol' other animuni

flames issuing, from the first floor of certificate was still valid and in force offence consists of polemical public of the gentlemen are, quartered in tion was found. The defendant der No. 548, returned to his shop to wake or certificates of character from two tion, political intrigue, etc.. a thing barracks and get allowances of $3.80 nied all knowledge of the contraband, his fokis and get the account books.

practitioners in England, Ho had per day. Other men are billeted in which has hitherto been given sancthe local hotels and get allowances

Answering Mr. Lewis witness said taken steps to obtain these documents.

two, points subject to the documenta The Law being produced later. Society did not agree to waive the formalities. but they did not oppose

His Lordship.: They are not repre-

AS. WE UNDERSTAND

IT.

Inspector Kent said the defendant was found in Leyton Hill Road, where

Mr. Lewis mis that with the ex-H.M. forces being mentioned for ception of No. 87, the circumstances valuable services in 1917 and de- of the gutting of which required some mobilised in March 19:19. In Octo- explanation. es it was separated from ber 1919 he passed his final examina the other gutted houses by four other tion with fire class honours and was houses which the flames did not reach, awarded the Clifford's Inn prize,

which was a very high distinction." the fire was purely accidental.

A witness Riving at No. 56 said her Nash came to the Colony in

tary for Chinese Affairs will make Here is the position-A Lieutenanture and in a drawer in the wardrobe heard a commotion in the street and mission but he was unaware of. CET-

bor assumed responsibility because he was in charge of the furniture. His

tuary under our flag: if agait$5.71 per day. Now, the charges..at master was, according to him, a mil, he could not suggest the cause of the and exemption was asked on these

end

Bre.

admission.

they have been exercising the

the Peak Hotel are $7 per day (and tary officer in Canton. He (the In- of the Press that Ltd freedom

The owner of houses Nos. 54A, 55, an officer ordered to billet there has spector) though: that as such, the 56, 57, 59, 61, and 63, which were ja 'so dear (or used to be)

so that he has defendant's master should know it was to Englishmen, a public trial would no option). seem more suitable than these Star balance on the wrong side at the not allowed to bring arms into the also affected, said the ground floor of of the month if he has Colony, However, he did not pro-and bamboo we. Prior to the Bre No. 54A was used to store crockery Chamber methods. How do you feel about it? Disinterested? Only a bottle of ginger pop at dinner

pose to press the charge, as the defen- Chicese? All right. If that is how works out for even those in barracks, the contents of the luggage and furni. was opened was between. 7 and 81

and in any case the pay, as it dant might be genuinely ignorant of the last occasion on which the godown sented?

The Attorney-General: No. you feel about it, we are not going is something in the nature of school to worry you, or the Government. But why did we ever trouble to win boy pocket money. It has to be remembered that the majority of that War?

these officers, before the war were When the dozen aerc-learning anything between

TARANTULLE for Dainty Home-Sewn Lingerie and Baby Wear

Chinese will not allow that, The nearness of China leads to as ebb and now that upsets our calculations. The prosecutions mentioned by our caller represent the official desire and device to check the ebbing. Possibly small notes, as this business man thinks, would better serve the pur pose. We don't know. It is a com. plicated problem. We don't know that anybody knows, akhough we SERVICE

are we have men in

The China Mail.

"TRUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC

"

SEE.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Today's dollar is worth 5s. 7 d.

ture.

His Worship fined the defendant $25 and ordered the pistol and am- munition to be confiscate.

A Chinese who returned from America on the 9.3. "Nile," was this Smith with the unlawful possession of a revolver and 10 rounds of ammuni tion. Mr. M. H. Turner appeared for the defence and said the box in which the contraband was found, did said he went on board the Nile yesterday to search passengers" lug. gage. When he came to the box in

A third Chinese, also à

passenger

His Lordship: There are. affidavits by two solicitors of this Court and gemleman of the Colony who is not a solicitor.

p.m. on the 19th. There was a good deal of cracker-Hring on the 20th, Chinese New Year. It was possible that some of the crackers had got into the godown and set the premises' ablaze.

Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis. lion.

awakened when the fire commenced...

Mr. Lewis said or one side of the street the fire started in house No. other side from No. 55 to No. 77. 54A and spread to No. 74 and on the Houses Nos. 79

85 escaped. Another fire started at No. 87 and Spread to No. 91. All the houses

were gutted..

to

A cook of No. 55 said he worship.

The Attorney-Gencial: I ask you to admit him and to grant him exemp

His Lordship: I see he speciñcally

documents later.. What time would you suggest? A period of six months? The mails are very irregular,

The Attorney-General: Yes. His Lordship: Power is given by Section 6 of the Amending Ordinance Mr. Nash, I have very much pleasure in admitting you to be enrolled as & solicitor and proctor of this Court and His I hope your carcer may be both plea- sant and profitable. I will make the that the missing documents are filed exemption you ask for on condition

within a period of six months.

house was separated from No. 54A lamp banging on a wall in the kitchen by a wooden partition. A kerosine was still burning when he went to bed.

There was no inflammable stuff in the

A COVEY. planes arrive this month and £3 per week in civil lite on the Dacre Castle, and it therefore cannot be wondered and those Curtisa birdmen take the that they grouse when they have to air altogether for the flight to Macao-consider whether they cannot afford a roorning charged before Mr. N. L. Witness said the whole village was asks for it and undertakes to file the the home of the Far Eastern Aerial So cent hair cut. The officers Blame Transport Company will be some the Home authorities for not making covey, what? Little old Hongkong due allowance for the high rate of will rub its eyes, then. We beg the exchange and consider that they Hongkong Gaverament not to shoot have been badly let down. In the These newfangled things are annoy-meantime those who are out of not belong to his client. A constable ing, but it looks as if we will have to pocket on actual living expense get used to them.

have to kick up a dust and are sub- They do seem excited ject to -humillating arguments when WAIT AND at Home over the re-settling day comes. It would appear which the revolver and ammunition ped joss at 3 a.r. on the 21st.

turn of Papa Asquith that these officers have to leave a were found, he asked whose it was. td Parliament, don't trail of unpaid hotel bills behind and the defendant said it belonged to they? The King ought to bave com- them on their way back home, and him. The contraband was found in manded another two minutes of more, that the hotel proprietor even boxes of raisins. The box did not reverent silence, seeing that the tually gets his money from the have any label on it. All the defen occurrence "will definitely affect the government, and is satisfied, but the dant's luggage had his name on it..

With regard to Mr. Rowan, the trend of domestic and world politics."officer is discredited. If the local The defendant was discharged, and kitchen.

Attorney-General said he was articled How jealous the Kaiser must be Government cannot do anything the arms and ammunition ordered to intendent of the Central Fire Depart sofcitor in England on June 4, 1919. Mr. Arthur Lane, Assistant Super- in London and was admitted as a But perhaps all this fuss wasn't without sending out the S. O. S. be confisented. Warranted. Wait and see.

message, surely some of the wealthy

ment, said that in consequence of a At the solicitor's Anal examination in citizens could wipe the stain off

Another Chinese who was charged proceeded to Aberdeen on a fire float, was also a Bachelor of Laws of the telephone message he with twenty men that year he obtained honours. He Hongkong's pretty dirty slate. Then, with the unlawful possession of a „of course, would come the question as to whether the officers would revolver which was found tied round arriving there at 3.45 am. Both University of London and in the sides. of the road were ablaze. He examination for the LI.B., he obtain- accept anything in the nature of his thigh, admitted the offence, and at first tried to check the Are at the ed honours. Mr. Rowan had swishleð

He was fined charity. The answer, is of course offered no excuse.

southern end and to isolate it. Later all the requirements excepting one. "no." Then it comes back to the $100, and the revolver was confishe took two lines at hose round the and that was the certificate that his Government to pay its servants, ('n cated..

· northern end and played on both sides. certificate admission was still valið this case, military]'a fair salary for

of the road. He did not notice any and in force. Mr. Rowan had taken services rendered. had the following. China Mail readers

the fire float. -The N, C. Daily News of Feb. 25

independent fire at the time. It must steps to obtain that certificate and ask- have broken out before the arrival of ed for exemption for six months.

His Lordship: Mr. Rowan, I havời know that the men arrived here, and

said that if there were woodworks on practice as a solicitor in this Court. Answering Mr. Lewis, Mr. Lane much pleasure in admitting you to were still grumbling:—

the roots of the intervening houses he The admission will be subject to the would expect them to be scorched filing of the missing certificate within before No. 87 caught fire, but it was six months. I trust your career may not extraordinary if they remained be both pleasurable and profitable to intact. Such a thing happened always yourself.

·Mr. Nash is joining. Mr. G. R. Hay- at least the situation has been re- medied, but it is necessary to point!

ment of a fire caused by sparks fall-wood and Mr. Rowan Mr. out that from the financial aspect the competition for the Billiard Cham depended to a great extent upon the

A match in connection with the ing through an opening into a house Gardiner. officers will still be sufferers by reason pionship of the Colony was played nature of its contents. The fire burn- of the high exchange of the dollar. at the V.R.C., last night, between P. ed rapidly in house No. 87.

The action which has now been A. Yvanovitch and E Guimaraes. taken is, we understand, at the Yvanovitch was in excellent form and Friday afterncon.

The enquiry was adjourned until instance of the Hongkong military played very consistently from the start, authorities. We learned yesterday With every visit to the table, bis score that they had issued instructions leaped up appreciably. Guimaraes, that their repesentatives in Shanghai who has just recovered from an ill- should advance the money necessary ness, was not in form, and was soon to meet the hotel bills of the officers left far behind by his opponent who here. It will be remembered that put up breaks of 36, 38, 44, 48 and. Soon after Yvanovitch-had these came to $7 a day, and to meet 58, this officers received an allowance of reached the 200 mark, Guimaraes We regret to record the death of Ross has withdrawn his acceptance $5.40 for the first eight days and made extra efforts, and by the time Mr. A. F. Diniz, a prominem and of the Vice Chancellorship of the $2.50 thereafter.

his opponent had scored 245, he had respected member of the Portuguese the shrewd guess of our leader-writer "The paper that:

Furthermore passages have been succeeded in wiping out a pond por community in Shanghai, which occur that the true explanation of the tele- THE WEATHER. gets things done" "Tay Pay" O'Connor says that We remarked that the subject is

has now decided Colonel John Ward M.P., is by no cured for the efficers as far as tion of the lead and was 97 points red on Feb. 25: Age 77 years. much bigger, much more complex to take a hand in the weather. The means a coy little violet that blusbesing aboard the Fushimi Maru. This lead and by careful play gradually long age as 1843 and was educated had been human enough to change

Hongkong, and today they are lear- behind. Yvanovitch retained the Mr. Diniz was born in Macao as Bram which "came as a bombshell than that, but that we would think it Clerk of the Weather Must Go. unseen. So long as he does blush, is a step in the right direction, for at increased it, winning eventually by at the Jesuit College there. At the his mind. The matter of à Vice

Watch for an early improvement. blush, that's something.

Hongkong there ought to be military 205 points. The scores were: Yrand age of 18 years he want to sea, and Chancellor bas now been left in accommodation for thein, and there vitch, 600; Guimaraes, 295.

his experience of a hand-to-hand fight abeyance until the Hon. Dr. Severa is a Command Paymaster who is

The second round of the competi-with the pirates who infested the South gets home when he will probably able to make advances of pay to tion will commence on Monday when China coast in those days induced him select a successor to Sir Charles Eliot. them necessary for their incidental Yvanovitch meets Parkes.

to resign the life of a sailor and take expenses. We take it that this will

weil aware that Sir John Jordan says that British Our midst interests in China are holding their HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920. know. We may as well listen to

who pretend and claim that they own. The "interests" in Hongkong

are holding ours too. them. We are willing and ready to listen to them. Ought we to follow the example of Macao and Singapore? if undelivered after to-morrow, is Cargo by the s.s. "Tenyo Maru" The China Mail at present is subject to stocage charges. Goods benevolently neutral.

im. will be examined to-morrow at 11

SMALL NOTES.

This

2.00.

the possession of a revolver and sev- on the "Nile," was next charged with

cul rounds of ammunition which were found concealed in his box. He said British residents in Shanghai will he did not know local regulations. learn with satisfaction, that the re- $250 fine, and the contraband con- presentations we made last week fiscated, anent the unfortunate position of officers passing through here have

A meeting of the Sanitary Board had a salutary effect. In two respects BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP. (in a Gre of that nature. The develop-

A prominent business man called partiality is firmly based upon a con at the China Mail office yesterday eviction of ignorance. We want show us the new five and ten cent more light, more information. From netes just issued by the Macan go the point of view of public con. ernment. The neighbouring colonvenience, we suspect that such notes

was held last evening, presided over appears to have been sharing with us would be just as convenient as the by Dr. A. Gibson. The business was the inconvenience of a temporary coins they represent. One could of a formal nature. There is nothing shortage of subsidiary coins, and these little notes represent the Porru-carry ten dollars worth of ricsha and to report.

guese method of solving the problem

Our visitor suggested that the China Mail should advocate an issue of similar notes of small denomina tions here. He referred to the aumerous prosecutions of Chinese for exporting subsidiary silver hence, jemarked that many of these cases seemed very hard, and evoked sympathy for the

pcor people mulcted of their paltry savings, and that an issue of small notes would at least do away with this particular, trouble.

over.

Monkeying with currency is always

a dangerous business. Bradburys.

at Home represent rapid ruination.

Paper money must always be suspici-

cumsha money where we now carry

at most one. And one could then Mr. Freeborn, lectarer in History afford to light one's cigar with a at the Hongkong University, is ex tanknote, an ambition at present pected on the 10th of March on the sternly repressed. Our reporters steamer

Peleus"

of the Blue will in the meanwhile be gleaning Funnel Line. opinions on the subject mere weighty than curs.

*

ADVERSARIA.

AT VLADIVOSTOK.

Whatever we

Tea dances take place at the Repulse Bay Hotel this afternoon and on Saturday. A dincer dance is also fixed for Saturday and orchestral concerts on Sunday.

HOUSING PROBLEM may think of Winston Churchill says the war those dratted bas transformed us into a sphere Bolsheviks, we" from every point of view inde ously regarded. Down at Singapore have got to give them credit for Anitely lower." Himself excepted they issued these small notes, and tackling the housing problem. Ther for him descent was not easy. our general recollection is that they bave found a solution at Vladivostok,

did not obtain popularity. The local barks are understood to be antipathe tic toward notes of small" denomina- tion. They involve too much book work. That should not influence:us,

whereas here we have not so much as tried.

Rehearsals for the singing of We have

all Harvey Gaul's. "By faith alone" on OFFICIAL DENIAL. along sturdily Good Friday, commence in the beld that there Cathedral to-morrow at 6 pm. Mr

or them, if the proposal were clearly is no risk of the Chinese being Denman Fuller will be glad to hear for the public benefit.

infected by Balshevism. Any from any willing to assist, at once."

"

B NISHEE RETURNS.

be done with other officers whose duties have brought thèm to China, as it is manifestly unfair to leave them in a place like Shanghai where it is impossible for them to Bbtain any of their pay.

A FINANCIAL LOSS.

con-

THE UNIVERSITY.

DEATH OF MR. A. F. DINIZ.

NEW VICE-GEANCELLE WANTED.

H.

The China Mail is now able defin- itely to announce that Sir Denison

Hongkong University. This confruns.

to the Varsity officials was that he

A special congregation is to be

up work ashore, with mercantile firms. I held on Sunday 21. 4 p.m. but the

ORGAN RECITAT

He arrived in Shanghai in 1861, and name of the recepient of the degree We can quite understand that the in 1873 joined the Chartered Bank of is not yet available. authorities in Hongkong may not India Australia and China, in whose have the power to do more than they service he remained for 45 years, have done it is almost certain that eventually holding the position of chief they have not. In view of the ab, clerk of his department, until a couple normal position here, this matter of years ago, when he retired from The worst part of the situation which has been the subject of active work: now is that the military authorities representations Home in Is it? We don't know. We aplicit | Chinese in the Red Army-we con

As will be seen from our advertise- The late Mr. Diniz was an able have not done more than make annection with other branches of writer and over the non de plume of ments Mr. Deamon Fuller is giving expressions of public opinion. What sidered to be hirelings whom any do you know about it?

advance of money to meet the hotel the services more than once, "A Portuguese" often championed his first recital since his return in body could hire. Now that an Presumably the high price of silver official denial has appeared, we

bills. In other words they are lend requires to be forcibly, publicly the cause of his, countrymen, when St. John's Cathedral on Monday next Doubt insinuates itself,! operates against a further issue of hesitate.

ing money which will have to be and continuously impressed upon subsidiary coins, even were there and harrows us. Whenever any

It was perhaps no great hardship Whitehall, otherwise it will never any inclination to make such issue. government denies anything, we A Chinese youth who was in in Europe, where at the most the

be put to rights. It is not so long since that smell a rat. During the last few October banished from the Colony for difference between the army allow- we were supposed to have a plethora. years experience has shown that such ten years, was found in the Colony ance and the actual charge was only Small silver was at a serious dis-" denials indicate opposite facts. Qui yesterday and rrrested. This mana frane or two, that this should DESPONDENCY DUE TO count. The Chamber of Commerces excuses eccuse is peculiarly true of ing he was charged before Mr. Smith come out of the principal may have VW CONSTIPATION, SEEK would not want a repetition of those authorities.

with returning from banishment, and been. Here, however, it amounts ATOMEN often te me nervous and conditions. But presumably the pre-

We have not seen it said he came back to raise some in some cases to more than the We despondent. When this in sent premign on small change alike. NO MEDALS declared anywhere money from his relatives to start actual daily pay an inficer to constipatim ja is rarily entranted by wise bad for business. The ideal isplain

that anybody in a business in the country. He was leutenant For instance. If he haplain's Tablets. These hinteze big bi taking an occasional desa el Cambor enough. We want to have just enough position to do so tried to get medals sentenced to one year's hard labour pens to be married It represents a take and pleasant in effect. For ate by in circulation, and, re, and the for the Defence Corps, Was any and 4 hours stocks:

process of bankrupting him.

all Chemists and Storekeepers.

repaid by the officers later on-de

required. He was also a contributor at 6 pm. The programme.comot to many Portuguese newspapers and be said to be lacking in either variety or attractiveness for it contains some the literary merit of his contributions of the best of both the old-and met with much appreciation,

modern schools. Each is represented He leaves a widow; four sons and by his magnificent Fantasia and seven daughters two of the latter Eogue in G minor, Greig hy his fine being nuns of the Order of Dame des but little known Hyldning Marsch Auxiliatrices and one of the Order of him of Sigurd Jorsalfar and the St. Paul Chartos: in Saigon.............. popular writer-Wolstenholme by a new work. Amongst other pieces Mr.Denman Fuller will play in res CALLA nonse in velat requests Lemmens

Aramatic The Storm

Spend your Perines",

TALLA" Launch,