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Five Chinese died of influenza last week..

Mr.. C. F. F. Wearne has been re-elected President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Malaya,

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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1920)

THE CREW OF THE "KAZEMBE".

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Captain Taylour asked if Mr.

· d'Almada contended that þecause the local Ordinance had incorporated that part of the Section of the Merchant Shipping Act, the Act. which applied to the whole world. -did not apply here.......

Mr. d'Almada said that was exact- ly his point, so far as the provisions of Section 41 of the Ordinance sup- ported him.

has many nanies-has been very is on that evidence that we now common in England: but happily desire to make a few remarks. Our not the bad kind enllet "exophthol-Fayapathy is with the ten They

AN APPLICATION TOR Dress, high or low has allege that the boatswain thresten- nothing whatever to do with it. fed them. This was not denied; the

RI-HEARING OF CARE, Goitrous persons, from false shane, answer was that the threats were

Notifiable disease last week: were tempted to resort to high neck made jestingly. A threat to murder

INTERESTING ARGUMENT AT covering inti fashion made it im-is not a joke. It was admitted that plague 2, smallpox S, enteric. 2, c.4.

THE MARINE COURT, possible and them comfortable. the men had worked all right under fever 8, puerperal fever I. None Cantle, if you examine and divide another offer, while the threaten.since,

Mr. Leo, d'Almada appeared before Captain Taylour-No, no; no, no! fit, is a quaint anme, anggestive ofing boatswain was suspended. George Washington. Hat there's Therefore it is straining the evi one thing these eminent profession-dence to say they conspired to in

Marica Magistrate (Captain Basil We can legislate for the waters of yesterday afternoon, and applied for a ping Act operates for the whole als can do they can talk nonsense. pede the navigation of the ship,

Taylour, R.N.,) at the Marine Court the Colony. The Merchant Ships. re-hearing of the case in which seven | world. He wanted to know if Mr. At Shanghai, rather We conclude that the boatswain TRENS. than cut down an old was not the sort of man for free

West Indians, members of the crew d'Almada said that the Legislature magnolia tree that men to sail with. For us, the cat hai bren a lankmark on the Band, I was let our of the bag at the first in Singapore held a dinner at the of the 89. "Kazembe", were last had no power to legislate for any- unlawfully combined together to Mr. d'Almada said that the the gets, and dag a sloping trail getting rid ibike-boatswain (and so memorätion of the Gallipoli landing impede the navigation of the ship by | Legislature had the power to make they dug it up, carefully packing tearing, when the reason for not Hotel Europe on April 24 in com-week convicted on a charge of having thing out of the Homec

refusing to turn to under the boat-laws for the freedom and liberty of down which it was carefully hauled keeping the crew) was that the

The 6.5.

"Brave Coeur," US. śwain when ordered to do so by the the subject, but the Legislature had to a new site. The job took three company would have to pay his fare

To save a shipping com- Shipping Board, freighter, operated master at Manila; and sentenced to already made laws confining the ese do the same thing in igss time, pany one man's fare, seven good by Mesars. Struthers & Dixon, calls seven days bard labour (all charges powers of the Magistrate to dealing lays. The Americans and Japan-Flome.

REP imprisoned as to-day, with mail for America on to be paid from the defendants with such offences as they were pow

discussing,to the waters of the Colony. but all the sune, we wish to patworkers

Here in feriminals, and on top of that the board, direct for San Francisco.

Mr. D'Almada said that bis Wor-If It was intended that offences com- Shanghai on the back.

ard to come out of Hongkong, when they round of a jail charges eurner for the greater convenience their wages. In view of the ad-" of road-hegy, they show no hesita mitted threate, and the weight of tion in chopping down trees that evidence, we say that was

justice; and we hope the sailors are almost as old as the Colony.

It is to be observed Union will take it up. The day the sailorman has FEARS. in studying the Press for hazing

of both countries that gone by, Chins fears the coming of Bolsher- ism via Japan and Japan fears the evning of Bolshevisu via China. in Europe has nothing or the " this matter. It pretends to fear! the coming of Bolshevism via Cer- Ltd many and Germany fears it coming as a result of European harshness It doesn't matter much who holds it up, a turnip boggle is always a gets the wind up..

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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The 3.5. "Cuzco," of the Green Star Line, Messrs. Struthers & Dixon, Agents, sails to day for New York, through the Panama Canal, calling at Cuban ports after arrival on the Atlantic side.

whole

wages). Mr. Lunt, Hongkong manager ship, sitting as a stipendiary ma-mitted throughout the world may be for Stratbers & Dixon, leaves for gistrate under the Merchant Shipping dealt with in the Colony, the Legista Shanghal in a few days to attend the Act, was bound by the provisions of ture would have said that the Mer- conference of Struthers & Dixon re- the local Navigation Ordinance. The chant Shipping Act as a presentatives to be held in Shanghai. Procedure as regards re-hearing, he applied to the Colony. But, hav said, was laid down in Section 96,ing incorporated a Section of the and his application was made under Merchant Shipping Act into the local that section.. He submitted as Ordinance, the Legislature made it reason for his application for a re plain that the powers of the Magis- hearing, that the conviction was badtrates were only confined to the on points of law and fact. The punishment of such crimes as came first point he was going to raise under the Ordinance. The Act, so was a technical one. He did not far as it was inconsistent with the propose to lay stress on it, as he did Ordinance, had been repealed. The not rely on it, but there was no harm inconsistency was plain. In Hong- in mentioning it. It had to do with kong, according to his reading of the. the wording of the charge, which, he Ordinance, they were confined to the contended, was wrong in that as the waters of the Colony. If an offence man separately, it should have read had the right to bring the caje up

being a seaman, unlawfully did in England. combine with the other defendants,"" us it was obvious that each man could not " combine together."

The s.s. "Kidderpore," Penin- Me. D. Klein who recently left

Oriental Co., Messrs Shanghai will shortly take over sular and charge of the Dunlop Rubber Com Mackinnon. Mackenzie & Co. Hong fearsome obiect to the type that pany in Peking, from. Mr. Eric Clarke.kong agents will be dispatched for charge was made out against each was committed in Manila, the master Shanghai, at "daybreak, tomorrow

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The total output of the KailanShe carries no passengers, Men used to eneer Administration's mines for the week *STREET

the foolish

ending April 17, amounted SNATCHERS. feminine trick of 91,028 tons and the sales during the asking for trou- period to 92,026 tons. ble with our street snatchers by f carrying their purses in their hands. or in little hand bags. They are Hess outspoken now. For a while it was hats. The Magistrates were so notably lenient to the hat snatch the Order of the Wen Hu (Literary ers whom the police did catch that į Tiger), the game threatened to go on Iner- rily for ever. Luckily a vigilance committee attended to the Wan chai hat snatchers, so effectively that it is longer really arcessary

The freighter "Tsuyama Maru," of the New York Lise of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, has arrived from Yokohama, and will leave shortly Information has just been re-for New York via the Panama Canal. ceived that the Chinese Government She carries no passengers. bas conferred upon Lt.Col. J. S Har of the Chinese Labour Corps

waistcont

Two Chinese who were this morning charged before Mr. N. L. Smith with smuggling some uns Mr. Arthur D. Hughes and Miss stamped letters into the Colony from Hazel M. Ross were married at the the country, were ordered to pay a Wesley Methodist Episcopal Churchine of $25 each,

at 6.45 on Wednesday evening, April

The evidence in the case was, in effect, tha: the defendants in Manila, informed the master that if the boatswain was not taken off the ship, they would not sail in her.

His Worship said that the offence was committed at sea.

Captain Taylour said that the Merchant Shipping Act had always. been the law here.

Mr. d'Almada: So far as it is not inconsistent with the local Ordinance: The local Ordinance confines the powers of the Magistrate; the Mer- chant Service Act does not.

Captain Taylour asked if Mr. d'Almada's point was that the charge Mr. d'Almada pointed out that the against the defendant should have evidence of the master showed that been made under the provisions of the trouble took place at Manila. The the Merchants Shipping Act, and master told the Court that when the nor under the local-Ordinance. crew refused to turn to fer reasons al- Mr. d'Almada said that was not ready stated, he went to the British his point at all. The local Ordinance The latest reporis from England Consulate at Manila, and the Vice gave the Magistrate power to deal The Merchant to carry one's hat on one's knee 21, 1920, by the pastor Rev. C.E.

as to the health of Dr. Morrison are Consul came, on board. After in- with certain cases. through that district, as many dit. Holman.

more hopeful and the doctors bave vestigating the matter, the Vice Shipping Act, in the Section con If you Now it is fountain pens.

Mr. E. W. Fitchford. General stated that the disease from which Consul gave the master permission cerned, was inconsistent with the carry your pen in a rvices, visibly, as lost we do. Manager of the Fu Chung Corpora Dr. Morrison has been so long suffer to suspend the beatswain, and Ordinance. The inconsistency being he watchful. The first time ation, has recently been awarded the ing is not cancer, and is now becom instructed him to prosecute the crew present, under Section 41 of the turned to under another. Officer of Act was repealed. Therefore, the Chinese fronts you closely, so that the Third Class Chao Ho Decoration ing more amenable to medical in Hongkong. Finally, the men Ordinance, the Merchant Shipping

by the Chinese Government.-Shang treatment.

the ship, and he believed they per: Magistrate had no jurisdiction you feel him, give him the upper-hai Times.

formed their duties on board until Otherwise, he failed to see the force feur, pick up your pen, step on his

Miss Jeannette Sherwin, whose the arrival of the ship in Hongkong of Section 41. The gement is announced

performance as the French girl Was | Having regard to the facts of Captain Taylaur said that, accor tuns proves to be of good quality,face, and walk of. The police are

ill be sufficient supplies to busy enough. Be a sulfonil of Mise buigla Denexri, thire cage a notable feature of the production the case as presented at the trial. he ding to Mr. d'Almada's. contention,

A decidedly unfairter of Mr. and Mrs. E Denegri of DECIDEDLY parallel has been set Jessfield Road Shanghai, to Lieuten./of Mr. Arnold Bennett's "Sacred, submitted that, as far as conspiracy the master of a ship engaged in the and Profane Love at the Aldwych, to impede the navigation of the ship coastal trade could not apply to the ap in a recent ser ant Bruce Panfili of the Italian has been engaged by Mr. H. B. was concerned, there was no ground Court here to deal with a refractory mon by the Rev. C.Flying Corps

Waring for a tour of India sad the for convicting them.

crew. The men could do just as Far East.

Another point which was fatal to they liked, and they could not be the prosecution, said Mr. d'Almada, prosecuted. was that the Merchant Shipping

USFAIR

artnal sayings in a notebook. Paul

at an even lower figure than Hong- as thinky utterly misinderstood kong.

hand, would refrain from buying eseuse for such for several months to come and that analogy.

a weak market is anturally to be

ANY EXECt-

Consignees are reminded that rent will be charged, after tomorrow, the 5th, on all goods remaining un delivered which arrived on the 8.8. Kazembe" of the American and Manchurian Line.

· The engagement is announced

The Commander of the two Dutch

cruisers, Tromp" and "Hertzog Hon Staff, are paying a visit to Peking, where they will have an audience drik," Commodore Bents, and his

with the President, and be entertain. ed by the Naval Board and the Minis try for Foreign Affairs.

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Mr. d'Almada: Unless the ship is

Captain Taylour: The thing is within three miles of the Colony. absurd. Suppose the ship never went to England.

Ordinance under which his clients Section 9, with offences committed within the waters of the Colony." were tried and convicted, dealt, in

He submitted that that being so, the conviction was, under that section, to remedy the law.

and irrespective of the facts of the case, wrong, as his Worship had no jurisdiction because the offence com- plained of occurred at Manila, which part, of course, was not within the waters of the Colony..

Mr. d'Almada: The only thing is

Captain Taylour: I think your conteation is absurd.

meet the demands, easily, and that there is a fair chance of the lower- ing tendency of the market, down to a certain point) continuing. The question has so many infances E. Durwent of Tientsin, agentle bearing upon it that. he thinks, it man who publishes all his ser CHEAPER RICE PREDICTED. is as speculative a prospect as the ons, and sy challenges criticism.

future of toney 'exchange,

He refers at length to Boswell, the Another rice expert, beyond peerless bioganther, and goes on to A gentleruen in the shipping merely stating that the market is say that what James Boswell di Lisines, who is in a position to dull, due to the heavy stocks on for Dr. Johnson, Paul did for Jesus. judge with certain degree of hand both here and in America, Boswell was constantly in John-

curacy, says that despite the declined to go into details, or ex-sun's company, taking down his of Miss Huda (Dody) Boyd, younger

Mr. d'Almada: Yes, many laws are failure of the Siam rice coup this press any prophecies, on rice.

Still another rice man confirm never was in the company of Jesus daughter of Mrs. Geo. T. Finch of

Some excitement was caused at year, as was previously reported;

H. Wallace of Shanghal

the Apollo Theatre Shanghai, a few

absurd. Our Ordinance is plain. It be does not think that rice will goed all that the shipping man gave Boswell understood Johnson, art- Shanghai, to Mr. Dare Wallace, elder

days ago when Emmanuel B. Sousit

was intended, when the law was made, to limit the powers of the higher, but on the contrary its voice to on rice and added that he mired him, and gives us a faith-son of Captain and the late Mrs. F. price will wine is present believed Burma rice is being offered fut picture of him.. Pant (some of

Lieut. E. Fiori, Assistant Chief chner, of 3 Young Allen Terrace,

His Worship refered Mr..d'Almada Magistrate, perhaps because the Lavering tendency, at least for a

He said that no doubt Jesus, and gives us an utterly of Police: has taken over command shorat F. Schichman, while the latter

legislators of the time thought that Counsel said he had not forgotten if they did not specify the "waters of time. He hases his judgment on reports that the deard from American and Cuban rice buyers, wrong interpretation of His teach of the French Municipal Police was in the entrance to the theatre. to Section 41 of the Ordinance. America and tula has greatly with heavy high-priced stocks.oning. Anyway, there is no possible Shanghai, in place of Capt. Ch. At the Russian Court after a brick that section, which laid down that the Colony" they would be infring-

a parallel

or Schmitt who left for France on the hearing, the case was remanded.

"Such of the provisions of the Mering the rights of the Board of Trade M. M. S. "Andre Lebon" on April 23.

chant Shipping Act which are incon- or something else. The victim always

The Chinese are now masters asistent with the provisions of the Captain Taylour: The Merchant In the H.K.CC, Tennis Tourna- maintains a brave TION BY ANY Front Sheing his ment yesterday Major and Mrs. Harbin, reports a contemporary. The Ordinance are hereby repealed." He Shipping Act operates here, as it does Mr. d'Almada wanted to know if slayers with calm Greenaway beat F. A. Redmond and Japanese are refraining from going thought that section supported his everywhere else in the whole world.

Captain Taylour then referred to an offence was committed at San lignity, and of Mrs. Winslow 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, in the out in the evenings, in order to avoid contention.

Russians. Japanese refugees are Section 225 of the Home Merchant Francisco, could the offenders be without faltering. The "mi-final of the Mixed Handicap complications with the Chinese and

Bowen and Mrs Timmis..

and Japanese currency is replacing Magistrate had, power to deal with Russian money.

offences at sea, and made no mention the cold grey light of dawn,' which may be the dall light of à!

In the course of the debate in

of "within the waters of the United cold morning. The actual exeCN-

Charged before Mr. N. L. Smith | Kingdom." tioners are always reluctant, but the House of Commons on the Sup

Mr. d'Almada sald his point was Tplementary Estimates, some amuse at the Magistracy this morning with compelled by brutal officers. wake quite sure, the brutal officer ment was caused by Sir Alfred the unlawful possession of a revolver that the local Ordinance having pro- chant Shipping Act is useless so far

the and several rounds of ammuniton, a vided the power of the Magistrate to as it applies to England.

Caprain Taybour said he did not always pistols the fallen bern or Mond's reference to Harbin, Those persons who thrusts a sword or bayonet into dusty railway junction in mid-Man- Chinese, who said he was an army deal with offences within the waters

churia, as a thriving seaport."

officer, and was passing through of the Colony, the Merchant Shipping understand that argument.

Mr. d'Almada said he asked that wish. Louses or him. But the most regular feature

from Fook Sbing to Sai Hing was Act did not operate here. apartments to let of all in such affairs is this, that

Astronomere representing four fined $25, the revolver and ammuni- Captain Taylour read from the his submission be seriously con stipulate no child-the deed is described by someone Australian states have been in con- tion being confiscated.

local Oidinance the passage "in all sidered, because it was interesting are evidently known in who wasn't there.

ference in Melbourne with the object

other respects the Merchant Shipping and important. He was strongly of On Sonday even- of ascertaining accurately the exact

The London Times of February Act shall be in force in the Colony."the opinion that the Court had no America as well as in Hongkong.

Mr. d'Almada: Quite so"in all jurisdiction over the offence commit- An American paper publishce the

AUTOMOBILES ing. Within Falf position of the 129th meridian of

19: 1920, announces that Capt. C. A. IN GARDEN an hour, seven longitude, which decides the exact following advertisement, which cer

to clarify the

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automobiles pass boundary between Victòria and South Bower, C.L.C., stationed in France, other respects," meaning that the ted by the defendants, and he would tainly does seem

cd an observer Australia, an old standing question, has the 5th Class of the Wen Hu Merchant Shipping Act is only in force be falling in his duty to his clients if situation:

Wanted, by two children aged who reports.the result to the China Wireless telegraphy has so improved Order (Striped Tiger) conferred on where no local provisions are made: he did not lay stress on the law as it to the Philippine Islands, which five and

Jessened, due to large stocks on hand in those countries at present, and to the natural cessation in bris- ing which must deer with so high expected, at least for the present. market. Other reasons We have obtained these fore or priced a he gives are that, according to pre-less expert opinions because of the sent views, nongh rice has been local anxieties caused by a previous saved fran the wreck in Siam to prediction that we are confrunted

ENEMY.

course

subsist that country without neces with a prospect of another rice execution invariably takes place in Doubles. They now meet Major arriving there daily, from Siberia, Shipping Act, which provided that a tried here.

ADVERSARIA.

"NO CHILDREN,'

sity for resorting to inspiration of crisis. We hope our latest advisers it, and that the crys elsewhere, have the right end of the stick. notably in India and China, are unusually large this year. Whether these unusually large crops will be -sufficient for supplying the "de freiericy caused by the failure of Siam rice be considere to be a matter of conjecture. He takes into consideration the fact that. Japan, a great rice producer in the past, has been turned away from ten agricultural pursuits in the past few years by its extraordinary facturing activities, stimulated by the war and post-war demands for manufactured articles, and that the same thing applies, to a less extent.

thinks late prices have been so "abnormal as to be naturally subject

to a lowering tendency, but con- sidere the market to be so sensitive

These four made the most-noise

deserves the O.B.E. take the numbers of a few offen-gun, one light gun, three machine

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Captain Taylour: Yes!

Mr. d'Almada: And if the offence was committed in England?

Captain Taylor: Yes! Mr. d'Almada: Then the Mer

Chinese while In France. Captain aions of the Act as are inconsistent and give his decision later.

Captain Taylour sald that Section ur flat in respectable neighbour-ceeding any reasonable speed limit.servatory that more accurate time Republic for his service to the ance which says "such of the provi- the Magistrate to consider his point. country has steadily declined as a

Bowern left Shanghai about three with the provisions of the Ordinance rice producer in the past few years, hood, with privilege of bringing Of these five again, four were un-calculations are possible.

years ago ard hopes shortly are hereby repealed;" the Merchant 225 of the Merchant Shipping Act and is compelled to import con- parents. Good references, Apply occupied except for the chauffent.

The "Glenluce," which arrived 16 return to Shanghai to be Shipping Act is clearly not operative was applicable in the United King-

in the Colony where provisions have dom or out of it. siderable rice from Saigon. He etc."

Bir Jaree Cantiie, with their hooters." No numbers in Singapore. recently brought the demobilized.

already been made for un-offence in Mr. d'Almada replied that that GOITRE AND a London medico were taken, unfortunately. If the war trophies allotted to the Straits

the local Ordinance. My submisaion was why, when the local Ordinance DECOLLETE. not unknown here, police along there are instructed to Settlements, comprising ore heavy Messrs. T. E. Wong, Ltd., have is that where the local Ordinance in- was, drafted, provisions were made He has been in-ders, there will be no need for guos, forty helmets, three packs, one not waited long before making fur corporates a Section of the Merchant for offences committed with the to many contending influences that or something. sound judgment on prices and sup- veighing Against the feminine private reports, and the danger will signal thrower, ten wire cutters and ther arrangements to give the people Shipping Act, that Section of the Act Colony's water only to be dealt with. four french mortars. Of these one of this part of the world an opporti repealed, otherwise, what is the In fact, the Ordinance pecially Of course, the pies will be difficult to form. He fashion of low necked dresses, and soon be abated.

On the interest machine gun, ten helmets, one pack, unity of seeing modern flying. The use of making our own Ordinances? mentioned that. He was covinced

Captain Taylour wanted to know he was right. called attention to the arbitrary suggesting that this insufficiency

two wire cutters, and one trench Nieuport Nighthawk aeroplane, which rice prices ruling in some places of clothing about the neck is caus

THE BAZEMBE ing point of law mortar have been sent to Labuan as has been dying in England, France, in what way the Merchant Shipping Magistrate had the right to refuse his due to governmental restrictions on ing an increase of goitre, or swell-

SAILORS' CARE. raised by Mr. its share. The rest have been divided Belgium and India for a period of Act was inconsistent with the local application, and he might have to go

d'Almade in the among Singaport, Penang and eighteen months, was landed at Ordinance.

Captain Taylour said that as re- price, notably in Japan, where mar- ing of the tyroid gland. The in-

Mr. d'Almada replied that the in- ket (controlled) prices cannot be nocent older, that is to say, Kazembe case we are not qualifed Malacca and their respective portions Penang last week, and the pilot, taken as indicators of the rice mar- the eminent surgeon says it has to express an opinion. It is only despatched., Singapore's trophies are Capt. R. S. Carroll accompanied by consistency was that whereas the gards the first point that the evid ket in uncontrolled localities where mostly made its appearance since on that legal point that the case is housed in the muslum. Caly. per his wife, arrives by this week's local Ordinance gave him power as a ence was insufficient for a conviction the price is subiect solely to the bare necks and cheats came into still sub judice, Captain Taylour tions of the guns have arrived and P. and O. steamer. It is expected stipendiary magistrate to deal withhe was of opinion that the evidenco natural law. of supply and demand. fashion Quite It veen xving wounced that or the facts when the rest are to hand they will that the first exhibition flights will be offences committed within the waters was sufficient. As to the legal point He considers that, on the whole, visible until then; but it was there the evidence was sufficient in be handed over to the Muticipality made in Penang and that Capt. of The Colony, the Merchant Shipping he was not prepared to give his

Goitre, Swiss heck, effect that, apart from the technic and probably placed in front of the Carroll will then fly to Ipoh and Act did not limit his powers to deal decision off-hand. He would consid

ing with such offences.

it, and give it later. if the large Barma crop, reported all along.

Kuala Lumpur, Malay Mail. to be considerably over a million Derbyshire neck, puffy neck,-itality, his decision must stana. It Memorial Hall.

Further.'